Old Photographs

I think Lashenais was the founder of  the "Crips"

Crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870

“ Description Photograph of a crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870. A crowd of people gathers around the gate to the lumber yard. Lashenais, who was lynched for killing Jacob Bell, hangs from the archway. Many people towards the outside of the crowd simply sit, inactive. Tents and other spectators can be seen on the hill in the background. The image also shows Pound Cake Hill, which would later become the site of the Court House and then the Criminal Courts Building. Crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870 ” Jodi Lou sent me Really Old Pictures.PPS, a copy of which you may view here (Be sure and click 'Full Screen').  Wondering who the hanged guy Lashenais was led me to the USC Digital Library, from whence the Description above.  The pictures "Return of Casey's scouts from the fight at Wounded Knee 1890 ," and ""General George A. Custer, Dakota Territory 1874"  (2 years before Little Big Horn) struck a chord. I tried to read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" several times, but just could not get into it.  This leaves me wondering whether the "fight" became a "massacre" through the same process Columbus was branded a mass murderer?

more government rules

You've been warned

"Stupid Liberals" - Homer

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics

If you are smarter than a fifth-grader, you shan't need to read the article to know that, "According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101."

This is a stick up

Warning: the IRS won't take kindly to people who watch this video.

Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo here interviews Ron Paul, and a former IRS Agent on  tax code legalities.  It is, in my experience, a singular instance where the interviewer hasn't displayed hostility to people who question the basis for taxing our asses off.  If Ron Paul wasn't so wrong on our obligation to engage fascist Islam, he'd be the next president, IMO.  At any rate, tucked away in the Obamacare legislation are funds to hire 12,500 new IRS agents. A warning from the administration that the IRS will no longer be the Mr. Nice Guys, relatively speaking, that we've come to know and love.  Be careful out there. Interesting comments here

Let's get together

Turn your hobby into a hobby-horse

Unplugged I want to meet the person who engages either (roll) of them.  Or read the book I know is there.

He's not even Japanese

Palestinians: Guilty

72% ignore lame-stream agit-prop Who is primarily to blame for the deadly outcome of the raid on the aid-carrying ships?

“ Who is primarily to blame for the deadly outcome of the raid on the aid-carrying ships - Israel or the pro-Palestinian activists on the ships?    Israel Pro-Palestinian activists Not sure ”  Of those likely voters polled by Rasmussen, who knew what year this is and could answer a simple yes/no question, 72% blamed Pro-Palestinian activists, 28% Israel. In polling/voting, I see 28% as the magic number.  That is, if Joe Stalin ran for president, he'd get 28% of the vote.  Now, here's my poll. If an Iranian gunboat escorts the next "Aid to Hamas" vessel to Gaza, what would you like Israel to do? Stop the "Aid" ship. If the Iranian boat interferes, sink it. Sink it no matter what Ask President Obama if they can defend themselves Board the Iranian ship, capture the crew, strip them naked, and let female IDF members ridicule their nads, and walk them around on a leash.    Free polls from Pollhost.com

Hardware Poster

Restoration Hardware II

RESTORATION HARDWARE by pecksnif Browse more Freedom Posters MM asked about posters, but what I posted this morning was a low res quickie,  not conducive to enlargement.  I went back and started from scratch.  Voila!  Zazzle sells them for $9.95, $13.96, and $19.95. Or, just print this one.

Giant Slurpee

No, not a metaphor for the Republicans draining the Democrat Party's mojo ..

“ ... we had been trying to work out why the pool had been draining so quickly for weeks but couldn't find a leak anywhere.  [story] ”

Saddams WMDs

Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria   The history books on this issue shouldn’t be written just yet.

DonM - "I have seen the sat photos of Iraq and Syria but this narrative helps put it in perspective."

Mrs. Waxman?

Retouched Photographs

Reagan couldn't what?

Today's GOP could snub even Reagan

“ The party has become so conservative that Whitman and Poizner would call the iconic Republican 'just another liberal politician.' ”

If  the Liberal brain was wired to comprehend war, free markets, or Ronald Reagan, they wouldn't be Liberals. They ought then steer clear of those areas.  An assertion that Renaldo Maximus could not get elected, let alone get the Republican nomination today, is as far as any reader needs to go.  Unless the reader is looking to poke the author in the eye with a sharp stick dipped in Obama feces. Ahem.  A commenter here recently attributed to Thomas Sowell this anecdote. “ When asked what he would like to explain to Liberals, he replied "Nothing because they would not listen anyway." ” Solder that.  Another commenter to this LATIMES revisionist heap, freedml, nevertheless gives it a never-say-die try. “ freedml at 6:32 AM June 07, 2010 Ridiculous premise, George.  So what if spending ballooned with Reagan as Governor.  When compared with the growth of the state at the time, the increases would be mostly automatic, the remainder being explained by the legislature's penchant for spending.  It's always been tough for a California Governor to reign in spending.  And, as for spending as President, expanding  defense spending leading to the self-destruction of our greatest enemy, the Soviet Union, doesn't count.  No matter what, Reagan would still be accused by the liberal media of being asleep at the switch for taking naps and of being a Simpleton for his clear view of 'right and wrong.'  If you want to attack a Republican for not being Conservative, any other Republican President in the last generation or two would be a much better choice. ” Nobel Peace Prize stuff, that.

Wearing a P Cup

Maybe dads ought not babysit even if he is a genius

Banana Timeline

We Asked For It

CHARTZ

“ President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output - more ”

Unplugged So much for the Keynesian economic solution the Obamacy brought back.  Thanks, shitheads.  This much out of control debt will never, ever be repaid.  Solution?  A world war.  Hug your kids and grandkids; build good memories.  Here's the real Laffer.

Restoration Hardware

Dr. Watson, no doubt.

Plain Sight

In Plain Sight

The Left's big hitters. Oye.

Where Marky Mouseass & Ariana Huffnpuff take on Liz Cheney and George Will.  It's not pretty.

Tell me the exact point where you first want  to slap Marky

The correct answer is ....

Teresa tires of John's buushit.

There is no joy in congress ...

Obama at The Bat

Lunch Boxes

It starts with small things.

This is the lunch box I took to school, beginning in the first grade. So did everyone else.  Gramps used a lunch pail in the mine.  Every winner of the Medal of Honor during WWII & the Korean War did too.  Else, maybe, a brown paper sack.   Ball players used them.  That's right.  Ball players who didn't need steroids to hit 60 home runs; only a quart of red whiskey and a couple of floozies the night before. When we played musical chairs in school, brawls would break out.  We played tackle football on the street;  no equipment unless you owned a helmet. Played softball on street corners, using the sewers for bases. Game ended when someone whacked a homer through a window.  Mothers stood on the porch and watched, without interfering, sons bare-knuckle fight after an argument. All that changed with this crap.  The will to win no matter what; the onset of namby-pambyism  Coincidence?  I think not.

Deval Patrick; Obamunist hate monger

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Imam

The undeniable nexus of this sudden surge in Euro-style antisemitism: Obama's election. We all have theories about what their end game would be, but it doesn't matter. They are a clear and present danger to the United States, and ought be treated accordingly.  Obamunists  are bad people.

Obamunist's viral virus

QOTD

Antisemitism is not a sign, a symbol, a bullet or a gas. It is a Virus - Vanderleun

Vanderleun Montage “ Helen has been anti conservative, anti-christian and anti-jew for most of her worthless life. But since that biitch was born old and wrinkly people let her yack yack as though she had something important to say. She is a god damned inbred liberal since the day she was born and a jew hater since her parents Lebanese days. - kmichaels   June 4th, 2010 - 2:15 pm   ”

TAPS

ERIC L WARD USMC

I was really touched by this picture, and wanted to know who ERIC L WARD, USMC was.  Since his father is also a Marine, that may be he and mom at his Arlington Cemetery graveside.  Heart wrenching. Thank you for your service, Eric.

THE newspaper

“Ready when you are, C.B.! ”  *

The Most Famous Newspaper on TV Shows  WTF?  Here's my guess why this particular paper is used in so many television series episodes.  The Hollywood studio chiefs bought 62,000 copies of the "NIXON RESIGNS" issue, and they're just all over the place.  This is inside copy from the issue. Nothing else makes sense.(Unless lawyers are somehow involved, and even then it won't make sense.) Bomus *

Ground Zero Mosque

Clap. Clap. Clap

Hodja

There will be one soon ..

Could this be the Flash Point?

“ In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. ” FTC floats Drudge tax

Blood & Gore

McCain-Sphincter 2012?

I'm going to push you over with a feather

Why not just stab me in the liver?

“ It is quite a contrast to his 2000 presidential campaign, when he openly criticized and needled conservatives. This last Saturday, he even gave a graduation talk at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University (though, for balance, he will also be addressing this week graduates at New York City’s very left-wing New School).  Reporters speculated on Meet the Press on Sunday that McCain wants to make amends with conservatives well before he officially announces his candidacy for president next year. So can he convince people he is still sufficiently conservative?   Let’s consider just one of these issues: McCain’s claimed pro-gun record. This was true a decade ago, but since then, on issues such as regulating gun shows, banning less expensive guns and so-called assault weapons, and requiring gunlocks, McCain has supported central portions of the gun-control agenda. Indeed, in a couple cases, McCain authored the proposed legislation himself.  [Friendly Fire continued] ” Ain't we been here before? In deference to his service to our nation, I have in the past attempted to give McCain the benefit of the doubt.  "His Vietnamese captors beat his brains out"; "He receives instructions from the Manchurian micro-chip  the commies planted."  Regardless, the man is, like Obama, a threat to our democracy.   That he is planning to run again for president is all the proof I need to offer. It's also proof that McCain is still comfortable with the people running the Republican Party.  But, alas, I have a long record of not being right about such things.

I see monsters

Statement of Dr. Lee Edwards on the Dedication of Stalin Statue at D-Day Memorial

“ Since the fall of the Soviet Union, statues of Joseph Stalin have been torn down all over Europe and even in the former Soviet Union itself. The world is closer than ever before to a consensus on the evils of communism and Stalin's primary role in the worst crimes of the last century. And yet a statue of Stalin is included in the National D-Day Memorial, to be dedicated in Bedford, Virginia, this Sunday, June 6. Near the statue of Stalin, a plaque catalogues Stalin's crimes against millions of people both in Russia and throughout Europe. But no mere plaque can justify the inclusion of the statue which dishonors the heroic individuals who sacrificed so much on D-Day and in the Cold War. A bust of Joseph Stalin has no place in a memorial whose purpose is to salute the brave soldiers who made D-Day a vital victory in the crusade for freedom. ” Which makes Seattle Lenin all the more galling.

Always listen to your mother

Always listen to your mother

Federal Jack Boots

DOJ Obamunists Break New Ground

In a landmark Idaho case, the Justice Department forced a group of doctors to accept government price controls.

In a nutshell, Boise orthopedists agreed that worker's comp reimbursement for their services was insufficient.  They voted to withhold service until, the Idaho Industrial Commission set new fee schedules. The Attorney General of the United States had other ideas, however.  This was after-all an early affront to ObamaKare.  He flew in, and coerced them to think it over, or be tried for felony price fixing.     The Idaho attorney general, then, had the effrontery to accuse the doctors of disrupting the free market, by removing competition. “ The free marketplace works best when there is fair competition. Anticompetitive activity harms the marketplace, businesses and consumers. Enforcement of the antitrust laws restores competition to the marketplace to the benefit of businesses and consumers and the marketplace as a whole. ” "Restores competition?"  With who, Midas Muffler?  Krispy Kreme?   ObamaKare?   I feel like I'm living in  a history book.

I can't live with these people. Get out!

How does one reason with twits?

Tim W

When Losers Make the Rules

Back when we called a spade a spade, and nobody took offense ...

Back in the day, whomever dreamed this one up, wouldn't have . “ Win a soccer game by more than five points and you lose, Ottawa league says In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default. Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right after he had scored his team’s last allowable goal. His team then tossed the ball around for fear of losing the game. “Heaven forbid when these kids get into the real world. They won’t be prepared to deal with the competition out there.” ” I know what you're saying.  "But Rodge, that's in Canada." So was nationalized health care.  You want a solution?  Here's a solution. Whenever you get a sense that others in your community are outraged by stuff like this, act. Find out who's in charge and read the riot act.  Didn't work?  Picket his house.  Didn't work?  Hang him.

Simply

Today's Goodness

Limeade.  I had it yesteday, after practicing for this weekend's 10K run.  90º heat.  sweat.  parched.  sensuously musky.  Mixed it with club soda 50/50.  Wow.  MoSup prefers the Lemonade, which is also de-lish.I think this company will be the next Snapple.  Use empty bottles for water.  We can'r throw them away, for some reason.   Get a distributorship.

Take me to your me

Ka-Ching!

Plug That Hole!

Today's Plug

Wesley Pruden today: Trying to plug a hole with rant and rage. “ Spike Lee, the moviemaker, says it's time for the president to "go off," to start jumping up and down and show some entertaining fury and frenzy. ” Which is what the Administration has been doing a grand job of.   The only real leadership, it seems,  is coming from unlikely places. “ A child prodigy in New York, still working on her Ph.D in engineering, says she got to cogitating about the problem and told the New York Post that she figured out what to do in less time than it takes most people to work a crossword puzzle. She would sink flat tires into the well, then inflate them to squeeze a seal. "I figured experts would know more about it than I did but their ideas didn't work," says Alia Sabur, 21. "So I started thinking about it." Miss Sabur read novels at 2 and played the clarinet in a symphony orchestra at 11, so plugging the hole would be child's work. ” David from Athens, NY called Rushbo on Wednesday (2nd hour).  “ ...  have a degree in environmental science ... the  seepage could have been stopped weeks ago ...   by drilling another hole into the bedrock below the sea floor, not that far;  ... or a low yield nuclear weapon would have closed that off within an instant. (Audio) ” David went on to surprise us all by citing that the Soviet Union did exactly that back in the '60's.  A quick Googling verified that assertion, and yielded another surprise -  Russian advice: Nuke the oil spill, that’ll fix it!  Yes, I understand the hysteria the media would manufacture with this idea; but its an idea that should be part of the public debate. If these pecker-hads won't use a baby nuke in this instance, forget any self defense usage. Sheesh. Finally, Limbo reflected  about why it is that the Obamacy's been foot-dragging, suggesting that, maybe, Obama has secret polling data showing this is helping him.  I agree, in the abstract.  The Boy Kenyan has already cynically used  to stop 100% of our drilling, or even exploring for oil.  Obama is dead-set on getting the  climate bill  passed. and as noted yesterday, that appears to be what's happening.

They anxious to come too!

She said it

Gov. Jennifer Granholm challenged today the notion of making Detroit a citywide tax-free zone for 10 years, saying state and local taxes pay for services the city needs to attract businesses and residents.

Trade Center Mosque

That World Trade Center “Muslim Victory Mosque?”

No less incomprehensible than having a cipher from Kenya in the Oval Office is this.  NYC approving the building of a "victory mosque"  on a site formerly in the shadow of  the World Trade Center.  That Islamists destroyed. Rush had an extensive interview with Andrew C. McCarthy on Wednesday.  He was the the lead prosecutor on the case against the blind sheik and 11 other jihadists, and now the author of • The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America    After the interview, Rush kicked himself for not asking about why the mosque was approved, and called him back.  This is a clip of that second interview.  Alternative DOWNLOAD

Whale Hat Party

This whole thing's too convenient

Reid Renews Push for Climate Change Bill This Year!

“ By Jessica Brady Roll Call Staff June 3, 2010, 3:59 p.m. As the political fallout over the BP oil spill continues, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called on his committee chairmen Thursday to develop new recommendations for climate change legislation that he hopes to bring up “later this summer.” ”

Trusting this government? Huh?

Lieberman Bill Gives Feds ‘Emergency’ Powers to Secure Civilian Nets

Every day, it's something new.

Granting emergency powers to the executive branch, the War Powers Act comes to mind,  is a double edged sword.  In the hands of the wrong person - back-stabbery!  At first blush I saw in this current plan an updated CONELRAD system; remember?   I viewed CONELRAD as a good thing; a method to stop commie bombers from riding WJJD's radio signal to my house.  That was when the body-politic had faith  in elected leaders.  Thought they were copacetically in tune with  the Founder's vision.  Today, and I'm pretty confident that I can speak for the majority here,  I have little, to no faith, in this government's competence, or intentions. So this is worrisome. “ “... the President may issue a declaration of an imminent cyber threat to covered critical infrastructure.” - granting someone like Janet Napolitano control of the Internet. “The owner or operator of covered critical infrastructure shall comply with any emergency measure or action developed by the Director,” the bill adds. These emergency measures are supposed to remain in place for no more than 30 days. But they can be extended indefinitely, a month at a time. ” Remember when reactionaries kidnapped Gorbachev, and put Moscow under siege in an attempt to resurrect the Soviet government?  The Internet was credited with allowing Russian patriots to rally a defense, and win the day.  I have a feeling that Democrats, who today view Thomas Jefferson as a radical right-winger, view that as a warning,  Making things more problematic, and this is true of every piece of legislation the Obamacy's  passed, the execution trigger of the plan is left to the whim of ... whom? “ In order for the President to declare such an emergency, there would have to be knowledge both of a massive network flaw — and information that someone was about to leverage that hole to do massive harm. For example, the recent “Aurora” hack to steal source code from Google, Adobe and other companies wouldn’t have qualified, one Senate staffer noted: “It’d have to be Aurora 2, plus the intel that country X is going to take us down using that vulnerability.” A second staffer suggested that evidence of hackers looking to leverage something like the massive Conficker worm — which infected millions of machines and was seemingly poised in April 2009 to unleash something nefarious — might trigger the bill’s emergency provisions. “You could --- ” What?  That was an instant message ping  ..... "Cut the blah-blah and show us some boobs."  Sigh

Obama Working Haed

Today's MetaFORE!

Idea credit to ThoR

Father of the Year

Is Your Dad “Father of the Year?”

Buy him one of these from Home Depot (Rollover)

Mexican Recliners Tom Mann

Democrats Will Help Republicans

How Obama's Enemies May Give Him a Boost *snort alert*

“ Even if the President repelled a Martian invasion, the right's reaction would likely be the same as it was after the Christmas Day bombing attempt, or the Times Square failed attack, or the current oil spill: denigration of Obama's competence, suspicion of his motives, and implicit or explicit hope for his failure. TIME RAGAZINE ”

In the closest thing to a Martian invasion we've experienced since 1812,  El Presidente is riding with the Martians.  His chances then, of repelling it, would necessitate suicide at some point. ¿Estoy en lo cierto, o qué? Second, Halperin's article is filled with hackneyed examples (Pauline Kael's), and misdirection.  His insinuation that the nation oohed and aahed   in admiration, after the Christmas bomber and oil spill fiascoes is ludicrous. Here's a by-now hackneyed question.  Do the Halperins in the media  not realize that, outside of the elite Liberal cloister, they sound like fools?  Or, do they knowingly  deal from the bottom of the deck out of desperation?   Here's a hint: Why the 2010 Midterm Elections May Help the Democrats Tea Parties could help Democrats Rachel Maddow Explains Sarah Palin’s 2010 Gift to Democrats Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck Help Democrats Martian Invasion May Help Democrats Lost Causes Media Manipulation