…wine, bikes, drugs, and chicks, as the old Dave Mann posters used to say. Just a few random photos below the jump. (more…)

Bike Week, that is. Got to Myrtle Beach without incident, went out last night and got a few pictures, which I’ll be posting later on. The internet connection here is kinda spotty, but it seems to be working okay for the nonce. And the constant earth-shaking rumble of 50,000 or so Harley motors sounds like Mozart to me, with a little Jerry Lee Lewis thrown in for juice. God, I love this shit.

Joe, I’ll hoist one or two for ya later. Wish you were here, bro.

McCain doesn’t quite get it.  He’s supposedly a principled maverick, an anti-torture, anti-totalitarian pro-American crusader, two of whose top aides had to be fired because the press found out that they had been lobbying for that torturing, totalitarian anti-American rat bastard Burmese government.  He’s been lauded in the press for years and has been a total media darling, but in all that time he didn’t figure out that he was a beloved figure only because he was a rod with which the NYT could flay the Republicans’ backs - so now he has a quizzical look on his face because the NYT is flaying him, now that he’s in a fight with a Dem.  He’s a champion of our constitution but gutted the 1st Amendment (to his own party’s great detriment), supports all sorts of police state measures in the U.S. but can’t stand to see even a hair on the head of a captured AQ terrorist harmed.  He touts the value of freedom and independence, but wants to make our corporations - the tools by which we exercise economic freedom, the right to the pursuit of happiness - he wants to make them wards of the state.  In simple terms, he’s a camera whoring dumbass who isn’t quite as smart as he thinks he is.  (more…)

I can’t disagree with much of what Jerry Pournelle says here, but I do have one point to make:

I have a number of letters about McCain and why we ought to vote Libertarian and “Send a message.” I understand the argument.

The fact is that the Democrats will control Congress. If they also control the White House, we will have a series of legislative packages that will make the Great Society look like a libertarian government. In opposition the Republicans rediscover their principles; it’s power they haven’t been able to handle since Newt Gingrich was Speaker.

The country is in trouble. We have forgotten our founding principles, and we move inexorably toward a European style socialist state, with the only winners being an enormous bureaucracy. This will accelerate the economic decline.

The argument is to give the Democrats their head, and pick up the pieces after the inevitable crash. I think that overlooks the resilience of tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect regimes. We haven’t seen much in the way of reforms in Europe. The Democrats will create new bureaucracies that can never be dismantled: an example is the Department of Education. Reagan came into office determined to abolish it. Now it owns US education, and No Child Left Behind is entrenched. The Iron Law of Bureaucracy is inexorable.

And “No Child Left Behind” was brought to us by whom, exactly?

Thus we have the choice: a Chicago machine politician with Harvard liberal beliefs vs. a country club Republican who feels entitled.

The post-Gingrich Republicans who invented “big government conservatism” have much to answer for.

Indeed they do, and they ought to be made to answer, instead of being encouraged and having their betrayal of principle reinforced with yet another “lesser of two evils” vote for them.

Martin left one of his usual thought-provoking comments last week that I haven’t had time yet to properly respond to, and I leave in about three hours to cover Myrtle Beach Bike Week for the magazine (my boss’s only instructions: “get lots of pictures of tits!” Best. Boss. Ever. And she’s a she, too, if that matters to anybody), so that precludes getting into it now. But I will as soon as I can, and that’s a promise.

Oh, and I’ll have the laptop with me and will be posting reports from the Spring Rally both here and at Bolus for the rest of the week, as and when I get the chance.

(Via Insty)

Lowry seems to have gotten his hands on a copy:

Forget “bitter”; Obama must believe that most Americans suffer from an attention-deficit disorder so crippling that they can’t concentrate on their own interests or values.

Obama has an acute self-interest in so diagnosing the American electorate. His campaign knows he’s vulnerable to the charge of being an elitist liberal. Unable to argue the facts, it wants to argue the law — defining his weaknesses as off-limits.

The campaign can succeed in imposing these rules on the race only if the news media cooperate.

Gee, wonder if THAT will happen. Since there’s a very specific excerpt warning on the column, I’ll leave you with that bit. But do read the rest; Lowry’s got the whining weasels nailed dead to rights. As I’ve long said, the absolute worst thing you can do to liberals is simply tell the truth about ‘em. They squeal like sodomized pigs whenever you do, about how they’re being unfairly “smeared” or “swiftboated.” It’s as farcical as it is contemptible — which is really saying something, on both counts.

Maguire says a mouthful:

EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE REAL ADDRESSES…Just what is the defense of this - that there are real paranoids in Harlem and West Virginia, and stupid people, too? Who can doubt it? But I would never single out those two areas as the pinnacles of paranoia and kookery in America without even entertaining nominating speeches in favor of California or the Upper West Side.

I’d open the floor in comments for further nominations, but I think he’s got the real epicenters covered here.

…no wait–I meant yearning…

No–it was burning.

But we’re the bad guys in the world on illegal immigration…meh.

(via The Corner)

Man, it’d almost be worth putting up with a PeeCee for this.

(Via Dan)

Update! Forgot about this: even though there’s no real nudity there, the link may still be NSFW, depending on where you work and your boss’s sense of humor — or lack thereof. As with a lot of the links I put up around here, click with caution.

TASTIEST. SHIT. SANDWICH. EVAAR.

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

“For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas,” said McCain. “Enormous good came from that industrial growth, and we are all the beneficiaries of the national prosperity it built. But there were costs we weren’t counting, and often hardly noticed. And these terrible costs have added up now, in the atmosphere, in the oceans and all across the natural world.”

He also took a swipe at President Bush, who balked at the beginning of its term at signing the Kyoto global warming protocols. McCain said he would return to the negotiating table.

“I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach - an approach that speaks to the interests and obligations of every nation,” he said.

Mm-mmm GOOD; multinationalism, global-warming religious fervor, and an emphasis on “diplomacy” as a cure-all — now THAT’s conservative change we can believe in, and the most toothsome RINO turdball ever squashed between two slices of stale-bread big-government liberalism. I think this Hot Air commenter is pretty dead-on:

Unable to convince anyone with an IQ over 10 that they will have the slightest effect on the economy, jobs, gas prices, or making sure children learn to read, politicians now claim that (in exchange for a large amount of money and power) that they can control the sun, the stars, and the temperature of the earth.

So when are the media going to ask the tough questions to find out who is the “a little colder” candidate (the favorite of ski buffs), and who is the “a little warmer” candidate (preferred by old people, farmers, and most of the species on earth)?

Don’t we all need to know the exact temperature we are voting for? (I’ll take 85 +- 10 degrees F)

And most of all, we need to demand a demonstration of the temperature-controlling skills of each candidate via a public demonstration attended by citizens bearing thermometers.

It’s laugh or cry at this point, folks. I’m choosing to laugh, myself, but YMMV.

Update! More on Mav’s clueless reliance on his core constituency — the liberal media — from Karl:

As a candidate seemingly headed toward public welfare financing and a greater reliance on free or “earned” media, McCain had better shake off the highway hypnosis of the campaign trail long enough to realize that, having helped the liberals’ favorite Republican (win) the nomination, the establishment media will now focus on getting liberals’ favorite Democrat the presidency. Instead, the McCain campaign seems shocked to discover that they will get no credit for denouncing groups running ads about the Rev. Wright. The straight-talk express will likely be run off the road by the double-talk express, but the press will report it as an accident at best.

McCain is future roadkill frozen in the liberal machine’s headlights, and he’s too egotistical and contemptuous of conservatives to even know it.

Updated update! Christ on a crutch, you gotta be kidding me. I’d take it with a grain of salt, to say the least, early as it still is. But if it does come to pass, well, if this ain’t the final straw for conservatives, I’m sure I can’t imagine what would be.

The last sane Democrat is sticking it to the bastards who stuck it to him:

Penalize Lieberman
Even strong support from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may not save the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship for Sen. Joseph Lieberman if he goes through with plans to address the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Reid opposes trying to kick Lieberman out of the Senate Democratic caucus (which would cost him his chairmanship) because he has endorsed Republican John McCain for president. But other Democratic senators complain Lieberman would go a step too far if he addresses the Republican convention. Elected as an independent in 2006, Lieberman now designates himself an “Independent Democrat.”

A footnote: Lieberman recently approached one prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton with a suggestion that he consider supporting McCain if Barack Obama is nominated.

Delicious. Harder, deeper, and faster, Joe, that’s my advice.

Nancy was kind enough to send word of this supremely satisfying story:

A clever Mac user who had her laptop stolen led the police to the alleged burglars using Back to My Mac. Three roommates in White Plains, N.Y., had about $5,000 worth of computer and entertainment equipment stolen 27-Apr-08. Then this last Tuesday, one victim who works at an Apple Store, Kait Duplaga, received a text message from a friend, who, spotting her on iChat, thought she’d recovered her computer.

She said no, and used Back to My Mac’s remote screen sharing feature to monitor her laptop’s built-in iSight camera to grab a photo of one of the alleged thieves. She then used remote file sharing to find pictures of the other stored on the laptop. The two men charged in the burglary were arrested with the equipment in their apartment, and are reportedly friends of a friend of the roommates who had their stuff stolen.

Godalmighty, but I hate a friggin’ thief about as bad as I hate anything in this world. Good on ya, Kait.

Seedub apologizes for his supposed “uncoolness,” but as far as I’m concerned, that in itself is a hell of a lot cooler than a lot of the witless, no-talent noisemaking passing for “cool” on eMpTyVee and VH1 these days. And the same goes for the late, great Eddie Arnold — in spades. If digging the music of legendary class acts like Eddie Arnold, Jim Reeves, and Ray Price is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

Not only is he dumb, inexperienced, undistinguished, and inept, he’s also a liar:

Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”

The truth:

Senator Barack Obama said he would “engage in aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek “regime change” if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues…

Making clear that he planned to talk to Iran without preconditions, Mr. Obama emphasized further that “changes in behavior” by Iran could possibly be rewarded with membership in the World Trade Organization, other economic benefits and security guarantees…

Mr. Obama’s willingness to conduct talks at the highest level with Iran … differs significantly from the Bush administration.

And, from this doubletalking hack politician’s very own websty:

Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.

Well, that certainly seems clear enough, doesn’t it?

This Messiah has feet of clingiest clay, all right. Qualified to be President? At this point, I wouldn’t want to argue that this callow amateur is qualified to be a Senator.

Ladies and gentlemen, your next President…is dumber than a box of hair:

By now you’ve seen the footage of Barack Obama ruing the fact that he hasn’t been able to visit all 57 states in this great union of ours. If you haven’t, scroll down a bit and read Goldfarb’s post on the matter. I’ll wait.

This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you’ve had a seizure to see if your brain is still working. I speak from personal experience on this matter, by the way. When I had a random seizure in 1996, the guy at the emergency room asked me how many states there were and then who was president. I responded with a ten minute rant on Whitewater - he urgently ordered up more tests.

Well, I gotta admit, that there amounts to real, substantive change, rather than the sinuous, elusive will o’ the wisp variety Obama’s been touting up till now. I must say, though, that it is definitely NOT “change you can believe in,” unless you’re retarded, geographically and historically illiterate, or a swooning, enraptured Barrackolyte. But I repeat myself.

But hey, keep telling yourselves Bush is the dumb one, moonbats. Oh, and did I say “historically illiterate” just now?

In defending his stated intent to meet with America’s enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: “I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.”

That he made this statement, and that it passed without comment by the journalists covering his speech indicates either breathtaking ignorance of history on the part of both, or deceit.

I assume the Roosevelt to whom Sen. Obama referred is Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our enemies in World War II were Nazi Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler; fascist Italy, headed by Benito Mussolini, and militarist Japan, headed by Hideki Tojo. FDR talked directly with none of them before the outbreak of hostilities, and his policy once war began was unconditional surrender.

FDR died before victory was achieved, and was succeeded by Harry Truman. Truman did not modify the policy of unconditional surrender. He ended that war not with negotiation, but with the atomic bomb.

Anyone this full-bore stupid is no way no how qualified to be President, unless he might possibly have some miraculous, overarching good quality that could somehow negate such blank cluelessness. And how about that — he does:

What does he offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial—it’s central to an effective war strategy.

Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.

Wow. Now that one’s a self-beclowning for the record books. I’m just embarrassed for the guy at this point.

Hey! Have you heard? (more…)

Been busier’n the proverbial one-legged man this week, leaving precious little time for posting, and next week will probably be worse. But as an unreconstructed Browncoat myself, I can’t neglect the chance to direct you to Rachel’s post on Firefly, every word of which shines with the beauteous light of Eternal Truth! (well, excepting maybe that part about Shepherd Book, who I always liked just fine), and also to enthusiastically second Glenn’s proposal for another season. As Our Lord and Savior His Own Self would say: Yes, we can!

…but I didn’t stand up because I didn’t own one.

Then they came for the porn, but I didn’t stand up because I gave that up when I got married.

Then they came for the beer. And I didn’t stand up because I was drunk.

Almost all of the Democrats’ ideas are being met with some degree of scorn.

“Some people are e-mailing, threatening to come and slug me,” said Assemblyman Jim Beall (D-San Jose), who hopes to see a $1.80 tax added to the price of every six-pack of beer sold in the state. “We’re getting some pretty nasty comments.”

As well they should Jimbo. Didn’t Jefferson say something about…ah yes….”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”

C’mon Jim! Stand up for liberty! Water the tree!

Yet another Dem politico standing up for the little guy.

I don’t see any disconnect here, do you? This is very consistent.

A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too “confrontational” and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts thinks “the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries,” commission secretary Thomas Luebke said in a letter in April.

Ooops, Irony Check on Aisle Five!

A model of the statue has been built in China.

Afterall, why would this MLK statue be any different from the socialist art style we are seeing in the Obama campaign? Hmmm, I’m sensing a certain nostalgia here.

Some advice to the political left - if you’re going to pine away for the glorious days of the (literally) great unwashed screaming “Power to the People” in the streets, then remember that comes with a flip side of the coin too.

I am absolutely certain this will not play in Peoria in November.

Will President Obama be changing our national anthem to “The Internationale” too?

From Instapundit:

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN: “We have all become familiar with Senator Obama’s new brand of politics. First, you demand civility from your opponent, then you attack him, distort his record and send out surrogates to question his integrity. It is called hypocrisy, and it is the oldest kind of politics there is. . . . We understand why Senator Obama doesn’t want to engage in a debate over leadership and judgment with John McCain, but the American people demand that debate take place.”

Background here. Obama wants to run a training-wheels campaign while demanding that his opponents walk a tightrope. Well, hell, who wouldn’t want that?

UPDATE: In the comments, some good advice for Obama from Michael Totten:

 

Obama could easily make this go away: “Hamas will be VERY sorry if I am America’s president. They need to be careful what they wish for.” He doesn’t have to say anything else, but I doubt it occurs to anyone on his staff to go after Hamas instead of McCain. To me, that’s the obvious fix. What could McCain possibly say after that?

Alas, however, Obama’s instinct was to strike out at McCain instead.

Now an edited version of one of my favorite movie scenes:

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Sen. Obama? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know.  My existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall – you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way.  Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

Do you want the old warhorse no matter how he kicks; or do you want Sen. Obama?  Your choice.

More from the cognitive dissonance-inducing Obama campaign.

“It wasn’t like ‘Let’s have a discussion.’ It was ‘One, two, three, four, here’s what we’re going to do,’ ” a staffer said. “When things don’t go well, he doesn’t yell and scream. He’s very prescriptive. Everybody understands this isn’t about having a discussion. He’s got 99 percent of the voting shares. There’s no point in taking a vote.”

Isn’t this the rap Lefties have with Shrimpy McHitlerburton? That he’s too dictatorial, that he brooks no dissent, that he’s not nuanced enough?

Maybe some KosKidz® can tell me why constantly being in “transmit mode” is bad when Bush does it but OK when Obama does it.

“Because its Bush, you idiot!!!”

Which is circular logic of the response we can expect in…three….two….one….

Interesting:

COLUMBIA — South Carolina farmers say the state’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration will only cause confusion and hurt the economy but will not solve the problem. The South Carolina House is expected on Wednesday to debate legislation that would severely punish employers who knowingly hire illegal workers.

The proposal, as passed last week by the Senate, would require that employers verify their workers through a federal electronic database — a new paper-based system to be created by the state — or a South Carolina driver’slicense.

Farmers worry they won’t be able to continue farming because Americans don’t want the backbreaking jobs. Critics say Americans would take the jobs if employers paid more. Billy Ledford, a Greenville County vegetable farmer for four decades, says he’s grown increasingly reliant over the past 15 years on Hispanic workers, who willingly work up to 12 hours a day in the summer for $10 an hour.

Locals won’t take the jobs, he said.

We’ve discussed the immigration issue here plenty, and will be doing more of it, of course. But in this case, what strikes me is this simple observation: a big part of what’s driving this whole contretemps is wealth, not poverty. We have reached a level of affluence in this country where our poor are objectively wealthy compared to much of the rest of the world. As such, they can afford to reject work that’s “too hard” for their delicate sensibilities and leave it to the new slave-labor class.

Which just makes Michelle Obama’s bitter whining all the more contemptible, if you ask me. And ironically enough, the only conclusion reachable by liberals is that the solution to the problem is reining in the capitalist engine that has cranked out this wealth, bogging it down with more taxation, regulation, and socialism.

(Via genes)

Another “victory” in the War on Some Drugs:

About a month ago I got a call from a reporter for the Arkansas Times inquiring about my research into paramilitary drug raids. He’d been reporting on a raid in North Little Rock involving a 40-year-old man named Tracy Ingle. When he told me the story over the phone, I was floored, even given all the abuses and mistakes I’ve reported and read about over the last few years. What makes the case especially egregious is not that the police may have gotten the wrong home, that they shot a man, or that they were covering it up or going silent. We’ve seen all that before. What’s mind-blowing about this one is that they’ve continued abusing the poor guy, even after it should have been clear for some time now that they made a mistake.

Unacceptable, and unAmerican. The Little Rock PD appears to be little more than a highly-organized and over-armed gang of thugs. If even half of this story is true, they’re a disgrace to law enforcement. I have nothing whatsoever against cops generally, but it’s essential that abuses like this one be checked, and exposing them to the light of scrutiny is one of entirely too few ways of doing it. And here’s another story that ought to chill the very marrow of anyone who thinks the militarization of local police forces is Not A Good Thing.

The risk of your credibility, that is:

MS-NBC had to go around the world to get its story on global warming yesterday. In fact, they had to substitute the North Pole for the South Pole. At the 45-second mark in this story about the disappearing ice at the top of the world, take a look at the critters they show on an ice floe…

…Those, folks, are penguins — which live at the bottom of the earth, as Nigel points out. The “expanses of water that weren’t there before” were actually never there at the North Pole.

Oh, believe me, it gets better — or worse, depending on whether you’re a global-warming religionist or not.

MSNBC: dishonest, or just stupid? They “report,” I deride.

Update! Check Ed’s and Nigel’s updates: the upright “journalists” at MSNBC edited out the friggin’ penguins. Looks like we have our answer, eh?

Two more soldier-despising Left morons who will be scrambling to claim they didn’t mean what they said (clue: they did) in 3…2…1…

I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright. So, that’s my little commercial for that.

That’s burnout hack Stephen King, in case anyone feels like firing up a boycott of bad, dull, long-past-their-expiration-date pulp novelists. And there’s this, from traitor Congresspig Baghdad Jim McDermott:

McDermott said that “we’re losing in Afghanistan,” accused the President of planning to expand the war into Iran, and said “we’re running a gulag – one over in Guantanamo, and several in Iraq.” Yet, the congressman argued, “nobody cares” about the war because “as long as we can hire mercenaries to fight this war for us” the war would continue. McDermott said that the “mercenaries” were recruited from those who could not get jobs, or who could not get into school, or who were in jail due to having committed felonies.

“The American people are sitting asleep at the switch,” McDermott said.

The ones that put your worthless ass in office certainly were.

I would like to here and now officially question both of these arrogant doofuses’ patriotism. In fact, I’d like to question their ability to tie their own shoelaces without drooling on the floor.

(Via Andrew’s Dad)

Update! Let the whining, backpedaling, and stifling of dissent begin.

Dan wades into a quagmire:

I did not name X because although I was pissed off, I did not want a discussion about “what is stopping feminists from coming together as feminists” (aka movement making) to be turned into “bfp hates X and bfp is ugly and fat and bfp is jealous and bfp should shut up and get her own fucking book deal and bfp is trying to patent the fucking idea that hyper militarization of borders=sexualized violence against women.”

This was NEVER ABOUT FUCKING BROWNFEMIPOWER except in the sense that I BELONG to immigrant communities and I BELONG to pro-immigration blogger community and I BELONG to the women of color community and I THOUGHT I belonged to a feminist community.

This was about women of color constantly being written out of feminism, being written out of our own communities BY feminism—then being beaten up by feminists with JUST DO IT, JUST DO IT, JUST FUCKING DO IT YOU LAZY SPICS.

I’m not really addressing the “issues” here, pro or con or don’tfriggingiveashit; Dan can handle that himself, thanks. I just wanted to highlight the shrieking incoherence on display. “Hyper militarization of borders=sexualized violence against women?” Uh, yeah, sure, doll. Whatever the hell that means.

Hypermilitarized borders? Where, exactly? Here in the US, we barely have borders at all these days. Borders In Name Only, one might even say.