The man-legging

I realize that I declared in an earlier post last week the Doomsday clock to be the stupidest thing I've seen all year but, this idiotic idea for men's fashion is even stupider...

Leggings made of microfiber cotton and wool, shown in violet, forest green and Milan fog gray, all of them with stirrup straps, except of course for a couple of them cut above the knee, accompanied half the looks in this poetic, polished and unexpected collection.

Whoever determines world-wide fashion trends has totally kicked this one into the bleachers. There is no way you would get anybody but the silly French to wear this .

Lurch gets one right

Even a ketchup heiress's gigolo/Senator can do something useful for his country once in a while...

Sen. John Kerry on Thursday called for an investigation into security weaknesses in the Defense Department's surplus sales that have let buyers for Iran and China acquire aircraft parts and other valuable military gear.

The Massachusetts Democrat sought an inquiry by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after The Associated Press reported that in several instances middlemen for the countries had exploited security flaws to acquire sensitive surplus.

Good for John Kerry. I hope he gets to the bottom of the security flaws and stops this kind of thing.

See, even we here at TheRightRant will give a loathsome Democrat like John Kerry credit when he does something positive for his country.

murder a guy....get a college degree

Convicted juvie murderer and aspiring rapper Nathaniel Abraham struts around free, dressed appropriately for his most likely future profession....pimp...

Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News
PONTIAC -- Yesterday, Nathaniel Abraham was a convicted murderer. Today he greets the morning a free man celebrating his 21st birthday -- with a furnished Bay City apartment paid for by Michigan taxpayers.
Abraham, who was 11 when he shot and killed 18-year-old Ronnie Greene in Pontiac, plans to re-enroll in classes at Delta College, where the state also will foot the tuition bill for the next four years.

Oakland County prosecutors are furious that Abraham -- a felon released Thursday -- is being given free services through a Foster Care Demonstration Project. The pilot program is designed to help Wayne County foster care children who are phased out of the system at age 18...[but not for perps like Nate, who want the taxpayers to continue to pay for the fulfilment of their every desire]

Given that rappers are known to have intelligence level roughly equal to a box of doorknobs, how exactly do Nate's career rapper aspirations jive with his plans to attend college? And will he attend classes dressed in this ridiculous get-up? I want to know who foisted the lifelong care of this murdering pimp onto the taxpayers of Michigan.

Stupid liberals! I swear.

Exporting rubber dog doo and importing obesity

This is the first drive-thru, fast-food joint to infest China. McDonald's plans to build 20-30 drive-thru stores this year alone in order to capitalize on the exponential growth of personal automobile ownership there. China is transitioning rapidly from a bicycle culture to an automobile culture like the U.S.

From the looks of that guy in the picture, they are rapidly transitioning from a healthy culture to a lazy, obese culture like the U.S. as well.

Decades ago, the Chinese adopted the tried and true American practice of killing themselves with cigarettes. Be on the look out now for a rise in rates of heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other adverse health conditions associated with the over-consumption of fast-food.

As the world's pioneers of self-destructive behavior, we in the U.S. can claim that we didn't know smoking and obesity were bad until people started dying from them. You'd think a country with 1 billion people who're good at math would be able to avoid our mistakes.....but you'd be wrong.

Liberals love fairy tales

Amid crop-destroying cold weather in places like SoCal, a rare ice storm in middle America leaving millions without power, and following a hurricane season without a single hurricane, druidical, Mother Earth-worshipping zealots over at the Weather Channel think it's heretical to question the fairy tale that is human-caused, catastrophic global warming...

The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.

The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.

What's the first step listed in The Idiot's Guide to Establishing a Socialist/Marxist/Communist State? One must silence all opposing views so that only your view is heard.

Gender politics

Perky news reader Katie Couric took time out from destroying what's left of the CBS news organization to complain that women aren't given more cushy positions in politics and corporate America...

"The feminist movement that began in the 1970’s helped women make tremendous strides—but there still haven’t been enough great leaps for womankind. Fifty-one percent of America is female, but women make up only about sixteen percent of Congress—which, as the Washington Monthly recently pointed out, is better than it’s ever been...but still not as good as parliaments in Rwanda (forty-nine percent women) or Sweden (forty-seven percent women). Only nine Fortune 500 companies have women as CEO’s.

That meeting was a reality check for me—and not just about Iraq. It was a reminder that all of us still have an obligation to ask: Don’t more women deserve a place at the table too?"

Katie probably has no idea how far statements like that retard the advancement of women in the market place. Is she seriously suggesting that women should be elected, or promoted to CEO just because we need more women in places of leadership? Evidently, since she mentioned that women comprise 51% of the population, a gender quota should be applied to Congress and all Fortune 500 companies. Should there also be a race quota? How about a handicapped quota? Gays are probably underrepresented in corporate leadership positions...how about a sexual orientation quota? (Representative Barney Frank is so flamboyantly gay that Congress doesn't need any more gays to meet Katie's quota)

Katie seems to think that positions of power and influence should be doled out based on perceived fairness, rather than earned based on hard work, ability, and objectively proven results.

How insulted would Katie be if CBS admitted that they chose her as news anchor because in the interest of fairness they wanted to rectify the problem of the scarcity of women reading the evening news? Katie would swear that she was hired because she earned it as a serious professional journalist with a proven track record in the news industry(an arguable point). Why shouldn't all people be promoted or elected because they earned it and are deserving of it? Preferential treatment because of gender, race, or orientation is blatantly discriminatory. Katie knows better, but as a liberal she can't help regurgitating gender equality dogma.

Katie thinks that women should be given positions they didn't earn. Of course she would be exempt from this because she earned her position.

Don't be fooled by the "Fairness Doctrine"

The Fairness Doctrine was a regulation of the United States' Federal Communications Commission which required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in an honest, equal and balanced manner. It has since been repealed by the FCC and aspects of it have been questioned by courts. Wikipedia

For the uninitiated, the dreadfully named Fairness Doctrine, first passed by Congress in the 40's, was intended to apply to the few broadcast networks so that people would get accurate reporting on important issues of the day. Now, the Democrats intend to renew the Doctrine and apply it to talk radio. Why? Because liberals cannot compete on the talk radio free market...nobody listens to their mindless, hateful drivel. So now they are using the Fairness Doctrine to demand equal air time. Here's how it would work...

Talk radio stations are in business to make money. Under the FD, they would be forced to air appallingly dreadful liberal shows like Al Franken's and Janine Garafalo's. Liberal shows make no advertising money because nobody listens to them. Democrats know that radio stations will have no choice but to cancel the successful conservative shows rather than lose money airing liberal shows to which nobody listens. Liberals don't particlarly care whether Al Franken is successful, they just want to insure that conservative radio is off the air. Why don't they care? Because they already have NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and most big-city fish wrappers, all who have abandoned all pretense of journalistic objectivity and openly advance the Democrats' pinko-commie agenda. Without conservative talk radio, liberals and their willing accomplices in the media will be the sole sources of information for consumers.

"But Ed", you query, "the word 'fairness' implies subjectivity. Who would decide what is fair and what is not in the free market?"

Excellent question! Under the Fairness Doctrine, the congressional majority(Democrats) would determine what's fair. It's not the government's business to be the arbiter of fairness in the free market. The listeners, and only the listeners, decide who wins in the radio market. If the liberal message cannot compete successfully for listeners, tough luck.

Oooooo...I'm sooo scared!!!

This might be the stupidest thing I've seen so far this year...

Experts assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind.

As a result, the group has moved the minute hand on its famous "Doomsday Clock" two minutes closer to midnight.

The concept timepiece, devised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, now stands at five minutes to the hour.

The clock was first featured by the magazine 60 years ago, shortly after the US dropped its A-bombs on Japan.

Not since the darkest days of the Cold War has the Bulletin, which covers global security issues, felt the need to place the minute hand so close to midnight.

Of course the enviro-moonbats out there, like Al Gore, will eat this up. They'll cite it as more proof that mankind is a parasitic corruptor of Mother Earth. Sadly, scare tactics and dramatic props like the "Doomsday Clock" resonate with dumb, government-educated Democrats.

Here is a time line with all the highlights of the Earth's perilous march toward certain annihilation.

According to atomic scientists, wacky environmentalism ranks as an equal threat to mankind as global thermo-nuclear war...stupid hippies!

Gang war in LA

Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing

Apparently there is a violent turf war going on in Los Angeles between rival black and Hispanic gangs. Ordinarily I would say get out of the way and let them kill each other off. Gangs offer nothing good for society so it's preferable that they kill one another. That being said, they are killing innocent civilians who just happen to have the same skin color as the other gang.

This is what happens when the neighborhoods of disaffected, angry, black, gangster-rap youths are encroached upon by unassimilated, unemployable, Hispanic thugs. Both gangs are probably trying to stake out turf in which to sell drugs.

Other than rounding all gang members up and shooting them, there are no short-term solutions. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are any long-term solutions either.

My advice: If you live in a gang-infested neighborhood...get out! What else is there?

The Burqini

Here's what those crazy Muslim women are wearing to SpringBreak this year. I can't wait to see these babes on GirlsGoneWild.

I wonder if she could be stoned for showing her feet. After all, an Islamic woman exposing herself like this in the presence of Muslim men is an invitation for rape. Who could blame the man? How can an obedient servant of Mohammad be expected to control himself in the presence of such brazen flaunting of the female form? Even the slightest exposure of female flesh is intoxicating to Islamic men, just like raw meat to an ally cat....irresistable.