I love this picture.

Any other thoughts?

Yep—that’s us… and more

Some people get it, and they aren’t afraid to say so.  Is the tide starting to turn?

So I was looking through David Thompson’s list of Friday stuff and found this.  And it got me wondering...if that was shown as-is in a modern-day theater, which part would make lefty heads asplode in a shower of pink rage the hardest?

This gratuitous display of meat?

How about this gem, then?  The PDA warning?

I hate to sound like an old fogey, but theater “fooling around” has progressed a LONG way since my younger days.  This here’s a family site so I’ll spare you the details, but for pete’s sake, there’s a reason why you pay for two tickets...you’re expected to use two seats.  At least take it to the back row.

Anyway, most people would laugh that off or ignore it.  Or both.  No, to REALLY make lefty heads pop you need something outlandish, something so heinous, so inexcusably offensive that it curdles the tender soul of the poet.  Something that would make baby Obama cry.

Whoo, yep!  That’d do it!

Close the book.

When SondraK asked me if I’d pick up some slack around here for a few days, I warned her about my penchant for long, sorta rambling BS posts, which don’t seem to fit the KisP style guide.  She didn’t object, but I’ll put the rest of it below the fold to spare you iff’n you’re not interested.

Well.

PHOENIX (CN) - A homeowner says a Phoenix police officer shot him six times in the back during a 911 home-invasion call, and the 911 tape recorded the officer’s partner saying, “That’s all right. Don’t worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?” The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting.

One salient point among many: Phoenix AZ police officers can shoot a stationary target six times in the back without a kill shot.

AoS

The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has thanked Iran for providing the agency with information about the construction of its new pilot enrichment plant.

“With reference to the letter of 21 September 2009… from HE Ambassador Soltanieh to the Director General of the Agency Dr ElBaradei, I wish to thank the Islamic Republic of Iran for providing the Agency with information about Iran’s activities related to the construction of a new pilot enrichment plant,” read a letter by the IAEA to Iran, a copy of which was obtained by Press TV.

While Missy’s away, I’ll regale y’all with a few short video clips from a few days on the ol’ Harley up on the Blue Ridge Parkway last week.
Southbound (7 min)
Northbound (8 min)

At the southern end of the Parkway is the Great Smokies National Park, and south of that is one of motorcycling’s Meccas (can I say that?), the Tail of the Dragon. I started at the dam overlook in TN and finished at Deal’s Gap, NC, an eastbound trip of about 11 miles.
Some’a y’all might wanna have a barf bag handy. Just sayin’.
Part 1 (10 min)
Part 2 (10 min)

Lovers of France’s two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald’s restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month. America’s fast food temple is celebrating its 30th anniversary in France with a coup -the opening of its 1,142nd Gallic outlet a few yards from the entrance to the country’s Mecca of high art and the world’s most visited museum.

But eet ees our culture!
Yeah, you got culture comin’ out’a your @**; but who patronizes it?
Yeah, ‘Mericans ‘n foreigners ‘n other uncultured rubes.
It’s like jackass Manhattanites: “We have theaters and museums.”
Yeah, all supported by the great unwashed — yokel tourists.

this makes ratings?

It’s obvious to anybody who has eyes in this country that tea-baggers, the 9-12ers, these separatist groups that pretend that it’s about policy – they are clearly white-identity movements. They’re clearly white power movements. What they don’t like about the President is that he’s black – or half black (applause) – and they, what also is shocking is that people keep pretending that that’s not really the case with these people.

...This has been going on since the founding of this country that white power movements have tried to establish themselves and hold onto power.

...What you’re saying [Thomas Friedman] is absolutely true, there’s this tacit nudging towards violence. Then also, how about showing up armed? What if black people showed up armed at a McCain rally? What would be the response of that?

Like that white raaacist teabagging bassturd reported on by MSLSD?

Time to “curb your enthusiasm,” Little Miss Stringy Hair… And friends.

So when Michelle said she was “making a great sacrifice” going to pitch the Olympics, she likely wasn’t talking about the private plane, nice meals, first class hotel or lunch with Teh Queen. 

So was she really talking about having to hang out with Teh Oprah?

duck!

The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy [erm… we have a Constitutional Republic] expressed worry about whether the news industry’s financial woes will make for a less educated citizenry and considered whether the government should prop up independent journalists.

Like MSLSD?  Cuz Breitbart, Malkin—even Koz et al—seem to be doing just fine....

he nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report released Friday concluded.

...The commission includes two former FCC chairmen, newspaper publishers, a top Google executive, the NAACP president and a former CNN president. It concluded that a free flow of information “is as vital to the healthy functioning of communities as clean air, safe streets, good schools and public health,” and that it’s time for leaders to give it a higher priority.

Diveeersity?  and certainly no Conflict of Interest, there, eh?

The commission said independent journalism plays a vital watchdog role and wrestled with how to encourage it.

Leave it alone and let the Free Market work?  Just an idea…

You have to have access in order to be socially first class, economically first class and politically first class,” said Alberto Ibarguen, former Miami Herald publisher and president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

“First Class?” WTH?!?

But the commission came to no consensus on whether private-sector journalists should get public subsidies, an idea that would test the historical tradition of journalists’ independence from government.

..."It’s difficult enough when I get the call from somebody in government complaining about the way we reported something,” [ABC News President David Westin, who was not on the commission] said. “But if the person himself who is getting the call is either directly or indirectly employed by government, that could be dangerous.”

Thank you for that clear statement of the obvious—though I doubt the commission is capable of comprehending it.

A conservative atheist just doesn’t go to church.
A liberal/progressive atheist doesn’t want anybody else to be allowed to go to church, either.

An organization of atheists, The Freedom From Religion Foundation, lost their court case in New Hampshire yesterday in which they wanted the words, “under G_d”, stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance being recited in two school districts in New Hampshire and Vermont. The group had filed charges in 2007 saying that the use of those two words violated the Constitutional rights of the students.

Now, it’s good that this decision was rendered but one can’t ignore what this movement of atheists is and has been up to. This isn’t about Constitutional rights. This isn’t about separation of state and religion. This is about radical atheism...which is a cult of aggression. This is simply about control. We’ve seen the same thing with the Marxist agenda since Obama took the Presidency - the agenda of the Marxists is being forced upon the American people...slowly, but surely. These atheist insurgents are not about protecting their so-called rights, it is about TAKING AWAY the rights of all believers in faith in this country. Do not be fooled. These fanatics, these heathenistic fundamentalists want every church and synagogue in America leveled. They want worship driven out of America.

I’m old enough to have been in grade school when “under God” was added to the pledge.
As a non-religious conservative, I just don’t say the words.
These jackasses aren’t atheists (without belief), they’re anti-theists (against belief).
I believe think that there’s a big friggin’ difference.
These tyrants are my enemy, so I’m tickled pink to have this shoved up their patoots.
Holger Awakens (quoted in full above)
Story at boston.com
Found sumpthin’ akin over at Wollf’s.

A photograph of the Iranian president [Ahmadinejad] holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.

The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from “weaver of the Sabour”, the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior.

It’s not quite a birth certificate, but at least it’s an official ID.

“Vampires are pretty popular, too...”