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If You Look Up “Badass” In The Dictionary This Is What You’ll See…

Sprechen zee racist?

With a hat-tip graciously extended Nick Searcy’s direction (he’s a busy Facebooker today), a helpful list of words, phrases and organizations which have been deemed racist in the US of A.

A few below to get you started and, lest ye be targeted by the Thought Police (or maybe to tick them off even [...]

How To Build An Apache

The first Production Block III AH-64D is built and flies in a time lapse video.

If you are curious as to exactly what Block III means, go HERE and read all about it.

Ouch, babe!

The Case for Mitt

Now you understand why I wrote this post, earlier (http://www.threedonia.com/archives/48688).  Regardless, even with that preemptive shot I know I will be lambasted here for writing this, but, I’m a realist and I can’t help stating what I believe is fact.

First) I really wish there were some different candidates to choose from regarding the [...]

The Strength of the Nation

Oops, here comes gravity …

The fine folks over at the Center for Individual Freedom compiled a list of their Top 5 Most Laughable Moments from this past week’s State of the Union. Teaser below and be sure to check out the remaining four, even if you’re BarryO. Actually, especially if you’re BarryO.

“Right now, we’re poised to spend [...]

Keystone XL — Winners

We all know who the losers are in Obama’s decision to nix the Keystone XL oil pipeline project… workers, gas consumers, the American economy and the country in general of course. If there are losers there must of course be winners. We already know the Gaia Cult won, but surely there are others… one [...]

Pretransubstantiation…

From a blog called “Killing the Buddha” comes this interesting article on the making of, marketing of, and history of communion wafers. The melding of economics, religion, Vatican II, and the concerns of celiac disease suffering Catholics… and all while it’s bread and not Body:

Nineteen clicks of the mouse, the electronic brandishing of [...]

This kind of sneaked by a lot of people…

We have things classified top secret because????

From The Washington Times via Neptunus Lex

OBAMA TO SHARE SECRETS

President Obama signaled Congress this week that he is prepared to share U.S. missile defense secrets with Russia.

In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama [...]

Distrust the Union Label

This article highlights two things that are soapbox issues for me — overcriminalization of conduct not traditionally criminal — and public sector unions. Put them together and what do you get? A witches brew that breaks the bank, potentially oppresses the populace, and turns the American criminal justice system into a threat to liberty [...]

Amen, Brother

Good little article over at the National Review On-Line about how we really won in Iraq.

Best line of the whole piece…

shake hands in the light and kill at night

Go read it HERE

I can tell you I was in Baghdad the same time as the author of that piece and while there [...]

A Can Of Whoop Ass, As Viewed From The Inside

Daily Dose of Ramirez

H/T: GOPUSA

The Power Of Prayer

From Fox(y) News comes this important story. I know what a big draw Salma is around here so…

By Nadia Mendoza, Dailymail.co.uk

She defies the size zero ideal of beauty with her vivacious curves, but Salma Hayek claims she didn’t always have the womanly figure she is recognised for now.

The Mexican actress, [...]

The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.

I love Christmas. It’s the linchpin of our civilization not to mention the beliefs of billions of us. And so that brings us to Advent. Salisbury Cathedral in the UK has an annual Advent service called From Darkness to Light. Here’s a story from the Daily Mail:

The annual From Darkness to Light advent [...]

As If We Needed More Evidence…

Saudi Arabia is off the rails on the crazy train…

From The Jawa Report

Women in Saudi Arabia who have “sexy eyes” will be forced to cover them up, a spokesperson representing the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in the Gulf kingdom announced on Wednesday.

Or maybe they just [...]

Dam!

Explosive Breach of Condit Dam from Andy Maser on Vimeo.

In a bid to restore the White Salmon River authorities breached the Condit Dam — time-lapsed awesomeness ensues. More info on the controlled dam breach here.

Id, Ego, Superego, Stapelego

Your Freudian slip is showing, Herr Doktor

(h/t Strange Herring)

(You’ll want to read about this without my comments, so I’ll add mine to the comments on this post.  It’s worth clicking over to the article at i09 to read the comments there.)

From i09:

Psychologist [...]

Choking On Their Tea

Was in DC over the weekend, doing some super-secret-squirrel stuff and I was struck by how much the Tea Party movement is driving some people inside the beltway nuts. Not all mind you, but some. One relatively well-known GOP strategist had nothing but contempt for the Tea Party, sneering that they couldn’t figure out [...]