I've been told I should PANIC!!! so that is what I will do.

Srsly the most concise and accurate forecast evuhhh. 

Posted by: It's Vintage, Duh at 08:25 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
Post contains 25 words, total size 1 kb.

Okay, I hate to say that I saw this at the New York Times, but, well, I did.  Anyway, Murray Hill Incorporated, a "liberal public relations" firm, has decided in light of the recent Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to donate to campaign funds - a decision justified under freedom of speech - that a corporation now strictly means an individual.  As such, Murray Hill is going to run for Congress in the Republican primary in Maryland 8.

I wish I were making this shit up.

Check out their first campaign add.  Seriously.

Posted by: Ember at 08:18 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 98 words, total size 1 kb.

Via Ace (you saw it), we see this link to "What should the Peace Blimp say?"
My favorite is the title (Oh the humanity!), but there's plenty to go on.

It looks as if Ace's comments threw up all over the place.

"I am Dick Cheney's cock" and "Show us your tits" deserve honorable mentions.
Since they're ignorant leftists, I fully expect them to use one that I'm sure an Ace commenter put there
Peace in our time!

Posted by: Veeshir at 05:17 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 82 words, total size 1 kb.

updated below
Okay, so James O'Keefe, the Pimp of Pimp n' Ho, is doing real journalism and exposing lies and other dishonesties on lefties and for that he can never be forgiven.
So I saw this article and it looked weird to me, I could see the left was in full "vicious attack mode".
Quote
Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O'Keefe at a 2006 conference on "Race and Conservatism" that featured leading white nationalists.

OMG!!!! A racist!!!!! He was manning a table at a white supremacist event. With Literature!!!! Connect the dots folks!

First, look at the pic.
It's blatantly obvious the head is Pshopped into everything else. The jacket looks like a cartoon drawing for instance.

So I knew it was bullshit, but I didn't have enough info and I wanted to see what O'Keefe said because, well, he knows what happened.
Of course, the fine, tolerant, totally honest journalists at the Village Voice had an even better "scoop"
Quote
It is telling that O'Keefe would organize an event...
So now, not only was he at the event, he organized it!!!!! White supremacists!!! Why, I bet CJ has a pic of him next to Stacy McCain just to complete the white supremacist circle (note: I'm making fun of people who call Stacy a racist).

So Big Gov't decided to call him and ask him (which, for obvious reasons, none of our leftist media betters did, after all, they never let facts get in the way of a good, vicious attack on their political opponents)
Quote
James O’Keefe attended a forum years ago that dealt with race and politics.  The forum was located at a Georgetown University building (that’s right, a 21-year-old man attended an event on a college campus).  The forum had as one of its three speakers a controversial figure, Jared Taylor, with a track record of making racist statements.  He was being debated by two other people including Mr. Martin (taking issue with the racist figure).

Vicious, lying children. At least they've learned one thing, "Racist" is too over-used, so now they're going to use "White Supremacist".

I figure it went out in their townhouse memos. "Look you retards, we can't use racist anymore. Now use "white supremacist"."
Look for that meme among our fine, tolerant, loving, totally free-minded and non-top-down leftist brethren.
Oh, and laugh at the fail.
Quote
We also spoke with Daryle Jenkins of One People’s Project, the man who started this entire legend.  ...His claim ... is based on eye-witnesses who were at the event.
...snip...
Mr. Jenkins only produced the name of one witness: Dave Weigel...

We called Mr. Weigel and he denied ever telling Mr. Jenkins that Mr. O’Keefe was “manning the table.”

Heh, so their "proof" called them liars. On the record.
I can personally confirm that he was there, but not that he was manning the table — nor that O’Keefe “planned” the event (as Blumenthal put it) with Marcus Epstein, who was president of the Robert Taft Club.

Fucking vicious, lying children who have to viciously attack anyone who threatens their ignorant, hate-filled agenda.
Fuck them all.
I anxiously await the day the NY Times, the Wash Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Reuters, AP and the rest of the vicious, lying sacks of shit are out of business and out of jobs.
Fuck them all.

Via eddiebear in the comments (yes, this blog has comments) we see Retracto the Correction Alpaca is on the job!
Apparently, the only thing they didn't get wrong was that they spelled his name right.

Posted by: Veeshir at 04:59 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 599 words, total size 5 kb.

I'm still giggling into my hands about this.



Way to go NBC!

Posted by: alexthechick at 04:26 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 15 words, total size 1 kb.

Okay, we've all been there. You're walking down the street and a small herd of rhino charges, what to do, what to do?
Well, if you're like me, you whip out your .500 S&W magnum and open fire. But what happens if it's a large herd?
Well, that's where this baby comes in


Yes, some crazy person is making billet aluminum speedloaders for the .500 S&W magnum.
Which leaves us with another question.
Who would be crazy enough to want to fire off 10 rounds using that monster?

Well, I figure if someone or something is worth shooting, it's worth overshooting.
For comparison, below are pics of it next to speedloaders for a .44 magnum and a .357 magnum



Still don't think he's crazy? He also makes a speedloader for the Taurus Judge. Why is a speedloader for 45 long colt crazy? It's not, it's the speedloader that holds 6 (loose shit, thanks eddiebear) 5 .410 shotgun shells that also fits the Judge that I find crazy.
Now I might have to get a Judge just so I can get a shotgun shell speedloader.

Posted by: Veeshir at 03:14 PM | Comments (134) | Add Comment
Post contains 189 words, total size 1 kb.

Being an utter jackass to a new Senator, all part of the charm of the Kennedy seat.

Sec. of State Galvin, I suggest, with all due respect, that you STFU and get out of the way.  After all, Sen. Brown (wait I need to roll around in that . . . annnnd back) won and as the President believes, that's what counts.

(h/t Slu on twitter)

Posted by: alexthechick at 01:27 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
Post contains 68 words, total size 1 kb.

Government control of health care will ensure adequate medical coverage for us all.  If by adequate, you mean "can't get access to an essential medication for months".  There's something to be said for a private insurance company that can be sued into oblivion if you have coverage but aren't allowed to use your benefits - it seems to make customer service pay just a little more attention to little details like whether you have prescription drug coverage.

Posted by: Alice H at 11:47 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 83 words, total size 1 kb.

So. Apparently a Vanderbilt Muslim chaplain was asked about that whole pesky the Koran says to execute the gays thing. His answer?

Yup it says that and "I don’t have a choice as a Muslim to accept or reject teachings."

Hey, good for him for addressing this and saying what he said.  Now, everyone who believes that if a Jewish or Christian chaplain said that, that chaplain would still be at Vanderbilt, raise your hand.  Yeah, I don't think that either.

Vanderbilt's response is great and lovely and inclusive and hey we listen to all points of view even if we disagree.  Sure.  Yup.  I am going to believey face the hell at them because I have a sneaking suspicion that if a Christian student said something like that, that kid would be up on some type of hate crime charges.

Do I think the guy should be disciplined, run out of town on a rail, etc.?  Nope.  I do think that Vanderbilt should be willing to extend the same tolerance to all religions, even those icky Evangelicals.  Somehow, I don't think that is the case. 

Posted by: alexthechick at 11:37 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 188 words, total size 1 kb.

The left demands rigid political correctness, well, they got rigid political correctness.  The Special Olympics is really making Rahm Emmanuel squirm.  Fun to watch, really.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at 11:33 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 30 words, total size 1 kb.

It's depressing as hell (and, frankly, kind of scary) that half of the political class in this country hates a forward-thinking and realistic man like John Bolton as much as they do. The fact that he can hand them (and their standard-bearer, Teh Won) their collective asses like he does here is cold comfort. At least until November...

What warrants close attention is the jarring naïveté of arguing that reducing our capabilities will inhibit nuclear proliferators. That would certainly surprise Tehran and Pyongyang. Obama’s insistence that the evil-doers are “violating international agreements” is also startling, as if this were of equal importance with the proliferation itself.

The premise underlying these assertions may well be found in Obama’s smug earlier comment that we should “put aside the schoolyard taunts about who is tough. . . . Let’s leave behind the fear and division.” By reducing to the level of wayward boys the debates over whether his policies are making us more or less secure, Obama reveals a deep disdain for the decades of strategic thinking that kept America safe during the Cold War and afterwards. Even more pertinent, Obama’s indifference and scorn for real threats are chilling auguries of what the next three years may hold.

Obama has now explicitly rejected the idea that U.S. weakness is provocative, arguing instead that weakness will convince Tehran and Pyongyang to do the opposite of what they have been resolutely doing for decades—vigorously pursuing their nuclear and missile programs. Obama’s first year amply demonstrates that his approach will do nothing even to retard, let alone stop, Iran and North Korea.

Posted by: Sean M. at 01:54 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 287 words, total size 2 kb.

Hot on the heels of Big O deciding to turn NASA from a space agency to a global-warming tracker, Iran is announcing that Kavoshgar-3 (translated as Explorer-3) has been successfully launched into space with a mouse, a couple of turtles, and some worms on it. 

Why, do you ask, does this matter, when many other countries have done the same thing with more advanced species?

Well, aside from the implications of Iran having a fully functioning space program on national defense and security (if you can send a ship to space, you can send a rocket just about anywhere), there is our own standing in the world as a strong power in technology and space to consider.  While Iran continues to push forward with nuclear technology that we definitely don't like, they also plan on having a man in orbit within the next ten years.  Meanwhile, we've decided to stop working on spacecraft that have the potential to take a man beyond orbit.

Space travel is about the first half of Obama's campaign platform - hope.  About the hope and desire of mankind, and Americans, to make an impact, not just on our earth, but on the universe.  To know what's out there and what it's like, to learn new things about the marvels around us, and, to get a little Trekkie on you, "to seek out new life and explore strange new worlds." 

But, I guess, that's just not the kind of hope that Obama was talking about.

As usual.

Posted by: Ember at 09:40 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 256 words, total size 2 kb.

Okay, I know that some people think that the day after the Super Bowl should be some sort of national holiday - a position, by the way, that I disagree with.  I like sports as much as the next guy, but really, people, it's an entertainment sporting event.  Should we get a week off for the World Series?  Stanley Cup?  Do we push it past sports and get time off for the Oscars?

Whatever the case, and whatever your stance, the Super Bowl is not a holiday and, as such, does not warrant extra time off.  Unless, of course, you happen to be a bus driver in Indianapolis:

Students in Indianapolis Public Schools are allowed to sleep in a bit Monday thanks to a one-hour delay scheduled to give bus drivers more time to get to work the morning after the Super Bowl. But they'll have to make up for half the lost time.

 The state's largest school district initially scheduled a two-hour delay but changed course after the Indiana Department of Education said such delays should only be used for emergency situations. State Superintendent Tony Bennett said that because Sunday night's game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints didn't qualify for an automatic waiver for emergency two-hour delays, missed time would have to be made up.

The best part of this little bit of public school idiocy, in my opinion, is the reasoning behind it:

IPS is trying to avoid a repeat of 2007, when the Colts beat the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl and so many bus drivers called in sick the next morning that officials canceled classes.

Now, the article goes on to mention that a few private schools have chosen to cancel or delay classes, with plans to make up that time, so the shame isn't just on public schools on this one.  I wonder what kind of message this sends to kids about the real world and how shit works once they're out of school and have a J-O-B.

Posted by: Ember at 08:44 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment
Post contains 344 words, total size 2 kb.

You saw it at Ace's, just like me.
In response to the email fiasco and other global warmmongering follies, this global warmmongering "journalist" writes
Quote
"I feel I’ve been had."

How about go screw you moron? Mea culpa most certainly not accepted by me.
You were voluntarily had and were among the hordes who viciously attacked those who refused to accept ridiculous claims at face value.
The ones who are still not allowing real science to be done. We can't know how anything affects the environment anymore because you're only doing science these days if you're trying to prove WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! from global worming.

When I used to question the ridiculous claims while saying, "I don't know what to think about global warming but doesn't this claim seem ridiculous?" I was called names and I was called even worse names as the claims got more and more ridiculous and I became more and more sure it was a big scam.

Expect to see more and more of these as more and more revelations like basing global warmmongering scare predictions on anecdotal evidence of hikers. They'll try to say, "It's not my fault!"
Yes, yes it is.
You tools went along with it voluntarily and called me names for questioning idiocies like 100 mile long glaciers disappearing in 30 years or the yearly predictions of the North Pole being ice free this year (and yet, it stubbornly refuses to be ice free).

There are none so blind as those who poke themselves in both eyes with global warmmongering bullshit... or something like that.

And yes, I'm going to be mad at every one of these fools who writes this. Apologize for willingly going along with the fraud, don't tell me "I've been had."
You wanted to be had. End of story. It made you feel better about yourself because you were more caring and more educated than I was.
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you've done and then come back and apologize for allowing yourself to be had.

Obama voter and global warmmonger mea culpas are worthless without admitting it's your fault and specifically apologizing to me for calling me names for being right before it was fashionable.
So in short, fuck you and the Al Gore you rode in on you anti-science zealot.

Posted by: Veeshir at 04:24 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
Post contains 392 words, total size 3 kb.

After a year of The O-bots uttering phrases such as "I Won", calling any and all opponents every "-ist" in the book (and making a campaign of nothing but said insults), and using immature sexual slang to describe those on the other side of the aisle, they come up with this?

Addressing a gathering of Senate Democrats, Obama promised to "call (Republicans) out when (Democrats) extend a hand and get a fist in return {so..."fisting" is now bad in Barry's world?-ed}."

Yeah. My reply to the Whiner in Chief:

Posted by: eddiebear at 01:50 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
Post contains 464 words, total size 3 kb.

I really like John Stossel and not just because of the mustache. He's also one of the few reporters who is willing to dig into some less than sexy stories.

A story about a window manufacturing company isn't particularly sexy or fascinating.  But it's these kinds of wink wink nudge nudge deals that people understand.  Look, maybe there's nothing at all improper going on there.  But it certainly looks fishy.

I've mentioned before that there's a huge political corruption scandal that's now over a year old up my way.  Much of it is this kind of stuff.  Company A gets the bid for the new school because Company A gave a little something something to a councilman.  People understand business being slotted to Friends of because that happens on the local level.  Sure, there's some tolerance for this.  I joke that the only reason to run for sewer commission is to get your idiot nephew a job.  But push that far enough and people get ticked.  It's not something impersonal, it's your company and your cousin's company that didn't get that bid because somebody knows somebody.  That's personal.

Again, maybe this is all on the up and up.  That certainly didn't stop the shrieking from the Left about Haliburton and Cheney (pbuh). 

Posted by: alexthechick at 01:00 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 215 words, total size 1 kb.

I am about to attempt my first etching project. I want to make bookends (or maybe a notebook binder) from this:

Posted by: chad98036 at 10:04 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 26 words, total size 1 kb.

A couple months ago I posted an op-ed I had submitted to the Washington Post both here and as part of an Open Blog over at Ace's . In it I speculated that one of the things that will be necessary to rebuild the American economy is a resurgence of on shore manufacturing. I was pretty thoroughly shouted down at Ace's both by those who believed I was advocating a command economy and by those who believe that manufacturing in the US is dead.

Well I am happy to say I am not alone in thinking that a service economy is not sufficient to sustain American dominance.

That lack of an industrial base has put the American economy and worker in jeopardy, says distressed investor Lynn Tilton, CEO of Patriarch Partners. "The reality is, in recent times, every great empire has been built on a manufacturing economy," notes Tilton. "The fall of every empire has been the failure to remember that one fundamental fact."

Tilton's point is simple: the country cannot thrive as simply a service-based economy. As Tilton explains to Aaron and Henry in the accompanying clip, there isn't enough demand for services and those related jobs to keep the U.S. competitive on a global scale. We should also not over look the fact some people are better at building and making things then working on spreadsheets in a cubicle

 Now  I have to admit I'm not sure what empires she is referring to but she agrees with me so she must be a genius.

Posted by: chad98036 at 10:06 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
Post contains 260 words, total size 2 kb.

I know, I know, this is a no-math blog, but this is math that Morons can get behind.

Posted by: Ember at 07:12 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 23 words, total size 1 kb.

Okay, real or satire? No fair hovering over the link to see where it leads.
Quote (talking about Berlusconi's gov't)
The President of the Council cavorting with young women, the allegations of shady connections, slippery financial arrangements, dubious political allegiances, and all-round dodgy dealings are as nothing when compared to this monstrous act of national betrayal.

And what this most heinous of acts?
sight of a McDonald's apron wrapped around the svelte frame of the Minister of Agriculture, Luca Zaia as he helped launch the new McItaly range of burgers.

So real or Scrappleface?
more...

Posted by: Veeshir at 06:17 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 168 words, total size 1 kb.