JABbering Stooge

Oh, swell. The Duggars* have spawned again!

Michelle Duggar has given birth to her 18th child.

The Arkansas supermom delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long.

“The ultimate Christmas gift from God,” said Jim Bob Duggar, the father of the 18 children. “She’s just absolutely beautiful, like her mom and her sisters.”

The Duggars now have 10 sons and eight daughters.

Jim Bob Duggar said Michelle started having contractions Wednesday night. She needed the C-section, her third, because the baby was lying sideways. Jim Bob said both baby and mother were doing well Thursday night.

“We both would love to have more,” he said.

A little earlier than planned, but just in time for Christmas! Gee, how conveeeeeeeenient!

Even better for the Duggars, it provides the perfect February sweeps launch point for their reality show, The Able Semen Hour of Power 17 Kids and Counting:

* In case you don’t know what the Duggars are about, go here.

Via Yahoo Finance:

FOX Business Network Sues the Treasury Department for Failure to Respond to Freedom of Information Act Requests

Wait, Fux Business Network has the financial resources to file a lawsuit? Fux Business? Now THAT’S news to me!

Minorities Should Express Shame, Not Only Pride

• Minorities must apologize for being border-jumping, job-stealing, welfare-cheating, drug-dealing, AIDS-spreading, bathhouse-defiling, baby-killing, lesbian, man-hating sluts! Straight, white, conservative Christian males, you can feel free to have as much pride as you like. You’re perfect just the way you are!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

In light of the above, perhaps a better title for Prager’s drek would be:

Minorities Should Express Only Shame, Not Pride

2/23/1932 — 12/18/2008

Although she was the only actor to play in every one of the Star Trek incarnations (including the upcoming J. J. Abrams film), for me the highlight of her career was when she played Lady Morella in the third-season episode “Point of No Return” on Babylon 5 (seen above). Hollywood (and America) has lost a legend today.

In response to Richard Cohen’s inane article sneering at Michelle Obama for bucking gender norms while revealing his neo-Luddite tendencies, Atrios asks:

Do The WaPo Editors Let Just Anything Through?

Pretty much.

This has been “Simple Answers to Simple Questions: ‘Librul’ Media Edition.”

Bill Dono-spew gets in on the Battle of Olympia in the War on Non-Christians (via Ed Brayton):

The First Amendment right to freedom of speech has always been conditioned on time, place and manner. That is why gays who sought to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston and New York—for the purpose of countering the message of the parade—lost in the courts in the 1990s. In the Boston case, Justice David Souter, writing for a unanimous court, said, ‘The speaker has the right to tailor the speech’ and the law ‘is not free to interfere with speech for no better reason than promoting an approved message or discouraging a disfavored one.’

Ummm…Bill? Care for a little trip down history lane?

There used to be a tradition in this country that said “I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” That’s the spirit that I was raised to believe in, and one of the things that made me proud to be an American. It’s why we allow neo-Nazis to publicly display their stupidity and regressive extremism — not because we agree with their views, but because we believe in a marketplace of free ideas where We The People™ can be trusted to determine for ourselves which speech is intellectually and morally acceptable and which is repugnant and deserving of ridicule or protest. But that just won’t do for people who think as Bill Donohue does.

S’aright? S’aright.

One more thought before I close out this post:

Gov. Gregoire is responsible for this mess. Having first acceded to the requests of atheists to attack Christmas, she is now confronted with the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church, a viciously anti-American, anti-Catholic and anti-gay group. There is a way to deal with this situation in a manner that is legally acceptable and morally defensible, but neither the Washington governor, nor her lawyers, have figured it out.

Yes, the delicious irony in the likes of Bill “Gays Must Apologize For Merely Existing” Donohue complaining about anti-gay bigotry is readily apparent to anyone whose name is not “Bill Donohue.”

I’d be able to retire by now — and I turn 29 on Sunday. Case in point, White House Deputy Spokesliar Tony Fratto on 9/11:

[Fox News anchor Jon] SCOTT: Back to the 9/11 attacks, which happened after all pretty early in this president’s first term, I mean nobody was thinking that there’d be terrorists flying 767s into buildings at that point.

FRATTO: That’s true. I mean, no one could have anticipated that kind of attack — or very few people.

Yeah…very few people like say, the CIA, FBI and John Carpenter!

If 3vil hollywierd figured it out 28 years ago, why couldn’t The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible?

Your “librul” media at work:

As Jamo notes, Obama has two choices: 1) honor Fitzgerald’s request and delay the release of his internal investigation, and 2) fail to honor Fitzgerald’s request and potentially undermine parts of his corruption investigation. Obviously #2 would be the more suspicious course of action and would rightly raise the eyebrows of reporters. But fortunately our reporters know the rules of the new game, so #1 is a problem too!

Could someone remind these idiots that if Patrick Fitzgerald hadn’t asked Obama to hold off on releasing the contact records, he’d be committing prosecutorial misconduct — the same sort of thing that nearly ruined the case against Sen. “Series of Tubes?”

Fuck, it’s going to be a long four years.

WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT: Could someone remind the idiots at CNN that Patrick Fitzgerald himself has cleared Obama and his campaign/transition staff of any wrongdoing in the Blagojevich scandal? And not only that, could someone remind them that the transcript of the wiretaps shows that no one within six degrees of separation of Obama did anything that might remotely be considered fishy?

FOOLS FOR SCANDAL: And the L. A. Times jumps on the “Let’s make up a scandal out of whole cloth to try and bring down a Democratic president” bandwagon with this headbanger of a headline: “Obama clears himself and staff in Blagojevich case”. Oy.

EN FUEGO: John Cole at Balloon Juice has a nice comeback to CNN’s idiocy:

Now, no one has accused John King of buggering young children after luring them into his van down by the river with promises of candy and then feeding them rum balls and Jesus Juice before repeatedly sodomizing them, but he better prove this is not the case or there will be big problems for King and CNN. What did Wolf Blitzer know about this? It would be irresponsible to not speculate about this.

Can’t they put something useful on CNN before Fareed Zakaria’s GPS so I am not subjected to this bullshit?

While one of his commenters sums it up nicely:

get used to it.

the press loves a scandal. and if Obama doesn’t give them one, they’ll invent one for him.

Indeed. And you wonder why liberal blogs frequently compare today’s media to the “kewl kids” in high school.

Your goons have taken your “War on the War on Christmas” bullshit to the next level by hitting Gov. Gregoire with an anthrax hoax!

Now can we have him busted on “material support for terrorism” charges?

Via this comment at InstaPutz, I managed to stumble upon another blogger’s most excellent new toy: a customized Google search focusing on wingnut blogs. It’s your one-stop shop for mucking out the Augean Stables of Greater Wingnuttia.

Enjoy!

* Cf.