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If Palin's your Momma what would your name be?

Sarah Palin has picked out an All-American set of names for her children. There's Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, and Piper.

Ever wonder, What would your name be if Sarah Palin was your mother? Well now you can find out!

Just CLICK THIS

A clock for math classes

A while back in the early days of this blog I posted a photo of a clock for math classes HERE . Today I came across another clock for math classes shown below. The photo is also a link to the site it was posted.

Hurricane Ike photos



View more images of hurricane Ike's
results HERE

Pass gas on police and get arrested for assault

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — As if getting a DUI wasn’t enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station. Police stopped Jose Cruz on Route 60 in South Charleston Monday night for driving with his headlights off.

Then, he failed sobriety tests and was arrested.

When police were trying to get fingerprints, police say Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer remarked in the criminal complaint that the odor was very strong. Cruz is now charged with battery on a police officer, as well as DUI and obstruction.

Read the full arrest report — the part you're looking for will be on page 3
http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/Cruz+Criminal+Complaint0002.pdf

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

WATERBURY, Vt. -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

Sadly, at last report, Ben & Jerry's has declined the PETA request.

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Windows Darwin Test — FAIL

Have you clicked YES on one of these and then wondered why your computer wouldn't work right?

Testing students at a University, psychologists made many of them click on a dialog box that in effect said: 'You are about to install some malware. Malware is bad. By clicking yes you are failing the Windows Darwin Test.' Nearly half of them said all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs."

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World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake

A couple years ago my wife brought home an exchange gift she received at one of her ladies club meetings. It was a large mug with a couple of plastic bags in it with cooking instructions for making a cake in the mug. It sat around ignored for a couple weeks being contemplated as a round file object. One evening I decided, 'What the heck, at the worst I'll have to take the glass tray out of the microwave and clean up a mess." After all if it doesn't explode or fill the microwave to the point of oozing out the door what harm could it be. Besides it might even be good. Turned out it was great.

So here it is a couple years later and I wanted a taste of it again. Since just the mixing and cooking directions were the only thing included with the pre-measured mix I was stuck. So off to a Goggle search. After searching for what seemed too long I found what you will see below. (Lord knows I couldn't find the source again to provide a link) I have yet to mix it up myself but had posted the recipe in three forums and emailed it to a couple people.

The big surprise to me was yesterday when my wife comes home from her temp job with a print out of what I had sent a few weeks ago. I haven't had the time to try out the recipe myself but several people on the forums where I posted it had and loved it. So either it was a coincidence that the recipe (the one the wife brought home was slightly different) is making the rounds at the same time or what I posted has spread like a virulent flu. Who knows? Just try it and enjoy.

World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake4 tablespoons Cake Flour (that's CAKE FLOUR, not self-rising)
(I've been told you can buy small quantity of cake flour in some supermarkets or look below for instructions from a Google search how to make a substitute for cake flour)
(edit once again to add that I've made it since with regular self-rising flour and it turned out pretty good also)
4 tablespoons Sugar
2 tablespoons Baking Cocoa
1 Egg
3 tablespoons Milk
3 tablespoons Olive Oil (Extra Virgin Light)
3 tablespoons Chocolate Chips (optional)
1 small dash of Vanilla flavoring
1 LARGE Coffee or Soup Mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips and vanilla flavoring, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
(check your microwave settings since most microwaves today exceed 1000 watts. Cooking differently will result in a too dry block of ummm yuck)
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if you prefer.
EAT! --(this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous.
I will admit to using BakersJoy spray (www.bakersjoy.com) to further prevent it sticking to the cup.

The dangerous part of this cake recipe? ... now you are only 5 minutes away from Chocolate Cake at any time of the day or night

Cake Flour SubstituteIngredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch

Directions
1-To make two cups of cake-and-pastry flour (cake flour), combine 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour with 1/4 cup cornstarch; proceed with your recipe.

2-The easiest way to do this substitution is to put 2 tbsp of cornstarch in the bottom of a 1-cup measuring cup, then fill the cup as usual with all-purpose flour and level top. Repeat process to get your two cups.

3-If you only need 1/2 cup of cake flour, put 1 tbsp cornstarch in bottom of 1/2 cup measuring cup, then fill and level as above.


This makes for a nice gift — mix up a batch of the dry ingredients in separate bags, include the instructions on how to cook it, put it all in a nice big fancy mug and wrap in decorative plastic wrap.

This all reminds of the story about a couple that were at a marriage seminar:
While attending a marriage seminar on communication, Tom and his wife Peg listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."

He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?"

Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered, Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn't it?"

The rest of the story is not pleasant.

Alaska is a big state; or is it a tiny state?

Sarah Palin can't see Russia from her house.

The "A" is Wasilla, where she lived as mayor. Juneau is in the lower right corner, is where she lives(d) as governor.

From which residence could she see Russia? (Upper left corner)

Also if I remember my geography right isn't the horizon three miles away?

Something's different

FREE-One years supply of Kleenex with purchase

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The Dollar Shirt

When I first did this I left a couple of these "shirts" and a "ring" in a "box" (all made out of origami folded dollar bills) as a tip for our waitress at one of those quick food neighborhood restaurants. My wife wouldn't have any part of it unless I left a couple of regular unfolded bills too. She thought the waitress would think they were bits of junk left on the table.

I first came across this a few years ago when I was searching for unusual origami using money. At that time there was only one link to be found for it. I searched for it today for my granddaughter and found two pages of links for making a shirt out of a dollar bill.

When making one of these use a fresh crisp bill. It makes doing the folds a lot easier.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Shirt-out-of-a-One-Dollar-Bill

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain




Darwinic pilgrims claim the image fills them with an overwhelming feeling of logic

DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

"I brought my baby to touch the wall, so that the power of Darwin can purify her genetic makeup of undesirable inherited traits," said Darlene Freiberg, one among a growing crowd assembled here to see the mysterious stain, which appeared last Monday on one side of the Rhea County Courthouse. The building was also the location of the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" and is widely considered one of Darwinism's holiest sites. "Forgive me, O Charles, for ever doubting your Divine Evolution. After seeing this miracle of limestone pigmentation with my own eyes, my faith in empirical reasoning will never again be tested."

Added Freiberg, "Behold the power and glory of the scientific method!"

Since witnesses first reported the unexplained marking—which appears to resemble a 19th-century male figure with a high forehead and large beard—this normally quiet town has become a hotbed of biological zealotry. Thousands of pilgrims from as far away as Berkeley's paleoanthropology department have flocked to the site to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green stain.

Capitalizing on the influx of empirical believers, street vendors have sprung up across Dayton, selling evolutionary relics and artwork to the thousands of pilgrims waiting to catch a glimpse of the image. Available for sale are everything from small wooden shards alleged to be fragments of the "One True Beagle"—the research vessel on which Darwin made his legendary voyage to the Galapagos Islands—to lecture notes purportedly touched by English evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace.

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One year's oil drilled off shore will last how long?

Question:
At peak production, how long will it take the US to consume a year's supply of oil from expanded off-shore drilling in the outer continental shelf?


Answer:




Test you knowledge by taking the test and read more about it at
http://www.architecture2030.org/news/news_090608.html


All the info is based on a report from
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

Labor Day 1958 and 2008

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.~ John Lennon
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