Forever angry

George W. Bush has started raising funds to pay for his presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University, and some of the usual suspects are unhappy:

By this fall, he’ll be armed with architect’s renderings and will hold travel around the country to meet with groups and build support for the complex on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Some of his new neighbors are less than thrilled with the plan, with a handful of history and political science professors lined up to criticize it.

Interestingly enough, none of them is actually quoted in the article. But that's neither here nor there. For me, it's just fun to imagine them having to pass the place every day for the rest of their tenure, cursing under their breath.

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Yeah, good luck with that

Something tells me that this nonprofit organization is going to be super popular:

Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, an effort is under way to solicit money for the former football star's appeal of his Nevada conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.

Barrett Prody, the brother of Simpson's former girlfriend, created a nonprofit corporation and an Internet Web site, the Society Against Legal Injustice Inc., to raise money for Simpson.

Oh, yeah, that's gonna be right up there with the Red Cross and the Humane Society.

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Not to ruin your weekend, but...

Well, you probably ought to read this.

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Legal geekery ahead!

(Bear with me - I do have a point at the end of all of this)

So apparently Justice Souter said that he undergoes a "sort of annual intellectual lobotomy" when the Supreme Court term begins in October, a condition that he said lasts until the end of the term the following summer.

I'm going to avoid the obvious snark here and punt over to Althouse's reaction

Whinging and, seriously, I'm not lying, an actual (tl;dr) point follow:


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Seriousry retarded

Of course Our Lord and Savior is gonna let this situation get out of hand, he can't even get positions filled at the Treasury!

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Scandalous!

It's comforting to know that even in these troubled times, people can still find petty, stupid shit to complain about:

Passengers are angry about being forced to fly on a new Southwest Airlines plane featuring a bikini-clad model, saying it is "soft porn" and is offensive to families.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, currently dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is pictured lying seductively in a revealing white bikini along the length of the Boeing 737 as part of a promotional deal with Sports Illustrated.

The latest addition to the US-based airline was unveiled this month and is deployed like other aircraft in the fleet, servicing all its routes.

The airline has received a flood of criticism on its corporate blog about the promotion, with many passengers complaining about having to board an aircraft “covered in pornography”.

Click on the link to see a photo of this scandalously smutty and sinful pornographic plane. That is, if you aren't afraid of having your very immortal soul damned straight to hell for all of eternity.

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Does anyone else have a problem with this?

In an article about how Obama and Sheriff Pluggy are backing the Employee Free Choice Act (aka Card Check, aka Banning Secret Ballots), I noticed this little nugget:

Before the inauguration, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said he'd been to the White House only once in the past eight years. Now he visits at least once a week.

Well, that's just great. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sure going to sleep better from now on, knowing that a union boss like Sweeney has such easy access to the president.

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Your Daily Dose of Irony

Courtesy of Twitter.

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Oh, snap!

So, Rush Limbaugh misspoke at CPAC, mistakenly attributing some lines from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution, and a Kossak gloats:

But that phrase is nowhere to be found in the constitution. It's actually from the Declaration of Independence, as any elementary school civics student could tell you.

Apparently, the audience at CPAC had no idea that Limbaugh had erred, because they fiercely applauded his mistaken attribution.

And that, my friends, gives new meaning to the word "ignorance."

Yeah, you've got us there. It would have been great if someone in the audience had jumped in right there and said, "Hey, Rush, you screwed up there." I mean, it's not like Obama has never ever made such a trivial mistake about this country, right? Right?

I mean, it's not like you're supposed to learn how many states we have by the time you're in grade school, right? Much less when you're a Senator who's running for President of however many states we may have. 

After all, it's pretty easy to get confused.  Really, who among us can keep track of that sort of thing?

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So Wait! Is Obama A Lightworker Or A Zen Master?

Seriously, the cultish behavior of his followers is no longer comical, scary, but rather sad.

The conundrum is obvious and compelling and, as always, deeply enhanced -- if not wholly solved -- by vodka.

It goes something like this: Do you allow yourself, even now, to feel any sort of ongoing, relieved, merciful joy that Barack Obama actually is sitting in the Big Chair in the White House? That this elegant, articulate, Zen-like man whose integrity is rock-solid and whose ideas, while certainly not in perfect alignment with every ultra-lefty vision on the planet (clean coal? Please), are astonishingly ambitious and brave, is leading this nation during one of the worst economic times in its short and paroxysmal history?

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Maybe It's Just Me, But I Think We May Have A Budding Frivolous Lawsuit Problem

I mean, how else can you explain patent infringement lawsuits over yoga positions?

India has been angered at attempts by mostly American yoga teachers to patent moves from their classes as their own originals.

Since its arrival in Britain and America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it was popularised by Beatles guitarist George Harrison, among others, Yoga has become a $225 billion industry.

In India, however, it remains collective knowledge – practiced in public parks where gurus often teach fast breathing exercises, like pranayam, and different 'sun-salutations,' free of charge.

But as the number of Western yoga teachers has grown, there has been a steady increase in patent applications claiming each pose in their class is not part of the ancient discipline of mind and body, but their own unique invention. In the United States alone, there have been more than 130 yoga-related patents, 150 copyrights and 2,300 trademarks. Now India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is being made available to patents offices throughout the world so they can establish whether the claim is a genuine innovation or "prior art" from Indian systems of medicine.

So far a team of yoga gurus from nine schools have worked with government officials and 200 scientists from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to scan 35 ancient texts including the Hindu epics, the Mahabharata and the Bhagwad Gita, and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras to register each native pose.

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Apparently, Michelle wasn't the only one

Guess what these fine American patriots on the campus of Brown University are referring to:

"It was the first time in our lives we felt proud to be American," Sarah Schoenbrun '09 later recalled. Deanna Saunders '11 noted, "My friend said she'd never sung 'The Star Spangled Banner' before. But that night she sang it like she really meant it."

Yeah, that was election night. And the author of the piece somehow believes that this contradicts "the conventional wisdom that college campuses in general, and Brown's in particular, have become hotbeds of left-leaning, blame-America-first cynics."  Riiiiight.  Because patriotism is all about The One.

One day a few weeks after the election, Kaitlyn Scott '10 sat in the Blue Room eating her lunch. She was wearing a T-shirt with an American flag emblazoned on the front. "I haven't taken this out of the drawer in years," she said, "and finally I feel like I can wear it again."

You know what?  Fuck you, Kaitlyn. And fuck your classmates, too. Frankly, you're what's wrong with this country.  Sadly, I doubt that you'll ever wake up from your Cult of Personality and realize that.

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Barf

Seriously, why was this person ever considered a conservative?  I mean, Chris Matthews is probably embarrassed by this sort of crap.

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Who said it?

Which liberal pundit had the following to say embarrassingly gush after spending some time with Barack Obama on an extra-special Air Force One trip last weekend?

No one has a crystal ball these days -- certainly not Obama, as he keeps telling us. But his optimism and faith in the American character may be our best medicine. Asked what the American people should do -- shop? -- he urged confidence that "the same productive capacity that we had before is still there." Describing government and the economy as ocean liners, not speedboats, he said our goals are long-term. Nothing can be judged by a one-day market rise or fall. At the end of his first presidential term, Americans will be able to say that we are in a different place.

Click here to find out!

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Obsession

The Palin family has been in the news lately, so you know who felt the need to rear his ugly, addled head.  St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache notes (no link, per dpud editorial policy) that Sarah's then-unannounced pregnancy was discovered by one of her daughters when she found an ultrasound of her as-yet unborn brother:

But such an ultrasound was never released, even off the record, to the press. Wouldn't that have saved everyone a lot of grief?

Since when is it any female politician's responsibility to release an ultrasound to the press, Andi? And the only people who felt any "grief" about it were bugfuck crazy conspiracy theorists like you and those of us who are, for some reason, big enough gluttons for punishment that we still pay any attention to your literally demented ass.

Oh, and while we're talking about medical matters, has the man you wish through some miracle of mad science could become your baby daddy released his medical records?  Yeah, I didn't think so.

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Dumbass Philly Judge to Philly PD: Uh, how about taking that fallen officer memorial out of here?

During a preliminary hearing at the 35th district headquarters, the judge put a photo of an officer killed this past week by a career criminal face down, then asked the memorial to be removed...the Philly PD pretty much told him to fuck himself sideways, as they should have.  35 is the same district our fellow moronblogger Wyatt works in, needless to say, he's a bit less than happy about this. 

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It is to laugh (or is it?)

Regarding Rush Limbaugh's "I hope Obama fails" remark, which has been taken out of context by just about every hack in the country, some hack in Michigan named Todd Leva adds his two cents:

The problem with Rush and his ilk is this: Where does it get us? Does it advance the discussion(s)? Does it help the nation? I cannot see how openly rooting for the failure of a new presidency, knowing the dire consequences that that entails, helps in any way shape or form (especially after the past eight years).

I would link to something negative about George W. Bush from the Daily Kos or the Huffington Post or Democratic Underground or CNN or NPR or ABC or The New York Times or Newsweek, but you get the idea.

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Okay, this is getting out of hand

We all like to make cracks about Obama being The One or The Messiah, but this is just creepy.

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And You Thought The U.S. Courts Were Screwed Up

Just check out India's High Court.

The High Court in New Delhi is so behind in its work that it could take up to 466 years to clear the enormous backlog, the court's chief justice said in a damning report that illustrates the decrepitude of India's judicial system.

The Delhi High Court races through each case in an average of four minutes and 55 seconds but still has tens of thousands of cases pending, including upward of 600 that are more than 20 years old, according to the report.

The problems of the Delhi High Court, which hears civil, criminal, and constitutional cases, is more the standard than the exception in India. The country's creaky judicial system has long been plagued by corruption, inefficiency and lack of accountability, often making the rule of law unattainable for all but the wealthy and the well-connected.

The United Nations Development Program says some 20 million legal cases are pending in India.

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One More Reason To Hate The Senate Moderates

They seem to have worked hand in glove with The Deciders to keep the Thrill Up The Leg going.

Sadly, in their first crucial vote of the 111^th Congress, these three moderate Senators showed their true colors; in so doing they not only let down the nation, but also every other Republican in the House AND Senate who unlike them courageously voted against this irresponsible act.

With one fell swoop, they stabbed in the back every conservative in the country while making it clear that President Obama actually does have a filibuster-proof Senate despite not having the necessary 60 Democrats in his pocket.

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