The FMJRA salutes with a thumb pointed downward the terrorists of the world, great and small, who do everything from park planes in buildings to training suicide deer to attack automobiles, to mooching canolli at airports, to pondering commission of odious acts like burning scriptures.
Some may say the preceding ‘graph is a bit flip. Fair point. I’ll counter by saying that, if we’re consumed by solemness all the time, then that is another terrorist victory. Laughter is not only a potent weapon, but a powerful inoculator against the odiousness of Taking Life Too Seriously. And let us remain firm in our unbowed resolve. Continue reading Fulminating, Malevolent Jackalope Revenge Arrangements →
The Governator tried to talk Twitter trash about being unable to see Russia while flying over Alaska, and got beaten down.
In other Sarah news, the Beck visit seems to be a pure 9/11 remembrance. But could Beck have some deeper, proselytizing plot? Will they both convert to the Church of the Subgenius?
“Sir William Blackstone, England’s famous 18th century juror, said that every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject is a degree of tyranny, and ‘even laws themselves, whether made with or without our consent, if they regulate and constrain our conduct in matters of mere indifference, without any good end in view, are regulations destructive of liberty.’ Protecting against this tyranny — preserving our ability to exercise our free will — that is the cause of conservatism.”
— Corinna Cohn
UPDATE II: Statement from Georgia 12th District congressional candidate Ray McKinney:
Nine years ago today, I turned on my television while getting ready for work, and the first thing I saw was smoke billowing from the World Trade Center. I learned that a jetliner had plowed into the building, and at that moment I knew we were at war. After three more jetliners crashed — one in the other trade tower, one into the Pentagon, and one into a field in Pennsylvania — 3,000 people died at the hands of Islamic terrorists. From Augusta to Savannah, Milledgeville to Vidalia to Statesboro — all of our families were attacked — and America changed forever on that day. Today, I join with the rest of the nation in honoring those who died that day and those who risked their lives to rescue people from the wreckage. And I honor the millions of Americans of all occupations, ethnic groups, religions, and political beliefs who responded to the attacks not with hatred, but with unity, turning to each other by showing acts of kindness. Unfortunately, nine years later, our nation is bitterly divided. But I have confidence that the American people can and will once again work together to get our country back on track.
After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, [the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services] . . . issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance: breast-feeding.
As the terrorists prepared to hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself, our military leaders were directed “to engage in open dialogue” on lactation tactics.
[The media] tends to sanitize things like this, to gloss it over as if it’s some abstract thing that happened in ancient history: “And we musn’t get those rednecks all flustered about these things … we must provide the filter and nuance since they don’t understand the subtleties of the matter. There are two sides to this story and both are equally valid. We must provide the narrative”
In other words, these journalists are not content to tell you what happened, but feel compelled to tell it in such a way as to condition your reaction — an effort to signal how you should feel about what happened.
The National Rifle Association endorsed conservative commentator Christine O’Donnell Friday in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary. The Tea Party-backed O’Donnell is looking to upset Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) on Tuesday.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint announced Friday night his endorsement of the Tea Party-endorsed candidate. . . .”I’m proud to endorse Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate in Delaware,” DeMint wrote Friday on his Twitter page. “She will stand strong for the principles of freedom.”
What is clear now is that if O’Donnell wins — and that remains a long shot — Palin will receive the lion’s share of credit and grow even stronger among grassroots activists as 2012 gets ever closer.
At BlogCon Friday, we went to the Newseum in D.C. for a panel discussion that was supposed to be about politics. During the Q&A period, however, it got hijacked into a discussion of The World’s Most Boring Policy Issue. After ten minutes of this narcolepsy-inducing blather, I gestured frantically at Tabitha Hale and got the microphone for the next question, the beginning of which was Tweeted by Glen Asbury:
Seriously. That was ten minutes of our lives we will never get back.
Bill Whittle and Stephen Green now have perfect spinal alignment, after hanging out for a few minutes with Dr. Melissa Clouthier. She’s billing it to PJTV’s health insurance plan.
This blog and DaTechGuy form something of a mutual admiration society. Besides being a thoroughgoing gentleman, he also was also kind enough to opine on Erik Erickson and Matt Kibbe, who opened the BlogCon thoughtful remarks.
Erickson had offered an anecdote about a decent neighbor who had been neighborly until discovering that Erik is conservative, at which point the neighbor could only sputter about Dick Cheney connections:
Reacting to the need for post-03 November continuity of the Tea Parties. DTG touches on the historical ‘antidote’ of LBJ, and then delves into the fact that sports teams succeed or fail in practices, and win on gameday. Then he free associates to BHO as an unaffordably expensive free agent pick for the left, and the country.
