More Bots

Automated News Comes To Sports Coverage Via StatSheet

“ Every story on each site was written by a robot, or to put it more precisely, by StatSheet’s content algorithms. “The posts are completely auto-generated,” says founder Robbie Allen. “The only human involvement is with creating the algorithms that generate the posts.” Mr. Allen got the idea while watching CBS Evening News.

Ali Google

Professor Van Helsing's Alternate Explanations for Google's Veterans Day Logo

More Diversity

ASSHAT ALERT

Breaking News Alert Clyburn to Serve as Assistant Dear Leader 2 minutes ago Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will designate Majority Whip James Clyburn as Assistant Dear Leader in the 112th Congress, according to a letter she sent to Members on Saturday. Full Story (prescription required) Because it “honors the diversity and fosters the unity” of House Democrats

ROKU

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Love-Caution Ang Lee

Lust, Caution

I began watching Lust Caution and paused it to watch the Terps-Virginia game.  Five minutes later I ditched the game and finished to movie.  That means 5 Stars right there.  The bad guys (guy, actually) here are Chinese collaboratists - e.g. Vichy govt in France; Moveon.org in the U.S. -  during Japan's occupation.  Has everything.  The violence is violent, the sex is steamy, the colors colorful and the story line cohesive.  Loved it. PS - ignore the language warning unless you speak Cantonese - English subtitled.

PC GINGER BREAD PERSON

Someone must pay!

“ Council bureaucrats have stripped gingerbread men of their gender and renamed them gingerbread ‘persons’ on menus for 400 primary schools. ” Of course you know what I'm compelled to do, don't you?   That's right.  Rollover!

10% More GINGERBREAD!

Good as any reason

Bada-Bing

drummerick

Too serious to be funny

Road Show Lessons The world won't follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America.

“ Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week's G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can't think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals while getting pounded by other world leaders for failing U.S. policies and lagging growth. The root of this embarrassment is political and intellectual: Rather than leading the world from a position of strength, Mr. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner came to Seoul blaming the rest of the world for U.S. economic weakness. America's problem, in their view, is the export and exchange rate policies of the Germans, Chinese or Brazilians. And the U.S. solution is to have the Fed print enough money to devalue the dollar so America can grow by stealing demand from the rest of the world. -    Embarrassment in Seoul

Lesson 1: Never elect as president a man who will not reveal anything on his college transcripts Lesson 2: Never confirm a  known tax evader to Sec/Treas Lesson 3: The Liberal genetics/economics-and-war dysfunction thing

A case of the "Too Lates"

Invitation to Terrorists

Nama saya Barry Obama dan Saya lahir di New Mexico

N.M. Driver's Licenses a Global Attraction (Legal for Illegals) Friday, November 12, 2010 7:17:45 PM · · 17 replies The Albuquerque Journal ^ | November 12, 2010 | Astrid Galvan People from all over the country — make that the world — are traveling to New Mexico not just for its tourist attractions or green chile. They are also coming for driver's licenses. Police have arrested a growing number of suspected undocumented immigrants who have traveled from as far as China to fraudulently obtain New Mexico licenses. They are drawn by a 2003 law that makes New Mexico one of only three states (WA and UTAH) that does not require proof of citizenship or legal residency. Take Shu Sheng Lui, who told a State Police officer arresting her Wednesday that she had flown... The GOOD NEWS- Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez says she will not only attempt to repeal the law, but also work to revoke the licenses that were issued under the law. The BAD NEWS - The NM legislature is majority Democrat!

Power of the Male Boner

Bristol Stomps Tea party politicizing Dancing With the Stars?

I see on the horizon the specter of George Soros funded phone banks created to deal with this threat to Socialist hegemony “ Bristol Palin is one of the four finalists on "Dancing With the Stars," the No. 1 rated show in the country, a fact that has bedeviled some fans and critics. The 20-year-old daughter of the former governor of Alaska has consistently earned low scores from the show's on-camera judges, but those scores are combined, a la "American Idol," with the contestant's call-in vote, where Miss Palin is a juggernaut. The show's producers think tea party voters who back Sarah Palin have turned "Dancing With the Stars" into a referendum on the power of grass roots political muscle. Published November 11 2010 - Inside Politics

TOP TEN DOWNERS

Ten Reasons Why Conservatives Should Not Be Celebrating the Election Results

From The American Thinker, and Spot On “ 10) The aristocracy is still there in Washington.   9) The bureaucracy in Washington has never been more powerful.   8) The Federal Reserve still remains unchecked.   7) The spending obligations are still there, and the economy is still bad.   6) The unions still have control of the government.   5) The Republican Party hasn't become conservative yet.   4) They still are neither reading nor writing their own legislation.   3) It is still impossible to obey the law.   2) There is no animal quite as dangerous as a lame duck.   1) The socialists and Marxists still have your children.  TIP:Combine #5 and #10 for easier storage

That'll work

drummerick

Taliban Virus

Warning: Taliban Email Virus Spreading Rapidly Among Progressives

The virus caught Daily Kos by surprise and put it out of commission earlier today.

BFF

No argument here

President Obama: Nancy Pelosi has been an 'outstanding partner' Friday, November 12, 2010 7:49:32 PM · by ColdOne · 18 replies Politico44 ^ | 11/12/10 | SCOTT WONG President Barack Obama indicated Friday he didn’t believe Democrats needed new leaders in Congress, even after his party took what he has called a “shellacking” in the midterm elections. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to remain the top Democratic House leader even as some moderate Democrats urge her to step aside in the wake of the new Republican majority, “has been an outstanding partner for me,” Obama said at a news conference in Seoul.

John Cornyn - All Asshat, No Cattle

Roll Call News Alert Cornyn: Results Prove Electability Matters 14 minutes ago National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said Friday that his aim is to avoid GOP infighting in 2012 Senate primaries, but he held firm that he would continue to recruit conservative candidates he believes are the most “electable.” Full Story Do Texans have to wait 4 years before they can vote John Cornyn Out? Sadly, yes. Thought bubble from Friday, August 27, 2010

That thought referenced Cornyn sending NRSC lawyers to Alaska to help Murkowski after she lost the Republican primary.  Now he's got the f__king gall to - and don't think this is not what he's doing - to allude to Joe Millers possible defeat at Murkowski's hand after she decided to run a write-in campaign !&%  that was aided and abetted by the Cornyns Regulars. It is my sincere hope that every member of congress, Republicans and Democrats, are challenged by a Teaparty candidate in 2012. Most will not survive, and we'll be better off for it. "most electable" indeed.

The man in the bedroom closet

A likely Story

A Jewish woman says to her mother, "I'm divorcing Jeff! All he wants is sex, sex and more sex; my vagina is now the size of a 50 cent piece when it used to be about the size of a 5 cent piece." Her mother says, "You're married to a multi-millionaire businessman, you live in an 8 bedroom mansion, you drive a Ferrari, you get $2,000 a week allowance, you take 6 vacations a year, and you want to throw all that away, over 45 cents ?!?!?" Tom Mann

Deck the car with ....

Ticked-off Granny from KY

“ Hey Boss, We're traveling to GA for my grandfather's funeral and stopped at a rest area and saw this car - I knew you would love the photos - TFV My - our-  sincere condolences Teresa, and thank you so much  for sharing this great catch.  It's WHY WE WIN.

Ruh-Roh

The Ladies Man is Confused

Marc Miller's Catch

Sarah Leads the Charge

Nice Cover (and notice who's riding lead pony)

I just discovered that GOP*CHY has shut down, but Pookies Toon's (is this a franchise?)  is at  The Right Reasons.

Crippled Guy Rules

Attention Whiny Bastids Everywhere

OMG - Gummint was lying!

Secret Walmart Survey Shows Inflation Already Here

Ahem

Time to man-up there boss

The Problem

“ '(The) First Amendment is important,' Superintendent Edward Parraz said. 'We want the kids to respect it, understand it, and with that comes a responsiblity.' 'Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they'll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really want,' Parraz said. 'We want them to appreciate the cultures."

The Solution The solution is simple, if messy, and everybody out there knows it. cuzzin ricky

A fox named Obama

Ma - Where's the shotgun?

“ The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation. [Watchdog Planned for Online Privacy] ”

From the people who just put your health records on line; worried about privacy?  Sniff  around Lassie, what do you smell?  “ The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation.  The White House task force, set up three weeks ago, is led by Cameron Kerry, the brother of Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.)    Did you know that Mr. Medals had a brother?  Is he some Ruprecht-like  personality that emerges from Kerry when a good scam is on? Like Kerry the war hero? “ The initiatives would mark a turning point in Internet policy. Recent administrations typically steered away from Internet regulations out of concern for stifling innovation. Recent administrations not named Obama.  Of course this is a huge problem, but one that the private sector ought be allowed to deal with, especially since it's government that's behind the most egregious intrusions into our privacy.  If this was a movie, it would be at this point where John Wayne spits and says "That'll be the day."  Shooting begins shortly after.

Steeles Race Card

Reason #2 why Steele must go ..

“  ...  last week, in a radio interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Steele ratcheted up the rhetoric, appearing to agree with Sharpton that if he is not reelected as RNC chairman, it will be because the GOP is racist, making “the brother take the fall.” Sharpton said he couldn’t believe Republicans would even think of ditching Steele as RNC chair. “You’d be the first brother run out after doing a good job. It would be interesting to see them have a historic win, and the brother takes the fall. Usually the brother takes the fall when they lose,” Sharpton said [...] Reason #1:  Being no more incompetent than your incompetent predecessor is no  achievement., which leaves Steele with none.  Success props for the recent election gains go to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi for making people hate and fear Democrats, and to the Teaparty movement which produced the energy and provided the money that financed it. Doo-Dah.

Poop tomato seed

not making this up.

I thought this TUA post was a smackdown parody of the undigested seed lodged in American cultural poop named Jerry Springer.  It's not!  It's self parody.

It Mused me

The Muse Juice - if you haven't seen it yet ....

I unapologetically admit that I watched this 11 year-old movie for the first time last night, and it was just what I needed.

The Real Answer Is ..

Barn Army Commission Report

I'm experiencing postpartum  (election) depression following the birth of  Hope last week.  Which is to say, I'm not feeling all that much like blogging politics  But, and to continue the metaphor, a queef of such urgency has built that unless I release it my head explodes.  Embarrassment be damned. “ A draft proposal to be released Wednesday by the chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan commission on reducing the federal debt calls for deep cuts in domestic and military spending starting in 2012, and an overhaul of the tax code to raise revenue. Those changes and others would erase nearly $4 trillion from projected deficits through 2020, the proposal says. The plan would reduce Social Security benefits to most future retirees -- low-income people would get a higher benefit -- and it would subject higher levels of income to payroll taxes to ensure Social Security's solvency for at least the next 75 years. First, as cuzzin ricky suggested at our staff meeting last night, and I quote: "This will be the basis for the first steps towards converting Social Security into an entitlement program for the poor, funded by middle income (and above) Americans...who will realize less and less benefit." Second, as expected their working assumption as the way out of this government caused crisis is to essentially cut military spending and raise taxes. A government solution.  Not a word addresses a fundamental problem - America's slide from a manufacturing economy to a service economy.  We don't make stuff anymore; we serve it. Selling General Motors, a primary defense contractor, to the Chicoms is exactly what we do not do.  Instead, we dance with the partner what brought us.  We unleash the American worker! Hold in abeyance all environmental law, restrictions, and other impediment to commerce for at least 10 years. "Loser Pays" tort reform - stat Remove capital gains tax to free expansion capital - stat Vow to become self sufficient, with the ability to produce 100% of our military and defense equipment internally.  100% Drill Drill Drill - stat Build Build Build - stat *ahhhhhhh*

Happy Birthday USMC

235 Years of Excellence

Not at all calming (I should hope)

Red Meat of the Second Kind

Hodja in comments

RED MEAT CATHARSIS

Looking at meat calms men, say Canadian scientists   “I had to laugh when I saw this.  It is true.”- mary

Cooked red meat has 'calming effect on men' Researchers expected opposite to be true Traces calming effect back to earliest humans THE sight of cooked red meat has a calming effect on men, Canadian scientists claimed. Researchers at McGill University studied 82 men and found that the sight of meat appeared to make them significantly less aggressive, they said Monday. At the start of the research, Frank Kachanoff, the psychologist who led the study, expected humans to react aggressively to the sight of meat - but found the opposite to be true. He said the calming effect could be traced back to the earliest humans, because cooked meat reminded males of mealtimes. “Our ancestors would be calm as they would be surrounded by friends and family at mealtime,” said Dr Kachanoff. [...]

Systemic Democrat Voter Fraud

Illegals made Democrat governor in Connecticut? 'Sanctuary city' issued thousands of IDs accepted for voter registration

“ Republicans cried foul last week after the state's top election official – Democratic Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz – declared the Democratic candidate the winner despite the absence of an official vote count and a post-deadline tally from Bridgeport that overcame the Republican candidate's lead. Allegations include extended voting hours in Democratic-stronghold Bridgeport announced illegally through the reverse 911 system, unattended bags of ballots, ballots photocopied without supervision and union workers leaving replica ballots in polling booths with Democratic candidates checked off. both the mayors of New Haven and Hartford have declared their cities "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens. She pointed out that over the past three years, New Haven has issued ID cards to about 15,000 people, ostensibly to enable them to use public services such as the library. New Haven, Dean argued, has allowed people registering to vote to use the ID cards as proof of identification. Eric Holder sues Arizona for enforcing federal immigration law, but is silent about numerous so-called "sanctuary cities?"   Add his [documented] obstruction in the Philadelphia Black Panther intimidation case,  and myriad other outrages, and it's clear: he has to go.  As luck would have it, the New York Times here [He’s Impeachable, You Know], while in a frivolous snit,  inadvertently outlined the case  for removing Obama's consigliere .  Replace "Gonzales" with "Holder"  and see if you don't agree.

French Erotica & Popcorn

Three French Movies

Over the weekend NetFlix (via ROKU) served up suggestions from a category called "Erotic French Romance."   I do like foreign film, and especially those from France if it's not a comedy. I began with "Ma mère."          HFS!  [I digress here] I know that European film makers are quite a bit looser in their approach to sex than we.  For instance,  the acclaimed Italian epic 1900, directed by  Bernardo Bertolucci , that I borrowed from the library 15-20 years ago,  contained scenes where a grandfather (Burt Lancaster)  is masturbated by an adolescent girl.  Later, two boys have a jerk-off contest graphically depicted. So, when I tell you that I immediately went to Wikipedia after watching Ma mère, it wasn't because I didn't understand what I saw; it was to validate that I did see what I saw. And I had. The incestuous relationship betwixt mother and son is only part of it; this film is downright nasty! Notice where Netflix says 2.0 Our best guess for Rodger?   A tad high.  [Trailer] Next, I did Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs).  I will describe this as Sex, Lies, and Videotape meets Girls Gone Wild.  Again, Wikipedia has a better intro than Netflix. “ The film is about a director named François who embarks on a film project about female eroticism. He meets three struggling actresses who perform sexual acts in front of him. What Francois does not realise is that there is a lot more going on in the girls' heads than other parts and this leads to tragic consequences.[Trailer] François promises he won't ever touch them, so naturally they all want him to.  There are really no holes barred, ahem.  The sub plot is very French,  and very stupeede.  The only reason to watch this is for the sex, which is sometimes titillating. I give it a 2.0 Lastly, Sex Is Comedy “ Sex Is Comedy revolves around a director (Anne Parillaud) and her troubles filming an intimate sex scene between two actors who cannot tolerate each other.[Trailer] I actually enjoyed, and was fascinated by this biographical film -- outside of the nakedness, or anticipation of it. Of the three, I imagine women would like this one too, perhaps even more than men because it is a woman's movie. And a romance. I give it a 3.5. Finis

What could go wrong?

What could go wrong? Or, don't go to sleep on the wheel

First Orange Speaker

It figures Democrats judge man by the color of his skin!

The Executive Order

"Stroke of the pen, law of the land -- kinda cool"  Paul Begala

“ Teddy Roosevelt -- as obnoxious and authoritarian a personality as ever occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- issued more than 1,000 EOs, including one setting aside 16 million acres of public land just before Congress restricted his authority to do so, and another pushing a trendy "Simplified Spelling" scheme, wherein "kissed" would read "kist"; "enough," "enuf," etc. (Luckily, Congress beat back TR's attempt to assert presidential dominion over the English language.)

During the Clinton occupation I spent a lot of time trying to understand the Executive Order.  The idea that the president of this democratic republic of ours can legislate by fiat is just so .. so counterintuitively preposterous.  I mean, he's not a federal judge </snark>.  What I do remember from that research is that what one expert said over here was countermanded by that expert over there; sort of like dealing with the IRS.  A detail that stuck, for some reason, is Texas democrat Henry B. Gonzalez saying that the EO,  in the hands of an unscrupulous president, could represent a threat to the nation.  You owe it to yourself to read this article by Examiner columnist Gene Healy:  Congress should 'shellack' president's executive orders.   [Sample] “ After last Tuesday's "shellacking," it's a fair bet President Obama will find rule by decree kinda cool as well. A recent report from the American Prospect argues "President Obama's own executive power is a key to creating jobs at higher wages," and he should reshape federal contracting to promote unionization and the "living wage." Such ideas likely sound increasingly appealing to the embattled president. Even when his party controlled Congress, Obama relished the chance to proclaim "make it so!" such as summarily firing GM's CEO, handing Chrysler over to the United Auto Workers, and, without any legal authority, strong-arming BP into putting $20 billion in escrow. What Gonzalez was talking about.

Pricey Science

No Inflation Here Boss

Why is this necessary?

The cost of goods and services going through the roof even though there's no inflation

My lying eyes are at it again.  For two years now I've been expecting the cost of stuff I buy - like food - to start dropping, or at least to not increase.  That's what should happen when people lose their jobs wholesale, and those who are working have salaries frozen, if not cut back.  Which causes businesses that have been around forever to close.  And the survivors to  lower prices in order to stay alive.  Which means cutting back on overhead by buying cheaper, trimming staff, etc., etc.   Unless you were around for Jimmy Carter, you've never felt inflation; and you're not feeling it now.  We know that because government reports tell us there's no inflation.   Mr. Bernanke has maintained that inflation is not even a threat!  He's a smart guy.  Has to be.  Figured out how to print money faster than Zimbabwe with no ill effect. So why in hell is the price of cotton, sugar, orange juice and underpants going through the roof?  Our government wouldn't be sending out phony economic reports would they?   Of course they would.  It's part and parcel of  living in a nanny state, where bad news is controlled  because we the people are just so helpless when faced with harsh realities, don't you know? Cuzzin Ricky, my staff economist,  keeps sending me WASS economic reports that put the lie to every damn thing we are being told by this Obamunist gummint.  I don't read them anymore.  I don't have an answer.   La la la la la ... .

Dealing with liars

Why Taliban talks won't bring peace by Amir Taher

NY Post Editor: "Amir - great article, but no room for 720 words in the next edition." Amir Taheri:     "How about this 1000 word replacement?" President Ronald Reagan, left, with House  Speaker Tip O'Neill (Democrat of Massachusetts), center, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd (Democrat of West Virginia), right.  The President asked that Democrats not deal independently with the Soviet Union behind his back at this  meeting in the Cabinet Room in the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 4, 1985.  "Let us get back to you," was their response. NEWSCOM

10,000 Chicom spies in the US .. or was it 100,000?

Easy. Chicom "message" firing stealth missile from stealth fighter

Don't tell me you haden''t thought the same thing.

This was not innocent

What the heck is a woj blob? blob jow?

I'll buy a bowel

The monolithic Jewish vote WTF?

Right, as in Left

“ They said it couldn't be done.  They said that no matter how well the Republicans run with other groups, they would not be able to make a dent into the consistently liberal Jewish vote. Well, they were right.  Way right. ” So, what am I missing?

The Big Whack

Absolutely, positively, the longest home run ever

A slugger named Smith will step to the plate one warm day during a game at Coors Field in mile-high downtown Denver. Smith, who will stand 6 foot 8 and weigh 247 pounds, will be facing a rookie flamethrower fresh out of the bullpen. On the fifth pitch of the at-bat, the rookie will tilt back and unleash a 111-mph fastball over the heart of the plate.  ... The sound of impact as a bat moving at 127 mph will be like nothing anyone in the ballpark has ever heard.  The ball will leave the face of the bat at 194 mph and soar upward at a 35-degree angle. Backspin will cause it to rise sharply at first, and it will still be heading upward when it rises above roof level. When the ball finally lands, 9.3 seconds after Smith hits it, it will strike a patch of dirt outside the stadium and leave a sharp indentation. After the game, measurements will be taken that show the ball traveled exactly 591 feet from home plate? 748 feet from home plate? 822 feet from home plate?

False Advertising!

Harvey was thinking ..

.. how did that mutt Obama manage to beguile a nation?  And. Voila!   TimW

Promise? - He's a freaking democrat!

QOTD

“ Gov-elect Jerry Brown has promised not to raise taxes without voter approval. - California's unemployment fund has deficit of $10.3 billion ” Which approval is manifested when the elected-by-voters legislature raises taxes, wot.

Cheryl's imitation

How hard can it be?

Steele’s foes within GOP yet to settle on a viable opponent to run against him

Viable? How about this?