Cause and Effect

These are the leading causes of death in the United States in 2011 (source: CDC):

1 Diseases of heart, 596,339
2 Malignant neoplasms, 575,313
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases, 143,382
4 Cerebrovascular diseases, 128,931
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries), 122,777
6 Alzheimer’s disease, 84,691
7 Diabetes mellitus, 73,282
8 Influenza and pneumonia, 53,667
9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis, 45,731
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide), 38,285
11 Septicemia, 35,539
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, 33,539
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, 27,477
14 Parkinson’s disease, 23,107
15 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids, 18,090

This is the approximate number of people who died in car accidents in 2009 (source: NHSTA):  35,000

This is how many people died from falling in 2011 (source: CDC): 26,631

 

This is how many murders there were in 2009 (source FBI): 12,996

Of those murders, this is how many were committed with firearms (source FBI): 8775

Just some numbers to consider before the gun grab begins.  Maybe we should ban gravity and automobiles before we consider banning guns.

   

Scumbags

I refuse to use Facebook for many reasons, a couple of which I have already noted on this site.

And here is another reason to stay the hell away from Zuckerberg and his corporate goliath:

Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry.

The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site.

Unless Instagram users delete their accounts before the January deadline, they cannot opt out.

Butt, Doctor!

I know many of you have been sitting around thinking, "Man, I wonder what it would look like if a doctor put butt implants in backwards."  Lord knows I've been thinking that same thing since at least 1983.

Well, here you go.

Standard warning:  what is seen cannot be unseen.

Read the comments afterwards, some good comedy will help make the horror go away.

Hands off the dogs!

If it's hot dog news we got it and boy, is this some kinda news!  Unless of course you are NBC or CBS or CNN.  White people calling a black man "nigger" only counts when its the right kind of white people and right kind of black people if you know what I'm sayin' and I'm sure you do.

Via Ironic Surrealism and too many other website to list:

In case you cannot elucidate the happenings in the photograph let me add a little context.  Crazed, entitled, self-righteous, white, union Democrats destroyed a conservative, God-fearing, hard-working, black man's hot dog stand while hurling racial slurs at the unsuspecting gentleman during the anti-right-to-work demonstrations in Michigan.

The real story here is not the blatant racism against Mr. Clint Tarver (attention K-Mart shoppers and every news media outlet except Fox!) but the outright assault on a raft of unsuspecting and innocent hot dogs!  We here at The Big Feed will not let this stand!  And since we here at The Big Feed believe in such thing as conservatism, small government, reduced government spending, less taxes and hot dogs, we must rise up to counter this egregious example of hot dog oppression!

Some lovely woman with a bright mind and open heart has set up a donation page to raise money for a new hot dog stand for Mr. Tarver and as of this writing she has raised nearly $18,000 to which I say, hot dog!  Let's make it $25,000, what do you say?  Let's prove to this rabid leftist maniacs that this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable!

I've donated, have you?

Godspeed Mr. Tarver,  we will have you back up and running in no time!

Dammit

Well, work calls.

For your study, a map of the Ukraine.

Map of Ukraine

Ba-da-bing!

The scariest phrase in the English language is, "We're from the government and we are here to help."

Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, residents were allowed to return to gather their belongings. But when Maria arrived his home -- and everything in it -- was gone. All that was left was a plot of land.

"I never saw anything like this in my life," Maria said. "And when I took my wife here a week later, she was crying her eyes out in the street."

Maria said he immediately started making phone calls. "The township didn't know what happened. I called the governor's office and asked the assistant what happened. She said to me, 'Are you sure your house is gone? 'I said 'Miss, you misplace your pen or pencil. You don't misplace your house.'"

And in other government news, a certain leader learns the hard way that decision-making has consequences, which probably explains away all the "present" votes from his early political career.

The Obama administration “secretly” approved arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, however, U.S. officials quickly became concerned as evidence suggested Qatar was handing the weapons over to Islamic militants, The New York Times reports, citing a number of United States officials and foreign diplomats.

There is no evidence available that suggests the U.S.-approved weapons were involved in the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, which left four Americans dead on Sept. 11. But the revelation is sure to ignite speculation.

Fast and Furious Middle East Style?

Too True

Carlin on Politics and Voting.



It's Carlin, so obviously NSFW.

Snoops

Can someone please show me again in the constitution where is says the government can spy at will on us?

I must have missed that part of the discussion in Civics class.

Yes, that’s what I’ve been basically saying for quite some time, is that the FBI has access to the data collected, which is basically the emails of virtually everybody in the country. And the FBI has access to it. All the congressional members are on the surveillance too, no one is excluded. They are all included. So, yes, this can happen to anyone. If they become a target for whatever reason – they are targeted by the government, the government can go in, or the FBI, or other agencies of the government, they can go into their database, pull all that data collected on them over the years, and we analyze it all. So, we have to actively analyze everything they’ve done for the last 10 years at least. 
  And you scoff about the guy that advocates sterilization through the water supply? Guns, gold, food and ammo folks.

*sigh*

Normally something like this would send my blood pressure straight to the moon, but I have resigned myself to just laughing about it and hoping that this all blows up in Obama's face before his 8th year of presidentin' is up.

I would like to say though that if I were president, even a black president, the last f'n guy I would ever consult about my tax policy, besides Timothy Giethener, would be Al Sharpton.

Turbo Tax Timmy at least made amends for his tax "mistakes", but poor ol' Al, well he just can't seem to be bothered with something like "paying his fair share." 

Some say the end is near. . .

Clearance Clarence

Just when you think Obama can't be any more of a threat to the security of this country he steps up to the plate and drives a long one deep, deep to left field and it's gone!

President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion, according to two people familiar with the matter.

And of course it doesn't take long for the progressives of this country to begin leveling charges of sexism, or any other -isms for that matter, at any criticism of this potential appointment.  But my question, and the one that anyone with half a brain cell should ask is is just exactly what qualifies her to operate an embassy?  An embassy is essentially an intelligence gathering operation with mundane front of house duties such as issuance of visas, providing assistance to it's citizenry abroad and acting as a direct liaison or conduit with our leadership (e.g., the president).  So, this would indicate the need for higher education probably and some minimum of a security clearance, or at least you think it would.

The only higher education that Anna Wintour was subjected to was:

As a teenager, she made the decision to forgo academics, dropping out of her fancy finishing school and opting instead for a life that revolved around the tony London life of the 1960s that she so clearly adored. With her signature hairstyle—she first went to the bob at the age of 15 and has changed it very little since then—Wintour frequented the same London clubs of pop culture's biggest stars, including members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones. 

An education that continued (as noted in Jerry Oppenheimer's book Front Row: Anna Wintour: What Lies Beneath the Chic Exterior of Vogue's Editor in Chief) with a week-long disappearance with Bob Marley.  And shortly after that as fashion editor of Viva magazine, a pornographic production by Bob Guccione's then wife, Kathy Keeton.

Yes, this is exactly who we need to operate our diplomatic facilities in London.  Another unqualified, degenerate sociopath to bridge the ever-widening gap with one of our best allies.

Little White Lies

You mean to tell me that scientists on the government's payroll would contrive and fabricate misleading information in an effort to "save" the environment?  Say it ain't so, Moe!

"I am extremely disappointed," Feinstein said Thursday in a statement. "The National Park Service's review process has been flawed from the beginning with false and misleading science, which was also used in the Environmental Impact Statement. The secretary's decision effectively puts this historic California oyster farm out of business. As a result, the farm will be forced to cease operations and 30 Californians will lose their jobs."

Ken Salazar, Sectretary of the Interior, is responsible for this decision just as he was in stopping critical farming irrigation in California in order to protect the delta smelt population.  That decision too was apparently based on faulty scientific determinations.

Congress does not appear to be satisfied with the Obama Administration's handling of this divisive matter. In a letter (pdf) to Secretary Salazar, Democratic Congressman Jim Costa characterized the conduct of the Department of the Interior's personnel as "nothing less than outrageous." Republican Congressman Devon Nunes called for an immediate investigation into Secretary Salazar and other Department of the Interior personnel in response to the court's ruling. Even prior to the court's bad faith finding, in response to the court's decision to issue an injunction this fall (which we reported on here), Senator Feinstein stated that it is increasingly clear "that key biological opinions done by the Department of the Interior are not based on sound science."

You know, it's almost as if the people that Obama has surrounded himself with share his anti-American, anti-job, let's-get-everyone-on-the-government-tit paradigm.

With people like this guy in government it's just a matter of time before they begin sterilizing us via the water supply.  Oh you may laugh and scoff, but these are the ideas of the people in charge of this country.  Be wary of your government.  Killing babies is easy to them, adults may be a little more difficult to deal with unless they've all be signed up on the federal payroll in one way or another.