by PunditGuy | Mar 29, 2007 | General |
Illegal Immigrant
I cross ocean, poor and broke,
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need go see Welfare.
Welfare say, “You come no more,
We send cash right to your door”.
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy,
Medicaid it keep you healthy!
By and by, got plenty money,
Thanks to you, TAXPAYER dummy.
Write to friends in motherland,
Tell them “come, fast as you can”.
They come in turbans and Ford trucks,
I buy big house with welfare bucks.
They come here, we live together,
More welfare checks, it gets better!
Fourteen families, they moving in,
But neighbor’s patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away,
I buy his house, and then I say,
“Find more aliens for house to rent”.
In my yard I put a tent.
Send for family they just trash,
But they, too, draw welfare cash!
Everything is very good,
Soon we own whole neighborhood.
We have hobby it called breeding,
Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!
TAXPAYER crazy! He pay all year,
To keep welfare running here.
We think America darn good place!
Too darn good for white man race.
If they no like us, they can scram,
Got lots of room in Pakistan.
Tags: Immigration
by PunditGuy | Mar 27, 2007 | General |
For those of us who live in the Pacific Northwest and have attended at least one Seattle Seahawk football game, or watched the Seattle Mariner’s play baseball, we mourn the loss of a local institution.
Bill the Beerman.
Bill Scott started out as a vendor with a tray of beers and a voice that could fill the Kingdome. He ended up selling his enthusiasm to sports crowds across the country.
He was Bill the Beerman, a Seattle original who didn’t need a uniform to work a crowd. Just his signature overalls, a jersey and perhaps a hat.
Scott died Sunday morning at home in Seattle of cardiac arrest. He was 58. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer more than five years ago.
Seeing was believing. This guy could control the response of thousands…and I do mean thousands of people. We’re not talking a little cheering section, but (in the day) the entire Kingdome would respond to his command.
There won’t be another like him. Godspeed, Bill.
Tags: Bill+the+Beerman, Seahawks, Mariners, Football, Baseball, Kingdome
by PunditGuy | Mar 27, 2007 | General |
Wanna know why so many people have such low regard for Congress?
Senate war bill features $20B in pork
Like their counterparts in the House, the Senate has larded its version of an “emergency” war spending bill with nearly $20 billion in pork-barrel outlays, including $100 million for the two major political parties’ 2008 presidential conventions.
The $121 billion bill includes $102 billion for the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as $14 billion for Hurricane Katrina aid and more than $4 billion for “emergency farm relief.”
“Congress will have to make the choice between booze and balloons or bullets and body armor,” John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
But this isn’t just your average run-of-the-mill pork.
The $100 million for the political party conventions — $50 million for the Democratic convention in Denver and $50 million for the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn. — is included in a section described as “Katrina recovery, veterans’ care and for other purposes.”
Puh-leeze.
Tags: pork-barrel, Congress, War+Spending+Bill, Legislation, Democrat, Republican, Pork
by PunditGuy | Mar 27, 2007 | General |
50% of voting age Americans say they won’t vote for Hillary if she’s the Democratic nominee for president.
Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person. Fifty-two percent of people also said that “she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.”
Ah, Clinton’s ‘Achilles Heel’. Unfortunately for Hill, her lack of connectedness is a character trait, and one that’s hard to turn on and off in a campaign season.
Tags: Hillary, Clinton, 2008, President, Election, Democrat
by PunditGuy | Mar 27, 2007 | General |
White House presidential spokesman Tony Snow’s cancer has returned. Worse yet, it has spread to his liver.
Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer. A small growth was discovered last year in his lower right pelvic area, and it was removed on Monday. Doctors determined that it was cancerous, and that his cancer had metastized, or spread, to his liver, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
She said Snow is resting comfortably after his surgery and has pledged to aggressively fight the disease with an as-yet-to-be-determined treatment course.
“He said he’s going to beat it again,” Perino said in an emotional morning briefing with White House reporters. “When I talked to him, he was in very good spirits.”
While some might say cancer in 2007 isn’t as bad as cancer in 1997, no cure remains for the disease. And I can’t even imagine the emotional toll that occurs when one believes their cancer has been removed only to find out later that it’s back with a vengeance. In that case it’s hard to know what kills some folks – the cancer or the accompanying depression.
Send a prayer up for Tony today.
Tags: Tony+Snow, Cancer, White+House
by PunditGuy | Mar 26, 2007 | General |
Life Magazine will shut down, for the third time, after it releases the April 20 print issue. It is the latest magazine to shut down as more readers desert print publications for online news and photos.
“Growth requires taking risks and the potential upside was huge, but unfortunately the timing worked against us,” Time Inc. Chief Executive Ann Moore said. “The market has moved dramatically since October 2004 and it is no longer appropriate to continue publication of LIFE as a newspaper supplement.”
Duh.
One cool thing though…
Time will make LIFE’s collection of 10 million images available online, with “the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century” available for free for personal use, it said.
That’s smart.
Tags: Life+Magazine, Time
by PunditGuy | Mar 26, 2007 | General |
Turncoat.
“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,” said Hagel, who is considering a 2008 presidential run.
So, according to Sen. Chuck Hagel, when a president doesn’t lead by polls he’s committing high crimes and misdemeanors? It’s pretty clear what’s going on here. Hagel wants to be president, and he thinks he can get there by dangling carrots in front of the Nutroots while keeping his GOP membership card firmly in his wallet.
It’s time for regime change in Nebraska.
Tags: Hagel, Nutroots, Nebraska, 2008, Election, Impeachment
by PunditGuy | Mar 26, 2007 | General |
South Carolina’s “The State” reprints an Edwards campaign press release touting local endorsements for his candidacy. This just seems so manufactured, especially after Edwards’ announcement last week that his push for the White House would continue even though his wife is suffering from a relapse of cancer. I can just about hear the conversation at campaign headquarters. “O.K. guys, you heard the boss, he’s not quitting (yet). Let’s rush out a fact sheet highlighting the support he’s got state-wide. Gotta keep pushing that momentum!”
This would really be news if the state was going for another candidate.
Tags: Edwards, 2008, Election, South+Carolina
by PunditGuy | Mar 22, 2007 | General |
According to Evan Derkacz, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., “rips the New York Times a new one”. You be the judge.
Tags:
Obama, Presidential Race, 2008, Politics, Election
by PunditGuy | Mar 22, 2007 | General |
It’s an illusion.
With all the rumors swirling about Leopard’s possible April release date, developers close to the matter want to make something very clear: we’re all crazy.
There have been a lot of rumors lately from “unconfirmed” sources about Leopard’s expected ship date. For a while, everyone was sure it was going to ship mid-to-late March. Then mysteriously, the ship date (according to these anonymous sources) got shifted to mid-April—perhaps because we are already in late March. Oops.
Developers who work closely with Apple have been dying to tell the world how very, very wrong we all are.
There are 7 computers in my house. 5 are Windows machines and 2 are Macs. I upgraded one of the Windows machines to the latest “Vista” version. Lots of stuff didn’t work. I couldn’t find drivers for my wireless card. My printer didn’t work until I found updated drivers. I had to buy a new sound card. Yet still today, I feel like that machine isn’t quite right. It’s no longer reliable. That’s why I only updated one of my machines. I didn’t want to mess ’em all up. Such is the case when you jump on board the first release of a new operating system. Problems will happen.
I don’t expect a similar experience with Leopard, but I won’t be grabbing for my credit card the day the OS is released either. There’s no real reason to. With Vista, I got a new user interface, but not a lot more. With Leopard, it seems I’ll get a Time Machine (heh), something called “Spaces” and some cool new animation. There’s got to me more ‘There’ there if I’m to get overly excited about OS X 10.5.
My advise to Apple? If what I see today about Leopard is true, don’t rush it to market. I can wait.
Tags:
Mac, Apple, Leopard, OS X 10.5, Microsoft, Windows, Vista
