Wait until I tell you about the cruising I did today.
Two robins were sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry", said the first one.
"Me, too" said the second. "Let's fly down and find some lunch."
They flew to the ground and found a nice plot of plowed ground full of worms. They ate and ate and ate and ate until they could eat no more.
"I'm so full I don't think I can fly back up to the tree", said the first one.
"Me either. Let's just lay here and bask in the warm sun", said the second.
"OK." said the first.
They plopped down, basking in the sun.
No sooner than they had fallen asleep, a big fat tom cat snuck up and gobbled them up. As he sat washing his face after his meal, he thought,
"I love baskin' robins."
Las Cruces New Mexico
The alert members of the GOC community knew that I wasn't gonna be posting Friday and Saturday since I was at Camp Blownstar, which was out in the Hill Country of Texas. We were out of cellphone range and there was no internet access. Yep! We were roughing it.
I really have to give props to SuperGurl for finding the location and doing all the work involved with that; Nancy for a lot of the work involved with the vittles (altho' others did a lot of work as well, like SuperGurl Friday night and Sunday morning.); Lurker Kerrcarto for providing the Shiner. Hammer and Walrilla each made their own recipe of Texas Chili. No beans! Beans are sacrilege in Texas chili.
Let me just say that what happens at Camp Blownstar stays at Camp Blownstar. Well, most of it.
A Blown-Eyed Blodgemeet isn't a proper Blown=Eyed Blodgmeet if we don't have a newbie get hammered the first night. I can relate. The first Helen blodgemeet I got postively shitfaced. SuperGurl did it in Nawlins. This time it was longtime lurker CharlieDelta. He had a headstart before he got to Camp Blownstar and we had him knocking down Shiners from the moment he arrived. The rule at Blodgemeets is "Pace yourself!" He didn't and got really hammered. Welcome to the Blown-Eyed Blodgers CD.
Longtime lurker, Paul, flew in from Seattle to be with us. He, CD, and Kerrcarto are thinking of starting their own blog.
Kerrcarto's wife is a babe!
Erica the Wiseass Jooette from Brooklyn showed up without her luggage. For some reason, her luggage wound up in Switzerland. She got introduced to Wal-Mart to get new clothing. She also brought me an e-mail from Drooling Cumspot. It was hilarious. She went to high school with him and does not know why he turned into a raging libtard. He's also a raging libtard who doesn't know how to spell.
Leslie was there. I brought her three bottles of wine. Somehow they all got drunk on Friday night. I only had two glasses. Should I bring up the broken chair?
Jerry was there. He's no longer Back Home Again in Indiana. He now lives in Houston.
Holder was there and did a fair share of vittle work her own self. That's not to mention a lot of the cleanup. Someone made my bed Saturday morning and I think it was she.
T1G came in from Fresno. Everytime I turn around, he's moved somewhere new.
Running Behind was there.
H2O was there and I meant to complement her on the post I just linked. I just love her south mouth.
I'm sure I must have forgotten someone.
We stayed in a real neat place that consisted of two cabins (one for the guys and one for the gals) on the Guadalupe River in the Hill Country of Texas. This area really reminds me of the Missouri Ozarks. We could have been right alongside of the Meramec River or the Current River in Missouri.
Many people thought that it was not very smart to hold a blodgemeet in Texas in June. The weather was great! Where we stayed had a lot of trees and was real shady. It never really felt hot at all. Not many people felt like swimming after one of the ladies saw a snake in the water. On a side note, Supergurl's boobage looked really great in the suit she wore.
I had a few accessibility issues like the entrance to the bathroom being too small for my chair, but hey, I was roughing it. I did have the best bed. It was a chore getting into it since it was high but once I did, it was very comfortable. Here again I screwed up. I should have asked one of the ladies to assist me.
This was the third Blownstar Meet that SuperGurl has put together and all three of them have been great. Wonder how she's gonna top this one.
Fer sure I'll be going to Texas again next year.
Here's a picture of the 2005 325i I bought a few months back. I took this picture this morning as I was loading up.
I wanted to get a 2008, but I need to put a bunch of money into my house (new master bathroom plus finishing up the kitchen) so I bought this one. Three years old with 25000 miles on it. Half the price of a new one.
Kemah Texas:
Here I am in a Days Inn just off the Kemah Boardwalk. Isn't there a law that states that all Days Inn hotels be owned and operated by Indians?
Drove through more rain (a few really good downpours where you couldn't see very far in front of you), but at least it was nice and sunny while I loaded up the car. Wish we could get some of this rain back in Georgia.
I was really expecting all the road construction between the border and Beaumont Texas to be completed by now. No such luck. Maybe next year.
Talked to Jim and we're getting together this evening. We're gonna have sumpin' to celebrate. The Supremes done good on the Second Amendment case. It should have been 9-0 but we have four liberals who want to rewrite the Constitution. Assholes! I betcha Socialist Sally really has her panties in a bunch about it.
I like Louisiana's response to no death penalty for the child rapist. If they can't kill him they're gonna castrate him. Now there's a punishment that fits the crime.
More later. Maybe. If not, this site will prolly be dark until Sunday night. I don't expect internet service at Camp Blownstar. No cell service either. I mean look at the map at the bottom of the page. It's in the middle of nowhere in the Hill Country of Texas.
Looks like Kerrcarto and CharlieDelta.
Prolly the most important thing the Dimocrats are planning on doing to bring down gas prices is to file an anti-trust law suit against OPEC. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No really. They're serious. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nothing these booger eatin' moh-rons do surprises me anymore. If it weren't for the fact that the the Republicans are even dumber (Yeah. Nominate a Dimocrat like McRINO. Spend like Dimocrats. Tell your base to go fuck off.) and the LSM is the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party the Pelosi/Reid Congress would not stand a chance of staying in power and Senator Hope and Change, Jug Hussein Ears would be exposed for the laughing stock he is.
Three law professors (who should know better) wrote an op-ed published in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation stating that we have a good case against OPEC. I'd link to it, but it is not available on their site. Just as well. It's nonsense anyway.
They basically state that since OPEC is a monopoly we should be able to get the WTC to rule against them. They state as precedents other anti-trust suits. Since I don't have the op-ed in front of me I cannot comment on them only to say that they were companies who wanted to do business in other countries and had to abide by international rules yada yada yada blah blah blah.
What these booger eatin' moh-rons (and the ambulance chasers in the Dimocrat party) don't seem to understand is that OPEC does not have to do business with us. The current demand for oil exceeds the supply which is why oil prices have gone up. They just cannot seem to wrap their rat bastard commie brains around that concept.
So you win a suit against OPEC. Now what? Do you seize their assets in this country? Good luck with that. By the time this case came to court, those assets would have already left this country with the resulting damage to our financia system. Sure, America is a great place to invest, but they can find other places just as safe where they won't have to worry about their assets being seized.
So you win the suit. Is that gonna make OPEC sell us cheap oil? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! After trying that bullshit we'll be lucky if OPEC sells us any oil, and since we're not gonna produce new soures of domestic oil because it wouldn't become available for (choose one) 5, 10, 15, or 20 years, we will be major league screwed.
So let's sue OPEC. You bozos keep talking about how stupid Dubya is. You'll be the laughing stock of the world and we'll be paying $10 a gallon for gas. Lucky for you, there's the LSM and they'll blame it all on Bush and Cheney because they are oil men.
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I'd rather have oil men running things than lawyers.
Or rat bastard commies.
Dave sent me this graphic of world leaders (and assorted dipshits)who have endorsed Jug Hussein Ears. Just remember whom our enemies want to win.
Lafayette Louisiana: In the heart of Cajun Country.
The driving weather was beautiful, at least until I got to Louisiana. And there is an upside to high gas prices. There weren't as many idiots on the road as usual. Maybe this $4 a gallon gas is not so bad after all. I did have the same guy in a Porsche Carrera with the top down pass me three times. Did I mention that I can go over 400 miles on a tank of gas in my 325? He prolly had to keep stopping for gas. I made two stops. One at the MacDonald's drive thru for coffee and the second time for gas.
I've slowed down. Time was, I would have gotten right behind this guy and let him birddog for me. Nope. I just set the cruise control on 75. I still drive fast, but I'm not as aggressive as I used to be.
About the time I hit Louisiana it started raining. Damn Cajuns! Twice it came down so hard that traffic slowed to 20 mph. Naturally it was raining when I stopped for the night. Got drenched unloading and putting together my wheelchair and getting my stuff inside. Of course, after I finished, it quit raining.
Dog snot!
I'm off to Camp Blownstar. Tomorrow I should be in Lafayette Louisiana. On Thursday I'm gonna drive down to Galveston to see Jim SOTW. Then on Friday, I'll meet up with a bunch of Blown-Eyed Blodgers. After that, it's off to Tucson to see one of my old IBM buddies. Then it's up to Colorado and then on to St. Louis.
I'll have my laptop so I'll be posting along the way. I'll also have my camera in case I see anything worth photographing.
How many times have you heard a Dimocrat say that drilling in ANWR or off the coast wouldn't solve anything because the oil would not be available for (choose one) 5, 10, 15, or 20 years? Don't they realize how stupid that sounds? Y'mean we're not gonna need that oil in (choose one) 5, 10, 15, or 20 years? Is demand gonna remain the same? Will we have conserved our way out of the shortage by then? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I guess the demand for oil in India and China is gonna remain the same.
I know! I know! In (choose one) 5, 10, 15, or 20 years Poof! PFM! will have occurred. Or even better, the Messiah will have turned water into oil. Yeah. That's the ticket! Elect Jug Hussein Ears and he'll do it. Remember he said that when he was elected the oceans would start receding. That's how he'll do it. He'll turn ocean water into oil.
We're saved! Now if he could only make me walk again but that's what Flipper was gonna do. He was gonna make Christopher Reeve get up out of his chair and walk. Johnny Boy Edwards told us that.
These Dimocrats are all miracle workers.
Jay Bookman, one of the resident liberals on the editorial board of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation wrote a piece on oil yesterday.
Before we look at it, let's review the Dimocrats' plan.
1. No new drilling.
2. No nuclear power plants.
3. No new coal fired plants.
4. Conservation.
We can't conserve our way out of this.
5. Sue OPEC
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a post for another day.
6. Alternate energy sources like wind, solar, and biofuels.
That biofuel thing is really working out, especially with the floods in the Midwest. Some even say that the additional fields cleared for corn planting exacerbated the flood. Corn based ethanol is a deadend and a waste of money. It should be scrapped immediately.
Just an observation on wind power. Last summer I was driving through Palm Springs. It was 115 degrees and the wind was blowing. There were wind turbines all over the place. Hardly any of them were being used. WTF? There had to be a lot of air conditioners going full blast. Were those few wind turbines providing power or was it coming from an evil nuke or coal fired plant? Every time I've passed a wind farm in California most of the turbines were not being used. This was the same time that California was going through brownouts. 'Splain this wind power solution to me again.
6. Poof! PFM!
That's the most important part of their plan.
So what does Jay have to say about drilling.
Would opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other coastal areas to oil drilling have any effect on gasoline prices, as many politicians claim? No, it would not.
OK. Why not?
Let's take ANWR as an example. Many Americans would be surprised to learn that oil produced in ANWR would be sold to Americans at whatever the global price for oil happened to be. There's no "hometown discount" —- U.S. consumers would pay 100 percent of the global price for ANWR oil, just as we do now for oil produced from Alaska, Texas or the Gulf of Mexico.That's because all oil produced in this country goes into the world oil market. All oil sold in this country is bought off the world oil market. So there's only one way that opening ANWR and other areas could lower the price of gasoline here in the United States: It would have to put enough "new oil" on the global market to drive down the price of oil worldwide.
There's supposed to be an awful lot of oil in ANWR.
Furthermore, the EIA predicts that as ANWR oil came on the world market, OPEC would simply reduce its production, thus keeping the global oil supply —- and the global price —- unchanged. So in the end, drilling in the wildlife refuge and offshore areas would have little or no impact on oil prices.
That would mean that we would be sending less of our dollars to the oil ticks in the Middle East. Isn't that a worthwhile goal? Isn't energy independence a worthwhile goal? If we had energy independence we could tell all of the Islamic countries to fuck off.
It sure is a better plan than Poof! PFM!
So what's the solution? There isn't one. The higher gasoline prices we see today are probably permanent and may go higher still. Some energy analysts even believe that world oil production is now peaking and will begin to decline just as global demand has begun to soar. If so, today's historically high petroleum prices will seem like a bargain by 2018.
And the Dimocrats will still be blocking drilling in ANWR and off the coast and waiting for Poof! PFM!
Major automakers understand that a fundamental change is under way —- they're closing plants that make SUVs and pickup trucks and focusing instead on high-mileage cars. And there is strong if early evidence that Americans are making changes in their daily lives that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago.
$4 per gallon of gas will do that.
In response to $4 gasoline, for example, we have begun driving fewer miles and turning more often to mass transit. For the first time in history, the number of miles driven on U.S. highways has begun to decline.
Ahhh! Mass transit. A liberal's wet dream.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, Americans drove 11 billion miles fewer in March than they did in March 2007, a decrease of 4.3 percent. (In Georgia, the decline was even sharper, with travel falling 5.8 percent.) At 25 miles per gallon, that means gasoline consumption nationwide dropped 440 million gallons in March.
Hope the folks getting off the highways are those slow buttheads driving in the left lane.
And in the first three months of 2008, transit ridership increased 3.3 percent, according to the American Public Transportation Association.
Ohhh! I bet Jay had a tingle go up his leg as he was writing that last sentence.
And now he gets to write joyous things for a liberal.
There are no "outs" —- building more refineries or opening new areas to oil drilling cannot alter the global nature of the changes now under way. Overall, an economy and lifestyle built on cheap oil will be forced to undergo wrenching changes in a fairly short period of time.
And those changes are.....?
In suburban areas, sprawling development patterns will become the real estate version of the Hummer, both relics of an age of cheap energy. The same is true of transportation solutions built around such ideas as double-decking highways.
That dreaded sprawl that liberals hate so much. They think everyone should live in the cities and not on 1/2 acre lots in the suburbs. They love high gas prices 'cause it makes people use mass transit and live in dinky little houses, condos, and apartments in the city. Suburbs are eeee-vil. They're almost as eeee-vil as oil companies and highly paid CEOs.
Rail will become a more economically viable means of moving goods as well as people, the airline industry will contract, and given the importance of oil as an agricultural "input" —- it is used for everything from fertilizer and pesticides to running tractors —- food prices are likely to stay high as well.
Trains good. Actually I like trains. I wouldn't mind seeing high speed passenger rail. If the trip is under a thousand miles I usually drive to avoid the airport hassles and riding in a flying bus. A high speed train would be just the ticket. More legroom. Of course, it would have to be gummint subsidized and the liberals would love that.
Overall, the fundamental forces of supply and demand now in play are simply too powerful to be denied. Until alternative energy sources are developed and scaled up, adaptation, not denial, will be the only rational course.
Holy crap! A liberal talking about supply and demand! Will wonders never cease?
Here's my plan:
1. Drill everywhere.
2. Start extracting oil from shale. At the current price of oil it is now economically viable.
3. Coal liquification. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal.
4. Conserve energy. Yeah. I believe conservation should be a part of a comprehensive energy plan.
5. Build more nuclear and coal fired plants. We're gonna need all the electricity we can get if we go electric cars or hydrogen cars.
6. Continue work on solar power. Right now it is not a viable option.
7. Scrap ethanol from corn.
8. Poof PFM! is not an option.
We are Americans. We can do anything. Unfortunately, we have two Dimocrats running for president and neither of them is willing to do what it takes to make us energy independent.
We're doomed!
Kerrcarto posted a link to a site that lets you make a campaign poster for Jug Hussein Ears. Here's my first one.
Update: Looks like the site is getting overwhelmed with traffic so you may not be able to access it.
Naw! Not the one you've been seeing all over the web. OBG sent me the one he'll have when he's president.
This is how he really feels towards America. It's a shame he doesn't feel that way about our enemies. That's why the leaders of Iran and North Korea have endorsed him. Think about that all of you Obamatrons.
From Richard. He should really be ashamed of this one.
A mother and father lion went off hunting. Before they left, they told their two small cubs not to wander away. Shortly after their parents left, the cubs saw a couple of small wildebeests wander past. The baby lions couldn't resist the temptation to try their hunting skills. So they ran out and caught the wildebeests. As they were finishing their meal, one of the cubs saw their parents in the distance. He turned to his brother and said,
"That's the end of the gnus. Here are the head lions again."
Works for me. Much better than a lapel pin.
From DanS who is still alive and about the same.
Cello metal. So now starts the debate: Cristina Scabbia or Amy Lee.
All right. The sound quality sucks. The good version has embedding disabled.
For the record, I don't really consider this metal, altho' it is considered to be by some. Thanks to Darrell.
They say that Vivaldi wrote over 250 concerti or the same concerto over 250 times. Here's one of them in its entirety. The first time I heard this concerto Angel Romero was the soloist.
I just love it when I beat the big dogs. He does have a better picture.
Time to pick on the guys with this one from OBG.
A blond guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises
coming from the bedroom. He rushes upstairs to find his wife
naked on the bed, sweating and panting.
"What's going on?"' he asks.
"I'm having a heart attack", cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as he's
dialing 9-1-1, his 4-year old son comes up and says,
"Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Ted's hiding in your clothes closet
and he's got no clothes on!"
The guy slams the phone down and storms upstairs into
the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open
the wardrobe door. Sure enough, there is his brother,
totally naked, cowering on the wardrobe floor.
"You IDIOT!!!" screams the husband, "my wife's having
a heart attack and you're running around naked and scaring
the kids!'
I think I'll give it to John Murtha, who should be ashamed to call himself a Marine. I know a few Marines who are ashamed that this dirtbag was ever in the Corps. I'll bet that they wouldn't mind holding a blanket party on his worthless ass.
As each Haditha Marine has been cleared of all charges, I keep waiting for this scumbag to apologize for slandering the Marines. I'm not holding my breath. I'm just glad that this asshole wasn't in the Navy. He's a disgrace to the Corps.
Here's your award dooshbag.
Got this from Darrell. Dare I blockquote some of the story? It is the AP after all. Ah, I'm such an insignificant little blogger that I needn't worry.
A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.
That is one honking big enema.
"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."
I don't know if I would want sumpin' that makes you crap be a symbol of my region. That would be like saying I lived in a real shitty place.
The Caucasus Mountains region is known for dozens of spas where enemas with water from mineral springs are routinely administered to treat digestive and other complaints.Hey honey, let's go to the spa and have a few enemas. What a vacation!
Kharchenko, 50, said the monument cost $42,000 and was installed in a square in front of his spa on Wednesday. A banner declaring: "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas" - an allusion to a line from "The Twelve Chairs," a famous Soviet film comedy - was posted on one of the spa's walls.
$42K for a monument dedicated to bowel movements. Just think, if they did that here I'm sure we could find a politician who would insert an earmark for it.
Sculptor Svetlana Avakina said she designed the 5-foot-high monument with "irony and humor" and modeled the angels on those in works by Italian Renaissance painter Alessandro Botticelli.
If only Botticelli were still alive so he could see his angels helping people to crap. Renaissance art at its best.
"This device is eternal, it will never change," she told the AP. "We could promote this brand, turn it into a franchise with souvenirs and awards for medical doctors."
Souvenirs? Holy crap! Get me one for my bookshelves. That would go great sitting alongside my little Eiffel Tower, my London doubledeckler bus, and my little Pieta. I always get a souvenir from any country I visit. I've got a little model of St. Basil's but this might be better.
As long as we're talking souvenirs, I've got a great idea for an Assisi souvenir. For those who don't know the story of St. Francis he was told by Jesus talking from a statue of the crucifixion to rebuild his church. They even sell little models of the talking cross. Now here's my idea. Make the talking cross actually talk. Y'know like one of those talking dolls where you pull the string and it's says sumpin'. On the talking cross, you pull the string and it says, "Francis, rebuild my church." You would have to make it for different languages but that's no showstopper.
I am so going to hell. Fortunately I'm an atheist so I don't believe in heaven and hell. Or God. Or talking crosses.
Anyway, I think a talking cross is a much better idea than a model of three angels holding an enema bag. Maybe if they put a little string on it that you pull to make it fart.
This one was prolly made by Jerry White.
Frequent commenter Rob posted th following comment. Let's get him to run for president and make this (edited slightly) his stump speech.
My fellow Americans,
Let me remind you that those morons Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and the other libtards told us to make them the majority again and they would lower energy prices, and now since THEY started ruining, I mean running, Congress:
Gas prices have doubled.
Inflation is at its highest level in almost 20 years.
Unemployment has increased by 10%. It's now up to 5.5%.
The stock market has lost value.
The dollar is wayyyy lower compared to other currencies.
The mortgage crisis happened because democrats demanded people who had no right getting loans got them anyway, and when they couldn't repay them, they blamed the lenders.
Energy independence is the key. More drilling and the fast-tracking of it. Nuclear power. Alternative energy development.
Obama and the libtards are so tied to the evironmental nazis that even with gas prices at all time highs and showing signs of going higher, their answer is the status quo. DO NOTHING! Except sue OPEC and raise taxes on the oil companies. And take over the oil refineries to fuck up the system even more.
These libtards make Teresa TDO look downright bright, saying "we can't drill our way out of this".
WHAT THE FUCK??? How stupid do they think we are? HOW STUPID ARE THEY???
It's supply and demand, libtard MORONS. Increase the Goddamn supply OR THREATEN TO, and you watch the speculators start speculating that if supply increases prices will decrease, and OPEC will realize we mean business, and they'll start pumping more, and prices will fall. It's fuckin' basic economics!
I'm outta beer, so I'll add more later...Priorities, ya know!
Thank you.
Those of you old enough to remember may recall Jimmah Carter, in his debate with Ronald Reagan, saying that he had discussed nuclear proliferation with his daughter Amy. Hmmmm! That could go a long way towards explaining his foreign policy fiascoes. Amy was his national security adviser.
We don't have to worry about that happening with Jug Hussein Ears. Nope. He's gonna use Winnie the Pooh.
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
Holy crap! Winnie the Pooh as Secretary of State. Is Christopher Robin gonna be Secretary of Defense?
He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
And they ridiculed Reagan for SDI and disparagingly called it Star Wars? And they're gonna base their foreign policy on a children's book? Holy crap Toto! We sure as fuck ain't in Kansas anymore.
Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”
I'm bumping my head on my desk about now and I'm trying not to think about this. We basically have two Dimocrats running for president. One is a communist who has an adviser who is reading a children's book for foreign policy ideas. The other is a socialist whose only two redeeming features are he wants to finish the job in Iraq and has decided that drilling for oil off the coast is a good idea.
We are soooooo screwed!
Good news! The Dimocrats keep making their plans on gas prices better and better. Lets review:
1. No drilling in ANWR, on federal lands, or off the coast because that oil wouldn't come online for another five years. I guess that in five years we won't be worried about oil any more. Poof! PFM!
2. Sue OPEC.
3. Tax the oil companies.
I have all the confidence in the world as to how successful these policies will be. And now we have the icing on the cake. Nationalize the oil refineries.
House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.
Because everyone knows that no one knows how to run an industry better than the gummint. (or is that ruin an industry?) Look how well that worked in the USSR. For that matter look how well PEMEX, the gummint run oil company in Mexico is doing. It's managing to lose money. Jesus H. Christ! The Senate cannot even manage to run its own restaurant and is gonna privatize it. Now we have Dimocrats advocating the gummint running oil refineries. I can hear Tom Daschle saying, "To professionalize, you must federalize."
Yeah. Let's put the gummint in charge of the refineries. It's the gummint that has mandated over 20 different blends of gasoline. The gummint is the problem, not the solution.
Do y'all like $4 gasoline? You'll just love $5 gasoline. Or maybe $6 gasoline.
These are the solutions offered by the Dimocrat Party.
When gas costs around $5 a gallon on election day just remember how the Dimocrats will fix this problem. No drilling. Sue OPEC. Tax the oil companies. Take over the refineries. Poof! PFM!
Hope and change. A lot of hope. Not too much change left over after filling up your car.
It's times like this that I'm, glad that I have a techie background.Knowing that the AT&T tech support imbecile was gonna follow his handy dandy checklist of tasks for me to perform and I would have to try and decipher them because of his heavy Indian accent, I took it upon myself to do some troubleshooting on my own.
I had already performed the task that the Vision Computers tech support guru had me do the last time this happened: Backed up my data and restored my computer to the last time DSL worked. It didn't fix it this time, so I just fixed myself a nice meal (pasta and fresh string beans from the GOC garden) and got drunk so I would look and feel my best for dealing with AT&T tech support.
I have a router and I had already performed a Poughkeepsie Reset on it. You think that powering off and rebooting microprocessors is a new technique? We've been doing it at IBM since the 70's. We even named it. Needless to say, it didn't fix the problem.
Knowing that Ramesh was gonna have me deinstall and reinstall DSL, I decided to plug my laptap right into the DSL socket and do an install on it. Sho 'nuff after the install, DSL worked. I then plugged my router back in, and my wireless network worked.
Another quality fix by a highly trained, a highly paid (at least when I left IBM), and a highly motivated IT professional.
So what do the simple folk like Teresa (TDO) do when this shit happens? I mean, I at least understand what Ramesh would tell me to do. Can you imagine trying to talk a booger eatin' moh-ron like TDO through the install screens? Fortunately, she uses AOL on a dialup. What could go wrong there? Hmmmmm! We haven't heard from her in a while. I actually feel sorry for AOL tech support.
So I'm hammered. Y'know, back when I started blogging and was still working for IBM, a lot of my posts were written when I was under the influence of adult beverages. My rants were a lot better then. So, here I am on dialup discussing oil. Jesus H. Christ, there are some really fucking stupid people in this country. And these dipshits vote.
Exhibit 1 is from The Vent.
Bush and the Republicans controlled Congress for six years, and they couldn't pass legislation to drill in Alaska, Gulf Coast or build more refineries. Pelosi and Reid have had a majority in Congress for only 1 1/2 years, and you blame them for these high gas prices. Typical right-wing conservative Republican.
You asinine idiot! Go back to watching American Idol and Do You Know How to Dance. You obviously haven't been paying any attention. For those six years Bush and the Republicans were trying to drill in ANWR. Y'see they have this thing in the Senate (for a booger eatin' moh-ron like you, that's one of the houses of gummint. The other being the House of Representatives.) called a filibuster. The Dimocrats filibustered drilling in ANWR. It requires 60 votes to stop a filibuster. Unfortunately, the Republicans could not muster 60 votes.
The Dimocrats have been against all new drilling. Since they took over Congress gas prices have gone up from $2.13 per gallon to $4 a gallon. Here's a clue for you: Colonel Mustard, in the library with the lead pipe. Now go back to watching Survivor.
What else was in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation? Yeah. Another cease fire between Israel and Hamas. Yeah. Hamas will honor that for maybe a day at the most.
More flooding in the Midwest. Lots of looting. People shooting at helicopters. Oh wait! That was Nawlins. In the Midwest, people are following evacuation orders. They're helping out sandbagging the levees. They're not waiting for the gummint. Prolly none of them will be lving in FEMA trailers. Didja know that there are still refugees from Nawlins living in hotels? Yep! Some of them might even one day go out and look for a job. That is when they get around to it. I meant to blog on that earlier this week but I didn't get around to it. I was waiting for the gummint to help me out.
But this post is about oil. McRINO and Chimpy McHaliburton Bushitler have finally come to their senses and are calling for offshore drilling.
President Bush plans to make a renewed push today to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain.
I am so fucked! This is an AP story and I expect their lawyers to come after me and charge me $1 million a word for citing their article.
With oil prices soaring and motorists paying $4 a gallon for gasoline, political pressures have been growing for more domestic oil and gas production.
Just remember, Nancy Pelosi said that if we turned Congress over to the Dimocrats they would fix the high gas prices. Turns out their definition of "fixing gas prices" meant doubling them. Great job Nancy.
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, opposes lifting the ban on offshore drilling and says that allowing exploration now wouldn't affect gasoline prices for at least five years.
WTF? Does this idiot realize how stupid this sounds? Let's do nothing. In five years when gas is $6 a gallon he can say that if we allow exploration it won't affect gas prices for five years when they will be $8 a gallon. This is gonna be our next president. Think about this as you are spending $50 to fill up your tank. This dipstick will make Jimmah Carter look like a good president.
Man I could go on forever. Robert Samuelson has an op-ed about what is ahead.
We all know that gasoline is at $4 a gallon and oil is around $135 a barrel. But if you think that's the end of the story, don't talk to economist Jeffrey Rubin of CIBC World Markets. By Rubin's reckoning, we've barely passed the halfway point on a steady march upward that will take gasoline to $7 a gallon and oil to $225 by 2012. Despite fluctuations, the underlying rise, he says, will have pervasive and surprising side effects. Among them:
Thank Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Dick "Turban" Durban", Harry Reid, Jug Hussein Ears, Thunder Rodent Thighs, and the rest of the Dimocrat Party and the RINOs.
U.S. manufacturers benefit, because rising ocean-freight costs —- reflecting fuel prices —- make imports more expensive. Some production returns to the United States, and some shifts from Asia to closer exporters (Mexico over China). Since 2000, estimates Rubin, the cost of shipping a 40-foot container from East Asia has gone from $3,000 to $8,000. With oil at $200 a barrel, the shipping cost would be $15,000.
That's the good news.
Inflation becomes more stubborn. For years, the Federal Reserve has focused on so-called core inflation —- prices minus energy and food. The justification is that large food and energy-price changes usually reverse themselves. But if they move steadily higher, that logic collapses. "While core inflation may be barely over 2 percent, that's only of solace if you don't eat or drive," Rubin says. Overall inflation is twice that, about 4 percent
Which means Bernanke will have to raise interest rates as we're going into a recession. Hello stagflation. Hello Jimmah Carter's second term, but hey, we will have elected our first black president (as long as we don't count BJ) so we will have proved that we have overvcome racism.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God! Free at last! If it only didn't cost so much fucking money to be free at last.
Two distressed industries —- home building and autos —- suffer further. "In two years, there will be fewer Americans driving," he says. Higher gasoline prices push people to mass transit and car pools. Home prices take another hit, especially in distant suburbs with long commutes. "People won't be able to afford what they used to afford," he says.
The libs will finally do sumpin' about sprawl. Fuck the American dream. Think about that as you vote for Dimocrats.
Finally, the holy crap moment. The AJC actually had an editorial about not blaming big oil. No. This can't be true. I must be hallucinating. All I had was a couple of Stoly's on the rocks and a half bottle of wine. How did this editorial get past Cynthia Tucker?
Guess I better go have a glass of grappa. Or two.
Admit it! Don't I write better when I'm drinking?
And I get to deal with AT&T tech support tomorrow when I'm hungover.
Whoopie!
Didn't sleep worth a damn last night. Don't know why but it might have had sumpin' to do with my phantom knee pain. Maybe not. I couldn't sleep before it started hurting. Took an Oxycontin when the pain started and it helped, but I still couldn't sleep.
Now my DSL isn't working. Bypassed the router and plugged the cable into both computers and neither of them work. Since I'm in a rotten mood, I don't feel like dealing with the incompetent booger eatin' moh-rons in AT&T tech support.
I still have an Earthlink dialup account which is what I'm using now. Everything is slow. It sucks!
I think I'll get good and drunk tonight.
Remember a while back when Johnny McRINO, infuriated the bed wetting libtards by singing, "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"? Not only is that a good song, but it's also a good idea. More specifically, bomb their one and only oil refinery. They already have to import some of their gasoline because they can't refine enough of their own. Kinda like us with diesel fuel.
I got a new song I want to hear: Drill drill drill, drill drill in ANWR.
Isn't it pathetic when a libtard like Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer says we can't drill our way to cheaper oil? He said that even if we did have ANWR producing one million barrels of oil a day it would only drop the price of gas by 2 cents. Then this dickhead turns around and says if the Saudis would up their production of oil by one million barrels a day it would drop the price by 25 cents. How dumb does this guy think we are? Don't answer. The Dims are gonna pick up seats this election and Jug Hussein Ears, the black Jimmah Carter, is gonna be our next president so he knows just how dumb we are.
At least NcRINO has now come out for drilling offshore. Maybe he might actually come out for drilling in that pristone wilderness Arctic desert known as ANWR.
To all of you Republicans running for election I have given you your campaign song. Sing it loud and sing it often.
Drill drill drill, drill drill in ANWR!
And they keep on coming. LisaKay sent me a lot of them.
Quick! Call Maxine Waters! Call Jerry Wright! Here's a news flash from Alicia Keys.
“‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other,” she says, putting down the sandwich. “‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”Come again? A ploy by whom?
She looks at us like it’s the dumbest question in the world. “The government.”
The gummint? Who knew? I mean we all know that the gummint created AIDS to kill black people. Maxine and Jerry told us that. And Maxine said the CIA gave crack to poor blacks in Watts. But gangsta rap?
And there's more.
Alicia says Tupac and Biggie were essentially assassinated, their beefs stoked “by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.”
Duh! Cynthia McCommie told us that so it must be true.
I can't wait for Jug Hussein Ears to get elected so he can get the justice department involved in this.
Free Huey! What? They did?
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"Both parties run for office as conservatives. Once they have fooled the voters and are safely in office, Republicans sometimes double-cross the voters. Democrats always do" ... Ann Coulter
OMFG! I'm having another flashback. This time it is to the 90's. Geez! I was relatively clean and sober during that decade. I was doing my best work at IBM and for two of those years I was essentially working two full time jobs (instructor and systems programmer) and was on the road a lot. Made Medallion Level at Delta two years in a row and I did it by June of both those years. Upgraded to 1st class a lot. I had a manager who appreciated that and gave me real good raises and an awesome promotion.
So I heard that Jug Hussein Ears is promising a middle class tax cut. Reread that quote by Ann Coulter at the top of this post.
back in 1992 when BJ was running for president he promised a middle class tax cut. Then in 1993 he made a speech in front of the American people and said that he was gonna have to raise taxes on the middle class. He also said that it was the hardest thing he had ever done. I doubt that. I think the hardest thing he had ever done was sire Chelsea. Can you imagine making it with Thunder Rodent Thighs? Lest you think that maybe she was hot when she was younger you would be wrong.
All I can say is Eeeeewwwww! I wouldn't nail that on a bet.
So don't count on any middle class tax cut when Jug Hussein Ears is elected. Dimocrats don't cut taxes. All they know how to do is raise them. Liberal Dimocrats raise them even higher. Remember, Jug Hussein Ears is the most liberal Dimocrat in the Senate. He'll be working with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
$4.50 gallon of gas will prolly finally throw us into a recession. Dimocrats will pass a windfall profits tax bill which will make gasoline even higher. Their tax increases will make the recession even deeper and we will return to the stagflation of the Jimmah Carter days.
On the upside, we will have our first black president. Hooray for identity politics! He will surpass Jimmah Carter as the worst president in history which is prolly why Jimmah is rooting so hard for him.
We're doomed.
Got this one for Richard and I'm sure Elisson will get a kick out of it.
You may be surprised to learn that much of modern technology has roots that go far back into history. For example, in the Middle Ages, workers in a popular food shop were allowed to eat anything in the store. But there were a couple of conditions. Workers were required to eat the food only during their lunch break. And one expensive item was off-limits: thinly sliced smoked salmon. So, you see, that was the origin of ...
... anti-lox breaks.
They're back. Lisa Kay sent me some more motivational posters.
Yeah. This one will piss people off.
Normally played on the flute, here it is with piano and guitar.
Now, with the flute and orchestra.
In case you haven't figgered it out yet, I love Baroque music.
From DoubleU.
Two blondes decided to go out to the county for a hike and to enjoy nature. They
were walking along and admiring all of beauty of the countryside. Suddenly one
blonde looks down and says, "Oh! look! Deer tracks!"
The second blonde says, "Those are not deer tracks, they are rabbit tracks."
The first blonde says, "No they are deer tracks. There are lots of deer out here."
The second blonde says, "My father goes hunting all the time, those are rabbit
tracks."
The first blonde says, "They are too large to be rabbit tracks"
The second blonde says, "I have a book on animals, they are deer tracks"
They argued back and forth like that until the train hit them.
“The five largest oil companies in this country have made $600 billion in profits since George W. Bush became president. Do we need a windfall profits tax? You bet we do.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT)
Let's make that Bernie Sanders (Rat Bastard Commie-VT)
So there you have it. This asshole thinks that gummint has the right to decide what is the proper profit for a corporation to make in a free market economy.
Let's have a little economics lesson. Let's say I invest $1 and I make a 10 cent profit. I have just had a return on investment of 10%. Is that profit obscene?
Let's say I invest $1000 I make a $100 profit. Once again, I make a 10% return on investment. Is that profit obscene?
Let's say I invest $1 million and I make $100,000. I just made a 10% return on investment. Is that profit obscene?
Are you with me so far?
Let's say I'm Exxon/Mobile and I invest $100 billion and I make $10 billion. Once again it's a 10% return on investment. Is that profit obscene? If you are a rat bastard commie, a Dimocrat (redundancy alert), or an economic ignoramus it is. Regrettably, most Americans are economic ignoramuses.
The big oil companies make a smaller return on investment than Microsoft does, but Bernie Sanders, because he is a rat bastard commie, thinks that the big oil companies should be penalized. Let's not even mention the fact that big oil already pays a 42% corporate tax. That's not enough. Bernie wants more. What is wrong with you people in Vermont? Are you all a bunch of rat bastard commies?
You wanna know what happened back in the 70's when we got mad at those eeeeee-vil oil companies and penalized them with a windfall profits tax? Gas prices went up and oil imports went up. Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer said that won't happen this time. Yeah. And I've got some ocean front property in Atlanta I want to sell you. Cheap!
Does Bernie go out and explore for oil? Does Bernie refine any oil? Does Bernie distribute that oil? No. All Bernie does is make it harder for the companies to find oil by restricting where they can drill, which keeps supplies down; prohibits them from building refineries, which keeps the supply of gas down; taxes the living crap out of them and then complains because the price of gas is so high. He blames the oil companies for his stupid policies and then wants to tax them more which will drive the price even higher.
So Bernie, what are you gonna do to bring down the price of gas? Raise taxes on the oil companies and sue OPEC. Yep! Sounds like a winning strategy to me.
And to you idiots in Vermont. I don't want to hear any pissing and moaning from you about high gas prices. You are part of the problem by sending rat bastard commies like Leahy and Bernie to the Senate. You should really get a share of the AOTW Award that I have just given to Bernie.
He has some good points. Not all of them will work, but it's a good starting point for discussion.
Sent to me by OBG.
Got the pic below from Kerrcarto. I'm posting it so we know that this chipmunk wasn't one of the screaming horde of chipmunks who attacked that biker dude. He was too stoned.
Eric, Elisson, El Cap, and the people who witnessed Eric's ability to make someone drag out a stupid story and actually make it funny or who have heard about it (It occurred at the first Blownstar meet) know what I'm talking about. The rest of you will just have to ask one of us when you see us.
"Dude, did the biker dude's bike have those monkey bars?"
"You mean ape hangers?"
"Yeah. Those things."
PeggyU put this link in comments on a previous post. She got it from Erica. What a great way to explain America and why we do what we do. It's a real shame that the Dimocrat Party doesn't feel this way.
Didja hear the following from Jug Hussein Ears?
"We can't uh drive our SUVs"
Yes we can!
GFY! Who are you to tell me that I cannot drive an SUV? Jesus H. Christ! This is America! If I want to drive an SUV (Or a Nissan Pickup or a BMW Z3 or a BMW 325 which are my three cars), by golly I'll drive it. This is the United States of America. We have freedom. Is that what you're gonna do when you're president? Tell us what kind of car to drive? Fuck! You!
"And y'know, eat as much as we want"
Yes we can!
WTF? You're gonna tell us how much we can eat? Listen dickhead. I'm gonna eat as much as I want when I want. WTF are you? The fucking food police? GMAFB!
"And keep our homes on y'know 72 degrees at all times"
Yes we can!
Christ on a crutch wearing a sweater. Who the fuck does this dude think he is telling me where I should set my thermostat? I guess we're gonna have a reprise of the Jimmah Carter speech where he was wearing a sweater and told us he had set the thermostat at the White House down to 68 degrees and we should be good Americans and do that. No! We! Should! Not! We should build more nuclear or coal fired power plants. We should drill for more natural gas. I told you this asshole was the black Jimmah Carter.
And what's with the "uhs" and the "y'knows"? I thought this dude was so eloquent and the greatest orator since JFK. I mean he gives Chris Matthews tingles down his legs and I guess he gives Keith Olberman a major league boner. I keep expecting to hear about one of them dropping to his knees and performing a Lewinsky on him. Maybe he's only eloquent when he's reading from a teleprompter.
And then the crowning glory of this answer.
"And then just expect every other country is going to say 'OK'"
Listen up dipshit! (Sorry for the language, but I'm really pissed off at this asshole) I don't give a flying fuck what the rest of the world thinks. We don't need their permission to drive SUVs, eat as much as we want, and heat and cool our homes at the temperatures that we desire. This is still the United States of America. We are a sovereign nation. We don't answer to EUrope or the United Nations. And I'm really sick of that socialist bullshit about how we're only three percent of the population and we use 25% of the energy yada yada yada blah blah blah. That is right out of the rat bastard commie handbook.
Look at what we produce. Our drug companies produce wonder drugs. We are pioneers in medical research. Look at what our electronics companies produce. Do you know how many patents IBM gets per year?
After two World Wars we still have soldiers stationed in Europe. We have kept the peace for over 60 years. That's prolly the longest peace in EUrope since the Pax Romana. Even Prosper agrees on that.
We were responsible for ending the Cold War. Eastern Europe is free and East and West Germany have reunified thanks to the USA.
Whenever there is a national disaster who is first on the scene? The United States. And we usually send an aircraft carrier which is a floating city with medical facilities, power, and fresh water. Yeah. It's that imperialistic American military that is first on the scene.
And not only does our gummint give aid, but we citizens dig down into our pockets and give to charities. We gave a shitload of money to the tsunami victims a few years back.
Listen up Jug Hussein Ears, if you want to give up our sovereignty to the United Nations or to the EU, you don't deserve to be president. You are not worthy of that great office.
Holy crap! We're doomed.
OK Mahmoud, you put the red wire here and the blue wire...Boom!
Dude! Inshallah!
Darwin at work.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Extra credit for anyone who can tell me where the above quote came from.
My friend Pres sent me this.
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world! I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.
Barack Obama AKA Jug Hussein Ears AKA The black Jimmah Carter
We're doomed!
Update: Not true. <DanRather>Fake but accurate</DanRather>
Thanks to CharlieB.
Just think. If the ecotards and the Dimocrat Party had not kept us from drilling in ANWR, off our coasts, and on federal lands and if they hadn't blocked the building of new refineries and nuclear power plants, we would be energy independent and this would be the peace we would be raining on Iran and Saudi Arabia. These are the two countries who are our worst enemies on this planet and the countries we will eventually be at war with. They sponsor most of the Islamic terrorism in the world. The sooner we realize this and take steps to destroy them, by first becoming energy independent, the better off we'll be.
Unfortunately, we have dipshits in both parties who do not realize this simple truth. And we have assholes in the Dimocrat Party who do realize this simple truth and want us to lose the war. And then we have the clueless people in the Dimocrat Party.
Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer - Doesn't he realize that our enemies hate Jews?
Nancy Pelosi - Has she been measured for her burkha yet?
The Floater - He's an alcoholic. What does he know?
Flipper - He loves the French. 'Nuff said.
"Turban" Durban - A clueless liberal. He hates Bush more than he hates our enemies.
Harry Reid - Ditto.
Jug Hussein Ears - Kumbaya.
We're doomed!
OMFG! I'm having flashbacks to the 70's. It must have had sumpin' to do with all the weed I smoked back then. But I thought weed was supposed to make you forget stuff. Unfortunately, I remember the 70's very well.
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
I remember wage and price controls which were implemented by a Republican president. Actually, today Nixon would be a RINO. After all, he did give us the EPA. And he wanted to give us socialized medicine. If the Dimocrats hadn't been so rabid in their Nixon hatred, we would already have had their dream of socialized medicine. I guess we should thank them.
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
I remember gas price regulation. We got that from Jimmah Carter. I remember the misery index. I remember gas lines. I remember stagflation.
Roll another one
Just like the other one
I remember the windfall profits taxes on oil companies. They didn't bring down the price of gas and they didn't decrease our oil dependence. In fact, they increased our oil imports. But that's the Dimocrats' plan to reduce oil prices: Raise taxes on the oil companies which they'll pass on to consumers. Yep. That will bring down gas prices fer sure dude. Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer said this time it will be different. Yeah. I believe that. Oh. They've got a new thing. They're gonna sue OPEC. Let me know how that works out.
You've been holding on to it
And I sure will like a hit
Back in the 70's we had this really naive dude who ran for president. He was real big on hope and change and human rights and all of that neat stuff. He thought you could talk to all these world leaders and everything would be all right. How did that work out? Not too well. The Soviets "surprised him" when they went into Afghanistan. Well he showed them. He boycotted the Olympics. Those mean ol' Soviets sure didn't fuck with us after that.
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
The Iranians were so terrified that they stormed our embassy and in violation of international law (which the rest of the world is always accusing us of violating but did nothing when the Iranians violated it) took our diplomats hostage for 444 days. Talking did a fat lot of good.
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Now we are gonna get a new president who thinks we can talk to these same dudes. Wonder what he wants to talk to them about?
Jug Hussein Ears: Uh, excuse me Mr. Aramalamadingdong, but, uh, I don't think you should have any nukes.
A: GFY infidel.
Yeah. I can see how that's gonna work. Just as well as Jimmah getting our hostages released.
Roll another one
Just like the other one
Back in the 70's Jimmah decimated our military. Jug Hussein Ears will as well. That's what Dimocrats always do. They take money from the military to fund their utopian social policies which only make things worse.
That one's burned to the end
Come on and be a real friend
We had a weak Republican candidate named Gerald Ford who was ridiculed by the press and Chevy Chase on SNL as being a clumsy bumbling fool. It's starting with McRINO. I just saw a video on CNN (which should really change its name to ONN since it's gone from the Clinton News Network to the Obama News Network) where McRINO has promised to "veto every beer".
Knock. Knock.
Who's there?
Hey, man, it's Dave. I got the dope. Open up.
Dave's not here.
And I'm beginning to wish that I weren't here. I really don't want a repeat of the 70's but it looks likes it's gonna happen.
At least the music was better back in the 70's.
For those of you under 55, ask your parents about the stuff in this post that you don't understand.
C'mon man. Open up.
Dave's not here.
'Cause when I tickle Elmo that's exactly what I want him to do.
ASPEN – Skiers who are still are not ready for summer to start will get another chance to take to the slopes this weekend.The Aspen Skiing Company said Monday that it will open up Aspen Mountain from June 13 to 15 for skiers and snowboarders.
The company says record winter snowfall has left the mountain covered with snow, leaving behind an average of more than 3 feet of snow on the upper slopes.
So, for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aspen will open seven runs and about 45 acres of mostly intermediate terrain that is accessible by the Ajax Express chairlift.
Got this in the mail from OBG.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR THE DIM BULBS IN CONGRESS TO SEE THE LIGHT?
The OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and state:
" We are at war with you infidels. Have been since
the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you
haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles,
bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the
best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis
about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will
destroy you! Death to the infidels!
While I am here I would like to thank you for the
following:
Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil
shale and tarsands. we know if you did this, it
would create millions of jobs for US citizens,
expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the
wealth in the US instead of sending it to us to
finance our war against you bastards.
Thanks for limiting defense dept. purchases of
oilsands from your neighbors to the north. We love
it when you confuse your allies.
(Canada is building a pipeline to its coast to sell oil extracted from oilsands because the ecotards will not let us buy it...GOC)
Thanks for over regulating every segment of your
economy and thus delaying, by decades, the
development of alternate fuel technologies.
Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in
Alaska, and anywhere there is a bug, bird, fish, or
plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your
people suffer! Glad to see our lobbying efforts have
been so effective.
Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham
program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the
inside with theses types of policies. This is a gift
from Allah, praise his name! We never would have
thought of this one! This is better than when you
pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use
more energy to create less energy, and
simultaneously drive food prices through the roof.
Thank you US Congress!!!!
And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece
you without end. You will be glad to know we have
been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate,
and publicly held companies. We also finance a good
portion of your debt and now manipulate your
markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.
THANK YOU AMERICA !"
And I'm surprised he left out thanking Congress for trying to raise taxes (which will be passed on to consumers) on oil companies as a method to lower gas prices. Only a Dimocrat or a RINO would think this is a good idea. And we've elected these idiots. Think of this in another month when gas hits $4.50 a gallon. Thank Schumer, Boxer, Reid, and Pelosi and remember that you voted for them.
We're doomed!
Just when you think that it can't get any wackier you hear about this. Sent to me by the Free Carbon Offset dude.
Want to buy a day's worth of carbon offsets with your chocolate bar? How about donating to breast cancer research with your breath mints? Candy with a conscience is one of the latest trends to come out of the annual confectioner's convention as manufacturers jostle to grab the attention of consumers on increasingly crowded store shelves.
I can maybe see breast cancer but since I don't believe in global warming or a CO2 crisis I'll pass on the chocolate.
New Zealand's Bloomsberry chocolates had been selling trendy, tongue-in-cheek chocolate bars in the United States for less than two years when they were approached by Whole Foods to develop Climate Change Chocolate.
I guess Whole Foods is like P.T. Barnum and realizes that there is a sucker born every minute.
Wind turbines and a huge footprint cover the chocolate bar's boxes and the wrapper is speckled with tips on how to be more green like "let the sun shine in. Opening curtains and blinds to capture the warmth of the sun saves on heating and your cat will love you for it!"
Aw. Ain't that sweet?
Marketed as the "first taste of a lower-carbon lifestyle," Bloomsberry donates 55 cents from each bar to TerraPass to pay for 133 pounds of carbon offsets, which is the average American's daily carbon impact."We've sold enough in the first quarter that it's comparable to taking 900 cars off the road for a year," said Kerry Laramie, vice president sales and marketing for Bloomsberry's US division.
I hope you have notified Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW. Canonization awaits you guys.
"That's 9.3 million pounds of carbon offsets."
Actually I think it's 9.3 million pounds of bullshit.
The bars, which were launched in the United States in January and may eventually be sold overseas, come at an opportune time: about 36 percent of US shoppers said in a recent survey that they regularly buy "green" products, up from just 12 percent in 2006.
I buy green products too. Lettuce and cucumbers come to mind. I got some cucumbers and string beans growing out in my garden right now.
What we're really trying to do is send the message that candy companies aren't just about sugary sweets. We care as well, and also send the message of eat healthy, be active, be au'some," said assistant business manager Evelyn Chan.
Isn't that sweet? They care.
What a crock of crap!
This one is from Penn.
A middle aged, well dressed man sits down on a park bench next to a
ragged, homeless old man. The homeless guy tries to start a
conversation saying, "Good Morning! How are you doing today?"
The middle aged man says sadly, "Not so good. I have a lot of money
invested in stocks. I'm worried about the market and I was unable to
get a copy of the newspaper this morning to see what's happening."
The ragged guy promptly removes one of his old, full of holes, dirty
shoes; he reaches inside and pulls out a wad of newspapers and tries to
hand them to the other guy who jumps back and says, "What is that?"
The homeless guy says, "I have to stuff my shoes every morning.
These are the Times that ply men's soles!"
This one is from CharlieB.
Burial at Sea
Chrisy and Barbie, two blonde sisters, had promised their uncle, who had been a seafaring gentleman all his life, to bury him at sea when he died. Of course, in due time, he did pass away and the two kept their promise.
They set off from Clearwater Beach with their uncle all stitched up in a burial bag and loaded onto their rowboat. After a while Chrisy says, 'Do you think we're out far enough, Barbie?'
Barbie slipped over the side and finding the water only knee deep said, 'Nope, not yet Chrisy'.
So... they row a little farther. Again Chrisy asks Barbie, 'Do you think we're out far enough now?'
Once again Barbie slips over the side and almost immediately says, 'No, this will never do, the water is only up to my chest.'
So... on they row and row and row, and finally Barbie slips over the side and disappears. Quite a bit of time goes by and poor Chrisy is really getting worried when suddenly Barbie breaks the surface, gasping for breath. 'Well is it deep enough yet, Sis?''
'Yes, finally. Hand me the shovel.'
Let's give it to one of the dumbest members of the Senate and one of the co-sponsors of the Kill the American Economy global warming bill that thankfully failed in the Senate this week.
The U.S. Senate's much anticipated tangle with a landmark bill that would have required the nation to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming came to an unceremonious end Friday, as proponents failed to muster enough votes to formally consider the legislation.
So this lunacy has been postponed until next year.
"This is a landmark day," said Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat and cosponsor of the bill. "It's another milestone in the fight against global warming."
That's non-existent global warming. The planet has actually been cooling for the last ten years.
But the bill's sponsors claimed partial victory, noting that six senators who missed the vote - including both presumptive presidential nominees - said they would have supported moving forward with the legislation.
Let's not forget that Johnny McRINO was one of those idiots who support this bill.
Lieberman and Boxer noted that the 54 senators who supported proceeding with the bill far exceeded the 38 who voted for a similar, but far less aggressive, climate bill in 2005."It's clear a majority of the Senate wants to act," Boxer told reporters.
It's clear that a majority of the Senate wants to fuck over the US economy.
The vote has "laid the foundation" for lawmakers and the next president to tackle the issue, Warner added.
Which means we are totally screwed. You think the economy sucks now? just wait until you see what global warming legislation will do to it.
"We will have a Senate next year that I believe will be much more hospitable to this bill and they'll like this bill," Boxer said. "And we will have a president, either one, who will be hospitable to this subject and we believe will send down a bill to us and work with us."
Yep! Jug Hussein Ears and Johnny McRINO both buy into this bullshit. I hope you idiots in the Stupid Party are happy with your choice of McRINO.
"It is a climate tax," said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from the coal-producing state of Kentucky. "This legislation will raise gas prices, electricity prices, diesel prices, natural gas prices, and fertilizer prices. It will also put America at a significant economic disadvantage compared to the rest of the world."
Yep! If you love $4 a gallon gas, you'll love $5 a gallon gas, but the Dims will still blame that on the Republicans and the American people will somehow believe it. Amazing!
Boxer rejected the characterization of the bill as harmful to the economy, saying it would create jobs and have little effect on gasoline prices.
Yes. And when the Messiah is elected ocean levels will fall and cripples will walk.
"We must act now," Boxer said. "Waiting two years to act will double the annual rate at which we must cut emissions. In other words, you have a problem, and the longer you wait, the harder it is because the carbon goes into the atmosphere and stays there."
And the bullshit pile grows higher and higher.
We are so screwed! But Babs Boxer is happy because she won the coveted AOTW Award. Here it is.
As gas prices keep going up we can blame the oil cartel. Nope. It isn't OPEC. There is another cartel that we can blame.
Contemplate this the next time you spend $60 or more filling up your tinny little car with gasoline made from imported oil: The U.S. government knows where it can get its hands on more untapped petroleum than exists in the proven reserves of Iran or Iraq, which have 136 billion barrels and 115 billion barrels, respectively.
Holy crap! Where is this mass quantity of oil?
This unexploited stock of crude is greater than what the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports is in the proven reserves of Russia (60 billion barrels), Libya (41.5 billion barrels) and Nigeria (36.2 billion barrels) combined.It is more than Hugo Chavez's Venezuela has (80 billion barrels). It is more than is now known to sit beneath the waters and sands of Kuwait (101.5 billion barrels) or the United Arab Emirates (97.6 billion barrels).
So, where is all this oil? And why aren't they pumping it?
I'll ask again, where is all this oil?
What cartel is holding it off the market, to drive up prices at American gas stations and American supermarkets? What insidious power is stifling the free market for this vital commodity and thus threatening the vitality of our economy?
Yeah. Who are these insidious assholes?
It is us, of course. We are the culprits. We are responsible for artificially increasing oil prices. It is our oil that sits untapped beneath our deserts, our forests, our swamps and our oceans. It is our politicians -- the ones we freely elected, and re-elected, and re-elected -- who are not allowing our oil to be drilled by us and sold to us.
Think about this when you are spending $60 or more filling up your car. We have elected this oil cartel and it is run by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. It will get even worse when we elect Jug Hussein Ears as he will take us back to the Carter years with gas shortages and gas lines. I went through that bullshit in the 70's and I don't want to do it again, but I'll have to and it will be the fault of all of you asshole voters who elect Dimocrats and RINOs. Thanks a bunch! Fortunately, I'm a SRF© and I can afford it, but if you have an Obama or Hillary bumper sticker on your car, I don't want to hear you complain about gas prices. That also applies to a McCain bumper sticker because McRINO is against opening up ANWR.
In 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, requiring the Department of Interior to inventory the oil resources that could be found both onshore and offshore in U.S. territory. In February 2006, Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) published the report on offshore oil resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). It determined there were 85.9 billion barrels of "undiscovered technically recoverable" oil sitting off our beaches.Just this offshore portion of our undiscovered oil is more than all the proven oil in Venezuela, and more than all the proven oil in Russia, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain combined.
Oil that the Dimocrats and RINOs in Congress won't let us get. Think about that as you gas up your car. And I'm talking to you liberals and moderates who elected these guys. I say again, if you voted for a Dimocrat or a RINO you have no reason to bitch about gas prices. You did this to yourselves.
Last month, with almost no attention from the liberal media, the Bureau of Land Management released the report estimating the other part of America's undiscovered oil riches, the onshore resources. This added another 53 billion barrels to the national petroleum pot.
"With almost no attention from the liberal media"? I'm shocked!
"The nation's undiscovered oil resources total about 139 Bbbls (billion barrels)," says the report. "Of that total, the MMS estimates that 86 Bbbls are offshore under the OCS, comprising 62 percent of the nation's resources. State waters and nonfederal onshore resources are the second largest potential source of production (21 percent), followed by Federal onshore oil resources (17 percent)."Yet, as long as Congress and the president retain the federal moratoria that forbid most offshore drilling, the 85.9 billion barrels of crude offshore won't be tapped.
Yep. Chimpy McHaliburton Bushitler is part of this as he was responsible for the drilling ban off the coast of Florida. His brother was governor at the time. Meanwhile China is drilling there and taking our oil. How do you feel about that?
The May BLM report explains why most onshore oil won't be tapped, either. Of the 279 million acres of federal land "with potential for oil or natural gas resources," 60 percent is off limits to leases as a matter of federal statute or administrative policy. Another 23 percent is open to leases with "restrictions." These include such things as "lands that can be leased but ground-disturbing oil and natural gas exploration and development activities are prohibited" and "lands that can be leased, but stipulations ... limit the time of the year when oil and gas exploration and drilling can take place to less than 3 months."
We are doing it to ourselves. Assume the position.
"All oil and gas leases on Federal lands, including those issued with only the standard lease terms, are subject to full compliance with all environmental laws and regulations," says the report. "These laws include, but are not limited to, the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act and National Historic Preservation Act. While compliance with these laws may delay, modify or prohibit oil and gas activities, these laws represent the values and bounds Congress believes appropriate to manage Federal lands."
Why not just consolidate all those acts into the Fuck American Citizens Act? As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
If I were running for Congress the only thing I would run on was opening up ANWR and all offshore sites for drilling. With $4 per gallon gas it would be a winning campaign strategy. You hear that McRINO? You hear that Republican Party.
All I hear is the sound of crickets chirping. The Republican Party has not earned the name Stupid Party for nothing.
Update: For an excellent commentary on the mess we're in go here and here.
So after you hurt the lettuce you abuse the bag? Oh the inhumanity of it all!
OMFG! How did I overlook this tidbit from Jay Bookmans column in yesterday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation?
With that decision, the prospect of another 1980 loomed. That year, after Jimmy Carter defeated Ted Kennedy for the nomination, Kennedy ducked and dodged Carter on the stage of the convention, refusing on national TV to perform the healing ritual of a handshake. To this day, Carter attributes his subsequent defeat to Kennedy's pettiness.
Sorry Jimmah. It was the high gas prices, gas shortages, gas lines, malaise, stagflation, high misery index, and the Iran hostage crises. Not to mention giving away the Panama Canal. If there was any doubt about Jimmah's sanity, his delusional view about why he lost should lay those doubts to rest.
And all you have to do is examine Jug Hussein Ears' naive view of the world and it matches the views of our worst president and our worst former president, Jimmah Carter. If you loved Jimmah Carter, you're gonna love Jug Hussein Ears.
On the upside, Jug Hussein Ears will replace Jimmah Carter as the worst president in history.
I guess that happens when you start chewing on it.
In today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation there is a veritable cornucopia of material to blog about.
First up, for more on the Nancy Pelosi's culture of corruption, we have this:
A brother, sister and niece of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) were charged with pocketing more than $600,000 in state and federal grant money intended for charitable and educational projects. A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans tax assessor Betty Jefferson; her brother, Mose Jefferson; and her daughter, Angela Coleman, on charges that include federal program fraud, identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Rep. Jefferson, 61, was indicted last year on bribery charges. He is awaiting a trial in Virginia and has denied wrongdoing.
It's nice to see that corruption runs in the family. And what's up with identifying "Cold Cash" Jefferson's party in the first sentence? Don't they teach you in journalism school that you only do that with Republicans? And speaking of Republicans, if Jefferson were one he would have resigned by now. The Dims and the press would have been howling for his resignation. It's that "culture of corruption" thing. Republicans resign, Dims don't. I think there's some sort of rule about that.
Next, we have this op-ed about the death of conservatism and the rise of liberalism.
Conservatism's long heyday in national politics is grinding to an ugly halt.The demise may have been inevitable; cue in Eric Hoffer's oft-quoted line that every cause begins as a movement, turns into a business and degenerates into a racket.
He's right about that. Unfortunately, liberalism has skipped the first two steps and has gone right to the racket part. As an example look at the cap and trade bullshit the liberals and the RINOs in the Senate want to saddle the economy with. And then there is Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW and his carbon credit scheme.
But all is not lost. Liberals have come up with a good idea on taxes.
A progressive consumption tax. This one is wild, but it gets you thinking. Robert Frank, an economics professor at Cornell University, has written brilliantly about upper-middle-class discontent inside America's culture of spiraling consumption. His idea: tax consumption, not income. Reward savings, to boost a puny national savings rate that is putting us scarily in hock to China. How? His idea is nearly as simple but a lot more progressive than that right-wing sacred cow, the flat tax. All you'd report to the IRS is how much you earned the previous year, minus how much you saved. The more you save, the less your taxable consumption. Most middle-income Americans would pay less. Corporate moguls who throw million-dollar birthday parties would pay a lot more.
Holy crap! This sounds almost exactly like John Linder's and Neal Boortz' Fair Tax that liberals heap scorn upon. Just this week one of the house liberals of the AJC, Jay Bookman, wrote another column excoriating the Fair Tax. I'm actually for the Fair Tax, but before we would implement it we would need to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, otherwise, I would not put it past the politicians to implement both an income tax and a consumption tax. The gummint's appetite for our money is voracious and insatiable.
On the liberal discontent front we have this letter from Larry Wheeler of Atlanta:
I am 55 years old and have been a Democrat all my life, but with the decision the Democratic Party has made —- basically saying it has the right to decide that the voters of two states do not matter —- I have decided that I will take my vote elsewhere. That may mean we have another four years of Republicans in the White House, but that is better than living with a party that thinks it can ignore the people's vote because they didn't follow the committee "rules."
"Count all the votes!" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey, one of Jug Hussein Ears' buddies got convicted of fraud
Chicago —- Antoin Rezko, a once-powerful fund-raiser who helped propel the career of Sen. Barack Obama, was found guilty Wednesday by a federal jury of 16 criminal counts, including fraud, money laundering and bribery in an influence-peddling scheme that touched the highest levels of the administration of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Reached for comment Jug Hussein Ears said:
"This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew," he said, adding that the charges against Rezko "once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform."
Yet another person that Jug Hussein Ears didn't know. What did he say about Jerry Wright?
The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.
Geez. For someone who claims to be the Messiah of Change, he sure doesn't seem to be able to recognize it in his good friends. Maybe he should have hoped that they didn't change.
Last but not least, we find out that tobacco companies, and Congress, are racist. Y'see there is legislation going through Congress to ban flavored cigarettes. But due to racism, menthol is not gonna be one of the flavors and some people are upset.
Seven former federal health secretaries joined Wednesday to protest menthol's special treatment in a tobacco bill pending in Congress.The seven, from Democratic and Republican administrations, faxed a letter to key members of the Senate and House of Representatives demanding that menthol-flavored cigarettes be banned, along with various other cigarette flavorings the legislation would outlaw.
One of the former secretaries, Joseph A. Califano Jr., said the legislation was "clearly putting black children in the back of the bus." He was referring to the fact that menthol cigarettes are frequently the choice of black smokers.
See. By not banning menthol flavoring, Congress and the tobacco companies are "putting black children in the back of the bus." Where is Rosa Parks when you need her. Oh, that's right. She's dead.
I can't really take this seriously because I don't see the anointed black "leaders" Jesse and Al out protesting about this.
Jug Hussein Ears is still smoking. I wonder if he smokes menthol cigarettes? Maybe he should just throw his cigarettes under the bus so they could join all the other people he's thrown under there.
Because, when I'm hungry, nothing hits the spot like a good ol' Turd Baby washed down with a nice frosty mug of piss.
So my buddy Redneck posted the Ugly Song by Bo Diddley. It's the third one.
My buddy Jimbo has been known to play the first cut when the Elderly Brothers perform. Actually, it's Hand Jive but it's the same music.
Forget about a Boy Named Sue! In Sweden you cannot name your daughter Elvis.
Swedish tax authorities have informed a couple in Stockholm that they may not keep the name Elvis for their five-month old daughter.
WTF? Why not?
"It is the National Tax Board's view that Elvis is a first name of a masculine type and as such may, in light of standard practice, be considered clearly inappropriate as a first name for a woman."
So there. The gummint in Sweden gets to decide what you can name your children. I wonder what they would think of some of the names in the 'hood? Not even goin' there. I'm sure you can use your imagination.
Thanks to Woody.
Pssst! Dude! Watch yourself in there!
From Poulsen.
Actually this can't happen. Only Haliburton has a time machine and Chimpy McHaliburton Bushitler has exclusive use of it. For example, he went back in time and assassinated Lincoln. Thought that was John Wilkes Booth didn't ya? Nope. It was Chimpy.
He also went back in time and shot Kennedy. It wasn't Oswald. Chimpy was on the grassy knoll.
He also shot MLK. Yep! James Earl Ray was set up.
He also went back in time and was responsible for the Great Depression.
In fact, every bad thing that has ever happened to this country was caused by Bushitler using Haliburton technology to go back in time and screw things up.
The Bush haters at KOS and Huff Po have been right all along. Even Rosie O'Piggo was right. Fire doesn't melt steel. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bill Clinton calling someone a scumbag.
President Clinton is hopping mad about Vanity Fair's recent hit piece by writer Todd Purdum.Reportedly, Clinton was asked by a reporter at a South Dakota event for his take on the story.
Clinton is quoted as calling Purdum sleazy, dishonest, slimy, and a scumbag."
If anyone would know how to recognize a sleazy, dishonest, slimy scumbag it would be Bill Clinton.
Now this is an interesting article that Dick sent me.
Europe 'needs 75 years' to catch US
75 years? All my French trolls (you're not a troll Prosper) tell me that the US is finished. WTF?
he Association of European Chambers of Commerce in Brussels warned that the transatlantic gap had widened yet further in the past five years by all key measures, despite the pledge by EU leaders at the 2000 Lisbon summit to transform Europe into the world's "most dynamic knowledge-based economy" by the end of the decade.
What's going on? One of my trolls told me that Europe had already passed the US.
The EU-wide umbrella group, known asEurochambres said the EU's overall employment rate was still stuck at levels attained by the United States in 1978, chiefly due to an incentive structure that discourages women from working and prompts early retirement by those in their fifties.
Yeah. I remember Prosper crowing about France's 7% unemployment rate. Ours is 5.1 and as long as a Republican is president that is too high. Of course, during BJ's presidency, 5.1% unemployment was low. And I thought that the EUnuchs were proud of their socialist EUtopia where people retire in their fifties. For the record, I retired when I was 58. But then, I have a good pension and I socked away a lot of money on my way to becoming a SRF©
Heh! I just got an e-mail from some dude asking me if I knew how to spell 'Loser". He's just jealous that a cripple is more successful than he'll ever be.
It found that the European Union's research and development levels were achieved by America as long ago as 1979, while the lag time on per capita income is 18 years. advertisement"It will take the EU until 2072 to reach US levels of income per capita, and then only if the EU income growth exceeds that of the US by 0.5pc," the study said.
Not to worry. President Jug Hussein Ears and the Dimocrats in Congress will fuck up our economy and give y'all a better chance to catch us. Remember Jimmah Carter? Jug Hussein Ears is the black Jimmah Carter. I can hardly wait for the stagflation, the misery index, and gas lines. Happy days are here again!
Christopher Leitl, the president of Eurochambers, urged EU leaders to grasp the nettle of reform at their spring summit this month, or face economic death. "It is a question of survival," he said.
Sorry dude. Ain't gonna happen.
Yesterday's report included a letter to Tony Blair from the British Chambers of Commerce warning that the swelling costs of EU regulations posed a grave threat to British economic dynamism.
I'll bet our Dimocrats can out-regulate you pikers. With the Dims running things, it won't take y'all 75 years to catch us. You might be able to do it in four years.
If I were you guys, I'd be more worried about your Moo-slime problem.
Looks like Time Warner wants to lose business. Thanks to Mike for the link.
NEW YORK (AP) -- You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?Time Warner Cable Inc. customers -- and, later, others -- may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful.
It will prolly be successful for Time Warner's competitors.
On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.
Wanna bet that there will be customers in Beaumont Texas who will cancel their service? I would.
Metered billing is an attempt to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among Time Warner Cable's subscribers, said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of advanced technology.Just 5 percent of the company's subscribers take up half of the capacity on local cable lines, Leddy said. Other cable Internet service providers report a similar distribution.
"We think it's the fairest way to finance the needed investment in the infrastructure," Leddy said.
Good luck with that. Time Warner has been screwing their cable customers for years. Now they plan on adding screwing their internet customers to their business model.
Phone companies are less concerned about congestion and are unlikely to impose metered usage on DSL customers, because their networks are structured differently.
Look for AT&T to get a lot of new customers.
I've met some potheads, but cannot say I've ever met a liquor head.
Holy crap! A fire breathing electric wheelchair!
Don't fuck with me! I'm a crip and I'm bad!
CharlieB sent me this.
"Change"
The buzzword of this current election is "CHANGE." Candidates toss it around without saying what they want to change.
Ten years ago, a lieutenant who inspected his Marines and told the "Gunny" that collectively, they all smelled bad. The lieutenant suggested they change their underwear.
The "Gunny" responded, "Aye, aye, sir. I will see to it immediately."
He went into the tent and said, "The lieutenant thinks you guys smell bad, and he wants you to change your underwear. Smith, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowskie, Brown, you change with Schultz" and so on.
"Change now... and get on with it!"
A candidate may promise change in Washington but the stink remains.
An entertainer! I remember way back whan a Bo Diddley record that slammed girlfriends.
"Hey man, I saw your girlfriend the other day. She so ugly she needed to sneak up a glass of water to get a drink."
The predecessor to all the "Yo mama so ugly" jokes.
Hey GOC, I've been wondering, how did you become a SRF©? What can I do to become one?
The answer to that is in a column written by Jim Wooten, the only conservative on the editorial staff of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Want to get rich —- and therefore become somebody liberal Democrats hate? Follow the advice of John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group Inc., the nation's second-largest mutual fund company. Save a part of what you earn. Invest. Hold. He has "a bloody fortune" and "I didn't really do anything except save all the time," starting with 15 percent of his first monthly check of $250 in 1951.
Yep! It's really that easy. Pay yourself first. I worked for IBM for 31.5 years and was in the IBM stock plan the entire time. Ten percent of my pay went to buy IBM stock at a fifteen percent discount. That means for every $85 I was investing, IBM kicked in $15. That's a 17.6 percent rate of return if the stock does nothing. I had coworkers tell me they couldn't afford to be in the stock program. I told them they couldn't afford not to. It was free money. Pay yourself first. I still have IBM stock and my current holding is worth 49% more than I paid for it.
When IBM started a 401K plan, I put the maximum in. They matched on the first six percent. Once again, I had coworkers tell me they couldn't afford to do it. They turned down free money. Pay yourself first.
Payroll deduction is the best way to save. Let's say that you are existing on your paycheck. You get a raise. Have half of that raise put into your company's 401K plan. You'll still be getting more money and you won't miss what you are now saving. Do that with every raise until you have reached the maximum contribution limit. Pay yourself first.
Someone once asked some millionaire tycoon if he knew what the Seven Wonders of the World were. He said that he didn't but he knew what the Eighth Wonder of the World was: compound interest. The sooner you start saving, the better. I started saving in my early twenties. After my divorce (from a woman who knew nothing about saving), I started investing part of my Navy pay. After I got hired by IBM, three years after I got out of the Navy, I started investing, first in IBM stock, and then in other stocks.
Yeah, I hear you say, but you were single, what if you were married? If I were married, my wife would have worked. Before we had children, I would have expected that we would have socked as much of her salary away as possible. I grew up poor. I never wanted to be poor again.
From 1977 to 1985, when I worked in the Field Engineering Division of IBM, I worked a lot of shift work (five years of 3rd shift), overtime, and weekends. That led to a lot of extra compensation. I socked a lot of that away. Pay yourself first. Granted, I would not have stayed on third shift that long if I had been married, but as a single dude it allowed me to increase my income and my wealth.
I have bought exactly two new cars: my BMW Z3 and a 1971 Pontiac T-37. The Pontiac was a stick six, three speed on the column. No AC and no radio. It was cheap. I bought two new pickups: a 1983 Toyota that I had for 15 years and my 1998 Nissan Frontier that I still have. Every other car was used. My rule of thumb was buying a good four year old car and keep it for six years. My first BMW was a 1992 325is that I bought in 1995 and traded it in this year for a 2005 325is. It's easier to save money if you don't have a big car payment.
So to summarize on how to become a SRF©, no matter how much money you make, save some of it. Pay yourself first. The sooner you start the better. And I'm retired and I'm still saving while enjoying the lifestyle of a SRF©. Gotta make sure I live in a nice nursing home.
You're welcome.
This is a visual one I got from Catfish.
With gas prices going up, I had to purchase a new form of transportation, so I bought a Wisconsin Motorcycle.
It's a Cowasaki.
Thanks to Mark for this cartoon.
...and RINOs and a populace dumb enough to vote for them. And a media full of rat bastard commies who want to destroy this country.
And now we have the cap and trade bullshit law that has been introduced by Joe Lieberman and John Warner that will be debated in the Senate this week. Another useless anti-business proposition put forth by idiots who believe in man made global warming.
We're doomed!
BJ is pissed at how the press is treating his wife.
On his call with donors, President Clinton also directed his fire at the media, asserting that he’s “never seen anybody persist against greater odds and against a more hostile media environment and a more imbalanced one” than the one Hillary Clinton has faced.
Evidently BJ has never noticed how the press treats Republicans. And the whining continues.
Hillary Clinton has privately complained about MoveOn before, at a small fundraiser held after the Super Tuesday primaries. “They flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me,” she said, according to an audio recording obtained by Huffington Post. In the recording, she also refers to the MoveOn's fundraising prowess, telling donors that "MoveOn.org endorsed [Obama], which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down."
Ahhhh. The irony here is so delicious! MoveOn was created to protect the Clintons during BJ's impeachment and now they have turned on the Clintons. How neat is that?
Geez. These Dims sure do like to whine a lot. Jug Hussein Ears has a real thin skin. The Clintons think the press is hostile. Maybe they oughta talk to Chimpy McHaliburton Bushitler about name calling and a hostile press. And if BJ really wants to see a hostile press maybe he should jump in the Wayback Machine and see how the press treated Nixon. Compared to that, the press coverage Thunder Rodent Thighs is getting is a picnic.
Go find a chubby intern and get your pole waxed BJ and quit whining. In the Dimocrat Party being black trumps being a woman.
The really sad thing is that it doesn't matter if Jug Hussein Ears, Thunder Rodent Thighs, or McRINO gets elected, we're still screwed.
It just gets more and more entertaining. More popcorn please. Thanks Mike.
Def Leopard with their one armed drummer. This was also after Steve Clark, one of their original guitarists, and the dude who did most of the lead stuff, died after mixing alcohol and prescription drugs.
