I know!

Maybe the girls of OWS should have a slut walk! Or walk in groups, rape whistles in hand. Or, hey, maybe they could all wear burqas!

Free, but not easy.

Or, perhaps, just perhaps...they could aspire to the same liberty of the Tea Party protester shown above.

(h/t Snarkybytes)

les misérables

“This is its own city. Within every city there are people who freeload, who make people’s lives miserable. We just deal with it. We can’t kick them out.” 

- Michael Glaser, a 26-year-old Occupier of Wall Street

I feel ya, buddy. I really, really do. 

David & Goliath

(via The Daily Mail)

half-life

Haven't much time to blog today but I wanted to tell a tale of a giant's decline, illustrate a small portion of the map of a once-great city's road to ruin...all paved with good intentions and government intervention.

• In cash-strapped Detroit, one library decides it needs a renovation. A total of $2.3 million of taxpayer money is spent on things like leather chairs ($1,100 ea.), stainless steel trash cans ($1,110 ea.) and fireplaces ($5000 ea.). The chairs have already had to be replaced with wooden ones, due to homeless people using them as toilets. 

• But another Detroit-area library is closed and the books are abandoned, left to rot and moulder on the shelves. 

•  Studies have shown that nearly half of Detroit's adult population are functionally illiterate.

•  And for a ineffective school system, rife with corruption, where almost two-thirds of children will not graduate high school, the federal government spends $49 million of your tax dollars on laptop computers for grade school children.

But, if you'll excuse me now, I must get back to work here at the reference desk - a young lady just requested the newest literary work by someone named "Snooki", the gentleman calling on line 4 wants some DVD about a time-traveling hot tub, and a very loud woman has started to complain that her Farmville game keeps making the computer crash.

cuz law perfessers r SEW smrt.

I want to email this photo to Ann Althouse.
 

well, then.

I guess Obama is doomed - seems he's succumbed to licking the third rail to court his liberal, liberty-hating base.

(between rounds, of course.)

M.O.

I have no idea why anyone is surprised or alarmed that Obama is going to nominate Andrew Traver as the head of BATFE.

After all, this guy was given a high level job for the TSA.

just a reminder.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president in the White House who referred to Americans who disagree with him as 'our enemies.' Think about that. He actually used that word. When Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used the word 'enemy,' they reserved it for global terrorists and foreign dictators -- enemies of the United States. Enemies of freedom. Enemies of our country. Today, sadly, we have president who uses the word 'enemy' for fellow Americans -- fellow citizens. He uses it for people who disagree with his agenda of bigger government -- people speaking out for a smaller, more accountable government that respects freedom and allows small businesses to create jobs. Mr. President, there's a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don't call them 'enemies.' We call them 'patriots.'"

- House Republican Leader John Boehner

GET OUT AND VOTE.

(via AoS)

Oh, no you didn't.

Aw. The Left is already reminiscing about the good old days of hopenchange and Yes, We Can.

how generous.

Obama, in R.I. -

Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."

Well, at least he's not throwing us under the bus.

Narcissist in Chief

Yeah, right, Barry. President of your own fan club, maybe.

once more, with feeling.

TOLD YOU SO.

take out the trash

This past weekend, an assortment of hobos, college students, feminists, elderly hippies, teamsters, weirdo extremists, socialists, and special interest groups - okay, basically the base of the Democratic party - were bussed to the Capitol, given union printed signs and boxed lunches, and instructed to protest something (but preferably not The Man because, you know...that'd be racist.)

Yes, the liberals had themselves a little rally.



Tiny. I'll even go as far as to say miniscule...compared to the numbers that attended the Glenn Beck rally and the 9-12-09 Teaparty.

And yet somehow they left behind more garbage and filth than both of those combined.

presidentin' is hard

“I’d appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun,” the president said, according to the pool report. “Some pasta. I can use it.”

Gosh, yes, Barry. It's been, what? A month or so since your last vacation? Poor thing.

What am I doing wrong?

Last week, the White House's rabidly anti-gun astroturfer extraordinare David Axelrod had a conference call with a bunch of butthurt lefty bloggers. Seems they're all feeling a bit sore from being used as propagandists for the Obama administration without getting much hopenchangey love in return. One woman on the call, a Susan Madrak, was particularly put out, accusing Axelrod of "hippie punching" and saying, “We’re the girl you’ll take under the bleachers but you won’t be seen with in the light of day.”

Uh, yeah.

Anyway, after reading about this I started thinking, "Wow, the White House is talking to bloggers. Who do you have to be to get David freakin' Axelrod to call you? Not that I want to talk to anyone in this administration, but well...Hmmm...Who is this Susan Madrak person? Exactly how big is her blog?"

So I googled the name and was asked if I meant "susie madrak." Uh, sure. "Susie." Okay. I googled again and found susiemadrak.com. I assumed it was the same person and clicked through. The blog is named "Suburban Guerrilla" (you can find it online if you're that interested, but I'm not linking to her) I found the blog header fairly amusing...


Now, I hate to make assumptions and all, but considering she refers to herself as a "hippie" I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess she's fairly anti-gun.

Anyway (sidetracked again, sorry) over on her blog, I found a link to her sitemeter and prepared myself to see numbers equivalent to, say, Michelle Malkin.


Umm...not quite. Mind you, these numbers are with having been in the national news recently. (search google news for madrak+axelrod if you don't believe me.) Susie's sitemeter does, however, look eerily familiar...


Should I be waiting by the phone?

let them eat arugula

The first lady was given the opportunity to host a bevy of visiting UN spouses. She took them to a chicken farm and then later gifted them with pickled okra.

For Michelle Marie Antoinette, the hameau was an escape from the regulated life style of Washington the Court at Versailles, into a more simple way of life, while, to the eyes of American French people, a queen who amused herself at being a peasant did not improve her image. (via wikipedia)

more projection

On Snarkybytes this morning, I saw this quote from John Kerry:

“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday.

Simple slogan? You mean like "Yes, we can"? How about "Hope" and "Change"? That sound familiar?

I had to laugh.

a new reality

They say that a liberal is just a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

Well, honey, welcome to the GOP. So sorry about your wallet.

say what you want...

The victory will never belong to you, Barry.

Renaissance V. 2

I would personally like to welcome North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge (D) to the internet...a place where a young man can expose one of the ruling elite for the violent, power-hungry, maniacal tyrant he is.



I've always believed that, like a modern day printing press, the internet has the power to change the world by empowering more people with information, ideas, and truth.

Now, perhaps we all need a new holster...because sometimes the pen (or in this case, a small video camera) can be mightier than the sword.