Kerfuffles

The White House Uses Forbidden Cookies Too
These are not your Granny’s gingersnaps!

The Rime of the Avenging Nerds

Cookies, Cookies, every where,
And all the Dems did shriek;
Cookies, Cookies, every where,
But not a crumble to eat.

The very poor did starve, O Kerry!
That ever this should be!
Oh, you alone would have saved us all
From George Bush’s calumny.

About, about, in reel and rout
The web bugs pounced at night;
Spy Cookies, much like witches’ balls,
Shone red, and blue and white.

And some in dreams assuréd were
Of the evil that plagued us so;
Nine gigabytes deep had tracked us all
To the land of never-go.

And all the forkéd tongues of Dems,
Were withered and parched dry;
They could not rant, they could not rail
They could not speak to lie.

Ah! well a-day! what evil lurks
Inside the minds of Nerds!
In Big Brother’s stead, the web bugs,
Into the dough were stirred.

PyjamasMedia reports that the White House has caller-ID too. Linked at basil’s blog Picnic.

And Daddy’s The Big Whopper!
The Washington power couple, the Plame-Wilsons, had their cover blown at an international airport last Thursday, as they were attempting to sneak away on vacation to an undisclosed location. As part of their creative subterfuge, they attempted the ruse of an open press conference right inside of the crowded terminal.

“My daddy’s famous, my mommy’s a secret spy,” shouted their 5-year-old, soon to be “frog-marched” son.

The boy’s spymaster mother, the shy and retired from “the agency” Lady Spy Plame, was standing nearby. With her infamous right arm she was covering the mouth of her other 5-year-old son. Yes - that right arm made famous by the “saintlier than thou” Ambassador Wilson on Meet the Press: “my wife has made it very clear that—she has authorized me to say this—she would rather chop off her right arm than say anything to the press and she will not allow herself to be photographed”.

When asked to identify himself, the little boy replied that he was known by his friends as “Scooter”, and added that his friends refer to his famous father as “The Big Whopper”. Reporters present immediately phoned in the details of the national security breach to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who has already impaneled another grand jury to investigate. The buzz amongst the Washington know-it-alls is that once again Karl Rove has been caught red-handed; this time passing on super-duper national secrets to innocent children.

The “famous daddy”, Joseph Wilson, took immeasurable pride in the fact that although his son had unknowingly leaked a national secret, he never, ever revealed the undisclosed vacation hideaway of his “shy and unassuming” power parents. The former ambassador claimed that to be indisputable evidence of his ability to manage secrets as opposed to the abysmal failure of the President of the United States. (more…)

The essay defining “What is an American?” has been making the rounds of the Internet since 2001. It was NOT penned by an Australian dentist, but by a Virginia law professor at George Mason University, Peter Ferrara. Oh the things you can learn by going to www.snopes.com. It was published just days after September 11th, 2001, and since then has been plagiarized and travelling along in millions of e-mails as written by an Australian.

What Is An American?, A primer.

By Peter Ferrara, an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law.
September 25, 2001 9:20 a.m.

You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.

An American is: ~~ Anyone can still read the original by clicking on the link to National Review On-line.

And Roast Suckling Pig ~~

may they continue to laden the groaning boards of Christians worldwide during their annual feastings in celebration of the birth of Christ, with apologies to none. “Pigges rosted” were served by King Richard II and the Duke of Lancaster at a feast they gave in the year 1387. Posted for Pig and Pork Saturday, which is also today, Christmas Eve.

Recipe for Roast Stuffed Suckling Pig (more…)

from Freedom From Religion Foundation ~~

Yes, oh yes, “let reason prevail” and proffer your evidence and scientific proof that “there are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell”. This gives just another example that there can never be “freedom from religion”, as even agnostics and close-minded, hubristic atheists feel compelled to follow that primordial human urge to form a religion: the www.ffrf.org.

solstice sign, Originally uploaded by Takchek.

And his name is Bill too.

“He pokes me,” Denish said when confronted about photos taken of Richardson and her at an appearance in Bernalillo in late October. “He pinches my neck. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg.”

Denish told The Journal, “I try not to put myself in that situation, trying not to stand or sit next to him.”

Dealing with Richardson’s touching and poking “is one of the challenges of this governor,” Denish told The Journal. (Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish speaking of Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico)

Now you can understand why Richardson, FOB or Friend of “the other” Bill, is a Democrat. Look what he can get away with! If he were a Republican, Ms. Denish or the NOW ladies would have already sworn out a restraining order against him. There would be court testimony from everyone, including any young children who had ever been hugged by the Governor. Anita Hill would be expounding upon the devastating consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace. There would be on-going state criminal investigations into such serious allegations. There would be e-mail campaigns demanding Richardson’s resignation and night and day protesters outside of his New Mexico mansion, clamoring for his hide, and throwing about words such as “pervert”, “lecher”, “chauvinist”. If fact, if Richardson were a Republican, the Lieutenant Governor likely would have already had him “frog-marched” out of his mansion into the local jail, illuminating the night and day differences between the political parties of these United States.

Under the category of new discoveries: I have just become aware there are “conservatives” at Tufts University. Now that is news! Apparently they have been there for a few years and even have a magazine - “The Primary Source”. It is probably tough to be a conservative at Tufts, but in the long run it will build toughness into the character of the students espousing such “liberal” beliefs.

The Primary Source is the magazine of conservative thought on the Tufts campus. Our motto is “Veritas Sine Dolo,” which means “truth without sorrow,” … We do not bow to political pressure or political correctness, and our opinions are never blunted by the fear of retribution.

Incoming students may hear bad things about the Source from returning students. In its tenure, the Source been accused of being both sexist and racist because we have made fun of politically correct terms and concepts, and because we have taken a stance against programs such as affirmative action. We make no apologies for our positions on these issues, and if you are someone who equates objection to a social policy with dislike of an ethnic group, then this magazine probably is not for you. If, however, you are a student who believes in freedom of thought and expression of all forms, who believes that government should be limited, power reserved to the people, and individual rights to be among the most important concepts in human history, then this is the magazine for you.

Hope springs eternal. Perhaps someday there may actually be genuine “liberal” thinking and ideas permitted at America’s universities. Linked at basil’s breakfast.

New features announced by Technorati.
Well - Good Luck! I have given up on them long ago. I followed all their suggestions about getting my blogs to validate 100% perfectly. What a crock! My pages still do not get tagged. Warner Crocker has some advice for them, with which I wholeheartedly agree: “get back to the business of answering emails and handling some account issues”.

Even this post I made about the Right Brothers never got tagged. If you look up the “Right Brothers” tag at Technorati, you get a slew (like 50 million) identical days-old links from a blog that knows how to scam Technorati, but has nothing to do with the current popular musical hit by The Right Brothers - “Bush was Right”. And besides, the blog is not even in English!

If you want to know how she manages to scam Technorati - it’s easy - take a look at her list of 50 million categories. Somewhere on the list are the words “right” and “brothers”, in English no less. Every time she makes a post, all of those categories get tagged for that one post by Technorati. Anyway, that is my “nontechnical” explanation. If it is something else, we’ll just have to wait for the Technorati techies to explain it all. Yeah, right!

If you need any help with Technorati, perhaps you can find good explanations at my Blog-Help page. Now - to get back to something that is right - “The Right Brothers” and me! I was RIGHT, you were RIGHT, the RIGHT was RIGHT and … Bush Was Right.

If President Bush’s right hand man, Karl Rove, gets the ole “heave-hove” from the special prosecutor, the man to take Rove’s stead is Scott Ott. Who is Scott Ott? Well, he is the genius who has advised the president to announce the Do-Not-Wiretap List. That is cleverer than Karl has ever been.

Ott is telling the president to announce the creation of a new website which will allow Americans to voluntarily exclude their phone numbers and email addresses from NSA wiretap lists. The new National Do Not Wiretap Registry (DoNotWiretap.gov) will be patterned on the “oh so successful” DoNotCall.gov model of allowing citizens to opt-out of harassment by telephone solicitors and junk calls. Scott Ott writes:

“If you’re concerned that your civil rights might be violated simply because some al Qaeda member has your information in his cellphone or computer, then go to DoNotWiretap.gov, enter your contact phone number, email address, and names of terrorists who might have you on speed dial and we’ll let the National Security Administration know that you don’t want them eavesdropping on you.”

End of story, New York Times and all the Dems who had already authorized the NSA to do just what it has been doing all along.

“Do I Have a Head-ache!” ~~Lady Spy Plame

This fantastic image from David Burnett reveals everything about the Plame-Wilsons. It appears at TIME Person of the Year 2005. Up front and personal is Ambassador Joseph Wilson, in his TV interview suit, although a bit out of character, as his mouth is closed. Perhaps his sullenness is the result of being all dressed up with no place to go. In the far distance poses his better-half, Lady Spy Plame with a head-ache, glamorously clad in silky pajamas. The Plame Kerfuffle - it never ends.