Something tells me if some of these people were standing in line looking for a job and not sitting outside of a mall waiting for some Chinese made sneakers with a multi-hundred millionaire’s name on them that their families would be considerably better off:

Louisville, Ky. (WDRB) – Witnesses say Louisville Metro Police had to break up a fight early today at Jefferson Mall over the release of a new style of sneakers.

Officers were on the scene where witnesses told WDRB that 75 to 100 people were reportedly in a fight over pairs of the new Air Jordan Eleven Retro Concords.

One witness claimed that a security guard was trampled by the crowd waiting for several shoe stores to open early. That claim could not be independently verified, as WDRB News was not allowed inside the mall.

At least eight police cars were on scene. Sources with the mall claim they were already there to provide security.

From the Keynesian / Krugmaniac  perspective, look at all of the jobs this melee helped to create or save.  The riot police called in to maintain order and make arrests (plus overtime!), the booking agents who would log them into the jail, the ambulance drivers who would pick up the wounded, the therapists who could counsel them,  the locksmith to prepare new fences for the stores and the janitors to clean up the blood.  And, of course, the welfare office who cut the checks that allowed these folks with such misplaced priorities to use their cash on hand for something this important to begin.

This riot is probably the greatest thing to happen to this particular strip mall since October 2008.

“I got the love for the ‘Js,’ you feel me?” said Brandon Betts, a customer who purchased the shoes. ”Look at the box! The box is cold!”

“Man it’s crazy in there: people getting run over and security guards getting trampled and stuff,” he added. “They almost tried to arrest us!”

Sources with the Mall deny that there was a fight and say no police report was made out.

Correction:  No jobs were created for booking agents logging anyone into a jail for these various felonies.  And from North Carolina:

PINEVILLE, NC (WBTV) – Dozens of police officers had to break up fights and restore order at a local mall while shoppers were waiting for an overnight sale of a popular tennis shoe.

WTF is it about tennis shoes?  They don’t make you jump any higher or run faster.  Michael Jordan retired from basketball almost a decade ago.  Now, this could just be the cracker in me talking, but are tennis shoes important enough to add another candle to the Kwanzaa menorah?

You’ve got Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumbaa, Imani and Air Jordans.  Air Jordans being the last candle.  The highest.  The culmination of all of your race-based collectivist couch-sweating labors.

In a related story, Eric “We’re Cowards On Race” Holder brought a federal lawsuit against South Carolina today for daring to ask voters to show some form of identification in order to vote:

The Justice Department on Friday entered the divisive national debate over new state voting laws, rejecting South Carolina’s measure requiring photo-identification at the polls as discriminatory against minority voters.The decision by Justice’s Civil Rights Division could heighten political tensions over the new laws, which critics say could depress turnout among minorities and others who helped elect President Obama in 2008.A dozen states this year passed laws requiring voters to present state-issued photo identification, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Just how is this related to a story about people rioting over Christmas tennis shoes?  Maybe because if showing some form of official ID to vote was such a hardship that all of these people standing in line to pay $200 for a pair of tennis shoes could, I dunno, take their Granny or Auntie to the DMV to get a $15 driver’s license.  The wait would be less too as well as not being out in the cold.

Voting with Their Feet:

Do Blacks care more about tennis shoes than their right to vote?

 In Tennessee, we have to show a government issued photo ID to buy 8 tablets of Sudafed and enter our names in a DEA Registry if we want to effectively combat allergy season.  Yet, somehow, exercising your right to vote – the ultimate franchise – shouldn’t require anything more than showing up at the poll of your choice several times a day and show nothing save the cartons of cigarettes and “walking around money” that Eric Holder gave your preacher.

Taking time away from his busy schedule of murdering border agents, funneling illegal arms to and money laundering for Mexican drug cartels, AG Holder had these comments earlier this month regarding those who have an entire year to figure out a way to get a Photo ID in between their hectic tennis shoe rioting schedule:

Holder expressed concern about the new laws in the Dec. 13 address, saying: “Are we willing to allow this era – our era – to be remembered as the age when our nation’s proud tradition of expanding the franchise ended?’’

At the same time, Holder vowed to not let politics affect his department’s review. “We’re doing this in a very fair, apolitical way,’’ he said in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “We don’t want anybody to think that there is a partisan component to anything we are doing.’’

Of course, not.  Politics plays no part whatsoever in  suing those racists in red states for affirming the identity of their voters and preventing fraud at the polls using the same standard as buying a six-pack of beer or cigarettes.

And if you believe that, I have some Black Panthers standing outside of a voting station  in Philadelphia to sell you.

For Jabba’s sake will you people leave this poor man alone?  He doesn’t want to run for President.  Or for fitness.  He doesn’t have any fire in his belly.  Or vegetables.

TRENTON— A top Republican said Wednesday that Gov. Chris Christie really is not running for president, even as political commentators began to use sexual imagery to discuss Christie flirting with the possibility.

That’s going to be a hard image to shake.

Lawrence E. Bathgate II of Lakewood, who has led fundraising for three presidents and a presidential nominee, said that after a series of high-level telephone calls, he is convinced that Christie is not headed into the GOP primaries for president.

“I heard him say that he wasn’t running last night. Everything I know, and everyone I’ve talked to — and it doesn’t get much closer than the people on the plane with him — say he’s not running,” Bathgate said in an interview.

Yes, it’s cheap taking shots at Christie.  To be fair, I’ll take cheap shots at Sarah Palin shortly.  But when he starts holding court about foreign policy – don’t start talking about exceptionalism and why we don’t have any but that you’re not going to do anything about it.  Are people on the right so hard up for a candidate that they’ve turned chubby chaser?

Same with Sarah Palin.  Go sell your books.  Go raise your kids.  Three and a half years of “I’m running / I’m not sure I’m running” blue balls are enough for me thank you very little.  Quit dry humping conservatives for attention.  My leg can’t take it anymore.

I imagine that Harry Reid is smiling this morning.  And we’ll file this under “Income Tax Day Coincidences”.

Where is your Pro-Choice lobby now?  You can ante up your underage uterus on the operating table with a taxpayer funded blind but you can’t hit on soft 17 unless you travel across state lines to Atlantic City or Nevada.

The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to a thriving industry.

Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and a number of their affiliates were charged with bank fraud and money laundering in an indictment unsealed in a Manhattan court. Two of the defendants were arrested on Friday morning in Utah and Nevada. Federal agents are searching for the others.

Prosecutors are seeking to immediately shut down the sites and to eventually send the executives to jail and to recover $3 billion from the companies. By Friday afternoon Full Tilt Poker’s site displayed a message explaining that “this domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant.”

This is the quid pro quo that government virtue paid to legalized vice and is the U.S. equivalent of Russia’s Mikhail Khodorkovsky farce.

Harry Reid calls out hit squad on the Vegas competition

Of all my vices, gambling is not counted among them.  Not that I’m against it – I’m just not good at it.  Judging from the constantly imploded and rebuilt steel and glass along the Las Vegas Strip, neither is anyone else.   Leaving out the morality of gambling, online or otherwise, the only difference between the physical casino that checks your bags while removing all of the windows and clocks from the gaming area and the one that you play in the solitude of your home office is the silent governmental partner who wants to make sure he gets his cut.

Full-Tilt Government.  The House always wins.

Impromptu Weekend Wrap-Up:

Rob Taylor at NewsRealBlog has a good piece up on the 10 biggest financial feces already flung mid-air towards the fan blades that are somehow getting no play in  state-run media.  I’m tempted to cash out my 401k, buy shotgun shells and all the frozen vegetables at Wal-Mart now.

The Happy Warrior himself Mark Steyn is back with his inimitable style focused like an Obamanian laser on the failures of multiculturalism, liberal military adventurism and media malpractice on display after the assassination of two US soldiers at the Frankfurt airport this last week.

Ann Coulter’s working OT in a right-to-work state.  To the union dock monkeys, she’s not from the government and she’s not here to help you.  Which is why I like her.

Here we go again.  Apprise Miss Cleo and Dionne Warwick of a situation.  The JournoList Psychic Friends Network, fresh off a humiliating tarot card reading of the Arizona shooting – where they almost had to give everybody their money back – has decided to don their gypsy wigs and crystal balls one more time to libel people on the right again.  They won’t be able to help themselves:

A backpack found along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb “capable of inflicting multiple casualties,” the FBI said Tuesday, describing the case as “domestic terrorism.”

The FBI said the Swiss Army-brand backpack was found about 9:25 a.m. PST on Monday on a bench at the northeast corner of North Washington Street and West Main Avenue in downtown Spokane.

Spokane Washington Nazis.  If there’s one thing I hate – it’s Spokane Washington Nazis.

In an interview on msnbc cable’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Spokesman-Review reporter Thomas Clouse said confidential sources told him that the device was equipped with a remote control detonator and contained shrapnel.

Rachel Maddow?  Huh???  This “reporter” got routed to the bottom of the barrel awfully quick.

The FBI has not established an official motive, but Harrill told NBC News “the timing and placement of the backpack (along the march route) is inescapable.”

“At that point, it falls directly in the realm and sphere of domestic terrorism,” Harrill told the Associated Press. “Clearly, there was some political or social agenda here.”

On that, we’re agreed.  There’s a political agenda at play and I’d wager that you’d see a mannish looking older lad with a pageboy haircut and an MSNBC microphone sprinting from the scene.

Perhaps  the holy spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be roused from that eternally subsidized mansion in the sky to shame those murderous Tea Partiers bent on ruining the most solemn occasion of the year.  That is what you go to Maddow for, isn’t it?

That fits Teh Narrative(tm) so well all that’s missing is Katie Couric and the SPLC deciding whether it’s the effort to repeal Obamacare or Sarah Palin hosting Kate Plus Eight that set off the barrels full of T-N-T those teabaggers are sitting on.

Are they really going to roll the dice again so soon?  Believe it.

Like, you’d have to be a hep, ten-speed ridin’, ponytail swishing, jazz loving schizopottamus not to make that obvious connection, man.

In a post both unintentionally hilarious and unironically titled “Blindspot”,  a crestfallen Bolshevik laments as to “why there aren’t more full bore socialist bloggers”.  It’s hilarious on several fronts – aside from the supply and demand one that they generally never care much for on any level.

The End of the Left Spectrum just doesn’t have a voice it seems and a slew of big name blogcommies join in to explain why.

No one seems to have tripped over the answer so I’ll provide the Cliff’s Notes:

The national and alt-media subsidizes The Socialist in positions from editor, internet blogger, to research assistant, to columnist, announcer, coffee gaffer, etc.  McCarthyite Blacklists have nothing on the traditional print and television media in the United States from hiring people on the Right.

The media in the U.S. has institutionalized Leftism.  It’s our Rendellian Early Warning System. They’ve generously placed a yoke on their subhuman strength to harness their Stalinist aspirations for some useful (idiot) purpose.  Every year, new Victor Navasky J-School grads till a barren field salted by their previous year’s failures for a wine, cheese and underage male escort stipend.  When they “blog” it’s called “news reporting”.

The Rightwing Pegasus, however, can’t be broken so it still roams the prairie free.

Look no further than the Climategate e-mails from last year.  It was religious blasphemy to even mention the story of purloined e-mails showing Global Warming as a complete and utter fraud in a prelude to one of the more brutal winters on record.  We had to go to Britain to find the story because of the self-imposed blackout in the U.S.

BONUS QUESTION FROM THE COMMENTS:  “But what about Krugman?”

Good question.  Unlike his fellow socialists, Krugman is so uniquely and yet hurriedly wrong about everything that “the unit of measure for how wrong someone is” should be measured in Metric Krugmans.

Public Editor Watch: The NYT Public Editor comments on it’s atrocious AZ Shooter coverage and the name Krugman is nowhere to be found.  Why were they so bad?  Like the AZ shooter, it’s everybody else’s fault but their own.  It’s the Internets fault.  It’s “time’s” fault.  You know, those things beyond the control of an editor.

/Because of 1440/7!

The New Brady Campaign: 5 day waiting period on pitchforks.

They’re not really fascists.  They just ask for things that fascists do in order to keep the public from seeking a redress of their grievances in response to a deaf Congress:

Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.

“Perceived” is the keyword there. No more “targeting” an incumbent in a primary.  No more “breaking out the pitchforks and torches”.

For people who perceive anyone who seeks to limit there power in anyway as a threat, lowering the threshold to their subjective definition is an assault on Free Speech and elevates our Kleptocrats to an untouchable status.

I would say to “kick” him out of office but that sounds like a threat too.  See how that works?

*Ahem*  After a spirited contest of ideas, I propose that the incumbent be gently walked from The People’s Office, through a tickertape parade for his years of loyal service and into a limousine where he will be shuttled to a comfortable job that provides both his family and mistresses a satisfactory lifestyle until Nature runs its course unencumbered from the interference of a mankind undeserving of the blessing of his existence.

That’s bound to get those donations pouring in.

I don’t know what got into Andrew McCarthy but whatever it was it’s been building up for some time:

Is there anything richer than a gaggle of smarmy progressives snickering at the conservative “Constitution fetish”? “Fetish” is the fashionable Left’s latest suggestive imagery turned talking point, a dig at the new Republican majority in the House, which began its session this week by reading the Constitution aloud. It’s as if Dracula were complaining about a crucifix fetish.

Look into my eyes.  I’ve been fantasizing about repealing your mammoth, heaving, soapy penumbras all day.

McCarthy then proceeds to brutalize the pervy progressive projectionists, not unlike Jodie Foster in The Accused, with some of the more depraved hits they laid down on their metaphoric mattresses.

Yea.  Look at yourself in the mirror you dirty little tramps.

Explaining (sort of) why Blackmun’s iconic Roe v. Wade decision simply had to be preserved despite its void of support in law and logic, they wrote: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” You’re telling me you think James Madison could compete with that?

Jimmy Jam was always spittin’ Mad game but Blackmun was Supafly TNT in the legal sack.

And would that it were just a fetish. In 2005, the justices sparked public outrage by ruling that government kleptocrats could seize private property in order to increase the tax haul — er, I mean, for sustainable community development. Was this really an appropriate invocation of eminent domain? Shouldn’t the people’s representatives rein in this blatant judicial overreach? Once and future minority leader Nancy Pelosi was astonished at such impertinent questions. “It is a decision of the Supreme Court,” she harrumphed. “It is almost as if God has spoken.”

Nothing makes San Fran Nan aka Madam Nasty Pelosivic start screaming “Oh God” faster than 6 men in black robes (and three kinda, sorta women) waving their gavels over her head.  All public holes filled with unappealable adjudication that’s bound to test the nation’s gag reflex.

Her courtroom climax?  Precedent setting.

Check it all out.  It’s in the NRO After Dark section.

Open question:  Where do you keep your Constitutions?  Personally, I keep my main one between my mattress and box springs.  An extra one in a sock drawer.   Every year I keep getting older but they keep staying the same age.

Who’s Your (Founding) Daddy? Yea.  You like that dontcha?

There’s a reason why the Federalist Papers were written anonymously.   Because they never would have been written if something like this was in place:

STANFORD, Calif. – President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

After all, it’s un-American to ask illegal aliens to provide proof of citizenship but actual US citizens should be forced to have their internet activity and opinions monitored by either the federal government or one of it’s close, close friends.

If Publius wants to leave a comment saying that he disagrees with the government’s plan for something he should be held accountable by the appropriate authorities for spreading his disinformation.

“We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford event. “We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.“

And if you believe that, I have one frequently used national gun owner’s database I’d like to sell you.  Those who trade liberty for a password auto-fill blank deserve neither.

Who will be the liberals to call this encroachment on individual freedom what it is and to it’s face without qualifying that “if it’s done responsibly”?

I couldn’t name one since everyone I’ve ever met is a nanny state fascist who never met a government agent peering into their lives that they didn’t want to perform a striptease for.   Give or take a terrorist communique or feticidal maniac.

I always feel better knowing that we’re in the very best of hands.  The not-at-all alien Obamanian intellectual restraint, void of emotion, is the straightest and most potent arrow in our national quiver.

But what if our enemies (or friends we haven’t made yet) aren’t possessed of such mild wisdom?

YEONPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency said, as the United States and South Korea began military drills and China called for emergency talks.

China made clear that the talks would not amount to a resumption of six-party disarmament discussions which North Korea walked out of two years ago and declared dead. South Korea said it would carefully consider China’s suggestion.

Hoping that the ChiComs goosestep in to save the day isn’t a strategy.  Their history as a swashbuckling, diplomatic Zorro leaves a great deal to be desired.

We’re left with two views:  Either North Korea is China’s proxy, sabre rattling at Seoul while the U.S.’s cokeweenie President is a windsock in the breeze or, North Korea is simply China’s rabid dog whose water bowl they occasionally replenish but who they have no real control over their behavior.

China, which agreed with South Korea that the situation was “worrisome,” suggested the emergency talks for December among North and South Korea, host China, the United States, Japan and Russia.

“Worrisome”, eh?  An unprovoked, undeclared act of war against a civilian target is acceptable but potentially responding to it in kind is “worrisome”.  Behold, ChiCom logic at its most refined.

“Premeditated murder” ordered from NorK command central equals  “fresh talks” translated from Chinese.

Seoul expects jitters in financial markets to settle in the short term unless North Korea carries out further provocations, Yonhap quoted a senior Finance Ministry official as saying.

The government plans to inject sufficient liquidity in won and dollar trading if local markets suffer from herd behavior on Monday, Yonhap said.

The nuclear-powered carrier USS George Washington, which carries 75 warplanes and has a crew of over 6,000, has joined the exercises and will be accompanied by at least four other U.S. warships, an official from U.S. Forces Korea told Reuters.

South Korea has deployed three destroyers, frigates and anti-submarine aircraft, Yonhap reported, adding the exercises were being held far south of the disputed area where the artillery firing took place on Tuesday.

South Korea doesn’t have the will to be a country anymore.  While  suckling at the teat of our largesse, North Korea declared war and they went to the mall. Less than half of them believe there should be a military response.  Which begs the questions, why are we there?

If all of our warships leave the area after these exercises without making North Korea back down then Kim looks strong as he hands the wheel to his son.  But what if he fires on our ships while in the course of these “exercises”.  And why do we hold “exercises” when our ally has been attacked?  You hold exercises in anticipation of an attack not after.

Our command seems to be ascribing cold, dispassionate motives onto a lunatic dictator which does not bode well if there are Chinese submarines somewhere in the Yellow Sea.

Like Joe Biden said, Obama would be tested.  Safe to say, no matter how awesome and intimidating his stitches from playing b-ball looks, he is not prepared or up to this challenge.  He can bow his way out of this conflict to the detriment of South Korea and every other U.S. ally fending off geographic bullies but he will have a permanent black eye to match his fat lip.

This will be his Legacy.

Did he mean to say this out loud?

I know you’ve done everything you can to take a dump on the U.S. Constitution, Senator Shitbox, but you only have so much power – at least for now.

I have a better idea, though. Why don’t you set your GPS device, follow the instructions to the 6th ring, turn left and burn.

It sounds like at least a few members of the GOP may have gotten the message.

Yesterday’s sweeping victories for the GOP were anything but a vote for the establishment GOP.

Karl Rove is a douchebag. He is the establishment GOP and I would be tickled pink to never see his many chins on my TV again. He, in conjunction with his star pupil President Junior, did their very best to destroy the Republican party, and in 2006 and 2008, succeeded nicely. It has taken a grass-roots movement of conservatives to begin to take the party back from these robber barons.

Jim DeMint got the message long ago and is warning the incoming youngsters not to fall prey to the Trent Lott/John McShame/Lamar Alexander/Lindsey Graham/Olympia Snowe way of doing business.

Trent Lott is yet another corrupt scumbag who helped usher in the GOP’s downfall after the 1994 victories held such promise. It’s precisely this mentality that must be defeated to take our government back and collapse the public sector. DeMint finishes with a haymaker to the weak chin of the establishment.

Make no mistake, last night was a sweeping win for small-government conservatism nearly everywhere, particularly so when you get to the level of governorships and state legislatures. (Okay, maybe not in California, but to hell with that state anyway. They’ve earned their pending destruction.)

The old media is already spinning this election as some kind of disappointment because the GOP didn’t take the Senate or get rid of Reid or the Bearded Marxist in Delaware. Pish posh. This is only phase one in re-taking the GOP from within, which will be followed in 2012 by even more gains for conservatism.

So, to the new smaller-government GOP, this is your last chance. This election was not a vote for the GOP, it was a vote to stop the madness and begin restoring sanity. That means cutting spending and punishing those responsible for the corrupt crony-capitalist system that pushed us into this depression in the first place.

Get ‘er done or things may get really ugly — that is, if the coming economic collapse doesn’t destroy us first.

This post will be updated as the evening unfolds.

GOP takes the house. Picking up 60+ is not too shabby. Unfortunately, it looks like Barney Fa Frank will keep his seat, battered though it is.

Here in Tennessee, Bill Haslam beat Ned McWherter’s boy down like he was a teenager going through a gang initiation. The rest of the state of Tennessee is looking good with wins from Diane Black, Marsha Blackburn, Scott DesJarlais, Jimmy Duncan, Chuck Fleischmann, etc. Tennessee is a deep red state, bitches, and I’m damn glad to be a Tennessean.

There are some delightful things going on nationally. Rand Paul wins. Marco Rubio wins. Alan Grayson, you’re fired, you worthless, socialist asshole. Blanche Lincoln, you corrupt whore, you’re fired.

Follow the ongoing results at RCP. Thems got pretty colors and stuff to hep you know what’s what.

Nancy Pelosi is quick to correct the results – there are no new Republicans in congress.

Fox just called the PA-7 house race for Meehan – way to go Cranky!

TPM (Talking Points Memo aka The Pyro Maniacs) has the most unusual story.  It seems the investigators of the Islamic Jihad Center in Murfreesboro aren’t calling it a hate crime.  But, but, but….how can that be when every dumb ass commie in the state has already decided that Rutherford County Tea Partiers high on their recommended daily allowance of Glenn Beck are lynching Moslems in the streets?

“I haven’t seen any indications that this is any type of domestic terrorism,” Anderson (the ATF special agent) said, and there are “no indicators that we’re aware of that would put us in the position of a hate crime. I wouldn’t deny that there’s a lot of tension in the community, on both sides, but I don’t think there’s anything that points to a hate crime at this point.”

Hrm.  No indication of domestic terrorism.  No indicators of a hate crime.  Tension “on both sides”.

“Innocent until proven guilty” must only apply to Muslims and illegal aliens.

And when the Mosque protesters are found innocent by the ATF, the FBI and everybody else I’m sure all of our commies and kafirs will apologize for lynching their fellow citizens, right?

It’s like the climax getaway scene in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry where Vic Morrow (though not half-black or wearing a safety helmet)  is chasing after Peter Fonda and Susan George (two white, non-Muslims I might add) and he can’t quite nab them but he gets so inside of their heads that they screw themselves up.

That’s O’bama’s Luck of the Irish.   The Man In Command.  And this is going to make you feel so much better about airport security.

Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.

U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed “mock bombs” in their luggage. “This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” said one senior law enforcement official.

Not to worry, not to worry.  Both men only made it through two U.S. airports in Chicago and Birmingham, allowed to board both planes with mock bombs, multiple cellphones, large knives, box cutters and thousands in cash and they were still allowed to fly to Amsterdam.  I feel better already about this TSA agent fisting my prostate and having to wear pajamas and slippers to the airport while getting strip searched alongside some nuns from Dubuque and a kid with asthma in a wheelchair.

Meanwhile, Jethro the Security Guard is allowed to use the body scanner to take naked pictures of you and your kids and send them to his home e-mail account to jerk to and share with his friends later.

Though ABC News fails to identify the particular religious affiliation of these as yet Innocent Until Proven Guilty* ™ suspects,  Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezem al Murisi, they did mention that one is from Yemen which is widely known for its militant, rightwing teabagger Christianist population.

Because you see, we can jump to conclusions about some people and not others.

As we’ve seen with the Kentucky Census Worker case, you can blame limited government conservatives and accuse them of murder, try and convict them with zero evidence.  And never issue a correction.

You can be a leftwing Talking Points Memo blogger and firebomb and Democrat’s campaign office and they’ll blame Tea Partiers.

Or, you can be a lifelong Democrat who calls yourself a Tea Partier and makes a bunch of racist comments to smear them buy association.  It’s not like Professional Journalists with layers of fact-checkers are ever going to investigate who you are before they smear conservatives with their false narratives.

So when a fire mysteriously starts at a jihad training camp and the national media immediately jumps to the conclusion that some Constitution-loving, Patriotard has been stoking his anger after a long night of banging his head to Lee Greenwood and tracing his trigger finger around his leatherbound Glenn Beck transcripts that you’re going to have to excuse me for being a bit skeptical that a movement so paranoid about people making it look like a bunch of hillbilly racists would so easily play into the enemy’s hands when their enemies have such a history of planting the evidence on them.

Just because you’re comfortable with you bicyc-uality doesn’t mean I am.

Who’s up for another vacation?!?

It’s not new news that the Feds are coming after your life savings. Laugh if you must (or if it makes you feel better). Most of you know it’s a distinct possibility. Is that really something you want to gamble with?

Laugh again. Feisty laughed at me when we were chatting about it. That only happens in third-world hell-holes, she scoffed.

Insufferable prick Neal Boortz has been predicting that this would happen once the Dim-O-Cracks had total control of the Federal gubmint.

The Clintonistas were looking at snatching up private pensions back in ’94 as well. Fortunately for all, there were a few Republicans with balls (now an extinct breed) willing to take them on back then. None of this is new. However, what IS new, is that Marxists have complete control of government and finally have the ability to ram such a thing through.

During the painful early days of the Clinton Reign of Error, this confiscation/redistribution effort was spearheaded by Alicia Munnell, now (surprise!) a professor at Boston College. Munnell was the Economic Policy Czar in 1993 and was pushing a scheme to literally TAKE 15% from private retirement accounts and redistribute it to the “downtrodden”.

With the arrival of our first openly Marxist President in the “historic” 2008 election, the Dim-O-Cracks started ramping things up again in earnest.

Redistributionists (like Ghilarducci) will continue to push terminology like “guaranteed retirement accounts” as if government benefits are ever guaranteed (see: Social Security).

“GRA”: Another cute acronym for more confiscation in exchange for promises that the government has no intention of EVER fulfilling.

Predictably, it’s not just the Donks who are after your savings, the country-club Republicans are right there with their hands out as well. However, they call it “mandatory savings accounts”. Thus, we are reminded again of the two-party shell game, both meeting the same eventual goal, the enslavement of the middle class.

7 in 10 Americans oppose having their 401k accounts stolen (you have to wonder what kind of brain damage the other 3 must have), but just as the majority of Americans oppose(d) the government takeover of healthcare, as long as the Marxists in the Federal government have the power, they’ll do as they please.

With government workers rolling in dough and private pay plummeting (as the socialists in power gut the private sector to line their pockets and intentionally kill Capitalism), why wouldn’t the Feds go ahead and confiscate at will?

Without a Republican takeover of CONgress this fall, this and many other wealth confiscation plans can continue unabated. Do I say this because the GOP is wicked awesome? Absolutely not. The GOP must take back over congress to bring back sweet, sweet gridlock. If we can get the big-government Republicans out of the GOP with a conservative surge this Fall, all hope may not be lost. We shall see.

It’s what the sheep do best.

Much like BigFurHat, I hate to post this video. I still think AJ is generally a twat, but this rant is so chock-full-o-truth, that I had to throw it out there.

My historic post on the historic Comprehensive Illegal Alien Giveaway Speech:

So the bottom line is this: The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years. That doesn’t mean we don’t have more work to do. We have to do that work, but it’s important that we acknowledge the facts.

Don’t tell these guys.  They’re really committed to the lie:

6/30/10

Here is the letter by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott:

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

Deadly violence from drug cartels and transnational gangs in Mexico is knocking on the United States’ door with ever increasing frequency.

Yesterday, gunfire from the cartels pierced that threshold and struck City Hall in El Paso. Fortunately no one was injured or killed. But that good fortune was not the result of effective border control – it was mere luck that the bullets struck buildings rather than bodies.

Luck and good fortune are not effective border enforcement policies. The shocking reality of cross border gunfire proves the cold reality: American lives are at risk. As the attached news article notes: “More than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juárez this year as a war continues relentlessly between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels.” Americans must be protected as this deadly war bulges at our border.

Not protecting our states from foreign invaders, encouraging it in fact, is gross neglect of duty and grounds for Impeachment.  In a time of record unemployment, while Congress is constantly bickering over extending unemployment benefits constituting a “jobs bill”, the US Secretary of Labor is doing promos for a hotline advertising for illegal aliens to call in and “get their due” for the jobs they’ve stolen from the tens of millions of unemployed and underemployed.  Doesn’t she know that she’s breaking the law?

In closing, The Amnestasizer shot his wad of revisionist history in the Statue of Liberty’s hair.

“Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand,” she wrote,

A mighty woman with a torch…
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome…
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!”…
“Give me your tired, and your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Let us remember these words. For it falls on each generation to ensure that that lamp -– that beacon -– continues to shine as a source of hope around the world, and a source of our prosperity here at home.

Ummm, no. That torch is meant to represent Liberty and Freedom to the world as an example.  A beacon to people escaping oppression not unlike the one being prescribed by Mad King Barack, M.D.  It was not to attract all of the gnats and insects like some ancient bug zapper with the lure of the DREAM Act, ObamaCare, SEIU card-check and a voter ID you commie scumbag.

These women, and men and women across this country like them, remind us that immigrants have always helped to build and defend this country -– and that being an American is not a matter of blood or birth.

Utter insanity.  With this speech, every thief, rapist, drug dealer and murderer in Mexico and Central America knows that if they can get over the border before November that they have a chance at becoming a US citizen without so much as a background check.

I’m not a religious person but God fucking help us all.

He was right, you know?  If McCarthy had gotten the truth out of so many of them 50 years ago we wouldn’t be asking this question now.  The Communists run our schools and universities, are standing atop the executive branch of government, nominating another for Supreme Court Justice this week and now collude in smokey, digital back rooms to best defend their secular faith in government and to malign the enemies of The State who should be dehumanized and summarily liquidated like the conservative kulaks they are.

Here we cross the line between editorial decisions and bias. Why would an unbiased newspaper be afraid to honestly report news that makes one side of a political debate look appealing, instead assigning a reporter to highlight fringe material to cast them in the most negative light possible? Of course, they are biased, but it’s even worse than that.  They’re subjective. They pretend to be commentators, but they’re actually players in the game… just like everyone else.  Our fates are all controlled by the immense central government worshipped by the Post. They have a vested interest in ensuring its sustained growth, so they can make their fortune writing epic tales of its heroic deeds.

And get future communications positions inside of it, moving effortlessly from “journalist” to Democrat message official and back again.  It’s a good read by the Doctor, as usual, but it still understates what Journolist really represents:

Their own McCarthy-ite blacklist where the True Believers in the struggle are rewarded (say with jobs working at the Washington Post!) and the enemies of the Democratic Party are excluded and maligned for not carrying it’s water.  Or worse, suicide bombed with al Qaeda like precision with a coordinated message that was ready baked, focus-group tested and agreed upon for narrative consistency in an echo chamber that controls the biggest megaphone.

If there is an infiltrator in Journolist (or just a disgruntled hanger on) who has archives and screenshots, by this time next week the unemployment numbers would jump by 400.  We’re sure they love anonymous whistleblowers and that you would love their office.

A cover-up and guilt-by-association should take care of the rest.  Everyone who was in on the conversations where Weigel was insulting conservatives is as guilty as he is.  At no point did anyone ever say, “you know what, I think you’re wrong and the vast majority of this country aren’t a bunch of teabagging faggot cocksuckers.”

But no one did.  And that’s why they are all David Weigel now and should suffer the same fate.  Forced to write at The Huffington Post.

Ross Douthat, on the other hand, is more than willing to defend the All-White Country Club mentality of JournoList on privacy grounds somehow.  When you share a written thought with someone you are giving up “privacy”.  When you share it in a forum full of people you waive that expectation.  When it embarrasses your work because it pertains to what you do for a living in your daily job then you face the consequences.  As they all should.  Here are few who have self-outed:

• CNN analyst and Supreme Court scholar Jeffrey Toobin.
• New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman.
• Time writer Joe Klein.
• The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates.
• The Nation columnist Eric Alterman.
• The Nation‘s D.C. editor Christopher Hayes.
• The Nation columnist (and prize-winning poet) Katha Pollitt.
• The New Republic editor Jonathan Chait.
• The New Republic editor Noam Scheiber.
• The New Republic writer Isaac Chotiner.
• Boston Globe columnist Jesse Singal.
• ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias.
• ThinkProgress blogger Matt Duss.
• Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen.
• Washingtonian senior web editor and Atlantic contributor Alyssa Rosenberg.
• Political writer Rick Perlstein.
• UC Berkley economics professor and blogger Brad DeLong.

Big names, right? If you’re not in that elite club, and you’re not allowed in — as Tucker Carlson wasn’t when he requested to join three weeks ago — it’s a tough break for you.

Shocking admissions, I know.  They all attend the same church and sing from the same hymn.   More like chanting suras from the minarets of the self-burqaed Old Media and their New Media apprentices.  Now they want to saw off the head of the leaker in a video recorded message to the infidels.  You guys like anonymous sources when you use them.

The VV post I link to says “tough break for you” in a “tough shit, ha-ha, na-na-nah boo boo” kind of way.  All JournoList archives should immediately be released to determine if dozens of news organizations were used by this Masonic group of malcontents and that’s what’s led to their falling stock prices, dwindling circulations and complete rejection of their industry as a result of JournoList members’ unethical, unprofessional and manipulative conduct.

It was and is collusion, price-fixing and Enron Journalism and these guys still think they’re the smartest ones in the room.    Instead of hiring Arthur Andersen, they just have Nate Silver cook the books and the results.

If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to live under a President Chavez, you’re getting a good first hand look.

As most of us already knew, the Obama administration has nothing but disdain for the average American bitter clinger. As if the freedom-robbing healthcare bill wasn’t enough, the thug-in-chief is now suing Arizona and halting the collection of oil in the gulf.

I’m surprised that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was “surprised” to learn that the Feds were coming after Arizona for attempting to enforce Federal law already on the books. From her own press release…

Her first mistake was meeting with the liar-in-chief. Her second mistake was believing a word he said. At least she’s fighting back, to some degree.

LA Governor Bobby Jindal is fighting back as well, but it may be too late.

When you here President Zero and the rest of the Federal bureaucrats say that they’re doing everything they can, just know that they’re doing everything they can to destroy the country.

Heckuva job, Brownie.

For all the talk about weening our dependence on foreign oil, it’s about time we had someone choked off our dependence off from foreign drugs.  Take that, al Qaeda:

A man busted for growing marijuana in Trousdale County said he was helping the country fight terrorism.

…

the man told him he had seen former President George W. Bush once say that people who buy drugs off the street were supporting terrorism, so he decided to grow his own.

So long, Afghan Kush.  Unleash America’s agricultural might and subdue our enemies at the same time with strategic strikes of blu-ray players, boxed sets of That 70′s Show and then when their knees are wobbly and their basement couches are broken in,  carpetbomb them with Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!  We might not be able to put a man on the moon (now anyways), plug an oil leak or balance a check book but dammit if we can’t grow a weed, with 10% unemployment and when nobody can make a dollar or a cent, then we might as well throw the towel in.

Yea, yea, yea…he played “Michelle” but  “Fat Bottomed Girls” are what make the world go-round.  And around she goes:

Rumpshaker wants to take my salt shaker.  Think Globally, Don’t Be Globally, oh, Thunder Thigh Master.

When’s Malia gonna ask her Daddy to plug that piehole?

Now, who’s lecturing who about needing to exercise?

via Terry

UPDATE: Please read 11B40′s comment. Thank you for your service and for sharing your experience, 11B40.

You know who the real losers today are?  If you guessed people on the Right who didn’t sellout any semblance of principle by signing on to the most expensive entitlement program in human history chances are you’re already auditioning for a communications job for Obama:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves (ed. – what’s this “ourselves” shit, kimosabe?).

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.

…

Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan.

Frum’s shameful joy overlooks the usual gaggle of weak-kneed, northeastern liberal Republicans and Lispy Graham who are quick to roll over and slap an asscheek in pursuit of some one-way jackhammer bipartisanship.

That’s certainly one way to describe a bill so odious that the President had to shove a feeding tube down his own party’s throat filled with dirty Chicago politics in pursuit of an anorexic, one vote win.  Really.  He had to bribe his own people to vote for the bill they wrote alone in secret.

Everybody start listening to that Frum guy.  And rent Stalag 17 while you’re at it.

The entire leftwing media complex that’s been calling you a teabagging faggot for the past year or so is suddenly incensed that one stray voice  in a crowd of thousands may have called an actual faggot “a faggot”:

A CNN producer overheard the word “faggot” yelled at Frank several times in the lobby of the Longworth building. Frank said he heard someone yell “homo” at him.

So you’re saying that calling someone a “faggot” is now a slur but when you use it it’s okay because you’re using a euphemism?

If that were true and these TEA Party protests were really just an excuse for people who a hate a black president to express themselves under the guise of anti-taxes / anti-socialist takeovers that would make it acceptable as well, correct?

When John Edwards was having his well-known affair, that the press dutifully covered-up, I used to always hear that no one had any video evidence to support the charges so he was innocent until we had video and audio to support such slanderous accusations.  All accusations must be witnessed, notarized and apostilled.  And then The National Enquirer did.

Take Clyburn’s well publicized claim from yesterday that a “chorus” of protesters were calling him a “nigger”.

I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins… And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus.“

Yet now it’s Clyburn who is ordering hundreds of millions of people to the back of the bus while the government turns it’s hoses of slander in the mainstream press on protesters to accuse them of being racists and faggots.  It’s tragic that we can measure how far we’ve come as a society in irony.

The real Faux News is on the Left.  Here’s the video evidence of Clyburn walking by the protesters who he said were screaming nigger at him “in chorus” no less.

Expect Clyburn to hang a noose in the men’s room later today before running in front of the cameras to decry the acrid atmosphere in Washington caused by the protesters.

What that protest needs is everyone locking arms and singing “We Shall Overcome” to Mr. Clyburn.

Absent from the discussion on The Ugly Tone ™ of protests in Washington was any mention of Cindy Shitcan and Ralph Nader’s protesting of the victory in Iraq where they symbolically murdered Dick Cheney in the streets:

The protest drew a smaller crowd than the tens of thousands who marched in 2006 and 2007.

Protesters stopped at the offices of military contractor Halliburton — where they tore apart an effigy of former Vice President and Halliburton Chief Executive Dick Cheney — the Mortgage Bankers Association and The Washington Post offices.

When confronted with Obama’s continued War For Oil in Iraq, elevation of hostilities in Afghanistan, and love of killing civilians with drone attacks in Pakistan, fellow moonbats found him to have an acceptable amount of blood on his hands:

“He’s kept Guantanamo open, he’s continued to use indefinite detention,” Nader said. The only real difference, he said, is that “Obama’s speeches are better.”

Others were more conciliatory toward Obama. Shirley Allan of Silver Spring, Md., carried a sign that read, “President Obama We love you but we need to tell you! Your hands are getting bloody!! Stop it now.”

Allan thought it was going too far to call Obama a war criminal but said she is deeply disappointed that the conflicts are continuing.

“He has to know it’s unacceptable,” Allan said. “I am absolutely disappointed.”

Again, their condemnation is not so much selective as it is transparent in political convenience.

His hands are “getting bloody” from wars.  If Shirley would kindly notice, his hands were already bloody from a lifetime of being wrist deep in dead babies.