‘The Obamas display contempt for the American people. Living like Kings while people are jobless and losing their homes is not just gauche, it stirs Americans at a primal level. Most Americans left another country so that average people could have a chance and not be lorded over by faux-aristocrats.’

Melissa Clouthier

‘If this stands, then we are no longer citizens of a United States governed voluntarily within the framework of a Constitutional covenant, but rather subjects ruled by the police power of a government every bit as imperious as the one we got rid of over two centuries ago.’

Wolf Howling. I urge you to watch the video over at GW’s place!

source

Oswald Bastable has the answer!

‘A DRUG-addicted thug who mugged Victorian World War II veteran Reg Dickinson as the 96-year-old rode his motorized scooter from a local pokies venue has robbed the elderly man of his quality of life, a court has heard.
But despite the ripple effects his callous crime has caused, the thief – Aaron Dwayne McKellar who had previously pleaded guilty – was sentenced to a minimum four months’ jail today.
…In sentencing McKellar today, Magistrate Donna Bakos described his actions as “callous in the extreme”, but accepted he was “remorseful, regretful and ashamed”.’

Does this stupid bitch really believe the remorse, regret and shame are genuine? That they’re not an act put on by the perp to minimise the sentence?  Because if she does, then she should be removed from the bench and flogged out of town.

‘….I say that it is time to stand up for what is right. To reassert our will upon the jackals in Congress and to force them to either respect and listen to the will of the American people or be forced out of Washington. This is our nation and it is our government and I will not stand idly by while the dregs of humanity attempt to run my life and rob me of my freedoms while they simultaneously line their pockets with my money. The incompetence of the Washington politicians and the treachery of the news media have damn near enslaved all of us. If you do not know your history or the source of your freedoms, then I urge you to educate yourself.

Stand for what our founding fathers brought forth on this continent. Insure that the American government respects and abides by the people’s will and finally, defend the virtues that gave us freedom from tyranny. Else, prepare yourself for the chains of slavery.’

William Stout

A Stuff News poll

a biomimetic mold constructed from fly eyes. One particular type of fly eye has just the right shape that could be perfect for manufacturing efficient solar cells.
Lakhtakia and a team of Penn State researchers came up with a promising solution. First they picked corneas from blowflies because this common type of fly has ideal eyes for solar cell applications. According to a description from PSU, “Blowflies have compound eyes that are roughly hemispherical; but within that half sphere, the surface is covered by macroscale hexagonal eyes with nanoscale features.”
Then the researchers took corneas, fixed them on a glass substrate, added a polymer to protect the shape and then coated nine-eye arrays in nickel within a vacuum chamber. The result was a master template that retained those useful nanoscale features. Ultimately that template can be used to replicate the pattern exactly. Next, the plan is to make a larger template from 30 blowfly corneas.’    source

I love this stuff!

Except I forgot all about it..the thing was in July. So we’ll open a bottle of fine Aussie red tonight and toast thirty years of love and friendship.
Thanks Gecko–no man ever had a finer friend and companion, through good times and bad.

‘Scientists find sea sponges share human genes’

The headline:
‘Families hit hardest on forced sale front’
By MICHELLE SUTTON – Sunday Star Times

Now for the text:
‘Single mum Tanya Chapple lost her $17 million Queenstown development, has been forced to sign up for the dole, and is among the hundreds of New Zealanders living on the recession edge – never knowing when the receivers will knock on her door to sell her home by mortgagee auction.
Chapple, of New Plymouth, is a former property developer but now she is among the record numbers of “mum and dad” homeowners at risk of losing their houses in forced sales.’

Where do they get these braindead “journalists” from, the local special needs facility?