28th August 2015, 10:10 pm
Council Winners
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- *First place with 3 2/3 votes!–Puma By Design – Black Lives Matter Hypocrites Oblivious to Epidemic of Black Violence, Genocide
- Second place t with 2 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room – The collected (nit)wit and un(wisdom) of Bernie Sanders
- Second place t with 2 1/3 votes – The Right Planet – Jurisdiction, Common Law and Birthright Citizenship
- Third place t with 2/3 votes –The Noisy Room – Ted Cruz: Rise Of The Evangelical & Constitutional Warrior
- Third place t with 2/3 votes –Don Surber – Astaire Way To Heaven
- Third place t with 2/3 votes –The Razor – American Imperialist Baby Killers Racially Profile and Attack Muslim
- Fourth place t with 1/3 votes –The Independent Sentinel – Decorated Green Beret Discharged for Shoving an Afghan Child Rapist
- Fourth place t with 1/3 votes –Nice Deb – Intel Ops: Hillary broke “So many” laws (Video)
Non-Council Winners
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- First place with 3 votes!–The Federalist –The Hugo Awards: Why The #WaronNerds Is A War on Art submitted by The Noisy Room
- Second place with 2 votes –John Bolton/NRO – The Vienna Deal Sets up a Choice of Bad and Worse submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Third place with 1 1/3 votes –Sultan Knish/NRO–Mohammed Was A Pig submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –Andrew Bostom/PJ Media – Deal Partner? Read Khamenei’s Mainstream, Koranic Kampf Supporting Israel’s Annihilation submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –Paul Pauker/American Thinker – The Morality of Mass Deportation submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –The Market Monetarist – The ‘dollar bloc’ was never an optimal currency area and now it is falling apart submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –The Other McCain –War Against Human Nature: Radical Feminism’s Anti-Maternal Rage submitted by Nice Deb
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Brendan Bordelon/NRO – Hillary Clinton’s Sycophantic Inner Circle submitted by Don Surber
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –The Z Man – Something’s happening here submitted by The Right Planet
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Victor Davis Hanson –As the EPA and IRS Have Shown, with Big Government Comes Little Accountability submitted by The Independent Sentinel
26th August 2015, 10:09 pm
Council Submissions
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- The Noisy Room – Ted Cruz: Rise Of The Evangelical & Constitutional Warrior
- Joshuapundit–Yet Another Reason Israel Can’t Rely on Agreements With The Obama Regime
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – USS Idaho
- The Right Planet – Jurisdiction, Common Law and Birthright Citizenship
- Don Surber – Astaire Way To Heaven
- Puma By Design – Black Lives Matter Hypocrites Oblivious to Epidemic of Black Violence, Genocide
- Nice Deb – Intel Ops: Hillary broke “So many” laws (Video)
- Bookworm Room – The collected (nit)wit and un(wisdom) of Bernie Sanders
- The Independent Sentinel – Decorated Green Beret Discharged for Shoving an Afghan Child Rapist
- VA Right! – Jim Gilmore Using Party Traitor Boyd Marcus as Advisor. Shame On Jim Gilmore!
- The Glittering Eye –The 100 Greatest English Language Novels
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The Razor – American Imperialist Baby Killers Racially Profile and Attack Muslim
Honorable Mentions
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- The Pirate’s Cove – Trump Spars With Rude Univision Reporter, Kicks Him Out, Lets Him Back In
- Maggie’s Notebook – Philip Kiko Update, Lobbyist for Muslim Advocates on Benghazi Committee
- Simply Jews – F*cking Commies
- Seraphic Secret – New Face of Hamas — Same as Old
Non-Council Submissions
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- The Federalist –The Hugo Awards: Why The #WaronNerds Is A War on Art submitted by The Noisy Room
- Andrew Bostom/PJ Media – Deal Partner? Read Khamenei’s Mainstream, Koranic Kampf Supporting Israel’s Annihilation submitted by Joshuapundit
- John Bolton/NRO – The Vienna Deal Sets up a Choice of Bad and Worse submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- The Z Man – Something’s happening here submitted by The Right Planet
- Brendan Bordelon/NRO – Hillary Clinton’s Sycophantic Inner Circle submitted by Don Surber
- Mark Levin –Audio: ‘On The Market Crash: It Is NOT CHINA—IT IS BARACK OBAMA!’ submitted by Puma By Design
- The Other McCain –War Against Human Nature: Radical Feminism’s Anti-Maternal Rage submitted by Nice Deb
- Sultan Knish/NRO–Mohammed Was A Pig submitted by Bookworm Room
- Victor Davis Hanson –As the EPA and IRS Have Shown, with Big Government Comes Little Accountability submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Breitbart – Census: Anchor Baby Delivered Every 93 Secondssubmitted by VA Right!
- The Market Monetarist – The ‘dollar bloc’ was never an optimal currency area and now it is falling apart submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Stephanie Slade, Reason.com –Why I Am a Pro-Life Libertarian submitted by The Razor
- Paul Pauker/American Thinker – The Morality of Mass Deportation submitted by The Watcher
- David French/NRO – The Iran Deal and Obama’s Fatally Misguided View of the World submitted by The Watcher
21st August 2015, 10:07 pm
Council Winners
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- *First place with 2 2/3 votes!–Bookworm Room – The coming perfect storm on American college campuses — one that feminists and other professional victims will hate
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Independent Sentinel – EPA Forced Their Way on to the Gold King Mine
- Second place with 2 votes – Joshuapundit–‘What Thy Right Hand Possesses’ – The Rape of Kayla Mueller
- Fourth place t with 2/3 vote –Don Surber – The Madman Behind The Gibson Guitar
- Fourth place t with 2/3 vote –The Right Planet – Climate Change: Lysenkoism and ‘Weather Cooking’ Revisited
- Fourth place t with 2/3 vote –VA Right! – Donald Trump Nullifies RINO Chants of “Nativist!” and “Racist!” – Let’s Build the Damn Wall!
- Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –The Noisy Room – New Agers Back Socialist Sanders as Messiah
- Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –The Glittering Eye –The Hotel California Budget
- Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –Nice Deb – Saturday Movie Matinee: “I Give It a Month”
Non-Council Winners
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- First place with 2 2/3 votes! –Mark Steyn – The Party of Why Nothing Can Be Done submitted by The Watcher
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes –Victor Davis Hanson – The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations submitted by Nice Deb
- Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –Grouchy Old Cripple – White Privilege submitted by Don Surber
- Third place t with 1 1/3 votes – Haidt Lukianoff/ The Atlantic –The Coddling of the American Mind submitted by The Razor
- Fourth place with 1 vote –Rebeccah Heinrichs/Real Clear Defense – U.S. Foreign Policy Is Overdue For Some Realism submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes – The Blaze – ‘Israel Must Be Obliterated’: New Iranian Video Imagines Muslim Invasion of Jerusalem submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –David French/NRO – Angry Black Radicals and the Foolish White Liberals Who Love Them submitted by Joshuapundit
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote –Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Magazine–Putting Obama over country is treason submitted by Bookworm Room
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote –Michael Totten –The American Flag Flies Again Over Cuba submitted by The Watcher
21st August 2015, 08:54 pm
That would be the headline of The Guardian had its way, the British newspaper that’s so far Left it makes the New York Times look like The Wall Street Journal if the Journal was run by Fox News and staffed by the Klan. But the Daily Mail reports that two unarmed US servicemen stopped a Moroccan Jihadist firing an AK47 on a crowded train in France. The soldiers thought the guy was acting suspicious and heard the attacker rack and load his weapon in the train’s toilet, and they jumped him when he burst out firing. One soldier was injured although not seriously, as were two others on the train.
Just another day at the “office” for America’s best and bravest.
19th August 2015, 10:05 pm
Council Submissions
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- Joshuapundit–‘What Thy Right Hand Possesses’ – The Rape of Kayla Mueller
- Don Surber – The Madman Behind The Gibson Guitar
- The Independent Sentinel – EPA Forced Their Way on to the Gold King Mine
- The Right Planet – Climate Change: Lysenkoism and ‘Weather Cooking’ Revisited
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The Razor – Of Course There’s Polka In Heaven
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Navy Versus Persia
- Puma By Design – Controlling the Message, China Censors, Scrubs Reports of Tianjin Chemical Blasts (UPDATED)
- VA Right! – Donald Trump Nullifies RINO Chants of “Nativist!” and “Racist!” – Let’s Build the Damn Wall!
- The Glittering Eye –The Hotel California Budget
- Nice Deb – Saturday Movie Matinee: “I Give It a Month”
- Bookworm Room – The coming perfect storm on American college campuses — one that feminists and other professional victims will hate
- The Noisy Room – New Agers Back Socialist Sanders as Messiah
Honorable Mentions
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- Palestinian Media Watch – Fatah`s military wing asks Iran for money for terror war against Israel
- Maggie’s Notebook – V-J Day: Video of General MacArthur Accepting Japanese Surrender
- David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Iran Deal – U.S. capitulation on enrichment even before negotiations
Non-Council Submissions
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- David French/NRO – Angry Black Radicals and the Foolish White Liberals Who Love Them submitted by Joshuapundit
- Grouchy Old Cripple – White Privilege submitted by Don Surber
- Medium.Com – Questions that must be asked of all 2016 Republican Candidates submitted by The Right Planet
- Haidt Lukianoff/ The Atlantic –The Coddling of the American Mind submitted by The Razor
- The Blaze – ‘Israel Must Be Obliterated’: New Iranian Video Imagines Muslim Invasion of Jerusalem submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Menachem Z. Rosensaft and David Meluskey/JNS.org –The lynching of Leo Frank and the lessons it imparts 100 years on submitted by Puma By Design
- fire Andrea Mitchell – Rick Wilson meltdown – asks Ann Coulter if Trump pays her more for anal submitted by VA Right!
- Rebeccah Heinrichs/Real Clear Defense – U.S. Foreign Policy Is Overdue For Some Realism submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Magazine–Putting Obama over country is treason submitted by Bookworm Room
- Victor Davis Hanson – The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations submitted by Nice Deb
- Michael Totten –The American Flag Flies Again Over Cuba submitted by The Watcher
- Mark Steyn – The Party of Why Nothing Can Be Done submitted by The Watcher
- YouTube – Clinton Refuses To Say Whether Or Not She Wiped The Server submitted by The Watcher
17th August 2015, 08:08 pm
My mother passed away last night. I got the call on the highway coming back home after picking up my wife and son from the airport. My brother-in-law explained what had happened, and while there were better deaths to be had there are far worse. She had lived 94 years, the longest of any of my known ancestors. Through her I was able to touch people born early in the 19th century, and learn first hand about life before inventions like indoor plumbing, the telephone and the automobile changed the heart of America.
The loss of that history is one of the unexpected feelings I find myself thinking about today, along with the usual regrets a son has. I really do wish she had made it to our little haven here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but she was too weak to travel. Her spinal stenosis would have made sitting in an airline seat impossible. But I wish she could have seen my dogs running in the fields.
As for the title. The only non-religious music she ever truly loved was Polka – fitting for a woman of Bohemian descent who grew up in South St. Louis during the 1920s and 1930s. And one of the best memories I have as a child is of her with my eldest sister dancing the polka, laughing and whirling. I imagine that’s what she’s doing now, freed from a body that betrayed her, whirling and laughing with my beloved niece who died on the operating table at the age of 5 years.
14th August 2015, 10:04 pm
Council Winners
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- *First place with 3 votes!–Joshuapundit–#Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Broke The Law And What It Really Means
- Second place t with 2 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – The Trump Factor
- Second place t with 2 1/3 votes –Bookworm Room – Bookworm Beat 8-11-15 — the illustrated edition, devoted to excavating the Leftist mind through Facebook posters
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –VA Right! – I Like Donald Trump for President Because he is not for Sale and the Rest Are!
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Noisy Room – Put America On Cruz Control
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Don Surber – Carly For President
- Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Glittering Eye –Devaluation of the Yuan
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –The Razor – New Zealand Flag Ideas
- Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –The Independent Sentinel – Hillary Might Soon Have Her Own Server at Leavenworth
Non-Council Winners
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- First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Reuben Navarette Jr. –I Don’t Know if I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos submitted by The Watcher
- Second place t with 1 1/3 votes –Walter Russell Mead –A Deal Iran’s hardliners can love submitted by The Razor
- Second place t with 1 1/3 votes – The BelFer Center – A Guide To The Iran deal submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Second place t with 1 1/3 votes –Andrew McCarthy – No Trust, No Verification, No Sanctions: Obama’s Humiliating Capitulation to the Mullahs submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place t with 1 vote –Mark Steyn–If It Bleeds, It Leads submitted by The Noisy Room
- Third place t with 1 vote –Abraham Miller/JNS.org–The mindset of Progressive Jews and the “Israeli problem” submitted by Bookworm Room
- Third place t with 1 vote –Jonah Goldbereg – GOP’s Trump problem will fade, but Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginningsubmitted by The Watcher
- Fourth place t with 2/3 votes –The Free Beacon –Jon Stewart Wanted Video Evidence That He Was an Obama Propagandist So We Found A Bunch submitted by Nice Deb
- Fourth place t with 2/3 votes –Peter Ferrara/Forbes – The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory submitted by The Right Planet
- Fifth place with 1/3 vote –Sheryl Attkisson –Fast and Furious: Guilty Plea in Brian Terry Murder submitted by Puma By Design
13th August 2015, 08:42 pm
The all-day meeting with the client is pushed back and another meeting takes its place. The teams are told by the acquisitions leader that the client is not happy with our requirements. Wagons are circled and everyone defers to their team leads. We are all to be on our best behavior and avoid mentioning timelines or other key phrases that sets the client’s teeth on edge. We are pros. This is what we do and we know this stuff, but we have a line to walk: making the client happy and supporting our own clients downstream who depend on us for their data. Acquisition Teams always sweat; I suppose it’s what they do.
A text appears on my phone. “We took mom off the bipap machine and we are giving her nasal oxygen. We have decided on hospice care because we have decided to make sure she is comfortable.”
I refocus on the presentation and the droning becomes words again as the acquisition team lead walks the client through my process flow.
The hours pass with few breaks. Once we focus on the data mapping exercise I notice the people representing the client seem relieved. The unknown always frightens people, and they were beginning to understand it wasn’t as bad as they thought.
My phone buzzes. “Just found out the insurance company will be kicking mom out of the hospital tomorrow or Saturday. We will be doing hospice at home.” I text back, “Good. Better for her to be at home.” Droning again, and I ignore it. Another text. “She is delirious today, probably from the morphine and adavan.” “Talk to the nurse about balancing her meds,” I text.
As the droning becomes words again I can feel my mother, a woman’s whose first questions always included “How is your job going?” likely because her husband wasn’t the best at holding one down for very long. Her love of her job made me move gradually towards a place where I loved my own, where the idea of working long hours didn’t really matter. She always accepted my shortened visits because she understood that as a computer contractor I didn’t get paid time off. Now I do but I don’t know how to use it.
The hours role on with very few bio breaks. 4 pm. 5 pm. 6 pm. At 6:30 the acquisitions team lead is pushing for an important technical decision. I know it’s one that we have to craft perfectly, and it will not be done after 8 hours of straight meetings. So I suggest we hold off for tomorrow or the day after. He seems disappointed but the client and the other teams have already lost focus. It’s time to call it a day and regroup later.
After 11 hours I turn off the computer. Other challenges await but important decisions were made today, some more important than others.
12th August 2015, 10:03 pm
Council Submissions
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- The Noisy Room – Put America On Cruz Control
- Joshuapundit–#Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Broke The Law And What It Really Means
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – General Suleimani
- The Right Planet – The Trump Factor
- Puma By Design – Erick Erickson Rescinds Trump Invite to RedState Gathering over Megyn Kelly Remark
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The Razor – New Zealand Flag Ideas
- VA Right! – I Like Donald Trump for President Because he is not for Sale and the Rest Are!
- Bookworm Room – Bookworm Beat 8-11-15 — the illustrated edition, devoted to excavating the Leftist mind through Facebook posters
- Nice Deb – Hillary Gives Up Possession of Private Email Server/Top Secret Emails found on Acct.
- Don Surber – Carly For President
- The Independent Sentinel – Hillary Might Soon Have Her Own Server at Leavenworth
- The Glittering Eye –Devaluation of the Yuan
- Rhymes With Right – Retail Hypocrisy
Honorable Mentions
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- The Pirate’s Cove – Good Grief: Illegal Aliens File Tort For Being Detained
- Gates Of Vienna – In the Middle East, There Are Only Lose-Lose Options
- The People’s Cube – Obanga and Keranga: a Peace Epic
Non-Council Submissions
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- Mark Steyn–If It Bleeds, It Leads submitted by The Noisy Room
- Andrew McCarthy – No Trust, No Verification, No Sanctions: Obama’s Humiliating Capitulation to the Mullahs submitted by Joshuapundit
- The BelFer Center – A Guide To The Iran deal submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Peter Ferrara/Forbes – The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory submitted by The Right Planet
- Sheryl Attkisson –Fast and Furious: Guilty Plea in Brian Terry Murder submitted by Puma By Design
- Walter Russell Mead –A Deal Iran’s hardliners can love submitted by The Razor
- Freedom Outpost – CALLED IT: Billionaire George Soros Funded Ferguson Protests to the Tune of $33 Million
submitted by VA Right!
- Abraham Miller/JNS.org–The mindset of Progressive Jews and the “Israeli problem” submitted by Bookworm Room
- The Free Beacon –Jon Stewart Wanted Video Evidence That He Was an Obama Propagandist So We Found A Bunch submitted by Nice Deb
- Tablet – Crossing A Line To Sell A Deal submitted by The Watcher
- Bret Stephens/WSJ – All the President’s Certitudes submitted by The Watcher
- Jonah Goldbereg – GOP’s Trump problem will fade, but Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginningsubmitted by The Watcher
- Reuben Navarette Jr. –I Don’t Know if I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos submitted by The Watcher
12th August 2015, 06:53 pm
Bernie Sanders has surged to the lead in New Hampshire and is filling his venues to overflowing. The FBI has possession of Hillary Clinton’s email server and will presumably pull every last byte of email residue from its hard drives. They’ve already found extremely top secret satellite intelligence that is assumed to have fallen into Russian and Chinese hands. Remember, she has yet to give a full accounting as to why she operated a personal server in the first place which itself was against the law. Now highly classified intelligence was found on it, and worse, the server was completely open to the internet for 3 months.
Hillary Clinton should be done.
Now if only Jeb Bush was too…
11th August 2015, 08:24 pm
Last quarter 566,000 Americans quit cable or satellite TV. I was one of them. For the first time since 1981 living in this country I have gone without cable TV and you know what? I haven’t noticed it. That’s because for the past year I have been subscribing to Amazon Prime, Netflix and Acorn TV, adding HuluPlus just to cover some of the more popular networks. Total bill after I cancelled my service on June 23? Excluding the Amazon Prime membership which I bought for the discounted shipping, about $21. That’s 20% of my monthly satellite bill.
But honestly I was already relying upon Netflix and Acorn TV for my TV watching for a long time before I called DirecTV and told them I was leaving the country for awhile (to avoid the hard sell and begging to stay subscribed). Instead of turning on the TV and seeing what was available as I had done since I was a kid, I bought a Roku 3 and was binge watching quality shows like Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy, as well as British-only fare like Time Team and Doc Martin. Now we’re hooked on Game of Thrones, but for the price of subscribing to HBO I can rent almost an entire season of the show. When HBO Now becomes available, I’ll probably swap out HuluPlus for it (or not until I’m done catching up with the UK version of The Office). The Roku makes navigation and selecting services easy, although searches within the apps range from tolerable (Netflix) to god-awful (Acorn TV).
The bottom line? I’m watching less TV, but the TV I do watch is of high quality, much better than 99% of the shows you will find on extended cable or satellite. Plus I’m saving money overall, even when I add in the cost of additional rentals.
I grew up with the TV an ever present sound in my childhood. I can sing the Love Boat theme or rattle off quotes from various shows of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s simply because the TV was always on. Now I spend at most two hours a day watching it, and what I watch just cannot be compared with the dross you find on TruTV or E!.
But it still took me months to work up the courage to cut the cord. “What if there’s a news event?” I asked myself. And I answered that I already get my news from the internet from several different sources including the British media including Sky News. “What about Walking Dead?” Available for rental at $3/pop as soon as the show airs. Still I dragged my feet until I opened my satellite bill, saw I was paying $103 a month and couldn’t remember the last time I had watched a show on it.
So I made the phone call and haven’t looked back. And the most illustrative fact? My teenaged son didn’t notice that DirecTV was turned off for over a month.
11th August 2015, 07:45 pm
New Zealand is considering updating its flag. I’m not sure why, but I guess there’s little else to do in that tiny corner of the world but whinge about America and fret about Australia, so perhaps the flag issue has little mental space to compete with.
Here are my suggestions.
We’ll get the sheep joke out of the way first.
For the Kiwis who feel it’s necessary to lecture Americans about how everything their country does is wrong.
And finally, my impression of what the New Zealand flag will look like by the end of the 21st century.
7th August 2015, 10:03 pm
Council Winners
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- *First place with 3 1/3 votes!–Joshuapundit–Donkey Kong Politics – The Democrat Field
- Second place with 2 votes–VA Right! – UPDATED: The Truth on Bush and the Economic Collapse of 2008 and Political Lies
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes–The Noisy Room – Louis Farrakhan – “We Must Rise Up & Kill Those Who Kill Us” [Video]
- Fourth place t with 1 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – The Neo-Darwinist Probability Problem
- Fourth place t with 1 1/3 votes –Puma By Design – State Dept Accused of ‘Disinformation’ Campaign; Falsely Claimed Top Israelis Officials Back Iran Deal
- Fourth place t with 1 1/3 votes –Bookworm Room – Animal Lovers Encourage Murder In Revenge For A Lion’s Death
- Fifth place with 2/3 votes –The Independent Sentinel – EPA Regs Will Close Hundreds of Coal Plants, Block New Ones, Increase Costs 80%
- Sixth place t with 1/3 votes –The Razor – On Cecil the Lion and Planned Parenthood Videos
- Sixth place t with 1/3 votes –Nice Deb – Nigerian Human Rights Activist Blasts Obama; Says Bush Did More For Africa
- Sixth place t with 1/3 votes –Don Surber – Camille Paglia — frenemy of conservatives
- Sixth place t with 1/3 votes –The Glittering Eye –Fitting the Policy to the Problem
Non-Council Winners
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- First place with 2 2/3 votes! –David P. Goldman – Will Israel Save America? submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place t with 2 votes –Megan Fox/PJ Lifestyle –Rebecca Watson: ‘Planned Parenthood Is Not Selling Baby Parts, You F*cking Idiots’ submitted by Nice Deb
- Second place t with 2 votes –Sultan Knish – A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes –Victor Davis Hanson/NRO–Israeli Preemptive Action, Western Reaction submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –Kathleen Parker/WAPO – The Tipping Point On Planned Parenthood submitted by Don Surber
- Fourth place t with 1 vote –Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage–Obama*Goes Nuclear* on Iran Deal Opponents submitted by The Noisy Room
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Real Clear Defense – Russia’s New Aerospace Forces submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Reps Tom Cotten And Mike Pompeo/WSJ – Release The Secret Iran Deals submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Jonah Goldberg – Ready for Hillary? submitted by The Watcher
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote –Reason.Com – Camille Paglia: Emma Sulkowicz’s Feminism Is About ‘Perpetually Lugging Around Bad Memories’ submitted by The Razor
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote –Seraphic Secret – Bringing Ariel Home submitted by The Watcher
5th August 2015, 10:02 pm
Council Submissions
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- Don Surber – Camille Paglia — frenemy of conservatives
- The Right Planet – The Neo-Darwinist Probability Problem
- Joshuapundit–Donkey Kong Politics – The Democrat Field
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Palestine Versus Allies And Survival
- The Noisy Room – Louis Farrakhan – “We Must Rise Up & Kill Those Who Kill Us” [Video]
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The Razor – On Cecil the Lion and Planned Parenthood Videos
- VA Right! – UPDATED: The Truth on Bush and the Economic Collapse of 2008 and Political Lies
- Puma By Design – State Dept Accused of ‘Disinformation’ Campaign; Falsely Claimed Top Israelis Officials Back Iran Deal
- Bookworm Room – Animal Lovers Encourage Murder In Revenge For A Lion’s Death
- Nice Deb – Nigerian Human Rights Activist Blasts Obama; Says Bush Did More For Africa
- Rhymes With Right – Memo To Ken Paxton — Resign Now!
- The Independent Sentinel – EPA Regs Will Close Hundreds of Coal Plants, Block New Ones, Increase Costs 80%
- The Glittering Eye –Fitting the Policy to the Problem
Honorable Mentions
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- The Pirate’s Cove – North Carolina To Fight Obama’s Silly Climate Change Plan
- Maggie’s Notebook – Making Money on Benghazi With Big Contracts & Illegal Foreign Security
- David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Will Hillary and Schumer save Dems from themselves on Iran nuke deal?
Non-Council Submissions
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- Kathleen Parker/WAPO – The Tipping Point On Planned Parenthood submitted by Don Surber
- Diana West – Socialism Rears Its Head Again submitted by The Right Planet
- David P. Goldman – Will Israel Save America? submitted by Joshuapundit
- Real Clear Defense – Russia’s New Aerospace Forces submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage–Obama*Goes Nuclear* on Iran Deal Opponents submitted by The Noisy Room
- Reason.Com – Camille Paglia: Emma Sulkowicz’s Feminism Is About ‘Perpetually Lugging Around Bad Memories’ submitted by The Razor
- Daily Caller – Farrakhan: ‘We Must Rise Up And Kill Those Who Kill Us’ [VIDEO]submitted by VA Right!
- Dennis Prager/Townhall –It’s A Lion submitted by Puma By Design
- Victor Davis Hanson/NRO–Israeli Preemptive Action, Western Reaction submitted by Bookworm Room
- Megan Fox/PJ Lifestyle –Rebecca Watson: ‘Planned Parenthood Is Not Selling Baby Parts, You F*cking Idiots’ submitted by Nice Deb
- Sultan Knish – A Tour of Our Decadent Civilization submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Mychal Massie–McCain Consistent In Attacks on Conservative Interests submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Reps Tom Cotten And Mike Pompeo/WSJ – Release The Secret Iran Deals submitted by The Watcher
- Seraphic Secret – Bringing Ariel Home submitted by The Watcher
- Jonah Goldberg – Ready for Hillary? submitted by The Watcher
4th August 2015, 05:28 pm
As an animal lover and one who has participated in the conservation of an endangered species it’s hard for me to not be pissed off at the dentist. I understand the excitement of a hunt, how much of a challenge it is to track your game, check your target and wait until you find the perfect moment. But I’ve used cameras not guns for my “kills” and the exhilaration felt was not lessened by capturing the image of the animal instead of its skull.
For those upset about the dentist killed Cecil the lion I can’t help but wonder how they feel about the abortionist making jokes about cracking the skull of a baby. I’m sure many upset with Cecil’s untimely demise aren’t familiar with the video making the rounds of the pro-life community, but I wonder if they would react a similar way, or if as I expect they would justify it as many in the hunting community have done with the lion’s demise. There’s something intrinsically screwed up with trophy hunting, just as I think there’s something intrinsically wrong with people who laugh about crushing the skulls of unborn children and make a profession of it. “Right Livelihood” is part of The Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path, and it’s hard to think of a livelihood further away from Enlightenment than the troglodytes shown in the videos. At least Cecil had more of a chance to defend himself than the kids crunched before birth.
Perhaps Cecil’s killer should have been an abortionist instead of a dentist.
