SEIU KNOX-OUT

THIS JUST IN SEIU KNOX'd OUT “ The court ruled for Dianne Knox and other nonmembers of the Service Employees International Union's Local 1000, who wanted to object and opt out of a $12 million special assessment the union required from its California public sector members for political campaigning. Knox and others said the union did not give them a legally required notice that the increase was coming. The union, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said the annual notice that the union gives was sufficient. The high court disagreed in a 7-2 judgment written by Justice Samuel Alito. [Full AP] Not the Big One, but still important.  The SCOTUS today handed unions another set-back, and this is especially delicious because the primary was the SEIU, upon which Obama, and Demorats. are dependent for cash and field work.  The other thrill up my leg is that, for the 5,897,763rd time, by my count, The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was reversed. Note, I am surprised by the 7-2 decision:  I woulda guessed 5-4.  There have been a few more recent rulings the same way,where I was surprised over the libtard vote.  I can't help but worry that there is a quid pro quo at work here — by the liberal justices to gain the deciding vote in Obamacare (which looks like Monday). I know, silly.  But the Obamacare decision is the most important decision in SCOTUS history, IMO.  If they don't strike it down,  this nation  is unalterably changed.  So I worry. Up top:  a link to SCOTUS BLOG.  Live blogging.  I'll add it to my links below.  ”

20 HOTTEST In New Media

Who are these people and why are they on my desk? Ah ... but where are the other 9?

Jeb Bush!!!?

Obama’s 20 Most Self-Absorbed Moments

The Obamissariat “ The Rickards Review (the Internet's Preeminent Conservative Blog)  has at least impressed me with this comprehensive list of Barack Obama’s 20 Most Impossibly Self-Absorbed Moments Lots of citations and videos at the site, but below —  a brief summary 20 & 19.  Obama writes two memoirs, the first at age 35. 18.  “The election’s over, John.” There are polite ways to disagree.  There are diplomatic ways to disagree.  And then there’s Barack Obama’s way of disagreeing with Sen. John McCain during a summit on healthcare reform. 17. “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it.” 16.  “It would be easier if I could do this entirely on my own.” 15.  American soldiers fight for Barack Obama “those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf.” 14. Obama as the standard of divine law When asked to define “sin,” he stated that sin is “being out of alignment with my values,” whatever those are.  So take that, St. Augustine! 13. Announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden I ...;  I....;  I....;  I....; 12. The State of My Union managed to reference himself a whopping 122 times, averaging roughly once every 30 seconds! 11.  It’s his country.  We’re just living in it. 10.  “You’re going to destroy my presidency” 9.  Republican Scott Brown’s victory proves voters still love Obama. Wait, what? 8. Killing Osama Bin Laden, The Sequel 7.  Death be not proud… except of me. We’ve all heard jokes about voter fraud and dead people voting for Democrats.  But rarely do the dead endorse a candidate so explicitly and enthusiastically. 6.  “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” (Yes, those are quotation marks) 5. Calm the seas? Yes, calm the seas 4.  The gift that keeps on giving. President Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod - loaded with pictures of him 3. “We are the ones who we’ve been waiting for.” 2. Modification of other presidential biographies to include himself. This borders on outright creepy. 1.“Well,” he said “the big difference [between] here and in ’94 is you’ve got me.” ”

Sandra Fluke Obliterates Herself

From the "Give them enough rope" meme; Sandra Fluke Obliterated... “ This is pretty much should be the last we hear from Fluke the Flake.  It's almost as if she's doing a parody of every goofy Lib you've ever had a conversation with. ”

Tell On Me

The Obamissariat Tell On Me .... A song to the Leaker-in-Chief from America's friends, based on the immortal song of Ben E. King, "Stand by Me." Ron M

Politico Crap

Where I get a little carried away ... “ “It looks like whoever picked this data chose the demographic where Limbaugh was weakest,” one radio insider noted. [Left-Wing Politico Busted Fudging Limbaugh Ratings] Previously: Monday, July 25, 2011 Phony Arbitron Ratings "Is right-wing talk dying?" John Avlon asked hopefully at The Daily Beast. I was unaware until a few days ago that Politico's Ben Smith is now with Buzz Feed.  Politico was launched in January 2007,  billed as being comprised of veteran newsmen of various ideological persuasion, but with a need to provide good, solid, and unbiased reporting.  And there was.  And there still is.  Because it 'tweren't. Politico.  Ben Smith,  an original  Politico "talent,"  was quoted liberally by Rush Limbaugh, who liked his slant and insight.  Slowly, however,  liberalism began seeping out of Smith's glands, and then  le déluge merde.  Here's one of my Favorite Ben Smith road apples.  If you hadn't noticed who he was by then, this was the kick in your arse. After the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America accused Politico of having a "Republican tilt", Politico's Ben Smith answered: "Media Matters has a point: .. What a schmuck.  Smith, along with everyone else at Politico, were little more than fifth columnists (get it?) parachuted in to ply their legerdemain by stealth.  Here's a recent commentary on that carbuncle:   Ben Smith and the Evidence  by Stanley Kurtz  I've picked on Ben Smith, because he was caught in our camp, wearing our uniform, and trying to blow up our infrastructure. .  Click-Click. ”

Pure Sheet

Pure Sheet

Daddy's in Jail, but he was setup by the man

Democrat or Bubonic Plague Culture

Portman?

JUMP? “ “Let’s just eliminate the drama and suspense right now. Romney is going to pick Rob Portman,” declared the Daily Beast’s Mark McKinnon, a political strategist who has worked for Republicans and Democrats. McKinnon is not alone in his prediction. In recent weeks, Portman has been the name making the rounds as the top choice in the Romney VP rumor mill. Let's go right to the bottom line.  While Portman has many positives, so to did Bush 41 in 1980, ahem. bottom line Portman, who notes that he owns hybrid cars, is an advocate of tapping various energy sources. He’s also voted to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “As a U.S. Senator, Rob will champion policies that recognize and harness the power of Ohio’s natural resources – including natural gas, coal, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, oil, and bio-mass,” his Senate campaign energy plan states. In 2000, Portman voted for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meant to fight global warming by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. The protocol has not been ratified by the U.S. Portman authored the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, a piece of legislation the Bush White House described as a “program [that] enables eligible low and middle income countries to substitute some portion of their debt obligations to the United States for domestic tropical forest conservation and protection activities.” Portman also voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, newly structured by Joe Biden and offering  and increased number of visas to illegal-alien victims and offers specific protections of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender victims. You can read more, nuch more here Mitt to Choose This GOP-Establishment VP?  I'm not going to hold anyone to 100% compliance with my standard (that person does not exist, which is not an entirely bad thing), but there are hot button issues. One is embracing the idea of AGW (man caused climate change).  Anyone that does is dispensing nostrums for political gain, or so abjectly thick headed as to be unfit to serve. Since Romney's  own shifting positions on the subject fall under that rubric, I suppose it's a moot point.   ”

Volkart

art is everywhere I don't need no stinking art gallery

In contempt of congress - what do it mean?

Obama grants 11th-hour Holder executive privilege request The question on everyone's lips is — so what does it mean if he's found in contemptby vote of the full House?  Predictably the law is difficult for the layman to understand.  For instance (from Wikipedia) “ .Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation). ” But then, under "Statutory Proceedings," and after this Wikipedia citation — This article contains weasel words: vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information. Such statements should be clarified or removed. (July 2008) we read: “ .Following a contempt citation, the presiding officer of the chamber is instructed to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia;[9] according to the law it is the "duty" of the U.S. Attorney to refer the matter to a grand jury for action. ” We have one instance of an Attorney General of the United States being held in contempt. Person Subcommittee/Committee Ultimate Disposition Janet Reno (Democrat), Attorney General 6 August 1998, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Documents in question were revealed during the impeachment of President Clinton. That would be a satisfactory outcome here, although I won't hold my breath. In the final analysis, Holder's and Obama's culpability in this effort (F&F) to stage events as a precursor to imposing gun control on us,  is manifestly unmistakable.

So, your kid wants an eye pad .....

Voting with my feet

Voting with My Feet in Massachusetts “ One of the things I'll miss about Massachusetts is the revolving opportunity to vote against John Kerry every few years.  For a while, of course, I had the privilege of voting against Ted Kennedy as well, and if I had lived a few towns to the south, I could have voted against Barney Frank, too. There is something very satisfying about voting against extremely bad people.  The rest of the country gets to see our liberal hacks only in the news.  In Massachusetts, I proudly voted against them. In this state, you'll quickly lose your mind if you start looking for candidates you actually like.  On the rare occasions when Massachusetts elects a non-Democrat, such as Mitt Romney or Scott Brown, it is always Mitt Romney or Scott Brown.  Massachusetts has an astonishing number of execrable politicians, and no good ones.  Mitt Romney may or may not be a real conservative now, but he wasn't one back then.  To the degree that he is now a conservative, it happened after he got out of Boston. Scott Brown, of course, is the most liberal Republican in the Senate.  Technically, I voted for him, but in my heart I was voting against Martha Coakley, his opponent.  It was about 30 degrees that day ... Read more: I found this article extremely cathartic.  The disquieting thing is, that while Mr.T.S. Weidler  did vote with his feet, he will still find his daily life plagued by laws those Massachusetts booboisie  have blanketed us all with in this era of  borderless federal smothering.  Or something. ”

Today's Stumper

One of these stories is true Man With 100 Pound Willy? or Obama's Biography? Eat your heart out Madonna

This time I'm really really mad!

—   you quacking berk    “ So it's Katie Bar The Door! Right? GOP Rep. Darrell Issa said his face-to-face meeting Tuesday with Attorney General Eric Holder failed to produce the documents requested for the congressional investigation into the Justice Department’s botched Fast and Furious gun walking operation and suggested he needs them by Wednesday morning to stop a scheduled vote to put Holder in contempt of Congress. The Capitol Hill meeting was called for late Monday night by Holder. Well that's it for you Holder!  If you don't bring this documents in tom- what?  WTF!?! Issa told reporters after the roughly 20-minute meeting that Holder instead briefed them on the documents in lieu of delivering them and suggested he might delay the contempt vote, called for because the department has not responded to subpoena requests for the additional information. “The deadline will always move to the last minute,” said Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “We're not looking to hold people responsible. We're looking for document production.” [Full] We'll cite you for contempt if you don't produce the files.  That is of course unless you don't present the files, then we'll start over.. You're quacking like a duck Mr, Issa ... ”

Stuff

The Humanity                                                                                            For the past, oh, maybe a month, my computer would just up and reboot about every 3-4 days.  Lately it's bee every 3-4 hours, and today was a nightmare.  Yes. I did have a svhost-demon problem, which explains why the Windows update wouldn't install.  I have no idea about the other.  The last time it shut down it took about 2 hours for Microsoft and HP to get it to boot (after a System  Retore).  If  it does it again, I'll have to think there's a hardware failure.  Wears you out man.  If I go missing this time look out the window.  There'll be smoke. 1201 - Time                     : 6/20/2012 6:23:18 AM 1202 - Source                   : Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient 1203 - Description              : Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2709715). 1202 - Source                   : BugCheck 1203 - Description              : The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800030b082f, 0x0000000000000000, 0x000000007efa0000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 061912-27908-01.   (Repeat 20 times)

Social Media Roofies- for starters

"Does this taste like Rohypnol to you? “ The media appear to be working their way up to a full-on hand-wringing over the news that the kind of people who use "Does this taste like Rohypnol to you?" as a pickup line have discovered social media "location apps". Wow. Who could have seen that coming? The internet itself has already made dodging stalkers or creepy exes a colossal pain in the butt, at least for those of us who remember the good old days of 'move and get an unlisted phone number and you're done,' but the idea of voluntarily tagging yourself like a migrating harp seal? Unbelievable. When I first heard of these apps that would basically broadcast your age, sex, relationship status, favorite color, GPS location, and how long you'd been standing there in the bar parking lot fumbling in your purse for your car keys, I couldn't believe ... [Tam- findavictim.com continued] "How do I know thee? Let me count the ways..." There's Google Mail; speed cams; traffic light cams; street surveillance cams; automobile "black boxes;" Face Book; People Search and Public Information Search Engines; Google Street; Google Earth; surveillance drones;  blah blah blah. Maybe someone can find the quote for me, I've tried and failed, but the gist is "they'll take your freedom and you'll pay them to do it."  Because that's what's happened.  Remember, pick any technology you want, and the government is using it.  And with this lot, that's a very.very bad thing. By the by. when I was single I took roofies at the disco.  Way overrated.  Didn't get me anywhere but a bed on the sidewalk.  ”

Three Things

Perfect Gizmos I Almost Thought Of                     Three Things For You You're Welcome

West & America Leery of Mitt

Has the "gaming" begun? Dejected by Mitt's silence on Obama's "Dream Act" On Monday, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said that he was “dejected” after Mitt Romney’s avoided taking a strong stand on President Barack Obama’s directive enacting portions of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. “It goes back to what my mother taught me, ‘a man must stand for something, or else he’ll fall for anything,’” said  West. Like many of you, I'm very sensitive to any sign of being "gamed" by Mitt, and the GOP.  This is not a good sign. The answer is easy, Mitt.

Crime Families in the US

Crime Families “ Islam, where you "sleep wit militias" As a teenager Ali Bahkti served in Iran's Revolutionary Guard .  While on a suicide assignment to blow up an Israeli disco, Ali converted to Christianity.  Ahem.  Anyway, he now lives in St. Louis,  and is active in church life "spreading the gospel.".  Of course we all know the penalty for leaving the crime family known as Islam, don't we?  That's right.  Both  Bahkti and his pastor Mike Salazar have been notified, via post from Tehran, that they have been marked for death.  Fatwa'd.  Even though the two men now live under the constant fear of death, they say they will not stop preaching Christianity. “I’m doing it for the kingdom of God,” Bakhti said. “Even if you die doing it,” his pastor added. Salazar has passed the letter on to the F.B.I. However, the agency wouldn’t confirm to KTVI whether they are investigating the incident. [Full] Meanwhile, in Rio Grande Valley, Texas ..... Talal Nimer shot his estranged wife, his daughter and her boyfriend.  Talal admitted to police " that he didn't like that his daughter was dating someone who's not Muslim."  This practice of "honor killing" is of course sanctioned by Sharia law, but police say it is not classified as attempted "honor killing" Faleh Almaleki's murder of  his daughter Noor in Arizona, is. ”

London, 2009

What I See What did you buy the Queen Barry? Was yours about the same as mine?  If so, we may have the same psych -  be related.

War Widow

World War II Widow “   Hey Boss: Trust me on this one!  This deserves a separate post.                  WARNNG!  Very high pollen count and a 2 boxes of tissue video.   Geo

Earn Carbon Credits

GREEN CRAP Carbon credits from dairy manure Here's how to play at home! Or, you can crap on your shag pile. It's the effort that counts, not the result.

There's a law against smaking the President in the melon ...

US Constitution 101: Article 2, Section 3, Clause 4
By Doug

What's with Pootie Poo?

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what  the hell." TRKOF&S LIARS LIE “ 2004 Robert Conquest once asked the Russo-Hungarian historian Tibor Szamuely why Stalin had ordered his old friend Marshal Yegorev killed. Szamuely replied: “Why not?” It was a better explanation than most Sovietologists could muster. Michael Weiss asks, and answers Why the West misreads Putin on Syria, and the answer seems to be Why not?” Not since FDR was so besotted by the muderous Joseph Stalin (calling him "Uncle Joe!") has  US President so misread evil as did "W" with Putin (Pootie -Poo)! Weiss 's analysis (a good read) summation - “ .The truth is this. Putin’s only criticism of Assad is that Assad has not already destroyed this annoying little revolution and convinced the world that he is doing so as part of of the global war on terror. ... When Russia sounds more conciliatory to the Western position, it is to buy more time for Damascus. If Putin has one lament, it is only that Bassel al-Assad, Bashar’s smarter older brother, died in a car crash in 1994. Thus was a perfectly good client state entrusted to a combination of Fredo Corleone and Forrest Gump. If Putin ever did accede to a “transition” of power, you can be sure the man to take Bashar’s place would be more like Bassel, and like Vladimir. ” ”

POP POSTS

Me Me Me la la la la la ..... According to Blogger, the five most popular posts from last week A Boy Thing Jun 14, 2012, 4 comments s ... the American Military Coup of 2012 Jun 17, 2012, 8 comments s Yes, you can meet with Barry. Here's how Jun 16, 2012, 7 comments Slobbering all over Jun 15, 2012, 6 comments s Secret Obama Plans on Whiteboard Jun 15, 2012, 4 comments

My Wedding Day Remembrance

Remembering my own wedding day

Father's Day 2012

Father's Day Father's Day 2012h Yesterday was maybe the best Father's Day ever since my own died in 1998.  The plan was to have crabs, but when we tried to get some- there were none to be had! Anywhere. This is a first, in my experience.  With the idea  that I wasn't going to have to cook squashed, I set about doing chicken wings, Italian sausage/peppers and onions, and pizza.  The real surprise was that for the first time since Christmas we were all together.  We had expected that only my daughter's family would be able to make it, but at the last minute Greep and Joe said they were coming.  Then, everyone showed up.  It was a perfect day, weather wise, and I most especially liked the card (roll-over) my granddaughter Lilly filled out (her words, mom's handwriting- BTW,it's  brown hair and brown eyes).  I'll remember this day.  Oh,  this is what MoSup gave me.  For all the hard work I did becoming a father.  Calculated at about 2 mintes, 38 seconds.

Bill Maher is a Stupid Mothrfriken Racist Asshat

Bill Maher “ In objecting to accusations of racism against Gwyneth Paltrow for a a June 1 tweet with the heading “Ni**as in paris for real,” Maher directed his audience to Matt Drudge as a foil for, in his mind, actual racism. This elicited from me an actual audible guffaw yesterday. Shall we in the future be told by Liberal asshats — Joy Behar has six friends who deem Rush Limbaugh racist? Louis Farrakhan has six friends who deem all whites racist? Barack Obama ... blah-blah-blah? FWIW, Gwyneth Paltrow may be is a liberal  bore, but I find nothing racist in her supposed Tweet. Nor do you, I'll wager.  Being obsessed by racism, as liberals are however,  is monumentally racist. F'kn peasants. ”

WWMD?

provoking Civil Unrest since 2008 HELTER SKELTER “ BULLET POINT "President Obama has just opened a floodgate of opportunity for young illegal immigrants in the United States, but could it squeeze the aspirations of legal Americans in the process?" (The laffer part is that staff writer Pamela Constable's (or editor) ingrained Liberalism obligated her to end with "?"  when  it so obviously demanded a "!". BULLET POINT The real message of the Carville-Greenberg memo is obvious: "Our goose is cooked." BULLET POINT Obama’s policy strategy: Ignore laws Obama's White House history is one of ignoring advice from anyone, including chiefs of staff Rahm Emmanuel and Bill Daly, to temper his plans to impose European socialism on us.The anti-Christ, according to legend, roughly, will rule benignly, and with great apparent wisdom for 3½  years before revealing himself as Satan. So he's not the anti Christ. But let me axe you this—  WWMD? Especially when he thinks his goose is cooked? ”

... the American Military Coup of 2012

Police State Culture The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 “                   CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR. Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a "Strategy Essay Competition." The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012." Authored by Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. the paper is a well documented, "darkly imagined excursion into the future." The ostensibly fictional work is written from the perspective of an imprisoned senior military officer about to be executed for opposing the military takeover of America, a coup accomplished through "legal" means. The essay makes the point that the coup was "the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992," including "the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses," particularly law enforcement. I skimmed the first few pages and usually get bored and move on. After 4 pages and read with a bit more intent and found this worth passing on. http://www.dunlap.pdf With due credit to http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2012/06/coup-of-2012.html Tom Smith ”

Pop was right

Cherry 1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe “ I know this one has been around before but it is worth a rerun. When was the last time you saw a 6 volt battery? You’ll LOVE this one. What got me were the seats… Remember? The oil filter is the blue can with yellow top. You could stick a roll of toilet paper in there. The air filter is the oil bath type, the bottom portion is filled with oil and when you cleaned it you replaced the oil and clean the sump and mesh wire filter. 1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe, 437 original miles, only three owners. Check out the dealer installed “oil filter”, the rusty carb, and you can even see the spark plugs if they need to be changed. [more 1950 Chevrolet Club Coupe] - via "Spin Giard" Which reminded me ... There was excitement in our house when dad came home with the family's first NEW car, a 1952 Chevy.  The engine looked identical (in my mind's eye) to that 1950.  Our  model was black, and so stripped down that it lacked an ash tray, and a radio.  Ergo, on trips mom had a beanbag ashtray sitting on the dash, and she bought a battery powered radio that was next to useless in the car.  About 4 years later dad did allow me to customize it— to this extent.  I "bull-nosed" (removed the hood ornament) and "decked" (removed the Chevy badge from the  trunk lid) .  Finally, I applied a  red pinstripe decal  over the holes.  My friends agreed that these improvement were neat, but to complete the job I'd need Oldsmobile Spinner: hubcaps, and Merc skirts, but no way I could come by those on my own (without lifting them).  Oh, I also installed a suicide knob on the steering wheel, but the old man went bonkers ("why do you think  it's called a suicide knob?!?), and made me remove it. I think I was around 11 at the time.  Later, when I bought my own first car ('50 Ford), I put a suicide knob on it, and almost killed myself the first day.  Took it off.  He was right. About everything. ”