Barack Halloween Pic?

I don't know for sure. I have trouble recognizing his mom with her clothes on. (NSFW)


Safe link here.

Happy Hallowe'en

Pumpkin Carving...With a Glock

Rest assured this is not how they carve up the pumpkins at Democratic fundraisers. They probably use knives.

Pansies!



Gotta hand it to the guy - that is one nasty scowl.

But I've seen scarier.

Via Viral Footage. Cross-posted here.

Trick Or Treat?!?

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Russia to ban Valentine's Day to 'save' youth
Russia has announced plans to ban foreign toys and Valentine’s Day in a bid to protect the country’s youth from moral corruption by the West.

Despite accusations of censorship and nationalism, the Russian Duma this week introduced a series of bills designed to uphold the spiritual values of children by protecting their morals.

The legislation envisages a ban on the sale of children’s toys that “provoke aggression”, “model actions of a sexual nature”, “justify extremism and a criminal lifestyle”, “depict horror or unbearable pain” or are created “on the basis of the psychologically incongruous”.

Under the new law, schools would also be forbidden from celebrating Halloween and St Valentine’s Day because they were inappropriate to ‘Russian cultural values.'

All school children would also be subject to a 10pm curfew, while minors would be banned from wearing tattoos and body-piercing. Mobile phone providers are to be instructed to block text messages sent by children than contain obscenities.

The authors of the policy paper, which has yet to be debated, were unable to provide a full list of the products to be sanctioned, but said that most came from the West.

Giving examples of the kind of merchandise that would be targeted, Yevgeny Yuryev, a sociologist who co-ordinated the draft legislation, identified a range of British made soft toys called the Bad Taste Bears.

“I can’t even describe what these bears do but they involve things of a sexual nature that might be traumatic for children,” he said.

Alongside a range of violent and criminal teddy bears, the company’s website advertises a line of “pornstar bears” featuring a character called Kenny Lingus and his friends.

While some of the legislation’s proposals have been welcomed by child welfare specialists, it has also been criticised as too draconian and anti-western in tone.

“For all of its positive moments, there are serious errors,” Galina Semya, a member of the Ministry of Education’s council, was quoted as saying in the Kommersant newspaper.

“For example, everything borrowed from the West is condemned — the good and the bad.”

Teenagers who model themselves on Western youth subcultures like Goths — who are accused of “cultivating bisexuality” — are to be regarded by the authorities as social nuisances in the same league as skinheads, football hooligans anti-fascists.

Heh. Just wait until we send you the Teletubbies. Tinky Winky rocks, dude.

The authors of the legislation, which mirrors other government measures to promote Russian nationalism, say urgent action is required to end a moral crisis inspired by the West that has seen a dramatic rise in alcoholism and addiction among teenagers.

“Today we have a lost generation of wandering morons whose parents’ moral vision was robbed by perestroika,” said Stanislav Govorukhin, a Duma deputy.

Not that the obvious reversion to Soviet governance and its deadend has anything to do with it.

“We have taken the worst from the West because we failed to resist the encroachment of Western values.” He denied accusations by liberal activists that the new laws represented an attack on freedom of expression.

“The essence of freedom is that there should be moral restrictions — that is what freedom is,” he said.

Social nuisances such as ... anti-fascists. As we find in an excellent Wikipedia entry, "Fascism is typified by totalitarian attempts to impose state control over all aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic, by way of a strong, single-party government for enacting laws and a strong, sometimes brutal militia or police force for enforcing them. Fascism exalts the nation, state, or group of people as superior to the individuals composing it. Fascism uses explicit populist rhetoric; calls for a heroic mass effort to restore past greatness; and demands loyalty to a single leader, leading to a cult of personality and unquestioned obedience to orders (Führerprinzip). Fascism is also considered to be a form of collectivism."

Couple that with some classic paranoia and you've arrived at the Paradise of Vladimir Paranoid.


Via The Telegraph

Due to Rampant Violence, City of Peace and Love Cancels Halloween Bash

Maybe if these violent liberals just cleaned up their act and behaved like civilized human beings, everyone could enjoy Halloween.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City officials want the hundreds of thousands of people who usually flock to an annual Halloween street party here to stay home or go elsewhere after several episodes of violence in recent years.

Officials have advised would-be revelers through fliers, public service announcements and juvenile probation officers that they won't find many treats in the Castro District, home in past years to the largest Halloween happening in the San Francisco Bay area.

What they will find are hundreds of extra police officers, shuttered restaurants, stepped up sobriety checks and no bus or train service after 8:30 p.m.

"This is really a public safety decision," said Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who represents the Castro and spent the better part of a year trying to arrange an alternative city-sanctioned gathering. "I'm disappointed my message is one of, 'Please don't come.'"

The festivities started decades ago as a homegrown celebration for San Francisco's gay and lesbian community, but has drawn a scarier element in recent years. In 2002, five people were stabbed. Three years ago, someone wandered the crowds wielding a chain saw.

Liberalism: A failure wherever it's tried.

Of course, I'm sure the vile Folsom Street Fair will always go on.

Happy Halloween: Minorities Hardest Hit

Good grief. Is there anything the media won't put a damper on?

Obviously, children and parents shold take precautions when venturing out on Halloween, but trying to make this into a race issue is just ridiculous.

Maybe we should just ban Halloween altogether so nobody is offended.

Minorities less likely to trick or treat

WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.

The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat.

That disparity in the survey is similar to the difference in how people view the safety of their neighborhoods, according to the poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. Lower-income people and minorities are more likely to worry that it might not be safe to send their children out on Halloween night.

Here's a novel suggestion: How about escorting the kids?

Overall, 86 percent of those questioned in the survey said their neighborhoods are safe for trick-or-treating. Ninety-one percent of whites, compared with 75 percent of minorities, said they felt their kids would be secure when they went out seeking candy in their area.

Similarly, 93 percent of people earning $50,000 or more said their communities are safe for trick-or-treating, compared with 76 percent of those making less than $25,000.

Then there are those who are simply offended by Halloween.

Of those adults whose children will not trick-or-treat this year, one-quarter cited safety worries and about one-half said they do not celebrate Halloween.

"It's demonic," said Donna Stitt, 37, a nursing aide from Barto, Pa., with four young children. "People are celebrating the dead. I'm not into that."