Beware the Boys’ Room (Updated)

In case you hadn’t heard, the GOP’s chances of winning in 2008 just got a little harder. Michelle Malkin, Taranto and Dean Barnett have more.

Aside from the gross-out value of the story, it’s real importance is that it’s burying what might be a real scandal involving Hillary’s fundraising.

UPDATED on 8/29/07 at 5:30pm: Ace questions the timing™ :

This is an awful lot like the Mark Foley scandal. The story had been out there for years but, conveniently enough, it was only pushed into the MSM before an election.

In this case, the arrest report wasn’t leaked earlier when it would have given an Idaho GOP challenger time to suddenly whip up the makings of an insurgent campaign. Instead, it comes far too late for that, making it almost certain Craig will prevail in the primary for lack of a real challenger and then be defeated by a Democratic candidate.

How do these lucky breaks keep accruing to the Democrats?

He also wonders about the flood-the-zone coverage a senate back-bencher that no one outside of Idaho had ever heard of before the weekend is getting, compared to the non-interest in Hillary’s brewing fundraising scandal. Funny how that works.

Oh yeah, and I corrected an error in a second panel word balloon.

Strippers of the World, Unite

As much of the blogosphere noted over the weekend, celebrated comic stripper Berkeley Breathed — he of Bloom County and Opus fame — had his work spiked by the Washington Post and other newspapers. Why? Because he decided to skewer radical Islam. And why might our courageous MSM be reluctant to print anything satirizing the Religion of Peace? As Captain Ed notes:

because radical Islamists react with violence rather than rational objections. And the newspapers, in all their collective courage, can’t find it within themselves to let a satirist do his work where it is most needed.

(The blasphemous strip in question can be seen here, by the way.) Worth pointing out is that other cartoonists — most notably Cox & Forkum — have been stating the obvious for years, but with much less fanfare than Breathed’s recent run-in with the thought police. Some C&F samples relating to cartoons and western media cowardice are here, here, here and here.

Still, as a stand against censorship, we here at Right Ringtail would like to remind readers they can view all kinds of offensive cartoons about Islam simply by clicking the Religion of Peace button under “Categories”.

Go ahead. Indulge your inner infidel.

UPDATED on 8/28/07 at 7:25am: DrewM over at AoSHQ has a follow up on Opus, the flightless fowl of blasphemy. FOX News also has a story on why the strip got spiked. Hint: it has something to do with our new, unofficial state religion.

Interestingly, it looks like the strip is actually up on the Washington Post’s website (h/t Media Blog) . Maybe their thinking is that radical Islamists can’t use the Internet but might get their hands on a hard copy. Which kind of begs a question about their readership.

The Mask of Sanity

A bit more seriously after the jump…

Fun with Physics!

Well, this is disgusting:

A Camden woman was arrested for allegedly videotaping a 16-year-old boy while he engaged in unlawful sexual contact with a 6-year-old girl, police said.

Rebecca S. Hoffmann, 38, of Camden was arrested Wednesday after Delaware State Police recovered a VHS tape that showed the boy engaging in the unlawful sexual contact. Police said that Hoffman was operating the camera during the incident.

Given the physics involved, were this cow to be hanged, it would probably result in decapitation. Such an outcome does not strike me as a bad thing.

The Mexican Post

Sometimes, there’s just too much news out there to do strips on. So I thought it might be fun to allow the critters do straight blog posts from time-to-time in a segment we’ll call –

Hola, McRingtail here. This article made me want to mine the border today. (Background here.)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year.

The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States.

What, no good schools south of the border?

“We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,” Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.

He accused the United States of violating international deportation accords by denying her access to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.

I found this story fascinating for two reasons. First, who knew that Mexico had a senate? I thought they were a dictatorship ruled by whichever Telemundo actor was voted hairiest.

Safe, Legal and Rare

Background info courtesy of Red State.