Monthly Archives: January 2009

1/28/1986 – Challenger

January 28 1986 We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”

Sickeningly Cute Story Of The Morning: Meet Orla

Because, quite frankly, this cold is kicking my butt, and I just do not have the brain power to think this morning, and, who doesn’t gow “awwwwwwww” when they see a baby otter? Plus, just a nice story A postman who rescued a baby otter on a Scottish roadside took it on a 220-mile tour […]

James Hansen’s Former Boss Takes Him To Task Over Climahysteria

Via Watts Up With That?, a press release from Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, who calls himself a skeptic now Washington DC, Jan 27th 2009: NASA warming scientist James Hansen, one of former Vice-President Al Gore’s closest allies in the promotion of man-made global warming fears, is being publicly rebuked by […]

Let’s Build New Nuke Plants And Paint Things White To Stop Climate Change!

Actually, these are two good ideas to implement, regardless of whether the Hysterics want them in order to stop AGW. First: Reactivating Nuclear Reactors for the Fight against Climate Change The federal government echoes those sentiments. The Bush administration pushed though loan guarantees, whereby the costs of delays in construction would be paid for by […]

Dumbass Of The Day

Definitely a product of our public education system, soon to be flipping burgers A 15-year-old Longs girl was charged as a juvenile with six charges that included perjury after she gave police several fake names and identification at a Myrtle Beach area club, according to a police report. The teen flagged an officer down at […]

ACLU Says No To Gitmo Detainees In Colorado

Aren’t you just thrilled that the ACLU assigns American rights to non-US citizens captured on the battlefields around the world fighting and wearing no uniforms? Politicians in Colorado are split over the chance detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be imprisoned at the Supermaxfederal detention facility in Florence. Some say Supermax can handle Gitmo suspects […]

Nutty Charlie Brooker Is Back Talking About Obama Being Shot

You remember Charlie Brooker, right? He’s the guy who ruminated about someone shooting President Bush if he was re-elected. And now he writes Last week I watched the most frightening horror movie I’ve ever seen. It was about three hours long, and, incredibly, it all unfolded live. I’m talking, of course, about the inauguration of […]

Barack Obama – Neo-Conservative (?)

Who could have expected that Obama would be a big States Rights guy, like we on the Conservative side want the GOP to be? Reversing another Bush administration policy, President Obama announced this morning that he will order environmental regulators to immediately look at the request by Massachusetts and at least a dozen other states […]

Pelosi: No G’itmo Jihadis At Alcatraz

Let’s see: last week, cBS news had a storystating that Republicans were almost apoplectic in trying to make sure that the Guantanamo detainees were not brought to domestic soil. Yet, when it is Nancy Pelosi, what does cBS news do? Well, not bother covering the story, which was ignored by most major media outlets. Have […]

Just When You Thought You Had Seen All The Barry Merchandise

Well, no, you haven’t. A friend of mine was reading the earlier Patriotic Pinup post, saw the link to Nice Deb and the Obama Chiapet, and she alerted me to this Barry toy Click for full size.

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