Friday Catblogging: Della Shoes
Oscar is usually the shoe lover in our house but Della Street decided to investigate some of Dr. A's shoes: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Della Shoes
Month: June 2014
‘The FCC Chastised Janet Jackson’s Breast’
Complaints about Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend. I think my favorite is the one about "I have gone to great pains to explain this horrendous conduct to my children." A. Continue reading ‘The FCC Chastised Janet Jackson’s Breast’
Was It a Forcible School Shooting?
Oh for God's sakes: The piece went on to question Everytown’s definition of what constitutes a school shooting. The gun safety group included in its figures any incident in which “a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds, as documented in publicly reported news accounts. This includes assaults, homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings.” The CNN piece disagreed with this methodology, stating that, by its definition, a school shooting is only when “a minor or adult actively shooting inside or near a school.” CNN said that the gun safety group should not include “personal arguments, … Continue reading Was It a Forcible School Shooting?
Pulp Fiction Thursday: Sin Street
This fits into the category of true sleaze: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Sin Street
Mutant and Proud: On the House Republican Campaign Trail with Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson is getting his HANDS DIRTY. Not like that, perverts: I have been doing more than I’ve done in the past for candidates for office. Usually I write about them here at RedState, give them money, and encourage you guys to help. Rarely do I get out on the campaign trail myself. I don’t have the time. But I’ve been making the time because it is just that important. SUCKERS! Remember before, when I was telling you all that the fate of the Republic was at stake? I really didn't give a fuck back then. Hope you didn't believe … Continue reading Mutant and Proud: On the House Republican Campaign Trail with Erick Erickson
Keep Kids Inside
Why bother fighting crime when you can just lock everybody up from the get-go: Should a 13-year-old kid be making a snack run to a gas station at 10:30 at night? Especially just blocks from where a double homicide took place less than a month ago? I say no; they should be home with their families. But in some Milwaukee neighborhoods, children can be seen hanging out and playing well past Milwaukee's current curfew. With most schools closed for summer break, now is a good time for officials to not only enforce the current curfew law but to follow the … Continue reading Keep Kids Inside
Iraq Flashback
I hate to be unoriginal, but I do not mind piling on in a good cause. It's looking an awful lot like the aughties right now, which is a flashback to a bad trip, man. It's the political equivalent of eating the brown acid at Woodstock or being at the front at Altamont, man. The MSM is all revved up about a terrorist/jihadist group in Iraq and they're calling upon "experts" for commentary and unwisdom. That's right, the same bunch of poltroons who got *everything* wrong about Iraq the first time around are back on the teevee machine and the op-ed pages. … Continue reading Iraq Flashback
Tony Gwynn, R.I.P
I've always made fun of the San Diego Padres. They spent many years stockpiling as many over the hill Dodgers players as possible, including Steve Garvey when he was way past his sell by date. One Padre I never made fun of was Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn who died today at the depressingly young age of 54. The Padres had never been within sniffing distance of a championship until Gwynn joined the team and led them to their only World Series appearances in 1984 and 1998. Gwynn was a professional hitter who won 8 National League batting titles and finished with … Continue reading Tony Gwynn, R.I.P
Sunday Kickblogging
Almost five months in, we've got teething happening, and eating of applesauce, and giggling: A. Continue reading Sunday Kickblogging
Who by Common Trial: Game of Thrones Thread
Brandon Stark came all this way. From his bed at Winterfell, he came all this way to walk again, and he never will.
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You Never Get to Lay Down Your Burdens
Ugh, so masturbatory and such fail. As I said in the comments over there, man, on one level I get it. At some point in your life it sinks in that the work is never done, that things just get harder and harder, that there's always another thunderstorm around the corner and the life you imagined, where at some point it stops being such a job all the time, isn't coming. I have been physically and emotionally exhausted since I was 19 years old, and in comparison that chick I am lazy as hell, and I GET IT. You want … Continue reading You Never Get to Lay Down Your Burdens
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Natural Born Shillers edition
Morning, good people – we're going to have to put a double layer of iso suits on, because although FOX "news" has gone into radio (and TV) silence about the Jarad and Amanda Miller Tea Party Cop-killer – um – revolution, the Freeperati have no such control. Bless their shiny little Ids…
On the upside, the Bundy Bunch drought has finally broken!
Las Vegas Shooters Bragged About Taking Part In Bundy Standoff
Business Insider ^ | 06/09/14 | Catherine ThompsonPosted on 6/9/2014 1:13:49 PM by LonelyCon
Neighbors of the couple who ambushed two police officers Sunday in Las Vegas told local newspapers the pair had bragged about spending time at Cliven Bundy’s ranch during the standoff with the federal government earlier this year.
The two suspects, whose names have not yet been released, fatally shot two police officers who were having lunch at a CiCi’s Pizza restaurant before killing a third person at a nearby Wal-Mart. The female suspect then shot the male suspect and then herself in an apparent suicide pact.
Neighbors in an apartment complex where the two suspects lived said they “had a reputation for spouting racist, anti-government views” and boasted about their gun collection, according to the Las Vegas Sun. The newspaper reported that residents of the apartment complex who spoke about the suspects also brought up the couple’s relationship with Bundy Ranch, where the two bragged about being present for the standoff between militia members and the Bureau of Land Management.
Of course the liberal media FOX news is going to run with this all day completely ignore this.
FIFY.
To: LonelyConWell Harry Reid DID say SOMETHING would happen…
4 posted on 6/9/2014 1:16:12 PM by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
Tricksy, tricksy Harry Riedses!
To: LonelyCon…where the two bragged about being present for the standoff between militia members and the Bureau of Land Management.Photos or they were just lying LaRouch(sic) dems.
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To: LonelyCon
Another lie from lamestream drive-by media.
The shooters were revolutionary leftists of the OWS sort.
If, of course, OWS protestors killed cops…
Without exception, all of the wanton murder sprees and assassinations (or attempted asssination(sic)) of the last 150 years has been done by a DemonRAT: Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Nidal Hasan, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The list of murderous leftists fills a book. In America's history, there has not been a single true Conservative engaged in such violence.
Of course, two caveats – this is only since 1995, and none of them were "True Conservatives".
Why? It's an established fact that Conservatives value life but liberals do not.
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More reactions after the equal but opposite action.
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Spare Me Mitt Romney’s Thoughts on Iraq
Oooh, deep thoughts: Romney said the terror enveloping Iraq is "a result of inaction" by President Barack Obama. He said the White House should have acted decisively against the insurgents "when Assad was on his heels" in Syria. And while the Iraqi leadership deserves "much of the blame," a relatively small presence of American troops in Iraq would have been a wise choice to keep the fighting at bay, the former Massachusetts governor said. "This administration has repeatedly underestimated the threat," Romney said, widening his criticism to Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State, calling her tenure a "monumental bust." … Continue reading Spare Me Mitt Romney’s Thoughts on Iraq
Sunday Morning Video: Ry Cooder Live On The BBC
Here's Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band on the Old Gray Whistle Test in 1977: \ Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Ry Cooder Live On The BBC
A Requiem for a Career in Education
Ever since I was about 11 or 12, I had a job at the close of school each year: Fill the closet in Mom’s classroom. The district had a rule about loose books and various other items sitting about during the summer, so it required that all teachers put all their texts, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other books into storage for three months. Mom’s only storage area was a small coat closet in her room, so after a few miserable attempts to cram all of her crap in there, she charged me with the task. The first year, I made all … Continue reading A Requiem for a Career in Education
Friday Guest Catblogging: That Sinking Feeling
Cats like the oddest things and enjoy relaxing in the strangest places. My friend Kat's cat, Miles, is a sink man. Kat, who blogs as Dakinikat at Sky Dancing, knows from cats and Miles knows from sinks: Continue reading Friday Guest Catblogging: That Sinking Feeling
Learning From Poverty
Via racymind, you have to be fucking kidding me, today: “Look, I worked for the minimum wage,” he explained. “Two bucks an hour back in the 1970s. I had jobs that — what did I learn? I learned to show up on time, I learned certain skills, and I learned I didn’t want to make the rest of my life so I better get an education.” You learn from cancer, too. Go suck on a tailpipe, Gigot. This is so poisonous, this "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" bullshit that never actually comes from anyone while they're in the … Continue reading Learning From Poverty
Friday Ferretblogging: As the Ferret Turns
The NYC ferret legalization saga continues, with some polling: There’s a gender gap on the question of whether ferrets should be legalized in New York City. A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday said men approve of bringing back the little critters by a 43 to 37 percent margin. But women oppose legalization 46 to 36 percent. These chicks need to get out of my gender. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: As the Ferret Turns
Cantor Loses To A Sausage
It's been a glorious evening at Adrastos World HQ. First, my adopted NBA playoffs team, the San Antonio Spurs, opened a can of whoop ass on the Miami Heat to tale a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Second, the arrogant, smug, dickish House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost to some wingnutty college professor named David Brat. Some pundits insist that it happened because of immigration, but Cantor ignored his district whilst casting a lustful eye on the Speakership. Btw, House Republicans lost their only non-Christian tonight but they gained a sausage. Talk about getting porked… Continue reading Cantor Loses To A Sausage
Pulp Fiction Thursday: Politics Is Murder
Since Eric Cantor is going to have some extra time off, he might have time for some light reading: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Politics Is Murder
Malaka Of The Week: Mo Brooks
There are some weeks that I feel as if I'm piling on. This is one of them. This week's "honoree" said something egregiously stupid, hateful, and idiotic. He also lost his magic wingnut dog whistle code book. And that is why Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Roll Tide) is malaka of the week. Brooks, hitherto an obscure back bencher, came on my radar screen with an appearance on talk radio and then kept going and going like the Energizer bunny of malakatude: Since Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claimed on Monday that Democrats have launched a "war on whites," he has continued to explain how … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Mo Brooks
Blogger Ethics Panel
We always seem to need one: Basically, the Times will now distribute a weekly magazine produced by the Redskins and publish "commentaries" about football matters provided by the team in the newspaper. In return, columnists and reporters from the Times will appear in the team's video ventures, such as a halftime show narrowcasted via FedExField scoreboards during home games. There was a time, kiddos, when such a pact would've been viewed as wholly unbecoming of a newspaper. In 1999, the Los Angeles Times published a 168-page special edition of its Sunday magazine, devoted to the new Staples Center; advertising profits were split between the magazine and … Continue reading Blogger Ethics Panel
People Like, Pay for Print, Part the Infinity
But hey, just keep yelling DIGITAL PARADIGM. I'm sure one of these days it'll relate to the actual facts: This week, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans announced that its home-delivery subscribers, who were cut back to three days a week in the fall of 2012, would be getting two “bonus” home-delivered papers — Saturdays and Mondays — at least through the end of football season this year. Also, the paper would switch back to a broadsheet format every day, dropping the tabloid editions it had introduced last year. Apparently this is part of the "start-up culture" in which it's okay to flail from one thing … Continue reading People Like, Pay for Print, Part the Infinity
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Deja Vu
I enter my share of contests and never win. This time I entered an online contest for a CSNY box set and won something I wouldn't have otherwise bought. It's a 3-CD, 1-DVD set documenting their 1974 tour. It was an odd tour for its day. Bands made their money off publishing and record sales back then and CSNY wasn't promoting a new band LP. The music world has flipped and now the money is in playing live. The music is pretty darn good, better than I remembered. I saw them at the Oakland Coliseum and got into trouble with some Neil Young fangirls by loudly declaring that The Band had blown CSNY off the stage. They did but I got in deep shit for stirring the pot. Very little has changed.
Onward and upward to CSNY's 1970 smash hit LP, Deja Vu. This was one of the albums that *everyone* had. I listened to it for the first time in eons and most of it holds up quite well, especially Carry On and Helpless. Of course, Young and Stills were the heavyweights although Graham Nash's Our House and Teach Your Children are still charming excursions into hippie/Beatles/Holliesville. I think you take the Marrakesh Express to get there, man. David Crosby's ode to paranoia Almost Cut My Hair has become rather campy. I halfway expect some hipster to rewrite it as Almost Shaved My Beard. It happened just the other day, man and it gave me deja vu, man…
The packaging and design by Gary Burden is classic. The LP had an aged, fake leather thing going on, and the lettering was embossed. Fake but not cheap. Henry Wiltz's faux daguerreotype cover picture depicts CSNY as rock and roll's answer to the Hole in the Wall gang or the Wild Bunch. Given David Crosby's later brushes with THE MAN, it's fitting that he's cradling a shot gun in his lap.
What I Want For My Birthday
I've gotten to the age where I'd rather not celebrate my birthday. I'm as coy at discussing my exact age as Lucille Ball and I cherish friends who are older than me: Hi Craig, Mark, and Russ. I know that once I become really old that will change but for now I embrace the cryptic. Another thing I embrace is First Draft and our remarkable readers. When Athenae invited me aboard nearly 5 years ago I was honored. Writing for you lot has kept me sane or at least as sane as I'll ever get. So, here's what I want … Continue reading What I Want For My Birthday
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Benflopzi edition
Oh dear.
I got permission from Ms. A to do a special. You see, after over two years of Freeperati wishing, and hoping, and dreaming, and praying, Ben Gazerra has finally come to fruition…
Ah, what a heavenly dream…..
You know, it would be a cat-a-strophy if perchance harm were to befall this serene – scene….
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House panel: No administration wrongdoing in Benghazi attack
SFGate ^ | 3:53 pm, Friday, August 1, 2014 | Carolyn LockheadPosted on 8/2/2014 9:02:09 AM by Olog-hai
The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.
The panel voted Thursday to declassify the report, the result of two years of investigation by the committee. U.S. intelligence agencies will have to approve making the report public.
Thompson said the report “confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given.” …
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To: Olog-haiNo one here can legitimately claim that we need to vote Republican so that we can get control of the Senate and the House, and that 80% agreement is better than 100%, blah blah blah. They simply are not capable of running anything.
So you're voting for Democrats this year?
To: GafferYou are right. Republicans are spectators, not players, and are content with their good seats in the grandstands from which they can watch the real action. They make lots of noise but have no intention of participating in the game.
Actually, the committee is dominated by Republicans. Facts are stupid things.
To: Olog-hai
The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that…”Thompson said the report “confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given.” …”
All complete and total lies, and we all know it.
We know the administration lied about the cause of the attack.
We know military assets were withheld.
We know military assets were told not to go in.Every person on that committee is a Republican, yet, they lied.
You know, that's what I said.
Mike Rogers, Chairman, Michigan, Republican
Mac Thornberry, Texas, Republican
Jeff Miller, Florida, Republican
Mike Conaway, Texas, Republican
Peter King, New York, Republican
Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey, Republican
Devin Nunes, California, Republican
Lynn Westmoreland, Georgia, Republican
Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, Republican
Thomas J Rooney, Florida, Republican
Joe Heck, Nevada, Republican
Mike Pompeo, Kansas, Republican
So, basically, everyone is lying except for you. There's a description of that syndrome in the DSM-IV, but I don't think you'll like it.
Someone want to tell me why I should ever vote for another Republican? ANY Republican?
So what ARE you going to do on Election Day this year??
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I'm glad we got THAT cleared up.
More sweet, sweet tears after the crack in the world…
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Sunday Morning Video: The Blasters Live In 1982
I'd never heard of this teevee special until last night. All I know is what was written in this blog post and that Lee Allen, Willie Dixon, and Carl Perkins were the Blasters' guest stars. Here's the set list: Crazy Baby; This Is It; Border Radio; I’m Shakin’; Tag Along; Stop the Clock; Go, Go, Go; Blue Suede Shoes (with Carl Perkins); Honey Don’t (with Carl Perkins); Rock-a-Billy Fever (with Carl Perkins); American Music; Hollywood Bed; Built for Comfort (with Willie Dixon); I’m Ready (with Willie Dixon); Marie, Marie; So Long Baby Goodbye; Boppin’ the Blues (with Carl Perkins) Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Blasters Live In 1982
Weekend Question Thread
What's your favorite thing to cook on the grill? Yesterday while walking I could tell somebody was making barbecued chicken and I nearly vaulted the fence to ask if I could have some. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Who Has Suffered More than David Brooks?
Nobody, you guys. Nobody. Not the 21-year-old who got a leg shot off in Iraq. Not the 60-year-old who lost his job and has been looking for one for three years. Not the mother of three who just got cancer. Not the 8-year-old dying of AIDS, nobody. It was "hell on earth" being a columnist at the New York Times, you guys. Hell. On. Earth. Brooks was shocked at the volume of "punishingly negative" comments when he joined the Times in 2003. "It was the worst six months of my life," he said. "I had never been hated on a … Continue reading Who Has Suffered More than David Brooks?
Gave Proof Through the Night
A lot of people went back to the Founders this weekend. I went back to a couple of smart men I've read, too. Charlie: How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the jailers of Guantanamo, from the keepers of the black sites, from those willing to hand our inalienable rights to faceless men in the cubicles of the intelligence bureaucracy? How is that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from paymasters of torturers? The time bomb laid beneath history 238 years ago is a time bomb of pure conundrum, and the people who put … Continue reading Gave Proof Through the Night