Happy Friday Blogmocracy! ! !
While our Narcissus-in-Chief is frozen gazing at his perfect image in his private pool, choices have to be made in Afghanistan.
Berlin Wall: 20 years after the fall
From street assaults to abusive phone calls, women in Egypt are plagued by sexual harassment. It’s time to act against it
Bank claim that is out of this world -A billion-trillion?!
McCain Moves to Block FCC Net Neutrality
The FCC voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the debate in an effort to formalize net neutrality guidelines. Senator John McCain followed up by introducing a bill that would prohibit the FCC from governing communications.
American Thinker: Graph of the Day for October 23, 2009
Media Matters coordinates campaign against ‘lethal’ Fox
An official at a Democratic-leaning organization sends on a memo the group Media Matters is circulating today to progressive groups, calling Fox “a lethal 24/7 partisan political operation” and rallying a coalition of groups to join the White House assault on the network.“The danger to progressive causes and the institution of journalism has become too significant to ignore,” says the introduction to a memo by Media Matters founder David Brock. “At Media Matters, we believe it is of paramount importance that progressive leaders have the information necessary to understand exactly what Fox News has become. We hope this brief memorandum will assist you in reaching your own decision on how best to engage this threat.”
What are you linking today?
Update: Can’t believe I left this out!
Matthews: Religious right in US most like … the Taliban (hattip to Rightside)
Leakage? My tranny had leakage once. Oh you mean linkage, got none at the moment. lol
That “graph of the day” is the hockey stick curve that we should be really concerned about. And no, it’s not caused by CO2.
re: #1 by Beltfed
You cross-dresser had bladder control issues?
Actually, I’ve had trannies with linkage issues.
President Obama’s reluctant strategy in Afghanistan seems to be breeding reluctant allies, as several NATO nations have hedged their commitment to the war until the Obama administration makes a decision on troop levels.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/10/23/mcchrystal-brief-nato-defense-ministers-afghan-war/
Well obviously, what did this freaken amateur think? That our “Allies” would shoulder the burden. Welcome to being the leader of the Free World. Well what’s left of the free world after you get out of office?
Narcissus in Chief about sums Obama up perfectly. Obama gases into the deep pools of his own eyes while troops are dying. He will lose the war through inaction. It has been months since McChrystal warned we could lose, and Obama hasn’t even made the decision to make a decision. In war the only thing worse than a wrong decision is indecision.
Krauthhammer Friday of course
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTNhZGQxYzVmMjU4NjY3NTIwMWFjMDQ0ZjJlODM0MzA=
re: #6 by Iron Fist
“Obama gases into the deep pools”
LMAO
And with that visual I take my leave. Have a good morning everyone!
Cross dressers have linkage issues. They come on to guys, and don’t understand the reaction when the guys hear the baritone voice.
re: #3 by snork
Yes, “it” did, lol
3 minutes lapsed.
Czar wars.
The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, argued Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s regulatory czar.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113802
And it gets worse.
Allah you organs are belong to US??????
I suppose this falls under the ‘general welfare’ clause, so any liberties you thought you had, you dont.
Time to send another asshat Czar packing.
Glenn Beck get on it!
re: #6 by Iron Fist
And I agree with you Iron Fist! It’s horrible. He should be ashamed. Bush left him with all kinds of information! I think the general before McCrystal was asking for troops too.
re: #6 by Iron Fist
His history told us that his voting “Present” was his all we would ever get.
re: #4 by snork
finnegan pin problems?
re: #6 by Iron Fist
He is either incappable of making a decision or, he is waiting untill after the Nov elections to appease the rabid moveon crowd.
I tend to think it’s the latter. Either is unacceptable.
re: #6 by Iron Fist
That’s been the reason for the demise of many a business enterprise, too. People don’t get the concept of playing against the clock.
re: #11 by bar
Maybe someone should remove his brain .. OH sorry, he obviously doesn’t have one!
re: #6 by Iron Fist
The 0 (zero) couldn’t lead a bunch of cub scouts on a backyard adventure.
re: #11 by bar
That’s one of those “stopped clock” things. I agree that Sunstein is one of the more dangerous eggheads in that administration, but on that very narrow issue, I agree with him. The government spoils everything it touches, including marriage. The government should get completely out of the marriage business, just like in Israel.
re: #16 by snork
Sun Tzu (whom I hope Obama has heard of, although I think it is probably too much to hope for that he has actually read him) went on at length about the necessity of mobility. The same is true in single combat. The term I’ve seen most often used is “flow”. It all is the same thing, the idea that being in static positions carries an unacceptable level of risk. Obama doesn’t get it. He has spent months now (really his whole presidency) trying to decide what to do about Afghanistan. The Taliban aren’t politely waiting on him. They are making use of the time he is so generously providing them.
I don’t know for sure that Obama wants to lose in Afghanistan, but I’m hard pressed to think of what he would do differently if he does…
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd on Countrywide Financial VIP Loan: “I Feel The Matter’s Behind Us. We Ought To Move On.”
Uh-huh…
White house = 0
TV networks = 1
White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
re: #21 by snork
He got his, it is time to move on. There are more corporations out there with bribes waiting for the right Leftist to come along…
Oh, well. There goes Chucky’s new bike.
re: #24 by snork
“My beloved Kindle”
CJ
If nothing else, The Zero has provide a plethora of bulletin board material for the next Presidential Election. I just hope the next opponent has the testicles to use it all. He has assailed free speach, called all conservatives brain dead, dithered on the war that he stated was the real must win, and provided more gaffes than can be listed here. To use Rodan’s point, we are going to need a fighter next time around.
Attempted honour killing in the Phoenix metro-area:
Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic Security parking lot in Peoria.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568924,00.html
The PIO for the Peoria PD claimed the suspect was upset over his daughter not following “traditional family values.”
They mention that the SOB is Iraqi, but apparently the religion which informs Faleh Hassan Almaleki’s values is considered irrelevant.
My link for the day, courtesy of Freep.
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/10/pelosi-lacks-votes.html#
I don’t know how to make this a hyperlink (I’m a dreadful DOS dummy – I have a dismal Facebook page).
Oh cool. The site does it for me.
Fabulous.
re: #27 by Crusader Rabbit
All that the MSM is missing in this story is the line that reads, “who goes by his American name, Dave.”
re: #6 by Iron Fist
I think it is telling that he’s spent more face time with Olbermann and Maddow than McCrystal.
Priorities.
McCain – McCain?!!! Moves to block Obama’s “Net Neutrality” legislation and introduce law prohibiting the federal government from meddling with Internet communications! How about that!
Maybe with Bush out of office that reach-across-the-aisle crap isn’t fun anymore, and maybe the agenda of his “good friends” the Dems is beginning to scare him. Interesting. Well, I wish him well with this.
re: #30 by Flyovercountry
I am acquainted with some Iraqi Christians who live in this area, and to pretend that honour killing is a part of Iraqi culture rather than attributing it to its Arab, muslim origins is an insult to those good people.
re: #31 by MightyConservative
Excellent, excellent point. It is very telling. It is possible that obama will be able to pull out of his tailspin, but highly unlikely. The dude has had everything in his life given to him. He’s never had to work for a thing. It is clear that he expected Presidential Greatness to be his by divine right.
It doesn’t work that way. God help us if we get hit again like 9-11. Obama doesn’t have the stones to take on a particularly tough Girl Scout troop.
re: #11 by bar
Holy crap! How to hasten death of the dying and save a few of the “government’s” precious healthcare dollars, plus make $$ on the organs, eh? Sunstein, the pride of Harvard. By the way he is married to Samantha Power, the shadow Secretary of State and supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Selective Liberal Outrage Over Nazi Analogies
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/41141
re: #24 by snork
That explains the pimpng of the nook yesterday
re: #35 by Gypsy Commenter
Samantha Power == anti-Semite
re: #24 by snork
Heh™
Schadenfreud much?
re: #38 by Iron Fist
And how. If anyone expects “peace” in the Middle East with that one having a major say in the policy, is going to wait a long, long time.
Why would any sane person go on Hardball? What is the attraction of being bellowed over by bloviating gasbag Chris Mathews?
He’s like a blond Rachel Maddow, without her charm, elegance and accessorizing skill.
A Date To Remember
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/41138
October 23 is a date the Monitor will always remember, and so should you. It was on that day in 1995 that Mayor Rudy Giuliani threw Yasir Arafat out of a UN event – and in so doing brought down upon himself the opprobrium of the Clinton administration, New York’s political elite, and not a few feckless Jewish “leaders.”
re: #32 by Gypsy Commenter
That – or he’s aware of the big DUMP McCAIN movement underway among the GOP in Arizona and realizes he might not make it past the primary next year.
Retire John – you finally had your shot at the Presidency, you FUBAR’d it, now’s a good time to retire, let a real conservative represent Arizona, go reside in one or all of your seven houses, and live off Cindy’s money.
Oh, and take that disgrace of a daughter with you…
re: #41 by buzzsawmonkey
Also Matthews talks over his guests who do not agree with him.
re: #41 by buzzsawmonkey
I’d go on Hardball as long as Mathews wouldn’t make me play by UCF rules…
re: #42 by Speranza
Hee…and we were giving him a standing ovation in my parents’ living room.
re: #42 by Speranza
If Rudy had stayed married and just had a few descreetly on the side, he might have gone far. Ah Rudy you coulda be a champ!
re: #33 by Crusader Rabbit
I absolutely agree with you on this one. The folks in the media are contorting themselves silly to pretend that Muslims aren’t thugs. My reference has a local flavor to Cleveland. We have a huge poplulation of imported Muslims on the west side here. Prior to 9/11, about once a month, the local papers would run a story that read like this: “Abu Salem Al Hashamibad, who goes by his American name Frank, was arrested for food stamp fraud…..,” The entire civilized world is at war with Islam. The notion that only a small minority of Muslims support Sharia dominance over us all is preposterous. The MSM is complicit, (unknowingly,) in our possible demise.
re: #43 by Carolina Girl
Yes! .. Yes! … and YES!
re: #44 by Speranza
I believe I covered that in “bellowed over,” but yes.
re: #48 by Flyovercountry
Yeah, and the day after 9/11 when Bush showed up at that Muslim Mosque on Washington DC, I almost puked.
re: #35 by Gypsy Commenter
“By the way he is married to Samantha Power, the shadow Secretary of State and supporter of the Palestinian cause.”
Agreed. I have felt for a while that Power is the de facto Sec. of State.
BTW, does anyone know when the next installment of Bite Me Comics is due out?
re: #53 by Gypsy Commenter
You’re supposed to go down to the drugstore after you get your allowance next week, buy some liquorice whips, and root through the comics rack to see if it has arrived.
re: #52 by Speranza
What is really bizarre is that during the primaries, Power was the one who came out and complaining about Hillary’s inroads in Ohio, called Hillary a “monster”, and a few other less spectacular things. Now Hillary is basically fronting for her. Doesn’t that woman have any pride at all? (Hillary, I mean.)
re: #42 by Speranza
October 23 is a date the Monitor will always remember, and so should you. It was on that day in 1995 that Mayor Rudy Giuliani threw Yasir Arafat out of a UN event – and in so doing brought down upon himself the opprobrium of the Clinton administration, New York’s political elite, and not a few feckless Jewish “leaders.”
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I still think he would make a good practical president. He’s tough and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Nowdays, and maybe forever, the presidency is a dirty, hard job and I think we need a tough guy. Wish he was a little younger.
re: #11 by bar
Sunstein is also the man behind the free speech curtain.Frequently mentioned as a scotus appointment too.
What a revolting little worm of a “man!”
http://current.com/1pqse4c
re: #55 by Gypsy Commenter
She is still with Bill, and you have to ask a question like that?
Damn. I was hoping to freeload off The Blogmocracy this weekend.
Oh lookeee, bits of Husseins Columbia thesis have surfaced.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/obamas_columbia_thesis_excerpt.html
re: #56 by pbird
I was a huge Giuliani fan.
re: #55 by Gypsy Commenter
Hillary made a huge mistake in becoming Sec. of State.
re: #42 by Speranza
That was a great moment!
You are my Sunstein
My only Sunstein
You’ll help me to make
Free speech go ‘way
And then your wife will
Help me kick Israel
Which is why I have you on my staff today
–White House vaudeville
re: #54 by buzzsawmonkey
See #59 – I’m having more trouble than usual with this %#@*&&# Reply feature
re: #51 by Nevergiveup
Our Gop Leaders are also guilty of this, I agree. I personally believe that as a President, Bush was no where near perfect. I also believe that he did more right than wrong. One of the wrong things he did was to never name islamofaciasts as just that. The whole hijacking of a great religion thing was a deception, and I believe that Bush knew it. I don’t know what his motivation was, but I will guess. During the 1979 hostage crisis, Iranian students gathered at Bezerkley and started chanting, “death to America.” They were beaten severly for several news crews to film. I suspect Bush was trying to avoid that being played to Saudi Royal Family Members selling us oil. My personal opinion is that Saudi Royal Family Members to see exactly that, on a continual basis.
Elie Wiesel to Keynote Christians United for Israel Conference Sunday
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/elie_wiesel_to_keynote_cufi_co.asp
J- Street Eat Yuur Hearts Out!
I found this via Hot Air:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/23/czar-war-escalates-between-congress-white-house/
A list of the current czars and how they basically answer to no one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/09/16/GR2009091600074.html?sid=ST2009091501436
The original post by Ed Morrisey – great insight and commentary as usual here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/23/wh-to-congress-czars-wont-meet-with-congress-because-fox-wants-it/
re: #42 by Speranza
Bush wouldn’t have done that. I will say this to everyone, Rudy was the most Conservative Candidate since Reagan. I will say this Rudy was to the Right of Bush. He never called Islam the religion of Peace.
# 56 pbird
I live in NYC, and did so when Rudy was mayor. I wish he wasn’t such a gun grabber. He also has a tendency to be a little too much nanny-statish, pushing things for our own good, like Bloomberg. Giuliani once famously put barricades on midtown streets, except for the corners, to try to stop jay-walking. Gimmeafreegin’break.
re: #67 by Speranza
He speaking to use evil Christians? Don’t you know us Christians just support Israel because we want the world to end!
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What LGF and Progressives say!
re: #62 by Speranza
Agreed. I never could figure out why she would give up her Senate seat and join the Obama administration. With all their opposition research and tentacles into the Party, the Clintons must have known that Obama would give her the shaft, and they surely knew the kind of people — starting with Rahm and Axelrod and Obama himself — she would be dealing with. It’s a complete mystery to me — why she accepted the job, I mean.
re: #70 by RickMZ
Yeah but he also cracked down on Progressives. When they had display of teh Virgin Mary in piss, he had it removed.
Meanwhile, Obama is still making a habit of kissing off America’s allies (even one whose relationship as an American ally had gotten noticeably better in recent years until Obambi took over)…
ANALYSIS – Disappointed Sarkozy shifts gaze from Washington
re: #4 by snork
“Actually, I’ve had trannies with linkage issues.”
Ummm, what kind of bars do you hang out at, snork?
Oh I see, not those kind of trannies.
Never mind…
re: #71 by Rodan
Those idiot Lizards have it backwards. We annoying Christians support Israel because we DON’T wan’t the world to end, not to mention that it is the right thing to do.
re: #72 by Gypsy Commenter
The Obama’s had something on the Clintons.
re: #69 by Rodan
He was a law & order mayor and told Al Sharpton that he was no longer welcome at City Hall. You and I as ex New Yorkers knew the truth, not someone form the Southwest that never stepped foot in pre Rudy NYC.
re: #74 by Eliana
It’s a twist of irony, France has a pro-American president and America has an Anti-American president.
re: #73 by Rodan
You’re mixing up two different artworks, and two different controversies: the photograph Piss Christ, by the photographer Andres Serrano, and the Virgin Mary which was composed of a collage of private-parts pictures and elephant dung by African artist Chris Ofili (?) which was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum.
Giuliani weighed in on the elephant-dung Virgin Mary, but did not, IIRC, get involved directly in the Piss Christ brouhaha, which I believe took place at an NEA exhibit in Washington.
BTW, Bobby Jindal will be on Hannity tonight.
Hope they’re not aware of this at the pony-tailed, washed-up ukulele player’s shithole as heads will explode.
Fortunately for them, 95% of the imbeciles posting over there have their brains in their asses.
re: #73 by Rodan
I am terribly sensitive about the state of NYC. One of my daughters live in Brooklyn. I was just there to see her, and Brooklyn for the first time a couple weeks ago. For a mother of a daughter from western WA it was a little shockingly rough. I drove there. HAHA. Pothole city and people all over the street. ANyhow, anything that improves NYC is OK with me and a half. I know Guiliani isn’t the mayor anymore, but I understand the good that he did.
re: #76 by Gypsy Commenter
Yet another sign that Charlie will soon be overtly anti-Israel. I believe that he has converted to being a Muslime.
If the Religious Right were, as Mr. Matthews opines, like the Taliban, there would be no more abortion clinics in the South. Likewise, porn shops would have all been torched long ago. My hometown of NOLA would have brought back Storyville–so as have some fun somewhere. And many “progressives” would have been given the martyrdom they earnestly seek.
Mr. Matthews, SIR, you really have no clue as to what you are saying, do you SIR!
re: #78 by Speranza
Rudy was to the Right of Bush, you and I know this. He wouldn’t have allowed the media to launch non stop attacks for 5 years. He took on the NY Press.
I would of taken 8 years of Rudy over 8 years of Bush any day!
re: #83 by Flyovercountry
“Muslime” Is that sort form of Halal fruit? Cleaner than regular lime?
# 73 Rodan
I’m not saying Giuliani is horrible or anything. After David ‘Tennis, Anyone?’ Dinkins, Giuliani was a godsend. He cleaned up a hell of a lot, from the streets to the subways. But the one issue, and I have not heard anything from him to the contrary, is he does not have a love for guns. As a former Federal prosecutor, I still would like to hear his position on the 2nd Amendment, and why cities should have onerous gun licesning laws (when illegal guns are a dime a dozen on the streets); getting a license in NYC is damn difficult, as you know. He’s also squishy on abortion. I think his shacking up with Judy Nathan before his divorce to Donna Hanover (who was no prize) was finalized will always come back to bite him when it comes to ‘conservative principles’; he’s even estranged from his kids thanks to the hash he made of the divorce.
re: #77 by Rodan
My suspicions also.So many of their loyalists jumped ship,had to be something big.
re: #43 by Carolina Girl
“Oh, and take that disgrace of a daughter with “you…
She with the enhanced boobs!
That dolt praised Russell Brand that skeezeball British “comedian”.
re: #80 by buzzsawmonkey
Right I was referring to the Virgin Mary one in 1997. He took on the Progressives, I doubt any other Republican Politician would of done anything.
It’s a shame the GOP has no fighters.
re: #87 by RickMZ
Good for Rudy for ditching that ditz Donna Hanover. I do not think that she even voted for him.
re: #85 by Rodan
“I would of taken 8 years of Rudy over 8 years of Bush any day!”
Moi aussi!
re: #90 by Rodan
It’s a shame the GOP has no fighters.
I think it has plenty of fighters—unfortunately, they are the kind of palookas who hang around the gym looking for a chance to take a dive in the seventh round.
re: #64 by buzzsawmonkey
I’m throwing another crucifix on the fire a la Salieri and cursing you!/// Damn, that was good.
re: #82 by pbird
What neighborhood in brooklyn does she live in?
# 91 Speranza
Yeah, never liked her. Hanover even did a stint as the star in the, IIRC, off-Broadway production of ‘The Vagina Monologues’.
re: #87 by RickMZ
Yeah the Gun thing was not good on his part, but it’s NY politics. As for his personal life, I really don’t care about that. I want someone who can govern and fight the Progressives.
All I’ll say is had Rudy been president after 9/11 he would not have called Islam the Religion of Peace or increase the number of Muslim refugees.
re: #93 by buzzsawmonkey
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 97 Rodan
Well, see, that’s a sticking point for me. It may be NY politics, or it may be a deeply personal held belief. I don’t know, and I have yet to hear him clarify the matter.
re: #93 by buzzsawmonkey
Lots of fighters — too much brain damage.
re: #65 by Gypsy Commenter
It’s something to do with IE. It doesn’t happen when I use firefox. If I have to use IE, I try to hit “stop” before it has a chance to reload.
(hopefully this won’t be an issue with the new theme, cuz it drives me nuts!)
re: #66 by Flyovercountry
He did call them that, but was bitched out all over the world for it.
re: #101 by m
Hey one of your links I used for a reference in my late afternoon post!
VDH is going to get himself banned. Timeout for now.
re: #77 by Rodan
It must be something pretty ripe. I mean, look at all the stuff that came out about the Clintons during their administration, which they just shrugged off — like all those “bimbo eruptions”, the Rose Law Firm/cattle futures stinkola, the FBI files scandal, the While House travel office smear/cronyism mess, the suicide — or whatever — of Vince Foster, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, the dumping of Socks the Cat and on and on and on…
I can’t figure out for the life of me what they could blackmail the Clintons with, that the Clintons response wouldn’t be to yawn and say, “Whatever.”
BTW, I noticed someone mentioning a lot of promotion for the “Modern Whig Party” in certain quarters.
Is being a modern wig one way to show that you are 100% a merkin?
re: #79 by Rodan
No kidding.
This is precisely why Obama is snubbing France’s president, too.
“You like America, Sarkozy? It’s soooo 2008 for America to have a pro-American president and close relationships with allies who actually like America! Ewwww!”
re: #105 by Gypsy Commenter
The Clinton’s China connections. Instead of going after the stupid Lewinsky incident, the GOP should of went after Clinton’s Chinese connections via James Riady and the Lippo group.
re: #104 by spidly
VDH? Short for something?
re: #106 by buzzsawmonkey
**giggle** We have a proper cure for the pox,no need.
Re: “Media Matters coordinates campaign against ‘lethal’ Fox”
I read that page. Do these leftists and neo- liberals even watch FOX?
They claim they do, but they seem to misinterpret or misrepresent much of Fox’s reporting, or they’re blind to the fact that the very criticisms they level at Fox are more than true of the other networks and news cable channels.
For liberals/Democrats and the Obama administration to whine about Fox is so pathetic.
I find it pathetic because:
1. Most of the media is in Obama’s corner (e.g., New York Times, many other news papers, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc). For them to whine about two sources (Fox cable news and Rush Limbaugh) makes them look like weenies and cry babies.
2. Most of the media shredded George W. Bush for eight years (sometimes complete with vile assassination quips), and I don’t recall Bush or his people having fits about it.
Take that guy’s memo about Fox and rewrite it, and you’ll have an accurate portrayal of the mainstream media; he (Brock) wrote:
But that could just as easily and accurately be worded thusly:
re: #106 by buzzsawmonkey
Yup, I was talking about that last night. I think LGF is planning to use it as a vehicle for political influence.
Watch Charles run for the Whig nomination in 2012!
re: #109 by Kitteh
Victor Davis Hanson, first link
re: #109 by Kitteh
Victor Davis Hanson
*swoon*
(for an older man, he sure is sexy! ok, ok, it’s prolly just his politics but DAYUM)
~:)
re: #111 by CloudyDay
This is what Chavez did in Venezuela.
re: #105 by Gypsy Commenter
True enough. I do believe that Hils huge campaign tab was paid off by the Dims for some quid pro quo,so perhaps she knows something about Barry.
re: #112 by Rodan
The original Whigs wore ponytails, but mostly in false-hair form.
re: #77 by Rodan
Wasn’t that the deal to pay off their (the Clinton’s) election debt?
re: #102 by m
You are correct, I remember that now, but he did not stick by it. He was also equivocating, by repeating the lie that the islamofacists are a minority of the Muslim religion.
Spidly, if the narcissist article didn’t do it – I’m sure this one would have! lol
re: #118 by vapig
That’s part of it.
re: #114 by m
What do you mean OLDER?//
re: #119 by Flyovercountry
Oh yeah, he backed down from it so quick it parted Laura’s hair!
VDH always a great read. Need to pick up some more of his books.
Going along with that, the MM thing. They’re not even trying to be subtle anymore. They think they have power, and the ability to pull something off and they’re going for it. Amazing at how fast they think they can try to stifle free speech.
I just caught part of something on Rush on Obama’s thesis. From what I heard, it sounded WAY out there- ‘So-called founders’ ’so called freedom’ and more of the failure to address economic equality or redistribution of wealth that he talked about 7 or 8 years ago.
I’m waiting for the term “narcissist” to be declared racist—as “socialist” was back during the campaign—solely on the grounds of the title of one of Joseph Conrad’s works.
re: #108 by Rodan
Yeah, except the campaign finance manager that laundered several million from the Chinese government for the Clintons’ campaign war chests just was sentenced to jail, and the Clintons are cool with it, and everyone’s cool with the Clintons.
re: #116 by vagabond trader
Addendum. Knowing how hateful and backstabbing the entire lot are perhaps they are playing chicken with each other. G-d knows there is plenty of sludge in both camps.
re: #120 by m
OMFG! It is obvious that Beck has stolen VDH’s brain. Playing into this “outrage of the day” is beneath him.
We must redouble the efforts to crush Faux News.
re: #126 by buzzsawmonkey
I doubt you’ll have to wait too long.
re: #122 by vagabond trader
LOL! Well, older than me! But evidently not too old to be sexay!
re: #123 by m
He always backed down. As soon as his Saudi masters complained, he would change his statements.
re: #125 by mfhorn
So sayeth the great Constitutional scholar with his fresh shiny diploma from Columbia. I especially liked the complaint that wealth redistribution was not mentioned by those so called founders. What a jokester this guy is/was.
re: #124 by Mashiki
They are doing it because they fell they can.
re: #130 by Gypsy Commenter
Remember, you heard it here first.
Obama Threating Press Freedom?
The Obama administration tried and failed Thursday to manipulate the White House news pool into isolating and excluding Fox News from interviewing “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. Are you concerned that the Obama administration is threatening freedom of the press?
Online poll on Fox News:
Please vote! It’s only an online poll (not scientific), but the “I’m angry” choice has 95% of the votes. Let’s see if we can get it higher!
Obama Threating Press Freedom?
re: #89 by Speranza
The trouble with Meghan McCain is that everyone stopped listening to her the moment Liz Cheney opened her mouth.
Because suddenly, we had a political daughter with brains, beauty, erudition and class. Oh sure, the left and center-left likes Meghan – she’s a buffoon. They’d LOVE her to be the voice of the GOP.
But she’s not – you got that, left wing blogosphere? She’s not. You don’t pick our spokespersons for us, got it?
re: #133 by vagabond trader
that’s a so called diploma
re: #133 by vagabond trader
Yeah. I’d love to get the transcript of that or, better yet, the actual thesis, and get it published.
I know, I know. Racism.
re: #138 by spidly
There is a Colombia College online.
re: #139 by mfhorn
Yeah. I’d love to get the transcript of that or, better yet, the actual thesis, and get it published.
I know, I know. Racism.
Publishing the Theseus might not defeat the Minotaur, but it would at least shed some light on the bullsh*t it left behind.
re: #132 by Rodan
He didn’t always back down, but he was a consumate politician. He was willing to compromise all to often. In the final analysis though, I believe he did more right than wrong. I realize that Gore and Kerry are not high hurdles to clear, but as Charles Krauthammer once noted, even Reagan is not the Reagan as we remember him today. He also had his moments of capitulation and pandering for votes. While our system of governance is the best in the world, it is by no means perfect. It produces more than its share of slick talking hucksters who become successful at getting votes. T.V. has compounded that effect. While Bush did plenty for us to complain about, I would vote for him again, and feel good about it.
re: #116 by vagabond trader
You have just raised the more interesting point. Note the impenitable wall of silence that has been thrown up around Obama. The clintons are an open book compared to Barry. We do no know so much as his grades in college, and except for one or two people, no one has come forward who claims to have known him before he set up in Chicago as a community organizer. Of course, one can believe the BS in his two “autobiographies”, which barring corroboration, belong in the SciFi/Fantasy shelves. We do know a little something more about the grifters and thuglets he must have surrounded himself with in Chicago, thanks to the ACORN revelations. But who is this guy, really? In some respects he appears to be wn artifical construct.
re: #124 by Mashiki
It’s about time Media Matters had its “tax exempt” status questioned. It’s funded by Soros, and claims to be non-partisan.
Sure, you are Sparky….I’d love for you to send me by snail mail allll the stories on liberal media bias and inflammatory language in your entire history.
I’m willing to bet the envelope would be so thin you could slip it under the weather stripping under my front door.
re: #140 by vagabond trader
I always thought it was that Columbia School of Writing – remember those guys?
This was an amusing take on the Obama crusade against his critics in the media:
Obama’s War on Fox News Becomes a Quagmire
re: #140 by vagabond trader
It’s the plot to the show “Community”
The Dean: I thought you had a degree from Columbia.
Jeff: Yes, and now I need to get one from America.
Gotta run. Bye, everyone. See you later.
re: #137 by Carolina Girl
I second your post. Liz Cheney is on the ball. Meghan McCain posts pics of her boobs. I wish both McCains would go away myself.
re: #143 by Gypsy Commenter
As I said the other day: read zombie’s account of Obama’s “close encounter with the Weather Underground,” which was published during the campaign.
Then read the chapters in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man which deal with “the Brotherhood” (the Communist Party). Imagine Bill Ayers in the role of “Brother Jack” as you do so; think of Harlem as Chicago and of Brother Jack’s offer to Ellison’s narrator to be “the next Booker T. Washington” as an offer to become the President of the United States.
Does life mirror art? Sometimes. Certainly fugitive bomber Ayers never lost his connections to wealth and influence, or he would not have stayed free and he and his wife would not now enjoy distinguished academic careers. And they are both of an age where they would have read Invisible Man.
re: #30 by Flyovercountry
Derived from the Hebrew name David.
get to work
OT – Palin endorsement nets Doug Hoffman $116K in single day!
Incidentally, that link is to a story on a new blog I (re)started today, the Baby Seal Club. That’ll be my “overflow” place for blogging on all the things that they won’t let me blog about here on Blogmocracy because they’re afraid I might offend somebody. Just kidding, actually, it’s so I don’t end up hogging space on here.
Is this thing broken again?
Alright, who unplugged it.
C’mon people, we’ve talked about that.
Well dang, wanted to post this,but not on the homosexual thread.
WARNING: If you are offended by the elimination of Jihadi scum do not watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48mmYJvYUMM&feature=player_embedded
re: #153 by tqcincinnatus
How can a link be OT on a links thread?
re: #153 by tqcincinnatus
Also, Mark Levin had him on his show on Wednesday and told his listeners that the poor guy is a true conservative trying to beat back the money machine of both major parties and asked his listeners to please give whatever they could.
Gee, maybe a certain blogger should be nicer to Sarah and she could ask people to hit the tip jar.
re: #149 by MightyConservative
The Bushes need to go away also. Mitt Romney should join them as well. I hope they all go away!
re: #46 by Carolina Girl
“Hee…and we were giving him a standing ovation in my parents’ living room.”
Your parents are liberals?
And yet another S. McCain three degrees thread at the assylum…
it’s BS like this that gives Obama his views on the Constitution.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6464
A link to Obama’s thesis
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/10/21/obama-and-the-constitution-he-has-his-doubts/#
This is rich:
Hello? Who’s running around crowing that “the science is settled” on that other scientific controversy?
Is this guy for real?
re: #78 by Speranza
I liked Rudy and would definitely have voted for him. I know that many conservatives had a problem with both his stances on abortion and gun control. As revolting as I find the practice of abortion, I don’t consider it a litmus test for candidates, unless they support mid and late term/partial birth abortion. Sadly, I don’t see us ever putting that genie back in the bottle.
As to the guns, well, there’s where I have trouble. I would like to think Rudy’s opinions on guns are viewed through the lens of big-city living, where a probably larger than normal segment of the populace have no problem flaunting the law, and everyone being in close proximity causes a perceived greater danger.
I believe Rudy tried to rationalize his stance on guns as applying to the particulars of New York, but I don’t precisely remember what his response was. But then again, Zero said he wasn’t going to come after our guns, either, and even though he’s doing it in a devious way, he’s going to try nonetheless.
re: #163 by snork
HA HA HA HA yeah I saw that.
THE DEBATE IS SETTLED PEOPLE DO NOT SHOW ME EVIDENCE THAT BUCKS MY BELIEF IN MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING ARFGFSKJHDOJFHBSJD!!!!
re: #160 by Speranza
They were applauding Rudy.
re: #163 by snork
Lordy, there are so many jokes coming to mind so fast it’s hard to pick just one….
Some bad news in Florida; Rifqa Bary is to be returned to Ohio.
He used to ‘blow up churches’ but now he follows the ‘Prince of Peace’
The mohammedans will never overcome Him.
re: #56 by pbird
I would have voted for him.
re: #168 by Morgan
The Said sisters, Amina and Sarah, were raped and murdered by their Muslim father?
re: #171 by mjazz
I don’t know about raped; they were said to have been sexually abused by their father. Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has info on the case.
re: #171 by mjazz
Here’s the latest story on the case from Ms. Geller.
I’d read the VDH article, but after he took up for Late German Fascists, I would be wondering if he did any research at all for the paper, or if Victor is just basing it on something he learned about Afghanistan a decade ago.