Stop stealing my money and liberty ... no, really

Hey, look ... the guy (Jared Loughner) that shot that congresswoman has a youtube video. (And a myspace page, apparently.)

BTW - Boehner's response "an attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve."

I'd have said it differently ... "An attack by an insane person cannot be predicted or justified on one person who is constantly voting to steal your private property (money) and your liberty is an attack by an insane person on ALL persons who are trying to steal your private property and liberty."

I'll bet John Lennon would have said "An attack on one musician is an attack on all musicians ... especially if the attacker is insane"  Yes, that would have been VERY profound, wouldn't you say?  I like it when everyone tries to out-profound each other ... especially when the persons being profound are INFUCKINGSANE Democratics.

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Republicans hold up crucifix to vampires?

The Republicans in the House of Representatives held up a crucifix read the constitution aloud to some vampires the Democratics the other day and the vampires Democratics went berserk.

You can watch your intellectual betters the dumbass lefties recoil in horror in the comments on the Huffington Post blog. Did anyone notice if any house Democratics rose to read a passage? Did any ask? Just asking.

Another note to myself: It appeared to me that Boehner did not rehearse his part. I guess he felt he didn't need to because ??? I'm still calling him a moron. He doesn't deserve to be speaker. As far as I'm concerned he's just one of the old Republicans who participated in the fall of America.

He's got a lot to prove to me. This was a step in the right direction but I doubt he'll keep it up ... I think he's just acting.

13 Year Old Flag Boy Gets Parade and Apology

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Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin

During an appearance on last night's (Wednesday, January 5) edition of the "Anderson Cooper 360°" show, legendary rocker Ted Nugent gave his opinion of Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008."[Palin's] coming from the street, she's coming from the we-the-people rank-and-file, she makes sense when she talks, she says all the right things, she's sincere, she's knowledgeable, she's articulate, she's damn good-looking, plus she kills moose. How can you go wrong?!" Nugent gushed. However, when Cooper pressed the rocker on whether Palin would make a good president, Nugent balked. "It's too early to tell," Ted replied. "Right now, if we had a vote, I couldn't vote for Sarah Palin. And I love her. I love her madly, and I respect her."

I was a Ted Nugent fan before I knew I was a conservative. Crazy guitar riffs and correct politicalness are a winning combo. And on this topic, Ms Palin's electability, I agree whole-heartedly. But what "journalist" uses "gushed" and "balked?" I can't imagine the Motor City Madman "gushing."

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Moonbat Messiah Puts His Clothes On Wrong: "
This guy is now in control of our healthcare system. Let's hope he's at least got his shoes on the correct feet.

Cut him some slack — maybe Michelle helped him dress.

Expect this to be relentlessly referenced by the MSM just as they did with GW Bush when he was President. Also expect myriad snarky comments about what a moron he is.

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Subject: 2011


An examination of the calendar for 2011 reveals that Groundhog Day
and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day.

Ironic, isn't it?


One event involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of limited intelligence for prognostication.



The other involves a groundhog.

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Well, This Makes a Lot More Sense Than Vaccination Being the Cause. UPDATE!

May 21, 2010-

Surprisingly, all the scientific evidence to which Jenny McCarthy had access didn't indicate any logical cause for autism in children. Of course, she didn't let that stop her from zealously broadcasting that she was 100% sure that vaccinations cause autism in children.

The issue I have with this sort of opinion- particularly coming from someone with the access to a very large and easily influenced audience- is that it can cause parents to decide not to have their children vaccinated.

This might be fine for them, but by not getting their children vaccinated, they're increasing the risk to my children. Fortunately, my children attend a school where vaccination is not mandatory, but if your children are not vaccinated, they aren't welcome to attend.

With the rate of diagnosis for autism being 1 in 110 children in recent history, it just didn't make any sense that vaccines would be the cause. Children have been receiving vaccinations for decades but it's only recently that such high incidences of autism have been showing up.

Some of you might argue that this is due to better diagnostic methods and doctors who are better educated than their colleagues were in the past. I would argue that due to its popularity, autism is being over-diagnosed. However, accurate diagnosis is not the point of this post.

Well, leave it to the scientists to come up with a reasonable and logical explanation:

(Newser) – Scientists have a new lead in the search for the causes autism. Research presented this week provides strong evidence of a link between infertility treatments and the disorder. A Harvard study has discovered that treatment with Clomid and other ovulation-stimulating drugs doubles a woman's risk of giving birth to an autistic child, with a higher risk the longer the woman took the drugs. A second Israeli study has found a tie between in vitro fertilization and autism.

The Harvard study controlled for the women's age at the time of pregnancy—a known factor in autism—but had no access to information about premature birth, whether the children were twins or triplets, or their birth weights, all additional factors in autism. "This study is addressing a really important question but we need more data," a scientist tells Time.

January 5, 2011 UPDATE

(CNN) -- A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.

An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study -- and that there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible.

Actress Jenny McCarthy, founder of Generation Rescue and whose son also has autism, declined to comment on Wednesday's developments, but has previously supported Wakefield.

"It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers reporting on the retraction," she said after the Lancet retraction.

Deer said Wakefield "chiseled" the data before him, "falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a picture, which was the picture he was contracted to find by lawyers hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare."

 Why is the truth always a "conspiracy" with these people? Maybe Ms. McCarthy should stick to sophmoric comedy and taking her clothes off.

 Complete article HERE.

Amazingly well-timed photos of ISS silhouetted against moon, sun

Amazingly well-timed photos of ISS silhouetted against moon, sun: "

Both these remarkable images were captured from the ground by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault.

The first, showing the ISS passing in front of the full moon, was taken from Avranches, France, at 21:34 UTC on December 20, 2010. The space station, of course, is much closer to the camera than the moon is, and is moving at 7.5 km/s relative to the ground, the upshot of which is that this photograph was only possible for the 0.55 seconds it took the ISS to pass in front of the moon. Monsieur Legault knew that, in advance, planned for it, and got the shot.

The second, even more remarkable photograph, shows a double partial eclipse of the sun, most obviously by the moon, to lower left, but also, again, by the ISS. The small dark spot to lower right is a sun spot larger than the Earth itself. This photograph was only possible for a 0.86 second window at 9:09 UTC on January 4th, 2011, from Muscat, Oman. Again, Legault carefully planned to be in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time, and got the shot.

M. Legault's website is absolutely chock-a-block with stunning astrophotography and is well worth the click. Just be prepared to spend some time gawking. [via Neatorama]

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UPPER DARBY, Pa. (CBS) – Police in Upper Darby were able to make a high-tech arrest by utilizing technology inside the same cell phone that a suspect had stolen from a homeowner.

The incident began when suspect Tyrell Booker allegedly broke into a home on Lamport Road at about 4 a.m. Monday and stood over the bed of the frightened victim.

Investigators say Booker forced his way into home and stole the victim’s cell phone before fleeing.

Unbeknownst to Booker, the cell phone was equipped with a Lookout GPS tracking device.

Approximately an hour after the robbery, the victim and investigators used laptops to track down Booker inside a home where he was hiding.

“We actually followed the phone to the house where the guy that committed the crime lived,” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.

Tsk.  Too bad it was the cops that caught him and not the Hell's Angels or skin-headed nazis.   Now THOSE guys know how to mete out the punishment. Oh well, maybe next time.  I wish there were more stories of people catching burglars in the act and beating them retarded with baseball bats. (If you're about to comment on my use of the word "retarded" --- don't be retarded.)

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You know it was going to happink eventually

A federal jury will be asked to decide whether it is acceptable for an African American person, but not a white person, to use the "n" word in a workplace.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick has ruled that former Fox29 reporter-anchor Tom Burlington's lawsuit against the station, claiming a double standard and alleging that he was the victim of racial discrimination, may go to trial. However, Surrick denied Burlington's claim of a hostile work environment.

Burlington, who is white, was fired after using the "n" word during a June 2007 staff meeting at which reporters and producers were discussing reporter Robin Taylor's story about the symbolic burial of the word by the Philadelphia Youth Council of the NAACP.

Burlington, who began work at the station in 2004 and is now working as a real estate agent, was suspended within days and fired after an account of the incident was published in the Philadelphia Daily News. He alleges that he "was discriminated against because of his race," according to court documents. He claims in his lawsuit that at least two African American employees at Fox29 had used the word in the workplace and were not disciplined.

Do you have any thoughts on the matter? Any thoughts on the utility of saying "N-word" instead of "nigger?"  Any thoughts on how stupid people are to dwell on this "word" as if  some magic is going to happen and race relations will be all fixed if the word is never used again?  Any thoughts on the vapidity of those who believe that racists won't still be using and thinking it even if it's banned?

How about any thoughts on the company's freedom to hire and fire whomever it wants, WHENEVER it wants?  I notice that the loss of freedom is taken for granted these days and nobody so much as peeps about it anymore.

Even though the outcome of this "trial" should be obvious, anyone want to hazard a guess as to the result of this trial?  I've seen plenty of trial results that don't extend freedom but restrict it instead.

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Prepare your doom! The Rapture is very near. Unless you believe, of course.

Iran Media: Massacre at Christian Church in Egypt Was….Mossad Plot; No Muslim Could Do Something ‘So Inhumane’

Iran Media: Massacre at Christian Church in Egypt Was….Mossad Plot; No Muslim Could Do Something ‘So Inhumane’: "

Get this: the massacre of 21 Christians in Egypt on New Years Day was not an example of Islamists killing Christians. The massacre was actually carried out by Israeli intelligence, or so says the Iranian media. Iranian television even quotes spokesman from Hizbullah, the terrorist group, as saying that no Muslim could be behind this attack because no Muslim could do something “so inhumane.”

That certainly clears things up, doesn’t it? This report, which is a translation from Iranian television, tells you everything you need to know about the Iranian regime and its worldview:

“Iran’s Press TV reported that Hizbullah said that the January 1 attack on the church in Alexandria, Egypt, in which 21 people were killed, is in the interests of Israel and the U.S.

Citing the Lebanese Naharnet, Press TV reported that the movement said on January 1 that the attack ‘comes as part of the most dangerous conspiracies aimed at religious diversity,’ and added that the intrigues were targeting ‘more than one Arab and Muslim country.’

The attacks were meant ‘to serve the Zionist scheme in occupied Palestine and the American scheme aimed at fragmenting our Arab and Islamic countries,’ Hizbullah said.

In a January 2 article, Press TV stated that the Mossad was behind the church bombing, saying that although ‘at first glance, the finger is pointed at extremist Wahabi or Salafi groups, it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act.’”

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A Florida doctor looking to relieve some holiday stress was killed by her mechanical neck massager, police said.

Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson of Parkland finished wrapping presents in her bedroom on Christmas Eve, authorities say, when she apparently decided to use an electrical massager on her neck.

"The massager got entangled with a necklace, and it probably caused her to black out very quickly," said Jim Leljedal of the Broward County Sheriff's Department.

Ferrari-Gegerson’s husband, Kenneth, came home and found her unconscious with the neck massager next to her body. He called for help, but the 37-year-old was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. Authorities have not revealed which brand of neck massager was used.

Ferrari-Gegerson was an associate professor at the University of Florida and worked in the emergency room at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

This is a representation of a device I imagine could have been the culprit.

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Helpful Neighborhood Klown - Sunrise/Sunset Times

Well, a couple of weeks ago we passed the winter solstice and that set me to thinking.

I started getting curious about just exactly what that meant.  For example, do the days get longer but perhaps (at first) the sun comes up a little later and then goes down later also ... rather than meaning the sun starts coming up earlier on that day and going down later?  Anyway, before I got brain damage, I looked it up and made some charts.   It didn't help ... I saw that little hitch in sunset times the last six-eight weeks of the year ... I don't capisky it.  It keeps getting light later every day but it switches around on the sunset ... getting darker earlier each day until the first week in December and then it begins to stay light longer ... and that's before the winter solstice ... weird ... I can't even think about it.

If the charts make your eyes bleed I also included a simple spreadsheet.  Note: Daylight savings time begins the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November.

In addition to that, I included some graphical info about the direction of sunrise/sunsets for our area.  You can go here if you want to make the map more accurate for your area.  It's pretty simple -- you just drag the little pin to wherever you want.  Good job on this site by NOAA.

Direction of Sunrise - Sunset

 

Jan 1

March 1

 

May 1

 

July 1

 

Sept 1

 

Nov 1

 

Jan 1

 Ok, there ya go.  Ten more weeks until the Bradford Pears bloom.

Katie Couric ends 2010 just as stupid as she began it

Katie Couric ends 2010 just as stupid as she began it: "

You know what we need to make us love Muslims who love death more than life? A Muslim version of the Cosby Show, that’s what. Yup, that’s what CBS News anchorette Katie Couric says:

I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing. Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.

I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand…

But wait, Katie. We thought the liberal position was that racial relations are still terrible in this evil, racist country.

Maybe what we really need is a Muslim version of Chico & The Man. And maybe a Muslim version of Charlie Chan.

Good lord, this woman is stupid. And this is what passes for intellectual discourse in 2011.

We are doomed. Happy new year.

Source: CBS News

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A friendly holiday message from the Libs.

 

Just the way they like it.

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Zogby Polls

You know how the "news jourrrrrnalists" are always quoting polls?  And every day they're coming out with the results of some poll that are diam-ass-etrically opposed to common sense? 

Oh yes, they imply that "everyone else thinks this way and you should do, you dog-eared freak."  And you think to yourself "What a crock of shit ... who is dumb enough to buy this? ... how come nobody ever polls me or my friends?"

Well, here's your chance, weedhoppers ... sign up to take Zogby polls.  They send me about one a month and it takes about five minutes.  Some of the questions are a crackup ... "Do you consider yourself to be a NASCAR fan?"   "How often do you shop at Walmart?"  Gee, I wonder what the purpose of this is, don't you?  Surely they aren't trying to say that NASCAR fans & Walmart shoppers are both dumb and vote conservative ... or are they?

Gee, I wonder what effect that has on actual dumb people?  I'd hazard a guess and say it makes them reluctant to admit they are conservative ... or that they voted for a Republican.   This is the way polling (with the help of the media) influences the government and gets more votes for the "Democratics."  I mean, dumb people usually prove their intelligence by going along with the mob ... and we all know how smart mobs are in general ... especially mobs of geniuses who want to push you around.

If this doesn't absolutely convince you the polls are trying to influence (as opposed to measure) the political attitudes of Americans then nothing will.  Now, ask yourself, given that an idiot like Evil Klown can determine this, what are the chances that jourrrrrnalists would detect just such anomalies?  Given that the random genious jourrrrnalist would easily detect this foul play, what are the chances he would hide his findings?  Further, what are the chances he would report the discrepancies on the news and then hound the ever-loving-you-know-what out of the polling organization until they ceased the unethical behavior?

Yes, I think the chances are 100% that an ethical journalist who really wanted to inform his audience would report on this next-to-criminal misrepresentation.  But that's not what happens, is it?  If it weren't for me, would you even know about this kind of crap in polling?  Or would you just suspect (as you probably have all along) that polls are bullshit ... and that, in fact, you could probably assume that the results of any given "poll" is probably going to be 180 degrees opposed to common sense your views.

Do they ever tell you that the participants in these "polls" are about 75% Democratic geniuses and 15% Republicans, and 10% "Independents.?" (Ok, that's a slight exaggeration but you get the idea.)  Gee, I wonder why the media won't "disclose" that info.  Actually, I don't wonder.  The reason they don't disclose it is because then you might use your pea-brain to come to a different conclusion than they are trying to lead you to ... and we simply can't have that, now can we?

See, anyone can sign up for these polls ... and right now the "participants" are mostly your university professors and their students ... Greenpeace employees ... labor union members ... you get the idea. 

So ... if you're as sick of hearing bullshit poll results as I think you are, then go here and sign up to be a participant (and invite your friends.)  Of course, if we were successful in signing up a lot of conservatives to take polls, the media would just elect to ignore the results.  That's right, they'd just stop quoting the latest idiocy on their "reports" ... and that would be fine with me.

18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet

18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet: "

Well, it’s official. Pretty much everyone now has broadband and the majority us of use the Internet more than we watch TV. Everyone and their grandmother is on Facebook, and many of us have some kind of embarrassing moment enshrined on YouTube. But how much do you really know about the Internet revolution?

Let’s take a look at how it all began, with this list of fun facts about the Internet that you probably didn’t know already.

1. The technology behind the Internet began back in the 1960′s at MIT. The first message ever to be transmitted was LOG.. why? The user had attempted to type LOGIN, but the network crashed after the enormous load of data of the letter G. It was to be a while before Facebook would be developed…
2. The Internet began as a single page at the URL http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which contained information about this new-fangled “WorldWideWeb” project, and how you too could make a hypertext page full of wonderful hyperlinks. Sadly, the original page was never saved, but you can view it after 2 years of revisions here.



3. The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979, but was a rather simple -) and didn’t really look like a face. 3 years later, was proposed by Scott Fahlman and has become the norm.
4. Did you know – the Japanese also use emoticons, but theirs are the correct way up instead of on the side, and a lot cuter!

   ~~~ヾ(＾∇＾)

5. The first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.



6. Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wouldn’t be until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever.



7. Ever since the birth of the Internet, file sharing was a problem for the authorities that managed it. In 1989, McGill University shut down their FTP indexing site after finding out that it was responsible for half of the Internet traffic from America into Canada. Fortunately, a number of similar file indexing sites had already been made.
8. Sound familiar? Even today file sharing dominates Internet traffic with torrent files accounting for over 50% of upstream bandwidth. However, a larger proportion of download bandwidth is taken up by streaming media services such as Netflix.
9. Google estimates that the Internet today contains about 5 million terabytes of data (1TB = 1,000GB), and claims it has only indexed a paltry 0.04% of it all! You could fit the whole Internet on just 200 million Blu-Ray disks.
10. Speaking of search – One THIRD of all Internet searches are specifically for pornography. It is estimated that 80% of all images on the Internet are of naked women.
11. According to legend, Amazon became the number one shopping site because in the days before the invention of the search giant Google, Yahoo would list the sites in their directory alphabetically!
12. The first ever banner ad invaded the Internet in 1994, and it was just as bad as today. The ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage.



13. Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
14. The very first spam email was sent in 1978, when DEC released a new computer and operating system, and an innovative DEC marketeer decided to send a mass email to 600 users and administrators of the ARPANET (the precursor of the Internet). The poor sap who had typed it all in didn’t quite understand the system, and ended up typing the addresses first into the SUBJECT:, which then overflowed into the TO: field, the CC: field, and finally the email body too! The reaction of the recipients was much the same fury as users today. It wasn’t until later though that the term “spam” would be born.
15. So where does the word spam come from? One urban legend traces it back to the Multi User Dungeons of the 1980′s – primitive multiplayer adventure games where players explored and performed actions using text only. One new user felt the MUD community and experience was particularly boring, and programmed a keyboard macro to type the words SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM repeatedly every few seconds, presumably imitating the famous Monty Python sketch about spam-loving Vikings.
16. Twenty hours of video from around the world are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23rd 2005,by Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”. It was quite boring, as is 99% of the content on YouTube today.
17. Internet terrorism is very much a real threat. In February 2008, 5 deep-sea cables that provided Internet connectivity to the Middle East were cut. Curiously, US-occupied Iraq and Israel were unaffected.
18. The most common form of “cyber terrorism” is a DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service attack, whereby hundreds if not thousands of systems around the world simultaneously and repeatedly connect to a website or network in order to tie up the server resources, often sending it crashing offline. Anonymous released a tool this year that users could download and set on autopilot to receive attack commands from a remote command source. Similar DDOS attacks are often performed by the use of malware installed on users computers without their knowledge.

Do you know of any other fun and interesting facts about the Internet? If so, let us know about them in the comments! Happy New Year.

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