Have some more Rope, Nancy

When you're a communist, and even NPR is getting confontational with you, you're guilty.

4:28 is where the best money shot is, but it's worth it to listen to the whole thing to hear Nancy shuck and jive, reminiscent of Oswald Bates, in her attempt to obfuscate with big words.

Melissa: "The Republicans say to either offer proof to your allegation that the CIA lied to you, or retract your allegation."

Nancy: "My record on human rights is one that I'm very very proud of."

Huh?

Cat Eats Bat

Lessons from the 4th

Fireworks scare the hell out of Janet, and just piss off Susan.

Why are fireworks legal? They are WAAAY more dangerous than a bunch of other stuff that's already illegal. They are dangerous to not only the user but others. When you walk out on your back deck on Sunday morning and find fallen rocket carcasses, it hits you that there might be a risk of fire here.

Beagles will bark at anything, with enthusiasm.

A steady diet of beer and sloth just makes you feel like.....ugh.

There are always episodes of The Twilight Zone that I haven't seen, which is actually kind of Twilight Zoney, if you think about it.

Burmese Pythons in Florida

You may have heard the sad story of a baby killed by the family snake. The owner put the Burmise python in it cage/aquarium at night. It escaped and slithered over to the baby's crib and killed the kid.

That got us talking at work and one of my coworkers said, "Yeah, there are tons of them loose in Florida."

So I checked and, Holy Shit!, he's right! According to this story, there are over 10,000 of these snakes, which can grow to 25 feet, in the Everglades. They have been escaping or getting released for years and (Burma being pretty similar to the Everglades) have been living wild and reproducing. Another story puts the number anywhere between 5,400 and 140,000!!!

They have even swam 6 miles across the ocean and started invading the Florida Keys!

Amazing Piano

NPR's How Eric Lewis became ELEW


Eric Lewis here

Just click it and listen.

The Option ARM Tsunami

According to Business Week, the majority of the Option ARM resets hasn't even happened yet.
For those two people who don't already know, Option ARMs (Adjustible Rate Mortgage) is where you pay a low interest rate for the first number of years, then the interest rate jumps up, or resets, to a much higher rate.

What many analysts fear are the waves of "resets", when the teaser interest rates for these products expire. That means Freddie Flipper, who bought that $1 million McMansion in 2006 as an "investment property", will see his monthly payment double on a house that's now worth $600,000. And he will, like so many others, walk away after dropping the keys in an envelope and mailing them to his mortgage company (i.e., "jinglemail").

Thought for the Day

If Healthcare is a right, then why can't we claim the total cost of it as a deduction on our taxes?



*Currently, you only get a deduction for the cost of healthcare that exceeds 7.5% of you adjusted gross income.

What DO they talk about?

Total scumbag, racist, bitch, Monica Conyers has plead guilty to bribery charges in Detroit. She has admitted to taking about $6000 in bribes for a sludge hauling deal. She could face up to 5 years in prison (yeah, right). I'll bet that she doesn't serve a day, but who knows, it's federal.

Her husband is powerful congressman John Conyers.

I'm sure he knew nothing about it. Afterall, couldn't you just imagine your spouse getting a $6000, in cash, bribe, and forgetting to bring it up around the dinner table?
/sarcasm

UPDATE

Well, Golly Gee. John Conyers has decided to drop his investigation of ACORN.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate purported wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying ‘powers that be’ put the kibosh on the idea.

Just before his wife gets sentenced. What a coincidence!

Subtle

No concept of capitalism

This bugged the hell out of me when I first heard it. Now, I'm reminded of it as it makes the rounds.

President Obama was doing his press thingy. Some reporter asked him about his government health insurance pushing private health insurers out of business. Obama responds "If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care; if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can't run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical."

Hey, Jackass! The government doesn't have to make a profit!

Either he is THAT stupid, or he thinks WE are THAT stupid. Niether one fills me with happiness.