Wouldn't that just make your disaster complete?

Your just shaking off the tornado, or fire, or earthquake and you find out the "Chocolate City" Ray Nagin is going to be the disaster consultant (whatever that is).

Oh, yeah, he wrote a book, too-
But in recounting the hot, harrowing days after the storm, Nagin also portrays himself sympathetically, as a decisive, honest executive who faced daunting tasks, from evacuating starving residents to pumping floodwaters back into Lake Pontchartrain to establishing rules for rebuilding.

At a news conference Wednesday, the mayor-turned-disaster consultant called writing the book a “therapeutic” experience.

Ummm, yeah- because you were so organized and everybody else fell down on the job.

Nagin also worried about becoming a target of sinister forces after his famous Sept. 1, 2005, rant on WWL-AM, which the former mayor writes was prompted by reports that Blanco and U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter had bragged “about how well things were going,” even as evacuees continued to suffer at the Superdome and Convention Center.

“I thought to myself, ‘I’m a dead man! I have just publicly denounced the governor, U.S. Senators, FEMA and the president of the United States,’” he writes. “I started wondering if during the night I would be visited by specially trained CIA agents. Could they secretly shoot me with a miniature, slow-acting poison dart?


Be sure to get your paperback now. I'm sure Larry Correa could use some hints in his next book.

Dear Israel-

Sink. It.

...And your status as an illegal is my problem exactly how?

ATLANTA (AP) -- Eighteen-year-old Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about being an illegal immigrant until earlier this year, when she became upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights. The arrest came as Georgia lawmakers were crafting what would become one of the nation's toughest immigration crackdowns, and Guerrero feared her mother would be deported.

Okaaay...??? That would suck, wouldn't it?
Did mom have a license? Insurance? Was the car legally hers?

"I feel like that was my breaking point, when my mom was in jail," said Guerrero, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 2. "I felt like, well, that's it, it can't get any worse than this. My mother has been to jail."

She came from Mexico when she was two- did she crawl on her own?

Guerrero is the chief organizer of a rally set for Tuesday at the Georgia State Capitol for high school-age illegal immigrants to tell their stories. The recent high school graduate and others hope to draw attention to the plight of the hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

Already around the country, efforts by young activists have ranged from rallies and letter-writing to sit-ins and civil disobedience, drawing inspiration from civil rights demonstrations decades ago, with the aim of forcing the federal government to reform rules for immigrants in their situation.


You know, that really sounds like a family problem to me.
Why should we change our laws because your parents brought you into the country illegally sixteen years ago?
They had sixteen years to get their immigration status right- but didn't.
You knew you were illegal, but did nothing about it, and now you want the rest of legal Americans and resident aliens to give you a free pass.
You've been living for free in America for SIXTEEN YEARS- puta, and no one in your family ever heard about people trying to get a handle on your kind of lawbreakers?

Your family's decided to break the law.
Your parents decided to do nothing about changing their status.
You are not even ashamed of being a lawbreaker.

I hope when you start disrupting shit, that they DO deport your dumb ass, and if you don't want to break up your family, they can go with you.

Ruuuuucy, I hoooome!

I'm burnt out from the heat and humidity of the coast- and it wasn't really that hot.
From my first drop to my last, I'm wringing wet, but I don't remember it being like this ten years ago.

I need to modify my trencher (and bring a weed-eater down) to try something that'll trench through carpet grass without tearing it up.
I'm thinking of bolting a 10" saw blade to the rotor to cut through that tangled sh1t, and then I can start making real money.

Right now I can barely get 6 yards done before I need to stop..because all I did for over 8 months was sit by the computer in an air conditioned house.

I'll get used to it, but I hope it doesn't take too long.

To the troops in A-Stan right now

After hearing your new operations plan here are some ...probably not unthought-of ideas.

Stay low, stay out of the way, stay in a safe zone- OR phone in the overlay of your ops cycle from a safe hooch. Nobody is going to turn you in for not going after gooks when you all know you're being pulled out.

Don't be the last to die for this updated photo-op:

Because with Urkel in the White House, that's what it'll be.

I missed Wednesdays girl

So, to make it up you get two in one!

Their names are Magenta and Columbia.

Caution it's rated R because Susan Sarandon is singing-
I'd say mute it, but Magenta has such a deep sexy voice that you'd miss everyting if you did.

Cash for clunkers- the petroleum version

So, the IEA is going to let 60 million barrels of oil go from their(our) emergency reserves.
This in spite of Saudi making plans to pump more of their oil to make up the shortfall of expected use.

So what were doing is dumping a crapload a bunch of oil into the market to lower the cost right before November. I didn't think 60 million barrels would have that much affect on the markets because that's probably not even a days worth of oil consumption in Europe. I'm sure we use about that much here.

So, back to the title.
Urkel decided to boost the sales of GovtMotors by handing out cash when someone traded in their old car for one of his. They then destroyed the cars.

Now there are less used cars on the road, we're never going to get the Gov out of GM- and used cars are almost as expensive as new ones- I know because Thing-1 needed another vehicle.

Now the IEA is dumping oil and leaning on people to drop their oil futures prices.
oil will be less expensive for a while, then the IEA is going to start buying oil again to make up for the dump.

What do you think will happen with oil prices then?



.....With a new Republican Congress and maybe president, too.

Drunk, stoned or illiterate?

I'm looking at some housing around here that costs less than I was barganing on because it doesn't look like I'll be making as much as I thought I would.
I was looking at options when this caught my eye:

Think he's gotten many takers?

I'm used to starting work at 7AM

I am also used to driving almost an hour to get to work at 7 AM.

I'm living in a motel on the company dime about 10 min. from work.
The company we're subs for doesn't open until 8AM.

The Guys that hired me don't show up until about 10AM.

I had 7 scheduled drop buries today and still got done before 4:00PM.
(I couldn't do two, so did five in seven hours)
I'll do better tomorrow and make up what I didn't earn today.


So- this is what normal people do- drive to work and get done and not be away from the house for 10- 1523 hours?
Cool!

Down here in Portland, Tx.

Man, I forgot just how 100% humidity sucks.

Well, off to see how bad the new job is.

I see John McCain Huntsman just formally announced his candidacy

So now, as I've been hearing on the radio that he's going to be the new Reagan- as far as the MSM is putting it out.

Why?
The former governor of Utah, Huntsman, 51, is lagging in polls of Republicans but has a high profile in the media and worries the Democratic Obama administration because of his possible cross-party appeal.
Ahhh- another media darling, just like the 'maverick' John McCain.

He promised to conduct his campaign "on the high road" and respect Republican rivals as well as Obama, who leads most opinion polls of the 2012 presidential race.

"I respect the president. The question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president; not who's the better American."
Where have we heard that before?

But hey! He has all kinds of foreign policy experience because he was 0bamas boy in China.
...And I'd like to remind everyone that anyone who's gotten anything from this administration has bought it- somehow.

Welcome to the third world San Antonio!

Look forward to:

• More rolling power outages!
• More unannounced outages!
• Higher energy costs! No- higher that that.
• Costlier land!
• More expensive food!
• More expensive gas!
• More unemployment!
• Intrusive 'smart grid' technologies that regulate your thermostat and other appliances.

But, HEY we're getting rid of those smelly, evil coal-fired multi-megawatt power stations and replacing them with unicorn farts.

"We're glad to see that it will be going away," Environment Texas Director Luke Metzger said in a news release. "We applaud Mayor Castro (DEMOCRAT) and CPS Energy for their leadership in designing an energy future that will bring clean air and green jobs to Texas instead of more asthma attacks and poisoned waters. Solar is clean, never runs out and will bring high-paying jobs to the Alamo city."
...Except that the sun sets at night and the wind isn't always blowing, and how many people will die because of all those new power losses and being unable to afford to run their air conditioners in the 100+ degree Texas summers?


Just out of curiosity- who is the Clean Air Task Force?
According to a study by the Clean Air Task Force, power plant pollution in Bexar County is linked to 282 asthma attacks and 11 deaths every year.

You know a star athlete

and then you have a guy that just shows up for the race- and skis all the way down on his face?
Then the poseur wants to make like they're buds?

Yeah, I thought you knew...

Just out of curiosity

If you were really worried about global warming flooding the coastline,  would you buy an almost $9 million dollar house about a mile from the coast?

Didn't think so, do you wonder if AlGore knows something he's not telling us?

Have I got a car for you! Her name is 'Christine'.

Where were you in June 1988?

I was suffering my last year in CBU 408 to be able to go home with my honorable discharge in my nicotine stained fingers.

I was reminded of the brilliant testimony of one James Hanson(NASA weather geek) while reading this Powerline post about the fraud that is AGW.

I took the time to look it up (about 5 seconds) and to scan through it (about 5 excruciating minutes that I'll never get back), to find that in his entire testimony to the U.S. Senate the sun was never mentioned as a source of heat, light, radiation or...anything. No one in the Senate committee room (which had the A/C turned off) even bothered to mention it either.

He did, however say that AGW was already happening, but they couldn't prove it- and that by now the entire midwest was going to be a new desert.


You know, after reading it to find a screencap, I'm surprised that it doesn't 'really' say anything.
It's a bunch of scientifically worded guesses, and loopholes that say "we think the world is going to get hotter, but can't tell because it's climate and not weather"
But that's OK because we got our message out in this un-necessarily hot room as a point.
I'm also (not really- because connections) that-  all you need to get a hearing in the Senate was some lame piece of paper with a crapload of scientific sounding guesses ...that didn't say anything- to convince the Powers-That-Be to start fucking up the country like they have been.

I can't help it- sorry

The only TEE party the Chicago Jeezus can stand:

Nice photo-op of all three of the leadership chain of command.
But, then it's a military base- who ever heard of someone going postal with a pistol there?

Color me surprised

That nobody has taken a torch to the abandoned Six Flags in 'nawlins yet to start 'reclaiming' steel.

As good as it looks, I'd say no-one's thought about all that copper in those electric motors either...

You mean that excessive exposure to radiation is bad?

That too many X-rays could turn into something we don't want?

“The primary concern relates to radiation exposure,” said Dr. James A. Brink, chief of diagnostic radiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where double scans accounted for only a fraction of 1 percent of cases. He added: “It is incumbent upon all of us to limit it to the amount needed to make a diagnosis.”


I sure am glad the .GOV isn't forcing people to have multiple X-rays of unknown dosage operated by people who got their jobs from a pizza box.

Dear Uncle Sugar

Please send money.

Signed.
The Libyan rebels

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Rebels waging a drawn-out war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have run out of money, their oil chief said on Saturday, and he accused the West of failing to keep its promises of urgent financial aid.

You know, we should really be taking this thing seriously, but I can't.

"We are running out of everything. It's a complete failure. Either they (Western nations) don't understand or they don't care. Nothing has materialized yet. And I really mean nothing," rebel oil chief Ali Tarhouni said in an interview with Reuters.

It's not that they don't care or understand,,,
It's more like the ones running your show in NATO are so unused to being leaders in anything except increasing Socialist entitlements that they don't have a clue about fighting a war.
As fare as president Gutzy Kall goes, THESE are the people running his administration.

So good luck with your war and if you're still around in 2013- I'm sure something positive will get thrown your way.

I think we found a winner here

If what it sounds like- the Lamestream media is already starting to h8 on him from the NBC political UNIT
a finger-pointing, finger-wagging and, at times, bombastic,
~snip~
he boasted.
~snip~
Of all the speakers of the three-day confab, Perry was the best-received,

Not bad from a 12 sentence political blurb.

AND he knows what we're up against:
“Our opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let’s stop trying to curry favor with them,”
Sounds like we have someone who might have a clue that actually could win.

Going through some pictures

At the 'Red Rat' site, and posting for a wider audience:

A 782 gear inspection on the grinder- Gulfport, Mississippi

Yeah, that was our combat kit (minus the weaponry)back in the `80's.
Aren't you modern warriors jealous?

This was how we landed on Vieques Island ,P.R. for our '84 FEX
That was before those Socialists convinced the Viequens that  they'd be better off without the money the Navy brought them in exchange for being able to use the south end of the island for training.

On this day in 1940

The world heard this:


From the place where Great Britain used to be.

Results for the Leadership poll

Again we have a clear cut winner.

The Iron Lady won by a factor of four 16 @ 67%
against the two tied runner-ups of Fonzie and Rufus T. Firefly with 4 votes @ 17% each.

And president iWON earned his moniker of Zeroman.

As usual you can still vote, but it doesn't count anymore.

Mitt Romney, the 'unemployed' billionair

is still ahead in the Republican polls.He's the Godfather of ObamaKare
He thinks AGW is true science.
He's pro abortion.
He raised taxes in Mass by 3/4 of a billion dollars.

Why is he still on the top of the ticket in polls?
So, I guess that's out next poll-
Will you vote for Mitt if he's against Teh iWON?

pollcode.com free polls

Would you vote for Mitt Romney if hes the Republican candidate?

Yes- we need to win back the White House Third party I'll stay home  Vote for every Republican BUT him Write-in

NOTE- there are five choices this time...

My gift to you this Saturday morning

There are some things worth seeing and some that you need eye bleach for.

Guess which one this is?

You're welcome.

What's for supper?

Meatloaf.

Again??

You can't have enough Meatloaf!

Old school

No, it was not Lon Horiuchi this time

Who shot the wrong woman in a hostage stand off in Phoenix, AZ.
So the reason this time wasn't "Hey, she deserved it because she was there."

They're saying that the suspect and her hostage switched clothing.

...But not that they actually, you know shot the hostage, they just
Sgt. Trent Crump said police sharpshooters fired when they thought they saw the suspect threatening the other woman.

It turns out, the person they shot was not the suspect.

Lets all sit in a circle and sing Kumbaya

Because we have a lion(ette) sitting and peacefully eating with an iguana.
Petunia came out to supervise my suppermaking and the little black cat was their getting the stink-eye from Petunia until I put her food down and Integra decided she wanted some greens, too.

Sorry about the quality, but the camera doesn't have a lot of video settings on it.

If someone was the head of the communication workers of America,,,

You might think he'd be familiar with Godwins Law.
Or maybe Christopher Shelton is really one of those knuckle dragging Neandrthals who can't understand the intratoobzz when he decided to call Chris Christy a Nazi.

You and the Commi Workers Union of America just lost the whole argument..nUUB!