Three lion cubs are seen in the lion's enclosure, at Belgrade Zoo, Serbia last summer.
The cubs were born Aug. 13, from mother African lion Kiara, and father white lion Wambo, who is a top attraction at Belgrade Zoo.
Nov 20, 2009
Lion cubs at Belgrade Zoo
Three lion cubs are seen in the lion's enclosure, at Belgrade Zoo, Serbia last summer.
The cubs were born Aug. 13, from mother African lion Kiara, and father white lion Wambo, who is a top attraction at Belgrade Zoo.
Cable News Race results
Cable News viewership race for:
Wednesday November 18, 2009
As usual, Fox tops all cable news channels.
Fox News - Hannity (Palin interview) - 4,200,000
Fox News - Bill O’Reilly - 3,868,000
Fox News - Glenn Beck - 2,512,000
Fox News - Greta Van Susteren - 2,383,000
Fox News - Bret Baier - 2,235,000
Fox News - Shephard Smith - 1,980,000
MSNBC - Keith Olbernann - 1,041,000
CNN Headline News - Nancy Grace - 1,036,000
MSNBC - Rachel Maddow - 957,000
CNN - Larry King - 835,000
MSNBC - Chris Matthews - 625,000
CNN - Anderson Cooper - 611,000
Wednesday November 18, 2009
As usual, Fox tops all cable news channels.
Fox News - Hannity (Palin interview) - 4,200,000
Fox News - Bill O’Reilly - 3,868,000
Fox News - Glenn Beck - 2,512,000
Fox News - Greta Van Susteren - 2,383,000
Fox News - Bret Baier - 2,235,000
Fox News - Shephard Smith - 1,980,000
MSNBC - Keith Olbernann - 1,041,000
CNN Headline News - Nancy Grace - 1,036,000
MSNBC - Rachel Maddow - 957,000
CNN - Larry King - 835,000
MSNBC - Chris Matthews - 625,000
CNN - Anderson Cooper - 611,000
...from Matt Drudge
Once again Fox News stands head and shoulders above the others with Anderson Cooper barely edging our Chris Matthews for last place.
We wonder if CNN regrets dumping Aaron Brown (pictured) for Anderson “cold oatmeal” Cooper. Brown wasn’t the most exciting newsman around but at least he could talk at the camera without stammering.
iPhone the Hummer of cellphones
From a New York Times report last September:
Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones.
It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot.Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user.
The result is dropped calls, spotty service, delayed text and voice messages and glacial download speeds as AT&T’s cellular network strains to meet the demand.
Another result is outraged customers.
Maersk Alabama beats off Somali pirates in second attack
A Guardian article from the UK reports:
Somali pirates attacked the container ship Maersk Alabama (pictured) for the second time in seven months. Private guards on board the US-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
Pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama last April and took ship captain Richard Phillips hostage, holding him at gunpoint in a lifeboat for five days. Navy Seal sharpshooters freed Phillips while killing three pirates in a night-time attack.
Information about the first Maersk Alabama hijacking can be found here.
Click here for more information about the second Maersk Alabama hijacking.
Buying votes to pass ObamaCare
Democrats are determined to pass ObamaCare at any price.
A report at the link below talks about a One Hundred Million Dollar health care vote.
From the report:
A report at the link below talks about a One Hundred Million Dollar health care vote.
From the report:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify. Guess what, only one state qualifies - Louisiana.
Louisiana is the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.
How much will this cost to get Landrieu’s vote?
According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
More here including the incredibly complicated language of that section of the bill.
Nov 19, 2009
Modern Bonnie and Clyde killed after daring bank robbery
A blazing gun battle erupted on a suburban street in Westminster, Colorado after a man and woman robbed a bank and lead police on a high speed chase.
Westminster is in the north Denver metro area.
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The car driven by the bank robber suspects shows evidence of the hail of bullets.
Both the man and the woman were armed with handguns as they walked into the First Bank near 120th and Sheridan earlier Thursday morning and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Police shot and killed a male suspect and wounded a female suspect who later died at the hospital.
Link
Westminster is in the north Denver metro area.
The car driven by the bank robber suspects shows evidence of the hail of bullets.
Both the man and the woman were armed with handguns as they walked into the First Bank near 120th and Sheridan earlier Thursday morning and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Police shot and killed a male suspect and wounded a female suspect who later died at the hospital.
Link
Applications up for Salvation Army red kettle jobs
A regional Colorado Salvation Army spokesperson said applications for Salvation Army red kettle bell ringers jobs are up this year.
"We didn't even have to advertise in the paper this year," Captain Thomas Fenton with the Salvation Army said. "We're getting a lot of applications this year and a lot of first-time applicants."
Captain Fenton said applications are up 100 percent this year when compared with last.
"We're seeing people from all walks of life now," Fenton said. "I think the economy has frightened people. It's frightened them no matter what they earn."
It's something a spokesperson for the regional Salvation Army said he is seeing statewide.
We thought Salvation Army red kettle bell ringers were all volunteers. Most of them in Colorado are paid somewhere in the $8.50 to $9 an hour range.
Link
Just in time for winter - gloves for texting, etc.
Your thumb and index finger may turn blue with cold but these unique gloves should keep the rest of your hand warm.
The manufacturer says:
The manufacturer says:
Two fingers to technology!
Their missing thumb and index fingertips give you the freedom to touch, tap, stroke, slide and pinch your devices' controls in any way you desire.
The cost is a little over $33 a pair plus shipping from the UK.
More information here.
Hillary on first Afghan visit as Secretary of State
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday for her first visit as America's top diplomat, on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration after a fraud-tainted election.
Clinton's visit comes at a time when President Barack Obama's administration is in the final stages of deciding whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops, and election fraud has battered the veteran leader Karzai's reputation in the West.
Link
Clinton's visit comes at a time when President Barack Obama's administration is in the final stages of deciding whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops, and election fraud has battered the veteran leader Karzai's reputation in the West.
Link
Fake job numbers in stimulus propaganda
A report at the link below says the Good News is: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. The Bad news is: There is no such district!
By the way, I love the photo in the Los Angeles Times article showing Joe Biden doing a dance as if he were an administration puppet. Obama seems to be snapping his fingers.
The Times article reports:
By the way, I love the photo in the Los Angeles Times article showing Joe Biden doing a dance as if he were an administration puppet. Obama seems to be snapping his fingers.
The Times article reports:
Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration.
This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420 ($25,380.67 per job).
So the people of that 15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this.
Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.
The administration's recovery.gov website reported these jobs as being created there.
The report goes on:
But then the trouble is that just months after grandly unveiling the recovery.gov website to showcase its economic prowess and tech-savvy, the Obama administration just spent 18 million additional taxpayer dollars to redesign the still new website.
And that site proudly also reported nonexistent new stimulus spending not just in Arizona but other states across the country.
How many other stimulus jobs have been reported as saved in fictional congressional districts?
Link
Nov 18, 2009
Pomp and circumstance: Opening of Parliament
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip walk through the Royal Gallery in the Houses of Parliament in London, during the annual State Opening of Parliament.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II returns to Buckingham Palace following her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London, Britain, November 18, 2009.
3 million registered voters are dead 12 million more are ineligible
A report at the link below says:
Regardless of how lively an election season might be, a new study shows that more 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead.
Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they are no longer alive.
We wonder if there is anything to the rumor about the George Soros-funded SOS Project? It’s a liberal strategy to install a liberal Secretary of States in every state to aid and abet Democrat voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN and the SEIU and UAW labor unions.
This is not your fathers Democratic party!
Link
Who can stand to watch Guy Fieri eat?
Can you stand to watch Guy Fieri eat? Me neither.
Just who is Guy Fieri anyway? He is the popular host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and two other TV shows on Food Network.
I just can’t watch his “Diners and Dives” program for the same reason I can’t watch eating contests.
Below are photos of Guy Fieri eating. In the first photo with Rachael Ray he is at least holding one hand under his chin to catch whatever falls away. Usually, food drips down off his chin and falls to the floor.
He eats like you trained your kids not to eat. The man needs a bib tied around his neck and a drop cloth on the floor.
Pronouncing his last name can be a bit tricky if you are like me and can’t roll your “R”s. In that case, you can get pretty close by pronouncing the “r” as if it was a “t” and say Fieti. That’s a lot easier for me than trying to say Fieri with a heavily rolled “R.”
Just who is Guy Fieri anyway? He is the popular host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and two other TV shows on Food Network.I just can’t watch his “Diners and Dives” program for the same reason I can’t watch eating contests.
Below are photos of Guy Fieri eating. In the first photo with Rachael Ray he is at least holding one hand under his chin to catch whatever falls away. Usually, food drips down off his chin and falls to the floor.
He eats like you trained your kids not to eat. The man needs a bib tied around his neck and a drop cloth on the floor.
Pronouncing his last name can be a bit tricky if you are like me and can’t roll your “R”s. In that case, you can get pretty close by pronouncing the “r” as if it was a “t” and say Fieti. That’s a lot easier for me than trying to say Fieri with a heavily rolled “R.”
Lion snarling during show rehearsal
A lion is photographed during a rehearsal for the circus show "Festif" at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione in Paris
Icebreaker with 100 tourists stuck in Antarctic ice
A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from clear water.
A report said neither the ship nor any of the passengers faced any risks.
The cruise was advertised as a unique opportunity to watch emperor penguins in their natural habitat. The Finnish-built icebreaker (shown above) has been used as a cruise ship for several years and carries two helicopters.
No word from Al Gore to explain how an icebreaker could be stranded in ice in the face of his dire warnings of rapidly advancing global warming.
Link
A report said neither the ship nor any of the passengers faced any risks.
The cruise was advertised as a unique opportunity to watch emperor penguins in their natural habitat. The Finnish-built icebreaker (shown above) has been used as a cruise ship for several years and carries two helicopters.
No word from Al Gore to explain how an icebreaker could be stranded in ice in the face of his dire warnings of rapidly advancing global warming.
Link
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