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And Now a Word from SarahW

Dan Collins is generous man, a substantial man, and I plan to repay him for all that lovely saucy workhorse blogging I've been steeping in for years, blogging that makes me want to grab hams to baste in themaple sugar glaze of his soul, with mostly blind hyper links, unspun! I think I know what he'll like.

He likes English Teachers.
This one demonstrates what English sounds like to Foreigners:

He likes blind links from Boing Boing

Bollywood Dance class finally pays off! We are re-enacting this at
Christmas CPAC.

...and he likes Forbidden things

Just keep scrolling...

Oh. Gingermen are burning. Pictures later.

[Comment from Dan: I love that Italian TV song so much that I may replace the soundtrack from Jabba the Hutt's pirate ship that I usually blog to.]

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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Airline Woes Mean Little Or No Posting

Brendan flew into Philly from Milwaukee. Philly has always been for me the Airport of Doom, not least because it usually means that I'm flying US Air. He got there, and yeah, I know about the weather event, but the US Air kabuki began almost immediately.

That is to say, after a series of delays, his flight to Burlington was cancelled. He then switched to a flight to Albany, which is 2 1/2 hours away from here, rather than the usual 35 minutes to the airport in Burlington. The flight was then pushed back 3 times--they need to keep pretending that they're going to go, so that people don't start demanding accommodations of various kinds--Mary had to set out and ended up having to return after getting there. Finally, as is the usual procedure, having been through this many times before with US Airlines in Philly, they announced, after everyone had boarded, that the flight was cancelled because the crew would exceed their maximum permitted shift hours. They said that people who'd missed the flight would likely get home on Tuesday.

Brendan met up with a guy who'd already been stranded there for a couple of days. They decided to rent a car, and he's driving Brendan to Albany before continuing on to Massachusetts. So, I've got to drive down there and get him.

I hate liars.

Having said that, I hope you'll put aside all the political sturm und drang enough to enjoy yourselves, after you've done all you can to register your indignation over this POS bill. Democrats, insisting that it be pounded through and damn the will of the American people, before Christmas, before it has been revealed in its details, before it has been read by those who are supposed to vote on it, have now accused Republicans of attempting to ruin the Christmas of staff.

"Fuck you" hardly does justice to my sentiments.

UPDATE: In somewhat more measured language, Byron York explains why this is an absurd lie.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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Not a Huge Fan of Huckabee

But there's nothing he says in this impassioned speech in Nebraska that I don't agree with.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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Merry Christmas from Carol of No Sheeples

And thanks very much. You know how to keep Christmas well, Carol.

That creature at the top of our banner is some form of leviathan. Mainly, it's spouting off.

And a special Christmas thanks also goes out to Serr8d, who conjures up a lot of wonderful illustrations for this blog. Sorry to pull the rug out on his link.

And best wishes for a blessed Christmas to Donald Douglas and family. Donald sends along photos of the tallest Christmas tree.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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Stacy’s Blogging at New Digs

Check them out here, and update your blogroll.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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But for the Grace of God Goes Madison McGraw

This is regarding the tragic case of the drowning death we were praying for last week. 

Madison McGraw is a former paramedic turned fledgling novelist who lives in a giant house made of glass, bitterness and judgement.  And pouring salt in the wounds of a grieving mother has made her more popular than ever!  So funny how things work out like that. (more)

Kill Truck

KillTruck is a wife, mother, blogger and native midwesterner now living in Eastern Washington state. She writes about politics, pop culture, parenting, wifing and a few other subjects she has no authority to write about. She has macabre fascinations with prostitution and/or cannibalism. In her free time she enjoys eating and/or drinking her feelings, liveblogging Lifetime movies, thinking about Scott Brown and mocking things she doesn’t understand.

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Tension and Torque

In the present day I am reminded of the Declaration of Independence. In short, when it became clear to those in the New World that their overlords were an entire sea away - a grand divide existing between those in charge and those pursuing their happiness on the ground - the realization occurred that the parasites who would tax them and rule them were completely out-of-touch with the host. The realization occurred that bloodlines and origin were just so much romanticism - and, in fact, nothing but chains. That the overlords of the day knew nothing about the minds of the New World peoples they sought to control to their exclusive benefit. The sons and daughters of England realized they were no longer being served by their fatherland... but whored instead. Treated as bastards, yet expected to comply blindly with the wishes of father.

Something of the same - possibly worse - is the state of affairs between the ruling class of today and the little people they bleed to their sole benefit.

I have said it before. I will say it again: I have as much affinity with Barney Frank, Chucky Schumer, Pelosi, Reid, and the One! as I do with a Sri Lankan. And on the Right, it is much the same. We are no longer being governed by us. We are being governed by the Others. DC may as well be across the Atlantic - so out-of-touch are they. And their contempt for "we the people" is stunning.

Do they not see what they will reap? The enemy is of the same passport. And this makes the enemy traitorous. This is why it is worse - the crime being committed against we the people - than that of a King who has never set foot on our soil.

Tasty Sentiment Indeed. h/t EddieBear

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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The Health Care Fiasco: Worse Than “The Phantom Menace” [UPDATED]

It's true that Bernie Sanders and Mary Landrieu (see Louisiana Purchase) got bought off in order to vote for this unprecedented historic abortion of a bill that hasn't even been written yet, but nothing compares with what Ben Nelson gets: 100% federal funding of Medicaid in Nebraska in perpetuity.

Nothing in American history resembles this legislation for sheer jerry-building so much as the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854. The Republic has gone rickety.

It's hard for me to be sanguine, under the circumstances. It will be fascinating watching elderly Floridians pack up and head to Nebraska, I suppose, so there's that. Unfortunately, we are obligated to continue to resist this enormous fuck you of a "Christmas present" in whatever fashion we can. Nothing says Feliz Navidad like federally funded abortion, dontcha know. Here's a place to start.

What comes next is very discomforting to think about. But we have now crossed that line from what our country was into something else, and that something else has nothing whatsoever with the country being a Republic. There will be a reckoning for this, and it will not be pleasant — not for anyone.

However ill this makes you, I'm afraid that I anticipate the actual shape and effects of the legislation, when it assumes final form, will be worse than any of us could possibly have imagined. Likely even worse than The Phantom Menace.

Go buy a pitchfork.

UPDATE: Others are making the same comparison (to Nebraska-Kansas, not The Phantom Menace). And if I thought anyone over at AoSHQ ever read this blog, I'd consider maybe the rough beastiality had something to do with this, but that's just the anxiety of effluence, I'm sure.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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CBO Scores $130 Billion in ObamaCare Savings Over Decade

Even if you buy this, given the absurd manipulations of bookkeeping that are required to reach that figure, it doesn't matter. Obama's announced that we're going to donate $33 billion per year for the next ten to 3rd world countries in climate reparations, for a net profit of -$200 billion.

But what the heck. Why worry about hundreds of billions, anymore?

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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