Blog full o' bitter!
A big collection of Hillary photos that are, uh, not in her best light. My favorite:
and my 2nd fav:
Jeez, I think she is buried up to the second knuckle joint.
Deciding on my favorite was simple but the the runner up was quite difficult since there are so many to choose from.
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Duh. Gas prices have risen so much in proportion to everything else it’s to the point that — unless you can fit in a Civic Hybrid — you can not afford to drive your car unless you are taking it someplace that will directly contribute towards covering the costs of operating the vehicle.
For people who have been driving more than 40 miles to work for a job that earns less than about $25 dollars an hour, the gas price is a deal killer. Gas prices of more than $5 to $10 bucks a gallon without commiserate increases in wages will change the fundamental structure of our society. People simply wont be able to afford to drive more than is necessary.
Welcome to your world, asshat:
Senate candidate Al Franken says he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states going back to 2003.
The Minnesota Democrat has been under attack by Republicans for failing to file tax returns in California for several years when the comedian-turned-candidate earned money there. (Link)
No wonder it’s so easy for liberals to advocate tax and spend — they don’t plan on paying the taxes, just spending them.
When was the last time anything good came from giving someone the password to your email account? Amazingly Elaine Schmidt had the audacity to publicize her stupidity to the LA Times:
“I thought I was just signing up to read my friend’s message,” Schmidt said. “At no time did I think I was authorizing [Reunion.com] to access my online address book.”
Hello, you gave them your email password. That’s about as close to authorization as you can get without sending a certified letter and power of attorney. My God woman! When was the last time you had to give out the password to your email to read a friend’s message? You don’t need to give out your PIN when you use you debit card, do you?
Schmidt’s cohort in confusion, Vera Eck, a Santa Monica psychotherapist, also received an email from Reunion.com and, you guessed it, she also went to Reunion.com and gave her email password.
I wonder how many e-cards these mo’s opened before figuring out no one was thinking about them except for some spammers in a basement in some faraway place. I am thinking the majority of people in the world might be too stupid to use the Internets seriously.
One simple rule for using the Internets: Never, ever, ever, never give out any passwords or other personally identifiable information over the Internets. Don’t do it. No matter what.
Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to “grandstand in front of white people”
The nerve of some people!
The bottom line:
[Pioneering Hurricane forecaster and meteorologist Dr. Gray’s] views on the climate — he says, Earth is warming naturally and soon will begin cooling — have been applauded by some scientists, particularly meteorologists such as Frank. But they are out of step with mainstream climate science.
So Gray must go. Gray should flip Colorado State University the finger, take his ball, and go play somewhere else, like Dr. Neil Frank did.
Rice rationing spreads?
Rationing of rice by retail stores has spread as far as Israel since The New York Sun reported on the phenomenon in Northern California last week.
The Blue Square and Supersol supermarket chains have begun limiting purchases of rice, Israeli newspapers said yesterday. Supersol is restricting each customer to “three bags per type of grain product,” the Jerusalem Post reported. (Link)
Or is it more like after searching the world over The WaPo found one other store in Israel rationing rice.
SecState Condi Rice on Biofuels:
“There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort,”
And. So what? How much corn and rice do we need to grow to meet rising demand and is there any reason whatsofuckingever we can’t start growing more crops to meet the demand or are all our farmers so used to being paid not to grow crops that they too are running around crying about the price of rice?
Maybe we do need to give the Mexicans amnesty along with 40 acres and a mule so someone will grow some crops. I think I might learn how to grow some corn.
Pfft. Until I see a bunch of farmers scrambling around trying to put more crops in the ground, I don’t believe there is a shortage. What we have is a run on the market that seems deliberate in the making.
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I must confess, I threw away a half a can of Libbey’s whole kernal corn the other day. Right down the disposal.
He’ll have my vote
For the first time in Chile, a mayor plans to give out free Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their “quality of life” four times a month, according to media reports.
“This has to do with quality of life and it’s done responsibly. It’s not just like handing out candy at the corner,” Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily. (Link)
Viagra — so old guys can whack off again.
I don’t think so.
Yet Apple executives have said that one-third of Fortune 500 companies were interested in giving iPhones — with all their known and potential security holes — to their employees. (Link)
Being interested in doing something and actually doing something are two whole different ball games.
The bigger question is can Blackberry crack the consumer market?
I never thought the day would come that I agree with something that came from the lips of the Revrund Al Sharpton:
“[The Police] do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,”
Amen, Brother! The cops are out of control. Shame on us for letting the situation deteriorate to the point that an idiot like Sharpton seizes the bully pulpit.
The police and their political masters need to take a long hard look at their policies of no-knock raids, using massive swat operations to serve warrants for minor offenses, property forfeiture, para-militarization of even the smallest police forces, and DWI sting operations.
Spreading fear and seizing money seems to be the modus operandi of the police today. It’s is a tried and true model and is used by tyrants the world over.
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Plenty of background at The Agitator
Where did the Wall Street Journal get this guy?
Stocking up on food may not replace your long-term investments, but it may make a sensible home for some of your shorter-term cash. Do the math. If you keep your standby cash in a money-market fund you’ll be lucky to get a 2.5% interest rate. Even the best one-year certificate of deposit you can find is only going to pay you about 4.1%, according to Bankrate.com. And those yields are before tax.
Meanwhile the most recent government data shows food inflation for the average American household is now running at 4.5% a year.
The article strikes me as a bit toungue-in-cheek but still, given the hysteria that has been floating around the past weeks about food rationing, I think it is an ill-advised article. And the advice, toungue-in-cheek or not, isn’t even good advice.
As I said the other day, if you want hedge against raising food prices, buy a commodity futures contract. Or buy stock in a farming conglomeration like ADM. Or buy forty acres and a mule and grow some corn. But stockpiling more than a couple of weeks worth of food is stupid.
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Global rice panic hits local residents hard
Stock up on non-perishables now
PEGGY NOONAN: The View From Gate 14
In Lubbock, Texas – Lubbock Comma Texas, the heart of Texas conservatism – they dislike President Bush. He has lost them. I was there and saw it. Confusion has been followed by frustration has turned into resentment, and this is huge. Everyone knows the president’s poll numbers are at historic lows, but if he is over in Lubbock, there is no place in this country that likes him. I made a speech and moved around and I was tough on him and no one – not one – defended or disagreed. I did the same in North Carolina recently, and again no defenders. I did the same in Fresno, Calif., and no defenders, not one.
He has left on-the-ground conservatives – the local right-winger, the town intellectual reading Burke and Kirk, the old Reagan committeewoman – feeling undefended, unrepresented and alone.
In other words, Bush abandoned the Conservatives and now the Conservatives have abandoned Bush. Either you believe conservative principles work, or you don’t. Abandoning conservative principles due to special circumstances is what liberals do, not conservatives.
Seeing how the liberals already hate Bush, I don’t think he will be enjoying much of a legacy, at least not while he is still alive. History may treat Bush well, though somehow I doubt it.
Bush has failed conservatives in many ways. The first time when I knew Bush was going to be a disappointment was way back in the beginnig when he compromised the hard-earned opportunity to overhaul and reform the dysfunctional public education system by letting Ted Kennedy, the fattest turd in the punchbowl, pass No Child Left Behind. That right there makes me hate his guts. I’m sure each of you have your own personal reason to hate Bush, but many of you, like me, rallied to support Bush after 9/11 only to be disappointed time and again.
But I believe Bush’s biggest failure, and not just for conservatives but for all America, is his failure to contain Iran when he had the chance after his re-election. That failure will cost us dearly in the not-so-distant future. The cost will be measured in terms we can’t imagine today.
IMAO re exit poll data from the Democrat primary in Pennsylvania: “First off, it was 58% female, because, as I’ve said before, it’s very hard to imagine someone which a penis voting for a Democrat.”
This seems prudent:
Top retailer Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club unit said Wednesday it is limiting the amount of rice individual shoppers could buy at one time, as rice prices hit new records around the world. Sam’s Club said it had temporarily placed limits of four 20-pound (nine-kilogram) bags a person for jasmine, basmati, and other long-grain white rice types.
“We currently have plenty of rice for Sam’s Club Members,” the company said in a statement.
“However, like our competitors, we’re just taking the precautionary step of limiting sales of the very large 20 pound bags” of imported white rice, it said.
Sam’s Club, a members-only bulk retailer chain owned by Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said smaller-sized bags of rice were not affected by the restrictions; nor did they extend to Wal-Mart stores
Emphasis added. There was no mention of a shortage; Wal-Mart seems to be taking precautionary steps to prevent recent media hype and Costco’s supply chain problems from creating a run on the entire rice market, if it’s not already too late.
If a Chinese Food restaurant wants to hedge against rising rice prices, it should buy a commodities contract. Don’t go buy a year’s worth of rice at Wal-Mart. Greed leads to the dark side.
Here’s an idea. All the Chinese/Asian food restaurants who consume several tons of rice each year start a new marketing campaign. It goes something like this:
“You come eat you bring smar bag rice. You bring smar bag rice; you get smar discount. You bring no smar bag rice; you pay full expensive rice price.”
A very efficient way to distribute goods to those who ultimately consume them.
Is Paul Auster crazy or just stupid?
IT was the year of years, the year of craziness, the year of fire, blood and death. I had just turned 21, and I was as crazy as everyone else.
There were half a million American soldiers in Vietnam, Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, cities were burning across America, and the world seemed headed for an apocalyptic breakdown.
Being crazy struck me as a perfectly sane response to the hand I had been dealt — the hand that all young men had been dealt in 1968. The instant I graduated from college, I would be drafted to fight in a war I despised to the depths of my being, and because I had already made up my mind to refuse to fight in that war, I knew that my future held only two options: prison or exile.
So why isn’t this fucktard still in prison or exile instead of spewing propaganda for the NY Times? Auaster is typical of the so-called “talent” at the NY Times.
Did Paul Auster really despise the war, as he claims, or did he just not want to be bothered with it? Or did he despise the war simply because it was an unwelcome interruption to his own personal dreams? Dreams which other people could sacrifice, but not Paul Auster
I had marched in demonstrations against the war, but I was not an active member of any political organization on campus. I felt sympathetic to the aims of S.D.S. (one of several radical student groups, but by no means the most radical), and yet I never attended its meetings and not once had I handed out a broadside or leaflet. I wanted to read my books, write my poems and drink with my friends at the West End bar.
Whiny little loser bastard. “Waaah, eeewww, but I want to stay here and write poetry and drink with my friends at the West End bar.” Perhaps had Auster went to Vietam his writing would have some depth to it.
Furthermore, Austere isn’t even opposed to violence:
After the outburst in the park, campus buildings were stormed, occupied and held for a week. I wound up in Mathematics Hall and stayed for the duration of the sit-in. The students of Columbia were on strike. As we calmly held our meetings indoors, the campus was roiling with belligerent shouting matches and slugfests as those for and against the strike went at one another with abandon. By the night of April 30, the Columbia administration had had enough, and the police were called in. A bloody riot ensued. Along with more than 700 other people, I was arrested — pulled by my hair to the police van by one officer as another officer stomped on my hand with his boot. But no regrets. I was proud to have done my bit for the cause. Both crazy and proud.
So fighting is ok as long as it is in support of some made up liberal bullshit cause, just so long as the cause is not America.
Again with the food shortage lie.
Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases
…And at least one Bay Area store is asking customers to hold back on their rice purchases. Costco has posted signs asking customers to follow their regular rice-buying habits.
At the least it is a blatant over-exaggeration. Same non-story, same store, new headline.
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According to the media, Japan is having a food shortage as well. But according to people in Japan, there is plenty of food. Same in Thailand: Bogus reports of riots due to food shortages.
So, who would benefit from advancing the hysteria of massive food shortages due to primarily the west’s desire to replace fossil fuels with corn oil? Hmmm, a state which produces oil maybe? One who doesn’t want to see large proportions of energy demands shifted away from petroleum towards alternative sources, maybe? Or maybe just a group of media moguls, aka the MSM, who openly support those who would be harmed by a reduction in oil demand?
The reason why so many people are enthralled with Obama despite the plethora of evidence that Obama is an idiot will forever remain a mystery to me (even though I did posit an idea or two on the phenomena quite some while ago. I know it was tawdry, but it explains it just as much as anything else I’ve heard proffered as a reason.)
On the other hand, the political party bosses going for Obama is not an unfathomable mystery. First and foremost one can deduce that there are tons and tons of money involved. Considering that Obama has announced that he will surrender in Iraq, I wonder how much of that money is filtering over here from Iran?
Another plausible reason for Democrat super delegates, governors, former cabinet members, etc to throw their support to Obama is that maybe the Democrats see an opportunity to get rid of the Clintons. Like when Darth Vader seized the opportunity to toss his master Darth Sidious, the despicable Emperer Palpatine over the railing into the reactor the Democrats are throwing the Clinton’s under the bus.
Couldn’t happen to a better couple of people.
McCain would be the oldest man to enter the White House if he is elected president, and questions have been raised about his health.
McCain has twice developed melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer.
The fact that he is legally designated with a disability pension may raise further questions.
Yes, and the LA Times is the one raising the questions. As proof the LA Times offers someone other than the LA Times raising the questions:
“It is a legitimate question to ask about the commander in chief: Is he fit to serve,” said Robert Schriebman, a senior Pentagon tax advisor and tax attorney who recently retired as a judge advocate for a unit of the California National Guard.
I think it’s also a legitimate question to ask about a LA Times “journalist”. Schriebman didn’t even say “presumptive” commander in chief. Or “candidate”. Schriebman might have been talking about Bush for all we know.
But the LA Times clears it up by paraphrasing what Schriebman actually meant to say:
If McCain can hike across the Grand Canyon, then why should he be getting disability payments from the government that are tax-exempt, Schriebman asked.
This guy works at the Pentagon? And where’s the direct quote on that? It would take a clueless individual, with exactly no tact, to bring up McCain’s disability pension.
Here is the best actual quote in the story. You know, something that someone actually said:
“I don’t know of any physical requirements to be commander in chief,” [former POW] Galanti said. “He would have a nice car to drive around in and a nice airplane to fly in.”
As I think we all knew they would, Pizza Hut fired long time delivery driver James Spiers for shooting Kenneth Jimmerson, a reprobate who was engaged in trying to rob Spiers at gunpoint.
James Spiers, 38, confirmed to KCCI that he is no longer employed by Pizza Hut. Spiers said he was given two months severance pay and was offered help finding a new job by the company
At my house we seem to order Pizza Hut at least once a week. But now I think I will be going with someone else’s pizza for a while in protest of Pizza Hut’s idiocy. (I don’t care for Pizza Hut pizza that much anyway.)
I don’t think it’s right for a corporate office to decide when it is and isn’t appropriate for employees working in the field to defend themselves. To me a person’s right to self defense transcends whatever rights a corporation thinks it has over a person and to prevent someone through coercive policy from defending their self is a violation of their rights.
I guess Spiers would still have his crappy delivery boy job had he been defenseless and been shot over pizza money. Even with a colostomy bag Spiers would be welcomed back to Pizza Hut with open arms. The poster boy for proper Pizza Hut policy. No, it’s a good thing Mr Spiers was carrying a weapon and it’s a doubly good thing he shot Jimmerson Too bad he couldn’t figure out some way to shoot the co-conspirator Melanie Stout as well.
If Pizza Hut can’t protect their deliver boys in certain areas, then they should not sell pizza in those areas. If they sell Pizza in the danger areas anyway while prohibiting their employees to adequately defend themselves, well, that makes them a sorry piece of shit concerned with their own profit over the safety of their employees.
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SAYUNCLE SAYS: “No more Pizza Hut for me”
Microsoft’s Win XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is so far overdue it’s not even funny. If I remember correctly the original release was expected in 2006. Then it was late 2007. And now finally we get the damn product.
Whether they want to admit it or not, the Win XP Service Pack represents Microsoft’s flagship product and I think the strategy of holding back the product as a way to force people to Vista is misguided and is one that may bite Microsoft in the ass. Probably not too bad of a bite, but detrimental still.
I wonder how much market share has been lost in their failed push of the flawed Vista product?
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Related:
SP3: A quick painless upgrade - Wow, too bad Vista couldn’t achieve that
If we don’t blow ourselves up first, the day might someday come when people choose to have a good eye replaced with a bionic eye, along with some hearing enhancers.
Surgeons have carried out the first operations in Britain using a pioneering “bionic eye” that could in future help to restore blind people’s sight.
Two successful operations to implant the device into the eyes of two blind patients have been conducted at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
Even the most rudimentary devices are three to five years away, but it’s a start.
He must have been given a nice deal. CNN’s online announcement is here. Nothing remarkable, except for the comments. The comments go a long way towards explaining CNN’s blatant slant. The only question is whether the audience is so biased because of CNN’s product or is the product biased because of it’s main audience?
I sure am tired this morning. I was up way past my bedtime last night and I still haven’t seen the Rockets win a game this year. I watched a game or two early in the season, I saw the first game after the 22 game winning streak, the 2nd half of game 1 vs Utah, and I stayed up late to watch all of game 2 last night.
Maybe it’s me.
According to the New York Sun, Costco’s problem with their rice supplies is the same as “food rationing in the breadbasket of the world“. Seems at least one other retailer would have to be suffering from shortages for there to be any real concern. Even according to the article this is not the case.
The Wife got the movie and watched it; I took a pass. I caught small glimpses of the flick during walk-bys but they only served to reinforce my decision to pass.
But if you haven’t seen it and are curious, here is a Juno review from Cracked.com by Rod Hilton, creator of The Editing Room.
ELLEN PAGE guzzles SUNNY D as some obnoxious INDIE SONG blares in the background so that everyone knows that this is an intellectual, independent film.
If you are thinking about renting or buying Juno, read the review first.
Too bad if Riad Hamad’s death was a suicide. Better if some typical, frustrated, clingy Texas Bubba had tired of Islamic terrorists waging jihad right under our noses here in the USA and decided to throw Hamad’s sorry ass in the lake.
It would have been a nice message to send: Terrorists can not operate in America with impunity; they will be dealt with. I don’t think it is so much that ordinary people aren’t willing to shoulder the responsibility of watching and if necessary whacking these vessels of terror in our midst as it is that they/we fear what our own government will do in retribution to those trespassing on their monopolized right to commit violence against anyone.
Hell, I’m quite certain there are several characters working in Quick-ee Marts right here in Angleton that I think could use a little surveillance.
COULTER: “The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.”
Google wants to know what you plan to do in honor Earth Day:
However you’re planning to honor Earth Day and combat climate change, we want to hear all about it – the more unique, the better.
Yes, we can tackle climate change – but only if we all pitch in. Here’s your chance to do your part – and inspire your fellow citizens to do theirs. Share your ideas, put yourself on our map and let your fellow users know what you’ve committed to do for Earth Day 2008, and for the rest of the year.
I submitted my ideas but somehow I don’t think my submission will get added to the map
Thanks for sharing your Earth Day ideas. Approved submissions will be viewable on the map within a few days, and the map will be updated regularly with a random sampling of messages. We’re always eager to hear about more Earth Day commitments, so don’t forget to spread the word!
My submission? Turn the A/C down to 68 and light a wood burning fire.
If you don’t think your Earth Day celebration ideas will be accepted by Google, feel free to leave your ideas here.
