This Just Perfectly Sums Up The State Of Our Nation, Doesn’t It?

The Martin Luther King Memorial.

Made in China.

UPDATE: More a monument than you might remember…

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil-rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 to use his words and image — and at least one scholar thinks that Dr. King would find such an arrangement offensive.

…I don’t think the Jefferson family, the Lincoln family [or] any other group of family ancestors has been paid a licensing fee for a memorial in Washington,” said Cambridge University historian David Garrow, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Dr. King. “. . . [He would’ve been] absolutely scandalized.”

Gosh, If THIS Isn’t Just Confusing

Fresh Fighting Erupts in Libya Between Rebels, Regime

Fresh fighting erupted in Tripoli on Tuesday hours after Muammar Qaddafi’s son turned up free to thwart Libyan rebel claims he had been captured, a move that seems to have energized forces still loyal to the embattled regime.

“Days, not weeks”? Mummy’s sons IN custody, then out and available for interviews?

And I’ll bet the Present had his Mr DeMille/Mission Accomplished All By Me make-up spackled on and ready to go for that victory lap/teleprompter speech.

$896 million and counting, big boy…

Speaking of “Aroused”, I’ve Chosen a Song to Illustrate the Obama Administration’s View of Your Three Year Old

Obama’s HHS: ‘Children Are Sexual Beings’

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering advice to parents and teens about sex education, including assurances that teens may “experiment” with homosexuality as part of “exploring their own sexuality,” and that masturbation should be of concern only “if a child seems preoccupied with it to the exclusion of other activities.”

The information, located on a “Questions and Answers About Sex” link on the “Quick Guide to Healthy Living” portion of the HHS Web site, also describes children and infants as “sexual beings.”

Under the question “When Do Kids Start Becoming Curious About Sex?” the answer notes that infants have curiosity about their bodies.

“Children are human beings and therefore sexual beings,” the Q&A Web page says. “It’s hard for parents to acknowledge this, just as it’s hard for kids to think of their parents as sexually active. But even infants have curiosity about their own bodies, which is healthy and normal.”

As for masturbation and “what sort of ‘sexual’ behavior do young kids exhibit?” the page says, “Parents should only be concerned about masturbation if a child seems preoccupied with it to the exclusion of other activities. Victims of sexual abuse sometimes become preoccupied with self-stimulation.”

“Where’s little Johnny, Mabel?”

“In his bouncy castle, choking the chicken, AGAIN…”

“But did he finally take the trash out?”

“Yeah, about an hour ago.”

“Well, shoot, alright then. Kindergarteners will be kindergarteners. It’s a normal part of growing up. Just make sure he washes his hands.”

Joceyln Elders seems sorta quaint now, doesn’t she?

Hard fact they don’t want you to know that you learn in Catholic School: too much “stimulation” and you’ll go blind.

Spam Of The Day

Blog aroused for me very good feelings.

You’re welcome.

I think.

I Guess Irene Didn’t Get The Memo

…that THS doesn’t live in NC anymore.

Spam-A-Pallooza

So I finally got aroun d to cleaning out the Spam filter after a certain person’s incessant whining and this batch of oh 75 or so had many variations on this basic paragraph

I do enjoy the way you have framed this specific matter plus it really does give us a lot of fodder for consideration. Nonetheless, through what I have experienced, I simply wish as the actual feedback pack on that men and women stay on issue and not start upon a tirade of the news du jour. Yet, thank you for this superb point and whilst I do not really agree with the idea in totality, I value your perspective.

There were at least 30 variations of this. I wonder who writes this stuff and what exactly they are hoping to accomplish?

I Think I’ll Pass…

…on that trip to Savannah this weekend

But I will keep this in mind

IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF THIS CYCLONE BECAME A MAJOR HURRICANE AT SOME TIME DURING ITS LIFETIME LIKE THE GFDL AND HWRF MODELS ARE FORECASTING.

IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO FOCUS ON THE EXACT FORECAST TRACK…
ESPECIALLY AT DAYS 4 TO 5…SINCE THE MOST RECENT 5-YEAR AVERAGE ERRORS AT THOSE FORECAST TIMES ARE 200 AND 250 MILES…RESPECTIVELY.

We Watched “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” Last Night

…for the first time in probably 15 years. We were channel surfing and caught it just as he got off a bus in Texas.

It’s still just frickin’ hilarious.

A Little Summer Vacation Musical Interlude Inspired by Our Always Inspiring Present

…for your Sunday afternoon enjoyment.

I’ve got to clean out, like, 200+ SPAM. I mean, I could wait, right? Until I have “a plan”?

Or until Bingley comes back from his own super important rounds of golf soul searching about our country’s future and let him take it off my hands.

1/3 of a Happy Ending

Schmaybe puppies should be in the garage during the day? Just sayin’…

Thank Goodness! The Present’s on Vacation

…and Recovery Bummer’s humming along on schedule.

Bank of America Cutting 3,500 Jobs, And More May Follow

See? It’s like he wasn’t even there.

Which he isn’t.

Ebola Just Purchased His Very First Firearm

As his mummy, I worry more than usual in this instance and NOT because my incredibly mature son is the issue.

“The idea that when a SWAT team breaks down the door of a home without a no-knock warrant and is thereby justified in firing on anyone who has a weapon in their hands — in their own home — particularly if that weapon might be aimed in their direction, is nothing less than horrifying. It is essentially saying that officers may shoot first — in fact that they may plan beforehand to shoot first — and be reasonably certain later.

If that is the case, anyone living in Sheriff Dupnik’s jurisdiction does indeed have to worry about “confrontation with the cops.”

Guess where he lives?

As I noted on his FaceBook page, young Jedi is a military member, out-of-state resident, with Florida plates on the Commando Wagon. The local sheriff has deputies who kill people with many holes in the body.

“Please to carefully research all local, state and installation laws before said weapon makes it to your vehicle.“, I said (Pleasepleasepleaseplease.). But even that knowlege isn’t going to save you against a rogue police department, so be polite and use common sense, while always being in the right.

Sheesh. I’m a wussie wreck here.

(H/T Instapundit)

Misty Morning DOOM

It’s still raining.

Gopherwood can’t be found for neither love nor money.

Oh, and money can’t be found for neither love nor, er, itself as the Dow is due another couple hundred lower.

Change you can drown in, Folks.

Quote Of The Day

The always worth the effort to read the whole thing Ace

Yes, our troops are the best in the world, and not just the best at destroying the enemy — they are the best at destroying the enemy while sparing noncombatants’ lives. They are the most disciplined and most precise forces the world have ever seen, in addition to being the most lethal.

So yes, the presence of our troops can in fact spare any number of noncombatants in such a bloody civil war.

But… I have to say: Who gives a shit? How many foreign citizens in an country we’ve gone to war with do I need to save in fair exchange for one American soldier’s life?

I think that number must be more than 100. Actually, I think it must be more than 1000 before I really start to think that maybe that’s a good exchange.

These basket-case, broken, violent rogue countries have their own growing up to do. They have to go through their own spasms. They have to shed their own blood, and inflict their own massacres.

Yes, we can spare them some of this; but why should we? Someone is going to die in a war. I nominate foreign nationals.

In case I didn’t say it, read the whole thing.

Some People Just Have Too Much Fun

Unseemly. Damn Drudge. 🙂

Conversations With Paul Krugman

I’m just kidding. That was economics. This is SCIENCE.

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists

Rising greenhouse emissions may tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for Nasa

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.

Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.

Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa’s Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity “prepare for actual contact”.

Yeah. NASA.

N.A.S.effinA. “Outer Space Agency” ~ oh, you betcha.

And you thought shrimp on a treadmill was “money we don’t have well spent”.

BWAhahahaha!

The Click Through Line on a Fox News Story Right Now?

Obama Might Not Get
Much R&R on Vacation

Ah…”waah“?

Hats Off to Allah’s Twitter Feed

…for this most AWESOME of Chris Brown beatdowns.

I’m still rolling.

Obama Yesterday: “Don’t Believe Everything You Hear”

News out today: True. Because it’s worse than you could ever imagine. Since he’s a lying sack o’ shit and you’re doomed anyway, why scare the crap out of yourself any more than you have to?

Regulatory Agencies Staffing Up

If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a business, it would be one of the 50 biggest in the country in terms of revenues, and the third largest in terms of employees, with more people working for it than McDonald’s, Ford, Disney and Boeing combined.

Under President Obama, while the economy is struggling to grow and create jobs, the federal regulatory business is booming.

…The Obama administration imposed 75 new major rules in its first 26 months, costing the private sector more than $40 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation study. “No other president has imposed as high a number or cost in a comparable time period,” noted the study’s author, James Gattuso.

The number of pages in the Federal Register — where all new rules must be published and which serves as proxy of regulatory activity — jumped 18% in 2010.

This July, regulators imposed a total of 379 new rules that will cost more than $9.5 billion, according to an analysis by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.

And much more is on the way. The Federal Register notes that more than 4,200 regulations are in the pipeline. That doesn’t count impending clean air rules from the EPA, new derivative rules, or the FCC’s net neutrality rule. Nor does that include recently announced fuel economy mandates or eventual ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank regulations.

I’ll take my doom cocktail on the rocks, please, like our economy, freedom and private industry under this most transparent of Presidents.

UPDATE: Apparently some fool Politico reporter took the Present’s advice to Farmer John and…oh, Dear God…called the USDA all by his loneself?!?!?!?

Obama’s unhelpful advice

Ho, boy. He’s young…starry eyed…doesn’t know not to go in without back-up…

“Holder? Holder?”

They ask to an empty room…

Firearms from the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious weapons trafficking investigation turned up at the scenes of at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S., as well as at a Border Patrol agent’s slaying in southern Arizona last year, the Justice Department has acknowledged to Congress.

Believe in That “Hand O’ God Messaging” Stuff?

Especially if you’re a loud mouth, arrogant, blustering, video manipulating, evil intentioned son of a bitch?

Engine Trouble on Cessna Forces Ed Schultz to Send Mayday, Land on Remote Airstrip in Canada

Nah.

Not much.

On the Terrorism Front

From the FaceBook page of Navy SEAL (and Navy Cross winner) Marcus Luttrell just now:

Not sure what to think about this one… Just went through security at the airport and they made this old man I’n a wheel chair take off his diaper before they rolled him through the scanner. I understand the security concept but this might have been a little much.

Makes me cry.

I’m Sure Obama Gave the Farmer Who Asked That Question a Big, Fat, Warm, Wet Fuzzy When He Answered

“Don’t always believe what you hear.“

My Eyes!

There’s this big yellowish thingy in the air today, it feels kind of warm and it’s making things a tad too bright for my liking. The past two days I’ve golfed under some lovely skies that were both leaden and sodden, which my alabaster complexion finds most amiable thank you very much, and I have another round planned for today but I’m not sure how it will go given this new presence in the sky.

If someone could explain just what it is I’d appreciate it.

We Need Some Groovin’ From 1969

Some serious clothes and room decor!