Sunday, August 29, 2010

Silly media reports“maybe thousands”@Beck’s “irrelevant” event;insinuating MSM sheeple mustn’t believe their own eyes&ears re: event’s truth
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Snooki should have stopped typing after “Silly me.”

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Posted by YAFB on 08/29/10 at 04:44 PM
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

This is how they got to Glenn Beck’s giant patriotic slumber party!

Pickles...

...and patroits!

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Posted by Kevin K. on 08/28/10 at 08:06 AM
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Another interview from the rally against the Not The Ground Zero Mosque.

When asked about Salman Hamdani, the Muslim police cadet/ EMT who died at Ground Zero trying to save lives, and whether his mother deserved a place near Ground Zero to pray for her son, the answer to the guy on the left is plain: NO!

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/24/10 at 04:45 PM
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Friday, August 20, 2010

From Ground Zero Zenophobe Pam Geller, to the venomous twittering Tundra Torquemadam, to Newt-level radio hypocrite Laura Schlessinger and her unfortunate case of negrolalia, to the crasso-profundo stylings of Ann Coulter, doesn’t it seem that what the Right requires from women is hot harridans to lay its cornerstones of philosophy?

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/20/10 at 11:40 AM
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

David Harsanyi, a syndicated columnist who writes for the Denver Post, starts his column today by asking the question “Is it bigoted to criticize religion?” and then proceeds to miss the point entirely.

There are those who continue to make the facile claim that any protest over Park51 is a display in un-American intolerance and contempt for the Constitution. This position treats criticism of faith — religious institutions and symbols included — as tantamount to “bigotry.”

Given that there remains overwhelming opposition to the ground zero mosque, this viewpoint would mean that 70 percent of Americans are impulsively hostile to freedom of religion and irrationally narrow-minded.

Do you see what you did there, David?  First you set up the straw men by labeling criticism of the proposed Islamic community center “bigotry”, then you blithely referred to it as the “ground zero mosque” thus accepting the false premise that the argument is over a mosque being built on top of ground zero!  Which it, um, isn’t and isn’t.  But we’re now all ready to condemn the mean spiritedness that proclaims 70 percent of Americans are impulsively hostile to freedom of religion, irrationally narrow-minded and bigots to boot!

You then go on to compare the apple of the ginned up outrage over something that’s not what it’s being reported to be as *equivalent* to the oranges of community protests against Wal-Mart stores and a protest march by gays against the passing of Prop 8 that originated at a Mormon Temple in Westwood, CA.

And applying public pressure in an effort to shut down a project is as American as protesting the arrival of a new Wal-Mart. Religious institutions, as far as I can tell, are not exempted from these disputes.

In 2008, thousands of gay-rights activists protested the Mormon temple in Westwood, Calif., for its role in passing Proposition 8 — the ban on same-sex marriage. This grew into a national protest to undermine the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — even though not every Mormon was involved.

Let’s start with the simple one.  Wal-Mart, regardless of what its management may or may not believe, is not a church or a religion.  Freedom to worship Wal-Mart is optional but not constitutionally protected.  As a business enterprise it is subject to boycott by consumers who disagree with its labor policies and tendency to bulldoze existing small businesses into extinction.  So far the company’s still around and still making profits.  More power to it.

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Posted by marindenver on 08/18/10 at 06:06 PM
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We will never forget—what sells!

At the end of Part One, we were trembling at the brink of a discovery: down a side street, but a mere two shabbily picturesque city blocks away from the northern perimeter of the future 16 acre complex of memorials, waterfalls, museums, office buildings, retail shops, and restaurants currently still known as “Ground Zero.”

Look! There in the crepuscularity of this avenue of sorrow, the perfidious zealots have already declared their devotion to the One True Way by putting up a sign!!

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/18/10 at 09:37 AM
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Poor Dr. Laura. Another conservative victim of that damned cause and effect (via MSNBCDEFG):

Dr. Laura Schlessinger says she’s shutting down her 30-year-old syndicated radio program at the end of the year ...

Aw. Such a loss to the world of Krazy Konservative Kommentary.

But I’m sure she’s learned an important lessons after squatting over a live mike, flooding the air waves with racist rant-a-thon and then - for some perfectly innocent reason, I’m sure - pulling the recording from her show’s website.

...so she can get her “First Amendment rights” back.

Ha, ha! You didn’t really think she’d learned diddly or squat, did you?

“I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I’m sort of done with that.”

I have a suggestion for “Dr.” L: Take some of your money and hire a decent attorney. He’ll explain that the 1st Am. bars the government from throwing you in jail or otherwise being nasty to you for the things you say. He’ll also explain that the invisible hand of the free market will give you the finger if the things you say are too toxic for your sponsors.

And that’s the American Way.

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No, not prayer mats, not the hand-knotted prayer mats! Don’t you know that a prayer mat makes any building, no matter how large and filled with other things, a, a, a…..Victory Mosque?

World Nut Daily soberly reports on one bright light who doesn’t even like the idea of a room at Quantico being repainted (“at taxpayer expense!”) for Muslim Marines to pray in, lest it lead to Other Things:

...Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer said he wonders why the Marines do not seem concerned such facilities might to used to generate anti-American sympathies.

Yes, all those people who hate us for our freedom would be just hopping mad. How much better that we hate us for our freedom.
         

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/17/10 at 10:13 AM
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Aiieee! What’s that at Ground Zero? A MINARET? ALREADY??

No, no, the Mooslins haven’t moved in yet.  But now that the Tundra Torquemadam has got her polar panties in a knot over the groundless rumor of the Ground! Zero! Mosque! I thought it time to actually show the hopelessly daft Grand Inquisitrix some irrefudiable features of my ‘hood, which she and her followers are honoring by trying to turn a generous swath of lower Manhattan into Joseph McCarthy’s Tribute Morgue.

Here we are, starting directly across from Ground Zero, praying without ceasing, as it is said that each time somebody licks all the way around a bonnet cone, an angel gets a brain-freeze.

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 08/16/10 at 10:09 AM
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

The wrong John Hawkins.

Right Wing News (“Kneecapping Barack Obama at every opportunity.”) conducted a “poll” the other week to establish, well, what exactly I’m not quite sure.

They asked 100 RW blogs for their votes for the 25 worst figures in American history.

The resulting list provided by the 43 blogs that could be bothered to respond runs the gamut from Saul Alinsky, with a surprisingly poor showing considering how many column inches he occupies among the frightwing, at a lowly no. 23, to a palpable cluster of perfidy at equal no. 13 with Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Richard Nixon, Jane Fonda, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, to a predictable President Obama at a solid no. 2, to the no. 1 Worst Figure In American History ... (roll of drums) ... President Jimmy Carter.

John Hawkins (ahaarrrr), who announced the results for Right Wing News and is suspiciously fond of beginning sentences with “Also,” conceded:

Also, it’s worth keeping in mind that this is a fairly conservative group of bloggers and their selections reflected that.

No shit, Sherlock.

As Jim Geraghty at the National Review observed:

Some of My Fellow Righty Bloggers Need a Broader Definition of ‘Worst Figure’

Well, he said a lot more than that, as that’s just the title, but he fluffed it by taking it seriously enough to offer his own nominations.

One can nitpick any poll results, of course, and I’m not going to do that here as pretty well everyone who has a blog will probably have a go at it, if today’s Memorandum is anything to go by.

What I’d like to do instead is go all Nate Silver, reverse engineer the results, and give you my own conclusions from the raw data below the fold

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Posted by YAFB on 08/14/10 at 02:26 PM
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Yes it’s trite, but it fits.

Petulant Left blogger Jane Hamsher, quoted today in The Hill:

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, who is also a columnist for The Hill, said he didn’t think Obama would get a 2012 primary challenge “in a million years.”
In an e-mail, Moulitsas also said Obama shouldn’t be challenged.
Still, some influential figures on the left, which erupted in fury this week at criticism White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made in an interview with The Hill,
suggest a multitude of voices in New Hampshire and Iowa could be helpful to the party.

“I have always encouraged a diversity of voices in the primary process, within all parties and at all levels of government,” said Jane Hamsher, founder of Firedoglake.com, a leading liberal blog.

Yes, Jane, because the only way to advance Progressive issues is to elect more Republicans. It’s so obvious to me now.

I’ve never had much regard for Hamsher. Her disastrous dalliance with the Lamont campaign was an early indicator that her first and only love is the sound of her own voice. Then there was the Grover Norquist Incident. And now this.

Team Gibbs.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

We joked about it often enough when he was in power, now Britain’s answer to Sarah Palin is set to come up with the goods, reports the Guardian, where Maev Kennedy could barely contain her snottiness. And she caught me at a bad time.

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HuffPo reports that UK tourist agency VisitBritain has issued an edict to us shirty Brits, in an effort to avoid international incidents during the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games:

The frank etiquette tips were written by agency staff about their own native countries.

Polish tourists are likely to be hurt by stereotypes that imply they drink excessively, while the French are notoriously picky in restaurants, the guidelines claim.

U.K. workers are told to brush off common Argentine jokes about a person’s clothing or weight. Belgians take offense at people snapping their fingers while Australians are fond of coarse language.

Japanese people consider prolonged eye contact impolite and smile to express a range of emotions – not simply to show happiness.

Tourism workers are advised to show extra patience when dealing with guests from India or the United Arab Emirates.

“Indians are in general, an impatient lot, and like to be quickly attended to,” the guidelines claim. “The more affluent they are, the more demanding and brusque they tend to be.”
Indians also don’t like being touched by strangers and may be suspicious about the quality of British food, the guide said, without noting the latter might be a common concern.

Travelers from the Middle East are likely to be demanding with staff and “are not used to being told what they can’t do,” the guide warns.

Guests from China and Hong Kong may find winking or pointing with an index finger rude, while “mentioning failure, poverty or death risks offense,” the advice claims. Chinese visitors may be unimpressed by landmarks just a few hundred years old, tourism staff are told.

Workers are advised against discussing poverty, immigration, earthquakes or the Mexican-American war with visitors from Mexico – who prefer to chat about history and art.

Canadian tourists are likely to be quite annoyed about being mistaken for Americans, the guide suggests – urging workers to keep an eye out for maple leaf pins or badges on tourists’ clothing.

And Americans? They can appear “informal to the point of being very direct or even rude” and won’t ever hesitate about complaining, the guide says.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

In a triumph of maverickiness over common sense, Sarah Palin and her ship o’loons have yet again managed to turn what would have been a minor local spat into a national news story.

We’ve documented this farce from inception (the video of Palin and her goons surrounding a protester) to blatant obfuscation (Conservatives4Palin’s laughable first attempt to make all this go away) to desperation (Palin and her fans’ easily disproved denial that anything untoward happened). And now we come to the next stage: retaliation.

Shannyn Moore has been in the sights of Conservatives4Palin for quite some time as an effective counter to the Alaska mythology the Palin schtick relies on. And now the sights have zeroed in on the new enemy: the audacious Kathleen Gustafson.

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Posted by YAFB on 08/10/10 at 08:28 AM
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Monday, August 09, 2010

As a follow-up to Betty’s earlier post about this, I thought I’d take a look at the Palinites’ spin on it. Not much coverage anywhere in Palinland, which is rare for footage of their Chosen One, but Conservatives4Palin “covers” the incident.

After a bunch of badmouthing Shannyn Moore for repeatedly slighting their idol, the lack of any trace of the video so that their readers can see the exchange for themselves is striking.

Instead, there’s this “summary” of it. Note the spin, then compare it with the footage (repeated below the fold for your convenience).

Shannyn appears to be referring to an incident that occurred today in Homer. Our sources tell us that some people were standing near the location where the governor and Todd Palin were filming for the TLC series. These people were protesting and holding a large sign criticizing Governor Palin. She went over in an attempt to politely talk to them and perhaps reach some understanding. They refused to even shake her hand or listen to her explanation for why her resignation was necessary and the best thing for Alaska. Instead, they just kept yelling “quitter.” Ironically, when the governor asked them, “So does that mean you wanted me as your governor?”, they said, “No!” (Just the sort of logic we’ve come to expect from the Left.) Finally the governor just walked away. There is no reasoning with hateful people who have never been “in the arena” themselves or have had to put it all on the line in public office. As the governor would say, it’s so much easier to tear down than to build up.

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