Sequester: Start Crying Now

They are imposing a 2% cut on government spending!  Civilization will end! 

But Chuck Todd is stil a Democrat Party B*tch!
Media turns on Bob Woodward

If a #Sequester falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it does the WH threaten Bob Woodward?
— Tracy Lee (@RememberComeNov) March 1, 2013

That's it. I'm moving to Woodbury. #Sequester
— AG (@AG_Conservative) March 1, 2013

Breaking: The dead have arisen from their graves and are eating the brains of the living... Biden unthreatened... #SequesterApocalypse
— El SOOPer!! (@SooperMexican) March 1, 2013

Mountain Man runs into Government Regulators

Code Violations!  Pay up or shut down!  

Once they saw him on TV, they had him as a target...

Chuck Todd: Democrat Party Bitch; Updated with Chuck Todd Separated at Birth...

Chuck Todd claims Bob Woodward is a spokesman for the Republicans?  Why?  Because Woodward had the termity to call the White House out on the sequester (which everyone knows Barack Obama's White House initially proposed)?

Chuck Todd, Democrat Party Bitch

Update:  Andrew Sullivan refuses to be out bitched by Chuck Todd!

Separated at Birth Update:

Hey if Chuck Todd ever loses his day job at MSNBC, maybe he can fall back to this...

Chuck Todd, part time media manager
Barack Obama's White House

Murray Hewitt, part time media manager
Flight of the Concords

Have no dog in the Woodward thing, but struck by pack mentality of progressives lately. Deviate from the hive mind, and you'll be crushed.
— radleybalko (@radleybalko) March 1, 2013

Pope Benedict Leaves Vatican

Pope Benedict leaves Vatican

Pope Benedict's Last Night at Vatican

The Media Turns On Bob Woodward For Observing Emperor Obama Is Wearing No Clothes

The Bob Woodward story isn't important. That's why liberals and the media (PTR) are losing their minds over it.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) February 28, 2013

Hey. 

Remember: They're not attacking Bob Woodward because they think he's lying. They're attacking him because they think he's telling the truth.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) February 28, 2013

The sequester is something Barack Obama proposed.  He is now lying about it to gain political advantage.   The White House is upset Woodward called them on it.

Woodward’s greatest sin was practicing real journalism in the age of Obama nblo.gs/INeHJ
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) February 28, 2013

Update:
TOM: Woodward gets a warning...
AoSHQ: Lanny Davis also?
Woodward Not Alone:  Davis threatened too...

Van Cliburn: Rachmaninov 3rd Concerto

Van Cliburn RIP, Dead at 78

A humble but great artist has left us.

RIP Van Cliburn

Hugo Chavez Esta Muerto?

Adios?  

En contacto con CNN Chile el ex embajador afirmó que desde el 30 de diciembre pasado el presidente Chávez se declaró con muerte cerebral en Cuba...

Anyone who mourns for that monster in Venezuela is heartless. It's as abhorrent as people mourning over Stalin's death. Freedom awaits...
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) February 28, 2013

Update: Absurd rumors of Chavez' death?

Argo Home Alone Mash Up

I liked Argo but never liked Home Alone (Macaulay Culkin is annoying).  Still, this mash up works for me.

Dead Kennedys: I fought the law...

Boston U professor gets probation for brass knuckle assault of woman. Read the article's last line. bostonherald.com/news_opinion/l…

— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) February 25, 2013

Barack Obama is a borderline Communist...

Hey don't take my word for it, here is Harry C. Alford who is the head of the Black Chamber of Commerce...

Harry C. Alford, CEO of National Black Chamber of Commerce, Slams Obama as 'Bordline Communist' americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/harry-… @seanhannity #TCOT
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) February 27, 2013

Bobby Fuller: I fought the law and the law won.

Judge James D. Humphrey*: If you mock me I will send you to jail

Daniel Brewington is serving a two year felony conviction for mocking his divorce judge on his blog.  Yes, jailed for blogging.

Patriots and freedom supporters are petitioning for the case to be taken up by the Indiana Supreme Court.  Here is the amicus brief filed on Brewington's behalf by Eugene Volokh.  The Court of Appeals disagreed, upholding the conviction.  More here.  When almost anything can be called a felony, no one is safe.

Update:  Conservatives, Liberals and Media groups rally for releasing Brewington.

Judge James D. Humphrey--Don't you dare mock me!*  

Judge D. Humphrey*:  I may release this trout unharmed, but if you mock me I will gut you. 

Brewington fought the law and the law won...
Here are a few appropriate video selections

* This is a first amendment protected speech.   Please don't come and arrest me Judge Humphrey.

h/t:  Hot Air

Update:
Is there something in the water in Indiana affecting judges there?
Out of control judges...(who will watch the Watchmen?)

Send Bloggers to CPAC

Help a blogger get to CPAC.  I recommend Zilla of the Resistance, Bob Belvedere, Bill Hoge, and DaTechGuy.  They should send @AaronWorthing too.

More from The Other McCain.

Chris Matthews promises to get Hillary Clinton elected in 2016

A beautiful relationship between the media and Democrat politicians.  What could go wrong?  

As scary as the second part of Women of the Walking Dead, Rule 5

Bill Clinton approves...or is that John Kerry?

Lack of sleep can make you fat and old...

Sort of like not rebooting your computer every now and again.  Sleep in, it is good for you.  So is Rule 5.

Maxfield Parish, Sleeping Beauty

La Conchiglia di Verere

Bronchorst:  Shepherd and the Nymph

Hot Air Balloon Fire and Crash over Luxor, Egypt: 19 Foreign Tourists Dead

19 Tourists Dead in Luxor, Egypt

Horrific accident, bodies scattered and burned across a sugar cane field

Wisconsin Brandy Old Fashioned

The Wisconsin Brandy Old Fashioned

Jeffrey Morgenthaler has some fabulous drink recipes and stories.

More Real Housewives of South Boston

The Real Housewives of South Boston

These are old (beyond the housewives themselves) but funny (outside of Boston NSFW language).  Given all the New England hooliganism at the Academy Awards last night, enjoy (Southie's answer to The Women of Downton Abbey):

Trooper York, this is for you:

How did that game turn out?

How to speak South Boston:  

Great Fahkin Boston Movie Moments:

Giant Pacific Clam,Tridacna gigas (these really are the biggest clams of all)

These clams are enormous, reading four feet long and over 400 lb.  They are becoming rare due to over harvesting.  They are taken for their shells, for meat, and for the aquarium trade.  The brilliant colors of the mantels are due to algae that live symbiotically with the clam.  The algae help generate food for the clam, the clam opens exposes them to sunlight during the day and protects them in the shell at night.

This pretty much sums up the media and Hollywood's relationship with Barack Obama...

Twitter: The Comic

wait unicorns arent real? are u saying I SUCKED OFF A REGULAR HORSE???
— nick mullen (@nickmullen) February 27, 2012

Geoducks: The biggest clam of all...

And it is pronounced gooey-duck.  Well they are big but not bigger than these guys (which can weight hundreds of pounds), but the geoduck is the biggest clam in North America.  They can be three feet long.  For some reason they are prized delicacies in Asian markets (can you guess why):

Is that a geoduck in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

They are actually delicious.  In China the syphon is the most prized part (it is crunchy and fibrous), but the most tender and tasty meat is the ribbon of mussel inside the shell.  Here is a recipe.

And given that these clams can sell for $100 each, there is a thriving black market in geoducks.

National Clam Chowder Day: You know what you need to do...

Make some chowder!  

Photo from here

West Coast Clams (just don't make a wrong turn at Albuquerque)

Etta James: At Last

Tommy Lee Jones reacts badly to losing Best Supporting Actor...

Tommy Lee Jones hates rude behavior in a man.  He won't tollerate it.

Update:
You think he was upset over best supporting actor, wait till he realizes Lincoln lost to Argo!
This sums up the relationship between the media and Hollyweird and Barack Obama.

Diana Krall Rule 5

Go Fly a Kite...especially a giant squid kite

Oregon Muse at Ace of Spades HQ inspired this post with this picture.  Okay, now I want a squid kite (and I did not know I wanted one until today).  It is never too early to get ready for spring and summer.  And I even found videos of attractive woman flying kites, making this a Rule 5 post.  Booyah!

And here is Deanna's Cheap Thrills of Summer (kite flying)

Netflix: House of Cards

House of Cards is well worth checking out.  In production value Netflix is proving just as capable as HBO and AMC.  

It is fair to describe it as Game of Thrones set in the District of Columbia.  

Keven Spacey does a great job as Congressman Frank Underwood (D), a South Carolinian who is up on his Machiavelli and Sun Tzu.  It does have its flaws, but the acting, casting and production quality are great and the writing (with a few exceptions) generally pretty decent.  While most of the fictional players are Democrats, the show is refreshingly non partisan in tone (portraying that ambition, corruption and power plays are not limited to just one party).  

Robin Wright does a great job as the wife of Congressman Underwood

Kate Mara as the ambitious young reporter not afraid to use her assets to get a lead...

Kirsten Conolly plays a congressional staffer and girlfriend of Congressman Russo of Pennsylvania

Sandrine Holt plays a NGO staffer employed by the Clean Water Initiative and Claire Underwood

Netflix released all 13 episodes of Season 1 on February 1, 2013.  I just got around to checking it out and quickly went through most of it.

What is up with Season 2 (it starts filming in March 2013)?
Six Stages of House of Cards grief (if you blow through all 13 episodes in a weekend).

Other EBL Posts:  Netflix's Lillyhammer

George Jones: Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down