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January 27, 2012

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD

by @ 3:28 pm. Filed under Misc and Odd Bits

Here’s your chance to yak about anything you want or to leave links to stories YOU find interesting.

All I ask is that it be kept civil and legal. No death threat nonsense. No personal attacks.

Have fun!

THINK OF THIS BEFORE YOU GET ROAD RAGE

by @ 2:17 pm. Filed under Music/Videos

 

Road Rage from Nick Khoo on Vimeo.

GUN PORN

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GUN PORN

CHECK OUT THIS 15 YEAR OLD GUITARIST

by @ 12:46 pm. Filed under Music/Videos

 

A PSA YOU’LL THANK ME FOR: HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE’S “PERSONAL RESULTS”

by @ 11:03 am. Filed under PSA

Assuming you are still using Google, here’s how to turn off the “personalization” option (which they conveniently opt you in for.)

Google recently rolled out its “Search Plus Your World” product, which essentially turns every Google search into a Google+ search.

“A little help from your friends,” Google says on its new Search Plus info page.

The new Search might be helpful if every result wasn’t tied to a Google+ page, that is.

Now, if you search for “sushi” images, you might get back an image result a friend has posted to Google+ (versus a result that’s relevant because it has climbed the ladder of Google’s PageRank algorithm).

Regardless of whether Google’s “Personal Results” raise anti-trust issues or not, these new results can be pretty annoying.

Here’s how to turn off “Search Plus Your World.”

TYPICAL MONGREL-IN-CHIEF EXCUSE: BLAME BUSH FOR FOOD STAMPS!!!

What a pathetic pussy POS we have for a president who, after three years in office continues to blame his predecessor.
 

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President Barack Obama today signaled an aggressive tact for his early re-election campaign, critiquing his Republican opponents by name and insisting he’s ready to “fight with every fiber of my being” for a second term.

“How much do you want it?” ABC News’ Diane Sawyer asked Obama during an exclusive interview in Las Vegas.

“Badly,” the president said, “because I think the country needs it.”

“Whoever wins the Republican primary is going to be a standard bearer for a vision of the country that I don’t think reflects who we are,” Obama said.

“I’m going to fight as hard as I can with every fiber of my being to make sure that we continue on a path that I think will restore the American dream,” he said.

Obama pushed back against what he called Republicans’ “rhetorical flourishes,” including Newt Gingrich’s oft-repeated contention that Obama is the “food stamp president.”

“First of all, I don’t put people on food stamps,” Obama said. “People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my Republican predecessor, not under me. No. 3, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government.”

 

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LOL CATS

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LOL CATS

SOMEONE’S LYING

I’ve been reading stories about how the F-35 can’t land on aircraft carriers.

This video seems to disprove that.

So who’s lying to whom?

UPDATE: Apparently this is a different version than the one the Navy wants to be able to land on aircraft carriers. That’s the one causing all the ruckus. This one appears to be a Marines variant. (thanks to commenter Odysseus)
 

WANT BANGERS WITH YOUR MASH? GO AHEAD!!!

by @ 9:09 am. Filed under Health Care

Coffee bad. Coffee good. Sugar bad. Sugar good.

Chocolate bad. Chocolate good. Salt bad. Salt good.

Fried foods bad.

Fried foods…..good!!!

YAY!!!

 

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They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.

The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain – where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used – and the incidence of serious heart disease.

However, the British Heart Foundation warned Britons not to “reach for the frying pan” yet, pointing out that the Mediterranean diet as a whole was healthier than ours.

Spanish researchers followed more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of whom were women, from the mid 1990s to 2004.

At the outset they asked them how often they ate fried foods, either at home or while out. They then looked to see whether eating fried foods regularly increased the likelihood of falling ill from having coronary heart disease, such as a heart attack or angina requiring surgery.

CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN GETS HIS A$$ HANDED TO HIM

This is great stuff that took place on the House floor:

A House committee held what was perhaps one of its more explosive hearings Wednesday on a bill that would give a federal commission the power to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Democrats, led by Congressman Henry Waxman, call the bill a Republican earmark and thus asked that the Koch brothers be subpoenaed to testify on their alleged investment in the project. Republican Committee chairman Ed Whitefield was having none of it, however, and cut Waxman off at the knees.

“We’re not going to be subpoenaing the Koch brothers,” he blasted. “The Koch brothers have nothing to do with this project.”

“Point of order!” Waxman bellowed. “You cut me out in the middle of a sentence!”

“Your time was up, Mr. Waxman!” Whitfield retorted. “We are going to recess this hearing for ten minutes and then we’re going to come back.”

“Are you calling the Koch brothers during the recess?” Waxman quipped.

Whitefield quickly fired back, “If you want to talk about that, let’s talk about the millions of dollars that the Obama administration gave companies like Solyndra and people like George Kaiser and other campaign bundlers…would you like us to subpoena them too?”

“Why are you interrupting members and then you take unlimited time for yourself?” Waxman asked.

“I’m the chairman! And I’m telling you right now we’re going to recess for ten minutes!” Whitfield stated, before storming out.

Speculations over why the president has delayed the decision on this project abound. Some suggest Obama he has done so to keep from angering his political base and environmentalists who oppose the pipeline. If approved, the bill would essentially bypass Obama’s decision.

 

EYE CANDY

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EYE CANDY

EGYPT: WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE FROM THE LEFTIST COMMIE RAT-BASTARDS NOW?

A few months ago they were all giddy at the “Arab Spring” and how it would bring “democracy” to places like Egypt.

Except now Egypt HAS its “democracy” and is saying Americans CAN NOT LEAVE the country!

Where are the howls of outrage from the Kept-Whores? Why is Obama silent?

We know why, don’t we?

Six Americans working for publicly funded U.S. organizations promoting democracy in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country, provoking angry demands in Washington that Cairo’s new military rulers stop “endangering American lives”.

Among those hit by travel bans – one of those targeted called it “de facto detention” – is a son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, as well as other foreign staffers of the International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute, officials at the two organizations said on Thursday.

The United States said Egypt should reverse them: “We are urging the government of Egypt to lift these restrictions immediately and allow these folks to come home as soon as possible,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

A month after police raided the Cairo offices of the IRI, NDI and eight other non-governmental organizations, it raises the stakes for Washington, which had already indicated it may review the $1.3 billion it gives the Egyptian military each year if the probe into alleged breaches of local regulations went on.

Some see it as a poor omen for Egypt’s fledgling democracy following last year’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. (Ed. Note: YA’ THINK?!?!?!)

THINK DICK CHENEY WOULD BE ALLOWED SO MANY “FOOT IN MOUTH” DISASTERS?

Apparently the Kept-Whores in the media see nothing wrong with Joe Biden poking fun of people with Indian accents.

No one is calling him “insensitive” or “racist.”

Imagine what the left would say if it were Dick Cheney.
 

WHILE OBAMA TELLS US WE NEED TO PAY OUR FAIR SHARE……..

His Regime’s employees owe over $800,000 to Eric “tax cheat” Geithner’s IRS.

Guess that it’s true what they say: emulate your boss!

A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven’t paid any share, let alone their fair share.

Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama’s White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That’s up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration’s last year.

Nearly one-third of Obama’s aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.

The IRS’ 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees’ tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.

WHY WON’T THE KEPT-WHORES ASK OBAMA ABOUT THE HOUSING NON-RECOVERY?

Obama loves going on TV and telling us how things are getting better.

If that”s so, why was 2011 the worst year for new home sales?

And prices continue to drop.

Fewer people bought new homes in December. The decline made 2011 the worst year for new -homes sales on records dating back nearly half a century.

The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy.

About 302,000 new homes were sold last year. That’s less than the 323,000 sold in 2010, making last year’s sales the worst on records dating back to 1963. And it coincides with a report last week that said 2011 was the weakest year for single-family home construction on record.

The median sales prices for new homes dropped in December to $210,300. Builders continued to slash price to stay competitive in the depressed market.

PENTAGON TO TAKE IT IN THE SHORTS SO SOCIETAL LEECHES CAN KEEP SUCKING IN NATION’S WEALTH

This sort of crap pisses me off.

Note how it’s the military that needs to take cuts. Not unemployment insurance, food stamps, rent money, etc.

The Pentagon on Thursday proposed trimming the number of Army troops by 13 percent as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war but vowed renewed investment to exert power in Asia and the Middle East.

With pressure mounting to balance the US books, President Barack Obama’s administration sought a nine percent cut in the 2013 budget compared with last year’s request by retiring older ships and planes and pulling back two brigades from Europe.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, offering a budget request preview, said he was seeking to reduce the number of active US Army soldiers from 570,000 in 2010 to 490,000 by 2017. The Marines would be cut from 202,000 to 182,000.

INDIANA KICKS UNION A$$

Great stuff:

Indiana is poised to become the first right-to-work state in more than a decade after the Republican-controlled House passed legislation on Wednesday banning unions from collecting mandatory fees from workers.

It is yet another blow to organized labor in the heavily unionized Midwest, which is home to many of the country’s manufacturing jobs. Wisconsin last year stripped unions of collective bargaining rights.

The vote came after weeks of protest by minority Democrats who tried various tactics to stop the bill. They refused to show up to debate despite the threat of fines that totaled $1,000 per day and introduced dozens of amendments aimed at delaying a vote. But conceding their tactics could not last forever because they were outnumbered, they finally agreed to allow the vote to take place.

The House voted 54-44 Wednesday to make Indiana the nation’s 23rd right-to-work state. The measure is expected to face little opposition in Indiana’s Republican-controlled Senate and could reach Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ desk shortly before the Feb. 5 Super Bowl in Indianapolis.

“This announces, especially in the Rust Belt, that we are open for business here,” Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said of the right-to-work proposal that would ban unions from collecting mandatory representation fees from workers.

JUST FOR CHUCKLES

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January 26, 2012

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD

by @ 3:28 pm. Filed under Misc and Odd Bits

Here’s your chance to yak about anything you want or to leave links to stories YOU find interesting.

All I ask is that it be kept civil and legal. No death threat nonsense. No personal attacks.

Have fun!

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