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An upcoming interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is... very revealing.

The question is about her role in the abortion law Roe v Wade:


Growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of? Who is she referring to? Concern by who? Unfortunately, she doesn't elaborate, and the interviewer doesn't ask her about that comment.

Limiting a specific population, whether by law or by action, is basically called eugenics, bordering on extermination, perhaps even ethnic cleansing. It seems clear that her thinking (and perhaps the thinking of others) at the time was drifting in this particular vein. If it was, and she had concerns, they apparently were never made clear or public... until now.

This is why I vehemently support the death penalty.

A husband and wife, shot to death, in a home-invasion-style robbery (Pensacola, Florida). Three men seen leaving in a red van.

The couple had 16 kids. Four were their own, the rest were disabled kids they adopted over the years. The kids were in the house, but left unharmed.

Now, their future remains unknown.

If I had the means and ability, I would hunt these bastards down myself and kill them myself.

Story here (it will piss you off, be warned).

The city of Orange (next to us in Anaheim, California) has figured out a way to save at least $50,000 per year...

... switch all their city vehicles from Premium gasoline to Regular.

If I were an Orange resident, I'd be outraged to know that the city basically wasted so much money on Premium. The performance differences are miniscule (aside from octane level), possibly even non-existent.

Oh, dear.

Oh, Lordy.

This fits right up there with a video on the Fail Blog, the one where a woman is questioning why she's seeing rainbows in her sprinkler. "Maybe there's something in the water... this has never happened before..."

Edward Kenna, one of only two Australian recipients of the Victorian Cross, died today at age 90.

He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1940 and served in the 23/21st Battalion in Victoria and later in the Darwin area. In June 1943, his unit returned to Victoria before being sent to Queensland. At this point the unit was disbanded and its members allotted as reinforcements to other units. Kenna was assigned to the 2/4th Battalion and embarked for New Guinea in October 1944.

Victoria Cross action

On 15 May 1945, near Wewak, New Guinea, when fire from a Japanese bunker was holding up the company's advance, Private Kenna stood up in full view of the enemy less than 50 yards (46 m) away and engaged the bunker, firing his Bren gun from the hip. The enemy returned the fire and bullets actually passed between Private Kenna's arms and body. He remained completely exposed and went on firing until his magazine was exhausted, when he continued with a rifle. As a result of his gallantry the bunker was taken without further loss. This action won him the Victoria Cross.

Three weeks later he was shot in the mouth and spent more than a year in hospital before being discharged from the AIF in December 1946. The following year he married Marjorie Rushberry, who had nursed him at Heidelberg Military Hospital.

It must have been a miraculous thing to see, a man firing into enemy fire in this manner and not receiving a single wound. Balls of titanium, indeed.

According to a state senator (California), 15% of the state's budget goes to services for illegal immigrants (welfare, medical, education, etc). That amounts to $15-$20 Billion per year.

Without that payout, the state's budget would be balanced and there would be no deficit.

It was exciting to see the bids go up, the watchers rally, and eventually sell the camper trailer for nearly 3x what we paid for it. A whole $369, but not too shabby since we paid $140.

The guy bid up to $2,100 ... and got it for $369.

No problem, it's all good.

Then the eBay fee came in ... $125 for listing the bloody camper on eBay Motors!

It would have been $125 even if he'd paid the full $2100... it's a flat rate fee.

Lesson #1: Don't list anything on eBay Motors unless you can swallow $125 into your sale price.

Or... #2, sell it some other way, period.

The money helped us out of a few binds, but eBay will want that money soon enough. Farukhan Bastages!

I pause from my regularly scheduled work:

New York City recorded it's 8th-coldest June this year (a tie with 1897). The average temperature was 67.5, which is 3.8 degrees below normal. This was the coolest June since 1958.

Central Park did not hit 85 degrees once in June. The last time this happened was in 1916.

This June was the second-wettest on record, with 10.06 inches of rain. The wettest June on record was 2003 (10.27 inches).

There were 19 days in June were there was at least 0.01 inches of rain. This has never happened before on record.

Source: National Weather Service
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Of course, it's not called "global warming" anymore. It's now "climate change." This is to cover the possibility that the earth cools OR warms, spins sideways, jumps up and down, turns inside out, whatever... and still include it under the blanket "man made disaster". No matter what the weather, we're still evil beings, and we should all stop exhaling immediately.

Al Gore, meanwhile, is having a pleasant day in his climate-controlled palacial 10,000+ square foot abode, where he continues to make money hand over fist on all these fears.

Back to work.

EDIT: Today, Al Gore told an audience at Oxford in England that the fight against climate change deniers is like the fight against Nazis.

I guess that makes me a Nazi.

Those who did fight the real Nazism will find no comfort in knowing that their work has been minimized and cheapened. The liberation of concentration camps, according to Gore's analogy, is akin to reducing cow farts.

Palin announced today she's stepping down from Governor of Alaska, effective July 26.

The media was quick to gloat.

Rick Sanchez on CNN speculates that she's pregnant again.

And this was posted as a news item on Huffington Post (interestingly, it was taken down shortly thereafter):

In Sarah Palin's resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the "world needs more Trigs, not fewer." That's a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people. To me, it's kinda like saying the world needs more cancer patients because they teach us such personal lessons.

Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a Large HEAD-START Program.

She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40's just to mix up some chromosomes.

She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job.
 

 

Because class is all the left has.

Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment

In an interview with newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in March, a Swedish couple said they are refusing to disclose whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child, called "Pop" in the media, is a boy or a girl. They said that their decision, made at the time of the child's birth, was based on the feminist theory that "gender" is a "cruel" "social construct" that forces children into artificial roles.

"We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset," Pop's mother said. "It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead." The parents say they never use personal pronouns, referring to him or her only as Pop.

"I believe that the self-confidence and personality that Pop has shaped will remain for a lifetime," said the mother.

Swedish English-language paper The Local, quoted "gender equality consultant" Kristina Henkel who justified the parents' action, saying if they are doing this "because they want to create a discussion with other adults about why gender is important, then I think they can make a point of it."

But critics say that similar experiments with children have had tragic consequences. In 2004, David Reimer, a man who had been raised as a girl in childhood, committed suicide at the age of 38. Reimer's parents had been convinced by Dr. John Money, a gender studies specialist at Johns Hopkins University, to impose "gender reassignment therapy" on their son after a botched circumcision. 

Reimer became widely known after the publication of a book about his life titled, "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl." He appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in order to prevent other such experiments.

Starting in the 1960s, the topic of "gender roles" and "sex stereotyping" became one of great interest to radical feminist theorists. At that time, the concept of a "psychological" gender was popularized, leading to the concept in "queer theory" and "gender theory," of the "transsexual" - a person who believes he is born in the "wrong body" and whose "congenital defect" can be corrected with surgery and hormone treatments. Gender theorists have posited as many as eleven "psychological genders."

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Kid is screwed.

"Frank Lombard is an associate director at Duke University's Global Health Institute and a homosexual who was charged last week with the molestation of his adopted 5-year-old black son and actively trying to sell him for sex on the internet.

The 40 words above are 40 more than the Main Stream Media has said on this horrible story."


Truth is, the media really does not know how to report a story like this.
 

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." — from a 1948 Presidential Campaign Speech by Norman Thomas (1884-1968), six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America

Thomas also said: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."

A 1200+ page "climate change" bill is being rammed through, including 300 pages added at 3 AM, and no one will have the chance to read it, debate it or vote on it (certainly not the People).

The whole concept of climate change is bogus. It's a cult, a religion, called Environmentalism. It's not based on credible science. It's based entirely on feelings and emotions and faulty computer models.

They build "climate change" theory entirely on computer models. These computer models are telling us the world will heat up in the next 50 years, the polar caps will melt, and so on and so forth. But the computer models NEVER predicted El Niño which happened in a shorter span of time. If computer models are so great, why couldn't they have predicted that? Or even the financial meltdown of late? And we're expected to believe a computer model that predicts what will happen in 50 years, not just 1 or 5.

How many people who question Al Gore's rhetoric has Al Gore openly debated? Zero. He won't. He refuses to. Doesn't that tell you something?

Gore's entire philosophy on climate change (formerly known as global warming) is based on faulty science, evidence that has been proven (by NASA and others) to have been inaccurate or calculated incorrectly, but because he and others are so deeply invested in the cult of bogus science, they can't see their way out... and so the only option is to press forward and continue bamboozling the public and governments alike.

The US economy will suffer as a result. China and India, which are not bound by the Kyoto Treaty or any other environmental edict, will surpass the US as economic giants, and the US will fall by the wayside. If the US can make oil exploration illegal as it has done in the past month, especially in Alaska where there is more reserves than in all the Middle East, then its basically signed its own death warrant. Recovery will be a long time in the making, if at all.

The Navy is sending a destroyer to intercept a North Korean ship in the Pacific off of Hawaii, where the North Koreans are looking to fire a missile July 4th. (Yeah, fire a missile AT Hawaii on Independence Day.)

The destroyer is the USS John McCain.

Anyone else taste the irony?

1. Got Ethan up at 8 to drop off with my mother.
2. By 8:30 we're stuck on the freeway going nowhere.
3. A big rig flipped over the center divider, fuel spill.
4. Diversion around the mess adds at least 50 miles... there are no side streets along the 91 between Anaheim and Corona, CA. You must take the freeway. And sit there when it's not moving.
5. Find out there are no placement tests for English at any college for summer classes.
6. Most summer classes are booked out.
7. Stop at the Urgent Care place to get help for Kat.
8. Dr prescribes some scary pain med, Kat says nay, nay.
9. At the mall we see a huge guy in a wheelchair with soiled pants and exposed crack.
10. In the Old Navy, I see a kid with two long jello-like green drips of snot hanging from her nose.
11. The CVS is out of eye-bleach.

Some Days Are Better Than Others by U2

Some days are dry, some days are leaky
Some days come clean, other days are sneaky
Some days take less, but most days take more
Some slip through your fingers and onto the floor
Some days you're quick, but most days you're speedy
Some days you use more force than is necessary
Some days just drop in on us
Some days are better than others

Some days it all adds up
And what you got is not enough
Some days are better than others

Some days are slippy, other days sloppy
Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy
Your skin is white but you think you're a brother
Some days are better than others

Some days you wake up with her complaining
Some sunny days you wish it was raining
Some days are sulky, some days have a grin
And some days have bouncers and won't let you in

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place
Some days are better than others

Some days are honest, some days are not
Some days you're thankful for what you've got
Some days you wake up in the army
And some days it's the enemy

Some days are work, most days you're lazy
Some days you feel like a bit of a baby
Lookin' for Jesus and His mother
Some days are better than others

Some days you feel ahead
You're making sense of what she said
Some days are better than others

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place
Some days are better than others

Crowds of people.

In Australia about 1985, I won 5 out of 6 numbers in the Soccer Pools lottery. The prize was $250. If I'd gotten 6 out of 6, I would have won a million. I was one number off. That didn't help the depression that already existed at the time.

At a company picnic in California (about 1991), which took place a week after I started, I won the grand prize in the draw, a VHS video camera.

At another company party draw, I won a TV.

At Pechanga Indian Casino, back when it was still in transportable buildings and with better machines, I won two jackpots, each $1000, the most the Native Dimes machine spit out. I also won a seperate $600 on the same type of machine. (Pechanga has since updated machines and its infrastructure, and now it's impossible to win anything).

Ethanol burns more intensely than gasoline. It requires special apparatus and chemicals to extinguish.

The following event took place yesterday, here in the Long Beach area:

LONG BEACH, Calif.  —  A tanker truck hauling 8,000 gallons of ethanol crashed on a highway, exploding into an inferno that sent a river of flame into storm drains, officials said. The driver was killed.

The truck crashed around 6 p.m. Saturday (June 13, 2009) when it hit the side rail of eastbound State Route 91 at the transition to Interstate 710, the Long Beach Fire Department said in a statement.

The driver's name was not immediately released.

Witnesses said the heat was so intense it melted guardrails and all that remained of the truck were its axles and small portions of the cab.

A stream of fire flowed from the tanker into a storm drain, causing plumes of flame to spew 20 feet in the air from other storm drains.

The large quantity of ethanol in the truck fueled a huge fireball that enveloped the overpasses, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jackawa Jackson said. Firefighters snuffed the flames with foam, he said.

Officials worried the fire may have weakened the elevated stretch of road, the fire department said.

The cause of the crash was under investigation and the roadway remained closed while inspectors examined it.

A post  on aspecialparent referred to Governor Bev Purdue (D) of North Carolina cutting specific services from the state budget. I wasn't able to see the specific story, but went looking for other links to follow up.

According to an article on MyNC.com, the state is facing a $3 Billion deficit, and the upcoming budget proposes a number of cuts. Among them is a proposed $55 million reduction in the state's Medicaid program.

The state Senate (60% Democrat, 40% Republican by vote) has made the $55-million-cut proposal, while Govenor Purdue's own proposal was a more modest $14 million cut. Either way, it spells a cut in services and jobs.

The issue goes beyond state lines, however. A hot topic in Washington and anywhere else is Health Care reform. Currently, House Democrats are writing the proposed Health Care bill, and it reportedly involves $600 Billion in increased taxes, plus $400 Billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

You can read more of this story here (Bloomberg):

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

Democrats will work on the bill’s details next week as they struggle through “what kind of heartburn” it will cause to agree on how to pay for revamping the health-care system, Rangel, a New York Democrat, said today. The measure’s cost is reaching well beyond the $634 billion President Barack Obama proposed in his budget request to Congress as a 10-year down payment for the policy changes.

Asked whether the cost of a health-care overhaul would be more than $1 trillion over a decade, Rangel said, “the answer is yes.” Some Senate Republicans, including Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, say the costs will likely exceed $1.5 trillion.

House Democrats plan to release their legislation next week. Obama is working with Congress to get legislation to his desk by October.

The overall plan, while not specified in black and white, seems quite simple: Cut Medicare and other state/federal services, bring in the new Health Plan... and people will have no choice but to sign on.

So while the Feds are working on cutting Medicaid/Medicare expenditures, it's only natural that individual states will follow suit. You will expect to see more stories along the lines of the North Carolina story, and as long as the current plan to introduce a universal health care proposal moves ahead, each and every person who currently relies on Medicare/Medicaid will need to consider their options in the near future. It won't be peaceful.

Plus, we're still unsure at this point where the $600 Billion in new taxes will apply. I expect that number to increase as time progresses.

EDIT: Part of Obama's plan includes cutting federal funding to hospitals by $200 Billion over the next ten years. Hospitals and health providers are not happy (story here).

Fish and chips, Aussie style. But... I'm in California, can't get it here.