A new prayer in Venezuela.

H/T Melek

Not seen for months, he's back, armed with a balloon and a machete!

Tío Chano Vs. Cinesotupotus by Joe Lima

Marco Rubio will be a guest on today's Ed Morrisey show at 3 PM. You can listen and participate, right here.

In essence, that's what supporters of lifting the Cuba travel ban think the limitations on freedoms and rights violations of the Cuban people is: Background Noise.

Because it's all about the rights of Americans to travel and who gives a rats ass about that same right being afforded to the Cuban people.

The last line of the linked article, from Senator Byron Dorgan, a Democrat who sponsored the lift the travel ban bill, is truly a classic in Congressional cluelessness:

Do you think there will be a ghost of a chance of saying we are going to now restrict the right of the American people to travel to China?

Gee, I dont know, Senator. Tell me, how is that human rights thing working out in China?

Photo via Samizdata.

Felony snowball throwing:

Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops in Harrisonburg, where they attend James Madison University. According to police, the pair first targeted a city plow last Saturday afternoon. The driver responded by calling cops to report the frosty fusillade.

A guest post at Yoani's byline at Huffington Post, written by Cuban blogger Luis Felipe Rojas of Crossing the Barbed Wire, on political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo:

But ... who is Zapata? Why has he been subjected to such torture? Why should his punishment be so long?

Zapata Tamayo is a black Cuban and a front-line opponent of the Castro dictatorship -- clear enough reasons for him to be punished. He is a member of the illegal Alternative Republican Movement whose work focused on taking to the streets and explaining person-to-person about the atrocities of the Cuban military regime against its people. But for the Cuban government, all black people, supposedly, ought to pay homage to Fidel Castro, "the liberator of the black race, and the good master who came to free us blacks." And that was exactly the lesson that Zapata did not want to accept.

Read the whole thing.

As you know, Marco Rubio will be making the opening keynote address this year at CPAC and, thanks to you all, I will be traveling up to DC next Wednesday night to cover this historic event. (If you haven't had a chance to donate to help me defray the costs, you can do so right here.)

I will also have a few minutes with Marco for a short Q&A while at the convention and since you all are the trip sponsors, who better to ask the questions?

So, what do you want to know?

Boy, those Socialist Venezuelan Air Force Generals sure do know how to...um...fly.

I might still be a bit hungover for the Superbowl so fill me in on what's happening.

Peyton Manning Voodoo doll gets the treatment Sahhh-dy night in a New Orleans French Kwa-dah Hotel!

I give you the Football "Experts":

“It’s hard to go against Peyton Manning. He will do just about whatever he has to do to win the football game. He’s the best.” Jack Nicklaus

“Indianapolis, 27-20. Peyton Manning will be the difference. The Saints won’t be able to stop him.” Bill O’Reilly

" Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts opened as a four-point favorite to beat New Orleans in the Super Bowl. Oddsmaker Sean Van Patten of Las Vegas Sports Consultants said the firm gave that line after watching New Orleans struggle to beat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC championship game Sunday night. "

Even better, the ENTIRE retinue of ESPN "Experts" sang the same Colts tune.

So I again I give you the prediction from hopeless intransigents:

Amigos, I've attended 46 Mardi Gras'--But DAT was nothing compared to DIS!!!! We were in the very 'freakin epicenter of this stuff!!..we've been in the French Kwa-dah since Friday night!!

ABSOLUTELY UN-'FREAKIN REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember that Marco Rubio needs your help raising money as we approach the anniversary of the famous hug. Here's Good Time Charlie trying claim he wasn't in favor of the president's "stimulus" package which all conservatives called "porkulus" at the time and that now Charlie calls "the darn thing".

No Charlie, you didn't have a vote on the darn thing but you used your popularity at the time to try to sway Florida's GOP congressional delegation to vote FOR it. NOT A SINGLE ONE LISTENED TO YOUR ADVICE. You are out of synch with conservatives Charlie. And in Florida in 2010 that's not a good thing to be.

Donations gladly accepted at Stimulusbomb.com

I know saving gas is a good thing, and really, I'm sorry for all the Toyota owners. That said,  I hope I never get stuck in traffic behind one of these commie pod cars again. Oh, and I just love trying to get around them when they are going 40 in the fast lane.

Flickr photo by lil 1/2 pint.

Now if we could only recall the one on the stickers.

The day after The Bowl. It's 5 A.M. out here on the left coast; I can hear the Man Camp crickets chirping, and the distant groans...

What's your favorite morning-after cure?

The progressives are hittin' one homerun after another, aren't they?

In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy.

Heh heh heh.

Come on, give us your take.

The person that comes closest to the actual final score gets a couple of excellent Cuban Crafters Cigars.

I'm rooting for the Dolphins.

When (real) leaders roamed the Earth...

VICTORY Lunacy!

We're also INTRANSIGENT and serious HARD-LINERS on who's gonna WIN the Supper Bowl! !

VICTORY Pajama Party!-!..

VICTORY Dinner party!!