Fickleness too

Attention span

This is the damnedest thing.  Remember how gung-ho I was about Sons-of-Guns? A month ago? I have the last three episodes sitting unwatched on my DVR.  I think it has to do with the show's producers trying to position Will (the owner) as some hard-ass macho-man, which I always thought he was anyway without all the recent contrivances.  Anyway, it's off my watch list, but then so is that Bethenny thing .  What was I thinking?   Now I only do Hitler Channels, car restorations (on HD channel) and Travel channel food shows.  I'm a better person for it.

Marines Rally Around Friend

Marines Rally Around Friend

It's nice to know there are people I still admire - H/T Anonymoose

Hey Rubes ...

“Hey, rubes: Is this what you voted for when you voted for change? Because it’s what you got.” [Glenn Reynolds -April 4, 2011]

“       A recent list of legislative recommendations from White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel included controversial measures such as expanding federal wiretapping statutes to include copyright offenses and mandating longer prison sentences for offenders.     With leaders in both parties and the White House all marching in lock step toward the need for increasing enforcement efforts, the small but vocal opposition appears unlikely to gain enough traction with its warnings of potential censorship to derail the legislative momentum. - Momentum building for online piracy legislation.  ” If 12,000,000 of us sneak into Washington at night, we can take them out in the morning.  Who's with me?

Look it up!

“Trust, But Verify” Ronald Reagan

Beck v, Trump on Birthers

Beck backs President Obama over Trump's attacks...

One Question --Who has the burden of proof? You know where I stand on the issue (Obama has offered not a scintilla of proof about his place of birth), and I'm comfortable enough in that skin that I no longer worry what others think.  Here are some Freeper comments on the recent Beck-Trump parry. Beck could have just stated that he hasn’t seen enough facts to form an opinion about the bc issue, but instead, he poo-poohed it. That was a very large mistake, given that someone as high profile as Donald Trump is asking about it, and that so much of his audience is passionate about the subject. This is going to hurt him badly. 9 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 4:59:43 PM by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.) Funny how the media and the courts are scared of odumbo. 12 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:03:36 PM by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!) may have more to do with Fox News announcing the billionaire will be given a regular slot on the station, while the host’s show may be scrapped. Uh, the Trump on Fox "story" was an April Fools joke. What a stupid, lazy writer. 17 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:08:12 PM by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona) I suspect that Glenn Beck may be seeing an end to his association with Fox News by this summer but I don’t believe he said what he did because he feared Donald Trump would get his job. Either Beck believes that Obama is a legitimate U.S. citizen and constitutionally eligible to be president - or he doesn’t. Apparently, Beck believes the former, which is too bad because he is on the wrong side of the issue and will likely lose more of his already-dwindling audience. Too bad. 19 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:10:20 PM by Jim Scott (t) Just a thought: But some on the right, many in the middle and all on the left think Beck is a nut. If he backed the BC issue don’t you think that would totally make the issue go away? It is much better for this issue to be dismissed by the most controversial conservatives (Beck, Rove, Coulter) and credited by someone in the middle like Trump. Proof is in the traction the BC story has gotten in the past couple of weeks. I say keep up the good work Mr. Beck. 20 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:13:11 PM by jerseyrocks Actually I’ve considered that distinct possibility. Beck is no dummy and the left has desperately attempted to attach the eligibility issue to him. By speaking out against it he continues to show these writers to be liars which makes their attacks on birthers to further lose credibility. He calls himself a rodeo clown and a rodeo clown draws the bull away from the rider. Meanwhile he hammers them hard on other issues that few others are talking about. Besides, the diversity of thought is what separates us from the liberals. 22 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:23:58 PM by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up)) Maybe it is because Beck has the common sense to see that both the birth issue and calling Obama a muslum are losing issues with most Americans. Frankly, as far as conspiracy theories I'm more liable to believe Trump is a Demo plant. 23 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:26:46 PM by willk Not only is it a lie, but anyone, including Fox, who thinks that trump could generate the kind of numbers Beck does has lost their marbles. Furthermore, Beck didNoT ttack trump whatsoever. He aid whata lot ofushere on FR have alredy beensaying. Trump is a showboat, not a prsident. And if Fox is even THINKING of giving him a contract, then you know darn well they must be sure that trump ain’t running. 27 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:38:38 PM by MestaMachine (Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam...but I repeat myself.) Beck could have just stated that he hasn’t seen enough facts to form an opinion about the bc issue, but instead, he poo-poohed it. Excellent observation. I still can't quite figure out why Beck is letting this powerful issue go. 30 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:44:34 PM by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern, you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.) Beck belongs to the "Bill O'Reilly I Saw The Imaginary Birth Certificate Club" His five minutes are up .38 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 6:00:44 PM by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul) I like it! “A jpeg is not a birth certificate!” 53 posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 6:51:10 PM by Lexinom NOPE! Obama Hussein’s entire Past has been Vacuumed Clean like a Baby’s First Day on this Earth! He once joked that he came from Krypton! It’s more likely Hussein came here straight from HADES! 85 posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 8:00:04 AM by True Republican Patriot

Bait and Switch

Today's Trick NYT MONDAY: USA pushing for removal of president... Developing... Damn you Drudge!

Passwording Gone Wild

I was going to buy this deal, principally because the rechargeable batteries  cost nearly twice the money by themselves at retail .  Which brings me to Passwording Gone Wild!  When I tried to checkout I was asked to supply my e-mail and (WTF?) password.  Why in God's name do vendors require a password to make a purchase?  So I put something in, only to be rejected.   "An account with this e-mail address already exists ...  If you forgot your password, click ... ." Which triggered a reaction within me normally reserved for something having to do with Obama.  Today's prize, then, goes to the first person who can come up with an acceptable reason for vendors demanding that customers supply a password to spend money, because I cannot think of one, and I've tried. Not for the first time, I refuse to deal with this nonsense.  Sheesh.

Public Employee of the Year Awards

Public Employee of the Year Awards

In the News - 1896 X-Ray Machine

1896 X-Ray Machine Fired Up Again The pioneering device took 90-minute exposures and delivered a radiation dose 1,500 times greater than today's machines.

I bet most of you'ns thought the X-Ray Machine was invented by Sears Roebuck (above video) to measure proper shoe size, didn't you?  I know I did.  Actually, we're both sort of right.  That 1896 device is the same one Sears used.  It took 90 minutes, but there were no instructions that said that; kids just played with it that long before their moms came back from the linens floor and made them stop.

Wacky Islamo Stuff

Today's Achmed WTF?

Nobody will ever know what's going on here, because  police were prohibited from asking by LAPD profiling restrictions. Critical thinking does however seem to limit, to two, the reason he's lying in the street. This is where he found a wireless hotspot He's detonating the bomb he just planted in the hotel he's staying at.  Your guess may differ.

Tennis Girl Classics

Martin Elliott’s ‘Tennis Girl’ The Back Story

Do Not Confuse with his more recent "Lard Ass Hillary" “   Martin Elliott’s ‘Tennis Girl’ is an iconic classic across the world, selling two million copies to become the world’s biggest selling photograph. It is a true piece of original, timeless, brilliance that portrays true elegance in its simplicity. It is not to be confused with his (rollover) later, "Lard Ass Hillary"  - [Full] ”

Stossel's 'Free Loaders'

Stossel's 'Free Loaders' Series

Rutgers University defends Snooki

Rutgers University defends Snooki's $32,000 appearance $2,000 more than Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison will receive to speak at graduation on May 15          Denies it's because Jersey Shore's Snooki Polizzi is the ‘clearer thinker’

Justin Credible

Firefox 4

Mossberg:Mozilla Strikes Back With New Firefox 4
cuzzin ricky

Mossberg's a spellbinding orator, wot?

Campus Sex

Fratboy and his girl:  have sex on the roof of USC building... in front of hundreds of people

They scored a 4.2 - out of view I told you.  First vagina coloring books, now this.  But Wait! Oh, no. YALE too?  Yes - DOE's Office for Civil Rights to investigate Yale for "hostile sexual environment.  Via the O-Club

Dateline Aoril 1

Stetson hat to be new Army head gear

Photo Credit: U.S. Army graphic. Army officials announced today that the Army will pay tribute to it's frontier roots by adopting the dark blue stetson and the official headgear for the current force of 1.1 million Soldiers.  Soldiers will wear the stetson with non-subdued rank and branch insignia on the front.  The Army star will only worn by Soldiers who have yet to graduate Advanced Individual Training, or the Officer Basic Course.   [Story]

Obama's First 2012 Campaign Ad

So, it's begun First 2012 Campaign Commercial (and pretty damned convincing)

Gateway Pundit

Euthanasia anyone?

One of these guys must be an alien freak

“ Imagine a Republican debate moderated by a network whose marquee commentators include Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Ed Schultz. Seems like there could be an ideological clash? Not according to Politico’s John F. Harris. Hugh Hewitt & Politico Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris

Color Me Embarrased

Color What?

I am not making this up What?  There's not enough euphemisms for the V-word?  And a V-word coloring book?  This, ladies and gentlemen, may not be the cause of our current corrupted society, but it is a symptom.  A gentleman, or women, will never discuss their private parts, and certainly not in mixed company. Even when being examined, by a doctor,  hems and haws are expected, and proper (My, uh, you know- is dripping).   (I do it here as an academic exercise) Any guy who starts telling other guys jokes or tales that contain the word "vagina," instead of local acceptable argot, will be immediately hooted out ("ohhhh a  va-gi- na").  Most any time a women talks about her vagina in front of a man, it's a flirt. If she uses the prefearble "my p___y" or " my c__t ," she's begging you.   She will, however, have spent the day romping about "nude for world peace," or some crap.  And she will have voted for Obama; so at-your-risk.  You know I'm right, unless you're one of them pussies Note: The above instruction applies only to chance meetings in elevators

Vac-U-Box

Follow-up Vac-U-Box

12 days and still soft isn't a tale of woe in this instance A few weeks ago (rollover click) I reported on Vacu-Box.  Some of the same bread is still contained, and still fresh and soft.  FWIW.  It's (cheap) stuff that works, and there ain't too much of that around.

Sigh

The Ugly American

Time to RE-BOOT

Today's Editorial: RE-BOOT

GOP Budget Would Kill 70,000 Children

And yes, he is a Democrat. USAID Chief: GOP Budget Would Kill 70,000 Children

...but how many homeless Rajiv?  What of the homeless? What the heck?  Is Obama importing these clowns from the UN?  I want to his birth certificate Green Card.  [Full Felony Here] Casca

5 of ever'thing

For the first time in 823 years, the month of July in 2011 will be the first month to have 5 fridays, 5 saturdays, and 5 sundays. - It's supposed to be very good luck for money. Anonymoose

New State Dept. Protocol?

A Statutory Racist

The Ugly Face of Racism in America

I feel so ashamed

A Ladybug

Mid-Day Catharsis

Shhh - Obama gets transparency in gummint award LOL

Nobel Peace Prize Part Deux Obama accepts award for openness (behind closed doors) Is anything meaningfull anymore with these ratbastards?

“   “This president has demonstrated a commitment to transparency and openness that is greater than any administration has shown in the past, and he’s been committed to that since he ran for President and he’s taken a significant number of measures to demonstrate that,” Carney said in a testy exchange with Fox News reporter Wendell Goler on March 16. ”

." The meeting was for Obama to accept a transparency award. Later that day, the Oversight Committee released its report on FOIA violations at the Department of Homeland Security, which range from intentional deception to cluelessness, and--in the case of one DHS attorney, who attempted to walk out of a House hearing with evidence gathered by the Oversight committee in his bag--outright theft. (Daily Caller synopsis)

Peek-a-Boo

Hi Everybody!

8th-grade exams

Getting out of the 8th-Grade - in 1910

This is a follow-up of yesterday's TAKS entry.  Graduating grade school in 1910 was a major big deal.  Before reaching that point many kids were put to work on the farm, or in factories.  For those who did graduate,  high school was no sure thing, and college was pretty much out of the question for all but the swells. Still, those kids comprised a labor force that went on to make the United States the most technologically advanced nation in the world.  I'm speculating, but as this 1910  Olympia WA graduation exam indicates, those kids received an education not far removed from what some of today's college graduates receive.  Here's an example: “   READING 1-5. One selection in prose and one in poetry from eighth grade reading book. (50 credits) (not included)    6. Name five American poets, and give a quotation from each.    7. Who wrote the following?       The Village Blacksmith.       Rip Van Winkle.       The First Snowfall.       The Great Stone Face.       The Raven.    8. Quote two stanzas of "America."    9. Quote a stanza from one of the poems mentioned in question 7.     (There once was a man from Nantucket ... FAIL)   10. Give in your own words the meaning of the following:       "To him who, in the love of Nature, holds       Communion with her visible forms, she speaks       A various language: for his gayer hours       She has a voice of gladness, and a smile       Into his darker musings with a mild       And healing sympathy, that steals away       Their sharpness ere he is aware." ” Try is yourself (HERE)  or print it out (.PDF)  PS - raise your hand if you think you could use a slide rule today.  Use it or lose it, and I cannot.

OBAMA CRIED, KIDS DIED

“Humanitarian” seems to be the Democrats' new word for “absolutely no national interest.”

“   The Democrats were not so interested in a "humanitarian" intervention against a much more brutal dictator in Iraq. But, of course, taking out Saddam Hussein, a state sponsor of terrorism who harbored one of the perpetrators of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, would make Americans safer. Democrats are furious whenever American boys (girls and gays) are put in harm's way -- unless the troops are on a mission that has nothing whatsoever to do with defending the United States. Obama ignored the murder, imprisonment and torture of peaceful ... . [OBAMA CRIED, KIDS DIED] Carry on ...

Osama smash note

Osama smash note

TAKS

“Can there be any hope for us?” FYI--TAKS is the state test for competency in a grade level.   mary

Let's hope grounds-keeper Willy was responsible for this one.  By the by, here's an opportunity to take one of these competency tests your own self.  Here, for example, is the Exit Level Math Test  and the Answer Key  (not this, dammit .)   I'm ascared.          .

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Leave My Forskin Aft

Defective Skin Heads

Stealing Hoops

The Nanny State and it's Officious Enforcers absorb

Donald in comments

Baby Talk

tay inna wiiiinn

This from Sondrakistan is  very funny animated discussion betwixt baby twin  boys -- in native baby talk.  During Lent I vowed not to find in every every strange thing something analogous to Liberals.  Of course that's impossible.  You either see something, or you don't.  What I meant was, rather, that I would not ruin other's joy by intruding on their reverie with those observations.  Unless the wanted me to.

That ain't no conch shell ..

Dictators with fractured labium

Good.  Lord.

Yootful Presidents

Know Your Presidents? Identify This One

Give up?  Here's the answer along with many more presidents in their callow yoothood. cuzzin ricky

Jummy - Part II

Fed: Inflation is 2.1%

cuzzin ricky

Chucky Schumer: Open Mike Yike

Chucky Chucky bo bucky Banana-fana fo-fucky Fee-fi-mo-yukky UP-Chuck!

“   Clearly unaware that reporters were already listening in on the conference line in the minutes before the scheduled call was to commence, the Senate Rules Committee chairman and pointman on the budget fight laid out a game plan to attack Republican personalities and politics while avoiding the nuts and bolts of getting back to a mature approach to federal spending. After thanking his colleagues — Barbara Boxer of California, Ben Cardin of Maryland, Tom Carper of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — for doing the budget bidding for the Senate Democrats, who are facing off against the House Republicans over how spending for the rest of the fiscal year, Mr. Schumer told them to portray John Boehner of Ohio, the Speaker of the House, as painted into a box by the Tea Party, and to decry the spending cuts that he wants as extreme. “I always use the word extreme,” Mr. Schumer said, “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.” [full] Just another unwatched tree falling in the forest Justin Credible

Hold the 'chovies

Bucks 4 Clunks Part Deux

Today's Ratbastard Gummint News Bucks 4 Clunks, Part Deux

“ Essentially, if one were to buy a $41,000 Chevy Volt, the buyer gets a $7,500 coupon, so the final price is $33,500. In the end, the auto dealer assumes the risk of the government giving them this tax credit. ... Vice President Joe Biden said at an Indiana battery assembly plant, "You won’t have to wait,’ it would be like the cash-for-clunkers program.” ” Wheeeeeeeeee! "AUTO SALES UP! - Economy Improving!"

WonTon Wrappers

Media Matters War Against FOX

Media Matters War Against FOX

Nothing was more enraging upsetting to me over the weekend than this Politico story "Media Matters' war against Fox." “ The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel. It has hired an activist who has led a successful campaign to press advertisers to avoid Glenn Beck’s show. “If there was no Beck, George Soros would come down and demand we make it up,” the “interviewee” continued. “I would watch the “Flintstones” and transcribe Fred Flintstone’s words and attribute them to Beck. It was the only way to get Soros to stop hitting me.” (A Soros associate said the financier, who gave Media Matters $1 million last year, did not earmark it for the Fox campaign. Soros suggested in a recent CNN interview that the Fox depictions of him as a sinister media manipulator would better be applied to Murdoch.)       Through an American Spectator muck-a-muck that I had an association with in the 1990s, I was privy - in real time - to the antics of David Brock.  They were astounded when he left the publication, claiming that he had been the victim of gay bashing by homophobic right wingers.  To the contrary;  Brock was "outed" by New York Times columnist Frank Rich. When Rich’s malicious column appeared, Brock was defended by conservatives who rallied to his side.  So what gives? I remember reading Brock's account in American Spectator, about the epiphanal moment when he reevaluated his politics. “   One of the best places to accept Brock's challenge is at the university where he became a conservative. As Brock tells the story, his life changed profoundly during his sophomore year when he covered a February 15, 1983 campus speech by United Nations ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick for the Daily Californian, a school newspaper. Protesters repeatedly heckled Kirkpatrick, a supporter of President Reagan's anticommunist foreign policy in Central America, and she walked off the stage in frustration. The protest spurred a national debate over campus free speech. "The scene shook me deeply," Brock recalled in Blinded by the Right. "Was the harassment of an unpopular speaker the legacy of the Berkeley-campus Free Speech Movement, when students demanded the right to canvass for any and all political causes on the campus's Sproul Plaza? Wasn't free speech a liberal value? How, I wondered, could this thought police call itself liberal? As I raced back to the threadbare offices of the Daily Cal, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping. I knew I had the day's lead story." But, as this 2002 Drudge Report NEW BROCK STORIES BEGIN TO UNRAVEL  goes on to prove,  Brock  made the whole thing up.  So, David Brock is just another liar with a press pass. Here's my very educated guess about what really happened to Brock. His book "The Real Anita Hill," is a blockbuster that delves into behind the scenes Democrat tricks (and felonies) in their attempt to block Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation - at any cost. The Left goes absolutely nuts, and ratchets up an already fierce effort to undermine the American Spectator (for whom Brock has penned several articles about Bill Clinton) New York Times columnist Frank Rich outs Brock as a homosexual Brock cries himself to sleep every night. Stockholm Syndrome sets in. Brock sleeps with Frank Rich, and has champagne and strwberries every morning. David Brock is a weak man. And a liar. Here's what's really going on. “ In April 2008, Politico.com reported that Brock was collaborating with billionaire donor George Soros and longtime Democrat operative Paul Begala to launch a four-month, $40 million media campaign whose mission would be to publicly discredit Republican presidential candidate John McCain. [Discover the Networks] ”  Further reading: Is Media Matters breaking the law in its 'war' on Fox News?

State Government Finances Visualizor

State Government Finances Visualization a handy tool

As drummerrick said when he sent me this; "a handy tool."  You can look at your state's cash-securities holdings, debt at end of fiscal year, debt and  expenditures, and compare them with other states.  I suspected something, and this result proves I'm right.  It might be titled "Democrat rule v. Republican Leadership." Drummerrick

NYT Paywall Easily Cracked -LOL

NYT Paywall Easily Cracked – By Design   That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down

“   This news is from last week, but since the New York Times ‘paywall’ goes into effect tomorrow, we thought it was quite timely. From Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab: Hilariously, this article goes on to suggest that even though the New York Times spent $40 to $50 million dollars erecting this ‘paywall,’ they intended it to be easily defeated: [...] Only the Solons at Harvard school for journalism could concoct such a laughable theory when the truth is so painfully obvious. The Times screwed up. Big time. ” The first comment to this Sweetness and Light story says it all" Swamp Thing March 28, 2011 at 9:15 am This begs the question: does anyone bother to read the NYT any more? Related DC article "How to get around the New York Times's pretend pay wall Freida Cumangough

scariest tsunami video yet

This is the scariest tsunami video yet

“ We've seen a lot of scary videos of this month's deadly Japanese earthquake and tsunami — but nothing like this. Watch as the waves ravage the port of Kesennuma, destroying everything in it's path. First watch as the tsunami begins by tossing cars around like toys at the port parking lot — and then watch how terrifyingly fast the rest of the city becomes enveloped in water. In the end, only a couple of buildings survive. We're still amazed at how quickly this country has fixed infrastructure that to us, here in the United States, would seem like the end of the world. [Japolpnik. com] ” Go FULL SCREEN and be awed.

cuzzin ricky

Rachael Ray Eats Babies and Puppies?

Rachael Ray is, evidently, a beast