They Aren't Talking About YOU, Jerk!

From World Net Daily:

So there was a competition and the winning child's drawing was used. That's fine. The sign it was put on is the international yield/caution triangle. That's fine. The picture is a cartoon of two OBVIOUSLY ELDERLY people.

The sign in question


Is obviously NOT an honest attempt to warn drivers to be careful that they might see that exact thing, in 3-D and in living color in the street! NO that sign is obviously AGEIST and OFFENSIVE and YOU MUST TAKE IT DOWN!!!!1!!

Look old folks If you don't use a cane and have a hunch back, be grateful! the sign isn't talking about you. Believe it or not, you are not the center of the universe, and there really are people who look like that, who take a long time to cross the street. Of course, if they get run over, that's nothing to you right? Who cares if a few elderly elderly people get creamed?

Get over yourself. Just because your legal age qualifies you as elderly, that doesn't mean you actually are "elderly". Don't get your Depends in a bunch because the sign reminds you that you are getting old.

You are

getting

OOOOOLLLLLLD

and you are going to DIE!

Just like the other 6.5 Billion of us.

Get over that, too.

P.S. if you believe in Jesus, dieing is actually a step up, but that's the topic of another posting.

School is Back In, And Trafffic STINKS!

I had forgotten the block-and-a-half long line to get out of my neighborhood. But that was okay, because nobody (except me) wants to turn towards the School Zone and risk getting a ticket for what they ought not to be doing in the first place, because motorcycle cops are thick around this one school.

I had forgotten, actually, that it is the first day of skrewel around here because my Darling Wife had started Mommy Classes a week early at our house, and it didn't affect my commute at all.

What really irked me is that I ran into a block-long backup caused by, of all things, a typically incompetent po-lice directing traffic. And a little girl being all grown up, being overseen by the 'adult' crossing guard. All covering the same driveway on a 2-lane divided street.

That sort of hassle, before my coffee has kicked in? That's a blog writeup.

Homeschool your children, and save the planet by reducing emissions from cars waiting for untrained police/crossing guards!

Since I Mentioned This Before:

Now there is a lawsuit by a Democrat to prevent Obama defrauding the Democrats by being ineligible for The Office by not being a Citizen of the United States.

The evidence for both sides seems shaky, and for once I think a lawsuit is necessary. It's not like the man is running for Podunkville Dogcatcher here. It's blood relatives and timelines vs. a sheet of paper. Lots of verbal testimony-or-nothing type evidence will be the order of the day. . . This has the potential to be very interesting.

Via World Net Daily

Turns Out, I May Have Needed That After All...

You see, God can do funny things with the timing of mundane events in the lives of men.

I bought a car. For parts. It has a manual transmission and my daily driver has an automatic. The idea is to convert my car to a standard transmission. Yay.

I get it mostly torn apart, and a water line on my house breaks. Work on the car stops.

Then I go ahead and change the timing and drive belts on my driver, along with the water pump.

And the timing belt stretched. I had installed it too loose to begin with, so normal stretching resulted in the timing skipping a tooth. This is a Bad Thing for a car.

I thought the noise I heard was from the intake valves in the engine being bent.

The noise is apparently a bad axle.

The axle was new (7000 miles) and under warranty.

If I had been working on the auto-to-manual conversion instead of repairing plumbing, or changing timing belts, or spending a week troubleshooting what that noise was,

I would have had the standard transmission in by now.

That would be fine, except that I would have caught the blame for the axle failure.

So I would have been out another couple of hundred dollars for a new axle or two, when it was actually a bad part from somebody else. And God has (depending on the pro rating on the warranty) saved me that money which I didn't really have to spend, as well as a LARGE loss of face in front of my wife and the Hyundai tuning community online.

Coincidence?

If you insist. I call it a blessing in disguise.

Thank you, Lord!

By the Way, Have You Noticed?

Mrs. Obama is decidedly quiet, demure, and specifically NOT foaming-at-the-mouth America-hating these days. That's nice. For Obama's sake, we may all hope she does not get within a mile of a microphone a day or two before the Democrats anoint choose him to be their candidate.

It's also funny (ha-ha, not funny odd) that Obama can make fun of McCain's (wife's parents') busting hump to make a successful business resulting in prosperity (7 residential properties), while his own brother is living quite literally in a shack, dirt-poor. Is it hypocritical to put down someone else's wealth earned through honest labor, whilst you yourself are a multi-millionaire from your earnings last year alone, and your own brother is so poor a $20 gift would double his annual income?

Nope, couldn't be. Barry is a Different Kind of politician.

Or something.

While I am making cheap shots at Obama's family, you will note that I specifically did NOT refer to his 8 half-brothers by his left-Obama-and-his-momma-when-Barry-was-a-baby Black African Muslim sperm donor. Or the fact that, when a child is "educated" in a Madrasah (according to our sources), all they learn is the Koran, not readin' rytin' and' rythmatic. Nevermind that we don't know (he don't say) what kind of place it was and it probably isn't a jihad preaching breeding ground. If all you learn as a youth is the Koran, you will be lacking in some pretty important Other areas. But the man DID graduate from a good college, so we won't mention the school he attended as a child overseas. Or the possibility that he isn't actually a citizen, and the only proof ever offered of his being born Here appears to be an outright forgery.

What's on TV anyway?

Yep, I Was Right.

. . . I DO have something disparaging to say about the running mate pick.



Folks, there is a REASON why BIDEN isn't the Candidate, and the Candidate apparently forgot about that when he picked someone 'with experience'. I suppose Obmaminitly thought it was a compliment to be referred to as a Black Man who is "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" . . . I thought it was insulting and derogatory, as well as racist, myself but Offenses can only be taken, right? Or maybe the "white" half of Obama agreed with Biden about his "black" half. I dunno. But ANYways:

So, Captain Hopey Changey, a NEW kind of politician, Looking for Change (tm), chose as his running mate...

A 35-year veteran of The Way Things Have Always Been. Of course, if you were really paying attention, you would know that Barry Obama is actually a lightweight emptysuit big city machine politician, and the change he really wants is the kind that gets us closer to killing people for speaking against The State the government that the other politician who had a cult of personality liked.

With apologies to the artist for not properly linking to the comic strip:


You know what would really make Hillary the Smartest Woman In America? If this 'symbolic vote' between her and Barack [Redacted] Obama (you know: racism vs. sexism as the Democrat Choice) was the final move in a masterfully played chess game. She deceived the nation into thinking Obama was the one, got him to pick a running mate that would finally sink him with the Youth Vote and then She's the Nominee and she's been spared MONTHS of SCATHING (read: true) coverage in the right-wing (read: objective) media. Not that it would help, because she almost comes pre-fisked out of the box, but still... if someone is not paying attention enough to vote Hillary in a primary, maybe the shiny bauble Obama's campaign will have kept them from paying attention to her, and they'll still Love her.

Yikes.

Remember to Vote, people. At least you can cancel out somebody else's vote for a genuine Socialist.

With Baited Breath...!

The world is waiting...

for Obama...

to name his Vice Presidential running mate!

Let's talk about the choices before they are made, and give him a few more minutes to change his mind if somebody says something bad about his choice...

Seriously, isn't there a bank robbery or a kitten in a tree to report on this morning? There was an 18-wheeler burned to the pavement fouling up my commute this morning. You can hardly catch a whiff of that except in the traffic report. It's all about Obama's successful domination of this week's news cycle. Good job on that anyway. Whatever happened to campaigns starting Labor Day with the running mate announcements made by press release, unnoticed, sometime later?

I'm sure I'll have something disparaging to say about whomever he picks, so come back later.

How did this guy get this far? Are we too late to pull for Hillary at the convention? She muscled Obama into getting a vote to choose between them... let's hope she wins it!

Socialists: BOO!

Socialism: 100,000,000 dead and still going strong!

Cop Shooters and Their Criminal Use of Guns:

Uncle and a couple of other folks have pointed this out, but the more places on the Intarwebz you can find it, the more likely it is you will find it, so here goes.

The FBI has done a(nother) study of the pieces of human [deleted] criminals who shoot cops. That's 800 in the last 5 years, which is the term of this latest study. Read the highlights at policeone.com.

Morals of the story:

A street criminal will use whatever gun they can lay hands on, and shoot anyone without hesitation if they feel the need to do so.

They all laugh at gun laws (shocking!)

They don't buy guns. Even through the eeeeEEEEEeeevil NRA-mandated GUNSHOW LOOPHOLE. They steal them. Okay, so ONE (of 800) used a gun bought at a gunshow. 1/800th = none, statistically, so neener neener.

They are better trained with arms, and they practice WAY more than almost all the police out there. This results in better marksmanship, "even though" they don't use their sights very much.

Carry your guns, people. And keep an eye on the waistbands of suspicious looking characters around you. Watch the hands, not the eyes. Nobody ever got shot with a gun being held by a shooter's eyes.

You will not see this on the alphabet network news.

That is all.

Global Warming: We'll Need More Shovels!

From Mt. Ruapehu's official website:

The man-made global warming crisis is worsening! The snow pack is thicker than it has ever been on Mt. Ruapehu! Everybody Panic! There will be much excellent skiing and snowboarding!



Come on people. The globe is warming, on the long term, from the time when they say it was covered in vast sheets of ice. There were no SUVs when the glaciers began their retreat. 2+2=?

Now, did you see this on the nightly news from any of the alphabet networks?

Maintaining a High Standard

People will fall short of the standard to which they are held. As a general rule, human nature tends to go for "good enough". You and I have both seen that if you expect and/or demand a 7, folks will give you a 5 or 6 oftentimes, and call it good, and you will usually acept it. They know, and you know, that a 2 or 3 will not be good enough. People will fall short of the standard, but they will at least try to come close. Usually.

This goes for your children, also,

The problem with our country's government school system is due in large part to the failure to recognize this trend, and "when" the children fail, the soft-headed "educators" want the Poor Little Things not to have hurt feelings (because the child also knows that a B is not as good as an A) So the standard is lowered, and this is the beginning of a vicious cycle of non-achievement in the schools.

Children will strive to attain most of what they understand is expected of them, just like you will.

So give them a high standard to strive For. They will do better by falling short of a high standard than by falling short of a low standard. By the way, when they fall short of a very low standard, they will feel much worse about themselves because they know they could be doing much, much, better; so your wrong-headed attempt to make a population feel better about themselves by lowering the bar is DOOMED to failure from its misguided outset. If you show someone a standard of or near perfection, they will fall short and feel bad. But they will try, and the result will be better. What's more, they will feel better about themselves falling short of a very hard goal than a very easy goal that they lazied out from under.

Don't be afraid of a high standard. Realize that you will be disappointed if you expect perfect compliance, and temper your responses to failure in proportion with the magnitude of the failure and the effort expended in the attempt to reach the goal.

But don't you tell me that kids a hundred years ago could handle their own checking accounts after 8th grade, and now they are graduating "high" school functionally illiterate, for any other reason, than that YOU have allowed the standard to be lowered.

My family has voted with our feet, and we are costing the local school district thousands of dollars annually, per child. We are also spending an uncomfortable amount of dollars out of our own pockets due to the whacked-out taxation scheme we live under. So that OUR children will be educated...

to a high standard.