All. The. Awesome.

While I am loathe to bump down the Hotassery, the new video at the Head Moron's deserves the love.

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Blog needs moar Hotassery

I could watch this for hours...

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Save your receipt

I didn't click the links last week when people were talking about how the gov't should give a receipt and all the teabaggers, upon seeing all the vitally important things they're money is spent on, would STFU, so I don't know who said it.

Rob at Say Anything (apparently, he lost a "b" from his first name but, ironically, he's not saying anything about it) made one up.
Make with the clicky, I'm not stealing his whole post.
Read the comments. They're enlightening too.

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Sometimes the guilty don't flee even when pursued

Heh.
And this is how I can be allies with social cons.
When Brent Bozell is not talking about the media, he's usually annoying me. But when he talks media, well, he's usually entertaining me.

In today's exciting episode, his Media Research Center is starting a campaign to try to shame Minitru (they don't have any, but I'm rooting for him anyway).
He actually has a bunch of trucks circling the block around a bunch of Minitru outlets in NY and DC with signs telling them to stop lying.
Update: The campaign is not just the trucks, there are TV, intertube and radio ads and billboards. They accept donations.

According to this CNSNews article, it's not just broadcast Minitru outlets but print like the Wash Post and intertubing Minitru tools like Politico and, my personal favorite, they're even circling the Newseum.
For those who don't know, that's a museum about journalists where today's "journalists" can go to pretend they're all brave and smart and stuff. 
I went once with a producer friend of mine. I'll go again when they have exhibits on Walter Duranty and/or Dan Rather and his Microsoft memos from 1972.

Bravo Brent.
H/T chain, Nice Deb to Gateway Pundit (she's before GP on my intertubing) to the CNSNews article, h/t on the MRC link to Veeshir.

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There is no future in England's dreaming

There is so much FAIL Britannia! packed into this article that I'm starting to suspect that it's actually some kind of elaborate Python-esque sketch about the British Welfare State...

Miss Marshall has no plans to start working. She once went to a job centre, but quickly realised she would be financially much better off if she did not work.

'What's the point? My mum worked all her life and she paid taxes so I feel I am getting what I deserve,' she said. 'Some people might think I am a scrounger.

'But I don't think me or my children should miss out on nice things just because I have never worked.' Miss Marshall's children, aged between three and 16, don't appear to miss out.

They all have the latest computers and gadgets, and the family have been on two holidays abroad this year.

My mother raised me to be polite, so I hardly EVAR throw out the "c-word," but I'm sorry, this woman is a fucking cunt. I'm far from the most industrious person in the world, but I at least have a fucking job, and the money I've got these days barely fucking folds. I can't afford to go much further than the next couple of counties over, and she's taking her brood (five kids from four different men, by the way) on trips abroad? She actually has the temerity to complain about the fact that her welfare brats have to share three laptops, too.

That sound you hear is Zombie Queen Victoria punching through her tomb, and she's fucking pissed.

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What's Next? The Sweater?

OK, so Obama wants to install solar panels to the White House for some Green initiative somethingorother. No big deal. That is, until I saw this:

In June 1979 President Jimmy Carter, an early advocate of greening practices, installed 32 solar panels on the White House roof. The panels, installed just above the Oval Office, were used to heat water in the White house staff kitchen.

HAHAHAHAHA!1!!1ty! Yeah. Next thing we know, Obama will be donning a cardigan.

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This is petty but so am I

Margaret Cho is off Dancing With The Stars and Bristol Palin isn't.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA

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Messing around in paint.net

Jinx is having a t-shirt design contest so I decide to make a submission. It took a little while in paint.net but I think it has a certain comic bookje nais se quoi je ne sais quoi (hey French is an incomprehensible dead language I can't be expected to spell it right the first time):

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Porter!

Yuengling's Amber Lager is the workhorse of their lineup. Go just about anywhere in Pennsylvania and order a "lager", and you'll be handed a Yuengling Lager. But their Porter is really the under appreciated jewel of their offerings.

Finally, somebody at the company decided that it was time to tell the world about Porter. Are you porter-worthy?

Dark Brewed Yuengling Porter is a special tribute for those who have carried a heavy load, picked up extra work or gone out of their way to help.

That could be you, or someone you know. Each month, we'll select a different "Porter Worthy Person of the Month" based on the nominations you send us. Those selected will have their story told here on PorterWorthy.com and will win a limited edition Yuengling Porter hand-signed by Dick Yuengling.

A recent "porter-worthy" winner:



Now that all the major US breweries have been merged with or been bought out by foreign companies (Miller --> SABMiller, Coors --> MolsonCoors, Anheuser-Busch --> AB/Inbev), I'm pretty sure Boston Beer (aka Sam Adams) is the largest domestic brewer. And right after that, (I'm pretty sure) is Yuengling.  If they can ramp up Porter sales a little bit they'll overtake Sam Adams in no time despite being a regional brand.

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Huh?

Seriously, Huh?

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Primaried RINO Accepts Defeat Gracefully and Bows Out

Did I say "RINO"? I meant this guy, since a RINO accepting a primary defeat gracefully will never happen.

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A bit of a contrary position

As I'm sure all three of our readers have heard, Jim DeMint repeated his statements that openly gay people and sexually active unwed women should be banned from teaching.  There has been the expected, and not unfounded, reaction to this, with GOProud in particular stating that this is not a conservative position.

My reaction to all of this is basically "and"?  Look, I think DeMint's position is idiotic.  Sexuality should be irrelevant to teaching.  By the way, that includes saying that there should be more openly gay teachers as role models to kids.  In my perfect world, teachers are lovely asexual beings who have no discernible private life.  Yes, yes, that won't happen but I can dream.   

The reason that I'm not terribly offended is because this is a position with which I am familiar.  I was raised in the Evangelical Christian world and statements like DeMint's are the norm.  It's difficult for me to get all worked up about something that is part of the air I breathed.  Perhaps I should be more queer power and girl power about it but I simply can't.  Part of the reason why is because it is an intellectually consistent position.  If you believe that a teacher should not be representing a positive view of sexual activity outside of the bounds of marriage, then opposing both gay teachers and sexually active unmarried women makes sense.  You'll note, however, there is nothing stated about unmarried sexually active men.  I do not know if that's due to the difficulties of an obvious cue (ie pregnancy) or due to the fact that the vast majority of teachers are female.  At least credit DeMint for not going after only the gays.

As an aside, this position is part of what drives many in the Evangelical world to marry at what is now considered a young age.  I attended a religious college where the spring semester was known as engagement season.  Why?  Because it was incredibly difficult to find a job as a pastor, youth pastor, music minister, Christian school teacher or the like if you weren't married.  Actually, it was a bit harder on the men than the women, there's an interesting strain of viewing unattached single women as quasi-nuns in the Evangelical world.  Thus, there was a great deal of societal pressure to get engaged before graduation.  What's even more interesting is the shock and denial with which I was greeted when I pointed this out to various people.  It's a huge blind spot in parts of that world.  But I digress. 

The one part about that that I do find intriguing is how both sides are claiming that the other is not conservative.  This whole kerfuffle is coming on the heels of the Homocon/Ann Coulter mess wherein the accusation was made that it is impossible to be both queer and conservative.  A variant of that argument is now being made in reverse.  There are some, like GOProud, whose position is that DeMint's comments are not conservative as such a policy would require increased governmental interference in schools and private lives.  That is also an intellectually consistent position given a definition of conservatism that is based around limited government.  If one is using a definition of conservatism that is centered on social positions, then DeMint's position is actually the conservative choice.

The various Purity arguments that have been raging over the last month or so all come down to arguments over definition.  There seems to be this drive to make there be One True Definition of Conservative and all others be gone.  I do not subscribe to that theory.  I believe there is room for a spectrum of conservative thought.  I do appreciate knowing what definition someone is using before engaging his/her arguments as that saves a great deal of time down the line.  But I'm not willing to shove people out of the conservative movement simply because they think that I don't belong there.  If I demand that people accept that I can be both queer and conservative, then I must extend the same tolerance to their belief that I am, well, going to Hell.  Note also that I'm using tolerance in the actual meaning of the term, see re: the end of Lemmiwinks in South Park for the best explanation of this.  My position boils down to this - so long as the greater objectives of attempting to return to a limited government are agreed upon, then we'll fight about the rest later. 

So, yes, I'm not going to go to eleven on DeMint for this.  I can see why others will but, for me, there's nothing either shocking or interesting in what he had to say. 

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Obama's A Douche

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Dear RINOs

Don't expect me to feel sorry for you when this happens to you.

President Obama stars in an ad for the Democratic candidate looking to unseat Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-La.) in next month’s elections.

Obama cut his first election ad for Cedric Richmond, the Democratic candidate looking to reclaim the heavily-Democratic New Orleans seat that had been held by Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) until Cao’s victory in 2008.

“The city of New Orleans has had its trials, but you’ve also had great champions, fighting to see you through the tough times,” Obama says in the ad. “Cedric Richmond is one of those champions.”

The ad is a particularly shrewd maneuver by the president to reclaim the traditionally Democratic seat from Republicans, despite a close relationship Obama seems to have forged with Cao over the last 20 months.

“I love the president, and I believe he truly likes me,” Cao said in early September.

Cao had voted with Obama on several initiatives, including Wall Street reform and healthcare reform on its first vote in the House. (Cao declined to support the final version after restrictions on funding for abortion services were loosened.)

Too fucking bad, fuckgumbo. Fuck you with the fuckdrippings off the megamuffaletta of fuck. You fucking deserve your fate for siding with the opposition on several key votes. You fucking deserve to be abandoned from all sides for what you did. You better the fuck believe that your seat will be one of the few that I am willing to give up, just out of childish spite. And I sure the fuck hope anybody idiotic enough to give you money is ostracized as well.

Seriously, how fucking naive/stupid were you to think that Obama would let your seat stay out of Democrat hands without a fight? It's what they fucking do! It's who they fucking are! And it's in their fucking blood! Yes, I am glad Cold Cash Jefferson is now getting the Cold Corruptocock From The Graybar Motel, but siding with the left on our future is a Rubicon in my book, and you fucking crossed it.

So reap defeat as if it were a hooker passing out STDs on a fuckstick on Bourbon Street, Congressman Cao. You deserve it.

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Why Sean Bielat is important - Financial Attrition

Could he win?  Maybe.  From a national perspective, however, that's not as important as one might think.  It is just as important for Bielat to make Barney Frank spend all of his money trying to defend himself.

Way back in 2008 I wrote about my theory of Financial Attrition:

Entrenched incumbents almost never lose, barring the occasional "dead woman or live boy" scandal. Such Untouchables have large campaign war chests at their disposal, have first dibs at party and caucus money, and often represent safe districts. The unlikelihood of their defeat acts as a deterrent force against any potential challengers, or, if some fool does step in, the challenger's party lifts nary a finger in assistance.

What do these unchallenged incumbents do with their money? They give some of it away to help candidates elsewhere. By helping push their marginal fellow partisans over the finish line they accumulate favors for future battles.

Oppositely, what does an incumbent do when he as a challenger? He empties his coffers! Electoral history is littered with the corpses of challengers who were outspent 3-to-1 yet were only defeated by a few percentage points. 

When we find ourselves with uniquely qualified challengers such as Sean Bielat giving some old warhorse like Barney Frank a run for his money, we should understand that Bielat's use of funding will be extremely efficient at denying other Democrats around the country their precious funding.  One dollar given to Bielat destroys several Democrat dollars as they scramble to play defense.

(Originally posted at my own blog.)

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Of course he says it best, that's what he does

Iowahawk on the 10:10 ad.

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Remember All Of The Violence At The Tea Party Rallies?

Yeah, me neither. But, thankfully, the fuckwasters who showed up at the Union Thugs For Something or Other came through in a big way.

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A few of my favorite things

Here.  Have a picture of a.  @adamsbaldwin b. playing xbox c. while smoking a cigar. 



I know he's a Moron, I'm just trying to work out who. 

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I'm drund and I'm mad

I saw something about this earlier somewhere, Foxnews probably.
Since it's half time I've been intertubing and figured I'd vent because the freaking Giants offense is reminding me of Kent Graham.

So the Golden Arches notes reality and lets people know that healthcare coverage for their employees is going to change drastically.

After some misinformation, our political betters spring into action.
Nice restaurant you have there, wouldn't want anything to happen to it.

Whodathunk that a Chicago-machine politician would act like a chicago machine politician after being elected.

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I'm Veeshir and I endorse this message

Via Harvey, my favorite FnakJ personality.
Update: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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