By listing only liberals whose opinions reinforce my point (instead of Olbermann, Maddow, The American Prospect, Harpers, elsewhere on HuffPo, etc.) I can prove that liberals are partisan hacks who hate America.

Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived.

Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government.

Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government. Kyl's office insists the measure is not an earmark, and the House didn't deem it one when it considered a version earlier this year

But it meets the know-it-when-you-see-it test, critics say. Under Senate rules, an earmark is a spending item inserted "primarily at the request of a senator" that goes "to an entity, or (is) targeted to a specific state."

Earmarking allows lawmakers to steer federal spending to pet projects in their states and districts. Earmarks take many forms, including road projects, improvements to home district military bases, sewer projects, economic development projects. A key trait is that they are projects that haven't been sought by the administration in power.

This is nothing that a comprehensive registry of photographs and biometric data of all the people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran can't solve.

Implementation should take relatively small number of years. I believe there are a number of American companies who would be willing to provide the expertise, for a reasonably-sized fortune.

After which, progress towards ending the war can begin in earnest, as we will finally know who we are negotiating with.

The problem with going to the streaming-only option from Netflix is that their streaming-only selection is pretty weak - unless you really like aging, low-budget movies, that is.

Mankind has almost rid itself of one its most dangerous enemies! Wild tigers could be extinct in 12 years!

Yay humans!

Jewelry Is A Filthy, Poisonous Business

Yay! Let us consume mass quantities!

Cause, hey, it's wine!

Good ol Bryan Fischer is back. This time, he's not worried so much about exiling Muslims, condemning Islam as a religion of violence or outlawing the building of mosques in the US. (Well, he's probably still worried about that, but a man can only express so much worry in a day.) So, this time, he tells us about the decidedly un-Christlike, not-enough-bangbang, femi-pussification of the US military hero (hallowed be his name):

“We have feminized the Medal of Honor.

According to Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one.
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So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?

Good question!? I don't know!

Wait. No. It's not a good question. It's a stupid question. What are criteria for awarding the MoH?

The Medal of Honor is awarded by the President, in the name of Congress, to a person who, while a member of the Army, distinguishes himself or herself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party. The deed performed must have been one of personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his or her comrades and must have involved risk of life. Incontestable proof of the performance of the service will be exacted and each recommendation for the award of this decoration will be considered on the standard of extraordinary merit.

(thanks, Google!)

Nope, nothing about "killing people and breaking things". It's, basically, for being heroic.

By the way, Fischer is the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the conservative Christian group the American Family Association.

[pause]

I'm having a hard time seeing how "family" involves asking "Hey. what's up with all these pussies? Don't we kill people any more?"

That's because I'm a godless heathen, I suppose.

Onward, feminized soldiers, Fischer has more to tell us!

Jesus, in words often cited in ceremonies such as the one which will take place this afternoon, said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). So it is entirely right that we honor this kind of bravery and self-sacrifice, which is surely an imitation of the Lord of Lord and King of Kings. Jesus, what a pussy. However, Jesus’ act of self-sacrifice would ultimately have been meaningless - yes, meaningless - if he had not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life. The significance of the cross is not just that Jesus laid down his life for us, but that he defeated the enemy of our souls in the process. It was on the cross that he crushed the head of the serpent. It was on the cross that “he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in it” (Colossians 2:15).

And lo, Jesus paused to reload. Colt M16:A2

I mean... Jesus, WHAT A MIGHTY WARRIOR!
All hail the King of violence! Kill your enemies where you find them! Religion of peace! No, wait... Religion of violence! No, wait... aw fuck it.

What spurred Fischer's sudden crusade against feminized warriors? Well, you see, Staff Sargeant Salvatore Giunta recently became the first living soldier from the Iraq/afghanistan wars to receive the MoH. And he received it for saving the lives of two fellow soldiers. More specifically:

The U.S. Army says Giunta was a team leader in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley when his squad was ambushed and split in two by insurgents. Giunta stepped into the line of fire to pull a wounded soldier back to safety, and then engaged two insurgents who were carrying away another wounded soldier, killing one and wounding the other. Thanks to his heroics, both soldiers were pulled to safety on the Afghanistan battlefield that day.

(probably) Not Salvatore Giunta

What a pussy. Jesus would totally disapprove. And so should America.

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I wonder what's involved in the QA process for all those dancing video games? Do they have scripted dances that the testers need to perform?

Test 29C:

1. left hand up, shake 2 seconds
2. right foot back kick, hold 1.5 sec
3. spin, counterclockwise, moderately fast
4. right foot hop
5. left foot hop
6. right foot hop
7. ...

Do people do this full-time ? Is it exhausting ? If development changes some code, does QA have to go back and re-dance all the basic tests each time ? Or, do they have robots...

On second thought, I bet they just have some fake USB controllers that are hooked to a script engine so they can just play a "recording" of someone going through the tests. Boo...

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