Keep Calm and Chive On.

Found a new website. Kinda funny stuff.

Republicans only have themselves to blame....

The shutdown continues and no one in the Republican party is willing to stand up to their fellow Tea Party Republicans because they don't want to be "Primaried". The Republicans however caused this problem due to the gerrymandered districts they pushed through after the last census. Take a look at some of the maps

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2010/11/11/the-top-ten-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts-in-the-united-states/

(Look at all three pages of maps, I like the second page where water is used to bring non-contiguous areas together to form districts, all districts are suppose to be contiguous)

 Now many of these gerrymandered districts have democrats as their representatives. This might make you believe that this is an advantage to the democrats, but what the republicans did was to group large swaths of democrats into these gerrymandered districts which left the other districts around them to lean heavily republican. By concentrating democrats in a single district more districts were made to lean republican meaning more republican House of Representatives got elected and explains why the republicans won more seats in the House of Representatives even though the democrats got more actual votes across the country. Now these republicans are being pushed by their constituents to shut down the government because they don't like the ACA and the representatives can't say no even though it is detrimental to the country.

I guess this is the law of unintended consequences. Be careful what you ask for.

Does anybody else think this is a bad idea?

They are planning on building an invisible sky scraper near an airport in Seoul South Korea. Yeah, this will turn out well.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/travel/seoul-invisible-skyscraper-tower-infinity/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

And the winner is.....Marilyn Monroe

These twin towers won the best new sky scrapers in 2012. They do have nice curves.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/18/travel/2012-best-new-skyscraper/index.html

Republican Hold Vote to Shut Down their Prefrontal Cortex

From the New Yorker:
The article can be found here

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an escalation of the stalemate gripping Washington, House Republicans voted today to shut down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls reasoning and impulses.

The resolution, which passed with heavy Tea Party support, calls for a partial shutdown of the brain, leaving the medulla and cerebellum, sometimes referred to as the “reptilian brain,” up and running.

The Tea Party caucus cheered the passage of the bill, which was sponsored by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who called the measure “long overdue.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) offered no timetable for restarting the prefrontal cortex, telling reporters, “It will most certainly remain shut down during any negotiations with the President. That’s the only leverage we have.”
Representative Bachmann agreed: “The President can go ahead and put a gun to our heads. There’s nothing there.”
While the G.O.P.’s decision to shut down the prefrontal cortex rattled Wall Street, the neuroscientist Davis Logsdon said it should be seen as little more than a symbolic vote, noting, “It’s actually been shut down since the 2008 election.”

That's pretty darn funny. Explains a lot though.

Thoughts on the Government Shutdown

The main reason for the government shutdown is the Affordable Care Act or ACA, it is not Obamacare. The Republican representatives don't like it and don't want to fund it. That is all fine and good but it seems to me the issue of the Affordable Care Act has already been settled. It was passed in the Congress, sure it was Democratically controlled at the time but who voted for all those Democrats? the American people. So Congress made the Affordable Care Act the law. The Supreme Court upheld the law saying it was a tax and thusly legal for Congress to enact. The following elections saw some republican gains but not nearly what they need to overturn the law. President Obama was re-elected ensuring that the the law would not be overturned by Romney. With all these things the American people have chosen that they want the Affordable Care Act. If they did not want it the Affordable Care Act they would have voted for Romney and the Republicans who would have gotten rid of the law. To me, this case is closed.

If the Republicans are so sure that this law will fail why don't they let it fail. Let it fall flat on it's face and they can say I told you so, but maybe they aren't that sure it will fail and are mainly trying to make sure it does not succeed because they fear that it will make healthcare cheaper which will affect the bottom lines of their corporate benefactors.

The American people have spoken. The majority have stated they want the Affordable Care Act. I don't care that you don't like it. Majority rules in this country. If you are in the minority then you have not made your case to persuade the majority to follow you. Come up with a better solution and persuade the majority that your plan is better. Until that time you can voice your displeasure but don't bring the country to its knees because you didn't get your way. Pass the CR so the government can get back to business.

The Godfather

Way To Go Vets!!!

An Honor Flight from Mississippi with WWII vets was stopped from entering the WWII Memorial. The area was cordoned off because of the government shutdown.The vets broke through the barricade and visited the site anyways while the park service police watched. I love it, whose going to stop them. How would you feel about your job if you were told you had to stop an aging, some wheelchair bound, group of veterans from visiting their memorial. I would probably quit if I was instructed to keep them out, just bad karma to keep them out.

http://www.stripes.com/news/wwii-veterans-storm-d-c-memorial-closed-by-government-shutdown-1.244447#.Uksbgr6y5PA.twitter

Weekend Vacation

Things overheard this weekend.





1st gentleman:   "I remember when this place had an ass in every seat"
2nd gentleman   "Not to mention this place was packed too"








"I always leave my gay tranny porn magazine in the airplane seat back so the next traveler will have something to read"

"I paid to park, now I have to wait in line to leave, WTF"

Did you know:

The Garden State Parkway in NJ has full service gas stations.







On the Atlantic City Boardwalk you can hop in a three wheel cart with a seat that fits two and be pushed up and down the boardwalk by a guido.

Biblical Proportions

We have had three solid days of rain in Colorado. Massive flooding is closing roads, some cities are now islands as all roads leading into an out of them are covered in water, culverts are collapsing and taking out roads, mobile homes have water in them and they sit way above ground, basements are flooding, walls of water are moving down the valleys when debris piles break free, streams out of their banks, reservoirs/dams are doing controlled releases because they are in danger of being over topped.......dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. I've never seen this much rain at once in Colorado, I mean we are in a semi-arid desert for crying out loud. They say we have gotten 1/2 our annual rain fall total in just these last three days.

I'm thinking about building an Ark.

And then there is this. I was looking through the photos on the 9 NEWS website and came across this picture:

That's an alligator/crocodile if I'm not mistaken. I didn't know alligators/crocodiles lived in Denver. Maybe someone is pulling a fast one on 9 NEWS? The way the guy is looking at it I bet he just shit his shorts.

28th Amendment

I like it. Sign the Petition if you feel the same way.
https://movetoamend.org/wethepeopleamendment

Your wish has been granted....

Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman. I think a 35 year sentence in prison will pretty much guarantee a part of the womanly experience comes true. Good luck Bradley, the showers await.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_eVnfHrTg

Hilarious Comments about shoe found with foot still in it....

Go read the article and look at the comments. My favorites are:

"She now works at I-Hop"
"May God rest this poor sole."
"The game is afoot!"
"That about laces it up!"

Godfather - Age is Just a Number......A Number That Indicates Your Proximity to Death.

Life With the Consigliere

Inspiration from a Wisconsin Tree and a Camera Phone

Great 2 min video from CBS Sunday Morning News

Stupid Humans

Found a site:

http://www.stupidhumans.org/

A couple of there offerings....

Darwin Award Anyone

Just their time I suppose.....

Two ladies and their dog get lost while hiking and are rescued and then an hour after being rescued they drive into the Atlantic Ocean and drown. The article stated the van floated 175 feet from the boat ramp. How could these people not get out of the van while it floated for that 175 feet? I suppose it was the same reason they went for a hike with inclement weather in the area. I feel sorry for the dog though who had masters that weren't very bright.

Talking Monkeys

You gotta love a good prank. I know people lost their lives in this accident, but for this get through several levels of people in the station and then onto the telepromter is an epic fail on the TV stations part.

Still.....very funny

Toddler Venn Diagram

Thx James!

Three USF Students Get Scholarships from the Pat Tillman Foundation

One of my favorite foundation's sponsoring students at a great school: Article from Tampa Bay Times