Tucson=Austin

Heard at the O-Club

20110215 23:15 Pappy I was too young to remember Ike. Ah yes. Tucson. As I mentioned before, it's to Arizona what Austin is to Texas, but without the barbeque. 20110216 09:28 Anonymoose Pappy: A friend is convinced that the town of Sunnydale, California, used in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show, is actually Tucson. To start with, it is over a Hellmouth and run by Democrats, and is full of witches, brujos, fortune tellers, monsters, Maoists, moonbats, illegal aliens, and l*sbians. And he swears there are Mexican bars there like the one in From Dusk 'Til Dawn, so there are plenty vampires, too. Even God owns a bar there, called The Meet Rack, and if get God's brand (literally), every time you return thereafter, your first drink is free, for all eternity. God was actually sued by a drunk hooker, once, and beat her on an episode of The People's Court. It is also close to Fort Huachuca, which has oodles of Military Intelligence X-Files bulldada on and under it. What's not to like?

Chris Cristie at AEI

HEAL! (I'm laying hands on you) [In the good way]

Earlier I watched Chris Cristie's address to the American Enterprise Institute on C-Span3 [Video].  Somewhere about midpoint in his 30 minute address (+30 minutes Q&A),  I realize:d that this is prolly the first time in over 30 years that I listened to a politician talk about anything, and not once get the feeling of being gamed, not even  just a little. Christie is of course a great speaker.  He's also funny as hell, utterly guileless, brilliant, and a man with a plan.  In these times when all of us, I mean everyone of us, is looking for something to hang onto, something to believe in, this is  something.    Give yourself 5 minutes of "quiet time" and listen.  I doubt  many of you will turn it off.  It's medicinal, and fun. HEAL!

Montagery

Montagery Stuff I was going to  lose when I closed my Image editor.

Schussel -"it bothers me not a lick ..." Hooya!

CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests

How Muslims Celebrate Victory: Egypt’s “Peaceful, Moderate, Democratic” Protesters

“     As I’ve noted before, it bothers me not a lick when mainstream media reporters who keep telling us Muslims and Islam are peaceful get a taste of just how “peaceful” Muslims and Islam really are. In fact, it kinda warms my heart.  Still, it’s also a great reminder of just how “civilized” these “people” (or, as I like to call them in Arabic, “Bahai’im” [Animals]) are:  [How Muslims Celebrate Victory: Egypt’s “Peaceful, Moderate, Democratic” Protesters] ” ... it bothers me not a lick ... either.

More High Humor At The Democrat Club

“       In the immortal words of Megatron in Transformers: The Movie, Herman Cain's speech at CPAC really is bad comedy. As you know, I find black garbage pail kids black conservatives fascinating not because of what they believe, but rather because of how they entertain and perform for their White Conservative masters. ...     Instead, Herman Cain's shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs "authentic negritude" as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. ...     We always need a monkey in the window, for he/she reminds us of our humanity while simultaneously reinforcing a sense of our own superiority. Sadly, there are always folks who are willing to play that role because it pays so well. -Spoken by Chauncey DeVega on Alternet; Reported by Powerline [More Racism on the Left] What got Donk panties twisted?  - Herman Cain: "Stupid People Are Ruining America" ” via SondraK

Wacky Jap Humor

We may have to fight WWII again
I'm not making that up

u-slay-me

This Nightmare called Obama

Our Continuing Nightmare on Elm Street

“ NPR thanks Obama for budget 'vote of confidence' As some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to cut, or even eliminate, its government funding, National Public Radio has sent a public thank-you to the Obama administration for proposing an increase in taxpayer funding for public radio. IRS needs $359M to amass army of 1,000 to implement 1st phase of Obamacare... 81 workers to enforce tanning salon tax... Bill Bans Use Of Welfare Cards At Strip Club ATMs... CLINTON ALUMNI TARGET ISSA: LIBERAL GROUPS PLAN AD CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE OBAMA PROBES...

Christopher Lee’s top ten pick up lines

Former Congressman Christopher Lee’s top ten CraigsList pick up lines

From I Hate the Media, just precious.  Here's a few. “ 1. “Do you support the Second Amendment? Then check out these guns.” 2. “I’d like to gerrymander your district.” 4. “I’m Christopher Lee and I approve this massage.” 5. “Lets put it to an up and down vote.” 6. “Come back to my place and I’ll introduce you to my caucus.” 9. “How’d you like a position on my staff?” 10. “My armed forces sub committee is studying the feasibility of a quick withdrawal from Iraq … so how’d you like to help me perfect the art of pulling out?” Plus this special bonus pick-up line used only on special occasions  [...]

Learn to speak - what? Bulgarian?

For God's sake, why?

We Were Soldiers Once. And Young

We Were Soldiers Once.  And Young.

I quit watching Viet Nam movies.  All of them cynical, with thinly veiled tut-tutting that left me more pissed-off than inspired. Oliver Stone values; not John Ford's.   Last Friday, by chance, I stumbled over We Were Soldiers Once, and Young (2002).   I'm the last male in the room who hadn't seen it, I reckon.  I may have read the book, but forget; I've read so many.  We Were Soldiers  stars Mel Gibson as Lt. Col Harold G. Moore, in a  film about the initial battle of  Ia Drang Valley in 1965.  I got caught up in it.  Saturday morning I was compelled to watch it again.    The telegram sequences were poignant; the battle scenes intense, and believable. This is by far the bloodiest war film I've ever seen.  Intense?  The Pop-Tart in my hand at the beginning was uneaten and crumbled as the credits rolled.   There must have been 500 gross of blood packs used in it's making. The First Bn. of the 7th Air Cav ( once Custer's command) killed 1800 of 4000 Vietnamese soldiers to 72 out of 395  American fatal casualties   It was the American fighting man at his best.   I had a good movie hangover afterwards.  Sense of well-being; I dunno, hope?  Calm?  Pride? Satisfaction and pride?   Unlike every post-war film about Viet Nam I've seen, this was uplifting and positive.  I remember that John Wayne made The Green Berets (1968) partly to counter the leftist message of failure and doom that was by then pervasive in the media.  This, 34 years later, is the second attempt. “ The book was adapted into the movie We Were Soldiers, directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson as Moore. In the book, Moore complains that "Every damn Hollywood movie got it wrong"; Wallace has said he was inspired by this comment and became "determined to get it right this time." [Wikipedia] ” I just tonight watched it a third time.  On Sunday, at my granddaughter's second birthday party, I was talking with my son-in-laws step-dad.  Turns out we're the same age, and had many of the same experiences.  He was turned down by the Army because of a medical problem, but his brother was in Nam.  Fought at, "was it Pork Chop Hill?"  No, I said that was Korea.  I mentioned that I'd just watched a movie about IA Trang Valley and he jumped, "That's it."  He was in that first battle (it went on for 300 days). His brother said the movie was pretty damned accurate. “ The Vietnamese government did not greet the film with approval. In fact, Don Duong the Vietnamese actor, who played the Vietnamese commander Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An, was officially condemned as a traitor, subjected to interrogations to force him to sign a "confession" to "crimes" he had supposedly committed. Duong refused to give in. After months of negotiations between the Bush White House and Hanoi, Duong and his family were allowed to immigrate to the United States in 2003.[Ibid] ” Anyway, when I began watching tonight, I was very wound up over all the same things that you are upset  over.   When it ended,  I was again filled with a certain calm. I don't know why.  I may have to watch it every day from now on.

Ruh-Roh, Missy's Out of Sorts

Look at the ear language

Stupid Ad Tricks

How Serendipitous!

Just 10 minutes ago I wondered how I'd  reach the stray sock on my desk. Actually, we have one of these and it's really great for removing overhead bulbs, and such.

Prolly photochopped, but not by me

WOOF!

WYSIWYG

Let them Suck Teat

Michelle  to Promote Breastfeeding  as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing

Giving new meaning to intruding into every aspect of our daily life. OWHH!

Tina Fey, Blabbermouth

Tina Fey's Slide

“ And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women – except, of course –those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff. But for everybody else, it’s a win-win. Unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years – whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know – actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster. [Tina Fey monologue cut by PBS] ”

The Post asks, "Was PBS shielding its viewers from Fey's more pointed remarks? And then asks, Was PBS right to edit Tina Fey's remarks on Sarah Palin? Protecting their own collective asses As to the former, If you've watched any PBS lately, you've noticed the hysterical (not funny hysterical, hysterical) pleas that go  - "Some members of Congress are trying to cut funding for all public television, like Sesame Street blah-blah please contact your representative or these shows will all disappear and who will baby-sit your children, -blah" So yes, PBS is aware that it's the very people - newly elected and subscribing to Palin's TeaParty instincts -  who will be, hopefully, yanking them off the public teat.  Viewers like you? As to the second question, was PBS right to edit?  Well,  who watches PBS anyway?   I don't have to add this, but will anyway.  No PBS program will go off the air if there's an audience for it.

Influenced Behavior?

Which Came First?

Which Came First?

The Barney Frank Legacy

“... only the Big 4 Banks will be doing mortgage loans period.”

“ This will be the final nail in the coffin of the US Mortgage and Housing Industry.  The Fed has set it up whereby only the Big 4 Banks will be doing mortgage loans period.  They have run all the independent brokers out of business and have increased the cost of mortgage loans in every aspect (appraisals have almost doubled in cost in the last three years).  The sad part of this is it was FANNIE and FREDDIE as well as the banks [and Dems in Congress, and Bill Clinton] that caused the crash to begin with and this Administration is rewarding the banks for that effort while driving millions of small business owners and their support personnel out of business.  This was the only on-shore home grown US industry and you will have seen it's destruction in the last three years.  Please view the video below. Fed Clarifies "Broker" Compensation - 02.15.11 Watch Video The video is a bit histrionic, but then this is their livelihood.  cuzzin ricky

FCC, what would we do without you?

A Grateful Nation Sighs in Relief "The things we bring in and the services we provide are important in this time of struggle."

“   "President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget proposal includes $354.2 million for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), up from $335.8 million in 2010, the last time Congress approved the agency's spending levels," reports The Hill. "The reasons for the increase, according to FCC Managing Director Steve VanRoeckel: about 75 new staffers, funding for an emergency response center created in 2010 and a request to replace four or five of the FCC's Hybrid Chevy Tahoes each year, which the FCC uses for field work." When asked how he would explain the increased budget to Congress, VanRoeckel claimed that the FCC pays for itself by fining TV and radio stations that fail to abide by the FCC's draconian decency standards and renting out chunks of spectrum to corporations that have spent the most money lobbying the FCC. VanRoeckel added - "The things we bring in and the services we provide are important in this time of struggle."  [The Hill]

Daley Gun Bans

They NEVER stop

“ Mayor Richard Daley today launched his final push in office for state and federal gun-control measures and vowed to continue those efforts "as a private citizen as well." He proposed four new state criminal laws aimed at reducing gun violence and vowed to battle bills that would bar cities and villages from enacting gun-control measures and allow citizens to carry concealed weapons. "We are ready for this fight," Daley said, after noting his long history of anti-gun violence efforts during nearly 22 years in office. [Chicago Breaking News] ”