Michael Moore: The gift that keeps on giving

[Moore] said Friday that the timing of Hurricane Gustav is “proof that there is a God in heaven,” since the storm approaching the Gulf Coast could disrupt next week’s Republican National Convention.

Moore made the remarks to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. Republicans have been monitoring the storm’s progress, considering whether to postpone their convention in St. Paul, Minn., if the storm wreaks havoc on the New Orleans area, just three years after Hurricane Katrina.

“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said. “To just have it planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River.”

Here's Keef and Moore doing their thing.



Here's how I like to remember Mikey Moore.

A Beautiful Trap

In nature, the most dangerous things often come in attractive packages that the intended victim just...can't...resist. So too in politics.

In the minutes after the Sarah Palin announcement, the Obama camp and the leftist media reflexively spewed a litany of criticisms exposing a soft-core sexism, bordering on misogyny. McCain didn't pick this lady to attract female voters, he picked her so you idiots would drive them away with your unhinged attacks.

McCain chose a VEEP running mate that has experience, but she lives and works in a state that rarely makes national news - unless it serves a MSM narrative. So her experience and successes are not well known. This invites the Obama campaign to complain about her lack of experience. Again, the resulting discussion is a trap that exposes the primary weakness of Obama.

Finally, this entire discussion has taken some of the most crucial days of the Obama campaign away from him and blunted any momentum he had when he left Denver. I am not sure that the Obama team could have resisted Sarah Palin, but I am certain they are worse off for taking the bait.

A New York Times Compliment Sandwich for Sarah Palin

Normally a compliment sandwich is a compliment, a criticism, and a compliment to soften the blow of the criticism you wanted to deliver in the first place. The Times version is three layers of criticisms and no apologies.

The Times ran their Women in the News piece on Sarah Palin. They went to great lengths to find people who admired hate Sarah Palin. From political roadkill to the neighbor who doesn't like her party pastries, we learn that there are a few people in Alaska who don't like Sarah Palin.

Not one mention of her historically high approval rating. Even her winning personality is turned into a negative.

“She wouldn’t have articulated one coherent policy and people would just be fawning all over her,” said Andrew Halcro, a Republican turned independent, who along with Tony Knowles, a Democrat, ran against Ms. Palin for governor in 2006. “Tony and I looked at each other and it was, like, this isn’t about policy or Alaska issues, this is about people’s most basic instincts: ‘I like you, and you make me feel good.’

Then there is this: Her husband works for BIIIIIIIIIIG OIL.

In addition to Ms. Palin’s $125,000 state salary, Mr. Palin earned $93,000 last year running his own commercial fishing business and working part-time at BP’s oil production facility, according to her public financial disclosure reports.

Although Ms. Palin once said that her husband would quit his job at BP if she were elected governor, she later backed away from that. He took a leave from the company after she won, but went back to work there last year, saying his family needed the money.

We get the beauty pageant picture. We get the list of evil conservative policy ques. And near the bottom of the article, we find out a little about her as a person, but by then the good readers of the Times know that they should already despise Sarah Palin.

Palin: Oh Hells Yeah!

Here are some videos.

Sarah on drilling. "Obama living in la-la land."



Sarah on Glenn Beck. She's wearin' those Meg Kelly glasses and talkin' polar bears.



Craig Ferguson talks about getting a "naughty librarian vibe...

Putin Has BDS and MDS

While on CNN, Putin played to the audience with some BDS sprinkled with truther nonsense. And now we have McCain Derangement Syndrome.

"If my guesses are confirmed, then the suspicion is raised that somebody in the United States purposefully created this conflict with the aim of aggravating the situation and creating an advantage ... for one of the candidates in the battle for the post of U.S. president."

Proof. You want proof?

At a briefing Tuesday, the deputy chief of Russian military general staff, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, showed off a colour copy of what he said was a U.S. passport found in a basement in a village in South Ossetia among items that belonged to Georgian forces.

"We found a passport for Michael Lee White," Nogovitsyn said. "He's a Texan."

Texans. They start all the damn wars. The staff here at the Shrug has obtained a copy of that passport photo.

Morning Wood: Conservative Hotties

The Hills, Heidi Montag

Another Arctic Ice Story

The National Snow and Ice Data Center is out with their second report on this years' melt season for the Arctic. The news sounded awful, "second greatest melt on record."

The problem. Well it's the record. The scientists there are using the Earth Observing System (EOS) Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E). A satellite. The reference period is 1979-2000. Note: The lack of satellites in the 1800's.

This news is interesting when we are talking about weather or current conditions. This is meaningless bullshit when you are talking about climate - the average of weather over a VERY LONG period of time.

The scientists at the NSCDC know the difference, but continue to mix the two references to make splashy headlines...and get a helluvalot more funding.

How about another picture of a polar bear swimming. Oh the lack of humanity.

Inside Gallup's Latest Numbers

One chart stands out. The defection of conservative democrats is the most dramatic change in all of the polling demographics. The analyst at Gallup, Lydia Saad, couldn't find an ideological basis for the shift and insinuated that the polling bounce from McCain would be temporary. I'm not so sure. I think that people are finally focusing on the candidates and that has always been bad news for Obama. Conservative democrats should find a lot to like in McCain and I think this polling data confirms that.

Hanna Montana Ruins Science

I always thought the global warming hysteria would be brought down by cold hard facts...data...science. But alas no. It's that fucking Hanna Montana, again. After years of annoying adults and robbing kids of their childhood, she steals the one scientific advancement I was looking forward to. Science was supposed to bring down anthropomorphic global warming bullshit hypotheses. Not this fucking brat. I hate you Hanna Montana.

Disney's New Hannah Montana Album Features 'Global Warming Anthem'

That's right, global warming has officially jumped the shark. Not because glaciers rolled down the Alps and plundered villages. No, Hanna Montana has a global warming single.

Oh, can you take care of her
Oh, maybe you can spare her

Several moments of your consideration
Leading up to the final destination

Oh, the earth is calling out,
I wanna learn what it’s all about,
But everything I read – global warming, going green
I don’t know what all this means, but it seems to be saying

Wake up, America, we’re all in this together
It’s our home so let’s take care of it
You know that you want to
You know that you got to wake up, America
Tomorrow becomes a new day and everything you do
Matters, yeah, everything you do matters in some way

EH, I kinda liked the beat.

Not Again!

The cops bought the wife's story. Why not? It sounds so plausible.

Man Dies After Falling on Butcher Knife While Trying to Get Kids Out of Locked Car.

22-year-old Miguel Angel Rivera Lemus died Sunday afternoon after he grabbed a knife to try to get his two young children out of a locked car.

Lemus and his wife had dropped by their apartment briefly before planning an errand when they realized they had locked their children and keys in the car.

The woman searched for spare keys while Lemus grabbed a large butcher knife he hoped to use to pry open a window. Lemus fell down six stairs and landed on the knife.

The woman got the children out with the spare keys.

Pry the window open with the knife? I'm not buying that for one minute. They dropped by the apartment briefly...if there is that big of a rush to get the kids out a guy grabs a brick or a hammer. The misses has the apartment key but not the car key, and then calmly finds the car key AFTER her husband has killed himself?

I'm betting that Mrs. Lemus will have some more 'splanin to do.

AP writers back to writing disaster movie scripts instead of news

How many times is the AP going to treat us to the Day After Tomorrow Part II?

Headline: Climate Change Could Wreck New York's Bridges, Tunnels

Since Michael Bloomberg didn't make a big enough ass of himself with his windmill idea, he decided to try again:

The Climate Change Adaptation Task Force met Tuesday for the first time as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to address global warming in New York City, which already includes orders to switch the city's taxi fleet to hybrids by 2012 and to retrofit city buildings to meet greener standards.

I bet they call themselves: CCAT Force.

Experts on the panel said the potential consequences of global warming could include more frequent storms, flooding throughout the city's coastal and lowland areas, repeated blackouts on a power grid stressed to its limits and bridges that deteriorate under the heat.

"We have to adapt to the environmental changes that have already taken place, or that we can reasonably expect will occur because of climate change," Bloomberg said.

Bridges that deteriorate under the heat? WTF do they make their bridges out of in NY, salt water taffy?

And what exactly does switching taxis to hybrids do for global climate change? What ever happened to cost-benefit analysis?

My Madonna Slideshow

Artic Ice Feels Our Pain...Hemorrhaging

The AP has outdone themselves. While discussing a large crack in a glacier in Greenland, we are treated to the following fleshy descriptions:

...images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier...

...the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier...

"The pictures speak for themselves," said Jason Box, a glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University who spotted the changes while studying new satellite images. "This crack is moving, and moving closer and closer to the front. It's just a matter of time till a much larger piece is going to break off.... It is imminent." OOOOOOOOOOOOH!

While everybody seems "alarmed," a prof. who actually studies such things is...well, underwhelmed.

University of Colorado professor Konrad Steffen, who returned from Greenland Wednesday and has studied the Petermann glacier in the past, said that what Box (perfectly named little twit I might add) saw is not too different from what he saw in the 1990s: "The crack is not alarming... I would say it is normal."

Where can I get a copy of the Global Warming Alarmists Dictionary? Eh, maybe I could just watch some more reruns of Will and Grace.

Here's the big crack. With my Perez Hilton labeling.

Mexican Government Worries About Returning Illegals

Illegals are returning to Mexico. The economy and immigration crackdown are cited as major factors. The problem?

Mexican President Felipe Calderon plans to help returning nationals by providing food, medical care and temporary shelter if needed. But reports are already out in Mexico that the large number of illegal immigrants returning home could drive down wages and put pressure on social services...

So where have we heard these concerns before? That's right. Many Republicans had those same concerns and if they dared to express them, Juan Hernandez and the open borders crowd screamed fascists, heartless, cruel, genocide!!!...and the list went on and on.

This is the second tasty bit-o-irony I've posted about the Mexican government in two weeks. Not to mention that the Mexican government has never entertained reciprocal rights for US citizens entering their country - legally or illegally.

I'll be curious to see how long it takes the AP to write a sob story about the condition of the Mexican government now that "Remittances" (money immigrants send home) are drying up. Somehow I'm sure it's our fault somehow.

Rape charges dropped against pedophile former teacher

Looks can be deceiving. And for this guy...



After three years and lots of allegations the Detroit Free Press reports that the prosecutor has dropped the charges.

The case against Perry was shaky from the start. The first boy, who was 5 at the time, told investigators that Perry raped him on his first day of school in October 2005. The boy had only been in the building for three hours when he made the claim. He later said that a 4-year-old classmate was assaulted with him. But when investigators talked to that boy, he denied any attack.

Oakland County prosecutors declined to charge in the case but reopened it four months later after a management shakeup at the prosecutor’s office.

When they reinterviewed the second boy and his mother, his mother told them that her son had acknowledged an attack a few months after denying it to investigators. Prosecutors then charged Perry with raping the two boys and an Oakland County jury convicted him in September 2006.

But Perry’s lawyers almost immediately sought a new trial, noting that investigators never interviewed a teacher and others who worked in the special education classroom where the boys said the attacks happened.

When the prosecutors used this as proof, they lost me.

At one point, Assistant Prosecutor Andrea Dean tried to argue that movies found in Perry’s home, like "Star Wars," the "Harry Potter" films and "Little House on the Prairie," constituted “non-erotic pornography.” Langford Morris ruled the videos irrelevant and refused to let the jury hear that argument.