Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 14, 2012 – 9:34 am

Patriotic Pinup Pearl Frush

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day to be an American. The sun is shining, the birds are singing….good grief, that mockingbird is really going to town. And now he’s doing frogs. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Other McCain discusses the false flag racist shirt at a Romney rally
  2. Powerline discusses Obama biting the hand that feeds him
  3. Scared Monkeys highlights Romney surging in Ohio
  4. The Lonely Conservative highlights Obama and race based school discipline
  5. Right Newz posts the topics for the 3rd debate
  6. The Strata-sphere says that the latest polling shows an Obama defeat
  7. The Troglopundit makes a good point regarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU
  8. Victory Girls Blog highlights the latest insanity by Libs against Paul Ryan
  9. Wake Up America discusses coal miners fighting back against Obama
  10. A Man, a Dog, And His Gun highlights that globull warming stopped 15 years ago
  11. Amusing Bunni has babies against Obama
  12. Bookworm Room wonders if Obama had a coke nail at college
  13. Fire Andrea Mitchell has a good explanation for Biden’s loony debate performance
  14. Maggie’s Notebook has the top 5 reasons to vote Romney/Ryan
  15. And last, but not least, neo-neocon gives us a break from politics to discuss blue jeans

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Zawahiri Calls For Holy War Over Mohammed Video

By William Teach October 14, 2012 – 8:08 am

Just remember, “Bin Laden is dead (true, thank you) and al Qaeda is on the path to defeat (mule fritters)”

(Reuters) Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammad showed Washington was waging a “crusader Zionist war” against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies.

Like in other messages released by al Qaeda’s Yemeni and North African branches last month, Zawahiri praised last month’s assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four diplomats but stopped short of claiming responsibility.

In the recording, posted on Islamist websites on Friday, he called on “free and distinguished zealots for Islam” who attacked the consulate and protested outside other American embassies to “continue their opposition to American crusader Zionist aggression against Islam and Muslims”.

The recording appeared on the Mujahedin al-Ansar website which carries statements from al Qaeda leaders.

If only it was true that al Qaeda was on the path to defeat. We could then cut the massive intrusive security at our airports (and, no, I’m not blaming that solely on Obama. Bush and Republicans share blame with Obama and Democrats). We could stop the incessant march of “security measures” like street corner cameras, feeling up children at airports, and monitoring of domestic email, among others.

But it is not true. Al Qaeda was designed as a group that would spread amongst the radical Islamists. And that is what has happened. During the “demonstrations” there were large amounts of Salafist flags, similar to the al Qaeda and Taliban ones, as well as Salafist headbands. These didn’t just show up in the Middle East, but at protests in Asia and Europe. The radicalized version of Islam that people like Bin Laden and Zawahiri push is slowly spreading, especially in mosques and Muslim schools. And there will always be those few who decide to engage in violence.

This is not to blame Muslims in full, but it is beyond time for those who call themselves moderate to call for stopping this spread of radicalized Islam and Sharia law, which pushes notions like honor killings, women as 2nd class citizens/property, marrying off girls as young as 11 to men four times their age, hanging gays, stoning women who commit adultery, committing violence in the name of Jihad, killing those who reject Islam, beating wives who are disrespectful being legal, slavery being legal under Sharia Law, divorce is only legal if the man initiates it, drinkers and gamblers must be whipped, and anyone caught having sex who are unmarried would be whipped. Those are just a few of the greatest hits of radical Islam and Sharia Law. And what Liberals and Muslims refuse to stand up against.

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Quote Of The Day

By William Teach October 13, 2012 – 4:57 pm

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 13, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is precious and non-renewable water being wasted, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is All American Blogger, with a post about Joe Biden legislating morality.

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Climate Progress Thinks Bribes Are Great To Reduce Power Consuption

By William Teach October 13, 2012 – 12:55 pm

Healing the planet is hawd woik!

(Climate Progress) Let’s be honest. Even those of us who actively follow environmental issues have a difficult time changing our behavior. I rarely unplug all my appliances, although I know they use energy even when they are off. Sometimes, I throw a few things in the wash instead of waiting for a full load because I “need” them right away. Why do I do these things? Because, frankly, I have some bad habits, and it is very difficult to mentally quantify the impacts of these actions or comprehend the aggregated savings from changing my behavior.

So, your belief set isn’t strong enough for you to change your actual behavior. Color me shocked.

However, if you told me I could get some free ice cream at the end of the month in exchange for unplugging my appliances… well I’d probably do it. And it’s likely a lot of others would too. While the behavioral science behind this phenomenon is incredibly interesting, let’s instead take a look at a company who is tackling this problem in a creative way — and using promises of ice cream to change the world.

So, all it would take for you to briefly change your big energy usage ways is….ice cream. Except, ice cream is bad for hotcoldwetdry, because it takes large amounts of energy to keep the delicious concoction frozen. And the most commonly used refrigerant, hydrofluorocarbon, is bad for the ozone layer and global warming.

Now, HFCs are being fingered as a culprit in today’s environmental hot-button issue: global warming. One ton of HFCs does as much atmospheric damage as 1,300 tons of carbon dioxide, the better-known global-warming gas, according to the United Nations. As a result, companies are scrambling to phase out the HFCs they just phased in.

Oops. Greenpeace has spoken. No ice cream for you. Just create new habits (Warmists would love these habits to be enforced by government regulation).

Now, there is nothing wrong with reducing your power usage. It’d be great if companies voluntarily worked to create appliances that used less power, and even better, ones that use less “vampire power”, such as DVRs and cable boxes. Hey, save money.

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Good Grief: Obama Zombies Plan “Million Muppet March”

By William Teach October 13, 2012 – 8:35 am

Do they even know that Big Bird isn’t technically a Muppet?

(Reuters) Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television’s “Sesame Street,” from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the “Million Muppet March.”

The demonstration is planned for November 3 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., three days before the general election.

Michael Bellavia, 43, an animation executive from Los Angeles, and Chris Mecham, 46, a university student in Idaho, separately came up with the Million Muppet March idea in response.

Bellavia bought the Internet address www.millionmuppetmarch.com during the debate and discovered Mecham had already started a Facebook page by the same name.

Fozzie?

And there you go, this is what Democrats are concerned with: a possible cut of $8 million dollars from the federal budget for Sesame Street. They aren’t concerned with Obama adding over $5 trillion in new debt in less than 4 years, wasting almost a trillion dollars on a Stimulus that failed, giving billion upon billions to “green” energy companies that go bankrupt, trillion dollar deficits, cutting billions from the defense of the USA, not spending the money to protect our Libyan consulate, record numbers of people dropping out of the jobs market in despair, record numbers of people on food stamps…..no, they’re worried about Big Bird. Who’s part of the 1%.

In fairness, there is also a Millionaire Muppet March, to be held in protest of the protest, but, it seems more like a response to the foolish Million Muppet March than seriously expecting people to show up.

The Jawa Report highlights how stupid this all is.

Jammie Wearing Fool: Nothing like a 46-year-old student/Muppet lover. Maybe he can hook up with aging student Sandra Fluke while he’s in DC.

Instapundit: This march, built around a surreal television character on the weekend before the election, sounds very much like Stewart and Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” — the weekend before Congress changed parties.

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On 9/11/12, There Was A Marine Detachment In Barbados, But Not Benghazi

By William Teach October 13, 2012 – 7:55 am

I supposed they’re there to protect the diplomats from drinking too much rum and avoid gun wielding pot growers if the diplomats take a drive up into the mountains

(CNS News) When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, there were no U.S. Marines deployed in Libya to defend U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities and classified information and equipment.

However, says the State Department, a Marine Security Detachment was deployed on that day to carry out those duties at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados.

“U.S. Marine Security Guards serve at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, and at other diplomatic missions around the world, to protect and safeguard American diplomacy,” Rebecca Ross, the U.S. Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Counselor for Public Affairs, said in a statement to CNSNews.com.

“On September 11, 2012, our U.S. Marine Security Detachment carried out its regular duties which include providing internal security, preventing the compromise of classified information and equipment, and providing protection for U.S. citizens and property located within official U.S. facilities,” Ross said.

Hmm, we have a Marine detachment in Barbados, but only had a small number of security contractors in Benghazi, of which we were told was “the correct number” by the State Department during the Congressional hearing. In a place with a growing al Qaeda presence, where Westerners weren’t safe, and which our Consulate had been attacked multiple times.

Now, the White House is claiming that Obama and Biden were never aware of the requests for more security at the Benghazi compound. I can believe that. First, that would be a function of the Department of State, and not something that would probably make it to the attention of either the VP or President. I’ll avoid anything snarky about the notion that if it was in the security briefings, Obama probably never bothered to read them. And because of this, it looks like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is joining the intelligence community in front of Obama’s big bus

“These kinds of issues are handling in the State Department by security officials,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said during Friday’s press briefing.

Security matters “are decided at the State Department,” he said, amid tough questioning from Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry.

The question remains, will this be a hit and run or a run her over then back up and park over her? And some have positioned this as being bad for Obama, that it would be wrong to throw her under the bus. I disagree: if she knew, and did nothing, then she should be run over, no matter how popular she is. We can talk about the buck stopping in the White House, but, the top person in any organization isn’t going to know about or make decisions on everything, and, again, this was a function of State. Fortunately, the State Department was very concerned making sure the post in Vienna received their Chevy Volt.

But, one would think that the POTUS would be briefed now and then about the security situation within a country he launched an air war against once in awhile, eh?

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Obama Continues His “Carbon Pollution” Yammering

By William Teach October 12, 2012 – 4:42 pm

The other day Obama yammered on about carbon pollution during a speech in Ohio, saying that was the reason he was running for president again. And then in Florida

(CNS News) President Barack Obama warned his supporters about the threat of global warming and vowed that more money to subsidize green energy firms would prevent it.

“By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax,” Obama said at a campaign rally at the Bank United Arena at the University of Miami. “More droughts and hurricanes and wildfires, that’s not a joke. That’s a threat to our children’s future, and we can do something about it.”

We are currently in the longest period in US recorded history of no Category 3 hurricane strikes. Hurricane and tropical storm strikes are down. Most tropical systems aren’t making it to landfall anywhere. The only reason we know about the ones at sea is due to more and better satellites. Tornadoes are way down. Drought and wildfires aren’t any more unusual.

But, hey, the guy who’s flying all over the country on fossil fueled airplanes and taking fossil fueled limos with lots of fossil fueled SUVs surrounding his limo is concerned. Mostly with making sure his campaign contributors get some payback.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 12, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded because someone else refused to drive a Chevy Volt, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Proof Positive, with a post on 41 Medal Of Honor recipients endorsing Romney.

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Ford C-Max Gives Volt Competition For Most Worthless Vehicle

By William Teach October 12, 2012 – 11:25 am

Ford is coming out with a vehicle in the US, which has been available in Europe for a couple of years, called the C-Max, designed to give the Toyota Prius a run (which it won’t any time soon. The Prius is refined, available in several models, and has seen its price drop to where it makes sense for consumers). It’s based on the newer style version of the Ford Focus. But, that’s not the big deal. They also plan on coming out with a version to compete with the Chevy Firestarter, er, Volt (h/t Gumball Brains)

(Fox News) While you won’t be able to get the C-Max with a conventional drivetrain, there’s an even more unconventional model on the way. The C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid goes on sale later this year with an all-electric range of up to 20 miles and a combined fuel economy rating equivalent to 100 mpg at a price of $33,745, or $29,995 after a federal tax credit of $3,750.

Woo hoo! Party on! That would barely get me to work. With the A/C or heat off. Maybe. Since it is “up to 20 miles”. At least Ford isn’t wasting enormous amounts of taxpayer funds on it.

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