Takin' a Boxer here boss ...

Boxer: Hackers should face criminal probe over 'Climategate'

Congressional Democrats rabid dogs live in another universe.  Dick Morris may be on to something.

Spoiled Tools

Spoiled tools

PeTA Terrorism

PeTA a Terrorist Group? On page 4, the USDA lists PETA under the section labeled “Terrorist Threat,” listing it alongside the notorious domestic terrorist groups Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. (The USDA removed the form from its website yesterday after we started spreading the word. But you can find a PDF copy preserved here.) ”

I've put my Pastor Niemöller hat on for this one.  On the one hand, I'm leery when gummint, most especially this gummint, starts putting people on lists.  On the other, PeTA is not just a collection of misguided pinheads who like rats, they're violent True Believers for whom this a a religion.  Unless you don't think throwing blood on women wearing fur, or breaking into laboratories & destroying property constitutes violence. PeTA members are as big a canker blossom as this nation has on its backside.  Founder Ingrid Newkirk's DNA [“Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”] runs through offshoot Animal Liberation Front, "which have claimed responsibility for hundreds of crimes and acts of terrorism, including arson, bombings, vandalism and harassment, causing more than $100 million in damage." Bottom line ... screw 'em; I'm not now, nor ever will be a member.  Snort.

Barn Army Montage

It's being kept alive despite media silence

ACORN- The Movie

Rainy Day Bat

Del Femina

Apples and Scotch in the Shower

This is what I was thinking about  in the shower this morning (unlike Raymond, I use my shower time for serious reflection).  Scotch and apple juice.  Yesterday, when I went to the Giant, I again picked up a bottle of "Simply Apple."  It cost $3.99.  This morning while I poured some I thought , WTF?  I can buy a gallon of the store brand for the same price, and it tastes just as good (I chug cold liquids, so taste is secondary). Why did I buy this again? There, on the counter, was the top from the last bottle.  I saved it.  I saved it!  Because, I thought at the time, to replace other bottle caps with it.  Why?  Because it's so damned ergonomically pleasing to open.  You don't twist it with a thumb and two girly fingers. You wrap your hand around its girthful elegance and undo. That led me to the Scotch. In his book "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor," Jerry Del Femina recounted how Chivas Regal became THE prestige Scotch whiskey in the U.S..  Chivas had been priced to compete with the Johnny Walker brand, but was not selling.  A new ad agency did two things.  They commissioned the design of a distinctive new bottle.  They doubled the price. It became the the second best selling brand almost overnight, largely because of that bottle design, and snob appeal.  While this isn't a direct corollary to my apple juice, it doesn't have to be in my shower. ASIDE I:  I am not a big Scotch drinker, but several of my friends are.  My BIL was, I suspected, a snob drinker.  I took an empty Chivas Bottle, and filled it with whatever was cheapest at the liquor store.  When he'd came over I asked,  "soda with your Scotch?"  He  looks at the bottle and feigns, "are you kidding me? Adulterate Chivas?  I'll have mine neat."  He takes a sip, and with eyes closed  goes, "Ahhhh - now that's Scotch."   ASIDE 2:  I notice that the Wikipedia entry for Del Femina states: “ His 1971 book From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor was a best-seller. The title refers to a tongue-in cheek slogan proposed for the client Panasonic during a brainstorming session. ” The story is much more delicious than that.  On his first morning at a new agency he was told he had a meeting with Panasonic in two hours, and needed something fast.   Not knowing a thing about Panasonic, other than they were a Japanese company selling televisions, he went to the art department and came up with something like this .  An hour later he unveiled the copy to  less than enthusiastic Panasonic executives.   But Del Femina became an icon in the business as the story was told, and retold over Madison Ave luncheon Martinis.  I loved that book, and it did have an affect on how I approached marketing.

Afterall, there has to be some joy during Christmas

LIBS in TOYLAND

Good stuff on Obama

In Passing

I find stuff if you didn't know, now you do.

Now and then “ Lord Zero's Afghanistan speech alalyzed lie by lie  In 4608 words, he did not once mention the word “victory” and the closest he came to using the word “win” was those three letters appearing in the word “withdrawing.” A Defense of the Incandescent Light Bulb Specifically, Mr. Brandston accuses “energy zealots” of using faulty science to determine the efficiency of light bulbs, and he says that simplistic lumens-per-watt comparisons obscure questions of how well different bulbs do what they’re supposed to do: light up a room. Can the Republicans take the Senate in 2010? “I am making a prediction right now that the Republican Party will take both houses of Congress” — Dick Morris   When you've lost Jon Stewart.. ...you have a real problem... Deacon Blues    I wonder what kind of golf club Tiger Woods' wife used to wop him upside the punkin? Whatever it was I can see a new add campaighn. "The only club to beat Tiger Woods ". Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic Der Spiegal critiques Obama's speech.  They were cruel. "Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. -- Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond "enthusiastically" to the speech. But it didn't help: The soldiers' reception was cool. What Do the Dalai Lama and the F-22 Have in Common? Answer: Obama won't pose for a picture with either of them: (Quote: Weekly Standard) ”

Doc Swap

Let's make a deal

El Jefe

The Ghost of LBJ

The "Karzai 12" rules

Filed under "Democrats and war," & "Impeach Obama"

I missed this entirely, and learned about by chance after turning on the car radio while Sean Hannity disclosed it.  The "it" being handcuffs American soldiers in Afghanistan will wear from now on. The WaTimes (Nov 16) compiled an informal list (7) of the new rules from interviews with U.S. forces. Among them: • No night or surprise searches. • Villagers have to be warned prior to searches. • ANA or ANP must accompany U.S. units on searches. • U.S. soldiers may not fire at the enemy unless the enemy is preparing to fire first. • U.S. forces cannot engage the enemy if civilians are present. • Only women can search women. • Troops can fire at an insurgent if they catch him placing an IED but not if insurgents are walking away from an area where explosives have been laid. These rules are nominally by order of Gen. McChrystal: In his Aug. 30 assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, which was leaked to the press, Gen. McChrystal said that the legitimacy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had been "severely damaged … in the eyes of the Afghan people" because of "an over-reliance on firepower and force protection." To succeed, he wrote, "ISAF will have to change its operating culture to pursue a counterinsurgency approach that puts the Afghan people first." This entails "accepting some risk in the short term [but] will ultimately save lives in the long term." If that doesn't sound like the voice of LBJ/ Robert S. McNamara, nothing does.  The fact that the military haven't issued the list in written form, it seems to me, means they know as much. ”

Kicken' em while they down here boss

MORE

“ Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going. In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes. He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over ­billions of years. If you have to argue your science by using fraud, your science is not valid. Professor Pilmer Prof Plimer - author of Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science ...  [CLIMATE CHANGE 'FRAUD' ] ”  Can you tell I'm really torqued over this?

Gun Liars

blood dancing clogging the intertubes

The prollem with never being challenged  by an obedient press is that, if it happens, you don't have the skill to do anything but call Fox News "an arm of the Republican Party."   Similarly, the prollem with getting away with "making science," is you no longer have appreciation for truth, let alone the moral character to stab at it.  It's pervasive, and on the subject of gun rights,  the rule.  The Freeholder wields  the scalpel: There is much in the typing (sorry, but I can't bring myself to call it "writing"), but the number of cherry-picked facts and outright lies (sorry, but I can't bring myself to call them "inaccuracies") is astounding. As many as there is, this one is my favorite: But Time magazine tells us: Each month American Rifleman, the journal of the National Rifle Association, features about a dozen such accounts of armed citizens defending themselves against criminals. Based on newspaper clippings submitted by N.R.A. members, the stories dramatically show how a gun can sometimes prevent a crime and perhaps even save a victim's life. The only trouble is that is from Time, August, 1989 The NRA's American Rifleman Magazine doesn't feature that news anymore, there isn't any listing of guns saving anyone's life on their website, just a lot of ads for weapons and accessories. Now, I just happen to have, here on the desk, the December 2009 issue of American Rifleman [continued good stuff] ” via  my mam Tam

Tiger Woods, The Movie

Oh my, it's come to this, ROR?

Where Chinese Commiemofos get it right? Dan from Madison

GIGO

The Great and Powerful Climate Oz Global warming fearmongers say restaurants must stop serving ice water.

“ Never mind, too, that the University of East Anglia has admitted to discarding much of the raw temperature data on which its heavily massaged "proofs" of global warming are based. Mr. Pachauri has good reason to want to gloss over inconvenient facts. The man who joined Al Gore in sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is too busy calling for an end to the Western lifestyle. "Today we have reached the point where consumption and people's desire to consume has grown out of proportion," he tells The Observer, a British newspaper. In the near future, he explains, car use will have to be "curbed," hotels and restaurants will stop serving ice water, guests will have their energy use monitored. Heavy taxes will also have to discourage people from flying and force them to take the train. Last year, he called for sharp cutbacks in meat consumption because of the greenhouse emissions livestock are responsible for. [full] ”  Last night I paused  for a moment on the National Geographic channel, at a point where all the lights were going out in Europe.  For good.  But it is still daylight in the United States says the voice.  The scene is apocalyptic NYC.  No shit, I was expecting Godzilla to make an appearance.  The voice  says "even now, these idling cars throw 17 tons of carbon into an already clogged ..." [Click] I didn't catch the title of this crap film, but take your pick.  And get ready for yet another cable onslaught of Algore's, now hysterically funny titled fakeudrama, An Inconvenient Truth.  It's what they do.   The problem is, the mush-minded watch this tripe, and it becomes their reality. The solution?  That's right.  We nuke Nat Geo too.  Fair warning.

Gun reliquaries

rel·i·quar·y    (rěl'ĭ-kwěr'ē)   n.   pl. rel·i·quar·ies A receptacle, such as a coffer or shrine, for keeping or displaying sacred relics.

I can understand a "Trigger Finger of Santa da Guerra"  reliquary, but  this?

The Vibrator of Santa Guerro

Thought Bubble

If I was a political party, I'd sue any state that allowed people not a registered member to vote in primaries that select party candidates.

Our Tyrants

Gibbs: Despite falsified science, 'climate change is happening'

My first instinct, and I hope yours, when running into a bully like this Obama mouthpiece, is to punch him in the nose.  The facts may not support our case, but we're still right damn your lying eyes.   Which explains my growning antipathy for the anything Democrat Party. I was reminded of this, went looking for it, and found it.  It could have been penned today.  “ The liberal media apologists at Columbia Journalism Review took time from their tofu and watercress sandwiches and decaf soy lattes to look down their noses at the blogosphere for exposing Memogate. Corey Pein’s article, “Blog-gate,” states that CBS “screwed up badly in Memogate — but so did those who covered the affair.” For all of Pein’s indignation, little is aimed at Dan Rather and The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. The article is quite the contrary, as if this whole situation is the fault of the blogosphere, not the idiots at the Tiffany Network who didn’t do their homework. Right off the bat, it is obvious what tone Pein is going to take: ” It's the "formula." Okay Rodge, point made, now exit gracefully. [Last five paragraphs deleted]  What's the use of taking appropritae action against these tyrants?  It never works, and those involved invariably lose everything. Sigh

Some ugly people and Sarah Palin

In Passing ...

I found poseurs

Come right in Mr. poseur boy “ Famous warmer backtracks - Newt 's statement on Climategate CYA money shot "I have always warned against the dangers of  ... " The Palin brand Interesting prescription for returning GOP to power: Act like Sarah Palin.  Act?  Why not get people who are? Sarah Palin's Fake Bus Tour  This year's "OMFG - GOP buys Palin a dress" screech College Democrats Implicated in Election-related Bribery "darling Dems ... if you bring a friend from 4th ward they are more then a friend, they're 5 bucks!" Joe the Plumber: A Campaign Issue Again Ohio's corrupt Democrat regime can't let go Lyndon Baines Obama takes Afghan reins President Johnson's Vietnam strategy rejected decisive military action in favor of a policy of gradual escalation that conveniently allowed more funding for his Great Society programs at home ... Dick Cheney = Ted Bundy The Rosetta Stone tool for identifying great Americans - Daily KOS - affirms Cheney's placement MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Calls West Point the ‘Enemy Camp’ Which says more about the MSNBC All-Stars than the military academy. ”