Descriptive Reasoning

I post this for no other reason than to wonder if we can nail O'Malley with such a penalty too, considering what he and the legislative leadership are doing to the taxpayers of Maryland:

This is just a thought

Why do I have a feeling that some of the people who stand in line for four, six, eight hours to try to get a cheap HDTV are the same people who think that waiting in line for thirty minutes, sixty minutes, ninety minutes to vote is a civil rights violation of the highest degree?

'Tis the Season

It's close enough to Thanksgiving, and with the ramrodding of the slots and the taxes down our throats, I think we can all think of some turkeys we'd like to stuff....

Why are we in this handbasket again?

This story, H/T to NRO:

THERE'LL be no ho, ho, ho this Christmas. Aspiring Santas have been told not to use the term "ho" because it could be seen as derogatory to women.

Thirty trainees at a Santa course in Adelaide last month, held by recruitment company Westaff, were urged to replace the traditional festive greeting with "ha, ha, ha".

A Santa veteran of 11 years who attended the course told the Sunday Mail the trainer was very clear in spelling out no to "ho".

Two Santa hopefuls reportedly left the course after the trainer's edict.

It's actually worse than that because they hide that stupidity with this stupidity:

Westaff national operations manager Glen Jansz said the company's Santas had been urged to "tone down" their use of the "ho, ho, ho" phrase – but he said it wasn't for fear of offending women.

"The reason behind that is we find that in some cases the little kids can get a little bit scared of the deep ho, ho, hos and we ask them to be mindful of keeping their voices to a lower level," he said.

"And kids are probably more inclined to understand `ha, ha, ha', than `ho, ho, ho'."

Amazing...

Ah...the days

It's hard to imagine a time when such a machine was...uh...cutting edge:

Read this on your own

You read it, you come to your own conclusion. The title: Scent of a Führer: Hitler wanted to control the world. But he couldn't even control his flatulence.

Oy...

Music for an early Saturday

Um.....OK

Apparently this is a heavy YouTube week. This takes a while to get where it is going...but it's worth it:

Oh My

OK....apparently Jackie Mason (yes, THAT Jackie Mason) has a vlog. Just watch for yourself, words cannot really describe it....(H/T Right on the Right via Hot Air):

Why not, it's been a long month...

You are going to have this in your head for the rest of the day....sorry.


This actually took a lot of editing work in the days before non-linear editing...

An Oasis

Jim Caple wrote a highly fascinating article for ESPN about the emerging sports paradise located in.....Dubai.

Yes, that Dubai. A sample:

After all, the mercury might routinely climb halfway to the boiling point in summer, but Ski Dubai, a snow park inside the vast Mall of the Emirates, is open year round. It has ice sculptures, snowmen and a short bobsled run. There is even the St. Moritz restaurant modeled after a Swiss ski lodge, complete with a flame roaring in a stone fireplace where men in snow-white robes and women in black abayas sit close by, dipping forks into a fondue pot. For an equally ludicrous contradiction to a ski slope in the Arabian desert, Minnesota's Mall of America would have to have a midwinter sand dune park with camels and oil wells.

Read the whole thing....

Just Saying

Why did the parties join together to help the "milk cartel ?"

Why did people in Louisiana re-elect Willie Jefferson?

Why can't Peter Angelos get along with anybody?

Why did Jason Marquis get $20 million over three years?

Is having a criminal as your most out-front peace activist really a swell idea?

It sounds like Dennis Kucinich is going to run for President Again....the world yawned. Of course, he's down with the criminals, I guess.

I have no sympathy for Eric Rudolph.