As exemplified by CNN (H/T: Protein Wisdom), which tells us that men see bikini-clad women as objects. This has been seized upon by large sections of the blogosphere as an excuse to show cheesecake, of course: fortunately, as a SF/fantasy/SCA geek I have a secret weapon.
Women in armor.
Pic after the fold. Continue reading Apparently, the meme is female eye-candy.
You have to wonder how long for them to realize that their screams of incoherent rage nourishes him.
(pause)
Judging from the historical record, probably at least six years. Hey, Bob! Remind them about their new pro-torture stance! That’s always good for extra spittle.
(Via Brother Pejman of RedState) As it stands, there’s a problem with this report, and it’s not what you think:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Guantanamo Bay prison meets the standard for humane treatment laid out in the Geneva Conventions, according to a report for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the terrorist detention center closed within a year.
The report recommended some changes, including an increase in group recreation for some of the camp’s more dangerous or less compliant prisoners, according to a government official familiar with the study. The report also suggested allowing those prisoners to gather in groups of three or more, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not officially been released.
Continue reading AP: Pentagon Report declares Gitmo ‘humane’.
(Today’s author: Kim Newman
This one is pretty much all about the Anno Dracula series.
Don’t get me wrong: his Diogenes Club occult-detective stories (ranging from the Victorian era to the Mod, and found in The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
But the Anno Dracula series is something special. Comprised of Anno Dracula
If you understood the references in that last sentence, you probably want to check out this series. It’s both full of allusions like that, and a good read.
Hiding out in Fredericksburg, which is… look, I have nothing against the place, but it’s not exactly billionaire territory. I figured that he had a volcano lair, or something.
Via Fausta, and now I understand this story. I should have realized that it was based on something right from the start; the old I get, the more that line from Men in Black
Crossposted at RedState.
[UPDATE] Well, well, well: I may be happy to be proven wrong in this case: “Illinois governor says Burris should resign
Quinn says a new senator should be chosen by special election.” Via Hot Air.
Reported by Jim Geraghty: given the drumbeat of articles cropping up (“Black Ministers May Rethink Backing Sen. Burris,” and “Blagojevich aide tells of Burris call in fall,” and “What people are saying about Burris“) this was probably inevitable. More as it comes in; thoughts after the fold.
I suppose that it says something about me that I really would rather live in the Weekly World News‘ world:
WHALES TAKE DOWN SOMALI PIRATES
CAIRO—The Egyptian government is calling on the gentle giants of the sea to take out pirate ships, and the whales are getting the job done.
Somali privateers operating in the Indian Ocean have been robbing trade ships in the region and taking hostages, sometimes with political overtones. Egypt has responded with an elite fighting force of ramming whales trained to neutralize the vessels through headlong collisions.
[snip]
“They’re not human!” wailed a captured Somali pirate, after an engagement that left his ship a wreck and his crew prisoners. “I mean, I know they’re not human, but like…I mean it in the superlative sense, like they’re not bound by human limitations.”
In a very odd way, it’d be a bit more coherent. The weird stuff that happens there have reasons behind them. Or, at least, better ones than “Just because” or “because there was money in it.”
Kind of symbolic, really: treat the symptom, not the disease.
[UPDATE]: Hello, Campaign Spot readers. Fair warning: this site is decidedly geek-friendly.
Via Geraghty, this was some of the text that was originally found here:
The real monkeys are the three Republican analyst that the Party has selectively placed in front of the camera to explain their wicked devices, Amy Holmes, Cook-eyed Ron Christie, and Michael sell-out Steele. If you notice how they talk and what they are saying leaves me with the impression that the only thing that is missing from their reporting is a monkey grinder.
The three of them are like wind up monkey dolls that are programmed to say and think like their Republican counter-parts..
If the Republican Party members think that just because they put these three white around the mouth as Al Jolson Negro’s in front of the public, that this dismisses the fact that they are a racist regime, they are once again mistaken.
…and is now sanitized. I’d show you the Google cache, but they shut it down for that site months ago.
Continue reading Impressively fast racism-sanitation by the Obama people, there.
So, I crunched the numbers of the PMA defense budget earmarks (raw info found here), and came up with something interesting. Below are the top twenty current House members who have taken money from PMA and placed earmarks in that bill, sorted by cumulative donations. A “#” represents being on the Defense Appropriations Committee at the time, and Republicans are bolded:
| Requesting Member | Total Credited | PMA campaign $ since 2001 |
| Peter J. Visclosky# | $23,800,000 | $219,000 |
| John P. Murtha# | $34,105,000 | $143,600 |
| James P. Moran# | $10,800,000 | $125,250 |
| Norm Dicks# | $12,130,000 | $91,600 |
| Bill Pascrell Jr. | $2,400,000 | $73,200 |
| Mike Doyle | $1,600,000 | $69,400 |
| Loretta Sanchez | $3,200,000 | $60,118 |
| Tim Holden | $3,200,000 | $57,275 |
| Tim Ryan | $1,000,000 | $54,250 |
| Michael E. Capuano | $2,800,000 | $54,000 |
| Chet Edwards | $6,040,000 | $48,734 |
| Silvestre Reyes | $800,000 | $42,300 |
| Christopher Carney | $5,900,000 | $38,500 |
| Paul E. Kanjorski | $4,800,000 | $37,150 |
| Jerry Lewis | $8,000,000 | $34,649 |
| Marcy Kaptur# | $1,600,000 | $34,500 |
| Carolyn McCarthy | $1,000,000 | $31,500 |
| Patrick J. Murphy | $1,600,000 | $29,250 |
| Rodney Frelinghuysen# | $7,300,000 | $29,129 |
| Ander Crenshaw | $1,000,000 | $27,300 |
Continue reading Looking at the PMA Porkers: An examination of CQ’s List of Appropriators.
I guess that they really have joined the ranks of the media.
[UPDATE]: HuffPo now regrets the error. Full points for retracting it in the story itself; 75% off the total for blaming it on a third party and not their own shoddy fact-checking.
They’re playing the same behavior pattern of slovenly reporting. In this case, failing to confirm before they screamed and leaped. Via Hot Air Headlines, johnny dollar has the details: to summarize, a video used by the HuffPo that purported to have a radio talk-show host compare Eric Holder to a monkey turned out to been a cheesy overdub. One that would have been obvious to anybody who examined the original feed Continue reading The Huffington Post Gleefully Falls for a Hoax. [UPDATE] They almost sound sorry for this one.
