Idgit Watch banned by Air Force!

Actually, all Blogspot blogs have been banned:

AFNOC has imposed bans on all sites with "blog" in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot.

Ironically, Maj. Henry Schott may want to read some blogs himself (particularly those which covered the McCain/Iseman story) because he is still laboring under some dubious assumptions about the go-to places for reliable news:

The idea isn't to keep airmen in the dark -- they can still access news sources that are "primary, official-use sources," said Maj. Henry Schott, A5 for Air Force Network Operations. "Basically ... if it's a place like The New York Times, an established, reputable media outlet, then it's fairly cut and dry that that's a good source, an authorized source," he said ...

There are some sane people in the Air Force who dissent from this decision:

Within the Air Force, there's also a strong contingent that wants to see open access to the sites -- and is mortified by the AFNOC's restrictions. "When I hear stuff this utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.... Piles of torn out hair are accumulating around my desk as we speak," one senior Air Force official writes in an e-mail. "I'm certain that by blocking blogs for official use, our airmen will never, ever be able to read them on their own home computers, so we have indeed saved them from a contaminating influence. Sorry, didn't mean to drip sarcasm on your rug."

The Audacity of Hope indeed

Like it or not, Obama has big plans for you and me. Even Mother Jones is catching on to the cultishness of it all. This is from the Messiah's stump speech as transcribed on their pages:

That moment when we shed our fears and our doubts. When we don't settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept. Because cynicism is a sorry sort of wisdom. When we instead join arm in arm and decide we are going to remake this country, by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state. That's what hope is.

I like my block, thank you very much, and the last thing I want is a mob of Obamacrats joining arm in arm to remake it. From my perspective, what he describes is not "hope", but a freaking nightmare. Indeed, his lofty platitudes are sounding more and more like the threats of a liberal fascist, and I'm not liking this one bit.

NRO found these plans, as described by his wife, Michelle:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

It's Pretty audacious to make all these plans for us, isn't it? As Jim Geraghty asks, And what if we kind of like our lives as usual?

Update: Here is Allahpundit's take on this whole creepy scenario.

Does Chelsea Clinton think work is a four-letter word?

Sen. Hillary Clinton took a swipe at her daughter's profession today at an economic roundtable discussion at a restaurant in Parma, Ohio, suggesting wealthy investment bankers and hedge fund managers on Wall Street aren't doing real 'work.'

The former first lady's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, works for New York-based hedge fund Avenue Capital Group. She previously worked in New York for McKinsey & Company, her first job after graduating with her master's degree from Oxford University.

Hillary does not hide her disapproval.

It's not the first time Clinton has taken a swipe against her daughter's profession. Campaigning in Wisconsin yesterday, Clinton railed against hedge funds as Chelsea sat off to the side.

Indeed, it's not the first time or the second time - apparently Hillary really thinks Chelsea is a worthless loafer:

In 2006 the AP reported that Hillary had to apologize to Chelsea for saying , young people have a sense of entitlement after growing up in a "culture that has a premium on instant gratification.".

After telling an audience that young people today "think work is a four-letter word," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she apologized to her daughter.

Hillary really should learn to be less derisive of her daughter's vocation. Surely she knows that it's impossible for Chelsea to follow in her footsteps after all that backbreaking work she did in the cattle futures market. Give the poor girl a break!

Madonna's directorial debut less than triumphant

With a plot like this, one could have safely predicted that this "romantic musical comedy-drama" which she wrote, directed and executive-produced was doomed from the start:

Filth and Wisdom is the 81-minute story of a Ukrainian immigrant who finances his dreams of becoming a rock star by moonlighting as a cross-dressing dominatrix.

Set in London it stars Eugene Hutz, the lead singer of New York gipsy punk band Gogol Bordello, in the main role of a philosophising S&M escort.

The ensemble of characters also includes a thieving pharmacy worker and a ballet dancer who is forced to lap dance.

The money quote:

The Evening Standard's Derek Malcolm said: "Madonna has far to go before she can breathe the same air as Godard, Pasolini, Fellini and Visconti, whom she insists she admires in a director's statement in which two of the four are misspelt."

McCain advisor plans to cut and run from campaign

McCain may be the warrior candidate but Mark McKinnon plans to pre-surrender in the battle for the White House if Obama is the Democrat nominee.

"I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama," said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR's "All Things Considered." "I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign."

Uncomfortable? This strikes me as being jaw-droppingly wussified, but then again I'm not opposed to waterboarding terrorists either.

The Jyllands-Posten newspaper incites Danish Muslims to whine in protest.

I'm taking Michelle Malkin's lead and showing my solidarity with the Danish cartoonists.




This cartoon caused riots around the world, 100 deaths, and a most recently, a foiled murder plot against the cartoonist. In a commendable act of defiance and solidarity, the newspaper dared to reprint the cartoons again.

The newspapers said they republished the cartoon to show their firm commitment to freedom of speech after the arrest Tuesday of three people accused of plotting to kill the man who drew the cartoon depicting the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.

Predictably, this action was not well-received.

Danish Muslim leaders condemned the alleged murder plot, but also said reprinting Westergaard's cartoon was the wrong way to protest.

"There could have been other ways to do it without the drawing, which I personally do not like," Abdul Wahid Petersen, a moderate imam, told The Associated Press.

Imam Mostafa Chendid, the leader of the Islamic Faith Community, said his group was considering staging a rally in front of Parliament. The Copenhagen-based group spearheaded protests against the cartoons in 2006.

"We are so unhappy about the cartoon being reprinted," Chendid told the AP. "No blood was ever shed in Denmark because of this, and no blood will be shed. We are trying to calm down people, but let's see what happens. Let's open a dialogue."

Whatever. Why not start a dialogue in their own community, because if a 2 year old cartoon is enough incentive to hatch a murder plot, there is still something rotten within the Muslim "community" in Denmark.

Update: Captain's Quarters shows solidarity too.

Update: Here's a video flashback from Bryan Preston at Hot Air. Taqiyya

My Saudi Valentine is like a [censored], [censored] rose that's newly sprung in June

Saudi Arabia's religious police have banned red roses ahead of Valentine's Day, forcing couples in the conservative Muslim nation to think of new ways to show their love.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has ordered florists and gift shop owners in the capital Riyadh to remove any items colored scarlet, which is widely seen as symbolizing love, newspapers said.

Update: Michelle Malkin suggests we fight Sharia by celebrating Valentine's Day and includes a roundup of anti -Valentine fevah from the usual suspects.

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