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The current Democrat candidate for Illinois Lieutenant felon Governor
In the grand tradition of George Ryan, Rod Blagojevich and Paul Powell, the newest Illinois Democratic leader has burst onto the scene from out of nowhere. Scott Lee Cohen surprised everyone by winning the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor on Tuesday. Cohen is a businessman who was [...]

It’s the first practical flying car, courtesy of bunch of MIT propeller-heads who got together to form Terrafugia and produce the Transition aircraft/automobile. No trailers to haul the wings about – just land, hit a button: the wings fold up and you drive away. Anticipated price? A shade under $200,000. If Rufus ever leaves his [...]

Here’s a run-down of the bar tab for one flight by a prominent celebrity:
Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Creme, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniel’s whiskey and Corona beer.
Nice selection of booze, but who’s it [...]

Interesting story this weekend: turns out that Senator Scott Brown and President Barack Obama are cousins. OK, tenth cousins, but still. Family is family.
Speaking of the junior Senator from Massachusetts, it was disappointing to see Brown come out in favor of a “woman’s right to choose,” but I suppose that is to be expected in [...]

I was never one of the legion of admirers of “Catcher in the Rye.” Well written? Sure. But also petulant, self-serving and – despite its legendary status as a ground-breaking piece of literature, rather obvious. But then I grew up in the 60’s so cynicism and nihilism were pretty much the order of the day [...]

Every once in a while the daughtorial unit surprises me by doing something useful. (I keed – I keed!) In this case, she turned me onto what may possibly be the best cartoon ever: The Venture Brothers.
I am so out of touch with all things cool, and The Venture Brothers – as I suspect some [...]

Let’s be perfectly clear: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is a classic, backroom-dealing, unprincipled, whats-in-it-for-me Chicago politician. He is however, probably the highest placed pragmatist in the Obama administration. So I’m torn. Should I root for Rahm’s demise, as more and more of the crazy left calls for his head? Or, should I [...]

Here’s an example of the sort of opponent that Outlaw and his comrades are facing in Iraq and Afghanistan:

Boys having fun – does it get any better?
Now do you know why you’ll never see a similar video posted over at www.talibanrus.com? There are several reasons.
1) Nobody in the Taliban actually has a sense of humor.
2) [...]

Seeing the direction today seems to be taking, see Rufus to enter the “How Long Till Bot’s Head Explodes?” office pool.

Well that didn’t take long.
It hasn’t been a year since the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize made nice-nice with Hugo “Reality Is Not An Option” Chavez. And, while most Threedonians would agree with Hugo’s assessment that the current POTUS stinks, who knew that Chavez could figure it out so soon?
From Fox:
In an interview [...]

Is his dissent on the decision that overturned McCain-Feingold, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote:
Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it.
Well then, whose society are they members of I wonder?
The podium is yours professor. Like Don Mossi, I’m all ears.

Kit was kind enough to forward the link to the above – many thanks K!
The W/Dark Knight comparison has been made on these pages many times before, but the above sums it up very nicely. Like many a conservative, the biggest problem that I had with W was his refusal to rein in spending, but [...]

KEYBOARD PROTECTION WARNING : PUT YOUR COFFEE DOWN BEFORE VIEWING

h/t: Stosh from da Sticks

Ted Kennedy wanna-be Martha Coakely, who claimed blissful ignorance when her staffer assaulted the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack

(The assailant, Democrat operative Michael P. Meehan, was appointed by Barack Obama to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors on November 19, 2009)
In Massachusetts, the bluest of the blue states, there is no way that any Senatorial [...]

Age progressed photo of Osama bin Laden and modern day photo of some Spanish idiot
(If you can not tell the difference, you may want to consider Lasik sooner rather than later)
Apparently the best way for a terrorist to sneak into the United States is to disguise himself as Osama bin Laden. That’s seems to be [...]

Growing up in Hegewisch, the south side Chicago neighborhood that gave rise to the Trzuprs, I learned about Chicago politics at an early age. My dad, who saw little difference between Democrats and Communists, refused to pay homage to the machine. He was, in fact, rather openly defiant, refusing – for example – to allow [...]

Floyd Here: This is also him — after his IVF:

Big Journalism’s latest contributor, that is – only with a considerably better picture than what y’all are used to.
And no, they don’t know what they’ve just got themselves into…

Greed: not a problem with banks, when the damn guvment stays out their way and doesn’t force them to take insane risks, but a helluva problem with guvment in general and this administration in particular. Has there ever been a more greedy president in history? Greedy for a cut of the profits from any business [...]

USNS Comfort – 70,000 tons of rescue on the way
Actually, send in everybody. The awesome, professional, dedicated men and women of the armed services are – even now – doing what they do best: helping out a poor, bedraggled nation under attack. The fact that Haiti was attacked by a seismic fault, rather than terrorists, [...]

Floyd and the Missus at the staff Christmas party.
(Only a tenuous connection to the actual post, but too good not to share).
I hate it when this happens.
An e-mail making the rounds makes fun of anti-gun North Carolina state senator R.C. Soles (D – 8th) for shooting a home-intruder last August. What a hypocrite, right? What [...]

Reading this bit of brilliance, which postulates that Avatar is racist. (And if I repeat why I will get stupider for every keystroke, so you’ll have to read it yourself). (And you will also come away stupider).
However, this line stuck out:
The Na’vi are a clear parallel to Native Americans, African Americans, and any ethnic group [...]

Jolly old England, feeling the effects of global warming.
(Imaged by NASA’s Terra satellite last Thursday)
Interesting article in the Daily Mail today. A lot of climatologists have been saying, for quite a while, that ocean currents are the big dogs when it comes to climate change. The guys that keep track of these things say that [...]

Adherents of the Religion of Peace have struck again, fire-bombing (as of Sunday night) six Christian churches in Malaysia. No Danish cartoonists to blame this time. It’s all about a word; the word “Allah” to be exact.
Up until December 31, 2009, only Muslims were allowed to use the word “Allah” in Malaysia. Christians, who comprise [...]

…everything looks like a nail. Applying the adage to governance of a nation, when you’re a Democrat, every problem requires more bureaucratic rules and responsibilities. It’s not really a surprise that the President’s solution to fixing what ails homeland security relies, to a large part, on the bureaucratic solution. When your playbook is two pages [...]

I love watching Hitch debate some soggy-brained lefty about, well, just about anything (except religion). So, after reading the excellent Totten/Hitch discussion that JohnFN linked to, I went in search of some vintage Hitch. The following from MSNBC (of all places!) is classic: 3 against 1 (I’m not counting Buchanan, since he’s a) bats and [...]

Not going to be everyone’s cup-o-tea (and NOT suitable for work – that little girl is going to have her mouth washed out with boiling lye!) but I suspect I’ll like it. Besides, any movie that brings back the “Banana Splits” theme has gotta be kick ass.

…it pretty much means you and I are paying for it.
Sitting at my desk, listening to a couple of coworkers bragging about all of the “free” appliances they recently had installed. For one: a new gas furnace and two freezers (about $7,000 worth of booty). For the other: a new gas furnace and a new [...]

Hello – Mr. President? You know that massive failure of intelligence community to nab the underoo-bomber before he had a chance to light the ultimate crotch-rocket? You think crap like this, implemented by you and your party of marching morons, has anything do with it:
The CIA, in announcing the Center on Climate Change and National [...]

Getting a daily dose of Steyn occasionally leads one to what Mark refers to as “George Soros’ stenographers” over at Media Matters. (Call me a masochist). Since The Incomparable One was chatting about health care whilst subbing for Rush, I wondered how the steno pool would respond. They didn’t, exactly, except to huff that they [...]

I have zero musical talent, but I can do parody lyrics. Any of you who can actually play an instrument are free to record the following, sign a deal with a major record label, go on tour, sleep with groupies and trash hotel rooms.
To the tune of “Satisfaction”:
Gore can’t get no climate action
Gore can’t get [...]

You really gotta wonder how the President is going to keep terrorists out of the country when he can’t keep strangers out of the White House. It turns out that there was a third gate-crasher back at the November party – even though it apparently took over a month to figure that out!
From Fox:

The Secret [...]

Any resemblance to actual Trzuprs is strictly coincidental
This weekend a similarly-aged buddy of mine visited Casa Trzupr for dinner and, in short order, we ended up sharing stories of our childhood in the presence of my eldest step-son. We all have these stories. I am certain that everyone, throughout history, has told these kinds of [...]

It’s time to mark the end of 2009 and I hope you will all join me in a wishing 2009 a hearty “don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.” As we enter year 2 O.E. (Obama Era) it might be useful to look back and see how far we [...]

and quacks like a duck… and walks like a duck, then it’s probably… an isolated incident.
AP is reporting that there was a second would-be underpants bomber apprehended in – of all places – Somalia last month. And he – go figure – had a bag of powdered chemicals, liquids and a syringe! Gracious me, what [...]

As most everyone here knows, the norm – in geologic terms – is for the earth to be in an ice age, not our current comfy, warmy present. The present era, known as an interglacial period (this one is  called the Holocence) has lasted a bit over 10,000 years now and, based on the record, [...]

A principal of military science says that artillery trumps fortifications. Ancient peoples built crude wooden palisades to defend themselves against the spear and ax wielding invaders. Those defensive structures would fall to siege engines. Moving forward, masonry fortifications were constructed, only to crumble when confronted by catapults. Medieval castle builders would strengthen those walls, which [...]

Figure out the connection and Floyd will send you a cookie
Insofar as it was able to alert everyone – INSTANTLY! – about how badly it had failed, that’s how it worked. That seems to sum up the views of DHS Secretary Janet “Don’t Call Me Reno” Napolitano. Yesterday, she famously said that “the system worked” [...]

There is chaos in the streets of Tehran, as protesters gathered to condemn the oppressive, evil regime that runs Iran. And so, in the great tradition of American Presidents, Barack Hussein Obama – despite being on vacation in his alleged birthplace of Hawaii – stepped up to the plate to condemn the government that he [...]

Behold the Tree of Life! If you aren’t familiar with the tree, it is the centerpiece of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, the latest of the entertainment giant’s theme parks in Orlando. Standing 145 feet tall, covered with 325 animal images, the Tree of Life (!) serves as the focal point – both figuratively and literarly – [...]

Hope everyone earned their post-Christmas hangover as much as I did. Here’s what I left you under the tree Threedonia: Mark Steyn and Dick Morris debate Harry Reid on health-care – classic stuff!

This year’s authentic Trzupr card:

(The cat is one of ours – Moe to be exact – the dog is a stand in for the collies).
And now to the punch line:

December 24, 2009, a day that will live in infamy.
The battle is not over, the Senate and House must resolve their differences and there are legal challenges ahead as well, but this is the beginning of the end. They’ll get something for the President to sign – anything – and they have amply demonstrated that [...]

(And you know what the “F” is for).
Thanks to Veruckt, we have the full text of the House version of the Health Care Bill. As a technical sort of fellow, I decided to analyze it in a statistical sort of way. So, after translating it into a text document, and with the help of Mr. [...]

The far, far left (as distinguished from the merely far left – and those are the only two flavors of liberalism that we have at the moment) are increasingly disenchanted with our Savior-in-Chief. This post at Huffington, by Naomi Klien, is absolutely delightful to read. This quote gives you the flavor:
“The EU, Japan, China and [...]

Compote – the “other” toxic waste
This is not a Christmas-bashing post. I love Christmas and (almost) everything about it. The smell of a freshly cut tree – the music – the movies – the excitement on the kids’ faces as they tear open their presents – it’s all great stuff. Yet there are a couple [...]