Last Day On The Job

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Hat Tip: Pam.

War Protesters Frustrated By Apathy

Three protesters, a half-dozen signs and a missing petition.

Last month, nine protesters gathered in front of the Regional Enterprise Tower, Downtown, where U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey have offices.

"Please think about this. It's important," Lynne Flavin, 60, of Lawrenceville, told passersby. She held a blood red sign that said, "Support the Troops. End the War."

Few people gave more than a glance.

I'd comment on their being frustrated by apathy, (as well as their idiocy), but I really don't care.


OK. I'll comment. Stupid hippies. Not that I care about stupid hippies.

Republicans Reject McCain

So Drudge reported:

"26% OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS AGAINST MCCAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA..."

and:

22% GO AGAINST MCCAIN IN INDIANA.

Being a former Hoosier, add my vote to the list (I voted against him last fall).
There is no way in hell I will ever vote for McCain.
He's spit on us conservatives his entire career.

It should come as no surprise that Republicans reject McCain, he's made his living out of rejecting us.

So, You're For Hillary Rodham Clinton

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If after viewing this, you go ahead and vote her into office, you have to look at yourself in the mirror. If that thought doesn't deter you, know the rest of us will know and you will never be able to say to our faces what you did.



Plus she screwed over Stan Lee !
We're talking Stan Lee here !


Hat Tip: Mom.


See Paul V Clinton for more.

The Smartest Kid In Class

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Obama Speaking About Wright

So I'm going to assume you have seen the videos of Obama Speaking About Wright.

Obama says he is outraged.
Obama says he is angry.
Obama says he is appalled.

Obama says NOW that what Wright has said for the twenty, TWENTY YEARS that Obama has known him is finally unacceptable.

Let me ask you.

Does he look like he's outraged as he says this ?
Does he look like he's angry as he says this ?
Does he look like he's appalled as he says this ?

Looks to me like he was just saying the words.

How can you sit in the pew for twenty years and not hear any of what Wright said ?

"And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing."

So the thing that "particularly angered" Obama was not the content of Wright's remarks, but that Wright exposed Obama as having those same views.

Why else would he sit there week after week listening to this dolt (harsher words do come to mind) for twenty years ? He had to agree with Wright at some level ! Even Oprah had the good taste to get out of there !

It looks to me like he's saying what he needs to say, now that the views he shares with Wright are exposed.

Add his close association with the known terrorist Bill Ayers...

This is the presumed Democrat Presidential Nominee ?

Good luck with that Dems.

Pearls Before Swine

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The Ozarks Suck

How many ice storms is this now ?
I've lost count.
Stupid Global Warming.
I guess it didn't get the memo that Global Warming is supposed to WARM.
Anyways...
If it's not freaking ice storms it's tornadoes.
The wind. It never stops blowing.
It's a novelty when we get a breeze here.
Enough with the freaking wind already !
I can't wait to get the F out of here.
Why anyone would want to live here escapes me.
I can't wait to leave, but I have to wait, the money's not there yet.
Damn I hate this place.
I thought Indy sucked.
Days like this just strengthens my resolve.
Hawaii.
Another 203 days.
I'm so close to it, yet so far from it.
The Ozarks Suck.
At least this isn't Tulsa or Peoria or Wheeling West Virginia... it's got that going for it at least...

McCain

I am a conservative.
Unlike McCain.
I cannot forget or forgive McCain Feingold.
I cannot forget or forgive McCain Kennedy.
I cannot forget or forgive McCain Lieberman.
This man has pissed on us time and time again.
I can not, will NOT vote for him.
I think I am not alone in this regard.

Winter

I found this beautiful winter poem and thought it might be a comfort to you. It was to me, and it's very well written.


"WINTER"

a poem by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre...




"SHIT, It's Cold !"


The End



Hat Tip: Mom

Global Warming Blankets The Middle East With Snow

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A boy runs down snow-covered stairs in the Old City of Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM - A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights.

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Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security force throw snow balls at each other outside Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Men in long Arab robes pelted each other with snowballs in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and the West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, came to a standstill.

"I'm originally from Gaza where snow never falls," said Bothaina Smairi, 28, who was out in Ramallah taking photographs. "The white snow is covering the old world and I feel like I am in a new world where everything is white, clean, and beautiful."

A woman walks through the snow in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in white on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation.

Jerusalem's Old City was coated in white. A few ultra-Orthodox Jews, wearing plastic bags over their hats to keep them dry, prayed at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.

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Snow falls in Jerusalem once or twice each winter, but temperatures rarely drop low enough for it to stick. The Israeli weather service said up to 8 inches of snow fell in the city.

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A Jewish man walks on a roof top with the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the background in the Old City of Jerusalem during a snow storm January 30, 2008. Jerusalem and its holy sites were covered in a blanket of snow on Wednesday.

Heavy snow also was reported in the Golan Heights and the northern Israeli town of Safed, and throughout the West Bank.

In Ramallah, residents were surprised to see snow when they awoke. For some, it was their first time.

"I am just astonished with the snow. When I saw the snow this morning, I felt happy, my heart was laughing," said Mary Zabaro, 17.

In Amman, where a foot of snow fell, children used inflatable tubes as sleds. Some roads were temporarily closed.

Snow covered most mountain villages and blocked roads in Lebanon. The storm disrupted power supplies in most Lebanese towns and villages, exacerbating existing power cuts. Parts of the Beirut-Damascus highway were closed.

Temperatures in Syria dipped below freezing and snow blanketed the hills overlooking the capital, Damascus.

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A member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security force is seen outside the presidential compound as it snows in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Ramallah and other parts of the Holy Land in white on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation

Parents Right´s And Wrong´s

More helpful parenting tips over at FRESHLABAN.

Floating Gazebo

I was going to build the Gazebo on the edge of my dock down by the lake but I thought .....
I might just as well build the deck with floats on it and I can then take it out fishing too. Has 15,000# capacity. The deck is 18ft x 18ft with 12 plastic foam filled dock floats that are 4ft x 4ft by 18 inch. high and the Gazebo is 10 ft. Hexagon with a table and chairs inside.

Under the table is my trolling motor so I can take it out to my favorite fishing hole. The trolling motor is remote controled wireless so I can be fishing outside and operate the motor. On the top of the table I have a LOWRANCE Fish-Finder with depth sounding sonars and temp gauge.

I have 2 electric winchs with 40# anchors. I have also built in a water pump so I can clean the fish right on the spot. Now I can relax and fish while my wife can sit and relax.

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Post-It Note

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What Men Want

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Celebrity Money

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Found over at El Toilet.

That's So Cute

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Found over at Bible,History and conversations

Global Warming Causes Snow In Southern Mississippi

Wow, talk about a surprise. I certainly was not expecting to wake up to snow this weekend. During a weekend trip to my hometown(Fayette,MS) it started snowing early Saturday morning. I can't even remember the last time it snowed down here. Me being me of course I grabbed my camera started taking pics of this VERY rare occasion. Well here are a few of the photos that I took, hope you enjoy.

Hat Tip: Christopher

Global Warming Protest In The Snow

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It snowed, but they still came. A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 activists who urged lawmakers to pass the nation's toughest greenhouse gas control law.

Many of the protesters who endured the cold to chant "Stop Global Warming!" said they didn't think the snowfall conflicted with their message.

Hat Tip: Jeff

Clintons Piss Off Blacks

Wow.
I didn't even see this coming.

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.

The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said she misspoke — to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale” — generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television. And now they've drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.

“There’s a groundswell of reaction to these comments — and not just these latest comments but really a pattern, or a series of comments that we’ve heard for several months,” she said. “Folks are beginning to wonder: Is this really an isolated situation, or is there something bigger behind all of this?”

Looks like "The First Black President" and his wife may have finally made a fatal mistake.

Global Warming Causes Snowfall In Baghdad

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For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.

"When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in the early 40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad," Abdul-Hussein said, referring to snow as a type of rain. "But snow falling in Baghdad in such a magnificent scene was beyond my imagination."

"I asked my mother, who is 80, whether she'd ever seen snow in Iraq before, and her answer was no," said Fawzi Karim, a 40-year-old father of five who runs a small restaurant in Hawr Rajab, a village six miles southeast of Baghdad.

"This is so unusual, and I don't know whether or not it's a lesson from God," Karim said.

Some said they'd seen snow only in movies.

Talib Haider, a 19-year-old college student, said "a friend of mine called me at 8 a.m. to wake me up and tell me that the sky is raining snow."

"I rushed quickly to the balcony to see a very beautiful scene," he said. "I tried to film it with my cell phone camera. This scene has really brought me joy. I called my other friends and the morning turned to be a very happy one in my life."

An Iraqi who works for The Associated Press said he woke his wife and children shortly after 7 a.m. to "have a look at this strange thing." He then called his brother and sister and found them awake, also watching the "cotton-like snow drops covering the trees."

The Egg, The Lemon And The Orange

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Hat Tip: Mom

Ok, I'm A Fred Head

Last night I did something I've never done.
I contributed to a presidential campaign.
I gave $25 to

Fred Thompson.

Whatever Became Of Hermey The Elf ?

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From Robot Chicken.

A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas

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From Robot Chicken.

The SOB Factor

I ran across this amusing article by John Derbyshire at NRO.
The SOB Factor

Enjoy ! :-)

Frosty Gets Caught

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Hat Tip: Mom

Amazing Elephant Story

Sometimes these "heartwarming" stories are a bit too sappy for me but this one is truly interesting...



In 1986, Mikele Mebembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mikele approached it very carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mikele worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mikele stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Mikele never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mikele was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mikele and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mikele, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mikele couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mikele summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mikele's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly. Probably wasn't the same elephant.

Hat Tip: Mom

Pearls Before Swine

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Speaking of The Great Pumpkin...



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Pearls Before Swine

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That just made me laugh out loud.

Jasper, The Douchebag Ghost

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From Robot Chicken

A Visit From The Tooth Fairy

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From Robot Chicken

Casper The Friendly Snowman ?

I thought in the spirit of Halloween, that it would be nice for those of us old enough to remember Casper, to pass along the theme song to our youths.


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I hope I got the lyrics right...

BTW... How did Casper die ?

Pumpkins

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Pumpkins

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Can You Hear Me Now ?

Artist implants 'third ear' on his own arm

Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm.

The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation.



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He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into the 61-year-olds left forearm in 2006.

Mr Arcadious said he thought art "should be more than simply illustrating ideas." Once the ear has fully developed he hopes to get a microphone implanted as well.

"It is more of a relief at present than an ear but it is still recognisable as an ear," he said.



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"The last operation was in September 2006 and its only now that I'm about ready for the next step.

"I hope to have a tiny microphone implanted to it that will connect with a bluetooth transmitter; that way you can listen to what my ear is hearing."

I want to get a third eye on my forehead.

I was thinking about an eye on the palm of my hand but then I thought better of it.

The forehead is a much more practical choice !