Holy **** on a pogo stick!

cbullitt has an interesting load of information for you over at Soylent Green.   Keep in mind I only read his stuff for the articles.  It seems to have a lot to do with this whole Global Warming disaster and how some guys who “discovered it” are now maybe going to (pardon the expression) know what it means to be dry-humped.  (my daughter can’t read yet so I can get away with writing that)

I promised McGoo this image so this image he will get. It is NOT high quality but not bad for an hour or so.  Amazing how hard I had to work to get her legs apart enough to add the pogo stick.  Yes, I’m talking photoshop.  Sheesh.

Sorry McGoo, can’t do anything too graphic here because… well, if my daughter saw it, I’d have to explain why daddy felt like putting that there and then I’d have to explain to her why Cruel Wife called daddy a perv.

So this’ll have to do.  In answer to the “Holy **** on a pogo stick!” imagery.

It's bigger if you rub the graphic with your mouse. Clicking might help.

I’m still looking for a decent lipstick smudge to add to it.

It seems that a little explanation might be in order.  You see (if any of this is really true) in the beginning there was data, and scientists said “This will not do, for our funding dryeth up like our women’s teats, and children and younger women do not worship our brains or the sweat of our loins”.   Or some sh*t like that.

And so, one day, a man named Mann lookedeth at his data through eyes squinted tight, he lookedeth truly askance, and by hyperventilation and fasting began to see how the Great Data could be massaged and certain conclusions teased out of the mass of numbers.  Then he witnesseth a prophecy that would be self-reinforced in the Echo-Chamber of Starving and Lonely Climate Scientists, and he saw that they could move the minds of the masses and their leaders alike through fear and ignorance.  And he saw how this could be achieved by f*cking with the numbers like a true asshole.

End of story.  Maybe… or maybe not.

Gore has a lot riding on this as do his acolytes and they have written their own bible.  Faith of that sort brooks no dissent.

I posted this over at cbullitt’s a while back but I want to show it here.  It is from the bible of the ANTI-Gore.  It is how things SHOULD work.

Urkel 23-19

The path of the conscientious man is impeded on all sides
By the inequities of the Goreans and the tyranny of liberal men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of science and hard facts,
Shepherds the plebeians through the gauntlet of lies,
For he is truly history’s keeper and the finder of “lost” data.
And I will wipe My feet with thee with great volumes of pure truth
Those who attempt to tell convenient lies to My brethren.
And you will know My name when I lay the burden of proof upon you.

If you made it this far, you should be rewarded.  With real facts.  God knows no one on the hysteria side have done that much for you so far.

How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie.

Ross McKitrick sums up the Yamal tree ring affair in the Financial Post

 

Important Safety Tip for Today.

Do it for the Squirrels…!

Tequila Squirrel returns in another installment.

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Once the brain goes into “art mode” it doesn’t turn off easily.  It actually won’t, barring death, dismemberment, fire,  job loss, or doing Google searches using the wrong words (see below).

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US AG Holder defends choice to try terrorists in US Courts as “a tough call“

The prospect of these dirtbags getting free on technicalities when they are not US citizens but terrorists who have attacked the US on it’s own soil does not make for a tough call.  Trying to figure out how to spin it so your liberal whacked out thought processes are internally consistent, not that is a tough call.

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Obama didn’t have a very tall pole tox leap in order to give “his sternest warning yet” on deficit spending.  Crap, the idiot has been piling fuel on top of the fire since the first day.  He’s been spraying diesel on it and dumping magnesium powder on the flames.

I’d venture to say that it is his first “stern warning” and if not, it’s not far behind.

President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

This sounds too much to me like he knows a double-dip recession is already looming (which many of us already knew) and he’s trying to “groom the witness” (himself).

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If you are looking for wheel bearing grease…

For the love of all that is good and holy and innocent, do not… and I repeat – DO NOT use in Google the search term “Lube”.

JUST DON’T DO IT.

As soon as I hit enter, I knew I had made a fatal error.  I’m pretty sure with that one keystroke a thousand kittens died.

Even with a long hot shower and a steel bristle brush, you will never feel clean again.

This and That.

I saw a FreakingNews.com contest yesterday.  It mentioned how it is the 60th birthday of the AK-47.  The contest was to take an AK-47 and do whatever your heart desired.

So I did.

Click it and it'll get bigger.

And over at Moonbattery, Van Helsing posted something a while back that I just love.  My God, why didn’t I think of that one?  It is beautiful.  I have this nasty suspicion that ultimately the end results are quite similar to JonesTown kool-aid.  (those of you who are younger, go look that up)

Bowing Out

Update: Quest for tobacco…

If you remember Tequila Squirrel:

I’m searching for a proper cigarette stock image that can be used to provide Tequila Squirrel with a cigarette.

I’m not a smoker and it is surprisingly difficult to find a good pic of a cigarette where the lit end is pointing toward the camera and the lit end hanging down 30-40 degrees.  Until I find one, this squirrel will not have his fix.  Yes, I could build one from scratch but that takes more effort than I want to spend on a cigarette.

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Bacon Mints.  Oooooooh… yeahhhhhhh.

Keep it right next to the Meatball Bubblegum.  Ain’t America grand?

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This was the top billing story of this post, but lots of other stuff knocked it out of the top spot.

In an unintended wry mirroring of reality, Obama bows yet again to another head of state.

He bowed to Saudi Arabia’s king and now to Japanese emperer Akihito.  A bow so low as to signify a Kohai/Senpai relationship.  I’m pretty sure Obama meant to show respect but this is ridiculous.

What it does though is mirrors the absolute truth, which is that Obama is pretty much outclassed by everybody.

I don’t know that I want my country’s leader bowing to anyone.  Shaking hands as a sign of respect among equals is what I expect and would only be polite to any head-of-state.  But to bow such as to put yourself in a deferent/inferior position?  Obama, you sicken me.

No wonder troops in Afghanistan are demoralized.  They answer to a man with all the spine of a sea cucumber.  He defers to others and cannot make tough decisions when they are needed right now.

That’s not what I call being made of stern stuff.

The left recognizes this and has tried to make up for his lack of respectable achievements by making t-shirts – Respect the President.  As Van Helsing (see below) noted:

Funny, I didn’t see any moonbats wearing these shirts before their Messiah’s ascension.

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Interesting note… I was cruising around looking for a picture of an exploded cupcake, found one of an exploded refrigerator, and stumbled on to Moonbattery. I like it.  The archive page there is LONG so it’ll take a bit for your computer to catch up.  Scroll down to the “Acorn Flavored Kool-aid”.

Don’t agree with every last thing but then again this would be a sad sad country indeed if we all thought exactly the same way. Most things, though… yep!

Burn Baby Burn.

I’d buy this guy’s wife a beer.

Him, I say we find some pliers and a blowtorch.  He’s earned it.

Cheryl Roberts, 61, suspected her husband David was accessing chatrooms to lure girls into sex so she set up a different computer in their home to pretend she was a 14-year-old girl and caught him in the act.

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Spanish region of Extremadura teaches teens art of masturbation

Ok.  That seems like something they’d have never figured out for themselves.  Curriculum vitae for their schooling?

MSTRB8-101:  How to touch your inner child.

MSTRB8-102:  Whipping the Weasel – touching on the finer points

MSTRB8-103:  Suzy loves Suzy – a chick-flick of a love story

MSTRB8-201:  Self Pleasure and “Found” objects

MSTRB8-202:  Shame – why chicken choking and putting the panty hamster through it’s paces  is OK

MSTRB8-203:  Woodworking Today – polish, wax, and oil application

MSTRB8-301:  Sock puppetry

…all the way on up to the advanced courses…

MSTRB8-403:  How to not have sex with that man/woman (course intro by ex-President Bill Clinton)

A snippet from the NY Daily News, who are amazingly neutral.  Emphasis is mine.

The Guardian reports that the $20,000 campaign includes workshops that feature masturbation instructions. There also are leaflets on self-respect and contraception.

The region’s socialist government aims to help teenagers with “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure.”

“The campaign is simple, clear, natural and easily understood by the people it is aimed at, who are aged between 14 and 17,” [Laura Garrido,] says.

But not everyone in Spain supports bringing masturbation into the realm of public education.

“This is an intimate subject that should be dealt with at home,” says Hernández Carrón, a member of the opposition People’s party. “We have become the laughing stock of Spain.”

That may be so, but alone in the bedroom, teens from Extremadura will have the last laugh.

I got nuthin’ more to say other than:  “Americans, are you SURE you want to go down this gov’t knows everything Socialist path?”.  You better be sure, becasue it’s what you’ll get if you don’t watch it.

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All right, lets stop this in it’s tracks.

A Virginia family has a 14 year old son who was/is an athlete, he got his swine flu shot, and now has Guillain-Barre Syndrome.  The irresponsible title of the news article reads:

Virginia Family Claims H1N1 Vaccine Sickened Son

I’d be highly surprised if he had Guillain-Barre without having had a shot.

Guillain-Barre can result from any shot where there might have been something foreign that the body responded to.   Case frequency for the regular flu shot is around 1 in 1,000,000.

UNLESS THERE IS A CONTAMINATION ISSUE THERE IS NO MORE RISK THAN THERE IS IS FOR ANY NORMAL FLU SHOT.

It is very rare but yes it also can get you if you have never had a flu shot.  How about them hysterical apples?  It’s an immune response triggered by a foreign substance in the body and the body attacks the myelin sheaths around nerves – - acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. .

Most people with treatment will make a complete recovery. A few do die.  Some don’t make a complete recovery.

The point?  The point is that if you should suddenly hear from the crowd that freaks out about global warming, saccharine , DDT-is-always-bad,  charred-meat-is-dangerous, and injections-cause-everything crowd… well, tell them to research it.  There’s more danger from the disease than the shot, and likely you’ll recover from both just fine.

How to be a Stellar Spammer

Note:  The topic of the post is the second item below this amazingly weird snippet…

For a certain segment of the population, they don’t need to take the MMPI (personality test).  Everything you need to know about them – and the answer to “should they be locked up?” (yes, without hesitation).

Making a teddy bear from your child’s placenta.

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I am addicted to Shin Cups.  Yes, there you have it.  I am Lemur King and I am addicted to Shin Cups.  I eat one every day. Every time a new person comes on board at my company, they get a complimentary Shin Cup – the first one is free.

And I use chopsticks.  A billion plus orientals slurping noodles with sticks can’t be wrong.  Actually it is MUCH less messy using chopsticks and impresses the hell out of the chicks.  Like that matters in the least – guess how many engineering chicks there are in the world?  Well, I married one of them and they stopped tracking the other one years ago when she chewed the transmitter out of her arm.

So anyway, I happened upon this not-new posting about a new breed of chopsticks – The Chork.

Bless those Geekologie.com folks…

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There seem to be a few rules that really generate strong returns for spammers.  They are worth reading because I really respond well to these, myself.

1. do not use capital letters or punctuation because they distract
2. Incomplete sentences best
3. Grammer suck ass
4. Make the e:mail to an individual from that individual
5. Use catchy personal hooks like “shoot her in bed all night” or “First Class Hardons” or “Make Your Zipper Prominent.  Make Your Python Active.”
6. Appeal to the reader’s insecurities:  “Target Her G-spot!” or “Impotent Info” – because this stuff really is effective
7. Share knowledge like “Best Lust Recipe” or “Recipe of Hotter Lust”
8. Be endearing:  “Please Read, My Friend”
9. Make sure the spam appears to be coming from the recipient’s boss, requesting a homosexual tryst.
10. Send the same exact e:mail twice.
11. Send the same exact e:mail twice.
12. NEVER use spel check:  “Hey, read this rigth now!”
13. Tell the recipient the obvious:  “New message received.”
14. Add “-inator” to any word in the subject line.
15. Be obscure about… you know.
16. Use symbolics:  “Hi m8!”
17. Use the word “herbs” in the subject line.
18. Use nonsense sentences:  “My Revenge for Schollyears.”
19. Tell me about bad things:  “Your membership stopped”
20. Get manic about euphemisms:  “Hoisters for your Pork-Lever” or “Become her drillosaur!”
21. Shock:  “Ronald McDonald Gangbanged”
22. Interest them with a mystery: “Guess who I am.”
23. Fear:  “You’re fired.”
24. Appeal to the inner miser in your audience:  “Up to 75% on Rolex”
25. Curiosity:  “What Jolie’s underwear hides.”    (It’s a advert for cosmetics.  So I hear.)

Just a few simple rules.  You too can succeed.

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I geeked out.  A nerd-shwing to the 10^5 power.

Digital Rat Brains.  Who knew that simulating the murine brain could lead to self-organization of the structure?  (I’m so geeked I need a cigarette and a shower)

How much power does the human brain require to operate?  (about 20 Watts)

Lastly, use this op-ed for a basis of a cool discussion.  Swine Flu Conspiracy.

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Ok, this is a lot like bitching for compensation when the free software you are using isn’t working right.

ACORN sues over unconstitutional funding cuts by congress:

Representatives for ACORN sued the federal government Thursday morning in an attempt to regain the millions of dollars in funding the community organizing group lost after filmmakers videotaped its workers offering advice on how to commit tax fraud and various other felonies.

The suit charges Congress with violating the Constitution when it passed legislation in September that specifically targeted ACORN to lose federal housing, education and transportation funds.

Uhhhhh… giving funding in the first place isn’t constitutional, so we really ought not be going there.

Another Au Moment.

Speaking of golden moment… you haven’t lived unless you can die eating this.

Turbacoducken.  Oh.  My.  GOD.

Thank you, Corey James of BaconToday!

Seems like oyster stuffing is needed to bring it all together.

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Who knew that gold does indeed tarnish, and indeed corrode away?

Obama polls.  I have no idea where that picture came from but it’s going to be modified tonight.  Stay tuned.

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The Dude sent this to me, followed (after I said “it’d be funny if it wasn’t true”) by the link below that.

In an odd tone for the LA Times, usually the fountain of top-notch bullsh*t, they published this:

Jonah Goldberg on Hassan and stuff.

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I’m waiting for Obama to make a statement like “The white woman acted stupidly.”

University Prof clobbers University employee.

He could say that, you know, because it would not be jumping to conclusions.

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Winner of the “Awww, Isn’t That Cute?” award…

USB Memory

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Let me guess… liberals thought this up?  Or idiots.  But then I repeat myself.

North Carolina School Sells Test Scores to Students

GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A middle school in North Carolina is selling test scores to students in a bid to raise money.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that a parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro come up with the fundraising plan after last year’s chocolate sale flopped.

The school will sell 20 test points to students for $20.

Students can add 10 extra points to each of two tests of their choice. The extra points could take a student from a “B” to an “A” on those tests or from a failing grade to a passing grade.  Principal Susie Shepherd says it’s not enough of an impact to change a student’s overall grades.

Officials at the state Department of Public Instruction say exchanging grades for money teaches children the wrong lessons.

Gee, do ya think???

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Okay, since we’ve (allegedly) messed up our climate through stupidity and inability to see the future, how could we possibly see the results of messing with the weather?

“No one can tell how much weather manipulation will change the sky,” Xiao Gang, a professor in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the paper.

Wait… we can’t tell how much weather manip will change the sky?  So how do we know much of anything about climate behavior?  I thought we knew all there was to know, given the dire predictions facing us over the next century.  ???

Repent, for the End is Nigh. Er. Nigher. Er.

Update:

The alternate title on Drudge was “Who is to blame?“   The link takes you to NPR’s article titled “Answers Sought On Fort Hood Suspect’s Link To Imam”.

At what point in our nation’s history did we start asking stupid questions like this?  Who is to blame???  The ass who pulled the trigger and killed a bunch of good people, that’s who.

Let’s stop thinking “blame” beyond this guy and his actions.  Let’s then ask “Hmmm.  What might we do in the future to avoid this?”

I know the NPR article did not ask that question but I also know damn well there are politicians, reporters, the president, and generals all asking these questions as they try to assign blame and responsibility.  It starts and ends with the guy who pulled the trigger.

Now how do you make sure it doesn’t happen again?  This is a very bad mindset that we’ve slipped into – where we don’t recognize that people are responsible for their own actions and that not everything can be made safe.

Update 2:

Obama says Hassan may have cracked under the stress.

You know, I’ve been under obscene amounts of stress in my life, and I have yet to think that getting a gun and killing my buddies and co-workers was anything other than vile.  Stress does not make you contact Al-Qaeda.  Stress does not make you converse with violence-minded imams.

No, you have to be a special kind of asshole to do this.  Stop playing race issues, Obama.  White cops “acted stupidly” and now minority murderers are simply “stressed”.

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Was looking for some vector graphics tonight because making flourishes isn’t exactly worse than scrubbing toilets but it isn’t much better, either.

I came across some that were for nearly $100.  “Yoiks!” I said.  But then I saw that they were animated flourishes that not only got drawn over time but also changed shape and orientation.  Oh how very nice they were.

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Looks like Global Warming just keeps marching on.  Get thee behind me, you inconvenient truth, you.

According to NOAA…

National Overview:

Temperature Highlights – October

• The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data.
• For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation’s nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.
• Statewide temperatures coincided with the regional values as all but six states had below normal temperatures. Oklahoma had its coolest October on record and ten other states had their top five coolest such months.
• Florida was the only state to have an above normal temperature average in October. It was the sixth consecutive month that the Florida’s temperature was above normal, resulting in the third warmest such period (May-October).
• The three-month period (August-October) was the coolest on record for three states: Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Five other states had top five cool periods: Missouri (2nd), Iowa (3rd) , Arkansas (5th) , Illinois (5th) and South Dakota (5th) . Every climate division in Kansas (nine) and Nebraska (eight) recorded a record cool such period.
• For the year-to-date (January – October) period, the contiguous U.S. temperature ranked 43rd warmest. No state had a top or bottom ten temperature value for this period.

Did you catch the importantest part?

It was the sixth consecutive month that the Florida’s temperature was above normal

Refute THAT, you naysayers.

It’s official. We’re a nation of wusses.

A deer somehow jumps into a lion’s cage at the zoo.

Observant co-worker Laconic Pup noticed this about the article:

“Everyone was cheering, ‘Go, go, go’ ” to encourage the deer to reach safety, witness Josh Shpayher said. “Everyone was rooting for the deer.”

Everyone?  Really?  Not one guy cheering on the lions?  We’ve gotten soft.

Yes.  Yes, we have gotten soft.

I responded to the distribution list:

LC has an excellent point. Very much the heart of the matter.

As recounted by witnesses, the deer, over as much as 20 minutes, was in and out of a moat while the lions clutched, clawed or swatted it. A crowd of spectators grew. Some shrieked, cried out or took children away.

How soft are we when parents can’t say “Here’s what happens in the wild. Fact of life.”?  My dad would have been pointing out how the lion is perfectly made to do the job of catching, killing, and eating that deer (or wildebeest, antelope, gazelle, liberals).

I think more people need to grow up on a farm, butcher their own rabbits and chickens. Geez, man up, people.

So, in order to continue everyone’s education, LC responded with more information:

According to Car-Accidents.com, there are about 150 human fatalities each year in the due to auto collisions with deer in the United States.  Anyone want to guess how many Americans are killed by lions each year?  I’m guessing somewhere around zero.  Clearly, the deer have it in for us, and we should be forming a strategic alliance with the lions to exterminate them.

Also, I’ve never seen a lion maul a deer at the zoo, but I have seen a monkey whip out his junk and start playing with himself two feet from the observation area.  The women turned their children away and the men all busted out laughing.  He knew EXACTLY what he was doing, too.  You should have seen the grin on his face.

I’ve never thought about the combination or context of “monkey junk” until now.  Thanks, LC.

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If only we had universal health care – that deer could have been saved rather than drive the lion (and contents of his stomach) to many local area hospitals and get turned down because neither had the proper insurance, Fleeting Ruminant Life or Predator Co-op Life-Choices.

The Hair Guy has an interesting way of putting things.  Clears up a lot of turgid waters that the Health Care Reform Stealth Package swims in.

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Report: Major Hasan Tried to Contact Al Qaeda

No, we certainly shouldn’t jump to any conclusions.

The president made the comments as the commander of Fort Hood, the US’s largest base for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, quoted witnesses as saying the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted the Muslim declaration “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – as he opened fire. Speaking at the White House, Mr Obama said: “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

I’m still waiting for the groundswell of condemnation from the hordes of moderate muslims.

Too Poor to Buy Health Care? Buy it or Pay $15,000.

So, the House passed a health care bill. A senior republican predicts they’ll pay a high price and the dems disagree with that notion.

But the Democrat in charge of defending his party’s majority in the House next year said Democrats took their cue Saturday from voters’ “message” in the 2008 election, which sent President Obama to the White House and strengthened Democratic majorities in Congress. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said voters were upset that Republicans “did nothing” about issues like health care while they were in power and wanted Washington to step up to the plate.

Funny but none of them really get it.  It wasn’t a mandate for the democrats, it was a rallying against the republicans.  One year.  The clock is ticking and there is one year in which they must try to do as much damage as possible before they are voted out.

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Oh?  It’ll cost $15K just to buy it?  The penalties are even higher?

With logic that is breathtaking, the Democrats have plunged and rushed in where even fools fear to tread.

According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.

Another shining example of just how naive I can be – I could not picture how anything could be stupider than the health care plans we’ve seen already.   I have been clueless, because these iron-fisted idiots have stupid down to a high art form.

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

In response to the JCT letter, Camp said:  “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail.  It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.

This has gone from being “just a bad idea” to “downright scary in scope and ignorance of economics”.

The Politics of Pissiness for the Sake of Spite.

So, liberal leaders are now leaning on the moderates in their party.

“Criticism from liberals is almost a political endorsement here,” said Loree Bykerk, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Moderate Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., is among those targeted.

Even so, the liberal MoveOn.org said that in a survey of its 5 million members, 93 percent said the group should not support Democrats who are on the same side as Republicans when it comes to a health overhaul. “No donations, no volunteering and no help getting out the vote,” MoveOn said in an e-mail last week.

Hmm.  Ok, check to make sure there are no obstructions in your weapon – clear anything foreign that might cause a jam.  Now lever in a cartridge, click the safety off, point the weapon downwards, and pull the trigger while it is aimed squarely at your foot.  Repeat five or six times until you pass out.

Please.

Please do so.  I really want to see spoiled rotten crybabies get so angry about not getting everything they want that they engage in internecine warfare.  Don’t like your allies’ choices?  Well, screw ‘em!  Yeah!  That’ll serve them right.  Then they’ll be sorry when there’s a 30% turnover in the democratic ranks, that’ll… what?  Well, we didn’t mean for them to leave!!

Included that snippet above because I found it on Yahoo.  ABC-News is running news articles that are less than gushing with the breathy sounds of swelling bosoms.  Hell, the NEW YORK TIMES has run articles critical of this current establishment of whiny arrogant liberals, and has even broached the taboo topic of voters being less than thrilled with the O’Messiah.  For such a bunch of big talkers about being fair and open-minded and their willingness to bridge divides, reach across the aisle, work together in the spirit of bipartisanship… they’ve really done not much more than be a bunch of loud bullying assholes.

I wonder if they have noticed that people are more aware of what a financial failure MediCare/Aid is than they thought, and if they have noticed that their claims of budget neutrality draw no believers.  All those claims result in are more potential swing-to-the-right votes.

Ready.  Aim.  Fire.  Repeat.

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Hey!  Let’s make it even worse!  Let’s let everything really go sideways and require businesses to pay employees for their enforced sick leave!   Man, we could be as socialist as any country in Europe faster than you ever thought possible.  Just think what the cumulative idiocy of voters in the last election has been able to bring to fruition.

Especially those who contributed to this insanity – may you get what you so richly deserve.

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Health care is expensive? More so than you could ever imagine if all you did was read the House Health Bill, it seems.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in its study last week that the House bill would bring in $167 billion over 10 years — $33 billion from fines paid by individuals who decline to buy insurance, and the rest from employers who don’t offer insurance to workers or contribute enough toward premiums.

Ernest Istook … a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, calculated that anywhere between 8 million and 14 million people would end up paying the fines.

This raises a few problems, he said. First, if those millions somehow get covered and don’t pay the fine, then the health program is faced with a budget hole.

Second … it speaks to a flaw with the insurance packages that are being offered. “If you say people would rather pay $167 billion in penalties rather than buy insurance under your new plan, what’s wrong with your new plan?” he asked.

The answer, Istook said: “It’s expensive.”

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This is how the US should work.  If you don’t impact anyone else so they have to deal with your sh*t, then live free and no one to bother you.  But if your sh*t means that it is now your neighbor’s sh*t to deal with…?  Fix it or move.  Sometimes I get to say:  What a great country we live in!  And no one had to take it to a high court with bazillions of appeals.  Does a $100/day fine seem a bit steep without first giving a grace period?  Yeah, but if the laws were already on the books about a 3-cat limit…  Seriously, how many cats do you need?  If you have 30 cats and they pose no problem, have at!  If you have two and they crap on the neighbor’s veggies and chew on their herb garden, it’s a problem.

Having more than 3 cats now requires a license

DUDLEY —  Voters last night added language to a town bylaw that will make it illegal to own more than three cats without a kennel license, though Selectman Steven Sullivan said housing three felines was already a violation.

The article came after a neighborhood feud over cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards of Kennedy Drive.

Some of Mrs. Richards’ 15 cats are allowed outside, and one neighbor said the cats have ruined his yard.

The discussion at town meeting last night had Mrs. Richards warning residents that the $100 per day fines being imposed on her could also be imposed on them if they fail to get kennel licenses for their pets.

She has put her home up for sale and plans to move to a “more cat-friendly community,” but vowed to fight the fines.

— Kim Ring

There’s a lesson here that you rarely heard mentioned anywhere.  If people would take more responsibility and see to it that what they do doesn’t impact others, all these many many laws wouldn’t even need to be on the books.  Just sayin’.

 

When is Art No Longer?

As I said, I’ve been feeling artsy again.  A friend of mine who goes by the name Fossilips is a pretty good photographer – really good.  She manages to catch images of this squirrel outside of her place that she suspects drinks tequila and smokes cigarettes.  So I took one of her images and… viola.

Damned if the little bugger doesn’t drink tequila.  I’ll catch him smoking cigarettes next.

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I’ve been artistically jump-started lately.  As I’ve been wandering around deviantART and ConceptArt (and many many seedy places and great places, too) I’ve run across this theme now and then:

Some Guy Whose Name is Omitted Here says:

December 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm

those are all really fantastic, but i can’t help but feel saddened that we are in a sense automating our creative processes. it makes you wonder to an even greater extent, if art you see was forged out of hard work and love, or simply ‘photoshopped’ =/

I’m pretty sure someone said the same stupid thing when film was first being used, too.  It was probably said when the first artist to use mass-produced bullwhips took a photo of himself with it stuffed up his arse, rather than make his own bullwhip from a cow he grew from a calf born after mounting and impregnating the mother cow himself.

Think, people.  Think.

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Fox News called today.  It was a poll.  They asked Cruel Wife some questions and asked her about her feelings towards the health care reform issue.  She told the lady, who was shocked and surprised that someone had the intelligence to say “On what basis, constitutionally, does Congress believe they are authorized to do this?”

Natch, Cruel Wife said that she listened to Yours Very Truly, and agrees with the Glorious Lemur King’s feelings on the matter 100%.  Which is good since the Lemur King is a verifiable genius.

NBWB: Nose Broken While Brown-nosing.

If this NEA suck-up tries any harder to get his nose up Obama’s ass he’s going to snap it off and require a nasal transplant.

Most powerful writer since Julius Caesar?

Damn, man… I mean… DAMN.  Have some self respect, m’kay?

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If this guy sinks any lower, in terms of what he’s willing to endure, he’ll be just another typical Obama supporter.