~~ Ronald Reagan ~~
Monday, August 31, 2009
Obama Polls Show Downward Spiral - Only 46% Approval
57% think we should throw all the bums out of Congress, so if the Congresscritters who have been taking such a beating from their constituents during the August recess think they are going to come back to Washington and be able to ride the President’s popularity to get their socialist agenda advanced, they better start rethinking and quick.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11…
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve while 83% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove. See other recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.
How Hot Is It? California Fires
How hot is it? At my house, which is about 100 miles south of where the big fires are, it is 114 degrees. My palm fronds are waving, but so far, no strong wind. We have a fire close by in the Hemet area, but so far it is moving away from us.
MAP! Here is the latest California Fire Map as the Station Fire (aka the La Cañada Flintridge Fire) still burns. This California Fire Map depicts the live advance of the Station Fire as blistering temperatures Sunday still do not break in the Southland.
Southern California Wildfires had threatened 5,000 homes by Saturday. But by Sunday, that number in early afternoon had risen to a staggering 12,000 threatened homes. Containment percentages had yet to improve from the single digits this weekend.
3500 acres are burned in Southern California alone, with 100 engines, 20 clearance trucks and 12 water helicopters responding. Yet residents refuse to leave, causing 3 person to suffer serious burns. The Governor early Sunday warned of the threat to disobey Fire official’s instructions to evacuate - “There were three people who did not listen and they got burned because they did not listen.”
By early afternoon Station Fire mandatory evacuations were for homes on Starlight Crest Drive, Greenridge Drive, Forest Green Drive, and Ridge Court, and those on the La Cañada Flintridge Golf Course.
Oak Glen Fire near Yucaipa
Angeless Forest, a.k.a. Station Fire
Jon Voight: Obama Invoking the God Card (Video)
The man speaks the truth and the left is calling this a delusional, hate-filled rant. Puhleeze!
A Visual Fisking: Government Run Universal Socialized Medicine (Video)
Why we don’t need economic illiterates trivializing the dangers of socialized medicine and spouting abject nonsense on YouTube.
This is a rebuttal to the video Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance.
(H/T: NRO)
RIP Flapoor, Friend, Marine, Hero (Video)
Oh wow, I was already bawling with the first notes of Taps.
How Many Czars and Who and What is a Czar Anyway
Via Instapundit:
Jenna Bush Hager to Join Today Show
No politics, just education, so the article says. Jenna Bush Hager to join the Today Show for a special once a month segment on education. She is certainly a better role model for young women, than one of her counterparts, Meghan McCain.
- Bush Daughter Jenna Lands Correspondent Job
Jenna Bush Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to NBC’s “Today” show.
NEW YORK—NBC’s “Today” show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent—former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.
Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television’s top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer.
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She’ll essentially work two part-time jobs as a correspondent and in her school, where she will be a reading coordinator this year.
Bell said he got the idea after seeing Hager in two “Today” appearances. She was on the program two years ago to promote her book about an HIV-infected single mother, “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,” and it went so well that a short interview was stretched to nearly a half hour.
She and her mother, Laura Bush, also co-hosted an hour of “Today” around the time their picture book came out.
She “just sort of popped to us as a natural presence, comfortable” on the air, Bell said. Hager will work out of NBC’s Washington bureau.
“I think she can handle it,” he said. “I think she knows something about pressure and being under some scrutiny. When she came here for a handful of appearances, she knocked it out of the park.”
He expects her first story, most likely concerning education, to be on sometime next month.
Wallace Interviews Former VP Dick Cheney (Video)
Which is he, a dunce who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t have the facts, or the evil mastermind behind the enhanced interrogations, the brains behind Gitmo? When Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stands up, like he did this morning, and says the former VP doesn’t have the facts, you know that the big cop out, the big lie, the big distraction is coming next. What a putz!
Here is the interview that Chris Wallace did with former Vice President Dick Cheney on the Fox News Sunday show.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Glenn Beck’s The New Republic: America’s Future - Week Long Series of Questions (Videos)
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Day 1 (Glenn Beck: Reasonable questions for unreasonable times)
- Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?
- We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?
- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?
- If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?
- Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work?
- Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?
- Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?
- Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?
- How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president?
- Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor?
- The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?
- If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?
- If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?
- If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?
- Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?
- Why would you want to overwhelm the system?
- Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about “not letting a crises go to waste”?
- What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Day 2
- Who is “surrounding” the President in the White House?
- Do any of the President’s advisers have criminal records?
- Are the President’s advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?
- Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?
- What roles do they have in crafting bills?
- What was “STORM”? What happened to the founders, where are they now?
- What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser?
- What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?
- Do the czars have power?
- Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States?
- What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?
- Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?
- How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society?
- What role does George Soros play… CONSTITUTIONALLY?
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Day 3
- Why does the FCC have a diversity “czar”?
- Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to “balance” the airwaves?
- Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?
- Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?
- Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?
- Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?
- Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?
If Lloyd has his way, stations who don’t comply to the governments definition of the “public interest” will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:
- What will be the definition of “public interest”?
- Who defines “public interest”?
- Why should it be balanced? Because it’s public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don’t count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Day 4
- Why do we need a civilian force?
- Who is posing a threat to us?
- Who will this “force” be made up of?
- Who is the real enemy?
- Does the president know of a coming event? If not, who builds an army against an unrecognized enemy?
- Why won’t the media get off their butts and look into these radicals in the White House? And into this civilian army?
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Summary: DO NOT BE AFRAID to stand up, do not be afraid to ask the questions!
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A Reminder and a Risk Taker
Vanderleun: “Remember”
Opening September 8 at the Koplin Del Rio Gallery at 6031 Washington Blvd Culver City, California , this art show could be a blast or a bomb. One way or another, it will test the limits of Muslim tolerance in our new age of “understanding” and “dialogue” with Islam.
Check it out. Vanderleun has examples and the details.
A $10 Billion Union Pay Off?
Yikes!
TheDetroit Free Press reported that HR3200 gives a $10,000,000,000 subsidy to union pension and benefit plans, a key component that had gone largely unremarked.
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If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Time for Funnies
I had a hard time picking just a few samples from this week’s long list of Sunday Funnies. You can see them all, as usual, at Flopping Aces.
There are Images and Then There are Really Really Cool Images
Way beyond my paygrade to understand all the science behind this image, but I do understand cool and this is really really cool.
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers.
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Understanding structure on this scale could help in the design of many things on the molecular scale, particularly electronics or even drugs.
[...]
In both cases, a team from IBM Research Zurich used what is known as an atomic force microscope or AFM.
Their version of the device acts like a tiny tuning fork, with one of the prongs of the fork passing incredibly close to the sample and the other farther away.
When the fork is set vibrating, the prong nearest the sample will experience a minuscule shift in the frequency of its vibration, simply because it is getting close to the molecule.
Comparing the frequencies of the two prongs gives a measure of just how close the nearer prong is, effectively mapping out the molecule’s structure.
The measurement requires extremes of precision. In order to avoid the effects of stray gas molecules bounding around, or the general atomic-scale jiggling that room-temperature objects experience, the whole setup has to be kept under high vacuum and at blisteringly cold temperatures.
Lucky Gets New Legs
Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a nut for turtles. At my former house with a pond, I had seven turtles, six of which were so tame, they would swim over and eat out of my hand. At this house, our pond is smaller and we have some gianormous Koi, so I only have two turtles, Moonbeam and Sunshine. Both are again quite tame and come at the sound of my voice calling their names. I love it when I see them dive into the water from whatever sunny spot they’d been resting and a moment later their little heads pop up right at my feet and looking at me so expectantly. Their favorite foods are sandwich bologna broken into small pieces and hunks of raw hotdog. Their very favorite is garlic bologna which I gave to them by accident one day when I grabbed a slice out of the package without looking and didn’t realize I had the garlic and not the plain. They loved it so much, they were fighting over every piece and even trying to take the pieces right out of each other’s mouth.
Lucky is not a water turtle like mine, but a sand or land turtle. Still every bit as cute and I’m sure he brings as many laughs and as much pleasure to his adopted family as my turtles bring to me.
Another Funny
Posted by Throw all the Bums Out Say 57%
I cannot recall a time in my adult lifetime where the electorate has been as angry as they are now.
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
12 September 2009 - Will You Be There?
I have this mad urge to say, “be there or be square!” LOL.
Anyone that believes in limited government, and wants to see lower taxes, less government and more freedom should think about attending. And join the Ning site and connect with others in your state. Tell your friends, family and colleagues to register to attend. Promote the website on facebook, twitter, blogs and other websites.
Follow the Tea Party Express that left yesterday and will meander its way to Washington for September 12th, holding tea parties all along the way.
Posted by Sara
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Feds Evicting Disabled Medical Marijuana Patients from Fed Housing
The kind of crazy policy that drives me craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy!
The Denver Post reports today on the sad cases of some disabled medical marijuana users, including one with MS, who are being evicted from federally subsidized housing due to regulations that prohibit illegal use of controlled substances. Under federal law, all marijuana use is illegal, even in states that allow it.
California allows medical marijuana use. I know at least 25 people who have prescriptions and the average age is over sixty years old. Some use it to control nausea because of chemo treatments, but many use it for pain control in order to avoid the highly addictive drugs their doctors are limited to prescribing such as oxycodone, demerol, or vicadin. In my county, they do not allow walk-in dispensaries, so everything is delivered right to your door. You can order over the phone or through a website. You are also allowed to have up to six plants under cultivation at any one time. Many get the plants and eliminate any dealings with third parties or drug dealers by growing and harvesting their own supply. They save millions for the government, since most are Medicare eligible, but aren’t using Medicare for high priced and addictive drugs and by growing their own, they hamper the big illicit drug dealer, yet the Feds can’t stand it. It is a stupid position.
Friday, August 28, 2009
“This used to be America!” - “It ain’t no more, OK?”
No it is not OK.
This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.
Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral “Joker” graphics.
Listen for the Surprise
Classical music is not something you will often find here at Pal2Pal, a blog run by an ol’ rock’n’roller. Today is the 5th anniversary of my Mother’s death and I vowed not to have a meltdown today. I was trying to think happy thoughts and think more about my Mother the way she was when I was a child as opposed to the last couple of years that are so sered into my brain.
My Mother was a classical violinist of symphony quality among her many other talents and I cannot remember a time she didn’t have some classical piece playing in the house, either on the radio or the record player, later the stereo. She tried so hard to get me interested and one of my earliest memories is her standing at the record player, an old 78 rpm in her hand and saying, “listen dear, listen carefully for the surprise.” Well, what 3 or 4 year old isn’t going to perk up at that challenge. A surprise?
To tell the truth, she really only wanted to introduce me to music. As I learned many times in later years, my Mother’s tastes ran from the classical to alittle Johnny Cash, some Mamas and the Papas, opera, and surprise surprise she loved Elvis. But, of course, her very favorite was ragtime. I defy anyone to stay down in the dumps while listening to:
When my Mother was a little girl, her Mother, who was church organist and a concert pianist, would sneak out of church with my Mother in tow, and run home to have time to practice learning the new ragtime music without my Grandfather knowing. They had to time it so my Grandmother could get back to play the final hymn. If you knew what straight-laced stick-in-the muds my Grandparents were or appeared to all the world to be, you’d know why this story cracks me up. It is just so me, or should I say what I would do. I never really knew my Grandmother, but I’m sure we would have been great friends. Any woman who gets her name in the paper accidentally after a suffragette march and then goes around and collects every copy in the neighborhood so my Granddad wouldn’t see the article and who also sneaks out of church to practice ragtime would be my kind of gal.
Politicians vs Voters - A Graphic
Via Moonattery
Crowder Undercover: Astroturf Jerks! (Video)
This one needs to be passed around.
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The League of Voters Ad the Nets Don’t Want You to See (Video)
Overnight Roundup (Video)
The temps are climbing again today, it is already 109 degrees out, but I have so many tabs left open from yesterday, I’ve got to clear them or lose them. So here goes:
Things that make you say, WTF?
NEW YORK — The United Nations is recommending that children as young as five receive mandatory sexual education that would teach even pre-kindergarteners about masturbation and topics like gender violence.
The U.N.’s Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a 98-page report in June offering a universal lesson plan for kids ranging in age from 5-18, an
“informed approach to effective sex, relationships” and HIV education that they say is essential for “all young people.”
Things that scare the bejeezus out of me:
Things that make you go yikes and then right on! Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck discuss Obama’s attacks on free speech.
Things that make you say, I believe it. This is what frustrates those of us out here that Washington thinks are just a bunch of dumb rubes. We do know what is in the bill and it has become more and more obvious that our elected officials don’t have a clue. They aren’t taking being exposed very well, are they?
Most voters think they understand the health care reform legislation proposed by President Obama better than Congress does - and about as well as the president himself.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of voters rate their understanding of the health care plan as good or excellent. Only 21% say their understanding of it is poor.
By contrast, just 22% say Congress has a good or excellent understanding of the plan. Thirty-five percent (35%) say Congress’ knowledge of the proposal is poor.
Another thing that scares the bejeezus out of me:
- How Many Thousands Of Fed. Bureaucrats Would Have Access To Your Health/Tax Records Under Obamacare?
Most of the health care debate revolves around cost and access to care, and rightfully so. Those are important issue. But an issue that should probably get more attention is privacy. Because what the Democrats are proposing would not only make your health records accessible by federal bureaucrats, but your financial records too.
Things that make sense to me from personal experience:
- Depression’s Evolutionary Roots
Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages
Depression seems to pose an evolutionary paradox. Research in the US and other countries estimates that between 30 to 50 percent of people have met current psychiatric diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder sometime in their lives. But the brain plays crucial roles in promoting survival and reproduction, so the pressures of evolution should have left our brains resistant to such high rates of malfunction. Mental disorders should generally be rare — why isn’t depression?
This paradox could be resolved if depression were a problem of growing old. The functioning of all body systems and organs, including the brain, tends to deteriorate with age. This is not a satisfactory explanation for depression, however, as people are most likely to experience their first bout in adolescence and young adulthood.
Or, perhaps, depression might be like obesity — a problem that arises because modern conditions are so different from those in which we evolved. Homo sapiens did not evolve with cookies and soda at the fingertips. Yet this is not a satisfactory explanation either. The symptoms of depression have been found in every culture which has been carefully examined, including small-scale societies, such as the Ache of Paraguay and the !Kung of southern Africa — societies where people are thought to live in environments similar to those that prevailed in our evolutionary past.
There is another possibility: that, in most instances, depression should not be thought of as a disorder at all. In an article recently published in Psychological Review, we argue that depression is in fact an adaptation, a state of mind which brings real costs, but also brings real benefits.
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Things that make you say, what were they smoking?
Washng Machine Toilet
Gotta Go Briefcase
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The Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care Legislation?...
Wow, that really sounds like something we all need doesn’t it? After all, for forty plus years Senator Kennedy has successfully been involved in helping bring our country to where it is now.
You’d think that Ted, in between treatments, was pitching this thing right to the end. After all, the old Senator’s self-proclaimed purpose and final wish was to entitle health care for all, whether affordable or not! The old Liberal Lion of the Senate is barely in repose and they’ve already titled him to Obama’s Health care Plan to try and save it.
Actually, the only thing more dead than old Ted is this bill in it’s present form. Thus, I think the intent of the strategy of associating Senator Kennedy to this bill now was more than just trying to save it as is! It is an attempt to perhaps save the current democratic majority from exploiting their political power and pissing it all away!
Now some might argue that the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health care Legislation is aimed at the sensitivities of the “Blue Dogs” that the democratic leaders say are corrupting this mandated process. Or, aimed at the“Astro-Turfers” and others of the “Mob” that too are shouting down their efforts. However, I think that this exercise in politics as usual is aimed directly between the eyes of the progressive liberals that are driving the train and pushing the Messiah around. Could it be that this strategy is designed to “lay to rest with old Ted” and appease the sentimental naysayers and bury the wishes for a public option in this bill?
The real intention of this shallow form of sensitivity is to hopefully allow the Administration something that will stay alive through the Liberal Progressive’s scrutiny. To excrete a bill that will redeem the President and keep him and the rest of the party from sliding over the edge into the abyss of where liberal democrats are laid to rest before they have truly reached their stride. This crap might stick to the wall… maybe not!
I’d bet that a beaten Obama is sure he can convince the progressives to capitulate to something that will help the staggered Democratic Party to get up off the canvas and last another round. I’m sure both Rohm and Obama think that a watered-down bill that basically slaps down the far left (vs. a knockout) is about all they could possible salvage in this fight. Especially, since the public has made it clear that their grandchildren and their children are too much to sacrifice at the Obama liberal progressive alter.
Hey, I’ve got a great idea on how to use a stellar politician like Senator Ted Kennedy to honor democracy and help move our country forward. How to use the full scope of his experience and all he has brought to the democratic process for our Republic into a light that will guide us into legislation that will transform and move the Republic to help form a more perfect union. To allow the United States to again become the country our founders and Constitution prescribes. Something that will represent the time, effort and contributions made by this great liberal. A bill that would truly epitomize what Senator Kennedy has steered the way toward for our country…
...The Ted Kennedy Memorial Congressional Term Limit Legislation.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
How Hot Is It?
OMG, it is hot. I mean unbearably hot. And my back has picked today to act up after weeks of improvement. I’m taking an hour to catch up, but then I’m heading right back to the cool water of the pool. The backyard temp is reading a staggering 119 degrees. The dogs are panting, I’m panting, the cats are glassy-eyed. Alll the animals are up in my bathroom lying on the slightly cooler tile floor. It is kind of a funny scene, the way they’ve lined themselves up with their backs against the sides of the tub, which I assume is also cooler.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Beware: The Dems & SEIU Playing Dirty on Health Care
They play dirty and we need to be prepared. The Denver dem headquarters was vandalized and had their plate glass windows smashed at their headquarters. Posters protesting health care were left behind in order to make it look like the anti-healthcare bill protesters were behind the vandalism. But ... it turns out things are not what the first appeared.
The young vandal who smashed windows at the DNC headquarters in Denver on Tuesday worked for a democratic politician, was paid by a SEIU-related front group, and was arrested at the RNC convention last year in St. Paul.
Maurice Schwenkler and his accomplice caused $11,000 in damage at the DNC headquarters.
Via Gateway Pundit (and AP)
A suspect in a vandalism at the Colorado Democratic headquarters was once a paid campaign worker for a Democratic candidate for the Legislature, according to public records.
Maurice Schwenkler, 24, was arrested in Denver Tuesday on a charge of criminal mischief after windows were smashed at Democratic offices. Many of the windows displayed posters supporting health care reform, and (democratic) party officials called it political vandalism.
The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Schwenkler was also arrested in St. Paul, Minn., on the last day of the 2008 Republican convention on a charge of unlawful assembly.
No details of that arrest or Schwenkler’s activities at the time were immediately available.
There was no phone number listed for Schwenkler and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney.
The Post reported Schwenkler was paid $500 in November 2008 to walk door to door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, a candidate for the state House from Centennial.
Cullom lost to Republican David Balmer.
Campaign records show Schwenkler was among dozens of canvassers paid by a political committee called the Colorado Citizens’ Coalition.
Balmer said he suspects the vandalism might have been intended to make the Republican Party look bad.
“This sounds like the type of Democratic tactic from the left fringe trying to make Republicans look mean-spirited,” Balmer said. “In this case, it blew up in their face.”
The Democratic Party estimates the damage at $10,000. A second suspect was still at large.
It Glows in the Dark
On a lighter note, we bring you:
Now you’ll always be able to find the toilet paper, even in the dark, with this new Glow in the Dark Toilet Paper!
Perfect for power cuts, this groovy glowing loo roll means that if you don’t want to wake anyone up in your household by turning on the light, it’ll cast its green glow over your bathroom, so you can find your way around.
Also – it’s Glow in the Dark Toilet Roll! Just when you thought everything that could be invented, has been, we can still surprise you!
Ted Kennedy to be Buried at Arlington
This offends me deeply.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Ted Kennedy Succumbs to Brain Cancer, Age 77
I cannot personally summon up any tears for a man I consider to be a cheater, drunk, and murderer. However, I know that to his family he was the patriarch, not just to his own children, but the children of his brothers, JFK and RFK. He is the one who was looked to as Uncle Ted, surrogate father. So for them, I offer condolences.
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
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A hardworking, well-liked politician who became the standard-bearer of his brothers’ liberal causes, his career was clouded by allegations of personal immorality and accusations that his family’s clout helped him avoid the consequences of an accident that left a young woman dead.
But for the younger members of the Kennedy clan, from his own three children to those of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy — once seen as the youngest and least talented in a family of glamorous overachievers — was both a surrogate father and the center of the family.
And certainly it was Ted Kennedy who bore many of the tragedies of the family — the violent deaths of four of his siblings, his son’s battle with cancer, and the death of his nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash.
