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Saturday, August 29, 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 restrictions 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...
ANITA EKBERG...
The summerwind came blowing in...
Dreamy, coolwind nights...
Martinis for two...
When I take my sugar to tea...
A lazy afternoon...
We're nearing the end of our Summer celebrations here in The Beloved City and I'm going to take
this opportunity to indulge myself with one of my all-time favorite Summer songs from the Great International Songbook.
There's nothing like sitting on our deck, enjoying a Gimlet, and looking over at the beautiful Mrs. B., as Frank Sinatra sings
this little jem...
More...than the greatest love the world has known
This
is the love I give to you alone
More than the simple words I try to say
I only live to love you more each day
More than you'll ever know
My arms long to hold you so
My
life will be in your keeping
Waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping
Longer than always is a long long time
But far beyond forever you're gonna be mine
I know I've never lived before and my heart is very sure
No one else
could love you more
More than you'll ever know
My
arms they long to hold you so
My life will be in your keeping
Waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping
Longer than always is a long long time
But far beyond forever you'll be mine
I know that I've never lived before
and my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more
No one else could love you more
[tip of the fedora to Todd Peach]
UPDATE 30AUG09: The usual kindness has been received from friend Smitty over at The Other McCain. He linked to both the Yvonne Craig posting and this one. Thanks. Don't forget to check out his rendering of a Greek classic for these dark times, OediPOTUS
Wrecks. I've got the whole play linked at the top of the right-hand column of this page. Smitty is currently
at work on, what I'm sure will be and equally entertaining sequel: Waiting For O'Dough.
The
Classic Liberal not only linked the two TCOT's Rule 5 postings, but also quoting from the posting:
BACHMANN TURNS ON HER OVERDRIVE. TCB indeed. A big thank you to theCL. And thank you for giving us as a chaser Christina Aguilera to go with a shot of economics—makes inbibing a dry subject go down much easier.
Over at the WyBlog, Chris reports on the real tropical storm Dannii.
Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie serves up a hot curry: Padma Lakshmi. Also, just because he can, Mr. Jeffords provides us with a second course of smoked Kelly Brook. Mmm mmm good.
Over at HotMES, Monique Stuart returns to Rule 5 with the adorable Zooey Deschanel.
As you know, I am a big fan of The Chairman Of The Board. How could I not, therefore, link to Three Beer's Later's PG-13 video of a Nancy Sinatra striptease?
Right Of Course, in an otherwise serious posting, provides us with the best picture of Marilyn Monroe in a bathing suit I have ever seen.
Admiral William Teach sails into port with his Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup. If you need me, I'm gone fishin'.
29 aug 09 @ 8:38 pm edt
ON GUARDNot content to try to force young adults into performing 'national service', Comrade
Obamnin and his Politburo want to enlist the nation's children in the glorious effort to count everybody and anybody, especially
non-citizens, for the 2010 Census. From USA Today, Haya El Nasser reporting [tip of the fedora to Michelle Malkin]:
Anyone tempted to ignore
the 2010 Census will have a tough time doing it — especially if they have kids in school.
The government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents,
principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message:
The Census is coming and here's why everyone should care.
The
goal is to send posters, teaching guides, maps and lesson plans to every school in the nation, Puerto Rico and U.S. island
territories to encourage everyone to participate in the national count. The materials will land in more than 118,000 schools
and reach 56 million students.
"It's great to reach the children
because children are such strong voices in their homes," says Renee Jefferson-Copeland, chief of the Census schools program.
"In households that are linguistically isolated, they can express the information to their parents."
...
Between January and March, the Census Bureau will help plan a week of Census education in schools. During Census Week,
teachers will devote 15 minutes every day for five days to the topic by discussing such things as civic participation, confidentiality
or geography. Beginning in mid-March, more than 120 million Census questionnaires will be delivered to residential addresses.
The Census Bureau is partnering
with Sesame Street to extend the 2010 Census message to preschoolers and adult caregivers. Under consideration: Using Sesame
Street characters on Census materials and having characters participate in school events and public service announcements.
Does not the idea of the government enlisting your children
in one of its causes make you uneasy? Does it not worry you that they will be doing it when your children are out
of your control?
This enlisting of children into doing the bidding of the government reminds me of something .
. .can't quite remember what .... 'scuse me while I play a hunch over at Wikipedia..... [Muzak plays
We Are Family] ......... ........... ah, thanks for waiting ... got it... from the Red China section:
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1978), the Young Pioneers Movement was defunct. Instead, it was replaced by the Little Red Guards, who were the younger counterparts of the Red Guards, the implementers of the Cultural Revolution.
Well then: WELCOME TO OMERICA IN THE YEAR ZERO!...
As Michelle Malkin wrote: 'ABC stands for Activate Barack’s Cadre!'
As Stacy McCain would say: WOLVERINES!
29 aug 09 @ 4:13 pm edt
I GOT BETTER...One thing I've learned in my many travels throughout the ether is that there is
no shortage of comedic imagination on the Right side of it. A case in point is my immediately previous posting below.
Another is this from Right Of Course, in which Monty Python And The Holy Grail is channeled
not once, but in two separate postings:
From the first...
Roger, “What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.”
Obama,” Well I am President.”
Roger,”President? How’d you do that?…by playing
to the fears of the poor and minority groups and preaching outdated Marxist dogma of class warfare which codifies discrimination
by putting people into arbitrary groups then convincing them to turn over their liberties to an ever growing totalitarian
government.”
Obama, “I am your President!”
Marissa (Roger’s wife) “I didn’t
vote for you.”
Obama, “It doesn’t matter if you voted for me. I defeated Hillary Clinton
for the nomination and John McCain for the Presidency.”
Roger,” Defeating some farsical woman and a
Republican who thinks he is a Democrat is no basis to go getting all full of yourself.
From the second...
Mark Loyd,” Bring him forward. What’s your name?”
Battered Man, “Kenneth Gladney, and I’m not a racist.”
Mark Loyd, “But you are dressed
as one.”
Kenneth,”They put these clothes on me.”
Mob,”No we didn’t, racist…ok,
well we did do the hat…and the robe…they’re Robert Byrd’s…but he is a racist, Yeah! racist!
We did dress him up a bit…but he was handing out pamphlets! Yeah! pamphlets with a snake!”
Mark Loyd,
“What makes you think he is a racist?”
SEIU member 2, “He said my shirt was black!”
Kenneth,”Your shirt is black.”
Mob, “Racist! Burn him!”
Mark Loyd,”
Quiet. There are ways of telling if he is a racist. What do we do to racists?”
SEIU member 1, “Make
them Senator of West Virginia?”
Good stuff, that. [tip of the fedora to Smitty]
29 aug 09 @ 2:08 pm edt
MAKE 'EM LAUGH, MAKE 'EM LAUGHOver at Zombie Contentions, the ever-resourceful Howard Portnoy
imagines what it would be like for the Dali Bama to interrogate terrorists. A vivid highlight:
[Detainee enters from bedroom, wearing plush hotel robe and slippers, accompanied by Marine in dress
blues and turbaned translator.]
Translator [After listening to Detainee's instructions]: Tell them they may enter.
Obama [Steps forward, grinning
broadly]: I am Barack Hussein Obama, leader of this land. I’m sorry — I’m unfamiliar with your customs.
Are we permitted to shake hands? Do I bow? Curtsy? [Pleasantries are exchanged and Obama is offered a chair.] I trust
the accommodations are to your liking? I had tried to line up a five-star hotel, but they’re all booked. Anyway, I will
be brief. You are here, in our custody, because you were allegedly picked up on a battlefield, where you were manning a machine
gun pointed at American troops. Can you tell me about that . . . I mean, how were you feeling? Were you angry about something,
perhaps the rampant poverty in your country?
[Detainee stares at Obama
for a moment, then whispers to translator.]
Translator [Uncomfortably]: He wishes to know the identity of this clown with
the big ears.
Please take the time to click here and read the full transcript.
29 aug 09 @ 1:56 pm edt
Friday, August 28, 2009
'I STAND REVEALED AT LAST-CURSED......in my birth, cursed in marriage,
cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands!'
Smitty has published the final installment [Finale] of his new play OediPOTUS Wrecks over at The
Other McCain.
Bravo maestro!
I've set up a special section at the top of the right hand
column of this page with the links for each installment.
EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY, Part IVOnce again, I've been soaring through the ether reading reactions to the death
of Ted Kennedy and I thought I'd pass along more of some of the best that I've read.
To read my three
previous postings, please click here and here., and here.
1) Per usual, we start with Stacy McCain. Yesterday, he quoted from and linked to the famous [infamous?] 1990
GQ article by the late Michael Kelly A Sober Look At Ted Kennedy here. In another he justifiably scolds those who call what happened at Chappaquiddick an 'incident' or a 'tragedy' or an
'accident'. A taste of it:
...in story after story, we see dishonest passive-voice references to this "incident." Call it an "incident" or an "accident," but at all costs, avoid describing
it as vehicular manslaughter or anything else that might attribute agency and responsibility to the responsible agent,
the man behind the wheel....
In a posting from earlier today, he informs us that: 'In case you folks haven't
heard, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy just hired me to provide entertainment as a stand-up comedian at Kennedy's wake.'
Stacy then proceeds to give us a preview:
God bless him, but ol' Teddy was the life of the party, even if he was also the
death of partygoers. Hey, did you folks hear this one yet?
Q.
What's the difference between Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan?
A. As a young man Ronnie saved girls from drowning! Oh,
I got a million of 'em, folks. I just swam in from Chappaquiddick, and boy, are my arms tired.
I tell, ya, Ted
Kennedy gets no respect, no respect at all. Why, when Ted Kennedy came out in favor of abortion, his own mother said, "Oh,
now he tells me!"
I'm going to send him this one: Teddy walks into a doctor's office. He
says 'Doctor, my arm hurts when I go like this because I got really drunk, drove a car off a bridge, got myself
to safety, left a girl to suffocate in my car, hid and lied, and got off scot-free. What should I do?' Doctor
says 'Don't go like that'. [boom boom]
UPDATE: Shecky McCain continues the schtick here.
2) Speaking of Teddy joking about the events of 19 July 1969: in my posting yesterday afternoon [item #10], I quoted from Jules Crittenden who while driving heard Ed Klein tell a talk show host that the Senator had
such a great sense of humor that he really liked to tell and hear Chappaquiddick jokes. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey has the audio and more.
Oh that Kennedy boy! What a laugh riot!
3) Talking Points Memo's Matt
Cooper compared the death of Kennedy to September 11th. Snark And Boobs is justifiably angry:
Dear Matt Cooper (formerly of Time Magazine and now working for Talking Points
Memo): Aww, are you feeling icky poo? Did it harsh your mellow?
September
11th is not equivalent to that. That you even *think* of the two things
at the same time is a testament to your delusional existence.
4) The Classic Liberal is
succinct and spot-on:
Ted was an uber-wealthy, alcoholic, playboy who lived a life of hedonistic debauchery
as he coasted through life thanks to his father's fortunes.
He eventually went on to buy himself a seat in the
Senate, and went to work doing everything he could to destroy the principles and values, that made America the beacon of hope
for the entire world.
Preach brother, preach.
5) Over at American Power, Donald
Douglas has some interesting observations on why Ted Kennedy screwed up his 1980 run for the Presidency. Please click here.
6) Andrew McCarthy thinks the Left is making a mistake if they start calling it 'Kennedycare' instead of 'Obamacare':
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't see how this helps the Left. If
I were a Lefty and I could be cold-blooded about the whole thing, I'd probably think attaching Kennedy's name was a bad
idea. Even with his numbers tanking, Obama is still more personally popular with the country as a whole than Kennedy was,
and he is unavoidably the guy the Left has to rely on. That makes him the only name that matters, regardless of what
they call this thing.
Why does Obamacare necessarily need a person's name attached to it, anyway? Why can't
they just call it, say, a "Man-Caused Disaster"? Or maybe a "domestic contingency operation" — or,
better, "a domestic contingency to prevent you from getting an operation"?
That last one is perfect.
7) Greg Pollowitz looks back in humor at the Kennedy endorsement of The Anointed One.
8) Professor William Jacobson looks chronologically at how the Senator's death affected the effort to socialize health care.
9) Over at AmSpecBlog, David Bass reminds us of the lesson to be learned from Teddy's long reign as Senator:
Kennedy was sworn into the Senate in 1962. He served nine terms -- nearly half
a century -- in that body. Robert Byrd has been in the Senate since 1959, making this year his half-century mark. The habit
of pols getting and then keeping power until they expire is not peculiar to one party, either. Strom Thurmond, first elected
to the Senate in 1954, was the only Senator to reach over 100 years old while still in office. That's to say nothing of the
House members who have served 50 years or more.
Regardless of their party affiliation, something is amiss when
a lawmaker serves half a century in the same office. Such entrenched incumbency can't help but breed corruption, in small
ways if not in large. Ted Stevens is one example. The corrupt Republican served 40 years in the Senate before getting busted.
We need fresh faces, often.
We have no ones to blame, but ourselves.
10) Doctor Zero has obtained
the AP report that describes the procession of the cast through the City of Boston yesterday. A highlight:
As the life of a heartbroken nation grinds to a halt, people from all walks of life are stepping forward to offer
words of praise for the beloved Senator Kennedy. “He touched a lot of lives, sometimes in defiance of restraining orders,”
said Brenda M., a cocktail waitress. “He was a true friend to the small businessman,” said Pete R., owner of a
small liquor store.
International observers also had high praise for the late Senator. “He was always eager
to reach out, and make himself useful to the international community,” recalls Yuri G., a former KGB agent who worked
closely with Kennedy in the Eighties. “My old job disappeared during a major economic downturn, but Senator Kennedy
made me feel better, by showing me that my old operation was thriving under new management,” said Achmed T., a former
employee of the Iraqi Republican Guard, unemployed since 2003. Fellow immigrant Nguyen D., who relocated from Cambodia over
30 years ago, adds that Kennedy “helped bring great change to my country.”
The crowds gathered to pay
respects to this titan of the Senate - hailed as one of the greatest Americans who ever lived, by many highly qualified media
professionals - had nothing but scorn and contempt for the obsession of right-wing extremists with Mary Jo Kopechne, who tragically
died of advanced political expediency before most American voters were born. “I think I speak for most women when I
say that I would be happy to drown in seven feet of water, if it would further the magnificent career of a lion like Ted Kennedy,”
said a defiant Melissa L., aspiring sycophant. An angry Michael M., who claimed to be a radio host and professor of history,
added “The right wing in this country killed John and Robert Kennedy, invaded South Vietnam and Afghanistan, murdered
dissidents trying to flee from East Berlin, and starved millions of people through a combination of manufactured famines and
collective agriculture. Now they want to assassinate the character of Ted Kennedy!”
SIDENOTE: From
the reports I read, the procession entered the City during rush hour yesterday and caused widespread traffic jams and a bit
of chaos. Many drivers were stuck in traffic for an hour or so longer than normal. A last and fitting gift from
the man who so cared for the working people.
11) Finally...a picture, courtesy of StrangePolitics.com:
28 aug 09 @ 4:59 pm edt
BACHMANN TURNS ON HER OVERDRIVEBy now, we've all seen many clips of average Americans confronting their
elected Representatives in town hall meetings. Some of you reading this have even attended such gatherings and witnessed
it live. For an old cranky conservative like me who believes all governments are not to be trusted, it has been a joy
to watch them. I've also felt an especial pride in being an American watching these good people conduct themselves
like their predecessors did in the mid-1700's. The arrogance of members of the Congress has been a very enlightening
experience, I think, for all of us.
 For a change, how about a clip of one of the few elected officials who follows the Constitution and represents her constituents
like the Founders envisioned they should? Even better, how about a clip of this Congresswoman taking on a a heckling
Lefty?
If that idea appeals to you then please click here and watch Rep. Michele Bachmann take down a Kool Aid drinker with one,
count 'em one, sentence over at Michelle Malkin's place.
28 aug 09 @ 4:13 pm edt
TOMASKY BE GONEI don't know about you, but I'm in the mood for a good Fisking...
Over
at The Gormogons, The Ecumenical Volgi administers a well-deserved one to Leftist Michael Tomasky, one of
the leading lights in the effort to have the term 'liberal' be replaced by the term 'progressive'. A highlight:
On he goes, saying, If you read, for
example, Adolf Hitler's basic stump speeches from the pivotal 1932 election, you'll see that he was often saying things -
about the economy, let's say - that are perfectly within the bounds of acceptable political discourse even today. They're
right wing, but within the bounds. I say this, obviously, not to make the point that Hitler's economic policies were grand,
but to make the point that carefully drawn analogies ought to be fair game. Wait,
wait. Right-wing? Let me quote an author Tomasky respects: We have
also recognized, since at least the 1950s and in some prescient instances even earlier, that certain consanguinities between
the far left and the far right did exist in those days, and that the Nazi program was in some
respects a left-wing program, appealing on a class basis--and, always, a racial basis--to German workers and the petit
bourgeoisie. It was not called National Socialism for nothing. This authority? Michael Tomasky in his "Yes, yes, there are certain incidental points of similarity
between fascism and liberalism, but come on, don’t be stupid” review of Liberal
Fascism. He acknowledged National Socialism’s left-wing program (“in some respects”) when forced
to by Goldberg’s argument (and evidence), but now he’s reverted to the “National Socialism is right-wing”
trope.
As I've stated before, Leftism is based on emotions. Therefore, one should never expect consistency
from a Leftist. In fact, [you can see this coming] the only thing consistent about Leftism is its inconsistency.
Here endeth the lesson.
Please do take the time to click here and enjoy the Full Metal Fisking by The Ecumenical Volgi.
28 aug 09 @ 3:59 pm edt
HAIGING ON EVERY WORDI know you're saying to yourselves: its nearly 3:30 in the afternoon, where the
heck are the postings from Bob Belvedere? Either that or you're saying: that guy is really full of himself if he thinks
I'm waiting with baited breath for him to post stuff.
Doesn't matter 'cause I'm in charge here, now and its time
to get movin'...
28 aug 09 @ 3:37 pm edt
Thursday, August 27, 2009
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAYSo there I am, enjoying my nightly bedtime totty over at Theo Sparks's joint, and, in a relaxed mood, not a care in the world as I serenely sip, my eyes land on this:
And I say to myself: 'Self. That's a damn good question....for another day.'
27 aug 09 @ 8:36 pm edt
'PRIDE BREEDS THE TYRANT VIOLENT PRIDE......gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin....
Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god?'
Smitty has published the latest installment [Scene III] of his new play OediPOTUS
Wrecks over at The Other McCain.
I've set up a special section at the top of the
right hand column of this page with the links for each installment.
27 aug 09 @ 8:20 pm edt
EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY, Part IIIOnce again, I've been soaring through the ether reading reactions to the
death of Ted Kennedy and I thought I'd pass along more of some of the best that I've read.
To read my two
previous postings from yesterday, please click here and here.
1) Let's start again will the King of the Reach Arounds,
Stacy McCain [who has published, by the way, the GREATEST BLOG POSTING EVAH!]. He's updated one of his previous postings with a list of links to those
others who have written commemorations of Mary Jo Kopechne. Please click here for the list.
Last night, Bill O'Reilly attacked those of us who have commented
negatively on Kennedy. Stacy administers a righteous Fisking to the tall tower of smug satisfaction that
is William O'Reilly. A highlight [Stacy's comments in italics]:
If you're a religious person, you know that personal judgments should be made by God alone.
Unless you post negative things about Ted Kennedy,
in which case God has deputized Bill O'Reilly to condemn you as "vicious" and "disgraceful." Moral Consistency
[TM] is a registered trademark of Bill O'Reilly LLC; patent pending; all rights reserved.
2) Boston's Howie Carr, the man who first labeled the late Senator 'Fat Boy' and has
been Nemesis to Teddy's Hubris, is restrained but only in tone:
Chappaquiddick, of course,
never went away. But sometimes Kennedy could seem oblivious even to that ultimate blemish on his career. In 1974, when President
Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his Watergate crimes, Kennedy issued this thundering statement:
“Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for
the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?”
On
issue after issue he was wrong - the nuclear freeze, the Reagan tax cuts, the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, which he assured
his Senate colleagues would not lead to a “flood” of immigrants into America’s cities. With a Tele-Promp-Ter,
he could be articulate, but when he wasn’t using his glasses to read a prepared statement, he was often an oratorical
mess. In 2005, at the National Press Club, he referred to the current president as “Osama bin La-uh, Osama Obama, uh
Obama.”
And yet he was
always protected by most of the media, who shared his views on just about everything....
3) Chris, over
at Wyblog, reminds us that it isn't just Miss Kopechne's blood that is on Teddy's hands:
Today Ted Kennedy meets his Maker.
And Ted's got some 'splaining to do. Not
just for Mary Jo, but for his prominent and tireless support for the Cult of Infanticide, which of course is euphemistically
described as "a woman's right to choose".
I
wish I could be there to watch.
4) Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie Jeffords reminds us that all of the Left's absolutions are, ultimately,
for naught:
Godspeed, Mr. Kennedy. Perhaps you do seek Divine forgiveness. For your sake,
I hope so. The absolution from the main stream media and adoring liberals does not mean a thing at the point you have reached.
5) The Reaganite Republican gets all scientific and is preciously right:
...Teddy Kennedy was a moral black hole.
As noted by Carol at No Sheeples Here, this man was a complete and utter fraud as leader of any
kind, but long promoted as a poster-child for limousine liberal's noblesse oblige none-the-less. Kennedy's far-left, liberal
influence on the laws of this land also did -and continues to do- far more damage than good. I don't know if he was an evil
man, but oft-tipsy Teddy was a comprehensively irresponsible and selfish fake with a seriously-tweaked moral compass. And
he had NO business preaching to anyone about anything to do with ethics or "social justice"- please.
But he did it anyway, and for decades- even after
he committed carelessly cold manslaughter in an act of mind-boggling selfishness and poor judgement. He then dispensed relentless
liberal drivel in the Senate because it was his best professional option, and they let him off the hook. If nobody that mattered
to his political career cared... why should he? Like they say, great work if you can get it.
6) Monique
Stuart is dead solid perfect in this observation:
I can’t really say that I’m sorry Kennedy is dead, either. Maybe that makes
me an evil person. I don’t know. He killed a woman. It wasn’t some tragic accident that couldn’t have been
prevented. Mary Jo didn’t die in the car crash. She didn’t drown. She was alive and breathing when he swam to
the surface and walked away. She died from asphyxiation. After the crash, she put her face in the last pocket of air and remained there until there
was no oxygen left. While he was out concocting a story, she was gasping for air probably thinking he was going to come back
to save her. He was a Kennedy, after all.
He was no Arthur or Parsifal, and he abandoned the Lady Of The
Lake. He was more like Sir Robin in Monty Python And The Holy Grail:
Brave Sir Robin ran away
He bravely ran away
7) A very fitting perspective was published by Victor Davis Hanson over at The Corner:
We should
not speak ill of the dead, nor at a time of mourning gratuitously inject politics, but there is something surreal in remembering
Chappaquiddick chiefly as either an ugly accident that almost killed Ted, or an unfortunate accident that cost him “higher
office.” That July 1969 evening remains a terrible tragedy only because a young, bright woman at 28 lost a chance to
enjoy a full life due to an entirely preventable occurrence.
8) Father Robert Sirico has up a set of observations and thoughts of a quality that you would expect from a great philosophical thinker and wonderful priest. A highlight:
Kennedy’s death also brings the Church face-to-face once again with the fact
that there is a massive problem of basic Catholic education — catechesis — among the faithful. So many Catholics
— even some clergy — make an absolute out of prudential issues such as economic policy, while relativizing absolutes,
such as abortion, euthanasia, and marriage. This is done in the face of clear, binding teachings from John Paul the Great,
who said that no other right is safe unless the right to life is protected, or, as Pope Benedict wrote recently in Caritas
in Veritate, that life issues must be central to Catholic social teaching.
Damn, if he had been my
priest, I might have never left The Church.
9) The Editors, over at Investor's Business Daily,
have some sound advice for the Democratic Party:
If Democrats think it's been a long, hot summer so far, what with all the "town
hells," wait till they see what happens if they try to use Sen. Kennedy's death to bring ObamaCare back to life.
Not only will a lot of better-left-buried facts about the senator's life be dug up; his prominent role a quarter century
ago helping the Nixon administration make those little-loved health maintenance organizations such a facet of our medical
system will be newly scrutinized.
They will hear reminders that the late senator was the self-described "author
of the first HMO bill ever to pass the Senate" and proudly claimed that "HMOs have proven themselves again and again
to be effective and efficient mechanisms for delivering health care of the highest quality."
And they will
be asked why his more recent ideas about improving health care won't also work out differently from the promises. Better for
all concerned to let the Lion of the Senate rest in dignity.
10) Jules Crittenden relates something disturbing, but not surprising, that he heard about the late Senior Senator [tip of the fedora to Jimmie Bise]:
Meanwhile, listening to ”Reflections
on Sen. Kennedy … Lion of the Senate” on the Diane Rehm Show on the drive home last night, I was deeply moved
to hear Newsweek’s Ed Klein tell guest host Katty Kay about Kennedy’s love of humor. How the late senator
loved to hear and tell Chappaquiddick jokes, and was always eager to know if anyone had heard any new ones. Not that
Kennedy lacked remorse, Klein quickly added, seeming to intuit that my jaw and perhaps those of other listeners had just
hit the floorboards. I gather it was a self-deprecating manuever on Kennedy’s part, exercised with the famous Kennedy
charm, though it sounds like one of those “I guess you had to have been there” things.
Yup,
he was a compassionate man.
11) Three Beers Later has up a good retrospective on the career of
Edward Moore Kennedy here.
12) We have an interesting instance of irony surrounding Teddy's death and Dan Riehl covers it here.
13) Here are some links to folks who have done some good aggregating:
-Obi's Sister has a hard time trying to conjure up some Sympathy For The Devil. [Full disclosure: she does quote from me.]
-Ace is having flashbacks. Been there man, far out ain't it?
-Red, over at the wonderfully named Caught Him With A Corndog, not only has goo linkage, but some great pics.
13) Finally, I leave you with a sketch that shows exactly what Mary Jo Kopechne lived through in her last hours
on this Earth [tip of the fedora to Mike's America; however, I'm not sure who made the drawing, but I know,
from previous studies of the incident, that it is accurate]:
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Divinity Avenue, over at Liberty Belle, for
this 100-proof, American statement:
Frankly, I would rather be poor and
broke than take handouts from the government. It would be difficult, perhaps nearly impossible, to make a living at times,
but I want to be the producer, not the consumer. I don't want a tax return, I don't want bailouts, I don't want stimulus--
I want to be left alone so that I can produce and make my own living without someone always looking over my shoulder going,
"oh, you're not making enough, let me give you back those taxes," or "Look at you go! I'll have to confiscate
half of that, just to be fair." I don't want the government to think that I'm too stupid to save my own social security.
It's all about freedom,
really. And like Mark Steyn said, freedom is messy. Life is messy. Deal with it.
Please do take the time to click here and read her full posting.
27 aug 09 @ 11:30 am edt
G R E A T E S T....B L O G....P O S T I N G....E V A H !
27 aug 09 @ 11:14 am edt
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee having 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 hereby presents...
YVONNE CRAIG...
26 aug 09 @ 8:45 pm edt
EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY, Part IIOnce again, I've been soaring through the ether reading reactions to the death
of Ted Kennedy and I thought I'd pass along some of the best that I've read.
To read my posting
from this morning please click here and thanks to Stacy McCain for linking to it in two separate postings [here and here].
1) Let's start with something from him:
We do hereby declare and
proclaim August 26, 2009, to be MARY JO KOPECHNE MEMORIAL DAY
...Because so many have been inspired by this tribute to Miss Kopechne
-- as well as by my farewell remembrance of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's foreign-policy legacy -- some readers have asked the question, "But Stacy, what can we do?"
And therefore, I urge you to give generously to The McCain-Kennedy Kopechne Memorial Health Care Fund.
Clicking on the first link in the excerpt will take you to the mission statement for the Fund;
clicking on the last one will make him very happy. I'd say Stacy seems to be taking Teddy's death rather well.
2) From across the pond, Gerald Warner comments:
In Britain, Kennedy will be remembered for his championing of IRA terror, on the same
knee-jerk anti-British principles that inspired his father, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, to support Hitler. Yet Kennedy was
awarded an honorary knighthood, just as America gave him its Presidential Medal of Freedom. What for? For being a Kennedy,
of course. The Kennedy humbug was incisively deflated by a Republican bumper sticker that memorably claimed: “More people
were killed at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island”. Another succinctly said: “No one drowned at Watergate”.
What is it that motivates people in so-called democratic societies to create reverential myths around hollow idols
with feet of clay? America is the one country on earth where only the rich are socialists. That East Coast tribe will now
indulge in false hero worship and wild hyperbole about a man who, if his surname had been anything other than Kennedy, would
have provoked widespread distaste and social ostracism. This time, the liberal elite is burying not just an individual but
the political aspirations of a dynasty whose objectives were incompatible with the best interests of America.
One of Kennedy's rivals for JFK's old Senate seat in 1962 famously commented: 'If your name had been Edward Moore rather
than Edward Moore Kennedy, your candidacy would be a joke'. If I were a pagan god, I would certainly think his Senate
career was [sadly, I'm only a demi-god, worshipped only by Mrs. Belvedere].
3) Also, from fair Albion, Charles Crawford comments:
...How far can true greatness ever be built - and fairly agreed to be built -
upon a foundation of starkly revealed cowardice and opportunism?
What volume of later good deeds are needed to
cancel out past misdeeds to achieve a firmly positive balance? Do moments of terrible selfish weakness invariably define a
whole life? What does a weak man need to do to make up for those moments?
Maybe this is where the Catholic Church's
tradition of confession might help.
What contrition did he truly feel and show?
None publicly.
4) Over at Sweetness And Light, Steve Gilbert republishes a postof his from December 2006 in which he gave us the text of the KGB's letter 'which details Senator Edward Kennedy’s
offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan’s efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe...' and which shows
that, in addition to being a drunkard, womanizer, supporter of IRA terrorists, and coward, Kennedy was a disloyal American
[tip of the fedora to Stacy McCain]. A highlight of the letter:
Kennedy believes that in order to influence
Americans it would be important to organize in August-September of this year, televised interviews with Y.V. Andropov in the
USA. A direct appeal by the General Secretary to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention
and interest in the country. The senator is convinced this would receive the maximum resonance in so far as television is
the most effective method of mass media and information.
5) Jimmie Bise has two postings up today.
In the first, he writes of Senator Kennedy. In the second of Miss Kopechne:
Much will be said today about Senator Kennedy today and so it seems appropriate to
stop for a moment and consider this other life and its unfulfilled potential. I, for one, will be praying that Mary Jo is
– finally – resting in peace.
Amen.
6) The Democrats are talking a lot about renaming
the final socialist health care bill after Ted Kennedy, something along the lines of the EDWARD M. KENNEDY etc.
Carol at No Sheeples Here has a much better name in mind and she states the reasons here.
7) As DaTechguy points out 'As usual Sarah Palin shows how something is done right'. Here's the full text of her statement:
I would like to extend our sympathies to the Kennedy family as we hear word about
the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. He believed in our country and fought passionately for his convictions.
-Sarah
Palin and family
Proving once again that she's a class act.
8) Over at Saberpoint,
Stogie is spot-on:
It would be difficult to imagine an American politician who has done more for evil
than Senator Ted Kennedy. His irresponsible behavior that killed Mary Jo Kopechne was the least of his evil deeds. Kennedy was a leader in the Democratic effort to cut
off funding to our South Vietnamese allies in 1975, allowing the communists to overrun that country. The result was somewhere
in the neighnorhood of 3 million murdered by the victorious reds, in Viet Nam and the killing fields of Cambodia. Kennedy
goes to God with their blood on his hands.
9) Finally, I leave you with the infamous National Lampoon
parody:
26 aug 09 @ 8:07 pm edt
'YOU'RE BLIND TO THE CORRUPTION OF YOUR LIFE'Smitty has published the latest installment [Scene II] of his new play OediPOTUS
Wrecks over at The Other McCain.
I've set up a special section at the top of the
right hand column of this page with the links for each installment.
26 aug 09 @ 7:21 pm edt
DISSIN' THE PREZThat title above does not mean what you think: actually, translated into proper
English, it would read: SHOWING NO RESPECT FOR THE PRESIDENCY, which is exactly what Barack and Michelle
Obama are doing. Pundette has up a great posting that looks at the two latest examples by each one of them. A
highlight from Pundette's second...
She posted this picture of the First Lady exiting Air Force One
on Cape Cod:
Pundette then comments:
It isn't just that the first lady looks sloppy, is
showing too much leg, or is wearing unflattering clothes, though all of these are true. It's the stark contrast between our
military on either side, respecting, by extension, the office of POTUS, and Mrs. Obama
in the center, not respecting the office or those who have entrusted it to her husband.
She then makes this observation about the Office of the Presidency that is just right:
The office of president is the honor that it is because the president was chosen by the people to be our representative.
It should be intrinsically humbling, because who can truly be worthy of that trust? It's the president's responsibility to
uphold the dignity of the office itself, which has been entrusted to him temporarily, on loan. It shouldn't be viewed as a
personal windfall, like hitting the Powerball number or winning American Idol. It's not an opportunity
to be used for self-promotion or the pursuit of expensive pleasures. We don't want our president to be seen as crassly enjoying
the perks too much or reveling in his celebrity status.
One can only draw the following conclusions about
the Obamas after watching them for the last seven months:
-They have no respect for the traditions of the Office.
-They, in fact, as Mrs. Obama indicated last year, are not proud of anything about this country that occurred before
20 January 2009.
-They are not well-mannered and do not have respect for protocol.
-They do not take
the responsibilities of the Office, as laid down by the Founders, seriously.
We Warned You,
America.
Please do take the time to click here and read Pundette's full posting.
26 aug 09 @ 2:41 pm edt
FOBSCAfter watching a video of Rep. Maxine Waters verbally attacking those who are
against Obamacare, the JammieWearingFool commented:
...Let's see, opponents of ObamaCare have been called Nazis, un-American, evil
and now Neanderthals.
One of JWF's commentators, Steven H. , then came up with the perfect punchline:
Opposing ObamaCare is so easy,
even a caveman could do it.
Sean over at Cold Fury [tip of the fedora to him, by the way,
for the above] is spot-on when he writes:
God Bless you Steven H. – wherever you are.
If there’s
anyone in Congress who knows a mouth-breather when she sees one, it’s Maxine “full-on batshit crazy” Waters.
And she's not the only one.
WHO'S THE REAL BLACKGUARD?There I was, all set to finally offer some stunningly insightful commentary on
the actions of our Attorney General that would have blown yer socks off, and that dastardly and devilish Southerner, Quin
Hillyer, goes and publishes a posting that contains my exact thinking over at AmSpecBlog. Not
only does he do that, but he also does it in higher quality prose than I had written. If this were a different time
in our nation's history, I'd have to call the blackguard out. Anyway, here's a highlight:
As for Holder, the man is a menace to this nation. He helps secure pardons for rich, awful cretins like Marc Rich,
and for murderous Puerto Rican terrorists. He promises not to do "midnight raids" to steal Elian Gonzalez from his
family, then justified breaking his pledge by saying it was "almost dawn." He refuses to prosecute New Black Panthers
for voter intimidation and then sends out his flacks to lie about who made the decision. He calls the United States a "nation
of cowards." He goes back on his word on numerous fronts, catalyzing Republicans who voted to confirm him to rake him
over the coals in committee hearings because of his rank dishonesty. He promises to honor the Office of Legal Counsel, but
instead overrides its considered legal opinion at the first opportunity. And so on, ad infinitum. Now he endangers the country
and breaks his word again by appointing this special prosecutor, putting a terrible chilling effect on CIA operatives worldwide
who now KNOW that Washington does not have their backs even when they have already been assured otherwise.
Please do take the time to click here and read his full posting.
26 aug 09 @ 2:05 pm edt
EDWARD MOORE KENNEDYAs you probably haven't been able to avoid knowing by now: the senior Senator
from Massachusetts and head of the Kennedy Clan died last night.
Having lived in the Nor-East all my life, and
having him be the Senator since I was one, he always been a part of my life—frankly, never in a positive way.
To anyone this morning who has asked for my thoughts, I have simply replied:
Mary Jo Kopechne could
not be reached for comment.
I fear if I write much more, the deep anger I have against him and his
whole family will unhinge my observations and not cast a very good light on my character. Fortunately, Stacy
McCain captures my hinged feelings exactly so, hoping he doesn't mind, I will quote him at length from his posting of early this morning:
OK, I'll risk [Michelle Malkin's] umbrage and explain why I've so often used that "could not be reached for comment"
line I stole from Ann Coulter.
It has often been written that Mary Jo Kopechne "drowned." She didn't.
The cause of death was asphyxiation -- there was an air pocket inside the overturned car, and Mary Jo lived long
enough to breathe the last remaining oxygen in that air pocket. And while Mary Jo was breathing her last . . . what did Ted
Kennedy do?
Well, among other things, he began trying to concoct a cover-up story: "Why couldn't Mary Jo have
been driving the car? . . . Why couldn't she have let him off and driven to the ferry herself and made a wrong turn?"
His own cousin, Joe Gargan, talked Ted out of attempting to get away with that.
Kennedy beat the rap. Multiple
witnesses have testified that Kennedy had been drinking all day. It was a clear-cut case of vehicular manslaughter, but he
was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
The media will forgive
liberals anything. Just look at the passive-voice construct in his obit: "an accident that left a young woman dead."
Forgiven by the media, liberals are shameless about such things. And so, in subsequent years, Americans were often
subjected to the shameful spectacle of Ted Kennedy, the Chappaquiddick swim champ, lecturing us in moralistic tones about
this, that and the other.
Whenever Kennedy would inflict his pompous self-righteous liberal moralizing on us, I'd
always hear Ann Coulter's immortal words: "Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment."
And so
I've used that line for the last time. And the knowledge of that finality is the only sadness I feel about Ted Kennedy's death.
Stacy may never use the line again, but I will. Why? Why won't I give it a permanent rest? Because:
I fully expect the Left to exploit his death in their endeavours to socialize health care. They have no shame, as they
have well shown [if there was any doubt] these past few months, and will use any means necessary, including the death of their
beloved standard bearer, to effect the passage of this monstrous plan. They have no honor.
It is, in fact,
already starting as William Jacobson reports [tip of the fedora to Pundette]:
This theme of naming a bill after Kennedy is sure to pick up steam, as Democrats
are desperate to do anything to overcome public opposition on the merits. Witness this San Francisco Chronicle column today: There would be no more fitting
tribute to the passing of Ted Kennedy, than to pass a health-care reform bill by early fall. Strange, when Rush Limbaugh used the phrase "Kennedy Memorial Health Bill," he was harshly criticized. But that was back in March, on the heels of the stimulus bill, when passage of
a Democratic health care restructuring bill seemed like a certainty.
Ah, but these are strange days indeed,
professor.
As another professor, Donald Douglas, points out:
No degree of rank hypocrisy nor indecency surprises me about the Democrats anymore.
Quite.
Another thing that should not be forgotten as we progress through tributes and adulation
that will be heaped on the Senator in the days and weeks ahead is this statement:
Robert
Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters,
rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers
and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers
of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is -- and is often the only -- protector of the individual rights that are
the heart of our democracy....
What a grand legacy.
I've been soaring through the ether reading reactions and I thought I'd pass along some of the best that I've read...
1) Over at And So It Goes In Shreveport, Pat Austin comments:
I, instead, will remember Mary Jo Kopechne who died of asphyxiation in Ted Kennedy's
car while he struggled to figure out how to beat the charge of vehicular manslaughter. ...You won't find any celebrations
of his life on this blog.
2) Carol, over at No Sheeples Here:
Besides the “character issue”, Kennedy’s vaster damnation was that
he was the only son to live his life to the end. Over the years that followed, the incident at Chappaquiddick was labeled
a “Kennedy tragedy”. The truth is, it was Mary Jo Kopechne’s tragedy.
3) Admiral William Teach, over at The Pirate's Cove:
Seriously, can’t they give it
a few days before they use his death?
4) Scott Johnson, over at Powerline:
We live in Edward Kennedy's America not only in the consequential legislation
that he sponsored and saw through the Senate, but also in the afterlife of the vulgar political sham on which Senator Kennedy
relied to defeat the nomination of Judge Bork.
Too true.
5) Erick Erickson, over at Red State:
Ted Kennedy supported the expansion of the welfare state and a culture
of dependency on government, made all the more tragic given how ensnared his life was to dependency. He should have known
better given his own life and that of his family.
And then
there’s Mary Jo Kopechne. May she rest in peace.
Senator Edward
Moore Kennedy of Massachusetts is dead at 77. John Kerry is now the senior senator. God help that state.
6) Roger Kimball is spot-on:
The Kennedy family has issued a eulogistic statement about the death of
the Senior Senator from Massachusetts. Right and proper, I suppose, but I couldn't help recoiling from its lists: "Edward
M. Kennedy - the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply - died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis
Port."
"Edward M. Kennedy," I heard echoing
behind those words, "Liar, cheat, drunk, philanderer, and - let's not forget - inadvertent murderer."
The tsunami of sentimental pap about Kennedy is already churning, gushing, rushing
to inundate the public with a nauseating and untruthful fairy tale about the "Lion of the Senate." The Lyin' in
the Senate is more like it. Kennedy was 77 when he was taken off last night, Mary Jo Kopechne had just turned 29 when Kennedy's
car veered off the bridge in Chappaquiddick and he wriggled free and swam to shore, leaving the young woman trapped in the
car to drown.
Per usual, Memeorandum is a great source for commentary on Edward
Kennedy.
And finally...
26 aug 09 @ 10:35 am edt
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
TRIG TRUTHER EXPOSED, Part IIFrom my posting of last night:
Stacy McCain is doing his Sam Gatlin thing again and working on the story of just who is 'Audrey' of the Palin Deceptions
website [Dan Riehl is also involved]. Is she what she claims she is? Is she connected with 'AnnieB393'?
Who is her husband? Why is she an obessed Trig-Truther who counts Andrew Sullivan [a well known gynophobe] amongst
her fans? Why did Fredo let Moe Green slap him around in public? [Ok, you can forget the last one.]
He's
posted three times on this so far today:
-'Palin's Deceptions' and a Trig-Truther's Anonymity
Stacy's continued posting on
this since last evening. However, he hesitated to post the identity of 'Audrey'/'AnnieB393' and Aaron Gardner beat him
to it. In chronological order:
-Mr. Gardner: Coincidence is a funny thing
-Stacy: She's insignificant and she has a family -Stacy: Trig Trutherism, 'Audrey' and Sully: 'Just Asking Questions' (Uncut Version)-Stacy: Trig Truther research guy 'Patrick' researches . . . hot WebCam action?In another posting that's not directly related to this, I think Stacy sums up all these clowns with a comment that is dead solid perfect: ...What is most interesting about anti-Palin fanatics is how uninteresting
they are. Insanity is interesting; stupidity is not. And never have such dull people gone so hopelessly mad.
But even the dull ones deserve a major slap upside the head, and thank God people like Stacy McCain, Dan Riehl, and Aaron
Gardner are willing to do the dirty work and what it takes to do it right.
25 aug 09 @ 7:17 pm edt
SEMPRE FI!
25 aug 09 @ 6:56 pm edt
TO BE REALVery interesting posting by The Czar Of Muscovy [Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!] over at
The Gormogons. He analyzes why some conservative women do not like Sarah Palin. A highlight:
These women were terrified she might screw it up for conservative women. The Couric interview in particular made it look like a conservative
woman just doesn’t get politics. Seriously, that’s the best they could come up with? Not someone who
can confidently answer a taxation question, jam home the importance of foreign policy, or tell the media to shut up about
her private life.
This was interesting. The Czar felt she could handle herself pretty well, given that she had
gone from largely unknown governor of a poorly known state to the international spotlight in a matter of hours. The response,
which the Czar has seen echoed elsewhere, is that she is anti-intellectual, and goes for the quick and easy sound bite rather
than the meaningful answer. Given her acumen, she comes off to conservative women as a manufactured phony.
It seems
bizarre, but the less than 10 conservative women the Czar has talked to about this seem to believe, universally, that she
does not represent women’s issues or interests nearly as well as Obama.
I have yet to encounter this
myself, but then again I live in the Leftist Nor-East where most of the people we associate with are not Republicans, but
independents, and would not necessarily like to see themselves associated with the 'conservative movement', as it were.
Most of the women I know vote for the more conservative candidate, however. These gals all like Mrs. Palin. They
often use the expression: 'She's one of us'.
Interesting.
Please do take the time to click here and read The Czar's full posting.
SIDENOTE: I've finally gotten around to adding some more bloggers to by version of the blogroll, FELLOW DHS-CERTIFIED RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS [including The Gormogons]
25 aug 09 @ 6:48 pm edt
'SEER BLIND IN HIS CRAFT'Smitty has published the latest installment of his new play OediPOTUS
Wrecks over at The Other McCain.
I've set up a special section at the top of the right
hand column of this page with the links for each installment.
25 aug 09 @ 4:56 pm edt
OOO-RAH!I have been remiss in linking to the video of the Marine who gave Representative
Brian Baird a well-deserved dress-down that's been spreading throughout the ether. Over at Stop The ACLU,
they've got a good version posted.
Please do take the time to click here and watch it.
I rarely do this, but I would encourage you to send the link to everyone you can. This gentleman speaks for a
lot of us proud Americans.
[tip of the fedora to Dan Collins]
25 aug 09 @ 4:47 pm edt
TODAY'S QUESTION OF THE DAY......was asked by Glenn Beck on his most recent show. He was discussing Green
Jobs Czar Van Jones, who is a self-admitted Communist:
Why is it that such a committed
revolutionary has made it so high into the Obama administration as one of his chief advisers?
This is a
question many in the Congress and the media should have asked back when this thug was appointed. Jones is the founder
of the group Color Of Change, which is behind the threatened boycott against Glenn Beck's advertisers [please
see my two postings on this by clicking here and here].
Over at American Power, Professor Donald Douglas has some video from Mr. Beck's show that is
well worth a view.
Please do take the time to click here and view it. Also check out Memeorandum here.
Speaking of the Professor...
He has posted an excellent explanation of this whole 'reconcilitaion'
maneuver the Democrats in the Congress are threatening to use to pass the bills which will socialize American health care.
Please do take the time to click here and attend his class. Forewarned is forearmed.
25 aug 09 @ 2:46 pm edt
READING IS FUNDAMENTALIn response to Ann Althouse's question: 'If you could pick a book for Obama to
read - actually read - what book would you pick?', Instapundit replied:
It would have to be Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten
Man. Or, if that's too obvious, James Scott's Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve
the Human Condition Have Failed.
Its my understanding that Good King Barack is planning on
reading David McCullough's John Adamson his vacation. To that I say: good, he might learn something
about the greatness and glory of the founding of this Republic. He might also start to develop an appreciation
for those 'dead white guys' he has so disparaged, time and time again. The man has shown himself to be incredibly ignorant
of his own country's history, refusing to investigate said history except through the Marxist lenses of his upbringing.
So maybe he'll learn some of the truths about a great man and a great country—that is, if he's actually going to read
the bio of John Adams; I have my doubts.
As to Instapundit's suggestions: while I don't know anything about the
second book he mentions, I think the first one is an excellant suggestion. If our Divine Obamacus did deign to read
The Forgotten Man [please read my review of it by clicking here], he might learn why what he's been doing is not in any way going to help the economy, that it....wait a minute...I
forgot...he doesn't want the economy to get better. As I wrote over at QUO VADIS back in March:
Repeat after me: HE DOESN'T CARE. His only concern is to see his Leftist
program implemented; nothing else much matters to our beloved Nero. In fact, his dismissal of what we recognize as reality
may be calculated: as things get worse and more dire still, he may figure that we will turn to him for more aggressive leadership
and, in our desperate circumstances, grant him more power, or acquiesce to his obtaining more of it. [As Rahm 'The Enforcer'
Emanuel and Hilary Clinton have both stated: 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste'.]
25 aug 09 @ 2:16 pm edt
TWINKIE WHIPPEDYesterday I posted some excerpts of what William Jacobson had unearthed about
the foolish new regulations that would be applied to fast food restaurants and vending machines under the Senate version of
Obamacare. Please click here to view my posting.
Jimmie Bise, proprietor of The Sundries Shack, read the same posting by Mr. Jacobson as
did I, but reacted in a much more, shall we say, Peter Finchian way. A highlight from his wonderful rant:
I swear I am sick and tired of living under a government that thinks me so unutterably stupid that
I couldn’t possibly know that the prepackaged (yet delicious!) wads of sugar and various chemicals I get from a vending
machine are fattening until some overpaid bureaucrat tells me so. It seems like every time I turn around, almost literally,
my government is scolding me. I can’t buy anything anywhere without some government-approved lecture warning me that
some obscure chemical inside it could possibly kill me. I escape to the open road where I hope to be rid of the All-Seeing
Nanny, but no. If I’m not assaulted with lectures via billboard — don’t drive drunk, wear your seatbelt,
don’t drive aggressively, don’t talk on your cell phone, pay attention— my radio is flooded with
them in the form of helpful little PSAs. Television, magazines, newspapers, even the internet is infested with Washington’s
Scolding Nannies.
And now, Twinkies have become Enemy Number One? Ye Gods, what a nation of whipped curs we’ve
become.
Go Jimmie go! [The 'whipped curs' phrase is a model of restraint for one so justifiably worked-up.]
I think I can say he captures exactly how most Americans feel.
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole rant—you'll feel better afterwards.
25 aug 09 @ 1:47 pm edt
Monday, August 24, 2009
THE THIEVIN' PLAYMy good friend Smitty [aka: Chris Smith] has starting posting his new play,
OediPOTUS Wrecks, over at The Other McCain. He was kind enough to send me the full
play to read last night.
Short Review: Love it!
Full Review: Smitty has taken the classic story of the
tragic Greek king and meshed it wonderfully with the spirit of the story of Barack Hussein Obama to form an amusingly
witty take on the current political scene, complete with the classic theme of vaulting ambition. It is an old truth
that Hubris begets Nemesis [When the Fates are against you, watch out.], and we have been living through seven long months
of Hubris Gone Wild. The time is right for a corrective and Smitty supplies it, if only fictionally.
We may find, however, that he is our Delphic Oracle.
As you might imagine, Smitty is forced to deviate
from the plot and he lays out his reasons for doing so in the first posting. They all make sense, except for one,
and this is my only criticism of this splendid work. He writes:
Sex downplayed
No children,
no marriage with mother. Incest is limited to a hint at a tryst: the audience is left to decide how much
steam really exists between OediPOTUS and mother.
Good decision, but I must say that some kind of sex should
have been present. It is a fact of life, neither a positive or a negative one [I take no stand here], that SEX SELLS.
Ask Stacy McCain or Vicky or, better yet, anyone named Tonya. A little sex could have helped this sublime work potentially garner a greater audience. As it is, it deserves
a wide dissemination throughout the ether.
Smitty's turns of phrase are quite enjoyable. Some examples:
RAMEN LOUIS CYPHRE:Indeed. The evidence seemed to lead to Zambiniland,
and President Sphinxor, in his bumbling way, made a cock-up of the whole situation.
OEDIPOTUS WRECKS:Sphinxor's
cock-up; our arse. Once more, I must step in and wipe up after the Sphinxor.
And...
OEDIPOTUS WRECKS: Everyone unite behind me! I admit that I'm johnny-come-lately come to this quagmire.
I don't mind being responsible for the cleanup, but I do want the obstructionists to get out of the way so we can clean up
the mess.
Let me be perfectly clear: we're going to have an ex-Presidential Assassination Investigation Czar going
over this case with a fine-toothed comb and a magnet.
And...
OEDIPOTUS
WRECKS: This gets weirder by the moment. So if she is not my biological mother, is Kerry Kennedy my father? Do I
have any clue as to my heritage? Do I even have time to deal with this whole mystery of where I came from and who killed Williams,
and why the economy is tanked? This situation is completely wee-weed up.
Great job Chris!
I've
set up a special section for posting each installment over at the top of the right-hand column of this page, so please keep
coming back.
-393- Stacy McCain is doing his Sam Gatlin thing again and working on the story of just who is 'Audrey' of the Palin Deceptions website [Dan Riehl
is also involved]. Is she what she claims she is? Is she connected with 'AnnieB393'? Who is her husband?
Why is she an obessed Trig-Truther who counts Andrew Sullivan [a well known gynophobe] amongst her fans? Why
did Fredo let Moe Green slap him around in public? [Ok, you can forget the last one.]
He's posted three times
on this so far today:
-'Palin's Deceptions' and a Trig-Truther's Anonymity
I'll keep you posted [pun intended] about further
developments.
EXTENDED BREAK
24 aug 09 @ 7:26 pm edt
TAKING A BREAKOver at IMAO, Frank J. has created a good list of
jokes to play on our Fearless Leader while he is on vacation. Here are a few:
*
Replace the Democrat congressmen with people from the insane asylum and see how long it takes him to notice. “There’s
Pelosi going on about people-faced spiders again. You tell those townhall protesters!”
* Instead of flying
him back home, fly him to France and see how long it takes him to notice. “Wow, people are more accepting of my socialist
positions than I thought!”
And my favorite...
* Don’t let
him in the White House when he gets back telling him we found his Kenyan birth certificate which made McCain president who
was so shocked that he immediately had a heart attack… so guess who’s president now!
One of
the commentators, Jeff, has come up with another good one:
Tell him we traded in Air Force One as part
of cash for clunkers.
Please take the time to click here and read the full list [tip of the fedora to Cynthia Yockey]
A IS A or CALLING A SPADE A SPADE Two postings ago, I offered my opinion that the United States Of America is well on the way to being renamed Absurdistan. How about
a glimpse into that future? Over at WyBlog, Chris Wysocki quotes from a Fox News report
of a Chris Hastings column in The Times Of London that is a perfect example of what we can expect here in
the not-too-distant future. Here's a slightly longer snippet from the article:
It
could be construed as a black day for the English language — but not if you work in the public sector.
Dozens
of quangos and taxpayer-funded organisations have ordered a purge of common words and phrases so as not to cause offence.
Among the everyday sayings that have been quietly dropped in a bid to stamp out racism and sexism are “whiter
than white”, “gentleman’s agreement”, “black mark” and “right-hand man”.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has advised staff to replace the phrase “black day” with “miserable
day”, according to documents released under freedom of information rules.
It points out that certain words
carry with them a “hierarchical valuation of skin colour”. The commission even urges employees to be mindful of
the term “ethnic minority” because it can imply “something smaller and less important”.
The
National Gallery in London believes that the phrase “gentleman’s agreement” is potentially offensive to
women and suggests that staff should replace it with “unwritten agreement” or “an agreement based on trust”
instead. The term “right-hand man” is also considered taboo by the gallery, with “second in command”
being deemed more suitable.
Many institutions have urged their workforce to be mindful of “gender bias”
in language. The Learning and Skills Council wants staff to “perfect” their brief rather than “master”
it, while the Newcastle University has singled out the phrase “master bedroom” as being problematic.
Advice issued by the South West Regional Development Agency states: “Terms such as ‘black sheep of the family’,
‘black looks’ and ‘black mark’ have no direct link to skin colour but potentially serve to reinforce
a negative view of all things black. Equally, certain terms imply a negative image of ‘black’ by reinforcing the
positive aspects of white.
“For example, in the context of being above suspicion, the phrase ‘whiter
than white’ is often used. Purer than pure or cleaner than clean are alternatives which do not infer that anything other
than white should be regarded with suspicion.”
As Chris comments:
These
rules sure do imply "something smaller" alright; the size of their brains, that's what's "smaller". In
fact, to borrow a phrase from Janeane Garofalo, they're "functionally retarded adults".
Perhaps our President would like to bowl against them?
Please do take the time to click here and read Chris's full posting.
24 aug 09 @ 2:40 pm edt
BUSINESS BRIEFINGCatholic version...
A reading from
The Gospel Of Jeremiah [response: 'Glory to you O-bama']...
'We are God's partners in matters of life and death.'
'There are some folks out
there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.'
This is the word of The Messiah [response: Praise be to Him].
Iowahawk,
that indefatigable obtainer of things otherwise ignored, has gotten his hands on another government press release. A
highlight:
For Immediate Release U.S. Government Unveils Health Care Partnership With God
Inc.
WASHINGTON (Iowahawk Business PR Wire) -- U.S. Government CEO Barack Obama announced today that his
firm had embarked on a new joint venture with metaphysical industrial giant God, saying that "We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.
"This partnership is a natural," said Obama. "We both are unfathomably
large, we both control people's lives, we both work in mysterious ways, we both have a fanatical customer base. Instead of
competing, it just made basic business sense to work together to become the premier developer of mission critical life-and-death
operating systems."
The announcement came before the annual GodCon trade show in Las Vegas, where Obama gave
a product demo of the iGod heath care rationing device, the first of what he said would be "many development projects"
between US Government and God. He encouraged independent God developers to support the closed-source iGod / iGov health care
platform, warning that "woe be unto the unlicensed app developer, for he shall be smote by a vengeful hail of ACORNs."
Other iGod apps currently in beta test include an end-of-life calculator, income leveler, and a wireless database
detector for anti-government heretics and apostates.
Who says our Fearless Leader is anti-capitalist?
Please take the time to click here and read the full announcement.
24 aug 09 @ 2:21 pm edt
FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE VENDING MACHINES...The Bill That Most Senators Won't Read [aka: The
Affordable Health Choices Act] is being read by many non-governmental folks out there and, it seems, everyday
there is a new, hidden surprise being discovered. Over at Legal Insurrection, William Jacobson
has been doing the grunt work and now has unearthed the surprise in the Cracker Jack Box that is Section 325.
Here's a taste of the three-sided prize:
...any fast food chain with 20 locations
and a standardized menu would have to display "in a clear and conspicuous manner" nutrition and calorie information.
The information must be "adjacent" to each menu item...
And...
But
what about drive through windows? The information must be displayed on the drive through menu board. Salad bars and buffets?
The information must be placed next to each item. Happy meals and other combos? Hmmm.... that's a problem, so the government
needs to promulgate rules and regulations to figure out what kind of signage is needed...
And...
But wait, surely the vending machines of the world are safe from signage. Nope, owners of 20 or
more vending machine [will] have to post signage with the nutritional and caloric content of every item in the vending machine:
[T]he vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity
to each article of food or the selection button that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the number of calories
contained in the article. We are well on the road to becoming Absurdistan.
Please take the time to click here to read the details and please: make sure to laugh, otherwise, you'll just cry.
24 aug 09 @ 2:06 pm edt
ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEARTWhen you search for this site using Google, Bing, etc., you will see the following
description:
A Site Dedicated to the Celebration and Preservation of Western Civilization.
One of the best ways to wage the battle to preserve The West is by Fisking members of the Left and Squishy Right.
Not only is performing such a service informative, it also is, in the vast majority of cases, enjoyable to read. Stacy
McCain is THE supreme Fisker of David Chauncey Gardiner Brooks. Other residents of The Camp Of The Saints
and The Beloved City have been producing great Fiskings of Richard Cohen, Peggy Noonan, David Frum, and Katrina
Van Farfenugan [or whatever her name is], to name a few.
Now we have Dan Collins administering a wealth of Fisking
to the upside of Frank Rich's head and it is a thing of beauty: A highlight from over at Piece Of Work In Progress:
I have been writing about the simmering undertone of violence in our
politics since October, when Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential candidate of a major political party, said nothing
to condemn Obama haters shrieking “Treason!,” “Terrorist!” and “Off with his head!” at her rallies. As vacation beckons, I’d like to drop the subject, but the atmosphere
keeps getting darker.
Interesting that you weren’t talking
about those simmering undertones before, when people were making snuff fantasy films about Bush and burning him in effigy.
Were you aware that some of these reports seem to be ginned up, Mr. Rich? There’s another side to the story, as well, to say nothing of the beating of Mr. Gladney at the hands of SEIU thugs. That was
violence. And President Obama’s “punch back twice as hard” formulation, whatever the intentions were,
were received as an incitement to violence by his goons.
Please do take the time to click here and read and enjoy.
24 aug 09 @ 11:55 am edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Sister Toldjah for her Thought Of The Day:
I find it interesting how so many on the left are complaining about
the fact that so-called “gullible” people who “don’t have a clue what they’re talking about”
as it relates to the ObamaCare issue are heavily influencing the debate.
Where were these same people when many
of the millions of gullible people who didn’t have a clue what they were talking about went to the polls and voted for
Barack Obama? Oh, that’s right – they were going to the polls, voting for the same guy alongside them.
SIDENOTE: If you're one of those who voted for Barack The Unready and Sister's now made you see the error of your ways,
there is now a way to partially atone for your sin: visit the I am Sorry I Voted For Obama website and confess [tip of the fedora to Gatordoug].
I just spoke with the Lord [I'm in good with him] and he tells me it will get you out of Hell, but you'll still
have to do some serious time in Purgatory. Hey, better to be with John Wayne than with John Wayne Gacy, right?
24 aug 09 @ 11:40 am edt
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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.
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