March 07, 2008
— Ace No, not Susan Rice, Obama's foreign policy adviser who declared her boss entirely unfit to take that "3am call" on a Sunday talk show.
She's still there-- she spoke the truth, so I guess she stays.
The one who resigned called Hillary a "monster," willing to do or say anything to win an election.
Seems to me this one kinda pegged the situation on that front, too. Not sure why truth isn't a defense for her.
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— Ace This Fox headline writer's got the chops to work here at Ace of Spades.
They drugged, bludgeoned and strangled their 16-year-old victim to death then they knelt over her lifeless, bloody body to kiss before dumping her in a wheelbarrow....
Supreme Court justice Peter Blaxell sentenced Parashumti, 19, and Stasinowsky, 21, to 24 years in jail each.
Blaxell said the "particularly horrifying and shocking" crime was devoid of a substantial motive.
"You have each had more than a year in custody to reflect upon the evilness of your crime yet you still lack remorse and obviously place no value on the sanctity of human life," he said. "There is also the added problem that you each enjoy being sexually aroused by the infliction of violence."
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One theory put to the court was that the couple appeared obsessed with proving their love for each other.
Both pleaded guilty last November to one count each of willful murder but they still do not seem to understand the gravity of their crime.
Court hearings have been punctuated with laughter, smirking and smiling.
Even during sentencing submissions in January, the couple was told twice by Blaxell to stop their light-hearted behavior as the graphic details of the crime were read.
Roger Corman just filed suit for copyright infringement.
I know, I know... I'm not doing a lot of real news lately. I wanted to do real news today but I'm in Blog Dramas with some female conservative bloggers, and also, as usual, the female liberal bloggers at Sadly, No, who do a very thorough job of covering every other blog in existence.
It's like reading middle-school girls' slam-books over there.
I'll get right on the real news. Though I really have a bunch of other crap stories I'd rather do.
Thanks to Iwilnotsubmit.
And thanks to Slublog, again, for the p-shop.
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— Ace I know, this should be an update to the last thing, someone.
But this is pretty funny. Here's the opening of Genesis:
From LOLCat Bible Translation ProjectBoreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.
7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.
8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.
9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet.
10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good.
11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, DO WANT grass! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels. An a Corm. It happen.
12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish good, so, letz there be weedz.
13 An so teh threeth day jazzhands.
14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day.
15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly.
16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.
17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs.
18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good.
19 An so teh furth day w00t.
Yeah... it goes on like that for, like, almost the length of the actual Bible.
Sorry, either you get LOLcat or you don't. Eventually all will succumb, but it takes a while for some.
Thanks to ghengis, or, to me, Jenjis.
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— Gabriel Malor The recent homeschooling case is still getting big headlines here in California and I even overheard some people discussing it in the hallway. After yesterday's post, I wanted to emphasize one excellent point that both Michelle and Darleen pointed out. Whatever the immediate effect on homeschooling parents (and I want to point out that the HSLDA and I come to the same statutory conclusion with regard to the private school exemption), the constitutional issue here represents a long-term problem for parents.
Part of what has so alarmed people is this conclusion by the appellate court:
"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion for the 2nd District Court of Appeal.Noncompliance could lead to criminal complaints against the parents, Croskey said.
Because of that conclusion, the case was decided entirely on statutory grounds. When I went through the case the first time, I read right through that part without pausing. The justice is correct as far as precedent is concerned. No court has recognized a constitutional right to homeschooling. The nearest we've come to that is a Supreme Court case recognizing that parents and children have a constitutional right to education outside of the public schools:
The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
But the Court has never tested just what alternatives to public education the State must allow. It hasn't been an issue because most states have legislation specifically providing for numerous alternatives including homeschooling. California, of course, has to be different and that makes this is a very big deal. California law does not provide an explicit homeschooling option. Parents have relied on various interpretations of the existing options to get away with homeschooling and the state Department of Education--for the last 54 years, at least--has looked the other way.
But back up a minute. If there is no constitutional right to homeschool one's children, the government could conceivably ban homeschooling entirely. I'm sure (and this was Darleen's point, too) that certain constituencies are salivating over the very possibility.
Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that there is a constitutional right to homeschool one's children. So far I haven't seen a very convincing argument for it and for that reason I believe the best solution to this issue in California is legislative. On the off chance that someone wants to take up the challenge, here are my questions about a constitutional right to homeschooling:
(1) Who possesses that right, the child or the parents?
(2) Where in the U.S. Constitution (or, if you like, the California Constitution) can that right be found? EDITED: This would be more accurately phrased: "What part of the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from interfering with the right to homeschool?"
(3) If there is a constitutional right to homeschool, why isn't there a constitutional right to gay marriage?
(4) Is there a corollary constitutional right to not educate your child if that is your choice?
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— Ace I think even Allah and Charles Johnson will have to concede that this time it's deliberate.
Thanks to SnappedShot.
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— Ace Over at MyPetJawa, Rusty posted a nasty pic of Helen Thomas. I brilliantly added the comment/caption "I Can Haz Pulitzer?" and thereby created the first LOLHack, LOLCat spoofs of our stupid-ass arrogant media.
Slublog makes the first official one:
If you want to do 'em, please upload them to a flickr or photobucket account so I don't have to strain the servers here. I can host some myself, but only really good ones; marginal ones I'm not going to bother with. I can't tax Pixy's servers too much.
If you don't know what LOLcats are, well, what planet have you been living on?
Ken also reminds me of LOLThulus, LOLcat style posters with Cthulhu creatures.
Anyway. Seems like a fun idea.
Not the best, but... topical. Kinda.
Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!
LOLterrorists: At IMAO.
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— Ace That's a pretty convoluted headline, I admit, but I wanted to jam it all in there.
The spring before his wife began her White House campaign, former President Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by selling stock that he had been given from an Internet search company that was co-founded by a convicted felon and backed by the Chinese government, public records show.Mr. Clinton had gotten the nonpublicly traded stock from Accoona Corp. back in 2004 as a gift for giving a speech at a company event. He landed the windfall by selling the 200,000 shares to an undisclosed buyer in May 2006, commanding $3.50 a share at a time when the company was reporting millions of dollars of losses, according to interviews.
A spokesman for the William J. Clinton Foundation declined to identify the buyer who was willing to pay so much for a struggling company's stock, saying only that the transaction was handled by a securities broker.
I guess the only outstanding question is whether there were any cattle involved at any point in this exchange.
Yeah, we don't need to see those tax returns. That's just silly.
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— Ace Although, I guess, Adam Gadahn consumed a lot of donuts too, and if he'd been a bit svelter, maybe he could have dodged a bit of that shrapnel.
Fat American dies of decadent lifestyle? Apparently so.
That is at least what another source claims. It's just another source and this remains unconfirmed, but no one, except Al Qaeda, is gainsaying it yet.
Twelve militants were killed in a single missile attack on a residential compound in Khushali Wazir in the Mirali tehsil during the night of January 28. A loud explosion rocked the area at 11:22 p.m. According to well-informed NEFA sources in Pakistan, among those reportedly killed in the attack were senior al-QaÂ’ida commander Abu Laith al-Libi, his former deputy Abu Suhail, Hamza al-Somali (of Australian or US nationality), and Azzam al-Amriki (an a.k.a. of American al-QaÂ’ida member Adam Gadahn) [GadahnÂ’s death has yet to be officially confirmed].
Additional reports say he's surrounded by 72 virgins, who are all telling him, "I like you too much as a friend to ruin it with sleeping you," which is an even weaker excuse than normal considering the fact he 1) just met them a couple of days ago and 2) no one really liked "as a friend" or otherwise.
When your coworkers are all Al Qaeda and even they say stuff like, "Yes, al-Zawahiri is, oh I don't know, maybe a little over the top sometimes, but it's that Adam Gadahn who's really an asshole," well.
Not sure if Adam Gadahn was born Jewish, but let's say he was. He was a very high-ranking Al Qaeda terrorist, perhaps number five in the whole organization, which means, sadly, that even when it comes to Al Qaeda terrorism, Jews and Americans are just better at it than most Islamist fuckheads.
Can't you guys even manage a decent go at this without fucking it all up? We've left a whole field of human endeavor wide open to you -- true, a thoroughly stupid and evil field, but we figure that's about your speed -- and you're still being outpaced by the Jews and Westerners and Jew-Westerners.
Allah wants to know why Al Qaeda hasn't announced his death yet. Well, maybe Al Qeada just tends to be shy about confirming the deaths of major figures -- like, perhaps Osama bin Ladin himself.
And maybe those in Al Qaeda who know he's dead aren't saying yet, because they're too busy arguing about how to divide up his child-porn mags/XBOX games/Cheetos of the Month Club subscription.
Dan Riehl has a good death-clock tick-tock of the events leading up to Adam "Rerun" Gadahn's untimely sad scrumptious demise.
Just Got An Email From Adam Gadah... Turns out Paradise has a Fat Camp. An eternal one.
Oh well, sucks for you, man. How many times did I tell you? Atkins.
Carbs are killers.
So are Predator drones armed with Hellfire missiles, actually.
But you know that. I guess I'm preaching to the converted on that one, huh? LOL (wink)
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— Dave in Texas Ok. They just suckered me in with the headline. I will admit, I was looking for a little reinforcement. But this study is bullshit.
A new study, published today in the international Journal of Sexual Medicine, says the best sex should last seven to 13 minutes, it is being reported by news.com.au/heraldsun.
Is this some kind of metric thing? How many seconds to a minute are there in Australia anyway, 12?
Americans usually expect intercourse to last between 15 to 20 minutes, according to other U.S. studies, so this new study is designed to have a calming effect on couples who think healthy sex has to last a long time.
We do? Who? Do you morons expect 15 to 20 minutes, not counting the begging part (which can easily last several days around here)? What is this "calming effect" the article claims?
It's like I woke up in Crazyworld or something. Nothing makes sense to me anymore.
Then I noticed the study author is a woman.
"Usually women are quite happy with short intercourse, and are not bothered about prolonging it at all, but nearly all men want it to be much, much longer," Dr. Jane Howard, a medical sex therapist from Brisbane, Australia, told news.com.au.
Hmphh. I don't know what your angle is here, Dr. Jane Howard a medical sex therapist from Brisbane Australia but I know you're up to something. And despite your outrageous assertions about these impossibly long encounters that you have the audacity to call "short", I can assure you that my self-image remains undamaged and I am quite secure in my masculinity.
So there.
Here's some appropriate music I think (Sobek or Laura showed me this).
Two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.
Or so I've heard.
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— Purple Avenger The whole story at Gateway Pundit.
...Iranian politicians may find it tougher to reach out to voters in this month's parliament election when campaigning started on Thursday because of a ban on posters bearing their photographs...Apparently pictures are deemed "wasteful". Let's face it, its true. Colored ink is a lot more expensive than posters made from old toilet paper scribbled out with the blackened point of a burnt stick or the more traditional clay tablets. The clay tablets are heavier, but much more durable when it rains, and when the campaign is over, the clay tablets can be reused as building blocks for new housing, laid down as pavers for sidewalks etc. I really think the Iranians are onto something here. Mother Gaia is surely smiling upon Iran for taking this "brave" step towards eco-friendly carbon-neutral elections.
H/T Jules
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