The Dark Knight Rises, WBC hits new low

James Holmes is a fucking lunatic.  He murdered 12 people and injured many more, all because they wanted to see the latest Batman movie... and he took the trouble to boobytrap his apartment with explosives in the hopes that he could also kill some of the police.  He's so out of his mind he thinks that the Joker's hair is supposed to be red, not green.  (It's easy to see how someone as crazy as him might be involved with OWS, but let's not go spreading around photoshops and bad info... all that does is make conservatives look bad.)

He's so batshit insane that he has the Westboro Baptist Church solidly in his corner... that's pretty bad.  They say he was sent by God to shoot all those people, so they plan to protest at all the victims' funerals.  Wow, I never knew that God hated Batman so much.

I'm really glad that the "Batman Killer" moniker doesn't seem to be catching on.  Apart from the horrendous movies that Joel Schumacher made, I've always been a huge fan of all things Batman... I've especially enjoyed the first two movies in this rebooted Batman trilogy, and I really look forward to seeing the third.  Red Letter Media gave a pretty positive review of The Dark Knight Rises:

RIP Andrew Breitbart

I didn't know Andrew Breitbart, but I certainly knew of him... it seemed like whenever the vile nature of the radical left was being exposed, he was always standing right there in the middle of it with a big smile on his face.

I was very sad to learn that Andrew passed away the other day.  His death came as quite a shock.  Much less shocking, unfortunately, was the left's disgusting reaction to it... twitter exploded into an orgy of vitriolic hatred, with some of Andrew's friends retweeting the hateful messages being left for him, as he surely would have done himself if he were still here.  How appropriate that, in death, as he did in life, he still manages to sucker so many of those despicable creeps into showing us what kind of monsters they really are.

Here's a tribute to Andrew from his friends at Red Eye:

Adam Carolla on OWS

Frank Miller not a fan of OWS

Frank Miller is probably best known for his work as a graphic novelist and as a director, but he's also something of a curmudgeon.  Here's his unflattering take on OWS:

The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

(found via @jtLOL)

Oy, gevalt!

Writing at Yid With Lid, Jeff Dunetz has this to say about Occupy Boston's attempted takeover of the Israeli Consulate this weekend:

The attempted attack on the consulate should be a big surprise to people who read the mainstream media because they have been reporting the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic incidents coming from the Occupy protests were the product of a few lone-wolf nuts. This particular Anti-Israel event wasn't a fringe group or a lone nut, it was an officially sanctioned Occupy Boston event.

Thankfully they didn't get into the consulate - only the building's lobby, but even if they got to the embassy there would have been no one there because these Occupy "friends of the Jewish Community," forgot that Consulates of the Jewish State are closed on the Jewish Sabbath.

(found via Right Truth)

Matt Welch urges Salon to grow up a little

Matt Welch doesn't sound too impressed with Salon's New Declaration of Independence:

I don't recall anything like the promises so cruelly unkept in Salon's list. I do remember my father warning me that an engineering degree would be much more useful in the workplace than English, to which I uttered a phrase available to 18-year-olds everywhere: Thanks, Dad; not your call. Ditto for the legions of well-meaning adults urging me to finish my undergraduate degree, to sign up for the Selective Service, and even (when I finally attained a decent living in the second half of my 30s) to pay a mortgage instead of paying rent. One of the best perks about being a grown-up is that you get to make your own choices, and to own the results, good and ill.

Which is why phrases like "wage slaves," "inescapable debt," and "force" "force" "force" leave me feeling like a brother from another planet. Adult human beings have agency, the ability (even responsibility!) to run their own cost/benefit analyses and choose accordingly. You could go to a state school (or community college) instead of an over-inflated prestige mill. You could pay for a 10-year-old car in cash, instead of a new one on installments. You could try to make it in Minneapolis before living the dream in Williamsburg. You could stare into the face of a no-money-down, adjustable rate 30-year mortgage at the tail end of a housing-price run-up and conclude "Maybe that one's not for me." You could even choose to turn down a bad if high-paying job when you're living below the poverty line. If we indeed live in a "candid world," let us state bluntly that offloading 100% of the blame for your own mountain of debt on a group of Greedy McBanksters who "forced" you to "play by the rules" is more than a little pathetic.

(found via Insty)

The Walking Dead

Man, Ace's commenters are really hating on The Walking Dead... the show has had its ups and downs, but I think overall it's been pretty good, and I really enjoyed last night's episode.  I think my favorite part was the guy they found who had tried to hang himself but just ended up as a zombie dangling there flailing about for who knows how long... and all the flesh from his legs had already been eaten away by other zombies before they found him, it was pretty nasty.

My favorite comment over there so far was this gem posted by AmishDude:

Zombies are a metaphor for communism / liberalism / socialism

Every time you think you have it dead & buried, it comes back as another group of unthinking, resource killing evil that tries to kill everything that is good and living

They have no memory of the past or of prior failures.

But if #OWS has taught me one thing, it's that the Zombie Apocalypse will have rape. Lots and lots of rape.

Heh.

Running the numbers on OWS

Using some of Nate Silver's crowd size estimates as a starting point, Eric over at Classical Values got out his calculator and crunched a few numbers of his own:

OK, so there are about 15,000 in New York (all of whom cannot fit into Zuccotti park), but let’s be liberal go with the highest possible figure of 100,000 protesters.

What is that in terms of percent? The United States population is 312,441,000, so Occupy Wall Street is less than a third of one percent.

0.032006042740869475, to be exact.

Their claim of 99% seems either a bit high or a bit arrogant. Or both.

If these filthy OWS hippies really represented 99% of the country then you'd think they could manage to gather more people together than the Tea Party movement could, right?  By most accounts, there were well over 100,000 people just at the Restoring Honor rally alone.  And that was just one event... I'm sure if you added up the numbers for all the tea party events it would really put the OWS numbers to shame.  Yet the media constantly fawns over the OWS protests and denigrates the Tea Party.

Update:  Eric updated his post to point out that 0.032006042740869475 percent is actually less than one thirtieth of one percent, not just less than one third of one percent.

Holy Crap

What the hell is this?

Is the horrible screeching thing in this video a man or a woman?  I really can't tell.