Really, don't look at this if you may get offended. Via Ace.
Just think of the woman who can handle having a man with it.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Islam and the West
I don't feel like creating a huge post about this today, but here is a great primer from the always-fantastic City Journal on the hidden war of Islam against the West within our own countries.
Downplay it if you want, but look to Europe as the scary example of what can happen when you mix wimpy mulitculturalism with a totally foreign and backward group of immigrants. Here is a small sample:
Canadian Muslim reformist Irshad Manji has noted that in 2006, when 17 terrorists were arrested in Toronto on the verge of giving Canada “its own 9/11,” “the police did not mention that it had anything to do with Islam or Muslims, not a word.” When, after van Gogh’s murder, a Rotterdam artist drew a street mural featuring an angel and the words thou shalt not kill, police, fearing Muslim displeasure, destroyed the mural (and a videotape of its destruction). In July 2007, a planned TV appeal by British cops to help capture a Muslim rapist was canceled to avoid “racist backlash.” And in August, the Times of London reported that “Asian” men (British code for “Muslims”) in the U.K. were having sex with perhaps hundreds of “white girls as young as twelve”—but that authorities wouldn’t take action for fear of “upsetting race relations.” Typically, neither the Times nor government officials acknowledged that the “Asian” men’s contempt for the “white” girls was a matter not of race but of religion.
The finale:
The key question for Westerners is: Do we love our freedoms as much as they hate them? Many free people, alas, have become so accustomed to freedom, and to the comfortable position of not having to stand up for it, that they’re incapable of defending it when it’s imperiled—or even, in many cases, of recognizing that it is imperiled. As for Muslims living in the West, surveys suggest that many of them, though not actively involved in jihad, are prepared to look on passively—and some, approvingly—while their coreligionists drag the Western world into the House of Submission.
But we certainly can’t expect them to take a stand for liberty if we don’t stand up for it ourselves.
Downplay it if you want, but look to Europe as the scary example of what can happen when you mix wimpy mulitculturalism with a totally foreign and backward group of immigrants. Here is a small sample:
Canadian Muslim reformist Irshad Manji has noted that in 2006, when 17 terrorists were arrested in Toronto on the verge of giving Canada “its own 9/11,” “the police did not mention that it had anything to do with Islam or Muslims, not a word.” When, after van Gogh’s murder, a Rotterdam artist drew a street mural featuring an angel and the words thou shalt not kill, police, fearing Muslim displeasure, destroyed the mural (and a videotape of its destruction). In July 2007, a planned TV appeal by British cops to help capture a Muslim rapist was canceled to avoid “racist backlash.” And in August, the Times of London reported that “Asian” men (British code for “Muslims”) in the U.K. were having sex with perhaps hundreds of “white girls as young as twelve”—but that authorities wouldn’t take action for fear of “upsetting race relations.” Typically, neither the Times nor government officials acknowledged that the “Asian” men’s contempt for the “white” girls was a matter not of race but of religion.
The finale:
The key question for Westerners is: Do we love our freedoms as much as they hate them? Many free people, alas, have become so accustomed to freedom, and to the comfortable position of not having to stand up for it, that they’re incapable of defending it when it’s imperiled—or even, in many cases, of recognizing that it is imperiled. As for Muslims living in the West, surveys suggest that many of them, though not actively involved in jihad, are prepared to look on passively—and some, approvingly—while their coreligionists drag the Western world into the House of Submission.
But we certainly can’t expect them to take a stand for liberty if we don’t stand up for it ourselves.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
I wish I could figure out how to imbed video
While putzing around my usual political sites today, I ran into a music video for a song I hadn't heard in a while: "Honky Tonk Man" by, appropriately enough, the Honky Tonk Man.
That got me looking around for other videos from the same album (which I bought in 1987, and thus from which I know all the songs), Piledriver: The Wrestling Album 2. Incidentally, it can still be purchased via Amazon on VHS format, apparently showing the videos.
Anyway, I quickly found "If You Only Knew" by the WWF Superstars and, best of all, "Stand Back" by a much younger and more spry Vince McMahon.
I'll leave it to others to find others.
That got me looking around for other videos from the same album (which I bought in 1987, and thus from which I know all the songs), Piledriver: The Wrestling Album 2. Incidentally, it can still be purchased via Amazon on VHS format, apparently showing the videos.
Anyway, I quickly found "If You Only Knew" by the WWF Superstars and, best of all, "Stand Back" by a much younger and more spry Vince McMahon.
I'll leave it to others to find others.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Obama's command of the issues
Peter Wehner says that during the debate on Wednesday, things were not so good for Obama. And he spends most of this column demolishing his answers during the second half of it, which was more "issues oriented", as the far left is writing about.
Here's part of it:
4. Obama wasn’t much better in his treatment of other issues. Last night he said that a central focus of his campaign was to deliver on “middle-class tax relief.” When asked if he had just taken a pledge on not raising taxes on people making less than $200,000, Obama agreed. But later in the debate Obama admitted he would raise the cap on the payroll tax, meaning that those making more than $97,000 a year would pay higher payroll taxes. When Charles Gibson pointed out this fact to Obama and said there are “a heck of a lot of people between $97,000 and $200(,000) and $250,000” and that if you raise the payroll taxes, that will raise taxes on them, Obama said, “I would look at potentially exempting those who are in between.” But of course if he exempts all of those in between, then he’s not going to raise the payroll tax to help save Social Security. And if he doesn’t exempt all of those in between, then he’s raising taxes on those making less than $200,000.
Has he thought through these things? This guy really wants to be president? How has he gotten this far?
I am starting to think that he's just a mental lightweight who gives a fancy speech. The alternative is that he's a far-left-winger who is just a little too honest to always hide his true opinions on things. Maybe both are true.
Here's part of it:
4. Obama wasn’t much better in his treatment of other issues. Last night he said that a central focus of his campaign was to deliver on “middle-class tax relief.” When asked if he had just taken a pledge on not raising taxes on people making less than $200,000, Obama agreed. But later in the debate Obama admitted he would raise the cap on the payroll tax, meaning that those making more than $97,000 a year would pay higher payroll taxes. When Charles Gibson pointed out this fact to Obama and said there are “a heck of a lot of people between $97,000 and $200(,000) and $250,000” and that if you raise the payroll taxes, that will raise taxes on them, Obama said, “I would look at potentially exempting those who are in between.” But of course if he exempts all of those in between, then he’s not going to raise the payroll tax to help save Social Security. And if he doesn’t exempt all of those in between, then he’s raising taxes on those making less than $200,000.
Has he thought through these things? This guy really wants to be president? How has he gotten this far?
I am starting to think that he's just a mental lightweight who gives a fancy speech. The alternative is that he's a far-left-winger who is just a little too honest to always hide his true opinions on things. Maybe both are true.
Will Katie Holmes finally be freed?
So says In Touch:
Aides close to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have dismissed reports that the couple is planning a trial separation as "absolutely false." An article in the new issue of magazine In Touch declares Holmes plans to move to Manhattan, New York from Los Angeles with the couple's daughter Suri. The exclusive story, which graces the front page of the publication, leads with the headline, 'Katie wants her life back'. As the three-year anniversary of her first date with movie star Cruise looms on April 29, sources claim the actress is tired of dressing up as Mrs. Cruise and playing the perfect wife in public.
She's also probably tired of having to deal with the Scientology cult.
Aides close to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have dismissed reports that the couple is planning a trial separation as "absolutely false." An article in the new issue of magazine In Touch declares Holmes plans to move to Manhattan, New York from Los Angeles with the couple's daughter Suri. The exclusive story, which graces the front page of the publication, leads with the headline, 'Katie wants her life back'. As the three-year anniversary of her first date with movie star Cruise looms on April 29, sources claim the actress is tired of dressing up as Mrs. Cruise and playing the perfect wife in public.
She's also probably tired of having to deal with the Scientology cult.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Are Jodie Marsh's 32GGs the most ludicrous breasts in Britain?
That's the actual headline from this article in London's Daily Mail. I love British tabloids.
Go ahead, try to prove you won't click on the link to read the article and check out the pictures (no matter if you are a man or a woman).
Go ahead, try to prove you won't click on the link to read the article and check out the pictures (no matter if you are a man or a woman).
More on Obama the pansy
Jim Geraghty nails it. The Obama campaign sent an e-mail complaining that the debate questions last night were a diversion from the issues (Geraghty posts the whole e-mail in the link). Here's his response:
In the car earlier, I thought about the contrast with McCain. The guy does town hall meetings everywhere he goes. He has reporters on the bus with him all the time. He does conference calls with bloggers.
Does he ever grumble about some questions? Oh, once in a while we'll see McCain get a bit curt with a New York Times reporter on his plane. I remember him getting surprisingly defensive in response to a question about Israel on one of those blogger calls, and I'm sure we all remember the "thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted!" (which everyone at the event understood as a joke, but was easy to take out of context). But all in all, McCain's off-key answers have been pretty small potatoes. When the New York Times did that inane front-page story insinuating, but never quite coming out and accusing him of having an affair with a lobbyist, he took every question until no one had any left.
Meanwhile, Obama gets a couple questions on unpleasant topics — do you understand why your San Francisco comment bothered some Pennsylvanians? Why did you ask Jeremiah Wright to not play a role in your campaign kickoff? Why don't you wear a flag pin? Can you explain your relationship with William Ayers? — and his supporters go apoplectic, some even screaming Obama should retaliate against ABC as President. And his campaign whines that it's "gotcha politics and distractions."
Hey, welcome to the big leagues, rookie. You're gonna get some questions you're not going to like. Not everybody gets to have their main opponent's bid implode when their divorce records are unsealed and compete against Alan Keyes in a general election.
Seriously, if Barack Obama can't handle questions like this from Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous, maybe the portrait of the cracking-under-pressure whiner depicted in the Saturday Night Live sketch isn't as wild an exaggeration as we thought.
He's never won a tough campaign (outside of this primary, in fairness), so I'm starting to think that McCain would have a pretty easy time beating him if he can't handle being pushed around a little on his leftist friends and statements.
In the car earlier, I thought about the contrast with McCain. The guy does town hall meetings everywhere he goes. He has reporters on the bus with him all the time. He does conference calls with bloggers.
Does he ever grumble about some questions? Oh, once in a while we'll see McCain get a bit curt with a New York Times reporter on his plane. I remember him getting surprisingly defensive in response to a question about Israel on one of those blogger calls, and I'm sure we all remember the "thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted!" (which everyone at the event understood as a joke, but was easy to take out of context). But all in all, McCain's off-key answers have been pretty small potatoes. When the New York Times did that inane front-page story insinuating, but never quite coming out and accusing him of having an affair with a lobbyist, he took every question until no one had any left.
Meanwhile, Obama gets a couple questions on unpleasant topics — do you understand why your San Francisco comment bothered some Pennsylvanians? Why did you ask Jeremiah Wright to not play a role in your campaign kickoff? Why don't you wear a flag pin? Can you explain your relationship with William Ayers? — and his supporters go apoplectic, some even screaming Obama should retaliate against ABC as President. And his campaign whines that it's "gotcha politics and distractions."
Hey, welcome to the big leagues, rookie. You're gonna get some questions you're not going to like. Not everybody gets to have their main opponent's bid implode when their divorce records are unsealed and compete against Alan Keyes in a general election.
Seriously, if Barack Obama can't handle questions like this from Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous, maybe the portrait of the cracking-under-pressure whiner depicted in the Saturday Night Live sketch isn't as wild an exaggeration as we thought.
He's never won a tough campaign (outside of this primary, in fairness), so I'm starting to think that McCain would have a pretty easy time beating him if he can't handle being pushed around a little on his leftist friends and statements.
IMDB quote of the day
IMDB puts some movie quote on their website every day. Usually it's quite obscure and from some old movie I've never seen.
Well, for the first time ever, I immediately knew this one:
STAN ABBOT
Those nerds are a threat to our way of life.
Well, for the first time ever, I immediately knew this one:
STAN ABBOT
Those nerds are a threat to our way of life.
Dems can't take the tough questions
I didn't watch the Democratic presidential debate last night, but I read quite a bit about it. Tom Shales (of course, your typical media liberal) hated it.
Apparently the media went after Obama pretty hard on a bunch of stuff that no one has pushed him on previously. The reason, obviously, is that the media loves him and hates Hillary (now) for continuing to campaign so hard against him. I'm sure we'll read more about how terrible the debate was, but I'm enjoying it. Maybe now Obama knows what it's like, for a night at least, to be a conservative.
Michelle Malkin has a nice roundup of the angst on the Left:
Don’t you know you’re supposed to just let the candidates bloviate about Compassion or Global Warming or Diversity or some other MSM-designated Important Issue?
Don’t you know you’re supposed to ask the same, old, recycled softball questions in order to allow the candidates to recite the same, old, recycled answers about their health plans, their housing plans, their Iraq withdrawal plans?
Stephen Spruiell says that the debate questions actually helped Democrats:
The Democratic party’s super-delegates will face a momentous decision when its convention rolls around in August. If Hillary Clinton is still contesting the nomination, she will most likely be asking them to overturn the will of the primary voters and make her the nominee. They will only take such a risk if they are totally convinced that Obama can’t win in November. This was a debate for their benefit, and ABC did the right thing by testing the candidates on the issues that are bound to take center stage in the fall. On these issues, Obama might have stumbled. But he did not commit the kind of catastrophic blunder Clinton needs if she’s to have any hope of winning the nomination.
Apparently the media went after Obama pretty hard on a bunch of stuff that no one has pushed him on previously. The reason, obviously, is that the media loves him and hates Hillary (now) for continuing to campaign so hard against him. I'm sure we'll read more about how terrible the debate was, but I'm enjoying it. Maybe now Obama knows what it's like, for a night at least, to be a conservative.
Michelle Malkin has a nice roundup of the angst on the Left:
Don’t you know you’re supposed to just let the candidates bloviate about Compassion or Global Warming or Diversity or some other MSM-designated Important Issue?
Don’t you know you’re supposed to ask the same, old, recycled softball questions in order to allow the candidates to recite the same, old, recycled answers about their health plans, their housing plans, their Iraq withdrawal plans?
Stephen Spruiell says that the debate questions actually helped Democrats:
The Democratic party’s super-delegates will face a momentous decision when its convention rolls around in August. If Hillary Clinton is still contesting the nomination, she will most likely be asking them to overturn the will of the primary voters and make her the nominee. They will only take such a risk if they are totally convinced that Obama can’t win in November. This was a debate for their benefit, and ABC did the right thing by testing the candidates on the issues that are bound to take center stage in the fall. On these issues, Obama might have stumbled. But he did not commit the kind of catastrophic blunder Clinton needs if she’s to have any hope of winning the nomination.
Real-life Sarah Marshalls
They are having a tough time right now, what with the billboards saying they look fat their jeans and such.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Lots of emptiness
Due to travelling, I will be away from the internet for the next week. Thus, this blog will have no posting.
What's that you say? It already seems like that? You jesters.
Yes, my travels will harken back to a simpler time. A time when you had to turn the knob on the TV to put on the Sanford and Son and Three's Company re-runs after school. A time when the only baseball games I could watch were either the wretched Cubs after school or the NBC Game of the Week. Those times definitely sucked.
What's that you say? It already seems like that? You jesters.
Yes, my travels will harken back to a simpler time. A time when you had to turn the knob on the TV to put on the Sanford and Son and Three's Company re-runs after school. A time when the only baseball games I could watch were either the wretched Cubs after school or the NBC Game of the Week. Those times definitely sucked.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Schlitz is back
Apparently, Schlitz changed its recipe some time ago. Who knew? Who, I mean, under the age of 50? Anyway, they are going back to their original formula and trying to be big. Good for them, as I look forward to having some.
We'll have to go to this bar to sample it:
The beer will be fun to play with this summer, said Ric Hess, owner of Sheffield's bar, 3258 N. Sheffield.
We'll have to go to this bar to sample it:
The beer will be fun to play with this summer, said Ric Hess, owner of Sheffield's bar, 3258 N. Sheffield.
Review of New Amsterdam
I've been watching this new TV show on Fox called New Amsterdam. It's about a NYPD homocide detective who is immortal (long story). He always has flashbacks to similar situations that he has experienced over the past 400 or so years, which helps him solve cases.
There's also some lame side story about him finding his true love, at which point he becomes mortal again. He thinks he found her.
I understand that this isn't a thorough or interesting review, and I also don't know how many more episodes are coming this season. It does receive my recommendation, though, and I don't like crime dramas.
There's also some lame side story about him finding his true love, at which point he becomes mortal again. He thinks he found her.
I understand that this isn't a thorough or interesting review, and I also don't know how many more episodes are coming this season. It does receive my recommendation, though, and I don't like crime dramas.
Yes, illegal immigration enforcement works
Fantastic stuff on Arizona's new illegal immigration law from See-Dubya, who is guest blogging at Michelle Malkin's site. His take on what is supposed to be a bunch of usual sob stories is similar to mine, so just check it out if it interests you.
Don't believe the false choice that the open-borders group always says, which is mass roundups and deportations or amnesty. No, attrition through enforcement works just fine.
Don't believe the false choice that the open-borders group always says, which is mass roundups and deportations or amnesty. No, attrition through enforcement works just fine.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Best Final Four ever
There, I said it.
Four #1 seeds, and they are clearly the top 4 teams in the country this year. It's a total toss-up as to who is going to win this thing out of them all.
I'd love to see Memphis do it, and it would also be fun for Kansas just so Bill Self can win one. I don't want UNC, since if they do then they will have 5 titles, matching Indiana for third-most all-time.
The first 14 minutes of the Memphis-UCLA game are certainly living up to the hype.
Four #1 seeds, and they are clearly the top 4 teams in the country this year. It's a total toss-up as to who is going to win this thing out of them all.
I'd love to see Memphis do it, and it would also be fun for Kansas just so Bill Self can win one. I don't want UNC, since if they do then they will have 5 titles, matching Indiana for third-most all-time.
The first 14 minutes of the Memphis-UCLA game are certainly living up to the hype.
Kevin Love vs. expectations
Expectations, that is, to rescue basketball from the hip-hop culture. That's the theme of this article on Slate.
I find Slate interesting because even though it's fairly liberal, the articles and columns usually look at things from a unique perspective. I think the author here takes things a little far (People really think these things about Love? There is really that much angst about showboating? It's not 1975.), but then I also don't pay much attention to the mainstream sports media, so he may be right.
The quotes from unnamed NBA scouts were what I liked best:
"He is really unique," he said. "You don't find that combination of brute force, passing, shooting, and nondefense." The scout keeps a record of players to whom Love has been compared by other hoops observers. None, he found, was particularly satisfying: Unseld, David West, Sean May, Shelden Williams, Bill Walton, Jason Collins.
"He is a freak," the scout said, adding that Love's uniqueness makes him extraordinarily difficult to project as a pro.
I find Slate interesting because even though it's fairly liberal, the articles and columns usually look at things from a unique perspective. I think the author here takes things a little far (People really think these things about Love? There is really that much angst about showboating? It's not 1975.), but then I also don't pay much attention to the mainstream sports media, so he may be right.
The quotes from unnamed NBA scouts were what I liked best:
"He is really unique," he said. "You don't find that combination of brute force, passing, shooting, and nondefense." The scout keeps a record of players to whom Love has been compared by other hoops observers. None, he found, was particularly satisfying: Unseld, David West, Sean May, Shelden Williams, Bill Walton, Jason Collins.
"He is a freak," the scout said, adding that Love's uniqueness makes him extraordinarily difficult to project as a pro.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Fancy new Miller Lite flavors
Miller is going to roll out some different kinds of Miller Lite later this year. I am optimistic:
Miller is pushing the beer's ''Lite'' aspect as much as its ''craft'' taste. The beers all have 110 calories per 12-ounce serving, which is more than Miller Lite's 96 calories. But it's less than full-calorie craft beers.
Miller Lite's amber style is to compete with New Belgium Fat Tire, which has 159 calories per serving. Wheat will go against Blue Moon, made by Molson Coors Brewing Co. -- which is set to combine U.S. operations with Miller later this year. That has 169 calories. The blonde ale will go against Bass Ale, a British brew imported by Anheuser-Busch Cos., with 155 calories per serving.
Who knew Bass Ale was only 155 calories? I am going to have to go back to drinking it.
Miller is pushing the beer's ''Lite'' aspect as much as its ''craft'' taste. The beers all have 110 calories per 12-ounce serving, which is more than Miller Lite's 96 calories. But it's less than full-calorie craft beers.
Miller Lite's amber style is to compete with New Belgium Fat Tire, which has 159 calories per serving. Wheat will go against Blue Moon, made by Molson Coors Brewing Co. -- which is set to combine U.S. operations with Miller later this year. That has 169 calories. The blonde ale will go against Bass Ale, a British brew imported by Anheuser-Busch Cos., with 155 calories per serving.
Who knew Bass Ale was only 155 calories? I am going to have to go back to drinking it.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Rob Neyer is a machine
For Opening Day yesterday, ESPN.com baseball writer Rob Neyer decided to do a 12-hour online chat. It was supposed to go from 1 pm ET to 1 am ET. He also wanted to destroy Bill Simmons' chat record of 7 hours 12 minutes.
Mission accomplished. I'm amazed how cogent his answers at the end are.
Mission accomplished. I'm amazed how cogent his answers at the end are.
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