Friday, January 31, 2014
Anna Kendrick's Non Super Bowl Beer Ad
Mary Katherine Ham posted this over at Hot Air. I agree with her, smart move by Newcastle and Anna Kendrick.
Italian Court re-convicts Amanda Knox Rule 5 post
An Italian trial court in Florence finds Amanda Knox guilty and sentences her to a sentence of 28.5 years in prison.
Update: More at American Power
Top 10 issues that raised questions during her trial...
Then again, Knox's prosecutor is (allegedly) a vindictive disgraced douchebag.
Update: More at American Power
Amanda Knox: Not voluntarily going back to Italy... |
She does have crazy eyes, but I still think she is innocent... |
Then again, Knox's prosecutor is (allegedly) a vindictive disgraced douchebag.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Workers get socked with new higher premiums and deductibles under the Democrats Obamacare Affordable Care Act
Hot Air posted this video of worker reactions to new premiums under the Obamacare Affordable Care Act... (32-42% increase with increased deductible)
Quote of the Day: "How does President Obama think this is helping us?"
Republicans and the RNC should be getting video like this and running ads all the time on it.
Zooey Deschanel Rule 5 Updated: with Emily Deschanel Bonus Rule 5
h/t: Wombat for posting this.
Updated:
Do to popular demand...
EBL: Previous Zooey Deschanel Rule 5 Post
EBL: Previous Hannah Simone Rule 5 Post
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Socialist Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant's response to Obama's SOTU
I would have posted this at BSC News, but that site can't run videos. According to the completely irrelevant Kshama Sawant, capitalism is the problem. Remember she got started working for Microsoft before embarking on her Socialist dream job.
EBL: Obama 2014 SOTU ("I have a pen with ink and I am not afraid to use it!")
TOM: Obama's Feminist Folly SOTU
Update:
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
TOM: Obama's Feminist Folly SOTU
Update:
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread
Peyton Manning is cordial. Marshawn Lynch doesn’t like speaking to the media much. Obama likes to hear himself talk and believes that we should be compelled to listen — and if not listen, to do as he says anyway. The GOP will respond by assuring us that they too care. As if that’s something anyone anywhere gives two shits about.
There. My job as CITIZEN JOURNALIST is done.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
SOTU 2014: "Congress? We ain't got no Congress. We don't need no Congress! I don't have to show you any stinkin' Congress!"
SOTU Summary: I will act on my own. I have a pen and I am not afraid to use it! |
President Obama vowed Tuesday to use the power of the pen to chip away at his agenda in 2014, making clear he’ll sidestep Congress at times through executive actions while also lowering his sights for what is achievable at this stage in his presidency...
Forecast for #SOTU: Obama will pretend to say something new, media will pretend to hear it.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 27, 2014
More at Lem's Place.
And Iran. Iran so far away.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 29, 2014
The GOP response from Rep. McMorris Rodgers is fine.
Mike Lee's Tea Party Response is fine.
Update:
Meanwhile, just in case you care what a Seattle socialist city council member thinks about the SOTU...
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
Jeff Goldstein says it well (as usual):
SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread
Peyton Manning is cordial. Marshawn Lynch doesn’t like speaking to the media much. Obama likes to hear himself talk and believes that we should be compelled to listen — and if not listen, to do as he says anyway. The GOP will respond by assuring us that they too care. As if that’s something anyone anywhere gives two shits about.
There. My job as CITIZEN JOURNALIST is done.
Marshawn Lynch on Super Bowl Media Day
Well he showed up so he won't get a $50,000 fine. You can just feel the love! Marshawn Lynch is holding it all in till Sunday.
Update: Hell of a lot more interesting than the SOTU...
Update: Hell of a lot more interesting than the SOTU...
Ashley Benson Rule 5 with bonus Marina Sirtis, who plays Counselor Deanna Troi
I screwed up by posting this abomination in the comments on Wombat's Rule 5 post. Wombat may be slow to anger, but when he does react it can be with terrible fury. I disrespected his editorial efforts and the lovely Deana Troi. So this Rule 5 featuring Ashley Benson (which is obviously an approved Rule 5 subject for Wombat) is offered in apology.
I owe an apology for defacing (literally) the lovely Marina Sirtis who plays Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek NG, so these are offered in that regard:
I owe an apology for defacing (literally) the lovely Marina Sirtis who plays Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek NG, so these are offered in that regard:
Pete Seeger RIP
Didn't care for his politics, but he could play. RIP Pete.
Update:
I do not like speaking bad of the dead. But I am not going to pretend I bought onto all of Pete Seeger's politics (he was [profoundly] wrong on many many things). He was right on some things too. But I will give Pete Seeger this, he was honest and straight up what he was about [I withdraw that, he was not fully honest about his activities for communism. As George Orwell said: "I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty."]. And I share Seeger's love of traditional American music, the Hudson River valley, and his spirit of social justice (even if some of the means of getting there he choose are absolutely wrong). I wish him well and rest in peace Pete. Here are some tweets below Donald Douglas and I got today.
@Sarah_May1 @AmPowerBlog @rsmccain Just a coincidence? Sort of like the hundred million or so who died under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pot
— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) January 28, 2014
@PeggyBrava @AmPowerBlog @rsmccain @michellemalkin I am glad that was said without malice. But I am pretty sure #PeteSeeger would disapprove
— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) January 28, 2014
The 100+ Million lives lost under communism during Mr. #seeger's lifetime could not be reached for comment @PeggyBrava @AmPowerBlog @MsEBL
— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) January 28, 2014
I cannot lay the deaths of millions communist victims at Pete Seeger's feet (he did not participate in them) but once he became aware of them he was obligated to speak out. And he only reluctantly and sparingly criticized communism in later years. He says he confronted his Communist friends in private after he "drifted away" from the movement. I am sure he did. But would people show the same spirit of celebration for someone aligned with the Nazi party who said that? Pete Ingemi makes a very valid comparison with Seeger and Leni Riefenstahl. As former socialist and communist traveler George Orwell once said about Soviet Union: "There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years."Orwell also noted this (which applies directly to Seeger in the years leading up to WWII): "Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi."
Just a reminder Pete #Seeger was opposed to US fighting the Nazis ...right up until the day the USSR was attacked http://t.co/ZZxInxP1sr
— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) January 28, 2014
While Seeger did eventually "drift away" from communism, very few on the left acknowledged that their actions in opposing the Vietnam war contributed to the chaos and madness in Cambodia a few years later. Unintended consequences, but foreseeable nevertheless. People on the right put on blinders too and have difficulty acknowledging mistakes they made. But why is it only those on the right are ever called out on it and those on the left mostly get a pass? Jim Lindgren has a good post at Volokh Conspiracy-WaPo
JOHN FUND: Pete Seeger, Totalitarian Troubadour. “We shouldn’t forget that Pete Seeger was Communism’s pied piper.”
Related: Spengler: Pete Seeger: A Mean-Spirited and Vengeful Recollection. “I was not just a Pete Seeger fan, but a to-the-hammer-born, born-and-bred cradle fan of Pete Seeger. With those credentials, permit me to take note of his passing with the observation that he was a fraud, a phony, a poseur, an imposter. The notion of folk music he espoused was a put-on from beginning to end. There is no such thing as an American ‘folk.’”
Related: We Are The Folksong Army. “It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good English, and it don’t even have to rhyme.”
Ed Driscoll: Seeger was a Communist trifecta... Related: Spengler: Pete Seeger: A Mean-Spirited and Vengeful Recollection. “I was not just a Pete Seeger fan, but a to-the-hammer-born, born-and-bred cradle fan of Pete Seeger. With those credentials, permit me to take note of his passing with the observation that he was a fraud, a phony, a poseur, an imposter. The notion of folk music he espoused was a put-on from beginning to end. There is no such thing as an American ‘folk.’”
Related: We Are The Folksong Army. “It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good English, and it don’t even have to rhyme.”
Where do Seahawk and Bronco fans in NYC go if they do not have a ticket to the Super Bowl?
Don't worry, there are Manhattan options, even though the actual game is being played in New Jersey:
For Seahawk fans:
Carlow East at 1254 Lexington Ave. and 85th St.
Feile: 131 W. 33rd St., off Seventh Ave.
For Bronco fans:
Butterfield 8: 5 E. 38th St., near Fifth Ave.
Mustang Harry's: Seventh Ave. near 29th St.
Mustang Sally’s: 324 Seventh Ave., at 28th St.
Keats: 842 Second Ave., at 45th St.
The most beautiful women are drawn to Seahawk friendly venues... |
Carlow East |
Carlow East at 1254 Lexington Ave. and 85th St.
Feile: 131 W. 33rd St., off Seventh Ave.
Uptown Restaurant & Lounge: 1576 Third Ave., at 88th St.
Central Bar: 109 E. Ninth St., near Cooper Square.
Central Bar: 109 E. Ninth St., near Cooper Square.
Mustang Harry's |
For Bronco fans:
Butterfield 8: 5 E. 38th St., near Fifth Ave.
Mustang Harry's: Seventh Ave. near 29th St.
Mustang Sally’s: 324 Seventh Ave., at 28th St.
Keats: 842 Second Ave., at 45th St.
You know there will be great Bronco cheerleaders too...
So, New York? London? Paris? Munich? On line?
Update:
The Daily Beast has some suggestions...
WaPo has cheap beer, good eats...
Update:
The Daily Beast has some suggestions...
WaPo has cheap beer, good eats...
Monday, January 27, 2014
Prosecutorial Discretion: One of these three is not like the other...
Menendez |
Corzine |
D'Souza |
Are politics behind the Obama Administration selective enforcement of laws?
Funny how certain people never get prosecuted. Why is that?
Bob Menendez is accused of getting support and access to under aged Dominican prostitutes and then pushing legislation for that same donor.
Dinesh D'Souza is accused of funneling $20,000 to a college friend to help her underfunded campaign (which she lost badly). Of the three, D'Souza's alleged crimes are by far the least serious (and truly victim-less), yet the Obama Administration is going after him for felonies and jail time.
Jon Corzine lost hundreds of millions for investors and then likely perjured himself in testifying about the causes of that loss. Corzine was also an Obama campaign bundler in the 2012 election.
Eric Holder |
Update:
Alan Dershowitz: Obama is selectively prosecuting D'Souza
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