Fantasize about President Bush’s assasination on the air? No problem.  Insult Hillary Clinton? Big problem.

Ms. Rhodes used vulgar language that likened Mrs. Clinton to a prostitute at an event sponsored by KKGN, the Air America affiliate in the San Francisco area, on March 22. A video of Ms. Rhodes’ remarks was published to the video-sharing Web site YouTubeon Tuesday, prompting condemnations by some bloggers.

In a statement, Charlie Kireker, the chair of Air America, said the radio network “encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our hosts.”

One wonders if Charlie even stopped to think before he uttered those words.  I’m sure he meant to say “does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language against liberals…”.  They certainly have no problems with abusive ad hominems against the sitting Republican President of the United States of America. To quote Randi Rhodes in 2005:

“This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they’re poor, or if he thinks they’re in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people who are (planning?) for their safety.”

Got that?  President Bush let people die in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina because he thought they were poor (black?) people who were Democrats.  Nice, real nice.  So…….progressive.

Yet Air America and it’s brethren are somehow mystified that this rhetoric doesn’t resonate with the average American.  They are angry that conservative opinion dominates the airways in the US - and not just by a small margin.  Their solution?  Not tone back the hate or move towards the middle - oh, no.  Unsurprisingly, progressive America favors a regulatory solution to this inequity - forcing radio and television to offer their progressive views in equal proportion to those enjoyed by conservative commentators.  This regulatory organ has such a cute little name - the Fairness Doctrine - what could be more non-controversial than that?  After all, everyone wants to be fair, right?

Wouldn’t it be fairer if progressive radio offered up a product that people actually wanted to listen to?  What is it about the left that makes them completely unable to grasp the concept of the forces that drive a free market system.  Offer a product people want at a reasonable price (free is pretty reasonable, in the case of radio), and they will consume it.  Offer them something they don’t want, and they won’t.  But progressive radio believes that we’re too stupid to know what we want, and that it is better if our airwaves are regulated by a Governmental entity to be sure we get to hear “both sides” of the debate.  Of course, true believers in the progressive movement buy the concept of regulating fairness hook, line, and sinker.

Rather than giving people what they want, forcing them to listen to what you think they need via regulation.  So….progressive.

Is a strange and glorious place.  The Bible (or parts thereof) translated into lolcats speak.

Genesis 1

From LOLCat Bible Translation Project

Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.

3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.

4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.

5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1

6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.

7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.

8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.

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For the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse.

When battling this type of zombie, you are basically trying to stay alive and get to a place of safety, as there are likely to be far too many for you to defeat them.

One tempting option is to go out there with a flamethrower. Zombies may have a natural aversion to fire, you should be able to ignite several of them with one burst, and it looks spectacular – there’s a video of a demonstration here. However, if you check the specifications it has some serious drawbacks. The U.S. Army’s M2-2 flamethrower weighed about seventy pounds, and is effective out to around fifty yards, but the big limitation is ammunition:

a fuel tank holding 18 liters of gasoline, enough for approximately five bursts of two seconds each.

So you’re probably better off with a conventional firearm. At least this is one area where we are spared the interminable debate of 9mm v .45 handguns and 5.56mm v 7.62mm. Unlike living humans, stopping power counts for nothing as far as zombies go; it’s all about shot placement. (And reliability – take at least one back-up gun in case you get a jam or run out of ammo at a bad time.) Anything larger than a .22 will do the job, so long as you’re capable of putting a round squarely though the head. And this is very much harder than you think.

I mean, you just don’t come across practical advice like that every day.  I’m sure most of us would have reached for the flamethrower.  And 10 seconds later = EPIC FAIL.

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