Don't

If you ever wonder if you are living up to your potential...don't

If you've ever regreted being less than perfect...don't

If you sometimes feel that you could have done more...don't

If you ever sinned and didn't get caught, got drunk and forgot what happened, misbehaved  and did something you won't admit and now feel guilty...don't

If you ever believed that there cannot be people who exist in a (supposedly) civilized society whose actions are so far beyond decency, morality, virtue, ethics, civility, integrity, honour and grace...don't

Herewith, the almost unbelievable story of degradation, evil, and depravity:

May you rot in hell, Mairead and Mick Philpott.

"Nobody Knows The Truffles I've Seen"*

*Hat tip: Small Dead Animals

A truly hilarious article from David Thompson, On Fungal Matters, be sure to read the comments.

Seeing Red

First it's that embarrassing excuse -for-a-woman Fluke (or Fluck, or whateverthehell) bimbo sobbing about her birth control, and now it's THIS woman whining about her student loans:

I am a second-generation U.S.-born Latina.

I SO don't care that you're a "Latina" of ANY stripe. It's utterly redundant.

My parents — a nurse and a police officer — were the first in their families to attend college, though Dad dropped out and joined the Marine Corps during Vietnam. Both baby boomers who attended state universities, they were ill-prepared for their two public-school-educated daughters to attend private universities that left us drowning in debt.

Well, for the love of Christ, go to a public school like the rest of us schmucks! If your parents are a police officer and a nurse, they aren't dummies. If you were an honor student, neither are you. You all made this idiotic choice, now PAY for it.

Despite not having the means to pay for the colleges we chose, my parents truthfully answered questions on our financial-aid applications and co-signed our loans from Citibank when our schools determined that their modest means made my sister and me ineligible for any significant financial aid and subsidized federal loans. I remember thinking as a teenager, as I filled out an application on the monstrous desktop computer in our home — via a dial-up Internet connection — “What on earth does this stuff mean?”

Looking back, it’s easy to say that my parents failed. They should have asked more questions and sought counsel. More important, they should never have co-signed the loans or allowed their financial information in our aid applications because they had no intention, nor means, of paying for our pricey educations.

Oh brother. What drama. The eeeeevil banks tricked you! Your parents failed you! *sob* Give me a frickin' break. Grow up and take responsibility for your own life, you spoiled brat.

Clarke’s bill proposes forgiving as much as $45,520 of eligible student-loan debt after new borrowers have made 120 payments — equivalent to 10 percent of their discretionary income for 10 years — or would forgive any outstanding debt for those whose loans predate enactment if the borrower has already made 120 payments in the past 10 years. Even better, the forgiven amount will not count as income, so debtors need not fear paying higher income taxes for 2012.

No. A thousand times NO. Pay your own way. We lesser mortals are doing just that. My family and I don't WANT to pay for your ritzy education, or your bad decisions, or your entitlement mentality. Get your grubby hand out of our pocket!

Some things shoot my blood pressure through the roof, and this is one of them. Grrr!

Fruit Loop Of The Week

Veganism discrimination.

Yes.
Really.

This systemic discrimination and harassment that silences marginalized minority peoples’ voices, such as me as a Racialized Ethical Vegan, is a serious threat towards freedom of speech and freedom of belief

Say what?

I believe that the faculty’s reaction has its basis in the strict religious belief of ‘men’s domination over animals’ that racialized people’s suffering should not be spoken about in the same context of animal suffering and that sympathy for animal suffering is not as important as sympathy for racialized peoples’ suffering

My head.
It exploded.

The Chicago Tribune Does Some Light Digging...

...into the woman who is currently accusing Cain of sexual assault. No surprises. Seems she a bit of a liar, a thief, and a user. I hope Cain sues her for every dime she has and every penny she ever will have.

Isn't it interesting that the "accuser" is a blond white woman? Yeah. It's also interesting (in an "oh, puke!" kind of way) that bottom-feeder Gloria Allred has inserted herself into the muck.

Hang tough, Mr. Cain!

"Fashion"

For the last few weeks I've seen "fashion week" this and "fashion week" that in the media. I would normally not give one whit. Except I seem to recall that a few years ago the fashion industry came up against some fairly strong opposition to the thin sized models they were using on the runways.

No problem they said. We will forgo the size zero!

Lo and behold they did. They swapped the size zero for what appears to be size sub-zero!


Well done fashonistas!

Bunny Wunny

From the pen of John Kass at the Chicago Tribune:

Is President Barack Obama on the verge of being attacked by a bunny wabbit?

Absolutely.

All the signs suggest that Obama is in immediate danger of a rabbit attack. It would ruin what's left of his presidency. And it would horrify Democrats by ushering in, say, a President Bachmann.

It might happen while he's on that ridiculous vacation of his. Obama is chilling at some exclusive multimillion-dollar estate on Martha's Vineyard, even as thousands more Americans hit the unemployment lines, and as Republicans like Michele Bachmann make wild-eyed, crazed claims about bringing back $2 per gallon gas.

"I think it's a little too early yet for the president to be attacked by a rabbit," cautioned a veteran Chicago Democrat wise in the ways of Obama. "But it's close. Real close."

Read it all here.

H/T: Zip

Bill Maher And David Carr...

What do they have in common?  They think ur stoopid!  I couldn't get an embed code for this video, so you'll have to view it (if you have the stomach) at RealClearPolitics. 

Smartur Then Yu

Bow to your self-appointed masters, flyover country!  And put a hat on that sloping forehead...sheesh.

"Gender Creative"

Genderless

I object on the grounds that the fallout will cost thousands of my hard earned tax dollars in therapy for "Storm" and its siblings.

Although I do have a suggestion for future child or grandchild names. How about Bread, Butter, and Jam.

She Loves Him! She Really, REALLY loves him!

You know those little bags tucked into the seat pouches of airplanes?  The ones you use if you feel your breakfast coming up?  Get one. 

Sometimes, you need to go away to keep your love alive. Perhaps it's the change of air. Perhaps it's the change of view. Perhaps it's just the chance to stop and pause. Who knows what it is that melts away the doubts, and the disappointment? But when I gazed at my beloved, at Lake Garda last weekend, I realized that, in spite of everything, my love still burned bright.

Hey, it's true, he looked tired. He's cut back on the jokes now. He's cut back on the smiles. But when he stepped out, in my hotel room, or perhaps I should say on the giant flat-screen telly in my hotel room, I felt a stirring that wasn't like the flicker of excitement you have on an early date, when fantasies blaze, and hopes soar. What I felt was something calmer, but also stronger: the sense that I, or perhaps the 65 million Americans who voted on my behalf, had chosen well.

Yep, she's publicly lusting after The One.  It's sick.  It's icky.  It's..it's...creepy.  Good job, Patterson.  You are now the laughingstock of all the internet.

The Drumbeat Intensifies

This is utterly shocking.  In the United States of America, a state assembly was forced to adjourn because the safety of the legislators within could not be ensured.  Where?  Wisconsin.  Unruly mobs of thugs have disrupted the business of the state with threats of violence.  While the conservatives and the moderate democrats punch the clock and earn their paycheck, the far left progressives/socialists have joined up with the fringe element of public sector unions to destabilize Wisconsin's government.

Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald said he decided to adjourn the Assembly this evening because Gov. Scott Walker called minutes before lawmakers took the floor to tell him to get his caucus members and staff out of the building because their safety could no longer be assured.

Fitzgerald told WisPolitics exclusively about the guv's call after the Assembly ended a tense, 30-minute floor session. As the Republicans made moves to pass the controversial budget repair bill without Dem participation, a throng of thousands of protesters outside the chamber grew louder and louder.

There have been reports of threats against lawmakers throughout the week, and Fitzgerald was escorted out of the building by sheriff deputies.

Is your state next, or even the federal government?  These tough budget cuts are just beginning.  Will everyday Americans be called upon to defend their own statehouses from socialist/union riffraff?  Will sane union members break away from their overlords and stand with the problem-solvers?  Stay tuned...

 UPDATE:  Here's a live video stream from CBS:



Live video by Ustream

H/T: the eeeevil Beckmeister.

A Little Humo(u)rous Reading

I just could not pass this one up.

I wonder how many views Tiny Chartreuse Pigskins gets these days. Probably not many, since 3/4 of the US population have been banned.

HT Weasel Zippers.

"It's in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about..."

Via Drudge: Terror bomb fail.

"You know there's going to be a lot of children there?" an FBI operative asked Mohamud. "You know there are gonna be a lot of children there?"

Mohamud allegedly responded he was looking for a "huge mass that will ... be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays."

...

"I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured," Mohamud reportedly told the FBI operatives, the affidavit says.

The supplier of the bomb making materials was undercover FBI who supplied some convincing looking faux C4 or some such, apparently.

I will be looking around for the inevitable talking points:

• This is a manufactured crime and poor impressionable kid was entrapped and set up by the Feds.
• We should avoid displays of religion in the public square (you know, the sacred Christmas Tree) in order to avoid "provocation".

On a more subtle note - consider the effort the FBI went to dissuade this guy. How many do they succeed in dissuading, that we never hear about?

Who Is More Despicable...

McCance or the people who are commenting on this story?  This kind of crap makes my blood boil, and I condemn it.  LOUDLY.

“Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves,” McCance allegedly wrote. “The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin.”

What a freaking idiot. The peanut gallery chimes in:

Second off, homosexual acts are death penalty crimes. It doesn’t matter whether you agree or disagree … it’s just the Law of the universe. When homosexual’ers die, Justice is served.

That ugly nugget is from post number five on the thread.  There's more, but I'm not reading it.

Jerks.

FBI Nabs Another Muslim Terrorist

Thank you, FBI.  And thanks to all the men and women who work so hard to keep us safe.

A Virginia man has been arrested for allegedly trying to help Al Qaeda plan multiple bombings around the nation's capital, according to U.S. officials.

Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested today by the FBI and charged with providing material support to terrorists and collecting information for a terrorist attack.

“It’s chilling that a man from Ashburn is accused of casing rail stations with the goal of killing as many Metro riders as possible through simultaneous bomb attacks,” said Neil MacBride, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Today’s arrest highlights ... our ability to find those seeking to harm U.S. citizens and neutralize them before they can act."

According to an indictment filed in U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, between April 2010 and Oct. 25, Ahmed repeatedly met with individuals he thought were affiliated with Al Qaeda to discuss "jihad."

Not only are these guys spineless, they're stupid too.  Have fun in prison, Farooque.  

Brett, Say It Ain't So....

I thought my heart would break when Brett Favre ditched my beloved Packers to pursue his quest for NFL immortality. Even though I knew I should rise above the occasion and wish him the best, part of me was angry because he flushed loyalty down the commode. Could the man I once admired so greatly be a fraud?

I didn't believe a word of this story until I heard the audio. Warning: NSFW or kids or decent folks. Pictures of an unimpressive weenie.

I may not know a lot, but after all these years I know the sound of Favre's voice.

Just shoot me.

"Obama doesn’t believe in American greatness"

Barack Obama has made it clear that he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, and has made apologising for his country into an art form.

Reason number 10 why the Obama presidency is in meltdown.

Losers And More Losers

Earlier this week, a friend emailed me and made me aware of the ugliness lurking at a blog I've been sporadically reading.  I'm glad he did, because I missed this thread entirely. 

what is ironic is that not one yenta in NY would even shop in Israel let alone live there... all these people that say it is important to have that country would never live there either...  let them all move to idaho or wherever and then just nuke the whole area.. but these stpuid wailing walls need to be hugged every day or something...

Ugh.  I don't think I'll be reading anything else those chumps have to say.

Then this morning, I was browsing the local crime stories when I ran across this disgusting nugget.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has asked the FCC to rule if Glenn Miller is an actual candidate in the race for the Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond.

According to his website, Miller once headed the White Party, white supremacist and a former paramilitary organizer who raised the ire of broadcasters with his message of hate that he wants run on radio and television stations in this election cycle.

Miller's ads implores whites "to take their country back" and disparages Jewish people and non-whites.

The thought that his "campaign" ads might be broadcast over the airways turns my stomach, but I guess it's better to know your enemy rather than turning over every rock looking for him.