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Christian Toto brings us a round-up of a bunch of revolting posts at The Huffington Post, all dripping with moral outrage over the arrest of the loathsome Roman Polanski:

The Huffington Post has made it crystal clear where it stands on the news that director Roman Polanski may have to answer for his 31-year-old crime of child rape: “Move on, everyone. Nothing to see here. Keep on directing, Roman. Love ya!”

The popular liberal site has posted numerous essays since news that Polanski was arrested in Switzerland broke over the weekend, each arguing vehemently against the Oscar winner’s persecution.

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But HuffPo readers aren’t buying it. And boy, are they angry.

Follow the links in that article, and browse the comments threads.

I was stopped in my tracks by this repulsive statement from Huffpo contributor William Bradley:

This is preposterous.

Polanski has already suffered greatly by not being allowed to work in Hollywood for decades.

My heart bleeds.

Dave at Israellycool brings us news of more rocket attacks against Israel by those lovely, peace-seeking “Palestinians”.

Quick, let’s give these people a state!

The average conspiracy theorist will argue with NASA, Nobel-prize winners and every expert in the world despite having fewer qualifications than the average fry cook.

Conspiracy theorists view logical argument as cheating.

Like pissing fetishes and tentacle rape comics, conspiracy theories are a problem made much worse by the Internet.

That’s from Cracked.com’s brilliant page on conspiracy theories.

That is the only possible way to describe the nanny-state mentality that would result in this:

A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors’ children.

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The Department of Human Services received a complaint that Snyder was operating an illegal child care home. DHS contacted Snyder and told her to get licensed, stop watching her neighbors’ kids, or face the consequences.

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A DHS spokesperson would not comment on the specifics of the case but says they have no choice but to comply with state law, which is designed to protect Michigan children.

If you’re a person who finds this kind of nanny state madness acceptable, then please do us all a favour and kill yourself. Then you really would be doing something worthwhile ‘for the children’.

(Via Balko)

Had a good hunt today at 1st Choice Liquor….

I decided to begin my Scotch self-education with a proper Islay peaty malt, which I think is pronounced “Brook laddy”.

The beer in the picture is Cascade First Harvest. A remarkable and very ‘hoppy’ limited edition beer that is brewed on only one day every year. Is has a beautiful deep reddish-brown colour in my beer goblet, and contains a sharp yet refreshing finish on the palate.

If you can find any of this beer at your local bottle-o, I heartily recommend it. Be quick about it though, because there isn’t much of it around.

Let me remind you, around the world folks, do not assume a Scots person knows all about whisky. A Scots person knows all about vodka….and getting blitzed at the weekend, and there are relatively few who do know about whisky in any sort of depth, so be warned.

I’m not much of a scotch drinker, but for the last few days I’ve been glued to the Youtube channel of a gent who calls himself Ralfy.

There’s nothing much to most of them: a pudgy, middle-aged Scotsman with a dry wit and some low-key charm sits at his dining table talking about whatever particular whisky-topic he feels like talking about. Many are straight reviews, but he also has videos examining whisky glasses, water in whisky, cigars with whisky and even the occassional review of non-whisky drinks.

While an enthusiast for fine whisky, he is no snob, and has presented non-condescending reviews of supermarket and budget whiskys.

Shows what you can achieve with a video camera and a zero budget when you have charm, humour and a genuine love for the topic.

Now, I’m off to look for some Kilchoman…

It’s all over people!!

Loved the multi-coloured fonts and eye-bruising highlighting.

How fucking batshit insane do you have to be to actually believe this shit?

…for this website.

Haven’t felt like saying much about anything. However, if you’re in Oz, get ready for some full-on Islamist propaganda on Sunday night, courtesy of the mouth-breathing retards at 60 Minutes:

It was near the top of Barack Obama’s “to-do” list. On day one in the White House, the first overseas call he made was to the Middle East, trying to get the Arab and Israeli leaders talking again.

Why the rush? Well, hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers are moving into the West Bank, building new towns on Palestinian land. And if there’s ever going to peace in the Middle East, this is one problem that has to be fixed.

The settlers will have to move out.

But try telling them that. They’re obstinate and refuse to budge. And, as Liam Bartlett discovered first hand, when they’re cornered, they fight back with teargas and guns.

Gosh. Sounds awful. If only they’d move out, then Hamas and Fatah will start showering Jews with flowers and chocolate. Just like they did when the Israeli settlers moved out of Gaza.

Fucking idiot.

The UK Telegraph does some lovely author-bashing.

Wish someone would do the same with Matthew Reilly. Unfortunately, that would mean some poor soul would have to read his books.

(via Clive)

In the last three hours alone, I have received 56 e-mails from 9/11 truther nutjob Jake McCrann.

Reading his frenzied ravings is like watching someone using a blender inside their own head. It’s quite astounding in a scientific way.

This time Jake McCrann is demanding I stop using his name on this website. He doesn’t want to see ‘Jake McCrann’ appear here ever again. So I suppose I should stop typing ‘Jake McCrann’.

The penalty if I don’t comply? Well, apart from sending his armies around to world to exterminate Jews, he’s gonna send death threats to Jews and Muslims using my name and URL. Then the Mossad and Al Qaeda will come and murder me in revenge.

Of course, being the tactical genius that he is, he’s effectively provided dozens of e-mails as proof that he’s the one behind all the future threatening e-mails.

For a bloke who claims to have a “152 IQ”, Jake does seem a little thick.

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UPDATE: I got another 19 e-mails after posting this, plus seven comments he tried to leave under another name.