If It’s May 20, It Must Be ….

… Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.

Yes, I know it’s not strictly speaking an “illustration.” Sorry, but I just don’t have those skills. However, on the bright side, I can appeal the fatwa on a technicality.

The subject dog is my 160 pound female Great Dane. I heard her say “biscuit u akbar!” once, and you can be sure I damn well did give her the biscuit.

You might be noticing that, as a harlequin Great Dane, she could be classified as multi-racial. I’m hoping this earns me PC credits to offset the PC demerits I’ll be receiving for cultural insensitivity.

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And it’s a good time for a Thermotron update, too.

The Events and Leftie Lunacy meters are already pegged at 10 (earlier than even I anticipated.) There’s nowhere for them to go but 11.  Unfortunately, these meters were not designed by Spinal Tap.







The Events meter may be permanently stuck on 10, but the poster children keep coming. The latest event of note was this Tuesday’s primary election results. I have chosen ideological opposites Joe Sestak (D) and Rand Paul (R) as the poster children. Reams and reams of MSM analysis today gives us the shallow analysis there is an anti-establishment mood out in the country. No shit, Sherlock!

The shallow MSM analysis is true as far as it goes. But, if you want to really understand what’s happening – read my January 11 post “Contemporary Politics and Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.” What remains of the Democrat party “base” is increasingly liberal, and increasingly a minority of the general population. Expect more Democrat nominees with policy positions similar to Joe Sestak in 2010. On the other hand, the great bulk of the American electorate is awakening to its fundamentally conservative nature. Expect more Republican nominees and third party candidates with policy positions like Rand Paul’s to be pitted against the Democrats in the 2010 general election.

This will be good for the future of the republic. Let’s have a knock-down, drag out, partisan battle in the 2010 midterms - with stark, bright, and transparent (unlike 2006 and 2008) ideological dividing lines. Let’s stop screwing around in our politics, and decide once and for all if we want to be a wimpy social democracy or the exceptional individualistic America the Founders envisioned. The closest thing I could find to an insightful regular media analysis on this was from a local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia.

I will increase the probability of impeachment for Barack Hussein Obama by 2 percentage points because the establishment politician vanquished by Joe Sestak, Arlen Specter, is now incentivized to start talking openly about the unethical and illegal job offer the White House proffered to Sestak to get out of the race. Sestak will be similarly incentivized to start singing when he loses the general election.

The twin poster children for the Leftie Lunacy meter are Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder. Why do these two clowns still have their jobs? It has been one pratfall after another for these two; from Napolitano’s moronic “right wing extremists memo,” to Holder’s ongoing KSM trial circus, one embarrassing congressional testimony after another, and now the latest – neither of them has even bothered to read Arizona’s immigration enforcement law (it’s only 16 pages) before going public with full-throated opposition. Just pathetic. And there is not even room to include Michael Posner (it doesn’t go to 11).

GOP / TEA Party alignment is slightly increased by Republican Whip Eric Cantor's latest project.  Hey, at least they are trying.

Update - May 22

The winners now stand on the podium.  Thank you to all the (real) illustrators who participated in this patriotic contest.

http://reason-contest.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html


2nd Update - May 22

My personal favorite from http://chicagoboyz.net/