Killing a Toyota

Killing a Toyota Jeremy Clarkson puts Toyota's claim the their Hilux pick-up is virtually indestructible to the ultimate test.

I'm given to hyperbole from time to time, but this is not one of those times.  If the BBC for some reason yanked its Top Gear archive from the American market, I'd move to Great Britain.  So I could watch it.  This is from 2003 I believe.  They do something like this on every show.  Imagine Noel Coward hosting a car show.  I love it.

Wham-Bam - Size Matters

Size Matters

Stop That Weiner!

His ego has no bounds

“” Weiner- a national joke In a dazzling display of arrogance, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner is trying to insert himself back into politics -- calling power brokers and would-be candidates for his old seat, hoping they'll let him play a role in choosing his own successor, The Post has learned. Weiner, who became a national dirty joke after he was caught sexting young women, now wants to be a kingmaker. There once was a pervert named Weiner Who had a perverted demeanor Forced from the Hill For acting like Bill Now Congress is one weiner leaner. One Democratic insider confirmed that Weiner has spoken to the Queens party chairman, Rep. Joe Crowley, about whom the Dems should pick. Read more: story- cuzzin ricky limerick- tom mann

Dad - can we talk?

Ah, Kids ...

My daughter walked into the living room last night and said — "Dad, cancel my allowance immediately, rent my room out, throw all my clothes out of the window, take my TV, and stereo, and iPhone, and iPod, and my laptop. Please take all of my jewelry to Lifeline or AmVets.  Then sell my new car, take my front door key away from me and throw me out of the house”. Then disown me and never talk to me again. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to write me out of your will and leave my share to my brother.     Well, she didn't actually put it like that... she actually said...   "Dad this is my new boyfriend, Mohamed." cuzzin ricky

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Foiled Again Sherlock

Jack Welch: Just 3 Serious GOP Presidential Contenders

Jack Welch: Just 3 Serious GOP Presidential Contenders     He thinks Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman will top the GOP ticket in November 2012.

Why thank you Jack.  I know I want my candidate selected by the political and business establishment elite. That's always worked so well for us in the past.  Jack Welch, in case you didn't know, is the former King of GE.  He does Bohemian Grove and prolly Bilderberg.  Under his stewardship GE made a ton, make that tons, of money.  Of course his successor, Jeffrey Immelt,  is doing just mahvelous things himself.  But enough snide.  Let's consider the whences and whyfores of  his anointed three.  All do have one thing in common;  nobody knows what it is that makes them so irresistible, or even who in the hell they are?  Man on the street Mitt Romney — Man-oh-man do the establishment types love this guy, or what?  Mitt has so many negatives that, well, given the tea party successes of 2010 you have to wonder how it is he's still running?  Mitt's been on both sides of just about every issue you care to mention;  abortion, gun control, Iraq and Afghanistan, — name something.  Romneycare  became the model for Obamacare fer chrisake!  This guy is wearing a toe tag, but people like Welch keep -  well, you saw A Weekend With Bernie?  Same thing.  But WHY? The answer is is he's establishment GOP.  A known commodity.  They're comfortable with him. Bottom Line "Stab me in the Liver!" Tim Pawaltny—  A Former Minnesota governor, Pawaltny's name popped up out of nowhere, and he's been a front runner ever since, even if there's no poll data to support it.  That the question "Conservative or RINO" is even asked would seem to eliminate him.  But forget all that.  Pawaltny was Minnesoata's Head of State when Al Frankin was allowed to flat-out steal a United States Senate seat.  That's how much control he had over Democrat shenanigans in Minnesota.  Remember, we're evaluating his selection to Jack Welch's Hot List.  Bottom line " Yikes! Who?  Tim Noreltney?" Jon Huntsman— Who?  - A former governor of Utah, I had never heard of him until about two weeks ago when, out of the blue, he became somebody of note.  A savior.  This is all too reminiscent of Obama.  Just as I think Obama began as a hedge against Hillary Clinton, who the Democrat establishment firmly believed was unelectable, so too might Huntsman be a Palin or Bachman hedge.  Both are tea party favorites, and god forbid one of them wins the nomination.  It's not so much that the GOP thinks both are unelectable (they do), but even worse what if one was elected!  Blood will run out of the cracks at GOP central.   Like Obama,  Huntsman is a blanksheet of paper.  They can make him be whatever they want during a short election cycle.  The fact that Welch includes him here leaves me convinced that my instincts are right. Bottom line "Who the hell is he?  Really?" Conclusion:  The Barn Army dismisses all three - with prejudice.

Close the damned Hatch!

Tea Partiers storm GOP committee office That sounds so good that I don't much care why. Okay, here's why. The GOP endorsed Orrin Hatch for reelection.

Hatch is kind of Utah's equivalent of Arizona's John McCain.  Or a crooked cop.  Around the time Hillary Clinton accidentally came into possession of all those raw FBI files (on every Republican of note), Orrin went from bellwether conservative to Ted Kennedy's BFF. I'm just sayin'.  One of Janet Reno's first actions as Clinton's AG was announcing that the DOJ would not be continuing  its investigation of Hatch's involvement in BCCI.  I'm just sayin' Since the establishment GOP is suddenly so enamored with former Gov. John Huntsman, perhaps this would be a good place for him?  Just sayin'.

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Once upon a time

Emma Watson, Badly Framed

Emma Watson Framed. Badly.

This however is simply bad engineering

What will it do?

A Just Brilliant Car!

With all the Top Gear I'm watching, this from leelu (I think) really hit home. A question often asked of someone with a new car is "what will it do?" The answer is usually something like "zero to 60 in 5.3  seconds," or something along those lines. Well, here's the brand new 2011  Ferrari "458 Italia"   First, here's what it looks like: A Brilliant Car! And this is what it will do (roll)

Look Who’s Buying Up Flood Ravaged Farm Land

Look Who’s Buying Up Flood Ravaged Farm Land

“” Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts. 1. File this one under “Now It All Makes Sense”. A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND. Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches. 2. Speaking of evil sons of bitches, George Soros appears to be “investing” in farmground through the same puppet company that he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business. The company is called Ospraie Capital Management and is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner. Here is that announcement: Click Here

The American Heritage Rivers story was a hot topic on Free Republic ca. 1997.  Unfortunately, like so much of the posts  I thought were there forever,  these too have all but disappeared from the archives.   This is all that's left. "In 1997 when then President Bill Clinton announced the American Heritage Rivers Initiative. This Presidential Proclamation which many lawmakers called unconstitutional brought 10 of America’s major rivers under Federal control and was later expanded to 14. Many saw this move by the President as a way for his administration to expedite the provisions of the 1992 United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity Treaty which the United States Senate refused to ratify. ...  but if memory serves me this initiative gives the federal government control over such things as construction allowed along the river itself, population density... I remember that it had United Nations ties, and wtf was Clinton doing giving the UN dominion over US proppity?  What brought this to mind was the e-mail from Justin Credible that linked Ann Ann Barnhardt's  (who has goddess status here)  Look Who’s Buying Up Flood Ravaged Farm Land.    The Agenda 21 video belongs in the discussion.  This is all very hard to wrap our minds around I know,  because it's so ... alien to the order we've experienced and grown to expect over many decades, for some of us. But what could be more bizarre than Obama?  I mean his very existence, as we know it?   Every time I look at him I expect to hear Rod Serling's voice.   These are interesting times to say the least; and loaded with danger for the nation.  That's how I see it anyway.

Planned Homicide

The Liberal's Burden Wisconsin Becomes Fourth to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding

The Planned Parenthood funding cuts follows the legislature in the state of North Carolina overriding pro-abortion Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget veto and enacting a measure to remove federal funds from the pro-abortion organization in its state budget. Kansas was the second to de-fund Planned Parenthood by law when Governor Sam Brownback signed into law a bill that would shift funding away from the Planned Parenthood abortion business and stops abortion funding in health insurance programs. An Indiana law yanked  millions from Planned Parenthood by cutting off its revenue stream from Medicaid. The Indiana law is currently under attack by the Obama DOJ, and a Planned Parenthood lawsuit. US District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, who was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama, gave Indiana officials one week to respond to the new legal papers.  Planned Parenthood agreed to the one week wait. Aren't they just too too nice? I cannot for the life of me think of a winning argument for making taxpayers fund a private enterprise.  Of course Planned Parenthood is just one of several billion such leftist organizations we keep afloat.  Can anyone think of a private organization backed by conservative - like say the NRA - that is publicly funded?  I'm sure there must be; I just can't think of it. Last week, calling it a "multi million-euro tax dodge depriving the Irish people at a time when they desperately need income to offset the Irish government's savage austerity programme," a mob jeered Bono and band  U2 for opting for more for Denmark's more favorable taxes than Ireland's.   Let's see what happens to our sacred liberal cows here, once us proletariat are reduced to eating roots while forking our coppers over to Planned Parenthood and NPR.

I smell Stewart's underpants

Wallace fires back: ‘I guess the joke is on Jon Stewart’   Wallace also took on Stewart’s claim last week that Fox News viewers were the most uninformed news audience

“ “The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact looked into [Stewart's claim that Fox News viewers were the most uninformed] and on the truth meter it rated Jon’s claim false,” Wallace said. “Then there was last year’s Pew poll which asked four fact questions like what job did Eric Holder have? It turns out Fox News scored better, not worse, than MSNBC, CNN, network evening news and the network morning news. As for individual shows, 31 percent of [Sean] Hannity viewers got all four questions correct, 29 percent for [Bill] O’Reilly. All the way down near the bottom viewers of Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ at 22 percent. So, all the talk of you are the most consistently misinformed viewers, I guess the joke is on Jon Stewart.” [Much much more]

Manhattan

The Vintage Drink

“” Anonymoose Quite cool. Some guy found his grandfather's bartender guide from the 1930s, right after the end of Prohibition in 1933, full of vintage drinks, some of which haven't been made in 75 years. http://thevintagedrink.com/

Here's the thing.  My Grampa Schultz drank Manhattans.  My dad drank Manhattans.  I drink Manhattans.  We all use(d) Bourbon instead of whiskey; we eschewed the bitters and the cherries; we served over lots of ice and very little vermouth.  That covers just about every variation of the Manhattan I ever came across.  Imagine my surprise then. Between "Manyann Cocktail" and "Marguerite Cocktail, " where "Manhattan" should appear, it does not.  A search for "Manhattan"  returned this: “ 1 Results for “Manhattan” Mr. Manhattan Cocktail Let sugar cube dissolve in a small amount of water. Crush Mint leaves. Combine ingredients, shake well and strain. ” That's a Mint Julep—   if you add the not mentioned Bourbon. I think this guy's grandfather was some kind of  Roaring Twenties girly-man pouf.  Sheesh.

Survival Instincts

Listen— You can hear the gate slam shut

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Call Me Crazy, But ...

Call Me Crazy, But Think I've Been Here Before

“ During Watergate the nation was spared the sad, and potentially dangerous, specter of a sitting president going stark raving mad in office. Adults in Nixon's own party conducted an intervention, leading their emotionally - and increasingly mentally - crippled leader safely off the world stage. It was an act of both statrtallyesmanship and patriotism by that handful of sage-like Republicans. It was also an act of kindness and compassion for a mo wounded leader -- albeit the wounds were self-inflected. So, is the president cracked or cracking? Or is what I witnessed this week just more of the uninformed, spoiled, arrogant little putz that 71% of us have come to dislike. Only time will tell -- but time is short. The next few months will be very hard on him.  Maybe too hard. We may see the weight of it all too much for a guy accustomed to getting his own way and never having to acknowledge, much less clean up, his own messes. [Call Me Crazy, But Think I've Been Here Before] ”

Oh Lawdy Miss Clawdy, I've done it again.  I've confused memories of the cloying smuggery Washington media uses to describe presidents— Republican presidents— they hated.  In this case The Smirking Chimp too quickly delighted over George Bush' s abject failure in Iraq.  In 2006.  Ah, here's what I was looking for. The last three paragraphs from  Obama says everything and nothing do the trick. “ Just what “clean sources of energy” is doing in a speech on Afghanistan is anyone’s guess. As the 2012 campaign begins to take shape, Mr. Obama is again trying to be all things to all people. The only difference is, this time, he’s in the driver’s seat. As much as he tries to push attention away from the nation’s dire economy, it’s clear just who drove it into the ditch this time. And it’s even more clear that the president has no idea what to say. Lots of us are by now aware that you can take just about any criticism, of any Republican by the Democrat Media Complex, and by swapping the name to a democrat counterpart arrive at something resembling the truth.  In this case, Obama ought be removed while there's still something left to build on.

You KNOW I'm Right.

GRUDGE RETORT   This is an up to this very second picture of the Drudge Report.  Except, I've only included stories that would not be stories had, say, an atomic bomb landed square on Bill Clinton's head as he took the oath of office in January, 1993. Not a democrat, democrat staffer, nor media reporter would have survived.  Simply put then, every story below was spawned in some democrat caucus, or committee since 1993.  Every one of them. None of what you read below could have happened without that 20 year reign of terror and error, and protection by an utterly corrupt media.

Two U.S. troops die in Iraq; 11 total this month... Test-tube beefburger made from stem cells on the way... US soccer team booed in L.A. -- Mexico was 'home team'... US goalkeeper calls all-Spanish ceremony a 'disgrace'...   bias..., Geithner: Oil release WAS NOT political move... Soros: Euro Exit Mechanism 'Inevitable' Amid Debt Crisis... PANDEMONIUM IN PEORIA: MOB YELLS 'KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE'... UPDATE: Teen gang charged with 'lynching' after brutal beating of stranger... Teen Mob Of 50 Hits Chicago WALGREENS... Flash mob of 40 rips off Philly SEARS... COP: Planned on social networking site... Store Owner Killed For $3 Of Lottery Tickets... Ted Turner: Climate Change 'Most Serious Problem Humanity Ever Faced'... French fries and deep-fried fat cakes for first lady in Botswana... Iran to stage missile wargames... FEDS PLAN STEALTH SURVEY ON ACCESS TO DOCTORS... TSA orders woman, 95, to remove adult diaper during 45-minute security search... TX Lawmakers AWOL for Vote on TSA Groping Bill... AT GAY PRIDE PARADE, CUOMO IS CENTER OF ATTENTION... NJ's Christie 'Not a Fan' of Gay Marriage, Won't Follow NY... Threat of $100B hit if USA top rating lost... Pelosi demands seat at table in final debt-ceiling talks... DEMS: Measures to raise revenue not the same as tax hikes... No 'him' or 'her'; Preschool fights gender

Best Ever Pic Dump Collection

Hall of Fame Pic Dump I could live off these for weeks. Of course, now I no longer can. Damn my altruism. Sigh