COBY Who?

What I Saw                                         Wooted GEE DAD-IT'S A COBY! Me and MoSup Christmas gifted Mo-Sup with a   Famous Maker 46" 1080p 3D LED HDTV  for $405 Delivered! (Woot).  She had a lousy 32 inch SEKO that didn't get full HD, and had no recognized code for the Verizon remote.  When it was being unloaded from the truck yesterday, I looked—gasp.  HFS!  The "famous maker" is SONY!  But, when the guy put the box down in the hallway—see rollover.   It was a COBY!?! My first thought was of Manhattan discount stores selling SOMY electronics and such.  Yikes. I Googled COBY and up popped ads from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.; so I felt better. Getting to the bottom line—HMFS! Out of the box this is the best picture I've ever seen, and I have a Sony 46" LCD in the den. LED rocks.  I can pick this thing up with one hand. My selling point to MoSup was that she can leave it running for a year with $2 of electricity.  I overstated, but not by a whole hell of a lot.   Coby claims a yearly cost of $21.  Plus, the picture is viewable from any angle. After charging up the included 3-D glasses, I  found RIO on Verizon, and HFS!  It's freaking 3-D! It's wonderful—way way better than the only other 3-D movie I ever saw, House of Wax. And get this.  ESPN is going 3-D at year end!  HFS!!! Anyway, I'm happy.  MoSup's flabbergasted.  The sumbitch might break in a year, but for now this is one sweet deal. I just noticed that the Woot promo does say "Coby 46" 1080p 3D LED HDTV, 3 HDMI." Now it does. I swear it didn't when I first tuned in.

The Plague

Today's PSA

Exit Tax

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Lying Mayan Wetbacks

WHOA! “ Man, we're still here? Glad I didn't at the last minute believe them Mayan wetbacks, and not steal the Bentley from City Motors, or do that cheerleaders thing.   Phew. ”

The Best of Us

Above & Beyond “ Dog tags of the more than 58,000 service men and women who died in the Vietnam War hang from the ceiling of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010. The 10-by-40-foot sculpture, entitled Above & Beyond, was designed by Ned Broderick and Richard Steinbock. The tens of thousands of metal dog tags are suspended 24 feet in the air, 1 inch apart, from fine lines that allow them to move and chime with shifting air currents. Museum employees using a kiosk and laser pointer help visitors locate the exact dog tag with the imprinted name of their lost friend or relative. [More] Tim W ”

Sleep Monsters

Meet The Press

When Childhood Fears Come True Peggy Noonan “ "What's so terrible for the little kids who hear about Newtown is that the 'dream' monster is now real," said a friend. This from Peggy Noonan's interesting "When Childhood Fears Come True." (Behind a paywall, but I copied some of it)  I think what's happening here is not to much the "dream monster" being realized as actually being created.   I know that the "End of Earth" monster promulgated by too many "Yes, the earth will die in 5 billion years and here's why." science shows is in my grandson's head.  I mean to kids 5 billion and next year are pretty much the same. So monsters do not have to be real. My childhood fear was that a windy night sounded like a tidal wave rushing to engulf our house.  More than once I got out of bed to look, because I heard waves lapping the house. I think because a tidal wave hit Montrose Beach (on Lake Michigan), near Chicago's Loop stuck in my head.  This happened mostly in December, as I look back, because the real fear was I'd die before Christmas presents. More on point, in 1955 3 boys my age were found strangled in the forest preserve very near to where we kids played and caught catfish.  I never ever forgot that, but not once did I go to bed worried that I was next.  We, none of my gang, ever stopped playing in the "woods" because of that incident.  By the by, I stumbled across "Death Closes the Case of Boys’ Murders," five years ago.  Here's another cut from Noonan's article that I like. ‘ Religion, said Mr. Kennedy, "isn't supposed to explain such things" as Newtown. "That's not the task of religion, never has been." Religion has to do with the central mystery of existence—"the tremendous and gripping mystery" of being alive. "Joseph Campbell once said people don't need an explanation of their lives as much as they need an experience of being alive." ’ Which is pretty much, "Life sometimes sucks, live with it kid."  ”

Ah, the comforting sound of the firing squad

Red flowers for Stalin’s birthday “ Stockholm Syndrome? I imagine this in Detroit 100 year from now (Roll) Communists across Russia are celebrating 133 years since the birth of one of the most influential dictators of the past century, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. [full] Like you I find it mind boggling that people will  publicly celebrate the most evil of people.  I guess when you grow up in a culture of daily terror it's like the crappy fish soup you momma made you eat; it's today's comfort food.  Or, maybe the Stockholm Syndrome at work?  Anyway, it's hard for some to accept that 80 years of their life was akin to roasting in Hell.  We'll have some of the same in 100 years. ”

Michael Mooron- He's BACK!

Michael Moore: Americans’ desire to own guns stems from racial fears I wonder if during WWII Americans had the opportunity to watch Nazi propaganda film?  I think it would have made it easier for families who lost loved ones to accept and understand their sacrifice.

And the answer is ...

—   you berk   " ...  if given the chance, what new law would you create and why?" “ “I think that any lays there are in Constitution or in life, are already made. I think that we should have, uh, a straight way to go in our similar, or, eh, in our lives as is this.” “For example, I’m a surfer, and I think that the best wave that I can take is the wave that I wait for it. So please do our only, eh, law that we can do. Thank you Vegas!” [DC] Irene Sofia Esser Quintero was still awarded third place, but more importantly is now allowed to vote in California. ”

MAYAN WTF?

WHOA! “ You can't see it, but electricity was arcing between two transformers. Nobody so far has said they'd ever seen such a thing outside of the movies.  Let me tell you something - I was not laughing at the Mayan thing at the time. I couldn't find my rosary until  our power came back at 2:30 AM.  ”

REVOLT

"Peace in our Time" Boner “ Has there been a House speaker in modern American history with less control over his members than John Boehner? [WaPost] Boehnor stripped  Reps. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., and Justin Amash, R-Mich of their seats on the House Budget Committee because they wouldn't play ball  with  the "cave-men."  There's your new leadership. ”

Facials

Police State Culture Beat Facial Recognition “ Facial recognition technology isn’t part of science fiction anymore, it’s something that’s being employed by a handful of governments around the world, and even private enterprise is getting in on it with applications like Facedeals. If you don’t want to be pinged in public by a surveillance suite though, hacktivist group Anonymous have made a handy instructional video to keep you safe. Tips to dodge facial recognition software include wearing a clear plastic mask to make your facial features unrecognisable to video surveillance, because your face appears all reflecty and blurred. Another way the Anons suggest is to tilt your head more than 15 degrees to the side, as software limitations means you’ll be rendered undetectable. You can also apply “elaborate makeup” — Gotye-style — to make yourself invisible to facial recognition tech. All of these make you look pretty silly, though. The best way to do it that the Anons recommend is to get a few infrared lights powered by a nine-volt battery and attach it to to a hat. The lights will be relatively invisible to the naked eye, but cameras looking to identify you will pick up the light and the resulting bloom will cover your face completely when viewed by cameras. [Full] It's very important that we begin trying to beat  traffic cams, drones,  facial recognition, and any other snoopology being sold to as as "for for own security.   The reason—Americans are leery of these devices as it is, but that hasn't stopped their proliferation.  Any nascent police state has to sell the idea to enough people that they can make arrests and prosecute without a ground swell of protest.  Weak sisters need to see widespread resistence NOW. It's not just our government, it's the world order; an idea this government has bought into by the way.  Drudge had the Civilian Drone Warfare story up earlier today (OMFG! Now, a new online video poses a more troubling question: What if civilian drones are equipped to shoot more than just pictures?OMFG).  The media will ride this story like a bull on a cute a cow.  The Newtowne shooting is already being employed as justification to rip up the constitution.  And face it- you won't see people employing home built drones, unless and until there's open rebellion of the Warsaw ghetto variety. Hell, back in 2007 I advocated private civilian use of cammmed up drones to guard the US-Mexican border,  That meme continued for awhile, to a point where I mounted shotguns on them, and had high school kids patrolling sectors.  First a warning shit, then a mini nuke.   Not a new idea then.  Problem now is, we have a gummint that will use drones to control us while allowing the wholesale influx of illegals!   Tell me that's not something that needs fighting! ”

Next News Network Launch

Rediscovering Our Greatness It's in you! Rodger --   Real quick -- theres only two nights before our maiden broadcast.   For me as the Executive Producer, the deadline pressure is on.   I know I've asked a lot of you recently. But it would mean a lot to me if you could join the thousands of Americans who've already stepped up to build this Next News Network, and watch, then share, this new 40 second promo I released yesterday.   A simple action of watching, then sharing this video, makes a difference -- to me, to the thousands of patriots and activists out there working to raise visibility, and to the millions of Americans counting on us to deliver them a new choice.   It will only take 40 seconds to watch and then 2 seconds to share, please use this link:   Thank you -- for everything.   Gary Franchi

Leno

Plan F U

The Real Man of the Year

WHAT GUMMINT DOES          TEXT “  Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion in the ObamaCare case was not statesmanlike; it was elitist.  By grounding its reasoning in an amorphous, under-theorized and functionally limitless constitutional power, the majority ensured that people who disagree with the outcome will be flummoxed in trying to critique it.  In truth, the majority’s reasoning on the tax power is weak, even risible—but few people possess the tools to explain why, and by the time they acquire those tools, the intensity of the moment will have faded. He invented out of whole cloth a new definition of taxation that contravenes long-standing precedent. He added hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, by way of his Medicaid ruling. And he forever tarnished his legacy as a Justice, and his promise to the nation that he would serve as an umpire, and “remember that it’s my job to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” So yes, it was a deft move to uphold the healthcare law while avoiding the Commerce Clause quagmire.  In steering the court around a direct confrontation with the other branches it is possible that Chief Justice Roberts has assured constitutional peace for our time.  But given a choice between fidelity to the Constitution and intra-governmental harmony, Roberts chose the latter.  And he did so in a way that will shut many people out of the debate over the quality of the Court’s reasoning and the legitimacy of its decision.  Let him be remembered for that, too. [Forbes] [Forbes] Bottom line, and in plain talk - because of Roberts we are left with no place to hide from the federal Goliath.  We can no longer "disappear." Every vestige of our privacy and personal life are under the purview of the Internal Revenue Service.  Under the  Robert's rule, government can tax (confiscate) every possession we have.  He could have stopped it all.  All things considered then,  Chief Justice Roberts is the worst person in American history. ”

Good for the soul

“ An elderly Italian man who lived on the outskirts of Rimini, Italy went to the local church for confession.   When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said: "Father, during World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So I hid her in my attic." The priest replied: "That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that." "There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favours. This happened several times a week, and sometimes twice on Sundays." The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven." "Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. I do have one more question." "And what is that?" asked the priest. "Should I tell her the war is over?'' Merrily ”

Insane Government

Why People Cheered the Movie... and would prolly cheer the real deal “ Let's say you own a home and your mortgage is $1,000 a month. If, however, you instead rented the home from a landlord your rent, let's say, would be $2,000 a month. To the mandarins at the IRS, you are "earning" an implied $1,000 a month because you own and not rent, and that "value" should be added to your taxable income. If you own your home out-right and don't have a mortgage at all, you would be "earning" $2,000 a month which the IRS thinks should be added to your taxable income. [The Most Absurd 'Loophole' in the Tax Code] ...   the feds list this exemption as one of the top "loopholes" in the tax code. They estimate that it "costs" the feds over $50 billion a year to not levy this tax. ”

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Don M

Dem Leader: KILL NRA Members

Democrat Thugs                      Can't say he doesn't deserve it CLICK            RAK

Smells Like Christmas, Mmmmmmmmm

CHRISTMAS Bacon Yule Log - A Virtual Fireplace for Your Holiday  Skyhawker Doug

CHICOMS joing with Obama and Dems

Tails of the Gun                          1000 Wolds I'm Barack Obama & I approve this request

An Obama approval poll you can trust ...

Tails of the Gun                           Made a quick stop at my favorite firearms shop today ... “ A priest and a rabbi came in to the shop to look at CCL Firearms. The owner of the store waited on them personally, determined exactly what their needs and comfort levels were and made a couple of great recommendations. Both made purchases. If this didn’t come from long-time correspondent, photographer, reporter, bumper sticker aficionado, and music impresario Danelle, I wouldn’t believe it. The owner comped both men free memberships to the local range as well as lessons. Before I left, I gave my salesman a list of pistols and rifles that I would be interested in acquiring in the near future – He added it to their very long list of orders. [Legal Insurrection- Full] An Obama approval poll you can trust ... ”

Ho Ho Ho

One Week To Go

Don't Shoot Your Eye Out!

Christmas Shoot-em-out

Rat-a-tat-tat

Police State Culture                    Yeah, scratch a ProgState, find a police state. Connecticut warns Facebook about user content “ However … (and this is a biiig “however”)  when that censorship is done at the behest of a government or under threat by a government, well, now we have a problem. [More:Doug M] Ding Dang skip to ma lou ”

Garmin

Barmin! Gramin! Garmin! It's been nearly three years since  I  you bought that Garmin sat-nav.  The battery is totally dead, so the only way to use it is with the cigar lighter electricity hose, and even then the destination has to be plugged in each time.  No memory storage at all.   Normally with these things I'd junk it and buy her a new one, but times are hard so I looked into battery replacement.  I mean, when the Apple i-pod crapped out, Apple said tough, buy a new i-pod. (do they still do that?)  Anyway, this made my day. The new battery was $19.95.  Free shipping, no tax, and they threw in the installation tool kit. By the by, there has not been a single time I've used this thing that I haven't said "This is the greatest gadget of all time."  This model has blue-tooth, traffic update (free) and loads of other features. My advice, buy Garmin, or go without. The others are rubbish.

All crime pales against Obama's presidency

What I See            Tell me Obama's been arrested, or leave me alone. “ So, she likes a nice boning.  Who doesn't? Note: This neighborhood bar is focusing on sports, sex, religion, and fun stories about misfortune that befall people we hate and despise.  Other than that, who cares?  Like this - UPDATE: Woman Convicted for Sex With Human Skeleton... ^ Theoretically this is sex, but what an insignificant story to make Drudge's front page.  In fact, there are no news stories on his front page, as we speak, that cause my blood to rise or fall.  The crime of the century is the Obama presidency.  By comparison,  nothing moves or shocks anymore.  Nothing. Certainly not that bit of silliness.  Take this current headline Union threatens Maine-to-Texas dock strike... I haven't followed up on it.  Just part of  the wall-to-wall Obama crime spree. Don't need to read it because here's what I know. The west coast dock workers union have been controlled or strongly influenced by the Communist party since the Harry Bridges days in the 1930s. Still are. They are not going to do anything to hurt a fellow traveler like Obama. Someone tell me if I've guessed wrongly.  ”

You do not want to be the one missing at the coffee-klatch

Sh%t Southern Women Say PART 1 PART 2 Seems right to me

Don't let mom throw your stuff out

Today's Tip

Mann

Ear Mites and Wesson oil

I had to put my beloved German Shepherd Boomer down because of ear mites that vets just could not get rid of.  It drove her so crazy.  And sumbitch, we had Wesson oil in the pantry. BUT WAIT! There's More

London Blitz

Interactive London Blitz “ One of those dots is where James May lives now, Cuzzin Ricky ”

Mike Bloomberg's Childhood Interests

Heh

Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown

Tails of the Gun   Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown “ Has the rate of random mass shootings in the United States increased? Over the past 30 years, the answer is definitely yes. It is also true that the total U.S. homicide rate has fallen by over half since 1980, and the gun homicide rate has fallen along with it. Today, Americans are safer from violent crime, including gun homicide, than they have been at any time since the mid-1960s. [Full] As the population rises ... ”

SAFE SEX

Hotel Safe Sex? Tommy Lee Smith

Guns Kill People crap again

Police State                               BOGIE at NINE-O'CLOCK “ MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Talks Gun ‘Confiscation’ But Wait— The U.S. also has a far higher rate of murders committed with knives, but I doubt that cutlery ownership is any higher in the U.S. than in Japan, Germany, and the U.K.  America is more violent than other nations in ways unrelated to guns and for reasons having nothing to do with the rate of gun ownership.-, Florida State Universit criminologist. We know what's going on here, but it may become a moot cause for Progressives.  Organized resistance is impossible in a police state, guns or no guns.   We play by the rules; they do not (obviously). Does your state have organized militia?  Mine does not. Tom Smith ”

Yo, bitch

Kids will be kids like what they see on TV “ Teacher asks the kids in class: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Little Billy: "I wanna be a billionaire, have a beautiful bitch on my arm, give her a Ferrari worth a million bucks, an apartment in Copacabana, a mansion in Paris, a jet to travel the world, a 200-foot yacht, an Infinite Visa Card, and I want to make love to her three times a day." The teacher, shocked with the bad behavior of the child, decides not to give importance to what he said and continues the lesson . . . " And you, Nancy?" "I wanna be Little Billy's bitch!" I know, but it made me laugh again; like this didn't. Merrily ”

I made a meme

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Cool Wall

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Doug M

... eternal vigilence, else....

Police State Culture                    If we're honest— American women especially seem to prefer government 'protection'— it must be said.

How's Your Torn Muscle?

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Ron Metzger