British prime Minister, David Cameron

Britain will work allies on plans to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya to protect its people from military attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's government, David Cameron has told the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister repeated his earlier call for Col Gaddafi to step down and said that all measures would be considered to increase pressure on him to go.

"We do not in any way rule out the use of military assets," Mr Cameron said. More here:

I like it when people say "military assets." That way you can see how smart they are.  If he had just said "We will not rule out military force" everyone would think he was a dumbass.

Oh oh, this is a bad infestation

Hmmmmm

The Klown hopes Farrakhan is right ... for once.

Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan predicted on Sunday that America faces imminent uprisings that mirror those in the Middle East.

“What you are looking at in Tunisia, in Egypt … Libya, in Bahrain … what you see happening there … you’d better prepare because it will be coming to your door,” Farrakhan said in a booming voice, thousands of followers cheering in his wake.

Farrakhan also called on President Barack Obama to allow protesters to march, urging the president not to attack innocent people when they do. More here:

Yes, Farrakhan is a racist anti-Semite ... but I hope he's right ... this time.   If the Republicans don't do something to reverse the idiocy that has become the US government then, yes, we'll be needing an "uprising."

Slightly intoxicated

Ok he is shit faced

For the cat lovers

Poor wittow babies

Yes, when liberals are voting to take your money, you're supposed to shut up about it ... after all, it's "Democratic" ... it's for the greater good. However, when THEY have to pay a little bit for their own health care and retirement, they throw hissy fits.  Never mind they've broken the state. What a bunch of jackasses.

Also, notice the difference in apparel.

Pure genius

Here's a guerrilla marketing technique that goes far beyond KFC's advertising of the Double Down on the butts of college co-eds. A clothing store in New Zealand is using plates installed on benches to imprint their ad onto the back of bare legs. More here:

The ad agency behind the campaign explains:

We put indented plates on bus stop, mall, and park benches, so that when people sat down, the message was imprinted on their thighs. This meant that as well as having branded seats, a veritable army of free media was created, with thousands of imprints being created and lasting up to an hour.

Found it over at J-Walk's blog.

Great... what could possibly go wrong?

Robots might one day trace the origin of their consciousness to recent experiments aimed at instilling them with the ability to reflect on their own thinking.

Although granting machines self-awareness might seem more like the stuff of science fiction than science, there are solid practical reasons for doing so, explains roboticist Hod Lipson at Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Laboratory.

"The greatest challenge for robots today is figuring out how to adapt to new situations," he says. "There are millions of robots out there, mostly in factories, and if everything is in the right place at the right time for them, they are superhuman in their precision, in their power, in their speed, in their ability to work repetitively 24/7 in hazardous environments—but if a bolt falls out of place, game over."

Riiiight... it's MUCH better to have robots who are "already superhuman" with the ability to continue functioning even if something goes wrong. What could possibly go wrong?

Full article here.

Get your God-Damned Motherfucking Feet Off the Fucking Desk!

I know it's an old pic, but I'm not speaking literally.

fri pins

Hey look -- a science-tific study

Australian researchers are challenging guidelines that urge diabetics to cut back on salt in their diet.

In a study that seems to turn conventional wisdom on its head, they found patients with the highest levels of sodium in their urine had the smallest risk of dying over a 10-year period.

"Such data call into question universal recommendations that all adults should endeavor to reduce their salt intake," Dr. Elif I. Ekinci of the University of Melbourne in Victoria and colleagues write in the journal Diabetes Care. More here:

Heh.  Coffee bad, coffee good.  Eggs bad, eggs good. Milk bad, milk good. It's all very "science-tific."  Just like global cooling ... erm, I mean global warming.  I have such respect for "scientists," don't you?  They're so ... well ... so smart.

Connecticut Legislature At Work

Snopes.com report.

According to one description I read, the screen behind Rep. Hennessy is showing baseball scores, and one of the screens in the row ahead is on Facebook.

Moronic Media Matters claims Wisconsin protests and Tea Party protests are the same thing

Moronic Media Matters claims Wisconsin protests and Tea Party protests are the same thing: "

In what amounts to an amazing display of left wing lunacy even by Media Matters standards, the Soros-backed scandal sheet has attacked Fox News yet again.

What has the evil Fox done now? According to Media Matters, “Fox News’ coverage of the Wisconsin protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate public employees’ collective bargaining rights, among other things, has been marked with repeated attacks on the protesters. However, by contrast, Fox has relentlessly promoted and even encouraged viewers to participate in tea party and “Tax Day” protests over the past few years.”

As much as we hate to admit it, Media Matters may have a point. The two events are exactly alike if you overlook the fact that the Tea Party was a grassroots movement that was entirely lawful, while the strike in Wisconsin is an illegal strike by teachers, or the fact that “doctors” wrote phony sick notes for the Wisconsin teachers which were not really necessary for the Tea Party members as once again THEY WERE NOT ACTING ILLEGALLY!

The liberal left, who consider themselves to be intellectual giants, seems to have a hard time with the word “illegal” as in “illegal strike” or “illegal immigrant.”

Speaking of hypocrisy however, why doesn’t Media Matters show some of the signs from Wisconsin portraying the Governor as Hitler and showing him in crosshairs? Wasn’t that the same “violent rhetoric” that the left was condemning mere weeks ago?

On second thought, Media Matters doesn’t have a point after all.

Source: MediaMatters

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Remarkable, right? Liberals do not hesitate to compare their enemies to Hitler. Of course, expect nothing but disgust and disdain if you dare to compare their comrades to Hitler.

They get outraged when "Republicans redefine rape" (I'd share the link to moveon.org but "mysteriously", they don't have a search function on their homepage. Weird, right? I wonder why they'd do that. (As an aside, I got a chuckle out of their "Chip in $_____" box. Those libs are always looking for a handout and are always willing to use some outdated, hokey expression for begging. I'm surprised they haven't pulled out the always-clever "brother can you spare a dime?" that they made so popular after their "American Hero" FDR initiated and then prolonged the Great Depression.)) but it's perfectly fine to have picket signs advertising "gang bangs". Without mentioning the fact that if you need to talk about it, you aren't doing it, these people might want to stop talking about the splinter in their brother's eye and start focusing on the log in theirs. Matthew 7:1-7:5.

The fashion industry is racist.

(Newser) – Watch almost any runway show in the US and Europe, and you'll find black models in extremely short supply. That's the dirty secret of fashion, say many critics. "The industry is racist. In Milan black girls never work. In Paris it's still the same," British model booker Annie Wilshaw tells the Guardian. "It's 2011 and that's quite disgusting." You "know straight away" when clients are "not talking about a black girl," she adds. "They say they want 'a girl with long hair, who looks like a fairy' or something. When they want a black girl, they will say 'looking for mixed-race girl, tribal-prints location, desert scene.'"

Some in the fashion world blame practicalities like lighting and makeup which are different for black models, and therefore more time consuming. Model choice is also "driven by what sells and, in general, white blond girls sell, that's the mindset," says the founder of a modeling agency. "In fact, black girls do sell but they're not given as many openings. It is safer to go with a white girl, and in a recession people are very conservative." But why blame fashion, some wonder. "How can you expect fashion not to be slightly racist when the world is still racist?" asks black model Leonie Anderson.

Of course, nobody discusses the fact that black women dress differently than white women. Nobody discusses the fact that the color of your skin (even among different shades of the same race) drastically affects how clothes look on you. No- the problem is racism. Plain and simple. The debate is settled. Racism is a real problem in America and you need our help with it.

If everyone would just face the fact that the fashion industry is built upon narcissism, vanity, and status, they'd stop paying attention to it at all. It's all about power and exerting power over others and I don't care how many "powerful black women" you put on the Maury Povich show,  the people who are willing to spend the most money on fashion aren't buying it.

Those Crazy Dems

So is he a "plushy" or a "furry"?

Story here.

FDR on public sector unions

As usual, it is necessary help idiot liberals with their amnesia.  Here's what their hero, Franklin Delano Roosevert had to say about public sector unions.

"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...

"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."

Yes, and finally, remember two things:

1 - Unions have various unfair legal advantages over corporations.

2 - When "regular" unions strike, they are striking for more money out of the company profits.  When public sector unions strike, they're striking for more of your tax money.

By the way, isn't it funny ... the libs keep coming up with all kinds of shit to justify stealing your money.

a) New deals, Fair deals, Square deals etc etc

b) War on poverty

c) Great society

d) Massive spending on education: Head start, school lunch, breakfast, dinner - even in summer.

e) I could go on and on but we'll stop here.

Meanwhile, ask yourself:

a) Is poverty gone? Are people working harder to stay out of poverty or are they satisfied taking your money for sitting on their asses having more children?

b) How are you liking all your "deals?"  You're paying out the ass for them, how do you like them?

c) Is society great yet?

d) What did we EVER do before the government started getting spending massive money on schools? THAT'S RIGHT ... before there were school lunches, people would die of starvation right in the middle of classes. But HEY, wait a minute ... look how much better our children are educated now ... you know ... with the pants hanging way down to showcase their intelligence. Yep, every where I look, I see great respect for teachers coming from these awesome students of today. I'm so proud.

Anyway, the point is that all these programs are failed. Not to worry though, they can be fixed ... THAT'S RIGHT ... everything can be made better ... all they need is more of your money.

Rupsi Daisiu

Another example of rampant Libspeak.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has declared war on state workers, almost literally.

First, he proposed a state budget that would cut retirement and healthcare for workers like teachers and nurses, and strip away nearly all of their collective bargaining rights. But even more significantly, he announced last Friday that he had alerted the National Guard to be ready for state workers to strike or protest, an unprecedented step in modern times. ["modern times"? What's the definition? I suspect it's just a way of making the behavior seem archaic and therefore, bad, out-dated, and unintelligent.]

This would be the first time in nearly 80 years that the National Guard would be used to break a strike by Wisconsin workers, and the first time in over 40 years that the National Guard would be used against public workers anywhere in the country. The last time was the Memphis sanitation strike in 1968, just before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. [Right... and how is this emotionally highly-charged incident relevant? Did his assassination somehow cause any action by the National Guard?]

The outrage [as if Libs have any other emotion (except, of course, for fear] was immediate [This is probably just an estimate as opposed to an actual, scientific, measurement of time] across [unspecified, unbiased :D] labor message boards, [unspecified] Twitter and [unspecified] Facebook pages. Over the last two days, [probably] tens of thousands have protested in front of the capitol building in Madison in defiance [yet another heroic descriptor] of the governor, some [some=one, but "some" seems like more, so...] even camping overnight.

To understand the visceral, emotional nature of this outcry, you have to understand the history of the National Guard and the labor movement [ONLY from our perspective, of course]  -- and what this means for the relationship between labor and the state today.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, governors often mobilized the National Guard during strikes.  Sometimes the Guard was genuinely neutral, assigned to buffer the dangerous zone between strikers and their employers. Other times, the Guard was explicitly charged with breaking the strike. During these instances, violence often erupted between strikers and soldiers with terrible, bloody results [This would be my first indicator to not argue with any military organization... until I was ready].
National Guard soldiers clashed with strikers [and unprepared strikers clashed with "soldiers" too but you know what we meant] in Buffalo, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,  Salt Lake City and Telluride, Colo., at the turn of the 20th century. In just two years, between 1911 and 1913, the militia [Oops! Did we do that again? *blushes*] was mobilized against coal miners in West Virginia, textile workers in Massachusetts, textile workers in New Jersey, and copper miners in Michigan. During an infamous bloodbath in 1914, soldiers killed striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colo., including at least six men, two women and 12 children [Listen, if it happened in 1914, it's likely that we have an exact death count by now, right? Also, how come they don't mention the fact that these striking coal miners put themselves and their families at mortal risk? I don't know about the rest of you, but I learned to pick my battles a LONG time ago... way before I had a wife and children about whom to be concerned].

During the 1934 Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, a battle raged for five days between 6,000 strikers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard, leaving two strikers dead and more than 200 injured [Okay, I might be beating a dead horse here but if you outnumber your "enemy" more than 3 to 1 and you lose, you're bringing a knife to a gunfight. Furthermore, the only reason you didn't fare worse was that the National Guard was trying like hell not to kill or hurt any of you. Of course, 2 plus "more than" 200 of you insisted on having it their way.] Three years later, during the famous occupation of General Motors in Flint, Mich., the governor ordered thousands of soldiers to the factory, as the [slow learner] workers swore to resist them by force.

And in Wisconsin, Gov. Albert Schmedeman used the National Guard to disrupt a 1933 strike by dairy farmers, sometimes with bayonets and tear gas, when they tried to raise the price of milk. [Ever-credible, reliable, and again, unspecified] Newspapers reported that he was preparing for a "bona fide war" [War- you know- the last thing a newspaper wants]. The Guard mobilized again the next year during a strike by the United Auto Workers. It was the last time the National Guard would be used during a strike in Wisconsin. Until, possibly, now.

The use of the National Guard against workers is supposed to be  a relic of the past ["supposed to be"? According to whom? It seems to me that or as long as civilians behave civilly, there's no need for "clashes" with the National Guard. Let's face it, ALL of us at one point in our lives wanted to get up in the face of some velvet rope bouncer but only those of us who were also in need of a beating ever did. Sure it's unfair. Sure it sucks. But that doesn't change the fact that you're still not going to win so spare yourself the humiliation/pain.], nearly unimaginable to us [That unimaginability is exactly the reason you people keep repeating the same mistakes expecting different results. Einstein said that repeating the same behavior and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. I say it's the definition of slow learning. Libs and their incessant repetitively insistent behavior reminds me of nothing more than  a fly trying to penetrate a plate glass window and wondering if maybe this time it'll work.]. That's because of an uneasy understanding, evolved over time, between citizens and the state over the use of state force against civilians [as if they didn't try anything else first]. In her excellent book "Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980," historian Joan Jensen argued that this understanding "maintained restraint, sometimes precariously, in using the army to defend the government from the domestic population."

In other words, Jensen argues that the concept of voluntary restraint by the executive branch -- as opposed to codified legal restraint -- is still largely the governing principle at work when deciding whether to mobilize a domestic military force. So Gov. Walker's action is significant because it is an expanded interpretation of the power of the executive office. This would introduce once again the idea that a governor could use the military to impose his personal, political will on a state. [Which is exactly why we need the 2nd amendment. Of course Libs don't believe in guns and that's why this is all so cataclysmic for them.]

The cultural and historical significance of Gov. Walker's action can't be ignored. When he proposes using the National Guard to break a strike, he conjures a period of American history in which labor and capital were locked in violent, terrible struggle, when income inequality had reached epic heights, and workers had to bleed to organize. This is a step backward, not forward, in the march of American progress. [And so are unions but that goes completely unmentioned in this article.]

Link to article here.

The comments are also interesting although they vary widely with sources being from both extremes. As always though, there are a few interesting and rational comments that really shed light on the issue. Here's one of them:

the real truth

Maybe if you realized that the workers only paid less than 8 % of their salary for benefits while you and I pay upwards of 25% or more for bennies- you all would not be stating that the governor is threatening something. Sorry- pay up. Nothing is free anymore and it is time that unions either go away or realize that they will have to pony up just like the rest of us. For way too long these unions have bullied people, politicians and layed the heavy hand in favor of the free handouts given to them by the democrats- FINALLY SOMEONE IS STANDING UP AND SAYING ENOUGH. I do not feel sorry for these workers, I do not feel sorry that they have to pay a little into their pensions. Open 401Ks like the rest of us, pay into your healthcare plan- these unions are one of the big reasons why states and cities are broke- sadly- all I can say is tough.

And here's another although I'm not sure the commenter thinks of this as a good thing. But seriously, what union isn't Dem friendly?:

Rachel is right

Rachel Maddow nailed it on last night's (2/17) program. What is happening in Wisconsin is a partisan strike at ultimate destruction of the Democratic Party by eliminating a major source of its support and funding, i.e., a Dem friendly union. This is not the first effort in this direction and it will not be the last.