“What we’re trying to do is make them (taxes and premiums) go up less.... Nobody’s ever said we’re going to bring the costs down.”

Well...that certainly makes it all better now doesn’t it.

I am now officially a well-informed voter. My trust in ObamaCare has been restored.

Good job, Congressman Yarmuth.

The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down.

Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.

~ * ~

A document leaked to The Washington Post last week showed that nearly three dozen lawmakers have come under scrutiny this year by either the House ethics committee or the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog created in 2008 at the insistence of Pelosi…

New post title: Two jihadis walk into a bear.
The first Muslim says, “Achmed, you want some pudding? Achmed? Achmed?”
Bats fly past.
[insert ominous music here]

A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den..., police say.
...
The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise - police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.

Bummer, dudes!
[insert bear arms joke here]

15 year-old actress Dakota Fanning is also a celebrity in her high school. Fanning, a cheerleader at Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood, was crowned homecoming princess at a football game on Friday.

Agent Bedhead, natch.

Close the book.

There are almost 2,000 pages to a Comprehensive Health Care Reform Bill introduced on the House floor by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

If you dont want to read the document, and your a fan of Republican Congressman John Shimkus, he is reading it for you.  He says he’s doing that so his constituents can “have a life, like go to church or a sausage supper.”

“Constituents are really demanding that.  I think rightly so.  I wanted to use the new technology by tweeting.  I’ve had a lot of comments because people were following me” said

Congressman Shimkus is posting his comments about the package on his Twitter page.

He told KMOX’s Mark Reardon he’s not finished with his page-by-page effort.  “I’m half way through, at 1,042” He has over 800 pages to go. 

*clap*clap*clap*

Demonstrators march protesting against former President George W. Bush near Tokyo Dome where Bush is visiting to watch a Japan Series baseball game in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. The black banner at top reads: “Arrest Bush.”

In other news…

Voters for the first time are blaming President Obama nearly as much as President Bush for the country’s continuing economic problems.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 49% still blame the economic situation on the recession that began under Bush. But 45% now say the nation’s economic problems are caused more by Obama’s policies.

Bold.  Daring.  Edgy.

Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012.

The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro because he is “against organised religion”, he was fearful of the Islamic religious decree for a sequence that was planned but not shot.

The 53-year-old wanted to demolish the Kaaba, which is a cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca and is the centre of prayers and the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage.

And he’s absolutely correct.  He’d get his ass fatwa’d faster than Salman Rushdie in a Jewish brewery.  He openly and freely acknowledges that you can get away with dire insults to Christian symbolism that you just can’t even consider where the so-called “religion of peace” is concerned.

I think it’s safe to assume most of Hollywood and, indeed most of the Left, understands this.  They, who hold their creative freedoms above all other considerations, voluntarily rein them in where Islam is concerned.  And yet...and yet.  They still insist that Christianity and its proponents are the greater evil.

I’d write them off as chickenshits, but chickenshit is actually useful and I’ve got the garden to prove it.

If you’ve the time to read it, I recommend Instapunk’s take on another aspect of the Hollywood/Islam intersection.

WZ

stupid should hurt

Our safety net has become a drag net, catching up the stupid along with the deserving.

Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20 ... one in five children rely on food stamps for years.

Only about 67% of people who are eligible for food stamps actually receive them ...

Here’s a question for those collecting food stamps:  Do you have a cell fone / gym membership / cable/satellite TV / Sirius radio in your new Escalade / drink more than 1 Starbux a day week month?

[Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation] “There’s no evidence that even consistent poverty in the U.S. produces a nutritional risk,” he says, noting that rich and poor children tend to have about the same intake of protein, vitamins and minerals.

Food stamp eligibility for a family of four:
-- Monthly gross income: $2,389 or less
--Cash resources, such as a bank account: $2,000

Just for the record; I believe it’s a Good Thing to help folks out if some horrific, sudden thing befalls them.  Churches and various non-profits do a grand job of it; but they often have requirements, like budgeting, job searching and generally not making stupid choices.  They do that out of respect for those who gave them the money to help others.  The gubbmint has no such respect for those “giving” the money because it was not given.  It was taken.

For those who don’t speak HTML, that’s a color code for this:

What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? [...] To determine this, astronomers computationally averaged the light emitted by one of the largest sample of galaxies yet analyzed: the 200,000 galaxies of the 2dF survey. The resulting cosmic spectrum has some emission in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, but a single perceived composite color.

All of which confirms what the left already knew: with the exception of themselves, the vast majority of the entire universe is racist.

#442: banner ads.
#74: houseflies.

I’m not sure how to feel about this.  On one hand, I should be nervous when things I hate start finding synergy, because it suggests sooner or later someone will propose a federal bailout (#26) for the surviving members of N’Sync (#312).

On the other hand, it makes the little bastards really easy to spot and kill.  You could almost sit in the crowd with a BB pistol and play ack-ack.

killmenow

In the year 1984 came a revolutionary movie following in the foorsteps of ‘Rocky’. The movie called, ‘The Karate Kid’, had Ralph Machchio in the lead, and also made him the new boy of tinsel town. Now the movie is set to be made again by the ‘Hancock’ star, Will Smith, and will be having Will’s son in the lead role. Jaden Smith, will be working alongside, Jackie Chan who will play the character of ‘Mr Miyagi’, but with a new name. The new movie is set to release on the 11th Of June 2010, and is named, ‘The Kung-Fu Kid’…

The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty:
A Seattle Action Network
This week is all we have. LET’S FIGHT!

It is on! Representative Michele Bachmann is holding a press confererence in D.C. this Thursday and is asking people from all over the nation to show up on the steps with her. We’ve got fellow patriots from WA flying out to rise to this challenge. Jane Citizen from Everett will attend and you can email her your letters to Congress and she will hand deliver them for you! There are also many, many opportunities for you to be active this week. All info below. Please spread this around like wildfire!
Letters to Congress
Email your *handwritten* letters to Congress to standtheground@renewliberty.com by TUESDAY evening and Jane Citizen will hand deliver them on Thursday in D.C. If you think you can make the trip to D.C. to join Representative Bachmann and others on the steps of the Capitol, then email Diana Reimer at philatppatriots@gmail.com or Debbie Dooley debbie0040@yahoo.com for information.

You can also fax your *handwritten* letters to Tea Party Patriot Diana at 678-302-5377 and she will hand deliver them as well. Want to know who to write to? Write to your representative and senators and as many Blue Dog Democrats and moderates as possible! All that contact info can be found at http://teapartywa.org/ on the home page, you just need to scroll down a bit. Or, you can find the contact info at http://www.freedomworks.org/online-war-room.

Activities for this week, November 2nd - November 6th
For all activities happening this week in our area, please click here: http://bit.ly/1QZ5SK. Please, please, please take the time to read through the activities and to fax or email your letters, and to call Congress this week.

Pelosi wants a vote by the end of the week and if we do not act swiftly and strongly, Obama may be signing this health care monstrosity by Monday. Literally.

As always, all of this information, and more, can be found at http://teapartywa.org/. You can also email me at redistributingknowledge@gmail.com or Sally at sally.oljar@gmail.com if you have any questions at all.

The Olympia Tea Party hosted Tea Party Express last Friday and almost 5,000 people showed up. Imagine if each of those 5,000 called and wrote letters this week. Imagine the impact we could have.

Lastly, the media seems to be ignoring the buildup to Thursday’s events in D.C. If you can, call the local media outlets and the national networks to ask if they are aware of what is going on. If they are not, go ahead and help them out.  :-)

In Liberty,

Liberty Belle

Halliburton Silver Spring n’ stuff

Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts....

Whoever gave this guy his first clout actually legitimized this mook for the rest of history. Sigh.

country pork ribs with BBQ sauce
mashed potatoes with roasted garlic (no screamy drama, Claire:)

but this:

* 1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
* 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 2 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 large eggs
* 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
* 1 cup fresh corn kernels including the pulp scraped from the cobs(cut from about 2 ears of corn)
* 1 1/2 cups grated sharp Cheddar
* 3 scallions, sliced thin

Grease a jelly-roll pan, 15 1/2 by 10 1/2 by 1 inch. Into a bowl sift together the cornmeal, the flour, the sugar, the baking powder, the baking soda, and the salt. In a small bowl beat together the eggs and the buttermilk. To the cornmeal mixture add the buttermilk mixture, the corn, the Cheddar, and the scallions, stir the batter until it is just combined, and pour it into the pan, spreading it evenly. Bake the corn bread in the middle of a preheated 425°F. oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.

It has corn in it.

Gotta love this guy.

In his rush to humble America in the eyes of the world, he strives to placate every mook coming down the midway with a bullied nation in their hip pocket and in turn supplant them in the villain column with a national news agency whose most egregious error would appear to be not swooning every time he opens his “wiser than thou” piehole to speak in encyclical.

What’s wrong with this picture? The waiting room outside Dr. Obama’s Snake Oil Emporium is populated by the likes of General McChrystal, the Dalai Lama and Fox News, meanwhile Kadaffi, Chavez and Aqua-velvajad are walking around backstage with All-Access laminates. Not since Lana Turner hooked up with Johnny Stompanato has a great star exhibited such poor taste in men.

Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!

Serr8d

and for those of my more contemporary readers…

Rodgie and Agent Bedhead (in that order)

...ayuhhh ... uhm...

*clicky* for larger

Teh iWon—it eye brow bounces… *shudder* *Clicky* for your own personalized Uh-bambi weather forecast—this may be the most useful he’s ever been. 

AD

After eight years working at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, including two years as its director, Abby Johnson suddenly decided that she could no longer participate in abortions. What pushed Johnson out was both an ultrasound of an abortion and a renewed emphasis on the cash-generating business in the failing economy. After being told to deemphasize prevention and market for abortions, Johnson finally had enough…

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
9. Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
10. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
(cont’d BTF)
I especially like #75: killing school kids, if you don’t comply

via PowerLine

Ford, the only Detroit automaker to dodge direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter and forecast a “solidly profitable” 2011.

fix this to make us saaaafer

... new research [suggests] individuals born with a certain variant of a gene don’t stay on the road as well as their counterparts. ...30 percent of Americans ....

“These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away,” ...

Which could encompass a lot of tasks.  The studied group was 30 individuals.  Combine this kind of ‘knowledge’ with the deep, collective financial interest we have in one another through a gubbmint owned/run “health care” system and *yeesh*

While meeting someone new yesterday I extended my hand for the customary greeting but was told that she was just recovering from a cold and did not want to pass on any stray germs during our exchange.

How thoughtful of her! And then it dawned on me. Why hadn’t we used the Michelle Obama fist bump? Most germs are in the palm area of our hands (the moist places) so a fist bump would not carry as much of a risk.

Unfortunately I thought of this idea later so my extended hand being rebuffed was sort of an awkward moment that could have been avoided had I been thinking faster.

New rule: Let’s fist bump when greeting others.

The H1N1 microbes and conspiracy theorists might be annoyed but that’s OK with me.

GAIL JAMES, Lacey

eyeballs

“The environment” is the most ingenious cover story for Big Government ever devised. You float a rumour that George W. Bush is checking up on what library books you’re reading, and everyone goes bananas. But announce that a government monitoring device has been placed in every citizen’s trash can in the cause of “saving the planet,” and the world loves you.

...At their Monday night poker game in hell, I’ll bet Stalin, Hitler and Mao are kicking themselves: “ ‘It’s about leaving a better planet to our children?’ Why didn’t I think of that?” This is Two-Ply Totalitarianism—no jackboots, no goose steps, just soft and gentle all the way. Nevertheless, occasionally the mask drops and the totalitarian underpinnings become explicit. Take Elizabeth May’s latest promotional poster: “Your parents f*cked up the planet. It’s time to do something about it. Live Green. Vote Green.” As Saskatchewan blogger Kate McMillan pointed out, the tactic of “convincing youth to reject their parents in favour of The Party” is a time-honoured tradition.

From the fluffy-save-the-panda people:

To avoid dangerous climate change and build climate resilience, the way society is structured will need to change fundamentally - from investment patterns to development programs. This cannot be accomplished by a fragmented set of existing institutions.

Someone remind me . . .

Why is it we allow the gubbmint to:
1] tell US what time it is and
B] jerk us around by changing it twice a year for no apparent reason?

yummmm

Heading into a long day of horse play, yet expecting 8 for dinner afterwards, I wondered whatinhell I could make to go along with the BBQ tri tip The Mister was making.[There was caesar salad in there, too] [The Mister only does the meat.  period.] Then it struck me:

Hack up some taters bite sizeish - enough to feed ‘em all [add in a couple more] [no peeling - just hacking]
Hack up enough onions to go with ‘em - big pieces
Put all that in one layer in a baking dish [or 2] and drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper.
[here’s the inspiration part]
Top with half-slices of bacon—not solid, but not chintzy either.

Bake at 350° or so for half an hour.
Serve with ketchup and/or sour cream.

I’d show ya a picture but they’re gone!