The Wandering Minstrel

I usually post Ramirez’ cartoons on the other blog but we already posted there when I saw this priceless accounting of the accomplishments of the Obamination. Clickable image (if you want to read the fine print).

I use a fairly effective WordPress plug in called “Spam Karma” to filter out the spam bullshit. Very rarely will I have to moderate a spam or delete ones that happen to get through the filter. However, just for the sake of laughing at the idiocy, I will go into the database and see what is there. Today, I got one that originated in the US but whose IP address is licensed to (Amsterdam) Deepak Mehta Fie - obviously not someone who uses English as their primary language. The following gibberish was blocked as a comment on my post, “Draining the Spa:”

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By now, most of us have seen the Nissan pickup truck commercial where the little truck drives under a jetliner’s damaged nose gear and “rescues” the plane. Well, I’m here to tell you that the commercial is total bullshit - most of them are, I guess.

Image - Nissan pickup “saving the day”

First, let’s discuss the touchdown speed of a Boeing 767. In landing configuration, full flaps and gear down, the airspeed is about 124 knots, or 143 miles per hour. I seriously doubt that a small pickup can reach such a speed.

Then there is the matter of the maximum landing weight of a 767 being equal to 175 tons, or 348,390 pounds. Being very generous with the distribution of 80 percent of the weight being carried on the main landing gear, the 20 percent carried by the nose gear would be upwards of seventy thousand pounds. That would totally squish that poor little truck like it was a bug.

The only thing lacking on the commercial is the “Demonstration - do not attempt” disclaimer. And, don’t get me started about that Nissan Leaf commercial where everyone has appliances that are powered by internal combustion engines. What a bunch of unmitigated bullshit!

The Better Half and I had to go out among ‘em this afternoon. Every couple of weeks or so, we venture away from the security of our little desert enclave to head to the greater Phoenix metro area in order to do some shopping for provisions not available in our small town. We brace ourselves for the inevitable traffic and congestion and head southeast.

Another phenomenon, which seldom fails, is the presence of idiots on the road. This guy (whose face I fuzzed up in the photo) was texting or using some sort of handheld device while driving - in motion no less.

Now, I’m libertarian enough to deem laws against this sort of activity unnecessary in the hope that sanity and common sense will prevail. In California, this moron would be committing an illegal act. Also in California, there still are just as many dudes like this guy talking on cellphones or texting. As we involved in Second Amendment Rights know, laws don’t stop idiocy.

I just hope that this guy made it home today instead of texting his way directly to the scene of the accident where an innocent person(s) could be involved at best or injured at worst.

A word about General Electric . . .

From an email I received from a former colleague:

General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.

So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.

If this doesn’t show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don’t know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.

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The Stock Market barely averted a nine day run of losses today. Had it been in the red today it would have been the first time since Jimmuh Carter was in the Oval Office. And now for the scorecard . . .

Consider the results thus far of the Obama presidency:

• Two million-private sector jobs have been lost.
• Unemployment jumped from 7.8 to 9.2 percent with a simply terrible 2011 first-quarter economic growth rate of just 0.4 percent.
• A record 1 in 7 Americans is on food stamps.
• Gasoline prices more than doubled, from $1.83 to $3.74 per gallon.
• National debt increased 35 percent, to $14.5 trillion, or $137,000 for each taxpayer.
• National unfunded liabilities increased 47 percent, to $114.9 trillion, or a cool $1 million for each taxpayer (and this does not yet include Obamacare).
• America is on the verge of losing its AAA credit rating.

Interestingly, liberals believe the problem is the “Carterization” of the President and not failing liberal policies.

Source: Washington Post

Stuff like this makes me wonder if there is any sanity left in politically-correct minds.

From AP via the Daily Disease:

LONDON - An unassuming semi-detached house in Wales has become an unlikely Web star after Internet users decided that it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler’s face.

Update: If the following were true, the world would be a better place . . .

Mexico and these other countries have everything to gain from defeating SB 1070. If the law is upheld, these countries would lose the income sent to their countries by illegal aliens in Arizona. That’s BILLIONS of US dollars a year!

Watch the video to see what these disgusting nations are up to - WITHOUT ANY ACTION FROM THE OBAMINATION!!