2010 : Page 24 : The Other McCain

A. You Really Don’t Want to Know

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010Comments

Q. How do you artificially inseminate a killer whale?

You might think the tricky part of this procedure would be getting the female orca to cooperate.

But you’d be wrong — at least according to a letter that Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee wrote to Sea World:

Rocker Tommy Lee is attacking SeaWorld over what he alleges is the inhumane treatment of its killer whales. . . .
In his letter he claims that trainers “masturbate” the whale and said SeaWorld would not release Tilikum because he is their “chief sperm bank.”

OK, now you’re asking yourself, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Exactly how do these trainers supposedly ‘masturbate’ a killer whale?”

Are you sure you want to know the answer? Continue reading A. You Really Don’t Want to Know →

Olbermann: ‘My God, You’re a Buffoon’

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Last night, I got Tweeted by Keith Olbermann:

Of course, I wasn’t offended. It’s impossible to take Olbermann seriously. Who takes him seriously, besides Democrats and Olbermann himself?

He’s not a political commentator, he’s a performance artist — a Method actor starring in his own imaginary melodrama. Too bad I didn’t see Olbermann’s Tweet earlier, as I might have been able to incorporate it into my latest column for The American Spectator:

The key ingredients to any “Special Comment” include outrageous hyperbole and impressive-sounding adjectives of the sort one might find on an SAT-preparation vocabulary list, as well as a frequent resort to historic and literary references, all of which is permeated with Olbermann’s contempt for conservatives. Consider as a typical example how Olbermann responded in August, when New Yorkers were protesting against plans to build a Muslim cultural center two blocks from the site where the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Olbermann began by quoting the four sentences for which Pastor Martin Niemöller is best known (“They came first for the Communists . . .”) en route to accusing Newt Gingrich of having a “lurid imagination,” declaring that the Iraq war was an expression of America’s “naked vengeful blindness,” and condemning opponents of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” for allegedly urging Americans “to sell our birth-right, to feed the maw of xenophobia and vengeance and mob rule.”
Listening to such overblown rhetoric delivered with all the well-rehearsed seriousness Olbermann can muster (which is quite a lot) serves to reinforce liberals’ sense of their own intellectual superiority, to confirm their belief that anyone who disagrees with them is not merely evil — on Countdown, the evilness of Republicans is indisputable — but also hopelessly stupid. You might think Olbermann’s audience, believing all this, would be at a loss to explain exactly how the party of evil stupidity managed to win an overwhelming victory on November 2. But if you watch Countdown regularly, you know that this result was made possible by the greedy rich, whose ill-gotten wealth was spent to help Republicans appeal to the intractable ignorance, racism and homophobia of the American electorate. . . .

Please read the whole thing.

In an entirely unrelated development, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker reports that Olbermann “was ‘called on the carpet’ by his bosses for declaring Bristol Palin ‘the worst person in the world’ on his show last week — calling it ‘tacky’ and ‘a cheap shot that was uncalled for.'”

Uncalled-for cheap shots from Keith Olbermann?

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

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BREAKING: Tax Deal Falling Apart?

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Here’s the situation: In order to get the deal, Obama needs Republican votes in the Senate. If the Senate GOP filibusters, there’s no deal. But the House Democrats don’t give a damn:

House Democrats have passed a resolution saying they’ll reject President Obama’s tax deal with Republicans. . . .
The House Democratic Caucus passed a resolution by voice vote saying members will vote against Obama’s tax deal in its current form. . . .
“If it’s take it or leave it, we’ll leave it,” said liberal Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., issued a statement saying House Democrats will continue to work with Obama and the GOP “to improve the proposal before it comes to the House floor for a vote.” . . .
Meanwhile, a group of 53 House Democrats led by Vermont’s Peter Welch sent a letter to Pelosi and urged her to hold their ground against the White House. The letter called the deal “fiscally irresponsible” and “grossly unfair.” . . .

UPDATE: Text of Welch’s letter to Pelosi:

Dear Madam Speaker,
We oppose acceding to Republican demands to extend the Bush tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires for two reasons.
First, it is fiscally irresponsible. Adding more than $900 billion to our national debt, as this proposal would do, handcuffs our ability to offer a balanced plan to achieve fiscal stability without a punishing effect on our current commitments, including Social Security and Medicare.
Second, it is grossly unfair. This proposal will hurt, not help, the majority of Americans in the middle class and those working hard to get there. Even as Republicans seek to add billions more to our national debt in tax cuts to the wealthy, they oppose extending unemployment benefits to workers and resist COLA increases to seniors.
Without a doubt, the very same people who support this addition to our debt will oppose raising the debt ceiling to pay for it.
We support extending tax cuts in full to 98 percent of American taxpayers, as the President initially proposed. He should not back down. Nor should we.
Sincerely,
PETER WELCH
Member of Congress

Looking at the list of more than 50 House Democrats who signed the Welch letter, I see several names — including Paul Kanjorski, Jim Oberstar and Alan Grayson — of Democrats who got beat in the mid-term election. Their careers are over and so they’ve got a political free-pass for these lame ducks to take a stand on “principle,” possibly resulting in a no-deal meltdown that results in Americans paying higher taxes next year. And maybe, as Larry Summer warns, pushing the economy into a double-dip recession.

Because of hate.

Liberals hate rich people, and they don’t care if the rest of us suffer, just so they get to inflict some pain on the rich. Continue reading BREAKING: Tax Deal Falling Apart? →

You’ll Never Forgive Me for This

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010Comments

Of all of the sick, disgusting, offensive things I’ve ever blogged, nothing can top this one. But remember: Nobody can force you to click the link. It’s a free country, and I am not responsible for the result. Continue reading You’ll Never Forgive Me for This →

Awesome Awesomeness Update: MSNBC Host Rips Into Democrat Alan Grayson

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010Comments

Given that Alan Grayson is one of the most vile pieces of filth ever elected to Congress — but not re-elected, as he got stomped 56%-38% by Republican Daniel Webster last month — there can be no doubt that he deserved this abuse from MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell:

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(Via Hot Air Headlines.) First Olbermann smacks Obama, then Maddow smacks Obama, now O’Donnell smacks Grayson — clearly someone at MSNBC has figured out which way the political winds are blowing.

OUTRAGE: Wisconsin Strip Club Denies Equal Rights to Nude Lap Dances

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“I have a dream that some day all God’s children will be stuffing dollar bills into the garters of meth-addicted skanks . . .”

The shocking story:

An Abbotsford business man is under fire for posting a ‘No negroes allowed’ sign in his future gentlemen’s club. The sign excluding black people is enraging residents of this small town in Wisconsin.
The Clark County business man, Mark Prior, says its his right to discriminate. “If I‘ve got a problem with you it’s going to be on the front of my store,” he says.
The gentlemen’s club Prior wants to open is in a building next to the Abbotsford city hall and library. A city official asked him to remove the sign, which was previously outside the establishment but he kept it and placed it inside the club instead. . . .

Can we expect Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to organize a pole-dancer protest march? Will this become the 21st-century equivalent of the Edmund Pettus Bridge? Does Troglopundit know about this? Then again, this is a human rights issue, and I’m not sure the Supreme Court has recognized troglodytes as human . . .

Shouldn’t you hit my tip jar so I can fly to Wisconsin and do some investigative reporting into this shameful discrimination?

Eight House Republicans Who Deserve a One-Way Ticket to Nuevo Laredo

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010Comments

GOP Reps. Joseph Cao (La.), Mike Castle (Del.), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Charles Djou (Hawaii), Vern Ehlers (Mich.), Bob Inglis (S.C.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.) all voted for the DREAM Act, which passed the House 216-198 last night.

Michelle Malkin has the whole pathetic story including a link to Hot Air where Allahpundit informs us that, of the eight Republicans who voted for this despicable legislative atrocity, two (Ehlers and Lincoln Diaz-Balart) decided to retire rather than seek re-election this year, two (Cao and Djou) lost on Nov. 2, one (Inglis) was beaten by a Tea Party challenger in the GOP primary and — ahem — backstabbing RINO crapweasel Mike Castle got beat in the Delaware GOP Senate primary.

And thank God for that.

You can say whatever you want about Christine O’Donnell, but you’ll never convince me there was any good reason for a conservative to have anything to do with Mike Castle, except perhaps to spit on the ground whenever his name is mentioned.

As for the two DREAM Act supporters who will be up for re-election in 2012 — Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-21) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-18) — I hereby pledge my unstinting support for any Republican who will mount a 2012 primary challenge to either of those two disgusting stains on the U.S. Congress.

Alternatively, as suggested in the headline, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner should appoint Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen as a special two-member congressional investigative committee, and send them to Neuvo Laredo, Mexico. Their instructions should be to stand on a street corner and shout ugly homophobic slurs (in Spanish) about the leaders of the local drug gangs.