Blurts

The old 'no teleprompter' Freudian slip.

“ Obama, speaking with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Sunday ... asked Obama why so many people were uncertain about something so fundamental as his faith. “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters. [Obama blasts lies, disinformation] ” The question of whether Obama's  a Moslem, or not, has nothing to do with a birth certificate.  So, what's on your mind Mr. Hussein Obama? George Stephanopoulos, of course, would have bailed him out with, "You mean Baptismal certificate, right? Too bad,  Williams is without benefit of experience with the Clintons all those years, and was just not up to the job. That's my guess.

Ryan v RINOs

GOP flinching at budget spending cuts plan The enemy within

“T he fact that [Rep. Paul D. Ryan's 'Roadmap for America's Future' ] only has 13 co-sponsors is a big reason why our folks are agitated against the Republicans as well as the Democrats," he [Dick Armey] said Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press  The difference between being a co-sponsor with Ryan or not is a thing called courage. [read and roar] ” This simple reminder from a news account of the Beck rally jostled me out of a stupor. “ The tea party is essentially a loosely organized band of anti-tax, libertarian-leaning political newcomers who are fed up with Washington ” Fed up with Washington includes pissant GOP leadership, and RINO lickspittles who hope to ride this wave into the majority without any willingness to change themselves. If the number one pressing problem is the economy, and it certainly is, then this is a time for clearing the deck of all impediments to economic growth, and the slashing of budgets. And look! Democrats are dangling their own roadmap to success; their rebuttal to Ryan's 'Roadmap.'  “ Candidates backing this budget plan have shown themselves to be out of touch with struggling families in these tough economic times because they're backing a plan to dismantle Medicare as we know it and turn Social Security over to Wall Street banks," said Jesse Ferguson, southern regional press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. [Flinching] ” Either you respect the public's ability to spot this hollow "out of touch" prattle for what it is; and realize that the public is receptive to extreme life saving action, or you're just another problem.  If Republicans don't have the steel to trim existing entitlements, what chance is there that they will over-turn Obamacare?  My fervent hope is that we take the House with enough Tea-Party newcomers to deny Boehner Bob Dole  the Speakership, and elect someone like Ryan.

The Note

In-depth analysis

Mahometans Give Obama Highest Job Approval; Mormons, Lowest Jews and those with no religious affiliation also give Obama above-average ratings

No  real surprises here.  Moslems, atheists, Scientologists, Unitarians, and Gaians are pretty much happy with Ol' Blue-lips.  The most liberal plantation-bound groups in the nation are blacks and Jews, so the 61% Jewish number, a 16% fall from a year ago, is actually a spiritual moment for them.  If you're on the Catholic team, as I am, it's disturbing to see that 50% of us are not practicing Catholics at all, but self indulgent dilettantes.  But then, this is a Gallup Poll.  Chuck M

Book Notes: Bernard Lewis

What went wrong?  Let's start with what's his name.

“P rof. LEWIS: How shall I put it? Let me s--let me put it this way.  Here you have in the Middle East a very ancient and a very great civilization, which for 1,000 years or so was in the very forefront of human endeavor. It was the richest, strongest, most powerful, most wealthy of--of all living societies.  It was also on the cutting edge of science, technology, in virtually every field. And then suddenly, within a very short period, this society is  eclipsed by--is--is overshadowed, outperformed in almost every respect by what they had hitherto regarded as the ignorant, barbarous infidels  beyond the northwestern frontier, namely, Christian Europe. Suddenly, instead of winning every war, they lost every war. ” Interesting Book Notes interview with Bernard Lewis , author of What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.    Transcript  -  Video

Dems Hiding from the Allies

There's an awful lot of this being reported

D emocrats in Washington don't want to talk about the bills they passed since Obama took office. "In an effort coordinated with the White House, congressional leaders are urging Democrats to focus less on bragging about what they have done -- a landmark health-care law, a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulation and other far-reaching policy changes -- and more on efforts to fix the economy and on the perils of Republican control of Congress," the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month. "And in an effort to turn attention to their opponents, Democrats from Obama on down have taken to warning that giving Republicans control of Congress would be akin to reelecting George W. Bush." [Full] Reminds me of how the big Nazis tried to blend in with the crowd to escape being captured by the allies. I wonder how many of this lot have cyanide pills secreted away?

Mystery recipe

Mystery Recipe

I see a jar of pineapple preserves, and a glass

Now I need some pineapple juice

Blog Rolling

SWISH!

I've been doing blog housekeeping.  Updated the blog roll. Added a few folks, including I Hate the Media, which is, for me, the perfectly executed blog.  If you like it here, you'll love it there.  Top props.   Example: To paraphrase the Turtles, “Eleanor, gee, I think you’re swill” ASIDE-FWIW I get a few E-mails a month offering to swap links.  There's nothing wrong with that; it's how you enhance your blog presence, but I just don't see a reason to have dozens of links to sites I don't visit.  Only 13 blogs on my current blog roll have ever, to my knowledge, linked to me, so that's not how they got there. Plus, I'm not at all certain that any of them have benefited by being on my list.

CBS-No Self-esteem Remaining

Not Pretending Anymore

Aside: (RCP) “ CBS News:  "I'm noticing that there are not a lot of minorities here today, why do you think that is?" Black woman at Glenn Beck rally: "They're probably over there with Al Sharpton." ”

Rescued

GNARK!

Quick - I need some lead boots

In other news:

I found this at the end of  EPA Denies Petition Calling for Lead Ammunition Ban. Just in case you still foolishly thought that the muck-a-mucks running the various professional bird & tree lover fundations had a lick of sense; or that we have a chance of talking some into them. “ The EPA is considering banning lead weights used to balance automobile tires: Thank the Sierra Club who unbelievably puts this in their press release: (PDF) “1.6 million pounds of lead from wheel weights is left falling off of cars each year where anyone can find and possibly ingest it,” said Jeff Gearhart, Research Director for the Ecology Center. ” ”

Another Blow Job

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist: I Had a Nightmare     * Glenn Beck is the anti-King.

The commenters have it

Why do blacks vote fro Dems?

Enjoy

Restoring Honor Live

Restoring Honor Live

Amputee Support Group

BB

Dog Greeting Cards? AYSM?

The bright side of a depression

It'll stop this bullshit.

CAT FIGHT: Union pussy clawed by Sarah Palin

Woman of the Year Editorial of The New York Sun | August 27, 2010

“ In newspaper terms, the reason this story is getting so much attention is that it’s a man bites dog story. It’s just not often that someone with a union card takes on the head of Big Labor, challenging head-on the idea that liberal economic policies are good for the working man. Nor was the Battle of Anchorage a chance encounter. Mrs. Palin signaled her intention to mark the union point the very moment she burst onto the national stage ....  ”

Alternate title, "CAT FIGHT: Union pussy clawed by Sarah Palin.  The thing is, and it's not just Trumka -  it's all the autobamatons,  he's preaching only to Palin haters; there' nothing at all new or compelling about his message.   Take the "she called them death panels" card.   Puh-leeze.  Sarah Palin was spot-on when she brought it up, and each day seems to bring a new Here Come The Death Panels confirmation.  But it gets worse for these Obamaslugs. Suppose you're the typical politically disengaged American mom, or grand-mom.  A health threat you thought was covered, because it always was, isn't.   The phrase death panel has relevance now. When the next Obamamite tars Palin for bringing it up, mom doesn't just see Sarah as a political seer; she sees the Democrat Party as a threat to her family.  This issue has the potential of becoming  "Republican mine owners cracked daddy's head during the strike" legacy.  Democrats will never get her, or her family back.  Sarah wins.We win.

That ain't no steer, it's Beelzebub

EPA Surrenders to NRA on Gun Control Issue FORCED BY THE NEW MEDIA

“ In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn't have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue. The decision came just hours after the Drudge Report posted stories from Washington Whispers and the Weekly Standard about how gun groups were fighting the lead bullet ban. Click here to find out more! The EPA had planned to solicit public responses to the petition for two months, but this afternoon issued a statement rejecting a 100-page request from the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, and three other groups for a ban on lead bullets, shot, and fishing sinkers. The agency is still considering what to do about sinkers. [etc] ”

The post that took 14 hours-don't ask

Shake-Out

T hey (GOP) have spent way too much money. They have wasted money picking fights in primaries rather than saving it for the general election. And of course they have paid for the care, feeding, preening and pampering of Michael Steele. I've been saying exactly the same things for weeks that Wilson said  (minus his point about "modeling," which hadn't occurred to me). I've always added one more element Wilson doesn't touch on: The thoroughly corrupt voting section of the thoroughly corrupt Obama-Holder Justice Department. I think Republican candidates will need to outperform Democrats among real, live voters by at least half a percentage point, and probably three-fourths of a point, in every single race in the country if they want to actually be allowed to take their seats. Otherwise, the dead voters, pets registered as voters, and phantom voters (such as those who figure out who hasn't voted yet and pretend to be those people, especially for military stationed abroad whose votes haven't been ensured) will throw close races to the Dems. - Quin Hillyer ”

A few days ago I did a side-by-side comparison of rosy, and not that rosy outlooks for the upcoming reckoning. Here, The American Spectator's Hillyer sides with Reid Wilson's "Why Democrats Will Keep The House."  Interesting stuff, but I ain't buying it.  I think both Hillyer and Wilson are too much the technicians, and too little the street whisperers.  This isn't 1992; it's 1980.   I can feel it; and so can you.