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Saturday, August 8, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAY [Updated below]The TCOTS RULE 5 COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE, in keeping with its recent
vote to 'make all Rule 5 postings for the rest of the summer be in the spirit of the just-concluded International Rule 5 BikiniFest Week.' and the restriction therein—to wit 'While the wearing of bikinis is not compulsory, the pictures of the ladies
featured must embrace the spirit of summer'—hereby presents...
JULIE
CHRISTIE...
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Honey...
Somewhere my love
There will be songs to sing...
Long, misty days...
In the morning, don't say you love me...
She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965
She had legs that never ended...
Black coffee in bed...
In keeping with the spirit of the pictures presented, The Committee has also voted to require
that the song lyrics that accompany each RULE 5 SATURDAY, must be fit for sitting outside and sipping amber
spirits in the warm air.
Therefore, as we are in the Dog Days of Summer, the following is presented: Elton John,
before he was gay...
Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay like a puppy child
And when it rains
the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams
of crystal streams
Of days gone by when we would lean
Laughing fit to burst upon each other
I can see you sitting eating apples in the evening
The fruit juice flowing slowly, slowly,
slowly
Down the bronze of your body
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling
through the hay like a puppy child
And when it rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams of crystal streams
Of days gone by when we would
lean
Laughing fit to burst upon each other
Oh if only I could
nestle in the cradle of your cabin
My arms around your shoulders-woh-the windows wide and open
While the swallow
and the sycamore-woh-are playing in the valley
Oh I miss you Amoreena like a king bee misses honey
And when it rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
And she's
far away somewhere in her eiderdown
And she dreams of crystal streams
Of days gone by when we would lean
Laughing
fit to burst upon each other
Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady
Amoreena's in the cornfield
brightening the daybreak
Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours
Rolling through the hay
like a puppy...like a puppy child
UPDATE 10 AUG 09: Smitty, over at The Other McCain, was kind enough to link to my Hump Day Rule 5of Elke
Sommer. And he also was generous in giving this aging SOB some Full Metal Jacket Reach Arounds.
Jamie Jeffords, over at The Eye of Polyphemus, was kind enough to give us a Reach Around
as well. He's started reviewing all of the episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Some great insights
there. Please click here to check them out.
The Classic Liberal was also good to TCOTS with a link in his Rule
5 posting. Please click here to check out pictures of that little cutie Anna Faris and the words of Albert Jay Nock. One of my favorite of Mr. Nocks:
…you get the same order of criminality
from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries
with it the equivalent power to do things to you.
If I missed you, please let me know.
8 aug 09 @ 8:16 pm edt
WHERE AM I?...IN THE VILLAGE...Herewith the text of the e-mail I sent early this afternoon to flag@whitehouse.gov:
To Whom It May Concern...
Under your
definition, I—someone who believes in a free market-based health care system—am espousing 'fishy' views [your
DHS did certify me, after all, a 'Rightwing (sic) Extremist'].
Under
my definition of the word, everything members of the Administration have said about the current and proposed Health Care System
is not simply fishy, but rotten fishy.
However, as the President
put it so succinctly: 'I won'. Therefore I must conclude that your fishy definition of 'fishy' is the one that you abide by
[for the moment--you are relativists, after all, and proud of it] and this is the definition you want us to apply in these
denunciations.
Therefore, herewith, wherein, and heretofore, I turn
my self in as a purveyor of 'fishy' views with the understanding that I will immediately be classified in your database as
'UNMUTUAL' [I would only request that the number you assign me is '6'].
I know that after proper re-education, I will be able to say with pride: 'It is all right, everything is all right, the
struggle is finished. I have had won a victory over myself. I love Big Brother'. I also know that, at that point, I will be
declared an 'unperson'.
Awaiting speedsend to joycamp, I remain...
Robert Oswald Belvedere, American
PS: TEA BAGS IS PEOPLE! 
8 aug 09 @ 7:51 pm edt
Friday, August 7, 2009
MA, PA, WE'RE GOING ON A LITTLE TRIP...From The People's Cube we learn that the Cash For Clunkers
program has been such a success, The White House has decided it is THE MODEL for health care as well:
From the press release:
How much is your old family member worth? Turn
them in to the nearest Planned Grandparenthood Center and find out! Receive cash prizes and free healthcare entitlements!
As part of a new incentive tied to Obama's upcoming healthcare reform, the network of Planned Grandparenthood Centers
are to begin running ads, themed "Double Cash for Your Old Coot."....
Latest opinion polls show that
seniors steal billions of dollars out the federal budget each year just by staying alive. This new bold initiative is calculated
to save us all money by gently recycling high-maintenance old coots, thus taking them off the list of potential beneficiaries
of the impeccable government health coverage.
...
At the opening of the first Planned Grandparenthood
Center in Washington, DC last week, Barack Obama offered a brief, optimistic cheer:
"In the cold-hearted,
uncaring capitalist society of the past, where every man was for himself, people often reached advanced age without any government
help. It is a shame that in the richest country in the world, old people were abandoned by society and survived on their own,
sometimes until they were 117 years old. No one knew or cared about how long they lived because everyone paid their own medical
bills. But those dog-eat-dog days are over. In the caring, collectivist America, no one will be allowed to live without government
care. And since we are paying for you, we decide how long you can be a drain on the collective wallet.
"From my meetings with community activists and focus groups I have learned one thing: once
you're past seventy, you have outlived your usefulness. Progress requires sacrifice. Some don't buy a large flat-screen TV,
some don't go on vacation, and some don't go on living. And since humans are nothing more than a random collection of chemical
elements that can also be found in a flat-screen TV, human sacrifice is no different than material sacrifice. Do it for the
children!"
Please take the time to click here and read the full press release. [tip of the fedora to Michelle Malkin]
Mrs. Belvedere and I often threaten my parents [who are both in their eighties] with 'we'll put you in a home
if you don't behave'. Now, we can just relax and let the gummit handle the problem! And we get FREE health care
too!! Dependency is not such a bad thing after all.
7 aug 09 @ 9:57 am edt
THE DARK RECESSES OF A TROUBLED SOULIt seems Phllip Kennicott of The Washington Post thinks the poster
depicting our Fearless Leader as The Joker is—get ready to be shocked—'racist'!!!. A highlight:
Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded
and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous
neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus.
...
Obama, like the Joker and like the
racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which
could erupt at any time. The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because
he is a politician, but because he's black.
Over at AmSpecBlog, Quin Hillyer is having
none of it:
...Somehow, even though Heath Ledger's "Joker" character
was white, the use of the image superimposed over Obama is portrayed by Post staff writer Phllip Kennicott as being racist.
This is the ultimate liberal bugaboo: that EVERY criticism from the right carries with it the secret motive of deep racial
animus. Kennicott writes, or rather bleeds his own twisted psychology, on the page....
There is, indeed,
something twisted about the way the Left thinks about race. An 'unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence'
and 'Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like
a virus'? Methinks Mr. Kennicott is giving us a view of the dark spaces that inhabit his soul. Any thing in there
about the fear of white women being ravaged, Phil? Does that turn you on?
Please take the time to click here and read Quin's full posting.
7 aug 09 @ 9:47 am edt
THINK STUPID
7 aug 09 @ 9:03 am edt
LEGAL-DOOM.COMAdmiral William Teach of The Pirate's Cove has sent a letter
to the ACLUasking for their help in fighting the Administration's effort to have Americans denounce their fellow Americans at flagsnitch@whitehouse.gov. A highlight from the missive:
...Will the ACLU now stand up for this program,
which is directly against the meaning of the Free Speech and protest portions of the 1st Amendment, which is to be able to
criticize the government without fear of reprisal? I await your response, and to see if the ACLU will stand up for this blatant
interference and violation of our 1st Amendment Rights.
He received back a reply that you can read by clicking here.
Way to go Admiral.
WOLVERINES!
7 aug 09 @ 8:48 am edt
A GOOD SHUNNING IS NEEDEDHere are The Cretinous Nine who voted for Sonia Sotomayor [pronounced:
sot-oh-mayor (as in: Oscar Mayer Weiner)]:
Lindsey Graham
(S.C.)
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Christoper Bond (Mo.)
Susan Collins (Maine)
Olympia Snowe (Maine)
Judd
Gregg (N.H.)
Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Mel Martinez (Fla.)
George Voinovich (Ohio)
[tip of the
fedora to W. James Antle III]
NOT ONE RED CENT!
7 aug 09 @ 8:38 am edt
Thursday, August 6, 2009
THE PALIN DIVORCE LIE: UPDATE III
6 aug 09 @ 9:00 pm edt
THIS IS CLEAR TO USSpeaking of Dan Collins's great site, Piece Of Work In Progress: whilst perusing it today, I discovered an interesting posting by Enoch Root. It is a report on Bill Clinton's successful
obtaining of a pardon for those two women held by the North Koreans. What elevates it to a level of worthiness to be
mentioned here is that the statement was 'scrubbed by flag@whitehouse.gov' before it was published. Here's a highlight of your Administration at work:
In
what could only be described as a story good enough for a TV miniseries, two American activists working for former VP Al Gore journalists that should
have known better than to sneak into the world's most paranoid and xenophobic, liberty-hating country that had traveled
to North Korea to advance the cause of saving the planet, were released by the kidnappers who surely received some sort
of ransom into the the hands of Former President Bill Clinton custody of US diplomats travel agents.
The White House lauded the transaction mission to secure the release of the 2 reporters. North Korea
has an estimated 23 000 political prisoners: the fate of which remained unchanged by the former president's visit. The
agent interloper hero of this happy-ending drama, Bill Clinton, has been working for 4 months to secure
the release of the reporters from the North Korean gulags detention hospitality facilities.
While the White House claims that the former president was not acting in an official capacity,
it is difficult to believe such a claim, given that the intermediary of the deal that was struck is the husband of current
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. How that works, we're not sure.
The
former president was not acting in any official capacity. That is clear to us.
Please do take the time to click here and get a taste of life under Tiberius Obamacus and his minions at Minitruth:
its our future, bloggers.
Victor Davis Hanson is spot-on [and unscrubbed] in his comments over at The Corner, wherein he
lays out three reasons why this was not a good thing for ex-President Clinton to do or for The Administration to allow.
From his conclusion:
All in all, something just does not seem right about this.
I think that as the dust clears, there will be some real outrage. I recall Gen. Matthew Ridgway’s warning after negotiating
with North Korean warlords and commissars some 56 years ago: “To [the North Korean] Communists the use of courtesy on
your part is synonymous with concessions and concessions with a sure indication of weakness.”
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting.
The only question I had: was a chaperon sent for the flight home with Mr. Clinton and the two women?
'I WANT YOU TO ARGUE WITH THEM AND GET IN THEIR FACE'It looks like things are going to get ugly at the town hall meetings being held
by members of the Congress. Not because of the 'angry mobs' of average Americans who are showing up to berate their
Representatives, but because of who is being recruited by various groups on the Left to counter the Right's 'astro-turfers'.
From Gateway Pundit, we learn:
The Obama website is asking supporters to attend Obamacare town halls during the
August recess to counter the massive wave of opposition to government takeover of the health care industry...
He provides a screenshot from the site of Obama and the DNC's Organizing For America and then quotes this
from the Huffington Post:
The nation's largest federation of labor
organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the
August recess.
In a memo
sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess
activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies
view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount
"Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.
...
A showdown
between unions and grassroots conservative organizations could make for an August full of fireworks, with even more dysfunctional
town hall meetings. The AFL-CIO is planning to target 50 "high priority districts," in addition to organizing telephone
town hall gatherings.
Jim Hoft then links to a Michelle Malkin [here] posting that contains links to videos of previously union thuggery.
Are any of us surprised? Candidate
Obama resorted to thuggish behavior, why should he change his M.O. now that he's President? I hope all of you that voted
for this narcissistic and tyrannical Leftist ignoramus are happy. I hope you are enjoying that boot stamping on your face—forever.
For those of you planning to attend one of these town hall meetings, one of Gateway's readers has
some very goo advice. Paul In Houston:
If they're going to pull THIS crap,
I strongly recommend documenting (with video, as much as possible) all of the occurrences you can, and then going viral with
it.
And remember: these union thugs are trained in the art of intimidation and agitation.
[tip
of the fedora to Dan Collins of Piece Of Work In Progress]
6 aug 09 @ 8:01 pm edt
PASSING THE TESTIf you recall, a number of months ago in the first flush of hysterical Obamamania
after he was inaugurated, many breathless and near-orgasmic commentators were comparing The Anointed One to famous leaders
from history. Some were also comparing Him to famous heroes of the arts. One of the most pervasive comparisons
was to Mr. Spock of Star Trek, that tall, cool, distant, logical officer who represented the best of The
Federation[some of us thought they had made him, in the movies, into a namby-pamby peacenik]. At the time,
many of us wondered: but who is Kirk, the swashbuckling man-of-action who did whatever it took to protect and defend freedom?
There was no answer provided back then.
Now Leigh Scott, over at Big Hollywood, has the answer:
We were treated to some really lame comparisons between Obama and Mr. Spock a few
months back. Let’s ignore the obvious fact; that Mr. Spock is and always was the #2 guy. The Captain’s chair
rightfully belonged to Kirk. Spock lacks the passion and empathy to be a leader. Trying to make a flattering comparison between
the leader of the free world and a legendary sidekick seems like a non-starter.
No, let’s focus on the fact
that Obama does not follow the Vulcan path. The path of logic. His demeanor may be calm, cool, and unemotional,
but his thought process is driven by raw emotion. He represents decades of grievance education, America bashing, and
misplaced empathy. There is nothing logical about the man. Exhibit A is the “stimulus plan.”
So
with the whole Obama is Spock meme D.O.A. I went searching for another apt Sci-Fi/Politics metaphor. Let’s see,
George W. Bush is Luke Skywalker? Cheney is Paul Atredies? Donald Rumsfeld is Optimus Prime? Joe Biden is
a Tribble?
Then, as Sarah Palin announced her resignation, it hit me. Sarah Palin is Captain Kirk.
Why? Because she just passed the Kobayashi Maru.
For those of you who don’t know what the Kobayashi
Maru is, let me explain. In the Star Trek universe it is an unwinnable test. It’s creator, Mr. Spock, designed it to
test how Starfleet captains deal with failure and death. There is no right way to successfully navigate through it.
But cadet James Tiberius Kirk found a way to beat it. He rigged the computer simulation to allow him to complete
the mission without killing his crew. Starfleet accused him of cheating, but Kirk’s response was simple, eloquent,
and very revealing. “I don’t believe in the no-win scenario. I don’t like to lose.” Kirk
didn’t change the strategy. He changed the rules.
Since Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene she
has been savaged. The media, the Left, the Right, the Middle, you name it. People either love her or hate her. In
the media it seems people love to hate her. The “elites” on both sides of the aisle hate the populism she represents.
Traditional feminists hate the fact that she has both a family and a career; something that their paradigm teaches is impossible.
Her future rivals hate her because she isn’t a typical politician. Her authenticity makes Mike Huckabee look about
as real as the Guinea Pigs in “G-Force”.
Palin was faced with her own Kobayashi Maru. How could
she effectively govern the state of Alaska while facing ridiculous ethics charges and the scrutiny of the national media? How
could she increase her exposure in the lower 48 while staying true to the people in Alaska who elected her? Perhaps if
the wingnuts in Alaska didn’t stalk her with silly lawsuits she would have simply put her larger ambitions on the back
burner and continued to do her job as governor. But it wasn’t meant to be. She was perfectly set up to fail.
Her popularity in Alaska would decline. The national media would point to it as an indicator of her overall effectiveness. The
Klingons…I mean the left, would have won.
But Palin defied them. She changed not her strategy, but
the very rules. She resigned her position, turning the state over to her loyal Lieutenant Governor to continue the plans
and policies she put into motion. Like any good story, it was an unexpected twist, yet when viewed in retrospect it was the
only way it could play out.
It fits. Besides...you know Kirk was a man of the Right: no way he
was a yellow-bellied Lefty. I'm sure as an officer he paid lip service to the tired Kumbaya bromides coming out
of the perfumed princes of the pablum-puking Federation Council, but, then, as you know, he always went off
and did it his way like a proto-John Galt [or John Wayne] in space. Sarah Palin is the female Kirk, and not a quitter,
dammit.
Please take the time to click here and read the full article. [tip of the fedora to Liberty Belle]
6 aug 09 @ 2:44 pm edt
NEEDED PERSPECTIVE
6 aug 09 @ 2:18 pm edt
IF OBAMA WON'T GO TO THE MOUNTAIN......the mountain must come, figuratively, to Obama.
From the AP,
Anika Kentish reporting:
ST JOHN'S, Antigua – Antigua's highest mountain
officially became "Mount Obama" on Tuesday as the small Caribbean nation celebrated the American president
on his birthday and saluted him as a symbol of black achievement.
...
The plaque on the rock sculpture
at the base of the mountain reads: "Mount Obama, named in honor of the historical election on Nov. 4, 2008, of Barack
Hussein Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, as a symbol of excellence, triumph, hope and dignity
for all people."
Spencer announced his intention to rename the mountain, previously known as Boggy Peak, shortly after the election. The gesture reflected
the U.S. leader's widespread popularity in the country, where it is common to see Obama bumper stickers
and T-shirts.
Please take the time to click here and read the full AP report [while we're still allowed quote from, and to link to, it]. [tip of the fedora to Jonah Goldberg]
Time to sing comrades...
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over
the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
6 aug 09 @ 2:07 pm edt
TMI?
6 aug 09 @ 11:21 am edt
RWE'S ARE UNMUTUALAs you probably know [especially if you read my posting here], The White House is asking that you turn over the names and e-mail/internet addresses of anyone passing along 'fishy' information
about Obamacare.
From The White House website:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning
from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails
or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re
asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send
it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Yesterday, I translated this back into the original Newspeak...
So, if you know anyper engaged in crimethink, who has malquoted the Admin,
who dares speakwrite untruth about Goodhealth, who believes in Oldthink, who thinks Miniplenty is ungood, who commits facecrime
at a townhall: this is all doubleplusungood and you must report it to Miniluv at flag@whitehouse.govbecause these prols are unmutual and must be speedsent to joycamps.
This
morning, over at The Washington Examiner, Byron York reports the following:
Linda Douglass, head of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform, says the White House is "not compiling lists or sources of information" on opponents
of health care reform. But if "fishy" information is indeed collected, as [The White House's] request
suggested, the laws involved mean that the information obtained by the White House could not only be secret but permanent.
A dissident database, in whatever precise form it ultimately takes, could be around for a long time to come.
Please take the time to click here and read the whole thing.
Isn't this just great. This makes me more confident that what I wrote recently is very true:
I've heard some on the Left compare The Anointed
One to LBJ, some to FDR, some to Wilson. So far the comparison that works best, if you're comparing him to American
Presidents, is to Richard Milhouse Nixon.
I grew up during the Nixon Administration. I remember
his Enemies List; I remember CREEP; I remember reading the transcripts of the Oval Office tapes. I've also been fascinated
with Richard Nixon the man, and have taken every opportunity to study him since and read most of his works. I have a
love/pity/disappointed relationship with this incredibly complex fellow.
What I'm seeing now is not an exact copy
of the Nixon White House, but, rather, a hybrid consisting of the NWH and a stereotypical Leftist regime. There seems
to be a desire to interlock the Democratic Party with the offices of the Executive and the Legislative branches in a symbiotic
relationship as you would find in the USSR—or, for that matter, any totalitarian regime. The posting above,
on the official, taxpayer-owned White House website, looks like a typical posting on a political party site.
This is not simply a case of the Obama Administration running an endless campaign: this is the actual joining together of
the Party and the State. If a private party wishes to collect data and store it on political dissent and obtain said
data voluntarily, that is fine. However, for a government organization to do so is unconstitutional and scary.
The brazeness of this Administration and its minions in the Congress is, as I've said so many times before, breathtaking.
Paco is handling the situation well with a bot of guerrilla theatre: he wants you to use that e-mail address above
and denounce him and then yourself. For everyone who does...
For service
to the State, every snitch will receive the Pavlik Morozov Award.
Please take the time to click here and read up on the award and to see an image of it. I will be denouncing in a short while and declare myself 'UNMUTUAL' as well.
The intrepid Iowahawk has been working this story and has laid his hands on a letter
from Commissar Linda Douglass to the true and normal citizens of America. A highlight:
By Linda Douglass
Deputy Assistant Under-Minister of Truth
White House Health Care Task Force
Greetings citizen! By now you may have heard scattered rumors of state
and party officials encountering reactionary resistors at local health care reform information programs. Do not be alarmed,
for our 5-year plan for citizen health proceeds without delay. Remain stalwart! The truth can be told at last, that these
so-called "protests" are merely the desperate rear flank mob actions of dead-end bandits and saboteurs in the pay
of enemy insurance agents.
Pay them no heed, for these outside agitators in no way represent any threat to our
great patriotic push forward for increased citizen heathfulness! These well-dressed prep school gangsters of reaction seek only to frighten and demoralize and intimidate
you, with their confusing "facts" and hob-nailed Sperry Topsiders. Unfortunately they are joined in conspiracy by
a well-financed network of unlicensed blogs and talk radio traitors, who exaggerate their numbers and percolate disinformation
-- even cleverly staged YouTube videos of an impostor President Obama saying "quotes"!
Remain strong,
citizen, for the day of their comeuppance is near! Patriotic spontaneous volunteers from MoveOn.org, Organizing For America,
HCAN, SEIU, AFSCME, ACORN, NPR, and MSNBC have all pledged independent grassroots efforts to spread the word about the health-hating
tricksters and their transparent astroturf agitation campaign!
You too can
help by remaining ever-vigilant for health traitors in your local sectors. But beware: though small in number the state health
reform enemy is clever, and well trained in subterfuge and disguise by his monopolist paymasters. Your job is to recognize
his signs, and report any fishy-seeming protest or blog activities to me or other official authorities within the Health Care
Truth Ministry....
Please take the time to click here and read the whole missive.
WOLVERINES!
6 aug 09 @ 10:43 am edt
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to
make all Rule 5 postings for the rest of the summer be in the spirit of the just-concluded International Rule 5 BikiniFest Week. While the wearing of bikinis is not compulsory, the pictures of the ladies featured must embrace the spirit of
summer. Therefore, starting with this posting, the ruling of the Committee is being enforced.
ELKE SOMMER [pun intended]:
5 aug 09 @ 8:29 pm edt
THE PALIN DIVORCE LIE: UPDATE IIPlease see my previous two postings on this here and here.
Information is still being discovered, verified, and released by Stacy McCain and Dan Riehl, along
with their commentary. Here's what's been posted since my last posting:
-Dan Riehl at 0042 ET this morning:
Jesse Griffin's Been Lying To His Friends, Too?
-Stacy McCain from 0430 ET: GIVE JESSE ENOUGH ROPE
-Stacy McCain at 0912 ET: When You Catch A Liar Lying
-Dan Riehl at 1119 ET: Jesse Griffin Explained
-Stacy McCain at 1301 ET: Real Facts, Riehl Theory
-Dan Riehl at 1339 ET: Note On Jesse Griffin Blogging
-Stacy McCain at 1405 ET: Note to the Immoral Minority
-Stacy McCain at 1447 ET: 'Former Palin Staffer Shopping Book'!?
-Dan Riehl at 1609 ET: Jesse Griffin Just Keeps Lying
-Dan Riehl at 1904 ET: Jesse Griffin: Latest Developments
There's more coming from both men. Keep checking with their sites for the latest: The Other McCain and Riehl World View.
Wait a moment.......I'm just learning that The Weekly World News may have uncovered the truth....Reginald
Cunningham III reports:
Sarah Palin, who recently abdicated as Governor of Alaska,
refuses to abdicate the spotlight. This week rumors began to surface that she may be getting a divorce from her husband
Todd. Sources claim it would be for the love of a Bigfoot.
Palin has been a scourge of the Sasquatch community
for some time now. Since quitting her job as Governor she has spent most of her time relaxing by hunting the noble and
incredibly rare Bigfoot community. The owner or a rural Alaska hotel outside Palmer on Route 1, who wishes to remain
anonymous, says she and one of the beasts have fallen in love.
The hotel owner says that Palin often stayed in
her small establishment, trying to remain incognito but still answering most questions with her trademark “You betcha!”
and wink.
According to the source while on the hunt one day Palin looked into the animals eyes, which she always
does before killing something, and found a connection she had long lost with her husband Todd. She found a shared passion
with one of the animals, a passion fueled by frustration and mutual dislike, a passion they could not control.
With
increasing frequency Palin would stay at the small motel, although spending less time in the woods and more time in her room
with a Do Not Disturb sign up. The noises they made confused the owner and scared her chickens.
Wow,
if true.
Please take the time to click here for the full report from America's Most Trusted Newspaper. [tip of the fedora to Conservatives4Palin]
Special song for Mister Griffin...
This ain't no party
This
ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around
5 aug 09 @ 8:14 pm edt
OBAMACARE DELANDA EST!And now for a look into our future...
From The London Daily Telegraph, Laura Donnelly reporting:
The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections
of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from
persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.
Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence
(NICE) is ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy.
Specialists fear tens of
thousands of people, mainly the elderly and frail, will be left to suffer excruciating levels of pain or pay as much as £500
each for private treatment.
The NHS currently issues more than 60,000 treatments of steroid injections every year.
NICE said in its guidance it wants to cut this to just 3,000 treatments a year, a move which would save the NHS £33
million.
But the British Pain Society, which represents specialists in the field, has written to NICE calling for
the guidelines to be withdrawn after its members warned that they would lead to many patients having to undergo unnecessary
and high-risk spinal surgery.
Dr Christopher Wells, a leading specialist in pain relief medicine and the founder
of the NHS' first specialist pain clinic, said it was "entirely unacceptable" that conventional treatments used
by thousands of patients would be stopped.
"I don't mind whether some people want to try acupuncture, or osteopathy.
What concerns me is that to pay for these treatments, specialist clinics which offer vital services are going to be forced
to close, leaving patients in significant pain, with nowhere to go,"
The NICE guidelines admit that evidence
was limited for many back pain treatments, including those it recommended. Where scientific proof was lacking, advice was
instead taken from its expert group. But specialists are furious that while the group included practitioners of alternative
therapies, there was no one with expertise in conventional pain relief medicine to argue against a decision to significantly
restrict its use.
Dr Jonathan Richardson, a consultant pain specialist from Bradford Hospitals Trust, is among
more than 50 medics who have written to NICE urging the body to reconsider its decision, which was taken in May.
He said: "The consequences of the NICE decision will be devastating for thousands of patients. It will mean more people
on opiates, which are addictive, and kill 2,000 a year. It will mean more people having spinal surgery, which is incredibly
risky, and has a 50 per cent failure rate."
One in three people are estimated to suffer from lower back pain
every year, while one in 15 consult their GP about it. Specialists say therapeutic injections using steroids to reduce inflammation
and other injections which can deaden nerve endings, can provide months or even years of respite from pain.
Experts
said that if funding was stopped for the injections, many clinics would also struggle to offer other vital services, such
as pain management programmes and psychotherapy which is used to manage chronic pain.
As Matthew Vadum puts it over at AmSpecBlog:
And just wait until socialist medicine comes to America.
The practice
of medicine will become explicitly political.
Bureaucrats will make decisions that deny care and then the interest
group warfare will begin because Americans, unlike submissive, statist Europeans, don't like being told how to live by government
officials.
It will be a bonanza for lobbyists and lawyers as they advocate for their respective patient interest
groups. Politically effective groups will carry the day and those patients who lack political pull will be forced to
go without care or will be provided substandard care.
Think of the frenzied lobbying and legislative horse trading
that took place during the brief debate over President Obama's stimulus legislation -- and multiply that by 300 million.
That could very well be America's future.
'Could well be'? Think about the way things work
in Washington and tell me that shouldn't read 'will be'.
Permanently linked to over at PREPOSTEROUS ALBION.
SEPECIAL NOTE: For the best aggregation of information and commentary, please keep checking over
at Pundit & Pundette. Pundette has been doing one helluva job explaining the various parts of the
proposals on the table and the implications for the average family and individuals. Please click here for all of her postings on health care.
5 aug 09 @ 7:31 pm edt
CLUNK THISI'm not one of those people who believe in taking advantage of government handouts
or largess—after all, its taxpayer money and I'm not one of those who would deceive myself by calling it 'government'
money. It doesn't belong to me except for the very small part I contributed in taxes. It is money that was handed
over to the national government so it could perform its duties under The Constitution. Now...that supreme document has
been violated for many years and I know my monies are primarily going to fund unConstitutional programs and policies.
But I still have refused to take advantage of the Lesko dollars available.
However, given the times in which we
live, given that the current national government is in the hands of those who violate The Constitution at will because they
do not believe in it, and given that I enjoy a good guerrilla campaign, because I am quite sure the DNA of John Adams
is in me [and, for the first time in my life, I feel like stickin' it to The Man], I hereby endorse what Benjamin
Zycher has done:
Let’s face it: After 17 years and 232,522 miles of faithful
service, my Jeep’s best days were long past. Time for some new wheels — but money’s a bit tight these days,
for me as for so many others.
But, as good fortune would have it, not for the federal government: They’re
willing to pay me $4,500 — $4,500! — to turn that clunker in for a new car satisfying the combined demands
of political correctitude and the auto-dealer lobby. Alas, the rules specify that the big, powerful, safe truck that I want
does not qualify.
And so I asked the question on the minds of millions of my fellow concerned citizens: How can
I get my snout into this trough? Easy: I buy a small car qualifying for the $4,500, and keep it for a few months until the
cash-for-clunkers boondoggle has run its course. At that point, the supply of used cars will have shrunk and their prices
driven up; I will sell the almost-new small car for what I paid for it ($12,629 last Saturday) or more, at worst having driven
it for free, and then buy the truck I covet.
Please take the time to click here read the full how-to and get thee to a dealership!
VIVA LE RESTORATION!
5 aug 09 @ 2:49 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Fred Thompson. From yesterday's Fred Thompson Show regarding the Obama as The Joker poster:
Jeri: Posters of Obama
depicted as the Joker have been popping up all over L.A. Is Obama actually like the Joker?
Fred:No. The Joker had crazy people and bombers
as henchmen. Obama has them … more as mentors.
This is why I respect, admire, and love the man.
Big tip of the fedora to Caleb.
5 aug 09 @ 2:30 pm edt
FISHY IS UNMUTUALKeeping in mind the quote with which I ended the immediately previous posting,
I present to you a paragraph from Comrade Obamnin's latest missive to his apparatchiks [tip of the fedora to Michelle Malkin]:
There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political
game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods
to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to
get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.
At The White House website, his minions are urging positively Orwellian behavior [tip of the fedora to Tevi Troy]:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning
from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails
or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re
asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send
it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Let me translate this back into the original [so the Moonbats and Lefties out there will understand better]...
So, if you know anyper engaged in crimethink, who has malquoted the Admin, who dares
speakwrite untruth about Goodhealth, who believes in Oldthink, who thinks Miniplenty is ungood, who commits facecrime at a townhall: this
is all doubleplusungood and you must report it to Miniluv at flag@whitehouse.govbecause these prols are unmutual and must be speedsent to joycamps.
Whiskey
Tango Foxtrot! As Pundette writes:
We're supposed to report
casual conversations to the White House website?! Have they officially over-reached yet?
Over at Red State, Erick Erickson thinks what The White House is doing may be unlawful:
...Given the near certainty that no one will be stripping from emails the names
of the people forwarding on the information, the White House is most likely engaged in unlawful activity. According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the
President shall, “maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First
Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless
pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
The White House may take the
position that certain of its offices aren’t subject to the Privacy Act (that is a longstanding Office of Legal Counsel
position, see here), but most Presidents instruct their staffs to comply. This will be a the first significant
time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation.
This is another
example of the Obama administration ignoring long time precedent when it is no longer convenient for them. And ignoring this
precedent lets them collect data on and potential harass individual American citizens.
He may be correct,
but I doubt anything will be done about this before it is too late. What to do, what to do? Michelle Malkin has an idea:
Well, they want you to report on anything “on the web about health insurance
reform that seems fishy.”
So send this link to my post questioning the health care czar’s secret
budget and this link to my post on health care czar Nancy DeParle’s conflicts of interest to flag@whitehouse.gov
Also feel free to snitch on yourselves and let the health care czar know you openly oppose socialized medicine.
Sounds good to me.
Also, check out Memeorandum.
[courtesy/credit: Ace Of Spades]
5 aug 09 @ 1:51 pm edt
THE 24/7 HATEGeorge Orwell predicted the totalitarian government of Oceania would foster a
daily Two Minutes Hatewherein the workers could vent their anger at government-designated enemies. It seems that the New Left, now
in control of the Executive and the Congress, have created a modern version that never ceases. They have gone into this
mode, I believe, because they are suffering from Hysteria. Since the Left's whole ideology is based on emotion and not
reason [ie: connected thought], it is only logical that they would resort to hysterics when confronted by a determined and
vocal opposition, such as the TEA Party folks and the protesters at various Congressmen's town hall meetings.
'Hysteria'
is defined by Princeton's WordNet as (1) state of violent mental agitation, (2) excessive or uncontrollable fear, and (3) neurotic disorder characterized
by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions.
Related to the above, Wikipedia starts off its entry with this:
Hysteria, in its colloquial
use, describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. The fear is often caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort
of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part or most commonly on an imagined problem with that body part (disease is a common complaint). [Bob: In this case, it would seem the Left are centering on the body
politic.]
How else to explain these...
From yesterday's White House Q&A:
TAPPER: A couple questions. One, is it your contention -- is it the
White House contention that the anger that some members of Congress are experiencing at town hall meetings, especially over
health care reform, is manufactured?
GIBBS: I think some of
it is, yes. In fact, I think you've had groups today, Conservatives for Patients Rights, that have bragged about organizing
and manufacturing that anger.
TAPPER: How is their organizing
and getting people to come to town hall meetings and express their feelings any different from a liberal group doing the same
thing?
GIBBS: Well, I think what you've seen is they have -- they
have bragged about -- about manufacturing, to some degree, that anger. I think you've got somebody who's very involved,
a leader of that group that's very involved in -- in the status quo, a CEO that used to run a health care company that was
fined by the federal government $1.7 billion for fraud. I think that's a lot of what you need to know about the motives
of that group.
Or this, also reported by Jake Tapper yesterday:
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, tells ABC News that there's nothing authentic about the
protests Democratic congressmen are experiencing all over the country.
"This notion of a grass-roots campaign
is totally and completely phony," Doggett said. "The Republican Party has coordinated this apparent outrage and
stirred it up."
Or this reported by Jake Tapper this morning:
The White House suggestion that some of the anger seen at town hall meetings is "manufactured"
apparently wasn't seen as strong enough, so the Democratic National Committee in a new web video is depicting the protestors
as irrational birthers who want to "destroy" President Obama.
The web video says "the right wing
extremist Republican base is back" and shows the woman from the June 2009 town hall meeting in Sussex County, Delaware,
yelling at Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., that President Obama is "not an American citizen."
The ad says "desperate
Republicans and their well funded allies are organizing angry mobs -- just like they did during the election. Their goal?
Destroy President Obama."
DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse issued a statement about "the Republican
Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule," saying that the "Republicans and their allied groups -- desperate after
losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill -- are inciting angry mobs of a small number
of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care
in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country."
Woodhouse said: "The right wing
extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy,
breathlessly questioning the president's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of
the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well
in 2008 -- and it is bound to backfire again."
They're panicking.
As you would expect,
Michelle Malkin is on the case. Some highlights from her latest syndicated column:
The same Democrat Masters of Astroturf who encouraged their followers to use “in your face” tactics during the campaign season now balk at vocal opposition from their fiscally conservative
neighbors and co-workers. Obama’s architects of Kabuki town halls have packed public forums with partisan plants. Now,
they accuse opponents gathering at impromptu rallies against the massive health care takeover legislation (which no one has
read) of orchestrating “manufactured anger.”
Unaccustomed to pushback, the wealthy, astro-turfed ground troops for Obamacare
– underwritten by unions, liberal philanthropists, the AARP, ACORN, and your tax dollars — have resorted to projection.
As I’ve reported previously, the single-payer lobby boasts a $40 million budget and a stable of seasoned political operatives
based at 1825 K Street in Washington, D.C. Now, that cabal is accusing the broad coalition of taxpayer activists, libertarians,
independents, talk radio loyalists, bloggers, and first-time protesters against socialized medicine of being, yes, wealthy
and astroturfed.
And...
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, apparently
oblivious to the dozens of well-dressed and well-heeled former lobbyists and influence peddlers employed by his own boss,
derided health care town hall protesters as the “Brooks Brothers brigade.” Brooks Brothers was also the president’s clothes designer of choice on Inauguration
Day. He taunted: “I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the AstroTurf nature of so-called grass-roots
lobbying.” Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dispatched a memo obtained by D.C.-based newspaper Human Events assuring
Democrats of “close coordination” with faux grass-roots groups “including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU,
AARP, etc.”
But never mind all that.
Some panicked congressional targets of the
Tea Party movement have responded by shutting their offices, closing their blinds, and shooing pesky constituents off public
property. The White House health czar’s office is mustering up Internet snitches to report “inaccurate” blog posts and “casual conversations” from
health care opponents. And liberal bloggers and cable yakkers are waging their own war on the Tea Party movement by redefining
participatory democracy as “thuggery” and “hooliganism.”
Please do take the time to click here and read her full column.
As the wise Sir Bob of Belvedere said a while back:
If you want to know
what the those on the Left are doing in a particular situation, just look and see what they're accusing the Right of doing.
You've heard of 'The Big Lie', this is 'The Big Deception'.
5 aug 09 @ 11:28 am edt
THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP FOR THEM...Right Of Course has up a very good posting on the Administration
and its view of mankind. What sparked him to write was a study published by Oregon State University that
parents who have children increase the 'carbon footprint'. A big 'Duh!', right? Well, the study goes on to conclude
that American children have the worst 'footprint' of any. As ROC points out, this relates to the thinking
of a number of members of the Administration and he cites several examples. He also thinks—and with what's happened
so far since 20 January, its definitely not out of the realm of possiblity—that a baby tax is not far off. As ROC explains:
...There is no sacrifice you must make that is too great for the efforts
to appease their god. They have proposed taxes on various foods in the name of their god, global warming. They
have proposed taxes on businesses in the name of global warming. They are taking functioning cars off the road and
sticking them in landfills in the name of global warming. It only makes sense to tax your children in the name of global
warming. This would, of course, leave the choice up to you as to whether you want kids or not. I wonder if you
could get a credit for not having kids? This would also incentivise abortions. This may seem like a ridiculous
conspiracy theory now, but a few years ago, who would’ve believed there would be a government take-over of U.S. banks
and the auto industry? Twenty years ago, who would’ve believed citizens of the United States would blame
the United States for a terrorist attack? You can have as many children as you like, we’re just going to have
to take some extra money from you to offset the damage you are doing to the polar icecaps....
Someone once
said that, without a belief in God, everything is permissible. I've devised a variation: without a belief in the Founding
Principles, anything policy or law is possible. In a world where morality is relative, there are no limits, no boundries,
no restraints on actions or behaviors. The members of the current Administration are relativists and believe that no
restraints apply to them. Everything they do is justified by the fact that their motives are so right and pure, that
they have THE ANSWER, that the eschaton can be immanentized—as the song says: Ooo heaven is a place on Earth.
I'm glad to see some Americans are rising up
against these unfeeling ideologues and their policies of mass destruction. If enough of us rebel, we may—just
may—be able to defeat these deluded fools who are, as Ayn Rand correctly labeled them, Anti-Life ['Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate man’s rights, is wrong, which means: is evil, which means:
is anti-life.'].
To those who are rising up, I say: don't be discouraged; you are on the side of the angels.
Fight the good fight because it is the right thing to do.
5 aug 09 @ 10:44 am edt
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
THE PALIN DIVORCE LIE: UPDATEIf you haven't visited here today, then please click here and read my posting from this morning on this.
Since I last posted, the following has happened...
-This morning at 0842 ET, Stacy McCain posted:
Notes On The Delay
-And Dan Riehl posted, at 0903 ET: Update On Jesse Griffin Story
-At 1158 ET, Stacy posted the text of the e-mail he sent to Jesse Griffin
-At 1326 ET, Dan Riehl published some of the information he has obtained. Here's a highlight:
Despite claims of being an anonymous blogger at Immoral Minority, research suggests
that, through possible misjudgment, Jesse Griffin appears to have created a situation in which he has been easily identifiable
as the blogger Gryphen, particularly to children, perhaps for as long as two years.
He will be publishing
more, but is giving Mr. Griffin a chance to respond to what he has found.
-While still awaiting an answer, Mr.
Riehl posted some background info at 1606 ET: Jessie Griffin, The Left And The Lies
Stacy and Riehl are doing great work on this story. Bravo, gentlemen!
There's more coming from
both men. Keep checking with their sites for the latest: The Other McCain and Riehl World View.
This joint is jumpin'...It's really jumpin'...
4 aug 09 @ 8:37 pm edt
SPOT-ON IDIOTIC QUOTE OF THE DAY......from Secretary Of Health And Human Services, former Governor of Kansas, Kathleen
'Late-Term' Sebelius:
President Obama and I are working closely with Democrats
and Republicans in the House and Senate and health-care experts to make sure we get the details of health reform right. But
we can't let the details distract us from the huge benefits that reform will bring.
Secretary Sebelius has
won a dope slap and a hit upside the head with a 2x4, courtesy of The American Republic. THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC—If
You Can Keep Her™. These prizes will be presented to her if I ever get the chance.
Please take the time to click here and read Yuval Levin's commentary on on winner's statement.
Permanently linked at THE OUTFIT TRANSCRIPTS on the WWU-AM page.
4 aug 09 @ 8:13 pm edt
AM I WHATNIZANT?You know, its hard being The One, The Anointed, The Savior. So many things
to be concerned with, so little time, even for a demi-god like our Fearless Leader. You have to keep you eye on the
big picture and that often means you miss the little, puny things, as Lyle [via Van Helsing] points out at Moonbatty:
Barack Obama, through his spokesman, claimed that he was unawareo f the tax day tea parties. Granted, the MSM has done a good job in suppressing any sort
of coverage ahead of time (and the little coverage they did provide was derisive at best) but how out of touch is the Community
Organizer in Chief, really?
This much.
He was unaware that he was attending a church (for 20 years) with a racist pastor who hates America.
He was unaware that he was family friends with, and started his political career in the living room of, a domestic terrorist.
He was unaware that he had invested in two speculative companies backed by some of his top donors right
after taking office in 2005.
He was unaware that his own aunt was living in the US illegally.
He was unaware that his own brother lives on pennies a day in a hut in Kenya.
He was unaware of the AIG bonuses that he and his administration approved and signed into a bill.
There's much more. Please take the time to click here and read it all. [tip of the fedora to Paco]
4 aug 09 @ 7:58 pm edt
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALINSKYYet more evidence of the heavy politicization of the Justice Department under
Eric Holder has surfaced. From the Editors of The Washington Times:
In an apparent vendetta against a sheriff in Arizona who is tough on illegal immigration, the Obama administration
has crossed another boundary. The treatment of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is yet another sign of the administration's
dangerous hyperpoliticization of federal law enforcement.
In
the course of a wider crime sweep on July 23 and 24 that netted numerous arrests, the sheriff's department requested permission
from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain 13 illegal immigrants and transfer them to ICE's custody. The
end result, amidst conflicting stories, was that all 13 illegals were let go.
Sheriff Arpaio blamed ICE. However, Matthew Chandler, Washington-based spokesman for the federal Department
of Homeland Security (ICE's parent agency), issued a statement saying that "the determination to release these individuals
lies solely within the [sheriff's office].... [On July 23], ICE gave the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office permission to interview
the three individuals in question, arrest, and initiate removal proceedings -- instead Sheriff Arpaio released them."
Homeland Security's story doesn't pan out. The sheriff's deputies taped
the calls to ICE. The recordings show that ICE repeatedly refused permission to take custody of the illegals.
You know, maybe those folks are right who say Comrade Obamnin hates cops.
Here's one of the best sheriffs in the country—a man who has done, and continues to do, an awful lot of good—and
they keep harassing him and trying to destroy his reputation. So much of what this Administration does is just plain
VILE.
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting. [tip of the fedora to Quin Hillyer]
Yesterday, I linked to Jennifer Rubin's look at A.G. Holder and his
Department over at THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.
4 aug 09 @ 7:44 pm edt
VILE BODIES
4 aug 09 @ 7:21 pm edt
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AS THE JOKER ...But take him seriously: he means it.
BUT WE LOOK SO FORWARD TO HIS POSTINGS!
4 aug 09 @ 2:44 pm edt
OF MALCONTENTS AND MCCAIN AND GETTING RIEHLSince my posting of yesterday [here] on the Palin Divorce Lie, things have continued to move at a good clip. Last night, Stacy McCain posted this over at The Other McCain at 07:44 PM ET:
Just got off the phone with Dan Riehl, with whom I'm co-blogging a project about
anti-Palin blogger "Gryphen," a/k/a Jesse Griffin, Anchorage kindergarten teacher.
Given the serious
nature of this story, Dan has decided to seek legal advice before publishing, a decision in which I concur. Readers are requested
to visit Riehl World View or back here, where updates will be posted as soon as possible.
Dan Riehl posted this at 08:41 PM ET:
Update: Given that the threat mentioned below did not include links to inappropriate
comments, I was forced to search the site for certain troubling words. Everything I have been made aware of has been deleted
as of now. Stacy and I continue to work to try and get this story posted. But I must ask your indulgence at this time. Please
do not post criminal allegations, or threats of any kind here. If I've missed anything, please send me an email if you caught
it, so that I can level inappropriate comments.
As I've just received a threat which seems to be from Jesse Griffin
and suggests lawyers are already involved, please refrain from making any comments here that suggest Jesse Griffin is
guilty of any crime, particularly as regards children. I have suggested no such thing.
At 11:24 PM ET, Stacy published this posting here on the threat.
At 11:59 PM ET, Dan Riehl published the text of the Griffen e-mail here.
As of this moment there are no further postings from either man.
Keep checking with their sites
for the latest: The Other McCain and Riehl World View.
This joint is jumpin'...
4 aug 09 @ 8:00 am edt
Monday, August 3, 2009
LAST POSTING ON 'THE BEER SUMMIT'This is the last time I will be posting on The Summit of Summits,
on le grande gesture of Tiberius Obamacus. Over at Eye of Polyphemus, Jamie Jeffords offers
the best comment on the famous picture of the Officer Crowley, Skippy Gates, Barry O, and Joe Hill Biden sittin' around enjoyin'
some brews. I would ruin the effect if I quoted it here, so please click here to see and read it.
3 aug 09 @ 7:52 pm edt
OBAMACARE DELANDA EST!I've just added nine new links to the SOCIALIZING HEALTH CARE section of the JUST THE FACTS, MAM part of the WWU-AM page. I would especially
like to draw your attention to the on-going series by the Editors at Investor's Business Daily on this subject
[they've published thirty parts so far as of the time of this posting].
But, for the best aggregation of information
and commentary, please keep checking over at Pundit & Pundette. Pundette has been doing one helluva
job explaining the various parts of the proposals on the table and the implications for the average family and individuals.
Please click here for all of her postings on health care. [I've made this a permanent link over in the SHC section]
3 aug 09 @ 7:28 pm edt
CASH FOR A REAL CLUNKERWhat does the Cash For Clunkers program have to do with Obamacare?
Over at the American Issues Project, Jimmie Bise has the answer:
This
program spent one billion dollars (insert Dr. Evil voice and pinky maneuver here) that was supposed to last three months about
30 times faster than originally planned. Let's extend that into another realm. The latest compromise health care plan is slated
to spend $900 billion over ten years. How quickly do you think that money will last if it gets spent as fast at the C4C money?
A little division shows us that we'd have to spend only $246,575,342 per day to make that $900 billion last a full
ten years (about 3650 days). If we spent it 30 times as fast, though, we'd be spending $7,397,260,273 per day which, by the
way, is only a billion dollars more per day than we spent in 2007 on health care (PDF link). At that rate, we'd spend our $900 billion in a little bit over 121
days. Even if we were generous and assumed that we'd only spend the money half as fast as we vaporized the C4C budget,
that money still wouldn't last us a year.
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting.
3 aug 09 @ 2:47 pm edt
THUG, THY NAME IS HOLDERNot only is the Justice Department heavily politicized—perhaps more than
it has ever been [see the immediately previous posting below]—but, it too is populated by those who have no problem
wielding the heavy-hand [ie: thugs]. From AmSpecBlog, Matthew Vadum reporting:
The Obama administration believes that an inability to speak English is a civil right. It is even more distressing
that the administration, legally speaking, may be right.
In April President Obama's Department of Justice threatened
to cut off federal funding to Oklahoma if that state's voters approve a state constitutional amendment making English
Oklahoma's official language, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) revealed.
Please take the time to click here and read the rest of his posting.
Scene from 2035...
Grandson: Grandpa, this
old book of your's talks about something called 'states rights' and something called the 'Tenth Amendment'. I ain't
heard of them before. What are they?
Grandpa: Relics of a dead, great age, long gone, son.
3 aug 09 @ 2:42 pm edt
OF ERIC HOLDER AND FLIGHT 93I've just updated THE WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE ROAD TO SERFDOMwith two good stories by Jennifer Rubin [on the heavily politicized Justice Department under Eric Holder] and by
Michael Todd [on the shenanigans being perpetrated at the Flight 93 Memorial], respectively.
3 aug 09 @ 2:28 pm edt
OF MALCONTENTS AND MCCAINThere was a rumor being circulated throughout the ether over the past several
days that Todd and Sarah Palin were going to get divorced. As you may have guessed, it was not true, but was just
another attempt to smear America's favorite hockey mom and her family. It turns out it was some malcontent that was
behind it who just happens to be—surprise!—a Leftist blogger [funny how so many people supremely dissatisfied
with their lives and their lots in it find their way to the Left].
Robert Stacy McCain was all over the story and
managed to get a quote out of Mrs. Palin that is classic Sarah:
Divorce Todd? Have
you seen Todd? I may be just a renegade hockey mom, but I'm not blind!"
Stacy, along with Dan Riehl,
were relentless in their pursuit of the person ultimately behind the false rumor. And they found their man: a part-time
kindergarten teacher named Jesse Griffen.
Here are Stacy's postings in chronological order [they contain links
to Dan Riehl's work on this as well]:
-Palin Divorce Gossip 'Completely False'
-Quote from Sarah Palin
-Bozo the CNN Stringer
-'Mommy, Why Does My Kindergarten Teacher Lie About Sarah Palin?'
-LEAVE JESSE GRIFFEN ALONE!
RSM also posted this rather funny mini-essay entitled: Sarah Palin Needs to Help Conservative Bloggers So We Can Make Stuff Up, Too. And there's a followup to that one here.
Stacy McCain: the modern Sam Gatlin.
Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise has a nice summary of it all and other matters. He also offers this spot-on commentary:
This should be the end of it but,
of course, it won't. Palin is to the left what a tasty smear of peanut butter on a trap is to a pesky rodent and, if they
continue to nibble away, their credibility is going to end up just as dead as the rat. My friendly advice to anyone of the
left is to walk away from this story just as quickly as possible. It's not going to help you even a little bit.
I don't think they can help themselves. Let us not forget that the Left is not ruled by reason, but, rather, by their
emotions. This is why they attract so many misfits and malcontents, who are people who have rejected connected thought.
3 aug 09 @ 2:04 pm edt
IS THERE ANYBODY IN THERE?
3 aug 09 @ 1:31 pm edt
Sunday, August 2, 2009
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDFrom his latest weekly syndicated column:
President
Obama has no choice but to move fast, in part because the image he presented during the campaign — a post-partisan,
post-racial, post-anything-unpleasant-and-controversial, pragmatic centrist — was a total crock. He has a vast transformative
domestic agenda and — because most of its elements are not terribly popular — he has to accomplish it at speed,
or he won’t get it done at all.
Health-care “reform”? As we’ve seen this past week in the
House of Representatives, put not your trust in “Blue Dog Democrats.” And, as we’ll no doubt see in the
weeks ahead in the Senate, put not your trust in “moderate Republicans” whose urge to “reach across the
aisle” is so reflexive it ought to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The president needs
to get something passed. Anything. The details don’t matter. Once it’s in place, health-care “reform”
can be re-reformed endlessly. Indeed, you’ll be surprised how little else we talk about. So, for example, public funding
for abortions can be discarded now, and written in — as it surely will be by some judge — down the road. What
matters is to ram it through, get it done, pass it now — in whatever form.
If this seems a perverse obsession
for a nation with a weak economy, rising unemployment, and a war on two fronts, it has a very sound strategic logic behind
it. As I wrote in National Reviewa week or two back, health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center
political culture. That’s its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen
and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists — to those who believe government has a legitimate
right to regulate human affairs in every particular.
Please take the time to click here and read the full column.
2 aug 09 @ 7:59 pm edt
NOW THAT'S GOT TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST POST TITLES EVER PUBLISHEDI speak of this one by Jimmie over at The Sundries Shack:
2 aug 09 @ 7:53 pm edt
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T E R M S
Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
What They're Saying
About
BOB BELVEDERE &
The Camp Of The Saints... 'Sir Bob of Belvedere'
—Smitty—
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—Paco—
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—GatorDoug—
''Belvederus Maximus'
—Smitty—
'You are contributing to a noble yet futile cause -- the butchification of metrosexuals.
TCOTS
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—Red—
'[H]e takes retro dame blogging to a new, narrative noir level.'
—Smitty—
'Staunch Rule 5 aficionado Bob Belvedere, is shameless indeed (I have so much respect for this man)!'
—The Classic Liberal—
'Who knew he was such a fan of the undead?'
—Smitty—
'We need fighters, and I suspect Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe is vanquished.
Bob Belvedere gets it. Phyllis Chesler gets it.
We defend truth and
liberty against lies and tyranny. Every eye is upon us and we are surrounded by enemies as numerous as the grains of sand
on the shore. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
WOLVERINES!'
—Stacy McCain—
'Bob Belvedere, you're a nasty piece of work.'
—Anonymous—
'you charming rogue'
—Robert—
'The sad decay of Bob Belvedere into a Rule 5 junkie saddens us all.'
—Smitty—
'Belvedere went slightly crazy on us.'
—Smitty—
'And thank you, Dr. Belvedere, for setting me straight on Rule 5! I tell ya, that Belvedere Dude
is Funny!'
—Irish Cicero—
'Kevin Binversie is not nearly so shameless a blogwhore as Troglopundit . . .
but then again, nobody really is. OK, maybe Bob Belvedere, as if anyone could compete with Bob.'
—Stacy McCain—
'Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter'
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