Why you're fat

I think this wins

Tony’s BLT One pound of fried bacon on a toasted Italian bread with lettuce, tomato and mayo. (submitted by Downtownrobot Nic via Tony’s I-75 Restaurant)

9/11 Pics

Dramatic images of World Trade
Center collapse on 9/11 released

Tired AGW rhetoric

The Red Express

It's hard to calculate the damage to our free society the New York Times is responsible for. Whatever curbs on the paper's Liberal political bent once existed, they've disappeared under Pinch Sulzberger's stewardship. Mention the NYT, and my mind's eye summons a steam engined train, racing across a frozen landscape, carrying an army of Bolsheviks looking for reactionaries to murder.  Really. Today John Broder used some of what's left of his employer's influence to shovel up a steaming heap of Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze. “ Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt. Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events. As an illustration of their point of view, the family of Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, a leading climate skeptic in Congress, built a six-foot-tall igloo on Capitol Hill and put a cardboard sign on top that read “Al Gore’s New Home.” The extreme weather, Mr. Inhofe said by e-mail, reinforced doubts about scientists’ conclusion that global warming was “unequivocal” and most likely caused by human activity. Nonsense, responded Joseph Romm, a climate-change expert and former Energy Department official who writes about climate issues at the liberal Center for American Progress. ” Broder is selling AGW using populist political rhetoric, when hard science is called for.  Inhofe cannot be faulted for poking a stick in the eye of Progressives,still intent on trumping the Bill of Rights with legerdemain; everyone is doing it.  Rather than ridicule Inhofe, who has done more than anyone in congress to introduce science into the debate,  if Broder was interested in advancing AGW he'd take on the likes of Anthony Watts.  His blog Watts Up With That? has a global reputation for practicing good science, and blowing the whistle on the  bad.   Broder's ilk won't, because they cannot.  It's been so easy influencing the dull witted Joy Behars of the world, for so long, with phony science and Al Gore movies, that intellectual muscle is atrophied. Disclosure:  I am not a scientist, but I had a Gilbert chemistry set when I was 9.   I have a AA battery recharger too.  And a keen smell for the odor of bullshit.

The real Palin Poll

The One Downside

Lefty site TPM is headlining "Palin's Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows, Even Among GOPers"  On this, the 11th day of February, 2010, who cares about Sarah Palin's  numbers?   I'd have regularly been posting stories like this, but haven't.  If I was paying attention, the  ABC/WaPost poll would not be my go-to source.  Right now, that would be Rasmussen, or PPP, because they've been accurate. Conveniently juxtaposed on the same page are TPM's Obama poll numbers.  That's what I'm talking about. Oh, by the way, when's the last time the DNC threw some of the crap they wallow in at  Mitt Romney, or any other 2012 hopeful?  That's right. Why is that?  There's your poll result.

It's a message!

Cosmic Juxtaposition one gets ready for the Prom ...

French nails, while ... The bum's rush

Citizens United Extended

The Scalia v. Stevens Smackdown In President Obama's view, corporations are anathema.

“ Justice Antonin Scalia then wrote a majority concurrence solely so that he could go mano a mano with Justice Stevens. A mere three sentences in, he unloads: "The dissent attempts this demonstration, however, in splendid isolation from the text of the First Amendment." ” If you watch this beauty,  you'll surely be wanting to ask Stevens about Jefferson's very clear statement about what should be "suppresed," since he's a fan.

Claim: shade won't melt.

I See The Light

Sarah's Bracelet

Hatred - The anger of the weak Alphonse Daulet

Saga of Sarah's Sinister Stupid Sorry-asses Spreads

“ It began with an as-of-this-time unretracted post at the Yale Daily News, and the deranged Palin-haters of the left quickly ran with the story. Crooks and Liars whined ... "To wear a bracelet that someone had to order that would clearly indicate it's a memorial bracelet for your child that's alive.Horrifying." DailyKos simpered .... "this blatant disregard for the norms of military families, and one of the most recognizable symbols of grief, while completely unsurprising, needs to be highlighted." (Pretty rich coming from the website whose most famous sentiment on the grief of those who were lost in wartime is "Screw 'em!") ” But Wait .... Can you say "Deployment Bracelet?"  [Moonbattery]

EZ Magic

In Passing

In Passing

I found this stuff

ROR “ We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are ... Michelle Obama announces 'obesity' a threat to national security... White House: Obama Critics Helping Al Qaeda Unions bash Democrats, warn of political fallout Labor groups are furious with the Democrats they helped put in office — and are threatening to stay home this fall (blah-blah-blah) ... Ted Kennedy's seat voting against confirmation of  union thug Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just the latest blow, but the frustrations have been building for months. What's today's  "telling blow” to the “arrogant global powers? ... a major German newspaper, the Süddeutschen Zeitung, reported on Thursday that Iran has developed an atomic bomb with the help of a scientist from the former Soviet Union.  Zugzwang:  (tsktsväng) Democrats’ 2010 Dilemma I first encountered the word Zugzwang in a 1985 New York Times Magazine column by the late William Safire.  It’s a chess term that means “compelled to move, but imperiled by doing so.” The word’s political implications are profound. [Watch - Zugzwang is the new Zeitgeist  (tstgst, zt-)] Biden: I’ve been really impressed with the success we've had “I am very optimistic about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration,” Biden said. [ASIDE: The Soviet Union invented baseball too. Or was that the "sun people?" Ahem. ] At first, it sounds like Taps, but it's Silenzio, composed by Nino Rossi in 1965.  Doesn't matter, this young lady plays it beautifully (H/T Tom Mann) Sweet Tea for GOP in Alabama According to a  Gallup poll released last week, Alabama is already the most conservative state in the union, but it's not yet conservative enough for grassroots activists like Don Odom. Wells Fargo rejects Richfield man's 30-year-old certificates A retired miner and rancher in southern Idaho, who found long-lost certificates of deposits estimated to be worth more than a half-million dollars, was informed by the bank holding the CDs that they aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.  Their position: Prove that we haven't already redeemed them!" Marvel admits to 'mistake' in controversial Captain America comic It looks like Marvel Comics' Captain America is throwing his mighty shield at the Tea Party Movement. Warner Todd Huston wrote on his Publius forum blog that the super-powered soldier who fought the Nazis in WWII observes with disdain Americans who are seemingly compared to Tea Party Movement protesters of today: ”

First Clip, First Dip

Unplugged

Get your hands off that seal, dammit.

Earthquake? Chicago?

Okay, somebody out there's the Anti-Christ.  Step forward, you pussy.

Smug Alert

Smugicide?

I am absolutely convinced that people like Behar and Ensler are the produce of some Roswell era hanky-panky between space aliens and farm animals. I'm not kidding. Nothing else makes sense.

Batman Generator

I bet you can do better

Toon wars

I need some pookie! Jeezus, man, learn to spell it first!

The Boston Globe calls it's round-up of political toon's the "The Ink Tank."  They came so very, very close to getting it right (Inkhorn) Most of us here prefer pookie.

The Reagan model for restoration

Ronald Reagan was, and remains, the North Star of the last great conservative revolution -- and the next

What a great picture “ In 1977, Reagan outlined a plan for "The New Republican Party," stating, "The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and what we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations -- found through the often bitter testing of pain, or sacrifice and sorrow." ” At 1310 words, this essay by Mark Penn [The Reagan model for restoration]  covers a lot of ground.  For one thing, it touches on the Left's go-to complaint about Reagan (after "he was stupid"), e.g. - "he increased the deficit!"  Over the years many neo conservatives have ceded that point, for the same reason, I suppose, that many of them are today hostile to questioning Obama's contradictory birth circumstances; -  it's"unproductive."   But here's the point, as I see it.  Reagan's core principles, and his staunch observance of them, is the stuff of success. And what were those principles?

Today's empty feel-good gesture

Daddy, what's a "Liberal?"

1000 Words    purloined from SondraKowitz

Sexist?

In Passing

In Passing

r we fkd-up, or what?

JFC! “ Pelosi: Democrats Will “Definitely” Retain Majority Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)said he would consider Democrats successful if they simply managed to outnumber Republicans after the elections. [Like Joe Namath's, Pelosi's abilities are pretty much a media creation. At least Joe Willie was likable.] Explorer's Whiskey Found Buried Near South Pole It's probably the most sought-after scotch in history [H/T ThoR] The IndyMac slap in our face You won't believe the sweetheart deal that the Indymac boys were given by the FDIC MKH is calling him the Dane Cook of politics for ripping off a goof that’s already been done three times by national figures, including Palin herself, but it’s worse than that. All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register in South Carolina If you intend to overthrow the government, you must notify it in advance and pay a $5.00 fee. [I know a Pay Pal moment when I see one] Thomas Sowell : The Fallacy of "Fairness": Part II Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to help low achievers. Cheney's Revenge The Obama Administration is vindicating Bush antiterror policy. Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds A seemingly grassroots organization that's mounted an online campaign to counter the tea party movement is actually the front end of an elaborate scheme that funnels funds -- including sizable labor union contributions -- through the offices of a prominent Democratic party lawyer. The nuking of Dan Coats In the week since Dan Coats announced he was preparing to challenge Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, Democrats have launched a withering, no-holds-barred assault on the former Republican senator .... forbeing soft on Osama Bin Laden. ”

Ham v Cat

So, a Priest & a Rabbi ...

A Priest and a Rabbi were sitting next to each other on an airplane. After a while, the Priest turned to the Rabbi and asked, “Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?” The Rabbi responded, “Yes, that is still one of our laws.” The Priest then asked, “Have you ever eaten pork?” To which the Rabbi replied, “Yes, on one occasion I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich.” The Priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading. A while later, the Rabbi spoke up and asked the Priest, “Father, is it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?” The Priest replied, “Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith.” The Rabbi then asked him, “Father, have you ever fallen to the temptations of the flesh?” The Priest replied, “Yes, Rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke my faith.” The Rabbi nodded understandingly and remained silent, thinking, for about five minutes. Finally, the Rabbi said,   “Beats the shit out of a ham sandwich, doesn't it?” Uncle Frank