Wednesday - November 23, 2011
UK Does Something Right
Sorry for the pandering bias, but the article is from MSNBC ...
Racist much there?
An effigy of Barack Obama was burned by members of a Conservative party college student association in Scotland, after its committee chose the U.S. president over the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, a student official told msnbc.com.
The incident took place on a beach in St. Andrews on Friday as part of a tradition by the University of St. Andrews Conservative Association that has seen effigies of former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown burned and former South African President Nelson Mandela hung among others.
Some kind of Burning Man thing I guess. Don’t they do this every year, and toasted Clinton the same way some years ago maybe?
A source told msnbc.com that a number of the committee members were Americans who support the Republican party.
Oh sure. Because they can find a real live breathing Conservative in bloody Scotland. Where even the “right wingers” are Socialists. Sure, uh huh. But if we can’t Blame Bush, we’ll take the next closest thing. OK, now watch the slobbering media get it’s soiled panties in a righteous twist cuz Mr. Toasty was Fearless Reader.
St. Andrews University, which was founded in 1413 and says it is the third oldest university in the English-speaking world, said it planned to speak to the Conservative group about the “very understandable concerns” over the incident.
In a telephone interview, Patrick O’Hare, a student official, said the Students’ Representative Council had voted by 13 to 2 Tuesday night in favor of a motion that burning effigies of public figures was not constructive.
O’Hare described the burning as “immature” and “potentially very offensive,” particularly as the effigy was of “America’s first black president.”
Five candidates to burn
He said he had been told by a person in a position to know that a vote had been taken by the Conservative group’s committee “as to who they would burn.”He told msnbc.com the identity of the source but provided the information on the basis that the person was not identified.
“There were five candidates including Gadhafi,” O’Hare said. “It was decided upon — perversely democratically — that Obama was the one who was going to burn.”
O’Hare is president of the Students’ Association, of which the Conservative group is a member along with left-wing and other political societies.
St. Andrews University issued a brief comment in an email. “We are aware of reports of this incident and have asked to meet the society president to discuss the very understandable concerns which these reports have raised. Until that meeting has taken place, it would be inappropriate to make further comment,” the statement said.
And on and on. They’re practically wetting themselves with remorse.
[Drew flips through dictionary ... whaddya mean “Effigy” is a thing, not a place. Aw nutz! Hey, wait a second, it says here an effigy is a straw man, a stand-in for the real thing. Um, so does that mean the POTUS is dead?]
The BEEB also covered this story, calling it an ACT OF HATE.
Nobody ran the pictures. You KNOW the pictures exist. When TOTUS gets lit up in Effigy, Afghanistan, we get the picture. When Shiites go at it, we get the picture. When radical militant Hindus light him, we get the picture. NOBODY is running the picture. This is as close as it gets:
Tory Society also repeatedly torched Nelson Mandela
Nothing to see here, move along. No pics mean it didn’t happen, and will soon be forgotten. So here’s a pic of Prince William and Kate, both St. Andrews alumni. Aren’t they a cute couple? Stare at the cut couple. Think only about the cute couple.
Obama? Whozzat?
Effigy? Never been there.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 13, 2011
ToDaze Comic
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Permalink • Thursday - September 22, 2011
Better Late Than Never
Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing right to the end as supporters around the world mourned and declared that an innocent man was put to death.
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Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m. The lethal injection began about 15 minutes earlier, after the Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour request for a stay.
“Justice has been served for Officer Mark MacPhail and his family,” state Attorney General Sam Olens said in a statement.
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Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions on Davis’ behalf, and prominent supporters included an ex-president and an ex-FBI director, liberals and conservatives. His attorneys said seven of nine key witnesses against him disputed all or parts of their testimony, but state and federal judges repeatedly ruled against him—three times on Wednesday alone.
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Davis’ supporters staged vigils in the U.S. and Europe, declaring “I am Troy Davis” on signs, T-shirts and the Internet. Some tried increasingly frenzied measures, urging prison workers to stay home and even posting a judge’s phone number online, hoping people will press him to put a stop to the lethal injection. President Barack Obama deflected calls for him to get involved.
“They say death row; we say hell no!” protesters shouted outside the Jackson prison before Davis was executed. In Washington, a crowd outside the Supreme Court yelled the same chant.
I am not familiar with the details of this case at all, but if what Ann Coulter writes about it is even reasonably accurate, they had him dead to rights.
It’s nearly impossible to receive a death sentence these days—unless you do something completely crazy like shoot a cop in full view of dozens of witnesses in a Burger King parking lot, only a few hours after shooting at a passing car while exiting a party.
That’s what Troy Davis did in August 1989. Davis is the media’s current baby seal of death row.
After a two-week trial with 34 witnesses for the state and six witnesses for the defense, the jury of seven blacks and five whites took less than two hours to convict Davis of Officer Mark MacPhail’s murder, as well as various other crimes. Two days later, the jury sentenced Davis to death.
Now, a brisk 22 years after Davis murdered Officer MacPhail, his sentence will finally be administered this week—barring any more of the legal shenanigans that have kept taxpayers on the hook for Davis’ room and board for the past two decades.
It has been claimed—in The New York Times and Time magazine, for example—that there was no “physical evidence” connecting Davis to the crimes that night.
Davis pulled out a gun and shot two strangers in public. What “physical evidence” were they expecting? No houses were broken into, no cars stolen, no rapes or fistfights accompanied the shootings. Where exactly would you look for DNA? And to prove what?
I suppose it would be nice if the shell casings from both shootings that night matched. Oh wait—they did. That’s “physical evidence.”
Now the media claim that seven of the nine witnesses against Davis at trial have recanted.
First of all, the state presented 34 witnesses against Davis—not nine—which should give you some idea of how punctilious the media are about their facts in death penalty cases.
I guess the news story quoted here, from Fox News, is their liberal bias shining through, what with them being all “fair and balanced”. 34 witnesses not 9? Oh, uh huh, “key” witnesses ... more important than the other ones ... and the “key” part is decided by whom? Riiiiiight. Crivens, the guy’s own friends saw him do it and testified as much. And the shell casings from both shootings matched. And Davis himself disallowed the recant testimony of 2 of those waffling witnesses!
I think this may be another case of blacks being above the law because they are black, and therefore allowed to get away with anything (like OJ) because other blacks were mistreated in the past. Therefore even arresting one is raaaaaacist. Um, no, that’s not how it works. But wait! Hold on a second!
With death penalty opponents so fixated on Davis’ race—he’s black—it ought to be noted that all the above witnesses are themselves African-American. The first man Davis shot in the car that night was African-American.
Now that makes a whole new kettle of fish, doesn’t it? Or does it? Black guy commits a crime against another black guy, a whole passel of black people witness it and testify, and the jury who convicts him is more than half black. Guess we’ve got to put the Race Card back in the deck until next time. Ah, if only it was Oprah Winfrey pointing all this out, instead of lily white fish belly pale Ann Coulter. Then it would all be Ok, right?
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Permalink • Thursday - September 15, 2011
Oh Shut Up Already
Funny how the whole world knows that all of today’s youth couches nearly everything they say in derisive sarcasm, thinking that they’re being superlatively ironic. Yet such acts are taken at face value when it serves Chairman Oh’s cause.
“Audience at Tea Party Debate Cheers Leaving Uninsured To Die” By Rachel Rose Hartman, Political Reporter | The Ticket – Tue, Sep 13, 2011If you’re uninsured and on the brink of death, that’s apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night’s tea party Republican presidential debate.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility. “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks,” Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, “this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …”
“Are you saying that society should just let him die?” Blitzer pressed Paul. And that’s when the audience got involved.
Several loud cheers of “yeah!” followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer’s question.
Paul disagreed with the audience on that front. “No,” he responded, noting he practiced medicine before Medicaid when churches took care of medical costs--a comment that drew wide audience applause. “We never turned anybody away from the hospital.”
Conservative Andrew Sullivan writing for The Daily Beast’s The Dish Tuesday noted that the United States obligates society to save someone in an emergency room. “America, moreover, has a law on the books that makes it a crime not to treat and try to save a human being who walks into an emergency room. So we have already made that collective decision and if the GOP wants to revisit it, they can,” Sullivan wrote.
Sullivan also decried the audience reaction, writing: “Maybe a tragedy like the death of a feckless twentysomething is inevitable if we are to restrain healthcare costs. But it is still a tragedy. It is not something a decent person cheers.”
Wow, what a weak-ass Appeal To Authority. And since when is leftist swisher Andrew Sullivan a Conservative? He’s about as conservative as Charles Johnson at LGF is these days: NOT.
Talk about media bias. This is just as twisted in it’s own projectionist way as Obama’s jack booted AttackWatch site, his latest creepy, authoritarian nutjob Fight the Smears, rat out your neighbors, CCCP inspired horseshit campaign, which is of course directly linked to a sub page that spreads smears against the Right. Hey, isn’t that ironic???
What a turd. Who, Obama or Hartman? Yes.
I can’t be bothered to fisk the pants off of this bit of garbage and it’s author, so I’ll hand the task over to the pros(e). Here’s Ann:
Liberals are on their high horses about a single audience member at CNN’s Republican debate whom they believe wanted a hypothetical man without health insurance in a hypothetical coma to die—hypothetically.
(Democrats want people in comas to die only when they are not hypothetical but real, like Terri Schiavo.)
I concur with the audience member who shouted “Yes!” This has nothing to do with any actual people in comas—the people Democrats want to kill—it’s just a big “screw you” to the moderator.
Following up on Brian Williams’ showboating questions at last week’s Republican debate about the execution of the innocent and starving children with distended stomachs, this week, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer launched his question about an imaginary comatose man without health insurance.
As Rep. Ron Paul began to discuss the pitfalls of collectivism, Blitzer kept interrupting him, concluding with, “But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”
That’s when an audience member yelled out “Yes!”—allowing liberals to luxuriate in self-righteousness, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jersey Girls demanded a Homeland Security Department be created because their husbands died.
Normal people are sick of liberals’ emotional stories that play to soccer moms, but always seem to pave the way for disastrous social policies that benefit only left-wing special-interest groups.
Someone ought to calculate the carnage liberals foisted on this country beginning in the late-’60s with their “compassionate” approach to rapists and serial killers like McDuff—consequences that liberals were fully immunized from in their safe, ivory tower neighborhoods. Let’s ask Michael Dukakis to run the numbers.
Regarding Williams’ baby seal question about starving children in Texas with distended stomachs: No one is starving in this country. The only bloated stomach problem affecting America’s poor is a medical condition known as “obesity.”
According to the General Accounting Office, in 2008, the federal government had 18 separate food programs that spent $62.5 billion each year to feed the poor. And that was before the Food Stamp President assumed office.
I would venture to guess that the only children in America who have ever suffered from kwashiorkor, the condition that causes distended bellies, were victims of child abuse—at the hands of the sort of monsters Williams is so opposed to executing.
People aren’t buying the left’s emotional appeals about imaginary victims anymore. The audience member’s “Yes!” was a way of laughing in the moderators’ faces for trying to pull that crap.
PS - What is wrong with the GOP and their bringing in uber-leftists to moderate their debates? Wolf Blitzer? Oh puh-lease. Wassamatter, they couldn’t get Dan Rather? Was there no translator available for Fidel Castro? Michael Moore out of town? Crivens.
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Permalink • Saturday - August 13, 2011
Who writes this crap?
First, the good news;
After eight days on the lam, the Dougherty Gang are trapped on the side of the road, their car nearly flipped on a speed break, with flashing police car lights all around. In a futile attempt to escape, Grace Dougherty runs through a dusty Colorado field, a Walsenberg police officer on her heels. She turns to shoot, but the cop’s bullet hits her leg first. The mayhem ends.
Well and good. I’m glad the officer shot the bitch. She posted on her Flickr profile:
I’m 28 but act like I’m 17 most of the time. I love to farm and shoot guys…
Truly the girlfriend from Hell.
What got me PO’d about the article was this:
Five hours later two masked men and a woman matching their description burst into a bank in Valdosta, Ga. brandishing automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons? I highly doubt it. Note that the writer doesn’t identify what kind of weapons were brandished. Semi-auto pistols? Semi-auto rifles? But full-fledged machine guns? Not likely.
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 14, 2011
Pay No Attention to the DB behind the curtain
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Permalink • Friday - May 06, 2011
Worst Headline of the Day
Hello to anyone not completely brain dead. What does that headline mean to you?
To me, it is a 100% blatant statement that the news about the impending raid on bin Laden’s compound was leaked. That the most ultra secret, best hidden, only-6-people-in-the-whole-government-knew plan personally engineered by the Great I Am, greatest surprise action in this administration’s history not only got out of the bag, but got to our enemies; that perhaps only a few hours or even minutes separated a Killer Coup from another Carter Disaster.
That isn’t what the story is about. Not at all.
The death of Osama Bin Laden has dealt a serious blow to Al Qaeda recruitment and has diminished the organization’s capability, Asa Hutchinson, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security told CNBC on Wednesday.
Hutchinson said with the operation, carried out by US forces, the US has proven it can and will fight the war on terrorism.
“You think about this being the command center,” Hutchinson said. “Their capability has been diminished …the benefits from this will come over the next year.”
It would also help to limit recruitment for the terrorist organization, he said, as potential fighters might wonder whether they were “going to wind up having breakfast with a navy seal”.
Talk about irresponsible journalism. We’ll ignore completely the obvious facts: a) we probably have no way of keeping tabs on how many splodeydopes sign up for AQ on a weekly or even monthly basis, and b) seeing as OBL got offed less than a week ago, it’s far too soon to be able to spot any kind of trend even if we did have perfect data on a).
No, let’s talk instead about a misquote so wanton that not even “fake but accurate” fits the picture. Undersecretary Hutchinson said nothing of the kind. The only “warning” that could possibly come out of his remarks would be to potential AQ recruits, and potential recruits are just that: not yet members. Not part of Al Qaeda. Raggies merely thinking about being wannabes. Even the context is pretty stupid: AQ leadership has been shown to be one of the world’s most risky jobs for years and years now, as our guys pop them with decent regularity. Knocking off the top goat sucker is just one more deader in the sack. Any potential recruit who hasn’t figured this out by now probably needs a suicide belt labeled “this side towards infidels”. So the “warning” isn’t even a warning, it’s such old news that it’s merely the de facto situation: join us, and you’ll most likely die. OTOH, nuclear DUH moment: that’s why these losers sign up, right? They want to die. They want to achieve martyrdom. Their lives suck so bad that being dead has to be an improvement, whether that gets them 72 raisins or not.
Antonia van de Velde, the CNBC Associate Web Producer who wrote this crap, ought to be terminated. Oooh, I must have just made a warning! “Blogger makes death threats against CNBC!!!” Geez Louise. No, you idiots, all I’m saying is that if your authors have such poor writing abilities and such a drive to provide sensationalist headlines that they are willing to make up BS out of whole cloth, then they should not be working for anything close to a respectable news organization. (which is my opinion of CNBC: close to, but not really, a respectable news organization) What’s next? “Osama bin Laden was secret time travelling love child between Bat Boy and Natalee Holloway, raised by the ghost of Elvis”??
Turn in your press pass van de Velde: TOTAL FAIL.
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Permalink • Saturday - April 09, 2011
The One True Voice, Silenced By Soros
Fox News is canceling the Glen Beck show. This was news 2 or 3 days ago, and I just could not bear to write about it. Sorry. There are some news stories that I can hardly even listen to or read, much less sit down and compose something coherent. Go see if EddieBear wrote a post on it, because his usual writing style ( he has a 1 word vocabular ) reflects my feelings on this.
The Fox article sugar coated everything, calling it an opportunity for new creativity for Beck, blah blah blah BS. But what network in their right minds would cancel a 5pm show that pulls in viewer numbers greater than many prime time shows? Beck gets more than 2.2 million viewers a day; his show is the #3 program in all of cable news. He is (or was) making Fox a fortune, and enormously upping their viewership. No way on God’s green earth any network would let that slide.
But they did. George Soros and the left wing silencers killed the show by writing hundreds of thousands of letters full of lunacy to the advertisers. You can look it all up. There are web pages that PROUDLY proclaim what they’ve done, and run a list a mile long of the companies they frightened away. Boycott Beck because he’s a lying liar who lies, he’s a Nazi, he’s a Klucker, he hates the Joooos. And it worked. Damn shame the sponsoring companies never bothered to even watch his show, because he was on every day talking about the Founding Fathers, the American Ideal, the perils of Communism, Socialism, and Progressivism. And how Israel is our one true ally that we must never turn our backs on.
Ok, sometimes Beck was kind of preachy. Sometimes he’s a little mushy. Sometimes he gets weepy. But he does that over the proper things, like the Gettysburg Address. It’s not like he’s friggin’ Geraldo. And he can’t resist mentioning how God was a huge part of the big picture that was in the roots of our nation.
So of course he had to go. Stupid Fox.
If you don’t recognize “Spooky Dude” as a nickname for George Soros, then you haven’t been watching or listening to news commentator Glenn Beck. Beck has been condemned as an antisemite and portrayed as a whacko conspiracy theorist. He is neither.
I am shocked that, like the Jewish State, he has been boycotted, demonized, and has had sanctions used against him. That his voice is being silenced in America’s Main Stream Media is shameful. Here in Israel, I, and many others have in recent months begun watching Beck’s TV shows online. Judge for yourself. Watch a few of his TV shows at: WatchGlennBeck.com
Maybe he’ll still have his radio show. If so, I’m going to have to find it. I might have to break down and buy an actual AM radio for the house if it’s on that band.
I had the TV on Fox yesterday afternoon and heard the guest talking heads say that they were on the last iteration of Kelly’s Court; Meghan Kelly has the mid-afternoon slot at Fox. She’s smart, firey, takes no crap from anyone, and is a quick thinking lawyer. Oh, and of course - this is Fox News you know - she’s drop dead gorgeous. Is her show getting the axe too? I don’t know. But I’m getting the feeling Fox is moving more “to the center” ... my opinion is that they’ve always been slightly Left of center. They’ve never been an actual Conservative news outlet. If they are making such a move, then it is towards a Center that is considerably to the Left of Center. Which means we lose. Again. As always. And Socialism and Progressivism triumph, which is what Beck warned about every day. So yeah, he had to go.
Hosers.
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Permalink • Monday - March 21, 2011
Do We Get A Choice?
An attack on the compound of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday had to be curtailed because of journalists nearby, Fox News has learned.
British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya’s Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.
The curtailment of this mission led to a great deal of consternation by coalition commanders, sources told Fox News, but they opted to call off the mission to avoid civilian casualties.
During a Pentagon briefing on Monday, coalition commanders said the huge compound was targeted due to its air defense systems on the perimeter and a military command and control center. It was not targeted to kill Qaddafi, commanders said.
Meanwhile, U.S. military officials said on Monday that Qatar is sending six planes to Libya to participate in support missions, becoming the third Arab nation to send aircraft to the African nation. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also announced on Monday that its role in Libya is “strictly confined” to the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Libya.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 26, 2011
North By North South?
Sometimes I swear news stories are published just to scare people. Or to annoy those of us who can actually think. The magnetic north pole has ALWAYS been moving. As nifty as compasses seem when you’re a kid in Scouts, they all have this bit of inaccuracy built in. The truth is that they don’t actually point north. Or to the north pole. Or even to the magnetic north pole. The truth is that the compass needle aligns itself with the local magnetic field, a bit like a homing pigeon flying along a local ley line. And - no shir, Shitlock - those local field lines are not now, nor have they ever been, entirely parallel to the magnetic axis. This is what “magnetic declination” is all about. It’s also what you can avoid by having a GPS, or a device that has one built in. Like an iPad app. In the bad old days, we had to have paper maps available and know how to read them, and how to adjust them. The declination amount was shown at the top of the map. Yeah, an old map would have the wrong value, so you had to get new maps every decade or so. Big deal.
Ordinary Compasses Thrown Off by Changes in Earth’s Magnetic Field
The Earth’s magnetic field is changing at an increasing rate, throwing off airports and altering the aurora borealis—and its effect on ordinary compasses could mean the difference between homeward bound and hopelessly lost.
Earth’s northernmost magnetic point—or magnetic north—is distinct from its geographic North Pole, and scientists have long known that the magnetic poles are on the move.
But the magnetic poles have been moving faster lately, sliding towards Siberia at 34 miles per year at a speed that’s accelerated 36 percent over the last 10 years, according to the United States Geological Survey, or USGS.
Since compasses rely on magnetic north to point you in the right way up the trail, the average $2-dollar model could very well point you in the wrong direction. Depending on location and journey length, unaware hikers or boaters could find themselves hundreds of miles off course if they don’t calibrate for the shift, experts said.
Don’t forget that every once in a geologic while, the magnetic poles actually reverse themselves. It’s always been like that. And unless I missed the fine print statement that says how this is a magical and instantaneous shift, my understanding is that the magnetic pole goes from up to down by moving a little bit all the time.
And just for gits and shiggles, this Scary Science article above forgets to point out one salient fact: the magnetic north pole is moving northward over time:
which means that compasses are actually getting more accurate for most of us, because the distance between the magnetic north pole and the rotational north pole is decreasing. The magnetic pole is not moving directly towards the rotational pole, but it’s many many hundreds of miles closer to it than it was a century ago. See here for more movement history. And don’t let science stories scare you. Half the time they’re pure crap.
For extra fun, know that the movement of the magnetic poles is most probably caused by movement within the molten core of the planet. “Core Flux”. Vast continental sized plumes of molten iron rising and falling and swirling around. That’s the accepted theory it seems. Yet somehow that more energetic core moving about, sometimes closer to the surface, sometimes further away, that vast and incomprehensibly large mass of molten iron sometimes hotter or cooler ... has no impact whatsoever on the temperature of the surface just 50 miles or so above it. No, it’s a microminimal change in the amount of a rare atmospheric gas that causes the surface temperature variations. Uh huh. Right.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 19, 2011
Death Panels? It’s a tough call
Please go read this sad bit of news. A child is dying in a slow and horrible way.
React.
Then go read this short blog post.
React. Then start reading the comments there. Duane’s got a very good discussion going on. It actually stays on topic for more than the first 10 comments, and avoids the mud slinging for a really extended time period. Read the first dozen comments or so. Pick your side. Think about what you’d like to add.
Then stop, and go read another news article on the same situation.
Has this new information changed your reaction? It turned mine around completely. But maybe I’m strange.
Now discuss, here, or back at Duane’s. Because you WILL have something to say. That’s my prediction, not an order. But how can you not? And don’t forget to mention if you have or have had children of your own. I think that may play a role here, but then again, it might not.
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Permalink • Friday - February 11, 2011
Your Foreign Aid Dollars At Work
In an attempt to increase the range of the endangered Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), wildlife biologists have taken to ferrying young adult males and females about to enter estrus across Lake Tanganyika from Tanzania into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to the massive size of the lake, it would take longer for even these long legged creatures to walk around it than their mating season gives them, so the biologists built them their own ferry.
“Putting a cage on the barge wasn’t hard” states Mbulati Gahlwana, chief biologist for the Giraffe Project, “but rounding up half a dozen giraffes and getting them all aboard without injury was a challenge. They are very energetic creatures, and a kick from even a young one can kill a man in one go.”
The land and climate in most of the DR Congo is not perfect for giraffes, but the area on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika is moist enough to support the kind of vegetation and cover that these giraffes need. The Giraffe Project hopes to be able to move 4 dozen pairs of Masai Giraffes this year, enough to establish a small breeding population.
“We worry about poachers over there” says Gahlwana, “but if they don’t know the giraffes are around they might not go looking for them.”
The Giraffe Project is funded both by US foreign aid to Tanzania and by the World Wildlife Foundation.
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Permalink • Friday - November 05, 2010
It is to laff!
A prominent US television anchorman, Keith Olbermann, was suspended today for making donations to three Democratic candidates in this week’s midterm elections, in breach of company rules.
US journalistic ethics are extremely strict, barring media employees from donating to political parties or any other political involvement that might cause a conflict of interest.
Although Rupert Murdoch contributed $2m (£1.23m) to the Republicans and commentators from his Fox News network also made donations, papers such as the New York Times, National Public Radio and television channels such as CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality.
Olbermann, host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, made contributions to two Democrats standing in Arizona and the Democrat Jack Conway, fighting for a place in the US Senate in Kentucky against the Republican Rand Paul, a Tea Party favourite.
Olbermann confirmed in a statement to the Politico website that he had given each of the candidates $2,400, the legal maximum for donations.
The MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, said in a statement: “I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC news policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay.” Olbermann has a contract with MSNBC until 2012.
more here
No, Crazy Oblie getting suspended isn’t funny. Nor is MSNBC’s “no campaign donations” policy ... and I’m not entirely sure it’s even legal. What cracks me up is the line “CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality”.
ROTLMAO.
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on 11/05/2010 at 05:05 PM
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A laugh before bedtime
Thanks Rich, I needed this one!
Horry Clap, nutjobs to left of me, nutjobs to lefter of me, nutjobs behind, tantrums and hypocrisy!
WASHINGTON — Amplified by the right-wing message machine, Republicans paint President Obama as an unyielding left-winger, an unreconstructed liberal who refuses to compromise. The president’s critics have turned the truth inside out: One of Obama’s greatest political weaknesses has been his stubborn — and unrequited — love for bipartisanship.
The president has made some of his biggest mistakes trying to woo a GOP opposition that has committed itself to frustrating him at every turn. If he had ignored recalcitrant Republicans, for example, his health care legislation might have become law without months of damaging political drama.
In an interview last week in his West Wing office, David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisers, acknowledged that the administration had been surprised by the unified Republican resistance to the president’s agenda.
“I think the Republicans have been diabolically clever about how they’ve portrayed this,” Axelrod conceded. “They stood on the sidelines and made a decision that ‘we’re going to let him wrestle with this mess that we created. And then in two years we can try and hang him with it.’ “
After the stimulus, Obama and his Democratic allies tried to negotiate with GOP leaders on health insurance reform — a decision that gave critics time to mischaracterize the proposal and gin up opposition. Remember death panels? Government-funded abortions? Rationing?
Still, Obama kept going back with proposals meant to lure a few Republican votes for his agenda. That led to his disastrous announcement, just weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, to expand off-shore drilling.
A naïve expectation of bipartisan cooperation hasn’t been Obama’s only mistake. He waited until the last possible moment to try to inspire his base for the mid-term elections. Unlike Ronald Reagan, whose poll ratings were slightly lower than Obama’s just before the 1982 mid-term elections, Obama didn’t take every possible opportunity to pin the economic mess on his predecessor.
Read the rest at the above link, if your stomach is strong enough.
Oh, this essay was written by Cynthia Tucker, PULITZER PRIZE winning journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Remember Cynthia, inhale on the upstroke.
The AJC brings a southern flair to all their hard hitting news stories, like this one about 8 cows that were stolen. Seriously. Front page news. And some of the cows were pregnant.
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