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Tupac: He's Dead

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Dan Collins

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Wednesday Morning Call Out / Happy BFD-Day!

Holding their feet to the fire, Tom Coburn makes HCR supporters vote on amendments that show what's in the crap sandwich. Ruby Slippers on dysfunction injunction, or erections have consequences.

Patterico, having macadamized Brad Blog, proceeds to pulverization.

Our Favorite Evil Giraffe goes Delahunting.

And for BFD-Day, I think this counts as a BFD.

Also in the BFD category: Mouthy Southie boots Hotsy-Totsy Tattooed Nazi. (I think DaTechGuy will appreciate that.)

The smoothest pick-up line EVAH! must surely count as a BFD.

Iowahawk meets a BFD incarnate.

Dan Collins

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Can I Have My Library Now, George?

I'll feed it and pet it and water it and...

Enoch_Root

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

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Eeyo Sees a Smelt

[With apologies to Dr. Seuss]

On the fifteenth of May, in the San Joaquin Valley,
In the heat of the day, in the middle of Cali,
He was sipping…enjoying the vinyard’s great joys…
When Eeyo the Wilsonite heard a small noise.

So Eeyo stopped sipping. He looked towards the sound.
“That’s funny,” thought Eeyo. “There’s no one around.”
Then he heard it again! Just a very faint glub
As if some tiny creature were sucking a bub.
“I’ll help you,” said Eeyo. “But who are you? Where?”
He looked to the pond. The water was brimming.
A lugubrious bug in it seemed to be swimming.

“What ho!” murmured Eeyo. “I’ve got to the nub
Of the important creature that seemed to say glub.
So you know what I think?…Why, I think it's essential
To confer on it more rights than human potential!
Some sort of a smelt of very small size,
Too keen to be noticed by ignorant eyes…

“…some poor little creature who’s shaking with fear
That he’ll run out of water! My purpose is clear!
I’ll just have to save him. Because, after all,
A creature’s a person, no matter how small.”

Dan Collins

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Zombie FrankenKennedyStein / Boycott San Francisco

stalks the land.

Rook! Godzirra!

And the Witches of Fudgewick, naturally. Now, she has the time. You know, I don't have a problem with your taking your personal vacation to San Francisco, or visiting your friends there, but I would urge everyone to boycott any sort of convention or official gathering there, since Pelosi's national approval is 11% and the majority of San Franciscans don't care that she chafes our asses, maybe because they think that's pleasant.

Dan Collins

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Wackjob Amy Bishop’s Husband’s Gun

Her husband denied knowing where she'd gotten the gun, he said previously, and (oddly, since she'd killed her brother with one) didn't think to ask. Turns out, it seems, that it was his gun, which he'd asked a friend to purchase for him a couple of decades back, when he was "having trouble with a neighbor." The weapon was purchased in New Hampshire, because of Massachusetts' waiting period, so apparently needed somewhat urgently at the time, but ready to hand when once again other people's reality threatened to intrude.

"She said it was no way she was there, no way it happened. 'I wasn't there.' That kept being a reoccurring thing throughout the interview," Gray said.

Bishop's attorney has said that that she doesn't remember the shootings, and she herself said the shootings "didn't happen" in her only public comments since the killings.

"What about the people who died?" a reporter asked as she was led to a police car hours after the killings.

"There's no way. They're still alive," she responded.

What she means to say is that it's simply too inconvenient for her that they died when she pumped bullets into them. (Thanks to Sarah W.)

Dan Collins

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Tomorrow Is National BFD-Day [UPDATED]

Use the expression wherever inappropriate.

For example: Instapundit says Amazon has big deals on anime DVDs. [UPDATE: I wasn't too far off.]

Naturally, the proper response is "(This is a) bigfuckindeal," or (TIA)BFD for short.

FDR had The New Deal; Obama has The Big F*cking Deal.

Dan Collins

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Disillusioned Insurance Analyst Speaks Out

The scales of illusion drop from his eyes:

As someone who reports on health insurers' use of technology to gain efficiencies, better monitor treatment and increase members' participation in their healthcare choices, I must have developed a distorted picture of what these companies are actually like. I had come to believe that rate changes, however high, were conditioned by real costs and, in any case, had to be justified to regulators. But who am I going to believe, my lying eyes or our beneficent President?

Dan Collins

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I’d Be Infernal, Too

An impotent message from the Berman Post.

Speaking of cojonectomies:

Now ask yourself this question: If you were a Congressional Democrat, do you really think Mom and Dad and Little Billy and Katelyn are going to thank you for the job you've done once they realize you have decided they aren't going have vacations and college funds and retirement savings because you have decided their freedom to choose how they spend their money isn't important enough for you to honor?

I want my Utopia, and I want it NOW!!!

Dan Collins

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How Obama’s “Progressivism” Is Totalitarianism

You will remember the continuous keening about warrantless wiretapping and Echelon under President Bush the Younger, and you'll perhaps recall that some on the left who were actually committed to privacy issues, rather than wielding them as a cudgel for Bush, felt disillusioned by the Obama administration's decision to keep many of the Bush rules in place. But the invasions of privacy being enacted by the administration and Congress are far greater than anything even contemplated by Bush.

Obama's plan all along, as I've mentioned in several posts, has been to enact Health Care Reform as applying only to American citizens, who have for the most part been paying into the (broke) system, but then to confer citizenship on the illegals now residing in this country. As we've seen from the mouth of SEIU, this reclassification of people who've abused our country's laws is meant to provide an electoral advantage to the Democrats and Progressives who've been so generous with citizens' money already---in the name of "charity" and "fairness." Indeed, the prospect penalizes those who've bothered (foolishly, in retrospect) to go about seeking US citizenship in the lawful way, at considerable expense in time, money and trouble. In short, they want to make more voting clients of the welfare state, and it's pointless to suggest to them that this might somehow negatively affect the security and well-being of the citizens to whom, theoretically, they are already supposed to answer.

To make this chicken-fried crapburger go down more easily, they are dangling the prospect of biometric identification for all citizens---after amnesty, of course. That is to say, the same people who feel that it is too great a burden for people to have to show official photo identification at the polls want to make use of verifiable ID mandatory, presumably, for virtually any sort of economic transaction. Not only that, but President Obama has expressed his support for taking DNA samples from anyone arrested for whatever reason, charged or not charged, much less convicted. Whether such steps fit your conception of totalitarian, I will leave you to decide.

At the same time, it will now be necessary for the IRS to hire 16,500 shovel-ready agents (at a cost of $10 billion, for starters) to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share of the HCR bill costs, so that health care records can be properly screened by government bean-counters, who would never under any circumstances leak information for political gain, such as the health records that Obama declined to supply the electorate during the campaign. Congresspeople, who seem to have some trouble paying their taxes in some instances, and their senior staff, will fortunately be exempt from the provisions that they are putting in place for us, presumably because this health care is so yummy they want their constituents to enjoy every delicious bite. You can be sure that practitioners of various kinds of holistic hooey will be compensated under this scheme, in the name of diversity, now that Obama has restored science to its rightful place in society; except that the practitioners will not be burdened by the same standards of care that, y'know, real physicians will . . . assuming one can find one.

And, as you know, Cass Sunstein would like to make it criminal to peddle any but government-approved conspiracy theories. That is to say that the government shall be free to libel you, but not you the government, and as in the UK the burden of proof and its expense shall fall on the accused. There are certainly many ridiculous conspiracy theories on the web and in print, but until there are no such thing as conspiracies, it would be fascistic to squelch them through means more heavy-handed than ridicule. In fact, there is nothing to prevent a government agency from designating a conspiracy theory any inference they don't like. And whereas I personally have considered the outright ban on federal student loans for young idiots convicted of drug offenses too draconian, wait till the government has a monopoly and people are excluded from higher education on the basis of thoughtcrime. Naturally, no administration would abuse the process, but still . . . the potential exists, at least in a parallel dimension where dissent is viewed as cognitive dysfunction.

At the same time, the government will control a large swath of youth employment via AmeriCorps, where it will be necessary to be "committed to the mission," which will be "progressive" though "non-partisan." Party membership must have its privileges. And although the administration abhors the idea of private citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights, they advocate installing a kind of Carabinieri force of cultural revolutionaries, as numerous as those in the armed forces, to police the country internally. As Elvis Costello sang, "Have you got yourself an occupation?" (Though I agree with Jules that Enoch's image is a little overtly gun-jumpy.)

As Obama said a couple of days ago, "This is what change looks like." Comrades.

If you believe this is paranoid, contemplate the concerted subversion of checks and balances. "Progressivism" is totalitarianism.

Via Jules, Sowell on the Total Information Government.

If the current legislation does not entail the transmission of all our individual medical records to Washington, it will take only an administrative regulation or, at most, an Executive Order of the President, to do that.

With politicians now having not only access to our most confidential records, and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?

Good morning, Amerika! At last we have achieved freedom from the tyranny of choice!

Via Bob Owens:

Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.

And a list of grievances. Speaking of grievances, does anyone recall Bob Herbert squealing about Holder dissing the human rights hero Bartle Bull who denounced the New Black Panthers episode? Either Clyburn lied, or the Capitol Police did, or the journalists, it would seem. He seems also to have a strange appraisal of Joe Biden, and not to have read the Valukas Report. Not that it's a big f*cking deal.

Dan Collins

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