Keep it safe if you're out tonight.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday Photo: Halloween Party Guest
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Cold Coyote: National Geographic's "Extremes of Nature" Photography Contest
Cold Coyote
It was one of my last images of 2008. I spotted this frozen coyote on the side of a gravel road on my way into town. This is exactly how I found the coyote—frozen stiff, sitting up, at the side of the road. We’d been having temps of below -30C for two weeks. I guess this is part of the natural selection.
This image leads off the "Extremes of Nature" slideshow. See the rest.
Coyote Ugly
DOG KILLED IN SHOOTOUT AT DETROIT MOSQUE
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, known to some as Christopher Thomas, died after firing on officers during the raid, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. An FBI dog also was fatally wounded.Hate it when we lose an animal in the line of duty.
h/t Classical Values
Overshot the runway by more than just a hundred miles...
Heh. Are we now living in Atlas Shrugged ? Bit players in an Ayn Rand novel? So it seems...But as I am listening to the hearing on executive compensation and TARP special master (how crippy is this title?), I realize we are now officially living in a world that resembles an Ayn Rand novel. One man, one unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, has the power cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent in the banks the government now “owns.” A single individual is given too much power without accountability. But more importantly, this charade masks the fact that the world we live in has nothing to do with capitalism. It’s nothing more than crony capitalism. The government went around bailing out out automobile companies that were producing cars that people didn’t want to buy, bailing out banks that were careless with their capital and assets, and bailing out homeowners that couldn’t afford the houses they were buying.
Fiscal responsibility is forgotten when social needs are given preference...
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.Thus the fiscal policy of our current Government, that spending monies we don't have and can't raise, and using redistributive methodologies is good-man proper, well and correct. All to promote the social well-being of (as it seems to me) worthless clods who haven't taken advantage of their born-in-the-greatest-Nation EVAH! opportunities.
On a lighter note...
Dover AFB, President Obama, and a "solemn dignified transfer movement".
Early this morning...
One way or the other, this event provided a grow-up-now moment for our President, one that will likely influence his (hopefully soon to come) decision on General McChrystal's request for 40,000 additional troops. Without a hostile congress threatening to withhold critical war funding (as was the case in 2007, when President Bush introduced The Surge), without an ongoing uprising from the recently domesticated Left (the Code Pink and related ilk who dominated the media with their protests and flag- and effigy-burnings), President Obama has smooth sailing for to do...something.
Crossed to PW's Pub
Promoted to Protein Wisdom. Thanks, Darleen!
UPDATE:
Seen at, and promptly stolen from, Dan Collins' POWIP.
A dignified transfer is conducted for every U.S. military member who dies in the theater of operation while in the service of their country.I smell a policy shift.
The official party this night consists of President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart, U.S. Army Assistant Judge Advocate Maj Gen Daniel Wright, U.S. Army Special Forces Commander Brig. Gen. Michael Repass, and Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center Col. Robert Edmondson, who will serve as the Dignified Transfer Host Officer.
On the helicopter flight back to Washington, DC, President Obama thanked his military aide for arranging the trip, after which no one said a word for the remainder of the 45-minute flight.
One way or the other, this event provided a grow-up-now moment for our President, one that will likely influence his (hopefully soon to come) decision on General McChrystal's request for 40,000 additional troops. Without a hostile congress threatening to withhold critical war funding (as was the case in 2007, when President Bush introduced The Surge), without an ongoing uprising from the recently domesticated Left (the Code Pink and related ilk who dominated the media with their protests and flag- and effigy-burnings), President Obama has smooth sailing for to do...something.
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. In the life of all free nations, there come moments that decide the direction of a country and reveal the character of its people.
We are now at such a moment.
Durbin: Escalation of this war is not the change the American people called for in the last election.Some things never change.
...
I think today he understands not only the American Congress but the American people have real questions about his leadership on this issue.
Crossed to PW's Pub
Promoted to Protein Wisdom. Thanks, Darleen!
UPDATE:
Seen at, and promptly stolen from, Dan Collins' POWIP.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
NY 23: Hoffman can win. Even if he doesn't win, National Republicans deserve to lose!
Surprisingly, David Hoffman can win this hotly contested race.
Sure he can. Yes, he can! There's massive momentum on his side: ringing endorsements from Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Fred Thompson, Steve Forbes, and other Conservatives.
From the New York Post...
Doug Hoffman for CongressJust what we need. No, really! A party schism, where we Conservatives send a message to those GOP'ers who would drift too far Left: a nice slap in the face.
New York's 23rd Congressional District lies near Canada, far to the north -- but next week's special election merits attention throughout the state.
That's because the Republican candidate in that race, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, is the product of an obscenely corrupt political bargain by GOP bosses that sells out their party -- and New Yorkers generally.
Because of that, and because so many of her positions ill-serve the interests of New York and the nation, The Post today endorses businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee.
No, Republicans needn't toe the conservative line without any deviation. Moderate GOPers like Rudy Giuliani have managed to stray on some issues without wholly betraying their party.
But a Republican should adhere to certain minimum GOP principles. Scozzafava is just too far to the left too often.
And not only on social matters, like same-sex marriage and abortion. In Albany, Scozzafava has been such a profligate tax-and-spender, she can almost make Speaker Sheldon Silver blush.
With the backing of the ACORN-allied Working Families Party, she supports Big Labor's favorite organizing bill -- card-check -- as well as the federal stimulus, opposed by every House Republican.
Hoffman, by contrast, understands the dangers of unchecked spending, monster deficits and ever-higher taxes -- i.e., concerns of average working Americans.
Scozzafava is the hand-picked candidate of former state GOP chairman Joseph Mondello. His successor, Ed Cox, should learn a lesson from this fiasco.
Voters in this traditionally GOP district can send a useful message -- by sending Doug Hoffman to Congress. [emboldenings mine -ed.]
As with McCain, I'd rather see the true leftist win, the Democrat, rather than a Republican in Name Only. McCain was a mistake. Yes, I'm glad BHO won the presidency. The exposure of just how far Left the Democrats have drifted was a necessary evil. We will see BHO's poll numbers continue to reflect the growing disenchantment with his far-left positions as time goes on. If we can keep the country intact, maybe we can overcome the Hard Left Progressive shift at the midterm and in 2012.
We can't thwart a hard left turn by moving to the middle. We must provide counterbalance by moving Hard Right. Hoffman and the nascent Conservative Party provides the 'first strike' against the GOP members who want to give ground.
I'm strongly in favor of the Conservative Party, and against the GOP as it's positioned right now.
There will be no more donations to the Republican Party until we Conservatives can check their support of candidates like Scofflaw (sorry, Scozzafava).
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Joe Biden's VP ratings lower than Dick Cheney's (who is still a better man than 'Joey Hairplugs')
Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election. Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November. (Eighteen percent of those surveyed say they have no opinion of Biden.)
Biden's average favorable rating during his time in office so far is 45 percent -- well below the average 65 percent favorable rating for Vice President Dick Cheney during Cheney's first year in office. Vice President Al Gore's favorable rating during his first year, 55 percent, was also higher than Biden's. (Gallup did not measure vice presidential popularity before Gore.)
BIDEN: I would tell members of my family, and I have, that I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, if I had another way, another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.Stupidity like that is contagious, Joe. You should cover your mouth with duct tape and stay in a White House basement to keep from infecting your President.
Wait...
Monday, October 26, 2009
"Dithering" - it's the new Pusillanimity
It’s time for President Obama to make good on his promise. The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger.Why should I worry? We have plenty of time to decide what to do on Booooooosh's wars. More pressing is pleasing the victicrats we've community organized.
Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries. Waffling, while our troops on the ground face an emboldened enemy, endangers them and hurts our cause.
Besides, bball's important! Gotta keep my Bro in Chief image up, don't I?
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Victicrat
"We're going socialist now, so look at me and kow-tow. Damn it feels good to be a victim."
Heh. Watch this, and wonder: why are you still a Victicrat?
h/t Darleen Click
"Welcome to Government-Run Health Care"
Original caption:
"Mike O'Keefe thinks a health care overhaul would lead to more long lines like the flu shot lines at Cedarburg High School."
(Yes, I 'fixed' that photo. The original was much darker. Shows the power of teh GIMP and various scripts, eh? )
Saturday, October 24, 2009
H1N1: Government Crackdown on Man-Bird-Pig Flu.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.
The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules so health officials can respond more quickly to the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States.
The goal is to remove bureaucratic roadblocks and make it easier for sick people to seek treatment and medical providers to provide it immediately. That could mean fewer hurdles involving Medicare, Medicaid or health privacy regulations.
“As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic,” Obama wrote in the declaration, which the White House announced Saturday.
Theese will pay for their crimeses! Resistances will be fertile!
If you want to ride, don't ride the White Horse.
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When you want to ride, don't ride the White Horse. Ride the White Pony. #badparentaladvice http://bit.ly/1npkCt
Friday, October 23, 2009
Annie Leibovitz's Barack Obama as "Family Guy" Photo...the Official "Fixed" Version
Annie Leibovitz does nice work. Well, other than that Miley Cyrus - Hannah Montana shirtless photo shoot for Vanity Fair. But overall, very nice work.
I like Annie much more than I do Jill Greenberg, she of John McCain-photo ruination. And she's a pro, working on assignment, at that. Ruined her reputation, it did. Lefties are so stupid.
This family photo of the Obama's has sent the lefties into a worshipful swoon. O'Dub has it, as does the BAG. It's also available on Flickr, on the White House photo stream (where I snagged my copy). And at the rest of the usual Huffspects.
None of 'em, though, have the Official Fixed Version. There's nothing evil here, like something by Jill Greenberg, just a different perspective.
Yeah.
Now, Baracky, if you really care about your family, then stop trying to drag our nation into dirty socialism. Because if you do, your grandkids won't appreciate the bills you'll be leaving them. If you leave them anything recognizable at all.
I like Annie much more than I do Jill Greenberg, she of John McCain-photo ruination. And she's a pro, working on assignment, at that. Ruined her reputation, it did. Lefties are so stupid.
This family photo of the Obama's has sent the lefties into a worshipful swoon. O'Dub has it, as does the BAG. It's also available on Flickr, on the White House photo stream (where I snagged my copy). And at the rest of the usual Huffspects.
None of 'em, though, have the Official Fixed Version. There's nothing evil here, like something by Jill Greenberg, just a different perspective.
Yeah.
Now, Baracky, if you really care about your family, then stop trying to drag our nation into dirty socialism. Because if you do, your grandkids won't appreciate the bills you'll be leaving them. If you leave them anything recognizable at all.
Hello, Mr. Wild Blue
(Well, maybe not from Clear Lake, Minnesota. Wildblue is a satellite provider based in Greenwood Village, CO, with a server located just outside of Minneapolis. This satellite customer could be anywhere.)
Hope you liked it. Oh, and Thanks! for the visit.
Carry on.
Who Needs FOX News?
Obama’s White House Director of Communications Anita Dunn says one of her favorites political philosophers is Chairman Mao Zedong, the most murderous of ruthless dictators. Anita is exposed by Fox News' Glenn Beck. Barack Hussein Obama, he of the perennially thin-skin, becomes increasingly annoyed about losing a few (more) popularity poll points (they can't stand criticism, these narcissistic sorts) so by proxy he warns fellow Democrats and news organizations that they better ignore FOX News. Dumb, Baracky; why so smart?
Enough of that, says some journalists.
The aftermath of Barack Obama's childish tantrum? Maybe we'll see other networks start to wake up and cover deeper aspects of the political spectrum than just that spoon-fed pablum the White House wants disseminated?
Don't hold your breath.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Dick Cheney speaks out, spanks Barack Obama...
Remarks by former Vice President Dick Cheney, given to the Center for Security Policy
On abandoning Eastern Europe's missile defense program; running away from allies Poland and the Czech Republic and getting absolutely nothing in return from Russia...
What did the Obama Administration get from Russia for its abandonment of Poland and the Czech Republic, and for its famous “Reset” button? Another deeply flawed election and continued Russian opposition to sanctioning Iran for its pursuit of nuclear weapons.On BHO's flawed Iran strategy...
In the short of it, President Obama’s cancellation of America’s agreements with the Polish and Czech governments was a serious blow to the hopes and aspirations of millions of Europeans. [emboldenings mine -ed.]
The administration clearly missed an opportunity to stand with Iran's democrats, whose popular protests represent the greatest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979. Instead, the President has been largely silent about the violent crackdown on Iran's protestors, and has moved blindly forward to engage Iran's authoritarian regime. Unless the Islamic Republic fears real consequences from the United States and the international community, it is hard to see how diplomacy will work.On Obama's strange delays and his waffling in Afghanistan...
For quite a while, the cause of our military in that country went pretty much unquestioned, even on the left. The effort was routinely praised by way of contrast to Iraq, which many wrote off as a failure until the surge proved them wrong. Now suddenly – and despite our success in Iraq – we’re hearing a drumbeat of defeatism over Afghanistan. These criticisms carry the same air of hopelessness, they offer the same short-sighted arguments for walking away, and they should be summarily rejected for the same reasons of national security.Not only does Mr. Cheney call out BHO on his waffling, he also questions his spine and backbone...
Having announced his Afghanistan strategy last March, President Obama now seems afraid to make a decision, and unable to provide his commander on the ground with the troops he needs to complete his mission.And a call for real and measurable action.
It’s time for President Obama to make good on his promise. The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger.Then, Mr. Cheney answers the current administrations charges that the current Afghanistan quagmire should be blamed on George Bush...
Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries. Waffling, while our troops on the ground face an emboldened enemy, endangers them and hurts our cause.
Recently, President Obama’s advisors have decided that it’s easier to blame the Bush Administration than support our troops. This weekend they leveled a charge that cannot go unanswered. The President’s chief of staff claimed that the Bush Administration hadn’t asked any tough questions about Afghanistan, and he complained that the Obama Administration had to start from scratch to put together a strategy.Mr. Cheney then speaks of the terrorists who were 'tortured' and are now slated for release from Guantanamo...
In the fall of 2008, fully aware of the need to meet new challenges being posed by the Taliban, we dug into every aspect of Afghanistan policy, assembling a team that traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, reviewing options and recommendations, and briefing President-elect Obama’s team. They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt. The new strategy they embraced in March, with a focus on counterinsurgency and an increase in the numbers of troops, bears a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them. They made a decision – a good one, I think – and sent a commander into the field to implement it.
Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.
Then there’s the matter of how to handle the terrorists we capture in this ongoing war. Some of them know things that, if shared, can save a good many innocent lives. When we faced that problem in the days and years after 9/11, we made some basic decisions. We understood that organized terrorism is not just a law-enforcement issue, but a strategic threat to the United States.We've had 8 years of relative peace from terrorism, here in the U.S., largely due to the enhanced terrorist interrogation methods that are now decried by the Hard Left, orchestrated by BHO. Mr. Cheney speaks to that...
At every turn, we understood as well that the safety of the country required collecting information known only to the worst of the terrorists. We had a lot of blind spots – and that’s an awful thing, especially in wartime. With many thousands of lives potentially in the balance, we didn’t think it made sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time, if they answered them at all.
The intelligence professionals who got the answers we needed from terrorists had limited time, limited options, and careful legal guidance. They got the baddest actors we picked up to reveal things they really didn’t want to share. In the case of Khalid Sheik Muhammed, by the time it was over he was not was not only talking, he was practically conducting a seminar, complete with chalkboards and charts. It turned out he had a professorial side, and our guys didn’t mind at all if classes ran long. At some point, the mastermind of 9/11 became an expansive briefer on the operations and plans of al-Qaeda. It happened in the course of enhanced interrogations. All the evidence, and common sense as well, tells us why he started to talk.
Instead, they’ve chosen a different path entirely – giving in to the angry left, slandering people who did a hard job well, and demagoguing an issue more serious than any other they’ll face in these four years. No one knows just where that path will lead, but I can promise you this: There will always be plenty of us willing to stand up for the policies and the people that have kept this country safe.Go forth and read the entire speech.
On the political left, it will still be asserted that tough interrogations did no good, because this is an article of faith for them, and actual evidence is unwelcome and disregarded. President Obama himself has ruled these methods out, and when he last addressed the subject he filled the air with vague and useless platitudes. His preferred device is to suggest that we could have gotten the same information by other means. We’re invited to think so. But this ignores the hard, inconvenient truth that we did try other means and techniques to elicit information from Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and other al-Qaeda operatives, only turning to enhanced techniques when we failed to produce the actionable intelligence we knew they were withholding. In fact, our intelligence professionals, in urgent circumstances with the highest of stakes, obtained specific information, prevented specific attacks, and saved American lives.
Mr. Cheney, thank you again for your clear and present commentary.
After hearing some 10 months of Il Childe Douche speak from the Oval Office, it's always good to know there's adults left to speak truth to liar.
ACORN Philadelphia Prostitution Video: ACORN LIARS EXPOSED!
Katherine claimed that ACORN won! their encounter with the intrepid undercover agents provocateurs James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles in the Philadelphia office; that the two poseurs who visited their office were not accommodated. But, as exposed in this latest video Big Hollywood video, those claims were false. There was no police call; James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles were not asked to leave the building; they certainly were not "thrown out" of the Philadelphia ACORN facility, as was reported in various sympathetic media.
Don't you love it when the chattering left media is exposed as, at best, apologists; at worst, liars for the cause? I know I do.
See also: ACORN San Diego Child Prostitution Smuggling Part I and II
ACORN San Bernadino Child Prostitution Smuggling Part I, II and III
ACORN NYC Child Prostitution Smuggling Part I and II
ACORN DC Prostitution Investigation Part I and II
ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation Part I and II
h/t HotAir
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
McNair Truthers
CBS comes to Nashville hoping to unearth proof of flawed Nashville Police Department conclusions. Nashville Post Politics (yes, that would be 'Hard Right' Kleinheider) has a link to the Fanhouse, with this clippy...
Here's the video...
Watch CBS News Videos Online
I left this comment at NPP, repeated here because it's all I have to say on this for now.
Keep digging, CBS. Not that I think the NPD’s analysis will prove flawed, but we need a nice bunch of ‘Grassy Knoll’ conspiracy theorists to laugh at here in Nashville.
‘McNair Truthers’. Who knew?
And if this does turn on the Nashville Police Department, they will become the laughing stock of the nation, much like the Dallas Police Department was after the Kennedy - Oswald assassinations. We can laugh Ronald Serpas right out of town. Not a bad thing, that.
(Sorry, Ronal. I was thinking of the other clown.)
pretty big clippy, Kleinheider.On Monday’s Early Show, correspondent Armen Keteyian reported that his own three-month investigation (video after the jump) found errors made by the police, including a major one about when Kazemi supposedly bought the murder weapon. Police claimed that they had pinpointed the time when Kazemi bought the murder weapon as during a two-hour period when she was absent from work. But Keteyian reported that the police were wrong about the date on which Kazemi was gone from work for two hours, and that there are major questions about whether she purchased the gun at all.
And while police say Kazemi was distraught about being broke, CBS obtained her bank statement and other information about her finances and found that she had more money on hand than she owed in bills. Police also said Kazemi was angry about having been arrested for DUI, but CBS uncovered video footage showing Kazemi at the police http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=11341940 station after her arrest, and she doesn’t look distraught.
On Tuesday, CBS is promising to reveal a “big” mistake that the police department made in the investigation. Keteyian’s reporting has already revealed enough to make me think the police have a lot of explaining to do.
Here's the video...
Watch CBS News Videos Online
I left this comment at NPP, repeated here because it's all I have to say on this for now.
Keep digging, CBS. Not that I think the NPD’s analysis will prove flawed, but we need a nice bunch of ‘Grassy Knoll’ conspiracy theorists to laugh at here in Nashville.
‘McNair Truthers’. Who knew?
And if this does turn on the Nashville Police Department, they will become the laughing stock of the nation, much like the Dallas Police Department was after the Kennedy - Oswald assassinations. We can laugh Ronald Serpas right out of town. Not a bad thing, that.
(Sorry, Ronal. I was thinking of the other clown.)
Oh. If CBS does put a hit on the NPD, this is what it'll look like...
(I was looking for an excuse to post that video!)
Monday, October 19, 2009
U.S. heading to Banana Republic status? Yes, says Senator Judd Gregg
Senator Gregg is described as "a leading fiscal mind on Capitol Hill and a one-time Obama Cabinet pick", so he's no volcanic partisan. Speaking of the projected $1.42 trillion US Operating deficit for 2009 alone, Sen. Gregg:
“This deficit is driven by us,” [Congress of the United States,] “that we’re creating these massive debts which we’re passing on to our children. We’re going to undermine fundamentally the quality of life for our children by doing this.”
“Now you can’t blame that on George Bush,”
[The figures] “mean we’re basically on the path to a banana-republic-type of financial situation in this country. And you just can’t do that. You can’t keep running these [federal] programs out [into the future] and not paying for them. And you can’t keep throwing debt on top of debt.”
“Standards of living will drop if we keep this up,”
[Health care options mean] “a huge expansion of government.”
“You’re talking about taking the government and increasing it by $1-$2 trillion over the next ten years,”Fiscal conservatism. Sort of a rare thing to hear in the U.S. Senate, and never dared spoken by Democrats.
Listen to Judd Gregg speak with Fred Thompson.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
How about let's not see that "Oil Derrick" stuck on the Titan's helmets anymore?
I remember way back in 6th grade, when I was a nascent footballer. Everyone had their favorite teams: Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Raiders, Denver Broncos; you know, western teams. The Cowboys were the popular favorite (we were living in cattle country after all). The Broncs had their fan set. Me, I liked the Raiders. I guess the bad-boy imagery was calling out to me even then.I can't remember anyone who was a fan of the Houston Oilers. Seems they didn't win so many games. Not a popular choice, even the butt of some schoolyard jokes..
Now, seeing these NFL 50 year anniversary retro uniforms, the throwback jerseys, these 'Oil Derrick' logos on the player's helmets, it's bringing back bad memories. I didn't like 'em them, I don't like 'em now.
Especially after they were right there, dubiously displayed, high and ugly and out of place, present during today's 59-0 drubbing in the snow at New England. The worst loss in Titans (sorry, Oilers) history.
I've never seen a worse performance on a football field in my life...except maybe back in the 6th grade.
Come on, now. This is pathetic.
Fisher, you need some time off, a recharge. There's no way you're the same Jeff Fisher out there on the sideline in that snowstorm today as the one who fought so many tough games as I've watched you coach.
Charles Johnson: Comedy, Parody, and Satire enable web artists to leave their marks
BITE ME! Comics presents...: Chuck Johnson - Race Detective vol. I
Especially well-done. Kudos to the authors!
Especially well-done. Kudos to the authors!
The Goldstone Report
I just haven't followed the Middle East quagmire as well as I should, at least not lately.
This Israel-bashing Goldstone Report, sanctioned by the UN's Human Rights Council, is nothing more than a hit piece on Israel. So what else is new?
This HRC 'report' was significantly flawed right from the start. There was no mandate that Hamas would be investigated; only Israel was chosen as the prime target of this fundamentally biased, politically motivated hatchet job, the result of which is another UN attempt to keep Israel from defending herself against terrorism.
The December-January '08 Israeli incursion into Gaza was the direct result of Hamas having, over the course of 8 years, fired over 12,000 missiles into southern Israel. To ignore the crimes of Hamas, as the United Nations' 'Human Rights' Council does, diminished the standing of this report before it was ever written: this report, as a result of the HRC's bias, is less than a joke. Barack Hussein Obama was right to disdain and disregard this. He at least has a peace process in the works, and such a document as this doesn't serve to move that effort forward.
Has not the 'Human Rights' Council not written more reports condemning Israel than any other nation in it's entire history of existence? Then, after the UN picked over the 'best parts' and chose language condemning only Israel, report lead Goldstone himself condemned the UN for misreading the 'Human Rights' Council Report and condemning Israel and not Hamas...
Hamas is a terrorist organization. The UN is enabling this terrorist organization by continually appointing flawed organs such as the HRC to write a worthless report, then use only a part of it to condemn Israel for defending herself. This process cherry picking the results undermines what little credibility the UN - HRC has.
Palestine is Jordan, that's the concept that should be advanced; Jordan should accept HAMAS and Gazans as nationals, allow them to migrate there and move the Middle East peace process forward. There is no Palestine in Israel.
I don't think Israel will be going anywhere anytime soon, and Obama, while being the source of frightful mistakes, won't completely turn his back on Israel. I'm pleased to see that much from him, at least so far. Credit where credit's due, and all of that.
This Israel-bashing Goldstone Report, sanctioned by the UN's Human Rights Council, is nothing more than a hit piece on Israel. So what else is new?
This HRC 'report' was significantly flawed right from the start. There was no mandate that Hamas would be investigated; only Israel was chosen as the prime target of this fundamentally biased, politically motivated hatchet job, the result of which is another UN attempt to keep Israel from defending herself against terrorism.
The December-January '08 Israeli incursion into Gaza was the direct result of Hamas having, over the course of 8 years, fired over 12,000 missiles into southern Israel. To ignore the crimes of Hamas, as the United Nations' 'Human Rights' Council does, diminished the standing of this report before it was ever written: this report, as a result of the HRC's bias, is less than a joke. Barack Hussein Obama was right to disdain and disregard this. He at least has a peace process in the works, and such a document as this doesn't serve to move that effort forward.
Has not the 'Human Rights' Council not written more reports condemning Israel than any other nation in it's entire history of existence? Then, after the UN picked over the 'best parts' and chose language condemning only Israel, report lead Goldstone himself condemned the UN for misreading the 'Human Rights' Council Report and condemning Israel and not Hamas...
"This draft resolution saddens me as it includes only allegations against Israel. There is not a single phrase condemning Hamas as we have done in the report. I hope that the council can modify the text," he said in remarks published in Swiss newspaper Le Temps.Why did the UN fail to mention Hamas' using civilians as human shields? Nor any mention of Hamas placing their rocket launchers in Mosques and schools? Of Hamas hiding their operatives in the garb and company of civilians?
Hamas is a terrorist organization. The UN is enabling this terrorist organization by continually appointing flawed organs such as the HRC to write a worthless report, then use only a part of it to condemn Israel for defending herself. This process cherry picking the results undermines what little credibility the UN - HRC has.
Palestine is Jordan, that's the concept that should be advanced; Jordan should accept HAMAS and Gazans as nationals, allow them to migrate there and move the Middle East peace process forward. There is no Palestine in Israel.
I don't think Israel will be going anywhere anytime soon, and Obama, while being the source of frightful mistakes, won't completely turn his back on Israel. I'm pleased to see that much from him, at least so far. Credit where credit's due, and all of that.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday Photo
Wow, forgot about posting these. But I'm extremely busy today.
In Arizona's White Mountains, aspens (above 8000' elevation, natch) are the first trees to return after a forest fire. I took this in 2006 I think, maybe 2005.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Jamie Foxx wants to see Roman Polanski rotting in a jail cell...
Wow.Foxx Rages Over Polanski Case
Hollywood actor JAMIE FOXX has called for convicted sex offender ROMAN POLANSKI to finally face justice - insisting he would want revenge if his own teenage daughter had fallen prey to the director.
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“If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager - my daughter is 15 - Roman Polanski would be missing… period. It wouldn’t even get to the court case. But, that’s me and I wouldn’t want anyone else to follow that because you should let the justice system work it out. This whole issue is bigger than Roman Polanski.”
You think Hollyweird will let him stay?
h/t Melissa Grant (it would do you very well to visit that link. Just sayin'... )
From Legal Scholars to 'Another' Legal 'Scholar': "Mr. President, Hands Off that Nobel Prize!"
Because the U.S. Constitution forbids you to accept it.
So, Mr. President, Mr. Harvard Law Professor what edited the Harvard Law Review, please to pick up the Constitution and read it for yourself. Spend some time studying the thing, and not with an eye as to how to change it to suit your far-Lefty Progressive desires. Study it as a limiting framework designed to curb your (and any elected official's) tendency to overreach, because that's exactly the intent that the founders wrote in to it; to limit the powers of the people who are elected to serve as our nation's representatives, and to delineate the framework under which they (and you) can accept barely-concealed bribes.
Oh, and remember, your Oath of Office? That's really binding, you know.
h/t Liz Blaine
Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."So, giving BHO an award for deeds he hasn't yet committed does seem to be a yoke around his neck, a controlling influence, a preemptive feint within a feint within a feint; a (as I've said before) trap designed to snare a monstrously inflated ego. "I'll have my bauble, and eat it too!"
The award of the peace prize to a sitting president is not unprecedented. But Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson received the honor for their past actions: Roosevelt's efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, and Wilson's work in establishing the League of Nations. Obama's award is different. It is intended to affect future action. As a member of the Nobel Committee explained, the prize should encourage Obama to meet his goal of nuclear disarmament. It raises important legal questions for the second time in less than 10 months -- questions not discussed, much less adequately addressed anywhere else.
The five-member Nobel commission is elected by the Storting, the parliament of Norway. Thus the award of the peace prize is made by a body representing the legislature of a sovereign foreign state. There is no doubt that the Nobel Peace Prize is an "emolument" ("gain from employment or position," according to Webster).[emboldening mine -ed.]
So, Mr. President, Mr. Harvard Law Professor what edited the Harvard Law Review, please to pick up the Constitution and read it for yourself. Spend some time studying the thing, and not with an eye as to how to change it to suit your far-Lefty Progressive desires. Study it as a limiting framework designed to curb your (and any elected official's) tendency to overreach, because that's exactly the intent that the founders wrote in to it; to limit the powers of the people who are elected to serve as our nation's representatives, and to delineate the framework under which they (and you) can accept barely-concealed bribes.
Oh, and remember, your Oath of Office? That's really binding, you know.
h/t Liz Blaine
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Fun with Meghan McCain
Poor lil' Meghan McCain is having a twitter breakdown. @Mccainblogette posted a twitter picture that's roiled the service, resulting with Ms. McCain boo-hooing about the evils of Conservative Republicans who won't accept her leftish ways. She's even threatened to quit Twitter.
Meghan's derided and abused Conservatives such as Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter (who hasn't much responded to her young tarty tormentor, but when she does, I'm thinking Ms. McCain will be torn ragged and bloody, as Michelle Malkin's already done for her).
So, what's up with the pic that's riled the Twitterverse? Here's the original.
Ummmm, my take... as usual, clicky to embiggen.
She's blocked me, the little Charles Johnson, but of no matter. This'll leave a mark. )
Meghan's derided and abused Conservatives such as Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter (who hasn't much responded to her young tarty tormentor, but when she does, I'm thinking Ms. McCain will be torn ragged and bloody, as Michelle Malkin's already done for her).
So, what's up with the pic that's riled the Twitterverse? Here's the original.
Ummmm, my take... as usual, clicky to embiggen.
cross-posted to the PW Pub
UPDATE
RS McCain has more, including some of Meghan's insults. Meghan McCain is NOT a victim! The Other McCain: Well, cuz, there's a reason they're called 'TwitPics' you know . . .
John Edwards quicky ...
Ummm, Elizabeth, aren't you directing your anger at the wrong party here??
Rielle Hunter didn't do the wrong. Methinks you are washing the wrong pussy.
Some Things Never Change part 3.1415927...
From my earlier Remember Frank Zappa! post, I linked a .pdf file of The Tech (MIT's Oldest and Largest Newspaper). While perusing that paper, I found this article written by Dr. Brooks Mendell, covering the then-ongoing "Hillary Clinton HillaryCare" debate...
At least Bill Clinton (well, Hillary; Bill was...probably busy ordering pizzas) involved the existing health insurance industry, was respectful to their concerns, and wasn't trying to destroy them.
This current administration, not so much.
Managed Health Care Not An Insurmountable HurdleNow, today, we see full-out war against the insurance industry, led by Barack Hussein Obama's (no friend of mine) White House. Since PricewaterhouseCoopers' analysis (PwC released a non-partisan study suggesting that the O!'s plan would significantly increase the cost of purchased Health Insurance to those of us who already have health insurance, by about $4000 per year...), there's been a ratcheting of rhetoric against health insurers.
Guest Column by Brooks Mendell
The Clinton health care reform plan has ingeniously mated universal coverage with an insurance company preservation plan. In contrast, those who prefer the single-payer plan, a system of government-financed national coverage, would like to see insurance companies go out of business. That's un-American. In fact, it's Canadian. Like most Americans, I love my insurance company. Do you know Lloyd of London? He's a good friend of mine.
The Clinton Plan hopes to make consumers conscious of their care's true cost and, by fostering competition, to cut expenditures and offer better service. If competition does not drive down costs, mandatory ceilings on the growth of insurance premiums would aim to keep total spending in line with the growth of the economy.
According to Marcia Angell, the New England Journal of Medicine's executive director (and no friend of mine), "it is highly doubtful that managed competition could contain costs while maintaining quality." Angell seems to think that these plans might collude to raise prices instead of competing to lower them. And if they did compete, they could do so by stinting on services.
In supporting a single-payer system, Angell and the New England Journal of Medicine, 90 representatives and six senators, the Consumer's Union and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, the American Public Health Association, and 5,500 members of Physicians for a National Health Program show a clear disrespect and disdain for insurance companies. After all, without insurance companies, we wouldn't have insurance.
The goals of universal health care are simple: guarantee every American basic health insurance, and control health care costs. Freedom of choice is secondary. Yes, when you join a managed care plan, you may have to switch doctors and choose from a small group selected by administrators. But understand that managed care isn't profitable without administrative efficiency, so plans can't deal with too many doctors..
Under the current system, insurance companies profit by skimming a percentage off the top of all health care dollars, kind of like a casino. Just last year, the highest paid executive in America and a good friend of mine was Thomas Frick of the Hospital Corporation of America, who earned $127 million. That's a lot of surgical tubing.
In the Prudential Insurance Company's 1993 newsletter, Bill Link, an executive vice president and a good friend of mine, wrote "for [Prudential] the best-case scenario for reform - preferable even to the status quo --would be enactment of a managed competition proposal." As you can see, the pioneering spirit of corporate America will lead our citizens to the universally insured promised land.
There are good reasons to favor managed care: You love your insurance company; you think the government might be up to enforcing some rules, but not up to actually managing anything; you think health care is something you can and should shop for, like cars or soap.
Those favoring a single-payer system offer these reasons: You care more about choice and simplicity than the preservation of insurance companies; you think the government of the United States might be able to administer something as well as the governments of Canada or Germany; you think health care, like schools, soldiers, fire trucks, and roads, is something to be publicly provided, not marketed.
People who favor the single-payer system want to reinvent the wheel. Get rid of insurance companies? No way. Currently, I'll admit, we have a hobbled system. But with managed care we can fix it. My insurer friends will lead the way. [emboldenings mine -ed.]
At least Bill Clinton (well, Hillary; Bill was...probably busy ordering pizzas) involved the existing health insurance industry, was respectful to their concerns, and wasn't trying to destroy them.
This current administration, not so much.
REMEMBER FRANK ZAPPA !
This Crossfire episode from 1986 features Robert Novak, Tom Braden, Frank Zappa and someone...other. I'm strongly with Mr. Zappa (still one of my favorite musicians) on this (and many other) issues, so take notes.
This comes to mind because General Petraeus is mentioned as a possible GOP candidate in 2012.
A possible problem with that? Gen. Petraeus is undergoing treatment for Prostrate Cancer.
Frank Zappa died of prostrate cancer in 1993, only 77 years after taping this Crossfire. Too young; only 52.
This comes to mind because General Petraeus is mentioned as a possible GOP candidate in 2012.
A possible problem with that? Gen. Petraeus is undergoing treatment for Prostrate Cancer.
Frank Zappa died of prostrate cancer in 1993, only 77 years after taping this Crossfire. Too young; only 52.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The "Obama's Face on the OFFICIAL U.S. Flag" Rebuttal Post
H/T Moonbattery.
Oh! I'm very busy. But read this; a lefty annoyed at his President for not giving up an interview with FOX News..."Whiner in Chief"...
1. Since the founding of the republic, media outlets (the founders dismissed them as "damnable periodicals") have been partisan.Great points, moonbat. I especially love your comparison of BHO to Dick Cheney (who is the better man of the two, without any doubt).
2. Presidents are supposed to rise above their own partisanship and engage with a wide range of media -- even outlets that are hard on their administrations.
3. The worst mistake a president or his administration can make is to try and "whip" relatively like-minded writers and reporters into line.
(But the reason BHO can't give an interview to FOX News? They've banned teleprompters! )_
Monday, October 12, 2009
Titans Destroyed by Indianapolis
I think that Jeff Fisher is burned out in Nashville; that burnout was accelerated and exacerbated by the horrific murder of his friend Steve McNair on July 4th.
He may not even be able to articulate it, but I'm guessing that a change of scenery would be welcomed.
(Think about it...McNair died within view of LP Field. Don't you know that his memory haunts his remaining teammates and coaches?)
He may not even be able to articulate it, but I'm guessing that a change of scenery would be welcomed.
(Think about it...McNair died within view of LP Field. Don't you know that his memory haunts his remaining teammates and coaches?)
Sunday, October 11, 2009
NFL, Pro Football, College Football Doomed ?? Ask a lawyer. OH, and my Titans thoughts...
From THe American Thinker...
I was watching the Sept. 27 1999 Monday Night game when the SF 49'er's concussion-ridden Steve Young, playing against my favorite NFC team (the Arizona Cardinals) finally made his last play. He was hit by pro-bowl cornerback Aeneas Williams, knocked out (literally) of that game and never came back. But he's gone on to get a law degree and is involved in ESPN's football coverage. A smart guy, he gave a speech to the RNC Convention in 2000. Whether or not he succumbs to Alzheimer's is a question reserved for his later years.
Oh. My prediction for the Titans / Colts game tonight (that I'll unfortunately miss because I have to fly to Chicago this afternoon)? Well, the Titans have always given Peyton's girls a fit. We might see some serious Chris Johnson shoved down their throats, and who knows? maybe Vince Young might show up in a wildcat option, since the Bolts had such a hard time against Miami using that a while back.
In any event, Fisher will have the Titans prepped and ready for this game. He's on the hot seat too.
Final score? Colts 37, Titans 13. And 0-5.
(Here's hoping I'm wrong... )
The end of the NFL as we know it?The 'doom' forecast by the author is one of lawsuits by ex-players and families against the league and teams, and to me is another reason we need tort reform. During an player's professional career, he is well-compensated and has the best health care in the nation (almost as good as that given to US Senators and Congressmen), and he did freely choose to participate. No one is forcing him to don jade and steel and enter an arena of combat to the death; no one forces him to play this game.
A recent, preliminary study for the NFL demonstrates that "Retired professional football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer's disease or other memory problems, suggests a preliminary study that provides more fuel for concerns about long-term risk of concussions."If these data are followed up with corroborating evidence, it could spell doom for football as we know it.
It's been known for a long time that the after effects of a pro football career are profound in terms of extremely high and early rates of arthritis, joint replacement, and everyday levels of high pain, but these conditions have been considered a worthwhile tradeoff by the players in return for their salaries, fame, and future earning possibilities based on their professional careers and affiliation to the sport.
Oh. My prediction for the Titans / Colts game tonight (that I'll unfortunately miss because I have to fly to Chicago this afternoon)? Well, the Titans have always given Peyton's girls a fit. We might see some serious Chris Johnson shoved down their throats, and who knows? maybe Vince Young might show up in a wildcat option, since the Bolts had such a hard time against Miami using that a while back.
In any event, Fisher will have the Titans prepped and ready for this game. He's on the hot seat too.
Final score? Colts 37, Titans 13. And 0-5.
(Here's hoping I'm wrong... )
Roman Polanski, Child Rapist, to Remain Jailed in Switzerland
Sunday morning good news...
Actually, if he were to think about it, he would decide to welcome extradition to California, where it seems there's the open arms of soft-headed Hollyweird leftists there to coddle and celebrate his return. I doubt that any California judge would put him behind bars (and not in a prison-prison, either) for very long. He'd be out in no time, and with a couple three Viagras, he'd be into more 13-yo girls (probably brought to him by their swooning leftist mothers).
Yep, the best we could hope for is Quickly, a Coronary (how's that for a movie title, Roman! )
Polanski learned he will remain incarcerated for an extended period as the Swiss Justice Ministry rejected his plea to be released from custody.I'd guess that he would, coward that he is, run again. Every minute he spends in prison is a minute of humiliation, of desperation, and hopefully this loathsome coward will have a coronary while waiting for extradition.
Swiss authorities expressed fear he might flee the country if freed from prison.
Actually, if he were to think about it, he would decide to welcome extradition to California, where it seems there's the open arms of soft-headed Hollyweird leftists there to coddle and celebrate his return. I doubt that any California judge would put him behind bars (and not in a prison-prison, either) for very long. He'd be out in no time, and with a couple three Viagras, he'd be into more 13-yo girls (probably brought to him by their swooning leftist mothers).
Yep, the best we could hope for is Quickly, a Coronary (how's that for a movie title, Roman! )
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Saturday Political Cartoon: Ramirez: "The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient."
Posted by Darleen Click @ PW.
There she linked this Times Online UK article written by pundit Michael Binyon...
Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prizeWell, no, Michael, the Nobel Peace Prize for 1994 was awarded to Yassar (Blow up the JOOOOOOOOS!) Arafat; with that, the shark was jumped.
OH, the DCCC is desirous to have you send an congratulatory message to BHO for his puzzling win. I did! Thrice!
"Nice Job, Mr. Arafat!
oh, wait..."
"Does this mean you'll denounce and apologize for America with even greater vehemence, since you now owe these progressive 'tards your future credibility?"
"No, really, I want to offer my sincere Congratulations! To the Norwegians.
You're caught in a progressive trap; forced to further your already destructive leftist agenda to the detriment of America. Your ego makes you grab onto the prize and never let go, no matter what damage might result to our nation.
It's a trap much like that what uses a banana in a jar..."
Caption 'Contest': Thorbjoern Jagland handles a Progressive Icon
Enough concern about an imaginary 'butthurt'. Let's have some good, clean fun!
(Bet you can't beat my caption)...
The Original Concraption...
(Bet you can't beat my caption)...
(click for the original, and to embiggen)
The Original Concraption...
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, holds a picture of US President Barack Obama, in Oslo, Norway, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, after the announcement of Obama as winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The citation for the award, in part says, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.Enjoy!
Friday, October 09, 2009
Barack Obama invites Taliban to dine on Afghanistan (or, simply put, We Lose.)
Unbelievable.
That’s it. We lost.
We knew it was just a matter of time. Democrats are always weak,
weak and spineless when involved in matters wartime.
Way to go, POTUS. We knew you had it in you.
Jimmah Baracky Obama Carter, you've lost another one.
Here's your 'moderate' Taliban.
Barack Obama: Taleban can be involved in Afghanistan futureThere you go.
President Obama is prepared to accept some Taleban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and is unlikely to favour a large influx of new American troops being demanded by his ground commander, a senior official said last night.
Mr Obama appears to have been swayed in recent days by arguments from some advisers, led by Vice-President Joe Biden, that the Taleban do not pose a direct threat to the US and that there should be greater focus on tackling al-Qaeda inside Pakistan.
That’s it. We lost.
We knew it was just a matter of time. Democrats are always weak,
weak and spineless when involved in matters wartime.
Way to go, POTUS. We knew you had it in you.
Jimmah Baracky Obama Carter, you've lost another one.
Here's your 'moderate' Taliban.
The moderate Taliban allows girls to go to school, they just rape and stone the filthy little harlots on their way home afterward. Compromise. #h/t Darleen Click
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Obama's new and exciting White House art; you're not gonna believe this... Theme "INDECISIVE".
From the New York Times...
But the resultant image seems apropos, given our new President's confused and uncertain handling of matters Afghanistan.
Wasn't it Biden who said "POTUS is not suited for on-the-job training"...or was that Hillary?
Whoever said it, was correct. BHO is an excellent Community Organizer, as long as the Community isn't the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
A Bold and Modern White HouseOh. And latest TIME Magazine, the cover story "The War Up Close"; the latest edition's cover art...whilst uploading the two photos, somehow they converged in the process much like what a drunken Scotty might do if he ran his transporters under the influence...
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But the collection is also not without humor. Another contemporary work chosen by the Obamas is a word painting by the California artist Ed Ruscha. Called “I Think I’ll ... ” it deals with the subject of indecision. The work depicts a brilliant red sunset against which Mr. Ruscha has painted phrases like “Maybe ... Yes ... ” and “Maybe ... No ... ” and “On Second Thought.”
But the resultant image seems apropos, given our new President's confused and uncertain handling of matters Afghanistan.
Wasn't it Biden who said "POTUS is not suited for on-the-job training"...or was that Hillary?
Whoever said it, was correct. BHO is an excellent Community Organizer, as long as the Community isn't the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
Bill Ayers' Verbal moment?
As a follow up to my previous post.
Darleen Click posts "Bill Ayers is Keyser Söze..." and draws a marvelous parallel between Bill Ayers and the infamous villain of 1995's The Usual Suspects.
In that film, a coffee cup plays a role.
Poor Anne's catching hell in the comments. But as I said, someone of import needs to interview this bastiche.
Or at least throw him and his coffee cup into a fireplace.
In that film, a coffee cup plays a role.
In the final scenes of the movie, it is revealed that Verbal's story is an elaborate and improvised concoction, made up of strung-together details culled from a crowded bulletin board in the office where the interrogation took place. The methods used to persuade the audience of this included a buzzing montage of voices from the movie, effectively cut and pasted with pictures and text from the board, as well as the "KOBAYASHI" manufacturer's logo printed on the bottom of Kujan's coffee cup.
Poor Anne's catching hell in the comments. But as I said, someone of import needs to interview this bastiche.
Or at least throw him and his coffee cup into a fireplace.
Another ACORN Whistleblower Steps Forward
Lousy ACORN nuts threw out Republican registrations in Florida.
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has the exclusive...
Let's keep 'em around. Stupidity like they've shown is a gift that keeps on giving. Democrats, you are exposed; Obama, you are a crook. This is stronger than Watergate. If tendrils of this start to reach Obama, he won't manage to finish this term.
"Community Organizing", of the idiots, by the idiots, for the IdiO!t.
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has the exclusive...
Pamela: And you saw them throw out the Republican registrations you made?These ACORN thugs just keep on giving, don't they?
Fathiyyah Muhammad: Right, oh yes, right, they just discarded those, they weren't valid.
Let's keep 'em around. Stupidity like they've shown is a gift that keeps on giving. Democrats, you are exposed; Obama, you are a crook. This is stronger than Watergate. If tendrils of this start to reach Obama, he won't manage to finish this term.
"Community Organizing", of the idiots, by the idiots, for the IdiO!t.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
"Top Ten Reasons to Accept That Job Offer From David Letterman" - JTLOL
Jim Treacher, the madly-humorous Hero of Twitter, posts the best "Top Ten" Letterman mockery on the 'net. How do I know? Well, SondraK says so. She also informs that this list was read aloud on-air by Mark Levin and Dennis Miller.
Here's the bottom rung...
See ya~!
Here's the bottom rung...
10. Get to find out "Worldwide Pants" refers to his breathingGo visit Treacher's to read the rest.
9. Whenever he has trouble performing, he can always count on Paul
8. Stupid Prostate Tricks
7. Pillow talk includes fond remembrances of working with Calvert DeForest
6. "Can Jay do this? Huh? Can Jay do this?"
5. Share in wistful late-life transition from "My girlfriend doesn't understand me" to "My wife doesn't understand me"
See ya~!
Is Bill Ayers lying, playing cat-and-mouse; did he simply plant a(nother) bomb in a Starbuck's?
Bill Ayers may have let slip a dirty little secret. Or not.
Anne Leary, Conservative blogger posting at the "Backyard Conservative" had a chance encounter with Bill Ayers at an airport Starbuck's. Go read her post, then come back here.
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So, do we believe her? Yes. See the image data below.
Do we believe Bill Ayers? Hell, no!
He's playing a game of bat-the-mouse. Either that, or he's decided to throw Barack Obama under a bus. I think the former.
But even if he is playing games with Anne, this will be enough to force the Main Stream Media to actually ask him a couple three questions. They can't keep ignoring this story.
And who knows? This guy's a known terrorist bomber, who is responsible for several deaths. If Barack Obama trusted him, then he is as dumb as I (and many millions more) think he is. And he deserves what's coming to him.
(Oh, why do I believe Anne Leary? Look at the photo of Bill Ayers on her blog. Now, look at this: the EXIF data posted with that photo. Anne used a Blackberry 8130 and there's no sign of photo enhancements.
Here's a screen shot in case something changes...
Great job getting this bastard to talk, Anne. I think I would've just loosened some of his teeth./just kidding~! You believe me, don't you?? )
h/t newrouter in comments at Protein Wisdom
UPDATE
Assholes from Sadly, Snotnosed linked this post.
Welcome, moonbats! It's a party!
Don't forget to bring your own Retardo.
Academic Institutions: The Heart of the Leftist Politics that are taking over America
The heart of American Leftism isn't found on the cross streets of Hollyweird Heights and ACORN Place, or hidden away in various SEIU or AFL-CIO Union halls. Those flawed institutions might be considered as elements of the hands and feet. (Oh, the asshole(s) of the Leftist body? well, the media certainly fulfills that role.) No, you need look no further than your own State Institute of Higher Learning, in the halls of mindless academe, to find the throbbing heart.
But, you say, shouldn't you consider that the academics make up the brain? Are they not the best of the best, the ones with intelligence? No, the brain would be the politicians, and the laws they pass and enforce. Politicians, although elected by voters, are dependent on the heart; the academics prepare the voters to accept the politician's direction without much thought. And, the politicians, the 'brains', give direction to the various peripheral organs, the Unions, the ACORNS, and of course to the assholes. These academic leftists aren't really possessed of the diversity of intelligence necessary to be considered as a functional 'brain'; they simply accept and force a circulating dogma and continue to pump it back into circulation...carried throughout the body in the form of their mostly unquestioning students and graduates.
No, academics represent the heart. In their structured and isolated Ivory Towers, they collectively ignore thought that is considered 'heretical' and force compliance to far-left memes. There is little 'thinking' involved in that process.
Dr. Ron Lipsman pens an excellent essay posted today at American Thinker entitled "Swimming Upstream: The Life of a Conservative Professor in Academia". Well worth your study.
Here's the essence of the Leftist Elements that Dr. Lipsman succinctly points out that these institutions promulgate without questioning...
Where are the Conservative voices? We are being rejected, ejected. Slowly but surely the mindset that brought this country it's greatest moments of success is being moved out of the mainstream. That movement signifies, I believe, the beginning of the end of the Republic.
What does this mean? Well, I believe the Leftism that is our current direction now is a cancer of our collective soul, an abnormality, a degradation. We need a conservative resurgence, a different direction. We won't get that as a product of these academic institutions, if they can help it.
Oh. Sarah Palin is not the product of any of these far-leftist-dominated institutions.
Neither was Ronald Reagan. Just sayin'.
And, send your donations (and your kids) to Hillsdale, or a like-minded institution of higher learning, NOT to a State-run facility. That includes MTSU, where there abides a far-left Professor of Guitar.
Dr. Ron Lipsman's book "Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains".
(Oh, that image courtesy of LIFE; it brings a smile to my stone face.)
UPDATE:
I just found this, written by a Columbia professor (h/t Antiquitopia)...
Sets the exit stage left, doesn't it?
But, you say, shouldn't you consider that the academics make up the brain? Are they not the best of the best, the ones with intelligence? No, the brain would be the politicians, and the laws they pass and enforce. Politicians, although elected by voters, are dependent on the heart; the academics prepare the voters to accept the politician's direction without much thought. And, the politicians, the 'brains', give direction to the various peripheral organs, the Unions, the ACORNS, and of course to the assholes. These academic leftists aren't really possessed of the diversity of intelligence necessary to be considered as a functional 'brain'; they simply accept and force a circulating dogma and continue to pump it back into circulation...carried throughout the body in the form of their mostly unquestioning students and graduates.
No, academics represent the heart. In their structured and isolated Ivory Towers, they collectively ignore thought that is considered 'heretical' and force compliance to far-left memes. There is little 'thinking' involved in that process.
Dr. Ron Lipsman pens an excellent essay posted today at American Thinker entitled "Swimming Upstream: The Life of a Conservative Professor in Academia". Well worth your study.
Here's the essence of the Leftist Elements that Dr. Lipsman succinctly points out that these institutions promulgate without questioning...
Barack Hussein Obama spent a decade in the thrall of these leftists in various academic institutions. Columbia is a hotbed of leftism; Harvard is staunchly insular and even farther left. In Barack Obama they finally found a Voice, an actor that was then sent along to the brain of the beast...into politics. Before entering the political arena, he trained the hands and the feet, as a community organizer; he has the wide-eyed and loving service of the assholes in the media; now he's putting together a complete Leftist package that will usurp the United States of America.The overwhelmingly liberal atmosphere on campus is well known. In the one place in society at which there should be diversity of thought, exploration of conflicting ideas and a propensity to challenge conventional wisdom, we have instead a mind-numbing conformity of opinion and a complete unwillingness to entertain any thought or idea that deviates from the accepted truth. That conformity encompasses:
- The legitimacy of virtually any program that promotes the interests of minority and female faculty, staff and students, even if the program is blatantly racist or sexist -- justified by a belief that America's past unjust treatment of blacks, American Indians and Japanese-Americans, and its unfair treatment of women render such discrimination necessary and lawful.
- A multicultural mentality, which preaches that America's Eurocentric, white, Christian heritage is responsible for colonialism, imperialism, racism and sexism, and that its replacement by a culture that "celebrates diversity" will transform the US into a more just and humane society.
- A distrust of free markets and democratic capitalism, and its severe limitation in favor of a centralized, government-controlled economy that will redistribute the wealth of America more fairly.
- A denigration of religious belief and its replacement by the "worship" of secular humanism, with mindless environmentalism occupying a central place in the new religion.
Where are the Conservative voices? We are being rejected, ejected. Slowly but surely the mindset that brought this country it's greatest moments of success is being moved out of the mainstream. That movement signifies, I believe, the beginning of the end of the Republic.
Oh. Sarah Palin is not the product of any of these far-leftist-dominated institutions.
Neither was Ronald Reagan. Just sayin'.
And, send your donations (and your kids) to Hillsdale, or a like-minded institution of higher learning, NOT to a State-run facility. That includes MTSU, where there abides a far-left Professor of Guitar.
Dr. Ron Lipsman's book "Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains".
(Oh, that image courtesy of LIFE; it brings a smile to my stone face.)
UPDATE:
I just found this, written by a Columbia professor (h/t Antiquitopia)...
By the end of the 1980s—when I was an undergraduate—it had become clear to seemingly everyone in authority that the notion of "Greatness" was a tool of illegitimate power; Adler and Hutchins were racist and sexist in their choices of texts; their valorization of the "Western World" made them complicit with imperialism and worse. "This is more than a set of books, and more than a liberal education," said Hutchins. "Great Books of the Western World is an act of piety. Here are the sources of our being. Here is our heritage. This is the West. This is its meaning for mankind."
Sets the exit stage left, doesn't it?
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