TORT REFORM!

Greatest Gov Who Ever Lived? Rick Perry signs tort reform bill into law Be Still My Hard (CLICK)

Say Cheeze and Freeze

Robo President Ubama bin Laffin takes 138 pics with supporters & his expression never changes

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Maybe the teleprompter got stuck on "freeze."

Bacon Rodeo

Traditional Memorial Day Bacon Rodeo

Oh Look, Obama's ''Safe School'' Czar Kevin Jennings is here.

Tight assed

Now this is what I'm talking about

Committees!  If I'm there by myself, I cut her pants off with some shears, then liberally apply Crisco.  She pops out likety-split.  They know that too, but are too afraid of  witnesses. Sheesh.  We really are a nation of pussies.

Pigeon Mom

Baboon News

Obama Brotherhood attacks Palin Teabagger Queen Palin Spits on Nation's War Dead opednews.com (viewership 29)

“ If it's Memorial Day this is the day for all of the gutless right-wingers and teabagger Republicans to desecrate the flag by wrapping themselves in it while they pontificate about their fascist ideology and spit on the graves of those who died to at least in theory protect our freedoms. America's favorite parasite, Sarah Palin has never been accused of having dignity nor shame but this latest cynical re-launch represents a new low for the white trash diva from Wasilla. ” Well, I wanted a baboon and I found one.  No, I'm not linking to opednews.

A Geezer Moment

Senile geezers causing problems

Madcow

Fatal Stab Wounds

First This Then This

This Bud's for you Dad ...

Real Memorial Day

Roy Raymond (Roger) West My dad's buried in the American Cemetery and Memorial, Hamm, Luxembourg.  Bulge.  Mortar round.  Same cemetery where George S. Patton rests.    When my step-dad (Pop) was dying of cancer we talked about old times.  It was only then that he told me the story about my late mom's rift with my paternal grandparents.  I knew there was a problem, but always thought it was because she married a Catholic, or that he  adopted me and sister, giving us his name. I had no reason at all to think that, but it's where my imagination led me.  I don't think I ever had any meaningful conversation with mom about it.  She didn't talk about him. Pop, who himself was shot during the Bulge,  said  that the War Department later offered mom the opportunity to have dad's remains returned for burial in the U.S.  She declined.  Because she could not bear to rekindle her grief . My grandparents understandably wanted him back home, and were more than a little miffed.  Since I found that out, I've wondered whether I should inquire about whether that can still be done.  Even now.  If my grandparents were still alive, I think I prolly would already have. Ofttimes it's better to leave fighting men to rest with fallen buddies.  But —   dad was  a replacement, and had only just landed at Normandy and sent to the unit.   I don't think he was there two days.   I've learned that replacements were generally ignored by the old guys, because nobody wanted to befriend someone who would probably be dead in a few days.  So chances are he didn't know a soul in the 137th Inf.  But, this is where it gets confusing.  I spent my summers with Gram and Gramp West on their Indiana (Lewis)  farm.  One day gramps took me with him to Indianapolis.  He'd hired a truck to haul some livestock for sale.  The driver of the truck was introduced as knowing dad during his short stint overseas.  He was someone who was near enough to him to have seen the mortar round  hit.  He picked up what was left of dad's rifle and took it home, where he later gave it to gramps.  When we got home, gramps showed me the splintered wood stock (it resembled an M-1 carbine) with some twisted metal.  Never saw it again.  We didn't talk about it.  Obviously gramps set up that trip to Indianapolis so I could learn that.  We don't talk much in our family, it seems.

Stupid Flanders

Memorial to a world class dewberry

The more I look at this, the more I'm astounded by the shallowness of Obama's knowledge and understanding of anything to do with western culture.  It is possible, even probable, that we Americans are were unaware that the Brit national anthem is played after each toast to the queen, and that one does not talk over it. The reason we don't know that is that never before has anyAmerican important enough to toast the Queen in her presence been so blissfully unschooled about the protocol and customs of the situation.  The Won later offered this excuse: “I thought that it was like, it was like out of the movies when the soundtrack kinda comes in.” As telling as all this is about our scripted leader without a script, his gum chewing performance yesterday at the Joplin tribute reeks of the innate disrespect he has for common decency.  Rest assured, however; this man knows to never wipe his ass with the fingers on his right hand. Ahem.

Obama the Duke of Oil

HUGE NEW OILFIELDS DISCOVERED IN TEXAS... Obama Brotherhood: $2.84 Billion for Oil Refinery—In Colombia Senate Dems block bill to speed offshore drilling Obama radio address: says wants to increase leases for domestic drilling ... continues to block the implementation of leases by not giving permits to start the drilling. GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer...

OPEC oil prices strangle U.S. economy while we have more domestic oil than the Saudis.  FREE NOBEL PRIZE (Obama's) WITH REGIME CHANGE

Chris is to Obama what Robin ....

Chris Mattews, Robin, and Batman

“   Maybe the President today is our Batman, trying to do good, a bit mysterious, a bit cool and technocratic, a bit removed from the world of emotions, but right, right there on the side of good, always using his brains and wit to look out for the people in trouble. - Bat Wait! All this and tingles up his leg; see The REAR Story

Twirlist

BEST EVER™ Magical Baton Twirl

I've posted this before, maybe even a few times (in 10 years).  While consolidating old files I ran across it again, and decided it would be the first entry into a new file called BEST EVER.  I'm always running across Best Evers, but never remember where I left  them, or even what they are?  Now I have the filing system which should,  in several years, be the wellspring for several variously themed TOP TEN BEST EVER lists. I think this is where I get rich. Notice:  I'm trademarking Best Ever™.

Mad Men Makeing Me Mad

Driving Mad Men Mad

Drives Men Mad “   I know what you're asking ... Work on the coming “Mad Men” season was delayed by a protracted negotiation between Lionsgate, the studio that produces the series, and the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner. The two sides announced in March that they had struck a deal that would keep the series going for at least two more seasons, but production on new episodes, including the one that Mr. Hamm will direct, will not start until August. The 1960s can then resume when new “Mad Men” installments are broadcast on AMC in early 2012. (NYT) ”

How Children's Brains Soak in Democrats

How Children's Brains Soak in Shocking News Stories Or... what kids learn at home

“ Being a child in today's society can't be easy. Left and right there are wars raging, and shocking news is pretty much hitting us like there is no tomorrow. "In The Playroom" by Canadian photographer and art director Jonathan Hobin is a series of images that depict children reenacting major current events and headlines of our time. Including major news items such as 9/11, hurricane katrina, the north korean missiles, and the jonbenet ramsey trials, the collection juxtaposes the often devastating themes with the high-spirited setting of a kid's playroom. "Just as children make a game of pretending to be adults as a way to prepare and ultimately take on these roles in later life, so too do they explore things that they hear or see, whether or not they completely understand the magnitude of the event or the implications of their play", Hobin says.

My first thought after perusing Hobin's works was "Berkeley!"  I was wrong.  He's Canadian.  My second thought was "Hobin's a Vietnam draft dodger, and dope smoking hippie."  I'm sticking with that one.  Because, obviously, since Hobin scripted, staged and produced this series, we may safely assume that he's transferred his world into the fantasy. He sees kids thinking like he does.  If they grew up under his influence, I imagine they do. I reflected on how my own chirren respond to today's events, and which traumatize them to the point of wanting to escape through fantasy.   I had to go no further than the family album to get the answer.  Here then, unstaged, how real American kids —  who didn't grow up hating America react.

Stars

VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage

You don't have to hold a PhD in Quattro Skyology like me to appreciate stuff like this.  And what about  Aussie student finds universe's 'missing mass?'   That's like when Bart Simpson  discovered a  comet.  Lot of gritting of teeth in academia today. Darrell

Mamet Defects

Quoting Mamet Before he moved to California, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet had never talked to a self-described conservative. 'I realized I lived in this bubble.'

“ Diversity is a "commodity." College is nothing more than "Socialist Camp." Liberalism is like roulette addiction. Toyota's Prius is an "anti-chick magnet" and "ugly as a dogcatcher's butt." Hollywood liberals embraced Communism "because they hadn't invented Pilates yet." Oh, and good radio isn't NPR ("National Palestinian Radio") but Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt. ”

This is pretty delicious.  It really is impossible that a group as large as "Hollywood En Masse" could be so uniformly stupid re Liberal fraud. Or, maybe not?  Anyway, David Mamet is not Mel Gibson or Stephen Baldwin; conservative leaning actors who can be destroyed by gossip sheets, and uninvited to necessary soirees.  He's not Jerry Bruckheimer or David Zucker, conservative directors who can be dismissed as unserious, and who make films catering to lowbrows.  Mamet is Broadway.  Mamet is Pulitzer Prize.  Mamet has thereness.  To the extent then, that one person can give cover to others wishing to escape the Big Lie, Mamet's defection could have significance. Anyway, here's a bit more  fun from the Wall Street Journal's  David Mamet's Coming Out Party . “ On the left, Mr. Mamet is accused of having ulterior motives for his political shift. The New Republic's Jonathan Chait writes that the story is a familiar, Zionist one: "An increasingly religious Jew with strong loyalty to Israel, he became aware of a tension between the illiberal nationalism of his right-wing views on the Middle East and the liberalism of his views on everything else, and resolved the tension by abandoning the latter." Mr. Mamet calls this a "crock of s—." The Slate website has run with the "Rich Person Discovers He Is a Republican" narrative. And then there's the jiu-jitsu theory offered by a film blogger: "Mamet's escalating interest in martial arts—traditionally the domain of right-wing nutjobs like Chuck Norris—has pointed toward this new stance for some time." Obviously. Snort.

Food Stamp Lobster

Poor thang. Must have been humiliating.

Cuzzin Ricky

Ring tones

I haven't been picking on the Obamas enough lately, so there's this:

Tom Mann  sent me this picture of Michelle's hands with a "wedding ring?" caption.  I never much thought about it, but what the hell, there is absolutely nothing about the First Couple that's not suspicious, and that goes for details of their  wedding.  Do they at least have a wedding certificate?  Well, yes, if a document signed by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is accepted at face value.  And that surprised me.  That Wright performed the ceremony.  You may remember that after being told by a client of his street organizing bidness, that he could have no cred with the Black community unless he belonged to a Christan church; he went looking for one.  He found, and punched his ticket with "Goddamn America" Wright.  I'm wondering if Mrs. Obama wasn't also the product of the need to "fit in?"  Anyway, it's seems apparent that Barry didn't give Michelle a ring, or nothing she felt was worthy.  She does like jewelry though.   Now you can't blame me for being suspicious of all things Obama.  I mean, take Michelle's revoked law license.  It has never elicited the least bit of interest by anyone but us "conspiratists."  See what I'm saying? In for a penny, in for a pound then.  Here's how I think the Obamas got married. On graduation day from KGB school, Barry was given a diploma and an assignment to insinuate himself into radical US politics.  Among the folio of instruction, false documents, school records, etc., was a picture. Of a certain embedded agent; real name "Svetblackna Lenin." Who would pose as his wife.  Whadda ya think?  Svetblackna Lenin

Bugged by Barnacle Bam the Poseur

U.S. to propose mandatory vehicle 'black boxes' By Dept. of Transportation Fiat They need records of your every move to help investigators determine the cause of accidents that somehow occur despite ubiquitous traffic cams that reduce accidents.

Barnacle Bam the Poseur "Who's that knocking at my door? Who's that knocking at my door? Who's that knocking at my door?" said the fair Young Maiden. "Just open the door, you pox-ridden whore!" said Barnacle Bam the Poseur   "What's that thing you're holding there? What's that thing you're holding there? What's that thing you're holding there?" said the fair Young Maiden. "It's only a bug to slip under your rug!"  said Barnacle Bam the Poseur "What is the bug for? What is the bug for? What is the bug for?" said the fair Young Maiden. "Just spread open your legs and let it tickle your eggs!"  said Barnacle Bam the Poseur "What if I remove it when you leave? What if I remove it when you leave? What if I remove it when you leave?" said the fair Young Maiden. "I'll just open your crack and shove it right back! said Barnacle Bam the Poseur "And if you do it again you'll go to the pen."