I linked Ace's article in the Fast Lane earlier this evening, but I think it bears a broader look.
In your traditional Cult-of-Personality dictatorship, say for example one such as Josef Stalin's reign, every action and activity is traditionally set in terms of the Leader to whom the [...]
In a not-so-stunning repeat of 2007, it would seem that Iran has taken another set of British sailors hostage:
The Foreign Office confirmed that a racing yacht owned by Sail Bahrain and crewed by five British sailors was detained by the Iranian Navy on November 25.
The yacht had been on [...]
You know, with all the attacks by the greens and the freedom-hatin-capitalism-hatin leftists in our world decrying our energy usage, one must wonder how projects like these EVER get constructed. Without a peep from Al Gore.
CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy [...]
He doesn't really say a lot these days, but when he does, the Dissident Frogman really packs a mean wollop: A lengthy and most amusing article on the Swiss vote banning Minarets, which is too long and insightful for me to even begin to consider excerpting (So Read It' [...]
Thanks to Ron Coleman for the kind words!
(What's the good of having all that spare time if you don't do something horrid with it, huh? ;) )
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When you see this photo, taken by Reuters stringer Sharif Karim, do you think:
(a) What kind of news agency treats the rantings of a murderous thug as a valid democratic expression?
(b) Did Sharif Karim go out of his way to select a woman raising her hand in order [...]
Fresh on the heels of the Climate scandal that's rocking the world, we get a "What, Me Worry?" from the Presidential Spokesdunce-in-Chief: (I'll translate Robert's babblings for you in italics below.)
The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that' [...]
It says alot about the current Administration that fewer than 10% of the Cabinet-level appointees have been selected with a background in private-sector experience. In the midst of a recession of almost-historic proportions, we see a President who insists on actively ignoring any input from people whose experience [...]
Once again, we see the impressive rewards that the Obama Administration's smart diplomacy are bringing us: Iran has announced over the weekend that it will no longer be voluntarily cooperating with the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency:
TEHRAN - Iran officially announced that it will cease its voluntary cooperation with' [...]
As many of you know, the race to fill Ken Cuccinelli's soon-to-be-vacated Virginia Senate seat is coming to a close in tomorrow's primary election. For those of you who live in the area, here's yet another reason why Steve Hunt deserves your support:
Dear Friend,
As you know, the Republican primary' [...]
Remember back in 2006 when Dubai wanted to take over management of six American ports?
Boy, isn't hindsight just awesome?!?
The United Arab Emirates' central bank said Sunday it would offer additional liquidity to banks, signaling a push by the federal government to reassure investors worried about the country's banking sector' [...]
Pres Obama must think that our territories, thus defined as "territories", means that there must be terror activities going on there. Why else send the Office of Homeland Security to take over the Marianis Island's immigration?
Yes. Take it over.
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Except, they don't do turkeys.
A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.
Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state [...]
I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on being on the computer for the next day or so.
Therefore, Snapped Shot wishes you a nice (and early) Thanksgiving! As part of our annual tradition, allow me to link to this telling of the real first Thanksgiving, celebrated at [...]
Our good friend Stoaty the Weasel has come up with the only graph that you will ever need to debate global warming hysteria:
Yep, we've definitely crossed that particular line a while ago, haven't we?
Update: Ace's invective surrounding this story is utterly on target. The' [...]
I believe, while the time may not yet be ripe for a civil unrest, I also believe that the times they are a changing. And that ain't good.
When people feel that their nation is being destroyed from within, or that the truth and right is being disgarded in favor' [...]
Here's a little dash of funny for you Monday early birds:
You know that site that sells homemade crafts ala eBay - Etsy, they call it? Welp, someone's gone and done the inevitable, and setup a most beautiful mockery.
Welcome to Regretsy, the funniest thing you'll read in a while.
(Why' [...]
Whenever in the history of human warfare has war been a tit-for-tat exercise? If your enemy takes a timeout to rearm or move personnel, were you expected to do the same and halt all attacks?
Did we expect Germany during WW2 to halt all of their attacks while we gathered and [...]
How far the mighty nation has fallen. See its remnants. See the pedestal and its cracks. See how the facade has come crashing down. See the people mourning for the nation is no longer.
When a nation turns away from laws, biblical morals, and away from its foundings, then that nation [...]
I am of the opinion that this photograph, released by the North Korean news agency and passed on without comment by the uncritical lunkheads at Reuters, is a complete fabrication.
Look at the difference in perspective between the light brown foreground and the dark brown background, where the cattle [...]
What happens when you read the ObamaCare bill, specifically the one coming out of the USSA Senate?
We learn just how bad it really is.
It isn't just that this bill will create new citizenship mandates, eliminate freedom of choice and liberty, or even jail people for making personal legal choices,' [...]
I find it ironic that Sen Arlen Specter claimed that the Republican party left him, thus forcing him to become a Democrat.
But yet, when one looks at his career, voting record, and his statements on American values, a person can't come to any other conclusion but that this man' [...]
According to the left, the most atrocious thing that could ever happen, besides the warming of the planet and the sight of polar bears resting on ice caps, would be if the Republicans gained power in the People's Congress of the USSA.
How bad [...]
Elder over at EOZ has the scoopage. Israel has been proven once again to inflict unecessary evil and carnage on to the Palestinian Arab peoples.
It wasn't bad enough that Israel built their suicide-bombing-Apartheid wall, or that they put up homicide-bombing-blockades around the city, or that they forcibly removed the residents' [...]
Whoa! What happened to today?
Sorry it's been so quiet over here. Guess this is what I get for actually having to work for a living.
To make up for it, and also to hopefully keep from chasing away the last five of you readers that are still here, I'm gonna just [...]
Apparently a prestigious global warming research institute in Jolly Old England had its e-mail server hacked, which has revealed a rather startling pattern of abject data manipulation.
Which, last I checked, wasn't part of the "pure" process of Scientific Inquiry which lie-b'ruls always say we Conservatives are destroying.
One wonders what [...]
I've got a bit of morning madness to deal with over here, and after that, I will proceed to work on my Fairfax story that I mentioned last night.
Until then, here's a brutally honest commercial from someone who could possibly be the best salesman, ever:
Update: [...]
Finally made it to a Fairfax County Republican Committee meeting again. Hopefully this makes me a Republican in Good Standing(tm) again!
Got plenty to say about the three candidates running for Steve Cuccinelli's Virginia Senate seat, and a nice campaign speech to share with you, but I think I'm [...]
You will never guess where the latest jobs Obama attempted to "save-or-create" were at. No, they were not in some fictitious congressional district. No, they didn't involve a shoe salesman or some processed cheese.
You are going to have to click through to find out the answer....
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The New York Times is absolutely bubbling with rage at one of the following bumper stickers. Can you guess which one it is?
The obvious answer is below the fold, of course.
-->The most exciting operating system I've seen in years (and keep in mind that this comes from a de-facto OS junkie. Anyone else out there remember OS/2 Warp?)
Plenty of background info (including source code and build instructions) here.
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In the wake of the Fort Hood shooting tragedy, Hollywood actress Camryn Manheim believes its time this country did something about further restricting who can obtain a deadly weapon.
“There should be vast limitations on gun policy and tons of [...]
Exhibit A: A 21st-century Korean interpretation of the ancient Australian art of the didgeridoo:
A little bit of early-for-Friday excitement, courtesy our good friend Eddie the Bear!
--> [...]The Associated Press (yeah, it's that dastardly Lee Jin-man again!) provides visual proof that the coming Zombie apocalypse begins right here in the White House.
Before they color-corrected it, that is.
U.S. President Barack Obama reacts as he moves to Marine One at the Osan U.S. Air Force Base in' [...]
Well, the conservative budget-hawk Senate Leader has come out with his version of the Health Care plan. And wouldn't you know it, the minority party is all up in arms against it.
Ok, I know it didn't happen that way, but you know that it would.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has [...]
I don't think I can stretch this one out into a full "News in Focus" post right now, so I'll just be brief: None of these people really look like they want to be there, and all most likely for vastly different reasons.
One does wonder if it's customary' [...]
Walls make better ones!
Two observations about this photo montage, which I just spotted over at Daylife:
#1: Will our purported Commander-in-Chief ever actually find the time between sightseeing to actually make the hard decisions it takes to, well, "Command" the military he supposedly runs?
And #2: It's' [...]
It would seem to me, that if I was near to losing my home due to forclosure, I would not be protesting in Washington D.C. Instead, I would probably be spending the day working in order to make money to actually pay my mortgage. I might even get another [...]
I was just perusing my web-email page and saw the latest news headlines. I just had to say something about them.
First up is this headline:
Obama warns of a 'double dip' recession
AP - President Barack Obama says he's worried that spending too much money to help revive the' [...]
Here is something that will just make you smile and grin all the whole day.
This is a video of a dog's reaction to its owner returning home from a long duty in Afghanistan.
Come on, we need something to make us smile these days. I don't know [...]
Sure, he could stop the war, but that would require a "decision," which doesn't seem to be his greatest strength.
Looking at the arrangement of the two posters in frame here, I find it hard to believe that Lee Jin-man came up with this shot without spending a' [...]
You know, back in Soviet Russia, it was also of the utmost importance for the news media--which, incidentally, just happened to be a set of wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Government--to please the national leadership of the Soviet Party and the Duma which it controlled. Under the Soviet system, media figures that [...]
Here's another warm and fuzzy Liberal Social Program Success Story, which will lighten your day and bring a smile to your face:
LANSING, Mich. — One frustrated client hurled a piece of concrete through the window of a welfare agency. Another threw her car keys at a welfare worker before' [...]
Do I really believe that?
Who knows.
What I do know is that liberals have cried for years about how we mean conservatives use "Communist" to describe them unfairly, and that (shock upon shocks!) we use the word as a pejorative and not in the Kind, Positive [...]
Allah (SWT) uses the occasion to poke fun at the morons over at Radio City Hall, but I think the lesson applies to pretty much all of television: If you can't get far enough out of your insulated P.C. world to mock something that's incredibly funny (i.e., the [...]
You know, if I were any more cynical than I already am, I would suspect that this shot, taken by pool photographer Frank Robichon, was purposefully framed in such a way as to suggest that Barack Obama's Teleprompter overshadows the Man Himself.
It would seem that the Washington Post has a little bit of a double standard when it comes to "controversial" remarks made by a pastor -- and how those remarks relate to prominent politicians.
For example, here's how the Post described the 20-year pastor and "long-time mentor" of Politician A:
The' [...]
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