The idiot GOP handlers tried to neuter her before the V.P. debate so that she wouldn’t come off as authentic and throw the GOP off its message of bland open-borders socialism-lite. Then they tried to dress her up like an overpriced American Girl doll.

She’s just a regular old independent moose-shootin’ redneck woman. She can be my president any day of the week, bitches.

The GOP will never get it. That’s why they keep losing. Way to go, losers.

Nebraska’s new safe-haven law is just the trick for you struggling parents.

Second out-of-state teen dropped at Omaha hospital.

Must be from Detroit. On the bright side, now that the kid is out of Detroit, he might actually have a fighting chance.

When reached for comment, a spokesman for the Obama campaign (who wished to remain anonymous) suggested that parents in this situation should consider all their choices and emphasized that “under the coming Obama administration, parents will have the option of terminating these types of unwanted pregnancies” so that parents aren’t punished for their mistakes.

Jim Rogers (author of Adventure Capitalist) on why the market continues to slide, despite the “bailout.” The market is smart enough to realize that the idiots who just fleeced us for $700B are the same jackasses who built this house of cards to begin with. The correction is going to happen whether our clueless politicians throw our money at it or not.

As usual, when government gets involved, they only make it worse for everybody involved. Our Federal Government is populated with a bunch of egomaniacal economic illiterates who are barely qualified to refill your water glass at P.F. Chang’s, much less tinker with an economic system that was doing just fine for generations – until they started turning it into one of their many socialist experiments.

Get out of our markets, Feds.

h/t Danny Boy

Last week, I was in an airport gift shop in Flori-duh and overheard an interesting conversation. I was initially only interested because the blonde-twenty-something-airport-worker-bimbo was quite easy on the eye. Yes, I’m male. And hetero. But let’s move on.

Then a terrible thing happened. She opened her mouth.

As I was leaving the gift shop with my copy of Swank™, I said to myself, “Self, this chick is not unique. There are far too many irresponsible dumbasses with too much credit, just like her. She doesn’t deserve a credit-card bailout any more than the rest of the irresponsible lenders and borrowers who have given the Feds an excuse to take more money and power from the taxpayers.”

Then, after the Senate passed its shit sandwich last night, I realized that the Feds are simply rolling our multi-trillion-dollar debt over to yet another credit card. One for which my grandchildren will be on the hook.

It’s a damn good thing I’m not a conspiracy-theorist or I might be tempted to think that this whole government-mandated-lending-to-deadbeats-to-bring-down-capitalism-and-centralize-a-new-socialist-economy thing might have legs.

It’s steamy. And it’s sitting at the steps of the House. I can see some of the House Reps cracking their office doors and looking out at the log. They can smell it. Due to its massive size, they are amazed that the Senate was able to force it out of their collective legislative anus. A few of them just wretched retched.

Harry Reid is currently speaking to the press. He notes that “they (the U.S. Senate) are not going to let our economy fail.”

Reid may be worried that the economy may not be able to fail all by itself, so he wants the Federal Government to make damn sure it happens.

Mitch McConnell has stated that this is the “Senate at its finest.”

Taking your money and wasting it and shunning accountability for all involved. That sounds like the U.S. Senate to which I’ve become resigned.

They are each stepping up to the podium to pat themselves on the back for their “bi-partisanship”. I hope they all painfully dislocate their shoulders.

Congratulations, you thieving bastards.

Even with all the bleakness running amok in the news cycle this week, you can still find nuggets of good news. For example: Sex offender accidentally killed during break-in.

Good riddance, you worthless sack of sub-human debris.

And kudos to you, Robert McNally! You have provided us with some good news on this Murky Monday. If only this could happen to more sex offenders. One down, at least.

The lovely and talented Cara Ellison is liveblogging Ike.

We are all praying for you folks down in the bullseye.

Insty links to this piece which takes a peek at Palin’s positions on a variety of issues related to technology, and, IMO, the report card looks good.

On using technology (a/k/a web apps) to help workers improve skills…

On addressing Alaska’s geographical challenges as it relates to healthcare…

On what might be her approach to net neutrality, based on her restructuring of a new oil pipeline deal…

Competition is good, which is why she’s pissed off the good-old-boy/GOP network in Alaska.

And my favorite, governmental accountability…

The article does lament Palin’s failure to clarify an official “broadband policy” due to Alaska’s poor data rates. I personally see this as the responsibility of the free market and private enterprise. If a company wants to spend the resources and energy to bring better broadband to the Alaskan citizenry, then there must be enough of a demand to make the investment worthwhile.

Despite the incessant whining of the left pushing universal broadband along with universal everything else, you do not have a right to 6 mps data speeds, unless you can find a provider and pay their fee. Her lack of an official position doesn’t bother me in the least.

With murder! 123 so far this summer. Is summer over yet?

Now that looks like a community that needs some organizing. Barack, get back to the South Side and organize that place. Quit playing patty-cake with your styrofoam columns and get to work.

No need to evacuate though. Nagin handled it just fine last time. I’m sure he’s got everything under control. Don’t make any decisions or make any moves yourselves until you hear from government.

Dear Fox News:

Please lose those flesh-colored headsets.

They make everyone look like John Boy Walton.

Seriously.  It’s creeping me out.

That is all.

To paraphrase the Obamessiah, “this is not the Knoxville I used to know.”

One student dead in Central High School shooting.

Early word on radio reports was that this was not random, but an altercation between students. There were also reports of the shooter being hispanic and the victim being white – this should automatically qualify as a hate crime, no? It will be interesting to watch the media dance around the racial component and whether or not the shooter turns out to be legal. Watch the media process at work as this unfolds.

Thoughts and prayers to the victim and the victim’s family.

UPDATE: Turns out murder runs in the family for the shooter.

Here is more on the victim as well.

UPDATE: Insty pretty much nails it.

Besides hormone-injected breasticles.  Besides “parts-n-stuff” nuggets held together by chicken-flavored glue.   Besides the fact that when they are not culling the parking lots for illegal aliens that they go and do something like this:

Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville (TN) will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.

A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”

The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”

On one hand I’m torn.  A private business should be able to give everyone 365 days off a year if they want.  On the other hand, replacing Labor Day for a holiday to placate the most violent, intolerant, misogynistic religion on the planet may not be the greatest idea.  And while it shows a politically expedient gesture to their employees where the company has financially given up nothing, it may not play as well to their customers.

“Based on the contract, the other paid holidays include: The Team Member’s birthday, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day,” Mickelson said.

So Easter didn’t make the cut, eh?  I guess rising from the dead was subject to negotiation.  Tough crowd.  If I’m to believe the Ramadan prayer at the close of Eid-al-Fitr there is only one god anyway so you might as well quit pissing them off and drop Christmas too.

How you got 700 Muslims out of 1200 employees at the same plant in rural Shelbyville, TN is a baffling statistic.

Regardless, say goodbye to my freezer Tyson.  Your products will never see the inside of it again.

Bow Down Before The One Your Serve Update: Evidently, the local NBC affiliate went down to see what all the hub-bub was and was rejected from stepping foot on the property – for reasons which may be obvious:

Tyson company spokeswoman Libby Lawson said by phone that, “This isn’t a religious accommodation, this is a contractual agreement. The majority asked for it.”

So can we assume that if the majority asked for 10 days, 14 days, 21 days off a year that they would get it?

Channel 4′s Cynthia Williams could not reach any of the plant’s Muslim workers, because Channel 4 News’ crew was not permitted on the property.

Note to Cynthia:  Put on a burqa and see if that helps.

Former employee and Shelbyville resident Anthony Proctor said he thinks what’s happening is wrong.  He said he helped build a special Muslim prayer room that’s located inside the plant and that no other Tyson facility has been that accommodating for any other religion.

“If we want to go pray, we don’t have one for Christians,” he said.

They also said if you were Union that you could still take off Labor Day but that if you weren’t Union that you still have to come to work.  Does that mean Muslims can’t take Christmas off?  Racists can’t take MLK Day off?  The British can’t take off Independence Day?

If only there was a law in place about treating all employees equal.

Hey Cynthia, just do what most Tyson workers do in order to get inside – steal somebody’s Social Security number, buy a fake ID, and take a job paying below minimum wage.

Allahu Akbar, ya’ll.

Double Reverse Irony Watch: Obama-backing Union approved the move.

In yet another vulgar display of how our economic and social systems have collapsed and been replaced by the financial Federal Nanny State, President Junior and the layabouts in congress have teamed up to absolve banks and borrowers alike from responsibility for their actions.

I mean, even if you can’t afford something, you deserve it, just merely by existing, don’t you? Well, just call President Junior’s Credit Counseling Services and not only will you pay NOTHING, you may even get MONEY BACK in a stimulus bonus so you can buy cigarettes for your 19 childrens!

And who’s going to foot the bill? Who cares, it’s not you!

Are you tired of harrassing calls
from creditors demanding you do things
like pay your mortgage or live up to other
financial agreements you might have made?

Are you tired of credit card companies calling and demanding that you pay for the goods and services you purchased via their unfair credit terms?

Then call one of President Junior’s Credit Counselors TODAY and get CASH. Cold, wet, hard, stinky cash.

Why should YOU have to do things like live
according to what you earn? Why should you
pay attention to confusing terms like interest rates,
down payments and credit agreements?
Those are probably just big words that
somebody made up anyway.
You DESERVE the big house, the big car and the
big plasma screen whether you’ve got a job or not.

Hell, I don’t live on a budget, and neither should you.
God bless America’s bottomless Federal Treasury.
Thank you and goodnight.

I’m Wesley Snipes and I approve this message.

Gee, thanks Mr. President.
I wasn’t interested in having a financial future anyway.

And not in a good way.

Michele tipped me off to the story earlier this morning, but I’m only now catching up with the entire thing.

From news reports, it sounds like this insane bastard Jim Adkisson had a chip on his shoulder about Christianity and picked a church at which to express his rage.

While some area blogs immediately tried to frame this as some kind of anti-gay hate crime, there is no evidence to back that up, especially given the comments from Adkisson’s neighbors. In fact, one has to wonder if the unbalanced psychopath just picked a church at random, or picked a church where he knew the odds of resistance would be low. If he’d picked Uncle’s church, he would likely be decomposing instead of being fed at the Knox County Jail by area taxpayers.

All we know at this point is that there were a lot of heroes at that Church this morning – foremost Greg McKendry, who took the first shot when he put himself between the gunman and the rest of the congregation – and the rest of the people who tackled the scumbag while he tried to reload. This same course of action would have saved lives at Virginia Tech last year.

Keep these folks and especially the kids who had to witness this in your prayers.

Now, in the world of Six Meat justice, this shooter would be chained to a tree in the woods, then have his legs shot up with his own shotgun. Then, before he had time to bleed to death, he would be consumed by a mix of fire ants and intentionally starved dogs, for good measure. Instead, we’ll have years of hearing his sob stories and delayed proceedings and trial lawyer bilge explaining his actions away. It’s the new American way.

On a semi-un-related note, this has provided some societal misfits with another opportunity to lash out (again) at the gun nuts. Good for you, anti-soldier.

UPDATE: Looks like these guys may have been right after all.

Apparently this guy hated gays and liberals as much as he hated Christianity. Who knew one person had so much time to hate? Then again, he is unemployed, so he did have too much time on his hands.

Michele has an interesting take on hate crimes and the like – read the whole thing.

None of the news sources I’ve read will verify whether or not Jesus Humberto Canales has a green card, but I’m going to make an unfair assumption here and see how the fuzzy dice land on this one. If you happen to see Jesus driving around in his bronze minivan, do humanity a favor and shoot him on sight.

One thing is certain, whenever they do find Canales, John McShame and B. Hussein Obama will both be first there to beg for his vote and offer Amnesty.

UPDATE: Well, my hunch was right. “Chuy” the mom-stabber is from El Salvador. And he’s looking for some Meth. Which means that he could be on his way to East Tennessee.

Brown pride indeed. Nice ink, scumbag.

Now this is the right kind of social justice. Grand jury clears Texas hero Joe Horn in the killing of two pieces of street trash.

It’s a rare thing that we have a reason to celebrate our justice system, but Texas got this one right. Read the whole thing if you don’t know the story of Mr. Horn and his kick-ass shotgun.

In other unexpected news from the bench, a Chattanooga Judge actually spoke words of common sense last Friday, in recommending that a crime victim “arm herself” due to Chattanooga’s increasing crime rate.

That’s good advice no matter where you live. The cops are there to take pictures and collect evidence. Make sure it’s the perp’s blood they’re mopping up and not yours.

Hope and Change ™ are coming and the reactionaries, long-suffering and bitter in their undeserved sense of entitlement, are none too happy about it.  Seems clearing out the deadwood in the White House is always a good idea in favor of the new guy with a fresh perspective but when it comes to a complacent newsroom we can’t change horses in midstream and need to side with local experience over some untested punk kid.

Which is where we find ourselves at this fine hour as the deadwood in question, soon-to-be former Scene editor Liz Garrigan, is getting the business end of the boot lodged and subsequently broken off in her ultraliberal ass while her apparatchiks are dealing with a mighty middlefinger in response to the idea that one of them is sparkling fresh enough to be the Ty-D-Bol Man and helm the flagging alt-weekly.  The turds of their careers make a farewell swirl around the bowl: (more…)

13, 14, and 15 – Scottie. Time’s up!

You see, the point of being a rat snitch is that you actually have some information that proves what you contend:

Two senior administration officials say the White House decided not to invoke executive privilege to stop McClellan’s testimony because “there’s nothing new.”

That’s got to hurt. Not as much as when Rachel Maddow was clubbing you about the head and neck with her snakeskin double dong while Keith Olbermann’s balls were uvula deep in your mouth…but hurt nonetheless.

For the regular fact-free analysis of the AP and anyone else still covering McClellan earning his paycheck from Soros, Richard Armitage is always just a phone call away.

But don’t let that little factoid get in your narrative of “Secretive White House Didn’t Tell Rat Fink Everything”.

Gee Boss, I get the feeling you’re not being completely honest with me?

Hopefully Sergio Aguiar is currently burning in Hell and being subjected to eternal torture for the rest of time, but that’s just me. Unfortunately I can’t be sure of that, but at the very least, I’m glad he’s dead.

Yes, he needed to die, but a bullet to the forehead is far too kind. On the bright side, if he hadn’t been taken out, we’d be subjected to decades of Tookie Williams-type pleas for mercy from the bedwetting leftists who dominate our court systems. It would be nice to find out if Aguiar was an illegal, but don’t expect those types of probing questions from a SF Chronicle writer. Is this just another undocumented worker doing a job that Americans won’t do? Or is he just a run-of-the-mill American scumbag?

And to those of you who sat back and watched? You deserve to have those images fixed in your heads.

Burn in hell, human debris

h/t WOA

I’m not feeling articulate enough to put into words what the loss of Tim Russert means to me. He’s the only mainstream journalist I ever had any respect for. Even though he was a lifelong Democrat.

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact”

If ever a journalist lived those words.

When the horns, cornets, and timpani stopped blaring or bum-bum-bu-bumping you knew whoever had the guts to climb into the ring with him on Sunday morning had better attended an early morning service beforehand because no prayer could save you once the spotlight came on. Unless you were honest.

Which, needless to say, was not always the case.

The loss of Russert is a tolling bell for the credibility of network news. I cannot think of a single person who comes close.

Condolences to his family.

***UPDATE***: Never one to be outclassed, Chrissy Matthews claims on Olbermann’s vaudeville stage that he never understood why Russert supported Iraq. You know, because he doesn’t. Hearkening back to a conversation where he kept grilling him – how can you believe and support this???

“The nuclear thing.”, Matthews claims he said.

Then, the answer rhetorically hits Chrissy with all the impact that a clenched fist should have a long time ago, Republicans exploited the patriot in Tim Russert by playing up the nuclear angle in order sell the Iraq War to the American people and when he bought it, the American people bought it.

Example A of why Matthews couldn’t carry Russert’s jock with a wheelbarrow and why he should never even be considered in succeeding him.

Trying to capitalize on Russert’s death to push his agenda. You’re a sick bastard Chrissy.

UPDATE 2:  Stop The ACLU has got the video up.  About 1:30 in.

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Judging by some of the incoming links, some of you are of the morally degenerate variety who can’t tell the difference between a well-respected journalist who spent decades holding those in power responsible for their actions versus a foul-mouthed namecaller who was exalted for engaging in libtarded hate speech.

Um, not quite the same thing.

Do the right thing, I say. Don’t piss on Russert’s grave.

No one ever wants a rematch for the battles they won, do they?

It looks like the House GOP is trying to grow a pair thanks to high gas prices.

The ugly truth is that both left and right are to blame. The left for killing our ability to search for domestic sources of oil as well as keeping us from building more refineries to increase production using the oil already available, and the right for being a bunch of limp-wristed pansies for not fighting back – and for smooching the starfishes of every royal family scumbag in the Saudi kingdom.

Or, as the Emperor puts it…

Will the combination of crippling oil prices and global food shortages slap our moronic politicians into reality? Don’t count on it.

So I’m sleeping this morning, enjoying a dream involving Maruschka Detmers, some bowling pins and an octopus, when I’m awakened by the rattling of the glass of bourbon on my nightstand. Then, Mrs. Holmes reached over to find out what I was doing to make all that noise, to which I said, “nuttin’”. Half-jokingly, I said, “probably just an earthquake.” Even when I’m half-asleep, I’m right.

Just go ahead and put these kids to sleep. It will save us a lot of money in future meth-lab cleanups, I can promise you.

Too bad the mother didn’t have a shotgun handy. It would have been society’s gain.

And no, I’m not posting the video. If you want it, you know how to find it.

B-Mac Update:

Further to the possible assault on a high schooler from yesterday that I linked to in the comments, her story and the videos just didn’t pan out.  Though several students are still under suspension for destroying her sign,  her other accusations have since been recanted.

Come on, kids.  Between drunkenly mowing down track stars, running drugs, and killing/raping 70+ year old grandmothers, it’s not like you have to make stuff up!

As Vinnie so aptly put it, Hollywood just got 100% shittier.

Of course, Charlton was one of those nasty “activists” who stood in the way of the global good, according to the Anti-American-Associated Press. I’m sure glad there are no other activists in Hollywood, or that might cheapen their consistently excellent product.

Unfortunately, whenever I think of Charlton Heston, I also think of the Stump video “Charlton Heston” from the late-1980′s glory days of MTV’s 120 minutes. Video below the fold. The video also qualifies this post as “Toad Blogging”.

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