doubleplusundead

You see, if Congress doesn’t make a deal over the Fiscal Cliff (dum, dum, dumm, dummmmmm), it’s Game Over.

That makes me laugh for two reasons.

First, even if Congress makes a “Deal”, all it’s going to do is attempt to kick the can down the road. They’ll just raise the borrowing limit (because this time, THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!, they’re going to fix the US fiscal state), before not cutting shit. Hell, they can ‘t even “cut” the increases, does anybody think they can actually cut spending in the way anybody not of our self-proclaimed Elite would think of it? If so, I have some prime beach land for sale, sure you can’t quite see the ocean from here, but it’s very sandy and sunny.

Second, I’m betting not game over, but I’m an eternal optimist. I figure nobody’s going to predict when the game really is over. Just like when the USSR fell, I’m sure there were panels planned for 6 months later, very scholarly panels, that were going to explain how Soviet communism was superior to American capitalism (spit!) and therefore, we should become an SSR.

One day I’ll be watching the Sunday Panel of Deep Thinkers telling me how now that there’s been a “Deal” we can all expect our Skittle-shitting unicorns when they’ll break in to talk about rioting breaking out in every major city on both coasts and the Oregon, Arizona and Nevada National Guards being called out to keep California rioters from invading. That’ll be funny.

Next in our tour, we see some ironic hilarity from our fine media betters.

Apparently the AP’s styleguide now includes calling him “The Prophet Mohammed“.  Engel (the guy linked) asks

Do you get the feeling AP editors are worried about being tried in absentia and sentenced to death?

Oh I’d say “Yes” and more, I’d hope for it. As they say, you can only sentence someone to death once so maybe the AP jackasses will join western civilization in their war with the barbarians.

Sorry, I just like to make myself laugh. I mean, I hope they do get all fatwaed, but I think it would only make them more lick-spittle.

Now for what Uncle likes to call, “Where Great Britain Used To Be”.

Over at Ace’s, Maetenloch helpfully catalogues some of their more egregious examples of not having a 1st Amendment.

Basically there really isn’t any since almost any non-trivial thing you say could possibly be ‘offensive’ to someone. And that’s now illegal.

Hunt master who called black saboteur a f****** w** is fined £3,000 (Here I assume he said ‘fucking wog’ but since no source ever printed the actual statement who knows.)

Christian demoted at work after writing on Facebook that he opposed gay marriage in church

You can also be prosecuted for insulting tweets but only if you’re popular.

The UK Independence Party is set to become the 3rd largest party in the UK but just being a member is considered by authorities enough to make you unfit to be a parent.

Tory Students at Oxford ask for legal protections due to continual persecution

And now we see this

Lord Justice Leveson has condemned decades of “outrageous” behaviour by newspapers as he urged the Government to set up a new media watchdog underpinned by legislation

Yes, just what Britain needs to further her transformation to Airstrip One.

And now for some depressing shit.

Syria is cut off from the Intertubes, land lines and cell phones, they still have satellite service of course. You know, until the Mukhbarat finds out and you die.

Now, everybody reporting this is saying that it could be the gov’t doing it, but nobody knows. It’s obviously the gov’t, for a few reasons. First and foremost, of course, everybody would be screeching about the Jooooooooos!!!!! doing it.

Second, we see this.

Major Syrian offensive along the Damascus airport road.

“Children as young as 14 have served in at least three opposition brigades, transporting weapons and supplies and acting as lookouts,” the New York-based watchdog said. “Children as young as 16 have carried arms and taken combat roles against government forces.”

First, 16 isn’t all that young for a military. It was once patriotic for 16 year olds to lie about their age to join the military and fight for their country. Second, the 14 year olds are not fighters, they’re helpers. A tradition that has a long history that only died out in the west over the last 100 years or so. I’m not saying I’m fer it, I’m saying it’s the way the world is and has been.

But mostly what I find so stupid about this is that the Syrians are killing them. Anybody over 14 is old enough to fight so the Syrians will surely kill them if they act all non-combatantly. And kill them horribly, with rusty bayonets and belly wounds if they’re lucky.

And now for the big finish, Hezbollah Getting Off a Good One.

So some of the rebels are blowing up Syrian gov’t types and Hezbollah is all pissed off, that’s their schtick.

Lebanon’s Shiite party Hezbollah condemned a recent set of explosions targeting religious minorities in Syria and Shiite pilgrims in Iraq in recent days.

“The senseless killing and terrible blood shedding of innocent people is the execution of a western devilish will,”

Okay, if I had written that I’m not sure how I could have made it funnier. No, more, I doubt I would have gotten the pitch so perfect.

Early links via the puppy Blender, I looked at Now Lebanon when I saw Syria was off the ‘tubes.

I actually had another Puppy Blender link to a PJ Media story, but I hate their website and I won’t go there anymore.

What with all the pop-ups and annoying things that I have to click. The pop-up on that page (that got around my Firefox settings saying, “No pop-ups”), froze my computer. I had to go to the task manager and end the process of Firefox, then open it without my wifi on so when it tried to recover those pages, I could close the pop-up and the PJ media link before they froze my computer again.

Fuck em. I stopped reading vodkapundit except for drunkblogging debates and such because of that shit.

I understand it’s their site and they pay the bills and make money how they can, but I don’t need the hassle so I just don’t go there.

Just like Hot Air. I can see the same links at Ace’s, Drudge or the Puppy Blender and I don’t get the annoying pop-ups and boring, establishment, conventional wisdom that I get from everybody at Hot Air except Allah.

Now that I’ve pissed off everyone today, I’m off to make lunch.

Here’s some hotassery, it’s been too long.

This woman turns me on, but I can never remember her name. If only she would figure out some way to let me know.

I know, I used this one just a couple of weeks ago, but that is one hot pic of Dita, so shut up and whine at ATC if you have a problem with it.