Dubya Congratulates the Champs

Irish Joke

Two Irish hunters went on holiday to Canada and got a pilot to fly them to the wilderness to hunt moose. They managed to bag 6. As they were loading the plane to return, the pilot said the plane could take only 4 moose.

The two lads objected strongly.

"Last year we shot six. The pilot let us take them all and he had the same plane as yours."

Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded. However, even on full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down.

Somehow, surrounded by the moose bodies, Paddy, Mick & the pilot survived the crash. After climbing out of the wreckage, Paddy asked Mick, "Any idea where we are?"

Mick looked around. "I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year."

Racism At Planned Parenthood

Don't look now Planned Parenthood, but your eugenicist past is still showing:

Idaho donor: The abortion—I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?
PP Rep: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.
Idaho donor: Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
PP Rep: Yes, absolutely.
Idaho donor: And we don’t, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
PP Rep: Understandable, understandable.
Idaho donor: Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college
PP Rep: Alright. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and want to make sure I don’t leave anything out.

Hat Tip: Brothers Judd

Three Schools of Philosophy

An excellent post by Richard Vigilante on the Buckley legacy over at The Corner:

Jacques Maritain famously said that there were never more than three schools of philosophy:

The idealists who believe that getting the truth was easy. These are the conventional liberals, whom Bill gently mocked.

The nominalists, the Sophists, who deny truth altogether; these are the hard Left,
the true enemy he rallied us against.

And finally the realists, who accept that the truth is out there but is fiercely difficult to lock down.

Soccer Player Dresses As Hitler

How do things like this happen? Did a conversation like this occur?

Hans: Hey Andre are you going to the Grand Final ceremony?

Andre: Yeah, I think so.

Hans: Is it a formal thing?

Andre: I don't know, I'll probably dress up like Hitler.

Hans: What?

Andre: I'll probably dress up like Hitler, I have a Hitler outfit I've been meaning to wear out.

Hans: Is it a costume party?

Andre: Not that I know of, I just wanna dress like Hitler.

Hans: Do you think that's a good idea?

Andre: Why not, it's a great outfit, it fit's real well and besides Hitler was like sixty years ago.

Hans: Would you mind if I wore my Heydrich ensemble?

William F. Buckley Jr. Has Died

Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that my favorite and perhaps only William F. Buckley Jr. quote is when he said "Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. " While the quote itself has little or nothing to do with the great man's life long vocation of promoting conservatism, it contains something rarer than brilliant political acumen for which he is so fondly remembered. There, in brief, is truth and beauty and the appreciation of both. There are those who will tell you that we live in dour times, that there has been nothing to be proud of, that we are surrounded by ugliness. William F. Buckley Jr. knew better. We live in the best possible time and in the best possible place, if we have the wisdom, courage and strength to make it so. It begins with knowing that despite whatever else may plague you, there are beautiful things readily available to assuage and lift you.

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

DailyTech - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Whoops :

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or
down.

Obama: Clueless on Iraq

Barack Obama has brilliantly managed to say next to nothing on his way to defeating the not so inevitable Hillary Clinton on his way to clinching the Democratic nomination. He should stick to that, because he's clearly out of his mind when he says:

• That Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until we invaded.
• We need to bolster NATO in Afghanistan with additional American troops - Why don't we DEMAND that our useless NATO allies actually fight? Obama thinks their resistance is because we "blundered" in Iraq? Did they say that Senator or did you? Couldn't it be that they're just a bunch of poltroons?
• If Al Qaeda builds a base in Iraq??? Where has this man been the last four years?

Hillary couldn't attack Obama from the right, McCain is under no such limitation. I wonder how Obama will fare when hope and change, change and hope no longer cut it?

It's also ironic that a man who platform is entirely focused on the future, or so he says, can't get his agile Harvard mind around the fact that the war in Iraq is reality. Whether or not we should be there in the first place could not matter less, we're there now. What would he do as president to ensure the best possible outcome for the US and our interests?

Do You Think I Need To Get Out?

Obama In A Turban

That's it, now I won't vote for him. The once inevitable Clinton candidacy has really screwed the pooch if this is the sort of crap they think will work. Either that or people are much more stupid than I imagine.

Run Ralph, Run!

Ralph Nader is running for president, bwahahahahaha?

A Shit Sandwich

A woman kills herself after aborting her twins. Who is responsible for this feast of despair and death? There's no shortage of likely candidates. A better question might be, why wasn't there one person who could of done something, could of said something, could of offered some encouragement or some bit of hope to forestall this orgy of despair? Are you that person?

The Best Argument For Drinking

From Modern Drunkard Magazine:

What the Drys don’t seem able to grasp is that a drinker can walk into a bar, and a handful of transactions later, attain the same level of euphoria that the teetotaler would have to strangle a half dozen or so kittens to achieve.

O.C.M.S. - Wagon Wheel

Voice, bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo and guitjo, yeah I'd call that a string band.

John Kerry's Helicopter Incident

A helicopter carrying three us senators, Democrats John Kerry and Joe Biden and Republican (In Name Only) Chuck Hagel made an emergency landing in the mountains of Afghanistan this morning because of a snowstorm.

No one was hurt, but somehow John Kerry and only John Kerry was awarded yet another Purple Heart, three Air Medals and a South West Asia campaign ribbon.

When asked for comment, Joe Biden in a completely original, extemporaneous remark said that "We had nothing to fear, but fear itself." Chuck Hagel agreed wholeheartedly at first, then upon of further reflection with his pollster decided to disagree in a principled stand.

More Stupidity

Speaking of Antics

Read about the whole story, spring training is here "with its pregame ballyhoo, antics, rhubarbs, scheming, luck; its look as if little or nothing is going on."

Oh Boy

Believe it or not my kids think this is clever, but it's very possible that they're just humoring me.

Sam Adams Is Sharing Hops

This sounds like a very decent thing to do.

I Got The Fever

That's right, it's a 19 inch German Brown caught on a size 12 Hares Ear Sulphur "Usual" at a secret location last May. He was the only trout I kept last year and he was delicious.
I need to go fishing.
The other night I spent six hours inventorying my rods, reels and spools. I even created a color coded Excel spreadsheet. The next night I replaced all my backings, as if I'll ever see one, and cleaned all my lines.