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Saturday, September 19, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAY [Update below]With this entry, The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee returns
back to showcasing the classic ladies of the past century. The spotlight this weekend shines on a lovely but under-appreciated
lass who, in her day, was more fetching and beautiful than most of us realize. Most us only know her from her heavily
made-up later work when she purposely downplayed her natural beauty and charm. With this display, we hope to begin the
restoration of her image from that of caricature to the glamorous beauty she, in fact, was. Therefore, it is with great
satisfaction that The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, by unanimous vote, presents....
YVONNE DECARLO...
While Miss DeCarlo was certainly glamorous and I am quite sure the kind of gal who liked enjoying the swingin'
life, I am also certain that deep down she wanted a man to love and a home to run. With this is mind, my song of the
week could only be Francis Albert and this thrilling tune...
You see a pair of
laughing eyes
And suddenly you're sighing sighs
You're thinkin' nothin's wrong
You string along, boy, then
SNAP!
Those eyes, those sighs
They're part of the tender trap
You're
hand in hand beneath the trees
And soon there's music in the breeze
You're actin' kind of smug
Until your heart
just goes WHAP!
Those trees, that breeze
They're part of the tender trap
Some starry night
When her kisses make you tingle
She'll hold you tight
And you'll hate yourself
for being single
And all at once it seems so nice
The
folks are throwin' shoes and rice
You hurry to a spot that's just a dot on the map
You're hooked, you're cooked
You're caught in the tender trap
Some starry night
When
her kisses make you tingle
She'll hold you tight
And you'll hate yourself for bein' single
And all at once it seems so nice
The folks are throwin'
shoes and rice
You hurry to a spot that's just a dot on the map
And then you wonder how it all came about
It's
too late now, there's no gettin' out
You fell in love, and love is the tender trap
[tip of the fedora
to Todd Peach]
UPDATE 21 SEP 09: Friend of TCOTS,
Smitty was his usual generous self and linked, in the Mother of All RULE 5's, to four of our RULE 5-qualified postings from last week: this one, Mae West, the Boob Czar, and the Pirate wench. Thanks.
-The Classic Liberal was his usual kindness [Ayn wouldn't dare call him a looter]
and linked us twice in his presentation of the very non-evil Evangeline Lilly and the very, very, very evil Income Tax. Thanks.
-Chris, over at
WyBlog, makes some sort of connection between Dari Alexander and a debauched chicken. I'm still scratching my beak over it.
-The Washington
Rebel serves up a classic and a modern RULE 5: Audrey Hepburn and Scarlett Johansson, both while
asking the question What is 'Rule 5 Sunday'? A state of mind, my friend, a state of mind.
-Monique Stuart returns to RULE 5 participation with the alluring Kate Beckinsale. Welcome back.
-Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie
Jeffords provides us with a nice picof the curvaceous Kim Kardashian, then uses her to teach a lesson that could save your life [nice shot of the lovely Nana Visitor too]. [Too bad she's such a ditz; with that body and
some brains, she could have ruled the world.]
-Nation Of Cowards entertains us with some RULE 5 patriotism, even remembering the oft-forgotten Glorious Cause.
-Three Beers Later serves up a moving RULE5: the pre-Code skinny-dipping scene from Tarzan And Jane.
-Admiral William Teach, commander of
The Pirate's Cove, reminds us that what goes down must come up.
-Theo Spark instructs us on the proper way to nap.
-At The Point Of A Gunrecognizes the Sith Lord Darth Hottiness, Patti Anne Browne.
-Paco provides some much needed Rita Hayworth and, in another posting, Paco Enterprises finds a new way to promote the evil weed:
19 sep 09 @ 9:15 pm edt
BOB'S UNION, SHE MUST BE PRESERVED!Stacy McCain finally acknowledges all TCOTS has done to further the conservative dominance of the Hannah Giles Google-bomb, but in typical fashion, he still found time to take a swipe at his Yankee friend:
No
disrespect intended to Bob Belvedere's future wife, Hannah Giles.
Message to Stacy: in The Civil War, my great-great-grandfather
fought on Union side [Company F, 5th Missouri Voluntary Calvary], but his father and two brothers who fought for the
Glorious Cause. So, back off Jack.
SIDENOTE: Hah! I beat Little Miss Attila on the 'Hannah Giles Nude' Google-bomb:
Please, please don't tell her—I value my blogging jewels.
19 sep 09 @ 3:46 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY...
19 sep 09 @ 3:29 pm edt
ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDCongrats to The TrogloPundit, suave Lance Burri proprietor, for
reaching 100,000 hits. Now its onward to one million and Trogfather: may your first million be a masculine million.
19 sep 09 @ 3:24 pm edt
MASSA RATHKE & BERTHA 'THE COLLABORATOR' LEWISBertha 'The Useful Idiot' Lewis, President of ACORN, said:
I think that says a little bit about what Mr. O’Keefe thinks that a black
and brown organization would go for.
Mike, over at Cold Fury, responds:
But…ACORN is a “black and brown organization?” Gee, I bet
all those fresh-faced, white, college-kid stupes and dupes helping to register dead people to vote — not to mention
petty embezzlerWade Rathke himself— would be kinda surprised by that. And if they’re only allowing “blacks
and browns” in, wouldn’t that be a little bit, uhhh, racist? Not to mention legally actionable?
Spot-on, Mike.
Sure, there are a lot of black and brown faces in ACORN. And Mike is right that there
are a good number of pasty-faced do-gooder white college kids in it. It seems the b/b faces outnumber the white faces, but
that is because the masters of ACORN have gone out of their way to exploit poor blacks in the inner cities, taking advantage
of their frustrations. Back in the Spring, one of the ACORN8, a black person, said on the Glenn Beck Showthat ACORN was like a 'plantation'. Yup, sounds about right:
Massa Rathke.
PS: And don't forget this Rathke fellow is a creepy-looking albino. NTTAWWT,
per se. As Beck has commented several times: he looks exactly like a stereotypical albino villain in the movies.
19 sep 09 @ 3:15 pm edt
BEST ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION AWARD......goes to Winston S. Smitty, over at The Other McCain, for succinctly summing up ACORN's fortunes over the last two weeks:
Never has so much ass been handed
to so many by so few.
Your DIY 'Build A Bordello' kit, Smitty, will be sent to you in 4 to 6 weeks.
19 sep 09 @ 2:51 pm edt
WELL, SHIVER ME TIMBERS...
19 sep 09 @ 2:39 pm edt
HANNAH GILES NUDE / HANNAH GILES SEX VIDEO / HANNAH GILES BIKINI / HANNAH GILES PARTY PICS
19 sep 09 @ 1:21 am edt
Friday, September 18, 2009
CLEANING OUT THE CACHE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2009 Wherein I provide
links to postings
by my fellow bloggers that are well-worth
your time.
A semi-regular feature of TCOTS.
Here's the latest and some stuff I haven't had a chance to get to as we've been hurtling
our way along to perdition...
-Earlier in the month, Enoch Root, of Piece Of Work In Progress,
received an e-mail from Monster.Com entitled: Public Service: Hot Careers in a Cool Economy. It contained the boast that the billions of 'Stimulus' Bill monies going to state and local governments would
be used to create thousands of 'recession-proof' government jobs. ER read it and was enlightened, shall we
say:
It's enough to wonder what exactly I was thinking. Idiot me had visions
of investing in myself, taking risks, creating wealth, employing people (creating opportunity for others in the form of jobs),
contributing to the tax-base, improving the overall living standards in my neck of the woods - all while offering valuable
and needed products and services. Living and dying on my ability to offer the best possible for the price the market would
sustain.
Who knew I was
just a glutton for punishment? My recommendation to my kids is to get a government job - one where you can't be fired - won't
be expected to perform - one that provides luxurious bennies unheard of in the private sector. One with a path to retirement!
-Looking at the story of Rifka Bary, the Muslim girl who converted to Christianity and is now in hiding in
Florida, Lance Burri hopes that her fate does not copy the one of a certain boy from the same environs a few year ago.
-Paco posts a message from one ah da boys working for The White House.
-Regarding the career of the just-passed Larry Gelbart,
Jamie Jeffords strikes just the right balance.
-Gator Doug has the story of the latest Medal Of Honor winner, the late Sgt. Jared Monti, including
good links and video. It is a very fitting tribute to an American Hero.
-Stormbringer has a very unsettling story that takes places at a Post Office [tip of the fedora to Theo Spark].
-Over at Red State, Mark
Impomeni catches the Administartion admitting that they're planning to slowly and deliberately take over the health care system.
-Carol's Blog
has posted some very good information on the murder of peaceful pro-life demonstrator James Paullion.
-My favorite blog post title of recent weeks
was coined by Clifton B. over at Another Black Conservative: Nancy Pelosi Cried Today, Boo Friggin' Hoo! The posting contains the video of of her shedding those botox tears.
-My favorite recent Photoshop
picture has been provided by Gregory Of Yardale over at Moonbattery:
On second thought...I think the pic's real...I mean, it makes sense.
-As the owner of six cats [blame
Mrs. B.], I am just as worried as Stogie is.
-Over at Caught Him With A Corndog, Red provides us with a personal teachable moment.
-Erick Erickson shows us an example of the true American spirit in action.
-Chris Bryne reminds us real men what we're fighting against over at The AnarchAngel. It is, as he says, truly 'An Abomination
Before God and Man'!
-Dr. Helen shows us why Instapundit is a very, very lucky man: he has a wife who actually understands what a husband goes through [I must say, I'm very lucky too in that regard].
-Over at WyBlog, Chris reports and comments on the story of that college kid who successfully defended himself against a burglar with a samurai
sword, rightly expresses outrage that the kid might be prosecuted, and, reading his reader's minds, presents a classic
comedy bit.
-My latest great blog discovery: Guns & Bikinis.
-We end on a musical note...in this week's installment of Happy Feet Friday, Paco treats us to a doubleshot of swingin' tunes: Lionel Hampton and his band jamming and Bill Haley and His Comets rockin'.
KEEPS RAINING ALL THE TIMEA screenshot from Monique Stuarts's site HotMES:
Monique, that's pretty much all I think about these days.
18 sep 09 @ 10:37 am edt
OY! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!In light of the fact that the Jews are being called many of the same names by
the Left as those of us who are rebelling here in America, the creation of this flag makes sense:
The Hebrew says, as you might have already have guessed: Don't Tread On Me.
Big tip of the fedora to Paco.
Also, check out Robert Avrech's report on the Jew-hatred at the Toronto Film Festival here.
18 sep 09 @ 10:32 am edt
OUT OF TOUCH, OUT OF HIS MINDHouse Minority Leader John Boehner is obviously a traditionalist: he wants the
Republican Party to preserve its reputation as The Stupid Party. The man is so out of touch with what is fermenting
in the country. Over at Politico, Glenn Thrush reports:
House Minority Leader John Boehner spent much of last week trying to persuade
a stubborn Rep. Joe Wilson to apologize to the House - telling associates he needed to "get to" Wilson before the
weekend to elicit an apology.
But as the days dragged on, Boehner
had to back off: Wilson's spine was stiffened by $1.5 million in campaign contributions, the Democrats' anti-Wilson rhetoric
had become increasingly extreme, and the South Carolina Republican was rapidly accumulating support from the conference's
dominant right wing.
"At some point, he realized he had
no choice but to get behind Wilson because that's where his conference was going - and he was just so angry that the Democrats
had pushed this thing so far," said a GOP aide with knowledge of the situation.
...
"He's
a conservative, but he's less conservative than his base," [Chris] Shays added. "And he's got to lead a party that
has been so battered and beaten that it's incredibly angry - angry at what's going on in the country, angry at the way it's
being treated by the majority."
On Tuesday, Boehner -
who had worked with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to avoid an ugly confrontation over Wilson's "resolution of disapproval"
- took to the floor to accuse the Democrats of a "publicity stunt" in pushing for a Wilson reprimand. But many observers,
including Republicans, noted that the leader, a wise-cracking chain smoker who sometimes finds it hard to mask his emotions,
seemed just as disgusted with Wilson, making little eye contact with the man he was supposed to be defending.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said his boss has no conflict with Wilson -
and that the House GOP's complaints about President Barack Obama's programs represent the concerns of the wider public and
not just conservatives.
"I would point out that the greatest
anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said.
Long before the tea parties or Wilson's outburst, Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had struggled
to moderate the rhetorical excesses of House conservatives hammering away on Obama's birth certificate, decrying the creation
of "death panels" and ferreting out signs of creeping socialism.
Sources
say they have been especially wary of the possible damage inflicted on the party's reputation by bomb-throwing Rep. Michele
Bachmann (R-Minn.), who last fall called for an investigation into whether members of Congress are "pro-America or anti-America."
Still, Boehner has largely
avoided antagonizing the base on these hot-button issues - steering clear of using the words "death panel" - while
criticizing Democrats for involving the government in end-of-life decisions. He's been particularly careful to avoid the fate
of former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who found himself publicly espousing positions that didn't have widespread support
in his own conference.
Dan Riehl is spot-on when he comments:
This is a far more troubling item than it first appears to be. And it doesn't
look good from the start. The first thing Boehner does is mention that Independents out number the base in their concerns
over Obama. That's a bit of a tell as to which way he is leaning. But the second issue is far worse.
While I've no problem with his staying clear of some of the truly fringe stuff like the
doomed birther movement, that he can't appreciate creeping socialism is rather troubling, indeed. And he seems to feed into
the notion that the "base" is mostly comprised of the more extreme and unhinged elements of it.
It's hard to conclude anything other than Boehner
simply doesn't get it at all. This is a genuinely troubling read.
Jesus Christ and General Jackson! We're never going to get very far in our efforts with such blinded people leading
our side in the Congress. Mr. Boehner, the days of conviviality in the House are over. The Democrats are street
brawling and you're the skinny kid trying to broker a peace who keeps trying despite having a bloody nose and a wedgee.
This is ultimately not a battle between Democrats and Republicans, but a battle between Left and Right for the soul of this
nation. This is not like the battles of yore when you could count on a reciprocating civility from the other side.
The Left is in it all-out to win by any means necessary. Have you not been watching and listening to them since 20 January?
Really, you should get off your well-padded ass, get out of Washington, jump in a car with out any advance men, and see the
anger and rebellion brewing in America. Either that or get out. And I don't mean resign from the Minority Leader
position; I mean get the hell out of the Congress. You're not doing your country any good being a useful idiot and patsy
for the America-hating Left. They're laughing at you and us. At least have the decency, if you care at all about
this nation, to remove yourself from the scene. 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing.
Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!'
Remember: NOT ONE RED CENT
18 sep 09 @ 10:06 am edt
NO, NO, THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
18 sep 09 @ 9:39 am edt
Thursday, September 17, 2009
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Stacy McCain for delivering this Come-To-Jesus warning to all of us on the Right:
The Chicago Way has come
to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and if anybody in the conservative movement doesn't know what that means, they need to stop hitting
the snooze button and wake the hell up.
17 sep 09 @ 8:32 pm edt
STACY THE BAPTIST & THE PROPHET CHARLESHAMMEDCharles 'Little' Johnson, the putrid piece of petrified piss-laden puke who is
the proprietor of Little Green No Balls, continues to malign my friend Stacy McCain [for a background, please
see my previous postings here, here, and here]. After I had finished blogging last night, Stacy produced the posti di tutti posting on the matter entitled: Andrew Jackson's mother advises this response to Charles Johnson's lies. Its classic Other McCain: serious, but never fully, well-reasoned, and the product of a generous Christian
soul, with a little brimstone thrown in. A few highlights:
Clearly, the man
has succumbed to a narcissistic personality trait that is all too common among weaklings. As his habit of successively banishing
nearly all of his commenters clearly shows, Johnson is a control freak, incapable of tolerating disagreement. He will heed
no counsel of caution and reacts with fury to the slightest hint of criticism. Trustful only of those who flatter him, he
is suspicious of strangers and envious of the merits of others.
The character of a deceitful backstabber -- weakling,
bully, coward, liar --is a species of sociopathic evil which, in real life, wise men know and avoid. But remembering Steiner's Law ("On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog") we see how long Charles Johnson
succeeded in pretending to be what he never was, nor could ever be. He lacks not only sound judgment, but also honesty, courtesy
and courage.
And...
Mad King Charles did not attack me until I defended
Pamela [Geller] against his vicious lies, and let us not neglect to observe that chief among his targets have been three women
-- Geller, Coulter and Malkin. If Charles Johnson were a Sioux, his tribal name would have to be "Fights With Girls."
Should Mad King Charles wish to begin describing me as a "homophobicwhite supremacist blogger,"
let him do so immediately, for certainly I am not alone in the suspicion that he is getting in touch with his inner Andrew
Sullivan. NTTAWWT. IYKWIMAITYD.
And...
There is a God in heaven,
and the man who spitefully chooses to pursue unrighteousness will ultimately destroy himself. Therefore, wise men observe
the madness of King Charles and shake their heads sadly, knowing what the final outcome must be.
Charles Johnson
is already in a very deep hole and, at the frantic pace he's digging now, can be expected to reach the fiery pit of hell no
later than next Thursday.
Honor must always be served and Stacy has done so quite brilliantly over
the last number of days.
Since the above posting, he has published several others here, here, here, and here. In that last posting, Why It's Not a Blog War, Stacy, provides the best succinct description of 'No
Balls' Johnson:
A control freak gone berserk, a radioactive psyche in Chernobyl
meltdown mode. He's gone bonkers. Wacko. Zany. Fruit Loops. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Get out your thesaurus and look up "insane"
-- pick a word, any word -- whatever your favorite synonym for "crazy," that'll do just fine. He's nucking futz.
Right on Brother, right on.
17 sep 09 @ 8:28 pm edt
HANNAH GILES & JAMES O'KEEFE: SAN DIEGO EDITIONIn my posting yesterday on the undercover investigation of ACORN by Miss Giles
and Mr. O'Keefe, I wrote:
Here's hoping that the MSM will finally take notice of the work Hannah Giles
and James O'Keefe have done exposing the criminal goings-on at ACORN. Yup, hope is a wonderful thing, ain't it?
Don't hold your breath, Dispatch readers.
They're still dragging their feet over this one,
but, it seems, not the Congress. The House voted today to defund ACORN and the Senate has voted to defund
ACORN Housing. A good start, but a massive investigation into the use of taxpayer monies is clearly in order.
Many of my fellow Vast Right Wing Conspirators are celebrating. I am not. Pardon me for being a Cynical SOB
[those are my middle names], but, even if the national government and all of the state governments were to cutoff ACORN's
funding forever and a day, I still wouldn't trust those who run it from finding ways for other existing organizations, or
new bogus ones they will start, from funnelling monies to them. This is called 'laundering' and manys a drug dealer
and mobster who have been put away for it. I wouldn't put it past the leaders of the plantation known as ACORN to
start a new organization and then slowly bring over to it some of the existing crew of thugs—those that they
don't sacrifice for the greater good of the cause. We had better keep a very close eye on Rathke and his minions because
the media and radical Leftists in the Congress and the Executive Branch won't.
Last night, James O'Keefe and
Hannah Giles released their fifth set of videos, this time from San Diego. And, if you think things couldn't get any
creepier, well, check out the pure sleaze they dealt with there. The videos may be found at Andrew Breitbart's great, new site Big Government here. [Over at Common Cents, you can find all of the videos in chronological order.] Kudos to Miss Giles and Mr. O'Keefe.
Speaking of Miss Giles....
MEET THE NEW POINT PERSON, SAME AS THE OLD CZARThe term 'Czar' is, it seems, becoming as radioactive as the term 'liberal' became
in the 1990's, so our dear friends on the Left are doing what they do best: using another name to describe the exact same
thing. You know, one day 2 + 2 = 4, another day it = 5. Michelle Malkin noticed the latest example and has the details:
Just wanted to make sure you and all the other citizen czar-watchers out there
were aware that President Obama has a new euphemism for his czars.
He tested it out yesterday during his AFL-CIO speech: That’s why we’re investing in a clean energy economy that will
free America from the grip of foreign oil and create millions of new green jobs that can’t be outsourced. That’s
why I’ve named a new point person to jumpstart American manufacturing so that we can make “Made in America”
not just a slogan, we want to make it a reality. (Applause.)
“Point
person.”
Got it?
Loud and clear, Mam.
'Do
you remember,' [O'Brien] went on, 'writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make
four"?'
'Yes,' said Winston.
O'Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the
thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'
'Four.'
'And if the party says that it is not four but five -- then how many?'
'Four.'
The word ended
in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston's body. The
air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O'Brien watched
him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased.
'How
many fingers, Winston?'
'Four.'
The needle went up to sixty.
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!'
The needle must have risen again, but he did not look at
it. The heavy, stern face and the four fingers filled his vision. The fingers stood up before his eyes like pillars, enormous,
blurry, and seeming to vibrate, but unmistakably four.
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four! Stop it,
stop it! How can you go on? Four! Four!'
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Five! Five! Five!'
'No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four. How many fingers, please?'
'Four!
five! Four! Anything you like. Only stop it, stop the pain!'
Abruptly he was sitting up with O'Brien's arm round
his shoulders. He had perhaps lost consciousness for a few seconds. The bonds that had held his body down were loosened. He
felt very cold, he was shaking uncontrollably, his teeth were chattering, the tears were rolling down his cheeks. For a moment
he clung to O'Brien like a baby, curiously comforted by the heavy arm round his shoulders. He had the feeling that O'Brien
was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O'Brien who
would save him from it.
'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently.
'How can I help it?'
he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.'
'Sometimes, Winston.
Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not
easy to become sane.'
Part 3, Chapter 2
17 sep 09 @ 2:28 pm edt
WEE WEED UP IN SPACE!!!From POPSCI [via the kind and generous Instapundit], Anna Maria Jakubek reporting, we learn:
To anyone who's ever pondered what urine looks like in space -- c'mon, don't
be shy -- we say: wonder no more, because photos of the phenomenon have finally hit the internet.
Last Wednesday,
a number of skygazers were lucky to sight a mysterious flare in the night sky, that, as it now turns out, was a 150-pound
cocktail of astronaut urine and waste water released from the shuttle Discovery.
Here's one of the pictures:
Just another example—albiet more magnificent looking—of what the national government does to us every
single day.
[photo © Tamas Ladanyi]
17 sep 09 @ 2:15 pm edt
DISTURBING, UPSETTING, BUT NOT SURPRISING IIFrom an exclusive report over at The Washington Times, Audrey
Hudson reporting, we learn:
The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking
sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears
to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.
...
Defenders of the White House actions said the Presidential Records Act requires that the administration
gather the information and that it was justified in taking the additional step of asking a private contractor to "crawl
and archive" all such material. Nicholas Shapiro, a White House spokesman, declined to say when the practice began or
how much the new contract would cost.
Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for National Archives and Records Administration,
said the presidential records law applies to "social media" and to public comments "received by the president
or immediate staff."
...
The proposal issued Aug. 21 calls for a contractor to "crawl and
archive" social-networking Web sites where the White House maintains an official presence on seven networks: Facebook,
Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and Slideshare.
The collection will include the comments, tags, graphics,
audio and video posted by users who don't work for the White House.
The White House has more than 333,000 fans
on Facebook, and posts updates several times a day that draw hundreds of thousands of comments, both positive and negative.
The White House has more than 1 million followers on Twitter and more than 87,000 subscribers on YouTube, where more than
400 videos of the president and White House briefings are posted.
Miss Hudson produces some good statements
from both sides of the issue. But, I must say, I agree with GorTechie, over at The Gormogons, who comments:
...It was one thing if the NSA wiretapped a phone conversation with an American
phone number on one end when a suspected terrorist was on the other end. But to collect and process in some undisclosed manner
this data is unsettling at best and potentially criminal in violations of various privacy and executive power restrictions
at worst.
Just something else [and they keep piling up] that the Congress should look into, but won't.
Wanna place a bet with me on this one?....Anyone?....No, I didn't think so....Time for a cocktail....I take great satisfaction
these days that somewhere in the world, its Happy Hour....
17 sep 09 @ 11:52 am edt
DISTURBING, UPSETTING, BUT NOT SURPRISING IFrom the always insightful Nile Gardiner we learn:
It now looks as though the
president has surrendered to Russian demands to kill off Third Site. Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard is reporting that:
“According to reliable
sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration
intends to cancel completely the missile defense sites that had been promised to these governments by the previous administration.”
Mr. Gardiner is dead solid perfect when he comments:
This is bad news for all who care about the US commitment to the transatlantic alliance and the
defence of Europe as well as the United States. It represents the appalling appeasement of Russian aggression and a willingness
to sacrifice American allies on the altar of political expediency. A deal with the Russians to cancel missile defence installations
sends a clear message that even Washington can be intimidated by the Russian bear.
What signal does this send to Ukraine, Georgia and a host
of other former Soviet satellites who look to America and NATO for protection from their powerful neighbour? The impending
cancellation of Third Site is a shameful abandonment of America's friends in eastern and central Europe, and a slap in the
face for those who actually believed a key agreement with Washington was worth the paper it was written on.
Great...just f'ing great. It would seem that Comrade Obamnin feels more
of affinity for a neo-Stalinist thug than for free peoples in Central and Eastern Europe, who bravely discarded the rotting
shell of totalitarianism and cloaked themselves in freedom. Now, he may like to consort with dictators, he may
feel a kinship towards them—I don't know. But even the most mediocre thug knows you can't play that game without
having a strong hand and this fool is disarming himself [and us]. The laughter in The Kremlin must be side-splitting.
I've not been surprised by how Left this guy is, but I figured him for a sly player. However, its becoming quite clear
that Barack Hussein Obama is incredibly and monstrously naive.
17 sep 09 @ 11:29 am edt
O-I-COn this, the 221st Anniversary of The Constitution Of The United States
Of America, the Officer-in-Charge of the conn of the USS Federalism, Capt'n Smitty, comes out swinging against the Rosie O'Donnell-sized, and just as troubled, behemoth know as Social Security:
- The Federal government has no business involving itself with individual citizens, other than that
gross wart the 16th Amendment.
- States should be empowered to run things as
inefficiently as they care to, without hammering the other 49 States.
- Managing
entitlement programs that citizens want at the State level increases the likelihood that said programs will run balanced books,
and thus have a sustainable funding profile.
- Keeping said programs at a State
level reserves an invaluable oversight role to the Federal government.
- Even
if you want to build some economy-of-scale case that FDR wasn't a nitwit for implementing Social Security, due to the technological
constraints of threescore and ten years ago, the sun has set on those days.
Hear, hear!
And here's another, this time on health care.
17 sep 09 @ 9:52 am edt
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee hereby presents...
MAE WEST...
16 sep 09 @ 8:08 pm edt
ALLAH I'LL-BE-AT-THE-BARWell...isn't this just grand... 
Tip of the fedora to Van Helsing, over at Moonbattery, who, I think, is correct when he comments:
The MSM won't be low-balling attendance
for this event....
DEFENDING OUR FRIEND, STACY MCCAINBACKGROUND:
Charles Johnson, proprietor of My Little Green Johnson Footballs, has called
Stacy McCain a 'rascist' and 'white supremacist'. Many of his friends and acquaintances have come to his defense.
Yesterday, I quoted from and linked to some of those who have risen. Here are a few more:
1) Over at American Power, Donald Douglas
teaches Johnson a lesson:
Charles Johnson's free to do what he wants with his own blog, but he strains
legal and moral boundaries with his libel-blogging against Robert Stacy McCain. And I am happy to disabuse Charles of the
notion that R.S. McCain is an "open racist who associates with white supremacists and neo-Nazis." There is no proof
for the allegation, not one shred of it. I have known R.S. McCain for two years now, and there's nothing in him that remotely
reeks of racist sentiment. Indeed, R.S. McCain represents the epitome of a gentleman and a scholar, and I testify to his unimpeachable
integrity on civil rights.
I second the Professor's sentiments.
2) Stogie, over at Saberpoint,
a friend of Stacy's who has worked with him in the past, has been the most vociferous defender. I quoted from him
the previous posting and, now, here's some more:
On the people who hang around Stacy's site, The Other McCain:
...All of these people think of R.S. McCain as a mentor, a leader and
a friend. McCain's crowd is a pretty diverse lot. I guess they didn't get the memo from Charles Johnson about
McCain's "bigotry."
In another posting, Stogie also provides three versions of the same graphic that you can download and post on your site. Here's one of
them:
3) Yesterday, Stacy himself penned an eloquent response to another posting of Johnson's. A highlight:
Because racism has replaced
blasphemy of the Holy Spirit as the Unforgivable Sin in contemporary American culture, there are some people who seek a reputation
for virtue (at least in their own eyes) by setting their Racism Detectors to "stun."
Anyone who examines
this phenomenon will quickly discover nearly all of these people are elite-educated affluent Vanilla-Americans -- rich stuck-up
honkies -- who seem to think that becoming a zealous "anti-racist" is their ticket to liberal heaven. In other words,
they are self-righteous latter-day Pharisees, and unless they repent, they are doomed to destruction.
When I contemplate
what Charles Johnson had done, I hurt. Not for me, but for him. God
has made me strong enough to endure whatever I must endure, and I do not think God will forsake me after having worked so
many miracles on my behalf to bring me through so many perils to where I am today.
Charles Johnson has no such comfort.....
16 sep 09 @ 2:52 pm edt
HELPFUL HINTSOver at Caught Him With A Corndog, Red has done all of us a service
by publishing some Fabulous Hints from Heloise (if she happened to be a sociopath.). Two highlights:
-Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold
the vegetables while you slice.
-You only need two tools in life - WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and
should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
Red, every guy worth his salt already
knows that...except the metrosexuals like our President, of course [However, I have no doubt that Michelle knows it (look
at those arms, man)]. Of course, the following should be added: Duct tape works on everything except taping
ductwork.
16 sep 09 @ 2:34 pm edt
TCOTS FMJRA: 16 SEPTEMBER 2009 A.D.
Its time to thank all of those who linked to TCOTS and its subsidiary sites recently...
-Over at WyBlog, Chris linked to my posting on Comrade Obamnin's plans to enlist children to help collect the 2010 Census. I especially
liked his last line:
Channeling Stacy McCain, Bob notes (and I concur) there is
but one appropriate rallying cry to counter Comrade Obama's latest power grab — WOLVERINES!
Aw, what the Hell, that deserves a link to one of the best RULE 5postings, EVAH!
-My new blogging pal, Clifton B. over at Another Black Conservative, gave me a nice bit of linky love
here.
-Over at Lead and Gold, Craig Henry was kind enough to link to two of my postings wherein I took David 'Straight Creases' Brooks out behind the
woodshed and gave him a whupping.
-The Daley Gator links to one of the TCOTS's CLEANING
OUT THE CACHE's and wonders which college football team we have given our alligence to. Sir, I cannot be bought for a single link! However, a little wine, moonlight......
He also was kind
enough to link to our bit of a tribute to hero Rick Rescorla.
-Obi's Sister put TCOTS on her list of 'Global warming deniers, Tea Party haters and general Infidels'. We here in The Camp Of The Saints
are honored.
-When TCOTS Holding Ltd launched it's newest venture, the parody site OBAMA YOUTH LEAGUE, last week, Donald Douglas, over at the great site American Power, was the first to link to it. Thanks Prof.
-The Daley Gator was second. Much thanks.
-Smitty gave the OYL site a 'Special' Reach Around. Thanks, my friend; I'm sure Mr. O enjoyed it.
-Carolyn, over at Carol's Closet, was very kind in quoting from my rant on OSHA.
-Newly discovered and recommended websites: Jaded Haven, Another Black Conservative, Common Cents, and Cassy Fiano. I've just added them to my version of the Blogroll: FELLOW DHS-CERTIFIED RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS.
Thanks to all. If I missed you [things have bit a bit chaotic here in The Camp
lately], please let me know via e-mail and I'll make up for it in my next FMJRA. As the Gunny would say: DISMISSED Ladies!
PAT'S PRIMERSpeaking of ACORN...
Over at And So It Goes In Shreveport,
Pat has up a great posting on this organized crime syndicate. Its a great primer [she is a teacher, after all] of
their activities that will bring you up to speed on these hoods. A highlight:
ACORN
was actively involved in the campaign to force banks and lending organizations to make sub-prime loans which largely responsible
for putting people into homes they ultimately couldn't afford. They would loudly protest banks that refused to make such loans.
Kevin Mooney and Barbara Hollingsworth writing in July of this year for the San Francisco Examiner, outlined even more of ACORN's
crimes, including the Muscle for Money program and the connections with the SEIU....
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole of Pat's report.
16 sep 09 @ 11:26 am edt
THE LAUGH'S ON THEM--NOT ON HANNAH GILES & JAMES O'KEEFEHere's hoping that the MSM will finally take notice of the work Hannah Giles and
James O'Keefe have done exposing the criminal goings-on at ACORN. Yup, hope is a wonderful thing, ain't it? Don't
hold your breath, Dispatch readers.
First, the story reflects bad on The Golden Boy, The Chosen/Anointed
One.
Second, two amateurs scooped all of the major investigative units. Perhaps I shouldn't use the word
'scooped'. After all, using the word implies that the MSM was sniffing around ACORN in the first place. They weren't,
with the exception of Roger Aile's folks over at Fox News Channel. The MSM's egos have been bruised and they're acting
like all such people do: dismissively. Case in point, Charlie Gibson on WLS-AM:
Don: Okay, here’s my news question. A Senate bill yesterday passes, cutting off funds to this group called
ACORN. Now, we got that bill passed and we have the embarrassing video of ACORN staffers giving tax advice on how to set up
a brothel with 13-year-old hookers. It has everything you could want – corruption and sleazy action at tax-funded organizations
and it’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story. Why?
Gibson: HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I
didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s
got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning.
Roma: This is the American way!
Gibson: Or maybe this is just one you leave to the cables.
Laugh now, Charlie...
As Ed Morrissey comments:
A couple of points should be made. First, Gibson is not the entirety of ABC News.
As Don and Roma point out, ABC has been reporting it through Jake Tapper, although currently only on the website.
All that being said, the ACORN story is not just a Kanye West celebrity dust-up. It involves tens of millions of taxpayer
dollars, and potentially billions in upcoming legislation. ACORN has worked tirelessly on behalf of the Democratic Party in
the last election cycle and beyond, helping to organize in communities on behalf of Obama’s domestic policy agenda.
It’s a story worthy of national coverage, and leaving it to the cable news outlets may explain why people don’t
bother to tune into the broadcast networks any longer to get informed.
The MSM will have to be dragged kicking
and screaming to this story and then they'll downplay its significance as much as they can get away with.
Our elected
officials may not be so fortunate, as the Editors of the New York Post point out:
Please. The latest revelations
confirm what should've been clear for years; ACORN's voter-registration shenanigans and shakedowns of "uncooperative"
businesses are matters of public record.
New York's pols can hardly claim ignorance: Indeed, many are in bed with
the ACORN-affiliated Working Families Party, which itself is under a cloud for its shady financial practices.
Pols
who continue to support the group are making a mistake. Alas, they may need to learn the hard way.
For some
reason, the 'hard way' appeals to me in this instance. To paraphrase Mencken: They deserve to get it good and hard [for
a whole host of reasons].
And now for some RULE 5 shamelessness, courtesy of America's True Paper Of Record:
 Hannah Giles & James O'Keefe[Photo ©William Ferrington]
16 sep 09 @ 11:13 am edt
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
HANNAH GILES & JAMES O'KEEFE IN SAN BERDOOThe two young investigative reporters have released the next video chapter
in the on-going saga of the malignant corruption at ACORN. This time they're in San Bernadino [San Berdoo for all you
James Ellroy fans]. If you think they couldn't top their adventures in Baltimore and D.C. and Brooklyn, think again.
The woman they deal with admits she was a pro herself and—gotta love it—shot her husband dead. I was tempted
to embed the video here, but I'm having some problems with that, so, in the spirit of shameless blogwhoring [which seems appropriate,
given the cover used by the delightful Miss Giles] I'll direct you to a new blog I've discovered, Common Cents, which has it for your enjoyment.
However, I am shameless enough to post a new picture of Hannah Giles:
And one of the one's I posted as part of my RULE 5 SATURDAY:
MY DARLING DEAR, LOVE YOU ALL THE TIMELadies...Now you can enjoy that extra special pleasure
and help the environment at the same time!
From the Austrian Times, David Rogers reporting, we learn:Green fans are getting
a buzz out of a new hand-cranked vibrator that makers say could help save the planet.
The eco-sex toy - dubbed
the “Earth Angel” - uses a small wind-up handle to power up rechargeable batteries inside the casing.
It had originally been planned as a sex aid for the Third World where batteries and electricity supplies are unreliable.
But the Irish manufacturers Camden Enterprises have been swamped with interest from Green followers after displaying
the vibrator at the Ars Electronica fair in Linz, Upper Austria, this week.
So...Ladies, help save the planet
and achieve great things [multiple times]![tip of the fedora to Instapundit]
HERE COMES ANOTHER ONEOver at Red State, Ken Blackwell has the dirt on Comrade Obamnin's
nominee to be head of OSHA, David Michaels. He's—surprise surprise!—a radical, cut from the same cloth as
'Red" Jones, Holdren, and Sunstein.
Who's the head of OSHA is very important as the department has
enormous regulatory power. In other words, they have the power to intervene in a lot of areas by issuing directives
that have the force of law without having to be voted on by elected legislators. As someone who has worked in government
for over twenty-five years, I fear regulatory power more than I fear judicial power because its reach and effect flys
so under the radar, out of the sight of the public. Much mischief has been created by regulations and the Left
knows full well the benefits of this kind of power.
Please do take the time to click here and read Mr. Blackwell's full posting.
15 sep 09 @ 8:48 pm edt
A PLAN OF FEW WORDSOver at Pundit & Pundette, Pundette is challenging her
readers to come up with a three word slogan that best describes Obamacare. She herself has come up with five.
My two favorites:
Don't get sick.
This will hurt.
I've
been racking my brain trying to come up with a three-worder and the closest I've gotten is a four-worder: When No
One Cares.
Please do take the time to click here and go and put in your three cents worth.
Also: Pundette has been doing a really great job aggregating reports, commentary, and analysis on the whole issue of
the socialization of American health care. I check in with her site at least once a day to keep on the latest developments
CYNTHIA YOCKEY, RECRUITMENT OFFICER OF THE RIGHTIn the course of her defense of Stacy McCain, which I quoted earlier [here], Cynthia Yockey also makes one of the best cases I've seen for joining the Right:
One of the things I have marveled at and loved about joining the conservative
movement is that it embodies the ideal of embracing diversity. My experience of diversity on the Left was that, sure, there’s
a rainbow of races and a sort-of rainbow of religions and homosexuals believe they are welcome (which is not the same as actually
being welcome), but there was a strict uniformity of beliefs that were imposed top-down and woe betide the useful idiot —
like me — who tried to cash in any of those checks, especially if they then went all activist on the asses of the Lefties
breaking the promises — again, like me — for passing worthless promises in the belief that that neighborhood of
the Left was just ignorant and only needed activism and education so that it would keep the promises it had made of equality,
inclusion, yada-yada-yada.
Even after being run out of the lesbian and gay community in the pages of The Washington
Blade in 1996 for my advocacy for the rights of people in wheelchairs, including my late life partner, it was not until the
spring of 2008 when I found out about Barack Obama’s 20-year allegiance to Rev. Jeremiah Wright that I began to realize
that the Left is where the most vicious racism and bigotry now resides in the U.S. Over the last year, with access to a fuller
statement of facts from bloggers and online magazines than I ever got from the mainstream media, I have come to see the Left
as the modern embodiment of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, where all animals are equal, but some animals are
more equal than others. My perception now is that the Left espouses ideals to gain followers, but only to gain power over
them, seldom, if ever, to deliver on policies in line with their stated ideals. It’s all “say one thing, do another”
over there.
In contrast, on the Right, there are a few common principles holding conservatives and Republicans
— who are not the same — and libertarians together in common cause — mainly, that there is a tipping point
of taxation beyond which people no longer have the means of true liberty; that capitalism is the highest and best economic
system to allow individuals to make the most of their lives and create a better world; and that the ideals on which the United
States of America was founded are worthy of defending and passing on intact to the next generation.
Beyond those
few common principles, I find enormous diversity of belief and opinion in the Right, as well as a diversity of sexual orientation,
religion, ethnicity, race and what have you. Plus, I find women in positions of power and authority. People on the Right are
able to have opposite and mutually exclusive opinions on various matters. Put together, that is real diversity.
As a life-long member of the Right [some young people went through a Marxist phase; I went through a monarchist one,
go figure], I was humbled by your words. I wish I could have been there when you decided to join the Right so that I
could say what I've said to others in your same position: Come on in, the water's fine.
15 sep 09 @ 8:17 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKEND......a day or so late, but never too late for some Steynian wisdom. This week's
a triple-shot:
1) From his most recent weekly syndicated column:
...For most of the previous presidency, the Left accused George W. Bush of using
9/11 as a pretext to attack Iraq. Since January, his successor has used the economic slump as a pretext to “reform”
health care. Most voters don’t buy it: They see it as Obama’s “war of choice,” and the more frantically
he talks about it as a matter of urgency the weirder it seems. If he’s having difficulty selling it, that’s because
it’s not about “health.” As I’ve written before, the appeal of this issue to him and to Nancy Pelosi,
Barney Frank, et al., is that governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political
culture — one in which elections are always fought on the Left’s issues and on the Left’s terms, and in
which “conservative” parties no longer talk about small government and individual liberty but find themselves
retreating to one last pitiful rationale: that they can run the left-wing state more effectively than the Left can. Listen
to your average British Tory or French Gaullist on the campaign trail pledging to “deliver” government services
more “efficiently.”
This is always the ultimate plan of the Left: as much total control
as is possible. Long ago, they realized that the vast majority of people were not as smart as them—they weren't
enlightened enough to see that in Leftism may be found THE ANSWER, that the eschaton can be immanentized—and would, therefore, have to be forced into living under their schemes and controlled until that glorious day that
they too came to see the light. Of course, this a horrible and distorted understanding of human nature, and that means
that the force and control never end, except through being murdered by the state. Mr. Steyn is absolutely correct
when he warns that we cannot allow a 'permanent left-of-center political culture' to be formed. Once it is, the only
way to reverse it will be through the shedding of blood.
And...
The
New York Times’s in-house conservative David Brooks was an early champion of Obama and is profiled in the current
edition of The New Republic cooing paeans to the then-senator”s “pant leg and perfectly creased pant.”
Alas, for David Brooks, the bottom has dropped out of Obama’s perfectly creased pants. The other day he was tutting
that the Obama administration is in trouble because “it joined itself at the hip to the liberal leadership in Congress.”
My National Review colleague Jay Nordlinger was reminded of an old observation by the great Theodore Dalrymple. During
his time as an English prison doctor, Dalrymple frequently met ne’er-do-wells who said they’d “fallen in
with the wrong crowd,” but, oddly enough, in all those years, he never met the wrong crowd.
Likewise, Obama
didn’t “join” himself to the liberal leadership; he is the liberal leadership. The administration
didn’t fall in with the wrong crowd; they are the wrong crowd. Van Jones, Yosi Sergant, and ACORN are where
Barack Obama has chosen to live all his adult life. Even if he wanted to be the bipartisan centrist of David Brooks’s
fantasies, look at his Rolodex and then figure out just where such a man would estimate the “center” to be.
I dare to hope that a good number of Americans are finally understanding what Mr. Steyn and others like myself understood
in early 2008.
2) From his appearance last Thursday on the Hugh Hewitt Show:
HEWITT: I think you’re right. It will come down to whether or not there
are enough Democrats who will lemming-like go over the cliff for the benefit of President Obama’s vision for America.
And that remains to be seen. Let me ask you about the ACORN story. Have you been following the story at www.biggovernment.com that Andrew Breitbart has loosed about…
STEYN: Yeah.
HEWITT:
What do you make of this?
STEYN: Well, this is a story in which he’s got some amazing footage of ACORN officials
telling a pimp and a prostitute how to lie to the IRS, and how to claim mythical, underage dependents in exotic lands as dependents
for taxation purposes and various other things. It’s fascinating stuff, because it’s a glimpse of what community
organization is in action. Community organization means bigging up your base. And if necessary, that means conscripting all
kinds of peculiar figures, including pimps, prostitutes and their various fictional or real dependents in foreign lands, and
claiming benefits for them. And it’s absolutely outrageous that actually more of this wasn’t exposed in the campaign,
because Obama’s connection to ACORN, and his willingness to give ACORN a role in the United States Census, puts a huge
question mark over the reliability of government data, and over U.S. elections, not so much in blue and red states, but in
purple states, it puts a big question mark over the integrity of those elections.
HEWITT: It was the second ACORN
story this week. There was one in Florida about false registrations where indictments have come down, raising the specter
perhaps of pattern and practice investigation by that U.S. attorney. But by itself, right now, we’ve got one corrupt
ACORN official advising two young, undercover investigative journalists on how to import child prostitutes, and claim them
on their tax form.
STEYN: Right.
HEWITT: As it is, I don’t know that it moves farther. But if
there are other shoes that dropped, does this become a major scandal?
STEYN: Yes, I think so, because what is odd
to me, if you look for example at the way Republicans are always being called on to distance themselves from their so-called
lunatic fringe, the pattern here is that on the other side of the aisle, there is a lunatic mainstream. ACORN should not be
a respectable group, and should not be anywhere near the United States Census. But as we saw with the Van Jones story, no
matter how radical you are, on the left, it’s very easy for the most extreme radical to get right up close to the levers
of power in the United States. That is where, unfortunately, that is where Obama’s lived most of his adult life, and
that is where most of his associations are.
'The Lunatic Mainstream': I think we should all start using
that term.
15 sep 09 @ 4:57 pm edt
STACY MCCAIN: 'A FINE MAN OF OUTSTANDING CHARACTER'This past Sunday, I wrote:
It
seems that Charles Johnson, proprietor of My Little Green Johnson Footballs,
has called Stacy McCain a 'rascist' and 'white supremacist'. While my friend Stacy has penned three excellent responses
[here, here, and here] and many of his friends have risen to his defense [more on them in another posting tomorrow],
I feel compelled to write a few words...
I've known Stacy for nearly a year now. We have never met or
spoken, but have communicated many times with each other. Since I became aware of him, I have read many of his
works from over the years [check out here for some of his older writings—many
good pearls to be discovered there]. Stacy has also been a great booster of this website and its subsidiary sites.
His advice has been priceless, as has been his encouragement and good cheer. Never once have I read one word of his
that could remotely be accused of being evidence for Johnson's baseless and malicious charges. Let it be noted
for the record that: Charles Johnson is a despicable cowardly cretinous ignoramus who deserves a good
shunning by all decent men and women.
Stacy McCain is one of the finest, most decent men I have ever known.
As I mentioned in the above, many have risen to his defense. Here are some highlights...
1) Over
at A Conservative Lesbian, Cynthia Yockey writes the following in a posting entitled: Robert Stacy McCain is a lousy racist and
a terrible bigot (NOT!):
My
headline would be MUCH better if I could have created urgency to click on this post by leaving out the “(NOT!).”
But I know better than to trust the Left, having so recently resided there. I do not want anyone to have an excuse to put
my name to a phrase saying Stacy is a racist or a bigot because he is not. The reason I can call him a “lousy racist”
and “a terrible bigot” is that he completely and totally sucks at both, again, in the sense that he is neither.
2) Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise has seen the man in action many times:
Stacy doesn’t need my help to mount a defense against
the thin mud Johnson and his army of sewer-dwellers is slinging, because the charge is self-evidently ridiculous, but I will
say this. Stacy can not possibly be a racist because he is a real journalist, unlike bloviating bloggers like me.
No honest to God journalist would ever countenance cutting themselves off from a potential source of a story because the didn’t
like the color of the source’s skin. That would be insane. I know Johnson doesn’t have a tremendous amount of
contact with the actual world deep within his Fortress of Ineptitude, but it doesn’t take a lot of smarts to know that
if you won’t take someone seriously because they’re not white, you’re not going to be able to do very much
reporting. More than that, though, Stacy is truly and honestly interested in people. He wants to hear their stories and share
his own. He thrives on human contact and the mix of the crowd. I’ve seen Stacy at work. Believe me when I tell you that
when he hits a room, he’s not looking at skin color. He’s looking at a bunch of people whose stories he has never
heard. Racists don’t care about people. Stacy does and if you ever want proof of that, just watch him do his job one
day.
3) Stogie is rightfully redhot because he's been next to Stacy in battle:
One of the subjects discussed in the
above debates was the book "The Bell Curve," which purported to show that blacks had a lower average IQ than other
racial groups. Stacy refused to believe it, saying he did not believe that God would do such a thing to black people. In fact,
he brought up other authors and books to refute the Bell Curve. If that's "racism" I'll eat my Confederate flag.
In fact, if Robert Stacy McCain is a "racist" or "white
supremacist," I will personally show up on Charles Johnson's doorstep and kiss his ass with a loud, slobbery smack.
Robert Stacy McCain is a fine man
of outstanding character and hasn't a trace of racism or white-supremacist philosophy anywhere in his soul. I know, because
I knew him and worked with him long before most of you ever heard his name. He has consistently supported racial equality
and opposed race hatred.
4) Over at Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion,
William Jacobson lists five reasons while Charles Johnson's charges don't ring true. Here's the first and last:
First, nothing I had read over the past year written by McCain supported such a conclusion.
Last for this post, but not necessarily
least, the attack does seem to reflect what McCain calls "anti-Southern prejudice, especially among the intellectual
elite." We do not treat the history and cultures of ancient Egypt, various modern North African Arab ethnic groups, various
black African tribes, the Europeans, and others, all of whom owned or traded in slaves, as being restricted to that history
of slave ownership and racism.
But the "South" has become political. Having gone through Northeastern
liberal public schools, college and law school, I know almost nothing about the history and culture of the South other than
slavery and segregation.
In the last 40 years, as the South moved from Democratic to Republican, the equation of
racism with Southern Republicans has been pounded into the heads of multiple generations even though the segregationists mostly
were Democrats. How many 20-somethings do you think are aware that George Wallace was a Democrat and was shot while running
for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party?
The point is not that we should not acknowledge and own
up to the negative aspects of the history of the South. We have spent the past half-century trying to make amends and deal
with the fall out, and should continue to do so. But to equate pride in one's Southern heritage with being a racist is not
fair unless there is something more. And there doesn't seem to be "more" in the case of Robert Stacy McCain, or
if there is, Charles Johnson hasn't made the case.
There's much more and its all well-reasoned.
5) Dan Riehl is compelled to defend his colleague:
While
not speaking for him, I will speak out strongly on his behalf. In all that time, through all those many conversations, Stacy
has never once even mentioned race to me -regarding Obama, politics, or anything else. Were he a white supremacist, there
is no way that would be the case in my opinion. So, I can conclude that he is not that.
I find the charge reprehensible, indefensible and irresponsible in the extreme....
...
For better or worse .. worse, at times!! heh! Stacy McCain is my friend. He doesn't deserve to be accused
as he has been by Johnson. And he certainly deserves strong support from me and any other of his alleged friends, or colleagues
that want to make any claim to actually knowing the man a bit. It's Johnson that is now obviously unworthy of any more of
my time. And, lastly, I do find that, as I also find Charles these days, to be somewhat sad.
Yea, a lot of us feel compelled too. Too many kindnesses received
from the man.
6) Over at Carol's Closet, Carol is ready to march:
Stacy McCain is not a racist. He is a proud son of the South and as an adopted
southerner myself, I believe there is much to be proud of. Mr. Johnson dilutes the word “racist” by using it as
a stick to swing at his latest intended target (apparently Johnson is one of those people who is always targeting someone).
So, like Cynthia Yockey, I’ve your back Stacy. And trust me, Johnson does not want to piss me off again.
Give me a regiment of these kind of ladies and I could rule the world.
7) From the head of our naval forces, Admiral William Teach of The Pirate's Cove:
...I haven’t
met him, but, he seems like a good guy who tells it like it is, which, apparently offends the delicate moonbattery of Excitable
Chucky. The one thing I would say to R.S. and others is “do not spend that much time defending yourself from this monsterous wacko.”...
8) Over at American
Glob, Aleister has produced a list of ten reasons why Stacy is smarter than Chucky. Here are a few [tip of the fedora to Smitty]:
5. Robert Stacy McCain invented “Rule 5 Sunday.”
4. Charles Johnson’s last name is “Johnson.”
2. Charles Johnson couldn’t get hired by the Huffington Post if David Brooks fell victim to auto-erotic asphyxiation.
That last one is a classic.
15 sep 09 @ 2:54 pm edt
Monday, September 14, 2009
AN EXCEPTION [With Apologies To Michelle Malkin]I have been one of the most vociferous opponents of the Czar concept.
If you've read these Dispatches with any regularity, you know that I've railed against the idea of them
existing at all and that appointing them may just be unconstitutional.
However, I must admit that I welcome
this one particular Czar:
The Boob Czar makes a lot of sense, don't ya think?
Big tip of the fedora to Jim Treacher who has more photos here.
14 sep 09 @ 9:37 pm edt
9/12: AFTER REPORTS
14 sep 09 @ 9:23 pm edt
SAME FOOLS, DIFFERENT CITYNew York, New York's a helluva town
The
Bronx is up
And the Battery's down
And ACORN buries money
In a hole in the ground...
Over
at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe have released another video of their travels through ACORN-World. This time
we see them in action in The Big Apple, specifically in Brooklyn. In the first two, we saw the pair dressed up like
a Halloween version of a pimp and prostitute [think Pretty Woman]. In this latest one, their outfits
are even more outlandish as you can see [think 1970's]:
Yet, the fools at ACORN took them seriously. What I find so interesting is that these squirrelly clowns
know every sly angle when it comes to cheating the law and robbing the public purse, yet they obviously lack any good old
Common Sense. What a bunch of maroons.
Please take the time to click here and view the videos. And also here to read Jeremy Olshan's report in today's New York Post [source of the picture above].
SIDENOTE: From Publius, over at Big Government, I just learned:
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban
Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud
cases.The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now.
Let's see what the honorable members of the House do.
14 sep 09 @ 9:15 pm edt
'HEY!...WHAT GIVES, BOB?'...'Why only two postings so far today?'
I can assure you its
not out of any laziness that I've only posted twice so far today.
I spent part of this day sailing through the
ether looking for new info on the IG-Gate Scandals. I found five new items and added them to the IG-GATE site.
I also heard from sources that the folks over at the OBAMA YOUTH LEAGUE were putting together
a very important posting that they intended to publish tonight. And they just did over on their site. You gotta check it out, especially if you attended a Rally on Saturday.
Finally I had to watch the latest videos released by Hannah Giles
and James O'Keefe [more on that in my next posting].
Well....as they used to say in the 1970's: Onward And Upward!
14 sep 09 @ 8:55 pm edt
BET THE HOUSE ON THIS PROPHECYGlenn Reynolds laid on us a prophecy this morning that I'd wage money on will
come true. A little background first....
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Mike Pare reporting:
A union official backed away Friday from an analogy in an e-mail in which he
had linked Volkswagen's Nazi past to the use of Hispanic workers building the automaker's Chattanooga plant.
The
original statement drew condemnation from local officials, while the company defended its actions related to the plant.
"We are committed to supporting local suppliers and to working with both union and non-union companies,"
said VW spokesman Guenther Scherelis.
Tom Owens, director of communications for the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction
Trades Department in Washington, D.C., had taken the company to task in an e-mail this week under the subject line "When
It Comes to Volkswagen ... Some Things Don't Change."
Mr. Owens cited VW's World War II-era association with
the Nazis, saying the idea of the company came from Adolf Hitler and automaker founder Ferdinand Porsche.
He wrote
that Mr. Porsche's "SS friend, Fritz Sauckel, responsible for the mass deportation of workers, summed up VW's needs in
his first directive on labor: 'Foreign workers will be treated so as to exploit them to the greatest possible extent ... "'
The union official then said "fast forward to 2009." He wrote that VW is building the plant while Tennessee
is in a recession and "they resort back to their dark past by making use, and exploiting, a predominantly foreign work
force that some eyewitnesses say is 80 percent non-English-speaking Latino."
And now, Instapundit's instaprophecy:
In the future, everyone will be a Nazi for 15 minutes.
Certainly
everyone who opposes the Leftists in power in any way, to any degree will enjoy their 15 minutes of being labeled a Nazi—and,
at least, another 15 being labeled a raaaaacist.
14 sep 09 @ 2:38 pm edt
9/12: AFTER REPORTS *
Over at Pajamas Media, they've published a report from Stacy McCain who was there is the midst
of the over one million folks who attended the D.C. Rally. A highlight:
Even
though FreedomWorks' chairman, former Texas Rep. Dick Armey [4], a Republican, has often criticized the religious right's
influence within the GOP, it was remarkable how many of those who turned out for Saturday's march were evangelical Christians
in sympathy with Pastor Lucas. It was a right-wing Woodstock. No one who wanted to attend was turned away for ideological
deviation from the sponsors' goals, and those who responded represented the broadest imaginable spectrum of opposition to
the status quo in Washington.
Not far from where Pastor Lucas preached
his message through a bullhorn, Kell Grenga stood with his daughter, Sarah. They had traveled from Charlotte, N.C., the father
dressed in the uniform of a Revolutionary War patriot militiaman and the daughter in a colonial homespun dress. Grenga held
a staff from which flew a yellow flag bearing the image of a coiled rattlesnake and the defiant motto "Don't Tread On
Me!"
Hundreds of those
banners fluttered among the crowd. This traditional emblem of American liberty was nearly as ubiquitous as the red, white,
and blue of Old Glory. Standing beside the stage Saturday afternoon in his trademark black leather jacket, Nick Gillespie
of the libertarian journal Reason agreed that, whether or not this event had established a Washington record for attendance
at a political rally, it certainly deserved Guinness Book recognition as history's largest mass display of the Gadsden flag.
He posted some great pictures as well.
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole report.
Also, [tip of the fedora to Memeorandum], Gateway Pundithas pictures of the mess left by those attended President Obama's inauguration
and what was left by the 9/12ers here. As he comments:
The democrats were obviously waiting for Big Government
to clean up for them.
What did you expect: The Left thinks always they're owed something. As Gregory
Of Yardale, over at Moonbatty, put it:
A perfect illustration of the difference between personal responsibility and
social responsibility. No one is so poor that they can't pick up the trash in their own yard, but the parasites of the socialist
left always expect someone else to do it for them.
As Mrs. Belvedere and I were watching the Rally on Saturday,
I said to her: 'Now watch. I bet you these folks clean-up after themselves'. And she replied: 'I would and they're
just like me'. Damn straight, Babe.
More from another Memeorandum thread here.
Over at Reason Online, Nick Gillespie deserves some kind of award for coming up with the best description I've seen of the TEA Party and townhall
protesters:
...well-behaved and stunningly normal in the main...
Robert 'Snarkface' Gibbs, when asked this past Friday about the impending Rally, gave a typically arrogant answer that
Pat Austin was not going to tolerate:
Incredibly, just as on July 4, the White House is claiming to know nothing about today's March On Washington: "White House officials on Friday professed to know nothing of the planned demonstrations. White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs queried reporters about the planners and their issues. 'I don't know who the group is,' he said with a shrug."
Is this administration that out of touch with the pulse of America? If so, it's a black mark for them. Or are
they just being coy, trying to downplay the magnitude of the protest. A sort of, "We're not scared!" tactic? If
that's the plan, it's also a poor choice.
Quite.
The nation's capital was not the only
place that experienced rallies by the 'stunningly normal'. Donald Douglas attended one at U.S. Federal Building in Los
Angeles. He's published a bunch of pictures [here] that give you a good feel for the goings-on there. Plus, he's also put together the best aggregation of links
to various reports, commentary, and analysis I've seen. Please do take the time to click here check 'em all out. Thanks Prof.
*Nearly eleven years ago, when Mrs. Belvedere and I bought our house, one of
the first things we did was to install a flag holder on the front of it. Shortly thereafter, I hung out the Gadsden
Flag and she went out and took it in, afraid, she said, that the neighbors would think we were militia-types or survivalists.
She was probably right, but I was not happy. That flag has always symbolized for me the Founders and what they stood
for. Ever resourceful, Mrs. B. came up with a solution: she went out and bought another flag holder set and installed
it at the back end of our driveway so that the Gadsden could fly, but not necessarily be read from the street. I find
it fascinating that today we can fly it anywhere we want and only Kool Aid drinkers will think we're nuts.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
A FEW WORDS ABOUT MY FRIEND, STACY MCCAINIt seems that Charles Johnson, proprietor of My Little
Green Johnson Footballs, has called Stacy McCain a 'rascist' and 'white supremacist'.
While my friend Stacy has penned three excellent responses [here, here, and here] and many of his friends have risen to his defense [more on them in another posting tomorrow], I feel compelled to write
a few words...
I've known Stacy for nearly a year now. We have never met or spoken, but have communicated
many times with each other. Since I became aware of him, I have read many of his works from over the years [check out here for some of his older writings—many good pearls to be discovered there]. Stacy has also been a great booster
of this website and its subsidiary sites. His advice has been priceless, as has been his encouragement and good cheer.
Never once have I read one word of his that could remotely be accused of being evidence for Johnson's baseless and malicious
charges. Let it be noted for the record that: Charles Johnson is a despicable cowardly cretinous ignoramus
who deserves a good shunning by all decent men and women.
Stacy McCain is one of the finest, most decent men
I have ever known.
13 sep 09 @ 9:25 pm edt
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T E R M S
Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
What They're Saying
About
BOB BELVEDERE &
The Camp Of The Saints... 'Sir Bob of Belvedere'
—Smitty—
'So many good things at Camp of the Saints that you need to just click and keep scrolling.'
—Paco—
'Go, read it, fine stuff over there!'
—GatorDoug—
''Belvederus Maximus'
—Smitty—
'You are contributing to a noble yet futile cause -- the butchification of metrosexuals.
TCOTS
roolz!'
—Red—
'[H]e takes retro dame blogging to a new, narrative noir level.'
—Smitty—
'Staunch Rule 5 aficionado Bob Belvedere, is shameless indeed (I have so much respect for this man)!'
—The Classic Liberal—
'Who knew he was such a fan of the undead?'
—Smitty—
'We need fighters, and I suspect Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe is vanquished.
Bob Belvedere gets it. Phyllis Chesler gets it.
We defend truth and
liberty against lies and tyranny. Every eye is upon us and we are surrounded by enemies as numerous as the grains of sand
on the shore. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
WOLVERINES!'
—Stacy McCain—
'Bob Belvedere, you're a nasty piece of work.'
—Anonymous—
'you charming rogue'
—Robert—
'The sad decay of Bob Belvedere into a Rule 5 junkie saddens us all.'
—Smitty—
'Belvedere went slightly crazy on us.'
—Smitty—
'And thank you, Dr. Belvedere, for setting me straight on Rule 5! I tell ya, that Belvedere Dude
is Funny!'
—Irish Cicero—
'Kevin Binversie is not nearly so shameless a blogwhore as Troglopundit . . .
but then again, nobody really is. OK, maybe Bob Belvedere, as if anyone could compete with Bob.'
—Stacy McCain—
'Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter'
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