Attractive financing also available on bridge in Brooklyn

A bunch of ordinary, non-extremist folks gathered at a Hilton in Oak Lawn, IL this weekend for a conference called "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," which was not at all related to anything shady...

Despite the charged rhetoric, Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it condemns terrorism "by all means," spokesman Mohammad Malkawi told reporters Sunday.

"It is not in our dictionary," Malkawi said. "We condemn it by all means … From our perspective, our records are clean on this issue."

Malkawi said the group had "never indulged in recruiting" jihadists.

Yeah. Be sure to click on the link to find out about some of the group's Gandhi-esque alumni.

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If The Post Office Is What We Have To Look Forward To When It Comes To Obamacare, Count Me Out

Especially when they can't make payroll.

The presidents of the American Postal Workers Union, National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, National Association of Letter Carriers and National Postal Mailhandlers Union co-signed the Tuesday letter to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, warning that the U.S. Postal Service is at risk of defaulting on a $5.4 billion payment to prefund retiree health benefits at the end of September.

The letter alleges that USPS “may not be able to make payroll in October and will be forced to issue IOUs instead.”

Yvonne Yoerger, a spokeswoman for USPS, confirmed that the unions wrote the letter but disputed the claim that payroll deadlines will be missed.

“That’s not something that’s been discussed at all,” she said. “We are committed to making payroll.”

Yeah, and I am committed to drinking a gallon of val-u-rite vodka. So what's your point?

But, seriously, how fucking stupid is it when the Post Office. The Fucking Post Office, cannot make payroll?

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Hey alex...

Aren't you a size 5?

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Go reflect yourself, President Obama

Apparently President Obama feels that Israel has a demographic problem, not a Palestinian terror problem or a nuclear Iran problem.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with 15 American Jewish leaders at the White House for the first time on Monday. The president and the Jewish officials huddled for talks aimed at clearing the air following allegations that his administration was taking a tough line with Israel over settlement activity.

At the meeting, Obama told the leaders that he wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem by reaching an agreement on a two-state solution, but that in order to do so, Israel would need "to engage in serious self-reflection."

There's a whole bunch more of Obama sending Israel a collective fuck you, including taking a wait-and-see attitude toward Iran's nuclear program and refusing to tone down his administration's opposition to the natural growth of existing Israeli settlements.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Jews just don't get it.

Ira Forman, CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, told ABC News that Obama said the media sometimes plays up disagreements between the US and Israel.

The U.S. pressuring Arab countries is a "dog bites man" story, he quoted the president as saying, adding that Obama assured the participants that he has applied just as much pressure on the Palestinian Authority as he has on Israel in steps towards peace.

This is a time when I wish we had some moonbat trolls floating around here, as I'd really like to hear their views of what sort of pressure Obama is putting on the Palestinian Authority. Obama encouraged the Palestinian Authority to beef up security in the West Bank in late May in exchange for Israel ceasing natural settlement growth - that doesn't sound like pressure to me, that sounds like "Get your guns ready while we schmooze Israel into decreasing its settlement population so it's got fewer IDF babes to shoot back at you."

And her ears must have been burning, look who just showed up.


Photo obviously courtesy of Maxim.

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Advocate of Legalized Infanticide: Let's Ration Health Care

It came as no big surprise to me when I noticed who wrote this NYT Op-Ed "Why We Must Ration Health Care" -- philosopher Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton. Singer is notorious for his positions on the legalization of infanticide and euthanasia, and applies an exacting utilitarian standard to his work.

I guess they passed on that driving safety piece by Ted Kennedy.

Both sides in the debate about the Democrats' risky scheme (don't call it "reform") for heath insurance are guilty of cherry picking individual cases. Singer is no different, and he sets up a doozey. He picks Sutent, a particularly expensive drug prolonging the lives of terminal kidney cancer patients by about six months, costing $54,000.:

If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.

Of course, health care is already rationed by this hybrid private-public system we've grown to hate. But in a market system, the individual makes a meta-decision about the value of such treatments and purchases his plan accordingly.

Rationing health care means getting value for the billions we are spending by setting limits on which treatments should be paid for from the public purse. If we ration we won’t be writing blank checks to pharmaceutical companies for their patented drugs, nor paying for whatever procedures doctors choose to recommend. When public funds subsidize health care or provide it directly, it is crazy not to try to get value for money. The debate over health care reform in the United States should start from the premise that some form of health care rationing is both inescapable and desirable.

Or, how about we just not do it at all. Why are we in the position of choosing between blank checks and rationing? Because the statists insist that the government get involved.

At least Singer has done us the favor of laying out the gory logical conclusion of Obamacare.
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Just imagaine how many zombies I could kill with these

Holy fucking shit I love these.  Seriously.  I would sell several of y'all's organs for those. 

Also I now have a strange urge to watch Resident Evil 2 now.  Funny that. 

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Sunday afternoon car hotassery

Since reality continues to make me want to go on a spree, I give you car hotassery in lieu of content.



Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer go! (actually it's a Rizk Auto RA but that's beside the point)

Tru Fax: My first memory is of watching Speed Racer. No lie.

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I really hope this can be chalked up to 'Zionist propaganda'

Because if it can't, the Iranian government has sunk to new lows.

He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so "impressed my superiors" that, at 18, "I was given the 'honor' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death."

In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband."

"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," he said.

Why the regret, if the marriages were "legal?"

"Because," he went on, "I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

"I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over," he said. "I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her."

I'd like to see any 'feminist' try to defend the Iranian government's behavior, why we shouldn't provide Israel with whatever aid they ask for in combating a government that promotes this sort of evil, and why we're not invading to protect these young girls. The justification of drugging, rape, and execution of young girls, especially in a culture where virginity and marriage is placed at the highest premium for young women, destroys any moral equivalence argument.

"And yet there are people out there who complain about torture if the detainees at Gitmo don't get a fucking fruit cup with dinner" pretty much sums up the cognitive dissonance.

h/t ElderofZiyon, via discardedlies

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Gee, guess who's defending affirmative action?

"Conservative" columnist Kathleen Parker laments that the male GOP members (heh, you'll see why that word is funny in a second) of the Senate Judiciary Committee were too hard (heh, again) on Sonia Sotomayor...

Judicial temperament is a legitimate concern, of course. But watching Sotomayor take questions about her moods from the nearly all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, one couldn't help wondering how those same fellows would hold up under similar scrutiny while a roomful of women took aim at their . . . fortitude.

See what she did there? She made a dick joke! In the Washington Post! HA!

Parker, a sage critic of the human condition the likes of which has not been seen since Mark Twain, goes on to note that everyone actually has prejudices...

Senators also hammered Sotomayor about her ethnic identification and whether she could rule fairly without undue influence from her gender or political preferences. Wait, let me guess, you're white guys! Are we to infer that men of European descent are never unduly influenced by their own ethnicity, gender or political preferences? Can anyone affirm this assertion with a straight face?

Well, Kathleen, most of us don't have to affirm this assertion, seeing as how we don't, you know, go around announcing it in speeches to legal conferences.

But, then again, most of us don't have the finely-tuned "conservative" mind of Ms. Parker...

When your party looks like a Wonder Bread convention during flu season, picking on ethnic identity and sex seems like an un-brilliant way to proceed. Yet, these same gentlemen don't understand how Sotomayor could have expressed the thought that she, as a Latina, might be able to reach a wiser decision than a white man?

Seeing as how I'm just an ignorant white male, I'm not wise enough to tease out how that makes any goddamn sense. Stupid me.

Educate me, Kathleen!!!

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The Stimulus at Work, Ham Edition

Wow. Look at this contract award. *

And look at the district where this extra ham work is headed.

Hmm...

Thanks.

*Look, I bet this was just a clerical error, but any opportunity to mock the lazy fucktards in the O-Ministration must be seized. That's what those fucking dipshit syphilitic bastards of a fucking motherless whore did to Bush every time some low level hack who never even met the President would fuck up, so let's pay them back.

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Sorry, But My Give A Flying Fuck Meter Is Running Empty Today

Honestly, I could give a shit about Obama using his lackey groups to attack wavering Democrats. Let them fight it out withing their own ranks once in a while.

he Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America Arm -- criticized by Harry Reid yesterday for an ad pressuring Senate Democrats on health care -- has launched a similar effort in the House.

A version of the same ad, in which citizens recount their families' health care woes and declare that "it's time" for reform, will be running in 15 media markets around the country.

The ad doesn't say this, but a look at the media markets indicates that the White House political operation hasn't backed off targeting Democrats -- and indeed, has stepped up that program. The ad will appear in 15 markets, all of them within districts of members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the key body for a health care bill. All 15 are occupied by members seen as swing voters inside the committee, and 12 of those 15 members are Democrats.

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This movie will not be as awesome as Robogeisha

A movie studio in Gaza is producing films about Hamas activists.

What the linked article's not mentioning is that "Imad Akel, a Hamas activist who was killed by Israeli forces in 1993" was wanted in Israel for the deaths of 16 Israelis and Israeli sympathizers.  Activist, that's a funny funny word with a lot of meanings, isn't it?  I thought the right word would be terrorist.

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Yeah, my state sucks for any number of reasons...

...but our history of car culture and hot rodding is fucking awesome:

Every Prius in the world envies this car.  And every Prius driver wishes they could attract members of the opposite sex (who actually bathe on a regular basis) that the driver of this car can pick up.

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Are you not stimulated?!

Pluggy Joe (via Weekly Standard):
"To those who say that our economic decisions 'have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and simply have not worked' I say, take a look around."



ARE YOU NOT STIMULATED!?!

(This poorly edited Joe Collins original parody is brought to you by The GIMP, because Photoshop wouldn't help my crappy skills anyway.)

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The continuing crisis

We have to ram this socialist turd sandwich through Congress now because OMG THE SKY IS FALLING!!!1!eleven!1!!

“If we don’t get health care done now, then no one’s health insurance is going to be secure. You’re going to continue to see premiums going up at astronomical rates, out of pocket costs going up at astronomical rates, and people who lose their jobs. . . finding themselves in a situation where they cannot get health care.”

 

“That is not a future I accept for the United States of America,” Obama said.

That's funny, Barack, I'm sure a lot of us were thinking the same thing about the future of our country, but for some very different reasons.

Update: I should also note that those statements were preceded by The Big Lie:

“I've said that health insurance reform cannot add to our deficit over the next decade, and I mean it,” Obama said. “Let me repeat: Health insurance reform cannot add to our deficit over the next decade and I mean it.”

Yeah,because it's not like the deficit goes skyrocketing every time you open your fucking piehole or anything.

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This is EXACTLY what we wanted to happen

Obama wanted Obamacare to be done by August.  He's since moved the goal back to the end of the year.  Which means we can stop it, assuming we haven't stopped it already.  All we've got to do is keep them from ramming some crap bill through, and bog things down by ripping apart the bill and the whole concept of socialist health care apart, relentlessly.  The Dems will get shaky, because they know if they don't have wide support for it, it ain't gonna happen, and they'd be betting everything on it, socialist medicine is high stakes for them, politically speaking. 

Support for socialist medicine is already dropping, and I'll bet we can make it drop further.  We may already have stopped it.  If Obama was going to pass socialist medicine, he'd have done it already and pushed a bill through with his high approval ratings.  His numbers are dropping steadily, and I bet they'll get worse as people get over their Hopenchange unicorn hangover.

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Oh, BTW, while DC is throwing away billions and billions on frivolous pork?

1000 people working on developing the missile defense program get shitcanned. 

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Palin to launch less "PC" Twitter account after she leaves office

I expect it to be just a small part of a broader opening salvo.  She's not going to go away, and I'm guessing she'll try and use Twitter as a communication/fundraising tool with alternative media and conservative activists.  Conventional wisdom says that she's going nowhere politically, and if things operated in a vacuum, they'd be right, bailing in Alaska would absolutely be a career-ender.  But right now there is such a huge vacuum in GOP leadership, she can pretty much take over as the spokes...woman...person?  for conservatism, since the GOP leadership has deserted their posts.  Gonna be interesting to see what happens. 

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Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Ears?

Obama might want to review his past statements on Porkulus, especially when this is floating around.

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The Alton Brown theory of firearms

They're not fooling anyone, that's intended to hold a beer. Preferably a cheap domestic beer. All it needs is a cigar lighter and you'll have your alcohol, tobacco, and firearms covered in one tidy package.

(h/t IMAO)

Updated with link to the photo gallery.

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