Trump calls Howard Stern a ‘broken weirdo’ while never mentioning Transcendental Meditation
In U.S., 47% Identify as Religious, 33% as Spiritual: "the 18% who say they are neither religious nor spiritual is twice the proportion Gallup measured when it first asked this question in 1999".
Mom Gets 30 Days for Waterboarding Infant Son and Putting Him in Freezer because - just a guess - she thought he was a member of Al-Qaeda.
Doomsday cult leader who says he is reincarnation of Jesus is turning 1,500 children into sex slaves on remote Philippines island when he could be putting them to work in Subic City bars.
Jason Whitlock tells Shannon Sharpe: ‘Don’t be a woman, be a man’ and, somewhere, Dylan Mulvaney just got his wings.
How dare he? How dare he?!?! Le Monde's Nicolas Bourcier can barely hide his shock at the fact that, in his new autobiography, George W Bush "has the gall" ("l'ex-président … ose") to defend his policies, from the War in Iraq to waterboarding. How typical of Dubya ("Du Bush dans le texte")!
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger wrote a book review of Decision Points while Kimberley A Strassel published an interview with Dubya, in which we learn that there are the anecdotes about Jacques Chirac, who at several points lectures the U.S. on the folly of morality or idealism. When I ask the president if he wants to expand, he starts, stops, and gives that Bush chuckle. "Let's just say he wasn't a freedom-agenda guy."
We are so glad to be American. With the exception of the Civil War and 9/11, we have never had a serious conflict on our soil so we, as a people, are pretty much immune from the soul-scarring cynicism of Yurp. We know we can do things, while they're trapped in self-inflicted visions of failure - and will be for centuries to come.
Is the European Union collapsing? Oh - so sad. And - oh - so typical. (And - oh - so expected!) But, still, they expect us to listen to them ("France does not agree!") like their word, which they've betrayed countless times, collectively and individually, means anything. We're like a Gold Medalist who they insist should be getting tips from someone in the Special Olympics. As the French like to say (because their lazy Socialist/Commie backstabbing asses can't do shit) "this is not done." And, thank goodness, it never will.
"The world is divided into good guys (never mind that some of them are borderline psychopaths) and bad guys. Give or take a few plot twists along the way, the good guys get to kill the bad guys, there’s a decent amount of action and we all get a sense of justice being done."
-- Rob Lyons, reviewing the pretty good Quenton Tarantino movie I saw this weekend, "Inglourious Basterds" (it ain't no "Reservoir Dogs" or "Pulp Fiction", but it's good) and - if you ask me - also summing up how the world works, eventually, in Spiked!
Yea - just as I'm all for waterboarding homeopaths - it's pretty satisfying to see Nazis being scalped or having swastikas carved into their heads. Another thought I had watching this is how drab and lifeless Europe looks, generally, as in the bar scene, above, with it's dank, dark wood interior. I've spent waaay too many evenings in such places, wondering how the villagers stopped from killing themselves.
This film also shows the obvious differences between the Americans, the french, the Germans and the English. We Americans - Real Americans anyway, not this NewAge yuppie thing that's emerged - are uncouth and good, not prone to dilly-dallying around, filled with slang and home-spun aphorisms, and pretty special for all that. We see a french guy pretty-much give up in the movie's first scene, allowing the Jews to be killed, just to save his own skin. ('Nuff said.) The Germans (represented here by Nazis: sorry) are the usual cultivated evil socialites - classic NewAgers - as ruthless as they are wrong. Like I said, it's a pleasure to watch them die. And the English are funny, weak-chinned killing machines. It's quite satisfying to know we're worthy of being on the same side as such men.
I also like the re-emergence of the wartime mentality in this movie: no one thinks about what they're doing - the other side has to die - simple as that. The only question is, how to go about it? Right is right and wrong is wrong, and there's no irony, or post-modernism, that can crash the party. Either you're with it or you die - and you'll probably die anyway so,...hey, get with it.
It's, not surprisingly, how I saw the world before I entered the theatre.
"In the months after 9/11 the political class was in a panic to stop any more jihadi attacks on the American homeland. After all, American Air 93 was taken over by al Qaeda maniacs to blow up the White House or the Capitol. That plot only failed when the passengers rebelled and ended up crashing the plane into the ground with all aboard.
Ms. Pelosi is therefore asking us to believe that in those panicky months her delicate sensibilities were on the side of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — and not on the side of all the career politicians of Washington, D.C. Like herself.
Fat chance!
But if Pelosi admits lying to her own voters for eight long years, the unavoidable implication is that all the other Democrats also lied about the evil Bush administration, along with those wellsprings of truth and integrity like the New York Times and the Washington Post. So Nancy’s lie drags down the entire Leftist sucker narrative."
-- James Lewis, saving the rest of us the trouble (Thanks, Dude) at Pajamas Media.
"How bizarre is it for conservatives to be demanding [Pelosi's] resignation for prevaricating about a policy they support full-throatedly? I know, I know — “it’s not that she condoned waterboarding, it’s that she lied” — but if the left forces [Pelosi] out, it won’t be because she’s a weasel. It’ll be because she didn’t have the moral acuity to throw caution to the wind after 9/11 and shrug off the odds of more attacks all so that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed wouldn’t be pretend-drowned."
-- Allah Pundit, on the lying weasel - with no moral acuity - who leads the Democratic Party, usually with a lot of Hot Air.
"Congress knew a lot more about all of this than its more 'enlightened' members would have you believe."
-- Allah Pundit, commenting on Nancy Pelosi's repeated denials (regarding knowledge of America's "Hydroponic Contingency Face Therapy Operations": Pelosi's a liar, but no big surprise there) using NewAge terminology to describe our nation's NewAge politicians - just to get on TMR's good side - because AP knows we (unlike those politicians) ain't just full of Hot Air.
Our proposed new name for Water-boarding should satisfy the nut-job left’s fixation with stupid useless euphemisms, while also providing, by the use of the word “Therapy”, an irresistible appeal to NewAgers.
