tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102061792024-03-13T15:09:26.713-04:00SCRIPTOIDSIf you knew what was coming, you wouldn't be wasting valuable time reading this.Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-48621117479476341322010-07-29T00:56:00.005-04:002010-07-29T01:08:02.928-04:00Tripping on Twizzlers<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TFELhGwQNmI/AAAAAAAAAbA/zRG_vWUFcdk/s1600/BROOKS+MAGIC+JACKET.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 247px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499189283372676706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TFELhGwQNmI/AAAAAAAAAbA/zRG_vWUFcdk/s400/BROOKS+MAGIC+JACKET.jpg" /></a> <div></div><br /><em><span style="color:#999999;">I was a liberal Democrat when I was young. I used to wear a green Army jacket with political buttons on it — for Hubert Humphrey, Birch Bayh, John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. I even wore that jacket in my high school yearbook photo.</span></em> <span style="color:#666666;">-- <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27brooks.html?_r="1" target="_blank">BoBo Brooks</a></span>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-57087921883505141092010-07-27T05:13:00.002-04:002010-07-27T05:19:36.999-04:00Effigies of Sen. Lindsey Graham hanged, beaten by Randall Terry and followers until little plastic fetuses fall from pinata-like wombs<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TE6jtm0k5eI/AAAAAAAAAag/XCPWytYw7kE/s1600/GRAHAM+PINATA.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498512198976464354" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TE6jtm0k5eI/AAAAAAAAAag/XCPWytYw7kE/s320/GRAHAM+PINATA.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /> <br />You know, just substitute Kabul for Greenville, South Carolina, and the mayor of Kabul for Lindsey Graham, and Sec Def Gates would be urgently requesting a few thousand additional troops.<br /> <br /> <br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Via </span><a href="http://wonkette.com/416937/lindsey-graham-finally-hung-beaten-in-effigy-in-south-carolina#more-416937" target="“_blank”"><span style="font-size:85%;">Wonkette.</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> Full slide show </span><a href="http://www.wyff4.com/slideshow/slideshows/24369682/detail.html" target="“_blank”"><span style="font-size:85%;">here.</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-37449161334473810182010-07-26T14:30:00.003-04:002010-07-26T14:44:12.654-04:0010 people, one post-fetal cell collection die when van hits truckDevout anti-choice blogger Dr. Stolinsky <a href="http://www.stolinsky.com/news/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=737" target="“_blank”">reads</a> a nondescript headline from an unnamed, unlinked, undated newspaper article and goes all DaVinci Code. Where we see a sad but tragically common story, he sees nothing but encrypted media bias against the preconceived, the preborn, and the recently postborn.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#999999;">Some time ago, a newspaper began a report on a terrible accident with the headline, ‘Ten People, Baby Die When Van Hits Truck.’<br /></span></em><br />Stolinsky is outraged. No, no, no -- not that 11 people were instantly wiped off the face of the earth, but that the headline, in Stolinsky’s warped view, downgrades the dead baby’s personhood.<br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />Stolinsky is divinely convinced that the baby’s being singled out and tallied separately from the “ten people” means the headline writer (and by extension the evil liberal media) views the child as less than a full human being.<br /><br />Have to admit, that was not my first thought. Or my last.<br /><br />Well, yes, babies <strong>are</strong> counted differently in articles about tragic events. In emotional currency, they have <b>more</b> value than adults, not less. That’s why the headline writer worked the baby’s demise into the headline.<br /><br />Had the van and truck gone up in flames, the headline writer probably would have played up the flames: <i>Van Hits Truck, 11 Perish in Fireball.</i><br /><br />When space is tight, fireballs always trump babies in vehicle crash headlines.<br /><br />We might think this is all farkin’ obvious, but Stolinsky is blind. As further proof of the evil liberal media’s bias against the full personhood of the preconceived, the preborn, and the recently postborn, he snags and grills an anonymous editor* who’s conveniently vague and shruggy about everything yet nonetheless adamant that babies are not persons.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color:#999999;">When I questioned an editor, he saw no reason to reword this as ‘Eleven People Including Baby Die,’ or ‘Ten Adults and Baby Die.’ To him a one-year-old was not a “person.”</span></em><br /></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#999999;">When I asked at what age a child becomes a “person,” he was unable to reply. Nor did he express an opinion about when an elderly or disabled individual ceases to be a “person.”<br /></span></em><br />What an incredibly useful tool that anonymous editor proves to be, assuming he actually exists. The rest of us sort of know that individuals pretty much cease to exist once the death certificate is signed. Only gods and corporations are immortal. And maybe Dick Cheney.<br />_____<br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>*Is he the editor of the newspaper that generated the headline? Apparently not. Is he the editor of</em> Journalism for Dummies<em>? Not specified. Is he the editor of the</em> Journal of the American Medical Association<em>? Probably not. Regardless of his particular area of expertise, if any, the anonymous editor, like all the anonymous waiters and cab drivers that populate opinion writing in America, is readily available for comment at a moment's notice.<br /></em><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-63536153748841571152010-07-21T07:07:00.003-04:002010-07-21T07:22:48.042-04:00Shirley Sherrod -- This Is Your Life!<a href="http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/654005553_1946534.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 157px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/654005553_1946534.gif" /></a>Good god. If you worked a little overtime on the night shift early this week, you probably missed out on the screwball tragedy involving USDA official Shirley Sherrod. It’s a malicious farce that has less to do with farming Georgia clay and more to do with the stupidity and amorality of media people (whose salaries are a lot more than yours, mine, and Shirley Sherrod’s combined) who continue to let escaped Heaven’s Gate cultist Andrew Breitbart wreak havoc on the lives -- and livelihoods -- of innocent people.<br /><br />Disgraced via <a href="http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/" target="“_blank”">Breitbart’s media manipulation</a>, <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555623/posts" target="“_blank”">branded racist and rejected</a> by the NAACP, <a href="http://wonkette.com/416799/tom-vilsack-fires-shirley-sherrod-as-the-summer-of-firings-over-nothing-continues#more-416799" target="“_blank”">compelled to resign</a> by the sackless Secretary of Agriculture, and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201007200047" target="“_blank”">now fully vindicated,</a> Ms. Sherrod most likely will be back <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/07/obama-ag-department-to-reconsider-womans-dismissal/1" target="“_blank”">at her desk</a>, helping <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/07/20/shirley_sherrod_breitbart" target="“_blank”">small Georgia farmers,</a> before you clock out by week’s end.<br /><br />In other news, after a 3-year-binge of flipping off the LA County Probation Department, Lindsay Lohan's finally in jail....<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Blingee thingee via Wonkette.</span>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-22299270271571297882010-07-14T16:21:00.001-04:002010-07-14T16:23:34.161-04:00One of the biggest threats to democracy: Other people's brainsMisinformed people often have the strongest political opinions, and they almost never change their minds. <br /><br /><a href=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=1 target=“_blank”>Here’s why.</a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-17804679858534337602010-07-13T02:14:00.002-04:002010-07-13T02:35:43.148-04:00Absolutely the only nice thing I'll ever say about Michelle Bachmann<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TDwI9AXX1_I/AAAAAAAAAaY/ipebbW6ariw/s1600/Bachmann+arm+pits.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 261px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 278px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493275489648236530" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TDwI9AXX1_I/AAAAAAAAAaY/ipebbW6ariw/s400/Bachmann+arm+pits.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-24500844995379209782010-07-11T21:33:00.003-04:002010-07-11T21:41:32.208-04:00El manana me perteneceOver at Big Government, Michael Zak offers the kind of in-depth yet historically expansive political analysis that only a wingnut can: <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/07/11/hope-and-change-and-the-scariest-movie-scene-ever/" target="“_blank”">Hope and Change and the Scariest Movie Scene Ever.</a><br /><br />Here's my brief synopsis. [<b>Spoiler alert:</b> Hitler makes a guest appearance.] <blockquote><span style="color:#666666;">The scariest movie scene isn’t in a horror movie. It doesn’t involve zombies or slashers, but it is about a real monster, “the kind of monster that people choose to rule over them,” with or without the help of ACORN and the New Black Panthers Party.<br /><br />Something. Something. Something. Quote from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Something else.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#666666;">Cue <i>Cabaret</i> video clip of Hitler Youth singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me -- complete (bizarrely) with Spanish subtitles.<br /><br />Segue to the present day: Could America fall prey to a demogogue?<br /><br /><i>Oh snap</i> punch line: Yes we can!</span></blockquote>Zak doesn‘t realize that “tomorrow belongs to me” is not far removed from “taking our country back” (for those needing Spanish subtitles: retirando nuestro país). And wouldn’t you know it, there’s already a catchy twangy theme song on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHydpgwOoSY" target="“_blank”">YouTube.</a> No Aryan aria is this little ditty.Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-87150880109991965212010-07-01T12:21:00.003-04:002010-07-01T12:25:39.781-04:00Ped-Egged by realityJohn Stossel talks up the <a href=http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/06/30/entrepreneurship_helps_make_america_great#2 target=“_blank”>Great American Entrepreneurial Spirit</a> by interviewing A.J. Khubani, president of TeleBrands, and British TV pitchman Anthony Sullivan. These guys are just schlock merchants. America is not going to survive if its GDP depends on two people pitching and shipping Sham-Wows, which, by the way, actually are made in <b>Germany.</b><br /><br />Just how much ad time does TeleBrands buy on Fox channels anyway?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">*Most Ped-Eggs are made in China. </span>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-15140604208627975712010-06-30T08:53:00.002-04:002010-06-30T09:00:26.392-04:00Things I just learned I didn't knowCourtesy of President Richard Nixon and Senator Robert Byrd, <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_PRT target=“_blank”>Morgantown (WV)</a> has pod cars. While the personal rapid transit cars <i>technically</i> are not pod cars, they’re nifty nonetheless. Morgantown’s PRT system has been in service for more than 30 years, and has been astonishingly safe and reliable. <br /><br />PRT car (above); really cool-looking experimental pod car (below)<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Morgantown_PRT_-_Beechurst_Station.jpg/300px-Morgantown_PRT_-_Beechurst_Station.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Morgantown_PRT_-_Beechurst_Station.jpg/300px-Morgantown_PRT_-_Beechurst_Station.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/ULTra_001.jpg/300px-ULTra_001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/ULTra_001.jpg/300px-ULTra_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-24265390976053727232010-06-22T22:38:00.001-04:002010-06-22T22:41:30.506-04:00Comments from the strongly food-motivatedNo <a href=http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzI0MzI1YTQ4YTAzMWI4NGM2MjFmMmM0NzUwMGQ4MmI= target=“_blank”>friggin’</a> way. Not with GaGa’s tatas in the same issue. <br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TCF0BJ2ENlI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/MLveJq07mlE/s1600/JONAH.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 174px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TCF0BJ2ENlI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/MLveJq07mlE/s400/JONAH.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485793384285353554" /></a><br /><br />Jonah wraps it up with this stunning endorsement: “I should also say that I came away liking McChrystal a lot more. He really is an impressive guy.“ <br /><br />Tonight, an extra ration of Cheetos for Jonah.Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-13689408985436772962010-06-20T22:45:00.003-04:002010-06-20T22:50:40.750-04:00For some people’s fathers on Fathers Day: The Rightwing Forward MuseumAbsolutely adore this site: <a href="http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com" target="“_blank”">My Rightwing Dad</a> is “dedicated to following the course of American history through a unique lens -- the emails ‘Red-America’ forwards worldwide.”<br /><br />But be warned: The site “displays unedited, often offensive and untrue material with no endorsement intended by curators or contributors.” Shorter warning: Red-America can be vile.<br /><br />On the less vile end of the spectrum is this post, <a href=http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/2010/06/fw-just-for-fun.html target=“_blank”>Oh Hell!!!… Let’s offend everybody!</a>, an email forward that does pretty much that while insisting that “sometimes you just have to look at a lighter side!!”<br /><br />A-huh.Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-75913088045891897632010-06-19T22:18:00.005-04:002010-06-20T00:11:22.556-04:00Choke on itA news <a href="http://www.sbsun.com/ci_15331702?source=most_emailed">report</a> about a horrifying shooting in a San Bernardino fast-food restaurant…<br /><blockquote><i><span style="color:black;">A man carrying two guns walked inside a Southern California [Del Taco restaurant] and shot four people who were eating lunch together, killing two—<b>including an 8-year-old boy</b>—before turning the gun on himself, police said Saturday.</span></i></blockquote>…triggered a series of <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538245/posts" target="“_blank”">callous-beyond-belief</a> responses at Free Republic (yeah, where else?).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Posted by Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>I wish I had Del Taco in S.C.</strong><br /><strong>1</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:51:16 PM by Jet Jaguar<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply View Replies]<br /><br />To: Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>There was one here but the tore it down to build a Walgreens.<br />4</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:54:29 PM by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies]<br /><br />To: Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>I can fed ex you some</strong><br /><strong>5</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:54:42 PM by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies]<br /><br />To: Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>There’s a Del Taco near Spartanburg :)</strong><br /><strong>6 </strong>posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:54:43 PM by Amanda King<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies]<br /><br />To: Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>Tacos Del Carbon - Steak</strong><br /><strong>8</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:55:01 PM by Jet Jaguar (*)<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies]<br /><br />To: al baby<br /><strong>Thanks for the offer. I will be in Nevada again in a few days.<br />More Tacos Del Carbon - Steak!!!<br />9</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:56:22 PM by Jet Jaguar (*)<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 5 View Replies]<br /><br />To: Jet Jaguar<br /><strong>There used to be one in Atlanta. Much better than Taco Bell.<br />10</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:56:27 PM by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 1 View Replies]<br /><br />To: Amanda King<br /><strong>2 hour drive.<br />I could do this.<br />Tacos Del Carbon - Steak</strong><br /><strong>12</strong> posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:57:59 PM by Jet Jaguar (*)<br />[ Post Reply Private Reply To 6 View Replies]</span><br /><br />I rarely get this nasty but: <span style="font-size:130%;">Hey guys, choke on it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>UPDATE </strong>Free Republic has since "bartoned" the thread.</span>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-52927108996279134602010-06-15T07:01:00.002-04:002010-06-15T07:06:44.845-04:00Troll vs Troll<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TBdd4MYZT-I/AAAAAAAAAaI/J7OVu-SMqM8/s1600/RUDE+FARK.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 245px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482954291324473314" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/TBdd4MYZT-I/AAAAAAAAAaI/J7OVu-SMqM8/s400/RUDE+FARK.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Click image to embiggen.<br /><i><span style="font-size:85%;">H/T to Fark and The Rude Pundit.</span></i>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-59837842825545168862010-06-14T07:00:00.004-04:002010-06-14T07:32:46.826-04:00HootersSarah Palin titles her latest Facebook <a href=http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=398548958434>post,</a> <b>Fuel America with Terrorist-Tarred Oil Instead of Drilling Our Own, Baby?</b><br /><br />From there it goes downhill. <br /><br />Simple Sarah wants a simple answer to her simple question: Why won’t terrorist cock-sucking liberal Democrats unleash the full glorious sheen of America’s “safe, warehoused onshore and shallow water [!] reserves waiting for permission to be extracted” from places like, you know, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and, oh, Miami Beach. <br /><br />That’s rather sweet: The oil reserves are just biding their time until a cruel government bureaucracy sets them free from the prison of their geological “warehouses.” No one anthropomorphizes crude oil better than Sarah Palin.<br /><blockquote><i><span style=color:black;>Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven’t learned enough to dismiss common sense (a prerequisite for power in Washington these days). <br /><br />Help me out, friends! Help someone like me – and the majority of Americans – understand why we would ever kowtow and bow to foreign regimes that hate us, instead of doing all we can to starve the beast of terrorism in our plight for security, prosperity, and peace.</i></span></blockquote>Our <i>plight</i> for security, prosperity, and peace?<br /><br />Close enough for the public-schooled and recently augmented, I guess. <br /><br /><a href="http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/palin-boobs-wonkette.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 144px;" src="http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/palin-boobs-wonkette.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-18088398382056157572010-06-11T03:16:00.002-04:002010-06-11T03:20:23.774-04:00On first thought<a href=http://wildammo.com/2010/06/03/if-movies-followed-their-original-casting/ target=“_blank”>Wild Ammo</a> redoes the movie posters for some blockbuster hits as originally -- but not ultimately -- cast. Tom Hanks as Jerry Maguire? Yep. Robert Redford as <i>The Graduate?</i> Of course. And then there’s O.J. Simpson as the Terminator. <br /><br /><a href="http://wildammo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/32448_385397137861_713137861_3977634_7256878_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 420px; height: 612px;" src="http://wildammo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/32448_385397137861_713137861_3977634_7256878_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-710443804880289202010-05-19T06:07:00.002-04:002010-05-19T06:13:33.646-04:00Speaking in tongues: A freeper blegs<blockquote><span style=color:black;><i><b>RINO Retard Masochist from RNC on Rachael SickSows show last night???</b><br /><br />Last night, flipping through channels, I caught the tail end of an interview with an RNC "spokesperson" (for lack of a more accurate descriptor).<br /><br />Anyone know who this masochistic fool is, and what his story is, that he would go on *any* PMSDNC freakshow?<br /><br />Is he a RINO? or a RNC "insider"?...Or just a masochistic dumbass hoping that VanderheaveUppal would be guest hosting...in her KGB dominatrix cone titty outfit??<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2516493/posts" target="“_blank”">Posted</a> on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:26:46 AM by DGHoodini</b></span></i></blockquote>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-72739608264811704522010-04-28T19:32:00.003-04:002010-04-28T19:43:53.417-04:00At least it’s not a pop-up book<a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/04/340x_decisiondoor.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 259px;" src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/04/340x_decisiondoor.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>George W. Bush’s long unawaited memoir, <i>Decision Points,</i> is due out in November 2010 ... let's just imagine the marketing department’s internal memos about releasing it on 9/11. Gawker’s having fun revamping the cover photo (more alternate covers <a href=http://gawker.com/5524256/here-is-the-cover-for-george-w-bushs-memoir target="_blank">here</a>). Over at <a href=http://trueslant.com/nickobourn/2010/04/27/the-difficulty-of-marketing-bushs-memoir target="_blank">True/Slant</a>, Nick Obourn ponders the tricky business of marketing Dubya's drek. And for a parody excerpt involving Dubya, a mysterious bald man, some drawing paper, and a lot of grunting, check out <a href=http://theawl.com/2010/04/first-look-george-w-bushs-memoir target="_blank">The Awl</a>.<br /><br /> Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-83182030839958754772010-04-14T22:07:00.004-04:002010-04-14T22:14:52.399-04:00Beware non-rhetorical rhetorical questionsThe proprietor of <a href="http://citizenpalin4president.blogspot.com/2010/04/governor-palins-nuclear-experience-vs.html#comment-form" target="“_blank”">Citizen Palin 4 President</a> scoffs at President Barack Obama’s nuclear experience:<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Has President Obama ever stepped foot on a missile defense base or even seen an interceptor?</strong><br /></span></em><br />But ask <i>Well, has Obama?</i>, and the proprietor refuses to post the question, let alone answer it.<br /><br />I’m guessing the citizen for Citizen Palin 4 President hasn’t a clue.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/S8Z1h0UQypI/AAAAAAAAAaA/egIv1nwZaKc/s1600/Palin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 365px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 372px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460180822073068178" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/S8Z1h0UQypI/AAAAAAAAAaA/egIv1nwZaKc/s400/Palin.jpg" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-24576420001855310092010-04-14T18:01:00.000-04:002010-04-14T18:03:02.297-04:00Things I just learned I didn’t know (tax prep edition)<b>Parent of a Kidnapped Child</b><br /><br />The parent of a child who is presumed by law enforcement authorities to have been kidnapped by someone who is not a family member may be eligible to take the child into account in determining his or her eligibility for the head of household or qualifying widow(er) filing status, the dependency exemption, the child tax credit, and the earned income credit. <br /><br /><i>From 2009 1040EZ Filing Instructions, Cat. No. 12063Z</i>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-74533369821705308562010-04-04T00:32:00.000-04:002010-04-04T00:34:11.366-04:00Pasqua felice<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73678062@N00/48486496/" title="Untitled by Grace Nearing, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/48486496_04588d1e72_o.gif" width="259" height="316" alt="" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-44635686435314979182010-03-30T21:14:00.003-04:002010-03-30T21:33:31.824-04:00Choosing to marque el numero dos<a href="http://trueslant.com/johnknefel/files/2010/02/208x228_Asinine-America-EUROPE-IS-A-STUPID-COUNTRY.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 228px;" src="http://trueslant.com/johnknefel/files/2010/02/208x228_Asinine-America-EUROPE-IS-A-STUPID-COUNTRY.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Astonishing, really. Freepers <a href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2481992/posts target=“_blank”>mulled over</a> which countries they’d like to move to now that America is a communist-fascist-socialist Muslim theocracy <b>and</b> cop-targeting Christian militias are being rounded up. The big winners in the pick-a-country contest: Spanish-speaking third world countries. <br /><br />This from people who constantly bitch about having to hear <i>Para Espanol, marque el numero dos!</i> <br /><br />The most frequently mentioned freeper expat valhallas were Panama; Costa Rica, El Rushbo’s influence, no doubt; and Honduras, probably because HGTV’s House Hunters International has <a href=http://www.hgtv.com/house-hunters-international/honduras-home-hunt/index.html target=“_blank”>featured</a> the country several times. <br /><br />A few had trouble grasping the reality that even Spanish-speaking third world countries have their standards when it comes to resident aliens, especially nagging details like income and property ownership requirements, and realized they were just stuck forever in the USA. Others, of course, brayed loudly they’d fight and die in the USA -- we’d have to take their last, uncashed Social Security checks from their cold dead hands. <br /><br />Still, freeper <a href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2481992/posts?page=38#38 target=“_blank”>hampdenkid</a> lobbied hard for Honduras: “My water bill is $31 a year. My electricity is free. I have a live-in maid for $50 a month.” <br /><br />Why is his electricity free? Because it’s government provided.<br /><br />Vaya con Dios, hampdenkid.Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-17306837121118894122010-03-29T20:36:00.000-04:002010-03-29T20:37:45.147-04:00Death panels and sponge bathsFOXNews <a href=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/26/little-known-long-termhealth-care-provision-budget-buster-say-critics/ target=“_blank”>is what it is </a> -- that I already knew -- but I didn’t know that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is an idiot. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73678062@N00/4474298143/" title="CLASS Act by Grace Nearing, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4474298143_cf08e2a3cf_o.jpg" width="414" height="691" alt="CLASS Act" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-8528775705736476002010-03-25T00:18:00.003-04:002010-03-25T00:24:53.062-04:00Lord they're dumbNRO republishes <a href=http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjY3ZTg2ODNhYTg4ZDUyNjlmNTBmYWI0YmY2YTQ0YTI= target=“_blank”>a doctor’s letter</a> to her patients describing how, in protest of ObamaCare, she’s now going to screw them over -- and the wingnuts see not a petty, vindictive, and somewhat paranoid medical practitioner but a rightwing heroine with unlimited access to oxycontin. <br /><blockquote><i><span style=color:black;>For this reason, I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program…. <b>This means that I will provide you only with a receipt for the services you have paid for, but without the additional information that is required to submit your receipt for reimbursement to your health insurance company.</b> That is the only way I can make sure there will be no conflict between following the law and serving you. Because the law is now in effect, so must these changes be to my practice.</i></span></blockquote>Hey, I have no problem with a doctor running a cash-only practice, but at least give the patients a properly coded bill to send to their insurance company. What a bitch! <br /><br />Of course, where I see a doctor putting her political beliefs ahead of her patients’ well-being, <a href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2479090/posts?page=4#4 target=“_blank”>freepers</a> see something else. <blockquote><i><span style=color:black;>God bless this doctor for putting her PATIENT’S ahead of this crapola.</span></i></blockquote>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-41373888234600949852010-03-22T01:37:00.002-04:002010-03-22T01:39:59.915-04:00It's a miracle!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/S6cCZfq71AI/AAAAAAAAAZw/TAYeQj9zLP4/s1600-h/HCR+PASSES.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/S6cCZfq71AI/AAAAAAAAAZw/TAYeQj9zLP4/s400/HCR+PASSES.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451328510976840706" /></a>Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-78070152406786782642010-03-14T15:07:00.005-04:002010-03-14T15:29:10.808-04:00Pundit NumerologyWould you trust a pundit whose <a href=http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/reconciliation_health_care_and_history/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+%28Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB%29 target=“_blank”>math skills</a> are this whack?<blockquote><i><span style=color:gray;>Almost every act passed under reconciliation (8/15) has in fact been a budget bill.</span></i></blockquote>That’s James Joyner of <i>Outside the Beltway</i> trying mighty hard to stretch 53.45% into “almost every.”<br /><br />Then there’s Daniel Cross of <a href=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/tax_the_top_hit_the_middle.html target=“_blank”>American Thinker</a>. He’s blaming an increased tax rate on high-income earners for the flight of millionaires from Maryland.<blockquote><i><span style=color:gray;>Early in 2009, Maryland raised its tax rate to 6.25% for income earners of $1 million or more and saw a decline in tax revenue as high-income taxpayers emigrated to tax-friendlier states.</i></span></blockquote>Funny thing, Cross provides absolutely no data to back up this claim. Have millionaires precipitously sold their mansions and high tailed it over state lines? Just how much of the state’s decline in tax revenue can be attributed to the Great Recession and how much to fleeing millionaires? Well, Cross isn’t telling. (He’s certainly not telling me. I emailed asking for the data; no response.) Plus, it might just be too early to tell anyway, since tax collections for 2009 don’t end until April 15, 2010.<br /><br />Finally, there’s the much ballyhooed CNN/Opinion Research <a href=http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/17/tea.party.poll/index.html target=“_blank”>poll</a> that supposedly defines just who Tea Partiers are. According to CNN, Tea Partiers tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative. They also are apparently well educated. <br /><br />Well, maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. <br /><br />According to CNN, roughly 11% of those surveyed qualified as Tea Part Activists. CNN gives the number as 124; according to my calculator, the number is even smaller: 11% of 1023 = 112.53. Because of the small sample size, the margin of error for the survey section on TPAs is +/-9, which is pretty ghastly.<br /><br />At least CNN includes a <a href=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/17/rel4b.pdf target=“_blank”>link</a> to the actual survey data (PDF), which reveals some other methodological weaknesses. <br /><br />According to the survey, Tea Party Activists -- all 124 (or 112.53!) of them -- were identified as such because they “actively supported” the Tea Party movement. What qualifies as active support? <br /><br />Well, contributing money. Okay -- giving money’s the best show of support. <br /><br />Attending a Tea Party rally or meeting. Okay -- feet on the ground or asses in the seats is always good. <br /><br />Or “Took any other active steps to support the Tea Party movement, either in person or through e-mail or on the internet.” <br /><br />See, that third definition is not okay. Too vague, especially the e-mail/internet part. Signing up to be on a Tea Party e-mail alert list should not really make you a Tea Party Activist, nor should mass forwarding a lot of crap about Sarah Palin to your friends and relatives count. <br /><br />So here’s how it breaks down. Of the 124 (or 112.53!) people identified by Opinion Research as “Tea Party Activists” -- <br /><br />__20.46 people contributed money to the Tea Party<br /><br />__51.15 people attended a Tea Party-related rally or meeting<br /><br />__71.61 people did something Tea Party-related on the internet or maybe stuck a Tea Party-themed bumper sticker on their car. <br /><br />Extrapolate away!Grace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.com0