Surprise, surprise!

McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P. – Yahoo! News
DAYTON, Ohio – John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maverick conservative with less than two years in office, as his vice presidential running mate Friday in a startling choice announced on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
At a raucous rally in the [...]

Greek Toga Party or New Roman “Empire”?

I’ve got loads of questions, that’s for sure.
Question: Are the Dems now going to worship ancient gods, or are they setting themselves up AS gods?
Tonight’s finale of the DNC’s B. Hussein Obama Show includes what many are calling “The Temple of Obama”.  A spectacle complete with architecture (albeit fake) resembling ancient Greece or Rome. (I [...]

On several levels, this is just wrong, wrong, WRONG!

Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player— too good, it turns out.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, [...]

Some Olympic Facts

Some debatabely jingoistic Olympic facts:

China: 19.8% of population, 10.4% of medals.
United States: 4.6% of population, 11.5% medals.
Jamaica: 0.041% of population, 1.15% medals.
India has 17% of the world’s population. They won 0.31% of Olympic medals.
China won 27 gold medals in judged sports.
The United States won 4 gold medals in judged sports.
China’s “non-judged” medal tally was 24/17/14/55.
The [...]

Doesn’t it just break your heart? NOT!!

Mexicans deported from US face shattered lives

By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 24, 1:39 PM ET
TIJUANA, Mexico – The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: “The End.”
For those deported from the United States, the words are an [...]

Not for use as passport photo

Wife of Bear was commenting on the  “fright mask” appearance of the synchronized swimmers (not a “sport” that I would ever watch) and I went surfing to see what she was talking about.
I found this photo of the Spanish synchronized swimming team. This would not be one of my picks for a representative photo.

(Oh look! [...]

Where do we go from here?

I was surfing the net today, hopping from wave to wave and I came across some stuff that interested me.
In the dashboard of this blog I clicked on “Olympics” as I have been following them faithfully and came up with this: http://cranialrectalresearch.wordpress.com/ .
Love the sense of humor of the author, and also appreciate their pithy insight.
Anyway, [...]

SICK OF IT!!

I love the olympics…have watched for years. Even had a shot at trying out (judo). But I am getting sick of this judging shit. It is ruining the olympics for me, and sadly, for some competitors. 
Read this blog…Chris has some great ideas.  http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-REAL-Olympic-medal-count?urn=oly,101537

POOPIN’ IN THE FIELDS

FRESNO, Calif. – Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies.
Yet no larger action was taken. Food and Drug Administration officials insisted as recently as last week that they were [...]