Above His Intellectual Grade, He Means.

So Obama says it's "Above [his] paygrade" to decide when a person is a person, and it's not something he's thought about enough to decide. This was the best answer he could come up with -off the prompter after all- after his "tell" (i.e., he's about to tell a lie) fumbling and bumbling trying to come up with words to use that will pacify the soft-headed moderates, while not alienating his baby-hating leftist kook fringe base constituency.

You know why? Because he's a lightweight/empty suit, and he suspects he's on the wrong side of this issue.

If it weren't for the apparently large number of individual US Americans giving him money against their own interests, and the vast majority of black racists who support him because he chooses to identify with the black (muslim, ran away when I was a baby) side of his family, rather than the white (rich, raised me) side, I would say that this joker HAS to be somebody's sock puppet.

Alas for America! I think he is as sincere as a lightweight/empty suit can be!

More News From The Place Where England Used to Be

From the Daily Express:

Rushmoor Borough Council: Hey residents, we're going to go ahead and pick up your trash cans every other week, mmmkay?

Residents: Bite us.

RBC: Okay, we're going to just charge the taxpayers a million and a half dollars to buy you trash cans that are half as big so you can only put out the same amount of trash anyway LOLz

Residents: Sucks to be subjects.





Hold on there.

See, here in 'murica we don't have a problem like this. The private company (UK readers take note: NOT a governmental agency) that I choose to pay cash money to, comes twice a week. Yes, twice a week. Not a month, a week. To take out a trash bin that I could put my entire immediate family into. Do we have to take out our garden rubbish waste leaves, egg shells, etc.?

We do NOT.

You know what we call this in a free country with market-based economic activity widely permitted by the Government?



Normal.





What happened to you, England?

You Know, I Really Didn't Need That

...at least, I don't think I did, but I could be wrong...

As I was driving the GLS home from work last night, I noticed that it was making a soft noise when I let off the throttle "bbbbbbbbbb". That got worse, and worse, and worse, until, when I got home, it was TATATATATATATATAT when I lifted the gas pedal, and it positively clattered when I shut off the engine.

Nice.

I think the new timing belt was put on too loose, and when it stretched (as new belts do) the valves made kissyface with the pistons. I tightened the belt real good-like when I got into it last night, but it still clatters so the damage may be done. I'm going to do some troubleshooting by removing the (new) belts to the a/c, power steering, (new) water pump, and maybe even the alternator real quick... but I'm pretty sure it's time to get REALLY hot on reworking my spare cylinder head, or else it's time to go get some valves and gaskets and keep running stock for a while.

Oh well. We'll see. It's just a machine, and if all the parts are good, it should work when I get done putting it back together. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment. It's still cheaper than a car payment.

I know God has his own idea of a good idea, but sometimes I almost wish he'd pass down a cliff's notes version of it.

Maybe This Explains It....

Why my readership remains low despite spending meeleeons uf dullers on advertisements:



This makes me happy. I found it in a roundabout way via KeesKennis' blog which I never knew existed before I tripped over it on the way to the rest of the Intarwebs.

Update: This USED to show the Blog Readability Test which said you would need to have a high school education to read my blog. There used to be a cool logo & everything, but it has since disappeared from criticsrant.com. Oh well.

The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear.

Right?

From The Guardian

You see, they're not storing the actual CONTENT of your phone calls, text messages, emails, and the webpages you view, it's just the connections. You called your mum on such & such day, and they wrote down the time. That's all. It's so we can track whom the terrorists are ringing up, you see? It's for your safety, after all. You are for safety, aren't you? You remember 7/7 don't you? You're not a terrorist are you? We're only storing date/time/connection information, so don't worry!

For now.

What's the objection? The innocent have nothing to fear, right? Are you trying to hide something comrade citizen?

More news from the place where England used to be... coming soon to a police state near you. Soon with CONTENT storage! Get a copy of 1984 while you still can, and read it. Then make your children read it. And see what you can do to protest this sort of thing to your legislature.

Good luck.

Abhinav Bindra Does. . . What, Exactly?

I wasn't sleepy after, er, discussing taxes or something, with L, so I got up to check my email. Yahoo teases a story about India's first Olympic individual gold medal in a long time. The "click here to read all about it" tag says "which sport?" and so I clicked the link. The story I just linked above is what you get. It mentions a shooting range when the man was a child, and calls him a shooter. Does it name the sport?

Read it again, go ahead, I'll wait.

No, it doesn't. That's some fine detective work there, Lou.

You have to click through to here by clicking Abhinav Bindra's name to actually find out what he did.

Men's 10m air rifle. 60 shots. Qualified 4th, finished first.

Why can't you just come right out and say that he skins live cats and bites the heads off chickens and (gasp) horrors! shoots GUNS!!! Okay, so they're air guns but still he's a shooter! Come on, Yahoo!, you can at least mention the sport, if not the event, when you lead with "which sport", can't you? Hopolophobia: curable through education about, and direct contact with and shooting of guns.

I add my applause to the adulation coming at you from the entire nation of India.
Abhinav Bindra, congratulations on your world-class marksmanship. Jesus loves you.

:)

Common Sense Prevails In California?!

From World Net Daily:

A busybody social worker who will probably not be fired got their arbitrary and capricious actions overturned by an appellate court, after turning the lives of a family with small children upside-down and violating the Natural Rights of US American citizens.

In other words:

The judge says, until they make it illegal, it's legal (again) to homeschool your own children in the People's Republic of California.

Good. The homeschoolers now have slightly more time to plan their exodus from that anti-goodness state.

That is all.

Surely the Christians Did Something To Deserve This

You know, like, exercise their religion in accordance with law and the dictates of their own conscience?

From World Net Daily:

So some peaceful and tolerant hindus stormed a christian school and told them to violate the tenets of their faith, or else.

Ho hum, what a slow news day!

Filthy Jews.

From the Jerusalem Post

A holy and pure member of the Religion of Peace righteously refused to be in a competitive event against a jew. It is obviously the fault of the olympic committee which is trying to ensure that jews win by forcing righteous and faithful muslims to race against them or withdraw from competition.

Sure, tolerance, right. Go on, keep talking while you sharpen your knife...

Nothing to See Here, Move Along...

From Reuters:

Russia is protecting the life right out of ethnic russians in Georgia. Fine, no problem. It's just the commies trying to take over the world again. They only want a postage stamp of land back under their wing, so what's the problem?

Hold on there.

They bombed a pipeline that gets oil to your hummer. Fortunately they missed but do you think that's the only set of bombs russia has? Does anyone really believe they don't intend to increase their say over what happens to your oil supply? Really?

Fill up your car's gas tank and keep it full. You may need it soon.