What Is This World Coming To?

While the rest of us ponder Obama’s brilliant energy strategy proposals (who knew the incredible energy savings to be derived from properly inflated tires?)  Obama’s new campaign plane is a mirror of the candidate himself; elegant, ostentatious, a gas-guzzling monster fit to carry The One along his road to the White House.

His Boeing 757 was retrofitted to install four individual chairs that resemble La-Z-Boys. They are free-standing and made of plush leather with pockets on the sides. There is also a booth which seats four for a meeting or a meal.

His chair has his name and campaign logo embroidered on the back top — “Obama ‘08” on one line and “President” underneath. To one side is a small table stacked with newspapers ready for the candidate’s arrival. The table of the booth is always covered in snacks and cheese and is where Obama spends most of his time during flights meeting with staff and sitting for the occasional interview.

The next two sections are outfitted with expansive business class seats for senior and junior level staff including Obama’s media team, which films all of the candidate’s events for promotional purposes. Politico’s Mike Allen said that by comparison, Air Force One seems ‘claustrophic.’

But, he is The One. We should be grateful he deigns to come to the people, for if not, the people would surely come to him, to at least touch the hem of his garment, if nothing else.

O-Force One may not be a flaming chariot in the sky, but for the True Believers, it will have to do. For now.

What?  You didn’t know?  I received an email of the South African Advisory Board Company’s Daily Briefing: from a doctor friend in Johannesburg.  (Thanks, Anton) It’s a member’s-only professional website, but the blurb that caught my friends attention, (and now yours) was this one:

“New research suggests that the rising temperatures and increased dehydration associated with global warming will lead to higher rates of kidney stone disease in the United States, particularly among residents of southern states, according to a study published in last week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”

Melting polar caps,  starving polar bears,  tornadoes, floods, Sudanese genocidal mania and now, kidney stones!

It appears that the Reverend Jesse Jackson is not quite as enamored of Senator Barack Hussein Obama as are the majority of his constituents.

Unaware that his microphone was on before a television interview Wednesday, Jackson expressed anger that in his view, Obama has been overly critical of the black community.

“See Barack Obama been, um, talking down to black people on his faith based — want to cut his n*ts off,” Jackson said in a video that aired Wednesday on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor.” Read the rest of this entry »

by Frank Spaniak

“And while you are there, could you tighten it up around the chest and neck too?”

In typical nanny-state fashion Japanese companies are being urged to get all their employees to trim down to meet government guidelines or face possible heavy fines for not being in shape, CNN reports here.

Does this apply to foreign workers? For example, if I were to go work in Japan for a year or two now that I’m above 40, would my employer be fined if I didn’t shrink my (censored) waist size to a 33.5? I’m trying to figure out how the fine works, is it by the waist inch? Read the rest of this entry »

The website Nature News Reports that Bumper Stickers along with other automotive enhancements appear to to have a link to driver road rage.

“The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,” say Szlemko. What’s more, only the number of bumper stickers, and not their content, predicted road rage — so “Jesus saves” may be just as worrying to fellow drivers as “Don’t mess with Texas”.

I reckon people need to stay back 50ft now, I have a loaded Omega letter bumper sticker.

Yes we can elect Barack Obama president, but…
No we can’t mention his middle name.
No we can’t win the war in Iraq.
No we can’t expand oil exploration, drilling or refining.
No we can’t build nuclear power plants.
No we can’t convert coal to oil.
No we can’t extract oil from shale.
No we can’t punish companies for knowingly hiring illegal aliens and conspiring with them to commit tax fraud and identity theft on an unprecedented scale.
No we can’t build a security fence on our southern border.
No we can’t deport people who’ve entered our country illegally.
No we can’t allow a small percentage of social security funds to be held in individual retirement accounts.
No we can’t reduce government spending, waste and corruption.
No we can’t adopt a less complicated tax system that would help to expand the economy.
No we can’t allow medical professionals and their patients to control the healthcare system.
No we can’t create a voucher program that would allow millions of poor children to attend schools that are capable of teaching them how to read and write.
No we can’t allow parents to be involved in the reproductive decisions of their minor children.
No we can’t fund technologically advanced weapons systems for our military.
No we can’t thin out our nation’s forests in order to prevent massive wildfires from erupting on a regular basis.
No we can’t tolerate free speech on talk radio.
No we can’t cut off government funding to “artists” who use our money to insult our religious beliefs.
No we can’t allow the general public to determine the definition of marriage.
No we can’t prevent the government from seizing private property for the purpose of selling it to large corporations which generate greater tax revenues than individuals.
No we can’t scrutinize the scientific evidence behind the man-made global warming hypothesis.
No we can’t tolerate religious leaders who denounce homosexuality.
No we can’t smoke cigarettes on private property.
No we can’t outlaw the murder of unborn children.
No we can’t allow Christian symbols to be displayed in public squares at Christmas time.
No we can’t employ terrorist profiling techniques at airports.
No we can’t fire Marxist teachers from institutions of higher learning who spew anti-American rhetoric in class and seek to erode the moral foundation of their students.
No we can’t carry handguns for personal protection.
No we can’t order foods that contain trans fats at our favorite restaurants.
No we can’t stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.
No we can’t question the patriotism of neo-communist radicals and terrorist sympathizers.
No we can’t impose the death penalty on unrepentant serial killers.
And no we can’t remove from office judges who rewrite our Constitution from the bench.

Yes we can vote into the highest public office in the land a completely unqualified liberal activist just because he happens to be half black, but no we can’t live as our forebears intended, with limited government interference in our lives, an expectation of equality under the law, and genuine pride in our country.

By Edward L. Daley
Owner of the Daley Times-Post

“Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass — and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat.

‘Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,’ write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.”

I’m beginning to understand. Everything causes global warming. Here’s what I don’t quite get — today is May 16th — and its a blistering 50F outside!

So eat up! I’m freezing.

I received this by email this morning . . . no further explanation necessary. (Thanks to Tony Lisenby)

A good story you can tell even your youngest child and they will know the difference between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican.

I remember the time that Catherine, one of my daughter Shannon’s friends when she was little, told me that she wanted to be President one day. Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there with us - and I asked Catherine, “If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?”

Catherine replied, “I would give houses to all the homeless people.”

“Wow, what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.” I told her, “You don’t have to wait until you are President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 to use for a new house.”

Catherine, who was about 4, thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me, and Catherine replied, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5.”

Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine!

When Bill Clinton was accepting the DNC nomination for president in 1991, he turned to the Scriptures for inspiration as he delivered his acceptance speech:

“As the Scripture says, ‘eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that we can build.’” - Bill Clinton DNC acceptance speech.

Bill apparently didn’t like the way the original Author said it: ” But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” (1st Corinthians 2:9)

In the Bible’s version, you didn’t have to vote for Bill Clinton in order for God to love you. Not to be outdone, Bill’s running mate, Al “the Ozone Man” Gore announced; “As it says in the Scriptures, ‘do not lose hope. This nation will be rebuilt.’”

I’d like to tell you what Scripture Al Gore was quoting, but I couldn’t find anything even remotely close. But this is Al Gore — so it doesn’t matter if the Scripture says so or not. Al said so, so the matter is settled. Read the rest of this entry »

Jurors hearing the case against Cyril Wecht, the retired Allegheny County coroner (who coincidentally was the instructor of a homicide investigation school I attended in Austin, Texas in the early 1980’s) seem inclined to acquit, according to a report in the Pittsburg-Post Gazette.

It appears that the reporter relied on, well, to quote directly. . . “”In my opinion, the plan, the scheme was the problem for me personally,” said the jury foreman, who requested anonymity in light of the judge’s request that jurors not yet speak publicly.”

Do you think the judge will be able to figure out which ‘anonymous leaker’ was the foreman?

President Betray-us

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly planning to stab US foriegn policy (not to mention Israel in the back (again.

Fox News reports:The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.

Remember, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. (I’m talking about Meshal, not Carter. )

Anonymous Wisdom From My Email Box. . .

About one and a half years ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.35 a gallon (Higher in some places and expected to pass $4.00 by summer);
3) Unemployment is over 5% (a 10%+ increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars ;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President.