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Back in the mid-90s we were out in California on Spring Break from Texas. I began to get an ear infection. I had had a lot of them in my 20s and early 30s so I knew what it was almost before I even felt the icepick in my ear. Off we go to [...]

Give Me An F’ing Break

I post this story from the newspaper for purely selfish reasons. It boils my blood to read about a person who wakes up every morning in their own bed, drives their car to work, flies an Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) from a work station for several hours and at the end of the day [...]

Obama’s perpetual campaign won’t end

While many strident liberals begin to question the Obama administration for its incessant whining about George W. Bush, don’t look for it to end. Hillary Clinton was in Pakistan today, fending off accusations from questioners that the U.S. favors rival India. Clinton, without a proper retort, went back to the administration’s one-off answer to [...]

Speaking of Renee Zellwegger…

I know I’ve posted this before, but Porvaznik brought her up and I just couldn’t resist…

Fallen Heroes, We Salute You

Sponsored by Operation Gratitude, the American Veterans Traveling Tribute recently rolled into Southern California, and founder Don Allen shares why honoring, respecting and remembering America’s heroes remains his biggest priority. The KGB also has more than a few words for Target and those who would strong-arm their Halloween division.

Your new A-Team

"Don't give me no tiny picture, sucka!"

Starring Bradley Cooper of The Hangover as Templeton “Faceman” Peck, former UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Sharlto Cooper of District 9 as Murdoch and Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal Smith.

Yes, that is the venerable GMC full-sized van in the background.

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Threedonia’s Word of the Day

Sycophant, “3. A mean, servile, cringing, or abject flatterer; a parasite, toady, lickspittle.” OED 2d ed. 1989.

Today’s example comes from Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A couple of days ago, in a speech, he said this of President Barack Hussein Obama (emphasis mine):

This is the first president that [...]

Open Thread Thursday

CCRR

You know… if you stick around long enough… your protest song actually becomes relevant.

Governor Commando

Governor Schwarzenegger sent the above message in vetoing the bill of an Assemblyman who had earlier told Arnold to “kiss my gay ass.” His office is saying it was a “coincidence”. Yeah right. Not the classiest way to respond, but it would’ve been even better if he’d had an acrostic for “a**hole” for pure [...]

Nationalizing Britain’s kids and pedophile before proven

It takes a village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton put it in her idiotic tome some years back, but it takes a government to wrench itself from the bounds of common sense. Welcome to Britain, where parents are assumed pedophiles and locked out of playgrounds until proven otherwise.

Parents are being banned from [...]

The Company They Keep

 

She’s a rich girl, and it’s gone too far…

From Spinner.com:

TV personality Rachael Ray is on a mission: to get Hall and Oates into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We’ve known that Ray is a lover of the more rock-flavored variety of the Hold Steady and the New [...]

Devil in a Blue Vest

Wal-mart, like Costco, is now selling caskets and urns through its online store.

Prices range from $999 for models like “Dad Remembered” and “Mom Remembered” steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 “Executive Privilege.” All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199.

Caskets ship within 48 hours. Federal [...]

Back When The Chicago Tribune…

…was a conservative newspaper:

World Series Open Thread

No offense, Scott. M, but some of us ’round here love football and baseball, even if this cartoon digs a knife deeper into my back the same week the Tribe hired the ex-manager of a team with a worse record. The regurgitating pumpkin couldn’t have said it any better.

I Wanna Go Home With The Armadillo

I’m not a big fan of C&W music, but I think it is impossible to grow up in Texas and not be exposed to it. There are bands like Poco and Eagles that were heavily influenced by Country Music. Anyway there is a song that expresses some of what I feel every time I think [...]

Threedonia’s Word of the Day

The OED is down today so this definition comes from A Preface to Philosophy 3d ed. by Mark B. Woodhouse, Wadsworth (1984).

Deontological: “Any ethical system or standard in which the rightness of an act is defined by reference to factors other than the act’s consequences.”

Today’s example comes from my dear State of California.

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Mr.EPluribus — Git’ with the G.A.P. (updated)

A President wiser than I (and the exact opposite in terms of being faithful to his wife) once asked not what your country can do for you, rather what can you do for your country. Well, how about it U.S.A.? Care to talk the talk, walk the walk … and sign the sign?

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The Overnights – 28 October 2009

Harrycare would appear to be dead on arrival, with Joe Lieberman joining Republicans in opposition and moderate Dems expressing reservations. That sure didn’t take long.

One of the biggest reasons that Senators like Lieberman and Kent Conrad won’t go along? The supposed state opt-out provision turns out not to be. Or, to quote Michelle [...]

Toast post: It just ain’t right

This is messy with the universe:

The Amazing Reverse Toast Toaster – Click here for more blooper videos