Winter Sucks

Where's Gordon and Gore's damn global warming? And... when do pitchers and catchers report?

"... storms will be sandwiched around an arctic air mass plunging out of the Arctic. The Midwest Regional News story reports the core of the cold will spread across the Plains into the Midwest this weekend. Temperatures will plummet to or below zero, while AccuWeather.com RealFeel temperatures will make it feel much colder. The extreme cold could cause hypothermia or frostbite in anyone exposed to the cold for even short periods of time."

AccuWeather.com

Sorry... out of town bums not allowed

News Flash! San Francisco has a homeless problem.

So much so they're going to do something about it....

City officials are finally admitting what others have been saying for years: San Francisco is attracting huge numbers of homeless people from all over. Thousands of transient people, arriving from other counties, states and even countries, are overwhelming the city's homeless system.

Facing a crippling budget shortfall, officials at San Francisco's homeless agencies are proposing a radical idea - take care of the city's own first, and require newcomers to show proof of residency for aid.

"If a homeless family living in San Francisco doesn't get shelter, and somebody just off the bus does, it doesn't seem fair," said Trent Rhorer, director of the Department of Human Services.

C'mon, where's the love? It's not a homeless guy's problem he miraculously found enough money for bus fair so he could squeeze your city services.

I'll give the San Franciscans a really radical idea. Do what Westerville, West Chester or Beavercreek Ohio does. Don't spend any money on the homeless and they'll disappear

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Add this to your periodical charts

A tribute to Helen Jones-Kelley, Marc Dann, Blago and others....

Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.z

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of morons promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

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From reader Bartman

Yeah, what about that Bill of Rights

Liberals love to worry about the Bushies listening in on their conversations.

But if you haven't read about this total bit of government intrusion right here in Ohio, read this.

It will frost your balls.

On the morning of December 1, 2008, law enforcement officers forcefully entered the Stowers' residence, without first announcing they were police or stating the purpose of the visit. With guns drawn, officers swiftly and immediately moved to the upstairs of the home, finding ten children in the middle of a home-schooling lesson. Officers then moved Jacqueline Stowers and her children to their living room where they were held for more than six hours.

Such are raids are beyond the scope of the purely administrative authority delegated to ODA and county health departments. In enforcing licensure laws, these agencies are only permitted to contract for routine enforcement services. Forceful raids and sweeping searches and seizures are not routine, and exceed the authority granted to ODA and county health departments.

The Buckeye Institute seeks an injunction against similar future raids, and a declaration that such licensure laws are unconstitutional as applied the Stowers and individuals like them.

Last I checked, Ohio was run by a democrat.

The party of corruption

Which party is truly the party of corruption?

By a scale of 3 to 1, it would be the party of the working guy; democrats.

American Thinker with a take....

The Hair

While facing his own legal cloud, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich decided to pardon 22 other people.

The Democratic governor rarely acted on pardon applications during his six years in office. The backlog of requests at one point topped 1,600.

But Blagojevich has acted more often in recent months.

His office says he issued 22 pardons Friday, the same day Blagojevich vowed to fight the federal corruption charges he faces.

Aides wouldn't provide any information about why he granted the pardons or what crimes the people were accused of committing.

Friday Funny

Why Iraq is taking so long





Thanks to reader Bernie

Are you a civics buff?

Try this quiz from American Civic Literacy.

I like to fancy myself as a civics aficionado but only managed to get 75%.

Let me know how you do.

Clinton responsible for global warming

More global warming alarmism being exposed.

It appears that the Clinton/Gore administration is primarily responsible for global warming....

From NRO

Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating.

Rubbish. Global warming is not “accelerating”: global warming has stopped. There has been no statistically significant rise in mean global temperature (MGT) since 1995, and MGT has fallen since 1998.

The Earth has been warming for 300 years since the Little Ice Age (LIA) so, of course, the warmest years happened recently. But that warming from the LIA peaked in the El Niño year of 1998. MGT has been near but below that peak for the last ten years.

Arctic ice advances and recedes over decades. The year 2007 saw a minimum in Arctic ice cover in the short period that it has been monitored using satellites. But 2008 saw the most rapid growth in Arctic ice cover in that same period and Arctic ice cover is now back to the average it has had in the period. Also, 95 percent of polar ice is in the Antarctic, and Antarctic ice is increasing.

Nobody can know if the recent halt to global warming is temporary, permanent, or the start of a new warming or cooling phase. But it is certain that anybody who proclaims that “Global warming is accelerating” is “a liar, a fool, or both.”

What's so "progressive" about being a liar, a fool or both?

We're going to bail this out?

If you want to know why the UAW has few friends among the working folks in this country, watch this video.

This video only confirms what people will tell you about the GM plant in Norwood or the Ford plant in Batavia. And guess what? they're both closed.

HT Mike McConnell

Prayers urged

I'm a member of Crossroads Church, a mega church Oakley. Each year, the church produces a first class theatrical Christmas production.

Last night, Keri Shryock, fell from a 20 foot cable and died during the performance.

My prayers to Keri's family and I'm asking my readers to pray for her and her family as well.

Sowell on reality

Thomas Sowell on the day of reckoning for the American auto business....

Some of us were raised to believe that reality is inescapable. But that just shows how far behind the times we are. Today, reality is optional. At the very least, it can be postponed.

Kids in school are not learning? Not a problem. Just promote them on to the next grade anyway. Call it "compassion," so as not to hurt their "self-esteem."

Can't meet college admissions standards after they graduate from high school? Denounce those standards as just arbitrary barriers to favor the privileged, and demand that exceptions be made.

Can't do math or science after they are in college? Denounce those courses for their rigidity and insensitivity, and create softer courses that the students can pass to get their degrees.

Once they are out in the real world, people with diplomas and degrees-- but with no real education-- can hit a wall. But by then the day of reckoning has been postponed for 15 or more years. Of course, the reckoning itself can last the rest of their lives.

The current bailout extravaganza is applying the postponement of reality democratically-- to the rich as well as the poor, to the irresponsible as well as to the responsible, to the inefficient as well as to the efficient. It is a triumph of the non-judgmental philosophy that we have heard so much about in high-toned circles.

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California dreamin'

I've never considered myself the smartest guy in the world. But I've always tried to emulate what successful people do.

Here's a couple of examples. I've nevered whored around and created a child support nightmare. I went to school and received an education. I've always worked and never left a job without another in place.

In fact, if you do only those three things in life, statistically your odds of ever living in poverty are minute.

Liberals have always cracked me up with their lack of introspection. Case in point. Your city budgets are always strained and residents are leaving your city for the suburbs where the tax base is about one half of yours. What is your first instinct? Instead of reforming your city and making your community more like a successful suburb, you raise taxes which does nothing more than chase more people away.

Here's a good post over at NRO on the introspection of California liberals.

One of the strangest things about the current California meltdown is how no one in state government here ever pauses to ask simple questions like: Why do we have the largest annual deficit with one of the highest sales tax and income tax rates in the country?

Anyone who charted the annual state budget increases over the last 10 years and adjusted for population and inflation rises would conclude that the state has decided to take over all sorts of previously private responsibilities and to ensure state employees and various dependents a level of compensation that is not sustainable.

It is not as if California decided about 10 years ago to invest to ensure we had state of the art freeways, university campuses, ports, airports, dams, canals, and power infrastructure. Instead, it was too often redistribution rather than investment. It is not like we can get out of the mess by simply stopping all construction when a vast public work force with pension and salary claims, along with entitlements and welfare, take the lion's share of the budget.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands whom we used to count on to pay our nearly 10% state income rates continue to flee the state. All the past sleight-of-hand borrowing, reliance on inflated real estate, lotteries, bonds, etc. have already been tried. Now we hit the wall of reality, whose iron-clad law — when you have no money, you really have no money — cannot be so easily demagogued away.

I guess what Ronald Reagan said 40 years ago still holds true today. "Liberals know so much, they just no so much that isn't so."

Corruption Junction

It just gets better for the corruption folks....

This time we have Bill Richardson....




From KRQE

Madoff's contributions

How corrupt is the party of corruption? Don't take my word for it. Go to opensecrets.org and see this list of politicians who received money from one Bernard Madoff....

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte	D	$102,000
Securities Industry Assn		$31,000
Wyden, Ron	D	$13,000
Schumer, Charles E	D	$12,000
Markey, Edward J	D	$10,000
Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn		$10,000
Lautenberg, Frank R	D	$8,600
Merkley, Jeff	D	$2,300
Clinton, Hillary	D	$2,000
Rangel, Charles B	D	$2,000
Towns, Edolphus	D	$2,000
Dodd, Christopher J	D	$1,500
Ackerman, Gary	D	$1,200
Dingell, John D	D	$1,000
Obey, David R	D	$1,000
Matheson, Jim	D	$250
National Abortion Rights Action League		$250

What's so "progressive" about corruption?

Life in "Progress" City

From the Washington Times

Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty was confronted face-to-face Thursday with some of the district's crime problems, when it turned out the host of the morning talk show he appeared on had been mugged in the city an hour earlier.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was mugged outside a well-known Washington hotel while waiting for a car to pick her up for the 6 a.m. broadcast of the show she co-hosts with Joe Scarborough, "Morning Joe."

As the show began, Mr. Scarborough blasted Washington without naming the hotel, saying he needed to talk about what had just happened to his co-host.

Mrs. Brzezinski said she was embarrassed and didn't want him to tell viewers about the experience, but he detailed the mugging and complained the bell desk should have been paying attention.

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What's so "progressive" about being mugged?

If "progressive" life is so great, why are people leaving?

It's the question, my "progressive" friends always change the subject on.

If the life of "progress" is so wonderful, why do people flee it like the Exodus?

Don't believe me? Look at every city in this country.

Still don't believe me? Look at the Mecca of "progressive" living in this country, California.....

They said, "Go west," but many Californians are going north and east.

For the fourth year in a row, more residents left the Golden State than moved here from other states, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Department of Finance.

The outflow -- last seen during the economic and social struggles of the 1990s -- started when it became too expensive for most people to buy homes in the state, and has kept going throughout the bust with the loss of so many jobs.

The trend underscores the state's sour economy as layoffs continue, the fiscal strain on government grows and home values continue to decline.

Though more births and rising international immigration helped boost California's population a modest 1.16% last year, the state continued its steady stream of domestic out-migration -- the movement to other states of people who live here.

During the last fiscal year, 135,173 more people moved out of California than moved in from other states. Though just a drop in the bucket for a state of 38 million people, the trend remains significant because such declines usually occur when working Californians decide better opportunities lie elsewhere.

They called it Paradise
I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high


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Man of the Year

Trivia question. Is this a picture of...

A) Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch?
B) Rooster from Baretta?
C) Our next president?

This makes me want to go watch some old Shaft reruns.

Funny how this picture didn't make it to the public until after the election was over.

Mike Brown = Bernard Madoff

Last night, over beers the topic of the Bengals inevitably came up. The conventional wisdom is that Mike Brown is a good "businessman".

Let's be clear about something. Mike Brown is no more a good business man as Bernard Madoff is. Mike Brown never ran anything that wasn't handed to him in monopoly form. A good businessman generates goodwill towards his customer base and community. He extorted a community out of a billion dollars to build a palace for that landfill of a team. Exactly how does that make you a good "businessman"?

The other myth about Mike Brown is that he's a "decent" man. One of the teams best all time players, Reggie Williams, will soon have his legs amputated as a result of complications from surgeries on injuries he received as a player. Do you think Mike Brown could have sprung for a $500.00 plane ticket for Reggie to honor him as one of the team greats? No.

To call Mike Brown a pile of shit would be an insult to excrement.

And until fans quit supporting that douche bag, he'll continue to put the same quality of product he has for the past eighteen years.

It's truly unfortunate that you have to root for someone to die in order to have a good football team. But that is truly who Mike Brown is. All this other crap about him being decent and/or a good businessman is simply mythology.

Frosty

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.