Nice to see that even in nature, animals can befriend and protect one another.
The hen with one leg and the faithful German Shepherd.
December 22, 2009
When the car will just have to do for those heavy duty snowfall plow jobs. Plow set and chains on the front tires.
“Plow Car.”
Image courtesy of http://www.cantparkthere.com/pictures/Plow_Car.htm.
When visuals help get the point across. Would drivers pay more attention if the speedometer were marked with crutches, then a wheelchar, and finally a skull and crossbones for successive and dangerous elevations in driving speed?
Image courtesy of http://www.yeah-oops.com/pic/show.php?img=15243_Warning.jpg.html.
Unhealthy Arrogance. Thomas Sowell. On Democrat health care bill pending in House and Senate.
In short, this is not about improving the health of the American people. It is about passing something– anything– to keep the Obama administration from ending up with egg on its face by being unable to pass a bill, after so much hype and hoopla. Politically, looking impotent is a formula for disaster at election time. Far better to pass even bad legislation that will not actually go into effect until after the 2012 presidential election, so that the public will not know whether it makes medical care better or worse until it is too late for the voters to hold the administration accountable.
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Make it snappy: Amazing moment male lion loses patience with attention-seeking cub and bites him on the head. Daily Mail. Excessive mane tugging and chewing can become annoying.
Word to the wise. “Quit bugging Dad.”
Image courtesy of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238917/Amazing-moment-male-lion-loses-patience-attention-seeking-cub-bites-head.html.
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Truffle Breakfast, $67,000 Bordeaux Entice at Arnault Hotel. Bloomberg.
“Luxury’s a natural experience for us,” says the hotel’s director general, Philippe Gourgaud. “You don’t feel recession in our rooms.”
Must be nice to indulge in this experience.
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Ever wonder what to do when the paper towel dispenser is empty in the public restroom?
Well now there is a sign that gives directions for that troubling conundrum.
“If the towel dispenser is empty.. Please use your clothes. Thank you. The Management.”
Image courtesy of http://www.signpictures.net/pictures/If_Empty.htm.
Cognitive Dissonance: Public Opinion and Pending Healthcare Legislation. Gallup. Wednesday December 23, 2009.
We know that less than half of all Americans favor Congress passing a new healthcare reform bill at this point in history. This conclusion is based on every recent poll that I am aware of. That includes a couple (see here and here) just released this week.
We have senators working into the night and on Christmas Eve in order to pass what the majority of that body no doubt perceive as highly positive, historic legislation. We have President Obama postponing the start of his vacation in order to stick around for the final Senate vote on what he perceives to be — potentially — one of the signature victories of his first year in office. We have the public not at all convinced that the new legislation is a good thing for the country.
When pollsters start pondering why legislators insist upon acting of their own accord instead of that of their constituents, the situation is obviously in dire straits.
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The Senate Postmortem. WSJ.
In the post-dawn hours on Thursday the Senate passed ObamaCare 60 to 39, in the first vote on Christmas Eve since 1895 and after the longest consecutive session in Congress since World War I. We are thus heading toward the first U.S. entitlement program dragged across the finish line on a straight partisan majority, a bill that even its most fervent supporters admit is “flawed” but better than nothing.
It is far worse than nothing. The bill itself is an unprecedented arrogation of federal power over one-seventh of the economy, and even its closest antecedents, Medicare and Medicaid, passed in 1965 with the support of both parties. Reflecting the political consensus that has always inspired durable social reform in America, those entitlements cleared the Senate with more than half of the GOP caucus voting in favor.
The Democrats own it. And thus history will duly record their self-aggrandizing actions. And therein, the demise of health care in America.
“The Senate Health Bill: Cost – Benefit.”
Image courtesy of Steve Breen Wednesday December 23, 2009 via http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/SteveBreen/2009/12/1.
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Cool.
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
December 15, 2009
FUNNY QUOTES OF THE DAY This Day in History
Applause! Applause!
Tricorn hats are the rage
Click Horsey for William Tell Overture
Stress Reduction Kit. Bang Head Here.
