International Beer Day!

International Beer Day Brews

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Published August 05, 2011

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Sure, it’s unlikely that Ben Franklin ever really said “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” but that doesn’t make the sentiment any less true. Virtually anywhere you go in the world, even where they only have the non-alcoholic kind, you won’t have a problem finding a cold one. So International Beer Day probably isn’t necessary, strictly speaking.

But it sure doesn’t hurt. Continue reading

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Friday News

President Barack Obama finds even some of his supporters asking if he’s the right person for the job

The view from the UK.

As Eurozone crisis and fears over U.S. economy trigger worst day of trading for three years, panic rips through global markets

Seems that capitalism is NOT a cow that can be milked by non-productive elements forever.

‘There ARE too many immigrants in the UK’, say seven in 10 Britons

The other three are immigrants.

Solar bikini, the ultimate summer charger

The Solar Bikini, designed by Andrew Schneider of Brooklyn, uses the sun to charge iPods, iPhones, and any other gadgets with a USB connector, reports the New York Post. The suit uses conductive thread and thin photo-voltaic panels, creating a sort of chain-mail fabric that gives the bikini a medieval armor-meets-21st century look. All photos: Splash/All Over Press

What is Obama’s political game?

A Russian translation of a Portuguese opinion piece.

Readers blast President Barack Obama on his 50th birthday

Not feeling the Love?

Barack Obama, it’s time your Auntie Zeituni moved into the White House with her family.

“I read just this week in the American Thinker that you’ve been denouncing the fact that those greedy evil Americans who actually work for a living get itemized deductions.

Yet this tax year, the Web site reported, you Obamas claimed $373,289 in itemized deductions. Had you merely used the standard deduction of $11,400, you could have jacked up your taxable income by $361,889. You could have paid — excuse me, “invested” — another $126,661 in income taxes. Money that would be used . . . for the children. You and the rest of the moonbats keep saying we need a “balanced” approach to solving the deficit problem. I agree we need balance — everybody who thunders about raising other people’s taxes should balance their rhetoric by paying more themselves, voluntarily.”

Snippets:

Two border agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allegedly forced four suspected Mexican drug smugglers to eat from their marijuana before stripping and releasing them into the cold desert.

A federal grand jury indicted Dario Castillo, 23, and Ramon Zuniga, 29, both from Maricopa, Ariz., on the top charge of Conspiracy to Deprive Persons of Civil Rights, Tampering with a Witness and three other charges.

No (American) jury will convict.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encouraged consumers to check their refrigerators for meat that is part of the 36 million-pound recall this week by Cargill, Inc., one of the largest meatpackers in the U.S. The contaminated meat is blamed for 78 illnesses, including one death in California.  The recall equals six percent of annual U.S. ground turkey production, and the food industry is trying to gauge the contamination’s impact on demand in the weeks and months ahead. Consumers typically avoid affected products for two to four weeks before returning to them, said Thomas Marsh, a professor of agricultural economics at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash.

Check those freezers.

The University of Tennessee bookstore in Knoxville has decided to stop selling packages of breath mints poking fun at President Obama after a Democratic lawmaker complained.

The product is called, “Disappoint-mints” and features a blue and red picture of the president on the label.

obama mints

How many boxes can I put you down for?

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Tides for Massachusetts

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T I D E    C H A R T S
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Thursday News

Sacked MBTA punks back on the job

Thank God I don’t have to go into Boston anymore!!!

Matt Damon is not a genius. He just plays one in the movies.

His mother is a teacher, that’s nice, doesn’t make him a expert on Education or Economics.

My opinion on the debt deal, Nancy Pelosi voted for it… need I say anything more?

Poll: Thumbs down on the debt-ceiling deal

Guess I’m not alone.

Consumer Confidence Falls to Lowest Since March 12, 2009, Approaching Ten Year Low

Yeah, the new Debt agreement is helping a lot.

Confirmed: GOP & Dem Leaders Both Asked President Wonderful to Leave Room… At White House Meeting

Remember, four coffees, three are decaf.

Union Terrorists Drive Rhode Island City Into Bankruptcy

All the fat contracts and retirement deals just went up in smoke, welcome to the game boys!

 

 

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Summer Rains

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The Spit and Fourth Cliff

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Wednesday News

Bill would take half of money meant for spinal cord research

My wife would have been enraged about this, Pols stealing the funds meant for the disabled. I’ll keep on top of this!

Dan Quayle’s on the phone, calling from 1992. He wants to know how Joe Biden could possibly be more of an idiot.

Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged

Update:

Web-Analytics Firm KISSmetrics Reverses Course on Sneaky Tracking

Today in petty tyranny

Which of your rights are unimportant? Its something that the Dem’s cannot mentally understand.

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Tuesday News

The “Oslo Syndrome” and the Terror Attack in Norway

I had to think twice about putting this link up. But I think the author makes a very good point and presents background information about the murders in Norway that we in this country are in the dark about. Deliberately, in the dark. As the writer did, I state up front and without reservation the Norway shooter was insane and the deaths of every one his victims is a tragedy. That said the  attack site on the lake being used to promote a leftist campaign to force Israel to accept a terrorist state in their country, without preconditions or guarantees, is ironic at least. The quote in the article from a young survivor who thought the attack might be a sham, a test of their beliefs (That Israel could end the fighting by laying down their arms and talking to their enemies.) and whose friends tested that premise by walking up to the gunman, and being promptly shot dead, makes a blunt point what reality thinks about leftist fantasies.

Something Rotten in Norway

Oh Hell, in for a penny in for a pound.

America Held Hostage: 41% Self-Identify as Extremist Fringe Tea-Bagging Terrorists

Here in the people’s republic we are a fringe interest group.

Drug Could Make Aging Brains More Youthful?

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Monday News

Your tax dollars at work…

Holy Mother of God…We the People paid $70,000 for that? If that is by any stretch of the imagination a 3nd year college student, supported by US taxpayers, then we are truly lost. Follow that link to see what we are doing to ourselves.

US manufacturing slowdown casts grim shadow on global economy

The view from UK. No nation can survive if it produces nothing. “Jobs” where we put band-aids on each other, loan money to each other or talk to ourselves produce nothing. If we stop planting, mining, manufacturing, producing it all will stop.

America is merely wounded, Europe risks death

History is against us.

10 signs the double-dip recession has begun

Many Americans believe that the 2008-2009 downturn never ended

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Sunday News

Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber, Study Shows

RoFlmao, Heh! Heh!

 

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