There really isn’t all that much to say after Crunchie’s excellent post below this one, other than to remind you to read it if you haven’t already. It is all too easy to forget the enormous sacrifices that our Founding Fathers and their fellow patriots made to create this place that far too many of us take for granted.

But it’s important to remember. Because unless the rot of tyranny and socialism, but I repeat myself, is stopped, we may have to do it again. It’s also important to remember because something that is bought so dearly is not for us to carelessly throw away.

For now, however, let us celebrate the birth of the greatest nation that ever existed, our beloved United States of America for whom we would gladly lay down our lives. The last, best hope for mankind, the shining city on a hill, the arsenal of democracy. When last the tide of tyranny rose and snuffed out the light of liberty in most of the world, she was the levee that it could not breach, and from behind that barricade liberty regrouped, mustered its strength and struck back.

If ever we allow tyranny to breach that wall, liberty will be gone from Earth and we will enter a darkness that will make the Dark Ages look like nothing, a nightmare of oppression where the living will envy the dead.

Don’t allow the tyranny over the mind of man, no matter what form it may take, to chip away at that bulwark. Stand firm, fill any holes that may form with your dead if necessary, never retreat, never surrender, for if you do, future generations will look back upon you with hatred and disgust, having thrown away their birthright for a little temporary comfort, and they will be right to do so.

We have been given, as Franklin put it, “a Republic, if you can keep it.”

Let us swear to do so or to die trying.

Others celebrating:

LC & IB Delfts: Happy 4th of July
LC & IB Tiberius (Australia): Happy 4th of July
LC & IB CiSSnarl5.7: July 4th, 2008
LC & IB Kat: Independence Day!

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Thus wrote our Founders 232 years ago in the most revolutionary and radical document ever written by man, consisting of a mere 1,337 words. But what does the flowery rhetoric I emphasized above really mean. Were they just words artfully crafted together, or were they words that bore tragic, predictable consequences for those who signed their names to the document they were contained in? What did they cost the writers?

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NARAL, get under the bus!

In an interview this week with “Relevant,” a Christian magazine, Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain “a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother.”

Obama then added: “Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.”

Thus spake the Obamanation, the same Obamanation who voted against prohibiting the murder of aborted children who stubbornly refused to die after the “procedure.”

“Out, out foul spot! Damn you, you stubborn little clump of cells, DIE ALREADY!”

Of course, this time he was speaking to a Christian magazine and this is the general election, no?

NARAL, on the other hand, aren’t quite as “nuanced”:

The official position of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group that endorsed Obama in May,

“Shut up and get under the bus, bitches…”

…states: “A health exception must also account for the mental health problems that may occur in pregnancy. Severe fetal anomalies, for example, can exact a tremendous emotional toll on a pregnant woman and her family.”

Sorry ’bout that. The Obamessiah has a lot of Lightworking to do, and you suckers just ain’t that important to him anymore. Don’t worry, though. It’ll only hurt a bit and those tread marks will look really good on you.

And you know that you’ll line up and pull the lever in November anyway. Who do you think you’re fooling, little lemmings?

LC Boryon, stuck in what used to be “Great” Britain fighting a rearguard action against the onrush of multi-culti suicide and dhimmification, sends us this link to a great article about some of the unfortunate consequences of the ruling class’s refusal to deal with the very real problem of pisslamification.

It is a source of great concern that far too many otherwise decent British people now refuse to believe that the British National Party is what it is — a bunch of viciously racist and anti-Jewish bigots. The recent debacle in the Henley by-election, where the BNP did better than either the Labour party or UKIP , shows that it is now tapping into a disturbing level of support.

This is for two reasons. First, like all far right parties it opportunistically seizes upon genuine grievances that mainstream politicians will not address. At present these centre around the deliberate erosion of British national identity through unlimited immigration and a refusal to tackle the growing Islamisation of Britain.

Read the whole thing, it is most excellent, and Mrs. Phillips’ analysis is spot on. Hopefully somebody will eventually, finally start paying attention.

Because she’s saying the exact same thing that His Majesty started saying two decades ago, when the multi-culti bullshit started getting out of hand. Granted, he said it in Denmark, but the same analysis applies to Britain or any other country, for that matter: If none of the established parties in Parliament are willing to tackle the very real problem in front of us, then the problem will only get worse. No problem just “goes away” if left completely along.

And eventually the problem will get so much worse that even the most moderate of people, people with a deep and abiding aversion to rocking the boat and people who normally wouldn’t even give a second thought to supporting an extremist party, those people will start looking for parties who WILL do something about the problem, even if those parties, on other issues, aren’t somebody that you’d normally even dream of associating with.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s understandable. Britons are, and have been for decades, seeing their country being transformed into something that has not the slightest resemblance to the country they were born and raised in. They’re rapidly becoming second-class citizens with no rights, they can’t even complain about this without running the risk of being brought up on thoughtcrime charges, and, meanwhile, they’re seeing every last whine, piss and moan from the perpetually outraged mooselimb invaders being promptly addressed, to the detriment of the native population, by a cowering, servile Parliament.

When neither NuLabour or the so-called “conservative” Tories have the nads to stand up and address a problem that HAS to be addressed before everything blows up in their faces, who are people supposed to turn to? Because they WILL turn to somebody. In Britain, this led to the rise of the racist and anti-Semitic BNP, in Denmark the problem was narrowly averted by the formation of a non-extremist party, the Danske Folkeparti, who provided people with a party that WOULD address the problem without any ominous, racist and anti-Semitic undertones. In both cases, the parties stepping up to the plate rapidly became forces to be reckoned with as voters flocked to their banners, relieved at finally seeing SOMEBODY willing to do what had to be done.

As we mentioned, we told people 20 years ago that this sort of thing was bound to happen unless somebody started being realistic and started addressing the issues and nobody believed us. “That could never happen here” was one of the head-in-the-sand “arguments” against it. Well guess what, it did happen.

If the political “establishment” of Great Britain are truly concerned about the rise of the BNP, and they most definitely should be unless they want a party with Nazi sympathies to set the agenda for the future, then they have one and ONLY one option: Quit pretending that there isn’t a problem, quit treating Britons like strangers in their own home country and GET TO WORK.

Because if you DON’T, somebody else WILL.

* Obligatory explanatory note that ought to be self-evident from my writing, but may have been “lost in translation”: I’m not at all suggesting that everybody who joined or voted for the BNP are racists, Nazi sympathizers or anti-Semitic. As a matter of fact, that’s the entire point of my post, that people who aren’t end up having to support parties they are when the alternative is watching all of the other parties utterly bollocksing up the nation by doing nothing. Talk about “lesser of two evils.” The Britons voting for the BNP are concluding, correctly, that they have no choice. Other than sitting idly by, watching the culture and nation that they are rightly proud of destroyed, of course, but that’s not a choice. NuLabour and the Tories have refused to provide them with one, so the blood is on their hands.

…and our friends of the religion of “peace” are handing it out to the citizens of Houston (thanks to LC & IB Rurik).

Some Houston residents are upset after Korans were left on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes in their neighborhood as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam.

And just in time for the 4th of July too. How thoughtful, particularly considering how much of a cast iron bitch it can be to get a good, roaring fire going for roasting the hog.

Does His Majesty have a problem with korans being distributed in this fashion? No, not really, not anymore than he has a problem with phonebooks being distributed in the same fashion. He has no use for either, so he really doesn’t give a good hoot. OK, that’s not entirely true. His Majesty can think of quite a few fun uses for a free koran, but none of them include reading it.

And it’s not entirely true that he hasn’t a problem with the distribution either, but that hasn’t to do with the distribution itself. It has to do with the fact that, were a Christian to do the same in Riyadh, he or she would definitely end up in prison or worse. Tolerance is a two-way street and, as it is, non-mooselimbs can’t even travel the “muslim-only” streets of Shoddy Retardia without getting murdered.

Finally, we have to admit to being a bit baffled about this whole “campaign to educate people about islam” angle. If they want to open people’s minds to islam, the very last thing they want people to do is to actually read that vile tome of irrational, psychotic hatred.

Thatisall.

On so many levels. In the first instance, we need to cut back the Emperor’s amphetamine caffeine intake in order for the rest of Teh Management Team™ to find and actually post something of interest before his Imperial Writing Machine O’ Doom does. In the second, specifically in my case, is the matter of working the midnight shift and adjusting to it’s unpleasant effects on the circadian rhythms of the olde body, but I digress.

Not happy with $4+ per gallon gasoline, our enviro-whacko friends of fuzzy bunnies and Gaia, are merrily trying to raise natural gas and oil prices even more and faster than the beltway-weasels.

Groups seek drilling halt near sage grouse habitat

Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline.

Popular primarily with grouse of the opposite species, but having lived in the high desert for some years they’re hardly high (or ‘popular’) on my personal list of gastronomic delicacies or even good firearms targets. Now if one were to enjoy eating poultry seasoning right out of the jar, perhaps you might enjoy eating the hens, otherwise not so much. Sage brush is 99% of their diet and completely permeates the edible meat on the bird.

Scientists contend sage grouse breeding areas are suffering in the face of accelerating oil and gas exploration in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah and other Western states.[Emph-Mine]

Artistic license and such of course, but how does one measure the suffering of an avian species that has a brain the size of a pea? Of course anyone having an understanding of wild life knows that populations increase, decrease and sometimes become extinct. It’s all part of the real natural cycle of the Big Blue Marble™, but our clue-bereft ‘Friends Of The Urf’, are utterly convinced that man is a parasite in spite of the Book Of Genesis, establishing the hierarchy otherwise.

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Once again, thanks to LC & IB Ace:

According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said.

Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.

Lovell, 71, was the lone customer at the time. Police said he had a concealed weapons permit.

And there was much rejoicing.

Done applauding and doing the Happy Dance yet? Good.

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UPDATE: Stoaty, thanks to Hitch’s article, finally finds a definition of “torture” that is precise enough that His Majesty can fully endorse it. To wit:

Torture is any experience so horrible that no-one would consider trying it out simply for the purpose of writing a Vanity Fair article about what it’s like.

Yep. That works. If it’s harmless enough that somebody would voluntarily subject himself to it in order to write a damn column, then it’s definitely not harmful enough that you’d consider it “torture.” Unless you’re a flaming, screeching dimwit with the IQ of a turnip, that is.

On to the original post:

Christopher Hitchens, that old rascal, decides to undergo the procedure to see what all the hoopla’s about and decides, in his inimitable fashion, that it’s not very pleasant (hat tip The Drawn Cutlass).

But before you go off the deep end about Christopher’s declaration that it is torture, something which His Imperial Vileness almost did himself prior to reading the article, do go read it. It’s actually a very even-handed, fair article about the procedure that covers both sides’ arguments very well, something that isn’t exactly common in today’s MSM. Also, it’s written in Hitch’s particular style which, whether you’re for it or agin’ it, means that you’re in for a fun read.

For the “waterboarding is torture and should be outlawed completely” appears Mr. Malcolm Nance, an individual with quite impressive credentials and not at all a “let’s hug the terrorists until they love us” nincompoop. Rather the opposite, as a matter of fact. But that doesn’t mean that His Majesty necessarily agrees with his arguments:

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And wheeeee, under the bus it goes (hat tip LC & IB Ace):

[Obama advisor Anthony Lake] stressed that Mr Obama, even after withdrawing troops from Iraq over 16 months as he has promised, would maintain “a residual presence for clearly defined missions”. These would include military training, and “preparedness to go back in if there are specific acts of genocidal violence”.

…

Highlighting a parallel with his first posting as assistant to Henry Cabot Lodge, a US ambassador in 1960s Saigon, he said: “It is common sense that we could not leave Vietnam successfully unless we left behind a government in Saigon that could govern successfully.

“It seems obvious in retrospect; it was not obvious enough to too many politicians at the time. In Iraq it’s the same problem.”

So not only has his “immediate withdrawal” become a 16-month process, the “complete withdrawal” has become a “residual presence” in case, among other things, we have to “go back in there” in cases of genocidal violence.

Oh, and we can’t leave Iraq at all unless we’re sure that the government we leave behind is capable of governing successfully.

What a difference a transition from primaries to general election make, no?

The Obambi Campaign Bus of Doom™ claims another victim.

It’s a perfectly legitimate, respectable and honorable answer, you know.

Which is what this Clueless Cow should’ve done when she decided, after having agreed to sing the National Anthem, decided on her own that she’d rather sing something else (hat tip LC MuscleDaddy):

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At the start of the event Tuesday morning, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.

Instead, she performed the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which is also known as the “black national anthem.”

When she finished, the audience responded with mild applause. The national anthem was never performed.

Listen, you bovine buttwipe, when you agree to perform a given task, you perform the given task as agreed to, no ifs, buts or maybes about it. If you can’t find it in yourself to do that, then you reply “no, I’d rather not”, and that’s the end of it. If you wanted so badly to sing that other song which, by the way, is a beautiful song (lyrics are in the link), then you could’ve asked if you could sing that one as well. Doing what you did is a breach of contract, a betrayal of trust and a fucking insult to our National Anthem in that you obviously value that one less than your personal, agenda-driven preference.

Public floggings are in order. So let it be written, so let it be done.

Marie told 9NEWS she kept her plans to switch songs quiet until the very last moment. She says only she, her husband and a friend knew she was going to sing something other than the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

Add “willful deceit” to the list of charges. As well as an extra round of floggings to he punishment.

She says she wanted to express her love of her country by mixing the lyrics of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” with the melody of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

“When I decided to sing my version, what was going on in my head was: ‘I want to express how I feel about living in the United States, as a black woman, as a black person,’” said Marie.

Here’s a hint: You weren’t asked to “express” your race-baiting, drooling idiocy, you were asked to sing the National Anthem, which you agreed to do, period. And you wanted to “express your love of your country” by insulting its Anthem? That’s some mightily strange “love”, right there.

Hickenlooper’s staff picked Marie to sing the national anthem. The mayor says he believes Marie did not intend to offend anyone or make a political statement.

In which case the mayor, provided that he actually believes the bullshit he’s saying himself, is a bloody retard and any statement of his should be considered in that light.

We yield the floor to the Imperial Firearms Advisor, who, as is so often the case, says it better than we could:

Let’s say that a White singer like, oh, Reba McIntyre was asked to sing the national anthem in, say, Cleveland, and responded by singing “Dixie” instead.

Think she’d only get a small mention on page 57 in the national Press?

Exactly.

Thatisall.

…therefore we should ban them!

No, really, that IS what some newsclown from a news agency that shall remain name- and linkless is saying (hat tip LC NevadaDailySteve):

ATLANTA — The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens’ ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.

Suicides accounted for about 55 percent of the nation’s nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wonderful. That means that in 17,000 cases of death by firearm, the deceased actually meant to assume room temperature and did so by his own hand. That leaves us with only 14,000 deaths caused by “others”, 99% of which can be attributed to either criminals (who wouldn’t obey a gun ban anyway) using them to kill innocents (Bad Thing) or each other (Who Gives a Fuck?), not to mention law-abiding citizens using firearms to bump off criminals (Who Gives a Fuck Times Ten + Can I Buy That Man a Beer?).

We fail to see the problem here, but we’re sure that the clown is about to “enlighten” our mind with massive amounts of emoting idiocy.

By the way, we should have mentioned the headline for the article, which was a REAL doozy of Idiotarianism On Parade™:

Gun owners more often kill themselves than others

The HORROR! Because it would obviously be so much better if they were killing other people! Does anybody, anybody at ALL with the vaunted MSM even bother to read their own headlines before they hit “Publish?”

There was nothing unique about that year. Gun-related suicides have outnumbered firearm homicides and accidents for 20 of the past 25 years.

Which begs the question: Why in the name of Lucifer’s jockstrap are you bringing it up now?

Public-health researchers have concluded that in homes where guns are present, the likelihood that someone in the home will die from suicide or homicide is much greater.

Just the merest presence of a firearm practically commands you to kill yourself or others with it. Or maybe the gun just did it on its own. They’re Evil, don’t you know? Here’s a hint: Of COURSE it’s bloody unlikely that somebody kills himself with a gun if he doesn’t have one. D’uh, you mouthbreathing morons. What immediately becomes much more likely is that he, if attacked by an armed goblin who doesn’t give a shit about gun bans, ends up as a victim of a homicide. Also, what doesn’t become less likely is him killing himself. If he’s likely to commit suicide, any implement handy will do.

Studies have also shown that homes in which a suicide occurred were three to five times as likely to have a gun present as households that did not experience a suicide, even after accounting for other risk factors.

We’ve concluded that guns are often used in suicides, most likely because they’re quite efficient and relatively painless unless you’re a really poor shot. We’ve also found that, wonder of wonders, suicides with guns tend to not happen in houses without guns. Still trying to wrap our mind around that enigma. Why would the absence of a gun lead to people not using it? The mind boggles.

From this, then you conclude that houses with suicides are more likely to have a gun present. Well, dumbfuck, if the majority of suicides are committed with guns, what in the name of Bob would you expect?

Next: Now that guns are banned from legal ownership, it is found that households in which a suicide has occurred are three to five times more likely to have Tylenol or sleeping medicine in the medicine cabinet. Ban them! And ropes! And knives! And garages, particularly if there are cars in them. Ban the garden hoses too!

Can I have fries with my serving of Stupid™? And an Xtra Large drink, please, because I’m having trouble making the crap go down without gagging.

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We really need to look into landing one of those gigs for ourself where you get paid to ask inane questions, gather the answers and draw ridiculous conclusions from them. We’re talking about the yearly “happiest nation in the world” bullshit, which we feel strangely compelled to speak about now that both LC RR and Sir Chris have been kind enough to alert us to the results. Results that, as far as we can recall, always come up with the same answer:

Danes are the happiest people in the world.

Researchers have asked the same two questions over the years: “Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?” And, “All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?”

And therein lies the answer. Before any deluded lefties pipe up and take this as evidence that the socialist workers’ paradise that is Denmark is succeeding admirably (in spite of, we hasten to add, that the government has become decidedly less socialist over the last decade or so, mainly because the previous socialist bastards were soundly trounced and kicked out the door), we shall, as a public service, explain to you exactly why it is that Danes consistently end up ranked as among the happiest in the world. We can reveal this closely held secret to you because we happen to have been born and raised as a member of that happy population:

It’s because of the core philosophy of Danes, which is that “things could always be worse.”

There. That’s all there is to it. The car may be broken down, the roof may be leaking and the kids may be sick, but it could always be worse. There could be a family of feral weasels moving into your basement, after all. Is that scratching I hear from the floorboards? Well, it could still be worse. There could be a meteor headed for the city in which I live.

The first corollary is that, since things could always be worse, and indeed they always can, then things are indeed going smoothly. After all, they aren’t worse, are they? Not yet, anyway, in which case we’ll just move the bar down further. No worries. Say, is the national soccer team playing tonight? Did you remember to buy the beers? You bought Carlsberg??? Oh well, it could be worse. They could be non-alcoholic beers.

See how that works? Add to that that no self-respecting Dane would ever tell an eggheaded complete and utter stranger with a notepad that he was unhappy, after all what bloody business of his is that?, not to mention that it’s not likely to make things better, at “best” it’ll make the twat feel sorry for you, which is just about the most icky, sticky and gooey feeling that you’ll ever know, and you’ll just smile and say “sure, I’m happy as can be”, then walk away wondering how on Earth anybody manages to find anybody daft enough to pay somebody else to go around asking people those questions.

But hey, it could be worse. You could be the one being forced to pay for it.

It becomes more and more painfully obvious that there is only one set of balls left in formerly “Great” Britain, and that the owner is on an extended vacation of unknown duration in an undisclosed location:

Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman’s hat

A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman’s hat advertising a Scottish police force’s new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.

…The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert.

…A spokesman for Tayside Police said…’We did not seek advice from the force’s diversity adviser prior to publishing and distributing the postcards. That was an oversight and we apologise for any offence caused.’

There is precious little we can add to what the Imperial Blogsis has to say about that in the post linked to, so go read it. We do, however, have to quote this particular nugget from her wholly justified tirade at the emasculated pansies who have somehow managed to displace the once proud people who produced Winston Churchill:

Dear Britain: the more you apologize for stupid shit like this, the more you will be apologizing in the future for ever more innocuous “offenses.”

What she said. Either the Brits have devolved to a stage where they’re A) so sissified that they piss themselves at the sight of their own shadows, B) masochistically infatuated with being abused, C) just plain dumbfuckedly stupid or D) all of the above.

We’d laugh our Imperial arse off if it wasn’t for the fact that watching what used to be a bulwark of civilization presiding over an empire upon which the sun never set begging and crawling and lashing themselves at the feet of a bunch of howling barbarian savages who are still hopelessly mired in the 7th century IS quite the sad spectacle.

Instead, we shall put up the “offending” advertisement in the fond hopes that we’ll offend the simians some more:

And we, too, shall quote Kathy Shaidle:

If your religion thinks dogs are unclean, your religion is fucking retarded.

With our sincere and warranted apologies to actual retards, of course.

And, again, NOT in EUnuchistan where the socialist rot has set in with such force that it’s not the exception anymore, but rather the rule. No, it’s right here in these United States of America. More specifically, in Nanny Bloomberg’s Great Socialist Commune of NYC.

A 49-year-old lady keels over in the waiting room of a City run “hospital”, goes into convulsions right in front of staff and other people waiting who all studiously ignore her, and then she dies.

45 minutes later, the staff finally decides that maybe they should at least get the corpse off the floor before it starts attracting flies. Video from the surveillance camera at the link above.

They must have been on their union coffee break, obviously.

Oh such wonders await the morons of this nation who never once listened to those of us, having lived and worked in actual socialized “health”care for decades, who told you EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if you kept pursuing your subretarded, idealistic dreams of a Utopia with “free” healthcare.

Y’all go out and vote for another Democrat Communist now, y’hear?

Our only consolation shall be found in laughing at you dimwitted fucks when you get what you asked for, good and hard.

Thatisall.

Now hear ye, now hear ye:

Due to changing life circumstances, (nothing bad, just the usual stuff associated with life), the Imperial Rottie Night has moved, effective immediately, from Tuesdays to Mondays.

We do apologize, but there was a last minute change of plans in Jackboot’s work schedule, which prevented us from following our original plan, which would have moved us to Thursdays, this Thursday next being the first. But it was not to be, so next Monday will be the next Radio Rottie Night instead.

Best laid plans of mice and men, and all that jazz…

We now proceed with the regularly scheduled inanities…

Thatisall.