Ariel Sharon: RIP ( Age 85)

The Lion has died. Ariel Sharon dead at eighty-five:

(CNN) — Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who died Saturday at age 85, made a name for himself as a military and political leader who put Israel’s

The Snark of the Day, from Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin:

More heads have rolled over ‘Bridgegate’ than the IRS scandal, Benghazi and botched Obamacare rollout combined

Now that Christie has run off the RINO’s, what next?

Chris Christie ( RINO – fat ) used Chicago style politics to punish a political enemy:

The allegation against Christie is that he attempted to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, NJ, for not endorsing him for re-election. And that

Carolyn McCarthy,  the dumbest white woman in Congress, has announced  her, long overdue, retirement, from Politico:

Two veteran House Democrats, Reps. Carolyn McCarthy of New York and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, will not seek reelection in 2014, according

You gotta give former mayor Micheal Bloomberg some credit. He was willing to spend vast amounts of his own money to advance his own private agenda. For example, Bloomberg never meet a gun. other than his own, that he did

Hapless Akademik Shokalskiy flat landers cause environmental disaster, from New Zealand Herald:

The hapless Australasian Antarctic Expedition is finally homeward bound – and thousands of trees will have to be planted to offset the carbon footprint from the prolonged

Is sex rape, or are some particular forms of sex always rape?    Radical Wind  says yes:

Just to recall a basic fact: intercourse/PIA is always rape, plain and simple.

This is a developed recap from what I’ve been saying in

A Ship of Fools, From the BBC:

The Chinese ice-breaker that helped rescue passengers stranded on the Akademik Shokalskiy vessel in Antarctica may now itself be stuck.

An Australian ice-breaker carrying the rescued passengers has been placed on standby

The United States Marine Corps is not what it used to be, by Pauline Jelinek:

WASHINGTON (AP) – More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to

Hanna Rosen writing at Time snarks:

Are men literally obsolete? Of course not, and if we had to prove that we could never win. For one thing, we haven’t figured out a way to harvest sperm without them being, you

The nun-sense that emanates from Washington,  a smart person knows the limits of his knowledge.    Kathleen Sebelius is not a smart person, for she recognizes no limits to her presumed expertise.   A smart person would realize that a nun requires

The New York Slimes tried to analogize Barack Obama’s man made disaster of Obama Care to Dubys’a response to the natural disaster that was Katrina. For her part, Professor Ann Althouse was having none of it, the Snark of the

The Snark of the Day, from Glenn  Reynolds:

ACTUALLY, AS WE LEARNED WITH SARAH PALIN’S FAMILY, IT’S ONLY THE CHILDREN OF DEMOCRATS WHOM DECENCY PLACES OFF-LIMITS: “Quite aside from racial politics, I thought children were off limits. Here you

A slush fund is money which a politician can use with no strings attached, and with no supervision. Governor Andrew “JMario, Jr.” Coumo has set up such a fund, from Green Biz:

New York’s first bank dedicated to boosting

View Jesus as a savior or just a victim of Roman justice, nobody, to my knowledge, has ever called Jesus a mugger.   Yet some demented wack job replaced a depiction of Jesus in the manger, with the late mugger Trayvon