The Dawg Howse

Yeah, I am warped, we all know that... but I love the Slowsky commercials by Comcast.
Any other fans?

This one is my favorite:



But I get a kick out of this one too:

One of my church members sent this video on Myspace and I thought it needed to be shared.
I was not aware of the mercury in these bulbs. This is really brilliant; they pass a law that we must use these bulbs to conserve energy and help the environment... but the bulb they mandate that we all will use is an environmental hazard itself. That is just great.

In 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees in New Orleans gave way, the liberals came scurrying out of the woodwork to point a finger at the Bush administration. They leveled charges that ranged from FEMA being too slow to react all the way to actually making the accusation that the government had blown the levees so that it would destroy the homes of people of color. I don't want to rehash all the lame accusations that were made, but rather wanted to simply remind everyone of how the Democrats reacted at that time. Remember?

Now fast forward almost 3 years and we have massive flooding across America's Heartland, with levees breaking up and down the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. We have Cedar Rapids facing several billion dollars in loses. Small towns that are almost entirely underwater. We have farmers who have lost nearly all of their corn crop. Thousands of people have lost their homes and nearly everything they own. You've seen it. It's all over the news. But something is missing.... Where are those screaming liberals now? Why are they not blaming Bush for all the rain? Why are they not blaming the government for not building or rebuilding levees and flood walls? This has been going on for a couple of weeks now and President Bush has not made it here yet, although he is coming through on Thursday. Where are those of the Democratic party now? Why are they not out here screaming like they did with Hurricane Katrina? Why are they silent? Hmmmm?

I think we all know the reason why.

This was on a friends blog and I decided to post it on my own and encourage others to post it on theirs. This thing happening in Lakeland, Florida is dangerous and thousands are being deceived.
Set the trumpet to your lips folks and sound the alarm!

We've had a great time out here in Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs and down in San Diego. California is a beautiful place, but I'm ready to head back to the Burg. Funny, you are always so anxious to get away, but you always know when it's time to get back to where you belong. I fuss and fume about Galesburg weather, but it is home.

We were driving down the road last evening and the sunset was so pretty that I had to stop and take a couple of pictures. The shot below is one of them.
I thought it kind of fitting as we ride out the last day in California. We fly out of San Diego late tonight and will be home Wednesday afternoon. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

We are on vacation out in California and I have to tell you that I have been very pleasantly surprised. I really was not all that hot on the idea of going to California, especially to the desert, but it has been an awesome trip. I had no idea that the Palm Springs area is completely surrounded by mountains. It is just beautiful. We spent the first three days in San Diego and was surprised to find that it was very cool (temperature wise) there and the water in the Pacific ocean is down right COLD! I'll take the beach in Florida any day. We've talked to people here who told us that the ocean water only warms up two months of the year. But these nuts out here were swimming in this water, and it was so cold that it literally hurt our feet and your legs went numb. Didn't stay there long!

We've been in Rancho Mirage (a few miles from Palm Springs) for the last few days, and while the temperature out here in the desert is over 100, the humidity is low and it has been nice. We've had an awesome time, and still have until Tuesday night before we head home. We might go hike one of the canyons tomorrow morning. Depends on if I can get the kids out of bed and moving.

While in San Diego, we went to the zoo and got to see the giant pandas. They were so cool.


The picture below was taken from the street in the resort we are staying in. Every direction you look, we are surrounded by mountains. We are sitting in a "bowl" in the middle of these mountains, called the Chocolate mountains.

I have been saying this to people for months, but today I stumbled on this clip from the National Review Online. No need to say more, just read it for yourself and just imagine if this was George Bush saying these things how the media would portray him. Now tell me the media is not biased.

Barack Gaffes
The Obama machine.

By Michelle Malkin

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.

Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”

Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Barack Obama — promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah — is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

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