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Thanks to the Reader Who Bought the Amazon Kindle Fire 7-Inch HDX Tablet

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 17 Comments

Somebody’s going to be happy to get this awesome 32-GB WiFi tablet for Christmas, and I reckon one of our readers must have bought it on an Amazon Cyber Monday Deals Week special, because the regular price is $269, whereas our smart shopper paid only $219.

Tablets are like the new smartphone or something. All the cool kids have one. The original idea of the Kindle was like an electronic book, but now kids use them to play video games and watch movies. Like, you can get Fast and Furious 6 as an Amazon Instant Video download for $14.99, and Jeff Bezos says the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9-inch will kick the butt of those expensive iPads — for only $379.

 

 

You can buy anything at Amazon, get great prices and free shipping for most purchases over $35 and, as long as your shopping trip begins via the links on my blog, I get a small commission at no cost to you.

Like the cool kids say, it’s awesome, dude.

 

Category: Amazon

Arkansas Democrat’s Re-Election Ad: ‘Jesus Told Me to Vote for ObamaCare’

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 34 Comments

OK, it’s a little more subtle than that, but when Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor voted for ObamaCare four years ago, he knew this Day of Judgment was coming and now he says he’s seen the light:

Sen. Mark Pryor is out with a new TV ad offering a Biblical solution to the already heated 2014 Senate race in Arkansas.
Pryor’s campaign said the ad will begin airing on Wednesday. In the 30 second ad, Pryor speaks directly to the camera about his faith in the Bible. The ad is a substantial purchase for the campaign and will run statewide.
“I’m not ashamed to say that I believe in God, and I believe in His word. The Bible teaches us no one has all the answers. Only God does. And neither political party is always right,” Pryor says in the ad. “This is my compass. My North Star. It gives me comfort and guidance to do what’s best for Arkansas.”
Pryor ends the ad saying he supports the message because “This is who I am, and what I believe.”
Pryor is considered one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country, partly because of his party line support of the Affordable Care Act and as his campaign is forced to deal with low approval numbers of Pres. Obama in Arkansas.  . . .
Pryor is facing Republican Congressman Tom Cotton, who is vacating his seat in the 4th congressional district.

Mark Pryor is a Democrat. All Democrats are liars. Therefore, if Mark Pryor says he’s a Christian, the exact opposite is probably true, and he’s got a pentagram-shaped altar in his basement where he engages in ritual human sacrifice to His Satanic Majesty.

TOM COTTON for U.S. SENATE
Because Jesus wouldn’t vote for Mark Pryor

 

Category: Arkansas, Election, Health Care, Senate

BREAKING: Identity Theft Industry Considering Healthcare.gov Bailout

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 25 Comments

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

Recently I sat down with Howard T. Mendacio-Ledgerdemain (HTML), an old acquaintance and expert on The Identity Theft Industry. TITI has been flattened by the bad economy, much as anyone else. However, as this interview shows, TITI is actually well-positioned to stage an intervention, offering a lift for the sagging enrollment numbers at Healthcare.gov.

Sissypuss: You guys are criminals! Who would even reach out to you?
HTML: Be nice, now. I am merely a humble consultant, workin’ hard, tryin’ to locate and adhere to whatever the law seems to indicate at a given hour. People come to me with questions, and I offer purely hypothetical guidance, you see. People who cruise in orbits very, very close to the Resolute Desk. And who am I to turn them away?
S: So you’re talking about a White House advisor?
HTML: Could be, could be. But one always strives to maintain an Area Of Uncertainty in these matters, you see? Not unlike the Affordable Care Act itself.
S: So how exactly can criminals help the White House?
HTML: Must we be so pejorative? These are concerned citizens, just like Congress, who are being tasked to assist taxpayers in doing something for their own good, namely, get insurance.
S: Can you be more specific about the verb “assist”?
HTML: One of the chief impediments to enrolling, other than a website built by gerbils on Drano, is that the chief audience for ObamaCare–people who can’t spot a bad deal on a ballot or an insurance policy–also aren’t always swift about remembering where they live. And even when they have that information written down, and can read the information, they are not always quite so coordinated about entering it into a gerbil-crafted website. All that texting is bad for data entry. I’m not blaming the victim here. It’s really a complement to how well TITI’s education affiliates have blown up these peoples’ minds.
S: Not everyone could manage to sound so enthusiastic about a bad website with bad customers.
HTML: I’m a consultant, kitty: I’m a ray of sunshine to all needing their lemons turned into a Limon Collins.
S: And so what exactly happens?
HTML: Well, you’ve got a website that needs better numbers, you’ve got information about a pool of people, and you’ve got, let’s say, a catalyst. You should be on about a catalyst, no? Let’s say, hypothetically, that a bunch of people who needed insurance just kinda got it, and Healthcare.gov just kinda got the numbers it needs. Everyone’s happy. What’s not to like?
S: Hm. The transition from a government legally mandating you get insurance to a situation where you go to the mailbox and discover that, by magic, it’s all been done for you isn’t a large leap.
HTML: No, not at all.

 

Update: linked by the mighty Bill Quick, who, by the way, writes some rollicking good stuff. Thanks also to Regular Right Guy.

Category: Health Care, humor

Why Everybody Hates Atheists

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 112 Comments

It’s not just because atheists kill babies, because not all atheists do. But let’s admit that, in a universe of accidental randomness, there is nothing particularly special about a little clump of cells.

Or a bigger clump of cells, for that matter. So if the atheists who don’t kill babies have a good argument against raping babies . . .

Look, I’m not saying all atheists are like Mark Newton and Peter Truong, and probably, some atheists are against raping babies.

But that’s not the reason everybody hates atheists, anyway.

It’s the pushy, arrogant self-righteousness. And I’m not even talking about atheists like Kim Jong-un. Not all atheists are brutal communist dictators. Some atheists are against communism, dictatorship and brutality. On the other hand, 70 percent of those who stated their religion as “none” voted for Obama. Just sayin’ . . .

Tuesday evening, I noticed Gabriella Hoffman was under attack by Twitter trolls. Gabby complained about “militant atheists who thrive on souring the holiday season while behaving like tyrants.”

Ah, the War on Christmas — and the same obnoxious atheists who have spent years waging the War on Christmas now claim that this is something that Fox News and Bill O’Reilly are just making up. In fact, it was Peter Brimelow who first described the “War on Christmas” in 1999 — four years before the Southern Poverty Law Center branded him a “white supremacist.” Probably just a coincidence.

Anyway, atheists trolls were attacking Gabby Hoffman, because they hate women. That’s not merely cheap sarcasm, because the atheist movement’s problem with women is rather notorious:

[Karen] Stollznow says that, when she told friends about her situation, many were unsurprised, regarding [Benjamin] Radford as “creepy … a weirdo … sexist … perverted.” Her accusation was made in the context of a general complaint among women in the atheist movement that they are victims of sexism, discrimination and harassment. These complaints caused a stir a couple years ago when a young atheist, Rebecca Watson, got into an Internet dispute with Richard Dawkins, a famed Darwinian opponent of Christianity.
Watson told how women didn’t want to attend atheist conferences because “they felt uncomfortable in a room full of men” and “were hit on constantly” by seemingly desperate atheist men who “try to get in the pants of every woman who walks through the door.”

It’s not me saying this, you see.

As I say, however, it’s the pushy arrogance of atheists that makes everybody hate them, because the atheist cherishes the notion that his disbelief makes him intellectually superior to those whom he disdains as being in the thrall of ignorant superstition.

Atheists therefore cannot keep silent, but must constantly mock and scoff, publicly disparaging Christianity and the Bible, supporting every measure to marginalize and stigmatize Christian belief, so that no Christian can ever enjoy a moment’s peace.

Because . . . Science!

Ace of Spades has commented on this tendency:

If atheists are so logical and rational and sensible — which is the key point of atheistic evangelism, of course — why are they behaving in counterproductive, emotional, cult-like ways? . . .
What it seems like is a lot of teenager-ish acting up, a lot of anger over hurts in the formative years, a seething need to get payback against faceless oppressors. . . .
If freeing yourselves from religion has really made you more rational and all-around better thinkers, why do I see not only no evidence of such increased rationality and overall brainpower, but what I’d mark as a net decline?

Indeed, it’s like people who aren’t intellectuals, but use a lot of fancy jargon because they want to seem intellectual — a narcissistic desire to see oneself as superior to others, to be regarded as belonging to The Intellectual Club, from which inferiors are excluded.

This craving for a sense of superiority is a central focus of Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, and is closely related to the phenomena described by Christopher Lasch in The Culture of Narcisissm: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. (These are books, by the way, which a lot of soi-disant “intellectuals” can’t be bothered to read.) Religion is an obstacle to self-worship, and the honest confession of ignorance — to say that we are mere mortals who don’t know all the answers — is a humiliation that the atheist arrogantly refuses to accept.

Barrett Brown promotes atheism on Fox News, January 2009

Pride goeth before a fall, and the first thing I ever knew about Barrett Brown was that he had been the communication director of the atheist group Enlighten the Vote, also known as the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, as I have remarked:

Brown’s atheism and his insuperable arrogance were hand and glove: Assuming that religious people are ignorant bigots, to whom he was infinitely superior, Barrett then proceeded to a series of assumptions that seemed to him equally plausible, ultimately including the erroneous assumption that he could get away with threatening to “destroy” an FBI agent’s life.

Barrett was a “Special Snowflake” to whom the rules did not apply, so that dropping out of college and “doing . . . a ‘heroic’ amount of Ecstasy and acid” was entirely acceptable, as was heroin, to which he became addicted. None of these failures was enough to convince Barrett Brown that he was less superior than he imagined; the belief in your own superiority is an article of faith in the Cult of the Self.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

Barrett Brown ranting on YouTube, September 2012

Well, not every atheist has a paranoid meltdown that lands him in federal custody facing more than 100 years in prison, but Barrett Brown’s fate seems rather symbolic of what Ace described as “teenager-ish acting up, a lot of anger over hurts in the formative years, a seething need to get payback against faceless oppressors.”

Not every militant atheist is a raving lunatic or a baby-raper, nor do all atheists vote Democrat. But all atheists deny God, and are contemptuous of Christians, whom they regard as ignorant bigots.

It is this arrogant attitude that makes atheists so obnoxious in their behavior, so that everybody hates them — except Christians, whom Jesus commanded to pray for their enemies.

That Jesus — always spoiling the fun!

 

 


Category: Christmas, Culture, Intellectuals, Religion

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.04.13

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Detroit Officially Bankrupt

An abandoned public housing project north of downtown Detroit

Judge supports city’s planned reduction in pensions

Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra Dismisses Calls To Step Down
Court issues arrest warrant for protest leader


VP Biden Arrives In PRC
Will talk with Chicom leaders about reducing tensions



POLITICS
President’s Illegal Alien Uncle Allowed To Stay In US

Uncle Onyango: the fix was in

Ignored 1992 deportation order

Military Analyst Christine Fox Nominated For #2 Defense Post

Administration Failing To Sign Up Young “Invincibles” For Obamacare


Bill Clinton Claims Damage To Dems From Botched Rollout Will Be Minimal

Illinois Legislature Approves Historic Fix For $100B Pension Crisis

Notre Dame Sues Over Birth Control Mandate

Chamber Chief Laments “Avalanche” Of Obama Regulations



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Boosted By Pipeline News: NYMEX $97.11, Brent $112.58
Amazon’s Drones Set To Take Out UPS, FedEx
US Stocks Fall For Third Day On Taper Worries
Krispy Kreme Stock May Melt Further
Diners Not Biting On KFC’s China Revival Campaign
Applebee’s To Install 100,000 Tabletop Tablets In 2014
Dual-Display Yota Smartphone/E-Reader Goes On Sale In UK
Windows XP End-Of-Life Migration Guide
Andy Rubin’s Next Google Moonshot Project? Robots
Square Buys Photo-Sharing Startup Viewfinder
Chrome Apps Could Be Coming To Android, iOS Next Month



SPORTS
Bronx Bombshell: Jacoby Ellsbury Signs With Yankees

Seven years. $153 million.

Shin-Soo Choo to replace him?
The Yankees overpaid like they always do


Nuggets Blow Out Nyets For Seventh Straight Win


Kings Beat Ducks In Shootout

Bobcats Lose Game To Mavs, And Kidd-Gilchrist With Broken Hand

Islanders’ Skid Reaches Seven As Crosby Leads Pens To OT Victory

Rockies Agree To Two-Year Deal For Morneau

Blue Jackets Edge Bolts 1-0, Lose Goalie

Nationals Sign Ross Ohlendorf, Avoid Arbitration



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Something Fishy Going On

Gillian Anderson with a finned friend

“X-Files” star leads host of stars posing with fish for charity


No, Paul Walker’s Teenage Daughter Didn’t Witness His Fiery Death

Chris Hemsworth’s Wife Elsa Pataky Provides Stunt Lips For Natalie Portman In “Thor: The Dark World”


Victoria’s Secret Not Firing Jessica Hart Over Taylor Swift Diss

Olympian Tom Daley’s Oscar-Winning Boyfriend Revealed

Sherri Saum Of “The Fosters” Expecting

Katy Perry, John Mayer Pose Together For Romantic Cover Of “Who You Love”

“American Hustle” Named Best Picture By NY Film Critics Circle

Oscar Isaac, J.C. Chandor Team Up For “A Most Violent Year”

Orlando Bloom Opens Up About Miranda Kerr Split

CNN Boss Zucker Plans Big Changes: More Shows, Less News

Elan Gale Hoax: “Bachelor” Producer Admits He Faked Airplane Feud

From “New Girl” To Mean Girl?



FOREIGNERS
RBA Says Aussie Dollar Still Uncomfortably High, Keeps 2.5% Rate
Tesco UK Sales Slump 1.5% In Third Quarter
Hezbollah Commander Gunned Down Outside Beirut Home; Jihadis Blame JOOOOOS
No Surprise As OECD Ranks Wales Education Worst In UK
Brisk Voting In Delhi State Assembly Elections
Polonium Poisoning Ruled Out In Arafat’s Death
India Refuses To Budge On WTO Trade Deal
Ukraine Government Survives No-Confidence Vote; Rage Boils Outside



BLOGS & STUFF
Tony Katz: Fast Food Thursday – Because Big Labor Bullies Need A Beatdown
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Mother Jones Understands Markets Better Than It Lets On
First Street Journal: The Not-So-Enigmatic Pope Francis
Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Illegal Alien Deportation Evader Uncle Omar Gets His Amnesty
Twitchy: “Admitting Defeat” – Web Site Developer Live-Tweets Struggles With Healthcare.gov
American Power: The Exploited Laborers Of The Leftist Media
American Thinker: Grooming Gangs And Sharia
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Pointless Lies
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, December 3
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hacker Says No Security Was Ever Built Into Obamacare Site
JustOneMinute: And Later Obama Will Blame The Evil Insurance Companies
Pat Dollard: Polls Show Anti-Obamacare Wave Building Against Senate Democrats
Protein Wisdom: Manufacturing Intolerance
Shot In The Dark: 36 Encores
The Jawa Report: Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller Banned From UK For Supporting Israel
The Lonely Conservative: Government Shakedown Of JP Morgan Includes Slush Fund For Radical Leftist Groups
Megan McArdle: Detroit Goes Down


Category: Live at Five

Taylor Palmisano Hates Her Some F**king Mexicans, and Loses Her F**king Job

Posted on | December 3, 2013 | 55 Comments

This is unfortunate in several ways:

Taylor Palmisano is having a bad week.
First, she wrote a fundraising email that was widely mocked for being tone deaf and weird. It recommended parents skip buying presents for their kids on Black Friday and send the money to the Walker campaign instead. That was bad.
Next, according to a report from Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Palmisano finds herself on the chopping block for a couple of racist tweets she sent from her personal Twitter account years ago. That’s even worse.
The first of the tweets in question, sent out in January of 2011, reads: “This bus is my worst fucking nightmare Nobody speaks English & these ppl don’t know how 2 control their kids #only3morehours #illegalaliens.” The second tweet, sent in March of 2011, reads: “I will choke that illegal mex cleaning in the library. Stop banging fucking chairs around and turn off your Walkman.”

And now the worst part:

“Taylor Palmisano has been immediately removed from her position with the Friends of Scott Walker campaign,” said spokesman Jonathan Wetzel. . . .
Palmisano shut down her Facebook account and Twitter account on Tuesday.

She shut down her Twitter account? No!

She could have been a folk hero — a social media legend!

Also, Scott Walker could have used her for his widely anticipated 2016 presidential campaign staff. Trust me, there are plenty of GOP caucus voters in western Iowa who, while perhaps not sharing her enthusiasm for f-bombs, certainly share Taylor Palmisano’s sentiments about busloads of illegal aliens who don’t speak English.

 

Category: Immigration

Anarchy in the UK: Guardian Editor Admits Endangering British Agents

Posted on | December 3, 2013 | 30 Comments

OK, that’s not the headline at the Daily Mail, but their headlines are always so ponderously long, aren’t they?

We love Britain, insists Guardian editor
as he is accused by MPs of breaking the law
for leaking secrets which endangered UK spies

And then the stack of bullet-point subheads:

• Debate rages about dangers of Edward Snowden leaking US secrets
• MI6 said terror groups in Afghanistan and ‘closer to home’ are using leaks
• But Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger tells MPs only 1% of files published
• Insists the left-wing newspaper’s staff are ‘patriots’ who ‘loved this country’

Leaving aside the Daily Mail‘s weird approach to headlines, Louise Mensch points out that Parliament got the editor to admit what he had previously denied, that the Guardian shipped abroad the names of agents at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters:

MPs today got Alan Rusbridger to admit a number of things he, and his paper had previously denied.
Firstly, that he shipped the names of GCHQ agents abroad to newspapers and bloggers. Mr. Rusbridger was reminded that this was a criminal offence, and said he had a public interest defence. He also, however, kept arguing that he hadn’t published any names, which rather blows up his public interest defence — it’s self-evident that you don’t need the names of intelligence agents to report on GCHQ spying, so why not redact them? . . .
Perhaps worst of all, Rusbridger confirmed my very worst suspicions, which were that he hadn’t even read through the top secret files before shipping them. He redacted no names; he redacted no operational details; he didn’t even read them. And by “he” I mean any employee of the Guardian. Nobody at that paper read the 58,000 documents through, not even once, before sharing them in bulk. . . .
Because no Guardian journalist even read the files, they do not know how many agents’ names are now out there.

Look on the bright side, Louise: The Guardian‘s losing $50 million a year, so maybe they’ll go bankrupt in the process.

 

Category: Great Britain

It’s Official: Detroit Is Bankrupt

Posted on | December 3, 2013 | 35 Comments

Decades of control by labor unions and Democrats:

The struggling metropolis of Detroit, overwhelmed by debt and groping for a path forward, on Tuesday became the largest American city ever to qualify for bankruptcy protection.

That’s from the New York Times which has also been controlled for decades by labor unions and Democrats, so they can sympathize.

Category: Economics
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