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Denizens, the eulogy for WFB will need to wait another day or so.&#160 Pegasus&#160 is sailing through the Migraine Nebula at the moment, if you know what I mean.

Soon as Kevorkian whips up the Theragen Derivative&#153, posting will once again commence.

Thatisall&#153.

William F. Buckley, Jr, the father of modern conservatism, has passed away at age 82.

I’ll have more later.

The Department of “With ‘Friends’ Like This…” brings us this comforting blurb that tells far more about John-Boy McZhamnesty than all his protestations to us about how “conservative” he supposedly is.

See, to McLamess, Christians like Pat Robertson & the late Jerry Falwell are “agents of intolerance”.&#160 Those of us who have had it up to here with illegal border crossings and giving out undeserved aid to illegal aliens – why, we’re “nativists”.&#160 McFuckhead has been lauded as being a “maverick” for years by the Lame Stream Media&#153 – because he dares to give the business to the conservative base whose votes he now seeks.

But just dare to point out the middle name of one of the Demoscummic presidential candidates, and it’s utterly amazing how McRINO will swoop in at warp speed to defend this buddies.

Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who while warming up a campaign crowd referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democrat a “hack, Chicago-style” politician.

At this point, I will ask all of you out there the exact same question I ask about what John Rocker said about New York Shitty City:&#160 What was it that got said that wasn’t true?

Hussein is Obama’s middle name, but talk show host Bill Cunningham used it three times as he addressed the crowd before the likely Republican nominee’s appearance.

Yeah.&#160 So???

“Now we have a hack, Chicago-style Daley politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you’re going to have in your pocket is change,” Cunningham said as the audience roared.

The time will come, Cunningham added, when the media will “peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama” and tell the truth about his relationship with indicted fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko and how Obama got “sweetheart deals” in Chicago.

Okay, now let’s see:&#160 He didn’t use the so-called “N-word”; he didn’t make references to “fiied chicken” or “collard greens” or “watermelon” – or, for that matter “fish don’ fry in da kitchen, beans don’ burn onna grill”.&#160 Nor did we hear anything even remotely resembling “macaca”.

So what, exactly, is effin’ wrong here?

McCain wasn’t on stage nor in the building when Cunningham made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from them and the talk show host after finishing his speech. McCain spoke to a couple hundred people at Memorial Hall in downtown Cincinnati.

“I apologize for it,” McCain told reporters, addressing the issue before they had a chance to ask the Arizona senator about Cunningham’s comments.

Thus sayeth McWuss the Spineless.&#160 The champion&#160 of Campaign Finance Reform.&#160 The hero&#160 of the 527.

The butcher&#160 of the First Amendment.

“I did not know about these remarks but I take responsibility for them. I repudiate them,” he said. “My entire campaign I have treated Senator Obama and Senator (Hillary Rodham) Clinton with respect. I will continue to do that throughout this campaign.

How about you let other people have their say and shut your own piehole about it, McLameSlimemold?&#160 You know – LIKE THE FIRST AMENDMENT SAYS YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO?!

McCain called both Democrats “honorable Americans” and said “I want to dissociate myself with any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them.”

Professional courtesy, after all:&#160 One slimebucket looking after another.

Asked whether the use of Obama’s middle name—the same as former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein—is proper, McCain said: “No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate.”

Hey, it’s not our&#160 fault his parents decided to adorn the bozo with a Muslim name, McZhamnesty, you dumb fuck.&#160 And if we want to point that out, what are you going to do about it?&#160 Pin that so-called “agents of intolerance” bullshit label on us again?

You’re supposed to be campaigning for our votes, remember?&#160 Are you sure&#160 you wanna piss off your base that much more?

McCain said he didn’t know who decided to allow Cunningham to speak but said he was sure it was in coordination with his campaign. He said he didn’t hear the comments and has never met Cunningham, but “I will certainly make sure that nothing like that happens again.”

Yeah, and we’ll make sure we remember that come November.

Fucking asshat.

Okay, the lawsuit on this incident is all but assured.

But five’ll get you ten that within the month, you’re going to see Congressional hearings on this matter, and Donnie Carty and crew are going to be hauled up before Senate committees to give an account of themselves.

And I won’t even begin to speculate on how quickly it’ll take McZhamnesty, the Duchess Hilarious and B. Hussein Osama Obama to make political hay over this.

AMR Corp, you guys have just bit the big one on this.&#160 “Get your popcorn ready”, as T.O. is wont to say – this is gonna get really interesting, really&#160 fast.

[Scene:&#160 the engineering section of Pegasus, where main power is still offline, thanks to Ozymandias McCool‘s refusal to heed Merlin‘s warning about not trying to optimize the computer core while the computer was still in operation.&#160 Captain Korrioth has joined Merlin at the computer station which exploded in Ozy’s face, and is attempting to assist Merlin in bringing the panel back online.&#160 Off to the side, a medic tends to Ozy, who has stirred and is now beginning to come around, though it appears he’s suffered a concussion.

As we look in, the computer panel is not cooperating with either Korrioth or Merlin.]

MERLIN:&#160 Check the T37 junction circuit.

KORRIOTH (tricorder in hand):&#160 Confirmed…no, wait.&#160 Looks like a microfracture in the optical filament.&#160 See if you can bypass.

MERLIN:&#160 (toggles three switches, then hits a button) Okay, try that.

KORRIOTH:&#160 Better.&#160 I think we may be ready to re-engage systems.&#160 Give it a shot.

[Merlin rises and goes over to the dilithium chamber, flips a couple of switches, then hits the big switch on the breaker box.&#160 The ship lurches for about half a second, but otherwise remains dark.]

MERLIN:&#160 Damn!&#160 Dammit!!!

KORRIOTH:&#160 (several Klingon curses which can’t really be repeated in mixed company)

MERLIN:&#160 That was supposed to at least restore main power!&#160 What the fuck is wrong with this ship?

[The slightly-ajar Engineering doors part even further, and in walks His Rudeness, who doesn’t look terribly happy.

LSIK&T:&#160 Report!

KORRIOTH:&#160 Main power still down, Admrial.&#160 We believe we’ve successfully bypassed the blown junctions in the computer, but the ship still refuses to respond.

LSIK&T:&#160 Awright, which panel was it that blew up on you, Merlin?

MERLIN:&#160 (gulp) Right this way, m’Lord.

[Merlin guides Spats over to the spot where Ozy had been sitting.&#160 The admiral begins to examine the panel.]

LSIK&T:&#160 Hmmmmm.&#160 Burned out T37 junction…scorch marks around the M5 toggle…what are these three switches doing toggled on…?

[A look of realization has crossed Lord Spatula’s visage – he’s seen this before.&#160 He straightens, glances over at a still-groggy Ozy, then turns and faces Merlin with a very&#160 angry, accusatory glare.]

LSIK&T:&#160 I thought I gave you a direct order never to optimize this motherfucker while the ship was in motion?!

MERLIN (cringing visibly):&#160 Your Eminence, I tried&#160 to warn him, I…

[His Rudeness waves his hand towards Merlin.&#160 Merlin goes flying backwards, his head hitting the same bulkhead that KO’d Ozy, and falls to the deck, motionless.

LSIK&T (growling):&#160 I don’t want to hear it.&#160 Mr. Korrioth, how far have repairs proceeded?

KORRIOTH:&#160 As Mr. Merlin told you, sir, we’ve bypassed all the circuits we believe were damaged, but the ship does not respond.&#160 We were beginning another diagnostic when you walked in.

LSIK&T:&#160 (smirking) Do you begin all your diagnostics with colorful Klingon invective, Kor?

KORRIOTH:&#160 (grin)

[Spats turns back to the blown panel, flips three switches, hits a button to the side, waits three seconds, then slams his fist into the bulkhead above the blown panel.&#160 Immediately the lights come back up and the ship’s engines resume their normal hum.&#160 Korrioth stares at His Rudeness in disbelief.]

LSIK&T:&#160 Do a Level 2 diagnostic on the propulsion and tactical systesm and advise me as soon as you’re done so we can get back underway.

KORRIOTH:&#160 Aye, sir.

LSIK&T:&#160 And have Kevorkian over there haul McCool’s & Merlin’s shit-for-brains carcasses to sickbay.&#160 And then once McCool’s back on his feet, he’s to spend 30 minutes in the Agony Booth&#153 having it drilled into his head that you don’t fuck with the computer core while the ship’s in flight.

KORRIOTH:&#160 Admiral, we don’t have&#160 an Agony Booth&#153.

LSIK&T:&#160 Then build&#160 one, you bumpy-headed dumbass!&#160 I’m sick & tired of my ship getting disabled because my engineers have all the sense of the fuckwits I have Rayegun rule over out in the Outer Rim&#153, you hear?&#160 Where the fuck did McCool come&#160 from, anyway???

KORRIOTH:&#160 Uh…he was a conscript from the Outer Rim&#153, sir.

LSIK&T:&#160 See?&#160 My point.&#160 Now get your ass in gear, bumpy!~

[Korrioth winces, then turns and leaves Engineering to do His Rudeness’ bidding.]

Okay, Denizens, the Big Box&#153 is back up and running, so it’s back to downloading naked jpegs pirating ’80s rock anthems reading the news and commenting thereupon.

Thatisall&#153.&#160 Carry on.&#160

Item:&#160 On January 25th, 2008, the NY Slimes&#160 endorsed John-Boy McZhamnesty.

Item:&#160 Today, the NY Slimes&#160 attempted the political assassination of John-Boy McZhamnesty.

The $64 billion question:&#160 Why am I not surprised?

(Hat tip Misha, who got it from the Inoperable Terran.)

Taking a page from the Demoscummic playbook, Ibrihim “Pooper Scooper” Hooper and the pedophile-worshipping fuckwads at CAIR are trying to deny Charles Johnson and the boys at LGF of their rights guaranteed them by Article I of the Bill of Rights.

Charles, naturally, cut off their balls and shoved them back down their throats.&#160 Figuratively speaking only, alas.

Hey, Ibrihim!!!&#160 Your boy Allah is dead as a doornail, and his so-called “prophet” was a pedophilic pansy-assed pussy!

Come do something about it, you syphilitic son-of-a-pork-bellied-bitch.&#160 I fucking dare&#160 you.

[Scene:&#160 onboard Pegasus, in the Engineering section.&#160 Chief Engineer Ozymandias McCool is working on a computer console, inputting equations.&#160 Out of the corner of his eye, he catches a glimpse of Engineer Emeritus Merlin approaching.

MERLIN:&#160 On what dost thou workest, Ozy?

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 Hi, Merlin. I’m optimizing the computer core…that is, when it cooperates with me.

MERLIN:&#160 You’re supposed to take the core offline before you do that, else it’ll crash and the ship’ll…

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 Sssshhhh!&#160 I’m almost done perfecting this subroutine!

MERLIN:&#160 Ozy, I strongly recommend th—

[They are both interrupted by a loud BANG!!!!!!!&#160 and an explosion of sparks from the panel, which knocks Ozy back about 10 feet.&#160 The back of his noggin smacks the bulkhead and he falls face first to the deck.

Meanwhile, the ship has gone completely dark and dropped out of warp; the emergency lights come up a couple of seconds later.]

MERLIN:&#160 —that you find a place to hide before Korrioth gets down here.

LSIK&T (over speaker, sounding very&#160 pissed):&#160 Bridge to Engineering, report!!!

MERLIN:&#160 Admiral, we’ve had a computer crash…(looks at Ozy, still unconscious)…cause unknown.&#160 I’ve started a diagnostic, but we’re going to be here for a time.

LSIK&T (growling):&#160 Very well, Wizard.&#160 Keep me informed.&#160 Bridge out.

Denizens, it’s been eighteen months since I last reimaged the Big Box&#153, so I’m taking part of the Presidents’ Day holiday to redo it.&#160 Assuming all goes well, posting shouldn’t suffer.

Much.&#160

To no one’s ghastly surprise, Republican moderate&#160 (emphasis intended) George H.W. Bush endorsed John-Boy McZhamnesty for president today.

But it was this paragraph that caught my eye:

Mr Bush dismissed criticism of Mr McCain’s conservative credentials by some high-profile commentators as “grossly unfair”.

He said Mr McCain had “a sound conservative record” and also praised his ability to reach across the aisle to the Democrats when needed.

Pardon me for saying so, George H. Shrubya Seen-your…but unless my memory’s playing tricks on me again, you yourself got your RINO ass soundly trounced from office after only one term FOR PRECISELY THAT REASON, DIDN’T YOU?!?!?!?!?1ONE!!

Or had you forgotten that you made a pledge to us at the 1988 Republican National Convention, then reached across the aisle and shattered that pledge three years later????

And now you have the unmitigated gall&#160 to be annoyed with us???

I got five words for you, Seen-your:

Eff.&#160 You.&#160 Gee.&#160 Haitch*.&#160 Dubya.

Yet another reason not to vote for McLameass…

*William Regal fans will understand the reference.

Item:&#160 Chuckles Barkley, that bastion of morality (&#160&#160) and a bona fide&#160 expert on the subject if ever there was one (&#160&#160), sez that conservatives are “fake Christians”, adding that

“Every time I hear the word ‘conservative’ it makes me sick to my stomach.”

Item:&#160 Psychiatrist Lyle Rossiter makes the case that, as Michael Savage has stated, liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”

Just sayin’.&#160

[Scene: Aboard a Martok-class dreadnought, as yet unnamed.&#160 In the Engineering section, a swarthy Klingon (but we repeat ourselves) oversees several more Klingons, five or six Cardassians, a couple of Gorn and about eight or nine Naussicans.&#160 The Klingon overlord carries a painstick with him, and he’s not necessarily above using it to make a point every now and then – although the Klingons under his command seems to relish that sort of thing.&#160 Never mind.

Off to the side, about 10 feet from the overlord, a large mass of energy shimmers into view.&#160 The mass solidifies to reveal His Rudeness, Merlin, Chief Engineer Ozymandias McCool and Captain Korrioth.&#160 The overlord moves to greet them.]

KLINGON OVERLORD:&#160 Admiral.&#160 To what do we owe the privilege?

LSIK&T:&#160 We noticed that you’re a little behind schedule, Commander K’tinghe.&#160 Is everything okay over here?

CMDR. K’TINGHE (gulping audibly – he was hoping they wouldn’t have noticed):&#160 We…uh…we’ve run into a few difficulties with some of the materials that those damned Ferengi sold us.

KORRIOTH (angrily):&#160 You were supposed to procure those materials from the Shelliak!!!

CMDR. K’TINGHE:&#160 They wouldn’t sell to us…!!!

LSIK&T:&#160 Easy, gentlemen.&#160 Commander, I expect to be notified when issues like this arise.&#160 This vessel is to become the flagship of the Realm&#153 fleet, and I want no surprises when it undergoes its maiden voyage.&#160 Do I make myself clear, sir?

[There is unmistakeable fear in Cmdr K’tinghe’s eyes now as he nods his head violently.]

CMDR. K’TINGHE:&#160 I beg forgiveness, m’Lord.&#160 I will redouble my efforts!

LSIK&T:&#160 That’s appreciated, Commander.&#160 We will pay a visit to the Shelliak and…ah…smooth over&#160 the misunderstanding.

CMDR. K’TINGHE:&#160 Thank you, m’Liege.

LSIK&T (to Korrioth):&#160 Captain, return to Pegasus&#160 and lay in a course for the Shelliak Corporate.&#160 I’ll join you shortly.&#160 And contact Spacedock and have a contingent of quantum torpedoes loaded into the weapons bay.

KORRIOTH (grinning broadly):&#160 Aye.

Denizens, work on the IV project had slowed to a virtual crawl, but I’ve managed to get at least a little bit of work done on it.&#160 Hope to have more news soon.

As always, watch this space.

Y’know, I’m well aware that this lawsuit isn’t going to go anywhere – but DammitAllToHell&#153, just once&#160 I wish justice could be served.&#160

As you guys probably know, an asswad dressed in black staged his own St. Valentine’s Day massacre in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University earlier today.

In other words, another mass shooting on another campus…in another state where there are no concealed carry laws and you have to have a permit to even own a gun.

Which is to say, yet another place where the sheep can’t legally defend themselves.

Five are dead so far (UPDATE:&#160 Seven now – LSI), and one can’t help but wonder if that was five seven more than could’ve been had someone capped the son-of-a-bitch before he started pulling the trigger on the shotgun.

And I doubt I need to point out that this state is home to one of the presidential candidates…and I sure as Hell&#153 don’t need to tell you which one, do I?

Conventional wisdom supposedly holds that, once the Republican National Convention gets gaveled to a close, all conservatives will fall in like lemmings and get behind the Presumptive Nominee&#153, John-Boy McZhamnesty.

Hmmmm.&#160 Not so fast there, Rockefeller.

GodTube.com today announced that despite last night’s sweeping victory for John McCain, a stunning new GodTube.com poll reveals that if McCain wins his party’s nomination, Christian Conservatives would rather vote for one of the two Democratic candidates.

With a slim 9.1% support for McCain, and Huckabee a long shot for the nomination, Obama has become a viable choice for many Christian Conservatives with 26.3% of the Christian vote, up 8% from last week.

We’ll forget for a moment that both the Manchurian Muslim and the Duchess Hilarious are not all that much to the left of even McRINO.&#160 If there’s even a hint of truth to these numbers, McLame is in big trouble even before the convention.

Contrary to popular Rockefeller Republican belief, the GOP cannot win without the Christian evangelical vote.&#160 We’re a bigger part of the base than the blue-bloods think – Christians, if memory serves, didn’t exactly come out in droves in ’96, did they?

So, how did&#160 President Dole fare that year?

Mark my words, GOP:&#160 We’re the last part of the conservative base you want to piss off.&#160 And you’ve already pissed us off.

Action:&#160 B. Hussein Obama, the Manchurian Muslim (yes, Alan K. Henderson, you may steal that one), sweeps this weekend’s Demoscummic primaries in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington State and Maine, overtaking the Duchess Hilarious for the lead in overall Donk delegates.

Reaction:&#160 The Duchess sacks her campaign manager-ita.&#160 (Don’t believe that bullshit about her “stepping down”.&#160 She was canned – most likely with some well-placed anti-beaner invective, y’know?)

(SIDE NOTE:&#160 Yeah, LULAC, I said “beaner”.&#160 Come do something about it if you don’t like it.)

Observation:&#160 You guys don’t suppose Hilarious is getting a little antsy, d’ya?&#160