Ding Dong. The single desk is dead.
Reader Tips
Tonight the late Gene Autry, author of the Cowboy Code and close personal friend of Champion the Wonder Horse, is Back In The Saddle Again.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
You Just Can’t Make It Up
Destroying “stereotypes” of feminists, only to completely reinforce those stereotypes with the added benefits of laughter, mockery and well-deserved ridicule.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
The background. On January 2, 2013, if we don’t get the budget mess sorted out, sequestration will be implemented. Which will hit the defense industry right between the eyes. Knowing this, certain Defense Industry honchos have “threatened” the government with filing WARN (layoff notices) informing employees of possible firing owing to the sequestration of funds away from the industry.
The law specifies “60 day notice”. That would put the filing right in front of the 2012 presidential election.
Just to underscore that these bums are lower than low, the DOL has decided that WARN notice filings in anticipation of sequestration would be INAPPROPRIATE. They so stink, I could freakin’ scream.… “Questions have recently been raised as to whether the WARN Act requires Federal contractors—including, in particular, contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD)—whose contracts may be terminated or reduced in the event of sequestration on January 2, 2013, to provide WARN Act notices 60 days before that date to their workers employed under government contracts funded from sequestrable accounts. The answer to this question is “no.” …
In addition, the preamble states that “it is not appropriate for an employer to provide blanket notice to workers.” Id. at 16058. Thus, in cases where it may be difficult to identify the worker who will actually lose his/her job because of the elimination of a particular position, the regulations provide that notice must be given to the worker who holds that position at the time notice is provided. 20 CFR 639.6(b).” …
The DOL is so full of crap, it’s not funny anymore. Usually, they are all over companies, urging them to file so that they can be prepared to help anyone displaced. Unless of course, it might mean a few votes lost by the Administration. I frankly cannot believe my eyes.
But that’s just part of a page that merits a full read.
The Feminization of Olympics Sports Coverage
If, during recent Olympics’, you’ve occasionally turned into coverage from NBC, you might have noticed something a little peculiar. David Jones explains:
The year the Olympics became a reality show aimed at drama queens, I suppose not of complete coincidence, was 1992. That was the first year of MTV’s The Real World, generally accepted as the first reality series.
It was also the second Summer Games after NBC took over telecasts from ABC and the entire prime-time block became a chick-flick facsimile, courtesy of then-NBC Sports chieftain Dick Ebersol. That’s when it was decided the casual audience, the ones who may watch or may not, needed some prompting.
Until then, boxing, track & field and basketball – sports targeting mainly a male audience – were prominent Olympic events on TV. Basketball hung in there because of the Dream Team. But boxing and track began to take a backseat to women’s gymnastics and swimming, country club sports with high socioeconomic viewership and broad appeal among females.
That’s pretty much when everything went to hell. Not because women began watching more. But because NBC began pandering to them at a floor wax marketing level, one that I’m sure many female viewers resent as much as males do.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Via James, who explains – Quick, common sense action from a few citizens saved these bear cubs from a terrible fate: death while waiting for a government rescue plan.
Shouldn’t Companies Walk Their Talk?
The following advertisement was sent out to all Facebook subscribers of this Vancouver pizza joint:
Are we all now supposed to feel guilty when going out to a restaurant? I left them a comment that if they really believe what they’re preaching then they should shut down for a week or two. Think they will walk their talk?!
For the record, they make a pretty nice pizza, although the crust is paper thin and not to everyone’s liking.
Obama Is Bad
To say that Obama is a bad American is not to cast doubt upon either his citizenship or his birthplace. While the inept forgery that the White House attempted to pass off as his birth certificate does tend to raise questions, the larger problem is that the erstwhile eater of dogs appears to have a more tenuous grasp on America and what it means to be an American than the average European whose only exposure to the country was MTV and re-runs of “Dallas.”
Indeed.
h/t SDH
Reader Tips
By special request, tonight’s selection is Fred Eaglesmith – Spookin’ The Horses.
EBD will be back soon to rescue you. Promise.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Islamists in northern Mali have stoned an unmarried couple to death, the first reported sharia killing since they occupied the area…
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
In ”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to the book.
Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.
Those Moderate Muslims!
He must be doing something right – Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya news channel has come out against The Arena host Michael Coren for wearing a niqab on air
The Selective Deafness of the Left
This morning, comedian Jon Lovitz guest hosted Dennis Miller’s radio show. Lovitz, who very openly admits his Leftist underpinnings and that he proudly voted for Barack Obama in 2008, nevertheless got into some trouble recently.
The first caller today asked Lovitz why comedy shows like Saturday Night Live, which he’s an alumni of, don’t ever criticize Obama. Here’s the explanation that Lovitz gave:
I don’t think they’re purposely not making jokes about Obama, at all. I think the problem is, he’s hard to make fun of because he’s very smart, he’s very well educated, he speaks well, he doesn’t make mistakes, he’s not a klutz, he’s a nice looking man, he has a nice family. I mean, he’s hard to make fun of so it’s hard to think of jokes. George Bush, when he was President, he would misspeak all the time. Every year there was a new book out about the things he said. So he wasn’t that hard to make jokes about because of that. But with Obama … the first time he did something I put it on Twitter … he kept going on about the taxes, that the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share. And my whole argument was that most people in that tax bracket are paying their fair share and if you want them to pay more, why don’t you just say, ‘You’re paying a tremendous amount of taxes but we need your help. Could you pay a bit more to help the country?’ And most people would say ‘Okay, sure’. But when you phrase it as ‘you’re not paying your fair share’ and I just felt he was throwing a whole segment of the population under the bus. And I voted for him. I believed in him.
If that’s the first time that Jon Lovitz has heard Barack Obama make a gaffe then he clearly has had cotton balls in his ears and blinders over his eyes.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Even though his specialty was infectious disease, Willoughby knew almost nothing about rabies. “For the board exams,” he says, “you only needed to know one thing: that it was 100 percent fatal.”
Taking Liberty
Do not judge a man, for he has coloured skin:
President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behaviour.
The Gray Lady’s Knickers Really Knotted Over “Tar Sands”
We are Canada, destroyer of the world!
Canada’s Oil, the World’s Carbon
…the climate question must be addressed, if only to give a full accounting of the range of consequences of developing the tar sands, an effort in which the United States will be complicit [emphasis added–guilty! guilty! guilty!] if it allows the pipeline…
The Sound Of Settled Science
A reanalysis of U.S. surface station temperatures has been performed using the recently WMO-approved Siting Classification System devised by METEO-France’s Michel Leroy. The new siting classification more accurately characterizes the quality of the location in terms of monitoring long-term spatially representative surface temperature trends. The new analysis demonstrates that reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward. The paper is the first to use the updated siting system which addresses USHCN siting issues and data adjustments.
Spread it far and wide, folks.
Reader Tips
Nothing better than a catchy gettin’ even country tune – Carrie Underwood’s Before He Cheats.
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Who knew drinking coffee was good for you? Not me that’s for sure. Nope, the information I’ve absorbed over the last 50 years, has as a rule triggered a twinge of guilt every time my lips hit the rim of a re-fill.
Now much to my shock and surprise, drinking coffee is apparently really good for those of us advancing in age!
“Go for Joe. You’ll delay or help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s with two cups of caffeinated coffee a day. You’ll get even bigger benefits with up to six small cups daily. (Skip this longevity booster if caffeine triggers migraines, anxiety, gastric upset, insomnia or abnormal heart beats.) your body’s real age gets about 0.8 years younger from enjoying Joe”.
….read Dr. Oz’s other 5 tips HERE
I’m sure they’ll mark the printers
With a warning that says, “Not to be used for counterfeiting firearms.”
h/t: Instapundit