Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Nipple Bra - 1970



        The Nipple Bra

  


Evidently a typesetting error inflated the cost 1000% which would explain why this company folded.  Or, it could be that their target customers thought like this.

Janee' Ivorie
Why would you want ur nipples exposed & why pay over $2000 for that?

Sylvia Lopez
cuz jerk men --- love it ... ugh!! i think the ad is all in jest



Virgins

 
Res Ipsa Loquitur


                                                       
 
Res Ipsa Loquitur

1968 Teacher Unions 2012



Teacher Unions
          
I will speak plainly -- I will speak plainly on another subject of importance. We're not educating all of our children. Too many are being forced to absorb the fads of the moment.

Not for the nothing are we the biggest education spenders and among the lowest education achievers among the leading industrial nations.

The teachers unions nominated Bill Clinton in 1992. They're funding his re-election now. And they, his most reliable supporters, know he will maintain the status quo.

And I say this -- I say this not to the teachers, but to their unions. I say this, if education were a war, you would be losing it. If it were a business, you would be driving it into bankruptcy. If it were a patient, it would be dying.

And to the teachers union, I say, when I am president, I will disregard your political power for the sake of the parents, the children, the schools and the nation. I plan to enrich your vocabulary with those words you fear -- school choice and competition and opportunity scholarships.

All this for low and middle income families so that you will join the rest of us in accountability, while others compete with you for the commendable privilege of giving our children a real education.
- August 15, 1996, I'm Bob Dole Accepts Nomination, San Diego, California

And I say this -- I say this not to the teachers, but to their unions.

Res Ipsa Loquitur
That call to arms during Dole's acceptance speech was the only time all night I whooped.  From the sound of things, it resonated with the delegates as well.  The next morning, however, it didn't matter that Dole pointedly said his war was with the unions, not the teachers.   The Today Show, and GMA,  and whatever CBS was airing,  focused on Dole's attack on teachers.  In his own acceptance speech a few weeks later,  Bill Clinton went out of his way (as I remember)  to condemn the Republican attack on our wonderful, brave, and dedicated teacher corps. The teachers were up in arms.  I don't need to tell you what the kids were hearing in school the next day.

 I guess you saw this earlier, on Drudge: ROMNEY DECLARES WAR ON TEACHERS UNIONS... 

.[...] And he declared war on teachers unions, saying they “are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way.” He said Mr. Obama is too beholden to the unions to be able to reform the school system.

Poor Dole didn't have a chance in his public "debate," but that was in 1996.  Fox News was barely getting started; the internet still finding its voice.  Not now. Mitt won't have any problem getting his message out, as long as he's up to it.  So far it appears he is; I'm Bob Dole never was.




Cover-ups


Today's Cover-up

Ahem





Bad Judgement Celebrated

Democrat or Bubonic

Today's Plague Culture

Res Ipsa Loquitur
67 years from now some defective asshat will do his  thing,
remembering the time when everything was about to be free
until greedy capitalist pigs ruined everything.

The Big Picture montage Victory Day 2012, showing Russia and former Soviet republics marking the 67 years since WWII triggered this thought.  Coincidentally, I just watched Archangel last night, which theme is a plot to resurrect that wonderful old guy Joe Stalin. Or, as FDR called him, Uncle Joe.


Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Ridicule in motion

*snort*




Like dealing with the Taliban ...



    Targeting John Roberts
      The Senate Taliban try to intimidate the High Court on ObamaCare.

Res Ipsa Loquitur

You can tell the Supreme Court is getting closer to its historic ObamaCare ruling because the left is making one last attempt to intimidate the Justices. The latest effort includes taunting Chief Justice John Roberts that if the Court overturns any of the law, he'll forever be defined as a partisan "activist."

Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy recently took the extraordinary step of publicly lobbying the Chief Justice after oral argument but before its ruling. "I trust that he will be a Chief Justice for all of us and that he has a strong institutional sense of the proper role of the judicial branch," the Democrat declared on the Senate floor. "The conservative activism of recent years has not been good for the Court."
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He added that, "Given the ideological challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the extensive, supportive precedent, it would be extraordinary for the Supreme Court not to defer to Congress in this matter that so clearly affects interstate commerce." [Full]

Let's hope the justices have extra bodyguards detailed to them.  Ahem.  Not  joking.




Whoops





Here's to you Mr. Robinson ... La la la





Trent Lott's still alive

Liars and Weasels

Trent Lott Now Supports Ceding Maritime Sovereignty to UN
  • Republican senators who have openly supported ratification include Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Arizona Sen. John McCain.
  • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has praised Lott’s advocacy in support of ratification, saying, “Seeing Trent Lott in the room, I feel a hell of a lot better about the chances for ratification.”





















             A History of Empty Promises from this Mississippi Carbuncle         


Lott said that he no longer believes the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty — would “cede our national sovereignty, both militarily and economically,” as he said five years ago when the issue was last brought before the Senate.

The treaty would grant the United Nations unprecedented taxing authority over American companies by transferring permitting and royalty payments currently made to the U.S. government for offshore drilling to the International Seabed Authority, a U.N.-created agency that would have the power to redistribute billions of dollars to other countries.

It would also commit the United States to accept international arbitration of maritime disputes.

For three decades, the United States has declined to sign on.

What?  A hypocrite for lobbying in favor of a treaty he emphatically denounced as recently as 2007?  Why no, he argues.  Eighty large  from Shell Oil made him do it.

What's the best word to describe this  Mississippi carbuncle? Smarmy?  Unctuous?  Walking douche bag?

  *spit*



Arizona to fire teacher who agitprop

Sigh

MORE of WHY ARIZONA IS THE BESTEST STATE EVER
Teachers in Arizona would automatically be hanged for bringing “partisan doctrine” into their classrooms under a bill pending before the state legislature.

Arizona Senate bill 1202 is meant to ensure students get a balanced view of what they’re taught in school, Capitol Media Services reported. In addition to firing teachers who bring partisanship into the classroom, school districts that allow it to happen would face losing state funding. [Full]

I did alter one word.  Sorry.


Did Barry FAKE a KENYAN Citizenship?

Mr. TransparencyRes Ipsa Loquitur

Obama's Bio Grows Even Sketchier



Res Ipsa Loquitur


The other night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews argued on his "Hardball" show that Americans would be wise to re-elect Obama because he's "the candidate we know." He claimed he's a trusted brand who "is who he seems to be."  [Investors Business Daily]

IMD uses this to segue into new "birther" territory, at least new to me.  They propose that Obama fictionalized a Kenyan  citizenship in order to get into colleges he was otherwise denied entrance to,  because of poor grades.

.Why would Obama fictionalize his life story? For answers, let's go back to 1991. At the time he got his book deal, Obama was graduating from Harvard Law School, which required strong grades for entry. Yet by all accounts, Obama had weak grades. Did he juice his application — a la his Harvard law pal, Elizabeth "Cherokee Liz" Warren — to hedge his bet in case his minority status wasn't exotic enough to overcome his grades?

Northwestern University professor John McKnight said a desperate Obama approached him for a letter of recommendation to Harvard, because he couldn't get any of his undergrad professors to pen one due to underwhelming academics. McKnight was one of Obama's radical Alinsky trainers and a key mentor, but not one of his professors.


This is very interesting.  Percy Sutton, renowned civil rights activist and Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, says that Dr. Khalid al Mansour approached him to intercede with Harvard, and get Obama accepted.  Which he did [video].  Obama later called Sutton's account a lie.  So, IBD makes an interesting, even compelling argument for his Hawaiian birth.  Except for this.

He was forced to issue an acknowledged (by the mere fact of it being updated three times to meet deficiencies) fraudulent Certificate of Live Birth through an  intermediary (DAILY KOS).  And then forced, by the prospect of being left off some state ballots in 2012, to produce a seemingly actual Hawaiian birth certificate—  which was immediately proved to be fraudulent. These are inarguable facts.

Now, Obama would hardly be the first Black person to use affirmative action programs, nor lie on an application.   It might be embarrassing now for him to admit it,  but not a career killer (for a democrat). But—  being actually born in Kenya sure is.

Res Ipsa Loquitur
  It's difficult to say when key democrats (Pelosi+) became aware  of the birth problem, but in what looks like a hedge, they raised the issue of John McCain's citizenship in January 2008,  just 4-5 months before Obama's birth was first publicly questioned by an Israeli journalist.  Now all of government have a vested interest in covering up. That's right.  The constitutional crisis that would follow a truthful account terrifies them; threatens their government sinecures at the hands of an outraged public.   We public cannot handle the truth , of course.


One final thing.  Why is it that everybody feels compelled, when discussing his birth issue,  to begin "I believe he was born in Hawaii, but ...?  Why not "I HOPE  he was born in Hawaii, but ... ?  I mean, given the entirety of the evidence produced by both sides, on what basis can anyone "believe?" 



Sun setting on 'Fauxcahontas'

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a
good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what
 the hell." TRKOF&S

LIARS
Watching the sun set on Elizabeth Warren -- aka 'Fauxcahontas'




Planned Abortions Defunded


         

Planned Parenthood
              

Res Ipsa Loquitur

AUGUSTA, MAINE, May 18, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The state of Maine has defunded family planning services, depriving an organization affiliated with Planned Parenthood of $400,000.

Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, signed a budget Wednesday morning designed to erase the state’s $83 million shortfall. One of the structural changes deprived Family Planning Association of Maine of $400,000 in taxpayer revenues.
" ... the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the largest abortion provider in the United States, with some 850 clinics around the country (down from a peak of 938 in 1995). Although PPFA purports to offer “a wide range of medical and counseling services and health care education,” its primary business is providing abortion services. "[Discover the Networks]

Have any  government ever defunded  Planned Parenthood?  I thought not, but  surprise.  The question becomes, on what basis do any government agency, especially at the Federal level, justify spending taxpayer money supporting any private enterprise, let alone one as toxic as PP??

                                                                                                                                       

Monday, May 21, 2012

Street Hookahs And Islam




  
Street Hookahs And Islam

Res Ipsa Loquitur
Games People Play




Sleep Aids



In search of Zzzzzzzzzzzz

My habit is to go to bed with earphones on, listening to something on NetFlix that will  (1) do me some sleep learning, and,  most importantly, (2)  put me into that sleep. Quickly.  I think I do this to avoid recurring memories of having voted for Hubert Humphrey in 1968, and there was that thing under the bleachers at the prom.  if I give my brain its head.  Anyway, this is not as easy as it sounds.  Here are 5 of the latest

Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken Too fascinating.   No way I could keep eyes shut
Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus Script Too fascinating.   No way I could keep eyes shut
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Al Gore's hometown covered by seawater?  Too exciting a thought; animated the hell out of my brain.
"Under African Skies" chronicles the making of Paul Simon's solo 1986 album, I thought, what the heck.  I like that album, so I'll just let it lullaby me.  Way way too fascinating, and I spent half the night hopping around under the covers and was exhausted in the morning from lack of sleep.
Note By Note - The Making Of The Steinway Go figure. One of the most  fascinating documentaries I've ever seen.  That's right - "seen." I had too watch.  Exhausted in the morning.

However, last night I found the Rosetta Stone!    HELVETICA.  An 80 minute examination of a type face.  I quickly found myself wanting to slap the people doing the talking, but in a flash I was out cold.  Sleep in a can.


Intended as a sleep aid. I am not responsible for the consequences of watching this at work. 





Facebook and Friends

OBAMUNISM, The Party
   The Facebook president in need of new friends

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Hope, change, friends. At a certain point in the past few years, Barack Obama and Facebook began to overlap in people’s minds. Not only did Mr Obama’s 2008 campaign demonstrate Facebook’s potency as an electoral tool, it also hired Chris Hughes – a Facebook co-founder – to do the job.

Mr Hughes is a donor to the Obama 2012 campaign. So too is Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, who recently hosted a fundraiser for Mr Obama in her home. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s principal founder, is one of three American inventors Mr Obama cites when he extols US innovation – the other two being Thomas Edison and Bill Gates. [The Facebook president in need of new friends]




On the road with Doug M


On The Road With Doug M



Rodge:

Came down from the mountains a couple days early due to traffic and possible bad weather.  This is the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway, just over 6000'. It's also the only pic I got with my biker gang.

Doug M