The authorities haven’t caught him but so far, the Moundsville flasher (WV) has 1,199 Facebook fans.

Moundsville Flasher Facebook Page

The man has flashed residents of Moundsville , WV, seven times:

MOUNDSVILLE — A woman jogging on First Street was the latest to spot the flasher.

Police say he was, as always, nude from the waist down, this time with a black concert T-shirt pulled up over his head, “wrapped around like a turban,” in the jogger’s words.

And the flasher may be broadening his territory.

“Usually he is between Cedar Avenue and Grant in the areas of Second, Third and Fourth Streets,” says Sgt. Don DeWitt of the Moundsville Police. “This (Wednesday night’s sighting) is a little out of that general area.

Moundsville is small blue collar town, pop. 9,998 in 2000, located in northeastern West Virginia along the banks of the Ohio River. Home of the infamous West Virginia State Penitentiary, a favorite site of paranormal investigations.

Facts on Flashing or Indecent Exposure

Exhibitionism (“Flashing”): Exhibitionism is characterized by intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors involving exposure of the individual’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger. The individual with this problem, sometimes called a “flasher,” feels a need to surprise, shock or impress his victims. The condition usually is limited to the exposure, with no other harmful advances made, although “indecent exposure” is illegal. Actual sexual contact with the victim is rare. However, the person may masturbate while exposing himself or while fantasizing about exposing himself.
-Medicine Net

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YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

A neat bit of detective work by Judicial Watch and Doug Ross. Ross is to be congratulated for seeing that this is simply a clear illustration of one huge thing wrong with our system.

He’s also found one other nugget among the abuses: the military planes were used to ferry members of Pelosi’s family around the country when there were no congressional representatives on the plane.

Political representatives–in this case, Nancy Pelosi–who are so out of touch, they think it’s better that the military fly their family all over the U.S. at the cost of $18,000 per hour than to fly commercial.

Of course it’s better for Pelosi: Joe Sixpack paying her travel and babysitting bills is always better than if she has to.

From Un-frickin’-believable: U.S. Military serving as chauffeurs, baby-sitters for the Pelosi kids: receipts that will blow your mind:

Meet the Pelosi family! Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Judicial Watch uncovered thousands of pages of travel documents related to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of military aircraft.

What hasn’t been revealed so far is that military aircraft are being used to shuttle Pelosi’s kids and grandkids between DC and San Francisco without any Congressional representatives even onboard! Put simply, the United States Air Force is serving as a multi-billion dollar chauffeur- and baby-sitting service for Nancy Pelosi’s kids and grandkids — presumably because commercial travel is beneath the families of the autocrats.

Ross had receipt after sickening (if you’re a taxpayer) receipt where Madame Speaker has forced the military and U.S. taxpayers to pick up the tab for shuttling her kids and grandkids from coast to coast on the little people’s dime.

In some of these cases, there was no one else on the plane but members of Pelosi’s family.

Ross: “Here’s but one example of the Speaker’s kids traveling by military aircraft by themselves!”

Ross’ article should be read to be believed: an unending series of Pelosi’s abuse of the military and tax dollars. Check out the link [Un-frickin-believable: U.S. Military Serving as Chauffeurs, Babysitters for the Pelosi Kids: Receipts That Will Blow Your Mind] for more–much more.

Remember when she vowed to “drain the swamp?”

If that happens today, taxpayers are likely to find more babysitting bills for the chumps paying taxes to pick up–courtesy of Her Royal Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

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NEW OBAMA PLAN TO PASS HEALTH CARE:
TALK SLOWER and USE MONOSYLLABIC WORDS

Pity poor, poor Barack Obama: elected to lead a nation of idiots.

The president has a new approach to passing his take-over of health care: explain it in very small words so the voters–those morons–can understand him.

You see, that’s all that’s standing in the way of his glorious transformation of the USA into something both he and the First Lady can be proud of–for the first times in their adult lives.

Mastering this theme is the hilarious–but accurate–read by A. Barton Hinkle of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

From Hinkle: Talking Down to the Public Will Surely Work .

This is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people.

–Barack Obama, State of the Union.

There’s a lot in the bill that people are going to like. It’s just a question of understanding it.

–ABC’s Cokie Roberts, Dec. 20.

What are the immediate plans for recalibrating the message or intensifying the message to explain better to the American people what you’re trying to do?

–Question to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Jan. 20.

It mighty big of man with nice voice to take blame like that. Him not need to. Head honchos not often take blame. Most times after big screw-up, head honchos say they have “full confidence” in someone who work for them — right before pushing someone off edge of cliff, or letting someone twist “slowly, slowly” in wind, like tricky Nixon guy did with man who ran FBI.

Man with nice voice not like those other head honchos. Him bring change to Washington already, see?

But him right. Him not explain health care good. Use too many big words. Say too many compound-complex sentences. Confuse American people. American people not want that. American people want simple explanation. Simpler the better.

Me feel kind of sorry. It must really get on nerves for man with nice voice and people on his side, like lady on TV and cheerleaders in White House press pool. Why can’t lamebrain American people get idea through thick skulls? Them not know how to make choices in own best interests! Need enlightened leaders to make choices for them. (Enlightened = smart. Me look this up in thing called “dictionary.” Dictionary good! Try sometime!)

Read the rest of this spot-on analysis: Hinkle: Talking Down to the Public Will Surely Work .

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THE ‘BLUE MODEL’ EXPLAINED

Came across a very good piece on why the current U.S. government model is not only a throwback to times which no longer exist, but is unsustainable in its current form.

A few excerpts follow.

From Walter Russell Mead’s American Challenges: The Blue Model Breaks Down:

In the old system, both blue collar and white collar workers hold stable jobs, a professional career civil service administers a growing state, with living standards for all social classes steadily rising while the gaps between the classes remain fairly stable, and with an increasing ’social dividend’ being paid out in various forms: longer vacations, more and cheaper state-supported education, earlier retirement, shorter work weeks and so on. Graduate from high school and you were pretty much guaranteed lifetime employment in a job that gave you a comfortable lower middle class lifestyle; graduate from college and you would be better paid and equally secure.

Life would just go on getting better. From generation to generation we would live a life of incremental improvements — the details of life would keep getting better but the broad outlines of our society would stay the same. The advanced industrial democracies of had in fact reached the ‘end of history’: this is what ‘developed’ human society looked like and there would be no more radical changes because the picture had fully developed.

Call this the blue model, and the chief division in American politics today is between those who think the blue model is the only possible or at least the best feasible way to organize a modern society and want to shore it up and defend it, and those who think the blue model, whatever benefits it had in the past, is no longer sustainable.

Not only was the government model blue, but so were the successful big private companies.

As the old system dissolved, companies had to become more flexible. As industry became more competitive, private sector managers had to shed bureaucratic habits of thought. Lifetime employment had to go. Productive workers had to be lured with high pay. The costs of unionization grew; in the old days, government regulators simply allowed unionized firms to charge higher prices to compensate them for their higher costs. The collapse of the regulated economy (plus the rise of foreign competition from developing countries) made unions unsustainably expensive in many industries.

Some companies (like the automakers) seemed large enough and rich enough that they clung to the blue model long after the sell-by date. The result was a long, slow and grueling decline whose late stages are still unfolding today. They lost market share to more nimble rivals. Their workforce became old and expensive, and they were supporting ever larger numbers of retirees on the basis of smaller market shares and shrinking profitability.

These days, private sector blue companies can only survive with vast and continuing government support. Government protection from foreign competition (economically wasteful and illegal under our trade agreements) is one option; direct subsidies and cash transfers (bailouts and tax breaks) is another. Neither works very well or very long. Both are expensive.

The entire piece is very much recommended reading for anyone who has had the nagging suspicion that something is not right (which includes all of those people surveyed who respond that the “country is not no the right track”) but couldn’t quite put their finger on the mechanics of the answer.

It continues with a look at the ‘blue model’ governments–both state and federal–as well as the coming ‘blue model’ crack-ups. It ends on a downbeat, if accurate note.

As I continue blogging about the American future, one of the subjects that will come up again and again will be the blue crack up–we are all going to be singing the blues as the process moves on.

The whole piece is a very good read, especially for libertarians and conservatives looking for a bit of history on how the U.S. got itself in its current predicament and why the political elites seem paralyzed about offering any meaningful solutions.

One solution they might start contemplating: privatization of various government agencies to allow them to sink or swim.

If they are truly needed, people will pay for their services.

by Mondo Frazier
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From President Obama’s State of the Union speech:

“…if the Republican leadership is going to insist that sixty votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town, then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well.”

Stopping destructive legislation is governing.

It would have been better the legislation had never been proposed in its big-government, heavy handed way. That was one part of governing. Stopping it was another. Republicans will gladly take the responsibility for it.

The remark is one price America is paying for taking civics out of the classroom.

SLUMMING ON THE LEFT WITH BIGOT BASHER

We hesitate to mention this because it’s not usually our policy to call attention to the disturbed among us unless it provides a good laugh.

But every policy has its exceptions.

A vile, little-read (Alexa ranking: 8,068,752) site by the name of bigotbasher (no link, Google it if you want to visit) has taken to outing for fun, pleasure and/or profit those in the Democrat Party that are not beholden to our president, Captain Wonderful.

BB is particularly fascinated with the PUMA site, HillBuzz. And, BigotBasher is not happy!

What’s funny about the site’s obviously-funny (in an odd, not ha-ha, way) author is that about halfway down the page, there’s a series of pictures supposedly indicting the American people (Republicans?!?) for 1-some chick living on food stamps; 2-flooded houses, one would suppose from Hurricane Katrina; 3-the obligatory Gitmo photos; and, 4-a tent city.

Why these are hilarious:

1-a greater percentage of people who depend on food stamps is overweight than the population at large (quite a feat);

2-Katrina may hold an almost mystical quality to rally whacked-out Leftists, but among the general population, it’s so 2005. As in, it’s over and what should we do about it now? Wear sackcloth?;

3- There are denizens of Gitmo currently suing the U.S. government to prevent it from moving them elsewhere, dampening hopes that the Gitmo population will ever be considered as “true Progressives” by their Leftist advocates; and,

4-Since the author is enamored of Google, he should try entering the term “Obamaville” into the search engine. He will receive over 47,500 results with over 5500 images. One of the “Obamaville” images is his tent city photo, which doesn’t exactly help his case that Obama is the Lightbringer, the Savior and our Hope for Change for ever and ever.

Amen.

The site’s name is odd because there’s no recommendations for fixing anything–other than the usual “never trust an evil Republican” meme; lots of ad hominem attacks featuring the word “stupid”; and, for good measure, a lot of “racist” talk about people with whom the author disagrees.

Which strikes us as sort of, you know, bigoted.

So, our question of the day is: Does the Bigot Basher bash himself? And if he does and is a member of the BDSM community, does he enjoy it?

Like was stated previously: odd.

BONUS! The author also speaks fluent DoucheBag, referring to those he disagrees with as “Tea Baggers”.

We would like to award him the standard DBKP Prize Package of a one-way, all-expenses Cleveland Steamer while on his way to receive his handsome Cincinnati Bowtie! As well as a year’s supply of free Boston Pancakes!

But we can’t, as he is anonymous and the rules strictly forbid it. However, he is entitled to the recognition.

Mummy Dearest…

The last time neighbors saw 82-yr-old Patricia Bostrum alive was 6 yrs ago.

According to her daughter, Nancy “Sunny” Bostrum, her mom was away, traveling, and that she’d seen her mother alive just six weeks before the cops discovered Patricia’s mummified corpse sitting upright in a chair in her California home.

Sonny was a “person of interest”. According to the cops, Sonny claimed she didn’t know her mother was dead despite the fact that Sonny visited her mother’s home, paid her mother’s utility bills, and picked up her mother’s mail.

That’s all behind Sonny as she’s applied to run for city council, hoping to help…. the elderly.

Daughter in mummified mom case runs for council