Photographic evidence: Jim Crowley, impressive, a gentleman. Barack Obama, not so much.

What can you say about this? Via Donald Douglas at American Power...

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.

More at the link.

I'd like to buy Jim Crowley another beer. Thanks, Jim~!

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Leon K. Lashley didn't get to have a beer with Obama...

...but of all the principals, however inadvertent, he seems to say the most and best. In a letter to Officer Crowley...

Dear Jim,

Would you be so kind as to mention the following to Mr. Gates and President Obama during your meeting with them:

One of the major problems stemming from the events of July 16 is that I, now known as 'the black Sergeant', have had my image plastered all over the Internet, television and newspapers. Subsequently, I have also become known, at least to some, as an 'Uncle Tom.'

I'm forced to ponder the notion that as a result of speaking the truth and coming to the defense of a friend and collegue, who just happens to be white, that I have somehow betrayed my heritage.

Please convey my concerns to the President that Mr. Gates' actions may have caused grave and potentially irreparable harm to the struggle for racial harmony in this country and perhaps throughout the world.

In closing, I would simply like to ask that Mr. Gates deeply reflect on the events that have unfolded since July 16 and ask himself the following questions:

'What can I do to help heal the rift caused by some of my actions?; What responsibility do I bear for what occurred on July 16, 2009? Is there anything I can do to mitigate the damage done to the reputations of two respected Police Officers?'

Thank you in advance,

Your friend,

Leon K. Lashley

Now there's a man I'd like to have a beer with. Anytime, anywhere.

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Kayakers take on Bald River Falls on the Tellico River

Just after the rains yesterday.













The guy took his sweet time recovering from this run. You'd think he enjoyed this episode of self-waterboarding or something.

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Changes

...did you notice?

I've booted Haloscan to the curb for now. They've lost all redeeming value to me. Slow, slow, slow!

We'll see how this works out.

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Vacation Post DAY #6

This should be a Thursday AM post, if Blogger's tools are worthy. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't work.

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Vacation Post DAY #5

This should be a Wednesday AM post, if Blogger's tools are worthy. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't work.

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Vacation Post DAY #4

This should be a Tuesday AM post, if Blogger's tools are worthy. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't work.

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Vacation Post DAY #3

This should be a Monday AM post, if Blogger's tools are worthy. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't work.

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Vacation Post #2: More Political Cartoons

I'm probably having fun. Cheers~!

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Vacation Post #1

From an e-mail I received titled "Political Cartoonists have AWAKENED". I'll be gone for several days. A few of these are scheduled to self-post in my absence.

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O! Baal

...the three-headed monster of latter-day American politics.

O! Baal is a [pretend] Christian, a demon. According to Political demonology, O! Baal (usually spelt "Obama" in this context; there is no possibility that the two figures aren't connected) was ranked as the first and principal king in Hell, ruling over the Progressives and the Left (and all of their overpopulated cities and states, located mostly in the East and on the Left Coast).

According to some authors O! Baal is a Community Organizer, with sixty-six legions of demons (known as ACORN) under his command. The terms "O! Baal", "Obama", are used in various contexts in the Mainstream Media, with the usual meaning of master, or owner.

Now, I go on vacation.

Later~!

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Brake Obama: or, CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???

Krauthammer...

Why Obamacare Is Sinking

What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality.

And, having tied himself to Obamacare, Obama's finally figured out he's in the swirly hot stuff. This is going to leave a mark. Why? Because he's egotistical and he's leading a 'progressive' movement what thinks they are now invincible.

It's all about him. Health care is his signature reform. And he knows that if he produces nothing, he forfeits the mystique that both propelled him to the presidency and has sustained him through a difficult first six months.

It'll be pleasant to see all of these proggtards take a fall on Obamacare.

Now, I do believe all Americans need to have catastrophic health care available. But we can't afford to cover everyone from cradle to grave with a single-payer health system. Especially when those wanting such coverage refuse to consider paying for it. Our country is not a socialist nation; never was, never will be. Get over it, Obama and your legions of 'progressives', and work with Republicans and capitalists to get some quality reforms that won't break our already strained financial system.

Oh, and please, President Obama!, stop bashing the police. Between you calling out the police 'stupidly' and Sotomayor bashing the firefighters, there's gonna be no one left wanting to protect and serve your sorts.

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Solar Eclipse, seen from Afghanistan; and Marijuana Seizures in California

A couple of nice images spotted while surfing the web.



Don't ask where I found the first one. I can't remember. But the second, the marijuana seizure pic, comes from here.

From Obama's Drug Czar (doesn't that phraseology just bring feelings and tingles of incipient authoritarian hegemony running up and down your leg? Chris Matthews, I know how you felt, buddy)...

The nation's drug czar, who viewed a foothill marijuana farm on U.S. Forest Service land with state and local officials earlier Wednesday, said the federal government will not support legalizing marijuana.

"Legalization is not in the president's vocabulary, and it's not in mine," he said.

Get you some of that, Liberals, Libertarians who supported this guy. (Have I said "Dirty Hippy" lately? No? I'm slacking I suppose.)

Oh, and nice finger positioning, outside the trigger guard. Cowboy Blob would be pleased.

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Henry Louis Gates calls RACIST!: Now set to Capitalize on Victimization; aided and abetted by Barack Obama

Talk about a set-up: the final question in Barack Obama's fourth Prime Time Press Conference (did you know that President Bush had only four Prime-time Press Conferences total in his 8 years in office?) featured an exercise in comedic relief* and, straying from his previously foppish and muddled answers on Health Care Reform (the so-called 'reason' for the presser in the first place) opened up the RACIST! AMERICA! IS RACIST! canard.

Professor Gates' arrest last week for 'accidentally' breaking into his own house (he somehow misplaced his keys and, after returning from China, had to 'jigger' his door lock; someone called the cops because, you know, it looked like the place was being burglarized. Then, Prof. Gates smart-assed the cop. That's a no-no, Prof, you should know better than to get smart with a cop.) unleashed a firestorm of racial angst. President Obama brought it to national attention last night, saying the Cambridge police acted 'stupidly' (what, for doing their jobs? For not accepting a smart-assed response to their legitimate concerns?) and that America was, yes, RACIST! .

Obama was smallified for saying that. He added further ignorance to what was already bogged down as a ruined press conference.

Prof. Gates is setting up for a monster lawsuit, following the proven tried-and-true course work defined for Leftist - Liberal - Progressive Victimology.

Next time you need to 'break in' to your own house, learned Professor Gates, buy and use a key hider. Or call your neighbor, with whom you might leave a spare key. Or something that bespeaks forethought. I'll bet if learned Prof. Gates had come home and found that his house had been burglarized, he'd have screamed FOUL! POLICE DIDN'T CARE IF A BLACK MAN'S HOUSE WAS ROBBED!, or some other police put-down. Because what this is is simply hating on the police.

What a maroon.

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*Oh, the comedic relief. I watched the presser. Funniest moment: Obama said ‘jigger’. Talked of 'jiggering' the White House door. Then said he’d likely get shot, or something. Brought down the house.

Couldn’t save the presser, though. 54 minutes of spin; 1 minute of comedic relief.

Next time, Baracky, bring a dancing monkey.

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"But What if It's Made of Green Cheese?" : Pink Floyd's Moonhead

From the blurb at YouTube...

Pink Floyd "Moonhead" -1969-

A instrumental piece used for a tv-programme on the evening of the first moonlanding July 20, 1969. The programme was a used by the BBC in between the coverage of the actual moonlanding -and was called 'But what if it's made of green cheese'. The theme was the first verse and the coda, with various actors reading quotes and poetry about the moon over. The rest of the programme was information, discussions and sketches. Later in the show, Moonhead was performed uninterrupted.

The music can be heard on the bootlegs 'With/Without' and 'Wavelenghts'. The song has also been known as 'Trip On Mars'.

Sweet. I'd not heard this before.

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Points on a (negative) slope

Forty years ago the U.S.A., we, Americans, put men on the moon. I watched that on a black-and-white TV in a gathering of family and in the company of friends. That was an accomplishment, a high point in U.S. history. We went back and forth, to and from the moon for the next six years. Apollo ended in 1975, and Man hasn't strayed past earth orbit since.

Yesterday, Man (granted, a small subset of Man, in a rapidly decaying U.S. city) carried on an episode of strangeness that marks our societal decline...

2 cruisers lead Jackson mementos to cemetery

Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News

Detroit -- Two hearses jammed with stuffed animals left in memory of Michael Jackson were given a two-car police escort Friday to the toys' burial at Woodlawn Cemetery, leaving police officials highly critical of the decision afterward. ...

At the cemetery, the toys were unloaded from the tops of the hearses and from boxes inside the vehicles. They were then placed into clear plastic bags and then inside donated vaults.

The cemetery donated the equivalent of three graves for the vaults. A donated gravestone also detailed the singer's impact on the music industry and the world.

Jackson's songs played over speakers as a service was held. "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" played as the hearses arrived and "Ben" as the service ended. ...

An exhibit will be established at the museum honoring Jackson, and some of the items left in his memory will be put on display, Smith said.

Timothy Vick of Ferndale brought a photo Friday he took of the singer in 1989. He said Jackson left a mark on his life.

"I think I cried more for him than when some family members passed," Vick said.

Let me get this straight…Americans buried (in 3 plots no less!) stuffed animals? Because…why? A perfect example of an exercise in symbolism over substance. Those stuffed toys belonged in a dump or an incinerator, not buried in a cemetery.

If I wasn't sure before that the U.S.A is in a terminal, Romanesque sort of shrivelly decline, then this episode would seal it.

We go, in some 40 short years, from putting Americans on the moon to burying Michael Jackson’s stuffed memorial toys. Points on a line that’s on a negative slope.

Hey, why can’t we turn this around and make Michael Jackson’s incipient burial not an otherwise mindless display of further strangeness, but symbolic of burying child molestation forever?

At least Michael Jackson’s lifetime craziness would finally end with some real accomplishment. Instead of...

Jermaine Jackson: 'Michael should not be buried next to bad people'

Michael Jackson's brother, Jermaine, is fighting to prevent the singer being buried in a public cemetery alongside "bad people".

...further degredations.
h/t Darleen Click @ Protein Wisdom

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DRILL BABY DRILL~!

California's head-up-ass State Government decides to drill to balance their budget. Large cuts to health programs...what, don't they understand that health care can be paid for by simply printing new monies?

Schwarzenegger's initial proposal to eliminate health and welfare programs outright was rebuffed by Democrats, but those programs - In Home Support Services, CalWorks and Healthy Families - face deep cuts as well.

The deal also includes Schwarzenegger's earlier proposal that would allow offshore oil drilling near Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 6 miles from the Santa Barbara County shoreline, generating about $100 million a year in new royalties for the state.

I told 'em so.

Oh, and ScribeFire, blow me.

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Taliban releases video of captured American Soldier Bowe Bergdahl

This is a 28-minute video.

The soldier is Bowe Bergdahl, 23, from Hailey, Idaho; a PFC with the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team stationed in Fort Richardson, Alaska. The team is a unit of the 25th Infantry Division that's based in Hawaii.

They've shaved his head, forced him to grow a Muslim sort of beard; seems they are hoping to convert him to their ideology.

Bastards. They've threatened to kill him if America doesn't leave certain provinces in Afghanistan.

They will probably kill him.

We should redouble our efforts to kill as many Taliban as possible. They are our enemies; they have sworn to kill us; they have enlisted many unwitted American citizens (you know who you are) in their defense, working towards their aims. This video is a psychological attack on America, hoping to recruit (even more! of) the American political Left to their ends.

It worked so well against Bush in Iraq, didn't it?

But the Left now has their President, who is Commander in Chief.

Let's see how he handles this. Hopefully, he will respond forcefully, and refuse to negotiate with our enemies. If he does that, then I will have his back. Because when we face a common enemy, Americans should fight together.

We'll see how Obama handles this.

Let's hope that Bowe Bergdahl is returned safely to his base. We must keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

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A Test Video. Not a real video, but sorta shaped like one.

From Animoto. This is only a test. Let's see what happens now... «click»

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Ted Kennedy's whistling this morning, ya think?

h/t Theo

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Also, twitterered.

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Hey There Obama (Drink the Kool Aid) : Saturday Night Let's Get VIRAL! Video

The Domestic Tranquility Act of 2010 has passed. It is every American's duty to drink the Kool Aid.

h/t @conniebrimmer

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Walter Cronkite, you don't get to see the "World Governance" you so longed for. Missed it by a few days, weeks, months, eh?

In his column, he repeatedly condemned President George W. Bush and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 1998, he supported President Bill Clinton during the impeachment trial. He was also a proponent of limited world government on the American federalist model, writing fund-raising letters for the World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions). In accepting the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the ceremony at the United Nations, Cronkite said:

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen."

...Walter Cronkite

World Governance.

Sorry, Walter, didn't happen, you Dirty Socialist, you missed it!

You worry now about that 'unwinnable Vietnam War', while you're cooking in hell.

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Arizona Senator John Kyl stirs OBAMA's wrath

I like John Kyl, and wouldn't mind seeing him mentioned more often for consideration in 2012. Senator Kyl has enough fire in his belly to lead Conservatives against the economic and social holocaust that is the Obama administration.

Case in point: Sen. Kyl, on Sunday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, speaking against the Left-winger Senator Durbin of IL...

STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm going to ask Senator Kyl that question as well. But let me broaden it out as well, because there has been a lot of talk this week also about the stimulus and whether or not it has really helped the economy.

You told -- you put out a statement earlier this week, you said that the stimulus ought to be canceled. But your own governor, Republican governor of Arizona, has talked about the successes of the stimulus in the state of Arizona, pointing to 24 highway projects creating 6,000 jobs, a weatherization program creating 1,500 jobs, a series of programs for child care and education that have all helped the state of Arizona.

So why do you want to cancel a program that your own Republican governor said has helped your state?

KYL: Well, I don't want to leave that health issue without, first of all, reiterating the fact that Republicans very much want reform, but not on the backs of the American people with the kind of taxes and potential rationing of care...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Done by August?

KYL: ... that would result. There is no chance that it's going to be done by August. President Obama was right about one thing. He said if it's not done quickly, it won't be done at all. Why did he say that? Because the longer it hangs out there, the more the American people are skeptical, anxious, and even in opposition to it.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And that ties into the complaints you've made about the stimulus.

KYL: That then -- yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And that brings us right back to that.

KYL: Yes. And with respect to the stimulus, I think it's now acknowledged, it hasn't done what it set out to do.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But your government says it has in Arizona.

KYL: No. What our -- look, all governors like "free money" coming to the state. My governor is no different. But the reality is that it has added to our deficit. We're now going to have a $1.8 trillion deficit this year.

It promised to create 4 -- or save 4 million jobs. We've now lost another 2 million jobs. Unemployment is 2 points higher than it was when the president took office. And even with the stimulus, it's higher than they said that it would be without the stimulus.

The reality is it hasn't helped yet. Only about 6.8 percent of the money has actually been spent. What I proposed is, after you complete the contracts that are already committed, the things that are in the pipeline, stop it.

You can spend about half of the money on the stimulus and the last half would be spent during the eight -- last eight years of a 10- year period. Why spend that money when it could be put to better use on other things like health care, for example?

And we're digging this deficit hole even deeper than we have today.

Next thing you know, Obama's White House 'Alinskys' are spouting threats...

In a coordinated response to comments made by an Arizona Republican senator calling for a the stimulus bill to be halted, the Obama administration this week coordinated a series of letters to the governor of Arizona, with the implicit message: put up or shut up.

Well, that's fine. I'm a 10th Amendment advocate; let Arizona do as it will.

The Federal Government is far, far out of control. We're almost at the point where States are meaningless. Look at Tennessee, here...of what use or value is our State Legislature? I pay little attention to their shenanigans; they've done nothing meaningful in decades. A showy bunch of 'tards, that's all. I anxiously await the next Tennessee Waltz.

Now, if our State had as much independence as the U.S. Constitution, when written, allowed, well, there would be much more meaning to 'local' politics. But with Federal encroachments, there's hardly enough room to maneuver.

And look for even more Federal controls over what should be State matters. Every time the Supreme Court overturns a State mandate, the tentacles of Federalism grow stronger.

Under Obama and the proggs, expect to see a push for more and more Federal controls, this threat to Arizona as just the most recent example.

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Pitchdork

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Sarah Palin's first OPED, in today's Washington Post

Just enough red meat to keep the various Ellsworth Toohey's in our nation frothing...

The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End

By Sarah Palin

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

Go read it.

The commentariat is saying 'ghost-written'!! Keep asking who ghost-authored this piece, O!bots. Please. At least we're sure it wasn't Bill Ayers; he's contracted to write at least two more best-selling novels for your Master in Chief (whose poll numbers are headed in one direction now, you betcha~!)

During and after Governor Palin’s national campaign last fall, the Executive Branch Ethics Act was essentially hijacked by Barack Obama's (that Great Community Organizer in Chief, who recently leveraged a move from the political cesspool of Chicago to the even worse tar pit of Washington D.C.) hordes of frothing and bootlicking anklebiters to file meaningless ethics complaints; all within the scope of existing rules, following Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' Number 4. Such filings (known amongst the legal set as 'slap suits') immediately started to bog down the system and cost Sarah (hereinafter known as The Target) tens of thousands of dollars in private legal fees. Sarah Palin can (and should, and will) fight better untethered by the Governorship of Alaska.

The Anti-Obama.

Thank you, Sarah Palin~!

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Obama MAJORLY SNUBBED in Russia.

Obama stands in line to shake hands with receiving Russian politicos and, one right after another, they refuse to shake his hand. The look on Obama's face is precious; yes precious, it is!

SHAKE THIS, BIATCH~!

(from Baldilocks, h/t Lee in comments)

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Beacuse General "Butt-Naked" is always glad to receive like-minded Socialists.

African Outreach. Seriously. No, not a homecoming, nirther! but rather an outreach to Africa to willingly join our ecologically-correct race to international socialism, on America's dime of course.

(I sort of like these "O!ther Tyrants of the Day" posts. Keep up the good works.      )

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17 Again, Mr. Obama?

Obama's "Week of Ogling" inspires this one.

I can't wait until his polls really start to tank, and we get the first look at the Presidential Pout®. Which should be unnerving to (President again, right?) Putin and General Secretary Kim Jong-il.

What a titty-baby man we've embosomed.

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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.

...

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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