Humpday highlights

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I'm stuck inside, even Kagogi The Destroyer ain't liking the foot deep snow. He's kind of lazy so he doesn't like the hopping walk he needs to do.
It's tough being horizontal in a vertical world.
So I figured I'd post some pics of my fine, Mustang GT convertible.
I took them out of my bedroom window.

and a close-up


In a little while, I'll put the top down so you can get the full effect.
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Patches Kennedy Opens His Mouth, With Predictable Results

Yeah, pal. You're about to be a joke. And the best part? Your arrogance and sense of entitlement keeps you from seeing what is in store for you.

Talking at length about his 26-year military career, {State Rep. and potential opponent John J} Loughlin, who now runs Media-Rite, a television, radio and film production company, said: “We must treat our adversary for what they are — not as ordinary criminals, but as enemies in wartime. That means military justice,” he said, “not civilian court trials where they are granted the right to remain silent and the right through the legal process to obtain sensitive information.”

His announcement coincided with the release of a Channel 12 poll that found 59 percent of those surveyed said they would vote to replace Kennedy (28 percent) or at least consider another candidate (31 percent). Only 35 percent said they’d vote to reelect him.

Keep on believing nothing will happen to you, Patches. Keep on believing that your name in New England will insulate you. Keep believing that Scott Brown was a fluke, an aberration, a non event. Keep thinking that as the moving vans empty out your offices this fall. And keep thinking that as the FAILCock slaps you in the face with defeat.

And, Patches, this is for you.

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Friday Night random crap

At least one of you is smart enough to recognize how awfully horribly wrong this is.



And just in case any of you morons are still running IE6 on XP, this is a friendly reminder that you're asking to have your computer raped like the new fish in the prison.

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We're going to the happiest place on Earth! Tijuana!

Via Tim Blair we see that there's a threat against one of the world's great resources, Dutch bestiality pr0n! They're working on making it illegal.

This will just drive it underground and all sorts of wrong things will start happening. Like underage mules and unconsenting chickens getting fucked.
Oh the human...errr...bestiality!

I'm not sure why, but this made me laugh.
precise figures on animal pornography video sales are difficult to find.

Heh, I bet.
As an aside, I shudder to think of the searches that hit this post.
Further aside, I really just wanted to post something in "I'm afraid I can't blog that" category.
Further, further aside, I'm getting sick of scraping snow off my satellite dish every 45 minutes so I can watch TV.

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Mission Creeps

So DHS,(PDF warming) fresh off calling me a terrorist, is now defending the homeland against
Dependence on fossil fuels and the threat of global climate change

Yay....?
Via Redstate via Big Gov't's headlines

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Review - From Paris With Love

This will be short and sweet.  See it.

It isn't artistically great no deep hidden meaning or character torment, or any of that other crap that real movie reviewers like.  It's got guns, a pretty good car chase, some explosions, John Travolta making pop culture references and calling the French Mother-Fuckers who are ungrateful for us saving their asses in not one but two world wars.  All stuff that makes a movie enjoyable, but what it has most of all is No Moral Equivalence. 

The bad guys are just that bad guys.  No big sob story about how their father was tortured and killed by the CIA, no evil industrialists who drove them to it, none of that.  Just some bad guys who need to be taken out by the good guys.  Best of all the good guys are American.

I just have to ask, why does a French guy like Luc Beeson have to make a pro-American movie.  Where the hell is an American director?

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What were they smoking?

Via Drudge, we see this article about another ridiculously stupid, global warmmongering claim.
The UN claimed half the Netherlands was below sea level, it's around a quarter.
I have to stick up for them.
I've been to Amsterdam a few times, I know what they were smoking.
It'ssome nasty, green, sticky shit. Hell, after a couple space cakes you'd think you were underwater too.

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Popcorn Stocks Through the Roof

Even with O'Keefe getting busted, Big Gov't managed to slap Minitru around again.
That's just funny.
They got too complacent and out of shape in the Bush years when he didn't fight back and they just can't learn. The warm cocoon of leftist thought makes learning difficult.
They think everybody is stupid but them, in other words, they know far too much to learn anything.
Forgot the h/t, same place you saw it, Ace's headlines.

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In Other News, Water Is Wet, The Sky Is Blue, And The Guys Get Shirts

You mean to tell me that high taxes will drive people out of a state and adversely affect that state's fortunes? Get the fuck outta here.

This was not always the case. The study – the first on interstate wealth migration in the country — noted the state actually saw an influx of $98 billion in the five years preceding 2004. The exodus of wealth, then, local experts and economists concluded, was a reaction to a series of changes in the state’s tax structure — including increases in the income, sales, property and “millionaire” taxes.

“This study makes it crystal clear that New Jersey’s tax policies are resulting in a significant decline in the state’s wealth,” said Dennis Bone, chairman of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and president of Verizon New Jersey.

The report was commissioned by the state Chamber of Commerce and the Community Foundation of New Jersey to study the effects of wealth migration on charitable giving after executives noticed more affluent philanthropists were moving away. Wealth includes assets such as real estate, stocks, bonds, 401ks, mutual funds and vehicles.

I hope Gov. Christie gets the message and does something about it.

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Yeah, Because Nobody Has Ever Heard Of The Census Before

I really shouldn't get too worked up, since the amount of money wasted on this advertisement really is a drop in the bucket of FAIL that is the government spending, and it advertises something important (it is in the Constitution, after all), but c'mon. Seriously. What the fuck?

Census officials call it a good investment, saying the front-end costs of purchasing the ads can be quickly recouped if they succeed in encouraging people to mail back their census forms. A recent poll found nearly 1 in 5 residents said they may not fill them out, mostly because they were unfamiliar with the census or weren't interested.The government relies on the census not only to learn about Americans and their lives but also to parcel out federal dollars and, as required by the Constitution, to determine the number of U.S. House seats representing each state. The census officially began last month in rural Alaska, and most of the U.S. will receive their forms by mail the week of March 15.

I mean, it's the motherfucking census. How fucking sad is it that the Government is wasting money on mentioning this? 

Eesh.

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You know who can eat a dick?

California state Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Ickeater), that's who:

State lawmakers are taking aim at what some of them see as a menace to California's environment: free parking.

There is too much of it, the legislators say, and it encourages people to drive instead of taking the bus, walking or riding a bike. All that motoring is contributing to traffic jams and pollution, according to state Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), and on Thursday he won Senate approval of a proposal he hopes will prompt cities and businesses to reduce the availability of free parking.

"Free parking has significant social, economic and environmental costs," Lowenthal said. "It increases congestion and greenhouse gas emissions."

Hey, eater of dicks, you might not have noticed, but we've pretty much got the shittiest economy since the Joad family rolled into the state. That has some rather significant social and economic costs, too. Oh, silly me, you're too busy gobbling cocks up in Sacramento to notice trivial shit like that. Or, for that matter, to realize how deeply unpopular raising more fucking fees on the backs of working people is going to be. Silly me again...I'm assuming people who would have to shoulder the burden of these increased fees still have, you know, fucking jobs.

In short, please die in a fire, you cock-smoking piece of shit.

(h/t)

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Pat Robertson: Blood Money Recipient And Hypocrite

Fuck you, Pat Robertson. Fuck you with the blood money you collected and the Book of Ruth. And fuck you for being such a fucking sleazeball who worked to keep thugs in power and lobby on their behalf.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today, said that the American conservative evangelist Pat Robertson was awarded a Liberian gold-mining concession in 1999 and subsequently offered to lobby the Bush administration to support his government.

The revelations came in the midst of a U.N.-backed trial of Taylor at The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's 1990s civil war. Taylor is accused of directing a Sierra Leone rebel group, the United Revolutionary Front (RUF), in a campaign aimed at securing access to the country's diamond mines. The rebel movement stands accused of committing mass atrocities in the late 1990s in the West African country, including the mutilation of thousands of civilians.

The international prosecutors contend that Taylor offered concessions to Western individuals in exchange for lobbying work aimed at enhancing his image in the United States. The prosecution maintains that Taylor also spent $2.6 million on lobbying firms and public relations outfits in the hopes of influencing the policies of former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Under cross-examination, Taylor said that Robertson had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U.S. administration officials, and had spoken directly to President Bush about Taylor. He also confirmed that Robertson's company, Freedom Gold Limited, signed an agreement to exploit gold in southeastern Liberia, but that it never generated any profit.

Seriously, lobbying on behalf of third world thugs in exchange for gold mining rights? What the fuck? This shit is fucking bad enough when a regular citizen does it, but when a man of the cloth does it? Last time I fucking checked, clergy were supposed to be looking out for the souls of folks, not pocketing blood money in exchange for anything.

 Ugh. I could ignore some of Robertson's foolish comments about a lot of things, but working on behalf of a guy like Taylor? Fuck. No.

 

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Is our politicians learning?

Not just no but Hell No!
You saw the link, Shelby is "holding" all of Obama's nominees.
Not because they give "misleading" and more "misleading" testimony in their nomination hearings, or because they all seem to have a tax "forgetting" problem nor of course,because of the interesting choices like the union rep/labor board member, no, not because of all the ethical problems from what seems like each and every nominee, but because Shelby wants some of that sweet, sweet pork.
He's gumming up the works in a totally unrelated area in a particularly lame, but obviously totally legit, move to suckle at the public teat (I'm not talking about the merits of the deal, I don't care. It doesn't make any difference.)
It's funny how often I agree with idealistic lefties, you can do the right thing for the wrong reasons. I'm always in favor of gumming up the works of gov't but that's a lame reason and way to do it.

I wonder if he'll have a realistic, conservative challenger in his next primary.

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Have I Ever Mentioned That I Hate Building Codes?

I bet this guy REALLY does.

A farmer who built a castle hidden behind a stack of straw bales has lost a High Court bid to save it from being demolished.

So this guy builds a castle in secret without permits.  Then, the government finds out about it and because he didn't have the permits they demolish it?  Fucking bullshit.  At MOST, they should be able to inspect it and see if it meets code and, if not, issue a fine or something.  If that was me I'd be on the roof with a rifle when they came to tear it down. 

Wait, I guess not in England. 

Fucking building codes.  I can get behind them for businesses because they are de facto semi-public locations and its nice to be confident that a restaurant's roof isn't going to collapse on your head.  But in private homes, they should butt the fuck out of any permits that can't DIRECTLY effect your neighbors' safety*.  You know, fire hazards and such.  But if I want to build a neat little castle tower in my back yard they can shove their permits up their fucking asses with hot sauce. 

I mean, in Milwaukee you need a rather expensive permit to build a FUCKING SHED.  Explain to me one good fucking reason they should have a say about a shed.  One.

Yeah, this shit pisses me off since we've been renovating our house non-stop since we bought it and apparently the stupid fucking government of Milwaukee has a say in almost anything we do.  Statist bastards.  I think we should pass a law that requires elected officials to get a permit from a citizen every time they want to take a shit.  $10.00.  I'm reasonable.

* - On the other hand, I am completely in favor of neighborhood organizations (willfully entered) that can set limits on what you can do with your property.  That's not police state shit, that's voluntary contract stuff.  That's fine.

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Consensus!

Via Vodkapundit we find this article by Mark Steyn on our Global Warmmogering friends at the IPCC.

Drip, Drip and Drip.
No, not the revelations of lying by global warmmongers that we keep seeing, it appears to be the names of three people who wrote all the worst global warmmongering "predictions" for that groundbreaking (and truth-breaking) IPCC report.
Quote:
Donna Laframboise, a colleague of mine from the glory days at the National Post, did a simple search of the online version of the IPCC report and discovered dozens of citations of the WWF. It’s the sole source cited for doomsday predictions of glacier melt not only in the Himalayas but also the Andes and the Alps, as well as for a multitude of other topics, from coral reefs to avalanches.


Consensus!

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Who Dat

As an adopted Louisianan, I have to admit that I'm getting a little swept up in the Saints fandom.  As an avid video gamer, I love random video game news.  And, as a blogger, I feel the need to be pro-football after daring to suggest that we shouldn't get the Monday after the Super Bowl off work or school.

I submit, for your reading pleasure:

If video games can be believed, here's what the news will be when the Super Bowl is finished: "David Thomas caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees late in the fourth quarter, and the New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl by beating the Indianapolis Colts 35-31 on Sunday night."

So sayeth "Madden NFL 10," anyway.

The popular Electronic Arts game, which has accurately predicted the Super Bowl champion in five of the last six years, says Brees will be the MVP.

And EA adds that it correctly simulated the outcomes of the AFC and NFC championship games, within three points.

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Curiouser and Curiouser

The Saga of Treacher is getting curiouser and curiouser.

The State Dept's  attitude is pretty much, "Shut up and go away."
Now they're claiming a jogger collided with their SUV.
According to the link, he doesn't jog.

I'm not going to excerpt it, RTWT, it's.... interesting reading.
Edited for clarity.

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Demonsheep!

Hitler responds to Demonsheep.


Downfall. Is there nothing it can't do?

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Government innovation at its finest

The more nanny the state, the stupider the government, I think.

In the U.K., apparently, there are nearly 90,000 alchohol related "glass attacks" a year.  That's a nice way of saying that ninety thousand drunk Brits have someone smash a glass over their head every year.  Instead of attacking the source - binge drinking, which is an issue that causes the NHS an estimated £3 billion a year - the nanny state put its mind to perfecting the technology for shatterproof pint glasses.

Yep.  That's right.  Now, when you get into a bar fight, you can get clubbed in the head with a glass that can't break, as opposed to having someone slash your skin open with ragged glass.  I bet those Brits feel safer all ready.

The government is touting the prototypes as the first significant improvement in bar glassware in decades. The plan is to introduce the new glasses for use on a voluntary basis in pubs if tests show they are durable, cost-effective and safe.

 Alcohol Concern, a charity working to lessen alcohol abuse in Britain, praised the new designs.

 "We're very much in favor," chief executive Don Shanker said. "There has been good local research showing this could reduce the use of glass in violent incidents."

 Half of all violent assaults in Britain are alcohol-related and it has become common for drinkers to smash glasses and use them as weapons, he added.

 "You are five times more likely to be involved in a violent incident if you are in or around a licensed bar," he said. "There is a clear correlation."

 The government estimates that "glassing" attacks cost the National Health Service roughly 2.7 billion pounds ($4.3 billion) per year.

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Taste of things to (not) come

I've taken crap, and probably will take more crap, for saying that I think Russia has to worry more about from China than we do.
Thanks to ultra-sounds and related stuff, the Chinese can see when they're going to have a less valuable girl-baby and so abort it to have a more desirable boy baby.
Soon, it'll start within 5 or 10 years considering how long we've had the tech,  they're going to have a lot of very horny yutes running around with nothing to screw. Historically, when a nation has too many men they go a-conquering (see: Sabine women, Roman rape of) or they have a revolution. Lots of peoples, like the German tribes in the Roman era, counted on this. It took a lot of money to get married so young boys had to go to war to make money to get a woman. Or the recruiting our jihadi friends do. Take the eunuch bomber for instance, he just wanted to get laid by his 72 virgins. (Too bad he's only going to lose his virginity to 72 dudes.)

Right now in China we see worker unrest because all the men went to work in the factories and left wife and kids behind in the 4th century part of China.
 
Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying.

If a commie nation's state run media is admitting a problem, it's a huge problem. Too huge to ignore or deny. In this case, they'll probably create an incentive for prostitutes to come from the same villages.

I still think Russia is in trouble in years to come. China's population is getting bigger, younger and maler. Russia's is getting smaller, older and drunker.
China is already moving in on Vladivostok Sooner or later Tsar Putin I or II will have to do something about it.
I wonder if he'll sell it (which would be bad, Russia doesn't have a lot of ports and I'm pretty sure Vladivostok is one of their few ports that's ice free, or at least usable, year round) or fight for it. Which he has to do.

And if they don't go to Russia? Revolution. I'd root for that except I heard a saying once, every emperor takes the Dragon Throne with bloody hands.
I don't expect to see a Chinese George Washington, more likely a Chinese Napoleon.

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