So the whole ACORN pimp scandal is not going away. For those not paying attention, two people posing as a pimp and his whore have been seeking tax advice from ACORN all across the nation. It began in Baltimore, then DC, then New York and on to two locations in Southern California.
Dressed to validate every b movie stereotype, and making their story more and more outrageous (the pimp is going to run for office, and they are importing underage sex slaves from El Salvador) the pair still was never refused. ACORN workers advised them to hide the ill gotten gains in a coffee can in the backyard, schooled the pimp on deniability and even found a way to make the sex slaves dependents for tax purposes.
The most absurd thing has been the lawsuit filed by ACORN for defamation against the pair. Apparently exposing you as the slimes you are based solely on your own words, on video, counts as defamation.
Via Politico, AP defies common decency for the Greater Good (hat tip – Blackfive):
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”
Would you buy a shirt for your baby that had nipple tassels on it? One company is hoping you will.
ParentDish interviewed the designer behind TwistedTwee, which is selling t-shirts for babies and preschoolers that include nipple tassels, among other items.
The designer, Suzi Warren, told ParentDish via email that “The Nipple Tassel t-shirt was designed as a response to my own distaste at seeing mini versions of sexy clothes on young children. Five-year-olds wearing slashed mini skirts and boob tubes, little thumb-sucking Britneys.” I guess that’s like wearing blackface to protest racism? Mostly Warren is doing it to make money. At least I hope that’s why. If she honestly believes that this is an effective form of protest, I’d hate to think what she’d do with an issue like health care reform.
Personally, I think nipple tassels are tacky for anyone. If it’s a stripper, I mean, whatever. She’s a stripper. But otherwise it seems like a poor fashion choice.
The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women’s appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one’s husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling - toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.
The US President’s criticism of the “mistake” added to a growing backlash against the Scottish decision to free the biggest mass murderer in British legal history on compassionate grounds.
Hours after the Scottish National Party administration in Edinburgh announced its decision to free him, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 atrocity, flew home to a hero’s welcome in Tripoli.
I’m giving you the CBS clip because it includes interviews with families of the victims, but for a full minute’s worth of the “triumphant” mood on the ground in Libya, watch Cavuto. There’s nothing unusual about this, incidentally: Palestinians notoriously celebrated on 9/11 and Lebanese rejoiced at the release of Hezbollah child-killer Samir Kuntar. It’s one thing to welcome home a soldier who fought enemy combatants; these people welcome home terrorists who mass-murder civilians. Pure, unapologetic savagery. Exit quotation: “He has … reported a feeling of isolation–cultural, religious, social and language. He has a strong sense of family duty.”
The utter stupidity of this request boggles the mind. To deal with our mounting debt and deficit, Geithner wants to increase our debt limits so we don’t accidentally exceed them or something.
Washington — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress to increase the $12.1 trillion debt limit on Friday, saying it is “critically important” that they act in the next two months.
Mr. Geithner, in a letter to U.S. lawmakers, said that the Treasury projects that the current debt limit could be reached as early mid-October. Increasing the limit is important to instilling confidence in global investors, Mr. Geithner said.
Yes. They will be so confident that we want to spend more. That’s helpful.
The Treasury didn’t request a specific increase in the letter.
“It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident that the United States will always meet its obligations,” Mr. Geithner said in a letter to lawmakers.
Yes. We will meet them by borrowing and spending even more.
Yes, Andrew, who has been blogging in the tank for Obama for a while has suddenly joined the ranks of the Birthers1, well sort of.
He is essentially taking the same approach to the situation that I am. That the real certificate is likely fully supportive of BHO, but the administrations refusal to provide it’s promised transparency is confusing.
The whole birth certificate issue gets weirder still:
“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago….”
But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom I believe entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as a citizen to take public officials on trust. They are not to be trusted, whoever they are. It is our job to demand all the evidence we want or need. I know the electronic record is legit. I have no doubt that Obama has every constitutional right to be president. I think the Birthers are nuts. But there is no reason on earth that the original cannot be retrieved and shown. Jon Klein and CNN were wrong, and I retract my apology of yesterday.
This is too silly for words, but sadly there will be a few people who will act like they believe it. The Birthers will likely add this to their complaints. Not a citizen AND Satan.
LSU does NOT - REPEAT, NOT! - endorse or support this video. I merely show it to showcase the absurdity of people with a few books and way too much time on their hands.
I have more than enough reasons to dislike and disagree with Obama and his policies without resorting to this.
Exit thought: How many remember when they said this about Reagan, in part because his name, Ronald Wilson Reagan had 6 letters in all three words, making a 666.
I previously blogged about the DHS hatchet job on conservatives and on the Military. It was clear to me that the report was taking reasonable political and ideological positions and effective making them tantamount to criminal.
Positions like:
Concern about illegal immigration
Concern about increasing Federal Power
Restrictions on firearms
Concern about Abortion
Loss of US sovereignty
Support for 3rd party candidates (interesting that Ron Paul is considered a 3rd party…)
All along a lot of focus has been on the Military and how they are prime targets for recruitment, and on how conservative core issues are dangerous, but this has masked what I think is the real intention, which is an increase in Statism and an attack on Constitutional Federalism.
At least two of those warning signs above have less to do with shutting down conservatives as they do with increasing the role and power of the Federal Government, as it moves ever closer to a juxtaposition of socialist and fascist ideals.
Last week I was home sick for two days with flu like symptoms, so of course my thoughts roamed to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.
I had enough symptoms that I was considering getting checked, but only some, and since all of my symptoms were generally minor and non specific, I decided to ride it out.
I feel better, thanks.
But the swine flu topic itself has gone in several wacky directions, and that’s where my thoughts are today.
First of all, I am not happy with how our nation’s leaders are responding. While many countries are canceling flights from Mexico, we are effectively doing nothing. Yes that concerns me a lot, but what really bothers me is the complete lack of sense about why.
President Obama had this to say about closing the border to Mexico:
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