This is the guy Barack Obama thinks we should “talk” to…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the state of Israel is a “stinking corpse” that is destined to disappear, the French news agency AFP reported.

“Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.

“Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel “has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese” - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

WiMax is going to be crazy crazy super fast. No doubt about it. It’s going to be the future of wireless internet services in this country. It makes sense that a carrier like Sprint is carrying the torch for WiMax (branded Xohm) as the future.

Let’s ponder the problem of WiMax, though, and what’s delaying things for Sprint.

Although the No. 3 carrier has soft launched its Xohm service and is reporting progress on the development of the larger WiMAX ecosystem, this latest delay has caught the attention of analysts, who are increasingly dubious about Sprint Nextel’s future overall.

“When Sprint comes out and says we’re having problems with backhaul … you have to step back and say ‘wow, why didn’t you think of this ahead of time?’” said Peter Jarich, a principal analyst at Current Analysis, who’s been critical of Sprint Nextel and its technology choice in the past.

“They’re sort of the face of WiMAX. If things don’t go well, what does it say about the technology?’” he added. However, Jarich did give Sprint Nextel points for being straight forward on the issues, rather than keeping everything close to its chest. A wise move for a company that’s been blamed for the poor financial performance of many companies in the past couple weeks, he said.

“Sprint’s got other problems and I think people recognize that,” Jarich said.

Fiber, microwave options

Doug Smith, chief technical operations officer for Xohm, said complexities surrounding zoning and leasing are affecting how quickly Sprint can secure sufficient backhaul since T1 lines, which have traditionally been used by the wireless industry for backhaul, won’t meet the need.

“Imagine throttling a fire hose down to a garden hose,” Smith wrote in response to questions.

Translation:

The speed from your device to the receiver of the network should be great. Insanely fast.

But that receiver is hooked up to a few T-1 lines at 1.5 megabits.

Each individual WiMax device maxes out at…

Are you ready for this one?

70 megabits.

PER DEVICE.

That would require 47 T-1 lines to run ONE user’s full-speed internet connection.

Obviously you see the problem.

The question is, why didn’t Sprint see this before the rollout started?

What a load of crap. Talk about making something out of nothing…

Within hours of Ms. Smithson’s performance, which was hailed by one “American Idol” judge as one of the best of the night, questions were being raised online about the song. On one thread on the show’s official Web site, AmericanIdol.com, a viewer warned shortly after the performance that Ms. Smithson’s choice of the song would put her in danger of elimination.

Diane Winston, who holds the Knight chair in media and religion at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, said that while “Jesus Christ Superstar” had largely faded from public discussion over the years, the film “always had this tinge of disrepute about it because its picture of Jesus was so unsettling to many people.”

While it is true that Simon went ga-ga over that mess of a performance, Beth and I were pretty much nonplussed. She was shrieky, loud, and obnoxious, and frankly she deserved to go home.

This has nothing to do with blasphemy, it isn’t the first time she was at the bottom of the feeding trough, and frankly she wasn’t going to win anyway, so can we stop building controversy where there isn’t one?

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Holy sweet Jesus, could you imagine what would’ve happened if Hasselback had said “that’s a very black way to look at it?”

Apparently it’s “very white” think you shouldn’t vote for the gender or race of a candidate.

Well spank my ass and call me whitey!

The one good thing about Ted Turner is that you always know what you’re gonna get from him: complete, utter, and unfiltered stupidity.

Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.

So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname “Mouth of the South.”

If steps aren’t taken to stem global warming, “We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

Based on?

“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable.”

One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population.

“We’re too many people; that’s why we have global warming,” he said. “Too many people are using too much stuff.”

Turner suggested that “on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world’s got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it.”

Oh yay. It’ll only be a matter of time before we follow the Chinese model and start dropping baby girls in rivers.

Admitting that he’s “always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease,” Turner added, “I’ve gotten a lot better, though. It’s been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.”

Judging from the date on the article, I’d say it’s been about 24 hours.

Food allergies are tragic. I have ‘em, so believe me I know. Of all the weird things in the world to be allergic to, I’m allergic to hazelnuts and paprika. Utterly insane, and it gets weird trying to figure out what’s in the food you’re eating, but so be it. It’s a fact of life for millions of americans.

I’ve always wondered, though… Are people with food allergies retarded, or do we just treat them like they are?

Take a look at the list to the left. Starbucks has started a new initiative, and that’s getting you to buy their baked goods and bring them to meetings and family functions. The list is their current one, and you’ll notice that there are two items with asterisks next to them: the bran with walnut muffins, and the banana nut loaf.

What does the asterisk mean?

That that particular food contains nuts.

No shit?

I’ve always thought that food labeling regulations were a good thing. For example, if I buy a bag of croutons for my salad, I wouldn’t automatically assume that the bag I bought was made in a plant that processes peanuts. It stands to reason that if the ingredient people are allergic to is processed alongside your food but not included, you probably should warn them.

The thing I wonder about, though, is why do we treat people with food allergies like they’re idiots? It’s one thing to make sure people are aware if their Twinkie might have a peanut in it, but doesn’t it stand to reason that something called Banana Nut Loaf would have nuts?

And it’s not even like telling you it contains nuts is all that helpful, anyway. Think about it. I’m very allergic to hazelnuts, but that’s it. I’m not allergic to cashews, peanuts, walnuts, pecans, or any others. This indication that products with nuts in their name might have “nuts” in them is utterly meaningless to someone like me.

I think it’s great that companies are trying to do the right thing for an obvious minority of their customers, but maybe we can stop treating people with food allergies like idiots? I’m sure if they buy a bag of cashews, the assumption is that the product may contain nuts (no shit, look at a can of nuts; some manufacturers think they have to warn you that your can of nuts might have nuts in it; I would hope it’s a little more than might!) isn’t too far out there and shouldn’t have to be made for people.

He not only drank Obama’s Kool Aid, he wiped his mouth, then dabbed the cheek of Obama’s immediately afterward. Jesus Christ on a pony, this guy is a moron.

Via Hot Air….

What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we’re battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we’re not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites.” So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an air lift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.

This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.

That’s Obama’s speech about Selma.

Ed Morrissey then proceeds to absolutely demolish the bullshit contained therein…

The first march on Selma took place on March 7, 1965 (there were three of them). At the time, Barack Obama was three and a half years old. Now, Obama also mentions the Birmingham march as part of this speech — but that took place in May 1963. Obama would have been 20 months old when Dr. King led that demonstration.

That’s not the only bit of fabulism here. Obama’s birthdate is August 4, 1961. It doesn’t take a doctor or a math whiz to calculate his conception as sometime in 1960 — before John Kennedy took office. In fact, it might have taken place on Election Day, when Kennedy won the presidency. That would tend to indicate that Mom and Dad met sometime before the African airlift that Obama credits for his birth.

Oopsies.

So what; they’re fighting in our name and dying in our name… Why would we allow them to speak to our kids about duty, honor, and service to their country?

A national tour featuring decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won’t be stopping at Forest Lake Area High School today as planned, after school leaders abruptly canceled the visit.

Steve Massey, the school principal, said the decision to cancel was prompted by concerns that the event was becoming political rather than educational and therefore was not suitable for a public school.

He said the school had received several phone calls from parents and others, some of whom indicated that they may stage a protest if the event took place.

“The event was structured to be an academic classroom discussion around military service. We thought we’d provide an opportunity for kids to learn about service in the context of our history classes,” Massey said. “As the day progressed, it became clear that this was becoming a political event … which would be inappropriate in a public setting.

Nice move, Mr. Massey. A bunch of libtards start shouting and complaining and you cave in. No wonder you didn’t want some good soldiers giving a talk at your school; they have more character and honor in their pinky than you have in your whole quivering body.

This sets a great precedent, too. Don’t like what someone may say? Find a spineless principal and start shouting. They’ll cave.

What a joke.

Reuters isn’t in the pocket of the Chinese Government. Nope. The story, a day after the government opened fire on a protest isn’t that the government opened fire on the protest, it’s that ONE policeman died.

One.

Astonishing.

Last post about Zooomr, I swear. Just for the record, Zooomr is not trying to be Twitter with photos.

This is Twitter…

This is Zooomr…

Obviously they’re two completely and totally different things.

Sorry for the confusion.

Wow… The truth inches out little by little from the mouth of the great Uniter…

Go ahead folks. Support him. Buy into the used car salesman.

As we’re finding out more and more about Barack Obama and his positions and history, it’s becoming increasingly clear that he has some deep-seeded issues and judging by this, he’s not that much different from his wonderful spiritual advisor.

via HotAir

I love the city I live in. The idiots I live in it with, however, are maddening.

In a nutshell, some kids were goofing around at home when one, who was playing with a loaded gun, accidentally shot another in the head. As tragic as it is (and it is tragic), some community activist dope had this to say:

“It’s a shame. I do support the mayor and the efforts that he’s doing with gun control. But we have to do more. I think what’s happened is we just have a bunch of kids who are idle. And they just need an opportunity to do things. Unfortunately, they’re cooped up in the house. We need more recreation centers and stuff like that. I think that would give them an opportunity to survive a little longer.”

Wait, WHAT?

You need more recreation centers to know not to fuck around with a gun?

I anxiously await the return of Bill Clinton’s wildly successful Midnight Basketball program.

via Gothamist

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I love how all of a sudden everyone is going out of their way to find new ways to discredit Hillary Clinton. Drudge, bastion of all things correct, proper, and interesting, posted the following headline (it was in red earlier today):

LAWYER HILLARY GRILLED 12-YEAR OLD OVER ‘RAPE’; attacked child’s credibility…

Hmmmm… So what’s the whole story? From the linked article…

Hillary Rodham Clinton often invokes her “35 years of experience making change” on the campaign trail, recounting her work in the 1970s on behalf of battered and neglected children and impoverished legal-aid clients.

But there is a little-known episode Clinton doesn’t mention in her standard campaign speech in which those two principles collided. In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - using her child development background to help the defendant.

The case offers a glimpse into the way Clinton deals with crisis. Her approach, then and now, was to immerse herself in even unpleasant tasks with a will to win, an attitude captured in one of her favorite aphorisms: “Bloom where you’re planted.”

So… As a court-appointed attorney, she vigorously defended her client.

The nerve of her.

Next thing you know they’ll be telling us she paid parking tickets.

Fidel Castro, long suspected dead by anyone with any insight into world politics, is stepping down. In the place of one brutal dictator that Hollywood fawns over and sucks up to will be the brother of the brutal dictator that Hollywood fawns over and sucks up to. Not much is going to change in Cuba. The people will still be poor, oppressed, and mistreated, and the Castro family will live like kings on their stacks of US Dollars all over the island.

In fact, Cuba has shopping malls where the only currency accepted at all is the US Dollar. Think about that. A country we can’t legally trade with prefers our currency to their own in a shopping mall.

Since Fidel Castro has taken control of Cuba, and the United States started its embargo, Cuba has fallen into disarray. Part of it is related to the fact that Fidel Castro is a brutal bastard who holds his power by maintaining an insane level of fear in his people. Part of it is that the tourism business that was fostered by being a few mere miles off the coast of Florida is now dead. Part of it is that, despite all logic, the US continues to keep this embargo going.

In China, journalists are regularly “disappeared” for writing anti government articles or postings on websites. In Saudi Arabia, women are stoned if they’re the victims of rape (this happens in other “friendly” countries like Pakistan as well). Russia continually strikes back at “separatists” with brutal and complete dominating force and with little regard for the human rights issues involved. Mexico’s prisons are some of the worst and most dangerous in the world. Indonesia is a country that’s so brimming with hatred that when their country was under 10 feet of water from the Tsunami, they wouldn’t accept money and medical aid from Israel. Today, George W. Bush’s White House announced that we’ll be increasing aid to Gaza and the West Bank, parts of the Middle East that are controlled by an elected terrorist government.

It defies logic that when taken into account all those facts that we choose to not do business with Cuba over its human rights record or the fact that their government is run by a brutal dictator. The idea that a brutal dictator like Castro is no good to do business with while a brutal government like Hamas is okay to talk to and send aid to is something we really need to reconcile.

As we stand on our high horse, Cuba is dying. Oh sure, you’ll never hear that from the media; they love Castro and love portraying him as a strong leader with a great literacy rate and free healthcare for all his people, but the truth is the truth. Cuba’s economy would get an instant boost from increased tourism from the United States. This is indisputable. The infusion of money into small merchants and shop owners would lift the economy up in a profound way. That is also indisputable.

Holding on to this embargo is accomplishing nothing. The Castros will never step down. The Cuban people are suffering and poor. In the meantime, we still deal with dictators and despots on a regular basis while chastising the Cuban government for being the same.

If that makes sense to you, then so be it, but that, to me, sounds more than a tad hypocritical.

It’s time to end the embargo and stop punishing the Cuban people.

Image courtesy of Rudi Heim on Flickr

It’s probably safe to say that you have arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose.

Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold.

And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. “Gotta blow my nose here for a second,” Obama said.

Out came a Kleenex (or perhaps it was a hankie), and he wiped his nose.

The near-capacity audience at the Reunion Arena, which his campaign said totaled 17,000, broke out in a slightly awkward applause.

If it walks like a cult and quacks like a cult…

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The iconic “Hillary as Hitler” photos are now popping up all over the place. This time on Wizbang.

Does it ever get old with these folks?

Romney’s campaign has gone off the deep end…

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign accused Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of “a backroom deal” that gave the early Super Tuesday win in West Virginia to Huckabee.

Romney, who addressed the state GOP convention in person Tuesday, comfortably led the first ballot at the convention, leading to a three-way second ballot contest between the three contenders.

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic reported Tuesday that, after the first ballot, McCain’s campaign called his supporters there and urged them to vote in favor of Huckabee.

“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change,” Beth Myers, Romney’s campaign manager, said in a statement.

HUH?

Does that make any sense to anyone at all?

via Buzzmachine