Stupid, Pandering Son Of A Bitch

There are no other words to describe democrat Congressjerk Phil Hare. In his own words he will do what he wants to do and piss on the United States Constitution.




Rep. Hare is using an example of someone having to take their child to the hospital and pay $15,000 and because they are uninsured, not able to pay the bill. The some man asks:

Man: "Where in the Constitution..."

Rep. Hare: "I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest..."

Man: "Jackpot, brother."

Rep. Hare: "I care more about the people that are dying every day that don't have health insurance."

Man: "You care more about that than the Constitution you swore to
uphold."

Rep. Hare: "I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

We certainly do asshole, but I don't have to pay to make you or anyone else happy! And I hope you're happy in your new occupation, whatever that is, after November.

Caption Contest

Okay, let me start this one off:

Starsky and Shithead

Legends of the Fail

Go to it.

Interesting Times

There's said to be an old Chinese curse that goes something like this:

"May You Live In Interesting Times."

Things sure have been interesting for the past few weeks and our interest has certainly been peaked again by the recent events near Baengnyeong Island, controlled by South Korea. Reports are that a North Korean naval vessel torpedoed or otherwise sank a South Korean naval vessel with significant loss of life.

SEOUL, March 27 (Reuters) - A South Korean naval ship sank near the disputed maritime border with North Korea, killing some of the more than 100 crew on board, but officials played down suggestions that it may have been attacked by the North.

A defence ministry official later said that the unidentified object the vessel had fired at on Friday night near the western sea border that divides the two Koreas may well have been a flock of birds.

Initial fears that North Korea might be to blame caused ripples on Wall Street, where share prices dipped partly on geopolitical concerns, and the South Korean won dropped against the dollar.

"It is premature to discuss the cause of this sinking," presidential Blue House spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye told Reuters early on Saturday.

"It is not clear whether North Korea was involved."

[...]The defence ministry said 58 of the 104 on board had been rescued and Yonhap quoted navy officials as saying several had died.

"An unidentified reason caused a hole in the ship, which led to its sinking. Currently 58 have been rescued out of the total 104 on board. Rescue efforts are under way," the ministry said.

[...]The ship sank near the disputed Yellow Sea border off the west coast of the peninsula which was the scene of two deadly naval fights between the rival Koreas in the past decade.

Due to some unidentified reason, the ship sprung a big ass hole and rapidly sank, killing nearly half its crew. Did someone leave the ship's zipper open? We'd like to know.

In more unsettling developments, an excursion of Israeli tanks into Gaza was sparked by violent attacks initiated by Palestinians.

Israeli tanks advanced into the Gaza Strip on Friday after the worst clash with Palestinian fighters in 14 months killed two on each side, and Palestinian sources reported fresh casualties in the fighting.

They said five Israeli tanks and two armoured bulldozers advanced, firing, towards the town of Khan Younis in the centre of the narrow coastal enclave.

The Gaza-base militant group Popular Resistance Committees said one of its fighters was critically wounded by tank shelling east of the town. Palestinian sources reported Israeli helicopters and unmanned military drones in the skies.

And why are things getting so interesting?

My two cents worth: The United States is not only perceived as weak and ineffective under Obama, it is also seen as evil. The scum of the earth see Obama as a friend, an enabler. He shares the same goals as they do and through his inaction, tacitly approves of their goals.

North Korea is on the ropes economically. The maniac in charge needs to divert attention away from his failures. Obama is certainly not going to stop him.

The sinking comes as the impoverished North has become increasingly frustrated by its wealthy neighbour, which has given the cold-shoulder to recent attempts to reopen a lucrative tourist business on the northern side of the Cold War's last frontier.

It also coincides with mounting pressure on Pyongyang to end a more than one-year boycott of international talks to end its efforts to build a nuclear arsenal.

There has been widespread speculation that North Korea's iron ruler, Kim Jong-il, was about to visit China, his only significant ally and on which he has depended almost entirely for economic aid after a new conservative government in Seoul effectively ended years of free-flowing assistance.

So Kim Jong-il plays the slap-tickle-shoot the pickle routine and waits for his sugar daddy to hand him the keys to the T-Bird for the weekend and some walking money.

Within the past week, Gaza trailer park trash witnessed the big dis handed to the Israeli leadership by Biden (locally) and Obama (in Washington). The world knows that though the IDF is one of the world's most efficient and effective fighting forces; the big stick they wield is the support of the USA. Without that, the nation of Israel is vulnerable.

By the actions of this administration, an "Open Jooooo Season" sign has been posted on Israel's borders, courtesy of the US.

There have been several acknowledged reigns of relative peace imposed by strong nations: a Pax Romana for two hundred years (1st and 2nd centuries AD), the relatively short-lived Pax Britannica after the defeat of Napoleon, and a Pax Americana after World War II.

GOD has used the power of the United States to keep a lid on the world's tyrants for sixty years. Under a weak President, the pot is starting to boil again and the lid just may come off.

Interesting...

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5

It Ain't Over

The events of the past few weeks have driven so many of us to distraction. I certainly am one of them. There is a tremendous post at Left Coast Rebel that reveals how Americans responded to a hated piece of national legislation.

[...]The year is 1854 and the issue dividing America was slavery. The abolition movement in America had been percolating since the country’s founding and pro-slavery politics had just proclaimed themselves the victors of the slavery battle with their legislative victory in the 1854 Nebraska-Kansas Act. With a single stroke of the presidential pen, Franklin Pierce had in effect declared slavery the law of the land. The bill opened up all US territories to accept backdoor slavery; the bill was to permanently weave slavery into the fabric of the electorate, never to be overturned.

Starting to sound familar? "Never to be overturned" is an echo of arrogance down through the ages. We heard it again just yesterday. It is a self-deluding utterance by men and woman who cannot conceive the consequences of their actions.

The Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed by a narrow margin in the house; 113 to 100. However, the implications were clear and the country would never be the same again. It all started with a dramatic ousting of the day’s blue dog democrats, aka the northern democrats:

Stephen Douglas was the Chairman of the Territories Committee who introduced the Nebraska-Kansas Act. He was also the Democratic candidate in the Presidential election of 1860. Remember who won that election?

No congressional member had so badly miscalculated the consequences of his actions as had Douglas. He believed that, besides getting a transcontinental railroad terminating in Chicago, he had removed the slavery issue from national life. By putting discussion of slavery in the hands of settlers and taking it away from members of Congress, Douglas believed, as did many others, that the national agitation over slavery's expansion would cease. This prediction was proven miserably wrong.

The Nebraska-Kansas Act was supposed to settle once and for all the issue of slavery, making it legal throughout the Union, or so Mr. Douglas and his supporters thought.

How's that hopey-change thing working out for ya Stephen?

The Nebraska-Kansas Act brought about the birth of the Republican Party from the ashes of the Whigs. The first Republican elected to the Presidency was Abrahma Lincoln.

The elections for the House of Representatives in 1854, 1856, 1858 and 1860 saw dramatic changes in the number of Democrats in Congress.

This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

A Long Time Coming

The American socialist/progressive/communist movement has been around for about 100 years. We are watching the the House vote on one of it's biggest attempts to impose government control on a huge portion of our economy. If this fails, they will not stop. If they succeed, they will grab for more.

Socialism is fueled by a world view that is diametrically opposed to Christocentric concepts regarding the human condition. Christianity holds that man was created in a perfect condition, sinned/fell from grace and because of sin requires a Redeemer to satisfy the righteous judgement of a Holy God. The problems of the human condition will disappear once sin is finally dealt with.

Socialism is an expression of humanism; humanism is a system of belief wherein Man does not need to be redeemed, he needs to be ruled. Once a perfect government is formed, then all the problems of the human condition will disappear.

Humanism is acknowledged by its adherents as a religion whose precepts are as follows :

FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.

This is the first element of the socialist/humanist agenda against Christianity. This is one of the reasons why the Book of Genesis has been the object of so many attacks , The Genesis account is an affront against humanism and must be discredited. As the scientific method was bastardized to support AGW, the same was done to discredit the Genesis account of creation. Carbon 14 dating that fell short of the millions and millions of years needed to legitimatize evolution were simply ignored as errors.

SECOND: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

This second element is the continuous process of evolution, the replacement for Genesis; the Book of Origins. Under Humanism, everything comes from nothing; a singularity perhaps but that's not important. What's important is that there is no God, there cannot be a God; there must not be a God.

THIRD: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.

Not so obvious - this element rejects the concept that man has a soul and spirit. Therefore there is no afterlife. Therefore there is no Authority that controls events after death.

FOURTH: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.

Also not as obvious - Humanism rejects the notion that God has established standards of conduct. Our laws therefore are nothing but a "gradual development" of his social environment that have no basis in Divine Origin. Therefore these laws can gradually, or suddenly, change into .... whatever pleases Man. Rape isn't rape unless it's rape-rape. Murder is not murder if it is abortion.

FIFTH: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered, but it does insist that the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry and by the assessment of their relations to human needs. Religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method.

There is no longer intrinsic value to anything including human life. All value to all things is ascribed by its assessment in relation to human needs. If we don't need you, then you have no value. Good-bye Grandma.

The free and unfettered expression of our religious beliefs must also be subjected to scientific examination. Instead of the Book of Revelations, we will be handed the Book of Scientific Negotiations. Except of course for AGW; that is a scientific belief based completely on faith and the potential profits to be made in carbon trading - thus AGW is sacrosanct.

SIXTH: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought".

The Humanists have no decreed that the time has passed for tolerance. Only those belief systems that comply with the tenets of Humanism will be allowed. Perhaps this will also be the end of elevator music.

SEVENTH: Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and experiences which are humanly significant. Nothing human is alien to the religious. It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation--all that is in its degree expressive of intelligently satisfying human living. The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.

Element number seven is simple. All aspects of human life are now subject to the dictates of government.

EIGHTH: Religious Humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man's life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is the explanation of the humanist's social passion.

Social Passion - the government will develop and fulfill you. After all, Comrade Obama knows best.

NINTH: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.

Hence the social gospel. There is no place for original sin, only the sin of non-cooperation with the effort to promote social well-being, whatever the hell that might be today.

TENTH: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.

From now on, the only tingle you will be allowed is the "Chris Matthews Inner Thigh Spasm."

ELEVENTH: Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms of his knowledge of their naturalness and probability. Reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education and supported by custom. We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.

Say good bye to prayer. I don't think that you'll go to prison or be fined for praying. But you just might find yourself in a psycho ward where you will be "treated" for prayer because that's the mental hygiene way of doing things.

TWELFTH: Believing that religion must work increasingly for joy in living, religious humanists aim to foster the creative in man and to encourage achievements that add to the satisfactions of life.

Prepare yourselves for more crucifixes reposing in beakers of piss. Somehow, somewhere, some pervert is satisfied by this.

THIRTEENTH: Religious humanism maintains that all associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life. The intelligent evaluation, transformation, control, and direction of such associations and institutions with a view to the enhancement of human life is the purpose and program of humanism. Certainly religious institutions, their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows, in order to function effectively in the modern world.

Look to see government agencies examining church services in order to bring them into conformance with with human fulfillment. If having sex with other men or a three year old boy brings you fulfillment, then the altar needs to be replaced with a mattress. After all, psychologists have already started to discount the effects of adults having sex with children.

FOURTEENTH: The humanists are firmly convinced that existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted. A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible. The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good. Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.

What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. This has already been tried and it has been a resounding failure in every instance. But won't stop the progressives. Obamacare is just the latest episode, but Bush 41's RINO's also had a hand in this with the Medicare prescription give away. It is just a little disingenuous for the Republicans to climb on the Outrage Bandwagon now when they helped move the whole socialization of medical care in this Country.

FIFTEENTH: We assert that humanism will: (a) affirm life rather than deny it; (b) seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from them; and (c) endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few. By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will flow.

What humanism will accomplish is the destruction of America as we know it. And the only way for humanism to succeed is to insinuate itself into the very fabric of government.

So pray for America. We spit and sputter in fury on conservative websites, but the final disposition of these events have been, and always will be, in God's hands.

Box Seats!

I scored two tickets to a performance of the Syracuse Symphony tonight. One of my supervisors couldn't make it and gave me his box seats. Box seats! Sweet. Me and the Mrs. had a freebie night out.

The first two pieces were so-so: Rounds for Strings by David Diamond (tedius), Percussion Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (sounded like really noisy menstrual cramps) and after the intermission, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (awesome!).

For a city the size of Syracuse it is unusual to have a symphony orchestra as good as the one we have. We are really blessed.

R.I.P. Fess Parker

Actor Fess Parker is dead at the age of 85.
I loved this guy, all 6'6" of him, when I was a kid.

Don't tell me childhood heroes aren't important -

when I was six I thought Davy Crockett was still alive.

Some mean, older kid down the block told me Davy was coming to visit me.

I believed it ... and I still remember the disappointment 55 years later.

*sigh*
Davy Crockett is dead.

How To Fill Out Your Census Form

FUCK YOU - YOU NO LONGER HAVE MY CONSENT TO GOVERN ME




I have had it with these assholes.

Men Of Honor

Found this wonderful comparison at OpiniPundit -- it's so true...

The US Military is just about the only American institution that can be trusted anymore.

Al-BamaCare: From Rule Of Law To Imperial Fiat

Obama loves his czars. He loves them so much that he will soon emulate the czar's method of governance. The Czar's ruled by issuing orders called ukase.

From the Merriam-Webster on line dictionary:

Main Entry: ukase
Pronunciation: \yü-ˈkās, -ˈkāz, ˈyü-ˌ; ü-ˈkäz\
Function: noun
Etymology: French & Russian; French, from Russian ukaz, from ukazat' - to show, order; akin to Old Church Slavic u- away, Latin au-, Sanskrit ava- and to Old Church Slavic kazati - to show

Date: 1729
1 : a proclamation by a Russian emperor or government having the force
of law
2 : edict

This is what Pelosi, Reid, Barack Hussein Al-Bama and the entire traitorous pack of democrats have done to the legislative process. Detailed in Article I, the Framers of the Constitution told us how this process must be conducted.

By approving the Senate bill without actually voting on it, Constitutional safeguards put in place so long ago are willfully ignored.

Instead, Democrats will vote for a bill that states that the original Senate health care bill is “deemed passed.”

There is no actual vote on health care as stipulated in our Constitution.

Once this happens, we are no longer a Constitutional Republic.

Anything goes after this.

UPDATE:
This is interesting.

Advances In Science - The Pelosi Particle

Heaviest Element Yet Known to Science Discovered

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science.

The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Pelosium is inert, and has no charge and no magnetism. Nevertheless, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Pelosium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Pelosium has a normal half-life of 2 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a biennial reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

Pelosium mass will increase over time, since each reorganization will promote many morons to become isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Pelosium becomes Senatorium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Pelosium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

A big H/T to Charlie The ChiTown Cop.

Poor Man's Botox

NEWARK -- Six city women seeking backside enhancements have been hospitalized in the last two months after getting injected with mixtures of hardware-grade caulk, silicone and petroleum jelly, according to a report in the New York Post.

The New Jersey Department of Health reported the incidents, and hospital officials said the injections all happened in hotels around the Newark area, the paper reported. The women were all from the Dominican Republic. No one has been charged.

A spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Health also reports that the six woman now have backsides that are completely waterproofed and weather sealed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

Water, Water Everywhere But You Can't Have A Drink

England's public health care at it's finest.

A man dies - DIES - from thirst.

In an English NHS Hospital.

Surrounded, surrounded mind you, by public service doctors and nurses.

A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.

Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help.

They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control.

The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died within hours.

She said nurses had failed to give him vital drugs which controlled fluid levels in his body. 'He was totally dependent on the nurses to help him and they totally betrayed him.'

He was denied critical care in a teaching hospital - of course they must be teaching public health care - AKA ObamaCare. Private health care is taught in other countries like the US. At least for a little while longer.

There is another description of the care this young man received:

"A person acts with criminal negligence with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such result will occur or that such circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation."

Unfortunately for young Mr. Gorny, reasonable people were not involved with his care; incompetent, useless assholes were. Public health care at its finest.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Detectives from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command are investigating the death of Kane Gorny at St George's Hospital after this was referred to us by Westminster Coroner's Court.'

A spokesman for St George's Hospital said: 'We are extremely sorry about the death of Kane Gorny and understand the distress that this has caused to his family.

'A full investigation was carried out and new procedures introduced to ensure that
such a case cannot happen in future.

'We have written to the family to explain the actions that have been taken and to answer their concerns about Mr Gorny's care. The family has also been invited to meet with trust staff to discuss the case in detail.'

The tragedy emerged a week after a report into hundreds of deaths at Stafford Hospital revealed the appalling quality of care given by many of the nurses.

Why is gross incompetence called a tragedy? Call it what it is, unconscionable negligence.

New procedures? How about new indictments? What kind of hellish old procedures were in effect when this young man died? What a crock of shit!

And then the grieving family is treated to the usual remedy offered by a government who cares not a farthing about their citizens. Public service unions make it impossible to get rid of dead wood who in turn produce dead patients.

The same sense of entitlement that permeates the welfare system has penetrated the health care system. Nurses are more interested in their perks and petty grievances than in providing decent care. Staff are not paid for being competent, they are paid for showing up. And as the bodies are carted out of the wards, the only ones paying attention to the carnage are the relatives.

This week a task force called on nurses to sign a public pledge that they will treat everyone with compassion and dignity.

A task force. What a useless, typically liberal response to a criminal act. I'd prefer competence over compassion any day of the week. Public service doctors and nurses will stand around with fake pity and compassion in their eyes while you slowly die from neglect.

And keep this in mind, the UK's National Health Service is the largest employer in the UK. It is also one of the largest employers in the world. One out of every twenty-three people who work in the UK do so for the NHS.

A total of 1,282,900 people in England have jobs with the NHS: 2 per cent of the 30 million people of working age.

Only the Chinese Army and the Indian State Railways are believed to employ more people — with 2.3 million and 1.5 million staff respectively — but both workforces represent a far smaller proportion of the national populations.

All that incompetence stuffed in such an itty-bitty island.

John Reid, the Health Secretary, said he was delighted with the growth, but added that he was aware that more action was needed to tackle existing staff shortages.

And they're not done yet.

Why Al Gore Has Disappeared

You must read this piece over to Red State. It is perhaps the best description of what is happening to the global warming scam I have read. Caleb Howe describes his transformation from a brainwashed youth

When I was 13 years old, science scared me. Not science itself, mind you, but the terrors of the future it foretold. News of the coming dark ages were delivered to our young ears through that most trusted of conduits, a high school science teacher. We’re killing the planet? I was shocked. What a bunch of jerks we all are! I remember so very clearly coming home from school, brow furrowed, and earnestly rebuking my parents for contributing to the destruction of the earth. RECYCLE! LIKE RIGHT NOW!! OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!!!

to a sceptical adult to a nonbeliever.

So now I’m thirty-five years old, and although I eventually broke free, environmental hysteria has surrounded me ever since that day. And there is no hysteria more rabid than that over man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, properly, or AGW). Assuming you haven’t been in an alternate dimension for the last decade or so, you know exactly what I’m talking about. The world is going to be destroyed, Al Gore tells us with the earnestness and oratorical flourish of any panicked 13-year old, if we don’t do something RIGHT NOW!! To which the “global community” replied with a resounding FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!!!!!

Al "Chicken Little" Gore and his band of fanatics are in denial mode and are too busy screaming LALALALALA with their fingers in their ears to respond to Senator Inhoye's requests for Congressional hearings into the scam of the century. And while the Brit papers are all over this, little has been heard in the USA regarding the outright lies and falsification of data used to buttress the claims for AGW.And still, that is not all.

In an admission that rocked the British and Australian press and was mostly ignored here in the States, Professor Phil Jones himself has now conceded that the period of medieval global warming, the mere mention of which would have you swiftly decorated by a scarlett letter mere weeks ago, might, in fact, have actually been warmer than the predicted peak of the current warming.

[...]Jones also revealed that a warming period between 1860 and 1880 occurred at a greater rate of increase than what the warmers themselves purport to be the increase of the past 30 years. These are extremely crucial points, as the extent of warming and the possible consequences are what drive any potential legislation such as what was proposed at Copenhagen in 2009.

It will take you a few minutes to read this article but it is well worth the effort. It encapsulates what I have felt for years.

The Communist Fruitcake

Remember the fruitcake your mother's second cousin mailed to the house every Christmas? It sat there moldering in the tin on the dining room table until well after New Year's Day had come and gone. Maybe one or two small pieces were cut out with a chainsaw by the more adventurous of your friends and relatives. It always disappeared before the Superbowl or as soon as Dad figured he could get away with trashing it.

Obozo is like that. He is here for a season and we will get rid of him as soon as possible without offending the relatives. We're all gagging on the Hope n' Change seasoning that congealed into a slimy coating covering the cake and the &%#ing retarded nuts scattered around in the cake are really obnoxious but, gee, it's Christmas and Cousin Edwina really means well.

The Party Of "Hell No!"

Thus spake Ann Coulter:

As the Democratic base has been hysterically pointing out, both the House and the Senate have already passed national health care bills. Either body could vote for the other's bill, and -- presto! -- Obama would have a national health care bill, replete with death panels, abortion coverage and lots and lots of new government commissions!

[...]The reason massive Democratic majorities in Congress aren't enough to pass socialist health care is AMERICANS DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!

In fact, you might say that the nation is in a boiling cauldron of rage against it. Consequently, a lot of Democrats are suddenly having second thoughts about vast new government commissions regulating every aspect of Americans' medical care.

If the Republicans have any brains at all, they'll become the party of "HELL NO! Not on our watch!"

Favorite Things

Julie Andrews never sang this version of "My Favorite Things" on her 69th birthday in 2004. Ms. Andrews had her singing voice destroyed in a routine polyp removal from her vocal cords in 1997. But this parody is still a hoot, and I find that some sections are starting to make a lot of sense...

Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favourite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favourite things.

When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad, I simply remember my favourite things,

And then I don't feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favourite things.

Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin',
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',
And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favourite things.

When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.

The Money Tree

For whatever the reason, I decided to spend a half hour looking at back to back Michael Jackson videos on some entertainment channel that I normally never watch. The first one was "Thriller" and I enjoyed that song when it came out years ago, so I figured what the heck, I'll see some more of this man's offerings. After a few weird, crappy vids they then played "Billy Jean" which I also enjoyed.

What I really witnessed was the transformation of a young, handsome black man into a whited-out freak. The whiter he got and the more he hacked off his nose - the more he grabbed his crotch.

I also was exposed to my first sports Tampon commercial.

I tuned into the NASCAR race after that.

It really is a shame that everyone around Michael never tried to intervene, to stop him from stewing in the hellish juices that was the crockpot of his life.

He was a money tree and his friends and family shook him until all the fruit fell off. What was left wasn't pretty.

What Hero?

I just got through reading the online suicide note of Joseph Stack, the software engineer who flew his single-engine Piper Cherokee into an Austin, TX, office building. Apparently he not only killed himself but took another person's life as well and injured a dozen more. And he missed the IRS office he was aiming at in the first. This was not only suicide but also murder and assault.

But before setting foot in the cockpit, he sets fire to his house - apparently with his family yet inside! Was he trying to kill them also?

Of course no one in their right mind will condone these actions; my intent is not to affix culpability- Stack alone is responsible for his actions - nor to flail away at the government, although there is a wealth of material to be covered there. I am more interested in the notion being bandied about that Joe Stack is some kind of anti-tax Tea Party hero.

He is not a hero, far from it.
He is also not deranged.
He is most certainly selfish, self absorbed, perhaps narcissistic. Any man who loves his family more than his own life would not have chosen the path he took. His hatred for whatever the government did to him should not have taken precedence over his concern for the welfare of his family. And his blind, breathtaking disregard for the lives of other people stuns me.

His actions are more like that of a spoiled child.
If Joe can't have his way, then Joe is going home.
And he is taking all his marbles with him whether they like it or not.

In retrospect, how bad can life be if you can afford to own and operate a Piper Cherokee PA-28 airplane to fly around and visit your clients?

The Dog Ate My Global Warming

This is the darling of the East Anglia Kennel Association. I would like you to meet Snowball, the Global Warming Hockeystick eating beagle. Snowball is a very, very naughty girl for she has eaten the data supporting the AGW temperature increase. Bad girl!

Get a load of this from the UK Mail Online:

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Ahhhh, excuse me?

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

Will somebody please notify the MSM and that jug eared poser in Washington that there is no need to cripple our economy in order to accomodate the masturbatorial delusions of Al Gore?

It's Called Weaning

After 16 years in Congress and only a week after calling newly installed Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown a joke, Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is calling it quits.

Rhode Island Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy will retire after eight terms in office, bringing an end to his House career just months after his father, legendary Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, passed away.

"My father instilled in me a deep commitment to public service," Kennedy said in a video announcing his retirement. "Now having spent two decades in politics, my life has taken a new direction and I will not be a candidate for re-election this year."

Leaving public office is said to be as tough on a politician as being yanked from his mother's teat is for a six month old infant. Clutching a 12 year old bottle of Maker's whom he suspiciously calls his "Binky," Kennedy was last seen entering Politicians Anonymous Topless Grill in Providence. It seems like the recently departed Ted Kennedy both instilled and distilled his son.

Pat Kennedy's life's new direction involves a desperate search for a position where his dead daddy's friends can now take care of him.

Patrick Kennedy is Ted Kennedy Lite.

All the pandering
All the bad behavior,
Only half the booze.

Amazing Medical Inventions

Former President William Clinton was hospitalized this afternoon; he was admitted to Columbia's New York Presbyterian Hospital after complaining of chest pains.

Taking into account his legendary poor eating habits, doctors realized that ordinary measures would probably be defeated in the long term. Instead, they opted for something different; they inserted two stents of an experimental design into one of the President's coronary arteries.

In the above photo, a crack surgical team prepares the first of two surgical stents to be placed in ex-President Clinton's artery.

Nicknamed the "Bacon Double Cheeseburger Memorial Super Highway," these stents were manufactured for people with an LDL of 750 and over. In the event that Billy Jeff falls off the low chlorestoral wagon, doctors have also prepared a new arterial reaming machine to scour plaque from inside the new stents.

All funny aside - there are 2,976 people who died on September 11, 2001, because in 1996 Billy Jeff refused delivery of Osama Bin Laden from the Sudanese government. The good doctors at New York Presbyterian did exactly as they should, they used their skills to save President Clinton's life. Billy Jeff will face justice one of these days, the doctors only postponed it. And it will be justice far more terrible than whatever we can imagine trapped in our mortal coil.

The Ice Man Cometh

In a statement issued from his new estate in southern France, Chateau d'Gorcicle, climate genius Al Gore has issued new directives in his battle to combat mankind's greatest enemy - Global Warming.

These directives propose a revolutionary change to the way that the world will manufacture leisure products by taking advantage of global warming trends; that will not increase mankind's carbon footprint...

HOT TUBS AND JACUZZIS

" Whew! Honey! More iced tea please! I'm roasting in here!"

That's what you'll be saying to your spouse as she lovingly hands you another cold, frosty glass of your favorite beverage as you loll in your new Gore Technologies™ carbon neutral jacuzzi! Global rising temperatures will bake your cares away without wasting a single kilowatt!

Nothing beats the heat as you unwind from a hard day at work!

And who knows? Maybe the little lady will join you for a relaxing dip once the kids are in bed! Oh you naughty guys! But don't worry, we won't be able to see a thing and you won't want to escape from your jacuzzi after just a few minutes!

LAWN FURNITURE

Imagine this: you are out on your patio, basking in the sun on your brand new lawn furniture. Your neighbor will be "green" with envy as you enjoy a refreshing beverage on your eco-friendly chaise lounge fashioned by Mother Gaia herself! You'll love your Gore Technologies™ lawn furniture so much, you'll find it almost impossible to pry yourself loose!

BILLARD AND POOL TABLES

Hard bank shot got you worried? Game on the line? No Sweat! You'll be cool as a c-c-c-cucumber showing off your stuff on this Global Warming inspired creation from Gore Technologies™! The carbon neutral pool table! Rack 'em up!

Aussie Solutions

There are times when you just have to kill something, and there is no room for half measures. Any civilized nation will allow some latitude in how it allows common citizens to address this need.

This is particularly true when it comes to wildlife that endangers your home and your family.

Gun control issues not withstanding, Australia just may stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world when it comes to this.

Australian farmers are being urged by authorities to use poison gas and even ammonium nitrate explosive to blow up rabbits, as biological controls fail, The Adelaide Advertiser reported in its Thursday edition.

A warning issued to farmers by the South Australian Environment Department urges them to "overcome the rabbit's tremendous breeding potential" by traditional means such as bulldozers, poison baits, fumigation, dogs and even explosives.

"Explosives are an alternative for follow up control . . . accreditation and training is mandatory," the information bulletin issued by the Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board (ALNRMB) states.

I have a real serious problem with groundhogs in my backyard.

Lame Duck McCain? Maybe...

Arizona Senator John "Maverick" McCain has never been faced with the possibility of a serious Republican primary battle, until now. From the Vancouver Sun:

WASHINGTON — First John McCain lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, humbling enough for a politician who had spent a decade pursuing his White House ambitions.

Now the Arizona senator is in jeopardy of losing his U.S. Senate seat amid a challenge from within his own party ahead of this fall's midterm elections.

McCain, a self-styled maverick who has never been a darling of the American right, is preparing for an unexpected primary election battle against a former GOP congressman who has the backing of members of the anti-establishment Tea Party movement.

That pesky Tea Party rears its head again. Arizona has a fairly robust Tea Party organization and McCain ... is McCain. His daughter Meghan is no help at all.

Hayworth was once a McCain ally, campaigning for the Arizona senator in 2000 when he ran against George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.

But Hayworth has earned statewide recognition over the past two years in Arizona as a right-wing radio talk show host, frequently criticizing McCain for his past support of immigration reform, highlighting his votes against Bush-era tax cuts and casting him as weak on terror by opposing controversial interrogation techniques against terror suspects.

"The John McCain I supported for president in 2000 is not the same John McCain I've watched frustrate conservatives time and again as our senator," Hayworth wrote last week on a conservative website.

This could the year of Conservative Discontent when the parties finally start paying attention to tens of millions of voters who have had enough. They start paying attention when their main people get thrown out on their asses.

What A Difference A President Makes

God Bless our Armed Forces.

Even though the men and women who serve our nation so bravely are forced betimes to sip from the Cup of Political Correctness, no one can force them to drink deeply - or to swallow. Perhaps this is none so true as in the USMC.

No one can order a heart-felt, shake the walls, pound the table, rock star type welcome.

So, the question here is: Which greeting is for Elvis as he enters the auditorium and which greeting is for Tiny Tim?

The following is a comparison of a Marine Corps welcome for two different Commanders in Chief.

The difference is astounding!

Thanks Charley.

For those of you too young to remember, this is Tiny Tim.

If you're curious, that is the delightful Goldie Hawn escorting Tiny Tim from the stage. It is rumored that she scrubbed herself bloody after that take.

The Dips' In The Locker Room

From Wired:

[...]three junk-food sculptors honored Sunday’s Super Bowl by crafting a 7-foot replica of Miami’s Sun Life Stadium out of Twinkies, Slim Jims, Doritos and four dozen other snacks totaling 110,428 calories.

He caught a pepperoni pass and he could ... go ... all ... the ... way!

It's Not The PR - It's The Lies

From the TimesOnLine:

I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”.

He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change.

Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”

It is always a source of great amusement to me when a man is caught with his pants down buggering the neighbor's parakeet and all he has to say is that he doesn't know how to cover his lying ass.

This so called scientist sees the Climategate scandal in terms of damage control rather than the outright theft and misapplication of hundreds of billions of dollars in carbon trading, lost jobs and outlandish taxes based on his subterfuge.

Take note Sparky, it ain't the PR, it's the lies.

The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills. He said the support of his family, and especially the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, had helped him to shake off suicidal thoughts: “I wanted to see her grow up.”

He remains at risk, still receiving death threats from around the world including two in the past week: “I was shocked. People said I should go and kill myself. They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world.”

And the Times is assisting him in his rehabilitation; one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on mankind has now been downgraded to an "incident." I wonder how many unemployed people in the UK and US had to go on beta blockers and sleeping pills because their life long occupations were eliminated when Professor Jones and his accomplices say that carbon is more deadly than plutonium.

Jones has temporarily stood down as director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. He fiercely defends the unit’s science — “I stand by it 100%” — but now accepts that he did not treat Freedom of Information (FoI) requests for the data as seriously as he should have done. Jones believes that the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple FoI requests by climate change sceptics determined to disrupt its work.

If that's the case, why didn't they just post the data and let other people do the intensly scientific work in seeing how the climate change model was developed and how well it responds to the data?

Oopsy - they can't post the data because they lost the data!

Remember that? Again from the TimesOnLine:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

Those pesky FoI requests sure have a way of maliciously targeting scams, huh Professor? You propose draconian economic and political measures to save the planet and then lose the data that supports your position. You must think us all fools.

Professor Jones should do us all a favor and look into getting a prescription for oxygen blockers.

Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers

We need more of this in Congress and in public. Open, frank exposure of the travesty that is the democratic plan to take control of one seventh of the US economy and force us to worship the government.

Congressman Mike Rogers, MI 8th Congressional District, speaks truth to power. It's less than four minutes long and almost 7 million views have already occurred for this video clip.

The New AARP

Where do I sign up?


H/T to my buddy Al.

Not For The Faint Hearted

Just a little while ago, a fellow blogger went through a minor crisis of confidence. It was great to see the "blog support swarm" that answered him and helped him through a rough patch of road, for it is indeed a journey we are on. We exchanged some emails which I thought were rather enlightening and I am very glad to see that he is back in top form. He feels a little foolish about this very brief episode in his life. I just want to iterate a few truths - well, I see them as truths - as to why this happens and why he should take comfort from his experience.

Because things work out whether we like it or not.

WE ALL get discouraged.

Life takes its toll on us because .... We live.
It's that simple. It's not easy. It's not pleasant. Just simple - because, sometimes, life really sucks.

How we respond is important.

How family and friends respond can be even more important.

God tested Job by allowing Satan to take from him all that he loved. In Job 2:9, while Job is lamenting the loss of his entire family and fortune, his wife has this to say to him:

"Are you still holding on to your integrity?

Curse God and die!"

Of course Job responded, "Gee, Thanks honey!"

We need each other - that's why God in His Wisdom created us as social creatures. If you want, please refer to the first chapter of His Owner's Manual, Genesis 2:18 where the Manual states that "...It is not good that the man should be alone." Or futher on in the Manual where it states in Ecclesiastes 4:10 "If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!"

It's the engineering. We are hardwired if you prefer.

We are all fellow travelers trying to reach the same destination. We really can't describe where we are going, we don't even agree with all the other passengers on how to get there, but we all want the same thing. That's what freedom is. Life, liberty and the pursuit of whatever it is that keeps us sane and happy without pissing off too many other people who are seeking the same thing. That's why good fences make good neighbors.

And we see that all going to hell in a handbasket.

Don't be discouraged, don't give up. We have just joined a decades old battle and the best thing to do is stick together. If you see someone fall, stop what you're doing and help him get back on his or her feet. Dust them off. See what else you can do for them and rejoin the battle as quickly as possible.

Pray for each other - that's really important.
Pray for our Country.

So Long For Now Nickie

Although disbanded upon the direct orders of Nickie G. and under not very subtle threat (I found a pair of varicose vein support stockings on my porch this morning), the reporters of GNN have remained faithful to our select audience.

We have diligently researched all the rumors (and started a few of our own) on the reasons why Nickie recently disappeared from GNN circles, leaving a trail of broken hearts, disappointed fans and dented Louisville Sluggers.

At last the truth can be told.

Nickie - don't stay away too long.

Thanks for the video Charlie, it just felt right!

More From The Religion Of Peace

From the NY Post:

Muslim chaplain 'smuggled' box-cutter blades into jail
By REUVEN BLAU and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 8:38 PM, February 3, 2010
A city Department of Correction Muslim chaplain who served 14 years in prison for murder and robbery was arrested today for carrying three utility blades and a pair of scissors into a lower Manhattan jail — the latest in a series of black eyes for that facility, authorities said.

The chaplain, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid, had the utility blades and scissors in his duffel bag when he arrived at the Manhattan Detention Complex in the morning, according to the city Department of Investigation.

The dangerous items were found after an X-ray machine alerted correction officers to the presence of metal in the bag, the DOI said.

[...]Abdu-Shahid was hired as a Muslim imam chaplain by the DOC three years ago tomorrow, and has a salary of $49,471 annually.

State Corrections Department records show that he entered state prison in September 1979 to begin serving a sentence of 15-years-to-life for a second-degree murder and a first-degree robbery committed in Manhattan. He was paroled in August 1993, and finished his parole in August 2001.

According to news accounts at the time, the cleric, a Brooklyn resident then known as Paul Pitts, was convicted with three other defendants in 1979 after the longest criminal trial in New York State Supreme Court history – one year, three months and three days. Pitts and his co-defendants had held up a Harlem supermarket on Dec. 9, 1976, and during the robbery shot and killed a 30-year-old customer named Philip Crawford.

The Post also has learned that his criminal record includes an arrest for sexual assault in Queens, but that case later was dismissed.

Abdu-Shahid’s lawyer, McQueeney, said, "He’s been out of prison since the early ’90s. He’s completely reformed."

Another successful jailhouse conversion.

And Now We Know

While waiting in various doctors offices, you get an opportunity to catch up on reading that you wouldn't ordinarily be bothered with, particularly with regard to popular culture magazines. So I perused a pile of dated magazines and found an issue of Star magazine from last July that contained this nugget:

Jennifer Aniston, 40, has always had a radiant complexion, but she may have discovered a winning under eye treatment - Preparation H hemorrhoid cream!

[...] Preparation H tightens the skin and keeps puffiness down, thanks to one of its main ingredients: mineral oil.

Some things are better left in the realm of the unknown. But I am now considering using Visine in a rather unusual place.

Obama Bow!

All you Obama boy and girl
Look like a fool before the world
Gonna do the Obama Bow
Stay with me I show you how

Obama nimble! Obama quick!
Obama do his bowing schtick!
Obama think he cat’s meow!
Goin’ down! Obama Bow!

Ignore international protocol!
Make all Americans appalled!
How low can he go?

First he fly to Saudi Land!
Smells like shit and blowing sand!
Then he find a Saudi prince!
He not invited back ever since!

Obama nimble! Obama quick!
Obama do his bowing schtick!
Obama think he cat’s meow!
Goin’ down! Obama Bow!

Then he fly to Japanese!
Almost ends up on his knees !
Emperor warned he must be wary!
Protocol may just get hairy!

Obama nimble! Obama quick!
Obama do his bowing schtick!
Obama think he cat’s meow!
Goin’ down! Obama Bow!

Obama in the China Land!
How they cheer! They think he grand!
Obama same rank, it look so lame!
Obama he bows low just the same!

Obama nimble! Obama quick!
Obama do his bowing schtick!
He thinks he is the cat’s meow!
Goin’ down! Obama Bow!

Ignore international protocol!
Make all Americans appalled!
How low can he go?

Obama now in Tampa Land!
We hope bowing now be banned!
Military aide is thunderstruck!
He think “Huh? Now what the f**k?”

Obama nimble! Obama quick!
Obama do his bowing schtick!
Obama think he cat’s meow!
Goin’ down! Obama Bow!