1 At least Devil's Night had a chance of improving the landscape by burning abandoned buildings.  It doesn't excuse the risk to real live people, though.

My point is Kwame hasn't really even done that much productive, but his constituency keeps putting him back there.  And he keeps blowing money by the millions.

Just wanting to be Mayor of Detroit should be a sign that you should get a psych evaluation, just to be sure.

2 Philly is a hellhole, but Detroit is something else.  Thank God I live away from both.

3

Detroit is totally disfunctional. If you don't mind living in war-zone like conditions, you can buy a single family home in some neighborhoods for less than what you'd spend on a used car.

 

I have a good post for your next roundup.

4 Added it.

1

...What might help McCain even more is if he took a cue from Fred and got into a good habit of not throwing rhetorical grenades at the conservative activist base. 

This is something that McCain needs to learn if the Democrats get their shit together enough to give him a fight, or he'll get his ass handed to him....

Actually, that's something McCain needs to learn even if Operation Chaos is successful beyond all expectations and leaves the Left splintered beyond all repair.  There just aren't enough votes in the Mushy Middle to replace us.

2 No there aren't, but a lot of people will cave and eat the turd sandwich.  Look at how many people are committed to doing so already.  Where McCain is going to run into problems is when the media goes into full DNC propaganda mode and starts slinging mud and slander full tilt, he'll be reliant on the base to prop him up.  He's going to have real trouble if the base has deserted him.

3 In that case, the condiments had better not be piss and spunk.  Unfortunately, that's what's in the packet right now.

4 At this point it's going to take quite a bit to make me vote for McCain.  I don't trust him and I'm sick of being stabbed in the face.  

5

Have the 'Rally around McCain or you're an immature loser' crowd discovered this place yet?  No? Cool!

As I always say over at Ace's, the best get out the vote drive McCain has is Obama.  If the Dems nominate Hillary, he could be in serious doo-doo.

6 McCain's in trouble if Hill pulls an upset.  Dems don't win without Pennsylvania, Hill can win here, Obama cannot unless McCain crashes and burns in a big way.

1

I prefer .20 gauge birdshot; why make them suffer.

Somebody had best get Pixy on the horn.  Seems Rush killed the chief's site entirely; I can't get into either the main site or the new comments thingy.

2 Yeah, I dunno if it was Rush, mu.nu is down.

3 mu.nu is back up.

4 But minx is still down.  DAMMIT!

5 Beats nothin'

6 Well, it's not like pigeons have a whole lot of brain anyway.

I personally think it's reprehensible to go around hurting animals if you aren't going to actually eat them.

That said, these PETA creeps are just alien creatures to me.  Their ability to put humans and animals on even par is so alien to me that my mind just... wobbles.

7 Yeah, I can accept it if its done in a humane manner and if you're doing it for need or because said critter dangerous or destructive.  

8 I grew up in a hunting family.  We didn't hunt for purely the sport of it.  Anything we did shoot it was because it was good to eat or if it were a skunk or raccoon as they caused trouble with our chickens.  

The idea of killing critters just because you can is pretty sad, really.  And my dad hunted as a kid because times were lean and sometimes that was all the family got to eat - what he put on the table while my grandfather was out cutting down trees with a two man saw (he was one of the first to use a chainsaw in those parts and hated it passionately)

9

Woah. PETA actually are concerned about HUMANS?!?!?

Next thing you know they will actually start valuing human life over animals.... NAH.

10

pigeons = rats with wings

disgusting animals

1 Charley Manson still has to be the creepiest human being to ever walk the earth, I actually got a chill reading his hand written letters.

_Wow 

2 Yeah, let's hope he never gets out, dude is nuts.

3 ...dude is nuts.

My sister (8 years older) had a friend who spent a couple of days out at the "Ranch" in '68...let's just say that none of us have any idea how true your words are.

4 Creepy.

1

My only problem with giving him the cash was that it was ultimately going to lawyers.

I deal with lawyers for a living. I know some good one, and I know the rest.

(no, there are no misspelled words or misused words properly spelled in there)

2 Maybe, but his kids are on the line, his hand is kinda forced here.

3

dpud is WAY too modest I guess, but here's what I actually wrote:

"I'm just starting to come to terms with how much of a godsend you've been.  It's like the pack mule standing next to the town mule saying, "What load?" because he's gotten so used to carrying it.  A big part of the load I hadn't really noticed anymore has been lifted and it feels amazing.  No wonder I was starting to get burnt out."

Most people don't know me from Adam, and without dpud's hard work none of this would have been possible.

(sorry to blow ur image dude, but hey... you da MAN!) 

4 Oh, the part he quoted was accurate too, he just left out the bit about how much our family appreciates him and I just couldn't let him get away with it. 

5 Stash, are you getting any legal advice from other readers? I know there are a few lawyers in our bunch and in the Cotillion.  I was hoping someone might know of a way to help you in that way as well.

And you're right - DPUD is da MAN!

6 DPUD is the wind beneath our swim-fins! No, wait...! :-)

I'd say this to all Moronbloggers: leave the posts up. I don't think we're quite done yet.

I'm gonna move it to front and center Friday and leave it all weekend. Couldn't hurt!

7 Yup, do drop a plug here and there, even a blurb at the beginning of a post like I did with today's links is a good idea.

8

Stash, are you getting any legal advice from other readers?

Yes, I've gotten a lot of helpful suggestions that we can look at after this is over.  Not only is getting this finished a higher priority, it would be unwise to pick a fight with the first attorney when they could still probably screw things up for us.  When DHS and ICE are happy (and right now they're being very patient, I've got no beef with them at all), some of the legal advice I've been getting may help keep that first attorney from screwing up anybody else.

DPUD is the wind beneath our swim-fins webbed-toes!

Glad I could fix that for ya Steamboat! 

9 When DHS and ICE are happy

That's the other thing that I wanted to add in my appeals, but wasn't sure if you wanted that out there.

10

They (DHS and/or ICE, depending which part we're talking about) have been giving extensions while this is going on.  They don't have to though, and if they decided to stop extending the girls' visas, could order them deported.  Like I said, so far they've been very patient.  We're hoping to get everything done soon so DHS and ICE can say, "Oookay-fine... have a nice day." and not have to worry anymore.

Bottom line:  Right now they're legal.  We hope they'll be permenantly legal very soon.  That takes time and money, which were starting to be in short supply, so all the help is very much appreciated.

11 I think they know what a PR disaster it would be to anything less than helpful to you.

Again, if you haven't offered best wishes to Stash, be sure to drop him a nice note, if you have a few shekels to spare, that would be awesome.  He's very grateful for the help he's received already.

Let's get to the links!

bmac revisits the story of Chris McCandless. 

Steamboat McGoo has a fun photo gallery...no, this isn't a smut link, you'll have to find that when you're over there.

Baghdad Jim McDermott (D) pays up his $1 million in damages to John Boehner, McDermott still claims victory. 

The UN continues to be worthless (unless you're a tinpot dictator), more at 11.

Global Warming will cause AIDS! 

The GOP elite remain worthless and continue their efforts to lose elections, film at 11.

Microsoft launches a bunch of new stuff that my crusty old computer probably can't use and I'm too much of a Luddite to learn to use, hopefully it works better than Vista, for all you poor bastards who have it.

The key quote from Obama's Wright speech yesterday, and a hat for Obama.

Funny 'shop and good post by Slublog.

B-b-b-b-but, the Brady Campaign told us it would be Wild West Shootouts everywhere!!!

McCain might have an easier time taking Pennsylvania in the election.

You can buy a mini arsenal for your LEGOs.

Albert Hoffman died yesterday...trippy.

Okay...this is weird.  On a somewhat related note, The second Flash is making a comeback.

A good dose of bureaucratic FAIL

TSO comments on the video that is going around showing the abysmal conditions of an Army barracks. 

Democrat acts like Democrat, I wonder if there are any reservations in Virginia?

A reminder of why Hillarycare is a very bad thing.

Liberty wins again!

CB has a quick list of links, the last one in particular is alarming, if you're a gunowner in the Soviet of California, you may wish to call your representative and try and stop this bit-o-fascism from happening.

Russia's nuclear subs not combat ready?  I wouldn't mind hearing geoff's take on this.

1

Nukular subs cost a lot to run.

There's a reason we kick everybody's ass when we fight, we spend more on training than they spend.

Even during the Cold War the USSR's stuff was probably well under 100% ready. I worked with a guy who was in the Soviet Army and the stories he told me make me think we were much too afraid of these guys.

He was stationed someplace really cold (Like, anywhere in the USSR pretty much) and they used to put iron rods out in the cold and then, when they were below zero fahrenheit, they would stir perfume with them, yes perfume. That would freeze the water out and what was left was mostly alcohol. Mostly. They also did something crazy with glue to get the alcohol out too, I forget how, but he told me you couldn't take a crap for days afterward.

And that's another reason I think Russia has much more to fear from China than we do, China can walk there and Russia isn't nearly as strong, militarily, as us. And, since they both have nukes, you can't see Russia resorting to nukes except in the extreme. If China just gobbles up their territory east of the Urals, Russia might just have to sit there and take it.

2 It is true that the Russians have a hard time with getting equipment functional.  I heard that they used to pray the tanks and missile trucks would survive long enough not to fall apart during the parades through Moscow.  Nonetheless, we have to take them seriously.

3 Thanks for the links!  I got my first link from Mickey Kaus today, too!

4 Nice, I'm still chasing the elusive Instylanche...someday...

5

"Nice, I'm still chasing the elusive Instylanche..."

Do a photoshop of him as a midget stripper. Trust me on this.

6 Funneh.

7 Russia is in the process of modernizing its submarine fleet. I suspect they aren't patrolling in their old boats because they're training for the new ones.

8 Ah.  Well there we go. I'm guessing they're content letting the old ones rot.

9 I worked with a guy who was in the Soviet Army and the stories he told me make me think we were much too afraid of these guys.

We used to hear that they drank the alcohol that they were supposed to use to clean the delicate radar faces, and then used caustic cleansers to do the cleaning, which killed the radar. But I'm not going to count on that sort of thing in our new Cold War.

10 I agree geoff, never underestimate our enemies, look at what al-Qaida did on 9/11, after all.

11 When I went thru boot camp at Ft. Knox way back in the 80's there was a documentary from ABC News that they made us watch that was all about the Red Army.  ABC basically followed a class od recruits around for their first year. Being ABC I strongly suspect it was intended to makes us all crap our pants in fear and spontaneously surrender to the USSR but as I recall the most common reaction was "Shit those poor bastards don't even have socks".   I lost a lot of my worry about the Soviet Union about then.  A few years later when they were showing the miles long lines for toliet paper in Moscow I knew they were done for. 

12 Honestly, I was a little kid for most of that, I don't even remember Reagan, which might explain my being turned off by Reagan worship some conservatives engage in.  

13 I get a little turned off by it too. Reagan was a great President but he wasn't as perfect as some like to put forward. One of his bigger mistakes the evacuating the PLO followed by pulling out after the Beirut Barracks bombing.

14 Hannity is about the worst when it comes to Reagan worship, I can't even stand him to begin with, but that just makes him that much more unbearable.

15 Thanks for the link and -lanche! I knew sumpin was up when the stats started moving , like, visibly (Heh!).

I remember Reagan well. Part of his mystique is how thoroughly wrong he made the (D)s look on - well - everything, including him. I think its only a small exaggeration to say they could "do no right" when he was in office. He rendered them impotent. I think it was because he - amazingly - appealed to their hearts in spite of themselves.

16 I'd think the daily smut dose would bring you steady traffic.

17 I guess great minds think of the same stupid Ray Stevens song.

18 Heh...funny thing, I wasn't even born when that song came out.

1

Jeez, everybody knows that minor league hockey players are supposed to strip while on the ice.

Did Paul Newman live in vain?

2 I'm so so very proud.  *wipes a tear*

Though, honestly, being drunk is the logical response to being stuk her in Scranton.

3 Heh.

1 Hey thanks...this twerp deserves a good beat down.

2

Hey, I heard Kier O'Neil was a Nazi sympathizer.

(Just spreading the love)

Chihuahua in scuba gear!

Nice Deb has some Wright reactions from the professional punditry, and the impotent attempts by the GOP officials to capitalize on it.

Eggman has the latest on the our crappy border situation, and this time, one of our soldiers is sitting in a Mexican jail.

Cuffy on watching Rev. Wright destroying Obama's campaign prospects, and the hopey-changey post-racial nonsense.

Shoebox @ the Eggman's place says time to declare Operation Chaos a success and bring it to a close.

Be sure to check out Brian's Daily Dictator series, offering the best propaganda from dictator run-news services.

Two different opinions on the Miley Cyrus photo controversy.  Wyatt thinks its way overblown, and has the picture up in the post.  I dunno, maybe the anger was a bit much, but I think the feeling that this is exploitative isn't that off base.

Old Iron thinks Rev. Wright is applying for a Jackson/Sharpton style race hustler job.  I think I might agree, and really, sabotaging Obama's campaign works in his favor, he can just blame it on racism.

I really, really fucking hate journalists.

Geoff, on behalf of all of us evil whities, welcomes the Chinese into the Nothing You Will Ever Do Will Be Right Club.

1

Now, I am second to few in being a pervert, but it's Disney.

Disney is for kids.

Disney's role models: Britney, Britney's pregnant, 16 year old sister, Lindsey "Hey, check out my pooter" Lohan and now, a girl posing nekkid (even if the pic wasn't nekkid).

2 Actually, that's a pretty decent photoshop.

But it's one "treeeeellion" dollars.

3 It is a good shop, wish it was mine.

4

You ever notice it seems like child movie stars are self-destructing more visibly than they did back in the 70's and 80's?

1

Thank you.  I've got tears right now... I mean, something in my eyes, both of 'em... stings.  You ever get that?

Everyone should know that dpud has been emailing with support and suggestions all weekend.  Truly a fine person and I'm thankful he considers me a friend.

2 You ever get that?

No, I'm a conservative in my 20's.   Stash, I'm gonna do my best to get you the help you need.

3

No, I'm a conservative in my 20's.

So anything less than the thought of Zombie Reagan coming out ahead at a brokered Republican Convention just wouldn't get it done, eh?  I can understand that.

4 Heh, seemed like the perfect moment to break out the old "if you aren't a liberal in your 20's" adage.

5 This really really hits home because I'm adopted.  I can't imagine what it would have done to my mom if anything like this happened when they were adopting me.  Report the lawyers to the bar.  Now.  Right now.  There's no excuse for this, particularly since it involves kids.  

6 Stash, I spread the word to the Cotillion. I hope they can help you too.

7 alexthechick, I too am adopted. It hit me hard as well.

8 Gotcha. Will post on this.

9 Posted at The Hostages, too. What a heart-wrenching story.

10 Thanks guys!

11 federico@nodo.uncu.edu.ar

12 Stash...I don't know if wer have ever even exchanged "moronisms" at Ace's place, but I wanted to chime in on your situation. I recently came into a ready-made family. My wife had a little girl before we met and now we have a baby girl together. I have to grown sons, but these are my first girls. They are now 5  and 1 yrs. old. I cannot imagine how empty my life would be without them, so I feel ya bro. Having said all that, I know in my heart of hearts that all of the Morons will band together to help you out as much as we can in our own way. Be strong and keep the faith. As is says in 2 Corinthians, Chapt.5, Verse 7--"we walk by faith, not by sight". God bless and good luck, amigo.

13 I may be able to help. I assume you can see my email attached to this comment.  Drop me a line if you wish.

14 I'll send Stash your mail, he's the one that is this is for, I'm just the messenger.

15 full lace wigs full lace wigs lace wigs lace wigs wedding invitation

16 lace wigs lace front wigs wedding invitations

1

It's funny the way you act as if a NY politician could understand something as esoteric as basic logic.

You raise taxes to increase what the state collects, everybody knows that. You see, if I get $1 on every pack I'll make 20 times as much as if I got 5¢ on each pack.

Then, I'll pay for more cops to bust the people smuggling and voila, profit.

2 Oh I know you can't expect logic and common sense from a NY any politician, still mind boggling.

3

NY Pols are in a class(less) by themselves.

They've taxed industry out of the state so how do they think they'll get the state back on its feet? More taxes!

It's funny cuz I don't live there anymore.

4 My knowledge on this issue is a little sketchy, but aren't tribes technically sovereign nations on their reservations?

If so, how do we legally tax them?

Maybe it's different in California, which wouldn't be surprising.

5 Along our borders with NY, NJ and MD we have shops they visit to escape taxes.  There is a huge outlet mall in Tannersville, PA that people in NY and NJ flood daily with shoppers looking to buy clothes and other things in order to escape the high taxes back home.  Thanks NY, NJ and MD!  As long as our politicians in PA aren't retarded enough to kill that golden goose, and as long as NY, NJ and MD politicians don't do it either, we'll keep cashing in.

6 Joseph, you got me dude, I thought the same.  Looks like they'll try though...

7 The reservation angle I hadn't heard about before. But the impulse that drives pols to try and collect sin taxes on tobacco sales is all too common. We're morally sub-human in their eyes. Subject to different rules. I predict caffeine use is next in line for singling out as a sign of weak moral character.

8 Caffeine...interesting, but I'm gonna go with certain snack foods, or soda, which might overlap your guess.

9 Next thing ya know they'll be mocking us for not knowing how to use the three seashells...

10 HAHAHAHA!!!  You didn't even need to link the reference.  I still make references to Taco Bell winning the Franchise War.

11 It's a classic and very underrated flick.

12 Demolition Man is simply exquisite in its awfulness.

13 Or they could repeal tobacco taxes entirely and cut spending by an equal amount.

14 Demolition Man is simply exquisite in its awfulness.

No way - it's end to end funny. "President Schwarzenegger?" The radio station that just plays jingles from commercials? Sandra Bulluck in those stretchy pants (hawt)? Dennis Leary as the hyperfrenetic underground leader? The Verbal Moralities Act?

15

I pretty much will not watch Stallone movies not named "Rocky I,II,III or IV" but I watch Demolition Man almost every time.

It is funny and Stallone actually makes me laugh. On purpose! I like the guy from Law & Order who plays a wimp trying to be all manly. He cracks me up too. And Leary's rant about freedom? That should be required reading for all high school students.

16 It really is a riot to watch, Veeshir, what about Death Wish?

17

I don't want to bore you with the details, the bottom line is NY will not be able to enforce the collection of this tax.

The tax is owed by the consumer to the state, if I buy a carton of smokes, the tax is owed by me.  NY (and all other taxing authorities) license the retailer to collect the tax on behalf of the state, and render it.  That's how it's enforced.

If I buy smokes on a reservation, or out of state, and bring them into the state, I (technically) owe the tax, but they can't collect it from me cause I gots ninja moves and the kung fu grip (otherwise known as "they don't know where I am or what I done did).  The only way to enforce it, is to make the reservations collect it, and they do not have the authority to make them do so..

18 Chicago already has a soda tax.  It was a penny a can when I lived there.

Doesn't sound like much, but that's a lot of pennies.

19

Dave in Texas, the problem is that you live in Texas. You have no idea how socialist/communist states work.

DPU, no luck on the hand-cannon front.

Death Wish 3 was on Friday night and I called the gun store to bother them, they still hadn't heard.

 That M1919 is looking more and more likely every day. I don't know how long I can keep $2k disposible in my bank account.

20 You'll have to buy links, and probably one of those gizmos that sets the links and ammo chain, unless you're gonna do it by hand...which would be unpleasant, but still...1919 Browning.

21

Awww, poor me. I have to sit there and fit .308 ammo into links.

You're talking to someone who thinks it's fun to clean his guns.

I'll give you a hint, I'm not buying the Wildey as my first gun, or my 10th. I worked my way through the cheaper stuff I want and now I'm up to the $1k-$2k range. How many Winchesters, Rugers, Sigs, Bushmasters, AKs and Smith & Wessons does one guy need?

Just wait until I get to the $10k-$20k range and I buy either a real Thompson, an M-60 or quad .50s. By then, I'll be living in my compound mumbling about black helicopters, but I'll be having a lot of fun.

22 Heh.  Have you seen the semi-auto DP-28s?  They're $3K and shoot 7.62x54Rs.

Bread, land, peace and power to the Soviet!  The Marxist black supremacist Black Panthers celebrate their 40th anniversary.  Check out their list of goals, the sounds like they took the old Bolshevik slogans and modified them.  Barack Obama's campaign celebrated by posting a congratulations, then promptly taking it down when conservative blogs catch wind of it.

Ah, this is interesting.  Handy how a corporation can pay Obama as a legal consultant, then soon after, Obama starts using his position in the Illinois Senate to try and get them state grants and earmarks.

Steven Seagal is...written about here.

Some of the search terms people find sites with...anyway, wish Malor the best on his lawyer-y test dealies, then goof on him a bit.

Yeah, probably.  In any case, I hope things are made right, this guy is clearly the victim of abuse of power.

Ronbots making some progress in their efforts to hijack the GOP Convention. 

What is crazy Rev. Wright's game here?  He has to know he's undermining Obama here.

The Soviet of Philly is a God-forsaken hellhole, part 5,103,868,023 of a continuing series.  I guarantee Philly starts screeching for more fascist gun control laws in response.

An interesting comparison.

WANT

Is there some reason why we can't seem to keep our military facilities in decent shape?  Seriously, first Walter Reed, now this.

Funniest pic you'll see all day.

The latest on the not so peaceful peace movement.

Geoff offers a very compelling reason to vote for the obnoxious dickhole McCain.

Here's a way to let people know you'll be supporting the bastard, but not liking it at all.

otcconan has a post from his brother, who is in Iraq. 

1

Now I'm rooting for the Paultards.

I'm been planning on making a DVD of the Dem convention and sticking it in the drawer with my Mel Brooks collection, hopefully I get to add one of the GOP convention as well.

2

Hey doubleplus, thanks for the linkapalooza again, and for specifically linking that article. I would have had it up earlier but they were upgrading our servers and took the whole site offline all weekend. Nigeria blows, but is even worse without a link to the outside world.

Thanks again!

3 Hey, thanks for the link dude!  I really appreciate it.

4 What is crazy Rev. Wright's game here?  He has to know he's undermining Obama here.

Maybe Obama's trying to get people sick of hearing about Wright that it's "old news" by the general?

5 No problem, I dig that that trebuchet.  I may have to get one.

Maybe Obama's trying to get people sick of hearing about Wright that it's "old news" by the general?

Nah, too risky as long as Hillary's campaign shows any signs of life.  Every time this guy opens his mouth he's doing damage and giving the supers more reason to throw it to Hillary.

6 Hmmmm.  I wonder if you could use the trebuchet in Philly.  It is to ponder. 

Also, how far could you fling a cat with that?  I think this needs a scientific test.

7 You can have one in Philly, only because the rest of the state keeps them in check.

As for flinging a cat, I think it's a (large?) desk toy...

8 Here's a way to let people know you'll be supporting the bastard, but not liking it at all.

My approach to expressing that sentiment was posted <a href="http://geoff82.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/im-gonna-make-a-fortune/">here</a>.

9 Oops forgot I was on mu.nu. Let me fix that:

My approach to expressing that sentiment was posted here.

10 Heh, I remember that.  

1 I'm having trouble finding a good link for this--it's mentioned here--but before he was a "country" singer I understand that Billy Ray Cyrus was a male stripper.

So I fear the apple won't fall far from that tree.

2

How do you spell "exploitation"?

-Topless pics of your tween daughter.

3 OT: Don't know if any of you have seen this, but I highly recommend it.

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/04/26/weekend-humor-black-white-and-the-grey-matters/

4 Damn, too long.

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/04/26/weekend-humor-
black-white-and-the-grey-matters/

5 Do the buttons come up for you?  You should be able to highlight, click the hyperlink button and drop in the link.  I know it doesn't work in Safari and a few others, but if should work in Firefox and IE.  I don't mind just dropping the URL, but it might be easier to use the buttons.

6 And actually, I linked that in the links a few days ago.

7 I want to know how that's not child porn and I'm not even kidding.  If she was actually topless when the pics were taken, well, I don't want to hear about how freaking "artsy" it is.  She's FIFTEEN.  The person taking the picture knew better.  Seriously,  I should be allowed to slap people.  

8 The pic isn't frontal nudity, but if you read the article, yeah, topless.  Just horrible.

9 I think this is disgusting.
There is another disgusting meme in this debacle, too.
Apparently, Miley's parents were in attendance during the shoot, only to leave before it was finished. Her grandmother and teacher were still with her during this 'artistic' phase.
That's right. Another 'throw Grandma under the bus'.

10 Nice, why do people keep throwing their grandmothers under the bus?

Weekend edition, some of this was started on Saturday, but I didn't bother to finish it till today.

In any case, I'd ask you to to offer up prayers for a friend if you could.  I'll likely have more on that later.

Cranky got some pics of a B-2 Bomber.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, you don't try and rob WWII vets, they'll just kick your ass or run you off.

Heh.

Jen rants about the horrendous Sandra Lee, and yes, Sandra Lee is terrible, but Rachel Ray is still the Antichrist.

Aye carumba!

Mmmm...bacon.

An engineer's guide to cats. 

This is what happens when you disrespect the Rickroll, Mets.  You lose to the Nationals.  The intarwebs have now cursed you to with EPIC FAIL.

It is always funny when a Democrat tries to quote scripture.  I rarely quote scripture unless I'm quoting from Pulp Fiction (I'm joking, I'm not quite that bad).  Quoting scripture in public (outside of a church or synagogue) is a tough thing to do, because you walk that thin line between sounding like you have no clue what the hell you're saying and sounding like a religious crank.

Saudi blogger freed.

Yet more on the disaster that is ethanol.

Seattle leftists on homeless shelters:  NIMBY!

FAIL

Funny thing, there used to be a Chinese restaurant here in town that a similar thing happened.  Cops got a call that the owner was chasing one of his employees around the the parking lot with a big knife, shouting (presumably obscenities) at the employee in Chinese.

Interesting...Hillary takes on Newt's debate idea, and wants to do a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with Obama.

Ron Paul's crank supporters trying to subvert the convention, and who can blame them, He's the Only Man Who Can Save America!^TM in their fevered little brains.

bmac had it right, Morgan Spurlock is a crappy Michael Moore wannabe. 

Obama really effed up in PA, even in his Philly stronghold.

Check out this picture.

Narwhals!

A profile of Stern Pinball, one of the last of the major pinball machine producers.

I really hate the elite of the PA GOP.  Worthless sellouts and corrupt tools, the lot of them.

1 Thanks for the link, dpud.  A lot of good stuff you've sorted through to present here.

2 I could've posted some more too, but I decided to stop there.

3 Stern Pinball sounds like a great name for a blog.

4 Saying a prayer for your friend. Send me a line if there is anything I can do.

5 Stern Pinball sounds like a great name for a blog.

Yeah, that would be good.

1

This reminds me of something....

Fat Teddy
I gotta tell you Makaniak, I always had a sneaking suspicion you were some sort of rat fink cop. But after today, I can tell you're a real dealer, just like us.

Makaniak
Me? A filthy narc partisan pig? If I didn't respect you Teddy, I'd punch you right in the mouth.

Fat Teddy
In my line, I gotta be careful. Before I let you in on the big score, I've got one more bipartisanship loyalty  test for you.

Henchmen pull back curtain, revealing policeman bound and gagged in chair. Fat Teddy hands Makaniak a revolver.

Hilly (Fat Teddy's gun moll)
Do it for me, Makaniak.I'll compromise with you all night long.

Makaniak's eyes narrow and he empties 6 shots at the back of the policeman's head. When the smoke clears, he is still alive.

Fat Teddy
You passed, Makaniak. The gun was filled with blanks.

Makaniak
Really? I've got an extra box of ammo back at my apartment, I can go get....

2 Heh, perfect.

3

Thanks for the link, Sinistar.

I really don't enjoy defending McCain. If it weren't for Obama, he'd be a non-starter for me. While a far cry from what I consider a conservative, McCain is simply the most conservative of the slim pickens left. The calculus becomes easy at that point. If McCain does/says something to change that equation, then I'll change my vote.

I'm no longer the table-thumping absolutist I was in college. I will not vote for some third party wacko, and I won't sit at home and hand the keys of the White House to Obama. Serve me my shit sandwich.

4 Yeah, I'm still uncommitted, every time I think I can go vote for him, he decides to kick sand in my face and I move back into being noncommittal.  I understand and respect where people go on the McCain question as long as they're well thought out(most of you morons who come here do) and respectful of the other side.

5 I'm not sure I can pull the lever for him. Every time I manage to talk myself into it, he pulls another asshole stunt. I sure as heck won't donate money or evangelize this one -- and that's probably worth more than my vote. I'm beginning to think the best hope is to ensure the next president is so damaged he can't get much of his agenda through.

6 What Weasel said. I guess an important aspect to this election should be to keep as many (R)s elected as possible just to block the (D) and McC legislative idiocy that's sure to follow. If we can just keep McC & Co impotent for 4 years, maybe a decent candidate will step forward. Hope waxes eternal...

7 Yeah, that seems to be all there is to do.

8

My problem with this? Just cuz he has to distance himself from Bush doesn't mean he has to feed into lefty fantasies and their "community based reality" as pushed by the NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBCetc. (and of course, Shep Smith and Geraldo).

That bothers me no matter who does it. Facts and truth have meaning.

Or at least, they used to have meaning.

9

That bothers me no matter who does it. Facts and truth have meaning.

Or at least, they used to have meaning.

I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately the media and political climate makes it impossible in practice for now.

10

Exactly why people should push back hard.

I'm not kidding about saying we're all doomed. When you have to feed into lies and fantasy in order to be taken seriously, you're screwed. Read up on the fall of the Byzantine Empire. The politicians (noblemen) thought more about fighting each other and ignored the barbarians at the gates. When we have people who have a serious chance at being President of the United States who think that Global Warming is a worse problem than global terrorism, you're screwed. And all three in the running are at least close to that position.

We're throwing $billions at global warming and scientists who are "skeptics" are afraid to admit it. You know, just like in the Dark Ages.

How about this extreme scenario.

We know the Sun is becoming less active. That leads to colder weather. We are generally about at the time for another ice age (within the next couple thousand years, but it could be now, or it could be in 4080 but let's assume it's now for argument's sake).

Okay, so as it becomes obvious that we are in the beginning of an ice age, the glaciers are moving south and it's getting colder and colder, know that we'll have the same coterie of global warmmongers seeing their next opportunity for big bucks in global cooling. They'll start pushing that it's industry's fault that it's cooling. As long as they act all commie in their calls for cutbacks, the NYTimesWashPostCNNABCCBSNBCets. get on board with the luddites and we get rollbacks in industry just when we need it the most (to keep people warm).

Begin as you mean to go on. The more you pander to know-nothing, anti-scientific, ignorant fools, the worse it gets.

It has to stop.

Of course, I think we're screwed and western civilization is all done, but some people still have hope.

11 I'm not convinced we're screwed yet, but we will be if we don't play smart.  

12 I think I may have the answer.  We get him elected and then kick the snot out of him once he's in office.

13 I think that's probably what we'll end up doing.

14 I know I am coming in a little late on this (damned server out here was down all weekend for an upgrade) but I decided to <a href="http://barslavesandbananas.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/lets-play-a-game-katrina-or-nigeria/:> decided to write something about this as well.

15

Dammit. I keep forgetting that you don't embed HTML.

Here you go.

http://barslavesandbananas.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/lets-play-a-game-katrina-or-nigeria/

16

I'd just like to add Steyn's quote I'm sure you saw at Instapundit to the record

In a scrupulously politically correct age, it's not offensive to organize a "Kill the police!" demo or to preach that the government invented Aids in order to perpetrate an African-American genocide. ...snip...What's grotesquely offensive is the chap who's insensitive enough to point out such statements and associations. 

So in other words, facts and truth have no meaning. How can a society in the Information Age function that way? How can a society in the Industrial Age function that way?

Answer: They can't.

I suggest you get something that is at the pinnacle of Western Civilization to be able to say, as you're squatting in a cave in 20 years, "I used to own a..."
I have a Mustang GT Convertible. I expect that memory to keep me warm as I'm fending off zombies not name Reagan Zombie.

Of course, I'll hopefully still have my Wildey (if it ever freaking gets in) to use as a "fender" so there is that too.

17 Yeah, but only the left and their useful idiots are usually offended, the average person usually isn't.  We just have to keep grinding away, what else is there to do?

18

I couldn't agree with the sentiment more.  McCain remains confused about who his opposition is. 

I saw a great way to show support for him as candidate but not his policies.  The suggestion is to show is campaign stickers upsidedown as the international sign of distress.

Here's a link if you'd like to use it.

http://norunnyeggs.com/2008/04/mccain-salute/

19

Yeah, but only the left and their useful idiots are usually offended, the average person usually isn't.  We just have to keep grinding away, what else is there to do?

That was my point from the start that you seemed to disagree with.

I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately the media and political climate makes it impossible in practice for now.

20 Shoebox, I actually added that in the links before I saw your comment.

Veeshir...d'oh!

1 Bwahahahahahahahahaha! This would be too funny.

2 What's truly shocking is that Franken had an income to tax. Has he ever succeeded at anything, ever?
Let's see: Air America-total failure
               "Stuart Smalley"-total failure, the biggest flop of any SNL movie, including "It's Pat!"
                SNL-succeeded in collecting a paycheck for 20 years, while stellar talent like Joe Piscopo, and Rob Schnieder sailed past him. I guess you could call being Lorne Michaels' mercy fuck a "success."

I would be willing to bet he's never generated a single dollar of profit to anyone but himself. No doubt he's cost many, many people much more money than he's ever made them. Why, why, why, does anyone take this loser even remotely seriously?

If Minnesota elects this douchebag, they should be forced to secede from the union.

3 I'll have to double-check with my smarter co-blogger, but if memory serves, there is another 'Rat running for Coleman's seat.

4 Hopefully Franken bludgeons the other Dem with his wallet, then sinks himself with this tax issue for an easy win.

Atlantic City casino industry commits suicide, Nanny Staters act as Dr. Kevorkian.

GTA4 leaked.

Up up & away in my beautiful balloons.

Awesome.

Famously incompetent Howards.

Tough old lady.

FAIL

Are you ready for Huck's new book?

Ask a Moron.

Ethanol is a disaster.  We knew this of course, but it bears repeating.

Reid considers getting tough and going the UN route with the superdelegates.

Bear trainer gets Treadwell'd.


This may warrant a longer post later.  Basically, the gun dealer who sold firearms to both the Vtech and NIU shooter is offering a major discount to students.  I agree with him in principle, that the right to carry is the best chance we have at limiting or stopping these sorts of attacks.  I still don't think he should have done it, because of precisely what is happening.  It doesn't matter if it is100% unfair to the dealer, the connection he has to those two events is going to make most people queasy, and the fascists in the media, the Brady Campaign and the VPC are all seizing upon it.

Funneh pic.

Reporting on white athletes.

Democrats down on Dean?

I'm really tired of the protectionist demagoguery the left is engaging in with this Colombian trade deal.

Brits cancel St. George parade, despite no complaints.

Funny how this works, it takes youtube forever to remove jihadi propaganda, yet Mark Bunker has his account suspended immediately, not to mention all the abuse anti-jihad and conservatives get there.

PattyAnn requests this video for the Moronosphere Links, doubleplusundead delivers.

McCain works hard to gain support from the conservative movement.  And the GOP follows suit...maybe McCain is the party standardbearer?

1 Thanks DPUD. You are the best!

2

I'm loving me some moronosphere.

Thanks for the link today!

3 It was a good post, it had to be added.

4 I second the above motion: DPUD rocks!  I'm once again enjoying the fruits of a DPUD-a-lanche!

McCain, as we all know, decided to attack the NC GOP for this ad.  Well, screw McCain.  First, as Sean Hackbarth asks, why is it fine for McCain to take swipes at Obama because of his relationship with crazy Rev. Wright on ABC, but the NC GOP can't take swipes at Obama and Wright in their own ad?

I hope the NC GOP sticks to their guns, tells McCain to get bent and plays that ad over and over.  I'd love for the NC GOP Chair to go on TV and tell McCain to get bent, that they're playing the ad, and try attacking a liberal for once in his life, who knows, he might like it...or not, it may feel to much like attacking himself.  Then wave a fat stack of Benjamins and say, "See this? This is donation money.  This is what happens when you don't treat your natural base of support like garbage...oh, but you wouldn't know about that.  Enjoy the federal funding and unmotivated volunteers, sucker."

Know what? We conservatives have no presidential candidate to support, so we're having fun kicking around the Democrat candidates and their nutty supporters...and a hell of a lot of fun we're having!  That we have no candidate is enough of an insult, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be denied my fun kicking around Democrats by McCain.  Particularly by McCain, it is insult enough that he's the GOP nominee.  Screw McCain.

1 Someone at work asked why I wasn't supporting McCain.  I told them it was because I was tired of being stabbed in the face.  Shit like this makes me furious.

2

Do I really want to ask what the condiments for the shit sandwich that is the McCain nomination are?

Guess I'm going back to the fishbowl to draw out two names to write in.

3 There can be only one write-in, and he stands for Optimism, Conservatism, and Braaaaains!

4 In any case, at least alexthechick and I have fairly decent candidates to get behind for Congress.

5 I dunno.  I kinda agree with Jim Geragthy's take on the issue (here and here).  

6 Then wave a fat stack of Benjamins and say, "See this? This is donation money.  This is what happens when you don't treat your natural base of support like garbage...oh, but you wouldn't know about that.  Enjoy the federal funding and unmotivated volunteers, sucker."

That was priceless and a great idea! He ticked me off yesterday with him comments in New Orleans, hitting Bush below the belt about Katrina response. It will take me a while to cool off about that. He can't even let me TRY to warm up to the idea of him, before he opens his mouth and says something stupid.

It's Vintage -  I agreed with your first Geraghty link, but not the second one. While it's nice that independent voters might find it appealing that McCain blasted the Bush administration in New Orleans in front of cameras, he just took lines from the Democrat's play book and he does NOT appeal to the conservative base who are becoming more and more apathetic. He didn't take that opportunity to rip the failure of Democrat leadership in New Orleans or Louisiana, did he? No. He threw a sitting Republican president under the bus for a chance to pander for votes. Doesn't that sound just like the rhetoric we hear from the Democrat candidates? "Vote for me. I'm not President Bush." It makes me ill.

7 The professional race-hucksters are crying foul  that BHO has his arm around a white woman, which as we all agreed at the last White Persons Meeting of America, is code for racism.  Or something.

There is a delicate line McCain must walk between being a complete wuss and irritating the perpetually aggrieved.

See Nat'l Review 04/21/08 "A Kind of Dynamite" by Byron York:
“It’s just math,” says GOP consultant Tucker Eskew. “Just look at states that are not completely reliably Republican and have substantial black populations. In a year with a climate that favors Democratic positions, this should be taken very seriously.”

I'm going with the Red State Update philosophy:  F*ck it! McCain '08

8

I don't know if we can finesse the 22nd Amendment by saying Zombie Reagan is a zombie.  Personally, I think he'd do a lot more good in the House (I would say Senate, but there are absolutely no brains there).

9

Yeah, that Katrina remark pissed me off a lot.

On the other hand, it reminded me that it's time to read my favorite absolutely true account of Shep Smith's reportage of Katrina.

 

10 I dunno.  I kinda agree with Jim Geragthy's take on the issue

Maybe, however it would work better if he didn't have a mile long track record of kicking sand in our faces.  McCain better be careful, conservatives are apathetic to begin with, if he pushes his luck, they'll move from being apathetic with mild support to being hostile and unsupportive.

11 well.... mccains is just trying to maintain the democratic and independent vote, can you blame him for trying to appease his base? thisisbunk.wordpress.com

12

I see what he is doing, but I have a feeling that he is not going to pull a double take if he actually does get the nomination and follow a more conservative line because he hasn't done so this entire time. there have been no -wink wink- moments from him when he talks about shite like this: to me he believes it.

I mean the reason that we have more than one party is because they are supposed to have differing view points and ideals, right? Side-by-side how many of McCain's are actually that different from the dem's stances, save that his are just a touch less into the excess than his democratic colleagues?

Oh yeah, forgot about his support of the military.Forgot about his support on the "War on Terror" as well. Guys, to me this whole process reeks of political pandering to anyone that will listen ON ALL SIDES and not truly representing his party. Seems to me that the only one that is actually acting like he is a real member of his party is Obama.

-Don't get me wrong, I am a conservative. I'm just a little annoyed.

 

13 I hear ya Old Iron, I just think the RINO wing of the party is making it's move, and we have to do our best to deal with it.

14 I mean the reason that we have more than one party is because they are supposed to have differing view points and ideals, right?

That's the problem isn't it? At the end of the day, the choice we have to make, isn't really a choice at all. We can "lesser of two evils" this all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that our votes have been effectively nullified.