I’ve been crash-coursing to bring myself up-to-date on HMTL5/CSS3 to help someone with some webcoding so have been a bit neglectful about posting today. Buzz has it that Lone Ranger bombed big time. Meanwhile, the little yellow minions beat everyone like a red-headed stepchild. (aside — grandsons give the movie 4 thumbs up) Latest on the Asiana Airlines crash: Asiana Airlines said Monday that the pilot in control of the
July 2013
Babies are controversial … [Darleen Click]
Well, only when you want to save them A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as “too controversial.” The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media. The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours.
I hope my grandsons don’t see this video [Darleen Click]
They will want one for Christmas … (the only thing missing is laser-shooting eyes)
“Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold…” [Darleen Click]
Star Wars by William Shakespeare (pdf) PROLOGUE. Outer space. Enter CHORUS CHORUS It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift. Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d And stole the plans to a space station vast, Whose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d And crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR
Young Marine hero [Darleen Click]
California teen, Christian Lozano, hero BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Christian Lozano was sitting on a Ventura beach last week when he saw a head poking up from the waves. He soon heard a cry for help and knew what he had to do. Lozano ran into the heavy surf, grabbed the 11-year-old girl and the pair made it to shore safely after a few harrowing moments. The 16-year-old Young Marine is
Unemployment holds at 7.6% !! 195,000 jobs added!!! Now turn that frown upside down ….[Darleen Click]
… ’cause Happy Daze are Here Again!! Right? As a reminder: jobs have quantity and quality components. The quantity component was good enough to convince the 10 Year the taper is imminent (if not stocks, which continue to trade dislocated from any and all fundamentals). But how about the quality? In a word: not good. In June, the household survey reported that part-time jobs soared by 360,000 to 28,059,000 –
“They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors … ” [Darleen Click] UPDATED
************************************ Dependence Day Rerun: from 2009
Happy Birthday, Declaration of Independence!
I don’t care what the progressives say: I happen to like your tan, I find your laugh lines make you look quite distinguished and handsome — in an almost Eastwoodian way — and your eloquence hasn’t faded with time. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 220. Now go. Have a blast! Eat a couple three brats and some deviled egg potato salad, maybe down a few cold brews as
“Morsy out in Egypt coup”
I guess Egyptians not wanting to live under the boot of Islamists didn’t get Obama’s message that he would prefer his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood retain power. Nor did the Egyptian military ignore the will of the Egyptian people under threat by Obama to cut off military aid should they help in the overthrow of the organization whose stated mission is the destruction of the West, from both inside
“Abortion-Drug Mandate Unaffected by Delay of Obamacare’s Employer Mandate”
This being the “hard-core fundies and so-called ‘constitutionalists’ aren’t going to vote for us anyway, so we may as well start sticking it to those bitterclingers sooner rather than later” plank of the wildly popular, progressive Valerie Jarrett / Obamaco “we’ll decide when the law is the law, plebes” platform. Reached for comment, Chief Justice John Roberts muttered something about the appearance of bipartisanship and deference to executive privilege, then
