Monday, May 24, 2010

The Seven Dumbest Deaths in Recorded History

The Seven Dumbest Deaths in Recorded History Crystal Kiss - Strange News and more...
"Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of “Organic Farming and Gardening” magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.

How he died: On the “Dick Cavett Show”, while discussing the benefits of organic foods.

Rodale, who bragged “I’m going to live to be 100 unless I’m run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver,” was only 72 when he appeared on the “Dick Cavett Show” in January 1971.

Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair.

Cause of death: heart attack.

The show was never aired."

Obama's Nominee to Run Medicare: 'The Decision is Not Whether or Not We Will Ration Care--The Decision is Whether We Will Ration Care With Our Eyes Open'

CNSNews.com - Obama's Nominee to Run Medicare:
'The Decision is Not Whether or Not We Will Ration Care--The Decision is Whether We Will Ration Care With Our Eyes Open'

CARPE DIEM: Top Recipients of Public Pensions in New York Would Rank as 178th Largest Economy in World

CARPE DIEM: Top Recipients of Public Pensions in New York Would Rank as 178th Largest Economy in World
"MP:
There are more than 22 retirees receiving more than $200,000 per year, and one receiving more than $300,000.

In total, New York taxpayers are paying more than $370 million per year to just this partial group of retired New York public workers, which doesn't include those receiving less than $100,000 per year and doesn't include New York firefighters.

If this group of retired workers on the NY Times list was considered as a separate national economy, it would rank as the 178th largest country in the world by GDP."

Feeding America's twilight

Feeding America's twilight - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Here are just a few of the scores of examples:

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called ObamaCare 'an entrepreneurial bill' that should encourage Americans to be 'creative,' and be, say, 'a musician.'
Quit your job, she urged; 'focus on your talent' and don't worry about not having health care.

Perhaps that's because other hardworking, tax-paying schmucks are paying for this freeloader's socialist care?"

Greek PM blames ’speculators’ for financial crisis, calls for transition to ‘green economy’

Greek PM blames ’speculators’ for financial crisis, calls for transition to ‘green economy’ Washington Examiner
"For every green job created by the Iberian nation’s massive investment in renewable energy, that transfer of wealth to uneconomic activities cost the economy 2.2 jobs in opportunity cost, as well as direct job losses thanks to the increased cost of electricity"

State aims to change negative perceptions of welfare recipients

State aims to change negative perceptions of welfare recipients - MLive.com
"The state is on a campaign to reduce negative perceptions about those who need welfare, saying the stigma tarnishes the program and keeps people from getting help."

No problems.
Our state has oodles of extra Obama-stash and this expense is waay better than fixing roads, more cops or lower taxes for businesses.
I sure hope we begin a similar program to reduce our negative perceptions about those who vote for and create these programs, politicians.

President Obama Deeply Connected To Organizers Of Recent Angry Street Mob Actions

President Obama Deeply Connected To Organizers Of Recent Angry Street Mob Actions - Big Government
"President Barack Obama and his administration, is shamefully deeply connected to the people and organizations that recently organized street mob protests, terrifying a teenage child in his own home, and storming bank buildings (violating how many Federal laws?) in a show of uncivil disobedience (intimidation)."

Coral snake antivenin supply running out

Coral snake antivenin supply running out
"The bad news is that the one manufacturer that made the stuff is no longer making it. Come October, the last batch of coral snake antivenin hits its expiration date.
So little antivenin is used through the course of a year it isn't profitable for drug companies to invest millions of dollars in studies, tests and manufacturing."

Health Care Law

Health Care Law - Rasmussen Reports™
"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March."

When a public pension is a trust fund

Mark Hemingway: When a public pension is a trust fund Washington Examiner
"And what about the other 3,704 retired New York public sector employees collecting six-figure pensions?

According to the Congressional Research Service, the mean income for private sector retirees is $31,757.

The CRS figure doesn't count the value of health care, which most retired public employees get for free or at minimal expense to them.

The CRS figure does include the average Social Security payout, which almost all public sector employees get on top of their generous pensions."

2007 Heritage Flight Promo

2007 Heritage Flight Promo www.asb.tv

"2007 is the tenth anniversary of the United States Air Force Heritage Flight.
Over 200 million people have watched the Heritage Flight, making it the most popular air show program in history.
AirShowBuzz made this video to acknowledge the good work of the Heritage Flight and the proud Air Force history it represents."

Wow!
The chills flow during this video.

One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction

One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction
"If one or more fail to make the expected progress on cutting budgets, restructuring economies or boosting growth, it could drain confidence in a broad and unsettling way.
Credit markets worldwide could lock up and throw the global economy back into recession."

GOVERNMENT ASSISTED THUGGERY

GOVERNMENT ASSISTED THUGGERY?

D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home.
“Meanwhile, a teenage boy is home alone, frightened by what’s happening outside his front door.”

When tea-partiers show up on politicians’ doorsteps — and they will — I don’t want to hear any talk of “fascist tactics.”
We’re already seeing that, and the press and pundit class, for the most part, doesn’t care.
Just remember, every act sets a precedent.

Related: “They are the feral vanguard of a collapsing system, using violence and intimidation to make it clear those not favorably connected to the political power structure will be sacrificed to preserve it, for as long as possible.”

This is an outrage and not a peep out of the liberal MSM.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Jamaica declares emergency in capital after attacks

Jamaica declares emergency in capital after attacks Reuters
"Jamaica declared a state of emergency in two parishes of its capital Kingston on Sunday after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces extradition to the United States."

Check your cruise reservations!

Why losers have delusions of grandeur

Why losers have delusions of grandeur - NYPOST.com
"Charles Darwin observed that “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”"

Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession - WSJ.com

Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession - WSJ.com

Republican Djou wins U.S. House seat - Hawaii News

Djou wins U.S. House seat - Hawaii News
"The celebration at Hawaii Republican Party headquarters was barely 15 minutes old as Charles Djou, the GOP's newest darling, had already moved past the historic victory and turned his sights toward the general election in November."

Multiculturalism Trumps Feminism - Mark Steyn

Multiculturalism Trumps Feminism - Mark Steyn

I wrote last week about the American Academy of Pediatrics' support for Female Genital Mutilation-lite - a 'ritual nick'.

In return, I received a remarkable number of letters asserting I'd invented the whole thing.
Not so.
You can find chapter and verse and here.

One reason why readers think we rightwing madmen are just making this stuff up is because of the shameful silence (and worse) of western feminists, who implicitly accept a two-tier sisterhood, in which some women get to lead the lives they choose while others, in the interests of 'cultural sensitivity', get a literally rawer deal that begins with FGM and, if they're really unlucky, ends with 'honor killing'.

So I'm happy to salute the great Tina Brown, a fully paid-up Clinto-Blairite but not one prepared to descend into barbarism.
Over at her Daily Beast, Miss Brown has published a tough and unsparing column by Ayaan Hirsi Ali on what the AAP's 'nick' really means - and where it leads.

I have one tiny quibble with the e-mail alert Tina sent out:
Do read the extraordinary piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali this morning on The Daily Beast on the outrageous proposal from the American Academy of Pediatrics to 'nick' little girls, a slippery slope to tolerating genital cutting in the U.S.—Tina Brown

'Genital cutting' is itself a euphemism.
In its 1998 policy position, the AAP used the phrase 'female genital mutilation'.
A decade on, they prefer to call it 'female genital cutting' - 'mutilation' being regarded by cultural accommodationists as too judgmental.
At the rate this slippery slope is greased, you can guess where we'll be in another decade.
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The depravity of the liberal left is stunning!

Plans for a 13-storey mosque at Ground Zero provoke anti-Muslim backlash

Plans for a 13-storey mosque at Ground Zero provoke anti-Muslim backlash - Times Online
"Plans to build a 13-storey mosque and Islamic centre two city blocks from Ground Zero in New York are provoking an anti-Muslim backlash in America."

How do you say "in your face" in Islam?

Build a giant mosque at Ground Zero!

"Exclusive Followup: Identity & Union-Democrat Ties of Fake Tea Party Petition 'Organizer' Revealed"

OutsideLansing.com OutsideLansing.com is a production of Chetly Zarko and Zarko Research & Consulting.
"Exclusive Followup: Identity & Union-Democrat Ties of Fake Tea Party Petition 'Organizer' Revealed"

GREAT blog-research to find the demo-union scum behind the voting scam to disenfranchise Michigan voters!

Too bad the Michigan MSM is asleep again.....