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"An Italian trade union has been criticized after deciding to an award a 'Hitler Prize' for people who distinguish themselves working with animals."

"Animal rights activist, 31 of her dogs found dead in garage."

"Cops said they believe 62-year-old Sandra Lertzman, of Moreland Hills, Ohio, committed suicide but aren’t sure how long she and the animals were dead inside a running vehicle before they were discovered."

Older Women Are Animals, Half-Naked Dancing Girls, The Lusty Lady, And Cultists Getting Married All Alone

Who Doesn't Like To Watch Half-Naked Girls Dancing? These Guys, 

After They See Why It's Happening.

What It Was Like to Work at the Lusty Lady, 

a Unionized Strip Club

Lauren Drain Escaped The Westboro Baptist Church And None Of Her Family Came 

To Her Wedding

Do The Right-Wing Hippies Celebrate The Solstice, Too?

Looking at the arms on him (and, if I remember correctly, knowing he's into martial arts) I'm still not sure how I feel about Crowder letting himself get pummeled for the cameras this week. Since he used up his 15 minutes a long time ago (trying to be a conservative flip-side to Bill Maher) certainly not the outrage Glenn Reynolds & Co. are trying to whip up - which is also getting old.

 But then, I have to admit, so is Reynolds,..so yeah. 

 

We're On Him (His Friends Can't Help Him Now)

Everybody knows he's wounded, but some are catching the whiff of blood:

The fact that Obama quickly gets lost in the weeds when he’s taken off message should put a big fat bull’s-eye on him for any of his opponents in his upcoming reelection campaign. A point I’ve made in other forums and repeat here is this: A sufficiently ruthless opponent would not defer to him but take any and every opportunity to discomfit him. What this, and similar episodes, shows is that he has never had to deal with a very public event, from which he cannot escape, in which he’s lost control and is being made to look bad. That thin veneer of cool would quickly melt. He doesn’t improvise well and doesn’t know when to stop digging: it’s tough when you believe deeply that you’re the smartest guy in the room. In fact, the person he least respects has the greatest opportunity here. Media mavens that run our so-called debates can be counted on to try to keep things predictable. Obama’s opponents should not accommodate that ruse.

They're going to keep crying "racism", of course, but it is, was, and always will be the arrogance of the man - his hubris - that loosed the hounds on him.

That, and his always having been wrong.

Oprah XXX

I've mentioned this before, but these leftist fools still won't stop talking about civil war:

This week [California Governor Jerry Brown] has been using Civil War metaphors at his public events to describe the deep divisions in California, and the entire country for that matter, preaching with the passion of a born-again that the country is dangerously polarized.

“We are at a point of civil discord, and I would not minimize the risk to our country and to our state. It is not trivial. I’ve been around a long time, I’m a student of history, I’m a student of contemporary politics. We are facing what I would call a ‘regime crisis.’ The legitimacy of our very democratic institutions are in question,” he said.

No word from Moonbeam on who's pushing us there, though I have my suspicions:

Only a fool would think that the sick out that closed down Madison schools for five days in February was anything but an illegal, union-coordinated, illegal strike.

But there are a lot of fools in Madison, aren’t there?

Now there is proof that the sickout was a premeditated, union-authorized job action  -- a phone tree of teachers calling other teachers to close down the schools. This kind of activity is prohibited by the union’s own contract and illegal in WI Statute Chapter 111.84(2)(e)

Everything liberals do is a confused act to control something - and they'll stop at nothing - here's Glenn Reynolds:

More and more, it seems like parental malpractice to let your kids go to public schools, where they seem to be viewed as state property, and guinea pigs for social experimentation.

And it ain't conservatives doing it, that's for sure.

Yesterday I asked what will happen when California goes under - and said I don't know - but one guy has been thinking about what will happen if the nation goes under, and it ain't pretty, kids:

3) Your life could be in danger. If the government goes bankrupt, you’ll have an extremely angry, confused, and frustrated populace that has little faith in its leaders — combined with a horrific economy and a reduced ability of the government to keep order. Under those circumstances, widespread rioting and violent crime seem entirely plausible.

The fact Americans are even thinking this way means we'd better get this country in order or else. And we're certainly not going to get there listening to liberals, that's for sure. Here's another Lesson For The Day:

When you find yourself in trouble and you're stuck in a situation...

Not everyone who shows up is there to help you!!!!

Why Must They Always Insist On Being Wrong?

Please, pardon my incoherence, I'm supposed to be writing songs - not anything resembling an essay:

After the last presidential election, an arrogant President Barack Obama informed Republicans we had to accept his stimulus package because "I won." So the Tea Party got organized, and under a wave of media slander - claiming we were a bunch of crazy racists - we gave the president a "shellacking" like few had seen in politics before. And it was done legitimately, one could even say cleanly - without misrepresentations or violence - just patriotic Americans going to the voting booth and doing what they thought was right.

The Democrats of Madison, Wisconsin, on the other hand, haven't seemed too happy with democracy since then, or the "I won" message now coming from Republicans. With Democrat politicians running away to Chicago to halt further changes, their supporters engaging in street protests, committing acts of violence, and issuing threats to Republican public officials and anyone else they thought was against them, now, as a new election nears, they are trying to install a judge they think will overturn the results of their previous loses, Joanne Kloppenburg:



As I've said, that "simple protest" the video refers to was hardly simple, filled as it was with lying and acts of mayhem on the part of Democrats, so the happy-go-lucky style of the ad is misleading. In keeping with that unfortunate approach, their candidate, Kloppenburg, also doesn't appear to be a woman who values basic decency, as this exchange between she and her opponent, the incumbent Judge David Prosser, reveals:



Not only that, but one of the victims in the ad they're discussing has come forward to say Kloppenburg is dishonest:



This prompted a retired attorney, who goes by the initials AST, to recently comment:

I'm watching "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," when I find the same eerie feeling coming from Madison, Wisconsin. 

If the people of Wisconsin are so dumb they can watch all this without being sickened by the crass, anti-democratic behavior of the Democrats in your state and the thuggish behavior of the unions.

If this is "Midwestern Values" the country is in bigger trouble than I thought.

Yeah, well, welcome to reality. Frank Zappa famously noted that, in the struggle of man against the world, you should bet on the world - and good men are starting to see what he means. Apparently, only the good men, though.

A blogging pioneer, by the name of Dennis the Peasant, recently announced he's had it with blogging:

It's time for me to face up to the fact that the political blogosphere is a near complete bore.

There are two reasons for this boredom, as far as I am concerned. The first is as follows: Six years ago, the political blogosphere was not dominated by the money and resources of mainstream media and professional political advocacy groups. Now it is. The political blogosphere has now acquired all of the defects (and none of the virtues) of mainsteam and advocacy media. With money has come self-censorship and intellectual dishonesty.

The second reason is a function of the first: Simply put, the vast majority of the political blogosphere's heavy hitters aren't worth reading. Beyond being captives of those corporate and political interests who pay them, lots of those folks can't write, are remarkably uninformed, and quite a few are just plain stupid. They are paid to bring eyeballs. They are not paid to think. And you know what? It shows...

That it does, as I've made abundantly clear for some time, and in a variety of ways. Though Dennis found some support online, many of the comments ran to the usual, immature, "he's jealous" variety, without engaging with his premise at all:

Why doesn't anyone try to change the lousy political leadership of the blogosphere?

Of course, the main reason is because the internet's conservative gatekeepers like things the way they are, seeing how it flatters themselves as visionaries and keeps the philistines away. Dennis used to be hooked up with Pajamas Media, but now - Hey - if Pajamas Media's Glenn Reynolds doesn't like or understand you, right or wrong, what's to force him into directing traffic your way? He's the king of the roost, Mister, and that's all that matters. If he and his suburbanite supporters' nerdy tunnel-visioned interests are the problem, so what? They're in charge and don't have to listen. Unfair or not, they won! They'll spread the wealth, maybe, but admit they may not deserve it? Never. (As far as I know, Reynolds never did link to Dennis' complaint.)



An example of all this (and, I admit, it's not a great example but it's what I got) was Ann Althouse, a Reynolds favorite, posting the viral video above and calling it "The essence of conversation, revealed by the complete absence of meaningful words." It's nothing of the kind, just two babies da-daing each other to death, as though they were talking. Of course, Ann's not the only one to believe this is actual conversation. And that's sad, because - like the recent success of Rebecca Black's "Friday" as good music - this video is actually a highly embarrassing exhibit 'A' of how adults delude themselves. Just as pet owners are known to do, when they claim their charges "think" in human terms, this is nothing more than the sharing of an erroneous meme as though it's gospel, and, like a cat owner who thinks it's cute when the feline jumps on your lap, anyone who doesn't go along is just "mean". Like, those two kids are somebody's babies, right? Yeah, and you're adults - and, in the case of Ann Althouse, an educator - but, like the president Ann helped vote into office, she should know better than to be doing such things.



Everyone should know better. But how can they? They're in charge! The president, of course, was a constitutional law professor. Ann Althouse, too, is a law professor, and, as I said, she voted for Obama. This means Althouse, Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds - also a law professor but one that didn't vote for Obama - and the president still all have something in common:

They're in charge - while happily existing with scum like Bill Ayers in academia.

While Reynolds is constantly harping on the cost of a college education (which even he acknowledges, from time-to-time, may not be worth it) he rarely raises the question of what good an American education if the profession is so corrupt even murderers are allowed to educate, and so cowardly a murderer has been doing so, for decades, without serious challenge? How, with them in charge, can that be? And why, if a college education is so great, is academia's thinking so screwed up and trivial?

That Bill Ayers video, above, has also gone viral - not because anyone is interested in exposing him as evil and, somehow, drumming his corrosive likes out of polite company, but because this figure of evil is on a college campus exhibiting snark regarding the rumor he may have written the president's memoir. (What would the internet be without snark, huh? What would a president be like, or a college auditorium, without a welcomed dictator or domestic terrorist?) No, Bill Ayers is merely presented to us for internet chatter, reminding decent internet denizens we're trapped in a nightmare, living in a relativist's dream world.

Like Ann Althouse, until recently Andrew Sullivan was another Glenn Reynolds favorite, being one of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", or one of the four early conservative bloggers to gain a major following. And, also like Ann Althouse, Sullivan, a confirmed NewAge weirdo, voted for Barack Obama, much to his current shame. Of course, all Obama voters brought shame upon themselves - and the rest of us - but Sullivan's now trying to maintain a badly played charade that he didn't know Barack Obama was as dishonest as Arianna Huffington and all of his other supporters of that untrustworthy ilk:

Many of us supported this president because he promised to bring back the constitutional balance after the theories of Yoo, Delahunty, et al put the president on a par with emperors and kings in  wartime. And yet in this Libya move, what difference is there between Bush and Obama? In some ways, Bush was more respectful of the Congress, waiting for a vote of support before launching us like an angry bird into the desert. Hillary Clinton, channeling her inner Cheney, said in a classified Congressional briefing that her administration would simply ignore the War Powers Resolution of 1973 that requires the president to seek Congressional approval within 60 days of the conflict starting. If the congress voted against continuing the war, it would be irrelevant to the administration. Beat that, King George II.

Yada, yada, yada. Sure, sure. You had two years of being told, in no uncertain terms, the man was a liar - with a domestic terrorist for a friend - and you still gave him power anyway. Please, just shut up and go away. (For the last time: why does he still have a job? Oh yeah, because Reynolds still links to him, bringing Sullivan tons of traffic, just so Reynolds can let him know he's a rube.)

Speaking of people who should just go away, Newt Gingrich has been forcing himself upon us lately, making us all have to deal with the results of his failed and messy personal life. This got Rand Paul to make a few comments:



Question - why is the audience groaning? It's not a bad joke or observation, so it must be because they thought it inappropriate. Well, this goes to the heart of the problem I'm writing about here:

The only thing inappropriate is allowing Newt Gingrich back in politics as though we can't see the true nature of the man.

Instead of a room full of movers and shakers tsk-tsking at Rand Paul, I hear a room full of morally deficient "players" trying to maintain a false image of sophistication in the face of a younger generation of leaders (Dan Quayle's son is also on the dias) who know more then the audience about what's right and what's wrong. Shame on anyone who thinks it's this new generation of leaders who should "tone it down." No, it's the previous set who should get out of the way because, as the architects of our current situation - as those in charge - they've outlived their usefulness, if they've ever had any. And their reaction to Rand's joke indicates they haven't.

They've been part of the problem.

Recently, while discussing the meaning of David Foster Wallace's final book, which was patched together after the NewAge author killed himself, I voiced a newfound post-divorce/murder ambivalence about life. Don't feel superior towards those who choose suicide, I warned, because what the rest of you have created isn't all it's cracked up to be. This prompted someone to say:

Crack, you seem to be morphing into that which you deplore.

Thinking of Zappa's admonition, my response was and is, "So what's your point?"

I grew up in the foster homes of South Central, Los Angeles. I left the ghetto looking for a better life that I only found in fits and starts, only to have it all come crashing down around my ears because of a bunch of silly NewAge "beliefs" Baby Boomers have been happy to entertain for over four decades. Then, once my life was over as I knew it, you went and handed our country over to a god damned socialist. Sorry, but now, having been marginalized for most of my life, I'm not going to pretend I'm one of the voices of power responsible for anything that's gone on out there.

And I've been around long enough to know those in power don't care, anyway, what anyone out of power thinks - no matter what an awful job those in power are doing - or even when you include concepts like "right" or "wrong" or just the idea of looking for what would be more effective. If they did, they'd be changing things, opening doors, promoting thinkers and ideas totally unlike their own. But, instead, they're feeding us a steady diet of failure and, except for themselves, making the world an ever more unpleasant place to live. Why not join them?

Like I said - please pardon my incoherence - but, please, also excuse me for reminding everyone, as long as these jokers stay in control, America's probably not going to be a much more pleasant place to die either.

The KKK & The Democratic Party: 1 Honest Man

Just like they're trying to do with the union battle in Wisconsin - making people think public government unions are the same as those in private businesses - I've found another Democrat playing hard and fast with the truth:

A mayoral candidate in Lakes Wales is speaking out about his involvement with the Klan. 

70-year-old John Paul Rogers wants to become the next mayor of Lake Wales, but critics say he could have a tough time bringing the town together because he's a former member of Ku Klux Klan.

Rogers, who is currently a commissioner, spoke with 10 News Tuesday afternoon and says, "I'm not running for the Klan for Grand Dragon." That's because Rogers has already had that title.

He says, "Well I resigned years ago, about 30 years ago. Jesus said, 'He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone,' and so far no one's hit me with a rock. I don't know of any act of any violence that was sanctioned by our organization, either national or in Florida."

But Darryl Paulson, a USF professor, who is an expert in the Klan, points to a case in which two Klansman with the United Klans of America were convicted of attacking 19-year-old Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile, Alabama. Donald was beaten up and his throat was cut.

Paulson says, "They hung him from a tree and they were sued in court and the civil judgment was launched against the United Klans of America. The jury awarded a six million dollar settlement to the mother of the slain child."

He adds, "When Rogers says he resigned. He had no other choice. The United Klans couldn't pay off the six million dollar settlement but they lost their headquarters. Their headquarters was sold as part of the judgement so in essence they were forced out of business. They were financially bankrupt."

Of course, the history of the Democratic Party is the history of the Klan, and - whether they're defending the white race or have a black man leading them and, from the very beginning of his campaign, calling everyone who opposes him a racist - exploiting racial differences and divisions has always been their stock and trade. They really can't help themselves.

And it's actually a pleasure to finally see a Democrat so up-front about it - or, at least, doing the best he can,...

Sexuality & Socialism (Aw, Go Fuck Yourselves)

This is pretty self-explanatory,...even if it's not pretty. Sorry about the F-bomb.

Hat Tip: Gatewaypundit

Arianna Huffington: While The Puffington Host's Rubes Clapped, She's Been In TMR's Crosshairs

I asked this the other day, regarding Fergie and psychics, and now I'm forced to ask it again about this "loopy new-age cut-throat bitch" - do you people think I pick my targets at random?

A strike called by unpaid Huffington Post contributors received a major boost Wednesday with a call to arms released by the national Newspaper Guild.

The industry association called on contributors not currently on strike to cease contributions and asked members to help by “shining a light on the unprofessional and unethical practices of this company.”

The Newspaper Guild boasts 26,000 members and is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The CWA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

The strike was called earlier this year by the membership of Visual Art Source, whose 50 members had previously contributed content for free to the site.

“Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical picket line, we ask that they honor this electronic picket line,” wrote the Guild.

“This is about supporting the quality and integrity of a vehicle for progressive expression, to actually help Huffington Post succeed, but on the right terms,” wrote the Guild. “We call on Arianna Huffington to demonstrate her commitment to the working class she so ardently champions in her writing.”

Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Here, let me answer that with a quote from Dana Milbank in a previous post on Zsa Zsa:

"If anybody was fooled, it was those who believed she would be a more enduring progressive than she was a conservative."

In other words, anyone who trusts a liar like Arianna Huffington - and I'll say anyone who trusts a confirmed NewAger - is the rube.

I've pointed out that - Oh, forget it. After all these years, I've said all I have to say on the "Greek Goddess", the results of her "beliefs", and what anyone else can expect. Here's a link to Arianna's tag on this blog. Everything you could ever need to know is right there:

Figure this cold, evil, lizard-brain-obsessed witch out for yourselves.

If It Hinges On Belief It Don't Matter If It's False

Jesus, this man is repulsive.

Is Michelle Still Proud Of The Country Or What?

Hat Tip: iOwnTheWorld

Thugs: You've Messed With The Wrong Old Lady

My friend, Ann Althouse, was on FOX News yesterday, commenting on some video she and New Media Meade shot of kids being exploited, and indoctrinated, to support the public unions in Wisconsin.

Today they got a death threat:

"We will picket on public property as close to your house as we can every day. We will harrass the ever loving shit out of you all the time. Campus is OCCUPIED. State street is OCCUPIED. The Square is OCCUPIED. Vilas, Schenk's Corners, Atwood, Willy Street – Occupied, Occupied, Occupied, Occupied. Did you really think it was all about the Capitol? Fuck the Capitol, we are the CITY... We have the numbers and we don't back down from anyone. We all know each other. We all know each other. We know each other from Service Industry Night at the Orpheum, because we're regulars at the same coffee shops, restaurants and bars, we know each other from the co-ops, we know each other because we've had a million jobs each (and we all worked at CapTel at least once), because we live in every shitty townie house in ever-changing groups of 2 – 7 people, because we are young and horny and screw each other incessantly, because we're all on facebook, and because we aren't anti-social, life-denying, world-sterilizing pieces of human garbage like the two of you. WE WILL FUCK YOU UP. We will throw our baseballs in your lawn, you cranky old pieces of shit, and then we will come get them back. What are you gonna do? Shoot us? Get Wausau Tea Patriots to form an ad hoc militia on your front lawn? That would be fucking HILAROUS to us. You could get to know the assholes on your side in real fucking life instead of sponging off the civil society we provide for you every single day you draw breath."

I don't think these people understand what they've done - Ann's important to us. She's not a conservative - she voted for Obama so, in a sense, she's partially responsible for this mess - but she's got a LOT of conservative friends because of the free speech policy of her blog. (Unlike most liberals, she doesn't try to shut anybody down merely because we may disagree about something.) Conservatives like her, but more importantly, we respect her. How many other liberals can claim that? Not many.

And if you ask me - if any harm comes to her or Meade - there ain't gonna be many liberals left, period:

It's ON!

Come One, Come All - Now Get Away From Me!

With all these visitors streaming in from all over, I have to say, if you're from one place and not visiting the blogs that I'm tight with, you're missing out on what's happening online. Here's a few of them:

The graphic, above, is from iOwnTheWorld, and it's typical of the ridicule they dish out to anyone who thinks we're the rubes. There aren't many conservative art blogs around, but with iOTW's head honcho, Big Fur Hat, on the case, there ain't gotta be. I'm not sure how he keeps the level of brilliance up day after day, but he does, and he and his crew even continue to top themselves, sometimes completely destroying whatever it is I thought they were able to accomplish. Personal note:

They've given me a lot of encouragement when I was feeling down, and, I'm sure, TMR wouldn't still be here without them.

I am honored to call iOwnTheWorld my friends.

[Click to enlarge: really, do it - it's funny!]

This next blog is new to me, but since they've started hanging out here, I've had ample opportunity to visit Flying Tiger Comics and, damn, I'm glad I did! I can't really explain it because (like TMR) it's too eclectic, but I know a kindred spirit when I see one and Flying Tiger Comics fits the bill.

Go, visit - enjoy!

Althouse is an online salon run by Ann Althouse. Right now, she and Laurence "New Media" Meade are making news in Madison, Wisconsin by covering the union battle with Gov. Scott Walker. There's a lot more that goes on over there, daily, because Ann's a pot-stirring educator with a loyal following of really smart readers, but the main reason I love it is because she's a fierce free speech advocate - as I am - as well as a fellow artist and, even though she voted for Obama and can show a squishy hippie center sometimes, her openness to other opinions more than compensates.

I'm hard on her, and Meade, but just for putting up with me, I love them both more than I can express with words. I mean that:

They're two wonderful people.

My sister blog is by Panda Bear, M.D., a former Iraq War vet who entered the medical profession. Like me, he doesn't mess around with BS, despises NewAge and quackery, and hold's the conservative's tragic view of life rather than the liberal's therapeutic, so - if you're looking for medical advice you can trust - he's the man. He hasn't posted in a while but so what?

He will when he's good and ready.

And finally, Mystic Bourgeoisie is where Chris Locke has been untangling the NewAge phenomena in preparation for a book of the same name. If you don't think TMR explains NewAge enough (as I prefer to speak as though understanding it is a given) then go and start at the beginning and let "Rageboy" lay it all out for you. Mystic Bourgeoisie is probably one of the most fun, well-laid out, and informative blogs on what's really troubling our present day culture I've ever read.

I'm not ashamed to say it saved my sanity.

It just might save yours, too - or, at least, will explain a lot of stuff you think you already understand - but you don't. Take my word for it:

When it comes to NewAge, you don't know nothin'!

Andrew Klavan Explains The Public Union Farce

Wake Up, Folks: Losing Is Supposed To Feel Bad

Oh Man, when Saturday Night Live announced Winning! is taking on a whole new meaning, they weren't kidding:

After years of claiming presidential immunity to avoid legal proceedings, Jacques Chirac is finally facing a court.

The former president, a bugaboo for George W. Bush during his rush to war in Iraq, on Monday becomes France's first former head of state to go on trial since its Nazi-era leader was exiled.

That is, if the whole case isn't derailed by a last-minute protest by another defendant.

If the trial goes ahead as planned, Chirac, 78, faces a month in court on charges that he masterminded a scheme to have Paris City Hall pay for work that benefited his political party when he was mayor — before he became president in 1995.

A prison term is seen as highly unlikely, but in principle if convicted, Chirac could be jailed for up to 10 years and fined euro150,000 ($210,000).

France's restive political circles are gearing up for next year's presidential race, but the fallout from this trial is unlikely to hit anyone other than Chirac and the nine other defendants including a grandson of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and a former left-wing labor union leader.

Still, the trial looms as an embarrassing coda to Chirac's 12-year presidential term, potentially denting his legacy, recent philanthropic work and image as one of France's most popular personalities since he left office.

So, let's see, what do we have here:

The supposed ally, who said "We do not agree" during the Iraq War, tormenting the United States and President Bush (who is going through an amazingly positive reassessment) is facing trial for being a cheat and a liar? And wasn't it France's position during the war that fueled the Left's opposition here?

Hmmm. Winning!

Also, the grandson of Charles de Gaulle, who lied to paint the French as heroic during WWII - the lie that gives that country the balls to criticize us no matter how many times we come to their aid - he could be in trouble as well?

Duh - Winning!

And, finally, there's a former "left-wing labor union leader" in trouble, too?

Winning! Winning! Winning! Winning! Winning!

We don't know what you're thinking, but you losers out there better get with the program, because this Winning! thing is sweeping the world,...