Day: August 15, 2013

Building Permit Mosque

Building Permit Mosque Hat tip Tom Flocco

Building Permit Mosque — I recently applied for a building permit for a new house.It was going to be 100 ft tall and 400 ft wide, with 9 gun turrets at various  heights, and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment  sound system.

Building Permit MosqueIt  would have parking for 200 cars, and I was going to paint it green  with pink trim.

The City Council told me; “Forget it…AIN’T  GONNA HAPPEN!”

So I sent in the application again, but this time  I called it a ‘Mosque’.

Work  starts on Monday.

I love this  country. It’s the Government I’m afraid of.

Commuting Habits Have Not Gotten Greener

Commuting habits have changed, and not for the greener. While the percent of Americans worked from home has risen to 4.2 percent in 2011 from 2.2 percent in 1981, according to NPR.org, that is significantly less than in 1960 when 7 percent did.

The reason is attributed to the number of those working on family farms a half-century ago, along with it being much more common for doctors and lawyers to work from their homes.

Also far more Americans walked to work back in the day — 9.5 percent in 1960 to 2.7 percent in 2011, which it should be noted is half that of 1981.
And yes, the use of public transportation has dipped from 11. 8 percent to 6 percent to 4.9 percent.

Commuting Habits Have Not Gotten GreenerOf course what has increased significantly is the use of private automobiles for commuting when rose from 62.7 percent to 82.3 percent to 84.4 percent.

Still environmentalists, fret not to much. These stats apply only to those who have jobs. The real unemployment figure has been estimated by some as at 23 percent, still far higher than the still too high official 7.4 percent.

Commuting Habits Have Not Gotten Greener

Fred Phelps Quiz, He Was A D

Fred Phelps was a Democrat What do Fred Phelps of the hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church and the late Bull Connor of the hate-filled Birmingham, Ala. Public Safety Commission have in common?What do Fred Phelps of the hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church and the late Bull Connor of the hate-filled Birmingham, Ala. Public Safety Commission have in common?

They were — or are in Phelps’ case — Democrats.

Connor who, among other hate-filled things, turned fire hoses and unleash police dogs on civil rights supporters in 1963 was a Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama in 1960. He began his career as Democrat member of the Alabama House of Representatives where he supported labor union causes.

He ran for governor of the Alabama in 1938 on a platform of “protecting employment practices, law enforcement, segregation and other problems that have been historically classified as states’ rights by the Democratic party.”

Phelps, whose miniscule congregation became nationally notorious for disrupting military funerals, gay-activists rallies and picketing Catholic institutions,  finished second in the 1992 Democrat primary for United State Senator for Kansas behind Gloria O’Dell who would lose to Bob Dole.

Phelps’s campaigned for Al Gore’s 1988 presidential run and his son Fred Jr. was a Gore delegate that year.

Fred Phelps Quiz