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Rest in peace, Shifty. Rest in peace, Shifty.
- From: TheWatcher
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Description:Rest in peace, Shifty.
Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy
Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st
Airborne Infantry. If you've seen Band of Brothers on HBO or the
History Channel , you know Shifty. His character appears in all 10
episodes, and Shifty himself is interviewed in several of them.
I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several years ago. I didn't
know who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly gentleman having
trouble reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he was
at the right gate, and noticed the "Screaming Eagle," the symbol of
the 101st Airborne, on his hat.
Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in the 101st Airborne
or if his son was serving. He said quietly that he had been in the
101st. I thanked him for his service, then asked him when he served,
and how many jumps he made.
Quietly and humbly, he said "Well, I guess I signed up in 1941 or so,
and was in until sometime in 1945 .. . . " at which point my heart
skipped.
At that point, again, very humbly, he said "I made the 5 training
jumps at Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy . . .. . do you know
where Normandy is?" At this point my heart stopped.
I told him "yes, I know exactly where Normandy is, and I know what
D-Day was." At that point he said "I also made a second jump into
Holland , into Arnhem ." I was standing with a genuine war hero .. . .. ..
and then I realized that it was June, just after the anniversary of
D-Day..
I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from France , and he said
"Yes. And it's real sad because, these days, so few of the guys are
left, and those that are, lots of them can't make the trip." My heart
was in my throat and I didn't know what to say.
I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized he was back in
Coach while I was in First Class. I sent the flight attendant back to
get him and said that I wanted to switch seats. When Shifty came
forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I wanted him to have
it, that I'd take his in coach.
He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat. Just knowing that there are
still some who remember what we did and who still care is enough to
make an old man very happy." His eyes were filling up as he said it.
And mine are brimming up now as I write this.
Shifty died on June 17, 2009 after fighting cancer.
There was no parade.No wall to wall back to back 24x7 news coverage.
No weeping fans on television.
And that's not right.
Let's give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online, in our own quiet
way. Please forward this Post to everyone you know. Especially to the
veterans.
Rest in peace, Shifty.
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Democratic Climate Revolt. Democratic Climate Revolt.
- From: Asmodai_1
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| February 08 2010
Putting the kibosh on Jackson's grab for world domination.The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a bill last week to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from declaring that carbon is a dangerous pollutant.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is busy writing new rules that would let her drive a tax-and-regulation bulldozer through the U.S. economy under laws never meant to apply to greenhouse gases. Ms. Jackson is expected to issue new anticarbon regulations for cars and trucks next month before moving on to power plants and other industries.
This is all too much for Missouri's Ike Skelton and Minnesota's Collin Peterson, the Chairmen of the House Armed Services and Agriculture Committees, respectively. Along with Missouri Republican Jo Ann Emerson, they are pushing a two-page bill that would amend the Clean Air Act to restore Congress's original intent and strip CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the statutory language.
This is bipartisanship we can believe in. Such legislation would vaporize the EPA's "endangerment finding" for carbon and thus require the Administration to use democratic debate and persuasion if it really wants to reshape the energy markets and impose huge new costs on American consumers. What a thought.
"If Congress doesn't do something soon, the EPA is going to cram these regulations through all on their own," Mr. Peterson said. "I have no confidence that EPA can regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without severe harm to all taxpayers."
Added Mr. Skelton: "Simply put, we cannot tolerate turning over the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to unelected bureaucrats at EPA. America's energy and environmental policies should be set by Congress." Yes, they should be.
The Skelton-Peterson-Emerson bill follows a similar effort by North Dakota Democrat Earl Pomeroy, not to mention Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski's coming "disapproval resolution" in the Senate that has the support of Democrats Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln.
Our one caveat here is that Messrs. Skelton and Peterson are doing the right thing for the wrong reason—specifically, to defend the ethanol industry. Their bill includes provisions that would expand the definition of renewable fuels and make it easier for corn ethanol and soy biodiesel to qualify for federal tax credits. This is despite the growing shelf of studies that common crop-based fuels increase carbon emissions because of land-use changes and deforestation.
In any case, Ms. Jackson released final rules last week that would allow ethanol to maintain its mandate on the U.S. fuel supply, requiring her agency to back down from the more restrictive and supposedly science-based rules that it had proposed last year. Ms. Jackson insisted that EPA wasn't "dumbing down" its regulations, but her bow to the ethanol lobby revealed the death-grip it exerts on Congress.
Yet in the case of carbon regulation—an even dumber policy—we'll take what we can get. If the power of farm-state politicians ends up stopping the EPA's global-warming power grab, it would be the first good thing ethanol has done for the country.
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The Lunch Box Lesson of Love.. The Lunch Box Lesson of Love...
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The Lunch Box Lesson of Love
Each day when it’s time for lunch, my students retrieve their lunch boxes from the hallway. Anticipation fills the air when Lunch Time finally arrives. They remove their lunches, and sit at tables to enjoy what they have looked forward to all morning.
One day last week, a boy named Adam looked for his lunch box, and realized it wasn’t there. As tears filled his little eyes, I reminded him I had forgotten my lunch too, and we would find something to eat in the classroom.
Children are sometimes selfish…They often need reminders to share. We speak about this often in class, and I was proud when my students shared with their friend.
One by one, the children started offering food from their lunches. A piece of salami, grapes, fish crackers, and a Granola Bar, were appreciated donations of love…It was a buffet which brought grateful smiles to the face of a hungry, happy little boy and his classmates.
We can learn a lot from young children, as we consider how we are nourished each day. We sometimes forget to allow God to fill us with what we need. We anxiously reach for something that is not there. But, if we allow ourselves, we can find reward in God’s provisions, especially when we hunger to be filled full of His loving grace, and allow ourselves to be fed by the very thing that is missing.
God nourishes us with His presence. He created much for us to enjoy. Maybe we need to forget what we hoped to remember, so God can show us reward which comes through the offerings of others. Just ask Adam…His mom had made peanut butter and jelly that day, and he was really craving salami.
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My Proposal Video My Proposal Video
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“EMP 101” “EMP 101”
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I was surfing the net earlier and I came across the most freightening article I think I have ever read. It is about an EMP--electro-magnetic Pulse. This is the pulse that is created when a nuclear device is detonated above the earth's atmosphere. Let's just say that the least of our problems would be writing our blogs.
This is something you've got to read. I would love to hear your comments. Here is the URL...
http://www.onesecondafter.com/pb/wp_d10e87d9/wp_d10e87d9.html
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More on Haiti More on Haiti
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I received this from my sister a couple of days ago, another reason to tell Haiti to take a flying leap and to KMA!
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN HAITI, YOU'LL FIND THIS INTERESTING. PARDON SOME OF THE LANGUAGE -- IT'S FROM A MILITARY GUY. MUCH OF IT IS POSITIVELY INFURIATING.
Subject: Haiti Diary
BG Mike Seely (U.S. Army – Ret.), forwarded this from a friend that just returned from Haiti.
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 5:47 AM
News back from Nick Brockhausen. He and Dennis Hebler made it back somewhat safe and sound.
To All,
I just returned from Haiti with Hebler. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other. Port Au Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact. Our team was a rescue team and we carried special equipment that locates people buried under the rubble. There are easily 200,000 dead; the city smells. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money. The ones I ran into were either incompetent or outright anti-American. Most are French or French speakers, worthless every damn one of them.
While 1800 rescuers were ready, willing and able to leave the airport and go do our jobs, the UN and USAID ( another organization full of little OBamites and communists that openly speak out against America), these two organizations exemplified their parochialism by:
USAID, when in control of all inbound flights, had food and water flights stacked up all the way to Miami, yet allowed Geraldo Rivera, Anderson Cooper and a host of other left wing news puppies to land.
Pulled all the security off the rescue teams so that Bill Clinton and his wife could have the grand tour, whilst we sat unable to get to people trapped in the rubble. Stacked enough food and water for the relief over at the side of the airfield then put a guard on it while we dehydrated and wouldn't release a drop of it to the resuers.
No shower facilities to decontaminate after digging or moving corpses all day, except for the FEMA teams who brought their own shower and decon equipment, as well as air conditioned tents. No latrine facilities, unless you dig a hole, if you set up a shitter everyone was trying to use it.
I watched a 25 year old Obamite with the USAID shrieking hysterically; berate a full bird colonel in the Air Force, because he countermanded her orders, whilst trying to unscrew the air pattern. "You don’t know what your president wants! The military isn't in charge here we are!"
If any of you are thinking of giving money to the Haitian relief, or to the UN don't waste your money. It will only go to further the goals of the French and the Liberal left. If we are a fair and even society, why is it that only white couples are adopting Haitian orphans? Where the hell is that vocal minority that is always screaming about the injustice of American society?
Bad place, bad situation, but a perfect look at the new world order in action. New Orleans magnified a thousand times. Haiti doesn't need democracy, what Haiti needs is Papa Doc.
That’s not just my opinion that is what virtually every Haitian we talked with said. "The French run UN treat us the same as when we were a colony, at least Papa Doc ran the country."
Oh, and as a last slap in the face the last four of us had to take US AIRWAY plane home from Phoenix. They slapped me with a $590 dollar baggage charge for the four of us. The girl at the counter was almost in tears because she couldn't give us a discount or she would lose her job. Pass that on to the flying public.
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Obamacare can’t save them! Obamacare can’t save them!
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Recently some Democrats made some interesting statements. It went something like, why do you need religion when you have the democrats. This only points to the retarded arrogant belief that they are more relevant than anything else. I question their relevance period. America has had a good year believe it or not! It started one morning laying in bed listening to the news. The announcer said Kennedy had brain cancer. I jumped out of bed singing oh happy day. The down side was he kept kicking for another year. More good news yesterday. John Murtha croaked from complications after surgery. The nasty bastards are dropping like flies LOL. As I’ve said before I’m not particularly a religious person, but I’ll go with what works.
So long Ted and John. We won’t miss you Pinkos.
Just to enforce my extreme sadness: I’ve got one or two for Ya’
Q; Why were their only two barriers a pinko Kennedy’s funeral?
A: Only two handles on a trash can!
Q: did you hear what Murtha said about the Marines?
A: Yes but I’ll bet he doesn’t have the Gaul to say that again!
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NEW -Inner-Chamber Piano Recor NEW -Inner-Chamber Piano Recording
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A New Sound Discovered In An Old Place
A keyboard player out on the west coast has discovered a new type of piano recording process that creates a sound that resembles an enchanted string instrument. Ron Leddy, or “Leddy” as he likes to be referred to, takes a small computer microphone and fastens it about two inches down inside a piano and then records himself playing. Leddy claims that 90% of the harmonic resonance made by the inner workings of the instrument never reach the outside of the cabinet and there are melodic sounds that are created deep down inside a piano that can not be produced electronically by any synthesizer or processor within the realm of our present day technology.
Leddy also claims that recording this harmonic inner-chamber sound digitally with a computer enhances a composition beyond one's imagination and expectations.
Leddy is working on his second album of two track compositions made by recording inside a piano cabinet and he calls his original sound “Music Box Serenade Vol. 1. & 2. By Leddy.”
One of his tracks, “Southern Honeysuckle” found its way onto the TOP 20, country chart at RiffStar.com, and the track had only been there for two days.
If you would like to hear this track with its original sounding Inner-Chamber Piano Recording process, please visit:
Broadband Digital Media.com
Article by Sandrina Marie Mitchell, Staff Writer. - Blog post
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The Consensus... The Consensus...
- From: ibejim
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From: Planet Moron...
CONSENSUS WATCH – 2/8/2010
An ongoing series dedicated to vigorously monitoring emerging threats to The Consensus that global warming is real, caused by humans, and must be addressed at all costs.
Because without Consensus, scientific conclusions could be challenged by people demanding hard data.
While we continue to dig ourselves out from under two feet of wet, heavy, anthropogenic global warming here at Planet Moron headquarters, we take comfort in knowing that frequent record-breaking snowfalls do not in any way suggest that global warming is anything but real.
Which is not to say that mild winters don't prove it is real, of course.
This is important to remember, as it has been revealed lately that much of the science underpinning The Consensus didn’t come from “research” in the traditional sense of the word, but rather from more unorthodox sources, such as magazine articles, college student homework assignments, press releases, and idle conjecture.
Sure, that might sound bad taken out of context, but what skeptics fail to appreciate is that the whole purpose of establishing consensus in the first place is to take the science part out of the equation. That way we can move forward with what’s really important: Maintaining levels of hysteria necessary to spur legislative action.
Besides, according to Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the errors and fabrications are actually positive developments noting that such mistakes :
"…Could increase the credibility of the IPCC, not decrease it. Aren't mistakes human? Even the IPCC is a human institution."
(We don’t suggest you try that at work unless there is already a consensus with your bosses that you’re doing a good job. Kind of like with Tim Geithner.)
Given the unconventional nature of global warming science, it is important that Consensus supporters be prepared for additional revelations including some of the following:
Claim: Sea levels will rise in the coming decades, swamping coastal cities.
Source: Something James Hansen thought he saw while watching “The Day After Tomorrow” on his new Blu-ray player.Claim: Polar Bears are resorting to cannibalism.
Source: Nostradamus.Claim: Global warming could cause malaria as far north as Germany.
Source: A flyer Michael Mann saw in Berlin for the post-punk German band, “Malaria.”Claim: We must reduce carbon emissions or we are all doomed.
Source: The image of Al Gore miraculously appearing one morning in a bowl of Rajendra Pachauri’s Wheatena.Claim: Tree ring data proves CO2 causes global warming.
Source: Hidden message found when you play the Beatles “Revolution 9” backwards.Also, Paul is dead.
Claim: Hurricanes will increase in frequency and intensity unless we transition our power generation away from carbon sources and toward wind turbines.
Source: An advertisement from wind turbine manufacturer, Southwest Windpower.Naturally, skeptics will continue to blow these discoveries all out of proportion claiming that they are some kind of indictment on The Consensus. Unfortunately, these appeals to reason and common sense do occasionally gain traction with the lay public, unfamiliar as they are with the scientific process, so just in case, supporter of climate change legislation have a back up plan:
Make believe it’s a jobs bill.
Remember, Consensus means never having to say you’re sorry. Or wrong.
J.
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A Thousand Points of Lightness A Thousand Points of Lightness
- From: Ivyman68
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A Thousand Points of Lightness
Milton Berle was at a party in D.C. once and, making conversation over cocktails, he asked a fellow: "Have you heard the latest gag about the White House?"
"I beg your pardon," the man sniffed. "I happen to work at the White House."
"That's all right," Milty reassured him. "I'll tell it slow."
Today's occupants of the alabaster demesne seem hardly swifter. Early in the health-care campaign they staged an event on the lawn with a 150 tame doctors (the CL of approval?) touting Obama's health-care nostrums… and they handed out the white hospital coats themselves. This was not what we thought they meant by transparency.
All in all, the faux pas was less disquieting than the faux pose. A debate is putatively being conducted over fraught matters concerning 300 million lives and untold trillions of dollars. The most substantive contribution the administration could offer was this claque of hacks. Forget the coats: the real props here were the medicos themselves!
Than which, I fear, nothing more sharply illuminates the essence of this crew we have steering the ship of state. They seem capable only of navigating the shallowest waters. This extends down to the lowliest serf and up to President Obama. Every communication on every subject is presented in the form of predigested pap that won't strain the third digit on anyone's IQ. It seems laughable to reflect that the left used to cast aspersions on the Reagan intellect when every Reagan speech was loaded with profound arguments, a poetic rhythm and a superior vocabulary. (Go to You Tube and choose any one at random to confirm this claim.)
Suddenly the White House announces -- after poll poleaxes, Corzine corpses, Deeds deadness, Coakley conkouts -- they want a debate. Yes, a real substantive, profound, searching exchange of ideas. With Republicans. On TV. They want to hear new ideas. But only, apparently, while the camera rolls. For an hour or two on February 25.
This is a serious ratiocinative process? Huge decisions are being made, gargantuan proposals are being advanced, with no trappings of deliberative thought. Say what you will about Hillary Clinton's health-care task force in terms of propriety, secrecy and predisposition, but at least we saw a whole bunch of very bright people holding a lot of meetings and writing a massive mess of notes. Now we are being presented with bills to overhaul an entire medical system, without a discussion, a meeting, a proposal -- other than the usual Senate committees and the platitudinous town halls. And now this new in-depth investigation -- between lunch and a meeting with lobbyists.
A good example of this pattern came early in Obama's term when he announced he was overruling President Bush's policy limiting Federal stem-cell research to existing embryos. Bush had convened a special forum of writers, ethicists and religious thinkers to discuss the implications and offer recommendations. This committee, led by Leon Kass -- yes, Mister Obama, a professor at the University of Chicago -- was a very serious entity. It released thousands of pages of notes, each participant given an opportunity to publish insights. After all this, President Bush arrived at a conclusion, which he presented in a complex, sensitive address.
Along comes Obama and announces a press conference. With no deliberation, no input, no consultation, he gets up and says he rejects this false conflict between religion and science blah blah blah, all adding up to this: there is no conflict because science wins, religion loses, because I say so.
Now that verdict could be respected if it could wear an air of gravitas. Instead it preens like the work of whimsy. The old Jewish scholars had a word for behavior like this, a word uttered with scorn. They called it "kaal," Hebrew for lightweight. It derided the person who is deciding on heavy things with a light heart. This was seen as contemptible behavior. If you give a thing its proper weight, you can live with your mistakes.
This may explain why Obama wants a lot of things to happen quickly on a lot of fronts, lauded by some as a brand of dynamism. From here it looks like a lack of respect for the significance of each frontier. All that quick forward progress can defeat the law of gravity, but it may also defeat the gravity of law. Flitting about like a little birdie, now landing gingerly on a branch and trilling a short riff, may be showmanship, brinkmanship, even seamanship, but it ain't statesmanship.
Which brings us back to Milton Berle and his delightful story about the two birds on the White House Gate. One says to the other: "Are you for this President?"
"Why not?" replies Bird #2. "He's for us."
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this is sad this is sad
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I want the world (or at least Orange County) to know how this company is so heartless. I have been through so much with my two year old getting a cancer like disease called HLH or hemophagocetyc syndrome. I explained to my direct tv what my situation was how my husband lost his job and hadnt worked for 8 months, how my daughter was dying in the hospital, how i was loosing my house because i was in the hospital with my baby by her side 24 hours a day and went through steroid psycosis. I simly asked if they could suspend my service until everything was settled. Come to find out the black and whit, the lines in between wouldnt' allow it. To make a huge long story short, my baby survived with chemo therapy and my husband and i lost our house and had to move us and our four daughters into 3 different households because there are too many of us to saty in 1 house. It me and my 9 year old in one house, my 14 year old with my brohter and my 3 and 2 yaer old at my husbands mom. I called direct tv to let them know i am fixing my credit and hopefully will soon get a house to continue the sercvice. They let me know that it was never suspended because there was a $79 balance that quickly turned into $200.00 because i didnt meet the 90 day guide line. After going through 2 representatives and 2 managers and eyefulls of tears i paid the fee. Here is the best part. I went to Walgreens to pick up medication for my baby and what a shock!! Direct tv took 900.00 that i had in my account for my sick child without reason or permission. Im so upset i can't belive this. Not only that, i have called to get my money back and i keep being transfered, hung up on and told that there is nothing they can do. Is this even legal. This company has no human side. Im upset that this stuff happens in my own country. Hope this gets posted everwhere. Thank you. Any questions please call me. 714-492-0399. My name is Melissa Salcido
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San Bernardino Police Ex. Forc San Bernardino Police Ex. Force
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San Bernardino Police Excessiv San Bernardino Police Excessive Force
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Thoughts On EXCERCISE Thoughts On EXCERCISE
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AND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD ANY MORE OF YOUR OWN.
Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.
My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 97 years old, and we don't have the slightest clue where in the hell he is.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 dollars, and I haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.
Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
I do have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say,
'Well, he/she looks good doesn't they.'
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
I know I have gotten a whole lot of exercise in the last few years, just trying to get over the hill.
We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Every time I start worrying too much about how I look, I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine. - Blog post
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Upsetting An Opponent Upsetting An Opponent
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Robbie Jr; The Psychic Robbie Jr; The Psychic
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Don't you just love it when Warmers open their mouths and insert both feet?
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC
By: David Freddoso
Online Opinion Editor
12/21/09 1:51 PM ESTRobert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.
In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.
Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy.Having shoveled my walk five times in the midst of this past weekend's extreme cold and blizzard, I think perhaps RFK, Jr. should leave weather analysis to the meteorologists instead of trying to attribute every global phenomenon to anthropogenic climate change.
Meanwhile, Altime seasonal snowfall records are close to being shattered in many Mid-Atlantic city's, and, may well fall by Wednesday evening.... Less than two years after RFK Jr, opened that cavern he calls a mouth...........How utterly fitting!!
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PRICELESS !! PRICELESS !!
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President Obama at Graham Road Elementary School, in Falls Church, Virginia, January 19, 2010
A presidential campaign – $1,000,000,000 and more
A failed economic stimulus plan – $800,000,000,000
Bail out for auto manufacturers – $50,000,000,000
Bail out for banks – $140,000,000,000
Increase in the federal deficit – $2,000,000,000,000 plus.
A forty-eight year old man as President of the United States of America, and he needs a teleprompter to speak before a classroom full of eleven year old kids.
Priceless
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PATERSON TO RESIGN? PATERSON TO RESIGN?
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Governor Paterson To Resign?
We received a heads up from Tom Mannis of Chicago News Bench to watch for NY Governor Paterson’s resignation tomorrow.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Governor Paterson To Resign?", url: "http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=16700" });
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Another Kennedy Seat Going? Another Kennedy Seat Going?
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Patrick Kennedy Staggers Toward a Fall
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:38 PM | (Moonbattery)
One dissipated statist Kennedy's seat has been liberated, and another's will soon follow:
The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown's earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown's top strategists.
The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district — a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide.
It's looking pretty grim for the rotten apple that fell all too close to the tree. Maybe he should try playing the race card again.
Have a peek at Patrick's resume at iOwnTheWorld.com, which tactfully omits the episode where he crashed his car while driving drunk at 2:45 AM (supposedly on his way to cast a vote) and evaded the Breathalyzer by being a Kennedy. He afterwards made amends by announcing plans to force insurance companies to shower money upon victims like himself, who are oppressed by not being able to lay off the liquor before they get behind the wheel.
Camelot crumbles.On a tip from Edward.
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Who are you cheering for??!!
I'm for the Saints!
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