The Michael Moore Diet Plan

He start off the day...

… by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, [he] gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, [he] really loads up on the carbs … with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

So, does Michael really eat that? Actually, yeah. (I’m not so sure about Michael Moore though).

I Told You So

No bias, None whatsoever.

Government Efficiencies…

…are the ultimate oxymoron. 30 years ago today, President Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act creating the Department of Energy. Today it’s has a $25 BILLION dollar budget and more than 16,000 employees.

So – how’s that working out for us? And you want the government in charge of your healthcare?

h/t: the blogfather

Blackout

I’m pleased that the main stream media (MSM) has been blacking out the Edwards story. It just re-enforces what many believe – there is a very real media bias and the msm no longer has any credibility.

Imagine if you will, a fictional story – a story in which a high school football star goes on to graduated college and law school, clerks for a federal judge and launches a successful career as an attorney and ultimately amasses millions in medical malpractice. He then shifts focus to politics and wins his first bid to the US Senate. By the end of his first term, he is selected to run as the Vice President by his parties Presidential nominee. He and his running mate ultimately lose the hotly contested election against the incumbent. Then his wife is diagnosised with cancer and he decides to retire from politics to support her. Several years later, me mounts his own bid for the Presidency. Then it’s revealed that he’s been having an affair – and may even have a baby as a result of this affair. And the major media outlets ignore the story completely and our ‘hero’ lives happily ever after.

Yeah – the story doesn’t pass the sniff test. Readers wouldn’t believe it. The publisher would surely kick that back and tell the writer that [s]he needs to change the ending – the whole media as a conspiracy thing won’t fly – people would never believe that.

Except it’s happening here and now. In real life.

This story can’t be contained forever. Soon this story will be common knowledge. And the longer the mainstream media chooses to ignore it, the more damage they are doing to what’s left of their credibility – but this time, it will be their credibility with the sheep. Those who so far just consume the news wholesale, without question. This could be the story that will be looked back upon as the tipping point – when the sheep finally look at their shepard and say – WTF?

The only possible spin I can see them put on this is that’s “it’s just about sex”. Except it’s not - there is a baby now. There is a sick and dying wife who has been betrayed. Larry Craig, a homophobic hypocrite from ‘who cares’ was about sex. This is much, much more from someone who 6 months ago was asking you to make him the President of the United States.

So carry on msm. Keep digging that hole. Someone pass the popcorn…

An Endorsement to Die For

"For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to end this practice."

The above quote is part of the final address from Dale Leo Bishop before he was executed for murder yesterday in Mississippi. Predictably, the article describes Bishop as being mentally ill, but I would argue that anyone who holds down an acquaintance while allowing another friend strike the victim in the head 23 times with a hammer is quite obviously mentally ill.

So, yeah. A convicted criminal wants you to vote for Obie so as to end the carriage of justice.

h/t: rightwingsparkle

Thanks for Nothing

Direct from the grey lady - 3 weeks ago:

Last week, almost 1,000 jobs were eliminated in the American newspaper industry, perhaps the bloodiest week yet of a year where many papers are fighting for their lives. You read about the great names — the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News — as if reading the obituary page. Rich cities like San Francisco can no longer support a profitable daily paper.

Columnists, reporters, editors, cartoonists and photographers — including some colleagues here at The Times — who brought to life the daily narrative of a city or region have been swept aside. What started as layoffs and buyouts is edging toward closures and bankruptcies.

Now this.

No... No connection whatsoever.

Update: And no Schadenfreude either...

Tyrants

In light of D.C. v Heller, The district has responded with these proposed new rules:

• Allowing an exception for handgun ownership for self-defense use inside the home.
• If you want to keep a handgun in your home, the MPD will have to perform ballistic testing on it before it can be legally registered.
• There will be a limit to one handgun per person for the first 90 days after the legislation becomes law.
• Firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and disassembled, and secured with either a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. The new law will allow an exception for a firearm while it is being used against an intruder in the home.
• Residents who legally register handguns in the District will not be required to have licenses to carry them inside their own homes.

Oh – and it gets better – read the whole thing. The application process is a bureaucratic nightmare.

If this crap flies it will undoubtedly ignite another case, which, given the makeup of the lower courts will ultimately land this thing right back into the supreme courts lap - 10 years later of course. And by then the writing that’s on the wall now will be patently obvious to everyone - The system is not working. These assholes are refusing to abide in good faith to the law handed down by the supreme court.

It’s just a tab bit ironic that this should all come down to the second amendment.

Why the French Suck, Reason # 7328

It’s about that time of year again. They have a nifty little bike race around France that starts every year in early July. For the last 7 years or so I’ve been glued to the TV watching all that I could. And, although I can’t get a video feed at work, so I keep the cyclingnews.com live reports up and refreshing during each stage for hours a day during each July. Productivity suffers.

But not this year.

No, this year the Tour de France is gonna suck. For those of you who may not follow cycling, let me break it down like this… Imagine Baseball without the Yankees. Football without the Patriots. Basketball with the Lakers. Hockey without … Hell, I don’t know – insert the hockey team you love [to hate] here.

Last year was the last year for the Discovery Channel team (formally the USPS team - Lance Armstrong’s team). They went out with a bang too – placing 1st and 3rd (Alberto Contador & Levi Leipheimer). Levi might have had 2nd too but for an unfortunate time penalty. But the team folded at the end of the season and the riders were all found looking for a new team.

Then the embattled team Astana, itself in danger of folding due to several doping scandals recruited Johan Brunyeel (the former director from Discovery) to lead the Team. Johan rebuilt the team from the ground up and hired on most of the former Discovery riders including Contador and Leipheimer. Astana has had a pretty good season so far – winning and/or at least finishing on the Podium in just about every race they’ve been in.

But they weren’t invited to the Tour this year. The ASO (owners, tour organizers) cited last year’s doping scandals as the reason. Never mind that those riders, and that management structure is gone and has nothing to do with this year’s team. But that’s French logic for you – or so they’d have you believe. The truth is the problem is Brunyeel. In the last 9 years, Brunyeel’s riders have stood atop the podium 8 times. Looks like the French have finally found a way to beat him.

Lest you think mine is a minority opinion, here’s Lance Armstrong’s take on the whole thing (found shortly after penning the piece above).

Yeah, but the thing is, let's say we'd have brought in Oracle [as sponsors instead of Astana], and [the team included] Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong and the CSE management team, with Contador and Levi Leipheimer and all those guys. Astana would still be in the Tour de France, but Oracle would be out. This 2008 decision was not an anti-Alexandre Vinokourov-based decision. It was an anti-Bruyneel-Armstrong decision. If they want to play games like kids, then play games, but the record will show that ASO and the sport of cycling was prosperous during our time winning seven editions. And the record will show that, since then, it has not done well. And I'm not taking any credit, I'm just saying, for the record, the facts are what they are.

I feel sorry for the riders competing this year, and even more so for the one who gets to stand on top the podium in Paris because their victory will always be tainted with the question of what might have happened if they’d been allowed to compete with the best.

Judged by the Company you Keep

But let's conduct a 30-second thought experiment: If John McCain went to a David Duke rally, belonged to a church which, through its magazine, gave Duke an award and had close colleagues who celebrated Duke's achievements would McCain still be a presidential candidate?

Well?

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When the Inmates Run the Asylum

Ever since Hillary dropped out I’ve been disappointed, however it looks like Denver might just be amusing to watch after all. The Democrat’s have set their sights on running the greenest, most politically correct event possible. Things like organic-cotton-American-union-made fanny pack & ball caps (neither of which exist), biodegradable balloons, and even compostable utensils. They’ve gone to great lengths and even hired an ‘Official Carbon Advisor’ and organized 900 volunteers to function as a ‘Trash Brigade’ (ensuring recyclables are properly sorted). The PC mentality (obviously) extends to the choice of food:

… No fried food. And, on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should include "at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white." (Garnishes don't count.) At least 70% of ingredients should be organic or grown locally, to minimize emissions from fuel burned during transportation. "One would think," says Mr. Burns, "that the Democrats in Denver have bigger fish to bake -- they have ruled out frying already -- than mandating color-coordinated pretzel platters."

Ok – now not to come off as full on enviro-hater – I support recycling, nature conservancy and strong desire to help us overcome our addiction to oil (especially foreign oil), but I’m also rational and logical and recognize that many of these initiatives do more harm than good. I mean - How much energy is going to be expended transporting, parking, housing, feeding these 900 ‘trash brigade’ volunteers whose sole purpose is to make sure that the occasional compostable fork isn’t accidentally transported to the landfill where it might compost itself?

h/t: hotair

Lunch Box Police

This is actually more a problem with Socialism that plain old liberalism, but – whatever. From the ‘it takes a village’ mentality, we get this well intentioned, but utterly assinine proposal in the UK:

Under the Government's obesity strategy, all schools will be expected to design a "healthy lunchbox policy" on what makes a nutritional packed lunch over the next year.

Some parents may even be asked to sign a form agreeing to ban unhealthy foods from their children's lunches.

If a packed lunch is deemed to contain too much fat and sugar, parents could be sent warning letters or their children's meals confiscated.

And while this is happening in the UK and not the good ole’ US of A, don’t for a minute think that some career educator hasn’t already thought of this here…

h/t: Ace

The Problem with Liberalism…

…is that it runs in the face of logic - normal, common sense logic. Witness this:

Starting July 1, marijuana will be the only leaf that can be smoked in public places in the Netherlands. … Puffing a pure marijuana cigarette in public will still be permitted; smoking one with tobacco will merit coffee shop owners a $466 fine.

It’ quite obvious how they arrived at this sort of stupidity, and it illustrates how bad laws lead to worse laws. This is what you get:

(Smoking = Bad) + (Wrongly persecuting pot smokers = Bad) = Laws that allow pot smoking in public, but not tobacco.

There really isn’t much more to add to this, but at least it allowed me to create a new category called TPWL (The Problems With Liberalism) for stories like this. I suspect the majority of my examples will come from Europe as they seem to excel in this sort of nonsensical asshattery, but it will be interesting to watch.

h/t: Wizbang

The Beginning of the End

In 50 or so years, when they write the “Rise and Fall of the United States”, this day, and this supreme court decision will figure prominently into the Fall.

It’s over folks. We’re riding the road to hell, paved with the good intentions of intelliectual morons who lack common sense. I'm so sick I could puke.

A Confession

I have a man crush on Jeremy Clarkson. I know, you’re saying, who? And if you do know who he is, maybe you just threw up in your mouth a little. Rest assured, it’s not that kind of man crush…

First there was an article last week that said ‘the real man’, a.k.a. a ‘retrosexual’ was making a comeback. Among those men listed as retrosexuals was Jeremy.

Then, via Ace, I stumbled across this video, a clip from Jeremy’s awesome BBC television program, Top Gear:

I’m pretty sure I’ve met Billy Bob once or twice too. Nice guy once you get to know him.

If you seriously feel the need to buy a hybrid to "save the planet", do what I did (after the break)...