Tea Party-ism VS Neo-Marxism

Philosophy matters: Political, religious, economic.

And a fish rots from the head down. Let's review:



In a 2001 radio interview, Barack Obama stated that the government should provide "political and economic justice in this society," and the U.S. Constitution "reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

Tea Partiers believe that a government big enough to give you everything you need, is also a government big enough to take away everything you have.

~nuff said.

A lot of feak-a-zoids pay prostitutes for this kind of abuse. But I think 20 years is past the statute of limitations.

Two tickets, please: peevish professional clown turned loathsome political hack meets jr. deputy grand inquisitor. (video!)

His name was Simo Häyhä.

"During the 1939–1940 Winter War, in temperatures as low as –40 °C, the Finnish sniper undertook a killing spree that saw him single-handedly take the lives of at least 700 men in less than 100 days. Over 500 of these he shot using a standard, bolt-action rifle with non-telescopic sights. Is it any wonder he earned the nickname The White Death among his enemies?"

TY AoSHQ

Lobbying Hard for that Darwin Award

Just in time for the Spring thaw, a repost:


















Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary, and you'll find these guys.

"Murdering, racist commie revolutionary IPhone app": IN.

"FOX News": OUT. 'Cause they're so mean. Waah.

Related: The Left's love affair with this hate-mongering, bloodthirsty racist is well documented.

Fired up! Ready to go!: over-paid dullards and sluggards wanted.

Vote NO on Lee's Summit R-7 School Bond

Lee's Summit R-7 school district's 2009 budget was $193 million dollars (excluding bond funds). $193 Million Dollars. And now they want to borrow more money.

How much? $16 million dollars.

I ask all citizens registered to vote in Lee's Summit to Vote NO on Lee's Summit R-7 School Bond Question in the upcoming April 6 election.

The question on the ballot reads thus:

"Shall Reorganized School District No. 7 of Jackson County, Missouri, incur indebtedness and issue its general obligation bonds in the amount of $16,000,000 for the purpose of constructing additions to, remodeling, renovating, repairing and improving Hazel Grove Elementary and Pleasant Lea Middle schools, constructing and equipping an auxiliary gymnasium at Bernard Campbell Middle School; constructing additions to, remodeling, renovating, repairing and improving various other elementary schools, middle schools and high schools; constructing and equipping a new building for women’s and men’s physical education, activity and athletic programs and an all district robotics center located at Lee’s Summit High School; making energy saving improvements and improving technology district-wide; renovating and repairing high school tennis courts and replacing grass fields with all-weather artificial turf at all district high school stadiums and construction of softball fields at Lee’s Summit North High School and renovation and repair of tracks at all district middle schools; purchasing school buses; purchasing land for a middle school site; and improving, renovating, remodeling and repairing existing school buildings and furnishing and equipping the same?"

Talk about a run-on sentence. I hope the school district didn't compose it.

Notice the kitchen sink of items involved. It reminds me of a pork bomb of earmarks from the Congress in D.C.:

"...an auxiliary gymnasium; an all district robotics center; a new building for physical education; renovate tennis courts; replace grass with artificial turf at district stadiums; new softball fields; land for another new school; furnishing and equipping existing schools..."

That last item is most troubling because it's so vague, like a blank check.

As with all pleas for bond indebtedness, it's touted as a "no tax increase" bond issue - for the children. Which is true. But few stop to realize that bond indebtedness is paid for with your property taxes over a very long time. Your tax rate ostensibly does not increase, but the more bond indebtedness incurred, the longer the county tax payers are in debt.

In other words, the schools are again asking to spend your children's property prosperity today before those kids are even old enough to earn it tomorrow - kinda like the Obama administration's catastrophic budget policy.

To be fair (and we are nothing, if not fair, here at lb1901), the R-7 district has done better than many surrounding districts at meeting the budget challenges from a collapsed economy, failed businesses, record unemployment, a shrinking tax base, and reduced state funding for education.

But given the Obama administration's furious and continuous pattern of proposed tax and policy burdens upon this already battered economy, I find it highly irresponsible & shortsighted to vote ourselves, here in Eastern Jackson County, into even more indebtedness - especially when it's our children who will be paying for it.

The Lee's Summit R-7 district will simply have to do what many of the citizens have already had to do: trim their own budgets and go without all the extra goodies - like a robotics center, softball fields, astroturf, and new buildings. Times are tough. 2010 isn't the right time. Maybe we can all hope for something to change in 2012.

I ask all citizens registered to vote in Lee's Summit to Vote NO on Lee's Summit R-7 School Bond Question in the upcoming April 6 election.

Today is Palm Sunday. The day Jesus rode triumphant into the Jewish capital of Jerusalem.

Oh. BTW. Netanyahu says the construction in east Jerusalem will continue.

Shalom.

The fact that there exists a "religiously aggravated hate crime" law is what's most disturbing.

Coming soon to a North American continent near you.

TY L

Science experiments in school science lab? We don't need no steekin' science experiments in science lab!

Actually, I blame the new priesthood (lawyers) more than anything else, but Vox Day has an equally plausible suggestion.

But why is the clinic there in the first place?

Seattle school provides abortion services to underage teen girl without parental notification; Girl's mother outraged; County health department says, "Tough sh*t."

Your tax dollars at work.

From the Oxford Journal of Archaeology:

Religious beliefs are the basis of the origins of Palaeolithic art.

"Initially scientists saw this art as the way that the people of the Palaeolithic spent their free time, sculpting figurines or decorating their tools", Palacio points out. His investigation, published in the last edition of Oxford Journal of Archaeology, reveals the reasons for the move from this recreational-decorative interpretation of Palaeolithic art to different one of a religious and symbolic nature."

In a nutshell, scientists frequently mistake bias for fact, then grudgingly admit this deficiency, and suddenly discover that people have been people since the beginning.

Friday Night Hoop-la

This is dedicated to the memory of Ted Kennedy.

Lawyers, guns and money - Warren Zevon

From a Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions study:

TV medical dramas 'rife' with bioethical issues and breaches of professional conduct.

"The authors of the review, available in the April issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, say they were well aware that their findings would end up stating the obvious. But they nonetheless wanted to provide data that would shed light on the relationship of these depictions on the perceptions of viewers, both health professionals and the general public.

"I think the utility in our study is that it provides a starting point for a discussion," says fourth-year medical student Matthew Czarny, a researcher at the Berman Institute. "In no way are we saying that these shows are educational in and of themselves."

But these shows do use bias to misinform and engender an unreasonable expectation that the end justifies the means.

"They also tallied 22 incidents of "ethically questionable departures from standard practice," most of them depicting doctors endangering patients unnecessarily in their pursuit of a favorable outcome. "In almost all of these incidents (18 out of 22), the implicated physician is not penalized," the authors note.

Czarny, the study's lead author, recalled an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" in which an intern forged an attending physician's signature. "When this is discovered, the attending seems somewhat grateful that that was pursued," Czarny said. And he cited another egregious example from the show, in which an intern administers medical care while intoxicated.

The study also examined 400 incidents of professionalism, which included interactions among professional colleagues, as well as those with patients. The authors limited their count to incidents they defined as either "exemplary" or "egregious."

"Incidents related to respect were the most frequently observed across both series, and depictions were largely negative," the authors concluded. The next most commonly observed departure from professionalism was sexual misconduct, with 58 incidents notched by the second season of "Grey's Anatomy" and 11 in "House."

Out of 178 interactions between professionals, across all issues, the authors deemed just nine exemplary in nature.

Acknowledging that both series are intended for entertainment purposes, the Berman Institute group said none of the findings were unexpected. And because the study was a content analysis, the authors did not set out to determine the value of these medical dramas as educational tools."

Ever wonder why there's no lawyers in medical shows?

Krykee. Another perving preist guilt....

Dang it. Why do I keep doing that?

Another gub'mint school teacher guilty of performing lewd acts on a minor.

Stephene Moore(D) to Run For Ks. 3rd District Seat

Stephene Moore is the wife of retiring 6 term Congressman Dennis Moore(D) who currently occupies the seat. It was quietly circulated that Mr. Moore retired in order to spend more time with his family.

You do the math.

Another embarrassment?? Parochial school Priest arrested for being intoxicated on campus...

Oh. Wait. Did I say Priest?

I meant gub'mint school teacher. Her seventh-grade students reported her to school administrators.

Texas Judge has ruled that an ordinance banning illegal immigrants from renting apartments is unconstitutional.

Apparently, border towns can't do the job the federal gub'mint refuses to do.

The judge is a 2004 GW Bush appointment.

TY DR

I Want a Fenced Yard, a Finished Basement & a Jacuzzi, Too

How much should it cost to temporarily house the homeless? Apparently, far more than any 'working family' can afford to spend on their own shelter. The average bill for a month in an emergency shelter for a single homeless family in Washington D.C. ranges between $2,500 to $3,700.

And you and I are paying for it.

So says a HUD report released today after studying 9,000 families and individuals who utilized govt. run emergency shelters in 6 cities. In Houston, the average is $1,391 / mth.

My wife and I are fond of those house fix-up TV shows - you know, those shows that rehab a "cheap" $300,000.00 bungalow and then flip it for a 'mere' $550,000.00? The taxpayer would come out way ahead if the Govt. would simply hire those people to provide homeless shelters. I sure can't afford it, and you probably can't, either.

But, sadly, it's more complicated than that:

"Costs to shelter first-time homeless people varied based on the type of shelter and other services provided, how long they stayed and overhead. Shelters may offer drug and alcohol treatment, mental health care, family counseling and help obtaining government benefits.

Mark Johnston, deputy assistant secretary of HUD, says the report should prompt communities to lower costs by targeting people with only the services they need and to improve aid for those who repeatedly become homeless."

Uh, "the report should prompt?" You mean there's no incentive for these gub'mint agencies to do that already? It's only other people's money.

"We saw higher costs and longer lengths of stay than expected," Johnston says. The longest average stay for individuals was 73 days in Des Moines. The longest average stay for families was 309 days in Washington."

Last year's Pork-U-Lus bill allocated $1.5 Billion tax payer dollars to fight homelessness.

How's that 'hope n change' working out for you?

There's at least one Gay in the military.

Apology not accepted. See you in November.

"And why do we have to pay for bread at all? We need basic foods to survive, far more urgently than we need health insurance. Maybe it would be better if the government took over the bread industry. Think of all the money wasted on packaging and advertising, which could be saved if the State distributed Obama Bread in plain white wrappers that said RYE or WHEAT in simple block lettering. Our wise politicians could then decide if all those different varieties of bread are truly necessary."

Discrimination alert:

Private and parochial school kids excluded from annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

Public school kids only.

Uh, OK. So does this mean that Obama’s own daughters won’t be invited to attend the Easter Egg Roll?

Thank you very much for your kind invitation.

Signed, Adolph Hitler.

Manatee deaths jump to new record in Florida. Why? Florida waters are too cold.

Probably due to glow bull warming. Or George Bush.

As a kid, I was fascinated with the X-15.

Robert M. White has died. In 1962 he flew an X-15 research plane nearly 60 miles above Earth and then landed it on a dry lake.

"But Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter went into space seated atop ballistic missiles and returned in capsules that parachuted onto the ocean.

White did it as the pilot of a rocket-powered X-15 research airplane, flying nearly 60 miles above the Earth's surface and completing a conventional landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base.

His out-of-this-world adventure earned him the distinction of being the first man to earn a winged astronaut rating by piloting an airplane in space.

White, a retired Air Force major general who also was a decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, died of age-related causes in his sleep March 17 at an assisted-living facility in Orlando, Fla., said his son, Greg. He was 85...

He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery."

You're on the ultimate flight path now, Mister. RIP

Fly the pervert skies: Security guard really, really likes what he sees in airport body scanner.

The Littlest Dictator:

"... it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."

Neo-con, hate radio talker says "James Cameron is a f—ing a–hole!"

MSM outraged!
Lede story, all networks!
Front-page headlines!!
Endless hollyweird interviews!!!

Oops. Nevermind.

Settled (Political) Science

America wanted President Obama because America wanted socialism. So says bombastic race pimp Al Sharpton.

Gee, Al, I guess you didn't get the "Don't call Obama a socialist" memo.

Suspicions confirmed: Kansas Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore didn't read the Obamacare bill before voting for it.

He didn't read the Pork-U-Lus bill before voting for that, either. I guess you can slack like that when you're not running for re-election.

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.

The Rape of Liberty.

TY MF

We're all Christian Scientists now.

Maybe Congress Should've Read it First? Health-Care Bill Does Not Cover Kids' Pre-Existing Conditions.

Average Wait 44 Days to see Massachusetts' Doctors

The longest wait time in the country. That's from last night's ABC news report entitled "Talking to Doctors" - after Obamacare became the law of the land. (video)

It's nice to know our indolent media watchdogs will bark after the fact.

But even a pup could have stumbled into this water bowl. In 2006, then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law something very similar to Obamacare - the Massachusetts health reform plan. It isn't working well.

"While Massachusetts' uninsured rate has dropped to around 3%, 68% of the newly insured since 2006 receive coverage that is heavily or completely subsidized by taxpayers. While Mr. Romney insisted that everyone should pay something for coverage, that is not the way his plan has turned out. More than half of the 408,000 newly insured residents pay nothing, according to a February 2010 report by the Massachusetts Health Connector, the state's insurance exchange.

Another 140,000 remained uninsured in 2008 and were either assessed a penalty or exempted from the individual mandate because the state deemed they couldn't afford the premiums.

Mr. Romney's promise that getting everyone covered would force costs down also is far from being realized. One third of state residents polled by Harvard researchers in a study published in "Health Affairs" in 2008 said that their health costs had gone up as a result of the 2006 reforms. A typical family of four today faces total annual health costs of nearly $13,788, the highest in the country. Per capita spending is 27% higher than the national average. "

From the ever complacent ABC News info-babe, Diane Sawyer:

"And as this major change in health care was taking place, we've heard very little from the Doctors...."

Seriously, Diane?



The "44 day wait to see a Massachusetts' doctor" clocks in at 1:52, for those counting.

You Lie!

"When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing..." - Candidate Obama, 2008. (video)

That broken campaign promise joins a long list of Obama's broken promises. The fact is, from the Fair Pay Act, to the credit (CARD) act, to guns in national parks, to expanding S-CHIP, to the HIRE act - he's discarded this 5-day time frame for almost every bill that's ended up on his desk.

But to be fair (and we are nothing, if not fair, here at LB 1901): Why not?

A) the lap dogs and myrmidons who enthroned Obama don't care and aren't paying attention.

2) What good is wait period for legislation that's already passed through debate in both houses of Congress and awaits the President's signature? The man said it himself: "I won."

Foul Language for a Foul Process that Produced a Foul Bill

I don't think this was on the telepromter: Our ever so classy, gaffe-tastic V.P. drops the eff bomb on live TV.



His boss looks so pleased.

Dang it. She stole mah thunder.

But, since I'm a scraggly, no talent hack and she's a conservative brainiac hottie, I'll direct you over there:

"This is the problem I've had all along with those who worship at the altar of Our Lady of the Perpetually Expanding Business Cycle: sooner or later, every business cycle goes bust. We can kick the can down the road a bit, but we can't prevent the inevitable from happening.

That being the case, is it good public policy to regulate away the pain for so long that people become overconfident and behave as though the "bust" part of the boom and bust cycle will never happen?"

'Moral hazard' defined.

Obamacare mandate for thee, but not we.

Which begs the obvious question: if Obamacare is such a great deal for the American people, why would thousands of D.C. staffers want to be exempt from the mandate??

But you know the answer.

It's akin to the vociferous opposition to school choice, via school vouchers, from the teacher's union; the same union that ranks at the top of professions who enroll their own kids in private schools - all the while forcing the rest of Americans into the tax payer supported, unionist monopolies called public schools.

Follow the money.

A Pyrrhic Victory

"When a fellow conservative tried to cheer me up this morning by assuring me that the Senate Democrats' victory on health care was going to be a Pyrrhic one, I realized I didn't remember much about Pyrrhus.

I went of course to Wikipedia. That fine reference work defines a Pyrrhic victory as "a victory with devastating cost to the victor."

So wrote Bill Kristol on December 19, 2009. Kristol went on to warn of complacency, then detailed three tactics, on multiple fronts, to keep the Democrats on the defensive - and the GOP mobilized.

Last Sunday night, the House narrowly passed the Senate's Healthcare bill, 219-212. It now heads to Obama's desk this morning for his signature, then back to the Senate to be "fixed." A quintessential understatement.

Tunku Varadarajan, over at the Daily Beast, explains how it's Deja Vu, all over again.

"So the Democrats have a health-care win in the House — a win that could prove mighty Pyrrhic."

I don't think Pelosi and the House Dems were paying attention. Let's hope the electorate will remember come November, and deliver a resounding defeat, because I fear that anymore of these "Pyyrhic victories" for Democrats will undue the demonstrative Tea Party grassroots more than the entrenched Liberal astroturf.

Vote the b*stards out. Volunteer. Get involved.

Need help? Start here: Project Vote Smart or Politics 1.

Is Bart Stupak the cheapest whore in Washington?

Shovels, at dawn!

TY CSKC

'Fire Pelosi' website raises $694,316

Now why didn't I think of that?

Still no word on the 'Impeach Pelosi' website...

Unsettled science:

"At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health."

You mean the IPCC’s fraudulent climate change data shouldn't define economy killing policy??

I long for the good ol' days when the adults were in charge.

"My Health Insurance Policy Just Became Illegal."

"Apparently, the operators of the US Postal Service and US military procurement felt they were better qualified to manage these cost/value trade-offs than I am."

It would seem mine is also illegal.

Worst. President. Ever.

TY MF

"Justified"

I left mah cave to head into town for supplies, and caught about 40 minutes of "Justified" on the big monitor last night at the neighborly cafe, just off the town square.

Anyone else watching this? It appears to be a new TV show on the "FX" cable channel, and a darn good one, too, with a rich back story, and complex characters - even the gap toothed bad guys.

Heck, any show with a brooding, hair trigger U.S. Marshall packing two extra cans of whoop @ss in his ten gallon hat can't be all bad, especially when Elmore Leonard is executive producer.

Maybe something like this is just what the country needs right now - a tough talking shoot 'em up cowboy with a clear vision of right & wrong, who knows how to take down the bad guys, and looses no sleep about it.

Time will tell if it's "Justified."

Nil desperandum (never despair):

"Attorneys general from at least 11 states say they will challenge the constitutionality of the healthcare reform bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday night."

Ponder This

Scott Johnson over at PowerLine has some great reading material linked up. In particular, "20 ways Obamacare will take away our freedoms", and "Hope and change: Had enough?"

Plus, thoroughly read what Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, has to say about "The real cost of Obamacare."

Question of the Day

When is Easter 2010?

City Says Home Bible Group Must Get Permit.

Missouri Upsets Clemson In First Round, 86 to 78.

(whatever they're paying Mike Anderson, it ain't enough)


TY TKC

Friday Night Hoop-la

3 doors down - Kryptonite

This Process is Undermining the Rule of Law.

You're doing it wrong:

"This (Thursday) morning, President Obama signed into effect the HIRE Act, a jobs bill that provides small businesses with incentives to spur hiring and help put Americans back to work."

Back to work? Doing what, exactly?

Energy Technologies Institute to Study Impact of Electric Vehicles on UK Power Grid.

Watch a Supersonic Jet Hover With Breathtaking Stillness.

Mixed-gender dorm rooms: relativism and wussification of males.

So that's how: 6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises Bullsh*t As Fact.

I blame glow bull warming: Major Snowstorm Predicted from Denver to Kansas City.

OK. But just wait till she padlocks your refrigerator.

Medicare patients 5.5 times more likely to get cataract surgery than VA patients.

"VA physicians and hospitals do not have the same financial incentives to perform cataract surgery as physicians and medical facilities outside the VA system.

"The results of our study raise important questions about the possible existence of a two-tier, federally funded health-care system that may not be equivalent in terms of quality of care," said Dr. French, who is also a research scientist with the Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence Based Practice at the Richard A. Roudebush VA Medical Center."

More like the the possible existence of rationed care.

Show me the right reform: Mo. Senate Approves Autism Coverage Requirement.

King of the wild frontier:

"Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85."

Iranian-born Obama & Clinton fund raiser pleads guilty to $292 million bank fraud.

Jeepers. If he were a Republican, the nightly news might actually report this.

We're living in the dystopian future of a Bruce Sterling novel.

Please alert Homeland Security to this obvious domestic terrorist threat.

We're all Tea Partiers now. House approves Slaughter strategy, 222-203.

Hayek vs. Keynes: who knew button-downs could get down?


TY Blogfather

Check out Hayek's book "The Road to Serfdom". Prescient.

Fat cat banker bonuses: Bad.

Fat cat bank regulator bonuses: No problemo, man.

"I believe Congress owes the American people a final up-or-down vote on health care reform." - Pres. Obama, March 10, 2010

But that was last week's rally cry of desperation.

This week, Obama is campaigning for the end to justify the means. As a vaunted Constitutional scholar, I'm sure the President is totally unconcerned about the threatened Tenth Amendment thwarts from 38 states. Or the Supreme Court challenges.

But he is concerned about that imaginary earthquake in Hawaii.

Crunching numbers. Be back sometime.

If the boobies won't fit! You must acquit! (too good not to steal)

'Whiny, non-news' network derided by White House now sought by White House to broadcast White House news.

The lap dog gets fleas: Associated Press reports insurance premiums will go UP under Obamacare.

From the "if it looks like a duck" dept.: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney enacted something very similar to the Obama health plan. It isn't working well.

"The ultimate Stranger in a Strange Land is, of course, Obama. It's no wonder; given his bizarro family, there was no one with whom to bond. Pitifully, the focal point in Obama's life story -- the brave, oppressed Obama Sr. -- is a chimera, all smoke-and-mirrors.

Obama has surrounded himself with other Strangers. His friends are society's misfits: Van Jones, the self-proclaimed Communist; John Holdren, enthralled with devolution and eugenics. Chicago pals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn tried to destroy their own nation with terrorism.

Obama has been called a Citizen of the World. While liberals find this appealing, what it actually means is that Obama has come from nowhere and belongs nowhere."

TY L

American consulate workers in Mexico murdered; Mass murder & beheadings in Acapulco; State department authorized evacuations from Mexican border cities...

Excuse me, but tell me again when Obama said he would send in the Marines?

Which only shows how great they'll run your health care...

Here, let me help you reload so you can shoot your other foot.

Wishing and Hoping and Thinking and Praying

ACORN’s Maryland Chapter Shuttered. But beware. A turd by any other name...

"Men are attracted to youth & beauty. Women are attracted to strength and security."

The Welfare State is 'Daddy'.

Sluts-R-Us: What you allow in moderation, your children will indulge in excess.

WTF? 4,000 year old European mummies discovered in China's Taklimakan desert.

Did you figure that out all by yourself, or did someone help you? NCAA tournament breeds loss in office productivity.

Constitutional amendment prohibits Missourians from being compelled to participate in 'Obamacare' (or anything like it).

“Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow,” Pelosi said. “We’ll take the country in a new direction.”

With all due respect, Madam Speaker - F**K YOU!

It's why a man should always marry a good cook: The Black Bra.

IF CONGRESS CAN “DEEM” THE HEALTH CARE BILL PASSED WITHOUT ACTUALLY VOTING, perhaps taxpayers should “deem” their taxes to be considered paid without actually sending a check this year.

Harrumph! Harrumph!

St. Patrick's Day Eve Hoop-la

Connie Dover - O'er the Hills and Far Away

(believe it or don't, I knew her Dad and met her once.)



Willow Tree - Sin e Ri Ra - Nine Fine Irishmen



Seven Drunken Nights can be found here (NSFW)

Stamp Day for Superman

"Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen visit Jimmy's old school to discuss Superman's visit there to promote the U.S. Treasury Department's Savings Stamp program."

Wait a minute! No blood, gore, perverts, drugs, or cuss words, and it's whiter than a mayonnaise sandwich left out in a snow storm, plus some misguided naivete about 'truth, justice and the American way?' Jeepers! How offensive!!



Hey. I'm extracting my pound of flesh to the IRS, so this is as good as it gets for today.

Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen.

The Footprint Theory of Life.

“You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.” Who else, but Yogi Berra.

A turd by any other name...

"The letters A, C, O, R and N are coming off office doors from New York to California. Business cards are being reprinted. New signs with new names are popping up in front of offices.

The breakaways are trying to shed the scandal that emerged six months ago when videos showed some ACORN workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. But while their names are different, most groups have kept the same offices and staff."

Karl Rove is my hero.

Why didn't they simply pull it off the money tree out back of the White House?

TY NN

Abusing our allies and appeasing our enemies.

And we all know the definition of an appeaser: one who feeds others to the crocodiles hoping he will be eaten last.

Graphic courtesy of the terrific People's Cube. Go there. Now!




Because the people demand more Congressional pork: Move on student loans could win healthcare votes, House Dems say.

Take a prozac and step away from the BDS redux: “Green Zone” is box office bomb.

Liberals run gub'mint the same way. Do stuff nobody wants; Waste gobs of other people's money; Accomplish nothing, but have your feelings acknowledged; Repeat epic fail.

Peter Graves dead at 83.

They headline him as "Mission Impossible Star", and that he was, but I remember him more as the traitorous murtha in "Stalag 17", and as the brother of James "Gunsmoke" Arness.

RIP

What a tangled web we weave. And the Democrats have a doozie.

Cheney 2012. No, the pretty one!

You can't make up this stuff: Pervert from Beaver County goes on camera to explain attempted break-in to steal neighbor's panties.

This explains a lot of Beltway behavior: Psychopaths' brains wired to seek rewards, no matter the consequences; new research from Vanderbilt University.

Listen up, Spring Breakers! 13 Killed At Acapulco Beach Resort. "Four of the victims were beheaded, security officials said."

I like cats; especially deep-fried, so one can only hope.

TY L

I think the Academy Awards are sometime this week, but I can't find much about it. I'll keep you posted.

"You err!" It's not what you said, Mr. President, it's where you said it.

Curses! Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse and Duke have earned No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament.

Bad Dad. The "sexed up" Federalist Papers?

Uh, you might want to reread that...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife exercises her right as a private citizen to participate in the political process, and the Left's collective head explodes as they suddenly become unnerved by 'activist spouses.'

Alas, the answer should be "all 50": Which states don't have Daylight Saving time?

Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!

Oh. And that Greek thing about circles, too.

"Difficult Times Will Come"

2 Timothy 3

1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.

Again? Naughty nuns in trouble for mixing it up with students...

Oh. Wait. Did Is say nuns? I meant gub'mint school teachers. Again.

Check on your wife if her religious fast starts numbering in weeks.

(Baptists don't have this problem.)

Excuse me, but aren't Buddhists 'atheist' by definition?

"Organizational jihad": The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States

Heinz Stahlschmidt dead at 91.

Sex Museum. Hash houses. Socialized medicine. Euthanasia. FEBO.

Dutch patients demand 'sexual services' as medical care.

(If Nancy Pelosi could smile, she would.)

The accelerator doesn't stick, but I hear if you spill soda on it, the 'caps lock' stays on.

Ty F

Why We Should Be Worried That Washington Is the New Job Creator.

Zombie Hitler must be so very proud of the AFL-CIO.

Swings both ways? The inflatable Tiger Woods sex doll.

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This ain't your Momma's Girl Scouts.

Planned Parenthood continues to promote their sexualization of our children agenda:

"The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations this week where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” The event was part of the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which concludes this week.

The brochure, aimed at young people living with HIV, contains explicit and graphic details on sex, as well as the promotion of casual sex in many forms. The brochure claims, “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse… But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex.

Warning: Explicit language

It maybe a just rental, but sooner or later they want it returned.

How about keeping your pants zipped, for starters: Tiger Woods hires Ari Fleischer to plot strategy for his return to golf.

It happens all the time: Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem.

The product of our racial quota generation: Is Tom Hanks Unhinged?

"Hanks thinks he is trying to explain the multifaceted Pacific theater in terms of a war brought on by and fought through racial animosity. That is ludicrous. Consider:"

Friday Night Hoop-la

The Sky Is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughan

I know he's been perfecting his bowing technique for a while, but please tell me again why Obama is going to Indonesia?

Oh. Hold the phone. Is the trip postponed?

Romania: a drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one.

"Is it perhaps time for the House of Representatives to install Breathalyzers in front of the podium?"

From the "stupid is, as stupid does" dept.: Obamacare will include abortion funding, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said.

Harry Reid's Wife, Daughter Injured In Auto Accident. Prayers and well-wishes for a speedy recovery, although, no doubt, they will be treated by first class private physicians in a private hospital, covered by private insurance.

ACORN Kicked Out Of Ohio.

This blows.

He's still the poster child for enforcing "Don't Ask; Don't tell", but remember when Eric 'snorkel me' Massa was the darling of the Left?

Salt Ban 'Absurd'. Nope. It's only your body and your right to choose if you wish to kill the baby in your womb. Get it?

"I'm shocked. Shocked, to find collusion in this administration!"

Obama Justice Department Shut Down Federal ACORN Investigation?

Did Bankrupt Runaway Prius Driver Fake the Whole Thing for Financial Gain?

Overcome. Adapt. Improvise.

The world's biggest house of cards. No, it's not the Federal Reserve.

"Separation between race and state." Sending a Message with the Census.

More like the 'Red Queen'

Or, You Could Stop Expecting The World to Turn Itself Upside Down for You

"Oh, my God. That's really messed up because the message they are sending is that if they have to let gay people go to prom that they are not going to have one," she said. "A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this."

And don't forget the tax payers who will have to foot the legal bills from the ACLU threatened lawsuit.

Friday Fatwah! The latest anti-jihad weaponry. Bacon smothered eye candy. Or is it Prosciutto? Who cares. (mildly nsfw)

Sweet Nothings

Ned? Matty?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Charlie Rose interviews Nancy Pelosi about Healthcare when the prospect of screwing the American people brings an intimate moment of ecstasy.



Thanks, guys!

Clinton Appointed Judge Restores Funding to ACORN

It's not a final verdict, and hopefully will be overturned upon appeal. This whole 'bill of attainder' argument is crap and any ambulance chaser should know it.

Judge Nina Gershon is a Bill Clinton appointed judge, so we shouldn't be surprised by her Lefty leanings toward entitlements. According to Wikipedia: In 1999, Gershon ruled that New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani could not cut the Brooklyn Museum of Art's funding after it mounted an exhibit entitled "Sensation". Giuliani described the works in the exhibit as "sick" and "disgusting."

After all, it's only other people's money.

Whatever happened to equal treatment under the law?

Tax Foundation: 52 Million (36%) of Tax Returns Pay Zero Income Tax. Over 50 Million "Nonpayers" Include Families Making over $50,000!

I still think the withholding tax should be abolished; all should pay a flat 10% tax; and iffen you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't vote.

Ty BlogFather

"Money is Stupid."

Hmm. That's odd.

All their blogs ads are still up over at the DailyKus. I'm sure they're refusing all the ad revenue, though.

How Thieves Steal Your Credit Card Numbers from Gasoline Pumps.

Obamacrat who hacked Sarah Palin's email to stand trial next month. If convicted, he faces a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and 5 years of supervised release.

"About half of these letters call me an idiot!"

Wowser. And all without an act of Congress: TurboTax has become the 120th advertiser to drop Fox News host Glenn Beck?

But, wait. There's more! Massa, jumped sharks, and folded tents.

Four Breasts. She might find a niche in the pr0n industry. Or she could simply wise up.

The Art of Chess

To each his own.

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Good News Amidst the Worst Economy in 75 Years!

Remember that new pr0n, irresistible to Obama's White House staffers? (yes, it's safe for work)

It cost you $7,937.00 per day.

'Doomsday' Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops.

Follow the Money

Click here.

Mercifully, Some Thing Called "Nip/Tuck" Ends Production

The truly sad part is people actually PAID to watch.

"Incessant profanity, frequent displays of naked breasts, nudity, explicit sexual activity, severed heads, maggot-infested corpses, burn and crash victims, and literally hundreds of instances of hideously graphic and gory surgery combined with a sensibility that found amusement value in stories about incest, necrophilia, bestiality, child molestation, and a season-long arc devoted to a serial rapist who mutilates his victims, to form a revolting cocktail of perversity – one which has had a lethal effect on television entertainment as a whole."

Looks like the sadists, voyeurs, mental midgets, and morally bankrupt others will have to find another 2" deep noxious cesspool in which to romp.

I hear there's some vacancies in Congress.

Ouch! Nebraska stomps MU, 75 to 60.

More tournament info here.

Romney tops bestseller list.

Green Eggs & White House

Pay no attention to that huge carbon footprint behind the curtain, children!.

The annual White House Easter Egg roll, on Monday, April 5, will feature wellness activities and official White House Earth-friendly wooden eggs, with veggie paint. The cast of "Glee" will sing for their supper.

Last year's White House Easter gathering boasted of green eggs, too, as 30,000 families from 45 states participated in the egg roll. The Secret Service predicts about the same size crowd this year - all arriving via completely eco-friendly, petroleum free, and carbon neutral modes of transport. Or not.

Aren't you glad the eggs are green?

Why is the U.S. Dept. of Education buying twenty-seven Remington Model 870 twelve gauge pump shot guns?

And you thought AIG was bad.

"Taxpayers have already spent more than $111 billion bailing out mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and that's going to be just the tip of the iceberg."

It’s time to kick Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of the housing market.

Plus, Deja Vu all over again. Freddie & Fannie are still pushing banks to buy loans. (yes, really)

From the 'you're kidding! dept.: Video-Game Ownership May Interfere With Young Boys’ Academic Functioning.

"The results of this study showed that the boys who received the video-game system immediately spent more time playing video games and less time engaged in after-school academic activities than boys who received the video-game system at the end of the experiment.

Furthermore, the boys who received the video-game system at the beginning of the study had significantly lower reading and writing scores four months later compared with the boys receiving the video-game system later on.

Although there were no differences in parent-reported behavioral problems between the two groups of kids, the boys who received the video-game system immediately had greater teacher-reported learning problems."

Chuck Norris would be 70 today, if time wasn't afraid of him.

Census Bureau Hiring So Many Temps That Dip in Unemployment Expected

From an intoxicated "The Hill":

"The U.S. Census Bureau expects to add up to 750,000 workers to its payroll by May, a hiring binge that could knock the unemployment rate down by as much as a half-point.

The once-a-decade census is coming at the best possible time for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, who have taken political lumps for more than a year over a jobless rate that stands at 9.7 percent. "

Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States mandates a decennial census of the population. This makes the exercise a legitimate concern of the federal govt. It also adds an additional expense to the budget. The 2010 census workers will cost the taxpayers another $1.28 Billion. "At the best possible time."

The Lefties are happy about it. Of course.

"This is the best-timed census you could ever dream of," said Heidi Shierholz, who tracks the labor market at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. She believes the March unemployment report will show the economy added jobs instead of subtracting them."

My goodness, Ms. Shierholz sounds almost giddy. Isn't it odd how the definitions blur when a govt. expenditure now counts as 'jobs added' to the overall economy, as if the tax money appropriated is from money trees, or something? Although, the people being employed for the census are probably most grateful for the temporary stipend.

"Hires for the 2010 census are temporary and part-time; the average employee works 19 hours a week for six weeks, according to Wendy Button, chief of the decennial recruiting branch of the Census Bureau.

Almost all of those hired will be doing “non-response follow-up work” that involves going door to door to collect information from people who did not return their census forms."

The Census Bureau's has advertised these temporary jobs at $15/hr.

Meanwhile, the real economy - the one actual 'working families' depend upon for long term employment continues its downhill slide, so don’t expect a hiring boom any time soon. The answer is real simple:

"By contrast, this administration has signaled higher costs and larger tax burdens since taking office. Employers face health-insurance mandates, capital-gains tax hikes, surtaxes, and an energy policy guaranteed to make production and transportation costs skyrocket. Even when consumer demand starts to increase, businesses will hesitate to expand while they hedge their bets — and their cash — against the coming tax storms."

But at least we can fall back upon temporary govt. stipends, as long as the Fed keeps printing paper dollars - and China keeps buying them.

Related: Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary? The nanny state marches on.

The Big 12 Basketball Championship

At the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO., March 10-13.

Go Mizzou, the defending Big 12 Champions!



Listen live courtesy of KMBZ.

Hurry, November: A Democrat poll "found 60 percent of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track."

Jim Hoft is live blogging the anti-Obamacare rally in St. Louis. Pictures, too.

Don't expect the giant fishbowl across the Potomac to pay any attention, though: Virginia budget plan would shrink general spending to 2006 levels.

Matt Damon’s ‘Green Zone’ Slanders America.

Combat Camera. Yes, agreed. God bless 'em all.

Green Illogic

"Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds."

My wife zeroed-in on the obvious flaw: "What's leftover chocolate?"

The new pr0n. Irresistible to Obama's White House staffers. (yes, it's safe for work)

Revolution redux: Doug Hoffman Announces New Campaign For NY-23.

A nanny state mouthpiece parrots gub'mint expanding agitprop because you're too stupid to know what's good for you.

How many lives does Planned Parenthood take in one year?

The religion of perpetual outrage strikes again: Seven Muslims arrested over plot to kill Swedish cartoonist.

Your Feel Good Trifle of the Day

The Online Tax Revolt. Symbolism, with avatars. Join the march. That was fun.

Now, go do something that really makes a difference. March to the voting booth this November and vote for actual conservatives who champion lower taxes, smaller government, and free markets!

Oh, noes! WalMart sells Black Barbie for Less Than White Barbie. White-flight suburbanites hardest hit!

Relax. Supply & demand.

But now let's deal with the tuff issues: What is Barbie's full name?

FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" turns 60 this month.

What's it all About, Alice in Wonderland?

Director Tim Burton tries his hand at this perennial children's classic. This is about the 20th remake in 50 years, or so. Despite mixed reviews, it shattered box office records this week.

But besides Johnny "i'm from fwance" Depp adding yet another gender ambiguous character to his resume', is this Lewis Carroll classic from 1865 just a frivolous fantasy to amuse children or a deceptive metaphor for pernicious humanity?

Nope. Yup. And maybe. It's about Algebra, Euclidean geometry and irrational numbers (Red Queen!).

B.T. Barnum was correct: Two 'ghosts' sold at auction in New Zealand for $1,983!

Obama Admin. to Prohibit Sportsmen From Fishing Lakes & Rivers?

From ESPN:

"The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters."

Many have felt that the discussions were simply a ruse from the start. The very vocal, frog licking, tree hugger lobby stood solid to help candidate Obama win election, and now they've come to collect on environmental promises. These powerful "Big Green anti-use" organizations arm twisted the Ontario Canada govt. recently

"to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario..."

They're now importing those same arm twisting "Big Green anti-use" tactics here in the U.S. to shut down the commercial and recreational fishing industries, which employ millions of people.

"As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy." This document makes repeated references to "overfishing," but doesn't once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with "facts," in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada."

Obama can implement all of this radical, frog licking, tree hugger agenda with an executive order.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him one day, but teach him to fish and he feeds himself for life.

Guess which best describes the Obama administration?

Not The Census, but an Advance Notice Letter about the Census

Sounds more like a subsidy for the Post Office to me.

120 Million Households to Begin Receiving 2010 Census Advance Letter.

"The U.S. Census Bureau today began mailing advance letters to about 120 million addresses nationwide, notifying households that 2010 Census forms will be arriving March 15-17. The one-page letter urges households to complete the 10-question census form when it arrives and to return it in the accompanying prepaid envelope as soon as possible."

I'll be happy to mail it back asap - with only one question answered: how many people live here. Period.

About one week from now, many households will receive the 2010 Census form in the mail.

Update: Malkin, et al agree with moi.

"Many of today's "educators" not only supply students with conclusions, they promote the idea that students should spring into action because of these prepackaged conclusions— in other words, vent their feelings and go galloping off on crusades, without either a knowledge of what is said by those on the other side or the intellectual discipline to know how to analyze opposing arguments."

"I don't know much about the aerospace business, or even running a business." "Me neither, but my husband does." "Great. Let's start an aerospace business and get rich off govt. contracts."

Florida to offer tax breaks for ‘family-friendly’ films produced in their state. Naturally, the Lefties are upset at the prospect of their cesspool shrinking.

But what I really want to know is when will the Feds take similar steps toward the National Endowment for the Arts?

Meet Lyuba. A 1 month old baby mammoth who's 42,000 years old.

Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago.

Oh, goody. Philly abortionist who had jars of dead babies in his office breaks his silence.

Hmm. I wonder if he’s descended from those Auschwitz Nazis who made wigs and lamp shades from dead Jews?

If Dante had invented the internet instead of Al Gore...


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"(Obama) couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." - Former CBS Evening News talking head Dan Rather

Geez, Dan. Good thing you're not a conservative or someone might think you don't like Black people.

At least he's in bad company.

"(Obama is) the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean..." - Pres. candidate Joe Biden(D)

"(Obama is) a light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." - Sen. majority leader Harry Reid(D)

"A few years ago, this guy (Obama) would have been getting us coffee." - Bill Clinton(D)

"You know, I forgot he (Obama) was black tonight for an hour." - MSNBC host Chris Matthews

So, why don't Black people care that the GOP is the 'civil rights' party?

Low-tax Texas beats big-government California.

"Californians have responded by leaving the state. From 2000 to 2009, the Census Bureau estimates, there has been a domestic outflow of 1,509,000 people from California -- almost as many as the number of immigrants coming in. Population growth has not been above the national average and, for the first time in history, it appears that California will gain no House seats or electoral votes from the reapportionment following the 2010 census.

Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes -- and no state income taxes -- and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California's year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.

But Texas seems to be delivering superior services. Its teachers are paid less than California's. But its test scores -- and with a demographically similar school population -- are higher. California's once fabled freeways are crumbling and crowded. Texas has built gleaming new highways in metro Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.

In the meantime, Texas' economy has been booming. Unemployment rates have been below the national average for more than a decade, as companies small and large generate new jobs."

Rick Perry is the 2010 Republican candidate for Governor of Texas.