From one of the sages on 'The View'

“We’ve got a solar eclipse, we’ve got an earthquake… also, I learned that cicadas are coming!” Hostin said, as she didn’t have the time to do a quick Google pronunciation lookup of how to actually pronounce cicadas since she butchered that as well.

“Si-CAH-Dahs ar coming!” Hostin said again, prompting Whoopi Goldberg to correct her as “Si-CAY-Duhs” and the TV control room executive producer probably throwing their hands up in the air.

It didn’t stop there though. “For the first time in a hundred years or so [the cicadas are coming], for the first time in many, many years actually” before Whoopi then had to cut Hostin off again. “No, no. Every 17 years this happens,” Goldberg cut in as if she was back filming Sister Act and scolding a student.

“That’s not what I read,”noting before then brilliantly… and I mean brilliantly, saying the solar eclipse, earthquake and cicadas “would lead [people] to believe that climate change is happening.”
Etc.

Point out Greta is a mentally-troubled kid being used for political purposes, and you're 'attacking a child/girl!';

And then there's this.
Greta Thunberg accidentally shared a message showing she was getting told what to write on Twitter about the ongoing violent farmers’ revolt in India — leading Thursday to her being probed for criminal conspiracy by police there, according to reports.

The 18-year-old left-wing eco-activist shared — and then quickly deleted — a message that detailed a list of “suggested posts” about the ongoing protests, according to the posts that were saved by Breaking 911.

The list gave a series of tips on what to post, asking her to also repost and tag other celebrities tweeting about it, including pop star Rihanna.
Seems a lot of people in India aren't real happy about having a bunch of foreigners, especially celebrities, screwing around with stuff happening in their country, too.

There is an(other) asshat celebrity named Montel Williams

Who likes to insult women, and then lie about it.

Be it known that Fecesbook and the Zuckerbitches are at it again

Now I can't even sign on until I run their 'anti-virus' software.  No thank you, I don't want whatever the hell your crap will leave behind.


Just saw some pictures of a bunch of celebritutes in their finest designer attire; makes me wish for celebrities who at least have the fashion sense of those in the 50's and 60's.


He gets this part right:
The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that's exactly what comedians should be doing, offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there, like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you're a comedian whose bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I find racist and offensive, I won't buy tickets to your show or watch you on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I'm not going to try to put you out of work. I'm not going to start a boycott, or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.

The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we're seeing now.

I've spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good. Nothing nauseates me more than preaching to the converted. The self-congratulatory tone of the privileged left—just repeating and repeating and repeating the outrages of the opposition—this does not win hearts and minds. It doesn't change anyone's opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes things worse for all of us. We should be breaking bread with each other, and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all what we've done.
And then says this:
...If you look around the world (in the Philippines, in England), the rise of nationalism, the fear of the Other. When people are afraid and feel that their government has failed them they do things that seem completely mad and unreasonable to those of who are perhaps under less pressure. As unhappy and surprised as I am with the outcome, I'm empathetic to the forces that push people towards what I see as an ultimately self-destructive act. Berlusconi, Putin, Duterte, the world is filled with bad choices, made in pressured times.
'the fear of the Other'.  I think there's little of that, and lots of pissed-off at the people he mentions in the first part.

Also, voting for Clinton, that's not a 'ultimately self-destructive act'?


“it hurts my heart that so many young people are so comfortable enough using these phrases and objectifying women with such ease.”
Welcome to the party, dumbass.   A lot of people have been pointing out that how your friends, and you, influence kids is destructive in the long run, and you laughed at them.  Now you're suddenly seeing what they're talking about?  Really?


So, if I have this right: Boys are more prone to play with "boy" toys because boys are afforded less freedom by social norms, and are essentially forced to play with boy-toys, and girls are afforded more freedom to play as they choose, and this means that... girls are the oppressed sex?

The authoress goes on to state that the spatial skills that boy-type toys teach are important for later-in-life abilities in STEM fields. (And you can tell how important STEM fields are to feminist theorists by the exactly zero of them who majored in a STEM field.)

So if you follow this dingbat's logic -- and why should you? She obviously hasn't -- then, in order to spur girls into being better at STEM, you should force them, as boys are forced, to play with boy-toys against their inclinations.

And that, you see, will result in more "choice" for girls!


A: Yes, Obama & Co. worked hard to screw Israel.  Because Obama doesn't like Jews, Netenyahu wouldn't kiss his ass, and because- for God knows what reason- they like enabling a bunch of bloody-handed savages.
B: Yes, they're still lying about it.  Because that's what they do.
C: God knows what other shit this miserable bastard will throw out as he leaves.

When the last cellphone in the Caliphate is destroyed or worn out no one will know how to make another. Their 8th century is capable of producing fanaticism but probably couldn't make a ball point pen. Objects in the ISIS universe are "magical" -- put there by Allah in the possession of the infidel for holy warriors to plunder and enjoy until the power which inheres in them gradually fades away.

Surprisingly much of the modern world is not very different. Many people treat technology like magic even in the West. How does a cell phone work? Dunno. Where does it come from? The store.
...
If a global catastrophe destroyed all of civilization's works yet spared these few million they could re-create every object in the world again. By contrast if only these few millions perished the remaining billions though untouched could continue only until things broke down.  It is knowledge which sustains civilization. Of course knowledge is also stored in libraries against catastrophe. Or is it?  If universities began seeing science as old "white man" sorcery they might start purging it like ISIS does wizardry. 
And the result, as Heinlein noted, will be blamed on 'bad luck'.


And if you're not familiar, there's a list of  213 things Skippy is not allowed to do; part of them:
The sound of the Phalanx anti-missile defense system going off is not just a way to alert the crew that the ship is about to sink.
Sponge Bob Square Pants is not a proper cadence for marching
Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Pistol, “Because it’ll be more fun.”
Not allowed to Exchange my M16 for a shotgun, “Because all the cool kids have one.”
Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Sub-Machine Gun.
Ok, I can, but only if I can find one for the commander too. 

Also, there's a followon.  I particularly like
Do not challenge SERE grads to play hide-and-seek.

Someday, Will Wheaton will not seize the chance to show himself the dick and blood-dancer

he tells other people not to be.
Three people died and one person was injured in St. Joseph, Michigan, Monday when a criminal at Berrien County Courthouse stole a deputy’s handgun and began firing.

Mr. Wheaton, perhaps best known for his work on the movie “Stand by Me” and the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” television series, posted a profanity-laced tweet as news broke.

“Welcome to America. It has been 0 days since our last mass shooting. #F**ktheNRA,” the actor wrote.
Various people informed him he was both an idiot for not finding out what the hell he was talking about before spouting off.  His response:
The actor responded to fans within his original post, “Shooter grabbed a deputy’s gun. So this is a rare circumstance where a mass shooting wasn’t enabled by the NRA.”
Really is a hoplophobic dick, isn't he?

One more celebritute,

showing "It's all about MEEEEE!"

Also, note she's wearing a shirt for Couric's faked-up 'documentary'.  Makes me wonder if she was wearing it before, or changed into it for the picture.

Puts a lot of the current crop of whining, entitled-feeling celebritutes

in proper perspective.

Ah, when the progzis take another bite of their own...

There was an awards show for music videos the other night, it seems.  And one celebritute got pissed at another and was rather loud about it.  And Salon, apparently thinking its chops as a good leftist "We're one of the sensitive ones!" site would protect it, used what's apparently ANOTHER word that now has racist meaning, and is now running and hiding because the other leftists crapped their keyboards in outrage.


It appears, when they're not home-making machine guns and shotgun revolvers, the Brazilians will modify anything else at hand.


An opinion on the tactical reload. 
He doesn't like it.


But c’mon, people. We’re dealing with reality here. Where are the Kleenex boxes, the alarm clocks, the bottles of ibuprofen, the glasses of water, the heaps of books, the midnight snack foods? Where are the bedside pistol or shotgun, the dog’s blankie and toys, the fuzzy slippers, and the laid-out clothes for tomorrow?

Yeah. In the picture, they’re in the drawers or in the absolutely gigantic closet that’s hidden behind the elegant and pricy shoji screen. Or they’ve been moved to some other room that’s heaped floor-to-ceiling with junk. In reality? Who has time to go hiding all their “necessaries”?


Bayou Renaissance Man on some of the problems with/about LE; read it.  Here's a taste:
Answer me this:  how are we supposed to have any respect at all for law enforcement officers (or their agencies) who engage in these shenanigans?
I suspect this is a major part of the problem with certain elements of society who resent, distrust and fear law enforcement.  Some are just plain criminal, and deserve no consideration.  Others . . . no, others have a real problem.  They've been treated so badly, for so long, that they've lost sight of the fact that the law is there for a reason.  They see it - and those who enforce it - as more of a burden, more of a threat, than a blessing to society.  In time, they come to see peace officers as active enemies . . . and they respond accordingly.

Yeah, Mr. President, don't think the hashtag thing

is working.

Nigeria’s militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC.

Boko Haram fighters burnt down almost the entire town on Wednesday, after over-running a military base on Saturday, Musa Alhaji Bukar said.

Bodies lay strewn on Baga’s streets, amid fears that some 2,000 people had been killed in the raids, he added.


Proper response would seem to be "Montel who?  And we care what he says why?"


'Hottest year ever' my ass.  And yeah, the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods weren't a 'local phenomenon'.


It’s one thing to reject a cartoon of Mohammed on grounds of poor taste or poor skill. That’s an op-ed decision. It’s another thing entirely to refuse to publish it when it’s part of the lead story in every paper in the western-speaking world.

When it's fact that there ARE conspiracies,

then yeah, it makes all kinds of stuff seem reasonable.  When the IRS violated law for political purposes and got away- is GETTING away- with it, why not believe they're doing other things?  NSA violating law, the Director lying under oath with no penalty, why wouldn't you believe all kinds of other things?
Spend a little while on Twitter or in Internet comment sections and you'll see a significant number of people who think that the NSA may have been relaying intelligence about the Mitt Romney campaign to Obama operatives, or that Chief Justice John Roberts' sudden about-face in the Obamacare case might have been driven by some sort of NSA-facilitated blackmail.

A year ago, these kinds of comments would have been dismissable as paranoid conspiracy theory. But now, while I still don't think they're true, they're no longer obviously crazy. And that's Obama's legacy: a government that makes paranoid conspiracy theories seem possibly sane.
I'd dump the possibly; with they other crap they've pulled, why wouldn't those things be sane theories?


"The commoners must not be given information on the First Ladys' party; it might upset them."  Most transparent administration EVER!!


Write a story.  Subject happens to be transgender and a liar.  Outrage ensues from Usual Suspects™, including the usual threats.  'Free press' apparently means 'Free to report what we approve of.'
More here at Ace.


Ah, socialized medicine: selling private insurance to people tired of waiting.
More than half a million Swedes now have private health insurance, showed a new review from industry organization Swedish Insurance (Svensk Försäkring). In eight out of ten cases, the person's employer had offered them the private insurance deal.

"It's quicker to get a colleague back to work if you have an operation in two weeks' time rather than having to wait for a year," privately insured Anna Norlander told Sveriges Radio on Friday. "It's terrible that I, as a young person, don't feel I can trust the health care system to take care of me."


Few years back Limbaugh moved his show out of New York.  The governor at the time said 'If I'd known taxes would make him leave, I'd have raised them more years ago', and great laughter was heard.  Until a state official listed just how much tax money the state lost when he left.

Now Gov. Howler is making some other people say "Screw you, I'm taking my business and my money elsewhere."  Wonder how much the state of New Effing York is going to lose from all this?

Even if you ignore the "What IRS investigation?" crap from the EffingBI Director,

you find yourself wondering "WHY am I supposed to trust these clowns?"
Another murderer/extortionist/fill in the blanks being protected by the EffingBI while committing these crimes, over decades, because 'He's an important informant!'

And doing things the EffingBI didn't want to dirty its' hands with.
In return for his assistance to the Feds, Scarpa collected in spades, using his influence with the FBI to avoid prosecution on three separate indictments by organized crime strike forces over the years. Not only did he beat a 1974 indictment for stealing $520,000 in securities and conspiring to counterfeit, transport, and sell $4 million in IBM stock, but when Secret Service agents arrested him in 1986 for credit card fraud, on charges that could have led to seven years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the FBI intervened and helped him get his sentence reduced to probation and a $10,000 fine.


A breakdown of how the Zimmerman trial is going, and how it got to this point in the first place.
I've said before: a bunch of the prosecution team needs to worry less about sucking up to RWPP jerks and more about being disbarred for the crap they've done.


One more celebritute opens the mouth, and
Happy Independence Day! Just think, if we hadn’t won that war, today wouldn’t be a holiday AND we’d have health care.


A couple of examples of what Obama's smart diplomacy has gotten us:

The EPA wants the utilities to be able to turn your refrigerator and freezer off; whatever could go wrong?

Awww, the celebritutes are outraged

that some Senators listened to the voters; Jennifer still has the best response:

And now, more stuff coming out about Benghazi; unfortunately, my first thought is "What will the White House try to distract us with now?"


The Temple, TX PD responds to the problems caused by an officer pulling an ordinance out of his ass: "We're not talking."


Apparently Schumer is running around saying 'Buying a gun over the internet bypasses the NICS check.'  He damn well knows better, but it's a lie he really wants to push.


I've got to borrow this from Tam:
Barry's so cute when he's angry. 

I would have given my right arm for press credentials and the first question, just so I could have asked: "Mr. President! Mr. President! Who's the sad clown? Awww, who's the sad clown?" 

Team Gun Control is positively frothing on Facebook. If I had a car that ran on hippie tears, I'd be set for years.


Lots of other noise out there, but I have laundry to do.

Just a point about one of the Presidents' advisors and friends:

Reports coming in from Boston are describing the deadly bombs as devices similar to the Weather Underground nail bomb that exploded prematurely in 1970, killing three of Ayers' terrorist friends. That device was intended to be detonated at a soldiers' dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.


I have now been informed by the hoplophobe from the other day that the NYEffingTimes and Daily Kos demanding the 2nd Amendment either be dumped or rewritten proves that 'All the good people demand it!'
Add that to the odd use of capitals, remotely diagnosing people and so forth, and I'm concerned she's off her meds.

Stolen from here.  Along with this:

Note: some posts probably NSFW


The crap an honest citizen in Australia has to go through in order to buy a rifle.  Stage 1, Stage 2.


Who the hell is Jay Mohr, and why and I supposed to give a rats ass what he thinks?
'2nd Amendment must go'? Fuck you, Mohr.


Boehner doesn't like the idea of actually digging into Benghazi; We don't like the idea of this clown being in the position he is.

I have to admit I don't kn ow who Duncan Sheik is,

just that- from this- he's another celebritute trying to get some publicity by threatening someone and insulting them.  And getting all upset when the threat is taken seriously.


Both from commenter Henick and Jennifer, got a link to this blog: The Law of Self Defense.  Haven't had time to check more than a couple of the entries, but seems to be some very good 'this is something you probably wouldn't want to do or say' information.

Oh joy, the celebritutes are mad at each other

One says a new movie is 'disrespectful to his ancestors', the other says 'screw you'.
Apparently if you're not the first, you're not supposed to use racial stuff in a movie.  Or not without his approval.  Or something.
Oh, Lee?  Black Africans weren't 'stolen' from Africa by white slave raiders; they were generally bought from the other black Africans who ran slave raids and happily sold them to whoever gave the highest price.
And I wonder when Lee will start screaming and yelling about the arabs who kept raiding for slaves and- in some places- are STILL keeping blacks as slaves?


Let us not forget, Piers Morgan is not just a bigoted jackass, he's a journalistic faker.


The State Department under Clinton and Obama: punishment actually means 'you're on paid leave for a while'.


Now Feinstein wants to call it a 'forced buyback'; apparently she decided 'confiscation' was getting a bad reaction.


Just a reminder: the staff on the NY Journal News are finding out about that 'sauce for the goose' thing.  Wonder how they like it?


So now Egypt has a sharia-based constitution.  That went well, didn't it?


The sun is out, and it's up to a whole 14 degrees, and the streets still have that mirror-sheen appearance; I'd like to go do a couple of things while I'm free, but not till it warms enough that the streets can melt a little.  They're saying 31 for the high this afternoon; we'll see.

"But it was leaking that made Obama look good,

so you expect us to actually do anything about it?"
And it comes out AFTER the election; isn't that amazing?


Attention RWPP dirtbags and morons who like to scream about slavery in this country that ended about 150 years ago being an excuse for crap: THIS is what you should be yelling about.
Of course, the people taking and keeping slaves nowadays mostly aren't white and European; they're the kind of people the RWPP clowns excuse from all kinds from crap because of colonialism and so forth.  It would make the clowns uncomfortable to come out against People Of Color on anything, it seems.
Kind of like the feminists who demanded "Something must be done!" about the way women were being treated in Afghanistan, yet they shit rabid raccoons when Bush DID do something(was it that they didn't actually want something done if it involved non-PC violence, or just that someone they didn't like do it, I wonder?).

Which brings up another thought:
Slavery in the American south screwed with labor markets and caused all kinds of problems, same as what's noted near the end of the article.  Same crap is happening due to illegal aliens in this country; they're willing to work for wages others won't, which causes some employers to hire them cheap, which screws with the labor market and throws all kinds of other costs onto the states and federal government.  And I consider a lot of the politicians helping the illegal alien lobby for the sake of influence, votes and damaging the US to be the moral equals of the bastards in the 1800's who defended slavery in the south.  The only difference is the illegals could leave any time they want, but the dirtbags are making it worth their while to stay here and cause problems, paying them off with OPM.


Usually I try to refrain from bad language, especially when speaking of the current Oval Office occupant.  However, in this case:
Screw you, you miserable little socialist bastard.

Speaking of socialist bastards, one of the big proofs of how badly our .gov is broken is that this idiot is still in office and wasn't prosecuted and thrown out of the House for what she did.
Also that a bunch of people are such fools that they'll keep voting for her.


How badly did Clinton's State Department and Obama's other minions(and probably he) screw up?  This bad.
4 Americans, including an Ambassador, are dead and there will no “disciplinary action” recommended? So it was a total clusterfuck and no one in authority stepped up to deal with it because, that’s how business was done. Shrug.


 Another celebrity idiot who doesn't understand that the interwebs is FOREVER!, one way or another.


Just spoke with a friend who was ordering bullets.  Not loaded ammo, bullets.  The company he called is ten days to two weeks behind on shipping.
For bullets.
He said something about lots of people being backed-up, and was told that a customer who'd come in to pick up an order mentioned going by the Cabala's and Bass Pro in(I think) Reno, and the lines of people waiting to buy firearms, ammo and associated stuff were, well, amazing.
Something I'd like to see someone ask Obama: "Mr. President, considering the numbers of people buying guns, magazines(y'know, you call them 'clips'?) and ammunition, most of whom say flatly they will not surrender them, how many people are you willing to see killed or imprisoned in trying to enforce any ban that might be passed?"
Can you imagine his thoughts?  And what he might say to try to talk around that?


Dr. Helen had a link to this the other day.  One of the comments had two things I responded to:
...stricter laws are required... Also a federal data base for all people taking medication associated with mental health must be set up and those taking medication forbidden from legally purchasing weapons....
and
 Over here in Greece it is almost impossible to own a weapon except a shotgun for hunting and very few can have a handgun. Rifles are totally illegal. Our problem here is that the government doesn’t have the money to field a larger police force and criminals rob banks, stores, homes and anything else using fully automatic AK-47s! We are outgunned by criminals. It’s the total opposite of what is happening to the U.S. Slowly we are approaching the same problem from the opposite side.
 First, ANYBODY taking ANY meds for a mental health matter?  So if someone is going through a bout of depression and is prescribed a med, they lose their 2nd Amendment rights?
I don't think so.
Not to mention the "Who sets the standards?  How?" and all the holes just waiting in that mess.
On the last, I said that the situation he describes in Greece is just one more case in which honest people are mostly or completely disarmed while the bad guys have no problem getting whatever they want; that doesn't exactly help his 'stricter laws are required' statement.


I just got this by e-mail from Cheaper Than Dirt:
Cheaper Than Dirt! recently announced that it was temporarily suspending online sales of firearms pending a review of its order processing and procedures. Well-known for its ability to process and ship orders within24 hours, online sales have skyrocketed to a point where it may take up to 72 hours for firearms and other items to ship.

"In light of recent events, we believe it is prudent to review our policies and procedures to ensure we can continue to provide the products and firearms our customers demand," said Chief Operations Officer Roberta Wilson. "We will resume online sales once we update our process and continue as we have always done by shipping firearms only to FFL dealers."

Ms. Wilson closed with, "As a long-time supporter of the Second Amendment, we will continue to serve the needs of the firearms community while ensuring our unsurpassed level of quality and customer service."

Probably very light on the posted bitching

and yelling the next couple of days or so, so to get some stuff out of the way:
Some thoughts on the 2nd Amendment, including
This wording - and there is no reasonable way around it - also suggests through the use of the term Militia, the entire population of able bodied adult males of an age to bear arms and organized or organizable into groups of combatants, that the right to keep and bear arms is for a collective purpose.[1] To accept that the Second Amendment serves a collective purpose, however, is not to concede that it is merely a collective right. 

Consider, for example, the First Amendment, or rather those clauses of it concerned with freedom of speech and of the press. These rights are exercised individually, by newspapers, other media, the individual members of their staffs, and individual citizens. Its purpose, on the other hand, is to secure the liberty of the collective by giving widespread airing to even unpopular or anti-governmental views. 

There is, therefore, no obvious contradiction between the exercise of an individual right and the service of a collective purpose. As with freedom of speech and of the press...or of other guaranteed liberties - free assembly, freedom of conscience through freedom of religion, the right to have one's home free of spies in uniform, the one can serve the other quite handily: individual freedoms, freely exercised, preserving the freedom of the group and of each member in it.
I'm not all the way through this, so far it's interesting.


I'd not heard this before; I like it:

Some stuff I'd not heard about Morris Dees, of the SPLC; not in any way flattering.


Another nasty virus discovered in Africa.


A response to Samuel Jackson(NSFW):


A Democrat pollster has something to say about the MSM ignoring ethics, honor and duty:
 “First of all, we’ve had 9 days of lies…If a president of either party…had had a terrorist incident and gotten on an airplane [after remarks] and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified…it should have been, should have been, the equivalent, for Barack Obama, of George Bush’s “flying over Katrina” moment. But nothing was said at all. Nothing will be said. [...] It is [unacceptable] to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know. [The MSM] has made themselves the enemy of the American people. It is a threat to the very future of the country; we’ve crossed a new and frightening line on the slippery slope, and it needs to be talked about.”


And someone else on the media not-, hell, AVOIDING any questions if they at all can:
There are so many unanswered questions, not just about Libya, but also about Cairo. Who is it that Rice thinks “widely disseminated” this “movie”? Surely she can’t believe that the Egyptian Coptic Christian who made the video had the capacity or even desire to put it in the hands of the people who did the inciting. Also, has the administration noticed that the mob in Cairo, so spontaneously upset about the video, just happened to be carrying an Islamist flag to hoist over our embassy? On 9/11. What a massive coincidence.
...
 We know now that before the attacks on 9/11 that killed 3,000 Americans, more attention should have been paid to attacks against the U.S. overseas. These were warnings of what was to come. They say curiosity killed the cat. In this case, lack of curiosity on the part of the American media very well may kill more Americans.


And last, in The Guitar Saga,
Having had a few days to dry, I looked it over very closely; the finish came out beautifully, but I fear it needs to be thicker.  Count it as not researching/asking more questions sooner, but I assumed(I know, I know, shutup) one can would do it.  May not take a whole second can, but I think it'll be a stronger, better finish if it gets a few more light coats building on what's there now.

The second can should be here tomorrow; I'll get some pictures and post them before I do any more spraying.  I'll say this, it looks like new, better than it has in a long time.  The further coats, a day or so to dry, wet-sand to level, a final light coat, then 6-8 days before can string it and see how the sound held up through all this.

Being somewhat refreshed and better able to spread outrage

and "Screw you, you apologist clowns", I shall now begin with some of the more insane people calling themselves muslim:
Timbuktu's priceless collection of ancient scientific texts is at risk of destruction by hard-line Islamists.

Ansar Dine, a Tuareg militia, occupies territory around Timbuktu, a town in northern Mali listed as a world heritage site. In recent weeks, the group has destroyed historic tombs in the town (see picture), which house the remains of Islamic Sufi saints and which Ansar Dine says are idolatrous.
So, following in the footsteps of the guy who pretty much killed scientific inquiry and advance in the muslim world, they want to destroy, well, pretty much everything. Wonderful, isn't it?


A note on the hypocrisy of a lot of Obama supporters.
The former President, Koh said, was the “torturer-in-chief.” In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, he referred to the war on terror as “legally undeclared” and questioned the administration’s right to kill terrorists on the battlefield. “What factual showing will demonstrate that they had warlike intentions against us and who sees that evidence before any action is taken?” he asked.

In 2009, after the election of Barack Obama, Koh was awarded the job of State Department legal adviser. Since that time, he has defended a war waged in Libya without explicit congressional authorization, drone strikes targeting suspected terrorists and the extrajudicial assassination of an American citizen who had become a leading Al Qaeda ideologist.

None of these, however, can be considered the greatest of Koh’s manifold hypocrisies. That honor stems from a 2010 speech in which he triumphantly declared that the Obama administration “unequivocally guarantee(s) humane treatment for all individuals in U.S. custody as a result of armed conflict” (emphasis original).

One wonders, then, what Koh would make of Eli Lake’s blockbuster Daily Beast story last week. Reporting from Somalia, Lake found a secret prison holding alleged terrorists captured by, or with the assistance of, the United States.
He'll ignore it or excuse it, like the good little progressive dirtbag he is.



Georgia, what the hell is wrong with you?
Even with things that “didn’t add up,” police and prosecutors moved forward with a case against Culpepper. The case continued even though Boyd told police and the Fulton District Attorney’s Office several times Culpepper was not the woman who attacked him.
She spent 53 days in jail because these idiots apparently couldn't be bothered to make sure they were holding the right person. Or just didn't care.
Insty says make these clowns personally liable for crap like this; sounds good to me.


So the people of Hong Kong don't want their kids being taught about the wonders of communist China; gee, I wonder why...


Borrowing from Thirdpower,

Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.

Single Issue: groups or individuals that obsessively focus on very specific or narrowly-defined causes (e.g., anti-abortion, anti-Catholic, anti-nuclear, anti-Castro). This category includes groups from all sides of the political spectrum.

Suspicious of centralized federal authority? 'Reverent of individual liberty'? being anti-communist? Those are the things that label me as a 'terrorist hot spot'?

Count me in then.
Remember, this is from the same geniuses who told us we should be prepared for natural disaster or terrorist attack by storing some food and other emergency supplies, and then announced that storing food and emergency supplies was suspicious and will make you be considered a terrorist suspect.


You may have heard of the various tweets by effing idiots and celebritutes about how awful America is, etc. I wonder if the knowledge that if they did that in a lot of the countries they seem to prefer they'd be in a cell actually means anything to them?


This would indicate that a bunch of people in the PA State Police
A: Have no business wearing a badge or being in any position of authority, and
B: Have been modeling their activities after the Stasi. And should be referred to as such.

The race mongers won't care, but in the Martin-Zimmerman case

the Preferred Narrative^tm is falling apart. Further apart, I should say.
A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
...
WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.



I wish I could come up with lines like this:
And don't get me started about how every Sayeret Matkal troopie supposedly has his micro-Tavor bullpup (which is the best gun ever, of course,) fruited up with cheap-ass plastic Mako accessories like a third-grade schoolgirl's notebook with My Little Pony stickers.


Does it count as 'narcissist' or just 'arrogant fool' to do something like this?


"Join the TSA and screw with people who still have more balls than you ever will!"


Another fine case of Dance, Monkey! And shut the hell up otherwise. Or we'll sic Jennifer on you.

Anne Hathaway: one more idiot celebritute

sucking up to people who say they despise her.

Hey, Hathaway, you actually feel that way? How much of that $50+ million have you donated?