Looks like Steve L at Secure Liberty is gone for a week. Time to play in his garden and mess things up, starting with taking his South Park Patriot for a visit around the ‘sphere.
SPP has ended up at the Pirate’s Cove, though he not be wearing any sort of pirate thong.
Why not take SPP for a ride to your site? Go to this post to let Steve know where SPP has been, and trackback to http://secureliberty.org/htsrv/trackback.php/672
Read: Where’s Steve L? »
On to important news:
The Secret Service, which has the job of guarding the president and other dignitaries, now has a new temporary duty — protecting a mother duck and her nine eggs.
The duck, a brown mallard with white markings, has had several names suggested by Treasury Department people, including "Quacks Reform," "T-Bill," and "Duck Cheney." It has built a nest in a mulch pile right at the main entrance to the Treasury Department on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The duck has been provided with a water bowl and seems oblivious to all the attention, sitting calmly on its nest on top of the mulch pile that surrounds one of the new trees planted along Pennsylvania Avenue as part of a renovation project.
Treasury Secretary John Snow stopped to pay his respects this week on the way back from a congressional hearing, Treasury spokesman Rob Nichols said Friday.
"He had been briefed on the duck and he stopped to pay a visit," said Nichols.
I think this story speaks for itself. Somehow, though, I suspect it is all Bush’s fault.
Linked to Basil’s Brunch.
Read: Not all it’s quacked up to be »
Via Phin’s Blog comes Frank J’s declaration on the howling moonbats at Kevin Drum’s corner of the loonosphere. Now, certainly, those who speculated on the Schiavo memo were partially wrong, as it was written by a Republican Congress critters aide. However, many of the degenerates on the Left have turned this into, surprise! a way to personally attack people. As Phin states
Drum and his band of merry Moon Bats at Political Animal, have displayed a mastery of the English language that can only be picked up by trolling at the Democratic Underground for months. They wonder why the Progressive Party is at an all time low and yet they continue to encourage actions such as these. It’s time the progressive leaders accept responsibility for their actions and stop blaming conservatives.
Drum set the language expectations, set the tone and opened the door the trolls when he ended his post with STFU. ……..
The problem is that the Far Left is slowly becoming the normal Left. Rather then discussion issues in a rational way, the personal attacks blended with shear conspiracy and offbeat and off tangent thinking are the norm. The Howard Dean and George Soros styles will not win any converts to a party that is all feeling and no substance. A party that has no plans.
Then there are the attacks on Michele Malkin. Frank J states
Michelle Malkin had been one putting a lot of pressure to get to the bottom of the Schiavo talking points memo, and, now that it’s been shown to have actually been written by a Republican, the liberals are in a feeding frenzy. While everyone who had been on the issue is taking heat, Malkin seems to get the worst barbs because she’s not only conservative, but she’s also comitted the high crimes of being a minority and a woman (an opinionated one!)
Frank has called for Jihad on The Political Animal, saying that we all go there regularly and kick some verbal ass in the comments section. We’ll be Drum’s moderators since he doesn’t seem to mind the idiocy and filth there. It’s time to call a spade a spade and a muckadoo a muckadoo. The only problem I see with that is that it would just encourage them more. Plus, like the DU, I see our responses being deleted, since most of these folks cannot take honest discussion. But, hey, I’m up for it. Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Who’s with me? Let’s go, go, go, go!
Read: War Declared »
Janette of Common Sense Runs Wild has joined the interview game. Go here for her wonderful answers.
1. what is your favorite ice cream, and why?
2. what is the one thing you are most afraid of?
3. Iraq War: worth it? Why?
4. How do you spend the perfect day?
5. What is the meaning of existence?
Read: 5 Questions for Janette »
According to the AP, if the Congress critters get their way, the Sun will be turned on for a longer period of time in the future. This is being done in order to lower energy bills since they are skyrocketting as of late. This is a spectacular idea. A few extra hours of sunlight would be a boon.
Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the last Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.
"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsored the measure.
So they aren’t actually going to leave the Sun on a few extra hours? Maybe they are going to slow the Earth’s rotation. No? Hmm. Somehow, I fail to understand how extending daylight savings time a few weeks will, well, do anything.
We will still get exactly the same amount of sunlight. That will not change. Not one bit. It just means that instead of the Sun going down at say, 5pm, it will go down at 6pm. That might be helpful for the commute home, but it will not change the amount of sunlight delivered, nor affect energy bills. I would love to see the "science" where this idea comes from.
"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.
So then Congress is planning on slowing the Earth’s rotation? Yar, someone be needin’ a lesson in physics. And reality.
Jeremy of American Warmonger has taken on the 5 Questions meme, and, BOY, did he ever. There is a reason he was up for a Weblogs award for best essayist, and he proves it, answering the questions in 5 full posts. Saying (writing) that I am impressed is an understatement.
The questions:
Great answers, one and all. I have linked each post to the question. Go here for Jeremy’s site.
Avast! Welcome Kit of Euphoric Reality to the Flag League. Welcome aboard, matie!
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And, as predicted, the money is going towards education. However, not quite how one thinks:
House Bill 1023 approved by the full House would divvy up the funds from a lottery into three areas: 50 percent would go to school construction, 25 percent would go to college scholarships and 25 percent would go to special programs for education in the state.
Hmm. Where’s the money for say, paying teachers and aides for K-12? Oh, wait, we’re going to build more schools. Won’t be able to properly compensate the teachers for the schools. Well, we’ll just raise taxes. That’s the answer. The only good thing I can say is that, except for that special programs bit, it is rather specific, and at least that special programs is supposed to have something to do with education. Why not take that 25% for college scholarships and put it into paying teachers and providing more school supplies? Money motivates. Teachers also do not need to be spending their personal money for supplies. I have teacher friends who do that. College is not the States responsibility. K-12 is.
It passed 61-59.
Ogre has more here.
Read: NC now has a lottery »
So, I took a walk around the mall, was trying to see if anyone had a new cologne I heard about, which is being put out in the name of that girl, Bethany Hamilton, the one who had her arm bit off by a shark in Hawaii. It is supposed to remind people of being at the ocean. Needless to say, no one had it since it isn’t supposed to come out till later in the year.
However, I must have missed the memo that stated that almost everything had to be in pastel. As I am walking to the men’s section, is see every color of the rainbow. Red, orange, green, purple, blue, yellow, etc. All in pastel. Even the whites are pastel. The sun is bright enough without having spring/summer fashions in pastel. Not just women’s outer-garments. We are talking shoes, purses, scarves, underwear. Even granny panties. You cannot have a proper pirate thong in pastel. It’s just not right!
Then, after wandering through 3/4 of the store, I finally made it to the men’s section, all 4 square feet of it, and everything was pastel, too. I refuse. No. Will not do it. Never!
I know what it is. It is all a Left Wing conspiracy designed to do 2 things:
Men of the world, do not fall for this insidious Left Wing Conspiracy! Rage against the machine! Refuse to wear these colors. Do not let the liberals of the world emasculate you. Make sure you always have your sunglasses with you for when your woman wears these colors. Try and talk them into normal colors. Unite! Courage!
Read: Did I Miss a Memo? »
Jeez, answer a few questions about Padme’ and bam, I’m sorta evil.
Via Janette at Common Sense Runs Wild. Next up, pirate thong photoshops of Janette and Jody :)
Read: I’m TRYING to be Evil »
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