Really, there is no depth to which these people will not sink.

Stop the ACLU has the well researched details on the ACLU’s behind the scenes work to get the NYC civilian trial.

One can only hope that President Obama ties himself very closely to this. Hopefully, it will turn out to be a shock when he discovers that the majority of Americans don’t share the same anti-American zeal that his advisors, activists and friends in the media do.

Uh…drugs are bad. But sometimes they’re good. As in this animated short which tells the story of Dock Ellis and his 1970 LSD-enhanced no-hitter against the San Diego Padres:

The background:

If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

Sadly, the great Dock Ellis died last December at 63. A year before, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres.

More interesting stuff from the producers of the video…

Hope you don’t mind, but I’d like to repost my Thanksgiving greeting from 2 years ago when I was at 11:

(No. That’s NOT my wife…)

For something just slightly less disturbing, the boyz at TNOYF have a historical retrospective on truths and myths surrounding Thanksgiving.

In it they reference a weak spot of mine:

Since I’ll miss the parade:

moar funny pictures

First, the Obamessiah trots off to Europe for his apology tour. Then he bows to the Saudi king. Then he grovels at the feet of Japan’s head hibachi chef.

But this? This is way over the line.

Bowing and apologizing to a bird and all its forefeathers for all the white man’s crimes is no way to show strength to the creatures inhabiting the lower rungs of the food chain. They now know we’re paper eaters.

Just be thankful on this Thanksgiving that no matter who you are, you’ll never be as big a douche as our President.

Obama’s Thanksgiving reading list? A GQ with himself on the cover. Uberdouche.

Amid unimaginable and unprecedented deficit spending in The Worst Economy Since The Great Depression ™, one Barack Hussein Obama lets the US taxpayers feed and pamper several hundred multimillionaire Hollyweird bigshots while his loyalist minions contemplate yet another tax on the middle class to pay for the war we were already paying for in the first place. Headed by a Ways and Means Committee Chairman who should be indicted for tax evasion no less.

“We’re not trying to insult anybody. We’re just trying to keep in the forefront what the financial costs are,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) told POLITICO.

He says with a straight face after voting to quadruple the current deficit with one bill and claiming that it won’t cost you a thin dime.

Is there anything this government does that we don’t already pay for? They want to tax you harder for a war they have no intention of winning.

Sacrifice your Trillion dollar pet projects and bunk science boondoggles to pay for your War of Necessity? Hells no.

Praise the Hague and pass the Arugula.

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Meanwhile, in another part of the world, The Men who caught the mutilator behind the Fallujah Massacre are being court-martialed because the terrorist had an owie on his widdle wip.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

The inmates are truly running the asylum. We need another tax to fund the criminal prosecution of our own soldiers and to baby the madmen who mutilate their corpses (and hang them from bridges) while their Commander-in-Chief slobs knobs with the Hollywood directors who portray our troops as borderline lunatics waiting to snap.

Were that it true…

So, Khalid Sheik Mohammad is being tried in a civilian court in New York City. What could go wrong with that?

Day 1 – KSM slips out of the courtroom with Lynne Stewart and proceeds to lead NYPD on a three hour chase through midtown Manhattan.

Day 15-46 – Leading defense attorneys seek diligently for a jury pool of peers – terror-bent Islamic jihadis. Failing that, they seek sympathetic jurors.

Day 132 – Closing arguments.

Throughout – The media savvy judge maintains the highest standards of jurisprudence and decorum.

And Day 289 – The Verdict.

Well, there’s always hope that KSM will spend the rest of his life looking for the real killers. With AG Holder’s help, we may be able to capture them in Crawford, Texas.

(If you liked this, then thanks to Brian and Nigel for the ideas. If not, I did this by myself.)

This desperate. From an AP “Science” writer Seth Borenstein (story is written as fact, not opinion):

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice…

Trillions of tons of ice? TRILLIONS? Oh…SHIT! I live in San Diego…surely my beautiful seaside city is doomed. The effect of TRILLIONS of tons of ice melting has been…

The world’s oceans have risen by about an inch and a half.

An INCH AND A HALF!

Of course all of this global warming hysteria is bullshit. And how are we supposed to believe any of the data we are fed in light of this?

The world is waking up to Al Gore’s big fraud. Yet that won’t stop some last gasps of hysteria from global warming chicken-littles:

You know what else “global warming” is causing? Prostitution and HIV infections!:

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,” Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

Take a good look at your future America. Tennessee has the healthcare model you’re getting ready to have ramrodded down your throat:

State officials have talked about letting felons out of prison and capping benefits for TennCare recipients. They’ve brought up the possibility of cutting highway patrols in 13 counties and raising fees for a driver’s license for the first time in more than two decades.
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Seven years after a debate over a personal income tax split the state, Tennessee again faces a massive budget shortfall, one that could force political leaders to reduce spending by as much as $1.5 billion next year.

Of course, The Tennessean newspaper being The Tennessean, everything is passed through the prism of how can we use this manufactured crisis to our advantage by instituting an unconstitutional state income tax.

TennCare is southern-speak for HillaryCare and is the Dr. Jekyll to Obamacare’s Mr. Hyde.

The first thing we discovered is that private insurance companies dumped the sickest among us onto the taxpayers. The “pool” of the chronically ill, with pre-existing medical conditions, were shifted from private plans to TennCare. The past practice of apportioning out the chronically ill among private insurers was scrapped. The chronically ill paid high premiums, but most were glad to get coverage of any kind.

We also discovered that many businesses stopped offering health insurance and threw their employees onto the TennCare rolls. In many cases, the businesses had no choice. If you operated a motel and offered health insurance for employees and the motel across the road had employees on TennCare, how are you supposed to compete? The state is also home to many small manufacturing plants who have wage scales so low even the working poor with children were eligible to sign up for TennCare. The rolls exploded and soon one in five Tennesseans were enrolled in TennCare. Over a million people on TennCare in a state of five million residents.

And every deadbeat in driving distance of the eight states that touch us made Tennessee their new home. Or at least mailing address.

Doubling state tax receipts could never match the spending excesses of this government. In response, in their infinite wisdom, the state will now unleash the felons in your community, fire the cops, shut down the parks (because Nature was never available before you had several full time TWRA patrolmen at every location) and shutter the libraries.

A few years ago they instituted the state lottery to help in-state students get a college education and before it could even fund the first wave of students they started diverting the funds to CREATING a statewide pre-K option that would need to be funded every year after.

Make no mistake – this is a manufactured crisis to bring up the unconstitutional income tax debate (again) and if you think that throwing more money at a spending problem is going to make it better I have a slightly used socialized healthcare program I’d like to sell you.

Your scumbag Senators are poised to vote on this shit sandwich tomorrow night. If they get cloture, they’ll get their bill and you’ll lose many of your basic, fundamental freedoms.

CALL, FAX, EMAIL YOUR SENATORS TODAY.

Find your Senators here.

Enjoy the full list of freedom-robbing tax hikes and mandates here.

The corruptocrats have already bought of Mary Landrieu for $100 million. There’s plenty more where that came from, so there’s no time to waste.

THE BRIBES ARE FLYING FAST AND FURIOUS

UPDATE:

The lines are pretty jammed up but I got through to Bob Corker’s office and they say he will vote against cloture and against the bill. If you can’t get through to the DC office, call their local offices in your area.

Contact information for Tennessee Senators is below the jump.

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Why do you keep electing that slimeball, John Murtha? I saw this on Glenn Beck last night:

Republican William Russell couldn’t even come within 15 points of Murtha in the 2008 congressional election. Sheesh. Western Pennsylvania…are you stupid, apathetic, or just bought off?

Russell is gearing up for another run at Murtha in 2010.

Why not get one of these titles for your precocious little ones this Holiday Season™

Check out libtard Dan Benbow’s fabulous defense of Barack Obama’s “accomplishments”.:

Elected to confront colossal real world problems, Barack Obama has faced a steady onslaught from the 5150 elements of the right over trivialities such as his bowing to the Saudi King, issuing a qualified opinion on police conduct in Cambridge, and suggesting to schoolchildren that they should hit the books and make something of their lives.

Obama’s small tax increase on the fat and happy sliver of the country that benefited from Bush’s economic policies was spun as an attack on the common man by “teabaggers,” and public discussions of earnest efforts to reform our horrorshow healthcare system were hijacked by “everyday people” armed with insurance industry talking points. Republican Senator Jim DeMint flatly declared, “If we’re able to stop Obama on [healthcare reform] it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

The temper tantrums of stunted and confused people are to be expected, but Obama is getting it from progressives too: for not repealing ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’; for not releasing torture photos; for not dismantling Bush’s Big Brother power apparatus; for some fox-guarding-the-henhouse appointments and other sops to corporate interests; and for his unwillingness to withdraw from Afghanistan.

Even despite these obstacles, the peanut gallery caricature of a do-nothing president is at odds with Obama’s extensive public record. This turbulent moment is a good time to take stock of the many things for which we should be grateful.

Barack Obama...not just playing golf!

Then Benbow goes on to his “list”. Among President Barry’s Nobel-Prize-worthy “accomplishments:

* Getting elected!

* Writing down his “goals”

* Choosing as Attorney General a man who was instrumental in pardoning criminal Marc Rich, who dismissed a uncontested voter intimidation case against two Philadelphia Black Panthers, and dropped a military tribunal against a jihadi murderer so he can make a show trial here in the US. But at least Holder is black!

* Signed an executive order pledging money we don’t have to fund killing of babies in foreign countries.

* Giving a television interview on Arab TV whilst on his first apology tour.

* Allowing the press to exploit our fallen soldiers by photographing their coffins.

* “Reaching out” to our foreign enemies.

* Expanding a fraud-ridden Americorps.

* Withdrawing US support for Israel.

* Awarding Presidential Medals of Freedom to Gay Rights “Pioneers” Harvey Milk and Billie Jean King. (Oh, and one to the killer of Mary Jo Kopechne.)

* Nominating the first Hispanic-Female Supreme Court Justice. Have you noticed a pattern here? Liberals consider simply naming appointments or award recipients based on race or sexual orientation rather than on qualifications an “accomplishment”.

* And…tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend!

These are the “accomplishments” liberals point to when critics wonder what Obama has really done with his Presidency. And those critics ARE wrong….Obama has done PLENTY:

* Invited SEIU thug/President Andy Stern to the White House 22 times…or 18 times more than his Secretary of State and 20 times more than “comedian” Martin Lawrence.

* Playing as much golf in less than 1 year as President, then his predecessor did during his entire 8 years in the White House.

* Spent more time saluting flags in foreign countries than he has saluting our OWN flag.

I could list dozens of other “Obama accomplishments”, but unlike Benbow I have a real job. Feel free to list your favorite Obama “accomplishments” in the comments section.

From the Dept. of Unfortunate Headlines at The Guardian:

“Somali pirates beaten off in second attack on Maersk Alabama”

Though I’m certain it caught them off guard I’d hope that’s not ‘Plan A’.

During MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? Does The Gap even know the demographic that watches football?

Go Kwanzaa!:

Certainly, President Obama’s bows before Saudi royalty and the Japanese emperor as well as Michelle Obama’s inappropriate groping of the Queen of England have raised eyebrows across the world. But our President continues his gaffe-fest unabated.

Witness these unfortunate faux pases.

Shirtless horseback riding is strictly reserved for Russian leadership.

Remember the embarrassing moment when Obama went pec-to-pec with Vladimir Putin? Sure, he looked hot enough for Jann Wenner to have a wet dream, but the whole “gay weekend” thing with President Putin put America’s “secure in its masculinity” index deep into the red.

Never use a parrot in a pissing contest.

And who could forget when President Obama showed up to a White House meet and greet with Hugo Chavez with a bigger parrot than Chavez? My goodness, Chavez almost declared that he smelled brimstone.

It took some digging, but this important message from the CEO of Sony might explain why President Obama bowed so deeply before Emperor Akihiro. It’s because Barack Obama is half Caucasian.

ps. Gotta keep working on the video skills.

It’s not too far fetched.  After all, his old law firm was representing at least 17 Gitmo detainees earlier this year.  What?  Is Lynne Stewart not available?  She is out of jail after all and now celebrated on the college talk circuit.

The last time New York put on a trial for the terrorists, the Blind Sheik’s attorney was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support that directly led to the deaths of hundreds:

One of the most incendiary communications was a message Stewart herself gave to the Reuters news service in June 2000 in which the sheikh announced his withdrawal of support for a cease-fire between the Egyptian Islamic Group and the Egyptian government.[12] The truce had been in place since 1997, just after his followers in Egypt had opened fire on tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, killing 58 foreigners and 4 Egyptians.[13] Subsequently, high-casualty Islamist terrorism resumed in Egypt on October 7, 2004, with a series of bombings that killed 34 in and around the Egyptian Sinai resort of Taba. On July 23, 2005, three bombs exploded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing at least 64.

Government investigators searching Stewart’s law offices found a draft of the sheikh’s fatwa that bin Laden later said inspired him.[14] In it, Abdel Rahman enjoined his fellow Muslims everywhere to kill Americans, even children, “to treat them with brutality,” and to “drown their ships, shoot down their airplanes, kill them on earth, in the sea or in the sky, kill them everywhere you find them” in order to obtain his release from U.S. prison.[15]
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In May of 2000, according to the prosecution, tapes indicate that Yousry told the sheikh and Stewart that the Abu Sayyaf group had kidnapped tourists in the Philippines and was threatening to kill them if the sheikh and Ramzi Yousef were not released. Stewart commented, “Good for them.”

All while the Blind Sheik’s show trial was being held in New York. “How could he have been responsible when he was locked up in jail all night?”, as the Joker might ask.

“Bottom line is we have had terrorists housed in New York before,” Mr. Schumer said.

As time will tell, we will see that he will be prosecuting the United States and the previous administration and not the men who attacked this country on September 11th.

In that, the terrorists won.  They kill us and we give them an attorney, a culturally sensitive meal three times a day and a taxpayer supplied prayer rug to wish for our deaths.

They won our national election in November 2008 and now they are just rubbing it in.

This decision befits President Obama’s rushed and misguided announcement on his second day in office that he would close Gitmo within a year. This was before the Administration had thought through what to do with the 215 prisoners there, though it did win him applause in Europe and on the American left. Yesterday’s decision rids Gitmo of these meddlesome detainee cases in order to speed up this entirely political shutdown.

I know I’ve said it before.  Back before the election I was speaking with a colleague about how you can’t worry about politics so much and that once in a great while that you have to let go and put your faith in the hands of the American people to do the right thing.

Again, boy was I wrong.   America voted to lose and got exactly what it wanted.

Our watchdog media uncovers the fact behind Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue. Thank You Know Who that these people are on the job.

Thanks for the DNC talking point, couldn’t have found it myself.

More from the mighty Mark Steyn.

Well, not all of them, just a very healthy percentage.

Three freshman Vols arrested, two charged with armed robbery.

Well, CLK, now’s your chance to make an example of these thugs. Your predecessor, the Great Pumpkin, would find some reason to keep these three on the team – at least, that is, if they were going to contribute. Kick these pieces of trash of the team and off campus and set the right tone for this program going forward.

Jackson was going to be the next Eric Berry, what a stupid asshole. What a trio of stupid assholes.

UPDATE:

If you want a peek into the intellectual firepower of this trio, check out Edwards’ Twitter page. Warning: Not Safe for Brain Cells. via Tony B

The Obamessiah doesn’t like any of the options that his advisors have presented him with regard to Afghanistan. His biggest gripe about these options is that they each require him to make a decision. Making a decision is not something the Obamessiah is comfortable doing.

How about doing something for our troops that are in harms way over there? Oh that’s right, you’re on the other team, aren’t you?

Thank goodness Hitlery threw her $0.02 in for good measure.

Funny how our government is only concerned about these things when applied to foreign countries. “Corruption, lack of transparency, poor governance and absence of the rule of law,” is exactly what we have in Washington DC. I hope Afghanistan doesn’t decide to pull its troops out of the US as a consequence.

If you can make it through the first vomitous paragraphs where Camille can’t stop praising Pelosi for having a vagina, she puts together some of the best descriptions of the healthcare nightmare bill I’ve seen yet.

Petty dictators is about all we have left in Washington now, Camille. Nice of you to notice.

Ironically (or perhaps not so), purchasing insurance across state lines is one of the reforms urged in the GOP health plan. I wonder if that makes Camille feel icky.

Again, she pretty much gets it right, which makes me feel icky. While much of the rest of her column is the usual bilge, you must give credit where it’s due.

Tennessee’s own Jim Cooper – who so many are quick to point out is a “moderate” or “blue dog” – is every bit the treasury looter that the rest of his brothers and sisters are on the left side of the aisle. He proved it with his gutless vote on Pelosi’s H.R. Communist Healthcare Takeover Bill this past weekend.

But, like waking up next to the bearded fat chick you picked up at Roosters the night before, Jimbo has suddenly decided that debt is bad, mmmmmkay. Testifying in a Senate hearing this week, Cooper called our national debt a “cancer”. This guy is either a complete idiot or knows that nobody is paying attention to the untreated sewage that flows forth from his mouth pipe.

What about that 1.2 trillion dollar cancer you and your fellow socialists just passed for Dominatrix Nancy?

So, in other words, the bill he voted YES on will probably not meet these goals, but that shouldn’t stop the power-brokers from throwing trillions of more dollars down the Federal Rathole while stripping regular Americans of more of their Liberty.

Further evidence of Cooper’s lack of any kind of grip on reality is his solution for our debt “cancer”. He freely admits that he just voted to make it much, much worse, but mama say that just the way it beees sometimes.

This is what passes for leadership when our country is run by ACORN and the SEIU.

This is just one of so many sunzabitches that should be mopping floors instead of trying to run governments. You middle-Tennesseans have a job to do. Get rid of this guy, forthwith.

Comes from Buffet friend Stacy, formerly of Still Stacy. You can tell she raises her children well:

From my 13 year old just now: “I’m gonna make a new hot dog called a Barney Frank. It’ll be fat and full of shit”.

Taken down by a 13-year-old

Stacy, we miss your bloggy-goodness. Her archives are password protected, but I managed to lift this almost in its entirety when I was still at 11.

Humorist, Buffet friend and all-around good guy Ronald Hart has just released his new book, No Such Thing As A Pretty Good Alligator Wrestler: Kids, Politics and Family-Why Daddy Drinks

Pick it up at Amazon.Com or visit his website for discounts on multiple copies for the coming Ramahanakwanzmas gift-giving season.

He gets some props from P.J. O’Rourke, among others:

Let’s face it, we can all use a good laugh or three these days.

Thank you Mr. President for doing the right thing here…even if W did beat you to it.

Now let the ass-kissing begin.