November 25, 2008
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November 24, 2008
— Dave in Texas A streamlined case, additional witnesses, and some new evidence siezed from the PA.
As an added bonus to these five douchenozzles facing 20 years for illegally raising funds for Hamas, the jurors also agreed that HLF assets should be forfeited to the tune of $12.5MM.
As Gabe pointed out in the sidebar piece, second time's a charm.
Via Andrew McCarthy at NRO, who really carried Weekend at Bernie's. Just my opinion, don't mean nothin.
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— Open Blog Now fortified with even more McRib!
In which we discuss random thought such as football, politics, paraffin hand treatments, the McRib, hunchbacks, paraffin hand treatments, whiny Longhorns complaining about how theyÂ’re getting jacked by the BCS voters, paraffin hand treatments, your plans for Thanksgiving, international law regarding piracy on the high seas, paraffin foot treatments, more McRib, where the hell has Spurwing Plover gone and has he died and are his cats now devouring him either alive or dead since neither he nor they can get out of the house because theyÂ’re all trapped in there together or is Spurwing the one doing the eating, paraffin paw treatments for cats, the awesomeness that is the McRib, and the many ways in which WickedPinto can kill you with whatever he has at hand including lint from his pockets as well as paraffin, which is lethal in his hands.
So thereÂ’s a lot on your plate to consider.
Regarding the McRib, many scoffed at its amazing qualities (which are many) in an earlier post last weekend. You mocked it as not being true bbq. STFU.
To satisfy you haters, real bbq below the fold.
Update: Vinnie reminds me, in the comments, that open blog posts need to be approved by Ace, so I'd just like to add that this post has been approved by Ace. Thanks Vin!
Update II: In the comments, someone (aka "someone") wishes to remind us of the importance of using Tiny URL when you comment and wish to provide a linky to something that has a way too long Intertube Address. Thanks, "someone!" more...
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— Ace Ah. Now that Barack Obama carries the responsibility for carrying the war to ultimate victory, it seems that victory is almost at hand and shouldn't be unthinkingly squandered.
Funny, when George Bush said that, AP was so much more skeptical.
We can't have a Democratic President losing a war. The political fallout could be harmful. Only Republicans presidents can -- nay, must -- lose winnable wars.
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— Purple Avenger Now we're even outsourcing bailout recipients.
General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.I would hope the UAW types would be all over this like stink on shit.According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to "complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012."...
[UPDATE- PA] A commenter is claiming Ardila was misquoted/mistranslated, so the story may or may not be true.
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— Ace 10. Never goes anywhere without his "bible," a pocket-sized copy of the inspirational words of R. Lee "Full Metal Jacket" Ermey, titled Get the Fuck Off My Obstacle You Disgusting Fatbody
9. Beat the shit out of his company commander for right to dress in nonstandard uniform, which just happens to be exact costume worn by "The Humungous" from The Road Warrior
8. Just signed up as host of MTV's new show, Pimp My Vital Organs and/or Brain Stem
7. Known among his fellow Marines for passion for wrestling alligators and, also, fucking them ("They gotta feel like they've been beaten," he explains)
6. Only living American to receive France's highest military decoration, Le Palme d' Batman (with Wolverine cluster)
5. In his spare time, invents completely impractical new weapons, like the "Sword-Rifle," the "Whip-Rifle, and the "Nunchuck-Rifle;" no one argues with him, because he's also the inventor of a new form of debate, "Long-Ranged Ballistic Rhetoric"
4. Secret ingredient in his self-loaded high-power cartridges' gunpowder mix? See page 44 of Natural Harvest: A collection of semen- based recipes
3. Lists his hobbies as flyfishing, woodcrafting, and perfecting his own primitive diamond-cannon just in case the President declares war on the Gorn Empire
2. Creator of his own style of martial arts, Jeet Kun Wae-Do Fah Zho, or "Harmonious Way of Shooting People in Their Fucking Faces"
...and the number one sign the unnamed 20-for-20 Marine Marksman just might be a badass...
1. Uses phrase "I'd hit it" with air of chilling menace
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— Ace 30 vs. 250. Wow.
Although every man in such a victory is obviously crucial, one man racked up the Legolas Award for most orcs killed.
During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn’t miss any shots, despite the enemies’ rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.“I was in my own little world,” the young corporal said. “I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target.”
50 Taliban were killed. The rest fled.
Thanks to Confederate Yankee.
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— Ace VDH nails it:
For years now we have been preached to that Guantanamo is a gulag where Korans are stomped and flushed (not laptops provided to the chief architect of 9/11), that we waged a foolhardy, amoral, and hopelessly 'lost' war against the Iraqi people, that the rich plundered the economy on the backs of the poor, and that the Constitution was burned so that covert agencies could play James Bond. I could go on, but you get the picture.Given all that, are we now suddenly — in 1984-fashion — around late January either to be told all that was not quite so, or will we simply hear no more about how these Bush legacies have ruined America — or what exactly is the party line to be? There is still such a thing, after all, as Google.
The point is that somewhere around early to mid-2007 ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Newsweek, Time, etc. chose to become — in the manner that they selected, emphasized, and presented their news stories — a quasi-official Obama media, or at least a quasi-official what-they-thought-Obama-was news media. Chris Matthews' asinine statement about his investment in the success of the Obama administration was merely a crude summation of the creed of the more sober and judicious.
I don't really think they can now pull off an Animal-Farm-like 'two-legs were bad', 'now two-legs good' complete turn-about just because they've taken over the manor. I do think that the media's unprofessional lobbying for the cause of Obama — not now, but in a decade or two — will become a classic case study in any graduate class on journalistic ethics.
Obviously, the argument was not about policies, but power. The media and the Democrats had little problem with Clinton's extraordinary renditions of terrorist suspects to barbaric, torture-practicing countries... until George W. Bush continued the same practice, at which point the Constitution was shredded.
And now we're going the other way -- policies which once shred the Constitution are no longer quite-so foundational-document-destroying when practiced by an Agent of Change in Hope.
A nation of men, not laws.
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— Ace Nothing funny about Obama, so I guess they can't run it.
Of course, this isn't terribly funny, and it's not really about Obama per se -- it's about the Obama Administration, which similarly is, I guess, impossible to joke about.
Who knows why they cut it. Though based on the show, and Andy Samberg's general popularity, there was a lot of crap they might have cut (as usual) to make room for it.
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— Dave in Texas Faaaaaaaaaaaack. Why don't you just waterboard me and get it over with?
Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco says his novel punishment of forcing noise violators to listen to music they don't like for one hour has cut down on the number of repeat offenders in this northwestern Colorado prairie town.
"Music they don't like" includes Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, The Platters, and the latest piece of crap from Guns N' Roses (just a suggestion your Honor).
"You can't fall asleep," said teenager Rueben Fuentes right before letting out a bit of a sigh.
Maybe not, but if no one's paying attention you can shove a pencil in your eardrum and make it stop.
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