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Baseball rubbing mud. Who knew?

Is this fair or unfair?

Ameneh Bahrami, who was blinded when a spurned suitor threw acid at her, asked for the same to be inflicted on him. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP

In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, Iran is ready for the first time to blind a man with acid, after he was found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry him.

Majid Movahedi, 30, is scheduled to be rendered unconscious in Tehran's judiciary hospital at noon on Saturday while Ameneh Bahrami, his victim, drops acid in both his eyes, her lawyer said.

Bahrami who had asked for an eye for an eye retribution in the court, was disfigured and blinded by Movahedi in 2004 when he threw a jar of acid in her face while she was returning home from work. "He was holding a red container in his hand. He looked into my eyes for a second and threw the contents of the red container into my face," she told the court in 2008. More here:

Well, I can see why they have to sedate him ... to be sure he gets the acid in his eyes ... but what about the rest of his face?  Look what he did to her face.

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Internet Trolls Described

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Coming to a white (black) house near you

Get your tickets soon for the Michele Obama poetry reading night

It's zombie-proof but I wonder if it's Lib-proof.

As effective and practical as the house looks for such purposes, one wonders who would want to live in such an ugly home, especially given how unlikely a zombie apocalypse actually is. Fortunately, the house actually looks pretty appealing when opened up for everyday, non-apocalyptic living.

The home’s facade is made up almost entirely of windows, almost a necessity to add some openness and warmth to such an intimidating structure. Likewise, the open floorplan also keeps things from looking too confined, something which would also come in handy when the home is closed back up and you find yourself living in a concrete prison. A thick wall with a sliding, solid gate covers part of the property, but with the pics it’s impossible to tell if it surrounds it completely. On one side, though, we get a beautiful view of the lush lawn and many trees. That is, until you see a couple hundred zombies emerging from the green splendor in search of food.

For more ways to protect yourself, you could arm yourself with a Machete Slingshot, or protect against starvation with Zombie Jerky.

From one of my favorite blogs, Walyou.

Ow ow ow get it off get it off get it ow ow ow get it off!

I would not stop the car for this guy.

I reckon not

Colombian Student Asphyxiates To Death In Performance

Colombian Student Asphyxiates To Death In Performance: "

Art turned fatal for John Jairo Villamil, a thought provoking 25-year-old Colombian university student, who asphyxiated himself amidst a performance. For his act, Villamil covered his head with a garbage bag and placed his feet inside a bucket of water. His actions served as a personal critique of his hometown of Bogotá, Colombia which has been considered one of the most violent cities in the world. Since he had previously executed this piece without incident, many thought the heavy breathing and convulsion were part of the act. Villamil died at an ICU five days after being pronounced brain dead immediately following the incident. His mother, who at one point is said to have provided tips on how to make the performance more shocking, is now blaming the university for neglect.- Huffington Post

Short video from Columbian TV about the incident after the jump.

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Oh oh, we better be careful not to piss off al Qaeda

The al Qaeda statement also urged the United States to treat the bodies of Osama bin Laden and those killed with him in the raid with care, and to return their bodies.

"We warn the Americans not to harm the corpse of the sheikh or expose it to any indecent treatment or to harm any members of his family, living or dead, and to deliver the corpses to their families," it said.

Right, because al Qaeda is very careful to never burn or hang the corpses of our soldiers ... nor do they ever drag them in the streets ... nor do they ever behead hostages.  Nah, they NEVER do that.

"Any harm done will open the doors of evil upon you doubly, and you will not have anyone but yourselves to blame." More here:

Yes, we'll be very careful about that, buttcheese.  I mean, we don't want to get you all riled up, now do we? 

Meanwhile, what is your "organization" down to now?  About 200 members or something?  You think we're done with you?  My advice to you is to pipe down and keep hiding in your room like your fearless leader ... cuz, if you keep up with the mouth ... sooner or later, one day ... BOOM ... time's up, jackass.

Economic RECOVERY!! YAY Obama & Biden!!!

So I was reading this article and it was all kinds of flowery about how the economic recovery is just blistering along.  I totally agree ... if, by "economic recovery" you mean the economy is taking the worst beating it's taken in my lifetime. 

Hey, how's the value of your house doing in this screaming recovery?  How about the prices at the grocery store?  Yes, it seems like the people who transport our food have to buy gas too?  D'OH!!!!  How's the value of our currency?  How many corporations have bolted the United States this year? How are the poor doing at the pumps? Hey, it doesn't matter.  What matters is the Democratics have finally crushed our economy but they're telling you how great everything is. Yessir ... recovery ... it's awesome.

Now, if we can only block/regulate more drilling, refining, and transporting ... which shouldn't be a problem since Obama just doubled the budget for the EPA (our environmental friends.)

(From the article linked above) The jobless rate climbed to 9 percent, the first increase since November, a separate survey of households showed.

Now, let's have a little gander/flashback to a year ago, shall we? Yes, I think we shall. Here is the genius/Democratic, Joe Biden addressing jourrrrnalists.

(Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden predicted on Friday the U.S. economy would create 100,000 to 200,000 jobs next month, with a rise to 250,000 to 500,000 jobs per month soon afterward, according to a press pool report.

"We caught a lot of bad breaks on the way down. We're going to catch a few good breaks because of good planning on the way up," Biden told a political fundraiser in Pittsburgh, the pool report said, as he hailed the Obama administration's recovery efforts. More here:

Hey, libs -- keep voting for these Democratics ... they're so caring ... and so smart ... yes, don't worry, they're keeping their boot on the throat of "big oil." Meanwhile, how's YOUR throat doing?

Staged photo? What the hell were those people watching so intently?

What? You mean to tell me the Democrats MISLEAD us???? How can it BE???

Staged photo? What the hell were those people watching so intently?: "

You’ve probably seen this photo of the President and his national security staff watching the “live video feed” of the Osama Bin Laden raid. Oopsie! Now it turns out there was no live video feed, which gives rise to the obvious question, was there a director standing just off camera saying, “OK, now everyone look really tense.”

The Telegraph UK did the work the American media couldn’t be bothered with:

Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.

A photograph released by the White House appeared to show the President and his aides in the situation room watching the action as it unfolded. In fact they had little knowledge of what was happening in the compound.

Mr Panetta said: “Once those teams went into the compound I can tell you that there was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we really didn’t know just exactly what was going on. And there were some very tense moments as we were waiting for information.

So strong. So reassuring. So noble. So 100% staged.

Are we being paranoid right wing bloggers eagerly making up nonsense about the Obama admnistration? Hardly. The International Business Times reports that other photos of the noble Commander In Chief were faked during the aftermath of the Osama raid:

The White House hotly debated whether to release photos of Osama Bin Laden after Sunday’s raid on his Pakistan compound, but when it came to the President’s own photos, there was only one way to go: staged.

While the photo that ran on many newspapers and websites the next morning appeared as if it were taken during Obama’s address to the nation the night before, it was actually the result of an elaborate post-speech production.

“As President Obama continued his nine-minute address in front of just one main network camera, the photographers were held outside the room by staff and asked to remain completely silent,” Reuters photographer Jason Reed explained in his blog.

“Once Obama was off the air, we were escorted in front of that teleprompter and the President then re-enacted the walk-out and first 30 seconds of the statement for us.”

Determining what’s real and what’s not becomes more difficult each day with this administration.

The photos may not be real, but the picture is becoming increasingly clearer.

Source: Telegraph UK, International Business Times

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A Thought

Killing people is not that difficult. Killing people that deserve it - a bit harder. There are a lot of folks that think killing OBL ended the war on terrorism. I'd argue the opposite - he was but a figurehead, and his demise will energize his followers. Letting our guard down (or celebrating) is a bit presumptuous.

Your Vocabulary Word For Today

Winston Churchill obviously liked this verbal device. So did one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Mitch Hedberg: Paraprosdokian.

Keep your eye on this video

Found it over at the J-Walk blog.

Oh joy!

After searching for 10 years without success. After 10 years of bashing the right for "enhanced interrogation". After 10 years of criticism for underground, behind-the-scenes, covert operations that go against the grain of everything that's American. After trusting the Pakistani government only to find that a house with 12-foot-tall cement walls surrounding its perimter, a house 8 times the size of any other house in the neighborhood, a house 100 yards away from the Pakistani Military Academy went unnoticed for FIVE years.

After all that, the current administration did exaxtly as the right had been recommending all that time and succeeded in a mission to (finally) kill bin Laden. All that kicking and screaming. All that preaching and lecturing. All that wasted energy and wasted time. It's as if the correct answer was staring them in the face all that time and they chose to ignore it. Of course, now that it worked, they're happy to take full credit for the entire thing. Well done.

So after all that time of dragging their heels, resisting cooperation, and incessantly criticizing the Republicans, Democrats do exactly what Republicans have been trying to do all this time and surprisingly and mysteriously succeed. Of course, now it's all different because... well... you know... "we're doing it".

To add insult to injury,

"One of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory." This was John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President, describing President Obama's decision to launch the raid which resulted in the capture and death of Osama Bin Laden.

How ON EARTH was this a gutsy call? I mean, OBL is was public enemy number one. How ON EARTH is sending a team to kill him gutsy? To me, it's about as "gutsy" as calling the exterminator because you found evidence of termites in your home. Nevertheless, the left control the media and whenever one of their own does anything that's not disastrous, they gleefully slap them on the back and proclaim "well done!".

FLibs.

We can all agree that our intellectual betters Libs sound like broken records. This is counter-intuitive (that means "confusing") because we no-brain-dummies would expect that with all their vast and expansive educational backgrounds, they would be more creative in the points they try to make. Alas, all they ever accomplish is firmly cementing their viewpoint without ever convincing anyone of anything they didn't already believe.

Here's an example of classic Libspeak by the honorable and esteemed Cindy Sheehan:

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, meanwhile, is among those who think bin Laden may be still alive and kicking. "I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself--they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead--why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea?" she asked.

Let's break this down.

"I am sorry"- She's not only not sorry, she's smug. Furthermore, ever notice how Libs avoid regularly used contractions (like "I'm") when they're trying to seem smart sound convincing? I swear- they think they're elevating themselves above the plebeians by avoiding contractions when it would really be much more effective just to express ideas that are intelligent and thoughtful (and logical if I'm making wishes anyway).
Libs figure that if they start out with a snarky sincere apology, they'll open the door to filling your head with otherwise blatant drivel and lies. Of course, this only works on other Libs.

"the newest death"- Well, this one is rife with Libisms. First of all, "the newest" as if "What? This is the first rumor you've heard? Have you been living under a rock?" Of course, the only people who are "in" on the rumor mill are other Libs. They're the inner circle of the inner circle. The super-cool ones. This is precisely why they're better equipped to police your thoughts, decide what's best for you and to rule the world.
Secondly, "death". "Death"? Death what? I suspect that she meant "death rumor" but never finished her thought because "you know what I meant- c'mon". Of course, those of us who are paying attention know fully well that incomplete thoughts/sentences leave her an "out" later when she needs to cover her tracks. Again, the only people who fall for that tactic are other Libs (and those with medical amnesia).

Snarky Helper Note: This is one of many examples
of the left making exactly the same mistake that
"set off a twitter storm" when a FOX News affiliate
made the same mistake earlier this week.

"OBL"- Let's face it. For pea-brains our intellectual betters, it's much safer to avoid the virtually irresistible slip of the tongue (see Moonbattery for examples) by avoiding the name all together. It's better to leave those slip-ups to those idiots at FOX News.

"you're stupid"- This, of course, is the ol' standby of Libs although with its proliferation, you'd think it was the amuse-bouche of these literary top-chefs. Let's get this straight right off the bat- if you don't agree with the speaker, there is one and only one reason. It's not because you have your facts straight, it's not because you have common sense, and it's not because your idea of intelligent thought is logical reasoning. It's because you're STUPID.

"just think to yourself"- She's really just saying, "let me do your thinking for you and this will be painless and over very soon". Then she immediately follows with the conspiracy theory du jour. Furthermore- don't start thinking out loud cuz that could lead to an intelligent discussion and THEN WHAT????

Original quote found at newser.

Weird Ideas From Wartime

Operant conditioning, stimulus/response, positive/negative reinforcement - several names were used. B.F. Skinner was a very smart man. This idea, however, was a bit odd.
If you care... how about a cat missile?