Talking animals

In Iowa of all places, scientists claim that some primates (bonobos) can understand English and can use symbols to communicate answers and thoughts...

The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, is home to seven bonobos -- a close relative of the chimpanzee -- and three orangutans. But if you think Iowa might be a strange place for them to live, don't say it out loud … these apes understand English.

Look, it's cool that these animals can push the pretty colored buttons but they're still just animals. You can teach chickens, which along with global-warming activists are perhaps the stupidest of all life-forms, to push a pretty colored button to get a kernel of corn or a drink of water. This blurring of the line between humans and animals has a logical conclusion, which is for animal rights nuts to confer human status to animals with all the rights that it implies.

I don't care how many tricks you teach it, it's still just an animal.

You can read the whole article here.

Here's an animal pushing the pretty colored buttons...even he is smarter than global-warming activists.

It's Ann Coulter Thursday!

This week Ann ridicules the dreadful amnesty bill which Bush, craven republicans, and welfare-state democrats are trying to sneak past the American people. Here are a few snipets...

-At the precise moment in history when the U.S. has abandoned any attempt to transmit Anglo-Saxon virtues to its own citizens, much less to immigrants, George Bush wants to grant citizenship to hordes of immigrants who are here precisely because they are fleeing cultures that are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for the humans who live in them.

-Traitors who are citizens have also destroyed all incentive for the poor to work or even keep their knees together before marriage.

-And it is simply a fact that no one is trying to turn immigrants into Americans. To the contrary, Democrats are trying to turn new immigrants into wards of the state — and with some success! — so they will be permanent Democratic voters. Rich Republicans and their handmaidens in Washington are trying to turn immigrants into a permanent servant class.

Priceless and entertaining as always. Seriously, you need to go read the whole thing here.

STRAY-ROD !!

It appears that another sport celebrity has managed to screw-up (Pun possibly intended). Alex Rodriguez, the $252 million dollar man of the NY Yankees was caught on film entering his hotel with this blonde-non-wife female at midnight. A tryst in the making.

A-Rod checks into the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto on Sunday, the balance of the team is staying at the Hilton down the street, changes and heads to dinner with this girl and 2 friends. After dinner the party was shuttled to an upscale strip club in Toronto. Near midnight, these 2 are seen climbing into the "up" elevator. No mention of her departure time, if she has yet departed .

Facts as I know them are as follows:

A-Rod is married. Not to this woman. He is out of town. His wife is not with him. He is a rich and popular young man. He is not talking.

A-Rod is married and has a child by his wife. In their vows I assume he promised to honor her and to be faithful to her through sickness and health. It is apparent that at best something is amiss. I can only assume that most wives would not be thrilled to see a picture of their husband entering his hotel at midnight with another woman. By not talking, he only leaves available rampant speculation and gossip. What really bothers me, however, is the defense put on by Mike Golic this morning on his radio show. Mr. Golic is not bothered at all by any of the above mentioned issues. He is concerned with an invasion into the private life of a sports figure. I cannot fathom how a responsible adult could defend actions that violate a marriage and pawn it off on privacy issues. If the silence is lifted, I will gladly give Rodriguez a chance to explain, and will consider his explanation . I will not do the same for Golic. He apparently has no regard for the sanctity of marriage and for a promise/contract made and being fulfilled. I believe in fidelity to principle. Rodriguez is married and for better or worse should act as such.

Why stay at a seperate hotel? Why hang out with a

Weather, not cooperating with the Goreacle

Mindless environmental cultists are scrambling to rationalize how, with all the man-made global warming with which they've been scaring everybody, there are regular reports of freak snow storms and record cold temperatures across the globe. Here are a few samples of the weather headlines just from today...

--In Spitzing in Germany, locals have been forced to wrap up after ten centimetres of snow brought out the snowploughs for the first time this year.

--May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina rationed electricity to companies and severed natural gas supplies to Chile as a cold wave prompted record demand for electricity in South America's second-largest economy.

--Dozens of people were feared killed in remote parts of north-western Nepal after the areas were hit by a freak snow storm, officials said on Tuesday.

The Goreacle cleverly changed the mantra of his pagan environmental religion from "man-made global warming" to "climate change", because as rational, thinking people have always known, the temperature of the Earth has been fluctuating for billions of years. It's always going either up or down, so by calling it "climate change" he can continue to terrify stupid, simple-minded people into crippling their own lifestyles regardless of whether there is a heat wave or a freak snow storm.

This lady is scraping 8 inches of global warming evidence off her windshield.

Ken Doll calls Romney Ken Doll

Nobody can remember Hollywood airhead Ben Affleck's last even moderately successful movie, so it's not a surprise when he surfaces every election year to yammer and bleet about politics. Vapid Hollywood narcissists believe that if they pretend to be politically astute, it will compensate for their comical lack of talent and box-office appeal...

Ben Affleck, who tried mightily - but unsuccessfully - to get Sen. John Kerry elected to the White House, said he expects ex-Gov. Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee in 2008.
He said he thinks the GOP will end up with Romney because the ex-gov looks good, has nice hair - and the Republicans really don’t have anyone else.
“He (Romney) says he doesn’t like abortion and he’s all clean-cut and he looks like a Ken doll.


Ben Affleck--male version of Britney Spears--attractive but dumber than a sack of doorknobs.

Socialism Alert!!!

Hillary Clinton is a vile, loathsome wretch of a socialist...but you already knew that. What you might not have known is that occassionally she gives us a glimpse of the communal, welfare-state hell in which we would suffer and toil if she tricks the stupid American voters into electing her in '08. Here's a snipet of a recent speech she gave to a group of students at a tech school...look for the key socialism phrases she masks with feel-good, nanny-state rhetoric...

Clinton: Shared Prosperity Should Replace 'On Your Own' Society

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an "ownership society" really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.

"There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed," she said. "Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."

-Right off the batt she opens with "shared responsibility and prosperity". SHARED PROSPERITY--that's socialist double-speak for "the government, run by me, will take the money that you earn, and give it to people who didn't earn it, but who voted for me."

-Then she pooh-pooh's the "ownership society". Hillary hates the concept of the individual. Everything should be community property. In Hillary's twisted and tortured mind, it's your responsibility to work on behalf of those who choose not to work and provide for them. The government, run by Hillary, will decide how much of your prosperity you will be allowed to keep and how much must be forfeited and given to the shiftless, loafing hippies who voted democrat. You do not own the wealth generated by your hard work, others have rights to it according to Hillary-style socialism.

-"to ensure the middle-class succeeds in the global economy". The Constitution guarantees our God-given right to "the pursuit of happiness". It doesn't guarantee happiness itself. Liberal democrats pretend to be in favor of equal opportunity but what they mean is "equal outcome". If you work hard, get educated, stay off drugs, and manage to accumulate some wealth, Hillary thinks that some of what you earned should be given to lazy, stupid, drug-addled hippies because it's just not fair that you have a measure of wealth and they don't. That they stupidly squandered every opportunity is irrelevant, they deserve to be as wealthy as you.

-"Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies". To Hillary and all liberals, America is great because of the government's intrusion into, and control of, all things. We conservatives know that the free market, unfettered by the meddling of pointy-headed government bureaucrats will provide every citizen with far more opportunities to acquire wealth than any government program can.

Hillary Clinton...having a good laugh at the abject stupidity of most American voters.

Deja Vu all over again

On their way out of office, Putie Poot and Bush start what looks like a new Cold War...

Europe should not become "powder keg" - Putin

MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned against turning Europe into a "powder keg", referring to Washington's plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Europe.

"We consider it harmful and dangerous to turn Europe into a "powder keg" and to fill it with new kinds of weapons," Putin told a news conference after talks with the Portuguese prime minister in Moscow.

"It creates new unneeded risks for the entire system of international and European relations," he said.

Of course, Putin declined to comment on Russia's new MIRV (Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle) which will be deployed in or near the former Eastern-bloc nations, and undoubtedly aimed at Europe and the U.S.

The vet in me says cool, our military needs a modern foe against which we can develop modern weaponry. As opposed to fighting 17th century barbarians in dirty night-shirts in Iraq. The pragmatist in me says we have our hands full fighting 17th century barbarians in dirty night-shirts and we don't need another Cold War just yet.

Here's Putie Poot. Why is Russia building new offensive nuclear weapons when his country is in rapid, suicidal social and economic decline?

Chavez drives the final nail

Thug dictator Hugo Chavez succeeded in driving the final nail in his own country's coffin over the weekend by closing down the last remaining privately held TV station, RCTV. The citizens are understandably upset as the nationalization of all privately held economic assets will rapidly plunge Venezuela into pathetic third world status, exactly like what Fidel Castro did to Cuba.

Venezuela, rich with natural resources and human capital, had a bright economic future until Chavez was "elected" with the help of every murdering, thug dictator's BFF, our own Jimmy Carter. Except for Jimmy the Dihimmi's certification of the "election", Chavez might not be in power today. (curiously, all of Chavez's political opponents died or mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again, so Chavez essentially ran unapposed.) Of course none of these details mattered to Jimmy Carter, after all, Chavez hates America, and if you hate America and freedom, you have no better friend than Jimmy Carter.

Hugo Chavez, appearing on his newly acquired TV station.

Memorial Day BBQ

Holy crap!!! This happened literally one hour south of my house. Did I mention...Holy crap!!!

Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a .50cal pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

That thing is as big as a rhinoceros. How did something grow to be that big and no hunters killed it yet? What was it eating? Wild hogs are notoriously agressive and will attack and eat a human at the drop of a hat. I'll bet when they look inside this thing's stomach, there are remains of hunters. I would have to smile at that.

You can read the whole article over at breitbart.com.

The Breck Girl creeped out Lurch

Ambulance chasing, slip-and-fall attorney, environmental hypocrite, phony champion of the poor, unapologetic white-flag surrender liberal. Each of these dangerous character flaws is reason enough not to vote for the Breck Girl for president, but just in case you remain unconvinced of his abject repulsiveness, this ought to do it...

Bob Shrum, famous, and popular in conservative circles for managing eight consecutive losing democrat campaigns, has a new book out entitled "No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner," Mr. Shrum's book "repeatedly portrays Edwards as a hyper-ambitious phony,".
For example, Mr. Shrum says Mr. Kerry had qualms about choosing Mr. Edwards to be his presidential running mate in 2004, but grew "even queasier" after Mr. Edwards said he was going to share a story with Mr. Kerry he had never told anyone else — that after his son, Wade, had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home and hugged his body and promised that he would do all he could to make life better for people. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before — and with the same preface, that he'd never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling[…]

Pretending to channel the souls of dead babies in court in order to convince stupid jurors to give you money other people earned is about as low and depraved as you can get, but now we find out he politicizes the memory of his dead son by running around telling anyone who is of political benefit to him this gruesome, creepy story. And he's lied to so many people about never telling it that he can't remember who he lied to.

When you are so disturbingly ghoulish that you creep out the likes of Lurch, disturbing in his own right, you have serious personal problems and are wholly unqualified for county dog-catcher, much less president.

Hat tip National Review.