Chuck Adkins. A sort of ironic name, given the fact that I think it's plain to see the man enjoys his donuts.

A co-blogger at Cold Fury posted a fairly innocuous, though critical, post about Fatboy NotSlim up there.

So how did Lovehandles McGee respond?

This might explain why this Christina Hendrix bitch is dead, If I had to hang around idiots like that, IÂ’d fucking die too.

Yeah, I said that, I meant ever fucking word of it.

Here's the background: Christina Hendrix is Mike from Cold Fury's recently deceased wife. She died in a motorcycle accident about half a year ago.

You stay classy, Wranglers Husky.

Here's some background on Johnny Hamhocks. He should remember that just because you have a hellacious set of Double-Ds, a real nice set of rambunctious milk-zeppelins, doesn't mean you necessarily have the right to do whatever you like.

I mean, sure, Minnesota Tits, I'd do practically anything to get my head between those big fat soft He-knockers and just nap there while dreaming of being an innocent infant. But not everyone is as ga-ga for man-maries as I am.

Thanks to Doubleplus Undead.

Poster Contest Exhibition? Pretty good one from Original Roy, who calls himself that because of all the millions of other Roys running around the internet.

Here's the widget to make them. One thing: You have to save the poster into your own flickr or photobucket account or the like. Then just post the link here.

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From RobG, via The People's Cube.

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Debate livestream here.

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Text on a warning label affixed to a small tractor.

Good advice I suppose.

This was the winning entry in the 11th annual "Wacky Warning Label Contest," sponsored by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, in which contestants attempt to win small prizes for finding the goofiest warning labels on products.

Second place? Message on an iron-on t-shirt transfer: "Do not iron while wearing shirt". And third place, a baby stroller warning about a small storage pouch that says "Do not place child in bag".

Contest organizer Bob Dorigo Jones says the silly labels reflect how broken America's civil justice system is.

"Predatory lawyers know they can file ridiculous lawsuits against innocent product makers and blackmail them into a cash settlement—even in cases in which a user has ignored common sense," Dorigo Jones said in a statement Wednesday.

I dunno Bob. There's an awful lot of stupid out there. The Preparation H product warning label is the stuff of legend. And just the other day an AoS commenter suggested a warning label might be needed for sausage grinders regarding insertion of a certain part of the male anatomy. If I recall correctly though it really just needed to say "Don't turn this on".

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Good piece from Philip Klein at The American Spectator. A lot of it is stuff you know, but it might be a good article to send to a Huckabee supporter in your family.

Over the course of his 10 and a half years as governor, Huckabee granted a staggering 1,033 clemencies, according to the Associated Press. That was more than double the combined 507 that were granted during the 17 and a half years of his three predecessors: Bill Clinton, Frank White, and Jim Guy Tucker.

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"I felt like Huckabee had more compassion for the murderers than he ever did for the victims," Elaine Colclasure, co-leader of the Central Arkansas chapter of Parents of Murdered Children, a group that works on behalf of victims' families, told TAS. "He was kind of like a defense attorney. He couldn't see the pain and suffering that the victims were going through."

Among the violent criminals Huckabee granted clemency to were Denver Witham, who was "convicted of beating a man to death with a lead pipe at a bar," according to the AP; Robert A. Arnold Jr., who was convicted of killing his father in law; Willy Way Jr., who pled guilty to shooting a grocery store owner as his wife looked on; and James Maxwell, who murdered a reverend. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, when the reverend's daughter met with Huckabee to plead that Maxwell be denied clemency, Huckabee "'affectionately referred' to her father's killer as 'Jim.'"

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When Huckabee did backpedal on his decisions, it was only after tremendous public pressure, or, in one case, a lawsuit.

In 2004, Huckabee agreed to commute the sentence of Don Jeffers, who pled guilty to beating and strangling a man to death in 1980. The Saline County Prosecuting Attorney at the time, Robert Herzfeld, another Democrat, wrote to Huckabee to complain about the decision and request an explanation, according to the Arkansas News Bureau. Herzfeld received a letter from Huckabee's adviser on criminal justice in response that said, "the governor read your letter and laughed out loud." The commutation was eventually stopped, but only after Herzfeld sued Huckabee and the state attorney general's office concluded that certain procedures were not properly followed.

Later that year, Huckabee created a firestorm when he announced his plans to grant clemency to Dennis Lewis, who shot and killed a pawnshop owner in a robbery, and Glen Martin Green. As Arkansas Leader columnist Garrick Feldman described it, Green "beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then dumped her in the bayou..." Under intense public scrutiny, Huckabee reversed his decision weeks later, and vowed to be more open about his reasoning for making such choices in the future.

Note on that vow: The legislature was debating amending the state constitution to require the Governor -- specifically Huckabee, due to his abuse -- to require that he state his reasons for granting clemency. He had provoked so much outrage that the legislature and public was prepared to limit his ability to grant clemency to killers. So his vow was not exactly freely offered, nor was his retreat from releasing the savage rapist/killer Green his own choice.

But because Huckabee gave little explanation for his decisions for much of his time as governor, it created a vacuum for others to draw educated conclusions. In a long 2004 investigative article, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette found that prisoners had a better chance of being granted clemency by Huckabee if they had a mutual acquaintance, labored at the governor's mansion under a prisoner work program, or a minister intervened on their behalf.

I've criticized Huckabee for his excessively personal approach to politics before. Here again an example: He'll spring killers and rapists so long as he superficially knows them or if an acquaintance or minister speaks up for them. This will not do. The man seems incapable of abstract or logical, disinterested thought or adherence to general principles. Most of his political decisions and clemencies can be explained by his personal feelings about the matter.

This is a Republican?

On the plus side, it will be good to have a president incapable of separating his personal spiritual obligations to Christ from his job as the people's representative. Huckabee must forgive, ergo the public must forgive through his clemencies; Huckabee must be compassionate towards illegal immigrants, ergo so must we all. We won't need to have policy debates once Huckabee's in office, as he answers to a Higher Constituency. That will, at least, free up a lot of our time.

The Power of God: Huckabee's plan to free ourselves of "energy consumption" consists of a bold plan to free ourselves of "energy consumption."

Oh wait, there's more details: He wants to do this in ten years.

Wow, for a second there I thought he was once again speaking glib gibberish about an important issue. But now that I see the details -- "in ten years" -- I am reassured that he has pondered this issue carefully.

We're All "Racists and Nativists:" Glad to know that, thanks!

Just two years ago, Huckabee appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life — not to mention “inflammatory,” “race-baiting” and “demagoguery.”

Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass pardon to illegal aliens as “driven by racism or nativism.” He called strict immigration enforcement — the kind he now supports — “sheer folly” in his campaign-timed book released earlier this year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate in Arkansas — giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate — so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment purposes. And he's not only for government in-state illegal alien discounts, he's for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed.

I completely believe he's changed his mind on the issue. After all, he wouldn't lie. Like, he wouldn't talk bigoted nonsense about Mormons believing Christ and Satan to be brothers and then send out a spokesman to to claim the statement actually proves his unwillingness to Mormon-bash:

A report released tonight cites an upcoming article in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine which quotes former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee asking a question about the content of the Mormon faith. In fact, the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign.

“Governor Huckabee has said consistently that he believes this campaign should center on a discussion of the important issues confronting our nation,” said Senior Advisor, Dr. Charmaine Yoest, “and not focus on questions of religious belief. He wants to assure persons of all faith traditions of his firm commitment to religious tolerance and freedom of worship. Governor Huckabee believes that one of the great strengths of our nation lies in its diversity of thought, opinion and faith.”

The first link above, from a Mormon, explains that yes, in the same sense that all of God's created beings are his "spirit children" and are hence his sons and, to one another, "brothers," Satan is held to be a brother of Christ, as are we all. But that is the extent off the familial relationship. It's not as if Mormons have elevated Satan to an exalted status called "spirit child of God" and thereby deified him or put him on par with Christ.

And for him to suggest otherwise is -- pardon me for disrespecting those who cling to this belief -- ignorant and nasty and more than a little bumpkinish. And for him to then claim that injecting this canard into the debate actually demonstrates how much he doesn't want to be thrown into that Briar Patch is just insulting.

As Jim Geraghty and others have said: It's getting tiring to hear Huckabee say things with clear meanings and then be told that he said nothing of the sort. As if we're retarded.

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I'm sad. We were really counting on the old girl to win this and then lose disastrously.

A new poll shows that while the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president holds a comfortable lead in New Hampshire, the Democratic race has tightened dramatically.

According to the latest WMUR/CNN poll, Hillary Clinton's 20-point lead has vanished. She now has 31 percent support, with Barack Obama in a statistical tie at 30 percent. John Edwards is third with 16 percent, and Bill Richardson has slipped slightly to 7 percent.

John Edwards may be the only thing keeping Hillary in the race at this point. One would imagine that the great bulk of his supporters would flee to Obama were he to drop out.

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A lot of them escaped the town they were holding, but others, not so much.

Afghan soldiers backed by NATO air power killed more than 50 Taliban fighters during a two-day battle with militants who tried to attack a southern Afghan town near the one they were routed from this week, Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
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Afghan soldiers fought the insurgents in Sangin, a town in Helmand province that neighbors Musa Qala, which Taliban fighters had controlled since February before abandoning it this week in the face of an offensive by Afghan, British and U.S. forces.

"When the terrorists were defeated in Musa Qala, they escaped to Sangin and started firing in and around Sangin," the Defense Ministry said.

Among the 50 militants killed were three foreigners and three commanders, the ministry said. It said no civilians were hurt or killed in the operation.

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Taliban militants overran Musa Qala in February, four months after British troops left the town following a contentious peace agreement that gave security responsibilities to Afghan elders. U.S. officials criticized the deal as surrendering to the Taliban.

Quick, let's negotiate some more.

Thanks to dri.

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Funny item over at The People's Cube.

Following the misery inflicted on Islam by a toy bear that ended up with calls for the execution of an English woman, more Muslims are stepping forward with stories of long-suppressed emotional trauma imposed on them by so-called reality.

Thanks to eddiebear.

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Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. We have so many points of common interest it really shouldn't be all that hard to work out a mutually-satisfactory compromise.

Perhaps the Taliban can just host 1000 or so Al Qaeda fighters rather than 10,000, and maybe they can agree to kill only 100 children a year instead of 1000.

They can kill as many homos and apostates and uppity women as they like, of course. We here in the enlightened West aren't too keen on those sorts either.

So, the makings of a deal:

-- Kill all the homos and apostates and sassy bitches you like

-- only knock down one major skyscraper not more than once every five years

-- and the Brits get to go home and pretend they've accomplished something.

Win, win, win!

Thanks to DrewM.

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I was wary about posting this because it seems like piling on over something petty.

But:

This is persuasive. Seems a bit nutty because such evidence is amassed to prove something so minor, but... I'm buying it. Particularly that bit about the hernia.

Dan Riehl has a quick excerpt if you don't want to dig into the details.

I was debating putting this up with Dave in Texas. Here's the scary-professional news judgment analysis that goes on behind the scenes:

is this worth posting?

[Link to Riehl.]
or is it just piling on?

Dave: reading it now
wow. kinda big deal, but feels like piling on

...

me: maybe I can get someone else to post it to take the hit.
people are pissed at gabriel anyway

Thanks to jdub for sending that, too.

Speaking of Fat: I don't know why I didn't weigh in on the Jennifer Love Hewitt fatography controversy.

Look, she's not fat. She's got a few fun-pounds goin' on there. Nothing a month-long coke binge couldn't fix.

And I don't know if it has to be fixed. I mean, come on. I'm getting tired of the claim that men oppress women with "impossible standards of beauty" when the only people who are saying she's fat are 1, chicks who want to take her down a notch, 2, super-gay dudes (normal gay dudes would still hit that shit for the anecdote), and 3, guys like StudMan69 who dress up their virginity as "higher standards."

More Huckster: He's above demeaning Romney for his religion. Kinda sorta:

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, ''Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?''

The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says Huckabee asked the question after saying he believes Mormonism is a religion but doesn't know much about it. His rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is a member of the Mormon church, which is known officially as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The authoritative Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, does not refer to Jesus and Satan as brothers. It speaks of Jesus as the son of God and of Satan as a fallen angel, which is a Biblical account.

A spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Huckabee's question is usually raised by those who wish to smear the Mormon faith rather than clarify doctrine.

''We believe, as other Christians believe and as Paul wrote, that God is the father of all,'' said the spokeswoman, Kim Farah. ''That means that all beings were created by God and are his spirit children. Christ, on the other hand, was the only begotten in the flesh and we worship him as the son of God and the savior of mankind. Satan is the exact opposite of who Christ is and what he stands for.''

Romney did not respond to a request for comment.

Earlier this month in Iowa, Huckabee wouldn't say whether he thought Mormonism — rival Romney's religion — was a cult.

Why Not? Okay, JackM. tipped this old Christmas card from the Huckabee family.

I wasn't going to post it, because I didn't want to pile on, but I guess that ship has sailed.

Look, I'm just saying: I don't know if this family, particularly the boys, strikes me as being keen on natural weight loss.

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

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