Tank the Horse

This is a big and aptly-named horse. The groom walking alongside Tank was a girl who was at least six-feet tall.

It's Our Money They Are Spending

Today, there was news about a foreign aid bill Senator Obama is proposing. According to the news accounts, the bill will cost us $845 Billion MORE than we are spending today. That means it will cost every man, woman and child in the country $2,817 EACH to pay for the Senator's bill. Think about that for a second. If there are four pepole in your family, the bill costs your family more than $10,000. Or two nice vacations to Disneyland or one year's college tuition at a state college or five year's worth of IRA contributions or the entire cost of leasing a midsize car for four years! In other words, it amounts to real money to an average American family.

If it passes, I may refer to it as the Ginormous Economic Stimulus Package since it is more than FIVE TIMES the size of our own economic stimulus package!

For you skeptics, here is my math: $845,000,000,000 divided by 300,000,000 Americans = $2,817 each.

Cool But ....Where Will The Debris Land?

The Pentagon has decided it will attempt to shoot down a satellite before it re-enters the earth's atmosphere (should I capitalize 'earth'?).

This is cool news especially since I put a new HD TV in my office with cable in December. Why just last week I was complaining because there have been no big catastrophes to watch while I am working (that is what I call it anyway).

Oh and to get back to the satellite...where will the debris land? Back in space where it might hit and maybe cripple other satellites and then we will have to shoot them down or here on earth on someone's head?

My New Back Yard

Phils Add Another Arm....

....but check out the new arm's wife and especially her legs. Anna Benson- wife or former wife of new Phils pitcher.

USS Forestal Disaster

John McCain survived this disaster which started when another pilot accidentally shot McCain's plane on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forestal in 1967.

Hattip to the commenters on the great blog www.althouse.blogspot.com

Can't Wait To See How The Philly Inquirer Plays This

Governor Fat Eddie Rendell suggests Dems should vote for Clinton because many white voters are not ready to vote for a black candidate. Fat Eddie goes on to say that is one reason he beat Lynn Swann by 22 points in the last governor's election.

Jeez- I don't recall Fat Eddie bringing up his "racial advantage" during the campaign.

[Hattip to Instapundit and Ace of Spades.]

Patti Solis Doyle ........

..........is the youngest of six children and her parents are illegal immigrants from Mexico! She grew up in Chicago, is married to a Harvard Law Schoolgrad, has managed a presidential campaign and is only 43 years old. What a great country we live in ! ...Then how come all we ever do is bitch and moan?

That is what Wikipedia says. I am not making it up. Just click on the post title to go to Doyle's Wikipedia entry.

Dittoes To This Columnist

Click on the post and read this OPED by Melanie Scarborough re college costs.
She asked a good question- why should the government continue to give big dollars to colleges when the colleges have ginormius endowments?

For example, Harvard has $35 BILLION in its endowment and even the University of Delaware has $1 Billion.

Under My Thumb - The Stones

Fun At Confession

Funny funny YouTube video!!

Drunkensteins

I think this is a great name for a bar!

And the bastards turned down the guy's application to open a bar with that name in Tempe, Arizona. No wonder he was pissed.

Shouldn't The Media Be Asking For Candidate's Tax Returns?

I see Obama is asking that Hillary release her tax returns- Obama said he released his own already. Isn't that the media's job to scratch and claw and ask for that kind of stuff?

Penguin Joke

Check out this Penguin joke as told by monkeys in a bar (If that does not get your interest, I give up).

Scrappleface Pleads For Rebate Checks For Hillary's Campaign Staff

This guy Scott Ott is funny. Click on the post where Ott aka Scrappleface reports Harry Reid is trying to expedite the economic stimulus package because Hillary Clinton's campaign staff needs the money!

Heath Ledger- Sad But Dumb

The story says Ledger died from an accidental overdose of SIX different prerscription medicines. Sad story BUT JUST FRIGGING STUPID.

Is That Like Being A Little Pregnant?

A Little Exuberant...this is what Hillary Clinton replied when she was asked if she regrets making a promise to add 200,000 new jobs to western New York state. Clinton made this promise in her first senate campaign in 2000. Here is the money quote from the news story today.

START OF STORY: February 4, 2008 BRIDGETON, Mo. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Sunday that she “might have been a little exuberant” when she predicted she could bring 200,000 jobs to Western New York as a senator but stressed that she would do a far better job on economic issues than her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

In an interview with The Buffalo News after a town hall meeting on economic issues in this St. Louis suburb, the New York senator blamed Republicans for getting in the way of her economic plans and criticized both Obama and the GOP presidential front-runner, Sen. John McCain, for their approach on economic issues.

Asked if she regretted her 2000 campaign pledge, Clinton said: “Well, I might have been a little exuberant, but I thought we could do it.” END OF STORY.

Will Dem Voters Be The New Racists?

I predict Clinton will beat Obama and win the majority of tomorrow's Democratic party primaries. Will the MSM paint the Dem voters as the "New Racists" for choosing a white woman over a black man?

Afterall, that is how the MSM paints Republican voters when they tend to have an almost all-white slate of candidates. Guess we will see if my prediction is correct and Clinton does win tomorrow.

Terrelle Pryor .......Future Super Bowl QB

Great picture from the Philly Inquirer's Photog, Ron Cortes!

Chester's Rahlir Jefferson drives to the basket between Jeannette's Terrelle Pryor (left) and Shaw Sunder. Jefferson scored nine points in the Clippers' 80-70 win over the Hawks, despite 21 points by Pryor, a two-sport star.

FYI- Pryor is the number one football recruit in the country. OSU, Michigan, Penn State, etc are hot to get the 6'6", 225 Lb. QB to come to their school.

Wing Bowl

One of these years, I will go to see Wing Bowl in person. Why? Because I think it is just a Philly event which you should see at least once. You know like the Mummers Parade.