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Iowahawk: Beltway Adventure
Posted by: Matt || 10/16/2010 12:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  excellent! Burge brings Teh Funny again. Reader's Digest version of Obama's next autobiography
Posted by: Frank G || 10/16/2010 13:57 Comments || Top||


Philosophy 101: Are bacon graffiti in front of a US mosque a hate crime?
Duh.

IOW: Skinless people meat meet reality.

Don't waste neurons or tax dollars dealing with this crap, otherwise I'm going to suddenly start feeling just as offended every time Congress gets stupid.
Posted by: gorb || 10/16/2010 02:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course, just as associating Obama with chimpanzees is. On the other hand, the website smirkingchimp.com is alive & well & just successfully completed a fundraising drive.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/16/2010 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we need to see a chain of
MO.HAM.HEAD'S BBQ shops it's logo could be a cartoon pig named the Koranimal.

Think that's covered by free speech?


And yes, I do find Islam and many of the actions of Muslims to be offensive.
Posted by: Alan Cramer || 10/16/2010 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't be a hate crime since it is protected free speech--call it artistic expression.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/16/2010 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Hate crime, no. Deliberately offensive and provocative, yes.

But I feel offended and provoked every time some towel-head-banger starts spouting off that Islam will dominate the world and Islam can't be insulted.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/16/2010 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  The only thing I hate about this is that it's a helluva waste of perfectly good bacon.
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/16/2010 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Just toss it in a bucket of pee with a crucifix and it's all good.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/16/2010 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  LOL to all the comments. I especially love the bacon grenade! :-)
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 10/16/2010 11:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Bacon grenade activate, form of bacon bits.
Posted by: Private Eye || 10/16/2010 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Mebbe it was "Turkey Bacon"? What are the Islamic theological ramifications of that?
Posted by: borgboy || 10/16/2010 16:33 Comments || Top||


Economy
World needs to stay vigilant about active depreciation of the dollar
Posted by: tipper || 10/16/2010 17:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Currency wars are trade wars by other means.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2010 18:04 Comments || Top||

#2  "World needs to stay vigilant about active depreciation of the dollar"

Well, when the President of the U.S. is actively doing all he can to depreciate the dollar, why shouldn't the other countries get in on the fun? >:-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/16/2010 18:17 Comments || Top||


Spitzer: Somebody should be dropping a thousand subpoenas on this

Of course, anyone who tries dropping that trick will get Spitzer-zapped, one way or the other. Eric Holder is too smart to stick his neck out that way. Don't call 'em the Best and the Brightest for nothing.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/16/2010 09:42 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh , My, heads are gonna roll over this one, it's NEVER supposed to unravel on Obullshit's watch.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/16/2010 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh , My, heads are gonna roll over this one Are you joking? Heads should have been rolling for years now. Spitzer's head was one of the few to roll, but that was because he was a danger to the system.
Here's what happened with Angelo Mozilo.
15 Oct 2010: The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Angelo Mozilo will pay a 22.5 million dollars penalty and repay 45 million dollars in company profits, in what was the largest-ever financial penalty paid to the SEC by a top executive
Please note Angelo will not be issued an orange jumpsuit to go with his orange complexion. My guess is he has done over a billion dollars in damage to his country. Now if any of you were caught for shoplifting ...
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/16/2010 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  The middle class doesn't need no steenkin' retirement. The plutocracy doesn't want a middle class. It's much more profitable and easier to manage to have a slave class and its rulers.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 || 10/16/2010 12:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'I'm not a witch'
Posted by: tipper || 10/16/2010 17:39 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/shes-a-witch/
696b5a91a8660e5fc827696b5a91a8660e5fc827-284830664149?q=
monty%20python%20witch&FORM=VIRE6

I can't seem to make links work - glue it back together for the appropriate Monty Python sketch.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/16/2010 19:03 Comments || Top||

#2  She turned me into a newt! I got better.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/16/2010 19:18 Comments || Top||


Pat Caddell, tags 'hypocrites' at 1600 Pennsyvania
An excerpt:
"These are naive idiots who've come out of academia and have never done anything real in their lives, and they are actually in power," he said. "These are the people we never let in the room when we had serious business to do. Now theyre running the country."
Posted by: Beavis || 10/16/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hypocrisy is in the genes of the donks. I was going to post an article that appeared at Sott.net but was reluctant to since I don't know whether or not their copyrights are bought up by Righthaven.

Anyway, the hypocrisy seems to go back aways with these clowns. General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff under Clinton just published a book which states that a cabinet member asked him if a U-2 plane could be flown low and slow enough over Baghdad in the late 1990s so that it would be shot down and provide a provocative incident to retaliate against Iraq. If this is true, that tells me that the donks considered invading Iraq before Bush actually did it. This takes away the shrill talking point of the donks and the left who said we should never have invaded Iraq. It all also tells me that the donks are amoral and willing to sacrifice a pilot's life to start a war. Such talk by this cabinet member (unamed) was treasonous. If Clinton actually considered this option, he engaged in treasonous actions.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/16/2010 10:05 Comments || Top||

#2  There is no hypocrisy in power. When the principle is power, power is self rationalizing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/16/2010 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks REALLY dislike Caddell because he has principles and speaks his mind. Even when I disagree with his position, I respect his integrity and arguments. He doesn't follow the borg-like talking points
Posted by: Frank G || 10/16/2010 12:10 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Marches On -- Into Lebanon
Beyond providing TV foot age of welcoming throngs of Hezbollah supporters, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon this week served a number of purposes -- none good.

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Pro-West parties in Lebanon feel betrayed by the Obama administration, which appears to have subcontracted its Mideast policy to the Saudi Arabia-Egypt-Jordan trio. By announcing a US retreat, notably from Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama is creating a power vacuum that Ahmadinejad is trying to fill.

The Iranian president underscored that point by declaring America to be a "bankrupt empire" that betrays its allies. To show who is boss in Lebanon, he brought with him a 300-man delegation that included dozens of officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He offered to build power plants in Lebanon and train the Lebanese army.

More important, perhaps, he received Hezbollah's "Supreme Council" at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, driving home the claim that he -- and not Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general -- is the real leader of the Shi'ite group. Nasrallah, believed to be hiding in the Iranian embassy since 2006, used the occasion to declare himself to be a "soldier" of the Iranian "supreme guide" and ready to give his life for the Islamic Republic.

According to Iran's official news agency, Nasrallah also claimed that in Ahmadinejad he found "the scent of Imam Khomeini's perfume"

Perfume? As they contemplate their country's takeover by Iran and the threat of a new civil war, many Lebanese would smell a rat.


Posted by: Sherry || 10/16/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Pro-West parties in Lebanon feel betrayed by the Obama administration"
Really?!
Welcome to the club.
Posted by: Knuckles Elmaimp7473 || 10/16/2010 1:29 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2010-10-16
  Nine militants killed in drone attacks in N. Waziristan
Fri 2010-10-15
  Attack on Iraqi politician kills four
Thu 2010-10-14
  Four drone strikes kill 11 in N Waziristan
Wed 2010-10-13
  Tamaulipas: 10 Die in Gang Firefight
Tue 2010-10-12
  15 killed in clashes in Mogadishu
Mon 2010-10-11
  Dronezap waxes eight in North Wazoo
Sun 2010-10-10
  Bangla: Lashkar's explosives expert captured
Sat 2010-10-09
  Norks confirm Sonny Jong Un's succession
Fri 2010-10-08
  Zapee ID'd as Mohammed Usman
Thu 2010-10-07
  US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers
Wed 2010-10-06
  Qari Ziauddin ID'd as a Zap-ee
Tue 2010-10-05
  French police arrest 11 people with suspected Islamic extremists links
Mon 2010-10-04
  Six killed as NATO oil tankers ambushed in Islamabad
Sun 2010-10-03
  Drone strikes kill 18 in North Waziristan
Sat 2010-10-02
  US drone strike kills six in Pakistan


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