The DaleyGator

http://kob.com/article/stories/S350241.shtml?cat=500

A cat that somehow managed to wander over 200 miles from home was reunited with its Albuquerque family on Sunday.

“We didn’t think we were going to get her back,” said Jade Schulte, Miko the Cat’s owner. “We had basically given up hope and were hoping that she was with a good family.”

Miko ran away in December after the Schulte home burned. She turned up later in Pueblo, Colorado.

Officials speculate that Miko, trying to stay warm, hopped a tractor-trailer rig and rode it all the way to Pueblo.

Lesson! Never pick up hitch hiking cats! 

http://www.gazette.com…hops_price.html

What is the price for America’s new emphasis on energy independence?
For beer drinkers, about a buck a six-pack.

Across the country, farm fields once used for growing hops and barley for beer are sprouting corn, which has become lucrative because of President Bush’s support of ethanol, a corn-based alternative fuel. And then, basic economics comes into play: With demand for hops and barley outstripping supply, the cost for those commodities goes up.

That means lovers of craft beers and microbrews may be seeing red or feeling nauseated — and that’s not the effect of one too many oatmeal stouts.

“What we like to brew is fullbodied beer, so we use tons more hops than the big guys do,” said Josh Osterhoudt, general manager of Bristol Brewing Co. in Colorado Springs.
HEARTACHE!

http://patdollard.com…sitesbring-it-bitches/

Take a WILD guess which side The DaleyGator is taking in this?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/19/castro/index.html

Castro, 81, revealed his plans in a letter published in the middle of the night in the online version of Cuba’s state-run newspaper, Granma.

“I will not aspire to, nor will I accept the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief,” Castro wrote. “I wish only to fight as a soldier of ideas. … Perhaps my voice will be heard.”

President Bush said Castro’s decision ought to spark “a democratic transition” for Cuba.

“The international community should work with the Cuban people to begin to build institutions that are necessary for democracy and eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections,” Bush said Tuesday in Rwanda. “The United States will help the people of Cuba realize the blessings of liberty.”

Let us pray for Cuban liberty!

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1892967009

 70-year-old man has been sentenced by an Iranian judge to four months in jail and 30 lashes for going out on the street with his dog.

The incident took place in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran when the owner of the dog was caught by a police who quickly handcuffed the man. He was later charged by an Islamic judge for “disturbing the public order”.

The sentence, seems to want to panic the owners of dogs that despite repeated warnings by the police, continue to defy the authorities by taking their dogs outside their homes.
BACKASSWARDS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjrXhbQA2Jk

I feel sick!

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

Things that make you go HMMMM. Seriously though, the issue of Obama’s obviously Marxist leanings is a crucial one. We all know Hillary is a closet Marxist, BUT, my friends, remember Obama has a more Liberal voting record as Senator than Clinton does.Read his economic plans. Listen to his wife’s speeches on how Americams MUST CHANGE under an Obama presidency. Hillary IS that bad, but so is Obama. McCain looks better all the time.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com…obama-proud-comments/

Point McCain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-yHP5KDuY

And people ask me WHY I call him HOKEYbee? And as a side note Mikey, Fred Thompson does not want to be like you. Unlike YOU he did not have change positions to run for president. Fred wants to be like Mike? Ah NO! Mike SHOULD want to be like Fred.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUF-6iByf0

I do not look for many more stupid remarks by Mrs Obam myself. She has been gettig away with these slip-ups because she is addressing very partisan crowds. But, the Right is onto her now so expect her rhetoric to change. Not her ideology mind you, but her words.

http://hotair.com…proud-of-the-country-comment/

This is why I like Levin so darn much! No BS, no pretense, just straight talk!

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/EconomicPolicyFullPlan.pdf

Some high Lowlights!

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3508176,00.html

General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, has sent a letter of condolence to Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah following the assassination of the organization’s senior commander Imad Mugniyah, saying he believed “the cancerous bacterium called Israel” would vanish soon, the Iranian news agency Fars reported Monday.

According to Jaafari, “I am convinced that with every day that passes Hizbullah’s power increases, and in the near future we will bear witness to the disappearance of this cancerous bacterium, Israel, by the radiation of Hizbullah’s fighters.”

Evil swine! Israel can take care of itself, and will if pressed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3386817.ece

Towns and cities need to be radically redesigned to help to tackle the obesity epidemic, scientists were told —yesterday. Professor Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, a London-based think-tank, called for a revolution in urban planning to encourage people to use cars less and public transport more.

Use PUBLIC transportation to lose weight? Why, because we burn more calories on a bus, or train, than in our car?

He told a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston that it was naive to expect people to lose weight by making better choices about diet and exercise when their surroundings encouraged inactivity.

Of, of course! WE are stupid shep, we cannot decide anything fr ourselves, of COURSE not! We must have it done for us! That explains why every gym I passs by has a packed parking lot I suppopse?

Urban designers had created an “obesogenic environment” by planning public spaces around the car. Transport systems that made it easier to drive than to walk, cycle or take public transport were the worst contributors to obesity.

Obesogenic environment? They are just making up words now!

He also blamed the rise of desk-bound office work and sedentary leisure activities such as watching television, surfing the internet and playing computer games. Lifts and escalators, and even labour-saving devices such as electric toothbrushes and can-openers added to the problem.

Electric toothbrushes! Can openers! THEY are to blame for obesity now!

http://www.boston.com…pride_in_the_na.html

So what did Michelle Obama think of the United States before her husband decided he wanted to run the place?

“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”

For the FIRST time, Mrs. Obama? The VERY FIRST time? Boy, that says a lot about her character and patriotism now doesn’t it?

OH, sorry, I forgot, we can NEVER, EVER, question any Democrats patriotism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6E3cShcVU

Marxists and those who excuse Marxism ought to watch this.

http://www.nytimes.com…EdWFuTA3xhqkouvQj+MRsA

Move over, Tupperware. The EcoMom party has arrived, with its ever-expanding “to do” list that includes preparing waste-free school lunches; lobbying for green building codes; transforming oneself into a “locovore,” eating locally grown food; and remembering not to idle the car when picking up children from school (if one must drive). Here, the small talk is about the volatile compounds emitted by dry-erase markers at school.

Perhaps not since the days of “dishpan hands” has the household been so all-consuming. But instead of gleaming floors and sparkling dishes, the obsession is on installing compact fluorescent light bulbs, buying in bulk and using “smart” power strips that shut off electricity to the espresso machine, microwave, X-Box, VCR, coffee grinder, television and laptop when not in use.

Eco-moms? Another feel-good movement that will do nothing more than make some women “feel” better. If this is not a classic illustration of the shallowness of Liberalism, I don’t know what is.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23230521-2702,00.html

Hardline Muslim spiritual leaders who preach the fundamentalist Salafi brand of Islam espoused by Osama bin Laden have become the latest recruits in combating global terrorism.

Australian security agencies have been urged by former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism expert Robert Lambert to enlist key Salafi leaders - who are widely perceived to be part of the radicalisation problem - to help prevent young Muslims from embracing al-Qa’ida’s ideology.

Mr Lambert, co-founder of Scotland Yard’s Muslim Contact Unit, said Salafi spiritual leaders, who follow a puritanical interpretation of the Koran and are often accused of being proponents of terrorism, had a vested interest in discrediting al-Qa’ida because the network had hijacked and distorted their true beliefs.

They cannot be serious about this can they? Can they?

http://www.nypost.com…got_to_be_kidding__98050.htm

February 17, 2008 — How’s this for junk science - even with three Gold Gloves, Yankees captain Derek Jeter has been labeled the worst fielding shortstop in baseball.

But the numbers prove it, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania said yesterday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in (of course) Boston.

Yaknkee fans outrage in 3,2,1…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23228060-23109,00.html

Five youths were arrested in the capital after 28 cars and 35 garbage trucks were burned, Copenhagen police duty officer Jakob Kristensen said.

Danish media said arrests in other towns brought to 29 the number of people police were holding.

Scores of cars and several schools have been vandalised or burned in the past week.

Police could give no reason, but said that unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break might have contributed.

AH! Mild weather is to blame! I see. Global warming is really getting out of hand! And I wonder what religion these YOUTHS, might be? Hmmm, I wonder!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk…2008/02/17/wchina117.xml

The crackdown is making a mockery of China’s promise to the International Olympic Committee in 2001 that it would improve its dismal human rights record and allow greater media freedom if it were allowed to host the Games.

“The human rights situation in China has worsened over the past six months,” said Sharon Hom, the executive director of the US-based organisation Human Rights in China. “We’re seeing increased restrictions on freedom of expression and the detention and harassment of human rights activists.”

What?? Communists lie? Communists do not respect human rights? Communists are not friemdly to freedom? Who could have known?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk…eawater117.xml

Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.

“We have to make people think that it’s unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong,” said Tim Lang, the Government’s naural resources commissioner.

Good grief! More PCITS! Ban everything, demonize everything, and control people with fear and junk science.

http://www.guardian.co.uk…feed=worldnews

‘Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,’ says Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic right-winger, ‘the ideology of a retarded culture.’

The Dutch politician, who sees himself as heir to a recent string of assassinated or hounded mavericks who have turned Holland upside down, has been doing a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic sacred text to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, he wants the ‘fascist Koran’ outlawed in Holland, the constitution rewritten to make that possible, all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave and all Muslim ‘criminals’ stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported ‘back where they came from’. But he has nothing against Muslims. ‘I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. Not with Muslim people.’

This guy is a walking corpse. But I aspplaud his courage to speak up in the face of Islamic extremism. If we all had that much courage, we would be far better served.

http://www.nytimes.com…rssuserland&emc=rss

Given that the American story has been so inextricable from the struggle over race, the Obama triumph has been the bigger surprise to many. Perhaps because I came of age in the racially divided Washington public schools of the 1960s and had one of my first newspaper jobs in Richmond in the early 1970s, I almost had to pinch myself when Mr. Obama took 52 percent of Virginia’s white vote last week. The Old Dominion continues to astonish those who remember it when.

Old Liberals never change their rhetoric. They just keep on spouting it.

http://www.swamppolitics.com…clinton_weeps_over_wom.html

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton’s voice filled with emotion today as she listened to the story of a mother and young daughter who said they were being forced from their home due to a skyrocketing adjustable mortgage.

Clinton invited the woman to join her at the microphone as her voice, already strained from speaking, filled with emotion. “Would you tell us how you’re losing your house?” the presidential candidate asked.

Sad story, but you think Hillary is shedding genuine tears? Further, you think this woman might be a PLANT?