I have been to a lot of concerts in my 44-years on this planet, from Agent Orange, Madness, Tool, Blink 182, Rage Against the Machine, Suicidal Tendencies, Big Bad VooDoo Daddies, Mad caddies, etc, etc. I have to say, Lettuce is at the top of the pack. They rocked the house last night.
Author: Papa Giorgio
Common Core Mathematics: So Bad An Engineer Can’t Figure It Out
(Video) Firefighters Save Construction Worker In Knick-Of-Time
(More at The Blaze) A fire has raged through the AIG Campus in Houston, Texas, with a YouTube video shot by an onlooker capturing the daring rescue of a construction worker by firefighters as the complex burned around them.
The clip, uploaded by user Karen Jones, was shot from a nearby building where horrified workers watched as the man sought refuge from the blaze on a top floor balcony.
As the fire spread his situation grew increasingly desperate, with the flames drawing closer to his location and plastic doors melting and peeling off the building.
The as yet unnamed man dropped down to a lower floor as firefighters rushed in with a mounted ladder to rescue him – the worker taking a leap of faith onto the ladder just moments before the fire ripped away half of the building.
The Houston Fire Department said the fire was “under control” by mid-afternoon Tuesday, two hours after it started, with all workers accounted for and no injuries reported.
More than 200 emergency personal responded to the apartment complex fire, the cause of which is now under investigation.
The “Sage of South Central” [Larry Elder] Goes On A Tirade!
Video description:
Larry Elder was on a role today! He uses Thomas Sowell’s article, “Republicans and Blacks” (http://tinyurl.com/o6wwgfv), as a backdrop to his long rant. He lit into Democratic and Media distortions (Hollywood too) that help convince people (especially the Black community) that many economic choices made are actually harmful ones. Black unemployment, affirmative action, minimum wage, etc… this is Larry at his best.
He is the master of facts, and goes as far as politely trying to explain to a caller that blacks are more of an ideological voting-bloc than whites.
Good stuff Maynard!
For more clear thinking like this from Larry Elder… I invite you to visit: http://www.larryelder.com/
Via Thomas Sowell:
…But, if Republicans can reduce the 90 percent of the black vote that goes to Democrats to 80 percent, that can be enough to swing a couple of close Congressional elections — as a start.
Even to achieve that, however, will require targeting those particular segments of the black population that are not irrevocably committed to the Democrats. Parents who want their children to get a decent education are one obvious example. But if Republicans aim a one-size-fits-all message at all blacks they will fail to connect with the particular people they have some chance of reaching….
Breitbart exemplifies the Paul Ryan “indecent”
Earlier this month, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) responded to comments made by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for his remarks about the generations of people in the “inner cities” not “learning the value and culture of work.” She accused the Wisconsin Republican of racism…. MORE…
I agree with O’Reilly… they don’t want to talk.
“A Trained Ape Can Get A Status Of Forces Agreement” ~ Rumsfeld
New Orwellian Attack Makes the Word “Homosexual” a Slur
Gay Patriot writes about how the Left fights the BIG battles facing our nation: over spending, foreign policy pressures, terrorism, freedom, etc. Hahahahaha… just joking:
As noted before, on the right, we worry about actual issues: regulation-fueled economic decline, corruption in Government, the erosion of individual liberty, the unsustainable fiscal path of the national Government.
On the left, they worry about vocabulary.
In part, this is a mark of desperation, David Brock and his merry band of Soros-paid nutjobs desperate for anything they can fling against the one news outlet that airs opposition views to leftist hegemony. There is no real racism, sexism, or homophobia on the right. So the left, in its desperation to remain peeved and aggrieved, must constantly lower the bar and change the rules. Hence, they declare that a previously inoffensive word is now offensive, so they can have their self-righteous tantrums about it. Also, note the new phenomenon of the “micro-aggression,” defined as a behavior that would not bother a normal person, but sends a politically correct leftist into paroxysms of outrage.
Read More ~ Good stuff V-to-the-K! I loved the “micro-aggression” addition.
Reggie Arvizu of KORN Talks About God’s Love (Video)
Tim Branson talks with Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu about his former addictions, his new salvation and why he’s staying with the band. The Blaze has more.
“Jay Carney Would Be Crowing” ~ Laura Ingraham (Video)
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… “And that’s why Obama as the Russian troops are amassing goes on ‘Ellen,’ you know, he goes on the ‘Two Ferns’ show on the Internet,” Ingraham said. “They’re doing everything.
“You know, [Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius, talks about March madness so we think she’s really cool now because she actually knows what March madness is. She probably picked Stephen Austin, you know, Stephen F. Austin, now — to go to the final four,” she added.
“But none of this is mattering. I mean the fact you can throw-in some pop culture references and go on some of these cool comedy shows isn’t going to change the fact that most young people are — want choice. They want freedom. And they don’t want to be told what to do on health care. I think this is going to be a big, big problem in November,” Ingraham said.
Powerline vs. WaPo ~ Interview w/John Hinderaker Added @end
The Washington Post just makes stuff up now… from whole-cloth! H/T to IOwntheWorld, via Powerline:
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin titled “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.” The article’s first paragraph included this claim:
The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.
The theme of the article was that the Keystone Pipeline is all about the Koch brothers; or, at least, that this is a plausible claim. The Post authors relied on a report by a far-left group called International Forum on Globalization that I debunked last October.
So Thursday evening, I wrote about the Post article here. I pointed out that Koch is not, in fact, the largest leaser of tar sands land; that Koch will not be a user of the pipeline if it is built; and that construction of the Keystone Pipeline would actually be harmful to Koch’s economic interests, which is why Koch has never taken a position on the pipeline’s construction. The Keystone Pipeline, in short, has nothing whatsoever to do with the Koch brothers.
Ethics Violations @ WaPo
- Koch is not the largest leaser of tar sands land;
- Koch will not use the pipeline if it is built;
- the Keystone Pipeline would harm the Kochs’ interest;
- and the Koch brothers have not taken a position on the pipeline’s construction for that reason.
My post garnered a great deal of attention, and Mufson and Eilperin undertook to respond to it here. It isn’t much of a response: they don’t deny the truth of anything Iwrote, and they don’t try to sustain the proposition that Koch is even in favor of the pipeline, let alone the driving force behind it. They lamely suggest that if Koch leased 2 million acres, rather than 1.1 million as they reported on Thursday, then Koch might be the largest leaseholder. But they make no attempt to respond to the official Province of Alberta maps that I posted, which clearly show that Canadian National Resources, Ltd., for example, leases more acreage than Koch.
The Post’s response attempted to explain “Why we wrote about the Koch Industries [sic] and its leases in Canada’s oil sands.” Good question! What’s the answer?
The Powerline article itself, and its tone, is strong evidence that issues surrounding the Koch brothers’ political and business interests will stir and inflame public debate in this election year. That’s why we wrote the piece.
So in the Post’s view, it is acceptable to publish articles that are both literally false (Koch is the largest tar sands leaseholder) and massively misleading (the Keystone Pipeline is all about Koch Industries), if by doing so the paper can “stir and inflame public debate in this election year?” I can’t top Jonah Goldberg’s comment on that howler:
By this logic any unfair attack posing as reporting is worthwhile when people try to correct the record. Why not just have at it and accuse the Kochs of killing JFK or hiding the Malaysian airplane? The resulting criticism would once again provide “strong evidence that issues surrounding the Koch brothers’ political and business interests will stir and inflame public debate in this election year.”
Wild Fire! Rocky Mountain Arsenal Firefighter’s Video
(Via The Blaze) Rocky Mountain Arsenal firefighter Thomas Rogers captured absolutely breathtaking footage of a vicious “dust devil” or “firenado” on camera last week. He naturally then uploaded the video on YouTube for the rest of us to enjoy.
The video is from Friday at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in the Denver area.
In an interview with CNN, Rogers said similar dust devils can occur “any time of the year, not just fire season.”
With the addition of the thrash metal music, the footage looks like something out of the apocalypse.
Global Cooling Reaches Hell~ Maher Defends Rumsfeld (Video)
From The Daily Caller:
Donald Rumsfeld seems to have given access to the person who loathes him the most in the world to produce a documentary of his life.
Errol Morris appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night to talk with Maher about his forthcoming documentary on Rumsfeld, “The Unknown Known.” Maher watched the documentary and came away with some appreciation for Rumsfeld, even if the liberal political comedian clearly does not agree with the former Defense secretary for Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush on most issues.
Actor Kevin Hart Tells Oprah A Story About His Mom (Video)
This great story of a mothers love and concern, not only for her son’s financial well-being, but his spiritual well-being… shows the depth of a mother’s love. And God’s love through His people. Read more about it at The Blaze: