Wine Whine

Algore Syndrome Red-Wine Researcher Charged With 'Photoshop' Fraud

“ A University of Connecticut researcher known for touting the health benefits of red wine is guilty of 145 counts offabricating and falsifying data with image-editing software, according to a 3-year university investigation made public Wednesday. The researcher, Dipak K. Das, PhD, is a director of the university's Cardiovascular Research Center (CRC) and a professor in the Department of Surgery. The university stated in a press release thatit has frozen all externally funded research in Dr. Das's lab and turned down $890,000 in federal research grants awarded to him. The process to dismiss Dr. Das from the university is already underway, the university added. ” Dr. Das replied in response: "I became the Devil for the Health Center, and so did all the Indians working for me ... The evidence for conspiracy and racial hatred is overwhelming."

"As Maine goes. so goes the nation"

WHAT GUMMINT DOES                             Welfare recipients outnumber taxpayers That's the situation Maine faces, and likely other states as well

“ Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, mentioned an uncomfortable truth in a radio address this month: Maine has more welfare recipients than income tax payers. Democrats challenged the accuracy of this assertion. The Bangor Daily News fact-checked LePage and discovered that 445,074 Mainers paid state income tax,  while 453,194 received some sort of state aid. In Maine, Medicaid, welfare, food stamps and subsidies for education have a combined enrollment of 660,000.  [Full] ” I like the part where Democrats challenged the report. Like someone had called their children bastards (which I reckon is how they see it).  The best way to attack this unsustainable way of life is to make it a joke, like these actual welfare application statements.

Pour Mourners to the NorK Racks

Harsh Punishments for Poor Mourning

“ The authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn't seem genuine. [Full IL] ” Cue the Three Stooges—

Shot him and took his melon ...

Added insult to injury

We've all been there Zip

"Wow, I really didn’t think my hatred for him could grow any deeper. I was wrong."

Clinton's Woman Problem

PBS documentary looks at Bill Clinton's 'womanizing'

“ There was this growing skepticism in the press that this guy was just a big phony,”  Time’s Joe Klein said, discussing Clinton’s reaction to the allegations. “He was too slick. He was too smooth. And he would lawyer answers to questions. [Full] Too cute by half.  I've had Joe Klein stuck in my craw for, oh,  say 20 years.  He was a ground zero media wake-up call for me.  I realized the media are for sale— cheap,  to the closest leftist ideologue.  *spits*  Maybe Joe's dying of cancer and wants to make amends with this belated epiphany. Who knows? Or cares. The Clinton mafia are not quite as good as the Kennedy's at  hounding book and television editors into submission, when the Camelot fantasy is threated,  but they are pretty damned effective  in a thuggish way.  Maybe it's because so many harbor doubts about the truthfulness of those, er, stories. I fully expect the Clintons to use the same tactics employed when ABC's The Path to 9-11 was scheduled to run.    Maybe they'll have Sandy Berger steal the film negative.  We'll know how dedicated PBS is to truth-telling if  his rape of 19 year-old Eileen Wellstone  near Oxford University in 1969  is covered.  Don't hold your breath.  ”

Today's Pleasantry

Today's Wonderfulness

Bada Bing

I'm skairt!

Today's Farm Store Special

Re: Sarah Palin and Glen Rice

My Act of Chivalry Unhand that maiden!

My top favorite sports place is Testudo Times.  If you follow University of Maryland sports, the analysis and wordsmithing are unparalleled. in their goodness.  Just now however, while reading  First Look at Maryland-Georgia Tech: This Might Be More Difficult Than We Thought, chief steward Ben Broman uncharacteristically injected some politics (And before we get to far into this: yes, Rice's pops hooked up with Sarah Palin. In case you had forgotten. Get the jokes out of your system now.) Nothing annoys me more than when entertainers indulge themselves in politics, which are always leftist. I'm not even sure Ben was guilty of that.  He may have  .... , well, no.  You must necessarily be in a certain political situ to find this the least bit relevant; just as my political bearing allowed me to know the facts behind that particular Joe McGinnis turd.  Let's hope this is put to rest.  A good guide to live by is "All professional democrats are liars.." “ Re; Rice/Palin Since you brought it up — “Nothing like manufacturing your own conclusions. I’m not even sure why Palin’s alleged relationship with Rice would be shocking, if true. What are we supposed to be upset about? That a then-single Sarah Palin had sex with a then-single Glen Rice? Is it the inter-racial nature of the alleged relationship that’s supposed to shock us?” Excerpted from: McGinnis Never Actually Asked Glenn Rice If He’d Had Sex With Sarah Palin by King of France on Jan 12, 2012 9:42 AM PST  ”

Sarah Meets The Horny Bear ..

While walking along the shore ...

'Never!' cried the fair maid What?  You can do better?  Posh.

People who need to be pissed on ...

U.S. Marines probe video of men urinating on Taliban corpses Mercedem Suam, LOTIUM

“ Jan. 11 - Graphic undated video from YouTube shows what is believed to be U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S. Marine Corps said it would investigate the video, which was posted on YouTube and other websites on January 11, 2012. Reuters has not independently verified the authenticity of this video. ” So?  The standard by which I judge trivial things that todays liberal asshats turn into war crimes, e.g. the Abu Ghraib fraternity hazing, is World War II.  That's the war we won, remember?  For example, would these stories have appeared in 1944? Army investigates intent of General Patton urinating into German river Marines investigate circumstances behind Japanese corpses found earless on Saipan. Army Air Corp denied go-ahead to bomb German munitions factory; Fear collateral damage Hell, and be honest, how many of you would like to urinate on the living 10th Circuit Court judges who just ruled in favor of Sharia law?  Shame on you if not.  It's not the actions, but the level of response that's telling.  We are become a nation ruled by pasty-faced,  feel-good liberal  asshats with a record of muckin-up everything they touch.  Yes, I would be known as TRKOF&S The Barbarian, but alternately, Rodger the Conqueror. Mercedem Suam, LOTIUM

Court: Sharia Law Can't be Banned

Bad Judges 10th Circuit: Amendment Banning Sharia Law is Not OK

“ Sometimes voters get behind an idea, and we think to ourselves, why? Why are they even bothering when that idea, were it to become law, would be struck down as unconstitutional faster than we can utter “temporary restraining order?” We smugly revisited that thought on Tuesday upon hearing that the Denver-based 10th Circuit had upheld a lower-court ruling keeping an amendment to the Oklahoma constitution from becoming law. The amendment, overwhelmingly approved by Oklahoma voters last year, prevents judges from basing rulings on international law — and specifically mentions Islamic law, often known as Shariah law. Specifically, the 10th Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision to preliminarily enjoin the amendment from going into effect. It ruled that there is a legitimate issue as to whether the initiative violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause [Full 10th Circuit: Amendment Banning Sharia Law is Not OK] Why do we have legislatures when, in the final analysis,  a judge can undo their produce with a pen stoke.  I am not the first to propose, nor is it even my first time doing so, that the United States is ruled by a judicial oligarchy.  I am quite certain that a current Tom Jefferson instruction would be "kill everybody and begin you anewith."  John Wayne would,  for sure. ”

Debbie Wasserman Speaks Words

Debbie Wasserman Test's Special World

“ In Debbie's world, today's political incivility, including the shooting of  her"good friend"  Rep. Gifford— by a deranged leftist,  would never have occured before unruly Teapartiers crashed the scene.  This is all the more insane given the recent thuggery perped by Obama's sanctioned Occupy movement, but no mention of that.  The really terrifuying part?  Debbie Wasserman Test believes every word she says is gospel truth. Er, Torah truth.   Yes, Debbie is a   rabid female dog.  Ahem. ”

The New Military

Culture

Have things gone this, er, cozy? Talk about morning wood ...

Whoops. I forgot grinning Michelle

STFU Michelle Michelle Obama says people have inaccurately cast her as an "angry black woman"

Roll hte tape Poncho ...

The Many Faces of Michelle Obama Fun Michelle Ecstatic Michelle Euphoric Michelle Mischivous  Michelle Jocular Michelle Laughing Michelle Jubilant Michelle Elated Michelle

Quiz

Testing 1-2

They must have cheated - I missed # 23 & #29 Below is a link to a 30-question test to see how well you know US Laws.  Not exactly grade-school level. Give it a shot, and see how well you do! Supposedly 96% of all High School Seniors FAILED this test ... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+% of all individuals over 50 did too!! Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know. http://games.toast.net/independence/ Grin ” Rolling-over the cheater's picture reveals how other Marylanders did on this test.  My gawd; it would appear that only 4990  Maryland Democrats took it, and not one scored  better than 15 right. Figures.

A good beginning

Let's Begin Today on a Bright Note

Today's Bad Science

GREEN CRAP Study of shrinking Mt. Adams glaciers— a good example of bad science.

“ A Sierra Club soirée no doubt The recent Portland State University study of glaciers on Mt. Adams by is a good example of bad science, i.e., how a dogmatic bias and selectively leaving out contrary factual data can lead to bad conclusions. As an exercise in critical thinking, I used to have my graduate students take a paper like this apart, piece by piece, to show any scientific errors. Here is an analysis of bad assumptions and errors in the Mt. Adams study. [Anthony Watts, cont] Bad science; a.k.a. ideology friendly science,  is one  thing Algore might actually have invented, when as senator he bequeathed taxpayer funded grants to science mills willing to play flash-for-cash.  Who's funding them now?  The political left, and groups like the Sierra Club, who use bad science as $fear-raisers.  By the bye, my Man of the Decade is Anthony Watts.  He, as much as, and prolly more than any other individual, was most prominently involved in exposing  the bad science of man caused climate change. He wins $10,000,000 in the event I am able to pay it.  ”

Where Romeny is Anointed ...

Making Sense of Republicans Attacking Capitalism Romney gets annointed

“ RUSH: In starting this discussion, they're trying to explain this, dissect what's going on on the Republican side with the attacks on Romney and capitalism and so forth, with language, by the way, that's used by the left.  I want to read to you some excerpts of a piece by Jay Nordlinger, who writes a column at National Review called Impromptus.  He says, "I was watching a clip of Romney tangling with an Occupy protester last week. Romney was defending corporate profits. I was astounded. I don’t think I had ever seen a candidate do this. When the subject comes up, you’re supposed to denounce corporate profits or say, 'Hey, nice weather we’re having, huh?'" That gave me great pause.  I had to stop and think.  He's right, frustratingly so.  He's right.  No matter who it is, when the subject of profits comes up on our side, they usually duck it and run for the hills, which is maddening.  Where are our people taking the occasion to educate people who have been mal-informed, ill-informed, or lied to about capitalism from the first day they stepped into public school?  Profits are evil, they are so evil that even people on our side duck the discussion.  Jay Nordlinger is reminding himself here that he saw a clip of Romney arguing with an Occupy protester defending corporate profits.  How unusual is this?  He then goes on to point out that Phil Gramm, the former Senator from Texas, conservative and an economist by trade, "once explained to Bill Buckley why he never talked about free trade on the stump." Now, listen to this.  This is fascinating to me.  Phil Gramm said, "Free trade benefits almost everybody ... [Full transcript] ” Romney is already the nominee, now anointed.  Properly so in this context.  It's all too predictable though.  I'm weary of it.  Pay no attention. I'm a crazy bag lady,  yelling about stuff I found in my naval.  Say, how about them Crimson Tiders?  To bad it wasn't a California team they beat the snot out of.

Racist Michelle

STFU Michelle

Omama the Racist

“ When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was 'distressed' by how a small group of 'white Irish Catholic' families — the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans — 'locked up' power in Illinois. "She particularly resented the way power in Illinois was locked up generation after generation by a small group of families, all white Irish Catholic — the Daleys in Chicago, the Hynes and Madigans statewide. Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, one of those hated white Irish Catholics, resigned the same weekend the book’s juiciest tidbits leaked out. [Full] ” Daley, the wily old Pol, so cloistered in his liberalism that he had no idea the Obama's are rank racists.  For starters.

Bringing Home The Bacon ...

Tails of the Gun A Father's Responsibility

The Egg ..

And the answer is ...

Lipstick on your collar

Lipstick on your collar

Advice to a Generic Candidate ..

WHAT GUMMINT DOES                            Advice to a Generic Candidate Fred to Change Course of History

Raja, Fred has a column which appeared yesterday. Pretty interesting, and is a cautionary piece on the issue of Iran … and attacking it. He mentions a friend of mine, David Isby. Skoonj “ [...] To begin, I will ask the following questions of the candidates, and for that matter of Mr. Obama, and of the Secretary of Defense, a generic bureaucrat. Can you explain: Convergence zones, base bleed, Kursk, range-gate pull-off, artillery at Dien Bien Phu, IR cross-over, Tet and queen sacrifice, Brahmos 2, CIWIS, supercruise, side-lobe penetration, seven-eighty-twice gear, super-cavitating torpedoes, phased arrays, pulse Doppler, the width of Hormuz versus the range of Iranian cruise missiles, DU, discarding sabot, frequency agility, Chobham armor, and pseudo-random PRF? These, gentlemen, are the small talk of serious students of the military. Here I mean men like David Isby, author of such books as Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army for Jane's, which you likely have never heard of, or William S. Lind, probably the best military mind (though, or because, not a soldier), that I have encountered. If you are unfamiliar with them, and with the things listed above, you are unfamiliar with the military. Yet you campaign for possession of the trigger. Perhaps a little humility, perish the thought, and a little self-examination might be in order. [continued] Fred, as is his wont lately, gets a bit carried away at times. "Note that in the foregoing list of wars [Iraq ... Afghanistan}, all were expected to end quickly.  " No,  they were not. True, the media began calling Afghanistan a "quagmire," and waving the  surrender flag about two days into the mission to destroy al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but most people understood that this was a long term commitment; a war to the death with radical Islam.  Then came Obama. By the by, skoonj finishes with this intruction — "As to me, I think an attack is only OK if we use nukes. They are our Hallmark: When you care enough to send the very best. " ”

First Hunt

Hunting With Dad

“ ” This unattributed picture of a young girl on her first goose hunt with dad (that's what I see) almost brought a tear to my eye.  I imagine Sid (smibsid)  has a passel of similar pictures of his girls.

Wild Target

At The Cinema WILD TARGET

“ When veteran hit man Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) finds himself unable to kill his latest target, Rose (Emily Blunt), he winds up with an unexpected sidekick, Tony (Rupert Grint), who thinks Victor is a detective in this action-packed comedy from Britain. Now, with Rose and Tony tagging along, Victor tries to deal with the dual forces of his overbearing mother (Eileen Atkins) and a very angry client (Rupert Everett) who wants Rose dead. "Half now, Half later" WILD TARGET "I hate when they do that" (Roll) The brilliance of this move is that it walked the thinnest line possible, where one misstep would have sent it into full-blown Jerry Lewis slap-stick.  It never happened.  The film is instead a classic, droll,  British tour de force.  In an  opening scene (depicted above) hit man Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) retrieves a bag of money from a rented locker; payment for his latest job.  "Half now, Half later,  ... I hate when they do that,"  he intones"  In the next scene he's matter-of-factly Scotch taping currency halves together. I gave this film 5 stars for the joy it gave me.  Net Flix Instant

You Are Trash ..

Today's Lovely Metaphor Liberal Democrats in Debate

“ Republicans are racist.  Republicans are liars.  Republicans are corrupt.  Republicans are owned by big business.  The Tea Party are radical terrorists. Republicans are anti-education.  Republicans are trash.  ”

My Date With J. Fred ...

Rituals

First date ritual  is more casual and quicker to the point with the chimpanzee

Mexican Invdader Rabble-Rousing

Mexican Invaders Arizona Cracking Down on Racism in Mexican-American Studies Classes

“ At issue, the teaching of aggressive racism in the classroom. The controversial class was Mexican-American Studies, which taught pupils to feel resentment toward whites and that Arizona belongs to Mexico. The conflicted class was not banned, largely due to student uprising, but now the Arizona government is cracking down on the school district, saying that the class must come into compliance with state laws to avoid discrimination and divisiveness:  [Town Hall] Now, this is such a cut and dry case that nobody, save for the Asshat Illegal Mexican Lobby (AKA the Democrat Party and Mexico) could possible complain, right?  Let's see who hollers.   Then deport them. ”

Umbrellas

Perfect Gizmos and Gadgets The Tiebrella

“ Velly Clafty Roll-Over I don't know what it costs, but it will certainly be cheaper that the $306,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost version. ”

Waivers Shmavers ...

Waivers Shmavers

The Obamissariat's Friday document dump contained the final list of Obamacare waivers.  There will continue to be waivers granted, but the Direktor will no longer name them.  This in accordance with the Administration's  Most Open Government Ever policy. "Friday marks the last time HHS will have to update the total number of waivers, putting to rest a recurring political firestorm."  Here's what else we've learned. Obamacare is so flexible that members of Congress are exempt. Congress has a waiver. All told, 1,231 companies applied for and received waivers from the law’s restrictions on annual benefit caps The 96 denied waivers were to companies that supported the GOP and or said something bad about the Obamacare. When added together, the healthcare waivers excuse about 4 million people, or about 3 percent of the population, from having to participate, HHS said. Labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers Private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for small businesses, were granted waivers.” Waivers Shmavers All waivers expire in 2014. Too late then, schmucks. In fairness. an Administration supporter explains their  position. “ You hate filled republicans who think this is going to get repealed are NUTS!!! Democrats are making huge strides all across the nation in local elections, and more Americans than ever are demanding ECONOMIC JUSTICE, HEALTHCARE JUSTICE, and OVERALL FAIRNESS in our society. Its time for a re-balancing of our nation's wealth, even if the top 1%, rich republican elitists don't think so. The top tax rate needs to be taken to 60% for those getting anything more than $100k (which is DOUBLE what the average family of 4 in America gets)…with the help of global "occupy" movements, us Democrats will re-take the house in 2012, and push through REAL reform!!!BY TaxtheRich! on 01/06/2012 at 17:12 ”   So there's that.  The Blaze, The Hill,  Weasel Zippers