He serves, she sacrifices

Christmas in Saudi Arabia? Air Force Maj. Steven Givler writes to Carol at No Sheeples Here:

If anyone deserves thanks (and a pension) it is my wife, who has served our country just as much as I. As she sometimes reminds me, I get to run around, see interesting places and practice my Arabic. She gets to stay home, fix bicycle tires, cook meals, and keep our house from falling down. I don’t know how she does it. . . .

You should read the whole thing.

No Sheeples and Mulieris Dignitatem

by Smitty

No Sheeples Here has a splendid 'shop up. She plays the Scooby Doo card on Al Gore over his non-appearance at Carbonhagen. Very well done.

Mulieris Dignitatem is accepting nominations for "The Other McCain Award for Real Conservative Manliness", and has an unusual image of Stacy on display. Not as hirsute as the Al Gore work in the No Sheeples link, but a fuller head than normal.

Carol Brings Launch News

by Smitty

No Sheeples Here is touting the Monday launch of the 9/12 Mom’s Network. "Please consider joining a movement sparked by a sisterhood of patriot moms." No guidance is offered for those left un-configured for motherhood by nature, however.

Carol brings a clip entitled "America is Me", which is a fine piece of music. Enjoy it. And then, if you need a bit of a picker-upper, try out the increasingly ironic Right Brothers:

No Sheeples Here: Loose Oslo Solo Silo

by Smitty

No Sheeples weighs in with some blistering YouTube-age:

It gets worse.

"He was merely flexing," said a non-existent White House spokesman of the Oslo triumph. "Al Gore is running scared, and with good reason," continued the imaginary source. "Here, check out this list we gave to the Acacemy:"

• Best Actor in a Leading Role--Barack Obama
• Best Director--Barack Obama
• Best Film Editing--Barack Obama
• Best Picture--Barack Obama
• Best Sound Editing--Barack Obama
• Best Visual Effects--Barack Obama

"We decided to limit the take order to half a dozen. The appearance of greed is a purely Republican thing, after all," continued the tool in deep knee-bend mode. "There are some other awards we heard we've won:" (h/t Insty)

Reached for comment, BHO said:

Update: Speaking of Albert Gore, Jr.

Update II: No Sheeples drives the Oscar bus just a few miles more.

The indispensible No Sheeples Here

by Smitty

When you're compiling a post the size of an FMJRA, you not only make technical boo-boos (as tweaked in the comments) but you can omit some good friends. Technorati isn't perfect, even when in use. Where was Paco? Was there enough Little Miss Attila? Whither Cynthia Yockey?

The embarrassment gets even worse when, in addition to great posts, they've also emailed the links directly. So sorry Carol. I goofed, and would like to highlight your stuff by way of penance:

• "Of Cabbages and Kings", where she highlighted the nadir of Mad King Charles.
• "The Presidential Parrot Strutting and Fretting--How Tedious!" has the POTUS "More Cowbell" graphic, and also included a Hitler "Downfall" clip reacting to the ACORN videos.
• Right now she has "Andrew Breitbart to Unleash the Next Big Scandal". Her graphic suggests it could reach all the way up to GE. I'll admit I don't see how that's possible, but who'd've thunk two young folks with a combined age of 45 could have triggered de-funding from both houses of Congress and a firing by the sensible Census Bureau?

Mea culpa, Carol.

Gold Medal Mental Gymnastics on the Left

by Smitty

Joe Conason at Salon:

The right-wing crusade against ACORN is a far bigger fraud than any misdeeds a few employees might have committed

Any? A few? Doesn't the sight of the one bit of vermin make you at least mildly curious about what's lurking out of sight, Mr. Conason?

People on the left, perhaps not Conason himself, are calling for Bush administration heads on a silver platter over some water boarding. Doesn't the non-zero possibility, based upon the video evidence, of some underage girls living in horror at least budge the concern meter? One can hypothesize an existence so horrid that captive girls would cheerfully endure a session of water boarding in exchange for liberation.

Yet ACORN's troubles should be considered in the context of a history of honorable service to the dispossessed and impoverished.

What I really want, since Mr. Conason is apparently my ethical superior, and has a higher-order grasp of justice than my cheap, pedestrian morality, is some kind of function that shows exactly how one calculates the acceptable ratio of depravity vs. "honorable service to the dispossessed and impoverished".

I'll leave un-played the standard "if conservatives did it..." card.

The overall WTF that needs to be addressed is the chain-of-command issue. Why, pray tell, does money have to be extracted from the taxpayer, or borrowed from the future, and then depart the Treasury to ACORN, which seems tantamount to a Federal agency? Why should money leave DC and ever be directed at individual private citizens in the ACORN fashion?

Mr. Conason is naïvel, and his mental gymnastics constitute sad entertainment for all.

Update: Carol at No Sheeples gives us the Nutcracker: sweet.

Carol rocks the fairy tale

by Smitty

Carol at No Sheeples Here has a fair-tale read on the current administration, replete with rainbow-trailing unicorn graphic. Thankfully the One is sporting a suit, and not in the buff.

I've got a similarly counter-factual project in the works. The early reviews are somewhat brutal, but let me tease a bit, to motivate my editing:

Oscar Wilde: There is a fine line between delightfully clever and deserving cleaver. By the time it reaches Smitty, that line separates a morning star and a machete.

"Half-Cocked" Jack: Never has me inability to read been such a blessing.

You go, Carol!

That's the spirit, Carol!

Over at No Sheeples Here, Carol's populist flock is now flying the Gadsden Flag:

Rumors that Carol has gotten "Don't Tread on Me" tattooed in a special place could not be confirmed this morning. But until the rumors are denied . . .

Harvard plot thickens

by Smitty (via Memeorandum)

The Harvard plot thickens just a bit.

Dan Riehl has some excellent analysis of the seemingly-uncharitable charity the Inkwell Foundation, Inc. Possible motive for taking a reactionary stance towards a policeman?

Confederate Yankee has a snarky take:

It's too soon to know for sure if Gates has done anything illegal with the funds that his charity hasn't properly accounted for, but I was Gates, I wouldn't worry.
If Obama Justice Department will cover for the New Black Panthers, I'm sure they'll cover for a personal friend, even if he acted "stupidly."

Big Hollywood had an Amy Holmes post with some Harvard context, about non-students invading the Yard for nefarious reasons.

Carol at No Sheeples Here quotes the good POTUS about having the good fellas over to discuss the kerfluffle he helped build:

"So at the end of the conversation there was a discussion about—my conversation with Sergeant Crowley, there was discussion about he and I and Professor Gates having a beer here in the White House. He also did say he wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn. I informed him that I can't get the press off my lawn."

Carol offers

Mr. President, that’s NOT your lawn, it’s the people’s lawn and the White House is NOT your house it is the people’s house.

So, let's put this together. There was gross, rampant, institutionalized racism at one time in the United States. Since then, we've had plenty of people of all ethnic backgrounds arrive in academia and in society who are anointed to preach the evils of the path, and, purportedly, lead us into some shiny, post-racial future.

What Are The Entry Criteria For That Future?

When do we take the police report at face value, and just admit that somebody was disorderly? Because it looks more as though we've simply got a priesthood that is going to manufacture the occasional ritual to perpetuate itself, becoming the very thing it set out to despise.

No Sheeples Here scores!

by Smitty

Do check out this link. The photoshop goddess at NSH scores again with the POTUS in a keffiyah, juxtaposed with the Sphinx.
It's "I'm the man, the ass" meets Ozymandias. It's "I won" meets

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The Unintended Consequences of Advertising

by Smitty

  Fellow VA blogger Fisherville Mike posted some nifty Photoshoppery by Carol, of No Sheeples Here fame. The graphic, which I won't re-post, so that FM will score some hits, features a SCOTUS nominee and some frogs posing a question about her wisdom.
  The frogs refer to some advertising from a beer company, circa ten years ago. Cut to YouTube, where I sought the original advertising, and found a six-and-a-half minute compilation:  Perhaps it would have been funny to watch a pre-Sopranos, Chicago-on-the-bayou tale of thuggery and ineptitude ten years ago.
  Today, the whole sordid affair resembles the Obama administration.

Isn't she extraordinarily clever?

Carol at No Sheeples Here, I mean:

In college, I minored in art with an emphasis on commercial design. Carol's site has such a distinctive look, and she tries to use artwork in every post. I appreciate that in a blog.