Obama's Vacation

All day on the radio and TV, and then into the evening, commenter's complain about Obama's vacation. The liberals defend it has totally appropriate, poor man deserves it. Others denounce his vacation, especially the haughty destination... 

All I can relate to is my own life experience, which tells me I put off plenty of vacations when my job was in the crapper. When projects are late, going over budget, my vacation plans have had to take second place. I was obligated to get things straightened out...then maybe take a break. I guess I just don't understand...silly me.  

 

Thanks Mr. Presidente

Sickening news out of China

Add now to the heinous activities those recently revealed by South Korean journalists.

“China’s New Lucrative Business: Dead Babies Turn into Stamina Booster Pills

 A South Korean SBS TV documentary team accuses Chinese pharmaceutical companies of selling dead baby pills as stamina boosters.

The ground baby powder is put in the capsule, ready to be sold as stamina enhancer, according to the SBS team. The team reveals that the truth behind the dead baby pill is horrific and disturbing.

Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics that are connected to the business immediately notify pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies, mostly because of a still birth or an abortion.

The next step in this highly secretive process is putting the corpses in a medical drying microwave and grinding them into pills. The ground baby powder is then put in a capsule, ready to be sold as a stamina enhancer, according to the SBS team.

The Korean team acquired the dead baby capsules and ran DNA tests on it. The test results reportedly indicated the pills were 99.7 percent human. The test also found hair and nail remnants, and even the gender of the baby could be identified.

http://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/articles/193371/20110805/china-dead-baby-pill-stamina-booster-cannibal-placenta.htm

Quote of the day

AUGUST 9, 2011

Is Obama Smart?

A case study in stupid is as stupid does.

By BRET STEPHENS

"Much of the media has spent the past decade obsessing about the malapropisms of George W. Bush, the ignorance of Sarah Palin, and perhaps soon the stupidity of Rick Perry. Nothing is so typical of middling minds than to harp on the intellectual deficiencies of the slightly less smart and considerably more successful.

But it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does. "

Time to defund politican salaries...

"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States." -- U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 6

From 1789 to 1855, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 to $7.00 while in session, except for a period from December 1815 to March 1817, when they received $1,500 a year. Members began receiving a regular annual salary in 1855, when they were paid $3,000 per year.

During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin proposed that elected government officials not be paid for their service. Franklin’s proposal won little support. As you might guess, an automatic raise for Congress annually is coming as millions of American workers are giving up their cost-of-living raises in an effort to save their jobs...

Bumper stick for our times

I bought this and put it on my Jeep...

I don't hate Obama...I loathe him.

 

I used to believe it was extremely unlikely we would ever elect a President more inept than Jimmy Carter, yet here we are...

NASA - The Shuttle

Atlantis sitting on pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center

Excerpt from poem by Howard Nemerov

Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis

"So much with noise and smoke and rising clear
To vanish at the limit of our vision
Into the light blue light of afternoon—
Appeared no more, against the void in aim,
Than the flare of a match in sunlight, quickly snuffed."

God speed Atlantis, safe journey....