Goats that sound like people:
More than 40 die from flu in state, and it isn’t over
More than 40 Washington residents have died in confirmed cases of influenza this season, health officials report.
By Jack Broom-Seattle Times staff reporter. More than 40 Washington residents — including 19 in King County — have died in confirmed cases of influenza this season, according to data from state and county health officials.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020369607_fludeathsxml.html
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Federal agents arrest 14 in alleged Southland stock scheme
Authorities say the scheme, which cost investors more than $30 million, involved the heavy promotion of worthless stocks.
Federal agents arrested 14 people, including a former deputy district attorney, on suspicion of running a stock manipulation scheme from Southern California that cost investors more than $30 million.
Authorities said the scheme involved the heavy promotion of worthless stocks, which the perpetrators later sold for huge profits in a classic “pump-and-dump” scheme. More than 20,000 investors worldwide are believed to have been victims.
Investigators with the FBI and Internal Revenue Serviceused wiretaps to secretly record thousands of telephone calls and text messages during a three-year investigation, building what U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte Jr. said was the most important evidence in the case.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-feds-arrest-20130215,0,2100500.story
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The New and Improved Electoral College Map
FEB 14 2013, 5:32 PM ET
Methodology
The map began with an algorithm that grouped counties based on proximity, urban area, and commuting patterns. The algorithm was seeded with the fifty largest cities. After that, manual changes took into account compact shapes, equal populations, metro areas divided by state lines, and drainage basins. In certain areas, divisions are based on census tract lines.
The District of Columbia is included into the state of Washington, with the Mall, major monuments and Federal buildings set off as the seat of the federal government.
The capitals of the states are existing states capitals where possible, otherwise large or central cities have been chosen. The suggested names of the new states are taken mainly from geographical features:
- mountain ranges or peaks, or
caves – Adirondack, Allegheny, Blue Ridge, Chinati, Mammoth, Mesabi, Ozark, Pocono, Rainier, Shasta, Shenandoah and Shiprock
- rivers – Atchafalaya, Menominee, Maumee, Nodaway, Sangamon, Scioto, Susquehanna, Trinity and Willimantic
- historical or ecological regions – Big Thicket, Firelands and Tidewater
- bays, capes, lakes and aquifers – Casco, Tampa Bay, Canaveral, Mendocino, Ogallala, Salt Lake and Throgs Neck
- songs – Gary, Muskogee and Temecula
- cities – Atlanta, Chicago, Columbia, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington
- plants – Tule and Yerba Buena
- people – King and Orange
Keep in mind that this is an art project, not a serious proposal, so take it easy with the emails about the sacred soil of Texas.
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Symbolic alphabet
Neil Freeman, 2004
list
- A^^^^top-rate, answer, area, adenine, bra cup size, general works, Agilent Technologies Inc.
- B^^^^^second-rate; blue; boron; bunt; bra cup size; narrow men’s shoe width; standard women’s shoe width; philosophy, psychology, religion; Barnes Group Inc.
- C^^^^carbon, catcher, average, one-hundred, cyan, speed of light, cytosine, bra cup size, center, auxiliary sciences of history, Citigroup Inc.
- D^^^^five-hundred, barely passing, drive, day, dimension, bra cup size, standard men’s shoe width, wide women’s shoe width, history (general) and history of Europe, Dominion Resources Inc.
The rest at; http://fakeisthenewreal.org/alphabet/
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Must-See Museum Exhibits for 2013
Art, Science, and History Exhibits You Should Check Out in 2013
By Melanie Renzulli,
The Civil War And American Art
© Smithsonian American Art Museum
Dates: See belowWhile the Civil War was raging in America from 1861 to 1865, some of the country’s most famous artists were producing works inspired by the bloody battles and the politics and loss surrounding the conflict. Anchoring this exhibition, which opened November 16, 2012, in Washington, DC, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and runs through April 28, 2013, are the works of Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church, and Sanford Gifford. The show, which features 57 paintings and 18 gruesome battlefield photographs Antietam and Gettysburg, heads to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 21 to September 2, 2013.
Exhibition Dates:
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC: November 16, 2012-April 28, 2013
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City: May 21-September 2, 2013
Frida and Diego
© High Museum of Art
Dates: February 14-May 12, 2013The works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two of Mexico’s most famous artists known for their paintings and their politics, will be on display at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art from February 14 to May 12, 2013. More than 75 of the couple’s most famous works, including Frida’s self-portrait with monkeys and Diego’s Calla Lily Vendor, will be on view at the High, which will be the only U.S. venue for this exhibit.
Picasso and Chicago
© Art Institute of Chicago
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A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) spoiled Neanderthal child & courageous cougar
2) child of a sorceress & liquid in a trench
3) milk and cheese & fops who are imaginary beings with magical powers
4) fondle feathers & Amsterdam
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How many legs does this elephant have?
2.Joe buried Cap’n Crunch
3.Sarah threw Rice Krispies off a cliff
4.Emily shot Cocoa Puffs
The goats sound like me when listening to the SOTU address.
Do you stick your tongue out like they do as well? I know my eyes bug out like theirs
The veins in my neck tend to bulge and resemble ropes, and the eye bulging as well.
LOVE the goats – LOVE them! So cute! I swear, one was imitating a rooster! That is HILARIOUS! And yeah – that’s been my reaction to whenever they play bits of Obama’s SOTU and I can’t get to the remote fast enough!
The goats sound as though they’ve been forced to watch one of those Obama DVDs. My eyes! My ears!
LOL, I love the sound of goats. People, not so much, but I can listen to goats all day. I love chicken sounds, too.
What really drives me nuts, besides people, is our Jack Russel and his obnoxious bark. Most of the time he’s just quiet and adorable, but when he decides to bark it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. It’s a big, loud, irritating bark. Other dogs don’t bother me too much, but this one is just grating. The poor guy, I’m like, you can never, ever talk, okay? For real torture, the President can be speaking on the TV in the front room and the dog barking in the back room. Ai yi yi! I have to count backwards in French just to hang onto my sanity.
Oh FFS! I am so tired of stupid Obots. One person on my staff is an Obot who does not like taxes. Yes, you read that correctly. This idiot did not like seeing the bite taxes were removing from his check on a weekly basis, so he requested that he be a 1099. As he fits a category that would make 1099 status legal we made the change. He is now SHOCKED! that he has to write a check for taxes. What did he think? (I know, I know, Obots dont think) Did he really think filling out form 1099 made him a tax free zone? What a moron! And he votes! Proudly! For Ds, every time. I am doing more layoffs, we are still slower than I would like. He just made the top of my list.
Well, at least you can give him the old “good news-bad news” layoff technique…….
“The bad news is that you’re fired……….the good news is that you’ll no longer be paying income tax! Have a nice day!”
I don’t know what on earth the idiots who supported Obongo were thinking. Apparently they thought only the rich would pay taxes. Christ, the only way for the progtards to tax their way out of Odumbo’s mess is to tax the brains out of middle class and more than marginally raise those on the moron class, of which they are members. We tried to tell them but they wouldn’t listen. I do hope the obots only have enough left at the end of the day to drink/drug themselves into a permanent stupor befitting the mouth-breathing slack-jaws they are. With any luck, they will be absent during the next election cycle.
Hey Katmoon, shouldn’t the goat video be more properly placed in a “Rabble Rousing Ruminants” thread?
Yes, it would have been!
BLame the drugs.
ROTFL – y’all are too funny! I do love goats…
I think we should let Sid Caesar re-draw the electoral map………..
Oa, what a great gallery of comedy talent standing around in that video!
Katmoon, this post is a real smorgasbord of info. You’ve been busy! Thanks very much!
My kids only recently discovered this movie. They look at me with disbelief when I can instantly name every actor in the movie– right down to the cameo roles–since they’ve NEVER seen any of them in anything else. It’s amazing to think that, starting several generations ago, that all of these comedic icons are now virtual unknowns. And even though 2013 is the Fiftieth anniversary of this great comedy, four of the actors pictured above are still alive and kicking. Proof that laughter is healthy.
Really, Oa. I encourage everyone to check out the full cast list. It’s incredible! (Edie Adams–hubba hubba–one of my alltime fave bombshells)….
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
I’m right there with you about Edie Adams. Even though I was a little kid at the time, when I first saw her in a Murial cigar commercial, I think I remember stepping on my tongue. When I found out that she was married to Ernie Kovacs, I hated him.
This scene still makes me laugh till I cry………every time I watch it. Dick Shawn stole the whole movie.
Barrie Chase should have won an Oscar for keeping a straight face while Shawn went berserk.
Great scene, Oa. That “straight face” reminds me of the calm demeanor that Keely Smith would always maintain while Louis Prima was going apeshit all around her…….
Wow……..now that you mention it…..yeah…….it’s a lot like Keely and Louis. Good call.
As long as we’re on comedies, my all-time favorite is still Blazing Saddles. Completely irreverent, definitely not politically correct, and funny as hell. When I saw it on TeeVee recently, the best lines were bleeped. It seems that the left has no sense of humor.
Are a chorus of farts around the campfire politically correct?
“More beans, oowawa”?
“I think you’ve had about enough”.
Another (different!) staff member just told me that he paid almost no taxes this year. He really maxed out his deductions, and looked quite pleased with himself. Then he said he thought “everyone” should pay more taxes because our infant mortality rate is very high for a “developed nation”, so we need more money for prenatal care, etc.
I think I need to find a line of work where I do not need to speak to very many humans. I just dont think I can take much more of the nonsense. At work I *really* stick to talking about work and nothing else. But this crap still comes up constantly.
aaaaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrggggghhhhh
Typical liberal horseshit, hc. They want higher taxes all right–for everyone else. When my liberal friends tell me that taxes need to go up, I ask them if they’ve written a check out to the Treasury Department. The blanks stares are amazing. I let them know that they are perfectly free to send in all the money they can spare. It is quite telling that NONE of them ever do. I don’t know what caused these morons to lose what little senses they may have possessed but it must have been something quite serious.
What really starts to get on my nerves is when the poor, working class, don’t realize how much they are paying in taxes. They get a tax refund at the end of the year, and they don’t realize it was their money in the first place! And rather than blaming the Gov for their low wages, they blame their employers. They don’t realize that employers are mandated to take 12.4% in SS, medi, unemployment L&I, etc etc, plus hire all the people needed to comply with all that paperwork and regulations, all things that drive down wages.To add insult to injury, they cheer, “tax the rich.” as if only the rich are going to be paying taxes. It’s like cheering on their own destruction.
I about had a fit when the President talked about helping the middle class by raising the federal minimum wage. Since when is minimum wage middle class?? Since when does raising minimum wage bring people out of poverty?
These people don’t think, yttik; they obey.
I have seen this happen so many times. Fellow employees cheering about their huge refund..
I am appalled and usually thinking, dont you realize that you paid that money into the government, and what portion of the money is it..
Yes, some of them I do ask what portion of the total amount was the refund. I usually also ask why they dont up their exceptions so that they aren’t paying so much in during the year.
Isn’t minimun wage usually the income of beginning workers, those that have not worked before????
I know that it is also the wage of those that have no otehr skills either, but if minimun wage is what the middle class is earning then boy is our nation screwed…Minimun was never meant for those raising a family or ???. Minimun wage was so that those just starting out could get some type of experience to move up in the work world…
Can anyone here answer if this is inaugural policy..
To me it just seems a bit strange…Seems it was done with the Navy during the 2009 inaugural parade…
Snippet from the article.
Obama Disarmed US Marines at Inaugural Parade 02/12/13
From Townhall.com:
He’s gutted their healthcare, plans to cut their pay and apparently, doesn’t trust them either. David Codrea over at Gun Rights Examiner points out that Marines marching in President Obama’s second inaugural parade recently were caring rifles without bolts, meaning they were removed.
“Didn’t know the Marines had to take the bolts out of their rifles for the Inaugural,” an email forwarded to Gun Rights Examiner from a United States Marine Corps source observed. “Wonder if someone can explain why [they] would be marching in the inaugural parade with no bolts in their rifles!”Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2013/20130212004-inaugural-disarm.html?a=2#uJkjxHxzsvP3yb4X.99