This has been a running internet joke for years, but some of the responses were pretty funny.  Feel free to send any interesting screenshots, and I will post them here.

To take a screenshot, just hold 'ctrl' and press 'prnt scrn', then open a graphics program like paint and hold 'ctrl' and press 'v' to paste the image.  Then simply save the image.

        

Photo Courtesy appletreeblog.com


He really is different.  This time we can elect someone who stands by his principles.  This time we have someone who says what he means, and will do what he says.  He won't pander to the crowds and tell them what they want to hear.  Yes sir, Obama is what we have been looking for.  Chaaaaaaaaaange.

Well now I am thinking .... not so much.

What's that?  That screeching sound?  That would be the power slide of the Obama campaign moving toward the center.  Is there is a difference between 'honing' your policy position or adding 'nuance' and a total reversal of course?  Let's find out. 

He has the Democrat Party nomination.  Time to pretend he is not a nut job radical and kiss up to those gun-toting religious nuts in fly-over country.  Obama has promised us change, and to the surprise of many he has already started to deliver.  Here are just a few of his 'changes':

He promised an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, but it could take up to 16 months, which may need refinement depending on what the generals say, and we can't leave if the region would be 'unstable'  .... did I not mention that earlier?

Obama said that the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the state, but now he opposes a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages. Last time I checked California was be a state, for now anyway.

Once opposed the Republicans welfare reform plan, calling it "disturbing." The polls say welfare reform is popular, and now he embraces it. Huh?

He was against granting immunity to telecom companies that aided our government in eavesdropping on telephone messages to and from known terrorist operatives overseas. Now he is for granting this immunity to the evil telecom corporations.

Obama said that he wholeheartedly supported the ban on the private ownership of guns in Washington DC. Then, after the Supreme Court came down with their ruling last week, suddenly Obama said he favors both an individual's right to own a gun as well as government's right to regulate ownership.  Say that again?

Earlier this year Obama said that he was going to accept public financing of his presidential campaign after the convention. Whoops; there are a lot more dollars available from private contributions than from public financing. Time for another 'change'.

Barack was going to immediately renegotiate all of the evil NAFTA treaty. Now ... well, maybe we need to give it a chance.

He voiced objection to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, but he has always been anti-capital punishment. DOH!

Sorry about all the pictures of flip-flops.  I looked everywhere for a picture of a 'nuance' but I couldn't find one, even on John Kerry's site.

You might be hearing more about these over the next, say, 4 months or so.

Here are a few of his excuses for the changes (Actual quotes):

"Refining" his position
"Honing" the policy
Made an "inartful" statement to begin with
Needed to "re-calibrate" his position
"I wasn't clear enough."
"You didn't hear me right."

And finally, the best quote ever:
I have always said ... I would always reserve the right to do what's best. (Translation: I can do whatever I want despite anything I have said.  EVER.  Next question?)

Basically, the way I see it, there are 3 reasons for Obama's flip-flops.

1.  He is too inexperienced to have a well thought out opinion on anything in the first place, and thus needed to change position to fit his new information.  Every single day.
2.  He will say whatever he needs to get elected regardless of what he really thinks or believes.
3.  He really believes that a total reversal is simply a 'refinement' of your position.

So which is it?  Child-like inexperience, bold-face deception, or delusional.  Either way, you may now panic in 3 .... 2 .... 1.....

        

Here are a few of my favorite pics from the Military Motivator blog.  Enjoy!























Here is a close-up from the above photo.  Something to think about.





Thank you to all those who serve to protect what we celebrate today.

        

Gen Wesley Clark has masterfully demonstrated the concept of Irony while simultaneously saying one of the stupidest things ever uttered.  He was criticizing one of the Presidential candidates when he said the following.

"He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn't a wartime squadron.

I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president."


As it turns out, he was actually criticizing McCain.  Initially, everyone who heard this probably thought that perhaps Clark got the two candidates confused.  Apparently this was not the case.

While his criticism of McCain is clearly one of the dumbest things ever spoken in the English Language, the ironic part is his unwavering support for Barack Obama.  This is ridiculous to the point of being disgusting.  I vomited just a little bit when I read it myself.

There are just a few people in this country with more experience and more qualified to be President than Obama.  These would include almost any Senator, Congressman, Governor, Mayor, Dog Catcher, or my Mom.  Oh yeah, my Bassett Hound as well.  This reminds me of a question posed my Neil Boortz on his website:  Please name a major presidential candidate in the history of the U.S. that had less experience than Barack Obama.  I have yet to see a satisfactory answer to that one.

Attacking McCain on the basis of his military experience.  While it is early in the week, I think Wesley Clark has pretty much locked in the following award.

          

         Dumbest Quote
           of the Week

        

Here is something odd.  A Birmingham Alabama newspaper posted an article yesterday, but the link now goes nowhere.  Above is a screenshot from the google cache.

A short time after it was posted, the article was pulled and has not reappeared, either because it tipped us off to the climatologist's amazing psychic abilities, or because it states the obvious.  I am guessing the latter.

Want to be a weatherman? Flip a coin.

Calling heads or tails will give you as good a shot as a meteorologist at predicting whether this summer will be a wet one or a dry one, Alabama's state climatologist said Thursday.

Forecasts indicate it's equally likely that rainfall will exceed normal levels or fall below, said climatologist John Christy.

Wow; there's a brain buster for you.  Next year's rain might be more or less than normal.  Got any more pearls of wisdom there, John?  Do you have to go to school very long to be a climatologist?

It reminds me of the media raising the alarm on things that are ... well ... ordinary.  I guess bad news sells more newspapers than good.  How about running a story "Nearly half of all children now functioning below average."  Or better, "Bad times ahead for some, better for others." 

A few more predictions like this and you might be right up there with Nostradamus.

        

The Chief of Police of Flint, Michigan has released a memo stating the following:

Due to a significant number of complaints from citizens regarding youths and adults "sagging" wearing pants and/or shorts below their waist and indecently exposing their buttocks, it is necessary that we enforce the law concerning disorderly person(s), only when sworn officers observe this misdemeanor.

This immoral "self expression" goes beyond free speech; it rises to the crime of indecent exposure/disorderly persons.

Therefore, any sworn officer who observes a person or persons committing indecent exposure (sagging/exposing buttocks) within the City of Flint jurisdiction has probable cause to effect a misdemeanor arrest for the following ordinance violation. Ordinance #3192 Section 31-12 (o) Disorderly Person may be written as a means to enforce the law.

David R. Dicks
Chief of Police

Now, the Flint Police have done an amazing job reducing crime in Flint.  It may have something to do with the fact that most of the population has fled the state or have been killed off, but I digress.  It had been known as one of the worst cities in the Nation for violent crime.  Here are some statistics from 2006.



Violent crime has fallen quite a bit in the last 2 years, but it is still quite bad.  Now, attention is going to be focused on an annoying but pretty superficial aspect of Flint culture.

First, a bit of history.  The trend of wearing 'saggy pants' as they are called here began in the jails where the inmates are not given belts to wear (it provides them a means of escape .... from life).  The 'inmate look' is then imitated by future jailbird wanna-be's and a fashion revolution is thus started.

The Chief has two problems with his memo.  First, he calls the look immoral "self expression."  By making this moral judgment, he is opening himself up to criticism on his objectivity to enforce existing laws.  He will receive the attention of groups like the ACLU, who seem to find Constitutional 'rights' for anything under the sun (except gun ownership, of course).  Second, this pronouncement trivializes all the progress that has been made to reduce crime in Flint.  ABC news reports this year that murder rates dropped 71% and assault rates dropped 48%.

I know it would be hard for the Chief to say "if they look like little hoodlums, find a reason to check them out," but this memo probably won't bring the Flint Police the attention they wanted.

        

Sharp as a Marble - Part 2



This is Kasey Edwards.  He had a small mishap while swimming near lake Okeechobee at 2am the other night.  You can see from the picture that he is missing a small item, namely his entire left arm.  Here are a few quotes from the Orlando news story that might give you a hint where his arm might be:


He decided to swim across a deep canal at about 2 o'clock in the morning.
(Ok, this might be reasonable.)


Edwards says no drugs were involved, but admits he was drinking earlier.  However, it played no role in his decision to jump in the water. (Alcohol related to making bad decisions?  Nah.)


Edwards admits he knew it was infested with gators because his cousin is a gator trapper.
(What?  Oh, now I see the reason for the drug and alcohol question.)


He escaped the 11-foot Alligator by gouging his eye.
(Do you think he might get in trouble for injuring a protected species?)







Here is the bast part.  He compares his incident to the risks drivers take on highways.  Huh?  Then, he blames the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for not properly controlling the alligator population.

This is from his interview:

I'm not saying it's completely the gators fault.  I should have equated the situation a little more.  I didn't, you know?

Ya think?

Unfortunately, since he did survive to reproduce, he has forfeited his Darwin Award nomination.  Too bad, he might have had a shot there.

Maybe next time Kasey!

        

For some reason, the left is going nuts about headlines like these:

Drudge: "Gore calls cyclone consequence of Global Warming."

and

Canada Free Press: "Boy Scout Tornado Deaths blamed on Global Warming by Center for American Progress!"

They claim that the Global Warming Prophets are being mis-characterized and misquoted.  No, no, NO, they say.  We aren't saying that Global Warming is killing people today, that would be alarmist and too easy to disprove; we are just saying ... um ... we are all going to die ... um ... really, really soon.

Well, judge for yourself.  Here is the transcript of Al Gore's comments this May about the Cyclone Nargis (emphasis mine).



"It’s also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is even though any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming — we’ve always had hurricanes — nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms, the larger ones, the trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming. And specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection, energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful.

And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated.

And last year a catastrophic storm, last fall, hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China.

And we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming. The entire north polar ice cap, normally the size the lower 48 states, give or take an Arizona, is melting before our eyes. 40 percent melted in the last twenty years. And in the summer months, it could be completely gone, in one scientific estimate, in as little as five years."

Whew!  I'm glad he isn't trying to panic anyone.  I'm sorry, how much did you make last year from your investments in 'green' companies?




This is from the article in question from the Center for American Progress (emphasis mine).

"The evidence for the consequences of global warming is appearing with alarming frequency. This morning’s headlines are filled with tales of deadly weather: “At least four people were killed and about 40 injured when a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa on Wednesday night”; “two people are dead in northern Kansas after tornadoes cut a diagonal path across the state”; “[t]wo Maryland men with heart conditions died this week” from the East Coast heat wave."

The Center for American Progress.  Doesn't that just sound so nice and ... progressive?  Almost daily, their website portrays Bush as an idiot at best and a demon at worst.  They criticize HIM for generating paranoia.  It also happens to be run by the former chief of staff for Bill Clinton. Surprise! 


Notice that in each quote, there is care not to directly blame the weather patterns on Global Warming/Climate Change, but there is a strong association and certainly the relationship is implied.

Yet, both Al Gore and the Center for America Progress emphatically deny trying to blame Global Warming for current weather trends.  What?  Am I missing something?  If I say Global Warming is causing extreme weather, and in the next sentence say the extreme weather is responsible for deaths, is that not the same thing as saying Global Warming is killing people?


Now as expected, they are doing the same thing with the recent floods in the Midwest.  The Janesville Gazette of Janesville Wisconsin:

"Climate experts are saying more intense weather is part of global climate change, although it would be difficult to pin any one event on global warming. However, it’s prudent to plan for more intense weather such as this, Potter said."

Difficult to pin any one event on global warming?  You just happened to say that in an article about the Midwest floods.  I'm just saying.



How about in the Detroit Free Press:

"If we look over the past 100 years, it is not normal to get so many large amounts of rain like those we've seen in such a short period of time. At a flood policy forum last fall in Washington, officials warned that climate change, dramatic population increases and the destruction of natural ecological protections, such as wetlands, would add to the existing strain on aging infrastructure."

Hmmm.  We just happened to be talking about the levy failures in the flooded states.  What a coincidence.


They don't want to be labeled alarmists, but they can deny it all they want;  there is definitely an effort by the Global Warming Prophets and the press to spread the hysteria.  And we know we can count on the press to warn us of imminent, impending disaster, like they did with the Killer Bees and Y2K.  Yes sir, the end is coming.  Any second now.

        

        

Dear Former Sgt Chiroux,

Let me be the first to welcome you to sunny Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where you will be staying with us for the next few years.  We are so glad you chose our facility for your stay, as we are the number one destination for objectors like yourself who refuse direct orders to deploy.

I would like to point out some of the amenities here at Fort Leavenworth.  Our prison was built with the latest in 19th Century accommodations, where the motto was "we sacrifice comfort for style."  While our inmate population is currently at 142% capacity, we will have no trouble making room for such a celebrity as yourself.

I highly recommend joining one of our many social groups.  Currently we have representatives from the Crips, the Bloods, and the Texas Syndicate as well as numerous other organizations.  I am sure someone with your political leanings can find a group where you will fit right in.

Thanks again for choosing Fort Leavenworth.  We are all very anxious to see you very soon.

Regards,
Warden Benjamin Dover
Federal Bureau of Prisons

        

        

What would you do if you could move small objects with your mind?  Say you could move a small object such as a coin or a ball with only your thoughts.  What if you did not want to become a side-show freak, but instead wanted to keep your 'secret' while still making a good living?

If only there was something you could do with your superhuman power, yet not look too superhuman.  Something to make some really good money, but not make people too suspicious.  Hmmmmm.  What could you do?

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

        

A nursing home in Düsseldorf, Germany was having a problem with their Alzheimer's patients wandering off.  They would get out of the nursing home and try to return to homes or families that they remembered but no longer existed.  The facility came up with a novel solution; they had a bus stop constructed outside of the nursing home, complete with a bench and the familiar bus sign.  The only difference between this bus stop and others around the city is that no busses actually came to this bus stop. 

Since nearly everyone in Germany uses public transportation, the patients recognized the familiar sign and would sit to wait for the bus.  When a patient was spotted at the bus stop, a staff member would approach them and invite them inside for coffee while they wait for the 'bus.'  After a while, the patient forgot that they wanted to go anywhere in the first place.

Since few people in the U.S. are accustomed to using public transportation, the 'fake bus stop' might not work here.  Instead, here are a few suggestions for signs to place outside of a nursing home to attract any errant escapees.

        

There is no cure for stupid, but you can find many of those afflicted sitting in the hospital or in jail because of their actions.  Here is a story about Michelle Ryans of Buncombe County, North Carolina who tried to alter a lottery ticket to show that she won $1 million dollars.  As you might imagine, she was arrested when she tried to collect her 'winnings'. 

Let's look at the thought process that her brain cell might have gone through to commit this act.  Here is this 39 year old who probably bought lottery tickets all her adult life hoping for the big score.  Once again, she failed to match three like amounts to win any money.  She is looking at this losing pile of tickets and thinking:

Hey, I can cut apart a few losing tickets and paste them together to make a winner.  I am going to go for a big prize, like the $1 million dollar jackpot.  I can't believe no one has thought of this before.  This is going to be so easy!

To her amazement, the lottery commission had anticipated such a ruse.  Perhaps she might have marveled at the pretty bar codes on the back of each and every lottery ticket.  Perhaps these may have served a purpose other than for decoration.  Perhaps they might be on to such a scheme in about a second.

On a completely different note, here is a link where you can buy fake scratch-off lottery tickets.  Each ticket is a 'winner' of $10,000 or $20,000.  Be careful who you might give these to; some people might not share your sense of humor.

        

What is 'happening'?  I'll tell you.  Basically what is happening is writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has run out of good ideas after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, and you are watching the resulting train wreck.  This latest attempt in a dismal series of his failures starts out pretty scary with some people killing themselves and others just standing around motionless getting really confused.  If you saw the trailer, then you are up to speed.  Everyone still 'normal' heads for the hills.  Some more uninteresting stuff happens, and then things get really slow.  This was the part left out of the trailer.  A few more people die, and it becomes apparent that the 'happening' is a toxin that is activated by large gatherings of people.

Here is where the social commentary comes in. The greenies have always believed that humans are a parasite on the planet.  Well this movie is just a vehicle to send that message.  There is no explanation or resolution; the 'toxin' just goes away. The blame is placed on the earth rejecting humans as pests.  Thats it.  Oh yeah, and the movie ends with the same thing happening in Paris.  Ooooooo.  Scary.

If I wanted to see a fantasy movie that made me feel guilty, I would have rented Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth.  I suppose Hollywood is no different than Washington, in that it is filled with people who have such special insight, that they obviously know what is better for the Earth than us mere mortals. Does anyone else get the impression that the environmental movement is really an anti-human movement?

Oh, and in case you want to see the movie, you might not want to read this as it might contain spoilers.

        

I am convinced that high gas prices have caused people to lose their minds.  People are doing nutty things to save money.  I read an article about an 'amazing' guy that rode a bike to work taking 2 hours each way.  He saved a whopping $400 a month on gas.  Woo Hoo!  That 80 hours a month spent saving $400 bucks comes to $5 an hour.  Makes good financial sense if you are the fry guy at McDonald's.




For the thrifty who have an aversion to exercise yet plenty of time, there is hypermiling.  It is the latest driving craze; a method of driving your car to maximize your gas-mileage and save a few bucks.  Unfortunately, it causes everyone else on the road a bunch of headaches, so the 'hypermiler' saves a few pennies at everyone else's expense.  They drive like they are in no hurry, and get in the way of those of us who actually need to be somewhere doing something productive.




There have been a ton of articles written on how to reduce fuel consumption by hypermiling.  This article is the first that I know of on how the thwart the hypermiler.  I will give you a few clues on how to recognize the hypermiler by briefly outlining their tactics, and suggest some fun and exciting ways to make him use more gas than a Hummer doing donuts with the A/C on.





The hallmark of the hypermiler is taking it very slowly when trying to accelerate; after all, that pedal under their right foot is attached directly to the piggy bank.  To minimize the need for acceleration, the hypermiler will do anything they can to avoid stopping, since acceleration from a dead stop is the work of the devil.  They will creep up on a red light from hundreds of yards away hoping to time it just right and coast through when green. 





You might think that everyone on the road who was able to vote during the Garfield administration would look like a hypermiler.  As usual, you would be wrong.  The hypermiler will utilize downhill runs to accelerate, taking advantage of all that free gravity.  They build up momentum to be used on the next hill, letting the car speed up on the way down and hauling ass.  Sometimes they will turn off the engine when going down a hill or slowing down at a light.  (Ever wonder where the "power" in 'power brakes' and 'power steering' comes from?  Apparently, they don't either.)





The 'extreme hypermiler' will also use the dreaded tactic of drafting off of a big rig, just like their heroes on Nascar. You can spot the hypermiler driving fifty feet behind a huge truck with a big, stupid grin on his face.  Every article on the subject says not to do this, but goes on to say if you do then you can save an extra 20% or more on fuel economy.  As long as they are not endorsing something dangerous they could be liable for, right?  (Editors note: don't try any of the stuff you read here either.)





So if you spot one of these penny pinchers, here is where the fun can begin.  Assuming you don't have anywhere important to go (like work, or school, or somewhere productive), gently move right in from of them.  This is when you can engage in the tactic I call, ... um .... , hyper-fuel-consumption.  Remember, our goal is to make the hypermiler kiss those precious gas dollars goodbye.





After positioning yourself in front of the hypermiler, just do the opposite of their fuel-saving tactics.  Come to a complete stop at red lights.  Sit for a spell.  Adjust your mirrors.  Sing along with the radio.  Just kill some time.  When coming to a downhill slope, just ease off the gas and 'test' your brakes once in a while.  Nothing drastic, mind you; just something to keep from building up all that dangerous speed.





If you see someone tailgating a big-rig, think of yourself as removing a parasite.  Gently insert your car between the truck and the leech, and ease off the gas.  Be careful when you do this because the hypermiler could get aggressive trying to protect his new-found source of free food.





Try not to anger the hypermiler too much.  They are trying to save a few cents when they drive, so you might expect them to have cut a few corners elsewhere as well.  Their car is probably not from the current millennium, and might be a bit, shall we say 'cosmetically impaired.'  You probably have a lot more to lose than they do if there should be a friendly tap on your bumper.

Happy driving everyone!

        

Cindy Sheehan, anti-war lunatic and self-proclaimed 'peace mom,' held a huge rally today as she continued her run for Nancy Peloci's spot in Congress.  Her supporter encouraged her to continue her effort to degrade the memory of her son.

We're sorry; your fifteen minutes of fame have expired.  Please try to be relevant again later.

        

The U.S. government has decided that your tax dollars would be better spent rushing tourists on a 300 mph levitating train from Disneyland to Las Vegas.  The new transportation bill just signed into law has set aside $45 million dollars to begin the project.  The expenditure will cover only the environmental study of the route.  The actual project will cost many, many times this amount.

The proposed route runs along Interstate 15 where millions of travelers drive each year.  The train will help ease the congestion as it is expected to carry a fraction of one percent of the current load.

A cheaper alternative diesel-electric train had been planned, but that would not be as much 'fun'.  A similar Amtrak route was stopped in 1997 due to low ridership, but I am sure this one will be much more popular.

        

MSN has been kind enough to warn us about dangerous food additives to avoid.  The list is included below. 

1.   Sodium Nitrate
2.   BHA and BHT
3.   Propyl Gallate
4.   Monosodium Glutamate
5.   Trans Fats
6.   Aspartame
7.   Acesulfame-K
8.   Food Colorings: Blue 1, 2; Red 3; Green 3; Yellow 6
9.   Olestra
10. Potassium Bromate
11. White Sugar
12. Sodium Chloride

There are a few problems with the items on the list:

At least some of the ingredients are in just about everything.

There are some things on the list that are meant to replace worse stuff on the list, like Aspartame and Acesulfame-K to replace sugar, and Olestra to replace trans fats.  How can we avoid them all?

Some of these are necessary to preserve the food for more than a few days.

They included a few things that seem to make food a bit, shall we say, palatable; like salt and sugar.



Going through the ingredients list and trying to figure out if there is some dangerous toxin in your food is far too complicated.  To simplify your life, I have prepared a list of things to avoid that won't require any scrutiny of the ingredients.

Please avoid the following:

1. Anything that tastes, smells or looks good.
2. Anything that is ready-to-eat or takes less than 2 hours to prepare.
3. Anything that lasts more than 2 hours from when you freshly obtained it.

Anyway, I hope this helps; and happy eating!

        

That wacky Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had another slip of the tongue today:

I must announce that the Zionist regime, with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene.  Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.

The leader of a nation bent on acquiring nuclear weapons had more to say:

With the appearance of the promised saviour... and his companions such as Jesus Christ, tyranny will be soon be eradicated in the world.

The Iranian news service says the comments were totally in jest, and taken out of context, and were also probably mis-translated.  Oh yeah, he was talking about something else completely too.  They deny that he was again threatening Israel, but was instead referring to "another, completely different 60 year-old Zionist regime, like the one in the Matrix." 

They addressed concerns of the west, saying the reference of the U.S. being a 'satanic power' and the 'annihilation of the emperor' as ".... um .... a metaphor for .... uh ..... maybe the evils of Hollywood, or perhaps global warming or something.  Hey, he mentioned Jesus; that's good, right?"

        

In December of last year, Mike Huckabee put out a political commercial wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.  In the background, there was a bookshelf that had a white border in the shape of a plus sign.  The left went crazy.  The liberals screamed that this was in fact a 'cross' and labeled Huckabee a religious zealot.  The girlz on 'The View' were literally foaming at the mouth. 

One liberal blogger said the following:

"This not-so-subliminal image of the cross was very deliberate. This guy is like McCarthy, Hitler & George Wallace trying to pass himself off like a boyscout leader.... This guy could actually end up being worse the GW Bush...."

Another posted this:

"Hypocritical denier of the OBVIOUS. Huckabee is the epitomy (sic) of BLATANT untrustworthiness with his denial of even noticing this utterly contrived cross.  How can he be trusted to run a government?"

On May 31, Reuters posted this photograph:





It is remarkably similar to this Feb 21 photo:





Or this cover of Time from March 19:





It is of course a terrible travesty when religion and politics mix.  I will be happy to post an update of any examples of 'liberal outrage' at this blatantly religious image.  Yes sir, waiting for that outrage.....  Any second now.....


UPDATE

I missed this Rolling Stone Cover.  I am sure the airbrush artist just got a little carried away.



Or this AP photo:

        

10. What's your company's policy on severance pay?

9. How long does it take your company's bureaucracy to get around to firing somebody for poor performance?

8. Do you have a random drug testing policy?

7. Does your company's life insurance cover suicide?

6. How in depth are your criminal background checks?

5. Does your company's insurance consider genital herpes a pre-existing condition?

4. How many sick days do you allow each employee before you stop paying them for not being here?

3. Does your insurance cover sex-change operations?

2. Does your internet access have a firewall that blocks pornographic websites?

1. How frequently do your accountants audit petty cash?

        

With the skill and agility of a French Arms Dealer, MoveOn.org is getting to have their cake and eat it too as they protest McLellan profiting from his book on the Bush Administration.  In a press release, the website states "McClellan shouldn't profit off the role he played in our nation's largest foreign policy blunder."  For his efforts, McClellan was advanced 30 pieces of silver and is expected to reap much more in the coming months.

There has been quite a political backlash against McClellan for his tell-all book.  Democrats have benefited from his newfound revelations, but are trying to distance themselves from the author.  Moveon has set the standard in the following paragraph:

"After spending years defending the Bush administration and perpetuating the lies that led our country into war, Scott McClellan is poised to make bank — his tell-all book is a bestseller and he may make hundreds of thousands or millions,” MoveOn says. "Meanwhile, our troops are still dying in Iraq.”

Wow.  They get a free shot at Bush while taking the 'high road' condemning McClellan.  Bra-VO move on.  Nicely played.  McClellan meanwhile is looking for some new friends.

        

In an effort to pressure the DNC to change the rules halfway though the contest, numerous Clinton supporters turned up at a rally during a meeting to decide the fate of the unseated delegates from Florida and Michigan.  The Washington Times reports here that many of the protesters are threatening to vote for McCain if the DNC does not seat all of the delegates that voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary.  Almost no one expects the Democrats to actually implement the rules that everyone agreed on previously; that would just be preposterous.

The States lost their delegates when they held their primary before February 5 per party rules.  If this was in an effort to be relevant, then they got their wish.  Whatever the outcome, Hillary will not have enough delegates to overcome Obama.  The pointless nature of their struggle has not dampened the spirits of the protesters.

As chants of "count our vote" filled the air, one Clinton supporter said "It would be the first time in my life I would vote Republican for president," as he threatened to vote for McCain over Obama.  The supporter then narrowly avoided the expected bolt of lightning from the sky.  The Clinton supporter pictured above did not seem to be 'typical' of the McCain crowd.

Hmmmmm.  The Hillary supporters who share a common political goal are threatening to harm (by voting for McCain) and inflict terror on the Obama campaign.  I wonder what someone would call such a tactic?

        

Hey kids!  Would you like to play a fun game to find out what kind of Global Warming Pig you are?  How about being told you are 'evil' for keeping warm with a wood stove?  If this sounds like fun to you, then check out the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's new science website.  Here, our totally unbiased news organization lets you determine how much damage you are doing to the earth just by living your life.  Here's a few fun screenshots to enjoy.


Try out our Greenhouse Calculator where you can enter stuff about your life such as how many miles you drive or how much meat you eat, and compare yourself to the 'Average Aussie Pig'.  See your 'pig' explode when you have used your lifetime's share of resources, and find out how old you should be when you die.  Look at all the blood; what fun!  I was supposed to die at age 1.  Sorry mum.







How about a fun quiz called 'Your Lifestyle', where you can answer things like if you use organic fruit or how you heat your house.  Nothing will build the old self-esteem like being called 'evil one' and told 'you suck'!







Do you buy any clothes from China?  If so, you are supporting child labor, or at least Greena says so.








Come play the game Planet Slayer.  You can choose to save the Earth playing the character 'Greena', complete with her peace symbol and nose ring, or you can destroy the planet with the character 'X-On', carrying her poodle, sunglasses, and handbag.  (X-On; that name rings a bell.)




Thanks for visiting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where our motto is, "You say brainwashing like it's a bad thing."  Bye kids!

        

Geraldine Ferraro gave an interview to the UK telegraph recently.  She is a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton, and worked for her campaign until she made a remark about Obama only getting as far as he did because he was black.  Oops.

In the new interview, she made some amazing statements and some outright threats directly to the Superdelegates and the Obama campaign.  For those of you who are not politically savvy, I will translate the relevant portions of the article, so you might more clearly understand exactly what she is trying to say.


Article Headline: Obama has lost women 'with sexist campaign'

Translation:  Obama dared to run against a woman who deserved the nomination.



Article:  Miss Ferraro, the losing Democratic candidate for vice-president in 1984, said that she might abandon her lifelong party loyalties and vote for the Republican John McCain if Mr Obama is confirmed as the nominee.

Translation:  Hey superdelegates, you had better nominate Hillary or I might leave the party and vote for the (choke) Republican.  (Believability factor : negative 2000)



Article:  Some other partisan female Clinton supporters have already insisted that they will either vote for Mr McCain or write the former First Lady's name on the ballot in November, in retaliation for her allegedly sexist treatment by the media and fellow Democrats.

Translation:  We are going to take our toys and go home if we don't get to win, because the woman is supposed to win.



Article:  "I've been flooded with calls from women saying they'll vote for McCain rather than Obama," said Miss Ferraro, 72, a New York lawyer who has made a number of controversial comments during the campaign. "I think this is a problem for Obama."

Translation:  Hillary had better get the nomination or at least be the vice-president or we are leaving in droves.  Flooded with calls, I say.



Article:  As the controversy grew, Mrs Clinton also claimed for the first time last week that she had encountered "sexist" treatment during the campaign, and her husband spoke of "gender bias".  Mrs Clinton blamed the media rather than the Obama campaign, saying: "It's been deeply offensive to millions of women."

Translation:  Now that we have made our complaints and threats, we need to make nice with Obama.  It wasn't all just you.  Can she be VP now?



Article:  She goes much further than most in singling out Mr Obama for blame, listing examples which she believes back up her claim that he was "terribly sexist"

Translation:  But we haven't let you off the hook yet, Obama.  You need us.  Include Hillary or you will pay at the polls.



Ferraro voting for McCain is about as likely as Michelle Obama voting for him.  If Ferraro thinks Obama is going to buy any of this, she is a crazy as her idol Hillary.  The Democrats who voted for Hillary would vote for Mickey Mouse if he had a (D) next to his name.  (Actually Michael Moore said he would do exactly that!)  The Hillary Democrats aren't going anywhere.  Obama doesn't need Hillary or her supposed support, they will come along anyway.  His only chance is for the dense electorate and the new voters to buy his 'Hope and Change' line.  Hillary sure isn't going to help with that image.