Dumba$$ Iranians

Star of David sits on roof of Tehran airport main terminal.

“The six-pointed star was discovered by an eagle-eyed Google Earth user recently, over three decades after the building that houses the national airline of the Islamic Republic was constructed by Israeli engineers.

“Israel and the Shah’s Iran maintained good ties until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 ended the relationship. Before 1979, Israel brokered arms deals with Iran, and there were regular flights between Teheran and Tel Aviv.

“Once the existence of the Star of David was reported in Iranian media, government officials called for the immediate removal of the apparently offensive Jewish symbol.

“The discovery of the symbol came three months after the Iranian public learned of the existence of a Star of David on the roof of a building in Teheran’s Revolution Square.”

From jammiewearingfool.

The ultimate prank or a trick of the light?
(I don’t think it’s lights and shadows.)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334706/Iran-outrage-Satellite-image-shows-Star-David-Tehran-airport-HQ-roof.html#ixzz16sM1bioZ

It is to laugh at the stoopids

Progressives pay tribute to "iconic" animals of the Arctic, including penguins, saved from evil oil companies.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/254303/democrats-winter-robert-costa

There ain’t no Santa Claus

“The Republican nominee should be someone with vast and impressive experience in government and the private sector -- and a proven record. Voters chose a novice with plenty of star power in 2008 and will be inclined to swing strongly in the other direction in 2012. Americans will be looking for sober competence, managerial skill, and maturity, not sizzle and flash.”

Mona Charin, “Why Sarah Palin Shouldn’t Run”

http://townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2010/11/19/why_sarah_palin_shouldnt_run/page/full/

And the present and future political climate ain’t like two years ago. Call it what you want – Mobocracy or The People Has Spoke. The “vast and impressive record in government and private sector” Ms. Charin writes of is embodied in some person reclining beneath a giant mushroom in Easter Bunny Land, where there’s buzzing of the bees in the peppermint trees near the soda water fountain. Democrats might know that handouts grow on bushes, but Ms. Charin and other self-proclaimed Conservatives have yet to figure out that the times they have changed. All those columnist folks, the ones who write for big city newspapers or big-time blogs and announce the death of mainstream media are in the same leaky lifeboat. No matter how many fellow travelers they throw overboard because the drinking water’s about gone, they all face the same future with the same lack of understanding. People whose diplomas have the same university names, people who make the same amount of money, people whose bylines and mug shots appear in the same newspapers and TV talk shows and internet pages … there’s not a dime’s difference between any of them. – My opinion and I’m welcome to it.

Democrats got bashed last week ...

… because voters were mad at Bush. Ohh. I see now.

http://www.slate.com/id/2274043/

I'm drinking what???

“The Sunday Mail can reveal the State Government had planned a taxpayer-funded publicity campaign centred on handing out thousands of bottles of water from the largely idle $1.5 billion Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme, in a last-ditch bid to convince Queenslanders that treated effluent was safe to drink.

“But the bottles of water - at least 40,000 - were never distributed. Instead they were stored in a warehouse before being secretly destroyed in May at a waste facility in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.”

But wait – There’s more!

“The bottles of recycled water were to supplement the thousands of bottles already imported by the Queensland Water Commission from Singapore's recycled water scheme.”

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bligh-government-bungle-over-bottled-recycled-water/story-e6freoof-1225908234509

If I were Australian and I found out I had been given “treated effluent,” I might be angry. Drinking my own treated effluent is bad enough, but my government imported some from Singapore?

Linked from another story on Dave Barry’s blog.

Tannhauser as a measurement of time

My wife said we needed pumpkins and mums as porch decorations for Halloween. This afternoon I drove six miles to the nearest settlement, where there is a produce stand, and bought two buckets of mums, three big pumpkins and six little pumpkins.

As I drove onto our street, the local classic music station announcer said the next selection would be the overture from Tannhauser. Well, shoot, I said. The overture is one of three Wagner pieces I enjoy hearing. The other two are the Tannhauser finale and the popular selection from Tristan and Isolde. I thought, Well, I guess I can sit in the truck and listen, but then decided opening the doors and cranking up volume would be better.

I parked the truck near the front porch and turned off the motor and then turned the key to accessory position and turned up the volume**. I got out and closed the driver side door, not wanting to hear “Ding, ding, ding” for the entirety of Tannhauser, walked around the truck and opened the passenger door and the half door, both with speakers. Then, as the piece began, I started unloading the truck.

Tannhauser is one of those pieces of music in which at some point I will play conductor. Playing conductor, though, is not possible when carrying a big pot of mums (twice), nor when carrying and placing big pumpkins (three.) I could, however, conduct while carrying a little pumpkin in each hand.

I got everything unloaded and placed just right in time for all of Tannhauser – 14 minutes.

I suppose none of the neighbors was watching.

** If you think classical music is played too loud, you are too young.

'Fundamentalist bullies with Bibles'

Garrison Keillor: “[Republicans have] transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic fratboys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb, and dangerous.”

Source: Bankrupt -- The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party, by David Limbaugh, 2006, page 240.
Also: “Pat Boone Says Keillor Pollutes Lake Wobegon,” NewsMax.com (the magazine), November 2004, page 8.
Hardcopy: Copy of page 240 from Limbaugh's book.
Where: In his article, 'We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore,' Truthout.
When: August 26, 2004.

Linked from www.maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com to

http://www.washingtonreb.com/2010/10/26/what-liberals-say/

to http://www.aim.org/wls/author/garrison-keillor/

I never much liked Keillor’s program, other than the Western Swing bands he occasionally has. The only time I hear Keillor is when my wife and I are on two-hour or longer Sunday road trips. My wife likes Lake Wobegon. Keillor a couple of years ago complained about old, long-haired motorcycle riders in Washington D.C., who interrupted his Memorial Day walk to an art museum. Keillor got to the museum, he wrote, where he spent hours enjoying French art. On Memorial Day.

Keillor is the pessimeist pessimist from his non-subdued anger at Minnesota Lutherans. Listening to his description of Lutherans, I am surprised that Minnesota does not have dozens of winter mass murders.