Who cares? Why is this even news? Are we going to take notice of every businessman that supports a candidate? Next we’ll be told we should give a crap who Charlie Sheen will vote for.
Donald Trump cares about power and attention. No one was paying attention to him lately, so he had to do something to get on television again. The media lapdogs followed him around and did his bidding.
Haven’t blogged in awhile, other than to argue with someone in the comments of an article I wrote about public schools. It’s actually a lot of fun to debate someone, although it’s not like it’s possible to convince a true-believer of the error of their ways.
Anyway, I was checking my stats today, and I came across an interesting search term. Someone made their way to my blog by searching for “marijuana chronic diarrhea”. Now, I realize I’ve written quite a few articles, but I didn’t think any combined those terms. I was wrong, and here it is.
H/T: Emirates 24/7 and Men’s Health
I ran across this article in an online news website for the United Arab Emirates. I thought it would be interesting to see their take on the topic. Then I found out they stole their top 10 from the top 100 list at Men’s Health. Here’s my take on the top 10:
1) Jennifer Aniston – I never really got this one. Yeah, she’s pretty hot, but hottest of all time? Hardly.
2) Raquel Welch – Very nice, very classic beauty. But to be honest, I wouldn’t have thought of her for the list. Her career pretty much stagnated int he late 70’s.
3) Marilyn Monroe – I agree. A classic beauty that has remained to this day. Her style is instantly recognizable.
4) Britney Spears – Nope. Although hot and sexy, her time with Keven Federline and her bouts of public lunacy ruined it for me.
5) Madonna – Hot at one time, now just weird and gross.
6) Ursula Andress – Much like Raquel Welch, was hot and popular at one time, but has faded with time. I’d guess that most people under 30 wouldn’t recognize her name.
7) Bettie Page – I didn’t know who she was until I did a little research. I liked what I saw, but again she is someone who’s popularity has gone.
8) Pamela Anderson – Very hot, seems genuinely nice. Not sure how well she’ll be remembered as time passes.
9) Jane Fonda – Was reasonably hot in Barbarella, but otherwise I don’t see how she makes the list.
10) Angelina Jolie – Hot in a creepy scary – but good – kind of way. Again, not sure if she’ll stand the test of time.
So, since I only really agreed with one, with maybes on a few others, who would I replace them with?
Farrah Fawcett was down at #31 and deserves to be bumped up if only for Charlie’s Angels. Brooke Shields was at #42 – way too low. Barbara Eden was smoking in I Dream of Jeannie. Missing from the list altogether were Tina Louise and Dawn Wells of Gilligan’s Island. Who will ever forget Ginger and Marianne?
H/T: Jihad Watch
It’s hard to imagine, but right now in Saudi Arabia a man can be stoned to death for sleeping with his ex-wife. In a nutshell, he divorced her and didn’t tell her about it for 4 months. During that 4-month time, he kept sleeping with her. The law there says that he can’t sleep with her until she’s married someone else and gotten divorced again. When she found out about it, she filed a case against him and asked for the maximum punishment, which is death by stoning.
Sleezy or no, there are a few big problems here. Death by stoning for this crime is nuts. Yeah, I get it that they have their own way of doing things, but I gotta call it as I see it. Way over the top. Also, apparently he was able to divorce her without telling her. That in itself shows the unequal treatment of men and women that exists there.
I’ve talked about this before. Those who would say there is no difference between our culture and theirs are delusional. All men are equal in the eyes of God, but how they choose to live and treat others is up to them. These societies will continue their savagery until they understand and accept the concepts of personal freedom and equality.
Shouldn’t letters and notices that come home from teachers and school administrators be checked for spelling and grammar? For example, it’s not “Jack and Jill is tumbling down the hill”, it’s “Jack and Jill are tumbling down the hill”.
H/T: Ynetnews.com
In Obama’s world, somehow it’s Israel’s fault that the Muslim Arabs in the Middle East don’t like them. According to Howard Gutman, our American Ambassador to Belgium, it’s wrong to hate Jews just because they’re Jews, but it’s justified for Muslims to hate Jews because of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. That’s idiotic, of course, and something that would only make sense to someone who themselves hates the Jewish people. Gutman apparently doesn’t believe that Israel is struggling to survive against a constant attempt by their neighbors to destroy them. If only they could just make peace with the Palestinians, everything would be rainbows and unicorns and the Muslims would have no reason to hate Jews anymore, right?
If you find that a little hard to understand, because Israel isn’t exactly in our back yard, here’s a simpler example from the recent news. A 7-year old is choked by a bully. He defends himself by kicking the punk in the crotch, and now he’s the one being maligned by being accused of sexual harassment.
Back to Israel. Israel is the boy being choked by the bully that is Palestine and the other Jew-hating Arab states. Israel gets tired of not being able to breathe and reacts by kicking it’s enemy in the crotch, and people like Gutman blame Israel for defending themselves.
Soon we’ll be able to vote in a different President and hopefully put a stop to this kind of nonsense. Israel is one of our few real friends, and we can’t afford to lose them.
H/T: Yahoo News
Here’s kind of a funny story. South American strippers are sneaking into a Miami prison, smuggling in contraband and well…. stripping, obviously. The best part is when they point out that most of the women are “non-citizens”. Here in the midwest we call them illegals, but we’re just not too politically correct here.
I suppose this is an example of those jobs that we need illegals to do because Americans won’t do the work? 🙂
H/T: Breitbart.com
Looks like our tax dollars are being poured down the drain again. General Motors is offering to recall any Chevy Volt whose owner is concerned about the chance of fire. When I say ALL, I’m referring to the piddly 6,000 cars that have been sold in the last year. Of course, what can you expect for a car that starts at $40K? Of course, there is a federal tax credit, which amounts to taxpayers paying those 6,000 customers to buy Volts.
Apparently, several Volts have caught fire after impact testing. Not immediately, but anywhere from 7 days to 3 weeks later. GM of course is saying they don’t know what is causing it, but at the same time insists that it can’t happen immediately after impact. To me that’s like telling you I’m sick, I don’t know what disease I have, but you can’t catch it. If I were you, I’d be skeptical too.
I follow politics fairly closely, but I don’t typically write about it unless something really grates on my nerves. Today was one of those days, and this article was the one that set me off.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave a speech in South Carolina today to a black nurses group. I only mention that it was a BLACK nurses group because the article in the SunMyrtle Beach Online pointed out that fact. I’m not sure what the race of the nurses has to do with anything. I certainly don’t care what my nurse looks like as long as she does a good job.
Anyway, Sebelius tried to make the point that the nation’s health is a matter of national security, and that a healthy workforce is key to our prosperity. That’s pretty funny coming from one of Obama’s people, since they don’t seem to care at all about national security. We have a illegal aliens streaming across the border and guns being sold to Mexican drug cartels. We have a federal government suing states for trying to enforce their borders to project their people. For Sebelius to claim she’s concerned about national security is a joke.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, she had some interesting things to say to reporters afterwards. “… we need all 300 million Americans to be equipped and fully participating in society.” “… harms the productivity of our country.” “… get the green light and move forward.” This is typical collectivist-speak. To the radicals in the Obama administration, people aren’t individuals. They’re just part of one big homogeneous society whose purpose is to work in unison for the greater good of the whole. Of course, that mass of nameless, faceless people is too stupid to make it’s own decisions, so it should rely upon the elite like Sebelius, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc… to make the decisions for it.
Well, she’s wrong, just like all the radical leftists are wrong. Society isn’t a faceless mass of drones. It is made up of individuals. Sometimes they make good choices, and sometimes they make bad ones, but the choices were theirs, and that’s what makes them free.