Obama petition up at WND

Call me crazy, but if a valid birth certificate is required to suit up for the Little League World Series, seems to me your paperwork should be in order for a four-year gig as President of the United States of America.

That goofy Philip Berg's not-so-goofy idea to force the issue in court failed last month, so others have moved on to the petition phase.

Amazing what we have to go through just to get a little respect from the guy we just crowned king, isn't it?

"WASHINGTON – WND today announces the launching of an online petition designed to enlist the public's help in demanding evidence of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the office of the presidency.

The electronic petition calls on all controlling legal authorities to take seriously the matter of where and when and to whom Obama was born and whether he qualifies as a "natural-born American citizen," according to Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution."

In case you're wondering... The difference between this conspiracy theory and, say, Charlie Sheen/Rosie O'Donnell et al claiming the U.S. government perpetrated 9/11? We launched a commission and spent thousands of man hours exploring all the angles of that one, while Obama refuses to pick up the phone and make a simple call.

Just sign it. We're all screwed anyway. Might as well pretend we can do something about it.

No McConaughey as Magnum P.I.

Not happening

I was okay with the prospect, but this is good news.

"...But lo and behold I don’t have to get angry at the prospect of the star of “Surfer Dude” playing Magnum. Brian Grazer just told me it’s not happening. So it’s not going to be McConaughey, I asked? “No,” he said. “I think the idea for ‘Magnum P.I.’ is to find a counterpoint, to not try and find the new Tom Selleck but to find someone that is just so different that you go, oh my God! That guy is Magnum?!?”

Again, nothing against Matthew McConaughey, but I've already cracked this pineapple for you, Mr. Brian Grazer. Behold my stroke of casting genius.

Hey, wasn't I just saying this?

Yep. We be dumb.

"From high-school dropouts to college graduates to elected officials, Americans are "alarmingly uninformed" about the USA's history, founding principals and economy — knowledge needed to participate wisely in civic life, says a report scheduled to be released Thursday."

No wonder we'll vote for any dude in a suit and tie.

More on the Third Intercollegiate Studies Institute Report on Civic Literacy here.

The Gay Mafia: coming soon to a business near you!

This situation is a powder keg. Businesses owned by Christians -- and Muslims -- will sooner or later by attacked by this tyrannical mob -- sorry, I mean this loving group of tolerant folks who aren't out for any special consideration under the law.

"Ummm... I don't know who that is."

I've seen links to this video and the poll results on more than one blog recently, but I only just now clicked play. Oh my.

"I like Jon Stewart."

"You get your news from 'The Daily Show'?"

"And the Colbert Report."

That about sums it up, doesn't it?

But here's the funny/sad/scary part...

For centuries, only the landed gentry could vote. Then the common man acquired a passion for well-informed political discourse and demanded his rightful place at the table. Life was good. Better than it ever had been.

So, what happens now that the common man has devolved back into gullible illiteracy? The landed gentry are back in business, baby!

What's a wallaroo, mate?

Love at Outback Steakhouse

I just found several more reasons beyond Nicole Kidman to avoid Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" like the plague.

From Garth Franklin's review:

"...Hugh Jackman's 'The Drover' is the rugged reluctant hero and the sole local white man in a community where the women are snobbish hate-fueled racists and the men are rich schemers or ugly goons who spend their time raping Aboriginal women (only implied of course). Armed with a thicker than usual accent and Jackman's natural charisma, Baz isn't afraid to play up the actor's roguish charm or physical beefcake - notably displayed in an truly gratuitous bathing scene that plays out like an ad for a gay men's body wash."

Rapist, racist white folks (what else could there be?) and Hugh Jackman making sweet, sweet slow-motion love to a luffa. Noooo thank you.

The only way I'd possibly see this is if Paul Hogan rides up on a kangaroo and makes a pair of boots out of Jackman's character before careering down a mountainside cracking a whip and yelling about barbies and billabongs and such.

Or if these guys show up.

Star Trek 90210

Found this at DHP. I have higher hopes for the film than Harry does, but this is too good to not pass along.

Wal-Mart coyote busted at the border

I've always said the fastest way to fix the illegal immigration problem would be to simultaneously throw a chain around every Wal-Mart in the country. Maybe we need to widen the dragnet to include their distribution centers?

Busted! The Fun Police name 10 worst toys

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

As a parent, I'm as vigilant as the next guy on what my kids play with. If I had a dime for every time I've done the Heimlich after a trip to Dollar Tree, I'd be a rich man. (Just kidding.)

But most of the toys on do-gooder outfit W.A.T.C.H.'s "most dangerous" list are just goofy.

Nunchuks that may cause "impact injuries"? Sounds like a quality item, Clark.

Shotguns that shoot real rubber pellets? The perfect uppity-sister personal defense weapon.

A giant inflatable ball you can crawl into and careen down a hill into traffic? Coolest. Toy. Ever!

Seriously though. They rail against Spider-Man roller skates, not because they're poorly made, but because...

"Street Flyers LLC recommends on the toy's packaging that children ages 3 to 6 wear helmets, wrist guards, and knee and elbow pads while using these. However, the toy only comes with knee and elbow pads."

What, no calling out the fork in our Disney Princesses place setting for not having cork eyeball protectors for the pointy end?

And Playskool's pull-along puppy is consigned to hell for having a pull string long enough to use. Should be no longer than 12 inches, they say.

That last one really bugs. My kids have a toy xylophone with a mallet tethered six inches from one end, so close you couldn't even play it. (We, of course, cut it free and replaced it with a jagged, rusty Slinky from 1947. Works like a charm and doubles as really effective nunchuks!)

Obama wins big at the Obama Music Awards

Obama... Because millions of music fans can't be wrong

Like most people with brains, I stopped watching MTV long ago. It hasn't been relevant since roughly 1987 anyway (though Kurt Loder's online film reviews remain some of the best around).

I accidentally caught a couple minutes of MTV's European Music Awards last night. Less than two, actually. I've never seen so much red, white and blue in my life.

It would have done my heart good, too, had it not been for the wall-to-wall graven images Jumbotron renderings of the god Apollo President Elect Barack Obama grinning like an idiot smiling down on it all.

Less than two minutes and we had Obama plastered on the walls, across clothing and in an acceptance speech.

Surprising? Significant? No. I just wanted to point out that these are the same people who also voted this guy "Best Act Ever."

SHOCKER! Al Gore flunkies fudge the numbers

Come on, NASA. This isn't rocket science.

Holy crap

The Utopian self delusion is just jaw dropping here.


Some may see all this as another sign of the coming Antichrist. I tend to just look and laugh. Like I do whenever I read about the League of Nations or hear Sting's "Russians." (Only bad song he's ever done, btw.)

Mainly because 1) I lean postmillennial and 2) this New!Big!Thing! has been around a long time. It's called your local Unitarian Universalist Church, where every Sunday you'll find a dwindling number of old people sitting around stinking up the joint in soggy Depends Undergarments.

Then again, if the Obamanation That Causes Desolation successfully gets Harold Koh his seat on the Supreme Court, universalism in general will be enforced at the point of a gov'ment gun...and I'll be forced to execute Operation El Guapo -- my sketchy plans to seize Costa Rica and rule as benevolent dictator for life. (Now taking advanced bribes requests for cabinet positions and beachfront property.)

Thanks to Pick for the heads up on this one.

School district issues fake Social Security numbers

I swear... Membership in a teachers union must be the sweetest free pass in the history of organized crime.

"There's no way we should be doing that kind of stuff," Ms. Olson said. "Even if your intention is good to help employees get paid, you can't use inappropriate procedures to do that."

Yeah. Probably not. It's, like, illegal and stuff.

I think I'm gonna get my credential and start running guns or moonshine or Chinese hookers or something.

Actually, I guess the education racket represents just one of the many "get out of jail free" cards offered by liberalism, huh? The end always justifies the means in a progressive cause -- another trait this religion shares with others.

Only in America, right? (Because in Mexico you get American Social Security numbers and free Viagra!)

Darpa Initiative

After microwaveable popcorn, this was inevitable I suppose. And it's about time. We were supposed to be hitting the skies Jetson-style no later than the yeeeear two-thouuuuusand!

Michael Moore makes a porno

"The shoes are Gucci. Thanks for asking."

Here we go again...

"Michael Moore's next documentary for Paramount Vantage and Overture is taking on a different issue than first stated -- it will now cover the global financial crisis says The Hollywood Reporter. The still untitled feature is said to follow an "end-of-the-empire tone" rather than the foreign policy-focused follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11" that was originally planned..."

Well, sure. Can't be a world-class opportunist without rolling with the headlines.

"Even Moore calls it more of a 'bookend to Roger & Me' in reference to his breakthrough debut effort nearly two decades ago..."

I'd rather call it a bookend to Michael Moore's phoned-in career, but I doubt we'll be so lucky.

"However, with the crisis changing from day to day and a renewed sense of hope thanks to Obama's election, critics are wondering if Moore's style will still hit with audiences by the time it gets released..."

Another Moore flop gives me a renewed sense of hope at least, but I think what they meant to say was critics are wondering how to make it a hit when everyone knows his tricks by now.

"Moore is rushing forward with filming at present and the movie is expected to come out as early as the Spring."

Rushing it? How long does a Michael Moore film take? I mean when you pretty much make it up as you go along anyway. Ambushing easy targets and interviewees suffering from Alzheimers requires some logistical coordination I suppose, but still. Frankly, I'm surprised this wasn't in the can two months ago.

How much you want to bet the bipartisan nature of our current mess and socialist attempts at a solution don't show up on screen? I'd link to the proof yet again, but even I'm tired of looking at it by now.

Ridley Scott's 'Monopoly' movie

Is this a joke?

Shaping a narrative out of the iconic real-estate game, Ridley Scott will direct the project and plans on giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his famed 1982 feature "Blade Runner."

Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python years maybe, but Ridley Scott? With a Blade Runner look??

Caviezel cast for MI5 thriller

Good to see Jim Caviezel is still getting gigs. Even before his brilliant work in Passion of the Christ made him a pariah, he was a phenomenal natural talent. If the Aramaic posed no problem, I have a feeling he can nail a British accent without breaking a sweat. I'm not exactly sure where they're going with the terrorist angle yet -- he did play yet another improbably rightwing version in Deja Vu -- but I'm up for this one so far. Because Sam Jackson as an international terrorist? Sign me up!

Cheap, safe, mini nuclear reactors now on sale

"Where we're going, we don't need any roads."

This is incredible...

"Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb..."

Nor do they pose a threat to anyone.

"...The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground. ...

'You could never have a Chernobyl-type event - there are no moving parts,' said Deal. 'You would need nation-state resources in order to enrich our uranium. Temperature-wise it's too hot to handle. It would be like stealing a barbecue with your bare hands.' "

I can guarantee we'll be the last modern nation on the planet to get on board with this given our new "progressive" government. Because Al Gore is in the driver's seat now. Driving pantsless, an open container of alcohol between his knees, right down the middle of the road. Just because he can.

Man arrested for wearing McCain shirt

I discovered this less than a minute after posting the last one. No joke.

Not much footage here. Maybe the guy was drunk. (Doesn't look like it.) Maybe he had it coming. (No evidence here.) The cameraman wasn't drunk, though, and clearly was in the best position to know what was going down. Either way, it's the fanaticism of the mob that's disturbing.




Via Dirty Harry's Place.

Obama's caesar salad days?

Easy there, Octavius! We were only kidding!

Between Obama's homemade "Office of the President-Elect" logo to this word he intends to rule by decree immediately, I'm getting more nervous by the day.

On the other hand, I was kind of afraid all that Audacity of Hype would cool to a temperature safe enough for him to skate by as just another politician, albeit a leftist one. Dispensing with parliament from the get-go, though, would indicate otherwise.

Sure, many presidents have used them, but they tend to be few and relegated to back-burner issues -- for the very fact most presidents are humble (or shrewd) enough to leave the biggies to national debate and popular vote. Bush's ban on abortion-linked overseas funding wasn't exactly a ban on abortion. Yet Obama is fixin' to halt offshore drilling and approve stem cell research with the wave of a pen, two major issues on which debate is ongoing and the country is very much divided??

More power to you, Mr. President Elect. (Not literally.)

Keep this stuff up, and we just might have a nice little popular uprising in time to take back some seats in 2010 with minimal effort.

Can we actually have another 1996 just down the road? Yes! We! Can!