Friday, April 11, 2008

Larwyn's Link Explosion: "You, sir, should be NOT running this committee!"

 
Dan Rather says I'd Probably Just Sit Here And Drink" If I Had To Read CNN's News: does that mean Rather's given up huffing glue? Well, I just figured he huffed glue because that would be about the only substance powerful enough to convince him he could foist the Bush Air National Guard scam on the American people.

Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic Church: Christopher Hitchens uncovered a years old newspaper article in which the candidate named "three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks, and Father Michael Pfleger."

Has global warming stopped?: "The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001. Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming – the greenhouse effect. Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly." Related news: ICECAP discusses the Wilkins Ice Sheet break-up.

A well-meaning, liberal Philanthropist makes a stunning discovery.

Code Stink gets kicked out of the Petraeus hearing by Slow Joe Biden, no less (that won't please MorOn.org). Hilarious dialogue: "You, sir, should be NOT running this committee! ...Did you hear me speak? Did... you... hear... me... speak??"

Michelle Obama Describes American Gleichschaltung. Gesundheit!

• Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid Warns: Freedom of Speech Might Lead to Freedom of Belief. Indeed it might.

Vogel and Krauthammer

 
In Germany, parliament marked the destruction of the democracy by the Nazis in 1933.

Germany's parliament on Thursday remembered the Nazis' swift destruction of democracy after Adolf Hitler took power 75 years ago, and paid tribute to those lawmakers who held out against the Nazis' drive to extinguish political opposition... Hans-Jochen Vogel, 82, a former justice minister and Social Democratic leader:

"Those who look away and just shrug their shoulders weaken democracy; those who speak up strengthen it."

"Never again: that should be the decisive motto for today..."

Meanwhile, Charles Krauthammer's latest echoes Vogel's point.

...Bush should issue the following declaration, adopting Kennedy’s language while changing the names of the miscreants:

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear attack upon Israel by Iran, or originating in Iran, as an attack by Iran on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon Iran.

This should be followed with a simple explanation: “As a beacon of tolerance and as leader of the free world, the United States will not permit a second Holocaust to be perpetrated upon the Jewish people.”

This policy — the Holocaust Declaration — would establish a firm benchmark that would outlive this administration. Every future president — and every serious presidential candidate — would have to publicly state whether or not he supports the Holocaust Declaration...

...For the first time since the time of Jesus, Israel is the home of the world’s largest Jewish community. An implacable enemy has openly declared genocidal intentions against it — in clear violation of the U.N. charter — and is pursuing the means to carry out that intent. The world does nothing. Some, like the Russians, are literally providing fuel for the fire.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

It's all in the party affiliation

 
Another instant-classic from Red Planet Cartoons:

Update: The Real Revo has the Chart o' the Day.

Hat tips: Anchoress and Larwyn

L.A. Mayor warns Feds against immigration raids

 
I'm no attorney, but isn't illegal immigration illegal? Apparently not -- as far as philandering L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is concerned. L.A.'s Daily Breeze reports:

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead.

The mayor said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that work-site raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have "severe and long-lasting effects" on the local economy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday... ICE made more than 4,900 work-site arrests nationwide in fiscal 2007, a 45-fold increase over the number in 2001, authorities said.

More than 130 undocumented workers were arrested at a San Fernando Valley manufacturing company in February and over 60 workers were arrested for immigration violations at South Bay-area warehouses last week...

Villaraigosa accused federal officials of targeting "established, responsible employers" in industries that rely on "workforces that include undocumented immigrants... In these industries, including most areas of manufacturing, even the most scrupulous and responsible employers have no choice but to rely on workers whose documentation, while facially valid, may raise questions about their lawful presence..."

I wonder which laws the mayor chooses to enforce. Do citizens get to pick?

The Olbermann Gambit

 
Note: CBS has put the entire original Star Trek series online. I could think of nothing better to with it than this. Yes, I am a loser.

* * *


Captain's log, stardate one thousand, seven hundred forty-four point two and one-third.


During a routine patrol of the Gateway Nebula, we have discovered a strange ship broadcasting a powerful signal, the content of which has defied logic and reason.


Lt. Uhura, open hailing frequencies.


Aye aye, sir!

...Sir, a signal's coming through. I'll put it on-screen.


Well, well, well... if isn't Captain Kirk, the fascist war-monger?


Keith Olbermann? In an NBC Space Station? If we really were fascists, you'd already be atomized and floating in the Larwyn Particle Field.


Always quick with the... words, aren't you, Mr. Word... Quicker...? And I see you're still accompanied by your First Mate, Commander Spock. The brains behind your throne... the real Captain... the puppet-master... the master-planner...


We get the picture, Olby.


And another neocon, just like you. And he, too, landed a cushy Starship job and both of you avoided serving in the Space Infantry during the Bug Wars of '16.


Er, we serve in Starfleet, Olbermann, not with the Space Marines.


No matter, Kirk, the time for talk is done. It is time for me to unleash my greatest weapon...


Captain! Sensors indicate the NBC ship is powering all of its circuits on... preparing for something...


...


Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.


Its five-year mission to understand liberalism. Or progressivism. Or whatever it's called these days.


To seek out intelligence among the left.


To boldly go... where no sane person has gone before!

...

Captain! Sensors indicate the NBC ship is powering all of its circuits on... preparing for something...


Yes, that's right, Kirk. I'm turning my hit galactic show into a non-stop campaign commercial for Barack Obama...


Doesn't The O'Instapundit Factor get five times the HV viewers and ten times the number of subscribers to its holographic RSS podcast?


Enough! Obama will be the next President of the United Federation of Planets, thanks to me, and I will control him!


Not if I can help it, Olbermann.


Ha! Check your approval levels, Captain...


Captain! Our approval levels are sinking...


It's only a matter of time until they'll be unrecoverable.


Yes, that's right, Captain. All of us original space media types have agreed to collaborate... positioning your war on the Romulans as a "War-for-Dilithium-Crystals".


You know as well as I do that the Romulans attacked us first... an unprovoked attack, I might add.


But it was the Federation's involvement with Izar, which was right in the middle of Romulan territory, that ticked them off!


Olbermann, you're still as deranged as ever. We were at war with the Romulans hundreds of years before the Izaris colonized their tiny desert planet. And, then, they simply asked for our help. No one seemed to want that planet; nor did anyone come to the aid of the Izaris... until we stepped up. The entire Izari people would have perished had we not done so.

But go ahead and rewrite history. I've caught your broadcast before and you seem to be good at it.


Enough! You can't possibly stop me now...


Can't I? I may have an Ace up my sleeve. Mr. Spock, Mr. Scott, Dr. McCoy, report to the transporter room immediately and execute plan HR-69.


I anticipated your order and am already here, Cap'n, with the HR-69 package.


Excellent, Mr. Scott. Make sure the package is in suitable shape and then execute the plan.


Beaming the package to the NBC Space Station now, sir


What the hell are you up to, Kirk?


Just dropping off one of your dearest old friends to help you with your broadcast. The next supply ship will be here in two years, arriving from Surber 12. So I'm sure you'll enjoy each other's company 'til then.


But... but... you can't... you can't... leave me here with...


Oh, I can and I will, Olbermann. Enjoy the next two years listening to someone as whacked out as you are.


But I won't stand for this... I'll file a protest... I --


Kirk out.


Quite an elegant solution, Captain. Sticking two different kinds of moonbats together... that might cure them of their progressivism.

But you may have forgotten one tiny detail.


What's that, Mr. Spock?


What happens if they procreate?



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