Saturday, October 31, 2009

Your tax dollars at work.



House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,

D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.


I can't add a single thing to this.

Hat tip to Bill T!

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Death Panels! They're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WASHINGTON – It's alive. The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to "death panels" for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.

The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries deal with the complex and painful decisions families face when a loved one is approaching death.


I mean not that I'm surprised. Are you?

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And in case you think Palin was a little over heated, let us revisit what Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama's health care advisor, had to say about such things.

This civic republican or deliberative democratic conception of the good provides both procedural and substantive insights for developing a just alloca- tion of health care resources. Procedurally, it suggests the need for public forums to deliberate about which health services should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed.


For my slower readers, that means you Lefties, that means a group of people deciding what health care services people should get. Let's pursue what he meant.

Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future genera- tions, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic.

Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.
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Again for my Lefte readers, that means no disabled folks should apply.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. A less obvious example Is is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.


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He means it boys and girls. Not for himself, of course, but for the "others." The children that can offer nothing but love and being able to dress themselves by age 9. The mother that remembers your Senior Prom but not seeing you yesterday.

Of course you have a duty to the state. You exist only to serve the state. Love the state. Pay no attention to the ovens being built.



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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Roosevelt and immigration in 1907


'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'


What a concept. 100% loyalty to the new country returned as 100% loyalty to the new citizen.

Of course when you have much of the so called "elites" hating the country....

Hat tip to Mike L!

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Story of my life


Old Jim and Bud are drinking in a bar.

Bud says: "Did you know that Elks have sex 10 to 15 times a night?"

"Aw crap..," says Old Jim, "and I just joined the VFW!"


Hat tip to Jimmy M

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Pure as the driven snow and as a big a loser as a snowman in July

I have made no secret that I call myself a social liberal who is strong on defense, hates PC bullshit and understands that our culture is under attack by the radical Muslims and the Left, who many times seem to be allies of each other.

What that means in a practical sense is that I don't care if John marries Jack or if Sue marries Peggy. That it is condemned in the Bible is a fact, but so is boffing your neighbor's wife or husband and I will let the individuals involved sort out their actions on earth and God can adjudicate the results at a later time.

I am also against abortion that is not done to save the mother's life but after counseling the woman involved I am not going to interfere. It is the woman's right.

I also think blacks and other minorities have been treated unfairly and deserve and need some protection in our laws. That leaves a wide door open for Sharpton and Jackson and other poverty pimps but I think, maybe hope is the better word, that they will not be succeeded. And yes, I am disgusted at much of the black culture that is destroying whole generations through unwed mothers and a societal acceptance of gangs and welfare. I don't have the answer but I know Bojangles isn't coming back. And while I have suggestions this is not the time and place to discuss them.

Drugs are a huge problem but locking up users and marginal sellers won't fix the problem. I have often noted that I would legalize MJ and sell it while giving away coke and heroin to registered addicts. As easy that would be, people who sell any drug to children would be dealt with harshly. Speed, date rape, PCP, etc., would be dealt with very harshly.

I also understand that Obama's health care plan won't work and is designed to destroy Medicare while extending free care to his base.

So you might say that while I am not a Republican I am smart enough to know that what the Left wants has nothing to do with me being a Social Liberal, and everything with seizing and maintaining power while destroying the country.

In other words I am happy to vote for any Repub running against any Demo.

Why? Because it is the majority party that gets to select the Speaker, the Majority Leader, control the committees and decide what legislation gets brought to the floor for a vote. As an example let me note that if many Repubs hadn't set on their thumbs in 2006 and 2008 you just might have won enough seats to control the House and Cap and Trade, health care, etc., would not even have been voted on.

So all you oh so pure Repubs who are busy splitting the party in the District 23 of NY have my disgust. You think you can beat Obamie by yourselves. Well, you can't.

So grow up. A half a loaf is better than none.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Good bye Mr. Liberal


Liberal are a dying breed.

Or so says Gallup.

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But, like too many polls, I think they ask the wrong question.

It is the LEFT that commands a too high 20% number. Most people I know are for equal opportunity and the various other "rights" that the Left seek to claim that no one but them believe in. (Of course they also believe strongly in your right to ONLY agree with them.)

Of course there's some disagreement about gay marriage and abortion but many people don't care if Joe marries Jack and really only oppose late term abortions. Surprisingly, I even find that many know that our drug laws are totally screwed up and we need to set down and take a long hard look at them.

But the same guy who is willing to call terrorist attacks "man made disasters," punish people for what they thought instead of what they have done and not condemn radicals who stone women, hang gays and plot to nuke Israel, want to be called liberal.

And we let'em get away with it. They aren't liberals! I am a liberal! They are Lefties!

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Profiling in Chicago

Chicago - A well-known bar in Chicago's Gold Coast is being accused of racism.

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Six African-American men in the group were denied entry to the bar last weekend.

Student Regis Nurayi says the bar's manager told them their jeans were too baggy.

But Murayi didn't buy it.

So he switched jeans with a shorter, white student.

The white student, who now had very baggy jeans, was let in, and Murayi was still kept out.

The students held a protest in front of Mother's last Sunday, and there's a meeting about this issue in St. Louis on Monday.

The students are considering a lawsuit.


Yeah, got'em cold. Profiling no doubt.

I just love it when Yankees are caught out.

Of course the jury in that lawsuit might remember that it is mostly black gang members that wear baggy clothes as a way to conceal their weapons. It use to be called the LA Gang Look.

Maybe the students... black, white and in between.... might consider wearing suits instead of filing lawsuits.

You know, set an example. I mean you folks wanting to be lawyers, societal leaders and all that stuff.

And yeah, I know that would mean that you can't do what you want, which is to conform to another societal norm rather than setting an example to that other norm.

Life's a bitch, eh?

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

UT 13 (should have been) and Alabama 12

I don't care what you say, I still say that Kiffin, UT's football coach, shows flashes of pure stupidity.

He didn't give the team a chance to win, he set them up to lose. There was enough time to run at least three more plays and he decides to try a 45 yard field goal??

Coach, stick with recruiting and managing the staff and let someone else do the offense. You screwed the pooch at the end of the UCLA game, took a knee at Flordia and now this.

No more. Please.

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If you are killed by a fake female terrorist, are you dead?



Do counter-terrorism measures targeting bombers who dress as women offend the rights of transexuals? This is one of the pressing questions addressed in a new United Nations report on "Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism."


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I don't know about you, dear chums, but what offends me is that we are spending money on people to worry about such things.

Have we gone insane?
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Obama will go.


President Obama is "leaning toward not going" to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, a senior administration official told Fox News.


What hooey. Obama is a narcissists of the first stripe. He will go, but he first must be begged.

On your knees dear Europe. Your Chamberlains showed us you were expert at it and you have remembered well. But don't feel too proud. We have our own home grown fly unzippers and kissers of the rear crack and they ply their trade with great authority and expertise.

So do your thing. The One is depending on you.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Bits and pieces




The garden is complete with nothing left to pick, freeze, can or dry so I treated myself to a road trip out to Los Angeles via Delta Northwest, soon to be Delta and those folks who couldn’t find Minneapolis.

Wow. The situation has to be that Delta isn’t going to need as many pilots as Delta Northwest did so I almost feel sorry for the two soon to be ex-pilots. But I gotta wonder where the rest of the crew was. Didn’t any of the Flight Attendants get a little curious when they just kept flying and flying and flying…?? Looks like I’m gonna get me a lap top with a GPS display program.

“Uh, Pilot from Navigator. We are either on top of Memphis or New Orleans. No dimwit, I can’t see the ocean, the cloud cover is too thick.”

Which is a take off from the old Bob Newhart bit in which he plays the navigator on one of our new atomic Boomers. The punch line is:

“When we surface we will be just off the coast of New York….or Rio de Janerio….”

(Look at a globe.)

The scary part is that they overflew Minneapolis, ignored ATC and a military aircraft was never launched. Think about it.

Anyway my flights were delightful, but then First Class always is. The wine was fine and we were on time coming and going and it only took me two hours and twenty minutes to get from LAX to Norwalk, a distance of some 20 – 25 miles. And I believe that was a personal record.

But the trip was great. Met up with some old friends and did a bit of people watching. California always reminds me of an ant hill that has been dug up. Everyone is always busy running every which way but no one knows why.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Summing up Obama


Barack Obama is less of a person than an image a brand. People see whatever they want as they do on a Rorschach test. But does anyone really know him?

In fact, he is:

An empty suit.
A man with no birth certificate.
A man who was deserted in childhood by his biological father.
A man whose birth records, both in the United States and Kenya , are sealed by government order.
A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for the Soviet Union , edited a communist newspaper, authored pornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise of Joseph Stalin.
A man mentored by and still supported by radical Muslims.
A man who promised transparency in government, but has spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding and blocking information that would determine his eligibility to be President.
A former drug user.
A man whose academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.
A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan .
Why did he go?
Who paid his expenses?
A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country’s passport did he use?
A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al-Mansour.
A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.
A lawyer with no significant accomplishments in the law and no reputation in the legal community.
A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored a piece of legislation.
A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky.
A product of the Chicago political machine the most corrupt political organization in America .
A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians, and criminals as his close political associates and personal friends.
A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America , the Socialist International, and the Workers International League.
A man lauded for the literary brilliance of two memoirs, both of which were ghost written by others.
A so-called Christian who says that knowing when life human begins is “above his pay-grade,” but somehow knows that abortion is permissible at any stage.
A man who thinks “waterboarding” is immoral, but that partial-birth abortion is moral.
A man who publicly laments slavery in America which was abolished 150 years ago but praises Islam, which still practices both slavery and the sexual mutilation of young girls.
A man who speaks endlessly about helping the less fortunate, but gives almost none of his sizeable income to charity not even to his half-brother, who is living in squalorr in Kenya.
A man who had the most left-wing voting record in the United States Senate, but was predicted by the press to “govern from the middle.”
A man who has never created a job, met a payroll, or even operated a lemonade stand, but wants to tell Detroit how to make cars.
A President who has never before served as an executive in either the private or the public sector.
A Commander-in-Chief who doesn’t know how to shoot a rifle, throw a hand-grenade, drive a tank, fly a plane, or con a ship.
A Commander-in-Chief who has publicly divulged some of our nation’s most important intelligence secrets.
A man who has been put in charge of the largest economic engine that ever existed, but has never invested in the stock market and admits total ignorance of it.
A President who says that science will guide his administration, but has no education in the sciences.
A man who is proficient in reading what is written for him on a tele-prompter, but jerks and stammers his way through any off-the-cuff speaking.
A man whose health records are sealed from childhood to the present day..
A man whose educational records are sealed from childhood through law school.
A man who spent 20 years in a church whose pastor espouses Marxist Liberation Theology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism, but claims he never heard his pastor utter anti-American, and anti-Semitic statements.
A man who added more to the National Debt in 100 days than all other Presidents did in the past 220 years, yet feels qualified to lecture Americans about “fiscal responsibility”.
A man who publicly expressed disdain for the U.S. Constitution on a Chicago radio station because it limited the government’s ability to “redistribute wealth.”
The first American President to bow before a foreign head of state a Muslim dictator.
A man who sits and listens submissively while his country is castigated by Daniel Ortega a Communist thuug whose own daughter accused him of raping her.
A narcissist who gave the Queen of England a present from the United States --an iPod containing recordings of his own speeches.
A so-called Christian who officially declared “Pride Month” for a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
A man who wanted Americans to ignore his Muslim name during his election campaign, yet boasts of his Muslim name when he travels to Muslim countries.
A man who can name hundreds of America ’s shortcomings, yet none of its great accomplishments.
A President who claims the moral high ground by closing Gitmo yet supports the transfer of terror suspects to countries where horrific torture is certain.
A President who scoffed at being called a socialist yet acted to nationalize the auto industry, the banking industry, and the insurance industry . . . and now seeks to nationalize the healthcare industry.
A President who violates private property rights, the sanctity of contracts, and the rule of law three essential principles that go back over a thousand years in the Common Law tradition.
A man who promised 95% of all Americans a tax cut, but is increasing taxes on 100% of the population through inflation the cruelest tax of all.
A lawyer who represented ACORN an organization now indicted in several states for voter fraud whosse stated goal is to get as many people on welfare as possible in order to destroy our financial system.
A President who cheated GM’s bondholders by giving their property to the UAW in a political payoff.
An American President who frequently criticizes his own country when speaking in foreign countries, but never praises America ’s generosity, goodness or greatness.
A President whose Secretary of the Treasury cheated on his taxes as did several other appointees annd advisors.
A President who, despite the current federal debt of 100 trillion dollars, wants to add the greatest debt ever by nationalizing healthcare.
A President who scoffs at being called a socialist, yet has appointed 28 “Czars” to circumvent constitutional government and vetting, including:
A “Science Czar” who has advocated compulsory abortions for American women and the “surrender of sovereignty” to a “comprehensive Planetary Regime.”
A self-professed communist as his “Green Jobs Czar”.
A “Pay Czar” to regulate the pay of corporate executives.
A President who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” yet has nominated a domestic enemy of the Constitution to the Supreme Court.
A President whose Homeland Security Chief classified pro-lifers, veterans, and supporters of traditional marriage as terrorists.
A President who stood silent while the Iranian government hacked unarmed protestors to death with axes, because it was an internal matter, but freely offers his opinions about the internal affairs of Israel and Honduras .
A President who decreed that true acts of terrorism must now be described as “man-made disasters.”
A President who cracks hurtful jokes about Special Olympians.
A President who refused to intercept or inspect a North Korean ship virtually certain to be carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction to Burma .
A President who wants to cancel all missile defenses while rogue nations are developing long-range ballistic missiles.
An American President who blames the violence in Mexico on America .
A Commander in Chief who claims to have been unaware that Air Force One was taken on a terrifying, low-level photo-op over Manhattan .
A President who berates American CEO’s for flying in private planes at private expense on company business, but whose wife spends hundreds of thousands tax payer dollars flying to Paris for a shopping spree.
A President who promised a transparent administration, but requires all questions be screened before “impromptu” appearances.
A man who freely admitted that his energy policies are designed to bankrupt the American coal industry.
A President who has presided over the loss of 14.7 million jobs and whose “energy policy” will cause the loss of another 1 million jobs.
A President whose “energy policy” will increase the average American’s utility bills by over $2,000 a year in the middle of the Great Recession.
A man about whom liberal journalist Tom Brokaw said, “There’s a lot about him we don’t know.” . . .just one week before the election.
The vast majority of Americans do not know who he is, but someone surely does. Someone paid for his travel expenses to Pakistan and Indonesia . Someone engineered legal challenges to all of his election opponents for the State Senate and had them disqualified.. Someone straightened and leveled his path to the U.S. Senate when a Democrat Judge made public the sealed child custody records of his Republican opponent. When he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, someone arranged for him to speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Someone saw to it that all of his records were sealed, both at home and abroad. Someone assembled the massive organization for his run for the Presidency. Someone knows all about him.
Who? So you say some of the above is overstatement or spin, some is just coincidence. How many coincidences does it take to make a truth? There is something wrong here folks, something never seen in the history of the United States .

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Go figure

A leading energy developer said the United States has been excluded from Iraq's revived energy market.

T. Boone Pickens told Congress that U.S. companies were losing opportunities in the Iraqi crude oil and natural gas sectors to competitors from China and Europe


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I still can't figure out what we didn't charge them for getting rid of Saddam...say about $500 billion.


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The Chicago Way

Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama:

The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting" .

In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.

Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure had, and had requested a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Way to network Michelle!

But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?

Let me add that Michelle's position was a part time, 20 hours a week

And to think they were critical of Blagoyovich' s wife for taking $100,000 in a fuzzy real estate commission.

My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin 's garbage and kindergarten files?

Hat tip to Don H!

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Change you can believe in

I got this from Larry P with his comment of, "What can I say?"

That's easy.

All you folks asked for it. You got it.

Enjoy.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Michelle Obama's servant list


THE FIRST LADY'S SERVANT LIST

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

July 7, 2009

Dr. Paul L. Williams

"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,"
she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, " Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.

Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.

How things have changed! I then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to> the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the> First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The F irst Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.

One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

Yeh, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry America!"


SICKENING.........ISN'T


Link to Canadian Free Press article and web site.

Hat tip to Larry P.
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We don't need no education


This wins a Canary Award.

As explained here Beck has a video and transcript of Ron Blook, Hussein's manufacturing czar, pimping Chairman Mao and agreeing that political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

I also urged people to call their Congress people, which I promptly did.

In all three cases I wound up with a staffer who sounded to be under 15 but promised faithfully to take my comments to the Senator/Representative.

As I went through my comments I asked the last one, a Senator's staffer, if she knew who Mao was. There was a long pause and she finally said she thought she had heard of Mao.

Wow.

Think about that. The greatest mass killer in the world and she, working in a Senator's office as a staff member, didn't know about him.

That is the sorry, rotten, biased, unacceptable education system we are paying for.

And yet the "educators" wonder why we send our children to private schools or home school them.



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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Network neturality explained


Verizon Chief Executive Officer Ivan Seidenberg took the stage on the first morning of the Supercomm trade show Wednesday to blast network neutrality regulations currently proposed by the Federal Communications Commission.

“This is a mistake, pure and simple -- an analog idea in a digital universe,” Seidenberg said, arguing that rules preventing broadband providers from discriminating against certain content types or sources – which have been proposed by the FCC and supported by Internet-centric companies such as Google and Facebook – would choke innovation and clash with the FCC’s drive to promote broadband deployment investment.


“If we can’t differentiate between packets, we can’t prioritize emergency communications for first responders, telesurgery or heart-monitor readings for digital medicine or videoconferencing over spam for telecommuters,” he said
.


Shorter. "Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly."

He also can't charge you more money and/or reduce your service.

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Would you have believed??


I have come to the conclusion that if our current state of affairs had been used as a plot for a novel or screen play in the mid 80's it would have been rejected as fantasy.


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Ron Bloom approves of Mao beliefs

The following is from a transcript of the Glenn Beck program. The quote comes from a speech given by Ron Bloom, Obama's Manufacturing Czar.

BLOOM: Generally speaking we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they're convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend, you should get a dog.


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Beck has a video of the guy saying exactly that.

I don't know what to say. Obama has avoided the Senate and filled his Czar positions with who he wants and who he wants is communists and people who speak glowing of Mao.

You know, we can't get rid of Obama until 2010 but we can force these people out. Call, write and email your Representatives and Senators. It is the only way.

Just do it.

Congressional Directory link
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Swine flu and commercial aircarft air flow


What with the swine flu going around I keep reading about all the bad air on airplanes...

Don't believe everything you read.

And I learn something new everyday. I would have bet money UAL never had L1011s.


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Monday, October 19, 2009

England has an idiot in charge


Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse".

He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B".


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And you guys thought we had an idiot in Bush?

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Obama's health care plan preview


For a preview of what Obama's health care plan will do to old folks, let us view what the state of Florida plans to do if the Swine flu gets really bad.

The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.

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The Florida plan also calls for intensive care unit patients and those using ventilators to be reassessed after 48 to 72 hours.

Those whose chances of survival have significantly worsened would be taken off the machines or discharged from critical care to make way for others who may have a better chance of survival. If needed, they would be given palliative care to keep them comfortable.


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I have a better idea.

1. Refuse treatment to everyone who refuse to get a flu shot.

2. Fire everyone involved in this "plan."

3. Throw Obama and company out of office. Impeachment is the only way.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

The Left gets it right on Medicare


Sometimes the Left does get it right. Medicare is a single payer system and it works really well, for the most part, for the population that is targeted. We old folks that Obama wants to kill off so he can provide free health care to his base group, who mostly are either the same people ACRON wants to organize or the dumbest group of voters in the history of the world.

Of course Medicare is not free. I paid into it for 39 years and now, in this first year of Obama the Chosen, the spouse and I will hit about $2500 in Medicare premiums and $1000 Medicare RX premiums. In addition there is $4000 in supplemental insurance premiums and about $6000 in co pays and drug costs. That’s $13500 after tax dollars or about $17000 before tax.

But I digress. The issue isn’t what my health care costs are. I am merely an old fart who merely went to work in 1952 at age 14 and merely held a job continuously for the next 51 years, still consults some and still pays taxes. No, the issue is that some people are being treated unfairly. And, in fact, they are. Life its own self, to steal a line from Dan Jenkins, is unfair. I mean I could have been born rich instead of poor and “brutally handsome.” (This is a test. Where did I steal the last from?)

So let’s address the “fairness” issue.

“legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules”

Now, let’s put everyone under Medicare. Just send them all a Medicare card, include dental and Rx drugs in it, and pat ourselves on the back. We have been “fair.”

Of course to be fair we are going to have to pay for the drugs we use, the Doctors and Nurses time and talents, not to mention all those other workers and infrastructure involved in saving our disgustingly fat behinds.

What, pay for what we use? How so unfair. Let’s just tell the Doctors, Nurses and drug researchers it is their duty to work hard, study for years, borrow thousands of dollars to pay for the education and develop the drugs and techniques involved in saving our precious fat behinds.

I mean they will continue to do that. Won’t they? I mean we do have Hope. Don’t we? Surely they wouldn’t object to seeing 50 patients a day, investing millions in research for new drugs and having less free time than your average dope dealer on his second bust. I mean what highly educated very intelligent Doctor with years of training would object to being told how to treat patients by a bureaucrat who graduated from State Community college with a two year degree in "Administration.”

You wouldn’t mind if the government ran aviation like that would you?

“Tower this is America Screwed 69. I am low on fuel but have runway in sight. Request immediate clearance to land.”

“America Screwed 69 you are 5 minutes and 24.65 seconds late on your ETA. Per FAA rule 445000.87655.76534.1.9 request denied.

“Uh tower, be advised we are late because of bad weather over Kansas.”

“This isn’t Kansas, America Screwed 69. Turn Left to 180, proceed to holding pattern and I will send your appeal to the “Can He Land Panel.”

"Uh, tower, this is America Screwed 69, any idea on how long this will take?"

"This the tower. Don't call us, we'll call you."

"Congressional Flight Perks All The Time, this is the tower. You are cleared for take off to Warm Climes and Perks Galore. Please declare souls on board, Congressional Pages excluded."

That wouldn’t bother you would it?

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Friday, October 16, 2009

Secrets of long life from the Orient



Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?

A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that's it...don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiency. What does cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So steak is nothing more than efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef also good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And pork chop can give you 100% of recommended daily allowance of vegetable product.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that mean they take water out of fruity bit so you get even more of goodness that way. Beer also made of grain. Bottom up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have body and you have fat, your ratio one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio two to one, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No pain...good!

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU NOT LISTENING! Food are fried these day in vegetable oil. In fact, they permeated by it. How could getting more vegetable be bad for you?!?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise muscle, it get bigger. You should only be doing sit-up if you want bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy?!? HEL-LO-O!! Cocoa bean! Another vegetable! It best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming good for your figure, explain whale to me..

Q: Is getting in shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape!

Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.

And remember:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!!"

Hat tip to Jimmy M!





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Sweat Lodge

I'm sorry but I was born and raised in the south. We had no air conditioners beyond fans and many went to movies because the theaters were "refrigerated" not because the products were all great. In fact, it was 5 years after we were married that my wife and I had an air conditioner....

So I hope you will understand why I have to consider anyone paying money to go sit in a sweat lodge to be pretty easy in the "I believe" department. So the friends of the victims have my sympathy but could we please introduce a wee bit of skepticism into the world and a damn site less "I'm ok, you're ok?"


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Bladeless fan


A little spendy but this is pretty neat.
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