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It all started with a freakin' cat eating Cheeseburgers.

Going back on Pundit Kitchen, you can see that they are starting to get more and more critical of Obama recently.

But the best Lolbamas are over at IMAO

Moving from Stimulus to Mortgages

Watch this news clip, it's brilliance!

So, now that the Stimulus is a done deal, Obama is looking on who to bail out next, and of course, its those poor people who are going to lose their homes due to whatever reason.

Home ownership is not a right. It is purely a privelege. I don't own a home myself because I am not in a position to buy a home. So I pay rent. And I'm an Angry Renter

Well, aren't we responsible people who are paying our mortgages on time and doing the responsible thing by renting before buying feeling snuckered now? Obama is going to help bail out bad mortgages so these unresponsible people don't have to worry about losing the homes they couldn't afford in the first place.

I have been leary about this housing bubble for some time.

Political Cartoons

Ok, quick question. What do you think when you see this cartoon?



Me being a political junkie as of late, I made the connection of the joke being about Congress's ineptitude when writing the stimulus bill, and comparing it to a recent story of a rampaging chimp that needed to be shot by police, suggesting the chimp itself wrote the bill which was why it needed to be shot.

I got the joke, but some people didn't find it that funny.

A lot of people immediately equated the chimp with Obama. Being a black man, of course any representation made in regards to him being a monkey is going to be deemed as racist. And a LOT of people seemed to jump to that conclusion, especially people who are fans of Obama. That they immediately equated it with racism had me thinking "hmm. . ."

Except this joke isn't about Obama. It's about Congress, and Nancy Pelosi. Maybe they should have had 'CONGRESS' scrawled on the chimp's chest just to prevent people getting confused, but that political cartoonist sure got some free publicity out of this.

EXIT QUESTION : would people have been offended if it had "nancy pelosi" written on it?

EDIT - I'm quite partial to IMAO's take on this story

Random Posts on the Internets

These are all Political, but I thought I would post them because they put the words into my mouth.

It's ok to call Bush BusHitler, but when the tables are turned, suddenly the liberal left are thinking it's outragious

Seven Promises Obama broke with the Stimulus Bill

Pakistan surrendering to Taliban Thugs

WNBA star selfish for pursuing Motherhood over Career? What kind of insane world have we become when a 22 year old married woman is criticized for wanting to be a mother?

A hypocritical Obama Quote You kidding me?

Another Crazy Quote!

Gun legislature being introduced, and this time it could very well pass

Maybe our healthcare system isn't perfect, but we should take lessons from Britain and Canada before we nationalize ours

And on a totally Unrelated to Politics (ok sort of related) note, 5 Things that You think will make you happy but won't, I often read Cracked.com for these lists, and this one is surprisingly good! Caution, some f-bombs throughout. Maybe I'll post a post commenting specifically on this?

These are some posts I've read over the last week or so that I found interesting. A lot of them came from Conservative Grapevine which is a regular visit in my day to day perusings of all things internet. I also check out Michelle Malkin, Hotair, Instapundit and RightWingNews often for articles and opinion. Of course, there is also the bloglist to the right there that I check out frequently too, different posts at random.

I think I'm going to start doing a post like this about once a week, saying 'this is what I found this week that's worth checking out. Read and make your own decisions' type thing.

Jon Stewart Offers Criticism of Obama

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Stimulus Package: Prime Ribbing

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Funny Political News
Joke of the Day

I should have posted this when I originally saw it. But alas, never to late, eh?

Obama at a press conference. Floundering pretty bad. And Jon Stewart making light of it. Pretty funny!

Snowboarding Crazies

A few weeks ago i went up to a local mountain near where I live and took my camera with me. I couldn't really afford to go get crazy like I secretly want too, because the older you get, the harder it hurts when you fall.

Damn it how age is like that.

So I decided to get pictures of other people getting crazy off their big air jump. I camped myself by the jump and just snapped shots of people getting air. I have no idea who any of these people are and I don't know if they really wanted me to get their picture or not, but I did so I guess they'll just have to survive.

I don't think there is any law so to speak of taking random pictures of people, as long as you don't make a proffit off their photographs or use them in some way that is, well, hmm. . . What is the copyright policy on using other people's images anyway? I probably should look that up. Anyway, it appears that you can't really tell who these people are, but they undoubtedly would know that it is themselves if they were to see the images I would think.





I think I need to take my camera into the shop. I beat the crap out of it.

About This Blog, And It's Title

I put a new header up. I've been wanting to do that for some time.

And yes, I own a Toyota. i had this picture in my mind of placing my wallet and my car keys on a map and digging out my camera and taking a picture of them in an artistic manner, that's what I created. Why on a map you may ask?

Because I like to travel. I have been to many points in the USA and being that car keys are kind of synonymous with travel, why not on a map? And if you ever go anywhere, you better have your wallet with you. So I guess it's a bit directive.

But of course, there is more to the name Wallets and Car Keys then that. These are two things that I always misplace. Surfing through the internet, it is quite common to lose track of where you go and what you are trying to find. Maybe this can be a place for me to collect my thoughts and musings, mostly so I don't lose track of them in my otherwise scatter brained rambling.

Kind of like you need to choose a location for things that are important to you. Like your wallet and your car keys.

So this is going to become that place on the 'net.

You know, I really like how Blogger does their set up through blogspot. I always hosted my blog before, but I should have done this a long time ago. It's so easy. Of course, they've improved their set up about ten fold when I started blogging about seven years ago, where back then you had to have your comments hosted by another site, where as now its pretty much a given.

Valentine's Day

Love's It!

Blogging

It's been rather quiet on the personal front these last few days, more so then on the political front at least. I have my own viewpoints on things still, but I'm just realizing that I am quite content to just read and comment on other people's blogs for the moment, and maybe I'll do an instapundit thing here and there, linking to people who put into words what I'm thinking. I guess every now and then I'll write up something, but with how limited my time is going to become here shortly, I don't know how much time I will have for blogging to begin with, and I don't really get what I got out of it before.

I guess I do miss my readership. It was one of the perks of blogging.

So yeah, I guess my blogging isn't going to amount to very much any more, and that's ok. Just a few comments about things going on in the world here and there, but nothing much more then that.

Personal front, well, if you don't really know me, and I can't allude to who I am, what point is there in talking about my life?

Snowboarding in the East when you're Used to back West

I discovered today that I am spoiled. I am from West of the Mississippi River, and when I say West, I don't mean I'm from the Plains States. I'm normally from a mountainous region, a region in fact that is blessed with not one, not two, but five reasonably mountains within a two hour drive.

Yes, I am a snowboarder. i've been snowboarding every season for about nine years now. It's crazy to think that I've been snowboarding that long, and if I could have, i wish I had started a good five years sooner, because as I am just south of thirty, as you tend to get a little older and with age, you don't take as many risks. I'm the kind of snowboarder that I really like to just ride, and I prefer going with other people when I do. I wish I was more dare devilish and would take more jumps, but a couple trips to the Emergency Room on account of my snowboarding hobby has caused me to be cautious in this sport.

Quite truthfully, I really can't afford to go to an emergency room because of a concussion due to a bad spill off of a big air jump. My boss would give me a good glare and a talking too. Besides, I don't get much out of that anymore. I'll jump the little mole hills and call it good.

Anyway, I've been to the mountain about six times already this season, which is actually pretty good for me, considering I average about three trips up a season.

So work brings me East of the Mississippi for the time being, and I researched and discovered that there are some mountains in the area. Awesome. I brought my snowboard so I could go carve some mountain when I could, since the season isn't over yet, right?

I'm not so far East to make the Appalachian Mountains, but mind you I am Rocky Mountain born and bred. Looking at this particular mountain, I noticed it shows five ski lifts. Five ski lifts means there's got to be some decent runs, right? I mean, the smallest of the mountains I'm used to has three lifts (and a tow rope, but who's counting). Not to mention that on top of five lifts, it too has a tow rope, and two little

Right?

Um, so I drive up to the nearest mountain, which is about an hour and a half away and sign in, get my ski pass, and strap myself in, notice it's crowded as all hell, and just get through the crowds and past the bunny slope.

Thirty seconds later, I'm at the base of the hill.

That's it? Seriously? Really, I thought the hill I was on WAS the bunny slope! I check it out on its map later after carving up the entire mountain, and discover the entire thing is a bunny slope. They have one area designated as a Black Diamond and I'm staring at it incredulously. No freakin' way. It's a Blue. Maybe. Everything that's listed as blue is green. The only thing this mountain has going for it is the fact that it has a pretty decent terrain park, a good enough one that the mountains back home would be proud of it. But that really is the only thing its got. It has a little ski race course, but I did it about four times and realized it's set for skiers, and I saw that I was the only snowboarder attempting it. I couldn't get fast enough to make the turns and found myself struggling for an extra two seconds to make bronze. I gave up after smacking onto the pole the fourth time and going down. Hey, I never said I was the best snowboarder out there.

Chances are, I'll hit this hill again. It's fairly close and a decent price considering there is NOTHING around here comparable. I guess I could make the trek to West Virginia, which probably has the closest decent mountain comparable to what i'm used to, but I better make sure it's worth the time and effort to go down there before I go. Otherwise, well, there's always next year.

Meanwhile, I just have one thing to say.

If you really like snowboarding, and you're used to the Mideastern states and what they have to offer, I highly recommend taking the trek back west one of these days and see what a real mountain is like. You'll never want to go back.

Why Sarah Palin is So Freaking Awesome!

There is a story behind this.

Apparently, there is a group out there called Eye on Palin that is bringing to light her heinous crimes against wolves because Alaska apparently endorses wolf killing.

The problem is, she doesn't support the slaughtering of wolves, rather it is considered a form of predator control. The wolves are getting back up in population and they've been very effective predators against the caribou and moose populations, which Alaska uses to feed their own. So the wolves are hunted to keep populations controlled so they don't decimate the caribou like they were close to doing before they started inacting this control measure.

Regardless, IMAO thought the website, rather then an anti Palin site, seems to show exactly why Sarah Palin is so freaking awesome.

This escilated into something further, as on the site, they have a coloring contest for the kiddies providing a wolf to color and to explain to Sarah Palin why we shouldn't be hunting wolves aerially.

A Blog was born, it's soul purpose spoofing the illustrations and the intent of the site.

I submitted my own piece. Here.



I'm not as creative as some of the others, I really am quite brain dead, but I recommend checking this blog out. I'm going to keep an eye on it.

Because Sarah Palin is so freaking awesome!

Mt Rushmore

Recently, on a quest to go East from West, I crossed through a plains state that doesn't get as much credit as it probably should. of course, when ever anybody thinks of South Dakota, they likely think of giant faces carved in rock, which is what I thought, and it is a well known landmark out in the middle of, well, nowhere.


But I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is more to do in the Black Hills then just stare at the images of four men carved on the side of a mountain (which, by the way, are pretty amazing when you think about it). However, i do recommend going to the Black Hills in a month other then February. On the plus side, you are missing the crowds, but on the downside, well, most things are closed because of lack of business.

There are little villages nestled in the Black hills like Hill City and Keystone that are perfect quaint tourist traps. They are modeled after a little gold rush town in the late 1800s, and then there are the roads one can travel that take you through the rock formations of the black hills and one road I wanted to tour which looked like it was a giant knot, but alas, some roads are closed in the winter time due to the necessities to upkeep them. But the roads with the tunnels and views are worth the travel, if you like that sort of thing.

But if you are going on a scenic tour of the country, it would be worth the trip to travel through South Dakota to see the Black Hills and all of the things to see with it, including Crazy horse Memorial.

I think if I am able to go back through there in the future, I'm going to make a point to stop by Wind Cave and jewel Cave.