Curmudgeonly & Skeptical²

They call me Fillopio!

2009-11-21T18:40:00.001-05:00

Raining Bears LOL

2009-11-21T13:13:00.005-05:00

It's also the combined weight of
Algore and Gerald Nadler.

Alear

Lib Action Dolls

2009-11-21T12:23:00.001-05:00

Today's "I'll do what I'd do anyway, but I'll feel real good about myself doing it 'Walkathon to Help the Homeless'"

Spare a dime mister? Fuckyou, I'm walking.

Tom Mann

Joke? What joke?

2009-11-21T12:02:00.000-05:00

Q: What's the real problem with Barack Obama jokes?

A: His followers don't think they're funny and everyone else doesn't think they're jokes.

Merrily

300 Orgasms a day

2009-11-21T11:25:00.000-05:00

Does he deserve all those high-fives?

Oh, my head ...

2009-11-21T10:58:00.000-05:00

In Passing

passing out, that is

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Oh Boy. The "Deindustrialize Those Cracker Sons Of Bitches Act Of 2009."
"The US House of Representatives yesterday released the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (HR 4128) to try and end the international trade of tungsten, tantalum and col-tan, the mining of which is accused of fueling violent rape and murder in eastern Congo. (H/T O Club)

In the Midnight Hour
And in case you hadn’t heard – just a reminder that you’ll start paying higher taxes to fund this scheme in 2010 even though it doesn’t start up until 2014.

Sarah Palin Slams Weak Obama “Going Around the World Bowing” (Video)

Princeton, Columbia Cancel Free Speech: Darwish Silenced
Since Ken Kramarz, Hillel’s regional director for Northern California, started his job in June 2007, Berkeley’s Hillel has adopted a hostile view towards Judaism and Israel

The Demcare bribe list
Here are the top five Demcare bribes. Keep an eye out on bribes/offers for Democrat Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska; Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; and Evan Bayh of Indiana. Leave comments or e-mail any new info to add to the list.

'Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage'
Columbia School of Journalsim grad, no doubt.

Obama's 'Brought Sexy Brilliance Back to the White House' - MSNBC
To be on any list with Al Sharpton is not a hit list but an it list -- is extraordinarily beautiful.

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Oh yeah ...

2009-11-21T10:08:00.000-05:00

Tank Skeet Shooting

Treason

2009-11-21T09:42:00.006-05:00

A man-made financial disaster

entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - Occam's razor

There's too little discussion about this chain of events, which tells this gummint conspiratorialist (me) that there's something to it. I ran into this yesterday at enterstageright.com, which is all the excuse I need to bring it up again.

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You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on Congress to enact emergency spending powers. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted on October 3, 2008.

Just eighteen days earlier an event occurred that slid under the radar screen of virtually the entire mainstream media. On Thursday, September 15, 2008, at approximately 11 A.M., the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the nation, amounting to $550 billion dollars. It occurred within an hour or two. The money was removed electronically.

It has never been made public which accounts were affected, nor where the withdrawn funds were sent. If we knew those facts, we would know who launched an attack on the United States that has been more devastating than any in our history.

[.enterstageright continued]

”

Also on topic - Who piloted 9-18 plane?

Maggie's fine peg

2009-11-20T17:54:00.001-05:00

Libtards bite off nose to spite face!

I was privileged to be watching C-Span one Sunday evening when PM Thatcher rebutted a Liberal silliness with, "What the gentleman is saying is he'd accept the poor being poorer as long as the rich were less rich." Whoa - by golly here is that clip. It's exactly true of liberals - a.k.a nascent socialists - everywhere. What made me think of it is this.

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On a mission to show that Palin's book is selling much worse than, say, the idea of reading Osama Bin Laden his Miranda rights, the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed several local booksellers to find out how well sales of "Going Rogue" were not going:

"Our customers are thinking people," said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. "They're not into reading drivel."

"Anything like that we wouldn't carry," said clerk Emily Stackhouse at Cover to Cover Books in San Francisco. "We're a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross."

Apparently the job of a "bookseller" in and around San Francisco is not so much to sell product, but rather to give comfort to like-minded individuals and convert the remaining unwashed masses to lockstep ideology. Politics trumps profit, even though profit generates the much needed tax revenue, job growth, and consumer spending this state dearly needs.

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Do check out Dirk Salvo's full account, if only for the sales figures of recent Donk books, and Dirk's delicious ending bon mot .

Andy J

2009-11-20T15:36:00.004-05:00

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

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I don't remember the channel, but Martin Sheen narrated a KenBurnsesque Documentary on Andrew Jackson last night that fascinatingly paralelled today's politics in many ways. Some considered him an emporer; he tried to kill America (but actually saved it).....very very interesting. Watch it if you come across it.

Here it is. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/about/

rejuoy

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You may reach a different opinion, but here it is.

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2009-11-20T13:21:00.000-05:00

An Activist's Activist

Genius

2009-11-20T12:59:00.001-05:00

Obama's Chicken Home to Roost

2009-11-20T12:42:00.000-05:00

PC INSANITY

Where are we headed? Or have we arrived?

No right to run?

2009-11-20T12:10:00.002-05:00

What?

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David Harsanyi writing in the Denver Post, Nov. 18:

These days, where you fall on the crucial issue of Sarah Palin tells the rest of us all we need to know about your character. You’re either a:

A) Scum-sucking, terror-loving elitist, or a

B) Radical, tea-bag-loving simpleton.

Yet, believe it or not, one can (as I do) admire Palin’s charisma and roots, appreciate her dissent on the policy experiments brainy folks in Washington are cooking up and at the same time believe she has no business running for president in 2012.

In fact, all you haters out there force me to root for her.

There’s nothing wrong, for instance, with The Associated Press assigning a crack team of investigative journalists to sift through every word of Palin’s book, “Going Rogue” (HarperCollins, November 2009) for inaccuracies. You only wish similarly methodical muckraking was applied to President Barack Obama’s two self-aggrandizing tomes—or even the health care or cap and trade bills, for that matter.

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A27

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This was a WSJ 'Notable Quotable' yesterday. I don't get it? Why would Mr. Harsanyi suggest "she has no business running for president in 2012?" No business? Why? Because she's not a natural born citizen? Not yet 35 years of age? That calls for an explanation Lucy; one which I'll warrant you'll rupture yourself giving. She'll run if she has enough support, and she'll win if she gets enough votes. With no help from ACORN or SEIU.

HOT NUTS

2009-11-20T11:22:00.000-05:00

Am this be ringin' a bell?

Listen to this short clip and see if it rings a bell? My guess is that positive response will come from peeps who attended college on the Atlantic seaboard, and belonged to a fraternity or sorority.

Why in gawd's name I thought of this in the shower just now is answerable only within a space-time continuum I don't understand but know I get up in the morning now and 10 minutes later it's 11:00 PM WTF? Anyway, while I've thought about other bands from the 60's, like Phil Flowers who played at the Hayloft in DC (where the drinking age was 18), Doug Clark completely slipped my mind. It was at a Hot Nuts party I made my stage debut (many others will make the same claim) with my oh-so clever, and as close to raunchy as was allowable, lyrics.

“	Hot nut, Red hot nuts, \ get 'em any way you can. See that girl over there named Sue? She took on me and Santa too.	Whoa!! Yay ... cheer, drink chug-a-lug	”
	Hot nut, Red hot nuts, \ get 'em any way you can. See that guy his name is Fred His girl friend Karen just loves my bed!	Whoa!! Yay ... cheer, drink chug-a-lug

Usually, about the time the last keg dried up, the taglines all rhymed with "duck," which was obscenely inappropriate back when nobody used the f-word in the presence of women. Anyway, here's Doug Clark's web site. And here's some memories from a Tar Heel.

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Hot nut, Red hot nuts, \
get 'em any way you can.
See that guy named Captain Zero
He's ain't nuttin but a modern day Nero

Yay ... cheer,
Impeach that MoFo
click-click

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yada yada yada

2009-11-20T08:47:00.001-05:00

In Passing ..

I saw a Buncha Boobs

Unplugged

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FBI hides Dillinger as the FBI moves in
Which is precisely what Pakistan/s ISI is said to have done with Taliban Omar.

Hooray for us and f**k you:!
Senate Health Bill Will Pay Doctors Less for Medicaid Services, But Won't Let Docs Reduce Services

Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular
Media Matter tells us why and wonders why she's so popular.

DAVID GREGORY: It's extraordinary, and, I mean, she's extraordinary from that point of view of not just the book. I mean, all this year, it's as if she's like a senator or something. I mean, she issues statements and posts things on Facebook as if she's an incumbent or if she's a candidate for something.

"I have breast implants, and I vote"
Naturally, I have several reactions to the proposed tax.
First, all you plastic surgeons who voted for Barack Obama: Bwahahahaha!

Obama: Godammit, I want some positive press about mandatory Heath Care, and I want it now!
Senate bill no longer than Palin's book, Dems say

The last of the emperors
William Clinton wanted that title; Obama has it.

When is a penny worth a million dollars?
When it's a 1795 reeded-edge U.S. penny, one of only seven known to exist.

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Landrieu: What sort of woman do you think I am?

2009-11-19T20:35:00.001-05:00

Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that.
Now we are haggling about the price.

Reid buys Landrieu's Health Care vote for 100 Million

If this isn't a clear case of, of .. you know, then nothing is.

Harry's deal

2009-11-19T19:22:00.001-05:00

Today's Snarky Citation
from Obama-Reid Health Scam

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O:\MAL\MAL09852.xml [file 6 of 9] S.L.C.
1731

9 ‘‘(16) MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS OR MIS10
REPRESENTATION OF MATERIAL FACTS.—Any indi11
vidual or entity that knowingly makes or causes to
12 be made any false statement, omission, or misrepre13
sentation of a material fact

1733

$50,000 for each false
19 statement or misrepresentation of a
20 material fact

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Okay, it's a push, but you have to admit it takes more than a little chutzpah to use this language - MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS OR MISREPRESENTATION OF MATERIAL FACTS - the broad application of which would bankrupt and jail everyone involved with this bill. But here's the interesting part. We're all prolly aware of this by now.

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The 2,074-page Senate health care bill would take 34 hours to read cover to cover -- and that's just what Sen. Tom Coburn wants done on the Senate floor.

The Oklahoma Republican has threatened to invoke parliamentary rules to force the Senate clerk (or more likely, a team of clerks) to read the massive bill before the full Senate begins formal debate on the legislation.

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But this part is new, to me anyway.

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What's even more interesting is that Senate Rule XIV (paragraph 2) states that every bill and joint resolution "shall receive three readings prior to its passage."

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Plus, it will take 60 votes to send the bill to the floor for a vote. That means even the defection of a single Democrat kills it. Forty-one words: L-I-E-B-E-R-M-A-N.

Oprah gets smacked

2009-11-19T14:25:00.001-05:00

Smackdown!

If you were one of the billions who didn't watch Sarah Palin's Oprah appearance, you'll be glad to learn that (according to HuffPo) the "real telling moment came in the first seconds of the sit-down."

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They don't call it The Oprah Winfrey Show for nothing. It was a moment worthy of a WWF Smackdown: The Narcissist vs The Maverick.

Did you feel snubbed that I hadn't invited you to be on the show during the campaign?, Winfrey immediately asked The Wasilla Wonder. To which a rather snarky Palin quipped, "No offense to you, but it wasn't the center of my universe." Oh no she di-'int! Palin then added, "I've heard more about that during the last few weeks than during the campaign." Clearly taken aback, an incredulous Winfrey asked, "You didn't even know about it?!" Wow. It was kind of painful to watch. It was as if Oprah was pleading, Wait, don't you know who I am? I am Oprah...Winfrey....I elect presidents...I turn no-name authors into superstars....I make middle-aged, middle-American white women swoon more than Josh Groban! Are you telling me you didn't obsess about me when you were on the campaign trail? Shocking! Truly shocking!

And there you have it. The one big, and only truly relevant moment in the interview. The Mammoth Ego from Chicago meets the Mighty MILF From Alaska. Last time I saw theatre this good a bunch of human cats were jumping around on Broadway.

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Oprah's ratings for this show were her highest in years, surpassing even the Obama interview.

Related: MoSup tells me that while she was in Border's Bookstore yesterday, a man came up to the desk and somewhat irritatedly said to the clerk, "I'm looking for her book!" That was all. Her book. The clerk responded that she didn't know where it was. Another clerk piped up, "I've got them here in a box, but they're somewhere else too." Word for word.

Hannity's Palin Interview Ratings: 4.9 Million For Second Highest Rated "Hannity (including & Colmes)" Ever
Monkey Crash has the full Palin-Hannity video (in 7 parts). I did watch it, and Sarah sparkled.

Bullies in a small town

2009-11-19T13:43:00.000-05:00

What happened in Standish, MI

This is the latest video from Keep America Safe and I think the best one yet. Justin Germany put this together after a trip up to Standish, Michigan, with KAS board member Debra Burlingame, who was all over the Holder hearings yesterday. It now seems unlikely that the detainees will end up in Standish, in no small part because the community there rallied against the plan even as statewide Democrats tried to turn the town into a cash-for-jihadis stimulus program. - Michael Goldfarb

I think we will identify with Standish as a metaphor for everything that's happened in this country since Obama. Because heat was applied, they backed down, but will relaunch the attack someplace else, and keep attacking until resistance fades away. A successful long term action, metaphorically speaking, would be to shoot rabid dogs dead.

Obama Mug Shots

2009-11-19T13:13:00.001-05:00

Today's Profiling

tee-shirts and crime

Obama Mug Shots

C/R

Sin of Multiculturalism

2009-11-19T12:55:00.000-05:00

"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome,
not an advantage to be sought.

Video Mash

2009-11-19T12:42:00.000-05:00

Golden Age of Video

PC v. Mac

2009-11-19T12:28:00.000-05:00

Psalm 109:8

2009-11-19T12:09:00.000-05:00

In the Christian tradition ...

Psalm 109:8

Hucker