Heirloom tomatoes

The Ugly Tomato

Bought these at Giant for 3.95 a pound.  Hard to tell, but a slice is the width of a bread slice; the taste will take you back to when you plucked a few for teh dinner table on the way back from the outhouse. Real tomatoes. Gonna buy seeds for next year.

Un-American' attacks ?

Today's "Blow Me"

Time to Die fot your Gummint

Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil' The inevitable consequence of state run health care

Oregon woman refused treatment, referred to suicide pill

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.  Now, almost on cue, this year-old story resurfaces as an example of what happens when bureaucrats roll the dice for you. “ Letter suggesting assisted suicide raises questions SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Barbara Wagner has one wish - for more time.   "I'm not ready, I'm not ready to die," the Springfield woman said. "I've got things I'd still like to do." Her doctor offered hope in the new chemotherapy drug Tarceva, but the Oregon Health Plan sent her a letter telling her the cancer treatment was not approved. Instead, the letter said, the plan would pay for comfort care, including "physician aid in dying," better known as assisted suicide. "I told them, I said, 'Who do you guys think you are?' You know, to say that you'll pay for my dying, but you won't pay to help me possibly live longer?' " Wagner said. An unfortunate interpretation? Dr. Som Saha, chairman of the commission that sets policy for the Oregon Health Plan, said Wagner is making an "unfortunate interpretation" of the letter and that no one is telling her the health plan will only pay for her to die. But one critic of assisted suicide calls the message disturbing nonetheless. "People deserve relief of their suffering, not giving them an overdose," said Dr. William Toffler. He said the state has a financial incentive to offer death instead of life: Chemotherapy drugs such as Tarceva cost $4,000 a month while drugs for assisted suicide cost less than $100. Saha said state health officials do not consider whether it is cheaper for someone in the health plan to die than live. But he admitted they must consider the state's limited dollars when dealing with a case such as Wagner's. "If we invest thousands and thousands of dollars in one person's days to weeks, we are taking away those dollars from someone," Saha said. ” And there you have it.  The state will, even in the direst of financial circumstances, find ways to buy luxury jet aircraft to carry them about, but,  by god,  they do know when to put their collective feet down.  "The state has a financial incentive to offer death instead of life: Chemotherapy drugs such as Tarceva cost $4,000 a month while drugs for assisted suicide cost less than $100." Yup H/T Linda SoG (don't forget to vote)

Warning

When Quakers pick up an Uzi ...

Obamacrats: Reaping the Whirlwind

"At 61, I still fit in my Marine Corps uniform, and know well how to defend myself. "

While not quite so profanely as the earlier example [It's so Fu**ing on!], Bruce Kesler - posting at Maggie's Farm - expresses the same sediments about the Administration's penchant for thuggery. “ During the past week, I’ve had conversations with old friends – leftist, centrist, and conservative – with whom I experienced the political battles of the 1960’s.  All of us have a similar take on what’s happening now, compared to then.  Then, it was a challenge against authority primarily by the privileged young who didn’t want to serve in the war, which dissipated rapidly once the draft ended, while their ideologues took refuge in academia to rise to insulated tenure of attachment to their old slogans and some of their ilk to gerrymandered seniority in Congress.  Obama was a tot then, but raised on their radical bromides.  Now, it is the broader swath of working and middle class Americans, a far larger and more potent population, who are fed up and angry with being exploited and insulted by those who feel it their right and duty to impose their schemes to rearrange and endanger everyone else’s lives and weaken the America that sustains us.  We all feel the potential for violence is high.  Enough everyday Americans will defend themselves against thuggish attacks upon their right to speak out. I wasn’t a proponent of street violence then, nor am I now.  I abhor it.  And, just let any one of the Democrat thugs try to physically attack me or silence me or anyone nearby and they better stand the f*ck by for a real thumping.  At 61, I still fit in my Marine Corps uniform, and know well how to defend myself.  I’m just one member of a rapidly expanding, reluctant force of ordinary Americans who will.  Those who have spent their lives cloistered in ivy and Congress have never met our resistance before, are shocked, and are in for more rueful surprises if they keep on their vile attacks on our democracy, peace and prosperity. ”

Caught in the Obamacare dragnet

Obamacrat yells at doctor over health care

Mo's Hummer

BEST HUMMER EVER!

“ Hi Rodge, I thought since you have a soft spot for hummers, you’d have an appreciation for this little story. Thursday evening, I was in my garage cleaning out the crap caked up under my mower when I heard the fluttering of what I thought was an oversized horse fly (or a palmetto bug - if you know how big those suckers get). Looking up toward my ceiling, I saw whatever it was land on the top shelf above my workbench. I had no idea what it was but it had to be something unusual, so I got my camera, climbed up a ladder, and realized it was a HUMMINGBIRD!!! (15 second pause between pic.) MoFiZiX ”

Memo to SF: GTFO!

This cuts it.  One of us has to get out.

“ There’s an unusual sign in the window of the former Nob Hill See’s Candies of 1519 Polk Street. Landlord, horse farmer, fountain parker, and “911 Bounty Hunter” John Jenkel explains that the San Francisco candy maker has been evicted due to their contribution to the “Enron-sponsored” 9/11 attacks. ”

Linda SoG

Tell the police daddy molested you sweetie

Best and Worst of 50

Freedom in the 50 states New Hampshire, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, and Texas rank best

“ We rank all fifty states on overall respect for individual freedom and on components of freedom: “Fiscal Policy,” “Regulatory Policy,” and “Paternalism.” Our approach in this report is to weight policies according to the number of people affected by the policy, the intensity of preferences on the issue, and the importance of state policy variation. However, we happily concede that different people value aspects of freedom differently. Hence, we provide the raw data and weightings on our website so that interested readers can construct their own personal freedom rankings; the spreadsheet is available at www.statepolicyindex.com. ” The study was conducted by Jason Sorens of the University of Buffalo and William P. Ruger of Texas State and release through the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.   I don't think there'll be any surprises at the extremes.  Michigan's much higher ranking than South Carolina wasn't expected/  The study notes that extremely conservative governments do not appear to afford any more freedom overall than do moderate, centrist governments. Again, the Michigan conundrum?  We need a sleuth  ... the data are here. Aside from the five freest states, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, and Texas, we want to know which five states are the closest to being internment camps, right?    Tell me if you're surprised at all. “ New York is the least free by a considerable margin. This will surprise few residents of the Empire state. In order from the bottom, New York is followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland. Unfortunately, these states make up a substantial portion of the total American population. Moreover, these bottom five states have considerable ground to make up even to move off this ignoble list, let alone into a creditable position in the rankings. ” The B-52's  missiles are programmed accordingly.

Everything Cheeseburger

It's a freaking miracle! DIAL-A-CHEESEBURGER

Tim W

What? Put his what where? Explain.

A Kindred Spirit

It's so Fuck*** on!

This guy says of himself, "I have the sense of humor of a fourth grader"  So naturally he belongs over here.  I took some of his real estate because it just made me feel so dsmned good.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jeremiah Wright, Jr. “ The motherfuckin’ chickens!?!?  Comin’ home to roost!!1! The disparity in class, maturity and leadership between that arrogant cocksucker and George W. Bush is a chasm the covers the known fucking universe. I guess part of Chicago toughguy politics is not knowing that it’s a good idea to shut the fuck up when you are in the process of having your ass handed to you.  The Unicorn of Hubris is about to have the worst August in the history of the office of the Presidency. I, for one, am looking forward to the coming bloodbath.  It’s about goddamn time the left learns what righteous anger looks like.  I’m 100% against domestic violence but the daddy party is about to beat the shit out the mommy party for burning the fucking chicken. I love politics. ”

3:10 Yuma; King of Ants

Movie bad guys

I am famously an all-or-nothing guy, and lately that's manifested itself as a movie binge.  Watching Appaloosa made me hungry for more Westerns, so I finally watched 3:10 to Yuma.  Having seen the 1957 Glenn Ford, Van Heflin version, this remake was way down my list of movies I wasn't watching anyway.  Absolutely terrific acting, and of course quite different from the original - as scored by body count.  I love villainous villains, and Charlie Prince is so nasty I wanted to kill him myself.  And the Messican sharpshooter.   I also learned from watching the credits that  3:10 to  Yuma began life as an Elmore Leonard short story. Mmmmm. Elmore Leonard.  Somehow, HFS, I then latched onto "King of the Ants."  I'll leave it at this.  If you liked Reservoir Dogs, this is for you. And yes, that is Normy from Cheers, still sucking down brewskis.   I couldn't stop watching.  There is so much evil in this film that the central character, sociopath Sean Crawley,  somehow rides away on a moral high horse.  I wanted to shoot everyone in this movie, except the woman. Good acting jobs all around.

Snipes

"A lead sleeping pill"

Corporal Christopher Reynolds shot a top-level Taliban commander - called Musa - who co-ordinated dozens of attacks against British and US soldiers.  From a mile away.  Cpl Reynolds, of 3 Scots, The Black Watch, has already killed 32 other Taliban fighters during some of the hardest fighting of the Afghan campaign.

“ A Brit sniper is credited with the longest range kill in Afghanistan ... 1500 meters (.932 Miles). His partner then nailed a Taliban sniper - who spoke with a Birmingham accent - who was shooting from a tiny hole in a wall more than half a mile away.  We were taking fire all the time. We were observing down the valley and I saw a group of five Taliban. I identified one straightaway as the commander because I watched him through the scope and when he spoke on the radio, the other one would do what he said."I saw that he had a weapon, an AK47. We did all the calculations for range, windspeed and all that. I have to admit the first round landed next to him. We were so far away that he didn't even realise he was being shot at."We changed our aim and when I took into account different factors like the trajectory of the bullet, my gun scope was actually aiming at the top of a doorway. I fired and the bullet went off, coming down and hitting him in the chest."He dropped straight away into the arms of a fighter behind him."The guy just panicked and dropped the leader and ran away."He had been given a lead sleeping tablet. I was quite proud of that shot - it is the longest recorded kill in Afghanistan. I am going to use that fact as a chat-up line in the pub when I get back home.  Wikipedia says this. "The longest range recorded for a sniper kill currently stands at 2,430 meters (2,657 yd, or 1.51 miles), accomplished by Master Corporal Rob Furlong, a sniper from Newfoundland, Canada, in March 2002 during the war in Afghanistan. No matter to me, 1500 meters is an impossible shot, but not so much. ”

Coffee cup art- Mona Lisa

Coffee Cup Mona Lisa

Great Shot!

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Dodd, Holder and ObamaCare

In passing ...

stuff I saw this morning

“ Dodd, Conrad cleared of Senate ethics violations The committee, after a yearlong investigation, said it found "no substantial credible evidence" that the home loans secured with Countrywide Financial Corp. violated Senate ethics rules. 'Non-responsive' Justice Dept. pressed again on Panthers case It also accused the department of failing to properly respond to members of Congress who have asked about the decision to dismiss the New Black Panther Party complaint, saying its responses to congressional inquiries also were "non-responsive" and contained "factual errors and ... questionable legal claims." How to defeat the telephone conference cowards Open forum on how to defeat congressnot who are eschewing live debate with constituents, and opting for topic controlled teleconferencing. DEMS UNGLUED - MELTDOWN ON HEALTH-CARE CRITICS Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. The Obama Joker $1000 Video Contest Go to Infowars and download the posters, print them out, and put the posters up in public spaces around your town. Make sure to use a poster with Infowars displayed. Create a video of your poster offensive and post it on YouTube. ”

Comparing Health Systems

UK Healthcare Third largest employer in the world, after the Chinese Red Army and India's national railway.  Most of those employees are administrators.

A video fot that "special person" in your family.  Everyone has at least one (except me).

Glen Beck's interview with British MP Daniel Hannan --about the UK's national health care -- ought  persuade anyone still straddling, and who care about our country, or themselves,  to resist ObamaCare as though their lives depended on it.  Literally.  Interesting to me was his answer to why Brits don't just scrap this monster? “ ... because it has become such a huge system ... We have 1.4 million people employed by a national health --  the third biggest employer in the world after the red army in China and the Indian national railways. Most of those 1.4 million  people are administrators. That the managers outnumber the doctors -- is the electoral bloc that makes it almost impossible to get rid of --  ”  "[T]he electoral bloc that makes it almost impossible to get rid of, "  is of course why Obama socialists are so keen on it. But, lest anyone think congress critters aren't scared to death by these town hall confrontations ... this: “ I can't tell you the number of times the Rostenkowski incident has been mentioned by members of Congress at meetings I've attended. [Rostenkowski Isn't Just On Andrew's Mind] ” And then there's this ... Blue Dog Blues Moderate Democrats may lose simply because voters don’t want Nancy Pelosi in power.

Obama's muscle reponds to his plea to "hit them harder"

Barry's Union Thugs

UPDATE: YouTube has frozen the view count, but not the comment count. Please leave a comment.

This is the raw video showing union thugs from SEIU (Service Employees International Union), one of Barry's group of paid bully-boys, beat hell out of a Black conservative who was handing out yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flags.  The victim, Kenneth Gladney, was one of many who showed up to tell Rep. Russ Carnahan (D MO) they want nothing to do with the fraud called ObamaCare. My next question is why YouTube has frozen the view count (at 3,918)?  Can anyone think of a reason that doesn't smack of more Google activism? Check the Text Comments (462)   ... "Mr catfish" thinks he knows what motive Gladney had for wanting to get beat-up.  Racism. “ catfishbay (12 minutes ago) Show Hide  0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam Like typical Republicans, it doesn't take long for you naysayers to degenerate to personal attacks and vitriol. So much for intelligent discussion, as usual it is impossible with the "kill obama " hawks. You all want to act like puppets of the Republican machine, go for it - shows the intelligence level of the detractors here - can't make your point without disrupting everything. Meanwhile, us folks with some intelligence can see through your thinly veiled motives - RACISM. ” Some of you will remember the beatings Don Adams and Teri Adams recived from Philadelphia Teamsters for protexting Clinton.  It's in the DNC playbook. Here's more vids: DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL-..., Irate Tea Party Mob Breaks Out in Song at Carna... Town Hall Protester Responds To "Mob" Smears By...