Monthly Archives: November 2009
What will the Socialist Utopia be like?
The Classic Liberal has a peek, at what might become of America…..
The latest threat to the planet?
Golf balls? Really? Well, if Sister Toldjah says it is so, it is so.
This article is a couple of weeks old but I just came across it and felt it was too good not to share (via Cump):
London, England (CNN) — Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.
The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists — who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster — were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.
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With an increasing number of golf balls discarded each year, the Danish Golf Association devised a number of tests to determine the environmental impact of golf balls on their surroundings.
It was found that during decomposition, the golf balls dissolved to release a high quantity of heavy metals. Dangerous levels of zinc were found in the synthetic rubber filling used in solid core golf balls. When submerged in water, the zinc attached itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna.
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Local government ministers in Scotland have also complained about the level of golf ball littering. UK lawmaker Patrick Harvie told CNN: “From the moon to the bottom of Loch Ness, golf balls are humanity’s signature litter in the most inaccessible locations.”
So THAT is why the Loch Ness Monster is so peeved! Getting hit by golf balls year after year…..
If Nancy Pelosi ever debates TrogloPundit…..
It would be very messy, and a beating of epic proportions. Consider this post by Lance
Pelosi: ‘We’ll Never Have Deficit Reduction Unless We Have Job Creation’
The deficit debate in Washington misses the fundamental point, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday, arguing that the primary objective for policy makers should be job creation — without which, the deficit will explode as tax revenues collapse.
The deficit will explode. Good Lord. The deficit is already $12 trillion. Is it Madame Speaker’s contention that the deficit hasn’t exploded yet?
It just gets better go read it all.
I think we should let Pelosi and Lance trade jobs for fun, see what happens. Lance could be the Speaker of the House, and Nancy could be a blogger, her blog name? Hmmmm
Clueless in Cali?
I was Speaker of the House and all I got was this stupid blog?
The OTHER Pelosi?
Stupid is as I do?
Botox Pundit! YEP sounds right to me!
Angelina Jolie just got hotter!
Allahpundit at Hot Air has the dish here. Jolie thinks Obama is a phony Socialist? If true that would mean she does have the ability to think, an ability she has displayed in the past. And we do know who her father is…..
Way, waaay too good to check. Alternate headline: “Confirmed: Angelina Jolie the perfect woman.”
Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie’s seal of approval.
“She hates him,” a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now).
“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source…
“Angie isn’t Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors,” the source says.
Like the man says, WAY too good to check! Just live the dream
Political Correctness can be a real bitch
Michelle Malkin has a story of PC out of Denver that exposes how dangerous our “sensitivity” has become.
Chilling details are emerging in the local Colorado press about violent black gangs who have been targeting white victims for months:
The Denver Police Department announced today that they have made 32 arrests during a sweep to end a four-month spree of what police said were racially motivated assaults and robberies in downtown Denver, including the LoDo entertainment district.
A task force comprised of the Denver Police, FBI and the Denver District Attorney’s Office investigated 26 incidents in which groups of black males verbally harassed and then assaulted white or Hispanic males, according to Denver Police Chief Gerry Whitman.
Many of the victims were robbed after being assaulted.
Although police knew what was going on, citizens were left in the dark.
More dangerously blind diversity-mongering at work? Fear of litigation or accusations of profiling by the usual mau-mauers?
It would appear that the Denver Police were fearful of being accused of racism here. How nutty is this? It is better to endanger innocent people by NOT giving crucial information, than to possibly offend thuggish gang bangers? God help us regain our common sense!
Something to make your head explode!
No, not literally explode, but I tell you, reading this story, from Michelle Malkin is enough to make you want to scream.
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Michelle calls this the insanity of the day. I am not sure what to call it. It is extremely galling to read that our SEALs, who showe INCREDIBLE restraint, in my view, by not killing this swine, could be in trouble for “abusing” him? There goes my head!
If Ed can do it……….
Then so can I! Reading Ed’s past Thanksgiving column, I decided to post one I wrote in 2003. Hope y’all enjoy it.
Doug Hagin 11-24-03
Thanksgiving! It means so many things. Turkey, giving thanks, turkey, football, more turkey, time spent with family eating turkey, reflecting on the blessings in our lives and of course Maalox moments from all the turkey.
This most American holiday has so many wonderful traditions, yet many people have genuine difficulties during this day. Many of the traditions of Thanksgiving surely must be disturbing to certain Liberals.
Surely this day must cause great offenses to those afflicted with perpetual offendeditis. So before we partake in our feasts let us take a somewhat sarcastic look at what Thanksgiving might mean to some way out Leftists.
First off, naturally, must be the animal rights types who surely suffer great consternation during Thanksgiving. I mean come on! Thanksgiving is much to do with people, whom animal rights types loathe, eating animals, which these same animal rights types love.
Now of course no one with any decency supports cruelty to animals but in the real world the most important jobs turkeys have is to be on the table in time for Thanksgiving. To most people this makes perfect sense. But to a PETA member this is blasphemous!
So every Thanksgiving animal rights types weep and gnash their teeth and curse all of us who eat these birds. While the rest of America is trying to justify that third piece of pecan pie while trying to stay awake for the Cowboys game, the PETA members are munching carrot sticks and crying for their departed turkey brothers. Now is this any way to enjoy a holiday?
Then of course there are the radical feminists who must also surely despise this holiday. Think about your typical stone-faced, perpetually angry, radical feminist and what they must surely suffer on this day.
They must endure women cooking meals. Feminists hate such stereotypical roles for women. The mere thought of women anywhere near a kitchen probably makes most feminists break out in hives.
So remember your favorite feminists as you enjoy your meal. Think of the anguish they must endure when they imagine women in kitchens, maybe even wearing aprons, cooking for their husbands, and families.
Any good feminist will tell you this is no more than slavery and certainly abusive and demeaning to women everywhere. No matter if the women doing the cooking really enjoy it. Feminists know what should offend women. And cooking for men is at the top of that list!
But wait, there is a double whammy for feminists on Thanksgiving. There is also football on TV. And football is a game played by and watched by men. And surely any sport enjoyed by so many men must be offensive to any feminist worth her salt. Not to mention the presence of cheerleaders at football games. More sexism and exploitation there! Pity the feminists on Thanksgiving.
Then there are the atheists who must really be irritated during this day. Not only do they suffer through a day when people are supposed to be thankful to God, who according to atheists does not exist, but also Thanksgiving marks the beginning the Christmas season.
And surely we have learned by now that Hell hath no fury like an atheist who hears the word God! Of course it might seem atheists are simply making too big a deal over their perceived offense.
Honestly it is pretty simple, if they do not believe in God, then why do they get upset when others do? I mean my uncle Earl thinks pro wrestling is real. Does not offend me. If atheists wish to believe there is no such thing as God then fine with me.
But many atheists seem to have been bitten by the offendeditis bug. So whenever they hear the word God, they go off on a tangent. Ranting and raving about separation of church and state, and grave threats to our Republic, sexism, racism, and any other ism they can make up. It is really entertaining if you can stand the hollering.
And the worst part for them is they know the days ahead will mean Christmas carols, manger scenes, Christmas trees, and many other symbols and traditions celebrating the birth of Jesus, who they also do not believe in.
And all the stress these poor, poor, non-believes must endure starts on Thanksgiving! So just imagine the angst they are feeling.
But perhaps there is a solution to all these folks problems. Why not get them all together on Thanksgiving? They can console each other while eating carrot sticks, burning bras, and ranting and raving about separation of church and state.
Anyway at least they would be out of our hair for one day. Heck, they might even see how silly they were being and finally relax. Now this would be yet another thing to be thankful for.
© Doug Hagin
I Was Gonna Write A Thanksgiving Op-Ed This Year…
… but I decided to just re-post the following article that I wrote on the subject back in 2005. What can I say, I’m a lazy bastard.
Tofurkey Or Not Tofurkey, That Is The Question
By Edward L. Daley – 11/24/05
If you go to the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) website you’ll find a link to an article titled ‘Top 10 Reasons Not To Eat Turkeys’ which begins, “Pardon me, pilgrim! This Thanksgiving, how about ditching the dead bird? These beautiful, inquisitive, intelligent birds endure lives of suffering and painful deaths.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen plenty of live turkeys, and believe me, these animals are neither intelligent nor beautiful. In the first place, they have tiny, primitive brains which afford them the attention span of gnats, and a propensity for freaking out at the drop of a hat. Sure, I know a lot of liberals who fit that description too, however, society generally frowns upon hunting them down and blowing their heads off with a shotgun.
But I digress.
As for the assertion that turkeys are beautiful, if a mass of flesh reminiscent of a certain part of the male anatomy dangling from a bird’s face is your idea of attractive, I hear there’s a bootleg adult film for sale on the internet featuring Helen Thomas that might interest you. Of course, that may be just a highly disturbing rumor.
Whatever the case, the article in question goes on to list “10 good reasons to carve out a new tradition by flocking to vegetarian entrees”, noting that none of the recipes for such epicurean delights “require stuffing food up anyone’s behind.” Now, I know what you’re thinking, but I promise you that that last quote has absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned movie… as far as I know.
And isn’t it interesting that the author of the piece decided to use the term “anyone” in reference to wild animals? I don’t care how much love a person has for the various beasts of the world, animals are NOT people, and folks who go around pretending that there’s no difference between us and them are in need of serious, long-term, psychiatric care.
PETA people like to argue that animals are fundamentally the same as human beings, and are, therefore, deserving of the same basic rights that we enjoy, yet when you point out to them that animals mercilessly slaughter each other for food all the time, they then argue that people are not EXACTLY like other animals, and should eat only tofu and brussel sprouts.
Apparently they have embraced the John Kerry method of debate, which is fine as long as you’ve got a billionaire spouse to fall back on after you’ve proved to the world what a complete schmuck you are. If, on the other hand, you are not as lucky as the junior Senator from Massachusetts, it is advisable that you avoid contradicting yourself from one sentence to the next during an argument.
By any means, here are excerpts from the top 10 list of reasons why we shouldn’t eat turkeys, followed by my rebuttals.
1.) “Turkeys are social, playful birds who enjoy the company of others. They relish having their feathers stroked and like to chirp, cluck, and gobble along to their favorite tunes.”
While it’s true that turkeys cluck and gobble when they hear music, one should keep in mind that they also cluck and gobble at virtually everything else, including their own shadows. Beyond that, who really cares how freakin’ playful they are?
2.) “Turkey flesh is brimming with fat. Just one homemade patty of ground, cooked turkey meat contains a whopping 244 mg of cholesterol, and half of its calories come from fat.”
Mmmm… fat…
3.) “Experts are warning that a virulent new strain of bird flu could spread to human beings and kill millions of Americans.”
And when people start dropping dead from eating turkeys, I’ll move on to roast beef.
4.) “The U.S. government is the only government in the Western world that does not have the power to recall contaminated animal products. Instead, American consumers must trust the profit-hungry meat, dairy, and egg industries to decide when recalls are necessary.”
Those profit-hungry companies do a fantastic job of recalling bad meat once they become aware of the problem, primarily because they don’t want their customers to get sick and avoid buying their products.
5.) “Let’s face it: If you’re eating a turkey, that’s a corpse you’ve got there on the table, and if you don’t eat it quickly enough, it will decompose.”
That’s why God made refrigerators and zip-lock bags.
6.) “Dosing turkeys with antibiotics to stimulate their growth and to keep them alive in filthy, disease-ridden conditions that would otherwise kill them poses even more risks for people who eat them.”
Hey, life’s full of risks. You risk destruction every time you get behind the wheel of a car, or vote a Democrat into high political office.
7.) “On factory farms, turkeys live for months in sheds where they are packed so tightly that flapping a wing or stretching a leg is nearly impossible. They stand in waste, and urine and ammonia fumes burn their eyes and lungs.”
Yeah, but I hear they wash them off before packaging them.
8.) “Anyone who has driven by a farm has probably smelled it first from a mile away. Turkeys and other animals raised for food produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire U.S. human population – all without the benefit of waste treatment systems.”
It seems to me that vegetarians could use that manure to fertilize their happy little gardens.
9.) “Killing animals is inherently dangerous work, but the fast line speeds, the dirty, slippery killing floors, and the lack of training make animal-processing plants some of the most dangerous places to work in America today.”
Building skyscrapers and bridges is pretty dangerous work too, but we don’t all live at ground level and use ferryboats to cross rivers.
10.) “Tofurky Roast and UnTurkey, savory soy- and wheat-based roasts with stuffing and gravy or oven-roasted, peppered, hickory-smoked, or cranberry- and stuffing-flavored Tofurky Deli Slices.”
I believe that using the words savory and tofurkey in the same sentence is a class C felony in some states… and if it isn’t, it should be. Suffice it to say that you’ll take my drumstick from my cold, dead hands!
Oh, and happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Obama Approval Rating Plummets
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll For November 24 – Rasmussen Reports
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends).
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 68% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, just 16% Strongly Approve and 51% Strongly Disapprove.
Forty-five percent (45%) want U.S. troops home from Afghanistan either right away or within a year. Forty-three percent (43%) are opposed to such a firm timetable.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters worry that the federal government will do too much when it comes to reacting to the nation’s financial problems. That’s up seven points since President Obama took office.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.
Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve as do 33% of unaffiliated voters. Eighty-three percent (83%) of Republicans disapprove.
Among all voters, 54% now disapprove.
Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent (60%) of voters believe passage of the bill will lead to higher health care costs.
Hey, Look What Leftists Have Done To Detroit!
Unburied Bodies Tell The Tale Of Detroit, A City In Despair – London Times
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.
Some have lain here for years, but in recent months the number of unclaimed bodies has reached a record high. For in this city that once symbolised the American Dream many cannot even afford to bury their dead.
“I have not seen this many unclaimed bodies in 13 years on the job,” said Albert Samuels, chief investigator at the mortuary. “It started happening when the economy went south last year. I have never seen this many people struggling to give people their last resting place.”
Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year — is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the highest median income and home ownership rate in the US is today in the midst of a long and agonising death spiral.
After years of gross mismanagement by the city’s leaders and the big three car manufacturers of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who continued to make vehicles that Americans no longer wanted to buy, Detroit today has an unemployment rate of 28 per cent, higher even than the worst years of the Great Depression.
The murder rate is soaring. The school system is in receivership. The city treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the most basic services such as rubbish collection. In its postwar heyday, when Detroit helped the US to dominate the world’s car market, it had 1.85 million people. Today, just over 900,000 remain. It was once America’s fourth-largest city. Today, it ranks eleventh, and will continue to fall.
Thousands of houses are abandoned, roofs ripped off, windows smashed. Block after block of shopping districts lie boarded up. Former manufacturing plants, such as the giant Fisher body plant that made Buicks and Cadillacs, but which was abandoned in 1991, are rotting.
Even Detroit’s NFL football team, the Lions, are one of the worst in the country. Last season they lost all 16 games. This year they have lost eight, and won just a single game.
Michigan’s Central Station, designed by the same people who gave New York its Grand Central Station, was abandoned 20 years ago. One photographer who produced a series of images for Time magazine said that he often felt, as he moved around parts of Detroit, as though he was in a post-apocalyptic disaster.
Obama reaches decision on Afghanistan
His decision, it seems, after holding meetings, more meetings, and more meetings about the meetings, is this. He has decided to…. make a decision!
President Obama’s ninth and final meeting of his war cabinet has given him the information he needs to make a decision about Afghanistan strategy, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said in an e-mail late tonight.
“After completing a rigorous final meeting, President Obama has the information he wants and needs to make his decision and he will announce that decision within days,” Gibbs said.
National Public Radio reported that the president intends to announce his decision next Tuesday, but a White House official said that no plans had yet been made. A speech was likely, as is the testimony of senior defense officials.
Step one after making the decision will be to brief NATO allies. That hasn’t happened yet. In recent days, though, Obama aides have given reporters a peak at the president’s thinking. They said they expect the commander in chief to approve north of 20,000 additional troops, but that he would probably not ask for all 40,000 requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Afghanistan theater commander, pending the decision of other NATO countries to send more troops of their own.
Now, who says this guy cannot make a firm decision?
Someone call an ambulance
Because Smitty is throttling Rick Moran. And frankly, I am enjoying the smackdown
The Daley Douchebag Award
Via Michelle Malkin, comes Adam Lambert Rolling Stone has the details!
Adam Lambert aimed for the kind of controversy Britney Spears and Madonna are known for generating, completely stunning the audience at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre and the millions watching the American Music Awards live on ABC with a risqué rendition of “For Your Entertainment.” Rolling Stone didn’t label Lambert the Wild Idol for nothing, and Glambert definitely delivered on his promise of a “sexy” performance as he closed the live show with simulated oral sex from a male backup dancer, a brief make-out session with his male keyboardist and a giant mirrored prop so the audience could see the looks on their own shocked faces. Rolling Stone has learned that producers weren’t informed about the guy-on-guy kiss in advance, and after the show, Lambert told RS the musician he kissed is a straight man. Lambert also told RS that if ABC decides to cut any parts of his performance for the West Coast rebroadcast, it would amount to “discrimination.” Read the full story here.
Adam, grow up, and act like a man. If you are Gay, that is your business, but learn to act like you have been in public before, really! And for goodness sake put away the victim card.
Dissent? Not in Minnesota schools!
Hot Air has the unbelievable story.
Katherine Kersten wonders when dissent became so unpatriotic — and when universities began demanding ideological purity as a prerequisite to attaining a degree. The University of Minnesota will apparently demand that its education graduates, the future teachers of Minnesota, confess to their own bigotry if they believe in the American dream of equal opportunity as a means to cleanse the Minnesota education system of cultural biases. It sounds like a page out of communist show trials:
The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U’s flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.
The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the “overarching framework” for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.
The first step toward “cultural competence,” says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize — and confess — their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.
The task group recommends, for example, that prospective teachers be required to prepare an “autoethnography” report. They must describe their own prejudices and stereotypes, question their “cultural” motives for wishing to become teachers, and take a “cultural intelligence” assessment designed to ferret out their latent racism, classism and other “isms.” They “earn points” for “demonstrating the ability to be self-critical.”
Re-educating the educators? Sadly, it has come to this. And here is the kicker!
Future teachers must also recognize and denounce the fundamental injustices at the heart of American society, says the task group. From a historical perspective, they must “understand that … many groups are typically not included” within America’s “celebrated cultural identity,” and that “such exclusion is frequently a result of dissimilarities in power and influence.” In particular, aspiring teachers must be able “to explain how institutional racism works in schools.”
Ed Morrissey makes the painfully obvious point, it is not education, it is indoctrination. Marx would be proud.
Isn’t the point of teaching to actually teach? As in, mathematics, reading, and science? Instead of focusing primarily on educating Minnesota youth, UM wants to indoctrinate teachers into becoming community organizers. After all, what else are we to conclude when the university states that the biggest priorities in elementary education aren’t illiteracy and scientific ignorance but “heteronormativity,” “hegemonic masculinity,” and “internalized oppression”?
God help us. These idiots do not belong anywhere near children!
Greg Gutfeld on NYC terror trial
BRILLIANT! Here is my favorite part
Oh, wait…we all saw this coming. The only people who didn’t? Those who let it happen.
There are three reasons for that:
-One, those people are stupid.
-Two. There’s a belief shared by the “why do they hate us” faction of America that we are equally responsible for the terror attack. If we were just better people – nicer, less successful and less “American” – no one would try to kill us! Replacing Bush with Obama was supposed to help with all that. It didn’t.
-Three, we’ve elected people consumed by the idea of root causes – a pseudo-intellectual exercise that prevents a real understanding of evil actions. Every culprit can tell a story, but by listening to that story, you insult each and every one of his victims. But to abort any argument based on root causes, simply say, “there are plenty of unhappy people who don’t fly planes into buildings.” Of course that’s just too sensible for the best and the brightest.
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