September 30, 2008 • 6:54 pm
Sorry, thought this was too precious not to pass on…
Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway
The sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs.
AP
The sight of pigs proved too much to bear for a vegetarian motorist.
A vegetarian woman driving down a motorway in Germany was so traumatized at the sight of a truck loaded with pigs that she lost control of her vehicle and careered into another truck, which was also filled with pigs, police said.
“The woman found herself driving next to a large pig transport truck and the sight of the pitiful animals made her feel so sick that she jerked her steering wheel and started swerving,” police in the western town of Gütersloh said in a statement released on Thursday.
“The result of her swerving was that the woman’s van struck the side of another truck … which was also loaded with live pigs. The woman suffered little more than a fright but we were unable to ascertain anything about the state of the pig’s health,” police said.
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Road Hog: Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
Filed under: Fun
September 28, 2008 • 12:54 pm
ACORN provides services for its members, and low and moderate income communities and families (Washington code for ITIN and Section 8 Housing). Housing: ACORN members have fought for and won, programs to make it easier to get a fair and affordable home loan for (ITIN and Sect 
first-time homebuyer classes, and helps clients obtain affordable mortgages through our unique lending partnerships.
ACORN Housing has assisted more than 95,000 families become first-time homebuyers. Tax Preparation: ACORN provides free tax preparation for low- and moderate-income families (ITIN and Sect in 70 “Safe Haven” cities across America. ACORN provides Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) programs to help low- and moderate-income families, including informing them about the EITC and Child Tax Credit refunds (Washington code for you, who pays taxes, giving a tax refunds to low-income workers –”earned income”- but did not make enough to pay taxes, ergo “Earned Income Tax Credit”).
Obama worked as an ACORN community organizer and was a trainer for Project Vote. Obama provided legal representation for ACORN and for Tony Rezko. ACORN Results – The home-parity concept was mobilized by ACORN, resulting in a purchase of a property without any credit, income, employment, and zero down payment. Result – the investment & mortgage crisis! Franklin Raines, former chair and CEO of Fannie Mae, was an advisor to Obama. Obama was the Senates second largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
How many voters know that Obama, during his four-year tenure in Chicago as a community organizer, worked as a trainer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform . . .
the infamous ACORN. After Harvard Law School, Obama provided legal representation for ACORN and on the boards of the philanthropic Woods Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, both of whom funneled millions of dollars to ACORN.
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Filed under: Economics, Politics
September 27, 2008 • 5:23 pm
No doubt you heard in the debate last night of Mr. Obama claiming Dr. Kissinger supported his point of view about direct presidential meetings unconditionally. Well, FoxNews just had the former Secretary of State admit that he does not support that point of view.
Sorry, Barry. You got it wrong.
Filed under: Foreign Policy
September 26, 2008 • 7:42 am
Here’s a guest post from a buddy of mine. He doesn’t know he’s writing a guest post, though.
CD says:
The fact that Democrats and Republicans are feverishly working together to use your taxes (now a burden of $10,000 per individual) to pay for their elitist social engineering. Below is the link between illegal aliens working in the US with IRS issued ITIN’s and Federal Section 8 Housing Vouchers used to make mortgage payments, or all things.
The financial collapse, focused on mortgages given to ITIN holders and Section 8 Housing recipients, is where your government openly told regulators in the banking industry to back off and make loans to under- and un-qualified individuals.
Special note: This mortgage collapse is directly tied to illegal alien “comprehensive legislation” that went no where two years ago. In the end, we will be paying for ITIN and Section 8 individuals walking out of their over-mortgaged homes stripped of the A/C, ranges, refrigerators, and packed up flat screens, DVD’s, PC’s and XBox all at your expense.
The IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security Number (Washington code speak for illegal aliens). ITINs are issued regardless of immigration status because “nonresident aliens” may have Federal tax return and payment responsibilities under the Internal Revenue Code. Individuals must have a filing requirement and file a valid federal income tax return to receive an ITIN, unless they meet an exception (Washington code for illegal aliens are working in the US and must pay federal tax).
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Filed under: Business, Democrats, Economics, Immigration, National Budget, Republicans
September 23, 2008 • 5:05 pm
I’m up in the Shenandoah Valley at James Madison University for a two week course on National Security Policy and Regional Implementation.
Don’t expect to have much time to blog as I’ve got five different authors to review tonight starting with Mearsheimer and Walt “The Israel Lobby” from the London Review of Books (March 2006).
The course focuses on the development, content and implementation of U.S. national security policy; examining the system, state and individual level factors that help to shape national security policy.
Yesterday, we covered the concepts of globalization – and the competing worldviews of Idealism vs. Realism…
Today’s subjects covered the international Political Economy – Globalization and National Security. While it was quite interesting to categorize Globalization into 3 phases; Globalization 1.0 being 1492 to 1800, Globalization 2.0 1800 to the mid 20th century and Globalization 3.0 from 1950 to present, I was disturbed that the instructor didn’t want to address my question of what his opinion of Globalization 4.0 might look like.
Tomorrow we look at organizational process, bureaucratic politics and interagency process…
I’ll try to drop a note, but the course load may get in my way!
Filed under: Civil Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Affairs
September 18, 2008 • 7:12 am
September 11, 2008 • 11:17 am
Not only is today bitter because of the tragedy of seven years ago, but more so today because I just lost a very close friend. He’d been battling his demons since returning from Afghanistan, but they finally overcame him yesterday morning. I guess he felt he’d lost the battle and made a permanent solution to what could have been a temporary problem.
God bless you Dave!
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, [a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
Filed under: Thoughts
September 9, 2008 • 7:28 pm
September 5, 2008 • 9:35 pm
September 4, 2008 • 5:55 pm
In case you missed perhaps the most eloquent, poised and professional Convention speech ever.
Was a very refreshing break from stodgy old white men…
Filed under: Politics, Republicans
September 3, 2008 • 10:16 pm
Change is not a destination as hope is not a strategy!
Filed under: Politics, Republicans
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