LOL For the Day

In reference to a black man at a TEA party rally via Jin Treacher at DC Trawler:

John Hinderaker at Powerline to ask, “The real question is not, of course, whether this gentleman ever feels uncomfortable. The real question is, don’t liberal reporters ever feel stupid?”

Which is kind of like asking if fish ever feel wet. They have no frame of reference.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/dc-trawler#ixzz0m4ETyKIg

Yet another Obama flunky lies his face off

Ed Whitacre is a liar



GM is currently running a commercial featuring their CEO, the aforementioned Mr. Whitacre, claiming that they have repaid their loan from the taxpayers, including interest 5 years early.



What he fails to mention is that they have actually returned only 13% of the loan as cash. The remainder is to be in stock. So, the taxpayers are now going to be the proud owners of a sizable portion of GM stock.

GM got a total of $52 billion from the U.S. government and $9.5 billion from the Canadian and Ontario governments as it went through bankruptcy protection last year. At first the entire amount of U.S. aid was considered a loan as the government tried to keep GM from going under and pulling the fragile economy into a depression.



But during bankruptcy, the U.S. government reduced the loan portion to $6.7 billion and converted the rest to company stock, while the Canadian governments held $1.4 billion in loans.



The automaker hopes to repay the remaining $45.3 billion to the U.S. government and $8.1 billion to Canada via a public stock offering, perhaps later this year. The U.S. government now owns 61 percent of the company and Canada owns roughly 12 percent.

They got cash, they should return cash!!



And the stock it to be in a future offering. It’s not even currently existing stock. The more shares that are issued, the less any individual share is worth. A company is worth only so much. You keep dividing that pie into more and more pieces, the pieces start getting awfully small.



Where did they get the money for this?

During the financial crisis that led to GM filing for bankruptcy protection last year, the automaker closed 14 factories and shed more than 65,000 blue-collar jobs in the U.S. through buyouts, early retirement offers and layoffs.

This article doesn’t say this but Rush said these 65,000 workers also lost their pensions. Rush is not often wrong. No one in America is as fact-checked as Rush. He works hard to get it right so as to not give his detractors any ammunition to use against him. Thus, if he says it, it’s probably true.



According to Rush:

RUSH: There's a story out there, the automobile salesmen at General Motors, automobile salesmen at AP, an excited headline, breathlessly so: "GM Pays Back Government Loans from US, Canada." No, they didn't. Here, listen to the lede: "General Motors Co. has repaid $8.1 billion in loans it got from the U.S. and Canadian governments, a move its CEO says is a sign automaker is on the road to recovery." Now, if you only read the headline and the lead paragraph, you'd get the distinct impression that what? They paid it all back, right. You get the distinct impression that GM has fully repaid all the money they've gotten from the US and Canadian governments. Why would the AP want to mislead its readers like this? In fact, the General Motors outfit got a total of $61.5 billion from the US and Canada, but now it's shouted from the rooftop when they paid back a mere eight billion. That's what they've paid back. They have paid back a total of 13% of the government loan, and here the car salesman from the Associated Press report says they fully paid it back, which they have not. One thing that they don't point out here very stridently -- of course, leaving it to me who can read the stitches on the fastball -- they had the money to do this. Where did they get some of the eight billion to pay back? They did it by jettisoning 65,000 jobs, and the pensions that go with them, so they fired 65,000 people, got rid of their pensions and they said that they are paying it back. They haven't earned it. They're cutting and it's only because Obama owns the car companies along with the UAW that you can fire 65,000 union people.

GM Cuts 65,000 Jobs, Pretends to Pay Gov't Back





And don’t forget, Ed Whitacre was picked by Obama to run GM. He’s a government and Obama stooge through and through.



We hope to buy a car next year. It won’t be from GM, of that you can be sure!!

Obama Health Care Bill

Every time I think of this, I grin:

The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.

But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.

The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible “drafting error,” the report says, Congress did not specify an effective date for the section excluding lawmakers from the existing program.

Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said, “a law takes effect on the date of its enactment” unless Congress clearly specifies otherwise. And Congress did not specify any other effective date for this part of the health care law. The law was enacted when President Obama signed it three weeks ago.

They couldn’t take the time to actually READ the bill and now it’s gonna come back on ‘em and bite ‘em on the ass.

At least, I hope it does.
My SO doesn’t think that they will allow this to happen to themselves. They will find some weasel way out of it.
He’s probably correct but it is a delightful prospect in the meantime.



(Quote from the New Yolk Slimes, to which I will not link.)

Earth Hour

Did you participate in Earth Hour last night? I did.

I turned on every light in the house for at least an hour. Many of my neighbors were totally dark, including the guy behind me who illuminates his American flag 24/7. He turned off that light, too. My house shone like a beacon of sanity in a sea of stupidity.

Personally, I refuse to cooperate in anything that perpetuates a hoax. Anthropogenic Global Warming had been proved to be a hoax months ago. That anyone would still think they needed to go along with anything to do with it astounds me.

I hate to think of my fellow Americans as gullible boobs but there's just so much evidence that they are, beyond AGW. They elected Bill Clinton twice and then fell for the sham that is Barack Obama.

I really hate the idea that people are that stupid but they apparently are.

Found On Road, Dead

Yet another Japanese car manufacturer has had to issue a massive recall of their cars. Nissan has recalled 540,000 cars and trucks for break pin and gas gauge problems.

And Toyotas recent problems were so bad they shut down their production plants until they could get them sorted out. This has been all over the news for weeks.

Consumer Reports, the premier consumer product rating source, has been in love with Japanese cars for many, many years. They finally seem to have noticed the problems, suspending recommendations on eight Toyota models. Despite all its problems, Toyota is still fifth on the Consumer Reports list of recommended cars. Ford is 15th.

I purchased my first-ever new car in August of 2006. I bought a kiwi green Ford Focus with just about every option available except a sunroof. Having a 6’ 6” fiancée precluded getting a car with a sunroof. I refuse to have a car he can’t at least back out of the driveway if necessary. Because of the sunroof issue, they had to special order my car. That was the longest month of my life! I took delivery the end of August. My car was perfect.

My pretty, little car now has just over 20,000 miles on it. Since I got laid off in 2008 and subsequently obtained my disability benefits, I don’t drive much. It has, however, been back and forth to Indianapolis a few times. It has never needed any repair, maintenance only (oil changes).

The car is now over 3 ½ years old. It has never had a recall of anything. I checked with Ford just prior to writing this article.

My family mocked me for buying a Ford. “Found On Road, Dead.” “Fixed Or Repaired Daily.” Nonsense like that. My daughter bought a Prius a few years ago.

It has been recalled.

They bought that car because Toyota had such a good reputation for quality.

Ha!

Maybe next time they will consider an American car company.

I realize the lots of Japanese cars are made here these days. While I applaud their efforts to employ Americans, the profits still go overseas. My Focus was made in Wayne, Michigan. Employing Americans and profiting Americans.

Buy American. The job you save may be your own!!

Cats

How many cats does it take to go to the bathroom?

Four:

Garfield
Puff
Klein
Trusty Sidekick

Garfield is my orange boy. He follows me around and is a great bed kitty.

Klein is my little odd one. Rag doll Siamese with blue eyes. And really just a strange cat

Puff is black with a white chest patch and belongs to my daughter. Sweet kitty but really, really dumb.

Trusty Sidekick belongs to the daughter’s boyfriend. He's staying with us until the boyfriend gets a full-time job and an apartment of his own. Isn't that a great name for a cat??

Pix:



Garflied, being silly in front of the kitchen heating vent



Klein, looking nice and fat before he got sick. He has a thyroid condition that made him too skinny for a while. He's getting better, though.



Trusty Sidekick. He has long hair and a very sweet personality. He's only been here a couple of days and is still feels a bit insecure.




Puff. I call him Puff-in-Stuff after that awful children's show from my childhood.

Cowbell

Many things could benefit from more cowbell. Bobsled racing is not one of them.

The clanging gets so loud you can't hear the cheers!

Snow

In my opinion, Washington D.C. getting 2 FEET of snow recently is God's way of telling Congress that Globull Warming is a hoax.

Think they're listening??

Probably not. Throw more snow on 'em!!!

:-)

Anthropomorphic Global Warming is a HOAX

Don’t fall for it. I make it a policy not to do business, if I can help it, with companies that tout how ‘green’ they are. They are only contributing to the scare-mongering and I won’t abet this behavior.

Lord Monckton’s letter to the PM of Australia is particularly illuminating. Read the whole thing:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/03/climate-change-proposed-personal-briefing/#more-14778

Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a peer-reviewed paper that, if anyone was paying attention to science, would end the entire debate.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/co2_report_july_09.pdf

Takes a bit to load but it is devastating to the ‘settled science’ of AGW. Guaranteed to make Algore cry! :-)

In addition, food prices have doubled in the past 2 years, according to Lord Monckton. Poor people in the third world are dying so that rich people in first world countries can feel better about themselves because they drive cars with ethanol in the tank. I’m sure they don’t mind dying so some do-gooders can feel better about their life-styles. It’s for a good cause, after all!

Ray Stevens, "We The People"

I saw a bit of this the other night on Glenn Beck and just now found the whole song on You Tube:



It's by the same guy who gave us The Streak, amongst other memorable, culture-changing songs.

And to Mr. Stevens I say, "Amen!"

DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY INCUMBENTS THIS YEAR!

SEND 'EM ALL HOME!

An Inconvenient Al

Well, after seeing it parodied for years, I finally watched Algore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

My first question is “What was this movie about?” The ‘inconvenient truth’ seems to be Al himself! Most of the movie is spent showing him either giving his slide show to adoring audiences or backstage before and after a showing, including the applause. Or it tells some tale of his childhood or some personal tragedy. Throughout most of the film, the personal reminiscences seem like nonsequitors, spliced in for emotional impact only, not moving his ‘scientific’ narrative forward to any conclusion other than that he’s had some bad luck. How is that the fault of Global Warming?

He reaches lots and lots of conclusions without ever explaining exactly how he got there. Bold-faced assertions that some dire consequence will happen in the future without the back-up of real data makes them totally meaningless.

He several times throughout the film says that some friend of his gave him pictures or evidence that supports his conclusions but never shares who these people are. Are we just supposed to trust him that he knows important people who are ‘in the know’?

There are lots and lots of ‘maybe’s in this as well. Well, maybe I’ll win the lottery, too, but I’m not making major financial decisions based on any future lottery winnings. Making decisions that undermine our economy based on a series of improvable ‘maybe’s is just as foolish.

The film’s director, Davis Guggenheim said of the film, “Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message.” All of this is complete nonsense. The film is completely political with Al bring up his lost election over and over. In his first appearance, his makes a joke at the expense of the Bush administration.

Siteing a sampling of ‘peer reviewed’ articles as evidence of the ‘settled science’ is also quite spurious. For decades, it was almost impossible to get published in the ‘peer reviewed’ publications if you disagreed with the Global Warming hysterics. Since the release of the emails from England, we now know why. Anyone who was foolish enough to actually publish anything that challenged the orthodoxy was run out of their job. ‘Peer review’ is meaningless if you can only get published if you agree with the party line.

Gore might be more believable if he didn’t live such an extravagant lifestyle. He jets all over the world telling people that they need to cut back on their carbon emissions that then goes home to a huge mansion that uses more electricity in one month than the average home uses in an entire year. You first, Al!!

And he really does make that joke that he ‘used to be the next president of the United States’! I thought Rush’s parody made that up! He also apparently doesn’t find the joke all that funny. I guess I wouldn’t either. Who likes to be reminded of what a loser they are?

My Definition of a Moron

An Obama voter:



(stolen from Denny Wilson at http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/)

Co-workers

One of the more irritating things about most of the TV I watch is how all these people who work together never seem to have any lives outside of work. Their work ‘family’ is it. They’re all great friends and hang out together even when not forced to do so by working hours.

Does anybody out there actually work under such conditions?

I’ve been working since I was 16 and am now pushing 50 and have never, ever encountered such a situation. Where co-workers are friends, they tend to form exclusionary cliques that are then quite cruel to their other co-workers. Not fun if you’re not in The Group.

Most groups of co-workers are barely polite to each other. We don’t get to pick our co-workers and probably wouldn’t pick the people we end up working with. We’re lucky if we can work with these people. Hoping to make friends is very unrealistic.

In all my working life, I’ve made two friends that lasted after our work association ended. I still maintain contact with them, mostly over Facebook. But if not for that, I probably would have never spoken to them after we both moved on to other employment. That’s the way it seems to work.

If you can find someone you can be friendly with, the friendship ends when you are no longer co-workers. It seems that employers is the only thing you have in common, no matter how well you get along. I’ve run into ex-coworkers and been confused at their response to meeting again. I’ve always been glad to see them, they give me a cold shoulder, usually. And it’s not just me. I’ve spoken to others who have had the same experiences.

I am now retired and on Disability. Once I got used to staying home every day, and that was quite an adjustment, I realized that no one was now forcing me to associate with unpleasant people for money. It’s an odd form of prostitution, really. I have contact with my friends and don’t have to fake interest in nasty, boring people. Win-win!

I still get to read the Internet all day and now I get to cook and knit as much as I want. More money would be nice but everything is a trade-off in life.

No more nasty people I have to pretend to like!

Clevelanders are Such Morons!

I knew I lived with idiots.

These are the same people who return Dennis Kucinich to Washington year after year so I really wasn't expecting any intellegent behavior.

It was over 60 degrees in Cleveland today.

I needed to go to Wally-World for prescription refills. (Yay, drugs!) There, I observed several people also out and about. And WEARING PARKAS!!!

It's 60 degrees out. What are they going to wear when it's -30 degrees??

Not only wearing parkas but also hats and gloves.

I was in a short-sleeved t-shirt. And perfectly comfortable.

When I got home, I sat out on the patio and read for a while. Sunny, beautiful day.

Definitely no need for PARKAS!!

Idiots.

Peace, Yeah Right!

So, the Empty Suit wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

I knew it wasn’t all that much when they gave it to Jimmah, Algore and Arafat. Let’s see: a racist anti-Semite, a world-wide hoax perpetrator, and the guy who used the plite of the Palestinians to enrich himself and his family.

Apparently, they decided that he deserved nomination for this after 11 days in office. 11 days. What was the biggest thing going on at that time?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html

Rush Limbaugh saying he hoped Obama fails. Personally, I also hope he is a miserable failure. I hope every policy he tries to enact fails disastrously.

But that’s what we were talking about back then. Rush Limbaugh, not anything splendiferous that Obambi did.

And SNL got it exactly correct. He still hasn’t done anything. Not that I’m complaining, mind you, but there are things he could be doing that would be of great help to this country.

What I don’t understand about the current economic crisis is why they are not doing what has been proven time and time again to help.

Cut taxes. Eliminate regulations. Unleash the American business marketplace.

Works every time it’s tried.

Worked for Kennedy

Worked for Reagan.

Worked for Clinton.

Would work for Obambi, if he would only try it.

I guess he’s not serious about helping this country out of its economic crisis.

I really like to know why!!

Weight Loss

Well, the fat, old lady who is too sick to exercise has managed to lose 37 pounds since the first of the year.

I was messing around with dieting after New Year’s as I was finally disgusted enough with my weight to try and do something about it. Then, in April, I found out that my blood sugar was over 400!! Yikes!! Time to get serious!

So, I went online (of course!) and did some reading at the American Diabetes Association website on limiting my carbohydrates so as to lower my blood sugar.

According to the ADA, the most carbs I should eat in a meal is 60 with one 30-carb snack per day. That’s 210 carbs per day. I probably don’t spread them out like I’m supposed to but since I never seem to get even close to my limit, I guess it doesn’t matter all that much

My blood sugar is down in the 150 to 175 range most days and I’VE LOST 37 POUNDS!!!

:-)

I’ve had to go through my closet and put away clothes that are too big. That’s fun! Since I don’t work, I didn’t have all that much, just a few nice tops, but I also took the opportunity to put away the work clothes I no longer need. Space Bags work well.

I’m so overly warm most of the time so I also put away most of my sweaters. I used to be a real ‘freeze-baby’ so I had a lot of sweaters. Now, I have lots of closet space. And, I can wear clothes I haven’t been able to wear for 2 years!!! Yea!!

And if I need any of the work clothes or sweaters, I just open up the bag, take out what I need and reseal and re-suck. The bags are under the bed. Unlike cardboard boxes, clothes won’t get mildewed or dusty. Wrinkled, oh, yeah, but I should not have to worry about moisture. Or cats. Cats like to pee in boxes. That really ruins things!!

In addition, I think I’ve finally gotten all the Coreg out of my body. Coreg is a beta-blocker. Three years ago, when I was dying, my cardiologist suggested that Coreg might help. Since I was dying, I agreed to take this drug again. The first time I was on it, I gained 65 pounds. This time, I was on it for 2 months and gained 25 pounds. I stopped the drug when this happened. I’ve got enough problems without weighing over 300 pounds. You gain weight at that rate and 300 happens real fast!

My daughter proclaimed getting the Coreg out of my system as cheating as she can’t replicate it to help her lose weight. I suggested that she could count carbs like I’m doing and that would probably help her. She’s exercising every other day, walking miles or biking same. She’s saving the stationary bike for snowy days. She prefers to be outside. Me, I like staying where I’m comfortable.

I was doing pretty good about getting on the exer-cycle every day until we went on vacation in July. So far, I haven’t gotten back into the habit. I need to work on that!! My legs were getting quite nice!

Well, enough about weight and dieting. I guess my message is, if you need to lose weight, count carbs. It works!!

Freethinkers, Again

Strike Two!

I subjected myself to the Freethinkers again tonight. Why I did this I am not sure.

Most of the evening was fairly enjoyable until someone I did not know joined a discussion I was having about abortion.

Everyone in this group seems to think that reductio ad absurdum is way to prove every point. At least, everyone I’ve had a pointless discussion with does. The abortion discussion was going well until some guy felt he could butt in and make absurd statements like, “every sperm has the same potential as a fertilized egg.” It clearly doesn’t. Once egg meets sperm and development starts, that’s when it acquires its potential.

And pigs do not have the same potential as a newborn human baby. I don’t care about what tricks they can be taught to perform. A pig will never understand why he’s doing what he’s doing nor do any of the tricks mean anything to the pig.

No, I do not believe that irresponsible people should breed irresponsibly. That does NOT make a eugenicist!! It makes me an advocate of personal responsibility. Coming up with a logically absurd scenario and then calling me names for expressing my opinion about your absurdity is not debate!

The same thing happened to me last time I went to one of these things. I think maybe I’m done with the “Freethinkers”. The one person I wanted to talk to wasn’t there. She maybe the only reason I would ever consider going to another of these functions.

At least the food was good. The last place only had weird sandwiches. I don’t like sandwiches for dinner.

Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is an argument against a proposition to disprove it by following the implications of a related proposition to a logical but absurd consequence.
--Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Unemployment

I just wanted to thank all you 52-ers out there for our wonderful president and the wonderful job he is doing helping our economy to recover.

The unemployment rate for June, 2009 is now 9.5% and 15 states have an unemployment rate over 10%, including Ohio!! Michigan’s unemployment rate is over 15%.

These are the worst unemployment figures seen since 1984.

So, thanks, again, 52-ers. He’s doing a bang-up job!

Keep up the good work!!

UPDATE:

It's 15 states. DC is NOT a state. Never trust an AP story to get it right! Always count for yourself! :-)

Uncle Walter

Walter Cronkite died today. He was 92.

The lying sack of shit is finally dead.

Walter Cronkite more than any other person, is responsible for our losing the Vietnam War. He helped the American people lose their sense of purpose and honor in what we were trying to do in Southeast Asia and helped the Communists subjugate and murder millions of innocent people. People whose only crime was believing us when we said we would help them.

Walter Cronkite told American every evening how wrong he thought the war was and how many of American’s sons had died in a futile cause no one believed in. Stopping the war became more important than the truth.

Any one other than me remember the Tet Offensive? We won that battle decisively. Uncle Walter made sure Americans thought we lost. That one battle crippled the Communists’ ability to further prosecute the war from that point on. Their general has since corroborated this. Had we stuck to our guns and not lost our nerve, we would have beaten them back. The South Vietnamese would have never suffered under the brutal thumb of the Communist government that the victorious North laid upon them.

Remember that video of the last helicopter out of Saigon? Those people had helped us and they all died. Most of them were sent to “re-education camps”. Others were forcibly relocated to “new economic zones”.

Over a million people launched themselves and their families into the sea in small boats to escape. 250,000 of them are estimated to have perished either from storms at sea or Thai pirates. Hundreds of women and girls were raped, beaten and sold into sex slavery in Thailand.

Americans trusted Walter Cronkite to tell them the truth. Instead, they got what Uncle Walter thought they needed to know. Quite a difference.