Year: 2010

Can Dylan Ratigan Join The Coffee Party, Please?

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by Smitty

It’s fairly viral now that Dylan Ratigan is a ass, a jackass, and a king among jackasses. Greg Gutfeld on Red Eye organizes Ratigan in a delightful manner:
“I guess it sucks doing Rachel Maddow’s laundry.”
Gateway Pundit was on local TV in a clip concerning the Coffee Party.
An independent, homeschooling activist was featured, who, along with other coffee beaners, just wants to get all Jack Johnson about politics:

Banana pancakes; cuppa joe; and let’s be perfectly clear who’se channeling Rick James.

What Is The Appropriate Level Of Census Participation?

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by Smitty

Via Drudge, the AP has an interesting bit on the Patriot Act vs. the Census:

In a letter to Congress, the Obama administration provided its legal position that census data cannot be disclosed under the Patriot Act, the nation’s main counterterrorism law. The government has previously given legal assurances the information will not be used for immigration enforcement.
“If Congress intended to override these protections it would say so clearly and explicitly,” wrote Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich.

Jerry Day has a YouTube clip of righteousness:This is just another brick in the wall of Federal overreach.

MSNBC’s Alternative Reality

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While working on my taxes (trying to figure my mileage for 2009) I’ve had the TV in my basement office tuned to MSNBC. Unless Rachel Maddow and her cohorts are hallucinating, the most important story in the world is . . .

Republicans are desperate! Obama and his health-care plan are overwhelmingly popular! Crazy right-wingers are going psycho with fear!

Meanwhile, no less a Democratic Party loyalist than Howard Dean is saying that Democrats who vote for Obama’s health-care plan are doomed beyond hope of redemption. And Democratic incumbents are retiring faster than you can say “unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer.”

The spectacle of Maddow & Co. whistling past the political graveyard is amusing, but it’s not helping me finish this tax stuff. My wife is going to be angry if I don’t get it done, and soon, and that’s what’s driving me psycho with fear . . .

UPDATE: For those who were wondering, I finished the mileage calculations and so my psycho-fear of Mrs. Other McCain has now subsided.

Also, if you’re one of the people who hit the tip jar to help fund my travels during 2009, thank you very, very much. I’m now actually considering a sort of “Victory Lap” road trip in a few weeks to celebrate the past year’s successes, meet up with some friends and do some campaign coverage. Our good friend Barbara Espinosa lives in Arizona (where a certain crazy cousin of mine thinks he’s too young for retirement), and I’m thinking I might stop in Kansas City to see my buddy Nathan Cossey en route.

This expedition could even go all the way to California, where JSF at Valley of the Shadow has been soliciting my interest lately. The itinerary is sketchy at this point, but once I pay back the rental-car company for that deer I hit in Tupper Lake while covering the Hoffman campaign . . .

Well, I just got off the phone with Smitty, who sees the insane genius factor involved. The route could be something like this: Columbus, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.; Kansas City, Mo.; Austin, Texas; Phoenix, Ariz.; Las Vegas, Nev.; and Los Angeles, Calif. That’s 3,357 miles.

The return trip would involve a swing through the South — I’d like to see Pat Austin in Shreveport and visit some folks in Alabama, Georgia and Florida– and the total mileage could exceed 7,000 miles. All 7,000 of those miles would be tax-deductible as legitimate business expenses.

Hit the tip jar, folks. This might be even more fun than NY-23 or the Scott Brown campaign. As long as I don’t hit another deer . . .

The Previous Rumor About Al Gore Having Integrity Was A Flop

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by Smitty (h/t Memorandum)

Above the Law notes that the Chief Justice John Roberts rumor about his impending departure was started in a Georgetown Law School class that “…was partially on the validity of informants not explaining their sources.”

The room full of Obama votersfirst year students didn’t seem to make the connection between the class topic and the primo ganja rumor. Sissypuss the Blog Kitty heard that they had previously tried a rumor about integrity and Al Gore, but the snores in the room only got louder.

Tee hee hee.

Letterman Successfully Continues To Avoid Success

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by Smitty

The Recovering Liberal has a good read up about David Letterman still spiraling downward as he eats his ratings out, watching Leno clean up with Sarah Palin on in the first week back.
Is there a pattern of commitment to self-destruction afoot? Letterman seems to resemble the POTUS in the negative glide slope department. Soundgarden is probably too dark for this point, but there seems to be a thread of the deliberate afoot: Continue reading Letterman Successfully Continues To Avoid Success →

Screw Pluribus: Unum

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by Smitty

Ace seems kind of worried about Einstein, the shiny new data omnivore soon to be devouring an email box all too near you.

Yukon Axis of Evil illuminati industrial intelligence mailbomb Bush Wired AMEMB Aldergrove Ft. Bragg BLU-114/B rs9512c UMTS security BROMURE FSF

First of all, not having seen line #1 of the code, I’d like to start the rumor that this is all stuff that once found Admiral Poindexter in shoal water with no way on. SWO joke.
Second of all, increasing the noise-to-signal ratio is a fine response to the notion that this Federal government to which power was delegated somehow owns us. As this post is an emacs composition, I’ll just drop in another output from spook function:

asset constitution Majic Sears Tower weapons of mass destruction enemy of the state Baranyi Kennedy underground NASA military interception Kosovo counter intelligence John Kerry

The Founding Fathers said: E PLURIBUS UNUM. Progressivism says “Screw Pluribus: Unum”.

POTUS Ain’t Naked:
He’s Channeling Rick James

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by Smitty

Kenneth G. Davenport is all exercised about the WSJ editorial that prints Paul Ryan’s devastating review of the Senate healthcare legislation. Trifecta also covered Ryan here. But this is by no means an “emperor’s new clothes” moment. Heck, no. This is a Rick James moment, beeotch.

You might have seen this [NSFW] Dave Chapelle clip of the “Unity” incident:

The song mentioned in the Chapelle clip is exactly what’s missing in the Democratic Party to pass ObamaCare. Imagine Barack crooning this over the phone to recalcitrant Democratic Party representatives:

Unity:
Brother, sister,
There’s got to be,
Uuuuuuniiiiiity.
Yeeeeeeahhh.
Unity.
Unity’s what missing in our
Liiiiiiiiiives.
Can’t you see?
Wee need looooooove.
A little word of confidence.
Every now and then.
A little hoooonesty,
And trust among us.
A little love and harmony,
And there’ll surely be,
Some unity,
Unity,
Unity.
(Unity)

Just keep croonin’, Barack: you’ll get there.

Update: much affection to No Sheeples Here for the ‘shop. But how does Carol mention Malignant Narcissism without playing the Rush card?

Update II: The plot thickens, getting close to pea soup consistency, over at the PuffHo:

President Obama began his meeting with leading House progressives by bringing in a letter from an Ohio woman who wrote him to say that her skyrocketing premiums will soon cause her to lose her health insurance.

“It was a very serious, low-key discussion. If this was a piano, you’re hearing very deep chords here,” said one member who asked for anonymity.

Obama argued to the group of progressive members that his health care reform bill should be looked at as the foundation of reform, that can be built on in the future. He asked them to help gather votes for the final health care battle and promised that as soon as the bill was signed into law, he’d continue to push to make it stronger. But in a matter of weeks, he stressed, he could sign into law legislation that would lead to 31 million new people being insured, including the woman who wrote him.

It has been surprising to some people that he is still fighting for health care reform, Obama told the group. “He said, and I think he’s absolutely right, that a lot of people, I think, are surprised at his persistence that in some ways this health care reform has been lifted from the near dead to becoming a reality in the next couple of weeks,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “He said, quite specifically, that what we could say to people was that once the bill passes the president made a commitment to work to make improvements down the road.”

Shag me gently with a chainsaw. Who’s down with OTP?

Married at 10? Divorced at 12? Hey, Who Wants to Play ‘Guess Which Religion’?

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If you guessed “Lutheran,” try again:

Nujood is a Yemeni girl . . . 

(Doggone, I was going to guess “Belgian.”)

. . . and it’s no coincidence that Yemen abounds both in child brides and in terrorists . . . 

(Beware of the Utah Liberation Front!)

For Nujood, the nightmare began at age 10 when her family told her that she would be marrying a deliveryman in his 30s. . . .

(I’m guessing the deliveryman was Methodist, right?)

Her new husband forced her to drop out of school (she was in the second grade) because a married woman shouldn’t be a student. . . .

(Typical patriarchal Methodist!)

Nujood’s father asked the husband not to touch her until a year after she had had her first menstrual period. But as soon as they were married, she writes, her husband forced himself on her. . . .

(Methodists don’t take “no” for an answer.)

Yemeni journalists turned Nujood into a cause célèbre, and she eventually won her divorce. The publicity inspired others, including an 8-year-old Saudi girl married to a man in his 50s, to seek annulments and divorces. . . .

(Saudi Methodists — the worst kind.)

At first, Nujood’s brothers criticized her for shaming the family. . . .

(No self-respecting Yemeni Lutheran would get divorced.)

There are a couple of reasons countries that marginalize women often end up unstable. First, those countries usually have very high birth rates . . .

(Pre-pubescent girls can’t get pregnant, but the time to explain that to a Yemeni Methodist deliveryman is probably not on his wedding night.)

Second, those countries also tend to practice polygamy and have higher death rates for girls. That means fewer marriageable women — and more frustrated bachelors to be recruited by extremists. . . .

Polygamy and extremism — these are frequently occuring problems among fundamentalist Methodists. But maybe you noticed something kind of interesting here:

Not once in the entirety of his 807-word column did Nicolas Kristof name the religion of Nujood and her ex-husband.

Wonder why that is?