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New slogan "WTF" yea that should work

Hey, guess what ELSE is a "pollutant?"

That's right ... first the stuff you exhale when you breathe is called a "pollutant" ... cuz if they want to control it they have to call it a pollutant ... and now hay is a "pollutant."  And the thing is, it's not just the EPA up there screwing up the economy and people's lives, it's every damn alphabet soup agency in the government ... all vying for more money, more power, and more control.

The totalitarian fist of the EPA is tightening not only around industry and energy production. Our green rulers have learned from Stalin that the real key to power is choking off food. That’s why the malignant agency has declared hay a pollutant:

A recent report from R-CALF USA, an advocacy group for American cattle producers, says the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared harmless cattle hay a “pollutant,” which is part of the agency’s agenda to squelch family-scale cattle ranches in favor of corporately-owned, mega-sized feedlot operations.

At the recent 12th Annual R-CALF USA Convention in Rapid City, SD, an audience member asked Mike Callicrate, a Kansas cattle feeder, if the EPA had, indeed, declared hay a pollutant. His affirmative answer was startling to many, but not necessarily surprising in light of the US government’s apparent agenda to destroy every single producing sector in the nation and to reduce the country to a poverty-stricken, corporately-dominated wasteland.

Quothe Dave Blount at Moonbattery: We’ll know that the US government is back under the control of Americans when the EPA has been abolished.

Yes, I agree, Dave ... well said. And yet if any of the candidates dare speak of this, the media would "investigate" them and rip them to shreds just from accusations ... never mind the facts.

Racist outs self -- state media yawns

Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).

"If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," Cleaver told “The Miami Herald” in comments published Sunday. "There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president." More here:

I always knew the "Congressional Black Caucus" was nothing but a bunch of asshat racists. I sure hope the media doesn't find out about this and start pointing and hollering racist witch every two minutes on your TV screen ... you know ... as if someone from the Congressional White Caucus had said "If Bush weren't white we'd be marching on the white house."

Ha ha, these people are so comfortable bitching about whitey they don't even think about watching their words anymore. Why should they? The media never holds them to account. Got it? They're never wrong ... never ... cuz they're "Democratics" ... and black.

The Day of Flailing Idiot-Libs

Ok, so you may have heard about the recent "Day of Rage" scheduled by idiot libs.  Against what were they raging?  Honestly, does it even matter? Oh yes, yes, they had this big protest all planned out for cities all across this great land ... you know ... to bitch about the rich and capitalism ... the usual gig of people without jobs professional protestors.

So I was reading all about it looking at all the pics and captions at Pajamas Media when I came across this pic.  Soooo .... classic lib.

Seriously?  Really?  Is this guy being funny?  Or ... could you shove him in a bottle and sell it at the perfume counter as "Essence O' Lib?"  If I had to guess I'd call it a sad, sad story of a lifetime of idiocy.  Hey, jackass, that's a mighty fancy cane for someone who hates the profit motive, caspisce?  You ought to be ashamed ... not even industrious enough to carve a cane out of some redwood so you can be close to mother earth.  Also, why no pony tail? Oh crap, now I'm going to have to go back and look at the pics to see if any were taken with this knucklehead in the background so I can confirm/deny the existence of his pony tail - aka, lib credential ... you know ... unless I get distracted by a sandwich or something.

Meanwhile I'm guessing that somewhere there's an African guy who was all about celebrating his heritage by wearing a knit hat but he lost it ... and this guy found it. I call them "The man be keepin' homey down" hats.  Anyway, I'm guessing this guy feels entitled to wear it.

He also feels entitled to wear a piece of rope around his wrist for jewelery.  This also helps him be close to mother earth.  In addition to that, one never knows when one is going to need a piece of rope .... sooooo, handy, right? Don't you wish you'd thought of it?

Oh lord, I could go on and on with this guy but I don't want to have all the fun ... go ahead and have at him in the comments.

The Pajamas Media guy gives credit to Zombie for the San Francisco pics.  He also gives credit to other guys for he New York and Los Angeles pics.  I wanted to link to Zombie because:

1 - My guess is the Zombie took the above pic.

2 - The Zombie is awesome.

Magazine subscriptions

I had this conversation with a friend of mine this morning.

[8:51:45 AM] Evil Klown: so we subscribe to Food Network magazine
[8:51:52 AM] Evil Klown: for the last two years
[8:52:02 AM] Evil Klown: it was $15 per year -- 10 issues
[8:52:33 AM] Evil Klown: and the subscription goes from Jan - Dec
[8:52:45 AM] Evil Klown: so they just sent me a renewal notice
[8:53:00 AM] Evil Klown: for the low-low price of $25 this time
[8:53:20 AM] Friend: yeah
[8:53:24 AM] Friend: that sounds like good business
[8:53:38 AM] Friend: cuz we all know it's WAY easier to get new customers than it is to keep the ones you have
[8:53:45 AM] Friend: let's do this
[8:53:52 AM] Friend: new customers pay less than longstanding customers
[8:53:58 AM] Evil Klown: instead, I went to their site and found I could subscribe for one year for $18 -- two years for $28 -- three years for $36
[8:54:02 AM] Evil Klown: idiots
[8:54:18 AM] Friend: so gd stupid
[8:54:24 AM] Evil Klown: "gee, why won't anyone sign up for our 'continuous service' option?"
[8:54:26 AM] Friend: like delis that play it cheap with the creamcheese
[8:54:35 AM] Friend: like they're saving money and nobody'll notice anyway

I emailed that conversation (minus the line where I called them idiots) to their customer service department and also to their editors.

Yes, I know they'll pay no attention.  Yes, I know "all magazines do this" ... that must mean it's the best business model, right? I can just see it now ... all the Harvard boys are in charge and nobody wants to be the first to deviate from this "pattern of success." Hell, they might fail and be fired, or worse, their peers might make fun of them ... they'd be ousted from the cool crowd ... the risk is just too great for geniuses.

It cracks me up because ripping off the idiot customers this type of thing is done in business all the time. We all know the drill ... you call to complain and they give you the lower price ... and that shuts your stupid yap. And we're all proud cuz ... "hey, Charlie, we didn't pay the higher price like the rest of the sheep ... that's right ... we're not a run-of-the-mill moron. Harumphhh."

Anyway, what do we all do?  Instead of keeping our subscriptions going, we start a new one ... which makes more work for everyone but we pay less for it ... awesome business model ... pure genius I tell ya.  Oh, and every time I go to renew, I look around for other magazines that cover the same subject ... just in case.  I'd probably skip this step if I weren't already pissed that my old company tried to rip me off.

"Hey Klown -- look what I found at the Food Network Site."  

Continuous Service Guarantee 
Our Continuous Service program takes all the hassle out of renewing your magazine subscription. It avoids service interruption by automatically renewing your subscription at the best available rate.

Oh, whew, sign me right up ...I trust you.

Fri (oops) Sun pins

Attackwatch.com

For those of you somehow unfamiliar with attackwatch.com, they're a website dedicated to outting anyone who dares to attack our President, Barack Hussein Obama. They're about as grandiose as Anonymous and will.not.tolerate anyone who attacks our President, Barack Hussein Obama. If you dare to say anything negative or critical about him, it's an act of treason and probably rooted in racism so FEAR US.

Here's a meme you may or may not have seen before laying out the scenario before your eyes.



Thanks yet again to our friends at IHTM.

Jon Stewart on Solyndra.

The ending is possibly the funniest part. But still... "still hanging on to 40% approval"... that's not a "good" thing. It's the worst approval rating in the history of approval ratings. Furthermore, just because a congressman knows something about the technology behind solar power and can use the industry jargon with comfort it does NOT mean he'd make a good president. Libs- stop focusing on how smart someone sounds and start focusing on how smart someone behaves... mmmmk?

The Daily Show

Sorry for the ad- I couldn't find the clip without it. Anyway, brushing really IS good for you so...

Good news for snail eaters!! Yum, yum!!

CORAL GABLES (CBS4) – They’re back. Giant African land snails which once took a decade to eradicate from South Florida have returned.

Giant African land snails, considered to be one of the most damaging snails in the world, have been found in the Coral Gables area of Miami-Dade County, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

The Giant African snail is one of the largest land snails in the world growing up to 8 inches in length and 4.5 inches in diameter. When full grown, the shell consists of seven to nine whorls (spirals), with a long and greatly swollen body whorl. The brownish shell covers at least half the length of the snail. Each snail can live as long as nine years and contains both female and male reproductive organs. After a single mating session, each snail can produce 100 to 400 eggs. In a typical year, every mated adult lays about 1,200 eggs. More here.

AVAST!  Have at them, fine diners!!

What you said? Libs squandering the loot?

Cameron J. Potter pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips to bilking the Department of Energy of more than $400,000 intended for legitimate use by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy to promote renewable energy sources, typically dubbed “green energy.”

Potter, 31, was employed as the chief financial officer for SACE when, in 2006, he concocted a scheme to siphon off money awarded the advocacy group by the DOE for his own personal gain, Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Dale told Phillips.

Entire article here... 

Don't watch this if you're afraid of heights (for some reason).

Oh woe is us -- who could have predicted this?

RECORD POVERTY!!

WAY TO GO, OBAMA AND "DEMOCRATICS"

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor swelled to almost 1 in 6 people last year, reaching a new high as long-term unemployment left millions of Americans struggling and out of work.

Reflecting the lingering impact of the recession, the U.S. poverty rate from 2007-2010 has now risen faster than any three-year period since the early 1980s, when a crippling energy crisis amid government cutbacks contributed to inflation, spiraling interest rates and unemployment.

Measured by total numbers, the 46 million now living in poverty is the largest on record dating back to when the census began tracking poverty in 1959. More here:

Whaaaaaa ????  What's this?  Who could have seen this coming?

I've got news for you, you don't have to be Nostrodamus to have seen this one coming.

I've got some ideas for Obama to use to bring us out of this depression.

1 - Let's raise the minimum wage again. It won't affect how many people business hire and people will make more money -- see?  Magic!!

2 - Let's continue to block oil drilling and refining and transporting

3 - Let's have government-run enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac run the housing/loan industry by fiat. Yes ... we'll have them dictate terms to the free market.

4 - Let's "tax the rich" to pay for health care. No way will "the rich" pass along their increased costs to the poor ... no way in hell ... it just wouldn't be right.

5 - Let's try to tax and spend our way out of a recession. Just because it can never work doesn't mean we shouldn't try it again.  No way will it cause inflation. No way will we bankrupt the nation. No way will we ever have to pay it back. No way will it make the recession worse.

6 - Let's continue flailing around with the already incomprehensible tax code ... yes, yes ... let's keep those evil businesses guessing, it keeps them on their toes.  We need to let them know who's boss.  It's great when they can't predict one of their biggest costs more than a year out.  Oh, don't worry, they won't move their operations overseas when faced with great uncertainty.  It won't have any effect on their hiring decisions at all.

7 - Let's introduce a few thousand more regulations for them to follow.  We need to keep our hob-nail boots on the throats of businesses.

8 - Even though government is the most wasteful and inefficient spender of money let's tell them we only need another 400 billion to get the job done.  Never mind we couldn't do it with the first trillion or two ... NOW we mean business.

9 - What we need is to escalate the war on poverty.

Hey, Obama, I LOVED it when you said (in your jobs speech) you wanted to work "side by side with business" to get us out of this predicament.  You don't even see that THAT is your problem, jackass.  You've got empty homes and homeless people - way to go.  GOVERNMENT DOES NOT BELONG IN THE FREE MARKET ... not "behind" - not "side by side" -- NOWHERE -- DON'T YOU GET IT??  LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!!!

Sex & medicine in the middle ages (back in the day.)

So I was reading the J-Walk blog this morning and I came upon the words "penitential belt." Apparently it's worn by religious peeps who want to somehow pay retribution for sinning -- or something.  I went Googling to find out what it was (a leather belt with metal studs on the inside that dug into the wearer’s skin.)

Anyway, while I was looking for info on the belt I ran into this (Sex In The Middle Ages: 10 Titillating Facts You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask) and learned where they think the word "dildo" comes from. I also learned what "A tergo" means.  Erm, it means "from behind."

There are some references to the use of dildos by women in the Middle Ages, in particular, this one in a Church “penitential,” a book that prescribes punishments for sins.

“Have you done what certain women are accustomed to do, that is to make some sort of device or implement in the shape of the male member of a size to match your sinful desire? If you have done this, you shall do penance for five years on legitimate holy days.”  "... what women are accustomed to ... " LMAO!

The word dildo was not actually used until the Renaissance period, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but one fanciful explanation of its origin was a small elongated loaf of bread flavored with dill, thus “dilldough.”

One of the most popular fashion accessories of the Middle Ages was the codpiece – a flap or pouch that attached to the front of the crotch of men's trousers and accentuated it in such a way as to emphasize or exaggerate the genitals. They were stuffed with sawdust or cloth and held closed by string ties, buttons, or other methods. The crotch was often extremely large or gave the idea of an erect penis. The word, codpiece, comes from the Middle English word, cod, which means scrotum.

Another symbol of virility in fashion was a style of shoe called the poulaine. These were long, pointy-toed shoes, that were also meant to suggest the size of the wearer’s penis – the longer point, the more virile the man.

Codpieces and poulaines are frequently seen in the paintings of the Dutch artist, Pieter Breugel. There is a portrait of Henry VIII, one of the great “fashion horses” of the later Middle Ages, wearing both.

So I was done reading that page and saw a popup type alert that said "If you liked this then you might also like "10 Excruciating Medical Treatments from the Middle Ages." Turns out they were right, cuz, yes ... yes I was interested."

Blocked Bladders: Metallic catheters inserted into the bladder

Blockage of urine in the bladder, due to syphilis and other venereal diseases, was fairly common at a time when antibiotics were not available. The urinary catheter – a metal tube inserted through the urethra into the bladder – was first used in the mid-1300s. When a tube could not easily be passed into the bladder to relieve the obstruction, other procedures to enter the bladder were devised, some quite novel, though all probably as painful and dangerous as the condition itself.

Here is a description of the treatment of kidney stones: "If there is a stone in the bladder make sure of it as follows: have a strong person sit on a bench, his feet on a stool; the patient sits on his lap, legs bound to his neck with a bandage, or steadied on the shoulders of the assistants. The physician stands before the patient and inserts two fingers of his right hand into the anus, pressing with his left fist over the patient's pubes. With his fingers engaging the bladder from above, let him work over all of it. If he finds a hard, firm pellet it is a stone in the bladder... If you want to extract the stone, precede it with light diet and fasting for two days beforehand. On the third day, ... locate the stone, bring it to the neck of the bladder; there, at the entrance, with two fingers above the anus incise lengthwise with an instrument and extract the stone." (Photo by: McKinney Collection) 

Yes, that's right ... that's some strong medicine ... and you know damn well all of you hoppage reading this would have had this procedure cuz of the syphilis, sooooo ...

Remember this?

Top 3 myths of capitalism

Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States .

A tidbit of knowledge

So I was flailing around the net this morning and came across this.

San and Santa are used throughout California in place names. (San Francisco / Santa Barbara etc.).

This is quite simply the Spanish term for "Saint". San being Male, Santa for the female saint name.

California was pretty much laid out by missionaries from Spain. Each mission was settled about days ride on horseback from the previous one.

As the missionaries settled a region, they took the book of saints day's out and named each settlement after the saint who's celebration day it was in the catholic faith.

I recall learning (and maybe even blogging) the "San" part at one point but I had forgotten it.

While I'm at it, here's how some of the counties in California got their names:

*MONTEREY
Created 1850. It derived its name from the Bay of Monterey. The word itself is composed of the Spanish words monte and rey, and literally means "king of the forest." The bay was named by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602, in honor of the Conde de Monterey, the Viceroy of New Spain.
 

*NAPA
Created 1850. Named after Napa Valley. The word napa is of Indian derivation and has been variously translated as "grizzly bear," "house," "motherland" or "fish." Of the many explanations of the names's origin, the most plausible seems to be that it is derived from the Patwin word napo meaning house.

*NEVADA
Created 1851. Named after the mining town of Nevada City, a name derived from the term "Sierra Nevada." The word nevada in Spanish means "snowy" or "snowcovered."

*SACRAMENTO
Created 1850. The county was named by Captain Moraga after the Sacramento River. The word Sacramento signifies "Sacrament" or "Lord's Supper."

*SAN FRANCISCO
Created 1850. The sixth mission in California was established here by Padre Junipero Serra on October 9, 1776, and was named Mission San Francisco de Asis a la Laguna de los Dolores (Saint Francis of Assisi at the Lagoon of Sorrows). The mission is now known as "Mission Dolores."

Click here for more California county origins

Heh

Bush made a gaffe during his speech - he's SUCH an idiot

Excerpts from this article at The American Thinker:

At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.

Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.

Such a gaffe would have brought huge amounts of ridicule and derision on George W. Bush, but in the case of Obama the media yawned.

Actually, they did more than yawn; government-funded PBS has altered the transcript of the President's speech, removing the offending comment.

The New York Times transcript has the following quote:

"We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. But in the middle of a civil war, he was also a leader who looked to the future -- a Republican President who mobilized government to build the Transcontinental Railroad -- (applause) -- launch the National Academy of Sciences, set up the first land grant colleges. (Applause.) And leaders of both parties have followed the example he set."

But how does it appear in the PBS transcript?

"We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. But in the middle of a Civil War, he was also a leader who looked to the future - a Republican president who mobilized government to build the transcontinental railroad; launch the National Academy of Sciences; and set up the first land grant colleges. And leaders of both parties have followed the example he set."

Suddenly I don't feel so alone - Thanks, Penn