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Damn The Typos! Full Tubes Ahead!

Posted: March 15, 2013 by veeshir in Catholicism, China, Conservatism, Filthy Hippies, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, GOP Win!, Islam - a religion of tolerance and peace, Jitardis, Liberal Fascism, Nanny State, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, PEBKAC, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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Sorta important, above the post update.

Eh, it didn’t matter much to me, I was just curious and I saw something today that gave me a clue on how to find out.

Aaccording to this Catholic News Agency article,

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi has confirmed that the Pope intended to take his name from the 13th century aristocrat who left his wealthy family to serve the poor and rebuild the Church.

So, St. Francis of Assisi.

Now, back to the post!

My subscription to spell check ran out so you gets what I gives.

I’m all depressed today, Nicole wrote what I was worried about, I’m becoming an OUTRAGE!!!! monger. Apcray.

Denial is just not strong enough for today and I can’t stay drunk all day. Maybe I should turn to LSD. Eh, I’ll try to see the funny.

This one actually does make me laugh,  It’s a drudge link and he’s talking about Obama slapping around a Dem congresscritter. What makes me laugh is this

Obama was referring to his $1 billion proposal for 15 manufacturing “innovation centers,”

He actually expects people to take that shit seriously.

The article goes on to note this

the details of which are still somewhat hazy.

“Hazy”, yeah, we’ll go with that. It sounds so much better than, “Ridiculous crap that doesn’t mean anything.”

We all saw Cruz make Feinstein look like a fool yesterday. You know it was bad because Andrea Mitchell declared DiFi the winner, but we also see this as another proof they know she looked like the moron she is (Dumber than a box of Boxers!)

Feinstein told Wolf Blitzer she “felt patronized” by the “arrogant” junior senator and had to take some time to cool off afterward.

Awwww, did the mean old man make ems look stupid?

How arrogant and clueless do you have to be to piss off the men who are dedicated to give up their lives for yours?

A former agent blasted President Obama for blaming the Secret Service for the decision to shut down White House tours,

That’s right, Obama arrogant and clueless.

What lefties do understand is indoctrination, they’re only fer it when they’re indoctrinating kids to believe the right things.

I just intro’d bill to prevent kids under 12 from going to gun shows.

Yup, can’t let 12 year olds learn how cool guns are or they might want one.

Also via Say Uncle, … Cold Fury (the exact link is below about sedition) we see this bit of common sense about gun laws.

You cannot “protect” a right while calling for limitations on it.

Preach it brother!

How do you say, “How many divisions does he have?” in Mandarin? (unsafe, NY Times Link)

China congratulated Pope Francis on Thursday on his ascension to the papacy, but also warned the Vatican not to interfere in what China deems to be its internal affairs.

I know who I’m rooting for.

Hmmm, now I have to wonder how to say it in English.

This past Sunday, a Chicago area church sponsored a Second Amendment Sunday filled with “assault” pop-tarts, “combat” cupcakes and a sheet-cake that featured a chocolate semi-automatic Glock handgun with a quote from Jesus that read “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

That last is a very nice touch except they really needed it to be a Colt, not a Glock.

pop-gun

Okay, headlines that just seem fucking ridiculous.

US Can’t Make Dominos Founder Offer Contraceptives To Employees

Seriously, imagine going back to the 50s and showing that article to people. They’d lock you up for your own good.

A question, could you let him off if he promises to take acting lessons?

Headine

Hah!… Iranian Regime TV: Ben Affleck Could Be Hanged For War Crimes

I ask because I could see that question coming up.

Hmmm, this is interesting.

Egyptian media outlets are reporting that a number of Hamas members were involved in the August 2012 attack on an Egyptian military base that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. The three Hamas members linked to the attack are Ayman Nofal, Mohamed Ibrahim Salah Abu Shamala, and Raed al Attar.

On the one hand, I doubt the Muslim Brotherhood likes Hamas killing people in Egypt without their permission, on the other hand, they were killing the main obstacles to the MB’s takeover of Egypt. Interesting to see how it plays out.

Now sure about this one either.

“The Lebanese cabinet is required to hold an extraordinary meeting to ask the army to deploy along the border,”

Whose side would they be on? So far in Syria we’ve seen homegrown terrorists, al Quaeda, Hezbollah and Syrian military in a dog’s breakfast of a nightmare scenario, I guess whose side they’ll be on depends on how many Hezbollah units are included.

Steyn on Islamophobes getting their blood all over the place.

The attempted murder of an “Islamophobe” is part of the scene in today’s Europe. Among those targeted have been such obvious “right-wing extremists” as secular feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, gay hedonist Pim Fortuyn, and coke-snorting anti-monarchist Theo van Gogh. While I was in Copenhagen paying a visit to Lars’s Danish Free Press Society, a young Chechen jihadist opposed to all this outrageous Islamophobia prematurely detonated while assembling his bomb in his hotel room, and we all had a good laugh. But sometimes, as on Lars’s doorstep, the jihad wannabe is less incompetent and gets a little closer.

It being EUnuchstan, they need to provide ‘balance’.

The author Hedegaard is one of the few Danes who is a certified racist, as he some years ago was fined by a High Court for having stated in a blog interview that Muslim fathers rape their children. He was later acquitted by the Supreme Court.

Hmmm, where does one get one of those certificates? And since he was acquitted, isn’t he a “formerly certified racist” as he’d have lost his certified status?

I’m surprised we haven’t seen this bit of sorta good news at Hot Air, Ace, Drudge, Gateway pundit or any of the other news aggregators.

… jumped out a window from the family’s co-op apartment Wednesday afternoon with 10-month-old son Keston in her arms. She died instantly.

The baby survived by bouncing off his motionless mom’s chest upon impact.

I’m always in favor of them failing at the “murder” part of a “murder/suicide” deal.

Now I’m not saying they’re related, but Girls Gone Wild was hounded into bankruptcy and what happens the very next spring break?

Two masked men armed opened fire in a bar on the outskirts of the Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Thursday, killing six people and wounding five,

While I abhor the violence, as a titty-man, I understand it.

Apparently illegal immigration causes global worming.

It’s one reason I feel it’s urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to step out of the shadows and on to a broad path toward citizenship. It will help, not hurt, our environmental efforts, and potentially in deep and powerful ways.

The biggest lack in today’s world are people who stand back and say, “You know, that’s pretty fucking ridiculous, maybe you should not say that.”, that’s why it’s often so funny out.

I’ve been wondering something lately, who will be the first con-blogger to be arrested for sedition.  Mike at Cold Fury has a list of some of the people I think are in the running.

I’m figuring it’s between the Emperor and Bob Owens.

I just realized that SMOD should be plan B, FrnakJ notes what we all used to know was Plan A.

So, what do you think should be the future of conservatism? I’m thinking conquering other planets. Going to other planets looks like the only realistic way to escape big government now.

Yup, Heinlein, in Time Enough For Love, I think, said that space travel hurt the Earth as freedom lovers escaped the increasing loss of freedom on Earth.

Just as immigration to America hurt EUnuchstan as all the freedom lovers left for America for generations.

In other words, I’ve been rooting for stuff traveling in the wrong direction! That’s pretty funny.

Why I’m not going to CPAC

Posted: March 1, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, Paultardia, Uncategorized
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I’m not “boycotting” CPAC, and certainly not because of the exclusion of GOProud or Chris Christie.  Those things are both symptomatic of the problem though, which is what it is that CPAC has become.

I went to CPAC three years in a row — 2009, 2010, and 2011.  2009 was a largely positive experience, mostly because I got to see firsthand that I wasn’t alone in my apprehension about what America had done by electing Obama.  Over the years I met up with a few interesting individuals, had a few bourbons on Tim Pawlenty’s dime, and sat in on some interesting panels.

But the more time you spend there, the more you realize that CPAC is a product. Several products, actually, where targeted groups get to go hear about things that they already believe.  It’s a “Ron Paul Revolution” product, where you can go hear about nullification and the gold standard.  It’s a cultural conservative product where you can go hear what is essentially the Rick Santorum message.  And, to some extent, it’s a “blogger” product, where select members of the blogosphere can go “report” on CPAC and have their egos stroked.  And so on and so forth for a number of other conservative sub-groups.

Don’t get me wrong – there’s some utility to CPAC, though I think one would be better served to just sit an the hotel bar and buy interesting people drinks rather than pay to get into the conference.  But it’s basically a product that the ACU sells to people who are already conservative.

And because it’s a product, they can’t offend their customer base by allowing teh gheys in.  Or Chris Christie.  And they can’t throw the Birchers out because there’s too much overlap with the Paul-bots, who are legion.

I’m not avoiding CPAC just because GOProud isn’t welcome, but because it’s not worth it to me to buy their product.

Round the Tubes, By The Time You See This It’ll Be Tomorrow

Posted: February 27, 2013 by veeshir in Conservatism, Exploding things, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Geektasticity, Government FAIL, Hotassery, Islam - a religion of tolerance and peace, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, Win!
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Edition.

First, via the Jawas we get  a link with a quote.

Catholic priests say they are living in fear after a clergyman was murdered on the final day of a music festival promoting religious tolerance.

So who else was involved? You can’t tell the players without a program.

coexist1

I’ll try my hand at a Drudgetaposition.

Christie not invited to CPAC

Christie announces expansion of medicare.

Via Wyatt, I finally looked at that article where Kerry called Americans idiots, I didn’t realize he wasn’t in America when he said that (Kerry, not Wyatt).

If he had been in his home nation I wouldn’t have had a problem with him saying what we all know he ‘thinks’,  but he wasn’t in France, he was in fucking Germany.  Asshole.

I like Michael Z. Williamson’s books, so I felt bad about making fun of his “Manly Guns” list (I still think it wasn’t good with the AK being ridiculous on that list), so I’m happy I get to link him with an Atta Boy.

Headline

Vice President Shithead Doesn’t Understand The Constitution

Then he starts to explain why, beginning with this

“How can I say this politely?

Not sure, but you made a good start.

Next time you’re thinking how counter-productive the minimum wage is, ponder this Aussie nannarchism. This is  that Aussie pub owner in Queensland that I like linking, talking about the gov’t mandated pay rates for his employees.

The payscale section of the industrial award  or instrument (not my terminology) that applies to the Wayside Tavern has 962 pay rates, yes Nine-Hundred-and-Sixty-Two.(emphasis original V)

He says, “Why not a thousand?”

Cuz that would just be ridiculous.

Okay, this one is darn funny.  As we all know (or not), in EUnuchstan they kept finding horse meat in everything a week or two ago., Well, in South Africa they’re finding

Soya, donkey, goat, water buffalo and plant material were found in up to 68 percent of the 139 minced meats, burger patties, delicatessen meats, sausages and dried meats tested by the university.

Well duh. I’d be happy it’s not people. I just hope nobody checks the food in the Congo. I’d bet that pork loin was long pig.

When I was in Kenya in 1984, my buddy was living there so we just rented a Suzuki Samurai and cruised all over,.  I ate red curry “kabob and chips” everywhere. If they had refrigeration, plates and silverware, I would even eat the cole slaw. Often they didn’t, it was just some shack with a bubbling pot of oil for french fries and a rusty car fender over a fire for cooking kabob.

I didn’t want to know what the hell meat I was eating, I was mostly hoping it wasn’t people. I’d bet a dollar I’ve eaten baboon, monkey, water buffalo and maybe even lion if I was lucky.

A little Veeshir Vlashback. I was looking for something else when I saw this Round the Tubes  link. It’s from one of the previous times the debt “crisis” was GONNA KILL US ALL!!!!!! (the subtitle’s “Game Over Man, Game Over!)

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.

Wash, rinse, raise my taxes. Repeat. Well, at least this time we’ll have the hilarity of them all freaking out over there being no budget that they’ll fix by passing a continuing spending resolution instead of  a budget. You see, earmarks are only in budgets and they can pretend that they haven’t “budgeted” a deficit if they don’t have one.

Now something that I hope is for real. I can’t really quote any parts out, if you’re into the details, check it out. It looks plausible, if you accept the premise that carbon can be used to make batteries.

These dudes think they have a  totally new, cheap, very efficient battery.

I hope so, because the state of battery technology is not very good, we just can’t make them clean or very efficient. Those are clean to produce and supposedly efficient.

I’m not sure about how polluting they’d be to dispose (I don’t know if they’d have battery acid), but a battery that is not an ecological nightmare to produce and is efficient would be awesome.

I expect all Green Scientists to fight this tooth and nail, because green science is neither and that battery would be both.

Eh, maybe they could make ‘em with a hammer and sickle logo to get Global Warmmongers onboard.

Don’t forget, check out This Ain’t Hell to see who to vote for and then check out the cheerleaders. I suggest you look very closely at all the pictures at the second link and then vote for the two at the first link.

Post needs pics, hmmmm, perhaps something yellow and soft to make John Effin Kerry feel welcome.

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Round The Tubes: Don’t Rush Into Things

Posted: February 26, 2013 by veeshir in China, Conservatism, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Government FAIL, Nanny State, Notes on the Revolution, PEBKAC
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In the 90s and 00s they sing about cough syrup (Flaming Homers), in the 70s they had different priorities.

Rush is the perfect metaphor for the musical transition from the 70s to the 80s. They went from this to Big Money in just 10 years. Sigh.

So let’s go tubin’!

I was going on about this a few years ago and I’ve been watching it to see what happens.

Headline and subhed.

America’s Red State Growth Corridors

Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues.

 

The problem is that the leftist states are fucked and many of the rest are doing fine.

So instead of taking money from The Rich(tm) to give to their constituents, they’ll have to take money from the rich states to give to the poor states.

The interesting part will be that the rich states won’t be so easy to intimidate as the feds might think and somehow, I don’t see Texas being happy about paying for California’s welfare state.

I’ll tell you what, the old Chinese curse of “interesting times” is a good description, it’s very interesting to see what’s going to happen.

China’s “Stealth Frigate“,  I just love the way commies and other murderous dictators always have to give their stuff names that make it sound as if it means something and the way western ‘journalists’ just accept it. It takes people like the Jawa Report to notice that the Iranians crappy p-shops are p-shops.

 

I’ve been practicing my repentance speech but somehow I don’t think He’s going to buy it cuz I keep smiling and laughing when I get to certain points, so this one scares me cuz it might be the sign of the endtimes. Why? Check out who I’m praising.

The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a case because the plaintiffs don’t have standing. Apparently, the govt’s claim of a right to listen to Americans on the phone without a warrant doesn’t mean Americans have standing to sue.

It was a 5-4 decision, the 4 saying “Americans do have standing to sue for violations of the 5th amendment”  are Breyers, Sotomayor, Kagan and Ginsberg. I agree with the 4 people who I think have no idea what the Constitution actually says and I am furiously fucking angry at Scalia, Alito and even Clarence motherfucking Thomas, I was sure Thomas was in the dissent and he wasn’t .

Fuck. No, fuck. I don’t know which way it should be decided, but it surely should be fucking heard. The gov’t is saying more that every amendment doesn’t mean what it says. I wonder if those assholes will think I have standing when they start quartering troops in my house.

NY pol wears blackface to a party, outrage ensues, but that doesn’t mean any news stories about it are going to mention the guy’s a Dem.

 

Nice Deb has vid of Chuckie Schumer doing what he does best, lying to your face with that smug fucking grin. “We’re not going to create a registration of firearms, but when we pass the law on universal background checks, we’ll create a database of the information.”

This is one of those “funny never” things that you have to laugh at. Recall that in NC if a black woman accuses white men of rape, they’re guilty. But if a white girl accuses the wrong people of rape, well, she needs to be expelled.

That’s another my favorite intertubes memes, how we have to read about bad stuff about Americans with the “proper” beliefs  in furrin papers.

 

I’ll end on a touchy subject. It involves hot women whose fathers are in the military.  You can help the hot daughters of friends of This Ain’t Hell to become Colts’ Cheerleaders.

So grab your…mouse and go look at This Ain’t Hell and then go vote. Seriously, that last link, is bery, bery good, but check the TAH link to see how you can help TAH while you’re helping yourself.

Dammit, I Had To Change The Title Because I Ain’t Seein’ The Funny

Posted: February 18, 2013 by veeshir in Conservatism, Exploding things, Fun With Media, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Liberal FAIL, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, PEBKAC
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While I’m writing the post update! (a first?)

Eh, couldn’t see the funny today. Sorry, just not feeling it. I’ll get it again.

I was starting to despair that my post about the revolution killed my Teh Funny (I make me laugh much more than any of you), but I did write “Al Tapdancing Gore!”

That made me laugh.

Now, on to the links. Hopefully I’ll make me laugh tomorrow.

 

I love the NY Post, they cover the Giants and are relatively conservative and their headlines are the best. Here they’re trying to interview Alec Baldwin and discovering something his daughter could have told them, he’s not a nice person.

I mostly like the racial slurs. If he had been, say, an actor who was big in a sitcom but who hadn’t done anything in the decade since, he’d be out of work and shunned by all right-thinking people, but this man is the Voice Of A Generation (of nitwits), so like a football player getting away with murder, Alec will win the Super Bowl in his last game.

Or something.

 

I love this link, I think I saw it at Ace’s, Jenifer Rubin is, apparently, the token conservative at the Wash Post. I’ve read her stuff before without realizing that. In that link she’s noting that Hagel is a nitwit whose very nomination makes the US look stupider. I’m not linking for her commentary, it’s fairly inane, but the part that I love the most about this: the comments. Damn, lefties are some Jew-hating sons of bitches.

When the Voices of Reason chime in, it can be a hoot.

KHM1956

I don’t think Obama had any intention of doing this: But let’s suppose for argument’s sake that Obama wanted to prove Hagel’s hypothesis about how the Israel lobby intimidates lawmakers. Could he have possibly done a better job than to get the Hagel filibuster fiasco in motion?

 

That’s one of the more sane people.

You see, Hagel isn’t an incompetent, booger-eating moh-ron and thus, the filibuster isn’t about keeping idjits from being in charge of the most powerful force of arms this violent ball of mud has ever seen, he’s a victim of the Jooooooooooooooooos!

And yet, Jews vote Democratic in droves. I will never figure that one out. Maybe it’s from back when the country clubs were generally Republican hang-outs and they wouldn’t let Jews in.

 

Now this one is interesting.  A Russian lawmaker was found in a barrel of cement (don’t they have harbors in Russia? He can sleep with the caviar. Geez).

Now, first thing I thought was “uh-oh, he pissed off Tsar PutinI and that’s the cause of the cement overcoat, but that’s not it. Apparently he owed another lawmaker money.

First, I have to wonder if we can get some of our congresscritters to copy that.

But second, I checked, the guy was actually in Putin’s party. I wonder what’s going to happen, are they going to go to the mattresses in Russia? That’s what mob families do when they go to war.

 

I have to say, I’m disappointed in Rand Paul for this.

 

You know he really wanted that last words to be “he’s lying”, but he controlled himself and said, “flat out wrong”.

Too bad, there needs to be some threshold where you just call a lying sack of shit the lying sack of shit he is, and Obama claiming he reduced the deficit by $2 trillion accuses me of being stupid by its very utterance. But then, I think Bill Clinton passed that threshold when he said, “I didn’t inhale.”

 

I don’t know what to think of the Examiner, I see stories there, but are they just Po-lying-itico in conservative clothing? I don’t like sensationalists and liars.

But if this one is true, it’s a sensational story about people who lied to the nation (and to me, but I pointed and laughed at least).

This is a great quote, I hope it’s accurate

“Senator Murray is working on a budget right now and we hope we can get that done,” Reed said on CNN, referring to Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash. “But we need time. So the sequestration will prevent — preempt us from getting a budget done and other factors.”

 

Get it? They can’t get the budget done because of all the problems that arose from not having a budget.

Geez, it’s a good thing Obama and the Dems lost the advantage in the budget ‘debate’, otherwise they’d be saying they can’t pass a budget without tax incre…… wait, who won that again?

So the Dems claim they’ll do a budget if the GOP will raise taxes. My prediction on that? Higher taxes, no budget.

 

I was short on links so I got some Steyn.

In that sense, like Beyoncé lip-synching the National Anthem at the inauguration, the State of the Union embodies the decay of America’s political institutions into a simulacrum of responsible government

 

Yup, and not a good simulacrum. It’s like those crude mud ones they used to have before Taiwan.

 

Let’s wrap it up with a little religion.

I could quote it, but that would just be cruel, I’ll summarize.

No matter what happens it’s proof that global worming is real. If their predictions don’t come true? That’s even more proof that global worming is real.

But then, we already knew that.

 

Can we talk about the insurrectionist doctrine?

Posted: February 10, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, Liberal Fascism, Notes on the Revolution, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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The title to this post means two things. I mean to say that I intent to talk about the insurrectionist doctrine, but also I mean to question whether it is wise to do so and how we might go about it when we must.

Debates about gun control often devolve into hunting and personal defense. These are both noble and worthy reasons to own firearms, but they immediately prompt questions of need. Do you “need” an AR-15 for hunting? It’s not really the choice weapon for most hunting circumstances. Do you need an AR-15 for home defense… eh, maybe. Surely they can be used in such a manner, but other weapons could too.

The fall-back argument for “need” is the insurrectionist doctrine. However, the insurrectionist doctrine is the rhetorical tactical nuke of gun control debates. You might win a few battles, but there’s fallout. Folks who have never considered the subject before find it rather disturbing that people might some day want to overthrow the government.

Case in point: Dick Durbin tried to trap Wayne LaPierre on this subject.

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Round The Tubes: Puppy Blender Style

Posted: January 31, 2013 by veeshir in Conservatism, FAIL, Funniest End of Civilization Evah, GOP FAIL, Green Goofs, I'm Afraid I Can't Blog That, Mideast Madness, Obama's Fault, Queerblogging
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I wanted to do Drudge style, but that’s not easy. I probably won’t even be able to do Puppy Blender Style.

Proof Obama has gone  skeet shooting(at least twice)  NPR gets excited.

skeet

 

(I worry for the dog*)

The UN doing what it does best: Jews Out of Judea.

Does anybody think this is on accident? “The Chicago home where the late President Ronald Reagan grew up is slated to be demolished and potentially turned into a parking lot for President Obama’s Library,“

Minorities worth less to CNN:Many staffers were stunned when Feder constantly complained that the viewership of “Early Start” and “Starting Point” was “too ethnic,

Heh Increase in plant food grows more plants. Film at Eleven.

Personal foul: Illegal use of hands.Former NFL offensive tackle Kwame Harris reportedly was scheduled to appear in court Monday on assault charges stemming from an argument with his ex-boyfriend over soy sauce and underwear

Soy sauce and going out with guys. Hmmmmm. Lemur King was unavailable for comment.

Marco Rubio’s pander on immigration might be a good thing. I’ve heard that song before. I didn’t like it the  first eighty times.

Syria says Israel flew under radar level, I wonder if Israel stealthed their jets or have stealth jets. Syria did admit it was a weapons facility. direct strike on a scientific research centre in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence,

That’s it, for a true puppy blender style there would be about 40 more posts. How does he do it day after day, year after year? I can’t imagine. He does provide a valuable service, I hope he makes decent money from it. We certainly don’t see any of that sweet, sweet blog money. I figure AliceH keeps it all.

*This link and Pshop was from yesterday, I forgot it. That guy does great Pshops but has never once given me any firewood.

And yes, in case any of you were wondering, I do make myself laugh. I’m my own best audience.

Oh, Condi

Posted: January 20, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, GOP FAIL, Government FAIL, Lame, Notes on the Revolution, Op/Sped
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Look, I’ve never been a huge Condi fan.  No doubt she is an exceptionally intelligent person, accomplished academic, and probably pretty cool to have a beer with.  Nevertheless, under the watch of that expert Sovietologist, an ex-KGB man managed to freeze and roll-back democratic reforms in Russia and install himself as what looks like President for Life.  Suffice to say I take any praise or reverence of Condoleeza Rice with a grain of salt.

NRO has a write-up of Condi’s recent appearance of Face The Nation:

“The Republican party certainly has to stop turning off large segments of the population,” Rice said on Face the Nation to laughter. “It’s not a strategy to keep hoping that parts of the population don’t turn out. You’ve got to simply broaden.”

Immigration, Rice added, was the “big issue.”

“Frankly, we sent some pretty bad signals around immigration. George W. Bush, John McCain, Jon Kyl, and Ted Kennedy had an immigration bill in 2007 and it failed. And I felt at that moment that that was the real missed opportunity. We’ve got to get comprehensive immigration reform back on the agenda.”

Excuse me, Condi, but your old boss Bush is the one who fouled up immigration.  He, McCain, and Graham put up a colossal piece of crap bill so bad that even Bill Kristol was against it, then started an internecine war among Republicans, calling anybody who dared think the bill sucked a racist.

Nobody responds well to being called racist.  You guys burnt major bridges with those who might have been willing to compromise.  In the process, you gave the actual racists a voice.

Every once in a while Peggy Noonan gets it

Posted: January 13, 2013 by socklessjoe in Conservatism, Fun With Media, Liberal Fascism, Notes on the Revolution, Obama's Fault, Op/Sped, You'll pry 'em from my cold dead hands
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Ol’ Peg was the token conservative* on This Week, uh… this week. I can’t completely hate Noonan, though she’s rather hit-and-miss, lately more “miss”, and her misses have been rather large — notably, Obama the Magnificent.  However, she did capture some key truths in her closing remarks on the program.  (* — I’ll be kind and omit the quotation marks.)

An executive order meaningfully changing gun regulations would be a Very Bad Thing™.

Peggy Noonan:

Yes, two things I’d like to say, one is that people are buying guns like crazy now. Not because they’re nutty, not enough because they’re angry, but because I really think they fear their country is falling apart.

It’s defensive and it’s something that I think we all have to be talking about. There’s so much anxiety out in America. And they also fear their government.

Second thing, I guess connected to that, leave gun control and gun reform issues in the Congress of the United States, the president should not be issuing executive orders in this area. It would really be unwise and it will cause great problems, I would think.

I couldn’t find video of this, which is unfortunate because she really emphasized the last sentence with a hint that it would be a Very Bad Thing™, and we’d really rather not say what that Very Bad Thing™ might be.

I’m still keeping myself out of the business of defining the Bad, but I will say that I made note of Mark Levin’s reference on Friday to James Buchanan.

(As a side note about Sunday Shows, I find the quisling Republicans usually do better when there’s a real conservative there to remind them what side they’re supposed to be on.  I wonder if this is the reason why there’s frequently only one token.)

In Defense of a Little Book

Posted: January 13, 2013 by Edward von Bear in Conservatism
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March 17, 1992 is a date that will live in my mind as long as I do. That was the day I swore the same oath my grandfathers, father, and later my brother swore. It was an oath to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Throughout my life, I would take that oath several more times, as would my brother. All those years, I knew what the Constitution, our sovereign, entailed. I knew about the rights that are and shall always be our birthright, secured in that document by the blood and sacrifice of untold millions who have sworn over the years to uphold it. Ultimately, I would wind up in Washington at the National Archives, once with my daughter in tow, to see with my own eyes not only this document, but the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and a copy of Magna Carta, the wellspring of all beliefs that no man is ever above the law or unaccountable. Upon seeing these documents, I realized that I must allow for my daughter to enjoy the freedoms elucidated in these immortal words and pieces of paper, eternally humbled to have played a minor part to allow her to live under the words I saw under the glass.

That said, in the last few weeks, the issue of guns and the Second Amendment have come up in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. I will not comment on that aspect here, as I believe I share the sentiments of the rest of the room on that topic. However, recent arguments (protected, I might add) over guns has led to some fireworks on cable TV, especially with Piers Morgan calling for whatever stupidity he’s calling for, culminating with the recent dustup with Ben Shapiro.

Now, I have no concern with allowing Piers Morgan to be stupid on the air, for our freedoms allow him to do so (put aside the whole debate whether or not a foreign national should enjoy the same rights as I do). But, when he sneeringly and dismissively called the Constitution “That Little Book” , I thought about the Constitution. I thought about the sacrifices made to preserve and protect it, only to have some tosser mock it.

So, in that vein, please allow me to offer a rebuttal to Mr. Morgan:

Fuck you, Piers. Fuck you forever until Round Four of the Fuckening is released on DVD. Fuck your arrogance. Fuck your sneering condescension. Fuck you for coming over here, only to fucking hide behind the document you deride. And fuck you because the last person I want mocking my nation’s sovereign is some douchebag like you.

This fucking “little book” has kept us free via the blood you cheapen with your mockery. This fucking “little book” has allowed and enabled this country to become the bulwark of freedom people still seek to this day. This fucking “little book” has kept tyrants at bay and freed continents. And this fucking “little book” has meant so much to so many, they were willing to give their lives in its defense.

Yes, the Constitution may be a “little book”, but it is a little book worth defending, even to this day. I did it, others have done it, and more will continue to preserve the “little book” that allows you to be a smug assfisting fuckface.

So fuck you, Piers Morgan. Fuck you with the flying fuckeagele of freedom for mocking everything that allows you to prosper. Fuck your ingratitude. And fuck you in general.

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