A Double AA Classic

From the Instapundit: Glenn Reynolds

Today, 7:16 PM

BUT THEN WHO WILL WRITE THE STORIES? AP wants to get prostitutes away from its DC bureau.

Just Wondering

Russ Steele

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today promoting his new Rush Babes for America  gear. Over 69,000 have signed up to the Rush Babes for America Facebook page.

I was wondering will women voters wearing any of this gear will be asked to remove it before entering the polling place in June?

I remember there was a problem at some voting places in Nevada County when women voters showed up with Tea Party Patriot shirts. Poll watchers claimed it was electioneering in the polling place.

What do you think, will this gear be allowed in a voting booth?

Over the E-mail Transom – The Queen’s Riddle

Russ Steele

This came for a regular reader of this blog.

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.

He asked her, “Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government?Are there any tips you can give me?”

“Well,” said the Queen, “the most important thing is to surround your selfwith intelligent people.”

Obama frowned, and then asked, “But how do I know the people around are really intelligent?”

The Queen took a sip of tea. “Oh, that’s easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle.” The Queen pushed a button on her intercom.

“Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?”

Tony Blair walked into the room and said, “Yes, Your Majesty?”

The Queen smiled and said, “Answer me this please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?”

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, “That would be me.”

“Yes! Very good,” said the Queen.

Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden the same question. “Joe, answer this

for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It’s not your brother and it’s not your sister. Who is it?”

“I’m not sure,” said Biden. “Let me get back to you on that one.” He went to his advisors and asked everyone, but none could give him an answer.

Finally, Biden ran in to Sarah Palin out eating one night. Biden asked, ”Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it’s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?”

Sarah Palin answered right back, “That’s easy, it’s me!”

Biden smiled, and said, “Thanks!” Then, he went back to speak with Obama.

“Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Sarah Palin!”

Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face,

“No! You idiot! It’s Tony Blair!”

And that is precisely what’s going on at the White House.

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I think this has been around on the Internet for a while, but seem to be played out every day when ever Biden opens his mouth and Obama tries to cover for him.

Hockey Stick Mann at Disneyland

Russ Steele

Details at Watts Up With That! 

“Social Media is Changing the Way We Communicate”

Russ Steele

The title is of this post is often a refrain used by our local lefty blogger. I would have to agree, even though I am not much of a social media user. Here is an example from Power Line this morning on how conservative are using social media, in this case Twitter:

We are in the early stages of the 2012 campaign season, with a lot of battlespace preparation going on. In the skirmishing so far, one perhaps surprising media advantage has become clear: the right is clobbering the left on Twitter.

Maybe it’s because Twitter puts a premium on brevity and cleverness. I don’t know. But for some reason, it seems to be a natural medium for conservatives. We saw it when the Hilary Rosen interview (“Ann Romney never worked a day in her life”) prompted a Twitterstorm. We saw it again when #ObamaEatsDogs exploded, and when #Julia blew up in the White House’s face like an exploding cigar. Currently, the White House is promoting #AskMichelle, where loyal Democrats can go to ask the First Lady a question. Only nearly all of the questions have come from conservatives. A sampling:

• When you vacation in Hawaii, can you see the rise of the oceans beginning to slow?
• What’s up this week for the @BarackObama campaign and “Operation Change the Subject” (to anything except the economy)?
• Do you still exchange May Day cards with Bill and Bernadette?
• Do you think your daughters should request affirmative actions preferences?
• Do you still get Christmas cards from the Rezkos and Blagojeviches?
• So who succeeded you at that critical, highly important $300k/year community outreach job at UC hospital?
• I have several friends who specialize in relocation. Shall I give them your number so they can help you relocate in January?

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They go on and on. You almost feel sorry for the White House. They’re going to have to either do a better job of mobilizing their supporters on Twitter, or abandon the medium altogether.

As a Conservative, maybe I need to start paying more attention to Twitter!

The One Creates Light, Where There Was Darkness

Russ Steele

Michelle Obama made a campaign appearance in Nashville today. She said:

This President has brought us out of the dark and into the light.

I really do not give a carp about Obams’s messianic light, how about using some of his messianic powers to lower fuel prices at the fuel pump!   Now that would be an accomplishment!  Making the sun rise every morning is an old trick of Mother Nature’s, a great god than The One!

Are You Unhappy Enough to Fill Out an 18 Page Survey?

Russ Steele

I was taking the Nevada City Happiness Survey until I discovered it was 18 pages long and punched out on page 5.  If you are bored silly and need something to take your mind of the being unhappy, then check out the Silly Happiness Survey HERE.

Priceless

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H/T to Power Line for the cartoon!

RL has Good One: A Warning by Henry Hackett

Russ Steele

If you have not been visiting RL Crabb’s new blog every day, you are missing out on some of the best insight on the local political scene.  Check out RL’s latest HERE.

The Real Election Issue

“Dear Aunt Solyndra,”

[Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser  provides a little satire.]

Sorry not have written to you for a while. Life is just so hectic. I have been very busy with my new company, the Green Wonder Technology Inc.  We are making all kinds of novel green energy systems from solar panels, to windmills, to geothermal heating units, to algae scum and more. Well, we are not actually making any of such things yet, but the government grants for these promising enterprises should be coming thru very soon.

As you know, the government has seen the light. There is lots of green energy all around us, we just need to find a way to collect it.  I think you know what I mean. Of course, I am the President and CEO (as well as Chief Financial Officer) of the new company. So, once the grants are rolling in, we should be pretty flush here, at least for a while.

Fortunately, there is little control on how we spend the dough; we just need to regularly fill out a bunch of forms, a job which we have farmed out to China for cost-saving reasons. Other than that, there really is no obligation of any sort.

As soon as things are running full steam, I hope you’ll come visit. I should like to show you around the place. If you are game for it, I can even take you on a fly-over in my new plane. It is a breakthrough as it is made from papier mache and rubber cement, and runs on biofuel.

Love,

Your nephew
Wiley

Thanks to the Canada Free Press for this bit of humor

 

 

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#greenfail And The Rivers of Urine . . .

Russ Steele

I have written many time about how public officials fail to do some second level thinking when making first level decisions.  This failure to think about the consequences is almost so bad you want to laugh.  This story is from the Daily Mail, vis the Power Line blog:

 Students step over ‘rivers of urine’ after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow… and it will cost $500,000 to fix

Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring ‘green’ waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired.

School officials at Spanish River High School thought they had found an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving solution for their bathrooms when they installed Falcon Waterfree urinals in their boys bathrooms.

But with no water moving through the school’s copper pipes to flush the urine into the sewer system, the waste produced noxious gases that ate through the metal, leaving leaky pipes that allowed urine to drip into walls and flow onto floors.

‘It was pretty disgusting,’ school board chairman Frank Barbieri told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

‘The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway.’

Now, the school district, which was hoping to save $100 a year in water costs for each waterless urinal, must pay $500,000 to repair the damage and replace the appliances with the traditional flush variety in four high schools.

We had a similar story in Sacramento, when the  Cal/EPA headquarters had to flush their waterless urinals. News10 had the details:

The California Environmental Protection Agency has ended a six-year experiment with waterless urinals in its 25-story headquarters building, touted by the Schwarzenegger administration as the “greenest” high-rise in the nation.

When a limited number of waterless fixtures were first installed on four floors in 2003, the building’s management projected annual water savings of 1 million gallons when the entire building was outfitted three years later.

Cal/EPA Deputy Director of Communications Lindsay VanLaningham confirmed that all 56 waterless urinals have been removed and replaced with flush urinals.  “I obviously can’t speak to actual use, but there have been hundreds of complaints,” the spokeswoman said.

When to these greenies pull their heads of the their a. . .  and start applying some second level thinking when making these go green decisions.  Did anyone ask, what happens if no flush urinals do not work? What are the consequences?  It is not that hard. Well may it is for green progressives.

Forecast for Groundhog Day

Russ Steele

If the groundhog sees Al Gore’s shadow, it will mean at least six more years of climate alarmism.  

H/T to Power Line’s Steven Hayward

This is Funny, Very Funny

Russ Steele

Occupy Nevada County has blog by the same title, which has been on line since November of 2011.  Click on the PRESS navigation button and you find this:

To amplify the voice and intent of OWSNC using positive and inclusive language to inform, inspire, and dispel misconceptions; unifying the community by communicating, maintaining, and building relationships with media outlets in print, through the airwaves and the internet.

The Press groups handles working with media organizations, collecting media content for the group to use and facilitating the we voice of OWSNC.

Then under Docs we find this gem of communications:

Well, I do not mind being called a “Right Wing” blogger, that is what I do. But, it would be nice if the editors spelled my name right. They could have cut and pasted from this blog. How hard would that be? I serious doubt they have ever been to this blog.

Looking for the funny part? Here it is! Our self-professed middle of the road blogger is classified as a “Left Wing” blogger by Occupy. I wonder if our middle of the road blogger knows how his Occupy peers view him — Left Wing!  Too funny for words.