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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I watch no television news broadcasts at all. I receive no newspaper. I listen to no news radio. I check news webpages at most once a day, for at most 30 minutes a day, and mostly just skim headlines. [...]

Quite possibly the most-awesome list ever conceived:

A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming.

But, remember, anthropogenic global warming cultists have no agenda. None. Ever. Right.

(Link courtesy of a sharp marble who [...]

Bob S. has his “Troll of the Day”, and I might have to institute an “idiot of the day” category here at “walls of the city”. If such a category existed (and it might, if I got off my [...]

And that science shows that “anthropogenic global warming” is full of gos-se:

“The Nobel prize was for peace not science … government employees will use it to negotiate changes and a redistribution of resources. It is [...]

I cannot help but to be amused at how Our Glorious President, the most adamant believer in the cult of global warming ever to ascend to that lofty office, is currently having to dig himself out from [...]

It should be added to whatever passes as Congress’ rules that the only documents which can be read during a filibuster are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, including all Amendments. Sure, it would [...]

If you are in my generation, and you honestly believe you are going to see a penny of the money stolen from you to fuel the ponzi-scheme-known-as-”Social-Security”, I have an intercontinental bridge out in Wyoming I would [...]

How many times have you heard or read something like this leaving the mouth or fingers of a supporter of Our Glorious President:

Lack of faith, lack of faith is the only thing we got to fear! If we [...]

Alright, it is time to finally admit it.
I am officially embarrassed to have my country – the country I love, the country to which I gave four years of my life – represented by this [...]

You are going to need to set aside an hour or two (I tended towards the latter) to work your way through Kevin’s latest super-uber-post, but believe me when I say that it is 100% worth it… [...]

A few days ago, Our Glorious President said the following in some interview with ABC wherein he looked like something one of my old cats hacked up:

I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a [...]

If there was anything right in our country today, President Barack Hussein Obama would soon be facing impeachment charges.
And no, I am not just saying that for the hyperbole value.
Last night, during his STFU SOTU [...]

As spoken by South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andrew Bauer:

You see, for the first time in the history of this country, we’ve got more people voting for a living than we do working for a [...]

Sometimes I wonder if the anti-rights advocates’ best tactic is to simply step back for a little while, and let the pro-rights activists tear themselves apart from the inside.
I suppose like all big groups of people, it [...]

Yet another quote from the inimitable Atlas Shrugged:

What we are now asked to worship, what had once been dressed up as God or king, is the naked, twisted, mindless figure of the human Incompetent. This is the [...]

Would not Nazis picking up trash from the side of the road necessitate them bagging themselves for pick-up?
Sarcasm aside, I cannot help but to feel proud that I live in a country where such a [...]

Thanks to Traction Control for pointing out a positively wonderful depiction of how Our Glorious President has done this year:

It is funny what happens when you do not [...]

To all of the individuals who are throwing hateful, intolerant, frothing-at-the-mouth, world-class tempertantrums at the idea that a private company adorned its products with encoded, tiny-assed Biblical verse references, allow me to explain something to you:

A Republican, now-Senator Scott Brown, won what was Ted Kennedy’s seat (but is no more) in Massachusetts.
Holy crap.
I mean, holy crap.
A Republican. A veritable nobody. Won a Senate seat. In [...]

So we Tennesseeans are electing a new governor this year, and the media went and asked them some quesions about guns. The Knoxville Gun Rights Examiner has a breakdown of the responses, and

Reason #867783 Why Our Country Is Screwed:

We met to discuss a series of recent pronouncements that will significantly impact my clients. Generally speaking, these are going to be selective regulations, that you will probably never know about, but [...]

Rob Russell has apologized to Bob S. for his threats:

Bob –

Please accept my apology. I can’t tell you how sorry I am for making the comments I made and then defending them. I deeply [...]

So apparently the coach of UT Knoxville’s football team, some schmuck named Lane Kiffin, decided to head on to greener pastures, or at least better-paying pastures, only a year after taking his contract at UT.
*twirls finger in [...]

I am always intrigued by occasional confluence of news articles, and today’s example just reminds me why I am thankful that I do not use Facebook terribly much. On the one hand, Gizmodo pointed me towards

In regards to the current Rob Russell debacle, Tom Stelene won today’s quote of the day:

Really, it’s plain for all to see that Mr. Russell is another good Democrat who upholds bi-partisanship, reaching out, [...]

Earlier today, I highlighted some comments from a certain individual by the name of Rob, who left those particular comments at SouthernFemaleLawyer’s weblog. For the sake of simplicity, the comments are below:

Since Eastern Tennessee is getting short-changed in its white-stuff quota for today, I guess I will have to comfort myself with this map. At the time I wrote this post, I count 361 record lows, 636 record [...]

A little while ago, when the topic came up at another weblog, I left the following comment regarding the actions of the Sea Shepherd ships when they attempted to ram a Japanese ship, and more-specifically regarding Paul [...]

Those big, ugly, loud, polluting monstrosities of semi rigs that always seem to take up too much space in the lanes, and never seem to go fast enough? The American economy pretty much rides on their wheels, and, you [...]

Damned if I ever thought I would be saying this, but I support the Tories (at least this time):

The Tories want to give people who kill burglars while defending their home more protection from prosecution, according [...]

Now this is just priceless:

• 1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”

I guess [...]

A lot of not-really-”liberals” make a lot of pointless noises over citing “primary sources” when it comes to topics like health-care reform. Well, how does this primary source suit you?

…To those who would accuse [...]

One quick-and-dirty way to identify whether someone is pro-control or pro-freedom:
To a pro-control individual, the Bill of Rights grants rights to citizens, allowing them certain abilities within reason.
To a pro-freedom individual, the Bill of Rights [...]

Remember: if you are silencing dissenters by force or by exploiting a position of power/authority, what you are preaching is not [...]

I cannot say as though I can honestly disagree with this particular assessment of the situation we find ourselves in (as pointed out by David at RNS):

You’re looking at this the entire wrong way. [...]

If you ever wanted further proof that the anthropogenic global warming cult was never about the environment, being “green”, or “saving the planet”, you do not need to look any farther than the recent conference at [...]