Sunday, August 31, 2008

AI, Who's the tomato?


All you wrote was "Certainly the daughter," here. Nice sentence, Safire. Is this Sarah Palin's daughter?
[Add an example of "B-52" beehive hairdo, for JJ's edification. --AI]

An American Sarko?

[Illus -- JJ]

Here's to the girl from the great Northwest, with tits as hard as a hornet's nest

Putin woos the media

Los Data Buoys


The link above gives data from buoy 42003 (right above the map's legend). At time of posting they're having 34 foot wave heights there. Not bad. This is the FL map. The other maps are LA-MS and West Gulf, among others. You hit the buoys' numbers for the data.

Joys of socialized medicine. Part DCCXIX

the liberal conservative Norman Mailer: "...the nihilistic maw of a national disorder..."

Read this next sentence (by Hitch) closely. It's astute: To touch on another comparison with today’s politics, Mailer noticed in Miami that Nixon had won the nomination in such a way as to also win the election: in other words, without splitting or embittering his party. These and similar reflections are of interest and value in a year when the Democratic nominee is, in one of his many protean incarnations, a Chicago South Side operator with a wife whose father was a Daley precinct captain, while the Republican candidate is a repository of something in which almost nobody in 1968 would ever have believed: America’s residual pride about its own valor in Vietnam.

Dreary Darwin? Not All the Time


Any good biographer or historian knows it's necessary to travel to the subject's historical landscape, at the very least to experience the same spatial ground. Here's a little two-pager regarding Darwin's old stomping grounds. The picture is of Darwin's study. Enjoy.

First Chaucer! Now Homer!

Safire Exhumed

Joe Sixpack's Amtrak commute

Steyn Stomps on the Frumious Palinbash


I understand AIs disagreements with the choice of Palin, but I'm with Steyn on this one. She's an intriguing figure, on many levels, and I think measurably improves the odds of not having a President Obama lording his Left Versaillean ass over us as the world disintegrates into rotten dictatorial pieces.
It is John vs. Barack. Sarah helps John more than Joe helps Barack. That is good. She has actually governed, which is good. She has proved to have the courage to back up her talk about corruption, which is very good. She has a rich life beyond politics, and that is also good. Do I have more confidence in her ability to get a firm sense of international politics and the dangers to us than I do of Joe or Barack being able to reevaluate their obtuse understanding of the same? Absolutely.
This was a good choice. It may not guarantee victory against Obama, but it helps more than any other available one.

Ah, The Twin Cities Ain't About Brotherly Love

Given the extent of hardcore leftwingism in that area [thinking of the rather large rallies ANSWER was able to conjure up there soon after 911], this is as surprising as that Sheriff Bull Connor liked his white sheets clean, his Dobermans rabid, and the "Neegrows" cowed.

Smarter blogs are just as stupid as ours

Hanna and her Brother

[Add latest track for Gustav. Where is Pepe? -- AI]

Saturday, August 30, 2008

A warm bucket of spit


Finally, a mature assessment from NRO; after the first flush of excitement, reality starts to sink in. McCain is essentially telling the world that he doesn't really need a Vice President. It is hard to imagine Palin playing the same sort of role that modern Vice Presidents like Gore, Bush, Cheney, or Mondale played. Rather, the Office would seem poised to return to the "proverbial warm bucket of p***" category. McCain has thus made a purely political play without regard for the governance concerns.

The Taliban of Insect Rights

Wow! Amazing. Brilliant.

Hurricane Force Winds!

She looks well-Vetted, AI.

AI writes for HuffPo

still pulling for socialized medicine.

Is Pepe Going to Die? (I mean from Gustav)



I was thinking we could at least start a betting pool of some sort. If he's staying in New Orleans, that is. Does anyone want to throw some numbers out there?

I'm glad we have a strong ally that will protect us

The wisdom of Ross Perot

Republican Dirty Tricks!

Dr. Phil Jackson Returns to U of North Dakota alma mater


Originally from Williston, North Dakota, Jackson attended UND before going on to coach the Chicago Bulls, and today the L.A. Lakers.

Kind of interesting. UND's basketball program could, ah, use some of Jackson's expertise.

Reactionaries

Information is Good

That settles it, anyone who has that kind of energy and can run a State has my vote.

Meanwhile, Things Get Worse-III

Meanwhile, Things Get Worse- II

Meanwhile, Things Get Worse-I

O'Brien says" We're Watching YOU !




You can slather the red or brown in a coat of green, and still a socialist pig is he.

He like 'em yaung!

Pic. Fairness doctrine.
[Add a pic. But can she hold a gun? -- AI]

Must be the proximity to Thailand brothels

Friday, August 29, 2008

The obscurantists are circling the white house

[Added illus. -- JJ]

You Going to Higher Ground, Pepe?



Death penalty, Pepe?

Or is this just a later term than usual abortion?

A handy tool for Pepe

So THAT'S why he chose Biden

Michelle is pretty feral-looking, imo. Best comment: As keen observer of sexual chemistry, Bill Clinton slipped Barack a cigar to employ later on in the evening.

See what happens when they spill OJ on my lap?

Serves them right.

CalTech's whacking endeavours

Hail Ted!


Cute kid and a good way to take toesucker's advice and wsj's advice to run against congressional corruption. Hey, this could be getting interesting. Also, the choice is taking over all the buzz from Obama's speech last night (if there was one). LGFers happy as they are at the NRO corner. A good sign for the base. Wonkette calls her a GILF! Wonderful!

Kristol freezes out Romney

TAKE THAT, AI!

[REGURGE TO HAIL TED!]

At least, she looks better than Joe Biden

Portugal. The Man


This is the most famous thing to come out of Wasilla. That, and someone (what's her name?) McCain picked to run with him. Great. Just great.

Roumanian pastrami

Of course, the word comes from the Romanian pastramă. This is a dish usually made out of salty, cured berbec (as in BBQ), or mutton. One can also grill pastrama (on the BBQ). I'm getting hungry.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Clinton crony lets us see the big board

More, though sounds dangerous.

Humorless in Seattle

First boobs! Now beer!

Dammit Pepe! No viagra while driving!

Holy mft!

Since I've been getting more and more into historic preservation in the last couple years, I've naturally been drawn to both the mundane, and in this case, the grand architecture, of Dakota. This is a pic of the courtyard of Richardton Abbey, located in Richardton, North Dakota (the western part of the state). Note: the monks ought to swap out the interlocking asphalt shingles for some kind of teracotta tiles, or at least cedar shingles. JJ, tell Rome to send funds.

Just to my right is where I'd likely put the jacuzzi. We raided the wine cellar before leaving, too. The title leads you to the Benedictine Monks of Richardton Abbey link.

Putin is an Obama Girl

A Punk Learns His Social Lesson


Next time he'll know to call it "Porno For Pepe".

Man with a plan

Crazy canadians

Use It Up, Throw It Out, Build A New One...

Here's a picture of the "old" (by American standards) Memorial Bridge that spans Bismarck-Mandan on the Missouri River, and just behind it you can see pillars for the brand spanking new Post-Post-Modern bridge. Before construction started, there was a small effort in the Historic Preservation community to refurbish and rebuild the Memorial Bridge, but it seems it's easier in America to just use it up, throw it out, and build a new one. Whatever. Check out Simon Schama's "Landscape and Memory" if you don't know why this might be problematic some day for Western Civilization. That's all.

I snapped the picture a couple weeks ago.

~mft

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar

This story has legs.

You mean Enzyte doesn't work!??!!?

Rove postpones recession

Gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The revised reading was much better than the government's initial estimate of a 1.9 percent pace and exceeded economists' expectations for a 2.7 percent growth rate.

Just a guy in the neighborhood

.. says Obama. Who is Ayers? .. says Pepe. In 1995 Ayers won a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation — matched two-to-one by public and private contributions — to promote “reform” in the Chicago school system. He quickly brought in Obama, then all of 33 and bereft of any executive experience, to chair the board. With Ayers directing the project’s operational arm and Obama overseeing its financial affairs until 1999, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in public education. Hmmm... The mad bomber gives zillions in grant money to Barry to play with, and then BHO barely remembers his mentor and benefactor? Any surprise here?

KAPOW!


Moronic Dorc Temple of Obama!

Ratatouille a l'ail

Spicy field rat dishes with garlic thrown in have become particularly popular. Eat, JJ, eat!

Red Ken sticks to it

There goes that third Michelin star

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Jesus, Pepe! Come here!

Bring Kayla too.

The one exception

For us staunch opponents to the death penalty, this is really a tough one.

Friedman / interesting contrast

The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.

Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?

Rudy drops a hint

Wink, wink. How about Lieberman at State and Rudy at Justice. In the unlikely even that Mitt doesn't get the VP nod, he would be good at Treasury. Now, of course, there is that little matter of winning 270 Electoral College votes...
[Intrigue -- JJ]

Pastrami Omphalos


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Debating Lieberman as VP

Out!

BarackBook


Obama and his friends. A facebook-like list to help Pepe find out who's who in Obamaland.

Krauthammer on Barack Hussein Pericles

Artist's conception.

Rightwing attack machine revs up -- REDUX



REGURGE POST EXPLAINED IN COMMENT #9

More P & T for MFT

MFT, you posted some P & T BS a while back. It was great. Here's another installment.

An aging Versailles

You don't say. [Added illus. -- JJ]

"All Men Are Created Equal....." That's soooooooo Redneck. Time for Some Versailles!

Theology on Planet Pepe


Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Oh. My. God.

Will there be a slave kneeling behind him reminding him that he's not a god?

How to Get Shit Done in Denver

Throw a blowout. Don't host some dinky little gathering. Make it a rager. That way, you're protected by the "widely attended" rule, which says lawmakers can attend a corporate-sponsored party as long as 25 nonlawmakers are also attending. You'd think they'd be eager to admit nonlawmakers like me. You'd be wrong.

Minnesota Cattle Country

Thanks to fertility-management techniques, lucky [State Fair] visitors to the "Miracle of Birth" exhibit can watch a mother cow expel a live newborn calf at least once daily (occasionally with the help of "snares, hooks, and calf jacks").

Apple to JJ: Buy the iPhone, and then F#ck Off

Mitt's stock rises for a day

Up to $70!. I think Giuliani would do better in a debate against Biden though.

Not this shit again

Pepe, you coming over?

Glorious!

For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. Before, it reminded me of a hellish scene from Hieronymus Bosch, via Taranto.

Biden bodes well

Hey AI! Who's the babe?

Mathematics Genealogy Project: Henri Paul Cartan

While academics understandably need to compartmentalize to get anything done, it's also interesting to keep that Bigger Picture in mind. Check out the link to the Henri Paul Cartan genealogy project. Note: this link is a collaborative effort, in part with North Dakota State University (based in Fargo -- insert "You-Betcha" here).

Another Lieberman?

...and a commie hatchet job.

Watch out for those steps


Especially if you had a single malt too many. Own houses tend to be more dangerous than foreign travel. [Added dangerous house. -- JJ]

A parliament of barbarians

Useful idiots: It is impossible to compare Kosovo and Osetia! Miloshevich didn't bomb sleeping people like Saakashvili! igor, Moscow

These are the Happy Jihadists the DNC Honors in Denver


So they honor Ms. Mattson, who is a spokesperson for this group, and did they really think that the MSM would cover them in the Cone of Silence on this? Did they really think they could coopt our mighty and magnificent MSM? Really......
oh, ......yeah

Damn that Martian Global Warming

Damn, we just missed 'em. Glaciers would have been cool. Damnation.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Pepe at the Pepsi Center



Henri Cartan, Eminence Grise,et La Mort




Both I and JJ had the same reaction on hearing this news today "Henri Cartan?Dead? WTF you talkin' about, boy? He's been dead like, forever, right?"...

Well, apparently not. So a very long life for Henri, the Third to Last of the Bourbakis.

gringas putas

really.

Or, as Fariello puts it, "I don't get anybody in my office who says, 'My husband sits on the couch all day and eats bonbons, and I want to have sex with him all the time.'"

Then what's the point?

The end of the Olympics

Froggo-Swiss fortitude

Nous sommes tous foutus.

Obama taking Ayers ad seriously

About this. And now this.

Classy comments, huh?

Remarkable woman, Thatcher.

Back to the future

MFT needs bail money

Democrat family values

And Obama has a better organization than Dukakis (no tank rides, that's for sure)

Atwater and Ailes, why have you forsaken us?

A huge relief for Georgians

The Human Almanac of Energy

I was speaking with a friend, engineer, and former county commissioner last week about energy. We agreed that a great step in the Liberation of Humanity will come when we (the royal humanity We) find a clean and limitless source of energy: we discussed the Big Oil, but were more interested in nuclear and wind energy. When are physicists and engineers going to get on with it, eh? (JJ, what gives?)

In the meantime, though, the Farmer's Almanac is taunting Dakota with a winter 2008-2009 prediction. And naturally, Dakota smirks.

Derb channels moi

this is the most disastrously awful choice Americans have ever been offered for the post of chief executive. You don't say.

Madonna, McCain, and Godwin

Barnes on Biden

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Give Peggy a Chance

But Mr. McCain provided, in 2004, one of the most exciting and certainly the most charged moment of the Republican Convention, when he looked up at Michael Moore in the press stands and said, "Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war, it was between war and a greater threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. . . . And certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace." It blew the roof off. And the smile he gave Mr. Moore was one of pure, delighted malice. When Mr. McCain comes to play, he comes to play.

Pepe is marching!


It's Chicago '68 all over again. Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, and Ward Churchill are linking up arms with Pepe. Pinko nirvana! [Added pic. -- JJ]

LBJ Centennial

Balkan statues

There is a joke somewhere in here, but I can't put my finger on it. Anyone can help?

Mooning prof

Now, now, JJ, take it easy. Whatever you do, don't try that. Just have some ouzo.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Fruit take...


Andrew Sullivan calls McCain a cranky back bencher. Is this some kind of gay code? He wants a crank in the back bench or something?

Biden! Oy!

I love Kaus.

Hillary on autopilot

Yeah, Kayla, though...

He's too old, but OK

Sarko to the rescue

France brokered the ceasefire to end fighting over Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia which started on 7 August. The deal's terms are vague about the extent of any buffer zones, analysts say. A spokesman for the French foreign ministry, Eric Chevalier, said a United Nations Security Council resolution was needed to clarify exactly what the ceasefire agreement covers. Beautiful. Send back Sarko & Carla to hammer out a deal with Putin. The French are experts at this.

Hey, Fidel! That's the ref!

It's the gasbag!

What a guy!: The tape showed a testy exchange in response to a question about his law school record from a man identified only as ”Frank.” Mr. Biden looked at his questioner and said: ”I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.” Right.

De-Liver Them Neocons From Egypt, Inshallah

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Time for change

I wonder if pharmacists who don't believe in tylenol shouldn't be allowed to refuse dispensing it too.

...who wants to take this one?



According to the article (read link), the UN is banning any criticism towards Sharia law or the Quran. Does that make this picture of a re-designed trade tower illegal?

Pick him, Barrack! Pick him!

Hah! Pepe, is that you?

"As a Canadian I would feel better & safer in Europe, not presently as I sit a stones throw from the U.S.A.
Ken, Victoria, Canada"
I'd feel better if you were there, too. The farther away from North America, the better. Canada is rather useless in world affairs. Rarely participating, only criticizing. It's the biggest 'insignifcant' country in the world.
RowlandP, Virginia, USA

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mongolian Babes and Such...

Some months ago an understandable question was asked: how are the babes in Mongolia? Gentlemen, I offer another site.

Enjoy.

~mft

Leryn Franco: How She's Able to Do That



These pics were necessary to post to fcp, as they demonstrate how agile Leryn Franco is, and how she's able to coax javelins right where she wants them.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Democracy a la Russe

Elect a drunk, he appoints a KGB guy that kills citizens to scapegoat Chechens, then invades some poor schmuck next door. That's how to build consensus.

The spirit of abu ghraib is catching on

ok, i'm trolling here. Just wanted to beat a? to this article.

MFT Considers Moving to Asunción...




Raising our javelins, yet again.

Khosting the Taliban More Suicide Bombers


Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, said Afghan soldiers, aided by U.S. troops, chased and surrounded a group of insurgents, and that six militants blew themselves up when cornered.

On the Limits of -- ahem -- Self Improvement: Part I (of III)


The final Part III installment has already been posted below. You might enjoy the description of Hitchens in his 59th summer.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Bhutto Dead, Musharaff Forced Out, Allah Akbar!



Islam Militant and the dhimmi dodos, from Rawalpindi to Nawlins', ululate. The Strong Horse is ready to ride.