Yet Another Reason To Like John Yoo

He made a fool out of Jon Stewart, and got Stewart's lefty fanboys upset at him.

Enjoy the Schadenfreude, folks, especially this from Sully (no link)

 

(Yoo's) conservative defense of an executive branch with no limits to its powers at home or abroad is, well, as gob-smacking as it always has been. It is not, of course, a conservative argument at all. In its implications – in a war defined as unending and an executive defined as all-powerful – are proto-fascist: Jacksonianism with a waterboard.

I came away from the exchange, wondering if Yoo just isn’t that smart, as well as shockingly ignorant of history, and morality. Maybe he was off his game.

 

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Life in hell

And by "hell," I mean California. Seriously, the rest of you had better get used to this kind of shit, because it's coming to a theater state near you sometime sooner rather than later.

2010 is going to have to be epic for this kind of shit to be reversed. And that probably won't be nearly enough.

If I had enough money, I might move to Switzerland...

(Via Mare in the comments here.)

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Where I Send Message To The Ladies At Code Pink In A Chivalrous And Gentlemanly Manner

FUCK YOU, Code fucking traitor Pink. Fuck you and your sweaty, hairy pitted trust funded shebitch sidekicks of dickshriveling shittiness with Benedict Arnold's rusty dueling pistol loaded with those spiders that like to lay sarcoma soaked eggs inside humanoid nether regions.

This isn't fucking with recruiters, taunting wounded warriors, heckling congresscritters at hearings, or acting as human shields in a war zone. THIS IS FUCKING TREASON AND SUPPORT OF FUCKING TERRORISM AND TERRORIST GROUPS. Do I fucking make myself fucking clear, blubbering bitches of beastial beauty? You are fucking helping, supporting, and expressing solidarity with 7th Century savages who want to kill anybody who isn't them. You are fucking helping savages who want to wipe the United States, Israel, and every other fucking civilized nation off the face of the earth. And you are fucking helping savages who support honor rapes and honor killings of "wayward" women, killing and torturing gay people, and killing just about anybody who doesn't agree that beating women, killing innocents, and fucking goatses are good ideas.

Oh, and the last time I checked, the Muslim Brotherhood was where Khalid Sheihkh (fuck it if my spelling is off. Stupid donkey fucker should get a better name) Mohammed made his bones in the terrorist world. You know who Khalid is, don't you? He is the fucking mastermind of the 9-11 murders. So, in that regard, the blood of over threefuckingthousand innocent people is on your fucking hands. And I sure the fuck hope you get called to account for any funds that come from the banner ad you placed with the Brotherhood.

And for what? What fucking goal do you wish to accomplish by supporting terrorists? What fucking good will this accomplish? Do you really fucking want radical Islamists emboldened with your support? Have you fucking thought through what your support means to the world? Have you fucking thought through your belief that supporting terrorists is a good idea for peace (ask the Oslo accords how that sort of shit works out)? Have you fucking thought through what your actions and support mean in this country? And, last but not least, do you seriously fucking think that  the terrorists will spare you down the road? Seriously. I mean, fucking seriously. Cut through the bong water haze, put down daddy's checkbook for a moment, and think this shit through.

I would love to think that you are just naive dupes who think that your actions will help foster peace. I would love to think so, but I know you sick fucks. I know that you disgraceful people want to help terrorists for whatever sick reasons you have. I know you have a long track record of going out of your way to undermine the country that gave you the freedom to protest. I know you, and that is why I hate you. I hate you because your support of terrorists today is as bad as Jane Fonda in Hanoi. It is as bad as Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally. And it is as bad as the Fifth Column. And for that reason, I hope the worst possible fate befalls you. I hope you get into such a pinch that Daddy or Hubby can't write a check for you to bail your asses out. And I sure the fuck hope you wind up in a situation where you need American or Israeli assistance to extract your ungrateful asses out of your problem, so that you can see the decency of our side and the savagery of the other side.

So fuck off, Code Pink. Fuck off with a rectal suicide vest that only partially works.

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More terrorists make demands on the White House.

And, of course, by terrorists, I mean PETA.

In a show of "good faith," the good folks over at PETA have agreed to pull the ad featuring Michelle Obama that I mentioned a few days back.  Everyone can breathe easier now!

But, PETA has raised a far more dire concern that they expect the White House to look in to - the naming of a baby elephant.  Apparently, the newest performer at the Ringling Brother's circus, a year old elephant who was born just minutes before Teh Won's Inaguration, is named "Baby Barack," and, damn it, if homegrown terrorists like PETA can't use a picture of Michelle, then evil circus folk can't go around naming their elephants Barack.  You can't make this shit up, folks:

 In PETA's view, the use of the Obama name by the circus is far more disturbing. In a letter Tuesday to the president, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk urges the White House to demand a name change for Baby Barack.

 "'Baby Barack' is not even a year old, but his curious and energetic childhood has been cut tragically short while Ringling attempts to profit from your popularity by putting him on the road to perform in the circus," Newkirk wrote.

 Norfolk-based PETA says the circus elephants are abused and the babies are taken from their mothers prematurely.

 Vienna, Va.-based Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus, says its elephants are well cared for and add that using the name Barack is intended as an honor.

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Now do you get it?

Fuck you Google. Fuck you sideways with the Barbed Cock of Satan.

So you were just peachy keen fine with censoring info in China until there was an attack on you?  Do not even fucking lie to my face about how it's all about finding out that human rights activists' emails were hacked that led to the about face.  China stole from YOU and now it's on.

Fuck.  You.  You.  Miserable.  Sacks.  Of.  Elephant.  Shit.

The worst motherfucking part is Google is going to want praise and pats on the head and punch and pie for DOING THE RIGHT FUCKING THING YOU IGNORANT COCKHOLSTERS.

Jesus fuck it's not like there was any secret that the ChiComs are bad, m'kay?  But hey, need to crack those eggs to make that money.  So some people die.  Too fucking bad.  But steal from Google and it's been broughten!

Fuck.  You.  Google.  Don't be evil is one of the biggest jokes ever. 

God, I want to stompy all over them. 

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Global Warming Hits Texas

I mean, how fucked up is it when the turtles are fleeing the water to stay warm?

Freezing temperatures this weekend resulted in about 50 green sea turtles showing up on area beaches, said Donna Shaver, director of the Padre Island National Seashore’s turtle recovery program.

Of the 49 turtles, most of which came ashore near Port Aransas, nine have died, Shaver said. A total of 354 have been found along the Texas coast, she said.

The cold stuns the turtles, which renders them motionless, and they float to the surface. This has been the largest such event locally since 1980, Shaver said.

The turtles will be housed and rehabilitated in warm swimming pools at Port Aransas’ Animal Rehabilitation Keep and at the Texas State Aquarium until waters warm and it’s safe to return them to the Gulf. This could take several weeks, Shaver said.

And for no reason whatsoever, I bring back my tribute to Manbearpig.

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No Olympics, no World Cup

Obama's influence in bringing the Olympics to Chicago is apparently spreading to other sports.  Despite having a Major League Soccer team that missed the finals by a penalty kick, Chicago has been dropped from the cities included in the 2018/2022 World Cup bid.

Miami and Tampa Bay, both of which lost their MLS teams in 2001, are on the bid list.  Four cities that have never had an MLS team are on the bid list.  If I'm counting correctly (and this was just a quick glance), the only other towns that have an MLS team that aren't on the bid list are Columbus, OH (not my idea of a tourist destination) and Salt Lake City (maybe due to the severe lack of beverages).

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So, Do I Get A Dividend Check?

Seriously, if the Federal Reserve, which is fucking run with MY FUCKING MONEY, can turn a profit, then I, AS A MOTHERFUCKING SHAREHOLDER, should get a share of this profits, right? And shouldn't more people see how fucking stupid it is for an agency that plays with OUR FUCKING MONEY, the MONEY FUCKING PRODUCED BY THE PRODUCERS IN SOCIETY, declare A FUCKING PROFIT THAT THEY HAD NO FUCKING ROLE IN PRODUCING, and then celebrate while CEOs that ACTUALLY FUCKING DO SOMEFUCKINGTHING are branded as evil and need to be crushed?

Yeah. I know. I know. Silly me. I would have a better chance of nailing Helen Mirren than ever seeing any of MY FUCKING MONEY sent back to me.

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Hey Harry, Were They Light Skinned Negroes?

I doubt Harry Reid had anything to do with this Facebook page, and it could be a satire page, but the fact that the "African Americans For Reid" listed at the time this post went up are mostly white is hilfuckinglarious.

Kinda like "Scuba Gear For Kennedy", "Waitresses For Dodd", or "Psychologists For Olbermann".

 

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Last person that hid Frank family has passed

Miep Gies was from one of the many families that hid Jews from the Nazis in Holland during WWII, Gies was the one who kept Anne Frank's now famous diary when Anne and her family were captured by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camps.  Two of the people in the network Gies operated with were also arrested because of the same informant that revealed the Frank family.  During the time Gies held the diary, she refrained from reading it, which according to her, saved the writings,

Mixed into the entries were the names of the Dutch helpers, who risked their lives to keep the family's secret.

"I didn't read Anne's diary papers. ... It's a good thing I didn't because if I had read them I would have had to burn them," she said in the 1998 interview. "Some of the information in them was dangerous."

She handed the writings to Otto Frank, who was the only member of the Frank family to survive the Holocaust.  Gies was just one of thousands of Dutch citizens to hide Jewish refugees and citizens from the Nazis.

On the other end of it, we now have perennial leftist conspiracymonger douchebag Oliver Stone preparing to offer some relativist piece of shit on Hitler himself.  Says Stone,

We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.'

Uh, yeah, we can, watch us.  We cannot allow relativist fucktards like Stone to go unanswered, especially now, as the generation that witnessed the horrific atrocities of the Nazi regime age and pass on.  I know Hitler's story, I know German history during the time of the World Wars, I know the story of the rise and fall of Nazism, I spent four years learning Western history, and continue to learn more daily, I don't need Stone's "context" to know that Hitler and the Nazi ideology were evil and destructive to their core.  We cannot allow moral relativists like Stone continue to undermine the public's ability to make moral judgment, not only because of the destruction it can wreak on our society today, but to honor the heroes like Miep Gies, and the victims like Anne Frank.

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Bah.

I Am In A Mood. Therefore, in an attempt to cheer myself up, I shall inflict the following upon y'all.


Before anyone says anything, my utter love for this isn't because of the music.  Just.  Sayin'.

To make this vague politically relevant, one of the reasons I love this is because these are actual women with actual curves.  There's not one of them you look at and think "for the love of God have a sammich before you die". 

I can somewhat comprehend the super stick thin look for runway models.  They are, literally, walking clothes hangers.  Curves can ruin the line of the look.  Of course, that rather begs the question for whom the designers are designing.  But the super stick thin Rachel Zoe look totally baffles me.  It's not attractive.  It's not hot.  It brings up some very disturbing questions about the elimination of actual feminine characteristics from the modern concept of beauty.  It's part and parcel of the super botox'd, fish lipped face that is supposed to be so attractive.  It's not. 

I think it's great that Meryl Streep was even given a role in which she gets to play a sexy woman despite (and it is despite) the fact that she's 60.  I think it's utter crap that Vanity Fair chose to airbrush the hell out of her face for the cover while running a story about omg she's 60 and she's hot!  If she's do freaking hot, then don't do that to her face. 

You know what one of the hottest pics of the last few years was?  Dame Helen Mirren getting snapped by a papparazzi on the beach in a pink bikini.  Holy hell, I would sell body parts from all y'all to look like that now.  (Pic below the fold).  She's 63 in that pic. That is a woman.  Catherine Zeta Jones' thighs (and everything else) in Chicago should be registered as a lethal weapon.

Women have curves.  Women have hips and breasts and thighs.  That should be celebrated, not lamented.  Size 0 isn't an aspiration, it's a disease (exception those whose bodies are naturally built for that). 

Wow.  That got away from me.  But hey, there's hotassery so that makes up for it.
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Eeyore Pundit

Yes, I'm also excited that Brown pulled in over a million dollars yesterday.

But there is no way Marxachussettes is going to elect a Republican to Teddy "Water Shoes" Kennedy's old seat. 

He'll make it close.  Let's say 8 points.  Maybe 5.  But in the end, I just can't see it happening. 

Of course, I'm an eternal pessimist about electoral miracles so ignore me if you'd like.  I just don't want to see us get so excited about this that we look stupid when we lose.  Excited enough to win the race?  Good.  So excited we start gloating before the finish line is crossed?  Stupid.

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Hot, cold, it's all warmering between friends

If this article about predictions from one of the world's most respected climate scientists (yes, I giggled, too) is correct, it's about to get cooler. For the next thirty years or so (with my emphasis):

The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) agrees that the cold temperatures are unusual, and that the world's oceans may play a part in temperatures on land.

"Has ocean variability contributed to variations in surface temperature? Absolutely, no one's denying that," said Mark Serreze, senior research scientist with NSIDC. But the Center disagrees with Latif's conclusions, instead arguing that the cold snap is still another sign of global warming.

Ah, yes. So a thirty-year-long cold snap, or "little ice age" is, well, you get the idea.

Oh, and check this out:

Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49 degrees below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years.

And as for the cold weather?

"This is just the roll of the dice, the natural variability inherent to the system," explained Serreze.

Uhhhhhhh...I'm no respected climate scientist who gets to fly all over the world to lavish conferences about global warming on private jets, but the whole "natural variability" thing might be something you might want to focus on. Like how the planet's climate kind of, oh, I don't know, naturally varies between hot and cold over the years. Without our help. Maybe.

Yeah.

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Are you a family with a combined income of $90K?

I'm sure a fair number of families are, well, if you're employer isn't giving you health insurance, guess what?  You're gonna have to drop $15K on a government approved family insurance plan.  People with high blood pressure may want to not read the article, watch this instead,

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...and then let us never speak of it again

I was asked to comment on the Stacy McCain/Patterico/Jeff Goldstein clusterfuck.  Wanted to stay out of the whole thing this time around given how nasty it got last time around, and it got even nastier this time, but you know how that goes,

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Taking away your right to get fat and unhealthy!

The geniuses in New York have decided that, since they've defeated food that tastes good by banning trans fat, now it's time to defeat food that tastes kind of good by attacking salt.

On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products.

The plan, for which the city claims support from health agencies in other cities and states, sets a goal of reducing the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food by 25 percent over the next five years.

Public health experts say that would reduce the incidence of high blood pressure and should help prevent some of the strokes and heart attacks associated with that condition. The plan is voluntary for food companies and involves no legislation. It allows companies to cut salt gradually over five years so the change is not so noticeable to consumers.

“We all consume way too much salt, and most of the salt we consume is in the food when we buy it,” said Dr. Thomas Farley, the city health commissioner, whose department is leading the effort. Eighty percent of the salt in Americans’ diets comes from packaged or restaurant food. Dr. Farley said reducing salt from those sources would save lives.

Sure, it's voluntary now, but do any of us really believe that it'll stay voluntary?  After all, once upon a time, they were just nicely asking retaurants to cut back on trans fat. 

I fucking hate this kind of bullshit.  It drives me up the goddamn wall; it's my body, I'll eat what the fuck I want, and if I get high cholesterol or blood pressure or whatever the fuck problem, then it's my own damn fault for not thinking, "Hmm, this can of processed fucking cow fat mixed with pig lard covered in salt might not be the best thing I've ever put in my fucking mouth."  If you can't fucking control yourself as an eater, I shouldn't have to give up my damn occassional indulgences just because this "should help" reduce fucking heart attacks and strokes.  Stay the fuck out of my food, damnit.  If I want to kill myself on Big Macs, that's my mother-fucking business.

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Another Senate Race To Watch

This time, it's the Republican Primary in Illinois, which pits Mark Kirk against a bunch of other people, including a Tea Party Endorsed candidate. Needless to say, I am not a fan of the RNC and GOP leadership, but the gay slurs being thrown around by one of his opponents is a disgrace.

Look, oppose Kirk for his voting record. Oppose Kirk for his stance on issues. Oppose Kirk just because. But gay baiting? Fuck. And. No. The people doing that need to be jackhammered by a steer so deep that their ears get jealous.

So fuck off, gay baiters. And come up with a better reason to oppose a guy.

 

***NOTE: I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THE TEA PARTY GUY WAS THE ONE MAKING THE GAY SLURS. BUT  I WAS WRONG. SOME OTHER GUY IS DOING THE SLUR STUFF. REGARDLESS OF WHO SPREADS THE RUMORS, WE SHOULD LEAVE SOMEBODY'S CHOICE OF (LEGAL, NO CHRIS HANSEN PAYS YOU A VISIT TYPE) GENITAL GRATIFICATION OUT OF OUR VOTING PATTERNS ***

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Once in a while Google gets it right

You all know I love to Googlebash, but for once I think they've got it right.



This and more at Climategate.

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This is going to piss off all the right people

Sarah Palin to contribute to Fox News.

From the article (yes yes NY Times but it's a pretty straightforward piece), it sounds like she'll be doing special report type stuff not a show like the Huckster.

Cue exploding heads . . . . NOW.

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The Bren Ten is coming back!

If you recall, it's what Crockett carried in Miami Vice in the first few seasons until the startup company that made the Bren Ten went tits up.  The Bren Ten was a heavily modified version of a CZ pistol, built around the then new 10mm cartridge.  Anyway, Vltor, which makes assorted accessories for ARs is producing them, and got the rights to the Bren Ten name.  Sweet.  I hope to hell this venture doesn't crash and burn like the others.  It'll come in the original 10mm and also in .45.

Ten bucks says Veeshir has the money set aside for one already. Heh. 

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