One thing on Massa

I think that conservatives who are embracing him are doing so at their own peril.  Dude's a slug. 

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Read my latest scribblings at RWN

Go read it, I command you.  Or something.  I guess.  Or sit around and wait for alex's next hotassery post, that works too.

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Since Nuking Detroit Would Be Messy

Maybe just plowing it under and starting over would be a better idea.

Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods {forced migration. This should end well-ed}. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.

Detroit officials first raised the idea in the 1990s, when blight was spreading. Now, with the recession plunging the city deeper into ruin, a decision on how to move forward is approaching. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month.

"Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable," said James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, who is among the urban experts watching the experiment with interest. "There is now a realization that past glories are never going to be recaptured. Some people probably don't accept that, but that is the reality."

 

 

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So, who was it that called Obama 'articulate'?

I'm thinking it was Pluggy Joe and not the Republicans.  Funny that between Biden and Dan Rather, 'articulate' is now an epithet.

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Something Even More Terrifying Than Those Clown Spiders

I present to you, Old Chinese Woman With Goat Horn Growing Out Of Her Head.

Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn't pay too much attention to it’.

‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,' added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years old.

‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’

Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang’s head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.

This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin.

Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool and feathers in animals.

They usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.

The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60 and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half of cases are benign.

Common underlying causes of cutaneous horns are common warts, skin cancer and actinic keratoses, patches of scaly skin that develop on skin exposed to the sun, such as your face, scalp or forearms.

Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.

You are welcome.

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Oh sure, NOW they pay respect to the military

Jonn at This Ain't Hell explains why people need to quit getting a leg tingle over the Hurt Locker Oscar.

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Dog Bites Man: Soros-funded Green Business Astroturfing

A name like "American Businesses for Clean Energy" trips my BS detector somethin' fierce.  "Clean energy" in reference to current-generation technology is pretty much antithetical to economic growth.

I found out about this organization from a co-blogger from another site who was approached about spreading the word about this wonderful group.  Obviously the green evangelist didn't realize my co-blogger dude does a lot of business with oil companies and makes frequent trips to Alaska. 

First stop is a WhoIs search -- turns out the domain is registered to a group called the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is funded by all the usual lefty suspects such as Soros' Open Society Institute, Ted Turner's foundation, the New York Times Company Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation, etc.  Robert Redford and Leonardo DiCaprio happen to be on the NRDC board of trustees.

I guess this is where I'd go "gotcha", but as I indicated in the title, this is pretty much a "dog bites man" story. 

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Tea baggers are everywhere!

I look forward to the in depth, 12 page article on how this candidate in Texas is a tea partier.
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Kesha Rogers called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama as the centerpiece of her campaign for Congress, and on Tuesday she won the nomination of her party.
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It was no stealth campaign. Rogers shouted it from a sound truck that cruised the four-county 22nd Congressional District. She posted an 18-foot banner emblazoned with the message “Save NASA. Impeach Obama” on street corners. Her Web site is filled with videos and periodic policy statements documenting her stand.

She's probably one of them evil tea parti... Oh, she's a Democrat? And a former LaRouchie?
Obviously a tea partier. Probably an organizer.

Veeshir prediction: either this will not be "news", or the (D) and LaRouche will somehow not make it into any of the stories.

Via Boortz

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Yeah, there's an exception to every rule

I consider myself more or less a First Amendment absolutist. The State cannot limit what I can say. Period.

But. Yeah. I have exceptions.

The Westboro freaks can go fuck themselves.

Actually, my position isn't that inconsistent.  The State cannot stop me from saying what I want.  But that doesn't mean that I can say anything I want with no consequences.  Of *course* those utter fucktards (apologies to the fucking retarded for the comparison) intended to cause emotional distress.  That's the entire point of their acting up.  That they are being held liable for that speech is in no way a state action limiting their speech.  This is a private cause of action being brought by a private person for indignities directed to his family specifically.  This is distinguishable from, say, the Code Pink rally puppetheads because those protests are directed towards either a.  some entity such as the US or b.  a political figure.  The protests aren't against Cheney in his individual capacity but against Cheney as VP and as representative of US policy.

The Westboro "protests" are directed at the most solemn occasions of private families.  Being a soldier should not place one into the same position as a politician.  The soldier enforces state policy.  The soldier does not create that policy.  If Westboro wants to speak, it should be prepared to pay the price.

So.  Were I on the Court the opinion would be consist of the following "The Court hereby reverses and reinstates the award to plaintiff.  The Westboro defendants, individually and in their association, can DIAF."

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Maybe Writing Emails Is A Bad Thing For Green Goofs.

Wow. It looks as though a Soros group is tied to a bunch of wind initiatives.

The 900 pages of emails, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Christopher C. Horner, show staff members from the DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the EPA developing a response to the report. They also show them coordinating the response with the Center for American Progress, plus the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) — two wind industry lobbyist groups.

What the emails show runs contrary to statements made to Congress by the Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi — the Obama administration response to the Spanish report was in fact instigated at the request of the AWEA. It was then written with the close cooperation of the AWEA, the Center for American Progress, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The emails concentrate on the political implications of the Spanish study — and how to discredit it.

There also appears to have been significant pressure to publish an internal report from the NREL as a DoE report — bypassing the internal review and publication procedures — and to do so quickly.

The emails suggest that wind industry lobbyists and political organizations have significant behind-the-scenes influence on scientific reports from the Obama administration. This contradicts Obama’s insistence that his administration would get the politics out of science. It also calls into question the objectivity and quality of the information they provided to Congress.

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Okay, which moronette is in Florida?

Florida, it's always Florida.
The set-up
Trooper Gary Dunick said. "If I wasn't there, I wouldn't have believed it. About 10 years ago I stopped a guy in the exact same spot ... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, 'Nothing will ever beat this.' Well, this takes it."

So what beats that?
The hero
The day before the wreck, Barnes was convicted in an Upper Keys court of DUI with a prior and driving with a suspended license, ...was ordered to impound her car, and her driver's license was revoked for five years,

Oopsie, but still not that weird.
Wait for it....wait for it.....
troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat.

They don't mention any jerking off, I'm going to assume he got his pants zipped up before the police showed up.

Via Boortz. I can't believe he beat Drudge to that story.
Sorta like when I see this at Ace's next week I'll know I was first. 
Again.

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GFW gets off a good one

That's the image the Cookeville Times (in CA) used to illustrate a short blurb on a gun show.
I have to admit, Gun Fearing Wussy gets off a good one. That made me laugh.

I'm going to use that to illustrate all gun-related posts not involving my arsenal.
I'm not sure which I like better, the 5 flashlights or the Swiss Army knife.

Via Say Uncle

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Behold The Chicago Way, Massa Edition

Whoa. The Massa resignation has the markings of a coordinated hit by Rahm and Axelrod.

“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill, and this administration and this House leadership have said, 'they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill, and now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass.’ You connect the dots,” Massa said Several times during the broadcast Massa raised the prospect of rescinding his resignation if national news media picked up on his story of being railroaded out of office by Democratic leaders.

And therein lies the problem. How interested will the MSM be to cover this story, knowing that an uproar from the great unwashed could lead to the guy coming back? Hell, the Mediacrats are as interested in helping Teh Won secure a victory as the Party  Rank And File, and mentioning this dirty detail would get inthe way of Obamacare's passage. As Ace has always stated, you don't need to spin that which you don't cover.

Between offering a judgeship to the brother of a wavering Democrat, and forcing out of office a "No" Vote, thus lowering the margin the bill needs for passage (now, all the Democrats need are 216 votes, not the more dicey 217), this is how the Chicago Way will get what they want. Just be on the lookout for military bases, contract awards/revocations, mysterious arrests in nightclubs, surprise tax audits, etc.

Source

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If you had it your way...

...Saddam Hussein would have received 99% of the vote. Again.

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Today, the people of Iraq went to the polls to choose their leaders in Iraq’s second national election. By any measure, this was an important milestone in Iraqi history. Dozens of parties and coalitions fielded thousands of parliamentary candidates, men and women. Ballots were cast at some 50,000 voting booths. And in a strong turnout, millions of Iraqis exercised their right to vote, with enthusiasm and optimism.

And you did what, exactly to facilitate that process? Oh. Nothing. You opposed the war and the Surge, and you didn't bother to mention the word "victory," though you were good enough to mention the people who fought and died to make this happen.

Oh, and the despot who had ruled the country for decades before our troops went in there and plucked his murderous ass out of a fucking filthy hole? You know, the guy who ruled as a dictator there for decades? I didn't notice a mention of him in your speech. Or the multitude of people who he murdered.

You worked hard against this election, you fucking asshole. You should be apologizing to the people of Iraq.

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Steampunk Professor Xavier Wheelchair!

That's right, Steampunk Professor Xavier Wheelchair!



And it even dispenses cocktails! I'm afraid that if it got any fucking cooler, it would rip a hole in the universe, destroying us all.

(Blatantly ripped off from Rosetta in the comments here.)

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I really thought I'd posted the stupid quote of the day already

The assault was a "big lie intended to serve as a pretext for fighting terrorism and setting the grounds for sending troops to Afghanistan," Press TV reported Ahmadinejad as saying.

The 'assault' CNN is referring to is the attacks of September 11, 2001.

There aren't enough FUCK YOUs in my keyboard to even begin to express my contempt for this lying sleazebag.  So where's the American government's revulsion, I wonder?

Oh, and hey CNN?  I know you're probably just trying to figure out a variety of words so that your readers don't get bored, but I'd be giving you the Understated Stupidity Award of the Day if I wasn't convinced that someone else will probably stick their foot in their mouth today and it just maybe might be more ludicrously minimizing than your staff's writing.

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Matt Yglesias Gets Paid For This?

Seriously, pal, I could understand your aversion to understanding the inner workings of the Constitution, as you are a leftist and view it as a "living" document which you feel you could blithely ignore anyway. But when you venture off down this path, I really wonder if your brain has been fried or if you are just plain old stupid or seriously advocating a turn in the direction of unaccountable despotism.

"...US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised."

The fact that this piece stayed up over at the the Podesta-Soros funded Think Progress tells me what they think of the Constitution, which is scary. And which prompts me to say:


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Eh, it's better than cartoons.

Okay, that's funny.
Here we have politics in a Pakistani province. It's about funny and almost scary but not really endy, it seems to be localized in one province.
Rioting broke out between rival parties Biryani Ittehad-Sindhi [BI(S)] group and Pakistan Pulao Party (PPP)

Why were they fighting?
Rice.
The Biryani Ittehad party likes, you guessed it, Biryani rice, the Pulao likes, right again, Pulao rice.
Apparently they're fighting over which is more Muslim.
The fighting happened at a place that served biryani rice.
It gets funnier
scared customers tried to leave, but were stopped by the unknown men who blockaded the door with the handis. (handis are little pots used to cook rice V)
...one guy had his priorities right
“I saw one man scarfing down his plate of Bombay biryani under his table, even as children were crying in fear
...
and the grand finish

Early this month, several newspapers ran print ads in which pulao was compared to paella and risotto – so-called ‘kafir’ dishes – while biryani was extolled as the food of devout Muslims. The newspapers eventually had to pull off the ads after demonstrations were held outside their offices by Pakistan Pulao Party members. “It was an insult to a sophisticated dish. Pulao doesn’t make you belch crudely like biryani,” said a PPP worker at the demonstration. “Calling it ‘kafir’ is just hitting below the belt.”


To get that province really riled up, run an ad about how biryani rice was given to the Persians by the Jews when they fled from Babylonian captivity so it's not a kafr dish but Jooooooooooooo-food.
The funniest part is that the Persians weren't Muslim when they gave either rice to Pakistan so neither should be considered "more Muslim".

I'm surprised Israel hasn't perfected a method of causing rioting and revolution in Muslim countries using this method. It's hard to get all invasiony when your young men are fighting each other over important stuff like rice.

Unless..... this is a test op. In which case I should probably shut up.

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Stupid quote of the day

I suppose security and safety is all fine and dandy when it's not you and yours being buried in mass graves or tortured in a palace basement.

"I am telling you honestly. Saddam was much better despite the fact he was hurting and executing people. He was good with security and safety," Abdul Wahab said.

Anyone want to take bets on whether this guy was a member of the Iraqi Republican Guard?

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So that's what a spit take is.

Instructions for using this post.
1. Swallow your mouthful of coffee.
2. Hit "more".
3.Laugh.
4.Read rest of post.

Pic nearly shamelessly stolen from the Mega Independent. A totally non-biased, fact-based Intertube News Page that's totally middle of the road and totally journalism-based in the style of the NY Times and the Washington Post (Hosannas).
They have such helpful stories as this one about tea and tea bags

"It's a disgusting drink," remarked one of the scientists, "Anyone who would even associate themselves with tea after this study is obviously just a pathetic loser with no life."

Wow, Paul Krugman couldn't have said it better. I assume we know he's a "scientist" because he had a white lab coat on.
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