Spring Breaks Are Upon Us

So I reckon we may see some extra Occupists over the next couple of weeks, as they can’t go to Mexico since Obama sent his 14 year old (oh and 25 security men on our tab) there.

Zucchini Park was completely empty this morning.

UPDATE: And now there’s been a 7.9 7.6 earthquake in Oaxaca. Hopefully there are no injuries.

And that’s “Oaxaca” as in where we are paying for Obama’s 14 year old daughter’s Spring Break.”

As the Death Penalty Drums Beat and the Rush to Hang SSgt Robert Bales*

…for the murders of 16 Afghan civilians continues apace, my astute hubby points out a murderer whose numbers add up to practically the same total, but one never hears a peep about him anymore:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan

Wonder why?

Now, don’t forget: he supposedly has PTSD, too ~ from treating PTSD sufferers, since he never once deployed to a combat zone. (I hadn’t realized a disorder could be contagious.)

Have heard nary a peep, him and his “Allah Ackbar” slaughter of fellow, DISARMED soldiers.

Maybe it’s time someone asked about him again.

*Thanks aelf

More Military Retiree Good News

So I get this 1-800 number phone call on my cell phone the other day, and they DON’T leave a message. Irritates the CRAP out of me when that happens. I Google it, shows up as Humana/TriCare (our health insurance) and I think to myself, “CRAP. One of us has fallen out of the system again.” And we’ll have to call back before we refill any prescriptions or get hit by a bus and need some triage care. TriCare SAVED me that inconvenience and, recognizing the number, I answered when they called a day later.

It was a robo-call who asked first if, “major dad, press 1”. So I did.

Then the robo girlie voice proceeded to tell me I would no longer be allowed to use a check or money order to pay our quarterly TriCare health insurance premium as of April 1. Oddly enough, it’s DUE April 1.

Did I understand? Did I need to hear it again?

What the fricketdee frack fruck is going on? I CAN’T write a CHECK to the GUBMINT ANYMORE?!?!?!

WHAT?!?

I cannot even begin to imagine the chaos this is going to cause in certain quarters and I’ll be DAMNED if I’m going direct deposit on the thing.

I’ll be mailing A CHECK this week and they can KISS MY AGING ASS because it’s still the month o’ MARCH. Not April.

FOOLS.

Guess I Missed The Excitement In Zucchini Park Over The Weekend

The Occupysters, who haven’t been there at all for months, decided they needed to celebrate their success or something

(Reuters) – Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested during the weekend as police cleared New York’s Zuccotti Park, where demonstrators had gathered for the struggling movement’s six-month anniversary.

The park remained closed on Sunday with a sprinkling of police surrounding it, keeping the area clear while crews cleaned up following Saturday night’s protests. A sweep just before midnight, when roughly 300 demonstrators had gathered in the park, capped a day of protests and marching in lower Manhattan.

The park was completely empty this morning…just as it’s been for the past three months or so.

Only now the barriers are back surrounding it and blocking access.

It’s funny how the warm weather brings out the OccuCritters; I mean just ask them and they’ll tell you how bold and brave and courageous they are…until the weather gets cool, natch.

Ed Needham, one of several members of the whiny petulant attention whores leaderless movement’s press team, said the weekend’s flare-up could draw renewed attention to Occupy Wall Street.

“Every time they use violence to put us down, it only increases the number of people that are empathetic to the cause. It adds fuel to the fire and draws attention to the movement,” he said, drawing inspiration from Obi-Wan.

“Mayor Bloomberg did us a big help last night in terms of fundraising – by arresting so many it means that our tab for dinner just got a lot smaller as he’s got to feed them now. Frankly, we’re all trying to get arrested. But it’s not just about the financial aspects – it’s not about people writing checks, although (we really really really hope that) they will (because we are so broke), it’s about people standing up to be counted (and by “stand up to be counted” we mean give us money for us to count).”

(the above has been edited somewhat for clarity)

Actually, the best unedited line in the whole piece is

Inspired by the pro-democracy Arab Spring…

How’s that working out, guys?

So President Barack Over and Kiss It

…seems to have legitimized and empowered yet another delightful group of Islamic assholes with his constant groveling.

Taliban demands Afghan trial for alleged shooter

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A Taliban commander expressed skepticism that one soldier carried out a massacre last week that left 16 Afghan civilians dead, and anger that the suspect subsequently was flown out of Afghanistan.

“We don’t think that one American was involved,” the Taliban official told CNN, refusing to give his name or be otherwise identified. “The foreigners and the puppet regime (in Afghanistan) are blind to the truth of what happened here.

“But if this was the act of one soldier, we want this soldier to be prosecuted in Afghanistan, and according to Islamic law. The Afghans should prosecute him.”

The commander also explained that the Islamic fundamentalist group had halted talks with U.S. officials. It had set up an office in Qatar on January 3 to reach “an understanding with the international community” and discuss specific issues with American officials.

What do they mean, they’ve “set up an office in Qatar”?!?!!? What are they ~ Planned Parenthood? Acorn?

Weren’t we just trying to wipe these guys out right before 2008?

Frick. I’m confused.

Bueller? Bueller?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

To celebrate, I’ll share something from a much loved album that we grew up with. 20 years later it gave me half the lullabies that put Ebola on the road to sleepytime.

I love these songs.

Hoot, Mon! Who, Mon? Giant Slayers!

Norfolk State!

This is the only time of year I like basketball ~ just for stuff like this.

UPDATE: I think that noise’s called a BIG BADDA BOOM!! with the Tweet of the day from Matt de Lucca:

This is the greatest day in America since we shot Bin Laden in the face #fact #BeatDuke

And how schweet it is.

Here’s A Song For Santorum

Courtesy of Tom Lehrer

I do have a cause though. it is obscenity. I’m for it. unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom
Peech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what’s really involved: dirty books are fun. that’s all there is to it. but you can’t get up in a court and say that I suppose. it’s sim
Matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the constitution unfortunately. anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mi
T’s called…

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can’t shut,
If it’s uncut,
And unsubt- le.

I’ve never quibbled
If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
Acquitted my aunt hortense,
“to be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance.”

Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they’re hard core.
(bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I’m still not satisfied!)

Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers,
Lurid, licentious, and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(let’s face it, I love slime.)

All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth (I’m glad to say) is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about peter pan,
And the wizard of oz, there’s a dirty old man!)

I thrill
To any book like fanny hill,
And I suppose I always will,
If it is swill
And really fil
Thy.

Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I’ve got a hobby: rereading lady chatterley.
But now they’re trying to take it all
Away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
We fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,

Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I’m a market they can’t glut,
I don’t know what
Compares with smut.

Hip hip hooray!
Let’s hear it for the supreme court!
Don’t let them take it away!

(transcribed via here)

Santorum Just Needs

…to go away.

I’m sick of him.

Santorum Promises Broad War on Porn

The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum’s campaign website—his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography. Santorum avers that “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography.” He pledges to use the resources of the Department of Justice to fight that “pandemic,” by bringing obscenity prosecutions against pornographers.

…Santorum promises that he would do exactly this. His statement references going after pornography that is distributed not just on the Internet, but also “on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV.”…

STOP ALREADY!!!

Quote of the Day

From Ace…

Of course now, all of his flunkies and flacks are claiming he never intended anything like what he promised us would happen.

…referring to this dilly of a “Who you gonna trust? Me or your lying eyes and ears?” video.

Let me translate our President’s message to his subjects the American people:

“Suck it up, chumps. I won.”

Play this over and over and over.

I Am By No Means a Pam Geller Fan, BUT

BRAVO to her for the salvo she’s fired at the CHICKEN SHIT, anti-Catholic New York Times. I thought I’d post this Fox report from today just to keep the issue out there.

And really people ~ QUIT ISLAM.

Quit coddling it, quit bowing to it, quit indulging its murderous tantrums and its misogynist hate filled little book.

Just QUIT IT.

It’s the only way to be sure.

More On Obama And Bell

So we’ve been told that Obama really didn’t put much stock in Bell’s theories anyway, that he was just being polite to Bell in the suppressed Harvard video from 1991.

Now, via Ace, we find that, well, actually, Obama in fact thought quite highly of Professor Bell, in fact telling his students several times on the syllabus for this course he was teaching in 1994 that they could read either the actual Supreme Court opinions on certain historic cases…or “Prof. Bell’s summary of the case.”

But really, Bell’s thoughts had no influence on Obama.

Greece Going Boom?

No no no, bankruptcy is so 2011!

We’re talking real BOOM

Santorini is a tourist magnet, famous for its breathtaking, cliff side views and sunsets.

It’s also a volcanic island that has been relatively calm since its last eruption in 1950. Until now. The Santorini caldera is awake again and rapidly deforming at levels never seen before. Georgia Tech Associate Professor Andrew Newman has studied Santorini since setting up more than 20 GPS stations on the island in 2006.

“After decades of little activity, a series of earthquakes and deformation began within the Santorini caldera in January of 2011,” said Newman, whose research is published by Geophysical Research Letters. “Since then, our instruments on the northern part of the island have moved laterally between five and nine centimeters. The volcano’s magma chamber is filling, and we are keeping a close eye on its activity.”

If this sounds strangely familiar, why, yes, it should

Santorini is the site of one of the largest volcanic events in human history. The Minoan eruption, which occurred around 1650 B.C., buried the major port city of Akrotiri with more than 20 meters of ash and created Santorini’s famous, present-day cliffs.

31 Years Ago Today

…we got our first taste of March Madness

Hah!

After hearing Newt slamming him, Romney just now:

“If I’m a weak front runner, what does that make Newt Gingrich?”

I lurves politics!

If Our Secretary of Defense Has to Ask Everyone Else First

…then this makes perfect sense in a whacked out Obamarama world.

The Fight Over Voter ID Laws Goes To The United Nations

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced it will appear before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva next week to seek support for its fight against voter identification laws enacted in U.S. states.

The civil rights organization says the laws are among several measures adopted by some states that violate the human and civil rights of minority voters by suppressing their participation in elections.

The NAACP and other groups also are fighting other election changes enacted by states, such as restrictions placed on third-party groups that register new voters and the reduction of early voting periods. Both measures traditionally have helped increase minority voter turnout.

I’m Not at All Surprised

…and that’s an Army shrink talking:

… “They lost all sense of reality and they just marched down the road — one even got to another FOB,” he says. “It was kind of a-holy-shit-did-he really-do-that kind of moment. It was literally a death wish out there” (though neither died).

Although I have a horrible, sick, sinking feeling his Commander-in-Chief will throw this soldier to the Afghans in a heartbeat if he thinks it’ll help his re-election.

Even William Calley was tried at Fort Benning. Whatever his sins, whatever his demons, this soldier rates no less.

A TV Scheduling Note: Excuse Me a Moment While I…

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Better now.

Stephen Hawking to cameo on ‘Big Bang Theory’

A geek dream finally fulfilled!

…Hawking’s cameo will air the week after Leonard Nimoy finally shows up on the comedy. Nimoy, in fact, Tweeted @TheRealNimoy earlier today:

“Spock on Big Bang Theory on 3/29. Stephen Hawking the following week. Logical.”

The hilarious thing to those of us who watch the show is that Nimoy has never actually BEEN on the show, yet he has a restraining order against Jim Parson’s “Sheldon” character, who worships the very ground Nimoy/Spock walks on…whenever he’s in from outer space.

If you’ve never seen “Big Bang Theory” (and granted, it’s not for everyone), the early year re-runs on TBS are an outstanding way to start.

Someone Else Besides Mitt and Rick Was Breathlessly Watching Returns Last Night

Bill Maher
@billmaher

Toothless Tuesday too tight to tally! We’re gathered around the magic picture box with a bowl of grits watching the returns come in!

But not to worry!

He still has all his sponsors.

Talk About Desecrating Old Glory!

Personally, I’d rather see an Occupier pooping on it. The Democratic Party has lost it’s collective…oh…well, that’s the problem. They ARE the BORG of very little brain.

–Florida Political Press

Florida Veterans Demand Democrat Party Remove American Flag Altered With Obama’s Image

After a short stand off between a group of veterans and the head of the Lake County, FL Democrat Party, an American flag that had been altered to depict an image of Barack Obama in the space where the stars are normally located was taken down.

The Lake County Democratic Headquarters in Tavares has been flying two American flags outside their office. The first an American Flag and the second the altered flag.

A veterans group arrived late this afternoon with the media in tow and demanded that the second flag be taken down. Don Van Beck, executive director of the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park asked that the altered flag be removed, explaining that it was in violation of federal flag code. He offered a POW/MIA flag to fly in its place.

If You Can’t Beat It, Tax It

The Swiss vote to create “sex boxes” to prove to the world that Swiss men know how to show a girl a good time

Plans to build drive-in sex boxes in Zurich to allow prostitutes to conduct their businesses more discreetly got the go ahead from the city parliament on Wednesday night.

And these were actually approved via referendum by the people over the weekend.

Now as all legal trades require proper State-controlled training the next item on the Swiss Agenda is to set up a series of Honasiums throughout the country to deal with the educational crisis in this growth industry.

Speaking of “Super Secret Squirrel Plans”, I Present to You Now the Revised Obama Administration Strateegery Ad-Hoc Afghanistan Rearward Advance

…“P.L.A.N.“

(H/T Instapundit)

The Super Secret Plan?

If you haven’t got a clue how to prevent a disaster, maybe it makes sense to cause a disaster you do have a plan for

OK, let’s take this step by step:

1. The Obama administration has already conceded it has no long-term plan to deal with rising U.S. debt, driven for the most part by social insurance spending. Testifying before the House Budget Committee recently, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told Chairman Paul Ryan the following: “We’re not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to that long-term problem. What we do know is we don’t like yours.” Even Obama’s ten-year plan doesn’t keep the debt burden from increasing.

2. Yet, apparently, the White House does have a secret plan to deal with a sudden debt crisis. So instead of developing a long-term plan to avoid the worst-case scenario, it has chosen to plan for the worst-case scenario. (This will certainly be a shock to liberal economists like Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong who insist a debt crisis, as evidenced by the current low level of interest rates, is highly unlikely. In fact, they say, we should be borrowing more to boost the economy.)

3. Then there’s this possibility: Maybe the crisis plan is the long-term plan. Maybe it’s something like this: a) do nothing; b) keep implementing the Obama healthcare and environmental agenda; c) wait for markets to finally freak out over rising U.S. debt; d) break the glass and grab the 2009 Orszag plan.

And that “plan” is tax tax tax.

Brilliant.

Soledad O’Brien Pleads “Don’t Tweet Me Bro!”

Bill Nelson Must Be Shaking in His Astronaut Boots

Pat Boone is comin’ for him.

Oh, it’s great. Beats poor Andy Griffith’s mushmouth Medicare/ObamaCare defense all to bits.