Picture = 1000 words

Monday's Pun(s) !!!

1000 pairs of underwear were stolen and the police made a brief enquiry.


Skipping school to bungee jump will get you suspended.

The primary responsibility for a child's education is apparent.

Rumbear a Go Go....

........still traveling.  Heres a handy game you can play till I get back.  Where's my Obama Money!!

(Many thanks to the Southeast editor for this one!)

(Ed Note:  Apparently he slowed his Porsche long enough to secure an internet connection.)

Timber!!

Don't know if you are following the America's Cup proceedings.  I used to live and die by what used to be a semi every 3-4 year event.  (Worked with America True when I was Commodore, hung out in downtown SF watching the races when I was supposed to be working, etc, etc.) Then the furriners got heavily involved and now they spend more time trying to jack the rules and sue in court than suits my needs.  It is a sad state of the sport to have this fiasco be considered a premier event. 

Be that as it may.......                  

The latest intrigue involves around one rich guy from the Bay Area spending millions to race against this other gazzillionaire guy from that bastion of sailing, uh umm, Switzerland.  Bay Area guy sued in court in ...New York and won.  This threw a monkey wrench in to the Swiss guy's plans to race against himself and be the winner...again.  So Swiss guy, complying with the court to race by February 2010, builds an extremely fragile light air boat and announces the race site will be ........ off of Dubai.  Dubai being a noted sailing venue, I guess, if your from Switzerland. 

So...............back to court they went.    

Judge in New York last week took mere moments to rule against rich Swiss guy and say cut the crap.  Race is still on in February 2010 but where?  Prolly Valencia...but the court will rule on that next week.

In the meantime...

Rich Bay Area guy continues to train in San Diego.  Which gets me to the entire point of this post....COOL photos! (clickphotoforbiggun) BMW Oracle lost their mast yeasterday in 10 knots of breeze while sailing just off the coast.  $10M estimated loss.  It's only money.

     

30 Years Ago Today

It was 30 years ago today that a mob of Iranian students scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, took 52 Americans hostage and began a lengthy standoff that humbled the most powerful country on earth.

That's right...that other abject faliure of a Democrat President, JIMMAH! (Carter), watched as the US was humilated by the Ayatollah.    The current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claiming to be a "student" was with the group that held the Americans hostage for 444 days.  (The guy on the left of the blindfolded hostage in the photo)  They were interrogated, made to fear for their lives and held in dark isolation during their imprisonment.  JIMMAH! could do nothing to free them.

It was not until the election of Ronaldus Maximus that the Iranians came to their senses and released the hostages. 

On January 20, 1981, 20 minutes after Reagan was sworn in as President, the American hostages were released by Iran into U.S. custody, having spent 444 days in captivity.

20 minutes!!! 

ED NOTE:  How long has president Zero, Our Hero, been "dithering" over the troop request for Afghanistan??  

Watch for information on this little chapter of American history in the main stream media today...

The Silent Majority Stirs...

REPUBLICAN TAKES VA BY 18%...
REPUBLICAN TAKES NJ BY 5%...
NY: Hoffman [C] Owens [D]

Mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore.  Let the pendulum swing. 


As Han Solo said to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars...."Don't get cocky kid!"

Conservative..

Often times conservatives are labeled as arrogant in an effort to detract from their message.  Being confident in ones beliefs and using logic with facts to support those positions troubles those without any core values.  The abscence of a center from which to base a viewpoint causes some to cast about always looking for an answer.  Life is not about finding a right answer, it is about having beliefs and values that allow you to be grounded and comfortable with a position.  Sometimes that position may not be popular, but the position has value as it comes from your core belief.

Uncle Rush illuminated this in a past editorial I was reviewing the other day.

I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals. We are confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them. We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform, faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S. Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people.

I can only add, amen.

Pig Flu Vaccine Given to Gitmo Detainees

WTH?  How's the supply in your state?  There is none out here!

Hope/Changey...how's that working for you?

Monday's Pun(s) !!!

When I questioned the livestock delivery company as to whether or not they could quickly move some donkeys. They agreed to haul ass.


I've never tipped a cow. Then again, one has never served me food.

Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food coloring. The doctor says I'm OK, but I feel like I've dyed a little inside.

It Ain't Working......

Great article in the Sunday LA Times By William Voegeli. He compares the different approaches to managing state functions using Texas and California as the focus. California does not fare to well.

THE GOLDEN STATE ISN”T WORTH IT


In America's federal system, some states, such as California, offer residents a "package deal" that bundles numerous and ambitious public benefits with the high taxes needed to pay for them. Other states, such as Texas, offer packages combining modest benefits and low taxes. These alternatives, of course, define the basic argument between liberals and conservatives over what it means to get the size and scope of government right.

Roger Simon chimes in …. “All our best intentions have gone to mush in a welter of competing, greedy interest groups.”

Today's public benefits fail that test, as urban scholar Joel Kotkin of NewGeography.com and Chapman University told the Los Angeles Times in March: "Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California. Today, you go to Texas, the roads are no worse, the public schools are not great but are better than or equal to ours, and their universities are good. The bargain between California's government and the middle class is constantly being renegotiated to the disadvantage of the middle class."

The article caught the eye of John over at POWERLINE

But those higher taxes in California must be going somewhere. Why aren't they benefiting those many thousands of citizens who are leaving the state for greener pastures?


In what respects, then, does California "excel"? California's state and local government employees were the best compensated in America, according to the Census Bureau data for 2006. And the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California's public retirement funds. The "dues" paid by taxpayers in order to belong to Club California purchase benefits that, increasingly, are enjoyed by the staff instead of the members.


No doubt similar studies in other high tax states, like my home state of Minnesota, would show the same thing: taxpayers aren't getting anything in particular for their money, likely less than citizens in other states, but public employees are doing very well indeed. This explains why public employees' unions have become the Democratic Party's most loyal supporters, while those who are not on the public employee gravy train increasingly are packing up their belongings and moving to lower-tax states like Texas.


The debate, really, is over. High-tax states don't deliver a better lifestyle--not for taxpayers, anyway. One of these days, voters will figure out that the same thing holds true at the national level. Higher taxes may be OK if you're a public employee; otherwise, they're a dead loss.

Callyfornia…leading the way as an example of what not to be. I wonder if the Libtards will listen? I doubt it.

Uncle Rush on Fox News Sunday.  

Good stuff!  Go here for the three videos of insight from your Uncle. 

Check out some "Behind the Scenes" shots here. 

(ED NOTE: No socks...I wish he would stop copying me.)

Signs of Intelligent Life Out There


Frank Luntz has been polling....

2. “By an incredible 61% to 14% margin, more people believe scientists will discover life in outer space than believe the current healthcare plan won’t add a penny to the deficit.”

This is fostering MY hope and now it's time for some change.  There are six other great bullet points in the article.  (click)  Mount up and ride to the sound of the guns.  (they are over there in New Jersey, Virginia and NY-23)