.74
Come on kids, are you going to wait for Mr. Pelican Pants to get another one?
He did it again.
UPDATE: Global Temperature has dropped .74 degrees since the release of An Inconvenient "Truth"
July 7, 2009
Manitowoc Open Carry Freedom March On Target
Thought I'd share this unique experience with you guys.
The Real Working Class
In case you can't read it: "You don't see Obama stickers on cars going to WORK!"Credit to my adorable borderline-Libertarian nephew Brandon Stepp in South Carolina. (Now, if only we could get the rest of the family straightened out.....)
Another example...
Of the death of the news media.
They missed another huge, earth-shattering, reality-altering story everyone should be aware of:
I don't know of anywhere where this story is, but it should be.
Michael Jackson died last week.
Michael Jackson!
Our (the US's) own royalty! And our lazy media is asleep on the story once again.
Pfft.
I thought I was the only one that felt this way, given the gushing coverage for a pedophiliac narcissist.
Hot tip for child molesters and weirdos: just write a catchy tune, and all will be forgiven.
(oh, and it helps to have a concert for your funeral)
They missed another huge, earth-shattering, reality-altering story everyone should be aware of:
I don't know of anywhere where this story is, but it should be.
Michael Jackson died last week.
Michael Jackson!
Our (the US's) own royalty! And our lazy media is asleep on the story once again.
Pfft.
I thought I was the only one that felt this way, given the gushing coverage for a pedophiliac narcissist.
Hot tip for child molesters and weirdos: just write a catchy tune, and all will be forgiven.
(oh, and it helps to have a concert for your funeral)
July 6, 2009
Union Civica Democratica -- July 4 -- Democracy Alive and Strong Because The Constitution Works
And Obama wants him returned to power.
MRQ IYSITWiLI
MRQ
We shall call him Jiblette. Jib. (Congratulations)
I recall the beginnings of my fetish. Steve
superstar-in-chief Still Unreal.
Soon, it will be necessary to name a czar czar. Mary.
bikini motorcycle wash and bachelor auction Chris from Racine.
Are you referring to economic stimulation, or some other type of stimulation Nick.
Presstitutes working for W. H. O. R. E. Egg.
I’m all excited Old Broad.
Mom, you look even more beautiful to me now! Mitchie.
You'd think he just had his PS3 taken away from him and given to his sister! Cathy
Chad happy...very happy Chad.
IYSITWiLI Trog. (click this one)
fiction in slow-motion Left Coasst Rebel.
Setting fashion trends. James T
I used to concern myself with not appearing too ‘redneck’ Joey.
TRQ
I just don't need distractions to show off my klutziness. SamdHam
a lot of eyes clawed out! Jones.
try to pull a t-shirt over your head while walking down the hall... ChrisfromRacine
Please join me in celebrating the Independence of our nation by blowing up a small part of it. Keith.
The "U" is back. Cleese.
Mosquito armies are out in force. TAB
off to a BBQ Penn.
I'm finding it hard to get behind a holiday where a bunch of scrappy rebels defeated a vast empire for independence. Darth Vader
What Tyrants Have We Elected To Replace Kings? Nick
Eating cheese curds Althouse.
just ran out of talent Pete.
the boba craze Annie Duke
Too lazy to buy the illegal good stuff. Thebusbandit
need a hooker tonight? Sarandipity.
barefoot, in the kitchen. Samdham
We shall call him Jiblette. Jib. (Congratulations)
I recall the beginnings of my fetish. Stevesuperstar-in-chief Still Unreal.
Soon, it will be necessary to name a czar czar. Mary.
bikini motorcycle wash and bachelor auction Chris from Racine.
Are you referring to economic stimulation, or some other type of stimulation Nick.
Presstitutes working for W. H. O. R. E. Egg.
I’m all excited Old Broad.
Mom, you look even more beautiful to me now! Mitchie.
You'd think he just had his PS3 taken away from him and given to his sister! Cathy
Chad happy...very happy Chad.IYSITWiLI Trog. (click this one)
fiction in slow-motion Left Coasst Rebel.
Setting fashion trends. James T
I used to concern myself with not appearing too ‘redneck’ Joey.
TRQ
I just don't need distractions to show off my klutziness. SamdHam
a lot of eyes clawed out! Jones.
try to pull a t-shirt over your head while walking down the hall... ChrisfromRacine
Please join me in celebrating the Independence of our nation by blowing up a small part of it. Keith.
The "U" is back. Cleese.Mosquito armies are out in force. TAB
off to a BBQ Penn.
I'm finding it hard to get behind a holiday where a bunch of scrappy rebels defeated a vast empire for independence. Darth Vader
What Tyrants Have We Elected To Replace Kings? Nick
Eating cheese curds Althouse.just ran out of talent Pete.
the boba craze Annie Duke
Too lazy to buy the illegal good stuff. Thebusbandit
need a hooker tonight? Sarandipity.
barefoot, in the kitchen. Samdham
July 5, 2009
Doyle's first class travel without documentation.
An article in the Journal Sentinel details how travel records and receipts are missing from Jim Doyle's expense reports.
Included are limo expenses over $1,500 on a Canadian trip, London hotel rooms to the tune of $654 per night and a $5,200 business class flight to Ireland! (I'm sure coach was sold out)
Ever heard of Priceline Governor Doyle? It becomes clear you have no interest in trying to curb your travel or trying to do it at a realistic price.
And it would appear that Doyle's office is ticked off at being questioned...
From the article, Asked if the governor would change how he tracks travel expenses, Goodwin said, "Absolutely not, absolutely not. . . . We will not limit his role or chain him down and not allow him to fulfill his duties as governor."
In short, screw you Wisconsin, I'll spend what I want when I want on whatever I want and I'll turn in receipts if I damn well feel like it.
We get the government we vote for.
By the way. doesn't Toronto have a rail system? Why would Doyle need a limo if there was rail available?
Included are limo expenses over $1,500 on a Canadian trip, London hotel rooms to the tune of $654 per night and a $5,200 business class flight to Ireland! (I'm sure coach was sold out)
Ever heard of Priceline Governor Doyle? It becomes clear you have no interest in trying to curb your travel or trying to do it at a realistic price.
And it would appear that Doyle's office is ticked off at being questioned...
From the article, Asked if the governor would change how he tracks travel expenses, Goodwin said, "Absolutely not, absolutely not. . . . We will not limit his role or chain him down and not allow him to fulfill his duties as governor."
In short, screw you Wisconsin, I'll spend what I want when I want on whatever I want and I'll turn in receipts if I damn well feel like it.
We get the government we vote for.
By the way. doesn't Toronto have a rail system? Why would Doyle need a limo if there was rail available?
Your Brewer All Stars
Ryan Braun
Prince Fielder
That is all.
No Trevor Hoffman, no Yovanni Gallardo.
That's outrageous that they were snubbed.
Prince Fielder
That is all.
No Trevor Hoffman, no Yovanni Gallardo.
That's outrageous that they were snubbed.
A couple of great articles on global warming.
Global Warming Is A Hoax by David Deming.
Excerpt:
Another cause of global warming hysteria is the infiltration of science by ideological zealots who place politics above truth. Earlier this month, the Obama administration issued a report that concluded global warming would have a number of deleterious effects on the US. In 1995, one of the lead authors of this report told me that we had to alter the historical temperature record by "getting rid" of the Medieval Warm Period.
The Obama report refers to – six times – the work of a climate scientist named Stephen H. Schneider. In 1989, Schneider told Discover magazine that "we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have." Schneider concluded "each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." Schneider's position is not unusual. In 2007, Mike Hulme, the founding director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in Britain, told the Guardian newspaper that "scientists and politicians must trade truth for influence."
While releasing a politicized report that prostitutes science to politics, the Obama administration simultaneously suppressed an internal EPA report that concluded there were "glaring inconsistencies" between the scientific data and the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions were changing the climate.
Cap and Trade Dementia by Peter Ferrara
Excerpt:
Barack Obama called for House passage of the cap and trade tax bill last Friday by calling it a jobs bill. The bill is designed to raise the price of energy in the U.S. so much that it will reduce the use of fossil fuels by 17% by 2020 and by 83% by 2050. Sentencing the U.S. economy to high cost energy is not a particularly good strategy for creating jobs. The Charles River Associates, a Harvard based economics consulting firm, estimates a net loss of jobs from the bill of about 2.5 million each year.
This is surely a gross underestimate of the net job losses from a bill designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels to the level in 1907. All those soccer moms better get used to riding their horses to the grocery store and back. And their husbands better get used to working the farms again, by hand, as high cost energy will chase remaining American manufacturing out of the country to India and China, which do not suffer from Al Gore's delusions about supposed global warming.
Yet Barack Obama calls it a jobs bill. This reflects a by now well-established pattern of deceptive, misdirection rhetoric, raising broadly appealing ideals in promotion of policies that would do just the opposite. For example, Obama is also trying to sell us a new health care entitlement, larger than any of our already grossly overgrown entitlements we can't finance, with the argument that it will actually reduce costs, even while CBO estimates that it will increase Federal spending by $1.6 trillion (woefully underestimated).
Earlier this year, Obama released his budget with great fanfare about how it would supposedly reduce the federal deficit in half in five years. Hidden in the fine print was the awful truth that his budget, now passed by the overwhelmingly Democrat Congress, explodes this year's deficit to a record busting $1.8 trillion, four times bigger than Bush's largest deficit, and seven times bigger than Reagan's largest, which caused so much caterwauling among liberals. The deficit in the last budget passed by a Republican controlled Congress was $162 billion, less than 10% as much.
Last year, Obama campaigned on proposals to raise the top two income tax rates by over 10%, the capital gains tax rate by 33%, and the tax rate on dividends by 33%, while restoring a permanent death tax rate of 45%, and raising taxes on corporations that already pay virtually the highest tax rates in the industrialized world, all the while focusing on his promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. That tax cut turned out to be a puny $400 per worker tax credit that is phased out after next year, when his tax increases will become effective to sink the still sputtering economy.
During the campaign, Obama also pledged that he would never raise taxes in any form on Americans making less than $250,000 per year. But his cap and trade tax is estimated to cost American families almost $2,000 a year when it becomes effective, growing to almost $7,000 a year for a family of four by 2035. That will be paid through higher prices for electricity, oil, gasoline, natural gas, home heating oil, coal, food, and every product that is produced or transported using energy. Remember: when the first President Bush violated his oft-repeated campaign pledge not to raise taxes, voters booted him out in the next election.
Excerpt:
Another cause of global warming hysteria is the infiltration of science by ideological zealots who place politics above truth. Earlier this month, the Obama administration issued a report that concluded global warming would have a number of deleterious effects on the US. In 1995, one of the lead authors of this report told me that we had to alter the historical temperature record by "getting rid" of the Medieval Warm Period.
The Obama report refers to – six times – the work of a climate scientist named Stephen H. Schneider. In 1989, Schneider told Discover magazine that "we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have." Schneider concluded "each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." Schneider's position is not unusual. In 2007, Mike Hulme, the founding director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in Britain, told the Guardian newspaper that "scientists and politicians must trade truth for influence."
While releasing a politicized report that prostitutes science to politics, the Obama administration simultaneously suppressed an internal EPA report that concluded there were "glaring inconsistencies" between the scientific data and the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions were changing the climate.
Cap and Trade Dementia by Peter Ferrara
Excerpt:
Barack Obama called for House passage of the cap and trade tax bill last Friday by calling it a jobs bill. The bill is designed to raise the price of energy in the U.S. so much that it will reduce the use of fossil fuels by 17% by 2020 and by 83% by 2050. Sentencing the U.S. economy to high cost energy is not a particularly good strategy for creating jobs. The Charles River Associates, a Harvard based economics consulting firm, estimates a net loss of jobs from the bill of about 2.5 million each year.
This is surely a gross underestimate of the net job losses from a bill designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels to the level in 1907. All those soccer moms better get used to riding their horses to the grocery store and back. And their husbands better get used to working the farms again, by hand, as high cost energy will chase remaining American manufacturing out of the country to India and China, which do not suffer from Al Gore's delusions about supposed global warming.
Yet Barack Obama calls it a jobs bill. This reflects a by now well-established pattern of deceptive, misdirection rhetoric, raising broadly appealing ideals in promotion of policies that would do just the opposite. For example, Obama is also trying to sell us a new health care entitlement, larger than any of our already grossly overgrown entitlements we can't finance, with the argument that it will actually reduce costs, even while CBO estimates that it will increase Federal spending by $1.6 trillion (woefully underestimated).
Earlier this year, Obama released his budget with great fanfare about how it would supposedly reduce the federal deficit in half in five years. Hidden in the fine print was the awful truth that his budget, now passed by the overwhelmingly Democrat Congress, explodes this year's deficit to a record busting $1.8 trillion, four times bigger than Bush's largest deficit, and seven times bigger than Reagan's largest, which caused so much caterwauling among liberals. The deficit in the last budget passed by a Republican controlled Congress was $162 billion, less than 10% as much.
Last year, Obama campaigned on proposals to raise the top two income tax rates by over 10%, the capital gains tax rate by 33%, and the tax rate on dividends by 33%, while restoring a permanent death tax rate of 45%, and raising taxes on corporations that already pay virtually the highest tax rates in the industrialized world, all the while focusing on his promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. That tax cut turned out to be a puny $400 per worker tax credit that is phased out after next year, when his tax increases will become effective to sink the still sputtering economy.
During the campaign, Obama also pledged that he would never raise taxes in any form on Americans making less than $250,000 per year. But his cap and trade tax is estimated to cost American families almost $2,000 a year when it becomes effective, growing to almost $7,000 a year for a family of four by 2035. That will be paid through higher prices for electricity, oil, gasoline, natural gas, home heating oil, coal, food, and every product that is produced or transported using energy. Remember: when the first President Bush violated his oft-repeated campaign pledge not to raise taxes, voters booted him out in the next election.
July 4, 2009
July 3, 2009
Long forgotten words..
That are apparently meaningles in this era of hope, change and tingly-legged rhetoric.
***I'm sure its no big secret, but would anyone want to venture a guess at who's words these are?
Best part is the freedom granted to the press is being used to diminish the very people that provided it in the first place.[ Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home. For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home. ]
***I'm sure its no big secret, but would anyone want to venture a guess at who's words these are?
July 2, 2009
Senate Bill Fines People Refusing Health Coverage
Hey, I've got it. Maybe if people don't pay the fines the feds will bail them out. Then they hand their bailout money right back to pay the fines the feds set up. Yeah, right.
Actually, I think Rush Limbaugh hit the nail on the head today when he played our new banana republic's national anthem: DAY-O. This growing fascism is a nightmare. "Daylight come and we want to go home!"
Actually, I think Rush Limbaugh hit the nail on the head today when he played our new banana republic's national anthem: DAY-O. This growing fascism is a nightmare. "Daylight come and we want to go home!"
Self-Indulgent Mom Moment
Thought I'd share a melancholy moment....one I'm still sorting out.
Took my little guy for his Mitchell Day. Background: my Mitchie is almost 12 years old now and is the world's best boy you'd ever meet. Really. Mitchie isn't one for asking for a lot of stuff, unlike his completely opposite teenage sister, so a Mitchell Day consists mainly of just hanging out together, catching some lunch of his choice, a stop in the video game store, and sometimes catching the latest action movie. Well, being a mom without a lot of spare time these days, I tried to sandwich in a trip to the dentist and the eye doctor between the Chinese food and shopping for new shorts.
Thought I'd been pretty successful at sugarcoating the dentist (is that an oxymoron?) when I assured him it was just a routine cleaning and then we'd head to the mall. (Of course, I left out the part that the optometrist was IN the mall.) He thought he was "all that" when the hygienist called me back to tell me that once again, Mitchie had outstanding teeth and gums, and was the picture of brushing and flossing for his age. (What she doesn't know: I have to threaten the kid with his life to get him to brush his teeth, and flossing makes him gag so he never does it.) Mitch thought that was his assurance that he'd passed this visit with flying colors. Til the (cue the dread music) dentist came in and told him he'd have to come back for a minor filling--his first. You'd think he just had his PS3 taken away from him. No longer was he the picture of perfection that he could brag about to his sister. I coaxed him through it, explaining that almost everyone needs fillings. He pointed out that at 15, Hannah has no fillings. But then he said she has worse breath than his, so he guesses he still outshines her in other ways....spoken like a true little brother.
So, we left the dentist and headed to the mall. I nonchalantly took a turn toward Lenscrafters, and he immediately knew what I was up to. Well, not immediately, since he suspected I was going to sneak in a haircut for him on Mitchell Day. This gave me the opportunity to emphatically deny the haircut-sneak and triumphantly proclaim that I'd NEVER try to sneak in a haircut on a Mitchell Day! How dare he even insinuate such a thing! Nothing more than a routine eye test, son. No big deal. Shouldn't take more than 15 minutes, etc., etc. Good sport that he is, he followed me in. Half an hour later, we were given the news that his formerly perfect big brown eyes were now moderately near-sighted and he'd need glasses--full time! You'd think he just had his PS3 taken away from him and given to his sister! I put on a brave face and told him (probably for the 100th time) about my first pair of glasses in 4th grade, and how he could switch to contacts in a year or so, etc., etc., etc.
So, now we have to spend a good hour picking out frames for his perfect face for glasses that will hide his gorgeous big brown eyes. And, truly, it's breaking my heart. I was so hopeful that my kids would have inherited their dad's perfect vision, and my healthy teeth. So Hannah got my teeth and Dad's vision, and Mitchie got his Dad's teeth and my poor vision. Somewhere inside me I couldn't help feeling I'd let him down somehow. According to him, he'll be this "dorky guy" with glasses, and probably with braces down the road to boot. How much harder could I possibly make his life?
While eating lunch waiting for his new glasses to be complete, I was just as upset as he was. I didn't show it, of course. No doubt he was bummed. Until, that is, he put on his new glasses and a look of awe and surprise came across his face. He couldn't believe what he had been missing! What he was describing to me was making me feel happy for him, yet horrified that his eyes needed that much correction and I didn't know it! (I used to be in the optical business for 10 years--kinda like the plumber with the leaky pipes....I guess.) The glasses look very cool on him, actually. He thinks so, too.
We walked out of Lenscrafters, and in true Mitchie fashion he put a bright spin on the situation when he said, "Mom, this is gonna be great. Now I'll be able to tell if the girls at school really are cute or if I've been making a terrible mistake! I have to know for sure!"
Ah, yes. Just like him to make me laugh. And the cherry on top? When he said, "Mom, you look even more beautiful to me now!"
Hmmm, maybe I better get those glasses double-checked!
Coming up on Independence Day...
Doesn't it seem like Obama is trying to turn it into Dependence Day?
New Smart Cars
We've had our fun with the ridiculous looking Smart Car here.
However, I am happy to report that the Old Broad has found some new options!
I give you the Smorvette!
The Smorsche...
July 1, 2009
This is ridonkulous
Hybrid car parking given preferential location to handicap parking. (Yes, the hybrid spot is closer to the door)
Someone please stop the environmentalist insanity.
H/T Joey
on Transparency...
Not quite sure what word I'd use to describe this ridiculous government we have now, but transparent is not one of them.
They rush the “stimulus bill” through, because it was urgent. Almost no one read the whole thing, yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
Crap and tax passed the house already. Almost no one read the whole thing (or the ~300 pages added in the night), yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
The auto industry – and others – received huge bailouts. Almost no one read the whole thing, yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Which part of “don’t show them or tell them what we’re doing, just ram it through” is transparent?
I don’t think this is taxation without representation, its taxation through hubris without remorse or forethought.
They rush the “stimulus bill” through, because it was urgent. Almost no one read the whole thing, yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
Crap and tax passed the house already. Almost no one read the whole thing (or the ~300 pages added in the night), yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
The auto industry – and others – received huge bailouts. Almost no one read the whole thing, yet it will surely raise prices and taxes.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Which part of “don’t show them or tell them what we’re doing, just ram it through” is transparent?
I don’t think this is taxation without representation, its taxation through hubris without remorse or forethought.
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