Happy New Year

Wishing all my blog buddies a new year filled with blessings and joy.

Let's hope 2008 is a good year for us all.

Tribble-versary

I couldn't let this milestone pass without a small mention. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the airing of Star Trek: The Trouble With Tribbles.

If you're fortunate enough to have your own tribble, make sure you keep it away from Klingons! ;-)

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... a cat with a message to all the politicians who exploited the Bhutto assassination for their political advantage.

OK, I feel better now.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Buds

Clinton, Obama Seize on Killing

Hillary's claim to have had a 12 year "relationship" with the recently assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was revealed to be another Clintonian misrepresentation of the facts.

I never met Bhutto, yet I knew she had 3 children, and not 2, like Hill said in her Iowa firehouse speech. Wouldn't you know if your "friend" went on to have another child?

Please, Hill and Chelsea met then Prime Minister Bhutto and her children for an official luncheon and a chat afterwards. Trying to pretend you were close for your own political advantage is ghoulish.

Candid Moment

From Sweetness & Light:

More Candid Moments From The Clintons

Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Bill Clinton attend church service at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa, December 23, 2007

The loving couple before they knew the camera was watching...



and after...



Don't you wish they'd just go away?

Micro Reactor

Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor

At 20 feet by 6 feet in size, and powered by reservoirs of liquid lithium-6 (an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons), it would produce electricity at about half the cost of grid energy.

Cool.

A Festivus Miracle

There will be an airing of grievances...

feats of strength will be performed...

and there will be an aluminum pole.

Must be Festivus... for the rest of us.

Happy Festivus to you and yours.

First Christmas

Born on 9/2/07, Florida's First Set Of Sextuplets is celebrating their first Christmas at home.

If this picture doesn't melt your heart, you are truly a grinch!

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... a cat and a snowcat, even though we Floridians are running around in shorts today.

Don't hate us because we're warm ;-)

Happy Friday, everybody!

Cubology

There's more in the above picture than you'd think. Depending on how you look, you can see : a room with a box in it, a cube with a smaller cube cut out, or a big cube with a smaller cube in front of it.


Then there's the Necker cube:



Is the green side on the front of the cube or at the back ? Keep looking at the cube and you'll find that it switches a few times. First described by Professor L. Necker, hence the name.

Cool cubes.

Lefty Time

Can you believe this?

Clintonista Rags

Edwards Love Child Scandal News Hot Off The Web

Don't know if this story is true, but I do know that The National Enquirer is partly owned by Roger Altman, an official in Bill Clinton's administration, and a big supporter of Hillary's campaign.

Also, Ron Burkle (another Clinton buddy) is negotiating with David Pecker, CEO of American Media Inc., over acquiring AMI. Think "Shape", "Star", "The National Enquirer" and "Men's Fitness" in the hands of the Clintons.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Dear Diary

From The New Yorker comes this piece dealing with the fascination people have with diaries. Why do we write them and why do we read them?

Woke Up This Morning

Some diaries I'd like to read...

*Ayn Rand's

*Dorothy Parker's

*Lise Meitner's

Way To Go, Bill!

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English

except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor

with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.


These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what ? ?

And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry w hen their son is standing there in an orange suit.

Where were you when he was 2 ? ?

Where were you when he was 12 ? ?

Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol ? ?

< /SPAN>And where is the father ? ? Or who is his father ?

People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something ?

Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up ?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?


What part of Africa did this come from??

We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer."





WAY TO GO, BILL !!

It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!


PASS THIS ON AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[The BLOG note: Hat tip to Aunty M who forwarded it to me via email.]

The Sign

This is such a great idea. Why didn't we think of it before?

Watch This Video

It's not long, and it will explain everything.

BTW I dare you to keep a dry eye.

Mother Hill

Have you seen the new campaign ads where Hillary's mother, Dorothy Rodham, talks about why her daughter should be the next president of the United States?

I couldn't help thinking of Nellie and her mother, Mrs. Oleson.

*gag* pass the barf bag.

Fearless Mice

Japanese Scientists Create Mice With No Fear Of Cats

What is up with these Asian scientists?

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... genetically engineered glow-in-the-dark cats.

South Koreans Clone Glow In The Dark Cats

Happy Friday, everybody!

Congressional Scrooges

Rep. Steve King Upset That Group Of Democrats Opposed Christmas Resolution

This was a Resolution recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.

The measure passed by a 372-9 vote, with 10 recording a neutral "present" vote and 40members not voting.

Click here to see The Roll Call Of Votes

I also would like to know how they could vote 'yes' on Islam, 'yes' on the Indian religions and 'no' on Christianity.

I find this to be a shameful display of political gutlessness.

Vote those suckers out of office. They don't deserve to be in Congress.

China Doll

Who knew?

American Girl Dolls Made In China

I always thought these dolls were so overpriced because they were made in the USA.

Sheesh.

Wise Words

Pope Benedict XVI is warning the international community to base its ecological policies on science rather than the dubious dogma of the environmentalist movement.

The Pope Condemns The Climate Change Prophets

Hallelujah.

The reasonable voices are gathering strength and the climate change scammers will be exposed as frauds.

Dreamin'

Watch out, Hillary.

Watch out, Obama and Oprah (or Oprama, if you want to save space).

Cynthia McKinney, the former six-term Democrat Congresswoman from Georgia, who was ousted in 2006, has declared her candidacy in the Green Party for 2008 because, as she puts it, "No other platform speaks to the African American community as acutely as the Green Party platform.”

Cynthia McKinney '08

My words of advice to Cynthia...

It's not easy being green.

Human Tetris

I kid you not. This is an actual game show in Japan.

Bad Day At Work

It may look Photoshopped, but this photo is real!

A crocodile at a zoo in Taiwan holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in between its teeth. Apparently, the vet got too close while treating the crock.

See this and more newsworthy photos at...

Reuters News Pictures Of The Year

Go Students

Iran Students Break Campus Gate In Protest: Reports

An encouraging sign from Iran. Let's hope the student protests fire up the citizenry.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

...cats who live in a cafe where catless cat lovers can come and visit with them.

Cat Cafe Soothes Tokyo's Busy Feline Lovers

I can't imagine living in a place that doesn't allow animals, but that's me.

Happy Friday, everybody!

No Che

It happened in October, and I can only wonder why this news wasn't picked up sooner...

Monument To Che Guevara Destroyed By Venezuelans

I only wish I could've seen Chavez' reaction to this second "shooting" of Che.

Heh heh.

WTF?

I'm still shaking my head over this...

NIE: An Abrupt About-Face .

After what I've been reading about the latest NIE report, I'm wondering how do we fight the enemies in the world at large if we can't even fight the enemies that are living right here in our own country?

Birthday Pup

Everybody is talking about Knut the polar bear's birthday, but today is also Elke's first birthday.

The squirmy, energetic puppy above, has grown into the sleek, high-spirited dog below.



Happy Birthday, Elke-pants.

Blogging

[The BLOG note: Click on image to enlarge.]

Chiroptophobia?

This is the most extreme case of fear of flying bats I've ever seen.

Pork Theft

Australian thieves stole 16 tons of ham and bacon from a Sydney warehouse and then wrote "Thanks, Merry Christmas" on a wall, police said on Monday.

Merry Christmas, We're Stealing Your Pork!

What in the world are they going to do with all that ham and bacon? Is there a market for stolen pork products?

Mugger-In-Chief

The New York Public Library fake mug shot art exhibit left someone out...

I'd thought I'd help them out.

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

... two talking cats.

The makers of the video report that Stina and Mossy (the two cats seen in this video) usually fight instead of talk, so this was an odd moment. The cats kept "talking" for about 1 hour, constantly. We've had alot of laughs over this clip..

Here's The Translation

And not one mention of Mohammed was made.

Happy Friday, everybody!

Mohammed Bear

Can you guess what this teddy bear's name is?

Plant-gate

No doubt you've heard about the planted questions during the CNN-You Tube Republican debate...

Michelle Malkin has a great summary Digging Out More CNN/YouTube Plants

You mean the democrats are cheating again?

I'm shocked!

Spider Pool

After just a few weeks of not using our pool, the enclosure has turned into a spider haven. On Sunday, we (OK, Mr. Cube) caught 33 crab-like spiny orb weaver spiders (Gasteracantha cancriformis) and several egg sacks.

If you click on the above picture, you will get a better look at the thick mass of spiders.

Yikes.

This is what the little devils look like up close...





[The BLOG note: Disclaimer: all spiders were hurt in the making of this post.]

Robot Attack

When I read about this: Japanese Robot With Soft Hands Chats And Serves Meal

I couldn't help wondering if old people are going to need robot insurance...

for when the metal ones decide to come for you, and they will.



It's still a hoot.

Send A Box

Yesterday I personally lugged 3 heavy boxes to the post office. They were heaving with goodies for the troops and I was assured that there is still time to send a box and have it arrive in time for Christmas.

But time is running out...

Click here for my May 2007 post detailing the mailing information.

Or go directly to AnySoldier.com to obtain the name and address of a soldier who would like to receive your box.

We have sent many boxes since May and, although we were warned not to expect thank you letters, we have received some heartwarming notes and emails thanking us for not forgetting about them.

Send a box. You'll be glad you did.

Got Lead?

It's China Fashion Week in Beijing and models present creations by Chinese designer Mark Cheung with the theme "Yellow River".

Kind of makes me miss the old Chairman Mao drab...

Creepy Clown

With the look of this clown from Le Cirque d Soleil, is it any wonder why so many people fear clowns?

Yikes.

That's almost as scary as Hillary in that 1970's outfit below.

Radical Hill

Where was Hillary in 1971? Working at one of the most radical law firms in the nation which defended clients others rejected as too controversial, including Communists, draft resisters, and members of the African-American militant group known as the Black Panthers.

Hillary Clinton's Radical Summer: A Season of Love and Leftists

This article is full of information that everyone must know about Hillary.

Pass it on.

One Smart Bird

[The BLOG note: comic via Jewish World Review]

Cat Blog Friday

For this Cat Blog Friday...

...a cat who got into the turkey tetrazini.

Happy Friday, everybody!

And pass the Pepto Bismol.

Thanksgiving Humor

[The BLOG note: cartoon copyright John Pritchett]

Down Hill

Tony Blankley finds it appalling that Hillary can claim that she has experience in presidential duties and she isn't being challanged by anyone in the MSM.

Mrs. Clinton's 'Experience'

So do I.

Mr. Whipple 1916- 2007

Mr. Whipple has squeezed his last package of Charmin. Dick Wilson died Monday of natural causes at the age of 91.

Eco-Kook

Heather Mills' Latest Bizarre Rant: 'Why Don't We Drink Milk From Rats And Dogs?'

Why stop at drinking rat milk? ...

Fried Rats



Check it out. Once cooked, rat looks like chicken.

Shut Up Chavez!

When Spain's King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to 'Shut up', little did he know it would be turned into a ringtone and become a hit all over Spain.

Hear it for yourself:

Porque no te callas?

It's good to be the king.