Will Big Tobacco Ruin Royal Hopes of an Oscar?

Call me cynical, but I suspect a lot of the Academy are going to take time off from wishing they were Charlie Sheen to demonstrate their moral fiber by passing over the superb "The King's Speech" because of all the — period and character-correct — smoking in it.

Anti-tobacco groups and academics such as those at the UC San Francisco as well as film review sites such as ScreenIt! have already pounced on the issue.  Even the Internet Movie Data Base warns of it.

In the midst of the current push to vilify any movie with smoking in by granting it an R-rating as MPAA policy, will this historical fact hurt a fine movie with today's shallow and ignorant Hollywood?

The Journolist Membership List...

Pass it on

"F*** me, we're busted!"

Ari David: "There's some things Apple DOESN'T have an app for..."

What makes an acceptable Apple App?  
Apparently a loathing for America, Christianity and brown women's rights...

Atheists Get an Official High Unholy Day!

HT: Camp Of The Saints.  Atheist sues for equal time with Easter and Passover...

A National Health Care Triumph!

'Lazy' Nurses Kill Patient by Thirst

The good news though, is that that universal national health service is about to close hundreds of wards...

Inauthentic Conservative Illinois Black Man Reviews Summit

Good thing Keith Olbermann told us there's no such thing...

I Do Not Need This Shit, Part One

By this time next week, I may not be associated with either Operation Gratitude, the GOP or the American Legion.

Apparently people I thought were my friends decided to launch a backstabbing campaign against me while I was frivolously back home burying my mother.  Evidently my participation in Rule 5 does not meet their high moral standards, so they've been contacting all the above organizations to complain about me.   They've been throwing around words like pornography, and pervert.  One of them even appears to be claiming to speak officially for the American Legion.

I'm waiting for the commander of my American Legion post to return to town next week, to address the Legion-related issues with him, but you all know Mark Twain's quote to the effect that "a lie can run halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on."  Every time I've held off on doing something about these people, something even worse has turned up.

I'll tell you one thing, though.  Before I go, I'm going to make some people stars.


IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:  None of this trouble originates with Operation Gratitude, which remains an honestly-run, incredibly cost-effective, nonpartisan charity that does outstanding work for the troops overseas.  I strongly recommend Operation Gratitude to anyone looking to do something for the troops, no matter my personal relations with the organization or how this shakes out.

Soranik Natu says, "Defend Hannah Giles!"

Even as the newest ACORN corruption video surfaces, Obama's nuts continue their legal harrassment of Hannah Giles! Stand up and show your support for the law, decency and ethics with your wallet!

This has to be a Friday Night sign...

HT:Irritable Pundit

Nobel Prize Not Meaningless to Obama...

What most of the coverage I'm seeing fails to point out is, the Nobel also comes with a cash award of nearly $1.4 million dollars.

For $1.4 million bucks, I'D claim I caused world peace, let alone let some degenerate Yurpeens say it for me...

Ignobel Prize for Nonexistent 'Accomplishments'

Raaaaacist Europeans patronize gullible, ignorant black man.

The Poodle of Europe:

"Oo's a good widdle Pwesident then?

Oo's a good widdle Pwesident?

Yes, you are!

Yes, you are!

Does the good widdle Pwesident want a treat?"

Yes, he does!

Yes, he does!

Let's see:

Still in Iraq. Check.

Still in Afghanistan. Check.

Gitmo still open. Check.

CIA still permitted 'enhanced' interrogations. Check.

Renditions to unnamed foreign prisons still ongoing. Check.

There's just one real option. We have to start an immediate campaign to have George W. Bush awarded a retroactive Nobel Peace Prize.

Of course, Bush never bullied Honduras, so Obama's ahead of him there.

And Bush never sent paid mobs to assault his critics, so Obama's ahead of him there.

And Bush never screwed Israel, which always gets you big points with the Europeans.

So maybe Obama does have a slight edge for an award Yasir Arafat was once proud to accept.

In Camelot...! Yes, Camelot...!

The thing to rememnber is, Camelot fell because of its own corruption.

Sleep tight, Barry. Enjoy your vacation.

Friday Night Protest Signs

Funny thing, the lefties across the street, a steadily dwindling group, have absolutely NOTHING to say about the ObamaKill health plan. In fact, their signs haven't changed since before the election. It's as though they're not getting any supervision anymore or something...

Is David Axelrod Dirty on Health Care Conflict...?

Protein Wisdom says big Bloomberg article Wednesday...

I would LOVE to see this astroturfing mofo burned. Here's hoping!

A Message from President Barack Obama, MD...

Publish Post

You might be an Obama Voter ...

...if this billboard makes sense to you.

Look. It isn't hard. You BORROWED the money. IT ISN'T YOUR MONEY. It's the lender's. And if you spend the money, whatever you spent it on is ALSO the lender's until you pay the money back as you AGREED to. That is how mortgages and loans WORK.

What part of this is difficult to understand?

Yet if you watch daytime television or listen to radio, you are bombarded with ads like the above, that suggest you are being victimized because the people who gave you money in good faith object to your welshing on your agreement. Most of these ads are from law firms and financial companies who specialize in whatever the latest financial hustle is, whether it's signing you up for credit cards you really don't qualify for or high-interest 'payday advance' loans or subprime mortgages you can't afford to pay back. Most of these ads these days openly use Obama's name to tell you that it's your 'right' to force your lender to write off some or all of the money you borrowed.

Now seriously, what do you think their incentive is to lend in the future? What do you think YOUR chances of getting financing are in the future when a lender pulls up your credit check and sees you took advantage of these 'services'? Makes you look like a reliable candidate for a loan, doesn't it?

No Money for F-22's, but Three More Brooms for Nancy Pelosi

House votes itself $200 million dollars to buy three luxury jets.

Sure. Keep sending our pilots into combat in 40-year-old planes with cracked wings...

...but damned if Botox Bonnie has to fly business class...

Plastic President meets Plastic Jesus...

Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush... not that he's, y'know, picked a church yet er nuthin...

"I presume they aren't counting every time He says "I" either." snarks Drew M. over at Ace of Spades (see links below).

I don't mind when he says 'Jesus'. I don't mind when he says 'I'. It's when he throws his arm around the Pieta and says 'We' that I get nervous.

Not least because of the feel he cops off the Madonna.

Anyway, MY jesus don't need no political hacks' help...



"When we scourge those moneylenders this time, they're gonna stay scourged..."

Topless Coffee Shop Torched.

Steamy joint serving steaming brew scorched.

President Obama condemned the act of arson today, stating that as long as the waitresses wore the hijab, it was okay if they went topless.

Iconoclastic Accountant Highlights Administration Accomplishments...

via Dennis the Peasant...