A view of America from the left

More good work at Missourah.com, titles of recent Newweek magazine covers.

A view of America from the left

They aren't even pretending anymore, the folks are Newsweek that is. A few years ago my mother got me a subscription to Newsweek. Newsweek is a magazine that has good writers, broad coverage and hatred for everything conservative. Its ok, they have an audience, that does not include me. For me it is the National Review, Garden & Gun, Field & Stream and New Yorker for a little balance. During the day the New York Times and the AJC.

You Really Shook Me

Saturday afternoon, the sun was still above the Coke building.
Two Marine pilots, both Georgia Tech alumni, flew their F14's over Grant Field at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The lower east stands where we sit, shook.



At half-time the pilots were part of the show, they were proud to be there, and we were proud to have them.

Vicarious Trauma at Fort Hood?

Check out this post I received via LinkedIn, have to appreciate the controlled assessment of the awful Fort Hood incident.

http://insideeffects.blogspot.com/2009/11/vicarious-trauma-at-fort-hood.html

I Once Met A Man With No Pants

The title might be from the start of a fairy tale.
Not a kids story!

Man with no pants unrelated to pants with no man: police

In Canada if you catch a man with no pants, its probably summer, at least if he's alive.
If he's dead, he would be easier for the police to arrest.

And what about this dude that breaks into a home, craps all over the place, and leaves, sans pants?
There are some really nasty folks out there.

Woman Is Allergic to Her Husband's Sperm

Woman Is Allergic to Her Husband's Sperm - ABC News

The above link is amusing at least in title. Chances are good that it probably freaked both the bride and grooms out, here they are newly married, and they find out they he is biologically toxic. Good for the ego don't you think.

With Pelosi's proposed health plan, maybe the new gubmint sawbones can develop a scratch test.

Math Test

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/11/math-and-movie-test-interesting.html


The refering link suggested that this mathematical equation would select my favorite movie.  But I chose 4, that led me to 9 which is some damned movie about the MSNBC prick.

Gore Vidal Wins Davis Cup

Gore Vidal wins the revitalized Davis Cup for making statements only an asshole is capable of.  In defense of recently imprisoned Roman Polanski, the fat bastard author had this to say...

“Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?”

and

“The media can’t get anything straight. Plus, there’s usually an anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing going on with the press – lots of crazy things,” elaborated Vidal. “The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko – that’s what people were calling him – well, the story is totally different now from what it was then.”

Let us look more closely at this. 
In March 1977 the director Polanski was arrested and charged with offenses against Samantha Geimer, then a girl of thirteen.  In the California grand jury testimony Geimer explained that Polanski gave her a combination of champagne and quaaludes. Also Geimer testified that she made repeated protests and asked to the man stop his assault.  Polanski performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy upon her.
Polanski plead guilty to engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse a California law equivalent to statutory rape.   Then while undergoing psychiatric evaluation, the molester, fearful of being jailed, escaped to France.  Since he has continued with his directing career.
Samantha Geimer will always be raped.

As a confirmation of the tendency, Wikipedia says...

In 1976, Polanski started a romantic relationship with Nastassja Kinski, when she was 15 years old and he was 43 years old. In 1979, their relationship ended at the completion of filming Polanski's Oscar nominated "Tess", in which Kinski had played the lead role. 

This is an acknowledged relationship, Kinski is German, so it probably wasn't illegal, but it sure is not right.

So, back to Vidal.  A crime is committed, the perpetrator pleads guilty then evades penalty by fleeing the country and remaining in exile for over thiry years.  After persistent law enforcement efforts the weasle is apprehended and now faces additional punishment.  Who does the writer go after, media, law enforcement and the victim. 

Polanski deserves to do time, and be raped in prison until he dies of infection of the anus.

Vidal should be repudiated by all for being an ass.

• For those of you familiar with GOPU, the Davis Cup title is named for the classically inappropriate Rob V. Davis.

The 10 poorest cities in America.............

Rank City State % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland OH 27.0%
5. Miami FL 26.9%
5. St. Louis MO 26.8%
7. El Paso TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia PA 25.1%
10. Newark NJ 24.2%

U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)...since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)..since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)...since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still POOR

Abraham

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

REASON: Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s Legacy

REASON: Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s Legacy
Found this site by way of Neal's Nuze, there he was giving cudos for the racist flow chart.