Titan's Steve McNair Memorial thinger at LP Field: Friday Photos

I thought was an embarrassment. Cheesy.

I expected large photos (you know, 8 x 10's or even larger) but what we had was a collage of small rinky-dink pics put together on a whiteboard. And lines of people signing the memorial books (which is fine). But obviously not much thought went into this.

Didn't make it to the Memorial Service at Mt. Zion. Hope it went well.

RIP, Steve, and prayers and best wishes for your surviving family.

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Obama sees only what he wants to see. Women's behinds, sure! Mountains of debt, not so much.

Last night, I posted a pic spotted at Ace's place, of our Dear Leader oogling what turns out to be a 16 yo gal; this cartoon from Sigmund, Carl and Alfred's blog (didn't ask) begged for an update.

Dan Collins taps Enoch for a pshop. WTF, Enoch; layer masks, man, layer masks~! )

Some other quick reads: John Cougar Mellondouche thinks bloggers are mean peoples. And he's a dwarfish socialist asshole who, without a guitar, would likely be inviting people into WalMart and polishing shopping cart wheels.

Be sure to read Iowahawk's latest masterpiece: Fans Flock to Mourn California, 1849-2009...

LOS ANGELES - Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession transported the eccentric superstar state's remains to its final resting place in a Winchell's Donuts dumpster in Van Nuys. The self-proclaimed 'King of Pop Culture' died last week at 160, in what coroners ruled an accidental case of financial autoerotic asphyxiation. The death sent shock waves across the world and sparked an outpouring of grief by rabid fans.

"I don't care what the tabloids and the Wall Street Journal say," said a weeping Illinois. "I still love you, Cali!"

Capitalism calls...

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Barack Obama channels Bill Clinton

Some uncontrolled Rove-ing eyes you've got there, Baracky.

Ace is wearing him out on this one...

He's even got "boner leg."

Larry Flynt just called. He wants his class and subtlety back.

We've always thought that Obama was the second coming of Jimmah Carter. Revising that to include, along with Carter's disastrous handling of anything economic, Bill Clinton's roving eyes (with hands to surely follow? ).

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Brings a smile to my stone face, #(-5)

Oh, and Baracky, if you're gonna fly your family to work with you, shouldn't you be reimbursing the taxpayers for their travel and mileage charges?

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Breaking! Exclusive! A Valentine's Day Card, given to Steve McNair by his mistress Sahel Kazemi !

It's finis. Nashville police rule that Sahel Kazemi killed Steve McNair, then did in herself.

There’s more edginess to this story than what we’re hearing, though. McNair was 'likely' sleeping when he was shot, my eye.

I missed the original, official press conference, but I did get to listen to Chief Serpas later on 104.5 The Zone, hosted by George Plaster(ed). A one-sentence response by Serpas to a caller caught my immediate attention, and sent my overly vivid imagination careening...

Just before the top of the hour, a caller asked Serpas about how they knew that Sahel tried to position herself next to Steve on the couch before capping herself; his reply was something in the neighborhood of “she was...in his lap...but in the interests of the families I’m not…saying any more.” or something very close to that.

Well, just think about that, and also as to why Wayne Neely (Steve's condo-sharing buddy) didn’t call 9-11 immediately, and thought only to call Steve's best buddy Gaddy? I'm thinking it went something like this: when Wayne first arrived at their shared love-nest, he just quickly glanced in the living room, and the first thing he saw was the two of ‘em in the dark but discernably buck naked. Later, after hollering “you two get dressed !1!!” or something of the sort, and no response was forthcoming, he went in and discovered the rest of the story. Panic, and embarrassment. What to do? What to do?

And, do you really think Steve McNair was asleep when he was shot? Do you? Hmmmph.

I'm guessing he was allowed one last happy moment. What a distraction that would make, and also explain the lack of defensive wounds.

Remember, this little gal was one sick puppy, and obviously full of white-hot hatred. &c.

A woman scorned, and all of that.

Sheesh. Today, every man in the nation who has a mistress is having a great puckering in areas neighboring their backsides, methinks.

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Steve McNair, if kept Between the Lines: definitely, a Hero. A shame those lines weren' t for a lifetime.

Nashville Post Politics, AC Kleinheider, yesterday posted a decent post (well, he's been known to do that on occasion. This was one.) that shrugged the pigskin from the local Steve McNair hero worship we've heard from Coaches and teammates (where was your Michael Jackson post, ACK? I know, some things are just too big to buck). ACK's point...

But let’s not get carried away with the hero worship here.

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Let’s get real. Kazemi’s background screams vulnerability and emotional immaturity. No, McNair did nothing legally wrong by bedding this woman, other than violating the terms of his marriage contract, but, my God, were these the actions of an upstanding member of the community?

For McNair to shower this young woman, essentially a child, with gifts, affection and attention, all the while allowing her to operate under the delusion, according to reports, that he would marry her, is the height of emotional cruelty.

Seems the NFL Hall of Fame voters are tending to agree...

Jamison Hensley of the Baltimore Sun polled 24 of the 44 Hall of Fame voters regarding the question of whether quarterback Steve McNair's career merits a bronze bust in Canton.

Of the 24, 17 said no.

"I didn't consider McNair a Hall of Fame candidate before he died and don't consider him one now," Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News told Hensley. "His numbers are nowhere close to being Hall of Fame-worthy.

Florio, author of PFT (the same guy who keeps an updated-daily counter, a "Turd Watch" consisting of NFL baddies in legal trouble) thinks differently...

There's a chance that, when McNair is first eligible for discussion, the stew of emotions and considerations could prompt the humans who'll decide the matter to regard McNair based on a blend of very good statistics, a high degree of likeability, and a tragic end to his life that more than outweighs any flaws he had. (That stuff at the end isn't supposed to count, and we'd believe that it doesn't if robots and computers did the voting.)

Keep it between the lines, right, Florio? Is that why your turd-counter-meter runs all year long? Oh, active NFL participants only, right? Their lives put up on a screen for just a few hours a week, for less than half a year, so when they are retired to pasture, that's gotta be kept out of their "Hall of Fame" considerations? I hope those humans with HOF voting privileges would be more considerate to integrity issues outside both the chalk- and time-lines.

I'd be remiss if I didn't give some thoughts to the circumstances of Steve's death. Otherwise, why blog?

I'm not going to bring in a 'third party' to speculation, even if there is a killer Rap ditty out there.

We have a very young 20 y.o. girl, Sahel (Jenny) Kazemi, who's been treated to the time of her life for the past few months; an Escalade, lavish trips, expensive who-knows-what-all; she's been publicly paraded around on the arm of a Local-National Hero. Does she even know or care about football? I dunno, but I'll bet those stats didn't matter to her. Then, Thursday night, things start to fly apart. A major DUI arrest in downtown Nashville.

Sahel goes to Metro Jail, and spends the night, likely for the first time. That had to be some scary times: Thursday Night in Nashville’s Drunk Tank for $5, please. Steve (having left her to go on to jail by herself; him leaving in a nice taxi) picks her up at 8:00 AM Friday morning.

By then, Steve’s probably remembering his own two sessions in jail (this time, featuring the same arresting officer as busted him in ‘03, and don’t I recall reading that someone reported they heard this officer stating he was ‘gonna get’ McNair, before that first bust? but that’s a different angle, but OH! the fondness of Steve's memories at this point!) AND the copious amounts of negative publicity he received. Oh, and the wife and kids are gonna find out because this is gonna be in the freakin' newspapers... thoughts that just might've (belatedly) put his mind to thinking, ruh roh, this is gotta stop ri cheer.

Steve might have told the young and super-freaked-out 'Jenny' that he's pulling the plug on their relationship, the goose is gonna stop shitting gold eggs; he’s turning (another) new leaf, yadda, yo. Go. Home. He takes her home.

Jenny gets a new (used) gun, later that day. First evah! gun purchase? Probably. (The individual who sold that nice trinket to Jenny is gonna be in deep doo-doo, and rightly so. I'd hate to be him.)

Something happened in the Condo, when Steve arrived early Saturday morning. All's we know for sure is that there were 4 shots, two to Steve's body and one each to a temple. Then a fifth shot. That's all we've been told.

I really hope the Nashville Police don't blow this one. If there is a third party, we must know. They are taking a lot of time to cover all their bases, processing evidence. CSI Nashville; if they find out something significant, different from the mountain of unofficial 'evidence' presented to the media, such would be beyond spectacular. They will get it right, right?

If there is a third party, I don't think that turd party should hold out hope that this will be a 'perfect murder' scenario. There's too much at stake for Nasvhille to have a grassy knoll.

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"We just put one of yours in the morgue."

This, by David Kahane, is one of he best Sarah Palin deconstructions I've yet read...

You know what? It worked! McCain finally succumbed to his long-standing case of Stockholm Syndrome (“My friends, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”), Tina Fey turned Palin into a see-Russia-from-my-house joke, “conservative” useful idiots like Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker hatched her, and finally Sarah cried No más and walked away. If we could, we’d cut off her head and mount it on a wall at Tammany Hall, except there is no more Tammany Hall unless you count Obama’s Tony Rezko–financed home in Chicago. And it took only eight months — heck, Sarah couldn't even have another kid in the time it took us to destroy her. That’s the Chicago way!

Yes, my friends, it’s once again time to quote Sean Connery’s famous speech from The Untouchables, written by David Mamet — the lecture the veteran Chicago cop gives a wet-behind-the-ears Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner, back when he was a movie star) while they sit in a church pew. “You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!” If you just think of us — liberal Democrats — as Capone you’ll begin to understand what we’re up to. And we just put one of yours in the morgue.

It's time, my friends, to embrace the Alinsky. Whatever it takes, let's do it.

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"Closed Coffin": A Monodramatic Rap Ditty by KaNe (oh, AKA Kenny Norfleet, the ex-boyfriend of Sahel Kazemi, who, along with Steve McNair, is dead.)

This is some smooth shit, my man. antioch's finest, KaNe, the 'boy' friend of Sahel Kazemi.

Yo, you, listen up. Punk gonna rap sumptin' to you, old man.

Closed Coffin

I don’t wanna be like this, I don’t really wanna hurt no feelings
but I’m only being real when I say nobody wanna see an old man collapse
'an old men have heart attacks, I don’t wanna be responsible for that
so let the shit go and walk away, you can still have a little bit of dignity.

I would never claim to be no Benjamin Tebow, an 83 year-old fake Pacino
so how could he run his mouth about me, knowing nothing about me I love it when a dumbass doubts me
until I pull the pistol out proudly, put the clip in his mouth til this motherfucker shouts, ‘please don’t kill’

Have you sippin through a straw for the next 8 months that’s if you even make it through it alive you dumb fuck

Try to stunt and front and fronting in front of somebody else
Till you're surrounded by 20 people with nobody’s help
And if you try to go incredible hulk it won’t work
Put so many holes in you your nerves won’t even jerk
Lurking in the shadows thinking and scheming will work
Got a little cocky so you decided to flirt
Now you’re flirting with daddy
You got a lesson to learn
Hurtin' everybody else now the tables are turned
And now it's your turn
time to feel the pain
Well a little of it until the bullet enters your brain
Are you insane? I'm the pushover? I'm the bitch?
You need to pull your panties down take a look at your clit

Fuckin's pussy, all apologetic now,
you just sorry someone's finally figured you out
How's it feel to play a game created by you
think your winning for so long and fuck up and lose
You a loser, just a class A lame
Over the hill need a thrill cause you question your game
you secure so you want to throw dirt on my name
got caught, now your lost with no one to blame

You lack confidence bitch? Well I don't blame you
If I act like a kid shit I'd be insane too

But that's what lames do: think lame thoughts in their brain until it came true
But that's kind of what KaNe do
Deal with the pain until he goes insane and loads an A.K. up puts a round in your frame and another round in your mouth for the shit that you claim

You're a shit stain
report his life in the drain
made it through take two now and you doin' the same
And you do it again as long as you can get by wit it
but I'm not buyin' it so bitch just try it
Your not gonna like it if you see my face
if you ever do it again I'll leave you right in the place
that you're standin' in.
And I'll put that on my life, it's either me or you, bitch, so you best think twice

I'd like to hear your thoughts now bitch here's you a penny
Thinkin' easy win, right, cause he's just too skinny?
You don't need fists bitch, if you got two clips

[unintelligible. And I'm trained at this. -ed.]

You don't understand, this is not the '70's
you need a new plan if you looking for longevity
you need to rest it's a blessing you still alive
well, for you anyway I could care less if you died I wouldn't cry
'cause you lied to me and my family
you're my closest sister so let me paint you a picture
If you ever do it again bitch I'm not rappin'
I'm getting a clip and clappin'
and I'm not laughing
They're wrappin' you up for your little trip to the morgue
while I'm preparing for my trip to the shores

Don't ignore me I'm not lying
I couldn't be more honest
If you ever do it again you'll die I promise.

Then repeat the first few shitty lines.

Yeah. (I tried to get the lyrics right this time; the folks at Nashville Post didn't do very well. They just didn't have the heart for it I suppose...)

This ain't the '70's no more, is it?

Someone needs some bar soap shoved down their pie-hole. Or, needed, is the key word I suppose.

What a load of cRap.

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Michael Jackson: Weirdnesses

A well-placed puck.



Is it just me who feels this outpouring is an embarrassment to our country?

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Feasting on Sarah Palin: Destructive Interference (or, what's up with certain Right Bloggers?)

I finally made it over to that monster thread at Hot Air (3400+ comments) where Ed Morrisey made the mistake of posting Palin contrariness. That post’s more like the AllahPundit’s wankery. I’m part of that thread’s history now, I suppose.

“…repugnance of that landscape…” Again, we, the repugs, will have to master the tactics of Alinsky or we will not have a chance. We are facing a full-time Community O!rganizer of such power and with such backing that to rely on wordy arguments will not suffice. We need a populist with our own sort of CHANGE; not a washed-up Romney or a houndawggy Huckabee. Those two had their chances and couldn’t beat a more-than-halfway-progressive old man with no fire left in his belly.

Will Sarah Palin stay afire? Not if we, her target audience, commence to feast on her not-dead-yet political carcass.

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Oh...the comment I left at HotAir...

Well, I haven’t read all 3400 or so comments, but I have one.

Ed, WTF? Do you think you are (or are you trying to be) some sort of yesterday’s old-school Journalist (you know, the Walter Cronkite sort of impartiality, or the “just the facts, ma’am” sort of neutrality) or something? Do you really expect your audience (’highly opinionated’ would a kind descriptor) to want to hear any negatives about anyone on our side? When we have the worst bastiche possible sitting in the Oval Office (NOT a good man, sorry, Patterico)…?

You are a Right blogger, Ed. Don’t interfere with the Right-side waves.

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Steve McNair engaging in watersports with Sahel Kazemi.

These were...ummm..happier times, obviously.

You'd think he was cavorting with family or something, the way he's smiling.

Oh, I brazenly lifted these pics from that guy what got punched out in Canada a couple weeks ago; you know, the azzhole who ran his faggy mouth at Carrie Prejean?

I don't like him so much, and won't link to his site.



Needs another black eye, methinks. I'm all up for obliging.    )

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Maureen Dowd is an Alien: and the Main Stream Medias wonder why their ad revenues are tanking.

Serleena O'Dowd: Once you've had worm, it's what you'll yearn!

Darleen has this up at PW:

Maureen Dowd … [Darleen Click]

… scribbles in the pages of the Gray Twat Lady

Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.

….with her usual prose; a breathless, noxious vapor and with as much substance. Dowdy’s brittle hen scratchings are revealing for what they leave out … that the unprecented, vicious treatment of Palin’s husband and children had anything to do with her decision.

One might think if Dowdy’s peers had treated her hubby and babies to even ten percent of what Sarah’s received …

Oh.wait.

Free advice, NYT... stop being left-wing bastiches; regain readers by losing your biases. There's no need for you, for that abomination MSNBC, for CNN and the rest to be carriers for Huffington Post-styled left-wing attacks.

A debate by 'journalists' as to how to regain ad revenues is here. Suggestions include a 24-hour moratorium on links to breaking news, increased copyright protections, and other First Amendment-unfriendly suggestions.

News, guys: that won't work. You've stunk long enough, there's no easy fix.

To hell with ya.

(Oh, you get one guess as to which movie I watched this afternoon on TNTHD... )

OH! And apologies to Lara Flynn Boyle, who is one of my favorite actresses (since, oh, 10 minutes ago... )

Let's see if I can sneak this in at R.S. McCain's Rule 5 Sunday post. I dunno if there's a sanction on alien skins or no...

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Sahel Kazemi (aka 'Jenny') looks like a Cheeky Girl...

But Jenny was not a Romanian; Jenny's mother was Iranian. Nor did Jenny have a twin. Nor breast implants. But messing around with a married man what has 4 boys at home, now that's Cheeky.

Just sayin'.

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Sahel Kazemi: Steve McNair's Girlfriend. He bought her a freakin' Escalade.

“She is the sweetest girl, and she did not deserve this. He was making her believe they were going to be together, and everything would be perfect,” Norfleet said.

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Norfleet said he and Kazemi had been dating for four years and broke up about five months ago. Norfleet claims Kazemi told him she was dating McNair and met him while working as a waitress at Dave & Busters. He said he was worried about her dating a married man.

Ummm, remember in my initial "Steve's Dead !!!ELEVENTY!!11!!!" post I said that Steve McNair was a 'family man'?

I take that back now.

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Steve McNair, and...Sahel Kazemi ? Murder - Suicide likely

Steve McNair's murder is taking on some strange smells. According to NewsChannel5, the young woman found dead with Steve McNair was Sahel Kazemi, an employee of Dave & Busters (an upscale video game - lounge located at Opry Mills Mall).

Ms. Kazemi was arrested for DUI just last week, in a car co-owned by herself and...Steve McNair, who was in the vehicle with her. Oh, and she was arrested by the same cop who busted Steve McNair for DUI back in '03, Shawn Taylor.

It seems that Steve was shot multiple times while sitting on a couch; Ms. Kazemi was shot only once in the head. The gun was next to her on the floor.

The police are not actively searching for a killer.

Murder - Suicide, at the top of the list. A 20-year-old plaything, recently busted for DUI, going bazooka and killing Steve and then herself?

WTF?

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UPDATE: Sahel Kazemi's MySpace photo.

More weirdness: Steve McNair was threatened by a young woman early Saturday morning at the Blue Moon Cafe (another young woman?) who approached him and claimed that he had slipped her a 'Roofie' (Rophynol) last year and said "my boyfriend is gonna kill you."

Oh. And Mechelle, Steve's wife, told police she hadn't seen Steve at all in the last couple days.

...UPDATE

“She is the sweetest girl, and she did not deserve this. He was making her believe they were going to be together, and everything would be perfect,” Norfleet said.

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Norfleet said he and Kazemi had been dating for four years and broke up about five months ago. Norfleet claims Kazemi told him she was dating McNair and met him while working as a waitress at Dave & Busters. He said he was worried about her dating a married man.

Ummm, remember in my initial "Steve's Dead !!!ELEVENTY!!11!!!" post I said that Steve McNair was a 'family man'?

I take that back now.

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Steve McNair found dead in Nashville: UPDATED

This just in...

Former Titan QB Steve McNair Found Dead

Fire Officials, Titans Confirm Death

POSTED: 3:38 pm CDT July 4, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville fire officials and Titans' sources have confirmed that former Titans QB Steve McNair has been shot to death at an apartment in downtown Nashville.

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Steve McNair was 36 years young. He leaves behind a wife, Mechelle, and four sons: Junior, Steven, Tyler and Trenton.

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More, from PFT...

According to NewsChannel5.com in Nashville, long-time NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been found dead.

McNair reportedly suffered a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide.

Further details currently are not available; check back for more developments.

He was a first-round pick of the Houston Oilers in 1995, and he played for the franchise through the 2005 season. McNair was then traded to the Ravens, and he spent two seasons in Baltimore before retiring.

UPDATE: The report from NewsChanel5.com has been revised to describe the situation as a "double homicide."

TitansOnline has more, including Bud Adam's statement.

I've heard rumors that the woman killed with Steve was his girlfriend. Steve was married...

This is terrible news for Titans fans everywhere. Steve played in games where most QB's couldn't get up off the bench, played in such pain that most men couldn't bear it. I've seen him take hits that would break lesser men, then get up and play some more.

RIP, Steve, you football warrior, father, and family man.

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More, from Breitbart's first blurb...Floyd Reese on Steve...

"I am deeply saddened to learn of today's tragic news regarding the death of Steve McNair. He was a player who I admired a great deal," said New England Patriots senior football adviser Floyd Reese, who was GM of the Titans when McNair played there. "He was a tremendous leader and an absolute warrior. He felt like it was his responsibility to lead by working hard every day, no matter what.

"I don't think there was a player who played with him or against him that didn't look up to him and respect him," Reese said. "My heartfelt condolences go out to his family, his friends and the many teammates who loved and admired him."

Titans coach Jeff Fisher was out of the country, taking part in the first NFL-USO coaches tour to Iraq.

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UPDATE:

The condo was rented by Wayne Neeley, a close friend of Steve's. Charlie Cardwell, Metro Trustee, owns that building. No word on who the female found dead with Steve is, but she also lived in that complex.

Steve McNair reportedly partied until after 1:00 AM this morning, at his restaurant. He left, and wound up at the condo. Whether or not Steve drove his black Lincoln Navigator to the condo is unknown.

The bodies were found at 1:30 PM. There's no time yet determined as to when the shootings occurred.

Police are at Steve's home, with his wife. No word on whether or not she is involved.

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Rejoice, with Vigilance

...because, well, you never know. Washington-based politicos are insidious exploiters working to bend us all to their wills.

Now I'm off. Holiday weekend, fireworks, water.

Later~!

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Sarah Palin: what's the story?

Will Sarah Palin stay in politics or will she move out and on? Is Sarah Palin choosing her family, her real life, seeking the meaning and day-to-day involvement in a rich and fulfilling private environment over the surrealistic cauldron of hate-filled politics we've stirred in hyper-connected America? Has Sarah Palin had enough of the photoshoppery of tiny Trig, the unmistakable, undeniable spewings of hatred form the Left, from the small-minded-weakly endowed Lettermans of this world? Is Sarah going John Galt, knowing that this Republic-nation is likely doomed? Will she now build a bunker in Alaska and retreat from politics?

Who could blame her if she did?

Mark Steyn has written the piece that I've found most likely to have hit the nail on the head...

In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".

Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.

Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?

National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.

Yes, and a grievous loss that would be.

(Oh, on that matter of the woman who photoshopped Trig, Linda Kellen Biegel, Democrat, party scion, woman (I think)... I considered a fashioning a retaliatory pshop of Linda Kellen Biegel, the ‘Celtic Diva’ who pshopped Trig Palin. Then I saw her face.

I've never seen a more fat, disgusting, bloated, homely, fat (if one were to punch her in the belly, one would be dodging biscuits for days), nassty countenance on a woman in my entire life. A worthy mate for Jabba the Hut (but if she rolled over on top of him, she would crush~!) Why do Democrat women of the political bent always seem to look like north ends of southbound mules?

Fuck her gently with a chainsaw.

There’s nothing I could do pshoppery-wise to make Linda Kellen Biegel look any worse than she already looks. My pity is great for that one. )

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The General Dream of American Socialists

~*~

General Ne Win was the Burmese leader of the failed "Burmese Way to Socialism"; a pogrom that drove Burma to disaster. Yes, he went about nationalizing industries. Yes, he developed a 'police force' (don't know if he called it ACORN or COI, the new term they're hiding behind nowadays). No word on whether or not he's rounded up 9 mistresses, but who could blame him if he did? COItus for the POTUS; Americans, line up, here come the truncheons.

A New Way, a CHANGE! to our way of life. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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LA TIMES "You Balance the California Budget". So, I did.

There. Fixed it for them.

Without raising taxes. Without letting crooks out of jail early.

What about "BROKE" do you not understand?

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Question: Which 4 Marxist Leaders all prefer Parrots? (Oh, and Welcome, Al Franken, to the U.S. Senate! Minnesotans, Stand Proud!)

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A new blog header, scraped together while looking for something newsworthy not mentioning Michael Jackson or some other dead Hollywood celebrity

...because that Carpenter Bee (while reflecting my thoughts and style; that of a worker not needing a hive to manage, and fuck whoever comes around here thinking they're going to get honey) just was a bit too nuanced for most to understand.

I spotted both of these images this morning: the F-22 Raptor c/o the DOD DefenseLINK news reports (I was trying to find out the names of the four soldiers killed yesterday in Iraq; I guess that's not released yet. But we sure know the names of the four or so Hollywood celebrities who died recently, now don't we?

Oh, t'other pic is that of Saturn's moon Enceladus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft what's still bothering Saturn. Five minutes of manipulation; voila!

I'll enjoy this one for a while I think.

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Silky Pony's Sex Tape?

Dan Collins has my pshop up at his place. I'm not running it here. He commissioned it, let's allow him the glory of the posting. Silky ponies mounting? John Edwards up?

Uggggh.

It's purported that John Edwards and whats-her-face made an unfortunate sex tape that's not made it out just yet. We just don't know if that's truth. Hopefully it's a fiction (see my pshop if you really want to imagine the consequences); if not, we hope that said tape won't ever appear - like that vaporous tape supposedly showing M'Chelle Obama raging racist! at the Trinity United Methodist Church never appeared. (I believe that tape existed, but "Powers that Be" made sure it didn't surface.)

We'll see.

Ride 'em, Silky~!

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Cockroach(es)

You should see their egg sac(s).

(For Cowboy Blob's weekly Weekend Caption - Photoshop Contest)

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Nancy Pelosi has 7 sets of Republican Balls...

...tiny, shriveled, and with absolutely no use or value.



And that other's thinger.

The Senate (that wonderfully deliberative body, (Now! with Al Freakin' Franken!) will consider this criminally insane bill next.

Call 'em, if you care. Or not. This, by Sgt. Mom...

After the great Fall, the horizons contracted, drew in, cities in the west shriveled and the great Roman works and roads crumbled through lack of maintenance. Constantinople survived and carried on with many mutated Roman traditions until it fell to a new tribe of conquerors, but in the West, the children of empire lived among crumbling remnants, and forgot the trades and skills of their ancestors, skills that were no longer applicable or useful in the brute struggle for simple survival. Gone the baths, gone the centrally-heated villas, gone the trade, the artistry and the law, and the knowledge of how these great works were even constructed, save in a few tiny enclaves, and among a pitiful few. ...

Read it & worry.

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Nine Eight Republicans voted FOR Cap and Trade

...which just passed, 219-212. I see only 8 listed. Kick the bums out in 2010.

Republicans voting AYE:

John McHugh, New York 23rd District. From his website..."ninth consecutive term in office.

During this time, Rep. McHugh has been a champion of fiscal responsibility; lower taxes; protecting Social Security and Medicare; providing stronger, better schools; and protecting America's farmers. He has also been a leader in the country's policy on national defense."

Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey 2nd District. Ugh. ly. New Jersey, armpit of America.

Chris Smith, New Jersey 4th District. "Smith has represented the citizens of New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District since 1981, when he was sworn into office at the age of 27. Throughout his 28 years of service, he has established himself as one of the hardest-working, most compassionate and dedicated members of the House." He's been there too long. Time for a boot.

Dave Reichart, Washington (St) 8th District. "Dave is committed to working in a bipartisan fashion with his colleagues in the House of Representatives to find viable solutions based on sound scientific practices that reach a balance between protecting our precious natural resources and providing economic growth in our nation." Way to go, Dave, you freakin' idiot. Hope you wind up booted in 2010.

Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois 10th District. "Mark Kirk represents the 10th Congressional District of Illinois located in the suburbs north of Chicago.

Now in his fifth term, Congressman Kirk is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and is co-chairman of the moderate GOP Tuesday Group and the bipartisan House US-China Working Group.

In Congress, Congressman Kirk works to advance a suburban agenda that is pro-defense, pro-personal responsibility, pro-environment, and pro-science." Must be too close to the Chicago Machine to dare cross Obama. Horse's head, maybe?

Mike Castle, Delaware "Mike Castle is currently serving a record ninth term as Delaware's lone Member in the House of Representatives. Since coming to Congress in 1993, he has worked to bring the common-sense approach of Delaware's bipartisan legislating to Washington, D.C. He has been building bridges and forming coalitions to find pragmatic, bipartisan solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing the country and believes strongly in returning the Congressional agenda to issues that really matter to the American people." Well, you certainly have a bipartisan record, Mike. Hope you are thrown out in 2010.

Leonard Lance New Jersey, 7th District. Wait, we already had a NJ Rep, Chris Smith. Are these guys twins? "Congressman Leonard Lance was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2008 to represent New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. The 7th Congressional District includes parts of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset and Union Counties.

Prior to coming to Congress, Lance served as a member of the New Jersey State Senate beginning in 2002, where he represented the 23rd Legislative District. He held the position of Minority Leader of the Senate from 2004 to 2008.

Lance was sworn in as a Member of Congress on January 6, 2009 and was appointed to the House Financial Services Committee, where he will work on a wide range of issues relating to the financial services sector and the American economy. " A newcomer, who hopefully won't return.

Mary Bono Mack, California 45th District. Wait...Bono...yep, this turdlet was married to Sonny Bono. Mary didn't start using the Bono name until after Sonny Bono died. "In 1998, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack was first elected to serve the people of California’s 45th District through a special election held to fill the seat left vacant by her late husband, The Honorable Sonny Bono. Since then, Bono Mack has established herself as a leader on such issues as clean, alternative energy, protecting the environment, improving health care, and protecting consumers." Protecting which consumers? Maybe the ones who pay taxes should've been on your agenda, Mary!

And, California. Who knew?

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There you go. Have at 'em.

House Cap and Trade vote TODAY: Al Gore's (Misanthropic) Payback for 2000's Election

This national energy tax, based on shaky science decreed 'settled' by Al (Chairman Planet) Gore, will result in the largest tax increase in American history (until of course Obama's National Health Care plans start rolling in); Waxman-Markey will cause gas and electricity prices to skyrocket (at a time when we can least afford to meddle with an already weak economy); and will add to our already spiraling federal deficit. We simply cannot afford this legislation at this time.

Per the Heritage Foundation, this... "Son of Waxman-Markey: More Politics Makes for a More Costly Bill"

1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.4 trillion
2. Destroy an average of 1-3 million jobs, every year
3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation
4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 58 percent
5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
6. Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $$1,241 annually
7. Increase the federal debt by 26 percent, which is $28,728 per person, after inflation

But Al Gore would be finally be satisfied.

And a hell of a lot richer.

Call - Contact your reps today.

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Farrah Fawcett: Goodbye, child.

February 2, 1947 - June 25, 2009

Donald Douglas has more, and links.

UPDATE Jeff G posts on Farrah's death, and on some other guy who died today. In comments, B Moe links this old video, Farrah Fawcett doing a bit part in the Partridge Family....




And this one, linked by geoffb: Farrah in an episode of The Dating Game, 1969.

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EXCLUSIVE! Photo of disgraced Governor MARK SANFORD with Argentine model Yamila Díaz! UPDATE: 'Maria Belen Chapur'

(I told you it was exclusive, didn't I?)

Tell you what, if that fool Sanford didn't have a companion of comparable beauty on his... hands, then he's an idiot as well as a fool.

Because he's Republican, I've given Mark Sanford a better match than I did poor Eliot Spitzer. At least Sanford didn't have to pay for his (as far as we know).

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UPDATE: Well, I missed the 'real' mistress (h/t Ace).

By a long, long, long shot.
Mark should've called Eliot, for his little black book.

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Another quiz...

Who knew?

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