Mount Porkulus: Ode To A Trillion Dollars

$1,000,000,000,000.00

In Honor of the new "stimulus" bill, we hereby dedicate Mount Porkulus to the 111th congress.

The picture above, Mount Porkulus, is the great big pile of money your great-grandkids owe the federal government.


Here is an interesting link, when NPR cared much more about how much a trillion actually is (during the Bush years). Now that their man is in office, I'm thinking they're not as interested in the subject...
It's an interview with David Schwartz, whoever that is. He likes numbers.

From the interview:
- A trillion seconds is 32,000 years.
- A trillion dollars worth of One-Hundred-dollar bills compressed and stacked up on top of each other is about 789 miles high (144 Mount Everests)
- 10 to the 73rd power is the estimated number of atoms in the universe. Not sure how to use that one. But I will type out 10 with 73 zeros here for you:
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
- A"googol" is a 1 with 100 zeros behind it. I'm not going to type that out for you.


Lastly, here at The Pantheon Journal we decided to make it easier for you to print your own cash, just like the government will do to manage this new debt load. And what a load it is.
Get a head start and print your own inflating currency, while a buck still buys something...

Reading from right to left...

Whoa, Hebrew web sites are a trip to look at.

This is the home page of the far-right political party in Israel, "Israel Beytenu", which means, "Israel is our home."
This party may have won 15 seats in the recent elections, making them the third most powerful party in Israel, and likely catapulting them to a place of critical importance, since coalitions have to be formed in Israel's government.

Doctor's Staff in Florida May Have Committed Murder

We incessantly hear about "back alley abortions" and "coat hanger" whenever there is an article on the legality of abortion.

But how often does Big Media trumpet the other side of that equation? The lives lost in botched abortions already.

This story is so sickening I can scarcely believe it's even true. If this indeed did happen, it is murder, pure and simple.

Buffalo News reports on Florida Dr. whose office allegedly killed baby after botched abortion.

Awe and Sadness: Fire in Victoria

Some pics from the incredible and ravaging fire in Victoria, Australia...

Click on any pic to make it bigger.

Some astonishing pics here as well, at The Boston Globe.

World Map

I just feel like posting a world map...


Warning: This is a 1:1 scale drawing. Do Not Print. Unless you have a lot of paper.

Tekapo, New Zealand

Wow, is this place amazingly beautiful...

Tekapo New Zealand...


No lights nearby means lots of stars at night...




And the same Church of the Good Shepherd during the day....




And, one of the best Porsche pictures you'll ever see, taken near the same place...




Click on the map below to go to the Wiki site:




And lastly, some very nice photos on Flickr, here.

And Now A Word From Our Sponsor

Well, not "sponsor" so much as "butt kicker".

I actually had no idea that the F22 Raptor was combat-ready, in production, and deployed (well only a few of them it seems).

This is the next-generation fighter-bomber aircraft...



Length 62 ft / 18.90 m
Height 16.7 ft / 5.09 m
Wingspan 44.5 ft / 13.56 m
Wing area 840 sq ft / 78.04 sq m
Horizontal tail span 29 ft / 8.84 m
Weight empty 43,340 lb /19,700 kg
Maximum take-off weight 83,500 lb / 38,000 kg
Internal fuel 18,000 lb / 8,200 kg
with two external wing tanks 26,000 lb / 11,900 kg
Speed Mach 2 class
Range* > 1,600 n. mi
Power plant Two F119-PW-100 turbofan engines with two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles
Engine thrust 35,000 lb / 15,876 kg

Geek out here, at the F22 website. Probably that first military aircraft to have its own website.

Your Tax Dollars At Work: Aborting Babies Overseas...

Almost two thirds of Americans don't want their tax dollars given to overseas organizations that provide abortions.

Yet that's what "centrists" presidents Clinton and now Obama have done and are doing, respectively.

That's right - the government takes a small percentage of what we all pay in taxes and that goes to abort babies in foreign countries. Just one of the many consequences of voting this man into office. I'll let you think about that one if you voted for him. I didn't.

Quotes from Gallup:

Further, Obama's decision to reverse the prohibition on funding for overseas family-planning providers may be the least popular thing he has done so far. This was an executive order that forbade federal government money from going to overseas family-planning groups that provide abortions or offer abortion counseling. Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's decision to lift this ban, while only 35% approve of it. The ban on federal funds to these groups was put in place by Ronald Reagan, but lifted by Bill Clinton. George W. Bush re-instituted the ban after taking office in 2001, but Obama has once again lifted it.

Full story here.

The Daschle For The Exits

Those nominees of the Obama administration are dropping like flies. Democrats excel at creating massive burdens of tax laws. Less so talented are they at following the laws they create.

This is a great quote that says it all, from Breibart (full story here)...

In a letter released Monday, Daschle sought to explain how he overlooked taxes on income for consulting work and the use of a car service. He also deducted more in charitable contributions than he should have. He also met with Senate Finance Committee members behind closed doors.

"It was completely inadvertent..."

I'm not so offended by a Democrat like Daschle - who led the democrats in the Senate, and was therefore one of the most powerful men on earth - would abuse the public trust by writing complicated and punitive tax laws, and then turning around and breaking those laws.

I'm more offended by the "oh, it was inadvertent" crap. And the red glasses. Those just have to go. Red glasses???? Were they a prize from that morning's breakfast cereal?