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Category: General Whackos

  • The Van Jones lesson

    Yes, Van Jones is gone. After more than a week of Glen Beck calling him a communist, Van Jones just couldn’t take it anymore and resigned. It’s a very good thing…I’m glad he’s gone. I’m a bit concerned about who’ll take his place, though. But there’s a lesson in it for all of us. This is from Fox News;

    Jones resigned late Saturday following mounting criticism over his past statements and associations. The tipping point came when it was discovered that he signed a petition in 2004 supporting the “9/11 truther” movement, which believes the Bush administration may have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

    I guess every side has a line it won’t cross. On the Left, they’re afraid to look like cranks if they are Truthers. On the right, it’s Birthers. Birthers have”indisputable proof” just like Truthers have – however it’s not so”indisputable” that anyone wants to stake their careers on defending one of them in public.

    Even though the Left is in charge and they can do whatever they want, the Democrats, the party of murdering unborn babies and warehousing the elderly, discovered that trutherism isn’t something they want to legitimize with the remnants of their reputation.

    So I’m guessing there’s a lesson in there for some of us.

  • I pledge?

    1stCavRVN11B sent me this link to a Michelle Malkin post about a Utah elementary school principal who showed this video to 850 of his students;

    According to the Deseret News, parents were pretty upset;

    “I think it’s outrageous. It’s indoctrinating children in a leftist liberal political position,” Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka told the Deseret News Tuesday.

    The video called “I Pledge!” was shown at an assembly of about 850 children on Friday to kick off the school’s annual theme of service, said Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams.

    Parent Jennifer Cieslewicz, of Kaysville, who has a first-grader at Eagle Bay, told the Deseret News, “I am very upset, to say the least. Values are to be taught in the home – not the school. These kids are young and impressionable.”

    The PTA President is shocked at the reaction;

    Eagle Bay PTA President Jennifer Maxwell says she is shocked and surprised by people’s negative reaction to the video. “I thought it was inspirational,” Maxwell said. “It was intended to inspire kids to make a difference in the community. We weren’t trying to be political.”

    Now, I don’t have a problem with the basic content of the video – all of those things that these self-absorbed, condescending Hollywood types talk about are things I’ve been doing for decades. But why all of a sudden are we supposed to do them this year?

    The Right are apoplectic that this typical self-serving crap is being shown in schools. And, to a point I agree with them – but only because the Left would have been just as apoplectic if the exact same slick personality cult crap would have appeared on television last year with George W. Bush as the person we’re supposed to honor with our pledge to be better people. Of course, George Bush would never let this stuff fly related to his visage.

    It’s garbage like this that makes the Far Right’s irrational fears seem less irrational. The video accomplishes nothing except drive a wedge between people – it amounts to gloating over the election. Like that 52 to 48 drivel.

    And showing it in school? In Utah? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I’m trying to hold a moderate line here, Barrack – you’re not making it easy.

  • Movie Review: The Day the Earth Stopped

    Monday night I watched “The Day the Earth Stopped” featuring those geniuses of the large screen C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, and Sinead McCafferty. I will begin here, as I do each review, with something that the publishers can affix to the back of the work to provide notice about what the lucky purchaser can look forward to enjoying:

    Part Independance Day, part that crappy movie where Rosie O’Donnell plays retarded bus rider (easy casting) this movie should not be watched by anyone with a frontal lobe who hasn’t spent the vast bulk of the day sniffing glue and giving themselves scrotal lacerations to dip in lemon juice. There’s the one scene with the hot chick that is redeemable, but alas, they didn’t put that 30 seconds on a loop. I’d find Gary Coleman playing center for the Lakers equally believable as this movie.

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    Now, how bad was it? Well, I restarted the movie at 4 minutes in to take notes. At 15 minutes I punched out of the note taking, and at 40 minutes I just had to turn it off. It wasn’t even bad-good, like those movies that are so ridiculous that you have to keep watching. It was just Bad-bad, like Ishtar, George Takei’s hair and the Yankees bullpen.

    Anyway, here are my notes, fleshed out to be complete sentences.

    – Movie starts with millions and millions of spaceships flying by planets and suns and stuff. They finally arrive at their destination of earth at about the 2 minute mark, at which time you see a close up of the ships, and they are not the same ones that were flying across your screen as they announced to a nearly breathless audience that indeed, C Thomas Howell and Judd Nelson would be a part of this extravaganza.

    – At 2:15 in, a small ship breaks off from the big ships and then lands on Earth.

    – 2:30, now we are getting somewhere! For reasons not clearly explained, we now have a naked woman walking through the woods. She looks kinda like Monica Belluci, only with Angelina Jolie’s lips. But, you don’t actually see her face. Well, maybe you do, I don’t know, I was concentrating on how the director let us know that Earth is considerably colder than her home planet. Why the hell is she creeping through the woods? The way she walks is bizarre, it’s like a 4 year old doing the pee pee dance. Whatever, this unknown planet attacking us has some serious smokeshows. The naked pee pee dance walk with D cups endeth and 3 minutes. [Ed Note: this is where they should have looped the film. BTW- Turn the safe search off and do a google search on this chick and you will see the scene, and then you too can ponder what it would be like to be invaded by glass cutters from space.]
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    Photo Credit: Rainer Hosch

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  • About that Nazi symbolism

    You’ve probably been reading this story all day;

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    Well, what you haven’t read anywhere is in this post at Ace of Spades;

    Despite the fact the woman toting the sign specificially says “LaRouche has defeated” the death-panel/end-of-life-counseling-intereventions — obviously a LaRouche follower if she is giving this goofball non-factor all the credit for the opposition’s success — the media will of course continue claiming this is a Republican phenomenon.

    Lyndon LaRouche is the perennial Democrat candidate for president and consummate crackpot. So we’ve got the Far-Left carrying around the Nazi posters, the Far-Left making the Joker-Obama posters…and it’s the Right that gets the blame.

    And the media is AWOL.

  • Lyndie England sucks

    If you’re wondering where I was today, Uncle Jimbo and I went to harrass Lyndie England (the genital-pointing skank of Abu Ghraib fame) at the Library of Congress. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on your view) she cancelled it. It was intended to be a veteran event and she was supposed to talk about the book she wrote about the incident, since now she can’t swing a job at MacDonald’s with that famous face – and who knows where those hands have been.

    The tip came from Small Wars Journal by way of Greyhawk (who wanted us to remind her of this incident).

    The event is sponsored by the Library of Congress Professional Association’s Veterans Forum and its leader LOC employee and Vietnam Veteran Bob Moore. Veteran Moore has weathered a wave of criticism in recent days, but he remains steadfast in his hatred for Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and his admiration for Lynndie England’s “guts.”

    Well, he remained steadfast until today when they canceled the event. So Jimbo and I took the opportunity to drink a pitcher, eat grub and comment on every tourist and intern that passed our cafe table on South Capitol Street. Lyndie England still rots.

    UPDATE: When I got home, someone emailed to say the event had been canceled out of “safety concerns” for the staff at the Library of Congress. I guess SPLC heard I was going.

    Updated again: You get to see how much weight I put on after three months of sitting in my easy chair with my foot elevated. Look, Ma, I’m on SOG Media;

    Greyhawk has more on the cancelation.

  • She’s on the loose

    Fox News reports that Squeaky Fromme has been released from prison this morning. Hide your unloaded handguns.

  • McCaskill constituent event canceled for “safety concerns”

    1CavRVN11B sent me a link to St Louis Today in which they announced that a Claire McCaskill event was canceled there by the school which was to be the venue due to safety concerns;

    A day after a Russ Carnahan event led to the arrests of five participants and a reporter, University City High School — where U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was set to hold a similar event on Tuesday– announced that the forum has been canceled.

    The school district sent a news release this afternoon stating that the “reasons for the cancellation by the school district are due to concerns for the safety and security of its staff, community members attending the event, and for the students who would be on campus during that time.”

    There is no word on whether McCaskill will find a new venue or keep a second town hall forum scheduled for later the same day in Jefferson County.

    Well, you know what’s funny, Gateway Pundit went to a rally today to protest the Service Employees International Union for beating a man who waqs peacefully handing out Gadsden flags. The SEIU didn’t show up and there was no violence.

    Imagine that. No thugs, no thuggery.

  • Chester Co. Peace Movement: You’re Nazis

    I got this in my email this morning forwarded from someone who decided to send it to the White House to investigate as “fishy”. It’s from Karen Porter, the nutjob who organizes the Chester County Peace Movement in Pennsylvania – the same group that physically attacked our buddy Skye;

    These people [folks protesting the President’s impending policies] are (1) not going to surrender power to a black man and (2) fanatics who will stop at nothing. I mean nothing. Got that?

    Nothing.

    It’s time that all of you understand that if you didn’t before. Some of you probably still don’t have the ability to understand how dark certain forces can be – if you can’t understand it, please go back and read some pre-World War II German history. Then maybe you’ll understand the gravity of this situation we face. Hard economic times. Scapegoating. Racial and ethnic hatred. Violence. Paranoia. Anti-intellectualism. Religious fanatacism. Sexism. Powerful money interests pulling so-called “populist” strings. What I see happening right now in this country has happened before – about 70 years ago in Germany, friends.

    Yes, you folks out there exercising your rights to freely assemble and speak your minds are nothing but a bunch of racist Nazis. besides being a poor student of history, Karen Porter has all the earmarks of a serious drama queen.

    Added: I just figured out who sent me this email. I’m not used to seeing Skye’s real name.