Lemonade

The Lemonade Stand and your government Simpsons fans will remember this episode, where Bart and Lisa's lemonade stand is shut down by an overly officious inspector from the Springfield Department of Commerce ...  for lack of a vendor's license! Funny stuff, that. Scoring a point via theater of the absurd.  I mean, this stuff would never actually happen, right? Wrong citrus breath.  Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate

Unfreaking Real!

The Return of the $1,000 Down Mortgage Fannie Mae and State Housing Agencies Are Offering Little-Money-Down Mortgages. But Why? Why not? SondraK’s gonna pay my mortgage and buy me a Volt!

Social Security Busted

Social Security in the red this year because Tim Geithner evaded paying his taxes

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from right, speaks about the Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Joining him, from left are, Social Security Administration Commissioner Michael J. Astrue, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

choke point

I crack me up

Maybe it's stress, but I just now was clearing my photo chop window when my eye landed on the fragment to the left.  It was only a micro second, sure, but before I married it up with what  was cut out (right) I wondered wtf I was doing.  I'm still laughing. Belly laughing.  God, but I'm easy to please.  I mean that would have been a pretty monstrous thing.

Noblesse oblige - Pltttttt!

Michelle Antoinette

“ To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny. ”

poetry and stuff

Dead English Poet Update

“ Most of us have read a poem titled "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. Pretty standard stuff for English Lit and Fine Arts majors. Used to be ubiquitous in AP and Honors English classes in most high schools, too. Easy to Google if you don't remember it or never read it. Well, I heard someone quoting it this afternoon while I was trying to take a nap during a pleasant afternoon rain.  Naturally I decided to update the silly thing. Here's my modern version (one extra stanza . . . just COULDN'T leave out Islam, now could I): “     The Pompous Congressman to His Constituent     Come vote for me for goodness' sake     That I might all the taxes take     To spend on trips and luxuries     In ways you might call fantasies.     And I will sit left of the aisle     To doze and harumph all the while     The sham assemblage congregates     And pork and kickback legislates. [continueed] ” ”

Learning Center

Bad Judges

Jurist Nullification

When a judge/court rules that duly passed legislation is "unconstitutional,"  that judge is effectively saying: “ The people responsible for passing this law are [choose one:] racist; bigots; narrow minded dewberries; ignorant dickweeds; domestic terrorists; uneducated curs; not as brilliant as me.   I am therefore duty-bound to save the Republic for the minority who don't like this legislation.  You're welcome. ” In this democratic republic of ours, it's wrong to say judges are unelected.  When someone as woeful as Elena Kagan is appointed to the highest court in the land, she's there by the grace of the people who empowered her appointer.  It follows then, that should any society find itself in thrall of a vile and malevolent majority, no judge can save it.  If that's not the case, no judge has reason to try.

I thougt it was MFCS

A short spelling lesson:

1.    The last four letters in "American"  =  I Can 2.    The last four letters in "Republican" = I Can 3.    The last four letters in "Democrats" =  Rats End of Lesson. Test to follow in November. Tom Mann

Plug The Hole

"Stimulus?"

The Broken Window Fallacy

Via Newsbusters: “ Liberals are constantly insisting that government spending will stimulate the economy and create lots of jobs. Here is all you need to know to realize how wrong that theory is: ”

Lock and Load - onliest thing left

People at the liquor store are saying, "Well one good thing Rodge, there can't possibly be any more examples of Liberal perfidy left to make me want to stab myself in the liver." Oh Really?

“ In fact, this alleged [Anchor Baby]  right derives only from a footnote slyly slipped into a Supreme Court opinion by Justice Brennan in 1982. You might say it snuck in when no one was looking, and now we have to let it stay.  [The She] ”

Don't stop the presses ...

Cash Strapped Union Lobby Gets Bailout 'Nuff said

“ Congress is poised to extend a taxpayer-funded lifeline to cash-strapped states after the Senate  on Wednesday advanced another round of $26 billion in stimulus spending for teachers and health care, and House Democrats said they will break their six-week summer vacation to return to Washington to vote on it next week. Facing pressure from public employee labor unions and state budget officials, Democrats are rushing to get the money in the pipeline before the school year begins, and have painted the new stimulus spending as a key ingredient to fight unemployment. ” STFU BRAT!

Kanan, Barry's Gatekeeper

Well,well, well   Not that Barry Soetoro needs additional  reason to appoint a uniquely unqualified Shariah Law advocate  to the highest court in the land, but .... . “ She was the solicitor general for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural-born citizenship ...  All of the requests were denied of course ... God help and deliver us. ”

What?  Newly interested in why Obamunists are so fearful of this topic that they employed their most powerful weapon -- name calling?   Peruse my stash for helpful links. ASIDE:  I am joined in the birther watch by my eldest son, Rodger, the Real Prince of France, who feeds me current links.

Gay Judge? Are you Sh**ing me?

Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial STOP IT!  JUST STOP IT!

Appearance of impropriety: Deciding when a judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned How Does Your Conduct Appear to Someone Else?  Does the conduct offend anyone or make you appear to be prejudiced or biased? Appearance of impropriety!  This is so incredibly basic;  it's  unbelievable the judge didn't recuse himself, or been challenged by the government's lawyers. Barn. Midnight. Rope.

Ground Zero II

White House Dodges Questions on "Ground Zero Mosque"

She be gon Hell

Verily I say unto you, "walloweth in yon steaming pile of Pelosi pewke"

In a land without eligibilty rules, anything is possible.

Because I said so.

“ Today, gender is not relevant to the state in determining spouses’ obligations to each other and to their dependents. Relative gender composition aside, same-sex couples are situated identically to opposite-sex couples in terms of their ability to perform the rights and obligations of marriage under California law. FF 48. Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.  Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional ” Woof!

Showing no respect here boss.

Avoiding the Paparazzi Until Marc sent her to fetch a banana daiquiri.

Sarah Farts

I see your underpants Sarah Palin, and there's an ugly skid-mark.

“ Brian Murphy for Maryland  Today at 7:30am I’m honored to endorse Brian Murphy for Governor of Maryland. Brian is a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment commonsense conservative and a firm believer in the free market and the cause for energy independence. As a former energy industry executive and current small business owner, Brian has the private sector experience that is so lacking in government today. He knows how to incentivize industry to get our economy moving again. Together with his running mate for lieutenant governor, Mike Ryman, Brian will provide Maryland with principled and results oriented leadership. Please join me in supporting Brian by visiting his website at www.brianmurphy2010.com and following him on Facebook and Twitter. - Sarah Palin ”

Yesterday Politico ran  Sarah Palin's endorsement a shock to some.  It's about candidates who found themselves endorsed by her, when they had no reason to believe she knew they existed.  I was a tad troubled by that, especially this. “ In Meyer’s case, she had never met Palin, nor was her campaign in contact with Palin’s staff. “Actually my campaign staff was taken completely by surprise by Sarah Palin’s endorsement,” said Meyer, the state auditor. Meyer said she’s not even sure how Palin’s staff got her cell phone number. She suspects a supporter, Clay Cunningham, included it in a letter to Palin last week touting Meyer’s candidacy. ” So, it seems that Sarah  might be taking the word of  "trusted advisers" about who to support.  Given the stakes, what could go wrong?   Is that how Brian Murphy got the nod?  Who the hell is he?  I had to look it up. Everyone here knows that I love Sarah Palin, and that I will eagerly go with the real conservative against any go-along and get-along incumbent, but that does not describe Bob Ehrlich.  The seven NOs Murphy gave Ehrlich in the above list are ... are ... where the hell did he get them?  They are falsehoods, a.k.a.  lies.  That makes Brian Murphy a liar, and someone who would be more comfortable running as a Democrat.  Maybe that's what he is doing, ahem. You may want to take a closer look at who you endorsed here Governor.

Clinton Pie Holes

The good mother

With Chelsea's impending wedding, Hillary wanted to play the perfect Mom   She asked Chelsea... "Have you had sex with Marc?"   Chelsea answered .... "Not according to Dad" Tim W

73% vote against implementing Obamacare

Some Good News For Democrats 100% of 27% Don't Hate Obamacare

Masquerade Funeral

I put it in the drawer with his birth certificate

OH,SNAP! Obama mama passport 'destroyed' State Dept. claims records gone for Stanley Ann Dunham prior to 1968!

“ Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department has released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother – but records for the years surrounding Obama's 1961 birth are missing. The State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "nonvital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965. Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama's birth.  [Read the full article, then meet at the barn tonight] ” RSJR

Marjorie Margolies-Quisling

First you need to know that I care so little about the Clintons that I only learned about Chelsea's impending marriage to Marc Mevinsky last week.  Even then the name of the groom's mother, Marjorie Mevinsky,  failed to resonate in this pea brain.  It was only late last night, while reading A Tale of the Two Mezvinskys, that things jelled.  Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky! Flash back to 1993.  Bill Clinton's massive tax increase, the biggest in U.S. history, and one that would be applied retroactively, was looking as  dead as Jerry Parks would soon be.  I think half the nation was watching  the televised House vote.  If this legislation went down to defeat, we were told by a worried media, it would mean Clinton's  presidency, just months old, would be an abject failure. YES!  With time expiring, the bill needed one more vote to pass, and there was just one Representative who could save it,  Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky' Margolies-Mezvinsky was a freshman Democrat from Philadelphia; a star in the making, having won in a district which had sent only Republicans to Washington for 80 years. Everything now hinged on her, and here she was talking to a Philadelphia television reporter, saying that she would absolutely honor her promise, and vote against it!  "I have to go vote now," she said, ending that interview.  The nation watched.  She was surrounded by the Democrat leadership, the clock ticking.  At the last moment she cast her deciding vote.  FOR!  I,  along with a vast majority of Americans, sat stunned. Later we learned how this Quisling's betrayal was engineered.  As she entered the House chamber a phone was thrust into her hand.  It was a  frantic Bill Clinton on the other end. Please please please!  What can I do for you?  Don't worry about your district; I'll personally campaign for your reelection in '94.  Please please please!  It's for the children.  Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, having already lost her her soul, lost her House seat in 1994.  But, Marc got Chelsea.  That's my story.

Execute Manning

Congressman Calls For Execution of Wikileaks Leaker

It would wash away the Jane Fonda precedent, which is a good thing.

It is what it is

Limbaugh: 'Tomorrow Is Obama's Birthday, Not That We've Seen Any Proof Of That' (VIDEO) Finally

Fish Poop

When the World’s Biggest Fish Poops

CLUB COMMIE

Why the Commies Want the USA

My nose itches

Draw the blinds!

Will Someone Draw the Blinds?

The dreaded 9th

Oh Geez! “ Judge Bolton likely will not reverse course and rule in Arizona's favor, unless either the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the district court's analysis of federal law's effect on SB 1070. Arizona already has appealed to the Ninth Circuit, and the oral argument is scheduled for November.  The Federal Court's Faulty Arizona Immigration Decision ”

Uber Liberal court; 80% of decisions over-turned.  By the time this is settleed, and with the precedent set, some illegal named Pancho Cisco will be the president.

Sidney Harman

Newsweek sold to this guy for $1 Democrat Media Complex intact “ $8,300 was given by people who identified their last name as "Harman" and first name as "Sidney". $0 to Republicans $8,300 from 1 person to Democrats Sidney Harman Harman International Ceo Updated Q2/2007 $2,300 Washington DC Donation to Collins For Senator Sidney Harman Donation of $2,300 to Collins For Senator Sidney Harman Harman International Ceo Updated Q2/2007 $2,300 Washington DC Donation to Collins For Senator Sidney Harman Donation of $2,300 to Presidential elections 2008 Sidney Harman Execitive Chairman Harman International Ind. Inc. Updated Q1/2007 Hillary Clinton $2,300 1101 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW Washington DC Sidney Harman Donation of $2,000 to Presidential elections 2004 Sidney Harman Chairman Harman International Updated Q1/2004 John Kerry $2,000 2801 OCEAN FRONT WALK Venice CA Sidney Harman Donation of $2,000 to Presidential elections 2004 Sidney Harman Executive chairman Harmon International Updated Q1/2004 Joe Lieberman $2,000 2801 OCEAN FRONT WALK Venice CA Sidney Harman Donation of $2,000 to Presidential elections 2004 Sidney Harman Executive Chairman Harman International Industries Updated Q1/2004 Dick Gephardt $2,000 3550 WILLIAMSBURG LN NW Washin ”

Opie, you bastard!

Stupid Opie

At the end of a recently watched Andy Griffith "Biography," it was disclosed that Opie (Ron Howard) had prevailed on Andy to do an "Obama for President" commercial with him.  "Andy, a life  long Democrat was happy to oblige, " intoned the announcer.  That video, "A Call to Action," traded on America's fond memories of  life in Mayberry and Happy Days to help transform a Chicago hoodlum into something wholesome.   At the time a blogger named Mary wrote: “ "I have absolutely no problem with Howard, Griffith, and Winkler campaigning for Obama. I do have a problem with Opie Taylor, Andy Taylor, Richie Cunningham, and the Fonz campaigning for Obama." ” As far as Griffith being a "lifelong Democrat," so too were most Southern raised boys (me included); but that political party bears no resemblance to today's collection of socialists, communists and social misfits.  We detest parents who use their children as props to advance an  agenda, but the corollary is when kids manipulate old folks who're sliding into senility for the same reason.  Which is what Ron Howard has done, IMO. Ron Howard is a fine director, but now he seems bent on replacing Oliver Stone as filmdom's preeminent anti-American jerk-ass. I was actually startled some years ago when he aligned himself with the Barbra Streisand Hollywood left. Opie! WTF?  This isn't how you were raised.  One episode came to mind, and I went searching for it.  This was the show where Opie is taken in by a traveling hobo.  Sheriff Taylor recognizes that the guy is a no-account,  but gives Opie his head.  Here's the surprising part.  While trying to find that episode I discovered someone else for whom  Opie's Hobo Friend was transforming.  Harvey Bullock, who wrote the script. “ ” In the end,  Andy sits with Opie on a river bank (as I remember) and explains that there's a difference between people down on their luck, in need of a helping hand, and societal leeches.  I learned from that; how come Opie didn't?  And look what the little s*it has  done to his dad now! Andy Griffith Stars in Obamacare Propaganda Video

Lets Order Chinese

Let's Have Chinese

Commies v USA

The Tea Party vs. The Anti-War Movement

March 20th, 2010 Anti-War protest in D.C. and the March 20th, 2010 Tea Party in D.C. (Language Warning) Ro, via NewsBusters via sECULAR sTUPIDEST

car quiz

Pete the Punk

Stark Pomposity

I realize that many of you have seen this video where Pete Stark offhandedly states that congress can do pretty much anything they please (to boos).  But what's important here is the protagonist.  She made my heart swell, knowing that there are millions like her out there,  doing battle for us.Look at the faces of the loyal Starkies in the audience, and even Stark himself.  Pure condescension.

Kill Silverlight

Trouble watching videos? Uninstalling Microsoft's piece of crap "Silverlight" will probably clear that right up.

Thanks to JMcD for the tip. Siverlight is  Microsoft's interface for watching stuff like NetFlix movies on line. Its only function appears to be keeping you from copying any portion of the content.   It will reinstall when you need it again.  If you're having trouble with Firefox, but like your add-ons, etc., get the IE Tab add-on.  It lets you view content using the IE interface in Firefox.

Chelsea's Wedding Pictures

Family Picture

Messican Drug Contract?

Bring me Arpaio's Head     Mexican drug cartel offers $1M bounty Arizona Sheriff Joe's head

Waldo

Philosophy

These musings are intended to frame a set of questions: What is the likely impact of ubiquitous surveillance on our moral personalities?

“ Imagine that right after briefing Adam about which fruit was allowed and which forbidden, God had installed a closed-circuit television camera in the garden of Eden, trained on the tree of knowledge. Think how this might have changed things for the better. The serpent sidles up to Eve and urges her to try the forbidden fruit. Eve reaches her hand out – in paradise the fruit is always conveniently within reach – but at the last second she notices the CCTV and thinks better of it. Result: no sin, no Fall, no expulsion from paradise. We don’t have to toil among thorns and thistles for the rest of our lives, earning our bread by the sweat of our brows; childbirth is painless; and we feel no need to wear clothes. So why didn’t God do that and save everyone a lot of grief? True, surveillance technology was in its infancy back then, but ... [Emrys Westacott asks a probing question continued] ” Pappy

Targeted

Guessing some here, because I'm again having trouble watching videos that stop every second (no 'zaggeration).  As best I can determine, this Minnesotan was so annoyed to read that Target was giving $150,000 to GOP Gubernatorial  candidate Tom Emmer, that she decided to get even,  How?  By going to Target, buying $200 worth of stuff, then returning it - with a rant.  Now, I too am annoyed when people give money to political parties I hate; the difference here being that this lady is an asshole, and I'm less of one.   If Target gave money to Emmer outright,  this is my first example of why the left went nuts when the Supremes struck down curbs on campaign contributions by business.  But, that's not what I wanted to tell you. Martin O'Malley (D) is Maryland's current governor.  Bob Ehrlich (R) served one term preceding him, and is now running against O'Malley. See what I'm saying?  Only someone utterly contemptuous of his constituency would use the slogan "Bob Ehrlich had his chance."  Yes, yes he did.  And how did he do?  Well, Bob Ehrlich is maybe the only Republican in history to be endorsed for re-election by the Washington Post, as he was against O'Malley in 2006.  So, in that regard, O'Malley has a right to be contemptuous of the state's voters.  I know I am.

Media Special Olympics

MEDIA All-Stars Do The Low Hurdles

“ The bottom line is they want you to believe that letting the Bush tax cuts expire is a tax increase. ... The Republicans are saying that, hey, this is all about a tax increase. No, it`s not. - MSNBC's Ed Schultz ” I know, quoting Ed Schultz is like booing a kid in the Special Olympics, but what the hell.  On the subject of numb-nuts, this, also from News Busters, is sweet. “ Dan Rather this weekend said the odds are that the Republicans will take back the House in the upcoming midterm elections. Maybe more surprisingly, Chris Matthews, with a look on his face like someone had given him the worst news possible, actually agreed with him.  [here] ”

Balls

If Obama has "cojones' and  cojoles" confused ...   Sarah Palin set him straight this morning on Fox News Sunday.

The Baltimore Examiner deliciously uses leftist attack site Media Matters' hosted video to punctuate a story that begins, "Liberals, who simply  love the word "teabaggers" are choosing  to take  Sarah Palin's use of the word,  'cojones', to mean a person who  literally has testicles,  saying Sarah is crude, rude, and low-classed."  “ What Sarah said was, " Jan Brewer has the cojones that our President does not have to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonans, but all Americans,” explaining, ”If our own President will not enforce a federal law, more power to Jan Brewer and 44 other states who are in line to help support Jan Brewer in state laws, state efforts, to do what our President won’t do....And Jan Brewer and other governors who are protecting their citizens, protecting the nation as a whole, we're very, very thankful that they're willing to go toe-to-toe and go all the way to the Supreme Court if need be and get this thing resolved." "Conjoles" is the political tool upon which Obama  most relies,  because Sarah is right on about his not having any  "cojones", and the reliance has  rendered  him contemptibly inept, ineffective, scorned in the eyes of other countries and  almost certain to lose the majority of America's support Elections 2010 and 2012. ” Note that Sarah did not once refer to notes scribbled on her palm.

Judge Bolton's plan?

How Judge Bolton^ Undermined Obama       unintentionally

“ When Judge Susan Bolton granted an injunction halting the enforcement of key provisions of the Arizona immigration enforcement law, she ruled in favor of the Justice Department’s position, but against the president’s political interest. Had the judge sustained this law, it would have made moot Barack Obama’s opposition to the Arizona law. As it is, she has transformed the law into a big campaign issue against Obama. Now the president is standing in the way of a state that wants to enforce the law that he won’t. [Front Page] ”

Why is this man toking? There is, I  suppose, the possibility that Clinton appointee Judge Bolton coyly set about undermining Teh Wun and consigliere Holder, but I ain't buying it.  What if  Judge Suzy had affirmed Arizona's SB 1070 in its entirety?  A victory for the bad guys?  I don't think so. Not that it matters.  I'll settle on this. Obamunists, having painted themselves in a corner, are losers on this issue from every angle.  Brilliant job boys..