India’s navy sinks pirate “mother ship.”

Nazi philosopher Gregor Strasser:

We are enemies, deadly enemies, of today’s capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money.

A half century’s slander: it isn’t conservatives who must answer for fascism. Read the whole thing.

Evan Sayet, former writer for Bill Maher:

Imagine being in a restaurant with an old friend and you’re catching up. And suddenly he blurts out, “I hate my wife.” And you kind of chuckle to yourself because he says it every time you’re together, and you know he doesn’t hate his wife… they’ve been together for 35 years. He loves his daughters and they’re just like her. No, he doesn’t hate his wife. Then you’re having some dinner, and you look out the window and spot his wife… and she’s being beaten up. And you grab your friend, and you say, “Come on, let’s help her, let’s help your wife!” And he says, “Nah… I’m sure she deserves it.” At that moment, it dawns on you: he really does hate his wife.

Well that’s what 9-11 was to me. I would hear my friends from the Left say how evil and horrible and racist and imperialistic and oppressive America is, and I’d laugh to myself, Eh they always say that, they love America. And then on 9-11 we were beaten up.  And I grabbed them by the collar, and I jumped up and said, “Come on, let’s help her, let’s help America!” And they said, “No… she deserves it.” At that moment, I realized: they really do hate America.

I always appreciate the perspective of poltical “switchers.” Video after the break. It’s a long watch, but worth it.

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Camille Paglia:

How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the State University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don’t know their asses from their elbows.

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

It’s a good read, so read the whole thing.

I’m reposting something I read on Facebook because 1) Facebook is a closed-network, and 2) things posted to Facebook have a way of going down the memory hole. The following is from a friend of a friend, Leslie Taylor. – Kev

Now that we know Obama is going to be president, I wanted to write down some of the things he stood for during this campaign. I want to do this because I want for us to hold him (as well as all our elected officials) accountable. I want everyone to know where he says he stood when he wanted your vote, and to make sure you see where he goes once he gets it. For too long we have forgotten too soon what our candidates have promised and supposedly stood for, so I hope that this will serve as a reminder. I hope to at least look back at this list every year, to review what has been done during that year. I am not going to hit every single subject – but I’m going to try to focus on the main ones. I am also going to try to be totally fair. My goal is simply to plainly state the facts of what he supports. If you feel I have missed something, please let me know, with sources to support your claim, so that I can repair any misinformation I present here. For this to work, it needs to be accurate – so if I am not, please let me know, *with sources*. So now, onto the list of his claims. PLEASE NOTE that all of these are taken directly from his website, unless otherwise stated.  More…

Bacon beats Fries.

But really, in this race, is anyone a loser?

Take a look at this: Change.gov

No, that’s not a joke. Jokesters can’t get ahold of the .gov top level domain name.

It’s very well-designed, easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing. And this is for the President-elect, not a candidate. Could it be that an Obama Administration will do away with the embarrassingly horrible websites currently representing our national government? Please!?

(For an example of the innerwebs blasphemy, check out the ironically-named Usability.gov)

UPDATE: Hmm. I can only hope this page is simply a placeholder. The coming administration doesn’t honestly think there are not service opportunities, do they?

I’d love to hear an argument about why this isn’t socialism.

Ha! Come on, you have to agree this is funny.

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

“Later in the hour we’ll tell you how to spot and avoid an Obama supporter by looking for clues on their messenger bag.”