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Category: Pointless blather

  • Shiftless hippies plan March March

    ANSWER and their attendant allies are planning their annual (well, except last year) March on the Pentagon trying to recreate their hey-day of the sixties. The list of participant organization reads like the index of Discover the Networks;

    Vets for Peace, IVAW, World Can’t Wait, Cindy Sheehan, Ron Kovic, the rotting corpse of Ramsey Clark, Edward Jabba the Asner – a regular Who’s Who of irrelevant hippie trash with juvenile opinions. The complete list is here. I hope the temperature doesn’t drop a few degrees – that was their excuse for poor attendance in 2007 when they were out numbered by Gathering of Eagles.

    So, why, in the Age of Obama are they planning on marching? ANSWER’s website says;

    President Obama decided to keep the Pentagon just as it was under Bush. He even selected Bush appointee Robert Gates to keep his position as chief of the Pentagon. Gates announced that the new administration would double the number of troops sent to Afghanistan. That is certainly not the “change” most people thought was coming following the end of Bush’s tenure.

    These are wars for domination in the Middle East and Central Asia.

    Why would the US want to dominate these shit holes? Oil? Why would we want to go through the trouble of fighting and then administering foreign people when we have enough oil to sustain us for decades in our own country that we won’t touch? Seems it’d be easier to dominate some pussy-assed shiftless hippies in the environmental movement than some bomb throwing Stone Age tribes of the Middle East.

    No matter who is in charge in this country, there’s a vocal element who will never be happy. Even if we returned to the Stone Age in this country and live in caves rubbing sticks together for fire, they’ll still find something to complain about – well, if they survive without being eaten by the rest of us.

  • YouTubing the vacation

    What I did on my winter vication today; I went to the Panama National Orange Festival in Penonme, Panama. The strange thing about it? Not one drop of orange juice anywhere. But, on the upside, 50 pounds of oranges went for $3.

  • The TARP Song and UFOs

    I saw this yesterday on Cavuto and Grouchy Old Cripple found the video, and Rurik emailed me the link. So here’s some Saturday morning entertainment for you;

    If that’s not your cup of tea, someone’s telling me there was a UFO fly-over at the Inauguration;

    Rumor-monger that I am, I’d like to perpetuate this.

  • Cold enough for you? [Jonn]

    I have to get this off my chest. It’s been bugging the snot out of me all day.

    I had to go to the office today because my power went out at home which means I had to fight the maddening crowds a few blocks from the Capitol. It’s worse today because of ya’all Hope and Change tourists gawking at the statues and taking pictures of each other pointing at stuff.

    Anyway, whenever I stopped at a street corner to wait for the light to change, perfect strangers would ask me “Cold enough for you?” I’ll bet I got asked that twenty times today.

    Look, if you’re standing face-to-face with me on a street corner in bone-chilling weather in the wind tunnel that is North Capitol Street and the only thing that pops into your mind to say is that question, just stare at me and keep your stupid yap shut.

    Even my workmates couldn’t resist asking me if it’s cold enough for me. Why? Do you really want to know if I could stand a few degrees colder? Or does the chance of a few moments of silence so terrify you that you’d say something that moronic just to fill the air with your voice?

    To answer the question: Yes, it’s cold enough for me and I can’t wait till the end of the month when I get go to the tropics, lay by the pool in the 95 degree heat in my Speedo with a stogie and a bucket of cuba libres.

    I wonder how many Panamanians will ask me if it’s hot enough for me.

  • Old Long Since [Jonn]

    This is my last post of the year – a recap of a very good year for This Ain’t Hell.

    Our biggest story this year traffic-wise on a single day was the Shoe-tossing at the White House written by TSO. The biggest post for the most traffic over all was the Willie Williams post, believe it or not. COB6’s biggest post was the “I’m voting Democrat because…” that brought in tons of links and traffic for a week and carried us for August. Since those were our top posts for the year, it proves to me that I don’t know a thing about blogging. All of us had interviews or researched posts that took days to write, but our three biggest posts were hip shots on the run.

    We’ve been lucky with traffic, because some of the finest bloggers on the web have cut us a break and sent traffic our way with little prodding. And I’ve got a lot of great readers and commenters who’ve been loyal for months now.

    It always amazes me when I’m cruising the internet looking for stuff to write about, I’ll come upon a blog that I’ve never heard of and I’ll see This Ain’t Hell tucked in among some of the big names in the blog roll. It’s so gratifying.

    I used to link to every blog that linked to us, but it’s impossible to keep up with everyone these days, but I’ve never turned down anyone who asked for a link – which is obvious by the length of my blogroll. I also used to read every blog in the blog roll everyday – that has become impossible, too. But I do my best to keep up.

    I started to do a post on my favorite blogs, but then I realized, they’re all my favorite blogs to some degree, so here’s my thanks to bloggers. This post took me nearly a month to write, so do me a favor and click ’em all and let ’em know we’re thinking of them. They’re in no particular order – like most of my rants.

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  • Love is only a click to a phony email address away![TSO]

    You guys friggin slay me.  Seriously.  Girls do not exist who like to frolic naked, make sandwiches and play tonsil hockey with other girls, and who also love lonely men dwelling under the dim lights of their basement.  Which was quite unfortunate for me until I hit jackpot with my girl who likes nerds.  (Not the candy, she’s young, but not quite that young.)

    Nonetheless, we have identified the young lady from Russia.  Actually, we identified her twice, but sources inside the media tell us that she is Anna Federova.  Other sources have suggested it is Katerina Azrekova.  All I know is that I think I can speak for all men here when I sincerely hope these women someday appear in Maxim Magazine saying Do Svidaniya to their clothing.  Unless it is like wolf or bear pelts or something which is totally hot.  (Isn’t Saran Wrap Russian?)

    Welcome Anna.  I agree with the commenter at Michelle Malkin who suggested that you would be the perfect replacement for Keith Olbermann.  Hell, even O’Reilly would switch channels during his own show.

    Anna Fedorova is an Entertainment Presenter

    Anna covers all aspects of the entertainment world, although personally she has a special interest in installations, graffiti, flash animation and the fashion world. She loves water sports, which she swaps for snowboarding in winter.

    Anna, who spent five years of her life in Australia, graduated from the International University of Moscow where she majored in Linguistics and International Communications. But later her deep and long-lasting interest in the Arts brought her to journalism.

    She speaks English, French and Italian.

    If I were a single man (Hi honey!), I would love to teach her to also speak Braille, but of course I am not, so…

    You must go look at the pictures brought to you by Naira Oganesyan who may be the best photographer in the world.

    I believe Jayne Cobb said it best in the TV show Firefly:  I’ll be in my bunk.

    BTW- What is the most click through used most here the past couple of days you ask?  (Nah, you don’t really need to ask)

  • Sorry, I spent the day with someone else

    I spent the day with someone who doesn’t read the blog. But he likes teh salsa;

    The first Filipino-Panamanian-Swedish-American President

  • What is going on?

    Here in the Metro DC area, I keep my political views to myself in the real world. Not that I’m afraid of the stick-armed, puny, intellectual midgets that live here, it’s just that I usually need to get from point A to point B without delaying every ten feet to explain why I think everyone on the way are morons.

    Every person in DC has the political depth of the Daily Show and the calm demeanor of a typical Daily Kos diarist. As I’m fond of pointing out, DC voted 90% for John Kerry in the 2004 election (they picked Howard Dean in their straw primary, and Al Sharpton came in second). So why should I waste my day trying to penetrate that level of ignorance?

    TSO wrote the other day at The Sniper that he’s tired of fending off the Obama-ites in DC’s subway system in Virginia (a state Obama hasn’t quite locked up yet). I guess I’m lucky…Obama figures he’s got Maryland in the bag.

    But to my larger point. Every numbskull in the area has taken it upon themselves to just start a conversation with me to declare how stupid John McCain was to pick Sarah Palin as his VP. People I’ve never spoken a word to, just walk up to me in elevators, on the sidewalk, on the subway, at my desk, on my balcony and start right out with “Do you believe this Sarah Palin person?” The conversation varies with whatever rumor is popular that day, whatever Obama tells them is important through their party organ at the Washington Post.

    When I actually take the time to point out how they’re wrong and present actual facts, they just move on to yesterday’s rumor, then the day before that. When I get tired of listening to it and turn to walk away, they declare themselves the winner (I didn’t even know it was a competition). Each encounter is the same as if they’re all scripted. My building maintence guy in my apartment building started in on me the other day.

    They don’t think much of Alaskans either, as if they’re savages from some outlying territory. They’re also fond of demeaning Palin’s term as governor of such a backward territory as somewhat less worthy than being a community organizer. When I remind them that Palin isn’t running against Obama, they bring out the fact that McCain is a cancer survivor and near death at any given moment.

    I’m charged with being a partisan Republican just defending my “people”. Well, if Sarah Palin and John McCain supported each and every one of their issues exactly the way they themselves would, these clowns would say the same things about Palin and McCain just because they’re Republicans. So who’s really being partisan here?

    It’s a nuisance akin to Hari Krishnas in the airport. I’ve tried to find a movement on the internet that would explain this odd behavior, but I can’t find one. I guess it’s just indicative of the fact that Democrats suck.

    But I guess it could be worse (h/t The Jawa Report);

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