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Robert Earl Keene's Merry Christmas from the Family

Rachel's Wedding

DWI idiot runs over himself!

Ron Paul on the Lew Rockwell Show 10/26/08 (Part 2/2)

Barack Hussein Obama refuses to salute US flag

1981 News report about Bohemian grove

1988 Road to the White House with Sen. Biden

Do we really want this dumbass in charge of anything? He sure is struck on himself.

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies - MUSIC- msnbc.com

Musician was seen as dominant force in the early days of psychedelic band

AP Members of the rock band Pink Floyd, from left, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, right, leap from the steps of EMI House in London on March 3, 1967. View related photos

updated 1:34 p.m. ET, Mon., Sept. 15, 2008

LONDON - Richard Wright, a founding member of Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.

The rock group’s spokesman, Doug Wright, who’s unrelated, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He said the band member’s family did not want to give more details about his death.

Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Along with the late Syd Barrett, the four formed Pink Floyd in 1965.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26722696/

Hayabusa #1 Wonder of Motorcycles

Me Want!

Camel Toe Video

Now this one's just downright funny.

"Mount Carmel's traffic cameras don't blink for THP, Hawkins Sheriff's patrol cars; THP gives Mount Carmel officer speeding ticket"

Mount Carmel Police Chief Jeff Jackson noted that police officers are only allowed to speed when en route to a call, and with their blue lights and siren activated. He said the warnings and citations issued to the HCSO and THP recently via the Mount Carmel camera system involved patrol cars that were speeding without blue lights and siren activated.

Whew! At Last!

After 6 years of storage. The guys at Kingsport Cycles got her running. De-rusting of the tank, new petcock and a carb rebuild. The "Purple Kaw" lives again.

My New Baby!

This is a 2002 Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Custom. It has 212 actual miles. It has been lowered 2 1/2 inches with custom handlebars and kickstand. A full windshield, saddlebags and engine guards have been added. This baby is showroom condition. Her name is Petunia.

I want to thank my friend Tina for letting me adopt her. Rest assured she has found a great home for many years. Now I'm doing my part to save energy and doing it with style!

Faith The Walking Dog

Skinny Girl Owned By Desert Eagle

Laura Croft, she's not. hehehe

True then & true now ..............

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

~ Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 ~

800 small dogs seized from home

800 small dogs seized from home:

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — About 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas, terriers and Pomeranians, were seized from a triple-wide mobile home whose occupants were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals, authorities said Wednesday.

Pima County sheriff's deputies and animal welfare officials who removed the dogs also found 82 caged parrots in the home in a rural area northwest of Tucson.

Some dogs were pregnant and giving birth as they were taken to shelters in Tucson, said Jenny Rose, a spokeswoman for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Ninety-six dogs were taken from the house Monday and another 700 on Wednesday, she said.

"The home was definitely in very bad condition, urine and feces all over the home, in the kitchen and bedroom, with a very strong odor," she said. "Obviously, 800 dogs in a triple-wide mobile home, they were packed in there. That being said, they were in pretty good shape."

The elderly owners, who have not been identified, were apparently overwhelmed but have cooperated with authorities, sheriff's Sgt. James Ogden said. No charges have been filed, but authorities continue to investigate.

The animals appeared to have had enough food, but a few were missing paws — some from having been attacked by other animals, others apparently having caught their feet in fencing outside, Rose said.

The breeds included Chinese cresteds and Lhasa apsos. The owners were breeding and offering the dogs for sale, Rose said, but she described it as a hoarding case, in which elderly people sometimes feel no one else can give their animals a good home and won't part with them.

Deputies were alerted this month after a woman who bought a Chihuahua at the home reported the conditions, Ogden said.

The dogs living inside the house apparently had free run of the premises, Ogden said. Others were found in other structures on the property.

Ogden described the living conditions as "horrible, filth everywhere ... probably one of the worst (situations) I've ever seen."

The animals will be offered for adoption soon, Rose said, adding that a rescue group from Phoenix had taken 100 of the dogs.

Wal-Mart stops selling Linux-based computers - Gadgets- msnbc.com

Wal-Mart stops selling Linux-based computers - Gadgets- msnbc.com:

updated 6:28 p.m. ET, Mon., March. 10, 2008

NEW YORK - Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman said Monday.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

"This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien.

To test demand for systems with the open-source operating system, Wal-Mart stocked the $199 "Green gPC," made by Everex of Taiwan, in about 600 stores starting late in October.

Walmart.com, the chain's e-commerce site, had sold Linux-based computers before and will continue selling the gPC.

This was the first time they appeared on retail shelves.

Paul Kim, brand manager for Everex, said selling the gPC online was "significantly more effective" than selling it in stores.

Wal-Mart sold out the in-store gPC inventory but decided not to restock, O'Brien said. The company does not reveal sales figures for individual items.

Walmart.com now carries an updated version, the gPC2, also for $199, without a monitor. The site also sells a tiny Linux-driven laptop, the Everex CloudBook, for $399.

Linux software is maintained and developed by individuals and companies around the world on an "open source" basis, meaning that everyone has access to the software's blueprints and can modify them.

There is no licensing fee for Linux, which helps keeps the cost of the Everex PC low. Manufacturers have to pay Microsoft to sell computers with Windows preloaded.

Linux is in widespread use in server computers, but it hasn't made a dent in the desktop market. Surveys usually put its share of that market around 1 percent, far behind Windows and Apple Inc.'s OS X.

Smaller laptops like the CloudBook could provide an entree for Linux, since it runs well on systems with modest memory and hard drive capacity.

Police: Man Gets Shot to Avoid Work

PASCO, Wash. (AP) -- What happened to faking a cough?

Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Wash., say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work.

When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch (KOOCH) told them he'd been the victim of a drive-by shooting while he was jogging Thursday. But detectives told KONA radio that Kuch later acknowledged that he asked his friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid a drug test.

The friend has been arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment. Kuch is expected to be charged with false reporting.

Detectives declined to say where Kuch works, or whether he still has a job. It wasn't known if he had obtained a lawyer.

Bump Keys in the News - San Francisco #3

This ain't good.

Hospitals Linked to Fraud - Big Suprise Hey?

Germs and You

Microsoft Surface Parody

I know this is a year old but it is so good I just had to share it with all my friends.

E*TRADE Trading Baby 2008

This gets funnier the more I watch it. This is my vote for best SB ad.

Hillary on Oil Profits

Exxon Mobil Makes Monster Profit

Oil Giant Raked In $40.6B In 2007 - Biggest Annual Profit In History For U.S. Company

(AP) Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company - $40.6 billion - as the world's largest publicly traded oil company benefited from historic crude prices at year's end.

Exxon Mobil also set a U.S. record for the biggest quarterly profit, posting net income of $11.7 billion for the final three months of 2007, besting its own mark of $10.71 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005.

The previous record for annual profit was $39.5 billion, which Exxon Mobil reported for 2006.

The eye-popping results weren't a surprise given record prices for a barrel of oil at the end of 2007. For much of the fourth quarter, they hovered around $90 a barrel, more than 50 percent higher than a year ago.

Crude prices reached an all-time trading high of $100.09 on Jan. 3 but have fallen about 10 percent since. .......

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/01/business/main3777996.shtml

I wonder how much of this is ending up in Lord Bush an his "cronies" pockets?

Puppy Mills - News- msnbc.com

Puppy Mills - News- msnbc.com: "Puppy Mills"

WCYB-TV

updated 7:05 a.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 31, 2008

Bill targeting puppy mills advances in Virginia House of Delegates. Legislation to crack down on illegal puppymills narrowly cleared a Virginia House of Delegates committee.

The Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee voted 9-8 on Wednesday to endorse Delegate Bobby Orrock`s bill and

send it own to the Appropriations Committee for further consideration.

Virginians who maintain 20 or more female breeding dogs would have to obtain a local business license, submit to inspections by

local animal control officers and keep extensive records.

Supporters of the bill said it would help alleviate the horrible conditions that exist at many puppy mills. Last year, more than

1,100 dogs were discovered at one Carroll County puppy mill.

Opponents argued that the proposed regulations are excessive and that they duplicate federal efforts.

Wolfowitz Gets New Job At State Department

White House Insider Forced From World Bank Gig Will Now Head Powerful Arms Control Panel

(AP) Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz will head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the State Department said Thursday.

The move by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice marks a return to government for Wolfowitz, a conservative with close ties to the White House. As deputy defense secretary under President Bush, he was a major architect of the Iraq war.

Wolfowitz was replaced as World Bank chief last June after a stormy two-year tenure. His leadership was undermined by a furor over a hefty compensation package he arranged in 2005 for a bank employee who was also his girlfriend. ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/24/politics/main3750568.shtml


I just don't even know what to say about this deal. Evidently this is the Bush administrations "Good Ole' Boy" system at in all it's glory. And they don't even care who knows. Can we survive another year of this? HT

But I Could Be Wrong

Boy, don't we all feel like this sometimes?

Robert E. Lee Day

Robert E. Lee day is an unofficial Southern holiday observed on January 19 of each year. The day is a day of remembrance and celebration. Remembrance of a man who gave his utmost for a cause, and put duty, faith, and service above all else. Robert E. Lee day is a day that all Southerners say, "Thank you, General, for all you did." January 19 was Robert E. Lee's Birthday.

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He was a great man and one of my heros.
He was a great Christian and a Leader of unimaginable character and conviction.
HT

CAKE Music Video "War Pigs"

Man, Cake did a great job on this old Black Sabbath song. Funny how after 28 years this song is still as pertinent today as it was then. HT

www.cakemusic.com

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOUR CREDIT NOW

Posted: Friday, January 18 at 04:32 am CT by Bob Sullivan

The folks who invented the credit score for lenders are hard at work developing a similar tool for hospitals and other health care providers.

The project, dubbed “MedFICO” in some early press reports, will aid hospitals in assessing a patient’s ability to pay their medical bills. But privacy advocates are worried that the notorious errors that have caused frequent criticism of the credit system will also cause trouble with any attempt to create a health-related risk score. They also fear that a low score might impact the quality of the health care that patients receive.

Fair Issac Corp., developer of the FICO credit score, is one of several investors in Healthcare Analytics, the Massachusetts start-up that is developing the hospital risk tool. Another investor is Tenet Healthcare Corp, one of the nation's largest hospital operators. Stephen Farber, who resigned as chief financial officer of Tenet in 2004, is the CEO of Healthcare Analytics.

Several published reports have described Healthcare Analytics product as a MedFICO score, computed in a way that would be familiar to those who've used credit scores. The firm is gathering payment history information from large hospitals around the country, according to a magazine called Inside ARM, aimed at “accounts receivable management” professionals. It will then analyze that data to predict how likely patients will be to pay future medical bills. As with credit reports and scores, patients who've failed to pay past bills will be deemed less likely to pay future bills.

The idea sounds ominous to Pam Dixon, who runs the World Privacy Forum, which studies medical privacy issues.

"This is a bad idea and I don't think this benefits the consumer at all," Dixon said. "And what about victims of medical ID theft? Are we going to deny treatment to these people because they have a terrible MedFICO score?"

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I knew it was coming to this. The so called "Health Care" industry has become nothing but big business catering to it's stockholders. If they charged a "Fair" price for their services it would be different. They charge what they want because we have no alternative. Ninety percent or more of us are now one accident or sickness away from bankruptcy. I think it's time for a decision on national health care. I say my taxes go to help our own citizens instead of the blowing up and then rebuilding of Iraq. Not to mention all the illegal immigrants we are now supporting. I would love to see a little return on my investment in this country. Hillary says she is willing to try to fix it and I'm ready to give her a shot at it.

Welcome to America! Now Speak English or Get the Hell Out! HT

Bet You Didn’t Know This Is How A Sewing Machine Works

Published on January 13th, 2008

Posted by Uncle Dave in General

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/

Now this is KOOL!

They're On a Roll:

For those who follow the progress of North Shore Animal League America's famous Chihuahua trio, Venus, Carmen and Pablo, there's news: these charming dogs, born without their front legs and rescued by the League from a Virginia shelter, now have front-wheel drive, in the form of carts that will assist their mobility.

The three have been practicing getting about and eating using their new, custom-built, aluminum carts with Velcro-held polar fleece padding for comfortable body support and lightweight foam wheels. Constructed by Eddie's Wheels of Shelburne Falls, MA, the carts, used for 10-minute periods at a time, help the dogs maneuver and eliminate some of the stress on their lower spines from walking on their hind legs and from the lack of proper posture.

The Chihuahuas are each missing their front legs as he result of a birth defect believed to be the result of irresponsible over breeding also known as backyard breeding. Normal in every other way, the pups seem unaware of their disability and have accepted the challenge of their new carts much as they did the challenge to learn to balance themselves on their back legs. There's another heartwarming footnote to their story. The three now live in their "forever" home, adopted together by a North Shore Animal League America Veterinary Technician, with whom they have bonded, and under whose care they have thrived.

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