Hidden Video From A Few Weeks Ago…

here at Chateau Bingley

Gorebal Warmening

Weep

Weep for the children

Dear Stedman

Claude feels your pain

PS – Bamboo doesn’t like snow either

Think of Afghanistan This Weekend

…and our magnificent troops.

God bless ’em, every one.

The Greatest Facebook Fan Page Ever

Can this Goat get more fans than Barack Obama?

Barack Obama has 7.4 million fans. The goat’s already up over 100K.

Lots of “Vote Goat!” on the wall posts…My kinda people.

Ladies and Germs

It snowed in Pensacola this afternoon ~ big, fat flakes started to stud the rain and then took over all by their lonesome. Marvelous.

(Actually covered the ground about 20 miles north of here, so the Florida Panhandle came through for the “snow on the ground in all fifty states”.)

Marvelous.

The Country’s Pay’s So Bad…

…that they misspelled the name of the Country on the Peso

The general manager of the Chilean mint has been dismissed after thousands of coins were issued with the name of the country spelt wrongly.

The 50-peso coins – worth about 10 cents (6p) – were issued in 2008, but no-one noticed the mistake until late last year.

Instead of C-H-I-L-E, the coins had C-H-I-I-E stamped on them.

If someone in Kyrgyzstan made this mistake would anyone ever know?

Christie Freezes Spending

So far so good. He’s doing exactly what i thought he should do: stop spending and force the folks in the Legislature out in the open to defend all the millions they waste. When you swing the axe the sacred cows get nervous

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie laid out a series of detailed spending cuts to lawmakers at a special joint session Thursday, including reductions in aid to K-12 schools, colleges, hospitals and New Jersey Transit that kick in starting this month.

Christie cautioned that the cuts will be followed by more difficult decisions for next year’s budget, which he’ll present to lawmakers next month. The cuts he outlined Thursday are intended to resolve a $2.2 billion deficit in the current year’s budget.

Shine the light and watch the roaches squirm!

An executive order Christie signed Thursday morning — which declares a state of fiscal emergency — directs acting Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff and acting Attorney General Paula Dow to study “projected costs to the state and local entities associated with previously negotiated employee salary structures” and possibly present “proposed alternatives to achieve necessary cost savings in light of the current fiscal crisis.”

I hope they go beyond “studying” and get to the “cutting” phase fairly quickly, because we simply can’t afford to wait. But judging by how he’s acted so far, and by how pissed off the entrenched interests in Trenton are

Democrats who control the state Legislature were miffed that the Christie administration didn’t detail the budget cuts to them until about an hour before the speech and concerned that Christie is acting unilaterally to address the deficit by executive order.

I am getting more and more hopeful that we’ve finally got a Governor who will cut our government back to size.

Let’s see.

From a Valentine’s Day Card at Target Just Now

I love you when…

…You let me deep inside your heart.

You crack a window when you fart.

Nothing says “Be Mine” like a poem.

Did You Know That?

I sure didn’t.

…It is a VERY big deal that the Ritz-Carlton, Las Vegas is closing.

The White House is very much to blame for this, with the current president’s repeated, highly stupid remarks about business people not being allowed to go on junkets to Vegas anymore. What this president lacks the experience and wisdom to understand is that words have meaning and consequences. By attacking Vegas, he empowered bean counters across corporate America to raise Hell about any Vegas trips on expense accounts…and particularly any charges with a Ritz-Carlton associated with trips.

Do you realize that Ritz-Carltons are non-union hotels that pay WAY MORE than union properties do?

The reason Ritzes don’t unionize is because their lowest wages, in most places, are about $4-5 dollars higher than any competitors. They select the best of the best for their staff, and pay them very well. Housekeepers, who’d have to work two jobs at other hotels, can work one at a Ritz, get health insurance, and qualify for all sorts of bonuses, rewards, and special incentives.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company is a fabulous employer. It is an honor to work for them.

Well, thank Hopey-Change Dr. Utopia for costing hundreds of people their jobs in Vegas, now that the Ritz there has been forced to close. It’s a 350 room property, so it easily employs about 400 people. Since it was a top-paying employer, that’s 400 people who are not only out of work, but are shucked into a labor market that’s already highly competitive…and where they will not be able to find similar jobs for the same pay.

Good Schmaybe Not

The military will formally discipline at least six officers, mostly from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, for failing to take action against the officer accused of carrying out last year’s deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, according to people familiar with the matter.

And I hope EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM demands a Court Martial, gets a whale of a lawyer and blows the doors off the Islamic/feminist/generalsenseofentitlement ass-kissing PC culture punitively enforced in the military.

A Cheerful Song for the Snowy Masses (To the Tune of “I’m a Pepper”)

I’m a Weasel!* (“But to understand where we must go in the next year and beyond, it is important to remember where we began one year ago.”)


He’s a Weasel! (No quote needed)


She’s a Weasel! (“So everything obviously from the financial crisis, the terrible recession, but the longer-run problems — the stagnating middle-class incomes, soaring health care costs, the failure to invest in education, innovation, clean energy — we certainly inherited an economy with a number of economic problems.”)


We’re ALL Weasels! (Recognizing voters were likely to hold Obama to account for the economy, the White House team cast blame on their predecessors and unpopular Wall Street bankers.)


Wouldn’t you like to be a Weasel, too? (However, in showing how difficult it is to create jobs through tax policy, CBO estimates that such a tax break would generate only eight to 18 full-time jobs per $1 million in tax breaks.)

NO?!?!?!?!
Then the terrorists have already won.

* Please to also ‘note’ the unintended hilarity of the second to last story on the left (!) of the cover.

I Know Nothing About This Skeeve

…and really can’t see how sleeping with him is something any sane, marginally self confident woman would consider for a second. (Kcruella would succinctly describe his appeal as “I feel itchy”.) Upon further consideration, it seems not a single female matching that description has, so that explains that.

Carry on.

This Is Like Being “Un-Friended” On Facebook, Right?

Say, like, for instance, Krugman calls you ‘clueless’.

…Obama thinks his key to electoral success is to trumpet “the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies.”

We’re doomed.

Oh, “ouchie”, right?
But then along comes an AP (!?!?!) headline like this…

PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs bill won’t add many jobs

(CHINGOW! Oooo, stings a little.)…and a guy really starts to wonder if he’s lost his mojo, right? Or he should start to wonder…actually should have started wondering a while ago…well, normally it would be distressing, right?

Unless he’s…

Well…right.

While We’ve Still Got Power

Up the street has already lost it. Very wet, heavy snow. Absolutely beautiful.

But deadly to power lines.

If/when the wind picks up, we’re going dark.

How Could This Be…

54.9 inches!

A new record: Snowiest winter in D.C. history

…when RFK Jr. said eskimos were building igloos in the back yard at lunch when he was little?

…Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard.

Is a puzzlement!

Let It Snow!

I’ve got plenty of wine and a tuckered out pooch

And some pulled pork nachos

Life, she is good.

Credit Where Credit’s Due

Last night, major dad made the finest pot of mashed potatoes ever assembled.

EVER.

Be Afraid

He expressed his disgust at being “forced to look at the backside of a woman who bends over in front of me in supermarket to pick an item off a bottom shelf”. It is a health hazard, he says. “Non-Muslim women do not use water to clean themselves when they go to the toilet.” Thus, bending over in a supermarket could cause serious health risks.

We’re supposed to bow, instead, don’t you know.

We Hadn’t Been Forced Into the “10% by Volume” Ethanol Fold

…until now. And the ENTIRE Casa de major dad fleet has experienced a precipitous MPG drop…basically our mileage has gone to poopie. Anyone else notice the same when forced to fill up with this pitiful politically correct corn crap?

To the diagram I would add: “…even though I have to fill up more often.”

UPDATE: Pffft.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handed a victory to ethanol producers Wednesday by issuing final regulations that conclude corn-based fuels will meet greenhouse gas standards imposed under a 2007 energy law.

The release of the final regulations follows a fierce campaign by ethanol companies that alleged 2009 draft rules unfairly found that large volumes of ethanol production would not meet targets in the statute for reducing greenhouse gases.

The article also quotes the EPA Administrator:

“We have followed the science,” she told reporters on a conference call. “Our models have become more sophisticated. We have accrued better data.”

I think I’ve heard that before…

Oh, Noes!!!!! NOT Captain Phil!!

Discovery Channel: ‘Deadliest Catch’ Captain Dies

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.

We’ve watched the show for at least four years now. In the last two, Phil’s gone from coughing up blood when a clot ripped through his system to spending last season dry-docked on shore because of his health. And then there’d be shots of him outside the hospital ~ after talking to his boys on the Cornelia Marie ~ sitting in the snow, snagging a smoke and major dad’d be telling the TV, “Phil, you’re gonna die…”

What a shame. He was one tough son of a bitch, but sometimes that’s just not enough, you know? We’ll miss him mucho and our thoughts go out to his boys.

Shock: Menendez Asked Feds To Bail Out Donors

I mean, gosh, who’d’ve thunk it

WASHINGTON—Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey urged the Federal Reserve last July to approve an acquisition to save a struggling bank in his state. He didn’t mention that the bank’s chairman and vice chairman were big contributors to his political campaign.

Hey! He’s a busy guy! I’m sure it slipped his mind.

The chairman of First BankAmericano at the time of the letter, Joseph Ginarte, is a high-profile attorney with offices in New York and New Jersey. He has given a total of about $30,000 to Mr. Menendez and his political-action committee since 1999, according to federal records.

The vice chairman of the bank was Raymond Lesniak, a New Jersey state senator and local political heavyweight. He also has given generously to Mr. Menendez’s campaign coffers. In 2006, Mr. Lesniak held a fund-raiser at his home for the senator featuring former President Bill Clinton, according to news reports at the time.

I’m sure he barely knows these guys.

I think it’s time to crank up the “Sen. Bingley in ’12” campaign…

Greetings From Três Corações

A nice small city and the birthplace of Pelé.

Oh Yeah!

We get more Gorebal Warmening for tomorrow

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 10 TO 18 INCHES WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER THE NORTHERN EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND… NORTHERN DELAWARE… EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA… AND MUCH OF NEW JERSEY. HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN TWO BURSTS ACROSS THE REGION. THE FIRST IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR TONIGHT WITH FOUR TO EIGHT INCHES LIKELY TO ACCUMULATE BY THE MORNING COMMUTE WEDNESDAY. THE SECOND SHOT WILL BE AN EVEN MORE INTENSE BURST OF HEAVY SNOW WITH THE UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE ITSELF THAT SHOULD OCCUR IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA… MARYLAND… AND DELAWARE DURING WEDNESDAY MORNING AND NEW JERSEY AND NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA DURING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL END BY MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

WINDS WILL INCREASE AS WEDNESDAY CONTINUES AND WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW… EVEN MORE THAN WHAT OCCURRED WITH THE WEEKEND SNOW STORM. AT AND NEAR THE ATLANTIC SHORE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS WINDS INCREASE.

I’m thinking tomorrow is a work-from-home day.

More “Unexpected” Bad Economic News

At least it’s not from Washington for once

The VAT increase and unprecedented blizzards last month contributed to a sudden and unexpected collapse in retail sales, according to the British Retail Consortium. Its sales monitor registered a 0.7pc drop in like-for-like sales last month, compared with a year before – the steepest January fall since the survey began in 1995, and in stark contrast to economists’ expectations of an increase of 0.5pc.

I mean, who could have possibly foreseen a retail sales decline, sorry, collapse, after the Government raised the VAT?

Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight, said: “Households face still very challenging conditions, including high unemployment, still markedly falling full-time employment, low earnings growth, high debt levels, and January’s VAT hike. Meanwhile, still serious concerns about the economic outlook and jobs are likely to maintain consumers’ desire to improve their personal finances.”

Yep, that all applies here.

And I’m sure our Government will decide the answer is for them to spend more.