Roman Army Knife.

Seems those SPQR folks beat Victorinox and Leatherman by 1,800 years.

New Blog De Jour.

I'm sorry, but with a name like Snark & Boobs, you know it had to be the Blog De Jour.

Matlock Is About To Lose His First Case.

They say that in the dark days of Stalin's purges, he made the condemned pay for the bullets the NKVD used to shoot them. Its pretty much the same approach, metaphorically speaking Team Hopenchange is using to sell ObamaCare.

I mean, really. What would Aunt B say?

Indeed.

LOLdweebs.

Celibacy - Yr Doin It Rite!


But honestly - is it really celibacy if you have no idea what sex is?...
[rimshot!]

I haven't seen this many virgins in one place since they closed Holy Angels Convent on St. Claude Avenue.
Heyoooo...!

Forget 'Metrosexuals' - its the "Technosexuals'!
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?...

Image from here.

Today's Compare and Contrast.

Via Instapundit, The Boston Globe's token conservative, Jeff Jacoby, looks at another application of even-handedness by The Left/Mainstream Media, this time in reacting to blatantly anti-Semitic remarks by 1) A movie maker who is devoutly Roman Catholic, and 2) A movie maker who devoutly worships Hugo Chavez.

Spoiler Alert: One got pilloried (as he should -ed.); one got a pass.

Show Me... Your Middle FInger!

It seems Missouri, the Show Me State, showed tonight at the ballot box they really don't like ObamaCare. And I mean really, really don't like it. 71% - 29% don't like it. Missouri's vote - to enact a state law banning individual mandates in the state - is the first time the people themselves have had a chance to weigh in on ObamaCare by popular vote.

While this is a low turnout vote - about one third of the number that voted in November 2008 - this result is telling for two reasons: Missouri is not a red-red state (McCain won Missouri by only one-tenth of a percent in 2008), so such a lopsided vote should give some measure of the dislike of ObamaCare out there; and two, it shows that the conservatives, libertarians and Tea Partiers are doing what no one thought they could do - energize, organize and turn out voters over issues such as this - while Democrats don't seem too interested in getting out there.

Unless the GOP - once again - snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, it's going to be a very tough fall for the Obama/Pelosi/Reid clique.

As always, my buddy John over at WinWithJMC has more on this race, and the others that took place around the country today.

Hattip on the Missouri race: Christopher Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal.

Another Obama "Green Economy" Success Story.

Team Hopenchange's "smart grid" could leave us open to cyber-attack on our power infrastructure, and even in our homes:

But to receive the stimulus money, utilities will have to install new devices across their entire customer base quickly. Security experts say that this could lead to problems down the road--as-yet-unknown vulnerabilities in hardware and software could open up new ways for attackers to manipulate equipment and take control of the energy supply.

Smart-grid deployments involve installing smart meters in homes and businesses across a utility's coverage area. These meters can communicate with the utility and with other networked devices--usually via a wireless network of some type. Some ways to hijack this type of equipment have already been revealed. Last year, Mike Davis, a senior security consultant at IOActive, created a piece of software that could spread automatically between smart grid hardware in different homes. The software would then be capable of shutting equipment down. (emphasis mine)

In other words, in Obama's quest for being "green", one of the 12th-century boys - sitting in a cave in Pakistan - could potentially turn off air conditioners in the middle of August, or cut the lights just before a bomb blast, or shut down the fire water pumps in a building. Gee, thanks, Barry.

Your ObamaCare Future...

...Is here today in Sweden. This is what single-payer, government-run "free" health care looks like, dear readers, at the local, personal level. What's worse, the man in question was reported to police for taking care of himself. Getting in trouble for taking care of yourself when the authorities won't: Is that the America you want you want to live in? Is that the America you want you want to leave your kids?

Good Guys 3, Bad Guys, 0.

I just love good news, and this time it comes from from Alexandria, Louisiana. Interestingly, the police did not release the names of the wounded, alleged suspects because the cases were "under investigation", but did release the names and addresses of the victims who defended themselves.

Profiles In LEEDership.

How did I miss this? California's 'Zero Energy House' uses... more energy!

I have to deal with 'green' - the new buzzword in my profession - every day, and with the idiocy that is the uber-bureaucratic LEED process. There are some good, common sense design concepts in all of this, but they are being subordinated to the moralistic political goals that are the driving force behind the 'green' movement. Going 'green' is nothing more than a marketing sop to the feel-good / I'm-doing-something set, and LEED an opportunity for non-productive busybodies to gain more of what they crave - the power to tell us how to live our lives, and force us to make the choices they want us to make. Think of LEED as a government-endorsed 'Moral Majority' of the Left.

Tagging.

So that's what they're for.

From here.

Compare and Contrast II

Your lunchtime assignment: Look at this CNN map of per capita state debt. Now, look at this map of the 2008 Electoral College results, and compare the 'blue' states with the 'red' states and their per capita debt. Notice anything?...

A Question For Our Gracious Lord Of Canterbury.

If tossing The Episcopal Church (tm) out of The Anglican Communion for pissing all over the Windsor Report requirements "would inhibit dialogue and ... would therefore be unhelpful", then doesn't the refusal by you and the ACC to recognize ACNA "inhibit dialogue" with the hundreds of thousands Anglicans there? Is that not, therefore, equally "unhelpful"?

Honestly, Your Grace - do Katherine Jefferts-Schori and Bonnie Anderson keep your bollocks in a box in New York?

Petard, Your Own, Hoisted By.

New Age pop "spiritualist" - and theological relativist in the same mold as Katherine Jefferts-Schori - gets owned. And I do mean, OWNED:



When a guy in a red t-shirt can destroy your whole theology with one question... maybe you need another one.

Hattip: Stand Firm.

Insider Trading.

Newsweek magazine, another failing Lefty squawk-box, was sold for one dollar (yes, $1.00 - if you subscribe to the labor theory of value, it's a fair price -ed.) to one of those "rich" industrialist, corporate magnates the Democrats love to hate. Except, this one is married to a Lefty Democrat Congresswoman who represents much of Los Angeles.

Media - Political Complex, indeed.

Compare and Contrast. (UPDATED)

Team Hopenchange, Spring 2009: We have a cunning plan to spend almost a trillion dollars to "stimulate" the economy right away with "shovel ready" projects - or else unemployment could reach... 9 percent!! Give us the money now, and by the summer of 2010 we'll get unemployment well below 7 percent. It must be true - our spiffy graphic proves it:


Team Hopenchange, Summer 2010: Um, graphic? What graphic?
Well, this graphic, actually:


Remember, dear readers - unless you do something about it - now, in November, and in 2012 - these same cunning government planners will be determining your health care future.

UPDATE: Some of Obama's "shovel ready" projects. To us mere proles, $71,000 isn't a "small" amount of money. If you really need your blood pressure elevated, here is the full report.

Queue Kansas.

How much of your life does Team Hopenchange want to control? This much: The Obama Administration wants the Federal Government to regulate dust. That's right - he thinks we need a national Swiffer program. Since we're reliving the Carter 70's, hit it, boys:



Maybe Barry believes we're in the dust bowl days again - I mean, he already thinks he's FDR...

UPDATE: Link fixed.

You Gotta Draw The String Somewhere.

Memo to Anjem Choudhary: Threaten Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, you threaten me. I'm an American. Unlike our British cousins, we have the will, and the Constitutionally protected means, to shoot back.

Anjem, your disrespecting the G-string and Western women has deeply offended many people like me. So I guess we're even.

Well, There's Your Problem.

"Representative" Pete Stark opines on the ruling class view of power and the US Constitution:


He actually said, "The Federal Government, yes, can do most anything in this country." If that doesn't get your arse to the polls in November, nothing will.