Formula to find biggest lib

Ed Grimley is hysterical, I must say

Test your geography IQ

From Komando.com

This is a pretty interesting test of your world geography knowledge. Warning: it gets real hard about level 7 - Uh ... East Timor - baking powder?

http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

Jackass brain donor is airline executive

HONOLULU -- Hawaiian Airlines apologized Wednesday to a California woman after trying to charge her a cancellation fee for an airline trip to Hawaii.

The woman said she had planned to take her mother to the Big Island, but her mother died unexpectedly months before the planned trip.

KITV's Keoki Kerr reported that the Los Angeles Times first reported the story in Wednesday's edition of the newspaper, and Hawaiian Airlines told KITV Wednesday afternoon that it made a mistake in not refunding the woman all her money.

Jane Wilkens bought first-class Hawaiian Airlines tickets for her mom and one of her mom's friends to travel from California to Kona so they could stay at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island.

She made the purchase in August for a trip to Kona next April. But in September, her mother unexpectedly died from a blood clot, several days after back surgery.

When she canceled the reservations, Hawaiian Airlines said it would charge her $75 per seat for a total of $225 as a processing fee.

"I just thought it was wrong. Like I told them, it was an unimaginable event, and I was just shocked that they wouldn't refund the money," Wilkens said.

Wilkens said she complained to Hawaiian Air several times about the cancellation fee, noting that another airline and the Hilton Waikoloa canceled reservations with no fees.

"I could also understand if the ticket was for next month or next week, but the fact that it's seven months away -- they're certainly going to sell the tickets, so filling the seats up is not in question," Wilkens said.

At first, Hawaiian Airlines defended the fees, but after the Los Angeles Times published the story Wednesday morning, the airline apologized to Wilkens and let her know a full refund is on the way. More here:

Yes -- after getting caught, they apologize. Will anything else happen to them? For lying and cheating and attempting to steal? What should happen?

Jam it up your ass, white boy

From Michelle Malkin's blog:

Hey -- did you know -- if you're black and you scream racist remarks, (while on video) -- according to objective jourrrrnalists, you're just "talking."

So recently they had a meeting in New Orleans -- to talk about demolishing some old slums to make room for new development. Well -- it turned into a knockdown drag-out fight with jackasses protesting the demolition. Have you heard about it?

No? I didn't think so -- cuz the media can never present you with a view of black people that you might MISCONTRUE as racist -- your dumbass might get the wrong idea. Everyone knows that only white people can be presented as racist.

Anyway -- amongst the clusterfuck, one "lady" named Sharon Jasper (lol @ "Jasper" -- isn't that a slave name?) yells different racist remarks at a white guy -- but the "OBJECTIVE JOURRRRNALIST" captioned the pics thusly:

She looked familiar to me so I focused on her -- trying to remember -- but then I started craving pancakes.

Mixed in with the rent-a-rioters who stormed the New Orleans City Council meeting over public housing were a few homegrown thugs who refuse to be weaned from the public teat without a finger-pointing, racial epithet-hurling fight.

Case in point: That angry lady in the BDS shirt shouting “I will not be treated like a slave!” and “Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!” at a citizen attending the council hearing. Watch closely (link to video bleow) and note that there is a child behind her being subjected to her diatribe against the man. She’s your tax dollars at work:

Notice her official BDS "Bush Derangement Syndrome" t-shirt. Also - Wombat has allowed we might set aside a few acres to teach people what slave life was really like -- so when someone says something like this, they can get educated.

So, does she look familiar? This Sharon Jasper is the same Sharon Jasper profiled in the New Orleans Times-Picayune sulking in her government-subsidized apartment with hardwood floors and HUGEtastic (60") television and complaining that it’s a “slum:”

Jasper moaned:

Sharon Jasper, a former St. Bernard complex resident presented by activists Tuesday as a victim of changing public housing policies, took a moment before the start of the City Hall protest to complain about her subsidized private apartment, which she called a “slum.” A HANO voucher covers her rent on a unit in an old Faubourg St. John home, but she said she faced several hundred dollars in deposit charges and now faces a steep utility bill.

Heaven forbid The Man expect her to pay her own damned security deposits and utility bills like the rest of us!

More:

“I’m tired of the slum landlords, and I’m tired of the slum houses,” she said.

Pointing across the street to an encampment of homeless people at Duncan Plaza, Jasper said, “I might do better out here with one of these tents.”

Jasper, who later allowed a photographer to tour the subsidized apartment, also complained about missing window screens, a slow leak in a sink, a warped back door and a few other details of a residence that otherwise appeared to have been recently renovated.

Click here for the video of her yelling the racial slurs:

She's prolly in REALLY BIG trouble with Al not-so-Sharpton and Jesse Jackasson.

Heh

Found it at Boing Boing:

Liberals = Scum of the Earth

From Newsbusters:

Below is but a sample of what the liberal morons at the Daily Kos were posting after a recent (Sep) Hillary speech.

Thank you Hillary for calling out Petraeus for what he is, a liar and a distorter of facts.

While I still prefer an Edwards/Obama ticket, I just wanted to show some progressive blogosphere love here for Hillary for her calling a spade a spade here, and subsequently setting the right wing howling.

The same thanks applies to MoveOn, for their not allowing Petraeus to parade around like some untouchable holy priest without being called on his crap.

More of their (same old) ridiculous commie raving here:

Meanwhile, the Disgruntled Truck Driver posted the General's awards.

U.S. military decorations
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Clusters)
Defense Superior Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Clusters)
Legion of Merit (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Bronze Star Medal (with “V” Device)
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Army Commendation Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Joint Service Achievement Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Joint Meritorious Unit Award (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)

U.S. unit awards

Army Meritorious Unit Commendation
Army Superior Unit Award
State Department Superior Honor Award

U.S. non-military decorations

National Defense Service Medal (with 2 Service Stars)

U.S. service (campaign) medals and service and training ribbons

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Iraq Campaign Medal
Armed Forces Service Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
Army Service Ribbon
Army Overseas Service Ribbon (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
U.S. badges, patches and tabs
Combat Action Badge
Expert Infantryman Badge
Master Parachutist Badge
Air Assault Badge
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
Army Staff Identification Badge
Ranger Tab
Multi-National Force - Iraq Patch
101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Patch
United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) Medal[93]

Foreign military decorations
Gold Award of the Iraqi Order of the Date Palm
Foreign badges, patches and tabs
British Parachutist Badge
French Parachutist Badge
German Parachutist Badge
Non-U.S. service medals and ribbons

NATO Meritorious Service Medal

Yeah -- thanks Hillary -- and the rest of you dispicable, jackass libs -- for disparaging America and American heros, as usual -- way to go.

Big mouth liberals

You know how the libs always like to say conservatives are heartless and they hate the poor?

Here is a list of the 50 states. Red ones voted for Bush (conservatives) - Blue ones voted for Kerry (liberals.) The list shows the states ranked by charitable giving. Very interesting huh? For a larger/clearer pic, click here:

Yes -- The libs are very generous -- you know -- as long as it's YOUR money they give away.

Another difference between libs and conservatives:

When a lib's wife tells him to pick up Granola on the way home from work, it means he has to stop at the day care center.

Think birkies are humanitarians who care about animals?

This is Jessica the hippo... rescued by an aging South African couple who don't have children. I watched the entire episode on Animal Planet last night and found it to describe all birkie "humanitarians" in a nutshell (a one hour long- including commercials- nutshell).

Here's the video from youtube...



Here's what I find so offensive about these idiots.

They feed this animal sweet potatoes and dog food. They had a vet swing by to check the health of Jessica and to find out if she's able to get pregnant. You know- it would be SO CUTE to have a baby hippo in the house. I'm SURE that Jessica wouldn't fit into the classic stereotype of an overly protective wild animal mother. You know- because we're one with her... we're family (gaaaaaaaaa).

The vet tells them that it's fine to feed Jessica sweet potatoes- just not 20 kilos of them a day. The high sugar, low fiber and lack of protein aren't what a healthy hippo needs to be consuming. What she needs is what they feed hippos in zoos- lucerne hay and horse feed. Of course, after 5 years of eating sweet potatoes and dog food, Jessica is not interested in hay and horse feed.
These people make some feeble attempts at feeding her a healthy diet but after 1/2 hour of trying, they give up and decide they know best- she'll be having sweet potatoes and dog food.

They make their case by reminding us all that Jessica is not penned in and has free range to eat all the food that the wild hippos in the area eat so it's ok. Never mind that she has chronic diarrhea and that she's underweight for her age. Mommy and Daddy know what's best for her. Just because this is their first pet hippo, it doesn't mean they don't know exactly what they're doing.

Keep in mind that the whole reason they called the vet in the first place was because they want to get this hippo pregnant. There are several problems with this.
1. She's underweight by 200 pounds- hippos reach puberty based on weight- not age
2. Hippos typically reach sexual maturity when they're 7-17 years old... Jessica is 5 years old
3. Hippos are active at night- Mommy and Daddy insist on giving Jessica a massage at night and lulling her into sleep. You know- so she fits into THEIR schedule- not her natural schedule. Since she's sleeping while other hippos are active, she doesn't get socialized to hippos. This is good for Mommy and Daddy but bad for Jessica. (To get a hippo pregnant, she needs to have intimate contact with a male hippo. To have intimate contact, you must first have ANY contact).
4. Jessica is terrified of other hippos. When she was a year old, she suffered an "unprovoked" attack by a pregnant female hippo. Scroll up to where I mention these people are trying to get Jessica pregnant and expect her to remain her "normal", docile self.
5. There was a bull hippo in the area who had expressed some interest in Jessica. Since she wasn't overly afraid of this hippo, Mommy and Daddy (M & D) encouraged her to become better acquainted with him (Charlie). In doing so, M & D got within 6 feet of a wild, male, potentially sexually aroused hippo. Daddy admits that any of his game warden friends would have said he was crazy for doing this and that the rifle by his side would do little to prevent harm coming to them, yet there he is. In classic birkie style, he puts himself, others and an animal in danger for the sole purpose of proving how he's "one" with the wild.
6. When Daddy goes to pick up his weekly truckload of sweet potatoes, the green grocer gives him a picture of several local men posing behind the hippo they shot. This hippo was found eating the farmer's crops and it's common practice to shoot animals who damage farms or human dwellings. M & D get tears in their eyes as they acknowledge "it's Charlie". They don't go into the fact that hippos can be definitively identified by the scar patterns on their sides. They don't need to bother with such tom foolery- they know it's Charlie in their hearts- a FAR more certain method of knowing. Mommy and Daddy discuss the brutality of killing a hippo- a common practice in their area.
7. Mommy doesn't have the self-discipline to set some basic ground rules- like NO HIPPOS IN THE HOUSE. They've replaced the door knob to the house 20 odd times since that's how Jessica gets into the house and onto their bed- to sleep. Of course at 1800 pounds, she breaks the bed repeatedly. Daddy decides enough is enough and makes a steel door to keep Jessica out of the house. Mommy is not happy with this and sits on the couch weeping for poor Jessica as she tries to find her way into the living room.

The best part of all of this story is that in pursuit of their ideology, they're disregarding all the warning signs that this hippo is going to kill them some day. As she approaches maturity, she gets more and more aggressive- they call it being playful.

Many people know about the "Big 5" in Africa. Lions, Cape Buffalo, Elephants, Rhinos and Hippos. These are the five largest and most lethal (to people) animals in Africa. Of these 5, guess which is BY FAR the most lethal? That's right- hippos.

In closing, my only hope is that this saga ends the same way as "Grizzly Man".

What in the hell?

Doesn't get good until the last half -- but you won't get it unless you watch the first half.

Klown family Christmas

During the festivities, the children were gathered and a gingerbread house was built. Someone said something about "building it too fast." Maybe the icing had to dry a little after adding each piece or something.

Anyway -- It came to a tragic end when the gingerbread FEMA showed up.

The kids (and adults) had icing all over their hands for a time while this thing was under construction. They were all walking around with their hands in the air -- being careful not to touch anything. From a distance, a deaf person might have thought there was a robbery underway.

Liberal Kryptonite - Man Making Sense

Racist witch nazi jackass

From Newsbusters

Honest, I'm not looking for trouble. Just hanging out on Christmas afternoon, watching the Heat vs. the Cavs on ABC, when a State Farm Insurance commercial comes on. Funny stuff. A guy on a treadmill gets so distracted by a shapely young woman on a hamstring machine that he slips and falls off.

Then a trim man, identified by a screen graphic as Dr. Ian Smith, comes by to help him to his feet, and says:

"Go on, laugh. But it's not easy getting back in shape. That's why we created the 50-Million Pound Challenge. It's a new way to help our community get healthier together. Get started at 50-Million Pounds dot com. "

As captured in the photo, as he says "our community" he points to himself, emphasizing "our" as he pronounces it. I'm jarred. Going to the web site confirms things. This is a State Farm weight-loss program explicitly targeted at African-Americans. The program's logo is shown to the right.

So, am I being too touchy? Perhaps. Why don't we do a mirror-image ad?

Cut to a tennis club. A slightly paunchy white guy gets so distracted by the looker on the next court that he runs right into the net post. The white doctor coming to his aid says the same thing as Dr. Smith, again pointing to himself, and . . "we interrupt this commercial to bring you a massive national boycott. "

Hey, pipe down you racist witch nazi bastard.

Karl Rove graffitti?

Standing by friends

At Christmas time, we’re reminded of how important life is. The seasons can prove themselves to work just like any other time of year, never taking a day off for celebration.

I was sent these pictures of a dog standing by his companion after being hit by a car in the street. As you gather with friends and family this year, take a somber look at these photos and appreciate the chance to have your best friend hug you back.

After the accident, the dog stood toe to toe with cars until traffic came to a near standstill. I haven’t been able to get the rest of the story to find out what happened next, but as you can see, the dog drew in a crowd as people were amazed at the display of canine loyalty.

Remember this Christmas, to show your love for those you hold dear, and let them know that you care. You never know what’s around the next corner. More pics here:

Queasy - Who took this pic?

Catchy Tune

This is an old one. Only watch it once though -- unless you want the song stuck in your head until next year.

King of Israel

Merry Christmas!!

Who is the King of Israel?

It's Barney!!

How do I know?

Remember the song?

Noel -- Noel -- Noel -- Noel
Barney's the King of Israel

The old days

For some reason I started thinking about the days when I lived in Japan -- and I was googling some stuff. For 3 years, 67-70, We lived on Hakata Tri-Service base on the northwestern side of the southern island of Kyushu (about 100 miles from Pusan South Korea.) Above is a pic of the place (peninsula) taken from atop the mountains on a neighboring island called Shikanoshima.

I recall we used to get a few of us kids and get a cab down to the ferry station in our neighbor town, Saitozaki (Pronounced Sat'-uh-za' key -with the "a's" as in "bad") and then take the ferry over to Fukuoka. Fukuoka is one of the largest cities in Japan (it now ranks at number 8.)

Anyway -- it cost 70 yen each if we had 3 kids (20 cents to us -- in those days it was 360 yen to the dollar) for the cab -- plus tip -- then 70 yen each for the ferry. Then we'd either walk around or get cabs or take the trains, depending on what was up that day. Who knows how much it costs today -- that was in 1970.

This is the ferry station -- it was at the end of a long, straight, road ... and the starting point of adventures many ... mostly of finding and flirting with the Japanese girls -- which was easy because they always wanted to practice their english. English was required for all four years of high school in Japan. Also -- everyone went ape if you had American cigarettes -- which I didna -- but some of my friends did.

This is the bay side of the little peninsula we lived on. Sometimes, (I seem to remember about once per year) the Japanese peeps would set little boats onto the water -- 2-3 feet long -- and they would put stuff on the boats -- like fruit and lit candles and food and money -- and they figured their dead relatives would get it off the boat. Anyway -- these boats would wash up on this shore and it was a big problem if anyone caught you touching them. The cops floated them back out on the outgoing tide.

Another time of year, horseshoe crabs would wash up and be all over this beach -- some dead -- some not. Extra weird looking creatures were they.

On the other side of the peninsula was a cooler beach -- with cliffs and a wide sand area before the water. Some times of year we'd be all stung-up from the jelly fish. Too funny -- cuz, even though everyone with a nose was getting stung, everyone (the kids) went on in the water anyway. And the cries of the wretched grew louder and more plentiful as the day wore on. Course -- the big kids weren't allowed to cry after getting stung -- but, uh -- it REALLY hurt, capisce?

Above -- this was the wide beach where everyone went swimming. It was also one of the few places in the world where Paper Nautilus wash up. If you went early in the morning, you could find them now and then -- and a medium size unbroken one would fetch about $2,000 yen (around $5) back then and go up from there.

Below: Dead center of the pic is the base and Saitozaki - slightly left of that is the green island of Shikanoshima - not really an island cuz you can get there by car on a long, narrow piece of land -- like a sandbar that was made in a storm long ago. To the lower-right of center is Fukuoka. We had to take a school bus about an hour thru Fukuoka to go to school.

Zooming in closer on the base and Saitozaki, I found the golf course on which I learned to play. Our house was in the center - toward the top - among all the trees.

I really enjoyed my time in Japan.

I hope you enjoyed my reminiscing.

Here's a few more pics of the area:

Hitler was a good old guy

From Newsbusters:

Will Smith has stunned the world by declaring that even Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was essentially a "good" person.

The Men In Black star, 39, is determined to see the best in people, and is convinced the former German leader did not fully understand the extent of the pain and suffering his actions would cause during his time in power in the 1930s and '40s.

He says, "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today'.

"I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming."

And here's a quote from the libs at WENN

(World Entertainment News Network:
"Hitler's totalitarian leadership as Fuhrer during 1934 until his eventual suicide in 1945 resulted in the persecution of an estimated six million Jews in the Holocaust, and his invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the start of the Second World War."

Correction: Actually, Hitler's totalitarian leadership as Fuhrer resulted in the murder of an estimated six million Jews in the Holocaust. But why get technical about accurate terminology, eh? Unbelievable.

Another genius from Hollywood. How do these people get so GD stupid?