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Ya, I know Cakes won. I’ll get to it. For now:
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Posts Found Through RWN’s Top 40 – Sweetness and Light
Sweetness and Light (#32)
AP: Obama Is Less Hated Than Congress
From the relentlessly silver lining finding Associated Press:
WASHINGTON – Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.
As well they should, given the amazing string of successes that Mr. Obama’s campaigning has accomplished in the last several elections.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats are safe; half of all people say they want to fire their congressman.
Even if this were true, and we suspect it isn’t, there are a lot more Democrats in Congress than Republicans.
And Democrats control both houses with huge majorities. So it is safe to say that the Democrat-controlled Congress is detested.
Read the rest here
I wonder what other things Obama is less detested than… -bfh
Chuck Norris Turns 70
Asylum compiles a list of 70 Chuckisms - one for every year. Here is a taste:
1. Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse-kick-related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.
7. Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are known today as giraffes.
17. Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
25. Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
29. Chuck Norris got a blow up doll pregnant.
47. A Handicapped parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
48. Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
67. Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
69. The square root of Chuck Norris is pain.
Here is Chuck’s column over at Human Events
Posts Found Through RWN’s Top 40 – Say Anything
From Say Anything (#12)
Hypocrites: Obama Administration Tells Insurers To Stop Spending Money On Anti-Obamacare Ads
Obama’s Health Secretary Katherine Sebelius says that money could better be spent by cutting premiums. But I don’t remember the Obama administration complaining after they cut a deal with drug companies, also often accused of charging too much for their products/services, to spend $150 million advertising in favor of Obamacare.
Double standards are wonderful, no?
Read the rest here:
Posts Found Through The RWN’s Top 40 – IMAO
Being Green Makes You More Likely to Cheat and Steal
In a scientific study (using Science!), it is demonstrated that when people buy green products and help the environment, they tend to be lax in other areas and are more likely to then cheat and steal. Doesn’t that explain liberals?
Look at all the liberals in Congress and how easy they find it to lie about their intentions toward health care (“This isn’t about a government takeover.”); they feel the lying is okay because they’re doing good.
Read the rest here
Posts Found Through The RWN’s Top 40 – Althouse
Althouse (#16) has a clip of Anne Sullivan with her student Helen Keller.
When you come back, enjoy this clip of a Helen Keller Simulator that I found.
Jihad Jane
I dedicate this story to Glenn Beck
Update: Just went over to Tammy Bruce and saw that she has a good treatment of the story.
From (ironically) Fox News
A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as “JihadJane” has been charged in federal court with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters to carry out murders and violent attacks overseas.
The woman, Colleen R. LaRose, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft, according to the indictment, unsealed Monday.
Sources tell Fox News the “Swedish citizen” who “JihadJane” was allegedly looking to kill is Lars Vilks, who drew one of the controversialProphet Muhammad cartoons. There was a series of arrests in Ireland earlier Tuesday that are reportedly connected to LaRose’s case.
In September of 2007 Al Qaeda offered a bounty for the murder of Viks.
LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators are accused of recruiting men to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe and of recruiting women who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe for similar missions.
In June 2008, LaRose posted a comment on YouTube under the username “JihadJane,” stating that she is “desperate to do something somehow to help” the suffering Muslim people, according to the indictment.
~snip~
What’s the first thing you think of doing when you feel the need to help with Christian causes?
-donate money
-donate clothing
-donate time
-mentor
-donate food
What do people think the best way to help Muslims are -
-Beheadings
-Bombings
- Mayhem
Islam – THE RELIGION OF PEACE
ht/ Mark
Teach a Man Not To Fish
Michelle Malkin has the story about Obama’s war on fishing.
UPDATE: United We Fish
illustr8r gives us her visual take -
Calling All Brownshirts!!!
Organizing For Obama America
Rather Speaks
Excerpted from a Dan Rather post on HuffPo -
I must confess that until recently I had no idea what Twitter was. Even now, I’m not completely sure how it’s best used. When I want to post something, the younger, more tech-savvy people in my office help me out. But I do know this: if you searched Twitter for “Dan Rather” over the past few days, you probably could guess why I feel the need to write this column.
All this is the backdrop for what I said on the Matthews show. I was talking about Obama and health care and I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It’s an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Southeast Texas, when country highways were lined with stands manned by sellers of all races. Now of course watermelons have become a stereotype for African Americans and so my analogy entered a charged environment. I’m sorry people took offense.
~snip~
Hey Dan,
For the record, I never said what you said was racist. My take on this all along was that you said nothing wrong. It was Christine Matthew’s getting all apoplectic and nervously covering your tracks (because his race radar is constantly on hair trigger) which was most tragically salient. That display was like watching, in real time, the soviets scrubbing people right out of historical photos. And when Tweety has conservatives on his show he is constantly angling to get them to say something like you were about to say. And if they did, he (and YOU by the way) would make political hay out of it on his way to a Peabody Award.
Hypocrites.
Mash Up contest
The poster comes with a short blurb about the new mashed-up movie.
I smell a contest.
Right Wing News Rates Top 40 Conservative Blogs
John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, compiled his quarterly list of the top 40 conservative blogs that he visits regularly and enjoys. And guess who is on the list? That’s right, we are! Shameless self back patting? You betcha! The list is filled with excellent sites; I’ve excerpted it below.
40: Tie) This Ain’t Hell
40: Tie) Small Dead Animals
39) Jihad Watch
38) Closet Conservative
37) Twice Right
36) Conservative Blog Watch
35) Iowahawk
34) Don Surber
33) TigerHawk
32) Sweetness & Light
31) The Radio Equalizer
30) Gay Patriot
29) Tim Blair
28) The Cara Ellison Show
27) Dr. Helen
26) Cassy Fiano
25) I Own The World
24) The Campaign Spot
23) Betsy’s Page
22) Doug Ross
21) Power Line
20) The Nose on Your Face
See the full list and the top 20 here.
Thank you, John! It is very much appreciated.
Michelle Malkin on the Census
She is suggesting that everyone check the ”some other race” box on number 9 and write in American. Pass it on.
ht/ trippstake
Letterman Top Ten
I know, who cares, right? But this top ten was political, and it didn’t have a SARAH PALIN joke in it. That IS newsworthy. Here, see for yourselves.
Top Ten Reasons Rahm Emanuel is nuts:
10. Every morning takes a leak off the Truman balcony
9. President Obama smokes cigarettes; Rahm eats them
8. Spotted today at Toyota dealership
7. He’s leaving Obama to become a special advisor to Richard Nixon
6. In a fit of rage, he snapped Dennis Kucinich in half
5. Changing his name to Rahm Emanuel Lewis
4. Refers to every cabinet official as “Clarkie”
3. Recently got into heated policy debate with his stapler
2. You mean, besides walking around D.C. naked?
1. Even Andy Dick is telling him to chill
Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Tell’
Nancy Pelosi proves that it is possible to give “tells”, even if your face can’t move and you are an accomplished liar. First, the “she made an utter fool of herself” part, because any chance to point and snicker at Pelosi is A-Okay with me. While giving a speech to the National Association of Counties, Pelosi said the following:
“You’ve heard about the controversies, the process about the bill…but I don’t know if you’ve heard that it is legislation for the future – not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America,” she told the National Association of Counties annual legislative conference, which has drawn about 2,000 local officials to Washington. “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.”
Pelosi is basically saying, as the Left tends to do, “You silly rubes! You just don’t realize how super awesome it is and how smart we are. We can’t wait around for you common folk to figure it out, so we’ll just ram it down your throats without any of your pesky input. Just be grateful that you still have tonsils in those throats, no thanks to nefarious tonsil reaping doctors and evil Republicans!”
Sigh. I suppose we should be flattered that she merely called us dummies this time, instead of her usual tactic of shamelessly demagoguing citizens by calling them evil and Un-American. Still, it proves that perhaps the botox was injected too deeply and hit her cerebral cortex. Most people, Speaker Pelosi, don’t leap before they look. It’s like saying “Hey, let’s amputate your foot and then check to see if it’s gangrenous.”
Now we move onto the subsequent “tell” part of the speech. She went on to say this:
“We need to focus on the next generation, not the next election,” she said.
Put aside the fact that we all know that if she and the Democrats really cared about the next generation itself, they wouldn’t be saddling them with debt before they are even born. And they would, you know, not support killing some of them before they are born. It’s not about the next generation *itself* to Pelosi and other ideologues on the Left. And it’s certainly not about the next election; they’ve shown over and over that they are willing to throw each other under the bus in order to further a collective agenda.
Pelosi just admitted as much above. They don’t care about the next election.
They don’t care about the will of the people. They care about control and a “next generation” of ever growing bureaucracy and all-powerful, freedom-stifling Government. As I wrote the other day, it’s not about health care, it’s about the size and growth of Big Daddy Government and a fundamental change of our entire Country and the principles upon which it was founded. THAT is what she wants for the “next generation.” That is what it is all about.
If it is not about that for some of the more moderate Democrats, they’d best heed those words. Pelosi just told them that she’s more than willing to sacrifice them and their re-election bids.
I’m not trying to be a gloomy gus nor overly pessimistic. Just realistic. Some of the greatest tragedies in history occurred when people mistakenly believed “that can’t happen here.”
(Cross-posted at Red State)
6* of Bacon
There was an old Brian Regan routine where he says, “I don’t know what in the hell is going on with cranberries, but they’re gettin’ in all the other juices.”
He ends by saying to a fictitious overzealous cranberry salesman, “why don’t you take your sales trophy and go on vacation!?!”
Well, there’s a new manic salesman out there. It’s the bacon salesman. Bacon is now officially in everything. I thought chocolate covered bacon was the nadir. Nope. It’s Bacon vodka, or, Bakon Vodka (that K keeps the product from being too rednecky. Hey… slim-jim flavored coke??? Wait, they have that already. It’s called Dr. Pepper.)
I guess the reasoning behind this is that when you throw up in the morning it might taste like you just ate breakfast? I’m guessing. No?
Well, we all know what eventually happened with cranberries. I guess the next step is bacon air freshener? Bacon shampoo? Or perhaps bacon scented douche?
I understand the next big craze is going to be anchovies. And I will say now, there is NO CHANCE of the anchovy douche coming to market… I think, hope… pray.
UPDATE: With a little inspiration from SteveF I’ve come up with their slogan:
Bakon – after 5 shots you’ll wake up with a pig.
Patriotic Nostalgia
Who knew Patty Andrews was still alive? She’s the lead, in the middle, surrounded by Laverne (R) and Maxene (L), who have since passed on. Patty is 92. She is pretty entertaining. I like this.
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Matt Lauer Interviews Al Gore
MaksimWear
We’d Like To Thank Whoever It Was Who Gave Us A Radio Mention Today.
BREAKING: Dan Rather Resigns as Mayor of Los Alamitos!
From Walt Dizzy
The Birth of Dope Doll
We’re Number Two!
This is Why I Hate Hero Worship
TGIT – Obamas # 90 – Anchorman, The Legend of Dan Burgundy
Brutally Honest Mobile Home Commercial
Janeane Garofalo and an Egg Salad Sandwich
Government Health Care Is Not About Health Care; It’s About Government
Mustache Toy
The Sunken Chested Max Blumenthal
Dope on a Rope
Commie Tunes Pumping Them Out
Okay, the inmates are running the asylum, once again
Dan Rather: (Obama) “He couldn’t sell watermelons…”
