Navy officer swords banned at Annapolis commencement?

So, we're going to trust these Naval officers with operating ships with enough firepower to level cities, including nuclear warheads, but they can't be trusted with swords?  FAIL

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Excuse me while I point and laugh

S&P cuts NYT rating deeper into junk status

Ha HA! Is it possible to OD on schadenfreude? Because I'm starting to worry about that a bit.

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Are you kidding me?

No, really?

It seems to be a new Cheneyite talking point that x% of those already released from Guantanamo have "returned to the battlefield." From the evidence I've seen the claim itself is questionable. But if it's true, how is this a point in favor of Cheney and the Bush administration?

Um, well, Josh, it's because you and Obama and all of your lefty pals have been arguing that we should release all of the Gitmo prisoners since about September 12, 2001.

And Cheney and the Bush administration argued that they ought to be detained until the war that they started on 9/11 (I'm being generous here, considering the idea that they started this war in 1979 with the Iranian embassy invasion and continued with the Beirut bombing, USS Cole attack, etc.) could be brought to an end.

Oh, and since this came out just a week before the era of Hope and Change actually began, I can understand your reluctance to believe it. After all, everything that came from the government before The One officially ascended was a contemptible lie. Even when it came from your buddies in the MSM.

Yeah.

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Well, it doesn't explain the arachnophobia...

...but I suspect alexthechick may have had a bed like this when she was a little girl.

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Boston PD is honest

Or at least, they claim they'll be honest at the onset of the next zombie apocalypse.  My theory is that we won't be hearing squat from the authorities until it's too late.

(h/t)

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If Nancy is right...

...about those mean old CIA people lying to her, then why did the Dems vote down a bipartisan congressional panel to investigate those lies?

"This is partisan politics and an attempt by the Republicans to distract from the real issue of creating jobs and making progress on health care, energy and education," said Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami.

Ah, yes. The ever-present distractions. Of course, it has nothing to do with the possibility that she's the one who's been lying out of her heavily-botoxed ass. Yeah.

Oh, and calling for a "truth commission" and the prosecution of lawyers from the previous administration for offering legal opinions that your slavering lefty base disagree with? That's not "partisan politics" or anything.

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Hopenchange vs. Darth Cheney: Guess who wins

"How many other people are able to put a sitting President so on the defensive that he has to schedule a major speech to rebut him?"

Not many, and here's a hint: David Frum ain't one of 'em.

But hey, if you like stupid chicks, I'm sure Meghan McCain is somewhere in the country looking to be consoled.

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Annihilation through attrition

Hillary Clinton is comfortable telling Israelis to do something the US administration is incapable of encouraging in the illegal immigrant population within our own borders - stop breeding.

Speaking on "Al Jazeera" (how convenient and sycophantic) she firmly stated US President Obama's policy:

"We want to see a stop to settlement construction - additions, natural growth, any kind of settlement activity - that is what the president has called for"

Natural Growth?

Since when does one country interfere with another's natural growth? Who does Obama and Hillary think they are?

I'm reminded of the decrees of Pharaoh in Egypt millennia ago, who demanded the cessation of Jewish births, and decreed that all Jewish male babies had to be thrown into the Nile River.

With friends of Israel like this, who needs Iran?

And speaking of Iran...

In a poll released this week, 71 percent of Americans say the United States won't be safe with a nuclear Iran. Seventy-nine percent said if Iran acquired a weapon, it was likely to provide it to terrorists to attack an American city. A slightly larger number, 80 percent, said Iran was likely to fire a missile at Israel.

Obama's concern over Iran is unimpressive.

Under pressure from a visiting Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to explain the latest White House position on Iran, a relaxed Mr Obama remarked: "We should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether [the Iranians] are moving in the right direction."

I suppose I should wait until the guys that kicked in my front door are done with whatever they're raping and pillaging before I decide what their intent is. Obama's aiming to be historical in more than one way - if he continues on his current path, he's going to aid in the next Holocaust.

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California to Obama: BAILOUT!!!!

Of course, we all knew this was coming. 

Gonna be interesting to see where this goes.  I've gotta think that this isn't going to happen, because there are 49 other states, and many counties, cities and towns (or townships if you're in PA) that are struggling to keep their debt under control.  Other than those in CA or solidly Marxist districts, the congresscritters know that the next election cycle is going to be ugly for those that support something like this.  They know the bailouts are unpopular, and porkulus is less so. 

The other problem with bailing out California is obvious, the second we do it, every other state and local government has absolutely zero incentive to spend responsibly, and those people who do the right thing anyway are going to grow extremely resentful of those that don't control spending. 

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Bill Gates May Make A Crappy Computer, But He Sure Can Kill Terrorists

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Heh: Obama being distracted by Biden's stupidity

Too funny.

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Oh, so these are the rules now?

So these are the rules now?

Bring it, bitch.  Seriously.  I can do oppo like a motherfucker and if these are the rules, then fine.  Turnabout is fair (so to speak) play and all that. 

This is the thing, there is an assumption by those who use the Alinsky tactics that those against whom the tactics are being used won't fight back.  Now, this is not a bad assumption based on prior experience.  But things change.  I, for one, am tired of playing "fair".  If we're going to degenerate into completely ignoring the rule of law and basic freaking decency, well, then I'm not going to be the last one standing there playing by the rules.  Of course I don't want to descend to that level.  But sometimes that's all that's left to do.  So these are the rules now.  Okay then. 

I'm thinking that it's about damn time someone slaps a TRO on the asses of those who do this.  Not to mention pursuing stalking charges.  Oh and if they're taking pictures of/posting info about kids?  Yeah, possibly predation claims as well.  What's that?  That's not fair?  That's slanderous and libelous and harassing and untrue and vile and and and. . . Yeah.  Sucks to be on the other side now doesn't it?

Opening Pandora's box is never ever a good idea.

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Sacramento Bee editorial board puts its dick into hornet nest

...and is stung, repeatedly and painfully. 

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Are you ready for the Obamobile?

Something tells me that the WSJ is less than optimistic about the future of the American auto industry under Obama's new fuel economy standards:

At the end of his Rose Garden explanation yesterday of the new U.S. fuel-efficiency standards, President Obama remarked on the good that can be accomplished when we are "working together." The President may be getting ahead of himself. Watching the unlikely coalition arrayed behind him as Mr. Obama committed the U.S. to an astonishing passenger-car mileage average of 39 miles per gallon by 2016, it looks truer to say we are merely standing together in this adventure, for better or worse.

Mr. Obama's fleet-mileage partners yesterday included the two auto companies that have fallen into his arms, Chrysler and GM, still-independent Ford, the major foreign manufacturers, United Auto Workers chief Ron Gettelfinger, and beaming representatives from the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

All that's left to arrive at the President's new destination for the American way of driving are huge, unanswered questions about technology, financing and the marketability of cars that will be small and expensive.

Picky, picky.

They go on to point out that the new fleet of American cars will likely be made up of small hybrids and electric cars and then ask an extremely silly question:

Once Detroit is forced to build these cars, will free Americans want to buy them, at any price?

Um, like we're gonna have a choice? That's pretty much the entire point. Oh, and isn't that "free Americans" thing quaint?

We wish these folks luck "working together" with the Obama auto-design team. One thing seems certain by 2016: Taxpayers will be paying Detroit to make the cars Americans don't want, and then they will pay again either through (trust us) a gas tax or with a purchase subsidy. Even the French must think we're nuts.

We. Are. So. Fucking. Screwed.

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Thai tranny hookers

Whoever's deciding what goes on the front page of FoxNews.com is obviously reading Ace. Latest NIH outrage: Thai tranny hookers. Yes, really.

The two-year project, made possible by a grant from the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse, is also studying kathoey, the transgender prostitutes who are widely accepted in Thailand because of the "karmic idea in Buddhism," and who have especially high HIV infection rates, according to the study's abstract.

No math blah blah blah...


$2,600,000 for studying the mating behavior of drunken Chinese hookers
     400,000 for studying the mating behavior of gay Argentinian males
     357,000 for providing post-traumatic stress to New York
+   178,000 for studying Thai tranny hookers
 $3,535,000

$3,357,000 ÷ $7,500 = 471.3

$7,500 is the cost of providing one scholarship to one student in the DC Opportunity Fund that Obama nuked.

For the cost of terrifying NYC, plus the cost of asking gay South American men why they like to get drunk and screw random strangers, plus the cost of training Chinese pimps to keep their hos in line, plus the cost of studying Thai tranny hookers, 471 children in one of the worst school districts in America could have received a year of quality education.

Hell, Thai tranny hookers has only been mentioned 268 times at the Head Moron's.

Is anyone else of the opinion that the NIH was told, "You're getting THIS MUCH budget, you'd better be damned sure you spend it!"?

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How Bad Of Shape Are GM and Chrysler?

So bad that the UAW isn't happy about owning them.

The UAW is set to receive a 55% stake in Chrysler through its union trust fund once that automaker emerges from bankruptcy. The trust fund will also likely get up to 38% of GM's stock as part of its reorganization.

But that doesn't mean the union will be calling the shots at either company. In fact, UAW president Ron Gettelfinger said the union hopes to sell its stake in both companies quickly because he is more interested in raising cash to cover retiree health care costs than having an ownership stake in GM (GM, Fortune 500) and Chrysler.

"Let somebody else take the stock. Give us the money," Gettelfinger said at a recent press conference. "We are trading debt for equity, and what is the value of the equity? Let's be honest, it's zero today."

Since the trust fund, and not individual union members or the union itself, will own the stakes in GM and Chrysler, it is expected that the UAW will not use its newfound role as a large shareholder to push for major changes at either company.

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Agreed: The NRSC needs to stay out of the primaries

Between Toomey/Specter and Rubio/Crist, the NRSC, and Cornyn in particular, are out of control.

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Hey, Massachusetts?

That sharp pain you just felt?  Yeah, the state legislature just kicked you in the balls...hard. 

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Your lips say one thing...

...but the giggles from your audience tell a somewhat different story:



*giggle clap clap giggle*

Sure.  You're impartial. It's not like you said anything mean or offensive, right?

"...oddly, other networks seem to be encouraging..."

No bias.  Yeah.  None at all.

*clap giggle clap giggle clap giggle clap clap giggle clap clap*

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No, you don't fucking say!

I voted a straight "Oh, Hells Naw" ticket on today's California special election, which was basically meant to bounce responsibility for cleaning up the state's budget mess back to the voters.

Oh, and check out this Master (Mistress?) of the Obvious:

"Obviously, it's disappointing," said Democratic Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, chairwoman of the Assembly Budget Committee. "But I think the voters are sending a message that they believe the budget is the job of the governor and Legislature. We probably need to go back and do our job."

Probably? Probably? What the fuck? What the fuck have you assholes been doing over the last few years? Oh, right...raising taxes, spending more than you can take in, coddling illegal immigrants, and scaring away productive businesses through...well, those policies I just mentioned.

Why don't you get the fuck back to work and start cutting the hell out of every fucking non-essential program that the state has even a dollar invested in? Why don't you look at the drain on public services and education that illegal immigration has cost us? Why don't you tell the public sector unions that they're going to have to work on restructuring their contracts if they want California to be viable again? Why don't you take a look at the high taxes that are moving productive people into other states?

Oh, right. Because the idiots here in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco and other coastal areas will keep on electing Democrats who don't give a shit, as long as they get re-elected and their contributors get theirs in the process.

Silly me.

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