Fried

Muy Largess

MoSup's family spends a week with us every year, and last week was it.  I am by the way blessed to have in-laws who are wonderful, and whose presence I enjoy.  But here's what I wanted to tell you.  They spent a day mall surfing in Columbia, and come lunch tome that got Chic-filet from the food court, and french fries from Five-Guys.  Since there were a bunch of them, they ordered two orders.  When they came home, Toni handed me a large white sack, and asked "guess?"  I peeked, and said "French fries."  A lot of french fries.  So many, that for dinner I crisped them up in some oil and fed a dozen people.  What you see here is the catsup from that bag. Yeah, they cost $4.50 a bag, but JFC!  If I have to become a bum, I'll park my cardboard box  behind a Five Guys dumpster and eat like a king! (Their burgers are too. )

BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB IRAN!

Should Israel Bomb Iran?

“ These fears are mostly overblown. Some of the alarmist scenarios are the opposite of what would more likely unfold after an Israeli attack. Although dangerous for Israel, a preventive strike remains the most effective answer to the possibility of Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards having nuclear weapons. Provided the Israeli air force is capable of executing it, and assuming no U.S. military action, an Israeli bombardment remains the only conceivable means of derailing or seriously delaying Iran’s nuclear program and—equally important—traumatizing Tehran. ” My answer is, and Syria, Afhanistan, and Pakistan to boot!

The dog ate it

The answer is, “Bob Schieffer.”

If the question is, who has the most chutzpah?  WaPost columnist Howard Kurtz, which paper ignored the Black Panther case for eleven months, for asking CBS reporter Bob Schieffer why he didn't ask Eric Holder about it during his Face the Nation appearance Sunday, or Schrieffer's excuse.  I didn't know about it.   I was on vacation that week. Clap Calp Clap Bob.  Unsurpassed chutzpah!

Oil and Lockerbie

Ginned up

Drudge links to a London Evening Standard story, the full title of which is "David Cameron braced for American anger over BP leak and Lockerbie deal."  The oil leak garners exactly zero attention in the story, which is good, because the notion that "Americans" are angry at BP, or Britain, over the oil leak requires a good deal of journalistic license to sell.  I will wager that along the Gulf coast, there's more anger at the Obama administration for its inept, meddling, and dishonest role in the clean-up. There would be every reason in the world for Americans to be angry if BP did exert pressure to release  Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, "in return for lucrative drilling rights handed to the oil giant by Tripoli.  Except.  Except not two in a million Americans know who the hell Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is, or remember what he did.  Eighty-seven percent recognize  a Muslim name, and figure he prolly should be executed for something, but what? Prime Minister Cameron's visit will be historically notable only for the opportunity the left media will use to gin up more oil drilling angst, and that Cameron will return home hating Obama's  guts.  Even more. I'm beginning a new category to handle posts like this.  Self indulgent rambles. Carry on.

Public trash

Public Housing Culture

“ The problem with public housing is that the residents are not the owners.   The people that live in the house did not earn the house, but were loaned the  property from the true owners, the taxpayers. Because of this, the residents do not have the "pride of ownership" that comes with the hard work necessary.  In  fact, the opposite happens and the residents resent their benefactors because the very house is a constant reminder that they themselves did not earn the right to live in the house. They do not appreciate the value of the property and see no need to maintain or respect it in any way.   The result is the same whether you are talking about a studio apartment or a magnificent mansion full of priceless antiques. If the people who live there do not feel they earned the privilege, they will make this known through their actions. The picture below illustrates the point�          The Resolute Desk was built from the timbers of the HMS Resolute  and was a gift from Queen  Victoria  to President Rutherford B. Hayes.   It is considered a national treasure and icon of the presidency.   Mr. Obama, with all due respect, get your @#$% feet off our desk! ” TimW

Piling on Algore

Catastrophe Denied: The Science of the Skeptic’s Position

“ .... Then, Al Gore made a movie from his PowerPoint deck.  He won an Oscar and a Nobel prize for his movie.  Those are a bit out of my reach, so I will have to settle for actually being right.  My previous movie showed my PowerPoint deck presented to a live audience, and can still be found online here.  I felt the sound quality could be improved and the narration could be tighter, so I went into the “studio” to create a tighter version.  The product of this is what I believe to be my best effort yet at explaining, in a comprehensive but simple manner, the science of the skeptic’s position to laymen. I have become a big fan of Vimeo because I don’t have to break videos up into 10-minute chunks as on YouTube.  The Vimeo version is here and is embedded below: ” Catastrophe Denied: The Science of the Skeptics Position (studio version) from Warren Meyer on Vimeo.

There ain't no bad answer

Quiz: What Kind of Conservative Are You?

My Conservative Identity: You are a Free Marketeer, also known as a fiscal conservative. You believe in free-market capitalism, tax cuts, and protecting your hard-earned cash from pick-pocketing liberal socialists. Take the quiz at About.com Political Humor Alear

Running Wedgie

Backstory?

This is pretty interesting on several levels.  First, I had to put clothes on her, but as presented on Ka-Ching!, many of you will see things you've never seen before: pubic hair.  Second, his body language is playful, while hers not so much.  Makes you wonder what he did, wot? Third, there are several kids on the sideline watching.  From this, then, I have constructed a logical back story. A football match at this Brit AFB featured a first ever girl ref.  As a joke, the coach of the Barracks III team snuck up behind her and snatched her clothes.  You take it from there.

Spooks

PENTAGON PAPERS II?

Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks

My gut reaction last week with news that the WaPost was dumping this info was, "considering the source, it's prolly more self-serving leftist agitprop."  But I don't know, and to tell you the truth,  I just don't have room in my head for more political crap.  Cuzzin Ricky sent this from WIRED, so it may be useful.  Commenters who find relevant stuff, please share.  Here's the format for linking: <a href="Web Address">YOUR TITLE</a> SAMPLE <a href="http://www.wired.com/">LOGO</a> = LOGO

Liar Liar Click Click Bam!

Obama Crapcare Crap

Restructuring a lie.  NowDems are forced to admit that Obamacare is one huge  tax in order to pass constitutional hurdles.

“ WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.” And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce. Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.  Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax ” I know we've had this civilizing  progress and stuff, but weren't we way better-off  when, if someone tried to cheat at the poker table. you just shot him? Damn straight we were.

Prudes

Goldman Schmucks

The comment:

“ By  Locker Room, at Thu Jul 15, 07:06:00 PM: I worked for ten years for a former member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee who made partner when the firm was about more than just making as much money as fast as it can, any way it can, risk be damned. He was the finest gentleman I've met in my thirty-plus year business career. TH - you know who I'm talking about. I've never seen a more blatant example of transparent insincerity than when I hear Blankfein heave up his garbage about the firm's devotion to its clients. Goldman doesn't have clients, it has counterparties. I feel badly for my former boss, having to live out his days seeing the firm he devoted his life to converting itself into a huge hedge fund and sinking to the disgusting level it has. The lightning speed with which Goldman converted itself to a bank holding company was laughable, but nothing could top hearing Blankfein say the firm had its CDS positions with AIG fully hedged and was in no danger - none at all - had AIG done a face-plant in the turf. Hey Lloyd, I may not be smart enough to work in your shop, but that doesn't make me a complete moron. So please, refrain from pissing on my shoes and telling me it's raining. Were these guys still playing with their own capital, Goldman would not be populated with all the grasping snakes now in residence there. When Wall Street's private partnerships converted to public ownership, the respect for firm capital vanished. The Street treats shareholders' capital the way Congress treats taxpayers' funds - it's strictly Other People's Money. And sadly, 99% of people on earth treat OPM with no more caution and respect than they do a glass of water. Tap water. I grew up in business having the strongest respect for the name Goldman Sachs and now everything about the place makes me want to puke.   ” Earlier: Coincidences in our time: Finreg becomes law,  and the SEC settles with Goldman Sachs I swiped the picture from here

Obama OFF

BS REMOVER

Foolsball

OUCH!

A Bad Cop

Maryland, My Maryland.

Story. Video Upshot Because of this story, and others like it, jackass Congressman Edolphus Towns, a Democrat from New York, has introduced legislation to illegally override powers enumerated by the constitution that empower states to make their own damn laws. In the final analysis, it would be a good idea for Trooper Uhler and Rep.. Towns to cancel each other out on the field of honor.

China UFO

"It is a hidden U.S. bomber flying toward China," one Internet user wrote on Monday.

Not so hidden now, Mwahahahaahhaha!    The Clintons didn't know about this Kelly Johnson initiative, so they couldn't sell it to you.  Now straighten up ya filthy  commie bastids.!

The cipher that is woman

God helps those who help themselves -

Obama lawsuit invites fortified state militia

“ For one thing, Arizona can form and expand its own state militia. Such forces were common when our nation was founded, and the Second Amendment recognizes that a "well-regulated Militia" is "necessary to the security of a free State." In short, Arizona  and other states can raise and arm their own military forces. But, for what purpose can such forces legally act? ”

This is exciting because it goes legally to where we need to be going anyway at this juncture, IMO.  “ The Constitution is informative here. In Article IV, Section 4, the federal government is required to "protect each [state] against Invasion; and [on request of the state government] against domestic Violence." As St. George Tucker noted, this provision guards against "the possibility of an undue partiality in the federal government," for example a "sectional" president who might, for political reasons, decline to protect states in a certain region. Today the federal government, at the direction of the president, has declined to carry out its duty under Article IV. Leaving aside its other possible consequences, this intentional failure to protect Arizona raises the question of what action the state is now entitled to take under the Constitution. This brings us to Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, which provides that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ... engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay." So, the militias organized and armed by a state may go to war when the state has been invaded or is in imminent danger. This is clear under Article I, and plainly justified when the federal government has deliberately failed to protect against invasion as required by Article IV. (The Full Monty) ”

Shaky Legal Ground? LOL

I had to read this twice

“ EDITORIAL: The Kenya connection Obama administration efforts in Africa may violate federal law The Kenyan president wants a new constitution, one that opens the door to abortion on demand. President Obama is willing to use U.S. taxpayer dollars to persuade voters to approve the updated governing document, which would loosen regulations designed to protect the unborn, establish Muslim family courts and create a right to homosexual marriage. It's not unusual that Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki would see enactment of the provisions as a "government project," but Mr. Obama is on shaky legal ground when he commits U.S. government resources to it. [cont] ”

Grrrrr " .... $632,479.99 in federal grants whose explicit and direct purpose was rounding up affirmative votes [to allow abortion]" is on "shaky legal ground"?  So is Obama's entire presidency. Sheesh. . As an aside, I've been wondering.  Is it only the lower classes who, when faced with reckless behavior by someone whose guts they hate anyway, will jump up and down, hurl obscene invective and hand signals, and want to publish pornographic pictures of his mother having sex with a goat?  Or, is that pretty much universal?

Take yer pick

97 Meanest celebrity photos

Lotta nose pickin' goin' on

Meg Ryan looking surprisingly like Meg Ryan.