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Rule 5 Sunday

Posted on | August 8, 2010 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Rule 5 Sunday dawns again. We look in the Rule 5 label and see what sort of delights await.

I think Kimberly Freeman of One Eyed Doll has some real talent. Thanks, GSGF!

Apropos nothing:

And now for a bit of beauty sleep for your humble aggregator. Stay awesome, and don’t forget Ten Buck Fridays!

Category: Rule 5

‘Snatchin’ Your People Up’ UPDATE

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

You remember Antoine Dodson, whose comments on an attempted rape in a Huntsville, Alabama, housing project became a viral YouTube sensation? Yeah. Well, Andy Carvin NPR is taking this phenomenon seriously:

But is this Internet meme really about race, music, comedy, celebrity or a delicate mix of all of the above? And for Antoine Dodson, how would he respond to his new-found fame?
WAFF-TV received angry calls and e-mails from members of the public who felt the story perpetuated stereotypes about African Americans.

Right, and Yosemite Bear’s “Double Rainbow” perpetuated stereotypes about California hippies. Saturday evening, our 21-year-old (recently married) daughter Kennedy dropped by the house. Turns out, she knows all the words to the “Bed Intruder Song,” which has become such a big hit you can even get an Antoine Dodson ringtone:

Antoine Dodson now has a Web site and is seeking donations so he can get out of the projects, because hey rapin’ everybody out here!

Category: Alabama, humor, Video

Beyond Passing Thoughts. . .

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Virginia Virtucon notes:

David Jones of the UK Daily Mail wrote an article that shows how the combination of Mother Nature’s resiliency and BP’s strong clean-up efforts have almost completely mitigated what the White House, the mainstream media, and the environmental lobby would have you believe to be a horrible, generations-lasting disaster of epic, near-biblical proportions.

How do we transfer that marvelous efficiency to the most expensive political disaster in human history, Progressivism?

Category: Uncategorized

‘It’s a Death Trap, It’s a Suicide Rap, We Gotta Get Out While We’re Young . . .’

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 20 Comments

Mentoring the next generation of conservative leadership is a serious obligation, and we Jedi masters are thus occasionally called upon to instruct young padwans in the ways of the Force. Readers will recall that I spent Friday afternoon covering the National Conservative Student Conference hosted by the Young America’s Foundation. The conference was followed by a reception and dinner banquet at D.C.’s luxurious Ritz-Carlton Hotel:

Fred Thompson was thronged by young Fred Heads among the rising generation of conservative activists at the YAF reception. While I hate to break my “don’t hassle the celebrities” rule, I did impose on Senator Thompson for a minute to make mention of the Christine O’Donnell Senate campaign in Delaware.

George Allen joins fellow YAF supporters at the gala dinner.

OK, guys, don’t get all “hubba hubba” here. YAF’s Kiana Dunn is only 18, and just recently graduated escaped from high school youth indoctrination camp in California. The reason I took the photo was to remember her name. Why? Because she told me she will be a freshman this fall at a college just 10 miles from Bruce Springsteen’s home in New Jersey and yet, sad to say, she doesn’t even know the lyrics of “Born to Run.” As a matter of cultural preservation, I expect the Sarah T. Herman Intern Scholar to commit these immortal lyrics to memory.

While I would have liked to stay for dinner with the YAF crew at the Ritz-Carlton, the highways were jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive, and my mentoring efforts were needed elsewhere — at the Rocket Bar in Chinatown, to be exact. It was there that Newsbusters was hosting the monthly “First Friday” event, where girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors and the boys try to look so hard. So I had to ride through mansions of glory in my suicide machine to 714 7th Street.

For some reason, seeing Brent Bozell III in a Newbusters T-shirt reminds me of how this town rips the bones from your back.

Joe Marier appears on the right side of this photo, but considering that he writes for Frum Forum . . . well, I’m mentoring him in hopes that together we could break this trap.

Moments before this photos was taken, all these guys solemnly pledged to Iris Somberg, “We want to guard your dreams and visions.”

You’re probably wondering why Crabby Con is not only wearing the famous fedora but also, quite obviously, seated in the back of the famous 2004 KIA Optima. Trust me, there is a perfectly innocent explanation for this, but to get that explantion, you’ll have to come back in about an hour for the next update. I’ll have more photos, which I promise to post with all the madness in my soul.

UPDATE: As promised, perfectly innocent:

You see, Crabby Con was there to see Yates Walker, who is just a scared and lonely rider and has gotta find out how it feels.

I’m pretty sure this is one of those guys who was sprung from cages out on Highway 9.

Two of his fellow Cornell alumni joined Daily Caller deputy editor Jamie Weinstein in an everlasting kiss.

One Fine Jay and Lachlan Markay are gonna get to that place where we really want to go. More photos in the next update.

UPDATE II: Everybody’s out on the run tonight, but there’s no place left to hide:

Matt Sheffield, Mrs. Sheffield, Kevin Mooney and Mary Beth Hutchins sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream.

Neither Chris Moody nor Lachlan Markay is gay, even though they look like they may want to be huddled on the beach in a mist.

Iris Somberg and Laura Lieberman briefly considered accepting my invitation to walk with me out on the wire, but wisely decided against it.

Yates Walker and Matthew Vadum are chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line.

Matthew Vadum poses with Crabby Con, who is waiting for her ginormous Larry King glasses to come back in style, but ’til then tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

Marriage of Convenience? No, Rosie O’Donnell Had a Marriage of Vengeance

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 16 Comments

The most absurd episode of Blame Bush Syndrome evah!

“George Bush, in the middle of a war, had an all-station news conference to announce how horrible it was for the safety of America that gay people were getting married in San Francisco, which pissed me off enough to get on a plane and go get married . . . It was like an act of . . . defiance . . . If you’re gonna count up everybody who you think is not of value and round ’em all up and slap a pink triangle on ’em.”

You see that O’Donnell has bought into the Bush-as-Hitler analogy so deeply that she deploys it automatically, unthinkingly, with this divisive “pink triangle” nonsense. Furthermore, like many of those on the Left, Rosie is so accustomed to getting her news filtered through biased venues, that she “remembers” things that never happened.

Tim Graham fact-checks Rosie’s bogus history, pointing out that there was no “all-station news conference” and that Bush’s 2004 statement was actually a very thoughtful and measured expression of the conservative position on marriage.

It’s sad, but not really surprising, to think that Rosie’s San Francisco wedding with Kelli Carpenter was merely a political publicity stunt — which is what Rosie means when she misuses the phrase “civil disobedience.” We could scarcely expect any union solemnized under such a pretext to endure, and the dissolution of the O’Donnell-Carpenter romance was one of those “second time as farce” episodes:

Rosie was talking about her long-haired chihuahua Misty with pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick . . . And she then revealed further, “What happened [was] when Kelli moved out two years ago, I got the dog. Because I wanted another child or something to love. And I got the dog.”

“I got the dog,” indeed! Speaking of marriage and children, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek notes how Judge Walker’s decision in San Francisco v. Schwarzenegger is being likened to Roe v. Wade.

Further commenting on the undemocratic nature of Judge Walker’s ruling, Melissa Clouthier of Liberty Pundits expects that “the disenfranchised masses will add this to the list of ways that the government treats them as worthless dung.”

That sentiment ought to be repaid with interest Nov. 2.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl calls attention to the news that Ann Coulter will address an event being billed as “Homocon.” NTTAWWT.

Category: California, Celebrities, Gays, Marriage, Melissa Clouthier

Da Tech Guy Visits A Mosque

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 27 Comments

by Smitty

Long-time friend of this blog Da Tech Guy was in the neighborhood and discovered what quite a few say about Moslems. Individually, they’re the kind of social conservatives that a goodly chunk of the readers of this blog have no trouble getting along with.

For example, at CPAC two years back, I spent a bit of time talking to Muslims for America.

On the other hand, I just finished The Grand Jihad, and I’m halfway through Nomad.  There are several darkly quotable passages in both.

Thoughts:

  • The US emphasis on individual liberty is at odds with Islam and Sharia.
  • Moderate Muslims need to be offering serious leadership on toning down Islam and Sharia.
  • Real improvement is decades away, and may not come as peacefully as is desirable.
Category: Uncategorized

Foppish Munch-head’s Jacked-up Ruling: Annoying

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Sure, I’ve never paid that much attention to the judiciary, figuring that, well, they’re probably more erudite than I. Other than rejecting the DoJ’s motion to dismiss in the VA ObamaCare suit, the headline-making actions of our nation’s judges raise the question of whether a judge can be impeached upon the basis of idiocy. Or, perhaps more gently, couldn’t these knobs go write screenplays or something, where the ripple effects of their vast creativity wouldn’t weaken societal institutions and security? Read more

Category: FMJRA Award

Some Salve For The Kagan Vote

Posted on | August 6, 2010 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

Gary Marx at TNR has a little picker-upper concerning Justice Kagan, the bullet points of which I’ll repeat, but RTWT:

  1. This 63–37 vote was a victory for judicial conservatives.
  2. The climate regarding judicial nominations has been radically altered.
  3. Major interest groups that traditionally have not played a role in Supreme Court battles are moving toward the side of judicial restraint…
  4. There were some surprising no votes.
  5. Ultimately, the Kagan debate was about the size and role of the national government, and the role of judges within that government.

In summary, we have to hang in there and fight the good fight, even with an undesirable outcome. In a system full of compromise, making the downpayment on this fight affords a basis for subsequent victory. The opposition wants you to cry, punt, and let them complete the task of replacing our Federalist system with a crappy Socialist imitation that dishonors liberty.

To the defeatists we must say no, no, no, no, a thousand nos, and, again: get stuffed.

Category: Supreme Court
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