Some more Low Calorie Content Substitute:
Whatever she touch. It starts to melt in her clutch. She's too much! pic.twitter.com/tbdhiBvGgF
— Meta World Data (@Pqlyur1) August 21, 2014
"She's Mrs. Vodka Miser/She's Mrs. Cry/She's Miss Pegged Breathalizer/She Mrs. DWI!" @Pqlyur1 @KatMcKinley
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) August 21, 2014
Whoa. Edgy site Vice News managed to place an embed with the Islamic State (AKA ISIS). That’s sort of like Playboy managing to embed a reporter with the Viet Cong in 1968.
Here are the five video segments, which I’m still working my way through:
It appears to be legit, but I’d still take it with a few (or more) grains of salt.
Hat tip: Michael Totten.)
I’m back from vacation. Have some Low Calorie Content Substitute:
God forbid you take sides in the beheading of a journalist. MT @NewsHour We're sorry to hear of the reported death of journalist James Foley
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 19, 2014
Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) August 18, 2014
The Honey Badger don't care http://t.co/24IsQFtGh7 #RickPerry pic.twitter.com/OhQ3ZWuINB
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 20, 2014
Evidently the key to beating Islamic extremism lies in playing lots and lots of golf. @SharylAttkisson
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) August 20, 2014
I hit Instapundit this morning, and guess who the banner ad was attacking?
That’s right: An anti-Greg Abbott, pro-Wendy Davis ad on Instapundit! That’s some mighty fine use of targeted advertising, Wendy Davis campaign!
Next up: A Jewish Defense League fundraising appeal on Al Jazerra…
More and more commentators, on all sides of the political spectrum, have weighed in on the risible nature of the Rick Perry indictment:
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry…The theory behind the indictment is flexible enough that almost any kind of political conflict could be defined as a “misuse” of power or “coercion” of one’s opponents. To describe the indictment as “frivolous” gives it far more credence than it deserves.
In other news, check out the #IStumbleWithRosemaryLehmberg tag…
Friday Rick Perry was indicted for using his constitutionally enumerated veto powers, namely carrying through on his threat to veto $7.5 million funding for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit last year unless Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigned over her DWI.
I eagerly await explication of the legal theory by which a Governor using his enumerated veto powers is a committing a felony. @EWErickson
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) August 15, 2014
To call it weak sauce is to give the false impression that there’s any sauce there whatsoever. This is pure political hackery by a Democratic prosecutor looking to “get Perry,” since Democrats have been completely unable to do so at the ballot box. As Powerline notes:
The Travis County district attorney’s office has long been a cesspool of corruption. It was that office, controlled by the Democratic Party machine, that infamously indicted Tom DeLay for nothing. It took years before DeLay could finally clear his name, and his career was ruined.
Conservatives should respond to this indictment by rallying around Perry. The indictment is a bad joke, intended simply to generate negative publicity. As with the bogus DeLay indictment from the same source, years may go by before it is finally proved baseless. In the meantime, conservatives should stand behind Perry and denounce the politically-motivated machinations of Texas Democrats.
Eugene Volokh notes that in a previous case (Wurtz vs. Risley) the court ruled that “Coercion of a lawful act by a threat of lawful action is protected free expression.”
Even Think Progress think the Perry indictment is weak. Another sign of that weakness is the fact they released the indictment late Friday, the traditional “bury the story” dumping ground.
I suspect Rick Perry will come out of this just fine. The real loser will be Lehmberg, when a whole new national audience gets to see her drunkenly scream “Call Greg!” all over again…
Have another Pat Condell rant, this one on why Europe needs a revolution against the anti-democratic EU:
With all Obama’s manifest incompetence at the national and international level, it’s easy to neglect Texas election news, so here’s a small update to tide you over.
Another shooting of a black man by police leads to a night of looting by members of the local black community.
Specifically they looted a Shoe Carnival and a Radio Shack.
You have to wonder what sort of cost-benefit analysis goes through the mind of a looter. “I’m so mad I’m going to commit a felony! Who should I target? I know! My rage can only be assuaged by stealing plastic shoes and obsolete, off-brand consumer electronics!”
With Radio Shack in bankruptcy, they might earn more from the insurance than they could from selling clock radios and old diodes…
I hope you like tanks.
Here’s the first batch of pictures taken at the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, which I visited on Saturday as a gift to my inner 12-year old. (There are few prospects more pleasing to the preadolescent male mind than being encased in a 30 ton metal killing machine.) The first batch is all German tanks and tank destroyers from World War II. Let’s face it, the Germans had far and away the best tanks, and shortly after the allies managed to catch up, Germany would be about ready to introduce something better. Germany’s problem (as compared to America or the Soviet Union) was an inability to manufacture enough of them. (Good thing for us.) They had an enormous array of German tanks, and probably the best collection outside Germany’s own tank museum in Munster.
The first picture of the first of two King Tigers (AKA Tiger II, AKA Königstiger, Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B) they had on display. The mosty powerful tank Germany produced during the war, its 88mm main gun could destroy any tank on the battlefield. It didn’t get on the battlefield until 1944, and Germany produced less than 500 of them.
The other Tiger II they had there.
Here you can see the Zimmerite anti-magnetic mine coating the Germans used.
Selfie, with tank.
The first of several tank destroyers.
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This is a German tank destroyer that ended up in Finland. Stalin thought he could walk all over Finand, but the Finns tore the Soviets nine different new assholes in the Winter War, though this tank destroyer obviously post-dates 1940.
Alternate barrel used for the Sturmtiger close assault variant.
Here’s an early Panzer Mark I command tank. It’s amazing to realize that the initial German blitzkrieg was carried out with relatively slow, under-armed, and underpowered Mark I and Mark IIs, that, with Heinz Guderian’s new tactics of mechanized warfare, were simply Good Enough.
A Mark II.
I think this is the Mark III, would would be the mainstay of the Wehrmacht armored divisions through the end of the war.
A muzzle-eye view.
Armoured car.
An 88mm field canon.