The Nappy Cat Chronicles

Election '08: Libruls Just Don’t Get It

Kevin Bryant is a Senator. Kevin Bryant posted this in order to “stimulate an examination of Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy.” (In case he takes it down, the following is a large screenshot of his original post.)

Kevin Bryant failed miserably to stimulate anything that can be deemed an “examination”. Understandably, most who commented fell into either the “Libruls can’t take jokes! Obama’s a Muslim! Hail Jesus!” category or the “That’s a fairly bigoted comparison” category.

Defending himself, Kevin writes:

The posting, not surprisingly, only drew out the virulent and vulgar members of the liberal left whose immediate reaction to any criticism of their candidate includes charges of ignorance and bigotry…I have no regrets from this picture…I refuse to cower to the cultural police who evermore seek to censor our political discussion.

Let me just say this about that: Even from an anarchical perspective, this comparison is ignorant and bigoted. And, really, to compare someone who has yet to kill many people to someone who has already killed many people is to not facilitate any semblance of a dialogue. In fact, Kevin confused his red army constituents so badly that at least one thought he was trying to be funny:

idiots [sic] Says:
July 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

it’s a joke. Also, anyone not scared to death that someone as unqualified as Obama may be the next President is stupid. He is not qualified. If he is elected, we are in big trouble. God save our country.

Anyway, it’s always amusing to me when dunderheads find humor in what amounts to nothing more than bullying. So, I had some fun with this one and will now try to interject some real chuckle-worthy humor into the discussion. Behold:

Bug of the Day: Eastern Cicada Killer

There are hundreds of these ugly critters living under the sidewalk outside of my apartment. Flying bugs that are two or more inches long–this does not include pigeons–usually make my blood pressure sky rocket. Fortunately though, these chest-grabbingly wonderful creatures target cicadas and not humans:

While they may be frightfully large, female cicada killer wasps are not aggressive and rarely sting unless they are grasped roughly, stepped upon with bare feet, or caught in clothing, etc. One author who has been stung indicates that for them, the stings are not much more than a “pinprick”. Males aggressively defend their perching areas on nesting sites against rival males but they have no sting. Although they appear to attack anything which moves near their territories, male cicada killers are actually investigating anything which might be a female cicada killer ready to mate. Such close inspection appears to many people to be an attack, but the wasps rarely even land on people. If handled roughly females will sting, and males will jab with a sharp spine on the tip of their abdomen. Both sexes appear to be well equipped to bite, as they have large jaws; however, they are unable to grasp human skin and cannot bite. They are non-aggressive towards humans and fly away when swatted at, instead of attacking. Cicada killers exert a natural control on cicada populations and thus may directly benefit the deciduous trees upon which cicadas feed.

Commentary of the Day: Triple Ribbed for your Pleasure

Laura Ingraham: “Don’t come in my ear.”

Kathleen Parker on Laura Ingraham: Laura, the Cucumber Queen

Definition of Cucumber Queen: In gay terminology, a person who enjoys having phallic-shaped vegetables or objects pushed up his ass.

Election '08: Quack!

Since I’m not willing to assume he did this out of malice, I have to conclude that he just let this slip. But if he were President, we would need to count on him not to let things like this slip.

Dear Hilzoy,

Well, when you have a history of quacking like malicious idiot…

Cheers,

Will

Commentary of the Day: Billboard Edition

You know the person who paid for that billboard has got to be nuts. From his website:

For the love of my country, I later became interested in its direction. especially after 911. I became interested in news and wanting answers for a lot that wasn’t being told on the normal Liberal TV News stations. I started listening to talk radio stations and started reading a few books about politics, though I still appreciated the information from Fox New Network. It didn’t take too long after, I realized the danger of liberalism, and where it’s taking us today.