The Uggly Truth

You have to be kidding me:

In a truly blonde moment, [Pam Anderson] has suddenly realised that the boots are made from shaved sheepskin.

And mother-of-two Pammy, a staunch animal rights activist who has been a PETA member for a decade, says she is racked with guilt that women worldwide have followed in her footsteps.

"People like to tell me all the time that I started that trend – yikes!" Anderson wrote. "I used to wear them with my red swimsuit to keep warm, never realising they were skin.

How stupid is this retard? This stupid:

Pammy won't be ditching her trademark look altogether, but says she is designing her own version using synthetic materials.

So, ditch the all-natural, infinitely renewable, biodegradable material for something made out of chemicals. Infinitely stupid.

Do What I Say, Not What I Do

Al Gore, environmental hypocrite and poseur:

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Gore responds here, but, really, Glenn Reynolds gets it right with this. In the end, just about every environmentalist is a phony hypocrite.

Hillary Clinton's Evil Plan

It's no surprise that the average Democrat is really a socialist or communist in disguise. It's no surprise that the average news outlet is riven with socialists of one form or another. So, it's no surprise Hillary Clinton said this and it was swept down the memory hole by the mainstream media:

What's the Problem with the War in Iraq?

The Democrats now claim the last election was all about the war, when it wasn't, because none of them ran on the war, they all ran on anti-Republicanism/anti-Bush themes. So, all this hoo-haw about the war, ending the war, the surge, whether or not to support the war, whether to require benchmarks, and on and on and on is ridiculous. As so many have pointed out, the citizenry of this country have not been required to sacrifice anything while this War on Terror is waged. In all likelihood, nobody will ever have to sacrifice anything.

If the newspapers and Democrats just stopped talking about the war, the war would go away. I mean, it's not like Bush is always out there hammering home the importance of the struggle, so if everyone just shut up about it, it'd fade into the background noise. Nobody would have to worry one whit about the war if everyone who worries about it just decided to ignore it. It's not like the war is producing a large number of dead and wounded. It's not as if the troops over there are complaining about the meaninglessness of the mission. It's not as if the popular culture is rebelling against the war. It's not as if those we've liberated want us gone (well, except for the terrorists).

So, the war wouldn't be an issue for anyone in any real terms if those who are making the war an issue just stopped. Then, folks like Sen. Hillary Clinton wouldn't have to get all worked up over having voted for it, confuse their own narratives, and hope like hell it's over and done with before the electorate tunes in for next presidential election cycle. Plus, ignoring the war would marginalize Bush because he wouldn't be able to trumpet any successes in it because nobody would care. And, this way the war could go on until it's won, and everyone could be or pretend to be happy that the good guys won and they were all for it all along; and, if we somehow lost, everyone could say, "Hell, it was Bush's war, he lost, I had nothing to do with it, not my issue."

Ignoring the war is win-win!

Science by Consensus

It's official, the idiots of the world defy scientific evidence and suddenly decide that the world is warmer than it should be, and we humans are the reason why. Now, reconcile that with thirty years ago when the idiots of the world suddenly decided the world was headed for an ice age and humans were the reason why.

The weather is the weather, and there's little any humans can do about any of it, even if we all tried, really, really hard.

Post-Gazette: Democrats "Cave"

Astonishing, really, that whoever headlined this bit on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's website would use the word "cave" to describe what happened, as if it were an inherently bad thing:

Democrats cave, release bonuses information

House Democrats yesterday gave out $1.9 million to staffers last year. Gov. Ed Rendell said he astonished by the amount.

I mean, are we supposed to consider everything the Democrats do to be good by nature, regardless of what it is? And, are government workers even supposed to get "bonuses" for doing their jobs, seeing as how "bonuses" are normally reserved for private sector employees who actually make their company money above-and-beyond what's expected from them, and therefore that employee benefits as a result. Hello, bonus. But $1.9 million to Democrat staffers because ... why, exactly? And, if we have $1.9 million extra just lying around to be handed out to staff members, shouldn't we be giving that back to the taxpayers?

Hello, tax money. Where's the indignation on part of the reporter who wrote this piece? Doesn't that idiot even recognize what he/she is writing about is graft?

UPDATE: The reporter responds:

Thanks for writing.

We’ll be digging into this issue a lot more. Thanks for the questions you raised.

As for not showing indignation … Reporters are supposed to be as objective as possible. I know our editorial writers will have a field day with this issue in the coming days.

Thanks again for writing.

-tracie

Tracie Mauriello

Statehouse reporter

An Idiot at Work

At Slate, Joel Waldfogel writes an article that you don't even need to read to know is bullshit based on the headline:

The Irrational 18-Year-Old Criminal

Evidence that prison doesn't deter crime.

I didn't read it. Don't have to. Whatever it says is complete and total crap because a couple of things are obvious truths to begin with. One, 18-year-old anythings are irrational by nature, so of course they aren't going to be necessarily deterred from committing a crime for fear of prison time; and, second, everybody knows that the threat of spending time in prison deters crime. Rational people think about it that way; irrational people do not. Most criminals are by nature irrational, since they think committing crime is a better lifestyle choice than contributing to society in a positive, work-oriented way.

So, why bother with what is likely another leftist argument against some truth we all know is true in favor of some bit of sophistry?

Mind Controlled

Wow. Talk about monolithic leftist thinking all the way down to the bullet points. Somebody get Ed Kociela a red pill and a razor. But this bit is really, truly pathetic:

No, Jack, there are loyal, honorable, decent people in this country who are outraged, who ache for those who have lost their lives behind a pack of lies, whose hearts have been plundered by an unreality that has become our reality.

And, we’re reaching out, Jack, to shake you from the stupor that has glazed over far too many eyes in this once honorable republic.

A classic case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. It started instantly once it was known Bush would be the next president and will only end if the Republicans are completely out of power. Watch, the symptoms will carry over to the next president if that president is a Republican.

Spitting on the Troops

Metaphorically speaking, WaPo "national and homeland security" (!?!) writer William Arkin actually goes out of his way to slam the troops. First, the assclown over-generalizes what "the American public" thinks, mis-characterizes the handful of wrongs that have been done by the men in uniform, and then sneers at them:

These soldiers should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President's handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.

Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.

Sure, it is the junior enlisted men who go to jail. But even at anti-war protests, the focus is firmly on the White House and the policy. We don't see very many "baby killer" epithets being thrown around these days, no one in uniform is being spit upon.

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

And then, because the men and women in the service volunteered to protect pansy-asses lily-livered cowards like himself, the slanders them as being "mercenaries" because they draw a paycheck for being in the military:

But it is the United States, and the recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.

Typical unthinking leftist nonsense from a moonbat who ought to get slugged the first time he runs into an Iraq veteran in a bar, but won't, because the average soldier is far too gracious to sink to Arkin's level.