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December 3, 2009
Open Thread
Posted by Van Helsing at December 3, 2009 6:50 AM

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Don Imus offhandedly calls a few female college basketball players "some nappy headed hoes", during a daytime radio show after no special event, and gets canned after much debate, publicity, outrage and many apologies.
Chris Matthews offhandedly calls the entire student body of the United States Military Academy "the enemy camp", on prime-time television after a presidential speech, and says, oops, my bad. Story ends.
Does no one see the difference but me?
Posted by: Eric at December 3, 2009 7:08 AM
Let's not forgot then candidate hopey changey had a few words to say about Don Imus.
Posted by: Moonbat Skullcracker at December 3, 2009 7:11 AM
I'm with you 100% Eric. Double standards for liberals, and they've created a sub-class of citizens. The next step will be to shove conservatives out of the voting process.
Posted by: Jay B at December 3, 2009 7:13 AM
Posted by: Jay B at December 3, 2009 7:13 AM,
Shove conservatives out of the voting process? Try shove them into ovens with a sharp sieg hiel. I think that is about the level of a liberal to do.
Posted by: Moonbat Skullcracker at December 3, 2009 7:17 AM
Liberals do show totalitarian tendencies when they will not allow the conservative opinion to be voiced by screaming over them as they try to speak.
Posted by: IOpian at December 3, 2009 7:24 AM
Posted by: nancz at December 3, 2009 7:27 AM
NOVEMBER 09 numbers
Fox News beat CNN, HLN, and MSNBC COMBINED in both total day and primetime. In primetime, FNC averaged 2.62M Total Viewers and 714K in the demo, both up from October.
The network finished third in all of cable for primetime in November (5th in total day) and, again, had the top 10 cable news programs in the demo and top 13 in Total Viewers.
Bill O'Reilly (3.67M Total Viewers, 994K demo) had his biggest month of the year, helped in part by a publicized interview with Sarah Palin. Bret Baier also had his best month in both categories.
Glenn Beck was the #2 cable news program in Total Viewers and #3 in the demo. His time slot was up 101% in the demo year-to-year.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 7:50 AM
You think they can get a NEA grant for painting that?
Posted by: Henry at December 3, 2009 7:53 AM
Shove conservatives out of the voting process? Try shove them into ovens with a sharp sieg hiel. I think that is about the level of a liberal to do.
Posted by: Moonbat Skullcracker
Projection.
Posted by: Chris Waddle at December 3, 2009 8:08 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34242705/?GT1=43001
MSNBC reports that if we allow Global Warming to occur, and thus melt the Greenland ice sheet, then we could be headed for an ICE AGE. It would happen so quickly, that humans would have "no opportunity to react", ala The Day After Tomorrow-style.
In the midst of the debate over global warming, MSNBC posts an article about an ice age!
Posted by: NR at December 3, 2009 8:27 AM
No, Twaddle, projection is the liberal's game. Just look at the race-relations issue to see how.
And let's take a few hints from one of the Left's best and brightest (forgive my dark sarcasm). Here's Matthew Yglesias writing a few months before the last presidential elections:
Meanwhile, I guess I hope President Obama uses his powers responsibly, but on some level I'm sort of rooting for massive abuses so the right can get what they've been asking for.
Yeah. The Right's full of bitter clingers while the Left's squeaky clean. Got that.
Posted by: Conservigilant at December 3, 2009 8:29 AM
Opy sez: "Liberals do show totalitarian tendencies when they will not allow the conservative opinion to be voiced by screaming over them as they try to speak."
Yes, that's certainly what I recall from all those raucous town halls last summer. Conservatives quietly tried to tell their health care horror stories and liberals screamed and howled to shut them up. Oh...wait a second...I might have mixed that up.
Posted by: memory is fluid at December 3, 2009 9:09 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at December 3, 2009 9:42 AM
Another Sexting Suicide
Nothing can compare with the excruciating physical pain and crushing emotional trauma of a parent losing a child. Worse is the needless and senseless loss of a young child to suicide.
Thirteen year old Hope Witsell of Sundance, Florida was just a normal kid at Beth Shields Middle School, normal by today’s standards for a girl just emerging from tweenie status into the burgeoning maturity of full-fledged teenage life.
Hope almost literally had her entire life ahead of her until she made a grave mistake not atypical in twentyfirst century American culture. She paid dearly for that error in judgement by hanging herself in her bedroom with one end of a pink scarf tied to her bed and the other to her neck.
It’s nearly impossible for any male, and moreso for an elder male, to understand the processes that take place in the female mind, and moreso in the inner workings of a young, female teenager.
I’ve dealt with two of those minds but that was in a previous generation when, as bad as it was in the sense of child raising and venomous threats and influences, in retrospect they now seem like halcyon days filled with all sweetness and light as contrasted with the dark temptations and influences of today.
Young girls have always been noted for their silly crushes, their wild indiscretions, their squeals of delight at the appearance of a Sinatra, the Beatles, or a Justin Bieber.
Before I’m accused of sexism I will say that so too did normal boys’ hearts pump faster at a vision of Marilyn Monroe, Brigette Bardot, and today of Beyonce, Taylor Swift, or Miley Cyrus.
However, from the perspective of an admitted amateur shrink, I think it’s fairly obvious that most teenie girls are far more emotional and much more sensitive than boys in that age category.
Some are even irrationally “boy crazy.”
Such may have been the case with pretty, little Hope Witsell . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1355)
Posted by: Berlet98 at December 3, 2009 10:20 AM
Haven't seen it mentioned here yet: New York legislature voted thumbs-down on marriage for teh gheys yesterday.
Posted by: Karin at December 3, 2009 11:16 AM
"Archbishop Carlson should publicly warn Senator McCaskill that if she votes for healthcare reform that includes one penny towards child-killing by abortion that she will be denied communion in every parish in this diocese," said Diana Roccograndi, team leader from Insurrecta Nex, based in Washington, DC. "In DC we constantly see Senator McCaskill defy the teachings of the Church in her votes with impunity. For the sake of innocent babies, for the sake of the Catholic Church at large, and for the sake of her own soul, this scandal must stop."
Here is a video on how the press conference went:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5nJaIW6YY0
Posted by: SK at December 3, 2009 11:26 AM
"I'm with you 100% Eric. Double standards for liberals, and they've created a sub-class of citizens. The next step will be to shove conservatives out of the voting process."
Give me a goddamn break! Listen to yourselves "I am a conservative and I'm so oppressed!" sniff, sniff. Not sure if you noticed, but you lost. I thought when Ann Coulter spoke about victims, she meant the left. I guess not, the left organized.
"Liberals do show totalitarian tendencies when they will not allow the conservative opinion to be voiced by screaming over them as they try to speak." Yeah, that screaming and shouting worked wonders for liberals huh? More bellyaching from the right! You have the highest rated radio shows, the highest rated cable news network, yet you are so oppressed!
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 11:41 AM
Not sure if you noticed, but you lost.
Or "I won." After all those years castigating conservatives for allegedly believing in "Might Makes Right," liberals engage in the most blatant instances thereof.
Who was it a few comments ago said something about projection?
You have the highest rated radio shows, the highest rated cable news network,...
True; that's a "defect" libs wish to "remedy" by introducing the Fairness Doctrine (or other roses by any other Orwellian name) to level the playing field. A playing field which, on merits alone, they know they can't win. (Air America. Enough said.)
Posted by: Conservigilant at December 3, 2009 11:49 AM
Now there's a flag that I'd like to burn. Hell, let's burn a bunch of them. It's free speech, you know. Seriously, if our flag was ruined by having that obama swastika replace the stars, what do you think the lefties would want as punishment for burning one? Death?
Posted by: man of few words at December 3, 2009 11:51 AM
I actually said nothing about "projection", so try to keep up. Were you bellyaching this much when "free speech zones" were erected near Bush rallies? Were you crying when patriotic Americans were denied entrance or forced to leave events for wearing a "peace" t-shirt? No? I didn't think so. So, when you try to say liberals and "double standards", why don't you try it without rewriting history.
If you choose to debate the fairness doctrine, I hope you know something about it. It has nothing to do with silencing anybody, you douche! It has to do with ownership.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 12:01 PM
"....by introducing the Fairness Doctrine..."
For how long now have you been raising that so-called issue?
For how long now has absolutely nothing happened??
The right specializes in playing "poor me...I am SO oppressed." That "oppression" began just around the time of the Presidential election didn't it?
Posted by: Southern Man at December 3, 2009 12:03 PM
For how long now have you been raising that so-called issue?
For how long now has absolutely nothing happened??
Why nothing has happened so far, you ask? Because it was stopped in its tracks before it could, DUH! The Fairness Doctrine was shot down in one of the few (and maybe last) shows of spine by the Republicans in Congress.
Libs just don't stop to think. It amazes you even though you've seen it a hundred times.
If you choose to debate the fairness doctrine, I hope you know something about it. It has nothing to do with silencing anybody, you douche! It has to do with ownership.
And I have a bridge you might be interested in purchasing.
Posted by: Conservigilant at December 3, 2009 12:19 PM
Admiral Michael Mullen rebuffs Rumsfeld's lie about troop requests for Afghanistan.
Adm. Michael Mullen told a House committee Wednesday that Gen. David McKiernan, who led U.S. troops in Afghanistan between 2008 and this year, had asked for 20,000 troops for the effort but was rebuffed.
“We didn’t have them because they were pushed to Iraq,” the four-star admiral said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in response to a question from Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence. “That was the priority of the president.”
Seems to me someone wrote something similar the other day.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 12:47 PM
John (you're not human till 2 years old) Holdren at the Global Warming hearings today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJJ928EmDNA&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 12:53 PM
This was me above sorry
Posted by: AlphaOmega at December 3, 2009 12:54 PM
anon o mouse I'm curious what an admiral would know about the Army's request for more troops.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 3, 2009 2:23 PM
Well that was also backed up by Gen. McKiernan. Those known unknowns just sneak up on you, don't they?
Posted by: Anonymous at December 3, 2009 2:40 PM
Wht didn't you state that before? I was merely asking a question. By the way when did rummey step down?
Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 3, 2009 2:51 PM
anon you are one big ass liar. Rumsfeld stepped down in 2006,he couldn't have known if any troop requests were turned down because he wasn't there in 2008. Fuckin scum libbies they can never tell the truth.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 3, 2009 2:57 PM
Hell no the libs never tell the truth. Power is more important to them rather that doing what is right. So lying, scamming, and playing the hypocrite game is par for the course with them.
By the way, Barry said back in 2007 that a surge in Iraq wouldn't work, but one in Afghanistan will (albeit 10-20K less than what the generals wanted)? Is that what took NoBama 9 months to make a fuckin' decision about that?
Posted by: Anonymous (Guess who?) at December 3, 2009 3:50 PM
Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/03/democrats-criminalizing-dissent/
Posted by: J at December 3, 2009 3:59 PM
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at December 3, 2009 4:35 PM
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at December 3, 2009 4:36 PM
In connection with above:Larger image of the "hope and change"
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at December 3, 2009 4:42 PM
Public sex tents at San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair?
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at December 3, 2009 4:35 PM
I'm sure Lao thought it was a good idea.
Posted by: Atomic Lib Smasher at December 3, 2009 9:41 PM
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.."
" So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son.."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."
PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.
LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq
Posted by: TED at December 4, 2009 7:50 AM


