What do I find most annoying today?

Gelato craze.

Boars

Radioactive boars in Germany from the Chernobyl meltdown. Or, rampaging, as Fox News puts it. I like the story, but, there's a fair amount of miles between Germany and the Ukraine. It is surprising that the effects are felt that far away, if true.

Wise words from Kucinich

Government bloat

Not only has president Obama recklessly spent millions on rural broadband infrastructure($65 mil), and shoved a big dumb choo choo ($800 mil) down our throats, he also is running up the largest defense budget in history (700 billion)- as the yearly ritual requires.

Pentagon spending has averaged a growth rate of 7 percent a year over the last decade, adjusted for inflation (or nearly 12 percent a year without adjusting), including the costs of the wars. Mr. Obama has asked Congress for an increase in total spending next year of 2.2 percent, to $708 billion — 6.1 percent higher than the peak in the Bush administration.

The headline of the article this quote is from may surprise you:

Pentagon Plans Steps to Reduce Budget and Jobs

Don't worry, friends, Congress will most surely beef it up a bit more than Obama requested.

bolstering

The same supreme court that held steadfastly to the principle of free speech when deciding in Citizens United that limitations on corporate political publications or advertisements were unconstitutional due to their chilling effect on speech, has now decided that offering advice on peaceful conflict resolution and nonviolence to designated terrorist groups is a jailable offence under the material support clause of the PATRIOT act. The big question in my mind upon this development is whether open letters to terrorist groups would run afoul of the law?

A funny aspect of this story is how few articles about the decision in the media actually mention or identify that the statute in question is part of the PATRIOT act. Not even the liberal NY Times made mention of it.

Roberts is quoted as saying such support "— even seemingly benign support — bolsters the terrorist activities of that organization." I have yet to determine if it would also embolden them too.

Legos

planes & trains

this is a fairly interesting article that among other things argues for nuclear power and poo poos choo choos.

pics

Not getting enough pix of hs girls in bikinis at home? Don't worry, the JS is here to help.

nacl is wacl

sue baby sue

run baby run

spill baby spill

fiss baby fiss

smoke baby smoke

drill baby drill

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or text, just pictures. in honor of this.

The smut epidemic and the moral decline of America

Thank goodness there are still some law enforcement officers with the balls to stand up to the increasingly widespread and brazen smut peddlers.

Thank the lord there is still plenty of wholesome family entertainment.

So Long Thomas Jefferson

According to the Texas Board of Education, not only reality, but also history, has a liberal bias. Expunged from the record is Thomas Jefferson's role in the revolution, as well as the part of the first amendment regarding freedom of religion. Joe McCarthy is vindicated and students will learn that the participants in the civil rights struggle were not the angels they were made out to be.

pushed through a change to the teaching of the civil rights movement to ensure that students study the violent philosophy of the Black Panthers in addition to the nonviolent approach of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

One interesting change is substituting the word 'constitutional republic' instead of 'democracy' to describe the US govt. Though technically accurate, I'm curious about the reasoning behind it. On the upside since we no longer have a democracy maybe we can no longer export democracy to others..

1000 pts of light

Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell

Tea parties

I think this here is one of the better descriptions of the tea party/GOP relationship I have seen.