Saturday, August 29, 2009

Obama dreads meeting with families of military men killed in Afghanistan


PP - In an early morning interview before he left to attend Senator Kennedy's funeral President Obama said that Kennedy had lived a long and rich life and that though he will be missed we can all celebrate the many great things he accomplished.

When asked to be more specific the Chosen One said that he couldn't think of one off hand but was sure that Kennedy had done something that would be remembered 100 years from now.

When asked if he had any military funerals scheduled he said that he just hated funerals and was too busy trying to figure out to make veterans needing healthcare pay for their own insurance to go through the whole Taps thing.

"I call it the Forced Out Option," he said, explaining it was only fair for those who fought to pay for their expenses. "Try that in any bar in Chicago and the owner will expect you, or your ward heeler, to make things right."


And no, none of the above happened but we all know it to be accurate.

BTW - Can anyone tell me what happened to the demands from the Left that our President meet the aircraft containing the bodies of our dead servicemen?

Friday, August 28, 2009

Global Controlling


The current Global Warming Debate is not about temperature or CO2 levels. It is also not part of a scientific dispute inside climatology. It is an ideological clash between those who want to change us (rather than the climate) and those who believe in freedom, markets, human ingenuity, and technical progress. It is a dispute about us, about people, about human society, about our values, about our habits, about our way of life. Temperature fluctuations are only an instrument, not a real object of interest for those who play that game
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Here, read the rest. It's more important than last night's ball scores.

Didn't know I was a scold, did you?

Various Laws, etc...

If you don't know these, you should.

Clarke's Second Law
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible



Baker's Law
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.



Axiom of the Pipe (Trischmann's Paradox)
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.


And my favorite:

Clarke's Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


Link to the rest.

And this one from Robert Heinlein. As we look at our Brave New World of ObamieCare we need to consider......................

TANSTAAFL
There aint no such thing as a free lunch.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I would have been posting more but I have been torn

between a fake homily to Teddy and asking the following.

What do you think Teddy said to Mary Joe on his way by?

"I thought you could swim better than that."

"I should have let you drive."

"Sorry about that."

"Ooops!"

Some punnies

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then, it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said, 'Keep off the Grass.'

16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

18. It's not that the woman did not know how to juggle, she just didn't have the balls to do it.

19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

20. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

21. A backward poet writes inverse.

22. In democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!


Hat tip to Don H.

Monday, August 24, 2009

So Obama wants to worry about waterboarding..

I think these guys would have been happy to have been waterboarded...



Hat Tip to Jim M.