Obamacare stifles hiring, thanks to the Flatline Administration

The economy isn’t dead, it’s pining!

Mark Steyn calls this “the dead parrot” economy, after the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch.  Despite the apologists for the Flatline Administration constantly ranting about how the economy is really and truly out of a recession, (No, this time we really mean it!  Really!) businesses still aren’t hiring.  This report shows why, and with what suspicious timing, the jobs aren’t there.

“It’s not pining, it’s passed on!  It’s rung down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible!  This, is an ex-economy!”

Maru the cat, and his friends the boxes

Maru, a cat in Japan, really loves to play with boxes, especially climbing or jumping into and out of them, over and over! If you check the other YouTube links, he’s done this ever since he was a kitten, and his owners have videotaped his antics for a few years, now. This video shows Maru as he encounters boxes that are way too small for him, and how he reacts to them. The bottom line is, Maru the cat really, really loves his boxes!

All the labs there are…

Here’s a picture I probably shouldn’t be laughing at, but it’s just too funny!

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Wheel Ballet

This is really awesome, I haven’t seen anyone do this before. He’s definitely got skills.

wheel number from E and M-P on Vimeo.

Hornk!

Look out, look out, OH NO LOOK OUT! <HORNK>

It’s true, “Everything’s better with Muppets”…

From an artist called “Spray” (whose real name is Jenny McLaren) and a guy called Ricardo Autobahn comes this tribute in music and video to that happy troupe called “The Muppets.”

90 year old WWII vet tells a touching story from the war…

WWII veteran Jack Leroy Tueller tells a story of one night in France after D-Day. He was an Army Air Corps pilot who was spending his first night there, while a German sniper kept shooting at him and the others at the makeshift airstrip. He was a trumpet player who carried his trumpet with him all through the war, and still has it and plays it to this day. He played “Lili Marlene” in order to persuade the sniper to stop firing. Watch these all the way through.

The power of music, indeed.

Sell the forks, Luke!

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