Friday Funny: “After the Dentist”

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“I can’t bring back the dead.. ..but there’s an IPhone app for that!”

The Last American President

This item about President and Mrs. Bush’s secret visit with the families and the wounded at Fort Hood just came across my desk.  A great picture, and one more bit of evidence of the Bush family’s true legacy:  When the elder President Bush once said that he was seeking a “kindler, gentler America” he really meant it with all of his heart – and he taught his children the same sort of quiet compassion.

President Obama – Cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Well, one good thing

about President Barack Hussein Obama

is that those who suffered for eight years from

“Bush Derangement Syndrome” (BDS)

have now been…

Happy Anniversary!

We designated conservatives must be a light in the darkness, wherever we may be.

I live in a one-party neighborhood in a one-party community. All local elections are settled in the Democratic Party primary, not in the general election.  The last Republican to hold local elective office here was booted out more than 20 years ago.

Am I discouraged?

These are NOT Your Parents’ Public Schools

Public schools today are not the same places American children attended in the 1940s or 50s.  They are alien environments to those that went through school in the 1960s and 70s.  While vaguely familiar, they are still quite mutated from the educational environment of even the 1980s. …And not for the better!

A Conservative Teacher offers an insider’s view of public education with a pair of excellent, in-depth articles on how public schools work today, and how public education policy is created in Michigan. With our recent election battle over school funding in Washtenaw County, this Designated Conservative thought that A Conservative Teacher’s comments were right on point.  Here are some excerpts (click here or on the headlines to read the entire articles):

10,000

The Designated Conservative would like to thank our loyal readers for carrying this blog up and over a significant threshold: 10,000 pageviews.

For a young blog born less than a year ago in the disheartening aftermath of a disastrous Presidential campaign, it’s great to have garnered so much interest.

I would also like to thank President Obama for helping to keep our material fresh and interesting.

Some of the best Obamanation posts can be found…

From The Onion? VIDEO UPDATE: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize and More!

UPDATE 4:  MORE BREAKING NOBELOBAMA NEWS!

Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics

An excerpt from Marketwatch.com:

LONDON (MarketWatch) — In a decision as shocking as Friday’s surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday.

While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he’s been in office, the same clearly can’t be said for economics.

The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats.

From his $787 billion stimulus package, to the cap-and-trade bill, to the seizures of General Motors and Chrysler, to the undead health-care “reform” act, Obama has dominated the U.S., and therefore the global, economy as few figures have in recent years.

ORIGINAL POST:

From Reuters:

Obama is surprise winner of Nobel Peace Prize

Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:45am EDT

By Matt Spetalnick and Wojciech Moskwa

WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) – Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.

The bestowal of one of the world’s top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.

Obama said he felt humbled and unworthy of being counted in the company of the “transformative figures” of history who had won the prize.

“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership,” he said, speaking in the White House Rose Garden. “I will accept this award as a call to action.”

If it looks, feels, and smells like a piece from The Onion, it must be so, right?

Sadly, it’s really true….

The House that Americans Built

These are the rules that inspired the man who lives in the house that Americans built:

UPDATED: Healthcare is a Right? Since When?

“Rights” were once something retained by an educated citizenry, and the government was restrained by the Constitution from infringing upon those rights. Now, apparently, “rights” are things that the someone has and someone else wants, and the enraged citizenry demands that the federal government secure those “rights” for them.

Well, I want my…

Happy 233rd Birthday, America!

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events,

An Example of Courage and Leadership…

In case you’ve forgotten that one person can change the world, the Designated Conservative offers the following fun clip from You Tube:

Winning the ‘Race to Witch Mountain’

The Designated Conservative finally saw the (still reasonably) new movie Race to Witch Mountain last night.  With no time to offer up a full review for designated conservative parents out there, all I will say is…

Hot Air and Lost

WorldNetDaily posted this bit of Age of Obama/Bush Derangement Syndrome humor on their website this week (excerpt below):

It’s Your Fault, Republicans!

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She reduces her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.”

She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Republican!”

“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”

Galactic Core of the Milky Way – Time-Lapse View

Wow.

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Click on the picture to view this awesome time-lapse video sequence.

Details about how it was done can be found here.

Homeschooling? Mainstream? I’m Shocked!

This piece came across the Designated Conservative’s digital desk this morning (excerpt below – click here to read the whole article).   I hope that the conclusion doesn’t surprise anyone these days….  

The closest I’ve seen to surprise that homeschoolers are everywhere was back in 2002-03 when our (former) Mayor and (former) Police Chief pushed for a “daytime curfew” ordinance to make it a crime for “school-age” children to be out on a public street or in a public place “during school hours.”  After homeschoolers packed a public hearing on the ordinance, the Police Chief backed down and the ordinance died. 

Home Schooling Goes Mainstream

By Milton Gaither

Everybody knows somebody who is teaching a child at home

“I never really told anybody about my music at school, only my really close friends,” Cheyenne Kimball told People Magazine in 2006. “Then [school officials] actually aired the show around the whole entire school, and that caused a lot of problems. I was a straight-A student and all of a sudden I didn’t want to go to school anymore because of the things people were saying. That’s why I’m homeschooled now.”  Cheyenne, winner of NBC’s America’s Most Talented Kid at age 12, recording artist, and star of her own MTV show, is just one of many high-profile Americans whose educational choice is home schooling.

Movie stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, married in 1997, home school their two children along with Will’s nephew. Why? “For flexibility,” Pinkett Smith told an Essence reporter, “so they can stay with us when we travel, and also because the school system in this country—public and private—is designed for the industrial age. We’re in a technological age. We don’t want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn.”

While home schooling may have particular appeal to celebrities, over the last decade families of all kinds have embraced the practice for widely varying reasons: no longer is…

Jimmy Fallon does Ypsilanti on Late Night

Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Ypsilanti, MI local news…. (hat tip to Ypsilanti Citizen)

Click here to view the video!

Here we see the effect of Google on television – tightly targeted comedy bits for very specific audience segments!

“Five Cent Willie“… all of the lame stuff was worth that tasteless but very funny moment…

Republican Opposition to the Stimulus: Wrong, But Not Treason

The Designated Conservative was pleased and surprised to come across this piece (excerpt below) from a liberal, self-described environmentalist neighbor of mine who has clearly not drunk deeply of the national Democrat Party leadership’s Kool-Aid (to read the entire article, click here).

First, a personal note to the author:

Mr. Alson,

I sincerely hope that you do not lose your party credentials for writing such heresy, but if you do, remember this: With your thoughtful words, you did not leave the Democrat Party; it was the radical, Pelosi-liberal thugs that shanghaied the (D)

Movie Reviews for Designated Conservative Parents

Family-friendly and kid-friendly movies with a good message are becoming ever harder to find.  “G” rated movies are a rarity, even fromWalt Disney Studios - which once defined the genre.  “PG” rated movies are hit or miss – they might be appropriate for children, or they might not.   Worse yet, today’s “PG-13″ rated movies look too much like older “R” rated films, illustrating the “ratings creep” phenomenon identified in a 2004 Harvard University study.

What is a parent to do?   We designated conservatives are here to help with our special feature on this site:  Movie reviews for kids by kids!

Click here or follow the link at the top of this page for all of the latest movie reviews from the Designated Conservative team.

 

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