usta be a bad thing

A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear ...It also prohibits exposed underwear…

yet another reason I remain self-employed.  I can wear my thong as a scrunchie if’n I wanna.

[simmer down, now—a scrunchie is a hair ornament]

long-term goals

Chris Dodd on teh raadio nooz:

“A firm too big to fail is a firm too big to leave unmonitored.”

So what is the best way to swat a fly? Here are 10 suggestions.

1. Do it early in the day, says Max Barclay, an insect expert at the Natural History Museum. “Because they are cold-blooded, the reactions of insects depend on the temperature of the air. Early in the morning or in the evening they will be a bit dopey, but in the heat of the day they will be very quick.” But expect failure. Barack Obama was probably quite lucky, unless he’s been practising. “Nine times out of 10, a human will come off second best. Flies have a phenomenal barrage of senses, half of which we don’t have.”

2. Approach from behind, goes one theory, because flies take off backwards. Anecdotal evidence suggests some people find this a successful method. But the fact that flies have 360-degree vision and can jump in any direction makes it improbable.
Fly
Flies usually outwit humans

3. Aim ahead, rather than at, the fly say researchers in the US, who found that within milliseconds of sensing a threat, flies get their body ready to take off forward, backwards or sideways. “Given that they are going to be jumping away from the swat, it’s best to aim slightly ahead of it,” says Michael Dickinson, of the California Institute of Technology. Although how far ahead depends on the speed of the fly. He’s been studying take-offs for five years, using video that provides 5,400 frames a second of a fly’s precise motion when threatened with a swatting.

4. The old-fashioned slap, now known as The Barack.....................

no. rly.

...big vehicles such as the Ford Expedition and Chevy Tahoe are in tight supply…

Dealers… are concerned that they could run short of profitable trucks if the economy improves in the second half of the year. Their supply of cars – particularly compacts – remains high, they say.

out of the closet

WTH?!?

[LAT reportage:]

Nancy Pelosi of California came off horribly; after her very vocal, very public argument with the Central Intelligence Agency over what she knew when about surfboarding or something.

Her unfavorable rating now stands at 46%…

Which is pretty much the way they covered it all along…

It also means—are you sitting down?—departed Republican scold Dick Cheney is now more popular among Americans than Nancy Pelosi.

uhm… yeah.

ok - it’s a start...

So you disapprove/approve less of all the particular decisions ∏eh W∅n makes—but think he’s, overall, doing a swell job?  What is it you like, exactly?  The ever-so-elegant way he “uh.... uhm.... er.....“‘s his way through an unscripted speech?  The ever-so-graceful way he whacks his head boarding Marine One?  The “smart” way he stacks his hooves on the “Resolution Desk” [which is, like, only a hunnert years old, yanno]?

Is it the aplomb with which he catches flies?  What?

The numbers are changing—among those who still have a phone or an address enabling them to be polled by the NYT—to reflect the concept that knitting money out of unicorn hair, which your grandchildren will pay for, only to throw it away on graft and the confusion of social engineering with sane public policy may not be the best idea.

...or as the LAT put it;

New Obama polls: Nice guy but—Wow!—what a spender!

...or as that cretin Maher put it;

“Sure, Obama....  You’re skinny and in a hurry and in love with a nice lady....

But so’s Lindsay Lohan.”

Wheels. On. Fire.

Climate of Corruption, that is.

The dispute comes as Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into the abrupt firings within the last week of two other inspectors general, one of whom was fired by the White House and the other by the chair of the International Trade Commission.

No, not rancid, putrid, stinking, fetid, acrid, gagging, maggoty, foul, malodorous, reeking, rotten, offensive, mephitic, odiferous, putrid, rancid, rank, funky, nauseating, repellent, repulsive, revolting, vile, gross, or grody.
Dear me, what’s the word?
Oh, yeah, Pelosi-scented corruption.
But y’all can do better, surely.
...
More?
You want MORE?
Okay, I gotcha some more.
...and more more.

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...the robust debate that Iranians are having ( * )

Applying for a job with the City of Bozeman? You may be asked to provide more personal information than you expected.

That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city’s background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.

The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person’s “background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records.”

“Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,” the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.

But wait! It gets worse…

No one has ever removed his or her name from consideration for a job due to the request.......

FARK

let’s see him do this:

“He isn’t the Buddha, he’s a human being and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.”

I know. Down is up....Obama’s a human being....

A dog made famous for its heroics in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has succesfully been cloned by BioArts, a California-based company.

Trakr, a German Sheppard rescue dog from Nova Scotia, helped rescue victims at Ground Zero eight years ago. The dog actually pulled the last remaining survivor from the rubble itself, and his owner, James Symington, believes that was merely one example of Trakr’s abilities.

“His heroic work at Ground Zero was just a culmination of his amazing career,” Symington said.

But in 2008, as Trakr aged, he became ravaged by multiple diseases. Symington then saw an advertisement for a contest sponspored by BioArts and decided to submit Trakr’s story to the company. The contest’s prize: cloning one lucky dog free of charge to its owner.

CEO Louis Hawthorne believes Trakr’s past accomplishments made him the winner.

“We expected that the winner would be an exceptional pet,” Hawthorne said. “Maybe he would have rescued Timmy from a well. But we didn’t think it would be anything of the historical significance that Trakr played. That blew us away.”......

Drudge

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...when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it’s of concern to the American people.

ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation… including a paid-for alternative viewpoint...

socialism does make the people stupider

[Inventor] John Cornock...42, from Swindon, said:  “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”

Mr Cornock has clearly never read a Jack Reacher book.

Purple Avenger

in a word:  morons

A comment on the vid below:

I am supporting Obama on this one. The only ppl who say Obama did wrong was some Republican news channel (fox).

How ya gonna argue with logyk like that?  How ya gonna educate that kind of ignorance and apathy?  How ya gonna counter that blind trust in the [formerly] Free Press?

Here’s the vid.  [I especially like the part where Glenn gives Walpin a senility test ] [good bkgd for those who missed story details]

yet absent ...

Jonah Goldberg speaks to ∏eh R∅∅kie:

Reportedly, you are biding your time, waiting to see what happens, as if it is a great mystery.…

You and your team promised “soft power” and “smart power.” How about moral power?

Run, Statist!  Run!!

WTH isn’t Congress objecting to being told shown that it is obsolete?  Do they not get it?  Are they busy worrying about fish sandwiches?!?  Is someone holding their poodles hostage? 

Or was it this action?

A summary of President Barack Obama’s regulatory plan, “Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation.”

--Creates Financial Services Oversight Council, which would coordinate activities among regulators ...

--Strengthens laws designed to protect “unsophisticated parties” from trading derivatives “inappropriately.”

--Gives the Fed more power over the infrastructure that governs these markets, such as payment and settlement systems. ...

--Creates a mechanism that allows the government to take over and unwind large, failing financial institutions.

--Creates a formal process for deciding when to invoke this power, which could be initiated by the Treasury, Fed, FDIC or SEC.

It goes on.  ...and on and on.

“I have always been a strong believer in the power of the free market,” Obama says in remarks prepared for delivery at the White House this afternoon. “We seek to put in place rules that will allow our markets to promote innovation while discouraging abuse.”

How many times must we be forced to trot this out? “I do not think that term means what you think it means.”

“There are no new eras - only old eras that go to new excesses.”
-- Robert J. Farrell