In other news....
Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Our names are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and we approve of this message.
The overwhelming support for the Muslim Brotherhood by both Barack Husein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made what you are about to see possible. The Muslim Brotherhood hates the west and has desires to make Islam the world's religion (something Obama yearns for). This desecration of Christian and Jews grave sites in Libya is beyond forgiving and Obama and company will do nothing to stop it (Hillary is probably laughing her ass off...or did you forget how she played up to those scum bags when she lived in the White House...and later when she kissed Yassar Arafat's wife.) ~ Norman E. Hooben
Breitbart Assassinated? - Seal Team Six Murdered (you betcha!) - Osama Bin Laden Death a fraud (you betcha!)
Update April 30, 2012: The YouTube video link mentioned in the narrative is no longer available therefor I uploaded a copy at the bottom of this page. ~ Storm'n Norm'n
Benazir Bhutto named Osama bin Laden’s killer before her death
Political Malady Now Defined ...Flatulence of the mouth!
I'm not sure that if I were this child's teacher that I would have approved of the subject material for I think it borders on the approval of uncouth behaviour. Its certainly not in keeping with our original puritanical upbringing, but that said, nothing seems to be uncouth in today's politically correct environment. However, now that this sixth grader speech has gone public, its only fitting that we find some application for its existence. Certainly it has a place in politics and is readidly adaptable in replacing that old addage known as hot air. We could now say without the fear of being uncouth that most politicians suffer from flatulence of the mouth...and they really do stink! With Pelosi, Reid, and Obama letting off the most gas we can now safely say they're on par with the lowly termite (see list below). ~ Norman E. Hooben
Ripper Of A Speech Blasts Competition
The following speech was given by 6th grader Sophie Paterson at the Central
Hawke’s Bay Primary Schools Rotary speech competition in New Zealand.
Hi, today I am going to talk to you about farts.
Some people think farts are rude and some people think farts are funny, like
me.
I think farts are hilarious.
Farting is a fact of life. Everybody farts. The Queen farts, superstars fart
and I fart. We will fart until the day we die.
And apparently a person can still fart after death!!
Do you know why we fart?
Flatulence, wind or farts, whatever you like to call them, is the production
of the mixture of gases in the digestive tract, that are by products of the
digestive process.
The average person farts about 14 times a day, which produces about half a
litre of fart gas.(Personally, I think I fart more than 14 times a day).
Farts are made up of the following: Nitrogen, the main ingredient making up
59 percent; next behind is hydrogen at 21 percent; 9 percent carbon dioxide;
7 percent methane, 3 percent oxygen and 1 percent other stuff.
But listen to this - hydrogen sulphide is the compound that makes them
stink!
Here are the top 10 farter's:
1. Termites
2. Camels
3. Zebras and my pony Free
4. Sheep 5. Cows
6. Elephants
7. Labradors and retrievers
8. Humans (vegetarians)
9. Humans (non-vegetarians)
10. Gerbils (also known as the
desert rat)
If If you are going to fart, do not sit by flames, because farts are very
flammable.
Also, they can come motoring out of your body at 10 kmh.
No wonder some of you have holes in your undies!
Please do not panic if you find yourself trapped in a small space like a
closet, as it is impossible to suffocate in your own farts. Unless Ben (my
little brother) is in there with you!
Anyway next time you fart, don’t think it’s rude. Just know that
everybottie, oops, I mean, everybody, farts.
Thank you for listening to my fartastic speech.
Here’s a little poem that I’d like to share with you.
A trump is a violent explosion
It comes from the Valley of Bum
It rolls up and down your trouser leg
And comes out with a violent hum!
There was a young fellow called Steve
Who farted whenever he pleased
With buttocks a-thunder
He forced gas asunder
And blew all the leaves off the trees!
The following speech was given by 6th grader Sophie Paterson at the Central
Hawke’s Bay Primary Schools Rotary speech competition in New Zealand.
Hi, today I am going to talk to you about farts.
Some people think farts are rude and some people think farts are funny, like
me.
I think farts are hilarious.
Farting is a fact of life. Everybody farts. The Queen farts, superstars fart
and I fart. We will fart until the day we die.
And apparently a person can still fart after death!!
Do you know why we fart?
Flatulence, wind or farts, whatever you like to call them, is the production
of the mixture of gases in the digestive tract, that are by products of the
digestive process.
The average person farts about 14 times a day, which produces about half a
litre of fart gas.(Personally, I think I fart more than 14 times a day).
Farts are made up of the following: Nitrogen, the main ingredient making up
59 percent; next behind is hydrogen at 21 percent; 9 percent carbon dioxide;
7 percent methane, 3 percent oxygen and 1 percent other stuff.
But listen to this - hydrogen sulphide is the compound that makes them
stink!
Here are the top 10 farter's:
1. Termites
2. Camels
3. Zebras and my pony Free
4. Sheep 5. Cows
6. Elephants
7. Labradors and retrievers
8. Humans (vegetarians)
9. Humans (non-vegetarians)
10. Gerbils (also known as the
desert rat)
If If you are going to fart, do not sit by flames, because farts are very
flammable.
Also, they can come motoring out of your body at 10 kmh.
No wonder some of you have holes in your undies!
Please do not panic if you find yourself trapped in a small space like a
closet, as it is impossible to suffocate in your own farts. Unless Ben (my
little brother) is in there with you!
Anyway next time you fart, don’t think it’s rude. Just know that
everybottie, oops, I mean, everybody, farts.
Thank you for listening to my fartastic speech.
Here’s a little poem that I’d like to share with you.
A trump is a violent explosion
It comes from the Valley of Bum
It rolls up and down your trouser leg
And comes out with a violent hum!
There was a young fellow called Steve
Who farted whenever he pleased
With buttocks a-thunder
He forced gas asunder
And blew all the leaves off the trees!
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Life Is Your Own Damn Fault
See also: The Wal-Mart Zoo at bottom of page
By Larry Winget @ Larry Winget
I doubt there is anyone who can make an intelligent argument against the fact that we have become the society with the biggest sense of entitlement in the history of our world. I have written much about the problems of entitlement in each of my bestselling books and have talked about it for years in blogs and social media and on various television shows. We are the entitlement generation. In fact, the bulk of all government spending is for a series of programs called Entitlement Programs.People actually believe they are owed a living while doing nothing on their own to make sure they are employed or have any savings or that their bills are paid. That’s why we have 5th generation welfare recipients. Folks believe they are owed retirement income, even though they spent every dime they had their entire working lives with little or no thought about what would happen when they were finally put out to pasture or if their company went out of business. People think they are owed unending unemployment benefits, when they did nothing to put away any money for a rainy day, or do any planning, or even make much of an effort to become re-employed. And the evidence shows that many didn’t even put out the work they were being paid to do to stay employed in the first place. Most of the 99 Weekers never bother to even look for a job until the last few weeks before their unemployment runs out. Many believe they are owed complete health care regardless of the fact that they destroyed their own health by smoking or overeating, usually both. You fall in a fountain because you weren’t paying attention and that’s a perfect reason to sue the mall where the fountain sits. Or spill coffee in your lap in the car and it’s the restaurants fault, not your own clumsy fault. Or have a facebook relationship and when one breaks it off, sue them for a broken heart. Or sue the bartender because you drank too much and had a car accident. Some folks wear the latest fashions and have big screen televisions, drive a new car and eat every meal at a restaurant and yet have never bothered to save a dime and then blame others that they are broke. Bottom line: People believe they are entitled to compensation for consequences they brought on themselves due to their irresponsible lifestyle and stupid choices.
How did this happen? How did we reach this point? My parent’s generation didn’t think this way. Yet they raised the baby boomers, who created this mess. And now the baby boomers have raised a generation with an even bigger sense of entitlement. I just finished reading the New York Times Bestseller “World War Z” by Max Brooks. I ran across this great line: “You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the “machine,” but really, if you’re looking to blame someone, blame me. I’m the American system, I’m the machine. That’s the price of living in a democracy; we all gotta take the rap. Nice to be able to say, “Hey, don’t look at me, it’s not my fault.” Well, it is. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation.”
I couldn’t agree more. It’s everyone’s own fault. I could sum up all that I teach, speak and write about in one sentence: Life is your own damn fault.
But again the question is: What happened to the baby boomers to move them from being self-sufficient like their parents to becoming so self-indulgent? Answer: The self-help movement. Before the baby boomers, there wasn’t a self-help movement, there was only the “help yourself” movement. It was the baby boomers that created and went like lemmings into the ocean to the Positive Thinking rallies. We created bestsellers of Norman Vincent Peale’s books, “If You Can Think It, You Can Do It” and “The Power Of Positive Thinking. and Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” And we took a pots and pans salesman named Zig Ziglar and turned him into the king of motivational speakers. Then we created an entire industry of “motivational speakers” like Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Earl Nightingale and yes, even ME! Some added a religious element and we ended up with Robert Schuller and now, Joel Osteen. Then we pushed the whole concept even further and ended up with stupid books like The Secret and The Law of Attraction and folks started following abominations with a messiah-complex like James Ray. (Say what you like about what I do for a living, but no one ever died as a result of attending one of my seminars. And I won’t make you walk on fire or sit in a sweat lodge. I’ll just ask you to look in an imaginary mirror and take responsibility for the life you have created. If you die from doing that, your reflection must be pretty bad!)
So is the self-help industry a bad thing? And what about Zig and Tony and Norman Vincent Peale and Earl Nightingale and the thousands of other motivational speakers yelling positive platitudes from stages all over the world – are they bad? No. I like much of what the motivational guys do. Not all of it for sure, but much of it. So let’s make it clear, I am NOT blaming the messenger. And I am not blaming the message. The message itself isn’t bad at all, but we have bastardized the message and ended up producing the exact opposite result of the original intent. The original intent was to get people to realize that they had the power, all within themselves, to change their results. It was meant to give them the confidence to go out and work and use their talents to create success, happiness and prosperity. It was a message meant to empower people to becoming all that they had the potential of becoming. That message of empowerment is important and necessary and powerful. However, that message has sadly, been twisted and corrupted and in many cases, lost. We turned empowerment into entitlement.
Zig Ziglar said “You can be whatever you want to be, do whatever you want to do and have whatever you want to have as long as your believe in yourself.” That statement was meant to empower people to have confidence in themselves and to believe in their abilities to work and achieve their goals and aspirations. And we messed it up. It might have been our laziness that messed it up, or our ever-declining work ethic, or our sliding scale of morality, or the gray area of integrity that runs rampant among workers, corporations, Wall Street and government. Add to that our greed and unhealthy desire for more and more and MORE. Maybe it’s our demand for more sensationalism via our insatiable need to be entertained. Or our fascination with the shallow, inane and ridiculous. But whatever happened, it corrupted the entire self-help movement. Somehow the self-help movement shifted from SELF, which was Zig’s (and the others) original message, to HELP.
What’s the solution? Stop thinking about HELP and turn back to your SELF. Stop blaming others. Stop looking to others to save you. Don’t be a follower of the ideas of any sole individual, group, party or movement. Read, study, think and WORK. Rely on your brain and your brawn to create the life you want.
Again, one more time; my message: Life is your own damn fault. Your thoughts, your words and your actions created it. Your thoughts, your words and your actions can change it. Take responsibility for both the mess you have created and the success you have created. Don’t blame others. Don’t look to anyone else to come to the rescue. You do it. Not, you CAN do it. But just, YOU DO IT. Now. Today. Not Tomorrow.
More from Larry here: http://larrywinget.net/blog/
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The Wal-Mart Zoo
Have we turned into a bunch of animals?
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