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Of course, this is in reference to former Whitehouse spokesman Scott McClellan's new book which torches Pres. GW Bush, his administration, and its policies.
Friday, May 30, 2008
This just in...
Sue Sarandon threatens to exit U.S. of A.
Perhaps to Italy or Canada.
Here. Let me hold the door for you!
Lord knows I've been holding that door a very long time for the likes Garofalo, and Moore, and Baldwin, and other lying, leftist twits consumed with their own self-important hubris after boooshitler was appointed to the Whitehouse.
Of course, Ms. Sarandon's lie about a stage left tantrum exit will only occur if another Republican, John McCain, is appointed to the Oval office.
Sue's candidate of choice is that quasi-marxist him self, the obamantor. And she 'hated' Margret Thatcher. Not sure why. Come on, Sue. That's so bigoted & intolerant.
But, you're lib, so I guess no one will notice. Just like Sue's last three films which stank & tanked: Mr Woodcock; In the Valley of Elah; and Speed Racer. Up next: heiress screws alcoholic, homosexual butler. Classy.
This article appears online in British newspaper ('natch), and the author finds his/her subject 'exhilarating' - even after Sue's spew of hatred toward Thatcher, disdain for McCain, disgust for the Pope, love of marxism, and, finally, her fair weather allegiance to the U.S. of A.
Exhilarating? More like nauseating:
"If McCain gets in, it's going to be very, very dangerous," she says.
"It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people. If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss."
Pssst. Sue. I'm still holding that door....
Why Do Black Americans Still Vote For Democrats?
This is a repost from 2006, but a question worth asking again.
I've always wondered about that....
Which Party started the KKK and the Jim Crow era? - democrats.
Which Party had a man named Robert Byrd FILIBUSTERING the Civil Rights Act of 1965? - democrats.
Which Party at one of its conventions called itself the 'white man's Party?' - democrats.
Which Party stacked the Supreme Court that finally rendered blacks 3/5ths human being in the infamous Dredd Scott case? - democrats.
Which Party has a history and pattern of terrorizing black Americans for over 170 years? - democrats.
Which Party accused those who opposed hooking blacks on those government programs 'racists' and 'uncle Toms?' - democrats.
Which Party FOUGHT to exclude blacks from getting a good education for over 170 years? - democrats.
And finally, which Party continues to pit blacks Americans against white Americans for disgusting political gain? - democrats.
~Now, consider this:
Which Party was formed EXPRESSLY to oppose the Democrat Party on the issue of slavery? - republicans
Which Party passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery? - republicans
Which Party passed the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution so that blacks could have due process in law and so that their right to vote was not infringed upon regardless of their race or skin color? - republicans
Under which Party have black business and black home ownership set record levels? - republicans
Under which Party have blacks students made the greatest gains in over 30 years? - republicans
Which Party has enabled over 283,000 loans to small business ( 30% of which went to minority businesses) totalling $63 billion in five years, almost as much as was spend the previous 40 years? - republicans
Which Party freed 3.8 million blacks from the tax rolls? - republicans
Which Party started the funding of the first African American museum and culture center? - republicans
Which Party had the very first and second black Secretaries of State and the first black National Security Advisor? - republicans
Why Do Black Americans Still Vote For Democrats?
A big TY to House of Eratosthenes
You're on your own for the correct pronounciation.
'Sex in the City' looks alot like a NY city garbage strike
And stinks just as bad. So says Ms. DS after her look at this latest skank-o-rama to oooze off the little screen & onto the toilet floor. A small sample of Ms. DS' opinion of this time waster:
Filth and male emasculation--the staples of the TV show--are even more plentiful and pungently rancid in the onscreen version. Shocker!
Is this really what women want? Forget all the raunchy guy movies that have come out in recent years. None have anything on this grotesque celluloid piece of trash. If you've ever called men pigs or chauvinists or decried their alleged collective behavior toward women, but yet you like this movie, you're a hypocrite. The men in our world have nothing on these pigs in skirts.
Men are from Mars. Women are from . . . aging slut hell. But, hey, their jewel-encrusted stiletto Manolo Blahnik satin pumps cost a fortune.
Personally, I think Ms. DS goes on to provide way too much information about bathroom humor, wardrobe pecidillos, bedroom antics, and aged actresses with sagging body parts, but, I guess, this is the stuff that occupies the female mind, and part of the reason why it gets produced in the first place - it's stuff that occupies the female mind. And apparently what opens their coin purse.
Tell me again why the nineteenth amendment was a good idea??
Just kidding, Honey! I'd better shut up now before I tick off my Beautiful Indian Princess.
Bottom line: quit enhancing hollyweird's bottom line! It only encourages these amoral, vacuous twits to vomit more of this grotesque celluloid trash.
Comedic actor Harvey Korman dead at 81
Korman died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said. He was 81.
From cartoon voices to television variety to hollywood movies, Harvey Korman was a brilliantly funny "second banana" of the highest order.
Rock Ridge won't be the same without you.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Allahu akbar. Let's do jihad!
Even blood thirsty terrorists have to pitch their idea to someone for approval and financing.
3:20 video. Punny & fatwah worthy in a MAD TV skit sort of way. Mild language warning for one cuss word.
Lite posting
A summer cold has gripped my yuteful vigor, and cold pills have dulled my rapier wit, so excuse the lite posting & minor errors. Be back on track soon.
Another 'Want Change?' PSA
Gas prices keep climbing. (The headline goes on to add 'even as oil prices drop', but I don't know what context the headline writer gives that assessment.)
The gasoline price record keeps getting broken with each passing day. AAA puts the national average for a gallon of regular at a record $3.95. It's jumped 35 cents in the past month and is 76-cents-a-gallon higher than a year ago.
Want change? Build more refineries!
Many thanks to TAHBYCSIFH
Hollyweird (hearts) democratic socialists
Surprise!
Dirty harry reports that of the 10 million hollyweird dollars donated so far a whopping eighty-three percent has gone far left - with the obamanator receiving the biggest share.
Your entertainment dollars at work, people. Often seditious, anti-American propaganda work.
It's your choice. Kinda like us, as a nation, buying (the biggest terrorist supporters in the world) saudi oil.
Plus, Dirty Harry has an excellent post on what Hollywood Patriotism used to look like from the talented likes of Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Edward G. Robinson, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Lamour, Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall, Randolph Scott and hundreds of others who volunteered to help the war effort.
Life discovered on Mars?
Maybe frat life. Or at least some really great light bulb technology.
Not that toxic, pig-tail florescent crap which amuse the greenie hypocrites all the way to the bank.
A big TY to HA
K.C. P&L District mugging a hoax
Kansas City, Missouri has a new hi-toned entertainment district downtown at 11th & Walnut called the Power & Light District. Lots o' time and money (public & private - mostly public) has been invested to perk up, clean up, and shore up KC's sleepy, roll-up the sidewalks, and don't show your mayonnaise face after dark, downtown area.
It is former KC mayor Kay Barnes' expensive, complementary legacy to the impressive Sprint Center Arena.
Some people love the new hi-toned entertainment district. Some people hate it. Apparently, someone hated it enough to start a nasty email rumor about a vicious, gang bang mugging near the hi-toned entertainment district.
The K.C. police confirmed it's a hoax.
This just in....
The NBA's season extended year 'round. Or maybe it already is all year long.
Perhaps I've simply confused it with American Idol. And isn't that david cook guy about to win something?
Just wondering.
Jay Nixon is sole dem. gubernatorial candidate this fall.
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan certified the primary ballot this week, tossing off the token opposition Nixon faced for the Democratic nomination for governor.
In Missouri, both the Democratic and Republican primary elections will be held on August 5th. There are five Republican candidates for Missouri's governor. U.S. Congressman Kenny Hulshof & Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman are considered the two front runners.
Astronauts try to fix broken toilet
I think plumbers charge triple OT on these jobs.
Better call Roger. I bet he already has those parts on his big red trucks.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Northrup Grumman's Secret X-Bomber
Shhh. Don't tell nobody. Known as an NGB - next generation bomber - it probably won't be seen in the skies until 2018 anyways. And it will be unmanned!The NGB has been describe as having a 2,000 nautical mile range and a 14,000 - 28,000 lb. weapon load. A combination that could be met by an aircraft resembling a scaled up X-47B that's about half the size of a B-2.
In short, it's anybody's guess, but its fun to second guess.
Great moments in minor league baseball promotions
The 'larry graig bobblefoot' trinket. Courtesy of the St. Paul, Minnesota Saints.On Sunday, May 25 the first 2500 fans through the gates at Midway Stadium will receive a Saints bobble foot in honor of National Tap Dance Day and in tribute to all their toe-tapping friends and fans from around the nation who may ever have set foot in Minneapolis-St. Paul… even for just a change of planes.
A gay ol' time. And pretty clever too. Kinda like the T-Bones 'prison garb' promo - till the 'activists' got wind and then broke wind.
Good luck with the homosexual waaahmbulance crowd, guys.
TY Chris Stigall
Man attacked with box of moon pies
The attacker is obviously a liberal. hehehehehe
Ahem.
GALESBURG, Ill., May 27 (UPI) -- Police in Galesburg, Ill., said they have arrested a homeless man who allegedly attacked an 84-year-old man with a box of Moon Pies.
I think the old man is ok?
Yesterday in History
Tuesday, May 27, was the 148th day of 2008. There are 218 days left in the year.
Yesterday's Highlight in History:
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic. (Vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge the next day.)
On this date:
~In 1818, American reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the garment that bears her name — "bloomers" — was born in Homer, N.Y.
~In 1935, the Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
~Ten years ago: Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.
Today's Birthdays: Novelist Herman Wouk is 93. Actor Christopher Lee is 86. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 85. Actress Lee Meriwether is 73. Musician Ramsey Lewis is 73. Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 72. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raymond Sanders (The Persuasions) is 69. Country singer Don Williams is 69. Actor Bruce Weitz is 65. Singer Cilla Black is 65. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. is 64. Singer Bruce Cockburn is 63. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater is 58. Actor Richard Schiff is 53. Singer Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 51. Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 50. Actress Peri Gilpin is 47. Actress Cathy Silvers is 47. Comedian Adam Carolla is 44. Actor Todd Bridges is 43. Rock musician Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains) is 42. Actor Dondre Whitfield is 39. Actor Paul Bettany is 37. Rock singer-musician Brian Desveaux (Nine Days) is 37. Country singer Jace Everett is 36. Rapper Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 33. Rapper Jadakiss is 33. TV chef Jamie Oliver is 33. Actor Ethan Dampf is 14.
Thought for Today: "Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." — Chuang-Tzu, Chinese essayist (c.369 B.C.-c.286 B.C.).
Astronomers proclaim 'climate change' on Jupiter
Moonbatty pseudo-science from 600 million miles away.
12 Zion Ranch children reunited with parents
Families Will Be Supervised While Texas Appeals Court's Decision On Custody Of Minors From Polygamist Ranch.
The agency has agreed to allow the parents to live with their children in the San Antonio area under state supervision. The three families are not allowed to return to the Yearning For Zion ranch, where they lived before the raid.
On Friday an appeals court ruled the state had no right to keep the children, and that the department had failed to prove that a system of belief which allows underage girls to marry puts other children in danger from physical or sexual abuse.
UN 'peace' keepers gang rape 13 year old girl.
And, according to the BBC, she's not the only one these blue helmet pigs have viciously assaulted.
Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.
A 13-year-old girl, "Elizabeth" described to the BBC how 10 UN peacekeepers gang-raped her in a field near her Ivory Coast home....
"I was terrified. Then they just left me there bleeding."
No action has been taken against the soldiers. An international charity group called 'Save The Children' has compiled a report on a litany of abuses against children by the very people who are supposed to care for them.
"Every agency is at risk from this problem.This is not to
say that every person associated with the international
community is a perpetrator of child sexual abuse – far
from it. However, the breadth of local and international
NGOs, UN agencies and other actors implicated by
those who took part in the study suggests that this
is a problem for a wide range of organisations."
The UN has said it welcomes the charity's report, which it will study closely.
That sounds all well and good, but there is a pattern of this assault & abuse by U.N. 'peace' keepers:
~2003 - Nepalese troops accused of sexual abuse while serving in DR Congo. Six are later jailed
~2004 - Two UN peacekeepers repatriated after being accused of abuse in Burundi
~2005 - UN troops accused of rape and sexual abuse in Sudan
~2006 - UN personnel accused of rape and exploitation on missions in Haiti and Liberia
~2007 - UN launches probe into sexual abuse claims in Ivory Coast
The GP has a list of many more U.N. 'peace' keeping abuses through the years. Think of it: poor, impoverished, war-torn, mostly children coerced, abused & assaulted by armed blue helmet globalists sent to help them.
So sad, and disgusting, yet how many of you out there have even heard of these victims at the hands of U.N. 'peace' keepers? But I bet you know all about the front page, weeks long attention from 2004 about Abu Ghraib!
Not that the U.N. is the darling of the leftist-utopian globalist tools, or anything....
Afghanistan: the 'other' war. US marines kick butt
From the NYTimes, no less.
“They (U.S. Marines) have disrupted the Taliban’s freedom of movement and pushed them south, and that has created the grounds for us to develop the hospital and set the conditions for the government to come back,” said Maj. Neil Den-McKay, the officer commanding a company of the Royal Regiment of Scotland based here. People have already started coming back to villages north of the town, he said, adding, “There has been huge optimism from the people.”
For the marines, it was a chance to hit the enemy with the full panoply of their firepower in places where they were confident there were few civilians. The Taliban put up a tenacious fight, rushing in reinforcements in cars and vans from the south and returning repeatedly to the attack, but they were beaten back in four days by three companies of marines, two of which were dropped in by helicopter to the southeast.
Three cheers for the good guys! The locals are grateful,too, because they despise the fascist taliban and their brutal, warlord rule.
The Taliban, who kicked out villagers and took over their farmhouses, were also mixed with an unusual proportion of Arabs and Pakistanis, Major Den-McKay said.
“The majority of elements in this area are Arab and Pakistani, and the locals detest them,” he said. The insurgent commanders were from Iran, which shares a border with Afghanistan to the southwest, as well as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, he said.
Afghan villagers confirmed that there were local Afghan Taliban fighting, too. But they also said that there were Pakistanis, ethnic Baluchis from southern Iran and Arabs fighting as well.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Jimmy Carter's Legacy of Failure Continues
I wrote a similar post back in April.
Once again, let's just speak plain: jimmy carter is an enemy of the U.S. of A. And our allies. In particular, Israel.
Former President Jimmy Carter caused a stir over the weekend when he claimed that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal of 150 weapons.
Of course, like many seditious, leftist twits who seek the demise of the U.S. of A., he was overseas when he said it.
While experts have long maintained Israel has a nuclear arsenal, the Jewish state has refused to confirm or deny it.
It was unclear from a report of Carter's comments — made on Sunday and reported Monday in the Times of London — whether the former Democratic president was citing those estimates, offering his own independent assessment or drawing on U.S. intelligence he would have had access to as president.
How about we simply recognize him as the tottering old loose cannon that he is, and take some common sense action against this seditious brown nose-er who never met a brutal dictator he didn't like: revoke his passport.
Don't be evil
Dang it. Can't. We're talking about googlag. Again.
ViaCom has sued googlag, owner of youtube, over copyright infringement as defined in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This act pertains an awful lot to stuff posted on the internet. Like videos on youtube.
ViaCom claims that their copyrighted material appears too much on youtube. Content like ViaCom's "SpongeBob SquarePants," "South Park" and "MTV Unplugged", and 150,000 unauthorized clips of other copyrighted programming.
So, ViaCom sued googlag to the tune of one billion dollars. ViaCom claims that youtube isn't acting in good faith to remove that copyrighted content.
The company said its count of unauthorized clips represents only a fraction of the content on YouTube that violates its copyrights.
It said Google and YouTube had done "little or nothing" to stop infringement.
Googlag and youtube, of course, deny the allegation.
In papers submitted to a judge late Friday, Google said YouTube "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works."
It said that by seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications, Viacom "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression."
Did you catch that? The cognitive dissonance from one sentence to the next? But the money quote is, 'Threatens... legitimate.... information exchange.'
And that, boys n girls, is how the court will redefine 'ownership' on the internet. Mark my words.
You can help stem the tide, though. How? Don't be evil. Don't use googlag.
It's not one world
From our friends - the saudis.
Saudi man gets 150 lashes & 8 months in prison for unchaperoned meeting with a woman.
Rede that again just to let the barbaric insanity soak into your mind.
The (saudi) religious police have wide powers to search for alcohol, drugs and prostitution, ensure shops are closed during prayers in addition to maintaining a strict system of sexual segregation. No information has emerged about the fate of the woman since the incident.
What's wrong with Italian television.
Huge mechanical shovel used to remove a young woman's clothes. Safe for work, but liquor is quicker.
Now, if only the Italians could drive that good.
Coming soon to a reality TV show on a North American continent near you.
God save the Republic.
Democratic socialist (hearts) karl marx
Maxine Waters threatens to nationalize America’s oil industry. (video)
But this type of karl marx infatuation is rampant in the democratic socialist party. These commie luvin' twits don't even try to pretend anymore. Right, obamanator?
Guess who said these gems?
1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own... in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D None of the above
5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above
Answers:
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
Of course, if you agree with this marxist tripe, then there's no discussion. You simply want the nanny state to change your soiled nappy from cradle to grave, and decide most everything else in between to insure 'equality of outcome'.
Infant for sale on Ebay
One Euro?!
Krykee.
Heartless and stupid.
The baby is in protective custody, and the mother is under investigation for child trafficking.
Finally. Some real science.
Plastic eating bacteria discovered by teen scientist.
This is great news for China which is awash in bai si wu le, or white pollution, for the bags' most common color. As a result, China has banned the manufacture of most plastic bags starting June 1st - a move which will save an estimated 37 million barrels of oil. The chicoms now advocate cloth bags for retail shops.
422 million miles; put up a parking lot
~Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars near its north pole.~Transmits pictures back to Earth.
~NASA scientists 'thrilled'.
~No obvious snow or surface ice, but permafrost suspected.
"If it wasn't for the brownish-red soil and the strangely coloured sky, it could be mistaken for frozen earthly terrain."
Phoenix, designed and operated by some of the world's finest scientific minds, came in for a textbook landing at 12:53am UK time (Sunday) following a risky, high-speed plunge through the Martian atmosphere in which it had stood only a 50-50 chance of survival.
Not only did Phoenix touch down safely, as only 45 per cent of previous Mars landers have done, it settled in an almost perfectly flat spot within a highly precise target range.
Dr Ed Weiler, Nasa's associate administrator for science missions, likened the pinpoint accuracy of such a landing to a golfer teeing off a ball in Washington and scoring a hole-in-one in Sydney, Australia.
"That's not a bad shot," he added.
Indeed.
That trip also alludes to the cosmic clockwork precision of this solar system which made the mathematics of such a 422 million mile journey possible. But pay no attention to the perception of design behind the curtain!
After opening its solar wings to harness energy from the sun and recharge its batteries, Phoenix swiftly hoisted its mast and swiveled its camera to photograph its new home.
Scientists hope Phoenix, only the sixth probe to safely reach the Martian surface, will use its 2.3-metre robot arm to scratch red planet's surface and find water ice. The arm is designed to scoop up the ice and melt it in one of eight tiny ovens.
Mars images stream in (+pics)
War porn darwin award
For terrorists.
Or, how to kill yourself, and your buddies, with an RPG.
Don't try this at home, kiddies.
Sadr City yields multiple weapons cache to Iraqi Army
Iranian-made EFPs; bomb making material; bottles of chlorine poison with detonators; AK-47s; ammunition; rocket launchers; grenades; blasting caps; RPGs; mortars & shells.
Hey. Every cleric around the world recommends his followers have this stuff. Right?
Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to press against the Mahdi Army in Baghdad as the New Baghdad district begins to heat up. The Iraqi Army raided numerous Mahdi Army weapons caches in Sadr City May 22-23, Multinational Forces Iraq reported. The Mahdi Army has stockpiled weapons throughout the district.
There has been no fighting reported in Sadr City over the past several days as the Iraqi Army takes up positions in strategic areas around Sadr City. As the Iraqi security forces continue to work to secure Sadr City, US and Iraqi forces are pressuring the Mahdi Army in greater Baghdad and beyond.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Decoration Day
This is a repost. Have a great weekend, and don't forget to remember those who gave all in order that we may have the freedom to have a great weekend.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war).
It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868.
It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Source
Memorial Day 2008 is this Monday, May 26th.
This is a really nice tribute video for those who gave all. It runs 6 minutes.
TY Flopping Aces
Plus, visit MM's site for more great stuff.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Michael Yon; 'Unbelievable' Progress in Iraq; & msm Silence
Or maybe the word is leaking out. So says AP over at HA (video, too).
The problem with the coverage is that it takes spectacular gains, like the Iraqi army rolling onto Mookie’s home turf in Sadr City, to break through the media narrative while even minor setbacks, which fit the narrative, are easily assimilated and thus coverage-worthy. How many spectacular gains will it take, I wonder, before the narrative itself starts to change?
Uh, don't hold your breath on the that last answer, AP.
~Michael's new book, 'Moment of Truth in Iraq', can be purchased from Barnes & Noble by clicking here. Autographed copies by clicking here.
Michaelyon-online.com
Cartoonist Will Elder died last week
Leapin' lizards!
I completely missed his obituary, and a subsequent web search has turned up not much.
Mad Magazine pioneer and Little Annie Fanny co-creator Will Elder, died May 15th at the age of 86. The funeral took place on Sunday, May 19th, in New Jersey. I have no specifics on the cause of death. (but, when one is 86 years old, what would you think?)
Will Elder was a brilliant cartoonist with a unique 'exaggerated realism' to his 'toons. During the 1950's, 60's & 70's, his witty drawings and zany humor delighted readers of MAD magazine for years - and also those who pretended to read Playboy.
Elder was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
More lifetime info can be found here along with a great 2003 interview plus early pictures and cartoons. His wiki entry is here.
No octopus for Detroit fans
Next thing you know, they'll ban hockey at an ice fight...You can buy an octopus next week at Wholey's Fish Market in Pittsburgh -- unless you're wearing Detroit Red Wings gear or otherwise let slip that you're visiting from Michigan for the game (as in Stanley Cup Playoffs).
If that means checking ID and listening for customers with Midwestern accents, that's what owner Dan Wholey is willing to do.
Wowser. They take their hockey seriously in Pittsburgh.
The Detroit octopus-throwing tradition started in the 1950s, to symbolize the eight wins needed at the time to win the Stanley Cup.
Uh huh. You ever smell raw octopus? Ever try to wash the stink off your skin? So who started this Detroit octopus toss tradition?
$1.6 billion tax break for trial lawyers
That's billion, with a 'B'.
It's a bill in the House of Representatives right now. H.R. 6049. GW threatens to veto it. Good for him!
Remember folks, trial parasites lawyers overwhelmingly vote democrat and contribute to democrat causes, so it's no wonder that their buds on the Hill reward them with slop from the public trough.
U.N. distributes condomns to Burmese cyclone survivors
Yup. Horrific natural disasters leaving violent mass destruction & thousands of dead, bloated bodies in its wake gives me a woody, too.
Unfreekin' believable.
Friday, May 23, 2008
The grades are posted: School choice works!
Those who say vouchers won't improve public education are dead wrong. Across the country, school choice programs are getting results and winning the support of voters.
Think about that over this summer, before next fall, when you have to send your most precious commodity ~your child~ back to those russian roulette centers of gangs, pervert teachers, shootings, amoral indoctrination and political agitprop: gub'mint schools.
gee...I wonder when the state troopers will swarm in to remove ~en masse~ all those at risk children?
Greg Forster has more.
Have a great weekend, and don't forget to remember those who gave all in order that we may have the freedom to have a great weekend.
French court rules 'al-dura' can be called hoax
This ruling is a long over-due reversal of a libel judgment handed down in 2006.The French Court of Appeals issued a ruling today favoring an activist who claims the purported shooting death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy – used to spark the "Al Aqsa intifada," or uprising – was a hoax.
The court overturned a lower court decision against Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, who had been convicted of libeling a French state-owned television channel and its Jerusalem correspondent, Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem Post reported. Karsenty contended France 2 knowingly misled the world about the event in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.
The video of an apparently horrific firefight in which a 12 year old boy & his father were shot has been the subject of controversy for eight years. There is much evidence to conclude that the entire incident had been staged as propaganda to damn the Israeli Defense Forces.
In a similar vein, click here for an excellent video of the 2006 fauxtography scandal which shows how pervasive this anti-jewish bigotry & pro-philistine propaganda
Secret agent cat
The name's Furball. Hackupa Furball.
In Spycraft, the authors describe many clever animal-assisted devices, from the dead-rat dead-drop pouch to the "acoustic kitty," a cat with a remote listening system embedded in its body. And what's this about the 1 million bats the CIA's precursor, the OSS, were gonna use to firebomb Tokyo during WWII?
More troop reductions in Iraq by fall
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that he will recommend further troop reductions in Iraq by fall.
Nothing succeeds like success!
Court rules Texas had 'no right' to confiscate polygamist's children
Let me say from the outset my belief that if a crime has been committed, then the individual perverts should be hunted down, strung up by their small berries, and gutted like the rotten fish that they are. But this broad, 'round up the usual suspects', concentration camp sweep is not the way things should be done in this nation. We seem to have a short memory. I'm just glad that, finally, someone remembered the fourth & fifth amendments to the U.S. constitution.
The 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, in response to motions from 41 sect mothers, ruled that Child Protective Services did not present enough evidence at an April hearing to show that the children were in immediate danger of abuse, which would have justified keeping them in state custody. The court said Judge Barbara Walther abused her discretion in failing to return the children to their families.
The 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin gave Walther 10 days to comply and release from state custody the children, who are scattered across the state in temporary foster homes.
Texas Child Protective Services claimed that 450+ children were at risk of abuse at the cult's West Texas compound which was raided back in early April, 2008. The 3rd Court of Appeals found that the polygamist sect's belief system, by itself, did not place the children in danger of abuse.
"Evidence that children raised in this particular environment may someday have their physical health and safety threatened is not evidence that the danger is imminent enough to warrant invoking the extreme measure of immediate removal," the court said.
The court said the state failed to show that any more than five of the teenage girls were being sexually abused, and offered no evidence of sexual or physical abuse against the other children. Half the youngsters taken from the ranch were 5 or younger. Only a few dozen are teenage girls.
The court also said the state was wrong to consider the entire ranch as a single household and to seize all the children because some parents in the home might be abusers.
Heck, if that criteria was allowed to stand, troopers could invade most any housing project or gub'mint school in the nation!
I've said it before, once all this smoke clears, the state will have only one, maybe two solid cases that will result in a guilty verdict against the perverts.
Plus, there's some very loud concerns being raised by mental health professionals about the methods employed by Texas' child protective services in this case.
"I have worked in Domestic Violence/Sexual Abuse programming for over 20 years and have never seen women and children treated this poorly, not to mention their civil rights being disregarded in this manner," one wrote.
Until now, those concerns have fallen on deaf ears.
TY Chris Stigall
Missouri congressman wants ban on pasticized cadavers
A bill has been introduced into the House of representatives by Republican Rep. Todd Akin, and requires that such cadavers be donated from only within the United States.
I wrote about a similar topic back in February - the traveling, plasticized cadaver show populated with dead bodies of dubious origins. China is the main source of these plasticized cadavers. There is credible evidence that the former owners of these bodies were prisoners, or accident victims, and in no condition or position to give permission to be entered into such a freak show.
The subject now has the attention of congress. A prospect that's usually a cause for alarm, so hopefully these congress critters won't muck it up too badly.
The legislation was introduced April 2 and is pending in the House Ways and Means Committee. It has about 20 co-sponsors.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Great One harpoons vile, over-paid talking head
This is a recent audio of Mark Levin as he scorches the loon toon leftist rants of the wicked herr uberman, and his seditious puppet masters at msnbzzzz.
9 minutes well spent.
'Che' stinks up Cannes
"Krykee! What's that vile stench?!"
"Oh. That's just the latest 2 part, 5 hour long, odious ode to a mass murdering sociopath by director Steven Soderbergh."
"Mass murdering sociopath? You mean that 'che turd', which so many ignorant, marxist loving tools pay capitalists to print his image on their over-priced, sweatshop produced clothes, in total hypocrisy to what they think this mass murdering sociopath stood for?"
"Yup."
"Looks like many of those Cannes movie goers walked out of that 2 part, 5 hour long, odious ode to a mass murdering sociopath, never to return."
"Yup. His vile stench was so bad that 30% didn't even come back from intermission."
"Gee. There might be hope for this over priced tres chic crowd afterall."
"Go figure."
Decoration Day
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war).
It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868.
It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Source
Memorial Day 2008 is this Monday, May 26th.
This is a really nice tribute video for those who gave all. It runs 6 minutes.
TY Flopping Aces
It's all over but the shouting?
Clinton campaigns as attention wanders elsewhere. (video)Clinton Desperate to Count Votes, Compares Fla. Primary to Zimbabwe. (no joke!)
Clinton threatens convention delegate fight.
Surber says, 'Not so fast.' The math favors billary, not the obamanator.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Illegal immigration & identity theft is hand-in-glove
True, there's not a one-to-one correlation, but there is definitely a causal relationship.
This article from the City Journal concludes that " Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration."
In 2007, one third of all consumer complaints received by the FTC were for identity theft. Most of these complaints were from illegal immigrant 'gateway' states - Arizona, California, and Texas, as well as Florida and Nevada.
Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver’s licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. The immigrants’ identity theft has become so pervasive that the need to combat it is “a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration,” according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Since 2002, identity theft complaints to the FTC have increased by 60%! Identity theft is big business, and much of it is controlled by the latino gangs throughout the southwest U.S. of A.
Obamanator Delegate Arrested For Spying At Gitmo
Back in 2003. Tried to smuggle secret documents out of this paradise resort for terrorists. Claims he was tortured too.
Court marshal charges against him were dropped out of national security concerns if this thing went to trial. He was also charged w/ adultery & keeping porn on govt. computers.
One more far-left lunar nutjob for the obamantor. How much more of this paint by numbers pic we gotta fill in for you people?
GP has more on this moonbat.
"If we don't win, you cheated!"
TAHBYCSIFH looks way down the road to November, and gives a heads-up to the pant load hissy fit the tantric BDS infants will throw if 'Maverick', and not the obamanator, is enthroned as chief executive.
TAHBYCSIFH says msnbzzzzz is already starting the "If we don't win, you cheated!" cry.
Just another reason why the brilliant architects of this government wisely chose not to have a constitutional right to vote for POTUS.
and something our 'democracy' has tried mightily since the jacksonian days to tear apart into anarchy. RE: chicago in 1968 & denver in 2008. Mark my words.
Missouri Car Dealer offers gas or gun w/ purchase
Both are worth about $250.00. The gun might come in handy if you run out of gas in Mid Town.TY KC Crime Scene
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
It's not electric
but it might fry some flesh, or maybe get you a darwin award nomination.
Pulse jet-powered bike kit selling on ebay. $650 (American).
No. Really. I don't want one.
Speaking of Joe Lieberman...
He has a piece in the WSJ this afternoon.
In it, Lieberman asks how did the democrat party of Roosevelt, Truman, & Kennedy become the morally bankrupt, intellectually vacuous, and globally relativistic American hating, socialists tool pool that it is today?
~Of course, I blame gub'mint schools, but rede what Sen. Lieberman has to say.
Don't be evil
Oh, wait. We're talking about googlag, the information repository for murderous fascists and brutal dictators worldwide.Googlag owns youtube (googlag also owns blogger - the host of this blog - an irony not lost on moi). Youtube is a popular repository for murderous agitprop videos made by terrorists (like as hezbollah & al-qaeda) to champion their nasty brand of 'philosophy'.
So much so, that here in the blog-o-sphere, youtube has earned the derisive moniker 'allahtube' - to more accurately describe the content on that site (you know....American soldiers getting shot or blown up; Jews being murdered; children being brainwashed for suicide missions; good clean family stuff...).
Youtube's perverse & dubious distinction has attracted the attention of none other than Sen. Joe Lieberman(I-Conn).
In a letter Lieberman sent Monday, he asked Google to “immediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations from YouTube.”
“Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training — activities that are all essential to terrorist activity,” Lieberman wrote.
We're at war, you know, and American companies should not facilitate the enemy in killing American soldiers.
But googlag refused Sen. Lieberman's request. Claimed that such a request would 'trample free speech rights', and that
Apparently, for the obtuse, relativistic twits at googlag's corporate office, the U.S. constitution affords protection to jihadists engage in killing American soldiers. I guess those same obtuse, relativistic twits at googlag's corporate office never put down their starbucks long enough to realize who, exactly, it is that risks their life and limb to defend that constitution.
I wonder how they'll feel after the FBI, Justice & Treasury come knocking on their obtuse, relativistic twit door? But, judging from GW's 8 year long limp piddle toward not dealing with seditious actions, I wouldn't hold my breath.
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It's effective. It's empowering, and it's free! Do it. Do it now!
Yesterday in History
My alarm clock broke, too.
Tuesday, May 20, was the 141st day of 2008. There are 225 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
One hundred years ago, on May 20, 1908, actor James Stewart was born in Indiana, Pa.
(Check out TCM on cable this week for a bunch o' Jimmy's classic movies. - LB1901)
*In 1506, explorer Christopher Columbus died in Spain.
*Apparently, not much happened on this day for the next 350 years.
*In 1861, North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
*In 1902, the United States ended a three-year military presence in Cuba as the Republic of Cuba was established under its first elected president, Tomas Estrada Palma.
*Ten years ago: The government unveiled the design for the new $20 bill, featuring a larger and slightly off-center portrait of Andrew Jackson. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Hollywood royalty bid farewell to Frank Sinatra, who had died almost a week earlier at age 82, in a private, invitation-only funeral.
Today's Birthdays: Actor James McEachin is 78. Actor Anthony Zerbe is 72. Actor David Proval is 66. Singer Joe Cocker is 64. Singer-actress Cher is 62. Actor-comedian Dave Thomas is 59. Musician Warren Cann is 56. Actor Dean Butler is 52. Ron Reagan is 50. Rock musician Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's) is 50. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 49. Singer Susan Cowsill is 49. Actor John Billingsley is 48. Actor Tony Goldwyn is 48. Singer Nick Heyward is 47. TV personality Ted Allen is 43. Actress Mindy Cohn is 42. Rock musician Tom Gorman (Belly) is 42. Actress Gina Ravera is 42. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 40. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 36. Actor Matt Czuchry is 31. Actress Angela Goethals is 31. Rhythm-and-blues singer Naturi Naughton is 24.
Thought for Today: "If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little." — James Stewart, American actor (1908-1997).
Teen oral sex likely means intercourse, too
Also, show me a young woman who smokes, and I'll show you, not only an 88% chance of sex by the third date, but a 92% chance she 'swallows', too.That's right - sex & science - another cheap web traffic post! Plus, I'll be excoriated for being so judgmental!
Contrary to popular agitprop in gub'mint schools by the 'let's sexualize everyone as early as possible crowd', teens do not use oral sex as a way to remain 'technical virgins'. In fact, this study by the Guttmacher Institute concludes that teens who do oral are already doing vaginal and anal sex. And those teens determined to stay 'chaste', do none of those things.
In other words, kiddies - if you don't want to fall off the cliff, stay away from the edge.
"There's a popular perception that teens are engaging in serial oral sex as a strategy to avoid vaginal intercourse," said Rachel Jones of the Guttmacher Institute, a private, nonprofit research organization based in New York, who helped do the study. "Our research suggests that's a misperception."
A majority of the teens -- 55 percent -- said they had engaged in oral sex, which was slightly more than the 50 percent who said they had had vaginal sex. But oral sex was much more common among those who already had had intercourse...
Previous research had suggested that oral sex was increasing among teenagers as an alternative to intercourse, but those studies were based on small samples or anecdotal reports.
Don't be like Balaam.
This woman has some good advice for all young adults who want to be unique and special and worth the wait. It'll reap a lifetime of joy. Plus, STD free.
Lego mania
It probably won't replace steel anytime soon, but tis awesome, none the less.The 500,000 brick tower is 100 ft. tall!
TY Ace
The obamanator's global face of cultural facism
These people scare the h3ll out of me. Why don't they scare the h3ll out of you?
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." - Barak Obama
"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." - Michelle Obama
Maynard responds with, "I moved away from mommy & daddy years ago, so just leave me the h3ll alone!"
Democrat Kansas Governor vetoes voter ID bill
She claims it would discourage voting. Boo freekin hoo.
What the veto really does is help keep democrats the party of voter fraud!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Paper money not ADA friendly to blind people
So ruled a federal court of appeals today on a suit brought before the court by The American Council for the Blind.
Actually, most of the headlines rede (incorrectly) that "paper money discriminates against blind people." Money - paper or otherwise - is an inanimate object, and doesn't have any cognitive reasoning abilities what so ever.
Most probably, the headline writers meant that the act, by the people at the treasury dept., of printing paper money using current methods discriminates against blind people. 
The American Council for the Blind sued to force the Treasury Dept. to alter paper money, either in size; shape; or texture, to make it more 'friendly' to the blind.
I wonder how many millions of vending machines would have to be retro-fitted, and at what cost? And did the judges also hand down their ruling in braille? So not to discriminate.
Moving on...
Officials at the Treasury Department and the department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which prints the nation's currency, had no immediate comment on the ruling. The government could appeal to the Supreme Court.
I know I'll get burned at the politically correct stake for this, but enough already!
Life's not fair, and sometimes life deals you a raw hand. I'm sorry! But the rest of the world does not owe you special coerced consideration for your particular handicap. Kindness, generosity, and charity are one thing. But the force of law has nothing to do with those qualities.
The ADA is being used as a tool of fascism to force web sites to accommodate blind people; list servers to screen against potential discriminatory practices of their subscribers; force businesses to close; and now, the government is being sued to provide special accommodations for three tenths of one percent of the U.S. population.
Enough already! Life's tuff. It's called a 'handicap' for a reason. You'll just have to deal with it.
Our daily bread
I'm pretty sure this is not what Jesus was talking about.
Thai bakery produces body-part shaped loafs of bread. You know - heads; hands; feet; etc.
James, over at The Kansas Citian has all the details. Neat video included. Fun for the whole family!
Iraqi Troops Crack Down on Sadr City
Residents report calm despite heavy troop movement.
Iraqi security forces moved deep into Sadr City today to wrest control of the vast Baghdad district from militiamen loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr.
U.S. forces were playing no part in the operation, the military said.
This latest move by an all Iraqi security force is in accordance to the 'surrender' last week by al (mookie) sadr's militia to PM Maliki's Iraqi govt.
Boston Hospital Offers sex change surgery for 7 year olds!
“Just because modern medicine can accomplish certain things does not mean that these procedures should be done,” said Austin Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the conservative Alliance Defense. “That’s the mindset of a Dr. Kevorkian, and he wound up in jail.”
So, when will the state troopers storm in and round up ~en masse~ all these 'at risk children'?
SCOTUS upholds 'pandering' child porn law
Thank you! Promoting child porn is not protected speech.
Why do rational people even have to debate such a thing?
The SCOTUS sent a strong 7-2 message to internet pervs that promoting child porn will not be tolerated - even if the offer or promotions is a lie.
Per usual, Justices Souter and (hot 4 denny) Ginsburg dissented; worried more about the rights of anonymous, predatory, internet sickos than children.
The case, United States v. Williams, No. 06-694, began in 2004 as the prosecution of a Florida man, Michael Williams, who was caught in a federal sting operation offering child pornography in an Internet chat room.
His conviction for possessing the images, and his five-year sentence for that crime, were not at issue in the case. He challenged his conviction under the new law for pandering and won a reversal in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which found the law both over broad and unconstitutionally vague.
Fortunately, the adults on the court prevailed and reversed the lower court decision.
Justice Scalia dismissed these concerns as “fanciful hypotheticals,” saying that such situations would either not give rise to prosecutions or, if they did, would be protected by the courts. In a concurring opinion, Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen G. Breyer said they, too, were satisfied that the court’s narrow construction of the statute had allayed “any constitutional concerns that might arise.”
The court's full opinion can be found here.
Former KKK grand poohbah (hearts) the obamanator
I bet michelle is so proud.
Last week, the obamanator got a good monkey stomp from billary in W. Virginia's primary. This week, W. Virginia's senator, and democratic super delegate, Sen. Robert Byrd, endorsed the obamanator for president.
The obamanator was heard to mutter under his breath, 'where the &^%$# were you last week, old man?!' Ok. I made up that last part.
The obamanator picked up seven other super delegates since last week, as well. It's pretty clear that none of those people were ever involved with the KKK.
Obama leads in the CBS News overall delegate count with 1,907 compared to 1,714 for Clinton. While Obama is unlikely to reach the number needed for the nomination (now 2,026 due to Mississippi’s special House election) with tomorrow’s contests, he is expected to have won the majority of the pledged delegates available overall when the results from Kentucky and Oregon are in.
Sen. Byrd explains his KKK association in a lengthy WAPO article published in 2005.
You know, this is America. It's people have a generous nature, and forgiving spirit woven into it's societal fabric by this nation's Christian roots (despite revisionist BS). People like Sen. Byrd can repent of their wicked ways, and we can forgive him.
But it does make me wonder just how much of an apoplectic dog-with-bone hissy fit the MSM would have thrown if a former KKK grand poohpah, and current U.S. Senator, would have endorsed the Republican candidate.
Not that the MSM is politically biased or anything....
right, herr uberman?
Monday, May 19, 2008
The obamanator's 7 mystery states explained
And, no. It's not those islamic states, either.
BMW has the answer.
The Rezko Trial: Illinois politics rotten to the core
Tony Rezko is a long time associate of Barack Obama, and a long time fund raiser for current governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich (D).
After nine weeks of trial, a federal court jury on Tuesday began deliberating charges against Rezko of mail fraud, wire fraud, attempted extortion, aiding and abetting bribery and money laundering. The jury is scheduled to resume deliberations today.
But Rezko isn't the only pig in the trough.
Millionaire lobbyist-businessman William F. Cellini's name has come up often as an insider who wielded an unusually powerful influence over the $40 billion fund that pays the pensions of retired downstate and suburban school teachers.All these men are democrats. surprise! But neither of these men have been charged with wrong doing as of yet. It is not clear if either of these men were associates of the obamantor during his Chicago days. Allegations have also been made implicating the Gov. of Illinois himself for oinking up at the kickback trough, too.
And high-powered lobbyist Robert Kjellander, whose name has popped up prominently at the trial, also was a generous donor to state candidates. His Springfield Consulting Group has handed out $118,639 in contributions to candidates for state offices since 1999, the group says.
I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, political reformers say "where there's smoke..."
...critics say money has been an unwholesome influence in Illinois politics and ordinary people can't possibly get the same treatment from state government that big campaign contributors do. They suspect the big donors are looking to get something back.
"What it shows is that pay-to-play politics is in full bloom in Illinois," says Cindi Canary, head of the political reform group. "You don't hand out $100,000 or $800,000 unless you want something in return."
The Illinois legislature has responded by
deliberating a bill to bar anyone with a state contract of $50,000 or more from contributing to the official whose office awarded the contract. The so-called pay-to-play bill would also make it easy for anyone to look up campaign donations from state contractors online.
But 'mister 40 billion dollar school teacher pension fund manager' is hard twisting arms to water down that legislation. Gee. I wonder why?
Like I said; I'll keep you posted.
Gold treasure salvaged from 1846 steamship
The New York was a 165-foot sidewheel steamer built in its namesake city in 1837. By 1846, it was making regular commercial runs between Galveston, Texas and New Orleans. A storm took the ship to the bottom, killing 17 of the 53 people aboard. The other 36 were rescued.
A group of four hobbyists, who enjoyed looking for sunken vessels in the Gulf, discovered what was left of the SS New York around 1990. After several trips in the ensuing years and bringing up a handful of coins at a time from the mud that virtually covered the ship, the four invested in a full-scale salvage operation in 2007.Of particular interest to coin experts — numismatists — are gold pieces known as quarter eagles and half eagles, which carried face values of $2.50 and $5, respectively, in the days before the United States printed paper currency.
Those coins were struck at mints in New Orleans; Charlotte, N.C.; and Dahlonega, Ga. The Charlotte and Dahlonega mints operated from 1838, when the first significant U.S. gold deposits were found in those areas, until the start of the Civil War in 1861, said Douglas Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association's Money Museum in Denver. Neither mint ever reopened.
Sex-segregated park to open in Tehran
"Mothers' Paradise" is not the only sex-segregated park in Iran. Similar parks exclusively for women have already been established in other Iranian cities, including Mashad and Qom.
It was not immediately clear if all women could enter the park, or only mothers. Also unclear is whether or not the maintenance staff is 'all female'.
Krykee. If these persians have their backside sewn any tighter, it'll be coming out of their mouths.
Oh. Wait....
Vintage Toy Japanese Robots
What the world needs now. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots for decades.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar's collection in Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26.
Weapon of War: Strobe Lights
Or, rather, an unused weapon of world war 2.
It might have been the greatest lost weapon of World War II. Major-General JFC Fuller, the man credited with developing modern armored warfare in the 1920's, called failure to use it "the greatest blunder of the whole war."
Over three hundred CDLs were built -- using Matilda, Churchill and Grant tanks -- and might have played a major role after D-Day. but instead, they remained unused. There seem to ahve been two reasons for this. One the one hand, the power or the CDL was kept extremely secret: "Even the Generals who should have used it did not know what the tank could do," complained its inventor, Marcel Mitzakis. And those that had heard of it had trouble believing at a simple flickering light could have any effect, and preferred to rely on proven weapons. Fuller was one of the few who appreciated what the CDl might have achieved.
Read it all: Secret Strobelight Weapons of World War II.
TY HotAir
The Commencement Speech That Never Was
From the High Priest of the Painful Truth, His self, Neal Boortz, comes a blow torch of reality that every mortar board capped, skull-full-of-mush should hear before heading out into the arena of full time capitalism.
Unless, of course, that graduate opts for a gub'mint job. Says the High Priest of the Painful Truth, His self,
"The irony is that this commencement speech has been more widely distributed, and has been the subject of more comment than any commencement speech that actually has been delivered at any college or university in the past 50 years." ©Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 by Neal Boortz.
Here's an abridged Cliffs Notes:
Brace yourself. You are about to move from this academic atmosphere where diversity rules, to a workplace and a culture where individual achievement and excellence actually count. No matter what your professors have taught you over the last four years, you are about to learn that diversity is absolutely no replacement for excellence, ability, and individual hard work.
From this day on every single time you hear the word "diversity" you can rest assured that there is someone close by who is determined to rob you of every vestige of individuality you possess.
We also need to address this thing you seem to have about "rights." We have witnessed an obscene explosion of so-called "rights" in the last few decades, usually emanating from college campuses.
You know the mantra: You have the right to a job. The right to a place to live. The right to a living wage. The right to health care. The right to an education. You probably even have your own pet right - the right to a Beemer, for instance, or the right to have someone else provide for that child you plan on downloading in a year or so.
Forget it. Forget those rights! I'll tell you what your rights are! You have a right to live free, and to whatever wealth you are able to produce with your labor. I'll also tell you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another.
You may think, for instance, that you have a right to health care. After all, Hillary said so, didn't she? But you cannot receive health care unless some doctor or health practitioner surrenders some of his time - his life - to you. He may be willing to do this for compensation, but that's his choice. You have no "right" to his time or property. You have no right to his or any other person's life or to any portion thereof.
Read it all, 'cause it is worth much more than four years of tuition at any college or university.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Life in a Jar
Oskar Schindler was immortalized in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film called 'Schindler's List'. Based on a true story about a perpetual life's loser, and failed business man turn nazi party member, Oskar Schindler was an unlikely humanitarian hero who managed to rescue 1100 Jews from from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during WW 2. Schindler kept their names on a list in order to combat the nazi's kafka-esque fetish for bureaucracy. He used the list to keep his Jewish charges 'employed' at his 'factory'.
Irena Sendler is known as 'The Other Schindler'. At the start of WW 2, Sendler was a social worker in Poland. She organized an 'underground railway' out of the Warsaw Ghetto which saved nearly 2500 Jewish children from death.
She also kept a list of names with the hope of one day reuniting those children with their parents.
Irena Sendler died one week ago, May 12th, in Poland, at the age of 98.
Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys.Life in a Jar.
The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, and given new identities.
When German police came to arrest her in 1943, an assistant managed to hide the (list of names), which Sendler later buried in a jar under an apple tree in an associate's yard. Some 2,500 names were recorded.
After her arrest, Sendler was tortured nearly to death by the Gestapo, but she would not divulge her secret or betray her comrades. The corrupt nazi swine were eventually bribed into letting her go.
And while some perverse cultures still exist which teach their children murderous hatred of Jews, other cultures celebrate the triumph of good over evil, and the love of all life, and seek to pass those lessons on from generation to generation.
Meet Megan Felt from Farlington, Kansas. In 1999, along with her classmates at Uniontown High School in Uniontown, Kansas, she researched the life and times of Irena Sendler as a class project. The fruit of that class project is a played called 'Life in a Jar'.
They have performed this program for numerous clubs, religious organizations and civic groups in the community, around the state of Kansas, all over the U.S. and in Europe (225 presentations as of October 2007).
Their cause for Irena Sendler became a national cause; they had rediscovered this courageous woman. The girls appeared on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, CBS, CNN,the Today Show and in numerous newspaper articles, and many magazine articles. They were invited to perform in Washington, D.C. and before a Jewish foundation in New York City. They have become knowledgeable on subjects such as the Holocaust, World War II, and the Polish Underground. At least five colleges have been using their letters from Irena and their project information in their curriculum.
This play honors the life of a brave woman in the face of horrible evil. We face similar evils today. Click here to find out more about the play, 'Life in a Jar'
Sendler was honoured with Israeli Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations medal in 1965 for her actions, and later made an honorary Israeli citizen.
She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year but, despite her bravery, she denied she was a hero.
"The term 'hero' irritates me greatly," Sendler said in one of her last interviews. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little."
A big TY to DS
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