Lives in a Shoe

Heh

Cake Wrecks -- "The Cake that Started it All".

Stiull worth a laugh after all this time.

Atlas Shrugs. Ayn Rand Spins.

 

CALEDON ATLAS SHRUG

Inspired by the blockbuster book by Ayn Rand, the Atlas Shrug is more than a fashion statement. It's a statement about modern society. The construction is reminiscent of railway lines, in the color of the metal created by the brilliant industrialist. Knit your own Atlas Shrug in Caledon Hills yarn and tell the world that you value your independence.

Just the thing to wear to that picnic in Galt's Gulch.

Note:  For those non-knitters among you:  A shrug is a kind of truncated sweater that covers from shoulder to shoulder down the back, and across the sleeves. 

Note to Caledon copywriter:  the "brilliant industrialist" is Hank Reardon. 

You Have to Wonder: Where Are The Parents?

In Haymarket, Virginia, high school kids brought candy canes to school and, while singing carols, distributed them to fellow students.  School administrators explained what should be obvious to all: "The candy canes are weapons because you can sharpen them with your mouth and stab people with them," and further informed the budding sociopaths  "not everyone wants Christmas cheer...suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps."    

Fortunately the Oklahoma City Police Department is on the ball.  Thanks to a tip from a sharp-eyed teacher, a 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.  The student was "writing on a piece of paper, which causd it to bleed over onto the desk."  The horrifying details are here .

Let's Save the Children from this Multi-Culti Idiocy

Barbie's 50th -- a Burqa Barbie, auctioned to benefit Save the Children. 

  

Listen, Mattel.  You cannot pontificate about "choices for women" while hawking a doll wearing an article of clothing often compulsory under penalty of death.  Well, I guess you can -- but then we can refuse to give you any of our money.  And pay attention here -- ALL CULTURAL PRACTICES ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE SAME LEVEL OF ACCEPTANCE AND RESPECT.

If you think they are, then I eagerly await Suttee Barbie.  Or Ken, with four Harem Barbies.  Jihad Joe, with suicide belt.  The multi-culti marketing possibilties are endless.  See this, from The Peoples Cube.

Mattel Sponsors Genitally Mutilated Burqa Barbie Doll --

One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover -- wearing a burqa that fully covers an anaotomically correct body of a young genitally mutilated Muslim woman with an amputated clitoris and the labia majora stitched together with thorns and ligament of a hyena.

Liberals astonished by Obama Nobel...

They weren't the only ones.  I thought it was a story from The Onion that somehow got onto the real news sites.  (Update:  One of the commentators said the same thing.)

This is from the Washington Examiner: 

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
10/09/09 12:07 PM EDT

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama is astonishing. The best grade even the most sympathetic grader could give him in this, his ninth month in office, is “Incomplete.” Predictably, many conservative commentators have reacted negatively to the Nobel committee’s decision. But, more interestingly, so have many liberals. Some juicy examples:

 

● Mickey Kaus (who calls on Obama to politely decline the honor).

 

● Peter Beinart, former editor of the New Republic (“this is a farce”).

 

● New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (“very premature”).