Uncle Joe

Each of us has had that relative that we are not too eager to identify as part of the family. A little kooky perhaps. Kind of like America's own Uncle Joe Biden.

As the Obama Administration engages in seemingly endless debate on how to proceed in Afghanistan our troops continue to be undermanned and at risk. American blood is being shed on a daily basis while our President and his ineffective whining socialist advisers meet privately and wring their hands over what to do in the war on terror. Yet still no definitive response from the White House.

Instead we see the American people being softened up by the mainstream media to accept what is another attempt to pander to the left. The logical front man....you guessed it, Uncle Joe.

I don't want to debate the merits of Joe Biden being a spokesman for anything. It is clearly a bad idea (unless he is destined to be spokes model for men's bras after his embarrassing Jersey Shore swimming suit photo from this summer [photo from TMZ.com}). War should be left to the professionals. The soldiers, sailors and airmen who put their life on the line every day are the only people equipped to make operational decisions.

Now, I am not forsaking the right and responsibility of the President to make foreign policy decisions. If he chooses to withdraw from Afghanistan so be it. I would loudly disagree with retreated from the battle against terror but it is certainly the Commander in Chief's prerogative to decide where and when the Armed Forces are committed to battle. But under no circumstances should the necessary tools to accomplish a mission be witheld from our troops. Never.

It is time to put up or shut up. Obama needs to make a decision now. And they need to lock Uncle Joe in the basement before he embarrasses us any more than he has already.

Good Seminar

My intrepid friend the Maestro will be offering a sacred music seminar here in the Diocese of Metuchen. In the hope that any of you interested in great church music might be inclined to attend I have posted the flier for the event.

May the appropriate authorities be inspired to ban guitars, tambourines and the dreaded farfisa organ from all Roman Catholic liturgies.

Souper Douper

So the year of soup continues. Tonight with a bold recipe for Creamy Garlic Soup.

First, a little garlic. About a cup and one half. Well, I won't bore you with all of the details. Suffice to say that this creamy extravagance of saffron laced goodness was a fitting end to the first almost chilly day of the season.

Here is what it looked like while bubbling away in the Dirty Copper Soup Cauldron. Potatoes, onions, salt, pepper, garlic, saffron and at the end a pint of half and half before being beaten in to submission with the immersion blender. Can't wait for lunch tomorrow. Must remember to pick up breath mints on the way.

Killer Smile

Ever wonder what the face of a killer looks like. A person who can kill fifteen human beings and still find a reason to smile. John Wayne Gacy? NO. Jeffrey Dahmer? Nope. How about Ted Bundy. Nah. Amateurs. This lovely young woman has killed fifteen people. What do you think of her?

A woman has admitted to being 'an abortion addict' after having 15 terminations over 17 years.

Irene Vilar said she had the abortions not from poverty or fear but as an extraordinary act of rebellion against her 'controlling' husband who did not want children.

What do you think of her now? Standard bearer of women's reproductive freedom? Hero to oppressed womanhood?

How about Pig? Another testament to nationalized health care.

Photo by Gary Issacs of the Daily Mail.

The rest here.

How to treat celebrities

It never ceases to amaze me how people engage in celebrity worship. Apparently this phenomena is not shared by all cultures. The video shows a spanish version of Punked where an up and coming actress is the victim. Inspiring.


Hot Chick Victim of Mean Prank - Watch more Breaks Biggest Winners

What do you feed a 180 LB 7 foot Dog?

Anything it wants.

CASSELTON, N.D. — Boomer may be a buster: Measuring 3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feet long from nose to destructive wagging tail, he might be the world's tallest living dog.

Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.

Boomer stares into car windows eye to eye with drivers. A 20-pound bag of dry dog food lasts the 180-pound canine a couple of weeks.

Unlike little yippy dogs who always seem to have something to prove the Newfoundland is the most gentle breed I have ever encountered. Thus the reason she is the official Dirty Copper Dog. The rest here.

Just take the stroke

BEAUFORT, S.C. — A 77-year-old man has lost his lower arm after he was bitten by an alligator on a coastal South Carolina golf course.

Multiple media outlets reported that the Fripp Island man was playing the Ocean Creek Golf Course about 3 p.m. Thursday when he was attacked. His name was not released.

Kate Hines with the Fripp Island Property Owners Association says the man was picking up his ball when a 10-foot alligator pulled him into a nearby pond.

How much does one golf ball cost for goodness sakes? The rest here.

The Good, the Bad and the Ukulele

Unless it turns in to a great commercial success the soundtrack to a movie is often forgotten as soon as you leave the theater. Here is a view behind the scenes of one very famous tune.



Thanks to Spicoli for sending me this one.

And in the kiss my Polish behind department

BANGKOK — There are plenty of needy countries at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming. Then there are the Saudis.

Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign during these and other negotiations — demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels.

The link.

The British are coming

Looks like our friends across the pond have figured it out.

David Cameron on Thursday blamed Britain’s economic crisis on a Labour-led era of “big government”, in a sombre and sometimes emotional speech aimed at convincing the nation he is a prime minister in waiting.

Mr Cameron warned that he was about to turn off the tap on public spending , and caused concern to some in the City when he said that “sometime soon” the country would have to stop “printing money” if it wanted to head off inflation.

Read about the UK's turn away from socialism here.

Just plain silly

Nobel's Law? Each inaction has the opposite disproportionate reaction?

OSLO -- President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

Clearly the choices must have been between him, Bob Barker and that creepy guys who sits on the corner for a living.

The rest of this silliness can be found here.

Give Charlie a break

It isn't like he called a liar a liar or a similar high crime against the anointed one.

A day after Democrats shot down a measure to remove New York Rep. Charles Rangel from his powerful post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemning what it called "partisan attempts to ignore the well-established, bipartisan congressional ethics process."

The rest here.

Defecit in diapers

Twirl of the nightstick to my friend the Hilltop Piper for sending me this one.

Uncle Milty

Grateful thanks to Angus for dropping this one in an email. I never did like Phil Donahue. He was always a bit over the top in his Liberal slant and had the worst hair I have ever seen, even by the standards of the 1970's. Anyway, here is a brief clip of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman bitch slapping Phil. It was really enjoyable to watch and is still relevant.

Yes

Birds of a feather

Looks like the real professional thieves in Washington finally have some competition.

Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what once a white-collar crime.

The rest here.

Stupid Bitch

I am sorry for the offensive title to the post. But frankly, I am fed up. I don't know if this Liberal knuckle dragger we have serving as Speaker of the House is stupid or just hell bent on ruining this country but enough is enough.

The root of my angst you ask?

A new value-added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night.

Pelosi, appearing on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" asserted that "it's fair to look at" the VAT as part of an overhaul of the nation's tax code.

"I would say, Put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves," Pelosi told Rose when asked if the VAT has any appeal to her.

The VAT is a tax on manufacturers at each stage of production on the amount of value an additional producer adds to a product.

I am not an economist. I don't have to be to tell you that this one smells right out of the box. For Pete's sake you dumb ass, please pick up a basic Econ 101 text and read the part that says taxes will stunt the economy not make it grow. As long as this nitwit and the rest of her cabal attempt to shove failed Soviet Bloc economic policies down our throats we are screwed!!!

The rest of Nancy Peolosi's current manifestation of stupidity is detailed here. I humbly ask that all Conservative Dems, Independents and hypoxic Republicans kindly read the article and come to your senses. Please! I am asking really nice.

Time to reassess

Somehow this whole garden idea seemed much better in the spring than it does now.

Progress

WOODBRIDGE — If it were not for the men and women standing every morning in front of 228 Main St., you might not know the two-story Victorian house is a clinic that performs surgical abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy.

Motorists will be seeing a lot of more these protesters this month as the international pro-life organization 40 Days For Life holds its 40-day, 24-hour vigil in front of the clinic from Sept. 26 to Nov. 1.

"Another good reason for praying is that the public sees us out there," she added. "A year or 10 years later they may remember people praying in front of the abortion clinic and that may change their mind."

And that, clinic manager Sabina Vasquez said, is what's happening.

"(The women) are embarrassed by them," she said. "One woman who was just here said she was very uncomfortable that the guy was shouting at her. To a lot of patients it changed their mind right away and they they never come back. It happens a lot."

The rest here.

Disturbing

Remember when you saw Grandma crocheting and you thought it was the most wholesome activity anyone could ever be involved in? All of those intricate and imaginative patterns. Now I am not so sure.