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Hat tip to Wyatt Earp for pointing out this bit of loveliness.  You're an oak Wyatt.

One Year Of Chronicling Hope And Change, Plus Some Babes & Stuff

Today marks the one year anniversary (blogiversary?) of Woody's Place. 

I started this blog on the last day I was really optimistic about our future, the day Senator McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate.  Unfortunately I underestimated both the influence of the MSM/DNC Cabal and the laziness and stupidity of a vast swath of our electorate.

Despite my dissappointment, in the days just prior to the inauguration I decided to wipe the slate and give Mr. Obama a chance to earn my respect.  I deleted all the old vitriolic posts and launched the blog anew intending to keep things a little more positive and not focus so much on politics.  Events have conspired against me though, as never would I have imagined that things could go so badly so quickly for our nation, and I could not continue to ignore the obvious.

So now I guess I'm right back where I started from right after the election.  Bitter, dejected, and pissed off.  Let's hope we have some better news to blog about in the coming year.  Maybe Obama will see the light and embrace his inner Reagan?

Thanks to all those who visit, comment and link to my little old site.  I very much appreciate it.

Glenn Beck To Congress: Are You In Or Out In 2010?

Glenn Beck has proposed we ask our elected representatives to take the following pledges or we vote them out in 2010. 

The Five Pledges

1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.

2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.

3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.

4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.

5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.

Sounds good to me... which is exactly why I know very few in Congress would agree to it.

We really, really need a revolution to clean up all this mess, but there are more takers than makers at this point and Congress actually IS doing the will of the majority of lazy ass "what's in it for me" Americans. 

I guess going Galt is our best option unless we just give up on the USA and start our own country somewhere else as the new Pilgrims.  Say... that's not a bad idea.  An entire country poulated by people who take responsibility for themselves and are not bound by liberal political correctness?  Plus we'd could literally walk away from all this debt the liberals have run up over the past forty years.  Let the Democrats pay for their own welfare state...

Hmm... need to start searching the globe for an underpopulated country we can colonize.

Quote Of The Day

Via Hot Air:

Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and threatening, but never intending, to kill the children of Khalid Sheik Muhammad?

Yes... that's how far we have fallen been dragged down by the liberals and their politically correct effemanization of our once proud country.  Click over to read the whole thing.  Pat may be a looney on some issues, but he's right on the money with this one.

Police Officer Forces Healthcare Protestor To Surrender His Sign Before Entering Town Hall

Prepare to be amazed... and repulsed.  A so-called "police officer" (who is acting more like an SEIU or ACORN thug than a cop) refuses to allow an anti-ObamaCare protestor to bring in his sign into a town hall forum because... well, we really never find out why.

The "did I really just hear that" moment:

PROTESTOR: "This used to be America!"

POLICE OFFICER: "It ain't no mo okay?" 

No, it's not okay!

Officer Cheeks was asked again and again for a reason as to why this particular sign was not allowed in while all the other signs were.  He never gave an answer.  It's clear to me that the answer he refused to give is that this sign mocked "The One" and that is not allowed when Officer Cheeks is on duty.  Well Mr. Cheeks we have this little thing in America called the "First Ammendment", perhaps you'd better take your uneducated ass to the library and read it ten or twenty times until all the big words finally soak through your thick skull.

This is unbelievable.  If something like this had been done to Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink the media would have been apopleptic.  Think this will get any play?  Yeah right.

From now on I'd encourage all healthcare protestors to carry nothing BUT Obama-Joker posters to EVERY town hall meeting.  Forget all the other lame-ass messages, and just have hundreds of people showing up with the Obama-Joker image.  They can't kick you all out, and if they did perhaps the Obama police state would finally become too big of a story for the media to ignore.

Hat tip to Weazel Zippers and Soylent Green.

Everything But The Girl "We Walk The Same Line"

Today was the 18th anniversary of my first date with my wife, so here's "our song".

Kinda cheesy, kinda cute... kinda like the two of us I guess.

Why The Democrats Class Warfare Rhetoric Is Complete Bull$#!+

You'll often hear Democrat politicians like Barack Hussein Obama, Howard "Screamin" Dean or Nancy "Nazi" Pelosi going on and on about how the wealthiest Americans don't pay their "fair share".  Is this really the case?  Well, let's take a look at the numbers.

Here is the top 1% of American wage earners, represented by a tiny sliver on this pie chart.  We're not talking about a big group here.  Bill Gates is in there, my pal Warren Buffet is in there, most successful entrepeneurs are in there, most Doctors and lawyers are in there and pretty much all the professional athletes and Hollywood stars are in there too.  The top 1% is basically anyone earning over $375,000 a year.

Now let's look at income. 

Obviously there have always been people who work harder, are smarter, and/or are luckier than the rest of us.  This is true all around the world, and all throughout history.  I don't think any rational person would want to change society so everyone got the same income as every other person.  Things would quickly grind to a halt, because there'd be nothing for anyone to work or strive for.

So as it stands here in the real world, the top 1% earn 18% of all the income.

Now let's keep in mind that the top 1% are a mostly self sufficient bunch.  They don't use government services at anywhere near the rate of the poorest of Americans or even the middle class, yet take a look at their tax burden!

How the hell is this even fair?  And more importantly, how is it not paying their "fair share" as the Democrats so frequently claim?

Obviously the claim that these people aren't paying their "fair share" is an outright lie.  I believe the deception is deliberate, and is intended to keep the uneducated "working people" riled up and voting Democrat.

The truth is that the top 1% are getting hosed by the system far, far worse than any of us regular Joes, and all these lying liberals know it.  Worse yet, these same lying politicians want the top 1% to pay an even BIGGER share.  They would tax this country back into the stone age if they could, all in the pursuit of some warped idea of "fairness" power.  

Iowahawk Riffs On Obamacare

Iowahawk strikes again, this time giving us his reimagining of Scrubs with Barack Obama as an orderly, just trying give little old Mrs. Petrowski the best "end-of-life" care he possibly can, regardless of her age and lack of terminal illness.

Please, Mrs. Petrowski, put down the phone. The other patients are all asleep. Besides, after that incident yesterday, you know we had to unplug it. You remember how agitated you made everybody with those crazy stories about "death panels" and what not. Remember when I was giving you the sedatives, and I explained that your mind was playing tricks on you? And how those nice men were only End-of-Life Quality Assurance Counselors?

*ding*

Okay! Elevator's here! Next stop, bottom floor, cafeteria... aaaand... therrrre's...

*swiiip*

a goddamn elevator car in the shaft.

sigh.

Alright, whatever. Let's get on.

Click over for the rest.  Iowahawk is the Charles Nelson Riley of the blogosphere.

Google Me Baby

It's always a nice feeling when you've got the top spot on Google for a hot topic that's in the news.  We'll see how long until I'm bumped off the first page.  Two days?  A week?

I believe Rush Limbaugh pretty much launched this one into the stratosphere on his show this afternoon.  My traffic is about 5 times what it normally is for a weekday.

Welcome all the new folks.  Take a look around and make yourself at home.

Oh Scrap!

My bloggin' buddy(?) Cbullit from Soylent Green sent me this, and according to the meme I have to forward it to ten other bloggers and then share "10 Honest Things" about myself. 

Hmm...

Figuring out who to send it to might actually be harder than thinking up some dirt to dish on myself.  I don't have a very big blogroll, some there have already been tagged, and some of them don't really delve into the personal, their blogs are 100% politics and vitriol (talking to YOU Hank).

How about I do eight and we just call it fair?

1. Where Are My Keys? - Madeline's Dad (yeah, that's what he goes by) is a pretty friendly chap.  He's bound to come up with something interesting.
2. Third World County - David was one of my original blog buddies from back on my first blog.  If he can find time his list will be a fun read no doubt.
3. Mitchieville - Let's see what those Canadians are all abooot.
4. O'Shea Family Weblog - I guarantee the word "man cave" will appear on Brian's list somewhere.
5. That Was Then, This Is Now - Cory is a real sweetheart, but she's probably going to throw us at least one curveball...  
6. Shooting The Messenger - Fits has some tales to tell... not sure if he's legally able to yet.  He'll probably have to check with his lawyer first.
7. RT's Ponderings - Come on RT!  I know you've got some good stuff from your heavy metal days.
8. When Your Only Tool Is A Hammer - Enjoy your vacation Hammer?  Good, now get working on this assignment.   

Okay, now on to my 10 honest things:

1. I'm a damn good shot with my Glock 19, but only so-so with my Tec-9 or my Calico M-100. 
2. I'm a bit of a wuss.  I tear up every time I listen to Kenny Chesney's "There Goes My Life" (just did again) or Barber's "Adagio For Strings", and that "Fallen Soldier's Homecoming" video made me weep profusely.
3. I've never played poker in my life.  Card games bore the shit out of me. 
4. I barely graduated from high school.  Not from lack of smarts, just from lack of giving a damn. 
5. I have a huge collection of Dungeons & Dragons books and memorabilia that I've been collecting since I was ten years old.  It totals well over $6,000.
6. I was married in full period costume on the deck of the HMS Britannia at the Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas, and a pirate even swung down from the crow's nest to deliver the wedding rings.  My wife looked especially lovely that day... I married up for sure.
7. I honestly do think a good majority of our nation's ills can be traced back to Democratic politicians or their allies in  the media.  This blog persona is not an act.
8. I do not enjoy rollercoasters and thrill rides, but I once made my dad whiteknuckle the dashboard while driving my '93 Pontiac Grand Prix on State Route 127 in Tennessee.  That car could really straighten out some corners!
9. I watch this video on YouTube at least once a week, and sometimes several times a day.  Does that make me a sucker for a good pop tune, or a little bit freaky?
10. I think I'm part hermit.  I can go entire weekends without leaving the house, and barely even going above ground.  My man cave really is cave-like for me, it's not just a phrase.

And there you have it.  Now, let's check out those other blogs and see what they have to share... 

Marine Vet David Hendrick Confronts Congressman Baird Over Federal Healthcare Takeover

Yes, the same Congressman Brian Baird who likened the healthcare protestors to a "lynch mob" and accused them of "brown-shirt tactics".

Via Hot Air:

That's priceless.  Kudos to Mr. Hendrick for 'speaking truth to power"... I never thought I'd find a genuine use for that favored phrase of the left wingers, but it certainly fits here doesn't it?

UPDATE: Mr. Hendrick appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends show this morning.

Spot on.  He's Joe The Plumber, but with better communication skills.

Socialism Is Consuming America...

Prior to 1930 the state and federal government's share of the US national income averaged 12% or less.

After World War II and the New Deal the government's share of our economy had grown a bit to 22%.

Fast forward to 2008 and after decades of the Democrats buying votes with welfare and entitlement programs the government's share of the US economy is a whopping 45%!

That 45% figure also leaves out the cost of compliance with state and federal regulations, so 50-55% is probably more accurate.

Democrats don't even think 45% of the economy is enough.  They want MORE!

Hat tip to Soylent Green for the charts.

Carla Gugino

Meat Beat Manifesto "Radio Babylon (Version Galore)"

Back in 1990 this was the hottest alternative club track around, and it still holds up well.

Great band.  Check my Music section for some other great stuff by MBM.

 

ACLU Reveals Identities Of CIA Agents To 9-11 Terrorists, Will The Media Care?

When the identity of Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame was released to a reporter the MSM/DNC Cabal went apeshit, and the "scandal" was given priority coverage for months on end, even though Valerie Plame was NOT covert, and the information was given to a member of the press. 

Now we have the identites and perhaps home addresses of covert CIA agents released to the enemy, in fact the very terrorists who planned the attacks of September 11th.

Via The Washington Post:

The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Investigators are looking into allegations that laws protecting classified information were breached when three lawyers showed their clients the photographs, the sources said. The lawyers were apparently attempting to identify CIA officers and contractors involved in the agency's interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects in facilities outside the United States, where the agency employed harsh techniques.

[...] government investigators are now looking into whether the defense team went too far by allegedly showing the detainees the photos of CIA officers, in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes. 

I have a hard time truly expressing how f-ed up this is.  Liberals have no shame. 

The big question of course is will the MSM/DNC Cabal give this even a fraction the publicity they gave to the so-called scandal of "Plamegate"?

Hmm... a liberal Democrat is President... and there's no chance Cheney can be blamed... nah, nothing to see here folks, move along. 

If the terrorists murder one of the CIA agents and their family in their home then will it be newsworthy Mr. "Journalist"? 

How Media Bias Works

This is a great little film from the 70's illustrating just how media bias works to advance an agenda, and warning us of the dangers of the decision makers in the media and the political elite having a common ideology, thereby turning the media into a propaganda machine.

Hat tip to Where Are My Keys and The Interface.

Unfortunately we did not heed Dr. Schaeffer's warning...  The MSM/DNC Cabal is now well entrenched and has been succesfully using this manipulation technique for decades now.

Reagan is President?  Let's do lot's of stories on the homeless, and let's all portray this as the decade of greed. 

Clinton is President now?  No more homeless "crisis", and even though people are spending their dot com stock returns on Hummers and McMansions let's drop that whole greed meme m'kay?

The cumulative effect of all the cabal's manipulations is truly devastating to our Republic.  For example, if the American people were truly informed, would they have elected the people who caused the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression to lead the country?  No, they would not.... yet that's exactly what happened.  The community organizer who once pressured banks to loan more and more money to people who couldn't afford to repay it is now President, and the Congress that blocked every effort to head off this recession is rewarded by the voters with a supermajority. 

Rep. Lamar Smith said:

"To me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias."

He is correct.  The MSM/DNC Cabal is a greater threat to America than Osama Bin Laden's terrorists or Obama Bin President's defecits. 

Preamble To The Constitution On License Plates

Look For The Union Label

Hat tip to Third World County.

I'm In Lust... Zune & Zino

Wow.  I'm starting my Christmas list today.

Microsoft is releasing it's sexy new Zune HD portable media player on September 15th.

Zune HD features a 3.3" OLED screen, 720p video playback (you can stream it to a TV), HD radio, WiFi and the best feature of all is that it's not an Ipod.  Ipod's are for hipster doucehbags... and you don't want to be one of those people do you?

And as if that wasn't enough, this fall Dell is shipping their first purpose built theater PC, the Zino HD.

Ooooh... Aaaah.

I'm currently using a small desktop PC to run our home theater now, but I may give that to my wife and upgrade the theater to this unit.  Maybe get one for the living room too?  We'll see what the price look s like i guess...

Tennis Anyone?

A Sneak Peek At Socialized Medecine

Here's what kind of "treatement" we can expect from ObamaCare.

"Life saving therapy?  Not so much... we don't think it's right for you, but have you thought about hospice?"

Hat tip to MAinfo and Soylent Green.

Quote Of The Day

A wise man once said:

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.  You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.  You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.  You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.  You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

What great Republican leader said this?  Reagan?  Bush?  Gingrich?  Friedman? 

I Survived Sleepover 2009...

My wife throws a big (9 girls this year!) mystery party / sleepover for my daughter's girlfriends every summer and yesterday was it.  They had a great time solving the "Mystery Of The Missing Archaeologist" seeking all the props and clues my wife planted all over the house and yard. 

After the mystery was solved they gave my game room quite a workout.  Who knew twelve year old girls were so into pinball and foosball?

I think it'll be a few days before I can bring myself to call it a "Man Cave" again... Sheesh!

As soon as they've all gone home I'm going to lock myself in my office / subterranean lair and take a long nap.

Ulrich Schnauss "Shine"

17 Dollars, Now That's Gangsta

Voting Democrat Gets You Nowhere...

Here are the ten US cities most stricken by poverty, and their percentage of residents living below the poverty line:

1. Detroit, MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo, NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati, OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland, OH 27.0%
5. Miami, FL 26.9%
6. St. Louis, MO 26.8%
7. El Paso,  TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee, WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia, PA 25.1%
10. Newark, NJ 24.2%

What do all those cities have in common?

• Detroit, MI hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
• Buffalo, NY hasn't elected one since 1954.
• Cincinnati, OH hasn't elected one since 1984.
• Cleveland, OH hasn't elected one since 1989.
• Miami, FL has never had a Republican mayor.
• St. Louis, MO hasn't elected one since 1949.
• El Paso, TX has never had a Republican mayor.
• Milwaukee, WI hasn't elected one since 1908.
• Philadelphia, PA hasn't elected one since 1952.
• Newark, NJ hasn't elected one since 1907.

Hmm... the poor vote Democrat for generations, yet they remain poor.  Wonder why that is? 

Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Q.E.D. Democrat voters are insane.

The People's Cube Weighs In On Healthcare Protests

Democrat's Healthcare Takeover Will Cost Twice What The CBO Estimated

And the Congressional Budget Office estimate was already way higher than the Democrats said it would be.  Via Hot Air:

The CBO is actually being kind to the would-be reformers.  Its analysis likely understates—by at least $1 trillion—the true costs of expanding health coverage as current Democratic legislation contemplates.  Over the last few months, my colleagues and I at the consulting firm Health Systems Innovations have provided cost estimates of health-care reform to both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, and we’ve posted these estimates on our website as well.  We believe that the Democratic bills currently under consideration in the House and Senate would cost $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion, respectively—much higher than CBO’s figures.

Here's the chart:

What the CBO got wrong, and what the Democrats did not factor in was the huge amount of people who would be dumped onto the public healthcare system once it was all "free".  This is exactly why the plan will put private healthcare out of business, despite Obama's assurances (lies) to the contrary.  No for-profit company can compete against a government agency hell bent on losing (spending) money on the public.  The public option will never turn a profit.  Their mission is to spend all their money on the people to buy votes for Democrats, and any surplus of funds would be assailed as overtaxation or witholding necessary care.  Not gonna happen.

We absolutely cannot afford this socialist utopian bullshit.  If it passes the US economy will begin a long downward spiral much worse than the current recession and may never recover, because once these entitlements begin they never go away.

 

SEIU Union Thugs Attack Black Conservative

I'm sure Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are already on a flight, and President Obama will denounce the thugs for "acting stupidly" in a televised address on national TV.

Money quote via Hot Air:

CONSERVATIVE: "You attacked him!!!"

UNION THUG: "He attacked America!"

Ha ha.  Have fun in jail asshole.

Cheryl Tweedy

Another weekend, another babe post here at Woody's Place, and this week's babe is UK singer Cheryl Tweedy.

Evidently Cheryl's in some pop band called Girls Aloud and her real last name is Cole, and she's still dating some loser who cheated on her (WTF?), and blah blah blah... just click through for the rest of the pictures.

Orgy "Fiction (Dreams In Digital)"

She Wants To Be President When She Grows Up

A little joke from my Inbox.

I recently asked my friend's  little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I  asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would  do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless  people.' 

Her parents beamed.

'Wow...what a worthy  goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President  to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and  sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery  store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him  the $50 to use toward food and a new house.' 

She thought that over for a  few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't  the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can  just pay him  the $50?' 

I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.' 

Her parents still  aren't speaking to me.

Obama More Respected Abroad Than Bush?

Yeah right... tell me another lie Mr. Journalist.

At first I thought this was hilarious, watching "The One" get dissed like that, then I realized it's actually really sad when the leader of my country, the President of The United States Of America, isn't worth shaking hands with. 

Obama sucks almost as much as the naive / uninformed / willfully ignorant voters who elected him, but they meant well though, so it's all good.

PC Maintenance Time

My old PC had been running kind of slow, and my OneCare antivirus subscription had expired, and I still had $50 of birthday cash left, so I popped  overto Best Buy and picked up their Norton Antivirus / Norton Utilities combo pack.  Norton's always had a pretty good reputation as far as virus and malware protection, but what really caught my attention was the utilities suite. 

The Norton registry cleaner removed a ton of errors, and their registry defragmenter tool cut the physical size of my registry file down by a whopping 25%.  And that savings is just a few weeks after I'd run Microsoft's free Windows registry defrag tool! 

The Norton disk cleaner and defragger work just as you'd expect, and the manage startup option allows you to manage what applications run at startup, and prioritizes them so your PC boots faster. 

The most impressive feature, in my opinion,is the one that let's you manage the Windows Services that are running on your system.  Let's say you are editing a movie and you need all the CPU horsepower you can get.  The manage services tool allows you to temporarily shut down all the non-essential Windows services like Tablet PC input, Certificate Management, NetLogon, Themes, SmartCard, Telephony, Cryptographic Services and all the other junk you never need.  Speed really picks up nicely when you run this, and when you're done with your work you can turn it all back on with one click.

If you need some antivirus and/or PC tuneup software I'd recommend you check this one out.

Obama And The Democrats Are Lying About Healthcare

Don't take my word on it though, listen to their doublespeak for yourself :

America will rue the day it elected it's first Marxist President.

John Stossel Illustrates The Dangers Of Universal Healthcare

Found via Hot Air, and posted here for posterity, ABC's John Stossel exposes the weakness of the Universal Healthcare Utopia the Democrats are trying to Rahm down our throats.

We already know what happens when the government runs healthcare, it's been tried before and the results are not something Americans will be happy about.  Even so, like any entitlement it will be nearly impossible to reign in, much less repeal, since the MSM/DNC Cabal will defend it to the death accusing any challenger of trying to kill the poor, the children, the elderly etc. etc.

Kate Hudson

I almost forgot to do my weekly babe post!  Fortunately I had lovely actress Kate Hudson there to bail me out at the last minute.

Kate inherited much of her beauty from her mother, actress Goldie Hawn, but she's also got a certain something all her own that's hard to pin down...