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Saturday, 28 December 2013

Saturday Totty..................

Poll Results: Only 28% of Americans have the ability to think!...from TPC




This article contains the startling results from a Fox News survey question that simply asked 'What are your expectations for Barack Obama's presidency? Do you think he will be...'

A&E Reverses Phil Robertson Suspension

See, "Phil Robertson reinstated -- but GLAAD probably got a big payoff."

Also, "Phil Robertson 1, Political Correctness 0."

BONUS: "GLAAD's Fascist Totalitarianism":

After five years of blogging and activism on the homosexual rights issue I'm to the point where I throw my hands up sometimes in disbelief. Virtually the entire "gay rights" agenda is predicated on lies, but worse, most of the mainstream political establishment swallows them without the least bit of shame. It's disgusting. As I wrote years ago, homosexual marriage is not a civil right. A homosexual's preference that his behavior, which is a matter of choice and not biology, be considered a right is not just obscene but a crime against language. But those who many identify as "low information voters" simply have no clue, they have no knowledge of history or natural law or traditional morality. So, they suck up whatever lies the left peddles, and then they mindlessly sign up with the regressive left's totalitarian campaign to silence all disagreement and dissent...
Continue reading.

Friday, 27 December 2013

Bedtime Totty..............

Late Pic Dump................

"Turkey is Coming Apart".........................from Dan Friedman

[Heh, Turkey is a member of NATO, brought in during better times that most everyone thought would last. What’s going to happen when “the West” decides it wants out of the arrangement and asks for its nuclear weapons and attack jets back? df]
 
pjmedia.com, December 27, 2013
Except for the state of Israel and a couple of Sunni monarchies that survive by dint of their oil wealth, we are witnessing the unraveling of the Middle East.
By David P. Goldman (Spengler)

Bud Clydesdale Commercials........................



H/T Shelly

It's NOT the Economy, Stupid.......................from Dan Friedman

The Peel Commission Report of 1937 concluded that the Jewish contribution to Arab prosperity in Palestine only increased Arab hatred!

News..................

Iraq To Become Third Largest Russian Arms Purchaser

Interest grows in no-longer-​secret Scorpion tactical jet

Do Democrat lawmakers anticipate treason trials?

Khodorkovsky and the freedom agenda

Intruder Killed by Woman He Planned to Abduct, Rape, and Record

Human Rights Gets It Wrong

Texas DPS Arming State Troopers With New Firearm

What the Palestinia​ns and Arabs Think of Kerry's New Ideas

Neal Boortz: Social Conservati​ves Will Keep Republican​s from Taking Senate

John Kerry fist bumps Snoop Dogg after White House chat

Wall Street advisor recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse

The War on Vitamins

300 Winchester Magnum: How Does Barrel Length Change Velocity- A 16″ 300 Win Mag?

"There clearly were stand down orders given"

Security concerns raised amid surge in US arms deals abroad

Honoring a brother's last wish: $500 tips on a cross-coun​try mission

RON HART: EPA Top Dog's Astonishing Fraud: Beale Street Blues

New Palestinian terror weapon: the Austrian Steyr .50 assassin’s rifle from Hizballah

Obama Plays Checkers, Iran Plays Chess....................from Dan Friedman

[A sport with which Obama is unfamiliar? Or is Obama taking a dive and throwing the game? df]
 
Associated Press, 12/27/2013
 
(Click on the links to read the full stories...)

Egypt knows what Barack Obama still can't figure out!...from TPC



Egypt knows what the Obama administration hasn't been able to figure out yet. That the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. Now if only someone would teach the President about Iran!

ZoNATION: Part One--2013 in Review: Hot-Headed Democrats Ruining Nation

In Part One, Zo reviews the hot-headed Democrats of the year--Christopher Dorner, George Zimmerman, The Tsarnayev Brothers, and other murderers. The media always wants to portray these guys as Conservative radicals, but we know the truth.


Top 10 Israeli Medical Advances to Boycott in 2014........................from Dan Friedman

[Heads up to all Israel-bashers and anti-Semites wherever you are - 2014 looks like it’s going to be another tough year. The Jewish, apartheid, Nazi, occupying state is set to test your zeal and Jew-hating bona fides next year as never before. Comrades, gird your loins, screw up your courage, and pray to Allah that you or your children never come down with any of these conditions and diseases. You’ll want to avoid these treatments developed in the Zionist entity at all costs! df]
 
 
 
ISRAEL21c compiles a list of the 10 most extraordinary medical devices and pharmaceuticals that promise to revolutionize global healthcare.

Reporters Hit a White House Stone Wall

By Alan Caruba
Obama’s promise to lead an open and transparent administration has become an “albatross” according to a Dec 24 Politico.com analysis by Josh Gerstein. As Obama’s fifth year in office wraps up, much of the Washington and nation’s press corps is very unhappy.

With the exception of those who depend on Fox, ABC radio, the Wall Street Journal, and other conservative outlets, too many of the consumers of news are blissfully unaware of the liberal, rubber stamp product they are receiving. It is the complete betrayal of those whom the press is supposed to serve.

They did not report the truth about Obamacare. They have not reported the truth about Obama’s failed foreign affairs policies, including the attack on Benghazi. They have largely ignored other scandals. Obama’s new economic “inequality” lies are right out of the Communist Manifesto. The result, however, was his reelection in 2012 and millions of cancelled health plans.

All administrations have sought to control the information—the message—that reaches the public, but the Obama administration has gone to greater lengths than previous ones. In particular, its public affairs offices (PAOs) have become obstacles to press access.

Writing in the Dec 17 edition of Editor & Publisher the newspaper trade magazine, Jim Dickinson said, “Over two hours at the National Press Club a few months ago, the truth finally hit me. Journalism has done it to itself, the ‘it’ being the surrender of our First Amendment-protected responsibility to tell the people what their government is really, actually doing—as opposed to what the government tells us it wants the people to know.”

The panel to which Dickerson was referring was entitled “Government Public Affairs Offices: More Hindrance Than Help?”  He wrote that “Public affairs offices increasingly require that reporters conduct all interviews through the press office. U.S. Departments and agencies often mandate that their employees only talk to reporters through official channels and with communications staff present.”

Not only do government employees know that this means their job can be on the line, but as I noted in October, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act signed into law in November 2012 in reality puts whistleblowers at risk of going to jail.

Reporters find that the leaks from whistleblowers and routine information from government employees are drying up. Ironically, the actions of former NSA employee Edward Snowden and U.S. Army corporal Bradley Manning exposed more information than the administration wanted anyone to know. Manning went to jail and Snowden has found asylum in Russia. Both said they acted in the public interest; a public being told that the NSA’s acquisition of data on every phone call is being done to protect them.

The problem is manifest in efforts under the Freedom of Information Act to secure feedback from government agencies. Politico’s Gerstein pointed out the availability of government records under FOIA often results in requests routinely lingering for years “and often end up producing a ream of blacked-out text.”  News is expected to be timely and delaying access to public records negates that.

What has been and is reported these days are the lies for which the Obama administration has become famous.

The administration has called the scandals of the first term “phony” and a recent Sixty Minutes interview with Susan Rice, now the national security advisor to Obama, dismissed the Benghazi cover-up as “false.” It was Rice who went on five Sunday news shows to spread the lies about the attack—on the anniversary of 9/11—having  been caused by a video no one had ever seen. That earned her a promotion!

The daily White House press briefing has become increasingly heated and, when the President gave a press conference before leaving on a Christmas vacation, he was asked if 2013 had been the worst year to date for him. He obliquely acknowledged what everyone knows, but denied he pays any attention to polls, something every President of the modern era has always done.

The mainstream press has learned that, in return for having published the White House “party line” throughout its first term, that it would tap their phones and accuse a Fox News reporter of being an “accomplice” for releasing information it wanted to keep secret.

Its use of public information offices to thwart or control what news is released, its increased use of “official” White House photos, its widespread failure to respond to Freedom of Information requests, and its use of social media and organizations allied with the White House to advertise and spread its message all add up to a highly manipulative effort to influence the public.

The good news is that the Internet has become a major source of news and analysis available to everyone. As traditional print newspapers suffer decline due to the loss of advertising revenue and the younger generation’s preference for electronic access to the news, the scope of news has expanded to sources beyond government control.

A secretive and deceptive Obama administration is suffering from an abundance and availability of the TRUTH. Too bad that too many journalists have not been active contributors.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

Red Friday Bonus Totty................

No day at the beach.....................from Rico

While Santa may be enjoying his days at the beach, it is no 'day at the beach' for the Japanese consumer. - Japanese stimulus (aka 'Abenomics') is 'inflationary' and 'deflationary' at the same time, and therein may be a lesson for the US. This stimulus when related to Yen devaluation (just as the Fed is devaluing the USD, btw), forces the Japanese consumer to spend more for food and energy while cutting-back on other spending. Looking at the attached graph, when not including food and energy, there is very little 'inflation'...at least 'officially.' - Savers and pensioners are the hardest hit by rising food and energy costs while the Yen simultaneously loses purchasing power. Sound familiar America? - Unless you are already at the beach, it's becoming very hard to get there.

Duck Dynasty......................

This just in:


A&E is canceling Duck Dynasty and replacing it with a new reality show about life in the White House.

It will be called Duck Responsibility


H/T Shelly

Jailing Photogs and Smokers, Outlawing Chipotle! Plus Halle Berry! (Nanny of the Year, 2013)

At Reason TV's Fifth Annual Nanny of the Year Awards, we recognize those who devote their lives to telling us how to run ours! The nominees for 2013 are trailblazers who insist on breaking barriers that would have been politically impossible to confront just a short time ago

Friday Totty................

83 horrific US statistics!...from TPC



These statistics about the US economy and American society are as frightening as they are depressing and, to make matters worse, there are 83 of them!

'Read'em and weep' at The Political Commentator here.

Thursday, 26 December 2013

Victoria's Secret Stunner Candice Swanepoel Strips Down for Smokin' New Magazine Shoot

She's a classy babe.

See, "Candice Swanepoel Nude in January 2014 Edition of Vogue Brazil."

That's SFW as well. Very tasty.


These numbers don't lie.....................from Rico

Unlike the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Government Accounting Office, GDP, .....well Hell, ANY 'official' numbers these days which have all been washed-rinsed-cooked-baked-massaged-rigged and jiggered to render them completely useless and meaningless rather like the USG and Congress are, sorry I digress..... but NOT these numbers. Always. go. bacon.

John Kerry, Kosher This!....................from Dan Friedman

[I know, this guy is an "extremist" who doesn't speak for the millions of peace-loving Muslims. Or will the new White House line be "talking to Hamas is the only way to get them to moderate and finally settle the conflict between Muslims Palestinians and Jews Israelis?” And why not? We've seen how successful "dialogue" has been in the case of Iran. df]
 
 
Israel National News, December 24:
Hamas minister vows to ‘uproot the Jews’ as first step toward global Islam, threatens to fire Muslim workers who fail to pray.

by Dalit Halevy and Maayana Miskin
The ultimate goal of the Hamas movement is to establish Islam worldwide, Hamas minister Fathi Hammad declared during a recent public address in Gaza.

What You Don't Know.......................from Rico

There has been, and is, a lot of ink (virtual and literal) ink wasted discussing the Fed's 100th anniversary. Almost none of it addresses the Federal Reserve System being just as 'federal' as Federal Express. - The Fed is a privately-owned, for-profit Bank with NO reserves and NO government 'ownership'....just ask the Rockefeller's, Warburg's and Rothschild's et al if you don't believe me. - At least FedEx delivers the goods...the Fed just takes them. And NONE of it will tell you that since 23 Dec 1913, the Fed has 'given' the US 18 recessions/depressions, that the value of the USD has plunged by 98%, or that the US National Debt has increased by 5000 times. - Look at this list of prices/costs from 1938 and compare it to what you are 'paying' now in devalued Dollars for the very same things. This is the 'invisible tax' of inflation that Maynard Keynes famously said not one in a million will ever see. Americans today largely do NOT know what the Fed is (no matter how you define 'is') or how it functions, much less why. What you do not know will destroy you. - Firmly entrenched and fiercely protected, the Fed must be laughing at weak protestations to 'end the Fed' since it is doing a far superior job of ending the US!

Netanyahu'​s Sleight of Hand......................from Dan Friedman

NB: A couple of weeks ago I was urged by a respected Israeli journalist to lay off Bibi for awhile since the PM and his government were still collecting their thoughts after “the shock” produced by Obama’s sudden Geneva deal with Iran. I have a message for my friend the journalist: Time is up.
 
[We've seen this movie before. Netanyahu announces "new settlements" at the same time he releases more Arab terrorists or tearfully announces some other “difficult concession.” The problem being, the homes never get built but the murderers roam free to kill Jews again. Frankly, this ploy is getting tiresome and repetitive. And so is Israelis' willful indifference. Sure, they’ll scratch your eyes out when you get in front of them at a falafel stand. But they remain silent when their kids are packed off to defend the nation to cover up their leader’s many unforced errors and “painful compromises.” Of course, it would traitorous to do otherwise. df]
 
Att: Deja vu Dept
CC: Bullshit Dept.
 
Times of Israel, December 25, 2013
 
PM, defying US and EU pressure, to issue list of new building plans close to release of Palestinian prisoners next week

Making Obamacare Cool?!? Hear the Latest Bad Healthcare Idea

Young people are not interested in enrolling in Obamacare. Some have suggested making Obamacare cool. Is this even possible, and will Obamacare "cool" encourage the young and uninsured to sign-up for Obama's signature health care plan? Find out.

Bedtime Totty..................

Bonus Totty.................

A genie grants Barack Obama one wish! (Political Humor)...from TPC


Political humor that has Barack Obama being granted one wish by a genie that he found in a bottle while walking on the beach during a vacation.

As luck would have it the President happens to be away on another taxpayer funded trip so let's say this joke occurs on the sandy shores of Hawaii.

Read at The Political Commentator here.

Women's Seminar........................

A group of women were at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with your husband.

The women were asked, "How many of you love your husband?"

All the women raised their hands.

Then they were asked, "When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?"

Some women answered today, a few yesterday, and some couldn't remember.

The women were then told to take out their cell phones and text their husband: "I love you, sweetheart."

The women were then told to exchange phones with another person, and to read aloud the text message that they received, in response...


Here are some of the replies:

1. Who the hell is this?

2. He, mother of my children, are you sick or what?

3. Yeh, and I love you too. What's up with you??

4. What now? Did you crash the car again?

5. I don't understand what you mean?

6. What the f*ck did you do now?

7. ?!?

8. Don't beat about the bush, just tell me how much you need?

9. Am I dreaming?

10. If you don't tell me who this message is actually for, someone will die.

11. I thought we agreed you wouldn't drink during the day.

12. Your mother is coming to stay with us, isn't she??

H/T Shelly

Double Déjà vu........................from Dan Friedman

[Boston Jewish “leaders” reprise the role of Judenrat played by their predecessors in the 30s and 40s. The Jewish Left coopts the Jewish organizations in Boston. A national phenomenon repeated wherever American Jews gather. This time only the ovens will be different. df]
 
 
Via the New English Review’s Jerry Gordon.
 
 
newenglishreview.org , 25 December 2013
 
 

Egypt Stays One Step Ahead of Obama........................from Dan Friedman

[I had argued some time ago that the fall of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt dealt a crushing blow to Obama’s scheme to empower the Islamist side in Israel’s volatile region – one which would be hard-to-impossible for Obama to turn back. Now comes word the Egyptian military has taken further steps to shore up its gains; gains which Obama is now in no position to reverse. To date, most of Obama’s foreign debacles have been easy for him and the White House media to sweep under the rug. But this one is different. It’s disruptive, permanent and impossible to cover up. df]
 
 
12/25/2013
 
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed interim government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, a dramatic escalation that gives authorities more power in cracking down on them.

Rich as an Argentinia​n?.....................from Rico

A century ago, Argentina was so prosperous that the phrase "rich as an Argentinian" was widely used to describe the uber-wealthy of the day. - That was before successive governments managed to squander, fritter-away, over-regulates and generally piss-away that wealth. Now the phrase is meaningless, and has been somwhat 'supplanted' by something akin to "those d#%&ed rich Americans." To be an Argentinian today is to be poor as a church mouse. Taking a look at the performance of major currencies vs. the USD for YTD 2013 gives a sneak preview [read: rerun] of what happens to a nation when its government squanders, fritters-away, over-regulates and generally pisses-away the wealth of their people. - The venerable British Pound held its own. - No surprise that the 'Swissie' did better, or that the Japanese Yen was almost the worst performer (save for Communist South Africa). - BUT that the Argentine Peso performed head-and-shoulders above them all...and especially against the USD...should be cause for grave concern for everyone, especially Americans. Guess who pointedly will NOT be told about this? - Yeah, those lucky Americans who thanks to 'hope, change, and forward' are being 'fundamentally transformed' into poor church mice....without the church.

"Christmas Tea" - from Rico

Boxing Day Totty..............

Giselle, My Belle

She's bringing the holiday hotness on this day.

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My Christmas belle.

See, "Merry Christmas!"

And be sure to click through to this fabulous woman's Twitter feed --- it's hot!

And enjoy the holiday!

'Warmest Christmas Greetings' from 'the City of Peace, Jerusalem...'

Merry Christmas everybody.

Here, "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Christmas Greeting 2013."


Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Just Push Back Against the ASA Boycotters. You'll Make Them Cry...

See, "The ASA Boycotters: Victims of Hatred and Harassment!"

They're claiming critics are "harassing" them on Facebook, and contacting their respective universities is an attempt silence their "academic freedom." The irony is pretty rich.

More, "The ASA's Boycott of Israel is Anti-Semitism Pure and Simple."

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More, "The Left Against Zion."

'A young woman with such a splendid rack would have no motive to adopt the victimhood mentality of feminism...'

Heh. I thought this might be a good entry for "Offend a Feminist Week."

From the irrepressible Robert Stacy McCain, "Obviously a Satire":

When Donald Douglas posted this photo at American Power, I immediately recognized it as an ironic put-down of feminism:
Two key clues to the satirical intention:

*A poster in the background showing Austrian economists — Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, et al. — signals a libertarian/individualist orientation, directly contradicting the statist/collectivist radical egalitarian worldview of feminism; and
*Her breasts. A young woman with such a splendid rack would have no motive to adopt the victimhood mentality of feminism.
Yeah, well, she has nice breasts.

Check 'em out at the link (although trust me when I say you've been warned about women like this, lol!).

Bedtime Totty...............

Leaving Afghanistan


By Alan Caruba

 

On December 31, the United States is slated to begin removing its troops from Afghanistan. They have been there since shortly after 9/11 in 2001. At this writing, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security agreement that would permit contingents of U.S. and allied troops there to train and assist its security forces beyond the end of 2014.

 

Karzai says we have different definitions for terrorists. They were and they are the Taliban. He wants to negotiate with them. On Christmas day they attacked the U.S. embassy in Kabul. No one was injured.

 

In late December, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey, held a Pentagon press conference in which they asserted that the Afghan security forces are capable of “overcoming and, in most cases, overwhelming their Taliban competitors for control of Afghanistan, but that they “lack confidence.” In addition, they face a political transition in their central government, the outcome of which is unpredictable.

 

President Obama deemed the Afghan conflict a good war in contrast to Iraq. Since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, it has been in a state of political crisis with constant attacks that kill Iraqis on a weekly basis. On Christmas day, Christians were attacked three times in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 37.

 

At the heart of the Afghan and Iraq problem is Islam, its long battle between Sunnis and Shiites, and its enduring hatred of Christians, Jews and all other faiths.  

 

We’re in Afghanistan because it was an al Qaeda staging area for 9/11. Had we taken the approach that freed Kuwait from Iraqi conquest in 1990, we would have been in and out in short order. The U.S. led assault on Iraqi forces began in mid-January 1991 and it was over by late February.

 

Instead, we remained in Afghanistan. There were 630 U.S. casualties in the years between 2001 and 2008, but following Obama’s “surge” they increased to 1,544 between 2009 and 2012. In 2013, there have been 126. The Taliban suffered casualties, but they did not go away. Parked in Pakistan, their main support, they can and will return. Much of Afghanistan’s problems stem from the establishment of Pakistan in 1947.

 

The National Priorities Project tracks the cost of the Afghanistan conflict, asserting that taxpayers have paid $683,242,655, 879 (and growing) since it began in 2001, calculating that it costs $10.45 million an hour.  The Iraq war cost $816,255,519,665.

 

Neither conflict produced a desired outcome and, combined with Obama’s agenda to withdraw the U.S. from any military role in the Middle East, many Americans are believed to have embraced a neo-isolationism whose roots reach back to the Vietnam conflict and earlier. The reality is that most have grave doubts and concerns about five years of failed foreign policy by the Obama administration that has sided with Islamists.

 

A recent Pew poll said that 52% believe “the U.S. should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.”  The problem with that is the prospect of Middle East and African nations in which al Qaeda and other jihadists would gain control and expand their holy war on the West.

 

In an analysis of Afghanistan after a U.S. withdrawal, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an adjunct assistant professor in Georgetown University’s security studies program, noted recently that “Afghanistan has known some 2,600 years of foreign invasion. The invaders did much “to shape the country’s culture, religion, politics, and geography, and some of Afghanistan’s most critical turning points came as those invaders left the scene.”

 

There is considerable irony in what occurred when the then-Soviet Union invaded and was eventually forced out by Afghans and jihadists like Osama bin Laden who received considerable aid from the U.S. to drive out its army in 1989. This was followed by its collapse in 1991 and Afghanistan did as well, “into anarchy and civil war.”

 

Several scenarios were offered by Gartenstein-Ross, but given Afghanistan’s history few hold out much hope for a strong centralized government. As the Taliban say, the U.S. military wears watches while they measure time in decades and centuries.

 

My own best guess is that the Taliban conflict in Afghanistan will expand. Whether an Afghan army, still in its earliest years, can protect a central government is anyone’s guess.

 

When jihadists are emboldened enough to try to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria and as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states join together to prepare for or deter a possible conflict with a nuclear-armed Iran, the Middle East holds the promise of a very ugly future. The implications for the U.S. can only be ignored at our peril.

 

Editor’s Note: An extraordinary book on our fighting forces in Afghanistan, a tribute to their courage and dedication, is “Afghanistan on the Bounce” by Robert L. Cunningham, a noted photographer of Presidents and heads of state who was embedded with our troops there, photographing all aspects of their lives. If you served there, know someone who did, or are a veteran, this is worth adding to your library.

 

© Alan Caruba, 2013

Historical Equivalence? World War II versus Obamacare!...from TPC



A very short story that clearly points out the historical difference between the United States circa World War II and today under the guidance of Barack Obama and his band of merry socialists!

Watcher's Council Nominations Christmas 2013 Edition!...TPC



Merry Christmas 2013 from The Political Commentator and, as your gift, these are the Christmas Edition article nominations from the Watcher's Council!

The un-Official Barack Obama Coffee Cup!...from TPC

While the First Family enjoys their $7MM taxpayer funded vacation, the coffee cup shown in this article that has the President's wishes for the country on the bottom will make a great gift for the liberals on your giving list. 


For these are the very people who put Barack Obama in office not just once, but twice!

Hitler finds out he can't keep his doctor under Obamacare



H/T Shelly

"America's Mama Grizz!" - Wild Bill

One classy American woman defeated the left wing media smear machine and gives hope for good men and women to run for office.


Christmas Totty..................

A very Merry Christmas to all our readers from myself and the team.

Hot Holly Christmas

Oh man.

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You wanna snuggle up with this babe by the Christmas fire?

Check it out: "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly!"

Boughs of busting breasts at the click through. Damn.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Brokeback Healthcare Celebrates the Left's Couple of the Year

You gotta love it.

Bwahaha! "Brokeback Obama and #PajamaBoy — The Left's Homosexual Couple of the Year!"

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Kalashnikov Dies: Invented Weapon for the Global Revolutionary Insurgency

An interesting historical figure, "Mikhail Kalashnikov, 1919-2013."

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He played down his weapon's popularity with revolutionaries and terrorists. "This is a weapon of defense,” he said.

Also:
More people are killed per year on average as a result of wars fueled by small arms and light weapons (including the AK-47) than were killed in the nuclear blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone, it is estimated that more than a million people have died in that country’s recent civil war, fought primarily with small arms. The inability of governments to take seriously the damage caused by small arms and light weapons is a failure of major proportions.
More at the full obituary.