MONDAY's Pun'(s) !!!! 

A play, based on billiards, started right on cue.

There was a shootout in The Gap. There were many casual-tees.

The Buddhist refused pain-killers during the root canal because he wanted to transcend dental medication.

And for them WORLD CHAMPION Chula Vista Park West Little Leaguer’s

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Perspective.

Check out this overeseas headline and compare it with the tripe foisted upon us by our media. 

Here's an excerpt:  "Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy stood for sleaze. Bloated and drunken, he used his standing in the Kennedy clan to chase vulnerable women - which brought his dream of reaching the White House to a shameful end."

So what's up with our press?  The fawning tributes to the "Lion of the Senate".  The blubbering over the loss.  Please.  Since Old Joe was sent home from the Court of St. James the family has been a blight on the American landscape. 

Mark Steyn provides a breathe of fresh air......

We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its "mainstream" media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's passing, America's TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there's a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it.

In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969. If you have to bring up the, ah, circumstances of that year of decease, keep it general, keep it vague. As Kennedy flack Ted Sorensen put it in Time magazine:

"Both a plane crash in Massachusetts in 1964 and the ugly automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 almost cost him his life …"

That's the way to do it! An "accident," "ugly" in some unspecified way, just happened to happen – and only to him, nobody else. Ted's the star, and there's no room to namecheck the bit players.

Remember Lee Iacocca ??

......the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? Sure you do.  That was back in the time when folks knew that handing the company to the unions was NOT a solution. That was back in a time when the debt incurred from the goverement was actually paid back.  Well, he's now 82 years old and is pointing to his book, released in 2007,  'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?' and having a deja vu all over again moment.  This just got tossed over the transom of the good ship "Rumbear" and I thought you might enjoy it.  Seems to be ringing true today......and you thought Bush was the problem.


Lee Iacocca Says:
'Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course'

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned, 'Titanic'. I'll give you a sound bite: 'Throw all the bums out!'

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the ' America ' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have. The Biggest 'C' is Crisis ! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C's of leadership, with crisis being the first.)

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.

On September 11, 2001 , we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here's where we stand.

We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.

We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country.

We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.

Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble.

Our borders are like sieves.

The middle class is being squeezed every which way.

These are times that cry out for leadership.

But when you look around, you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.

Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when 'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem with out a TELEPROMPTER. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on CNN will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?

Had Enough? Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope - I believe in America . In my lifetime, I've had the privilege of living through some of America 's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises: The 'Great Depression,' 'World War II,' the 'Korean War,' the 'Kennedy Assassination,' the 'Vietnam War,' the 1970's oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.

If I've learned one thing, it's this: 'You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a "Call to Action" for people who, like me, believe in America '. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the crap and go to work. Let's tell'em all we've had 'enough.'

Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about... It's our country, folks, and it's our future. Our future is at stake!!

It's Aloha Friday....
...no work till Monday!!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ...

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime! Yeah baby! Eagle CoH for our Double Eagles!!.... Y'all have a GREAT weekend!

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Take Down!

Apparently they took this down over at Flicker.  Nobody is sure why.  I thought I would put it up here, again.  Kind of as a courtesy to Flicker.  What a bunch of jokers!

R.I.P.

Kennedy dead at the age of 77.  Rest in peace you old reprobate.

(*Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.)

No Reason To Live.....

......talking to those old people and fat (like me) folks!

(I think this is the Paul Shanklin parody that Uncle Rush has been playing on the EIB network)

Monday's Puns !!!!

I could not pull forward from my parking space, so I used my back up plan.

It became clear that some of the librarian's best abilities were put on the shelf.

When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

............who is that masked man?

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Many thanks to the loyal readers...yes both of you, now sit down.

Seems like a good time for president Zero to take a vacation......

Sorry....So Sorry...

Sign up here. The line forms to the right!

Hopey/Changey....how's that working for ya??!

It's Aloha Friday....
...no work till Monday!!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ...

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime! Yeah baby! A little CR-914 Friday racing, football scrimmage and an Eagle CoH!!.... Y'all have a GREAT weekend!

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Drill Here, Drill Now!

No not there, HERE! president Zero is now all for offshore drilling. He has even come up with $2Billion to fund it. Problem is the drilling is in Brazil! Yup, he remains steadfast in his opposition to drilling HERE.

But now Obama may start hearing cries of "foul" after the U.S. Export-Import Bank promised Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company, $2 billion in loan guarantees to help finance lucrative drilling off the shores of Rio De Janeiro.

Some see a contradiction in an executive branch agency, independent but with board members appointed by the president, facilitating abroad the very kind of energy exploration Obama opposes domestically.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday he wasn't prepared to address the issue.

"I have not seen the story," he said. "I'd have to take a look."

Yeah, well, Sarah is on it.

But former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a vocal proponent of offshore drilling, had plenty to say.

"So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than $2 billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobas, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources?" she asked on her Facebook page.

So we are funding the state owned Petrobras to drill in offshore Brazil. So who is Petrobras? Well, let's go to Wikipedia...I know I know, but check it out. $26 billion in profits in 2006, $18 billion last year. They are flush with cash. So why are we giving them a loan?

Who is Petrobras????......let's see who is invested in the company?

Hmmmm.......George Soros.....22% of his portfolio is there.

Prolly just a coincidence.

Drill here.....in the USA. Guess we should have been a little more specific.

No Good Humor Here!

The ice cream Nazi's are here! Spineless mothers who can't say "No" to their spawn are on the move against the once ubiquitous ice cream man! Calling the purveyors of summer treat "predatory" and a menace, the moms have banded together.

In a greener, more health-conscious, unsafe world, the ice cream man has lost some of his mojo.

Like the soup Nazi from Seinfeld fame....No Ice Cream For YOU!!

Something Squirrely.....










(Hat Tip to the Lumberjack)

Financial Crisis??
Who’s to blame….once again you have to go out of country for the information. Watch and weep.

But, but, but...

.... they are saving money on health care!!

Obamacare...coming soon to a Co-Op near you....

Woman Gives Birth on Pavement "after being refused ambulance"

A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.

Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.

But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver, leaked paper reveals

According to the leaked document, Vancouver Coastal — which oversees the budget for Vancouver General and St. Paul’s hospitals, among other health-care facilities — is looking to close nearly a quarter of its operating rooms starting in September and to cut 6,250 surgeries, including 24 per cent of cases scheduled from September to March and 10 per cent of all medically necessary elective procedures this fiscal year.

The plan proposes cutbacks to neurosurgery, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, and 11 other specialized areas.

Hopey/Changey....How's that working for you??!

Ummm.....


What's up with this?

Mexico's Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP.

An Interior Ministry official said the dismissals were being carried out at all Mexican border facilities, and that the customs agents were being replaced.

Customs agents were sacked after some were found to be linked to contraband operations, according to sources at the ministry.

Monday's Pun(s) !!!!

It's been said ophthalmology is a contact sport.

He hates his job selling used cars, but it's just his lot in life.

Two fonts, Arial and Calibri, were in the midst of a bad breakup. Calibri said, 'I'm sorry, you're personality is too bold.' Arial responded, 'You're just not my type...'

I shot the Serif……

I Feel Better Now....

You can feel good too! Get yours here.

(or you can go buy a Prious....your choice)

Run Away! Run Away!!

president Zero has heard the people and is in retreat!!! Acknowledging the high degree of ineptitude in the Health Care Plan, Zero the Hero is regrouping. First we learned that the "Death Panels" that we were assured did not exist...were being cut from the bill no one has read. Then we have the concession that the public option is going away, and finally the snitch line website is gone. Time to celebrate!! Right?!

Nothing "fishy" anymore, eh?

Not so fast.

Howard "Yeeeeaaarrrrrggh" Dean has weighed in deftly explaining that they will have this proviso in the final bill. He knows that all of the smart Democrats will realize that it really is best for you. By the by...what is the "Public Option anyway?? Notice that they have changed the name again??

I guessing here, but maybe even a be wise Latina would need a crystal ball to figure out what Zero is up to. What the peoples really said was they do not want the government in their health care...at all. No repackaging, re pitching and slipping something by....nothing.

The olde Rumbear doesn't need a crystal ball...I would not to believe a word Zero or any of his cronies says........ now, where is my Holy Hand Grenade?

Skewered

Democrats skewered once again by themselves. One of my favorites, Victor Davis Hanson points out, (no pun intended) the hypocrisy of Democrats wailing about anyone who mentions NAZI's and president Zero.

What is weird about the liberal hysteria to the obstreperous (and occasionally rude) town meetings is the complete amnesia about what constitutes reckless public discourse.

At one time not so long ago, those on the Left, and mainstream Democrats as well, apparently believed inflammatory language, Hitler parallels, and perverse expressions of real hatred were acceptable means to the noble end of discrediting the Bush presidency.

During the bleak days of Iraq, demonstrators carried swastikas and Hitler portraits of Bush habitually. Nicholson Baker wrote a novel in which characters are contemplating killing Bush. Films were praised imagining the assassination of the president. Michael Moore, courted by the Democratic elite, lamented that bin Laden on 9/11 had hit a blue state — and once compared the killers of Americans in Iraq to Minutemen.

Al Gore customarily used excessive language like "brown shirts." Senators Durbin, Kennedy, and others compared our soldiers to Saddamites, Pol Pot’s killers, and Nazis. Ward Churchill compared the victims in the Twin Tower to “little Eichmanns.” Sen. Robert Byrd likened Pres. George W. Bush’s policies to what transpired in Nazi Germany. Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, Scott Ritter, Ted Rall, and George Soros agreed with Fidel Castro, the Iranians, and North Koreans in comparing Bush to Hitler.

Jonathan Chait wrote in the New Republic on why “I hate George W. Bush.” Garrison Keillor likened Bush’s Republicans to “brown shirts in pinstripes.” Even old hero Sen. John Glenn said of the Bush agenda: “It’s the old Hitler business.” In 1984, the Guardian’s Charles Brooker declared:

On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?

and who can forget Hillary screeching to the heavens in 2003....

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."

Here's the video.

The Libs are coming unglued. They are on the defensive and flailing to score some points. Keep it up....get out there and like Hillary said, be a patriot.

It's Aloha Friday....
...no work till Monday!!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ...

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime! Yeah baby! Whaler days continue. A little CR-914 racing, Eagle CoH and NYLT party!!.... Y'all have a GREAT weekend!

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Ronaldus Maximus on Health Care

No video, just audio on this clip from 1961. Future president Ronald Reagan explains the perils of government health care. Nuff said....just listen and learn.

Which South Park kid are you most like? Kyle You are clever, and often come up with intelligent and funny comebacks to other people's stupid remarks.

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Seasonal Work?

or maybe just Spring Training.

We report...you decide.

Arrogance.

Pronunciation: \ˈer-ə-gən(t)s, ˈa-rə-\
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
: an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions

Always good to actually see your representatives hard at work....you know...ignoring you.

Hey, Hey ...

Ho, Ho....

One Year......

I stood on a beach and cried when I learned you were gone. I know you are in a better place. Yet you are still in my thoughts and I miss you very much.

Congratulations Georgie!!

Star World champion!!!!

Well done my friend.

Precisely!

"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

There's your health care debate summed up by president Zero in a nutshell. Maybe all those closed Post Office locations we are hearing about can be re-opened as Obama Care Facilities!

He Was Afore It Before He Was Agin It....

Where have we heard that nuance position before??

Single Payer Health care. Dueling videos up over HERE. Who ya gonna believe...because one of these guys is lying to ya. Choose wisely, your health depends on it.

I'm Just Asking....

If Obama has his way, his health care plan will be funded by his Treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by his Surgeon General who is obese, signed by a president who smokes and financed by a country that is just about broke. What possibly could go wrong?

(Click for more)

Coming Soon ....

to a meeting near you!

Be careful out there kiddies!

Monday's Pun(s) !!!


Coming at ya!!


Most rules of thumb suck.

A balding man and his hair are soon parted.

The magician got so mad he pulled his hare out.

You are the Mob!

The Libtards have it all figured out!

kook kook ka chu.....

It's Aloha Friday....

...no work till Monday!!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ...

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime! Yeah baby! Whaler days continue. a little CR-914 racing.... Y'all have a GREAT weekend!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ....

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247,00 Jobs Lost

President celebrates.

"Today, we're pointed in the right direction," Obama said in brief remarks in the Rose Garden hours after the report was released. "While we've rescued our economy from catastrophe, we've also begun to build a new foundation for growth."

......

The president used the new jobs figures not only to pitch the benefits of the already passed stimulus package but also to press for policy changes on health care, education and energy that he seeks.

Umkay.........

Health care 2009 is given a "Fail" grade by the public. Rejection is new to our president. We now see the anger of president Zero is being manifested in speech and acts.

"I don't want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

So Zero, what do you do with Franklin Rains, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Tim Geitner??????? Hmmmm? Not gonna listen to them?

He established a snitch line, which may be illegal, for you to e-mail him about anything "fishy"

Then Zero the Hero sends out his union thug friends in the SEIU and tells them..... “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,”

So....they did. (video here) This Guy called Rush today and gave his account.

the NY Po writes.....

Get this: The party of "community orga nizers" is now whining that President Obama's critics are organizing com munities -- against his health-care scheme.
The nerve of 'em, huh?

Faced with mushrooming opposition to ObamaCare, Democrats have launched a multi-media campaign that attacks foes as "extremists" who've "called out the mob" to "destroy President Obama" and "intimidate and silence regular people."

Actually, that sounds more like the tactics of the Chicago street, where Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel cut their political teeth.

But, you are the extremist. I seem to recall that Hillary once screeched that dissent was good for the country. Apparently not any more. That president Zero, he's such a Joker.

The Silent Majority ..

is awakening and president Zero does not like it.

Somebodies Watching Me!!

(and you)

president Zero is in a tizzy. Seems all of you "well dressed" folks showing up at "Town Hall" meetings having the temerity to question the chosen one on his health plan are becoming a bit of an annoyance. Add to that the whole "Joker" poster thing and well, Barry be mad. So he has sent out the White House communications director, Linda Douglass, to hit YouTube with a warning, er video, requesting that we all watch for "fishy" items and rat out, er "report" each other. Reason TV is on the job. Enjoy the video.

Hey!

This just got tossed over the transom.
(Denny's got it too!)

I'm Just Saying.......

Oh Please.

The libtards are up in arms that the anointed one has been parodied as the Joker from the recent Batman movie. The "race card has been played.

Looky here...

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous. Hutchinson is challenging the group or individual that put up the poster to have the courage and decency to publicly identify themselves. "Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says Hutchinson, "it is mean-spirited and dangerous."

Earl, ole sport, where have you been for the past 9 years? Ever hear of a fella named George Bush?? He had a couple of these parodies done on him. (here ya go) Where were you then Earl. Earl? You still there.....??? That's right Earl, go back to wherever you been. Nice try though.....

BOOZE!

Is there anything it can't cure? Who knew the H1N1 (aka SWINE Flu) virus coule be so easily suppressed. The Russians, of course!

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said Monday.

"We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky as a form of disinfection," VOB head Alexander Shprygin told Reuters.
"That should cure all symptoms of the disease."

......

"Health officials say this virus is very dangerous but being a fan myself I can tell you that for a real fan nothing is more important than the well-being of the team," said Shprygin, who also sits on the executive board of the Russian FA.

"Russian fans don't fear anything or anybody so this virus will not stand in our way of supporting our team."

Uh, Go Team!!

It May Be Time..........

Monday's Pun(s) !!!

There was a hiring freeze at the ice-skating rink.

A man stole a case of soap from the corner store. The police said he made a clean getaway.

A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

Hmmmmmmm.......

There is no polite word for it. I know he's a politician and they "all lie". However, I expect better from a President. president Zero is a liar. He lies to you. He lies to me. He lies to get what he wants. He is a petulant self serving liar.

Pause & Ponder

10 points to consider as you weigh your Right (?) to health care. The Hoover Institution has a list of facts. Read them and ask yourself why these statistics are so skewed. Our current health care system is the class of the world. We innovate. We create procedures. We create new drugs. We lead the world. Why do you want to make it a second, maybe even a third rate system?

Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Read the rest here. Ask questions. YOU deserve an answer.

UPDATE: File Under "Can't Make This Stuff Up!"
Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections
Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned.