Joe sent me this.
I think I've figgered out how the gummint is gonna be going green. They're gonna take the green out of our wallets.
The following was in today's Vent in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
Anyone charging $165 for a pair of jeans is a robber.
Let me fix that for this booger eatin' moh-ron.
Anyonechargingpaying $165 for a pair of jeans isa robberan idiot.
There. That's much better.
I used to buy nothing but Levi jeans since my mom bought me my first pair when I was a mere lad. I didn't like them because they were too big for me. She told me they would shrink. She also told me that these were the jeans that the big boys wore. She was right. Then she got pissed when they were what I wanted to wear all the time.
A few years back, I got pissed at Levi Straus and now I just go to Wal-Mart and buy Wranglers. They're cheaper and they wear just as well.
When IBM went business casual I started wearing Dockers. When I got pissed at Levi Straus I started buying my slacks at Wal-Mart as well. They're cheaper than Dockers.
I've got more important things to spend my money on than clothes. I spend it on stuff like dive gear, ski gear, wine, and travel.
This from a guy who used to wear Brooks Brothers suits.
From Dick.
Fortunately since he has Pravda the LSM on his side, he'll get away with this. More people in this country care about Michael the pedophile's death than care about the economy killing cap and trade bill that passed in the House of Representatives. We're doing it to ourselves, America.
Stolen from here.
The libs said this about Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler, but there are a lot of people who are starting to think this about Jug Hussein Ears as they come to their senses and realize that they have voted in a dude who is totally ub over his head. We are seeing the Peter Principle in action here as JHE his risen to his level of incompetence. Here is a dude who has accomplished nothing in his life and who is now the most powerful man in the world.
The Rasmussen Daily Tracking poll now has his approval index at -2. That means that more people strongly disapprove of the way he is reading his TelePrompTer performing his role as President than approve.
One Big Ass Mistake America.
Doug Ross asked me to help him take down Steve Driehaus a rat bastard commie Dimocrat who ran as a fiscal conservative in a red district. He voted for the porkulus bill and cap and trade. One of the reasons this asshole got elected is because Republicans acted like rat bastard commies Dimocrats with their out of control spending and assholes like Steve Driehaus ran as fiscal conservatives. Like rat bastard commies Dimocrats could be fiscal conservatives. They're busy showing the country that when it comes to out of control reckless spending, Republicans are pikers. Anyway, at the request of Doug, I'm posting this Steve Driehaus widget.
Got this from Dick.
"My wife likes it on top and I like it underneath" sounds like the solution to another problem. Now if they could only do sumpin' about that toilet seat problem. Of course, I have two solutions for that problem:
1. Check to see if it's up before sitting down. How hard is that?
2. Glue it down and we'll just piss all over the seat.
It's really amazing all the things gummint can think of to waste money on. For example. Got the link from Dick.
A CHEEKY artist has been given a £20,000 National Lottery grant - to look at girls' bums.
I wonder if I could get a grant to study women's breasts?
Sue Williams was given the cash to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks".She will create plaster cast moulds of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.
Swansea-based Mrs Williams, 53, will also examine different racial attitudes towards bums in Europe and Africa. She said: "The project is taking on the issues around the bottom."Emma Geliot from the Arts Council of Wales, which awarded the grant, said: "This produces a tee-hee response but there is a serious point."
There is? Well, I guess wasting £20,000 is serious. But we here in the states can top that.
The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don't like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
If I tell them the answer will they give me half? They don't have to do all this research. All they have to do is ASK SOME MEN! I told my friend Cindy about this on Saturday and she thought I was making it up. Even she knew the answer.
Maybe this is one reason that foreign cars are selling better than domestic.
From Ron.
Since it's FOD, I think this is time for a timely post by Ron.
A paradigm some teachers use for wrestling literature into submission is a checklist for heroes. Students may not see many of the different strata of a great story. They might miss the symbolism or the message or how the story applies to their own lives or the lives of others. Now I'm not necessarily endorsing the checklist (often called the Monomyth as laid out by Joseph Campbell), and I'm certainly not saying it's the only way to get the most out of the layers of stories that twang something deep inside us but we can't quite articulate why they do so. Generally, though, stories of heroes which last from generation to generation tend to deal with many of the issues in this list:
Oracle of conflict
Significant birth (often miraculous)
Hiding of the child/exposure
Rescue and rustic rearing
Preparation and Meditation, withdrawal
Call to adventure
Departure on Quest
Road of Trials/Tests/Tribulations
Ritualized (often) death or scapegoating
Descent into the underworld
Rebirth
Atonement with father/god (apotheosis)
Think about it in terms of significant figures from history, and it after a while you begin to say, "Yeah, yeah . . . I see that. Yeah, it's just like Jesus, or King Arthur, or Oedipus, or Luke Skywalker."
Start with Jesus.
Foretold birth? Yes
Obscure or miraculous birth? Yes
Hiding of the child from fearsome authority? Yes
Rescue and rustic rearing by someone not directly related to him? Yes
Learning of skills from an old man or woman in a green-world setting? Yes
Involvement of mystical or magical powers or artifacts? Yes
Inner conflict, self-doubt, confusion about place in tribe/society? Yes
Trip to wilderness to escape and meditate? Yes
Hearing a call to do something, go somewhere, save someone? Yes
Begin a quest for some noble or magnificent goal? Yes
Encounter great tests involving powerful enemies or monsters? Yes
Suffer death or sacrifice to placate opposing powers? Yes
Descend into an alternate state or universe? Yes
Be reborn or vindicated as proof of an eternal truth? Yes
Bring great boon of magic, strength, knowledge, or wisdom to society? Yes
Be acknowledged as a redeemer or source of hope and change to a better life? Yes
Of course not every hero touches base with every step of the mythic hero's paradigm. But the more steps he matches in the process, the closer he is compared to those powerful figures which have made great impacts on our lives and strike a resonant chord deep in our collective subconsciousness.
I certainly don't compare our Precedent President with Jesus, or Arthur, or Moses, or Skywalker, but understanding how others might do it isn't difficult. From Monomyth to Obamamyth:
Was his birth foretold? Well, according to him it was. "I am the one we've been waiting for."
Was his birth obscure? Oh, at the very least. Particularly the where part.
Hiding the child from powerful enemies? Hard to tell, but from Kenya to Indonesia to Hawaii? Why?
Rustic rearing by a surrogate parent? Yep! Repeatedly. Hard to get more rustic than Indonesia.
Mystic or magical skills learned in a wildnerness? Hard to know, but the wildnerness part is clear.
Magical artifacts? I certainly think so; he'd never have been elected without black skin, his only visible asset and America's perverse guilt over the slavery issue.
Confusion about his place in the society? Certainly not hard to see this.
Hearing a call to adventure? The dangers of Chicago politics would certainly serve as adventure.
Go on a quest? To escape Chicago politics would be enough of a quest for most; he chose King of the World.
Travel a path of great tests, trials, and tribulations? Depends on how you look at it, but it ain't easy bein' green and gettin' the starting quarterback job.
Sacrifice and descent into an underworld? Remains to be seen. One can hope.
Rebirth as symbol of hope and change? For Kenyans and welfare blacks, oh, YES!
To me he's nothing but a posturing fraud, a newbie who came along at the right time with connections to vast sums of both sympathy and money. He'd never have made the national scene without racial loyalty, white guilt, Soros' money, and Winfrey's fawning. Not a hero, but a freak of circumstance.
Still, very easy to see how white-guilt liberals, inveterate Bush-bashers, nanny-staters, and kumbayassholes could see him as a savior, a redeemer, a messiah. He owes a great debt to Tiger Woods, by the way, as well as several other successful, articulate, reasonable racial hybrids, not to mention classy blacks such as Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who tirelessly chipped away at the lingering racism and class prejudice and societal memories to clear the stage for him.
Does he fit the monomyth schema? If you're into worshipping rock stars, bad boys, rebels, smiling opportunists, flash-in-the-pan wannabes, empty suits, liars, flip-floppers, and hypocrites, then the answer is "yes." But does he fit anywhere on the same page with Moses or Siegfried or Jesus or Arthur, or even a similarly artificial character such as Luke Skywalker? Yeah, like BocaBurgers, Olestra chips, and near beer belong with Big Macs, Pringles, and Dos Equis.
Do ya want the lowdown on Honduras? Of so, go see my friend Fausta.
It's really easy to choose the right side in this conflict. Rat bastard commies Jug Hussein Ears and Thunder Rodent Thighs are on Zelaya's side and are calling for his restoration. That pretty much means we should go with their congress, their supreme court and the rule of law. And why is JHE speaking out on this? I thought we weren't supposed to "meddle" in other countries' affairs. That's what he told us about Iran.
I just remembered this pun from way way back in the 70's. You have to remember that for a while Farah Fawcett was married to Lee Majors and she was then known as Farah Fawcett Majors.
A college decided to create a course of study on designing plumbing made out of iron. Of course the students who took these courses were known as Ferrous Faucet Majors.
I said it was a bonus. I didn't say it would be good.
From a Willie Brown column. (scroll to the bottom) Got the link from Don Surber.
I got into a cab Friday, and the driver asked, "Was Michael Jackson a Republican?""I don't think so. Why?"
"He managed to knock both that two-timing South Carolina governor and that two-timing, Bible-thumping senator from Nevada off the front page. Republicans haven't gotten that much help from a black man since Sammy Davis Jr. hugged Richard Nixon."
Speaking of the pedophile's death overshadowing things, here is sumpin' Dick sent me about someone who died last week who was a real hero.
You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley ,11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it...
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID . . . May God rest his soul.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop coward beating his "girlfriend"; and the passing of Farah Fawcett & Michael Jackson.
In honor of FOD, here's Ol' Tennessee Ernie (Bless his pea picking little heart - How many of you remember that?)singing Two Trillion Bucks. Got it from Mike.
This one is from Richard.
A man was married and happy, but he had one complaint. His wife was always nursing sick birds. One day, he came home to find a robin coughing in the living room. In the dining room, a bluebird had its wing in a sling. He went to the kitchen, where he found his wife cuddling a half-frozen bird. "We've got to get these #*@#! birds out of here," he yelled. Replied his wife, "Please, dear,
no bad language in front of the chilled wren."
It even rhymes. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Go here.
Wishbone Ash. A really good British band from the early 70's. Had two guitarists, Ted Turner and Andy Powell, who could play lead.
Here's Jailbait with a good example of twin leads playing together. Ted Turner had left and had been replaced by Laurie Wisefield.
They cut off about 5 seconds before the ending.
I've got their Live Dates album on vinyl and CD.
David's opinion.
Mine too. And even more Americans on a daily basis. Wait until unemployment hits double digits in the near future.
The only hope for killing this bill, which will turn the Great Recession into the Great Depression is in the Senate. As for trading Congress? I wish. The American people have been so dumbed down in our socialist indoctrination centers gummint schools, that they believe in this global warming bullshit, just like the American people believed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that only deepened the Great Depression was a good idea. If this bill passes, future generations looking back will wonder what we were thinking in passing this anti-growth legislation in the middle of a deepening recession.
Six RINOs voted for this abomination. Here they are:
Bono Mack R CA Aye
Castle R DE Aye
Kirk R IL Aye
Lance R NJ Aye
LoBiondo R NJ Aye
McHugh R NY Aye
Reichert R WA Aye
Smith (NJ) R NJ Aye
Three of them were from New Jersey. There are Republican Congresscritters from New Jersey? Who knew?
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is wising up. Got the link from Steve.
As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.
Maybe it's time to move to Australia. They're more forthright in dealing with their Moo-slime population as well as in telling them that if they don't like Australian laws they can move back to Shitholestan.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
But..but..but Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW told us the "debate was over" which is why he refuses to actually debate anyone.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
While we elected a Kenyan communist and a bunch of rat bastard commies to Congress. Who woulda thunk that we would move further to the left than France?
The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality.
Sumpin' that the rat bastard commies Dimocrats have no conception of.
The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
But not here. This is an administration that doesn't believe in "letting a crisis go to waste" and they're about to manufacture a real crisis that will destroy the economy and destroy jobs and make even more people dependent on gummint. Rat bastard commies Dimocrats love poor people so much they're gonna create even more of them. The Republicans tried to put in an amendment that would curtail cap and trade if unemployment topped 15%. It was voted down by the rat bastard commies Dimocrats. What's the matter Dims? Are you afraid that this economy buster will send unemployment over 15%. I am.
Look on the bright side. You young people who voted for Jug Hussein Ears will get a chance to become members of another Greatest Generation as you get to live through another Great Depression which will prolly end like the first one did with a World War. This time, instead of fighting Japan and Germany, you'll get to fight against radical Islam.
Hope. Change. New Great Depression.
No guitar this week. Instead we have two girls on a giant keyboard.
From Frank.
The fugue used to be the ring tone on my cell until I got my new phone. It didn't come with that in its library. Bummer.
From Bolsman.
A striking blonde woman walks into a store. Curious about a shiny object behind the counter, she asks, "What is that?"
The helpful store clerk responds, "Why, it's a thermos."
Still curious, the blonde asks, "What does it do?"
"It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold," replies the clerk.
About this time I was expecting "How does it know?" ... GOC
So she buys one....
The next day, she brings her new thermos to work with her.
Her boss, also a blond, asks, "What's that shiny thingy?"
She replies with authority, "It's a thermos."
"Oh," says he, "And what's it do?"
"Well," says she, "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."
Then he asks, "So what do you have in there today?"
"Two cups of coffee and a Popsicle."
From Larry.
And she has black hair and blue eyes which really turns me on in a woman.
I'm gonna give it to Mark Sanford who took the Appalachian Trail to Argentina and destroyed his political career. He was talked about as a possible presidential candidate. Kiss that good-bye Mark! I guess he could run on the Dooshbag ticket along with John Edwards. They could have Elliot Spitzer as their Attorney General and Barney Frank as their Secretary of the Interior.
I gotta hand it to Sanford's wife. Unlike Thunder Rodent Thighs and Elizabeth Edwards, when she found out about the affair she kicked his ass out of the house. Now that is my idea of a strong woman.
Here's your award Mark.
Many readers sent me this.
(Reuters) - Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal said.
Now let me get this straight. Fanny and Freddie were forced by Dimocrat politicians to relax lending standards and made countless toxic loans which caused them to go broke. Now we have Dimocrat politicians who want to do this again? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Kinda like electing Dimocrats and expecting them to want a strong defense for this country.
So who are these Dimocrat politicians. Guesses? Anyone?
In a letter to the CEO's of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold "may be too onerous" and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.
Yeah. Barney Frank, the slobbering gay dude. One of the guys responsible for the sub-prime meltdown. One of the guys who had Fannie and Freddie relax standards to make loans to people unable to repay them and then denied it last fall. The guy who said Fannie and Freddy were in great financial shape last summer three months before they went down the tubes. Now this slobbering asshole wants to repeat that process.
Jesus H. Christ! WTF is wrong with you people in Taxachusetts who keep sending this buffoon to Congress?
I just caught the tale end of sumpin' on the radio yesterday about Jackson and dying and I immediately hoped it was Jesse Jackson.
See. If I had made a joke like that about a conservative dying the left would be laughing their asses off.
Which, of course, brings up this old joke about Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson is visiting a primary school and he visits one of the classes. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asks the Rev. Jackson if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy". So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a "tragedy".
One little boy stands up and offers: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."
"No," says the Great Jesse Jackson," that would be an accident."
A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted spiritual leader. "That's what we would call a great loss."
The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. Rev. Jackson searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says: "If a jet carrying the Rev. & Mrs. Jackson were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson, "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."
Rimshot!
Back to Michael Jackson. Sorry, I cannot mourn his loss. He was a pedophile and a pervert. I never liked his music either as a member of the Jackson 5 or as a solo act. Eddie Van Halen did have an awesome solo on Beat it.
Remember this joke about Michael Jackson?
Only in America could a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman.
It's amazing that he died at 50 because single white women live the longest in this country.
Sympathy Meter pegged at zero.
Yannow, I'm not even halfway through my mail today and already I've posted on two of the links that Dick sent me and now I've got this cartoon that he sent me.
Actually this could be the California Senate. Or the US Senate. Our political process is broken. We keep electing assholes from both parties. We used to have statesmen. Now we have incompetent politicians who award themselves lavish salaries and benefits. They are overpaid buffoons (Think Barney Frank) who decry the salaries paid to CEOs who have to meet a payroll and make money for the stockholders. What do our politicians (of both parties) do? They spend spend spend. They tax tax tax. They borrow borrow borrow. What do we do? We keep electing them.
It's our own fault.
Dick sent me this op-ed by Steny Hoyer and George Miller.
Democrats won't be the party of deficits.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You already are dudes!
In recent years, America's fiscal story has been one of steady decline -- from record surpluses to record deficits. In 2001, the federal government had a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. Today, we are looking at a fiscal year 2009 deficit of $1.7 trillion
Bet it's more like $2 trillion. They're lambasting Bush for deficits and Jug Hussein Ears and the rat bastard commies Dimocrats are gonna run a bigger deficit in one year than Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler ran in the entire eight years of his administration. By the way, do you know when those "surpluses" (Which weren't really surpluses. The national debt continued to rise.) started? When the Republicans took over Congress. And you know why the the Republicans lost control of Congress? They started acting like Dimocrats.
A number of factors have brought us to this cash-strapped point, including reckless tax cuts, the cost of two wars, entitlement programs that have grown on autopilot,
Yeah, The rat bastard commies Dimocrats are really gonna do sumpin' about entitlements.
and the necessary, though costly, efforts to get our economy out of recession.
Of course they're not talking about the Bush tax cuts which got us out of recession, they're talking about the porkulus bill which has had little or no effect getting us out of this recession.
But by far the worst decision was the abandonment in the Bush years of the principle that our country should pay for what it buys. It's time to learn from that error and establish that principle in law.
Yannow, I thought that's what you guys were gonna do when you took over Congree in 2006. WTF happened? Of course, Speaker Blinky was also gonna drain the swamp, but rat bastard commies Dimocrats like Charlie Rangel, John Murtha, and Chris Dodd are clogging up the drain.
President Obama has made the pay-as-you-go rule -- a.k.a. "paygo" -- a central part of his campaign for fiscal responsibility
While running up the biggest deficit in the history of this country. Black is white. Up is down. A $2 trillion deficit is "fiscal responsibility". As someone said recently, "Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion."
Under paygo, Congress is compelled to find savings for the dollars it spends.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm really waiting to see how this works out. JHE was supposed to go through each spending bill line by line and eliminate unnecessary spending. That really worked out with the porkulus bill. And how is he gonna do that without a line item veto?
n the 1990s, paygo proved to be one of our most valuable tools for climbing out of a budgetary hole.
Huh? WTF? There were two things that happened in the 90's. The Republicans pulled Clinton to the right and the economy grew faster than the gummint because of it. Just another reason I believe in divided gummint. There was no paygo. And here's sumpin' the rat bastard commies Dimocrats gloss over. The same thing was happening during the Bush administration after the Clinton recession that Chimpy inherited. The economy was growing and deficits were dropping. And then the housing bubble burst and the the subprime crisis hit. Gummint revenues dropped. Hello deficit increase.
As President Obama put it earlier this month, "It is no coincidence that this rule was in place when we moved . . . to record surpluses in the 1990s -- and that when this rule was abandoned, we returned to record deficits that doubled the national debt."
But there was no paygo.
President George W. Bush and the Republican Congress set paygo aside, turning borrowed money into massive tax cuts for the most privileged.
Which got us out of the recession that he inherited from Clinton. And it wasn't just "the privileged" who got tax cuts. Everyone did and the economy grew.
Borrowing made those tax cuts politically pain-free as long as Mr. Bush was in office, but it only passed the bill on to the next generation -- along with ever-inflating interest payments.
This from two dudes who are voting for even more massive debt that will pass on even more inflating interest payments.
Democrats, on the other hand, understand that we owe it to our fiscal future to pay our bills up-front. As soon as our party took back Congress in 2007, we made the principle of paying for what we buy part of the House rules.
And immediately broke those rules as well as not "draining the swamp". So pardon me if I doubt that you guys will obey the rules this time.
To be sure, Congress hasn't always lived up to that commitment, usually when the Senate rejected House bills that were paid for.
There ya go. Blame it on the Senate. By the way, didn't your party control the Senate?
But that is all the more reason to give paygo the force of law.
Which you guys will ignore, just like you ignore your oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
On Mr. Obama's behalf, we have introduced legislation to keep Congress, whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, from sacrificing our fiscal health to the political pressures of the moment.
So your next budget will be balanced? Paygo will work about as well as Graham-Rudman did back in the '80's.
Some in our party have expressed concerns that paygo will limit our ability to fund pressing priorities, from education to clean energy. But we believe that such important investments are long-term propositions -- a little discipline now will ensure that we have the resources to fund them consistently for years to come.
Discipline? Sorry dudes. Discipline and Congress do not belong in the same sentence.
Other critics complain that paygo would pit tax cuts against cuts in spending. But that is exactly what responsible budgeting requires -- a willingness to make hard choices between competing priorities. Paygo can also push us to eliminate wasteful spending and subsidies.
Ya mean like the 1000 earmarks in the porkulus bill? C'mon! You guys are killing me.
The president's paygo proposal, which we introduced, would require that all new policies reducing revenues or expanding entitlement spending be offset. Legislation extending current policy on the Alternative Minimum Tax, Medicare payments to doctors, and the estate-tax cuts and tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 can be enacted without offsets. This approach will allow us to enforce fiscal discipline for the years ahead without being hobbled by past Republican budget gimmicks.
Instead we're gonna have new rat bastard commie Dimocrat gimmicks. And make no mistake, there will be rat bastard commie Dimocrat gimmicks. Politicians of both parties are totally unable to control themselves when it comes to gummint spending. Remember, in Washington, a spending "cut" is actually a cut in the growth in spending. Spending is not cut. It just doesn't grow as fast.
Another thing to think of here is that all this talk of "fiscal responsibility" is just priming us for tax increases. Remember, the Bush tax cuts expire next year, which will essentially be a tax increase. JHE is gonna go all Clinton on us and raise our taxes. The rat bastard commies Dimocrats are already talking about a value added tax and the cap and trade fiasco is gonna turn the Great Recession into another Great Depression.
We are totally fucked! Maybe this joke is not as funny as I thought.
I've been almost hit multiple times by idiots talking on their cellphones while driving so yeah, I'd love to see this.
From Dick.
Once again we have a rat bastard commie Dimocrat making a stupid joke and getting a pass.
Sen. John Kerry added to his long list of lame joke attempts yesterday when he wished South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's disappearance on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.Speaking to some business and civic leaders he had invited to Washington, Kerry quipped: "Too bad if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin."
Let's try a little thought experiment here. Let's imagine Rush Limbaugh saying, "Too bad if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Michigan. You know, Jennifer Granholm." Can you imagine the howls of outrage from the left and their house organ the LSM? It would be nonstop outrage for at least a week.
Or how about this joke that Flipper made during the Bush 41 administration?
"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle . . . There isn't any press here, is there?" (Associated Press, Nov. 16, 1988).
Another thought experiment. What if Rush Limbaugh had said, "Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if Obama is shot, they're to shoot Biden." Once again, there would be howls of outrage from the left and from the LSM.
It's funny that the Republicans are called mean spirited and it's the rat bastard commies Dims and libs who make all the jokes about killing conservatives. Or maybe they aren't jokes. You think Wanda Sykes was joking when she hoped Rush Limbaugh would die of kidney disease? You think that the odious Julianne Malveaux was joking when she hoped that Clarence Thomas' wife would feed him high fat foods so he would die of a heart attack? Naw. Me neither.
These people are just disgusting as is the LSM that gives them a pass. What has this country come to?
Yep! Here it is. The new Gummint Motors 2010 Crapmobile.
Got it from Dick.
A few weeks back, intermittent commenter, Robin, posted some touchy-feely ways to help prevent global warming. I ridiculed some of them. I decided they deserved a more lengthy post. Here they are with some comments by me.
1. Minimize drafts in your home, reducing energy costs.
Gee. Didn't we do that back in the 70's during the Jimmah Carter cardigan era? Ya mean there are still houses that we haven't done that to yet?
2. Reduce wasted electricity.
Let's start at the mansions of Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW. His mansion in Nashville uses 12 to 20 times the electricity of the average family. Lead by example your Assholiness.
3. Use more efficient light bulbs.
The gummint is gonna make us all do that soon when they outlaw incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately, CFLs, altho' they last longer (which is the reason I buy them) contain mercury and you're supposed to follow special disposal procedures. Fuck it! I threw the one I broke in the trash.
4. Turn down your water heater.
GFY! If I want a hot shower, I'll keep it at 140. I am gonna go tankless in the future.
5. Use your car less in favor of a bicyle or mass transit.
I'm a cripple and cannot ride a bike. Plus mass transit doesn't go where I want to go and not all mass transit is crip enabled.
6.Eat fresh, local foods
GFY! This is the 21st Century. We can get year round fresh food at the super market. That's one of the benefits of the modern age.
7. Use passive solar power in building homes in sunny areas.
Works in less than half the country.
8. Cut down on your personal spending.
GFY! I worked hard to become a SRF©. I want to enjoy my declining years. Anyway, JHE sez we need to spend money to get the economy going again. But, he'll take care of that personal spending with cap and trade which will send our energy bills skyrocketing.
9. Drive an energy-efficient car
GFY! I'll drive what I want to drive.
10. make sure that tires are properly inflated
JHE told us all to do that. I'm surprised he hasn't had the gummint issue all of us tire guages.
11. Also, don’t use hot water if you don’t need to, like when doing laundry
Common sense. Ya mean there are people who don't do this?
12.try air-drying your clothes instead of using a dryer
This is the 21st Century. Using a dryer is a time saver and time is important especially if both parents work. Do you know what my HOA would say if I hung laundry out to dry? Geez! I just got a "courtesy reminder" that the ground cover in my beds was not up to snuff. They'd really freak if I started hanging laundry out to dry.
13.Run the dishwasher and clothes washer only when you have a full load, and if available, use the energy-saving setting.
Ya mean there are people who don't do this?
14.Take care with your appliances. Unplug them when you don’t use them
GMAFB! I'm supposed to unplug my oven, my microwave, my washer/dryer, my dishwasher, etc.? What planet do these people live on?
15.Buy recycled products
Recycle this!
16.Also try donating or selling instead of throwing away… craigslist.com is a great way to do that!
So's the Salvation Army or Goodwill.
17. try buying products with less packaging!
I'm sorry but when I buy sumpin' the packaging is the last thing I look for. I look for quality and price.
18. Ceiling fans are a pretty harmless way to cool down a room without using an air conditioner.
I like comfort. I use both.
19.Plant trees! you can strategize where you place them so they can shade your home. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in the winter so sun can warm your home as well.
Actually a good idea. One of the few in this stupid list.
20.Install blinds in your windows and keep windows and doors shut during the day to keep it cooler.
Ya mean there are people who don't do this?
21. Buy organic
One of the dumbest ideas on this list. Organic is a poor use of land and as such costs more to produce and more to buy, thus violating suggestion number 8. It uses more energy to produce than regular food. But "buy organic sounds good like "save the whales".
22.Carry a tote bag.
I've got sumpin' you can tote right here!
23.Use a reusable water bottle.
Better yet, drink tap water.
24.Start a compost in your backyard
What about the people who don't grow things? BTW, I do have a compost heap since I grow veggies in the summer. Picked my first tomato yesterday.
25.Consider a laptop...they take much less energy than a desktop
There are some things laptops cannot do. That's why there are desktops.
26.Consider cloth diapers.
Consider the energy, water, and detergent required to wash and dry them
27.Car pool to work...everyone ends up saving.
Many people do not work set hours or a regular schedule. When I worked for IBM, I didn't.
29.Shop Locally. Find farmers' markets and other sources of sustainable grown food near you
Isn't this the same as number 6?
30.Clean with vinegar, lemon juice and baking soda. Many cleaning products have harmful chemicals in them. Use natural products.
I've got some natural products right here! In many cases natural products do not clean as well. That's why we use products with "harmful chemicals".
31. Clean or replace your filters monthly.
Duh! Common sense.
32.Decrease your air travel.
GFY! If I want to fly somewhere, I'll fly somewhere. Would you rather I drove and used more gasoline? And speaking of decreasing air travel, at least I fly in a crowded bus in the sky and not on a private jet like all the liberals who tell me to reduce my air travel.
33.Use a low-flow showerhead, which will lessen the hot water used but not drop your water pressure in the shower.
Low flow means less water flowing so how will that not drop the water pressure?
34.Cut down on your garbage—buy fewer packaged materials
GFY! I'll buy what I want.
They left out using a low flow toilet. Y'all know about those. They're the ones that require multiple flushes and get stopped up more often.
As you can see, most of this list is a bunch of liberal pap. Some of it is common sense but most is, as I said at the start, touchy-feely feel good crap!
Save the Planet!
Mike sent me this. More here.
I actually knew someone like this. She was a coworker. When I was going through rehab at Shepherd Center, she told everyone that we were engaged. We weren't even dating! I didn't find out about our "engagement" until Cindy told me about it about three months after we "broke up". I had caused her to be late for a group therapy session. She got really pissed! For the next few months I expected to come home to a boiling pot with a rabbit in it.
"that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet" - Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
Or a turd by any other name would still stink. Just like changing liberal to progressive still means rat bastard commie. That's what the rat bastard commies liberals did when the term liberal became associated with ineffective failing policies. Change the name to progressive and continue to advocate ineffective and failing policies. The people bought it just like they bought "hope and change" and elected the most radical left-wing president this country has ever elected.
Let's face it. Pro-choice sounds much better that pro-abortion. Being in favor of a woman's "right to choose" sounds better than "abortion on demand." I'm not letting the other side off the hook either. Pro-life sounds much better than anti-abortion. It doesn't matter what you call it, one side favors abortion on demand and the other side is against it.
It's funny that conservatives are still conservatives although Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler did modify it somewhat with "compassionate" conservative. Turns out that on social matters, that means RINO.
So now we come to ACORN. What with all the voter registration fraud and other shenanigans, ACORN is no longer a good brand name. So what to do? Just rename it to COI (Community Organizers International). So how we gonna pronounce that acronym. Coy? And what's this international bullshit? Does that mean they're now gonna take voter fraud international? Are they helping out Aramalamadingdong in Iran?
It doesn't matter what they call ACORN. It's still gonna continue to be an organization which is synonymous with voter fraud. Just like a turd, whether you call it ACORN or COI, it's still gonna stink.
Kinda like under the bus but bloodier. ACORN would be right at home in Iran.
Gosh it seem like only yesterday that the left was howling about Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler going on vacation all the time. Now we got Jug Hussein Ears as the prez and he can do no wrong. Just think of the howls if Iranians were being gunned down in the street and Chimpy was going out for ice cream or playing golf. But since JHE is running the show that kind of stuff is OK. Mustn't meddle yannow. well the phone has rung at 3:00 AM numerous times and JHE has answered present.
Tammi (whom I've met) has sumpin' to say on management. It's so good, I'm posting the entire rant. Click on the link anyway to give her some hits.
I think it's time someone explains something to Obama.You, Sir, are an executive. The highest in this land, as fate would have it. And as such, in a position with the responsibilities you hold, you gotta step up.
Let me explain.
Say you have a job....it's a good job. And it allows you to earn a decent wage, work 8-10 hours a day and then go home and forget it. No evening calls, no big meetings. Just go in, do what you gotta do and leave.
Sweet. But I'll be honest, it's not for me....
Next let's look at managers. They tend to be salary. They work a few more hours and have to attend more meetings, do a bit of traveling, give up a bit more of their personal life to do the job right.
It's not for everyone. But it's a choice. No surprises. Not if you're honest. If you accept a job like that, and you care enough to do it correctly then you know you're gonna miss some soccer games, family dinners, even a birthday here and there.
But you CHOOSE it. The money and responsibilities are greater, but if that's what you're looking for you do it.
Now.....let's talk about the next step in the corporate ladder, shall we. That's where you have real responsibility. To the company, to the employees that you lead. That's a commitment. You WILL have to sacrifice family and friends. It's just the way it is, I don't care what anyone says. And anyone that TAKES a job like that knows it. Period. Claims to be "surprised" by the amount of time away from "real life" is either a sign of naitivity or flat out denial. You have extensive travel, meetings, dinners, late nights, early mornings. You take on a responsibility for peoples livelihoods. You HAVE to make that sacrifice.
For example, I'm only responsible for about 25 people. But...it's up to me to keep things going, keep people on track, put policies and proceedures into place that will help us grow and develop. If I screw up or don't do my job, people could lose their livelyhoods.
The President is responsible for a hell of a lot more than I am. A HELL of a lot more.
Yet, when I have a crisis going on, I'm there. I'm in the office, keeping track of things, planning next steps, making adjustments on the fly. I'm there. I'm THERE.
But not so the President. No......he's going out for ice cream, keeping a low profile (officially) spending time with the family.
Kinda pisses me off. It actually feels like I work more hours at my job than the President does. It seems like I care more about the company I work for than the President does about the COUNTRY he works for.
And let's look at that for just a moment. He wanted the job, so the majority of American's voted him in. He Works For Us. Our priorities should be his priorities. And he get's paid very well for that. Not only that but he's set for life.
Talk about a golden parachute. He feels that executives who work at companies that have taken money from the American Taxpayer should not receive any type of compensation if they leave a company, especially no bonus'. Yet...when he leaves office, he's taken care of. And it doesn't matter if he is voted out in 4 years or rides the ride for 8 years. No matter HOW much he screws this country up - he's still taken care of.
Damn.....I'm in the wrong business.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge him the money or the time with his family. But.....if you want time with your family then Do NOT persue a job that is so demanding. And if you want the money and benefits do NOT "steal" from your employer by taking time away from doing what you're supposed to do.
But what can we really expect when we hire someone for a position that has never been responsible for ANYTHING, never balanced a budget or a P & L, never BEEN an executive of ANYTHING real before.
On second thought, it's not Obama who was naive. It was the folks that voted him in.
Awesome rant Tammi! BTW, why aren't you coming to Camp Blownstar?
The true story of Thunder Rodent Thigh's elbow injury.
From Jane.
Or maybe it was this.
From Mark.
Another great rant from Ron, my periodic guest poster.
Our Posturer-in-Chief has no grasp on the reality of radical Islam's goals. He apparently believes that Hamas and Al Qaeda and the growing number of contagious madrassas are merely a miniscule fraction of the whole of Islam, a tiny cadre of loosely associated extremists. Rather than confront the demented idealogues who would bomb us, or shoot us, or behead us, and defend ourselves against the hatred, the violence, the destruction they plant and nurture, he prefers to handle them as minor irritants guilty only of misdemeanor annoyances against reactionary American hotheads who deserve the annihilation they preach.He seems locked into the idea that if the burr under their saddle were removed, they would all return to their traditional existences as nomadic traders trekking the trackless sands of East Africa and West Asia carrying exotic spices, hand-woven carpets, goat cheese, and dates across borders in exchange for out-of-date rifles, watches, trinkets, and beads.
Toward that perception's becoming real, he is perfectly willing to kick Israel to the curb (along with his maternal grandmother and that pesky Constitution thingy) and allow thugs and lunatics to spew their vile rancor and malevolence into the waters the next generation will have to drink from.
He just doesn't get it. For some reason he is unable to comprehend that although a great majority of the world's Muslims aren't particularly interested in blowing up things or murdering Jews or destroying the Great Satan, they're not much inclined to stop those who do. In fact, the nearly one billion who would call themselves "moderate" will quicker align themselves with fellow worshippers of Allah and Muhammad than with the corrupt and sinful Westerners who mostly follow no god at all.
The whole idea of Islam, in fact the word itself, means "obedience." It is a global imperative, and the duty of every true Muslim is to offer Islam to the infidel and then slay him if he rejects it. Jews, Copts, Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists, Hindus, and everybody else are potential enemies, threats to the goal of total submission, obstacles to the establishment of a world order based on the Qur'an and Shari'a law.
In that aspect, Muslims are raised very much like hive insects, trained from infancy to blindly obey the rules of the queen. They learn to read by memorizing the Qur'an, and all that they experience in their formative years is filtered and shaped by some bitter cleric's interpretation of carefully selected surahs.
In an anthill, for example, all is driven by hormones issued by the queen. If she sprays a hormone on a worker which identifies it as dead, the other workers will pick it up and throw it on the dead-ant pile, whether it's actually dead or not. If it gets up and walks away, not being dead after all, they'll simply grab it and throw it on the dead-ant pile again. It's a chemical imperative which overrides any and all other impulses in their tiny little ant brains.
The same happens with Muslims. If the local imam, or the regional mullah, or an important ayatollah declares a fatwah, no alternatives exist: the fatwah must be followed. It's the same mentality as the hajj: each Muslim MUST, if he is physically able, go to Mecca and mill around in a trance, circling the Qa'aba and muttering memorized excerpts from a long-dead drug addict's hallucinatory garblings.
The book declares that the god of Muhammad gave Islam to mankind as the final edition of the true path, that it is for all mankind for all time, and all other options are negated and void. Muslims can no more deny or disobey that edict than a bee can refuse to bring nectar back to the hive for the good of all.
The ultimate end will justify all means employed in its achievement in the Muslim mind. Beheadings, revolutions, combat, atomic weapons, economic warfare, lying, stealing, cheating . . . all is fair in establishing the global caliphate. Negotiating, bargaining, compromising, cooperating . . . all are useful for short-term gains, but completely expendable in the long term. Deals made can be broken in the name of Islam; compromises can be reversed; bargains recalled; and negotiations terminated. Stalling for time through semantics or overt lies while upgrading yellowcake to weapons grade material is good in Allah's sight so long as the end product is used to smite the enemies of Islam.
Our Kumbayatic Apologist-in-Chief could see that only if his speechwriter scrolled it up his teleprompter. The concept is too simple, too clear, too real to get past the paranoid filters and Chicago mentality of his I'm-too-cool-to-fail mindset.
He cannot hear the laughter of the Kims, the Ahmadinejads, the Assads, the Sauds over the siren call of his legacy lullaby. He cannot see the danger of Islam's insect mentality, lost in the ripples of his Narcissus pool. He cannot understand that world leadership and political campaigning are not interchangeable synonyms, and that speechmaking and socialism do not produce strength and wealth.
The Great New World Experiment is about to collapse into rubble because the democratic process has finally selected a government which cannot see the jungle for the ferns; which fails to understand that Islam wants only conquest, not cooperation; which believes that the people exist to serve it, not the other way around.
Dr. Ray sent me this. It's how doctors feel about the stimulus porkulus package.
Apparently the American Medical Association has weighed in on the new economic stimulus package....
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.
Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the Pediatricians said, 'Oh, Grow up!'
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing.
The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter."
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea.
The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
Ron sent me this.
But he does want to tell Israel what to do. Hey American Jews. D'ya have any buyer's remorse yet?
Tune in tomorrow for another one of Ron's rants.
Black Sabbath from 1970. This was from their Paranoid album. I had it on 8 track and I remember listening to it in my 1966 Mustang driving to and from Lake of the Ozarks in the summer.
From Thomas.
I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the Local Shopping Center and rolled down the car windows to make sure my Labrador Retriever Pup had fresh air.
She was stretched out on the back seat and I wanted to impress upon her that she must remain there.
I walked to the curb backward, pointing my finger at the car and saying emphatically, 'Now you stay. Do you hear me?' 'Stay! Stay!'
The driver of a nearby car, a pretty blonde young lady, gave me a strange look and said, 'Why don't you just put it in park?
Let's give it to Barbara "Dumb as a box of Boxers" Boxer. Worked hard to become a Senator? In California? Whom have the Republicans had to run against her?
Yannow it would have been cool if this general had replied, "OK Senator Asshole, and Senator Asshole, would you please refer to me as General. I worked so hard to get to where I am Senator Asshole. Thank you, Senator Asshole."
Jesus H. Christ! I was always taught that using "ma'am" was a mark of respect, sumpin Babs does not deserve. But she does deserve this week's AOTW Award.
We're looking for more people to come to Camp Blownstar. The dates are July 16-19. Last year at Toad Hall was a blast. According to Kerrcarto and SuperGurl this place will be even better. More details (including contact information) here from Kerrcarto.
Okay people here is the skinny. Blownstar is gonna kick-ass this year. For one, it is on a working Texas ranch, we have a pool to swim in, a pond for fishing (you driver-ins bring your tackle), the owner is gonna hang and cook us his famous chili (if it compares to walrilla's I will be surprised..damn that was some good shit), Shiner Bock will be on tap (literally) and my buddy is gonna come out one night with some guitars his amp and drum machine and play some guitar with us.That being said anyone who wants to come needs to make up their mind right now cause it's is only a month awa...sorry I got distracted, one of those dudes with the freezer trucks full of beef came by and I had to buy some. I got 4 T-Bones 8 ribeyes and 8 peppered tenderloin steaks for $80 bucks....y. If you want to come unfortunately there is no room at the ranch for sleepy time but The Cowboy Capital of Texas, Bandera, is mere minutes away and there are a few hotel/motels there. They are not shitboxes but they are not outrageously priced either. The entry fee is $100. That $100 bucks will by you all the beer you can drink and food you can eat for three days along with hanging out with the coolest peeps on earth.
That means you Rob and that means you Jim SOTW. And that really means you V-man. SuperGurl sez you need to get your ass to Texas.
You think unemployment is bad now? It's gonna get worse!
The party that cares so much about jobs for "working families" sure has a funny way of saving them.
I predict unemployment will hit double digits next month.
Amid pre-summer frosts and hailstorms, the White House this week released a sky-is-falling report on global warming that outdoes even Al Gore in predicting doomsday scenarios. "Heat waves will become more frequent and intense," the report warns, unleashing an apocalypse of "major insect outbreaks" and herbicide-resistant, garden-choking . . . "weeds" (horrors!)."Heat waves" in the Midwest and "extreme heat" in the Northeast will lead to "increases in heat-related deaths."
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're all gonna burn up!
Really? Tell that to berry farmers in Michigan, whose crops have been delayed by a cold snap for the second spring in a row.Or New Englanders, who have seen temperatures drop four degrees below normal.
Or some of my readers, like Dudley1, who have documented their below normal temperatures.
It's all a set-up for a painful government fix. The public duly alarmed, the White House embraces a House bill to control industrial carbon emissions through a punishing cap-and-trade scheme.
Yep! Using junk science to firther destroy the economy and increase unemployment.
The Democrats' energy bill would have the effect of de-industrializing America and cost millions of jobs — something its authors, Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, indirectly acknowledge. Buried in the fine print of their jobs-killing bill is a provision to provide relief against massive dislocations."The Democrats' bill has an unemployment provision that provides 70% of your job benefit for at least three years — in addition to any other unemployment benefits — if you lose your job because of that bill," Rep. Joe Barton, D-Texas, said. "They, at least tacitly, recognize that their bill is going to cost millions and millions of jobs."
In other words, the cap on emissions requires a cap on job losses.
But they're "saving the planet".
Even a top White House official concedes cap-and-trade regulations would cause severe job losses."Job losses could occur throughout the economy but would probably be especially large in industries associated with high-carbon fuels," said White House Budget Director Peter Orszag — but he said it in 2007, when he was congressional budget director.
We're heading for Jimmah Carter levels of unemployment. But that's OK. That will mean more people dependent on gummint which is good for Dimocrats.
Democrats argue the bill will create jobs "in the long run" by creating a green economy. They cite "green jobs" like making parts for windmills and growing grass on building rooftops. Luddites unite!
I wonder what color the sky is in their world?
"I think the creation of jobs by this bill far outstrip any losses," Gore recently testified before Markey's panel. "There would be potentially massive job losses if we did not adopt this legislation."
And I think Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW is full of shit.
Gore also insisted that global warming is "accelerating" — ignoring reports to the contrary, including one by NASA that notes the sun is the coolest and calmest it has been in 100 years.In other words, the solar cycle that led to minor increases in average temps is over, and we are entering a cooling phase.
We have been in a cooling phase since 1998.
So just remember, when you are standing in the unemployment line or you are seeing your energy bills go up between $700 and $1400 per year you can thank Henry Waxman, Ed Markey, Jug Hussein Ears, the rest of the rat bastard commies Dimocrats and some clueless RINOs.
Hope. Change. High Unemployment. High energy bills.
Elections have consequences.
From Paul.
Cripes! He's not even using any Vasoline!
Dick sent me this article.
SACRAMENTO -- California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.5 percent in May, the highest in modern record-keeping, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.
And higher than the unemployment of the total US, which is currently 9.4% and will prolly be revised upwards. We're heading for 10% folks and I'll bet California is heading for 12%.
The loss of another 69,000 jobs comes as a blow to the state after unemployment dipped slightly to 11.1 percent in April, according to revised figures. The California Employment Development Department said the government posted the largest job declines in the month, down by 14,200 jobs. Every other sector besides education and health services also saw losses.
Keep in mind that California is a blue state and along with other blue states like New York, Michigan, and New Jersey is faring worse than the rest of the country.
Although the federal agency reported that 48 states and the District of Columbia saw their unemployment rates rise in May, California's rate was substantially higher than the national rate of 9.4 percent for the month.
High taxes on business will do that. So will cap and trade which California initiated a while back. That's driving businesses out of state. Just think. Jug Hussein Ears and the rat bastard commies Dimocrats want to take cap and trade nationwide. You think the economy sucks now? Wait for cap and trade and higher taxes on "the rich". Welcome black Carter.
Only four states had higher rates: Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island and South Carolina.
All blue states except for South Carolina. What's up with South Carolina? I guess it must be the decline in the textile mills. Maybe my brother-in-law could enlighten me.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement that with the massive international economic downturn, it's natural the state would see historic job losses.
Not to mention an anti-business environment. You make things more expensive for businesses and they will move to places where the business environment is better, either to low tax business friendly states or offshore.
A full recovery will not happen overnight - it will take time, which only further underscores the need to continue the economic stimulus measures I fought for in the February budget," said Schwarzenegger. "There is no greater priority right now than to stimulate the economy, create jobs and get California back on the road to prosperity."
Cut business taxes. Repeal cap and trade. Eliminate all the other bullshit that has driven business out of California. Never happen in the land of fruits and nuts.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has proposed laying off another 5,000 state employees, along with billions of dollars in cuts to education and social welfare programs, to address a $24.3 billion deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1.But lawmakers are divided over how to close the gap and could be headed toward another budget standoff, which would further jeopardize the state's precarious finances.
Look by a bailout by the federal gummint. After all California is "too big to fail".
Dave sent me this. Do not drink liquids while watching.
Their website is here.
Didja hear about the foiled assassination attempt? Yep. They wuz gonna take out Jimmah Carter.
Hamas has foiled an attempt by Palestinian militants to attack former U.S. president Jimmy Carter during his visit to the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian source told news agencies on Tuesday.According to the source, militants linked with Al-Qaida planted two roadside bombs at a border crossing between Gaza and Israel with the intent of striking Carter's vehicle on his way out of the coastal territory. Witnesses reported seeing Hamas forces patrolling near the Erez crossing and detonating the explosives.
Now I call bullshit on this. Jimmah's on their side. He hates the Jews and Israel just as much as they do. Why would they want to assassinate one of their best friends? Jimmah does believe in a two state solution, but in his "solution" one of the states would be run by Hamas and the other state would be run by Fatah.
It's pretty bad when a rat bastard commie chastises another rat bastard commie. Yeah Putin is still a rat bastard commie he's just not as big of a rat bastard commie as Jug Hussein Ears. Link from Paul.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on U.S. companies' foreign operations, saying it would amount to double taxation that will hurt the global economy.
Not to mention the effect it will have on the American economy, but JHE needs all the money he can get to support his radical agenda.
"This is a serious decision for the world economy," Putin said at a meeting of the Presidium, the government said on its web site. "If taxes are imposed on all companies working abroad, then it will mean the total destruction of the system for avoiding double taxation."
But...but...but...he's only doing this to "spread the wealth".
Obama has proposed canceling a provision of the tax code that allows foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations to defer tax payments on money that is reinvested in local operations.
As with most liberal policies, we will see the law of unintended consequences. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft explains.
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”Looks like JHE is gonna have to save even more jobs to replace all the ones his policies are gonna drive out of the country.
I think Ballmer supported JHE. I wonder if he's feeling any buyer's remorse?
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This is totally tasteless and NSFW as well. It figgers that I got it from Catfish.
Trickle-up economics. Yeah that will work. Rich people provide jobs in the private sector. Poor people provide gummint jobs for the people who have to take care of them.
A work ethic for leeches and parasites. That'll be the day.
True.
Truer.
Got this from Dick.
A woman has cancelled her church wedding and country house reception after discovering her fiance is a secret porn star.
At least he'd prolly be good in the sack.
Haylie Hocking, 27, only found out that strapping 30-year-old fitness fanatic Jason Brake made adult films just weeks before the big day.A friend organising her hen night searched online for a male stripper and spotted Jason with a woman in a porn movie.
He was just practicing for the wedding night.
Jason said he started making occasional films as a sideline before meeting Haylie.He said: "The sex side is purely for the camera, but Haylie did not understand I was only acting.
"I am sorry and did not want to hurt her. I still love Haylie and would have stopped doing porn if she had asked me to."
He added that he would be honest with women in future relationships.
Yep! First date he'll tell 'em he's a porn star. That should guarantee a second date.
What do you think would have happened if Letterman made the joke about one of Jug Hussein Ears' kids?
Methinks that is not the only thing that would happen.
Got the 'toon from Jane.
Dick sent me this article from the UK Telegraph.
For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
Huh! WTF? That's not the gospel that has been preached by Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW and all of his disciples. It's supposed to be getting hotter. What's going on here?
There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.
Global warming at work. Remember, to these booger eatin' moh-rons everything is indicative of global warming.
None of this has given much cheer to farmers. In Canada and northern America summer planting of corn and soybeans has been way behind schedule, with the prospect of reduced yields and lower quality. Grain stocks are predicted to be down 15 per cent next year. US reserves of soya – used in animal feed and in many processed foods – are expected to fall to a 32-year low.
All because of global warming, no doubt.
In China, the world's largest wheat grower, they have been battling against the atrocious weather to bring in the harvest. (In one province they even fired chemical shells into the clouds to turn freezing hailstones into rain.)
Sounds like the Gore Effect. Has Pope Albert been in China lately?
In Europe, the weather has been a factor in well-below average predicted crop yields in eastern Europe and Ukraine. In Britain this year's oilseed rape crop is likely to be 30 per cent below its 2008 level. And although it may be too early to predict a repeat of last year's food shortage, which provoked riots from west Africa to Egypt and Yemen, it seems possible that world food stocks may next year again be under severe strain, threatening to repeat the steep rises which, in 2008, saw prices double what they had been two years before.There are obviously various reasons for this concern as to whether the world can continue to feed itself, but one of them is undoubtedly the downturn in world temperatures, which has brought more cold and snow since 2007 than we have known for decades.
Yet there will still be people (cough*Prosper*cough) who believe in the AGW bullshit. The Earth has been cooling since 1998 and why do you think that is? Look at that big yellow thing up in the sky. Solar activity is currently declining and that causes the Earth to cool off. Man has nothing to do with it! Pssst! This is a secret. Halliburton has a sun control machine and Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler and his eee-vil sidekick Darth Cheney have been using it to control the sun. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We will destroy the world.
It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years, sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat.
And they are gonna destroy our economy with stupid cap and trade policies based on religion junk science. Meanwhile Pope Albert's net worth has risen from $2 million when he left the White House to over $100 million now. Religion is profitable. My father told me many times that the Catholic Church was the largest profit making organization in the world. He was right. I've been to the Vatican. The Church is rich.
It is appropriate that another contributory factor to the world's food shortage should be the millions of acres of farmland now being switched from food crops to biofuels, to stop the world warming, Last year even the experts of the European Commission admitted that, to meet the EU's biofuel targets, we will eventually need almost all the food-growing land in Europe. But that didn't persuade them to change their policy. They would rather we starved than did that. And the EU, we must always remember, is now our government – the one most of us didn't vote for last week.
And remember, JHE wants to turn us into the UK. Elections have consequences.
Hope. Change. High energy prices. Food shortages.
Got these from Dick.
This one is prolly on Joe The Plumber's car.
Assume the position. This resonates since I had to pay my quarterly estimated taxes yesterday.
We just can't seem to get liberals to understand this. That's why we give "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes.
You mean there are still people living in Detroit?
Yannow, no one cared about Letterman comparing Sarah Palin to a "slutty flight attendant". I don't even think flight attendants bitched about it. And speaking if flight attendants, I've never met a slutty one. Flight attendants have gotten a lot older over the years. Maybe he should have said "cougar flight attendant". Anyhow, that's not the joke that got him into trouble.
I've never pictured Palin as a "slutty flight attendant". I've always thought that she looked more like a naughty librarian (or a hot teacher) with the glasses and the hair up. And that's how I would have told the joke about her picking out cosmetics. She was looking for the naughty librarian look. It would have been a lot funnier and a lot less mean, but I guess when you dislike someone, your jokes have to be nastier.
I see now that he has apologized for the "knocked up" joke. And unlike all the groveling that Imus had to go through for his tasteless joke, Sarah just let Letterman off the hook by accepting his latest "apology". CBS ain't gonna fire him for calling her a slut or joking about her daughter getting knocked up. This will all blow over unlike what happened to Imus. Remember, in this country race trumps sex.
Just ask Thunder Rodent Thighs.
Yesterday morning when I went out to get the Sunday Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, I was amazed to see some flying pigs. WTF? What caused this? It was this op-ed column by Thomas Friedman. The following paragraph jumped off the page.
Second, for real politics to happen you need space. There are a million things to hate about President Bush’s costly and wrenching wars. But the fact is, in ousting Saddam in Iraq in 2003 and mobilizing the U.N. to push Syria out of Lebanon in 2005, he opened space for real democratic politics that had not existed in Iraq or Lebanon for decades. “Bush had a simple idea, that the Arabs could be democratic, and at that particular moment simple ideas were what was needed, even if he was disingenuous,” said Michael Young, the opinion editor of The Beirut Daily Star. “It was bolstered by the presence of a U.S. Army in the center of the Middle East. It created a sense that change was possible, that things did not always have to be as they were.”
What? He's giving Chimpy McHaliburton Bushitler credit for the Lebanese elections? Doesn't he know that making blasphemous statements like that will get him drummed out of liberal land. He'll have to turn in his secret decoder ring and everything.
Anyway, we know that cannot be true. As I wrote here Cynthia Tucker a rat bastard commie liberal columnist for the AJC (and ex-editor-in-chief of the editorial page), gives Jug Hussein Ears credit for the results of the election because of The Speech, yannow the one he made in Cairo last week. I'm sure it had Chris Matthews pee down his leg again.
I'm sure that Friedman is gonna have to do a little time at a rat bastard commie liberal reeducation facility. Blasphemy like this should definitely not be allowed.
This evening I am attending the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta's annual banquet. It will be held at Table1280. I was skiing when the Board held the test dinner there, so unlike other annual banquets, I didn't have any input into the menu. Alas Elisson is out of town and will miss this one. I'm hoping Houston Steve will make it.
Here are the wines and the menu.
First Flight
Ruinart Brut Rose NV
Billecart-Salmon Brut Rose NV
Serrano ham, manchego, piquillo pepper,
arugula, breadstick
Logan turnpike grits, maple cheddar,
royal rock shrimp
Third Flight
Chateau Montrose St Estephe 1986
Chateau Cos D'Estournel St Estephe1996
Rafanelli Zinfandel 2002
Mint rubbed lamb sirloin, broccoli rabe,
romesco
Fourth Flight
Chateau Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape 1998
Jean-Luc Colombe Cornas "Les Ruchets" 2004
Turley Zinfandel "Pesenti" 2006
New York striploin, roasted spring
vidalia onions, veal jus
Desert
Chateau Raymond Lafon Sauternes 1997
Fresh fruit sorbet, shortbread cookies
Too late this year, but MoK sent me a Father's Day gift idea. Jingle Jugs.
Now this is interesting in how she has the guitar tuned. At times it sounds like a harpsichord which, I am sure she intended, since this is a harpsichord sonata.
On harpsichord.
And on piano by the great Vladimir Horowitz.
Get out your music and start playing this Claudia.
Stolen from the Criplets. I'm so proud of them young'ns.
Dick sent me this.
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, is the day they
make a vacuum cleaner.
From DBolsman
Three girls all worked in the same office with the same female boss. Each day, they noticed the boss left work early.
One day the girls decided that, when the boss left, they would leave right behind her. After all, she never called or came back to work, so how would she know they went home early?
The brunette was thrilled to be home early. She did a little gardening, spent playtime with her son, and went to bed early.
The redhead was elated to be able to get in a quick workout at the spa before meeting a dinner date.
The blonde was happy to get home early and surprise her husband, but when she got to her bedroom, she heard a muffled noise from inside. Slowly and quietly, she cracked open the door and was mortified to see her husband fooling around with her boss! Gently, she closed the door and crept out of her house.
The next day, at their coffee break, the brunette and redhead planned to leave early again, and they asked the blonde if she was going to go with them.
"No way," the blonde exclaimed. "I almost got caught yesterday!"
Another summer picture from Don.
It should come as no surprise that I'm giving it to David Letterman. Let's see, he compared Sarah Palin to a "slutty flight attendant". Liberals laugh. What would they say if he compared Michelle Obama to a "slutty flight attendant"? Making fun of conservative woman good. Making fun of liberal women (especially black liberal women) bad.
But GOC, you make fun of Michelle Obama. Yes I do. Se we'll give ol' Dave a pass on that one.
But then he joked about Palin's daughter getting knocked up at the Yankee's game. His apology? He didn't mean the 14 year old daughter, who accompanied Palin to the game. He meant the 18 year old daughter who wasn't at the game. Oh. I see. That makes it OK then. Sorry we brought it up.
Once again, think of the uproar if he would have made that joke about one of the Obama daughters. Even I won't make jokes about them, but to liberals, joking about daughters of conservatives is just fine.
So Dave, here's your award.
So far I have picked five cucumbers. Unfortunately the tomatoes are all small and green. It will prolly be at least two weeks for the first tomato. My first crop of string bean is about ready. I've been planting two rows at a time approximately two weeks apart so I don't all of a sudden get a big glut and then nothing. I planted another two rows today.
I can start picking basil leaves at anytime. Cindy says she now knows how to make mozzarella cheese. (I'm just wondering where she is gonna put the water buffalo.) We eat a lot of tomato basil mozzarella salads in the summer. Hmmmmmm good!
The drought in Atlanta is officially over, ahtho' it never affected my veggie garden as veggie gardens were exempt from watering restrictions. Even so, since we have had timely rains, I haven't had to turn on my sprinkler/irrigation system yet.
From Dick. With apologies to the real Bozo, may he rest in peace.
Tina was in town last night. She is a regular reader and long time commenter. She had e-mailed me and asked if I wanted to get together. She has a friend who lives here so the three of us met up at a Fridays in Duluth.
Tina lives in Oklahoma City and her friend is from there. I still have two cousins who live there. That's where their father, my Uncle Pump, moved from St. Louis to way back when. He married a lady from Dallas. He got his pump (a penile implant) in his 70's after prostate surgery. He was divorced from my Aunt Helen by then. Medicare paid for it. Our tax dollars at work. I once asked him why he got the pump. His reply was, "Because I'm a cocksman." Evidently he thought he should compete with one of my St. Louis cousins who liked the ladies. He told me that unlike Sonny, he could "go all night". He used to pick up ladies at Bingo night at the local Elks Lodge. It must of been good for him. He lived to be 92.
But I digress. Tina, Carol, and I had a nice time. It's always nice meeting some of my readers. I told Tina she should attend Camp Blownstar next year. Blogmeets are not just for bloggers. After all the criplets were just commenters when they came to Camp Blownstar last year. Now they are full-fledged Blown-Eyed Blodgers.
Blogmeets can do that to you.
Dick sent me this article about unions.
We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama," declared Andy Stern last month, and the president of the Service Employees International Union wasn't exaggerating. The SEIU and AFL-CIO have been spending so much on politics that they're going deeply into debt.That news comes courtesy of federal disclosure forms that unions file each year with the Department of Labor. The Bush Administration toughened the enforcement of those disclosure rules, but under pressure from unions the Obama Labor shop is slashing funding for such enforcement. Without such disclosure, workers wouldn't be able to see how their union chiefs are managing their mandatory dues money.
So how do you like that rank and file union members? They've taken your dues money and spent it on a dickhead who is gonna destroy jobs in this country. The economy has already shed a record number of jobs under Jug Hussein Ears and it is only gonna get worse.
Alarm is coming even from inside the AFL-CIO -- specifically, from Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who sits on the AFL-CIO's finance committee.
Hey aerospace workers, how do like those defense cuts and the loss of your jobs in the aerospace industry that's coming down the pike? I read a few weeks ago about all the jobs that are gonna be lost at Boeing (formerly McDonnell-Douglas) in St. Louis. I becha that most of you voted for JHE, which means you voted yourselves out of work. Dimocrats always cut defense spending. The more liberal the Dimocrat, the deeper the cuts.
Bloomberg News reports that he is circulating a report claiming the AFL-CIO engaged in "creative accounting" to conceal financial difficulties heading into last year's Presidential election. As recently as 2000, the union consortium of 8.5 million members had a $45 million surplus. By June of last year it had $90.6 million in liabilities, or $2.3 million more than its $88.3 million in assets. "If we are not careful, insolvency may be right around the corner," Mr. Buffenbarger warned.
Your union is broke and you defense workers are gonna be out of a job and you did it to yourselves. Foot meet gun.
Machinist spokesman Frank Larkin says the report is a private document and declined to share it with us. But he didn't deny the Bloomberg story, which said that Mr. Buffenbarger cites in particular the AFL-CIO's reliance on its Union Plus credit-card program. In the mid-1990s, the AFL-CIO struck a deal with Household Bank to market the cards to union members in return for royalties. In the year ending June 30, 2008, the AFL-CIO earned $35 million from Household, about half the $74 million it collects in union dues. The deal has been a windfall for the union, but that may not last amid rising credit-card losses and flat consumer spending.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
As for the SEIU, as recently as 2002 total SEIU liabilities were about $8 million. According to its 2008 disclosure form, the union owed more than $156 million, a 30% increase over the $120 million it owed in 2007. Its liabilities now equal more than 80% of its $189 million in assets. Net assets fell by nearly half last year, to $34 million, from $64 million in 2007. The debt includes an $80 million loan the SEIU took out in 2003 to purchase a new headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. But the liabilities also stem from political spending, including at least $67 million last year on political and lobbying expenses, twice what it spent in 2007.
SEIU will prolly be OK since they are gummint workers and JHE and the Dims are expanding gummint. Manufacturing unions? You guys are gonna be totally fucked and that includes you guys in the UAW. You think GM and Chrysler are gonna survie? In your dreams. With the exception of far left tofu eating rat bastard commies liberals no one is gonna want the crapmobiles that the gummint is gonna make you produce.
And here is more good news for you rank and file members.
Pension plans for union officers remain healthy and well-funded even as rising liabilities threaten to consume the savings of their rank and file counterparts who participate in different funds within the same labor organization,according to a Hudson Institute study.This disparity became evident from a sample of the 21 largest union and staff pension plans from the same organizations. They are: The Service Employees International Union, UNITE-HERE, the United Steelworkers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Plumbers and Pipefitters, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Sheet Metal Workers and the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
"This issue of rank and file pension plans being funded less than the officer pension plans is extraordinarily serious and shows a great moral failing on the part of the unions," said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute who authored the study.
So the leaders you elected, who have bankrupted your union, have a great retirement plan while you guys are fucked. It's kinda like our political class. Our "public servants" (God, I hate that term!) can totally fuck up the country while paying themselves lavish salaries (and the hypocrites bitch about overpaid executives?) and then they walk away with lavish pensions.
So what Congress and JHE is doing to the rest of the country, the union leaders are doing to their members. It's the American way.
So I've been picking on lady M the past two days.. Geez. I'm not even going to post her latest outfit. Who dresses this woman? This is the black Jackie? Sorry. Jackie had some fashion sense.
Anyway, PeggyU thinks we should go after Thunder Rodent Thighs. She sent me this. I call it TRTraptor.
She got it here.
Jimbo brings back memories. Actually this isn't just confined to the Army. It's the same in the Navy for the Storekeepers. It's also the parts department at IBM. One each.
From Dick. I'm surprised that bus hasn't been blown up by Moo-Slimes.
Got this one from Tom. It was supposedly written by a pastor's wife.
And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America, having lost their morals, their initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that person known as "The One".He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but
He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you.
My lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego,
and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. For I
shall save you with Hope and Change.Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who
preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he
has built must be destroyed." And the people rejoiced, for even
though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had promised
that it was good; and they believed.And "The One" said "We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!"
And the people said, "Hallelujah! Change is good!"Then He said, "We are going to tax the rich fat-cats." And the
people said "Sock it to them!""And redistribute their wealth."
And the people said, "Show us the money!"And then He said, "Redistribution of wealth is good for
everybody"And Joe the plumber asked, "Are you kidding me? You're going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??" And "The One" ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe's personal records were hacked and publicized.
One lone reporter asked, "Isn't that Marxist policy?"
And she was banished from the kingdom!Then a citizen asked, "With no foreign relations experience and
having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with
radical terrorists?"And "The One" said, "Simple. I shall sit with them and talk with them and show them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!"
And the people said, "Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!"
Then "The One" said, "I shall give 95% of you lower taxes."
And one, lone voice said, "But 40% of us don't pay ANY taxes."
So "The One" said, "Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!"
And the people said, "Hallelujah!! Show us the money!"
Then "The One" said, "I shall tax your Capital Gains when you
sell your homes!"And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed.
And He said, "I shall mandate employer- funded health care for
EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every
person unlimited healthcare and medicine and transportation to the
clinics."And the people said, "Give me some of that!"
Then he said, "I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas."
(And Steve Balmer of Microsoft said that would only cause him to ship even more jobs overseas...GOC)
And the people said, "Where's my rebate check?"
Then "The One" said, "I shall bankrupt the coal industry and
electricity rates will skyrocket!"And the people said, "Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don't care for that part about higher electric rates."
So "The One" said, "Not to worry. If your rebate isn't enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!"
Then He said, "Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted.
Let's grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free
lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed
housing..."And the people said, "Hallelujah!!" And they made him King!
And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs
and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers.
Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank
like unto a rock dropped from a cliff. The banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.Then "The One" said, "I am the "The One" - The Messiah - and I'm
here to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will
have enough!"But our foreign trading partners said unto Him, "Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more..."
And the people said, "Wait a minute. That is unfair!!"
And the world said, "Neither are these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!"
And the people cried out, "Alas, alas!! What have we done?"
But yea verily, it was too late. The people set upon "The One" and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. And the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were without
sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change "The One" had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, "Give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!" But it was too late, and their homeland was no more.
You may think this is a fairy tale, but it's not.
It's happening RIGHT NOW !!!
I guess what we are going through now is lusting after false prophets.
I have my clock radio set to the local NPR station. I only listen to it for the classical music. Nevertheless, if it wakes me up in the morning, Morning Sedition is on. If it awakens me from my afternoon nap, it's usually All Things Distorted.
Anyway, it awakened me and some bozo on one of those programs said that while Reagan was the Great Communicator, Jug Hussein Ears was the Great Educator. This was after his Cairo speech. Ya see, he was able to educate us and the Islamic nutjobs on why we should get along or some other bullshit like that. He also said that all of his speeches were to educate us on sumpin'. I guess his speech on racism educated us on how racist his white grandmother was. I couldn't listen to anymore of that bullshit because if I had, I would have puked.
Honest to God, I don't know how all these fellators in the LSM can talk with their mouths full.
In other news, I just found out today from Cynthia Tucker (who no longer heads the editorial staff at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation) that JHE was responsible for the outcome of the election in Lebanon.
Osama bin Laden was so worried that President Obama’s Cairo speech might win over Muslim hearts and minds that the jihadist sent out a pre-emptory audiotaped message denouncing the United States and warning against Obama’s “new beginning.”
Yeah. Osama is trembling in his cave.
It turns out that bin Laden was right to be worried: The president did, it seems, change some minds in the Middle East.
Or the Great Educator educated.
On Sunday, an American-aligned coalition won a surprising victory in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, pushing back a challenge by Hezbollah, which had been widely expected to win a majority of seats. There were undoubtedly many factors at play — Lebanon’s politics are fractured and Byzantine — but Obama’s well-received speech has been credited with making a difference.
Freaking amazing! He makes a speech and changes the outcome of an election.
So, while it’s much too early to tell whether the president’s emphasis on an empathetic diplomacy can push old enemies back to the negotiating table, the early result confirms an old adage: You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.
But we don't want to attract flies Cynthia.
In pursuit of national security, there’s nothing wrong with making friends and influencing people.
Is that why JHE is pissing off our allies in Europe? The Brits are pissed at him as are the Germans. And I got news for you. We don't want to be friends with Aramalamadingdong or Kim Yuck Fou.
You’d think that might be obvious, but, in some quarters, it’s not. Bin Laden isn’t the only observer unhappy about the president’s speech, in which he used his singular biography to reach out to the Muslim world.
She's right. There are a bunch of Americans really pissed off about his speech.
Throughout human history, there have been those who believed that strength lies only in the use of force and that any gesture of friendship toward enemies or rivals is a sign of weakness or “appeasement.”
Yeah that really worked with Hitler in WWII. And it's really worked with Israel which has made countless concessions with the Palestinians. They left Gaza and we can see how well that worked out.
But those who read that history carefully know it isn’t true.
Obviously Cynthia is not one of those who read their history carefully. If she did, she would know that appeasement never works.
Indeed, as the world’s remaining superpower, with the world’s strongest military, the U.S. can afford to be conciliatory.
No! We! Can! Not!
The rest is the standard liberal boilerplate. Invading Iraq created more terrorists. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. Blah! Blah! Blah!
Cynthia is moving to DC (or she is already there) so she can be closer to covering the first black president. We should send her some knee pads to make her job easier.
This picture has gone viral. It's everywhere. I call it Hot and Not.
OK, I don't get it. The LSM keeps telling us how hot Michelle Jug Hussein Ears is but I don't see it. Yannow, she's the black Jackie Kennedy according to the LSM and we're living in Camelot again. (Don't get me started on Camelot. I didn't Jackie was that hot and I don't think JFK was a very good president. He had the chance to take out Castro and he whiffed.) Maxim even made her 93 on their 2009 Hot 100 list. In this picture she seems to be demonstrating that mean country that she thinks the US is. She also looks like the black bitch that kept bothering Fred Sanford. Yawn. I guess I'm a racist for not thinking she's hot. I wonder if the guy who took this picture is gonna be fired?
Yannow, I'm always saying that the rat bastard commies in the Dimocrat Party, Like Thunder Rodent Thighs and Jug Hussein Ears, believe that the only reason socialism fails everywhere it is tried is that the right people haven't been in charge, and by golly, they are the people who are gonna make it work.
Our country was set up to allow states to be little laboratories where gummint policies could be tested. Unfortunately, we have politicians who believe that high taxes and big gummint are good things in spite of proof to the contrary.
Exhibit A: California. High taxes. Big gummint. Going bankrupt. Rich people fleeing. That's what Jug Hussein Ears wants for the rest of the country.
But this is about health care. Hillarycare was all about the Canadian system. JHE, though he denies it, has the goal of implementing a Canadian style system. Do you think he and the rest of the Dims have actually looked at how well the Canadian system works? I doubt it. I wonder what a Canadian doctor has to say?
Congressional Democrats will soon put forward their legislative proposals for reforming health care. Should they succeed, tens of millions of Americans will potentially be joining a new public insurance program and the federal government will increasingly be involved in treatment decisions.Not long ago, I would have applauded this type of government expansion. Born and raised in Canada, I once believed that government health care is compassionate and equitable. It is neither.
The competence of the post office, the efficiency of the DMV, and the compassion of the IRS or, as Don Surber once wrote, "the compassion of Nurse Ratchet and the competence of Frank Burns". I can hardly wait!
My views changed in medical school. Yes, everyone in Canada is covered by a "single payer" -- the government. But Canadians wait for practically any procedure or diagnostic test or specialist consultation in the public system.
Just as one must wait at any gummint service facility.
The problems were brought home when a relative had difficulty walking. He was in chronic pain. His doctor suggested a referral to a neurologist; an MRI would need to be done, then possibly a referral to another specialist. The wait would have stretched to roughly a year. If surgery was needed, the wait would be months more. Not wanting to stay confined to his house, he had the surgery done in the U.S., at the Mayo Clinic, and paid for it himself.
When we have our version of socialized medicine, where are the Canadians gonna go?
Such stories are common. For example, Sylvia de Vries, an Ontario woman, had a 40-pound fluid-filled tumor removed from her abdomen by an American surgeon in 2006. Her Michigan doctor estimated that she was within weeks of dying, but she was still on a wait list for a Canadian specialist.
Coming soon to the US. Remember, JHE wants to mandate more general practitioners.
Indeed, Canada's provincial governments themselves rely on American medicine. Between 2006 and 2008, Ontario sent more than 160 patients to New York and Michigan for emergency neurosurgery -- described by the Globe and Mail newspaper as "broken necks, burst aneurysms and other types of bleeding in or around the brain."Only half of ER patients are treated in a timely manner by national and international standards, according to a government study. The physician shortage is so severe that some towns hold lotteries, with the winners gaining access to the local doc.
And that is the Dimocrats' goal for the US. They don't think that will happen. They actually think they can make it work.
Ironically, as the U.S. is on the verge of rushing toward government health care, Canada is reforming its system in the opposite direction.
Just like as we are racing to the left, EUrope is heading right as the result of the last elections.
In 2005, Canada's supreme court struck down key laws in Quebec that established a government monopoly of health services. Claude Castonguay, who headed the Quebec government commission that recommended the creation of its public health-care system in the 1960s, also has second thoughts. Last year, after completing another review, he declared the system in "crisis" and suggested a massive expansion of private services -- even advocating that public hospitals rent facilities to physicians in off-hours.
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Americans need to ask a basic question: Why are they rushing into a system of government-dominated health care when the very countries that have experienced it for so long are backing away?
Because they are rat bastard commies and they think they are smart enough to succeed where everyone else has failed. Let's face it. JHE is the smartest man in the world and he can also ask TRT to assist since she is the smartest woman in the world. Plus, he's a rock star, according to the LSM.
If being a rock star is a qualification to be president, I would have preferred Ted Nugent.
It's bad enough that rat bastard commie Socialist Sally has infested this site with her troll droppings, but now she's chasing poor little haha. Disgusting! Has she no shame? He's only 14 years old.
From George.
Unemployment is at 9.4% and rising even though Jug Hussein Ears is claiming that he is saving and creating 150,000 jobs. I call bullshit on that. Under the first four months of his presidency we have lost more jobs that the first four months of any other presidency. How's that hope and change shit working out?
Hope. Change. Record job losses
A rich man and a poor man were discussing what they gave their wives for their
anniversary.
The rich man says, "I bought my wife a diamond necklace and a Mercedes Benz."
The poor man asks, "Why did you buy her two gifts?"
The rich man replies, "Well, in case she doesn't like the diamond necklace, she can
drive her Mercedes Benz to take it back."
The poor man acknowledges the rich mans answer then proceeds to tell him what
he got his wife.
I got my wife a pair of flip flops and a dildo."
With a confused and intrigued look, the rich man asks, "Why did you buy her those
gifts?"
The poor man replies, "Well, in case she doesn't like the flip flops,
she can go fuck herself."
From Dick.
Actually if he had been president, we would have surrendered by then. Yannow, smart diplomacy.
Guess who is being quarantined in China? Why it is none other than Mayor Asshole.
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Ray Nagin is in quarantine in China as a precautionary measure after it was found that someone he was sitting near to on a plane was showing symptoms of the H1N1-flu virus, also known as swine flu. Video: Watch the StoryThe announcement came in a press conference on Sunday. Nagin is currently in a designated quarantine location in Shanghai, and he remains symptom free. Nagin, however, hasn’t been tested for the virus, according to Nagin administration spokeswoman Nagin administration spokeswoman Ceeon D. Quiett.
Does that mean Mayor Asshole has been Shanghaied?
Thanks to Paul for the link.
Yep! Another Monday, another FOD!
And, we got us a new blogger. Longtime commenter Jeremy just started his own blog.
Got this one from Muscular Beaver.
Did you know that they make tea from the hair of the Koala bear in Mercy, Australia? The only problem is that you tend to get hair in your teeth when you drink it, because...
...the Koala tea of Mercy is not strained.
Father and son bonding.
Got it from CharlieDelta.
Usually I post guitar works form the Baroque Era. But, today, thanks to Paul, I'm posting sumpin' from the 60's: Classical Gas by Mason Williams. Here it is.
Hey look! I found out from her last comment that Socialist Sally has her own blog. Good for her! And in her honor, CD created this graphic.
Yep! Another pacifist in the Blogosphere.
Go here.
This will make Prosper happy.
A blond redneck joke from MoK.
Gas & Sex
A gas station owner in Mississippi was trying to increase his
sales, so he put up a sign that read, 'Free Sex with Fill-Up'.
Soon a local blond redneck pulled in, filled his tank and asked for his free
sex.. The owner told him to pick a number from 1 to 10. If he guessed
correctly he would get his free sex. The blond redneck guessed 8, and the
proprietor said, 'You were close. The number was 7.... sorry, no sex
this time.'
A week later, the same blond redneck, along with a buddy, Bubba, pulled in
for another fill-up. Again he asked for his free sex. The proprietor
again asked him to guess the correct number. The blond redneck guessed 2 this
time.
The proprietor said, 'Sorry, it was 3. You were close, but no free sex
this time.'
As they were driving away, the blond redneck said to his buddy, 'I think that
game is rigged and he doesn't really give away free sex.'
Bubba replied,' No it ain' t, Billy Ray. It ain't rigged. My wife won twice
last week!'
I love summer at the beach.
Look! It's Mickey Mouse!
Got this from Old Jacques.
Holy crap! Whoda thunk it? Charliedelta is going green! And that's a good thing.
Yes, once again I have to give the prestigious AOTW Award to Jug Hussein Ears. This is not the first time he's earned it and it will not be the last.
Remember back when he was campaigning and it was forbidden to use his middle name? He also referred to his father as "an agnostic". So now it's just fine and dandy to use Hussein. It has gone from the name that must not be spoken to the name that must be spoken. In fact in his much anticipated speech, he pointed out that his middle name was Hussein. Also he stressed his Moo-slime roots via his father.
See! I have a Moo-slime name. My daddy was a Moo-slime. I even bowed to my master King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Pander. Pander. Pander. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. Blah. Blah. Blah.
Did Chris Matthews get another tingle down his leg? I heard some dickhead on NPT say that JHE was not the "Great Communicator" like Ronald Reagan, but the "Great Educator". Honestly, how can these people talk and blow JHE at the same time? Don't they know that it's not polite to talk with their mouths full?
I've noticed that watching JHE give a speech is like watching someone watch a tennis match. Read from this TelePrompTer. Jerk left! Read from this TelePrompTer. Jerk right! He seems unable to perform a nice slow transition from one screen to the other.
For giving another speech that was all style and no substance and for rediscovering his Moo-slime roots, he's earned another AOTW.
And I have to give a special runner up to Playboy Magazine.
Go Megyn!
Sad to say, Playboy has been going downhill for quite some time.
From MoK.
What is it about Dimocrats who constantly want to go overseas and apologize for America? BJ pulled this crap as well. And, of course, we cannot forget Jimmah Carter, the worst president this country has ever had. In another four years, Jug Hussein Ears will have prolly made Jimmah look good by comparison. JHE is already dropping in the polls.
We're in a recession and everyone knows that the best thing to do in a recession is raise taxes, right? I guess if you're a rat bastard commie Dimocrat that makes sense. So, we have states raising taxes or proposing to raise taxes.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- States are poised to pass as much as $24 billion in tax and fee hikes in coming weeks, as they struggle to balance their budgets amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a report released Thursday found.
$24 billion? Which states need to raise the most money?
California, which is struggling to close a $21.3 billion budget gap, accounts for $11.3 billion of the hike. Illinois makes up another $4.4 billion, while New York is proposing $4 billion in additional levies.
So those three states account for $19.7 billion of that $24 billion. And what do those three states have in common? They're all blue states and run by free spending Dimocrats. One of them does have a RINO governor. Hey California, what do you think of the billions spent on stem cell research now? Or howza 'bout the billions spent on services for illegal aliens? Hmmmmm?
New York and New Jersey have raised taxes on the rich and the rich are leaving those states. Funny how soaking the rich never seems to work.
Georgia, a red state, run by Republicans, has a rainy day fund that it is dipping into. I think if you look closely, you'll find that the states in the worst shape are blue states run by Dimocrats.
Just one thing. All of you folks fleeing those states and moving to Georgia, please don't bring your liberal policies here. We rednecks are doing just fine and want to stay that way.
No. Not that Nancy. Nancy Reagan.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
From Jane Austen. I got some of the best readers in the blogosphere.
As you know Jug Hussein Ears is gonna somehow cut health care costs by putting everyone's health care records on line. Of course, he assures us, they will remain safe and confidential. After reading this (third item), I have a real good feeling about the security of our medical records.
The government’s inadvertent Internet posting of a 266-page list of U.S. nuclear sites provided a one-step guide for anyone wanting details about uranium storage locations, nuclear fuel fabrication plants and nuclear research facilities. Obama administration officials said Wednesday the document contained no classified material about nuclear weapons, and that the information was available from public sources. The Government Printing Office removed the information from its Web site after being told about its sensitive nature. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the release exposed lax safeguards and asked congressional investigators to review the incident.
Now, aren't you confident that your medical records will remain confidential? But that's OK. If they don't, Speaker Blinker will ask for a congressional review.
Stole it from its creator who has posted info on the game. The dude worked real hard at creating this so go over to his site and give him some hits and check out his other stuff.
So Bou puts up a post titled Sarcasm is the Body's Natural Defense Against Stupidity and it got me thinking. Now I know why I was so sarcastic when I worked for IBM, especially when I was dealing with management and idiotic policies like quality programs and Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). It's a natural defense mechanism. That explains everything.
I can still remember when I was an IBM Customer Engineer in St. Louis. My account was McDonnell Douglas Automation and normally the console operators were pretty good folks. I was called out to the console area one night because of a highlighted message posted on one of the consoles. I asked the operators if they had looked up said message in the message books they had right there. Nope. I then proceeded to look up the message and find out it was of no concern. I couldn't help giving them a little lecture that the message books were for looking up messages and not for keeping the table they were on from flying away.
Another time, when I was a programmer here in Atlanta, I sent out an e-mail about people not following my IPL procedures. I stated that I did not write those procedures to demonstrate my command of the English language. I didn't state who the person was who didn't follow my procedures (I didn't know and I didn't care) but she was in my manager's office shortly thereafter, almost in tears, saying that I was picking on her. As I told him when he requested less sarcasm and told me who it was, I told him to look at the e-mail and see where I had said I didn't know who did it and I didn't care. If I was picking on her, I would have said, "That dumb bitch didn't follow procedures."
Yep! Natural defense mechanism against stupidity.
My friend Cindy, who knows me quite well, gave me this sweatshirt for Christmas.
Eat your hearts out Bou and Mo! I know you two want one.
Got this from Catfish.
Too bad Pumpman is no longer with us. This would have really pissed him off.
Not to be confused with the Gummint Motors Obamobile.
From Bill.
Another model.
Also from Bill.
A huge ray of economic sunshine burst upon Georgia on Tuesday with the official announcement that NCR, a Fortune 500 company from Ohio that makes ATMs and check-out machines, is bringing its corporate headquarters, a new plant and about 2,100 jobs to Duluth and Columbus.Recession? This was more like the good ol’ days of the 1990s, when Atlanta pilfered with abandon corporate and manufacturing jobs from higher taxed, less hospitable Northern and Midwestern climes.
And if we hadn't fucked up our traffic management (thanks rat bastard commies libs), we would have pilfered even more. They're smart enough to relocate the headquarters to the northern suburbs in Duluth. They're near upscale housing like in Beautiful Dunwoody and points in between and the traffic won't be as bad.
Bad news for Ohio.
The state alone promised NCR more than $60 million in tax breaks. But Georgia’s gain comes at already downtrodden Dayton’s expense. The town, dubbed by Forbes.com as one of the country’s top 10 “fastest dying cities,” loses its only Fortune 500 company and the possibility of thousands of new jobs to salve the bruised blue-collar city’s wounds.
Ohio was stunned speechless. Is that kinda like dazed and confused?
Ohio leaders were left fuming, saying they never had a chance to retain or expand NCR in the Buckeye State.“I have called [NCR CEO Bill Nuti] many times without a single response,” Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher complained at a news conference Tuesday.
“NCR makes ATMs,” Fisher said. “And to me this is equivalent to going to your ATM and finding out that your bank that you and your family have banked with for 125 years has, without even talking to you, transferred all your funds to another company.”
Fisher said the state had little time to make an offer to NCR.
Maybe you shoulda thought about lowering your corporate tax rate. Georgia has the 6th lowest in the nation.
Obamaland news.
Jug Hussein Ears is in Saudi Arabia. I wonder if he's gonna bow to his master King Abdullah again? Oh, and Iran may have the right to get nukes.
President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy —- provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful. In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, Obama also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it to set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.
Yeah. Like that's gonna do any good.
Guess what? United States is now one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
It is important to note that "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world".So says President Barack Obama. Or I should say: Barack Hussein Obama.
That's right: Barack Hussein Obama. Say it proud. Say it out loud. The middle moniker that dared not speak its name during the election campaign is now front and centre of the US president's attempt to woo the Muslim world, the theme of his visits to Riyadh on Wednesday and Cairo on Thursday.
Remember, he said a few weeks back that the United States was not a Christian nation. Now he's saying we're a Moo-slime nation? How's that hope and change stuff working out?
I can just imagine his speech tomorrow from Cairo.
I'm a Muslim. I fooled all those folks. I'm on your side. I'm for the destruction of Israel. Wait a minute. Who the fuck loaded up the TelePrompTer with this speech?
Last but not least, we have Cynthia Tucker, one of the rat bastard commies on the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation writing a column about how we just hafta close Gitmo. It's "crucial".
When President Barack Obama delivers his highly anticipated speech in Cairo on Thursday, he’ll communicate several messages, including his respect for Islam and his desire for Middle East peace. Let’s hope he also reiterates his commitment to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Well Cindy, where are we gonna put the prisoners? No one wants them no matter how much JHE has begged the rest of the world to take them.
As for those who are convicted of terrorist acts, they can be confined at “super-max” facilities; there has never been an escape from a “super-max” prison. One such facility in Florence, Colo., already houses three notorious terrorists: Zacarius Moussaoui, a Sept. 11 conspirator; Ramzi Yousef, who planned the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; and Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber. Their incarceration on continental soil has not incited new jihadist threats.
Unfortunately, there currently is only one bed available at the super-max in Colorado. Got anymore ideas?
And that's the news of the day.
The muse is mute. Actually, there are one or two posts rolling around in my brain, but the skills are not there today to write them, so, I'm falling back on another guest rant from Ron.
Obamanites have little use for traditional values and a genuine contempt for personal accountability. They base their political, economical, and managerial strategies on the perpetual existence of super-rich sugar daddies who will support and fund their free cornucopia approach to modern living. They are the second generation of the Haight-Ashbury alternative society, the sunny, psychedelic utopia of the 60s, anarchy with rules only for the squares and everything free for themselves. But that utopia provided no sense of permanence, no reliable sources of food or clothing, no assurance of a safe, dry place to sleep off the bad trips, hangovers, and STDs.Of course if guitars could be plucked from the trees, and electricity pumped in magically from the Bay, and clothing dropped as manna from Coit Tower and the Wells Fargo pyramid, their society based on free everything and carpe diem could have worked. But as with one of their favorite mantras, Make Love -- Not War, when you're stoned all the time, you cant do either one very effectively, and the movement remained transient and ephemeral, even in the Haight, with turnover more frequent than Obama's cabinet nominees.
During his run for governor, Ronald Reagan, when asked about the unwashed, undisciplined, unemployed mass of freeloaders gesturing and gyrating in San Francisco, said that they dressed like Tarzan, had hair like Jane, and smelled like Cheetah.
Today's descendants of that free-everything-for-all subculture are still in charge in the City by the Bay and have spread like eczema into other metropolitan areas. The D.C. set have abandoned the disreputable tie-dyed, ragged-cuffed, slogan-covered dress of their parents' generation and except for their communistic approach to government and personal property look very much like ordinary citizens. The truth, however, is that they are mostly well-educated, well-dressed, richly ignorant, obscenely wealthy upper-middle-class twits.
Today we have a Congress headed by Harry Reid, the black hole of excitement from whom fun cannot escape in any form; Nancy Pelosi, the clown princess of arrogance from whom common sense cannot emanate in any form; and three hundred or so more pork herdsmen from whom truth cannot escape in any form. As a group, the 535 members of our legislative branch should be high on everyone's list of consideration for the Nobel Prize in Greed, Deception, and Hypocrisy. And if anyone deserves an Oscar, they do for their long-running portrayal of perfect assholes.
Today we have an inexperienced, untrained, narcissistic Posturer in Chief who is working overtime to take us from regulatory ineptitude through recession past disaster headlong into catastrophe in a freakinomics free-fall obviously designed specifically to precipitate the downfall of private enterprise and bring all business and assets under direct control of the central government.
For years now Hollywood, along with major media such as CBS, NBC, The New York Times and the L. A. Times, has been working steadily to promote the liberal agenda. Textbook publishers have rewritten our history to read that Jefferson was a troubled and dangerous man, Jackson was a renegade, Lincoln was an aberration, Grant was a drunk, TR was a blowhard, and Reagan was overhyped. Countless children in our schools today are being taught that the US completely disrupted peaceful nations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, the war on drugs has backfired and caused many Central American nations to fall into political chaos, and 9/11 was a government conspiracy and we had it coming anyway.
Our Communist-in-Chief is a born-again Marxist whose loyalties lean more toward Afro-Centrism than American patriotism. He is, like J. E. Carter before him, a weak, inept, four-year accident whose euphemistic redesignation of realities such as the War on Terror and Enemy Combatants to Man-Made Boo-boos and Mischievous Muslim Rascals sends a powerful message to those who would conquer and dominate us that we will negotiate and appease to the last man standing.
Causes die, businesses fold, and administrations end; but ignorance and arrogance are self-propagating, self-nourishing, self-promoting cancers which can be treated only by harsh measures, as a group of men wrote down and signed their names to over two hundred years ago: Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. When government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Too bad we have very few Americans today who share the feelings of those who wrote the Declaration of Independence, fought for independence, and wrote the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson would not recognize today's Dimocrat Party and would fight against most of what they believe in.
It turns out that Jug Hussein Ears is not gonna stop with the nationalization of Gummint Motors. He's getting into the paint business as well and coming out with the paint to use for painting roofs white like his energy secretary advocates. Here is the new paint, courtesy of Alex.
Got this one from Penn.
Then there was the journalist who was sent to find photographer Tanaka Rhee, who had been lost in New Guinea while on assignment for Life magazine. After months of searching through steaming jungles and rank swampland, he finally came upon a small village where several outsiders were held in deep, murky pits.
Shining a flashlight into one pit after another, the journalist at last spotted his quarry. Jumping for joy, he sang out,
"Oh, sweet Mr. Rhee of Life, at last I've found you!"
