Dang. The President-Elect is really gonna have to hit the weights if he wants to start competing with Vladimir Vladimirovitch. I hate to say this, but ol’ Pooty’s attributes are probably larger too.
Now, the voice is another matter. We all know how mesmerizing БХО‘s is. Remember Putin’s? Check it out.

Now here’s another very good reason for the Demo☭rats to try and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine:

Former Tennessee Senator, actor and 2008 presidential candidate Fred Thompson will replace political rabble rouser Bill O’Reilly on the radio airwaves.
Thompson’s new radio show will replace The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly on March 2, 2009. O’Reilly’s show has had a six-year run.
The Fred Thompson Show will feature Thompson sharing his views on politics, pop culture and water cooler stories about the issues of the day. The show will feature guest interviews and take listener calls.

Now I just gotta find out which talk radio station in Phoenix will air it. Hopefully KFYI. I hope Fred will apply some “fire in the belly” toward this. People WILL listen to him instead of any more drivel from anyone even remotely associated with Air America.
And to think I was invited to appear on that network a couple of years ago!

Earlier this year, the Archbishop of Canterbury opened his mouth regarding not insulting Islam and the inevitability of Sharia in the UK. Now, he’s chiding us for what we’re trying to do to combat the financial crisis:

“How we all work is vastly complicated—no one is pretending it isn’t. But without these anxieties about the specific costs, we’ve lost the essential moral compass.”

And you, sir, lost that same moral compass by comparing OUR way of life to Nazism, whom the Islamofascists you wish to praise want to emulate by destroying it. You are lost to moral relativism. If Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, has any sense of decency left, she should fire your a**.

Since sundown has pretty well taken place, the annual eight-day Hanukkah (written in Hebrew as חנכה or חנוכה) Festival of Lights has begun. May these days be filled with hope and joy for you, your family, and your friends.
Happy Hanukkah, and I Stand With Israel!

42-7. The slaughter started early and continued through the third quarter. By then, I guess the Saints decided to extend some sort of mercy, since they didn’t score at all in the fourth...they must have sent in their second-string unit.
Next week: The Lie-Downs finish the season at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

Dang, I remember watching it before I went to work the other day....
Our marooned mechanic tries to fix the scrubbers to attempt to increase the air supply inside the Raptor. During this, Gaeta realizes the Number Eight who doesn’t have a pilot’s uniform on...is the same one he met with 15 months ago on New Caprica.
Soon, the pilot Eight tries to assist the mechanic guy, and she gets electrocuted to death...and here, there’s no Resurrection Ship, so she is D-E-A-D Dead. The pliers she used did not have the insulation on it. Now it’s a whodunit.

...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu...And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.” Amen.

Um...I don’t think so, but it comes close to the 20th Century equivalent!

In case you’re wondering what the summer is like at the South Pole:

Although this was snagged from their webcam, it doesn’t make a bit of difference, because they’ve got 24-hour sunshine right now!

This one’s for Christopher!

I’m not in this position, but it’s still howling good!

If you’ve ever wondered how Michigan J. Frog came into being:

Here’s a screenshot from the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s web site just a few minutes ago:

What was that quote attributed to the best friend of the Demo☭rats, Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин?

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.”

And there you have it.

Now THIS is a hoot!

HAT TIP: Vilmar

W. Mark Felt, who revealed himself a little over three years ago as the critical figure in the Watergate scandal...which ultimately resulted in the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, passed away today at the age of 95.
Now here’s an interesting tidbit:

While Watergate was seething, Mr. Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground, a violent left-wing splinter group. The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes. The F.B.I. had no search warrants. He later said he ordered the break-ins because national security required it.

I wonder if Bill Ayers and Bernardette Dohm were targets of said search. Perhaps that’s lost to History now, as another chapter of Watergate is closed.

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, a science fiction icon for well over forty years, passed away today at the age of 76. Even after her husband died in 1991, she carried the Star Trek torch for another seventeen years.
Let’s see...she was originally ‘Number One’ in the 1964 pilot, “The Cage,” and the networks didn’t like a strong woman in that role. During the Original Series (1966-1969), she portrayed Nurse Christine Chapel, who was attracted to Spock. She also patterned the original computer voice. During the movie era, her character rose up in the ranks, becoming a Commander and a full Doctor.
During the TNG era, she portrayed Lwaxana Troi, Deanna’s Betazed mother. Her character was an absolute riot! And of course, she patterned the 24th-Century computer voice as well. In the late 1990s, she revived a premise Gene had locked up: Earth: Final Conflict, which ran for five seasons (yes, I admit I stopped watching it after three), as well as Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda.
Yep, Majel contributed mightily to Star Trek in particular, and to science fiction in general; she will be missed.