Two video files found on [a gay SEC employee’s] computer were referred to the FBI because investigators suspected that the men depicted having sex in them were underage.
Some people may object that “gay SEC employee” is redundant, since being a federal bureaucrat is so totally gay to begin with, but the alternative — “bureaucratic wanker” — is even more redundant, so . . .
Well, anyway, it was a good headline. Not quite as good as the best headline of the day, but still pretty good.
Who’s the guy assigned to keep Obama’s ego in check? … Tip: Start by reminding Obama that he won the vote in part by leveraging his weakness–pleading with Democratic Congressmen to save his Presidency.
Progressivism is a virulent cancer of the Constitution. Respectfully refuse to give an inch to the POTUS on his victory lap.
Seven months is a long time in politics. Seven months ago, in August 2009, Democrats still held the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. Rep. Parker Griffith was still a Democrat, Rep. Eric Massa was still a member of Congress in good standing, and Sen. Evan Bayh hadn’t announced his retirement. Seven months ago, it had not yet been reported that unemployment had reached a 26-year high of 9.7 percent. Ted Kennedy was still alive and even those who knew that “the liberal lions of the Senate” was at death’s door had no inkling he would soon be replaced by a truck-driving Republican from Wrentham.
A lot of things have changed in seven months, but amid all the changes, ObamaCare has been reliably unpopular. In August 2009, 53 percent of likely voters surveyed by Rasmussen Reports opposed it, whereas 54 percent opposed it last week in the final Rasmussen survey before Nancy Pelosi rammed a “reconciliation” version of the bill through the House on a party-line vote.
Seven months and one week before Election Day, Democrats have begun declaring loudly that the one constant of the past seven months will change dramatically between now and Nov. 2. Unpopular as a legislative proposal, ObamaCare will be enthusiastically embraced by voters, we are assured by Democrats and their mediafriends, now that it is a fait accompli. . . .
Right-wing antagonist Ann Coulter cancelled a University of Ottawa address last night after organizers decided it wasn’t safe to speak.
The move followed boisterous demonstrations outside that sponsors of the appearance feared could turn violent.
Mark Steyn will no doubt have something blistering on this one, but Canada, you really have wet yourself. Your osteoporosis has reached a point where a woman with long hair and pointed remarks cannot offer them without you fearing for ‘safety’. For crying out loud in the dark, I hope all honest Canucks, who can remember a time before the last hair was shaved off their public bottom in the name of some bogus ’empathy’ god, just come South of the border right now.
The fact that you are upright, law abiding, reasonable citizens means that it will take a while to navigate the USCIS process, I know. But come South anyway, and let’s team up, to try to make at least one country on the continent that doesn’t draw vacuum.
UPDATE 7:12 a.m. ET (RSM): Doggone it, Smitty. If you think you’re going to hog all the Canada-bashing fun here, you’ve got another think coming! Via Kathy Shaidle, the only good Canadian, we have this news update:
After protesters at the University of Ottawa prevented Ann Coulter from giving a speech Tuesday night, the American conservative writer said it proved the point she came to make – free speech in Canada leaves much to be desired.
Then she said what she really thought of the student protesters who surrounded Marion Hall, making it to unsafe, in the view of her bodyguard, for the pundit to attempt entry. “The University of Ottawa is really easy to get into, isn’t it?” she said in an interview after the cancelled event. . . .
Coulter said she has been speaking regularly at university campuses for a decade. While she has certainly been heckled, she said this is the first time an engagement has been cancelled because of protesters.
“This has never, ever, ever happened before – even at the stupidest American university,” she said.
Coulter remarked on the reception she has had since entering the country.
“Since I’ve arrived in Canada, I’ve been denounced on the floor of Parliament – which, by the way, is on my bucket list – my posters have been banned, I’ve been accused of committing a crime in a speech that I have not yet given, I was banned by the student council, so welcome to Canada!”
Coulter actually has a case that people are hating her not because she’s beautiful, but because she’s a American. Anti-Americanism is respectable among Canada’s elites, and widespread, but in fact, under Canada’s human rights laws, which include “national or ethnic origin,” it’s just as illegal as hating Somalians.
The peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrators in their keffiyahs would not allow her to speak.
Lest you think Jim’s joking, notice the keffiyah-wearer — with shaved head, next to the woman in purple coat — in this photo (via Donald Douglas at American Power):
What a disgrace to Canada but what can you expect from a University that promotes Israeli Apartheid Week. The U of Ottawa was all free-speechy when this hypocrite spoke at Whack-A-Jew-Week
These same savages welcome the most hate speech sponsors with open arms and open legs, but truth is verboten.
And Pamela provides this video showing that the Muslim girl who on Monday claimed to be insulted by Coulter is — surprise! surprise! — a member of a Facebook group advocating the destruction of Israel:
Seablogger has an interesting post on Eyjafjallajökull (eye-uh-fyalla-yoe-kull, or so) over in Iceland.
A really jolly eruption, in a worst case scenario, could bring about a sequel to the Year Without Summer. As fragile and interconnected as globalization has made things, much less than that could be worrisome.
This post was actually prompted by Uncoverage.net‘s “Fire and Iceland” post. Uncoverage doesn’t seem to know about the Benatar Rule.
Irrespective of the details of the ObamaCare legislation, the ugliness, the kickbacks, the foul propaganda directed against citizens, there is the fact that the spirit of the Constitution has been trampled.
Somebody, say, Fred Thompson, needs to cut a brief ad describing how legitimate legislation works, and how this monstrosity has played out.
The notions in the founding documents need re-emphasis, and the seemingly obvious point that ObamaCare, like the income tax, will not be seen as legitimate by those who’ve sworn “to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic“, until such time as this fundamental alteration in the fabric of the country occurs according to Article V.
I’ve sworn that military oath repeatedly these last couple of decades. My loyalty is to the Constitution. A century of Progressivism and “settled law”, plus $3, is worth coffee at Starbucks to me.
The Battle of Flamborough Head is an important one for partiots in this dark hour, 231 years later. Serapis was the Royal Navy vessel, and the Bonhomme Richard was captained by Jones.
Commodore Jones, accepting that if he could not use the 18-pounders he could not win a gun-fight, quickly adopted a policy of trying to grapple and board his opponent. Pearson’s crew spotted the change, and adapted rapidly, using the superior maneuverability of Serapis to keep out of reach, while continuing to bombard the slower ship. On one occasion though, according to the later recollection of First Lieutenant Richard Dale, the Bonhomme Richard’s bow ran into Serapis’ stern and, with neither side able to take advantage of the situation, Captain Pearson cheekily asked the punning question, “Has your ship struck?”. Dale reports Jones’s reply as, very simply, “I have not yet begun to fight!“
“I hope you feel as I do, that we have not yet begun to fight.”
I predict that the President’s sordid breech abortion is only going to get uglier as it goes along. How in the world is it signed into law and then these clowns are going to work on the reconciliation of the Senate and House bills? At what point does today’s icing on an unbaked cake appear the lousiest political mess of all time? Today? Next week? Election day?
Palate cleanser:
No, Senator DeMint was not invoking thatJohn Paul Jones, though here he is with his latest project, Them Crooked Vultures, doing “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I” with a truly monstrous slide bass:
