A ball of MAD

A ball of mad!

As if we don't have enough to worry about, it says here that Los Illegals con un sentido de derecho  are back, and "ready to fight!"  Pro-immigration groups are more united, better-funded and, unlike the last battle in 2007, are ready to fight back against what they say is a wave of hatred from opponents as they gear up for another bruising immigration fight in Congress. The groups range from businesses and Hispanic rights organizations to labor unions and religious denominations. They lost their fight for immigration reform three years ago after finger-pointing and disagreements between businesses and labor. The groups also blame a Washington-centric strategy while their opponents ran a spectacularly successful grass-roots campaign. ” Conditions are right for a perfect storm.  One big enough to wipe Democrats off the political map.  I can't say it will happen, just that the public anger is palpable, and an election is coming. My sense it that even the most causal voters have in their heads, not the details maybe, but a conglomeration of grievances picked up at the water cooler,  car radio, news headlines, etc. Imagine a  ball of string made from strands  of  of these impressions:  phony baloney global warning bad economy botched war on terror this democrat and that democrat jailed accused of lying ethics complaints Medicare trashed voting against constituent wishes taking bribes arrogant hideous looking scowls secret meetings birth certificates tax increases death panels why the hell ain't we drilling for oil bowing to everyoneChristmas Eve votestax increases health care system destroyed I got laid off but gummint clerks make 6 figures trillions of dollarsillegal immigration freeing al Qaeda terroristsunderwear  bomber won't be able to use light bulbsACORN union thugs indoctrinating children and on and on and on ...  One great mental glob of mad looking for an outlet.  That outlet will arrive the 2nd of November, 2010.

Broken Headlight Fix

Beating the 'Man'

GPS Help

Handy stuff for GPS hunters

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In Passing

In Passing

I found nekkid travelers, and ... nice Nazis?

Naked travelers and Nice Nazis “ Oliver Stone to Put Hitler, Stalin 'In Context' With New Miniseries "We can't judge people as only bad or good," Stone said Sounds like a Howard Zinn screenplay You will remember that during the Clinton occupation, "pop" historians went on a mission to charge  as many past presidents as possible with adultery (falsely accusing Eisenhower and Jefferson in the process). The idea being, I guess, to mitigate Clinton's behavior with the "hey, they were human too," analogy.  Same deal here.  Ratbastard socialists love their dogs. She Quits To Conquer  ... several "concern trolls" talked about how they really wanted to like Palin, but gosh darn it, they just couldn't trust a "quitter" -- citing her history of resigning from two positions before completing her terms. East Boston cat called to jury duty not hep cat. Cat. Sharpton backs Reid Good one Captain Obvious Hume: Reid’s Remarks Amount to ‘Accusation of Racism Against the American People’ Robert Gibbs: Record Cold Is Result of ‘Climate Change’ "I would say that even in places that are used to getting very cold weather, record cold...our weather patterns have been affected by change in our climate." Flying Barely Half way across the Atlantic earlier today I looked up to see a naked man–a young white male–walking from economy towards first class.  Totally bare. As a result of the deforestation of the Amazon basin ... Hidden from view for centuries, the vast archaeological remains of an unknown, ancient civilization have been found. ”

Overlawyered

Lawyer: Man who slipped on cruise ship deserves every penny of $9.5 million

puke

Suicide Kit

Lawyer Insurance

Lawyer Insurance

Democrats hate the insurance industry.  Hate its guts. Yet their partnership with the ambulance chaser wing of the American Bar Association, and an inherent inability to understand the profit aspect of the business model, have made the industry integral to daily life, and a recession (if not gummint)  proof  business. It's not unusual for yearly automobile insurance premiums to exceed the cost of the "preowned" junker being insured.  Not when the potential cost of a fender bender  includes the price of a trip to Lourdes and a miracle neck injury cure.  The state helps out by making insuring yourself  against lawyers a condition of driving.  For a while, there were attempts across the land towards No Fault insurance.  Who complained?  Lawyers.  Their television blitz against any No Fault  legislation rivaled anything Billy Mays ever launched. Health insurance rates also skyrocketed, as physicians were forced to cover themselves against malpractice suits.  Medical doctors must purchase extremely expensive lawyer insurance, which cost is passed to the patient.  That insurance will require them to order exhaustive  CYA tests on stuff that used to warrant iodine and a Band Aid. More cost. This recently happened to me. I've had a sore in the middle of my back for weeks;  it causes a periodic shooting pain  I asked Doc to look at it during my last visit.  He said it looked  like a clogged pore, commonly known as a pimple, or an ingrown hair, but didn't look infected.  End of exam.  Last night it killed.  I bitched to MoSup this morning that he should have treated it then and there.  She said, he's not a surgeon.  I said, so what, he's a physician.  She said, yeah, but he's required  to refer you to a surgeon who would submit a biopsy specimen. I'm not making this up. Now I read that the Democrat House leadership have given up on getting the Obamacare government option.  Which is good (but stop me here if I'm missing something).  But, this trillion dollar - for starters- monstrosity of a healthcare bill that nobody wants will do what?  It will add 30-40 million currently uninsured people into the pool, and force  them to buy insurance from ... insurance companies.  At the same time, Obamaiacs are screaming bloody murder over this greater insurance industry presence in health care.  Pelosi will announce plans to punish them for this.  Are you following? “ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats told President Barack Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws, officials said. That provision is in the House-passed measure, but was omitted from the bill that the Senate passed on Christmas Eve. They also want the final measure to include a House-passed proposal for a nationwide insurance exchange, to be regulated by the federal government, where consumers could shop for private coverage. The Senate bill calls for a state-based system of exchanges. Additionally, House Democrats want to require insurers to spend a minimum amount of premium income on benefits, thereby limiting what is available for salaries, bonuses, advertising and other items. The House bill sets the floor at 85 percent; the Senate-passed measure lowers it to 80 percent for policies sold to small groups and individuals. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are private. ” But, there's room for hope. Poll: Republican Brown Leads 48-47 in Mass. Senate Race  Even the threat of a Republican taking Ted Kennedy's senate seat indicates what's in store for the Democrat party ten months hence. A win by Brown would make a Republican senate majority possible, maybe even plausible.

Choo Choo Kazoo

A Cultural Moment

SondraK

Entertaining Cone Sucker

Free Obama Dolls

Anticipation

Anticipation

Momma from the train?

golf buddies

Joe Klein, Enemy

"Americans were the bad guys ... "

I've had this in the hopper since last week.  But first - I despise Joe Klein.  I despise him for sandbagging his Newsweek customers, about what he learned about the Clintons in 1992.   He was their hand-picked embedded campaign  'reporter.'  Instead of letting us in on it, Klein later wrote a thinly disguised account of a smarmy con man and his distasteful, manipulative wife  in  "Primary Colors."   He ought to have been drummed out of journalism altogether. Instead he became, evidently, a J-school role model. I digress. From Matthew Contunetti's Howler of the Day (So Far!) -  Joe Klein saw Avatar the other night, and he came away pleasantly surprised: “  But that wasn't the most amazing thing about the movie: the Americans were the bad guys. They were a mercenary army working for corporate villains who wanted to strip-mine a tribe of alien, cerulean nice-guy, enviro-theists. The dialogue was awful; the characterizations were crude...and I'm sure that conservatives will dismiss this as another excretion of the Hollywood left. But still, it was something for a mainstream--indeed, a blockbuster--motion picture to have you rooting for the blue dudes flying about on birds painted like Chinese fans...and rooting against the humans, none of whom had the requisite Eastern European or Arab villain accents. ” Contunetti suggests Amerian (but not overseas) audiences overlook "James Cameron's ridiculously heavy-handed and semi-parodic political message ...in order to enjoy the revolutionary special effects. I know I did." Yeah, well I'm a lot less forgiving.  If I want to see something in 3D, I'll look at my glass of American red whiskey.

Rascists and Hatists

UPDATED You might be a racist if ... you view EVERYTHING through a racial prism

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Lessons

The Hong Kong of Africa?

Bouake, the second largest metropolis in the Ivory Coast, seems to be 180° out of phase with ussens. Sigh. Bouake is the ex-rebel capital of "Soroland", as the zone is sometimes nicknamed, after the New Forces leader, Guillaume Soro....Soroland may not be a breakaway zone, but for seven years the inhabitants of this zone have got used to living without government taxes, customs charges and even water and electricity bills.... Hussein Doumbia is one of many local business leaders who have learnt to profit from this vast black market zone. "Things are a lot cheaper than in the south - we see that people from the south often come here to stock up, above all the military who come for all their electronics - mobile phones, DVDs, televisions, everything," he says. When civil servants fled south, volunteer teachers, like Ali Ouattara, stepped forward to try to keep things going. "We didn't want the kids to become child soldiers, so we tried to give them something. This is how we became teachers," says Mr Ouattara, who lost his job at the university at the start of the crisis.... Gradually with contributions from parents, the ad-hoc schools helped save a generation of children, and in some years the rebel zone got better results in national exams than the government zone. Other volunteers helped cover for the absence of the state in other ways: setting up an ad-hoc postal service; their own television stations and some basic policing. [Reason] ”