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Economic Snapshot for October, 2006

This fall, the marked slowdown in hiring only adds to the economic worries of a middle class already burdened by record amounts of debt. Families, however, are not alone in their debt woes. The federal government continues to amass mammoth budget deficits while the trade deficit continues to run at a high level. These debt burdens jeopardize future economic opportunities and contribute to a slowing economy.

Check out the stats @American Progress.org

Activists Protest Court's Upholding of Germany's Ban on Homeschooling

Bob Allen
10-06-06
Homeschool activists are raising alarm about a controversy in Germany involving church, state and school they fear could have long-term repercussions affecting parents' rights to educate their children in the United States.


In September the European Court of Human Rights denied an appeal of a fundamentalist Christian family who sued the German government for the right to educate their children at home.

They are among seven Baptist families in the northwest state of Westphalia boycotting public schools they view as humanistic and godless.

In January a court in Westphalia sentenced a mother to six days in jail, followed by six days for the father, because they would not pay a fine for refusing to let their children attend a Christmas play based on the 1812 Grimm's fairy tale "King Thrushbeard," which they considered to be blasphemous.

Another family, in the case decided by the European court, said school teaching in Paderborn conflicted with their religious beliefs, such as promoting superstitions like witches and dwarves in fairy tales and in sex education.

The European court upheld German laws requiring compulsory education and agreed with lower courts that requiring children to attend school did not violate the parents' rights to privacy or religious freedom.

Read more @ Ethics Daily.com

Always "Fair and Balanced"

How Many Startup Employees Does It Take Change A Light Bulb?

It depends on the type of startup employee. Here are some possible responses:

Business Type: We looked at the service market for changing light bulbs as a possible go-to-market strategy. But, we determined that the necessary gross margins to sustain our business and demonstrate an attractive return for our investors did not exist in this market. We plan to revisit this opportunity at some later date.

Project Manager Type: We’re still working on the alpha version of the software which doesn’t support changing light bulbs yet. This is scheduled for beta build B4, codename “Phoenix”.

Developer Type: Well, it should only take one, but our founder insisted on using Python instead of Ruby On Rails to build the product and so it’s going to take four people to add the “change a light bulb” feature. Wait, wait, I found this new open source project called “Python on Prayers” which lets the two environments interoperate. I think I can bang out the code this weekend. You go now. (starts typing away at keyboard).

Marketing Type: Like any significant technological change, of which changing a light bulb is one manifestation, it takes the wisdom of crowds to actually address the needs of the long tail. The minimum crowd required is the set of early-adopters of technological change as represented by the current list of TechCrunch subscribers.

Sales Type (written on Blackberry): Shit! I told those moronic software engineers to focus on the “flush the toilet” feature. I’ve got 5 customers that are ready to buy NOW if we can just get that freakin’ feature added. Forget the stupid “change a light bulb” thing. Nobody cares. We need “flush the toilet” yesterday!

Finance Type: Well, looking at our fully burdened FTE (full time employee) costs, we can afford about 2.7 FTEs to get the light bulb changed. We’d also need to make sure that the contract explicitly states that all consulting services in the scope of the CALB project are non-refundable so we can recognize the revenue in Q2 in term of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).

Software Architect Type: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold your horses. Before you even start to think about changing a light bulb, we need to make sure we’ve got a scalable architecture. First step is to pick a relational database that supports transactions and rollback/commits. The last thing we need is for a light bulb to almost be changed. It should either be changed or not be changed. That’s just the beginning. Then we’ve got to figure out

Strategy Type: Forget the light bulb. We need to stop skating to where the puck is, and skate to where the puck is going to be. In five years, there will be no light bulbs to change. I’m going on an executive retreat next week and plan to return with a vision statement that articulates how we will leverage our core competencies to erect a formidable barrier to entry in the $1 billion market for LaaS (Light As A Service).

Read more @ OnStartups.com

New Scientific Element Discovered

A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of
The heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named Governmentium. Governmentium (Gv) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198
assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take over four days
to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's Mass will actually increase over time, since each
reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium - an element which radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

Vote For Green

If You're Not Playing With A Full Deck, It's Because Paul Is Playing The Race Card

Race card, political correctness charges in 3rd C.D. race

by Bob Hague & Paul Knoff, WCCN

Race is becoming an issue in the Third Congressional District, where Republican Paul R. Nelson says he’s speaking the truth and fighting political correctness.

Nelson first drew attention by calling for the profiling of young Muslim men. Asked how to identify those who could be singled out, Nelson said that "if he comes in wearing a turban and his name is Mohammed, that's a good start." Another key issue for Nelson, illegal immigration, is also racially charged, but he insists he's no racist. The problem, says Nelson, is political correctness. "There are some things you can't even talk about, without being accused of being a racist," says Nelson. "It's not being unreasonable, to ask people to follow the law."

Democratic incumbent Kind says he's disappointed with the "level of debate" coming from his opponent. "He's also fond of wearing this tee shirt that says 'Vote for Pedro,' and he has 'Pedro" crossed out and 'Paul' underneath it," says Kind. "There are racial undertones to that."

Nelson was dealt a blow this week when the head of the 3rd District GOP blasted his own candidate’s controversial TV ad that boldly states “Ron Kind pays for sex, but not for soldiers”, referring to a series of National Institute of Health Grants which Kind voted for in Congress. Gary Arneson called the ads "below the belt" and "unbecoming" of a Republican candidate.

Hear the audio.

Today's Sermon: Give So Others May Golf

"I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process."

-- Barry Goldwater



"Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell's ass."

-- Barry Goldwater

Read more about Goldwater and the religious right.

Religious Right - You've Been Had

"Some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’”

Book says Bush just using Christians

see MSNBC article
“Tempting Faith’s” author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian.

Fake Based Initiative
"In fact, when Bush asks Kuo how much money was being spent on “compassion” social programs, Kuo claims he discovered the amount was $20 million a year less than during the Clinton Administration."

Republicans Expose Their Good Side

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Paul R. Nelson defends sleazy ad about funding sex studies...when nobody else will

Republican U.S. congressional candidate Paul R. Nelson defended a controversial Internet ad Wednesday, while another GOP leader called it “below the belt.”

Late Tuesday, Gary Arneson, chairman of the 3rd Congressional District GOP, contacted the Tribune with a statement on Nelson’s ad.

“I disapprove of Paul Nelson’s controversial ad. No one wants to replace Ron Kind more than I do. But to say Ron Kind pays for sex is below the belt and unbecoming of a Republican candidate for Congress,” Arneson said. “I disagree with Ron Kind, but even he doesn’t deserve that. Ron is a politician, and he can take it. But his young boys should not have to hear such insinuations and now they have.”

It is an ad, Nelson boasts, that "the mainstream media won't show!"

And for obvious reasons.

"Ron Kind," the ad continues, "even spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia. Ron Kind pays for sex but not for soldiers."

Nelson's ad so irked state Republican leaders that it merited a call last week from Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Rick Wiley to Kind's campaign manager, Matt Sweeney, in which, Kind said, Wiley took pains to "denounce" it.

Wiley acknowledged Monday that he called Sweeney about the advertisement last week but said the discussion was "off the record." He said he called Sweeney only to weigh in on what he thought about it.

So what does he think about it?

"It's not a good ad. There is no doubt about it," Wiley said. "(Nelson) would be better served if he sticks to the issues out there that folks want to hear about."

"...fortunately, some leaders in the Republican Party have chosen to turn their backs on Paul. This is the kind of weak-kneed leadership that grass-roots activists have been complaining about," Muller said.

Nelson said he recently got a call from Wiley.

"Mr. Wiley expressed his unhappiness with us," Nelson said. "We told him we thought the ad accurately depicts the shameful, deplorable waste of government dollars that we say it does."

Nelson said he did not conceive the ad. In fact, it originally wasn't even his; the advertisement was put together for a congressional hopeful in North Carolina. Nelson said he paid its producer something less than $5,000 to fashion it to target Kind.

"Most voters don't believe this actually happened. They think, at best, this was buried in some large appropriations bill," Nelson said. "This is not the case. (Kind) voted . . . in the middle of the day on a roll call vote . . . They were voting specifically on these (National Institutes of Health) studies."

That vote, according to the non-partisan Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, was on a failed Republican-sponsored amendment in July 2003 to deny funding for five research grants for studies that "had such stated goals as slowing the spread of AIDS, understanding homosexuality and improving the lives of senior citizens as their sexual function declines."

The measure failed 210-212.

As for the teen girls referenced in the ad, "this grant actually proposed to study sexual arousal in 180 lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual 'women' and makes no mention of 'teenage girls' as test subjects as the ad claims," according to the center.

The Annenberg Center reviewed the version of the ad launched by North Carolina Republican hopeful Vernon Robinson. Nelson recycled the same ad, with some minor tweaks.

It's one thing to run a dirty campaign. That just shows the desperation of this campaign. Theyre willing to go to any extreme. It's apparently quite another to run one so dirty it rates an XXX.

Republican challenger and political newcomer Paul R. Nelson has taken his race against five-term U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) to apparently new territory in Wisconsin politics. Consider his latest video advertisement, which is so far too lewd to find a home on television in western Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District.

When asked how the ad ties together truth and reality, Nelson said: "There is an enormous disconnect between the way American families live their lives and what goes on in Washington, D.C."

On a related matter to sex and teenagers, former Florida Congressman Mark Foley said,"The Adam Walsh Act is the most comprehensive piece of child protection legislation this Congress has ever considered. The bill creates, among other things, new State and Federal regulations, community notification requirements, as well as new Federal criminal penalties for sex offenders."

Foley added, ""It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."



When asked for a comment as to whether or not the Republican Party is God's Party, James Dobson said, "As it turns out, Mr. Foley has had illicit sex with no one that we know of, and the whole thing turned out to be what some people are now saying was a -- sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages."

A Few Of Paul R. Nelson's Favorite Hockey Dads

Hockey dad convicted in strangling of coach
A Toronto hockey dad has been found guilty of assault causing bodily harm for strangling his eight-year-old son's coach at a minor league game last year. Brad Desrocher, 48, showed little expression as he left the North York courthouse Friday.

Read more about Paul's favorite hockey dads.


Junta convicted of lesser charge in hockey death
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Jurors found Thomas Junta guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the beating death of Michael Costin, 40, at a hockey practice attended by sons of both men.

Junta, 44, stood in the courtroom, his head bowed, biting his lower lip as he heard the verdict. He was led away by a bailiff.

Read about the hockey dad from hell.

If elected, maybe Paul R. Nelson will push for a bill that allows hockey dads to wear concealed weapons while in the coaching box.

Paul R. Nelson opposes partial-birth abortions.*

*FOX Factoid: There are more hockey-related deaths annually than partial-birth abortions.

GOP disavows Paul R. Nelson’s ‘sex’ ad

When Creepy Republicans Say Paul Nelson Is Creepy, He Must Be Really Creepy!
Rick Wiley, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, has called Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s campaign and disavowed a controversial ad by Kind’s opponent, Paul R. Nelson.

“When I viewed it, I thought it was a terrible ad,” Wiley told me Monday, confirming he’d called Kind campaign manager Matt Sweeney last week. “The debate needs to focus on the issues,” Wiley said, adding he’s “not sure of the accuracy of the facts” in the ad.

Thursday, Nelson’s campaign issued a news release announcing the ad, which so far can be seen only on the Internet. Some television stations in the district have refused to air it.

The ad, which actually is recycled from a North Carolina congressional campaign, criticizes Kind’s votes against defense spending while also voting against cutting funding for five studies by the National Institutes of Health that involved sexuality.

“Ron Kind pays for sex, but not for soldiers,” the ad’s narrator intones. It also includes references to “masturbation habits of old men” and paying “teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia.”

Slither through Paul's poltical slime fest.

Click here to see the ad the GOP disowns.

"Gee Mr. Rove, the closer it gets to November 7th, the more crowded it is under your desk." Paul

Diapers and Politicians Need To Be Changed Often and for the Same Reason

From Moyers on America

"Abramoff came under intense public scrutiny through hearings in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in late September 2004. Those hearings laid out allegations of exorbitant fees, back-door deals and improper influencing of tribal elections. Abramoff invoked his Fifth Amendment right to silence throughout the hearings. It's now clear that Abramoff and his allies engaged in numerous questionable practices."
The Abramoff trail also leads to the Marianas, a US territory in the Pacific that Congress exempted from the U.S. minimum wage and immigration laws. The islands are home to Chinese-owned factories, where low-wage workers were imported from China and the Philippines and forced into slave labor conditions, living in squalid shacks behind barbed wire, to produce "Made in the USA" goods. As pressure built in the mid-1990s for a bill to impose U.S. laws on the islands, Abramoff was pitching his client-the government of the Marianas-as a regulation-free paradise and taking lawmakers, including Former Speaker of the House Tom DeLay (R-TX), there on luxury junkets. "Capitol Crimes" lays out how Abramoff's influence with DeLay kept reform legislation from ever being debated on the floor of the House. Former Senator Frank Murkowski (R-AK), who sponsored legislation after seeing the appalling working conditions in the Marianas first hand, asks: "How could we have, in the United States, working conditions like this under the U.S. flag?"
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Republican Representative Bob Ney (Ohio)

The fallout from the Jack Abramoff scandal continues. On September 15, 2006, Representative Bob Ney of Ohio agreed to plead guilty to federal corruption charges. As THE NEW YORK TIMES put it "Representative Bob Ney of Ohio admitted Friday that he had effectively put his office up for sale to corrupt Washington lobbyists and a foreign businessman in exchange for illegal gifts that included lavish overseas trips, the use of skyboxes at sports arenas in the Washington area and thousands of dollars worth of gambling chips from London casinos." It was Ney's ties to Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to corrupt public officials, that brought him under scrutiny.

More Friends of Jack: At Jackin the House

Sixteen Candles for Soldiers

To see the video, Click here.

Will Media Finally Count the Dead in Iraq?
From the beginning, the U.S. military refused to count -- and the American media rarely probed -- civilian casualties as the result of our invasion of Iraq in 2003. Now a new study places the number at 600,000, more or less. Why is the AP playing up the view that the report is nothing but "politics"?

By Greg Mitchell

(October 11, 2006) -- From the beginning, the U.S. military refused to count -- and the American media rarely probed -- civilian casualties as the result of our invasion of Iraq in 2003.

For the longest time these deaths were rarely mentioned at all. In recent months, they do appear nearly every day or two, usually in relation to several dozen bodies discovered around Baghdad with holes drilled in their skulls or showing other forms of torture. We also now learn about U.S. soldiers arrested for killing innocent cvilians. Even so, the press almost never attempts to quantify the Iraqi death toll.

Read more @ Editor and Publisher.

Latest Victim of Ecoli

Frederic, Wis.: School board appointment divides town

The choice of a home school dad for a vacant seat in Frederic, Wis., prompted some to question his motivations, and the board's.
FREDERIC, WIS. - As a local businessman, volunteer firefighter and dad of two, Lee Jensen seemed like an easy choice for this small Polk County town's school board. But he's also a dad who has home-schooled his kids for a decade.
Jensen's recent appointment to the board that oversees Frederic's public schools has upset many of the town's residents, who packed a Sept. 18 meeting to ask Jensen why he took the job, and ask school board members why they appointed him.

Read more @ Star Tribune.

FOX News Scoop:

Democratic National Convention, Agenda - 2008


7:00 P.M. Opening flag burning.
7:15 P.M. Pledge of allegiance to U.N.
7:30 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast
7:30 P.M. Nonreligious prayer and worship. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.
8:00 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast.
8:05 P.M. Ceremonial tree hugging.
8:15- 8:30 P.M. Gay Wedding -Barney Frank Presiding.
8:30 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast.
8:35 P.M. Free Saddam Rally. Cindy Sheehan , Susan Sarandon.
9:00 P.M. Keynote speech. The President Jacques Chirac
9:15 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast.
9:20 P.M. Collection to benefit Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant fund
9:30 P.M. Unveiling of plan to free freedom fighters from Guantanamo Bay, by Sean Penn
9:40 P.M. Why I hate the Military, A short talk by William Jefferson Clinton
9:45 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast
9:50 P.M. Dan Rather presented Truth in Broadcasting award, presented by Michael Moore
9:55 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast
10:00 P.M. How George Bush and Don Rumsfeld brought down the World Trade Center Towers, by Howard Dean
10:30 P.M. Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Mahmud Ahnadinejad
11:00 P.M. Ted Kennedy - a toast
11:05 P.M. Al Gore reinvents Internet
11:15 P.M. Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry
1:30 P.M. Coronation Of Mrs. Rodham Clinton
12:00 A.M. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:05 A.M. Bill asks Ted to drive Hillary home.

You Bet Ya There Moses...

Ten Commandments - Minnesota Style



1. Der's only one God, ya know.

2. Don't make that fish on yur mantle an idol.

3. Cussing ain't Minnesota nice.

4. Go to church even when yur up nort.

5. Honor yur folks.

6. Don't kill. Catch and release.

7. There is only one Lena for every Ole. No cheatin.

8. If it ain't yur lutefisk, don't take it.

9. Don't be braggin 'bout how much snow ya shoveled.

10. Keep yur mind off your neighbor's hotdish.

Blame It On The Drive-by Media and the Democrats: Foley's Folly

Read: GOP Poodle Neil Cavuto Rings the "It's George Soros's Fault" Bell re Mark Foley.

Foley's Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory: Oct 10, 2006 — House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., tries to change the subject. But the accusations about Hastert subordinates who were apparently told about Congressman Mark Foley's questionable behavior keep coming.
Hastert spoke to reporters Tuesday, insisting that he and the GOP House leadership had done nothing wrong in the House page scandal involving ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. The speaker heralded the economy: "We've lowered people's taxes. They have more money in their pockets to spend," he said...(not to mention their self-esteem.)

Read more @ ABC.

Meanwhile, in Iraq...

U.S. soldier killed in Baghdad

A U.S. soldier was killed Monday by small arms fire in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. A soldier, assigned to Multi-National Division-Baghdad, was killed at 10:45 a.m. (0745 GMT) on Monday "when terrorists attacked his patrol with small arms fire in eastern Baghdad", the military said in a statement. The name of the soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, it added. More than 2,730 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to media count.


Read An Axis of Weasels: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Lie Their Way to a Better Tomorrow
by Terry Haines.

Original cartoons by Fat Jon. See more@ /www.oggtoons.blogspot.com.

Dr. Pat- Androgynous Coward - Shares Foot Fungus Secrets

I was reading my favorite FruitCake Journal, ontheborderline.nut, recently and was really overwhelmed with the depth and breath of knowledge that I learned by design rather than accident from that repository of genius. It never ceases to amaze me how the intellectigent Dr.s of Liberty know so much, and even more astounding, they are willing to share it with the world.
Here's one recent post for example:

Cowards are we?
Filed under: General, Humor --- Jack Junior @ 12:42 am
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Just a few weeks ago I said “I will never fly again” with all the ridiculous restrictions. Plus, what I really hated was taking off your shoes and wallk bare footed across tiled floors already walked on by many with numerous foot fungus deseases. At that time. when I said I would never fly again I was thinking about vacations and a choice to fly. Well, as fate has it, I had to fly to Florida to see my father in a nursing home.

So what to do about the foot problem? I went to many stores to find disposable footware, as once you go through, you must dispose of slippers etc. I found, at Walmart, shower caps, 15 for .97 cents. They fit on your foot just fine, looks stupid but does the job. In Mpls. airport, they just looked and told me I had to put them in waste basket after I went through the x-ray machine, which was fine with me, as I did not plan to wear them again as a shower cap. But in Florida, I asked where the waste basket was, they took the shower caps and saved them in a basket way beyond the waste basket. I should have asked them what they planned on doing with them, or why they saved them.

Your socks are not fine, as they absorb the sweat from your feet, you walk on the tiled floor filled with foot fungus, then put your shoes back on and welcome to your new home, Foot Fungus.

To rid yourself of athletes foot, foot fungus, try putting 1 tsp. of Borax in your socks each day. A tried and true treatment. It works. It is a cheap and reliable treatment. Buy it in the grocery store. Put it on your ant hills, it will kill ants too. Put it in your laundry, a booster. Guess that it is what it is really for.

Orange Alert=Foot Fungus. They throw away lotions, gels, toothpaste, but let you walk on their infected floor. It is a challenge to all to use all your brains to get through the gates. The terrorists have gainned their way, they have terrorized and we are giving in to them. Remember when Bush-(whacker) said after 911, “just go on living the way you did, do not give in to them? Well, we did, put your under lotions, gels etc., in a quart size plastic bag place your shoes, your jacket, your carry on in the basket.

Okay, once more, I will never fly again! ! !

That might just be a foot in the mouth statement again, but at least my foot will not have fungus.

One Response to “Cowards are we?”


1. BobZiller Says:
October 7th, 2006 at 11:35 am

Thanks for the tips, Pat. Here I thought I was protected by wearing my socks through security. Oh, by the way have a little respect for the president of the U. S.–Bush-(whacker????

Think things are bad now? Wait until the first terrorist A-bomb goes off in the U. S. You’ll settle for foot fungus.

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The Twenty Mule Team Dr.s probably didn't notice Dr. Ziller's slip of the keyboard when he inadertantly revealed Jack Jr.'s identity. But heck, "When you have Borax on the mind, it's hard to think of anything else!"





















So let's sum up what we've learned today from the Dr.s at ontheborderline.nut!

1. Jack Junior" s cover has been blown- now we know It's Pat, the androgenous Saturday
Night Live Character.

2. If you want to look stupid (and save money) going through airport security, always shop at Wal-Mart for your shower cap/stocking needs.

3. Put Twenty Mule Team Borax in you sox, -EVERYDAY- It keeps the fungus away.

4. If you do get a fungus, be sure to comment at ontheborderline.nut and be sure to put your foot in your mouth.

And last but not least:

5. Never fly again!!!!!!

And they say an education can't be free?

2nd Grade Amendment Rights Are Not Just For Adults

Welcome to the NRA Kooky Kidz Korner boys and girls! Hope you're packin' heat and lookin' for fun - cuz we're all about playing with high-caliber guns! Old Mr. Boring never shows his head 'round here, and if'n he does, we'll slay him like a deer!


Step into the shootin' range club house.

Kids!! Ask Mom for the Big One!

50 Gazillion Watts of Progressive Power

ATBL Welcomes MBS

Broadcasting from it's invisible tower high atop Newton Field, a new Media Giant has been unleashed in West Central Wisconsin. With its 50 Gazillion Watts of Clear Channel Power the Muchlinski Broadcasting System began spreading it's Progressive, Pro-Education message for the first time this week.
Click here to view the MBS Premier Broadcast.

Conceal and Carry: The Answer To All Our Problems

Lasee: Wisconsin teachers should pack heat
In the wake of school shootings in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Colorado over the past two weeks, one Wisconsin state representative devised a plan he thinks will help keep children safe.

Rep. Frank Lasee, R-Bellevue, announced legislation Wednesday that would allow teachers, principals and other school officials to carry concealed weapons on school property.

“This is too important to leave our children in danger,” Lasee said in an interview, calling it another useful tool to help keep Wisconsin students safe.

Read more @ The Badger Herald.

Click Here To Watch Frank Lasse Pitch Guns In Schools

la cage aux Foley

It's interesting to see the Republican spin machine whirling out of control over the resignation of Florida Congressman Mark Foley. The GOP is trying to deflect the blame away from the self-proclaimed party anointed by God and the keeper of all values worth getting single-issue voters to pull the ballot box lever in their favor.

Rush Limpballs and Deny Hastert are weaving the ABC/Democrat wool of conspiracy over the eyes of FOX viewers and while Lush and Sean Hyenaity are providing the ear enemas. In fact, our fellow bloggers over at www.ontheborderline.net -- the ones with the front row seats during the 2004 Bush visit to Hudson (All the better to polish you boots, Mr. President.) -- are doing their part to do counter spin of the Foley exposure.

The OTBL Admin says: "I dare say that ABC was in cahoots with the DNC and only because of this glitch did the age of the individual come out."

Of course, we all know the OTBL Admin has deep connections into all the workings of ABC and the DNC. Right, I believe I also saw an ad on his blog for ocean front property in North Hudson. (Pssst, looks like the OTBL'ers gave up their quest for capitalist blog domination in the Valley. The ads have disappeared. They've ended their career as cheap prostitutes.)

The OTBL Admin also notes: "An ABC Online glitch led to exposing the identity of the Foley Accuser. Turns out the individual was of legal consenting age, 18 at the time of IM’ing with Foley."

Of course this is where the confusion comes in. In another OTBL post, BJohnson tells us: "As it is, Republicans deny knowing about the explicit text messages that Foley sent to a 16-year-old congressional page back in 2003. In repudiating Foley, House Speaker Dennis Hastert called the messages “vile and repulsive.”"

So what is it OTBL, 16 or 18? You need to get into OTBL hot tub and do a group huddle on this one.

OTBL's BJ goes on to tell us: "If anything, the episode reveals the Democrats’ hypocrisy about their own behavior. The fact that Foley resigned virtually within minutes of being told that ABC News had copies of his salacious e-mails and text messages indicates he at least felt shame for his actions. Can the same be said for Democrats?"

I'm not sure which Democrats he's talking about? Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, Kirk Fordham. Oh excuse me, those guys are Republicans. I must have been watching FOX News. I believe they were calling Foley a Democrat last night.

Or maybe I was reading this comment by OTBL's ChoosingLife: "If the Republican Party required a signature at the bottom of the GOP Platform and Resolutions, they would be able to weed out the Democrats in Republican Sheep’s Clothing and cull out non-platform/resolutions adherents. This is such an easy solution to a vast problem within the Republican Party. Foley was a pro-abortion/pro-sodomite so-called Republican. There’s many more like him within the Republican Party. The Platform and Resolutions are there for a reason. Americans should expect a higher standard from the Republican Party members, but if we keep electing Republican Party under miners, we will be as low as the Democrats before long. Republicans should demand accountability from the Republican Party if we expect it from the Democrats."

ChoosingLife will probably be directing the Reich side of the chorus line at the 2008 Republican convention in St. Paul. And so it looks like the OTBL zombies have put away their NRA-ass-kissing posts for the time being and got out their bucket of white wash to help spruce up the unsightly stains that are continuing to seep through their stage costumes.



Limbaugh and Hastert baselessly suggested that Democrats orchestrated Foley scandal

Summary: Rush Limbaugh and House Speaker Dennis Hastert advanced a theory that Democrats and the media instigated the scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley to aid the Democrats in the midterm elections, ignoring ABC News reporter Brian Ross's statement that the sources for his reporting on Foley are, if at all politically affiliated, Republicans.

Read more and hear the audio at Media Matters.

Original cartoons complients of PO'd Toons. Thanks Fat Jon!

Part 2: "Guns Save Lives"...@ www.ontheborderline.net

Concealed weapon permits in the news:


10/3:
Delware
U.D. cops seize arsenal from Drexel Hill house

UPPER DARBY -- Police say they believe they thwarted a catastrophe after removing an arsenal of guns, ammunition, grenades, knives, bomb-making components, including 16 ounces of hazardous mercury, and other weapons from a Drexel Hill home. The search warrant was obtained for the house, located 200 feet from St. Charles Parochial School, Dennison Avenue, after a detective recognized the defendant from a previous incident involving weapons.

...Conner who obtained a concealed weapon permit in Chester County in February 2005 was armed with a loaded handgun when taken into custody.

10/1:
California
Marin stingy with concealed weapon permits

Getting a license to carry a gun in some places around the state is as simple as asking for one and taking a class. But in Marin County, it's tough. Real tough.

"People have to show me good cause," said Marin County Sheriff Robert Doyle.

9/27
Nevada:
Lawyers cite self-defense for Hells Angels in Nevada casino brawl

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Defense lawyers said Wednesday that Hells Angels were defending themselves and didn't plot a deadly brawl with rival Mongols motorcycle gang members during a southern Nevada biker rally in 2002 as a federal prosecutor said.

...Police later found one bullet casing and six intact bullets near where Dysart stood, Chesnoff said, adding that Schaefer had a valid concealed weapons permit and a clean criminal record before his arrest.

9/21
Alabama
Second brother pleads in shooting incident

Marece Richards, who was driving the night his older brother began firing a military-style rifle at another vehicle as the two cars raced along Government Boulevard, decided Wednesday to follow his brother's lead and plead guilty in the case.

...Marece Richards, an aspiring rap artist, had in his possession on that July night a .40-caliber handgun, with a permit, but did not pull it or fire it as his brother opened up with the assault rifle. (At least somebody was acting responsible.)

Tennesse
Dr. Feel Worse
“He liked to show it off,” she says. “You know, I’m big, I’m bad, I got a gun.”

All of these people describe Feldman as a man who holds a grudge and carries a gun. In fact, the Scene obtained a copy of his handgun carry permit from the Tennessee Department of Safety. One source, a former nurse in his practice, says that Feldman never left home without a revolver strapped to his ankle.

9/19
South Carolina
Man gets 16 years in Cornell Arms killing
“Yeah, he had a concealed weapon permit, but he wasn’t supposed to be holding a weapon as a night watchman."

Jason Michael Dickey, 32, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by Judge James Johnson Jr. for the death of 24-year-old Joshua William Boot in May 2004.

Boot, of West Columbia, and Dickey got into a fight in front of the Cornell Arms Apartments after Dickey, working as a night watchman at the complex, asked Boot to leave. Dickey was convicted by a jury Friday of voluntary manslaughter in the death. Boot was shot in the chest and twice in the stomach. Dickey, who carried a concealed weapon permit, said at trial he was acting in self-defense. He faced between two and 30 years for the conviction.

“We felt that justice was done,” said John Meadors, deputy 5th Circuit solicitor.

Indiana
Murder charge filed in shooting over jewelry

NILES — Police investigating the case of a 29-year-old South Bend man accused of shooting another South Bend man outside a store on the Michigan-Indiana state line last month said Tuesday that Louis Clark did not intend to kill Renell Exum. Police said he intended just to shoot Exum in the leg to push him away during a struggle over a gold necklace.

...“(Clark) called the police,” Parish said in arguing for a bond reduction. “He waited for the police to come. He did everything right. The fact that he had a gun shouldn’t be held against him. He had a valid permit.”

9/19
New Jersey
Woodbridge man charged in 2003 twin killings

MIDDLESEX COUNTY — A Woodbridge man with ties to the violent Bloods street gang was arrested yesterday in connection with a 2003 double homicide. Michael E. Ross II, 23, of Chestnut Street, Avenel, was arrested yesterday at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Wrightstown, Burlington County, and charged with the Oct. 30, 2003, murders of Aleksy Bautin, 26, and Sergey Barbashov, 21. Ross is being held at the prison on unrelated aggravated assault and theft charges.

According to the police complaints, Ross possessed a handgun with a permit and used it unlawfully against another, "specifically by shooting the victims with a 9 mm handgun in the Forest View Apartment Complex in Avenel."

So That's Why The Mouth Has Two Sides...

"The Adam Walsh Act is the most comprehensive piece of child protection legislation this Congress has ever considered. The bill creates, among other things, new State and Federal regulations, community notification requirements, as well as new Federal criminal penalties for sex offenders."

"I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders."

"At Sacred Heart, I was taught how to be a better citizen because of their focus on discipline and moral values."

Mark Foley
Former Florida Congress
...as of last Friday.

Space is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Originally published Jan. 06.
File Under: Satire
As adults it’s our responsibility to set a good example for our children and young people, to set rules and pass laws that create a better society for the benefit of those who follow us. That's why we NEED a Conceal and Carry law. We can all feel safer knowing that the person who just cut us off in traffic or signaled an obscene gesture could be packing heat. It’d be a new day for every Wisconsin citizen.

So if the conceal and carry law is good for adults and society at large, it just makes good common sense that the same rules should be applied to our children to build a better world. It’s in this spirit I’d like to make a modest proposal. I like to offer for consideration, that public schools adopt a new ground breaking program, Conceal and Carry for Kids.

The benefits of this proposed program are far-reaching and best of all, fiscally responsible.

Space is a terrible thing to waste. Year after year, public school enrollment continues to increase. There’s no end in sight according to the projections of the government demographers. The citizens of this community are being taxed to the point of bleeding and if the problem continues will not even be able to afford duck tape to cover the wounds.

Conceal and Carry for Kids is the obvious solution to this dilemma . Our projections show that if Conceal and Carry for Kids is adopted, there may never be a need to build new government educational infrastructure, ever.

According to the projections, each year student enrollment could drop as much as 7 to 10 % as a result of gun violence. Just think of the cost savings. With fewer students, we need fewer teachers with even fewer health and retirement benefits. And there may be no need to fire, lay off, or wait for teacher retirements because, thank God, teachers are subject to the same population thinning hostility and carnage as the students.

And the cost savings reach far beyond that, in unanticipated ways. We’ve all read how many inner city schools spend huge amounts of money to install metal detectors and hire government police force liasons to prevent students from bringing there favorite weapon to school. With Conceal and Carry for Kids, problem solved. With no rules against concealed weapons at school, no need for metal detectors, no need for even a K-Mart Cop. No district will be hiring psychologists to deal with bullying. Students will take personal responsibility for the problem. If bullying occurs, BAM!! Instant bully removal and an lower student to teacher ratio as a by- product.

In closing, if you want a better world for the youngsters, support Conceal and Carry for Kids, contact you local school board members, church leaders, and government school administrators and let them know it’s time for a change, it’s time for Conceal and Carry for Kids.

Hopefully paid for and endorsed by the WRA. (WI- Rifle Association).

"Guns to save lives"...@ www.ontheborderline.net

10/2:
Pennsylvannia: Gunman kills 4 girls, self in Amish School Shooting

Nevada: Gun reported at North Las Vegas school

South Carolina: Man charged with killing his half brother

Washington: Moses Lake man murdered

10/1
Texas: Gunman kills 62-year-old man

South Carolina: Man Charged in Deaths of Wife, 4 Kids

9/30
Wisconsin: Principal Killed, Student to Be Charged With Murder in Southwestern Wisconsin School Scooting

9/29:
Colorado: Gunman kills hostage, self

Florida:Gunman Kills Fla. Cop During Traffic Stop

California: Gunman kills armored car guard

9/23
Florida: Gunman kills guard at hotel

And that's the news from Lake Wobegon.
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Click here for a public service announcement from the NRA on responsible gun ownership.

Hey! I Like Watermelon!

"More problems for Virginia Senator George Allen. As you know, he's been accused of making racially insensitive remarks. A number of classmates of Allen's have come forward and said he used the 'N' word quite a bit. He says he doesn't remember that. You know the reason he doesn't remember? Because he never said it to a black guy."

Jay Leno

Fatal Shooting Reported at Amish School

NICKEL MINES, Pa. — A gunman killed "a number" of people at a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County, state police said. The shooter was among the dead, and a number of people were injured, said state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig.

"There are a number of people dead," Striebig said. "The exact number I do not know yet."

Police surrounded the one-room school late Monday morning, and the Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched to a "medical emergency" at 10:45 a.m.

Two hours later, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, hats and bonnets stood near the small school building speaking to one another, several young people and authorities. At least two ambulances had left the scene, and at least one person was taken on a stretcher to a medical helicopter. Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims were being admitted there. A spokeswoman said the hospital anticipated more than one patient, but did not know how many.

Earth bound thoghts...

"We know that we are the Earth and the Earth is us...The Creator put us (here) to take care of this part of the world...We know that the right thing to do is to stand up and speak out against the desecration of the environment. This is our only chance."

Sarah James, Gwich'in

Sarah James is a Neets'aii Gwich'in Indian from Arctic Village, Alaska, the northernmost Indian tribe in North America. Gwich'in is James’s first language. She grew up traditionally, following the caribou migration. As a Gwich’in, she was born with motivation to care for her land. “Loss of the caribou would mean the end of my people, much like the loss of the buffalo resulted in the decimation of many indigenous cultures in the Great Plains over a century ago,” she says. But James did not choose to become a leader for the Gwich’in; that choice was made for her. For almost 20 years, Sarah James quietly served her people as a community health aide, in a log cabin with no running water, and founder of a preschool. Then, in 1988, the elders and spiritual leaders of the entire Gwich’in nation – encompassing 15 villages and several million acres of remote land in northeastern Alaska and Canada – chose her to become the public spokesperson for preserving the caribou, the land they travel, and the Gwich’in culture.

Read more about Sarah James.

October Is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

"Domestic violence has no place in our society, and we have a moral obligation to help prevent it. The terrible tragedies that result from it destroy lives and insult the dignity of women, men, and children. National Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an opportunity to underscore our commitment to bringing an end to violence in the home.

A home should be a place of stability, comfort, and love. Domestic violence shatters this important foundation. My Administration is strongly committed to addressing domestic violence and helping those who have been victimized. In January, I was proud to sign legislation reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Since I announced the Family Justice Center Initiative in 2003, we have opened 11 Family Justice Centers across the country. These centers offer services to victims and their families, including legal advice, counseling, and support. In addition, we are continuing to work with faith-based and community organizations to provide training, expertise, and funding to help deliver hope and healing to those who need it most."

Read more from a proclamation by the President of the United States of America.