Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tiny Albino Hedgehog
This tiny albino hedgehog is currently being cared for by the Kuziomski Igliwiak Foundation in Krakow, Poland. The hedgehog centre, which is run by animal lover Andrzej Kuziomski, is the only one of its kind in the country. Dedicated Andrzej mans a 24-hour helpline and ambulance service dedicated to helping injured hedgehogs
Picture: EAST MEWS / REX FEATURES (via Pictures of the day: 21 September 2010 - Telegraph)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Great is as great does!
America will not regain its preeminent position on the world stage simply by saying that it is "Number 1". Simply saying that one is great does not make it so... Being great on the other hand is irrefutable.
Great is as great does! We must be 100% right 100% of the time.
Almost is not good enough. Make-do-get-by is not good enough. A country torn asunder is not good enough.
When we clean up our own house. When we take care of _all_ of our own. Then we will be great.
America, we have let bipartisan politics polymerize us. Right now we are a country of Us and Them.
We must become one country of US. United for the greater good.
Stop allowing derisive and disingenuous factions to split us apart.
America unite!
One America, complete, healthy and whole.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
John Lennon 
Senate Republicans Would Double The Deficit
Claiming again that 'trickle-down' economics work...
Senate Republicans are rolling out a plan to permanently extend an array of expiring tax breaks that would deprive the Treasury of more than $4 trillion over the next decade, nearly doubling projected deficits over that period unless dramatic spending cuts are made.
The Republican promise is that 'dramatic spending cuts' will be made but they refuse to say exactly which part of the pork belly will be incised.
So, McConnell is going to use the same mechanism that President Obama will use, a bipartisan deficit commission, "if it's a responsible report that I can support." (Translation: if the bipartisan report meets McConnell's Republican agenda then he will support it. If it doesn't then he will summarily dismiss it as a left leaning initiative.)Asked how McConnell would cover the cost of his proposal, the Tax Hike Prevention Act, aides noted that he has backed a bipartisan plan to freeze spending that would save an estimated $300 billion over the next decade - a drop in the bucket compared with his $4 trillion-plus plan.For the rest of the cash, McConnell has said he will turn to the same place as Obama: a presidentially appointed, bipartisan deficit commission that is due to issue its report in December."This is not going to be your typical commission that's going to issue a report, sit on the shelf and gather dust," McConnell said last month on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We'll wait for their report. And I intend, if it's a responsible report that I can support, to encourage my members to support it."
Senator McConnell with his use of perfect politician double-speak has supported Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy calling their reinstitution "raising taxes" while offering no substantiative recourse but to follow the existing President's plan.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Ok, lets do away with big government...
I am convinced... we need to do away with meddlesome big government that has imposed so many limits on my personal freedom. Ok, here goes...
Lets start with the Federal Food and Drug Administration. I am positive that the pharmaceutical industry is fully capable of looking out for my best health interests. Moreover I am equally sure that the food producers of this great nation would never do anything to jeopardize our food supplies. (Anyway, what are a few rodent feces among friends.)
And here is another, The National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB). So what if seat-belts save lives. You should hear what they are up to next, seat-belts on school buses. Can you believe that nonsense? Them's prolly the same folks that says I cain't drink a beer while I am runnin' my BassMaster2000 to my favorite fishin' hole. What kinda nonsense is that, cain't drink and fish?
And don't get me started on the Department of Education. Puh-lease, dontcha think we know best what our kids learn in school. We don't need no gov'ment beaur-o-crat telling me what my kid needs to be teached in school. Worse 'n that, damned gov'ment don't need to be telling God fearing folks what they can or cain't teach in they own schools.
An' how 'bout the A-T-F an then they went and added the E. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and now Explosives. What a royal pain in the bee-hind. First of all ain't nobody should tell me how many and what kind of guns I should have. It is my constitutional right to own guns... er, wait, the constitution is the power of the government, I mean, it is the government's responsibility to uphold the constitution. Right? Its actually the government that protects the rights of the people, people like me, right?
So I want some government...just not the parts that I don't agree with. Yeah, thats it. I want gov'ment to keep control of all them other folks that make me feel small or stupid or poor or disenfranchised or unhappy or disappointed that my candidate didn't win. I want a gov'ment that keeps me safe from all those other folks and doesn't keep me from doing the kinds of things that I want to do. 'Cause gov'ment don't have no right to tell me what to do.
An' that's why I say lets do away with big gov'ment.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Monday, September 06, 2010
Satisfaction Guaranteed
by David Stark
In 1904, German sociologist Max Weber traveled to Oklahoma where he conducted field research, leading to an article, “Church and Sect in North America,” and his most influential book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. A century later, the megachurches of Oklahoma City seemed an appropriate setting to witness recent developments in the relationship between religious experience and contemporary capitalism.
Please tell me if you would rather not receive my postings.
Rampaging wild boar draw pleas for military response - 'Nuff said.
Rampaging wild boar draw pleas for military response
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rampaging-wild-boar-draw-pleas-for-military-response-2071304.html
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
AP
Wild boars foraging in fields near Munich. Their population has risen dramatically in recent years
They are laying waste to crops in record numbers and their snouts are seriously damaging the autumn harvest. But soon the rampaging wild boar that have been causing havoc in rural areas of Germany could be gunned down by army marksmen, if farmers get their way.
The call for a military response comes from landowners in the wine and crop-growing western Rhineland-Palatinate region, where boar have destroyed hundreds of hectares of maize and torn up the earth so badly with their snouts that combine harvesters have been brought to a standstill. "The farmers are boiling with rage yet the problem can't be solved by using regular hunters anymore," said Norbert Schindler, the president of the regional farmers' union. "They are trying hard but they just can't cope. Why can't the army be drafted in to help?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rampaging-wild-boar-draw-pleas-for-military-response-2071304.html
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