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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Blonde joke…
A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he’s doing a show in a small town in Arkansas.
With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting: “I’ve heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person’s hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It’s guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general, and all in the name of humor!”
The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, and the blonde yells, “You stay out of this, mister! I’m talking to that little sh!t on your knee.”
Stimulating package
“hankr” posts at CSP Gun Talk’s Political Page:
Forget where I read it, but I’ve seen it compared to taking some water out of the deep end of the swimming pool and dumping it in the shallow end to make the pool deeper.
That’s the reality of the proposed “stimulus package” being run through Congress: The Federal government taxes me twenty thousand dollars, then they graciously cut me a check for $800 and tell me to go out and “stimulate” the economy.
Here’s a clue, folks: If businesses and individuals would benefit from getting tax dollars back, then don’t take them in the first stinkin’ place.
Basically what they gubbermint is admitting is that the current tax rate is too high and it’s stifling the economy.
Not that they’ll change anything, though…
At the Wailing Wall
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out.
She went to the Western Wall and there he was walking slowly up to the holy site.
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane in a very slow fashion , she approached him for an interview. ‘Pardon me Sir, I’m Rebecca Smith from CNN, What’s your name?
‘Maury Fishbein’ he replied.
‘Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?’ ‘For about 60 years.’ ’60 years! That’s amazing! What do you pray for?’
‘I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the Wars and hatred to stop, I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man.’
‘How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?’
‘Like I’m talking to a f**kin’ wall.’
(This gem was posted on CSP Gun Talk’s Political Page by “Clyde from deep in the heart of Texas”)
Boudreaux and the anniversary present
Boudreaux, him, he was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary.
His wife was really angry. She told him, “Tomorrow morning I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in less then 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!!”
The next morning Boudreaux got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, and brought the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.
Boudreaux has been missing since Friday. Please pray for him.
The Name Game – Canadian Style
Ethan, Ava still most popular names for Alberta babies
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON – After King Ralph and Honest Ed, could there be a Premier Ethan in Alberta’s future?For the seventh year in a row, Ethan was the most popular name for baby boys born in the province in 2007, and was chosen by 373 families. Ava was the pick for girls for the second year running, but officials with Vital Statistics say a change is on its way.
After several years of relative stability in the Top 10, Nathan, Carter and William dropped out of the boys list, replaced by Alexander, Owen and Samuel.
Similarly, Hailey and Sophia made the 2007 top girls list, replacing Grace and Ella.
There were 5,134 distinct names for boys, ranging from A.J. and Aaban to Zyran and Zyren.
There were 6,440 different names for girls, ranging from Aad and Aaliyha to Zymel and Zyrah.
Many of the names reflect Alberta’s growing ethnic diversity.
“Diversity”. That means, apparently, an excuse for stupidity.
One of the most unique names to make the list was, well, Unique – though it’s a little misleading since it’s the fifth child to carry that name in the last three years.
There were girls named Whisper, Sparrow, Treasure, Butterfly and Raynebow-Roze and boys named Echo, Ocean, Freedom, Midnite and Obsidian-Angel.
Geographic names continue to be popular – witness the boys named Cyprus, Milwaukee, Canaan and Brooklyn and the girls named Nevada, Tuscany, Venice and Kalifornia.
I’m thinking that either they’re growing some primo herbs up in Alberta or the import industry for undocumented pharmaceuticals is doing quite well.
But you know what? I’ll put up our own little D’Nhyarinaie Da’Macaie Kty’Legene against the whole bunch. Hey, we’re the world’s ONLY superpower, and there ain’t no dumba** like an American dumba**…
Road time
Rolled at of bed at the customary time for a workday, 0600. Had a quickie breakfast while the coffeepot worked up a nice travel mug full of freshly ground (roasted last Thursday) Brazilian coffee. That’s good stuff!
And then I got on the road. The goal was to get to the station that was to be the last of my construction audits, ninety miles away. It was still dark as I hit I-10 headed east. And it was foggy. It wasn’t too bad, though. The truth of the matter is that we can have some really thick fogs down here, where visibility drops below a hundred yards. But today visibility ranged around a quarter mile, and traffic was moving pretty good.
The drive up the interstate is boring enough under normal circumstances, but it was doubly so today with the fog masking off anything tha tmight have been interesting on either side of the road. I got off the interstate at Exit 80 and headed south, doing a quick dip through Crowley, Louisiana, nicknamed “The Rice Capital”. If you’re in the vicinity in the spring or summer, you’d see why. Rice is THE crop around here. In January, though, you don’t see rice growing. You see empty fields, and you see the tall structures that are the rice elevators and dryers and mills.
About those empty fields. They’re empty of rice. The rice is quite often replaced with vacationing geese, as this is the winter feeding grounds for waterfowl migrating down from Canada. Goose hunting is a big deal down here, and geese figure in many a fine meal. Goose gumbo! Mmmmm! Another thing you find in the fields: Water. Lots of water, as fields are flooded for another crop, crawfish. Farm-raised crawfish require a farm to raise them, and this area has thousands of acres devoted to raising crawfish. You’ll see fields under water, and you’ll see the tops of hundreds of crawfish traps sitting in the fields. And occasionally you’ll see the specialized boats used to putt around the feilds harvesting the crawfish.
Anyway, it’s through that farmland that I drove, headed down to my station, passing through the metropolis of Kaplan.  After more rice and crawfish farms, I ended up at my station and cranked up the laptop. I walked around interviewing a few key people and poked my head into a few areas I needed to verify, and then I turned around and backtracked.
By the time I started back, the fog had burned off, leaving a really nice day with southerly breezes and sixty degree temperatures. And that’s the weather I drove home in.
Wasn’t a bad day at all, really…
Just one more…
Political thought, that is…
So pretty boy John “Ambulance Chaser” Edwards comes up a horribly poor third in his own back yard, the state next door to the home of his birth. He’s out of it. He’s done.  He may not drop out, thinking that if he hangs in there he can wrangle a VP slot or something out of the deal, but he’s done.
That leaves us with Monica’s Ex-boyfriend’s Wife and Obama.
I foresee a bit of nastiness in the offing. They’ll go after each other, tooth and nail. The Clintons will have a machine in place to attack Obama ruthlessly while allowing Her Evilness to maintain plausible deniability with the help of a fawning mainstream media.
Come the dimmocrat convention, I expect to see Hillary there opposite a badly shredded Obama, with Obama essentially disassembled and un-electable. Even if Hillary gets a few spatters of the feces flung at Obama, the dimmocrats will nominate her, because after all, who else will there be?
And no matter how nasty it gets, when it’s all over, the dimmocrat voter base will still vote for her, no matter what. And on the republican side of the fence, who will they have?
And us conservatives, we got diddly…
Gimme summa dat!
Nationalized healthcare, one of the Left’s holy grails. Left? Unfortunately NOT only the left, but many big-government “Republicans” are getting on the bandwagon. The idea is that the government can straighten out the mess that private enterprise makes.
Let’s look across the pond to Britain and see how that’s working out:
Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
Last Updated: 11:52pm GMT 26/01/2008Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.
Yep! Things are going towards their logical conclusion. What somebody has the power to dispense, they have the power to withhold. It gets worse, especially for the people who support a woman’s “right to choose”:
Fertility treatment and “social” abortions are also on the list of procedures that many doctors say should not be funded by the state.
Not just Britain is having difficulties. Medical facilities along the border between us and Canada are seeing a goodly number of Canadians who desire medical treatment that they cannot get in Canada without long waits.
But if we get government-administered healthcare, where will we go to get what we can’t get in America? Mexico?
The findings of a survey conducted by Doctor magazine sparked a fierce row last night, with the British Medical Association and campaign groups describing the recommendations from family and hospital doctors as “outÂrageous” and “disgraceful”.
About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
Managers defend the policies because of the higher risk of complications on the operating table for unfit patients. But critics believe that patients are being denied care simply to save money.
So, in the coming socialist paradise, where the government is going to care for you from cradle to grave, regardless of whether you actually earn any money, the healthcare crisis boils down to MONEY?
Does this fare well for us, with our current crop of politicians already trying to tax us into prosperity?
he Government announced plans last week to offer fat people cash incentives to diet and exercise as part of a desperate strategy to steer Britain off a course that will otherwise see half the population dangerously overweight by 2050.
Obesity costs the British taxpayer £7 billion a year. Overweight people are more likely to contract diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and to require replacement joints or stomach-stapling operations.
Yeah, I resemble that “fat people” remark. Give me summa dat gummint money, so I can go buy me summa dem Doritos ‘n’ cheese dip…
Meanwhile, £1.7 billion is spent treating diseases caused by smoking, such as lung cancer, bronchitis and emphysema, with a similar sum spent by the NHS on alcohol problems. Cases of cirrhosis have tripled over the past decade.
And you just thought that the lifestyle police were bad, banning smoking, when all they could do is fine a business for violating no-smoking ordinances. Just wait until the crowbar they hold over your head is the key to your healthcare…
The article goes on and on, and this stuff shows up in the international news every week, and we still have politicians who tell us that they can do it right, and an electorate who is all to willing to give them the chance to try…
(and a hat tip to Gates of Vienna for getting me started…)
Not quite ready to start singing…
Hillary gets her baggy a** kicked in south Carolina by a vote of two to one. Interesting.
But we’re talking about the Clintons here, so I’m not quite ready to start singing this song.
I can just imagine the speech:
“My fellow Americans, I join you in the intense grief we all feel in the tragic murder of a great American, my former opponent, Barack Obama, by a group of right-wing so-called patriots. I promise you that when I’m elected your President I will see that controls are put in place to ban the assault weapons that they used to gun down this fine man who only wanted to bring the American Dream to all of you.
Or something like that…
The Name Game #129
Forty-one and overcast. Son sick with some sort of bug. Both of us on a diet. No football today. Not shaping up to be one of the better Sundays on record.
So we get to the names in the Sunday paper. One hospital reports its births this week. Thirty-eight new babies. Twenty-one of these newborns enter the world with a mommy and daddy not married to each other. Eight of these new mommies have various reasons to NOT post a daddy’s name at all, like “He’s in dah see eye aye in Pakistan huntin’ tare-ists an’ I cain’t break his cover.”
Getting on with the debacle, we’ll start off with a couple of folks who like a name but don’t want to be restricted by spelling it like everybody else.
Kandis & Michael A. liked the name “Carlie”, but momma is rather fond of the letter “K”, so the new daughter gets hung with Karlie Rayne. Now, that second name: is that a goofy spelling of a form of precipitation, a commemoration of a small town in Louisiana, or simply a syllable that sounded good to the parents?
Monte’ F. & Vonetta W. have a new son. So he gets daddy’s first name, Monte’, complete with the extraneous diacritical mark. Then they wanted to name him a more swingy version of Daniel, like “Danielle” except everybody knows that “Danielle” is a girl’s name, so they get creative with the spelling, and we end up with “Donyeil”. Cool, huh?
Miss Shomeka E. has a new son, Kollin Pierre. With a “K”. Because all de single moms KNOW that “C” is sooooo common. She knows that. She don’t know what name to put in the “father” blank of the birth registration.
We have a few of the “what body orifice did you pull THAT out of?” crew:
Wilbert B. & Sirena P. name thier new son Kameron Garnet, avoiding the connection between his first name and a storm-ravaged town by exchanging a “C” for a “K”, and then for a middle name, they name him for a third-tier gemstone.
Miss Glacoyia (Glacoyia?) H-A, hyphenated last name and all, has a new son, little Rakwonn Quentin. While she was hyphenating her last name and jerking a contrived handle for her new son, she missed collecting a name for the father.
Christopher K. & Alexis H. have a new daughter, little Kyrsten Rion.
Miss Rosalyn C. presents her new son, little Jayden Jamal. The baby daddy be missin’.
Miss LaTonya (as opposed to plain ol’ “Tonya”) T. brings out her new daughter, Ramiyah Danae. Another one of those CIA agents at work, apparently.
Terry P. and Julia B. show us their new daughter, little Maria-lee. That’s it! Just “Mariah-lee”.
Lawrence J. & Raven G. present their new son, little Traius Jay.
Lastly, we have a weak showing in the “Punctuation makes my baby special” category:
Jermaine & Katherine B. give us their new daughter, little Hallee Jhane’. Which leads us to the question: Is that just a goofy-a**ed way to spell “Jane” or do they intend to expect it to be pronounced “zhuh-nay”. Or “Boo”.
Miss Valerie M. has a new son, little Jai’Ren Rashaud. She’s another one who was sworn to secrecy by the CIA after providing a bit of R & R for one of their agents.
That’s a good stopping point. I’ll get on with the week and we’ll see what happens between now and next Sunday.
Adding to the Blogroll
Bumping around the ‘net this evening, I ended up at The Vanishing American who unbeknownst to me, had linked to one of my tirades some time back. He’s worth reading…
I give up…
With the rapid demise of Fred Thompson, we lost the only REAL conservative with a chance on the national stage. What we have left is McCain, a war hero who, since leaving Navy service, has taken an active role in tearing down the country while wearing a republican nametag. Then we have Mitt and Rudy, two fine examples of northern ‘country club’ republicans who regard their status as a few tiers above we hoi polloi. They don’t necessarily mean to gut the Constitution, just to make sure that all those freedoms apply to the ‘right’ people.
I won’t even talk about the dimmocrats. Satan apparently walked out of Hell one day and forgot to lock the door behind him, letting Hillary (hauuggghhhh! Spit!) Clinton out. She and Barack Obama make me think of that old saw about liberals think that the only reason communism didn’t work under the Soviets was that the wrong people were in charge.
I trust them front-runners on neither party to do anything to curb the slide of the nation into socialism. The difference is that the dimmos are telling us up front, and the repubs aren’t. Both will.
The nation needs leadership. We need somebody to say to us the ideals that made the nation great, not to tell us how bad off we are and how they’re going to straighten things out with bigger government, higher taxes, and more programs.
Accordingly, I am pretty much going THIS way with the election:
I stole this from The Smallest Minority, one of my daily reads. Who knows where HE got it.
UPDATE! The bumper sticker is available for five bucks from CafePress…
Not appeasing enough
I remember when Spain suffered terrorist attacks at the hands of the Islamists immediately prior to their national elections. Spain reacted poorly in my opinion, simulataneously pulling their small contingent of soldiers out of Iraq and electing a leader who would take an appeasing stance towards Islam.
Apparently that wasn’t enough.
Spain police: suspects didn’t have bombs
By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 24, 10:37 AM ET
MADRID, Spain – Police acting on a tipoff that a radical Islamic group was plotting suicide attacks in Barcelona moved against the cell last week even though it had not amassed enough explosives to make bombs, Spain’s police chief said Thursday.
“They had the will but not the means,” National Police chief Joan Mesquida said a day after a judge in Madrid sent 10 suspects to jail pending further investigation.
Judge Ismael Moreno said the cell had been planning suicide attacks last weekend on the public transport network in Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest city.
This is the true nature of our enemy. We won’t ever appease our way into peace with radical Islam, not as long as we desire freedom. Not as long as we don’t put our countries under sharia law, Not as long as we don’t put our women in burkas and relegate them to slave status.