As Seen On TV!
The guys at Popular Mechanics are right. The Grill Daddy actually works.
rightwingprof :: Jul.04.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: No Comments »
Sure.
The only thing crazier than a squeal-y little Michael Jackson fan is, of course, Michael Jackson — oh wait, he’s dead, isn’t he. The nutjobs have crawled out from under their rocks.
Right. A six year-old “girlfriend” named Brucie. Or “Blanket.” Or “Prince.”
Move over, Elvis!
rightwingprof :: Jul.04.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
Independence Day
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
rightwingprof :: Jul.04.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: No Comments »
Shocked, I Tell You, Shocked!
Taxpayer-funded vacations by politicians up 50% since 2006! Ruin the economy, then take a trip to the Virgins Islands and make the taxpayers foot the bill! Then come back to Washington, and take the wrecking ball to the economy again!
rightwingprof :: Jul.03.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
School Prayer For Liberals
Sustainable lingerie. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.
rightwingprof :: Jul.02.2009 :: Idjits, Raping Mother Earth, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Mmmm, Mmmm, Good!
Visitation
From the local rag.
Funeral preparations are underway for the late television pitchman Billy Mays.
A visitation is scheduled for 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Anthony M. Musmanno Funeral Home in Mays’ hometown of McKees Rocks, near Pittsburgh.He is to be buried Friday morning.
rightwingprof :: Jul.02.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends, PA :: 1 Comment »
Now There’s A Headline
Thanks to Rory, I have Google Desktop, which among other things, keeps track of the websites you visit and when they update, displays the headlines in an RSS feed. So when I saw this headline, I was, er, so, uh, taken aback that I immediately checked it out.
Maggie’s Farm: “I’m A Lesbian”, which turns out to be a write-up about yet another arrogant liberal politician who insists she’s above the law because she’s 1) an oppressed minority, and 2) a victim.
rightwingprof :: Jul.01.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
Hilarious!
“To the right of Atilla the Hun.” Har!
rightwingprof :: Jun.30.2009 :: Obama, Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Surprise
If you saw the story that supposedly Jordan Chandler, in an illiterate message, claimed that “Mikey” never molested him, it’s a hoax. Expect lots of this whitewashing in the next month or so.
rightwingprof :: Jun.30.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Another One
That superior medical system in Canada sends another patient to the US for treatment.
rightwingprof :: Jun.28.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: No Comments »
Interview
with Billy Mays. Some of it may surprise you.
rightwingprof :: Jun.28.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: 1 Comment »
Karma!
Young, “disadvantaged” POS attacks old “amazing, multifaceted” Commie “activist” POS to steal his bicycle. Other “activist” sh*tbags reportedly, “Shocked, I tell you, shocked!”
Hat tip: Jeffrey.
rightwingprof :: Jun.28.2009 :: Crime, Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Yow!
Billy Mays passed away. There’s somebody worth eulogizing.
Hi! Billy Mays here!
rightwingprof :: Jun.28.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: 1 Comment »
Line Du Jour
From the Blogfather re: Perez Hilton.
If you’re a gay guy in the news because someone punched you, and the most prominent gay rights organization has asked you to apologize, and a charity who works to end violence against gay people won’t take money from you, I think it’s safe to say you’re a piece of sh*t.
Some people just need to be beaten bloody every day of their lives. He’s the prototype.
rightwingprof :: Jun.28.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
More Tactful Than I
Kate says it all about Michael Jackson.
A “tragic childhood” is a 4 year old in Bangladesh with retinoblastoma. A “tragic life” is a Russian teenager sold into the sex trade.
Michael Jackson did not have a tragic childhood, nor did he have a tragic life.
He had the life he chose.
To excuse his behavior as though it was simply a pre-programmed result of his years as a child performer is not just intellectually lazy, it’s an insult to every individual who has overcome true childhood hardship, deprivation and/or abuse to emerge as a functioning member of society.
Michael Jackson was no bobbing cork on the sea of circumstance - he was a multi-millionaire with the means to choose any lifestyle he wanted. “Functional adult” was one of the options. He chose otherwise.
Celebrate the music if you like, but for decency’s sake, don’t celebrate the man.
No tears or sadness here at all. My only question, really, is whether he died wearing his burka.
rightwingprof :: Jun.26.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: 3 Comments »
Why Education Funding Needs To Be Cut #4861
H/T to Ace and Allah for this.
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.
Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its “rubber rooms” — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.
The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.
“You just basically sit there for eight hours,” said Orlando Ramos, who spent seven months in a rubber room, officially known as a temporary reassignment center, in 2004-05. “I saw several near-fights. `This is my seat.’ `I’ve been sitting here for six months.’ That sort of thing.”
Ramos was an assistant principal in East Harlem when he was accused of lying at a hearing on whether to suspend a student. Ramos denied the allegation but quit before his case was resolved and took a job in California.
Because the teachers collect their full salaries of $70,000 or more, the city Department of Education estimates the practice costs the taxpayers $65 million a year. The department blames union rules.
And this is why God made unions to be busted.
rightwingprof :: Jun.24.2009 :: Idjits, Education, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Hey, How Bout That
I was just thinking the NFL and NHL needed to get together and offer something like this.
Order yours here.
rightwingprof :: Jun.22.2009 :: Football, Hockey, PA :: 3 Comments »
Rockin TV!
And it’s a nature documentary. Dolphins: The Dark Side is great stuff, and these people on the documentary seem to be genuinely distressed.
Rape, murder, you name it, they do it.
rightwingprof :: Jun.20.2009 :: Idjits, TV/Movies, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Hilarious!
Daniel Hannan: Brussels ayatollahs confirm “Yes” votes in referendums.
rightwingprof :: Jun.20.2009 :: Teh Funny, Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Tale Of Two Cities
I didn’t get the reference in this comment.
You guys seem to be able to handle a sports milestone better than my city. (Los Angeles..I don’t know if I’m more embarrassed or PO’d)
I guess I was behind on the news. Pittsburgh wins the Super Bowl, then the Stanley Cup, and throws a big party. The Lakers win the NBA Championship, and the fans riot.
I don’t feel I need to make the obvious (uncharitable) comment.
rightwingprof :: Jun.19.2009 :: Hockey, Idjits, PA, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Max and MAF
Mad Max’s first goal!
His second!
And the final seven seconds of the last period, Fleury the Superstar!
And unless you’re in the area, you’ve never seen this as it turns out prophetic commercial.
rightwingprof :: Jun.17.2009 :: Hockey, PA :: No Comments »
Hear, Hear! Moments
I would have said, “Get over yourselves.” Steven Crowder is a bit more detailed.
And could it be true? Is the idiot K-Lo actually leaving NRO? So far, only the batshit-crazy gawker is reporting it, so it may be crap. Stay tuned.
rightwingprof :: Jun.17.2009 :: Idjits :: 2 Comments »
375,000
That’s how many screaming Penguins fans lined the Pittsburgh streets yesterday for the parade. It’s also 25,000 more than lined the same streets for the Steelers Super Bowl win.
Throw a victory party for 375,000 fans on three days’ notice?
Yeah, the City of Champions can handle that.
Penguins fans lined up 20 deep Monday along Grant Street and the Boulevard of the Allies to welcome back Lord Stanley’s cup after a 17-year absence. Pittsburgh police estimated the 375,000 fans eclipsed by 25,000 the crowd who gathered four months ago to celebrate the Steelers’ Super Bowl victory.
“Any time there’s a championship in the city, it’s always a good thing,” said Fred Broadnax, 54, of Mt. Washington, standing on Boulevard of the Allies near Market Street. “That’s why they call us the City of Champions. I could do it again next year, as soon as the Steelers and Penguins repeat. The Pirates just have to get on board.”
It was the third time in four years the city welcomed home a champion sports team.
Pensblog has a flickr group of parade photos, and parade coverage here.
rightwingprof :: Jun.16.2009 :: Football, Hockey, PA :: 4 Comments »
Every Penny Wasted
First, there was that bailout. Then after taking the bailout money and becoming Yugo, they declared bankruptcy. And now, the official list of plant closings? So where did those billions of dollars go?
Democrats. Experts at stealing, then burning other peoples’ money.
rightwingprof :: Jun.16.2009 :: Obama, Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Well, Of Course
Don:
Having run the city of Cleveland into financial default as its mayor, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich now lectures Ken Lewis of Bank of America on how to run a bank. The government forced the bank to take over Merrill Lynch. Kucinich blames Lewis.
That’s what happens when idiots get elected, Don.
rightwingprof :: Jun.15.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Comment Of The Day
from a Canuck, no less (and no doubt this will be just a blip in a run of Stanley Cup content).
The cognitive behavior of Western intellectuals faced with the accomplishments of their own society, on the one hand, and with the socialist ideal and then the socialist reality, on the other, takes one’s breath away. In the midst of unparalleled social mobility in the West, they cry ‘caste.’ In a society of munificent goods and services, they cry either ‘poverty’ or ‘consumerism.’ In a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives, they cry ‘alienation.’ In a society that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians to an extent that no one could have dreamed possible just fifty years ago, they cry ‘oppression.’ In a society of boundless private charity, they cry ‘avarice.’ In a society in which hundreds of millions have been free riders upon the risk, knowledge, and capital of others, they decry the ‘exploitation’ of the free riders. In a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth, they cry ‘injustice.’ In the names of fantasy worlds and mystical perfections, they have closed themselves to the Western, liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. Like Marx, they put words like ‘liberty’ in quotation marks when these refer to the West.
rightwingprof :: Jun.14.2009 :: Obama, Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Hi-Freakin-Larious!
And the photo I was unable to find earlier.
From Taking One for the Team.
rightwingprof :: Jun.13.2009 :: Hockey, Obama, PA :: 1 Comment »
Fleury!
Six seconds to go, and a stop your heart save.
rightwingprof :: Jun.13.2009 :: Hockey, PA :: No Comments »
Black And Gold Year
First, the Super Bowl in January.
Last night, the Stanley Cup!
Mad Max Talbot for the two goals, and Fleury for shutting Detroit out, especially that last minute save. Max with the Cup.
The handshake line.
Gives a whole new meaning to this.
And of course, a link to the crazy guys at Pensblog. Yes They Could. Pens Win. Stanley Cup Champs.
And in more great news for Pennsylvania, the Hershey Bears win the Calder Cup!
rightwingprof :: Jun.13.2009 :: Football, Hockey, PA :: 1 Comment »
You Gotta Hand It To ‘Em
You really have to hand it to the men and women of the Philadelphia City Council. The city is $2 million in the red, crime is completely out of control, and the mayor closed seven fire stations. But what is city council spending their precious time on?
They want to enact a ban on plastic shopping bags.
Seriously.
Aren’t Democrats cute? Speaking of, Democrats and Wyatt, that is, there must be Democrats in Albania.
Many Albanians born in the 19th century are listed as voters for the June 28 general elections because they have not been declared dead, officials said on Thursday.
Awesome!
rightwingprof :: Jun.12.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
Hey, This Is Fun!
First, Obama goes to Germany and apologizes for “allied war crimes” because sticking his tongue up the nearest anus is what he does best, then some nutjob shoots up the Holocaust Museum. Then, his mentor, “Rev.” Wright (remember him?) complains that “them Jews” won’t let him in to see Obama.
Conkidink?
I think not.
rightwingprof :: Jun.11.2009 :: Obama, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
Again, Please?
rightwingprof :: Jun.11.2009 :: Idjits, Wackjobs :: No Comments »
Yowza!
Rock on! The Pens played a hellacious game last night, so it’s going to game seven! I think Detroit knows if they want the Stanley Cup, Pittsburgh is going to make them work for it.
Go Pens!
rightwingprof :: Jun.10.2009 :: Hockey, PA :: 1 Comment »
Local Math Ed
rightwingprof :: Jun.09.2009 :: Math, PA, Education :: No Comments »
National Embarrassment
The stupidest President in American history, part 15. But he did have his tongue way, way, way up there, and that was the point.
rightwingprof :: Jun.09.2009 :: Obama, Idjits, Education :: No Comments »
Because The Cops Are Bored
You may recall (if you’ve been around that long) that the day after moving here, I went to Midas to get the oil changed and found out about state-mandated annual inspections. You may also recall that I wondered what kind of commie state I’d moved to (annual inspections, my ass).
So I got stopped the other day. Was I speeding? Had I run a red light? Had I otherwise placed somebody in danger?
No. One of my inspections had expired, and the police stopped me.
Seriously.
Somehow, the last time I went to Midas to get inspected, they only did an emissions inspection. So I went to Midas today and now have two brand new stickers.
Oh, and brand new brakes because mine were shot.
Anyway, I thought I’d be there an hour. Instead, I was there a good two hours, and today, the connection is very slow.
rightwingprof :: Jun.09.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: No Comments »
If Bizarre Is Your Thing
I’d suggest Bon Cop Bad Cop, a Quebeckwah movie, playing on Starz this month. It’s billed as a comedy, proving that furriners have weird senses of humor.
rightwingprof :: Jun.09.2009 :: TV/Movies :: No Comments »
How’s About That?
Rasmussen finds most won’t consider GM, now that it’s Government Motors. Hot Air reports:
51% of Americans say they will consider a Ford, primarily because they didn’t take bailout money from the federal government.
Guess what I drive.
rightwingprof :: Jun.09.2009 :: Odds 'n Ends :: No Comments »
