Flag Day 2008

David Stern Will Not Be Happy - Obama Tax Plan Will Cost Pro Sports Teams & Players

Senator Obama has proposed eliminating the earnings ceiling on the social security tax. That means highly-paid pro athletes and their employers will get socked for millions more in social security taxes.

For example, the New York Knicks had a player payroll of almost $90 Million this year. They will pay about 6% of that in added social security taxes if Obama becomes president and his plan is enacted. Therefore, the Knick team owners will pay $5.5 Million more and the Kmicks players will pay about $5.5 Million more. Under social security rules, the employer pays 6.2% of payroll and the employee pays another 6.2%.

So an NBA team and its players with let's say $90 Million in player salaries will pay about $11 Million to Uncle Sam just to cover increased social security taxes under Senator's Obama plan. There are thirty NBA teams so this will cost the NBA about $330 Million per year or more than $3 Billion over ten years! The league has approximately 450 players. Senator Obama's plan will cost the average player (over ten years) $3.6 Million!

This $11 Million figure will be even greater if we tally up the increased social security taxes for highly paid coaches, general managers, etc. Will Senator Obama's tax plan cause inflation? Can you say "higher ticket prices"?

Ann Curry Saves Lives?

Question: NBC’s Ann Curry seems to be everywhere these days—the Today show, Dateline, guest-anchoring the Nightly News, and traveling to places like Antarctica. Does she have a life outside of work?—Lisa Mackin, Avon, Ohio

Answer: “There are times, to be perfectly honest, when I wish I had more of a life,” says Curry, 51, the wife of businessman Brian Ross and mother of teens McKenzie, 15, and Walker, 13. “But my family knows that my sense of mission requires me to say ‘yes’ whenever I can do something to save lives in places like Bosnia, Darfur, and Congo.” Curry has become such a superstar at NBC that you can expect to see her as part of the network’s election coverage this summer and fall.

Blogger's comment:

Damn - I never knew that folks like Curry and I presume Matt Lauer are out there saving lives! God Bless Our High Paid Talking Heads!

Obama Looks Like A Dweeb In this Photo

Just call me fair and balanced. I posted one great pic of Obama and this one where he looks like a dweeb on a bike.

And then there is this picture which is a bit better:http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamamania-great-american-family.html

News Biz Is Bad Biz

The new owner (Philadelphia Media Holdings) of the Philadelphia Inquirer reportedly missed an interest payment on some subordinated debt.

I have never witnessed a business allow its employees to deliberately sabotage the business and turn away customers. But I believe that is what the liberals who run these papers have done.

The editorial staff and many reporters just don't get it so they continue to write far left-slanting news stories. Do they ever even wonder why the paper's circulation continues to drop?

Sure, I know there are other reasons for the newspapers to lose customers. But the Philadelphia Daily News and The New York Times lost me as a customer some time ago. I was a semi-regular consumer of each paper but got sick and tired of the liberal slant. Letting the employees ruin a newspaper is like a restaurant employing a waiter or bartender who did not bathe or use deodorant. It is nuts!

I predict the Associated Press will be next- its wire stories surely affect the slant of these local papers who pay big fees to the AP for its crappy stories. Evidence: have you ever read "news" stories from the AP's economic writer, Jeannine Aversa? If not, I suggest you do and you will see why I feel the way I do.

Great Picture - click here

Crane Collapse in New York City

My niece lives in the 300 block of E. 91st and the crane collapse was at 333 E. 91st. Same damn block! Fortunately, she was out of her apt and on her way to work on the subway when the crane fell!

Of course, she fielded a bunch of phone calls in her classroom from family, etc asking if she was OK.

{Click on the post title to see some NY Post video}

Bob Dole

I enjoy naked, brutal honesty so I liked this email from Bob Dole to Scott McClellan. Read it - we could use more honesty like this in Washington.

Memorial Day Pics

Memorial Day pictures- like my new flag? Plus you can see a bit of my big front yard behind my truck.

Saying Stuff Like This Is Guaranteed To Get You Votes (Not)

Obama said this today: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

I don't see this statement as a big vote-getter. Of course, Obama is a DEM and I am not. That means his supporters will claim his statement is chock full of nuance and context that I just am not getting.

One in Four Americans Has A Tattoo

This is according to a Fox News survey. But the Inquirer claimed in a Saturday idiotorial that about one in ten voting-age Americans is unable to get a government ID. And it claimed almost all of these sad sacks are Democrats. Jeez if one in four Americans is dumb enough to get a tattoo, how much dumber must the others be if they can't get an ID.

Inquirer link: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080517_Editorial__Voter_ID.html

The Groom left jail alone, sporting a black eye, torn tuxedo pants, a bloody t-shirt and one shoe

What a wedding! This is why, when you get married, it is very important that you wear rented clothes! Don't risk ruining your own hard-earned duds!

Newlyweds jailed after brawl at Pittsburgh-area hotel
Apr 28, 2008
PITTSBURGH (AP) —
A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells — she in her wedding gown — after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel. The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn — and escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said. The melee moved to an elevator and then to the lobby, where the couple threw metal planters at the two good Samaritans, causing minor injuries, police charged. "It was pretty wild," Ross police Sgt. Dave Syska said.

Dentist David W. Wielechowski, 32, of Shaler, and Christa Vattimo, 25, had married a month earlier in the Bahamas but repeated their vows Saturday at a reception for 150 guests. They were checking into their room when the argument began, police said. Police arrived to find the dentist lying on the lobby floor and his bride, seemingly highly intoxicated, screaming. Authorities charged each with simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, and the bride with an additional count of public intoxication. They face a May 7 preliminary hearing. A district judge considered issuing a restraining order against Wielechowski, but his new bride declined the measure. The couple declined comment upon their release Sunday morning.
She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown.
Wielechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.

Another Cop Killed - Dig Deep & Make A Donation Please

Click on my post title to see how you can make a donation; the slain policeman has 3 school-age kids.

My Annual Advice To The New Grads (a reprise)

Just click on the blog title to see a reprise of my advice to today's college grads. I first wrote this in 2005 and re-post every year in May.

Barbara Walters Was Sleeping With A What........

Many Americans were shocked and disgusted to learn that MSM pioneer and TV icon Barbara Walters had an affair thirty years ago with a U.S. Senator and he was...........................................................a Republican! The Horror!

President Obama

Ann Coulter is damn funny. I say this is funny no matter what your politics are:

"If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist nut-job, it will probably take him his full term of office to realize that the U.S. has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaida.

Let's just hope President Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did during 20 years of the Rev. Wright's church services. "

Why The City's Elected Officials Suck

Below is an editorial from the Philadelphia Inquirer today about the demise of a non-profit beloved by the last mayor, John Street. The group probably got more than $200 million from the city in the last 8 years but see the money quote I bolded below: THE INQUIRER SAYS the non-profit "was always known as STREET'S PLAYGROUND". In other words, the city money went to the non-profit and Street's puppets there dished the loot as they saw fit. There is no other way to say this- the Inquirer editorial staff has been a bunch of pussies. They kissed Street's ass while he was in office and now almost five months after he is gone, they finally find the guts to kick him. Don't get me wrong, Street was scum just like most of the other city pols.

Editorial:
Safe and Sound - Over and out
Neither the city's at-risk children nor its taxpayers should miss Philadelphia Safe and Sound when the agency closes its doors. The directors of the nonprofit voted last week to cease operations by June 30. Their action comes while the agency is under continued scrutiny by the city and state into how Safe and Sound spent tens of millions of dollars on after-school and anti-violence programs.

A preliminary report by the state Department of Public Welfare found that Safe and Sound was doing a poor job with taxpayers' money. Among the findings were weak accountability, soaring administrative costs, and spending on programs that did not appear to benefit the most at-risk children. The demise of Safe and Sound culminates Mayor Nutter's mini-crusade against irresponsible spending decisions by his predecessor.

As mayor, John Street pushed through a $21 million increase for the agency, to $75 million, shortly before he left office. Safe and Sound was created in 1998 by then-Mayor Ed Rendell, but it was always known as Street's playground. His wife, Naomi Post Street, ran the agency until 2002.

It received no-bid contracts to coordinate and funnel money to hundreds of youth programs serving 27,000 children. But it's still not clear what value the city got from an outfit that essentially passed through money to other vendors who did the real work. Nutter decided to seek bids for this work, which is what the city should have done years ago.

Soon after Nutter's decision, Safe and Sound officials decided to fold. Chairman Ernest E. Jones said the agency had lost staffers and had no commitment for any funding. If they were so committed to the work they were doing, why not submit a competitive bid for the job? With Safe and Sound closing its doors, Nutter's team must ensure continuity of needed youth programs. The quarrel was never with beneficial programs; it was with rising administrative costs and a lack of accountability.
There isn't much time to evaluate bids and get a new coordinating team up and running. Nutter was correct to raise questions about Safe and Sound, but now he needs to do everything within his power to keep delivering worthwhile services beyond June 30. Neither should Safe and Sound's decision to go out of business stop a full accounting of its past expenditures. The Department of Public Welfare report raised questions about the effectiveness of some youth programs, finding there was a "significant risk" that they were not serving the children most in need of help. The city needs to ensure not only that its money is being spent carefully, but also that the children who are most at-risk receive services that will do them good.

Treemendous Treehouse

How about this treehouse being built on Atwick Street in Baltimore. Look closely - it has one of those "rope bridges" to the house on the left!

We saw the Dad hard at work up there but no sign of the kids who will be using it. What is up with that? Maybe it is gonna be Dad's hangout?

Omar Gets The Keys To His New Home From My Nephew

Habitat For Humanity Home by Loyola College

I attended a ceremony yesterday where Loyola College students had built a home for a Baltimore family. My nephew was the student coordinator for the project and it was the first time a home had been completed in a single school year. I am very proud of him and his schoolmates.

How about these hair styles?

Who cares about another weird Texas cult- that ain't news. But how about these hairdos - a new fashion trend perhaps?

Worst Political Ad Ever

Click on the post title to listen to possibly the worst Philadelphia accent of all time. John Dougherty, union bigwig, was running for state office and this is his ad.

Dougherty's nasally voice had to frigging cost him votes. When I heard this ad on my TV, I was tempted to kick it in. Interestingly, Dougherty sounds a bit like New Yorker sports talk radio host, Jody McDonald.

John Marzano - Rest In Peace

This is a great pic from the Inquirer today of Philly boy, John Marzano. In the picture, Marzano, then playing catcher for the Mariners, is manhandling Paul O'Neill of the Yankees.

Johnny Marz was a popular radio/ TV personality and great baseball analyst for WIP610, Comcast Sportsnet, MLB.com and others. He died suddenly yesterday, was only 45 years old. He will be missed.

Marzano played at Central High and Temple University and played about ten years or so in the big leagues mostly as a backup catcher.

The Old Horse Finished 3rd At Delaware Park.

Here are some pics of Sky Heat which ran at Delaware Park today and finished 3rd in the 2nd race. Her jockey was Jeremy Rose, who had some fame as the rider of Afleet Alex named after the little girl who founded Alex's Lemonade Stand. Enjoy.

Prediction For Pennsylvania Primary

I am here with boots on the ground in Pennsylvania covering all the latest news on the upcoming Pennsylvania primary just four days away (not really doing that; I actually live here).

I predict Clinton will win by fifteen points something like 57 - 42. Yes I know all the media and young voters have literally swooned for Obama but my primary meter predicts Clinton by almost a landslide.

Where is my damn ice cream?

It drives me frigging nuts that the grocery store bags your groceries into as many bags as it can. Don't get me wrong. it's not a green thing- I really don'tgive a damn about the environment. No, it seems if I buy 12 items, they use like 6-8 bags !!!

So tonight I go the freezer to get the ice cream I bought two days ago- and it ain't there. I look on my store receipt and it is there- I paid for it but the stunod policy of these frigging stores must be "Don't overload the bags cause a frigging customer may sue us" and so when I left I must of grabbed just 7 of the 8 bags and left my god-damn ice cream at the store. I may have to kill somebody.

Economic Stimulus Refund _ IRS Scam Alert _ Stimulus Relief _Scam Email

I got this email today asking me to go to a website that will expedite my Economic Stimulus rebate check. The sender was service@irs.gov and was very official looking. Don't follow the instructions but you may want to click on the link to see what they ask for - they are bold and brazen articles as my 2nd grade nun would have said. Below is the email "word for word" and the logo above was on the email! Sophisticated scam IMHO:

START OF EMAIL......

"Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds aspart of President Bush program to jumpstart the economy.Our records indicate that you are qualified to receive the2008 Economic Stimulus Refund.The fastest and easiest way to receive your refund is bydirect deposit to your checking/savings account.Please click on the link and fill out the form and submitbefore April 16th, 2008 to ensure that your refund will beprocessed as soon as possible.Submitting your form on April 16th, 2008 or later means thatyour refund will be delayed due to the volume of requests weanticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund.To access Economic Stimulus Refund, please click here.

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved." ......END OF EMAIL

Flowers in my yard

Don't know what these are - planted by the former owner. Really tiny buds. I want to cut out a big round spot in the middle of my yard and plant something that will come back every year. Any suggestions; FYI - I don't have a green thumb.

Mr. Irrelevant

This is a new regular feature entitled Mr. Irrelevant in honor of Chris Satullo, former bigshot liberal at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Satullo was promoted up to a gig as a Tuesday and Saturday columnist at the Inky. Those of course are not the "platform" days columnists fight for- no they are the days no one even reads the paper.

Satullo apparently won't take his marbles and go home or take a job with a liberal think tank or NGO like Jane Eisner, his predecessor, did. So on occasion I will post his columns- today he is touting another guvmint program. Note I put his column in the "smallest font" I could find because even I barely glanced through his far left predictable trash. Satullo's column generally start off with "blah, blah, blah".

I believe Satullo's next work of irrelevance will involve the secret plot between Fox News, talk radio and evil Republicans who will try unfairly to show Senator Obama is a just another America-despising far left liberal.


N.J. family leave is the right thing

By Chris Satullo Inquirer Columnist
Imagine: A mother sits contentedly in her bedroom in Marlton, nursing her 3-month-old baby, making good use of extended paid leave from her job at a Cherry Hill bank.
This blissful moment is brought to you by . . . Don Imus?
Follow the bouncing ball from the craggy, crude radio talker to that sweet scene of nurture:
A year ago, Imus emitted his vile, unfunny insult against Rutgers University's women basketballers. Gov. Corzine, rushing to the parley he'd arranged between Imus and the athletes, got into a scary auto crash that left him hospitalized for weeks.
Fast-forward a year. This week, Corzine signed a law setting up paid family medical leave, making his the third state to take this far-sighted step - and only the second to actually fund the program.
In doing so, Corzine said his accident taught him a lesson that's long been vivid for families not insulated by Wall Street wealth:
With a slip, a swerve, or a somber sentence from a doctor, life can change in an instant, from smooth and settled to chaotic and stressed.
America's workplaces, by and large, aren't set up to help people cope with such moments.
The new family-leave law permits workers to get up to six weeks of leave to take care of newborns, newly adopted children, or ill family members, at two-thirds of their pay.
Advocates of the idea tend, as I did above, to zero in on cuddly images of infants. The greatest usage, however, may grow out of a different need: helping rising generations cope with the aging of their long-living boomer parents. The graying of the baby boom will drive most states to grapple soon with the strains of elder care. New Jersey will be glad it got there early.
Not that the state's employers see it this way. They're whining like 10-year-olds told to load their plates in the dishwasher.
One of the corporate sector's mouthpieces in the Legislature carped that the law would be "one of the final nails in the coffin" for the state's economy. Really? Brief leaves for less than 1 percent of the state's 4.1 million workers? That's a crushing burden?
Gee, given their grousing, you'd think employers were being asked to pay for this benefit. Not so. The paid leaves will be subsidized by a small, regular deduction from workers' paychecks, i.e. self-insurance.
All bosses have to do is manage the paperwork, and find ways to fill in during absences. Not nothing, but a small tariff to support family values in a real way, while likely boosting morale. Taking a couple of weeks off to set up an ailing parent with proper services saps a worker's output far less than having the office phone ring three times a day with distress signals from Dad.
The business sector's alarms remind me of Detroit automakers' apocalyptic cries about the costs of seat belts and airbags. Yet years later, they were running ads touting their cars' safety features.
Soon, New Jersey employers will be recruiting top talent by extolling their "family-friendly" workplaces. Make book on that.
I've covered government for 30-odd years, 19 in and around Philly. So I'd never deny that regulation can sometimes be overbearing, counterproductive or corrupt. The current Democratic primary also offers frequent displays of the liberal delusion that government tinkering can thwart global market trends.
But your local airport now features the outcome of an opposing, conservative fallacy: the assumption that whenever government oversight cuts into profits, whenever it forces capitalists to absorb costs of doing business that they'd prefer to foist on the public, it's government that's in the wrong.
For those with this knee-jerk attitude, which has run the nation for eight years, it doesn't matter how vital the societal good at stake might be.
Ask anyone waiting glumly at the airport today: Would you pay $5 more in fares to ensure that the plane you're about to board has been checked for cracks in the fuselage since, say, the first season of Lost? Hey, I know I'm in.
The job of government isn't to pretend it can outthink markets. But it is its job to smooth out capitalism's jagged edges, to protect societal goods from getting trampled in the pursuit of profit.
This leave bill does just that. Good for the Garden State. Shame on the law's critics.

Campaign Donations

Here is a picture of the first yard sign I ever owned. I bought three signs for $20 each and put two in my yard. I will offer the 3rd sign to my liberal friends and family one by one.

When I bought the signs on the internet, the process made it obvious that legally this is considered a campaign contribution to McCain. So that makes this the third political contribution I have made in my life.

To recap, I gave a big $25 to The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth (still have the receipt on my fridge, heh), $100 to Michael Steele when he ran for the Maryland seat in the US Senate, and now $60 to McCain for the 3 yards signs. That is a total of $185 lifetime.

Keep It In The Family?

So Congressman Rob Andrews, a DEM from New Jersey, has decided he will challenge fellow DEM Senator & ancient fossil, Frank Lautenberg, in the Dem primary. But who will take Andrews' seat in Congress? I have an idea- how about Mrs. Andrews? ..see the story below.

Rob Andrews’ wife set to enter race
By Cynthia Burton
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Camille Andrews plans to run for the congressional seat held by her husband, U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, who is running for Senate, according to campaign sources. Rob Andrews announced last week that he would enter the Democratic primary against U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.). An attorney and associate dean at Rutgers University's law school in Camden, Camille Andrews is often at her husband's side at political events. The couple have two daughters and live in Haddon Heights. Camille Andrews has until 4 p.m. today to file nominating petitions for the race.

Clintons Can Now Afford A Home in The John Edwards Side of The Two Americas

The Yahoo headline says "Clintons made $20 MILLION in 2007". I am nitpicking but the really big story is they made $109 Million in the last 8 years!

So no matter what the Clintons say "THIS TRULY IS A GREAT COUNTRY!"

Operation Chaos

Yesterday I got my new voter registration card in the mail! I am now legally a Democrat and can vote for the Hildebeast in the upcoming DEM primary in Pennsylvania. Based on poll trends, it appears she will need my vote.

Cell Phones Are Killing Us?

I hope this ain't true. And I wonder why the MSM is not bellowing about this claim that the radiation emitted by cell phones will cause more deaths in ten years than are caused by smoking!

The Dregs of Society Claim A Victim

What a senseless tragedy this was. A nice young man, the only child of a woman from South Philly, is beaten up for no reason (and dies at the hospital) by some thugs in the middle of a week day on the Market Street Line train platform.

There is no other way to put it - these 4-5 kids should be locked up forever. They have no future anyway. Unfortunately the reality is we can't save everyone in society! And these thugs are evidence I am right.

Bill Richardson

In this pic, Bill Richardson looks more like he is Hawaiian rather then Hispanic.

He is Blind So.....

.....I wonder if his affair was with a fat and ugly woman?

Gore, Kerry and now Obama

Why do the Democrats tend to select candidates who are insecure with their own selves? Al Gore was always changing, John Kerry was a stuffy, full of crap phony and now it appears Obama (the Dem frontrunner) has been playing the role of a messianic post-racial prez candidate (whatever that means) while listening for 15 years to his black mentor berate America as evil incarnate.

It's like the Dems are too clever for their own good- they can't seem to go for authenticity! Why is that? Perhaps because the party is powered by many, many trial lawyers, grievance mongers, union leaders and far left think tanks? Yeah that is why IMHO.

What A Great Day!!!

Just had to say that because I have had a frigging great day!

Happy St. Patricks Day !

Borrowed this pic from a darn good Philly blog named www.sharpshooters.blogspot.com

No Shit ? She Oughta Be Ecstatic

Heather mills says she is happy with her $50MM divorce settlement. The no-talent celebrity groupie sure oughta be happy. Because there is no way she could make that money on her own.

Also, why the frig is this Top News on Yahoo! and why the frig am I blogging about this anyway?

Hillary Clinton's Tax Return

Why doesn't the media pound Hillary to release her tax return for 2006? Obama has released his way long ago! Why does she get a pass?

I am watching Meet The Press and a Hillary supporter,Rep. Nita Lowey, is dancing around this issue! I can always tell a Dem - they rarely answer a question with a simple Yes or No.

And BTW, I am voting for Hillary in the PA primary; just changed my registration to DEM so I can help to screw up their primary results.

Geraldine Ferraro Is A Dope .....

......or just plain arrogant to vote in two cities at the same time.

Click on the post title to see a post I did in 2006 about what Geraldine Ferraro said after she got caught voting from her vacation home town as well as her primary residence.

Jack Kevorkian

This is interesting...a convicted felon, the Doctor Death, will run for a seat in Congress. I thought the standard protocol for our elected officials was get elected first then get convicted of a crime.

Blog Jumps The Shark?

Althouse has been my favorite favorite blog for maybe 2-3 years. However, this post about hidden racism in a Hillary ad, was a ginormous stretch. As they say, she jumped the shark.

Is Thie A Clever Trap Designed to Draw The Taliban ?

I wonder if the Coalition forces have "leaked" this news about Prince Harry fighting in Afghanistan to try an dlure what is left of the Taliban into one last devastating trap?

I suspect it is. I hope I am right and the last of the lunatic Taliban try and attack the Brit positions and get a big surpise.

Sean Shurelds .....Is There More Than One?

Sean Shurelds is the name of the Obama Supporter and Stabbing Victim in Lower Providence, Pennsylvania.

I googled the name of Sean Shurelds, the person as noted above, who the media reports was allegedly stabbed by his brother-in-law over a political argument.

The Google search found someone (also named Sean Shurelds). In 1997, that Sean Shurelds was placed on probation for fairly serious environmental crime.

I wonder if it is the same guy. And if so, is he eligible to vote? In some states, felons are prohibited from voting.

Sound Of Me Snowshoeing

Snowshoeing In My Yard

Obamanation

What do you call President Obama's first big screw-up?

Everlast Timer

I highly recommend this product. I bought to use with my heavy bag and it even "dings" like a real boxing match at the beginning and end of each three minute round. It makes it easy to know you are getting a good workout.

Just click on the post to go to the Walmart product display.

Snow at my new home

Could This Bankrupt The City Of Durham

Dozens of Duke University lacrosse players are suing the city and the school. The school surely has billions in its endowment. But is it possible this could bankrupt the city of Durham? Nah, maybe the city is well insured against these type of claims. But don't forget the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, has had to file for bankruptcy because he lost so many lawsuits in this "stripper" case.

You know what they say..."attorneys and lawsuits always seek the targets with deep pockets".

Hillary's Last Gasp & The Guy Who Put Her Away

Is this the night?

The Clintons plummet into irrelevance??

Could be especially if Hillary continues to lose state primaries. The losses will move the Clintons closer and closer to being icons of political irrelevance.

FWIW.

Prediction

I will be very very surprised if Obama loses either of today's primaries in Wisconsin and Washington state. These two states are more liberal than average and so I expect Obama to win handily. Let's see if I am right using my Iowa (more liberal)- New Hampshire (less liberal) primary scale.

Obamamania - A Great American Family

Click on the post to see an old post of mine. I have succumbed to Obamamania. Nah not really but you will see that I posted this same picture of a really great American Family a while ago.

Althouse Picture - More Snow

Another picture from Ann Althouse's blog of snow in Wisconsin. I hope we get at least one good snowfall here in Philly this winter. I want to take some pictures of my new house covered in snow. Enjoy this photo- Althouse takes really good winter shots.

Philles Prank - Click here to see video

Follow the link to this blog to see Phillies video of "punking" young pitcher, Kyle Kendrick into thinking he was traded to Japan. FWIW I like this joke- it is a good sign that the Phils have strong unity and team morale.

Save The Earth (If You Want But Can The Self-righteous Fanfare))

Hattip to Instapundit for this takedown by Laura McKenna of a NY Times article on Sunday 2/17/08 about loony Eco-Moms.

Althouse Blog's Photos

Ann Althouse, law prof and excellent blogger likes to take pictures. I especially like the pics she takes of snow in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin which has had more snow this winter than the prior 100 or so years!

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.