From Hehindeedreadthewholethingpundit, Moody's is talking about bumping both the US and UK from a AAA credit rating.

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I'm not a big perfume user.  I shower regularly and use deodorant, thankyouverymuch; I don't need to douse myself in fragrance.  I also have terrible allergies, so that probably contributes to my no perfume stance.  Walking by a Bath & Body Works in the mall gives me a damn headache.

However, there are lots of women who won't walk out of the house until they've fully doused themselves in the shit, and I don't really care one way or the other.  If it makes you happy, go for it.  I try to avoid the super-smelly people, and, if I can't, I suck it up and deal.  Apparently, sucking it up and dealing like a mature adult is not an option any more if you work for the city of Detroit:

Change is in the air for Detroit city workers. City employees will be urged not to wear perfume, cologne or aftershave as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.

Officials plan to place warning placards in three city buildings. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."

The employee handbook and Americans with Disabilities Act training also will bear warnings.

Apparently, someone sued the city in '08 because all of the smelly perfume in the air made it difficult for her to do her job'n'stuff.  And she won, to the tune of $100,000.  Now, the super-well-off city of Detroit (hah!) has to spend cash on making signs that warn their employees not to smell nice.

I can't wait until someone with really bad B.O. sues the city because they've been told not to wear perfume at work.

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It's funny how those two are so hard to differentiate.
Case in point, Purple Avenger notices something, Obama's GDP and other economic numbers keep being revised downward, usually to little fanfare.

So I thought, gee, it seems to me that Bush' numbers were always revised too, but upward. So I did a search at using Ace's URL, lo and behold, I remembered correctly. story after story of numbers revised upward, 8 years worth.

So not only were many people in the CIA, State Dept nd of course, those in the Dept of whoever is in charge of federal parks and land management fighting a war against Bush, there appear to be a bunch of people in the Dept of Commerce too.

No matter who's elected, lefties are very powerful in our gov't  and do all they can, even to the perversion of their duties, to get leftists elected.
That pisses me off.
h/t Veeshir

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Maybe just plowing it under and starting over would be a better idea.

Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods {forced migration. This should end well-ed}. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.

Detroit officials first raised the idea in the 1990s, when blight was spreading. Now, with the recession plunging the city deeper into ruin, a decision on how to move forward is approaching. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month.

"Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable," said James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, who is among the urban experts watching the experiment with interest. "There is now a realization that past glories are never going to be recaptured. Some people probably don't accept that, but that is the reality."

 

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I present to you, Old Chinese Woman With Goat Horn Growing Out Of Her Head.

Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn't pay too much attention to it’.

‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,' added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years old.

‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’

Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang’s head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.

This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin.

Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool and feathers in animals.

They usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.

The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60 and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half of cases are benign.

Common underlying causes of cutaneous horns are common warts, skin cancer and actinic keratoses, patches of scaly skin that develop on skin exposed to the sun, such as your face, scalp or forearms.

Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.

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1 Do I make you horn...oh...um...well, then.

Posted by: Austin Powers at March 09, 2010 12:52 AM (hIjdQ)

2 Going out on a limb here, but I have the strange feeling that she'd be persona non grata in Dubai these days...

Posted by: Jonathan at March 09, 2010 12:57 AM (Isbas)

3 goatse?

Posted by: mrfixit at March 09, 2010 01:06 AM (Bsm1s)

4 Mah ...mar ...Marisa? Is that really you?

Posted by: davis,br at March 09, 2010 02:30 AM (uCShA)

5 She's a witch!

Posted by: Don Carne at March 09, 2010 07:36 AM (wSNS7)

6 Hmmm, now I know where to go to obtain that elusive goat horn ingredient I've been looking for.

Posted by: Wiccapundit at March 09, 2010 11:46 AM (8sG7V)

7 true, especially since the Chicoms are the ones killing anything animalish in site for "medicinal" purposes.

Posted by: eddiebear at March 09, 2010 11:52 AM (wnU1W)

8 that elusive goat horn ingredient I've been looking for.

Now I just need an eye of newt or wing of bat story, and you're golden.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at March 09, 2010 12:28 PM (hIjdQ)

9 Not even one "Me so horny"?

I'm very disappointed in all of you.

Posted by: Veeshir at March 09, 2010 07:41 PM (MX3dk)

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Via Boortz' Nealz Nuze we see this lovely article.
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Moreover, for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes.
...snip...
While wages and other job-related income fell by a record $206 billion last year to $7.84 trillion, transfer payments from the government such as unemployment checks and Social Security burgeoned by $231 billion to $2.1 trillion. Meanwhile, the amount of taxes that individual Americans paid plummeted by $325 billion to $2.1 trillion as a result of middle-class tax cuts and because nearly 6 million people were thrown out of work and are no longer paying payroll taxes.

That's fucked up. The only things I know about finances are that you can be overdrawn even if you still have checks and being overdrawn is costly.

Bush and his crew did their best to be overdrawn (and a fine job of it they did, the bastids), but they didn't quite succeed at such a grand level as the current crew.
Obama and his Dem plunderers have the check book and they don't care if it's overdrawn, they're not paying the overdraft fees.

C'mon asteroid.

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Headline
Tampa man arrested for wearing clown mask, wig.

The short article says that's all he was doing, walking down the street in clown wear.
I take back half the stuff I've said about Florida.
Yeah, (lowers head, kicks ground), Drudge link.

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So some Germans built a snowman that looks like Hitler.


German authorities are looking into it because
The probe was launched after a group of anti-fascists filed a complaint about the snowman,

The funniest part? They would have no idea why I'm laughing.
Stolen somewhat shamefacedly from Say Uncle

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If a EUnuchstanian gov't falls and nobody notices, does it still show that Bush wasn't the problem?

The Dutch Gov't fell over keeping troops in Afghanistan and nobody has seemed to notice.
Apparently the PM wanted to send troops and the Deputy PM didn't, so the PM told the Queen he can't form a gov't.
I don't know what's next.
It's kinda scary/interesing in a few ways.

First, that's cold.
It's gone totally unnoticed, at least at Drudge, Hot Air, Instapundit, any other blog or, I assume, TV or else at least one of those would have mentioned it.
How inconsequential are they that only one, lone blogger at DPUD is talking about it?

Any of our fine, media betters who notice will probably ignore it because it appears the Dutch, even with all their green sticky weed, are not seeing the unicorns or the rainbows of Hope and Change.
That just doesn't fit the proper narrative.

Last, but perhaps most ominous, are we about to be on our own all over the world?
The Aussies will probably stay, but if EUnuchstans start dropping out, well, the British don't seem to want to be with us anymore.

I think the Canadians are still fighting too, but if the Eunuchs leave us be, well, the Canadians and Aussies might decide they aren't the world's police either.

Interesting times indeed. It's funny how Obama is uniting the world.
Just not on our side.

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I say that I hope so, but I've got a sinking feeling that it won't happen...

A Seattle woman's lawsuit against the state of Washington claims the Work First welfare program violates her right against "involuntary servitude."

Christal Wood, a University of Washington law school graduate who said she and her young daughter became poverty-stricken while she was studying for the bar exam, said she is suing the state under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over the practices of the Work First program, KING-TV, Seattle, reported Thursday.

It turns out that she's not a fan of the terms of the program, which doesn't allow her to count her internship at a law firm because it's not a non-profit.

Well, too bad, so sad is what I say. It sucks that she and her daughter have fallen on hard times while she's trying to become a lawyer, but I hardly think anybody forced her to participate in the state's welfare program. Which, while I'm not a law-talkin'-guy, would seem to me to make it kind of difficult to argue that this is some kind of "involuntary servitude."

If she doesn't like the terms of the program, maybe she should leave it and try to find some other sort of employment. Some other employment that pays more than a whopping $453 per month, at that.

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What an interesting follow-up to the Governator this would be.  And talk about one fuck of a political platform - legalize weed, prostitution, and Cuban cigars, then tax the holy hell out of them!

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1 it is an interesting platform, but i wonder how strong his grasp on issues are.

1.  He has a foreign title of nobility so I don't think he can hold office
2.  Marijuana and the ban on Cuban cigars are both regulated at the federal not state level.

This might be another sticking point:

open borders to Mexico for workers and tax them

What they need to do is get Mimi Miyagi to run.  She already ran for Governor of Nevada and she is much easier to look at even if she does start up with some stupid thing like withdrawing California from the UN or legalizing space aliens.

Posted by: chad98036 at February 17, 2010 09:09 PM (WNcvq)

2 I didn't say I thought it was a smart political platform. 

Posted by: Ember at February 17, 2010 09:15 PM (LdRAG)

3 :-D

Posted by: chad98036 at February 17, 2010 09:24 PM (WNcvq)

4 Wait, Zsa Zsa is still alive?
I wonder how much of her original body is left.

Posted by: Veeshir at February 17, 2010 11:37 PM (g+lDu)

5 Germany no longer recognizes nobility so the Prince part is meaningless.  Also, he's adopted and the rest of the family doesn't think he's entitled to it.   I think you have to give up foreign titles anyway when you become a US citizen.

Posted by: fozzy at February 18, 2010 11:34 AM (ccEuN)

6 That's another question is he a US citizen?  He appears to be a gigolo but at least it would be refreshing to have an admitted whore in office instead of the ones who keep denying it.

Posted by: chad98036 at February 18, 2010 11:38 AM (WNcvq)

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Remember the "jobless recovery" while there was a five percent unemployment rate? The whole thing about how wages hadn't grown forever? (Or at least since, oh, January, 2001?)

What do you want to bet that Bush gets blamed for this?

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Oh right. Sticky green weed.
Headline
Atheist vicar may go on preaching

Yes, a Vicar in the Protestant Church of the Netherlands is an atheist.
Quote
What I believe to be God is a human experience."

I'm not talking about whether or not that makes sense, but if you're going to be a vicar, it seems to me that the biggest requirement is that you believe in God.

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Updated below the fold
Updated again, snow done edition
Day 7.
Still alive. Beer running low, scotch holding out. Dog looking tasty.
Remember this pic?

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I have to admit, I'm torn on this one. Except for the many $billions in their budget, this could be a good thing.
First, Obama has NASA ending the space shuttle program, and against its replacement,  while siccing NASA on Global Worming.
On the one hand, NASA's budget is huge and they'll be spending it on bullshit, global worming, eco-wacko crap instead of something useful like, oh, their fucking job. You know, the third word in their acronym. 

On the other hand, NASA is about useless and this means there's a metric shitload of rocket scientists (and other space specialties) looking for work.
There has to be a way to make money out of space. First, scientific experiments and tourism going up to mining and colonization. I doubt there'd be a shortage of people looking to move to Mars or the Moon and willing to pay for it.
Richard Branson is probably already hiring and so are the X-Prize types. Heck, Boeing or Lockheed Martin might get into space travel and a lot of these people probably already work for them.

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Quoth the Head Mad Mullah
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Let me translate

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I've taken crap, and probably will take more crap, for saying that I think Russia has to worry more about from China than we do.
Thanks to ultra-sounds and related stuff, the Chinese can see when they're going to have a less valuable girl-baby and so abort it to have a more desirable boy baby.
Soon, it'll start within 5 or 10 years considering how long we've had the tech,  they're going to have a lot of very horny yutes running around with nothing to screw. Historically, when a nation has too many men they go a-conquering (see: Sabine women, Roman rape of) or they have a revolution. Lots of peoples, like the German tribes in the Roman era, counted on this. It took a lot of money to get married so young boys had to go to war to make money to get a woman. Or the recruiting our jihadi friends do. Take the eunuch bomber for instance, he just wanted to get laid by his 72 virgins. (Too bad he's only going to lose his virginity to 72 dudes.)

Right now in China we see worker unrest because all the men went to work in the factories and left wife and kids behind in the 4th century part of China.
 
Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying.

If a commie nation's state run media is admitting a problem, it's a huge problem. Too huge to ignore or deny. In this case, they'll probably create an incentive for prostitutes to come from the same villages.

I still think Russia is in trouble in years to come. China's population is getting bigger, younger and maler. Russia's is getting smaller, older and drunker.
China is already moving in on Vladivostok Sooner or later Tsar Putin I or II will have to do something about it.
I wonder if he'll sell it (which would be bad, Russia doesn't have a lot of ports and I'm pretty sure Vladivostok is one of their few ports that's ice free, or at least usable, year round) or fight for it. Which he has to do.

And if they don't go to Russia? Revolution. I'd root for that except I heard a saying once, every emperor takes the Dragon Throne with bloody hands.
I don't expect to see a Chinese George Washington, more likely a Chinese Napoleon.

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Okay, we've all been there. You're walking down the street and a small herd of rhino charges, what to do, what to do?
Well, if you're like me, you whip out your .500 S&W magnum and open fire. But what happens if it's a large herd?
Well, that's where this baby comes in


Yes, some crazy person is making billet aluminum speedloaders for the .500 S&W magnum.
Which leaves us with another question.
Who would be crazy enough to want to fire off 10 rounds using that monster?

Well, I figure if someone or something is worth shooting, it's worth overshooting.
For comparison, below are pics of it next to speedloaders for a .44 magnum and a .357 magnum



Still don't think he's crazy? He also makes a speedloader for the Taurus Judge. Why is a speedloader for 45 long colt crazy? It's not, it's the speedloader that holds 6 (loose shit, thanks eddiebear) 5 .410 shotgun shells that also fits the Judge that I find crazy.
Now I might have to get a Judge just so I can get a shotgun shell speedloader.

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Okay, I know that some people think that the day after the Super Bowl should be some sort of national holiday - a position, by the way, that I disagree with.  I like sports as much as the next guy, but really, people, it's an entertainment sporting event.  Should we get a week off for the World Series?  Stanley Cup?  Do we push it past sports and get time off for the Oscars?

Whatever the case, and whatever your stance, the Super Bowl is not a holiday and, as such, does not warrant extra time off.  Unless, of course, you happen to be a bus driver in Indianapolis:

Students in Indianapolis Public Schools are allowed to sleep in a bit Monday thanks to a one-hour delay scheduled to give bus drivers more time to get to work the morning after the Super Bowl. But they'll have to make up for half the lost time.

 The state's largest school district initially scheduled a two-hour delay but changed course after the Indiana Department of Education said such delays should only be used for emergency situations. State Superintendent Tony Bennett said that because Sunday night's game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints didn't qualify for an automatic waiver for emergency two-hour delays, missed time would have to be made up.

The best part of this little bit of public school idiocy, in my opinion, is the reasoning behind it:

IPS is trying to avoid a repeat of 2007, when the Colts beat the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl and so many bus drivers called in sick the next morning that officials canceled classes.

Now, the article goes on to mention that a few private schools have chosen to cancel or delay classes, with plans to make up that time, so the shame isn't just on public schools on this one.  I wonder what kind of message this sends to kids about the real world and how shit works once they're out of school and have a J-O-B.

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Okay, real or satire? No fair hovering over the link to see where it leads.
Quote (talking about Berlusconi's gov't)
The President of the Council cavorting with young women, the allegations of shady connections, slippery financial arrangements, dubious political allegiances, and all-round dodgy dealings are as nothing when compared to this monstrous act of national betrayal.

And what this most heinous of acts?
sight of a McDonald's apron wrapped around the svelte frame of the Minister of Agriculture, Luca Zaia as he helped launch the new McItaly range of burgers.

So real or Scrappleface?
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