An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Archive for March 2008
One Foot On….
…..one foot off! Works for me! 
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And We Thought We Were Having Problems?
Hey, E, now I don’t feel so bad!
Computer Problems
‘Hello, technical support, how can I help you’?
LADY: ‘Last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me so I shut it down. This morning when I turned it on the computer started hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then nothing’.
SUPPORT: ‘I will have a technician come over first thing this morning, just leave the computer just like it is, so they can find the problem and fix it, or change it out with another computer. Give me your address; phone number and the technician will be there just as soon as they can’.
When the technician got there, the lady showed the technician where the computer was, said what happened to it; this is what the technician found wrong. Take a look at the pictures… you won’t believe your eyes!!!!!
And you thought you had computer problems!!!
‘South African Spitting Cobra’ - better known as
‘Mfezi’ the ‘Staffie’ of the African snake species!!The technician told her: It must have been after the mouse!
The woman didn’t think it was very funny at all.
Heh. I think it’s funny. Although, finding a snake in my computer…….. not so much. (chibber)
Courtesy of Mr Ol Broad via Polly.
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Me Too!
And I don’t even live there!
See here.
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Woo Hoo!
More ‘toons to piss off the Religions of Pieces!
See the post here.
And of course, I had to swipe this one from Texas Fred’s!
Ya know, I’d REALLY love to see evidence of the so called moderates on this issue, but all I seem to hear are crickets. Of course, living out in the country might have something to do with all that chirping.
Instead, we have this.
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Where The Dibble Are The So-Called Moderates?
So much for “restraint:” Kill Geert Wilders!
by Michelle Malkin
Allahpundit and Lawhawk note that Liveleak has restored “Fitna.” It’s symbolically a good move, but 1) They shouldn’t have taken it down in the first place and 2) thanks to the proliferation of video-sharing sites and the ubiquity of Torrent downloads, the restoration of the video on their site is sort of moot.
When the movie was released last week, I snorted at reports that Muslims were showing “restraint.” My snort-age was well-deserved, of course. Because “restraint” has given way to…new death threats. Natch. Goodbye, March Madness. Hello, April fires:
Outcry over a Dutch politician’s anti-Islam film continued Monday, with hard-line Muslims in Indonesia calling for the man’s death.
A group of about 40 demonstrators from the Islamic Defenders Front gathered outside the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta, some of them carrying placards saying “Kill Geert Wilders,” the film’s creator.
“It is a great insult to all Muslims,” said the group’s spokesman Soleh Mahmud, who admitted he has not seen the film but was outraged nonetheless.
“The Dutch government must arrest him. Wilders must be killed because he has declared war on Muslims.”
In neighbouring Malaysia, the Foreign Ministry described the film as disrespectful and insensitive, while the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party has sent a note to the Dutch Embassy, saying the movie would “invite vengeance” from Muslims if was not retracted.
The party urged Muslims “all over the world” to boycott Dutch products in protest, echoing a similar call by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad this weekend.
“We hope the protests by Muslims all around the world can be taken as our disapproval against any insult and attempts to deceive the world of the true picture of Islam,” the party’s youth leader, Salahuddin Ayub, said in a statement.
Just search Yahoo! News photos for “Wilders” for your gallery of effigy-burning rage boys.
It’s always something, isn’t it?
More here.
Until people are willing to stand up against these raving lunatics, things will just continue to get worse! We’ll be FORCED to bow to Mecca five times a day, or die. I’ll take death. Patrick Henry comes to mind:
Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Snails, Worms and Roots……Oh MY!
I am suffering from a new “disease”, TMGS, or To Much Gardening Syndrome (Mr Ol Broad decided this was my ailment)! If there is a spot on me that isn’t dirty, or aching, I can’t find it! Honestly, I don’t know how they can plant anything in this clay stuff they call dirt. I rather miss that black dirt in Wisconsin, but not much that goes along with it!
So, under the category of “How I Spent My Afternoon”, I present …………………………………………………………………………………….. the results!
Ignore the bush looking stuff, and those….blech…..weeds. I have no idea what they are, and don’t particularly want all them to remain. I worked hard to get just half of the flower bed cleared out, and really needed to get those tulips in the ground. Since it’s been raining pretty much since Friday, they were starting to fall over a little more than I’d like. The hyacinths seemed to do just fine, stuck in a bag, in the garage. I guess a bit of terranium affect didn’t hurt ‘em at all.
So, what’cha think? Remember, I’m very new at this gardening stuff!
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Health Care NOT a “Right”
Debate: Is Health Care a Right?
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., March 31, 2008–On Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, will hold the fourth event of its National Discussion and Debate Series. At Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, four participants will argue the proposed resolution: “Americans have a fundamental right to health care and it is the obligation of government to secure that right.”
Susan Dentzer, Health Correspondent for PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, will moderate. Download Press Release [PDF]
Supporting the resolution:
- JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair, Harvard Business School
Opposing:
- Richard K. Armey, Chairman, FreedomWorks, and former U.S. House Majority Leader (1995-2003)
- Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Background:
This white paper lays out the major issues of the debate over health care as a right. Its authors are Arthur Garson, Jr., Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia and former Dean of the U.Va. School of Medicine, and Carolyn L. Engelhard, Assistant Professor of medical education and health policy analyst at U.Va.’s School of Medicine.
Garson and Engelhard looked at the goals, realities, and frustrations of the issue in an excellent Miller Center Forum on March 10. Download transcript [PDF]
More information, including biographies of the debaters, research, lesson plans, news, audio, and video, is available online at www.millercenter.org/debates.
The debate, the fourth in a series of five taking place during the 2007-08 academic year, will be webcast live and archived, along with the transcript, on the Miller Center’s web site (www.millercenter.org). It will be broadcast on PBS analog and digital channels nationwide (check local listings for details). The conversation has already started online, via interactive group pages on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.
The National Discussion and Debate Series, the Miller Center’s newest initiative, is addressing major issues facing the United States. It aims to examine these issues in depth, and to contribute to the national conversation with a genuine, thoughtful give-and-take that will both enlighten people and provoke dialogue.
Read the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s take on our March 6 religion debate.
The first debate, on keeping American troops in Iraq, took place on Sept. 18 in the historic Dome Room of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda in Charlottesville, Va. The second, on privacy and national security, occurred on Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C. The third, on religion and public life, took place on March 6 in Richmond, Va. The final debate, on immigration, will take place on May 15 in New York.
Video and transcripts are archived online:
http://www.millercenter.org
/debates/iraq http://www.millercenter.org
/debates/privacy http://www.millercenter.org
/debates/religion
A right? Where in the world did anyone get the idea that health care was a RIGHT? I’ve never seen anywhere in the Constitution of the United States that anyone has a right to health care. ACCESS to health care should be obvious. But a right? Take that crack pipe away from these yahoos, and get them into an intervention program…..ASAP!
Courtesy of Blue Collar Muse
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Ain’t That Cute
Courtesy of Mr Ol Broad via Polly!
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Are We Sure It Wasn’t HER Who Invented The Internet?
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Just A Reminder….WE Elect the (it’s not my fault)Feckless Weasels!
THE 545 PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF AMERICA’S WOES
by Charley Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
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