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Hoop-o-rama 2010: Women's NCAA tournament, Kansas City regional

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First round:
Nebraska over Northern Iowa
UCLA over North Carolina State
Michigan State over Bowling Green
Kentucky over Liberty
Georgia Tech over Arkansas-Little Rock
South Dakota State over Oklahoma
Wisconsin over Vermont
Notre Dame over Cleveland State

Second round:
Nebraska over UCLA
Michigan State over Kentucky
South Dakota State over Georgia Tech
Notre Dame over Wisconsin

Regional semifinal:
Nebraska over Michigan State
Notre Dame over South Dakota State

Regional final:
Nebraska over Notre Dame

(What can I say? I'm a Jackrabbit!)

Hoop-o-rama 2010: Women's NCAA tournament, Sacramento regional

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First round:
Stanford over UC Riverside
Iowa over Rutgers
Georgia over Tulane
Oklahoma State over Chattanooga
Vanderbilt over DePaul
Xavier over East Tennessee State
Gonzaga over North Carolina
Texas A&M over Portland State

Second round:
Stanford over Iowa
Oklahoma State over Georgia
Vanderbilt over Xavier
Texas A&M over Gonzaga

Regional semifinal:
Stanford over Oklahoma State
Texas A&M over Vanderbilt

Regional final:
Texas A&M over Stanford

America Rising

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I first saw this at Classical Values.

I think it pretty well sums up the mood of the country right now. The Democrats have badly, BADLY misread that mood. They will pay dearly for that mistake.

Oh, and a warning to Republicans: Do you really want to be next in line for the tar and feathers, or do you want to pull your collective heads out of your collective asses?

Morning Whip, January 18, 2010

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Special afternoon edition.

A (mostly) daily review of what's out there that caught my attention. (Yeah, it's possible I might have ADD . . .)

I surf the Web, so you don't have to!

Section One: The Big Stories:
1.1: The Massachusetts Senate Race--(With BONUS correct spelling of the state in question!):
The race in Massachusetts...
In Massachusetts, voters' discontent threatens Democrats -- Your turn . . .
Obama Heckled at Coakley Rally in Boston… At a University? (Video)
Smear, and parry -- "Scott Brown believes in evolution but in the case of Bob Kerrey he's willing to make an exception." -- Nicely played, Mr. Brown . . .
Massachusetts Is the Game Changer
Snow Is Falling in Massachusetts
"The whole nation is watching"
AWESOME… Scott Brown Responds to Elitist Obama’s Attack on Truck Owners
The uniter: Scott Brown’s center-right-indie coalition
Martha Coakley: A Democratic Canary in a Coalmine?
Latest polling has Brown pulling away from Coakley
Still Blaming Bush -- In the words of the Eagles: Get Over It . . .
Coakley volunteers energize Brown voters
Barack Obama Slams Scott Brown and His Truck… It’s a GM Truck
Thinking about the unthinkable, Part Three
Former Quincy Mayor & Lifelong Dem Endorses Scott Brown
John F. Kerry at Coakley Rally: The Only Things Republicans Say Yes to Are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Tea Parties & FOX News! (Video) -- As a Rogue Palinista, I am offended by the omission of Sarah's name by John F'ing Kerry . . .
Massachusetts Democrats for Brown? -- And that's not just Democrats, that's "elected Democratic officials" . . . well, at least one . . .
Even if Brown Loses -- "the message to the Democrats should be deafening" . . .
Shovel Ready. Martha Coakley’s Phone Bank Is Empty – Needs Workers (Video)
Suffolk’s bellwether areas showing double-digit lead for Brown on final day
Video: David Shuster wonders whether Massachusetts voters have lost their minds -- Which, I guess, is fair, since I've been wondering for a long time if David Shuster has lost his mind . . .

More after the "Read More" . . .

Morning Whip, Dec. 31, 2009

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The CRISIS OF THE HOUR just seems like an awful lot of work, doesn't it? No crisis today. Crisis maybe tomorrow. No crisis today.

Travel:
Seven Seas Navigator Emerges From Refit
Dutch say they'll use full body scanners for U.S. flights
Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel -- allahu akbar . . . BOOM!
TSA targets travel bloggers over leaked security memo
Cruise West Expands Reach with World's Longest Cruise

2009/the 2000's In Review, and year-end lists:
A Decade and Its Three Crises
2009’s Idiots of the Year!
Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk
Most Jaw-Dropping Live Television Moments of the Decade
Reason Staffers Pick The Best and Worst Things of The Decade
Telegraph: The most conservative movie of the decade is…
Technology not as advanced by 2010 as some had hoped

The battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way :
Don't Tase Me When I'm Having a Diabetic Seizure, Bro
The James Taggart Presidency and the value of work
More Guns, Less Crime in '09
SEIU Watch: More workers revolt against power-grabbing Purple Shirts
Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010
White House Stonewalling on Obama's Executive Order Unleashing Interpol
Minnesota University Wants K-12 Teachers to Hate America -- mamas, don't let your babies grow up to attend the U of M. . .
Political moralism and the self-defeating impulse towards totalitarian 'purity' -- I'm not much into demanding 'purity' from others, personally.
The Criminalization of Protest: Police and politicians ignore the First Amendment when we need it the most.
Saving Money, Lives, and Human Civilization
Fighting the Beltway Mentality
More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead
Obama's Game of False Choices
The Marxian Virus in American Thought
Blogging for 'The Cause'? Nonsense! I Write for Money

The reality of Obama and the Democrat leadership as blithering idiots:
Max Baucus: I was totally sober -- I dunno . . . "drunk" is a better excuse, I think, than "blithering idiot" but then he's a Senator, for which "blithering idiot" is pretty much the primary job requirement . . .
Why is Obama still in Hawaii?
Why Obama pretends
Does Obama Realize We Are at War Yet?
Unfair attack from the Right on Obama’s lack of response? -- um . . . well . . . upon reflection . . . no, no, not unfair at all. 'Commander in Chief' means something, as does "preserve, protect, and DEFEND the Constitution of the United States." Or anyway, it used to, before the Blithering Idiots took over.
If Obama's lost Maureen Dowd . . .
Obama Uses His Bush Similarities to Deflect Heat
The limits of "cool"
Barack Obama and the Exhausted Presidency

War and terror and diplomacy and peace:
"Iraq the model" after all?

"Global warming" aka "Climate change" -- or should that be "Climate Reform?":
Major northern hemisphere cold snap coming
French Revolution! Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional just two days before taking effect
From The IPCC
Let me try again -- ". . . the French have ruled a proposed carbon tax scheduled to start on Jan 1, 2010 to be unconstitutional . . ."
Satellite visualization of December’s deadly cold in Europe and Russia
The Left's End Times

The Economy:
Ponzi scheme collapses more than tripled in 2009 -- Tough times for con artists, too, apparently . . .
More federal funds going to GMAC Financial -- Yep. Tough times for con artists.
Public Sector Drives Deep Into The Night
Markets fail. That’s why we need markets. -- "Too big to fail" is a profoundly anti-free-market concept. Unsuccessful businesses should fail--they should never, ever be propped up. The same should be said of political philosophies, but here we are, taking another run at collectivism . . .
The Monetary Base is exploding. So what?
Fannie & Freddie Officially Declared Bottomless Pits. GMAC Not Far Behind
Government-Caused Disaster

Media bias and/or incompetence:
CBS totally objective about 'teabaggers' -- I guess fair is fair . . . when I think of the media the first things that come to my mind are several slang terms for homosexual sex, too . . .
Tea Party Express official says liberal media used TPM's 'totally bogus story'

Health care "change" (called by some "reform"):
Like Mushrooms, Health Care 'Reform' Flourishes in the Dark
Unhealthy arrogance
Rasmussen: Opposition to ObamaCare Reaches New High
Legal Discrimination -- "Liberals funneling other people's money (yours) to favored minorities and trial lawyers. Business as usual."
Blinded By Good Intentions
13 Republican Attorneys General Threaten Lawsuits Over Nebraska's Health Care Deal

Miscellany:
Heroin, HIV stalk tropical resort of Zanzibar
'Best Job' winner stung by dangerous jellyfish
Power to the (Conservative) People
Wussie Watch: Yale censors the word "sissy"
Sarah & Hillary: Most Admired Women in USA
Rush Limbaugh Taken to Hospital with Chest Pains UPDATED
Rush Limbaugh reported 'resting comfortably' in Hawaii hospital

Sports:
No. 1 Kansas overcomes early gaffe to rout Belmont
Tennessee beats longtime foe Old Dominion 102-62
SDSU set for Summit action

Crashing the party: January 20, 2010

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UPDATE: I'm informed that the date of the State of the Union address has not yet been set. So, I now advocate going with plan B--go on strike Jan. 20.

From somebody called the Westwood Tea Party, via The Other McCain.


Calling all red blooded, Patriotic Americans!

It’s time for another march on Washington DC.

On the date of the State of the Union address, January 20, 2010.

On this day, a joint session of Congress, the President of the United States, his entire cabinet, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...plus distinguished guests will be in attendance.

You want media coverage? All major broadcast and cable networks will be there to broadcast the event.

This is the most strategically advantageous opportunity for Patriotic Americans to hold a demonstraion against an out of control government that's trashing our Constituion.

This march needs to dwarf the size of the crowd that showed up on 9/12/2009. We need to surround the Capitol Building.

Who’s sick and tired of being ignored?

It’s time for a second Declaration of Independence!

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

It’s time for us to tell these Marxist bastards that we don’t consent to what they’re doing, and we therefore no longer recognize them as the legitimate government of We the People!


Personally, I'm not quite ready to go as far as "we therefore no longer recognize them as the legitimate government," but unless we, the people explain in detail to these out-of-control yahoos in Washington that they are REPRESENTATIVES, not RULERS, then things could really get out of hand, in ways that I very much do not want to contemplate on Christmas Eve.

I'm quite sure that they either don't understand how very, very angry a lot of people in this country are, or they simply don't care.

They would be wise to start caring.

Make January 20, 2010 a National Day of Protest. Close your business. Call in sick to work. Don't go to school.

Go on strike.

If you can, go to Washington. Make yourself heard.

While you still can. If now now, when?

Here's a scary thought . . .

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This is how ice ages begin. One really cold winter.

Via WUWT.


Oh, yeah, winter started just yesterday.

I'm not saying that this little global cold snap/snow storm is the start of an ice age. But if we're talking about how cold next April, May, and June are, it may be time to start burning every hydrocarbon we can get our hands on.

I'm just sayin'.

Link Dump: Lemmings leaping off the cliff edition

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First, let us observe the Congressional health care lemmings a-leaping:
How Many Americans Will Choose to be Uninsured Even if Insurance is Mandatory?
The illusion of design--on the folly of believing that anything coming from Congress could possibly be a "carefully designed system."
The Health Care Fight Has Just Begun.
When liberal dreams collide with public opinion by the ever-insightful Michael Barone.
Will people comply with health-insurance mandate?
Washington Post: Obamacare “Unsustainable”
Left Now Admitting Obamacare Full of Budget Gimmicks.
Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform: Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional--WARNING: serious Constitutional law scholarship here.
Who's responsible for the Senate's middle-of-the-night vote?
Who's Meaner, Insurance Bureaucrats or Government Bureaucrats? And the answer . . .
Shocker: Medicare Has A Higher Claim Denial Rate Than Private Sector Employers.
What Happened To The Mandates?
Senate: This Is About Life & Death ... and Pork.
Cry Havoc, And Let Slip The Dogs Of Unintended Consequences!
Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries --hark! I hear the oinking of pigs at the trough! Too bad they're feasting on US!

Now, let us meditate upon the cliff which the lemmings screeched to a halt in front of just before leaping off:
Guardian Headline – Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure.
Climategate: The Perils of Global Warming Models.
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri.

General political/public interest/miscellaneous links:
Balance Blocks News Info--why the vain quest for journalistic "fairness" is really a bad idea.
Code TEA: Tea Parties, Go Home! All Politics Is Local.
Voter angst: Nation might see third party rising.
Who is more respected: Sarah Palin or Al Gore?
There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government--from the Telegraph in the UK, who have already been down the road that we in the U.S. are in the process of joining arm in arm with the rest of the world's governments. They have seen our future and it does not work.
Study Shows Partisan Influence On Stimulus Spending--yeah, I know, knock you over with a feather.
The Problem is Spending, not Deficits--hey, here's a plan! Spend less money to balance the budget. Hmm. A crazy plan, but it just--might--work!

Brown Fat Revelations May Lead to New Weight Loss Drugs--health news that doesn't involve Congress. What a relief.

And, finally, something of a public service announcement as we enter the heart of the holiday season:
Dark Liquor Makes For Worse Hangovers

UPDATE: 3:58 p.m. minor editing for clarification and spelling. 4:01 p.m.--Fix broken html.

Cthulhu Congress

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A prophet once called them by their true name ("Government is not the solutiion--government is the problem!")

We once thought they were banished. ("The era of big government is over.")

And yet, again, They come. Their hunger is stronger than ever. Indeed, their hunger can never fully be sated. They devour all before them. They demand obedience. They require worship. They brook no dissent.

Cthulhu Across America

Image via Ace of Spades HQ which got it from one of Ace's readers via Moonbattery from whence The Corner picked it up.

It turns out that Cthulhu was never running for President ("why vote for the lesser evil?"). He/She/It was running for Congress. And He/She/It won. We Were Warned.

The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down towards the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore-paws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees. The aspect of the whole was abnormally lifelike, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown. Its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet not one link did it show with any known type of art belonging to civilization's youth—or indeed to any other time.

. . . Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass towards the red glare and the muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. Now and then the less organized ululations would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in singsong chant that hideous phrase or ritual:

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

Then the men, having reached a spot where the trees were thinner, came suddenly in sight of the spectacle itself. Four of them reeled, one fainted, and two were shaken into a frantic cry which the mad cacophony of the orgy fortunately deadened. Legrasse dashed swamp water on the face of the fainting man, and all stood trembling and nearly hypnotized with horror.


From that swamp on the Potomac arose a tentacled, clawed, winged beast, horrible to behold, "with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy . . . bloated corpulence . . . and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown.

It's name is Congress. It has come to devour you and all you hold dear. You have very little time left.

Very little time indeed.