Saturday - February 04, 2012

Ewww Ewww Ewe!

Animal sex abuse is on the rise in Germany, with bestiality brothels being set up across the country, according to a state animal protection officer demanding stronger laws to protect mankind’s furry and feathered friends.

Madeleine Martin, the animal protection official for Hessian state government, said the law needed to be changed to make sex abuse of animals – known as zoophilia – a crime.

“It is punishable to distribute animal pornography, but the act itself is not,” she told the Frankfurter Rundschau daily paper on Friday.

“There are even animal brothels in Germany,” she said. Sex with animals was being increasingly seen as a lifestyle choice, and thus more acceptable.

“Zoophilia must be completely banned in the reformed animal protection law,” said Martin, referring to the governments plan to rework that section of the law.

Sex with animals was banned until 1969, when the animal protection law was introduced, but failed to include a specific ban on zoophilia, the Frankfurter Rundschau said.

What gives with the Germans? They have the sickest porn this side of Japan, and now this. Whattsa matta, German girls aren’t good enough anymore?

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   Friday - February 03, 2012

Truck U

A House committee passed a measure Thursday maintaining current tractor-trailer sizes and weights for three years until a study can be completed on the potential costs incurred by allowing longer and heavier trucks on U.S. roads.
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The original legislation, which includes authorizing about $260 billion over five years for federal highway programs,contained a controversial provision allowing heavier tractor-trailer trucks on highways by increasing the federal weight limit from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds. In some cases, it would have allowed 126,000-pound trucks onto highways.
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The legislation also would allow the largest rigs, which comprise two and sometimes three trailers, to be as much as 10 feet longer—a total length of more than 100 feet.

“All trips begin and end on local roads. The cost of fixing these roads is in the hands of local taxpayers. Heavier trucks will damage local roads, which are not built to handle the extra weight,” said Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pennsylvania, who offered the amendment with Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Illinois.

“Local roads will become potholed, buckled, and broken much more quickly. They will need to be repaired and replaced sooner, and the cost for that will fall squarely on local governments and local taxpayers,” Barletta said in a statement.

But the Coalition for Transportation Productivity said this is a matter that has already been studied and it’s time to put heavier trucks on the road.

“It really is ‘Groundhog Day’ today because this very committee asked the Transportation Research Board to study this same issue back in 1998, and the Board strongly endorsed truck weight reform,” said CTP Executive Director John Runyan in a statement.

“There is no need to commit further study to this truck weight proposal. Voluminous academic research and practical on-the-ground experience has proven that states should have the option to put more productive, six-axle trucks on interstates.

The plain truth is that we have become a nation of trucks. We don’t use the railroads for anywhere near as much hauling as we once did. Trucks have the advantage of carrying your goods right to your door, instead of having to take another truck and go down to the RR depot to get your stuff. But today’s trucks are hard pressed to carry as much as it does. There is a strong need for more trucks and for bigger trucks. Another 15-60% load won’t change their mpg all that much; in the long run it is less expensive to carry more on fewer trips than it is to carry the current amount on more trips. And the government just put a stop to that idea. One more way this administration is (pardon the trucking pun) putting the brakes on any economic recovery.

It really is as simple as doing some basic arithmetic. An 18 wheeler tractor trailer distributes the load amongst 16 wheels. A 3 axle trailer would have 12 wheels; connected to the same tractor you’d get a 22 wheeler with 20 wheels carrying the load. Heavy load tractors already exist that have a 4th axle on the tractor that can be lowered to put 2 more wheels down on the road. That’s a 24 wheeler, with 22 wheels doing the hauling. Each tire has a set of brakes I believe, so the more tires you use the more braking you can achieve.

Current 80,000lb maximum load ÷ 16 wheels = 5000lb per wheel.

Suggested 97,000lb maximum load ÷ 20 wheels = 4850lb per wheel. The 3 axle trailers put 3% less weight on the road per wheel, and it’s the load per wheel that matters.

Suggested 126,000lb jumbo maximum load ÷ 20 wheels = 63000lb per wheel, a 23% increase over what the 18 wheelers haul around right now. Terrible. Bad bad bad. Is there any way out? Maybe. Let’s try it with a 4 axle tractor:

Suggested 126,000lb jumbo maximum load ÷ 22 wheels = 5727lb per wheel, which is still 15% more weight per wheel than what we see on the highways every day. Maybe we should go with a bit less weight?

Alternate 110,000lb jumbo maximum load ÷ 22 wheels = 5000lb per wheel. This is a 37.5% load increase over today’s 18 wheelers, but it has the exact same wheel loading as they do. Solution 1!

Alternate 100,000lb maximum load ÷ 20 wheels = 5000lb per wheel. This is a 20% load increase over today’s 18 wheelers, using today’s regular tractors and a 3 axle trailer, but it has the exact same wheel loading as current 18 wheelers do. Solution 2!

I think I just saved the government 3 years and many millions of dollars. They can cut me a check for 5% of the projected study cost, thanks. In the meantime they can throw some money at Goodyear to come up with a recap truck tire that stays together better. We have “tire-gators” all up and down the highways. I’ve seen them blow and have had to dodge the flying 100lb chunks of smoking rubber. No fun there at all. There has to be a better way to build a truck tire.

Ok, I’m not a fan of the triple trailer concept. I’ve never actually seen one, but they have those “road train” things out in the outback of Australia. More power to them, and perhaps they could be Ok here in the USA in the farm belt, where there is almost no other highway traffic. We have tandem rigs here in NJ, and that’s already quite a lot of truck, even though both trailers are of the shorter variety (40 or 45 feet I think, whereas large single trailers are up to 53 feet). Two 45s is already 90 feet, plus rig. Would a 53 and a 45 for a total of 98 feet plus rig be all that much different? I don’t think so.

Of course, one solution would be to only use trucks for source to hub and hub to destination haulage, and use trains for hub to hub. They are far more efficient on a per pound basis. Pity we let most of our railroads go to wrack and ruin 50+ years ago, and then built suburbia where the tracks used to be. Railroad freight cars are rated to carry 263,000lb, which is more than the weight of two of the suggested 97,000lb capacity trailers AND at least one of their tractors.

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On a Roll

We won 5-2 Tuesday in Greed League, which keeps us in 3rd place by a small margin. Only one spectacular score; the wins came from good teamwork where we all rolled well. Next week is a position round so we’ll have to do our best then too.

We won 7-0 last night in Cheap League. Same as last week. This lifts us into 2nd place and closes us to 10 points behind the leading team. Nice. We were supposed to play a team of beginners, and we would have given them a handicap larger than their best bowler’s average, but they didn’t show and they didn’t pre-bowl. So we had a bye, and we had to “earn the points” by bowling close to our team average, which is how forfeits are handled in bowling. So of course my team threw excellent games and we finished the first two games more than 100 over each. Heck, in game 2 we were only 1 pin below our record high game, which is tops in that league. Duh. Strategery? Not. At least we managed to roll poorly in game 3, finishing just 6 pins higher than our minimum required score. I was 55 over with a 235 in game 2, and my wife fired off a 215 that was 65 over her average. She’s suddenly figured out how to put some muscle behind the ball and has taken to rolling 5, 6, or more strikes in a row to start the game. That tires her out though, so she can’t keep it going for long. We’ll have to figure out some strength training exercises for her, so we can unleash her as our secret weapon. I really want her to blast past the other ladies on the league and have high series, high game, and high average for the season.

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Two Girls, One Donkey

Last week, I went out of my way to NOT run the Fear Factor story, although I am sure you heard about it in a dozen other places:

The “reality” contest show challenges contestants to do frightening stunts and to eat really gross things. But this one really took the cake, being the lowest and most depraved act ever planned for a television show. Oh sure, the contestants “volunteered”. Riiiight. The “leaked” news of this event flashed across the internet and several TV news programs, and created a double mugful of publicity for the show. Just as intended. But when it came time to air the episode, NBC got cold feet, probably realizing 100,000 lawyers were lining up to send them the cleaning bills from all over the country from viewers vomiting just watching this, and they pulled the episode ... which I hear was the season finale, and thus would be key to awarding the grand prize? ... and showed some old rerun instead. So maybe this was all just a ratings game, a bit of smoke and mirrors.

No.

And it shows you just how incredibly stupid, skank, and beyond low class the whores and famewhores who are the contestants on that show truly are: Brynne and Claire Odioso, a pair of good looking red-haired twins (twins Basil, twins!! Oh, this hurts to even write, but they’re bottle reds anyway), not only did the stunt, they were SO MAD that it didn’t air that they went on a Florida radio show and told the world all about it.



“we guzzle jizz and piss by the pint”

To make it grosser, producers left the semen and urine sitting out in the hot sun so it was boiling hot by the time they had to drink it.

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Claire said it was extremely bitter going down ... “with hints of hay”—and she vomited several times before successfully drinking the entire glass.
As for how the donkey stuff compares to the human variety—Claire added, ”It’s a lot thicker.”

Holy shiite. “Hey, we’re stupid and easy skanks, and don’t you forget it for a second!”

It’s impossible for journalists to avoid the puns too -

But not only did the Odioso girls gag, it seems they have now been gag-ordered by NBC to keep their lips sealed about the incident.

And the next best part? The interview leaves us no doubt exactly who they are:

“Brynne and Claire Odioso, 22-year-old graduates of the Academy of Holy Names, were contestants on the episode, which was taped in September. Their father is Rick Odioso, a former public relations director with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.”

Alternate Title: Catholic School Girls Gone Bad Make Daddy Proud

Looks like they gave at least one more interview too:

When you agree to go on ‘Fear Factor,’ anything is possible and you clearly should expect the unexpected. So while most of us would think of drinking donkey semen as disgusting, you sign up for that when you sign on the dotted line,” said image and PR expert Glenn Selig. “People have become so desensitized to the lunacy of reality shows; it’s difficult to see the public being outraged with NBC over this. Actually, I would expect that the public will take the position that the twins knew what they were signing up for, and got exactly that.”

But they didn’t get the air time they had anticipated – and have been quick to defend their actions, telling TMZ they were “proud” of such an achievement, and would “probably” do it again.

So these two will get their 15 minutes of fame that they are demanding ... and we don’t even know if they won the contest or not. Hey, how much would that suck, to chug a bucket of mule spooge on TV and then lose? Which would mean that there is at least one other drinker out there who probably did a better job of it, perhaps going back to the donkey for a fresh refill?

And that 15 minutes is going to open the doors for an endless variety of career opportunities. They can make degradation porn movies, they can make bondage and humiliation porn movies, they can make more degradation porn movies, they can get jobs as new product tasters at McDonald’s, or they can get jobs at MSNBC as journalists critiquing Obama.

Horry Clap. What a pair of numskull sicko chicks. And ... in any decent culture, Fear Factor would be hounded right off the airwaves by an outraged citizenry. Remember when NBC’s big hit was Little House On The Prairie? They’ve come a long way baby. Straight down.

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   Thursday - February 02, 2012

eye candy

calling it a night and leaving you with something to build a dream on.

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a plot inspired by al-Qaeda but conceived entirely on British soil.

Police have broken up a terrorist ring. But damn it, these filthy sub human muslim scum can be out and free in 6 years.  Why? Because .... well here.
Read it yourself.

Some of these sub humans are Brit born.  Some would say they’re actually British as well as human.  Well some would be mistaken.

Interesting however. How times and attitudes change with the help of the weepy eyed left.

After WW2, the Brits murdered a fellow known as Lord Haw-Haw. OK, They executed him then, for treason. Thing is though, he was not a Brit nor was he a Brit citizen, having accepted German citizenship.  He was in fact, an American originally.  But the victors in any war require blood revenge and so they killed him.
In actual fact btw, his wife was closer to committing treason as she was Brit born and raised. I guess her role working for the Germans was lesser. ??
He made propaganda broadcasts that most Brits laughed at, they were usually so bizarre.

So fast forward to 2012 and guys who were plotting to kill on a grand scale and support foreign terrorists though born here, go to jail for a few years and then will be free.  I guess what these vermin were planning wasn’t treason.  ??????
My take?  After the war the left wanted Haw-Haw dead.  Today the left wants to keep these scum alive cos killing them might violate some sort of rights issue.

Big Ben bomb gang out in six years: Outrage as terror plotters plead guilty in turn for light sentences

The conspiracy involved nine Muslim defendants
They were all British, living in London, Cardiff and Stoke-on-Trent
Al-Qaeda inspired radicals arrested FOUR days before they planned to plant bombs in London Stock Exchange toilets

By REBECCA CAMBER

A terror gang who planned a Mumbai-style bomb blitz in London could walk free in less than six years after striking an extraordinary 11th-hour plea bargain.

The four Muslim fanatics intended to unleash a Christmas campaign of atrocities with targets including the Stock Exchange, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye.

They and five others had been facing a five-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court and could have expected sentences of 20 years.

But at the 11th hour they decided to plead guilty after a judge indicated they would receive lesser sentences for admitting the plot.

The Crown wanted to avoid both the estimated £2.5million cost of a high-security trial and the possibility of acquittals.

So a rare so-called ‘Goodyear’ direction hearing was arranged in which defence barristers receive guidance from the judge about how long he plans to jail those accused if they admit their guilt.

In this case, Mr Justice Wilkie suggested ringleader Mohammed Chowdhury, 21, would receive no more than 13½ years and his 28-year-old accomplice, Shah Rahman, 12 years.

He said the case did not merit an indefinite imprisonment for public protection because their plans were not developed, and he took account of Chowdhury’s youth.

Chowdhury is likely to spend less than half of his sentence behind bars owing to time already served on remand, while Rahman can expect to be out in five years.

Following the Goodyear hearing, others who had lesser roles in the plot swiftly pleaded guilty knowing that they would attract even more lenient jail terms when they are sentenced next week.

Tory MP Patrick Mercer said a term of five or six years ‘does not seem particularly serious’ for acts of terrorism which could have killed many innocent people.

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residents try to block illegal development of green belt. guess who’s told to move on?

This really is the craziest darn place.
Look at this. Group of law abiding ppl doing their volunteer best to protect their home grounds. The so called Travelers bought the property legally. However, they broke the law by developing on the green belt.  You do not simply go somewhere and dig up the land.  But they do it all the time because laws are meaningless to them.  And you must be careful how you speak to the mo****ers, or you could be banged up for raaaaaaaaism. Yeah really. The previous govt. declared them a race and so there are things you may say which in turn will be used against you. 
So then, a group of people are doing their best to stop illegal development but THEY are the ones now being evicted from their site.

Tear down your protest camp! After two years of protecting green belt against illegal traveller invasion, villagers get THEIR marching orders

Residents warn illegal site is in danger of becoming Dale Farm II

Travellers paid £100,000 to buy paddock - and moved in over bank holiday weekend when the council was powerless to stop them developing it.

Residents barricaded the site in Meriden, West Midlands, to keep out trucks delivering 1,800 tons of hardcore rubble

200 villagers manned camp to make sure the site is not developed - but THEY are given their marching orders

By ANDY DOLAN

For 642 days, the residents have camped out to prevent the spread of an illegal traveller camp on the edge of their village.

But now the vigilant villagers of Meriden are being thrown off their protest camp – while the travellers remain.

Planning officials ruled that the residents’ rudimentary shelter of caravan, tarpaulin and wood-burning stove constituted an illegal development and must be dismantled.

But the town hall has so far failed to move on the travellers, despite the rejection of their planning application.

The decision was last night condemned by the residents of the West Midlands village, who branded the move by Solihull Council’s planning committee a ‘disgrace’.

They warned the illegal traveller site was in danger of becoming Dale Farm II – a reference to the mass illegal occupation in Cray’s Hill, Essex, which only ended after a multi-million pound, decade-long planning row.

The Meriden travellers paid £100,000 to buy a paddock from a local businessman and, in time-honoured fashion, moved on to the land at the start of a bank holiday weekend in April last year – when the council was powerless to stop them developing the site.

But they had not reckoned on the determination of villagers to preserve the Meriden Gap greenbelt which separates the village from Coventry and Solihull.

As word spread, residents swung into action, descending on the eight-acre site and forming a human barricade to prevent a convoy of lorries from delivering 1,800 tons of hardcore rubble to the site later that evening.

Ever since, around 200 residents have manned their camp around the clock to make sure the site is not developed any further, working to a rota with shifts lasting anything from an hour to overnight.

Only last week they succeeded in preventing another eight lorry loads of hardcore from being deposited at the site.

But like their foes, the residents did not have planning permission for the camp – which stands on a builders’ yard driveway immediately opposite the gypsy settlement – and, last night, the Tory-run authority voted to issue an enforcement against it.

Planners ordered them to remove the stove, caravan and tarpaulin by March 31, even though the owner of the builders’ yard has given them full permission to remain there.

Around 80 villagers and members of the residents’ group Meriden RAID (Residents Against Inappropriate Development) packed into a meeting last night at the council house to hear the decision.

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An End To Ann?

I think if Mitt Romney loses the primary or loses the election, it might mean the end of Ann Coulter. She’s pulling her oar for Mittens as hard as she can, and I think that effort is letting the true colors of her petticoats peek out from underneath. And that means that she’s just as big a part of the establishment GOP machine, the Old Money Old Boys Club, as the rest of them.

It was bad enough that publicly she wrote the Birthers off as the tinfoil hat brigade when they first got going. Now, fine, she doesn’t like Newt and she likes Romney ( I always figured Ann for a new England girl. I have no idea where she is from, but I’d guess Massachussets. Vassar much, perhaps? ), and she’s a lawyer, which means she makes her living bending the facts to suit her needs. Like this whopper in her latest diatribe:

Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats’ piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.

Liar liar low-cut form-fitting black cocktail dress on fire! “Mandatory” and “free market” have NOTHING IN COMMON. Privately purchased health insurance, done at your own whim, is free market. Employer provided health insurance is also free market, because the company goes and buys it from whomever they want. Sometimes in a big company the employees can even choose which plan they want. But neither of those is MANDATORY.

We’re going through the evil and embarrassing stage of the primary campaign right now. Ann is not helping things by being evil and embarrassing herself. She’s always been good at pissing off the Left, and she gets better at pissing off the rest of us every day. But I’m sure her hero Mittens approves.

Go and read it if you really have to. To give her some credit, she does try to pull out of that a bit, but she still comes down in favor of mandated health insurance. At the state level, not the federal level. That’s actually a huge difference, but it’s still a freedom killing idea. And she uses the terrible tyranny of precedent to support it - states make you buy car insurance, wear seat belts, not talk on a cell phone while driving, and take a blood test before marriage, so mandatory health insurance is Ok. WRONG. None of those things would exist in a free society. All of them are encroachments on our freedom. Proof right there that Ann is not a Tea Party kind of girl and never was.

News flash Ann: real free people have the right to choose not to buy insurance. Yeah, and it’s tough shit on us if we get sick or injured and can’t pay for it. So, since we’re supposed to be this wonderful, caring, enlightened republic, shouldn’t we get the states together with the feds then and hack out a minimal basic coverage plan that can then be offered by the states and required by mandate? Sure, but only if you think your freedom needs to be sliced away a little at a time, for your own good.

No one is claiming that the Constitution gives each person an unalienable right not to buy insurance.

I am. Because it does, right there in the fine print of the penumbra of the 10th Amendment. The very same penumbra that said that neither the States nor the feds could make laws that limited what a woman could do with her own pregnancy.

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one thug that didn’t get away

Sometimes the bad guys do get taken down quickly.
Wanna bet the creep will sue? 
Hope it hurt a lot when he fell. 
Brave guy what.  Knock down an old lady and grab her purse. But not this time. Look and read.

Take a look at the bad guy. I haven’t seen anyone look this stupid since the would be shoe bomber.

Dramatic moment Good Samaritan rugby tackled thug who robbed woman, 82
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

This is the dramatic moment a mugger who robbed an elderly woman of her pension got rough justice - after being rugby tackled by a Good Samaritan in the middle of a car park.

Violent thug Benjamin Brown had attacked the 82-year-old woman and snatched her handbag outside a post office in Leicester.

But as he fled he was spotted by Sam Woodward, who chased after the thief and grabbed him as he tried to get away.

After rugby tackling him to the ground, former doorman Mr Woodward kept Brown in an arm lock for 10 minutes until police arrived, before handing back the stunned pensioner’s handbag.

Mr Woodward said: ‘When I caught up with him, I rugby tackled him to the ground, got him in an arm lock and waited for the police to arrive.

‘I used to be a doorman for five years so I knew what I was doing and I didn’t hurt him too much.’

Brown, 31, was jailed for five years after admitting the robbery in July 2011 and a string of other offences at Leicester Crown Court earlier this week.

A court heard his previous convictions included stealing three medals worth £600 from a war memorabilia stall in Loughborough.

Mr Woodward added: ‘You could tell the victim was in shock - she walked over to me while I was still sitting on top of him and asked for her purse back, because she’d like to go home.

Good Samaritan: Sam Woodward, left, described the actions of Benjamin Brown, right, as ‘lower than low’

‘I went to see her in hospital after it happened and she was still shaky and she looked like she’d been involved in a rugby match - she was covered in bruises.

‘I’m glad he got a long sentence as this is something that will probably stay with her for the rest of her life.’

The victim, who has asked not to be named, was kept in hospital overnight with cuts, grazes and a knee injury.

Don’t find a lot of stories with reasonably good end to em.

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idiot equality minister takes offense at beer tap. shocking photo seen here.

If any of the men had any grit, they’d have told the stupid bitch to get a life.  But oh f***in no.  The order of the day in these politically correct times, is to give the ‘F’ in.  Always give in the offended or ones who might become so.

Dumb shits!  Sorry ppl but this kind of sorry assed stuff just makes me see red.

Top Totty beer banned from Parliamentary bar in case it offends women

A beer called Top Totty was banned from a Parliamentary bar today because its pump plate featuring a half-naked lady offended women.

One sorry phony who is an “equality” minister who makes extra money cos she is the equality minister. And here’s what has her most likely unwashed knickers in a twist.  Take a look.

Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’

Shadow equalities minister Kate Green was left ‘’disturbed’’ after seeing the 4% ale’s advertising in a popular Westminster watering hole and demanded bar staff remove it from sale.

Within 90 minutes House authorities ordered the beer to be withdrawn after Commons’ Leader Sir George Young told MPs: ‘’Action will be taken.’’
A barman told the Press Association: ‘’I can confirm it was withdrawn from sale at 1.30pm.’’
The bitter backlash developed after Ms Green told the Commons: ‘’I was disturbed last night to learn that the guest beer in the Strangers’ Bar is called Top Totty and there is a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap.’’

She called for a debate on ‘’dignity at work in Parliament’’ and asked Sir George to back her demands for Top Totty to be ‘’withdrawn immediately from the bar’’.
Top Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘’a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’’.

Its website adds: ‘’This award winning beer, brewed solely with Whitbread Goldings hops, produces an initial burst of bitterness with a citrus fruity finish.’’
Speaking as MPs discussed future Commons business, Sir George said he was ‘’not aware of this particular picture’’ but pledged to raise the issue with House authorities.

He added: ‘’I am sure appropriate action will be taken.
‘’I would very much regret it if any offensive pictures were on display in any part of the House.’’
Commons Speaker John Bercow’s wife Sally, who last year famously posed in just a bed sheet for a photo shoot, took to Twitter to vent her anger at the beer.
She wrote: ‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous - does Mr B know?’’
The beer’s withdrawal will come as a blow to Tory MP Jeremy Lefroy, who organised for Top Totty to be sold in Strangers’.

Announcing its introduction as the bar’s guest ale, the Stafford MP said: ‘’This is a great opportunity to showcase a fantastic and award winning beer.
‘’Slater’s Brewery produces many popular beers which have been brewed locally for more than 15 years and it is great to be able to share some of Staffordshire’s finest produce with colleagues in Parliament.’’

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‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous

Yeah right. And this from a woman, married to the Speaker of the house who bragged publicly about her numerous one night stands before marriage, and who not surprisingly supports the left, she is outraged also. Uh huh. Another phony.

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Rlly? Srsly?

New report released by GOP lawmakers suggests top Justice officials had extensive knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious

Top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday, hours before Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, top lawmakers investigating the botched gunrunning operation, claims Justice Department officials in Washington and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in the coordination in the early stages of the operation.

Justice headquarters “had much greater knowledge of, and involvement in, Fast and Furious than it has previously acknowledged,” the memo reads.

The memo, which contradicts claims by the Justice Department, is based upon interviews, documents and emails involving key players of the operation run by the ATF. The operation allowed some 2,000 weapons cross the border into Mexico and into the hands of cartel members.

Gak, why is this even news?

Is it finally, finally becoming obvious to even the willfully blind that F & F had to be run from the very top, with the involvement of all the major players and all the LEO departments? We figured that one out 7 months ago, and then a short essay by a DC insider on how the system works (meetings, sign-offs, emails, CYA when things are ‘above your pay grade’, etc ) drove the point home. No kidding. It could not have been any other way. DHS, BATFE, FBI, DOJ, and the whole alphabet of agencies probably even including the CIA are in this up to their eyeballs and have been since the beginning. State Department too in all likelihood, right up to the very top (HRH HRC) and that strongly implies White House involvement. “We’ve got something in the works, under the radar” quoth Fearless Reader back in the day.

The media is only starting to bay about Eric Holder. They haven’t even begun to think about Janet Napolitano. It might take them a century to have the epiphany that at least a handful of Senators and Congressweasels are also involved, along with quite a number of top state officials. Fast and Furious was not an accident and it did not operate in a vacuum.

We The People aren’t stupid, and we figured out the obvious months ago: that a large chunk of our federal government and some of our state governments were knowingly involved in a wide ranging action that was this close to being an act of war against a neighboring sovereign nation, all done to further their Alinksi plans to fracture society and to serve as the ultimate example for shredding the keystone piece of the Constitution that protects the rest of it.

It failed. The word leaked out. And now DC is furiously blowing smoke and twisting mirrors as fast as they can. Needless to say, the media is fairly complicit, since this has never been more than a bit of a small scale back burner sidebar story for just a few of the networks. If this shit ever really hits the fan, Holder will be left holding the bag ... and nobody will ever connect the dots to all the other players involved.

Fast and Furious is 1000 times dirtier than Watergate. This should have toppled the whole government. It is the prime example of the hubris in DC and their above-the-law elitist mentality. And for the most part, the mindless sheeple ignore it or are completely unaware of it, because the media doesn’t want to splatter any mud on their masters.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/02/2012 at 09:48 AM   
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There He Goes Again

Saying that he is issuing administrative maneuvers for a “homeowners bill of rights” and other means to investigate and prevent abuses in the mortgage industry, Obama told an audience in Falls Church, Va., that he wants the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee refinancing for families who are current on their mortgages.

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Obama said the bill of rights would compliment the work approved by the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

“Now that our new consumer watchdog financial agency is running at full steam, now that Richard Cordray is in as the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, they’re moving forward on protections like this,” he said.

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“I’ll be honest, the programs we’ve put forward didn’t work at the scale we’d hoped,” Obama said. “Not as many people have taken advantage of it as we wanted.”

The administration proposal faces a major hurdle in Congress. The program would cost between $5 billion and $10 billion, depending on participation, and the administration proposes to pay for it with a fee on large banks. The administration has tried unsuccessfully before to win support for such a tax on large banks.

Gee I wonder why. Hey Mr. Banker, whaddya say we put a new law in that forces you to make less money, and we tax you to cover the overhead costs of the whole program? No? You don’t like that? Why not?? Boo hoo, you’re so unfair! Capitalism sucks!!!

snake graphic lifted from Maggie’s Farm.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/02/2012 at 08:47 AM   
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Quick Chili

I made this up last night in under an hour. Usually for me a batch of chili takes at least 3 hours, slowly simmering away until all the flavors open and bloom. This one uses finely ground peppers, so that happens quickly. And the recipe is really easy to remember.

Three’s Chili

3 Tbs olive oil
3 small yellow onions, peeled and roughly chopped
3 quarters of a pound of ground beef
3 cloves of garlic, roughly minced
3 large Ancho chiles
3 Guajillo chiles
3 Chipotle chiles
1 1lb can of red kidney beans or pinto beans
1 28oz can of chopped tomatoes
3 quarters of a cup of water or beer
1 heaping tablespoon cumin seeds
oregano
chili powder from the dollar store
Cheddar or Monteray Jack cheese
Sour Cream

Stem and seed the dried peppers. Use a good hefty pair of sharp scissors to cut them into small bits, then add them all to a Magic Bullet or other small enclosed power chopper device. Grind them into powder. Grind the cumin seeds in another container or spice grinder, add half to the powdered chili, set the other half aside.
Heat the olive oil slowly in a large high sided skillet or wok pan. Add the onions and let them soften and begin to brown. Add the ground beef and cook it until the pink is gone. Open the can of beans and rinse them a bit, then add to the pan. Put in the garlic. Stir things around and let it cook a couple minutes. Add the ground pepper/cumin mix, stir. Pour in the whole can of tomatoes, liquid and all. Add in the water. Heat it up to boil, then reduce to a medium simmer. Taste test, and add more cumin if necessary to bring that flavor forward. It will taste hot at this point, don’t worry; the heat of the chipotle cooks off. Add a decent shake of oregano. If it seems to need some salt, add a teaspoon or so of the dollar store chili. That has plenty of salt in it already plus a little garlic and some sweet chili. Stir every couple minutes and let it simmer for half an hour or so.

Serve in bowls with grated cheese on top and a dollop of cream cheese, chips on the side. Serves four. This chili has a small amount of heat, but it’s really rich in Tex-Mex flavor. The chipotle adds a nice smokey flavor. If you want even more of that, grind up 1 or 2 pasilla de Oaxaca chiles. These are usually very smokey. Intensely so, but with heat. Mulatos could work for that too, with less heat, or other smoked sweet chiles.

I buy dried cumin and chiles by the pound which really brings the cost down; I think it costs about $5 to make this whole dish, not including the cheese or sour cream. If you like your chili red hot, add a spoonful of ground Cayenne or slice a couple of fresh Serranos into the simmer.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/02/2012 at 07:50 AM   
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   Wednesday - February 01, 2012

I NEED A BIGGER TARBRUSH redux

I’d like to weigh in on ‘racism’.

Bullshit.

Sorry, but I’m one of these people who remember MLK’s speech “…not the color of their skin, but the content of their character.”

Allow me to show you my family:

Actually, I’m not certain who’s on First. I think that’s Michael, next is my sister Michelle, next is Rachel, (Mother of my niece Erika, that I just posted about), Next is half-sister Laura, Then Anthony Johnson…

Anthony Scott Johnson (born October 25, 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a former professional American football running back for eleven seasons in the National Football League for the Indianapolis Colts, the New York Jets, the Chicago Bears, the Carolina Panthers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Johnson now ministers as the chaplain to the Jacksonville Jaguars. He attended Stanley Clark School, and then played high school football at John Adams High School, where his jersey is still on display. He also played college football at Notre Dame.

My point? Not a racist. However, you better behave!

Have to admit one regret… there was a time I could carry Michael and Anthony under both arms. They’re way too big for that anymore!

Posted by Christopher     on 02/01/2012 at 10:57 PM   
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