January 14, 2014

OH NO - one of the most terrifying images from The Godfather: have we seen this version yet? (toon)

January 13, 2014

I've never done a "caption this" before - and maybe it should be in the Lounge

But then gun related posts are mostly political...
OK - so I'm not doing a "caption this" - really. I just wanted you to see this well prepared mutt.

January 12, 2014

Meet Lucas - a new neighbor

I was on a walk when my friend Lea asked me to come in and meet her new Chihuahua Puppy, and my camera happened to be with me

January 11, 2014

Christie Unaware He Was the Governor - new scandal revealed by Andy Borowitz

TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)—At a hastily called press conference today, Chris Christie revealed that he only became aware that he was the governor of New Jersey in the past seventy-two hours.

“Unbeknownst to me, some people I thought I could trust were secretly working to elect me governor of this state,” a visibly stunned Christie told reporters. “I have acted swiftly and fired them all.”
While asserting that he had terminated all of the people who were involved in the scheme to elect him, he said that, if he finds additional conspirators, “I will deal with them accordingly.”

Christie struggled to explain how he remained in the dark about being governor, a position he has held since 2010: “I guess I’m just not much of a detail person. People think I’m a micromanager. I’m not. If a bunch of people are going behind my back and plotting to make me the governor, that’s not the kind of thing I pick up on.”
Reflecting on his reaction to the news that he is the governor of New Jersey, Christie said he felt “angry, embarrassed, and humiliated, but mainly just sad.”

“It’s sad that this was allowed to happen,” he said. “It’s a sad situation for me and for New Jersey.”

www.borowitzreport.com

January 10, 2014

Take a look: Population distribution of the United States, measured in Canadas

The population density of Canada is incredibly low compared to the United States. This map is a great way to visualize the difference between the two countries.
You could fit the entire population of Canada into each area on the U.S. marked "Canada."

it originated here:
http://stephenslighthouse.com/2013/05/30/population-of-the-us-in-units-of-canadas/

January 8, 2014

Progressives stand united! They stand up for others, and for each other - here's the list.

January 6, 2014

Polar Vortex Causes Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in face

Polar Vortex Causes Hundreds of Injuries as People Making Snide Remarks About Climate Change Are Punched in the Face
(Borowitz)
(I would have put Borowitz on the header but it did not fit)

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—The so-called polar vortex caused hundreds of injuries across the Midwest today, as people who said “so much for global warming” and similar comments were punched in the face.
Authorities in several states said that residents who had made ignorant comments erroneously citing the brutally cold temperatures as proof that climate change did not exist were reporting a sharp increase in injuries to the face and head regions.
In an emergency room in St. Paul, Harland Dorrinson, forty-one, was waiting to be treated for bruising to the facial area after he made a crack about how the below-freezing temperatures meant that climate-change activists were full of shit.
“I’d just finished saying it and boom, out of nowhere someone punched me in the face,” he said. “This polar vortex is really dangerous.”
The meteorology professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, issued a safety warning to residents of the states hammered by the historic low temperatures: “If you are living within the range of the polar vortex and you have something idiotic to say about climate change, do not leave your house.”




www.theborowitzreport.com

January 6, 2014

"Defend ALL free speech" Challenge to the GOP. Not just that which fits your world view.-Tina Dupuy

As the dust settles over A&’s “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson’s interview in GQ, I’d like to offer a challenge to all who defended his right to wax nostalgic about how happy black people were before the civil rights era (also stating that Shintoism is basically Nazism and homosexuality is basically bestiality). To all those who rushed to Robertson’s defense—invoking the First Amendment of the Constitution, specifically free speech in an effort to immunize against any repercussions—I’d like to dare you folks to defend controversial speech that doesn’t fit your worldview.
If you really believe in free speech, if you really think it’s in danger of being abridged, if you really believe it’s an absolute right of living in a free country—then stand up for liberals who say dumb things too.
Rally for Alec Baldwin. How about the governor of Louisiana spend an afternoon tweeting support for Martin Bashir’s alleged right to a basic cable show. Get some Change.org petitions going. Get these people back on TV!

In 2010, Sarah Palin called for President Obama’s then chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, to be fired because he privately used the word “retarded.” Palin was so offended by the word “retard” she equated it to the “N-word” (then later passionately defended the use of the “N-word” when Dr. Laura was the one slinging it across the airwaves). Palin cited her child with Down Syndrome as the reason Rahm should lose his job for his potty mouth. She wrote on Facebook: “I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts.”

much more here:

http://www.cagle.com/2014/01/ok-gop-defend-speech-you-dont-agree-with/

January 6, 2014

Recently had my eyes checked. I'm grateful none of this was said to me! :) ('toon)

January 5, 2014

My head hurts to watch the evidence. Ignorant and unthinking doofus who has no uterus.

http://www.upworthy.com/a-dude-trying-to-ban-abortions-is-asked-a-question-he-never-considered-its-so-obvious-it-hurts-8