How Obama Got Elected

Seriously. WTF are you people doing to our children?

h/t: seejanemom

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And while I’ve only begrudgingly supported McCain until this point, if the current speculation is confirmed; I would volunteer to have his babies (ok, I can’t really do that). But I will contribute to his campaign. And I suspect so too will my wife, who is a registered democrat.

… 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).

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

h/t: the blogfather

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…

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

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...

• 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.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Most people get hung up on the militia part – equating militia with a government sponsored military. But that’s not what they meant. That’s not what their own personal history reflected. To them, a militia is an armed citizenry. Period. And when you understand that to be a militia, the entire amendment makes unquestionable sense. If it helps, rearrange the comma’s thusly:

The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, [to form] A well regulated Militia, [and] being necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed.

One more point often overlooked, or wrongly emphasized - the ‘security of a free State‘ part. The operative word here is ‘free’. Free as free from tyranny. Free from oppression. Free. And in case you are especially daft, the same found fathers authored another document in which they very succinctly describes their vision of a proposed ‘free state’:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The second amendment codifies and limits the new government’s role in regards to an armed citizenry, because the founding fathers wanted to insure that future generations would be able to exactly as they did should it ever become necessary.

Our American history would not have been possible without guns. And all the (remaining) freedom we enjoy today is the direct result of some very smart and ideologically charged men with guns.

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.

Well?

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… 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

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