Lessons In The Free Market

Snoop Dogg knows his audience.

I'm merely speculating that the release date of the book is April 20th.

"He'll Be Back And He'll Be Millions"

Bob Belvedere has done a yeoman's job of consolidating many of the blogosphere's tributes to Andrew Breitbart. Please do go check it out.

Thannks to Da Tech Guy in one of the comments at The Other McCain's place for the title.

What Does Paul Krugman And Plumping Have In Common?

After a hard day of unclogging drains or having just read Krugman's latest column, you need to wash your hands before eating.

Ladd Ehlinger's Latest Video: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Freedom

Via Smitty from The Other McCain. Gotta love the ending of the ad with this in the fine print:

Disclaimer: Paid for by the Conservative Action Fund. Not Authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. This title card was forcibly placed here by your government against the will of the filmmaker via the McCain-Feingold lay, which is advocated by such useful idiots as Stephen Colbert, who through his satire advocates even more regulation of political speech.

Post-Recall Wisconsin From The TrogloPundit On The Ground

There are a couple of things I've learned (or have been reaffirmed) is that it's always a 'Mandate' or 'Voters sending a message' when the Democrat wins.

It's never news with a Republican wins.

Lance has this:

To recap yesterday’s recall elections: Democrats picked off the two state Senate districts they were supposed to pick off. Republicans held onto the four they were supposed to hold.

One side won four purple-red districts and kept the majority. The other won two purple-blue districts and came close to the majority.

Click on over to see what it is being spun as.

What Do You Know, The Tea Party Was Right About The Debt Deal After All

Doug has this over at The Daley Gator.

In case you didn’t hear- and you would have to have been living in a box for the past 72 hours not to — America’s AAA credit rating was lowered to AA+ status for the first time in history on the fifth of August, and the primary reason for this move couldn’t be more painfully obvious.

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit rating of the United States because, even if most Americans don’t understand what baseline budgeting is, credit agencies do, and they aren’t fooled by the media’s insane mischaracterizations of the “historic debt ceiling deal” reached in Congress several days ago.

To begin with, practically every story written about the debt fight over the past few weeks has included some reference to an ‘imminent debt default’ if our government failed to reach some sort of agreement on extending the debt limit yet again. This term — or something like it — was used as a scare tactic by both the Democrat party and the mainstream press, who knew damned well that such a default was NEVER going to happen, regardless of whether Congress and the President came to an agreement on the debt ceiling matter.

The only way the U.S. would have defaulted on its debt-payment responsibilities is if President Obama had decided to not make good on them for purely political reasons. According to the Treasury Department, existing federal revenues were more than sufficient to cover these costs, as well as Social Security, Medicare and military expenditures.

Read the rest because the Tea Party was right and you know it.

Bumper Sticker Of The Week

Prof. Jacobson has the photo.

I can't fathom the disconnect from reality that the driver has.

The 'Coexist' sticker flies in direct opposition to the other sticker (which has to be seen to be believed).

But it is telling who they sympathize with and who they consider their enemy.

"Nobody Hate's Republicans Right Now More Than Conservatives"

With the budget being passed today-- albeit over 800 days late-- not too many people are going to know the outcome of it. Naturally, the bill has to be passed in order to find out what's it in to paraphrase Nancy Pelosi.

I'll admit, I've been a bit out of pocket for most of the day so what I hear was only a 3 second blurb at the top of the hour.

I do have a nasty suspicion that the bill is a definite compromise (where both parties walk away feeling screwed but thinking the other guy was screwed over more so) than a good old fashion barter (where both parties walk away feeling richer than before).

No final wisdom (Wisdom? Here? HA!) just the link to The Other McCain's place for this:

You might think a notoriously reckless driver like Hunter S. Thompson would have wised up to this Clintonian scam, but his deep-in-the-bones hereditary hatred of Republicans was incurable. And I’ve often wished I’d had the chance to meet the guy and explain to him what I’ve come to understand: Becoming a conservative doesn’t mean you have to quit hating Republicans.

In fact, looking around the blogosphere — or listening to Mark Levin on the radio — the past few days, I’d dare say nobody hates Republicans right now more than conservatives do.

In This Joyous Celebration

Smitty-- XO over at The Other McCain-- is now a father to the world's smallest blogger.

Congratulations.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Lance at the Troglopundit has the photo in question.

He's a good guy. He links me when I send him stuff on the "Hey, look at me" emails so I try to link him back when he sends posts my way.

In Some Minor Blogging News Today

This blog is in the Weekly Spotlight at the Eye of Polyphemus. To paraphrase Joe Biden, this is a big frakking deal.

If you haven't checked out Jamie Jefford's blog yet, it's a must read. Especially for Trekkies as he has gone through the entire Star Trek: Voyager series, reviewing them one by one. He's done the same with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for those die-hard fans as well as political commentary.

It Depends On What Time Of Day The Video Was Taken

But I'm leaning that it was at least past 10 in the morning. So drunk it is.

It may get her through the day but it's no way to go through life.

Video: Change Direction

From Robert Stacy who has this:

Readers will note that this ad was produced by the Republican National Committee, and was released Monday on YouTube where, as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, it had been viewed 307 times. I didn’t see the video until it was Tweeted by my friend Opus 6, a self-described “soccer mom” in Orange County, Calif., who has 3,716 Twitter followers and posted the video on her blog, American Perspective.

You might suppose that I would have been alerted to this new RNC video by the RNC itself. But while I get e-mails from Democrats like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz — and from every random dude with an Internet connection who is trying to promote anything to do with conservative/Republican politics — I never get anything from the RNC.

Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

This isn't that big of a blog-- yet-- but I'm on enough lists were people know I'm a blogger and am sent enough "Notice Me" emails from them where blogging is easy some days. But after going through my old emails, there was nothing from the RNC asking to watch this video. The weekly form letter asking for money, sure. A messaging asking all their readers to send out that video? Nothing.

So much for the Army of David's approach.

Weinergate: Weiner Pulls Out. . .

. . . Of the state Democratic convention in Wisconsin where he was scheduled to speak.

"He decided to spend the weekend begging and pleading with his wife to stand by his side at the inevitable news conference" said state chair Mike Tate.

I may have played with that quote a little. But I think most people were able to see between the lines. Thanks to Lance for the heads up.

My hope for this is that it will dog him for the rest of his career. That when someone hears Anthony Weiner, they will think of a dick pic going out on Twitter. The same way if someone hears the name Richard Gere, they think, "Gerbil".

By the way: Is this really the actions of an innocent person? He was violated on a virtual level but that's just a 'Prank'. No need to press charges against the person who tried to defame his reputation.

But when a member of the press stops by for a comment for his constituents, the cops are called.

Right.

Word Policeman Passes Away

The woman behind the movement to turn 'fireman' to 'fireman and firewoman' has shuffled off this mortal coil.

The stated goal of the manual was to encourage mutual respect and equality between boys and girls, but Ms. Swift and Ms. Miller, who died in 1997, concluded that the author’s intent was being undermined by the English language.

“We suddenly realized what was keeping his message — his good message — from getting across, and it hit us like a bombshell,” Ms. Swift said in a 1994 interview for the National Council of Teachers of English. “It was the pronouns! They were overwhelmingly masculine gendered.”

Those pesky words!

The obituary closes with this:

“We just wanted to give people the background, to make them aware of what was happening right underneath their noses,” she said of the handbook. “We didn’t want to tell people, Do This or Don’t Do That!” [emphasis mine]

But that's just what she did.

The gender equalizing of words always struck me the Political Correct thing to do rather than actual equalizing of words.

Pneumonia Is Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt And Loses A Lung

If Robert Stacy thinks Percocet is good stuff, try some Versed.

That really takes the edge off.



And like I said earlier. I'm off my game (I've been sucking at blogging this past week). I missed the kick-off to the National Offend a Feminist Week.

There's a lot of catching up to do.

Just In Case You Missed It

Sen. Marco Rubio spoke at the Tampa Bay Tax Day Tea Party.

Failure: The New Success

Via Smitty at The Other McCain.



If you want to credit him any success its in getting highly controversial and partisan bills like the ill-named "Affordable Health Care Act" passed into law. And even then he was mostly "Present" and not "President" about it. Letting Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi do all the legwork. Strangely enough, it will forever be deemed "ObamaCare".

All the man really wants to do is go to the grocery store and fondle some fruit.

Peep Sushi?

Meh. Not really epic enough*.

And by epic, I mean Epic Meal Time sushi.



This isn't to pick a fight with Little Miss Attila over food. Just a posting in jest.

Autotune

Is there anything it can't do?