Why can’t we all just get along? :) The comments that were collected in Cassy’s blog post are quite stark. Again the party of enlightenment, inclusion, temperance, sensitivity showing their true colors. It reminds me of the scene in the Witches of Eastwick where they spurn Jack Nicholson...
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Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. | Senator for Pennsylvania (Not really but that’s what his website says)
Open letter to Robert Casey You are supposedly Pro-Life, right? Or will you pretend to fall for some “compromise” only to have the compromise stripped out in Conference? You tried to get an amendment passed to strip tax money funded abortions, I know, you tried your hardest, it’s...
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- Posted: Friday, December 18 2009
Oh this is really special, this from the same government that wants all of your personal medical records online and linked to your financial information? In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual...
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- Posted: Wednesday, December 09 2009
Spotted this on my iGoogle today: A thief stuck a pistol in a man’s ribs and said “Give me your money.” The gentleman, shocked by the sudden attack, said “You cannot do this, I’m a United States Congressman!” The thief said, “In that case, give me MY money!”...
I don't know which is worse, that it's funny, true or scary? Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner...
A look at the torture and mistreatment that you have probably missed, not that the media, politicians, and so forth would seek to misinform you, nah that would never happen....
On this anniversary, I remember, do you? Do our elected representatives, our public SERVANTS? Today, the President traveled to the Pentagon while the Vice President went to New York. New York City… Manhattan… site of the former World Trade Center Towers… where construction has yet to begin on that...
Everyone is in an uproar. Bailout vixen AIG paid millions in bonus money to employees even after accepting bailout money (and they have also sent some bailout money to companies overseas). This is a good thing, right? I mean the rats did a terrible job running their company, why should they get bonus...
(CNN) -- Terrell Owens, a former San Francisco 49er and a former Philadelphia Eagle, is now a former Dallas Cowboy. The Cowboys released Owens late Wednesday, according to published reports. Source: Report: Dallas Cowboys release WR Terrell Owens - CNN.com First he’s let go by San Fran, then canned by...
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France Source: Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com If we use that standard, it looks...
Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty. The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention...
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- Posted: Wednesday, February 25 2009
First some military dude comes out and warns that military robots could take over the world a la Terminator, then this. Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed...
Tiger Woods's wife, Elin, gave birth on Sunday to a boy, Charlie Axel Woods. It is the second child for the couple; their daughter Sam was born in 2007. Congrats to you both Elin and Tiger. Oh and Tiger I can completely understand what you mean when you said: "While my injury has been disappointing...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just...
College students don't seem to be planning staycations for spring break. Bookings to popular beach destinations are strong, according to travel companies, and volunteering vacations continue to gain momentum. "Typically the student business is more resilient to the economy because it's like a once...
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry Source: Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com...
Representatives Louise Slaughter of New York, James McGovern of Massachusetts, Doris Matsui and Dennis Cardoza of California, and Florida’s Alcee Hastings. In the past half year, these five Democrats voted for naming military construction projects after sitting members of Congress, but against naming...
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- Posted: Thursday, February 05 2009
Daschle Before: Daschle After: So he screwed up? Really? Ya think? He needs the people to know that there are not two sets of rules, one for the politicians and one for the regular folk. OK, I’d love to take you at your word President Obama, what are you planning on doing with the tax fraudster...
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- Posted: Wednesday, February 04 2009
When President Obama learned that $18 Billion in bonus money was handed out in 2008 on Wall Street, he said the following: Check out 1:50 in the clip: “There will be time for them to make profits, there will be time for them to get bonuses, now is not that time…” Really? You don’t...
Yes Dave, I ripped off your idea a little. Sorry. :)...
Senators Specter & Casey, First, I am very disappointed that you supported Mr. Holder, his track record shows serious lapses in judgment which should have quickly and decisively disqualified him from that position. As well your support of the expansion of the social medicine sphere will also...
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- Posted: Tuesday, February 03 2009
"The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny." – Rose D. Friedman Follow the link below, read the paragraphs below the quote. There are those that want the Government to tap the huge Federal ATM to solve all the ills of the Nation and...
Super Bowl XLIII delivered a great game, some commercials were very well done, others were not suitable for kids to be watching, and others were just a waste of money in my opinon. The game was very good, but penalties controlled the game. Had the Cardinals not committed so many penalties they could...
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. -Tom Daschle May 7, 1998 http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&page=S4507&dbname=1998_record Since the President has said he ‘Absolutely’ stands by Daschle, that would seem...
92% of the voters think that congress should cap compensation for employees in companies that accept bailout money. Wonder how those same people would feel if their company takes the free ride and Congress says everyone in the company has to take a cut? Dangerous territory here, do you really want a...
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- Posted: Saturday, January 31 2009
President Barack Obama says the economic slump is a "continuing disaster" for America's families and says the country's leaders can't "drag our feet" on finding solutions for the ailing economy. Obama then announced series of orders aimed at "leveling the playing...
Well first they drove up some guy’s driveway (private driveway) and posted those photographs, then this. While out doing their part to drive up CO2 emissions and photograph every road known to man, and some that aren’t. A driver for Google managed to hit a fawn. Gathering the imagery for Street...
I don’t know if it is a spoof or not but thought I would pass it along....
A friend pointed me to this YouTube video. Given that Holder will more than likely become the Attorney General, and given that the guy is pretty much anti-second-ammendment, you might want to view the video and see just how safe Great Britain is now, now that they forced their citizens to turn in all...
No grey area in this one, 59-0. Blago tried hard, maybe his hardest. At the outset of the trial he immediately flew off to New York to testify before…..the TV audience? I’m sorry, if you as a public official are being called out, as a public servant you better get your butt front and center...
Now that the State Treasury will not have to cut all those checks to Rod Blagojevich’s hair stylist, they are projecting a state surplus. (ok, just kidding, but so long Blogo, come back when you can spend less time.)
France's largest general strike in three years hobbled transportation school, hospital and mail services Thursday as unions demanded that President Nicolas Sarkozy's better protect jobs and consumers during the global economic crisis. - France's big general strike hobbles services This is where you are...
Communism and Fascism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.” - James A.C. Brown The only thing I would add...
In one of his first Executive Orders / Memoranda, President Obama has reinstated programs that allow Federal funds to be used to fund International organizations that provide advice, counseling, or information regarding abortion, or lobby a foreign government to legalize or make abortion available. MEMORANDUM...
There are three legs to the stool of American foreign policy:… -Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton Well she seems to have the three legs covered and she is one hell of a stool sample, so we’re good. Source: Secretary Clinton Welcome Remarks at U.S. Department of State...
Pelosi said one of her favorite moments from Inauguration Day was when Marine One lifted off the Capitol grounds, signifying former President George W. Bush's exit from Washington. "It felt like a 10-pound anvil was lifted off my head," she said. Somebody want to find the Speaker's anvil and...
Well first of all, being known as the ‘Father of Potty Parity’ is not something that the average everyday person sets out to do. I could be wrong, but hey, sorry ‘bout that Professor Banzhaf, you keep that one all to your own little self, by the way what Seminary did you attend? The...
WASHINGTON, DC — Reports from the nation’s capital this holiday season indicate that although Monday Night Football is over for the year, commentator Tony Kornheiser is just as annouing as ever while watching games, according to his family. “We watched the Ravens game together on Saturday afternoon,...
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." ...
I didn’t know that TO had a vacation home in Minneapolis? “Did we make mistakes? Sure we did, no question about it,” much-maligned Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson said. “But I’ll tell you it’s really damn hard to throw accurately when it’s that freaking cold. I mean, your hands just don’t stick...
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker." - H.L. Mencken Now I agree with most of that quote but I fail to...
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided...
Circle up the U-Hauls, it's time to change everything in Washington....
This picture about sums up the way the Eagles game went against Baltimore this past Sunday. What with our only points coming from a kickoff return by Demps (thank you very much young man), I guess at times the Eagles are feeling like someone is kicking their butts, or at least exposing their butts....
Government could screw up a one piece jig-saw puzzle, and you want them to do what?
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, known for her provocative statements when she was a congresswoman from Georgia, accused the Department of Defense this week of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners. At a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday...
Is this yet another thing that TO couldn't wait for the end of his contract for? If so it sure explains a lot about the dude. FOXNews.com - Former NFL Players to Donate Their Brains to Science for the Study of Concussions - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News...
Good Lord, what a pile of crap. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As if getting a DUI wasn’t enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station. Police stopped Jose Cruz on Route 60 in South Charleston Monday night for driving with his headlights...
From The Daily Telegraph It would seem that a fellow in Australia thought it would be a good Idea to put 16 Stainless steel washers on his private part. Well that has now made his private part quite public. First the local fire company tried to help him out. I'm not sure if they were not successful because...
Ok, I like golf, both playing and watching. One of the PGA tour players that I've always liked for some reason is John Daly. John has issues, without a doubt, and I hope for his own sake he can get things under control, again. Today I come across an article about John doing a promo for a course in the...
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." - John Kenneth Galbraith I guess..... just throw your principles in the trash, just be safe. Political correctness, humbug....
From Fox News and the AP Well they have "re-thunk" their position and it would seem they will not be sending their little letter to the Marine Corps. recruiting office in their fine city. (You can find the background on this circus act, HERE .) So in a marathon session that lasted into early...
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- Posted: Wednesday, February 13 2008
Over this past weekend a discussion broke out! (gasp! No, not a .....shhhhh, discussion!) Yep, guilty as charged. One of the headlines on one of the news breaks was that gas prices in our area had dropped either 3 or 5 cents, and I added that I had seen what would hopefully be true that later this year...
Well first there was the vote about a week ago to tell the Marines to leave, and to grant a parking spot and loud speaker permit once per week for Code Pink, in front of the Marine Corps recruiting office. Well in an effort to try new and different things: From the San Francisco Chronicle: Berkeley to...
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- Posted: Tuesday, February 05 2008
Perfection is a measure of what was, not a goal or target of what is to be. By looking to the goal, to the future, we lose sight of the past, and perfection is lost. You can not grasp the mist of the fog, but walking through it you can feel it. Congratulations to the NY Giants, and Eli Manning and David...
I saw a lift back station wagon style car today with a bumper sticker on the tailgate (shouldn't that be a "tailgate sticker" then?). It would appear to be the design available from the Riyadh branch of the Bill Clinton Museum. (Special this month, lie under oath, buy a blue dress and get the...
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. Dante But what of all of those poor unfortunate polling company and news service...
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Crow calls for limit on loo paper Last year I was wondering what the breakup of Lance and Sheryl was all about, now I'm starting to get an idea. In her latest publically released epiphany, she says that we need to limit ourselves to one square of toilet paper per event. Say...
Well the wife is away, so I loaded the kids into the global warming circus wagon and we headed to one of my favorite places for dinner. This was a Monday evening, and I'm thinking, hey it'll probably be pretty quite, not much going on, quick service on the meal. NOT!! We walk in and it's louder than...
From CNET News Ex CBS Anchor (heavy thing that hangs at the end of a long chain) Dan Rather was the keynote speaker at South by Southwest Interactive. In which he has a lot to say about the state of journalism. I was hopeful that perhaps he had gotten some religion and may have at least come to grips...
From The Hollywood Reporter To me the headline of the story says it all: "Couric: Quality trumps ratings for newscasts" Did she really say that? Has she been known to hang with Darrell Strawberry? Even if what she did WAS quality, (and it isn't), that still would not trump ratings. You could...
From Lancaster online and the New Era Editorial Board What a crock, the Lancaster New Era, (new era like indoor plumbing?) has canceled Ann Coulter's column over her use of the word Faggot this past week. The Lancaster New Era has halted publication of Ann Coulter's syndicated column, following her crude...
Just a quickie. We stopped at a local gas station to fuel up the global warming machine. (It's been way too cold lately so we have been spending every waking moment driving around the block as fast as we can to try to warm things up.) Anyway, I had burned off an entire tank of gas and needed to refuel...
Miami Fort Lauderdale CBS Channel 4 Finally the hurricane damage has been repaired enough to allow the power to be restored to an elderly woman's home. So? Think about it, when was the last hurricane that hit Florida? It would be 2005. But this lady's house wasn't damaged in 2005, it was damaged by hurricane...
While out and about shopping in a local store, I overheard a mother telling her child to sit down in the shopping cart. As she spoke sternly to her kid, she called her by name, Sariah. Sounds like psoriasis without the "sis", but you never know sis may have been at home, or just not born yet. Well this...
Ooops, did I say that out loud?
"I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle." - Alfred Hitchcock Although I think the cowbells might take away from certain scenes, Brad and Angelina between the sheets, Jason probably couldn't sneak up on people so easily, and would 007 then have an...
I see Paris, I see France..........
"If we don't expect, we have all things." - Buddha
Well, spring is slowly showing itself here at the manor. The robins have arrived en-force. This fact has been repeatedly pointed out by our pointer in residence. (Actually he's a setter, English Setter, shaken not stirred) Ok Cosmo, we get the point. Our 'hunting dog' likes to stalk the robins, (sparrows...
