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God Bless Cowboys (not the team though)

Cowboy: "Give me 3 packets of condoms, please."   Cashier: "Do you need a paper bag with that, sir?"   Cowboy: "Nah... She's purty good lookin'....." Merrily

Terrorist Attack Cover-Up?

Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism Administration unable so far to pin attack on Tea Party; Kept silent for 10 mos. WHO DID IT? “ Scroll The April 16, 2013, attack had not been widely publicized until The Wall Street Journal reported new details in a story on Wednesday. The attack reportedly started when at least one person entered an underground vault to cut telephone cables, and attackers fired more than 100 shots into Pacific Gas & Electric’s Metcalf transmission substation, knocking out 17 transformers. Electric officials were able to avert a blackout, but it took 27 days to repair the damage. [Full] Not widely publicized?  This is the first I've heard if it.  Why am I thinking about TWA 800?  Which occured (July 17, 1996) during Slick's reelection campaign? ”

CALL IT

Police State Culture IRS smoking gun uncovered “ Scroll  IRS smoking gun uncovered by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp Feb. 6, 2014, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement calling attention to documents uncovered by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp proving that the proposed IRS regulations against 501(c)(4)s were planned while the targeting of the tea party was ongoing, and not in response to that scandal in 2013 as the Obama administration has contended: "President Obama can no longer hide behind his seemingly perpetual state of confusion over what is happening in his administration, as records now clearly show. The 2012 email released by Chairman Camp proves that the new IRS regulation restricting 501(c)(4) organizations' political speech was not in response to the scandal targeting the tea party or any confusion about what (c)(4) regulations mean, but was devised well in advance. "The IRS had a long-term plan to use its power to intimidate and stop small conservative groups from participating in the political process using the same tax-exempt status as groups like Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters that publish voter guides. "Congress can no longer stand idly assuming good will from this administration and it must use its power of the purse including any extension of the debt ceiling to expressly prohibit the implementation of these new IRS rules designed to squelch First Amendment rights of Obama's political opponents." To view online: http://tinyurl.com/lnsfnyt Wow, we finally have them cornered.  I guess articles of impeachment will be voted on PDQ now.  ”

This Just In - WE ARE KULAKS

OBAMUNISM, The Party, Still think "It can't happen here"? “ 'We are now seeing the Obama regime, growing bolder every day, begin to more aggressively demonize "the rich" (which they currently define as anyone making over $125k, as opposed to the wealthy Hollywood-types and others who support the regime and are never demonized).  Is this so different from the way the Soviets demonized the kulaks? The word means "tight-fisted", and was loosely defined as any farmer who had more land or more cows than his neighbors. Such farmers were "enemies of the state" because they resisted the agenda of collectivization. ... the Cossacks as such were exterminated, the men shot, the women, children, and the elderly deported, and the villages razed or handed over to new, non-Cossack occupants.  I'm sure that one of Obama's heroes, Robert Mugabe, had this definition in mind in his "redistribution" plan for Zimbabwe, in which the former Rhodesia, once "the breadbasket of Africa", was transformed into a basket-case. (See my AT piece, "Why Not  Zimbabwe?", http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/why_not_zimbabwe.html) But for our current Marxist/Leninist (and every day more Stalinist) regime, the definition of kulak can expand from its agricultural origin to encompass anyone who has more than his neighbor; anyone who presents too glaring an example of "income inequality". What would merely be "upper middle class" now becomes "rich", and is vilified. As you read the material below, substitute "the rich" (as referred to by Obama & Co.) for "kulaks". And see what the future may hold if our Communist regime follows the strategy and tactics of so many other Communist regimes. Here are some excerpts from the following:  http://tinyurl.com/lu2tk33 (The Black Book of Communism) I have re-paragraphed it to make it easier to read. And I've added emphasis in red.  ST  (Stu Tarlowe via Skoonj) Scroll 'Still think "It can't happen here"?   Andre Frossard […] believes that “it is a crime against humanity when someone is put to death purely by virtue of his or her birth.” And in his short but magnificent novel Forever Flowing, Vasily Grossman says of his hero, Ivan Grigorevich, who has returned from the camps, “he had remained exactly what he had been from his birth: a human being.”   That, of course, was precisely why he was singled out in the first place. The French definition helps remind us that genocide comes in many shapes and sizes – it can be racial (as in the case of the Jews), but it can also target social groups.   In The Red Terror in Russia, published in Berlin in 1924, the Russian historian and socialist Sergei Melgunov cited Martin Latsis, one of the first leaders of the Cheka (the Soviet political police), as giving the following order on 1 November 1918 to his henchmen:   “We don’t make war against any people in particular. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. In your investigations don’t look for documents and pieces of evidence about what the defendant has done, whether in deed or in speaking or acting against Soviet authority. The first question you should ask him is what class he comes from, what are his roots, his education, his training, and his occupation.”  Lenin and his comrades initially found themselves embroiled in a merciless “class war,” in which political and ideological adversaries, as well as the more recalcitrant members of the general public, were branded as enemies and marked for destruction. The Bolsheviks had decided to eliminate, by legal and physical means, any challenge or resistance, even if passive, to their absolute power.  This strategy applied not only to groups with opposing political views, but also to such social groups as the nobility, the middle class, the intelligentsia, and the clergy, as well as professional groups such as military officers and the police. Sometimes the Bolsheviks subjected these people to genocide. The policy of “de-Cossackization” begun in 1920 corresponds largely to our definition of genocide: a population group firmly established in a particular territory, the Cossacks as such were exterminated, the men shot, the women, children, and the elderly deported, and the villages razed or handed over to new, non-Cossack occupants.   Lenin compared the Cossacks to the Vendee during the French Revolution and gladly subjected them to a program of what Gracchus Babeuf, the “inventor” of modern Communism, characterized in 1795 as “populicide.”  The “dekulakization” of 1930-1932 repeated the policy of “de-Cossackization” but on a much grander scale. Its primary objective, in accordance with the official order issued for this operation (and the regime’s propaganda), was “to exterminate the kulaks as a class.”   The kulaks who resisted collectivization were shot, and the others were deported with their wives, children, and elderly family members. Although not all kulaks were exterminated directly, sentences of forced labor in wilderness areas of Siberia or the far north left them with scant chance of survival. Several tens of thousands perished there; the exact number of victims remains unknown. As for the great famine in Ukraine in 1932-33, which resulted from the rural population’s resistance to forced collectivization, 6 million died in a period of several months.  Here, the genocide of a “class” may well be tantamount to the genocide of a “race” – the deliberate starvation of a child of a Ukrainian kulak as a result of the famine caused by Stalin’s regime “is equal to” the starvation of a Jewish child in the Warsaw ghetto as a result of the famine caused by the Nazi regime.   Such arguments in no way detract from the unique nature of Auschwitz – the mobilization of leading-edge technological resources and their use in an “industrial process” involving the construction of an “extermination factory,” the use of gas, and cremation. However, this argument highlights one particular feature of many Communist regimes – their systematic use of famine as a weapon. The regime aimed to control the total available food supply and, with immense ingenuity, to distribute food purely on the basis of “merits” and “demerits” earned by individuals.   This policy was a recipe for creating famine on a massive scale. Remember that in the period after 1918, only Communist countries experienced such famines, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of people. And again in the 1980s, two African countries that claimed to be Marxist-Leninist, Ethiopia and Mozambique, were the only such countries to suffer these deadly famines. ”

This is not right!

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Poor dear, she never knew ...

Think Tanking For Hillbot

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Tommy Lee Mann

Real Fairy Tales

Stick your leg out Tommy so I can chop it off “ Mr Miacca Scroll When I was a pup me Granny would read to us (my sister) from a collection of storybooks (which I still have).  By far our favorites were the old fairy tales, and  Mr Miacca was number one on the chart.   A very dark story, which begins: TOMMY GRIMES was sometimes a good boy, and sometimes a bad boy; and when he was a bad boy, he was a very bad boy. Now his mother used to say to him: 'Tommy, Tommy, be a good boy, and don't go out of the street, or else Mr Miacca will take you.' But still when he was a bad boy he would go out of the street; and one day, sure enough, he had scarcely got round the corner, when Mr Miacca did catch him and popped him into a bag upside down, and took him off to his house. When Mr Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and sat him down, and felt his arms and legs. 'You're rather tough,' says he; 'but you're all I've got for supper, and you'll not taste bad boiled. But body o' me, I've forgot the herbs, and it's bitter you'll taste without herbs. Sally! Here, I say, Sally!' and he called Mrs Miacca. So Mrs Miacca came out of another room and said: 'What d'ye want, my dear?' 'Oh, here's a little boy for supper,' said Mr Miacca, 'and I've forgot the herbs. Mind him, will ye, while I go for them.' [Full] **** Just now I came across this site; Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins.  For the most part, these are the very versions we learned from, e.g. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half. Needless to say this kills him. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”. Somewheres between than and now, someone decided that kids couldn't handle this stuff, so they fluffed 'em up.  The Bible?  they just outlawed it.   The fairy tales were of course morality plays designed to instill in der kinders a sense of right and wrong.  By scaring the crap out of them with horrors that befell  bad boys and girls who did not obey their parents.  Even without the Bible stories that would come later, these cautionary tales were burned into my mind.  That's not to say that I never took me chances, but I did with full knowledge of what to expect if caught.        A later example of "the speech" I'm going to throw this in. The television show Dragnet was very popular.  The episode I remember the  most was about drugs.  At the time I had no knowledge whatever about Pot, Heroin, etc.  It was not part of our culture, and that culture was Chicago.  Anyway, the story, which I don't remember, was about drugs.   At the end Sgt Joe Friday gave his "speech" to the person arrested for using, and it stuck with me.  I am an addictive person.  Cigarettes, whiskey, blah-blah-blah.  But I never fell for drugs of any kind. I'm certain that was because of that first impression Sgt. Friday made. There are, it seems, no Joe Fridays anymore.  ”

Selena Gomez Walks Her Music

OUCH Sliced and Diced

That Old Black Magic

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC Scroll Like a fool, I had the news on today when the Job-Killer-in-Chief sent that animated slug out to try to spin the latest CBO report on the millions of FTEs the ACA will cost over the next few years.  I mean, Sheeeesh!!  What a maroon! What the guy tried to say was that the ACA impact on employment will be to make it possible for people who want health care but don’t want to work at a full-time job to get it can STILL get it by working part-time jobs . . . and that it will give them the opportunity to get out of a job they feel locked into and go do something they’d prefer, something more fun, even tho it’s not full-time.   “Opportunity!”  “Flexibility!”  Farkle!!!!  I don’t even know where to start ripping into that bucket of hogwash.   Fully realizing that Pelosi and Schumer and lots of others, especially the alphabet “news” networks, will somehow spin the continuing loss of jobs IN THE FRIGGIN MILLIONS and the resulting loss of revenue combined with the increased dependency upon Welfare and Food Stamps and MedicAid as a GOOD THING!!!!!!   Line from a favorite song of mine, “That Old Black Magic,” went through my mind and wouldn’t go away:  “Down and down I go, round and round I go . . . in a spin, and lovin that spin I’m in . . . while under that old black magic called DUMB!!!” I pretty much remember the lyrics, but I called it up anyway.  Looked at it and realized it doesn’t need much tweaking to turn it into an accurate parody of the LameStream media’s love affair with Soetoro.  But I did a little here and there to tighten it up a bit:           “This New Black Magic”  This new black magic’s got me in its spell, Obama magic that they weave so well, Those left-hand fingers up there in his spine, The same old bullshit we’ve heard many times.   That tingle Mathews gets along his thighs, And when Jay Carney starts his daily lies, People, down and down we go, round and round we go, Like a corpse attempting to rise.   We should fire his ass, but what can we do, Reid’s got the votes, and he’s a tool A tool with just enough clout That only revolt can run the bum out.   For he’s “the one that we’ve been waiting for” The savior that all blacks twice voted for   And every time he gives a speech, Truthfulness down and down we go, round and round we go In a spin, and lovin that spin we’re in While under that new black magic called Writ. Ron"Geoffrey Chaucer" Metzger

CHARLEY the Bike

DIY                       BEST IN CLASS Scroll What do you get when you cross a Harley and a '57 Chevy? A chick magnet? A dude magnet?  ACH! A pissed-off wife who can't get you to fix the disposal? ALL THAT AND MORE You get a “Charley”! Now isn't this about the coolest thing you have ever seen?  Even a bumper and tail light! Ron"Bad Boy" Metzger

“ There's This Elizabeth freaking Warren?  Could there be anyone more preposterous?  Yes, Martin O.'Malley (Elizabeth Warren with, what some call, a penis). ”

General Mills Squats for Michelle

STFU Michelle

“ General Mills is partnering with Michelle Obama to promote healthy eating. Here are the first two products. I Own The World Still, self appointed progressive foodcommies are upset that Big Food Corporations Watered Down Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign.  And there's this ... It's rumored that General Mills is next on Obama's purge list; will be replaced by  Obama favorite Capt. Crunch Skoonj ”

Cataract Ops-

Gary Larsen                                                                                  SCIENCE “ Me Me Me              Eye Eye Eye Final cataract report (OS) Left eye - 20/15 vision;  (RD 20/20).  Most incredibly, I can read small print without glasses.  How?  The optho said "it's magic."  I cannot imagine what the $3000 lens, that's  supposed to mimic the original lens for adjusting long and near vision would do better than this $1000 deal.  FWIW he used Alcon AcrySof IQ lenses (PDF).  In case you want to see how this is done ”

inner peas

FOOD Find of the Week - Trader Joes INNER PEAS (This lady says it all) I'm going to spend considerable time trying to duplicate these in the dehydrator.  Like eating crunchy, flavorful  air.

The Tampon Says ...

Culture                        “ Scroll WELCOME TO ANOTHER YEAR IN THE 21st CENTURY  • Our Phones - Wireless • Cooking - Fireless • Cars - Keyless • Food – Fatless • Tires – Tubeless • Dress – Sleeveless   • Youth – Jobless • Leaders – Shameless • Relationships – Meaningless • Attitudes – Careless • Babies – Fatherless • Feelings – Heartless • Education – Valueless • Children – Mannerless • Country – Godless We are speechless, Congress is CLUELESS, our President is WORTHLESS!!  God help us! Via R.W. Forsythe ”

The Sublime, and the other

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UPDATE- That's Obama's Seat of Power

Cataracts

“ Just had my left eye de-cateracked.  Piece of cake. In recovery.  PS - While the nurse was prepping me I said "This place reminds me of the Obama Administration." She just looked at me stony faced. "Yeah, every thing here is eye-eye-eye" Stony face. Whoops. Sent From ICU ”

11 Year-old arrested for selling cupcakes

When Liberals are in charge