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9/11/2001 -- We won't forget or forgive.
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| Melissa Clouthier (read all posts) About Food Nazi Moms (January 6) The Travolta Tragedy (January 6) Vote Like You're ACORN (January 5) Senator Smalley And The Republican Problem He Reveals (January 5) |
| Robert Stacy McCain (read all posts) Breitbart's Big Hollywood debuts (January 6) Sonny Corleone in Gaza (January 5) Well, that explains everything (January 4) |
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| Van Helsing (read all posts) Queers Undermining Sanity (January 6) NBC Cancels Coulter (January 6) Obama's Terrorist Mentor Is Blogging at HuffPo (January 5) Al Franken to Be Handed Coleman's Senate Seat (January 5) |
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Ericka Anderson quotes Laura Bennett who says:
I just want to let the food Nazi moms in on what happens when your kids come to a house where junk food inhabits the pantry. They have no decision-making skills or sense of moderation when faced with the forbidden fruit roll-up. Like deprived animals, they are determined to consume the lifetime allotment of sugar they have been denied; all before pickup. I have seen one such child eat Swiss Miss Cocoa with a spoon directly out of the family-size container, only to move on to conquer a box of frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts....Sheltering children from every evil in the world does them a disservice; decision-making is a skill, learned with practice from the time they are small. At some point my boys will go out into the world and have to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. One would hope that by then they have ascertained that Krispy Kreme doughnuts are not really for breakfast...
Indeed.
Some of my kids friends have Food Nazi Moms and their reactions to Doritos is pathological. They shove into my pantry and consume chips and pretzels and Gold fish crackers like locusts.
How do you teach a child about good decision making if they never make decisions? Food is a dangerous thing to fetishize because people always have to eat. Obsessions around food rarely turn out well.
I remember a kid who ate nothing but McDonalds growing up. His mom wasn't particularly domestic and my mom clucked about the malnutrition. Admittedly, the kids in that family looked sickly. He's now a friend on Facebook and looks fit as a fiddle. He probably eats soy nuts and tofu sandwiches every day. I don't know. I haven't asked.
There have been patients who have the worst eating habits and need help. You wouldn't believe what some people view as "healthy" nutrition. Still, when giving advice, I try to be balanced. Perfection can be challenging to obtain--if it's even desirable or definable when it comes to food. All sorts of things thought to be healthy at one time are now considered off-limits (Wonderbread). Things that used to be considered unhealthy are now considered fine in moderation (coffee, wine, chocolate, fat).
Good rule: Eat food as close to the source and least handled as possible--salad, fruit, veggies, protein. The more processing, the less healthy. Still, one of the joys of life is having complex taste buds that can be delighted with something as bad for you as a Dorito or piece of chocolate cake. If 90% of person's diet is healthy, 10% indulgence can make for balanced fun. And a child raised in a tolerant environment will be less likely to be obsessed and have issues as an adult.
Aside: Laura also mentions TV, computers, pop culture, etc. Nazis. Protection from a certain amount of "junk food for the mind" is also helpful, but obsession creates obsession. Kids are resourceful and the forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. I go for more of the "poison the pot" school of thought. That is, sit with them during Hannah Montana, say, and dissect in excruciating detail the superficiality, narcissism, and wrongness of some of the things therein. It sucks the joy right out of the experience to actually "see" what you're watching. The other benign stuff, teach them moderation.
Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com
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The site went live this morning and there's nothing (yet) that knocks me out, but it's a work-in-progress. I interviewed Andrew Breitbart last month:
The content of "Big Hollywood" will be a "constant evolution," Breitbart says. He recalls that the Huffington Post was originally conceived as a group blog for Arianna's celebrity friends, but has since "developed organically" into a more news-oriented venture with political commentary and only occasional contributions by big names. "It really is hard to look at that site and see it as a celebrity blog," he says.The "organic development" model is the only sensible way to do things on the Internet. You start the site with some particular vision in mind, see what works and what doesn't, do more more of what works and drop those things that don't. What Big Hollywood is on Jan. 6 is probably but a shadow of what it will be on July 6.
And while he expects "Big Hollywood" to undergo a similarly slow process of development, the one aspect of HuffPo that Breitbart's new site won't emulate is the vitriol. "That's not my style," he says, declaring that the blog will strive for "a more tolerant tone." Tolerance? In Hollywood? What a concept!
(Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)
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The government is hungry for money. And it is looking for innovative ways to get it. However, they don't want to take it from you directly. You see that's political suicide. So when we hear about the great 300 billion middle class tax cut that the Obama administration is so graciously planning on granting, we should realize that most of it will be recovered by indirect taxes. For instance:
Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.
The plan? $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per beef cow, and $20 per hog.
Now obviously a dairy farmer isn't going to absorb that cost. And if all dairy farmers have to pay it, then it is a cost quite easily passed on to the middle class (and poor) consumer. Consequently this regressive tax will add 7 to 8 cents to a gallon of milk. And the same goes for beef and pork products. Thus a nice little chunk of the promised 300 billion tax cut is recovered.
And the government hasn't once directly taxed you in the process and is able to maintain the fiction that you've been fairly and progressively treated by their tax policy.
Oh, and as an aside: if McDonalds can get beef of adequate quality shipped in from another country for less per pound than it costs for American beef with the added tax, what do you suppose they'll do?
[Crossposted at QandO]
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As if Hamas weren't enough of a problem, the Jewish state has now been confronted by QUIT — Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism. Among the SF Bay area group's demands:
That the U.S. Government immediately end all financial and military aid to Israel.That the Israeli Government end its racist policies of harassment and exclusion of Palestinians.
That all displaced Palestinians be granted the right to return to Palestine.
An end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The list goes on to include withdrawal, divestments, and boycotts, but it may as well end here, with the insistence that Israel cease to exist.
QUIT's definition of terrorism is broad enough to include the activities of actual terrorists; but apparently real terrorists are morally licensed to kill:
There have been individual acts of Palestinian terrorism that have been highly popularized by the U.S. media and used as propaganda tools by Zionists. We don't support attacks on unarmed civilians. At the same time it must be understood that it is the right of any occupied people to resist and fight for their freedom, in fact it is their duty.
However, the nasty Jews have no right to defend themselves from the rockets raining down on their civilian population, because that would be racist.
Needless to say, the Muslim fundamentalists on whose behalf militant homosexuals shriek their propaganda would be highly unlikely to return the favor. But the goal isn't to help Islamists; it's to poke another finger in the eye of Western Civilization.
On a tip from Air2air. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Ann Coulter's latest book is out today, but she won't be promoting it on NBC — despite having been booked on the Today show — because the moonbattiest of the alphabet networks has banned her for life, according to a source reported on Drudge. However, other sources claim she was axed at the last minute only so they could replace her with tacky gossip maven Perez Hilton — who has offered $1,000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Coulter.
The main theme of her book is liberal bias, which NBC exemplifies appallingly, so the question isn't whether she's banned, but why they booked her in the first place.
As usual, Ann sums up the situation succinctly:
I guess this ends the "they just want to get ratings" argument about liberal media bias.
One Ann Coulter against the entire MSM establishment is hardly a fair fight — but that's just too bad for the MSM establishment.
On a tip from Chad. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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I hate cults.
Let's just get that out of the way--whether it's the ideology that encourages psychos in a compound to impregnate minors or convinces otherwise seemingly rational people that aliens gave diseases to earth dwellers or assures people that Gore is going to save the world one glorious carbon swap at a time--I hate cults. There are many reasons to hate them and the leaders that get rich off the followers of the ideology. Mostly, I hate cults because people cede their power and potential to another person or group and often drag innocent people (children) along with them in their craziness.
Here's the thing, though. This is America. People are free to do what they damn well please as long as it's legal. And because the line between cults and corporations or churches or groups is so fine, I'd rather err on the side of the individual to choose his own crazy. State-mandated "sanity" is its own crazy cult and I want even less a part of that than some insane idea cooked up in a basement somewhere.
That preamble brings me to Scientology and the death of John Travolta and Kelly Preston's son, Jett Travolta. The death of Jett Travolta is a tragedy. It is a family tragedy. It is a personal tragedy. I might not agree with their family's "religion", but it is none of my business and it's no one else's either.
The fact that the Travolta's son might have had autism and that the Church of Scientology doesn't recognize the illness does not matter. Science has little of value to help families of autistic children so the diagnosis is nigh to irrelevant. If the family doesn't want the label, who cares? Science fiction has about as much to help an autistic family as science. Right now, the best families can do is to love their kids and give them intense one-on-one education--something the Travoltas did (home schooling is very one-on-one).
Americans are free. They are free to be stupid. Parents are free to educate their children in a manner they see fit. They are free to go to the church and associate with whom they desire. And people are free to not accept a diagnostic label, even if it means they're in denial, when the diagnosis yields little benefit (if any) and treatments are elusive.
All citizens should feel protective of these rights even if they disagree with how a person employs these freedoms individually. Freedom can be uncomfortable business, but totalitarianism is a whole lot less comfortable and it creeps on Americans one conventionally accepted dogma and public indictment at a time.
Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com. Please vote for me daily as Best Individual Blogger. Here's the link. Thanks so much!
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The Huffington Post is America's largest liberal blog and it's considered to be so mainstream on the left that even Barack Obama posts there.
That's despite the fact that the blog regularly peddles extremism and conspiracy theories. However most of all, the HuffPo is well known for celebrating the deaths of conservatives. Just to give you an idea of how over-the-top they are about it, one of the bloggers at the Huffington Post actually wrote an extraordinarily nasty column mocking the death of Ann Coulter's FATHER.
10) "We Americans have a bias against eating bugs -- well, most of us do, anyway. Just try serving your family a batch of homemade granola laced with pantry moth larvae -- I did, and it totally grossed them out. Once these miniscule maggots gatecrashed my granola, I tried to make the best of it and defended my locally grown larvae as a good source of protein along with the almonds, pecans, and walnuts. My niece didn't swallow it (too busy gagging, I guess.)......If the thought of eating bugs and roadkill freaks you out, consider this: competition for the world's dwindling resources is heating up right along with the planet, and global warming is worsening food shortages all over the world. In this land o' plenty o' processed foods, most Americans can't imagine an era when we'd be forced to subsist on weeds, bugs, and -- till we run out of gas -- roadkill." -- Kerry Trueman
9) "How can I get to be psychic like you?" people ask me breathlessly.I've worked as a psychic for over thirty years and it means more to me each day, but would you really want to have this gift if you actually knew what it was like?"
...As uncomfortable as it is when other people badger me for readings, it's worse when, without prodding from anyone else, I can't turn off that part of my mind when I'm not working. Imagine how it is when the daughter of a friend rushes up to me, her face flushed with joy, holding out her hand, splaying her fingers to show off the diamond ring her boyfriend, now fiance, put there last week. What pops into my head? I see her standing at the alter in her Vera Wang wedding gown, groomless and sobbing. Maybe the guy isn't going to leave her right at the altar, but it's a sure sign he's going to back out, and probably well after all the down payments have been made. She's not my client. I don't have the right to say anything but a booming "Congratulations," my face stiff with false cheer." -- Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
8) "Now I'm not stupid enough to forget that capitalism is also a system that has allowed a substantial though relatively small group of human beings to amass titanic wealth and, so to speak, to capitalize on that wealth by exercising transformative power over the whole planet and everyone on it. If they were all wise and benevolent, that might be a satisfactory arrangement; they aren't, and it isn't. So any discussion of how human history (let alone human well-being) might continue after the demise of capitalism must get a good fix on the roots of greed and why it has persisted despite the abundant evidence of its perversity." -- Stephen Mo Hanan
7) "Who really killed those Unitarians? Was it the preachers who spread hatred and intolerance? The politicians who court and flatter them instead of condemning their hate speech? The media machine that attacks liberals, calls them "traitors" and suggests you speak to them "with a baseball bat"? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkisson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?If you ask me, it was all of the above.
You killed them, Pat Robertson. You killed them, Pastor Hagee. You killed them, Ann Coulter. You killed them, Dick Morris and Sean Hannity and the rest of you at Fox News." -- RJ Eskow
6) "In 2008, Obama is gaining momentum, and hopefully people inside his organization are cognizant of the fact that he constitutes a very real threat to the likes of Blackwater, Dyncorps, Halliburton, and the hundreds of other private companies currently profiteering from the Iraq occupation.Blackwater, that reactionary private mercenary outfit headed by the right-wing Christian nationalist Erik Prince stands to lose big time with an Obama presidency. Under George W. Bush Blackwater went from a marginal company with about $27 million in government contracts to a behemoth currently receiving over $1 billion in federal largesse.
It was revealed after the massacre of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad by Blackwater mercenaries that the U.S. State Department cannot function in Iraq without the services of the well-connected private company. Blackwater has a lot riding financially on keeping the Iraq occupation going and a lot to lose if it is ended. (Please read Jeremy Scahill's book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.)
Under an Obama Administration Blackwater would no doubt be cut down to size along with Bush's other crony capitalist entities. The Blackwater Boys no doubt have close friends and ideological soul mates deep inside the federal security services." -- Joseph Palermo
5) "Now that the dust is settling the big question about the dust-up in Georgia remains: Why was Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili so stupid to start this war?It looks like Saakashvili and Russia were both set up.
Who benefits most from painting this a revival of Soviet-era aggression?
John McCain.
So did the Bush administration provoke Moscow to help elect McCain and keep neo-conservative foreign policy alive? Was McCain himself involved in setting this Russian bear trap?" -- Joe Laria
4) "In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism - a Bush family tradition - with the installment of a president - a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) - by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable.Let me first point you to the Bush administration's so-called Wall Street bailout bill, here, so that you can see for yourself that this treachery is being conducted in the light of day. Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).
...It seems this time around, the Bush family is trying the more subtle approach to open bloodshed: first create a crisis, then under the guise of addressing that crisis, overthrow democracy. Yes, it does sound terribly conspiracy-theory-esque when explained just this way. But what else does one call a criminal conspiracy to destroy Congressional powers permanently, alter Judicial powers permanently, and steal public funds?" -- Larisa Alexandrovna
3) "Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control." -- Naomi Wolf
2) "I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism. I am so tired of pink men telling women (of all colors) what to do with their wombs--which connect with their brains--in case you forgot. I am so tired of pink men telling us we should stay in Iraq for generations. I am so tired of pink men buying bombs and cheating schools. I am so tired of pink men having wives who stand behind them and nod sagely on television. I am so tired of pink men expecting that someone--a brown, black, yellow or white woman--will trail behind them changing light bulbs, taking out garbage, washing laundry, keeping food in the house, taking care of kids of all ages, of parents of all ages. I am so tired of pink men whose wives double or triple the family income thinking they can spend it without doing a damn thing at home. I am so tired of pink men spouting nonsense on TV. I am so tired of pink men arguing, blathering, bloviating, predicting the future--usually wrongly--and telling women to shut up. I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman. I am so sick of pink men making war and talking about peace. I am so sick of pink men appointing their mediocre cronies to judgeships, to political advisors, to cushy jobs, to columns in the paper, to multimillion-dollar posts as CEOS or actors (while the actresses make less) or producers or writers or newsreaders or talk show bloviators or supposedly sage counselors at law. I am so tired of pink men." -- Ericka Jong
1) General Betray Us? Of course he has. MoveOn.org can hardly be expected to recycle its slogan from last September, when Gen. David Petraeus testified in support of escalating the U.S. war in Iraq, given the hysterical denunciations that worthy group received at the time. But it was right then--as it would be to repeat the charge now.By undercutting the widespread support for getting out of Iraq, Petraeus did indeed betray the American public, siding with an enormously unpopular president who wants to stay the course in Iraq for personal and political reasons that run contrary to genuine national security interests. Once again, the president is passing the buck to the uniformed military to justify continuing a ludicrous imperial adventure, and the good general has dutifully performed." -- Robert Scheer
Also see,
The 10 Worst Quotes From The Huffington Post For 2007
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From Conservative Grapevine,
20) Discover: 20 things you didn't know about sex
19) The American Princess: A pic of John McCain staring at EM Zanotti's chest.
18) Six Meat Buffet: Funny feminist graphic
17) Temple of Suck: The 9 reasons Rachael Ray sucks
16) Alarming News: Christopher Hitchens: "...I can tell you that it spooks the Obama campaign."
15) The American Princess: I got hit on three times at the Daily Kos party and they all used exactly the same bizarre pickup line
14) Cracked: 15 images you won't believe aren't photoshopped
13) Cracked: The 10 most devastating insults of all-time.
12) Hotline on Call: Check out this pic of the wall at Sarah Palin's parents house. Wow.
11) MSN Lifestyle: 18 things a grown man should never have (Link no longer works)
10) Cracked: 6 insane discoveries that science can't explain
9) Libertarian Republican: One graphic that shows you what Sarah Palin does to the Obama campaign.
8) Cassy Fiano: "God, you're a whale. ROFL. Hate to break it to you, hunny, but liberals don't WANT to date you." (W/ hot pic)
6) Cracked: 7 images too bad*ss to be real that totally are
5) ThisisLondon: How sex slave dungeon daughter looks now... after 24 years locked in a cellar (No longer works)
4) Cracked: The 5 most ridiculous lies you were taught in history class
3) Cracked: 15 MORE images you won't believe aren't photoshopped
2) American Princess: "This time, Sarah Palin told Oprah where she could shove her interview, and it's one of the most wonderful things I've read in weeks"
1) Unknown: An awesome Sarah Palin button
Also see,
The Top 20 Non-Eye Candy Stories Of 2007 On Conservative Grapevine.
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Cassy Fiano: Feminist term of the day: "Shame caves" (This cracked me up).Cracked: How 5 everyday businesses trick you
Gateway Pundit: Brrrr...sea ice ends year at same level as 1979
Popoholic: Bar Refaeli bikini pictures
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I threw a kind word Mitch McConnell's way for slowing down the stimulus package, but now our fearless Senate Minority Leader, Losey McLosington, is signaling that the GOP will back the stimulus package.
Two Things.
#1) Controlling government spending and the growth of the government is at the core of what it means to be a conservative and a Republican. Signing off on a trillion dollar deficit cuts directly against everything the GOP and conservatism stands for.
#2) Granted, Mitch McConnell isn't very bright, decisive, talented, inspiring, charismatic, competent, or popular, but even he should be able to figure out that this is a trap! As Jon Henke points out,
If Obama passes the perfect progressive stimulus bill without much Republican help, he owns the spending, the deficits, the tax hikes and all of the pain that comes with it. Republicans will be happy to run against those problems in 2010 and 2012.But if Obama buys significant Republican support for his bill, Republicans will own the deficits, tax hikes and intervention, as well. The stimulus bill will be for Republicans what the Iraq war was for Democrats - a policy they first supported, then regretted, then tripped over themselves to explain. The "they were for it before they were against it" ads would be inevitable and devastating.
Why can't these guys ever stand up for conservative principles -- or even if they don't want to do that, think a few months ahead instead of just taking the easy way out without considering how it will ultimately play out over the long-term?
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Isn't this kind of ironic coming from people who give their children military training, brainwash them from birth to support terrorism, and celebrate children who blow themselves up as martyrs?
"Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel's devastating assault."They have legitimised the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine," Mahmoud Zahar said in a televised broadcast recorded at a secret location. "They have legitimised the killing of their people all over the world by k
