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India Is Still Pissed
India is now examining American diplomats and their families employed in India to see if they are violating any of their host country's labor laws. Tune in the bitch slap in three, two, one...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has sought details about staff in American schools in the country for possible tax violations and revoked ID cards of U.S. consular officials and their families, retaliatory steps for the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.

[...] An Indian government official said on Friday that New Delhi had asked the U.S. embassy to provide details about people working in American schools and other U.S. government facilities to determine if they had permission to do so and if they were paying taxes that are mandatory under Indian law.

Diplomats' spouses who take up work in schools or other embassy facilities are supposed to inform the host country.

Violations of this kind had often been ignored, but now India would not turn a blind eye, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. embassy declined to comment on the latest steps.

Apparently the Indian government is not adverse to rubbing curry on an open wound. And why do they call themselves Indians?



No Beer, No Mercy!
It's the squirrel for you!

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina authorities say a 44-year-old woman angry at a man for returning home without beer on Christmas beat and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel.

The Charleston County Sheriff's office says in a report that deputies found a man covered with blood when they arrived at Helen Williams' North Charleston home early Wednesday. She told investigators the man fell and cut himself, but couldn't explain why her hands and clothes were also bloody.

Deputies say the man said Williams was so angry when he returned without beer because stores were closed on Christmas Eve that she grabbed a ceramic squirrel, beat him in the head, then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest.

I always keep a well-sharpened squirrel on my nightstand to fend off anyone breaking into my home. Take it from me, it has worked incredibly well as I have never suffered a home invasion.


When Flying Pigs Glow in The Dark
Finally, a true piggie night light.

Chinese scientists have created the world's first glow-in-the-dark pigs that emit a fluorescent green light.

The piglets acquired their bizarre ability to glow under 'black' or UVA light after their embryos were injected with DNA from a jellyfish.

Experts claim that the 10 young animals should live as long as any other pig and that the findings could help develop cheaper drugs for humans.

Never at a loss for words, now I can finally say that bacon will suddenly be a lot easier to find when buried in the fridge.

It Doesn't Take A Genius

H/T LL

On The Rocks?

With Obama, unless he is micromanaged by his handlers, everything he touches turns to crap. Including his marriage.

According to a bombshell new report, the First Lady and Barack Obama are sleeping in separate White House bedrooms.

Michelle is also preparing to boot her hubby of 21 years out of their ritzy Chicago home — and seriously discussing divorce.

“The smart money says the marriage is doomed,” a source told the National Enquirer.

“Barack and Michelle have had a rocky go for years and mainly stayed together for their daughters and his political career.

“But now Michelle is mad AS hell. She feels violated in front of the whole world, and screamed at him, ‘I’ve had enough!’

“She’s met with divorce lawyers and told Barack that she wants a life apart from him.

“Mi­chelle will stay in the White House for the rest of Barack’s term for ap­pearances’ sake, but she made it clear they’ll be leading separate lives.

Apparently Michelle is on a hellish roll ever since Obama made a fool of himself at Mandela's funeral. Of course Michelle didn't help matters any by reacting as she did with a murderous glare and positioning herself between her husband and the pretty blonde Prime Minister from Denmark.

Let's face it, you can take the White House out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the White House. These people have absolutely no sense of propriety or self discipline. Self indulgence is emblazoned across their every action like a neon sign above a cheap brothel in Reno.

“Barack has humiliated Mi­chelle before, but this incident was played out on the world stage. Practically everybody on the planet saw what he did and realized that the president has absolutely no respect for his wife.

“Now that Barack has embarrassed Michelle in front of the world, he’s going to pay a big, big price. Michelle has said she wants a huge chunk of his net worth.

“This divorce is going to cost him a fortune.”

The source is the National Enquirer which is the only publication that refused to ignore the John Edwards bimbo eruption and nailed him in the hotel with the goods. Maybe this is true and maybe it ain't, but as Dan Rather said, this is too good not to be true. So there libs.

More here and here.

It's Been Quite A Year

We're almost there.

Merry Christmas

A very merry Christmas to all my friends and readers.


Please don't wake the cat.

If Edgar Allen Poe Were Alive Today...

  The Obama Tapestry hanging in the  US Embassy, London.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over the election of that son of a socialist whore—
While I nodded, there came a knocking, so loud that it was shocking
As if it were the Gestapo, knocking at my chamber door—
“‘Tis the DHS goons,” I muttered, “knocking at my chamber door—
No search warrant, I expected nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember it was two years ago November;
When the scheme of union members wrested the Treasury from our control.
And the Wall Streeters did chortle thinking that the dollars were immortal—
And the greens proclaimed that energy could no longer be generated from coal
While millions more clamored to go on the public dole;
And the economy started circling the bowl.

Congress cuts like drunken surgeons, while our national debt still burgeons
And I fear for my Country as I never feared before.
Because now an unholy presence filled with loathing and preternatural menace
Has ensconced itself and mocks us on the British Embassy wall—
And it demands acquiescence as soon as a visitor walks through the door;
Quoth the portrait – “The Constitution? Nevermore!”

This infernal tapestry shows him beaming, our evil President is scheming
On the ways to reduce our nation to poverty and divisive civil war;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a heathen who is dreaming,
Praying for Allah’s aid in leaning our culture to Sharia law;
And my Christian soul doth shudder at the words our Lord might utter
That sinful America maybe – nevermore!

Tis The Season For Giving

A local United Way office realized that the organization had never received a donation from the town's most successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions called him to persuade him to contribute.

"Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in some way?"

The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, "First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?"

Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, "Um ... no."

The lawyer interrupts, "or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?"

The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an apology, but was interrupted again.

"or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident," the lawyer's voice rising in indignation, "leaving her penniless with three children?!"

The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said simply, "I had no idea..."

On a roll, the lawyer cut her off once again, "So if I don't give any money to them, why should I give any to you?"

In The Wee Small Hours

Lower Standards, Lower Quality - But We're Good.

This is the third DC cop to be arrested within the past eleven days. A school services officer was just indicted on felony charges after assaulting his wife.

A D.C. police officer has been indicted on a charge of attempted murder after allegedly trying to kill his wife with a metal light fixture and threatening her with knives in their home in Prince George’s County.

Prosecutors announced the indictment Friday against Officer Samson Edwards Lawrence III, 45, who lives in Accokeek. The 23-year veteran is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault and two counts of possessing a dangerous weapon with intent to injure.

The other two officers are:

Officer Marc Washington's body was pulled from the water at Hains Point in southwest D.C. Dec. 10, a week after he was arrested on child porn charges after he allegedly visited the home of a teenage girl who had previously been reported missing, ordered her to remove her clothing and took photos of her, all while he was on duty.

Officer Linwood Barnhill Jr. was arrested last week and charged with pandering after police found a missing 16-year-old girl in his apartment. He is accused of running a prostitution operation.

[...] Lawrence and Barnhill were hired in 1990 and 1989, respectively, when D.C. police lowered hiring standards to quickly add 1,500 officers to the force. Police officials say that standards have become more rigorous and that many officers hired then would not be now.

The hiring of substandard personnel is costly. Lawsuits arising from the criminal actions of police officers can hurt municipalities already staggering under fiscal burdens imposed by unfunded state and federal social spending mandates.

Even liberal rags like the WashPost realized this nearly twenty years ago in this 1994 article on police corruption.

More than half of the 201 D.C. police officers arrested since 1989 on charges ranging from shoplifting and forgery to rape and murder. Some have been arrested more than once and in more than one year.

More than half of those involved in departmental disciplinary proceedings for breaches such as neglecting duty, making false statements and failing to obey orders, which have doubled since 1989.

Half of those on a list of 185 D.C. officers so tainted by their own criminal problems that prosecutors won’t put them on a witness stand as officers of the law.

I wonder how many of these officers are still on the force?

I still remember a story that an officer on my department related to me years ago. He was a cop on the City of Baltimore PD for a while before returning to upstate NY and joining my department.  While he was still in the Baltimore PD police academy, two detectives from another state (Missouri maybe?) walked into his class and arrested one of his classmates for murder. So much for background checks.

This Is War

America's Culture War has been fought on many fronts for generations. The introduction of Darwinism during the 18th century made progress against Christianity through liberal ideology and secularism. In part, Christian fundamentalism was in reaction to the growth of humanism in our society.

The battles are never ending; day after day Christians are assaulted with liberal propaganda on how to worship, how the bible is flawed, judging is hating, God's mercy extends to all without restriction and the biggest one - there is no such thing as sin.

Sin is what separates us from God. Sin is a conscious act that places man's will over God's. Every time we sin it is a resounding slap in the Face of Our Creator. It is sin that placed Christ on the cross, sin was the nails that kept Him there, God's holy and righteous Judgement put Him in the grave and Grace was the pry bar that rolled the stone away.

What's so wrong about telling people that? For it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that frees men from sin. And it is the Gospel that Satan fears.

How does this attract the attention of sodomites and those that support them? Simple, Phil Robertson quoted scripture. He brought out the sin in their lives by citing 1 Cor. 6:9-10 and the sodomites exploded.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Or is it something else? Matthew 24:11 states, "and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people."  What is a prophet and who are these false prophets?

Prophets can be defined as men who:

• Reveal the nature and attributes of God to men.
• Make known to men the laws of God.
• Call the people back to obedience to God’s laws.
• Warn them of Divine judgment upon sin, both personal and national.

So a false prophet would be one who lies about the nature of a powerful, omnipotent, righteous, holy God; trivializes or negates His laws; says that sin (disobedience to God's laws) is no big deal and maintains that there is no Divine Judgement to be feared. This is PsyOps in war, false propaganda designed to deceive the enemy and discourage the faithful.

And this is exactly what GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and so many others are all about.

GLAAD on Wednesday condemned his remarks as "some of the vilest and most extreme statements uttered against LGBT people in a mainstream publication" and said "his quote was littered with outdated stereotypes and blatant misinformation."

"Phil and his family claim to be Christian, but Phil's lies about an entire community fly in the face of what true Christians believe," GLAAD spokesperson Wilson Cruz said. "He clearly knows nothing about gay people or the majority of Louisianans -- and Americans -- who support legal recognition for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples.

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. "
John 15:18-20

It Was On His Own Time

Duck Dynasty

I don't watch the program. I don't watch any TV programs.
But I have read with interest the Christian beliefs espoused by the reality show participants and agree with what they say.

Phil Robertson was right on the money when he offered his opinion on gays and he said it in a very non-offensive manner. Of course the sodomites went ballistic, that's their deal. Instant transformation from drag queens into drama queens.

Their perversion is what defines them, that's why they get so excited whenever someone points out that slamming your pecker into another man's anus may not be the preferred manner of sexual intercourse. You are criticizing their very existence. You can say this for all manner of perversion, pedophilia and bestiality not excluded.

This is what happens when you separate sex from marriage. When laws regulating sexual intercourse were based on biblical standards, these perversions still existed of course, but were driven underground; polite society viewed them as shameful. Remove those restrictions and all the sexual oriented twisted impulses spring up like weeds in a garden.

This is the same sexual impetus that drives promiscuity whether it is straight or not. It is part and parcel of a hellish disposition to sin which is ingrained in our DNA. Sexual sins are only one side of the equation, we are inclined to rebel against God in all aspects and readily do so unless restrained by one means or another. This is why we have laws regulating our actions in the first place.

Through the grace of God, Phil Robertson realized this as a young man and decided to do something about it. I applaud his actions and his faithfulness.

America is now a sewer and television is the outlet for this effluvium that empties right into your living room.

Phil must have anticipated this event, he has known for a long time what he’s dealing with and refused to back off. I suppose you could call him a brave man and this most likely is true, but I think it is more accurate to call him a deeply committed man.

I believe A&E may have stepped on their d**ks with this one. The show appeals to a Christian base and to punish someone for expressing their opinion/life style outside of the show's context will not please their 12 or 13 million viewers. They may have temporarily placated the sodomites (who like all libs are always looking for an excuse to be offended) but that's not who is watching the show.

In a New York second I would tell A&E to cram it.

IMHO the Robertson clan will break with A&E and take their show else where. I wonder how their contract reads?



UPDATE

The Robertsons have this to say.

We want to thank all of you for your prayers and support. The family has spent much time in prayer since learning of A&E's decision. We want you to know that first and foremost we are a family rooted in our faith in God and our belief that the Bible is His word. While some of Phil’s unfiltered comments to the reporter were coarse, his beliefs are grounded in the teachings of the Bible. Phil is a Godly man who follows what the Bible says are the greatest commandments: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Phil would never incite or encourage hate.We are disappointed that Phil has been placed on hiatus for expressing his faith, which is his constitutionally protected right. We have had a successful working relationship with A&E but, as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm. We are in discussions with A&E to see what that means for the future of Duck Dynasty. Again, thank you for your continued support of our family.

Double Ought Pumpkin Shells

You can't make this stuff up.

Pre-stuffed turkeys?

Just think, if you gut shoot a turkey and it doesn't die, it may have a squash or eggplant growing out it's ass in a few weeks.

More here.

H/T Real Revo

Still Amateur Hour In US Foreign Policy

Get ready for more of this as our nation's laws are corrupted by liberals. Under the rule of progressives, social crimes are worse than real crimes.

The federal government arrested an Indian diplomat last week for failing to pay her house nanny the required minimum wage. She was only released after paying a quarter million dollar bail.

Good Lord you'd think she robbed a bank, raped a nun and clubbed a baby seal to death.

Of course SecState Kerry is concerned that the Indian government has begun to retaliate for no reason.

India’s government – incensed over the arrest of a female diplomat in Manhattan last week – has retaliated by removing the security barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi, the country’s main news agency reported.

Tow trucks and a backhoe were used to haul off the long concrete barriers — designed to prevent cars from speeding up to the embassy’s gates – that had been in front of the compound. The Press Trust of India reported that the government was behind the move.

[...]India’s government – incensed over the arrest of a female diplomat in Manhattan last week – has retaliated by removing the security barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi, the country’s main news agency reported.

The heavy-handed retaliation was sparked by the arrest of Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general for political, economic, commercial and women’s affairs in Manhattan, for allegedly mistreating her female nanny.

The feds charged that Khobragade lied on a visa application to get the Indian national into the United States and then paid her a paltry $3.31 an hour.

Khobragade was handcuffed and reportedly strip-searched after her bust, treatment considered particularly demeaning for a woman in her country.India’s officials fumed that she was even held in a cell with drug addicts.

Other scheduled meetings with Indian officials have been cancelled as American diplomats are told to hit the road.

Seriously, we had no beef with India until this nonsense.

Now I'll never get that answer to my Windows 7 problems from customer support.

My apologies, the links to this story are here and here.

I Am Sick Of Fools

Save sports, I refuse to watch television because of the characterizations scripted by screen writers and portrayed by modern actors.
Behaving like a jerk and/or idiot is not funny.
It is a lazy way of getting laughs from stupid people.

There is a cost to this as our popular culture continues to auger it's way into irrelevance.