Tag: Amusing

Here is a behind the scenes look at the new KITT Car from the new Knight Rider with Jay Leno.

I *heart* bacon.

The St Valentine’s Day porker: Piglet born with heart-shaped spots

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A cute little piglet born with heart-shaped markings on his side is the centre of attention as lovers gear up for Valentine’s Day this week.

The 10-day-old Gloucester Old Spot piglet christened Valentine – what else? – is one of a litter of seven born at Byford’s Farm in Taynton, near Newent, Glos.

Farmer Eric Freeman, 75 – a founding member of the Gloucester Old Spot Pig Breeders’ Club – said Valentine’s mother Mandi Lou has already got used to her piglet stealing the show.

“Some sows get really annoyed and squeal but Old Spots are known for being quiet,” he said.

“Mandi Lou was very good and didn’t mind Valentine having her picture taken.

“I’ve bred thousands of Old Spot piglets over the years but this is the first ever to have such a clear heart-shaped mark.

“It couldn’t be more appropriate with Valentine’s Day just around the corner.”

Mr Freeman has been breeding Old Spots at his farm for 25 years and said the breed has come back from near-extinction in the past few years.

“I think there are probably around 400 members of the breeders’ club and they have spread far and wide,” he said.

“There has been a lot of interest because they are a fatty breed and it’s a different taste to the normal type of pig – it’s much more succulent.”

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Former President Bill Clinton recently kicked his spouse and presidential wanna be off the front pages with a few indelicate remarks about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign being a “fairy tale.”

Although the former president denied it, the remark suggested that any African-American foolish enough to aspire to the presidency was, in fact, living a fairy tale.

A delusion of grandeur, as it were.

Naturally, Barack Obama and his followers were outraged and hurt by Bill Clinton’s insensitive jab at the Black Camelot.

Since then, of course, Obama has expanded his fairy tale by performing very well on Super Tuesday, followed by wins in Nebraska, Washington, Louisiana, and Maine.

Most significantly, Obama now leads Hillary in the all-important delegate count. Now that is some fairy tale!

Meanwhile, with Bill Clinton front and center, Hillary’s campaign has all but collapsed, spiritually and financially.

Without Norman Hsu around to commit fraud on her behalf, Hillary has been forced to finance her folly with a personal check for $5 million dollars.

As it turns out, chasing fairy tales is quite expensive, especially if you happen to be an over 60 woman with disapproval ratings near 50 percent!

Obama, on the other hand, is on pace to raise $30 million in February alone.

More bad news: From the foxholes of the campaign war comes word that Hillary’s campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, has been abruptly replaced.

Obviously, a sign of desperation for a campaign that may very well be on it’s last legs.

Thus, what was once the “inevitability” of a Hillary Clinton presidency is quickly turning into a–well, a bit of a fairy tale, to borrow a phrase!

Although I am loathe to do anything that might help Hillary become Queen, I do have a suggestion that might just do that:

You need to get Bill out of the way, Hillary. Find him a toy to play with, a distraction that will keep his attention focused anywhere but on your campaign.

Why not hire a 30s something former intern with Oval Office experience, and the initials ML, to entertain Bill whilst you concentrate 24/7 on ruining America?

By John Lillpop

When George Burns was in his late 90s he was asked what his doctors thought of his habits. His answer was; “Every doctor who tried to scare me away from martinis & cigars is dead now, so what does that tell ya?”

108-year-old who swore by Coors Light dies

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Not many people live to be a centenarian, but Alberta Krieg has held that honor, with a little help from Coors Light.

Krieg was 108 when she passed away Thursday morning at Heritage House, Wilkes-Barre.

Krieg had frequently credited drinking Coors Light as the key to her longevity.

“Coors Light keeps me young,” she said in a previous interview with The Citizens’ Voice.

Coors Light was first brewed in 1978, when Krieg was 79. The Coors brewery opened in 1873, just 26 years before Krieg was born.

She was born on Oct. 30, 1899, in Wilkes-Barre, a daughter of the late Henry and Frank Becker Armbruster, and was a 1917 graduate of Wilkes-Barre High School. After graduation, she worked at Nersner’s Store and Kelly’s Five and Dime Store.

Diane Drank of Wapwallopen, Krieg’s granddaughter, remembers her grandmother telling her about riding the trolleys in Wilkes-Barre. But Krieg wasn’t living in the past.

Drank said her grandmother always kept up with the times, especially the styles. When they went shopping together, Krieg would offer fashion advice, sometimes telling her, “What are you buying that for? That’s not in style.”

In October 2007, she had celebrated her 108th birthday with a party at the Heritage House with her family and friends.

“She had a very good life, she was never in the hospital. She was a very healthy person all her life,” Drank said. “She was a very loving and caring person, always there for me and everybody.”

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I’m not drinking the John McCain conservative Kool-Aid. John McCain calls himself a life-long conservative. But that’s not what life-long conservatives call him. The painful truth is that McCain is really nothing more than Hillary-light.

No matter which of these quasi-liberals, John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama wins in November our nation is going to leap to the left over the next four years. The two major concerns for conservatives must be the ongoing war against Muslim extremists and the next Supreme Court appointments.

There are attempts already underway to use these two issues as justification for why conservatives must unite behind John McCain. Yet McCain’s past track record lends no clear indication that McCain can be trusted with these two issues any more than he can be trusted to secure our borders, protect free political speech or aggressively interrogate the only people who can tell us when and where the next 9/11 will happen.

McCain’s history is one of being better aligned with Democrats than conservatives. Even now, McCain’s message to voters is this…

“I will reach across the aisle, and work with Democrats. – Conservatives need to calm down. – I know there are things we disagree on, but we must look for things we can agree on and forget the rest…”

McCain will work across the aisle and conservatives will have to “calm down” and learn to live with that reality. Or, they will live with the reality of a Clinton-Obama era that will make Jimmy Carter look like a conservative genius.

I am not angry. I do not hate John McCain. As it stands right now, I will not vote for McCain due to the fact that he is a quasi-liberal and his pissing all over the First Amendment with McCain/Feingold. However, if he were to pick a true conservative as his Vice President, I would vote for him. I would base my change of heart on the fact that McCain is 72 and may kick the bucket (from natural causes) during his term.

And that would be definitely better than Clinton-Obama.