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I find the We're-boycotting-Whole-Foods-Because-of-that-WSJ-Op-Ed pathetic and sad. (The sad being because, without the free exchange of ideas, we're all cooked.) So my reaction is skewed toward shaking my head, not laughing. However... this video got me quickly past that. Check out the "I am a secret dissident" motif the guy chose. The hood. The shades. The Witness Protection Program voice distortion. He's word than the Ron Paul guys that use to wear the Guy Fawkes masks after V for Vendetta came out.

Anyhoo, enjoy the show!

Left finally remembers it's NOT COOL to call Israelis "Nazis"

I don't remember much in the way of outrage on the left when these sorts of things were happening in San Francisco :

Now, thanks to Obama's rapidly-collapsing "Healthcare" "plan" ... one lone idiot yelling "Heil Hitler" merits national condemnation!

In the future, I hope these leftie types remember that the whole Nazi/Israeli thing is just no longer cool.

(Originally posted on my other blog.)

Obama is Bipolar (explains a lot...)

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

Barbara Boxer Protest at Barnes and Noble, San Jose

Our local left conspiracy guy did have a few nice pictures, though with snarkly little comments. Most of the snark is about "important" thinks like making note of peoples' weight and such.

Here's some of the pictures that I though were worth your notice :

[caption id="attachment_619" align="aligncenter" width="417" caption="No astroturf here - just plain old folks!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_610" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Cartoony, make-belive care was available for those who can't wait for Obama's cartoony, made up plan to be implemented. (Seemed like a nice kid.)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_614" align="aligncenter" width="463" caption="I noticed Green Peace Helmet Guy in the "Lucy" picture. I wish I'd seen him... or at least that someone had posted a better picture of him. Drat. I wonder if his helmet works like a tinfoil deflector beanie."][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_612" align="aligncenter" width="266" caption="If it weren't for the book-signings, Boxer would be on a milk carton by now. "Have You Seen Me?""][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_620" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Nay KoolAId!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_617" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Oh No! The sayings of Obama are being Mocked!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_611" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="One of the cool things about this protest : there were a few handfuls of scattered opposition of various stripes... but none of them were shoved around or harassed. Heck, the only thing close to that I witnessed even close to that was a guy in an Obama shirt that just would leave a couple of anti-Boxer protesters in peace (not the other 'way). That was just words, though."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_615" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="Yup. Here's the "angry mob" the Democrats warned you about in that ad of theirs. Oh, and Nazis, just like Nancy Pelosi told you! COming up next : Obama will tell you about the Evil Monkey that lives in your closet!"][/caption]

(Part I)

Note: this was originally published on my other blog.

Psycho Donut break for Obama

(Original poto from - here)

Gorby vs Zombie Stalin - Russian Music Video Tour de Force!

GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom Stern on Vimeo.

Human Mirror

Johnny Gordon

"Effects shop fulfills amputee's mermaid dream"

This is awesome.

Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid.

Ms Vessey's mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic tail. She was astounded when they agreed.

She lost both legs below the knee from a medical condition when she was a child and told Close Up last night her long-held dream had come true. "A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable with it and you have to mentally make it part of yourself," she said.

Ms Vessey told a little boy: "I'm a little mermaid" when he asked what happened to her legs and the idea stuck.

"There, I fixed it"

... a blog that documents epic kludges ...

They should get a duct tape sponsorship or something...

Obamacare - Savin money 4 U!

Wake Up People!!!!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Pelosi cries... NAZI!

The Anchoress has a nice run-down of Pelosi's latest embarrassment...

Obama vs. Math

Basic 'rithmetic from the National Review :

Funding the new health-care plan on the backs of households making $200,000 or more per year would require permanently increasing their annual total tax payments by about 50 percent. So, for example, a household that currently pays $50,000 in federal income taxes would need to pay another $25,000. Remember, however, that Social Security and Medicare already face enormous shortfalls. Shoring up these programs — another Obama campaign promise — would require collecting 328 percent more tax revenue from the rich. No, we didn’t forget a decimal point: That is three hundred and twenty-eight percent.

Most households making between $200,000 and $500,000 per year would not have enough money to pay their federal, state, and local tax bills, much less eat. Rich households in California or New York would not be able to pay their tax bills regardless of their incomes. And a family of four living in a low-tax state (South Dakota) would need to gross almost $900,000 per year to have enough income left over to reach the poverty line. In fact, there is no mathematical configuration of taxes on the current rich alone — including additional levies on the “super-rich” making more than $1 million per year — that is compatible with putting the nation’s entitlement programs and the new health-care plan on a sustainable course.

A Bit of Politcal Jujitsu

Take a look at - GOP turns tables on Democrats:

The DNC released a Web video early in the morning accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity at town hall meetings.

At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC's main number to voice their concern about the DNC's charges are told to press 1, which sends them to the DNC's main switchboard.

(Of course it turns out the the original charges by the DNC were bogus (the Vast Conspiracy was a facebook group with 23 people). Still, even if that wasn't the case, this forwarding trick would be a thing of beauty.)

Explaining the "Joker" Obama Poster

"patriots4u", posting at nj.com seems to explain it well :

It seems interesting to me to portray the POTUS as someone who used the people in the society not only to gain a pile of money just to destroy it, but also to pit one class of society against another in the hopes that they destroy each other. (The two boats equipped with a button to blow the other up is just one example)

We can only hope that like in the ending of the movie, we can all find it within ourselves to make the moral decision and not destroy others for the sake of saving ourselves.

Sound familiar? It should.

My new and improved Obama Joker Poster!

... and about time, too. How many copies of this image do I need on one blog page? I mean REALLY?

The best possible caption for this image

How about a magic trick?



I'm gonna make the deficit disappear.

When in doubt, yell "RACISM" real loud

Way to go, Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, denounced the image and called on those behind it to reveal themselves. "Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery.

The entire quote is boring and whine-y... I only reproduce it 'cuz the term "spoofery" amuses me. Who says that? Spooooooooooooooooooooooooof-er-y.

The liberal tabloid "LA Weekly", which depicted George W. Bush, the former president, as Dracula on its cover in 2004, denounced the Obama-Joker poster as virulently racist.

Hee hee... Media Matters is wingeing about the MSM even mentioning the image. (Neglecting to mention that the MSM was reporting that the image had gone viral, not that it was seen in LA. Typical MM.)

The phrase "can dish it out, but not take it" comes to mind.

The Why was Joe Biden at the "Beer Summit"?

Interesting take here:

Given that the meeting was over in the blink of an eye, it was little better than theater. But theater is vital in politics, and Biden's presence turned the play into something altogether more reassuring. The white man was not outnumbered by the black.

Why is this important? I venture that in Obama's careful calibration of his post-racial America there is always a fear of white fear. He is exquisitely sensitive to white-- particularly non-elite white--impressions of his occupancy of the White House. He is eager not to disconcert Middle America, and had blundered only days before in his intervention in the Gates-Crowley affair. This ruffled many whites: They were taken aback, disquieted and were reminded, perhaps, of Obama's remarks about bitter and intolerant small-town voters who cling to their faith and guns, made before the Pennsylvania primary.

Update:

It doesn't have much to do with the article, but I like this picture anyway.

Obama / Joker - "Why so socialist?"

Any odd mix of messages. (A better caption might be more along the lines of "Some men just want to watch the world burn.") I think it's funny that folks like the guy at the LA Weekly have declared it ... racist! Could their knees jerk any faster? "White face" doesn't always mean "Minstral Show"; it can mean ... clowns. For that matter... Goths. Or... Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sheesh.

It's also very odd that lots of the news articles about the picture in El Lay don't actually show the picture. The only example of similar that comes to mind is that of the Danish Muslim cartoons.

Obama FINALLY releases his real birth certificate

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Red State Update on "Birtherism"

Tattoo'd Texas Librarians!

Yep, you too can own a calendar full of 'em!

Live mice grown from adult stem cells

News today has spread about new stem cell research out of China. Two teams used mouse fibroblasts, a kind of cell found in skin connective tissues, to create induced pluripotent skin cells (iPS), which were then used to create living mice.

... Their breakthrough research suggests that both cloning full animals from stem cells and the creation of completely pluripotent stem cells from skin cells are both not only possible, but a current reality. ...

The first task for either study was to create stem cells from non stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, controversial because they often come from the destruction of live embryos, are what is called "pluripotent," which means they can become any cell in the body. To be able to create cells that act like embryonic stem cells, without the embryo part, opens to door to a fascinating and less-controversial field of medical research, including organ repair or even full organ replacements that are guaranteed to match the host's body. Just imagine never having to look for donors for bone marrow or a heart, and you can get the idea of how amazing this research could be.

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However, the fact that these stem cells were able to be pluripotent, even 1.1% of the time, gives a lot of hope to future medical research. Indeed, we might just be able to create tissues or organs on demand from a patient's own cells in the next 50 years, which would save the lives of many suffering from a variety of diseases. More interestingly, however, is that these cloned animals may lead to a better understanding of how cells develop, divide, and fail, leading to breakthroughs in prevention and treatments of conditions like cancer instead of just patches to prolong life after the disease has set in.

Have a look over at Observations of a Nerd for lots of details. Wow!

Clothes made from ... Coffee Grounds?

Dude!

A company from Taiwan named Singtex Industries discovered a way to turn used coffee grounds into wearable yarn!

It's called S. Café tm fabric, and it's the brainchild of a few research scientists who also double as coffee connoisseurs. Singtex Industries general manager Jason Yen and three fellow scientists basically created a process that recycles coffee grounds into tiny-sized particles. These particles are then woven together to create the S. Café tm fabric, which can be used for both knitted and woven clothing. A single cup of coffee can make two T-shirts.

The best aspect about this fabric is that it's fast –drying, it doesn't smell and it even protects you from UV rays!

-- from Greenopolis