And Now, A Message From The Next Governor of Tennessee

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Handy link to have around

When you run into a leftist window licker who claims Porkulus actually made a positive impact on the economy, it sure as hell didn't.

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Awwwww....

...OFA wants you to bake a cake for Barry's B-day!

You know, after eight years of hearing from the likes of Gleen Gouldwald & Co. that we were all a bunch of "Bush cultists," this kind of crap is, well, not very surprising at all.

OFA volunteers are gathering for events on the President’s birthday this Wednesday, where they’ll celebrate by reaching out to new volunteers.

Will they be singing (literally) his praises during those parties?

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Just a thought...

When libs blame all of Obama's failure's on Bush, all they are saying is "The President I voted for and love is completely ineffectual and inconsequential." I mean, if you can't ascribe any responsibility to a President, you can't ascribe success to him either, right?  Right?

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One sentence tells the whole story

This poor schmuck was born with three strikes against him.

One woman, who is an aunt to both the boy's unmarried parents, who are cousins, said his parents don't get along.

On a purely theoretical level (and assuming this isn't a case of an adult blaming an innocent kid for something he didn't do), I'm wondering what our three readers' opinion is on whether this boy could be rehabilitated.  And if he can't be rehabilitated, what should be done?

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Today, I Made My Voice Heard

After all of these long months, today was the day for my voice to be heard. And I made it heard. I voted yes for Prop C in Missouri. And today, I told the supporters of Obamacare to fuck off with the turgid fucktool from the fucklion of freedom. I told the O-bots that they can take their "reform" and fuck themselves backwards with it. And I told my family that I will do my damnedest within the electoral and legal process to fend off the fuckquacks who want to ruin our future.

This is merely the first step, but it was the first time I could exercise my freedom of the franchise to tell everybody what I really want to fucking happen. And I feel better for it. Now, I really can say I told the left to fucking get fucked in the fuckflames of fury.

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Even Rick Moran sees it...

The social contract between government and governed is collapsing in the US.

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How About That Obamacare?

Yeah, it's looking worse and worse every day.

Oh, and fuck everybody who supported it. Fuck them all with the fuckzeppelin of fucking fuckery.

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Time To Go All ACORN On The Left

And stuff their ballot box.

Spencer Ackerman is looking to find a new name for operations in Afghanistan. Why not let him know that his assholia will not go unnoticed.

Vote for Operation Racist Smear and force that fucking fuckloser to write that.

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Fantasy Foozball

With great joy I remind you that football season rapidly approaches and with that the opportunity for some fantasy action!  I'll be the first to admit that the format of last year's campaign was flawed so we'll be trying some different stuff this year.

1st, we'll have a standard 12-person fantasy league and if that fills up, try a second. 

2nd, I'm going to set up a pick'em league so we can have as many morons as want to participate playing that.  Hopefully I'll have them both set up within the next couple of weeks. 

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Resources

This comes from Excitable Andi's place (no link, natch) as Sunday's "Face Of The Day," which features the top of some guy's head (and very little of his actual face):

Members of the soccer team from Sacramento, California, cut their hair into mohawks, a tradition started last year, during the Street Soccer USA Cup July 30, 2010 in downtown Washington, DC. Twenty two teams made up of 200 homeless men and women players will compete for three days in the nation's capital for the chance to represent the Untied States in the 56-nation Homeless World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September.

While I'm sure this whole thing is meant to Raise Awarenessâ„¢ about homelessness, am I the only one who thinks that the money spent flying the homeless soccer teams around (and figuring out how the hell to get them passports) might be better spent by finding them, you know, homes?

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My God, it's so obvious now!

That's it! I've solved it!  Clearly the plastic turkey shouted the Bad Words at Rep. Lewis!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go get that $100k from Breitbart.

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Facebook Friends

I've apparently made friends with enough cool bloggers on Facebook to be suggested some pretty intimidating conservative personalities.  Victor David Hanson?

I think I'd be sad for him if he became my Facebook friend.  Sorta like I'd be against any club that would have me as a member.

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Tolerance. The actual kind.

Approximately 10 years ago, I met my BFF online.  We met through some communities dedicated to music fandoms, tv fandoms and writing.  She was an exceptional writer and I was, frankly, intimidated by that.  We could never remember how it was that we started talking but I believe someone sent her to me when she had some question about US legal issues for a story she was writing.  We began IM'ing back and forth and thus was the deepest friendship of my life ever born.

If you wrote down our beliefs and backgrounds on paper, you would assume we would loathe one another.  She was, more or less, a Communist.  I am, more or less, a libertarian.  She cared far more about the group than the individual.  I place individuals above all else.  She was First Nations, specifically Mohawk.  It may not be possible to be whiter than I am.  She was a social worker.  I have a very jaundiced view of social work.  She was on the side of Palestine (though very anti-Hamas).  I am nigh to a Zionist.  She advocated for gay marriage.  I do not believe that the state has any role in marriage at all.

We should have hated each other.  To say we didn't is an understatement of epic proportions.  Our lives were completely entwined.  As numerous of our mutual friends stated, if you thought of one of us, you thought of the other.  She was the family that I chose. 

It wasn't a matter of being friends despite our differences.  We were friends because of them.  The reason that our manifold political differences didn't matter is because we understood and respected the other's position.  She was a collectivist due to her culture and tradition and due to her concern for the less fortunate.  She understood that I was an individualist due to my religious upbringing and my intellectual interests as well as my own personality and my concern for freedom.  We each thought the other was wrong.  Neither of us thought the other was evil.  Our basic response to differences was "I support you in all your horrific wrongness".  We would argue and fight and then go and watch Human Target and flail at each other about the awesome that is Guerrero. 

She made me defend what I believe and think about the implications of my positions.  I did the same for her.  It helped that she did not believe in the perfectability of mankind.  It also helped that both of us weren't as far to the extremes as may first appear.  Both of us were quite practical about real world implications of our positions.  That tended to moderate some of the more extreme positions.

She also actually meant what she believed.  She knew there was no unicorn that would bring her utopia.  She was ticked at Harper's tax cuts because she was willing to pay for the health care benefits that she desired.  I didn't agree, but I did respect that position.  She was very realistic about how people would take advantage of a social safety net.  In short, she was a grown up and she made me be one too. 

When I hear people going on and on and on about how those on the Right and those on the Left cannot possibly be friends I want to scream. She and I were proof positive that this was not the case.  As I said, we each thought that the other was completely wrong about things.  We agreed to disagree about many things and there were issues we agreed to never, ever discuss.  That was the key.  Neither of us thought we had the moral high ground over the other.  Both of us knew that our respective positions had flaws.  We didn't treat politics as religion.  We didn't think that either of us had access to divine truth.  And, in the end, it was far, far more interesting to discuss movies and books and television and writing and hotassery of all kinds than to fight about issues on which we'd already made up our minds.

I've always been very smug that our friendship was the actual definition of tolerance.  Tolerance doesn't mean agreement.  It means rolling your eyes until they fall out of your head and then putting up with that person anyway.  That's what we did.  She called me a jackbooted Nazi and I called her pinko Commie scum and then we'd laugh and get back to the important business of watching movies where everything blows up. 

She made me an immeasurably better person.  I am going to miss her until the end of time. 




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New Sunday Feature: Connections

A documentary series by historian James Burke, "Connections" attempted to explain how various historical events and personalities led to discoveries that built off each other to bring about the modern world. Since the series originally ran in 1978 some of the material is a little dated but it is still one of the most interesting programs to have been aired on TV in my opinion. Fortunately James Burke has placed the entire series on YouTube (as well as the two follow on series).

Episode One: "The Trigger Effect" details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965. Agricultural technology is traced to its origins in ancient Egypt and the invention of the plow. The segment ends in Kuwait where, because of oil, society leapt from traditional patterns to advanced technology in a period of only about 30 years.

I am only embedding the first portion of each episode the entire playlist for the episode is here.

The complete series is available from Amazon

(Disclosure: The link goes to my Amazon Associates account)

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Best wishes

To Chelsea Clinton and whoever her new husband is. That guy.

Mazel tov!

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well it'll make me happy and that's the important thing

No, you cannot haz bipartisanship.

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Random thoughts on the Chevy Volt

As I'm reading things about the $40K rolling abortions, I can't imagine it's gonna do well with consumers, even hippies, because hippies already own Priuses, Chevys are American anyway, so they have no appeal to liberals to begin with.  I see one of two things coming down the pike, either regulatory schemes come down to try and force people to buy them, more gov't rebates, tax breaks and incentives to buy them, or this rolling hunk of crap is gonna become the car of government institutions.  My gut tells me that we're gonna see a loooooot of Chevy Volts sitting in municipal and state parking lots. 

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Dear Oliver Stone

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.



Fuck you with the combined fuckrage of the souls of the millions Hitler killed by Hitler for even trying to defend a fucking beast such as that. Fuck you for defending a man who killed millions for no good reason other than how they lived their lives. Fuck you for being such an arrogant goatsegrabbing fuckwart. And fuck you for making a long list of shitty, preachy movies that I even had to waste time and energy to ignore.

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A Message To African American Farmers From Obama's Bus

You make a nice speedbump.

In 1997, 400 African American farmers sued the USDA, alleging discrimination in subsidy policy, and a range of other areas over the preceding 15 years. In the resulting court case, Pigford v. Glickman, the USDA agreed to pay $50,000 to each farmer. By then, the suit had become a class action, and USDA expected to have to pay roughly 2,000 farmers. 22,505 joined the suit.

Two years later, the USDA agreed to pay 16,000 of those farmers the agreed-upon $50,000 in compensation - just over $1 billion in total. But according to the USDA, a full 70,000 additional farmers claimed that they had submitted petitions for damages, but that those petitions were received late due to bureaucratic incompetence or poor legal representation.

The matter remained unresolved until 2008, when Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Barack Obama, D-Ill., teamed up to earmark $1.25 billion in that years farm bill to pay the outstanding claims.

But the 70,000 farmers who say they were wrongly denied damages plus the 16,000 who received $50,000 from the federal government exceeds the total 26,785 African American farmers present in the United States in 1999, and the 39,697 present today.

Then this week, seemingly out of the blue, the administration announced that it does not have the funds to pay out that $1.25 billion. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are outraged, claiming that "if the administration can find $1.5 billion within its administrative funds to pay mostly white farmers in Arkansas and other states, it should be able to pay black farmers who suffered discrimination."

Seriously, folks. Did you really expect Teh Won to give a damn about you once you were elected? If so, then I have a bridge to sell you.

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