Posted on June 11th, 2007 by D. Aristophanes
So it ends, with a falsetto whimper from Steve Perry and … blackout.
Your thoughts on the Sopranos series finale?
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Travis G.
There are several things missing from this piece on whether a horrendous attack on a young white couple by four black people is a hate crime, but the Ole Perfesser’s keen insight is not among them:
“You’ve seen a lot of people with impeccable credentials making the point that the press does play up white-on-black crime and play down black-on-white crime,” said Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor who publishes political and media commentaries on his widely read Instapundit blog. “I think it’s a fair criticism. And it just empowers the crazies when the mainstream media soft-pedals this stuff.”
While these media critics and their credentials remain unspecified, I should point out that the article contains commentary related to this topic from Michelle Malkin and Charlie Daniels. I don’t have those kinds of chops, of course, but a media critic might wonder why the reporter didn’t look at what motivates people who generally oppose hate crimes legislation to try and convince the public, if not law enforcement, that these offenses were a hate crime.
Lacking that, this article almost infringes on the Instapundit brand: Find the sweet spot between superficial respectability and barking madness, and step out of the way while the immodestly deranged set to work.
Posted on June 10th, 2007 by Gavin M.
Some More Stuff That Isn’t Supposed to Happen in Iraq
How will our war critics explain this one:
Sometimes I dream of Mark Noonan. A brass band plays ‘roll out the barrel,’ and indeed, Mark rolls one out on a hand truck. It’s an old wooden one with metal hoops, and it’s filled with water. A pause dawns and elapses. “How will you lefties shoot these fish?” he chirps, handing me a shotgun.
See, I like Mark. A lot of these wingnuts are mean-spirited liars, but he’s genial and seems to have an instinct toward fair play. He’s just dumber than a sack of roof shingles, is the only thing.
BAGHDAD — Iraqi citizens continued to benefit from the improved security measures here Monday. Since temporary protective barriers have been raised to keep suicide bombers at bay within certain areas of the city, markets around Baghdad have resumed business and returned a sense of normalcy to the Iraqi population in local neighborhoods.
“Shoppers feel much safer [in the Rusafa District] going into the market now and they’ve actually seen an increase in the number of local citizens using that market,� said U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Rudolph, assistant chief of staff of civil military operations for Multi-National Division-Baghdad. “It’s a perception or an attitude that the stigma of the random violence has lessened.�
Remember how we used to laugh at Mark for not knowing the difference between a news story and a press release? Apparently, the magic twinkly-dust of enlightened reason has worn off: The document he’s waving is a press release from the government’s official Operation Iraqi Freedom page.
News flash: Special investigative report finds that
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Meanwhile, the Doura Market in Baghdad has also seen a significant difference.
According to Rudolph, Doura Market went from an unorganized street market of only a few dozen vendors to a thriving market place with more than 200 sellers.
Haifa Street was known as a “hot-bed� of extremist activity, but currently, it serves as a thriving market area.
“We’ve turned that around,� said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, the deputy commanding general for support with Multi-National Force-Baghdad. “Now, we have a thriving market area, which is starting to grow, and a revitalization process that will make the Iraqis really proud.�
It’s never clear what percentage of the electorate falls into the simple sack-of-roof-shingles category (it used to seem like roughly a third until Bush’s approval ratings started dipping into the high 20s), but it’s an education to see Mark decide what a conservative should believe on a given issue, and then stubbornly fool himself into believing that thing over and over again, employing the same bad evidence and flimsy arguments each new time.
It’s like watching someone doggedly hitting himself over the head with a shovel. [Clong.] “Ow, my head!” [Clong.] “This goes to show what I’ve always…” [Clong.] “Gaah! Damn these liberals, always banging my…” [Clong.] “…with a shovel!” [Clong.]
Here’s Mark again:
Are you going to go to a crowded shopping center if you think it likely that terrorists, who target crowded shopping centers, are around? No, you wouldn’t – so, we’re either left with the theory that Iraqis are monumentally stupid, or the understanding that the troop surge is working.
Because okay, Iraqis would totally stop buying food. Either that or they’d all go to a non-crowded market, while the terrorists blew things up in the empty crowded one that no Iraqis were going to.
But the best part is that if you secure a market, terrorists can’t just go blow things up somewhere else. Because that would be cheating.
Ok, lefties, start explaining it away or bringing up something bad you think President Bush did…
I’m actually on my way out the door, but this cleaning-up-the-markets narrative seems a wee familiar. I wonder if there’s been a…
[Zeerp!] Hello, dum-dum!
Oh hi, Great Gazoogle. Say, what’s this?
So it looks as though the Doura Market story has already been around the block a few times — like for almost a year. Welp, seeya next time, Mark. Same moonbat time, same moonbat channel, and Bush blows goats, and all that.
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by
Every little thing he does is magic:
Addressing the 80-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church as “sir,” Bush heard the Pope’s concerns about the Middle East and the plight of Christians in Iraq and told him of his efforts to combat AIDS and malaria in Africa and hunger and poverty. […] “It’s good to be with you sir,” Bush said as he sat before the Pontiff’s private desk in the Vatican.
Thanks to Blair for the link.
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by D. Aristophanes
Used to do this semi-regularly* over at Parrotline:
O! The perfidy!
Corrupt and secretive Dems!
Regards, Sen. Chutzpah
Would-be top doc sez:
Don’t stick stuff up my ass, fagzz!
My head’s got first dibs!
Men’s health? Women’s health?
It’s a zero-sum game, peeps!
So … weiner-take-all!
I LOVE THE SMELL OF
BRIBE-CROSSED PALMS IN THE MORNING
WHERE’S THEM PING-PONG BARS?
God to Democrats:
Let’s … get … ready … to … rummmmmmmmmmmmble!
Take that, Bruce Buffer!
Foul Democracy
I grow weary of your yoke
Shall no man be King?
YAY … for ignorance!
BOO … for a sick kid’s mother!
G-O-O-O-O … cell clusterings!
Kill the heretics!
Pour boiling oil on peasants!
Teh Dark Ages roolzz!!!!!1!
In Lib La-La Land
All the starlets graze on mush
And Al Gore is fat
Terror plot tells us
We’re simultaneously
More safe and less safe
Iran? Hostages?
That’s some Reagan-y goodness!
There I go again!
First they came for the
Small trucks, but I like Big Macs
Or something like that
I could spit you some
War shit 24-7
Mu’fuckazz … yeh boyyyyyy
*Twice
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by
From reader Stanton Carlisle comes news that the wingnut librarian has found a list worth keeping in a safe place and perhaps, who knows, a list someone should make a copy of, in case something happens to the first list:
The sad record of the Left
“There are no megalomaniacal mass-murderer that the Left has not supported, no Democracy that it has supported.” Read the list here by Steve Haas at American Daughter.
Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Yes, that daughter’s got to have some pretty serious issues:
In fact, though, if one examines these positions [unionization of the working class] carefully, one can detect a basic, underlying theme, which changes the benevolent image of the left in a dramatic way. Unionism is, basically, anti-Capitalist. Sure, it changes the living standard of the worker, in the short term, but it forces a wage scale upon the business that has no real relationship to the realities of the market.
Yes, the “realities” of the market defined as “any outcome decried by large corporations, their chambers of commerce, interest groups, lobbyists, and all these other associations which exist to represent the interests of the owners of the means of production* and which in no way seek to set the wages of workers below their own version of the “realities” of the market. Sing Hallelujah! In fact, everyone knows the AFL-CIO’s true objective is a Saddam Hussein-type dictatorship where the government threatens others thanks to weapons of mass destruction, or shoves political opponents into plastic shredders, and removes babies from incubators, something bad. Mass graves!
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Brad
ACE OFFERS IMPORTANT THOUGHTS on leering and feminism.
Must… not… click… link… must… show… restr…
Feminists continue insisting that it’s empowering to fuck everything that moves, except your actual husband, who must be sexually punished as a state-sanctioned enforcer of The Oppressive Patriarchy. […]
Honestly, The Feminists Who Put Out (TM) are really ruining their “pro-sex street cred” by constantly nattering on about everyone’s base sexual impulses.
Why don’t you all just chill out, pop open a bottle of wine, and dig on the cool grooves of kd lang and leave the rest of us alone?
Ace, you don’t have to worry about those awful feminists trying to have sex with you anytime soon. Though I can’t speak for them… well, actually, I’m pretty sure I can speak for them in this instance… they’re just not that into you.
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by D. Aristophanes
Dr. James W. Holsinger, the man nominated by the Preznit for Surgeon General, doesn’t much like teh gay. Doesn’t like it much at all.
But that isn’t to say he isn’t a sexy kind of guy. In “Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality,” a white paper Doc Holsinger penned in 1991, he writes:
The logical complementarity of the human sexes has been so recognized in our culture that it has entered our vocabulary in the form of naming various pipe fittings either the male pipe fitting or the female pipe fitting depending upon which one interlocks within the other. When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and disease may occur as noted above. Therefore, based on the simplest known anatomy and physiology, when dealing with the complementarity of the human sexes, one can simply say, Res ipsa loquitur – the thing speaks for itself!
Which … did he just say what I think he said? “When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and disease may occur …” ?!?
So if my dick’s not in a pussy … what? I’ll break my collarbone and get leprosy or something?
That’s my kinda sawbones! Ladies, help a feller avoid injuries and disease, willya? I got the tubing, you got the flange … what say we form a union to provide a simple nut transition, allowing easy release at any time?
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by HTML Mencken
Oh, yes. Marie, the world’s sexiest wingnut, has a new column — and it’s teh awesome:
Marie Jon’: Oooh’ la’ la’
Factoring in Fred Thompson, Reaganest appealing
Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee is in the race for the presidency of these United States. The charismatic Thompson will officially announce his candidacy on the Fourth of July. He is a conservative’s conservative. He most definitely has the political pedigree. Thompson has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations.
Okay, I can’t get past the headline. I rearrange the words, see if it helps. “In Fred Thompson factoring, appealing Reaganest”? No. “Reaganest factoring, in appealing Fred Thompson”? No. I change the context and proper names, see if it helps: “Factoring in HTML Mencken, Moonbatest appealing.” Nope. Whatever.
So… ok, Fred Thompson. Marie is smitten. I’m jealous. Is it his droopy-dog face? I mean, I could attach sandbags to my cheeks and go for the flapjowls look, would that help? Eh, probably not:
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Brad
This article, by the Weekly Standard’s Andrew Ferguson, basically shows us everything that’s wrong about our entire political culture. Ferguson describes a debate sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute in which participants discussed- get this- whether Darwin’s theory of evolution could be used to serve the political ends of American conservatism. No, really:
But Is It Good for the Conservatives? Darwinism and its discontents.
by Andrew Ferguson
They only had two and a half hours to settle some knotty questions–Does reality have an ultimate, metaphysical foundation? Is there content to the universe?–so they had to talk fast. But not fast enough. By the time the formidable panel discussion was over last week, I, as a member of the audience, had even more questions about the nature of reality than usual.
This hardly ever happens at a think tank, even Washington’s most audacious and interesting think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. One reason AEI stands as the capital’s premier research organization is that it alone would think to assemble a quartet of intelligent and accomplished people to debate the implications of Darwinism for political thought and public policy. Specifically, the panel’s title was “Darwinism and Conservatism: Friends or Foes?”
No, chillens, you simply cannot make this shit up. The big brains at AEI are actually debating whether the linchpin of modern biology is compatible with their bizarro political views. Coming next week: “Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation: Does it Lend Credence to the Flat Tax?”