Biden promotes free colonoscopies to seniors in Florida
Occasionally something comes along that just leaves one in a state of amazement. This stuff couldn’t be made up.
In Florida this afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden reminded supporters that thanks to President Obama, they could now get colonoscopies without a co-pay.
SO now we can get reamed for free thanks to B.O. and company.
They already have the recently expanded I.R.S., so bend over, they’ll get you one way or the other.
The ‘Top 5’ Most Loved and Hated States
Least liked: California.
Most liked: Hawaii // South Dakota ranked 4th most liked. Not bad at all.
The following all on Drudge at the same time (1636 CT 14 Oct 2011):
Meaning? If you figure it out, let me know, but the Chief would offer each in return a somewhat different finger gesture.
Found this with an article on the Euro Brussels Journal blog.
Vice President Joe Biden appears to temporarily lose his mind during President Obama’s jobs speech on 9-8-11. This is not an altered photo, but a well-timed freeze-frame from a video recording made by Russ Allison Loar.
“Every picture tells a story, don’t it?”
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson compared NFL owners’ treatment of players to “modern-day slavery,” according to an online interview published Tuesday by Yahoo! Sports.
Yahoo’s Doug Farrar, who conducted the interview Friday with Peterson, removed that comment from the story later Tuesday, explaining on Twitter that he wants to give Peterson the chance to provide context.
Peterson, who is known to be thoughtful when speaking with the local media in Minnesota, is in Africa with other NFL players on a goodwill trip and unavailable for immediate comment.
One is tempted to note that it’s one of the Vikings saying something so stupid…but I’ll skip the cheap shot…
NFL owners and players couldn’t agree on a new collective bargaining agreement last week after more than two weeks of federal mediation. Shortly before the players union NFL decertified, Peterson spoke to Yahoo to promote a recent appearance on the online reality show “Double Take.” The NFL declared a lockout when the CBA expired.
“The players are getting robbed. They are,” Peterson told Yahoo. “The owners are making so much money off of us to begin with. I don’t know that I want to quote myself on that.”
If someone were robbing ME, I would at least stay away from them henceforth.
When discussing other players feeling the same way, Peterson said: “It’s modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money. … The owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money. I understand that; these are business-minded people. Of course this is what they are going to want to do. I understand that; it’s how they got to where they are now. But as players, we have to stand our ground and say, ‘Hey, without us, there’s no football.’ “
OK. Call an spade a spade here. He says he can understand the owners wanting to make money…because he is concerned with exactly the same thing. So what…but don’t resort to the level of hyperbole that labels one of the most remunerative occupations as being slavery:
Peterson is set to make $10.72 million in base salary in 2011.
Poor baby! How can he survive on that sharecropper-style starvation pay!
On the same page was the following poll:
Do you agree with Peterson’s comparison of NFL owners’ treatment of players to “modern-day slavery?”
Total Votes = 2282
Yes. 2.453 %
No. 96.18 %
I don’t know. 1.358 %
The Chief concurs.
Contrary to Peterson’s assertion…no one is standing there with a whip forcing him to accept that $10.72M paycheck. This IS the US of A, and the 13th Amendment IS enforced. If he doesn’t like the NFL, he’s free to get a real job, in the real world, assuming he can qualify for one.
No sympathy. At all. Sorry.
Dead soldier Liam Tasker and Army dog return home
Lance Corporal Liam Tasker, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, was shot dead while on patrol in Helmand province.
L/Cpl Tasker, who was called a “rising star” by Army chiefs, was shot by Taliban snipers and Theo died of a seizure shortly after his master.
The ashes of the 26-year-old’s dog Theo will be flown home on the same plane.
This really touches me. Otherwise, words fail.
With the inevitable and welcome distractions of the Christmas-New Year’s season, and the same-old same-old political tactics of the Donkey Party’s Lame Ruptured Duck session, it’s been hard to generate enthusiasm for posting about the recent run-of-the-mill political news.
Finally, the most recent Sunday Day-by-Day webtoon strip concisely and thoroughly summed up my attitude, starting with the observation of one of the characters that
“…I’m really, REALLY TIRED OF BEING LECTURED TO BY:
• racists like Sharpton on racism
• thieves like Sherrie Sherrod on what is fair
• communists like Van Jones on “power to the people”
• liars like Bill Clinton on honesty
• the MSM and ‘Journolist’ pundits on journalism
• spenders like Obama on having ‘skin in the game’ as he blows millions on his personal vacations
• illegal aliens on American citizenship
• spend-crazy Keynesians on economic growth
• academics on real-world scenarios
• snobs in the beltway on civility
• idealogues like Eric Holder on ‘justice’
• the Democratic Party on American values
• feminists on what men should be
• Pat Robertson and religious activists on what/should be
• incompetents like Obama on, frankly, ANY subject other than redistribution of our wealth
• power-mad billionaires like Soros on anything to do with the word ‘freedom’
• RINOs on outreach and compromise [RINO = Republicans In Name Only]
• people who twist language to mean everything and nothing
• incompetents like 99% of this administration and congress on competency
Hear, hear! Couldn’t agree more!
Great balls of fire over Canada: NASA investigates
Great balls of fire have been reported swooping over Eastern Canada and several U.S. states.
Even NASA’s on the case.
There are different theories about what was behind the sighting of those fireballs. A NASA spacecraft got a closer look at one of the possible sources today.
They’ve located Jerry Lee Lewis?
This was found in the London Telegraph, with the location identified as Deadwood, South Dakota.
There HAS to be a story behind this…one wonders what it is.
Cockroaches could help combat MRSA and E.coli
Cockroaches and locusts contain powerful antibiotic molecules in their brains that could be used to develop new treatments against MRSA and E-coli, scientists have discovered.
Scientists at Nottingham University found that the insects, which are widely reviled for their dirty image, could actually be more of a health benefit than a health risk.
They have identified up to nine different molecules in the tissues of cockroaches and locusts that are toxic to bacteria and they hope will pave the way for new treatments for multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.
Who would have guessed?
Oakland allows industrial-scale marijuana farms
Oakland’s City Council late Tuesday adopted regulations permitting industrial-scale marijuana farms, a plan that some small farmers argued would squeeze them out of the industry they helped to build.
It looks like the only argument in Oakland is whether or not the corporate dopers will crowd out the small-time family dopers. (I know that sounds weird, but there it is!)
I REALLY don’t get this one! (And no, I am not arguing here one way or the other about Bob Newland’s Favorite Issue. That’s a whole other discussion.)
As far as I know the Federal drug laws are still on the books, and are still (sort of?) being enforced…at least the DEA hasn’t been abolished yet, as far as I know.
SO…Arizona is sued by DoJ for having the unforgivable nerve to presume to pass a law on immigration that mirrors the Federal laws, and is slapped down for doing so. They are acting IN SUPPORT of the Federal legislation.
Meanwhile, Oakland, and other locations, are actively promoting the direct VIOLATION of Federal laws withing their jurisdiction, with no Federal action in response?
Can you say N-U-L-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N? Wasn’t there a rather sharpish discussion on that topic from the 1830’s until 1865 when the issue was supposed to have been disposed of? If not, perhaps the spirit of J.C. Calhoun and the other proto-Confederates of his day is truly alive and well and lurking under a hempen shroud.
Phew! Travel done & recovery/decompression mode largely done after having 4 weeks on the road since May 19th!
I KNEW it was time to stop when I woke up one night and thought “This is the most comfortable place we’ve stayed yet – but why can’t I remember checking in?” A moment later I realized I was at home!
’nuff said!
This is surely worthy of SOME sort of comment…but what?
One has to wonder if this was the result of peer-reviewed research. If so, I’m not sure I want to visualize the procedure involved.
Lost? Manhood overboard, everybody
It’s just a solitary foot bone, but it suggests that people were navigating the world’s oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than had been thought. And, according to some experts, they did so – truly – by the seat of their pants.
The bone, found on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, suggests that humans got there at least 67,000 years ago, crossing open sea long before we have any direct evidence that people knew how to build boats or sail them. And even older stone tools have been discovered on other Pacific islands, which – like Luzon – were surrounded by water even when sea levels were some 360 feet lower, at the peak of the last ice age.
But how on earth did prehistoric people find what are often just specks in the world’s biggest ocean? Some years ago I came across a man who thought he knew. Samoan meteorologist Penehuro Lefale told an international conference that they did it because they had balls.
Helmsmen, he said, would hang over the side of their rafts and trail their scrotums in the water, using the most sensitive parts of their bodies to pick up changes in water temperature.
“If the water was becoming colder, their testicles would shrink and they knew they were moving away from land,†he went on. “If the water was warmer, they knew land was near.â€
We’ve long been told that letting it all hang out makes us feel more pacific, but I never envisaged anything like this.
Hmmmm. Does this explain the presence of what appears to be bovine testicular organs observed on the back of some cattle trucks? An enhancement to the use of GPS perhaps? Something to think about? Nah.