Monthly Archives: December 2010
Truth Will Out
David Horowitz has a very revealing interchange with a young woman who is a UCSD student and a member of the Muslim Student Association. The interchange is not only chilling, it leaves very little room for our Muslim observers to defend her.
After viewing this, I’d like to put the same questions to anyone who defends Islam (“Will you condemn Hamas or Hezbollah?”)
Save Religion and Uphold the Good
Man creates institutions that serve needs. The creation of religion and law enforcement are two such examples that help to give society order and function. The institution of religion serves to empower, give hope, and guide morality. The creation of law enforcement serves to provide order, limit crime, and protect and keep citizens safe. Although these institutions serve important purposes, they are not perfect or without flaws. As in everything in life, there are parts that must be improved upon.
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Moral Compass
Overhearing conversations in the gym sauna, reading forums on line, and watching commercials on television, I have come to wonder what we value most in this society. From what I have gathered, it seems what is valued is in the superficial. I am often hearing conversations based on one’s outer appearance such as how much weight someone has lost or gained, how old or young someone looks, how someone’s hairstyle looks good or bad, and if someone had plastic surgery or not. TV, magazine, and Internet ads are mainly focused on selling products that promote the superficial aspects of life.
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Useful Idiots, PBS Edition
It really shouldn’t boggle the mind that PBS is blatantly to the left of anything mainstream in America. What’s particularly galling, however, is their adoration for a vicious cretin like Fidel Castro, and the heaps of praise they give for a health system that no sane person would believe is anywhere near the quality of the United States. Thanks to truly useful idiots like Ray Suarez, the once-venerable public television station continues to see its credibility get eroded.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Polaroid Madness
My friend Katrina sent over a couple of links that shocked me a bit. I had read that there was a sort-of Renaissance for Polaroid photos, but I brushed it off as nonsense. Why would anyone want to use this outdated tool when there are such amazing digital cameras on the market? Well, see for yourself in these links:
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
2010 Year in review – KC Ortiz photo
K. C. Oritz at Known, a really great blog for photography, posts some of his best work at Known’s Blog.
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
Obama Issues Kwanzaa Greetings
“Michelle and I extend our warmest thoughts and wishes to all those who are celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today is the first of a joyful seven-day celebration of African American culture and heritage. The seven principles of Kwanzaa — Unity, Self Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith — are some of the very values that make us Americans. As families across America and around the world light the Kinara today in the spirit of umoja or unity, our family sends our well wishes and blessings for a happy and healthy new year.”
No word yet if a Festivus greeting will be issued or whether an explanation as to why the first family broke presidential tradition by not attending Christmas Eve services will be forthcoming. Stay tuned.
We must be making an impact here…
As I was coming here to post, I typed in constitutionclub with an erroneous .com, as my fingers are sometimes faster than my well-worn brain grooves. For my error, I was redirected to a particularly offensive website – NAMBLA’s.
Not that I recommend you repeat my error, LOL…
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Ask, Confront & Defend
The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a DISGRACE that cannot stand!
The Left hoped that by defining homosexuality as an orientation that cannot be changed, rather than a chosen behavior as has been recognized for millenia, they could exploit the goodwill of the civil rights struggle. Civil rights, like feminism, is a positive philosophy when promulgated by persons of integrity with no hidden agendas. However, those of us who were around in those times, or who study real history, know there were many communists and America-haters therein marching with genuine people of good will. It is not the conservatives with resume credits we hear from today, but Charlie Rangel and Jesse Jackson – those who exploit their past. They are exploiters first, and not those persons of consistent character.
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The Beast Within: Blizzard Cajun Wings, New England Style
Paul’s Cajun Blizzard Hot Wings:
Ingredients:
4lbs Party Wings with tips cut off
3 tbs Creole Seasoning (Zataran’s)
1 cup New England Style Seafood Breading (Tempo)
1 cup Frank’s Hot Sauce
2/3 Cup melted butter
Blue Cheese Dressing to taste
Assorted Rabbit Food (Celery Sticks/etc)
Instructions:
Preheat a deep fryer (canola oil or peanut) to 375 degrees. Less expensive Deep fryers tend to drift, so fry your first wing at target temp and then remove it at six minutes. If it’s mahogany brown, drop the temp -10 to 365 degrees.
Combine the 3 tbs Creole Seasoning with one package of the New England Seafood Breading. Wash and towel-dry the wings (DRY THEM). In a bag combine the flour/breading and creole seasoning. Add dry wings, mix vigorously.
Combine butter and Frank’s Red Hot in a microwave safe bowl. Nuke til hot.
Cook wings in small batches, drain and set in hot sauce. You can keep a lot of wings hot in an oven set to 200 degrees. Serve with Bleu Cheese dressing and/rabbit food.
Eat in batches as the Patriots romp away.
My latest column…
…is up on a variety of sites this week. I haven’t had anything officially published since March so it was good to ‘get back on the horse.’ It’s just a re-working of my Wikileaks post but a good many of my columns originate from my blogging efforts. I spent a good amount of my time and concentration helping to re-inject some life back into Conclub and recruiting, vetting, and bringing on all the new bloggers that have joined us this year so my column writing had to take a back seat to those efforts. I also felt I was a bit burned out after spending most of ’09 writing my book so it was very good to take some time off to let the creative juices recuperate and recover.
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Some Christmas Songs for Christmas Day
Have a great, wonderful, and merry Christmas! My personal selection of great and timeless Christmas favorites to make this day just a little more special.
An Arabic Christmas Carol (Byzantine Hymn of the Nativity)
Blessed be the name of the Lord! He has come to save us! Axios! Axios! Axios! A Merry Christmas to all.
Lenin and The Symbols of the Seasons
Cheers to Vassar Bushmills of RedState who posts this intriguing tidbit on Vladimir Lenin and his near-deistic status among his followers, despite the fact that Lenin himself knew he screwed up but was probably ‘offed’ before he could repair the horrors of his folly.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Where’s Clarence When You Need Him? Jimmy Stewart Museum Faces Tough Times
Okay, the article starts out by referencing Liberace. He’s amusing, but come on. He’s not in James Stewart’s class. It’s sad to see such a symbol of Holiday Americana get such shabby treatment. If you have a buck or two to spare, consider giving to his museum.
Cross-posted at
Steinblóm.
Twas the Night Before Liberal Christmas 2010
By: J.J. Jackson
Twas the night before Christmas and Obama was down
His face it was somber like a sad little clown.
Recent events of the last month were a blur,
Since the whooping received on the second November.
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Me Thinks Senator Graham Doth Protest Too Much
Andy McCarthy at National Review hit a raw nerve with me. That raw nerve goes by the name of Lindsey Graham. As much as I don’t particularly care for liberal ideologues, I really hate it when one of our own (*gag*) feigns anger over an issue they helped to peddle. What does this guy smoke, and why on Earth hasn’t he shared?
Oh, well. As an aside, that’s it for politics until the 26th, or unless all Hell breaks loose (God forbid). Merry Christmas, fellow Con-Clubbers!
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Kicked Out Of The Christmas Party, Drunks Manage To Finish The Keg Before They leave
Goodbye 111th Congress.
The Dems and the media (but we repeat ourselves) are terribly anxious to begin the big Obama comeback. So anxious, they’ve already started seeing the same green shoots of political renewal they spotted all throughout the past two years in the economic sector. And just as those mythical economic harbingers failed to take and thrive, one suspects the same will hold true for Obama.
Although he won’t be hampered by the corrupt 111th Congress anymore, so that’s a bonus.
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A Thought for the Future
As I lay here in my bed at 8:38am and contemplate the day ahead, I am thinking about what to write about. The ideas are not coming. I just know that I am happy that things are improving for the Republican platform. I know that all the hard work Republicans have done has paid off. People like Sarah Palin and Fox analysts, groups like the Tea partiers, and Republican elected officals have done much in the way of campaigning to promote the cause of conservative ideals and values. All that hard work has paid off. The 2010 elections were proof. The 2012 elections are right around the corner and we only have Pres. Obama for a short time. I am thankful for this turn around in American support. Pres. Obama will surely not get elected again with the minimal support he now shares. This is a far cry from when he originally won the presidency. For this we can truly be grateful this coming year.
Ralphie From ‘A Christmas Story,’ All Grown Up
I’ve never understood the appeal for the movie ‘A Christmas Story’. I associate it with nice folks from Indiana or Idaho, but I’ve never, for the life of me, been able to understand what it is about this holiday classic that developed such a love for the film.
For those who love the film, I thought I’d pass along this article to brighten your day up a bit. It looks like Ralphie’s milking the movie for all he can. Good on him!
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
Hello Y’All
I’d like to thank all those at constitutionclub.org for the opportunity to share a bit. My debut has been much delayed by illness, compounded by the usual busy-ness of my personal schedule.
The last couple of weeks of the year may well be a slow time for political and social commentary. We’ll all see how long it takes for me to become publicly… me. In the meantime, I’m finishing up a post or two as I get familiar with this new format.
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Dave’s Quote of the Day
In Washington and in statehouses around the country, the reality of the pending Fiscal Armageddon is starting to seep into the thick skulls of the elected class. Jerry Brown pronounced himself “shocked” once he got a good peek at California’s balance sheet. Off the record, politicians of both parties are starting to concede that a lot of the old ideological disputes are now moot, because there simply isn’t any money. It’s not a question of whether there are going to be deep cuts and fundamental restructuring, but when and how much.
Review: Monday Michiru–My Ever Changing Moods (2007)
I’ve seen Monday Michiru’s name bandied about for the last 15 years or so, and though I had come across the odd CD EP whilst working at Aron’s Records, I never had a chance to sit down with a full album and figure out if I really liked her music or not. I felt an slight obligation to give her music a try, as she was, after all, the daughter of Charlie Mariano, one of the coolest saxophonists to ever come down the pike.
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Come Sit On Satan’s Lap
One of my favorite guilty pleasures for years has been *V the K’s “Caption This!” blog.
Here’s his most recent post:
And you thought Seinfeld was a show about nothing…
Seinfeld ran for nine seasons on NBC and became famous as a “show about nothing.” Basically, the show allows viewers to follow the antics of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer as they move through their daily lives, often encountering interesting people or dealing with special circumstances.
It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips (as well as clips from other television shows or movies) makes economic concepts come alive, making them more real for students. Ultimately, students will start seeing economics everywhere – in other TV shows, in popular music, and most importantly, in their own lives.
Who needs Principles of Microeconomics by Mankiw when one only needs to watch Seinfeld to understand the basic theories of economics?
Dave’s Quote of the Day
Dear Senator:
Before you vote on “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” you should be able to clearly answer the following:
“What does it mean to be openly gay in the military?”
By voting to repeal, it can probably be assumed that you are condoning consenting sexual encounters in the shower or the barracks.
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The War on the Happy Meal
McDonald’s suit over Happy Meal toys by California mom Monet Parham new low in responsible parenting
“Because of McDonald’s marketing, [her daughter] Maya has frequently pestered Parham into purchasing Happy Meals, thereby spending money on a product she would not otherwise have purchased.”
How whiny and pathetic do you have to be to have to file a lawsuit against McDonald’s in hope that might stop your kid from eating one? It’s called ‘free enterprise’ and though some may complain about the type of tactics used to get Reid votes in Nevada and kids to want to go to McD’s, the former if far more harmful than the latter.
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Ken Cuccinelli– A True Constitutional Conservative
I’ve never been prouder to be a Virginian than this December.
And he’s right. Liberals do NOT have a good sense of humor!
Austrian MP Takes Turkish Ambassador To Task
*applause*
We need more *Ewald Stadlers in elected office here in the USA. The closest I’ve seen in recent years is Gov. Chris Christie, who’s unafraid to tell it like it is.
And we have an inordinate amount of wusses in Congress.
H/T: Polipundit.
*That said, he may do well to up his PSD, as no doubt a fatwa will be issued against him.
The true definition of bi-partisanship
This song speaks to me on so many political levels that it isn’t funny. What’s better is that he made a video which depicts exactly what I think bi-partisanship probably looks like. As to which side is which, I’ll let you be the judge.
As to the lyrics and the comments – read on…
Boston Globe – 2010 in photos
Expect to see a lot of these collections, but the Boston Globe has some utterly stunning pictures which have been featured this year. Click here to see these works, as most are gorgeous, some are tragic, all are moving.
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
In Response to Rudy’s “Linus” Post
Because what Christmas is complete without a stockingful of snark?
The Beast offers his postmodern take on Christmas Cartoons – Eric Cartman’s “O Holy Night”.
Linus Christmas Monologue
December is usually a stressful month in this household, and especially so since I’ve been out of work for 15 solid months now. As much as I curse and rail against the situation, I am then sent a reminder from the Heavens in order to remember what period of the year we’re in. My friend jexplosive posted this video with the following commentary, and I damn near choked up after reading it:
From Peanuts-A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Linus tells us "what Christmas is all about".A little symbolism:
The ONLY time Linus ever lets go of his security blanket is this scene (well, and when he wraps it around the tree at the end; some good symbolism there, as well). I’m sure that’s no accident; we must turn loose of our earthly attempts to secure ourselves to have faith in Christ…. ?
For your viewing enjoyment, here’s Charles Schultz’s masterpiece:
Cross-posted at Apocatastasis.
Customer Reviews – click here if this review was helpful
Actual customer review of a product I was searching for recently:
“Pros: Did not burst into flames.”
“Cons: Is useless for it’s basic purpose.”
Had thought about what it might say if the product were the current lame duck Congress. Post your customer review of congress in the comments, let’s see how many stars they get.
Every Zombie “Death” In AMC’s “The Walking Dead”
This is a compilation, 69 seconds long, of every “Walker” offed in season one. It is also emblematic of the problem with the series; too much yak and not enough action. Think about this: an entire six episode Zombie series and they devote a grand total of 69 seconds to killing Zombies? Okay, so they spent season one developing the characters – hopefully the filmmakers will spend season two disassembling them bite by bite.
The last gasp of the progressives
Millions of homes being lost to foreclosure. The federal government having to borrow 40 cents of ever dollar it spends. An exploding federal debt. About a quarter of the population unemployed or underemployed. A failed public school system. Corrupt unions and an administration openly bribing elected officials with funds from the public treasury or paid positions in return for their votes. Massive illegal immigration. Forty-two million people on food stamps. Big government bailing out big business while the average citizen received no benefit. “To big to fail.” One in five Americans has an STD and popular culture is a sewer. Thus is the state of the United States today.
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What (Reformed) Terrorists Told Me
Daniel Freedman at Forbes speaks on behalf of trying to reform some terrorists, as has been done with Jemmah Islamiya in Indonesia.
Senators, Think Long and Hard Before You Rush to Vote on START
John Bolton writes for Fox News that START is a bad idea. To be honest, doing anything with the current Russian government is a bad idea, as they have proven to be bad actors time and again.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Hitchens and the Paranoid Center
Ross Douthat wonders what the hell got into Christopher Hitchens’ head regarding the Tea Party. Has the chemotherapy really affected his mind to the point of blathering about the very people who shook up the political landscape, or is this one last, desperate, pathetic attack against those loathsome Christian conservatives he hates so much (though he’s been forced to ally himself with in some way as Radical Left, where he was more at home, would rather see him dead than Red)?
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Feel free to label me
David Harsyani of the Denver Post rightfully mocks the “No Labels” Organization. Seriously, “Not Left. Not Right. Forward” as its motto? The reality is that we name our ideologies. Those who wish to pretend they don’t delude only themselves.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Worldwide terror: Stockholm bombs show global reach of militant Islam
It gets worse and worse for Muslims of good will to have to apologize for the monsters in their midst who wreak havoc in the West. It is bad enough to see innocents in the so-called Ummah getting slaughtered by savages. It’s a whole other problem with Muslims bring their cancers to our lands. Most come to make a life for themselves and their families, to adapt and assimilate, and to be left alone when they worship. Their bad apples need to be gotten rid of, and harshly, if good will is to be completely restored between Muslim and Westerner.
S. E. Cupp writes for the New York Daily News on the botched suicide bombing attempt in Sweden.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Richard Holbrooke Has Died
Jake Tapper of ABC News has reported that Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador, top negotiator for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the architect of the Dayton Peace Accords after the Bosnian war, has died due to complications from a torn aorta. He was 69.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Why We Were Right to Take Out Saddam
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=hd6UuzkUSU
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice held her ground against partisan hack Katie Couric a few days ago regarding the rationale of going to war against Iraq in 2003. Victor Davis Hanson provides more of a history lesson as to why we actually went there, rather than sitting through liberal spin on the subject.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Dave’s Quote of the Day
If you watch the systematic looting of the treasury, and the swallowing of giant swaths of the private sector so they can be stripped of whatever’s immediately of value and divvied up between accomplices, with no concern for any immediate or long term consequences, you’ll understand what’s what in the federal government right now. If you’re concerned about the next few lame duck weeks, you should be. We foreclosed on the House of Representatives in November, but the squatters are still in there, furiously trying to pull the plumbing out of the fiscal walls before they’re evicted. Everything on the table right now legislatively would have no shot to become law after January, and in the aggregate reminds one of thieves burning down the vacant house they just stripped on the way out.
Wikileaks War: No More Secrets
As the Wikileaks saga continues to unfold I can’t help but recall the scene in the film Sneakers where Martin “Marty” Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) discuss the “code breaker.”
Dave’s Quote of the Day
If you’re a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you’re a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
-Laura Schlessinger
Westboro, The Antithesis of Christianity
Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Elizabeth Edwards Funeral
I have heard of Westboro’s rather unChristian-like behavior in the past, but never paid much attention to them. I happen to be watching CNN last night (no, I don’t make a habit of watching them, or any news show. They came on after another show that I had been watching), and some commentator named Anderson (?) began talking about Westoboro’s latest antics. And I realized just how messed up they really are. When a group who claims to be Christians engage in actions to the contrary, there is something wrong with their teachings.
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Never a dull day
Being a political junkie is always entertaining, informing, and sometimes downright fun. By paying attention you get to see and read some things that you can really learn from and some things that really just make you shake your head in disbelief. More often than not it is the latter.
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Bully Pulpit
Like Sarah Palin, who sends liberals into conniption fits, Chris Christie, New Jersey’s larger-than-many governor, has earned the unwarranted blathering of a few party hacks calling his frank discussing technique as “hate speech.”
I actually find it amusing that Christie will force someone to defend their positions in front of him, and in public. The low-level roaches who infest New Jersey’s political class are being exposed to daylight, and they don’t like it one bit.
What Obama’s Tax Reform Should Look Like
I’m surprised this isn’t getting much news coverage, but lets face it: numbers aren’t exactly sexy. Ramesh Ponnuru makes some suggestions to President Obama’s attempts at tax reform over at the Washington Post.
Voting for all?
First, I would just like to say how excited I am-this being my first post-and how much I can’t wait to see other people’s opinions.
When democracy first came about, presumably everyone was excited to get to vote for who was going to represent them. The citizens did their research-most anyway-and made informed decisions about who would be their next leader. Elections today, especially Presidential elections which the most amount of voters turn up for, turn out to be a Mr./Ms. Personality contest instead of who is best for the job. Granted, this is pretty obvious, but the most charismatic candidate almost always ends up getting chosen (it’s like high school Prom King/Queen all over again. wonderful…)
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Berkeley May Honor Private Accused of Leaks
I want to say I’m surprised. I really, really do. But the People’s Republic of Berkeley enjoys swimming in its anti-American stupidity. It’s really time to move out of California after reading this tripe.
HT: Military.com, Big Peace.
Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks ‘Operation: Payback’
Colin Fernandez and Laura Caroe of The Daily Mail give coverage to the cyber-geeks who have come to the aid of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. What is not made terribly clear in said article is that these nerds tend to have enormous egos, and it will be their arrogance which will be their undoing. Those who wish to live by technological ‘hacktivism’ will die by it.
UPDATE: Cassell Bryan-Low and Sven Grundgerg of The Wall Street Journal have more regarding the hackers.
UPDATE II: It looks like China is beginning to receive what it’s been dishing out, according to STRATFOR. Good.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Ron Paul, Author of `End the Fed,’ to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank
Ron Paul, eh? Let’s see how much he can truly reign in the Central Bank. Though his followers are rabidly loyal, those who don’t care much for him see the Texas Representative as being “…all hat and no cattle.” 2011 will be Paul’s year to prosper or look like a blabbering fool. I hope it’s the former.
HT: Phil Mattingly, Bloomberg News.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Dave’s Quote of the Day
Julian Assange [of Wikileaks] likes to portray himself as a champion of truth, But the reality is much less flattering. Look at the Afghanistan ‘war logs,’ for example: WikiLeaks plainly wanted to cause maximum damage to the coalition’s war effort, but nothing was done to hide the identities of Afghan informants – so the Taliban duly promised to ‘punish them.’ “Mr. Assange claims to have pure motives, but he hasn’t shown a shred of remorse about this.
It seems that as long as the United States and the West is embarrassed on the world stage, the founder of WikiLeaks is a happy man. If he’s really opposed to corruption and human rights abuses, why hasn’t he turned his special talents to countries like Iran, China or Russia? The answer is simple — there is anti-American agenda behind much of Julian Assange’s work.
- Will Heaven, of the Telegraph newspaper
Gitmo Recidivism Rate Soars
This article from Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard should come as no surprise to anyone following articles regarding prisoners leaving Guantanamo Bay.
Considering the recidivism rate is only 25% does strike me as surprising. And no, I don’t mean it’s because some of the people we picked up were innocents. Few, if any, were, despite the MSM’s lame attempts at making martyrs out of these brutes. These are simply the ones we know about. It means we’re probably doing a poor job tracking prisoners once they go home. This will mean more American and coalition-partner deaths, unfortunately.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Getting Ready For Ice Fishing Season
Fly fishing was awesome this year, lots of big salmon in the spring and fall. But the mercury is plummeting out here in New Hampshire and the lakes and rivers are skimming over nicely. So it’s time to start thinking ICE!
The Beast has buddies who put out shanties on some of the bigger lakes every year. But to fish with them is a bit of an imposition, no matter how welcome they make you feel. Here’s a shot from a few years ago on Lake Winni:
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US: WikiLeaks release gives hit list to al-Qaida
Note to al Qaeda – Merry Christmas! Love, the imbeciles at the White House and their elves.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Geopolitical Journey, Part 8: Returning Home
George Friedman has returned home from a whirlwind hot-spot analysis tour. He reflects on what he saw here, including mentioning how relaxed he feels back in his adopted home of Texas.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Culture of Death Goes Straight for a Beacon
I will never, ever, for the life of me, understand the utter hatred and vitriol feminists have for those who defend the culture of life. It is as if pro-lifers are dealing with an opponent whose soul has become rotten to the core. I don’t see atheists or feminists caring for the women who have to deal with the mental anguish of murdering the unborn, not out of maliciousness, but out of hopelessness or cluelessness.
Kathryn Lopez at National Review highlights the disturbing people from RH Reality and their counterweights, The Sisters of Life, who were established during the leadership of John Cardinal O’Connor in 1991.
Cross-posted at Apocatastasis.
Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier
Michael C. Moynihan of Reason.com has fun picking apart morons like Keith Olbermann and the ever-creepy Israel Shamir from Counterpunch for peddling unsubstantiated charges against Julian Assange’s accuser.
Here’s the crux of the article, but make sure to read the whole thing for yourself. Moynihan is brilliant in his deconstruction of these boobs:
Wik-ed
John Bolton opines on WikiLeaks, but he sees President Obama and his pathetic administration as the true weak links to national security.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
There Is Still A Pearl In The Harbor
Ted Nugent pecks out an article for Human Events on the importance of the events of the 
Pearl Harbor bombing, which occurred 59 69 years ago today, and he ponders why people are spending more time fawning overthe anniversay of the murder of John Lennon rather than such a crucial event in American history.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Have The Lights Come On?
It’s not a “good” deal for the American people, Mr. President… it’s a GREAT deal for the American people! Win/Win…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested on Swedish warrant
Things are about to get very, very interesting for Julian Assange. He was arrested today in London.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Huffpo Commenters: “Obama Caved So Fast It Scared The Bats!”
It’s schadenfreude time! Tonight, The Huffington Post comment section is awash with 2,000 (and growing) yummy, yummy tears. The Moonbats are beside themselves at the news Obama will allow a two year extension of the current tax rates in exchange for GOP support for an additional 13 months unenjoyment extension. A small but tasty sampling of anguish:
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Please welcome Maeve Magdalen
I have inside knowledge that our newest of the new bloggers is working on her first post even as we speak. I have taken the liberty of posting her profile here as her introduction to the Conclub blogger and commenter community.
Maeve Magdalen is a woman who describes her perspective on life as a “work in progress”.
Среќен Никулден! Happy St. Nicholas Day!
For those on the Gregorian Calendar, I wish to you, all readers and friends, a wonderful St. Nicholas Day.
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Feel Good Video of the Day
Absolutely amazing for a ten-year old child. My two oldest daughters and the neighbor girl were astounded when I showed them this. My youngest (age seven), on the other hand, was downright inspired. It was hilarious to hear her walking around the house trying to mimic this performance. She made me play this for her over and over again.
Greed and Deceit in the Church
Former Daystar Employee Sues Evangelist Over Affair
Not too long ago, Marcus Lamb, televangelist and founder of DayStar Christian Television Network, came forward and announced an affair that he had some time ago. He did this because three people in his organization were attempting to blackmail him for $7.5 million by threatening to bring his indiscretion to the public eye. Apparently, this didn’t set too well with Jeanette Hawkins, one of the people attempting to blackmail him. Being denied her booty by being cut off at the pass, she decided to continue her deceitfulness by filing a lawsuit against Lamb. My, if she’s not a persistant, and greedy, one.
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More WikiLeaks Goodies
An interesting day of WikiMadness after perusing Drudge and my other usual haunts:
WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant ‘Insurance’ File if Shut Down by Fox News.
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EMI uses Rapidshare, says MP3tunes
In a case of absolute hypocrisy, Michael Robertson and MP3 Tunes makes the allegation that EMI, who breathe fire on upload services like Rapidshare, are using Rapidshare to to give away music themselves.
Read the full article at P2P.net.
Cross-posted at A Miscellany of Tasteful Music.
Behold: The Best of Adventure
Major, major hat tip to John J. Miller of NRO for posting the following:
The pulp magazines of the early 20th century were full hack writing, but also the works of writers such as Harold Lamb, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard–men with powerful imaginations and the ability to tell good stories. One of the top pulps was Adventure, which began publishing almost exactly a hundred years ago (November 1910) and continued to 1953 for a total of 753 issues. Sinclair Lewis was once an editor. Most of the magazine’s contents are forgettable, but there are plenty of diamonds in the rough. Black Dog Books, an independent publisher, is now putting out The Best of Adventure, a series of books that collect the greatest hits. The first volume, which covers 1910 to 1912, has just come out. It includes stories by William Hope Hodgson, Talbot Mundy, Damon Runyon, and Rafael Sabatini. Geeks like me will regard it as a treasure trove.
Some light reading, anyone?
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
Are the Mullahs behind the killings?
Amir Taheri is used to Iranian caterwauling about “The West” conspiring to assassinate their scientists. This is because they assume our readership is as clueless as theirs. Taheri scratches the surface of a recent round of assassinations and notes that the regime has had no problem killing its own if it looks like they’re straying, and then blaming it on the Western boogeyman.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Liberalism: An Autopsy
I think R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. might be getting just a bit ahead of himself. Liberalism is hardly dead, and it won’t die a natural death. It will continue to infect the body politic for some time. Still, Tyrrell’s WSJ article is a nice primer of Liberalism’s peaks and valleys.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Panolply Of Has-Beens
Norwegian television show “Gylne Tider,” wields the graveyard shovel and unearths what should have been left to rest ages ago.
Sherilyn Fenn is particularly painful: she was such a prime piece of patootie in her day.
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Please welcome our newest blogger, Dana G.
Over the next couple of months a few new bloggers will be joining Conclub. The first to join of this ‘new wave’ is Dana G. She will be our youngest blogger and she thought this opportunity would be a great way to begin blogging and dipping her toes into the political realm. Eventually, she’d like to make a career of politics and we are glad that she has decided to join our staff of writers. Please give her a warm welcome and we look forward to hearing her thoughts on the issues of the day.
Using WikiLeaks to Advance the Narrative of War on Iran
Muhammad Sahimi’s tagline says it all.
Morally bankrupt U.S. media buries facts that counter the case for war.
Read his analysis here, courtesy of PBS and their Frontline: Tehran Bureau website.
Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange
This one will confound some of our readers. Ron Paul makes a case that Julian Assange should be considered a member of the press rather than a collaborator with our enemies. Yes, of course, our first impulse is to splatter Assange against a wall. Sorry, our laws won’t allow it unless it’s done in a clandestine way, so don’t get your hopes up. Also, we come out looking pretty good in the leaks, though it’s not a good sign at all that our communiqués can be so easily breached.
Give Andy Barr’s article a solid read. This will be worth discussing for some time to come.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Real to announce new media organizer next week
Tech geeks, take notice:
Next week at the D Mobile technology conference, Real Networks will demonstrate its first new major consumer product in a long time, a cross-platform media management service. The as-yet unnamed product is in two parts: software that consumers run on their computers and mobile devices that will watch for new content they store on them; and a Web service that can collect that media and stream or load it to any of the devices the consumer owns.
Read more, courtesy of CNET.com.
Article Roundup for December 3, 2010
WikiLeaks is all over the news. Yes, I’d love to see Assanghole splattered on some wall somewhere, but the reality is that we look pretty good in most of these. If anything, it proves we have an idiot and his clowns running the country. Oh, well. On to the news:
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Dave’s Quote of the Day
[Ixchel is] the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you — because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools…
…Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads. I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel.
-Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico
Pass me the fiddle, please.
Lately I have found myself once again enjoying one of my favorite pastimes – gaming. Usually I exercise while playing video games – makes for the perfect excuse to play and is a great mental break from the stresses of the day.
So it was with amazement that half way through one of the most beautiful games I have seen in a long time (Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood) that a very disturbing thought occurred to me about our Republic.
Tajikistan and Terrorism
Will the Central Asian republic (hah) of Tajikistan be the next hotspot for terrorism? Here are two articles worth pondering:
Violence in Tajikistan by Joshua Kucera, The Diplomat
Tajikistan: The Next Jihadi Stronghold? by Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Moldova’s Thirty-Seven Inches of Democracy
Moldova went to the polls last Sunday. It was the third time in 19 months, namely because the Communist Party (if you can believe these people have control of anything in modern-day Europe!) have proven to be too incompetent for Moldovans to tolerate anymore. Though they maintained power, their seats in parliament continue to slip.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Dictators, Democracies and WikiLeaks
I have to admit to being worried about nothing (much) this time about the WikiLeaks dump. We actually have some of our diplomats looking pretty good in some of these communiques, but I could see how a secretive autocracy wouldn’t dig being outed (*cough, cough* Saudi Arabia *cough).
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Cyber-Con
James Harkin of the London Review of Books pecks out one of the most interesting stories on how American technology is affecting Iraq. This is not quite a Twitter revolution, but it’s certainly heartening to see that the youth of the Middle East will develop a voice through technology whether the regimes that pollute those lands like it or not.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Dave’s Quote of the Day
… a blogger named Steve Benen “gave voice to a growing and profoundly disturbing concern among Democrats–that Republicans may actually plan to embrace policies designed to deny Obama not only political victories but also the maximum possible economic growth during his term in order weaken Democratic prospects in the 2012 elections.” This is a remarkably silly theory. If Republicans really wanted to retard economic growth, they would join with the Obama administration in raising taxes, increasing regulations and proceeding with the government takeover of medicine and destruction of small business. But they aren’t doing that. Instead, Republicans are advocating the same policies they do when a Republican administration is in power: lower taxes, less regulation, a strong national defense. Democrats and Republicans disagree, of course, as to how economic growth can best be promoted. The disagreement that is now playing out in Washington is a continuation of the same debate we have witnessed for the past forty to fifty years.
(Power Line is an example of an excellent group blog)
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