It would be laughable but he uses this to steal my money

Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife. More here:

Yes, I guess the Prince heard tell of these new "findings" by "scientists."

Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain. This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a NASA-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University ... 

For the record, Pennsylvania State University is the home of Michael Mann, the "scientist" whose hockey stick graph conveniently left out the Medieval Warm Period. Mann was also investigated by the University for his role in the "Climategate" scandal of faked temperature data. More at Mike's America.

Yes, cuz if I were an alien capable of blasting your planet to dust I would do that right away  rather than bothering to warn you.

Hey, idiot libs ... is this setting off your bullshit detector yet? No?  The Klown prays: "Oh lord, please deliver us from these pinheads."

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Awesome new boardgame for "Democratics"

The political boardgame, Spread the Wealth Around, exists to train you bitter clingers to practice the art of class warfare, dodge death panels, cheat on your taxes and do your small part to increase our national debt.

 

Choose membership in one of four organizations: Public Service, ObamaCare, Big Labor or Wall Street. From your perch atop the ruling class, you’ll bankrupt other players, drag them before show trials, carve them up in unnecessary surgery or just get one of your big labor goons to whack ‘em in Rocko Roulette.

Rather than accumulate wealth in Spread the Wealth Around, you’ll rack up mountains of debt – just like Obama’s America. Scam dead people and collect their Social Security in Public Office. Unplug granny and play the lawsuit lottery in ObamaCare. Gamble and go burnin’ and lootin’ with Big Labor. Cut in line for your Wall Street bailout – it’s all for the children.

Spread the Wealth Around is the perfect gift to cure that troglodyte Republican friend or conservative relation. No need for sensitivity training or coaching on tax and spend Obamanomics. Put away those teacher’s union pamphlets and Mao’s little red book. Play the political game that’s making the world safe for socialism!

Do you believe everything you see in the mainstream media, or just feel like you missed out on Cash for Clunkers and ACORN brothels? Do you want to take other people’s money for the nanny state and social justice? You’ll play this political game like any pro in Washington.

Why earn when you can spend? Why work when you can party? You don’t have to be an assistant deputy undersecretary for central planning to get too big to fail – you just have to Spread the Wealth Around!

If you never let a crisis go to waste, then leave behind the little people in the tea party, and get your green job aboard the high speed train to the ruling class.

Prosperity is just another government program away, so don’t wait for global warming and the next ice age before playing the ultimate boardgame for Bamster bureaucrats. Like the deficit and gas prices, there’s no where to go but up! It’s time to reward your friends, punish your enemies and get your fair share of stimulus money.

Click here to play Spread the Wealth Around

Found it at Moonbattery:

Harry Reid - He will teach you a lesson

Several Senate and House Republicans are planning to skip President Obama's address tonight to a joint session of Congress, in part because they believe he will be showing them nothing new when he unveils his big job creation proposal.

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has found a way to keep those pesky Republicans in the building, or at least in his chamber.

Reid on Thursday scheduled a vote for after Obama's speech, and it's not one many in the GOP will want to miss. As soon as Obama is done talking, the Senate will proceed to a measure to disapprove a $500 billion increase in the debt limit.

Reid's move means that Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has to skip the party he was planning back home to celebrate the opening night of the NFL season, which will feature the Louisiana Saints.

"Typical Harry Reid," Vitter wrote in a letter to those invited to his party as well as the media. "Pens in those who would have skipped speech, like me. So now I'll miss my own Saints game party at home." More here:

LOL ... You people thought you were going to get away with ignoring the libs? Think again, jackasses. I love it when politicians push others around just to show their power ... it shows how they're smarter than you.

Thanks FDR & "Democratic" jackasses

Prof. Antony Davies analyzes Social Security in the United States through the lens of a typical 22 year old American. More videos like this at LearnLiberty.org

Free Copy Of "Atlas Shrugged" Contest

Yes, it's true. I, "A is A," will award a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" to the winner of this contest. Not my personal, dog-eared, highlighted, and margin annotated version, but a brand new paperback edition (including shipping!). What's the catch? It's simple:

Tonight, our President will give his "Jobs Speech." As is his wont, he will say, "I am the President," or "As your President," or just the word "President" SEVERAL times. Your job is to guess how many times the word "President" is said during his speech. Whoever guesses the EXACT number of times he says his favorite word is the winner.

The official White House transcript of the speech will be the OFFICIAL count of the total. If a tie occurs, multiple copies will be awarded. All entries must be received (comment on the blog, obviously) by 6:59PM EST September 8, 2011. Winner(s) will be announced at my convenience, but within a few days. I promise. Not valid where prohibited by law. Sorry Tennessee.

Hey - where'd you get that dog collar?

Brett Cummins, 33, woke up Tuesday to discover that a man he'd been with the night before was dead beside him in a hot tub, naked and wearing a dog collar, police say.

An Arkansas weatherman didn't predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that's exactly what police say happened.

Now authorities are trying to determine what killed Dexter Williams, whose body was found with a "dog collar" around his neck, according to a police report.

The mystery began Monday night, when KARK 4 News meteorologist Brett Cummins arrived at the home of John Barbour around 11 p.m. in Maumelle, just north of Little Rock, the report stated. The 33-year-old weatherman brought Williams, 24, with him. Barbour said he did not know the doomed man.

"They then began to drink and use illegal narcotics," Officer Gregory Roussie said Barbour told him. "Mr. Barbour stated he was not sure of the drugs that they were using but that they were snorting them."

About two hours later, Cummins and Williams went into the Jacuzzi to have a drink, and Barbour later joined them, police said. Shortly afterwards, Barbour said he left the two and went into the living room, where he fell asleep on the couch.

Barbour told police he awoke about 8 a.m. Tuesday and could hear Cummins snoring in the hot tub, the report said. He proceeded to gather glasses in the bathroom and wake up Cummins before realizing Williams was dead.

"Dexter's head was lying behind Brett's left shoulder," Barbour told police, according to the report. "After Brett awoke they discovered that Dexter was not conscious and his face was a different color."

The meteorologist was horrified, the report indicated. More here:

Yes, because ... How did this happen? Quite the mystery, eh?   A real stumper.  What demon from hell could be involved here? Brutal action.

When you have to be told...

Maybe it's not so sincere...



Our Lefty friends proclaimed "RACISTS!!!".

Bowl-O-Bama

A bowling alley in Clearwater, Florida, Bowl-O- Bama, is doing record business despite a bad economy. The alley also reports a record number of 300 games. Since opening in November 2010, 963 patrons have bowled a perfect game, including strikes in the warm-up frames. This alley also has the highest bowling league average in the country, with a 237. And that’s the senior league.

 Courtesy of my friend Kevin thru email.

2010 Census map

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

Just roll the mouse over the map

This guy sounds like a regular American

Begins at the 12-second mark

Brutal action - coulda been brutaller

COPELAND (CBS4) – A 90-year old southwest Florida woman remains hospitalized after she lost her leg in an alligator attack.

Florida wildlife officials said Margaret Webb was walking near her home in Copeland, a small community east of Ft. Myers, on Wednesday when an 8-foot alligator lunged out of a canal. The gator clamped onto Webb’s leg and tried to drag her into the water.

Webb, however, was able to hang on long enough for a man driving by to stop and help her. That good Samaritan tried to shoot the alligator but it got away. More here:

I wonder if the lady was a lib who constantly votes to "protect" these damn things.  I mean, I've got no cause to go killing alligators (or anything else) at random but if you allow them to cruise your neighborhood unmolested then reasonably intelligent people will anticipate the occasional mayhem. But for libs, it's like the Spanish Inquisition ... nobody expects it.

Meanwhile, she's out meandering at 90 years old?  I guess she kept herself in fairly good shape ... a conclusion I buttress by pointing out the fact she was able to hold off an eight-foot gator whilst it munched her drumstick.

See, if I were a reporter though, I'd have asked the question.  Ma'am, are you a lib or are you a victim of libs?  Certain Klowns are curious.

Lastly, I know there's no such word as "brutaller" so save your helpful emails you dumbass libs.

IT'S NOT WRONG, IT'S JUST 'SUCCINCT,' HE SAYS

Those who think the truncated quote attributed to Martin Luther King on his new DC memorial do a disservice to the man are just going to have to deal with it. The chief architect defends the quotation and says he has no plans to tweak it, reports the Washington Post. It reads, “I was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness." What King actually said was, “Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.”

Right... just like "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is "succinct" and doesn't lose any of the meaning of the original "What hurts you but doesn't kill you makes you stronger". I mean sure I get what they mean. I just wonder how many people though have ever heard the correct quote? It seems kind of obvious to me that the original has meaning and impact and that the "succinct" version is simply a shortcut and easier for the marshmallow brains to remember.

I mean if you spend any time at all thinking about it (and maybe I'm stating the obvious here) but surviving adversity is one thing and you can easily argue that surviving it does in fact make you stronger but conversely, how can it possibly be that something that doesn't kill you make you stronger? A car speeding down the road in another state could quite possibly kill me but doesn't and how does that make me stronger? Of course, the "succinct" quote doesn't mention anything about something having the wherewithal to kill you... it doesn't even mention anything about something having the wherewithal to hurt you.

All it says is that something that doesn't do anything to you makes you stronger. I'd go ahead and put that on par with medals for participation where everyone who bothers to show up gets a (meaningless) award.

From Newser.

There Goes Anthropogenic Warmism...

CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, and that has now built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the Earth’s atmosphere. In this chamber, 63 CERN scientists from 17 European and American institutes have done what global warming doomsayers said could never be done — demonstrate that cosmic rays promote the formation of molecules that in Earth’s atmosphere can grow and seed clouds, the cloudier and thus cooler it will be. Because the sun’s magnetic field controls how many cosmic rays reach Earth’s atmosphere (the stronger the sun’s magnetic field, the more it shields Earth from incoming cosmic rays from space), the sun determines the temperature on Earth.

It seems to me that we've been saying this same thing on this very blog for at least a year now. I'm glad CERN has finally caught up with us.

Full article from our friends at BigPeace.

Uhhhh.... wow.

We've all met lot of crazy peeps. This lady is in the top ten, easily.

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Three Sheets

I heard "He was three sheets to the wind.." at work this morning. I had to look it up. From phrases.org.uk

To understand this phrase we need to enter the arcane world of nautical terminology. Sailors' language is, unsurprisingly, all at sea and many supposed derivations have to go by the board. Don't be taken aback to hear that sheets aren't sails, as landlubbers might expect, but ropes (or occasionally, chains). These are fixed to the lower corners of sails, to hold them in place. If three sheets are loose and blowing about in the wind then the sails will flap and the boat will lurch about like a drunken sailor.

The phrase is these days more often given as 'three sheets to the wind', rather than the original 'three sheets in the wind'. The earliest printed citation that I can find is in Pierce Egan's Real Life in London, 1821:

"Old Wax and Bristles is about three sheets in the wind."

Sailors at that time had a sliding scale of drunkenness; three sheets was the falling over stage; tipsy was just 'one sheet in the wind', or 'a sheet in the wind's eye'.

Greatest TV preacher

About a hundred years ago I lived in the San Francisco bay area. In those days I stayed up late sometimes. One time, one of my friends was over and he says "Hey, turn on the TV ... I want you to see this preacher guy (Dr. Gene Scott.) So we turns it on and watches for a bit. After that we watched him on "occasion." Perhaps you can imagine under which circumstances he was most entertaining.

Never Tune Your Guitar Again

If this thing really works, I want one (but I'd have to buy a new guitar - I'm guessing it won't work on the "Steinberger system."

Most of the reviews I've found are weak. All I know is I have always HATED tuning any guitar.

"He's like Bush only without the brains."

from newser (a super-lib news source)...

(NEWSER) – Rick Perry attracts a lot of euphemisms—lightweight, incurious, instinctual. "Gov. Goodhair" goes one nickname. "He's like Bush only without the brains," jokes another Texas Republican. So Jonathan Martin, in a lengthy profile of the Texas governor onPolitico, just comes out and asks the big question: "Is Rick Perry dumb?" And Martin's answer seems to be ... does it really matter? Perry is a "power politician" who loves competition. “If he should know about John Locke, he’ll know about John Locke,” says a longtime Perry supporter. “If it’s not on his schedule, it’s irrelevant to him.”
Politics, after all, is not an IQ test. “This is like judging [baseball star] David Ortiz as a failed athlete because he’s never scored a touchdown,” said one Texas Democrat. “He’s a focused, committed, and skilled political animal. He wins elections. Do not underestimate him.” Perry's most recent book, the spirited Fed Up, has 19 pages of sources and notes, with no co-author (although Perry did thank five people for helping to research, edit, and write). "Perry may not be a wonk, but that doesn’t mean he’s a rube—a costly mistake many of his foes have made," writes Martin.

What really bugs me about this is that they quote a republican (unnamed, undescribed... probably a RINO) as if it came from someone who not only knew about what they were speaking but also didn't have an ideological agenda. Then they go on to quote another unnamed, undescribed Texan (this time a Democrat although they make reasonable and logical sense so it must have been a typo) who actually says something sensible. 

To top it all off, their habit of proclaiming each and every Republican as an intellectual midget gets tiresome and it gets positively infuriating when they declare each and every Democrat as "one of the most intelligent people I've ever met... ever" and yet these people- our intellectual betters- systematically and smugly ruin the country when quite "coincidentally" line their pockets and the pockets of their supporters and political allies. 

Democrats remind me nothing more than the inevitable infestation of "cool people" who show up to a party after set-up, wreak havoc,  leave before clean-up, and then talk about how lame it was anyway. Meanwhile, the only people who believe they're at all cool are the ones with no sense of self and who have an overwhelming need to belong to any group wherein common sense, hard work, achievement and merit are criteria for exclusion.

From Newser.

Addendum:

With a little research, I found the source of the (albeit unoriginal) quote. It comes from "one former Republican Texas Governor". The source of this is the ever-biased FOX Nation website. Funny how the biased FOX keeps telling the whole store (or at least more of it) than the fair and equal left-wing MSM.