AMERICAN DIGEST: April 2011 Archives

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Extreme Couponing In the Near Future

Via the ever crepuscular Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 30, 2011 2:49 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink:

Squirrel Avenger! From the "Where Are They Now" File

Now: Bernie Goetz, who became a household name after shooting four young men in New York City in 1984, holds two young squirrels in Union Square Park. Goetz, who said the men had tried to rob him, was later convicted for illegal possession of a firearm. The incident sparked a national dialogue on American’s perception of race and the legal limits of self defense. Goetz, now 63, has undertaken squirrel rescue as a cause. -- WSJ

Then: "I decided to shoot as many as I could as quickly as I could. I did a fast draw, and shot with one hand (my right), pulling the trigger prior to the gun being aligned on the targets. All actual shots plus my draw time occurred easily within 1.6 seconds or less. This is not as difficult to do as some might think, and occasionally I give a description of the technique along with a re-enactment.

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 29, 2011 8:14 PM | Comments (16) | QuickLink:

Sippican Cottage's Spring Sale Announced. Priced at 66% Off Because 666% Off Would Be Just Beastly

Such a deal.

I've purchased two of these items myself and I am mighty pleased with them (Especially the bench which solved a thorny table problem I've had for years.).

Here they are with seven others at the link: Ready To Ship Hot Stuff from the Sippican Cottage Furniture Company of Maine .

Get Sippican Cottage Furniture, up to 66% off, ready to ship

Happy Spring from Sippican Cottage! Nine new items have been added to our Ready To Ship page, to help you spruce up your digs. Solid wood, handmade right here in Maine, and deep discounted for you without any group coupon foolishness.

Sippican Cottage Furniture of Maine - the way life should be.

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 29, 2011 1:52 PM | Comments (1) | QuickLink:

With the Release of the Birth Certificate, Today's Burning Question Has Become, "What took him so long?"

Well, first of all you gotta go out and find the paper stock from 1961 which isn't easy in a moist climate like Hawaii.

Make it a ream since you're going to have to replace a lot of certificates with numbers leading up to and away from this one. At least 100 in each direction. (Might want to slowly and carefully assassinate some of those contemporary births with natural causes -- see the How-To Manuals from the Kennedy era.)

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 27, 2011 9:30 AM | Comments (25) | QuickLink:

REPUBLIGEDDON! The Lethal Republican Ticket for 2012

Once upon a time that skeevy communist Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar, "This machine kills fascists." Well, this Republican ticket kills moonbats and progressives:

That's right, kills them dead. One look at this concept by an unprepared moonbat and...

It is presently unknown just how many cerebral hemorrhages, massive coronary infarctions, and Medusasque turning to stone in the middle of the street deaths this ticket would cause, but it would be entertaining to find out.

Simply put, this is a ticket that could work for the benefit of the Republican party even if it never ran.

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 27, 2011 7:39 AM | Comments (26) | QuickLink:

All His Base Are Belong to Him: Warnings About the O-Base Are Baseless

I like Jonah Goldberg and a lot of what he says, but he's floating in ye olde conservative autoplay bubble machine when it comes to the ever-popular mumbo-jumbo about the president not wanting to "infuriate" his base. Today's example is from Cooling on Global Warming where Goldberg writes, on full cruise control,

One suspects that Obama would dearly love to drill a lot for more oil and gas, simply for the political windfall in jobs and economic growth. But after he flipped on offshore drilling, then flopped after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, he cannot flip again without infuriating his base.

With all due respect, this is so much clap-trap. The plain truth is that, no matter what he does, Obama's "base" is going exactly nowhere. This is because it has exactly nowhere to go. Obama's base is deep into the battered-spouse syndrome. It will keep coming back for more no matter how often or how hard he hits it, hoping for some of that old time religion, some of that hot hope-and-change makeup sex.

What are the elements that form Obama's "easily alienated" base?

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 27, 2011 6:37 AM | Comments (7) | QuickLink:

Something Essential: Bill Whittle on the Strange Origins and Stranger Family of Obama

Bill Whittle: THE ENIGMA, PART 1: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Watch the whole thing and pass it along.

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 26, 2011 4:39 AM | Comments (13) | QuickLink:

"Neutral" Wikipedia Editors. Ever wonder what they look like?

Wonder no more. Behold as they gather deep beneath the shadowy wings of their great god, Moonbat:

Everyone at the Washington, DC 5 meetup on September 6, 2008. From left to right: SchuminWeb, Aude, Staeiou, Swatjester, Kirill Lokshin, BRG, and Newyorkbrad. -- Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 25, 2011 10:56 AM | Comments (16) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Sgt. Jason Rogers Comes Home and the Town of Brandon Stands by the Road to Salute Him

As long as there are men like Sgt. Rogers and towns like Brandon, Mississippi this nation will endure and triumph over all enemies foreign and domestic.

Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers came home Thursday, April 14 2011, his body borne upon a sea of waving American flags and hands held tightly in salute for the Brandon, MS Marine killed in Afghanistan earlier this month.

The following video is MHP Trooper Elmo Townsend's view as his dash cam recorded the escort from Airport Road and along U.S. 80, as hundreds of onlookers gathered to pay their respects.

NOTE: Trooper Townsend is NOT driving fast! The video is sped up some to fit the length of the music - the original footage covers about 14 minutes - I thought it was more important to see all of the supporters rather than to see it in real time.

Song: Dress Blues by Jason Isbell

Rest in Peace, Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers.

HT: Word Around the Net

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 22, 2011 4:58 PM | Comments (10) | QuickLink:

Southwest of Cortez, Just Off the Rez, Those Stimulus Dollars are Working, Working, Working....

Near the Four Corners. Close to the border of the Navaho Nation near Cortez, Colorado, we came across this fine example of the focus of Federal Funding. That's right, nothing to be seen in any direction for many, many, many miles. Was the road the project being repaired and refurbished? Nope. Patched and potholed before and after. The only project that could be said to be new was the sign itself. Other than that I read on the back side of the sign this inscription by Zombie:

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 18, 2011 7:07 AM | Comments (15) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: The Aurora

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

"I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years."

Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius. Good fun.

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 9, 2011 5:50 AM | Comments (5) | QuickLink:

You know, I've been doing this for almost 9 years. I need a vacation.

Click and check the blogroll. Almost everyone on it is still going as one sort of life form or another.

"Just before dawn in Brooklyn Heights a dream woke me...." from "Will the Sleepers Awake," American Digest The New America - Dispatches Thursday, May 09, 2002.

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 8, 2011 7:42 PM | Comments (11) | QuickLink:

Little Miss Attila Will Be Enforcing Discipline at This Site

As astute readers might have noted I am out of here for a bit. In my stead I have appointed Joy McCann (aka Little Miss Attila ) as first speaker, prime poster and enforcer. So play nice.

Besides her amazing blog and star-class word-smithing skills, Little Miss Atilla has sometimes been know to live a double life. Here are some other facts about McCann you may not know:

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 8, 2011 2:39 PM | Comments (18) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: A Long, Languid, Heartfelt Plea Launched Into The Ether

The world's jazz notes made manifest. Stay with it. A video of videos.

"I didn't mean nothing by it. I didn't mean to look. You stood still and the Doppler put you on a carousel, gone loose in the joints, the big, spidery gears smeared with grease and the swarf of a million revolutions. The neon flickers all the time, but sometimes you can pick up the frequency and see the rhythm in it." -- Sippican Cottage:

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 7, 2011 9:56 AM | Comments (3) | QuickLink:

Ann Barnhardt on Full Auto: The IOTW Interview

iOwnTheWorld has an interview with the outspoken Ann Barnhardt.Barnhardt is the person who made the videos seen here yesterday at Koran Burning Page by Evil Page: Ann Barnhardt Lays It All on the Line. Some excerpts:

iOTW - Have you been a political activist in the past and were there particular issues, apart from Islam, that you focused on?

Ann – I am not a political activist. I am the owner of three small businesses who looked around two and a half years ago and said, “Oh, HELL no.” Politicians make me ill. I can never and will never be a politician. For the last two to three years I have been focusing heavily on explaining and exposing Marxism, Islam and the fraud that is Obama. But that is triple-redundant, isn’t it?

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 5, 2011 9:15 AM | Comments (17) | QuickLink:

Koran Burning Page by Evil Page: Ann Barnhardt Lays It All on the Line

Barnhardt has had it with Islam, the Koran, Lindsey Graham, and all the rest of the wretched pack.

"Lindsey Graham, understand that if you pick a fight with me the only way it ends is with you sobbing in the men's room."

How long this lasts on YouTube is anybody's guess.

Here's part 1 where she flays Lindsey Graham down to the bone:

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 4, 2011 2:55 PM | Comments (55) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring -- The Forest Version

A few false notes, but who cares?

Posted by Vanderleun Apr 3, 2011 1:19 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink:

Mr. Wonderful's Bad Day

So my pal and I are standing in line in a sandwich shop waiting to see if two chicken salad sandwiches, chips, and cokes will yield any change from a $20 (They don't), when this guy my pal knows staggers in the door and joins the line. He's the blonde, aging and pear-shaped frat boy type on a life pension from his grandparents common in these parts. He's an elite member of the Maynard G. Krebs Zero-Work Brigade.

It's possible to see he is a reasonably good looking man, but just. This is because, besides a distinct wobbling lurch in his step, he also appears to have gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime.

His nose is thickened along with the rest of his face, and not just from a lifetime's love affair with single malt.

There's a huge nasty scab across the bridge of his nose and a larger one running along the side of his jaw and under his chin giving off a rusty red gleam like some speed strawberry birthmark.

Both his eyes have large, dark circles around them as if they've gotten special attention from a ball-peen hammer, and their expression is that of a man who's just walked out of a fire-fight in the Afghan hills.

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Posted by Vanderleun Apr 1, 2011 5:01 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink:

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