Digitus Impudicus

What I got.



Lovin' is what I got.

Early in the morning, risin' to the street
Light me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet
Got to find a reason, a reason things went wrong
Got to find a reason why my money's all gone
I got a dalmation, and I can still get high
I can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot

Well, life is (too short), so love the one you got
'Cause you might get runover or you might get shot
Never start no static I just get it off my chest
Never had to battle with no bulletproof vest
Take a small example, take a tip from me
Take all of your money, give it all to charity
Love is what I got
It's within my reach
And the Sublime style's still straight from Long Beach
It all comes back to you, you'll finally get what you deserve
Try and test that you're bound to get served
Love's what I got
Don't start a riot
You'll feel it when the dance gets hot

Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got

(That's) why I don't cry when my dog runs away
I don't get angry at the bills I have to pay
I don't get angry when my Mom smokes pot
Hits the bottle and goes right to the rock
Fuckin' and fightin', it's all the same
Livin' with Louie dog's the only way to stay sane
Let the lovin', let the lovin' come back to me

Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got, I said remember that
Lovin', is what I got, I got I got I got
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This Is What Happens When You Effing SUCK At Leadership

Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Update2)

By Nadine Elsibai

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president while 33 percent approve. The rating matches Bush's career low in a May 2006 poll.

Seventy-one percent of Americans said the country is on the wrong track, up from 46 percent in an April 2003 poll, the month after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A majority of those polled this month don't approve of how Bush is handling the Iraq war, terrorism or the economy.

Read it and weap. A bad Republican President at a critical time of war. Can't blame it on anybody else yet. The Dems haven't swung into action.

I'm going to give George this last one chance to get it right with 20,000 more of our young people. If he screws that up then he's done. That'll be the people's judgment.

Last chance GWB. Get it right, jerk.
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Musical Interlude II



More on the band Garbage the next time.
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Musical Interlude



Yah, dude. You could play a guitar like a mutherfuckinriot, but you still died of heroin.

Too bad, that.

It's the mood I'm in...


Sublime lives on at drunken parties everywhere...



Brad, you were good.
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Amateur Hour In Iraq (Part II)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The official video of hanging of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants screened for reporters Monday showed the former leader's half brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away. The video shows Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, being hanged side by side.

Well, let's see: they screwed up the Saddam execution by allowing Mookie-Loons in to taunt the bastard (my objection is related to the lack of professionalism, not to the fact that the last thing ringing his his ears was offensive to him). And they let somebody in with a camera phone.

This time they dropped the half-brother a wee bit too hard.

"Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the gallows were built to international standards and in accordance with human rights organizations."

Yah, dummy, but an experienced hangman knows how to calculate the proper rope length to prevent this kind of result. Maybe they should sub-contract these executions to professionals.

I haven't heard the usual whining from the Left yet - one of their heroes having done a pretty piss-poor rope dance. But I fully expect there are some long faces over at Air (anti-)America and the New York Times.
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Woman Sues City Over Wet T-Shirt Arrest

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Melissa Harrington feels the city of Lincoln, Neb., is all wet -- for busting her at a wet T-shirt contest.

She's filed a $75,000 claim for restitution against the city and the police department, claiming officers are intimidating bar owners to keep them from hiring her for promotions.

She was sentenced in August to six months' probation for violating a public decency ordinance. Harrington had hosted a wet T-shirt contest at a Lincoln bar in March. Officers charged her with being topless. But Harrington claims she wasn't, because her nipples and areolas were covered with pink paint.

Uh, "for busting her at a wet T-shirt contest." Haha - busted. I love it.

So I received word from Distaff #2 about this article. She apparently was genuinely offended at this business woman's exploits, as detailed at the woman's MySpace. So, let's take a look at the pertinent particulars.



Status: In a Relationship
Here for: Networking, Friends
Orientation: Bi
Hometown: Lincoln, NE
Body type: 5' 7" / Slim / Slender











Uh, those aren't the pertinent particulars? Okay, I'll try again.

How about:
I don't see the problem. Well, I see how other people might have a problem, but I'm just not one of those people. She was busted (heh heh) for holding a wet T-shirt contest in her own place of business, in sight of patrons who willingly entered that business. Unless there's more information here (say, some of the contestants, or she, walked outside in public view), and it appears there isn't, what business is it of others what she does on her own property?

I mean, I'm the World's Biggest Property Rights Freak, and I know other conservatives are as well. So where is the consistency here? It's wrong for the courts or legislatures to mandate green zones, and to limit use of private property without just compensation, correct? It's also wrong for the government to swoop in and condemn your private property because the government thinks it can get more tax dollars if they sell your property to a local hooked-up business baron, right? So why is it okay for that very same government to arrest, charge and punish this businesswoman for providing a service to her customers that they're obviously so interested in they're willing to pay for it? And as a side effect, do damage to her business in the process?

Or, as I suspect, is it not okay for the government to tell her what to do on her own property as long as we Conservatives don't have a problem with what she's doing on her own private property - but it's okay for that same government to put her on probation, and damage her business, so long as she's doing something we think is indecent?

If so, if the hypocrisy has gotten that deep, then I don't ever want to hear another Conservative bitch about "big" government or oppressive Liberal unfunded mandates, or out-of-control courts taking people's property without just compensation. After all, we sanction the same stuff, right? So long as it's in service to some "moral" standard.

Just keep that in mind the next time some Liberal tells you that it's "indecent" for you to have so much money - and that the "moral" thing to do is to hand it over to the government so it can be distributed to those less fortunate.

Damn, but doesn't it just suck when that ol' sword cuts both ways?




UPDATE: FOX News reports


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WAR! ... Or Not

From Bush's speech last night:

Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.

If we had a Republican in the White House I suppose that first sentence would mean that we'd be responding to Iran's acts of war against us. Lucky for them that situation (a Republican in the White House) clearly doesn't exist. But if it did, Bush's carrier group (that he's sending to that region) would, oh, maybe kick a little ass on those assholes who are manufacturing the IEDs that are blowing the hell out of our young people over there.

"I'm sorry all I heard was blah blah blah I'm a dirty tramp."

Here's a link to Bush's speech. Yah, if you feel like wasting a few minutes.

Nobody believes you anymore, Mr. President. I hope you're satisfied with your efforts to appease the Democrats and The World™. And if you're wondering where your poll numbers went, well, I'd start looking there, first.
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Don’t Run – You’ll Only Die Tired

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A U.S. airstrike hit targets in southern Somalia where Islamic militants were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies, Somali officials and witnesses said Tuesday. Many people were reported killed.

What did we use? Oh, an AC-130 Gunship.

What's that? Here ya go:



Update: I guess we didn't get anybody important. Still, a dead al-Qaeda is a dead al-Qaeda. Here's a quote for you, though... "...the U.S. official said Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record to the media." Maybe Bush will find and fire the talkative rat bast... uhh, ef it. I know he won't.

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Trouble for the Abortion Lobby...

Maybe. First, MSNBC is reporting that scientists have found that amniotic fluid can provide stem cells that hold "much the same promise" as embryonic stem cells - the difference being that amniotic stem cells don't require the destruction of the embryo in order to collect them.

Scientists reported Sunday they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in the fluid that cushions babies in the womb and produced a variety of tissue types from these cells —sidestepping the controversy over destroying embryos for research.

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported the stem cells they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells. They reported they were able to extract the stem cells without harm to mother or fetus and turn their discovery into several different tissue cell types, including brain, liver and bone.

Christopher Reeve should be looking down at us from The Beyond with satisfaction. Some other Embryonic Stem Cell Research supporters won't, though. That's because Embryonic Stem Cell Research has been at the vanguard recently of the pro-abortion-rights advocates' arguments; the thinking being that any "valid" reason the public believes exists for destroying developing humans bodes well for the abortion lobby's goal of increasing the acceptability of destroying developing humans for any reason.

And right now approximately 70% of the people support Embryonic Stem Cell Research. So it's a winning issue at this point for the abortion lobby. Therefore, this development is trouble because if it turns out that you don't have to destroy embryos to gain the same benefit you'd get by destroying embryos, there's no longer a reason to destroy them. And whoosh goes the political side benefit of Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

And by "side benefit" I don't mean "lesser" benefit. Embryonic Stem Cell Research would not be such a hot-button issue if it didn't require the destruction of embryos. How many other medical issues have received such strenuous support form the Left, Democrats, the MSM and Hollywood?

"Ahhh!" you might say, "what about HIV/AIDS?" - my response would be, "exactly." If anybody holds any illusions that the HIV/AIDS political battle had nothing to do with social engineering then I'd suggest you ramp up your sense of political cynicism.

Now, I'm a strong supporter of what's commonly referred to as "gay rights" (my beef with that term is that I feel it's just "human rights") - and I believe the government is uniquely suited to spearhead the fight against HIV/AIDS - but that doesn't mean I'm not of the opinion that politics hasn't played a major role in the battles over the subject. I can be on the same side of a political debate, and still not be all misty-eyed about the motivations of some who agree with me.

It's a lonely road for those of us rare beasts who are generally conservative, but are social liberals on many issues.

But back to my point. This Amniotic Stem Cell issue threatens the "side" (though just as important to the abortion lobby) benefits gleaned from Embryonic Stem Cell Research. So, one tends to wonder how this is going to play out.

My guess? Well, the abortion lobby has been extremely hostile to any science that has demonstrated negative aftereffects of abortion on the women who acquire the procedure. Also, the abortion lobby has been energetically antagonistic towards "informed consent" laws that require women to be, prior to an abortion, informed of the possible side effects and dangers associated with the medical procedure. Now, this would seem to run contrary to the abortion lobby's purported support for women's rights and dignity. But that misses the point.

Or rather, it misses the abortion lobby's point. The abortion lobby views abortion, in-and-of-itself, as the goal of their political efforts. Women's rights are merely a means to that end. Where there have been conflicts between women's health concerns and the availability of abortion-on-demand, abortion wins with the abortion lobby. Ideology and massive profits make very willing and dedicated bedfellows. No pun intended.

So, my guess: two possibilities as I see it. Either this news of Amniotic Stem Cell Research's potential benefits gets buried by the MSM, or a massive discrediting effort will ensue. Obviously this news will be picked up by the anti-abortion people - it's as natural as it's inevitable. That will draw the bright dividing line, assuming the pro-abortion folks don't conduct a preemptive strike of their own. And once that happens the political war is on. So, through I may not be sure which tactic the pro-abortion people will use to stifle Amniotic Stem Cell Research (even trying to cut off funding?), that they will try to put the kibosh on it is without question.

What will also be interesting to see is where the "true" Embryonic Stem Cell Research people (meaning those who honestly believe it's necessary for the health of people) will come down on this. If they battle against a less socially troublesome method that has the same benefits of ESCR, then I guess my own cynicism will have to be ramped up some. If they welcome Amniotic Stem Cell Research, and perhaps welcome the removal of the political acrimony which has been a stumbling block for them, then I will applaud their dedication to their core concerns - and offer my respect for them.

I shall wait to see whether Michael J. Fox stops taking his medication again, and cuts a commercial supporting Amniotic Stem Cell Research.

But I won't be holding my breath.
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The Decline and (Further) Fall of the British Empire

First, the story:

Promotion freezes as cuts bite in Navy

Telegraph (UK)
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 8:13am GMT 06/01/2007

Promotion for Royal Navy officers is to be frozen for five years in a cost-cutting measure that has caused fury in the Fleet, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Morale is plummeting as officers stand to lose more than £10,000 a year in pay.

An official Navy document passed to this newspaper states that all promotions to the rank of Lieutenant Commander or above will be halted until 2012. The internal memo, labelled Galaxy 36/06, said that a temporary halt will be required to "rebalance in favour of the front line".

With billions being spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and on costly procurement programmes, the Ministry of Defence is desperate to make savings. The Navy has become a target and proposals to retire a further six frigates and destroyers to bring budgets into line were revealed by The Telegraph yesterday. The fleet will lose almost half its warships with 19 out of 44 laid up in port.

...

There are also fears that the promotion freeze will have a negative effect on recruiting bright young officers to a service suffering substantial manning problems. The details on the promotion freeze and RNR cuts are expected in March.

Well, considering the vastly damaging dhimmi-friendly multicultural policies* of the current British government, this doesn't exactly come as a surprise. Apparently Britain is content to leave their own security to the Europeans.

"Great" Britain: the new Canada.

* If anybody wants examples, just ask. I've got multiculturalism on speed, and a couple examples of free speech suppression by the government.
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Something Going Down in Miami?

Heads up: Bomb squad examining a truck at the Port of Miami. Three men of "Middle Eastern" descent were apprehended, two of whom were hiding in the truck. The driver is an Iraqi.

We'll just have to see where this goes. If anywhere.

Update: Eh, it was nothing.
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The Frog and the Scorpion

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.

The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

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Don't Know if This is Real...

But I really wish it were. Kind of sums up the point of this blog.



Hmmmmm. Gives me an idea. heh heh heh.
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Oops. Got One Wrong

When I posted the "It's Lonely At The Bottom" piece about John Kerry in Baghdad I got some of it wrong. It turns out that he was meeting (at the time) with some NYC reporters for a background (i.e. off the record) statement, and had purposefully sought out a more private location in the mess hall.

For some perspective on this, check out Michelle Malkin's post on how this developed, and how even though the particular instance was wrongly-reported, the gist of the point (that Kerry is shunned by troops) is very much correct. But I'm not going to hit that point too hard in this post because the fact I got the subject wrong deserves an apology.

Sorry.

(Hey, if I were the New York Times, you'd be reading this retraction on page Z1483, below the fold, in 1.5 point font, instead of right below the masthead. So back off!)

Update: Cold Fury has a reaction, too. More perspective.

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Links Fixed

All the nav-bar links (left side of page) should now lead to valid websites. Sadly, A Small Victory bowed out of the blog world (I thought she did a great job, and had a wicked sense of humor), but Cold Fury is still around, shakin' it up. Also, my e-mail link now points to a valid e-mail address. Better yet, it's even my e-mail address! Nothin' but the best bonus features for y'all.
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Israel Getting Frisky With Mini-Nukes?

The Sunday Times (UK) is reporting that Israel is drawing up secret plans to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities with low-yield nuclear “bunker-busting” bombs. I had predicted (elsewhere I believe) that because of the depth and hardening of the Iranian sites, nukes would have to be part of the picture if somebody made the decision that those sites must be forcibly shut down. I didn’t really predict that Israel would be the one to do it – in fact I’m not convinced this story is even true – but nobody else has the nads to pull something like this off. Including Bush.

If this happens then it’s yet another eventuality that can be laid at the doorstep of a feckless Europe (who accepted primary responsibility for convincing the Iranians to not go down this road), and an ineffectual UN (the recent, pathetic, “sanctions” notwithstanding). Of course, the West will howl with rage and indignation if Israel actually does this, but considering the West has no teeth, that’s a far less worrying issue than would be a nuclear-capable Iran.

I supposed that’s a potential upside to the West’s supine weakness: what are they going to do about it? Not a damned thing. However, the Democrats now in power in Congress could very well do something about it. As they’re ramping up to a Vietnam-style pullout in Iraq, they could just as well punish Israel by denying them the aid we’ve been providing. When it comes to “getting tough” with adversaries, like Israel and the United States, the Democrats in Congress can be downright Rambo-esque.

(Hat tip: Drudge)

Update: Israel Denies
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The Google Jihad

Improvised Explosive Device. (from Wikipedia) An improvised explosive device (IED) is the formal name for explosive devices, often used in unconventional warfare or asymmetrical warfare by guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the 2003-present Iraq War, the insurgents have made the IED (often referred to by the press as roadside bombs) one of their main weapons against coalition forces.

As has been demonstrated recently by the US Military in Iraq, IED materials have been coming from Iran. As the linked story details, these are more sophisticated explosive devices than the ones crafted from recovered artillery shells and the like. These Iranian ones are manufactured in factories, and are designed to be armor piercing.

Why ABC calls the terrorizing, civilian-murdering, misogynistic Iraqitrash thugs the “Iraqi Militia” is just one of those things we’ll have to put into the database – including the fact that many of these baboons are not even Iraqis. Buy why mess up the Party line with trivialities like facts?

One thing that occasionally gets lost in all the shuffle is what those IEDs do. Sure, they blow up. But they serve double-duty. They also provide opportunities for morale-boosting videos. Kind of MTV-meets-Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And, as has been the case in the West over the last few years, journalistic outlets of the MSM have been more than ready to help. In this instance, Google.com, the left-of-center search engine/mega Web enterprise, has the video linked-to below posted. (Hat tip: LGF)

Warning: Graphic Content (you have been warned)

There are so many things that could be said about this video, but I don’t want to get all tangled up in documenting the actions of our own Fifth Column to the exclusion of noting the much more important issue of the people we are fighting. I do strongly encourage you to view this video because it serves to remind us that these are not “minutemen” in the style of those who fought the American Revolutionary War – despite Michael Moore’s assertions to the contrary. And keep in mind that through each of the explosions shown, American young men – our brothers, sons, nephews and friends – are at the center of each blast. As you see the video you’ll realize that there’s not a lot of mystery about the results of these attacks.

So, the next time you hear or read some Leftist Jihadi-sympathizer whining about those poor “insurgents” or “freedom-fighters” over in Iraq, please keep in mind what you’re about to see. Enemy propaganda can serve the purposes of the enemy, but it can also help us focus our attention, and to cut through all the intentionally-misleading bullshit thrown at us by craven and surrender-seeking MSM outlets, Leftists and Left-wing Democrats.



This Video Brought to You From the Religion of Peace™


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United Airlines Sucks (Volume II, Chapter 17)

First, check this.

And since I know you won't, I'll quote some of the most interesting parts for you.

In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?
It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously.

A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.

You get that? "United Airlines employees"?

That's right, those evil bastards who lost my goddamned baggage in December, while I was peaceably going about my business, being a civil servant designing weapons of war for the United States Government, lost my baggage as I was traveling from sanguine and coffee-ish Seattle to Virginia Beach, VA to wreak havoc on Mohammed's more "enthusiastic" minions.

But what were the employees of Untied (heh) Airlines doing at the time? Watching for friggin UFOs over O'Hare International. That's right, instead of justifying their measly Wal-Mart-like pay by looking after my knickers, books, and a really fetching pair of fishnet stockings, they had their heads in the clouds. Literally.

But this post has a serious point. Well, no it doesn't. But I get really annoyed by the increasing acceptability of "paranormal" crap like flying saucers and psychics. Big Foot. The Loch Ness Monster (I'm embarrassed to report that dictionary.com has a reference to that). But the increasing acceptance of bizarre and unproved ideas causes real harm to people who believe in them. Don't know how? Observe somebody who has taken the advice of your local sideshow psychic.

Heck, as another datum point, take the fact that United Airlines employees are spending their time looking out for damned UFOs instead of making sure my copy of the One Handed Karma Sutra made it to my rather lonely hotel room in Virginia.

So, the message is: paranormal is evil. Don't be evil.
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