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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas

Palace of Saint Nicholas in the Moon
Christmas Morning ~ Mark Twain

My Dear Susy Clemens,

I have received and read all the letters which you and your little sister have written me . . . . I can read your and your baby sister's jagged and fantastic marks without any trouble at all. But I had trouble with those letters which you dictated through your mother and the nurses, for I am a foreigner and cannot read English writing well. You will find that I made no mistakes about the things which you and the baby ordered in your own letters--I went down your chimney at midnight when you were asleep and delivered them all myself--and kissed both of you, too . . . . But . . . there were . . . one or two small orders which I could not fill because we ran out of stock . . . .

There was a word or two in your mama's letter which . . .I took to be "a trunk full of doll's clothes." Is that it? I will call at your kitchen door about nine o'clock this morning to inquire. But I must not see anybody and I must not speak to anybody but you. When the kitchen doorbell rings, George must be blindfolded and sent to the door. You must tell George he must walk on tiptoe and not speak--otherwise he will die someday. Then you must go up to the nursery and stand on a chair or the nurse's bed and put your ear to the speaking tube that leads down to the kitchen and when I whistle through it you must speak in the tube and say, "Welcome, Santa Claus!" Then I will ask whether it was a trunk you ordered or not. If you say it was, I shall ask you what color you want the trunk to be . . . and then you must tell me every single thing in detail which you want the trunk to contain. Then when I say "Good-by and a merry Christmas to my little Susy Clemens," you must say "Good-by, good old Santa Claus, I thank you very much." Then you must go down into the library and make George close all the doors that open into the main hall, and everybody must keep still for a little while. I will go to the moon and get those things and in a few minutes I will come down the chimney that belongs to the fireplace that is in the hall--if it is a trunk you want--because I couldn't get such a thing as a trunk down the nursery chimney, you know . . . .If I should leave any snow in the hall, you must tell George to sweep it into the fireplace, for I haven't time to do such things. George must not use a broom, but a rag--else he will die someday . . . . If my boot should leave a stain on the marble, George must not holystone it away. Leave it there always in memory of my visit; and whenever you look at it or show it to anybody you must let it remind you to be a good little girl. Whenever you are naughty and someone points to that mark which your good old Santa Claus's boot made on the marble, what will you say, little sweetheart?


Good-by for a few minutes, till I come down to the world and ring the kitchen doorbell.

Your loving Santa Claus
Whom people sometimes call"The Man in the Moon"

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Game Day


I likes my coffee like I likes my wimin .... Very Sweet

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Tea Party


Rollover

Friday, December 16, 2011

Somali Pirates Sentenced

Somali Pirates Sentenced to life in prison.

Also

Netanyahu to 'New York Times': Take a hike

Christopher Hitchens Has Died


Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of complications from a long illness, according to a statement from Vanity Fair magazine.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Game Day


Not sure why these autoposts aren't working ... Enjoy the game.

Arigato

via BLACKFIVE


Also ... Act of Valor

A Girl and Her Gun

This just kind of makes you all warm inside

War in Iraq is Over

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grace

Fenway

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Epic Racoon Battle

via RNS
Put the Cold Drinks Down.
This Guy deserves to be Blacklisted as much as anyone.

Reminded me of this short story by Markos Zombie Squirrels

Earlier Today

To the woman in the plaza standing under the patio umbrella having a smoke. I just wanted to share the umbrella. It's raining. You don't have to be all offended by everything either. There is a reason you remain unmarried. You might as well have a "NOW" bumper sticker plastered on your forehead. BTW ... You're better looking from the backside anyway. Try being a little nice now and then. You're just embarassing your Mother.

UPDATE: A Response
To the man with the audacity to approach me under the umbrella on the plaza. Are you some kind of occufreak? This is my umbrella and you swagger about as if you've just given birth to a litter of kittens. Can't you see I have these earbuds in? I'm not responding. Good Morning? ...Really? ... Is that the best you can come up with you moron. There's a vacant umbrella at the far end of the court. You can occupy that.

Top Forty Conservative Blogs

The Bookworm Room has a link to the one (You're all Doomed) that will not be mentioned on this site. EVER. It's his Top Forty Conservative Blogs for the 4th quarter of 2011. The link is through BWR. Click over and see who's made the list. The one who shall remain nameless also offers a link swap. As long as you provide him with 500 hits per week, You're in. I get more than that off the Gun Blog Blacklist alone.
No link for you Mr. Gimme500orscrew. Link Whore!

Only in California

Need to make a political contribution to your favorite libtard without union dues or affecting operations? Giganto Corporation (The Company) Board members came up with a plan to "save money" The plan is simple. It's a shared experience. Give everyone 3 days off at Thanksgiving. Unpaid by default unless you have something over 40 hours of PTO. For each 1000 employees you score approximately 300,000 dollars to donate to SCOAMF.

Sounded like a great idea in the boardroom. Right?

Implementation = FAIL. The SCOAMF couldn't have done a better job.

Is there anything not blindingly stupid about this? You put yourself in a position to take from someone and resentment is the only result. For the individual this represents 30% of the net income for the specified pay period… just before Christmas. The default selection as unpaid leave cannot be changed. If you worked that period before the holiday as developers often do. it's unpaid. Have well over 120 friggin hours of PTO, Trying to support 2 friggin households, Child Support, trying to payoff the friggin lawyer so you can get heck out. It's unpaid by default and cannot be changed.

Congratulations Giganto Corporation. You did it.

If you're not already spitting nails Go read another one over at IOTW

UPDATE: There is no "Christmas" Party here at Giganto Corporation either. Just so you get a sense of how it is here.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Common Sense Should Be More Common

It's Wild Bill via Polifrog

Here's Something You Don't See Everyday


Very Rare and Unusual Sixteen-Shot Brass-Barreled Ring-Trigger Percussion Pepperbox Pistol by M. Cerwenka, c. 1860
3 1/4-inch brass barrels, framed of a single piece of brass, each barrel with a slight taper (an arrangement or orientation pointing them towards a fixed point some distance from the shooter), inscribed on one barrel M. CERWENKA, each engraved at breech with numbers surrounded by scroll-work, floral engraved muzzles, the barrels mounted with a loading-rod, iron-breech with tang engraved with a hunter and his game, walnut grip set with brass plates, ring-trigger

Craptastic

Tolerance

To the woman in the VW Passat with the Tolerance and Obama 2012 bumper stickers. You sidled up 2 lanes of traffic before cutting me off near the top of the hill. Did you see that? I keep a car length or two open in front of me because its raining and because of the traffic. Weaving back and forth between lanes is not helping either missy. The bumper stickers you wear so proudly on your car tell me everything I need to know about you. Your version of tolerance is different than mine I guess.

Holding Against the Horde

This is dated however, the message is clear. You must not burn the koran or offend the muslim sensibilities here in America.

The muslim horde is going to be offended no matter what happens.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Game Day Double Dip


I know what they're thinking ...
Dave in PB is HOT!

You Decide.

Nice Rides



1969 Camaro RS/SS buyers could choose from five V8 engines ranging from 350 CID to 396 CID, with between 300 to 375 horses beneath the hood, all with a three-speed manual. However, buyers could also opt to have their dealer install a 427 CID engine able to produce 430 HP.

69 RS/SS models had special vacuum-operated headlight covers with three translucent louvers, as well as headlight washers. Fender striping, back-up lights below the bumper, chrome wheel-well moldings, simulated rear louvers, a black grille and rocker panels, and accented air vents and taillights distinguished the RS package. Both the front and rear quarter panels as well as the grille and steering wheel bore special RS badging.

Optical Illusions



RollOver
Optical Illusions Courtesy of The Looking Spoon

Official Theme Song of TRW

DropKick Murphys - Shipping up to Boston

I've seen several of these around. I thought it was time to choose my own

Bad Day to be a Skunk.




I'm not sure if it was the full moon overnight but it looks like our local family of Skunks has committed suicide by car. Usually we just leave em alone. They come through the side yard to get to the creek for water. They must have been out looking for food and got splashed. Shame.

UPDATE: Mama Skunk was seen in the side yard last night with one little skunklet in tow

In Other News
SAN DIEGO ---- A 75-year-old man confessed Saturday to robbing a Clairemont Mesa bank branch twice in the past month, according to the San Diego Police Department.
But San Diego police made it clear that their 75-year-old confessed robber was not the "Geezer Bandit," an elderly man who is believed to have robbed 16 banks across California in 30 months, most recently a week ago in San Luis Obispo.
Police said Albert Wallake walked into the U.S. Bank location at 5407 Balboa Avenue about 10:25 a.m. and told the manager he was turning himself in for the past armed robberies, which occurred Dec. 2 and Nov. 15. The bank's manager called police and Wallake was arrested without incident, police said.


Read more: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/san-diego-elderly-man-confesses-to-robberies-police-say-he/article_55aae657-d679-5220-8079-016953e3a38a.html#ixzz1gFsI2X7g

Saturday, December 10, 2011

TEA vs Occupy Again

via Teacheru

Diogenes' Reaches Milestone

Diogenes' Middle Finger: 'Suckers on Parade' Reaches Milestone

A Son of Liberty


“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
― Mark Twain

Friday, December 9, 2011

Nice Rides



The 1970 GTO could be had with engines displacing up to a full 455 cubic inches. The basic 455 was rated at "only" 360 hp, but it made a stout 500 pound-feet of torque. That's more twist than in any previous GTO, and other driveline components were strengthened to withstand the punishment, including the adoption of GM's "12-bolt" rear end. The 455 was also available with Ram Air, though it wasn't part of the Ram Air III and Ram Air IV family (both of which continued in '70 on the GTO in 400 cubic-inch form, with the III rated at 366 horses and the IV at 370). The two-barrel 400 was excised from the GTO program for '70, and the base engine became a 350-horse 400 four-barrel.

As the 1966 GTO's body was a revision of the '65's, so too was the '70's an extensive reworking of the '69's. It had the same dimensions and window shapes, but was more voluptuous in the details. The new front end took the four headlights out of the grille area and set them in deep bezels to either side. The front bumper continued to be made of the color-keyed Endura material.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

GameDay



ROLLOVER
Dave in PB's Farging Rollover Code!
You do Know there's a game on. You're googling Cheerleaders. This is hard work I do for your entertainment. You're not even bothering to read this crap anymore are you. I bet you've already downloaded the cheerleadr pic. I give up. Enjoy the game!

Sliders and Fries


For Free
While occupying my office this morning we got email that a local Palomar hotel had sponsered a food truck to hang out in front of the facility and offer up free lunch. Just had to meet and greet with the hotel ladies and take a card back to the travel folks at the company. Done. Fortunately President SCOAMF was not present so the thing went off without a hitch. If President SCOAMF had been present you just know he would have fouled the whole works.


SCOAMF: What is this Free Lunch and no taxes.

What a doofus

Twelve Days of Christmas

Awesome Thanks Marco

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Bloggy Stuff

Being minuscule and conservative is not so bad. As the one who's name shall not be mentioned here would say, "We're all Doomed". Not so much I say. There was an ebook going around a while back with interviews of seriously heavyweight bloggers explaining how to make it in the blogosphere. I'm still waiting for my copy. "Hello". While I'm waiting I thought I'd do a list of bloggy stuff for the minuscule blogger to get noticed occasionally.

1 Read the News
Read everything you can find off fellow bloggers, big or small does not matter.

2 Write
Learn to write well. Make your point and be done with it. It serves no purpose to make your writing over complicated. A bit of humor on occasion isn't a hinder at all. Try to post something everyday.

3 Swiping Content
Properly attribute the source of the content you have stolen unless it can't be traced.

4 Your Picture
A recent photo of yourself on the sidebar doesn't hurt. It lets your occasional passerbys know you're not an axe murderer.

5 Links and Comments
Link em up. Pick a couple blogs with similar interests. Comment occasionally and you'll hit the blogroll. Also ... don't be butthurt if no one comments at your place

That's it. If anyone wants on the The Association of Minuscule to Middling Conservative Bloggers blogroll, just let me know in the email on the side bar.

Christmas - HMS Ocean

Carina sends this in.

Nice Rides


What is a BOSS 302? It's a car, right? No, it's an engine. Well, yes, it's an engine and a car. Actually, it's car, a Ford Mustang, named for an engine, a special purpose built race engine. The Ford BOSS 302 Mustang, built for model years 1969 and 1970, is named for its engine.
So which came first the car or the engine? The car. The Ford Mustang was introduced on April 17, 1964. In the 1960's, Ford was heavily involved in racing. The catch phrase was, "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday." In 1966 and 1967, Ford, with the help of Carroll Shelby and his Shelby-American company, raced Mustangs in and won the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Trans-American (Trans-Am) Sedan Racing series.

General Motors' Chevrolet division introduced their Camaro Z/28 to compete with the Mustang in the 1967 model year. Not only did Camaro compete on the street and in the sales showrooms, it competed in the Trans-Am series as well. In 1968, Camaro won the series championship. It was a dismal year for the Mustang. Mustang's failure to win the 1968 championship was blamed on a new engine known as the "Tunnel-Port." For 1969, Ford had to do something to win back the Trans-Am championship.

Actually, something was already being done even before the 1968 Trans-Am race season started. Ford was in the process of developing a new 351 cubic inch engine known as the "Cleveland" for 1970. It was so named because it would be produced at the Cleveland engine plant instead of the Windsor engine plant. Someone in Engine Engineering came up with the idea of putting the Cleveland heads on the Tunnel-Port block. It was tested and the results were good enough to continue development of the new 302 cubic engine as the Tunnel-Port started show its shortcomings.

One part of the SCCA rules stated the manufacturers had to sell what they raced. It was Larry Shinoda, a former GM stylist, now working at Ford who created the car's unique styling and came up with the name BOSS 302 for the car and engine that would go into production so Ford could race it in 1969 and 1970. The BOSS 302 was offered in the 1969 and 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator as well. The Eliminator was also styled by Larry Shinoda.

Ford came close but did not win the Trans-Am title for 1969 with the BOSS 302 Mustang. The BOSS 302 Mustang did win the Trans-Am championship in 1970 and entered the history books.

Eating the Rich

Whittle Again

Pearl

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Judge

via Five Feet of Fury
Saddly It's banned here in California you can't be putting shotgun shells in a pistol.

I did notice as Uncle says a boogerhook on the bang switch a couple times.

Pass The Popcorn

via Vanderleun at American Digest

A Complilation of Major Films of 2011
He Says ...
At 166 films at =/-$10, you've just saved around $1,600. Not counting the overpriced popcorn.

"This is where a cathartic and overarching statement would succinctly sum up the year's displays of creativity, passion, ingenuity, and bravado, but the only thing that comes to mind is: weird shit. Lots of weird shit. War horses and evil clowns. Hobos with shotguns and super-powered Nazi hunters. Cancer comedies and a silent warrior in a scorpion jacket. Iconoclasts, conspirators, madmen, and crusaders." -- Alex


The Ultimate Hamburger
That's right: first liquid nitrogen at -346F and then into boiling oil. That's when I knew I was listening to a certifiable maniac whose resume and fortune were the only things that stood between him and an Institution for the Cusinely Insane.

Still I had to wonder, "What can that cheeseburger possibly taste like?" I was more than a bit disappointed when he offered to sign copies of his $625.00 book after the talk. I was sort of hoping he'd invite us all out for some burgers.


OK you just saved like 1600 bucks. Do something nice at Soldiers Angels and enjoy a tastey burger as well.

Great News for Al Gore!


Syracuse News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It's a bit too big.
The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone, that hard to find place that's not too hot, not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, doesn't freeze or boil. And it has a shopping mall-like surface temperature of near 72 degrees, scientists say.
The planet's confirmation was announced Monday by NASA along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.


Gather up all your environitwits and go. Don't come back. Nice knowing you. Don't bother writing. Have a nice time.
Oh ... BTW there might be people already there that don't like you either.

Got Links?

Lady Liberty has a bunch. Go Read a While.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Game Day

Pat Condell on Israel

via Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury

Go There Then Come Back

Hitler Finds Out About the Feral Irishman

I'm Pretty Sure I Called This in Last Week

Peloser Says That She Has Info on Gingrich That Could Sink Him, But Will Hold that Info “Until the Time Is Right.”


Fixed it for you

You Can't Say

RNS warns to put the cold drinks down.

This Ain't Funny

TEA and Occupy Again

via KISP
It's Whittle.

Also this
Members of Occupy SF announced their ambitious plans to turn protesters into bankers by creating the People’s Reserve Credit Union. According to Occupy SF’s Facebook page:

The goal of this project is to encourage San Francisco residents, businesses, as well as nonprofit and city agencies to keep their money out of the big banks and to redistribute that money locally. Initial services will include micro-loans for the working poor and homeless, and subsidized student loans at low interest rates…

For Reals

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Game Day

I Have One Just like This

via IOTW

Hey Jonah

Son … The only thing wrong with you is that you're 13 years old. I don't know why God makes it so difficult to change a boy into a man but it happens anyway. If you make it another 50 or 60 years you'll understand. You have a lot of work to do lad. Learn to fight and you'll be OK. Also … your sisters and brothers will always be your best friends.

Sunday Morning Reads



In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war hero—the man who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans.And yet, according to Bill Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies. His highly exaggerated, and often uncompromising ways drove many of his business and personal friends crazy. His historical writings, which Brands quotes from extensively, are nothing if not a portrait of a boy’s endless macho fantasies. He was often so full of himself that his speeches and writings were the frequent subject of fierce satire in their time.Even more revealing, according to Brands, was Roosevelt as son, brother, husband, and father. According to Brands, to understand both the public and private Roosevelt one must understand the impact of his father’s death while he was still a child, denying him the opportunity to come to terms with his own manhood. When his first wife Alice died of complications from childbirth, leaving behind a baby daughter Alice, his response was to run away to shoot Buffalo in the west, leaving the newborn infant to the care of his unmarried sister Bamie. When his second wife Edith was seriously, perhaps fatally ill, he left her to fight in the Spanish-American war. His only concern when his brother Elliot, who had been his only friend as a child, became an alcoholic was to hide the news from the public. Determined that his four sons would not dishonor his belief that men, to achieve their manhood, must test themselves in war, he arranged for each to serve, often in the frontlines, during WWI. His youngest son Quentin would die in that cause.Beautifully written, powerfully moved by its subject, TR is nonetheless a biography more appropriate to today’s critical times.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Gunner ... Heat the Tank

It's that Occupy Libtard from Brooklyn again ... Googling "SCOAMF"

Anonymous said...
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Maybe because they are not uneducated racists losers like you! Obama is not doing well trying to dig out from under Bushes mound of debt and financial crimes. But there is NO candidate running who has any chance to fix America. I know Newt. He is not a moral man and if elected will keep America involved in some costly Conflict just to keep Lockheed and others of the military industrial complex getting paid. Bring our troops home and focus our energy on fixing America. Patriotism is loving your Country enough to fight it's government.

December 2, 2011 3:32 AM

I know you all get them occassionally. See how it is with these people. We keep letting the media select our candidates. Then we let them get torn to shreds in the media. I'm the uneducated racist. Everything is Bush's fault. BTW sweetie the posessive for Predident Bush is not Bushes. Please let me explain. Do not confuse racism with the fact that I just don't like you very much. The current conflicts in Iraq and Afganistan are very costly but it's a job that needs to be done properly. You should be thankful there are people still willing to fight for your right to mess up my blog. Yep, there's gonna be a fight alright. We're gonna be trying to pull your head out of your backside. Learn to serve and quit being an a$$clown. You're embarassing your mother.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Picking Lemons

A woman of Coral Springs , Florida decided to take one of the jobs that most Americans are not willing to do.
The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job. She had a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and had worked as a social worker and school teacher.

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you, have you had any ...actual experience in picking lemons?"

"Well, as a matter of fact, I have! I've been divorced three times, owned 2 Chryslers and voted for Obama.

How's Your Day

Mockupy This



It's Newt now. I don't see why this is unfamilar. We keep letting the LSM select our candidates. Next week it'll be some scandal or other that hits cBSnooze. Do we really need to beat the media first to get a proper candidate?

Nice Shoes

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