.... a one state recession."

TheRealMichigan finds this gem. The disgusting fact is the Michigan media refuses to report the facts. It's up to the bloggers, I guess.
Reality - More Dismal Economic Statistics for Michigan: "What Recovery?

'Michigan ranks 48th among the states for economic momentum, 46th for personal income growth and 49th for employment growth, with a 0.5 percent decline in jobs between January 2005 and January 2006.
...
'Michigan stands almost alone among the states in terms of its economic problems,' said Michael LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland think tank. 'We are experiencing a one-state recession.''
-The Bay City Times: April 26, 2006
Hopefully people are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a Michigan problem the responsibility for which rests with the Governor and not Bush, China, CAFTA, NAFTA, or whatever else Granholm tries to shift the blame to. "

Stand and never yield!

So many heros on that day. I'm seeing "United 93" today at 12:45 PM. I'll see it alone. I think it'll be easier to hide my tears.... and my anger..... and my resolve.

BLACKFIVE: Never Yield: "We should never forget the heroism of September 11th.
Never yield.
I'm going to experience United 93 tomorrow. I've been to Dachau, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. I've been to the cliffs of Point du Hoc where the Rangers climbed to begin the end of the Nazis. I've walked the battlegrounds of the Bulge, Gettysburg, Ardennes, Bunker Hill, the Alamo, and Massada. Not all places were last stands, but they certainly were places of defiance and courage. Someday, I'll make a trip out to a field in Pennsylvania...
I don't imagine that I'll want to fly too soon after seeing United 93. I don't imagine that I'll feel better for awhile after either...
However, I'm glad that Hollywood finally made a movie about Flight 93. Are they making a buck off of my cathartic reaction? Sure. But I've got a need to go see this movie. So do many of you. One of my favorite pubs in Chicago had a plaque for Todd Beamer right by the front door. Customers, mostly firefighters and cops, would touch it gently as they entered and exited. It said 'Let's Roll.'
How many of you have wondered if you'd have had the courage of the passengers of Flight 93? I know I have thought about it....

Now, Hollywood needs to get off their dead asses and make one about Col. (ret) Rick Rescorla. He saved 2,700 hundred people on September 11th - a friend among them. My little brother was on the phone with his Morgan trading partner when they were evacuated. For two days, we didn't know that he made it out of the building...because of Rescorla.
One of the last things that Morgan employees heard as they were evacuated was Rick singing:
Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;
It cannot be ever said ye
for the battle were not ready;
Stand and never yield!
So, in order to remember the heroism on September 11th, I'm going to see United 93 tomorrow.
Never forget, stand and never yield.

Kinda late to get this out, don't ya think?

There are no feminists on a sinking ship: "The broom in the Duke Lacrosse
Before we let the accuser sweep the damning inconsistency in her claim, the lack of DNA evidence, under the rug with the assertion that she was only raped by a broom, not the Lacrosse players, I must ask one question, what exactly were the DNA samples the Duke team were asked to submit supposed to be compared with if no physical intercourse took place???????????"
What was the DA looking for? And why didn't he "leak" it at first?

The economic logic the pols don't want us to know

Betsy's Page: " If you need more explanation of gas prices and how deceptive and dumb politicians are, read Thomas Sowell today. "

I'm not sure what's worse, their ignorance/power or the damage they do to our country as they scurry off to their summer homes in their private jets and limousines.

Do as we say, not as we do.......

The American Princess notes this bit of democrat hypocrisy.
The American Princess: Congress On The Case: "Congress On The Case
You know, that LHS gets, like, 20 miles to the gallon."
And it gets the worst EPA Air Pollution Score of any Chrysler car!

More moral guidance from our betters in Hollywood

OpinionJournal - Taste: "Michael Medved once pointed out that G- and PG-rated movies tend to make more money than R-rated ones. But that's not good news for everyone apparently. According to a study due out next week, kiddy flicks routinely poison the minds of their tiny viewers by relegating female characters to minority status in terms of both numbers and power. This report comes from the See Jane program, founded by actress Geena Davis, and it shows that 'G movies give boys a D' by 'portraying males as dominant, disconnected and dangerous.' Unlike Ms. Davis's R-rated 'Thelma and Louise,' it seems, where men were all those things, but the women gunned them down and then triumphed by killing themselves. "

Wow! Clooney saves Darfur on PerkieKatieToday.....

... and now this brilliance.
OpinionJournal - Extra: "King Kong is my hero. He's big, muscular, sensitive, a terrific actor--and he's not real. "
....Ms. Anderson, an actress, is honorary chair of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Thank God we have Hollywood to show us the way we should all live....

Noooooooo!!!!!!!

Not the greatest novel of our time!!!!!!! Nooooooooo.......
Variety.com - Lionsgate shrugging: "Ayn Rand's most ambitious novel may finally be brought to the bigscreen after years of false starts.
Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to 'Atlas Shrugged' from Howard and Karen Baldwin ('Ray'), who will produce with John Aglialoro.
As for stars, book provides an ideal role for an actress in lead character Dagny Taggart, so it's not a stretch to assume Rand enthusiast Angelina Jolie's name has been brought up. Brad Pitt, also a fan, is rumored to be among the names suggested for lead male character John Galt."
Maybe not so bad after all. Coulda been Babs Streisand and Alec Baldwin........

Begining to sound like a hobby....

BREITBART.COM - Duke Lacrosse Accuser Made Previous Report: "The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke's lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men, filing a 1996 complaint claiming she had been assaulted three years earlier when she was 14.
Authorities in nearby Creedmoor said Thursday that none of the men named in the decade-old report was ever charged but they didn't have details why. "
Let me get this straight. This "victim" was raped in the past and now decides to go to a house late at night, filled with drunk lacrosse men, drunk on her own, dressed like a prostitute, recently bruised and now doesn't want to testify? Heck, in America, if you've got no assets you can sue darn near anyone......and still get a book deal......

Fuel facts!

Popular Mechanics - Crunching The Numbers On Alternative Fuels
The answers are here.
Doesn't the MSM have Google?

Celebrity hypocricy! A redundant phrase?

Deb outs these sleezy self promoters.
Debbie Schlussel: "Years ago, I wrote about Oprah Winfrey's refusal to do anything about what is happening in Sudan.
Well, yesterday, she finally did--along with her friends, renowned African scholars and foreign policy experts Angelina Jolie and George Clooney.
But it is too little, too late. And their timing is by design. It fits in well with their political agenda. You see, now there are no Christians left in Arab Muslim Sudan. They've all been mass murdered (after torture, gang rape, and forced conversion to Islam). So, now, it is finally okay for these vapid celebs to display their phony concern."
Read the whole disgusting story.

Starting to smell funny at Hope college.....

Society (and the police) are supposed to simply accept any accusation of this "senior" who appears to be making a career out of accusations?
Alleged hate crime victim talks about incident: "Burns, a Hope College senior, speaks about homophobia and hate crimes on campus. He decided to go to police after speaking with a Dean and a number of professors. Police have now asked him to take a lie detector test. He initially agreed, but was later advised not to do so.
'I was kinda offended,' says Burns of being asked to take a polygraph.
'It suggests they (police) don't believe the persons story,' says noted defense attorney Chris Yates of Willey Chamberlain and Yates LLP.

It's against the law to even ask?
24 Hour News 8 learned it is actually a crime - a misdemeanor - for a law enforcement officer to ask an alleged victim of a sex crime to take a polygraph. But there is no law or rule when it comes to alleged hate crimes.

'If they can discredit you, then they're gonna do so,' says Burns.
Burns will graduate with a double major in a few days, and he plans to continue to lecture about hate crimes - something he now has firsthand knowledge of.

Sounds kinda grim for the GOPers.

1976!

Instapundit.com -: "REPUBLICANS ARE SAGGING IN THE POLLS: Maybe, in part, it's because Harry Reid is doing better than Bill Frist in fighting pork?
Here's the kind of response that's getting from former GOP supporters: 'Okay, real conservatives, Republicans, and libertarians, stay home. Just...stay home in 2006. Or - what the hell - vote for a Democrat. We have to wake up the Stupid Party, before it completely merges itself into the Republicrat Statist Party.'
I think that a GOP disaster is now officially looming.
posted at 08:44 AM by Glenn Reynolds"
Predicting an election 6 months in advance is like predicting anything 6 months in advance, worthless.

What a rip off!

I don't own an Ipod. Read this before you get one yourself.
The F-Stop Blues: Replace Your Ipod Mini Battery: "You can go either of two ways to replace your Ipod battery: have Apple replace your battery for you for $99 or you can do it yourself for $29. Not one being afraid of a little diy repair, I signed up to replace it myself. I got the replacement battery through Laptops for Less for $29 that included a screwdriver and directions. "

A culture of corruption!

R.I. Democrat drops out of Senate race: "Matt Brown, Rhode Island's secretary of state, abandoned his bid Wednesday for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Sen. Lincoln Chafee after questions surfaced over his fundraising practices."
Startin' to see a pattern here?

About time!

DeVos calls for capping sales tax on gasoline: "As gasoline prices hover around $3 a gallon, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos says it's time to cap the sales tax charged on gasoline."

High energy costs? Blame democrats!

The hypocrisy of the left astounds.
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind - The Boston Globe: "As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy's bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the sprawling windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
The chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee said yesterday that when the bill Kennedy backs that would effectively halt the wind farm comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will object on procedural grounds. They say they'll argue that a renewable energy project shouldn't be lumped in with a bill governing the Coast Guard."

A culture of corruption!

Where have we heard that phrase lately.....
Stabenow campaign corrects finance records - Boston.com: "Sen. Debbie Stabenow's campaign has corrected her campaign finance reports to show that some donations from 2002 and 2003 came from an Indian tribe then represented by now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, not an individual as she reported at the time."

No wonder the MSM doesn't report this!

They don't know the significance of the difference between 1 in 10 and 1 in 16. I'm not joking.
Why The Pump Isn't More Painful - Forbes.com: "According to the Bureau of Economic Affairs ( see chart here), American consumer spending on energy as a fraction of total personal consumption has declined considerably since 1980. Whereas 25 years ago, one in every ten consumer dollars was spent on energy, today it's one in every 16. In other words, what it takes to heat and cool our homes and drive to and from our jobs and vacation destinations is relatively less costly than it was then. "
Well, plus it's less of a "STORY" if they report that things are better than most think. Of course, most think things are bad because the drive by media distorts the truth every day. Bummer.....

More Duke Lacrosse abuse

Betsy's Page: "The Durham District Attorney now wants to play hardball by pressuring all the members of the team who attended the party and had a previous citation for misdemeanors such as underage drinking or public urination. They had had deferrals of their prosecution for these misdemeanors on the understanding that they had to stay out of trouble for six months or a year. Now, the DA says that, by attending a party where there was drinking going on, they have violated that requirement and can be prosecuted for the original misdemeanor. Is this really how Durham voters want the DA's office to spend its time, prosecuting these kids? Or is it payback for the defense attorney filing a motion a couple of days ago for more information on the alleged victim? Or is it the DA's way to try to twist a few arms to get some kids to flip on their teammates and start changing their stories? "
Time will tell but this is continuing to look like desperation on the part of the "candidate" DA.

CBS News?!!!!!

Amazing article coming from the Editorial Director of CBS News. Pretty good.
'We Know What's Best For You' - CBS News: "The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne this week. Dionne was arguing with a fellow liberal who wrote what the Democrats need to do is destroy today's 'radical individualism' and replace it with 'a politics of a 'common good.' That's fine, Dionne said, but we need to hear 'more about self-interest, rightly understood.'
That phrase made me cringe. It still does.
'Self-interest, rightly understood' is a fancy-pants way of saying, 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' It is, in my view, a politically stupid and morally diseased position. Democrats, by temperament, are slightly more susceptible to it than Republicans.
I do not mean to condemn Dionne for a phrase. But I will. It reminded me of something written on the very first page of a book that lots of Democrats think is absolutely brilliant, 'What's the Matter with Kansas' by Thomas Frank.
In the third paragraph of his book, Frank writes: 'People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.' That, too, is a fancy-pants way of saying: 'I know what is in your interest better than you do.' "

Free speach liberals on campus.

Anti-Coke protesters logic falls flat: "One student began the rally by announcing the group's intent to silence Coke's representatives. He told everyone that when the time came for the representatives to speak in their defense at the meeting inside, he would signal for all to scream and holler.
'You can't speak here,' he yelled. 'It's our school and we'll tell you when to speak.' "
Same old thuggish tactics from the left, this time at UCLA.

Railroad!

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Law or Lynch Law?: "A lineup should include not only people suspected of a crime but also other people, so that it tests whether the accuser or witness can tell the difference, and is therefore credible. But the stripper who claimed to have been raped by members of the Duke lacrosse team was presented with a lineup consisting exclusively of photographs of members of the lacrosse team."
I hadn't read or heard about this anywhere else. Wonder why.
Read it all.

Porky gets one day reprieve.

Seaboard pork plant to close for immigration rally: "Seaboard Corp. said it will close its Guymon, Oklahoma, pork plant on Monday to allow workers to attend rallies planned for that day in support of immigration reform, the company said.
The plant has a daily hog slaughter capacity of about 16,000 head, the company said.
On Tuesday, Cargill Inc. said its five beef plants and two hog plants will be closed on Monday for the rallies."
I'm wonderin' just what kind of "immigration reform" they're talkin' about. Is that the new code word for "amnesty for illegals"?

Holy post office, Batman!

Tom McMahon: Another Great Idea: The Jayne Mansfield 44-Cent Stamp
"But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Bush's fault!

Stock Market News and Investment Information Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - New orders for U.S.-made durable goods surged a much larger-than-expected 6.1 percent in March on hefty aircraft, computer, and manufacturing orders, a government report showed on Wednesday".
Yeah, but gas is expensive! We gotta blame someone! ..... don't we? ..... that's what Perky Katie suggests.....

We're doomed!

Nuclear industry promotes new reactors The San Diego Union-Tribune: "The nuclear industry has hired Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, the environmental organization, to lead a public relations campaign for new reactors. "
Doesn't this stuff cause cancer in cell phones?
And yeah, I gotta boycott the oil companies.... and with global warming destroying the world, can't we all just get along.......
Dang, gotta get to the mall. See ya!

We're doomed!

The "Mother Earth" greenies must like this kind of "Earth Revenge" stuff. The sooner us humans are gone the better....
Man is killed by hole in home - sacbee.com: "A 27-year-old man was killed Friday night when he was sucked into a 10-foot-deep hole that opened up suddenly in a two-story home in rural Alta, Placer County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.
The victim's body remained in the hole Saturday night"

RINO alert!

News Forum Home Page: "More Americans would be forced to pay taxes subsidizing broadband service in ''unserved'' locales, and cities would be free to go into the Wi-Fi business under an upcoming U.S. Senate bill. Later this week, Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, "
Watch your wallets! Wild RINOs in the Senate!

Oil Company Profits

Oil Company Profits: "An industry-wide study in the late 1990s showed that oil industry profits amounted to an estimated 7.3
cents on each gallon sold.1 More recently, ConocoPhillips reported that during the third quarter of 2005 earnings from its U.S. refining and marketing operations amounted to 9 cents per gallon. This compares with a national average retail price of $2.60 per gallon during the third quarter, the period of highest gasoline prices in 2005."

Hate's always easier to sell than logic

Democratic demagoguery won't cut gas prices: "One thing you can always count on, as soon as the price of a gallon of gasoline nears $3, Democrats will start demagoguing."
Let's see. The folks who vote against oil exploration, against new refineries, against nuclear power, against coal, for more gas taxes, for more enviro-looney additives, for ethanol-idiocy all blame Georgie? Oh, yeah, they vote against hydro power and wind power too.

Recruited from prison?

Mlive.com's Printer-Friendly Page: "When Smith was appointed director shortly after he was released from state prison in February 2004, he said he'd take the festival to the 'next level.' "
Maybe we ought to take a look see at who hired this crook?

Power to the people!

Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired: "NEW YORK
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
Administrative Law Judge John Spooner reached his decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work.
The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer."
Who the heck do his supervisors think they are, Supervisors?

CIA Leaker is from MSU

I'm so proud!

CIA Leaker is from MSU - SpartanTailgate.com - Michigan State Spartans Forums:
Washington -- National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger announced une 16 the appointment of Mary O'Neil McCarthy as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs.
She succeeds Rand Beers in that post, an announcement by the office of
the White House Press Secretary said.....
McCarthy has a B.A. and M.A. in history from Michigan State University
and an M.A and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota."

More Hero photos

2006 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, Works

Gob bless our heros and their families

These made my cry at work.
These photos were among those that won the Pulitzer Prize in photography this year.

Everyone count your blessings and when you want to complain, think about these two pictures.
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process: "See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should."
















Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News
The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. "I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it," she said. "I think that's what he would have wanted."

Slow results are convenient as heck!

Betsy's Page: "Well, Isn't that Convenient?

District Attorney Nifong says that the results from the second set of DNA tests won't be back before May 15. That is when the next court date is for the two indicted players. And it's almost two weeks past the primary election for DA in which Nifong is in a tight fight to keep his job. Apparently, the defense attorneys thought that the results would be back next week and the media kept reporting that. If those results had come back negative again, it would have definitely been good night for Nifong."

Bush's fault?

Vote for Mayor Points to Change in New Orleans - New York Times: "Black residents, whose neighborhoods were the most devastated by the storm, voted in much smaller numbers than whites did on Saturday, even more so than usual"
Maybe they all were at the Duke "rape" protest?

TigerHawk

TigerHawk: "Apart from the list's comic aspects, it is fascinating for its omissions. Why didn't bin Laden talk about Iraq?

Less than 2 1/2 years ago, al Qaeda broke the news to the Taliban that it was diverting resources to Iraq so as to humiliate the American 'Crusaders.'

All this was on the orders of bin Laden himself, the sources said. Why? Because the terror chieftain and his top lieutenants see a great opportunity for killing Americans and their allies in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Turkey, according to Taliban sources who complain that their own movement will suffer... Bin Laden believes that Iraq is becoming the perfect battlefield to fight the �American crusaders� and that the Iraqi insurgency has been �100 percent successful so far,� according to a Taliban participant at the mid-November meeting who goes by the nom de guerre Sharafullah.

Al Qaeda drew a line in the sands of the Sunni Triangle, and the United States Army and Marines walked right across it. First, al Qaeda tried to kill Americans, per bin Laden's orders. It largely failed. Then al Qaeda went after America's allies, and succeeded only in turning public opinion against itself in every Muslim country it attacked. After thirty months of battlefield defeats and political embarrassments, bin Laden won't even mention Iraq in one of his rare public utterances, and he rallies his troops to fight a war where American soldiers aren't. How humiliating. How delightful.

Al Qaeda has lost in Iraq, and bin Laden is desperate to change the subject. He and his organization are at grave risk of being discredited, and when that happens it will be much harder for al Qaeda to attract recruits, raise money, or deal with governments."

So that's what was in her glass......

The Observer Magazine Julian Dibbell repors on 'women's viagra': "Horn of rhinoceros. Penis of tiger. Root of sea holly. Husk of the emerald-green blister beetle known as the Spanish fly. So colourful and exotic is the list of substances that have been claimed to heighten sexual appetite that it is hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment on first beholding the latest entry - a small, white plastic nasal inhaler containing an odourless, colourless synthetic chemical called PT-141. Plain as it is, however, there is one thing that distinguishes PT-141 from the 4,000 years' worth of recorded medicinal aphrodisiacs that precede it: this one actually works."

"Thou reeky knotty-pated bugbear!"

Shakespearean Insulter:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork of a poor worm.
I think Shakey is talking about democrats....

Tennis surprise?

Nadal the next SuperStar?
My Way - Sports News: "Rafael Nadal beat top-ranked Roger Federer 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (5) Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the second straight year.
The second-ranked Spaniard extended his winning streak on clay to 42 matches, beating the seven-time Grand Slam champion for the second time this year. Federer, who had 78 unforced errors on his least-favorite surface, is now 28-2. "

Global Climate Change High Priests....

...... don't seem to like "infidels".
OpinionJournal - Extra: "But there is a more sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis."
I thought "our diversity is our strength" was an academic principle.

White cop in love!

San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year: "Cynthia McKinney is a friend of mine. Until the day I die, she will be a friend of mine. More than that, she will be a role model and an inspiration that I don't ever expect to be equaled, let alone surpassed"
One would hope!

Turn Lincoln Park into Baghdad?

Debbie Schlussel: "But the name of the company is clearly 'Fitness USA,' not 'Allah's Gym USA.' A Detroit Free Press article, written by resident Islamist reporter Niraj Warikoo, does not tell the whole story, but it is useful as background (if you can read between the lines)."
What's next? "BurkaDay" at Lowes-No Men Allowed!
What ever happened to assimilation?

A boy named Sue?

Boy dies in fall from high-rise: "The child, whom police identified as 16-month-old Saviour God-Scientific Allah, had tumbled out of a bedroom window of a seventh-floor apartment at the North Park Place apartment complex in Southfield"
Sad story but any parent who names their child "Saviour God-Scientific Allah" deserves a bit of extra scrutiny.

No. Not Roosevelt Park....yet....

Charlotte Observer 04/21/2006 House beautiful now house befouled: "The noise, she said, sounded like an elephant belching.'Just braaaaaap,' Meg McCormick said. 'And then it was just...' She searched for words. 'It wasn't oozing, it wasn't rising, it was shooting.'
She was standing at the kitchen counter that night, having just been assured, she said, that the clog removal wouldn't do anything to her house. Now, from the counter, she could see into one of her bathrooms, and black gook was shooting skyward two feet from the bottom of the toilet bowl.
'It was,' she said, 'like we'd struck a small oil well.'"
Sorta like The Beverly Hillbillies without the money and the chick in the skimpy shorts.

Dang! We're doomed again!

Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists: "Why did the Earth cool between 1940 and 1970?
Beats me. Hitler? Hiroshima? Maybe we need to nuke someone every couple of decades".
OK, I think I've got it.
"New Ice Age", out!
"Nuclear Winter", out.
"Global Warming", out.
"Global Climate Change", in.
I suppose the only real sign of the approaching apocalypse is this new movie STARRING AlGore.
Steyn skewers the junk scientists again.

Mr. Yoest's Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughters

Jack Yoest at Yoest.org: "Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without using a 'barrier method' of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you."
I kinda agree but am real glad I don't have any daughters.

We're doomed!

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph."
We're all gonna blow off!
Well, it's as believable as second hand smoke causing cancer and republicans causing global warming.....

When did this change?

Big Lizards:Blog:Main: "What seems to be misplaced is the lost journalists' ethic of simply conveying the relevant facts -- rather than trying to force a certain reader reaction (of despair, in this case), no matter how inappropriate it may be."
Sad....