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Think You're Protected By The Fourth Ammendment?

Well, you used to be... but that was before Obama signed away yet another piece of our sovereignty in pursuit of his liberal vision of "global governance".

In 1983 President Reagan agreed to host an agency of Europe's Interpol police force here in the US, but only with the requirement that Interpol operations in America would be subject to U.S. laws such as the Fourth Ammendment protection against search and seizure, and the Freedom Of Informtation Act.  Fast forward to December 16th 2009 and President Obama signs Executive Order 12425, removing nearly all of Regan's restrictions on Interpol.

Now Interpol is essentially operating on a higher plane that the U.S. Constitution.  It's officers already have diplomatic immunity, and now they will be able to investigate and possibly make arrests of American citizens on U.S. soil without regard to the protections afforded to us by the founding fathers.  It also creates a repository for documents within the U.S. Department Of Justice that is inviolate... exempt from scrutiny by Congress and immune to subpoenas from our court system.

Think about that for a minute... Obama just signed away some of the protections Thomas Jefferson and George Washington signed into law for you.

Is this the change you were hoping for? 

Hat tip to CmBlake6 for the heads up.  More info and links over at his site.

Michelle Obama, An Icon Of Feminine Allure

I wouldn't pick on the President's wife if A) she hadn't campaigned just like a member of the administration, and B) she wasn't constantly being touted by left leaning media types as the new paragon of style and beauty.  But she does, and she is, so here you go:

Oh yeah, she TOTALLY deserved to be on that list!  There was absolutely NO political motive to her selection by the magazines unbiased editorial staff.

Riiight.

Thousands Protest Against "Global Warming"

Janet Napolitano "The System Has Worked"

Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano was interviewed about the attempted terrorist attack man-caused disaster aboard a Northwest Airlines flight into Detroit on Christmas Day.  She said the fact that the plane was not destroyed and the terrorist suspect was apprehended was evidence that "the system has worked".

Really?

What system is that Janet?  The bureaucratic, politically correct system designed to prevent security personnel from giving Muslim males the additional screening they deserve?  Yes, I guess THAT system worked perfectly. 

This woman is a joke.

I was not aware "the system" required PASSENGERS to subdue terrorists men attempting to cause disasters in the aisles mid-flight.  I thought "the system" was supposed to prevent terrorists men attempting to cause disasters from getting on-board in the first place, or at least prevent them from bringing aboard the tools necessary to hijack or destroy an aircraft.

DEMOCRATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE SECURITY OF THIS NATION.  They will allow political correctness to hamper all our efforts to defeat the enemy, both at home and abroad.  Liberals are pussies, and the terrorists men attempting to cause disasters know this.  Hell, even Vice President Biden knows this, and he said as much on the campaign trail!

Before Obama's term is up I'm afraid we will learn this lesson the hard way.

Obama's Alinsky Tactics Are Succeeding

Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" is the bible of left wing Chicago style power politics, and Alinsky is one of Obama's mentors, and Barry is successfully using Alisnky's tactics to advance his liberal remaking of AmeriKKKa.

Case in point:

Rule #8 - Keep the pressure on.  Overwhelm your enemy.

The Democrats have succeeded at this. 

How else can you explain a blogger like me not even posting once about the ridiculous health care "reform" bill getting rammed through the Senate at a midnight roll call on a party line vote bought with hundreds of billions in taxpayer funded bribes to several Democrat Senators? 

I'm just worn out... You can't be outraged all the time about everything can you?  I can't.

A Corgi Christmas

Okay, just one more bit of Christmas stuff to share with you guys.

This is a short little video I made of our dog Chloe and all her goofy antics on Christmas morning. Most notably, that she saw our daughter get a stocking, remembered that she had her own stocking, found her stocking hanging up, and proceeded to beg until we gave her what Santa brought for her.

She is so smart... and such a stickler for tradition.

All I Want For Christmas Is... Denise Milani!

Here's a little belated Christmas present from the bountiful and beautiful Denise Milani.

Oh my.  She's really got some wonderul "gifts" don't you think? 

 

Cygnus "Carol Of The Bells"

Here's a special holiday treat.  It's a Christmas tune I recorded back in '97 (I think) when I used to noodle around with keyboards and musical equipment.  My musical project (not really a band per se) was called Cygnus and focused on electronic music, usually with some kind of space or sci-fi vibe. 

I'm not going to win a Grammy for this, but I think it came out pretty cool, and made a nice little Christmas day blog post.

It was taken from a casette tape, so the sound quality isn't the greatest at times, but it's all I've got.  I'm not even sure I could recreate it if I tried.  I think I've forgotten how to hook up all that stuff, much less operate it and play chords and notes and things. 

(This is also my first YouTube video.  Woo hoo!)

Hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Crowder Examines The Failure Of Detroit

Brittany Murphy R.I.P.

Shocking news: Actress Brittany Murphy, best known for roles in Sin City and 8 Mile, died today of cardiac arrest at 32.

Brittany was a lovely young woman.  What a shame.  I hope drugs weren't involved.  That would turn something poignant into something pathetic.

You can see more Brittany on her page in my babes section from last April.

Kay Starr "(Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag"

Here's one of my favorite Christmas tunes:

What a fun uptempo song.  Beats "White Christmas" anyday IMHO.  

Happy Holidays Hottie

The Dishonesty Of Climate Change Exposed In One Easy Click...

Via CMBlake6 and BMEWS here is all the dishonesty of the global warming hoax exposed in one fell swoop.

This is like the "hockey stick" temperature chart that Al Gore made famous in his ironically title film An Inconvenient Truth:

Wow.  Those recent temps are really skyrocketing.  We've got to do something to stop it or we'll all be dead!!!

Okay.  Now calm yourself and click here to see the WHOLE truth.

Once you see the full history of temperatures instead of just the little section right at the end it makes the entire man-made global warming argument absurd.

How did such an asinine concept get such a grip on our culture?  How was something so ludicrous allowed to be taught in schools?  Why did we waste billions upon billions of dollars tilting at this windmill?

Oh... I forgot, socialism.  Now I get it.

Merry Christmas

From the Wall Street Journal:

Mike Smith, who works as Santa at the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, Ohio, says a 5-year-old girl wearing a Dora the Explorer sweat shirt last month hopped in his lap and asked, "Can you turn my daddy into an elf?" "Why?" he asked.

"Because my daddy's out of work, and we're about to lose our house," she said.

The girl's mother, standing by her little brother's stroller, burst into tears. A stunned Mr. Smith asked the girl if her father was good with a hammer, and the girl said yes. "I didn't know what to say after that, so we just took the picture," he says with regret.

Yeah, really... what do you say to that? 

I hope those responsible for this recession are proud of themselves... but I heard they just passed out huge bonuses and increased salaries where they work so they probably don't give a crap about us regular folks and our struggles. 

The Future Ex-Mrs. Tiger Woods And A Playboy Pinball Machine

This is awesome on more than one level... Elin Nordegren Woods posing with a vintage Playboy pinball machine.

Hot chick?  CHECK
Hot topic?  CHECK
Pinball?     CHECK

It's a trifecta!  Should attract a lot of search engine traffic too.  Win win.

Still can't believe he cheated on THAT.  What an idiot!

P.S. What's the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa Claus?

...

Santa stops after three ho's.

Apple Does It Again!

Sunnyvale, CA - Apple Computer announced today that it has developed a revolutionary breast implant that can store and play music.

The iTit® will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size and is available in a wide range of fashion colors.

The new product is also expected to be a major societal breakthrough, because women can finally stop complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Cameron's Avatar An America Hating Liberal Revenge Fantasy?

Damn... If Big Government says it's the sci-fi equivalent of a Michael Moore film then it will probably piss me off more than entertain.

[...] The result is “Avatar,” a sanctimonious thud of a movie so infested with one-dimensional characters and PC clichés that not a single plot turn – small or large – surprises. I call it the “liberal tell,” where the early and obvious politics of the film gives away the entire story before the second act begins, and “Avatar” might be the sorriest example of this yet. For all the time and money and technology that went into its making, the thing that matters most – character and story – are strictly Afterschool Special.

[...] Within 15 minutes, the “liberal tell” spoils every story beat of Sully’s character arc. He’s as dull a protagonist as you’ll ever see. Sigourney Weaver plays a gruff-talking, cigarette smoking scientist with … wait for it, wait for it … a heart of gold. Giovanni Ribisi’s sweaty weasel of a corporate executive never moves beyond that and Col. Quaritch is all ‘roid rage, no humanity and his Big Speech about the necessity of “a pre-emptive attack to fight terror with terror” was as surprising as Cameron‘s use of a military “shock and awe” campaign to level the Na’Vi’s precious “Home Tree” as a tacky metaphor for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Oh yeah, he went there…

[...] Think of “Avatar” as “Death Wish 5” for leftists. A simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy where if you freakin’ hate the bad guys (America), you’re able to forgive the by-the-numbers predictability of it all and still get off watching them get what they got coming. 

Well that sucks...  I was really looking forward to this one, but now I'm not even sure I should see it.  It would seem a shame to reward an arrogant Hollywood liberal for bashing America yet again. 

UPDATE: I went to see Avatar Sunday night (couldn't resist the pointy eared hottie).  Everything the reviewer said was true, but way overblown.  Overall I'd say it's a great ride and worth seeing, even more than once.  Lot's of fun!

Dr. Zero's Open Letter To The Climate Change Cultists

This is a must read:

Dear global warming fanatics,

Please. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Take a deep breath, and try to understand what has happened to you during the past month. You need to accept that your dreams of global domination are over. Increasingly shrill attempts to terrify the masses into ignoring Climagate are only making you look foolish. The con job you’ve been running for the last thirty years is busted forever.

Click over to Hot Air's Greenroom and read the whole thing.  Brilliant, through and through.

 

Six Victoria's Secret Models... Au Natural

After last week's disastrous babe post / joke I knew I had to come up with something special this week, so without further ado, here are lingerie models Alessandra Ambrosio, Izabel Goulart, Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova, and Selita Ebanks... sans lingerie.

Now... does that make up for last week fellas? 

EXIT QUESTION: Which one is your favorite?

New Obama Speechwriter... Mark Steyn?

Mark Steyn weighs in on Obama's increasing banality with this brilliant caricature of a typical Øbama speech:

"There are those who say there is no evil in the world. There are others who argue that pink fluffy bunnies are the spawn of Satan and conspiring to overthrow civilization.  Let me be clear: I believe people of goodwill on all sides can find common ground between the absurdly implausible caricatures I attribute to them on a daily basis. We must begin by finding the courage to acknowledge the hard truth that I am living testimony to the power of nuance to triumph over hard truth and come to the end of the sentence on a note of sonorous, polysyllabic, if somewhat hollow, uplift. Pause for applause."

Click over to National Review Online to read the rest.

 

Dean Martin "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm"

One of my favorite Christmas tunes.

You gotta love you some Dino!

44% Of Americans Want Bush Back

From Public Policy Polling: 

Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they'd rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that's somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country's difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited.  

Here's a little pie chart for you.  I love charts and graphs!

Barack Hussein Obama is on track to be the next Jimmy Carter and I predict that the enormity of his failure will make most people reconsider their feelings about good old W. 

Bush's standing will increase over time as people judge history without the filter of the MSM/DNC Cabal.

Ann Coulter On The Chicanery Of The Green Movement

Ann hits it out of the park with this one: 

It's always the same thing with primitive people -- voodoo practitioners, rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts, debate and a weighing of the evidence, religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor, a "scientific consensus," "the Constitution" or "historians are agreed."

Liberals won't tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent lightbulbs by 2014 -- a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead, they tell us there's a "scientific consensus" that we have to use fluorescent lightbulbs or we'll all die.

They won't tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead, they tell us "the Constitution" says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesn't remotely say).

They won't tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that "few American Communists were spies" -- until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)

[...] Even if the Earth were warming -- which apparently it is not -- the idea that humans using energy-efficient lightbulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs' belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living, breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.

Sadly, the "human sacrifice deniers" lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists, who explained that there was a "scientific consensus" on the benefits of ritual murder.

But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of "climate change." The global warming cultists want us all dead.

Be sure to click over and read the whole thing.  Brilliant as always.

Hat tip to Shooting The Messenger.

Glenn Beck Asks "Who Is Robert Creamer?"

In case you missed it, this is Glenn Beck's show from Monday.  It's a real eye opener that deserves to be sent around.

Here's part 1 of 4:

Be sure to click through to YouTube and watch the other clips.  Glenn was really on a roll Monday, and this message needs to get out. 

The MSM/DNC Cabal will try to supress this information just like they did with the ACORN scandals and Climategate, but we can't let that happen. 

Pearl Harbor

Here's some amazing color photos of Pearl Harbor attack via Maritime Quest.

Does that day still live in infamy?  I cetainly hope so. 

We lost over 2,300 of our service members and 57 civilians that day, and we cannot afford to relearn lessons like that.

UPDATE: My friend Fits from Shooting The Messenger posted this about Pearl Harbor:

When the time came, we gave as good as we got. Better. And that's the moral of the story. Even with an illegal alien as the commander in chief, fucking with America is a bad idea because when you get right down to it, we've the best military the world will ever see.

And of course he's mostly right, but here's the comment I left at his site, which I thought was worth tagging onto my own Pearl Harbor post:

We won WW2 because we were the manufacturing giants of the globe. The German tanks ran rings around our Shermans, but for every Tiger or Panzer we sent four or five M4s.

We won WW2 because the entire nation focused on that one goal and turned all it's efforts towards attaining it, no matter the cost.

We won WW2 because we believed our cause was just, that God was on our side, and because we didn't find moral equivalence with our enemies. And we actually had the guts to call them enemies!

Now our manufacturing base has shriveled up and liberals have irrevocably destroyed any sense that we are one people, and that we are a just nation.

We may still have the best military on the globe, but our political leaders, media and apathetic and intentionally uninformed populace makes it possible for groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban to simply wait us out.

Our society has the attention span of a five year old and the willpower of Tiger Woods at a Hooters.

This Week's Babe Post? Nancy Pelosi

I know what you're thinking...  Nancy Pelosi is the Queen of the Damned!  She's a blood sucking left wing harpie!  What the heck is Woody thinking?

Well, that's all true, but... 

It would appear that she does have a pretty nice rack... (-;

Let the hatemail commence!  That's half the reason I posted it anyways, just to see who's paying attention to my site prior to the blogroll cleanup.  Evil of me... I know.

Hat tip to Snarky Basterd for the inspiration.

Coldplay "Viva La Vida"

Coldplay made a second video for this song as a tribute to Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" video by Anton Corbijn.

Pretty cool.

Tiger Woods Family Portrait

Listen Up!

Hat tip to Third World County.

Best Buy Could Care Less About Christmas, But Wishes You A Happy Eid Al-Adha

Best Buy doesn't use the word Christmas... ever.  They're more than happy to take all the money you plan to spend on Christmas presents, but none of their staff or advertisments will ever actually make use of the dreaded C Word.

Now, this isn't so unusual in today's business climate, but what is unusual is the following advertisement Best Buy just sent out across the nation:

Hmm... so wishing us a Merry Christmas is inappropriate, but wishing Muslims a happy Eid al-Adha is something to proudly advertise?

I think the Obama voters working at Best Buy's HQ just stepped in it bigtime.  They'd better roll out some Merry Christmas in their stores and advertisments ASAP or there'll be a whole lot of ticked off Christians taking their CHRISTMAS shopping to other retailers.

Announcement: Blogroll Cleanup

FYI: I'll be cleaning out my blogroll this weekend.  If you are listed and don't have a reciprocating link to my site you're gone.  If your blog has been inactive for over 3 months you're gone.  If you turned into a liberal your gone.  If your site sucks bigtime your gone.  Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

I'm also asking for suggestions for new blog buddies, so if anyone knows somebody cool send 'em my way or drop a link here. 

Thanks!

Katie Couric's Night At The Roxbury

The Democrat Party Should Be Renamed The Lawyers Party

Via Mitchieville:

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party.

• Barack Obama was a lawyer. 
• Michelle Obama was a lawyer. 
• Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. 
• Bill Clinton was a lawyer. 
• John Edwards was a lawyer. 
• Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).

Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

• Harry Reid was a lawyer.
• Nancy Pelosi was a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.

• President Bush was a businessman.
• Vice President Cheney was a businessman.

The leaders of the Republican Revolution:

• Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
• Tom Delay was an exterminator.
• Dick Armey was an economist.
• House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
• The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.  The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.

Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Click over to American Energy Crisis to read the rest.  Good stuff!

Twilight Moms

It's true.

Of course, I'm being just a little bit hypocritical here aren't I?