Where There's Smoke ...

What I See                           “ E-cigarettes have become a source of consternation for anti-smoking lawmakers who quiver at the very thought of someone lighting up a tobacco product.  This knee-jerk reaction to the dramatic increase in the use of e-cigarettes in public is manifesting itself in places like Los Angeles opting to treating e-cigarettes as if they were tobacco.  The fear of second hand smoke amongst those who have waged a legislative war on tobacco is one of the guiding principles behind these governmental prohibitions with the City of Los Angeles even going so far as to prohibit using e-cigarettes in outdoor public places and parks. But what is the truth about the vapor emitted from using e-cigarettes?     In order to understand this issue, one needs to understand that e-cigarettes do not involve lighting a paper wrapped tobacco product and pulling the smoke through into your lungs, as is the case with actual cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes on the other hand are not lit, and are essentially little more than a plastic tube which turns nicotine into a flavored vapor that can be consumed by a user.  The vapor does not contain any of the characteristics of a burning cigarette.  Whereas a cigarette left burning in an ash tray produces a haze that lingers throughout a room or building, the vapor from the e-cigarette doesn't have the same effect, as it doesn't emit vapor unless it is being used by a consumer. When being used, the e-cigarette vapor is only emitted into the atmosphere when the consumer exhales.  The e-cigarette vapor itself has been found to be primarily comprised of nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin, water and flavors.  This is an important distinction between the vapor exhaled by an e-cigarette user and a tobacco smoker.   Blah-Blah-Blah I think our great problem as a nation is a sense of  having no personal identity; a sense that we are really just a bump in a statistics table.   I think it explains the recent tattoo obsession;  a way of  expressing individuality, achievement and rank.   I think it may explain the over-the-top eco, vegan, global warming, and other silliness ne plus ultra.  We need God. We need a sense of mission.  Eric Hoffer observed that people with no sense of self worth will look for a movement to latch onto.  It will be their religion, and they willing martyrs in its defense.  That's what I think about this electronic cigarette silliness. People trying to leave a footprint in a pail of water. ”

Who is that with Tom Cruise?

3 Schmucks and a Girl

The Warship Gabby Giffords WTF

“ Yoo Hoo! Ahoy There! Homer Simpson–  “Hey, do we get to land on an aircraft carrier?” Helicopter Pilot– “No, sir.  The closest vessel is the U.S.S. Walter Mondale; it’s a laundry ship.  They’ll take you the rest of the way.” In a daring daytime operation, apparent domestic terrorists have lured US Navy Capt. Joseph Tuite, Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) Gulf Coast into a local Denny's where they are holding him hostage with unlimited coffee refills and complimentary Moons over My Hammy.  Captain Tuite is a mission critical asset to the official keel laying ceremony for the USS Gabrielle Giffords.  Reacting swiftly, the Obama administration awarded the now POW Captain Tuite with the Silver Star and announced that Vice President Biden is ready to negotiate for the Captain's release.  [satire by Rational Gun] I breakfast here on the quarterdeck of the USS Gob Smacked, and wonder at the silliness of naming a warship after a anti-military Democrat congressperson, to honor her for being wounded  by a kindred spirited " left wing political radical" gunman, Jared Loughner.   Where are Monty Python when you need them?   Scent via Tam ”

Superhero Tricks

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JEWS

 

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
― Eric Hoffer 1953

IRS, The Hunter

1000 ...

Trapper John (The Good One)

HLLYWD “ constipated by their own ideology "I mean, you read Andrew Rosenthal [the op-ed page editor] in the New York Times, I mean, he's an apologist. These are people who are constipated by their own ideology, that they cannot see that this man is telling a bold-faced lie right to their face....Nobody nails this guy. And when you read, as I said, if you read the op-ed page of the New York Times, you'd think you were living in a different country. These people don't do anything." It's no secret that most Hollywood celebrities are enthusiastic supporters of President Obama and his liberal policies, but on Fox's Cashin' In on Saturday, 1970s M*A*S*H star Wayne ("Trapper John") Rogers, now a successful businessman and investor, tore into the news media for shielding the President. [Wayne Rogers (Trapper John)] ”

THE SENATE 2014

SENATE DEMOCRATS FORCED TO DEFEND MORE SEATS A recent USA Today poll found that those opposed to ObamaCare were more enthusiastic about voting this November. In addition, a recent AP poll found that, since Obama's reelection, there was been a 10-point swing towards Republicans in voter self-identification. Today, 41% of voters consider themselves Democrat or Democrat-leaning, while 39% now say they are Republicans. Democrats had a 12-point advantage at the end of 2012. Verily I say unto you; what good to win the Senate but lose our soul by electing RINO? The Republicans need to pick up 6 seats to take control of the Senate. The party appears half-way there, with almost certain wins in West Virginia and South Dakota and a big advantage in Montana. Until recent months, most observers assumed that control of the Senate would rest on four deeply-red states; i.e. Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. Under that scenario, the GOP would need to win three of those four contests to take the majority. In recent weeks, however, the Senate battleground has expanded at the expense of the Democrats. Democrat retirements in Iowa and Michigan have made those states very competitive. A recent poll in New Hampshire, which is home to many transplants from Massachusetts, put former GOP MA Sen. Scott Brown just six points behind incumbent Dem. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. In Colorado, popular GOP Rep. Cory Gardiner is challenging freshman Dem. Mark Udall in the swing state. The Democrat party is on the defensive in Colorado after two Democrat state Senators were ousted in recall elections last year as a result of their push for gun control. A third Democrat state Senator facing recall resigned, as her ouster would have given Republicans control of the state Senate. [etc] The GOP senate primaries are critical.  Where (true) Teapartiers are nominated; wins happen. And change happens.  For a few years anyway. Then they all ... you know, have to be replaced by true Teapartiers themselves. Say Amen.

I think I can, I think I can

My New To-Do Goal

l know;too old. But if you don't keep trying new stuff you just shrivel up.  OMF BACK!

BLOWING UP

Must Eat Brains                      “ Blowing Stuff Up When a woman gets a vibrator, it's viewed as a bit of naughty fun.  BUT when a guy orders a 24-Volt Sunbeam FKCU Master Pro 5000 blow-up latex doll with six-speed pulsating vagina, elasticized anus with non-drip semen collection tray, together with optional built-in realistic orgasm scream Dolby surround sound system, with huge breasts and pink nipples,............. he's called a pervert. Cuzzin Ricky  I'm reminded; watched a bit of a movie titled Lars and the Real Girl on Netflix last year. Dude falls in love with a sex doll and brings it with him to social affairs.  It actually disgusted me. Of course, that's obviously due to my inability to appreciate real art. Despite not earning back its initial budget in theatrical release, Lars and the Real Girl was critically acclaimed. It earned an Academy Award nomination for "Best Writing (Original Screenplay)", while Gosling received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy" and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role". Wiki The sickest characters?  Them what tried to show their capacity for diversity by accommodating this sick freak's depravity.  Since I only watched about 20 minutes, however, it could be that they were all blown-up in the end, and I've misjudged.  Let me know. ”

End of Lent

Just guessing here boss I didn't bother to post any data to Fit Bit yesterday.  This is a guess.

One American News Network

“ OANN Dear Rodger, I was surprised to learn of this news network from a nephew and wondered if you'd heard of it. One America News Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News Fios 116 Regards, Tom (Mann) No, Tom, I'd never heard of OAN.  I do have Verizon FIOS, so I immediately dialed in 116.  I saw what appeared to be a BBC style news program; rapid fire news being delivered by news readers; deadpan expressions; no voice inflection editorializing.  Below are the news topics covered for 20 minutes and 20 seconds, beginning at 7:39 AM 0n April 21, 2014. At one point a news reader advised, "Remember, if you see any area of the news that is not being covered, contact us at ... ." Here's what The Daily Beast has to say. “The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he (founder Charles Herring) said. Soon Rupert Murdoch’s behemoth won’t be the only conservative cable news station around, the founder of One America News Network, set to be unveiled at CPAC today, tells David Freedlander. A new right-wing news and talk station is coming to cable boxes later this year, The Daily Beast has learned.[...] One America News Network, on the other hand, has a two-tier mission: providing opinion-free straight news reporting and right-leaning talk shows. I'll let this commenter to the Beast column sum up. Apr 20, 2013 TheresaEaley Judging by the majority of the comments on here I find it quite amusing how threatened people (mostly libs, progressive, and Dems) seem to be by the thought of this new conservative news channel. Maybe they are worried that some of their ilk might watch and start questioning things. Thanks Tom ”

EASTER!

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Celebrating Easter Here Boss A young man was talking to the Virgin Mary in Heaven. and asked her if he could ask a personal question. Mary agreed. "Mary, I notice that you always look sort of sad on the statues and paintings of you holding the baby Jesus," he said.  "Why are you so sad?" Mary pulled the young man aside and whispered, "I have never told this to anyone before, but I was sort of hoping for a girl." Just before his sermon, the pastor was testing his microphone by tapping it  It didn't work, so he called out. "There is something wrong with the microphone," to which the obedient congregation answered. "and also with you." How to make holy water.  Put a pan of water in the stove and boil the Hell out of it. Catholic Bulletin

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Green

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Mohammed Pedro Whitaker is Kansas City Highway Sniper.  Guess.     metzger

The Pawn

Oh My

Western States Begin .....

[....]   Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, was flanked by a dozen participants, including her counterparts from Idaho and Montana, during a press conference after the daylong closed-door summit. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee addressed the group over lunch, Ivory said. New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington also were represented. The summit was in the works before this month’s tense standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management over cattle grazing, Lockhart said. "What’s happened in Nevada is really just a symptom of a much larger problem," Lockhart said. Fielder, who described herself as "just a person who lives in the woods," said federal land management is hamstrung by bad policies, politicized science and severe federal budget cuts. "Those of us who live in the rural areas know how to take care of lands," Fielder said, who lives in the northwestern Montana town of Thompson Falls.  [... FULL] Here's the bones for my new novel.  That, above,  might be chapter one.  The rest, purely fiction of course. 1 We were the greatest nation ever.   2 You know where we are today. Obama has administered the coup de grâce to our body, already gravely wounded by post Nixon government. 3 Two choices. a. Remain whole—all 57 states—and continue on this course.  Or— b. Expel from the union all states in the utter thrall of Liberalism, thus creating two nations; each free to trade with one another, but governed separately. 4 We are still the greatest people.  A new United States, strictly obedient to the original United States Constitution and Ten Bill of Rights will be reconstituted. 5 In due time the outcast Pox Amerika,  continuing their course of tyrannical government, and corrupting social experimentation, must suffer fatal moral and fiscal bankruptcy.  One by one, then, each will revolt.  One by one, each will apply for readmission to the Untied States. One by one each  will be evaluated. 6 In less than 100 years we will be whole, and free again.  And kick-ass. Aside.  The Communist Party's (CPUSA) utter infiltration of labor unions in Oregon and Washington, during the 1930s, have a lasting legacy that makes both less than good partners in any restoration.  There is, however, a good chance that,  faced with  the prospect of honest government, they would bolt to California.

North Korean *snort* Marathon

“ Some concepts are impossible to take seriously, let alone visualize.  This is one. North Korea's Marathon: A Rare Chance to Tour Pyongyang on Foot ”

Nanodots and Seawater

TECHNO THRILLS                                “ Filler-Up! A battery that uses nanotechnology to charge your smartphone in 30 seconds may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie but an Israeli startup claims to have created just that. StoreDot unveiled its battery charging prototype Monday at Microsoft's Think Next conference in Tel Aviv. [Full] It relies on bio-organic nanodots, tiny conductive crystals that help enable rapid charging. I don't know nothin' about machinery, but I wonder if this technology could somehow be applied to electric car batteries?  I mean, I'm no eco freak, but wow, a breakthrough like this would pretty much relegate the  middle east sand oil industry to buggy whip status.  Just a pipe dream though.  But who care?  The U.S. Navy is making jet fuel out of seawater!  USA UAS USA!  Railguns aren't the only thing the U.S. Navy is bragging about this week. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. announced they have successfully turned seawater into fuel. When your car runs out of gas, you find a gas station and fill it up. For ships and planes, however, there aren't any stations out in the middle of the ocean. Instead, the Navy's vessels are refueled by oil tankers that come to them. All of that will change in the future. By extracting carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas simultaneously from seawater, and then using a catalytic converter, scientists created fuel that looks and smells pretty much the same as regular ol' petroleum-based fuel. The advantages of seawater-based fuel is twofold. First, the ships don't need to be redesigned in order to use the new seawater-based fuel since it's basically the same. Second, the ability to create fuel from all that water around aircraft carriers means less dependence on oil. The U.S. Navy envisions ships will be able to create their own fuel for themselves and for planes. So long oil tankers! "Game-changing" as the breakthrough is, the U.S. Navy says ships that generate their own fuel from seawater aren't going to start sailing the seas anytime soon — they're at least ten years away. For now, the U.S. Navy's scientists are focusing on how to produce larger quantities of seawater-based fuel. AFP, via Digital Journal I wonder if Obama has given all of this technology to China yet? ”

Hilz BilZ

Find Jesus

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CAMP IRS

Hitler's Mustache                “ A New, More Sinister IRS Scandal Let's Concentrate People Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents in prison. So who are the speech regulators seeking to impose government limits on the exercise of the First Amendment? Like bats in the belfry, they tend to congregate online at University of California at Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen’s election blog. Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups that are insufficiently quiet. Larry Noble, a law professor now with the Soros-funded Campaign Legal Center, was cited in the emails as someone agitating to jail conservatives who “falsely” report on IRS forms that they are not engaged in political speech. Lerner talked about setting up meetings with Justice Department election lawyers who wanted to talk about making Noble’s dreams a reality — this after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised the idea of criminal charges for conservatives who are not sufficiently quiet, charges that they falsely completed an IRS tax exemption form. Their theory is a favorite among speech regulators in the Soros-funded left and academia. It goes like this: “Too much speech is bad (unless unions do it.) Groups who talk about things leftists find uncomfortable are necessarily political and thus should never have 501(c) tax exempt status. Criminally charge any group that said on their IRS tax exempt form that they were not political if they say things the left finds uncomfortable. Get Eric Holder’s Justice Department on the case.” The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal this is essentially what was going on behind the scenes at the IRS, DOJ, and with outside leftist interests. [...] Hans von Spakovsky, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is intimately familiar with the scope and power of the speech regulators. He said: “Ever since I came to Washington, I’ve been shocked at the liberal politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, advocacy groups like Democracy 21 and Fred Wertheimer, and government bureaucrats at the FEC and the Justice Department who want to use the power of government to censor their opponents. They hate the First Amendment and would fit right into the Soviet Union.” [Full A New, More Sinister IRS Scandal] Remember this? I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.” Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious. [P.J.Media Eyewitness to the Ayers Revolution] ”

Teachers Strike Back at the Union!

ThugBama                       DON'T TREAD On US Is Back! “ Maryland Teachers Union Strikes Back As previously reported on NetRightDaily.com, the Wicomico County Education Association (WCEA) is scheduled to hold a vote on April 28th and 29th on changes to the teachers association bylaws, removing the WCEA’s mandatory association with the state union.  Needless to say, the MSEA isn’t going let this vote happen without consequences. In response to the impending vote, loyalists to the state union secretly entered the WCEA’s offices, changed the locks and security codes, altered office equipment, and fired the WCEA’s sole employee, all in violation of the law and the governing documents of the WCEA, according to WCEA leadership. This response is akin to the bully tactics of a neighborhood gangster after a local business misses its latest “protection” payment—but instead of “protection” extortion, the state union is ensuring that it won’t lose county teachers’ annual dues in excess of $500,000. It appears the MSEA is making an example of Wicomico Country teachers, lest any other small county teachers decide they don’t need to pay half a million dollars or more to a politically-charged, scandal-ridden state union. The disassociation vote is still scheduled to commence as planned. Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2014/04/teachers-union-strikes-back/#ixzz2zFHY5CrJ ‘Culture of intimidation’ and "bullying tactics;" phrases that capture the American political left in this Age of Nefarious. But, whoa!  Teachers taking a stand against their union!  In Maryland!  And the citizenry standing up to government intimidation in Nevada!  Oh, sweet Jesus! I feel the vapors coming on. ”

GODLESS

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The Christian Bear

Bear with me

First day of deer season, and Harry was up before dawn and on his way to to a favorite upstate hunting ground.  Once there he settled in, drank a cup of coffee from his thermos—and promptly fell asleep.  He woke some hours later.  Even before he opened his eyes though, he felt the presence; could smell, and feel the heat, from something very close.  He opened eyes to behold a very large, and very menacing black bear looming over him.  The bear's left foot rested on the stock of his Remington 700.    Harry had heard enough tales about predatory blacks targeting humans in this area to know he was in very, very deep trouble.

Now, he was not a religious person.  In fact, Harry had zero exposure to praying and church stuff of any kind, but in this moment of sheer terror he closed his eyes and blurted—No, screamed, at the top of his lungs—Jesus, please!  If you're out there, please at least make this a Christian bear who will listen to your command.  And FLASH!  Harry opened his eyes and beheld the beast on bended knees, paws clapped together in prayer, and clearly intoning:

"Bless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen."