Palin Impresses
Sarah Palin was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh yesterday, and she did a great job. You might be able to listen to the interview at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/
I still don't think that she is the strongest conservative candidate the Republicans can put forward... But I'm ready for her to change my mind... And she may.
Update: Transcript for non-members... You can read it here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_111709/content/01125120.guest.html
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Job Opportunity!
Wanted: Adult U.S. citizens willing to relocate to New York City... Preferably no family or even distant relatives... Preferably willing to live in fear for rest of life.
Have you always wanted to serve on a jury and never got the chance? Don't miss this golden opportunity!
Apply to the U.S. Justice Department c/o Eric Holder, or send resume along with Last Will and Testament to The Federal Court of lower Manhattan.
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Wanted: Adult U.S. citizens willing to relocate to New York City... Preferably no family or even distant relatives... Preferably willing to live in fear for rest of life.
Have you always wanted to serve on a jury and never got the chance? Don't miss this golden opportunity!
Apply to the U.S. Justice Department c/o Eric Holder, or send resume along with Last Will and Testament to The Federal Court of lower Manhattan.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
MSNBC Discovers New Information on Fort Hood Murders
MSNBC--According to Keith Olberman, Nidal Malik Hasan did not shout "Allah Ackbar" before he opened fire upon defenseless soldiers at Fort Hood. According to Olberman, Hasan shouted "A La Carte Bar" expressing his anger over the poor food in the cafeteria. This, yet another food-related attack, has been mischaracterized as a terrorist attack by neo-cons who have tried to somehow blame the peaceful religion of Islam for Hasan's actions.
Olberman added, "When a man already suffers from mental illness, sometimes a poorly prepared crepe or even over-cooked carrots can push him into a homicidal funk."
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I made this up. Sadly, I feel I have to tell you that I made this up... Or you will wonder if this story is true... or if I made it up. Such is the MSM.
The mainstream media is still asking, "Why did he do it? Why was his 'mental illness' not discovered by the military?"
Let's get our troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Let's stop all surveillance programs that involve Muslims. We would ultimately be safer if all that money would be spent finding a cure for mental illness. It's not Islam. It's not the Koran. It's mental illness that threatens us...
And possibly cafeteria food.
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MSNBC--According to Keith Olberman, Nidal Malik Hasan did not shout "Allah Ackbar" before he opened fire upon defenseless soldiers at Fort Hood. According to Olberman, Hasan shouted "A La Carte Bar" expressing his anger over the poor food in the cafeteria. This, yet another food-related attack, has been mischaracterized as a terrorist attack by neo-cons who have tried to somehow blame the peaceful religion of Islam for Hasan's actions.
Olberman added, "When a man already suffers from mental illness, sometimes a poorly prepared crepe or even over-cooked carrots can push him into a homicidal funk."
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I made this up. Sadly, I feel I have to tell you that I made this up... Or you will wonder if this story is true... or if I made it up. Such is the MSM.
The mainstream media is still asking, "Why did he do it? Why was his 'mental illness' not discovered by the military?"
Let's get our troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Let's stop all surveillance programs that involve Muslims. We would ultimately be safer if all that money would be spent finding a cure for mental illness. It's not Islam. It's not the Koran. It's mental illness that threatens us...
And possibly cafeteria food.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Sunday, March 23rd 2003
Sgt Asan Akbar kills and maims his fellow American soldiers by tossing grenades into the Command Center tent in Kuwait.
Six years later we learn again of the mixed allegiances of Muslims in the Military.
This week when Major Assan shouted "Allah Akbar" and shot 42 unarmed American soldiers in the worst terrorist attack in this country since 9/11... Political Correctness in the news coverage ruled.
Our brave president told us not to jump to conclusions about the motivation behind these murders.
After all, this is a Muslim American... not some white policeman and a black guy.
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Sgt Asan Akbar kills and maims his fellow American soldiers by tossing grenades into the Command Center tent in Kuwait.
Six years later we learn again of the mixed allegiances of Muslims in the Military.
This week when Major Assan shouted "Allah Akbar" and shot 42 unarmed American soldiers in the worst terrorist attack in this country since 9/11... Political Correctness in the news coverage ruled.
Our brave president told us not to jump to conclusions about the motivation behind these murders.
After all, this is a Muslim American... not some white policeman and a black guy.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
"Man" Murders 12 at Fort Hood
I had to read three quarters of the article before the author commented on the "Man's" Arabic sounding name.
A violent Muslim? Who would have thought?
The story didn't mention whether or not the "man" had run over his daughter recently.
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I had to read three quarters of the article before the author commented on the "Man's" Arabic sounding name.
A violent Muslim? Who would have thought?
The story didn't mention whether or not the "man" had run over his daughter recently.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Quote for the Day
"I've been looking at all the exit-poll data and election analysis... I can't find how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey and Virginia."
--Rush Limbaugh
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"I've been looking at all the exit-poll data and election analysis... I can't find how many votes Obama created or saved in New Jersey and Virginia."
--Rush Limbaugh
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A Burly Man at Heart
Until I hit my 40's, I was prettier than most people's sisters... Not exactly burly... was I. I was Dick Cavett pretty, but I wasn't Tommy Tune pretty.
I remember sitting in a girlfriend's apartment back in the early 80's, and Tommy Tune came on the TV singing and dancing. I said, "Geez! That guy is prettier than I am!" My girlfriend laughed and said, "Hey, he's prettier than I am, too!"
Before you think I'm bragging... Consider that women aren't attracted to pretty men any more than men like moustached "mannish" women.
But moving on to my point... Having never married, I'm sure assumptions were sometimes made about my sexual orientation that wouldn't have been made before the liberal culture put a spotlight on the gay lifestyle and attempted to legitimize it. Because gays are celebrated and promoted in today's entertainment, bachelors are often looked upon with suspicion.
Am I bitter? Maybe!
Still, I've never been one to gay bash or use slurs. I figure your average fudge-packer has enough problems without having to deal with insensitive remarks... So I refuse to make them.
Recently an NFL player tweeted on Twitter that a person's avatar picture was a "fag pic." He was suspended for two games and fined $300,000.
Well dang!
I think of overweight people, homely little girls, people that aren't very bright, born-again Christians, and other individuals who suffer unkind remarks and yet do not enjoy the same heavy-handed protection that gays benefit from.
Punishing people for their speech is an idea whose time has unfortunately come. It's a part of the slow and steady movement towards liberalism and godlessness, Slouching Towards Gomorrah as Robert Bork put it. I've watched it all my life...
Evil pushes... We stomp our feet, we compromise, we plan our next purchase.
All that just to post another picture of myself.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
RINOs Win
Yesterday a Republican stronghold in upstate New York chose to elect a Democrat and give Pelosi another vote rather than be represented by a Reagan conservative.
It was a smack down for Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and conservatives everywhere. It was a win for the McCains, the Grahams, for Newt Gingrich and other compromisers... and it illustrates the fissure in the Republican party.
There is nothing to celebrate today... Because nothing good happened for conservatives yesterday.
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Yesterday a Republican stronghold in upstate New York chose to elect a Democrat and give Pelosi another vote rather than be represented by a Reagan conservative.
It was a smack down for Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and conservatives everywhere. It was a win for the McCains, the Grahams, for Newt Gingrich and other compromisers... and it illustrates the fissure in the Republican party.
There is nothing to celebrate today... Because nothing good happened for conservatives yesterday.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Amazing Knowledge for November
I may be a two-bit, mediocre medical technologist, but my job affords me insight into amazing medical knowledge. Oh, people talk about Mayo's and Johns Hopkins, but those of us in the business know that the real innovations and advancements are taking place at small, rural, Indiana hospitals. Most the time when I'm in the lab, I just sit there with my eyes glazed over, mentally processing some new amazing thought. Other times I'm alert and actually paying attention to what I'm doing.
But before you become disproportionately impressed with me, let me get to this month's amazing medical knowledge:
Why We Wear Gloves
When I wear latex gloves I can't draw blood worth crap. I was trained pre-AIDS, and back then we donned gloves only when we were handling fecal specimens or when there was a possibility of getting something really icky on our fingers.
Fortunately, the only time I'm called upon to draw blood these days is when at least two other techs have already failed to acquire a blood specimen. These patients are referred to as "difficult sticks" and the hospital staff cares enough about its patients to look the other way when I perform my magic... ungloved.
By the time I enter the patient's hospital room, the patient is usually scared, upset, or thoroughly PO'd. I stroll in, sporting my best down-home demeanor, speaking slowly and relaxed like an airline pilot... And as I make a show of washing my hands, I use phrases like "You poor thing" and "We appreciate your patience." Then I generally say, "Let's just take our time and see what we can find." My aim is to make the patient confident both in my abilities, and the fact that I care about him.
But back to why we wear gloves...
When AIDS was brand-spanking new, the medical community erred on the side of caution in most instances, because it was not yet known how virulent the disease was, or how likely it could be spread in clinical situations.
Someone... I suspect someone sitting behind a desk, decided that lab personnel would be safer if they wore gloves when they performed venipunctures. The fallacy in that decision is obvious when you consider that 1) gloves make the tech less dexterous, more clumsy, and 2) latex gloves will not stop a needle. Therefore, in an effort to make us safer, the powers that be have surely increased our risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens, because gloves make it more likely that we will stick ourselves with a dirty needle... Especially those of us who did not begin our careers using gloves.
But what really tickles us is this: Most of our patients think that we are wearing gloves for their protection. In fact, patients have actually written letters to our hospital complaining that the tech drawing their blood did not wear gloves.
A couple of the techs that have been "turned in" have complained that, though I hardly ever wear gloves, I've never been turned in. I tell them, "The reason is simple, really... I'm Malott... And you're not."
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I may be a two-bit, mediocre medical technologist, but my job affords me insight into amazing medical knowledge. Oh, people talk about Mayo's and Johns Hopkins, but those of us in the business know that the real innovations and advancements are taking place at small, rural, Indiana hospitals. Most the time when I'm in the lab, I just sit there with my eyes glazed over, mentally processing some new amazing thought. Other times I'm alert and actually paying attention to what I'm doing.
But before you become disproportionately impressed with me, let me get to this month's amazing medical knowledge:
Why We Wear Gloves
When I wear latex gloves I can't draw blood worth crap. I was trained pre-AIDS, and back then we donned gloves only when we were handling fecal specimens or when there was a possibility of getting something really icky on our fingers.
Fortunately, the only time I'm called upon to draw blood these days is when at least two other techs have already failed to acquire a blood specimen. These patients are referred to as "difficult sticks" and the hospital staff cares enough about its patients to look the other way when I perform my magic... ungloved.
By the time I enter the patient's hospital room, the patient is usually scared, upset, or thoroughly PO'd. I stroll in, sporting my best down-home demeanor, speaking slowly and relaxed like an airline pilot... And as I make a show of washing my hands, I use phrases like "You poor thing" and "We appreciate your patience." Then I generally say, "Let's just take our time and see what we can find." My aim is to make the patient confident both in my abilities, and the fact that I care about him.
But back to why we wear gloves...
When AIDS was brand-spanking new, the medical community erred on the side of caution in most instances, because it was not yet known how virulent the disease was, or how likely it could be spread in clinical situations.
Someone... I suspect someone sitting behind a desk, decided that lab personnel would be safer if they wore gloves when they performed venipunctures. The fallacy in that decision is obvious when you consider that 1) gloves make the tech less dexterous, more clumsy, and 2) latex gloves will not stop a needle. Therefore, in an effort to make us safer, the powers that be have surely increased our risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens, because gloves make it more likely that we will stick ourselves with a dirty needle... Especially those of us who did not begin our careers using gloves.
But what really tickles us is this: Most of our patients think that we are wearing gloves for their protection. In fact, patients have actually written letters to our hospital complaining that the tech drawing their blood did not wear gloves.
A couple of the techs that have been "turned in" have complained that, though I hardly ever wear gloves, I've never been turned in. I tell them, "The reason is simple, really... I'm Malott... And you're not."
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Malott's Better-than-Oprah's Book Club
October's Selection
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (paperback? But of course!)
I'm not a black woman and a heretic, but I do know good fiction when I read it. This New York Times #1 Bestseller is about a defense lawyer who rides around L.A. in a Lincoln. The most satisfying parts are the way he tricks and manipulates everyone from the prosecutors to his client. Very entertaining. One hundred pages in.... I couldn't put it down. I got three hours of sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. My butt is dragging today because I couldn't put it down.
On the Malott Reader-Meter it comes in at a solid 8.
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October's Selection
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (paperback? But of course!)
I'm not a black woman and a heretic, but I do know good fiction when I read it. This New York Times #1 Bestseller is about a defense lawyer who rides around L.A. in a Lincoln. The most satisfying parts are the way he tricks and manipulates everyone from the prosecutors to his client. Very entertaining. One hundred pages in.... I couldn't put it down. I got three hours of sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. My butt is dragging today because I couldn't put it down.
On the Malott Reader-Meter it comes in at a solid 8.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Obama's Enemies List
Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but Barack Milhous Obama, or Barry Capone as we say in Greentown, seems to add new members weekly... And it's hard to keep up.
So here we go: Insurance companies and unrepentant doctors who surgically remove feet, pharmaceutical companies, terrorist American veterans, tea party attendees, town hall attendees, white policemen, the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, FOX News, Wall Street and people who like to profit from their work, coal producers, oil companies, SUV drivers, Republicans, Dick Cheney, and of course... George Bush.
Soon to be added: The Independents and Moderates who voted for the guy who would "set aside childish things" and are quickly becoming disillusioned, Blue Dog Democrats who refuse to destroy their careers by toeing Obama's line, and the liberal mainstream media that refuses to ostracize FOX News.
I hope our post-partisan president hurries up and completes his Enemies list so he can get back to the business of uniting us all.
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Forgive me if I leave anyone out, but Barack Milhous Obama, or Barry Capone as we say in Greentown, seems to add new members weekly... And it's hard to keep up.
So here we go: Insurance companies and unrepentant doctors who surgically remove feet, pharmaceutical companies, terrorist American veterans, tea party attendees, town hall attendees, white policemen, the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, FOX News, Wall Street and people who like to profit from their work, coal producers, oil companies, SUV drivers, Republicans, Dick Cheney, and of course... George Bush.
Soon to be added: The Independents and Moderates who voted for the guy who would "set aside childish things" and are quickly becoming disillusioned, Blue Dog Democrats who refuse to destroy their careers by toeing Obama's line, and the liberal mainstream media that refuses to ostracize FOX News.
I hope our post-partisan president hurries up and completes his Enemies list so he can get back to the business of uniting us all.
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Quote for the Day
"I don't always get my most favorable coverage on Fox, but I think that's part of how democracy is supposed to work. You know, we're not supposed to all be in lockstep here."
--President Barack Obama, February 2009
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"I don't always get my most favorable coverage on Fox, but I think that's part of how democracy is supposed to work. You know, we're not supposed to all be in lockstep here."
--President Barack Obama, February 2009
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Time for an "honor killing " update...
Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming "too Westernized" and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued.
Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming "too Westernized" and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued. Noor Faleh Almaleki (above) is in "life-threatening condition," Peoria Police spokesman Mike Tellef told ABCNews.
I'd hope that every reasonable, moderate, and law-abiding Muslim man in the country cringes when he reads such a story... Or do many secretly admire and sympathize with this man? Their silence may reveal something very ugly.
It's been a little over a year and a half since... two teen sisters were found shot to death inside a cab outside a Texas hotel, and their father, who police say is the sole suspect in the New Year's Day killings, remains at large.
Authorities tell ABC News that the investigation so far has produced few solid leads as to Yaser Abdel Said's whereabouts, and they fear he may have fled the country, perhaps even to his native Egypt.
So far Rifqa Bary, the Ohio Muslim teen who converted to Christianity and then fled her family fearing for her life, only to be ordered home by a Florida judge... So far she is still alive... And quaking in fear, I suspect.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Obama Criticizer - String of Failures
This is Rush Limbaugh's call screener. Being black, he is able to criticize Obama, without being called a racist.
...And I wouldn't tell him to "get back on the porch..." At least I wouldn't recommend saying it to his face.
Be Mao, Be Mao Baby Anita Dunn, Obama's White House Communications Director, said in a speech recently that Chairman Mao was one of her favorite political philosophers.
I believe her.
If Mao Tse-Tung had been born in America... Say... in 1961, and if he rose in politics... maybe in Illinois, as a charismatic Chinese-American... And if he was looking to impose socialism on the American people, not through revolution, but through the political system... If he became president and began seizing corporations and expanding the size and control of the federal government...
Yes, I believe her.(doctored photos from Matt's Meditations)
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