I feel insulted

I don't know who this is or if he's a moron, but I know most of the commenters he quotes. Possibly he hates Morons and thinks he's making fun of them. I'm a little insulted none of my bon mots have made the grade.

Nazi Surf Kittens Must Die
A blog dedicated to intellesting comments by intellesting people on the intertubes.
“Assholey cats are the best. Nobody want a cat that’s a pussy.
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Via the Lemur King, that's like a lizard king but with less hallucinogens and more neck problems.

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Too good not to link

Even though you've all seen it at Ace's anyway, AndrewR's hilarious roundtable discussion with Christine O'Donnell and Coons.

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Shamarkto....sharkmopot......SHARKTOPUS!

Outta the way Megashark vs Giant Octopus, there's a new mouth on the block.
Saturday at 8pm, all our worst nightmares are about to be ignored, but hey, at least we get some new schlocky peroxide/silicon fest.
And that ain't bad.

Yes, Sharktopus is on the way, and , from watching the trailer, I think it eats bikinis.
The only disappointment? It only has one mouth. Oh well.

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It was thirty years ago today

Jimmah Carter didn't teach the Dems how to play...

“And yet, as I say, there's the sense that you were a failed President.”

They've been going in and (lately) out of style...

But they still make the MFM smile,

And now they've got a new Dem logo brand.

So let me introduce to you...

If you remember all these years...

The Jimmah Carter Fucking Tribute Baaaand!

Biiiiiiiilllllly Beer!

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Chris Coons, and fun with historic housing

This is...I wanna say this is shocking, but honestly, if you've lived in a Northeastern city with a lot of historic homes and buildings, you've seen this game before.  Southerners, you might have seen these kind of things play out too, but I could be wrong, sound off in comments if you do or don't. 

When Chris Coons was County Exec in Delware, he often butted heads with Alan Muller, who is a hard left activist, especially with environmental stuff.  Muller's that guy that's always at the local and county meetings, letting his opinion be heard on different issues and engaging elected officials.  So, probably a bit of a pain in the ass for local and county officials, but no way deserving of the abuse he (I believe legitimately) is complaining he received for riding the local yokel politicos asses about different things.

So what happened to Muller?  Well, Muller owns property with a historic home on it that was under threat of being condemned and demolished.  Muller's trying to get the house back in order, bought as a fixer upper.  Muller was charged with "making unpermitted repairs on his roof", and the county codes department fined him for all sorts of shit every month on a historical home he's trying to save from looking like it belongs in Detroit for months.  He's now got a mile long rap sheet and a pile of fines as a result, which rolled in even after he made all the repairs. 

Muller believes fully that he's taken this abuse because he's pissed in Coons and others' Cheerios one too many times in council meetings.  Beyond that, Coons put it out there as county exec he was gonna be a hardass on codes.  Muller started making a stink about the fines and abuse he was receiving, and the fines finally stopped flowing soon after.

A city, or I guess in this case county obviously has its housing codes, which are usually used to get people who are letting their house go to shit working on fixing said home up, or to clear out a home being used for crime (think codes coming in and condemning a dilapidated crack house), but on occasion, it can and has been used to fuck with a property owner, for a host of reasons. 

When you have a historic home, then things can get really fun.  Here's the deal, when you have a historic home in need of repair, especially major repair, you don't just go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy planks of plywood or caulk and fix what needs fixed.  Oh, no.  You have to develop a plan as far as what you're doing, you have to demonstrate that you're using materials that are reasonably historically accurate, and using building techniques that are historically accurate, and then approved by whatever historical housing authority oversees things in that city/county/whatever.  In some cases, they'll only allow specialty contractors do the work, and you know that ain't gonna be cheap, and there may be a wait before get them for the work.  If the board or someone within the board or someone influencing the board wants to fuck with you, they can really make your life hell.

So you have Codes Enforcement, which can be abused, and then answering to what amounts to a bureaucratic HOA board that dictates the way and materials you can use to fix your own home.  You can use this one/two punch to really mess with someone, slow down their repairs with red tape from the historical authority, and pound them with codes violations.

Lotta times, you'll see these sort of shenanigans go on when someone with money or a special interest, private or public who wants the house or property.  So yeah, I can believe Muller when he says he was targeted for harassment by Coons and the County Codes authorities.

In any case, there's been absolutely zero coverage of Muller and the abuse he received by Codes while Coons was County exec.  None.  You'd think it'd at least be mentioned by local news, shit like this usually gets some attention, especially when stacks of fines are piling up like that and you're dealing with a piece of work like Muller.  Nada, Patterico and his readers found nothing thus far, they are the first to cover it far as I can tell.  So I wanna know, why hasn't this been reported on...why is it that only now has anyone heard this, or damn near anything about Coons and his time as County Exec?

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Just a reminder, Chuck Adkins is still a scumbag

...and Stace McCain's a good guy.  Some of you guys remember this shitheel Adkins, he's been trying to pick a fight with the Moron-in-Chief and some of the newer right-o-sphere figures. 

McCain, being typically generous with linking people who link him (which I think is a highly admirable quality of his, we all know what it's like to start out in this blogging thing), was pretty generous in linking Adkins and included him in his blogroll, as Adkins was linking McCain.  Adkins, being Adkins, couldn't pretend he was sane forever, and started getting more insane, vicious, conspiratorial, and also more open about his anti-Semitism and racist views.  Understand, Adkins has no coherent belief system, he lacks the intellectual capacity to create one for himself, he's mostly just a crazy fuck who gloms onto whatever political ideology that'll have him, whether through acceptance of him or ignorance of what he is.

I'd emailed Stace a few times, and I think maybe noted once on Twitter that Adkins was not a guy he wanted to be affiliated with, but never heard or saw anything from McCain.  After about three or four tries contacting Stace, I decided, okay fuck it, I'm getting blown off, and it kinda sat in the back of my mind and would sorta grate on me now and then.  Between that and Chuck beginning his perennial self-destruct cycle again, I kinda said to myself, "Is Stace still linking this twat?"  Looked, and sure enough, and I thought, nah, now's the perfect time to push Adkins out of McCain's circle and take away some of Adkins' traffic. 

I had no interest in doing harm to McCain, only in denying Adkins traffic and legitimacy being linked by mainstream sites like Stace's. I got to know Mike Hendrix over at Cold Fury during his fight with Adkins (not so much a fight as Adkins talking shit and then getting rhetorically curbstomped, really), so I've kinda tried to warn people about Chuck as I see them interact with him, especially if he's trying to snooker them into promoting him or giving him money.

And me being me, if I feel I need to get your attention, and I've tried to get your attention and feel I'm being ignored...I'll get your attention, even if it requires throwing a few grenades (rhetorically speaking, though I can be pretty harsh when dealing with idjit GOP officials), so I called out Stace on Twitter.  Which in retrospect, I did in a very sloppy, hasty manner and shouldn't have done it that way, which is not typically my style, and I should have probably tried to contact Stace through email or private message again first, so that I do apologize for, both to Stace, Stace's readers and my own. 

McCain did then quickly private message me on Twitter, gave me his phone number to call him, which was a gracious thing of him to do, I was kinda caught off guard by it, actually.  We as bloggers can be a bit paranoid (me doubly so, though I'm starting to mellow a bit), hell, Allah's half of the biggest blog on the right side and still uses a pseudonym, having someone send their number out like that is in my experience unusual.

Talking to Stace McCain?  Well, you know how Southerners think that us damnyankees think that they're all slow, especially when speaking?  Yeah, well,

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Yes, The Contrast Is Telling

This article describing the difference between how leftists and conservatives view the voters.

This is yet another confirmation that the right and left look at America – and Americans – quite differently. The leftists view their countrymen as in dire need of supervision — by elites like them, of course. Americans are not competent to make decisions on their own, and left to their own devices,  will run amok. Wall Streeters are greedy, New Yorkers are xenophobes, and the rest of us are Bible- and gun-huggers. And here we go again — acting out and acting up. Obama, the poor dear, just can’t talk sense to us.

When things go wrong for the left, it blames the people; when things go wrong for the right, it blames the governing elites. It is not in the nature of conservatives to demean and attack fellow citizens. To the contrary, conservatives’ vision is grounded in the belief that Americans are competent, decent, and hardworking, and it is the heavy hand of government that threatens to squelch American virtues.

Yes, and that is why I fucking hate the left. Fuck them for thinking they know better when every fucking program they start only makes things worse for the people they purport to help. Fuck them for telling us we are the bad guys for trying to stop their destruction of this country. And fuck them so hard that the earth's rotation gets knocked out of whack as a result for ignoring that the American people, not a buck of fistfuckingly fistfucked fuckwobblers are the ones who make things work.

And that is why the left hates us. They hate us because we refuse to give in to them and their ways. They hate us because they know, deep down, that their ways have failed and will fail again, and we are the only ones in the way of that disaster befalling us. They hate us because we put our faith in the Constitution, not the cult of personality that is the state. And they hate us because we are unwilling to be led like sheep and drones.

Well, jigglefuck them like a whore who thinks she is being charged an overdraft fee. I will not stand idly by and let the future be one giant shitpile topped with fuckspray. I will not allow my daughter to grow up in a day worse than today. And I will not allow the Last Great Hope for Man become a fucking weakened fuckvictim to the rest of the world because we did it to ourselves.

Take heart, though. Take heart, because the hate the left heaps upon the electorate reveals their fear. It reveals them to be afraid of what will happen to them this November for their disregard for us. And it reveals that they fear us and what our votes will do to them when we send them to the goatseheap of electoral history for their insults and arrogance.

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Shiver Me Timbers, It's Talk Like A Pirate Day!

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The Million Hipster March

What do you want to bet that when a few hundred Trustafarian assholes show up for this that it gets much more MFM coverage than Glenn Beck's rally did?

Also, "overwhelmingly white"?  We'll see.

Update: I'm sure they'll be looking out for racist and/or inflammatory signs at their rallies.  Because, you know, neither of them would want that sort of thing showing up at their events.

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Are you not stimulated?

In a statement, President Barack Obama called 2009 a tough year for working families but said it could have been worse.

"Because of the Recovery Act and many other programs providing tax relief and income support to a majority of working families — and especially those most in need — millions of Americans were kept out of poverty last year," Obama said.

Click here to find out the context behind that quote, and once you've got it, file it away in the "If Bush Had Said It" archives. Yeah.

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I am pretty much sick of Pat Buchanan

Folks on this blog and elsewhere disagreed pretty strongly about the Delaware Senate primary. Good folks. People who are my [pretend internet] friends. But there's a line. And Pat Buchanan has taken a giant crap on that line.

First, he (fairly) criticized Mike Castle's record while managing to turn a blind eye to any deficiencies of O'Donnell's that might have fueled the "hysteria and nastiness" from Rove, et al. (How terribly incomplete and unoriginal.)

Buchanan then launched into his own hysterical, nasty, and paranoid drivel about the Neocons lying us into Iraq. Behold, the inane tripe of Patrick J. Buchanan:

O’Donnell’s conservative convictions and Castle’s social liberalism mean nothing to them.
They are about power and all that goes with it.

And that raises a question too long put off.

What is the Republican establishment going to do, what are the neoconservatives going to do, if returned to power?

Are not these the same people who assisted George W. Bush in stampeding the nation into an unnecessary war that got 4,400 Americans killed to strip Saddam Hussein of weapons he did not have?

Are these not the same people who misled or deceived us about Iraq’s role in 9/11?

[***snip***]

Are not the National Review and Weekly Standard scribblers and their neocon comrades of the mainstream media not now drumming up another war for Americans to fight, against Iran?

Really, Pat? You're going to carry water for Ye Olde Media and George Soros, with this bullshit about lying us into war? Do you really think so little of Dubya and crew that they would send our men and women into certain death for no apparent reason?  Do you really think so little of Colin Powell, who to this day maintains that the evidence against Iraq, however tragically flawed, was compelling and not fabricated?

And that's really the problem with the whole "neocon" analysis. There's no real motivation for the Iraq war aside from weapons and terrorism ties.  And no, nobody said anything about 9/11 and Iraq.  (There were, however, well-documented ties to Al Qaeda -- just not 9/11 specifically, as countless news interviewers forced just about every administration official to say on the record.)

But since we're casting aspersions here, I suppose I should point out that when certain people say "neocon", they mean "Jew".  Those dirty Jews and their Jew wars. Just can't trust 'em.

Why is it that certain people take this man seriously when his bio blurbs read like this?:

Patrick Buchanan is the author, most recently, of Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War,’ now available in paperback.

Oh yeah. Pat thought WWII was unnecessary. I think that says quite a bit right there.  (Perhaps the neocons traveled back in time somehow...)

So, Pat - tell me if I'm getting this right -- the Jew neocons are upset that Chrstine O'Donnell won because it might interrupt their Jew plans to bomb Iran's totally peaceful nuclear program?  Is that it?

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Please oh please oh please be true

I'll admit, I'm a bit skeptical about how accurate this is, considering it says all the things I want to hear, but if this is wishcasting, baby, I'm wishing on a star.

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A ReButtal.

I admit, it's my fault for reading the blog, and not even the blog, but comments.
Now, I hate to get in a fight with the blog's namesake but....

So according to this comment, he thinks this:

is a  good thing.

My rebuttal below the fold.
more...

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Slatecard is back!

You can build a list of conservative candidates you like, or utilize Slatecard to donate to said candidates.  Nice way to go over the heads of the GOP leadership.

Thanks to John Hawkins for sending that.

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Blogrolling script pulled

Some of you have received warnings about malware due to a bad script seeded into Blogrolling.  Blogrolling script has been removed and will stay removed till blogrolling gets their shit in order.  Saw Patterico going on about Blogrolling's malware issue on Twitter, so I know we're not the only ones.

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I sure hope there's more to this than what's being reported

Maybe the objecting parents were being asses - er, booties - at the meeting and that's why their daughter was kicked off the squad.  Because I'd sure hate to think that the other parents were all about having their 6-year-old daughters call attention to body parts that shouldn't be having attention called to.

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Baby it's cold outside

Saw this via the Puppy Blender.
Sunspot activity isn't really getting better. It's more active than last year, but still a minimum.
According to the article, the minimum has been for 26 months, normal ones are about 16 months.
Some scientists are measuring magnetic activity in the sunspots. That's been going down steadily.
Now, they're predicting that by 2016 there wouldn't be enough magnetism to sustain sunspots. That seems almost like reverse-global warmmongers. Looking at a trend and assuming it'll continue that way and then WE ALL DIE!!!!!!, except this time from the coming ice age, not from bursting into flames.
At least they note that there's no proof the trend will continue in a straight line graph, but...
There is precedent for the Sun shutting down, the "Little Ice Age" a few hundred years ago, and, of course, the Earth's climate has gone up and down for as long as there's been an Earth.
I have to admit, I'm rooting for the global warmmongers because I really hate the cold, I just prefer my science to have a basis in fact and not endlessly subject to "correction" when you get caught. 

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Life imitates art.

The set-up.


The punch-line.

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Some facts and statistics about Delaware

Since we've all been at each others' throats about the GOP primary there, I thought it would be interesting to learn a little about the state and the people who live there, so:

Um...

Well, there's...

I guess there was that one guy from Delaware, who's famous for...

The most popular vacation destination in Delaware is, uhhh...

Where Pennsylvania gave us the Philly cheesesteak and Illinois has Chicago deep-dish pizza, Delaware's culinary heritage is notable for...

The biggest professional sports team there is...

Yeah.

Honestly, what does anyone even know about Delaware? I mean, nobody in my family has ever been there. I can't recall any of my friends or even casual acquaintances mentioning that they had ever set foot in the state. I don't know that I've ever seen images of the place on TV or in any form of print media (I would challenge you to identify the skyline or layout of any Delaware city or town, but it would likely be a fruitless endeavor). And I can honestly say that I've never met anybody who had actually ever lived there.

Hell, on the 2008 campaign trail, Joe Biden—who supposedly represented Delaware in the United States Senate for years and years—couldn't stop talking about how he was actually from Scranton, which is in another state entirely.

My conclusion? The most interesting thing about Delaware is that it does not really exist.

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*sigh*

With all the pure FAIL* in Delaware, I am taking solace in this...

*In my opinion.

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