Bobby's Got a Gun

The worst part about being a lefty must be how much you have to ignore reality to believe what you believe.
Gun control gets rid of guns and reduces crime, right?
Well, let's ask Great Britain what they think about that after they've banned most guns.
will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned entire estates into "no go" zones. Local politicians and anti-gun campaigners have reacted with anger at the news that the officers will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns

Huh, whodathunkit? You know, except for any pro-2nd amendment person.
And this will change no minds.
That's kind of depressing but also kind of funny if you think about it.
Wait, no it isn't.

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The Onion gets scooped

Wait, this is real?  Really?  No, I mean, really?  Seriously?

Somebody wake me up in 2012, please.

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Who can you trust?

This story kind of pisses me off. It's about a book of interviews with secret service agents.
They're talking about what the presidents were like away from the cameras.

It's mostly what you would expect with a surprise or two. Both Bushes and Ronnie Raygun come out okay, Clinton, somewhat surprisingly, comes out well too.
Hillary, Gorequemada and Jimmy Carter come off as total POSes. Carter, for instance, used to make a show of carrying his luggage for the cameras but it was empty (just like him), he made others carry his real luggage.

WTF? He's a freaking cartoon character and always has been.

Obama, surprisingly enough, comes out okay too. Of course, I don't see someone working for Obama saying, "Yeah, he's a real asshole". They don't mention it in the article, but I wonder how the First Worf treats them.

The point.....
Shouldn't these people be keeping their mouths shut? Seriously, their job is to protect the President of the United States of America, he has to be able to trust them without fail.

We can't have these people blabbing to People magazine or Jerry Springer.

If you can't accept that you have to keep your mouth shut even though you have access to some seriously historic info, you shouldn't take the job.
I'm actually surprised there isn't a non-disclosure agreement.

I might buy the bcook, or at least read it, but that doesn't mean I think it should have been written.
H/T Wyatt Earp

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Because 'Stick it up your ass' is so much classier than 'You lie'

(h/t)

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So, I cleaned out the couch cushions today...

TERRORIST!!!11!!one!1!eleven!!1!

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The Obama Nobel Prize explained

An adult woman who gets paid to write a column for a major metropolitan paper admits, basically, that, yeah, it's because he's not Bush.

And, no, she's not self-aware enough to realize that she's basically voting "Present" for her crush-candidate.

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Can they do that?

First a disclaimer, the only thing I know about high finance, low finance or medium finance is that you can be overdrawn if you have checks left.

Via Drudge we see that a nefarious group is planning on stopping to use the dollar for oil trading. They're going to use
a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

So that's gold, which can be volatile.
The Japanese Yen, which is probably the most stable currency there.
The Euro, which is slated for change soon now that the Irish finally voted in EUroland.
And two corrupt-gov't controlled currencies.

My question:
Can they do that?
Rather, will we all be screwed if they do it?

They use the dollar because it's relatively stable and reliable. I realize Obama is screwing things up, but is it really bad enough for them to do what they've probably wanted to do for years?

Or will things go absolutely crazy if they do this? You know the Chinese will try to lower the price of oil while the Arabs will try to raise it and they'll both be manipulating their currencies to do that.
The EUnuchs and Japan might try to do that too.

Hopefully before the full effects of it are felt President Palin will be drilling all along the coast, in ANWR and on the freaking beaches at Malibu.

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Oh noes!

It looks like The One is losing The Twat*.  Who's next?  Kathleen?  Peggy?  Captain Pant-crease?

It's okay, Barry, I'm sure the thrill isn't gone from Chris Matthews' leg.  You'll always have the leg.

*Link doesn't go to his stupid personal site, but it is one of his columns.

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Gazempt?

I know.  RAAAAACIST!!!

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How bad is the global economy?

This bad.  Disturbing.

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Iowahawk FTW

Over at Ace's in the thread for the terror bust there's some speculation as to who the perpetrators are, so Iowahawk steps in and solves the conundrum
40 Archie Bunker lived in Queens.

I guess he's on the DHS/Acorn/White House mailing list.

Of course this ABC story says
The building's superintendent, Ramiz Berisha, says those who were questioned are Pakistani.


Hot Air or Ace mention something about NBC news talking about an "Iranian threat" last week.
So do we have Iranian backed Pakistanis? You know, a budding nukular country working with an already nukular country.

So like everything in The Funniest End of Civilization Ever, there's teh funny with teh endy.

And yes, I know I got the network wrong both times. Screw them. They get everything wrong about me, from guns to racism, from now on I'm getting everything to do with giving them credit wrong.
I'm gonna start attributing CNN links to WND.

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Good for a restraining order, must be good for a meeting with the president

For the good of our country, I hope President Obama is smart enough to completely ignore this.  Since we're embarking on Teh Funniest End of Civilization Evah, though, I'm afraid that President Obama is going to be all star-struck at the offer of meeting a Hollywood icon.

Is anyone else getting the feeling that Sheen is actually not nearly as smart or together as his TV character?

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This is so profoundly disturbing that even I had doubts about posting it

Topless Robot apparently has a contest called Fan Fiction Friday and the winner this week is Merry, Pippin and Treebeard in "By Root and Twig"

A sample of this literary masterpiece (Not Safe for Work, Home, or Keeping Down Dinner, NSFWHKDD)

"Ah, and what's this then?" purred dreamy Merry, wrapping a small hand around a curly green bud emerging from the heroic bole. Treebeard made a grumbling sound that Merry took to mean a yes.

And thus, Treebeard's tree-penis has appeared. Oh, by the way, if you imagine John Rhys-Davies doing Treebeard's voice, this whole thing is extra horrible.

Pippin, meanwhile, had climbed up to what resembled the Ent's shoulder and was nuzzling under the twiggy beard, stroking bark and whispering something. When Merry's ministrations below made the new budded branch grow and shiver, Pippin started to cheer something encouraging, and brought himself up short in a squeak.

One of Treebeard's smaller branches had reached over and wrapped around him. As Pippin clenched a hand in the twigs so as not to fall he felt a smooth and snaky branch carefully stroking his neck, his back, slowly, slowly, around his arse and down between his thighs. "Oh...yes, yes,"

"I am not hurting you, little thing?" asked Treebeard.

"Gods of my ancestors, no....oh! OH!" Pippin cried as the branch tightened in a sensitive spot, gripping and probing at once with many sentient twigs.

This is the Ent version of a reacharound.

The owner of Topless Robot apparently has more fortitude that I; it appears the he managed to finish the story. I had to stop after the first mention of a growing sapling because I was both gagging and laughing so hard I thought I was going to pass out. I just continued reading the poster's interpretations of the Hobbit on Hobbit on Tree action and I was still laughing so hard that I think I woke my neighbors. Let me conclude that I fully align myself with Topless Robot's closing paragraph:

I don't know why Merry is taller, and I don't want to know. I do know that I'm officially on Saruman's side -- he can kill all the goddamn Hobbits and Ents he wants. God only knows what horrors he's seen occur in Middle-Earth with his palantir.

I just thank God this wasn't a manga contest.

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Bill Richardson pay-to-play investigation shut down by Holder

Weak...they're playing a dangerous game with this kind of shit, the more the political class gives extralegal privilege to people, be it themselves or allies or whoever else (I think amnesty would be the biggest example), the social contract between the citizenry and the government starts to fray, and we will see serious instability in the US as a result.

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The lunatics have taken over the asylum

So, the Obama administration admits that the budget outlook is even worse than they thought, and then...

"I know there are going to be some who say that this report proves that we can't afford health reform. I think that has it backwards," Orszag told reporters. "The fiscal gap is precisely why we must enact well-designed and fiscally responsible health reform now. . . . Given the long-term nature of that problem, we simply can't afford to wait."

That's right. The country's finances are in worse shape than even Teh Smartest Administration EVAR now admits...

In their traditional summertime budget review, administration officials acknowledged that they relied on overly optimistic assumptions about the economy when they forecast in March that Obama's budget plans would generate deficits of $7.1 trillion over the next 10 years. After factoring in the severity of the recession and the prospect of a more sluggish recovery, the White House concluded that the budget outlook is significantly worse.

Given that, "we simply can't afford to wait" to add another crippling entitlement program to our already bankrupt government...

Orszag acknowledged, however, that health-care reform alone cannot solve the nation's budget problems, and he said deficit reduction will be "a top priority" when the president presents his next budget proposal to Congress in February.

Yeah, let's ram this huge clusterfuck that's going to add trillions to the deficit through and just wait until next year, when Obama promises (pinky swear!) that he'll work on reducing the deficit. Presumably through cutting wasteful spending (i.e. your Grandma's hip replacement) and God only knows whatever other dishonest accounting tricks we're supposed to swallow.

When this "top priority" is revealed as something else that The One has failed at, what do you want to be that the words out of his piehole include "Let me be clear" and "we inherited"?

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"Well duh", the scientists who don't get it and research dollars.

"Scientists" 'finding out' what we already know and being surprised by it is one of my pet peeves.

In today's exciting episode, via Instapundit, we find this story about how little people know about their friends.

A growing body of experimental evidence suggests that, on the whole, we know significantly less about our friends, colleagues,(Presidents V) and even spouses than we think we do. This lack of knowledge extends far beyond embarrassing game-show fodder - we’re often completely wrong about their likes and dislikes, their political beliefs, their tastes, their cherished values. ...

They even act as if it's a recent phenomenon
Although such blind spots might at first seem like a comment on the atomization of modern life, the shallowness of human connection in the age of bowling alone,...

They skate around it the whole article. Even as they are slapped in the face with it,they keep writing stuff like
Friends and spouses are people to whom we are supposed to be able to confide anything ... Instead, it appears that there are whole regions of our personalities that they miss entirely, and we do the same with them.

Never once, not once, do they even come close to saying, "That's because people believe what they want to believe, always have, always will. In most cases, it keeps us from killing each other."
Con artists, politicians (but I repeat myself), ad execs and more have pretty much turned taking advantage of this into a science and these fools are all surprised that people work that way. 

I learned more about people by reading 'Stranger in a Strange Land" in the 4th grade than any of the researchers in that article have learned in their whole freaking lives.

Allow me to make fun of one particular fool out of an article full of them. It's gratuitous, but he's especially stupid.

It’s not clear that you would need to know everything about someone in order to have a deep and fulfilling relationship with them,” says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Well Nick, can I call you Nick?, there's a huge body of evidence that would suggest that knowing too much about someone is a bar to having a deep and fulfilling relationship.
Remember the Gilligan's Island show where they could read minds? Remember how much they hated each other?
That's right, this professor of behavioral science knows less about people than a Gilligan's Island episode.

I'm gonna go even farther and say this guy knows less about behavioral sciences than Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, Washington.

Read the whole article, it's actually pretty funny in how obtuse it is. You could get your BS in Obtusity by reading it.

So why the headline?
I'm not sure if this is a good or bad use of research dollars and research scientists.

On the one hand, they would probably gum up the works of any real research.
On the other hand, the money wasted on studies on whether 'being drunk makes ugly people look good' could be used productively studying something useful and not already known.

Maybe someone should do a study.

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Compassionate reasons

Aaaaaand liberal feminists here in America (not to mention our Secretary of State) speak out against this in...three...two...one...

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ObamaCare in action

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"If it stops moving, subsidize it..."

Social Security's going bankrupt? Well, let's just expand it!

@midlifechick just returned from TownHall meeting with her US Rep. John Carter (R-TX). Representative Carter informed the crowd that talk has been bandied about Congress to appropriate EVERY state's pension plans into the bankrupt Social Security System.

She is absolutely 100% sure that she understood him correctly. If this is allowed to happen, and I am going to stress again that at this point it is just an idea that has been submitted; the US will absolutely, 100% be a banana republic, a la Argentina.

(via @LadyImpactOhio via @MikePFS)

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Call me a cynic...

...but why do I have a sneaky suspicion that this will get around 0.000001% of the attention that the left and the MSM (BIRM) paid to the ginned-up Valerie Plame controversy?

The Justice Department is investigating whether Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with roles in the Sept. 11 attacks were improperly given photos of CIA officers or contractors, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

The investigation, headed by the Justice Department's counterespionage chief, John Dion, is trying to determine if military lawyers defending the detainees divulged classified information or compromised covert CIA officers, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

It is a violation of federal law to identify CIA covert personnel, and it is a violation of military commission rules to disclose classified information, even if only to the defendants.

The person who spoke to The Associated Press said the photos at issue were provided by the John Adams Project, a combined effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to assist in the defense of the detainees.

Yeah, I'm sure a bunch of glossy Vanity Fair profiles of the compromised covert CIA agents will be coming out right quick.

Oh, and I should also mention that now would be an entirely appropriate time for Zombie John Adams to rise from the grave and start kicking the asses of the douchelawyers co-opting his name in order to help America-hating terrorists.

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