Condi for VP??

America’s first black female secretary of state is quietly positioning herself to be the top choice of the eventual Republican presidential nominee, ready to deliver bona fide foreign-policy credentials lacking among the candidates. The 56-year-old has recently raised her profile, releasing her memoir in November and embarking on a monthlong book tour.

After 2 1/2 years as a professor at Stanford, Miss Rice is reportedly getting “antsy” to get back into the political game. “She’s ready to go,” said one top source.

Ready indeed. She still rises at 5:30 a.m. and runs through a vigorous P90X workout. (Her guns are now a match for those of first lady Michelle Obama.) Sure, she’s been playing a lot of golf, and no doubt banging on the piano (sometimes with cellist Yo-Yo Ma), but she’s clearly ready for more.

Her addition to the ticket, which wouldn’t come until late next summer, would dramatically change the dynamics of the 2012 election. As a black woman - her family has roots in the Deep South stretching back to before Civil War era, and worked as sharecroppers after emancipation - she would mute Democrats’ charges of racism among conservatives, especially tea party members. And her sex would likely prompt moderate women to take a serious look at the Republican ticket. More here:

Ok, the thing that prompted this blog post was the sentence containing "she would mute Democrats’ charges of racism among conservatives, especially tea party members."  

Um, speaking for myself, I couldn't care less what names idiot-libs call me.  They like to call conservatives racists and morons etc ... but really, who cares anymore.  Just sounds like the morose bleating of sheep to me.  They've done it for so long it has become tiresome and weak.

As for my thoughts on Condoleeza Rice, I used to think she was awesome ... until I heard some liberal expressions come out of her.  Of course, she always does it in a thoughtful manner which sometimes puts me off guard ... but I always come to my senses eventually.  Anyway, I'll keep an open mind on her ... but she has something to prove before I'll give my support.  For example, I need to hear her say things like:

"REDUCE THE SIZE/IMPACT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT."

"ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW"
"TORT REFORM"

"REFORM THE RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX TAX CODE"

"BALANCE THE GD BUDGET"

 Is that too much to ask?  Or am I a a racist?  Seriously, ask me if I care about ... wait, I see a sandwich, brb.

New business opportunity

Why didn't the Government think of this?

A friend of mine just started his own business in Afghanistan .
He's making land mines that look like prayer mats.
It's doing well!
He says prophets are going through the roof.

A terrible shame

MIAMI GARDENS (CBS4) – A thief apparently looking to steal copper from equipment on the roof of a Miami-Dade school fell more than two stories, a debilitating plunge that left him unable to walk, apparently with a broken hip or leg.

The hapless Spiderman was captured by security cameras at Charles Wyche Elementary School in Miami Gardens.  He arrives, wearing a ski mask, and begins to arrange ropes he’s carrying for a climb up the outside wall of the school to the roof, more than two stories above.   Moments later a second camera angle shows the man falling to the ground – a drop of more than 25 feet – where he begins to writhe in pain.  The intruder dragged himself out on to a walkway and attempted to stand up, but immediately fell back down.  He then dragged himself on his belly out of the school, pushing a pair of bolt cutters in front of him. More with video here:

Heh, gee, that's too bad.  I hope nothing happened to his teeth in that fall ... you know ... like bashing against cement curbing or something.  Because who cares about little kids needing heating/air conditioning in school ... that's nothing compared to YOUR need for free money, right, jackass?

My only regret is he wasn't killed in the attempt.  We can always hope though.  It's possible he sustained internal injuries and will go ahead and be removed from the earth.

Ye Olde Countdown Clock

I noticed the countdown clock (in the right margin) this morning ... we're now under 400 days until we get rid of the worst presidink in my lifetime.

You can actually buy an Obama Countdown Clock here if you want ... only $10.95.

Mom comes for a visit and meets the "roomate"

Mrs. Ravioli comes to visit her son Anthony for dinner. He lives with a female roommate, Maria.  During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t help but notice how pretty Anthony’s roommate is.  Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Anthony and his roommate than met the eye.

Reading his mom’s thoughts, Anthony volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Maria and I are just roommates.”

About a week later, Maria came to Anthony saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the silver sugar bowl.  You don’t suppose she took it, do you?”

“Well, I doubt it, but I’ll email her, just to be sure.”  So he sat down and wrote an email:

Dear MaMa,

I’m not saying that you “did” take the sugar bowl from my house ; I’m not saying that you “did not” take it.
But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Your Loving Son
Anthony

The next day, Anthony received a response email from his MaMa which read:

Dear son,

I’m not saying that you “do” sleep with Maria, and I’m not saying that you “do not” sleep with her.

But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the sugar bowl by now.

Your Loving MaMa

Found it at Bits and Pieces:

Choose your candidate

Yeah, I kinda knew this already but I'm not convinced Ron Paul can win ... yet.  If I become convinced he can win I'll probably vote for him.  Otherwise, I still haven't made up my mind.  Too bad the media succeeded in "getting" Herman Cain.

If you want to try this gadget you can click here.  Just remember to set the sliders on the left first -- then start answering the questions.

Found it at Ace of Spades Blog:

You'll probably want one of these TV's for Christmas

Don't worry, Obama is here to save the day

A Senate source tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that congressional leaders have worked out a two-month budget deal that includes a fully-funded extension of the payroll tax cut. The deal will also require the Obama administration to decide within 60 days on whether or not it will approve construction of the Keystone oil pipeline. President Obama has threatened to veto any deal that includes the Keystone pipeline provision. From here:

You know, you really have to wonder why Democratics vote AGAINST each and every item that has to do with Americans getting cheaper oil ... and vote FOR each and every item that raises the cost of our oil.  In this case, Obama's veto also means that 20,000 people won't be getting jobs ... good paying jobs.

I guess the Democratics don't care that you have other things to do with your money rather than pour it into your gas tank.  No, they want to teach you a damn lesson.  What's the lesson?  I don't know but they are going to teach it to you come hell or high water.  What's that?  You don't like it?  Tough shit, jackass, keep voting for Democratics.

It's about time you GD idiots

Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.

That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown.

Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete. More here:

How about that ... the conservatives had to fight the "Democratics" for your freedom ... again ... only this time, they won.  I have a feeling people have had about enough of the job-killing morons in the EPA and elsewhere in the government.

Neil Cavuto pwns OWS genius.

I'm not sure what it is about black framed glasses among hipsters but half the time, they don't even have lenses and the other half, they only have plain glass in the frames. I guess those doofuses have convinced themselves that wearing glasses makes you seem smarter. That's about like thinking that walking past a library makes you seem learned.

Libs have trouble getting anything right.

This is the first paragraph in an article about Christopher Hitchens' recent demise. I don't agree with what Christopher Hitchens believes but I've read his book God is not Great. I found his assertions to be fraught with the angst of a young teenager just aching for some guidance from anybody. Somehow though, his disdain and anger have done as much to reinforce my faith in God than any other publication I've recently read.

What I find most disturbing about this first paragraph though is the first sentence wherein the author falls into the classic trap of telephone where if you hear something misquoted enough times, you feel convinced that it's the actual and original quotation.

For those who (somehow) don't know, the correct quotation is "Whatever hurts you but doesn't kill you makes you stronger." That's a big difference if you ask me.

Reviewing familiar principles and maxims in the face of mortal illness, Christopher Hitchens has found one of them increasingly ridiculous: “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Oh, really? Take the case of the philosopher to whom that line is usually attributed, Friedrich Nietzsche, who lost his mind to what was probably syphilis. Or America’s homegrown philosopher Sidney Hook, who survived a stroke and wished he hadn’t. Or, indeed, the author, viciously weakened by the very medicine that is keeping him alive.

Full article HERE.

Heh - It's ON now

 

Yes, I'm fat enough for these to work.  I can't wait to get mine and start with attracting the babes.  Whichever one drools the most will be allowed one shot at the Klown.

Hey, Wombat - FYI, they come in XXXL too soooo ....

Those damn conservatives

You may have missed this

h/t wombat the great

Lib jourrrrnalist (redundant) waxes indignant

Horror as woman is stabbed to death 'by her husband' in Walmart - and the store stays OPEN as officers investigate bloody crime scene

A South Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, who was fatally stabbed inside a Greenville County Walmart this weekend. 

But as shoppers looked on in horror, store management roped off the area for homicide investigators and continued to operate as usual. 

Avery L Blandin, 46, is accused of killing Lilia Blandin, 38, who worked at the Woodforest Bank inside the discount retail store in Berea. 

Ok, this is a sad story with a couple of hysterical parts.  The first one being this "objective jourrrrrnalist" ensures that you are HORRIFIED that Walmart stayed open.

That's right, never mind a bloody murder has taken place, the true "crime" is Walmart staying open to take care of customers and employees.  Of course, for libs, duty number one is to hate Walmart with all your being.

I guess the idiot lib self-proclaimed genius jourrrrnalist thinks everything would be better if Walmart had closed.  Yes, that would fix everything.  That cracks me up about libs ... they simply MUST "do something" (in this case, close the store) even when their actions contribute nothing, and are, in fact, harmful to other people.  The libs pretend their violent flailings actions mean something but, in reality, they don't.

This moron jourrrrrnalist wanted them to close the store -- and he grabbed himself a whole pantload of indignance over the fact they didn't.  Libs are good about being indignant, aren't they? And it never takes them long either ... let's just say you don't want to drop a hat around them. 

I'm guessing his "reasoning" (such as it is, with libs)  would be "close the store out of respect ..." but libs never take into account how much that would cost ... because cost is never, and I mean NEVER, an issue with idiots libs.  What about the employees?  They're supposed to take a pay cut?  How does THAT help anyone? 

Also, what about the other customers?  If other people came to Walmart and found the store closed, does their inconvenience somehow set things right?  Idiot.

Ok, here's the second hysterical part.  This guy, Mr Tallent, sees the stabbing and he gets involved.

Shopper Phillip Tallent told local station WYFF4 he was looking for Christmas lights

with his family when the horrifying scene unfolded, and he intervened.

Mr Tallent said "When I looked, I could see a couple of stabbing motions, and I really started to run towards the front (of the store)."

He continued: 'I seen it when (the man) was making a stomping motion at (Lilia Blandin) across her chest and neck area. I picked up the chair and I hit him.'

Heh, he must watch rasslin' on TV.

Mr Tallent said a man deputies identified as Avery Blandin ran towards the door with several witnesses failing in attempts to stop him. 

He said the man fled the scene after pulling out a second knife. 

'That's when I let him go because I already seen what he did with the first one, so I wasn't going to get involved with the next one,' Mr Tallent said. 

Well then, so much for "None shall pass," eh, Mr Tallent? Just kidding ... please note I'm not denigrating Mr Tallent here.  I think he had great courage to intervene and it's probably a smart move to get out of the way when you're in a fight with a crazed murderer and he has a knife and you don't ... you know .. but that's just me, you judge for yourself.  The funny part is the guy's honesty.  I'm guessing Mr Tallent isn't a lib.

Ok, you can read the rest, see pics of the perpetrator and victim, view videos etc here.

You mean they CAN'T predict hurricanes? What a shocker.

So I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today and he mentioned something which I'm sure you'll find very interesting. Turns out the people forecasting hurricanes have said their work is in vain.

RUSH: Let's go back to June 2nd, 2003, June 2nd, 2003. This is me on this program.

RUSH ARCHIVE: These hurricane forecast guys -- who do not know what they're talking about. I mean, there is literally -- my friends, there's no way you can know how many hurricanes are gonna have, there's no way you can know other than seasonal averages how many big ones, and there's no way you can know where they're gonna hit and all that. But yet they've come out with their forecast: And this is going to be the worst hurricane season in many decades.

RUSH: Every year. Every year. First it's University of Colorado William Gray, and then NASA comes out with their forecast, and then Accuweather comes out with theirs. I mean, they all do -- and you know what? These are taken seriously. I remember one year, and this is not that long ago, one year -- it was not a hurricane forecast, it was an El Nino forecast -- some bunch put out a forecast that the Florida winter was going to be 20 degrees below normal. People from Europe and northern climates began canceling their seasonal hotel revelations because of this forecast, and the forecast was made in September, October that El Nino was gonna cause a bitterly cold south Florida winter. And it was all bogus. Well, "Two top US hurricane forecasters, revered like rock stars in Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice because it doesn't work. William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say a look back shows their past 20 years of forecasts had no value. The two scientists from Colorado State University will still discuss different probabilities as hurricane seasons approach -- a much more cautious approach. But the shift signals how far humans are, even with supercomputers, from truly knowing what our weather will do next."

Forecasts had no value.

Now, I first saw this reported in the Ottawa Citizen in Canada. These two scientists, William Gray and Phil Klotzbach, released this statement six days ago, and we just hear about it today. They release their statement on December 7th. So far, not one United States mainstream news outlet has bother to do pick up the story. Apparently the public doesn't have the need or the right to know about such things. Folks, do you know how many people went out and bought insurance policies based on these forecasts? Do you know how much money was spent to protect from upcoming hurricanes or to prepare for or to insure against or whatever? And, by the way, I like Bill Gray. I don't want to be misunderstood here. I think this takes guts to do this. I would expect next somebody in the global warming community is going to say the same thing, that their research over the last 20 years has shown that it has no value, that it is worthless, that we don't know what we're talking about. Bill Gray, to his credit, has constantly said, "Global warming has nothing to do with hurricanes. It has nothing to do with their formation, it has nothing to do with their intense, it has nothing to do with their volume, it has nothing to do with anything." But now 20 years, 20 years, they went back and looked 20 years of forecasting has been found to have zilch value. Rush's site:

The most interesting thing about this is the lack of coverage in the media.  Isn't that funny?  Yes, I figured you'd find it hysterical.  I guess they just overlooked this fact.

Some of my best friends are Black (in a non-ironic way).

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: “I don’t bother you - don’t bother me”.”

- Yohji Yamamoto

Tsk, "Objective jourrrrrnalist" "accidentally" leaves out a fact

Yes, this totally objective jourrrrnalist left out a certain fact.  See if you can guess what it is.  Don't be ashamed if you can't guess because 99.9% of people would NEVER think of it.  That's right, only the top, TOP geniuses of the world would be able to deduce what might possibly be missing from this story.

And that's how objective jourrrrnalists everywhere "get away with it."  I mean, if they didn't "get away with it" their ratings would be going in the toilet and their news organizations would be going broke left and right.  Ha ha ... yes ... I see you capisky my implications.

Condo Owners Miffed By Removal Of Virgin Mary Statue

ROBINSON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — The Vasko home is full of religious icons. Some of them have seasonal significance and some don’t, but all of them are inside the home for now.

“I had a Blessed Mother statue sitting out here,” Steven Vasko said.

He placed the statue just below the window of his family’s Robinson Township condominium.
“Yeah it was taken,” Vasko said. “The association – they stole it.”

He’s kind of right. The homeowners association did have someone remove the 150-pound cement statue from the spot.

The association says its common ground. No one is allowed to have anything on common ground so the statue had to go.

To get the statue back, Vasko will have to open his wallet.

“I have to pay a fine,” he said. “Would that be extortion or kidnapping? You tell me, I don’t know.”

Well, the story continues but you know enough now to wonder "what about the mysterious missing fact?"  It never surfaces.  The thing is, this hardly EVER happens.  Jourrrrrnalists hardly EVER leave out important parts of a story like this ... this is very rare indeed.  Ha ha ... I see you are keeping up.  You can read the rest here if you care.

The important things in life

Tu Holloway

So there was a basketball game ... oh yes, between "rivals" (Xavier vs Cincinnati.)   And, there was a "game-ending brawl" (as is so often the case with these geniuses from institutions of higher learning.)  But that isn't the important part ... the important part is the story WITHIN the story. Here's some excerpts from the article.

An ugly brawl erupted with 9.4 seconds left in the game. Benches cleared, fists flew.Xavier's senior

All-America guard Tu Holloway readily admitted afterward that he was taunting Cincinnati players and coaches in front of Cincinnati's bench, as the clock wound down.

"We're grown men over here,'' Holloway explained. "We got a whole bunch of gangsters in the locker room. Not thugs, but tough guys on the court.'' When asked why he taunted the Cincinnati bench and thus had a big hand in inciting the fracas, Holloway said he had been "disrespected.''

"This is my city,'' Holloway explained. "I'm cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team is like me. We got disrespected. Maybe it looked bad to you (media), but this is what I'm used to. This is where I'm from. This wasn't bad.''

Holloway is from Hempstead, on Long Island, but enjoys talking about his days playing summer-league ball in New York. 

Ok, three things ... 1 - "Rivals" .... 2 - "Where I'm from" ... 3 - "I was disrespected."

And let me say at the outset, I'm not hammering Tu Holloway here ... just the concepts I'm mentioning.  He just happened to bring them to my attention this time. I've noticed them myriad times before but never said anything.

First of all -- "Sports Rivals."

Please ... who cares.  Somehow people have convinced themselves that the only good sporting event is between "rivals."  Gotta love that mentality, don't you?  Every knucklehead with a keyboard team's public relations coordinator tries to invent new "rivalries" so they can attract more enthusiasm  make more money.  And I'm not really criticizing that ... I'm actually making fun of the dupe-niks who buy into it pointing out that it works.

So ... soon they will overdo themselves and make every single game a "rivalry."  Sort of like idiot libs who went from "save the historical landmark building" to "save the forest" to "save the oceans" to "save the planet" ... get my drift? And it's the same thing, they do it because they think it attracts attention ... and attention sells.  The big libs in charge make money while they work the lowly libs ... the lowly ones that want so desperately for people to think they're "smart." The lowly libs who will do anything (demonstrations, encampments, etc etc) for a glimmer of that recognition from their heroes.  But I digress.

Second -- "Where I'm from."

People are proud of where they're from ... that's right ... and this guy is from Long Island.  Yes, yes, I hear things like this all the time.  "Well, I'm from _____, and we don't do it that way" (with attitude) ... implying that "being from _____" somehow imbues them with ... ermmm "something."  Anyway, hey ... asshat, who cares where you're from?(Unless you have some really fantastic/obscure sandwich there ... in which case, please continue.)

Third -- "Disrespect"

The absolute worst thing in the entire world is to be "disrespected."  Did you know that?  No?  Well, you need to get up to date then because I'll bet peeps are taking advantage of your naivete and are disrespecting you left and right  ... and here you are ... totally unaffected because of your ignorance ... when all along you could have had yourself a nice healthy dose of "indignant" ... and perhaps even gotten all stabby about it.

Just remember, once you know you're supposed to be insulted, then you are aware that others know too ... and there's no way to recover without revenge ... REVENNNNNNNNGE!!!! The reason for this is your entire image is at risk ... and your image (what others think of you) is the most important thing on earth, right?

The thing is, the place(s) where this whole concept is most common is in prisons/gangs ... at least that's my perception.  Nobody with a half  a brain I know gives a damn whether someone is "disrespecting" him/her ... ESPECIALLY if the one doing all the disrespecting is an idiot.  'Course, that's just my experience, I could be wrong ... you know ... considering "where I'm from" and how people from that area are backwards, inept,  and constantly wrong about things.  Hey, you want some respect out of me?  Pay some of my bills, otherwise, pipe down, doofus.

And one last observation ... why are colleges letting idiots in? Is it worth it?  I mean, I could understand if they were doing their jobs and educating these people but they aren't.

Do you think their reputations (such as they are) are served by allowing these people in?  Do you think their reputations are already so shot it no longer matters ... because that's my thinking.  I mean, these people are being awarded college degrees. I see them everywhere in the media ... with heavy accents ... using words like "axe" for "ask" and so forth. I don't even bother to roll my eyes anymore.

The essense of the Occupy movement.

And really, of all Liberal protests.

The Occupy formula pared down to its essence:

1. Put yourself in a position to be harmed.
2. Beg/dare people/police to harm you.
3. Upload every tiny reaction to You Tube and scream brutality.
4. Repeat from step 1 while claiming America is a police state…or something.

Full article with video HERE.