it’s a Good Thing

The Patterico Collection of Moonbat “respectful dialogue.”

Sample: 
Who said this:  “He’s one more mistake away from not having any kneecaps.”

Feeeeeel da respek!!

I tried to understand the choice by the defense to keep the trial going with only 11 jurors (I STILL don’t get that one) and I was going to take the high ground and just accept the Libby verdict as justice but then I heard this today on Rush:

.........the stomach-churning guilty verdict against Lewis Libby --- presented by a one-time writer for the Washington Post and Tim Russert neighbor who just happened to be the jury foreman...................

O.J. Simpson reportedly said he is “throwing his hat into the ring” regarding the paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, citing his “slow-moving sperm.”

Documentary filmmaker Norm Pardo — who filmed 70 hours of footage with Simpson from 2000 to 2005 — told the New York Post that Simpson said “he knew Anna Nicole pretty well, and he said he had slow-moving sperm, and he might be the father.”

Simpson and Smith starred together in “Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.”

Simpson even joked that he hoped the baby wasn’t his as Fred Goldman — the father of Ron Goldman, whom Simpson was acquitted of murdering along with his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson — might try to take her.

“I hope they don’t do a DNA test on Anna Nicole’s baby. If they find out Dannielynn is mine, I don’t want Fred Goldman trying to seize her money — or the baby herself,” Pardo claims Simpson said.

TC

Two Islamic militant websties have called on Muslims to kill the driver of a Georgia registered vehicle displaying an offensive bumper sticker. On February 28 the “Black Lion” blog, a website run by two American Muslim who support violent jihad, posted the license plate number of a Gwinnett County, Georgia motorist displaying a bumper sticker which read, “Kill em all, let Allah sort em out.” A thinly veiled threat encouraging Muslims to find the driver and kill him was also posted.............

All your generals are belong to us.  OK - just one.  But it’s intriguing, no?

Missing Iranian general Ali Reza Asghari, who disappeared during a visit to Turkey earlier this week, may be in Europe, an Arab newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the London-based daily A-Sharq al-Awsat, the former deputy defense minister of Iran was being held for questioning in northern Europe on his way to the US, where he was reportedly headed to seek asylum.

It appears to me that General Asghari might be doing this out of fear for his nation’s future under the Mini Mahdi.

TomR

here’s your lovely parting gifts!  thanks for playing

In Florida, [Mitt] Romney has released a Spanish-language a aimed at Cuban-Americans.

According to the New York Times today, [and TheStreet.com two days ago] in 2005 Obamarama bought “$50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.”

[HillaryBelle is piggybacking onto Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in her “reintroduction after ten years” of the] Paycheck Fairness Act.  [They] noted that women working full time, year-round still make only 77 cents for every dollar made by a man…

The legislation never made it to a vote on the floor of either chamber the last time it was introduced.

[and even tho he got that thing taken off his lip,] John F. Edwards “...will not be participating in the Fox debate,” said Jonathan Prince, Edwards’ deputy campaign manager, told The Daily Kos. [sic]

Someone please tell me that this bunch is just the clown act vamping until the actual candidates are ready to enter?

Please.

please?

whimper

Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa, while NATO forces on Wednesday fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance’s largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan.
Mullah Mahmood, who is accused of helping the Taliban detonate suicide bombs, was caught Tuesday in Kandahar province while wearing the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn here by women, NATO said.

Captain America has undertaken his last mission — at least for now. The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the Daily News reported.

On the new edition’s pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse, according to the newspaper.

It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941 to incarnate patriotic feeling during World War II.

...as he leaves a courthouse........

RIP indeed.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would reaffirm English as the state’s official language took its first step toward the ballot box Tuesday, gaining unanimous approval of a House subcommittee.

English is already the official language of Georgia by statute. But Rep. Timothy Bearden (R-Villa Rica), sponsor of HR 413, said he wants to give voters a chance to cement it into the state constitution in 2008. Protecting English is critical now, he said, in light of the federal government’s inability to control the flow of illegal immigrants who aren’t assimilating into American society.

When this makes it through the GA legislature it will be approved handily by the voters of Georgia.

And in other news…

A flock of fiberglass chickens is coming to Marietta.

The birds will look like the city’s landmark - the Big Chicken - but won’t be quite as tall.

Organizers plan to put up to 35 sculptures around Marietta from June to November to raise money for charity.

Several cities have used public art displays to raise money: In Atlanta, for instance, painted cows once decorated the sidewalks.

The Marietta chickens will pay homage to a defining landmark - the big red-and-white chicken that towers above the KFC at U.S. 41 and Roswell Road.

The Big Chicken kicks butt.  The beak opens and closes and the eye rolls around.

And then there’s justice!

Break into a home in GA and you get this...

One of two suspects in a Tuesday morning armed robbery in Hall County was shot and killed by a Flowery Branch police officer after the suspect shot at him during a foot chase off Interstate 985, Flowery Branch Police Chief Gerald Lanich said.

Lanich declined to name the officer who shot the suspect, but said the use of deadly force was “very much justified.”

He said two home invasion suspects were being chased in a wooded area off the interstate after a traffic stop by Hall County and Flowery Branch authorities when one turned and fired a shot at the officer.

“He returned fire, striking and killing the suspect,” Lanich said. The officer was not injured.

Just like Barry.

Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.

One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.

The most recent financial disclosure form for Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, also shows that he bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.

The NY Times has declined to comment as to whether the information on these transactions were supplied by anyone who may or may not be affiliated with the junior Senator from NY.

it’s what’s for payback

The Taganka prosecutor’s office in Moscow has initiated a criminal investigation on the forcible suicide of Kommersant journalist Ivan Safronov, who died under unknown circumstances last Friday when he fell from a window in the stairway of the Khrushchev-era five-story building in which he lived. The police and prosecutor initially characterized his death as suicide. Safronov, who turned 51 last month, wrote about the army and space. It is known that he was preparing a publication on Russian arms deliveries to the Middle East that could have caused a major scandal. 

forcible suicide—it’s such a quaint Soviet notion…

Moral:  Don’t piss off PootyPoot.

Stoo

“I think it’s important that we not reward hateful, selfish, childish behavior with attention...[...just money for us.]

Said John Edwards.

So here’s how such an apology could sound:

Dear Howard Dean,

I’m very sorry about the remarks made recently by Ann Coulter about John Edwards. She should not have resorted to an ugly slur in the first place. Furthermore, she certainly shouldn’t have done so when there are plenty of other ways to discuss Edwards that are legitimate, devastating, and funny.

Sure, the man has a hair fixation and a deftness with a makeup compact that most red-blooded American men don’t; however, those things make poor subjects for political discourse and should be left to the yuksters of late-night TV. Coulter and others should discuss the salient matters surrounding Edwards, which never cease to amuse. Such as:

He’s a union lickspittle who just told college janitors protesting for higher pay that they’re the next civil rights movement. That is grade-A hilarity right there.

His union-pandering has led him into numerous, risible moments involving Wal-Mart. Remember the time he promoted his book at the Manchester, N.H., Barnes & Noble instead of the Wal-Mart next door, because he says Wal-Mart doesn’t pay employees enough? The Manchester Union Leader pointed out that at $7.50 an hour, the Wal-Mart paid employees more than the Barnes & Noble, which paid at $7 an hour. And guess who said that the minimum wage should be at $7.50 an hour (i.e., Wal-Mart wages)? John Edwards!

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Even better, remember the day the Sony PlayStation 3 was released? When an unpaid volunteer for John Edwards called the Raleigh N.C., Wal-Mart to try to get a PlayStation 3 for him—cutting in front of all those people waiting in line in the process? And when Wal-Mart called him on it, the company’s press release included the comment that “While we cannot guarantee that Sen. Edwards will be among one of the first to obtain a PlayStation3, we are certain Sen. Edwards will be able to find great gifts for everyone on his Christmas list – many at Wal-Mart’s ‘roll-back prices’”?

You’d have to watch a “Three Stooges” clip to see more pies in the face than that.

How about his press conference in front of a house in New Orleans, where he put in a brand-new, never-before-used spade into the ground long enough to announce for president? What a picture of Democrat charity! Churches all over the United States are sending people to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to do the actual work of rebuilding the devastated areas, and this guy makes a show of doing work while promising he’ll do more, but only if you first make him president – and then he’ll take your money to do it!

I totally won tonight when my buddy at kickboxing shared with me that he’d found a tonail on the mat when I said oh yea????
How about that icky ICKY man on the plane.........

Body fluids trump body parts.

(with all due respect to my buddy, he did seem more appalled that the guy got off so fast)

DaMav

The world premiere of “Three Days in the Life,” a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.

My take on this is that the whole strategy of Islamic jihad is precisely the same as the Khmer Rouge’s was back in the 70s: to inaugurate a New Dark Age where intellectual activity is restricted to Qur’anic studies, women are chattel, free enterprise is stifled, free speech is strangled, and free thought is stillborn.

The only differences between 1975 and now would be doctrine and geography: in 75 it was essentially a secular fiasco regionalized to a section of the Cochin Peninsula; today it would be radically religious and global.

--- Eros Total in someone else’s comments based on a post with yet another chilling comment..........

This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian.......

Tomorrow, Al Gore set to offer stock options in new Carne Credits designed to offset his giant ass print on the planet.......

WHAT A BOOFAH!

Cluebat to the Head…

Britney + A Million Little Pieces = Crazy Delicious

no

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

“He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity,” Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his left leg, leading to speculation he will be forced to resign as U.S. Vice-President.

I hear HuffPo shut off comments on their post.

~TUA Was Here~

Just reminiscing that awesome trip Prince Albert ‘n I took to Kauai. Though you’d never ever get me on one of these helicopters. We instead chose the all day rafting expedition. Man...we had such a blast that day. Exhausting but fun.

I really should go back at some point. It truly is one of the most magical places on earth.

I seriously don’t get why anyone would want to stay on Maui, Molokai or Oahu. The Big Island possibly...but I’d still take Kauai over volcanoes and black sand beaches any day.

During my first trip to Kauai, I hiked part of the The Kalalau Trail from Ke’e Beach to Hanakapi’ai Valley. Very muddy and slippery during the wet season but it was still well worth the effort. 

Can A Smart Person Believe In God?—it was a gift from my aunt. i got part-way through it. it will be on a table outside my house at 77 oxford street- tomorrow after 12noon ~ first come, first served.

cue ululations

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. [filming by people other than professional journalists—not violence by journalists]

...anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (US$98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act

...The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on… the practice of “happy slapping,” in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker’s friends.

...The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information…

Paging Miss Mme. Ingdapoint…

[Edward and Elinor are baiting Margaret, who is playfully hiding under a table]

Edward Ferrars: I wish to check the position of the Nile. My sister tells me it is in South America.

Elinor Dashwood: No. She’s quite wrong—for I believe it is in Belgium.

Edward Ferrars: You must be thinking of the Volga.

Margaret: [speaking from under a table] The Volga?

Elinor Dashwood: Of course, the Volga. Which as you know starts in…

Edward Ferrars: ...Vladivostock and ends in…

Elinor Dashwood: ...Wimbledon.

Edward Ferrars: Precisely. Where the coffee beans come from.

Margaret: [emerging from under a table] The source of the Nile is in Abyssinia.

you fraudulent, lying, opportunistic, manipulative, disconnected, unrepentant, unctuous, shameless, vicious, self-indulgent, greasy, deluded, power mad, predatory, cannibalistic, edacious, rapacious, defilement of the human form

[She’s a woman, yanno.  She told us.]

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told heartland farmers gathered in Orlando on Friday that she would insert agricultural-disaster relief into an Iraq war spending bill and aggressively promote alternative fuels.

...

Convention-goers were greeted by a race car that runs on ethanol. Many farm states are banking on the growth in biofuels to stage a revival in the agriculture industry.

“This is the most excitement I’ve seen in agriculture in a long time,” House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., told the farmers group. “There is an optimism that is rejuvenating rural America.”

Yeperee.  This is a spot the every day average farmer frequents alla time....  At $259 a night; cuz alla farmers *I* know won’t leave home without their 32” flat screen TVs, Egyptian cotton sheets and “proud smoke-free environment.” [ie. matching Haviland spittin’ cups in each room]

*insert invective here*

Scooter Libby’s guilty and NOW allofasudden perjury IS a big deal.

Hey leftys:
FORMER Chief of Staff to the VICE President does not equal PRESIDENT!

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

HA!
Ps:
FITZGERALD: ‘I DO NOT EXPECT TO FILE ANY FURTHER CHARGES… THE INVESTIGATION IS INACTIVE’
(NO! You can’t have have KKKarl Rove....)
Merry FitZmas!

Is this the real James Bond as Ian Fleming saw him?

DougM