1 I'll get right on it.

2 Whew, had to run to get here.

3 Ok, complete with shameless self-promotion:  http://dad29.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-death-panel.html

4 Orly Taitz made it to the Supreme Court! From what I can tell, she is appealing (or at least filing papers with SCOTUS) re the $20k sanction imposed by USDJ Land for frivolous litigation. I found the link in the politics tab at Fark, but cannot figure out the tinyurl thing. Fark links to a TPM article and the comments are frickin' hilarious.

5 Dude, it truly is a slow news day.

6 Now that Ace has reclarified the race stuff for us, do I have to change my nickname?

7

Miss USA Changes Its Image - I would strongly recommend that all morons review each image in the slide show. PROBABLY NSFW

 

8 Your WTF moment of the day.

9 it's V-J day tomorrow. 65th Aniv. http://tinyurl.com/23pppxa

10 Bury fired his "transparency czar".....

also Al-NYT and the Was-Journal both sat out Bury's little secret "do better on reporting on me" meeting....

remember press conferences....they were that meeting thing President's used to have where they did on the fly Q+A.....

yeah me neither.

11 Prop 8. supporters quote noted bigot Obama in emergency motion for stay pending appeal: http://is.gd/egqWI via Legal Insurrection

12
Harry Reid finds a pubic hair on can of Coke Sharron Angle sent him! News at 11:00.

13 Maybe this article noting that Obama has raised the amount the government will pay people to sell out their family members:  http://is.gd/egr64 Messy divorces a specialty!

14

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 13, 2010 03:29 PM (pLTLS)

LOL- that is FOR SURE a WTF moment.  Although I admit I like her music.  I think she's a total freak though. 

15 Explain this one to me, Ace. Even the Poor are Abandoning Obama http://cnsnews.com/news/article/71089

16

Here's an excellent item from Toby Young's blog on UK Telegraph:

Why have Western feminists been so muted in their criticisms of Iran?

excerpt:

Hillary Clinton lost no opportunity to brandish her feminist credentials during her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee in 2008 and even went so far as to blame her failure to beat Barack Obama on the “glass ceiling”. Unfortunately, the concrete ceiling of Ashtiani’s jail cell hasn’t inspired any comparable rhetoric. All she has said is that she’s “troubled” by Ashtiani’s case.

At least Hillary Clinton was able to bring herself to mutter this mild rebuke. No other prominent feminist has spoken out about AshtianiÂ’s case, unless you include Yoko Ono who has signed the petition calling for her to be freed. WeÂ’ve heard nothing from Germaine Greer, nothing from Gloria Steinem, nothing from Jane Fonda, nothing from Naomi Wolf, nothing from Clare Short, nothing from Harriet Harmen.

We know why, of course. Almost no one on the left, with the honourable exception of Christopher Hitchens, dares to breath a word against any Islamic country for fear of being branded “Islamophobic”. Thus, a brutal dictatorship is able to torture and murder thousands of innocent women, safe in the knowledge that the self-styled keepers of the West’s conscience will remain silent.

The left has always had a blind spot when it comes to the abuse of human rights in the developing world and no one is more guilty of this myopia than the womenÂ’s movement. The political economist Amaryta Sen pointed out 20 years ago that in some parts of the world millions of women were unaccounted for, as David Aaronivitch reminded us in his Times column this week:

In China there were 107 men to every 100 women. In India it was 108 and in Pakistan 111. For whatever reason this meant that something like 100 million women were simply missing.

So what happened to these women? AaronovitchÂ’s column is so good it is worth quoting at length, particularly as itÂ’s behind a paywall:

Probably they’d been killed at birth, died completely avoidably in childbirth or been denied the same rights as males to medical care. In their recent book on women in the developing world, Half the Sky, the American writers Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write about how girls in India between the ages of one and five were 50 per cent more likely to die than their brothers. “More girls have been killed in the last fifty years precisely because they were girls,” they say, “than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.”

In certain cultures and countries, women are more or less enslaved, traded by their fathers to their husbands and held in place through lack of education, enforced deference or threats of violence. Kristof estimates that there are annually some 6,000 “honour killings” (ie, murders of women wanting minimal rights) worldwide. As many as three million girls and women have been coerced — as opposed to recruited — into the Third World sex industry. Much of this enslaving of village and country girls has the effect of reducing social pressure in sexually conservative societies. In the worst sense of the word, it is hypocritical.

Weirdly, when Sen or Kristof and WuDunn or Time magazine point this out, the reaction of some in the West is to accuse them of a colonialist mentality. One woman Cambridge academic said last week — from the very belly of female free speech and free agency — that the “affluent West” had “little to offer Afghans other than bikini waxes and Oprah-imitators”. A British critic of Half the Sky demanded: “Why are we so wonderful? Our society is still just as sexist, albeit in more subtle ways, than the burka-enforcing Taleban. Working on a farm and producing your own food is a far more viable and healthy option that slaving in a sweat or sex shop.”

17

What are those Russikes up to?

Russia says deployment of S-300 systems in Abkhazia are purely defensive

MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) – Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the deployment of the S-300 air defense systems in Abkhazia does not represent a violation of Russia's international obligations, RIA Novosti news reported.

"As to the S-300, this air defense system is an integral part of military equipment deployed at our military base in Abkhazia, which is intended solely for defensive purposes," spokesman Andrey Nesterenko said.

The Abkhazian base sorely needs this system to fend off attacks from the Georgian Air Force.../sarc.

DEBKA (I know, I know), posted an article postulating a side-bennie from deployment of the S300 here would be to stop an Israel strike from the North (remember that the Israelis were training with the Georgian armed forces prior to the Russian invasion in 200 .  Combine that with the news that the Russians plan to fuel the Busheir reactor next week, and it makes one wonder...

18
Failed ex-mayor Dinkins is a cocksucker.

This is what he thinks of YOU.

Very symbolic as it epitomizes the Age of Arrogance we now find ourselves in.

19 Here's a couple links on Dems wishing Palin had been on Ted Stevens' plane.

20 slow news days are perfect for experimenting with new and exciting versions of music. Here is a band made up of dirty Scandis that happen to make awesome metal music while reciting 150 year old poems barber shop quartet style or something. Metal starts at 0:45, it's worth the wait IMO.

21

Although I admit I like her music.  I think she's a total freak though.

Yeah, she's on my playlist. But she does sort of insist upon herself, doesn't she?

22 We have the opportunity right now to change the direction of the economy forever. To end the problems we face and yet it doesn't happen. The biggest challenge facing our continued survival as a free-market economy and democracy is the way our economy is structured. The structure of our economy guarantees that government will always spend more money than it receives in taxes and that means, sooner or later, our economy will be destroyed and we will have to accept living under the "benign dictatorship" of the liberal ruling class. This is it. This is the one issue; this one doom we must face as now the spending has gotten to a point where the near-term destruction of our economic society is now the future we face - a darkness into which we are being driven by the liberal-progressive movement. Don't kid yourself - either game works for them; they love stealing what isn't their money and they love the idea of a dictatorship because when the economy falls, they will be the only ones with wealth, so they see themselves as the ones who will be calling the shots in the new dictatorship. Why is this? It comes down to how we pay for government; we screwed up and decided to use taxation and that was the biggest mistake possible. Not because we hate having our money taken for no reason we value (though that is a legitimate reason to be sure)... Not because taxation allows government to play God with our property and decide who has prosperity and who has indentured servitude (though that is a legitimate reason to be sure)... Because it can't be made to work - it's the logical math thing, stupid... 3,000 years of human history have shown us that fiscal spending (in a representative form of government) is an unlimited activity. The people who make the decisions on spending (Congress) have no compelling reason to reduce spending - they aren't paying for it. Fiscal spending is an unlimited activity. Taxation is a poor choice because you can only tax so much. Taxation is a limited resource. If it was an unlimited resource we wouldn't have $13 trillion in national debt - taxes would pay for all our spending. This hasn't happened. In fact, the gap is getting bigger and bigger. Taxation is a limited resource and using a limited resource only means failure as the unlimited spending can no more be reduced than you can stop the rising tide with a broom. It won't work and history is replete with governments and empires that all died because they spent themselves to death. Since we know we can't possible control spending, we need our own unlimited source of fiscal spending - we need an unlimited funding resource. In our economic society that means investment-income derived from equity investments, because; equity investing is an unlimited resource activity that is not inherently inflationary. Equity investing also carries within itself the very poison that kills spending and reverses the growth of government. That's right. If we stop paying for government using taxation and replace it with the investment-income model government will actually shrink and the national debt will be "automatically" paid off - without anyone suffering want to make it happen. If you want to change the outcomes you have to change the game. As long as we use taxation to finance government our only future is one of suffering and suffering can't be freedom.

23 sorry I forgot to put the link in, click my name for the youtube, heh.

24 Acorn's funding denial was upheld by appeals court.

25

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signs into law a bill that prohibits employers from running credit checks on potential hires. Then blames Bush for it.

But first, he blew me.

26 Shoot, I've been pinging stuff at you all day, haven't I? Guess I'm still a moron-non-grata... Obama celebrates Islam's long history in America: http://is.gd/eg4eq Today's media theme for Ramadan is "Checkpoints:" http://is.gd/eg2YN Kashmiri Muslims are awesome at charity: http://is.gd/eg0oK (As a bonus present, here's an incredibly upset gentleman who must think he's Rage Boy: http://is.gd/egrw0)

27 lacy.... your link 404's....

28 Everything you heard about The People's Republic of Cambridge is true. Cambridge City Council to MIT: Halt Layoffs A local story in Cambridge, Massachusetts illustrates the sense of entitlement that government officials have adopted under the Obama administration. The Cambridge Chronicle reports that City Councilor Marjorie Decker is not amused with the behavior of her subjects over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Commissar Decker and the Cambridge City Council issued a fiat in April ordering MIT to maintain full employment, "to halt layoffs and any cuts in hours, salary or benefits for employees." From American Think via Red Mass Group

29
Miss USA Changes Its Image - I would strongly recommend that all morons review each image in the slide show.

I'm waiting for the Doc Johnson sponsored talent segment of the show

30 I'm not afraid to shamelessly promote myself

Obama Admin Spending $2.6 Million to study alcohol use among Chinese prostitutes.

Japenese invent "Menstruation Machine" for men.

Guess I'm kinda picking on the Asians today.

31

My friend said the other day that Lady Gaga is really no different that Cher or Madonna who reached new heights in "insisting on themselves", referencing Cher's famous concert where you could see her backside, and of course the countless Madonna "scandals".  The only real scandal was someone telling Madonna she could act.

32

Umm, is it wrong I laughed at this??

(you can skip to about 1:30 in--you'll get the gist)

 

33 28 Hmm, try again. It should work!

34 Yeah, People's Republic of Cambridge

35 33

Umm, is it wrong I laughed at this??

(you can skip to about 1:30 in--you'll get the gist)

 

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 13, 2010 03:40 PM (pLTLS)

"Daddy, you screamed like a girl!"

Thanks Lacey, I LMAO!

36

Here is an interesting news item about a serial killer who's been targeting Blacks in several American states. He's Israeli -- and an Arab Christian.

An Israeli man was arrested in the US where he is suspected of stabbing 20 people, killing five of them, in a three month campaign of violence across three states.

The stabbings happened on average once every four days in the US since May.

Victims have been mostly black and police suspect they were racially motivated.

The suspect was arrested at Atlanta airport as he was about to board a flight for Tel Aviv.

A judge has charged Elias Abuelazam, 33, with assault with intent to murder in connection with one of the stabbings.

37 Yeah, People's Republic of Cambridge

Posted by: fluffy tries again at August 13, 2010 03:44 PM (4Kl5M)

I was hoping to see more gun racks.

38

Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 13, 2010 03:40 PM (pLTLS)

Well, I kind of laughed, but kind of creeped out at the same time.  I mean it's on you tube for crying out loud! That poor kid.

39 Well, It's Friday the 13th and I'm expecting Jason Voorhees to come smashing through my picture window with an axe but other than that, nothing. Oh. The Globe is reporting that Barack is indeed here illegally so I think we can finally put that whole thing to rest.

40 >>Miss USA

I wish there were 57 states

41 We have solved the debt problem for good!

The Rancho Cordova measure would impose a $600 annual tax per square foot of indoor cultivation of 25 square feet of marijuana or less and a $900 per square foot tax if the indoor growing area is more than 25 square feet.

The city tax would cost a local indoor grower $6,000 a year on 10 square feet of pot plants and $15,000 for 25 square feet. Outdoor growers, who would be billed at a lower rate, would pay a $1,200 residential tax for 25 square feet of marijuana plants.

Notice the price differential for indoor growers because they can produce the highest quality shit. Who said politicians are stupid?

42 This was posted by me and Ed anger earlier. Wherein the head of Philadelphia's Housing authority has decided he doesn't want to pay his mortgage anymore, despite his $350k plus salary.

43

  I mean it's on you tube for crying out loud

Def. It's as bad as the kid who put the youtube clip of his kid on nitrous after a dentist video. I was irked at how many people linked that up on facebook. The kid is half-stoned at the age of five. Not really funny if you ask me.

44 #40  Well, I kind of laughed, but kind of creeped out at the same time.  I mean it's on you tube for crying out loud! That poor kid.

Yeah, when you see decadence, especially as a kid, it scars you for life.

45 I'm waiting for the Doc Johnson sponsored talent segment of the show

Posted by: Atomic Roach at August 13, 2010 03:38 PM (rMMMP)

It's a SCHOLARSHIP competition!

46

The Obama's are going to stimulate the Florida econonmy that was impacted by the gulf oil disaster by spending 27 hours of their vacation there before jetting off to spend the rest of it in Martha's Vineyard.

http://tinyurl.com/2etx8en

47 Ms Wisconsin, Ms Nebraska and Ms North Carolina FTW

48 " a serial killer who's been targeting Blacks in several American states."

Was he just confused when he stabbed the non-blacks?  How do you target blacks and then somehow by mistake, stab some others?

49 Crist numbers dropping - http://tinyurl.com/2eaedu7

50 Obama is so committed he might even buy an ice cream cone while he's there.

Posted by: bondwing plover at August 13, 2010 03:50 PM (uFokq)

It's frozen yogurt, smartass.

51 Well, It's Friday the 13th and I'm expecting Jason Voorhees to come smashing through my picture window with an axe but other than that, nothing. Oh. The Globe is reporting that Barack is indeed here illegally so I think we can finally put that whole thing to rest.

Posted by: ErikW at August 13, 2010 03:46 PM (dwCmi)

Sad Jason

52 OK.  I just left a comment on the wrong post.  I have never pulled that one before.

53 Was he just confused when he stabbed the non-blacks?  How do you target blacks and then somehow by mistake, stab some others?

Posted by: wHodat at August 13, 2010 03:53 PM (+sBB4)

Sometimes the random stranger who shows up happens not to be Black.  What, are you not going to kill him just because of a little thing like that?  Of course not -- if you can't be with the one you hate, kill the one you're with.

54  " a serial killer who's been targeting Blacks in several American states."

The Republican Party bigwigs should interview this guy and find out how he was so successful in targeting blacks.

55 Nouriel Roubini has a great interview with The Economist magazine.  It's not all doom and gloom, but it sure sounds like it.  Mash here.

I also think the Ramadan White House thing is getting short shrift, especially since the White House posted an Arabic translation of the press release. Mash here.

That's fuckin' creepy right there.

56

The Obama's are going to stimulate the Florida econonmy that was impacted by the gulf oil disaster by spending 27 hours of their vacation there before jetting off to spend the rest of it in Martha's Vineyard.

http://tinyurl.com/2etx8en

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 13, 2010 03:51 PM (YVZlY)

Because there are 56,000 square miles of Florida to visit, and 87 square miles of Martha's Vineyard.  The President is going to spend 3.5 hours per square mile on Martha's Vineyard, and less than 2 seconds per square mile in Florida (not to mention zero time in Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi).

57

Those poor, under-priveleged Pali's. 

http://tinyurl.com/33y6q8b

58 Dow's off 16.8 today....

why is it that MSNBC assured me with every 15 point drop under Bush's watch "wall street is rejecting administration policy" but the market going down like Jeanna Fine the other day was no reflection on barry?

59 As an initial matter, redefining marriage in this manner would eliminate California’s ability to provide special recognition and support to those relationships that uniquely further the vital interests marriage has always served. See Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope 222 (2006) (“I believe that American society can choose to carve out a special place for the union of a man and a woman as the unit of child rearing most common to every culture.”)

Diversity!

60 Here's a good link to Mark Levin talking about anger. Very topical here at AoS. http://bit.ly/cP1NDC And just remember from your lovable Chicago Jedi: Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me.

61 Not really a tip since it was on drudge, but it made me laugh that Jerry Brown is double dipping on his pension and says he wants to investigate out of control pensions.

♪ man in the mirror ♪

62 Was he just confused when he stabbed the non-blacks?  How do you target blacks and then somehow by mistake, stab some others?

Heh!

63 Yeah, I'm just gonna rip off that People's Republic of Cambridge Thing. 'cos I'm naughty and I need to be spanked.

64 This is pretty good video from a site I never heard of.

65 .... I have never pulled that one before. Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 13, 2010 03:55 PM (5aa4z) From a guy notorious for not wearing pants .

66 Ace, if you really want a lot of comments start a discussion John Carpenter's The Thing. Was Mac or Childs infected at the end? Whose shadow was on the wall? Who gets infected and when. This topic has started giant internet debates before. Why not here.

67 Quote to ponder (Mayor of Wasilla on Levi):

"But since I am nearly old enough to be Levi’s grandfather I think it would be wise for him to get a high school diploma and keep his clothes on. The voters like that!”

68

33 Umm, is it wrong I laughed at this??

(you can skip to about 1:30 in--you'll get the gist)

No, it is only wrong that you suggested skipping the first 1:30.  The climax deserves a little buildup.

69 Ace, if you really want a lot of comments start a discussion John Carpenter's The Thing. Was Mac or Childs infected at the end? Whose shadow was on the wall? Who gets infected and when. This topic has started giant internet debates before. Why not here.

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at August 13, 2010 04:28 PM (WZFkG)

 

as per the videogame, Childs was infected

70

33 Umm, is it wrong I laughed at this??

nope.............  that was funny.

71 Posted by: fartbubble at August 13, 2010 04:40 PM (gAmQ1) Was he? I never played the game. I always assumed he was infected because there was no breath at the end, but people have tried to explain that away.

72 Was he? I never played the game. I always assumed he was infected because there was no breath at the end, but people have tried to explain that away.

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at August 13, 2010 04:44 PM (WZFkG)

 

if you loved the film, the game is a must play (holds up quite well).

To be fair, they did leave it open a bit by you never coming across Mac's body. But the way that Childs body was displayed made it kinda obvious that he was infected at one point.

73 Hey Ace!  Quit yer whining, knock back 1/2 a case of Valu-Right, find, kill and scalp a Scandi hobo.  You'll feel better and be back in form real quick.

74 Posted by: fartbubble at August 13, 2010 04:48 PM (gAmQ1) Doesn't MacReady give you the helicopter ride to safety at the end of the game?

75 >>>Ace, if you really want a lot of comments start a discussion John Carpenter's The Thing. Was Mac or Childs infected at the end? Neither. >>> Whose shadow was on the wall? You mean when the dog comes in the room? I always guessed it was the stoner, what's his name... damn I used to know his name. Palmer? >>> Who gets infected and when. This topic has started giant internet debates before. Why not here. I don't know on this last part because in the beginning before they take precautions and keep together the alien could have infected multiple people; they could have been sleepers since an early infectation. You know what's a weird question which I didn't even know was a question? If you're infected, do you KNOW it? Do you know you're an alien, or does it not disturb your brain at all so you think you're human? I didn't even think this was a question-- i think of course it knows. It's a chameleon. But apparently there's some kind of internet argument about that.

76 Yeah, do you know you're infected is up for debate, because depending on who is infected when there may be people who make decisions that would be terrible for a thing to make. A lot of people think Palmer. But the rooms don't match up in terms of photos on the wall/not on the wall, and location in the hallway, and the fact that whoever it was was sitting at a desk as opposed to Palmer's laying down in bed with the tv blaring and smoke billowing. It could easily be Norris or even Blair.

77 Blair didn't get infected until much  later. Maybe Norris.

78 Want a tip?

At 9:48 AM Elizabeth brought Lillianna Angelica into our world.

She's perfect, in every way.

79

34 It's a sham of a travesty of a crying shame:  Rip Torn ordered to stand trial on gun, trespass charges

Discrimination against the Ace of Spades^TM lifestyle!

80 Sock off.  If I had ever made a Friday the 13th movie, I would have stuck some crucifixes in there.