She deserves the ‘Cuteness Award”… and the Patriotic One too

Kaitlyn Maher  just turned four years old… and obviously she is just who she is… what a refreshing little girl. I am sure you all have already seen her, but this performance just makes a heart smile.

Green porno– who’d thunk’ed it

greenporno

Are you into green porno?? Watch the film and then take the quiz!

School:1958 vs 2008

School: 1958 vs. 2008
Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958 -Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 -School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counsellors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1958 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 -Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario:
Freddie won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1958 -Freddie sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 -Freddie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Freddie has a disability.

Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1958 -Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 -Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 -Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 -Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.
1958 -Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college
2008 -Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1958 -Ants die.
2008 -BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.  Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 -In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 -Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.  Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

Palin’s Pathetic Pursuits—-

Palin saga continues…
Yesterday on the campaign trail…. she was giving a speech, she started with “The Palin/McCain ticket…” Freudian slip there Sarah, do you really consider yourself on the top of the ticket?

It seems the mumbo jumbo about women flocking to McCain because of Palin is exactly that…mumbo jumbo. In the last week Obama has pulled so far ahead of McCain in the women voter category. It is something along the lines of 13% lead in just the white women voter category and rising.

Since McCain announced Palin as his running mate(or according to Palin, top dog with lipstick) Hillary voters flocked to Obama faster than a bird would leave droppings on your freshly washed car.

She is running as a reformer for transparent government. Oopsie someone should have told her that, Team McCain has sent no fewer that 12 lawyers to Alaska to bury the investigation into her abuse of power allegations. Now that reduce spending, transparent governor is refusing to be questioned by that BIpartisan committee, (8 republicans & 4 dems) Her aides are refusing to respond to a subpoena, the first dude is refusing to testify…The results of this will be it ends up costing the Alaskan tax payers probably millions of dollars to investigate this. What once would have been a few days of voluntary testimony has turned into a legal battle to conceal and bury. What exactly is Palin hiding all of a sudden?

From Huffpo:

The growing role of Edward O’Callaghan, who until six weeks ago served as co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. attorney’s office in New York, illustrates just how seriously the McCain campaign is taking the so-called “troopergate” inquiry into Palin’s firing last summer of Walt Monegan, Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/1 … 27054.html

A terrorism prosecutor was sent to Alaska to muddy up the investigation??? What have we run out of terrorists to prosecute?

Freaky Sex Friday: Rich GOP Thief Gets Retribution

GOP delegate’s hotel tryst goes bad when he wakes up with $120,000 missing

He met her in the bar of the swank hotel and invited her to his room. Once there, the woman fixed the drinks and told him to get undressed.

And that, the delegate to the Republican National Convention told police, was the last thing he remembered.

When he awoke, the woman was gone, as was more than $120,000 in money, jewelry and other belongings.

The thief’s take stunned cops.

“It’s very, very, very rare,” Minneapolis Police Sgt. William Palmer said. “I can think of a couple of burglaries where we had that much stolen, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of this kind of deal.”

In a statement released today, Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, 29, of Denver, put the figure at much less.

“It’s embarrassing to admit that I was a target of a crime. I was drugged and had about $50,000 of personal items stolen, not the inflated number that the media is reporting from an inaccurate police report,” he said.

“As a single man, I was flattered by the attention of a beautiful woman who introduced herself to me. I used poor judgment.”

Contacted by the Denver Post Monday, Schwartz declined to speak on the record. In the statement released today, Schwartz said he would decline further interview requests.

The haul included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring, a necklace valued at $5,000, earrings priced at $4,000 and a Prada belt valued at $1,000, police said.

Schwartz is a single attorney and a fixture in Colorado Republican politics. Hewas one of the state’s delegates to the convention this month in St. Paul.Reached by phone at his law office Monday, Schwartz said that because the case still was under investigation, “I think at this point, I don’t want to make a comment on it.”

During the convention, Schwarz wasn’t shy about talking to the media. In an Associated Press article about Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech, Schwartz was quoted as saying that as far as oratorical skills go, McCain “has more experience in his little pinkie” than Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

In an interview filmed the afternoon of Sept. 3 and posted on the Web site LinkTV.org, Schwartz was candid about how he envisioned change under a McCain presidency.

“Less taxes and more war,” he said, smiling. He said the U.S. should “bomb the hell” out of Iran because the country threatens Israel.

Asked by the interviewer how America would pay for a military confrontation with Iran, he said the U.S. should take the country’s resources.

“We should plant a flag. Take the oil, take the money,” he said. “We deserve reimbursement.”

A few hours after the interview, an unknown woman helped herself to Schwartz’s resources.

The theft happened at the Hotel Ivy, a luxury hotel in downtown Minneapolis. (The Colorado delegation was housed at the Four Points Sheraton, several miles away on Industrial Boulevard Northeast.)

The theft occurred early on Sept. 4, hours after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave her speech accepting her party’s vice presidential nomination. A police report said Schwartz told officers he met a woman at the bar and took her to his $319-a-night room.

“Victim reported suspect made victim drinks, told him to get undressed, which is the last thing he remembers,” a police narrative said. “Upon waking, victim discovered money, jewelry gone; total loss over $120K.”

A police report notes the crime occurred between 4:22 and 5:46 a.m., and Palmer said investigators believe Schwartz was drugged, although he declined to discuss details.

Aside from the watch, ring, necklace, earrings and belt, Schwartz also reported a $1,000 purse or wallet, a $1,500 cell phone, $500 in cash and a couple of rings worth $50 had been taken.

Alister Glen, general manager of the Hotel Ivy, called the theft an isolated incident and said no hotel personnel were involved.

“I don’t know if I’m at liberty to discuss it,” he said. “It’s still under police investigation.”

Schwartz was a supporter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, donating $2,300 — the maximum individual donation allowed by law — to his presidential campaign last year, according to records from the Federal Election Commission.

After Giuliani dropped out, Schwartz switched his allegiance to McCain, and records show he donated $2,300 to the Arizona senator’s campaign in April.

In biographical sketches of Colorado’s delegates published in the Rocky Mountain News, Schwartz said he was single, didn’t have any pets and most admired Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, “as he has served our party for many years and has served in the military.”

He said his idea of a “dream ticket” was McCain and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.

On the Web site for his Denver law practice, Sandomire & Schwartz, the lawyer describes his experience as a civil and criminal lawyer and points out he is a regular guest on “Colorado State of Mind,” a public affairs program produced by Rocky Mountain PBS. The show, according to its Web site, says it gathers “opinionated and passionate people from across the state” to discuss a wide range of issues.

In his interview on LinkTV, Schwartz seemed opinionated and passionate.

He said an attack on Iran was needed to protect Israel, and he offered how it could be accomplished through “strategical airstrikes.”

“Hopefully, just bomb the hell out of them from the sky. No troops,” he said.

Schwartz was asked if he had a message to the protesters who filled the streets of downtown St. Paul.

“Get a job,” he replied.

Yes, “Get a job”, you worthless piece of shit (even tho I wish for total death and destruction and carry $120K around on me at all times.

This is the reason why we are fucked in America, rednecks. And you Bushies McInsanies just gobble this nshit up.

h/t EM @ The Grievance Project found at TwinCities.Com

Echos of Liberty

This video has a great concept– and I would love them to re-do it and continue their theme.  Get past the tech challenges and it really is an thought provoking  concept bringing home a point.

Glimpses of romanticized Americana from yesteryear fade into a series of seemingly patriotic speeches that build with intensity until revealing themselves as moves closer to totalitarianism and away from the America of yore. The video concludes with a passionate speech delivered on May 22, 2007 before the House of Representatives by Ron Paul calling for change and a halt to the erosion of our liberties.

Speech subject matters include:
Franklin D. Roosevelt – Government assistance to private corporations.
Harry Truman – US intervention abroad. US tax dollars for nation building. Instability abroad being a direct threat to the US.
Lyndon B. Johnson – Daisy Ad – Fear as a tool for the public acceptance of a growing government presence.
Richard Nixon – Betrayal by elected officials. Corruption.
Vietnam War – Country at war often implements policies at odds to Freedom and Liberty.
George W. Bush – Similar to Vietnam theme. Failure to accept sacrifices of liberty = danger to one’s life.