Brown calls woman a whore; NOW applauds

Good Question of the Day

Chicago Boyz Carl asks how in hell does the NOW get off endorsing Jerry Brown?  A rhetorical question since everybody in the free world knows the answer (NOLW)

There's only so many Chris Christies (1) to go around.   I'm not at all sure Meg Whitman can turn California around (unless she gets a hard conservative legislature), but I do know, absolutely, that there is not one thing in Jerry Brown's life on earth that does not scream "FAIL!"

Oh no - she pooped herself!

Halloween Finery (as seen on the web)

prototype by SondraK (New Year's Eve 2008)

Chipping away here boss

Judge grants request to file Amicus Curiae Brief claiming health care bill null and void due to Obama’s ineligibility gnaw gnaw gnaw

Putz-Putz

Exclusive First Look: The New Miniature Golf Course Custom-Built for the Obama Family on the White House Grounds! This first look at the Obamas' new miniature golf course, constructed by union members at the low cost of $14 million, is a Doug Ross Exclusive™. Don't hate the playa, bloggers, hate the game.

Dick Blumenthal and Billy Madison

Why God gave us Billy Madison (in case you were wondering)

Linda McMahon has made a campaign video of Dick Blumenthal's rambling, insanely inane answer to her question, "How do you create jobs Dick?"  John McCormack (Weekly Standard) suggests that tacking on this clip, from the movie Billy Madison, would be the knockout punch.

Bloominidiot Billy Madison add-on

The assault on privacy

Deja-Donk

“ The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including all encryption software. The Times  said the Obama administration is drafting a law that would impose a new "mandate" that all communications services be "able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages" — including ordering "[d]evelopers of software that enables peer-to-peer communication [to] redesign their service to allow interception". Electronics Frontier Foundation

Something about this triggered my brainal Clinton deja-vu  alarm. To the archives then!  Posted below are some headers from c. 1997 Free Republic.  Yup.  The bastids never give up.  What really struck me however are some small things, like New World Order Assault On Privacy.  Can you imagine any such alert coming from today's MSNBC?  The NY Times's Online Groups Mount an Effort To Fight Clinton on Encryption similarly surprised, although if I had the full article maybe not so much.  The most jarring thing along these lines though, is from the EFF story. “   In a 1999 decision in the EFF-led Bernstein case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals observed that     [w]hether we are surveilled by our government, by criminals, or by our neighbors, it is fair to say that never has our ability to shield our affairs from prying eyes been at such a low ebb. The availability and use of secure encryption may offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of the privacy we have lost. Government efforts to control encryption thus may well implicate not only the First Amendment rights of cryptographers intent on pushing the boundaries of their science, but also the constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of encryption's bounty. ” That, from same clown court that just allowed gummint to install electronic tracking devices on peep's cars - without a warrant!  Ay Carumba.     The Deja Donk Part Mockery and Fear Greet Encryption Plan     NY Times / CyberTimes     September 12,1997 By PETER WAYNER     The members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence who voted on Thursday to push for strict controls on    encryption software must have expected to be hated on the Internet, but they probably didn't plan on getting laughed at. Online Groups Mount an Effort To Fight Clinton on Encryption     NY Times     Sept. 21, 1997 By JERI CLAUSING     "Stop the government from building Big Brother into the Internet," states an alert that went out on Thursday to more than     200,000 people on the Internet, urging them to call members of the House Commerce Committee.     "In 1948, George Orwell described a future world in which Big Brother peaked over the shoulder of every citizen -- watching     every move and listening to every word," the alert states. "Now, in 1997, the FBI is pushing the United States Congress to     pass legislation which would make George Orwell's frightening vision a reality." Decoding Provision Defeated     Washington Post     Thursday, September 25, 1997 By Rajiv Chandrasekaran     A House committee yesterday rejected an FBI-backed proposal that would have required data-scrambling software sold in     the United States to have decoding features for law enforcement authorities. The vote was a crucial victory for the computer industry. Sage Advise From A Tech Manual     Pretty Good(tm) Privacy Manual     5/18/98 by Philip Zimmermann     It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having an illicit affair. Or you may be doing something that you feel shouldn't be illegal, but is. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (E-mail) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution. FBI, Industry Execs Will Discuss Encryption     TechWeb News     June 5, 1998 Rutrell Yasin, InternetWeek     The encryption debate will continue next week as FBI director Louis Freeh meets with the nation's top computer executives     in Washington, D.C., to discuss differences over domestic use of the technology...."The FBI wants access to plain text data, and they want it on their own terms," Harter said. Sometimes the agency may need to access data in a surreptitious way; how it does that is at the center of the debate, Harter added. U.S. ENCRYPTION POLICY DIFFICULT TO DECODE     The Seattle Times     April 21, 1998, Tuesday Final Edition LISA S. DEAN       FROM the very beginning of President Clinton's first term, the American people have been hearing about the term "encryption." The administration's actions to stifle encryption development has created a debate over individual privacy and  America's rights under the Constitution. First there was the Clipper Chip, which would have given the federal government, through a "key recovery system," the ability to snoop into every American's computer, including e-mail, fax data and personal information. It would even give law  enforcement at every level the ability to listen in on private telephone conversations. New World Order Assault On Privacy     MSNBC     Steve Brinich    12/30/98

Nesting

Sniper rifle conversion cost

Sticker Shock here boss

“ October 7, 2010: The U.S. Army has ordered 3,600 upgrade kits for its M24 bolt-action sniper rifles, which will convert them to the M24E1. This will turn the existing 7.62mm M24 rifles into ones capable of firing the .300 Winchester magnum (7.62x67) round. This is a more powerful round than the NATO 7.62x51 round currently used in the M24. The conversion kit includes a new receiver and barrel, a new scope, a new flash suppressor and a folding buttstock. The conversion will take five years and will cost about $7,800 per rifle. (U.S. Army Upgrades To .300 Winchester Magnum) I am in no way questioning the efficacy of the switch, but the $7,800 per rifle conversion price blows my mind.  What does a new m242e cost for god's sake?  A basic Remington 700 goes for $600-700 new.  “ There was another option, and that was to replace the barrel and receiver of the M24 sniper rifles to handle the .338 (8.6mm) Lapua Magnum round. Thus you still have a 17 pound sniper rifle, but with a round that can hit effectively out to 1,600 meters or more. Since this option offers another 600 meters of range over the m242e, without increasing the weight ... why not?   Where's Kim dammit?

Stuff you did not know
about shooting stars

Tom Mann

Sneaky gummint bastids

Big Brother is a MFCS

A story in August caught my attention, caused me to curse a mighty oath, and move on.  The story, which would have been a major big deal a few years ago, was that the Ninth Circus Clowns of Appeals had okay'd law enforcement placing tracking devices on automobiles without a warrant.  Skip forward.  Does this mean the FBI is after us me? “ Me and my frind went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car. http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg i am pretty confident it is a tracking device by the FBI but my friend's roommates think it is a bomb..any thoughts? Edit 1:I should also clarify that the FBI had interest in my friend since his father passed away, as he was a religious leader and they've made attempts at contacting my friend to spew racist questions. Edit 2: i shouldve been more clear when clarifying but religious muslim leader...and i am an ent! : ) but it was my friend's car and he doesn't reddit. My plan was to just put the device on another car or in a lake, but when you come home to 2 stoned off their asses people who are hearing things in the device and convinced its a bomb you just gotta be sure. Edit 3: MORE PICTURES!! http://imgur.com/sspLU.jpg  - http://imgur.com/f4V2T.jpg  - http://imgur.com/srhrK.jpg *edit 4: people keep repeating some posts so i will address the more frequently asked questions here... The device was found near the exhaust but further in, my friend's father was a muslim religious leader, it is not an ex girlfriend that placed the device on his car nor some random other employer or such. he bought the car a little under a year ago and it wasnt there for sure then. * Last EDIT!! I am doing another post because the story has many new developments, hopefully within a few hours. (Reddit cont) Dude forget to mention his father was an Islamo Imamo!  Sheesh.  Never mind.  (more details here if you're interested)  If I find one on my car, now that I know what it is, I'm sailing out into the Bay and attaching it to the hull of a Moravian freighter.

Yikes

Today's head snappers

Okay, I Googled "2 penises," and wouldn't you know - that in a country that can elect Obama president  anything bizarre is possible. (Of  course it's NSFW)  No, that's not where the term "third leg" came from.  This is (you're still under warning).

They never stop

Rodge. I've hit the "wall."  No matter how hard I try I just can't despise the Democrat party more than I already do.  It's like I've lost my ability to hate guts.  What do you think? - anon

Have you seen this?

Street Magic

Going Home Again

This is pretty wild.  Only worked so so in Firefox, but in google chrome it was scary amazing.   http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ Tom Mann

Plug in the address where you grew up (or any address) and run through the streets to some catchy tune.  It worked for me on Firefox; somewhat better on Chrome (which took 2 minutes to install). Oh-oh.  I see your underpants.

Mother Angelica

Canton event to celebrate Mother Angelica's life and ministry

This is very much a niche market post; a story that JMcD sent me.  EWTN has replaced RFD-TV as my escape television channel.  When I have trouble sleeping I'll often turn it on.  What I did not know is that Mother Angelica founded EWTN in Birmingham in 1981 as the world’s first Catholic cable outlet, and hosted several of its programs.  If you need help saying the rosary, or want to watch Bishop Sheen, this is the spot.  Ahem.   How about them Bears!

SCREAM

October 8, 2010

Elementary Watson ...

The Real Roots of "The Betrayal"

This is so great! “ In my own forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama, I ask two basic questions: one is whether Barack Obama wrote the books and speeches penned under his name, and two is whether the stories he tells therein are true. Like D'Souza, I focus on the most important work in Obama's canon: his celebrated 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.  - Jack Cashill, The Real Roots of Obama's Rage Cashill uses his own extensive knowledge as he respectfully, but critically,  reviews Dinesh D'Souza's new book, The Rage of Obama's.  It's great because all this obliquely addresses (Obama's birthplace is not mentioned)  something that has, if not driven me nuts, come close to it.  That would be Ann Coulter's pronouncement last year that  "birthers" are kook conspirators.  I felt betrayed. As much as I adore Ann however, she offered no compelling reason for that conclusion, and I dismissed it as either - a "let's not be distracted by a media battle we've already lost," or "I haven't paid much attention to it, but my people* tell me the birthers are wrong" cop-out.  The former is so atypical of someone who'd  fight for Joe McCarthy's legacy, that I rejected it in favor of the other.  *Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter share the same belly buttons.  Back to Cashill. “ Like Procrustes, the mythological innkeeper who stretched his victims or severed their limbs to make them fit his iron bed, D'Souza whacks away at the facts to make his "incredible osmosis" theory work. The severing begins with the story of Obama's origins. In his "essence," D'Souza explains, Obama was "his father's son." In his retelling, Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, served largely as the vehicle through which the absent Obama exercised his will on the young Obama, she being "Obama Sr.'s first convert" to anti-colonialism. To make this storyline credible, D'Souza has to embrace the narrative that Obama rolled out in Dreams and amplified during his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. As Obama told the conventioneers, his father grew up in Kenya "herding goats." His mother he traced to Kansas, as he always did. "My parents shared not only an improbable love," said Obama. "They shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation."  Like Obama, D'Souza sustains this narrative at the expense of the facts, and he does so in several salient ways ...  [The FULLNESS] Obama's birthplace is not mentioned, but it is established that  important conservative philomaths have simply not in this instance done their homework. At best.  I cannot allow myself contemplate any worse reason.

Passive-aggressive

Syphilis in the brain is terminal

Still the most clueless of all ...

“ The next morning, NBC’s Today dropped any pretense of neutrality,  casting Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino as an “angry candidate” at the “heart of one of the nastiest races in New York history.” Co-host Matt Lauer accused the Tea Party-backed Paladino of engaging in “nasty campaigning,” then challenged: “How can you practice that gutter politics for a long period of time and then all of a sudden say, ‘That’s not me anymore?’” Worst of the Week: Media Fulfilling Their Role in Democrats' 2010 Playbook All these legacy media people are kids who, raised in a whorehouse, think incestuous cluster-fucking is normal.

Home to Roost

Accountability begins at home

September 22 - RNC pays some Palin legal bills in exchange for help October 7, 2010 - GOP fundraising worsens as elections near -Despite help from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Instanalysis The GOP, including McCain's own campaign, throws Sarah to the wolves during and after the 2008 campaign.  Not only don't they help her fend off  non-stop legal charges of impropriety from the left, they charge her for clothes the campaign purchased for her!  Ha-ha, so much for the hick interloper who tried to manage her own VP campaign.  Faced with still mounting and ruinous legal attacks she says screw this and resigns as governor.  Not to hide under the bed. Oh no.  To strike back at a GOP machine that had become a stale, vengeful, and politically impotent old lady with yellow teeth and sagging teats. Meanwhile,  a spontaneous revolt against same-old same-old  GOP incompetence was occurring, and there stood Sarah Palin, without portfolio, but Twittering away while  millions listened.  The Big Bang!   I, and millions of others instinctively knew the king was dead and  long live the queen. “ The former Alaska governor has achieved some high-profile successes in endorsing GOP primary candidates. More important from the RNC's viewpoint, she has proved to be a potent fundraising draw for GOP donors. [GOP fundraising worsens]  What?  Sarah's high profile successes were backing  anti-establishment Tea-Party challengers to GOP endorsed hacks.  And winning.  Now the GOP is broke. Here's the roost. “ But many Republican donors, especially the ones who can afford to give the most, have expressed distrust in the financial management of the RNC under Chairman Michael S. Steele, whose first two-year term as party chairman expires in January. [GOP fundraising worsens] Accountability begins.

Guilty of not doing nothing

Usual Suspect Rules Obamacare Constitutional

“ Even though ObamaCare is a novel application of the Commerce Clause because it regulates the act of not engaging in economic activity, the judge concluded that in reality the Commerce Clause power extends to all economic decisions that affect commerce. He also argued that a person can not guarantee that he or she will opt out of the health care market. -TAS ”

Federal Judge George Steeh Rejects Challenge To Key Elements Of Health Care Law Let's put aside for a moment that US District Court Judge George Steeh was recommended for the bench by Senator Carl Levin was  appointed by Bill Clinton.  is president of the Arab American Bar Association is a social activist, including being an active member of the Interfaith Council for Racial Justice (one of which guiding principles is, ironically, Opposing political power that is derived from a racist appeal) Has a history of basing far reaching decisions on "feel good" emanations. Forget all that.  How in the hell do you bend the Commerce Clause pretzel,  yet again,  to regulate the act of not engaging in economic activity?  Arguing that a person can not guarantee that he or she won't do something? I am in the school that thinks removing (impeaching) activist judges ought be the single highest priority of congress.  This guy is a poster boy candidate for inclusion. This is just one suit, and a relatively minor one at that.  Here's a clearing house site for all suits being brought against Obamacare, US District Court Judge George Steeh