First, Rendell took the gasoline taxes and federal road funds away from the roads to prop up SEPTA, Philly’s public transportation system.

Now, SEPTA employees — of course, union employees — are on strike and SEPTA is down. They want better health benefits (and of course the liberals support the unions). So where, you ask, is the money for these increased health benefits going to come from?

Why yes, the rest of the state, just like before, either directly from our state taxes, or indirectly, from federal taxes which in turn are allocated to states to build and maintain roads.

So let me repeat what I said on Blue State Conservatives: Santorum’s race is important, but for us in Pennsylvania, booting Rendell out of office has to take the highest priority.

Losing what little minds they have over Alito:

New Name for this Chump: ASSholito

If you want an example of Rover at his best we now have it! When the enemy(dems) have you in a corner kick em in the balls and attack, attack, and attack again! Lets face it, the very first to drop the plame issue and turn to the SCOTUS will be liberals. Can we(libs) maintain a TWO front attack on the administration, we will see. I have lower expectations for the MSM. THe Dems have to get their act together fast and find a way to counter attack on all fronts. Rover has Struck again!

Though I like it when they start fighting:

Framing is Important (4.00 / 3)

Can we please resolve to call a spade a spade with the Scalito nomination. He favors “criminalizing abortion”.

Criminalizing abortion? (none / 0)

How about calling it ‘criminalizing choice.’

See the whole thing here. Tip of the hat to Michelle Malkin.

There’s an excellent overview at Patterico’s Pontifications.

Hat tip to GOP Bloggers.

There’s a good discussion going on over at Redstate.org, including a list of the Dhimmicrat Senators who voted to confirm him in 1990:

1. Christopher Dodd
2. Joseph Lieberman
3. Joseph Biden
4. Daniel Inouye
5. Tom Harkin
6. Paul Sarbanes
7. Barbara Mikulski
8. Edward Kennedy
9. John Kerry
10. Carl Levin
11. Max Baucus
12. Harry Reid
13. Frank Lautenberg
14. Jeff Bingaman
15. Kent Conrad
16. Patrick Leahy
17. Robert Byrd

This will be fun to watch — and Frist had better put that nuclear option back on the table. Here’s a story; check out the related links at the bottom of the page.

Join the Confirm Alito Coalition.

If you’ve never seen Bava’s Black Sunday (original title La maschera del demonio), then you haven’t seen one of the most beautifully made, artfully crafted horror movies ever made. This was filmed in 1960; this isn’t a gore fest by any means. But everything about this movie is art.

See it.

Suppose these people paid Mr. Garrison (South Park) for their idea?

Pardon me if I seem a bit confused here; I’m hoping it will pass, though that would require a bit of introspection and thought on the part of a great many conservatives, and perhaps that is too much to ask for. Or so it seems, given the reason for my confusion.

In a year and two weeks, we have an election — an election we should easily be able to sweep, except that some of us seem so busy tearing down other conservatives, such as the President, that unless they get a serious clue, on election day they’ll be sitting on their lazy butts slinging mud at other conservatives instead of voting.

Sorry if I seem a bit irate, but I am. More than a bit, actually. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such stupid, self-destructive, mindless behavior, and worse, in the name of ideological purity.

On one mailing list, supposedly for conservatives, there are several people who do nothing but slam Bush and the party, because they’re just not conservative enough, socially speaking. Because Bush isn’t crying out for domestic terrorists to bomb abortion clinics, he has betrayed these poor dolts, I suppose. Meanwhile, they have nothing at all to say about spending, most likely because like most extreme social conservatives, they’re nanny staters — they just want a nanny state that enforces their little nanny state ideals.

Pardon me while I puke. I just can’t get excited about an American Taliban, be it left or right wing. And now, for some spriritual health and to purge your whiny crap from my brain, I’ll think for a moment of the father of modern conservatism, Barry Goldwater.

Now, I have no problem with social conservatives at all. I do have a problem with social conservatives who are the right wing counterparts of the Barbara Boxer club. But I have a serious problem when they’re doing everything they can to ensure a liberal victory in 2006.

Bush betrayed us! Bush betrayed us! Bush betrayed us!

Shut up, already. Or better yet, join that irrelevant Constitution Party so we don’t have to put up with your whiny nanny state crap. I’m not interested in your purity tests or your complaints; I’m just interested in keeping the liberals from killing us in 2006. And if you aren’t pragmatic enough to understand that, you’re a moron.

Again, liberals demonstrate that they have no morals, ethics or principles, even their own, when it comes to multiculturalism:

POLICE are being advised to treat Muslim domestic violence cases differently out of respect for Islamic traditions and habits.

Read the whole article here. H/T to Little Green Footballs.

I don’t know if you’ve been following Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Steele’s election campaign, but the liberals can’t get much nastier than this:

Senatorial candidate Michael Steele’s campaign has blasted as “gutter racism” a blog containing a doctored photo showing Steele in minstrel makeup – part of what the Steele camp believes is a coordinated Democratic attack on the popular Republican.

Can you imagine the cacophony if a conservative columnist had done the same to a liberal black politician?

Read the whole thing here.

Am I the only one who wonders why the liberals didn’t scream and howl about the Chronicles of Riddick? Sure, I know, it came out last year, but it happens to be on HBO right now and I’m again curious why there wasn’t more squealing about it.

If you haven’t seen it (it’s not a great movie, btw, even if it does have Vin Diesel in it, and even if it is a Sci Fi flick), we have a militaristic religion on jihad through the universe, who give you two choices: convert or die (sound familiar?). We have our hero, who defeats the jihadists.

There’s nothing subtle about the subtext or message of the film. Yet I didn’t hear a peep out of the multiculturalist Islam lovers. And I’m still wondering why.

at Big Dog.

After a year of utter incompetence and acting like they lost the election instead of won, after that liberal ass-kissing “please all you UN dictators, like us!” toothless torture legislation and its first cousin, the “let’s LOVE the terrorists and give them all the protections US citizens have” legislation, Frist and his castrated, brainless dolts have done something right.

They voted down Ted “She was alive when I was in the water” Kennedy’s minimum wage increase. Of course, the bed-wetters and welfare staters hate it, and that leads us to a hint for Frist and the Senate Republicans: if the liberals hate it, that’s a GOOD thing.

Course, it could be the million monkeys on a million typewriters thing. I’m not going to get hopeful that they’re growing brains and, er, intestinal fortitude.

H/T to Tidbits and Treasures.

I guess it’s priorities, but when we moved here, the first thing we looked for was food. Food, as in excellent. As in restaurants.

State College is much like Bloomington when it comes to food: Very little in the way of memorable food to be found, unless you make it yourself. There is a nice little Italian place, not amazing, but better than any Italian available in Bloomington, and reportedly a far better Italian place on the other side of town, which we have not yet tried.

We had nearly despaired, until we discovered Herwig’s. Actually, that’s Herwig’s Austrian Bistro, Where Bacon is an Herb. As cute as the motto is, it really should be Where the Food Will Make You Cry. (Their other motto is Austrian Soul Food, and that it certainly is.)

Eat Hufu: the Healthy Human Flesh Alternative! You can get T-shirts too. My favorites:

Recipes, you name it, right here.

Remember that hysterical “Wal-Mart is destroying the US!” film the mooreon.org moonbats put out?

A scathing documentary on Wal-Mart’s business practices focuses its cameras squarely on Middlefield, zooming in on a family-run hardware store forced out of business by the retail giant’s recent arrival.

There’s only one problem: H&H Hardware shut down nearly three months before a Wal-Mart Supercenter opened around the corner in mid-May.

They must have taken film lessons from Mike al-Moore: distort and twist anything in order to push your agenda. The whole thing is here (you have to enter your zip, birth year and gender, but not register).

I’ll let you read the whole thing (or re-read it, since it was published before she was confirmed), but here are a few quotations that demonstrate why Janice Rogers Brown is the dream SCOTUS judge:

What is most remarkable about Brown’s jurisprudence is that she sees all basic individual rights as equally fundamental. Unlike many liberals, she counts property rights and economic liberties as deserving of judicial protection. In Santa Monica Beach, Ltd. v. Superior Court (1999), for instance, she dissented from a decision upholding a rent control ordinance, declaring that “[a]rbitrary government actions which infringe property interests cannot be saved from constitutional infirmity by the beneficial purposes of the regulators.”

In a dissent in San Remo Hotel v. City and County of San Francisco (2002), which upheld the city’s sweeping property restrictions, Justice Brown expanded on that theme. “Theft is still theft even when the government approves of the thievery,” she declared. “The right to express one’s individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion.”

Brown also consistently upholds such rights as freedom of speech, privacy, and the rights of criminal defendants—a position that bothers many conservatives. In People v. Woods (1999), Justice Brown objected to a police search of a home justified by the fact that a roommate was an ex-felon. “In appending the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, the framers sought to protect individuals against government excess,” she wrote. “High in that pantheon was the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Likewise, Justice Brown voted to strike down a warrantless search of a man arrested for riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the street. Describing the search as excessive, Brown noted that an arrest for such a silly infraction never would have taken place in an affluent neighborhood. “If we are committed to a rule of law that applies equally to ‘minorities as well as majorities, to the poor as well as the rich,’ we cannot countenance standards that permit and encourage discriminatory enforcement.”

[ … ]

Justice Brown is not a typical Republican judicial nominee. She understands the crucial role of courts in a constitutional republic: She is deferential to the elected branches when they act within their prescribed boundaries, but zealous in the defense of individual liberties against majoritarian tyranny.

Can you imagine a whole SCOTUS of judges like Brown and Thomas?

Janice Rogers Brown for the SCOTUS now!

From the Air Force Times. Seems the leftist Carl Levin from Michigan is offended that Bush’s appointee for Pentagon spokesman tells the truth and doesn’t pull punches:

Dorrance Smith, an Emmy-award winning television news producer who worked in Baghdad as a media adviser to former Ambassador Paul Bremer, is nominated to become the new Pentagon spokesman.

He would replace Larry Di Rita, who has been acting spokesman since the departure of Victoria Clarke in June 2003.

But if Smith is to become the new voice of the Pentagon, at least one senator doesn’t like his tone.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, took Smith to task for a piece he wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal in which he linked major U.S. television news networks with al-Jazeera, saying the U.S. networks occasionally shared video and other feeds initially aired by the Qatar-based network.

Through that association, the American news networks were in collusion with terrorists, Smith argued in the piece.

“That’s a very serious allegation,” Levin said solemnly. “Did you really mean that there is a relationship?”

Smith responded that he had learned a great deal about the way television networks operate during his stint in Baghdad and how footage used by al-Jazeera often can be picked up by U.S. networks.

It is a “collaborative” relationship, said Smith, who has worked at ABC’s “Nightline” and “This Week with David Brinkley” in his 30-year television career.

Is Smith going to run for President in 08?

I refused to jump on the Misers bashing train, but I will admit now that she’s withdrawn, I am relieved. All morning the Miers withdrawl was the only thing on the news, and the liberal Dhimmicrats couldn’t shut up. Especially Feinstein. She said some things that were downright scary, considering that she’s an elected politician — you’d think they would have at least read the Constitution, if not understand the basic concept of separation of powers, but you’d think wrong. So here’s a little primer for the civics-challenged liberals.

The Supreme Court is not in any way a “representative” body. Not representative of the demographics, not representative of the ideologies, not represesntative of anything. No court is in any way a “representative” body. Of course, you’re probably thinking I’m referring to the “appoint a woman” campaign, but no, I’m not: I’m referring to Feinstein, who went on and on and on and on (the reporter had to shut her up because they were out of time — twice) about how the nominee had to “represent all Americans and all American views.”

Wrong, babe. You just flunked third-grade American history. How did you get elected?

Oh, that’s right. The nutso-batso-marxist-moonbats in Californistan elected you. No wonder you don’t have a clue about the way this government is set up or is supposed to work.

Then there’s Reid, and his statement that the radical religious extreme right brought her down. Well no, Harry, but of all the idiots in the Senate, you are surely the stupidest. Honestly, do the Demorats have no shame at all, between Reid and Dean? Dean is a slobbering moron, and Reid is, well, pathetic doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Let’s hope Bush appoints somebody quickly enough that he can help decide the cases coming up.

that will make you sick, unless you’re a moonbat.

Warning: unless you’re a sick moonbat, this will turn your stomach. Seriously.

On Fox right now: Miers withdrawing her nomination.

So Galloway lied to the Senate and was taking bribes from Hussein. Hitchens chimes in, with his usual poison pen.

Anybody surprised?

His usual arrogant Stalin-admiring self, Galloway flips off the United States in response. That might not be a good idea, George; remember Noriega?

It’s 34 here. Bucketfuls of snow, flakes the size of quarters, are pouring out of the sky.

Snow before November is just plain indecent. Where’s global warming when you need it?

Mohammed and Omar, the brothers who give us Iraq The Model, are featured at Pajamas Media in Transition.

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler today will fix your bill. I can’t decide which is my favorite,

Be still our beating heart. Yet another vapid wormhole of wankitude suggesting that the real reason for all trouble in the world is that we don’t immediately cut the penises off our male offspring within a half hour of birth.

or

Nothing like yet another feel-good, fulminating piece of unmitigated shite from the Conscience of the American Couch Potato, Oprah.

or

Saint Sheehan of the Drainage Ditch has come up with another stunt in her ever more desperate attempts to get back in the limelight of the media.

Enjoy!

Man sues God.

The best thing about this is it’s not happening in the US — though I’m sure somebody will do it now.

I just found out on a mailing list that the reason Oregon doesn’t allow self-service stations is (and I’m not making this up) because pumping gas requires training. Don’t ask me what kind of training. I don’t know. Anyway, I had just said that was surely the stupidest thing I’d seen in years, and then I read on Little Green Footballs that British banks are banning piggie banks. Why? Well, because they offend Muslims, of course!

This has to be a nightmare. Wake me up. Please.

Okay, after adding things back in one at a time, I discovered that two things were preventing the site from showing up in IE: the museum of left-wing idiocy quote, and the amazon links. I took them out. It still takes a few seconds to pop up in IE after it’s done loading, and I’m not sure what that’s all about. I’ll fiddle with it later.

Anyway, it’s restored, more or less.

Thanks to Wyatt Earp, I found out my theme wasn’t rendering well at all in IE (I never use it), so I switched themes. I’ll customize it later.

Just in case you wonder why it looks so different.

Going to see it today. Will report back.

It seems that the Greenland ice cap is thickening, not melting. Of course, the enviroweenies will claim that “Global Warming Theory” predicts both outcomes, which demonstrates nothing more than that “Global Warming Theory” isn’t science.

What will Al-Gore run on now?

H/T to Alpha Patriot.

From LGF:

In Alexandria, Egypt, a Muslim mob attacked a Christian church and rioted to protest the release of a DVD that portrayed Muslims attacking Christian churches …

Read the rest here.

Let’s hope whoever did this will never spread his or her genes.

Nothing else to say.

Sure. And I have this really great bridge in the Sahara for sale. See this.

I have been largely silent on Miers and the SCOTUS, mostly because there was so much howling. But I am going to break that silence now.

The President of the United States has nominated Harriet Miers to sit on the SCOTUS. He has assured us — and do try to remember, he knows her and we do not — that she will interpret the Constitution stricly and not legislate from the bench.

Unfortunately, he also played into the hands of conservative judicial activists — and oh yes, you people do exist — when he released her religious background and feelings about abortion. He should’nt have. Her religious beleifs, as well as her personal opinions, are utterly and wholly irrelevant — if she will interpret the Constitution strictly and not legislate from the bench.

That means not letting your personal opinions and beliefs get in the way of your job.

I really wish the White House had not done that. But it can’t be undone, so we need to move along.

I cannot stress enough to you proponents of conservative judicial activism (and again, you know who you are) that the President has never promised to appoint a conservative to any court position. Not once. I know I keep saying this, but it seems like it’s not getting through.

Yes, George could have appointed, say, Janice Rogers Brown. Why he didn’t, I do not know, nor am I interested in speculation. I was disappointed, yes, but I’m not calling for Miers’s head on a silver platter — nor am I screaming about how Bush has betrayed us.

Because I see no betrayal. We know nothing about her. Charges of betrayal are akin to liberals screaming that Bush lied. There is no evidence of such.

You want assurance that she will overturn Roe v. Wade? Why do we get a litmus test, but the liberals do not? And why do you not see that Roe v. Wade is bad law, and given a constructionist court, its overturn is nearly inevitable?

All this screaming and yammering is self-destructive. We are effectively handing the liberals the next election, perhaps the next two elections. Let Miers go up in front of the Senate, and let the Senate vote. She deserves no less than Roberts or any other nominee.

But take this “Bush betrayed us!” nonsense and shove it where the sun don’t shine.

There certainly has been a lot of howling and whining lately on the right, some of it pretty nasty. Miers seemed to start it, which in turn has ignited resentment about spending, you name it. Frankly, I’m pretty tired of it, and expected more of the same when I started to read this. Boy, was I wrong:

Make no mistake; it was less about the hard work of the left-leaning Democrats and more about the lack of conservative cohesiveness that allowed the Clinton dynasty to emerge. We should all live with that “stain” upon each of our “blue dresses” for the remainder of our political lives.

Read it all: A Conservative House, Divided Against Itself, Cannot Stand — and then think long and hard before you start screaming again.

And you know who you are.

Hear, hear!

Are you easily offended? Does your little ego bruise easily? Do you think everyone else in America ought to give a darn about your self-esteem? Do your eyes fill with tears every time you perceive someone is being insensitive to you? Do you live under the delusional belief that you should be protected against being offended? Do you believe that anytime you are offended someone should be fired; have their life ruined or character trashed?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions you need to shut up, grow up, stop throwing your little pity parties and get a life! Frankly, you and those like you are a major part of what is wrong with America today. Your constant carping and whining are adding nothing positive to this great nation. Instead, the climate of perpetual offendedness and hypersensitivity you are creating is sapping the great spirit of rugged individualism that made America the greatest nation to ever exist in this world’s history.

Read the rest here.

H/T to No Quarters.

One … two … three … all together now

Awwwwwww!

If you’re not reading Michael Yon, you should. Here is his latest update.