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This guy is a breath of fresh air.
I just wish I had candidates like this to vote for! I'm stuck in a dark blue district of a purple state, so passing this on to people who live in areas where a conservative voice actually has a chance of winning is the best I can do.
Hat tip to CMBlake6.
From my e-mail inbox, with some minor "improvements":
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the legislature,
It is now official, you are all corrupt morons:
You have failed in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars and you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?
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It's been over a year since I built my man cave , and I've been getting anxious to put the finishing touches on it. After a year and a half of weekends spent cutting, drilling and nailing, I felt like I'd dropped the ball on the 5 yard line.
You see, the home theater is the centerpiece of any self respecting man cave, but cashflow issues meant that I had to settle for a dinky 27" flatscreen and an old Sony surround sound system... and it was a little underwhelming to say the least.
Now, at long last, I've picked that ball back up again... and here's the result:
My home theater is now fully realized, thanks in part to my 2009 income tax refund that I am taking an advance on (courtesy of my savings account).
A truly awesome cover courtesy of Hot Air.
I grew up on the Muppets, and they never get old to me. If you dig 'em too you should also check out Manahmanah before you go. Their best work IMHO.
Courtesy of Mr. Mayor at Mitchieville, this has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen on the net in a good few weeks... or minutes... not sure. Anyways, it's a hoot!
From: Simon Edhouse
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Logo Design
Hello David,
I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. Basically something representing peer to peer networking. I have to have something to show prospective clients this week so would you be able to pull something together in the next few days? I will also need a couple of pie charts done for a 1 page website. If deal goes ahead there will be some good money in it for you.
Simon
From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 16 November 2009 3.52pm
To: Simon Edhouse
Subject: Re: Logo Design
Dear Simon,
Disregarding the fact that you have still not paid me for work I completed earlier this year despite several assertions that you would do so, I would be delighted to spend my free time creating logos and pie charts for you based on further vague promises of future possible payment. Please find attached pie chart as requested and let me know of any changes required.
Regards, David.
Click through to read the whole exchange. Brilliant? Undoubtedly. Authentic? Hard to say, but we've all worked with someone like that before so it's believable regardless.
Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, this week's babe post is glamor model Aria Giovanni teaching us how to cook yams... and showing off her own yams in the process.
Mmmm... looks scrumptious. I know at least two things I am thankful for.
Yet another example of Democrats doing exactly the opposite of what's required to fix a problem.
Via The Hill:
Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face a 0.25 percent tax.
The bill, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, is titled the “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009.”
Half of the $150 billion in tax revenue would go toward reducing the deficit, while the other half would be deposited in a “Job Creation Reserve” to support new jobs.
No... that is not a joke. They really did call the bill the “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009"... like a bunch of snotty little kids. The title alone makes clear that this legislation is nothing but class warfare. They know voters will be angry at the continued economic turmoil, and rather than doing something to fix it they will set up another straw man and use it to buy votes.
This tax will put a drag on investing, and investing (in companies) is what creates jobs. Federal grants and subsidies do little to spur genuine, long term employment.
And these people are supposed to lead us out of this mess? We're so screwed.
From The Washington Times:
It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.
Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."
Try to explain away "hide the decline" Mr. Scientist... I could use a good laugh!
This is what happens when the scientists are dependent on government grants for their livelihood. They will furnish whatver conclusion the political elite are seeking as long as the money keeps on coming.
The Telegraph has more on the rampant malfeasance of the so-called scientists, including:
Manipulation of evidence:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
Suppression of evidence:
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
The independent media (not so much the MSN/DNC Cabal) has dubbed this "Climategate". You gotta love that!
I will enjoy watching this global scam designed soley to advance socialism fall apart at the seams. I wonder if taxpayers can sue the "scientists" to recover grant money awarded under false pretenses?
UPDATE: Ian Murray at Pajamas Media has a great primer on the scandal.
UPDATE: News Busters reports that the MSN/DNC Cabal is trying to suppress this story. Only Fox News has covered it so far on television. Surprise surprise. It will be like the Acorn child prostitution thing... they'll eventually be dragged kicking and screming to the story, but they'll give the left a few days to come up with a cover story.
Time for my favorite teams to go up against one another in an unbridled test of stamina and their passion for the game.
I love football!
All this economic turmoil so far is just a prelude to the train wreck headed our way. Prudent Bear says it's barreling down the tracks at us and cannot be stopped.
At some point, probably before the end of 2010, the bubble will burst. The deflationary effect on the U.S. economy of $150 plus oil will overwhelm the modest forces of genuine economic expansion. The Treasury bond market will collapse, overwhelmed by the weight of deficit financing.
[...] In the next downturn, the Fed will not be able to cut interest rates, because inflation will be spiraling, as in 1980. Instead it will need to raise them while dealing with a profound crisis in the bond markets. Capital in the U.S. will become still more difficult to come by, and unemployment will approach 15%. The U.S.'s only saving graces will be that the inflation will have prevented much further decline in the nominal prices of houses, while the decline in the dollar will have finally swung the payments deficit towards balance. U.S. real wages will be forced downwards by high unemployment, while banks' relief on the home mortgage front will be balanced by a tsunami of collapsed credit card debt and other consumer debt.
2011 and 2012 will be very unpleasant years, as the Obama administration struggles to get closer to budget balance without pushing up taxes so far as to cause yet a third recession. Stock prices will be at or below their March 2009 lows, and will stay there even as earnings of export-oriented companies will be robust. (Conversely, retailers dealing in cheap imported goods, such as Wal-Mart, will be devastated.) Wages will be generally declining relative to prices, although may show some growth in nominal terms as inflation will be considerable. Foreign goods and services will be inordinately expensive in dollar terms.
[...] As I said, a train wreck. Probability of arrival: close to 100%. Time of arrival: around the end of 2010, or possibly a bit earlier. And at this stage, there's very little anyone can do about it; the definitive rise of gold above $1,000 marked the point of no return.
Well, the silver lining may be that Øbama will have a really hard time getting re-elected after this.
I apologize for the lack of blog posts over the last week or so. There's been an increase in activity both at home and work that's had me tied up. Only so many hours in the day and all that.
Setting up the new PC in my subteranean lair, moving the old PC upstairs for the girls to use, transferring all the files and programs, finishing up a MAJOR enhancement to the man cave, and working 10+ hours a day have left me little time or energy for the blog.
I should be back in the swing of things late this week, or early next week. We'll see. In the meantime please visit my bloggin' buddies featured in the list to the right to fuel your interweb addiction.
This guy is amazing. He deserves his own show on Fox News.
Even if you disagree with his initial atheistic statement, just let it play out. He's using that to make a really good point about liberty in a broader sense.
Hat tip to Cmblake6.
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