"Thanks for playing, even though we apparently all look alike to you."

The reason you all look alike is that you all sound alike. "Tax the rich, they can afford it." "You think no one should have to pay for government." "It’s not about gouging. It’s about fairness." If you didn't all blabber from the same playbook, it would be easier to distinguish.

17 Years Ago Yesterday...

I went into labor with daughter No. 1. Notice I didn't say she was born. Yet.

Moonbat Madness

It's hard to believe there are idiots out there who think this qualifies as economic policy. Thank God even Teh One isn't stupid enough to say this crap.

The comic gold comes in the comments when I asked the question I always ask of the unhinged left: how much is enough for taxes? When have "the rich" paid enough? How much is their "fair share"?

They can never answer it, of course, because they don't want to be held to either a dollar amount or a percentage of income. The idea is that Teh Rich have a grove of money trees in the backyard and can just go pick a few Bennys to pay off their tax burden, rather than (a) hiring tons of lawyers and accountants to hide their money and (b) hiring fewer employees or laying off more.

After commenting in said thread, I've come to the conclusion that Delaware Liberals are exponentially dumber than Texas liberals, because they actually think that favoring our current system of progressivity means you "think no one has to pay for government." Or that pointing out how punishing businesses who move their operations offshore isn't going to make them stay in the U.S. constitutes "not having real information." I'm sorry, Cassandra, for using logic and living in the real world, as opposed to the fantasy land that defies economics and uses lollipops for currency.

But then, I have to remind myself that this is the same Bozo who advocates shooting Republicans, so who, but an idiot from Delaware would take him seriously?

Planned Parenthood: It's About a Woman's Choice

Even if the woman is 13, and still watches The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana has suspended a nurse after the release of an undercover videotape showing her coaching a supposed 13-year-old on how to duck Indiana's laws about parental-consent on abortion and the reporting of child sex-abuse.

The videotape shows Lila Rose, the president of a university pro-life group and a brunette, posing as a blonde 13-year-old girl named "Brianna" and telling the Planned Parenthood nurse at the clinic in Bloomington, Ind., that she is pregnant by a 31-year-old man.

"I am supposed to report [you] to Child Protective Services," says the nurse on the videotape, though assuring "Brianna" she will not do so if she can tell a plausible different story.

"I didn't hear the age. I don't want to know the age," the nurse says at a later point on the tape.

Sex between a 13-year-old and a 31-year-old is child abuse and rape. And parents have a right to know these things are happening with their daughter. But that's not what Planned Parenthood wants.



H/T: The Other McCain

Keep this in mind while watching Amanda Marcotte drooling about how evil crisis pregnancy centers are.


RH Reality Check: Crisis Pregnancy Centers from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.

Yes, Planned Parenthood has "real medical personnel," but Amanda doesn't talk about how the "real medical personnel" lie and circumvent the law. Granted, I'm sure Amanda thinks a 13-year-old having sex with a 31-year-old is her "choice," and none of the parents' business (until, of course, the girl needs other medical attention that the parents must pay for and sign for).

But listen to her arguments for why offering contraception and abortion advice (well, she kinda glosses over the abortion part of it) makes PP a wayyy better alternative than organizations which encourage women not to kill their babies. "It's better going to a place with a whole variety of options and real medical care." Really? So, telling a 13-year-old how to cross state lines to obtain an abortion is just giving her the "variety of options"? Keep in mind that 13-year-olds don't even get to choose their own classes in school, but giving them the "variety of options" that include abortion is a good thing to the Amandas of the world.

This isn't the first time Planned Parenthood has been busted trying to steer teenagers to abortion, breaking the law while receiving taxpayer funding. As citizens--and parents--we deserve better.

How Should President Bush Fix the Economy in the next 46 Days?

Lots of liberal websites have posts along the lines of this, which imply that George W. Bush should be fixing the economy in the 46 days until Barack Obama is inaugurated. My question for these people is: what exactly is he supposed to be doing? Buying stock? Lowering interest rates? Creating/expanding government jobs programs that will take affect yesterday?

The point is that there is nothing George Bush can do in the next 46 days to change the economy. For one thing, Congress isn't going to send him any legislation because they, too, are waiting for Teh One's ascendency. Secondly, despite what the tinfoil hat crowd thinks, the president, even George Bush, is not all powerful and can't change the economy by himself.

Of course, the carping that Bush should be "doing something" about the economy is just the moonbatty way of saying they don't like him doing things that presidents can do when Congress is doing nothing: namely, changing agency regulations and issuing executive orders. Liberals don't like these things--at least, for the next 46 days--because it means the president can do things that help businesses and circumvent the hundreds of rules liberals like to tie business up with.

So, the next time you read a bit o' crap about how President Bush should be "doing something" about the economy, just remember which party is actually in charge of producing legislation.

You Can Find the Darndest Things on Wikipedia

My high school.

About that Zogby Poll

Liberals have been up in arms about the how Obama got elected poll, which showed Obama supporters to be woefully ignorant on a variety of issues of the 2008 presidential campaign. They've cried. They've whined. They've accused Zogby of push-polling (this poll was not, in fact, a push-poll, regardless of whether you agree with the results). They've had a field day because John Ziegler finally got pissed off at jerks who don't know what the definition of "is" is.

But now, we have the same poll run for McCain voters who doubled the number of correct answers compared to Obama voters.

35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.

18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.

McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.

Obama voters got the “congressional control” question wrong by 43-41.

Those that got "congressional control" correct voted 56-43 for McCain.

Those that got "congressional control" wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.

As RIGHTWINGSPARKLE notes, McCain voters were simply better informed than Obama voters.

I'm Not Ready to Become a Mouth-Breathing, Cliche-Spouting Troglodyte, Or What I Learned from the Moonbatosphere

I've been told repeatedly that I am really bad at put-downs. I attribute this to my upbringing, where calling your sibling a pig would get your mouth washed out. I guess I just never learned the fine art of hating.

The story of the batshit crazy woman who treated an invitation to create a Christmas ornament for the White House trees as her opportunity to display her ignorance, hatred and stupidity is just the latest example.

See, if I were a batshit crazy woman asked to create a Christmas ornament (and I hated Christmas) for an administration I hysterically opposed, I would have simply sent back the invitation with a big "HELL NO!" written in crayon across it.

Not subtle at all.

Instead, batshit crazy woman took the opportunity to not only celebrate the communist, anti-American aspects of Washington state history, but to malign and call for the impeachment of the very president who gave her the opportunity to create the Christmas ornament (and she hates Christmas).

If Barack Obama gave me the opportunity to create a Christmas ornament--and I hated Christmas with all my knuckle-dragging soul--I would either have turned it down or created what most people would consider an appropriate ornament. Maybe non-sectarian. Maybe kitchy. Certainly nonpolitical. After all, it's not my place to moon the White House because I disagree with them.

So, as I've said, I'm just not ready to become a mouth-breathing troglodyte like so many on the Left. I mean, I can't even write hysteria like this:

"Gracious" people do not steal elections, subvert the Rule of Law and the judiciary and the Department of Justice, attack and occupy sovereign states for imperialist goals, profit from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians, order the death/maiming of tens of thousands of our own troops in a war of naked aggression forged in lies, loot the treasury and destroy the futures of America's children, channel fortunes to cronies, attack the Constitution and its protections against tyranny, destroy America's position in world opinion, and so much more. Gracious people don't do these things. Thugs and ghouls do.

And I wonder if four years of Barack Obama will allow me to not only sound so repulsive, hate-filled, and stupid but will also find thousands of posts and comments from nuts who will repeat the mantra again and again.

Somehow, I doubt it. Because I'm just not good enough at being a whiny, eyes-bulging, perpetually-offended jerk.

Another Campaign Promise Bites the Dust

Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: Aide (By Jeff Mason and Tom Doggett, Reuters)

President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday...

Obama, who signaled early in his campaign for the White House that he would take an active approach to oil markets as president, had planned to use the revenue from a windfall profits tax to fund a tax rebate for low- and middle-income families struggling with high energy prices.

But...but...what about my pony?!

Redefining Terrorism

One of the worst things about the culture we live in is the attack on words. Not just the fact that calling a handicapped person handicapped can wind you up in PC classes for five years, but the insistence by MSM not to describe Muslim Jew-hating terrorists as Muslim Jew-hating terrorists.

THE international media have already morphed the horrific slaughter in Mumbai into the murky realm of euphemism and apologetics.

Al Jazeera and The Guardian label the terrorists "gunmen"; CNN calls them "militants." Some analysts identified the underlying cause as the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Psychological guru Deepak Chopra called it the result of "collateral damage" from the US war on terrorism and the Iraq war.

But how does the especially bloodthirsty attack on Mumbai's Nariman-Chabad House fit into this puzzle palace?

The New York Times theorized that Chabad House may have been an "accidental hostage scene." The BBC initially chose to hide the Jewish character of the target by describing it as just "an office building." Al Jazeera refused to show Chabad House as the site of the carnage. Some Western media outlets unsympathetically labeled victims there as "ultra-Orthodox" or "missionaries."

Dana has a post on the too-obvious nature of the attacks and how journalists conspicuously won't call the attacks what they are: anti-semitic and anti-Western.

Some Good Election News

Chambliss wins in Georgia by a big enough margin that even Al Franken couldn't try to steal it.

The Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives

From a liberal perspective:

You know what’s great about being a liberal: looking at my paycheck every two weeks and not blowing a gasket when I see the amount of taxes I pay out.

You know what must suck about being a Republican: looking at their paycheck every two weeks and start bleeding for the nose and ears.

More accurately,

You know what's great about being a liberal: being dumb enough (or not make enough money) to be happy that the government is confiscating my income for unnecessary and freedom-stealing programs.

You know what must suck about being a Republican: knowing that there are enough idiots who don't just want their money confiscated but think you should be forced to donate, too.

Anyone who is happy about the amount taken from his/her paycheck in taxes isn't paying enough.

Obama Boycotts Fox News?

As the campaign season clearly showed, Teh One can't take criticism and payback is a bitch.

Fishbowl DC has been keeping tabs of which media outlets have been allowed to ask a question at President-elect Barack Obama’s five press conferences so far. They report Fox News is 0-5. “Questions instead went to such outlets as ABC, New York Times, CBS, Reuters and the Associated Press.”

The only thing that comes from trying to ignore one of the biggest news networks is going to be more digging and more negative news. Because journalists don't like being dissed like that.

It's ok with me if Obama thinks he can play this game of chicken for four years. More Americans get their news from Fox News than the other cable outlets, and ignoring those folks isn't going to help him with the reelection thing.

The New Cowboy in Town

Trying on his cowboy hat, Barack Obama talks tough about the right to self-defense.

''My administration will remain steadfast in support of India’s effort to catch perpetrators and bring them to justice. I expect the world community will feel the same way,'' Obama said, in one of several references to the events in Mumbai that underscored the roll-out of his national security team in Chicago on Monday.

Jules Crittenden notes that this sounds eerily like part of the Bush Doctrine.

You’re either with us or you’re against us. I don’t know anyone ever nailed down what the Bush doctrine was. But I’m pretty sure a sovereign right to self defense, seeking out the terrorists wherever they are, and holding nations that harbor terrorists accountable was part of it.

But then, the usual suspects are still complaining it's Bush's fault, which is odd, since Obama's election was supposed to end terrorism. I guess Muslim extremists didn't get the memo. Or anchors don't realize that some people didn't get that lovin' feeling with Teh One's election and they've hated each other for an eternity.

But what if the strikes weren't Bush's fault...but a response to Obama? How do the moonbats spin that?

Got No Money? Have Sex!

That's the findings of one survey.

As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says.

A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping.

The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with 35% in South England.

Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, which published the survey, also welcomed recent figures showing an increase in condom sales.

Around one in 10 respondents to the survey, carried in November, said their favourite free activity was window shopping and 6% chose going to a museum as the cheapest way to pass the time.

But the sexes differed on their priorities, with women preferring to gossip with friends while men had sex firmly at the top of their list.

I remember when we had no money. Of course, now we have two kids who are 18 months apart...

Adjusting Their Tinfoil Hats

Today's installment of Moonbat Manor comes from this post regarding Muslim terrorists torturing hostages and the fact that doctors couldn't identify some of the terrorists because their faces had been obliterated.

Said poster:

Maybe I have watched too much television, but when a body is beyond recognition it sure makes it hard to really know if the person being buried is really the bad guy. It just wouldn’t surprise me to learn years from now that they aren’t dead and are or were tortured American style. It’s pretty scarey scenario really. As far as the world knows, they are dead, but you wouldn’t recognize them.

“Here you go, your dead terrorists”

“We don’t recognize them”

“yep, what a shame, you’ll just have to trust us“

Yeah, because the real problem is that terrorists who tortured hostages (torturing Jewish hostages most of all) might be tortured by the American government.

If We Only Talked to Them, They Wouldn't Want to Kill Us

Obama's national security team is looking more like a debate squad, and with good reason: that's Obama's philosophy.

It's not hard to see where Obama would think talking our enemies' ears off will make them stop hating (and thus trying to kill) us. That's what law school is all about. But why am I seeing Woodrow Wilson when I read this:

The shift would create a greatly expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers that, in the vision of the incoming Obama administration, would be engaged in projects around the world aimed at preventing conflicts and rebuilding failed states. However, it is unclear whether the financing would be shifted from the Pentagon; Mr. Obama has also committed to increasing the number of American combat troops. Whether they can make the change — one that Mr. Obama started talking about in the summer of 2007, when his candidacy was a long shot at best — “will be the great foreign policy experiment of the Obama presidency,” one of his senior advisers said recently.

The adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the three have all embraced “a rebalancing of America’s national security portfolio” after a huge investment in new combat capabilities during the Bush years.

And so, the pendulum swings strongly to diplomacy, forgetting that talking endlessly merely gives our enemies time to prepare for battle (or, at least, build a nuclear weapon or two).

LOL of the Day

Liz Smith, on Sarah Palin's possible $7 million book deal:

I really don't want to write the fol lowing item, but it's happening, so who am I to quibble? The hottest thing going in the fairly supine and dormant book publishing world is the ongoing question of the memoir, autobiography, or what have you yet to come from Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin.

The governor is said to now be seeking a hot, hot, hot agent to handle the onslaught of proposals asking her to write her own story in her own way. Rumor has it she could get $7 million for such a book if she could produce same! (I didn't know anybody could get $7 million for anything anymore, unless they ask Uncle Sam.)

What could Sarah Palin, age 44, write of a life still so young? Anything she damn well wants to write. The public, it seems, is just waiting to lap it all up like that finger-lickin' moose stew.

Gosh, such a tough question. I mean, just because she's been a business owner, mayor, governor of the largest state, popular vice presidential candidate, villain of the Left, mother of five, including a Downs Syndrome child. Nah, nothing there to write about. Not like a guy who did drugs, was a "community organizer," used the Chicago Way to get into politics, voted "present" a million times, ran a vapid election campaign and managed to be elected president.

Object Lesson

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Peaceful:

India, Welcome to the Global War on Terror

Last week, India joined the league of civilized countries by being attacked by Muslim crazies. According to this terrorist, they were supposed to fight "till their dying breath."

I guess he didn't want to do that. Maybe he wasn't as anxious to get his virgins or something.

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last breath’.

Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were meticulously planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people.

He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages.

Thankfully, as usual, the terrorists underestimated the strength of the building and so, it still stands. But the Indian government should start policing its airports and transportation better, because, as our own history shows, if they can't blow up their target, Muslim terrorists are likely to fly planes into it.

Did I say "Muslim terrorists"? Oh, I know. I'm not supposed to point out that, yet again, the Religion of Peace has tried to kill Christians and Jews.

From Stop the ACLU:

OH my what a surprise. Are you as surprised as I am? No? Good, I really am not surprised here. You know what else didn’t surprise me in the least? The fact the mainstream media kept saying “gunmen” and “hostages” even though well into these attacks it was known it should have been saying “muslims” and “Jews” but we can’t go around demonizing a whole religion for the acts of a few “wackos” (unless it’s Christianity of course, then all those viles, hateful Christians are guilty as sin by association) after all, we are the MEDIA and have to stay objective and fair.

Excuse me while I choke on the bile from throwing up a little bit in the back of my mouth for having actually written that last sentence.

One of the best scenes in An American Carol is the discussion of "radical Christians" who take over buses and blow themselves up in marketplaces. Of course, what makes it hilarious is that Christians don't do these things, just as they aren't prone to fly airplanes into buildings. But that doesn't mean the nuts at Pandagon, Echidne of the Snakes and the rest of the moonbatosphere don't think a handful of people wanting a moment of silence or the questioning of Darwinism is a greater threat to Western civilization. Look at the lies they spread about Sarah Palin ("ZOMG!!!! SHE'S A CHRISTIAN!!1!!!11!!!).

These same kooks want to talk about Dominionist theology taking over America because Pat Robertson calls us "a Christian nation" on The 700 Club. Shockingly, neither Amanda Marcotte nor Jesse Taylor have found any time whatsoever in the last few days to discuss the Muslim terrorists killing a bunch of people and holding a bunch of others hostage. I guess looking for racism in derelict shopping malls and mocking conservatives just has a higher priority with the "enlightened" "writers" at Pandagon. But don't worry. The next time a Christian anywhere complains about the war on Christmas, I'm sure those intrepid truth-seekers will be right on it!