Airplane humor

I am in the aviation industry and I see a lot of airplanes with different livery(What the paint pattern on the airplane is called)  But the low cost carrier "Kulula" based in South Africa has a sense of humor, I got a chuckle reading the assorted logo's on the green airplane.  I also found the livery for another Kulula jet that follows the tongue in cheek humor.

Kulula-air tries not to take itself too seriously

by Kent Wien (RSS feed) on Jan 30th 2010 at 6:00PM

Kulula is a low-fare 737 carrier based in South Africa. The airline started in 2001 and recently took delivery of a new 737-800 with an unusual paint scheme.

Dubbed "Flying 101" it isn't the typical Kulula logo-jet.

Someone there clearly has a sense of humor. The entire airplane is covered with details about the plane, including arrows pointing to the more interesting parts.

"The big cheese" describes the captain's window. An arrow points to the aircraft's registration, calling it the "Secret code."

Even the lav is pointed out, with the description, "Loo (or mile-high initiation chamber)."

The black box, seats, stabilizer and rudder are also pointed out and include a bit of clever commentary as well. I think we can all appreciate a marketing scheme that doesn't take itself too seriously.

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Kulula also has different safety briefings than the average airline. I have some samples below.

Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg.  Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining.  Here are some real examples that have been heard or  reported:

- On a Kulula flight,  (there is no assigned seating, you just sit  where you want) passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when a flight  attendant announced, 
"People, people we're not picking out furniture here, find a seat and get in it!" 

                  ---o0o--- 

On another flight with a very "senior" flight attendant crew, the pilot said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your  flight attendants." 

                  ----o0o--- 

On landing, the stewardess said, "Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you're going to leave anything, please make sure it's something we'd like to have." 

                  ----o0o--- 

"There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane."  

                  ---o0o---

"Thank you for flying Kulula. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a  ride" 

                  ---o0o--- 

As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Durban Airport, a lone voice came over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella. WHOA!" 

                  ---o0o-- 

After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in the Karoo, a flight attendant on a flight announced, "Please take care when  opening the overhead compartments because, after  a landing like that, sure as hell everything has  shifted." 

                  ---o0o--- 

From a Kulula employee: "Welcome aboard Kulula 271 to Port Elizabeth. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and  pull tight. It works just like every
other seat belt; and, if you don't know how to operate one,  you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised." 

                  ---o0o--- 

"In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small child,  pick your favorite." 

                  ---o0o--- 

"Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Kulula Airlines." 

                  ----o0o--- 

"Your seats cushions can be used for flotation; and in the event of an emergency water landing, please paddle to shore  and take them with our compliments." 

                  ---o0o--- 
"As you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses." 

                  ---o0o--- 

And from the pilot during his welcome message: "Kulula Airlines is pleased to announce that we have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this  flight!" 

                  ---o0o— 

Heard on Kulula 255 just after a very hard landing in Cape Town: The flight attendant came on the intercom and said, "That was quite a bump and I know what y'all are thinking. I'm here to tell you it wasn't the airline's fault, it wasn't the pilot's fault, it wasn't the flightattendant's fault, it was the  asphalt."

                  ---o0o— 

Overheard on a Kulula flight into Cape Town, on a particularly windy and bumpy day: During the final approach, the Captain really had to fight it. After an extremely hard landing, the Flight Attendant  said, "Ladies and Gentlemen,  welcome to The Mother City. Please remain in your seats with your seat belts fastened while the Captain taxis what's left of our airplane to the gate!"

                  ---o0o— 

Another flight attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."

                  ---o0o— 

An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying our airline".   He said that, in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally everyone had gotten off except for a little old lady walking with a cane She said, "Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"Why, no Ma'am," said the pilot. "What is it?"
The little old lady said, "Did we land, or were we shot down?"

                  ---o0o— 

After a real crusher of a landing in Johannesburg, the attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we will open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal.."

                  ---o0o— 

Part of a flight attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of Kulula Airways."

                  ---o0o— 

Heard on a Kulula flight: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to smoke, the smoking section on this airplane is on the wing. If you can light 'em, you can smoke 'em." 

Emergency procedure

Compliments to GOC

Explaination of Obunglers policies...

I get an intelligence summary in my e-mail, it usually pertains to international affairs, and despite what we wish sometimes, what happens overseas does affect us at home.  Stratfor wrote a very good piece on the American political system, It mentions things that I already knew and also things that I haven't considered.    You can get free intelligence summaries in your e-mail also.

By George Friedman
STRATFOR does not normally involve itself in domestic American politics. Our focus is on international affairs, and American politics, like politics everywhere, is a passionate business. The vilification from all sides that follows any mention we make of American politics is both inevitable and unpleasant. Nevertheless, it’s our job to chronicle the unfolding of the international system, and the fact that the United States is moving deeply into an election cycle will affect American international behavior and therefore the international system.

The United States remains the center of gravity of the international system. The sheer size of its economy (regardless of its growth rate) and the power of its military (regardless of its current problems) make the United States unique. Even more important, no single leader of the world is as significant, for good or bad, as the American president. That makes the American presidency, in its broadest sense, a matter that cannot be ignored in studying the international system.
The American system was designed to be a phased process. By separating the selection of the legislature from the selection of the president, the founders created a system that did not allow for sudden shifts in personnel. Unlike parliamentary systems, in which the legislature and the leadership are intimately linked, the institutional and temporal uncoupling of the system in the United States was intended to control the passing passions by leaving about two-thirds of the U.S. Senate unchanged even in a presidential election year, which always coincides with the election of the House of Representatives. Coupled with senatorial rules, this makes it difficult for the president to govern on domestic affairs. Changes in the ideological tenor of the system are years in coming, and when they come they stay a long time. Mostly, however, the system is in gridlock. Thomas Jefferson said that a government that governs least is the best. The United States has a vast government that rests on a system in which significant change is not impossible but which demands a level of consensus over a period of time that rarely exists.
This is particularly true in domestic politics, where the complexity is compounded by the uncertainty of the legislative branch. Consider that the healthcare legislation passed through major compromise is still in doubt, pending court rulings that thus far have been contradictory. All of this would have delighted the founders if not the constantly trapped presidents, who frequently shrug off their limits in the domestic arena in favor of action in the international realm, where their freedom to maneuver is much greater, as the founders intended

    Read the rest here

Evil Exists: A Cautionary Tale For Our Times

Something to consider...I read this from here

I've been out of police work for more than a decade now. In many ways, it seems like only yesterday, yet I know better. Any policeman knows that even when absent from the job for a few weeks of vacation, an edge is lost and must be regained. I know there are many things I've forgotten, not big things, but nuances, insights, personal procedures that helped me to be sharp and effective in my specific duties. Other things, if not exactly forgotten, have faded to the back of my consciousness, painful things, particularly painful things that happened to others, things over which I had no control.
As well as teaching, I'm a professional singer. I'm not on the concert circuit, living out of a suitcase, constantly traveling, conducting master's classes, always hustling to promote myself while hoping against hope that the voice stays healthy. Rather I sing with a fine chorale that is the principal chorus of a fine symphony, and I'm also paid to sing with a metropolitan church choir that has a few hired choral guns, so to speak. This allows the church to do a higher level of music and more of it, which would not be possible by relying merely on volunteers. It's far from a huge amount of money, but it's nice to be paid for all of those years of rehearsal and effort and equally nice to work with nice people who appreciate my efforts.
So it was that in our warm-up rehearsal this morning, before the second service, one of the volunteer members of our choir delivered a painful reminder that in an instant took me back more than a decade. She and her husband are good people, personable folks anyone would like to know, and it was distinctly disturbing to hear her emotion-choked voice, a voice tinged with terror, as she related this cautionary tale.
Last week, one unremarkable morning, my friend's young daughter, the mother of a newborn, was home alone. Her husband was gone to work, when suddenly, the doorbell began insistently ringing and did not stop. Realizing something was very wrong and clutching her newborn to her chest, she peered through the peephole in the front door and saw two unfamiliar black men, one ringing the bell but being careful to lower his face, the other facing away from the door.
She called her young husband who told her to immediately call 911, and as she did, telling her story in a state of confusion and fright, she saw the burglars heading around the house, and she knew they were going to break into her home through the back door. Staying on the line with the police, she locked herself in her bathroom and taking her two small dogs with her, barricaded herself, the dogs and her baby, as best she could, in a closet in that bathroom.

Read Rest here...Go Here

The Wages of Multiculturalism in the Democratic West

I got this from PJTV


In 2008, Vietnam war veteran Jesse Nieto — a Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base civilian  employee and father of one of 16 sailors who died in the 2000 Islamist attack on the USS Cole — was ordered to remove from his vehicle decals that a Marine’s Muslim spouse thought were offensive. The decals referred to Islamic terrorist responsibility for the USS Cole tragedy and the celebrations it prompted in the Muslim world.
Although he removed some of the decals, Nieto’s vehicle was subsequently banned from his place of work, as well as all other federal installations, denying him the right to visit his son’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on Nieto’s behalf challenging the military’s ban on Nieto’s right to freedom of speech. Fortunately, the judge in the case ruled for the father and astutely observed that stating “Islam is Peace” and “Islam is Love” could be equally perceived as offensive and inflammatory for Nieto, as was the anti-Islamic terrorism message to those complaining about his decals. In this case, the decision affirmed that multiculturalism and political correctness do not justify violating the Constitution.

Read the rest Here

Rational of carrying a backup piece

The backup gun is a second handgun, normally carried concealed, used as a supplement to a primary handgun that may be carried openly or concealed, depending on the circumstances. It has a long history among lawfully armed men and women. Originally a law enforcement practice, the carrying of backup has spread to ordinary American men and women who are licensed to carry loaded handguns concealed in public.
One only has to cruise the “gun boards” on the Internet to notice how many private citizens who carry are either considering the wear of a second weapon routinely, or are already committed to the practice. It has been said that in America, private citizens model their sporting rifle purchases based on what the military is using, and their defensive handgun purchases on what their police are using.
The rise of the bolt-action rifle in popularity among hunters and target shooters followed the adoption of the Krag-Jorgensen in the late 19th century and the Springfield in the early 20th…semiautomatic hunting rifles such as the Remington Model 742 and Winchester Model 100 became popular among a generation of Americans who returned from fighting WWII and the Korean conflict with semiautomatic Garands…and today, the single most popular model represented in new rifle sales seems to be the AR-15, the semiautomatic version of the M-16 that has been our nation’s primary military rifle since the Vietnam conflict..
Similarly, the dominance of the revolver among private citizens followed the adoption by the Texas Rangers of the Walker Colt before the middle of the 19th century. For most of the 20th century, the double-action revolver in 38 Special, followed in popularity by the same type of gun in 357 Magnum, was virtually the standard law enforcement weapon and the most popular home defense/concealed carry firearm among “civilians.”
As the police went to semiautomatics, so did the law-abiding public. At this writing, the high tech auto pistol typified by the Glock is the most common type of police duty handgun, and likewise one of the biggest sellers in the commercial handgun market.

Sometimes it’s easier, and even more efficient, to carry two small handguns of adequate power instead of one large one. Left: 20 ounce Model 640-1 above, 15 ounce Model 442 below, both J-frame 5-shots by Smith & Wesson. Right: 22 ounce all steel Kahr MK9 above, 14 ounce polymer frame MK9 below, both 7-shot 9mms.

This being the case, it is not surprising that the law officers’ taste for a second handgun carried on the person, has been acquired by the armed citizens of the same population.

The Rationale of Backup

There are several good reasons to carry a second handgun for defensive purposes. None are the exclusive province of law enforcement. Let’s examine them in detail.
The primary gun may be taken away. In Kentucky, an armed criminal caught a uniformed policeman off guard and took away his Smith & Wesson 10mm service pistol. The lawman was able to access his concealed Walther PPK 380, a backup gun issued to him by his department, and empty it into his attacker. The criminal died; the officer lived


The primary gun may be unusable because it is the object of a struggle. In Ohio not long ago, a police officer found himself in a desperate battle for survival as his opponent struggled to take away his department issue Glock 22 pistol. Fortunately, the department had had the foresight to issue every officer a Glock 27, a subcompact version of the duty pistol, as backup. In the last instant before the suspect gained control of his service weapon, the officer was able to draw his backup G27 and fire a shot into his would-be murderer’s head, killing the assailant and saving his own life.
The primary gun may be empty. Drawing a second, loaded weapon is often faster than reloading the first when it runs dry. In Michigan, a woman and her husband were working in the store they owned and operated together when they were hit by multiple armed robbers.
The felons shot and wounded the husband early in the encounter. The wife drew a double-action revolver and shot back. Her gun ran dry, and she grabbed a second revolver with which she continued to return fire. That sustained fire allowed her to win the gunfight, saving her life and that of her husband, who survived his wounds. Their attackers were not so lucky.

   I got this from Gun Digest

AR-15 Loading and Unloading the Gunsite Way -- NSSF Shooting Sportscast

Figured I would post an educational video for one of my favorite rifles. 

Precision military marching video's

I used to do stuff like this when I was in military college.  We were good, but these sailers were on a whole other level.  We used to throw around the demilled 03 Springfields and they were bleached to get that pretty color, the flipside was that when one got dropped.....well splitville city.    It has been over 25 years and I still like to see the discipline of those teams.  Fills me with pride for our military

This is the U.S Army Drill team, the "Old Guard"  the same soldiers also guard the tomb of the unknown soldier.

humor

Truth in cartoons

I saw this and laughed my ass off.   

I got this from  here

I was in the service and overseas, and we uniformly had a poor opinion of the commercials on AFN, and besides they were a year behind in the networking shows from the world  and all we got was the cheesy commercials about how to be respectful of our host and no drinking and driving., ete,ete.  When I would get tapes from home, the commercials were just as popular as the shows that I got.

Son of Stimulus

Its ALIIIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obungler good for America.......

I got this e-mail from my Dad


Barack Obama is  the best thing that has happened  to America  in the last
100 years. Truly, he is the savior of  America 's future.

Despite the fact  that he has some of the lowest approval ratings  among
recent presidents, history will see Barack  Obama as the source of America
's resurrection.  Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels  of debt
that we could not have previously  imagined; his efforts to nationalize
health care  have been met with fierce resistance nationwide;  TARP bailouts
and stimulus spending have shown  little positive effect on the national
economy;  unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to  remain that way
for most of a decade; legacy  entitlement programs have ballooned to 
unsustainable levels, and there is a seething  anger in the populace.

That's why Barack  Obama is such a good thing for America . Here's  why.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping  liberalism that has infected our society
like a  cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is  the face of
fascism, Obama will go down in history  as the face of unchecked liberalism.
The cancer  metastasized to the point where it could no longer  be ignored.

Average Americans who  have quietly gone about their lives, earning a 
paycheck, contributing to their favorite  charities, going to high school
football games on  Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach  or on
hunting trips - they've gotten off the  fence. They've woken up. There is a
level of  political activism in this country that we haven't  seen since the
American Revolution, and Barack  Obama has been the catalyst that has
sparked a  restructuring of the American political and social 
consciousness.

Think of the crap we've  slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years 
as liberalism sought to re-structure the America  that was the symbol of
freedom and liberty to all  the people of the world. Immigration laws were 
ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare  policies encouraged
irresponsibility, the  fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations 
of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to  lubricate the economy. Our
children left school  having been taught that they are exceptional and 
special, while great numbers of them cannot  perform basic functions of
mathematics and  literacy. Legislators decided that people could  not be
trusted to defend their own homes, and  stripped citizens of their rights to
own firearms.  Productive members of society have been penalized  with a
heavy burden of taxes in order to support  legions of do-nothings who loll
around, reveling  in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance  and
"disabilities." Criminals have been arrested  and re-arrested, coddled and
set free to pillage  the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort 
fortunes from doctors, contractors and business  people with dubious torts.

We slowly  learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our  heads in
disbelief, and we went on with our  lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid  off a seething cauldron of
dissatisfaction and  unrest.

A former Communist is given a  paid government position in the White House
as an  advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken  over by the
government, and the auto workers'  union - whose contracts are completely 
insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded  with a stake in the
company. Government bails out  Wall Street investment bankers and insurance 
companies, who pay their executives outrageous  bonuses as thanks for the
public support.  Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given  free
lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public  disapproval, Barack Obama has
pushed forward with  a health care plan that would re-structure  one-sixth
of the American  economy.

Literally millions of  Americans have had enough. They're organizing, 
they're studying the Constitution and the  Federalist Papers, they're
reading history and  case law, they're showing up at rallies and  meetings,
and a slew of conservative candidates  are throwing their hats into the
ring. Is there a  revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there  is a
keen awareness that our priorities and  sensibilities must be radically
re-structured.  Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be  done
through the interpretation of the original  document that has guided us for
220 "FANTASTIC"  years--- the Constitution. Just as the pendulum  swung to
embrace political correctness and  liberalism, there will be a backlash, a
complete  repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A  hundred years from
now, history will perceive the  year 2010 as the time when America got back
on the  right track. And for that, we can thank Barack  Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter,  rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing
guide.  Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker.  He can be
reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com
<http://aspenranchrealestate.com/>

You have got to be kidding me......

I got this from the hill

      I couldn't believe this but when I saw the esteemed congresscritter from GA  Mr Hank "Guam will sink" Johnson on the list and this made sense......

House Dems introduce bill to eliminate debt ceiling

By Justin Sink - 09/13/11 02:17 PM ET

Three congressional Democrats are introducing a bill Wednesday that would abolish the federal debt ceiling. The lawmakers say that the recent debate to raise the ceiling and avoid default had a "disastrous" effect on the U.S economy, and that the legislation would keep parties from using a potential default as a hostage in future budget debates.

"The debt ceiling is truly arbitrary and has nothing to do with the deficit," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement last Wednesday. "The debt ceiling does not prevent the United States from incurring new debts. That occurs when Congress decides to authorize more spending than revenues. The debt ceiling prevents the president from borrowing money to pay those debts when they come due."

Virginia Democrat Jim Moran and Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson will join Nadler in introducing the legislation. But the bill is unlikely to gain traction, especially in the Republican-controlled House. Members of the GOP were encouraged that they were able to use the debt ceiling as leverage to attain deep budget cuts during negotiations with President Obama and the Senate.

"Nobody wants to see defaults happening — but we also think it's important to get a handle on future borrowing as we deal with raising the debt limit," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in April.

But Nadler says the Republican position is "radical" and Jim Moran said that the GOP was using the debt ceiling as a "political weapon."“Republicans in Congress have shown they are willing to hold the fate of our economy hostage by using the debt ceiling as a political weapon. It’s a tactic that has far ranging effects, disrupting financial markets, damaging the peoples’ trust in government and delaying consideration of must-pass legislation to create jobs and get our economy back on track," Moran said.

Rants...

I have a couple of things that I wish to comment about.  The porkulus II A.K.A Obunglers new jobs bill He talks about payroll tax cuts for 1 year...to a business that ain't crap.  It will expire around the time of the elections...
       You notice that the people behind him on the podium were teachers, police and firemen.  All gov't employee members.  Oh wait his jobs bill has money to give to the states to help them keep their payroll....or basically keep the union employees working and the contributions to the democrats coming  while adding billions to our debt that our kids will have to pay off.
     How about that infrastructure repair....Obungler had signed an executive order last year that stated that all infrastructure paid by the feds have to use union labor.  Another payoff to his base.
  Our kids and grandkids will have to deal with this.
    I saw a newspaper article about the poor increasing the most since 1983. 
When talking about “poverty” in America, I put the word in quotes because the average “poor” American is struggling to pay their cable bill, not put food on the table.  In other words, our definition of poverty in America is an absurdity.  Our method of defining “living in poverty” came from the Social Security Administration on instructions from Lyndon Johnson.  Johnson needed statistics that would help him push his “Great (welfare) Society.”  Funny though, of you ever looked at poverty statistics in America, you will notice that “poverty” declined every single year, since they started tracking in the 1950s.  That was every single year … until Lyndon Johnson implemented his “Great Society!”  Now the rate has always bounced between 12 and 15%.
Notice that none of these stories about the 2010 poverty statistics actually describe what it means to be “living in poverty” in America.  That’s because this picture does not fit into their convenient storyline.  Our government’s definition of poverty is absurd -- hence the quotation marks.  Here’s a look at what it’s like to live in “poverty” in the United States:

• The typical “poor” household in America has a car
• 78% of “poor” households in America have air conditioning
• 64% of “poor” households in America have cable or satellite TV .. most have two TVs, along with a DVD player and  VCR
• Most “poor” households in America with children have a gaming system such as an Xbox or PlayStation
• 38% of “poor” households in America have a personal computer
• Most “poor” households in America have a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. They also have other household appliances such as a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.
• The typical “poor” American has more living space than the average European.
• The typical “poor” American family is able to obtain medical care when needed.
• The average “poor” household in America claims to have sufficient funds to meet all essential needs.

Now do you understand why news reporters aren’t rushing to find the nearest “poor” person?  I just feel truly sorry for those people in America who are actually, legitimately poor.  We can’t focus on them because we are too busy worrying about these households filled with cars, TVs, video games and refrigerators.
As of 2010, the poverty line was drawn at $22,314 (pre-tax) for a family of four.  But there is one key element that we are forgetting – by and large these people are also part of the Moocher Class.  This $22,314 in pre-tax income does not include any benefits or government handouts.  Remember … in America you can do as well working one week a month at minimum wage as you can working $60,000-a-year, full-time, high-stress job.  That’s right, " ."A 1 parent family of 3 making minimum wage of $ 14,000 dollars a year has more disposible income than a person making $60,000 a year"  Means-test welfare assistance is on track to top $10 trillion in this decade alone!  Sure sucks to be “poor” in America, doesn’t it?

     

     

Ford Commercials

 I love this commercial.  H/T to C/Y

As those that have read my profile know that I used to work for Ford Motor Company and I still have loyalty to that company.  Ford due to market conditions had to close my Taurus plant down.  Most places would have given you 2 weeks severance pay then unemployment.  Some places would have padlocked the door and we would have had to get a lawyer to get our pay.  Ford gave us a generous severance package,  We knew 7 months in advance that the plant was going to close, we had time to prepare.  We could transfer to Kentucky or take the buyout.  We also got 6 months medical insurance after we left.  We are still vested employees, I still have a retirement with them.   Ford morgaged themselves to the hilt to do their restructuring and make changes to save themselves.  GM and Crysler did nothing until they asked for bailout money and Obungler uses his power to circumvent the rule of law and screw over the stockholders and give large chunks of their companies to the unions to pay off their help in getting him and the democraps elected.    I have owned nothing but Fords with the exception of my first car which was a 1976 AMC Gremlin  An interesting car and I wish I had kept it.  But I was 18 and what did I know back then.  I will still only buy Fords.  Toyota, Honda ete are good cars but my preference is Ford.

Obama TRAPPED in Keynesian Twilight Zone

I saw this on youtube and thought the people that check out my blog would like it. 
Reuse,recycle and rehash....same old stuff.....

More humor

I saw this pic in my e-mail.  Sorry about the lack of postings, I get my 40 hours in 3days at work so I don't add much to the blog during this time

September 11, 2001 to September 2011, 10 year rememberance

Will Never forget

Obungler Cartoons

Learned about Islam

Got this pic from my Dad and figured that the people that read my blog will enjoy it.

truth in cartooning

Says it all......

They say a picture is worth.......

'bout says it all

Congressional scorecard

I saw this on another blog and I figured to save it to mine.  It has factual information the next time your favorite libtard makes some asinine comment about the republicans ain't doing anything.  you can smile and destroy them with logic.  Now we know that logic is like holy water,garlic and wooden stakes to vampires and other undead and brain dead creatures like obungler supporters.

Bullshit Bingo Card For Tonight’s Speech

Obunglers Job speech

This is Obunglers job speech in a simple picture

Reuse,recycle,rehash


  Compliments of MM
 

Why Republicans keep losing the propaganda war

I saw this onPJTV

It never ceases to confound me, dear readers, how on earth Republicans keep losing America’s propaganda war.

How do we know they’re losing in the public’s perception?  Easy.

Ask yourself: when was the last time you freely discussed any conservative or even moderate political view with friends at work, or on campus, or in public, or at a large social gathering — without hedging your every word? When? Can you identify a single recent instance when you felt your conservative or even moderate views would be tolerated without provoking name-calling or public shaming into the nearest corner of societal oblivion?

Everywhere one goes, save conservative websites, Republicans are widely connoted with tinges of racism, hate, selfishness, greed, war-mongering, and conspiratorial theocratic designs against democracy. Fox News has some opinion shows that try to give an ounce of conservative balance to the airwaves and they’ve paid for it with an all out war declared against them by leftist activists.

And, honey, any way one chooses to slice, dice, puree, or grind to bits this reality, it spells one thing for the Democrats:  VICTORY.

Democrats are nearly ubiquitously perceived – key word, “perceived” — as anti-racist, loving, un-selfish, generous, peace-making and unfailingly tolerant of all religions and all cultures. When conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1 among the electorate, and yet liberal views have achieved such dominance that they are perceived as dominant even in private settings, then Republicans are not only losing the propaganda war, they are all but missing in action.

How to fix this?  First, fully identify the problem.

Towards that goal, here is my top-5 list of why Republicans keep losing the propaganda war.

5.  Modern media favors perception over reality, charisma over intelligence, and personality over character.  Republicans remain the party dominated by reality, intelligent reason, and high character; they lose.

While many conservatives tend to focus entirely on leftist media bias as the primary reason Republicans lose so many public-perception contests, this is actually only a fraction of the far more serious problem.

Read more here

Operation for Liberals

I saw this here

     Great site and worth bookmarking

    I laughed my ass off when I saw it.  How appropiate;)

The cult of Obama

I saw this and figured it was worth sharing, to read the rest go here


By Robin of Berkeley

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers, 
Planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra, peace on earth
 - John Lennon

It's a chilling moment when the light goes out in someone's eyes.  A once-radiant child hardens from abuse.  A woman's heart shrinks after her husband's abandonment.
The person looks the same, maybe acts the same.  But something is gone, and what's lost is irretrievable.  It's like when a person dies: in a heartbeat, the soul vanishes.
I see this phenomenon every day: a light dimming.  The friendly shopkeeper snaps at me.  My cheerful neighbor seems flattened.
And you hear it in the news: people acting strangely, going off the deep end.  The most bizarre behavior becoming the new normal. 
A thug bites off a finger.  Sarah Palin's church is torched.  Black Panthers intimidate voters.
An esteemed Columbia University black architecture professor punches a white female coworker in the eye for not doing more about white privilege.  He has no history of violence.  Why now?

       Read more  here

The GOP debate

I was watching the debate and what was the GOP thinking of when they agreed to let the MSNBC host the debate.  I thought the debate was pretty good but most of it focused on Romney and Perry.  What got me was the after debate analysis with that leftist hack Rachael Maddows show.  She had a bunch of leftist on the panel, they were anything but balanced.  When they have the Al Sharpton as a panel member talking about the GOP debate, they showed their bias.  The only republican I saw interviewed was a guy named Schmedt an established republican and I can tell he didn't like the tea party.  He was playing the status quo angle and that isn't what we need anymore.  We have been getting along with the democraps for years and the 14 trillion dollar debt is where it has led us.    Lets play nice and we get screwed.  I am tired of being nice to these people, we are expected to be nice to them and they have people like Hoffa making incendiary comments and the attitude is that if we complain, we are wrong.  The left can demagogue an issue and it is OK, but if we defend ourselves, we are bigots, hate poor people,don't support global warning,  racist, ete,ete.   I am to the point now I am past being nice.  Being nice has gotten us nowhere but screwed and maligned.

9-11 rememberance

While surfing youtube looking for more video's for my monday music that I like to post on... monday
  I ran across this video from NATGEO.   I still an affected by 9-11, there has been an innocence lost for a new generation. 

The "Taps" played at the end gave me goosebumps.

I shamelessly cribbed this from here, a good site and worth a bookmark

       He said exactly what I wanted to say with the exception of his personal carry holster;)
       

WHEN SECONDS COUNT, POLICE ARE MINUTES AWAY

Think you can take the family to the local IHOP for a nice breakfast in peace? Guess again! Today’s murderer had other plans. Unfortunately, none of the victims seems to have had any power to thwart those evil plans. Oh, I’m sure people were screaming in horror and hiding under tables while the gunman mowed them down but how would the situation have changed if ten of the diners had been armed? Would the gunman have been able to kill two and injure nine if hollow points were flying back in his direction?
America has been dangerous for a long time. Yes, the odds are this type of terrible scene will never happen to you. But lately, the odds appear to be growing. Americans of all sorts are angry. Yesterday, we heard chief union thug Jimmy Hoffa exhorting fellow union thugs to “take the sons of bitches (in the tea party) out.” How long will it be until one of his lesser sane union thugs acts on this and actually takes out a tea party member? Every week, we see young “urban” beasts running in flash mobs attacking innocent people because they happen to be white and in the wrong place? How popular would these violent flash mobs be with these urban yoots if a victim emptied a magazine into the pack attacking them?
Violent people prey upon the weak and unprepared. Stupid liberals try to remedy the situation with more insane gun laws that prohibit honest people from protecting themselves. Only conservatives seem to be capable of understanding the simple fact that criminals don’t keep gun laws because they are CRIMINALS! Liberals are stupid that way. Other ways, too.
The only way Americans have a chance of protecting themselves is for every willing, capable law-abiding adult to carry a weapon. Otherwise, they can only hope for mercy. And when did a criminal ever show mercy? Are you willing to risk the lives of your family on the mercy or incompetence of an armed criminal? Me neither!
AWD never leaves the house without his Glock 23 which is chambered for .40 S&W. Why? Because there might be one time in my life where I have to use lethal force to protect myself, my family or another innocent person. I refuse to be a victim! Is it inconvenient sometimes to carry? Yes, it is. But the reward of knowing I am safe or at least have the chance to protect myself and others from a madman far outweighs the inconvenience.
I have encouraged everyone for years to acquire your concealed carry license if one is required in your state. Get a gun you can shoot and practice. Most gun battles take place within 7 feet. You don’t have to be a Navy Seal marksman. But you do have to have a gun!
Since we haven’t done this in a while, let’s discuss favorite guns for carry and favorite methods of carry. AWD uses an inside-the-belt holster that conceals my Glock very nicely. When I’m at the pool, I have the smaller Speedo holster. That was a joke. So share your knowledge and experience with those who are new to guns.
Don’t be a victim! Prepare yourself. I’m afraid we have many violent days coming real soon in this country

More humor

Obungler and his distain for the Constitution

Obunglers disdain for the constitution is well known,  if it wasn't for the constitution, the belief from the hardcore leftist is that socialist utopia will be well in hand.  That document crafted by a bunch of dead white dudes has slowed the juggernaut known as Obamanomics.  The document that is our individual rights guaranteed against the government, despite the supreme court poking holes in it relating to unreasonable search and seizures, our rights to free speech and a few others, it has slowed down the socialism movement in this country.   It went much faster in Europe where there was no document like it to protect the citizens there, all they are now are wards and pawns of the state.

     I got this from here

It’s official: President Obama is presiding over the worst era of unemployment in U.S. history since this nation was embroiled in World War II. On Friday, it was announced zero net jobs were created nationwide in the whole month of August. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis stammered, “I do believe that we’re going in the right direction, but we need cooperation and it begins with members of the House and the Senate agreeing to do something now.” Going in the right direction? It’s a perfect admission of the cluelessness of this White House that the head of the Labor Department thinks zero new jobs and a permanent unemployment rate above 9 percent mean the country is headed the right way.

The second half of the secretary’s statement is important too and delivers an important warning. Ms. Solis passed the buck for America’s doldrums and blamed our dire fiscal situation on congressional inaction. Congress must “do something now,” she insisted. Of course, legislative consensus is unlikely because the Senate is controlled by liberal Democrats who are pushing more deficit spending, while the House is run by conservative Republicans dedicated to cutting spending and taxes to jump-start private-sector growth. This logjam on Capitol Hill tempts the executive branch to take supra-constitutional action. In other words, since the Senate and House of Representatives can’t get their act together and agree on anything, the president will have to step in and take extraordinary action himself. This spin will be used as pretext for Mr. Obama to overreach his power to issue executive orders that will accomplish only one thing: Waste more taxpayer money that will do more long-term damage to the economy.

In White House talking points leaked to The Washington Times by an executive-branch employee, administration officials are told what to say to the press and the public about Mr. Obama’s Sept. 8 speech to a Joint Session of Congress. The document is devoid of specifics, which will be proclaimed from the podium on Thursday, but it does say that ideas announced to “provide economic security for the middle class … will be both legislative and executive actions.” The key words are the last two: executive actions. This is a tacit acknowledgment that the president is planning to take unilateral action to force through what he cannot get a divided Congress to do.

Mr. Obama has a profound resistance to the Constitution’s separation of powers, whereby the legislature is the lawmaking body and the executive branch implements the laws passed on the other side of Pennsylvania Ave. He’s overstepped his bounds on numerous issues already, ignoring the law to further his liberal agenda through federal agencies. Oppressive environmental regulations against businesses and property owners jump to mind.

“We need to lock arms, reach across the aisle and start acting as one community,” the kumbaya White House marching orders say. Propaganda aside, a panicking Obama administration will be less collaborative than ever in the days ahead.

9-11 and the successful war...

By George Friedman
It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That causes me to be wary. I prefer being the lonely voice, but the fact is that 9/11 was a defining moment in American history. On Sept. 12, 2001, few would have anticipated the course the resulting war would take — but then, few knew what to think. The nation was in shock. In retrospect, many speak with great wisdom about what should have been thought about 9/11 at the time and what should have been done in its aftermath. I am always interested in looking at what people actually said and did at the time.
The country was in shock, and shock was a reasonable response. The country was afraid, and fear was a reasonable response. Ten years later, we are all much wiser and sure that our wisdom was there from the beginning. But the truth is that, in retrospect, we know we would have done things superbly had we the authority. Few of us are being honest with ourselves. We were all shocked and frightened. Our wisdom came much later, when it had little impact. Yes, if we knew then what we know now we would have all bought Google stock. But we didn’t know things then that we know now, so it is all rather pointless to lecture those who had decisions to make in the midst of chaos.
Some wars are carefully planned, but even those wars rarely take place as expected. Think of the Germans in World War I, having planned the invasion of France for decades and with meticulous care. Nothing went as planned for either side, and the war did not take a course that was anticipated by anyone. Wars occur at unpredictable times, take unpredictable courses and have unexpected consequences. Who expected the American Civil War to take the course it did? We have been second-guessing Lincoln and Davis, Grant and Lee and all the rest for more than a century.

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Andrew Klaven on the Culture

Monday Music

My work hours changed a bit, I now work mondays so I will be later posting.

I will post some stuff from the 70's   Some Cher with Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

Now some Andrew Gold with" Lonely Boy"

I started to really pay attention to music in the mid 70's.  I used to listen to Wolfman Jack on AFN  in Frankfurt late at night and catch the superbands like ELO, Steve Miller band, Fleetwood Mac and others.  I thought that Wolfman Jack was an AFN DJ.  I realized different later when I saw the movie American Graffiti and realized that he was syndicated.

Heroes

I did a posting back in may, I had labled it "heroes"   We have the 10th anniversary of 9-11 coming up, so I figured I would repost a post I did on a person that was killed by the attack on 9-11. 
     Here is an exerpt of my post, followed by a link to the rest of the post.

  "A coward dies a thousand times whereas a brave man dies only once."

I figured that I would do a posting on heroes, people who by action would warrant what I call " Entry to Vahalla" where the vikings would welcome their own kindred spirit and lift up the mead glasses and Yell welcome.    One of the people that I admire is a person named Rick Rescorla.  Most people don't know his name but they would recognize a picture of Rick from Vietnam

                                                              Lt Rick Rescorla                                                                   2/7th Cavalry Ia Drang Valley 1965

Here is the rest of the Story

Flag Poll

Fox is running a poll about whether the flag should be banned in
schools in order not to inflame Hispanic students. The poll is being
sandbagged by SEIU and we should mount a counter action if you
agree with me that the flag should be taken down for no one.
George Soros, 'Organizing for America' and SEIU, "Service
Employee International UNION", have been twittering today to go to
Fox Poll and vote to BAN the American Flag and right now it is
still working (18%).

Go to FOX and vote NO on banning the American flag in America!

This is disgusting, to put it mildly. Your voice needs to be heard.

Please VOTE here

Looking for Runaways

Truth in cartooning

More Obmmercare news....

Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money

By: Philip Klein | Senior editorial writer | 06/02/11 12:52 PM

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which was considering an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center. (Listen to oral arguments here.)  The three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge, expressed more skepticism about the government's defense of the health care law than the Fourth Circuit panel that heard the Virginia-based Obamacare challenge last month in Richmond. The Fourth Circuit panel was made up entirely of Democrats, and two of the judges were appointed by Obama himself.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/obama-solicitor-general-if-you-dont-mandate-earn-less-money#ixzz1Wo1HBVwi

It is all George Bush's fault.....

 I got this email from my Dad, so I figure I would post this.

Obama is victim of Bush's failed promises !


Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records during his first term in office:


Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number of broken promises ever. Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity ever!

Wow ! Talk about change.

Just one year ago, fresh from his inauguration celebrations, President Obama was flying high. After one of the nation's most inspiring political campaigns, the election of America's first black president had captured the hopes and dreams of millions. To his devout followers, it was inconceivable that a year later his administration would be gripped in self-imposed crisis.

Of course, they don't see it as self-imposed. It's all George Bush's fault !

George Bush, who doesn't have a vote in congress and who no longer occupies The White House, is to blame for it all.

He broke Obama's promise, to put all bills on the White House web site for five days before signing them.

He broke Obama's promise, to have the congressional health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.

He broke Obama's promise, to end earmarks.

He broke Obama's promise, to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

He broke Obama's promise, to close the detention center at Guantanamo

in the first year.

He broke Obama's promise, to make peace with direct, no precondition talks with America's most hate-filled enemies during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of global cooperation.

He broke Obama's promise, to end the hiring of former lobbyists into high

White House jobs.

He broke Obama's promise, to end no-compete contracts with the government.

He broke Obama's promise, to disclose the names of all attendees at closed White House meetings.

He broke Obama's promise, for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in all matters.

He broke Obama's promise, to have chosen a home church to attend Sunday services with his family by Easter of last year.

Yes, it's all George Bush's fault ! President Obama is nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush administration.

If only George Bush wasn't still in charge, all of President Obama's problems would be solved. His promises would have been kept, the economy would be back on track, Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear bomb and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel. North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime, and integrity would have been restored to the federal government.

Oh, and did I mention what it would be like, if the Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, didn't have the heavy yoke of George Bush around their necks? There would be no ear marks, no closed-door drafting of bills, no increase in deficit spending, no special-interest influence (unions), no vote buying (Nebraska, Louisiana).

If only George Bush wasn't still in charge, we'd have real change by now.

All the broken promises, all the failed legislation and delay (health care reform, immigration reform) is not President Obama's fault or the fault of the Democrat-controlled Congress. It's all George Bush's fault !

Take for example the decision of Eric Holder, the president's attorney general, to hold terrorists' trials in New York City. Or his decision to try the Christmas Day underpants bomber as a civilian.

Two disastrous decisions.

Certainly those were bad judgments based on poor advice from George Bush !

Need more proof?

You might recall that when Scott Brown won the election to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, capturing "The Ted Kennedy Seat", President Obama said, Brown's victory was the result of the same voter anger that propelled Obama into office in 2008. People were still angry about George Bush and the policies of the past 10 years. And they wanted change.

Yes, according to the president, the voter rebellion in Massachusetts,

was George Bush's fault.

Therefore, in retaliation, they elected a Republican to the Ted Kennedy seat, ending a half-century of domination by Democrats. It is all George Bush's fault !


Will the failed administration of George Bush ever end, and the time

for hope and change ever arrive ???

Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for something / anything?

(Chuck Green is a veteran Colorado journalist and former editor-in-chief

of The Denver Post.)

Achmed the dead Terrorist.

I am one of those warped people that thing Jeff Dunham and his puppets are great, especially "Achmed the dead terrorist"