Barry Who?

I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! “ Matt Welch: So tell us what we should know about Barack Obama that we don't? Wayne Allyn Root: I think the most dangerous thing you should know about Barack Obama is that I don't know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! [Wayne Allyn Root's Million-Dollar Challenge- September 5, 2008] Of all the mind-spinning, gob-smacking, brain-numbing mysteries about the Obama guy, this is top tier. The fact that not a single investigative media source (e.g. Sixty-Minutes) have deemed it a worthwhile look-see is the clincher. They know he's a "Manchurian candidate," and they're okay with it. Mr Root  decided not to testify in this trial based on disagreements over some of the subject matter that is scheduled to be brought up at the trial, and that's fine. Obama was convicted on all counts. His absence since then had me wondering—but wait!  College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia' If this doesn't make you seriously consider that Obama is not at all who he says he is, then you also believe in AGW and think Hillary Clinton has something to offer.  You're pitiful.  Get out of my sight, or I'll strip you of your citizenship..   ”

Going Regimental with Madonna

At The Cinema                            Dare to Be Truthful UPDATED This Madonna "style retrospective" is of no particular interest to me, but it did serve to remind me of Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful. When it was making the rounds on Showtime in 1992, I watched it several times without realizing it was a spoof (that's good spoof!). I knew who Madonna was, but paid little attention. In fact, the only time I'd seen her perform was on a Showtime concert.   A stage floor up-shot camera angle caught me by surprise.  For a moment I thought she was panty-less. This was before DVR, so there was no quick review.  I set the VCR to tape the next showing, and sure enough!  Madonna was flashing beaver. So, you can see why I could be taken-in by Julie Brown. I rank Medusa as one of the top three  five mockumentary films ever made (This Is Spinal Tap, and The Old Negro Space Program, Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show )  Unlike the other two four (watch-in-full links above), this six-part YouTube presentation is the only one I could find.  I don't have time right now, but later I will watch, for the first time in 20 years.  If I change my mind about its brilliance, I'll let you know.

Stickin it to the man .. just because

Nanny State: One regulation away from total bliss Damn the Torpedoes   Because sometimes enough is enough

Fake Faces

Must Eat Brains                      83 Million Facebook Accounts Are Fakes Including, apparently, one fake American

Somebody is a dirty liar

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what  the hell." TRKOF&S "dirty liar" “ clipped from crazy gawker That was Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer, referring to Reid's accusation that Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years.   RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday called Reid a "dirty liar." Shieffer is wrong;  Joe McCarthy was Real American.  Priebus is spot-on; Harry Reid is a liar, and a crook. All this Harry Reid crap made me to go up the attic and pull "Abramoff" out of the Harry Reid trunk.(The relevant transcript excerpt referred to  is here) Aside: I have in my coat pocket the names of 0 places where you can watch "The Real American-Joe McCarthy." ”

Obammissariat Orders

After defeat of Senate cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive-order option

penis snake

Catharsis Dr. Freud, CODE BLUE Like its namesake, it appears to be quite blind “   Totally safe? Yeah, and the check's in the mail too. ”

Red Yawn

At The Cinema                            Remaking Red Dawn North Korea Invades America in Dumbest Movie Ever “ Has Hollywood ever done a remake that was better than the original? EVER?  I can't think of one off-hand.  Red Dawn was a pleasant surprise for me when I got around to watching it -- about 2 years after its 1984 debut (I expected teen hero trash). The only reason for anyone, really, to expect anything was that Harry Dean Stanton was in the cast. Who the hell was Patrick Swayze?  Now I regard it as one of the best anti-leftist action films ever made.   I don't think Obama would like it.. ”

Paraprosdokians

Paraprosdokians “ Paraprosdokians: (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous, if not bizarre.   1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.   2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.   3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.   4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.   5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.   6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.   7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.   8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.   9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.   10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put 'DOCTOR'.   11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.   12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.   13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.   14. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.   15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.   16. You're never too old to learn something stupid. ” Frank'nEvvy

2010 Women's Water Polo

2010 Women's Water Polo Team Picture Vanderleun Has Detail

Cups more than half-filled?

GREEN CRAP Looking on the bright side: Cups Half Filled! Cups Half Filled, Wot I know.  Sorry.

50 Shades of Grey

Vajayjay Culture                       Katrina Lumsden reads the Fifty Shades of Grey books so you don't have to: “ Meet Anastasia Steele:     What in the hell just happened? Did I really read that? Oh, my god, I did. I did read that. But wait - there's more: Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Freed Phew! I need a cigarette.  (Well, maybe I would if I actually read it, but I did not). ”

Mitt's a Puffer, Not a Cure

2012                                               Mitt's a Puffer, Not a Cure “ EVANSVILLE, Ind. — When Mitt Romney campaigned last week at one stop in Colorado, a key swing state whose governor and senators are Democrats, he sought to sell himself with a simple message: He is a deal maker, someone who can work with Democrats and reach across the aisle, as he did when he was the governor of Massachusetts. “We’ve got to have someone that goes to Washington that buries the hatchet and says, ‘You know what? There are good Democrats, there are good Republicans that care about America,’ ” Mr. Romney said at a rally in a Denver suburb. “Let’s work together to get the American people working.” But on Saturday, Mr. Romney flew on a Gulfstream IV to the southwest reaches of Indiana to campaign for someone with a distinctly different view of bipartisanship: Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party favorite and the state’s Republican Senate nominee, who this spring defeated the incumbent, Richard G. Lugar, one of the most influential Republicans of the past generation.  [Making a Pitch to the Tea Party in Indiana] This is from the New York Times; nevertheless it's why, when I vote for Romney,  it will be as a man with terminal  emphysema  using his ADVAIR puffer to stay alive—until the lung transplant. ”

Maybe you touched your junk

Behavior-based Internet advertising

Gore Vidal RIP (Ahem)

RIP He's With Ted Kennedy Now “ [Via Wiki] During discussions of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, Buckley and Vidal were arguing about freedom of speech with regard to American protesters displaying a Viet Cong flag when Vidal told Buckley to "shut up a minute" and, in response to Buckley's reference to "pro-Nazi" protesters, went on to say: "As far as I'm concerned, the only sort of pro-crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself." The visibly livid Buckley replied, "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."   Buckley later expressed regret for having called Vidal a "queer," but nonetheless described Vidal as an "evangelist for bisexuality." I would go on that year to vote for Humphrey, but near as I can remember this was my first exposure to Buckley.  I went on a binge of checking out Buckley books from the library with profound effect on my already conservative leaning self.   Hubert was the last democrat I ever voted for. Vidal didn't leave much impression on me one way or another.  Forgetting this  kerfuffle entirely,  I quite enjoyed reading  his Burr, Lincoln and to some extent 1876.  Myra Breckenridge was the last time I checked out a Vidal book. I grew to loathe the man.  Not because he was a publicly promiscuous bisexual; that goes without saying, but because he was the poster boy liberal.  Arrogant, snotty, and blamed the United States for everything.  Here's a clip from a recent  NPR paean “ The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything. It's like saying oh, I want you to meet Mildred, this is potato-eating Mildred. Oh my God, she eats - I'm sorry, but I don't want to be at the same table with a potato-eater. Sorry, Mildred, but some other time. Now that's - only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other. In Europe, these distinctions are not only not known, but we're thought to be mad. Latins just roar with laughter. ... And I was actually stopped all day long by Italians, these villagers, saying what kind of country is this. And I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity. And since they have enough votes to terrify the more sophisticated people who run the country, these are some of the bones that they get thrown - like prayer in the schools and abortion and all subjects which have nothing to do with the federal government, but they see to it that it does. No, no, we're kind of a joke. ” He's with Ted Kennedy now. ”

34 Things

34 Pictures chosen pretty much randomly from 34 different categories of pictures ca 2005

This Just In

Grlz Mit GunZ

Tails of the Gun   Today's Girlz Mit Gunz

Pick your pick

What? We present, you decide     ↓                                                 Not ↓   ←

TRKOTJ

Catharsis Who's Your Daddy? Then a trip to Chick-fil-A TRKOTJ

World Enemy #1 and Political Correctness

World Enemy #1 and Political Correctness        Fort Hood Lawmaker Grills FBI Official: At What Point Is It ‘Islamic Terrorism’? Report notes FBI staffers who first spotted Hasan discussed the political sensitivity of interviewing Muslims who visit extremist websites.

Obama's Calculiar

LIARS "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell." TRKOF&S “ This calcu-liar is absurd when you consider that under Obama  congress can no longer balance the budget even if it shut down government.  Add to that Obama's reputation as a liar on the scale of the Clintons, and pooof!  Here's some guy's quick analysis.  More detailed breakdowns will surely be forthcoming. Because the tax code is complex, the calculator makes a number of simplifying assumptions that may differ from the circumstances of any particular user. It assumes all income is from wages. For married filers, it assumes that income is split evenly between two earners. It assumes that income does not vary over the years analyzed. It assumes that taxpayers claim the standard deduction for the purpose of analyzing the impact of the expiration of the middle class tax cuts. The impact of Mitt Romney’s tax plan is based on an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which determines the tax increase or tax cut the average family in each income group would face if Romney paid for his $5 trillion tax plan by cutting tax benefits. The analysis assumes that Romney eliminates all tax benefits, except those for savings and investment, for households earning over $200,000, and reduces those benefits for households earning under $200,000 to cover the rest of the cost – resulting in a reduction by more than half.  The Tax Policy Center uses income thresholds based on “cash income”, a measure broader than AGI commonly used by TPC. Ma Perkins

The lamps are melting the lamps are melting

GREEN CRAP Being an AGWer means life is one continuous back-track How hot is it Senator Inhofe?  Even your street lights are melting “ Even as residents swelter in the relentless heat, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe continued his tirade about man-made global warming during a Senate hearing yesterday, saying the science had “collapsed.” “Hey Senator @InhofePress, even your streetlights are saying #ImTooHot http://ow.ly/cHbX4,” the Climate Reality Project tweeted later, linking to the ThinkProgress claim. Later:  Think Progress AGW religious cultists are informed that the lights were melting due to extreme heat from the nearby fire.  To compound their idiocy, these climate scientists were seemingly unaware that glass only begins to melt at at around   842 °F.     ”

Hey - A Dead Body. Let's Play With It.

Today's PSA

New York, You’ve Changed

The Filming Locations of Annie Hall, Part 1 “ Click for Article “New York, You’ve Changed” is a Scouting NY feature in which the New York depicted in classic movies is compared with the city of today, a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what once was and what has changed. Side note: I think this concept would make for an excellent coffee table/photo book, and if anyone might be interested (ahem TASCHEN ahem), please contact me! Annie Hall may just be the best movie ever made in New York. [Full] I don't think so, but that begs the question.  Don't matter. I'm fascinated with projects like this, and have been a fan of Scouting New York for some time.  Yes, I do like NYC.  I even like the people I know there.  I also think they're among the most politically ignorant people extant, but the city pops. ”

Would blacks vote for Obama if he was white?

Black Racism   If Barack Obama wasn’t black, would black voters support him? That's a question Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former chapter president of the National Association for the  NAACP is asking in his movie “Runaway Slave."  We won't know what impact Black leaders like Bryant have had until November 7th.  If Obama received appreciably less than the de rigueur 113% of the Black vote, they will have made progress, and there's hope. Okay, what really think.  Blacks, along with the rest of the dependent class Liberals have been constructing since 1965, would vote for  Joe Stalin if he ran as a Democrat (and he does). You know it; I know it.  Dammit.  We appreciate your effort though Rev. Bryant.

Every Breath

Every Breath She Takes Gives Me A Heart Attack

‘Let His Days Be Few’ Very Few

Psalm 109:8 ‘Let His Days Be Few’ An anti-Obama bumper-sticker slogan which seems to urge people to pray for an end to the President’s days (in office?). “ “There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors (*snort*) of the internet,” Gawker announced: Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with the message “Pray for Obama – Psalm 109:8” on the highway, only to look up the verse and find, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” … Anyway, now it’s a real thing: CafePress is selling T-shirts and bumper stickers, the Christian Science Monitor is wondering whether it’s “funny or sinister” to pray for Obama’s death, and Rachel Maddow referenced it last night on her show. However, as a number of commentators have noted, the wording that follows this bumper-sticker appeal is somewhat more disturbing: Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. November 19, 2009, 10:30 am Lest you missed this (I did), a reprise is in order.  I like that The New York Times cites Gawkerin the manner of the AP or UPI— although I guess it is a contributor..  And, there is nothing in the psalm that translates " to pray for Obama’s death."  “Let his days be few; and let another take his office;” well what the hell, that's why we're having an election in a few months.  Now bow your heads and pray. Let his ... Hat Tip to cuzzin ricky.   ”

My Second Husband Was a Democrat

My Second Husband Was a Democrat “ A lady walks into a bridal store and tells the clerk she is wanting to purchase a wedding gown for her third marriage. The clerk congratulates the lady and asks what style and color she was considering? The lady said she wanted a long white gown and veil. The clerk said he didn’t mean to be forward, however white typically represents ladies who have maintained their innocence. The lady responded she in fact had maintained her innocence. The clerk asks; how so? The lady said her first husband tragically died of a heart attack in anticipation of the honeymoon following the wedding service. What of your second marriage the clerk asked? Oh, he was a Democrat who sat on the edge of the bed for four years telling me how great it was going to be, but nothing ever happened. Regrettably under the radical Democratic leadership of the Obama administration [Town Hall] ”

The Critics

art is everywhere I don't need no stinking art gallery

Two approaces to the Chick-fil-A, story

Culture War                         News From the Front “ This is a lovely package that makes a larger point.  Here, DNC-Media representative GAWKER  decries a Fox-Nation blog post,  while at the same time Gawker's big time alphabet-media comrades do their thing- ignore the story.  Which is why FOX's "We Report, You Decide" philosophy is so abhorrent to Liberal twats like Gawker. But you already knew that. ”

Rutland resident not winded after walking 3.048 metres

Culture 24/7 News Cycle

Good News: The jobless rate just went up

Good News: The jobless rate just went up     “ The world's biggest dipshit (Vante CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith) is now, quite deservedly, out of a job. TheDC's Neil Munro reports: "The person who taped himself harassing a Chick-fil-A employeeon Aug. 1 has been fired by his employer. 'Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A,' reads a Aug. 2 company statement ... Smith videotaped himself harassing the employee, who replied gracefully to his jibes about Chick-fil-A’s corporate support for popular conservative groups." There is justice in the world. (Jamie Weinstein) ”

Gays think Chick-Fil-A Kiss-in is answer

Kiss In At Chick-Fil-A: Gay Rights Activists, Supporters Plan To Protest Restaurant Owner's Opposition To Same-Sex Unions “ (All-Star comment on Huffington Gay) 21 minutes ago ( 8:31 AM) Don't waste your time. Stunts like this only reinforce peoples hatred and turns off people who may be sitting on the fence. ”

A Tail of Two States (MD-VA)

Louis Dobbs's metaphor for this year's election Previously and presciently   Tailgunner Dick

Sigh - We played Hide & Seek

Sigh - We played Hide & Seek

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Vajayjay Culture             It is legal, so I guess it's safe for work (.) (.)

... dish best served wet.

*his side window is open*

Hot Pants in London

A New Gay Fatwa

Muslim cleric: Gay sex OK in the service of jihad “ Islam strictly prohibits homosexual behavior, with penalties in some Middle Eastern countries ranging from imprisonment to death. But according to one Muslim cleric who cited a sheik’s fatwa, jihadis who want to smuggle explosives in their rectums can — and should — accept being “sodomized” to make room for the mini-bombs. [Full fatwa-All Akbar!] ”

What? Not Madeleine Albright?

How many Blondes ...

Q: How many blondes does it take to change a diaper? A: Ask Hugh Hefner

Merrily

Carry a Baseball Bat Policy

Evolution from TR to BO “ Big Stick ideology, Big Stick diplomacy, or Big Stick policy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." Roosevelt attributed the term to a West African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far," but the claim that it originated in West Africa has been disputed -  Wikipedia Because Obama has no feel for United States culture or tradition, he's confused Teddy Roosevelt's signature phrase with the Kenyan Mau-Mau dictum, "Warn them once then use a baseball bat."  ”