"Snow Won't Dampen Global-Warming Rallies"

There's a headline for ya!!

Why let a pesky fact like it's colder that H...E... Double hockey sticks get in the way of saving the planet from consensus!

The weather forecast for Saturday's global warming rallies in Grand Rapids and Holland calls for snow and cold rain and temperatures in the 40s -- about 10 degrees below normal.

For some, this might make global warming a tough sell.

40 degrees and snow in Michigan. My little nephew said "Uncle Bear how come they are protesting the warming when it's so cold outside?"

Boob bait for the Bubbas......little one, Boob bait for the Bubbas.

It's Aloha Friday....

...no work till Monday....


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

Friday the 13th!!! Hockey playoffs, Pee Wee Football and a little Flying !! Have a GREAT weekend.

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

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The Justices Bro's

as El Rushbo calls them.....

Hat tip to Rodger Schlong

Oh Please!

"It's not about taking Imus down," Sharpton said. "It's about lifting decency up."

Al Sharpton lifting decency up?!! Well slap me on the butt and call me fanny.

Pat Buchanan weighs in over at World Net Daily: Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton – hero of the Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives – sit in moral judgment upon them.

What Imus said was wrong. He apologized and that, my friends, should be the end of it. Unless your an opportunist like the Reverend Al. An Article over at Salon.com gives a glimpse in to the Rev's modus operandi.

Who knew that such a race baiting huckster looking for a profit could lift anything except the bags of money that will soon be demanded to assuage the "feelings" of all involved. Lifting decency up.......Ugh! Watch for his next move.... because we all know that this will continue to be a "racist" issue until the cheque clears.....

Let The Playoffs Begin!

Wings-Flames Game 1

Quick thoughts.....

Drapers smirk;

Maltby’s grin;

Datsyuk’s stick handling;

Homer in the House;

Lidstrom, Cool as Ice;

Schneider, Quite Confidence;

Chelios, I’m How Old?;

Calder, Diggin in the Corners;

Hasek, One More Time;

Osgood, I’m Ready;

Hank, No Really, I’m fine;

Cleary, I’m still here;

Franzen, Mule This!;

Lebda, Stepping up;

Lilja, Steppin;

Markov, It’s Time;

Filppula, Blink and I’m gone;

Hudler, Fiesty;

Bertuzzi, Just A Headache;

Samuelsson, Just Getting Started;

and of course.......

Lang, Pass, anyone?,

GO WINGS!!!

Ex-Squeeze ME!

Okay, okay...I'm getting e-mail saying ...... but Rumbear how can you work and not provide us withe the insight of the dazzling urbanite we know you to be? ........there is SO much going on...HRH Pelosi conducting Fore On policy, Imus circling the bowl, THE Duke Rape case has...been dismissied?

Stand back folks while I hit a few deep to right...

HRH Pelosi.... think Logan Act. GOOGLE it. No one will have the cojones to indict her, but the felony has occurred. No doubt she has had the staff (Her "Pretties"!) researching this for the past few days. The Republicans should not let it go away.

Imus .... a curmudgeonly statement from a ...curmudgeon! GOSH, what a surprise. The entry of those olde race profiteers Jesse and Al has only served to illustrate the hypocrisy of the comment. (HYmietown, Tawana Brawley, Freddy's Fashion Mart) And just recently The Duke Rape Case...anyone heard if ole Reverend Al or Jesse ("MLK had a dream, I have a scheme") Jackson has scheduled a news conference to apologize to the boys on the team...anyone?! Further comentary comes from our friend Ann...

Imus should apologize to the Rutgers women — and those women alone — send them flowers, and stop kissing Al Sharpton's ring. This wasn't an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players "fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles," well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology.

RAPE! ... Well, not really. The Attorney General even went so fare as to state categorically that these guys were innocent. What a remarkable statement! He could have simply said that the charges were dropped for a lack of evidence. However, the available evidence clearly shows they are innocent. Mike Nifong should be disbarred and thrown in jail. Oh, and will Jesse still be paying for the "victim's" colleg edumacation? Just asking....

and I'm still waiting for the Rev's apology news conference... (crickets) ......

Paucity of Posting?

et tu Rumbear?

Work vs Play.....this week, work wins. After all, money is the root of all evil.....and the Rumbear needs roots! Talk amongst yourselves...I'll be back in a day or two.

GO WINGS!!!

Wings-Flames 1st Round Playoff!

Game on!

Thursday, April 12 7:00 pm – Game One – Calgary at Detroit

Sunday, April 15 1:00 pm – Game Two – Calgary at Detroit

Tuesday, April 17 10:00 pm – Game Three – Detroit at Calgary

Thursday, April 19 TBA – Game Four – Detroit at Calgary

Saturday, April 21 3:00 pm – Game Five – Calgary at Detroit

Sunday, April 22 TBA – Game Six – Detroit at Calgary

Tuesday, April 24 TBA – Game Seven – Calgary at Detroit

Monday's Pun(s) !!!

Of course you know about the self-taught comedian who made a fool of himself.

Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!

I really do have a photographic memory -- I just haven't developed it yet.

Easter 2007

Please, turn out the lights!

When Da Bear migrated west in the late 70's there was a bumper sticker in Michigan that read, "Will the Last Person to Leave Michigan Please Turn Out the Lights". Well, no one did.

So with the lights a blazing and no one home, the Riff Raff found their way in. Having firmly ensconced themselves in this great state they have proceeded to turn the once thriving economy into a shambles. As a result of their leadership businesses are fleeing the state. Even the namesake of "Comerica Park" brand new home of the Deetroit Tigers is moving to , uh, em, Texas. The economy is a mess, the deficit is skyrocketing and the party in power has no clue on how to deal with the problem. Slash spending....nope. Streamline government...nope. Their solution? Taxes are in the offing for everything short of breathing. (No doubt it's being looked at) and what the heck...let's have some giveaways. Yes, having run up a $1B (Yes, BILLION!) deficit the Democrats (you knew that didn't you?) have proposed this gem......give an iPod to every school kid!

The Detroit News Editorial begins;

An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?
We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.

If only someone had turned out the lights when they had the chance.......

Republicans...

Democrats, with standards?

Evan Sayat...GO, watch the video

GlowBall Warming,

Part 11990...

Here's an interesting link to a well worded synopsis that the enlightened readers hereof may find of interest. A brief tease for your perusal...

My interest in science doesn’t mean I’m an expert in climate science, so I have to rely on the evidence and arguments of others before I can draw any informed conclusions. I do believe that our technological capabilities will be a big factor in the solution, as I mentioned in this energy article—but before we can commit to a solution path, it would be a big help to know why the globe is warming, wouldn’t it?

A large number of people already have their minds made up; not only are they convinced they know “why,” but they also know “what we should do about it”: we humans are causing it, and the solution is centrally planned and enforced controls on the human activity and technologies that cause it. That message is getting such wide coverage, I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of the general public agreed with it.

But if there is a majority, it doesn’t include me yet. Reason: I’m not so sure the “Why” question is settled. In fact, in the mainstream media, I think I’m detecting something Thomas Jefferson warned about:

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Go over to the Skeptical Optimist and read the whole thing. Surely common sense can prevail over the Wingnuts like ...... The Goreacle.

It's Aloha Friday....

...no work till Monday....

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

GOOD FRIDAY, Mrs Bear's Birthday Friday, it's a wonderful day all the way around! Have a joyous Easter Holiday and a great weekend.

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Find the Environmentalist!

This one has been knocking around the interent and even a few e-mails here at the Chronicle. Pretty much says it all

Check out the descriptions of the following two houses, and see if you can tell which one belongs to an environmentalist.

HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the temperate South.

HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps, which draw ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20-room energy guzzling mansion) is outside Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore...aka "The Goreacle"

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

I got your Glowbal Warming....right here.......

Game On!

Only two games left in the regular season. Playoffs start next week. Followed by the annual trip to the Betty Ford Clinic of Hockey Withdrawal......... "HWS" (Hockey Withdrawal Syndrome) afflicts untold hundreds of Americans each year. Send money, surely that will help.

GO WINGS!!

THIS Should Be Good!

Former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) are set to square off on climate change next week, their staffs announced Thursday.

No word on weather (pun intended) or not the Goreacle has given his blessing to the event!

"Nancy Pelosi's Foolish Shuttle Diplomacy"

My take on the antics of the Damascus Diva (aka HRH Pelosi) are pretty much summed up in this article.

"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.
Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.

She willingly covers up her head kow-towing to a thug and sets back women's rights by decades. The Damascus Diva is an unmitigated embarrassment to women and our country.

Sheesh.......

Indeed!

More over at The Ryskind Sketchbook

Monday's

Pun(s) !!!

When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

His parents thought he was a budding genius, but he turned out to be a blooming idiot.

and this last one's for Nick...

The Junior NCO had sore wrists. The doctor said it was corporal tunnel syndrome.