Thursday - February 15, 2007

Quote Of The Day

“Did I hear you say you killed some cancer?”

-- Laboratory colleague of Katherine Shaefer of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, who accidentally over-mixed a compound called a PPAR-gamma modulator which then proceeded to destroy every cancer cell in sight in the lab. The researchers will test the new compound for safety as soon as they can grow and culture some more cancer cells for testing. (MSNBC NEWS)

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/15/2007 at 10:46 AM   
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Ann Does Obama

Go grab a cup of coffee and sit back while our gal Ann examines Obama-Rama-Ding-Dong (Sha-Na-Na) ... 

Jonathan Livingston Obama
-- by Ann Coulter
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I‘ve caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama, Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I’m feeling.) Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama’s “eloquence.” His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides.

In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in “the basic decency of the American people.” And let the chips fall where they may! Obama forthrightly decried “a smallness of our politics”—deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided saying, “My fellow Americans, size does matter.")

He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: “There are those who don’t believe in talking about hope.” Take that, Hillary! Most weirdly, he said: “I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this—a certain audacity—to this announcement.”

What is so audacious about announcing that you’re running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president. Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq should surrender, and you’re officially a Democratic candidate for president.

Obama made his announcement surrounded by hundreds of adoring Democratic voters. And those were just the reporters. There were about 400 more reporters at Obama’s announcement than Mitt Romney’s, who, by the way, is more likely to be sworn in as our next president than B. Hussein Obama.

Obama has locked up the Hollywood money. Even Miss America has endorsed Obama. (John “Two Americas” Edwards is still hoping for the other Miss America to endorse him.) But Obama tells us he’s brave for announcing that he’s running for president. And if life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

I don’t want to say that Obama didn’t say anything in his announcement, but afterward, even Jesse Jackson was asking, “What did he say?” There was one refreshing aspect to Obama’s announcement: It was nice to see a man call a press conference this week to announce something other than he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby.

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Glowbull Warming Daily Briefing

Yes, it’s February - a month which typically contains what we call “winter”. Sadly, the picture below is not from Maine or Minnesota - it’s from Washington, DC. The glaciers are advancing southward and are thankful for Al Gore, who is doing a wonderful job of distracting mankind while the next Ice Age sneaks up on us. As I sit here in St. Louis writing this, everything is frozen and covered in snow outside and the thermometer says it is 9°F outside. Cold enough for ya ... ?

Snowstorm Closes Schools, Snarls Travel
_{NEW YORK (ABC NEWS) - Feb 15, 2007}

Blowing snow and sleet glazed windshields and roads across the Northeast and the Midwest on Wednesday, messing up Valentine’s Day flower deliveries and wrecking couples’ plans for romantic dinners. The storm grounded hundreds of flights and forced the closing of schools and businesses from Kentucky to Maine. Many of those stuck at home had no heat or lights because of blackouts that affected more than a quarter-million customers.

“I’m just trying to figure out where to take my wife for Valentine’s Day,” said Skip Daniels, the emergency management director in Sussex County, N.J. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the huge storm system.

Blizzard warnings were posted for parts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, where as much as 2 feet of snow was possible. Some areas reported more than 3 feet. There were hundreds of accidents. The Ohio State Highway Patrol alone handled more than 1,200, but there were few injuries because most vehicle were moving slowly, Sgt. Brett Gockstetter said.

The storm’s cold, snow, sleet and rain made life difficult for Valentine’s Day messengers. “Cold. Slippery. Nobody has their sidewalks sanded,” said Caroline Roggero at Rose Petal Florist in Newport, R.I. “They all want their delivery today.” The storm was a convenient excuse for husbands and boyfriends who forgot to send flowers.

Some delivery drivers got stuck on the roads. Flowers delivered to offices were turned away because the businesses were closed. And customers had to change their orders to have flowers delivered to homes instead of places of work.

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Follow-Up

Well ... she’s free to pursue her modeling career now, provided the National Guard allows her to “resign” ...

Air Force Strips Playboy Poser of Status
_{SAN ANTONIO (AP) - February 15, 2007, 2:13 AM EST}

An Air Force drill sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she and the Air Force said Wednesday. Michelle Manhart, who appeared in a six-page spread in Playboy’s February issue, said she got word Friday that she was removed from “extended active duty” and was also told that she was demoted from staff sergeant to senior airman.

“I’m disappointed in our system,” Manhart told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “They went too far with it.” Manhart said that she was reverted to her Air National Guard status and that she submitted a “resignation” to the Guard, which she said is pending. Manhart was a member of the Iowa Air National Guard before going on extended active duty.

Oscar Balladares, a spokesman for Lackland Air Force Base, confirmed that Manhart was removed from extended active duty Friday but said Lackland did not discharge her.

“She was removed from active duty status, and thus reverted to National Guard status,” Balladares said. “It is not up to the Air Force—it is not our jurisdiction to discharge her.”

Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, a spokesman for the Iowa National Guard, said that because the Guard did not have “documentation of her separation” from the Air Force, it did not have her on duty status.

Manhart, a 30-year-old mother of two, said the military’s action against her hinged on the fact that she was pictured wearing her uniform. She was photographed in uniform yelling and holding weapons under the headline “Tough Love.” The following pages showed her partially clothed wearing dog tags and fully nude. After the pictorial hit newsstands in January, Manhart was relieved of her duties pending an investigation.

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Border Wars

Meanwhile, down on our Southern border the Mess-cans are throwing rocks at our border patrol agents. I guess they heard that all you have to do is harass our agents until they shoot at you, then you can get the agent arrested and sue the US for millions to boot. How much longer is this screwed-up mess going to go on?

You know ... if we gave our border patrol agents orders to “shoot to kill” and looked the other way, it wouldn’t be long before our neighbors to the South got the hint and left us alone. It worked in 1848. The Mess-cans just need a refresher course in international relations.

Border Patrol Agent Shoots at Immigrants
_{EL PASO, Texas (AP) - February 15, 2007, 12:00 AM EST}

Border Patrol officials are investigating a shooting at the Mexican border that involved one of their agents. Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, said an agent fired at least one shot at a group of would-be immigrants Tuesday night during a confrontation along the border near downtown El Paso.

The agent fired at least one shot after some of the immigrants began throwing rocks at him, narrowly missing the agent’s head, Mosier said. The immigrants ran from the border after the agent fired. Border Patrol officials do not believe anyone was injured, Mosier said.

The shooting is under investigation, though Mosier said initial reports show the agent fired in self-defense. Last month a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican national in Arizona, drawing criticism from Mexico’s president. The Border Patrol has said the agent thought his life was in danger and placed him on paid administrative leave.

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Mheh-heh

_{Michael Ramirez - Investors Business Daily}

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   Wednesday - February 14, 2007

Through The Looking Glass

“Io: The Prometheus Plume”

What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io? Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera.

In the image middle, near the night/day shadow line, the ring shaped Prometheus plume is seen rising about 75 kilometers above Io while casting a shadow below the volcanic vent. Named for the Greek god who gave mortals fire, the Prometheus plume is visible in every image ever made of the region dating back to the Voyager flybys of 1979 - presenting the possibility that this plume has been continuously active for at least 18 years. The above digitally sharpened image was originally recorded in 1997 on June 28 from a distance of about 600,000 kilometers.

-- Astronomy Picture Of The Day

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Lost!

HELP! I’m about 3,000 feet above the runway of one of the largest USAF bases I’ve ever seen. We’re somewhere in the Far East. All I know is we’re not over any secret bases in Tibet. The Skipper tells me he has flown into this base several times and absolutely loved visiting there. I sure hope he’s right. I just wish he’d tell me where in heck I am. I’ve got a load of snakes on this plane (why would anybody in their right mind ship snakes on a plane?) and I’d sure like to get this crate on the ground FAST! Can you help me? Hssssssss. Down, boy!

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Glowbull Warming Daily Briefing

The enviroweenies have now decided to go after Valentines Day - and flowers. Yes, it seems it costs too much carbon being pushed into the atmosphere by freight planes flying in flowers from all those tropical Third World countries south of the Equator. They want us guys to switch to chocolates or some other such drivel in order to save the planet.

What they fail to recognize is that our poor neighbors in Africa are already starving - and now they want to take away a source of revenue? Hmmm. Tough choice here. Should we continue to heat up the planet 1/10,000th of a degree per year or should we just let all those starving kids in Africa expire? I vote for the kids. Have a rose on me, Mr. Gore!

Valentine Bouquets Are Bad For The Planet
_{LONDON (TELEGRAPH-UK) - 1:53am GMT 10/02/2007}

The Valentine’s Day bouquet — the gift that every woman in Britain will be waiting for next week — has become the latest bête noire among environmental campaigners. Latest Government figures show that the flowers that make up the average bunch have flown 33,800 miles to reach Britain.

In the past three years, the amount of flowers imported from the Netherlands has fallen by 47 per cent to 94,000 tons, while those from Africa have risen 39 per cent to 17,000 tons. Environmentalists warned that “flower miles” could have serious implications on climate change in terms of carbon dioxide emissions from aeroplanes.

Andrew Sims, the policy director of the New Economics Foundation, said: “There are plenty of flowers that grow in Britain in the winter and don’t need to be hothoused. Air freighting flowers half way round the world contributes to global warming. You can argue the planes would be flying anyway but the amount of greenhouse gases pumped out depends on the weight of the cargo.”

Vicky Hird, of Friends of the Earth, said: “We don’t want to be killjoys because receiving flowers can be lovely but why not grow your own gift?” The figures also revealed that imports of roses from Ethiopia have grown from zero to 130 tons a year since 2003. Kenya is the second biggest exporter of flowers after the Netherlands, followed by Colombia and Spain.

In total, Britain imports more than £315 million of flowers, with the typical Briton spending £39 a year on them. “That’s very little when you think what we spend on CDs, coffee and even lipstick,” said a spokesman for the Flowers and Plants Association. He said the boom in Third World flowers would help poorer countries to build schools and boost the economy.

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Absolute Stupidest Headline Of All Time

See those two gentlemen in the picture below? That is “Hinky Dink” Kenna & “Bathhouse” John Coughlin. They ruled Chicago back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. They also helped establish corrupt politics as Chicago’s #1 livelihood. They started the old “vote early and vote often” and “raising the dead on election day” drama that the Daleys inherited.

So how can any reporter (or anyone older than 12) be surprised that “graft is #1 in Chicago?” DUH!

Graft Is Issue No. 1 in Chicago Election
_{CHICAGO (AP) - February 14, 2007, 2:12 PM EST}

A mayor overseeing an administration under federal investigation. An alderman who just got hit with a federal bribery charge. Four politicians who served time for corruption and want their old jobs back. All are candidates in this month’s municipal elections in Chicago, a city legendary for graft.

“At this juncture, people just shrug it off as more Chicago,” said longtime political consultant Don Rose. At the top of the Feb. 27 ballot is Mayor Richard M. Daley, who is running for a sixth term amid a corruption investigation.

Federal officials have nailed dozens of people, including Daley’s former patronage chief and a former city clerk, in an investigation that started with bribes paid to city officials for trucking work and expanded into a broad look at City Hall hiring practices. The mayor has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Daley blames the wrongdoing on a “few bad apples” and is expected to sail to re-election against two lesser-known political figures who have tried to make an issue of the corruption. He said in December that he has taken responsibility for rooting out corruption, retooling Chicago’s hiring system and limiting fundraising. “So far, sure, I think I’ve done enough,” he said.

If he is re-elected and serves the full four-year term, he would eclipse his father, the legendary Richard J. Daley, as Chicago’s longest-serving mayor. The elder Daley served for 21 years and died in office. Daley has largely been able to brush off corruption questions, instead focusing on improvements in schools, city development and success in lowering crime.

He also got a break when two congressmen who had been considering running for mayor, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Luis Gutierrez, decided against it after the Democrats took control of the House in the November elections.

As for the City Council candidates, Alderman Arenda Troutman, who represents a ward on the South Side, was charged in January with taking a $5,000 payoff to help a bogus developer move forward on a building project. Federal agents had to break a window at her home to arrest her after she refused to let them inside.

Troutman, who has asserted her innocence, does not have to resign her seat while she deals with the charges, but would lose it if convicted. She faces two challengers. “I have been an upstanding alderman for 17 years,” she said after her arrest. She was appointed by Daley in 1990 to fill a vacancy on the council, whose members make $98,125 a year.

Meanwhile, four former aldermen who were convicted of graft want their old jobs back. Three of them—Ambrosio Medrano, Virgil Jones and Percy Giles—were snared in the federal government’s Operation Silver Shovel investigation in the 1990s. The fourth, Wallace Davis Jr., was convicted of taking bribes and extortion in a separate federal probe in the 1980s.

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El Cabeza Gorda

How can you tell if you’re living in a dictatorship? Well, the first sign is when people aren’t allowed to poke fun at fearless leader (El Cabeza Gorda). Forget about using the Jews or gypsies or homosexuals as a warning sign. The comedians are always the first ones to be shipped off to re-education camps.

Now here in the Land Of The Free where nothing is sacrosanct we can poke fun at Dubya all day long. We can even make fun of fearless leader’s kids if we want to (especially if they’re caught buying booze in Austin bars while underage).

Not so in banana republics where the supreme dignity of El Presidente is above any such foolishness and will absolutely not be tolerated under any circumstances whatsoever. Comics have been known to mysteriously disappear.

Take Venzuela, for instance ....

Court Fines Venezuelan Comedian Marquez
_{CARACAS, Venezuela - February 14, 2007, 4:23 AM EST}

Comedian Laureano Marquez has poked fun at politicians for decades without getting into trouble with the law, so he didn’t think twice about writing a tongue-in-cheek newspaper editorial based on a dialogue between President Hugo Chavez and his 9-year-old daughter.

But Marquez and a publishing company that printed the column in the Tal Cual newspaper are now facing fines imposed by a local court for “violating the honor, reputation and private life” of Rosines Chavez Rodriguez, Chavez’s youngest daughter.

Marquez—one of Venezuela’s leading humorists—denies any wrongdoing and argues the $18,600 fine imposed on the Mosca Analfabeta publisher is part of a government initiative in which pro-Chavez prosecutors and judges are being used to silence critics. Marquez must separately pay a fine of a yet-to-be-determined amount.

“I think this government has a concept of society in terms of friends and enemies,” Marquez said in a telephone interview. “Governments that see society like that are very sensitive to criticism, and they don’t tolerate it.” Chavez, a former paratrooper who accuses Venezuela’s privately-owned media of conspiring to topple his government, denies restricting press freedoms.

Marquez insists he meant no harm when he used 9-year-old Rosines as a medium for mocking her father’s decision in 2005 to remake Venezuela’s coat of arms so that a white horse would appear galloping left, not right—an evident metaphor for Chavez’s revolutionary politics.

During a broadcast of his radio and television show, “Hello President,” Chavez told listeners that Rosines said the horse looked strange running to the right while craning its neck in the opposite direction. Within weeks, pro-Chavez lawmakers pushed through a reform changing the coat of arms.

“He considered changing the coat-of-arms due to a suggestion from his daughter,” Marquez said. “I simply wrote her a letter asking her to request another series of changes.” In the editorial, he suggested she ask her father to trade the horse on the new coat of arms for a devoted house pet, such as a Golden Retriever or tortoise—“a good symbol of our sluggishness in everything.”

“Also tell him not to talk about things beyond 2021,” Marquez wrote. “He shouldn’t do it because those of us who don’t agree with him (don’t worry, there are fewer of us every day, according to the official statistics) get desperate, which isn’t good.” Chavez has repeatedly said he wants to continue governing Venezuela until 2021 or longer.

Representatives of the National Council for the Protection of Children and Adolescents urged prosecutors to file charges against Marquez and the publisher, Mosca Analfabeta, justifying the measures as necessary to shield a child from politics-related slander. The council did not ask that Marquez also be prosecuted on criminal charges. “They saw there was a violation of the girl’s rights, so they took measures,” said Antonio Ramos, who heads the council in central Lara state, where Rosines resides.

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Motivational Poster Of The Day

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The Bear Facts For Valentines Day

OK, gentlemen! It’s Valentine’s Day and I hope you haven’t forgotten to get a little something for your special lady. If not, then the phrase “get a little” will not apply to your love life for some time. Comprende?

Now, what are you going to get your little gal? Well, the trend in recent years has drifted away from chocolates and flowers and into the bear arena. Don’t ask me why - I just work here.

Now if you’re one of those metrosexual, namby-pamby, sensitive, Alan Alda type guys then you should skip on over to Vermont Teddy Bears and choose one of the lovely little specimens below for your lover.

However, for you real men out there (Yes, YOU!) there is an alternative bear to charm your little sweet pea. Now I’m only talking to the real, butt-scratching, beer-drinking, hairy-chested MEN out there. Odds are that your lover has more class than the kind of gal who falls for Mr. Sensitive. For that special gal there is only one kind of bear. Look under the fold (click CONTINUE READING) and order yours today. She’ll never forget you or this day ...

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Joe Kennedy Loves Hugo Chavez

Yes, Joe loves Hugo ... but is seriously angry with Connie. Yes, another scion of the Kennedy family, Joe Kennedy, son of the late Robert Kennedy, has jumped in bed with our favorite Commie dictator and all it cost him in exchange for his soul was some cheap heating oil. Watch the TV ad below and then if you can control your urge to vomit, go ahead and read the story of this love-hate triangle between a former Congressman, a current Congressman and a Commie.

Joe Kennedy Fires Back Letter to
Florida Rep. Connie Mack Over Chavez Oil TV Ad
WASHINGTON (FOX NEWS) - Monday, February 12, 2007

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy fired off a letter Monday in response to a Florida congressman’s calls for him to stop airing television commercials that heap praise on Venezuela for its providing discounted heating oil to low-income U.S. households.

“If your moral indignation requires that we not accept the discount oil to distribute to our most vulnerable families, then that same high moral standard should require that you not drive your car because it, too, probably uses gasoline made from Venezuelan oil,” Kennedy wrote in a letter sent to Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.

“Maybe the fact that you live in Florida diminishes your concern for those who have to forgo food or medicine to pay for heat or turn to dangerous heating sources to stay warm, risking their lives to brave the cold,” Kennedy wrote. “If so, maybe you could advocate that they move to your district to alleviate the need to figure out ways to protect them.”

In a letter sent earlier in the day, Mack scolded Kennedy for the television ad that Mack says pays tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, “a sworn enemy of the United States.”

In the ad, Kennedy, founder and president of Citizens Energy Corp., a nonprofit energy company, thanks Venezuela and Citgo, a Houston-based oil company owned by the Chavez government, for contributing heating oil to low income senior citizens. “I am Joe Kennedy. Help is on the way. Heating oil at 40 percent off from our friends in Venezuela at Citgo,” Kennedy says in the commercial.

Mack said Kennedy’s link to Venezuela sends the wrong message of support for Chavez. “Hugo Chavez is using Joe Kennedy in a charade to try to deflect attention from the fact that his own country economically and politically, is falling part,” Mack told FOX News. “I don’t know how, in good conscience, you can, as an American, stand up and support someone like Hugo Chavez.”

In the letter to Kennedy, Mack wrote: “Venezuela’s Communist President Hugo Chavez is a sworn enemy of the United States. That is why there is absolutely no excuse for you to be praising him in television commercials and media interviews for any reason whatsoever.”

Mack’s letter continues: “While you have gone out of your way to publicly praise Hugo Chavez, he’s gone out of his way to crush the hopes and dreams of the Venezuelan people and to destabilize freedom, democracy, and the United States interests throughout the Western Hemisphere.”

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