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06/26/2009
Michael Jackson
It ain't polite to speak ill of the dead - so I have nothing more to say.
06/23/2009
Can you see him NOW?
So, how's that whole 'hope and change' thing working out for ya? He didn't change Iraq. He didn't change military tribunals. He didn't change Afghanistan. He didn't change the Patriot Act. In fact, if Barack Obama changed anything, he 'changed' it to more than George Bush.
Oh, almost forgot, he DID change a few things. He changed his position on bankruptcy for our largest industries - after he gave them trillions of YOUR dollars. He changed his position on campaign finance reform. He changed his name back to Hussein. He changed his mind about taxing health care benefits - except for union members. He decided things were not so imminent that 95% of that stimulus money HAS YET TO BE SPENT.
Transparency, yeah he sure changed that didn't he? Appointed 15 Czars who answer only to him and are not subject to Congressional subpoena or oversight. Their budgets paid from TARP money - money allocated BEFORE he was in office and without accounting. Leaving all the trillions he and Congress have spent since January 20th to lavish on his supporters and progressive agenda.
Hope? Hoping that the world's tyrants would alter their courses after hearing of good intentions doesn't seem to have panned out, has it? The only member of George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' who is not currently sticking their thumbs in our collective eye is dead - executed by a duly and democratically elected Iraqi population. Hope things are going to 'get better' economically? He promised his grand plans would fix things and they'd never get nearly as bad as they are now.
And that was just a couple of months ago - just today he couldn't say yet another multi-trillion dollar 'stimulus package' was not in our immediate future. I'd be very beholdened to anyone out there who can name a single thing that Barack Obama has actually done that he said he would do. Let me put it another way. Is there anyone out there who doesn't know that he is a bald-faced lair? Fraud? Charlatan? Amateur? Player? Poseur?
And for all you idiots out there who voted for this, I have only this to offer. Behind him, should he wither, waits Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden. Dick Durbin. Barbara Boxer. Chris Dodd. Barney Frank. Patrick Leahy. Roland Burris. Robert Byrd. Al Franken. Henry Waxman. Charles Schumer. Ah yes, a clown's convention and it will be your money they shred for confetti.
PPOTUS?
From WND ...
Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give "imperial leaders" in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve - a portable toilet throne. Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the upcoming June 26 protest at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va. While she is excited about the turnout, Hurd has a predicament: She must raise funds for 30 portable toilets on a shoe-string budget. "How do you tell people you need money for bathrooms?" she asked. "Does that excite or inspire anybody? Not very much."
So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians. "It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give "imperial leaders" in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve – a portable toilet throne.
Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the upcoming June 26 protest at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va. While she is excited about the turnout, Hurd has a predicament: She must raise funds for 30 portable toilets on a shoe-string budget. "How do you tell people you need money for bathrooms?" she asked. "Does that excite or inspire anybody? Not very much." So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians.
"It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. The "Don't Flush U.S." campaign was born. Now she has asked the public to send in their nominations and help sponsor toilets for the next party by sending donations. The following are just a few of the names 34 currently under consideration:
So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians. "It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give "imperial leaders" in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve – a portable toilet throne.
Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the upcoming June 26 protest at Chesapeake City Park in Chesapeake, Va. While she is excited about the turnout, Hurd has a predicament: She must raise funds for 30 portable toilets on a shoe-string budget. "How do you tell people you need money for bathrooms?" she asked. "Does that excite or inspire anybody? Not very much." So Hurd asked taxpayers to sponsor commodes and name them with their least favorite politicians.
"It started growing, and once people started seeing the list of people who were named, I got more and more requests," she said. "People started to love it." At a June 16 tea party, the group loaded 10 portable johns into trucks and paraded them through three cities - complete with names of politicians who they believe are trying to flush the nation down the toilet. The "Don't Flush U.S." campaign was born. Now she has asked the public to send in their nominations and help sponsor toilets for the next party by sending donations. The following are just a few of the names 34 currently under consideration:
- Nancy Pelosi's Throne
- McCain, John
- U.S. Congress – Our #2 Problem
- ACORN john (Always Cr-ppy, Offensive, Rotten, Noxious)
- I.R.S. john – Eliminate it!
- "Porky Little Projects" john
- Royal Pain in the Tax
- Office of Tim Geitner's Accountant
- Harry Reid's Throne
- Eric "toilet paper" Holder
- Marxist Government Think Tank
- Federal Depository
"The names are of people who have horribly abused taxpayer money or people who have betrayed us. We have some Republicans listed," Hurd said. "Some people like Nancy Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Murtha john and the Kerry john were pretty self-evident, we felt." Hurd said the campaign has chosen not to use references to President Obama. "We were very careful about that. We don't even mention him remotely," she said. "He is the president, and we respect the office."
Personally, I think Barack Obama has so disrespected his office and misused and abused his power that he doesn't deserve the least respect. But what could we call his porta-potty? The Plastic Fantastic Composter in Chief? The Black Hole? Or wait ... better not go there. Too misogynistic.
Do you have any suggestions?
06/22/2009
Welcome to the Hotel Barack Obama ...
It is the month of August; a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
And that is how the United States Government is doing business today.
'You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave'.
06/21/2009
Cooking with Bugs!
In keeping with the spirit of this post, how about a recipe? I've said often that the only food I don't love is boiled carrots. Cooked any other way they are great! Here's my favorite. Saute sliced carrots in butter very softly - nice and low - so the carrots absorb lots of butter. When the carrots are softened, add one or more of the following dried fruits; raisins, currants or cranberries. My personal favorite is currants. Let the dried fruit plump with the remaining butter and stir in a healthy dose of curry powder. That's it.
Carrot heaven!
06/20/2009
For whom does the bell pepper toll? It tolls for me & thee!
From EurekAlert!
Plants engage in self-recognition and can communicate danger to their “clones” or genetically identical cuttings planted nearby, says professor Richard Karban of the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, in groundbreaking research published in the current edition of Ecology Letters. Karban and fellow scientist Kaori Shiojiri of the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan, found that sagebrush responded to cues of self and non-self without physical contact.
The sagebrush communicated and cooperated with other branches of themselves to avoid being eaten by grasshoppers, Karban said. Although the research is in its early stages, the scientists suspect that the plants warn their own kind of impending danger by emitting volatile cues. This may involve secreting chemicals that deter herbivores or make the plant less profitable for herbivores to eat, he said.
What this research means is that plants are “capable of more sophisticated behavior than we imagined,” said Karban, who researches the interactions between herbivores (plant-eating organisms) and their host plants. “Plants are capable of responding to complex cues that involve multiple stimuli,” Karban said. “Plants not only respond to reliable cues in their environments but also produce cues that communicate with other plants and with other organisms, such as pollinators, seed disperses, herbivores and enemies of those herbivores.”
The sagebrush communicated and cooperated with other branches of themselves to avoid being eaten by grasshoppers, Karban said. Although the research is in its early stages, the scientists suspect that the plants warn their own kind of impending danger by emitting volatile cues. This may involve secreting chemicals that deter herbivores or make the plant less profitable for herbivores to eat, he said.
What this research means is that plants are “capable of more sophisticated behavior than we imagined,” said Karban, who researches the interactions between herbivores (plant-eating organisms) and their host plants. “Plants are capable of responding to complex cues that involve multiple stimuli,” Karban said. “Plants not only respond to reliable cues in their environments but also produce cues that communicate with other plants and with other organisms, such as pollinators, seed disperses, herbivores and enemies of those herbivores.”
Look. I am not going to stop eating meat and I am not going to stop eating vegetables. I don't care if my Brussels sprouts are screaming bloody murder on the way down - I'm eatin' 'em. I don't care if that steak came from a cow with an IQ of 200 - I'm eatin' it. I don't care if that lobster is fluent in nine languages - I'm eatin' it.
So stop telling me how sentient all God's creatures are - because it is all food to me.
Endowed by their creator
From the Financial Times ...
Beijing has ordered Google to stop users of its Chinese-language service accessing overseas websites in the biggest blow to the world’s leading search engine in China since it started operating there four years ago. In a move that could disrupt Google’s growth in China, which now has more internet users than the US, the Chinese government said it had told Google to suspend foreign searches and a feature that automatically suggests multiple search results once typing commences in the search window.
The action comes amid a storm of outrage among Chinese internet users over Beijing’s order that every new PC sold in the country be equipped with censorship software, ostensibly to block pornography. One senior US internet figure said the move against Google appeared to be an attempt to deflect attention away from the domestic censorship uproar by redirecting concerns about pornography against a foreign company. According to state media on Friday, authorities said Google was being “punished” for linking to pornographic content.
The action comes amid a storm of outrage among Chinese internet users over Beijing’s order that every new PC sold in the country be equipped with censorship software, ostensibly to block pornography. One senior US internet figure said the move against Google appeared to be an attempt to deflect attention away from the domestic censorship uproar by redirecting concerns about pornography against a foreign company. According to state media on Friday, authorities said Google was being “punished” for linking to pornographic content.
I wonder whatever happened to that whole 'grip & grin' diplomatic policy of Barack Obama's. You know the one where he will win over America's enemies and the enemies of democracy and human rights around the world by 'engaging them' and 'sitting at the table with them' and 'no preconditions'? Doesn't seem to working all that well in Iran after the Messiah's 'historic speech to the Muslim world' in Cairo not long ago. Sure as hell hasn't dissuaded Kim Jong Il from aiming missiles in our direction or ceasing their nuclear weapons program. His secretary of State was just in China, although 'they say' the issue of 'human rights' didn't get discussed. Maybe that's it, maybe the rest of the world has just forgotten where we stand on things.
