All I want is a little R & R

UAE seized N.Korea arms shipment bound for Iran

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a U.N. embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats said on Friday.

The weapons seized on Aug. 14 included rocket launchers, detonators, munitions and ammunition for rocket-propelled grenades, they said. The ship, called the ANL-Australia, was Australian-owned and flying a Bahamas flag.

Bernake, Kennedy, Obamacare... what the heck does a guy have to do to get a vacation around here? You go up to MV and old Kennedy croaks, re-appoint Bernake as the economy continues to tank and the Town Halls, sheesh. He is planning to take a vacation from his vacation at Camp David...now this!

Can't a guy get some rest?

Obama Propaganda

Take a look at the #10 Downing Street twitter account. Six tweets in two days regarding Britain's national health care and how great it is!
Here is a sample...

PM:NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death. Thanks for always being there #welovetheNHS
9:15 AM Aug 12th from web

RT @NHSChoices #welovethenhs ...and here's all you need to know about it, its history and what you can get from it http://bit.ly/2mpYjK
about 15 hours ago from web

Now who do ya think put them up to that? How many Americans follow 'DowningStreet'. The administration is showing desperation by trying to gather support for their death panels from over seas via Twitter.

Paper appologizes to Clinton

Washington Post appologizes for a Clinton joke.

WASHINGTON -- Two Washington Post journalists are apologizing and their satirical online video series has been canceled following criticism of a joke they told about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

When I first read this head line, I thought it was some remark about Bill Clinton initiating the two female journalists into the mile high club on the way back from North Korea. After all, he did free them.

But it wasn't!

In the video, columnist Dana Milbank and White House correspondent and blogger Chris Cillizza appeared in smoking jackets to discuss the kinds of beer politicians might drink. Milbank said he couldn't reveal to whom President Barack Obama would serve a drink called "Mad B---- Beer." That line was followed by a brief picture of Clinton.

32 women from a special interest group signed a letter complaining...that's all it took to get an apology. Now I have not heard where these people complained about the media's treatment of Sarah Palin, but then S.P. does not fit the stereotype of a leftist liberal woman who drives a Subaru, if you know what I mean.

Isn't it ironic that this liberal, interest group whose supposed mission is "to to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society", does so by complaining and nagging just like the stereotypical woman?

Special interest groups have the most of media in chains. The media goes right along with it. Funny how history repeats itself. It is fascinating to stand back and watch this. So much so, I am going to do a thesis on it.

Michael Jackson's death, a nice diversion

Michael Jackson is gone. Well, not quite. His final concert is Tuesday I guess. I am not going, not even going to watch it on TV. What I am doing today is looking for a new homepage. CNN.com just plain sucks. They seems to try really hard to get the bogus election in Iran in the hearts and on the minds of Americans. Nobody seemed to care. People at work were not talking about it around the water cooler. Honduras ousted their bogus president. Still no talk.

Then Jacko died. On CNN.com, there was still a little special coverage on Iran. Not anymore. Wall-to-wall MJ. Cut to CNN programming meeting...

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When is his birthday? We will need a special tribute on his birthday.
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Oh, oh, next month will be the anniversary of his former father-in-law. Maybe we can do a joint tribute?
That's a great idea.
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Give the people what they want. Yeah, sure, OK. They are hypnotized and can not see what is coming.

What is the big news in the USA on this July 4 eve? How Obama is going to screw us with the crap and tirade energy bill, socialized medicine, and economic shambles.
I think this sums it up nicely.
But who cares? Didn't you hear that Michael Jackson died?!

The Republic Endures, but probably not much longer.

Duke's latest rape case

The story started out like any other child sexual abuse story.
An alleged disgusting pervert.

But the focus is changing...
Gay parents hope abuse case does not limit adoptions

While Frank Lombard awaits his transfer to Washington, D.C., to face child sex charges, some Triangle dads worry that his alleged crimes could reflect poorly on their desire to raise a family.

Here we have a new rape case involving Duke University. The first one turned out to be a great big "egg-on-your-facer" for the media, prosecutor, accuser, and 88 faculty. It seems that media coverage for the new case is pretty much local only. Is the national media now "once bitten, twice shy" when it comes to Duke rape cases?

Perhaps the lack of coverage is because the alleged per(p/v). is a distinguished university administrator (Lombard is associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke.)? We wouldn't want to ruin more reputations with another trial in the media. Never mind the fact that the victim in this one is a 5 year old child. The reputation of a fine university is at stake. The child is seemingly being portrayed as cannon-fodder in the battle for gay rights.

No, this is not about raping children, it is now about Gay Rights. Yes! that is the issue here. The media likes to portray the real victim of these alleged horrible crimes as the misunderstood, gay adoptive parent of the child or the minority single mother, etc. The plight of these misunderstood people is the real story. We should show empathy (right, Sotomayor?). Forget that laws have been broken.

It is a shame what happened to this child. And it is a shame to see the selfishness of people who are worried how these events will affect their ability to adopt children. We can only hope and pray that justice is served. And may the wounds inflicted by this case be healed by the grace of God.

UPDATE: CNN buried the story on their crime page.

Taxes = Lose-Lose

The greedy politicians up in Raleigh are making it harder for us little people to make a few bucks.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Amazon.com said Friday it has pulled the plug on commissions for North Carolina Web sites that make referrals to the online retailer, because a law designed to collect taxes on some of its sales transactions could soon be enacted.

So what is the result? Us little folks will have less $$ to spend on the items that they are raising taxs on like movie tickets, alcohol, etc.
It's a Lose-Lose, but the politicians vision is fogged by greed and power.

Crime pays $1.86

Here is Rex Harold Smith.

Here is the story of this dirtbag. Rex Harold Smith, begged his cousin to rent a house to him. Of course he didn't pay the bottom of the barrel rate of $100/month. Instead he started taking the aluminum siding off the house to sell for scrap...which he cashed in for a whopping $1.86 at the local scrap metal recycler.

His cousin asked what he was doing with the siding. His response...

Well, I thought there might be termites under.

So now, the taxpayers are paying his rent as he sits his ass in the Johnston County jail for obtaining property by false pretense and felony conspiracy. Bond was set at $7500. We'll be paying his rent for quite a while...