Schmaltz und Grieben

KNOW WHAT I'M SICK OF? I'm sick of those stupid Internet ads for "I Got Ripped Without 'Roids!" For crying out loud—if you've got to insist on thrusting pictures of overpumped lunks in our faces day after day, could you at least, uh, make them look a little less like extremely ugly space aliens?

You folks who have seen these ads (and they're hard to miss) will know just what I mean. How about the one guy whose face you can't even find underneath what appears to be a tangled morass of hair? It looks as if the dude melted in some horrible radiological accident.

And the "fat guy" looked better when he was "fat," quite frankly.

While we're at it, let's also lose the OBAMA WANTS WORKING MOMS BACK IN SCHOOL! threats come-ons for porkulus education dollars.* Especially the ones with the two pixellated android women jogging side-by-side with their pixellated android bouncing boobs. Sheeeesh.

*Although I'm not recommending that working moms disobey our Maximum Leader. Never.

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11/16/09:

QUOTE OF THE DAY: A repeated argument here... is that Judeo-Christian Americans have no standing to denouce Muslims and Islam for its brutality. The argument is: people who live in glass houses… (you know the rest). On the surface that sounds reasonable. The problem is that it shifts attention away from current discussion of Islamic terrorist activities, by making accusers waste time arguing a non-issue. 

Atrocities have occurred in the misguided name of various religions. No dispute over that fact. But here is the difference when it comes to today’s Islamists. Islam today is where Christianity was before the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and the ensuing Enlightenment. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the West began to divorce religion and state, thereby removing the threat of religious-based warfare. Islam has yet to evolve similarly. It is still stuck in the 3rd century.

Islam is a religion which was born out of violence, propagated through violence, and which even today is still comfortable with violence. Though violence towards those of other faiths is, as I stated, certainly not unknown among other of the world's religions, Islam goes further than the other religious systems of the world in that its holy texts command and commend religiously-motivated violence against unbelievers. It is not just a matter of tolerating it or of turning a blind eye. Rather, the Qur'an supports and encourages the faithful to press violent jihad against non-Muslims.

Moderate Islam needs to win out over its more fundamentalist interpreters, to allow a legitimate civilization to follow suit. And for that to happen, we need to open our eyes to the reality of the violent aspects of Islam and Islamic history. Anything else is simple—and dangerous—self-deception. —"joeblow," commenting in the Wisconsin State Journal

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Do I have this right? Men and women who love this country, who are willing to enlist and fight and die for this country, may be thrown out of the Armed Forces per regulations because of their sexual orientation.

But a Muslim who, according to print and broadcast media, publicly and privately advocated jihad against America and its Armed Forces, can serve as an officer in said Armed Forces until he goes on a murderous rampage on a military base. What is wrong with this picture?  — Bill Sumner, commenting in the Wisconsin State Journal

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11/14/09:

HuffPo: THOSE MEAN CONSERVATIVES ARE PICKING ON ME! Whiny Lefty Blog Proposes Separate NYT Bestseller List for Conservative Authors

Try to imagine a conservative blog doing the same thing. Lions n' tigers n' bears, oh my!

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11/13/09:

BEST. T-SHIRT. EVER. Can you possibly top this???

We don't usually do plugs, but you can buy this always-appropriate item o' apparel at ThoseShirts.com.

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OBEY OBAMA... OR ELSE: The President continues with his heavy-handed ways.

Excerpt:

"PELOSI BILL: Jail For No Insurance

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

"The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reported that the House version of the healthcare bill specifies that those who don’t buy health insurance and do not pay the fine of about 2.5 percent of their income for failing to do so can face a penalty of up to five years in prison!

"The bill describes the penalties as follows:

• Section 7203 — misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

• Section 7201 — felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]"

We can't wait to see what happens next.

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11/11/09:

HAPPY VETERANS DAY! To the men and women of our armed forces, past and present:

We (and countless millions of others) owe you our very freedom.

Thank you.

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WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS BEFORE? Rachael Ray on a Wednesday, looking even saucier than usual.

Happy Wednesday... and Happy Veterans Day!

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DAILY GAAAAAAZ-O-LEEEEEEN! AWARD goes to our co-blogger Deb for this gem o' commentary on the Obamessiah's healthcare boondoggle:

AMERICA, WE JUST DROPPED THE SOAP

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11/10/09:

WE HEART RHETORICAL QUESTIONS! Why Isn't Obama in Berlin?

Because ich bin nein Berliner.

Because he's President Petulant [TM].

Because for the first time since roughly January 2007, he wouldn't be the center of attention.

Because he'd rather pose for photo ops at a magnet school in Madison than have to appear on the world stage and give a "shout-out" to actual world figures like Ronald Reagan, Lech Walesa, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II—leaders who actually advanced the cause of freedom.

Because the fall of the Berlin Wall has made the installation of his socialist-communist agenda just that much more difficult.

We could go on and on, but it's too much like shooting fish in a barrel.

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