Just for fun...consider that Leonard Little scored a touchdown yesterday. What makes this notable is that Little plays for the St. Louis Rams, the team Rush Limbaugh is too divisive to be a part owner of. Little however is a long time member in good standing of the Rams and the NFL despite the fact that he killed a woman because he was driving drunk.

They don't call it the National Felons League for nothing.

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Welcome to Sunday all M&Ms. Tonight's ONT has no theme (as much as there ever is a coherent theme) - just a collection of things I've been meaning to post but never got around to it.

Dog Lingerie
Because sometimes even Fido and FiFi like to feel sexy. Well actually they're just helpless victims of their cruel owners. And yes there are entire factories in China devoted to making this stuff.

How D&D is the gateway drug to all kinds of nerdiness.
Pretty much as I always suspected. And sadly I think I've passed through pretty much every box except for the upper right and furry-related ones. more...

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For general discussion, including the dog of a football game on NBC (to me Dodgers @ Phillies on TBS is a better bet).

Just a reminder, tonight's football game features a misogynist as a studio host. Since he's a liberal it's okay, he's not divisive and thus is a member in good standing of the NFL family.

Somewhat related...The Washington Redskins suck. Clearly they need a new owner, coach and quarterback. Fortunately they can find all three in one man (though no mere mortal He). more...

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Dr. Zero over at HA, great piece on the hit job inflicted on Limbaugh by race-baiters, charlatans and hacks. He makes several excellent points, one that resonates with me: unfair is unfair, whether it's unfair to a wealthy man, or a poor man.

I'm swiping a long paragraph, but go read it.

Limbaugh’s accusers want him burned at the stake for the crime of effective conservatism, not the racism they were so eager to lie about last week. The American public should think long and hard about which side of this ideological struggle should be on trial. Rush Limbaugh’s ideas did not produce a titanic deficit, double-digit unemployment, and global adversaries who can barely stop laughing at our President long enough to pretend they respect him. His ideas did not put disciples of Saul Alinsky, Chairman Mao, and Alex Jones in positions of power. His words are not deployed to conceal hundreds of billions in stolen “stimulus” money, thousand-page Mad Lib bills riddled with blank paragraphs, and massive offenses against individual liberty. His EIB Network endorses $1500 Sleep Number beds, not “saved or created” jobs costing half a million bucks apiece. Unlike the “Hope and Change” Administration, he doesn’t spend his three hours on the radio each weekday listing all the things you will no longer be allowed to do. He is the champion of ideas so powerful that his enemies fear the merest taste of them.

Something that cuts to the core of most Americans is our strong sense of fairness. We conservatives suffer a lot at times because of it, our unwillingness to dive down into the truly nasty and vicious tactics used by our opponents. We have a strong sense of the rightness of fair play. It's the kind of thing that makes us shrug when a player on our team commits an obvious foul on the field, we man up and say "yeah, he was holding", or "no, his knee was down". We just do that because we know in our hearts it's right.

We play by the rules.

I don't think that's a bad thing at all, I rather think it's a value that's worth holding and expressing, even when it makes us willing to "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". Our willingness to do that makes us better people.

It wasn't just an attack on Rush. It was an attack on me, and most of you. I agree with Dr. Zero, it's worth defending.

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Talk about the NFL if you'd like or perhaps contemplate ways to let them know you aren't pleased that they have made it clear conservatives are not welcomed in their club.

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Talk about your man bites dog story.

Two blasts in Iran's restive southeast on Sunday killed at least 26 people, including five senior Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, and injured as many as 60 others, according to state media.

In recent years, the Sistan-Baluchistan province, along the border of Pakistan, has been rocked by a handful of terrorist attacks by Sunni insurgents, targeting Shiites and Iran's Shiite-dominated government. The brazen attack Sunday comes as the regime struggles to keep a lid on protests and opposition activities following contested presidential elections in June.

...State media reported provincial IRGC commanders Brig. Gen. Nour Ali Shoushtari and Brig. Gen. Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh died in that attack, along with several tribal and local leaders from both the Shiite and Sunni communities. The Associated Press, citing Iran's official news agency, reported Gen. Shoushtari served as the IRGC's deputy commander for ground forces. It wasn't immediately possible to confirm his exact position in the Corps.

At around the same time, a bomb detonated near the convoy of a group of other IRGC commanders in the same area, state media reported. Details of both attacks were still unclear by mid-afternoon Sunday. State media said no group had reported responsibility for the attacks.

More on the background of the unrest in this region here.

Sounds like someone has some rather impressive intelligence on the whereabouts of senior Iranian commanders. That should make for some fun internal mole hunts. No doubt however the Jews will be blamed publicly.

No word yet on whether the Obama administration has sent official or unofficial condolences. Cause you know they are all about respect and outreach.

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Good evening all and welcome to the ONT.

Helmet Cam Captures Skier Getting Buried in Avalanche, Then Getting Rescued 4 Minutes Later
This video was shot in April 2008 in Haines, AK. You can't tell from the video but the skier was dragged 1500 feet in just 20 seconds. Luckily for him his right glove came off just before he was covered which allowed rescuers to find him in just four and half minutes which actually is quite fast.

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This is truly despicable.

And yet so true to form. Kerry's MO for 40 years.

“It would be entirely irresponsible for the president of the United States to commit more troops to this country, when we don’t even have an election finished and know who the president is and what kind of government we’re working in, with,” Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

You know what's entirely irresponsible? To dither and wag while we have soldiers in the field committed to battle. That's what's entirely irresponsible.

I can't believe we were within a whisker's width of this sorry bastard becoming our President.

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You'd think he was joking, but you'd be wrong.

"Unless Mr. Limbaugh apologizes and clarifies his statements, attorneys for Rev. Sharpton will move forward with a lawsuit," said a statement from Sharpton. Limbaugh lashed out at Sharpton over his failed attempt to purchase a piece of the St. Louis Rams.

Sharpton "played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews 'diamond merchants') and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot," Limbaugh wrote.

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Limbaugh "has the right to criticize Rev. Sharpton, but he does not have the right to accuse him of criminal activity," the Sharpton statement said.

Limbaugh's column, defending himself and attacking the race-riot enthusiast Sharpton, is is here.

Having brought me into his group, Mr. Checketts now wanted a way out. He asked me to resign. I told him no way. I had done nothing wrong. I had not uttered the words these people were putting in my mouth. And I would not bow to their libels and pressure. He would have to drop me from the group. A few days later, he did.

As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.

These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.

What they are attempting to do, and are now 90% successful, is make conservative de facto illegal. It's unlikely they'll charge you with an actual crime (though they keep tending in that direction), but they will impose on you all of the non-criminal penalties associated with being arrested -- losing your job, not being hired for jobs, being forced to undergo "psychiatric evaluations" and "therapies," being barred from entering certain businesses, etc.

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Pretty good goof.

At least listen through to the revelation of the kittens' names.

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