Let David Frum go. For the sake of the Republic.

A disagreement between David Frum, weak center-right has-been, and John Hawkins, young buck who is Conservative first and doesn't tolerate David Frum - Meghan McCain - weak-spined sorts of has-been Republicans who have ruined the Republican brand.

I'm with John Hawkins. A comment I left at both camps...

I left this comment at John Hawkins’. Seems to belong here as well.

All of your enumerated points were good things, mostly, that happened far away in the past. We tip our hats to Mr. Frum’s good deeds, such as they were.

But things have changed remarkably since Reagan’s days, since Buckley lived and died. We’ve been dragged as far left as was at Buckley’s time unimaginable, and going forward we will find it very difficult to stay intact as a Republic. Some think it’s only a matter of time before this Republic ends, in an economic flameout that can be blamed on both Republicans and Democrats alike.

To counter today’s far-left political climate, we don’t need any more center-right folk like Mr. Frum. We need Rush Limbaugh and Tea Partyers. We need OUTLAW!, we need strong-speaking sorts who aren’t afraid to draw a line and say, “This you will not cross”.

Mr. Frum is not that sort of person. He’s a man of the past, who with his excessive give and little take, shares some of the blame for where we find ourselves now: drawn and quartered farther Left than ever before.

Let Frum go. For the sake of the Republic.

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"President Obama, Welcome to Bush's World". And I would add, it's time for you and yours to deservedly get what you gave President Bush.

That's right, Mr. Obama. You and your leftist sorts of Democrats trashed George Bush for years, you used your community organized hacks and your personal speeches to claw your way into your present position.

Can you now feel claws ?

This, by nonpartisan analyst Stuart Rothenberg...

The news on joblessness and the U.S. economy, combined with growing concerns over the federal deficit, Europe’s financial health (particularly growing debt), the lack of progress of the war in Afghanistan and the damage resulting from the BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, are burying the president and his party in an avalanche of public dissatisfaction.

As former President George W. Bush found out only a few years ago, a never-ending supply of bad news saps a presidency, and a political party, of its strength.

Voters who once felt hopeful and gave the new president the benefit of the doubt instead distrust the White House’s explanations and assume the worst. No number of high-profile speeches will reverse the decline. Only good news will, and it isn’t anywhere to be found.  [emphasis mine -.ed]

Don't dare ask a Republican for help. You don't deserve any help from the party you've demonized; since you've spent your career 'community organizing' others to degrade and attack Republicans at every opportunity, even those who aren't so much Conservatives. We, of the Conservative Right, likely wouldn't piss on you to put you out if you were afire.

Democratic strategists are deluding themselves if they believe that passing a financial reform bill or a small-business measure will change the public’s mood. It won’t. Voters won’t care by the time November rolls around unless their mood brightens.

If bad news continues in our nation’s newspapers and on the evening news, whether about jobs and the economy, foreign policy or the environment, the public will quickly discount Democratic achievements on Capitol Hill as ineffectual and insufficient. [So much for buying moocher votes, eh? It's never enough. -ed.]

That’s why Republicans were punished in 2006 and 2008, and it’s why Democrats are headed for the same fate. The president needs some good news. Unfortunately for him and his party, time is running out, and tomorrow’s news is largely beyond their control.

You've earned that lack of my respect, Mr. President, for the damage you've done to this country, to this Republic, to the Constitution.

The best you can do to help this nation recover?

"I think your player-friends have to see things not as Democrat vs. Republican but as the Court Party - the establishment in power be they Democrat or GOP - vs. the Country Party, the TeaPartyers who want an end to all the corruption, Dem or GOP. Your players are part of the Court Party. The TeaPartyers you might think are like those who led the French Revolution - but they are like those who led the American Revolution instead.

"Yes, the TeaPartyers own most of the 300 million guns in America, but they don't want blood unless there's no choice. Note the ‘unless.' November 2nd better be an honest election. What the TeaPartyers must grasp is Churchill's call after the battle of El Alamein [November 1942], that November is only ‘the end of the beginning.'

"So you are right - the only hope is radical surgery to cut out all the metastasizing cancer, to amputate unconstitutional gangrene, or another metaphor, to be like Alexander and cut the Gordian Knot with a swordstroke.

"But the question really is not whether Republicans have the courage to perform the surgery, to defund ObamaCare, to defund the entire Obama agenda, to defund entire agencies like the Department of Education, Energy, and the EPA. It is whether the TeaPartyers have the courage and capacity to force the Republicans to. I mean, how is eliminating the EPA extreme, and EPA unconstitutional fascism not extreme? We'll find out, because they are America's only hope now."

Everyone waited for our host's response. "And the hyper-inflation? The debt's already baked in the cake, no matter what future spending is cut."

"Hyper-inflation is only another word for total default. The only way to avoid it is a government default on its debts only. Then we can switch from a worthless fiat currency to an asset-backed currency." I smiled. "Gold brings freedom."

He smiled in return and raised his glass. "We can all drink to that. To gold, to freedom, and these TeaPartyers - may Jack be right about them. May they amputate fascism before the fascists amputate our freedom."

Resign. Walk away. Give up. You know you want to.

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Illegals! You've got to January 1 to move to San Francisco or Los Angeles! Goodbye! So Long! Adios!

Governor Bredesen, in a move that I find so surprising that I almost fell off my chair, signs an illegal immigration bill into law that directs jailers to report illegal immigrants already in jail to ICE, to face deportation.

This is not as broad as Arizona's law. Unfortunately, you already have to be in jail to get asked if you should have been in jail already.

How in the world did a Democrat ever find enough cahoneys to sign this bill? Remarkable. Bredesen must not have any interest in running for anything political for a few more years. Which is fine with me; he's done things that deserve my ire, including vetoing the concealed carry in nice restaurants bill two years running. And digging that giant pothole under the Governor's mansion, the 'Party Bunker', for to woo political donors for years to come. A shame it didn't flood to ruin.

Of course, this measure brought anger from the usual leftards: the ACLU, who postured thusly:

The bill was opposed by immigrant groups and the Tennessee chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU-Tennessee Executive Director Hedy Weinberg urged the governor to veto the legislation, calling it “un-American.”

In a letter, she charged the bill “effectively creates a police state” and also “invites disparate treatment of minority groups, and encourages racial profiling” — assertions rejected by the measure’s proponents

Ya stupid lying bitch, Hedy Weinberg, this 'profiling' occurs in a jail. Which last time I looked is rightly a 'police state'. These people are criminals, in jail, and if they are illegal immigrants, they deserve to be sent home. To San Francisco. Or Los Angeles. Anywhere in California, which I find to be a hopeless, useless Leftist state that I'll be happy to help any good people left there get away from, with a donation of some nice suitcases.

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Gun Rights WIN for citizens; LOSE for cessburgs like Chicago, New York City. Kagan would've sided with the dissent.

Imagine. Five of nine Supreme Court justices side with the Constitution; the four dissenters are all leftist Democrat appointees. Justice Stevens is retiring, to be replaced by an Obama kook-leftist, the ideologue Kagan, another flawed statist. Maybe this Supreme Court case will help us challenge this Obama hand-picked zombie appointee on the grounds that she, besides being a far-left kook, is in the minority of opinion on constitutional gun rights (and book rights, see the video below).

We have a fundamental right to bear arms; the various states and cities cannot infringe on these rights, barring certain restrictions. Outright bans were not upheld in Washington DC (Heller, last year) and Chicago - Oak Park this year. We still have to sort out what restrictions are valid (mentally impaired and felons can of course be restricted; but if you've kept your nose clean, and you're not a drooling kook, you are legally empowered to own and have guns).

Chicago, New York State and City, get over it.

The justices said the two cities involved in Monday's case—Chicago and Oak Park, Ill.—went too far with ordinances that effectively banned possession of handguns in the home.

"It is clear that the framers and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty," wrote Justice Samuel Alito in his majority opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined all or part of the opinion.

Justice Stevens, in his final dissent, was a rambling fool, and thankfully is retired.

Now, we have to oppose this book-banning person, Ivy Leaguer Elena Kagan. You know if she would argue to allow a law to stand that would ban books, she would fully support laws to ban or overly restrict guns, as always has been the desire of Democrats and the Left. This woman is a danger to our Republic, and we should duly filibuster her nomination.

This video shows a complete Supreme Slapdown of Elena Kagan, and illustrates her lack of ability to cogently argue a case at the Supreme Court level.





Just like Obama: not qualified to serve at high level.

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Amputate or Die: Why the G20 leadership is smarter than Obama

A fantastic read written by Dr. Jack Wheeler, who sat with a group of friends in London and had quite a chat...

...

"Jack, you need to explain something to your friend. You need to explain something to America and all those Congressmen you know. Amputate or die. That's the choice America has right now. That's the choice Republicans will have after November 2nd, because they're the only surgeons around who can do the surgery."

Everyone was quiet so he continued. "Gangrene will kill you. If you don't amputate a finger or other limb that's gangrenous, it will spread bacterially [via Clostridium perfringens], and you will die. Look at these unconstitutional growths of government on the body public as gangrenous infections that have to be amputated for the body to continue living."

He looked around the table at all of us. "You know that I know all the main players in the world economy. Some are fools who don't know what they are doing like Strauss-Kahn (Dominque Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, International Monetary Fund), some are not like Trichet (Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank). America has no adult on the economy's lever - Geithner is more of a hopeless disaster than Bush's Paulson was, and Bernanke is worse than Greenspan.

"So I don't know any player whose smarts I really respect who has much hope for America, who doesn't see an alternative future than the destruction of America's wealth through hyper-inflation. They think elephants will fly before Republican elephants will do what is necessary if the voters give them the power to do it."

He looked at me - so everyone else did. "Are they wrong, Jack?" The question hung in the air as I felt my face redden.

"Thanks, pal," I responded with a smile to gain a little time. Everyone did laugh for just a moment, then I had to jump into the waiting silence. Here's what I said.

"The situation is dire, there is no doubt, the gravest since the Civil War. The only hope I see is with the anger of the TeaPartyers. That anger is directed just as much towards Republican cowards as towards Democrat fascists. We don't have to wait long to see the power of that anger. Just six days from now (6/22) in South Carolina, Nikki Haley the TeaPartyer is going to wipe out Gresham Barrett the RINO, even though the state GOP establishment is doing everything slimy to smear her.

"I think your player-friends have to see things not as Democrat vs. Republican but as the Court Party - the establishment in power be they Democrat or GOP - vs. the Country Party, the TeaPartyers who want an end to all the corruption, Dem or GOP. Your players are part of the Court Party. The TeaPartyers you might think are like those who led the French Revolution - but they are like those who led the American Revolution instead.

"Yes, the TeaPartyers own most of the 300 million guns in America, but they don't want blood unless there's no choice. Note the ‘unless.' November 2nd better be an honest election. What the TeaPartyers must grasp is Churchill's call after the battle of El Alamein [November 1942], that November is only ‘the end of the beginning.'

"So you are right - the only hope is radical surgery to cut out all the metastasizing cancer, to amputate unconstitutional gangrene, or another metaphor, to be like Alexander and cut the Gordian Knot with a swordstroke.

"But the question really is not whether Republicans have the courage to perform the surgery, to defund ObamaCare, to defund the entire Obama agenda, to defund entire agencies like the Department of Education, Energy, and the EPA. It is whether the TeaPartyers have the courage and capacity to force the Republicans to. I mean, how is eliminating the EPA extreme, and EPA unconstitutional fascism not extreme? We'll find out, because they are America's only hope now."

Everyone waited for our host's response. "And the hyper-inflation? The debt's already baked in the cake, no matter what future spending is cut."

"Hyper-inflation is only another word for total default. The only way to avoid it is a government default on its debts only. Then we can switch from a worthless fiat currency to an asset-backed currency." I smiled. "Gold brings freedom."

He smiled in return and raised his glass. "We can all drink to that. To gold, to freedom, and these TeaPartyers - may Jack be right about them. May they amputate fascism before the fascists amputate our freedom."

That's more than I like to snip, but the message is vital. Go read the entire conversation.

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hey, hey, TORONTO POLICE

I think there may have been some selective overreaction by Toronto Police after they were initially punked by anarchists, who tormented them unmercifully, breaking shop windows, burning their cars, and generally making Toronto seem to be a third-world hell-hole.





Well, it is Canada, after all.

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Weekend's End Video: Aphex Twin, Analogue Bubblebath 3 (ambient or trance music of an electronic nature)

Experimental electronic music from Richard D. James. This, from the compilation album 'Trance Europe Express'; the song lifted from RDJ's 1993 album Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 3.

Bonus! From Kraftwerk, Radioactivity (Radioaktivität). A classic, and one of my all-time favorite electronic songs. This, the live version. I have The Mix, the 1991 release which served as a compilation of 'greatest hits', including Trans-Europe Express and ground-breaking Autobahn.

Sorry, Aphex Twin, you just got upstaged.

(The Weekend's end video from a couple weeks ago upstages both of these, eh? )

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G20 Protester Punk uses hammer to smash windows in Toronto, whilst morons watch, seemingly unperturbed.

This really pisses me off.

No, not the protester, he's just doing what he's doing. Look at the reflection in the window glass: all of those people just watching. Doing. Nothing.

If that were my city, I'd intervene. Taking the hammer away from this guy and shoving it up his ass comes to mind.

People are lethargic, unable to do what's right, what needs be done.

Remember last year's G20 in London; I ran this image. I hope I can get another one like it from Toronto, where police have arrested 400 people last I heard.

Hopefully, hammer boi is one of 'em.

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Rick Barber, Marine, Alabama Tea Party (small R) republican has a new video. SLAVERY.

From RS McCain, who has pertinent details.

More info:

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Why "anxious, overachieving, white upper middle class" women won't put out..."Bourgeois Propriety". And I always thought it was a headache or something.

Now, to save the modern world, these sorts of women need a Viagra-like pill ? New York Times' Camille (I'm a Feminazi!) Paglia...

The implication is that a new pill, despite its unforeseen side effects, is necessary to cure the sexual malaise that appears to have sunk over the country. But to what extent do these complaints about sexual apathy reflect a medical reality, and how much do they actually emanate from the anxious, overachieving, white upper middle class?

In the 1950s, female “frigidity” was attributed to social conformism and religious puritanism. But since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, American society has become increasingly secular, with a media environment drenched in sex.

The real culprit, originating in the 19th century, is bourgeois propriety. [emphasis mine -.ed]

OK, so if the problems with Al Gore's and Bill Clinton's wives not giving them any more 'happy moments' (directly leading to embarrassing incidents such as Monica playing the skin flute under Bill's desk at the Oral Office, and Al Gore mad in lust after a frightened masseur...see video below) is 'burgeois propriety', what exactly is it, and will the proposed female Viagra pill cure it?

Googling of  'burgeois propriety' gets me lots of links to scholarly journals that aren't so much available without subscription, and this gem...

In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie (adjective: bourgeois) describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late eighteenth century to now, the bourgeoisie is a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. A member of the bourgeoisie is a bourgeois or capitalist (plural: bourgeois; capitalists).

They are a part of the middle or merchant classes, and derived social and economic power from employment, education, and wealth, as distinguished from social classes whose power came from being born into an aristocratic family of titled land owners granted feudal privileges by the monarch. The bourgeoisie emerged from late feudal and early modern towns, through the control of long distance trade and petty manufacture. Bourgeois and bourgeoisie originate in the French language, meaning "city-dweller" (from bourg, cf. German Burg).

Addition of 'propriety' gives more than just a faint sheen of Marxist putdownism. Of which I think Camille approves, she being a dirty socialist leftist feminazi and all. Digress I will no further. More Camille...

In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure.

And we have who to blame for this 'male neutering' of which you speak, Camille? Got a damned mirror?

Nor are husbands offering much stimulation in the male display department: visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as shown by the bulky T-shirts, loose shorts and sneakers they wear from preschool through midlife. The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.

The elemental power of sexuality has also waned in American popular culture. Under the much-maligned studio production code, Hollywood made movies sizzling with flirtation and romance. But from the early ’70s on, nudity was in, and steamy build-up was out. A generation of filmmakers lost the skill of sophisticated innuendo. The situation worsened in the ’90s, when Hollywood pirated video games to turn women into cartoonishly pneumatic superheroines and sci-fi androids, fantasy figures without psychological complexity or the erotic needs of real women.

It's beginning to sound as if Camille is ready to return to the heady days of Gone With the Wind, with Rhett Butler exclaiming "No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how." Well, maybe, but seeing Camille Paglia's mugshot, I volunteer someone else. Elfie, you still lurking around somewhere ?

Camille Brillo...Frank Zappa would've hit it.

More Camille...

Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts. Contrast that with Latino and African-American taste, which runs toward the healthy silhouette of the bootylicious Beyoncé.

Like this, then, Camille? Thin and amplified? Androgynous?

Hmmmmm...no foolin'.

Camille, the reason men won't hit on feminist women (read: you) so much anymore is that you've screwed the pooch (maybe literally, maybe not). You feminists have made it so freakin' hard (well, not literally) to successfully pick one of you up without worrying about the consequences; lawsuits, sexual harassment complaints &c. Men are neutered. Well, many of the big-city-dwelling New York upper east side sorts of metrosexual men (you know if it's you of whom I speak, you out there serenading your cat) are useless twibbons. And Camille knows who are the exceptions...

A class issue in sexual energy may be suggested by the apparent striking popularity of Victoria’s Secret and its racy lingerie among multiracial lower-middle-class and working-class patrons, even in suburban shopping malls, which otherwise trend toward the white middle class. Country music, with its history in the rural South and Southwest, is still filled with blazingly raunchy scenarios, where the sexes remain dynamically polarized in the old-fashioned way.

There you go. Country music gives us hope that our 'real men' traditions will live on, feminism be damned. Camille, you should put on a wet t-shirt and visit a NASCAR venue somewhere; maybe your luck will change.

Oh, and here's the result of anxious, overachieving, white upper middle class women who won't put out: Al Gore, manbearpriggish~!

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Declaration 2.0

Day by Day's Chris Muir knocks this one out of the park. Heh. "King Obama".

Chris Muir is a good man.

Heh. "King Obama".




Don't laugh.

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Joe Biden offended when asked to lower taxes, calls store manager a "smartass"

At Kopp's Frozen Custard in Greenfield, Wisconsin...

Dirty socialist looter Democrats will never want to lower taxes. They need 'em in order to buy moocher's votes.



(Guess I'll have to take back some of the things I've said about Cheese Heads~!)

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100 Great Americans the Left Hates the most. Obama Zombies, get yer fill of these!

View the complete list (pdf) here (h/t Dr. Douglas).

Here's some of my favorites, with links to their sites:

1) Glenn Beck I'm a lukewarm supporter. But, to be #1 helps.
2) Sarah Palin We know how leftards hate Sarah. Good for her!
3) Rush Limbaugh My favorite political pundit. This man is awesome.
4) George Bush Leaves the left frothing at the mouth, still.
5) Ann Coulter I lurvs her sharp, cutting edges.
6) Michelle Malkin Meh. I've never been a big fan of MM's.
7) Tea Party Patriots, aka "Tea Baggers" (does it tickle, you freakin' leftards ? )
8) Dick Cheney (get well soonest!)
9) Bill O'Reilly He's fairly honest, going against both parties as needed.
10) Michele Bachmann
11) Karl Rove The Architect
12) Sean Hannity Hammerin' Hannity. Sometimes he gets on my last nerve.
13) Matt Drudge Top website, even beats Instapundit out for best links.
14) Newt Gingrich Might be a chance for a 2012 comeback.
15) Andrew Breitbart (Big Journalism, Big Government, Big Hollywood) This guy is awesome.
16) Mark Levin (the best lawyer we should keep above sea level)
17) Laura Ingraham (I'm not so familiar with Laura, but if the Left hates her, she' OK by me)
18) Roger Ailes well...
19) Clarence Thomas (best Supreme Court Justice evah!)
20) Rupert Murdoch (FOX News, the Wall Street Journal)
21) James O'Keefe & Hannah Giles (for you have slain the jabberwocky!)

You'll have to visit the pdf for the rest of the list.

More of my favorites...

35) Liz Cheney
48) Charles Krauthammer (link to archived columns)
56) Dr. Condoleezza Rice
62) Jonah Goldberg (link to NRO archives)
68) Wayne LaPierre NRA's Executive VP and CEO
72) Ted Nugent (NRA Board Member since 1995)
74) Tim Tebow (link to Super Bowl commercial)
82) George Will (WAPO Column archives)

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...ever wondered where the word 'SLOVENLY' might've come from ?

Slovenly: slovenly, barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, botched, bungling, careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, disheveled, dowdy, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erroneous, faulty, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grubby, grungy, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, imprecise, improper, in rags, incorrect, infelicitous, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, negligent, poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbery, sloppy, sloven, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, solecistic, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, uncombed, unfastidious, ungrammatic, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unthorough, untidy. Nasty-ass. Dirtbags. Dirty Socialists. Hippies.

No, 'slovenly' did not originate from Slovenia, but these Slovenia futball fans certainly seem to beg the question.

Captioned...

Football fans cheer as they watch the action on two big screens provided for the World Cup soccer game between England and Slovenia, at the Glastonbury Festival, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Blasphemy. That's not football, it's futball.

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Oh, one more...

(photo) First lady Michelle Obama hugs Attorney Gen. Eric Holder during her visit to the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

There's your word of the day.

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Mr. Robert Gates, you are not a very tough man, obviously.

WASHINGTON - JUNE 23: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) makes a statement as (L-R) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, Vice President Joseph Biden, Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates listen in the Rose Garden of the White House June 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. Obama has named Gen. Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top commander of the U.S. Force in Afghanistan, after an article quoting Gen. McChrystal disparaging the Obama Administration was published in Rolling Stone magazine.

Hat's off to General Petraeus, for being able to stand there without losing his lunch.

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Obama's Boss (Move On dot org, George Soros) hides "General Betray Us" web page and attack ad

So, we fire General McChrystal (who did nothing wrong but vote for Obama in the first place AFAIC) and replace him with General Petraeus (or is it General Betray Us ?) The Move On dot org web page is down.

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Just so happens that we have BING cache.

Bastards. First, they stab a man in the back, then they put him in charge. Don't you know General Petraeus trusts Obama?

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You know how DOGS love BACON ?

~!~

I'll just go ahead and denounce myself here. Saves you the trouble.

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Michael Hastings, @sshole, writes gossipy article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff; who is then called on the carpet for mocking Biden and other civilian Obama-appointed idiots. Obama is not amused.

The Rolling Stone mag article causing all the fuss comes out Friday. It's written by leftist 'journalist' Michael Hastings, who has a history of true left-slant (he blogs at TrueSlant, alongside such illuminating nut jobs as Charles Johnson and Barrett Brown, and contributes to GQ, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, the L.A. Times, and other publications of known mostly leftist bent, if that tells you anything). Hastings, in fine gossipy form, relates how Gen. McChrystal and some of his staff offer pointed commentary on "Bite Me" Joe Biden and other senior Obama-appointed civilian staffers who are overseeing the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan...

In the profile, author Michael Hastings writes that McChrystal and his staff had imagined ways of dismissing Vice President Joe Biden with a one-liner as they prepared for a question-and-answer session in Paris, France, in April. The general had grown tired of questions about Biden since earlier dismissing a counterterrorism strategy the vice president had offered.

"'Are you asking about Vice President Biden?' McChrystal says with a laugh. 'Who's that?'" Hastings writes.

"'Biden?' suggests a top adviser. 'Did you say: Bite Me?'"

The article goes on to paint McChrystal as a man who "has managed to piss off almost everyone with a stake in the conflict," including U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Special Representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke and National Security Adviser Jim Jones.

Of Eikenberry, who railed against McChrystal's strategy in Afghanistan in a cable leaked to The New York Times in January, the general said, "'Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, "I told you so.'"

Hastings writes in the profile that McChrystal has a "special skepticism" for Holbrooke, the official in charge of reintegrating Taliban members into Afghan society.

"At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. 'Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,' he groans. 'I don't even want to open it.' He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance."

Imagine that, Gen. McChrystal annoyed at something an Obama-appointed Democrat sycophant has to say. Democrats that Obama appoints don't win wars; instead, it seems that they undercut the military every chance they get. See: Gays in the Military.

Michael Hastings is an instrument of that undercutting. Look no further than his May 21 True-Leftist-Slant piece, "The Army is a 24-Hour Gay Joke"...

The homophobia in the military is akin to the homophobia in locker rooms or frat houses. The reason the military won’t allow in gays is the same reason we don’t know what professional athletes are gay. It’s not part of the culture. In this kind of atmosphere, you find the type of language that you get when you isolate a bunch of dudes in testerone scented quarters. Jokingly, I’ve seen soldiers sit on each others laps, pretend to blow kisses and then some, while continually make sexually suggestive comments to one another. On one embed, the soldiers showed me a video of another solider touching the penis of a donkey. (I won’t name the unit, but it could have been a bad YouTube hit.)

The humor is not meant as malicious, I don’t think, and these are on the whole good guys. It’s just what gets joked about. Call it barracks humor, or call it an homoerotic environment.

Listen, Michael Hastings, you asshole, your girlish, churlish, kiss'n'tell bedtime-story gossip column-style writings aren't helping win this war, not even a little bit. You should stay home and play house with your Nasty Old Sluts.

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Spiked Female Condom (with TEETH!) invented for to fight rape. Someone owes Amanda Marcotte a finder's fee?

The Rape aXe.
Dr. Sonnet Ehlers, South Africa, invents what God didn't...

(CNN) -- South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.

"She looked at me and said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day."

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The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man's penis during penetration, Ehlers said.

Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it -- a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.

"It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it's on," she said. "If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter... however, it doesn't break the skin, and there's no danger of fluid exposure."

Damn. I'm hurting just thinking of this device.

Well and good for rapists to suffer this, and more (I'd rather see 'em catch a .38 from a Lady Smith) but what about when a vindictive woman (no! never been any of those!) puts one of these things on, or in, and pays back that lout who dared dump her for Gwyndolyn at the Senior Prom ?

If a device can be used for good, it can be misused just as easily for alleviating scorn.

But, if it catches one rapist (and the rape victim can then get away without further injury from the wounded, maddened beast, and the rapist's ass goes to a cell where 'rape' is 'splained to it every night by helpful cellmates) then it's all worthwhile.

I still think the .38 is a better solution, though. No need to go through the initial ordeal.

«« Lady Smith by Smith & Wesson

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Rham Emanuel set to leave White House ?

Damn. Before we even get the subpoenas ready.

Telegraph.co.uk...

Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to "bang heads together" to get policy pushed through.

Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term.

"I would bet he will go after the midterms," said a leading Democratic consultant in Washington. "Nobody thinks it's working but they can't get rid of him – that would look awful. He needs the right sort of job to go to but the consensus is he'll go."

An official from the Bill Clinton era said that "no one will be surprised" if Mr Emanuel left after the midterm elections in November, when the Democratic party will battle to save its majorities in the house of representatives and the senate.

It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed between pragmatic Mr Emanuel, a veteran in Congress where he was known for driving through compromises, and the idealistic inner circle who followed Mr Obama to the White House.

Damn, but it's gonna be fun to watch this Presidency swirl the bowl.

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Gardner, Gadahn: One Executed, t'other needing it.

Nice group.  

The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad Friday, June 18, 2010. The bullet holes are visible in the wood panel behind the chair. Gardner was convicted of aggravated murder, a capital felony, in 1985.

Utah rids herself of a nassty murderer, the old-fashioned way. No slow drip-drip-drip of chemicals; just a few satisfying bangs and it's over. If you must know more, read at the linky.

Adam Gadahn, the Southern-California-born al-Qaeda (who knew?!) has released a new video taunting America, and demanding we do things that al-Qaeda (and most American leftists) want: pull out of all Muslim lands, drop support of Israel, and otherwise don't make jihadists mad at us (because, you know, it's all our faults that they hates us).

From FOX Memphis...

(NewsCore) - American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn called on U.S. President Barack Obama to withdraw all personnel from Muslim lands, in a video dictating several demands carried by U.S. monitoring groups Sunday.

"You must pull every last one of your soldiers, spies, security advisers... and all other American personnel, ships and aircraft out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar," Gadahn said.

In the 24-minute long video, which was carried by the monitoring groups IntelCenter and SITE Intelligence, Gadahn was quoted as telling Obama to "end all support, both moral and material, to Israel."

He also called onto the U.S. president to "stop all support and aid, be it military, political, economic or otherwise, to the hated regimes of the Muslim world."

"This includes the so-called development aid," he added.

The United States must "cease all interference in the religion, society, politics, economy and government of the Islamic world."

He also called for the release of "all Muslim captives" held in U.S. prisons "regardless of whether they have been recipients of what you call a fair trial or not."

The sooner we strap that bastard in a chair like the one pictured above, the better off the world will be. And all the rest of these al-Qaeda sorts.

Southern California. WHO KNEW?

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UPDATE
Found the video. Behold Goat-Boy! h/t Naomi Litvin



Tell me he wouldn't look good strapped in that contraption.

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Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur. Oh, and yes, they laugh and turn their backs.

Remember the days when the Left would celebrate every Bush gaffe, pointing out that the 'rest of the world hates America because of BOOOOOOOOOSH!' ? Well, it seems Mr. Obama is considered even less of a leader than George Bush. There's no world acclaim and respect, sorry. At least George Bush was respected as the leader of the greatest nation on earth, as a man of his word, and, yes, a man that the bad guys feared. This president is considered incompetent and, frankly, a walking doofus.

What did we conservatives expect? Democrats are always weak on foreign policy, and are treated as weak on the world's stage, by foreign leaders. This we knew was coming.

Look at Jimmy Carter (D, Doofus). He was scorned by the Iranian revolutionaries who held our embassy staff hostage for years, until Ronald Reagan was sworn in in 1980. Promptly, the hostages were freed.

Because those Iranians, they knew what was gonna happen.

Morton Zuckerman writes...

President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president. Why? Because the United States stands on top of the power ladder, not necessarily as the dominant power, but certainly as the leading one. As such we are the sole nation capable of exercising global leadership on a whole range of international issues from security, trade, and climate to counterterrorism. We also benefit from the fact that most countries distrust the United States far less than they distrust one another, so we uniquely have the power to build coalitions. As a result, most of the world still looks to Washington for help in their region and protection against potential regional threats.

Yet, the Iraq war lingers; Afghanistan continues to be immersed in an endless cycle of tribalism, corruption, and Islamist resurgence; Guantánamo remains open; Iran sees how North Korea toys with Obama and continues its programs to develop nuclear weapons and missiles; Cuba spurns America's offers of a greater opening; and the Palestinians and Israelis find that it is U.S. policy positions that defer serious negotiations, the direct opposite of what the Obama administration hoped for.

The reviews of Obama's performance have been disappointing. He has seemed uncomfortable in the role of leading other nations, and often seems to suggest there is nothing special about America's role in the world. The global community was puzzled over the pictures of Obama bowing to some of the world's leaders and surprised by his gratuitous criticisms of and apologies for America's foreign policy under the previous administration of George W. Bush. One Middle East authority, Fouad Ajami, pointed out that Obama seems unaware that it is bad form and even a great moral lapse to speak ill of one's own tribe while in the lands of others.

Even in Britain, for decades our closest ally, the talk in the press—supported by polls—is about the end of the "special relationship" with America. French President Nicolas Sarkozy openly criticized Obama for months, including a direct attack on his policies at the United Nations. Sarkozy cited the need to recognize the real world, not the virtual world, a clear reference to Obama's speech on nuclear weapons. When the French president is seen as tougher than the American president, you have to know that something is awry.

Vladimir Putin of Russia has publicly scorned a number of Obama's visions. Relations with the Chinese leadership got off to a bad start with the president's poorly-organized visit to China, where his hosts treated him disdainfully and prevented him from speaking to a national television audience of the Chinese people. The Chinese behavior was unprecedented when compared to visits by other U.S. presidents. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Even the liberal whacadoodles to the far left find Barack Obama disappointing, because he isn't moving fast enough to satisfy their immediate wants for the earthly nirvana promised by far-left liberalism. If we would only give, give, give, they would take, take, take and then they could be freeeeee! Isn't gonna happen, ever; but still they perpetually dream of the day when they can be nurtured from cradle to grave, by benevolent Government.

Dream on. The rest of the world will keep on laughing at you.

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ShAkEdOwN!!!1!! Obama channels Jesse Jackson; Rep. Joe Barton, you speak for me.

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Where, exactly, does this President get the authority to bypass due process and shakedown a multinational corporation, no matter what the circumstance? I'm all for BP having to pay what's necessary to clean up the gulf oil spill, but I am NOT for a president to take extra powers not given to him by the constitution to shake down said multinational corporation. A $20 Billion shakedown, the these crooked Democrats are already drooling over. The spineless Republican 'leadership' wouldn't stand behind Rep. Barton. Screw them! They're the ones who picked John McCain, aren't they? They have no standing with me. Screw 'em.

All that was missing at that White House meeting was Jesse Jackson, king of the shakedown.

Well, he was there alright, in fine Democrat spirit.

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Barack Obama's Spill Speech: Cleanup needed...

Unbelievable.

I don't believe him, because he doesn't believe, at least the last few lines he doesn't believe. A total construct and cognitive dissonance.

Just, wow.

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Futball, and it's usefulnesses

Seems these Paraguayan fans are excited, doesn't it? Their team had just scored a massive goal against Italy. A big one-point. This, in Asuncion, South Africa, during the 2010 World Cup Soccer thing. Where the United States on Saturday (or was it Sunday?) made one big point against England, who also managed...one.big.point. A tied-up game that was allowed to stand. How ghey can it get ?

Oh, if you're keeping score, Italy and Paraguay each scored one point, for a tie. Yawn.

So far, this photo demonstrates the best use I've seen for this...sport.

YMMV.

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North Carolina Representative Bob Etheridge (D, Thug) assaults student in Washington DC.

This from protein wisdom.

Pass it around until it's viral.

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UPDATE

Darleen Click...

Good lord, looks like this Dem likes to have a Jack Daniels for breakfast along with his eggs and grits.

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Weekend's End Video: Goodbye California

The Billy Nayer Show. Dunno if they are serious, but nevertheless I find this....trippy. Prolly cause me to have endless, trippy nightmares or something. We'll see.

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Newsweek: SAINT SARAH

I love this cover.

Leftists are not amused.

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OTROLEUM

I spotted the original illustration over at my favorite Lefty Photoslant blog; it's from a skittish NewYorkMag dot com article entitled "Oilbama" that tries to implore our stressing Prezzidint to 'take charge' and just plug the damned hole, by hook or crook. New York Mag observes that BHO's latest trip to the disaster scene (where he partook of 'Grand Isle Spoil')... "For Obama, the trip marked the end of a week spent frantically attempting to corral a narrative spinning out of control."

The Lefty Photoslant guy asks, haltingly, of the NYMag illustration...

Creature of industry? Smooth no longer? And, what’s with the hands?

I’m usually pretty good at reading pictures, but I’m having trouble with this one. It illustrates Heilemann’s latest at NY Mag. The piece outlines what JH sees as opportunities for Obama in the oil blowout, wondering if the Prez can use the crisis to reach for greatness.

How do you make sense of this? Also, do you see a racial element?

He sure would like to label this 'RAAAAACIST!' because, well, it's troubling. My comment there...

Hey, that’s pretty good! Catches the essence of Obama’s presidency, leaking out the pipelines onto the ground, like the best part of him running down his mother’s leg.

Anyone crying RAAAAACIST! is simply clutching at straws. Calling racism! is all the left has left when they run out of arguments, so we’re used to that. Sorry, it isn’t so, and it’s making for a poor shield, especially now and today after so much misuse and overuse since early 2007.

The only thing I’d change here is I’d have Barack Otroleum pointing a dripping finger at BOOOOOOSH!, because that’s his favorite excuse and way ‘out’ of ALL problems where he wants to deny ownership (isn’t that everything that’s come up in his Presidency?).

After a busy day of playing in the sun and water, I looked again at that illustration, and 'fixed' it.

As it should be, and how it really is.

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Blanch Lincoln's win sets far-left Progressives, Union Thugs ablaze with anger, because the White House laughed at them.

Seems Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, he himself of the far-left, isn't far-left enough anymore for Unions and MoveOn dot org sorts of progressives. Why kill the country with Obama's style of slow death of molasses-moving CHANGE, they bellow, when you can rip out it's still-beating heart and chew on that ?

In today's NYT, an editorial points out that BHO prolly shouldn't be laughing in his sleeve about the drubbing the Proggs took in Arkansas...

They may not have won, but discontented Democrats sent an important message to the Obama administration on Tuesday by mounting an unexpectedly strong primary challenge to Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. For the White House to minimize the efforts of unions and others who helped support that challenge suggests a tone-deafness to the growing restlessness in the Democratic Party.

After Mrs. Lincoln narrowly defeated Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the primary runoff, a senior White House official told Politico.com that organized labor had just wasted $10 million in its “pointless” support of Mr. Halter, money that could have been better spent against Republicans in the November general election. David Axelrod, the president’s senior adviser, told The Washington Post that “good progressive candidates around the country” could have benefited from that money.

I'd say that $10 Million probably should have stayed in Union member's pocketses in the first place, but we know that the driven membership in these Proggly Unions aren't really smart enough to think for themselves, and need the upper level Union Management to spend their 'contributions' for them, progressively. Dirty socialists that they are, the money will always be given to the farthest-left candidate possible. Why Unions get to spend their member's money on political campaigns and fund politicians like Halter, whilst at the same time Democrats loudly cry to high heaven when Corporations would like to do the same, is always a good observation..

This last line of the NYT editorial needs airing...

Rather than dismissing such concerns and ridiculing efforts at change, the White House should consider just how powerful they [the far-left coalition of Unions and MoveOn] have become. There are virtues to pragmatism, but it should be in the service of an underlying principle.

Can you believe this? The 'virtues to pragmatism' referred to are BHO's halting recognition of the massive debt the US is laboring under; the realization that we are probably only months away from a catastrophic economic breakdown that will probably rip this Republic apart and set us on a course reminiscent of the Soviet breakup, with regionally and ideologically-grouped "State-Nations" (I'm thinking Texas and Tennessee will be inseparable), only a thousand times more violent than the relatively bloodless Soviet dissolution. That's the  pragmatism these sorts are decrying, and it's obviously unacceptable to these whack jobs in Unions and MoveOn.

That's the real reason they are termed "Proggtards".

Another article from the New York Post gives us more insight into the Union - Proggtard reaction to the White House's "but we could have used that $10 Million somewhere else !"...

...an anonymousWhite House official snarked to Politico, "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet on a pointless exercise."

Oh, snap. Organized labor was not amused.

AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale fumed: "Is the lesson they are taking out of tonight that they can go after labor and anonymously trash us and we will put our tail in between our legs and slink home? That ain't happening."

Other leading liberals expressed outrage and a commitment to keep on flushing, results be damned.

Love it when these bastiches fight over the soon-to-be-rotting corpse of America.

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Sure, Barack Obama made the Democrat Party a home for and Welcomed ! Dirty Socialists, Alinskyites, Marxists,

...and other far-left "Community Organized" sorts of un-American Euroweenie-style, non-Constitutional politics while expanding the roles of ACORN- and Union-thugs to an extent heretofore unknown in these rapidly declining and dismembering United States, but this is ridiculous.

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Barack Obama's New Award !

Proud of this one, he is; Mr. Obama seen decorating the White House walls with his latest award. This photo from the White House Flickr photostream, h/t my favorite lefty-slanted photoblog (thanks, guys, for making my work easy! ).

(Bonus points: from what movie did that plate originate?)

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Barack Obama Visits Grand Isle, Louisiana; partakes of the Public Relations spoils.

Not at all self-serving, now is he?

Don't choke now, y'hear ?

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New York Times Headline: "Democrats Are Skipping Town Halls to Avoid Voter Rage", because Democrats are (D) COWARDS !

Best headline evah! I had to reproduce it here, for the savoring...

BEL AIR, Md. — The reception that Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., a Democrat, received here one night last week as he faced a small group of constituents was far more pleasant than his encounters during a Congressional recess last summer.

Then, he was hanged in effigy by protesters. This time, a round of applause was followed by a glass of chilled wine, a plate of crackers and crudités as he mingled with an invitation-only audience at the Point Breeze Credit Union, a vastly different scene than last year’s wide-open televised free-for-alls.

So, who hanged him in effigy, I wonder? He voted against ObamaCare, so likely Social Democrats did the deed. If the NYT doesn't say, then you know it's their friends they will protect.

But, to sit back and meet with invited guests, sipping wine and eating crudités? Seriously? This is what Marylanders elected and expect to represent them ?

The sentiment that fueled the rage during those Congressional forums is still alive in the electorate. But the opportunities for voters to openly express their displeasure, or angrily vent as video cameras roll, have been harder to come by in this election year.

If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction. Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts.

It was no scheduling accident.

With images of overheated, finger-waving crowds still seared into their minds from the discontent of last August, many Democrats heeded the advice of party leaders and tried to avoid unscripted question-and-answer sessions. The recommendations were clear: hold events in controlled settings — a bank or credit union, for example — or tour local businesses or participate in community service projects.

I certainly didn't expect to see my 'Representative', the 'Blue Dog' Coward Bart Gordon (TN-6), who isn't running for re-election. He was likely promised a nice political job for his vote on ObamaCare; we'll be watching closely to see if he gets it. But Bart Gordon gave up representing the 6th District decades ago. What a loser. Good riddance.

Back to the NYT...

And to reach thousands of constituents at a time, without the worry of being snared in an angry confrontation with voters, more lawmakers are also taking part in a fast-growing trend: the telephone town meeting, where chances are remote that a testy exchange will wind up on YouTube.

For incumbents of both parties facing challenging re-election bids, few things receive more scrutiny than how, when and where they interact with voters. Many members of Congress err on the side of being visible, but not too visible, and make only a few public appearances while they are back in their districts.

For better or worse, these Reps are under the microscope. As they should be. We, the people, have to be heard or we will not be represented; in this charged political minefield, where every Rep might mean the difference between another Obama social redistribution plot and fiscal sanity (not that it much matters at this point), we have to fight for every seat. That means exposing these Representatives who, well, don't.

Oh, and this is worth pulling out from the innards of the NYT piece...

An examination of public schedules for dozens of members of Congress last week showed that more House Republicans held open meetings, including several in a series of forums called America Speaking Out, which is intended to help write the party’s agenda if it wins control of Congress in November.

That's right, Republicans are more honest and open than Democrats, are are much more willing to meet with their constituents.

Who knew?

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Weekend's End Video: Olivia Newton-John sings "The Air That I Breathe", putting The Hollies to shame.

This lovely lady had only one rival for my '70's affections, that being of course Farrah Fawcett.

Found via BlipFM.

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Typical Union Thug

This photo I spotted at the New York Times; it being a Union Thug from Arkansas who is not supporting (and actually working against) current sitting Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln (a so-called 'Blue Dog' who annoyed the Arkansas Unions by not being a dirty enough socialist for their desires) in the runoff scheduled for Tuesday.

So, fat boy here is plotting to help elect some 'tard named Bill Halter, who is obviously far enough far-left Social Democrat for these Union Thugs.

Bring him on. In November. 

I don't care so much for Blanch Lincoln either, but if the Union Thugs are against her, she can't be all that bad, by degree.

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Mother Nature's Ugliness: Guatemala Sinkholes; Democrat Stinkho(le)s

A massive sinkhole opens May 30 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Not the first time, either.

April 26, 2010. A landslide diverts traffic, buries travelers on HWY 3 in Taiwan.

Republican men are much happier. Seems Democrat women are dog fugly.

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This was an unpaid Sunday post, for my own amusements. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did~!

Note: the two upper photos are enhanced by GIMP (not pshopped, but enhanced to bring forth color and clarity). The bottom photo is, unfortunately, only fixed by diverting your eyes away from the bottom half.

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#HelenThomasMovies : "Apocalypse Sow"

There's good reason President George Bush put this crazy old loonbat in the back row at his pressers, and wouldn't take her questions.

Helen Thomas, crazed old left - liberal antisemite (what Left - Liberal isn't antisemitic, really?)

Apocalypse Sow: my contribution to the #HelenThomasMovies trending topic. Best of show, I'm thinking.  )

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Sarah Palin rightly slams enviromental whackos

Photo: Sarah Palin with snowflakes

The lovely and gracious Sharon Cobb today posted, without comment (other than to say 'logic' and 'convoluted') Sarah Palin's attack on extreme environmentalists who force us to have to drill at risky depths in order to keep our nation supplied with oil.

My reply to Sharon follows:

Sarah Palin is right. Why else do we have to drill 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface, drill thousands of feet below that once you're down there, to tap the oil the our very societal structure requires for it's day-to-day operations? Other than crazy whackjob enviroweenies who force them that far offshore and down?

Tell you what. Let 'em give up every bit of the thin veneer of civilization that depends on oil as energy, all of it. Computers included. Air conditioning, vehicles, food not grown withing a horseback-ride distance, all the modern conveniences, then get back to me.

The only people in America who have right to complain about oil production and it's associated risks (risks that are exacerbated by the whacko's restrictions) are the Amish.

We should reassess our complaints, given our dependence. If you want to complain, lose the dependence first, return to around 1850's level of technology.

You first.

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Read Sarah's comments at the link:

Sharoncobb.com: Sarah Palin Blames Enniornmentalists For Gulf Disaster

I Am Israel - Documentary

I like this. Therefore, I post.

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Joe Biden gets something right. Just, Damn!

I'm not holding my breath for any long-term changes, but Joe Biden's defense of Israel is correct and welcome.

Biden solidifies defense of Israel: 'What's the big deal here?'

Vice President Joe Biden offered the White House's strongest defense yet of Israeli's actions off the coast of Gaza this week in an interview with Charlie Rose airing tonight on PBS.

"I think Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest. I put all this back on two things: one, Hamas, and, two, Israel's need to be more generous relative to the Palestinian people who are in trouble in Gaza," Biden said, according to a transcript of the interview, in which he went on to discuss Hamas's control of Gaza:
"[The Israelis have] said, 'Here you go. You're in the Mediterranean. This ship — if you divert slightly north you can unload it and we'll get the stuff into Gaza.' So what's the big deal here? What's the big deal of insisting it go straight to Gaza? Well, it's legitimate for Israel to say, 'I don't know what's on that ship. These guys are dropping eight — 3,000 rockets on my people,'" Biden said.
Biden continued:

Now, the one thing we have to do is not forget the plight of these Palestinians there, not Hamas, the — they're in bad shape. So we have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials in, glass —
ROSE: That's what they're trying to bring in, building materials.
BIDEN: Yes, we know that, but they could have easily brought it in here and we'd get it through. 

Biden concluded by calling for an investigation "run by the Israelis."

Credit where credit's due.

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