Obama is at an average of 32.2 DIS-approval Rating! If he continues at this rate, averaging 6 points of disapproval per a month, he could be 100% in less than a year and a half!

I thought the graph was most interesting, as his approval rating has dipped slightly the noticeable part is the disapproval, which has a steady increase.. again in just (at little more than) 2 months time!!  

I wish there was a presidential trail period.. like many jobs have a probationary period.. if you do not perform your job as expected you lose your job! We should do that, say at 60 days we hold another election,we could call it a “post-election”.. and see if they have screwed up so bad they get tossed!

RealClearPolitics – Election Other – President Obama Job Approval

Symptom warnings on medications amuse me.. I have allergies year round, so I listen up when I hear advertisements on allergy medications.. this Nasal Spray I found to be extremely entertaining..

1st note the usage.. Use spray TWICE a Day..

The dosage of ASTEPRO is 1 or 2 sprays per nostril, twice a day, as directed by your doctor

….But you can not drive, may be sleepy, have nosebleeds, headache, and unusual taste in your mouth.. and this is apparently made with Splenda? So you are spraying a sugar alternative up your nose?

Common side effects reported with ASTEPRO generally are mild and include unusual taste (bitter or sweet), nosebleeds, headache, fatigue and sleepiness.

• Do not drive a car, operate machinery or do dangerous activities after using ASTEPRO
• Avoid drinking alcohol or taking other medicines that may also cause sleepiness while using ASTEPRO
• Anyone who is allergic to SPLENDA® or to any product containing SPLENDA® should not use ASTEPRO

Note they are not saying that it only causes sleepiness when used with alcohol or other medications.. but to not use with other medicines that “may  also” cause sleepiness.

Why is it that the solution to most allergy issues also makes you sleepy.. so apparently if you have allergies the answer is to sleep it off.. if you have year round allergies you just need to opt for a nice coma?

I think the “do not drive” got me the most.. yes it says after you use it, but you are using it twice away.. sooo that sounds like you could be a hazard any time of day!

Astepro Side Effects –

38mph.. so what is the mpg?

It’s been awhile since I have seen a good “Stupid Human Trick”.. but I think 15 beers + motorized bar stool, no doubt wins! 

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.

Twenty-eight-year Kile Wygle was hospitalized for minor injuries. Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers. Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.

AP News : Gazette.com

The food police need a new job.. or to get a life..

This is just a baseball promotional gimmick.. it is a ridiculous item but obviously a HUGE burger is going to get attention, that is no doubt the intention of a promotional gimmick!

Next up.. salad on a stick at the ballpark?

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. (WZZM) – The Staff Dietician of a Washington, D.C. based physicians group sent a letter to the West Michigan Whitecaps today saying they should put a "dietary disaster" label on their new Fifth Third burger.

Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine signed the letter. In it, she says the 4,800 calorie burger should come with the warning label: "WARNING – Eating meat is associated with increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and death" and should not be sold to anyone under 18 years of age.

So a family of 5 or perhaps two grown hungry men could share this! No doubt would be difficult.. but maybe if you cut it like a pizza?

The West Michigan Whitecaps unveiled the burger last week. The burger consists of five 1/3 pound patties, cheese, chili, salsa, fritos and more.

The burger costs $20 and anyone who finishes it during a game gets a free t-shirt. The Whitecaps say they will cut the burger so fans can share it with others.

DC doctors group wants warning label on Whitecaps big burger |

Never smoked, never will.. but that does not stop me from seeing insanity when it stares me in the face.

Just Sunday we were getting gas, and I noticed the price on the cigarettes. $5.09 for a pack of Marlboro. I flashed back to fifth grade when I did a report on the costs of cigarette smoking. The class gave me a heck of a time when I said the price per a pack would reach over $5 and people will still buy them. And here I am  three decades later  seeing the price of cigarettes.. and people still smoking, people still paying the financial price as well as the price of their lungs!

The price of cigarettes in my eyes is just an alternative to prohibition.. make liquor illegal people still drank, and it made drinking a crime. So now instead of making it illegal or a crime, the government themselves are no doubt the criminals in how they steal from the poor to give to, hummm.. who really benefits?

I did think it is was cute how they started off this article….

Forget the old adage, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. The watchword these days is hoard ‘em if you smoke ‘em.

The April Fool’s joke is on smokers tomorrow, as a federal tax increase on tobacco products is jacking up prices. But most local smokers weren’t caught flat-footed – many say they’ve been stocking up for weeks.

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But, first, take the duct tape and wrap it around your head several times.

Harold Koh.

This legal “brainiac” has the following opinions:

• Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations’ legal norms.
• Sharia law could apply to disputes in U.S. courts.
• The United States constitutes an axis of disobedience along with North Korea and Saddam Hussein.

“He is a fan of transnational legal process, arguing that distinctions between the U.S. and international laws should vanish.”

Don’t we already have an incredible document called the US Constitution?  Who could “top” that?  Not Harold Koh.  And not his precious UN.

How does this work in real life? California, Proposition 8. People decided, went to the courts. Courts say fine; people say fine, we want it, we want it this way. He believes that the courts and the people have no right to say that because of international law. In Canada and the European human rights commission and the United Nations, they all say gay marriage should be legal. And because the United Nations says that, it doesn’t matter what the people of California want. He even believes that judges should use this logic to strike down the death penalty.

The primacy of international legal norms apply to treaties that we reject. So in other words, the Kyoto protocol, we would if this guy gets his way, we have to honor it anyway because international law is above ours.

Does Obama think that we should just become a county of the UN?  Isn’t one of the defining elements of a nation a sovereign legal system?  (yes, making its own currency is another element, and I realize that some want that to go the way of the dinosaur).  Is there any sane person that actually believes that the UN could possibly have a better law system that US?  Especially when it comes to US citizens?

He also claimed in 2007 in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why Sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States. Sharia law over our Constitution.

Hey, the British now recognize Sharia law – why not US? 

He is a self described activist. Self described. He said, I would rather have former Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun who used the wrong reasoning in Roe versus Wade to get the right results and then let other people figure out why it’s right.

Great, yet another activist judge.  Oh, did I forget to mention that?  Koh is one of the leading names being thrown around to fill any future vacancy in the US Supreme Court.

Koh is on the side of the illegals in immigration debates.  Joy.

And he is pro-abortion.

“A Koh nomination would revive debate over the importation of ‘transnational’ social norms on contentious issues like abortion,” Tozzi writes.

Tozzi notes that Koh’s academic writings have redefined sovereignty as “a nation’s capacity to participate in international affairs,” and have blurred any distinctive national identity.

“Koh goes on to say that the way a nation exercises sovereignty responsibly is to accept all United Nations (UN) documents and the UN human rights review process,” Tozzi writes.

You know, we are months into the Obama administration, and I have yet to hear of one good decision that he has made.

Debra Messing also told Tarts that our new President is not only meeting her expectations, but going far beyond.

“He is thoughtful and considerate and he gets all the information before he speaks which I think is a wonderful quality for the ruler of the free world to have,” she explained.

This has made a few sites, even NRO.

But, I think that the dimwitted actress needs to learn definitions of “ruler” and “free world” before opening her yap on politics again.  That’s why throughout history the term has been “LEADER of the free world.”  Not RULER.  But that’s wishful thinking on her part, these people don’t know how to STFU.

& Good-bye to what the USA used to stand for.. I hope it cane come back, soon!

Out of touch & clueless.. plus his complete inexperience added to him being an egomaniac.. he also has no clue what Socialism actually means!

Love this one.. those who dare question the “great” Obama.. are attacked by his piranhas.. aka media or drones!

I joked before about GM being taken over by Obama.. well I guess people will be getting a BM soon ..

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Probably sooner than you think.

From Michelle Malkin’s site.

[I]n a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

The government has just given tax-cheat Geithner the power to decide the salaries of private individuals.  And it would be retroactive.

Who thinks that this is a good idea?

Maybe it is time to investigate whether your employer took money from the government, because you might be get a bill for the retroactive overpayments that you earned.

Come to think of it, shouldn’t we, the voters have the same right over them?  Because I want every red cent that has gone to the salaries and benefits of these nitwits.

In case you were curious, Click here to see their salaries and benefits.

The current salary (2009) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year.

Congress: Leadership Members’ Salary (2009)
Leaders of the House and Senate are paid a higher salary than rank-and-file members.

Senate Leadership
Majority Leader – $193,400
Minority Leader – $193,400

House Leadership
Speaker of the House – $223,500
Majority Leader – $193,400
Minority Leader – $193,400

A cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) increase takes effect annually unless Congress votes to not accept it.

Members of Congress receive retirement and health benefits under the same plans available to other federal employees. They become vested after five years of full participation.

Members of Congress are not eligible for a pension until they reach the age of 50, but only if they’ve completed 20 years of service. Members are eligible at any age after completing 25 years of service or after they reach the age of 62. Please also note that Member’s of Congress have to serve at least 5 years to even receive a pension.

The amount of a Congressperson’s pension depends on the years of service and the average of the highest 3 years of his or her salary. By law, the starting amount of a Member’s retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of his or her final salary.

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal for them.

Every feel like libs turn the world into one large Monty Python skit?

The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers.

The ecofreaks have passed laws in WA banning the use of most main-brand dishwashing detergents.  Residents, in a quest for clean, non-greasy dishes, have resorted to smuggling.

Spokane County became the launch pad last July for the nation’s strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates, a measure aimed at reducing water pollution. The ban will be expanded statewide in July 2010, the same time similar laws take effect in several other states.

But it’s not easy to get sparkling dishes when you go green.

Many people were shocked to find that products like Seventh Generation, Ecover and Trader Joe’s left their dishes encrusted with food, smeared with grease and too gross to use without rewashing them by hand. The culprit was hard water, which is mineral-rich and resistant to soap.

As a result, there has been a quiet rush of Spokane-area shoppers heading east on Interstate 90 into Idaho in search of old-school suds.

WA State Trooper:  “Lady, we know that you’re in there.  Put the Cascade on the front stoop, and come up with your hands up.”

Even Hollywood couldn’t come up with a more ridiculous idea – and this is real.

Now, what is worse – the “good” dish soap, or having to repeatedly wash the same dish, thereby wasting hordes of water, and still ending up with a dish that your dog wouldn’t eat off of.

“It’s says; ‘We The People’, Mr. Obama, – not ‘We the Government,’ nor ‘We the Bureaucrat,’ nor ‘We the Department of Everything Pleasant and Unpleasant,’”

The story of when the Ghost of Freedom Past (George Washington in a cameo appearance) visits our new Il Duce Obama.

It’s a modern day parable that shows how far we as a country has fallen from original ideas.  I guess the question I pose, does more than maybe 20% of the current inhabitants of the country still value these ideas?  Or have the boomers succeeded in changing most of the citizens into properly indoctrinated socialist children?

It’s not Lincoln that our new President is emulating, its Mussolini.

The chairman and CEO of GM is stepping down.  Because the White House told him to.

Fascism isn’t just anything bad where people tell you what to do.  Fascism was created as a descendant of socialism.  Fascism’s economic policy is where the government owns and controls businesses.

So now we have a government that is owning private companies, and commanding other private industries what to do.  And the headlines scream: "Geithner, Government is the Answer to Financial Crisis".

I practice crab-torture.

Some researcher has determined that crabs feel pain, and they remember it.

And I am a life-long crab torturer.  My family has “crabbed” since I can remember.  We love to take out the boat (burn some fuel), pack some subs, and spend the day crabbing, swimming, and water skiing. 

To top off the day, we like to get a nice big pot, toss some sticks into it, toss in the crabs, beer and spice, and cook ‘em up. 

Yum.

Any leftovers become crab cakes or crab imperial – waste not want not…

The whole Earth hour thing is coming up. 

While you may hotly debate whether or not turning out your lights for one hour can impact our global climate – it’s not about what actually happens to our planet during that hour, but about showing you care.

Remember, it’s not about actually preventing the baby from playing in the pool full of sharks with lasers on their heads, but just… well, caring about it.

Because posturing in front of everyone that you actually care is more important than reality.

Back to the point, do you know what the science folks just released about why the Atlantic has been heating up?  Seems that a lack of dust in the air allows more sunlight to hit the surface.  Which anyone that has ever stepped out from under an awning during the day knows, things get hotter.

Watch people fuss and squirm though when such an obvious process, when applied to the sun simply putting out more energy, is suggested for the cause of any warming last century.  And the cooling the last few years has nothing to do with the sun putting out less.

Because once again, it ain’t about science, at least as what passes for the news today is "impartial media."  It’s all about money, politics, power, and control.

I arrived home this afternoon to discover that my house was quiet (which doesn’t happen often), so I decided to seize upon this opportunity to do a little reading.  Settling into a rather large chair with my book, I began to read.  After only a minute, I had to stop to post the following.  These were the first words that my eyes fell upon… enjoy.

“The patterns, ahh, the patterns.  Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most.  I distrust the extremes.  Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future.  Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.  It’s true!  Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies.  The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.  Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.  Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.  Ahh well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated.”

— from “God Emperor of Dune” by Frank Herbert

Europe is trying to teach us a lesson…

Click here for video of Daniel Hannan giving his recent speech at the EU Parliament.

“The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money….  Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds.  Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child….  Like everyone else, I’ve long accepted the fact that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things, it’s that your carrying on willfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left…  Prime Minister, you cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive….  YOU CANNOT SPENT YOUR WAY OUT OF RECESSION OR BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.”

His words are so relevant to the US, also.  Somehow, I wish that our government would be forced to listen to his speech.  We are merrily following Britain down the primrose path, yet we are failing to note the problems that the British have encountered.

And in interviews, what British folly does Mr. Hannan (forgive me if I don’t know the proper address for Parliamentarians) warn the US about?  What is the “worst” error that Britain has made, in his opinion, that he strongly warns the US against?

Nationalized healthcare.

And to further explain the “joys” of the British healthcare system, this article was just released:

Life prolonging cancer drugs to be banned because they cost too much.

Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.

The Government’s rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.

BANNED – as in – you can’t get them in Britain, at any price.

Click here for a great Glenn Beck interview with Daniel Hannan MEP.

UPDATE:  I’ve been searching for the below quote all day.  (yes, I realize that I need to get a life)  From the Glenn Beck show

GLENN: So Daniel, what is what is your best advice here? I mean, we have eight million people listening here in America all across the country and you guys are ahead of us on everything. What is your best advice? What should Americans be looking out for? What should Americans, when we hear our politicians here say this is the solution, this is the direction, what have you learned through experience? Don’t do that.
HANNAN: Yeah, you should learn from our mistakes. I mean, the single biggest area where I could see you making this mistake is on this thing of the nationalized healthcare system. I mean, I hope that sanity is going to prevail. I know it’s been kicked around before and it hasn’t happened. I love my country even more than I love yours, you know, but god, I would love to get rid of our system and have something that puts patients in charge rather than putting doctors’ unions and bureaucrats in charge. That’s the single biggest thing. More widely than that, you know, you can spend your money better than politicians can. You’ve got a better idea of what to do with it than governments have.

U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy.

“A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.”

Socialistic wealth re-distribution on a world-wide scale.  I know what the libs see – Robin Hood (the UN) steals from the rich (in this case, us) and gives to the poor (“developing countries”).  Which makes a great story, but isn’t so great when you are the rich.  And of course, the plot precis that I gave isn’t the whole story.  Robin Hood (who was actually from the rich class) stole ill-gotten gains from Prince John, who had evilly tried to take over England when the true king was off on crusade (I digress).

Among the tools that are considered are the cap-and-trade system for controlling carbon emissions that has been espoused by the Obama administration; “carbon taxes” on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, including airline transportation; and lower subsidies for those same goods, as well as new or higher subsidies for goods that are considered “environmentally sound.”

Other tools are referred to only vaguely, including “energy policy reform,” which the report indicates could affect “large-scale transportation infrastructure such as roads, rail and airports.” When it comes to the results of such reform, the note says only that it could have “positive consequences for alternative transportation providers and producers of alternative fuels.”

In the same bland manner, the note informs negotiators without going into details that cap-and-trade schemes “may induce some industrial relocation” to “less regulated host countries.” Cap-and-trade functions by creating decreasing numbers of pollution-emission permits to be traded by industrial users, and thus pay more for each unit of carbon-based pollution, a market-driven system that aims to drive manufacturers toward less polluting technologies.

The note adds only that industrial relocation “would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment.” But at the same time it “would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would host the relocated industries.”

There are also entirely new kinds of tariffs and trade protectionist barriers such as those termed in the note as “border carbon adjustment”— which, the note says, can impose “a levy on imported goods equal to that which would have been imposed had they been produced domestically” under more strict environmental regimes.

Another form of “adjustment” would require exporters to “buy [carbon] offsets at the border equal to that which the producer would have been forced to purchase had the good been produced domestically.”

The impact of both schemes, the note says, “would be functionally equivalent to an increased tariff: decreased market share for covered foreign producers.” (There is no definition in the report of who, exactly, is “foreign.”) The note adds that “If they were implemented fairly, such schemes would leave trade and investment patterns unchanged.” Nothing is said about the consequences if such fairness was not achieved.

Let’s see, Cap and Trade, high tariffs, fleeing companies, loss of jobs, high energy costs, etc. – and this is something that we want?  Why would the idiots in Washington WANT this plan?

I’ve been using FF for years, but never figured out how to do this or even if it’s a feature.  Has to do with bookmark management.

Basically I have all my bookmarks nice and sorted, some 4 or 5 folders deep.  What I want to do is make a shortcut on the Nav toolbar to a folder that is 4 or 5 folders deep.  Moving it to the folder is dumb because its sorted correctly, and copying everything to the Nav toolbar is even dumber.

So can you create shortcuts that point to folders in Firefox?

More of our Government’s completely out of touch  moments…

Political cartoons, editorial funnies, conservative funny, cartoonists

Whoever is keeping the list of failed Obama nominees, time to add another name.

Jon Cannon, the prez’s nominee for deputy EPA administrator, is cannon fodder this afternoon, the latest scandal-plagued nominee to have to resign in shame even before confirmation.

For all the snarky comments you can make about the "most ethical blah blah blah ever" this is just getting sadder and sadder.  Things will be interesting here come next election cycle.

My question is, in a little over 3 1/2 years, will the next president do as the pharaohs of old and remove all mention of these dark times from the record?

And on a funnier note, here’s South Park on the economy.  I didn’t know Randy was based on Geithner.