There’s also a lot of talk about Google actually noticing Memorial Day. Google has never put up a special logo for Memorial Day. And they still haven’t. They’ve put up a yellow ribbon, which to me signifies their hope that the troopss are brought back soon (i.e. end the wars sooner rather than later). Google doesn’t deserver kudos for the yellow ribbon logo.

But the cynic in me has a prediction: the surviving pirate will be brought to New York to face trial. He’ll be represented (pro bono) by a big liberal defense attorney who’ll claim either that he wasn’t the ringleader and was only following orders, or that he’s a victim of the environment of Somalia and it’s not his fault. Either way, I doubt the pirate will (if convicted) have to spend much time in jail. I don’t foresee a big sentence. And from what I understand, he’ll be living better off in a US jail than his comrades live in Somalia.

Here’s another prediction: Obama will be all over this, taking credit for “ordering” the action that rescued Captain Phillips. The leftists will use this as an example of how tough Obama is. Never mind the fact that it took four days and that Obama never said a thing about the incident when it happened.

This really doesn’t prove anything about Obama other than what the military can do when they’re unfettered. If Obama really wanted to show us how great a military leader he is, he’d order an airstrike or 10 on Somalia and invade the country to get rid of those low lifes.

But he won’t. I guess he’ll figure it’s better to negotiate with thugs and terrorists.

Here’s the full video from Russia Today.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If this is true, then the ACLU should be all over it. But since they’re in the tank for Obama, I don’t see that happening.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

It’s not a fun disease to have. In my case, I’ve had to have two surgeries which removed upwards of two feet of small intestine.

With Crohn’s disease, when you have to go, YOU HAVE TO GO. You don’t get much time to figure out where the nearest restroom is.

I think I have some “authority” to say what I’m going to say here.

There’s a new law in Illinois called “Ally’s Law.” It came about because Ally Bain was in an Old Navy store with her mom when she had to go. The management of the store refused to let her use the employee restroom. The resulting law forces businesses with employee only restrooms to allow customers to use the restroom if certain conditions are met.

The part of me that suffers from Crohn’s disease says “yeah, about time”. The part of me that believes in freedom says “bad law.”

I think the freedom loving part of me wins in this situation. Here’s why: the management of that Old Navy store made a bad decision; there’s no doubt about that. They could easily have allowed Ally, who was obviously in distress, the use of the restroom. Instead, they didn’t, and now we have another law that tries to force common sense onto businesses.

Yeah, I feel for the girl in this situation; I’ve been there (I had to stop at a stranger’s house one time to use the bathroom). What they should have done was let Old Navy know how bad this decision was, not try to get a law passed to fix it. A publicity campaign would have been better than getting another law passed. Imagine how embarrassed the manager of that Old Navy would have been if his name had been in a news story that related the situation.

What needs to happen is that the public needs to be made more aware of this disease. The last thing we need is to go running to the government for a fix. I find it ironic that in the video on the page I linked to above the mother says that her daughter will overcome the disease no matter where she goes. No, now whenever her daughter feels like she’s owed something because she has this awful disease, her daughter will use government as a first resort.

I’m sorry, but part of having Crohn’s disease is having “restroom awareness”. Her mother failed her when she didn’t know where the nearest public restroom was. Sure, Old Navy could have stepped up and helped, but they weren’t obligated to (at that time).

Now a version of that law is making its way across other states, mine included. Despite the fact that it could possibly help me a some point in the future, I’m against it. Government shouldn’t be used this way.

I still like my idea though.

H/T: Michelle Malkin

“Earth Hour” is this Saturday, and sad to day, Nashville is one of the cities that has been chosen to take part in this farce.

It’s one thing to say “I’m going to turn off my lights to save a few bucks on my electric bill.” It’s something completely different to say that you’re turning off your lights to save the planet. That’s mighty egotistical of you, to think that you can control the climate of the earth.

H/T: Newsbusters

Someone computed that the “opportunity” cost of changing the clocks twice a year (if you figure it takes 15 minutes to change all your clocks) was something like $1.7 billion. That’s the time it takes times an average hourly rate of $17 ish times the number of people in the US.

That’s one hidden cost. Another hidden cost is productivity. If you follow your circadian rhythm after DST goes into effect, you’ll end up going to sleep one hour later. So instead of going to sleep at 11 pm, you go to sleep at midnight. If you get up at 7 pm, you’ve lost an hour of sleep. You’re going to drive to work groggier, be less productive at work, and be more tired at the end of the day. And in this current economic situation, anything that reduces productivity should be done away with.

Ben Franklin is credited with coming up with Daylight Savings Time. But it seems he suggested it more as a joke than anything. He says that he woke up early one day in Paris, and found that the sun was already up (at 6 am). He then calculates how many pounds of candles would be saved if people used daylight instead of candlelight (kind of like the “early to bed, early to rise” saying).

No one took the idea seriously until the World War I. The Germans adopted it early in the war, and the US adopted it late. It was ultimately repealed in the US in 1919 because it was so unpopular.

I daresay it’s pretty unpopular now, especially after Congress added a few more weeks to DST. The kicker there is that they used numbers from the 1970′s that touted how much energy would be saved. The government entity that produced those numbers not only says they’re out of date, but they’re wrong. So Congress passes a law based on faulty or inaccurate information. What else is new?

We need to repeal this stupid law. Or at the very least, split the difference, and “spring ahead” a half hour one time, and be done with it.

H/T: Failed Success

He’s going to create a $1,750,000,000,000 (or more) deficit to get us out of this mess.

Democrats just aren’t logical. They want to take money away from people who use it to hire other people. Why bother messing with the American Dream anymore? The Democrats are just going to tax you to death (and beyond) if you’re even moderately successful.

Actually, Democrats are very logical… but it’s about an illogical concept. They think the government should have more control of your daily life, and this latest money grab is the quickest means to that end. In their world, you’re too stupid to know what’s good for you, and they are there only to help. Yeah, with a Congress like this, who needs enemas?

Click here to view the embedded video.

H/T:  the legitimate business man’s social club

H/T: Bear Creek Ledger