Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Pretty much

A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Serengetti sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, 'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?'

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, why not?'

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, Connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA Page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation System to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany .

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.

He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel Spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'

'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says the Cowboy.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.


Then the cowboy says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?'

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why not?'

You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government', says the cowboy.

'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?'

'No guessing was required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep.


Now give me back my dog.

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Written at 2/24/2009 09:27:00 AM by Andrew Kaduk.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
I THOUGHT DEMS WERE AGAINST THIS? OH WAIT, THIS IS OBAMANATION







Obama defends Bush-era secrets
(see, it's ok now, Barry said so)

President Obama’s administration is moving aggressively to protect what the government insists are “state secrets” from a Bush-era wiretapping program. Justice Department lawyers filed an emergency motion Friday with a federal appeals court in an effort to block a lower court’s order that the government must show lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation a copy of a document indicating that the group’s communications were being intercepted. The document has been the subject of a running legal battle since the papers were accidentally sent to attorneys for the group in 2004 and subsequently retrieved. “Disclosure of the material at issue here would cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security and result in irreparable injury to the United States,” the Justice Department wrote. It said information about the surveillance program is considered “Top Secret — Sensitive Compartmented Information.” The government wants the wiretapping lawsuit thrown out on the basis of the state secrets privilege, but a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the privilege is overruled by a law Congress wrote, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Attorney General Eric Holder promised during the confirmation process to conduct a review of the Bush administration’s frequent use of the state secrets privilege. However, the emergency appeal in the al-Haramain case signals that Holder concluded the controversial privilege was correctly asserted there. Earlier this month, civil libertarians were disappointed when the Justice Department stood by the “state secrets” tactic in opposing a suit brought by men who claim they were abducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Written at 2/23/2009 10:57:00 AM by Tim Zank.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
NOT SCARED YET?? WATCH THIS!
http://www.foxbusiness.com/video-search/m/21910345/non-profit-pickets-for-foreclosure-victims.htm#q=OR+ACORN+OR+%22Association+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now%22


Absolutely astounding. Our tax dollars originally funded ACORN to literally EXTORT banks into giving poor people, with poor credit histories, low cost (to them) loans to buy homes they couldn't afford. Sweet.

Now that the circle is complete, and the homes that everyone knew would go sideways, do in fact go sideways, who is the champion of the non-foreclosure cause? Why, it's your taxpayer funded friends again at ACORN leading the charge to let these people stay in their homes that they couldn't afford to begin with, much less afford them now.

Welcome to 2009 and The New New Deal. You are no longer responsible for a fucking thing.
The Federal Government and it's Leaders have said so, therefore, it is so.

I'll be honest, I couldn't make it through the entire interview. I would never have believed such a person or such an organization could garner so much support in a country like this.

We are sooooo farked.

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Written at 2/22/2009 12:44:00 PM by Tim Zank.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
WILL THE LEFT CALL BARRY A WAR CRIMINAL NOW??
The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.
Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US.
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush.


Now that The Obama Justice Department has decided to retain and enforce THE EXACT SAME POLICY AS THE BUSH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, it would seem reasonable that those calling for War Crimes Charges against GWB for doing this, should be just as incensed at Obama, right??


Let me put this in terms even liberals can comprehend: Barack Obama is holding detainees without benefit of counsel just like George Bush.


That makes Obama a war criminal too, just like Bush, right???




The US military considers Bagram detainees unlawful combatants who can be detained for as long as they are deemed a threat to Afghan national security.


Written at 2/21/2009 10:05:00 AM by Tim Zank.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
WILL GM & CHRYSLER FILE BANKRUPTCY?
My guess is they won’t have to file for bankruptcy. Odds are much better they’ll continue to receive gobs of dough from congress which in turn will be mandating what cars they build, where they build them, and who builds them (UAW, duh).
This a democrat congress dream come true, they have the big three (at least Chrysler & GM) by the balls and they will not squander the opportunity to get the cars built THEY know are best for us, and you can bet your ass they’ll still be built by UAW workers, and they will NOT be making any concessions, as they won’t need to, we’ll be subsidizing their wages just a little more directly is all.
What we’ll end up with is a “nationalized” or “subsidized” auto company with subsidized well paid UAW members making little teeny Pelosimobiles. So if you want to buy what you actually like or need in the near future, you’ll need to look to Toyota, BMW, Hyundai, etc. for a good product. (kinda reminds me of the 70’s)
When you need a new car, you’ll get a goverment owned (and taxpayer subsidized) bank loan, on a government manufactured car, and odds are good you’ll insure it with a government owned insurance policy (AIG or similar). While you’re there at the dealership, chances are the F&I guy will be able to access your health records electronically as well.
It’s a damn shame, GM is finally building a real quality product, world class in fact, in my opinion, and the US Congress is gonna turn it back into turd motors. Swell.
Now, that’s not exactly change you can believe in, but it IS change you better get used to.
Written at 2/19/2009 12:57:00 PM by Tim Zank.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
WHAT'S THE REASON AGAIN FOR THE $790 BILLION?
It sure as hell ain't stimilus. Just billions of dollars thrown down a fricking rat hole for absolutely no reason whatsoever, other than to move us one step closer to socialism. What a fricking shame. Why rely on history when you can rely on fear. Hope-n-Change my ass.




The history of anti-recession efforts is that they are almost always initiated too late to do any good. This chart, based on recession timelines from the National Bureau of Economic Research, shows the enactment of stimulus plans is a fairly accurate indicator that we have hit the bottom of the business cycle, meaning the economy will improve even if the government does nothing.



Courtesy of Reason:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/131636.html
Written at 2/12/2009 01:26:00 PM by Tim Zank.
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