Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The Vicious Snake - YouTube

​Supposedly this is making the rounds in Europe.​ It should.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeJ-iv3MOTo

Monday, February 22, 2016

Someone sent me this the last election cycle. Has anything changed?

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT
 
Proposed plank for the Democratic Party in 2012 [same for 2016]
 
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than US nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUVs.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion Of The Christ for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, Thomas Edison and A.G. Bell.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and a very nice caring person.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, but manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States .

21. You have to believe that it's okay to give Federal workers off on Christmas Day, but it's not okay to say "Merry Christmas."

22.
 
(Please feel free to add any other nuttiness you are aware of and forward this)

Thursday, February 18, 2016

GRANDSON OF SLAVES





   A grandson of slaves, a boy was born in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans known as the "Back of Town."  His father abandoned the family when the child was an infant.  His mother became a prostitute and the boy and his sister had to live with their grandmother. 
   Early in life he proved to be gifted for music and with three other kids he sang in the streets of New Orleans.  His first gains were coins that were thrown to them. 
   A Jewish family, Karnofsky, who had immigrated from Lithuania to the USA , had pity for the 7-year-old boy and brought him into their home.  Initially giving 'work' in the house, to feed this hungry child. There he remained and slept in this Jewish family's home where, for the first time in his life, he was treated with kindness and tenderness. 
   When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnovsky sang him a Russian Lullaby that he would sing with her.  Later, he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.  Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family. 
   The Karnofskys gave him money to buy his first musical instrument; as was the custom in the Jewish families.  They sincerely admired his musical talent. 
   Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions, such as St. James Infirmary and Go Down Moses. 
   The little black boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who had adopted him in 1907.   In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore a star of David and said that in this family, he had learned "how to live real life and determination."
   You might recognize his name.  This little boy was called: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.  Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish!  And "Satchmo" is Yiddish for "Big Cheeks"!!! 
   And I bet you did not know any of this.
 


Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Sheriff Jim DeWees's Letter to our President:


A Letter from me to our president:

Dear President Obama:

In case you haven't heard, eight American police officers over the past eight days have been killed in the line of duty. Two of these police officers were Harford County Sheriff's Deputies that were gunned down at a Panera Restaurant just 50 miles from where you live. I've watched and listened intently for words of encouragement and sorrow to come from you, but haven't heard or seen anything.

Conversely, just two weeks ago my governor, Larry Hogan, spent the better part of a week placing a call each day to one of my deputies that was involved in a severe traffic collision in Carroll County. He wasn't satisfied with speaking to me in order to send his prayers and regards; he called every day after the collision until he spoke with my deputy's wife. Governor Hogan also drove to Harford County the day after two deputies were slain to meet Sheriff Gahler and the men & women of his office to grieve with them. The governor is in the middle of the 2016 Legislative Session and is pretty busy, yet found time to call, visit and pay his respects to me & my deputy, and the men & women of the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

I understand that you are a busy man and are being pulled in multiple directions every day of the week. But, when my president doesn't take the time to openly recognize the sacrifices that brave men & women of law enforcement make each day to keep domestic peace, I'm disappointed! I suspect that if these same deputies walked in to a restaurant, and without provocation shot and killed an innocent man, you and your staff would quickly whisk their family away to Washington for a future speech to make an example of police officers nationwide.

For me Mr. President, it has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat; black or white, male or female; but, it has everything to do with leading or following. I'm not shocked that you haven't openly reached out or acknowledged publically the recent rash of deaths in law enforcement, but I'm tremendously disappointed!

Mr. President, your silence about these events SPEAKS VOLUMES!!!!

PS: I'll be standing outside in the cold next week with my deputies for the funerals of the Harford Co deputies; I'll save you a spot next to me!

James T. DeWees
Sheriff 
Carroll County Maryland