PRESBYTERIAN:

When you rearrange the letters:

BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:

When you rearrange the letters:

MOON STARER

DESPERATION:

When you rearrange the letters:

A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:

When you rearrange the letters:

THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:

When you rearrange the letters:

HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:

When you rearrange the letters:

HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:

When you rearrange the letters:

DIRTY ROOM

SLOT MACHINES:

When you rearrange the letters:

CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:

When you rearrange the letters:

IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:

When you rearrange the letters:

LIES – LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:

When you rearrange the letters:

ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT :

When you rearrange the letters:

I’M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:

When you rearrange the letters:

THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:

When you rearrange the letters:

TWELVE PLUS ONE

MOTHER-IN-LAW:

When you rearrange the letters:

WOMAN HITLER

AND FINALLY~!

FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

When you rearrange the letters:

STRUGGLING INCOMPETENT LIAR

Several days ago as I left a meeting at our church, I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down.  I was looking for my keys.  They were not in my pockets or purse.  A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.

Suddenly, I realized I must have left them in the car.  Frantically, I headed for the parking lot.  My husband, David, has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition.  My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them.  His theory is that the car will be stolen.

As I burst through the doors of the church, I came to a terrifying conclusion.  His theory was right. The parking lot was empty.

I immediately called the police.  I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen.

Then I made the most difficult call of all.

“Honey,” I stammered.  I always call him “honey” in times like these.  “I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen.”

There was a period of silence.

I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard David’s voice. “Betty” he barked, “I dropped you off!”

Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, “Well, come and get me!”

David retorted, “I will, as soon as I convince this policeman I have not stolen your car.”

H/t our beloved GrouchyFogie!

~Eowyn

H/t my dear sis-in-law Shireen.

~Eowyn

For previous “A rose a day” roses, go here!

~Eowyn

From the Committee on Ways and Means: Earlier this week during his State of the Union address, President Obama said, “The defining issue of our time is how to keep that [American] promise alive.”

What he conveniently omitted from his speech was that his failed policies have done nothing to make it easier to achieve, or afford, success.  In fact, as the table below shows, the Obama Administration has left Americans worse off.

 America Before President Obama Took Office and Now

 Go here for the full chart, with noted citations and background data.

Is this what the sheeple really wanted when they voted for “hope and change”? You got some change -  and then some.  Can you imagine the “change” Skippy could implement with another four years?

And if any of you proggies want to defend Skippy – or blame Bush for these numbers – I’m open to critical debate.  Name calling will be ignored.

h/t Big Government

DCG

Global Internet censorship is here.  SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is far worse than either of them.  ACTA was quietly signed by Barack Obama back on October 1st, 2011 and most Americans have never even heard of it.  But it could mean the end of the Internet as we know it.  This new treaty gives foreign governments and copyright owners incredibly broad powers.  If you are alleged to have violated a copyright, your website can be shut down without a trial and police may even show up at your door to take you to prison.  It doesn’t even have to be someone in the United States that is accusing you.  It could just be a foreign government or a copyright owner halfway across the world that alleges that you have violated a copyright.  It doesn’t matter.  So far, the U.S., the EU and seven other nations have signed on to ACTA, and the number of participants is expected to continue to grow.  The “powers that be” are obsessed with getting Internet censorship one way or another.  The open and free Internet that you and I have been enjoying for all these years is about to change, and not for the better.

So how come the U.S. Senate never voted on ACTA?  Doesn’t the U.S. Constitution mandate that all treaties must be approved by a two-thirds vote in the Senate?

Of course it does.  [endoftheamericandream.com]

executive agreement!!?????

sage

Adam Martin reporting -

Using Drones to Capture Environmental Violations Makes Perfect Sense

Earlier this week, a story circulated about a drone hobbyist whose photos of a Dallas-area meat-packing plant dumping blood into a river got the feds to investigate the plant. Environmentalism seems to be a perfect use for the new breed of cheap drones, something activists are just now starting to figure out. Last month, Sea Shepherd activists used a drone to track and photograph a Japanese whaling fleet. But compared to their counterparts’ organizing protests and reporting news, environmental campaigners have been relatively slow to adopt drone technology. They shouldn’t be.

With things like the Drone Journalism Lab and the occucopter, simply and easily seeing and filming activities on the ground from above, out of reach of the police or other grounded obstructions, is easier than ever. For environmentalists, these drones can do double duty as environmental monitors as well as camera platforms.

The story from Dallas is a great example of why drones are so efficient at spotting environmental problems: Using a $75 airframe fitted with a point-and-shoot camera, the drone operator shot pictures of discoloration in the water, which he could show to regulators. From what he wrote to the drone news site sUAS News, he wasn’t necessarily even looking for evidence of pollution, but when he saw it, he had instant evidence. Had he been drone-free, he’d have had to somehow get a water sample or some other proof, which would require getting to the edge of the river close enough to the plant. Environmentalists tend to get busted for trespassing when they try to collect evidence from suspicious sites, so being able to snap photos from a distance gives them a huge advantage.

Read Atlantic Wire article here.

I can only find about a million things wrong with this.  And, thankfully, I’m not the only one.

Drones to Monitor U.S. Citizens

By the Staff of American Free Press -

Barack Obama’s government is expanding its use of remote-controlled drone aircraft from monitoring and killing its enemies overseas to tracking and monitoring average Americans here inside the United States. These are the same drones that the U.S. military claims have successfully assassinated so many of its political opponents abroad.

According to two recent documents circulated by the U.S. Army, the White House is seeking vendors to help it develop “tagging, tracking and locating” technology as part of a network of unmanned drones that would hover over American cities and towns, videotaping people as they go about their daily tasks. They could then use facial recognition technology to feed this information into a centralized database that would allow the government to more efficiently monitor our daily lives.

While the initial deployment of this technology will be in Afghanistan where it will be tested on alleged terrorists and militants who oppose U.S. occupation of that country, the technology is scheduled for American delivery after testing its use in the domestic tracking of citizens.

More here.

As the first article above states – “it makes perfect sense.” 

sage

H/T Kelleigh

~LTG

Detroit Democrats told to vote for Ron Paul in GOP primary

By Kathleen Gray

They wore Obama T-shirts and draped a banner calling for the re-election of President Barack Obama.

But a couple hundred Detroit Democrats got a bit of a conflicting message Thursday evening at Triumph Baptist Church in Detroit.

At a rally for Obama’s re-election, they were told to vote for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul for president at the Feb. 28 presidential primary.

By voting for Paul, a Republican, they hope to derail Mitt Romney’s primary performance in his native state and force Paul to stay in the race and run as an independent.

Because Obama is the lone Democrat on the ballot, there’s no harm to him, and state Democrats plan to officially nominate him at caucuses in May.

“There is a $10-million election taking place next month with our tax dollars,” said WCHB radio host Mildred Gaddis. “Help me and help Ron Paul get all the votes he can.

“They can’t control this. He’s driving them crazy. We need him to run as an independent, shaving off votes from the Republican.”

Voters in Michigan don’t have to register as a Republican, Democrat or independent. And although it is frowned upon, partisan voters can cast ballots for their opponents in the primary, just to create a bit of chaos.

It was a strategy used by Democrats in 2000 when John McCain beat George W. Bush in that year’s presidential primary and by Republicans in 1998 when they helped give attorney Geoffrey Fieger the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

Democratic activist Ernest Johnson said Romney’s South Carolina loss was good because it took Romney’s focus off Obama and onto another Republican, Newt Gingrich.

“This is Romney’s home, and if he comes here and loses — which we can help him do — his campaign is over,” Johnson said.

Detroit Free Press

I am against the open primary.  It supposedly “gives voice” to a broader spectrum of positions.  The “broader spectrum” is code for B.S.  The primary process was pure -  a long, long time ago.  Alas – it is now more like watching never ending episodes of a sinister soap opera – not unlike the old “Dark Shadows.”  Complete with vampires!!!

sage

This story and video about the hearing yesterday takes the usual “birthers are idiots” stance in reporting on Obama’s status regarding ballot eligibility and being a natural born citizen.  Interesting that the Atlanta-Constitution does not allow for comments.    ~LTG