Didn't Democrats accuse Bush 43 of imperialism or colonialism or a dozen -isms for interfering in the politics in other countries? Vulgar fourth-grade wisdom had the truth of Democrats then: "Whoever smelt it dealt it." Obama proved it with Honduras....' [...]
Via Mass ResistanceReady for a Boston-style assault on Christmas? Check out The Slutcracker coming to the Somerville Theatre. Its a celebration of strippers, sadomasochism, transsexuals, and the carefree realm of sexual fantasy. Of course, the blurbs in Boston Magazine,... [...]
The headline was supposed to be Chaz Is A Liar, but I can't fault him for it anymore. Because just as a beautiful butterfly emerging from the chrysalis can no longer conceive of its prior existence as a caterpillar, Chaz...' [...]
The sub-hed says it all, really: “We can win the war, but be home in 18 months. We can have health-care reform, without increasing the deficit. His fans call it Obama’s ‘complexity.’ Lee Siegel calls it delusional.” I call it a lying, megalomaniacal son of a bitch trying to deceive [...]
I'm giving this the flaming skull for other reasons. I'm not sure if Britain's Met Office is really saying they won't be supporting the global warmist agenda for three years, or if that's just the reporter's gloss on the...' [...]
Investing in a terrorist organization has it's inevitable tunnel collapses. Note, video is from alJazerra so ignore the necessary it's the joooooos fault as part of the commentary.... [...]
Both are US Senators. Both are shitheads who had affairs. But one of them nominated his mistress to a spot as a U.S. Attorney, and one didn't. Since this story isn't ZOMG!1!1!!!SEX SCANDAL!1!1!STOP THE PRESSES!1!1! You can guess which one is guilty. Yup. And the best part? Baucus is the [...]
(Bucks County, Pennsylvania) In May 2009, a 37-year-old Jordanian national, illegally in the U.S., Khalid Altawarh (aka David Shookby), was arrested for allegedly kidnapping, robbing, beating, raping, and torturing a woman for three hours. Altawarh took the name Shookby when... [...]
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Mr. Touch-and-Go Bullet-Head
December 4, 1932
“Horse-ShitGate” Stuns Scientific Community
The scientific community is stunned to learn, via a series of leaked telegraph messages, that esteemed Professors Michael Mann and Philip Jones — both considered pioneers in studies of the Anthropogenic Horse-Shit Apocalypse — allegedly conspired to manipulate results and destroy supporting [...]
With... adults. The most liberal Democrat friendly sample there is. Here's another finding: The public likes the idea of pulling troops out of Afghanistan, but they seem to get what a bad idea it is to announce a bug-out date:... [...]
Number of comments: 0 "So how many times have we been flooded out after all those years of melting ice caps again?"Tom Blumer is fascinated at Pajamas Media how the legacy media in the US is studiously avoiding three huge stories:GM restructured, losing billions of dollars and flushing taxpayer money awayHomelessness is on the [...]
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It would have been hard for Harry Truman to have maintained American morale through victory in World War II, if he’d treated the war as a rotten mess dropped in his lap by an inconsiderate Franklin Roosevelt. An American president should take extraordinary efforts to reinforce the morale of [...]
The thing is, this is so odd, I think we can take this out of the category of "doesn't know the snap-count" and safely put it in the category of "is suffering from delirium due to concussion or heat stroke."...' [...]
This fine gentleman is running in Florida District 22 for the U.S. Congress. It is with men like this the GOP will thrive. Listen to the end. It's worth it.
News of the financial meltdown of Dubai World — a quasi-sovereign global concern that owns 77 percent of the international port manager DP World and is the single largest real-estate developer in Dubai, which is known for its palm-tree-shaped luxury residential developments — has raced from the business pages to [...]
After setting off a firestorm of protest, the federal panel that talked down the value of breast cancer screening for women backed off their recommendations. "The recommendation about breast cancer screening for women 40 to 49 did not say what..." [...]
Yup. As the green goof scammery and flimflammery is crumbling and wilting faster than Keith Olbermann around a woman, Manbearpig, the High Priest Of Hucksterism, is bailing on his commitments at Copenhagen. Oh, and... [...]
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Number of comments: 10 The word out on the street is that another combat veteran member of IVAW quit recently. Jesse Hamilton, who has been through This Ain’t Hell a few times (especially on this post about the Army Experience Center protest).
Hamilton says that the IVAW leadership was too slow to act on [...]
Number of comments: 0 Living in Manhattan, I would walk to and fro to work in the dark, very late or very early, and would come across huge swaths of posters attached to any available surface. Sometimes they were ads for products such as Lancôme, sometimes for clothes, sometimes [...]
Democrat and Tennessee Representative John Tanner took one look at the gospel singing farmer named Stephen Fincher who lives in Frog Jump (Yes, Really!) Tennessee and decided he wanted none of that, he's not gonna seek another term. From what I see in google maps, Frog Jump is about two [...]
...you're an idiot, professor: A Canadian researcher said he had to cancel a pornography study because he could not find any adult men who had never viewed sexually explicit material.
Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse of the University of Montreal said he had to drastically alter his study on' [...]
Number of comments: 9 I read an interesting article today (NYT link) on the economics of gift-giving. The author’s point can be illustrated with this chart. Click to embiggen.
Basically, when you give someone a gift, you are increasing their wealth by the cost of that gift. However, the recipient’s value of the gift – [...]
He made at least three dozen references to himself, but never said "victory" or "win." He's not comfortable with those concepts. He thinks the Taliban have a point!
Weird. Iowahawk comes in to the comments and posts a detailed, authoritative explanation of the scandal. If only he had his own blog for this sort of thing. Ah, well: I'll take his free labor on my behalf gladly. First...' [...]
Gotta love air power! Comments include speculation on targets for a stealth UAV as being Pakistan's and/or Iran's nuke facilities. I agree 100% with the latter.... [...]
Statement contrary to interest: "Just for a second -- health care reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or..." [...]
Number of comments: 5 Gee, I think somebody else made this exact same point a few days before this reason.tv video came out.
via Instapundit.
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