What is Wrong With This Picture?

Look at it closely. Would you:
1). Leave it as is
2). Tear out the tile above the accent between the upper and lower cabinets.
3). Add tile above the accent around the tub with a new accent strip on top of that to bring it all up to a "higher match leve"?

Yes, "getting it right" can be tough!

Inconsistent Ignorance

Power Line: Barack Obama -- fighting to keep us ignorant

The MSM has been bent out of shape every time the Bush adminstration had anything to say that was less than fully cheerleading for Global Warming amoung other things. It was always "chilling" (odd designation fro global warming!). It seems that there is something BO would just as soon keep us all ignorant about though-what kind of oil reserves we might have if we looked! He doesn't think we need any inventory of that!

So is the MSM concerned that he isn't willing to "look at the science"? Nope. Odd isn't it? They are supposed to unbiased and all.

BO on Your Shoulder

Kinda cute, but kinda scary if you really think about it.

Remembering The Late '70's

Presidential vote could help Dems get 'magic' Senate majority - CNN.com

Nice of CNN to let me remember more of those "glory years" for the Democrats of the late '70s. They had vanquished the evil "Tricky Dick" Nixon (Democrats have always been respectful of Repbublicans, NEVER "divisive" like those evil Republicans). In '77-'79 they held 61 seats, there was no Fox news, no Rush Limbaugh, and America was a GREAT place!!! Well, double digit unemployment, inflation and interest rates might not quite seem what many of folks of today looking for "change" have in mind, but for a lot of lefties, not even that matters.

I wonder if some country has any insane criminals or something that they could send us like Castro sent over to help the crime levels in Miami and Atlanta like he did in the Mariel boatlift of '80? Ah yes, the brilliance of having Democrats run the country. We seem to have forgotten just how much "change" can really happen.

Gore Sends Son to Space

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I may start using the Onion as my only news source once we enter the age of global BO. This one is a real hoot, you need to read it all. A teaser:

EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

"I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen," said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. "They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn't they heed me before it was too late?"

Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity's hubristic folly.

How Bad Can Presidents Be? (malaise)

Here is a YouTube of the old peanut farmer himself telling us that "the end is very near". By golly, it is 30 years later and we are still here! Not only that, we seemed to have MUCH more and MUCH cheaper gas once we got Mr doom and gloom out of there. Can the world get darker than Jimmuh? I bet we are about to find out!

Inflating Tires With BO

Power Line: Get This Man A Teleprompter!



My God, inflating our tires is going to save as much as we could pump by drilling! If Bush said this, the MSM and all the comedians would be HOWLING about how stupid he was! Thank God for YouTube! and the net! This stuff would never see the light of day without it.

Yeah sure, that could happen ... in 11 thousand years or so!!!

Hollywood Courage That Makes You Say WOW!

Washington Times - VOIGHT: My concerns for America

A Hollywood guy that has kept completely mum on his obvious conversion over a lifetime from the propaganda the left. No doubt this will cause him a loss of friends and maybe worse, but it is the kind of courage that is going to be needed in MUCH larger amounts to prevent this country from being lost forever to fascism / socialism / nihilism if the likely election of BO comes to pass.

Worth reading it all, but here is a teaser:

The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to
bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this
process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era,
which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the
so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in
giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and
slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they
stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In
the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they
helped create and walked away.

Maybe I WILL Vote for BO?

Commentary: Still looking for a candidate I can support - CNN.com

While I strongly believe that Republicans failed to realize that actually GOVERNING was less pure than being the opposition, and thus assisted in the MSM / Democrat dismantling of the Bush administration post Katrina, I'm starting to think the the logic Mr Beck comes close to here is actually right.

I think the odds of McCain being elected are slim in the extreme in any case, but if he WERE elected, wouldn't that really just give the forces of the left a scapegoat to point to while they did most of what they wanted anyway with both houses of congress strongly in their corner? Billy C fought a lot of the policies of the Republican congress when they were elected, but after those policies started to work, he took the "high road" and claimed credit for every success that he could. Triangulation from the left worked great for Billy and the Dems, not so good for Republicans. The Republican congress took all the heat for the controls on spending and Slick took all the credit for the balanced budget that resulted -- really good if you are a Democrat.

McCain is sort of a much less conservative Bush, and Bush was a more moderate conservative than Slick Willie was a moderate liberal. The last "conservative" we had was Reagan, and he was pretty darned moderate on everything but the USSR as well. So, we STILL haven't even REALLY tried conservative policies, even given all the howling of the media and the Democrats. Right now it is obvious that there isn't ANY potential for us to try conservative policies, SO, do we want to have the band-aid peeled fast or slow?

I remain worried that the big issue here is that BO may not be recoverable at all--we may slip into a fascist "nanny police state" where you MUST do what the state says is good for you, which includes no freedom of conservative media, no armed populace, no real individual control of finance, loss of more at least Christian religious freedom, etc. ... essentially, we all become "wards of the state" -- or incarcerated/dead. BUT, even if McCain somehow miraculously got elected, that would likely mean that the fascist risk just got held off another 4 years and got worse while being held off.

Being conservative means being reality based. It strongly appears that the best we can do given the current mood of the country is to give the left their heads, suffer the likely economic disaster, and hope and pray that the backbone of the American people still has enough mettle left so we will be able to ward off a descent into fascism.

While the Carter years were a nasty time that took until '83 to recover from, we DID recover! Without Carter, we would likely never have had Reagan and the world could be a lot sadder. Conservatism means optimism, BO may be bad enough to usher in a whole new golden age in as little as 4 years, but more likely, more like a decade.

Democrat Change I Believe In

New York money woes to bring spending cuts - CNN.com

Hey, they got rid of the Evil Republican Rudy G in NYC and that nasty 3-term Republican Pataki. Went through huge stock market downturns in 2K and 9-11, but the finanaces didn't tank then.

Now we know that Spitzer was a financial genius, I'm sure those $4K an hour hookers were real bargains, but somehow the state and city finances don't seem to be doing very well.

Ah yes, shades of Jimmy Carter and a lot of the NYC 70's and early 80's "disaster Mayors" ... Koch, Dinkins, etc. One thing I'm sure of, it is NEVER the Democrats fault. They just aren't big on that "Responsibility thing".

The problem with Democrat "change" is that if one actually considers what they are saying, it is EASY to "believe in", in fact, there is very little that their policies possibly COULD create other than financial disaster. They have done it over and over and over--but I guess nearly 30 years of pretty much solid economic good was all that we could handle. Time to see what REAL recession if not depression looks like--the kind with MANY quarters of lower GDP, high inflation, high unemployment ... not low to mid single digits. Nice big juicy double digits 10%+ unemployed, 15%+ inflation, maybe even 10%+ declines in GDP. Gas lines, maybe even food lines. THOSE are the kinds of "changes" that Democrats EXCEL at!

I guess the official MSM and easily led sheep position is "bring it on".

Deer Stand Envy

Man, Just imagine the spending a hard day on the hunt in that beauty! There are more pictures out here ... I think the hot tub is a bit much myself. Lots to keep up, very heavy, and I really don't think the visibility out of that scope is going to work out with all that steam. I'm also not a fan of beer and guns ... but, one can't be too judgmental.

Does the Future Affect Speculation?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Senate Republicans hold the line on energy; Update: Reid falls apart

The Democrats are all against any form of domestic energy production because "it won't have any effect for 10 years or more". They are also against speculation on oil prices ... so they want to "regulate" that.

Last I checked, speculation is all about the future. If you expect energy to be in short supply in the future, then you will tend to up the price today. That is sort of the basics on how any sort of investment works. Scarce things are worth more, less scarce things are worth less. In the case of speculation, expectations DEFINITELY matter (in fact, that is what it is all about).

For Democrat, drilling, refineries, nuclear, oil shale and coal are all too risky for the environment. They have been making those decisions for 40 years and they have been VERY proud of them. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, why is it that they are just "ducking and covering"? Aren't they proud of the "environmentally friendly" gas prices that they have created? Seems that they certainly ought to be, it may take Democrats a long time to "make something happen", but they have certainly been successful in raising gas prices!

Aliens?

Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up | NEWS.com.au


For anyone that has listened to anything Kucinich has ever had to say, this is no surprise at all. We have an obvious alien in congress!

Look closely at BO the next time you see him. Those ears look like a bad cartoon of Bush's ears, only larger. There is something just "not right" about the whole package the way the face "fits together", or maybe doesn't fit together. The way it seems that he has no principles in any matter, and even if it seems he does, he is willing to just change in an instant (his church of 20 years, his pastor).

Then, there is that weird thing about supposedly he has no birth certificate? This might explain a lot of stuff! Maybe he should prove that he is NOT an alien!

BO Fails to Intoxicate all of Europe?

He ventured forth to bring light to the world | Gerard Baker - Times Online

At one level, this is a pure hoot, at another it shows how much of a lapdog the MSM is for BO.


A little "teaser":

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the
Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the
shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the
wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family,
offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an
African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of
righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a
little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of
Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet
Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard
and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our
hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

I thought this pretty much summed up the Surge analysis of late:

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of
Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste
of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very
presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

It appears that those across the pond may not see BO as QUITE as much a "saviour" as those in the US media.

Last Lecture Proffessor Dies

YouTube's star lecturer dies at 47 - CNN.com

One of the things you notice about age is that "all of a sudden" there are a lot of "young" people dying. Very sad to see that Dr. Pausch couldn't "pull a Farve" and say he was terminal and then go and "fool us all" by living. He said a lot of important things anyway, and we know that he was very much one that believed in "playing the hand you were dealt" with every ounce of wit, effort and fun that you could muster and being thankful you got to play. I'm thankful that was able to "live his death" with passion and openness and the web allowed it to be shared by millions.