Well I see far fewer faces in the audience this morning. Now doubt many people are staying up late watching the Olympics which in turns cuts into their morning coffee time when they elect to hit that old snooze button two or three times because they were up so late the night before.

We here at DL-LL Electronic Media Enterprises are even getting into the Olympic coverage by covering the results of a barely known event later on in the issue for you.

SO before the rest of you doze off or think about checking your Olympics Coverage App for the results of  the marathon standing in line for tickets event lets get this ball rolling shall we? 

Under the Table

A man and a beautiful woman were having dinner in a fine restaurant. Their waitress (taking another order at a table a few paces away) suddenly noticed that the man was slowing sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman acted unconcerned.

The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table until he was completely covered by the tablecloth.

Still, the woman dining across from him appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware that her dining companion had disappeared.

After the waitress finished taking the order, she came over to the table and said to the woman, “Pardon me, ma’am, but I think your husband just slid under the table.”

“Oh, but I’m not his wife,” the woman said, still perfectly calm. “His wife just walked in the door.”

40 Weird Facts About The United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

http://www.yolohub.com/economy/40-weird-facts-about-the-united-states-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe  July 12, 2012

 

In case you hadn’t noticed, the United States is a really weird place.  Not that “weird” is always bad.  Sometimes “weird” can keep life interesting.  But without a doubt, the United States is one of the most unique nations in the history of the world.  Some of the weird facts about the United States listed below may be difficult for you to believe.  Others are likely to completely shock you.  Hopefully there is a little something for everyone in this article. In general, everything tends to be larger in America.  The people are larger, the cars are larger, the divorce rate is the highest on the planet and the U.S. government has piled up the largest debt in the history of the world.  Whether America does something good or bad, it usually does it in a very “big” way.  It is easy to love the United States and all the good that it has done, but it is also easy to be horrified by how far this nation has fallen and by the direction that this country is currently headed.  So where does America go from here?  That is a very good question.

The following are 40 weird facts about the United States that are almost too crazy to believe….

#1 The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet (115 yards) above sea level.

#2 Today, 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight.

#3 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island is.  But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.

#4 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.

#5 Approximately 48 percent of all Americans are currently either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.

#7 In the UK, an average of about $3,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.  In the United States, an average of about $8,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.

#8 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

#9 The average U.S. citizen drinks the equivalent of more than 600 sodaseach year.

#10 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.

#11 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people.  Japan only has 593 for every 1,000 people and Germany only has 540 for every 1,000 people.

#12 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California.  But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

#13 For many years it was the other way around, but today a majority of all Americans (including Pat Robertson) actually support the legalization of marijuana.

#14 Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

#15 In the middle of the last century, the United States was #1 in the world in GDP per capita.  Today, the United States is #13 in GDP per capita.

#16 Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.

#17 One survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit pornography websites while they are at work.

#18 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times largerthan it was back in 1985.

#19 One out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#20 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles large.  It is actually bigger than the entire state of Delaware.

#21 The United States puts a higher percentage of its population in prisonthan any other nation on earth does.

#22 There are more unemployed workers in the United States than there are people living in the entire nation of Greece.

#23 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.

#24 Sadly, more than 52 percent of all children that live in Cleveland, Ohio are living in poverty.

#25 The median price of a home in the city of Detroit is now about $6000.

#26 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

#27 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.

#28 According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, approximately 167,000 Americans have more than $200,000 of student loan debt.

#29 There are three towns in the United States that have the name “Santa Claus“.

#30 There are 313 million people living in the United States.  46 million of them are on food stamps.

#31 In the United States as a whole, one out of every four children is on food stamps.

#32 In 1940, 68.0% of all women in the 20 to 34 year old age group in the United States were married.  In 2010, only 39.2% of women in that age group were married.

#33 The United States has a teen pregnancy rate of 22 percent – the highest in the world.  New Zealand is number two at 14 percent.

#34 According to the CDC, there are 19 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States every single year.

#35 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.  Puerto Rico is number two.  Perhaps Puerto Rico really would fit in as the 51st state.

#36 More people have been diagnosed with mental disorders in the United States than in any other nation on earth.

#37 The United States has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain.

#38 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.

#39 The U.S. national debt is now more than 22 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.

#40 It took from the founding of the nation until 1981 for the U.S. national debt to cross the one trillion dollar mark.  Today, our national debt is well over 15 trillion dollars and we add more than a trillion dollars to our debt every single year.

 

 

Missed Opportunity

I was sitting at a long stoplight yesterday, minding my own business, patiently waiting for it to turn green even though there was no on-coming traffic..

A carload of bearded, young, loud Muslims, shouting anti-American slogans, with a half- burned American Flag duct taped on the trunk of their car and a “Remember 9-11” slogan spray painted on the side, was stopped next to me.

Suddenly they yelled, “Allahu akbar!” and took off before the light changed. Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler came speeding through the intersection and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone in it.

For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself, “Man…that could have been me!”

S0 today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver.

Lets not bother judging him at all- other than as seriously wanting as a President and just get rid of him!

 

 

FTC Wants Consumers To Be Able To Block ALL Third-Party Charges On Cell Phones

July 23, 2012 By FTC

In response to a request by the Federal Communications Commission for comment, the Federal Trade Commission said that the “cramming” of unauthorized charges on wireless phone bills poses a serious problem for American consumers. The FTC said in its comment that wireless providers should be required to give customers the option to block all third-party charges from their bills.

The FTC has extensive experience protecting consumers against the cramming of unauthorized charges on their landline telephone bills through aggressive law enforcement actions, and has advocated for reforms to eliminate landline cramming.  With regard to wireless cramming, the comment notes, in the past few years the FTC and FCC have reviewed thousands of complaints about unauthorized third-party charges on wireless bills.  The number of reported complaints undoubtedly understates the full extent of wireless cramming by a substantial amount.

“Mobile cramming is likely to continue to grow as cramming schemes expand beyond the landline platform and mobile phones are more commonly used for payments,” the comment states.

Many of the complaints involve recurring charges of just under $10 a month for “premium services” that provide trivia or horoscope information by text message to a consumer’s phone, the comment states.  Consumers often report receiving a text message informing them of a subscription to a service of which they have never heard and that they never requested.

You can read the rest of the article here: http://ctwatchdog.com/finance/ftc-wants-consumers-to-be-able-to-block-all-third-party-charges-on-cell-phones if you are so inclined. For the sake of brevity we’ll just skip here to the other important part of the article:

The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC’s online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC’s website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics.  Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.

 

It’s summer time which means vacation time which means trips away from home and staying on hotels, motels and what ever else have yous where most people will joyfully avail themselves of free WiFi to stay connected to their friends & family etc. While you are doing just that, unless you are very careful hackers will be as joyfully availing themselves of access to your computer as well.

Think I’m just crying wolf? Ask Impish, he was the one that got me started on this posting as he was complaining about being signed in to 2 different public WiFi systems on his recent business jaunt and the amount of malware he was removing on a daily basis!

Crooks Prey on Hotel Internet Connections

May 10th, 2012 by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

If you’ve ever taken a laptop on a work trip, here’s some troubling news: The FBI and national cybercrime agencies are warning people traveling abroad to be wary of shady scammers planting malware via insecure hotel Internet connections.

In an advisory issued yesterday (May 8), the Internet Crime Complaint Center(IC3) notes that malware perpetrators are masking their cybercrime weapons as popup software updates travelers see when setting up their Internet connections. (The IC3 is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, and funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.)

“The popup window appeared to be offering a routine update to a legitimate software product for which updates are frequently available,” the IC3 explained. “If the user clicked to accept and install the update, malicious software was installed on the laptop.”

To mitigate the threat of contracting a harmful virus on your personal computer, or your company laptop, the FBI recommends that “all government, private industry and academic personnel who travel abroad take extra caution before updating software on their hotel Internet connection.”

The FBI advises travelers to perform software updates immediately before traveling, and to download software updates only from vendors’ websites.

 

Now THAT is something best saved for Halloween!

Something a little different today, instead of encouraging you to sit at your computer and waste time this time waster shows you how to get out and about and waste up to an entire day in your local area! Radical idea I know but every once in a while you just got to get out of your hermit’s cave for a few hours ( in Impish’s case so they can sanitize it and keep the smell down)

Cool city guide

Do you want to be at the epicenter of culture? There are plenty of vibrant cities around the globe, but some of them are in a league of their own.

Similarly, there are more city guides than there are cities, but a few stand apart. Unlike is an online city guide dedicated to collecting only the best locales in only the coolest cities.

You’ll find in-depth reviews and recommendations for museums, restaurants, nightlife and more in 18 of the planet’s hippest places. You’ll find local favorites, famous hotspots and under-the-radar hangouts.

Each city also has guides for how to fill out a day around town. Whether you’re looking for a relaxing day of shopping or a wild night of partying, Unlike has your ticket.

http://unlike.net/

 

Police work must be entertaining as well as dangerous.

Recently, a female police officer arrested Patrick Lawrence, 22 year old white male, fornicating with a pumpkin in the middle of the night.

The next day, Lawrence was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, public indecency and public intoxication.

The suspect explained that as he was passing a pumpkin patch on his way home from a drinking session when he decided to stop, ‘You know how a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around for miles or at least I thought there wasn’t anyone around’ he stated.

Lawrence went on to say that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purpose, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his pressing need. ‘Guess I was really into it, you know?’ he commented with evident embarrassment.

In the process of doing the deed, Lawrence failed to notice an approaching police car and was unaware of his audience until Officer Brenda Taylor approached him.

‘It was an unusual situation, that’s for sure,’ said Officer Taylor. ‘I walked up to Lawrence and he’s just banging away at this pumpkin.’

Officer Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Lawrence ..

‘I said: ‘Excuse me sir, but do you realize that you’re having sex with a pumpkin??’

He froze and was clearly very surprised that I was there, and then he looked me straight in the face and said: ‘A pumpkin? Shit … Is it midnight already?’

The Washington Post wrote an article describing this as ‘Best come-back line ever.’

 

Most seniors, as well as younger folks, might be interested in this site…
I accidentally found this porn site (after looking half the night).
I feel that you’re old enough and mature enough to handle this.
Check it out, you will not be disappointed, but one must be patient as we all have learned throughout our sex lives…

Click on:

http://mr-desi.com/fun_pages/freeporn.html

 

1. Thou shalt give top priority to those who are with you.

Listen intently when you are with friends, family members and coworkers. When you constantly check messages, you send the message that other people and things are more important to you.

2. Thou shalt not be distracted.

For safety’s sake, don’t text or engage in voice calls while driving. For the same reason, don’t let texting or voice calls distract you while walking in busy public spaces. Texting-while-walking mishaps have become such a serious problem that cities are starting to issue tickets.

3.  Do not shout on the sidewalk.

It’s OK to take a call when you’re on the street. But try to keep your voice down. If you have to shout to be heard above the background noise, you should call back later.

4. Thou shalt not make private matters public.

Don’t discuss private matters in public. Remember never to text anything that is private, confidential or potentially embarrassing. Messages can be forwarded and shared with hundreds of others in seconds – and often are.

5. Do unto others as briefly as possible.

Remember that you have a captive, unsympathetic audience when you’re in a carpool or using public transportation. Only make or take a call if it’s essential. And when you absolutely must talk, keep the call short.

6. Learn how to turn that thing completely off as soon as you get it out of the box.

Then please do turn it off whenever you are in a church, a restaurant, a library, at a movie, concert, at a play – and even in a meeting.

7. Use headphones correctly.

Use headphones whenever playing games or watching videos. Get a pair of snug-fitting headphones – and wear them. There’s nothing worse than hearing sound spilling from loose-fitting earbuds. And it’s basic good manners to remove your headphones when someone is trying to speak to you.

8. Do not cause light pollution.

Lighting up a darkened environment, such as a train at night, with your jumbo tablet screen is inconsiderate. Others usually don’t really care if you ask nicely first. When in public, turn screen brightness down as a courtesy.

9. Share only with permission.

Sharing pictures of current locations is a great way to update friends and family members. Don’t take photos of strangers, however, without permission – and never post pictures of strangers on social media sites.

10. Exercise good taste.

Keep the content on your screen at a General Audiences level. Don’t call up risqué videos, photos and websites in public areas.

 

Get your very own downloadable & printable .pdf copy in 2 sizes here: http://www.komando.com/mobilemanners/

A Lethal and Impish are on vacation in the North woods.

The Lethal says, “ Have you read Marx?” 

Impish answers, “ Yes. I think it’s because of these whicker chairs.”

Diaman MIGHT be the “Pun Queen” but I’m still the King, even Impish groaned in pain when her heard these 2!

 

 

A story I told Tony about Impish and I playing a round of Golf was obviously the inspiration for this cartoon. In my version though it was an inbound flight of Dragons after they had alleged spent the night binging on Black Bean Burritos.

 

Must I really label which of us is which in this caricature of Impish and I?

 

Too, To, Two Dumb

TV station WNDU in South Bend, Indiana, reported on a new study of U.S. schools. Are classes too easy? Here’s how they reported it on-air:

As the anchor reported the story on 11 July 2012, the on-screen caption noted:

‘SCHOOL TWO EASY FOR KIDS’

Apparently station employees are victims of the same school system.

 

 

 

 [Yes, its a real actual honest to God buy it over the counter legal shot gun. That is the KSG (Kel-Tec Shotgun) by Kel-Tec. Yes, I have one on order. They are a bit pricey and right now hard to get (long lead time) but it offers several superior features in both a home defense as well as ‘End of Days’ weapon that are making me replace my Remington Model 870 Special Purpose Marine Magnum 12 Ga. with it. Things like it holding 12- 3” magnum shells in its selectable dual tube magazines & its downward ejection of spent shells.  See more on it here: http://www.gunsandammo.com/2012/04/19/enough-gun-for-zombies-kel-tec-ksg-tactical-pump-shotgun/ and http://www.keltecweapons.com/our-guns/shotguns/ksg/ ]

And that’s the God’s honest truth of the matter. IN FACT, if there was a third viable option, other than the two morons running at present, I probably would not be voting for Romney myself. Let’s face it the American voter is yet once again faced with the prospect of a ‘Dumb & Dumber ‘ situation with regard the the Presidential race and having to determine which is the lesser of the two evils we are faced with the prospect of having in the White House for the next 4 years.

Today were not talking reasons why you should elect Romney, but rather reasons why we should elect ANYONE other than Obama. I think I will be presenting some reason that should even make some of the more moderate liberals rethink their positions.

Only 3 Times..

In all the years since D-Day 1945, there are three occasions when a president failed to go to the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion.

Only Three Times.

The occasions were:

1. Barack Obama 2010
2. Barack Obama 2011
3. Barack Obama 2012

For the past 68 years, all presidents, their Commander in Chief, except Obama, have paid tribute to the fallen soldiers killed on D-Day. This year, instead of honoring the soldiers, he made a campaign trip on Air Force One to California to raise funds for the upcoming election.

Now I know that this ‘pulled the pin’ on temper of a LOT of military veteran and currently serving personnel mine included. I in fact have seen some fairly profane (and linguistically creative) responses posted on many military boards with regards to this issue. This is to say nothing of the subject of his absence from Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, another grave insult and serious sore spot with veterans and the families of veterans.

In my personal opinion the following is the best response covering the issue (even though it addresses only one of the incidents) by far and its not even profane or angry! It amazing that something with no vulgarity can be one of the most insulting and powerful messages to Obama that I have seen to date.

NOT RACIST…NOT VIOLENT…JUST NOT SILENT ANY MORE!

KEEP This One Going! Send it to all your friends.

And now…a word for all you religious types of the Christian persuasion out there regarding the President and his respect for you and the Bible (which can be argued is the American rough equivalent of the Koran)

I received this from reader K-Squared who noted “I have not checked each fact myself.” when I went to spot check the fact I was able to locate the original article from which the –mail was excerpted (citing sources in those little numbered hyperlinks after each statement)

Barton Calls Obama ‘America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U.S. President’

Is President Barack Obama America’s most “Biblically-hostile U.S. president?” This is the label that conservative historian David Barton has given Obama, as the nation continues its debate over the president’s controversial contraceptive mandate.

But for Barton, the situation transcends the current discussion about religious freedom and the Catholic Church, as the frequent guest on Glenn Beck’s radio and television shows develops his provocative argument in detail. He writes:

When one observes President Obama’s unwillingness to accommodate America’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out Catholics, he has equally targeted traditional Protestant beliefs over the past four years. So since he has attacked Catholics and Protestants, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Christian. But that, too, would be inaccurate. He has been equally disrespectful in his appalling treatment of religious Jews in general and Israel in particular. So perhaps the most accurate description of his antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor. In fact, there have been numerous clearly documented times when his pro-Islam positions have been the cause of his anti-Biblical actions.

Listed below in chronological order are

(1) numerous records of his attacks on Biblical persons or organizations;

(2) examples of the hostility toward Biblical faith that have become evident in the past three years in the Obama-led military;

(3) a listing of his open attacks on Biblical values; and finally

(4) a listing of numerous incidents of his preferential deference for Islam’s activities and positions, including letting his Islamic advisors guide and influence his hostility toward people of Biblical faith.

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

• April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”¹
• February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011.²
• April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered when he is making his speech. ³
• May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. ⁴
• April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. ⁵
• October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. ⁶
• November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, substituting “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law.⁷
• January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.⁸
• February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. ⁹
• April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. ¹⁰
• August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception.¹¹
• November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. ¹²
• November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.¹³
• December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. ¹⁴
• January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. ¹⁵
• February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. ¹⁶

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

• June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. ¹⁷
• August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). ¹⁸
• September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. ¹⁹
• September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that“No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” ²⁰
• November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. ²¹
• November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans. ²²
• February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. ²³
• February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).²⁴
• February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.²⁵

3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:

• January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.²⁶
• January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. ²⁷
• March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. ²⁸
• March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. ²⁹
• March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.³⁰
• May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions.³¹ He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. ³²
• May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities. ³³
• July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ³⁴
• September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.” ³⁵
• July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. ³⁶
• August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs.³⁷
• September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decisionstriking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.³⁸
• February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.³⁹
• March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.⁴⁰
• July 2011 – Obama, against advice from senior officers, allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778.⁴¹
• September 2011 – The Pentagon, against advice from senior officers, directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ⁴²
• October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.⁴³

4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

• May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan ( a Islamic Holy Month). ⁴⁴
• April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. ⁴⁵
• April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabularyto remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. ⁴⁶
• August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. ⁴⁷
• August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. ⁴⁸
• 2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. ⁴⁹
• October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House. ⁵⁰
• February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, ⁵¹but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do.⁵²

Many of these actions are unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president. If he has penalized Christians this much in 3/4th of his first term, just imagine how much further he will be able to turn toward Islam if he is allowed another term.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/barton-calls-obama-americas-most-biblically-hostile-u-s-president/

This needs to be sent to every God-fearing person you know.

So lets sum up shall we? It’s already a given that Obama has no respect or regard for the Constitution from previous documentable actions on his part. The 85% of people who are against Obamacare shows that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what “We the People” are telling him.

He apparently also has no respect for the Armed Forces he is in command of and no problem with taking credit for their heroic and brave actions ( the killing of Osama bin Laden comes to mind)

Finally is has quietly but insistently been giving the finger to the entire American Christian population and it’s inherent values upon which the founding fathers based this country.

I can understand why the serving Military has kept quiet about this, they have to, both because regulations under the UCMJ require it and because any talk about support for a challenger to his position could be interpreted as a prelude to a coup d’etat.

Veterans have had a decent track record of challenging Obama’s Administration on their liberal disrespect of Vets as it relates to religious rights but the liberal lame-o media see that this doesn’t get much air time outside the local area where the offense is occurring. If it does manage national attention they seem to do their level best to downplay it and then kill it from the news cycle as fast as possible.

The thing that I really want to know is why the Catholic Church is not screaming fire and brimstone laden condemnation from the pulpit every Sunday about how we need to be rid of this Demonic Liberal Anti Christ! Seriously folks, no kidding here.

The only respect they usually have for “separation of church and state” is a one way street revolving around the government trying to tell them they have to do anything the rest of the employers in the US have to do and avoiding being taxed as a corporation. When it comes to attempting to regulate you and my life according to their religious beliefs they have no compunction about trampling that separation as much and as often as it suits them. So why then are they so deafeningly silent now?

Where is the Papal condemnation of Obama for his flagrant disrespect of the largest religion in the US? Why are the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton so silent over Obama’s behavior? IN general all three weigh in regularly regardless of the appropriateness of doing so with regard to the weight of the situation or its directly affecting their sphere of concern. Yet here when their sphere of concern IS threatened you can hear the crickets and buzzing of mosquitoes over their comments they are so silent!

The same goes for all the black Baptist preachers that rallied to Obama’s Campaign in 2008. Where are they now? They have seen the Hope & Change, the damage and disrespect of America, Our Military, Our dominant National Religion, the Bible our Social & Moral values and the kowtowing to Muslims and foreigners first hand, yet they too are silent. No a peep of protest one single solitary sermon on condemnation of the Incumbent Presidential Candidate, at least of any weight or consequence.

Past actions by these religious groups and personages and well a logic dictate they should be so incensed as to be nearly an angry mob screaming for the crucifixion of the Black Messiah for being the Anti Christ but alas it is not so. Could this be the sin of pride we are witnessing? Are they too prideful to admit they were wrong and duped in 2008? Too afraid of looking stupid? Of having to admit that they are not the infallible conduits to God they promote themselves as?

These black religious leaders are going to have to make a hard choice and soon. However they best make it carefully because it WILL be remembered and they WILL be judged by it. IF they are going to withdraw inside their church and proclaim this a temporal matter further citing the Separation of Church & State as proof of this then they best stick to that story when iot comes to meddling in temporal political affairs in the future lest the back lash they receive find them treated like the defacto corporations and lobbying groups they really have become. Otherwise they need to decide, are the Black blindly supporting Obama for a free  Entitlement ride because he’s black with wonton disregard for what this current liberal socialistic path is doing to the survivability of our Country, or are they AMERICANS with American standards mores and values willing to stand up for them and protest the violation of these things by a badly elected President?

You don’t have to take my word for it however. How about the word of a former Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate and a noted LAs Vegas odds maker with a proven track rerod for calling Presidential races correctly instead of me? HE has an even larger list of those Obama has managed to alienate, disrespect and outright screw by Executive Order.

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.”

Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

Neither Obama nor Romney are my horses in the race. I believe both Republicans and Democrats have destroyed the U.S. economy and brought us to the edge of economic disaster. My vote will go to Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson in November, whom I believe has the most fiscally conservative track record of any Governor in modern U.S. political history. Without the bold spending cuts of a Gary Johnson or Ron Paul, I don’t believe it’s possible to turnaround America.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But on election day, Romney will win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

Understanding history, today I am even more convinced of a resounding Romney victory. Thirty-two years ago at this moment in time, Reagan was losing by 9 points to Carter. Romney is right now running even in polls. So why do most pollsters give Obama the edge?

First, most pollsters are missing one ingredient- common sense. Here is my gut instinct: not one American who voted for McCain four years ago will switch to Obama. Not one in all the land. But many millions of people who voted for an unknown Obama four years ago are angry, disillusioned, turned off, or scared about the future. Voters know Obama now- and that is a bad harbinger.

Now to an analysis of the voting blocks that matter in U.S. politics:

*Black voters. Obama has nowhere to go but down among this group. His endorsement of gay marriage has alienated many black church-going Christians. He may get 88% of their vote instead of the 96% he got in 2008. This is not good news for Obama.

*Hispanic voters. Obama has nowhere to go but down among this group. If Romney picks Rubio as his VP running-mate the GOP may pick up an extra 10% to 15% of Hispanic voters (plus lock down Florida). This is not good news for Obama.

*Jewish voters. Obama has been weak in his support of Israel. Many Jewish voters and big donors are angry and disappointed. I predict Obama’s Jewish support drops from 78% in 2008 to the low 60’s. This is not good news for Obama.

*Youth voters. Obama’s biggest and most enthusiastic believers from 4 years ago have graduated into a job market from hell. Young people are disillusioned, frightened, and broke- a bad combination. The enthusiasm is long gone. Turnout will be much lower among young voters, as will actual voting percentages. This not good news for Obama.

*Catholic voters. Obama won a majority of Catholics in 2008. That won’t happen again. Out of desperation to please women, Obama went to war with the Catholic Church over contraception. Now he is being sued by the Catholic Church. Majority lost. This is not good news for Obama.

*Small Business owners. Because I ran for Vice President last time around, and I’m a small businessman myself, I know literally thousands of small business owners. At least 40 percent of them in my circle of friends, fans and supporters voted for Obama 4 years ago to “give someone different a chance.” I warned them that he would pursue a war on capitalism and demonize anyone who owned a business…that he’d support unions over the private sector in a big way…that he’d overwhelm the economy with spending and debt. My friends didn’t listen. Four years later, I can’t find one person in my circle of small business owner friends voting for Obama. Not one. This is not good news for Obama.

*Blue collar working class whites. Do I need to say a thing? White working class voters are about as happy with Obama as Boston Red Sox fans feel about the New York Yankees. This is not good news for Obama.

*Suburban moms. The issue isn’t contraception…it’s having a job to pay for contraception. Obama’s economy frightens these moms. They are worried about putting food on the table. They fear for their children’s future. This is not good news for Obama.

*Military Veterans. McCain won this group by 10 points. Romney is winning by 24 points. The more our military vets got to see of Obama, the more they disliked him. This is not good news for Obama.

Add it up. Is there one major group where Obama has gained since 2008? Will anyone in America wake up on election day saying “I didn’t vote for Obama four years ago. But he’s done such a fantastic job, I can’t wait to vote for him today.” Does anyone feel that a vote for Obama makes their job more secure?

Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It’s Reagan-Carter all over again.

But I’ll give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.

NOTHING in a political race is a certainty until the final vote is tallied and the winner is officially declared. However I DO know THIS for a CERTANITY, if the Military & Veterans and their combined families along with the religious right refuse to vote for Obama, IRREGARDLESS of whom they DO  actually vote for, Obama will NOT have another four more years to do even worse than he already has to us because he no longer has to worry about throttling it back because he needs to win re-election. THAT my friends is CERTAIN FACT.

 

a Leprechaun, or if you absolutely must a Dragon. Again this election is not so much about who gets elected as it is who DOES NOT GET RE-ELECTED.

I’m the Lethal Leprechaun and I wrote, starred in, paid for, expressed my opinion and bloody damned well approve of this message and if you have half a brain in your head irregardless of your political affiliation you’ll approve of it too!

Good Morning Campers!
Those of you who’ve been paying attention probably realize that I’ve been at school all week, as a matter of fact, I’m writing this from my  hotel room.  I’ve been at the Fishers Fire Dept (big round of applause for those guys, they were tremendous hosts!) where I’ve been taking FEMA’s L449 Class.  Well, just so you know, L449 is called ICS 100 through 400 Train-the-Trainer.  And in a nut shell, it means that I am now a certified FEMA instructor.  Ain’t that somethin’!
So, other than that, it’s been a pretty slow week around casa de dragon.  There are a couple of things that I want you guys to remember as you go through today’s ezine.  First of all, remember that the videos need to be watched from the website.  http://dragonlaffs.com
and please remember to give us a rating before you leave the website.  The stars are right there over the header picture.  Which today, includes a picture of me, landing on the roof of the Fisher’s Fire Deptment and getting ready for class!  I know, it’s a really good likeness of me and I look really handsome.
Thank you, thank you….now, how’s about we get on with this cookout, shall we?

This is truly fantastic.  I highly recommend opening it up to full screen and turning up the volume….and remember….you can only see the videos by going to the website at http://dragonlaffs.com

Flying Over the Earth at Night
Video Credit: Gateway to Astronaut Photography, NASA ; Compilation: Bitmeizer (YouTube);
Music: Freedom Fighters (Two Steps from Hell)

Explanation: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth’s thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. Thegreen parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks. Solar panels of the ISS are seen around the frame edges. The ominous wave of approaching brightness at the end of each sequence is just the dawn of the sunlit half of Earth, a dawn that occurs every 90 minutes.

 

 

 

 

The U.S. is calling for fair elections in Cambodia.

This is the perfect visual rendition of what it’s like to try and leave FaceBook.

 

What a great idea!  LOL.  I’m gonna have to try that with someone!  If I can work it out I’ll show you guys the finished product.

This is how Lethal ends up with so many cats.

If her husband believes that, then I’ve got a bridge to sell him.  Low miles, only driven across by a little old lady on Sundays.  Or maybe some ocean front property in Wyoming.

Could that be our own leprechaun hiding behind his hand?  Nah!  There wouldn’t be that many full glasses.  He’d of had 4 or 5 of them emptied before the last one was poured!

There are two sides to every story.

This is just too much the sweetest thing!  If this doesn’t bring at least a smile to your face or a tear to your eye, then got check yourself in to maintenance cause you’re broken!

 

And of course, as should be expected, someone had to parody this great video…

Okay, even though it’s in really bad taste, you have to admit that it’s funny as hell!

As many of you know, our dear green friend and fellow laff-miester, Lethal Leprechaun lives in southern Texas.  I got an email from him the other day…

  “Hey Impish, you’re never going to believe what happened to me, today.  I was almost a hero!  Yup, I was walking down along the border this morning and I saw a Muslim extremist fall into the Rio Grande River!  It was awful!  He was struggling to stay afloat because of all the guns and bombs he was carrying.  I didn’t know what to do!

Along with him was this Mexican who was also struggling to stay afloat because of this huge-assed backpack full of drugs that was strapped to his back!  It was really bad!

I knew if they didn’t get help, they’d surely drown!  I was running up and down the bank, I didn’t know what to do.

Then I remembered!  Not only am I a brave and honorable member of my beloved Ireland, I was also a responsible and upstanding Texan and it was my duty and responsibility to help all of those in distress.  So  I immediately informed the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Rangers, and Texas Homeland Security!

As of this time I’m writing to you, it’s almost 1600 hrs and both of them have drowned.  None of the authorities have shown up!  Can you believe it?  No one responded!  I’m really sorry now that I wasted those 3 stamps!”

That’s alright my friend….you’re still a hero to me!

 

joke

My wife is throwing out some of my baby things…


Here now is an opinion piece from factcheck.org.  Check out their link.  I’ve been to their wonderful website before, but this is such a good piece, complete in its entirety, that I just had to copy the entire thing.  As you can see from the Editor’s note at the beginning, this is not the original posting of this piece, but I’ve left in all the links for your to peruse at your leisure.  My question is….Why shouldn’t we expect the truth from our candidates?

If you wish to see the article in it’s natural habitat, the link is here.

Why the Truth Still Matters

 

Ok well I think that about gets all the Yoda out of my system…at least for the moment. Such a wise guy was Uncle Yoda even if he WAS the black sheep of our family (gave up the pursuit of gold for spiritual enlightenment)

Well here I am yet once again minding our electronic/digital media empire  while Impish goes off doing lord knows what. Oh I KNOW he says he’s going to “teach the teachers school” but I seem to recall an adage…something about ‘them that can’t do teach’. What does THAT say then about those who teach the teachers? From my PoV that adage is a good part of what has caused the problems we’re experiencing now in the US, too many unqualified people in positions that determine the future of others. Hell, teachers & dragons aside for the moment, the problem extends right up to the Presidency!

I think I’ll retire to my Bomb/Zombie/Hurricane & Tornado proof subterranean shelter now, especially since we have been under ‘funnel cloud watches’ (they’re not tornados until they start causing unplanned Urban Renewal or involuntarily relocate your house to Oz for you apparently) for a seventh straight day.

When I complained to Impish about this last week on a rare occasion while he was actually in our Corporate offices, in his office and working, he mumbled something about it being ‘the season for it’.

Hey, just a bloody fecking minute there Boy-o!  I’m already in HURRICANE season as well as Killer Heat Wave season ( take that name literally) WHAT THE BLOODY HELL do I need with ANOTHER ‘weather season’? Let alone one that’s apparently ‘borrowed from the plains area! If I’m picking up yet another destructive season then BY THE ALMIGHTY ETERNAL I’m trading in Hurricane season for it!

We’d best get this show moving before some seasonally destructive event occurs and we lose power!

 

 

“When a woman says ‘What?’ it’s not because she didn’t hear you. She’s giving you a chance to change what you said.”

The following are 45 signs that China is colonizing America….

#1 It was recently announced that China’s Dalian Wanda Group has bought U.S. movie theater chain AMC Entertainment for a whopping2.6 billion dollars.  This deal represents China’s biggest corporate takeover of a U.S. firm ever.

#2 Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve announced that it has given approval for banks owned by the Chinese government to buy stakes in U.S.-owned banks.

#3 A few days ago Reuters reported that China is now able to completely bypass Wall Street and purchase U.S. debt directly from the U.S. Treasury Department.

#4 A recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services found more than one million counterfeit Chinese parts in the Department of Defense supply chain.  How in the world could we be so stupid?

#5 After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, General Motors is currently involved in 11 joint ventures with companies owned by the Chinese government.  The price for entering into many of these “joint ventures” was a transfer of “state of the art technology” from General Motors to the communist Chinese.

#6 A Chinese company known as “Sino-Michigan Properties LLC” has purchased 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan.  The goal is to build a “China City” with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens.

#7 As I reported on recently, corporations controlled by the Chinese government have been rapidly buying up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars.

#8 Chinese investors have been gobbling up real estate all over New York City.  The following is from a recent Forbes article….

According to a recent report in the New York Times, investors from China are “snapping up luxury apartments” and are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on commercial and residential projects like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Chinese companies also have signed major leases at the Empire State Building and at 1 World Trade Center, the report said.

#9 The Chinese are also doing huge real estate deals in cities in the middle part of the country.  The following example is from an article in the Toledo Blade….

Dashing Pacific Group Ltd., which has already purchased the nearby Docks restaurant complex for $2.15 million, put its $3.8 million offer to buy the southern 69 acres at the Marina District in East Toledo back on the table for approval by Toledo City Council. Additionally, Dashing Pacific Chairman Yuan Xiaohong, in a letter signed in Hangzhou, said the firm wants a two-year option to buy the decommissioned Toledo Edison power plant property on the site.

#10 According to ABC News, major road and bridge projects all over the United States are being built by Chinese companies.  Meanwhile, there are millions upon millions of blue collar American workers that cannot find jobs.  The following is a brief excerpt from a recent ABC News article….

In New York there is a $400 million renovation project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.

In California, there is a $7.2 billion project to rebuild the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland.

In Alaska, there is a proposal for a $190 million bridge project.

These projects sound like steps in the right direction, but much of the work is going to Chinese government-owned firms.

“When we subsidize jobs in China, we’re not creating any wealth in the United States,” said Scott Paul, executive director for the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

#11 The new World Trade Center tower is going to include glass that has been imported from China.

#12 The new Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mall was made in China.

#13 Check out this incredible photo which contrasts the decline of Detroit over the years with the amazing rise of Shanghai, China.

#14 A couple of years ago, a large Chinese company was considering building “a 10,000- to 30,000-acre technology zone for industry, retail centers and homes” just south of Boise, Idaho.

#15 Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion.  That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.

#16 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was 28 times larger than it was back in 1990 and more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.

#17 Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world’s high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Today, China’s high-tech exports are more than twice the size of U.S. high-tech exports.

#18 America has lost more than a quarter of all of its high-tech manufacturing jobs over the past ten years.

#19 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

#20 The U.S. spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.  Does that sound like “fair trade” to you?

#21 While we allow Chinese goods to freely flood our shores, China just keeps slapping new tariffs on American-made goods.  According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.

#22 According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day closed down in the United States during 2010.

#23 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month and more than 56,000manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

#24 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

#25 Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.

#26 In 2010, China produced more than twice as many automobiles as the United States did.

#27 In 2010, China produced 627 million metric tons of steel.  The United States only produced 80 million metric tons of steel.

#28 In 2010, China produced 7.3 million metric tons of cotton.  The United States only produced 3.4 million metric tons of cotton.

#29 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does.

#30 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.

#31 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.

#32 Chinese solar panel production was about 50 times larger in 2010 than it was in 2005.

#33 Right now, China is producing more than three times as much coal as the United States does.

#34 China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of U.S. defense systems.

#35 According to author Clyde Prestowitz, China’s number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment.  According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, during 2010 the number one U.S. export to China was “scrap and trash”.

#36 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.

#37 The United States had been the leading consumer of energy on the globe for about 100 years, but during the summer of 2010 China took over the number one spot.

#38 15 years ago, China was 14th in the world in published scientific research articles.  But now, China is expected to pass the United States and become number one very shortly.

#39 China now awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does.

#40 China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire planet.

#41 China now has the world’s fastest train and the world’s most extensive high-speed rail network.

#42 The Chinese economy has grown 7 times faster than the U.S. economy has over the past decade.

#43 The Chinese economy is projected to be larger than the U.S. economy by 2016.

#44 One economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

#45 China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt.  If you were alive back when Jesus was born and you had spent a million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent that much money by now.

http://www.yolohub.com/economy/45-signs-that-china-is-colonizing-america

Please share this list with as many people as you can.  It is imperative that the American people get educated about why our economy is falling apart and about why there are so few jobs.

Thanks to the foolishness of our politicians, today American workers have to compete directly for jobs with workers on the other side of the globe where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.

Do you want your standard of living to continue to descend toward the level of a communist worker making about a dollar an hour?

Do you want tens of millions of American workers to be unemployed indefinitely as millions of good jobs continue to leave this country?

If not, you better stand up and say something while you still can.

1. Notice the colors of the shirts the characters in the comic are wearing and which character is wearing what color.
2. Read the comic several times with this in mind.
3. Draw your own conclusions. (Politicians call this ‘plausibly deniability’. I said/did nothing wrong but you understand exactly what I’m saying/thinking/doing. If there is backlash now I can claim it was all a misunderstanding and point to the lack of direct involvement on my part and that I made no statement directly linking me to the objectionable incident.)

 

 

WASHINGTON — Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61.
Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said.

Ride rode into space on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 when she was 32. After her flight, more than 42 other American women flew in space, NASA said.

Ride flew in space twice, both times on Challenger in 1983 and in 1984, logging 343 hours in space. A third flight was cancelled when Challenger exploded in 1986. She was on the commission investigating that accident and later served on the panel for the 2003 Columbia shuttle accident, the only person on both boards.
She also was on the president’s committee of science advisers.

“Sally was a national hero and a powerful role model. She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said Ride “broke barriers with grace and professionalism — and literally changed the face of America’s space program.” “The nation has lost one of its finest leaders, teachers and explorers,” he said in a statement.

Ride was a physicist, writer of five science books for children and president of her own company. She had also been a professor of physics at the University of California in San Diego.
She was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1978, the same year she earned her doctorate in physics from Stanford University. She beat out five women to be the first American female in space. Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space.

 

Let’s Play Some Obama Bullsh*t Bingo!

I used to avoid listening to his speeches. Now, I look forward to the next one.

Here is something to help make Obama’s speeches almost tolerable.
Just print out this page, distribute it to friends, and listen…
(be sure to read directions at the bottom)

Rules for Bullshit Bingo:

1. Before Barrack Obama’s next televised speech, print your “Bullshit Bingo”
2. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.
3. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout “BULLSHIT!”

Testimonials from past satisfied “Bullshit Bingo” players:

“I had been listening to the speech for only five minutes when I won.” – Jack W., Boston

“My attention span during speeches has improved dramatically.” – David D., Florida

“What a gas! Speeches will never be the same for me after my first win.” – Bill R., New York City

I think one of mine (Chai) has designs on being the first cat to scale Everest…just as soon as she can work out that whole snow being cold and not getting herself wet issues. She’s forever practicing on every piece of furniture she cannot just leap on top of (she’s got an impressive 4 foot vertical leap from a sitting position). That is assuming Molly doesn’t strangle her for her climbing attempts first, practice on the entertainment center cost Molly her priceless (to her) family heirloom music box dancing statuary this weekend.

 

Blueberry Muffin in a Mug

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time:  1.5 minutes

Makes:  3 servings (3 large muffins)

Ingredients

* no-stick cooking spray,

¼ c.  brown sugar,

1 egg, beaten,

⅓ c.  light vanilla yogurt,

1 Tbs.  light olive oil,

1 c.  all-purpose baking mix,  (think Bisquick)

1 tsp.  ground cinnamon,

1 c.  frozen blueberries, thawed,

Directions

1 Spray 3 microwave-safe coffee mugs with no-stick cooking spray, and set aside.

2 Combine brown sugar, beaten egg, yogurt, and olive oil in mixing bowl and stir until blended. Add all-purpose baking mix and cinnamon and stir quickly to moisten (batter will be lumpy). Gently stir in blueberries.

3 Fill each prepared coffee mug with ½ cup batter. Microwave each mug for 90 seconds or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. CAUTION: MUG WILL BE HOT!

4 Let cool. Serve in or out of the mug.

Makes a great breakfast treat, especially with a houseful of guests. It’s simple, quick and impressive in its baking in a microwave technique.

Creamy Asian Slaw

time prep: 15 min

total: 1 hr 15 min

servings total: 16 servings, 1/2 cup each

What You Need

1 tub  (10 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Original Cooking Creme

1/4 cup  KRAFT Asian Toasted Sesame Dressing

2 pkg.  (12 oz. each) broccoli slaw

1/2 cup  Slivered Almonds

1/2 cup  golden raisins

Make It

COMBINE cooking creme and dressing in large bowl.

ADD remaining ingredients; toss to coat.

REFRIGERATE 1 hour. Stir before serving.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Variation

Give this delicious slaw an Italian twist by preparing with PHILADELPHIA Italian Cheese and Herb Cooking Creme, and KRAFT Tuscan House Italian Dressing.

Creamy Ranch-Feta Slaw

Prepare as directed, using KRAFT Classic Ranch Dressing and adding 1/2 cup ATHENOS Traditional Crumbled Feta Cheese.

Variation

Substitute chopped apples for the raisins and/or chopped PLANTERS Pecans for the almonds.

 

I think that about covers it, Impish…unless you want to say

“I’ve got to GET BACK TO WORK!!”

How It Works According to Blacks, Democrats,  Liberals, The Southern Poverty Law Center and Obamaites.

(But then I repeat myself!)

 

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous. Enjoy!

1. Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on my list.
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
9. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
10. In filling out an application, where it says, ‘In case of emergency, Notify:’ I put ‘DOCTOR’.
11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. (If you look at some of those Walmartian women, I think equality might have already been achieved!)
12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
13. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure..
14. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
15. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
16. You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
17. I’m supposed to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

Improv Mini-Golf Open

In this adorable video, an improv group takes over a mini-golf course! They brought caddies, sportscasters and a group of golf-clapping fans to give kids the PGA experience of a lifetime! Full story: http://improveverywhere.com/2012/07/16/the-mini-golf-open/

 

[I deliberately chose a ridiculous toy weapon for today’s header  to compliment the ridiculous nature of today subject matter]

As some of you are aware, for many years both growing up and as an Adult I called Northwestern Connecticut my home. I still have family, friends and business interests there. Consequently I scan 3 of the Connecticut papers (Local, Regional & Statewide) on a more or less daily basis. When something there irks me I sound off just like here.

Some one a while back made a private comment to me suggesting that perhaps “The Lethal Leprechaun” was more bravado and act than reality. My understanding of the statement is that they were inferring that a real person would never express publically some of the points of view I have expressed and defended here. 

Today the prefect opportunity to prove that such a position has no basis in facts was presented me and I am jumping at the chance to prove that not ONLY do I “talk the talk” but that I ALSO “walk the walk” as well:

Courant Spanish Translated Stories Lack Spanish That Latinos Can Understand

July 17, 2012 By George Gombossy

The Hartford Courant should get kudos for recognizing that there is a largo underserved Spanish population in Connecticut by publishing Courant en Espanol.

But columnist Bessy Reyna of the new website http://www.ctlatinonews.com writes that the translation doesn’t even come up to Spanglish level.

“A few days ago while reading Courant.com I noticed the tab Courant en Español. The “Spanish” I found was so appalling that I decided to share some of the headlines with my Spanish-speaking friends,” she writes. “Their reactions ranged from “This isn’t even Spanglish” to “Did you see the one today about Norwich? It’s to laugh and cry at the same time.” Others thought it was simply lack of respect and yet another way to humiliate the Latino community.”

“It’s hard to imagine that the Courant, the oldest continuously-published newspaper in the country, would think so little of its readers as to publish a poorly worded computer generated translation, without anyone verifying that the versions are grammatically correct. Or does the paper think that Latinos are going to be ever so grateful to have to guess the meaning of the news in Spanish?”

Example:

“The July 12 posts brings these news “Este mujer Hartford acusado de apuñalar con el hombrepelador de patatas” which literally reads: “This woman Hartford Accused of stabbing the man with potato peeler.”

“(Bessy Reyna is an opinion columnist for CTLatinoNews.com whose views do not necessarily reflect those of this website. She is a former opinion columnist for the Hartford Courant and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book.)

Phibber McGee on July 18, 2012 at 12:04 pm

The solution(s) is(are) very simple….

1.) LEARN TO SPEAK THE NATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE IN!

2.) Take you “expertise” in a language that a US newspaper whose majority of subscribers speak the native language of the country it is in to that paper and offer to be a proof reader.

3.) Recognize that The Hartford Courant is attempting to do a FREE service and using (most likely)an automated software program to do the translating which is the most cost effective way of doing. Undoubtedly Latinos would be unwilling to pay extra for the paper in their native language even if that extra cost was used solely to recover the costs of the salary of those assuring the translations were accurate & ‘non offensive in the level of their Spanglishness!’

4.) Stop the Entitlement attitude that says you are entitle to demand ANY US publication, other than important government documents, (and ONLY because its the laws those bleeding hearted liberals in Congress got passed) be presented to you at no cost in your native language because you cannot be bothered to learn the language of the country you are residing in. You want your paper in Spanish? GO BUY A SPANISH NEWSPAPER AND LEAVE THE HARTFORD COURANT ALONE!

NOW…any MORE discussion on the honesty of my stated beliefs and/or points of view as published here?

How about THIS TIME you man up and place the snide comments in the blogs comment section WITH YOUR NAME for everyone to see?  I’m not afraid of challenges or debating my beliefs/points of view (this stems from my not being a gutless liberal) but I’ll be damned if I’m going to do it with snide snipers from the anonymous liberal shadows.

Good Morning Campers.  I write this, sitting in my easy chair, Friday night.  Looking forward to next week I see a lot of things going on for me.
For instance, right now, while you’re reading this, I’m probably at work, trying to get things ready for another UTA weekend.  This is only an alternate UTA (UTA stands for Unit Training Assembly, or a weekend when the reservists have duty) so I’ll only have to work on Saturday, and end up Sunday off.
Then on Monday I’m out of town again for four days…Monday thru Thursday, in Indianapolis.  Now, those of you who know where Grissom is also probably know that Indianapolis is only an hour and a half away, so why go away?  Because once you add 3 hours travel time per day to a ten hour class room schedule, it becomes too much.  Indiana Homeland Security (the group putting on the class I will be taking) have decided that anything over 50 miles away and you can stay in a hotel for the three nights you will be there.  So, I’ll be in a hotel for three nights.  The nice thing is that maybe I’ll get to see some of my kids or grandkids while I’m there.
What class am I going to be in?
I’m taking FEMA’s L449 Class.  Or what’s also known as the ICS 300/400 Train-the-Trainer class.  Okay, now for the acronyms…FEMA is Federal Emergency Management Agency and ICS is Incident Command System.  Basically we are going to be taught how to teach controlling and working through emergencies.
Yeah, it’s not even near as interesting as it sounds and it sounds pretty bad.
But that’s my week coming.  I’ll try and stay in touch and maybe even post a couple of little updates here and there.  But, in the mean time, while I’m busy working, you guys need to be busy laughing…so….

Let’s get some observations from our resident observer…Jeannie…

So long Arizona!

Illegal immigrants are boycotting Arizona by the thousands, showing their outrage with Arizona ‘s controversial new SB-1070 law by moving elsewhere.

In the small town of Guadalupe , AZ, south of Phoenix , Manuel Renaldo is one of those who is punishing Arizona by leaving. As he loaded his stolen car with his stolen belongings and family of ten, Renaldo told this reporter through an interpreter “It’s a matter of principle; I refuse to be supported by a state that treats me like a criminal!”

The effects of the exodus are being felt by Arizona retailers, who are reporting dwindling sales of beer, spray paint, and ammunition. Also hit hard are the state hospitals, which have reported a dramatic decline in births and emergency room visits. Tattoo parlors are in a state of panic.

Renaldo told a reporter through an interpreter that he and his family are moving to Illinois, a democratic state with high taxes where hard working people will support him and his family with dignity!

Kind of brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it ?

For some of us…and we know who we are, we have had a love affair with airplanes since we were little boys (okay, and for some of you, little girls, but I’ll bet there’s more boys).  It’s actually the whole reason I joined the Air Force way back when I was 18.  Well, here’s a beautiful old lady…with a wonderful story.  Thanks to Dad for sharing!

The Oldest Boeing Airliner in Flying Condition

The four passengers are in two closed cabins and the lone pilot is in an open cockpit — maybe so the cold air will make him stay awake!

Anybody remember when Jerry Lewis did this?  Am I showing how old I am?  Okay, so it’s good and worth watching….and remember, you can only see it on the website…so go to http://dragonlaffs.com

And since we’re doing videos, here’s one for the adults from Denis Leary called, “Kiss My Ass” which the Leprechaun sent to me…kinda think he’s trying to tell me something.

From PBS, a study of Lego Art.  Well worth the watch.  Thanks to Lynn for sending this one in.  Easy enough to watch right here!  But of course, you need to go to the website…our website (http://dragonlaffs.com) to view it. 

And a story that’s not so funny.  This is being sent around by lots of different law enforcement agencies.  Please take heed!

Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles and capping it up – leaving it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on driveways etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the rubbish, but you’ll never make it!!!

Today’s Motivational Poster section is all of the same topic…pictures on a subject, as it were…I hope you enjoy

This is a pretty cool story and I’m sorry that I couldn’t put the video right here, but follow the link after you read the write-up and I think you will be happily entertained.

 

Another wicked cool video!!!!

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay by NASA/Glenn a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound. The sound is all from the camera microphones and not fake or replaced with foley artist sound. The Skywalker sound folks just helped bring it out and make it more audible.

As they say in East Tennessee:

“Y’all can’t get the water to clear up,
Until you get the turd out of the creek.”

Today’s is brought to us from my Dad. Grand pa Dragon?  Nah.  Get my ass kicked for that one.   

Anyways…
It’s called “Only In America” Top 10.  But, I’ll bet if we tried, we could come up with a LOT more than just 10.  So, here we have, from Dad, …

Only in AMERICA — Top Ten 1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event. 2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black president,a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black. 12% of the population is black. 3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsiblef or our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, both turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. 4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that

muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally becomeAmerican citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as extremists.

7) Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company(Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes(Nike).

9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million per minute, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.

10) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t  pay any income taxes at all.

Okay, how about …
11) Only in America could the president tell an entire nation that their best and brightest, the hard-working, self-made, business men and women, entrepreneurs, of true pioneering spirit, didn’t do it themselves.
or how ‘bout…
12) Only in America can an elected official suggest you cremate your loved ones upon their passing, because it’s much less expensive…but NOT because times are hard and money is scarce, but so that you might donate the money you saved to HIS election campaign! (You have NO IDEA HOW MUCH this topic chaps my big fat dragon ass!!!!)  (I’m so pissed I can’t even write about it!!!) Okay, so maybe with K²’s help I can pull it off…..here’s Karl’s write up..

I’ve got to second K²’s sentiment.  We have got to get this guy out of office.  Our country can’t take four more years of this bull shit!

Let’s hear what you guys have to say!  Hit the comment button, rate us in stars (at the top of the web site) spread the word!  Dragon and Leprechaun in 2012!!!!!!

Well I’m pretty sure I can say for the most part Texas is no long (at least at the moment) in a drought condition or a near drought condition. While there might be a pocket or 2 here and there I would have to say those would probably largely be in the traditionally more arid areas to the far western areas of the state. After a week of fairly consistent and nearly constant rain which say some areas pick up as much as 9.5 to 14 inches in two days we’re pretty much flush with water hereabouts for the moment- a pleasant change from the last 18 months. Some of the lakes North of Houston that were built to provide backup water sources which had been drained severely are showing signs of decent recovery which is good for the summer trade in those areas which as been doubly depressed not only because of the economy by because of the economy but because of the drought.

 

WOW! That’s the last time I buy Timothy Leary Brand Coffee!

The A.M.A. Weighs in on Obamacare

The American Medical Association has weighed in on the new health care package. The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.

The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception. Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted. Pathologists yelled, “Over my dead body!” while the Pediatricians said, ‘Oh, Grow up!’

The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it. Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, “This puts a whole new face on the matter.”

The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no. In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.

 

 

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. — Terry Pratchett

  “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is a instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry

Now THAT is what I call living your life with conviction, doing it your way, telling it like it is and going out with style! (To say nothing of the celebration of his life which has the appearances of the potential to be one hell of an Irish Wake!)

The Top 10 Rules of Life

These may sound funny, but they’re quite true (especially #10).

1. Never give yourself a haircut when drinking.

2. You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn’t, use duct tape.

3. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

4. When you make a mistake, make amends immediately — it’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.

5. The best advice that your mother ever gave you was, “Go! You might meet somebody!”

6. If they say you are too good for him/her, believe them.

7. Learn to pick your battles; ask yourself, “Will this matter one year from now? One month? One week? One day?”

8. Never pass up an opportunity to pee.

9. Living well really is the best revenge. Being miserable because of a bad or former relationship may mean the other person was right about you.

10. You can’t demand something as a “right” unless you are willing to fight to death to defend everyone else’s right to the same thing.

 

 

The following are facts that Barack Obama does not want you to see….

We continue with Part Two from last week because there is a limit to how much of these facts I can reveal before readers start killing Democrats in frustrated rage.

$4155 – The average American household spent a staggering $4,155 on gasoline during 2011.

$4300 – The amount by which real median household income has declined since Barack Obama entered the White House.

$6000 – If you can believe it, the median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.

$10,000 – According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.

49,000 – In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.

50,000 – The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

56,000 – The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

$85,000 – According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.

$175,587 – The Obama administration spent $175,587 to find out if cocaine causes Japanese quail to engage in sexually risky behavior.

$328,404 – Over the next 75 years, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars.  That comes to$328,404 for each and every household in the United States.

$361,330 – This is what the average banker in New York City made in 2010.

440,000 – If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to totally pay it off.

500,000 – According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

2,000,000 – Family farms are being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms in the United States has fallen from about 6.8 million in 1935 to only about 2 million today.

$2,000,000 – At this point, the U.S. national debt is rising by more than 2 million dollars every single minute.

2,600,000 – In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty.  That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

5,400,000 – When Barack Obama first took office there were 2.7 million long-term unemployed Americans.  Today there are twice as many.

16,000,000 – It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.

$20,000,000 – The amount of money the U.S. government was spending to create a version of Sesame Street for children in Pakistan.

25,000,000 – Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.

40,000,000 – According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

46,405,204 – The number of Americans currently on food stamps.  When Barack Obama first entered the White House there were only 32 million Americans on food stamps.

88,000,000 – Today there are more than 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment.  That is an all-time record high.

100,000,000 – Overall, there are more than 100 million working age Americans that do not currently have jobs

$150,000,000 – This is approximately the amount of money that the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress are stealing from future generations of Americans every single hour.

$2,000,000,000 – The amount of money that JP Morgan has admitted that it will lose from derivatives trades gone bad.  Many analysts are convinced that the real number will actually end up being much higher.

$147,000,000,000 – In the U.S., medical costs related to obesity are estimated to be approximately 147 billion dollars a year.

295,500,000,000 – Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion.  That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.

$359,100,000,000 – During the first quarter of 2012, U.S. public debt rose by 359.1 billion dollars.  U.S. GDP only rose by 142.4 billion dollars.

$454,000,000,000 – During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.

$1,000,000,000,000 – The total amount of student loan debt in the United States recently surpassed the one trillion dollar mark.

$1,170,000,000,000 – China now holds approximately 1.17 trillion dollars of U.S. government debt.  Yet the U.S. government continues to send them millions of dollars in foreign aid every year.

$1,600,000,000,000 – The amount that has been added to the U.S. national debt since the Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives.  This is more than the first 97 Congresses added to the national debt combined.

$5,000,000,000,000 – The U.S. national debt has risen by more than 5 trillion dollars since the day that Barack Obama first took office.  In a little more than 3 years Obama has added more to the national debt than the first 41 presidents combined.

$5,000,000,000,000 – What the real U.S. budget deficit in 2011 would have been if the federal government had used generally accepted accounting principles.

$11,440,000,000,000 – The total amount of consumer debt in the United States.

$15,734,596,578,458.59 – The U.S. national debt as of June 7, 2012.

$200,000,000,000,000 – Today, the 9 largest banks in the United States have a total of more than 200 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.  When the derivatives market completely collapses there won’t be enough money in the entire world to fix it.

http://ww/economy/70-facts-president-obama-doesnt-want-you-to-knoww.yolohub.com

 

Did you know that in the human body there is a nerve that connects the eyeball to the anus?
It’s called the Anal Optic Nerve, and it is responsible for giving people a shitty outlook on life.
If you don’t believe it, pull a hair from your ass and see if it doesn’t bring a tear to your eyes!

Occasionally it gets hooked into a person’s work ethic and they can’t see themselves going to work on a particular day. In Moderates and Conservatives this generally only lasts for a long weekend. However in Democrats, if left untreated, it can become an acute problem leading to something called ‘Entitlement-Minded-Welfaritis-Occupy-This-Socialist-Muslim-Electing’ Syndrome.

Good Grief Charlie Brown!

 

At around 4:30pm today, I had an incoming call with an 860 area code. I used to live in Connecticut, so I took the call…

The caller identified herself as “So and So” from the Re-elect Obama Campaign.

I should have said…..

Since Obama took office, unemployment in my city has been over 13%.

Since Obama took office, my house value has dropped $200,000.

Since Obama took office, my health care premiums and co-pays have increased.

Since Obama took office,  military and social security cost of living increases were frozen and Medicare costs increased.

Since Obama took office, my mother’s medical and drug co-pays have increased.

Since Obama took office, friends and family have been laid off and even if they took steps to further their qualifications, have remained among the long term unemployed (up to 2 years).

Since Obama took office, our household income has dropped by just under 40%.

But, what I said was…

BEGORAH! ARE YOU BUGGERING KIDDING ME???!!!! RE-ELECT THAT BLEEDING ARSEHOLE??!!!!!!

Guess I just lost my composure. [Gee like THAT never happens around here!]

Also works with Lame Stream Media Talking Heads!

 

Even with the A/C set to ‘arctic’ its bloody hot here in Texas at Keebler Towers, especially when entertaining outside or just grillin’ and chillin’ with a few assorted clients and minions. Since I figure the story is largely the same all over, I thought we’d cool down with a few  cool non alcoholic drinks (don’t worry, we can easily remedy that flaw in the recipes!)

Tropical Freeze

Sherbet adds the creaminess, ice adds the thickening coolness, and the juice and banana blend out the fresh taste in this soothing beverage.

Prep: 10 minutes

Serves: 4

Sherbet adds the creaminess, ice adds the thickening coolness, and the juice and banana blend out the fresh taste in this soothing beverage.

Ingredients:

1 bottle (16 ounces) V8 Splash® Tropical Blend Juice Drink, chilled

1 pint orange or mango sherbet or vanilla ice cream

1 cup crushed ice

2 medium bananas, sliced

Directions:

Put the juice drink, sherbet, ice and 1/2 of the bananas in a blender.

Cover and blend until the mixture is smooth. Garnish with the remaining banana slices. Serve immediately.

Of course a wee splash of something like Malibu Rum wouldn’t hurt it either!

Mulled Raspberry Mosas

Serve these drinks in very fancy glasses to maximize their elegant appeal.

Prep: 5 minutes

Serves: 4

Serve these drinks in very fancy glasses to maximize their elegant appeal.

Ingredients:

16 fresh or thawed frozen raspberries

1 1/3 cups V8 Splash® Tropical Blend Juice Drink, chilled

1 cup champagne or seltzer water, chilled

Directions:

Place 4 raspberries in each of 4 fluted champagne glasses. Mash them lightly with a fork.

Pour 1/3 cup juice drink and 1/4 cup champagne into each glass. Stir and serve immediately.

 

Tropical Mojitos

Add a blend of tropical fruit juices to spin this classic rum drink into something even more captivating.

Prep: 10 minutes

Serves: 8

Add a blend of tropical fruit juices to spin this classic rum drink into something even more captivating.

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh mint leaves

Ice cubes

3 bottles (16 ounces each) V8 Splash® Tropical Blend Juice Drink (6 cups), chilled

1 cup rum

Directions:

Divide the mint leaves among 8 tall glasses. Mash them lightly with the back of a spoon. Fill the glasses with ice.

Stir the juice drink and rum in a 2-quart pitcher and pour into the ice-filled glasses.

I’d use complimentary flavors of V-8 Splash as opposed to all the same one.

Citrus Cooler

This deliciously simple drink practically screams refreshing…vegetable and citrus juices mix with a splash of seltzer to make a crowd pleasing beverage everyone can enjoy.

Prep: 5 minutes

Serves: 6

This deliciously simple drink practically screams refreshing…vegetable and citrus juices mix with a splash of seltzer to make a crowd pleasing beverage everyone can enjoy. 

Ingredients:

3 cups V8® 100% Vegetable Juice (I use the Lo Sodium version, trust me you will not miss the salt!)

1 1/2 cups orange juice

1 1/2 cups seltzer water or club soda

1/4 cup lime juice

Orange and lime slices for garnish

Directions:

Stir the vegetable juice, orange juice, seltzer and lime juice in a large pitcher. Serve over ice. Garnish with orange and lime slices.

Nutrition Information

Nutritional Values per Serving

Using V8 Vegetable Juice: : Calories 58, Total Fat 0g, Saturated Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 213mg, Total Carbohydrate 13g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 1g, Vitamin A 21%DV, Vitamin C 96%DV, Calcium 3%DV, Iron 3%DV

White liqueurs- Gin, Vodka, White Rum, Tequila Blanco are the ticket here. This is a very bright, sassy and in your face drink. Not for the faint hearted.

 

Pineapple-Apricot Cooler

Prep: 5 minutes

Serves: 2

When you’re looking for a quick sweet-treat, this 5-minute blender drink will really satisfy.  Frozen yogurt and almond extract make it especially smooth and tasty.  

Ingredients:

1/3 cup Smuckers® sugar free apricot preserves

1 cup sugar free vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt

1 cup chopped pineapple

1/2 cup nonfat milk

1/8 teaspoon almond extract

Directions:

Place the preserves, ice cream, pineapple, milk and almond extract into a blender.  Cover and blend until the mixture is smooth.

If you use Almond milk for this in place of the nonfat milk, it will have a better mouth feel and you can forgo the almond extract!

Cool, Cool Gazpacho

Vegetable juice adds a burst of great flavor to this zesty gazpacho, bursting with diced fresh vegetables. 

It’s a refreshing dish for a hot summer’s day…but it’s so easy to make, you can enjoy it any time.

Prep: 30 minutes
Chill: 1 hour

Serves: 6

Vegetable juice adds a burst of great flavor to this zesty gazpacho, bursting with diced fresh vegetables.  It’s a refreshing dish for a hot summer’s day…but it’s so easy to make, you can enjoy it any time.

Ingredients:

6 medium tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped (about 6 cups)

1 1/2 cups V8® 100% Vegetable Juice

1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced (about 1 1/3 cups)

1 medium onion, finely chopped (about 1/2 cup)

1 small green pepper, finely chopped (about 1/3 cup)

2 cloves garlic, minced

1/4 cup olive oil

2 tablespoons vinegar

1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Hot pepper sauce to taste

Directions:

Stir the tomatoes, vegetable juice, cucumber, onion, green pepper, garlic, oil, vinegar, black pepper and hot pepper sauce in a large mixing bowl. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until ready to serve.

A splash of Pepper Vodka is just the thing here. Need more zing? Garnish it with a little fresh Pico de Gallo or sneak a little Picante into the mix. Don’t stop there though! You can do so much more with it!  It makes a great snack, appetizer or light refreshing lunch!

Top with a few croutons, serve with a crostini or 2 for dipping for a snack, hang a few chilled cocktail shrimp around the rim for an appetizer. Place a scoop of lump crab or lobster meat atop a bowlful with a small salad for a light refreshing lunch. I’ve even seen it in a restaurant with fried 4 cheese tortellini (think fried ravioli) served on the side to be used like croutons!

What’s a party with out a little music? How about some Texas Blues! 

Obama Blues

Obama Blues – Recorded at an undisclosed, secure location in Texas by a few musicians who are fed up and got together to try to make a difference.

 

http://www.obamabluessong.com. Available at:http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/augieandtheblacktears
Performed By: Augie and the Black Tears
Written By: Kevin Kosub
Produced By: Clay Meyers & Kevin Kosub
Kevin Kat Music, BMI
Magnifico Meyers Music, BMI
Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.

 

Do you support or oppose increased government regulations to protect user privacy on the Internet?

32%  Strongly support increased regulations
20%  Somewhat support increased regulations
8%  Somewhat oppose increased regulations
32%  Strongly oppose increased regulations
8%  No Strong Opinion

If the 2012 US Presidential election were held today, who would you vote for?

29%  Barack Obama
53%  Mitt Romney
12%  Undecided
0%   Undecided, but probably Obama
0%   Undecided, but probably Romney
6%   I am not registered to vote

Do you consider the current economy to be strong, about average, or weak?

6%   About average
0%   Strong
94%  Weak

 

We have a guest ranter today folks. Please welcome Graciemj to the soap box. You folks down front might want to assume “Gallagher Style Protection” as Gracie tends to gesture wildly with her coffee cup when ranting and spread it around a bit. (Opening large golf umbrella) Take it away Graciemj!

‘That Doesn’t Make Sense’: Obama Donor Infuriated by President’s Rhetoric Speaks Out

• Posted on July 11, 2012 at 11:05pm by Mytheos

Since the 2012 campaign began in earnest, the Obama campaign has tried to portray itself as the victim of a powerful, wealthy Republican opponent whose success renders him hopelessly out of touch with normal Americans, and who cannot possibly be seen as a viable alternative to the President precisely because he is so out of touch. They have also claimed that they are speaking truth to power and must be seen as a small, courageous band trying to keep government in the hands of the people and out of the mitts of the greedy, rich and powerful.

There’s just one problem. When you portray yourself as the defender of the poor and scourge of the rich, it’s rather hard to get donations from the people who can most afford to help finance an election, considering that those people are themselves rich. This fact has been driving away Obama donors consistently since the President began his drumbeat of class baiting, and now even some of his most loyal financial supporters are starting to get sick of it. Fox Nation brings us this deeply ironic, entertaining story:

Millionaire developer R. Donahue Peebles -– a 52-year-old D.C. native whose company website touts The Peebles Corp. as “the country’s largest African American real estate development company,” is a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama…raising between $100K and $200K for this reelection.

R. Donahue Peebles

But in a 20-minute conversation with HuffPost Monday, Peebles blasted Obama’s campaign messaging. He said, as he told other press outlets, that his frustration was sparked by receiving an email from the DNC that mocked Romney as“out of touch” for having a boat that fit 12 people, accompanied by a picture of the Republican presumptive nominee on vacation.[…]

“What I get concerned about is the message from the Obama campaign that we only want someone who has not been successful to run for president. What do we want here? You can’t be successful and run the country? We don’t want somebody who has been successful to run it? That doesn’t make sense,” Peebles said.[…]

“So I look at that and I see that those things are becoming offensive to some of his strongest supporters, financially.”It would be unrealistic to think that that kind of thing would not impact the enthusiasm for those who are supportive of the president, financially, and certainly would turn off others who were on the fence to say, ‘You know, what the heck with it. I’m done,’” Peebles continued. “And they go on to Romney.”[…]

“I’m so tired of hearing that the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes. Yeah we are,” Peebles said. “The super vast majority of wealthy Americans do not wake up every day and say, ‘Let’s see how we can pay less than our fair share of taxes.’ They say, ‘We’re going to follow the law and we’re going to hire some good accountants to tell us how to do it. And we’re going to pay no more or no less than our air share.’”So to say that wealthy individuals are not paying their fair is unfair and delusional,” he said. “So what should be said is that the wealthy Americans should have their tax rates raised because we need more money. Now by the way, if they got all these tax raises it still wouldn’t put a dent in the national debt.”

There’s more like this, and you can feel free to read the rest of you click the link above to see Peebles’ epic rant. For now, we’re beginning to wonder how long it will take before the Obama administration figures out they have a problem with rich people – not just the supposed greedy, nasty ones, but any rich person who doesn‘t like their hard work questioned by people who probably haven’t worked as hard in a less demanding environment.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/that-doesnt-make-sense-obama-donor-infuriated-by-presidents-rhetoric-speaks-out/

Graciemj says:

Mr Peebles forgets..Obama’s a community organizer. All Obama knows is to demonize one group of Americans to get another group or Americans angry at them and to demand “stuff” from them. All Obama knows is to vilify success and tell others they‘re entitled to another group’s success.
This is what Obama does..this is all he’s ever done.
It‘s the most frustrating thing to put up with when Obama’s own past is right there in front of us all and idiots like Peebles only see what they want to see until it’s too late.
What the hell did Peeble think a socialist community organizer immersed in Marxist thought would do? This is what the left does..fabricate victims, then get these “victims” angry at other Americans who are successful. Division and hate is Obama’s stock in trade.

Thanks for sharing your view with us Graciemj but you have to leave the rocket launcher here!