News Alert: People Don’t Enjoy Flying

While I’ve never left any unpleasant surprises on an airplane, I must admit I don’t feel very sorry for them. Air travel is horrible and the airlines certainly don’t appear to worry too much about making it better. Surely some airlines are better than others - Southwest has always been good to me, and my last four times on Northwest weren’t half-bad either - but overall, flying is much like visiting the dentist - you want it over with as quickly as possible and plenty of Novocaine to deaden the pain.

Now that being said, I hate people who dress like they just got out of bed while flying. Too-short shorts (and on hairy men - gag). Flip-flops. Crocks (again on men - gag). Sweat pants and t-shirts that have one too many stains on them. Sheesh people, have some dignity and class. Wear a nice pair of jeans at least. And a decent shirt that isn’t torn and greasy. And some real shoes.

You look like the “before” pictures on What Not To Wear for heaven’s sake.

And, oh yeah, while I am bitching about things. All you morons with those Bluetooth headphones/microphones shoved into your ear shouting to your boss or mother or wife about all the inanities of your life and forcing the rest of us to first look at you because we think you are talking to us and then, once we realize you are a fricken egotistical, inconsiderate showoff with a glowing silver rod sticking out the side of your head, forcing us to listen to your boring conversation need to TAKE THAT DAMN THING OUT OF YOUR EAR, FIND A NICE QUITE CORNER AND SPEAK IN A NORMAL TONE OF VOICE ON YOUR CELL PHONE!

Cuddle Party: “An Event For Adults To Get Together And Explore Affectionate Touch And Communication Without It Becoming Sexualized.”

This is such new age nonsense. There is no way that a normal, healthy man can cuddle with a woman, much less a lot of women, without getting a boner. Unless she is a woofer, that is, and even then sometimes certain parts take on a mind of their own. And while lesbians might be able to cuddle without any sexualization - bra and panty tickle-fights aside - I don’t think many gay guys are going to be cuddling without some poking going on either.

In the 70s they called these things orgies, but they were more interesting because the people were naked.

Hat-tip to Michelle Malkin who notes that no one seems to be growing-up anymore.

Of Pledges And Pins

The question I have is not why the school suspended the kids for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance. If they don’t want to stand, fine. Free speech and all that. (Although it is my personal opinion that kids, while in school, should not have the same free speech rights as adults. Unfortunately, the courts have ruled otherwise in this case so what can you do?)

No, the question I have is why the hell did their parents did not raise them to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. It’s sad that they haven’t taught them to voluntarily show respect for the flag of a nation that secures and protects their right to free speech. Then again, when Barry Obama, the likely Democratic nominee and possible next President of these United States won’t even wear a flag pin why should they?

I bet they know there aren’t 57 states though.

The Picture Has Nothing To Do With The Post

I apologize for the lack of posting, but I was out of state working and just didn’t have time. To make up for it, here’s a few links I found interesting.

1. Obama versus McCain: Let’s Get It On. Best line is the last line: “If John McCain can’t talk the American people out of re-Carterizing themselves, what has he been preparing for all these years?” Yep, Carter all over again. And I called that one before the election too, just ask all my relatives who voted for him while I backed Ford.

2. I spoke with another Democrat while on travel who told me he would vote for McCain this year. He dislikes Bush, positively hates Reagan (no clue what Reagan did to him but the guy was almost pathological about him), and considered himself a yellow-dog Democrat up until this year. He didn’t give me any real reasons, but he is a working-class, gun-toting, religion-clinging white Kentuckian. Make of that what you will.

3. Dan Rather can’t seem to find work, but the real kick here is he applied to Fox News. They should have hired him in my opinion, can you imagine how fun that would be?

4. My Alma Mater gave out its first ever space law degree. I don’t know if that is something I should be proud of or embarrassed about. I am leaning towards embarrassment but, hey, it gives me an opportunity to post this. Via Ace.

5. It appears that my prediction about Obama’s response to any political attack was true. Of course, it’s not a race card in this instance, but calling McCain’s statement of fact that the terrorist group Hamas wants Obama to be elected a “smear” is going to be a standard practice.

6. “We may now understand why Barack does not wear a flag lapel pin. He’s afraid that Bill Ayers will stomp on him.”

7. “Great tits cope well with warming.” Well, of course they do. Unfortunately, it’s not what you think.

8. The five greatest movie teachers, plus one. They all suck in my opinion, all the more so because they left out the number one movie teacher of all time.

9. Global warming does not exist. That is my official opinion and anyone who doesn’t agree with me is the equivalent of an Holocaust** denier. Hey, don’t get mad at me for saying that, I just stole it from the global warming enviro-nuts.

9. I’m assuming that you only need one search term, that being “gingers.”

10. Speaking of gingers, observe one ginger’s obsession with a Saab.

PLUS ONE:

With some commentary here, here, and here. Great line: “Can He Spell ‘Potato?’”

Correction: New best line:

“This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you’ve had a seizure to see if your brain is still working.”

Although this one is good too: “Maybe he needs to start wearing a flag pin so he could use the stars on it as a reference.”

** I’m not making fun of the Holocaust. I am using it this way to show how ludicrous it is to compare those two things, which the left does all the time.

Eight Things

1. Global Warming Could Stop Naturally In Ten Years - but don’t let that inconvenient news keep you from going green and starving a third-worlder.

2. I never had sexual relations with that Pastor.

3. Eight essential gadgets for the secret agent.

4. Ten worst job interview questions.

5. Facebook in real life. I’ve never tried it so I have no clue if this is funny or not. On the other hand, British accents always make things funny.

6. Today, (April 30th) is French No-Spank Day. Fortunately it was about spanking children, for the moment spanking brunette women on the bum is still allowed. Dodges a bullet there I tell ya.

7. “Youthful passion is really quite tedious.” Most of the tedious passion he is speaking about is the liberal kind, thank goodness.

8. Fort Bragg soldier receives Distinguished Service Cross - the second highest honor our nation offers its brave warriors. Another American hero mostly ignored by the liberal press.

PLUS ONE:

This blogger is very upset that a Macy’s buyer didn’t know what she meant when she asked about Macy’s “green policy.” I do find it amusing that the buyer didn’t know she meant environmental policies, but other than that I have the exact opposite reaction. I love that Macy’s isn’t concerned about green policy. In fact, while I have never shopped at Macy’s before, I am going to go out of my way to shop there from now on. Green policies are sometimes doing more bad than good. Yeah, yeah, I want to protect the environment (and do more than my share actually - if you only knew), but this type of obsession is not a good thing; obsessions rarely are.

Click Em

1. What it takes to earn a fine arts degree from Yale. This has to do with this story, in case you missed it.

2. And speaking of higher education - - I’m a big zombie fan, but let me tell you, if I found out my sons were wasting their time, and my money, on crap like this while in college, they’d be flipping burgers for a living in a heartbeat.

3. They are calling for a draft. The left that is. Since the beginning of the Iraq War is has always been the Democrats calling for a draft. The military doesn’t want one. Nor does the GOP. Why you ask? Because you can’t have a anti-war movement of any consequence unless you are forcing people to fight it. We aren’t. Our guys and gals want to defend their country, and that pisses off those who want to retreat.

4. Taking your child to see how mom’s boobs are going to be embiggened. It’s so 2008ish I guess.

5. Awful science fair projects. Some objectional content. Well, more than some really.

6. Baracky: The Movie:

7. It’s so simple, really, why hasn’t anyone made this point before? There have been two wars in Iraq. The first to remove Saddam Hussien which we won handily. And the second, which we are winning, and must continue to fight until we do win.

Quick Links

1. How Asians became white. I hadn’t realized they had, but that’s fine with me. Asian gals are all brunettes.

2. Obama boys are scaring Hillary girls. And Obama girls, too. Sexism is thick in the air mixed with the scent of the irony of Dems tearing themselves apart with identity politics. It’s so thick you can cut it with a knife. As the Political Junkie says, “I love this primary.”

3. Ten films banned in the 20th century.

4. Who said this?

“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.”

Why possibly the worst president we ever had, that’s who. What a dispicable man he has turned-out to be.

5. I love this old picture of Erin Gray.

*** I’ll try to add a few more later today. Busy.

Man Loses 140 Pounds On Baked-Bean Diet

Unfortunately the 140 pounds was his wife, who refused to sleep in the same room house with him anymore.

Guns, Religion, And Beer: Sounds Like Bingo Night At Saint Mary’s

If case you haven’t heard, Barack Hussein Obama made a doozie of a mistake yesterday when he said the following about the good people of Pennsylvania. The ones who are going to be voting in the Democratic primary soon.

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them… And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Well, spurred onward because of Obama’s obvious concern for these people, Transterrestrial Musings decided to go out and get first-hand the stories of the frustration that has driven the poor people of Pennsylvania towards obsessive gun hording, a religious fanaticism not seen since The Crusades, unrestrained beer guzzling, and a rabid hatred of immigrants and free-traders so they could be shared with the rest of America. This is one man’s story of his slow descent into hell.

“By cracky, it’s like the man sees into my very soul!

“Thirty years ago, I had a good job in the mill in Pittsburgh. I was bringing in a good income, going to jazz clubs, discussing Proust over white wine and brie, with my gay friends of all colors. I was all for free trade, so that we could sell the steel overseas, and I never bothered to go to church, let alone actually believe in God.

“But then, the plant closed down, and I couldn’t get another job. I went on unemployment, and found odd jobs here and there, but they barely paid the rent on the loft, and the payment on the Bimmer. I couldn’t afford the wine and brie any more, and had to shift over to beer and brats.

“Of course, as a result, I started hanging out with the wrong crowd–the beer drinkers.

“And it wasn’t just the beer. Some of them actually went out in the woods in the fall, and shot animals. And kilt ‘em. With real guns!

“I was shocked, of course. For all their diversity, none of my gay friends would have ever thought of doing anything like that. But with my job loss, and lack of money for pedicures and pommade, they didn’t want to hang with me any more. So I borried a twelve gauge over’n'under, and went out with my new beer-drinking animal-killing friends in the woods. And I’ll tell you what, when I shot down that eight-pointer, I felt a sense of power over the helpless in a way that I hadn’t since I’d been looking down on the rednecks when I had that good job in Pittsburgh, driving around town in my 528i.

“But somehow the killing, and hating those two-timing nancy boys wasn’t enough. I was still in despair. I started to search for answers, and I thought that I found them in Jesus. It started small, just church on Sunday, with prayers and a lecture from the preacher.

“But it didn’t stop there. Soon I was attending Wednesday night revivals, and huzzahing and hossanahing, and babbling with the best of them. After a few months I’d graduated to juggling garter snakes, then rattlers.

“But it wasn’t enough. Despite all the gun caressing, and animal killing, and hatred of people who weren’t like me, and anger at the Colombians who were…doing something to me–I’m not entirely sure what, and the tongue speaking and snake handling, I still couldn’t find a job.

“My social life continued to deteriorate. Not only was I no longer interested in those sensitive swishes, or literature, but I was starting to look with lust at my sister. And not just look, I’ll tell you what. She’d been out of work, too, and was getting mighty interested, if you know what I mean.

“I have hit rock bottom.

“Please, help me, O Bama. Forgive me, O Bama. O Bama, my Bama, rescue me from this living hell in which Reagan, and Bush, and Clinton, and Bush, have consigned me. Restore unto me my loft and my teutonic status symbol. Give me back my poofter friends, and my pinot grigio and my baked gruyere, and lattes. Save me from the killing and the beer, and most of all, from Jesus. Save me, O my Bama, and I will commit my vote unto you.

It’s heartbreaking. I swear I teared-up while reading it. It’s a story that must be told. Perhaps on Oprah. With Doctor Phil and Obama sitting on either side providing support. A ratings bonanza I tell ya.

BTW, I just recently posted about this here and here, in case you missed them.

But to recap. Obama screwed-up here. He insulted a trifecta of potential middle-class, blue-collar Democratic voters: Beer drinkers, church goers, and gun owners (and he meant it too). Sure there’s some overlap, but he made sure he called each one out individually. Now that’s good politics.

UPDATE:

Found this over at Michelle Malkin. It so fits.

UPDATE:

A visual essay on Obama.

None of this changes one feeling of his cultist followers supporters, but it will kill him with middle-America.

UPDATE:

I’ve posted about this so many times now I am getting confused . . . not surprising I suppose considering I am one of the dumb-ass redneck gun-toting, church-going (not so much), beer-drinking people Obama is talking about. Anyway, I guess they are right - Obama, liberals, and the guys defending him in the comments of my posts - I am just too fricken stupid to understand the underlying truth behind what he said.

God help me, I don’t know how I manage to zip-up my pants in the morning.

From Ace.

Vodka Wars

One of my favorite vodkas, American-made Skyy, is showing its patriotism, an no doubt taking advantage of a great business opportunity, in response to this Absolut nonsense.

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican-America War (1846-1848). With the signing of this treaty, the United States gained control of what was to become the Golden West, including California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado and New Mexico. Today, SKYY® Vodka, the number-one vodka produced in the United States, spoke out against suggestions by Absolut® Vodka to disregard that treaty, as well as the joining of Texas to the Union in 1845, as depicted in Absolut’s recent advertising.

“Like SKYY Vodka, the residents of states like California, Texas and Arizona are exceptionally proud of the fact that they are from the United States of America,” said Dave Karraker, SKYY Vodka. “To imply that they might be interested in changing their mailing addresses, as our competitor seems to be suggesting in their advertising, is a bit presumptuous.”

Good for them. I think I’ll pick-up a couple of bottles this weekend.

The Language of Love

Well, if not the language of “love,” certainly the language of “I’d hit that.”

Via Frogsmoke.

Listen Up Jews**

You better support Obama or we won’t be your friends anymore. (NOTE: They pulled the post from the Obama’O8 site. Predictable and typical. And what I quoted down below was just a quarter of the ranting that was there. A link to screenshots of what was posted in total down below in the update.)

Enough is enough.

America has suffered enough of Clintonitis.

Americans have spoken loud and clear: they do not want political business as usual that Clintonitis represent.

They want change and they want it fast.

They have chosen and anointed Obama as the agent of change.

He is the new political Messiah who shall continue where JFK stopped.

Americans seem to be in slumber and in complete denial of the present dangerous and volatile world situation.

This is where Jews can help.

By supporting Obama to win, they would cure America of Clintonitis and thereby be able to find a permanent solution to the Arab-Jewish problem in the Middle East.

Jews must support Obama or face grave consequences. You cannot afford not to.

Africans have been nice and helped Jews for more than 2000 yrs.

Now, I say to Jews all over the world, it is time to show your gratitude.

Well, now, if I were Jewish that would certainly sway me. I just love friends who threaten me if I don’t do what they say. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

This is posted on the official Obama’08 website, which I assume means he approved it. If so, how sad. If not, does he have any control over anyone in his own campaign?

I’m not sure how long it will be up, though, once people start hammering him on it. So check it out now. There’s lots more.

Hat-tip to Ace.

UPDATE:

They pulled it from the site. What did I tell you? However, if you want to see screenshots of what this anti-semitic screed looked like check em out over here. (Click the link and then scroll down some to see links to the screenshots.)

** BTW, I don’t like this title. It grates on me for some reason. But it conveys the attitude of the moron who wrote this now “disappeared” post over at Obama08.

Get Your Red Hots Here

1. Michelle Unbound. Best line, “I’m constantly reminded that I will never be smart enough to be a Democrat.” I know the feeling.

2. The Ten Most Hated People on the Internet. I don’t know many of them, and it’s a shame that one is a military member (although he deserves the scorn), but I wish Rachael Ray were higher than number 10. She makes brunettes look bad. And no wonder her voice is so raspy - she is a chain-smoker.

3. The French do love their fries. Eco-friendly since you could bring it with you when you go to McDonalds.

4. General Petraeus kicked Democrat butt yesterday. Well, that’s my interpretation anyway. What he did was answer every question they had with facts and reason and watched them make fools of themselves giving speeches about surrender. If you’re interested The Global Times has lots of video.  Just scroll down to see them.

5. And they say guys have weird shower habits.

6. Computer programming languages and their celebrity equivalents. I guess computer nerds will get this. I got some of it, which means I am only half-computer nerd. (Via Southern Appeal)

7. Navy Seal is awarded the Medal of Honor. I posted about this before, but it is worth repeating.

8. Yep, this is about as interesting as a cat gets, alright.

9. Neil gets a haircut. I cut my own. An old military habit. Saves me a lot of money, too.

10. Babies. Or little pink aliens. I am not sure which. Cute either way.

Get Me More White People

Every time I promise myself I am going to take a break from posting about Barack Hussein Obama, I end up breaking it because of stuff like this.

While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”

Yes, but were they “typical white people?”

For a couple who claim they want to “transcend” race, they sure do keep bringing it up - and in the worst possible ways, too.

QUICK UPDATE:

Forget transcending race, one wonders if Michelle Obama can just stop being such a crybaby.

Those Crazy, Fun-loving Japanese

You can’t make this kind of “not safe for work” stuff up, folks. More not safe for work photos here

Oh yes, I know that is a big pink penis statue up above and I apologize if it offends you, but for the life of me I couldn’t think of another picture to use. Just pretend it is a big pink mushroom if it makes you feel better.

Hat-tip to Ace.