Whale Wars.

These idiots go out and try to stop Japanese whaling. They're just about effective as you and I are except you and I don't require millions of dollars a year to be completely ineffective. "Admiral" Paul Watson and his crew are the classic example of a Liberal undertaking which requires a ton of money, provides an outlet for useless, unemployable people to feel like they're "making a difference", and gives learjet liberals a venue for spending their money to assuage their guilt over the ways they got rich.

They forgot out-matched, out-witted, out-classed, and out-done. "Outraged"
 lmao. "Arrrrrggggghhhhhhh we're so angry!"

It's probably a lot harder than it looks.

More amazing shots here.

The proposed new U.S. currency.

There is one and only one reason I'm in favor of this currency. Extra credit if you can guess what it is.

More here.

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Lunar Cooling - Blame It On Armstrong & Aldrin

The Moon is shrinking due to internal cooling. I'm shocked - set a body into near absolute-zero temperatures for - say - almost 5 billion years and see what happens.

Story here.

Jon Stewart - fair minded person - gives all sides

Comedian Jon Stewart on Wednesday bashed Fox News for parent company News Corporation's $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association.

Unfortunately, Stewart failed to inform his viewers that Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, has so far given disproportionately to Democrats this year.

Also missing in the "Daily Show" host's attack of FNC and Glenn Beck was that News Corp. prior to this contribution had historically given more to Democrats than Republicans.

Such facts were unimportant Wednesday evening, for Stewart was on another in a long line of Fox News is the devil incarnate rants.

More at Newsbusters::

Yes ... well ... why SHOULD he give ALL the information?  That would let people make up their OWN minds ... and I'm afraid that's just not what Jon Stewart is all about.  He think you won't know the "rest of the story."  You know why?  Because he thinks you're stupid ... you know ... just like  he thinks Sarah Palin is stupid ... just like he thinks all conservatives are stupid.  Yessir, Jon Stewart sure thinks a lot of people are stupid.

I wonder why he calls himself Jon Stewart when his given name is Jon Leibowitz.  Why is that, Jon?  Let me guess, you think we're so stupid that we can't pronounce Leibowitz?

You're a piece of crap, Leibowitz.

Eric Holder/Democrats love Americans - so they sue us

Now Obama and Eric Holder want to sue the sheriff in Arizona for enforcing immigration law.  Listen, they want to put this guy in JAIL!

A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in the border state.

Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he does not cooperate with their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics. The civil rights inquiry is one of two that target the man who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff." A federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining whether Arpaio has used his power to investigate and intimidate political opponents and whether his office misappropriated government money, sources said.  More here: OH PLEASE, trump up some more charges, Obama.

The standoff comes just weeks after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) because of the state's new immigration law, heightening tensions over the issue ahead of November's midterm elections. The renewed debate has focused attention on Arpaio, a former D.C. police officer who runs a 3,800-employee department, and a state at the epicenter of the controversy over the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.

LMAO - Again the Democrats are trying to jail the good guys and release the murdering criminals who are stealing your money. I call the Democrats "The Opposite People" because it seems like they are ALWAYS o the wrong side of EVERY issue. It also seems to me that a person with even a 22 IQ would be able to determine the relative idiocy of these people.

Democrats are intentionally harmful to America and law abiding people. Criminals and terrorists they let free but regular people they will jail.

Another recent example ... You know that mosque that idiot 'Imam" is trying to build next to "Ground Zero?" Well, if you oppose it and question it then Nancy Pelosi wants to "investigate" you. THAT'S RIGHT, she wants to investigate YOU!

Oh, did I mention the State Dept sent the "Imam" on a fund raising trip? THAT'S RIGHT, they're using YOUR money to send this guy across the middle east to "promote understanding." LMAO, that's rich.

The imam behind a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero is set to depart on a multi-country jaunt to the Middle East funded by the State Department -- raising concerns that taxpayers may be helping him with the controversial project's $100 million fund-raising goal. More here:

LMAO - they just can't stop squandering your money.  It's like they come in your house, steal your money, and give it to a known criminal so he can buy a gun and come back to get more.   And then they stand there and DARE you to meep.  These scumbags have got to go.

Appeals Court: Lying About Military Medals Is Free Speech

A 3-year-old federal law that makes it a crime to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military is unconstitutional, an appeals court panel in California ruled Tuesday.

The decision involves the case of Xavier Alvarez of Pomona, Calif., a water district board member who said at a public meeting in 2007 that he was a retired Marine who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration.

Alvarez was indicted in 2007. He pleaded guilty on condition that he be allowed to appeal on First Amendment grounds. He was sentenced under the Stolen Valor Act to more than 400 hours of community service at a veterans hospital and fined $5,000.

A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with him in a 2-1 decision Tuesday, agreeing that the law was a violation of his free-speech rights. The majority said there's no evidence that such lies harm anybody, and there's no compelling reason for the government to ban such lies.

The dissenting justice insisted that the majority refused to follow clear Supreme Court precedent that false statements of fact are not entitled to First Amendment protection.

In June, a judge in Denver ruled that the federal law making it illegal to lie about being a war hero was unconstitutional because it violates free speech.

The act revised and toughened a law that forbids anyone to wear a military medal that wasn't earned. The measure sailed through Congress in late 2006, receiving unanimous approval in the Senate.

Dozens of people have been arrested under the law at a time when veterans coming home from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are being embraced as heroes. Many of the cases involve men who simply got caught living a lie without profiting from it, including Ramona resident David Weber, who impersonated a Marine major general at an event at the Ramona VFW in 2009 celebrating the Marine Corp's birthday. At that event, Weber, 69, was given the first piece of cake, an honor reserved for the highest ranking officer present.

"I have often said that God gave us one mouth and two ears so that we would listen more than we talk," Weber told the Ramona Sentinel, which broke the story. "I did not follow that advice."

Most of the impostors have been ordered to perform community service, but Weber was also sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said it was deciding whether to appeal Tuesday's ruling.

Copyright Associated Press / NBC Los Angeles First Published: Aug 18, 2010 3:16 PM PDT

I am now starting a new buisness printing and selling PHD's, I already have 3 myself.

The communists love to change the rules

Boy, I say, BOY, this here's a dog, not a chicken

Government stealing your money - ha ha - so funny

Bold is mine:

So ... you know how the cops seize the money and assets of witches drug dealers and other "law breakers?" (So everybody keep quiet please)  Well, it turns out ... sit down now cuz you're going to be shocked ... it turns out that "The idea that the government can take someone's property on the legal fiction that property itself can be guilty of a crime is an invitation to corruption, and provides a way for the government to get its hands on private goods under a lower burden of proof than it needs to actually convict someone (criminal forfeiture, different from civil forfeiture, requires an actual conviction)."

Keep in mind they can nab your stuff without ever charging you with a crime -- they just might THREATEN to charge you if you don't give them your money/stuff.

So Indiana (and other states) decided to remove the "possible conflict of interest" by stipulating that this money would go to schools instead of cops. (In my mind this is just the other side of the "take it from witches" mindset ... i.e. the "we're giving it to DESERVING people/institutions (o everybody keep quiet please."

Given all of these ways around the law, how much forfeiture money is actually getting back to the school fund in Indiana?

Almost none. This weekend, the Indianapolis Star ran a front-page article looking at where all the forfeiture money is going. I'd like to link to it, but in an apparent effort to keep the paper as irrelevant as possible, the Star has lately adopted a policy of not putting its most important pieces online. But as it turns out, Indiana attorney Paul Ogden actually beat the paper to the story by several weeks. Last month, Ogden put up a post on his blog that came to many of the same conclusions the Star published this weekend. Here's what Ogden found:

• Of Indiana's 92 counties, just five have paid any forfeiture money into the school fund over the last two years. Three of those made just one payment. One county made a single payment of $84.50. Only one county could arguably be seen as complying with the law: Wayne County made 18 payments totalling $38,835.56.
• The total amount of forfeiture money paid into the account from all 92 Indiana counties over the two-year period was just $95,509.72.
• To put that figure into perspective, Ogden notes that attorney Christopher Gambill—the private attorney who, as I noted in my article, handles civil forfeiture cases for three Indiana counties and argued the case for Putnam County to keep Anthony Smelley's money—made $113,145.67 in contingency fees off just a single forfeiture case.

Yes, they steal and steal and steal your money and nobody says a word.  Everything is fine ... just keep voting for the same people ... they have your best interests at heart.

I love it ... this is just another case where the government (geniuses in the ruling class) have assigned a witch label to a group of people and then it's open season on their wallets and their "stuff" -- YEE HAW!!

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Another Ridiculous Food Item

It's the Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger!

I say "nay."

More here.

Brain damage pic

Water Botter Locket Fair.

But you're a union!

Some member (employee really) of a union got fired for trying to unionize other members (employees really). His boss fired him because he was concerned that if the members (employees really) of the union unionized, he would no longer be able to fire whomever he wanted whenever he wanted.

http://deceiver.com/2010/08/13/union-member-fired-for-attempting-to-unionize/

Pretty Funny

Supposedly from a "Tea Party" rally.

Apropos comes to mind.

Letter from my congressman ... telling me how he's helping

So I just got an email from my federal congressional representative. Usually this guy votes the way I would like on major issues. However, I read his email (which I excerpted below) and I just shook my head.

The “Make it in America” initiative has included: creating good American jobs, providing the lowest taxes in 60 years for the middle class and small businesses, and closing tax loopholes that send jobs overseas. We must make certain that we are doing all we can to ensure that we can re-ignite our manufacturing base and “Make It in America.”

Hey, I have an idea -- how about you keep government's nose out of business. Stop "helping." I know you THINK you're a big help -- but you're not -- you're a noose. Competitive businesses don't need the help of government. Stop taxing everything that moves and you won't have to worry about "leveling the playing field."

The only thing government should do is match other countries tariff wise. In other words, if country X taxes/regulates our goods then we tax/regulate theirs at the same rate - that's all.

As a part of the “Make it in America” initiative, I have supported a number of pieces of legislation:

* The U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010 contains hundreds of tariff suspensions and reductions which would help American companies grow and support further job creation. OK, this sounds good ... but something tells me there's more to it.  Think about it ... when have you EVER known congressmen to lower taxes without a HUGE fight ... and telling us how we'll be sorry etc etc etc.  Something tells me they're giving my money to their friends.

* The National Manufacturing Strategy Act creates a Manufacturing Strategy Board that will develop short- and long-term goals for America’s manufacturing industry. Huh?  Why does government have to be involved in this?  Why can't private companies get together and do it themselves?  Who are the "geniuses and masterminds that are going to come up with the "goals."  Why is this reeking of costing me money?  What tells me some "friends of the congressman" are going to be getting paid my tax money for this whole "project?"

* The Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act supports our clean American energy economy by making it easier for companies to navigate foreign markets and promoting investments and reducing production costs for these companies.  Again ... huh?  If our companies have a competitive product then why do they need the help of the government (read - "my tax money") to sell their product?  Something tells me they won't be selling their "product."  Something tells me they'll pretend to "do business" but they'll really just be getting my money through the backdoor of the government "helping."

* The Emergency Trade Deficit Commission will develop trade policies so that we no longer import more than we export.  Wow -- the "Emergency Trade Deficit Commission."  Sounds great.  And who will be on this "commission?"  And why do we import more than we export?  Surely you've given it some thought.  If the answer isn't "other governments tax our goods more than we tax theirs" (or something similar) then I don't want to hear it. 

My theory?  Our government is so intrusive and demanding and regulatory and taxing on our own businesses that we aren't competitive with overseas business anymore -- it's over -- its history -- it's finished -- it's through -- they've killed it and it's almost permanent.  We have GOT to vote these people out.

* The Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act (SECTORS) will help address local skills shortages by bringing employers in key industries together with education, labor, workforce, and other groups to identify and provide training tailored to meet the sector needs of that region’s economy.  Oh, spare me.  And who is going to be in charge of this?  And will you ever see them meet?  And will you (we) have any input whatsoever in this deal?  And isn't it the commies who refer to "sectors" as it relates to the economy?

Seriously, is this the hokiest crap you've ever heard?  All this is is more of my money going straight down the toilet to some friends of the congressman (or his buddies etc.)  "Provide training tailored to meet the needs of that region's economy" -- what a pant load.

These damn people have got to go.  They're squandering my money and my kids' money and my grandkids' money with reckless abandon.  They cannot be stopped.  Nothing ... NOTHING can stop them.  Too bad there isn't a way to start jailing some of them.

Timothy Treadwell's final moments.

For those of you who remember Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man, you'll remember that the video of his final moments (wherein he was eaten by a grizzly bear who had gotten sick and tired of his crap) was never released to the public because it was deemed too sensitive. Well, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Watch it to the end of the credits for my favorite part.



lmao@RIP.... HIPPIES

Poor fella.

This video is for all of you geniuses who think it's okay to walk out into moving traffic because "I've got the right of way- I'm a pedestrian" or "Don't worry, yo, they'll stop".

Rand Paul - I think he's going to be elected

HINDMAN — Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul took harsh digs at President Barack Obama while mining for votes in Kentucky coalfields Saturday, saying busybody regulators backed by the president are stifling the coal sector.

Paul vowed to challenge Obama "every step of the way" if elected in November, seeking to capitalize on a political environment where flocks of voters have never warmed to the Democratic president.

The Tea Party-backed Paul never mentioned his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, in his speech at a coal appreciation event in Knott County, instead reserving his attacks for Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and federal environmental regulators.

Paul claimed Obama "cares nothing about Kentucky and cares even less about Kentucky coal."

That's where you're wrong, Mr Paul.  Obama cares a great deal about coal.  He wants to kill coal.  He wants to kill oil.  He's fighting to ban drilling and he'll do all he can to ban coal mining too.  He has to make sure everyone knows that coal/oil are witches -- dirty, filthy, witches.  THEN he can come for them/you/us with impunity.

"We have a president who is forcing the EPA down our throats," Paul said. "Even without changing the rules, the EPA is stifling the permit process, and people (are) out of work here because of the president and his policies.

"With all due respect, Mr. President, you're wrong, and you need to stay out of Kentucky affairs. And you need to keep the EPA out of our affairs because we need jobs, and we're not going to get jobs with a busybody EPA that's in our way."

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LOL @ Obama and the Democratics ... working as hard as they can to break the back of America.  Hey, shitstains -- we're coming for you in November.  Yes, we know the lame duck congress is going to try to pass a bunch of horsecrap before they leave office ... it would be a bad move but they aren't known for their smarts now are they.