I’m in the process of moving from my secret underground lair (no, not the one under the Vice President’s residence) to my new secret underground bunker in Kansas. This will cause disruptions in my posting frequency the entire month of July unfortunately. I’ll keep you posted.
- The POTR
*Updated after about 8 beers. How the hell could I post on Father’s Day without the anthem of Dads and Sons? I’ve corrected on the post update.*
Takes me back to the days of being a lil-tree rat. After having kids of my own I always wish I hadn’t been such a punk to my dad when I was younger. But hey now it’s time for “Man-o-the-House Day”.
Now all of you Mini-Rats shut up and one of ya get me another beer!
In the time honored tradition of misleading the public from the District of Clowns, Congress passed the war supplemental bill yesterday. It’s $106B for the Department of Defense to crush our enemies right? Uhhh, nope. Same crap different bill:
Washington Post (WP), June 19, 2009, Pg. 11. At Obama’s behest, the bill includes $7.7 billion to prepare for pandemic flu and funding to offer an increased line of credit to the International Monetary Fund.
We’re going to need that $7.7 to whack all those infected pigs sneaking across the boarders at night. My guess this will go to DHS for night vision equipment, sniper rifles and some unmanned aeriel drones to spot the little oinking rascals.
(WP) Obama had asked Senate leaders last month to insert a provision that would allow the United States to provide about $100 billion to an overall $ 1.1 trillion pledge by Group of 20 nations for a rescue package designed to help both rich and poor nations through the current economic crisis.
TheHill.com: Republicans called the IMF funds “a global bailout on the backs of U.S. troops.”
It’s about time we got on a war footing with the bastards funding those despicable poor countries! I’m a bit unclear on if we’re using this war funding to attack the U.N. outright, or just their creditors. I’ll get back to you on that.
WP: Congress added $1 billion to start the “cash for clunkers” program that will give Americans vouchers of as much as $4,500 to turn in their old cars and purchase more fuel-efficient ones.
TheHill.com: Earlier Thursday, the chamber passed a procedural motion to block GOP efforts to strip the program from the measure.
A war on clunkers? Interesting. Are we paying GM to build them and the DoD to blow them up? Can we put the GITMO detainees inside the cars before we pummel them with TOW missiles? That would solve that pesky problem of how to pay for closing GITMO. I’m no economist, but I think there’s some cost saving here.
WP: Congress has agreed to increase anti-narcotics funding for Mexico, providing an additional $420 million this year to buy helicopters, surveillance aircraft and computers for police and soldiers fighting traffickers. The White House had asked Congress to add $66 million in the bill for Mexico’s drug war — about enough to buy three helicopters. But lawmakers had become alarmed about the soaring death toll across the border, and they raised the total.
All this time we were led to believe it was the Republicans that hated the Mexicans. Go figure, it was the Democrats after all. Seems they’re declaring war against somebody in Mexico anyway. Interesting.
Had to throw out the obscure Star Wars quote there. Why? Because odds mean nothing to a true fan. We are by nature adverse to logic or reason. We are the devoted. We are the painted freaks of the stadiums. We are the scourge of the sports talk airwaves. We are the loud drunks at the bar. Our wives are Sunday Widows. We are “The Fans” and Fans spit in the face of your precious “odds”.
So what are the “odds” today of the Detroit Lions winning Super Bowl XLIV?
Sports Interaction: Odds to win Super Bowl XLIV 100/1, Odds to win the NFC 100/1, Odds to win the NFC North Detroit Lions 40/1
The Spread: Odds to win Super Bowl XLIV 140/1
Bodog’s latest: Odds to win Super Bowl XLIV 100/1
SPORTSBETTING.com is now giving the Lions an overall rating of: Under 5 (-130). That’s actually improved this month. Those fat guys in the desert must like what they are seeing. OK maybe they just hate the Lions a little less this week as the rating still sucks.
I’m sure these figures will be rivised quickly upwards after Week 1 of the season! Remember there’s only “up” after 0 & 16 folks.
President Carter has been a politically pariah Ex-President for 28 years now. While his work for Habitat for Humanity is laudable, his globetrotting political input is far from it. Most notable of his chaotic political play is his recurring desire to cozy up to terrorists. He’s locked in this endless game of hugs and kisses with these cancers of the planet. His repeated visits and pleas on their behalf only legitimise their abysmal reigns of terror. Well guess what Jimmy, THEY HATE YOU TOO.
Former President Jimmy Carter will urge the Obama administration to remove Hamas from the terrorist list, FOX News has learned.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian source told FOX News that the group had discovered two roadside bombs planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza on a path Carter’s convoy took to meet with the group’s leaders. According to the source, the bombs were intended to hit Carter’s vehicle as he exited Gaza.
Time to go back to Georgia Jimmy. You’re only embarrassing yourself and America. Not to mention putting the lives of your Secret Service detail in very real danger.
I was in Califonia last week and got an ear full of the budget woes there. It boils down to this: the largest social welfare state in the country has bankrupted itself into oblivion. The over taxed business and high income earners have conducted a mass exodus of the state destroying their tax base. The state government will not agree to cut a single thing out of the budget as they spiral to the point of no return. The constituents of California have vetoed every social service reduction option given to them. The Californians have refused to help themselves and are now fiddling as the metaphorical Rome burns and the state becomes insolvent in 3 to 4 weeks.
From the WSJ: SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state’s chief accountant Tuesday warned lawmakers that they have until June 15 to close the state’s crippling budget deficit.
“California’s day of reckoning is here,” Mr. Schwarzenegger said in an unusual address before a joint legislative session. “We have no time to waste.”
The state faces a $24 billion deficit in a $92 billion general-fund budget, a result of plummeting tax revenue during a recession. This new shortfall is in addition to the $42 billion gap that lawmakers closed in February through steep cuts and new taxes. Lawmakers must pass a balanced budget by June 15 for the state to obtain its annual loans from Wall Street.
Before our Congress gets all ’spring-butt’ to volunteer our tax dollars to bail out California’s irresponsibility I think we should kick the old idea can around. What do you think we should do about California’s economic collapse?
I wonder if Snake Plissken is up for another round…………
Looks like the cops in Phoenix are using a new tactic to discourage the ‘Johns’. It’s a sort of premptive coyote-ugle strike on the dudes before they hit the strip clubs.
Mugshots of a hooker round-up.
Ugh…! They look a bit different when you’re sober in the daylight don’t they? Think twice my friend, think twice.
Remember this moron?
Richard Reid tried to to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 in 2001 by lighting explosives hidden in his shoes with a match. The result of which was his getting bitch slapped by a team of flight attendants and then being promptly monkey stomped by the post-911 passengers on board. For this half-wit effort he has been forever branded with the nom de plume of “The Shoe Bomber”. I think that translates into Arabic as “The Moron”. The second order effect is that every traveler wants to sentence him to the death of a thousand paper cuts each and every time they take of their shoes to go through airport screening. Where was I? Oh yeah, this tool’s on a hunger strike.
BBC: Briton Richard Reid is said to have been refusing food for several weeks and is being force-fed and hydrated. Reid, 35, is currently taking legal action against prison restrictions which, he says, prevent him from practising his Sunni Muslim faith.
Ahh poor Richie doesn’t like the Supermax prison in Colorado. What’s his beef you ask?
Reid claims he has been under special restrictions since arriving at the jail in February 2003. His lawsuit says the restrictions include prohibiting group prayer with other Muslim inmates, a ban on contacting journalists and limiting access to a Muslim imam.
Let me wipe the river of tears for him from my eyes. Now none of this bothers me at all. Good on you Richie! That’s my take. I hope they put up a webcam so I can log on to the Supermax site and watch you slowly wither and die. I may even pay up to $5 a week for a subscription to that. Unfortunately the kill-joys in the Department of Corrections have stepped in to force feed and rehydrate this Islamofachist blight on the world.
