COURT TRANSCRIPTS

HOW DO COURT RECORDERS KEEP STRAIGHT FACES? And other legal tips .. These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts (Gifted here)  and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?' ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! ______________________________ ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. _________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget.. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? ________________________________ ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you (-----)ing me? _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: Getting laid ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: She had three children , right? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: How many were boys? WITNESS: None. ATTORNEY: Were there any girls? WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney? ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death.. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral... _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? ______________________________________ And last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Jeremy Clarkson Does Guns

Tails of the Gun (Hot Linked)          Things That Changed the Wur—rreld Jeremy Clarkson—creator and erstwhile host of my favorite adventure show, Top Gear,  is my favorite talker.  I like him because we share a similar mistrust of  "Progressives;" we share a sense of humor; and he has a voice I can hear and understand without subtitles. Add to that this history of guns (he owns a Tommy Gun! In Britian!) and ... total vidgasm!

GUN SAFETY LESSON

WHOA! Tommy Gun Smith

MSNBC MELTDOWN

MSNBC ALL-STARS

MSNBC meltdown: 'Media arm of DNC' in tailspin David Axelrod now works for MSNBC, which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod.”-  President Brock O. Bama Even MSNBC’s flagship, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” with a mere 145,000 viewers between 25 and 54, just experienced its worst quarter ever, and analysts say it is now essentially part of the leftist fringe. Other prime-time MSNBC shows are suffering a similar fate. The failure has become impossible to conceal, and even President Obama, whose agenda have been promoted non-stop on the channel, has been lovingly ridiculing his most faithful cheerleaders. “MSNBC is here. They’re a little overwhelmed,” Obama joked at last year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. “They’ve never seen an audience this big before.” The year before that, Obama comically hit on what numerous sources who spoke to WND have identified as one of MSNBC’s biggest problems. “Some of my former advisers have switched over to the dark side,” the president joked in 2013. “For example, David Axelrod now works for MSNBC, which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod.” MSNBC President Phil Griffin [described as a “hardcore leftist”], who in 2011 described the channel as “the place to go for progressives,” realizes there is a problem. [...] There is even talk of drastically scaling back MSNBC’s radical left-wing bias. [Full] Obama's recognition of his movement's "useful idiots" is ... useful.  And where are the GE stockholders, (MSNBC's  parent)?

A Simple Dinner

FOOD

A Simple Dinner When the wife's in Florida visiting her girlfriends I'm not much for standing on ceremony in the kitchen.  Here's one of my favs (originally sent by Metzger via Eddie Lowenstein). I'm sure Helly will find a way to use some of her electric gizmos, but the result will be much the same.

GLUTEN FREE

THIS BLOG IS GLUTEN FREE This is a share that's run amok.  I started to say only that Lee Kum Kim Spiracha Mayo has become my go-to condiment of choice for damn near everything.  Tacos, eggs, sammiches; anything where a little (or lot of) tang is indicated by ones palate.  The label says refrigerate after opening for quality, and I guess you should, but I never have. You're welcome. Clean and simple, right?  But then I noticed the "Gluten Free" sticker for the first time, and my rubber broke. Sploosh! When was it that half of us, seemingly,  discovered that we're being attacked by gluten?  I'm not flat naysaying, just saying.  I can believe that Monsanto, and others, have likely wreaked havoc on our digestive systems over the years, but come on.  Why in the hell would mayonnaise (eggs and oil), or sriracha ( chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt) contain wheat gluten in the first place?  Sheesh.  COMING SOON? GIRD YOUR COINS.

Inside The Jerry Can

History of Great Stuff You Didn't Know was Great Stuff  A very fascinating piece of WW II history - The Little Can that could The jerry can! During World War II the United States exported more tons of petroleum products than of all other war material combined. The mainstay of the enormous oil-and gasoline transportation network that fed the war was the oceangoing tanker, supplemented on land by pipelines, railroad tank cars, and trucks. But for combat vehicles on the move, another link was crucial—smaller containers that could be carried and poured by hand and moved around a battle zone by trucks. Hitler knew this. He perceived early on that the weakest link in his plans for blitzkrieg using his panzer divisions was fuel supply. He ordered his staff to design a fuel container that would minimize gasoline losses under combat conditions. As a result the German army had thousands of jerry cans, as they came to be called, stored and ready when hostilities began in 1939. The jerry can had been developed under the strictest secrecy, and its unique features were many. It was flat-sided and rectangular in shape, consisting of two halves welded together as in a typical automobile gasoline tank. It had three handles, enabling one man to carry two cans and pass one to another man in bucket-brigade fashion. Its capacity was approximately five U.S. gallons; its weight filled, forty-five pounds. Thanks to an air chamber at the top, it would float on water if dropped overboard or from a plane. Its short spout was secured with a snap closure that could be propped open for pouring, making unnecessary any funnel or opener. A gasket made the mouth leak proof. An air-breathing tube from the spout to the air space kept the pouring smooth. And most important, the can’s inside was lined with an impervious plastic material developed for the insides of steel beer barrels. This enabled the jerry can to be used alternately for gasoline and water. Early in the summer of 1939, this secret weapon began a roundabout odyssey into American hands. An American engineer named Paul Pleiss, finishing up a manufacturing job in Berlin, persuaded a German colleague to join him on a vacation trip overland to India. The two bought an automobile chassis and built a body for it. As they prepared to leave on their journey, they realized that they had no provision for emergency water. The German engineer knew of and had access to thousands of jerry cans stored at Tempelhof Airport. He simply took three and mounted them on the underside of the car. The two drove across eleven national borders without incident and were halfway across India when Field Marshal Goering sent a plane to take the German engineer back home. Before departing, the engineer compounded his treason by giving Pleiss complete specifications for the jerry can’s manufacture. Pleiss continued on alone to Calcutta. Then he put the car in storage and returned to Philadelphia. Back in the United States, Pleiss told military officials about the container, but without a sample can he could stir no interest, even though the war was now well under way. The risk involved in having the cans removed from the car and shipped from Calcutta seemed too great, so he eventually had the complete vehicle sent to him, via Turkey and the Cape of Good Hope. It arrived in New York in the summer of 1940 with the three jerry cans intact. Pleiss immediately sent one of the cans to Washington. The War Department looked at it but unwisely decided that an updated version of their World War I container would be good enough. That was a cylindrical ten-gallon can with two screw closures. It required a wrench and a funnel for pouring. That one jerry can in the Army’s possession was later sent to Camp Holabird, in Maryland. There it was poorly redesigned; the only features retained were the size, shape, and handles. The welded circumferential joint was replaced with rolled seams around the bottom and one side. Both a wrench and a funnel were required for its use. And it now had no lining. As any petroleum engineer knows, it is unsafe to store gasoline in a container with rolled seams. This ersatz can did not win wide acceptance. The British first encountered the jerry can during the German invasion of Norway, in 1940, and gave it its English name (the Germans were, of course, the “Jerries”). Later that year Pleiss was in London and was asked by British officers if he knew anything about the can’s design and manufacture. He ordered the second of his three jerry cans flown to London. Steps were taken to manufacture exact duplicates of it. Two years later the United States was still oblivious of the can. Then, in September 1942, two quality-control officers posted to American refineries in the    Mideast ran smack into the problems being created by ignoring the jerry can. I was one of those two. passing through Cairo two weeks before the start of the Battle of El Alamein, we learned that the British wanted no part of a planned U.S. Navy can; as far as they were concerned, the only container worth having was the Jerry can, even though their only supply was those captured in battle. The British were bitter; two years after the invasion of Norway there was still no evidence that their government had done anything about the jerry can. My colleague and I learned quickly about the jerry can’s advantages and the Allied can’s costly disadvantages, and we sent a cable to naval officials in Washington stating that 40 percent of all the gasoline sent to Egypt was being lost through spillage and evaporation. We added that a detailed report would follow. The 40 percent figure was actually a guess intended to provoke alarm, but it worked. A cable came back immediately requesting confirmation. We then arranged a visit to several fuel-handling depots at the rear of Montgomery’s army and found there that conditions were indeed appalling. Fuel arrived by rail from the sea in fifty-five-gallon steel drums with rolled seams and friction-sealed metallic mouths. The drums were handled violently by local laborers. Many leaked. The next link in the chain was the infamous five-gallon “petrol tin.” This was a square can of tin plate that had been used for decades to supply lamp kerosene. It was hardly useful for gasoline. In the hot desert sun, it tended to swell up, burst at the seams, and leak. Since a funnel was needed for pouring, spillage was also a problem. Allied soldiers in Africa knew that the only gasoline container worth having was German. Similar tins were carried on Liberator bombers in flight. They leaked out perhaps a third of the fuel they carried. Because of this, General Wavell’s defeat of the Italians in North Africa in 1940 had come to naught. His planes and combat vehicles had literally run out of gas. Likewise in 1941, General Auchinleck’s victory over Rommel had withered away. In 1942 General Montgomery saw to it that he had enough supplies, including gasoline, to whip Rommel in spite of terrific wastage. And he was helped by captured jerry cans. The British historian Desmond Young later confirmed the great importance of oil cans in the early African part of the war. “No one who did not serve in the desert,” he wrote, “can realize to what extent the difference between complete and partial success rested on the simplest item of our equipment—and the worst. Whoever sent our troops into desert warfare with the [five-gallon] petrol tin has much to answer for. General Auchinleck estimates that this ‘flimsy and ill-constructed container’ led to the loss of thirty per cent of petrol between base and consumer. … The overall loss was almost incalculable. To calculate the tanks destroyed, the number of men who were killed or went into captivity because of shortage of petrol at some crucial moment, the ships and merchant seamen lost in carrying it, would be quite impossible. After my colleague and I made our report, a new five-gallon container under consideration in Washington was canceled. Meanwhile the British were finally gearing up for mass production. Two million British jerry cans were sent to North Africa in early 1943, and by early 1944 they were being manufactured in the Middle East. Since the British had such a head start, the Allies agreed to let them produce all the cans needed for the invasion of Europe. Millions were ready by D-day. By V-E day some twenty-one million Allied jerry cans had been scattered all over Europe. President Roosevelt observed in November 1944, “Without these cans it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at a lightning pace which exceeded the German Blitz of 1940.” In Washington little about the jerry can appears in the official record. A military report says simply, “A sample of the jerry can was brought to the office of the Quartermaster General in the summer of 1940.” metzger Fascinating enough that I read it all ... via metzger

When hunters join the hunted

It's over: Republicans quietly drop the war on Obamacare Senior GOP lawmakers are incorporating many Affordable Care Act provisions into their healthcare proposals Even some conservative Republicans are angling to keep Supreme Court from stripping away Obamacare subsidies Someone -- Tell me this surprises you

FRANK FELDMAN

a major award

FRANK FELDMAN The Legend     A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by.     He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You're just like Frank. "     Passenger: Who?     Cabbie: Frank Feldman. He's a guy who did everything right all the   time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab . . . things    happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time.      Passenger: There are always a few clouds over everybody.     Cabbie: Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete! He could have  won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy!     Passenger: Sounds like he was something really special.     Cabbie: There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order, and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me.  I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman could do everything right.     Passenger: Wow, quite a guy!     Cabbie:  Frank never made a mistake, and he really knew how to trreat a woman and make her feel good. His clothing was always immaculate; shoes highly polished, too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman.     Passenger: An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?     Cabbie: Well, I never actually met Frank.  He died and I married his  fuckin​g​ widow. (Tommy Bob Walsh)

Muhammad Art Contest

art is everywhere

Muhammad Art Contest Excludes Probable Winner! (In his head) The winning People’s Choice Muhammad cartoon best illustrates the reason why we are having this contest and art exhibit to begin with. We draw Muhammad because we are free. We draw Muhammad because our unalienable rights are enshrined in the first amendment. The freedom of speech is the First Amendment — not the fifth or the eighth or the tenth. The first — and that’s for an important reason: it is the cornerstone of all our other freedoms. We draw Muhammad because unlike brutal Muslim countries under the sharia, we do not live under Islamic law. We draw Muhammad because we will not submit. We draw Muhammad because we can. It is fitting that you chose this cartoon, as it is the work of a premier counter-jihad activist, Bosch Fawstin. Here is a description from Bosch’s website: Cartoonist whose debut graphic novel, TABLE FOR ONE, received the praise of Alex Toth, along with an Eisner Award nomination. My current work is my graphic novel, THE INFIDEL, a story about twin brothers whose Muslim background comes to the forefront of their lives on 9/11. One responds by creating a counter-jihad superhero comic book called PIGMAN, as the other surrenders to Islam. Pigman’s battle against his archenemy SuperJihad is echoed by the escalating conflict between the twins. Chapters One & Two of The Infidel are now available as digital comic books. I appeared on The Daily Show, discussing Pigman. My “Andrew Breitbart: Fighter” drawing appeared on the FOX News late night show, Red Eye, where it was auctioned off. And Michael Savage mentioned my work on his radio program, The Savage Nation. As winner of the People’s Choice Award, Bosch will receive a $2,500 prize. And at our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in the Dallas area on May 3, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Jihad Watch, the cartoon that was chosen as the winner by our panel of judges will also be unveiled – and will be awarded a $10,000 prize. The winning cartoon will be announced at the May 3 cartoon exhibit in Garland, and the winning cartoonist will be awarded a $10,000 prize. (FULL ENCHILADA) "We received over 350 submissions of Muhammad cartoons from all over the world. Now we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the many hundreds of Breitbart readers who voted for their favorite for our People’s Choice Award when we threw open voting last week. You and voters worldwide overwhelmingly chose this cartoon as the winner:" HOW the fk did I miss this?  People are going to be walking punisment tours for sure.  Sheesh!

Displeased Baby

CAPTION THIS (Aside-She looks like Kathy Shinners)

Te never-ending intolerant left

Matt Micciche, Friends School of Baltimore, and the Intolerant Left The Washington Post ran a profile the other day of my friend Ryan Anderson. Ryan is perhaps the leading voice in the country in support of traditional marriage. He makes a very forceful, but also very civil argument, in defense of it. His work has been quoted by members of the United States Supreme Court. Ryan is one of the politest people you will meet and is constantly reviled by the gay rights community. Ryan is also a graduate of the Friends School of Baltimore. The school linked to the article about one of its alumni. But leftwing members of the school’s alumni community were outraged that the school would dare profile an alumnus of the school. So Matt Micciche, the head of the school, had to take down the post and apologize. In an academic setting, people did not want to confront .. an opposing argument, ...(OR)even the mention of someone who makes the opposing argument. Hilariously, one of the supporters of Micciche’s self-censorship applauded the decision in the name of equality. Others did so because of tolerance. Let’s get this right, folks. In an academic setting, people did not want to confront not an opposing argument, but even the mention of someone who makes the opposing argument. In the name of equality and tolerance, the school decided it could not tolerant an argument and could not treat it equally though the view is held by a large percentage of the American public. This is, ultimately, what is going to happen. The left, losing the argument in debate, will just shut it up, refuse to confront it, and pretend it does not exist. Again, I must point out that the left is only more tolerant of dissent than Islamic radicals in that they do not kill their opponents. They just censor them, drive them from the town square, and attempt to destroy their lives short of death. You will be made to care, folks. How dare a scholar with a Ph.D. from Notre Dame like Ryan Anderson believe the constitution recognizes marriage between a man and woman. That is, after all, his argument. Baltimore's Friends School- UBER DOUCHE BAGS

Windows 10

To recap what we’ve known since the Jan. 21 Windows 10 announcement:  Microsoft will provide an upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8 to Windows 10 for free, for a period of one year from the release of Windows 10. There are some important details to this deal that were revealed, and a few that weren’t. In my talk with Woodman, I got what I think is the definitive take on who will have to pay for Windows 10 and when, and who will not. - Marc Miller I think this might be Microsoft's last chance

Making Marshmallow

FOOD

Marshmallows with Ham        Title: MARSHMALLOWS   Categories: Candies        Yield: 1 Servings          2 c  Sugar        1 ts Vanilla        2 tb Gelatin soaked in 1/2 cup             -cold water      1/4 ts Salt      3/4 c  Water       Marshmallows from Marge Osborn’s 9 th grade Home Ec Class. They can also    be used as centers for dipped chocolates or bark        1.  Mix sugar and 3/4 c water in heavy pan.  Cook to soft ball stage, 238    degrees.        2.  Remove from fire and add gelatin.        3.  Pour in glass mixing bowl.  Cool a little and then whip until thick    and white.  Add flavoring.        4.  Mix 2 T powdered sugar and 2 T cornstarch and spread into a 9 inch    square pan.  Pour candy into the prepared pan, let stand. Cut into squares    using a wet knife and give a final dust of powdered sugar.        Please add this to the marshmallow recipe to keep the marshmallows from    being grainy.        When you start cooking the sugar and water, be sure to dissolve the sugar    crystals before it begins boiling as is done with fudge. Either wipe down    the sides of the pan with a watered brush or cover pan for a few minutes.        From Cookie-Lady’s Files.  Posted on GEnie’s Food & Wine RT by COOKIE-LADY    [Cookie] on 10/3/93 Last night we wanted ham steak and sweet potato casserole. Problem.  No marshmallows.  Went to the trusty Cooks Thesaurus looking for a substitute and wound up deciding to make my own marshmellows.  I'm not a candy maker, but I did have a FRIED HAM WITH RED-EYE GRAVY Slice ham about 1/4 inch thick. Cook slowly in a heavy frying pan until evenly browned on both sides. Sprinkle each side lightly with sugar during cooking. Remove the ham and keep it warm, then add about 1/2 cup of cold water or a cup of coffee. Let it boil until gravy turns red. Blend and pour over the ham.e candy thermometer.  The sugar water jumped to 200º in short order, but then took like forever to get to 240º.  Is that a candy making quirk?  From there it was easy, but you do not want to hand whip this thing; I tried.  Even with the electric it took awhile to firm up but the results were—duh—marshmallow.  But very good marshmallow.  Have a lot left that I've stored, but in the future I think I'll just buy a bag of Kraft. However.  If I was still a youngster I'd make a batch and eat it, still warm, out of a bowl like ice cream with caramel and nut topping.  OMFG! As an aside; Y'all folks have often extolled the virtues of Red-Eye gravy.  I've tried Red Eye gravy before, and NOBODY, including me,  liked it. But, I decided to do it again  using an actual recipe. Tasted it. Hated its guts!  Added brown sugar. Tasted it. Hated it, but less. Added more brown sugar. Tried it. Getting better,  Added more brown sugar.  Voila!  Best ever.

Dogs and Booze

ROCKET SCIENCE

ISIS and the FBI

cinema à la carte

Maybe, oh—say, 8 of you, who've watched both Archer and Blacklist, will appreciate this ↑. Yesterday I watched the last episode of Justified and was absolutely satisfied with the wrap-up.  It was brilliant.  Last night me and MoSup watched the last three Blacklist season two episodes.  A season which, unlike season 1, where every episode left us hanging by the balls, was ...well,  mundane and often silly.  Like Agent Ressler doing a Brent Buckle imitation by (seemingly) getting shot in every episode and being saved by Lizzy.    Wait! Horry clap— And this is streaming live—while I was just now looking up pictures of Agent Ressler getting shot I stopped by NBC to see whether Season 3 was in the works.  There had to be a season three because we watched all of Season 2 on Amazon and were left hanging after episode 18.  What I found however was there are two more episodes that will air later this month; so Amazon can't show them until then. MoSup will be very happy because she liked season 2 more than I did.  (I've started watcing Masters of Sex, and after two episodes I think I'm hooked. Reminds me of Mad Men.)

The Wages of Cuckolding?

Two Funerals & No Wedding? OMG!

It's Win-Win- DON'T HARSH OUR MELLOW!

Al Sharpton threatens hunger strike if Loretta Lynch is not confirmed AG. ! Of course this is precisely a situation the LGOP have mucked up time and time again.

Nested Enemies & Israel

Counter Measures Israel Air Force has counter-measure for Russian S-300 in Iran DEBKAfile DEBKA Weekly April 15, 2015, 5:48 PM (IDT) Radar used by S-300 missile battery "OK, I know a little bit about surface to air missiles and electronic countermeasures.  ECM from aircraft does indeed work, but the Russians are not stupid.  This isn't static.  As Israeli fighters with ECM capabilities are used in normal operations, the Russians will be using electronic eavesdropping to find out how Israeli ECM works.  They will make improvements to the Iranian S-300 systems, making the ECM less effective.  Nothing is 100% certain, and the S-300s are bound to be able to look through some of the Israeli ECM.  The Israelis will need to use some capabilities against the S-300s that have never been seen by the Russians before. Also, and this is simply my guess, but since Israel is more likely to instead use their submarines to launch nuclear-armed cruise missiles to knock out important Iranian sites,  other cruise missiles should incorporate ECM jammers to pave the way for the nuclear armed missiles just behind them." - Skoonj The Israeli Air Force has the proven ability, unique in the region, to jam hostile ground, airborne and seaborne radar screens, using counter measures that would be effective against the Russian S-300 air defense system and its twin radar systems – if delivered to Iran. DEBKA Weekly’s next issue out this Friday reveals why the S-300 would be no bar to an Israeli air strike - any more than similar Syrian air defense missiles prevented the IAF from demolishing the Iranian-North Korean plutonium reactor on Sept. 6, 2007 in northern Syria. This article is of minor interest to me, but it did trigger, or re-trigger, a thought.  I can write a scenario in my head where Israeli technology will save our (United States) bacon.  How? There are more reasons than not to believe  Obama has sold us out to Islamo fascists. And after he leaves office (perhaps by force if he cancels the 2016 elections citing "national security" issues) we will find ourselves threatened internally by ISIS types who are gaining wholesale, unscreened, entry as we speak (see Muslim Immigration To U.S. Staggering — More Evidence Obama Is Attempting To Change America). If they are armed with our mil-intel, and the keys to our military technology, including satellites, who else but Israel could we turn to for counter measures?

What a blast!

nostalgia                                                           OMFG!!

This (Ka-Ching!) truly cracked me up. Yes, I added Emily Litella.

Obama hates this idea!

Mad Men You Know!

Gee Mom! It's UPSY DOODLE! She meant Upsy Doodle Okay, this invention is self explanatory because ALL OF YOU have experienced the problem of getting the last gooey stuff out of jars.  Not only that, some foods like natural peanut butter have oil that rises to the top.  Right?  And no matter how much you stir it you end up eating all the oil before even half the  peanut butter is gone and the rest is dry as a 5 day old dog turd.  Am I right?  Well this idea, like penicillin, is so simple that it's a wonder nobody has discovered it until now.  Am I right?  With a lid at both ends you can just oopsy doodle©™ it for easy access, or maintain proper balance of oils and emollients, and save hundreds of dollars a year in the process!   I'm hoping all of you will help me create a buzz at GMA (Grocery Mfrs of Amer) meetings by asking store managers why they don't have stuff in the Upsy-Doodle©™ Jars?   Thank you.