And now for something completely different

Heh heh, I found this particularly hilarious because Spider Man was my favorite comic-book character growing up. I never considered the perils of upside-down urination until now. I'll have to remember this if they ever invent spidey-boots for ceiling walking.

Tom Harkin is a moron

Craven democrat Tom Harkin has introduced a senate bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $9.80 in two years. 

The very existence of a minimum wage in the first place is sheer economic lunacy. As you can see in this graph, millions of jobs will be lost if they pass this. But then that's the idea for democrats...to get as many people on the government unemployment dole as possible. 

How miserable and incompetent of a stinking employee do you have to be to still be making minimum wage after 6 months on the job? If you can't impress your boss enough after 6 months to earn a raise, then he should probably fire you and hire somebody who's worth a damn. 

Here are the 4 indicators of staying far above poverty in America even if you are temporarily in a minimum wage job: finish high school, stay off drugs, get married and stay married, do not have kids you cannot afford. But I guess that's too much to ask of an entitled generation that idolizes Jersey Shore and the Kardashians, and got a trophy for graduating 5-K.

Terrance Ganaway's work ethic

Former Baylor Bear and current rookie running back for the St. Louis Rams Terrance Ganaway isn't squandering his off-season getting high, chasing skirts, hanging out in strip clubs, or funding the activities of his 30-man, dingle-berry posse from the neighborhood like typical rookies with newly-found money.

Terrance jokingly tweeted that he needed something to fill the time in the off-season to keep him out of trouble, and the owner of the Jimmy John's sandwich shop in Waco offered him a job....which Terrance graciously accepted. Now he schleps drinks, cuts meat, operates the register, and make sandwiches three nights a week. His reasoning is consistent with what responsible parents try to instill in their kids....discipline, delayed gratification, work ethic, long-term goal orientation, and I would add to that list: no matter how lowly the job seems, gainful employment is a virtue in and of itself and nobody is above working menial labor jobs.

Good for Terrance! If I played fantasy football, I'd pick him for my team on principle. I'll be watching his career from now on.

The most transparent administration ever....heh heh

Obama campaigned on transparency like no other candidate has ever done, yet his is probably the least transparent administration since the Watergate cover up of the Nixon white house. Here's Obama meeting with a bunch of governors and he's about to take some questions. You'd think that in a room in which every single person is accountable to voters somewhere, there'd be a obvious need for transparency....but you'd be wrong......

                        

I'll bet the media will go quietly out the door and grumble to each other in the corner and idiot Jay Carney will get an earful tomorrow. The white house press would never dare seriously question any action taken by the object of their collective swoon.

It's ridiculous and embarrassing how this media lays down for Obama. It is more important to the members of the press that the first black President be successful and popular and that his legacy be stellar, than it is for them to be reporters. They see their jobs as reporters to help this President, not report on him. They consciously refuse to do their jobs if doing their jobs is in conflict with their undying support of Obama and his collectivist agenda.

Chuck Todd - "I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here."

Here's MSNBC clown Chuck Todd being surprised to find that Obama is as corrupt as the decrepit town from which he hails.....

 

What's that you say, "But Ed, every President sells access one way or the other. You can't hold Obama to a higher standard."

Why yes I can because he campaigned specifically on this, promising not to do this very thing....sell access to big donors in exchange for money. This is no different than the Clinton's establishing a revolving door to the Lincoln bedroom for big donors to stay in.

Todd seems genuinely surprised to find that Obama is a lying, corrupt, Chicago politician. I knew this when he was a senator, but then I'm not a gullible democrat like Todd.

God didn't cause the crash at Daytona

Unless you don't own a TV, no doubt you saw the horrific crash in the Nationwide Series crash Saturday at Daytona. Dozens of people were injured when tires, debris, and parts of one engine came flying into the stands. Luckily nobody died but many are still hospitalized and the need for safer fences coming off the turns(where crashes tend to happen most) at NASCAR races is now part of the national conversation.

This morning a local radio talk-show host here in Birmingham remarked thusly: "Well, sometimes God has interesting ways of making sure things get done that need to get done."

So, God cares so much about the turn-4 fence safety at Daytona that to bring this to the attention of track managers, he causes scores of fans to be injured, some critically? I've never heard anything so stupid. I get that people need to feel comforted by believing that bad events are part of a bigger "master plan" that is beyond their understanding. People are very childlike, but who could revere a God that randomly injures, kills, maims, infects, or otherwise harms people He loves just to make points? It makes no sense, even if you believe that there is a master plan.

Sure God is in control of all things, if he wants to be. What's more likely the case is that he passively allows all things to happen and then might use them for good. We humans have free will, and we have created for ourselves a very dangerous world where disease, injuries, horrific deaths both intentional and accidental, take place through no action of His.

God didn't create 195mph stock-car racing. We did that all by ourselves and accidents will happen, but that doesn't mean God caused this one in order to point out to Daytona officials that their fencing needs updating.

Oregon's anti-gun overreach

Oregon House Bill 3200 reads like a prequel to George Orwell's scarily predictive "1984". Not only would it  dramatically raise the penalties for illegally being in possession of an assault rifle or large capacity magazine, it also forces you to, as a condition of ownership of such a weapon, allow an in-home inspection of your home by a federal thug to insure storage and safety compliance.

So to recap, if HB 3200 passes in Oregon, in order for a private citizen acting lawfully to exercise his/her 2nd amendment rights, they must first forfeit their 4th amendment rights to not be unreasonably searched or their property seized without a warrant authorized by a judge who has probably cause to sign such a warrant.

When otherwise lawful Americans submissively stand aside while jack-booted government thugs enter their homes for no other reason than they own a gun, then the America we read about in the history books no longer exists and whether it's worth fighting for comes into question.

The media's ostrich-like lack of curiosity

When Obama played golf with Tiger Woods last week, the media were outraged that they weren't included and got the vapors over missing some tidbit of information.

If only they were this curious over Fast-and-Furious, Benghazi, national debt, jobs, impending Obamacare damage, the failed Arab Spring which Obama touts, statutory rapist Robert Menendez, drone attacks on American citizens without due process, dozens of Solyndra's, unconstitutional bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, the intentional destruction of the coal industry, gas prices, etc........you get my drift?

My other job is kind of demanding

Sorry for the light posting the last couple of days. I moonlight as a field technician with a traffic data company that performs traffic studies of intersections, signal timing, and we put those black tubes out that you run over sometimes....and no, they are not in communication with the police, but they do record your speed very accurately and can even determine what kind of car you're driving based on the inter-axle distance.

Anyway, I was in St. Tammany parish, Louisiana for the last three days doing traffic studies and just wrapped it up this morning.

On the 5 hour drive back, I cross the Pearl River(sadly not near the casino) and because of all the rain, it was totally flooded. Fortunately La. DOT had the forethought to elevate the interstate and I had no problems, but the houses and roads that I could see were almost completely under water. At one point, I saw the top half of a 15mph speed limit sign....the rest under muddy flowing water. YIKES!

But it's good to be back home and I'll be posting some more stuff over the weekend so check back when you get a chance.

Noted Hollywood dingbat weighs in on Keystone

Apparently this is some Hollywood dingbat named Rosario Dawson, of whom I've never heard. But as socially conscious Hollywood dingbats are wont to do, she attends a rally and finds the nearest camera and reporter to enlighten the masses as to why she's attending. In this case it's a protest about corporations in general and the Keystone Pipeline specifically. She opposes the pipeline for the standard environmental reasons but she threw in another curious reason. Here's what she said.....

"This pipeline is so that we can start selling to China and other places. Which they would say was about creating some jobs and it’s about bringing in money, but most of that money isn’t trickling down to anybody....

"What is trickling down to us is leakages, spills, bad health, um, contaminated water, contaminated air, radioactive materials, property values dropping, our health. That’s what’s being trickled down to us, and we have to say no to that."

Heh heh.....I adore stupid chicks who insist on pretending they understand anything deeper than their bath water.