The Long National Nightmare Is Over

There is a version of Van Gogh's Starry Night done with bacon.

Thanks to Hans.

Where Lawrence O'Donnell Exercises His Acting Chops And Expresses His Faux Outrage Against What He Thinks Is 'RAAAAACISM!'*

File under: Seeing what they only want to see:

Progressives have taken issue with a cartoon published recently on this website mocking the government overreach of the First Lady’s food regulations. The cartoon ran specifically post-Super Bowl to emphasize the double standard of what Michelle Obama says regarding American diets, and the food choices offered at the White House’s Super Bowl party.

Lawrence O’Donnell stopped his beta male “Say Anything” pining over Bill O’Reilly long enough to bore us all to tears with a discombobulated diatribe about why the Hudnall/Lash cartoon was racist but apparently screaming for the lynching of Justice Thomas was not. Oh! My bad! O’Donnell said nothing of the prog-Thomas-lynching or the Cain-monkey-slur.

Untitled from Breitbart on Vimeo.

Be sure the read the whole thing.

Anyway, pointing out that MSNBC is biased is like pointing out that "The Son of the Invisible Man" was still visible (mildly not safe for work clip. No language but use your digression).



*Because ninety-nine times out of a hundred, when a liberal or progressive cries "RAAAAASISM!", it's only something they disagree with.

What The White House Offered For Snacks During 'The Big Game'

On it's own, this shouldn't be that big of a deal. The White House offered the standard tailgating grub for the Super Bowl.

For his Super Bowl party Sunday evening, Obama is offering Yuengling Lager and Light, brewed in Pennsylvania, and Hinterland Pale Ale and Amber Ale, all the way from Wisconsin. Independents can pour down some White House Honey Ale if they like.

The rest of the menu for the 100 or so guests at the White House bash is tailgate-friendly even if served inside the Executive Mansion: bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips and dips.[Bold mine]

But when that menu of junk food is coupled with what Michelle Obama wants to do:

After wrapping her gigantor arms around the retail giant Wal-Mart and trying to cajole foodmakers into producing nutrition labels that are easier to understand, Michelle Obama has her sights set on a new target: the nation's restaurants.

A team of advisers to the First Lady has been holding private talks over the past year with the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, in a bid to get restaurants to adopt her goals of smaller portions and children's meals that include offerings healthier than French fries and soda, according to White House and industry officials.

That snippet may have been played with a little.

To paraphrase Pres. Reagan, if no one among us is able to control their own diet, then who among us has the capacity to control the diet of someone else?

Thanks to Sid.

Obviously, This Guy Has Never Had Bacon In His Life

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so uptight.

Language is about as salty as a piece of crispy bacon, so fair warning.



More at The Blaze and The Jawa Report.

Update: Poached by Doug over at The Daley Gator.

One More PSA For This Holiday Season

Tip #4 is good practice regardless of a Zombie Apocalypse.



Zombies: It's the new vampire.

Thanks to the fine folks at The Red Shaker.

Christmas Related Enough: How to make a gingerbread house without the gingerbread but using only meat and bacon.

Pigs. A Wonderful, Magical Animal *

Is there anything they can't do? Offer bacon, sausage, ham, pork chops and. . . Help heal the mangled limbs of soldiers? Yep, ground up pig bladders is helping to re-grow muscle and nerves for those wounded in the line of service.

Via Cassy:

A powder nick-named “Pixie Dust” is being used to save the limbs of war heroes who have been wounded in Afghanistan.

Surgeons have already used the dust to save several soldiers so badly mutilated that they were at risk of amputation.

Made from pig bladders it has the ability to help the human body grow new tissue to replace large areas of a leg or arm destroyed by blast damage.

The part I like is how the doctors why are performing the task of sprinkling the "Pixie Dust" don't know how it works exactly.

Hopefully, this can be fast tracked for everyday use in hospitals here in the states.

*The title came from one of my favorite exchanges in The Simpsons.

Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute.  Lisa honey, are you
       saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again?  What about
       bacon?
 Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
 Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
 Lisa: Dad!  Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: [Chuckles] Yeah, right Lisa.  A wonderful, magical animal.

Remember This The Next Time Someone Says That The Health Care System In Canada Is Superior To Ours

Nothing against Canada in general. Their bacon isn't really bacon but it's not exactly ham either.

Also, when the Canadian Premier of Newfoundland needs something serious done, he knows where to go. America.

While neither the premier’s office nor other official outlets in Canada would disclose the location of the hospital where Williams received his treatment, sources indicated it may have been in Florida. Regardless of where in the US the surgery was performed, the fact that a high-ranking Canadian government leader would forego receiving medical treatment in his own country and travel instead to the United States to be treated in a health care system that is not yet controlled by the government, has created somewhat of a PR embarrassment for advocates of Canada’s government-controlled system. It really shouldn’t be an embarrassment; and it certainly shouldn’t surprise anyone.

As to why Williams came to the US? On advice from his doctors. Quite the testimony to Canada's Government Ran Health Care.

Lost Scenes From The Movie, "Twilight"

UPDATE: Linked by RS McCain and The Classic Liberal.

Edward, your skin is ice cold. You are never around when the sun is out. And you claim you can read everyone's mind but mine. You're.. You're a..

Go ahead. Say it.

A vampire.

It took you over half the movie to figure that one out, Sherlock? No wonder I can't read your mind.
So now you know my secret. You can't stay with me anymore, Bella.

But I want to be with you, Edward.

I'm a vampire. I'm a killer.

Yeah, well. No big shakes.

I've killed before, Bella. The smell of human blood drives me will drive me to a frenzy.

So I'll stay away one week a month. See? No big deal.

You don't understand, when I smell blood, instinct takes over. Sometimes I can't control myself.

I get the same way when I smell bacon.

So you do understand.

Is that why you didn't want to sit next to me when I first got to class?

No, that was because I've been 17 for almost a century. The wind blows in through an open window and my hormones rage. You were the freshest face I've seen in years. I had to do something otherwise I would have exploded right there and then.

So would you die if you went outside in the sunlight?

No, I look like some metro-sexual douchebag who uses way too much body glitter at a nightclub in the sunlight.

What about garlic? Crosses? Holy Water?

No, none of the conventional things. It wouldn't be convenient for the book. So those were thrown out.

But you still drink blood

Well, if I only drank prune juice there wouldn't be any danger for you to be put into, now would there.

I suppose.

So there needs to be that element of danger for you in the book so when all the little tweens read along, they will have some empathy for you.

If only I was able to bring empathy to my character in this movie.

Given The Choice Between Saving The Earth And Bacon

I choose bacon.

By wanting everyone to go vegetarian, Lord Stern of Brentford is trying to impose his will from the top levels of government down.

Remember, bacon is a line in the sand. Be it nanny statists or watermelons (Green on the outside, Red on the inside), it's them telling you how to live your life.

One more thought: He's concerned about methane gas (farts) from cows and pigs. It's obvious that he hasn't spent anytime in an enclosed area with someone on a bean and cabbage diet.

UPDATED: Linked by The Daily Gator.

Bacon Is A Line In The Sand

This is how it starts. Some group did some study claiming something bad was going to happen. Releasing the results as a whisper blowing in the proverbial wind. The only problem is the whispers are attached to fancy sounding names like World Health Study or Global Diet Initiative and usually funded some way with the United Nations in some manner.

The latest case of the phenomena is this latest finding that even eating hot dogs once will increase a person’s chance of some sort of cancer.

It will be reported in the news once or twice. Soon, other studies from other universities – usually funded with tax money -- will show up parroting the same results. Then the studies will look at salami and bologna. Pepperoni will be examined under the hot lights. Then the other parts of the pig will be looked over as well.

Soon, Congress will hold meetings about the dangers of various cuts of meat. The irony of pending legislation to outlaw pork will be completely lost on them.

The day they come for bacon is a call to arms.

Friends, Pig Farmers, Countrymen. No fortune is too great to be sacrificed for the bellies of the porker. When the pig has done nothing but played in the mud and gorged itself so we can have one of the world’s most perfect food. How perfect is it? Why do the good restaurants serve breakfast all day long? Without bacon, that would be impossible. That is the power that bacon holds.

Many of the scientists are only looking out for your own good. They need a subtle reminder if the word ‘Bacon’ should be mentioned from their lips; they need to be one the lookout for their own good. When they threaten bacon they temp their fates by a meeting with Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.

Even if you don’t care for bologna, it will affect you. It fulfills the old proverb, ‘First, they came for hot dogs, but I didn’t care for hot dogs so I did nothing. Then they came for pepperoni, but I’m not big on pizza so I did nothing. Then they came for bologna but I’m not a kid anymore so I did nothing. Then they came for bacon. . .’

Sure this may sound like a call for protection of bacon. And I’m not going to lie, it is. But it is also a call out for self determination as well. By justifying their cause with the mantra, “For your own good” takes away a little bit of your personal freedom. Either bacon or health care or whatever the next ‘crisis’ is. Individual freedom is eroded away bit by bit.

UPDATE: Linked by HotMES and Today's Featured Blog over at Pundit & Punette.

UPDATE II: The Classic Liberal has added this with their round up as well.

UPDATE III: The TrogloPundit links. If it was cheese and not hot dogs, I would be linking to him.

UPDATE IV: I've been linked by Ace of Spades, HQ. In terms of hits, that's hitting the lotto. Next to InstaPundit, of course.