GunGate: Operation GunRunner / Fast & Furious / GunWalker / Castaway – CONTINUOUS ROUND-UP
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184 American Thinker: Connecting the Dots on Fast and Furious
183 Bob Owens: Obama’s murder spree continues to unravel
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Of Lowly Comparisons: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Apologize to Prostitutes and Sluts Everywhere
Prostitutes deal directly with their customers: There is no pretense of their request for payment as a compensation for feigned hardship or victimhood.
Sluts don’t attempt to deprive third-party private individuals or institutions of their First Amendment Religious Rights as a means of promoting their individual choices or moral decisions.
…and in a fluke of irony, even sluts and prostitues… at least on some level understand gratitude.
UPDATE: get over to Bill Jacobson’s place!
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From a purely functional viewpoint, in the Opinion of Yours Truly, NEVER… trust your precious data back-up and storage to an over-the-web, off-site second party.
Do you really trust people whom you don’t know to safeguard your privacy?
Do you trust that the service will never get hacked?
Do you actually know that your data won’t be altered?
Do you really believe that the State or the Feds can’t subpoena your data for their own purposes?
UPDATE – Quoth Right Guy: “I would add, do you trust that your data will never be mined? See google…“ [Yipes. - Ed]
On the other hand, NOTHING… is as secure as in-house portable-drive encrypted back-up. NOTHING.
So why would one pay monthly fees for an inferior security arrangement?
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But then, there’s politics:
[The advertiser] made a political statement and needlessly injected itself into the controversy in a very political way. It needs to find out that it works both ways.
An advertiser pulled it’s advertising from Rush Limbaugh’s show… after Rush made (unfortunately very accurate) character descriptions of a gal who gave up her private anonymity to go public in a completely voluntary manner. She had no need to become a public figure, but she volunteered to do so. It was she who gave-up details of her private behavioral choices that fit perfectly the definitions of the words Rush used. It is she… who intends to corrupt the moral integrity of a religiously-based institution. What of Georgetown’s religious freedom?
The CEO who stated that “Sandra [is a] courageous and well-intentioned young lady” has an obviously poor understanding of courage and good intentions. It takes no courage at all to speak-out in a nation that is founded upon freedom of expression. If there was courage in her actions, then our executive ought to have described the abnormal risk she took. To the notion of well-intentioned, how could her advocacy of forcing a religious institution to act against it’s teachings and conscience be described as “good”? How is it that the demand that others bear the cost of and pay for one’s personal choices is somehow “good”?
Our family moved it’s entire prescription and drug purchase business from our local CVS when CVS pulled it’s ads from Fox’ Glenn Beck show. They wrote to us in response to our inquiry to say that they “[... did] the right thing” in response to complaints from “Color of Change.” So did we.
Carbonite, Quicken Loans, Sleep Train, Legal Zoom, Citrix Systems and Sleep Number will never see a dime of my family’s business. These firms have chosen sides. So be it.
UPDATE: ProFlowers sucks out, too. HEY, ProFlowers – I vote with my money. Losers.
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If we may be so bold as to ask, how does one define slut?
Synonyms: tart, slag, adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slattern, slovenly woman, strumpet, bawd, cocotte, cyprian, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, trollop, whore, woman of the street, working girl.
See Also: adulterer, fornicator, pig, slob, sloven, slovenly person, call girl, camp follower, demimondaine, floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, lobster tart, pastry, pie, quiche, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, tartlet, white slave, bitch.
A thousand dollars a year for contraception? My, how chased.
Ace v. Frum
… wherein Ace of Spades operates on David Frum, completing the job the mohel started.
Frum made the fatal error of taking poorly aimed, poorly considered shots at Andrew Breitbart today, much as he had done earlier to Rush Limbaugh. Ace, in honor of the fallen man pulls out knives. A lot of them.
As I type this, Breitbart is more alive than David Frum has ever been.
There is a strong element of literal truth to that: Breitbart has accomplished more in just the last three years than Frum has achieved over his entire career, and the string of good people Andrew has elevated will continue his work long into the future.
It reminds one of a scene in The Fountainhead: Did Breitbart even know who David Frum was?
Andrew Breitbart Passes
Shalom, Andrew. Many heartfelt thanks.
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Fearless; outspoken. Dangerous opponent. A true Classical Liberal, a free man.
Via William Jacobson
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“Natural causes.” Perhaps. What cause, specifically?
Did not Andrew have dinner in Chicago recently, a dinner with two of the ugliest murdering thugs in America? A couple who see other peoples’ lives a commodities to use as needed to “higher” Social ends?
Andrew looked rough at CPAC.
I’d like to see a toxicology report.
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More thoughts on Andrew at Legal Insurrection.
Thoughts from The Libertarian Advocate.
Matt Taibbi proves Andrew right. (Poor sod. – Ed.)
Spring forward…
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Croci... thanks to a squirrel.
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a strong supporter of Mitt Romney thought to be on the short-list for VP, has rejected what he describes as “invasive” ultrasound procedures that the social conservative-dominated state legislature was thought poised to put on his desk as a way to restrict abortion. In drawing a line where his support for life rubs up against his support of the right of individuals to privacy, he has shown himself to be a true conservative, not a social conservative statist, and possibly acceptable to libertarians.
It gets “better.” Please read the whole thing – it’s mercifully short.
What utter Liberal rubbish. Liberals should not presume to lecture us on Libertarian or Conservative philosophy.
Libertarianism, like Conservatism, requires the courage to define terms and stake territory. What we get instead is “gray areas” and “conflicts” and “never … reconciliation” – cowardly trademarks of the dyed-in-the-wool Liberal.
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Does G-d grant, or not, our unalienable Rights and Responsibilities?
When does Human Life – and thus G-d’s gifts – begin?
Is the life of a Child worthy of the protection of the State, or is the life of a Child a “private” affair?
Only a Liberal — by definition — is conflicted on such matters.
Right or wrong, Anarchists stand clearly for things. Right or wrong, Conservatives unambiguously stand ground for Life. Anarchists and Conservatives don’t share a whole lot of turf; but these two philosophies are courageously Libertarian.
McDonnell is proximally conservative; he hasn’t the guts to stand for Life. He pleads a standard Liberal cop-out… while the academic redefines Conservative in his defense. Utter, dishonest rubbish.
…and “Libertarians”, all of you, if you, as self-described “libertarians” won’t stand unambiguously and bravely in defense of kids, just what the Hell do you stand for?
From Jeffrey Lord at AmSpec: Is Media Matters Obama’s Watergate?
This is a big story. A HUGE story. As with Watergate the information is already gushing in such a torrent that there is only one way to get to the bottom of it.
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A full, complete and thorough congressional investigation — just as was done with the Senate Watergate Committee — is in order.
Amen, Mr. Lord.
Something tells me that the Left has tired of Obama’s weakness – and that Tucker, knowingly or otherwise, is being used as the hit man. It can’t be that Obama’s regulatory-statist, anti-energy, anti-Liberty and anti-American-security policies are the central cause of American Liberalism’s decline. (I rather think it is, pal. – Ed.) The Left always has the ad-hominem play to hand. Obama, Jarrett, Holder and Reid may well be destroyed personally and sacrificed politically for the Cause. Of course totalitarian central-regulation and market planning works… the Left just needs to find the right people, yes?
For the record, yours truly has never respected Carlson or most on his crew at The Daily Callgi- er, Caller. There isn’t a whole lot of full-throated Conservatism or Libertarianism going on over there. And there’s something in the pattern that makes total sense that Carlson should get the “scoop.”
Interesting times.
Jonah Goldberg gets it wrong. Sort of.
[Via Chuck - Thanks! - Ed]
Obama’s Cynicism for Me, Not for Thee
For the president, it’s a vice other people have.
For instance, during a Nevada Democratic debate, then-senator Obama told the late Tim Russert that, “My greatest strength, I think, is the ability to bring people together from different perspectives to get them to recognize what they have in common and to move people in a different direction.”
Whether that was a lie at the time or simply unwarranted self-confidence is unknowable. What is plainly knowable is that it was untrue.
” …and to move people in a different direction.” Yes. Exactly. The opposite direction, to be precise. On this one, candidate B-O had it exactly right.
Your humble editor presents Exhibit One: 2009, The Tea Party. A diverse group comprising disaffected Republicans, alienated Democrats and frustrated Libertarians & Conservatives; School teachers, self-employed entrepreneurs, retirees, veterans, professionals and and and.
Exhibit Two: 2010, The Elections, an historical libertarian and conservative sweep through all levels of governance.
Jonah Goldberg’s clarity on things is refreshing. Agree with him or not, one knows exactly where Jonah stands. He got this one right, as usual, but there is another way to look at it. Just sayin’.
Cheers!
Dave Brubeck
This goes out to Stephen, Maggie and a gent called Luke…
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet, at Carnegie Hall
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This may just be the finest on-stage live-audience recording ever made. (Best I’ve ever heard.) Sure, the recording’s technical work was fine, but it was the magic. Brubeck & Co. were on fire. December 1963. In hi-fi stereo!
Dad had this record when I was a kid. Got back from college, ’round about when I met Kate. Dad let me pull this one from the shelf and spin ‘er up. I was in awe. I told Dad I finally understood why he liked it. He grinned. Three to Get Ready… Blue Rondo. Take Five.
Cheers!
