Archive for January 3, 2012
The Cop Who Stopped LA Arsonist Is a Volunteer, From Iran (Yikes!)
So, all those “illegals” are killing people, raping our women and wrecking our country huh?
Get a load of this:
The reserve sheriff’s deputy who captured a man suspected of being the city’s most dangerous arsonist is a volunteer who earns $1 a year and only recently qualified to patrol alone, authorities said Tuesday.
Shervin Lalezary,
a 30-year-old Beverly Hills real estate attorney, was patrolling at 3 a.m. Monday — three hours after the official end of his 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift — when he pulled over a Dodge van in Hollywood.
[...]
“He believes in the community service aspects of the reserve deputy,” Whitmore said. “This is part of the job for him and he doesn’t want to talk about himself because he believes he’s part and parcel of a larger effort.”
Lalezary was born in Tehran and moved with his family to America about 25 years ago.
[...]
“This is one of the most significant arrests anyone can make — regular or reserve,” the sheriff said Monday. “And this will follow him for the rest of his life.”
So, “they” say we should bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran but woohah, they have real people there.
Now what?
Iowans Applaud Rick Santorum for Saying He’ll Cut Social Security
I just watched (@ 7:52 p.m. ET) a live clip of Rick Santorum speaking to senior citizens in Iowa, telling them, when president, he will cut the deficit by $5 trillion, “including entitlements,” which means Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
Like idiots being lead to slaughter, THEY APPLAUDED.
Ahhh!
P.S. Let’s start referring to “entitlements” as earned benefits. The money we get back for those things came out of our paychecks, dammit.
MSNBC’s #Fail re Iowa’s “Polls Closing”
Two hours ago MSNBC displayed a countdown clock under this headine: “Iowa Polls Closing [at]…” Iowa polls closing? Polls aren’t open in Iowa. Iowa isn’t polling today. Iowa has a caucus system. What the hell was MSNBC thinking? [That we're really, really dumb.]
Now (@7:22 p.m. ET) they’re running a chyron that reads: “Doors Now Open At Caucus Sites in Iowa’s 99 Counties.” Ah yeah, that’s more like it. But again, what was with the polls closing thing?
#WhatHappensWhenYouHireTeenagersToDeliverTheNews
My Favorite Commercial of All Time
Break time!
This is my favorite commercial of all time. The music, the majestic horse; it brings tears to my eyes.
Too bad it isn’t aired anymore. I’ve missed it and just now thought to look it up on YouTube.
Weasel Scott Walker Takes Credit For Health Care Provision He Opposed
Gawd, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) is just repulsive. I mean foul and detestably, nauseatingly repulsive:
Gov. Scott Walker announced a plan Wednesday [December 28] to lift the enrollment cap on a state long-term care program – a move he made two weeks after federal authorities told his administration it had to take that step.
Walker touted the $80 million plan with advocates for the elderly and disabled at a Capitol news conference, but he made no mention of a recent order from the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, or CMS, directing his administration to lift the cap in the Family Care program.
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“The only reason the Walker administration backed down is because they had a gun to their heads,” said Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee). “He’s taking credit for something he was forced to do.”
Ugh. See what I mean?
Living in a Shipping Container
This is inspirational:
A woman in California, near broke and sick of paying rent, has inspiringly done what any sensible person in her situation would do: move into a shipping container. The woman, Lulu, said she got the container, which was used to ship items back and forth from China, for free. Then she spent less than $4,000 turning into a surprisingly nice home, all on her own. It has windows, hot water, a lofted room for her daughter, and a working kitchen. As Lulu puts it, in her home country of Argentina, many would consider the house quite nice.
It IS quite nice!
I love this quote: “Living in a small space, you have to have a different relationship with the objects that you live with because then you really want them. I have so much stuff I don’t need. You know, right now I have 20 spoons. And I don’t really need 20 spoons but I used to feel like I needed 20 spoons.”
It’s so ironic that I happened upon this video today because yesterday I watched part of an HGTV show about Candy Spelling moving tons and tons of stuff out of her 56,500 square foot, $85 million home in the Los Angeles area.
Photo: HGTV/Scripps Networks LLC
She’s downsizing. Her new place — a condo — is “only” 16,000 square feet. Mr. SayItAin’tSoAlready and I live in a 1,100 square foot home so I can relate to Lulu way more than I can to Candy. When you live in a tiny space, you can’t acquire or keep a lot of stuff and I like it that way.
Birthers Gearing Up for 2012
Please wingnuts, say it ain’t so already. Do we really, really have to go through this again?
A small group of New Hampshire lawmakers and others want the attorney general to investigate whether President Barack Obama deserves to be on the presidential primary ballot.
State Rep. Laurence Rappaport, a Colebook Republican, said they asked the attorney general Tuesday morning to investigate, but have gotten no response. Rappaport said the issue is whether Obama is a natural-born citizen whose parents both were American citizens. He said Obama’s father was Kenyan and not a citizen, so Obama is not and should not be on the ballot.
The state Ballot Law Commission rejected an effort in November to take Obama’s name off the ballot because of questions about his citizenship.
Graphic via WashingtonMonthly.com
These guys don’t have the faintest idea what to do about the issues facing this country so they distract their constituents with this crap.
Is Iran Exaggerating its Missile Capability?
A friend sent me a link to this interesting tidbit about Iran possibly exaggerating its ballistic missile capabilities. It seems to me this is something we should bear in mind while listening to the fear mongering about nuclear this and that coming from Washington and Jerusalem. And this is from Fox no less:
At first, Iran claimed it had launched three long range missiles; a pronouncement at the end of ten days of war games in the Strait of Hormuz designed to test the patience of western nations as they weigh how to sanction Iran’s oil exports.
“We are able to announce that our shore-to-sea missile systems are so powerful that we can hit any target, any time, if it’s necessary” announced Habibulah Sayari, Iranian Navy Commander.
Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi, Iranian Military Drills Spokesman, stated “Both missiles hit the intended targets successfully.”
It turned out the missiles weren’t that long range after all.
The Qhader missile, introduced in September, has a range of just 124 miles. The U.S. Navy’s fifth fleet in Bahrain is 150 miles from Iran. Israel is four times farther.
“We’ve seen that they’ve photoshopped, for example, photographs of missile tests before to make it look more impressive than it actually is, so I would take all this with a grain of salt. I think this is mainly posturing. It’s gamesmanship. And it’s again meant to send a message that the Iranians aren’t simply going to sit back while their oil is sanctioned,” said Michael Singh, Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Read more and see a video here.
(H/t Beth.)
Ron Paul Ad: Imagine Foreign Troops in Texas
I’m an anti-war, anti-billion-dollar-defense-budget voter so I can’t help but agree with this latest Ron Paul ad:
Fox News Whore Dick Morris Predicts a Santorum Win
said he had a fetish for toe sucking — and that he believed paying for her loving negated the fact he was cheating on his wife.
That toe-sucking guy predicted this on Greta’s show last night:
The momentum Rick Santorum is showing…I would not be at all surprised if he won.
Yo, Dick. We shall see.
