Huff 'n Puff Revisited

Obama’s missile defense decision–a move that puts more military assets in position more quickly against the Iranian missiles –not only increases the pressure on Iran but allows  Russia to move closer to the U.S. position  without appearing to be buckling to America. The Greatest Strategist Ever

An Impeaching Majority?

Wha?  I just about fell out of my chair when I read that John Dingell is in trouble! More happiness

Power Washin

“I HAVE A CLEAN”

Banana the Terrible

You can have fun with anything

Thomas Sowell's Pessimism

"Doomsters are a dime a dozen. But when a leading economist who's been called "the nation's greatest contemporary philosopher" sees serious trouble ahead, we'd better listen up.

Sowell sees the national equivalent of a "perfect storm," a gathering of "dangerous forces (that) have been building .. . for at least a half-century."      Yes, he says, our great nation has weathered many storms. But, he quickly notes, so did the Roman Empire before it collapsed. "Is that where America is headed?" Sowell asks upfront. "I believe it is. Our only saving grace is that we are not there yet - and that nothing is inevitable until it happens."......     The Obama administration "is not the root cause of the ominous dangers that face this country at home and aboard," Sowell says. But "it is the embodiment, the personification and the culmination of dangerous trends that began decades ago. Moreover, it has escalated those dangers to what may be a point of no return.  [Sowell's Pessimism] Opinions about the nexus of that perfect storm are also a dime a dozen, and in my case free of charge.  August 9, 1974.  The Nixon  bloodless coup.   Sowell's fifty-year parameter takes us to JFK's election, in effect the beginning of The Great Society.  Hard to argue that too. Secession is still the only course of action I can think of.  Things will still be tough, but at least "we" will have the opportunity to rebuild without the constraints and gloom imposed by statist government. And, we'll have hope where none now exists.

Anyone seen Kusak?

Voted Obama? Embarrassed yet?

C ritchfield says he's received death threats due to the sign; people accuse him of hate speech and racism. He insists the billboard was for something more American in the name of discourse, conversation, and old-fashioned debate. ” It appears the unhinged left poses a threat => al Qaeda.  Waiting for the media blitz.

A Cardboard Dry Run?

A Colossal DHS Error, or a Tale of Two Terrorists Gone Awry?

I think, neither one Annie “ This was a dry run as a prelude to a big attack. This is exactly why the stories are being changed to confound the public. [comment #10] ”

Fear of Flying

Lexington Green

I Think I See What Glenn Beck is Doing

via Gerard

Birther's Good Catch

Out, damn'd spot

“ I try to ignore the birther movement unless it inducts someone important -- a congressman, for example. The (sigh) American Patriot Foundation's announcement that Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (ret.) has signed an affidavit supporting court martialed birther Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is actually a pretty big coup. How wild is McInerney's statement? This wild: A Good Get for the Birthers. ”

I read the Lt. General Thomas McInerney story (the One Nice Deb posted on), and let it slide because I've been down this road countless times, only to be disappointed.  Just now Grumpyunk :alerted me to this SLATE article; A Good Get for the Birthers.  Maybe the reason it's  so much on Obama's mind is that he knows this one has legs?  I want closure on this thing.   And gloating rights.

In a vacuum

OMG- Is that the Starlighters playing? When's the last time you used a tube tester? When's the last time you saw vacuum tube electronics for sale?

That's right.  4 Watts for $140.00 at Woot.  Whereas today I love the smell of cordite, bourbon and cigar smoke,  I would dearly love to relive  vacuum tube smell, Canoe aftershhve, and Kathy Shinner's perfume.

Helen sensed that she'd wasted money on this fantasy

I am having difficulty getting started this morning.

Barry Gets Even

Teleputzing

And he was a friend

Am I going too?

Origami Magic

Between the folds

This is a truly fantastical look at orgiastic origami.  The 10 minutes clip has voice sync problems, but if you have NetFlix, it's an instant view. I would generally only expect to see this mind bending ability in an idiot savant, but these guys can tie their own shoes and whistle Dixie.   I can't comprehend talent like this. Cuzzin Ricky's tip

A Message From Batman

From linebacker to Snow White

Today's Thought Bubble

When I was a tad, girls who did porn looked like, well, girls that would do porn.  I'm oddly unsettled that  most of today's porn "models" are so pretty  that I wouldn't have had the nerve to ask them for a date. -Dwight Eisenhower* * I think

Intra Union Food Fight

Precious! Unions Eating Selves Union on strike against union

Didn't  try to figure out the who's, what's or why's of it.  I just know what I like.

WE WANT BUSH!

Ohio: Bush 50, Obama 42

“ A new GOP-boosting blockbuster from Rasmussen? Not quite: This comes from Kos’s new pollster, PPP. The Bushitler over the Lightworker in the paradigm midwestern swing state — by eight points. On a gut level, that strikes me as more amazing than even yesterday’s Gallup blockbuster. [Hot Air] ” Tom Mann

Light-bulb socialism

Bright Lights Done in By Dim Bulbs

“B eginning today, it is a crime to manufacture or ship for sale a traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulb in the European Union. Autocrats in Brussels last year declared war on Edison's greatest invention with a ban on 100-watt lamps. Homes throughout the Old World will continue to dim until incandescent lighting of all types is snuffed out in 2012 - the same year the United States is scheduled to begin a phaseout schedule mirroring the European plan. [... light-bulb socialism] ” The enabling legislation was an early bellwether for what a Democrat congress was capable of,  after the 2006 elections gave them control.  Crafted by John Dingel, and signed, for god knows what reason, by Bush, it was a victory for the now discredited AGW movement. Fit nicely with Democrat distaste for bright lighting, too. If you've tried to purchase 100, or even 75 watt incandescent light bulbs lately, you know that manufacturers, cued no doubt by retailers, are already in compliance.  The ceiling floods we've been forced to buy are a disaster.  Switch on the kitchen light, and wait about 5 minutes.  That's how long it takes before full brightness is achieved.  Add it to the list of things  that must be repealed. “ Two years ago, New Zealanders faced an imminent ban. The National Party, at the time in the minority, made overturning the light-bulb scheme a priority in its campaign against the ruling Labor government. The public responded favorably to the party that proclaimed that it "stands for freedom, choice, independence and ambition." In December 2008, the National Party  government overturned the light-bulb ban. Republican challengers seeking an edge over Democrats in November could learn a few things from the Kiwis. [ibid] ”

Jack Boots a coming ...

Subtleties be damned - Full speed ahead!

Previously And now, the Department of Justice ... Not content with altering the nation's constitutional infrastructure, Obama is removing its trappings. Like the Stars and Stripes.  Nothing subtle about this guy, is there?  In noting the remake of the DOJ website -  replacing the red, white and blue with Jack-Boot Black, the American Thinker relates this interesting tid-bit. “ And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote:     "The common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people." Catchy, huh? Just one tiny little (too small to be relevant obviously) point -- the quote is from C. Wilfred Jenks, who in the 1930's was a leading proponent of the "international law" movement, which had as its goal to impose a global common law and which backed ‘global workers' rights.' Call it Marxism, call it Progressivism, call it Socialism -- under any of those names it definitely makes the DOJ look corrupt in their sleek, new black website with Marxist accessories to match. See for yourself:  http://www.justice.gov/ ” Goes nicely with Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan, wot?  Marc Miller

I knew it!

The Best News in the History of News

Weekly Standard

Bad news for the left - JFC!

Government Study Withheld for Year: 70 Percent of Parents and 54 Percent of Teens Say Sex Before Marriage is Wrong

Completely Honest First Date

Completely Honest First Date

Tim W

Please. Pul-eeze, don't hurt John Kusak

Iranian Media Says French First Lady Deserves Death John Kusak Says Armey, Newt  -and all the GOP Deserves Death

I feel sorta bad here. Except for two words ("French" and "Armey)" I was feeling,  well, you know.  Oh stop!  It was involuntary. Anyway, after what Hollywood did to Mel Gibson for his, mild in comparison, "ravings,"  I guess Joan Kusak's brother won't be able to buy a hello from movieland's glitterati.  They're a fiercely righteous bunch, those entertainment folks; all "duty, honor and country first" sorts, and don't tolerate behavior like this. What I worry about is someone from the left assassinating Kusak, and trying to make it look like conservatives did it.  You know, like they did burning their own offices and such.  That sure would be a nasty trick (that would prolly succeed and allow the Democrats to pick up seats in the election), so I hope they don't "do" him. </disgust>

It hurts when I laugh. Then don't.

It's not his fault Boy who zapped his nipples during shop class sues

“K yle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class. On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord. ”

"Dubois' suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage."  That may be hard to prove.  I do note that the shop teacher resigned, which opens the possibility that he assigned the nipple zapping, but I see that as doubtful. Either way, I'll let this incident stand as my answer to this bit of silliness. Top 10 Reasons to Lower the Voting Age to 16

Crocheting an Afghan here boss

The 72 Hour Afghan Expert Everything you've ever wanted to know about Afghans, by P.J. O'Rourke

“ As all good reporters do, I prepared for my assignment with extensive research. I went to an Afghan restaurant in Prague. Getting a foretaste—as it were—of my subject, I asked the restaurant’s owner (an actual Afghan), “So what’s up with Afghanistan?” ”

As always, P.J. O'Rourke gets to the heart of things with a razor.  However, I have a good deal of trouble reading anything about Afghanistan, now that Obama has set our guys up in a shooting gallery by virtue of announcing a withdrawal date.  48 HOURS: 21 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan... To be honest, I got sidetracked ¾ of the way through by a desire to photo-chop the Weekly Standard cover.  That indulgence is all that stands between me and insanity I think.  God damn Obama to Hell..

Traffic Cams Ticketed!

Today's I'll Fix That For You Receive a traffic cam ticket in the mail?

“ A Supreme Court  ruling last year requiring that scientists be made available to testify in court cases about lab evidence they prepare may have the added effect of curtailing the use of automated traffic-enforcement cameras to assess criminal penalties. ”

The crux of this story is that various courts have taken a cue from that SCOTUS lab evidence ruling,  and applied it to traffic and speed cams.  “ Judge Wilson said declarations submitted to the court  by the private enforcement company to support the red-light infractions "contain testimonial hearsay," without which the officer cannot identify the photographs as taken by the company, cannot attest they pertain to any actual traffic violation and cannot say with certainty the camera equipment was in working order at the time of the violation. ” If states were really interested in protecting, not taxing the public, speed cams like this would be in use. The effect of these rulings is that methods for obtaining, transmitting and storing information about infractions are "not admissible in the absence of a live witness with personal knowledge of the procedures."  Which translates into requiring speed cam suppliers to send technicians to testify at ticket hearings.  There are not enough technicians, and they're too far away to travel to every court hearing anyway.  Cases are being thrown-out wholesale.  This of course will have the same effect on tax hungry city officials as failing to pay Louie the loan-shark his vigorish.  Stay tuned. ASIDE: Mo Sup makes regular trips to Tidewater,VA to see family.  During a recent trip she noticed that the yellow light timing at stop lights in Gloucester had gone from something reasonable,  to about 1 second. The thought occurred to her that this is precisely what Baltimore City did when when traffic cams were installed.  She skoonched  forward at a stop light, and looked up.  Sure enough,  perched high atop a pole - the camera. My suggestion that she use her 9mm to shoot the sumbitch fell on deaf ears however. She's such a pussy sometimes.

Felony Chutzpah

The "C" Word (chutzpah)

T his year's debate over extending President George W. Bush's tax cuts has turned into a brawl over which party is doing more for small businesses, with assertions that the health of the economy and thousands of future jobs are at stake. ” Obama claims that not that many small businesses will see taxes rise if the Bush tax cuts expire.  Which would necessarily mean that those tax cuts were negligible to begin with?   Besides, says Obama, his  first order of business when congress returns from its summer recess will be to pass a bill aimed at "enticing" banks to loosen up small business loan requirements.  A plan formulated by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Maxine Waters no doubt.  Even the WaTimes reporter gets caught up in sub plots involving dueling "think tank" minutiae here.  Two indisputable facts remain, however.  Killing the Bush tax cuts results in a huge tax increase for somebody.  Obama the Marxist's claim that he is a champion of business growth is felony chutzpah.

Weasel Clark

General Clark

This is pretty neat.  But first, I always figured that Wesley Clark's boyhood hero was Gen. George B. McClellan.  Clark certainly emulated Mac.  Both  West Point "ring-knockers" Both  removed from command by the president who appointed them.  Both back-stabbing opportunists.  Both attacked a president during wartime. Both ran for president as Democrats, on a surrender monkey platform Both Losers McClellan, at least, was always insubordinate towards Lincoln.  Clark, however, was on record extolling the capabilities and virtue of the very man he was now attacking (probably influencing James Webb in the bargain).  Gen. Clark may be best known for the Battle of Waco.  His alliance with Janet Reno, and Texas Gov.Ann Richardson led to a stunning victory against the insurgent Branch Davidians; racking up a stunning  74-0 kill ratio!  But, I digress again. Clark is in Illinois today, stumping for Democrat Senate Alexi Giannoulias,  who's running against Mark Kirk. In The Uniforms They Wear: Kirk and Giannoulias, Daniel Halper takes an interesting look at  the three man, and the battle dress they wore at a point in history.

Bouncy-Bouncy

E-Mail Request

“ Rodge: Several years ago you had a link to a site that counseled on the proper sports brassiere to wear.  Is that company still in business?  And do you remember what I'm referring to? Thenby Nowdy ” I believe you're talking about this Tim. I'm a design consultant.

Mystery Solved

Depends on who's counting

Here's Beck's 87,00 according to CBS UPDATED

1963 King Rally -  Updated Beck photo via SondraK Roll Over for King's 250,000

Black Reparations WTF!

It. Just. Never. Ends. 500% of Black Framers file for reparations

Apt Juxtaposition

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Our Mortal Enemy

Muslim Bullying At Disneyland

“ A Mahometan employee is refusing to wear a hat and bonnet that Disney provided in place of a head scarf, which she wants to leave on at work for religious reasons. Imane Boudlal, a restaurant hostess at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel, last week in a press conference accused Disney of religious discrimination for refusing to let her wear a hijab, a head scarf, in public view. Boudlal, and her extremist friends at CAIR, are busily spinning the truth about her employment with Disney to try to bully the company into accommodating sharia. [Plese, do read on] ” What's so hard?  Fire her ass.  If she sues; counter sue. Bring this Moslem pimple to a head and pop it!

Sheriff Joe Hot Pants

Dear Marc Miller:

You are so sweet to send me the lovely pink Sheriff Joe hot pants.  Do they make me look fat? Rodge put them on first and stretched them all out.  And he wasn't wearing underpants either.  Ewwww. Sincere thanks, Mother Superior

You don't look 25? Must be all that red whiskey

Happy Birthday Francois!

Beware Mosqued Men

Feds probe fire at Tenn. mosque construction site

A conundrum. The Golden Rule, sliced and diced any which way you like, is at the heart of civilized society, and certainly Christianity.  But not Islam.  I can love my Islamic neighbor (don't be a weisenheimer), but hate his endemically Islamic hatred for me.  If he doesn't hate my Christianity, then he doesn't subscribe to the Koran's teachings, and therefore isn't a Mahometan, and doesn't need a mosque.  Am I right? Allowing mosques to be raised here is the equivalent of allowing Hitler to build Schutzstaffel training camps throughout the 1942 United States; it's insane.  But, since bombing and burning them is a lawless act, I sure do hope the feds can put a stop to it.  Of course, there is  Justice Robert H. Jackson's consideration, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."  The answer then is simple. Don't allow new mosques to be built, and tear down the existing.  See how simple that was?

Moslems - YAAFM

Some things improve with age

Nukes

Say Rodge: Should we should cash in the kid's college fund annuities and buy the 168" plasma TV we need?  What do you think?

… intelligence reports from various sources say al Qaeda has already smuggled from 7 to 70 nuclear weapons  into the country across the Mexican border. American intelligence experts believe the number to be closer to 7 than 70 but admit the threat is very real. (SOURCE) ” I say go for it.(Do you happen to have Barbara Mikulski's address?)

S**T House Dominoes

S**T House Dominoes Greens Fall Victim to Hot Air

“A year ago, these groups seemed to be at the peak of their influence, needing only the Senate's approval for a landmark climate-change bill. But they lost that fight, done in by the sluggish economy and opposition from business and fossil-fuel interests. ” A nurturing WaPost examined reasons for the cataclysmic failure of AGW apostles to get "cap and trade" passed into law.  There's "The oil industry has tremendous reach and control in the United States Senate."  There's the poor economy. There's " ... green groups don't have enough of Washington's two currencies of power: money and angry voters."  But - not one of the 1248 words in this green hair shirt is  fraud, or climate-gate.  Or Gore.  How did they manage that? La-la-la-la ..... Picture via Tom Mann

Obama the actor

Is Obama a Christian? Or is he Barbra Streisand?

“M ore significantly, he said in his Cairo speech to the Muslim world that Islam is a revealed religion. I'm amazed this didn't get more attention because it is extremely anomalous for a believing Christian to refer to Islam as a revealed religion. The word "revealed" had to have been carefully chosen and was absolutely unnecessary to convey his overtures to the Muslim world. One needn't affirm another person's religion to extend him a hand of friendship and peace. Words have meaning, and if Obama believes Islam was revealed ... [David Limbaugh] ” Let's see.  Mosque imam Feisal Abdul RaufImam Rauf says chapter six of  his book was the nexus of  Obama’s Cairo speech.  It's a virtual certainty that Bill Ayers wrote his autobiography.  He can't speak two paragraphs without his teleprompter.  Good god!  This guy is actually actress Barbra Streisand!

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.