Bettie Page... RIP

1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85

Oooh... now you've done it.

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with race epithet

Al-Zawahri also called Obama — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house Negroes."

Ruh roh. I guess now that Al-Zawahri can be called a racist the PC Police will put down their anti-war protest signs and support the war effort and... what the hell am I saying? First off, Al-Zawahri isn't white, and since only whites can be racists, he obviously can't be considered racist. Secondly, Al-Zawahri hates America, so even if he was white he'd get a pass. Oh well. False alarm. Carry on. By the way, fantastic bit of... er... context on the "house nergoes" thing there MSNBC. Wouldn't want folks to think him a bad person or anything.

Tools.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

So said Winston Churchill. And after watching the short documentary How Obama Got Elected, it's hard to disagree.

An interesting use of video cameras and the internet to... excuse the phrase... speak truth to power. Because it wasn't so much a case of shining a spotlight on a bunch of dopes as it was shining a spotlight on the media. On Election Day, Twelve Obama supporters were asked a series of questions from who people like Barney Frank (which explains why the general public isn't demanding he be drawn and quartered the way they were Ken Lay) and Harry Reid were, to who's controlling Congress, to who has a pregnant teenage daughter.

The video is truly hair-raising, and infuriating. These dipsticks were grossly ill informed yet, I'm have little doubt that if you got into a debate with one of them, especially Adarsha, whose conditioned response to the mere mentioning of the name Sarah Palin would have made Pavlov drool, would not doubt think, and I'm sure tell you, that you were the one who didn't know what they were talking about. Oh, and probably racist too.

The one bright spot was Erika who showed genuine surprise and concern over things like Biden's plagiarism and Obama's having all of his opponents tossed off the ballot for his first election win. It was still troubling, however, that knowing that she's not as informed as she thought, she was still okay with voting for Obama.

But since you can't really call the interviewing of a dozen or so Obama voters scientific, they hired the pollsters at Zogby to conduct a phone poll. The results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

The point being that the media and their endless fawning over and protection of The One, as well as their ceaseless hammering of his His opponents, namely Gov. Palin, had a major role in this year's election. A big "No kidding", but still, an interesting, and troubling, survey to say the least.

This just in from the Department of Phys Ed...

Soul honored at Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards

PHILADELPHIA -- The World Champion Philadelphia Soul were honored at the 7th Annual Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards with an Outstanding Team Achievement Award on Monday night at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Center City Philadelphia. On hand to accept the award will be head coach Bret Munsey and 2008 Soul players OL Phil Bogle, C Mike Mabry, DB Rob Keefe, FB/LB Clifton Smith and WR/DB Mike Brown.

The Philadelphia Sports Fans Choice Awards are voted on by fans in the Philadelphia area. Coca Cola and Wawa stores promoted balloting and to date over 196,000 ballots were received. At last year’s event, Munsey was honored with the Commitment to Excellence Award for his outstanding efforts behind the bench.

Good for them. The cool thing, aside from the team getting recognition, but they're getting recognition from Philly sports fans. Philly sports fans have something of a... reputation shall we say. They're more than happy to tell you they think you suck. Now, if the Philly sports writers can stop looking down their noses...

Something that wasn't mentioned was that Mike Brown was also given the Hometown Hero Award for his committment to community service in the Philadelphia area. Mike's a talented athlete with a great attitude. Just don't ask Cleveland's Jason Ball what he thinks. If you had this happen to you...

You'd probably have some hard feelings too.

My new favorite "talking head"...

So I'm watching Fox & Friends this morning and caught today's "Pundit Pit". Gretchen Carlson is doing the introductions of the four women making up today's Pit and I about did a spit take with my morning Mt. Dew when she introduced S.E. Cupp. Now, it may have been a bit of the morning fuzzies or Gretchen's Minnesota accent or something, but I swear she was calling the woman "C Cup". And my eeeevil y-chrome mind couldn't help say "that'd be my guess". Yes, yes. I know. Hi, my name is Ohms and I'll be your pig this evening. Whatever. Anyhoo... I came across her blog, really nice stuff. Gotta add "Why You're Wrong About the Right" to the increasing queue. Darn you Ayn Rand! Why'd you have to make "Atlas Shrugged" so bloody long.

This just in from the Department of Human Resources...

This story seems to be making the rounds again. Stephen King has never been a favorite author of mine. I just don't dig horror stories. I have, however, read the first few of his Dark Tower books. I liked the concept of a man out of time who was a "Gunslinger", which are the knights of his time. The irony being... I read them while I was in the Army.

This just in from the Department of Meteorology...

The world has never seen such freezing heat

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

Global warming is about one thing and one thing only... control. I'm all for conservation and lessening my environmental impact. I am not, however, willing to slit my own throat. The environmental movement has been hijacked by "watermellons", those that are green on the outside, but red on the inside. Just as those like Bill Ayers have shifted tactics from setting bombs to turning our academic institutions into indoctrination centers to further his agenda, these communists have latched on to the environmental movement to further theirs.

This just in from the Department of Human Resources and other Ironies...

Could You Fill Out This Job Application?

The seven-page, 63-question intrusive and extensive list of queries, first obtained by the New York Times and confirmed as legitimate by the Obama Transition Team, offers a revealing glimpse into both the Obama team's determination not to repeat the mistakes of its predecessors (Any nanny issues? Any discriminatory club memberships?) as well as the new era on which Obama will lead ("Please provide the URL address of any Web sites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity, e.g. Facebook, My Space, etc.").

Does it really matter if they "repeat the mistakes of its predecessors"? America has just elected a person, to the highest office in the free world mind you, that not only can't get a security clearance based on his associations, but couldn't work for his own administration. And since when is it important what associations one has, for example? I thought those sorts of things didn't matter.

Does it matter if someone stands guard of the chicken coop making sure the foxes don't get in if that someone standing guard is, himself, a fox? Especially when the farmer is so willingly capable of swallowing the fox's slick speeches about how he's not a fox and to even suggest such a thing is speciesist and is so hung up on human guilt that he'd never entertain making such an accusation, no matter what his eyes and his gut tell him, in the first place.

Loved the bit about Freddie and Fannie. Pretty much excludes every Democrat currently drawing breath. Yeah, I know. I know. I keep forgetting the twin mottoes of "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" and "Okay For Me, But Not For Thee" on the Democrat Party's official seal.

This just in from the Ministry of Truth...

Liberal Censorship and Its Roots

I believe this arrogant attitude can largely be traced to the top-down indoctrination in our schools, cultural institutions and media that liberalism is morally superior because it is tolerant, diverse, intellectual and enlightened. This view holds that conservative expression doesn't deserve constitutional protection because it is inherently evil. As one liberal academic administrator said in justifying his Draconian action in suppressing a Christian viewpoint, "We cannot tolerate the intolerable."

If the sanctimonious "52ers" actually meant something with all their koombyah crap, they'd be fighting against this type of thing. But I'm not exactly holding my breath.

Soulmate Website Launched

PHILADELPHIA (Friday, November 14, 2008) – In preparation for the start of their sixth season, the Philadelphia Soul are launching a new website dedicated exclusively to their dance team, the Philadelphia Soulmates.

Took long enough. Back before Philly had a team, a buddy of mine from Grand Rapids used to go on and on about the AFL. Like a lot of people, the only thing I'd ever heard about the AFL was that Kurt Warner had come from the Iowa Barnstormers to lead the St. Louis Rams to victory in Super Bowl XXXIV. But I figured I'd give it a shot. The team I latched onto was the Buffalo Destroyers. It wasn't because I had love for western NY or anything, it was... well, because their dance team/cheerleaders, the Bombshells, had their own website instead of a page on the team's website. After a couple seasons, the Destroyers moved but Philly got the Soul, so I didn't really care. Good to see the Soulmates getting a bit more of the spotlight.

Soulmates Pre-audition Workshop

Last Saturday the Philadelphia Soulmates held a pre-audition workshop for their upcoming auditions. Over thirty young ladies from around the Delaware Valley turned out to learn a routine, get advice on hair, make-up, fitness, nutrition, see a mock audition and have their questions answered by Soulmates Director Marla Viturello and the current Soulmates.

Bucking Soul tradition, it appears as though the Soulmate voted onto the most recent Aaron's Dream Team will be returning next season. For the last few seasons, the Soulmate who makes the Dream Team shares two qualities; they were co-captains and they didn't return. The Aaron's Dream Team was like a blackhole of hotness. Cheerleaders go in, but they don't come out. I know at least a couple fans who'll be glad to see Kat back. Me, I was glad to see Becky and Stepanie in the workshop gallery.