No Mystery

Bush ‘Miss Me Yet?’ Billboard Mystery Solved – Sort Of

I started to miss you on January 20, 2009.

Red Eye Tops CNN

Red Eye Celebrates Third Year By Topping CNN Prime Time Last Week

The 3amET show is seeing big ratings in the A25-54 demographic – even topping CNN prime time last week- including Campbell Brown at 8pmET and Larry King at 9pmET, and tied Anderson Cooper at 10pmET (Monday-Thursday).

Sweet.

When will the MSM get it?

Super Pick

OK, I'm picking the Colts to win the Super Bowl...

UNLESS...

wait for it...

UNLESS...

the same group of referees who called the Vikings vs. Saints game are going to referee this match, well then I'm picking the Saints as the winner.

In case you didn't watch the Vikings vs. Saints game, the NFL came out and admitted that 5, count 'em 5, calls made by the refs were wrongly called against the Vikings.

What? What? What?

I'm hoping that the Colts overcome the crappy calls and stomp the Saints.

Cat Blog Friday

For this National Wear Red Day and Cat Blog Friday...

... what else but a cat in a red shirt.

Why did they have to pick red?

Happy Friday, everybody!

Left Wing Psycho-Ops

From the American Thinker:

The Daily Kos recently released an odd poll of Republican voters -- and now The Politico and other liberal organizations are trying to use it to make Republicans forget their basic convictions...

namely: "those basic convictions include low taxes, a belief in the private sector, a strong national defense, and a very tough stance on terrorists. Oh yeah. And no Obamacare!"

Desperate Times And Left Wing Psy-Ops

Got it, GOP?

Rover Over

Don't fear, little Mars rover, you can still do SCIENCE... um, whatever that means.

Stuck Rover On Mars Can Still Do Science: Whole Class Of Scientific Objectives That Only A Stationary Vehicle Can Do


[The BLOG note: Comic from the awesome folks at xkcd ]

New Sweethearts

Have you noticed that Necco Sweethearts don't taste the same as they have for the last 145 years?

My daughters, lifelong Sweetheart fans, don't like the bold new flavors.

According to The Candyblog , you can still find the traditional candies, but we haven't seen them in our area.

Candy is serious business. Necco doesn't want a New Coke debacle on their hands.

Dumbed Down Down

This entry from the WashingtonTimes.com gave me a good laugh:

Obama's SOTU Speech Scores Readability Of An Eighth Grader, Two Grades Below GWB

I guess when you're president, you have to speak to your base.

:-)

Bower In Chief

Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Florida.

My reaction was one of incredulity. When Mayor Iorio went to my daughter's school, not one kid bowed to her.

Is there no end to this madness?

Bubble Wrap Is 50

Can you believe Bubble Wrap turned 50 this month?

To commemorate the big event, here's a link to...

Virtual Bubble Wrap

where you can pop away at your heart's delight.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... a cat who didn't vote for Obama. Yeah, it's been a rough couple of weeks for those who did.

:-)

Happy Friday, everybody!

PC Problem

The Lesson Of An Affirmative Action President

State Of The Union: How Did He Do?

These two articles dovetail nicely... not only is BO an affirmative action president, but, after hearing him lecture the Supreme Court Justices, he has proved himself to be an affirmative action law professor too.

God bless America.

Big Wind Passes

When I took this photo in 2008, it turns out the record had already been broken by a
253 mph gust recorded in 1996 on Barrow Island in Australia during Cyclone Olivia.

231-mph NH Wind Gust Is No Longer World's Fastest

Officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said "Mount Washington still holds the record for the Northern and Western hemispheres, and said it still can claim to be home to some of the world's worst weather given the combination of bitter cold, snow, wind and freezing fog it frequently experiences."

6288 feet of harrowing climb for a broken record? I feel cheated.

Hopeium

A short but sweet entry from BigJournalism.com:

What A Bringdown: Did The MSM Get Too High On Hopeium?

Hopeium is a great word. Wish I had thought of it.

And it's too late to claim Changeium now ;-)

Ellie Light?

I've been following the saga of Ellie Light for some days now...

Ellie Light: Dozens More Sightings Of Obama's Most Prolific Letter-writing Fan

It occurs to me that there is very little vetting of people who send letters to the editor in newspapers all over this country and some around the world. Pravdaesque journalism lives in America ... and they wonder why newspaper circulation is down?

Just for fun I checked into anagrams of "Ellie Light" and my favorites are "Lie Get Hill" and "He Ill Legit" .

I will keep an eye on whatever Ellie Light turns out to be.

An Eventful Week

"You know, this is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, health care dies and the Supreme Court unshackles the First Amendment. It's the best week I've had since spring break in medical school -- and I don't even remember it." -- Charles Krauthammer

Krauthammer Quips: 'Best Week I've Had Since Spring Break in Medical School'

Too bad the stock market had its worst week in a year. Everything else was going so well...

Beware Of The Blob!

Doctor's Office Hit By Meteorite

OK, this is how it all began in The BLOB.

Beware of the BLOB! It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor and out the door.

Whatever you do, don't touch it!

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... sad news of the passing of Casper, the famous bus-riding cat.

Bus-riding Cat Casper Killed In Hit & Run

Poor kitteh.

America Rising

Can you hear us now?

:-)

No Surprise

I had this video of Ed Schultz advocating for voter fraud racked up for yesterday, but I got too busy to post it.

It was a momentary lapse of 'truthiness' from the left.

Go Scott Brown!

Weighty Matters

This headline caught my eye:

Weight Watchers Clinic Floor Collapses Under Dieters

You can't make up this stuff.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... meet Sal Esposito, an East Boston cat called to jury duty.

East Boston Cat Called To Jury Duty

Hmmm, I wonder if Sal will vote for Scott Brown in the upcoming election for the vacated Senate seat?

Happy Friday, everybody!

Sanctioned Thuggery

House Resolution 994, Directing the Attorney General to transmit to the House of Representatives all information in the Attorney General's possession relating to the decision to dismiss United States v. New Black Panther Party was rejected.

House Panel Rejects Black Panther Resolution: Vote 15-14

I want to know which representatives voted to reject it, which ones voted for it, and the ones who didn't bother to show up or just voted 'present'. I've searched several sites, even opencongress.org , but haven't found the roll call list.

I will keep looking and will post an update when I find it.

Iron Chumps

I didn't watch the Iron Chef "White House Garden" special because I suspected that it would be a political stunt that has no business on a food network show. I was right.

First, it was billed as using vegetables from the White House garden which the celebrity chefs picked with MO's permission. This, in and of itself, is a crock because those vegetables are toxic.

Michelle Obama's Toxic Veggie Nightmare: White House Organic Garden Polluted With Sludge

Second, they ended up using stunt vegetables but didn't announce that bothersome fact on the show. They played along with the sham that is the White House garden.

Iron Chef Special Used Ringers, Not Veggies From The White House Garden

I expect lies, smoke and mirrors, and misdirection from the Obamas, but not from the Food Network.

Shame on you.

Girl Power

Girl Beats Boys To Pluck Cross From Water In Albania

Good for, 16-year-old Katerina Munguli, who beat a dozen boys and men diving for the cross from the bottom of a wintry Ionian Sea.

I can't read or see anything about Albania without this bit of doggerel going through my head:

"Albania, Albania, it borders on the Adriatic. Its land is mostly mountainous, and its chief export is chrome."

Does anyone out there know where that comes from?

So Sorry

Reid Apologizes For 'No Negro Dialect' Comment

OK, so Obama gives Harry Reid a pass on his racist remarks, but Republicans had to fire Trent Lott?

Obama In '02: 'The Republican Party Itself Has To Drive Out Trent Lott'

Comon, people, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Hope + Change = Chope and thats just one letter away from Choke.

The Climate Alarm Zone

Submitted for your approval:

A very enjoyable article where anthropogenic global warming hysteria "crosses over from The Twilight Zone's land of both shadow and substance to the equally fantastic Climate Alarm Zone."

Lessons To Be Learned In The Climate Alarm Zone

Even the comments at the end of the article were good.

From NoHyphenJustAmerican: "Plato said that what matters most is: who is teaching the children, and what are they teaching?"

Another from CraigZ: "To protect my children from being unduly frightened that we face the imminent extinction of the polar bear, I explained to them that since the climate was much warmer during the Medieval Warming Period the polar bears died out around 1000 AD."

Pass this article along to the educators and parents that you know.

Grave Mistake

From Crimesider comes this gruesome story about a New Mexico family that was given a bag containing their mother's brain by a funeral home.

Suit: Funeral Homes Sent Mother's Brain to Family in a Bag

It does sound like something out of a Stephen King book, but does it rise to the level of a law suit?

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... a Boston cat who was found stiff and showing no signs of life in the snow, yet was rescued by an animal control officer and revived by veterinarians.

Cat Found Frozen Thaws, Survives

Poor little catsicle. I'm glad she survived her ordeal.

Happy chilly Friday, everybody!

Sheen Shunned

Hanes Drops Ads Featuring Charlie Sheen

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Those ads where Sheen tried to insinuate himself into Michael Jordan's life for some kind of weird bromance thing revolving around underwear were just plain stupid.

I, for one, am glad Hanes gave Sheen the Tiger Woods boot.