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crazy is crazy

By now, you have undoubtedly heard about the now-resolved hostage situation at the Discovery Network HQ, summed up by Sarah:

If your personal agenda involves completely ridding the planet of human beings, people aren’t likely to listen until you go completely bonkers and

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dictionaries serve a purpose

The comment thread (to which I would link directly, if Echo was not a piece of gos-se) at this post over at Kevin’s is so completely full of stupidity and fail, I am genuinely surprised that the internet does not somehow start to collapse in on itself around…

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fender-print on your forehead

How do you know when your leadership skills are insufficient for the task at hand?

When your employees – the people who literally depend on you for their future paychecks – sell you down the river:

President Barack Obama’s decision to make public comments Friday that

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way to make it official

Want to incontrovertibly prove to the world that you are nothing more than a self-absorbed, immature jackass looking to gin up as much publicity for yourself and your webpage as is humanly possible without any regard, whatsoever, for the significant consequences of your actions?

Simple: try to

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huh. lookit that.

Remember all of the various air-headed morons screaming and flailing about how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was going to be completely and utterly disastrous, and totally unrecoverable, and likely to destroy the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, and all your fault because you use gasoline…

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morons of every color

I really, really hope that the disgusting, decidedly non-Christian Westboro Baptist Church bit off far more than they could chew by deciding to protest at Comic-Con, but I already know that is not the case. For every rabble-rousing, nut-job on the sidewalk protesting, there are 10 scumsucking lawyers…

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engage spleen vent

On this day, which started out overcast and damp, and seems to be wrapping up relatively nicely, I would like to solemnly, but enthusiastically, raise my middle finger to two separate individuals.

First, Michael Yon, you are a scumbag of the lowest order. I will be perfectly…

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put your freedom to good use

Really, Oleg could not have chosen a better image for the Fourth of July:

On a similar note, did anyone see a somewhat interesting difference between how the majority of pro-rights / conservative / right-wing / libertarian / etc. weblogs observed the Fourth,…

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without a ripple

I found out this morning that noted Kleagle, Exalted Cyclops, and Democratic Senator Robert Byrd died earlier today. As I mentioned to Better Half, this ranks slightly lower on my “Give-a-Gos-Se Meter” than a noted drunkard, womanizer, and reckless driver who also happened

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bringing it together

I am just not feeling any intensive weblogging today, so I will instead leave you with two quotes from wildly disparate sources. First, actor Jon Voight:

Dear President Obama:

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You have brought to Arizona a civil war, once again defending the criminals and illegals, creating a

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president obama hates black people

Yesterday, I found out that offers of assistance from the Dutch government regarding our oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico were turned down. Why? Because, their method of removing copious quantities of oil from the water was not quite good enough:

The Americans don’t have

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an invasion, by any other name

Imagine that you are the ruler of a country – this should not be hard for the megalomaniacs in my readership. Imagine that country is bordered by a few other countries, and that those borders are generally unregulated… there are, of course, designated border-crossings, with gates and fences and all…

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compounding idiocy

On the one hand, courtesy of John Lott, we find that Our Glorious President’s ratings in handling the Gulf oil spill are worse than President Bush’s handling of Katrina:

A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC

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you say that like i should care

By way of USCitizen at Traction Control (a stand-up guy if there ever was one, and one with a fair amount of firepower for sale), we learn that some particularly spineless, ignorant, ingrates were able to convince the town of Warren,

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just a little poetical

Speaking as someone who used to have something of a propensity for buying all manner of random-assed toys before doing the appropriate research on them, I can honestly say that buyer’s remorse really does suck, and I really have experienced it on more than a few occasions. Based on that…

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sometimes, i hate being right

So, can I say, “I told you so,” now?

Investigators said evidence overwhelmingly proves North Korea fired a homing torpedo that caused a massive underwater blast that tore the Cheonan into two on March 26. Fifty-eight sailors were rescued from the frigid Yellow Sea

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black hole of privacy

Facebook sucks.

Facebook frakking sucks.

Facebook sucks ten different ways.

Facebook sucks another six ways.

Facebook sucks, in pictures.

The good news? There may be an alternative in the future, complete with open source code, GPG encryption, distributed software you can host for…

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monkey see, monkey do

Unless you have been living under a rock these past few years, you would be aware of the intentionally-offensive, unquestionably childish term that supposedy “liberals”/progressives have been using to describe Tea Party members and attendees – a term with a pre-existing defintion describing a particularly crude, but not necessarily sexual,…

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they make it so easy

This is why I support Arizona’s attempts to control illegal immigration:

Yes, that sign reads:

GIVE US FREE
HEALTH CARE
JOBS – NO TAXES
HOUSE
FOOD
YOU OWE US AMERICA!
WE WILL SHOOT
MORE POLICE IN
ARIZONA UNTIL
WE

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a proper remembrance

This is how yesterday (a day with some historical significance of 01MAY to the communists of our world) should be rightly commemorated.

Happy May Day, bastard – I hear Hell throws quite the party for scumbag mass-muderers like you.

(Thanks to Free in Idaho for the reminder.)

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the act of being human

Now this is interesting (I promise).

Over the past… while… governments around the world (but specifically in Europe) have been doing their damnest to turn their populations into government-dependent sheep: telling them not to fight back, suggesting that the people give the criminals what they want, disarming the populaces,…

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cultism pays well

One day, assuming you can subvert your own integrity and ethics far enough to manage it, you too might grow up to be sufficiently skilled at lying like a gorramed rug that people will pay you enough money to spread your false science, laughable

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for some people, thinking is impossible

A whole lot of bytes have been slaughtered to make noise over Arizona’s new illegal immigration bill, SB 1070. By and large, my position on the bill is somewhat similar to Robb’s (they are here illegally – hence the term “illegal alien” – where is the…

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mind yourself out there

Now that Facebook has gotten oh-so-very helpful and started spreading your personal information around the cortex without even so much as a by-your-leave, it might be useful to know what, exactly, it is spreading.

This tool should help.

And this page will help you…

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just a little incongruous

How is it that the backwater, unedcuated, redneck, cousin-humping, Appalachian-hillbilly, fly-over, west-bumfrack state I live in can manage to update the address on my driver’s license and handgun carry permit in five minutes on the internet, while the Great and Glorious Federal Government makes me request a hardcopy form that…

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it is time for a tax on stupidity

Not only no, but hell no:

This bill:

(1) Repeals the sales tax on grocery food;
(2) Eliminates the local option sales tax and establishes a uniform, statewide sales tax of 5 percent;
(3) Eliminates the Hall income tax;
(4) Holds local government harmless

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bringing shame on metal

Some days, I wonder if the world is simply stress-testing my cardiovascular system for future idiocy.

Then the future idiocy arrives, and I know that no amounts of preparation could have readied my body for the outrage:

The late Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, has achieved

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talk about needing a drink

So, how did it feel to be bent over and financially violated this year, with the full knowledge that those in positions to do so will be doing their absolute best to spread your hard-earned money around, support failing industries that are not failing due to financial problems, and give…

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fumbling the football

If this news had been released four days before, I would have sincerely thought it was a genuine April Fool’s prank. As it is, I can only shake my head at the country we are rapidly being forced to become:

President Obama said Monday that he was

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evening funnies

Well, they say pictures are worth a thousand words, so to save myself the effort of typing, here are some good ones.

Courtesy of A Trainwreck in Maxwell, we have this wonderful graphic comparing the popularity ratings of the current and previous Presidents:

You have…

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catching up with him

Aside from the belief that this should be spread far and wide, I will present this without comment:

I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about “Barry.”

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quote of the day

Today’s honor goes out to commenter Britt at The Smallest Minority for this particularly insightful post:

Duh, it’s a Congressman’s feelings versus a peasant’s actual body.

See, basically the 30% in 1776 who were Royalists, they’re all Democrats today. Some people have a hunger

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anecdotes and all that

“Warmest winter in recorded history” my hairy white ass.

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we are so screwed

And here is your daily dose of depression:

Trust me – click on the image and read the full explanation…

(Courtesy of Les Jones and Nathan’s Economic Edge.)

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conversations from the ramparts

Better Half: Can’t they look out the windows and see people don’t want this??

Me: That would require them to care.

(Image shamelessly borrowed from the Knoxville News Sentinel, who borrowed it from the AP.)

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sometimes, i hate being right

A little over a year ago, I wrote:

Additionally, what happened to blaming the “authorities” for the supposedly impending “consequences for their actions”? Multiple sections of the above-quoted comment certainly makes it appear as though the “three percenters” will be the instigators in any impending actions, rather

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if the world were an honest place

Today’s quote of the day comes from pdb by way of this comment he left at Marko’s place:

Every time the uplifters try to pass another behavior modification law, I want them to swear on the Bible that it’s worth shooting a guy

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that does it for today

I had a couple of skeletons of posts rattling around in my head that I was considering fleshing out and posting today, but then I stumbled across this news report and lost all interest whatsoever.

Robb and Jay G cover the situation far more eloquently…

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making a point

The allegations are flying fast and furious around Representative Massa, but, gorram, he paints a horrific picture:

“I’m sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at

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like shopaholics with a credit card

We received a letter at our house yesterday indicating that we would be receiving our Census questionnaire packet within the next week or so. It was addressed to “The Residents of… [insert address]“, so that does not really bother me.

What does bother me is that our federal government,…

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life imitates life

Is anyone else not surprised at how the Knoxville branch of the AFL-CIO occupies the same building as the Knoxville branch of the Democratic Party?

Even better, the former occupies the upper floors of the building, while the latter occupies the basement.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining…

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giving credit where it is due

Very few “progressives”/”liberals” bother to trouble themselves with those annoying little things known as “facts”, but even fewer still will actually have the backbone to admit to this shortcoming in public. To his credit, Matthew Cardinale, editor of the completely-unknown-to-me “Atlanta Progressive News”, somehow managed to

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