How the hell is this even questionable??

Must Eat Brains                         SPOT-ON ROMNEY “ Mitt Romney was  absolutely right when he said supporters of President Barack Obama are dependent on the government. The nation is approaching a dangerous tipping point  when “takers” outnumber “makers” — and it’s “lights out for America” if Obama is re-elected. —  Ann Coulter But then we are saddled by the likes of GOP asshat wannabe Linda McMahon (Why God? Why?) NAUGATUCK, Conn. – Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon distanced herself from her party’s presidential nominee Tuesday, saying she completely disagrees with Mitt Romney’s leaked statement that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent on government” and see themselves as “victims” who are “entitled to food, to housing, to you name it.” “Well I couldn’t disagree with Governor Romney more on that,”  said McMahon ”

She's sooooooo dirty

Today's GOP girl. Evidently.

WOW singer

If you have "it," they will find you Someone get this girl a record contract stat. A random girl stopped by a karaoke machine while in a mall in the Philippines, and belted out the best rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” since this Taiwanese boy on the talent search show Super Star Avenue. DC

A Camel's Nose

Police State Culture Civil Disturbances While being  the smartest guy about everything is in my job description (as TRKOF &S), I'm afraid that here, the gig is up. This caught my eye earlier in the week, and I admit to being somewhat disoriented by it all.   DOD FM 19-15  manual (CIVIL DISTURBANCES) looked to me like something Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama have printed for distribution later, like after the election. I had to double check the issue date. Yep. 1975.  Because it clearly outlines how the Executive branch can mobilize our Army and Air Force (but not the Navy and Marines) to quell "civil disturbances."   What gob smacked me was that my casual knowledge of the Posse Comitatus Act led me to believe that the President's power to use our military domestically, extended to mobilizing a state's National Guard, as Eisenhower did in the Little Rock school desegregation.  My quick review of both documents (sample below in a Rollover) indicates that a tyrant President (Pray God we never have one) can use our military against us.  All he has to do is provoke the population into something he calls a civil disturbance". This room is full of people more knowledgeable than I on this subject, and I hope for your comments.  Here' Wikipedia on Posse  Comitatus, and here's the Civil Disturbance manual in .pdf form. And here's something in case you just don't care. CLICK for DOD FM 19-15 Manual rollover

Gangland Style Hitler

Another Hitler Mashup

Brewer 7 - Holder 6

Arizona Immigration Law's Most Contentious Section Can Now Be Enforced By Police, Judge Says

Surrounded by Savages

This story makes me sick.  The psychology of the unprincipled person who gets scolded by his peers will often lead him, spitefully,  into the arms of the antis.  If  John Roberts is the unprincipled person in my scenario, and he most certainly is, then don't be surprised to see him going all petulant on us, and becoming the Liberal Fifth Column on the court.

Geezers Get a Ticket

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example,  my wife and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an “a$$hole.”  He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires. So Kate called him a “sh*t head.”  He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home. We always look for cars with "OBAMA 2012 stickers. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age. smibsid

Protester dies from burning American flag

COMEUPPANCES Protester dies after inhaling fumes from burning American flag — Made my smile. I feel bad, but it made me smile.

Yes, I am Jules Verne

What I See                               Unnatural Natural Progression “ Traditional Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions The idea behind The Popinator is to instantly deliver popcorn into a person’s mouth just by saying the word ‘pop’. The Popinator is able to pinpoint where in the room the spoken word originated from and shoot a piece of popcorn at it. The Popinator shoots up to 15 feet and is for inside use only. Necessitating Am I the only one who can see where technology is leading us?  Not that it's a bad thing. ”

OMG! A post pubescent VIRGIN!

Oh My

Holder Hearts Media Matters

OBAMUNISM, The Party, Media Matters hearts the DOJ “ "Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency. On February 21, 1975, Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request." [Media Matters hearts the DOJ Not only did John Mitchell go to the hoosegow for his minimal by Holder standards transgressions,  review these  Articles of Impeachment leveled by House Democrats, and celebrated for all time by the media.   Compare them to, say, Obama's  actions in any given month. Historical note for younger victims of modern education: Unlike Clinton, and Andrew Johnson, Nixon was not Impeached. ”

We Are Now Officially Mexico

District Attorneys rent out their letterhead to debt collectors, split the shakedown loot  “ Over 300 US district attorneys have made arrangements with strong-arm debt collectors, through which the debt collectors send out threatening notices on the DAs' letterhead to people who've allegedly bounced checks, and split the payments they get back (including hefty "service fees" levied by the collectors) with the DAs' offices. Jessica Silver-Greenberg writes in the NYT: [cont Naked Capitalism] ” We are now officially Mexico

Another wordy post

Soap Opera Over Kabul “ Unplugged (abstract) First off this is what I believe. That Bush going into Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and their Taliban host was a correct, honorable, and necessary thing. That going into Iraq because it was an outlaw regime with Weapons of Mass Destruction (that they never had after moving them to Syria) was also a correct, honorable, and necessary thing. That by occupying Afghanistan and Iraq we  effectively isolated Iran, which was and still is the real world threat, and sponsor of Islamic terrorism. A brilliant strategic move. That by January, 2009, even though  congressional Democrats had aligned themselves with every leftist group trying to undermine Bush's policy, the Taliban were deemed effectively destroyed;  al-Qaeda was scarce heard from. That I was spot-on when I said back in 2002 that the United States can never  again prevail  as long as post Watergate brand Democrats have ANY influence whatever in government  I see that sentiment expressed a lot lately. Now, skoonj sent me this Fred on Everything treatment, and expressed "hope someone learns from it."   Call me a curmudgeon, but I see very little chance of that. . [snip] OK. In the Guardian, I learn that actual Pentagonal military psycho-wonks have done a study on what Afghans and gringos think of each other. (report) Saith the Guardian: Please don’t send me growly mail about Our Boys and their courage, training, sacrifice, honor, and the rest of that string of beads. ...  A hit man for the Mafia is exactly as honorable. For another thing, an army’s job is not to be brave, selfless, yada yada, but to win wars.   "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving, profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally view the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals. Such is the state of progress in the current partnering programme. Over a decade of fighting shoulder-to-shoulder had created mutual loathing that was impossible to camouflage.” Who would have thought it? Anybody with the slighytest acquaintance with reality. Tell you what, brothels and cisterns, I could have written every word of it, and I’ve never been to Afghanistan. It’s Viet Nam all over again. Which means that it’s all over, again. GIs and Afghans hate each other. What do you expect when you put combative, not too bright, half-educated, unsophisticated lower-middle-class guys into an illiterate thirteenth-century culture with a history of detesting invaders? I know, I know: you figured it would spark a love-in, koom-bah-yah, Oprah as featured speaker. This comedy occurs because the military inhabits a parallel reality. In its experience, you tell a thing to happen, and it does. [Full]

It shoots a .95 caliber 2,400 grain bullet

Tails of the Gun                         Put aside your girly-man .458 Win Mag or your wimpy .50 cal and watch these guys shoot a real gun, the largest center fire rifle ever made, the .950 JDJ by SSK Industries. Only three were ever made. This was the lightest, the carbine version, weighing in at 50 lbs. It shoots a .95 caliber 2,400 grain bullet at 2,100 fps using 240 grains of powder, which generates 25,400 f/lbs of muzzle energy and 277 f/lbs of recoil energy. Each round costs $40.     cuzzin ricky

Swing State Vote

Rasmussen shows Romney Ahead in Swing States 

Rasmussen Reader subscribers can read the full Swing State tracking update daily at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. This article offers a combined view of the results from 11 key states won by President Obama in 2008 and thought to be competitive in 2012. The states collectively hold 146 Electoral College votes and include Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. [Free Republic]

Maybe Not the Best GF, But a Good One

Oh My “ Comments: Published on Sep 16, 2012 by SmexyTrailerz hahahahaha in front of a school bus This first 30 seconds I didn't understand what the fuck was going on. Skilten32561 hour ago 52  ”

The Magnitude of the Mess We're In- and a solution

The Magnitude of the Mess We're In The next Treasury secretary will confront problems so daunting that even Alexander Hamilton would have trouble preserving the full faith and credit of the United States.           “ A Chip Shot for TRKOF? Indeed. But me, The Real King of France & Sweden, in the role of  benign dictator who doesn't suffer fools, could turn this nation around in a relative heart-beat.  So could some of you, just by using common sense and going back to American fundamentals.  It all begins with setting a positive tone.   So, Romney and the GOP had better assume that mantle before we get a not so benign ruler.  ”

Muscle regeneration

Gary Larsen                                                                                  SCIENCE No, Not That Muscle (besides—it's not really a muscle you berk.) “ sigh ”

OBAMA AHEAD By NO VOTES!

2012       Can Obama get reelected losing the independent vote?   “ The answer is “yes,” if you believe a number of the polls currently in the Real Clear Politics poll average… but that’s a sizable if. The NYT/CBS poll shows Pres. Obama winning by 3 points among likely voters… but losing independents to Mitt Romney 44/50. The WaPo/ABC News poll shows Obama up by a point, while losing independents by 11 points, 43/54. The CNN/ORC poll (.pdf) shows Obama winning by six overall, but losing independents by a whopping 14 points, 40/54. Ironically, given people’s perceptions of poll bias, the Fox poll has Obama winning overall and winning indies by a similar 5 point margin. Historically, a candidate cannot win the presidency while losing independent votes. However, it has happened thrice in my lifetime: 1976, 2000 and 2004. These exceptions are instructive. [Even More Stuff] Add to that the aforementioned Obama Polling Worse Among Jews Than Any Dem in 32 Years , and the media sham is even more pronounced.  Obama is toast, thank God. They know it.  But. In 1980 the networks called Reagan's landslide win over Carter at 6:30 PM EST.  Democrats were outraged, because Left Coast voters on the way to the polls simply went home.  As a result Reagan gained control of the Senate, and  made heavy inroads into  the Democrat's House dominance.  In response Donks forced a rule prohibiting  presidential election calls until  all polls had closed. This is what I'm getting at.  If government can flex its muscle to "protect the integrity of an election (ahem)" that way, why in heaven's name don't they ban all political polling 60 days before any election?   I know, it's rhetorical. Democrats depend on phony polls; but it does make sense, wot? As something of an aside:  It was also after Reagan's win that the Donk media changed  party designation colors .  It drove me nuts at the time (still does actually) that not one word was heard about this obvious "psyche-ops" victory by the Donk media.  I was reminded by some of the comments  found under the YouTube video I embedded above. In most countries red is the color of left wing parties and blue is the color of right wingers. EG in Britain Labour is red and the Conservatives are blue newargot in reply to Alex Sawyers (Show the comment) 1 day ago 'Red' means communism, and the Leftist media didn't want people making that connection in later years. This is just my guess. MrDan6779 in reply to Alex Sawyers (Show the comment) 1 day ago Don't speak fact to the left, they don't like that. ssjwes in reply to Blake Harllee (Show the comment) 2 days ago And so it should be. ”

Another Google Screw-up

Rediscovering Our Greatness More like this?  Wow,very nice company.  Like pretending I have castles in Europe, only better.

A neat idea, but ...

Read The Book List is a list that enables a reasoned mind to choose for himself covering both sides of the question.

Wrote Book, "GOD IS DEAD"

Gabriel Vahanian dies at 85; God: Who?  There's nobody up here by that name?

Pelosi- People Want Me As Speaker Again!

Pelosi says Medicare will help Democrats win majority in House “ ”

More Obama is God Awful Discourse

Obama vs. the First Amendment Andrew McCarthy “ FIRST PART Democrats and their sharky Obamedia defense lawyers are in a snit. For three dreamy convention days in Charlotte, they told themselves that, for the first time in decades, it was their guy who had the upper hand when it came to national security. Now that bubble has burst, the way contrived narratives do when they crash into concrete challenges. At that point, an airy president of the world won’t do; we need to have a president of the United States, a job that has never suited, and has never been of much interest to, Barack Obama. in between words LAST PART“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” So declared the Obama State Department in a statement issued on the website of its Egyptian embassy. At the time, it was clear that another episode of Muslim mayhem was imminent. The statement is a disgrace, just as Mitt Romney said it was. It elevated over the U.S. Constitution (you know, the thing Obama took an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend”) the claimed right of sharia supremacists (you know, “Religion of Peace” adherents) to riot over nonsense. Further, it dignified the ludicrous pretext that an obscure, moronic 14-minute video was the actual reason for the oncoming jihad. Here is the important part, however, the part not to be missed, no matter how determined the president’s media shysters are to cover it up: The disgraceful embassy statement was a completely accurate articulation of longstanding Obama policy. FULL PART You know how you like to read the sport columns about the game you just watched (if your team won)?  Or, how you look up reviews for the movie you just watched, because you liked it so much?  That's why I posted this. More thrills. And validation that you KNEW all this four years ago, and were, and are, on the right side of history. Now, if we could just push a button and get to Sunday, January 20, 2013, while there's still something to salvage. ”

Sunday Bike Ride

Catharsis a nice Sunday bike ride Full Screen Is Good

So much for the 'bad-movie- excuse

The Daily Duh Libya lawmaker: Benghazi attack planned “ The Muslim News reports  that a Libya lawmaker says Benghazi attack planned, and that sorry-ass straw-man film had nothing to do with the raid and murders at the Benghazi consulate.  "I don't want to talk about what happened in other countries but as for Libya, the operation was meticulously executed," Mohammed al-Megaryef said. He added that foreign elements could be involved in the attack. Mainstream media initially assumed that the raid on the Benghazi consulate was a response to an anti-Muslim film that has been making the rounds on Youtube. But evidence of the attack as a pre-planned jihadi operation has piled up in recent days. Sensitive documents have reportedly gone missing at the Benghazi consulate, apparently leading to attacks on secret refugee "safe houses". "There are non-Libyan elements on Libyan soil and they plan to carry out their own agendas on our territory," added al-Megaryef. The revelations deepen the mystery surrounding the attack, as evidence comes to light that it was facilitated by "major security breaches," according to the British Independent. Intelligence officials received "credible information" of the raid 48 hours before, yet the mission's usually robust security force made no effort to step up security measures, senior diplomatic sources told the newspaper. It also revealed Stevens' visit to Benghazi was considered confidential, making the attack more difficult to orchestrate. "There was planning. It was not a peaceful protest which degenerated into an armed attack or aggression. That's how it was planned," he said.  [full] You can bet this month's Chevy Volt payment that the "foreign elements" were Iran, Iran, and Iran.  The Obama media are obviously frantic over this security failure reminding people of Jimmy Carter's "Hostage Crisis," and his inept policies that created it.   ”

Obama Losing Vital Juice

Hitler's Mustache                Obama Polling Worse Among Jews Than Any Dem in 32 Years “ You have to go all the way back to Jimmy Carter in 1980 to find a Democratic candidate who’s polling worse among Jews than Obama is. And that’s no coincidence. Carter scored big numbers against Ford in 1976 only to lose a major chunk of Jewish supporters after four years of pro-Terrorist policies that undermined Israel and security and stability in the Middle East.   Obama reportedly scored 76 percent of the Jewish  vote in 2008. Carter picked up 71 percent in 1976. By 1980, Carter was down to 45 percent. The latest polls show Obama down to 59 percent among Jews. No Democrat has ever won the White House with that low a share of the vote. The Democratic candidates who scored that low, Carter in 1980, Dukakis, Mondale, McGovern, Adlai Stevenson, were all losers who went on to lose the election. To find a Democratic presidential candidate who won less than 60 percent of the Jewish vote and still won the White House, you have to go back 96 years to the election of 1916 where Woodrow Wilson had 55 percent of the Jewish vote against 45 percent for Republican Chris Evans Hughes. And that was considered a very close election.   The Jewish vote does not determine elections, but it is a sign of the loss of support. Romney is taking a Reagan sized bite of the Catholic vote and is within 4 percent of matching Reagan’s numbers among Jews. [Obama Polling Worse Among Jews Than Any Dem in 32 Years] Keep moving,  No hyperbole to see here. ”

Obamacare in One Sentence

Obamacare in One Sentence

The Comedy Stylings of the Banana

Catharsis                       Banana Nana-Fo-Fana BANANA Is there anything they can't do? MORE BANANA FUN HERE! ”

Empty Chair Top Ten

Tom Mann

I guess a BJ is out of the question? .... Really?

Gary Larsen                                                                                  SCIENCE It seems the rhetorical question, after you've just insulted her, " I guess a roll in the hay is out of the question?" may not be all that silly.  [Study: Feelings Of Disgust In Women Diminished By Sexual Arousal]

Today's Horror

BOO

Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile

“           Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile Winston Churchill once said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” On September 11, Christopher Stevens, a career diplomat, became one of the first Americans in Libya to feed the crocodile of Ansar Al-Sharia and learned too late that while appeasers may hope to be eaten last, they are often eaten first. Christopher Stevens was a Middle Eastern diplomat who typified the new breed going from the University of Berkeley and the Peace Corps to desks in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. He taught English to Moroccan children in the Peace Corps and helped Palestinian Arabs in the East Jerusalem Consulate, which has a firm policy of pretending that Israel does not exist. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Christopher Stevens that he “made other people’s hopes his own” and that may serve as a fitting eulogy both for Stevens and for the disastrous foreign policy of making “other people’s hopes” our own that brought on the Arab Spring. Stevens, like Clinton and Obama, made the hopes of Islamists his own and they repaid him for it, just as Afghans repaid America for supporting them against the Soviet Union, as Lebanon and Somalia repaid America’s peacekeeping efforts by killing American troops and on down the litany of gratitude in bombs and bullets that have come America’s way from the Muslim world. [Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile] I think we can all agree on this.  There is not one—NONE— Obama appointee to any office who would not be instantly terminated, if not arrested,  by Ronald Reagan on his first day in office.  They are at best pasty-faced idealists; at worst, anti-American Obamunists.  That said, Reagan would agree that nobody can attack them on foreign soil without getting a  Gaddafi comeuppance, i.e., a visit from American fighter bombers.   That even includes Hillary, who, if she is to be assaulted (and pray that never happens of course), it has to be at the hands of someone in, say, Omaha.  How has this  administration responded?  Harassed the dim-witted a-hole who produced a truly lousy movie, which trailer was maybe seen by 20 people, and  which supposedly enraged the always enraged lunatic Muslum crowd. To them Obama apologized.   ”

Dirty Harry Makes My Day

Eastwood: Obama’s Doing All ‘He Possibly Can to Keep Power. There’s No Way He’s Going to Give it Up’

Harrison Bergeron - every 5 years

ribbit                            “ Friday, October 12, 2007 Mother Superior was leaving for a meeting this morning.  I said, "Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize."  She said two words, and left "Harrison Bergeron" Jump to Now. Rodge My son had to read this and answer homework questions to it. It's right out of an Atlas Shrugged mind, but I'll be damned if I can't see this happening by 2081... Chris THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away. It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd forgotten for the moment what they were about. On the television screen were ballerinas. A buzzer sounded in George's head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm. "That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel. "Huh" said George. "That dance-it was nice," said Hazel.  You can watch the loosely adapted full movie here, or read it here, or read some of it, and do the homework here.  Then you decide (if you haven't already). ”

Wisconsin Judge Trumps Election

Bad Judges “ Democrat Lick-spittle Judge Juan Colas It's by now an old story.  Citizens vote into law something left-Democrats don't agree with, so they do what?  That's right. Wis. judge strikes down law limiting union rights A judge struck down Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's law that repealed most collective bargaining rights for public employees Friday, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The deeply controversial law revoked nearly all collective bargaining rights from most workers and has been in effect for more than a year. NPR reports that the original law signed by Walker in February sparked massive protests and even caused all 14 Democratic lawmakers to flee the state to Illinois in a failed attempt to stop its passage. The Governor's staunch support of the law was partially responsible for the unsuccessful attempt at recalling him earlier this yea Everyone knows that there's really only one solution anymore, but it's a Sophie's Choice.  Do we save the country from judicial tyranny with the noose—by  sacrificing our tradition of making things work without resorting to violent third world solutions?  Make that Hobson's choice. ”

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