Thursday, October 11, 2007

Who Says It's a Do-Nothing Congress?


Picture from 1915 shows Turkish soldiers standing next to hanged Armenians. US lawmakers defied strident warnings by President George W. Bush by voting Wednesday to label the Ottoman Empire's World War I massacre of Armenians as "genocide" sparking condemnation from Turkey.

The Democratic philosophy seems to be opposing anything President Bush favors, regardless of consequences. Why would they want to upset Turkey? Were we getting too many friends in the Middle East? I suspect Bush could have saved us this embarrassment if he had quietly dropped hints that he favored the censure. Pretty silly way to run a government, but it works with angry five-year-olds, which is what this group of highly paid wet-blankets most resembles.

Hillary

I'm sure you've seen the Hillary quote, it's a Drudge headline:

"I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."
Finally, we agree on something.

Move..... on

Strange who-says-Google's-not-evil news:

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Internet giant Google has banned advertisements critical of MoveOn.org, the far-left advocacy group that caused a national uproar last month when it received preferential treatment from The New York Times for its “General Betray Us” message.

The ads banned by Google were placed by a firm working for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election campaign. Collins is seeking her third term.

Earlier this week, Google told Lance Dutson, president of Maine Coast Designs, that the ads he placed for Collins had been removed and would not be allowed to resume because they violated Google’s trademark policy.

Google’s Web site states, “Google takes allegations of trademark infringement very seriously and, as a courtesy, we’re happy to investigate matters raised by trademark owners.” That suggests Google acted in response to a complaint by MoveOn.org.
This is taking trademark to a ridiculous extreme. And I'm sure whoever is making the decision at Google knows this; they just want to see this MoveOn's way.

Seems to me the only solution is for Susan Collins to trademark her name and sue anyone who uses it in a manner she doesn't approve of.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Iran Protests

Maybe they didn't think this one through:


That would be King David, right? And he was? Muslim?


Do you smell burning clown suit? Clickabiggen to better see how funny the crowd thinks this is.


And here's a guy who really didn't think things through. Hours after everyone else has burned their Israeli flags and gone home he's going to be sending his friend Mohamed for "just one more can of lighter fluid."

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Watch Out John Edwards




She calls it political hardball.

There Goes My Halloween Photoshop




She slapped the Wacom stylus right out of my hand.

***Update: I added the Laugh, because the picture begs for it.... and then did the above video. But I promise, I'm not turning this into a Hillary's Laugh Blog. (again)

Hillanation


Hillary dropped the $5000 baby bonus and is now offering 401K's for everybody! Hot Air has got the story. She'll pay for it by transferring money from people who have too much anyway. So why would I be against this? Because history says I'll be paying for it. Doesn't matter how little she says it will cost, doesn't matter who she says will pay for it; if a Clinton wants to give you something, it's best to have orifice protectors handy.

It's the same thing with Government Health Care. We'll pay more and get less if the government runs the show.

BTW, anyone remember that Bill Clinton first ran on a platform of cutting taxes on the middle class? Then, remember him speaking from the oval office, shaking his head and sadly telling us, "I'm sorry, I've worked as hard as I could, so hard, so hard, but I just can't make the numbers fit" (or words to that effect) Then he raised taxes on social security recipients. Yeah, well I wasn't surprised. Just remember, fool me once: shame on you, fool me twice: shame on you, you stinkin democrat.

Thanks



This reminded me of Douglas Adams, "so long.... and thanks for the fish."

It came from here. Which is a quick and easy to send a thank-you to the troops. Why not check it out? You don't even have to think of the words to say if you're lexically-challenged, like me -- they have appropriate messages you can click on. Click "other" if you want to write your own. Go on, do it. Go.

Tuesday Ochie



So you're giving your presentation on firearm safety and accidentally shoot yourself in the foot. Not the metaphor, "shoot yourself in the foot," the shoe-ruining kind. To his credit, this officer carries on, in shock most likely, until those around him convince him that, ok, 'my work here is done.'

The foot has been ventilated within the first minute. Also, note the protests from the audience when he asks someone to hand him a more powerful weapon.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Data Pollution


"Hi, mom"

Seen this story, about three Einsteins in Cincinnati who glued a dollar bill to the sidewalk then went up eight stories to drop water balloons on the people who stopped to check out the immobile bill? One of them is pictured above. (pretty much, you can be sure you're dealing with the seriously stupid when they do the party-grin for the mug-shot. Nick Nolte, now there's a guy who knows how to do a mug-shot; I think I might have one of his shots -- I'll be sure to post it sometime)

Anyway, in the article a physics prof stated that a water balloon falling from an eight story building would be traveling at 60 miles per hour when it hit the ground. That didn't sound right so I thought I'd check his math... Course, we all know v=gt from countless physics tests, but I'd forgotten what g is. (9.81 m/s2) So I google "speed of an object falling story building", thinking it wouldn't hurt to have an estimate of how high an eight story building is. And the information was there in the first page of results. What was discouraging was that of the first ten entries, 7 were about the collapse of the WTC. How can there be that many stupid people out there? Is this the internet Al Gore worked so hard to invent? He must cry nightly.

BTW, could be the U of C prof and I differ on the height of a "story" (I used 3 meters) but I get 48.6 mph, still a pretty good speed for a conk on the head.

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