Freshman representative trying really hard to be a one-termer

If the GOP doesn't regain control of Congress in 2010, it will be because our congresscritters tried so hard to lose it for us.

"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins said to the crowd. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."

Lynn Jenkins is from Topeka, home of a mental institution and Westboro Baptist Church, so I suppose we should expect a little of teh crazeh from her.

(h/t @jeffreyeas)

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Remember When Civil Libertarians Accused Bush Of Setting Up A Neo-Fascist Thugocracy?

Yeah, I remember that.I remember how they claimed they were protecting us from the evil Bushies.That's why I expect these Vanguards of Liberty to be all over this story like Oliver Willis on a Filet O Fish.

The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government's role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Rockefeller's revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a "cybersecurity workforce plan" from every federal agency, a "dashboard" pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a "comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy" in six months--even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.

The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it's going to be a really big issue," he says.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

"The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits," EFF's Tien says. "It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)...The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start {no fucking shit.-ed}. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it."

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UK trying to replace pint glasses with plastic

Because pint glasses are sometimes used as makeshift weapons...if this doesn't trigger a full on rebellion against Nanny Fascism in the UK, nothing will.

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Bused In Union Thugs Smell The Glove Of FAIL

Rep. Tim Bishop of Long Island, NY bused in a bunch of union goons, many of whom were not from his district, for his recent Obamacare Town Hall. Needless to say, it did not go as planned.

Fuck you, union thugs. Fuck you in elastic with a rotten Hedysarum. You fucksticks still think that you can bus in people to stack your town halls in this era of YouTube? Are you that fucking stupid?

And how fucking secure are you in your positions that you do have to bus in a rent a mob? Maybe, just maybe, that should tell you something about how your agenda is viewed by the people who elected you to represent them..

 

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Third World Country Close To Becoming Fourth World

Did I say "country"? I meant Michigan in general, and Detroit in particular.

Michigan officially now replaces California as the most fucked up and retarded state in the Union.

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Kanjorski: Rebuild Faith in Government

Congressman Kanjorski was on CNBC this morning when he left this gem pass his lips:

We have to take the time, now, to start rebuilding faith in government. I mean, after all, if we start thinking about it, the government and the people are one and the same in the American system. So, if you're going to condemn the success of government, you're condemning the success of the people.

Few words are more abrasive and offensive to conservative sensibility. As our political system drifts further away from the prescribed Constitutional order, Kanjo's statement becomes increasingly scary.

The whole video is just under 9 minutes. Skip ahead to about 6:50 to hear the question and response.

(If you're having problems seeing the video, go to one of the cross-posted sites or the original. Mee.nu is teh suxors.)

Exit questions: How many times did Kanjo use the word "exacerbate", and how many times did he use it correctly?

(Cross-posted at PAWatercooler and at my own digs.)

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OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD.

If this is true (and it likely is, coming from a liberal who would have little reason to lie about it), they're going to have to post guards around Teddy's grave 24-7 to keep people from pissing on it.

(Via DrewM. at Moron Central, who links to more rage-inducing shit.)

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The Israelis Must Not Have Read The Memo That They Should Just Shut Up And Let Obama Do What He Wants

What a shock that all but a few Israelis see through Obama and his "I Won, So Shut Up" bullshit.

The number of Israelis who see US President Barack Obama's policies as pro-Israel has fallen to 4 percent, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post.

Fifty-one percent of Jewish Israelis consider Obama's administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, according to the survey, while 35% consider it neutral and 10% declined to express an opinion. The poll of 500 people representing a statistical model of the Jewish Israeli population had a margin of error of 4.5%.

A much-cited Post poll published on June 19 that put the first figure at 6% had been cited by top officials in both the White House and the Prime Minister's Office as the catalyst for recent American efforts to improve the American-Israeli relationship. But the new poll proves that those efforts have not improved Obama's reputation among Israelis.

Yeah. No fucking shit. Kinda tough believing in The Won when he has sided with thugs and dictators every time a foreign policy problem has erupted since he became President.

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I've read some stupid stuff in my day...

...hell, I've quoted any number of things that Kathleen Parker has scrawled over the past few months, but she looks like a genius compared to Anne Lamott, who penned this godawful piece of shit that appeared in today's LAT under the title of "Dear Mister Obama":

I am afraid there has been a misunderstanding since that election in 2008, during which 66,882,230 Americans cast their votes for you. Perhaps one of your trusted advisors has given you bum information. Maybe they told you that we voted for you -- walked, marched, prayed, fund-raised and knocked on doors for you -- because we hoped you would try to reunite the country. Of the total votes cast that long-ago November day, I'm guessing that about 1,575 people wanted you to try to reconcile the toxic bipartisanship that culminated in those Sarah Palin rallies.

The other 66,880,655 of us wanted universal healthcare.

Yes, because all but a tiny sliver of Obama's voters wanted the government to take over a massive part of our lives. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have seen that coming, but really, who appointed you to speak for all those people who believed that he was the post-partisan centrist he claimed to be, especially considering that his support among independents has been steadily eroding during this healthcacre debacle?

It goes downhill from there. Seriously. Lamott actually (and I'm not kidding here) compares Obama's relationship with congressional Republicans to a seventh grade crush of hers that didn't work out, claims that the Constitution (after eight years of Chimpy McBu$hiler, natch) seems "beyond redemption, like my kitchen floor did briefly last week after my dog, Bodhi, accidentally ate 24 corn bread muffins," and invokes "our founding parents." Yeah.

I would recommend that you read the whole thing, but you might as well just go out into your garage and huff some paint thinner. It'll give you the same effect.

Update: Well, this explains a lot...

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Here's the thanks

I'll start this post out by saying to the people of Honduras...yes, our President is this stupid, all I can say is that I didn't vote for the guy, understand that we're stuck with this stupid bastard for four years, and then we'll try and rebuild from there.

Investor's Business Daily asked yesterday in their editorial, "Where's the Thanks?"  regarding Honduras' extradition of Jamal Yousef to the US, even after their shitty treatment by the Administration and US State Department.  Yousef is a shady arms supplier from Syria, who supplies small arms for criminal enterprises and terrorist organizations. 

So, how are they being rewarded today?  The State Department has begun the process to cut off formal aid to Honduras.  Let's remember, this all came about because the former President of Honduras basically tried to run roughshod over the nation's constitution, which imposes term limits for presidents.  The president had served the full term, and had to be forcefeully removed because he would not leave office. 

The amazing thing is you know that the same leftists who spent eight years feeding this paranoid fear that Teh Bushitler would cancel the elections and declare himself Chimperor 4 Lyfe are watching this situation and what the Obama administration is doing and nodding approvingly. 

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Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

I laughed my ass off at "Frankly I think it's sad that now the words "Never ending labyrinth of pain are now synonymous with one loose cannon minotaur who admittedly went too far".


Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

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Matt Cooper: Dirty fucking rat

You knew that, but I can't even believe he said this shit,

It feels a bit like 9/11 on Martha's Vineyard. End-of-summer weather is achingly beautiful but the mood is melancholy because of Teddy.

Yeah, just like 9/11, Matt.  Just like it. 


You little bastard.

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How do you say, "Daschle" in Nevadanese?

Updated with my letter
Via Rob Sama who found it at Instapundit who linked to Hugh Hewitt, we find a great campaign.
Give $10 to Danny Tarkanian (subject line, "$10 for Tark"), Reid's opponent next year, then go to Reid's "contact" page and tell him what you've done and that you'll give the max allowable to Tarkanian if he passes Chappaquiddicare.

That's funny and anti-endy, I'm confused, but I'm in.
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Irony defined

Pay attention, Alanis, because this is how it's actually done:

The Met Office's new supercomputer has scored it's second own goal since it was unveiled with much fanfare in May.

After tempting the nation into holidaying in Britain by wrongly forecasting a "barbecue Summer", it has now earned the Met Office's Exeter headquarters the shame of being named as one of the most polluting buildings in Britain.

By the time it reaches peak performance in 2011 the £30 million machine's massive processing power - it can perform 125 trillion calculations per second - will require 1.2 megawatts of power to run, enough energy to power a small town.

As a result it will contribute 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to the problem of global warming every year.

Which assumes that gorebell wormering is actually caused by carbon dioxide (see the two posts directly below) but having a "climate change supercomputer" as one of Britain's worst polluters is still pretty fucking funny.

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Sun's Cycle Alters Earth's Climate

Really? 

I always that big white ball in the afternoon sky was just there for decoration.  I never would have dreamed that it might have something to do with the climate here on Earth.

Oh well, live and learn.

In related news the EPA is fighting a request by the US Chamber of Commerce to have a scopes like trial regarding global warming.  Call me silly but I think evidence like this might be important. 

Damn you veeshir for beating me to the punch

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What's worse than Nazi or Holocaust Denier?

The names I've been called for trying to point this out.

Weather patterns across the globe are partly affected by connections between the 11-year solar cycle of activity, Earth's stratosphere and the tropical Pacific Ocean, a new study finds.

And how did they come to the stunning conclusion that the huge, glowing orb of nukular fire in the sky affects the Earth's temperature?

An international team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) used more than a century of weather observations and three powerful computer models to tackle this
question.

In other words, they didn't start out with the idea that WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!1!!! from global worming and fit their data to prove that.

They looked into and found out how and why it happens, they actually did real science and probably risked a sure Nobel Prize by not finding that the Sun has minimal effect on the temperature because CO2 generates heat in a complex nucleic reaction with smog.

Read the article, they explain how it affects the stratosphere and the Pacific Ocean, they talk about how it changed cloud cover. No global warmmongering article ever mentions cloud cover and most either ignore the Sun or have unnamed "experts" or Erlich say it doesn't matter much.

I wonder, will they ever get a job in climatology again?
I hope so.
H/T the same place you saw it, Ace's sidebar

There is this that puzzles me




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She wants unicorns that crap ice cream - must be an Obama voter

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Didn't see that one coming.

Okay, that's funny.
ABC News asks America, "What do the Kennedys mean to you?"
And America responds
I remember when he said “Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?” but I was too young to appreciate the irony at the time.

"How the (censored) do you top that (censored)?" you ask? (you guys sure do cuss a lot)
Well, a bunch from "Mary" and "MJ Kopechne" topped off by this guy who is pithy and not a bloviator.
He reminds us that stimulus money needs to be diverted to building guard rails for bridges.

There is one fan
The Shrivers were nice.

The part that makes me laugh the most?
 I guarantee that they did not see that coming. They truly expected an outpouring of love and tender regrets.
Leftists always get confused when they go outside their warm, little cocoon of community-based reality.

H/TGateway Pundit

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DPUD Fantasy Football Spots Still Available

Seriously, let's do this.  E-mail me at chaos -dot- overlord -at- gmail -dot- com. 

NFL Fantasy Football.  You get to watch Alice H. take Plaxico Burress in the first round. 

Me, I was thinking about taking Brett Favre since he's clearly the greatest QB in the game currently.

8 more slots. 

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Has Jackie Mackey Paisley Passey found a mate?

For a few years there was a blog called "The Irate Savant". It was a masterpiece of satire.
I read it for probably 2 or 3 years without ever knowing if it was satire or serious. If you've A Confederacy of Dunces, think of it as Ignatius Reilly's blog. His commenters got into the act and the blog itself was a hoot.
After a few years, his life kicked in so he admitted it was a joke and went about his life.
So the point, is this guy for real? And if so, can a Arthur Kade/Jackey Mackey Paisley Passey union be far behind?
He's so over the top egotistically sure he's the greatest thing ever, it's funny whether it's real or not.
How funny?
Along the top is a link to The Kade Scale
He's rating women from 1-10. I have no problem with his 10s, but the rest has to be a joke. Doesn't it?
Under "8-A cute girl but not dateworthy" he lists Jennifer Connolly and Jessica Alba.
Under "7-Keep as a friend" he lists Selma Hayek and Jessica Biel.

He doesn't even keep track of 1-6.
The pics along the top are caricatures of a self-absorbed pretty boy and his current post has this
(I have to say that seeing my body on the screen, I look so much better after 1.6 weeks, and my chest was bulging nicely, my abs are showing again, and my shoulders look enormous because my workouts with my trainer have been insane,

He even has a wikipedia page where they're not sure if he's serious or a joking.
I'm not sure which way is funnier, real or satire. Pointing and laughing is good, but good satire is really good too.

His Q&A section makes it look like a joke, people put questions in the comments.
For instance, third question:
"Summer's Eve or Masengill"
Eh, real or satire, it's a funny read.

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