Overheard @ My House

(talking about household laundry chores to be attended in the next few minutes) My Darling Wife said to me, that I should . . .

DW: Take out the whites and put in the colors.
VFD: That's racist!
DW: LOL

Things That Don't Happen In Homeschool: One More

I made my 1 year-old son scrub some pencil markings off the wall the other day, using a wet rag.

A twelve year-old girl was handcuffed and taken to the police station for a few hours for using erasable marker on her desk.

What is the policy of your child's school?

In Case You Were Sleeping At Night

On the off chance that you are able to get a good night's sleep with all the bad news you find out there, just remember:

The US federal government looks as if it is preparing to use the standing national army to crush your resistance and do as it likes to 'restore order' after the sh*t hits the fan.

Food for thought.

Keep Waiting, The Double-Dip Is Coming.

And it's going to be ugly.

Housing markets in the following countries are in bubbles similar to (or much worse than) the one that led the USA and then the world into a Depression (a.k.a. the Great Recession):
Australia
Canada
China
Spain
United Kingdom
plus a handful of smaller ones.

China, a communist command economy, is very shortly going to blow sky high. Trillions of dollars in unrecoverable loans are in default in China. Not even a communist dictator's rifle can make this go away.

Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and a few smaller nations are pushing the entire concept of the Eurozone to the brink of destruction with their sovereign debts not looking so good.

And if you think the USA is headed out of the woods, consider that, with the economy basically stalled and our sovereign debt levels increasing something like $1.8T this next year, Moody's is warning that the USA's credit rating may be headed for a downgrade. That means it would cost us more to borrow money, which Obama seems to love to do, which means our children will owe even more than they are already looking to owe.

I, like Michael Shedlock, look for some Very Ugly Numbers (he calls it a crisis) before they are old enough to take over, but there is another generation growing up. They will realize, whether government educated or no, that their lifestyles suck. If it is because they owe a few trillion dollars their parents and grandparents pissed down the toilet, they will be the ones running the show, and they will be saying "Why the hell should I have to pay that back?"

So. Standby.

Unemployment Rate Falls Break Out Your Party Hats!

~or not~

The reason President Obama wasn't trumpeting to high heaven how his economic plan isn't obviously saving the country when the "official" unemployment rate came in at 9.7% is that he probably has a clue.

A clue about how the agency that reports on the unemployment numbers is completely fudging the numbers.

Funny how, when you only count what you want to count, you can get any result you please.

Senator Shelby Gets Partially Deserved Bad Rap

To listen to the press tell the story, Senator Shelby put a hold on 70 perfectly-fine candidates for various public offices because the White House didn't deliver on the pork projects.

To read the quote from his spokesman, Shelby is so concerned with national security he has to take drastic measures to draw attention to a decade-old need that is still unfulfilled.

The truth lies somewhere in the middle, I'm pretty sure. I'm also pretty sure that, if Obama picked them, we're going to be better off, the longer these nominees remain unconfirmed.

The fun part about being the President is that you get to have your spokesman dance around the whole story, by saying “The president will look at all his options.” when asked if you are going to make recess appointments to fill those positions. Remember recess appointments, how they were the worst idea EVAR back when BUSH was making them? Well, meet the new boss. . . .

Pray For ME

Possible food poisoning

feel terrible

please pray for me& my Darling Wife

thanks

********

Update: around 13:00 I felt better-enough to go to work for half a day. Black tea (Earl Gray to the rescue again!) for icky south-end symptoms, water, salt, honey, orange juice for dehydration & low blood sugar. Sleep to help it all work. Pitiful sick-man moaning & lots of prayers were also mandatory parts of the whole mess.

She needs to get herself a belly bra to hold up #4, it's riding low and throwing off her balance/back.

Thanks for those who took the time to pray.

Either I'm A Heartless Bastard

or else my Darling Wife is off due to being-pregnant hormones. Or both.

5 minutes ago I told her about a boy in UK who went to do some laundry in the middle of the night and the washing machine twisted his arm off. His brother helped him out with first aid but neither of them thought to go wake up mummy. Back to bed.

In the morning, when the family woke up, he apologized to his mother that his arm was off.

My Darling Wife is still crying.

Lingerie for 9 Year-Olds: Sure, Why Not?

Miley Cyrus' little sister has a new fashion line for children her age. Her age is nine years. The fashion line is lingerie, and it is marketed as such.

Lingerie has ONLY two purposes:
1) to make women wearing it feel sexy
2) to a much lesser extent, to make the men about to [deleted] women feel horny

Why the [deleted] did Billy-Ray think this would be a good idea, where is the mother and/or legal counsel and not-just-NO I'm not linking this one for you because the images are child porn if you take away the context and pricing. It's up to a federal Attorney General whether they are child porn even WITH context and pricing.

Wrong. Just no. [deleted] what's WRONG with you people!

Hat tip to The Jeff Ward Show on AM590 out of Austin

IRS Needs Close-Quarters Battle Weapons For . . . ?

Because the tax system is voluntary in the USA

The IRS has ordered 60 short-barreled shotguns of a type that is convenient for use in confined spaces (cars, houses)

To help you want to "volunteer" to do your taxes properly, I suppose.

I heard this one on Boortz' show, but moonbattery has the story too (unsurprisingly).