Breitbart at the Tea Party Convention. There were several dozen MSM reporters present. Gotta love it.

This was written before Obama became President, but I don’t think he’d win anyway.

So let’s get it on: 43 men enter, one man leaves. No “over the top rope” battle royale, because Taft and Cleveland would have an unfair advantage. All men are at the physical peak of their presidency, because Wilson deserves a chance. No firearms.

We are sticking with the classics: 43 men on a remote island, forced to fight to the death in a series of individual battles with a soundtrack by Stan Bush. It will be called Beyond Capitoldome, and it will cost $49.95 on pay-per-view. Who wins?

Stay with it, people.  HT The Corner

My sister, Elizabeth, was a guest advice columnist on a website of The Believer Magazine. Here’s the question and my sister’s response:
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Not that I plan on ever buying a mobile home, but if I did I would buy it from these guys. Patrick, I hope you noticed that I remembered to categorize this post.

Elizabeth Beckwith on Dennis Miller Show (10.19.2009)

Check it out here. She’s on to talk about her book, Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation.

Update: She will be on during the third hour of the show, 9 am PDT, 12 noon EDT.

Update II: Here’s the audio: Elizabeth Beckwith on Dennis Miller Show (10.19.2009)

Our great, glorious and most esteemed Founder is on fire in the blogosphere. Over at First Things, he has passed along this wonderful Green Bag review of the latest term of the Supreme Court. And before you make it to the article, let me make a pitch for the Green Bag: it’s a wonderful and entertaining journal of legal humor and history, re-founded by Ross Davies over at GMU School of Law. The Green Bag has been known, more often than not, to send you a Supreme Court Justice Bobblehead as a treat for the subscription. It’s not guaranteed, but who WOULDN’T want a mini-Niño nodding away on your desk to your self-proclaimed brilliance! To quote the article: (more…)

Courtesy of Courtoons:

As you contemplate whether to set your alarm for the morning or use the Sabbath to get some extra sleep, I offer this admonition from an Alabama landowner adjacent to I-65:

(photo courtesy of my sister)

Absolutely hysterical “misheard lyrics” video set to Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter.

Heh. Potato Wave.

H/t: Scott Keith.

The Onion has the scoop.  I especially liked this line: “The final section of the barricade, a reinforced concrete enclosure containing the city of Austin, will be finished by August 2009.”

If you are among the number of folks swept up in the great porcine panic who have altered their lifestyles to avoid the swine flu, here is a simple test to see if you have it.

Reihan Salam, of the Atlantic and the American Scene, had a short piece at the Daily Beast on conspiracy theories in American politics and focused especially on the relatively wide-spread belief that President Obama is a closet Muslim.  This paragraph, unfortunately, got cut from the article:

So despite the fact that Obama has been a church-going Christian for most of his adult life, more than a tenth of the country believes that while roaming the streets of Jakarta as an elementary schooler, Obama met some wily bearded imam who lured him into his roving Muslim-mobile with delicious minaret-shaped candies and converted him to radical Islam. Dazzled by his obvious intelligence, and convinced long before David Axelrod that Americans were itching to elect a half-Kenyan youth as president, he also sold young Obama on the idea of keeping his Islamic zealotry under wraps. That way he could transform America into a radical Islamic caliphate without anyone ever noticing.

I don’t have particularly strong feelings on President Obama’s religious beliefs (or lack thereof), other than I have no reason not to take him at his word that he’s an adherent of some bland, liberal form of Protestantism.  I am, however, highly intrigued by the concept of “minaret-shaped candies.”  Too funny.

Hat tip: Daniel Larison.

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf—-g snakes on this motherf—-g plane!

SUNSHINE SUNRISE, FL: President Obama issued a statement this evening apologizing for the “careless… clumsy and off-handed remarks” he made today. This most recent gaffe occurred immediately after the President had just completed grueling, back-to-back guest performances on Dancing with the Stars and American Idol. The President said, “Nancy Reagan… [should spend more time eating] arugula… [and] bowling like the Special Olympics… [than] acting like a a typical white person, … [by] you know, doing seances… and [acting] bitter… [by] clinging to her guns and religion.”

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Please Note: the preceding was an (awful?) attempt at satire and thus was not intended to be offensive to anyone. If such offence was found, I apologize but request that you focus your outrage on the man who actually said these things.

Barack Obama’s Teleprompter speaks out for itself.

Speaking of libertarians, Reason has a hilarious video on Joe Biden.  Here’s to fusionism working:

Hat tip: Upturned Earth

(H/T: Fr. Z.)

A couple weeks ago, Kathryn Jean Lopez over at the Corner posted Judge Robert Bork’s 1996 National Review piece on the martini.  In the article, Bork prescribed the “judicious use of alcohol” as a means of weathering the “long national nightmare” that was the Clinton Administration.  Judge Bork’s advice is timely.

But, as the good judge warned us, “[t]he choice of drink is crucial.”  Careful to avoid falling into the heresy of “alcoholic relativism,” Judge Bork concluded that only the dry martini “conveys conservative correctness, spreads warmth and courage throughout one’s soul, and has the additional merit of being the most delicious cocktail ever invented.”

Being a devout drinker of dry martinis, I heartily agreed with Judge Bork.  That is of course, until I discovered that not all martinis are created equal.

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My favorite radio station (conservative talk format) regularly runs commercials featuring the “Beach Bum Ty Coughlin” who created the Reverse Funnel System to help you make $52k a month without selling!  What cracks me up is that whether it is Ty Coughlin or someone giving a testimonial, the voice and cadence are essentially the same.  You can tell the guy is trying to make his voice sound deeper or he’s talking a little slower, but there are definite tells that the same person is speaking.

I just decided to google the Reverse Funnel to see if there is any scam alert material associated with it and found a fellow named Jonathan Budd appearing on websites as a commenter bravely defending the validity of the system and the integrity of Ty Coughlin.  He even made a youtube video making fun of those who call the Reverse Funnel a scam.  Check it out:

The great thing is that Jonathan Budd, too, has the voice pattern of Ty Coughlin.  I get this great picture of a guy recording this stuff in his home office.  It’s a sock puppet selling system!!!  Go make your fortune friends!

Here is an example picture of the last five US Presidents:

Here are the Last Five Venezuelan Presidents:

Any Questions?

How far do you have to go to make fun of the ethical and legal problems of President Obama’s cabinet appointments?

This far.

This sort of sums it all up.

The President continues to impress with his broad vision for a bipartisan cabinet. Here, w/ Charles Gibson, he enunciates just what he’s looking for: 

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