Hookah Me Up!

The City Council passed a no smoking law in Vancouver Canada. Muslim's did not like it and went to court. They won....

Vancouver's hookah-parlour owners are celebrating after winning an exemption Thursday from a proposed new bylaw that will ban smoking on most sidewalks in commercial districts, in bus shelters and even in taxis passing through Vancouver.
In giving the bylaw unanimous approval-in-principle, Vancouver city council members bowed to arguments that hookah lounges provide an important cultural space for the city's Muslims and granted them a temporary exemption.

Cultural space! Can the Rastafarians be far behind? "Excuse me while I light my spliff...." olde Bob Marley tune.

Good GoogglieMooglie!

Exactly, how much do we have to give away? Good Lord this is getting exhausting listening to the Democrats pander as they RUN for the presidency. John Edwards wants everybody to have health care and YOU pay for it. Hillary chimes in with her plan to give health care to everyone, legal, illegal, poor rich and YOU get to pay for it. John Dingell wants to fight GlowBall Warming by taxing gas another $.50 a gallon and YOU get to pay for it!!!

NOW, Hillary wants each kid born in the country to get a $5,000.00 "baby bond" for ...for future costs of college or buying a home....". Hell, let's put a Buick in every drive way too! That will help the downtrodden auto worker...

Aaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! It's five o'clock somewhere!!!

Hmmm....

Here's a foto of the Naval Amphib Base in Coronado California. This is where the primary training for Seal Team Two occurs. Once you get over the shock that thanks to GOOGLE Earth, we can view the entire base, allow me to draw your attention the the building in the left quadrant. Notice anything? The Third Reich lives on!

Whoever said architects have no sense of humor.....

and....No, Gator, that is not my boat off of the golf course at the bottom of the foto. I'm at work...just ask my secretary.....

Art Appreciation?!


Jolly jokers enjoying Art, for art's sake!

It's Aloha Friday...

no work till Monday!!!

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

Busy weekend....what else is new?! PLHS Football, Model Yacht Racing, Pop Warner on Saturday and the NFL on Sunday...and if I'm bored...that damn ditch still needs attention inthe backyard! Think I'll Bar-B-Q instead!

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

"Get your island fix on the Internet with KPOA!"

Listen live to the island sounds from Maui!

Mahalo nui loa!

An Old Friend is in Town!

The Summit is in town for a brief stop over. Two weeks to Hawaii in the Penthouse Suite left quite an impression on the Rumbear clan a while back. The room number was 6147, Deck 6 portside aft.....that's right...the whole portside aft!! What a trip!

Having lunch with some friends off of the ship. WooooWhooo!

Cry Me a River!

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on Lawyers and $$$. Imagine that.

A law degree isn't necessarily a license to print money these days.

For graduates of elite law schools, prospects have never been better. Big law firms this year boosted their starting salaries to as high as $160,000. But the majority of law-school graduates are suffering from a supply-and-demand imbalance that's suppressing pay and job growth. The result: Graduates who don't score at the top of their class are struggling to find well-paying jobs to make payments on law-school debts that can exceed $100,000. Some are taking temporary contract work, reviewing documents for as little as $20 an hour, without benefits. And many are blaming their law schools for failing to warn them about the dark side of the job market.

The law degree that Scott Bullock gained in 2005 from Seton Hall University -- where he says he ranked in the top third of his class -- is a "waste," he says. Some former high-school friends are earning considerably more as plumbers and electricians than the $50,000-a-year Mr. Bullock is making as a personal-injury attorney in Manhattan. To boot, he is paying off $118,000 in law-school debt.

Boo frickin who! Get out there and sue somebody!

Monday's Pun(s) !!!!!

The former Dallas running back told me the most amazing story. It was Emmit's myth.

When women enter middle age, it gives men a pause.

And our tribute to famed mime Marcel Marceau who recently passed….

He finally came to the end of his invisible rope

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

His last words were, "__________________________"

Will he be buried in an invisible box?

At noon tomorrow he'll be honored all across France with a moment of noise.

Yet Another Inconvenient Truth?!

Seems the tree hugging corn fueling set has yet another inconvenient little fact to uh, ummm, digest on their way to saving the world from fossil fuels....their solution pollutes more than what they are removing. Yup, 50-70% more.

A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.
Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.

Well, dang. How can that be? We are trying to save a planet here.

Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Scientists found that the use of biofuels released twice as much as nitrous oxide as previously realised. The research team found that 3 to 5 per cent of the nitrogen in fertiliser was converted and emitted. In contrast, the figure used by the International Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the extent and impact of man-made global warming, was 2 per cent. The findings illustrated the importance, the researchers said, of ensuring that measures designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are assessed thoroughly before being hailed as a solution.

Oh wait, here comes the the laugh lines....

“One wants rational decisions rather than simply jumping on the bandwagon because superficially something appears to reduce emissions,” said Keith Smith, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the researchers.

and

Professor Smith told Chemistry World: “The significance of it is that the supposed benefits of biofuels are even more disputable than had been thought hitherto.”

Rational decisions!?....... from the GlowBall Warming crowd. Uh, good luck with that one Keith. My guess is you will be labeled a "Denier" in due course. Welcome to the club!

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

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

Busy weekend.. PLHS Sailing in Newport, Pop Warner on Saturday and the NFL on Sunday...!

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

"Get your island fix on the Internet with KPOA!"
Listen live to the island sounds from Maui!

mahalo nui loa!

Amen to That!

"Fred: My Wife ‘Would Make a Much Better First Lady Than Bill Clinton"

Any of his wives..

We report...you decide.

A Revolting Development!

Three days on Catalina island hanging with da boys...cancelled! Squall lines are a forming and the storms are a coming. A winter storm is forecast for the area...in September.

Time for Plan B.....except there is no Plan B!

Arghhh!

Malkin Spanks Sally

Michele Malkin has weighed in on the Sally Field diatribe at that award ceremony the other night. Good stuff!

In Sally World, these mothers and their sons are helpless victims. In Sally World, self-defense is for “war-mongers.” In Sally World, you can pretend that the bloodthirsty mothers who strap al Qaeda suicide bomb vests on their toddlers and sit them down in front of the television to watch the Jew-hating Hamas Mickey Mouse don’t exist. In Sally World, you need only to embrace our enemies, “imagine” peace and rub your Emmy Award like a magic lamp as you wish global jihad away.

In the real world, not all women think with their wombs instead of their brains. In the real world, you can’t just give evil a “time-out.” Sally Field fancies herself the mother of all spokesmothers. To which I say, in my most maternally combative tone: Speak for your own bleepin’ self, sister.

Indeed.

Fred 08

Here's Fred on Hillarycare.

Precisely.

Avast Ye Scurvy Dawgs!

Tomorrow be "Talk Like Pirate Day". Yes indeed, September 19th be the day. That's right mateys...neophytes can learn how to cast aspersions in the pirate tongue HERE.

Arrrrgggh!

Shakey Jake, R.I.P.

Jake Woods aka "Shakey Jake", longtime denizen of everyone's favorite college town, Ann Arbor, has passed away. Our paths crossed a couple times way back when....he always had a smile and a friendly nod.

Soft and safe to thee.

HOCKEYBALL!!

It's B-A-C-K..!!! Pre-Season starts tonight!! WooooWhoooo! The Wings are in Traverse City for their yearly tune up.

GO WINGS!!

Forever in Moonbeams...

GlowBall Warming suffered another set back yesterday. A Federal District Judge in San Francisco threw out the case filed by the California Attorney General against the big automakers for causing GlowBall Warming. Go look at the article......can you tell me who the California Attorney General is? I did not think so. Imagine that, no mention of the name of the guy who caused the case to be filed in the article. I wonder why? Does the name Jerry Brown ring a bell. Maybe you remember him better as Governor Moonbeam?! Yup, in his latest role confounding the will of the poor voters in California, ole Jerry is our Attorney General. He was "elected " to this position in the musical chair shuffle performed by this states leading Democrats in the election last November. They were all facing extinction from term limits in their old places at the public trough, so these political pests just ran for each others seats! That's right, we first discussed it here. Ahhhh, term limits, the voters way of telling lifelong politicians to not go away mad, just go away, had some flaws. So we have Brown, the former Secretary of State/Governor/Mayor, moving to Attorney General; the Insurance Commish became the Lt Governor; and the olde Atty General, Bill Lockyer, became the State Treasurer and on, and on... So much for moving these hogs away from the public trough!

So our "new" Attorney General has elected to fight GlowBall Warming by using his office to sue, well, anyone, that might get him a headline. Wow, big surprise there. Except there are those pesky judges that can get in the way of a good public relations lawsuit. Thus we have the AG getting tripped up by a judge who ruled there is simply no basis in fact for his lawsuit. Apparently, you can't litigate based upon "consensus".....

and that is a good thing!

Uh, Thanks, but......

No Thanks.

Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday.

The singer, who is not Jewish, arrived in Israel Wednesday on the eve of Jewish new year to attend a conference on Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism.

Well not so fast there Ms. "Like A Virgin". Seems some of the local Rabbi's are on to her shtick and none to happy about Madonna's self appointed role.

Orthodox teachers of Kabbala reacted with disdain Sunday to pop idol Madonna's Rosh Hashana visit in Israel, during which she took part in a study session of Judaism's most esoteric texts.

"It is a known fact in Kabbala that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity," said a director of one of the most respected Kabbala yeshivot in Jerusalem who preferred that he and his institution remain anonymous.
"That's why people of Hollywood, a place of iniquity and lasciviousness, are naturally attracted to the holiness of Kabbala."

Well, she worked wonders for the Catholic faith for all those years......as my olde pal SpongeBob says, "Uh, Good Luck with That!"

Whoa!

Boy, here's a headline I never thought I would see "France ups ante in war of words with Iran". France took the first steps Monday to set up a European sanctions regime against the Islamic government in Tehran, after warning that Iran's failure to renounce nuclear weapons could lead to war.

The tough talk from Paris came as the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany prepared to discuss new UN sanctions on Iran, which has failed to respond to demands to stop enriching uranium.

Tough talk from Paris......huh? All hat and no saddle as they say in Texas?! Time will tell......