Think About This for a While

Stolen from Maetenloch's Overnight Open Thread :

'But the revelatory fact that takes a while to sink in is this: You had to be a millionaire to have one. The phone cost the equivalent of nearly $10,000, it cost about $1,000 a month to operate, and you couldn't text or play Angry Birds on it. When the first DynaTac showed up in a movie - it was Sixteen Candles, a few years before Wall Street - it was located in the front seat of a Rolls-Royce, which is where such things were found 25 or 30 years ago. By comparison, an iPhone 5 is a wonder, a commonplace miracle.

My question for the students is: How is it that the cell phones in your pockets get better and cheaper every year, but your schools get more expensive and less effective? '

A Democrat's 'War on Women' Continues...on Herself

BUSTED: Nasty Lib Activist Threatened Herself With Rape – Blamed It on Conservatives …Update: Think Progress Award-Winning Blogger and Pals With Bill Ayers.

Figures. The only way liberals can advance their cause is through lies.

If Only Homosexuals Were Killed in Abortion Mills, Would the MSM Report It?

Call it "Being 'unborn' that way."

*Steven Crowder interviews low info voters on the street to ask, 'GOSNELL WHO?! (It Ain't Easy Being a Babykiller).'



*Steven Crowder DOES NOT advocate aborting homosexuals, nor anyone else. That phraseology is my twisted machination.

Poll Finds Widespread Support for Redskins Name

We're talking American football, here.

'The team's nickname, which some consider a derogatory term for Native Americans, has faced a barrage of criticism. Local leaders and pundits have called for a name change. Opponents have launched a legal challenge intended to deny the team federal trademark protection. A bill introduced in Congress in March would do the same, though it appears unlikely to pass.

But a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that nationally, "Redskins" still enjoys widespread support. Nearly four in five Americans don't think the team should change its name, the survey found. Only 11 percent think it should be changed, while 8 percent weren't sure and 2 percent didn't answer.'

American Indians Found in Obscure 15th Century Vatican Fresco

From the Christian Science Monitor:

"The discovery was made by restoration experts who were cleaning a large fresco painted by

The figures are men who seem to be dancing and are naked except for exotic-looking feather headdresses. One appears to have a Mohican-style haircut.  

Pinturicchio created the work, which shows Jesus' Resurrection, in 1494, just a year after Columbus returned from his first journey of discovery across the Atlantic." Once they had removed layers of dirt, they noticed a group of tiny figures, almost in the middle of the painting.

Senate Majority Leader Nancy Reid(D) says More Funding Needed to Prevent ObamaCare from Becoming 'Train Wreck'

From becoming?

Hey, Nancy. That's a feature, not a bug.

Because gub'mint never, ever, never, evuh grows smaller.

Playing with Caterpillars _ Machines, not Insects

 'My wife was a little dubious about my plans for a family day trip to the Caterpillar center, but my 4-year-old-son and I couldn't wait. My parents tell me my first word was "book" and my second word was "truck." I've been a big fan of both over the past four-plus decades. Now, with a little boy of my own, I had a perfect excuse to satisfy my mania for powerful engines, giant wheels, sturdy shovels and other nifty machines that dig, pound, push, flatten and otherwise manipulate materials in ways that seem beyond the strength of mere mortals. And I'm not alone: The center attracted 50,000 visitors within just four months of opening.'

Obama Called Jason Collins To Offer His Support

Who? Oh, he's the NBA player who proclaimed to all the world that he's a homosexual.

Zzzzz.

I wonder how many soldiers wounded in Afghanistan Obama has called this week, or parents of murdered teens on the mean bloody streets of Chicago?

But let’s make front page news of his call to a sodomite…

Hoo boy. His female former fiance of 8 years says, 'What are you talking about? That man is not gay!' 

This pile of dog squeeze smells like a publicity stunt.

Speaking of Huffy Poo: Fox More Reliable Than CNN, MSNBC

Cue the schadenfreude, Maestro.

If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit (VIDEO)

Yeah. Sure.

Don't let the door hit you in the behind on the way out to scoop up ALL THOSE high paying JOURNALISM JOBS just waiting to be filled.

Nitwits.


Related: Newspaper Ad Revenues Lowest in 62 Years

Is the Government Stockpiling Ammo to Thwart Gun Owners?

From the Week:

'Homeland Security has more or less laughed off 'found it so inherently unbelievable that those statements would be made it was hard to ascribe credibility to them.'

Uh, huh. But that's not a 'no.'

The ammo in question is .40 caliber and 9mm hollow point bullets - which are prohibited under the Geneva Convention. The Department of Homeland Security seeks to purchase 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next few years.

IBD did the math (via Jazz Shaw at Hotair):

'Chaffetz noted that the department currently has more than 260 million rounds in stock. He said the department bought more than 103 million rounds in 2012 and used 116 million that same year among roughly 70,000 agents.

Comparing that with the small-arms purchases by the U.S. Army, he said the DHS is churning through between 1,300 and 1,600 rounds per officer per year, while the Army goes through roughly 350 per officer.'

Homeland security claims all that ammo is needed  'for training.' Yet, the question remains unasked and unanswered: Training for what??

'In a July 2, 2008 speech in Colorado Springs, candidate Obama said: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

The government that would limit law-abiding citizens to some seven bullets to defend their families and their homes still has some explaining to do.'

 

Navajo Nation Forms Company to Run NM coal mine

'Tribal lawmakers voted Monday to form a limited liability company that would run the Navajo Mine near Farmington, N.M. The tribe said it will decide by July 1 whether to purchase the mine from Australia-based BHP Billiton for about $85 million. 

Navajo President Ben Shelly also must sign off on the creation of the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. LLC. Lawmakers said it would be part of a transition to renewable energy production in the future, though critics of the mine purchase don't believe that.'

Obviously, these critics hate native Americans. And Obama's EPA better explain to the Navajo that native people don't exploit the earth for filthy lucre. All the revisionist text books say so...

Krauthammer on Border Security

Ask Obama why he’s got a fence around the White House.

Heh.

And armed security to help keep him safe.

When Govt. is Bad Business

With bad business, you can tell your boss to go screw himself and take your job skills elsewhere. With bad govt., you're forced to bend over and take it harder.

(I took liberties with last weekend's Dilbert strip, and beg Scott Adams forgiveness in a pre-emptive against the lawyer.)

‘Misha’ Speaks: An Interview with the Alleged Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

 From the New York Review of Books. Who knew they do investigative journalism?

'It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge,” Tamerlan’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN after the attacks. “This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely.” These accusations set off a frenzied search for what some reports have called an Islamic Svengali, and over the past few days, the FBI has said it has located and has been talking to “Misha,” though his identity has remained unknown.

Today I was able to meet “Misha,” whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov. '

Oh, OK.

'Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

Obama sat in the pews of a church pastored by a hate-mongering, anti-american, racialist bigot for 20 years, and all the MSM chimed in that there was nothing to see; no connection; didn't mean a thing.

And now, we're supposed to swallow this horsesh!t about some guy named 'misha?'

Uh, oh: Sex in Space May Not Be Safe

Dang. And that final frontier was third on Mrs. Locomotivebreath's bucket list.

From Space.com:

 'Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, apparently, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls," biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School told SPACE.com in 2011. "Think about it: you have no friction, you have no resistance."

In spite of the challenges sex in microgravity poses, Woodmansee thinks that the Inspiration Mars journey could motivate other couples to take advantage of less ambitious cosmic destinations, such as low-Earth orbit, should they become commercially available.'

To boldly go where... OK. I'll stop.

George 'Possum' Jones, Country Music Icon, Dies at 81

And, of course, there's the obligitory reference to his 1980 recording of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - a song he disliked, regarding it 'the most maudlin, depressing thing he's ever heard.'

But ain't that Country Music?

From the L.A. Times:

"From 1955 to 2005, Jones put 167 records on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart — a history-making 143 of them in the top 40 — and won two Grammy Awards. Along the way, he won admirers as diverse as Frank Sinatra, James Taylor and the Who's Pete Townshend.

Jones, 81, died Friday in Nashville, a little more than a week after being hospitalized for a fever and irregular blood pressure, ending a long, tumultuous life that frequently outstripped the songs he sang in terms of sheer drama.

"The world has lost the greatest country singer of all time. Amen," Merle Haggard said Friday in a statement."

Confessed Boston Terrorist Intended to Bomb Times Square

 Of course he did. Right after lil bro ditched classes at UMass-Dartmouth, and scored some fine road trip choom, they were going to jump into big (now dead) brother's Mercedes sedan, pay a fortune in gasoline, then kill more infidels in the Big Apple with crock pot EIDs, and probably catch an international flight back to Chechnya.  Because everybody can afford to do that on a welfare check.

Total lone wolves. Nothing to see. Move along, citizens.

USDA Advertises Food Stamps in Mexico - to Illegal Aliens

'A USDA Spanish language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy, according to Judicial Watch, reads that if potentially ineligible immigrants want to obtain benefits for their children they “need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.”

The Daily Caller has reported extensively about the USDA/Mexico partnership that seeks to promote taxpayer-funded nutrition assistance among eligible Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.'

It all probably comes with a Spanish language U.S. voter registration form, too.

Idiots.

California Bill Would let Illegal Immigrants Serve on Juries

Or reason number 250 California needs to slide off into the Pacific.

From FOX News:

'Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.

It does not change other criteria for being eligible to serve on a jury, such as being at least 18, living in the county that is making the summons, and being proficient in English.'

Since when do they speak English in California?