The Zenith of Tacky

How swellegant!!!

The Dalai Lama is escorted out a side door of the White House after meeting with Zero the other day.

Zero is trying to keep his hands around his ankles so as not to "offend" China, so he's treating the Dalai Lama worse than the Fuller Brush man.

What "ghetto czar" did Zero appoint allow house/grounds keeping standards to fall so low as to have stacked up trash bags by any White House entry or exit? I don't care if snow was up to people's backside in DC -- these people are paid to make sure EVERYTHING looks nice.

What did Zero serve him? Colt .45 out of the can and left over cold Chicken McNuggets on a bed of arugula with chopsticks?

Congrats, Zero. By comparison the Carter administration hit the Gold Standard.

Thank you Georgie

Washington, that is. I know people call it "President's day" But it isn't. Really. It's still officially "George Washington's Birthday" -- by act of congress. I wasn't thrilled about it being celebrated today, because it's only the 15....and his real birthday was later in Feb. BUT.....

....we ended up bailing from work early!!! Usually only govvie workers or associated types get a paid holiday...schools close, the mailman doesn't deliver, banks are shut....but a lot of people go to work this day.

Well, WE did too -- BUT our contact rate of customers was really low (we call on small to medium size business owners) -- so as we could scarcely get a janitor to talk to us (all the bosses tended to have taken the day off) OUR boss said "oh, the hell with it -- let's kick it." So WE clocked out at 11!!!

Is there ANYTHING better than an unexpected lunch period and afternoon off work?

It was in the Mid 70s today. FABULOUS WEATHER. [Eat your heart out.] So I took advantage and went for a swim at the Kroc Center in the early afternoon. There are 11 lanes in the competition pool, and by the time I got there there was still one left....all for MMEEEEEE~!!!!!!!!

WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! So I swam 1.5 miles. The pool was a little shaded down at one end.

So I was in just long enough to get some coloring back and some nice sunshine, but not long enough to get TOO much sun.

Perfect. Thank you, Georgie. Or I should thank your PARENTS, probably your dad in particular for getting "frisky" in the "lusty month of May"* of whatever year you were conceived in! I thank your mom for not having a headache. [And thank you for not getting your butt shot off in either the French and Indian War or the Revolutionary war, and not dying of smallpox when you were a teen and all that other stuff too.]

I'm going to see if I can find the slice of cherry pie that's calling me from a-far before I go to sleep tonight.

*[Yes, Stephen, I threw that in for you!]

Did Jesus have ADHD?

Just asking.

John 13: 36-38 "Simon Peter said to Him "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered [him], "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later." Peter said to Him, "Master, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock willnot crow before you deny me three times."

Later:

John 16:5 "But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asked me, 'Where are you going?'"

Uh, Jesus...Simon Peter asked you a couple of chapters ago....and where exactly were you guys for chapter 15 and 16 and 17? We know that you already "left the building." And of all gospels, why no words of institution during the Last Supper -- particularly after John 6. The most curious of omissions ever.

I still want to know if the Blessed Vigin Mary had Passover dinner with the Finkelsteins that night.

For Mac

HA Award - University of Sussex

Haven't given out one of these in a while, but the occasion merits it. Apparently, due to government budget cuts, the University of Sussex (UK) has decided that its History Department will no longer do research on English History prior to 1700!

I guess it makes it easier for the Muzzies if you can gradually blot out a nation's history.

Good grief.

From the Daily Telegraph:

"Academics have attacked a decision by a top university to scrap research into English history before 1700.

It was claimed that the move by Sussex University risked jeopardising the nation’s understanding of the subject and “entrenching the ignorance of the present”.
Under plans, research and in-depth teaching into periods such as the Tudors, the Middle-Ages, Norman Britain, the Viking invasion and the Anglo-Saxons will be scrapped, along with the Civil Wars.

The university will also end research into the history of continental Europe pre-1900, affecting the study of the Napoleonic wars and the Roman Empire.
The university said it was “reshaping” its curriculum and research following a £3m cut in Government funding"

Geez, just shut the whole department down if you're going to do something that stupid. Move what you have left to another University. What a joke.

Full article here.

I suppose the Electrical Engineering department will ignore teaching "Direct Current" and just concentrate on "Alternating Current" in order to save money.

Da Devil Made Me Do It

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

So there I was, at 7:05, a.m. haulin' it on into church, and when I rounded the corner to ascend the steps, there were three small girls, none over 6 or 7 at most, staring stricken at the door. I'd wondered a) where was mom/dad whomever was, and 2) if the door stop had been kicked out. #2 was not the case, so as I reached for the door, their mom came out and looked at me with a slightly panic stricken look.

She asked me: "Do you have any extra head coverings?" [Her waiting daughters were all bare-headed.] I can tell she MUST have been slightly panic stricken, because she'd ask me, of all people, who wouldn't wear a head covering in church if a gun were pointed at her head. "No [said I rather casually]" and then I said, "there are usually a few extra on the little table", and she said "not today." Sure enough I doubled checked after sticking my head in the door. No. Not a peptobismal pink or windex blue one in sight .. to say nothing of the more sedate black or white (I thought she might have missed a black or brown one. Church being kind of dark in the a.m.)

I cheerfully tried to reassure her, thinking that perhaps she could take a joke, and said "I think they'll be okay though, none of them are married and subject to a husband." She looked for a flash of a second as if I said "your mother wears army boots." Well....I went and sat down, and absentmindly wondered if she was a) going to forego Mass altogether, b) Kleenex 'em or 3) come up with something else.

At Communion time I noticed eldest daugher one had something borrowed from, apparently, a passing Muslim woman with an "extra" and really little kids 2 & 3, had been found winter jackets with hoods that were put up.

At least she didn't subject them to #2 -- I'd ALMOST said "back in the day, the killjoy nuns who hated us made us wear Kleenex" but I didn't want to take a chance of anyone else being traumatized for life, because had that been her only recourse, other than chancing men looking at them in a way men should not be destracted by "alluring" 4, 5 & 6 year olds, I think she'd have preferred to Kleenex 'em.

Threat Levels Around the World

Saw this online and can't stop laughing.

"The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.”Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out.

Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to a “Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588 when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the Bastards” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide”. The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.”The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France’s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.

It’s not only the French who are on a heightened level of alert.Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout loudly and excitedly” to “Elaborate Military Posturing.”Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”

The Germans also increased their alert state from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.”They also have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbour” and “Lose”.

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

Americans meanwhile, and as usual, are carrying out pre-emptive strikes, on all of their allies, just in case.

And in the southern hemisphere…

New Zealand has also raised its security levels – from “baaa” to “BAAAA!”.
Due to continuing defense cutbacks (the air force being a squadron of spotty teenagers flying paper aeroplanes and the navy some toy boats in the Prime Minister’s bath), New Zealand only has one more level of escalation, which is “I hope Australia will come and rescue us”.

Australia , meanwhile, has raised its security level from “No worries” to “She’ll be right, mate”.Three more escalation levels remain: “Crikey!’, the more serious “I think we’ll need to cancel the barbie this weekend” and finally “The barbie is canceled”. So far no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level.""

The perfect white Lie

I have to say women are sometimes prone to saying stupid things like:

"Karen, what do you think of Jane's new hat, isn't it wonderful?"

You think it looks hideous. But you don't want Jane to hate you forever.

The *perfect* answer?

"It suits her!" [said with enthusiasm.]

You're not lying, because you think Jane deserves a hat uglier than mortal sin.

A long time ago, I knew a young musician working on his master's degree. The musician had excellent taste. Some of his professors were into the kind of "music" which consisted of random noise from tire chains, thrown trash cans and the sound of dental drilling. He was often invited to these "concerts. "

His stock statement in backstage chatter after a performance was to shake the professor's hand and say "Your performance tonight was even more astonishing than the last. You've outdone yourself."

They never caught on.

"Even to the weaker sex..."

I have to say last year when I first ran across the collect done for EF Masses for virgins and martyrs I was really irritated with whomever wrote it.

The collect in question is from the Mass "Loquebar de testimoniis tuis..."

Today's Mass was for St. Martina, a virgin/martyr of the 4th century.

The beginning of the common collect reads:

"Deus, qui inter cetera potentiae tuae miracula, etiam in sexu fragili victoriam martyrii contulisti:...."

Translation: "O God, who among the other marvels of Thy power, hast granted even to the weaker sex the victory of martyrdom...."

I couldn't decide, at first, to laugh at him, or punch him in the nose...but considering he's long dead and GONE, GONE, GONE....

I think Aloise Buckley Heath (eldest sister of William F. Buckley) probably had the best thing to say about this "weaker sex" business. She has the author of the collect's "number."

In a humorous article she penned for National Review entitled "Merry Christmas to Every One in the World Except Men" (Dec. 31, 1962) she says:

[some paragraphs into the essay] "Now here, for the first time published ever, is the absolutely definitive list of the fields in which men excel women: athletics, arithmetic, musical composition, physical strength, singing baritone, and superiority.

Woman, is, of course, a much better physical specimen. She operates more efficiently, under greater stress, with fewer breakdowns, on less fuel, for years longer than men. Men, on the other hand, at all ages eat like horses, die like flies, and suffer from constant malfunctioning of the relatively simple apparati. They are also susceptible to exclusively male conditions like distichiasis, hypertrichosis, ichthyosis and nystagmus, which are, respectively, double eyelashes, dense hairy growth on the ears, barklike skin and rhythmical oscillation of the eyeballs. (Men who have all these conditions at the same time usually die without issue because no one will marry them.) In between times, men don't feel very well. BUT: the average man can lift 75 pounds and the average woman can lift 62 pounds; so that nakes women the weaker sex; what else?

The average man is well into his twenties before he is able to get angry without trying to fight; and he is well into the next world before he stops losing his temper, shouting, slamming doors, swearing. Twice as many men as women have nervous breakdowns, three times as many commit suicide, four times as many have ulcers, and there are fifty times more unpremeditated attacks and a hundred times more unpremeditated murders by men than by women . But you know what women do, don't you? Women cry! Women cry because women are more emotional than men, that's why."

Later in the essay [after she rips on St. Paul, who she believes reinforced this sort of attitude] she had this to say:

""Tennyson is the poet who is commonly considered to have given definitive expression to this thesis of St. Paul's [i.e. "man was not created for women, but women for man"-gem] - not presumably because it drove him to unprecedented heights of un-rhyme and un-rhythm, but because it inspired in him the requisite heights of un-reason.

"Man for the field and woman for the hearth," wrote the parson's desk-bound son; "Man for the sword and for the needle she," proclaimed the ex-soldier who never met an enemy;
"Man with the head and woman with the heart," declared the man who never could remember where he had lost his money and his manuscript; "man to command and woman to obey," announced the in-and-out-inmate of mental institution after mental institution; "all else is confusion," concluded poor confused Alfred Lord Tennyson."

And, I might add, besides the apostle John, who was the only one with the guts to remain with Mary and the other women - where where those other 11 guys? One offed himself, and the other 10 were cowering, hiding from "the Jews" wondering how to make a quick exit stage left, as soon as John escorts Mary back so she can sit shiva.

[Aloise later goes into high gear in this same and gives gives St. Paul the best smack-down, EVAH - that I've seen . I'd first read this essay of hers when I was in my late teens, and had been doing a burn re: Paul since my early teenaged years when I'd first read Corinthians. I keep meaning to get around to posting that part of the essay, but for now this will do.]

Zero's ABCs

Not original by me, but I spotted it on the internet:

"The teleprompter is to help Bambi with his abc’s presentation. A is for affirmative-action. B is for Blame Bush. C is for Communism. D is for dictator. E is for entitlement. F is really B-plus. G is for Geithner. H is for hustler. I is for me, me, me. J is for jiving ya. K is for Kenyan. L is for lame duck. M is for madrassas. N is for what I can say (but you can’t). O is for me, me, me. P is for poseur. Q is for quota. R is for race card. S is for Sasquatch. T is for teleprompter. U inherit my wild spending. V is for vacation, vacation,vacation. W is my scapegoat. X is Tiger’s private life. Y am I still president? Z is for zip, zerO-bama. ?? Now you know your ABC’s… riding Scare Force One sure beats doing work to me. "

[]Zippy used a teleprompter today to speak to a group of grade school kids. Apparently it's the only place where a captive audience can get detention for not booing him.]

Zero prefers dead babies

....to live ones....because you see, "wanted" babies have a right to "life-liberty-and-the-pursuit of happiness" unless, of course, the mother wants to get rid of the baby..

Here's the opening paragraph from the Kenyan's praise of the 37th anniversary (Jan 22, 1973) of the most despicable decision the US Supreme court ever made:

"Today we recognize the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which affirms every woman's fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to have an abortion, as well as each American's right to privacy from government intrusion. I have, and continue to, support these constitutional rights."

But then what would one expect of people who think the court used as "argument" for upholding it.

Maybe some day Zero will be roasting wieners with "catholic" William Brennan.

This is also in keeping with Zero, the Illinois political hack, who was one of the few to vote to allow aborted babies who managed to stay alive to be left in a sheet to die in a closet. Move along, nothing to see here .... only millions of dead babies and a politician with his nose in the air.



It's lost on Zero that his patron saint, Margaret Sanger, wanted those of "inferior races" like him not to be born. Direct quote of hers: "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated."

Text of Roe vs. Wade here.

Don't be afraid to vote YOUR morals at the ballot box -- the heathens will be voting theirs.

Mahony out sooner than expect?

I ran across this blog entry which claims that Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles will be GONE before his expected retirement in Feb. 2011 -- apparently he will soon receive a co-adjutor shortly.

Apparently some panty twisters in Los Angeles are concerned the new Cardinal will be "more conservative" -- Well, DUH, nearly ANYONE would be.

I guess they can kiss their Jan 1. "why do we need Mass that day" GOODBYE.

I love the smell of tea in the harbor in the morning....

It smells .... like .... VICTORY -- Thank you, Massachusetts. On to California in November and Boxer can slide into the Mary Jo Kopeckne seat next to Teddy and Coakley.

Dash the tyrants heads against the Dartmouth

Good people of Massachusetts, throw off the shackles of the dopes with the chains. Send their arrogant asses packing. Show the teabaggies the bottom of the Boston Harbor.



IF YOU MUST CRAWL OVER BROKEN GLASS IN THE SNOW TO VOTE FOR SCOTT BROWN -- DO IT FOR YOUR COUNTRY - DO IT FOR YOUR POSTERITY!

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