Jon Stewart, on Democrats: "We came, we saw, we SUCKED !"

Desperation funny.

www.thedailyshow.com

I think he'll be even funnier November 3. That's a show I might even watch live.

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Soros defunding candidates: More bad news for mid-term Democrats...

...which is good news for the Republic.

According to the Contra Costa Times, NYT writers Michael Luo and Jeff Zeleny posit that George Soros and other wealthy Democrat Donors are pulling the cash they usually give to candidates in favor of special interest groups...

Democratic donors like George Soros and fellow billionaire Peter Lewis, who each gave more than $20 million to Democratic-oriented groups in the 2004 election, appear to be holding back.

"Mr. Soros believes that he can be most effective by funding groups that promote progressive policy outcomes in areas such as health care, the environment and foreign policy," said an adviser, Michael Vachon. "So he has opted to fund those activities."

Twisting in the wind, these awful "D" congresscritters who've done so much damage with their ObamaCare, TARP bailouts and other overtly socialist programs.

Not that Soros is relinquishing his hold on the Democrat Party. Who else would promote his overarching lefty goals? These special interest groups he's funding will eventually funnel the money to selected Democrat politicians anyway; what Soros is doing is eliminating the higher-level Democrat Party operatives and controllers from the feeding loop. He must be annoyed at Obama's targeting of the far-left activists, and wants him to see exactly who controls the purse.

President or no, Obama, you must realize that Soros is your master.

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Oh, and this...

Businesses Step Up Political Ads

From eye doctors to real estate agents, businesses are funding millions of dollars of campaign advertisements and mailings to help candidates, mostly Republicans, win this fall.

A good thing, and a sign of just how desperate businesses are, spending hard-earned monies to help ensure a better future for our business community.

Otherwise, and know that this is how it’s gonna be for as long as the far-left controls the once-proud Democrat Party: Who is John Galt ?

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Obama speaks to his base at the University of Wisconsin: Predator vs. Easy Prey

Barack Obama preys on the 'less knowledgeable' and 'easily purchased' crowds.

This image, and this article in the NYT point out BHO's only redeeming factor to the current crop of far-left Democrats: his ability to stir up ('community organize') people who will succumb to easy rhetoric over understanding the hard facts and principles that've allowed us to thrive as a nation for over 200 years. Here we see the ideologically naive set at a large University going gaga over the same simple, tell-me-nothing-but-promise-me-much rhetoric as was demonstrated during BHO's 2008 campaign.

No matter what ideology this Obama wind-up would speak: even if he changed his mind and became a hard-right conservative (HA!) he would still be able to wow crowds, no matter what his point of view. Of course, few such people over history have spoken for the good. Barack Obama, given his positional far-left ideological rhetoric that's designed to CHANGE this nation from a Republic to a neo-fascist far-left euro-socialist entity that bears little resemblance to it's early, strong, healthy-growth and WE ARE AMERICA! stages isn't one of the good ones. We who realize what's really happening see his return to full-strength campaign mode as troubling.

No word of individuals fainting in the crowd, or of the open hero-worship as we saw during the 2008 campaign as yet, but let's keep an eye open. Demagogues have their ways of 'community organizing' that are remarkably effective, and permanently damaging.

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Lisa Murkowski, Alaska's own lobsterpot bimbo, makes the front page of the New York Times.

Hey, hey, Lisa Murkowski! The word you're looking for in 'haangina-lix'.

What a sense of entitlement this madcap person has! Just look at the NYT's photo: wide, staring eyes, down turned lips. She reminds me of that hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, with similar unreasonable temper flares if she doesn't get what she thinks she deserves; an anger fueled by the expectancy of power dependency.

No matter what party or ideology, this sort of power-mad person needs to be shown the door. Alaska and this nation deserve better representatives.

But then I look to Minnesota, and see Al Franken, and realize that anything can happen.

And I remember Scuzzafava, and her antics. Hopefully Ms. Lisa (MY Senate Seat!) Hemlsley can join her in obscurity after November 2.

Oh..."Princess Lisa", from itsnotyourseatlisa.com.

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Twenty video-captured instances where some in the Obama cartel spoke YES! to Socialism.

What’s worse, a card-carrying ‘outed’ socialist like Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff or a secretive sort of socialist like BHO and his cartel, who wave monies at third-grade-level voters for to stay in power?

h/t pw's Sanity Inspector

Also reading: ‘Weak-ties’ vs. ‘Strong-ties’, or, The Revolution Will Not Be Twittered.

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Green Bay Packer fans are "Cheese Heads". So, what are these New Orleans Saints fans ?

"BLING HEADS"

Original caption...

NEW ORLEANS - SEPTEMBER 26: Saints fans watch the game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons at the Louisiana Superdome on September 26, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama DOES know where Ground Zero is.

"It was offensive. It was hateful. And particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of Ground Zero, where families lost their loved ones, people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation, for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable,"

No, Barack Hussein Obama wasn't speaking to Imam Faisal Abdur Rauf, the spokesman - Holy man behind the building of the Ground Zero Mosque; he was speaking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, another Islamic builder, of sorts.

“Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. “But let me be clear: As a citizen and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”

What's the difference? Doesn't Mahmoud have the same rights to 'free speech' as Faisal and company have rights to express their religious beliefs by building a Mosque much closer to Ground Zero than the U.N. ? And those words, and Ahmadinejad, are gone from Manhattan. Faisal and his Mosque will be planted there forever.

And in a way, Faisal spoke much in the same vein as Ahmadinejad...

Bradley: it is the Islamic belief in the afterlife that could be an incentive to die in the name of Islam. According to the prophet Mohammed, the next life is paradise, offering forgiveness.

Faisal: In the Islamic belief system, the next life is the primary life. The next life is more real, more intense, and more vivid.

Yusuf: I think that there are people that do these things that believe that we have a noble end, and the noble end is to bring about some kind of conflict to wake up the Muslim world, to start a global jihad against the evil west.

Bradley: And the Satan of the evil west, according to Muslim extremists, is the United States and its culture of commercialism, which Imam Farid Esack equates with a religion.

Esack: it is the fastest- growing religion in the world, the religion of consumerism, and everybody is being drawn into this new religion. And if you do not buy into this, you are an outcast, you are a heretic, and there is the hellfire of utter poverty which awaits you.

Bradley: And throughout the Muslim world, there is also strong opposition to America's foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East because of its support of Israel and economic sanctions against Iraq.

Faisal: it is a reaction against the US government politically, where we espouse principles of democracy and human rights, and where we ally ourselves with oppressive regimes in many of these countries.

Bradley: Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?


Faisal: I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened, but united states policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.


Bradley: You say that we're an accessory? How?


Faisal: Because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.

Mr. Obama, can you get your story straight? Either a man has a right to free speech whilst in this country or he doesn't. Either Ground Zero is hallowed ground or it isn't. Just make up your mind, m'kay?

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How Democrats attract voters who are mentally not much past Third Grade. Oh, and Another Friday Night Bailout.

From my e-mail box, a third-grade teacher with a story to tell...

"We worried about 'the cow' when it was all about 'Ice Cream'.

"The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided that we would have an election for a class president.

"We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates would be nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

"We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.

"I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never met Olivia's mother.

"The day for their speeches arrived. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down.

"Now it was Olivia's turn to speak. Her speech was precise. She said, "if you vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream!"

"She surely could have said more. She did not have to.

"A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it, or would the class pay for it? She didn't know.

"The class didn't really care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

"Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide."

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They wanted ice cream.

The other 48 percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

What we have today is the ice cream Obama promised us! Did you vote for the ice cream?

Remember, the government cannot give anything, to anyone, that they have not taken from someone else.

November 2 is Take Out The Trash Day!

What we have today (actually Friday night) are still more bailouts resultant from the mortgage bubble's collapse, this time a bailout for Credit Unions; more precisely, a couple of the wholesale credit unions: those entities that exist to service groups of smaller credit unions; handling their day-to-day tasks such as check processing &c. Too much invested in mortgage-backed securities, these large Credit Unions; their portfolios shattered, they needed some bailout monies happily provided by our Federal Government, in exchange for a bigger role in determining future rules of conduct. A loud, unwelcome voice in their operations.

As one commenter professes

All this trouble is due to the Carter's "Community Reinvestment Act", reinforced by that disbarred felon Clinton, and pushed through by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd by means of threats of fines and jail; then helped by ACORN thugs with their demostrations and threats of physical force. That wimp Bush was of no help with his "ownership society"; some 2 million homes were given to "underserved minorities" with no hope of ever being able to pay those mortgages. ACORN Housing Corporation alone "sold" 600,000 such mortgages, qualifying buyers on the basis of their welfare and unemployment checks.

well, shush your mouth. Such things aren't spoken in polite company, no matter how much truth is sausage-cased in it.

Got ice cream ?

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So...who do you think will buy Gil Vicente's assassin pRon artwork ?

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Story

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'Punching Hippies': On That What SHOULD BE a National Pastime.

From today's New Yawk Times, coverage of a lefty slugfest revolving around ship-jumping David Axelrod's lack of understanding of what exactly "Hippy Punching" means, and why the 'Professional Left' supposedly now has to don protective headgear.

Not mindful the fact that they of the 'Professional Left' are ignorant 'Bearded Marxist' flakes who need drug-testing (and punching), these extreme-left-wing bloggers and pundits (one of Crooks and Liars' top liars, Susie Mudrake, started this kerfuffle last week when she accused Axelrod of 'hippy punching') are seriously wondering why even their own duly-elected dirty socialists seemingly shun their crazy antics; these hippies are all up in BHO's face because he's not far-left enough to suit their strange wishes.

For HILARITY™, here's a couple of the comments from NYT's piece...

“Why is Barack Obama obsessed with appeasing the establishment? Was he being completely disingenuous when he ran on change?"
Because, if one looks at his personal story - Harvard, U Chicago, speech at Demo convention, it is clear that Barack Obama is a "made man" and he was made by (and to serve) "the establishment." He IS the establishment, or more cynically, one in a long line of American Uncle Tom's. A sad old story. [emboldenings mine -ed]

Was that one far left enough for you? Try this one...

But - people lumping Obama's disapproval ratings into one homogenous pile are making a big mistake. Those aren't a Republican votes. Much of the disapproval is from the left - people who don't think bills like health care and finreg went far enough. It's one thing to answer a poll question on the phone, its another to decide not go out and vote. But the Dems had better do something real to bring those people out on election day. Of course, totally dropping the ball on DADT and the tax cuts was NOT a very good show. Oy.


Look, the barbarians at at the gates fellas. History isn't going to talk about what the professional left did. It's gonna talk about how you managed to convince and fight and resurrect this country from decline under 8 years of George W. Bush (and the people he represents) or it's gonna be about how the unholy alliance of the Tea Party and the irresponsible wealthy kicked your butts and finished the job GWB started.


It was a tough, tough campaign, but we believed in you. We knocked on the doors, we made the phone calls, we gave the money. We put you in charge.


Now do something, damn it.

'Barbarians' are at the gates? Really? This fellow needs to follow the line of American history, and note exactly where this Republic jumped ship, right about when 'hippies' became 'grown-ups' and took over the Democrat Party. Then, we see the out-of-control entitlements that have all but broken this nation, and the promises of more and more from Democrat looters for to attract their target-audience-moocher's votes. There you will find your barbarians, fellow.

Oh, my favorite, from (wait for it) 'ObscureChemist'...

Nice piece. Comprehensive and concise, just the way I like it. Has anyone other than the questioner ever heard of "hippie punching"? Sure is new to this old hippie. Sounds like a cheap shot at a group of young folks who made America examine her conscience. Hippies are not a joke.

THREAD WINNAH! Mr. ObscureChemist gets the Stupid Comment of the Day award. Now, go do a couple lines in celebration, why don't you? Oh, you didn't really need at all my encouragements?

Carry on, then. Dirty Stupid Socialist Hippy Jerk.

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The 'Great Recession' is over (snicker!). Here it is, whipped out and compared to the rest of 'em.

Of the 22 recessions that occurred over the past 110 years, the most recent recession is tied for fifth in terms of duration. It is also worth noting that the recession just passed was above average in duration and the longest since the Great Depression.

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The "Great Recession": December 2007 - June 2009

So, 'Bush's Recession' ended in June 2009. That means, Mr. Obama, that this thing is all yours now.

WHERE ARE THE FREAKIN' JOBS, MR. OBAMA??!!

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Friday Photo Study 2: Misuse of a Cutting Edge, 2

Ever been in a bar fight and have a 4-inch blade stuck in your head for three years ?

Curious people want to know.

Original caption:

Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight. (AP Photo/Helia Scheppa, JC Imagem)

This photo is impossible not to study. The bandage, the X-ray visibly feed off of each other and mutually enhance the fascination in a tightly-wound dance.

Oh, and stilettos aren't worth carrying, especially the cheap ones. You'd be better off with an ice pick.

Or a Broadsword.

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Friday Photo Study: French Dirty Socialists

French Dirty Socialists

Note the Union influence, and the Hammer and Sickle, symbol of Communists and Dirty Socialists worldwide.

Our current crop of Democrat "Bearded Marxists", controlled by the Progressive Left, would like nothing more than to usher us along the same path France followed; except of course we could never emulate France's exceptional nuclear program, because of our Dirty Hippies.

Look closely: you'll likely see this sort of behavior on streets here, led by the SEIU and the 'professional left', before this is all over.

Original caption...

"People march during a protest, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country.(AP Photo/Claude Paris)"

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"Mourning in America" Ronald Reagan's iconic and hopeful TV ad remade to reflect today's sorrowful conditions under Barack Hussein Obama.

Before Obama:

After Obama:

questions?

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h/t Washington Wire

Aunt Zeituni pops up... HAMMERTIME~!

From Rocketman...

So here’s the thing. President Obama has gone out of his way to lecture us all about being our brother’s keeper, which I’d have to agree with when applied on an individual basis. But, there are folks that don’t believe in this central tenet of Christianity, so the question is, should their tax dollars be used to be anyone else’s keeper?

And furthermore, last I checked, President Obama has made quite a few bucks in public life, especially over the last few years. Wouldn’t you think he, as Aunti Zeituni’s famous and successful nephew, would want to do something for the old girl? Wouldn’t he want to see her live without want or need, perhaps even nearer to him and his family?

And even if the answer to both those questions is a resounding, NO!, in a time that demands fiscal austerity and when the national debate on how to deal with illegal immigration and immigrants is in the fore, don’t you think he would prefer that one of his relatives wasn’t here illegally, living off taxpayer largesse?

You think Obama cares anything about anyone in his family? He's narcissistic, so there's very little but self-love in that man's head.

Cleaned up this years-old pshop for to give it a newer look (don't ask where that pic of ObamaMomma came from... )

HAMMERTIME!

HAMMERTIME !

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"Typhoid Barry", revisited

Read the full essay "Typhoid Barry" by Robin of Berkeley at American Thinker

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Just an Empty Suit: "Typhoid Barry"

Or, Typhoid Elitists.

This American Thinker piece is worth your taking time to read in full...

Obama is no warrior. He's the middleman, the closer. This country has had a date with destiny since the radical Left began spreading its poison decades ago. Obama is simply the empty suit brought in to close the deal.

Bill Ayers, for instance, got down and dirty by bombing the New York City Police Department, the Capitol, and the Pentagon. Van Jones served time in jail during the Rodney King riots.

But Obama the warrior? I don't see it. He's a poser and a posturer, a blank screen on which others project their fantasies. Obama does not embrace his father's dreams, nor does he have many of his own.
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Obama doesn't have the fire, or the cajones, as Palin memorably phrased it, to be a revolutionary. He likes his arugula and his fine wine. He will not get his manicured fingers dirty.

Like Cloward and Piven, he's another version of the carrier syndrome, a sort of Typhoid Barry. He gestures with his middle finger about Hillary and whips the crowd into a frenzy. Or he cajoles people to hit back hard, and maniacs beat up conservatives.

A fiery orator, sure, but no leader of men. Fits well with BHO's prior statement, made while he was on the campaign trail, and implied later whilst he was on one of his numerous vacations:

'Just let me eat my waffle'.

More, later.

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Lady Gaga: LOVE CHILD !

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Barack Obamas Economic 'Town Hall' an orchestrated lie fest.

Love, Love Me Do ...

 At about the same time BHO steps up to proclaim he's not 'anti-business', says he loves the 'entrepreneurs and innovators' (read: small start-ups, 'green' and otherwise politically-correct proto-companies that will need massive Government Subsidies to get started, will employ only Union Thugs and other Friends of Democrats, therefore owing the current far-left Government for their very existences; NOT the existing corporate structures owned by the Evil Rich who employ the most people, who don't so much appreciate the Statist overrides that BHO stands for) there's a great guffaw from those in the know who hear 'the recession is OVER, and has been since Dear Leader implemented his DemStim last year!'.

My Gawd, how much of this do people really believe? Is it only the Democrats who listen to this man and still applaud?

Well, yes...

This morning the President took part in an unusual sort of town hall in conjunction with CNBC. The audience was made up of “CEOs, union workers, teachers and students” as host John Harwood put it, and the questions reflected a broad variety of perspectives on the economy and jobs in America.

Hand-picked audience, with the Union Thugs there to keep any 'real' background noise and dissent quietened. As if anyone chosen to attend this event would be allowed to have a spine within 300 yards of this little prezzidint-man.

In opening remarks, the President recounted the over-arching story of his Administration so far: how the Recovery Act and other emergency actions were responsible for millions of American jobs and brought the country back from the brink of another Great Depression.

Really? the over-arching lie about creating hundreds of ACORN census-worker jobs, the 'Recovery Act' that gave plenty of DemStim Spendulous monies to Democrat-approved projects and companies? And this recovery of which you speak, why isn't it so noticeable? Oh, there it is: in the hiring boom. Silly me, should've noticed.

The President talked about how, even as he’s worked to boost our recovery in the short term, he’s also focused on creating a new foundation for the country so the next generation won’t be squeezed the same way – reforming student loans, putting families in charge of their own health care, creating a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dedicated solely to making sure families get a fair shake.

Wait a minute. Did he really say 'putting families in charge of their own health care? Doesn't he mean taking decisions away from families, and forcing them to buy health care under penalty of law? Where's the mention of his over-arching Statist Involvement in health care? If his intent was to keep health care affordable, he wouldn't have launched his massive ObamaCare plan that we simply can't afford. Oh, and Student Loan bailouts, that's in the works, and given a plug here. Offering more free monies for votes, eh? Just what Democrats want: free stuff they haven't earned.

BHO's own words...

"And so my goal here is not to try to convince you that everything is where it needs to be. It’s not. That's why I ran for President. But what I am saying is, is that we’re moving in the right direction. And if we are able to keep our eye on our long-term goal -- which is making sure that every family out there, if they’re middle class, that they can pay their bills, have the security of health insurance, retire with dignity and respect, send their kids to college; if they’re not yet in the middle class, that there are ladders there to get into the middle class, if people work hard and get an education to apply themselves -- that's our goal. That's the America we believe in. And I think that we are on track to be able to do that."

Demonizing the rich, the wealthy, the job-makers by omission. Because they are, you know, evil. Unless they are Democrats of course; those who donate large sums to elect these dirty socialist leftist closet Bearded Marxist bastards, then they get a pass.

Read his words again: wealth redistribution, elect me and I'll 'Get you Some'. And, MORE GOVERNMENT! because we care.

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Christopher Coons (D, Bearded Marxist), used his Delaware Government office to harass a private citizen activist.

Chris Coons attacked a Leftist citizen activist, at that.

Coons is a self-styled 'Bearded Marxist', a Delaware County Executive who's used his power and influence to harass at least one political detractor; yet another damned lawyer who's also lived in Kenya, from where he too brought home a love for Marxism...

During his junior year of college, Coons studied abroad at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, which greatly influenced his political beliefs. After returning he wrote an article entitled “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”

Sounds like trouble, yes he does. Sounds like a typical Neo-far-Left Social Democrat, one who wants CHANGE, at any cost.

Just imagine what he'll do when he gets a powerful U.S. Senate seat, sitting with like-minded control-freak far-left Democrats. So many things a Junior Marxist could do: Net Neutrality, or any other 'Progressive' Dear Leader value: gun control of course; and new taxes to fund new giveaway 'progressive' social entitlement programs we can't afford.

Seems he's just what we don't need, another agent of the CHANGE that's broken America and cost us jobs and international respect.

Bearded Marxism: #WorsethanWitchcraft.

Bearded Marxism: Worse than Witchcraft

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George Bush's cast-off apparatchik Michael Gerson calls Tea Party thinking "Childish Political Thought".

Yes, that's a line from one of that George Bush's old speechwriters, Michael Gerson, now a WaPo columnist. Michael Gerson comes out today speaking against the Tea Party, specifically against Christine O'Donnell's supporters, and aligns himself closely with Karl Rove, the so-called 'architect' of George Bush's victories in 2000 and 2004. Of course, 2006 and 2008 weren't so much helpful to our (Conservative) cause, and come to think of it, neither was 2000 and 2004; so Rove isn't mentioned in connection with those setbacks.

What's troubling to good people is Karl Rove's inexplicable attacks on Christine O'Donnell after she picked up the win in Delaware; one could correctly say that Rove, with his hateful and spiteful remarks, was the architect of current Democrat attacks on O'Donnell. I think Rove should have had his jaw wired shut; if you've nothing nice to say, and all of that.

Michael Gerson quickly rides to the defense of Karl Rove. Imagine that; Gerson and Rove would've been hung together if the same Democrats they are now sucking up to in the past few days had had their way, oh, anytime during the 2000-2008 span of years when George Bush was reviled in power.

How easily do these Ruling Class Republicans meet and greet with their Ruling Class Democrats counterparts, when it comes to beating back any outside-the-beltway usurpation? I guess the Tea Party just doesn't have the proper Community Organization credentials as did the far-left wing of party crashers who visibly took over the once-proud Democrat Party.

Gerson, now a speechwriter for no politician, certainly not for a Tea Partier, has to make his living by publically running his mouth, as a pundit. No better than those he criticizes today; given his party's record (the Genteel Republicans, the Bush Republicans, whatever definition you like) lately, it's best to take his punditry with a shaker of salt. He sinks his teeth into the throats of Tea Party supporters Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin and Dan Riehl, coming away with blood on his fangs...

While Rove's critique was tough, the reaction in parts of the conservative blogosphere has been unhinged. Michelle Malkin wrote that it "might as well have been Olbermann on MSNBC." Mark Levin pronounced Rove at "war against the Tea Party movement and conservatives." "In terms of the conservative movement," wrote Dan Riehl, "we should not simply ignore him, but proactively work to undermine Rove in whatever ways we can, given his obvious willingness to undermine us."

Positions I support fully. Why, you ask, does Gerson believe otherwise?

Some conservatives have adopted the Bolshevik approach to information and the media: Every personal feeling, every independent thought, every inconvenient fact, must be subordinated to the party line -- the Tea Party line.

Bolsheviks...let's see...those evil Communist rubes who split the Communist party and delayed the 1917 Revolution? Really, Michael?

The Bolsheviks believed in organising a party in a centralised and disciplined fashion that sought to overthrow the Tsar through a mass workers' revolution.

You are confused, Michael. The Tea Party is the Starfish Party; there's no central organization, and no mass worker's revolution. Maybe you're thinking of Obama's ACORN or Union Thug moochers, the 'shock troops' of the Democrat Party.

I guess the Tea Party's lack of structure makes it tough on political hardballers and insiders such as Michael Gerson and Karl Rove to find suitable employ. Who needs a structured and centralized apparatchik when the Tea Party is loosely organized, and can absorb losing an O'Donnell if that's what happens, because there's another arm growing from the wound? And who wants a Bush speechwriter to write for anyone nowadays?

Not that Christine O'Donnell's case is hopeless. It won't be easy, with the likes of Karl Rove and Michael Gerson speaking with their diarrhetic pundit-traps in a vein easily picked up by Democrat operatives such as Markos Molitsas and Olberdouche and spread far and wide to gleeful leftards. Karl Rove, rock star for the KOS set; what's next, a diary? Maybe Markos can pay you to write speeches against the Tea Party, Gerson. I think you'd look good with an orangey-white background, eh?

Hope you enjoy your few pieces of silver there, Gerson, you out-of-work apparatchik you.

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Oh, my. Barack Obama reaches out to Blacks, tells them to "GUARD THE CHANGE".

Barack Obama the Racialist, once again playing the Race Card to attract votes to Democrat candidates, by promising to continue to provide 'free lunches' to his expectant supporters.

BHO will continue to empty the already mostly depleted Federal coffers, and borrow even more and more on our children's and grandchildren's futures. It's the classic looter - moocher symbiosis, between Democrats looking to attract votes using Other People's Money, and those lowdowns who would accept that money because they've been convinced that it's OK to 'share the wealth', to take what you've not earned.

BHO's idea of CHANGE was $787 Billion of DemStim stimulus cash, given for the most part to Democrat Party supporters and the Auto Bailouts to the Unions, who supply the 'Shock Troops' that march, protest, cajole and bully (and supply thuggery when necessary) that's needed to keep the Democrats in sweet, lasting, absolute power. And ObamaCare, rammed through the Senate and House regardless of the voter's lack of support. We can't afford ObamaCare, and I do believe that if we don't repeal that bad law, we will bankrupt the nation and default on our obligations.

But Obama says "GUARD THE CHANGE"...

Obama urges blacks to vote and "guard the change"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, seeking to fire up an important part of his support base ahead of November's elections, told black leaders on Saturday he wanted their support to "guard the change" he was delivering.

"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops, and beauty shops. Tell them we have more work to do. Tell them we can't wait to organize. Tell them that the time for action is now," he told the Congressional Black Caucus.

The words of America's first black president showed a deliberate effort to recapture the enthusiasm that had helped him win the White House in 2008, after polls showed African- Americans much less likely to vote than whites this year.

"It's not surprising that a lot of people may not be feeling that energized or that engaged right now," he told an annual awards ceremony hosted by the organization representing black members of the U.S. Congress.

Man oh man, if this is what America wants as national policy, then we certainly are doomed.

 And Shame! on this American President for playing the Race Card. Again.

Come on, guys. You know you want it. Just vote Democrat, it's yours.
I promise.

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A.B. Stoddard: "Tea Party's already won". So, even if the OLD GOP and their counterparts in the NEW far-left Democrat Party cut off the arm that is Christine O'Donnell, we'll simply grow a new one.

A.B. Stoddard, The Hill...

Even before Christine O’Donnell handily defeated Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in an epic upset Tuesday night, the Tea Parties, all of them, had already won. No matter what happens in the midterm elections on Nov. 2, the Tea Party has moved the Democrats to the right and the Republicans even more so, and President Obama’s agenda is dead. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Finally, we see cogent commentary and (hopefully) correct analysis of the Tea Party phenom. The 'Starfish' Party, that loose conglomeration of disaffected Conservatives who are lashing out at Democrats and slow-response Republicans alike, is now a force to be reckoned with. No matter how many these far-left Democrats chuck their favorite spear "RAAAAACIST!!!11!1!" at us, no matter how many times spine-challenged blue-blood Republicans remonstrate against 'unelectable' Tea Party candidates, no matter who the New York Times lauds or poo-poohs on 'our' side of the aisle, we are here and we are affecting CHANGE.

Christine O'Donnell:

"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed," O'Donnell said, to cheers.

O'Donnell, who defeated Castle by a 6-point margin despite sustained attacks on her misstatements and financial troubles – past and present — repeatedly chided "the ruling class" and championed "a rowdy revolution of reason."

I just hope we're not too late.

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New York Times Columnist David Brooks looks closely at the Tea Party and sees...Democrats.

Along the way, the movement has picked up some of the worst excesses of modern American culture: a narcissistic sense of victimization, an egomaniacal belief in one’s own rightness and purity, a willingness to distort the truth so that every conflict becomes a contest of pure good versus pure evil. *

In other words, David, you believe that the Tea Party is forcing Republicans to behave and become exactly as has the far-left, progressive, Republic-destroying Democrats have behaved for the past 20 years, a force Right to counter the force with which you are aligned: malicious and destructive Left.

Exactly as we have needed to do, to counter the massive 'Progressive' shift leftwards. We didn't need to run Bob Dole, you blue-blooded elitist beltway Republicans. We didn't need to run squishy John McCain. Squishy men can't stop the evil that progressives are directing against this Republic.

We haven't found a way to counter the looter - moocher 'Community Organizer' thrust that Obama brings to the table; the attempt to 'buy' votes by making promises to give envious and Constitution-unaware 'Americans' Other People's Money. The basest of attractions to attract the lowest form of voter. As Ben Franklin said, we would survive as a Republic until someone figured out how to vote themselves monies from the Federal Treasury. I doubt he imagined that an entire political party would take that low road; but then, Franklin didn't get to read Marx.

I'd imagine that if the founding fathers knew of the philosophies coming our way, of the Communist - Socialist forces that are at the eating away the heart of the Democrat party, with their Unions and their envy and their race - class warfare machinations that drive the unthinking to vote Democrat, that they would have kept wording in the Constitution giving the vote only to property owners that have to think before they vote for these looter politicians who are draining the treasury.

Thank God for the Tea Party. If they can't correct this far-left drift, then this nation - Republic is doomed.

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Democrats dot org has devolutioned a new logo!

Great job, DNC. You've chosen a "D" with a target circle around it.

Allow me to assist...

Democrats.org's new logo. But there's still that jackass, I see...

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Meghan McCain was in Nashville last night...

...for a book signing. If I'd known, I would've taken along a copy of Ann Coulter's latest.

As a review...

The obligatory Meghan McTwit twittered tits photo, fixed.

I do lurves me some Meghan McTwittered t'ts. Made her mother proud, that did, I'm sure of it.

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Christine O’Donnell (R, Conservative) wins the nomination to fill a Delaware Senate Seat. RINOS are sleeping with the bedbugs tonight. Screw ‘em, and the Meghan McCain they rode in on.

Christine O'Donnell represents a strong win for the Tea Partyers, at the expense of Republican Party blue-bloods. The RINO went down; Christine now faces a far-lefty Democrat. I like her chances, even in diminutive Delaware, a state that hasn't seen this much attention since DuPont invented nylons.

Dan Collins asks, "Is a Democrat really better than a RINO?" and answers his own question thusly...

Does voting for the more conservative candidate in the primary mean the seat will go blue? Absolutely not, and I’m not suggesting conservatives should endorse moderate Republicans out of political expediency. I do, however, think it’s naïve and dangerous to prefer a true blue Democrat to a moderate Republican (RINO). The last few elections have seen several RINOs swept from office; but a few more RINOs might have prevented HCR from passing.

I completely disagree. A RINO who has achieved an election win with an (R) next to his or her name is a liar first and, having won with that (R) label, should be expected to meet a minimum standard of Republican Party loyalty. What good is the (R) label if your chosen representative is a RINO whose votes are for the opposition?

Yes, I’d rather have a Democrat in office than a RINO. At least it’s honesty, pure and simple; I know what to expect and exactly where I stand, and I won’t feel a sense of betrayal when the idiot RINO's vote is incorrect.

Count me standing with Mark Levin, who is steadfast and staunchest Conservative, who did oppose the blue-blooded weak-tea sipper Republicans who ruined two presidential elections by nominating and running Bob Dole and John McCain.

Let's hope these RINO Republicans are feeling worried and fragile tonight, as they should. 

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Why are American Youths Underperforming ? because Our Values are Now for Shit.

Thomas Friedman gets very close to the painful truth: We, Americans, can't hold a candle to 'The Greatest Generation' because Our Values are Now for Shit.

Friedman, in today's NYT, sets up his argument with an unarguable look at America's Greatest Generation, those who lived through WW II, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and begat the rest of us...

Ask yourself: What made our Greatest Generation great? First, the problems they faced were huge, merciless and inescapable: the Depression, Nazism and Soviet Communism. Second, the Greatest Generation’s leaders were never afraid to ask Americans to sacrifice. Third, that generation was ready to sacrifice, and pull together, for the good of the country. And fourth, because they were ready to do hard things, they earned global leadership the only way you can, by saying: “Follow me.”           [emboldening mine; ed.]

After the Greatest Generation followed the Leftist Generation, imbibing deeply of the mistakes of the '60's: the birth and coddling of the Baby Boomers, their subsequent radicalism and the mainstreaming of drugs, the sexual revolution of the hippies and that 'Summer of Love', the seemingly overnight turning away from the values that earned Americans the role of the World's Superpower.

Why did we reach a zenith (I call the 1969 moon landing as just about peak) and since have fallen to our current abysmal, pre-complete-collapse point of precipice? I blame encroaching Liberalism and Left-wing politics; Freidman, of course, points firstly at capitalism, easy money and Wall Street, and Americans who got rich taking the financial 'easy ways out', pointing to the dot com and subprime mortgage busts as evidence of plummeting economic values. Sure, Thomas, some followed and fell for get-rich-quick schemes  but don't put that as primary cause above the greased skids given to America's Youth by parents who grew up without much taste of hard times, who provided for and coddled children who changed to what we are saddled with today...

We've hatched a soft, expectant generation; you see them waiting for to be given high-tech goodies and an easy life because that's what America is all about, right? Who cares now what happened in the fading past, who gives concern to the tough times lived by our fathers and grandfathers, as long as we can has Playstations and GIVES US OUR HALO3!  Why should our American Youth try to succeed in schools, since we have such a comfortable social safety net, and likely they will never have to touch a 'real' shovel because they will be given every need!

Read again. Friedman...

Ask yourself: What made our Greatest Generation great?

And, since Friedman knows he's writing for the New York Times, the jaded far-left liberals of privilege, he has to end his essay on a weak note. Why are our kids failing, Thomas?

In a flat world where everyone has access to everything, values matter more than ever. Right now the Hindus and Confucians have more Protestant ethics than we do, and as long as that is the case we’ll be No. 11!

BINGO! JACKPOT! But a weak ending bit of prose, for a professional; but again, he's speaking to his base, and he'll catch plenty of hell for mentioning "Protestant Ethics" because The Left HATES HAVING TO ADMIT VALUES ARE IMPORTANT, especially RELIGIOUS VALUES. Here, Thomas, let me be a bit more blunt:

You fucking soft-headed American bastards are on a skid because you've neglected your eternal souls for the comforts of easy living bought for you and delivered to you by your long-dead or dying betters. You have no core values to speak of, and you desire to undermine the remaining values that are at the core of our Constitution by legislative, judicial and executive mandates. If you voted for CHANGE, for the Looter - Moocher party of valueless promises of free lunches, for the now far-gone far-left Social Democrats, you are a big part of the problem with America today. 

To those precious few, those now known as Tea Partyers and Conservatives, who are raising their children in the old ways; those children may well be the kernel of our American rebirth. I salute you, and wish you the best of luck. For the rest, to the far-left who've dragged us to this point of nearly no return, I hope you find your future to be comprised of much painful payback.

There is not now, there never was, nor will there be in the future, a free lunch, you silly postmodern Americans.

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Titans over Oakland 38-13: Oakland looks as bad as you'd expect from anything out of California nowadays.

No 0-6 start this year, and that's a good thing. I think the NFL set us up with a weak opponent this year for starters (last year, you recall, was that season-opening Thursday night loss to the Steelers, in overtime). This year a safe noontime start at home against some of the league's worst performers.

Better, Indianapolis loses to Houston. Finally, Indy and Peyton start to show some cracks in their dominance of the AFC South. Next Sunday, the two Mannings fight it out; I'll pull for the Giants and Eli to set Peyton and crew back 0-2.

Quick pic dump, because it's late. Clicky to enlarge.

Chris Brown TD, the first of two.

Halloween-Freaky Oakland Raiders fans. No wonder they lose.

New crop of cheerleaders.

WTF Chevrolet

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Obama and the Big Guns

So, how does a poll-sinking President attract votes for his Party ? When the Party's base is comprised mostly of Moochers, well, just promise 'em the easy dope of Other People's Money, Hope and Change and THINK HAPPY ~!!

 

 

 

 

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For Cowboy's long-running Weekly Caption and Photoshop Contest. But I never need much excuse to 'shop Mr. Obama, now do I ?

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"Don't Talk to Police", the video, where a Law Professor speaks faster than any human I've ever heard (except for that fellow running the goat auction in Mecca)

Shorter: "Don't talk to the police, because you can't win if you do. They can lie; if you lie, you're screwed. And it's human nature to lie just a little. Oh, and they have 10,000 laws on the books that you've never even heard of, so they're 10,000 steps ahead of you."

By the time he got to that point, my head was spinning.

Kudos! to Professor TalkLikeARabbitFucks. Good stuff, man~!

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The World Trade Center's Twin Towers were magnificent structures, weren't they?

A collage of photos of NYC's WTC, the destruction of which changed the lives of nearly every person on the planet.

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Friday Night Video: "Mary Hotlips Arizona", covered by Berglind Björk

You came into town with your truck and your wardrobe
Your turquoise, your pills and the crew
Your cowboys, your playboys, the studs and the gay boys
Your gals and your hairdresser, too

And you rented a small apartment, and everyone settled in
Midst the pillows, the beads and the stereo leads and the ups and the downs in the gin

Oh Mary, oh Mary, the stars of the prairie
Still shine on your high stepping shoes
But those were the days, Mary, those were the days
When you side stepped the Hollywood blues

When the money ran low all your friends found excuses
The family soon fell apart
And you learned there's a limit to what you can do
When your purse ain't as big as your heart

But still you're blasting off somewhere on something with somebody new
And nobody knows what he does, where he comes from, nobody, least of all you

Oh Mary, oh Mary, the stars of the prairie
Still shine on your high stepping shoes
But those were the days, Mary, those were the days
When you side stepped the Hollywood blues

Oh, and a link dump. So's I can find 'em later.

Right Pundits

Ann Coulter
Brent Bozell
Charles Krauthammer
Dan Gainor
Dana Loesch
Daniel Henninger
David Limbaugh
Dennis Miller

Frank Gaffney
George Will
Hugh Hewitt
John Stossel
Jonah Goldberg
Karl Rove
Mark Levin
Michael Barone
Mona Charen
Peggy Noonan
Rush Limbaugh
Rusty Humphries
Sean Hannity
Thomas Sowell
Walter Williams

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Anger will explode in the Muslim World, says Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Who Knew?

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN that the discourse surrounding the center has become so politicized that moving it could strengthen the ability of extremists abroad to recruit and wage attacks against Americans, including troops fighting in the Middle East.

"The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack," he said, but he added that he was open to the idea of moving the planned location of the center, currently two blocks north of the World Trade Center site.

"But if you don't do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world," he later said, predicting that the reaction could be more furious than the eruption of violence following the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

But really it's our fault for noticing.

IF WE BEHEAD ALL OF YOU INFIDELS YOU WON'T NOTICE A THING! DEATH TO AMERICA!

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Obama Answers Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' Rally with a Union Thug Rally

Barack Hussein Obama: Left Turn, Clyde.

What did we expect, really?

In his first major speaking event since Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, BHO comes out with a new 'Stimulus' plan, desiring to give up $50 Billion more THAT WE DON'T HAVE for public-sector (read: Government) jobs that benefit one of his core constituencies: the Unions. Why else give the speech at a Union Thug rally? This sort of thing makes 'real' private-sector businesses grimace.

Keep moving in this direction, BHO. Don't listen to Bill Clinton and move to center (that's impossible, given your upbringing and associative history; who would believe you?); just be your soft-socialist self. Keep on plugging Keynesian economics. Hire KRUGMAN! to work for you! That's the ticket!

Bottom line: You are so gone in 2012. IF we make it that far without further catastrophic economic implosions, that is.

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Friday Photos: Labor Day River Rats (and Turtles)

I know it's not Friday, but I've missed so many lately, and I feel privileged enough to call this post whatever I damn well please. So there.

Muddy Turtle on Brush Creek

Overloaded Boat, filled with young beer drinkers. No Worries!

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Mecca ...

Mecca

...is a very strange place.

Of course, no one can go there, unless they're on the false Prophet Muhammad's stringer.

I'll bet Osama bin Laden is there, hiding. Any takers ?

There's only one way to be sure.

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Source images: Caption This! and The Jawa Report.

A Decorated Cow

No, I'm not talking about Amanda Marcotte. Or Jeanane Garofalo, either, but they both did come to mind when I contemplated my post title.

Here's imagery of what I speak.

Just a random source image ran through my GIMP shredder.The cow's fine, up there in the alpine meadows of Austria, but I'm sure later on someone will enjoy steaks and burgers.

After all, Austria isn't India.

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Mexico: 3rd World Neighbors

A woman lies dead on the side of a road with a warning message next to her in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The message was signed by a group called "The resistance".

This town, Cuernavaca, is a flashpoint for the drug cartels. Just last month, 4 decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge.

There's no reason we should not close and seal our southern border with Mexico, except for perhaps the Democrats need the influx of unregistered voters.

Mexicans should stand up and fight for their country, not for ours.

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Gun-Free Zone: North Carolina, just when one might need a gun the most.

Are you kidding me? During the run-up to Hurricane Earl, North Carolina declared a State of Emergency; North Carolinians lost their Second Amendment Rights.

That's seriously screwed up, and wrong.

Let's see some attention drawn to this issue, and North Carolina's laws challenged, as were Louisiana's laws after Katrina.

Unfortunately, many states have "emergency powers" laws that give the government permission to suspend or limit gun sales, and to prohibit or restrict citizens from transporting or carrying firearms. In some states, authorities are authorized to seize guns outright from citizens who've committed no crime--and who would then be defenseless against disorder.

The movement to change these laws is gaining speed. Just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana legislature--with only one dissenting vote--adopted a resolution declaring "the policy of the state of Louisiana to protect and uphold the citizens' right to keep and bear arms in their residences, businesses, and means of transport, and on their persons," condemning the seizure of firearms from New Orleans citizens, and announcing it planned to amend Louisiana's emergency powers law "to rectify the denial of these rights."4 Since then, 21 additional states have joined Louisiana by passing laws to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners by prohibiting the confiscation of firearms during a time of emergency.

North Carolina, there's another hurricane coming your way. Law-abiding gun owners will now assemble to challenge your wrong-head laws in court and in the voting booth.

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Machinegunning the Mexican Flag : RELEASE THE CAGLE!

One word: FANTASTIC!

There's a reason a picture is worth a thousand words; this work is a poster child for cutting-edge visual commentary. I hope this image becomes as famous as Kurt Westergaard's Mohammed bomb-head cartoon.

As for the OUTRAGE! seething from the Mexicans, I say this: Mexicans, your country needs to be taken back by YOU, because as it is today, it's a shit hole that millions flee to come here, illegally. Stop being such weak-kneed pansies and TAKE YOUR OWN COUNTRY BACK. WE own Arizona now; WE own California (but if you want really want LA and San Francisco, let's make a deal ).

Turn your hatred inwards, Mexicans, and do revolution against whatever sorry government runs your nation. Proud of your flag? Please. If you loved Mexico so much, you wouldn't put up with your political powers that be.

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Is Barack Obama's Afghanistan war strategy, announcing a July 2011 withdrawal, correct?

Gen. James Conway at the F-35 rollout in 2007

Not so much. Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway at a DOD news briefing on various topics, included answers to queries on DADT and, more significantly, on BHO's Afghanistan withdrawal strategy. When asked if the president's announced July 2011 date for beginning the withdrawal would "make your job more difficult...?" Commandant Conway responds...

In terms of the July ‘11 issue, you know, I think if you follow it closely, and of course we all do, we know the president was talking to several audiences at the same time when he made his comments on July 2011.

In some ways, we think right now it’s probably giving our enemy sustenance. We think that he may be saying to himself -- in fact, we’ve intercepted communications that say, hey, you know, we only have to hold out for so long.

Giving our enemy sustenance. Krauthammer points out that phrase is just a couple rhetorical steps away from 'aiding and abetting the enemy', a no-no for a Commander in Chief.

Well, a no-no for a dedicated Commander in Chief. For one who's clearly distracted by pressing social issues, as 'splained to him by the helpful 'professional left', Afghanistan is just another page that needs turning. Social problems, most importantly the Democrat's pronounced inability to do anything substantive to help the economy recover and JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! to return. Expect to hear BHO next week calling for more Keynesian stimulus spending - see Krugman in today's NYT for 'professional Left'-style gameplanning. Gotta get those funds out there, redistributed to Democrats. And, planning! for the 'lame duck' congress, where we'll see shell-shocked Democrats, sent packing in November, rush to get their final blows in before vying for jobs in the Obama administration. Free lunches for all!

Speaking of final blows, or in this case, new lows...on how in the world the Marine Corp will deal with the expected scuttling of DADT policy, a CHANGE that's likely to change life in the Armed Services for the worse, General Conway is asked "how he will implement" the new, expected policy that will allow gays to serve openly exposed in the military...

GEN. CONWAY: I don’t know. I don’t know.

We sometimes ask Marines, you know, what is -- what is their preference. And I can tell you that an overwhelming majority would like not to be roomed with a person who is openly homosexual.

Some do not object and perhaps -- you know, perhaps a voluntary basis might be the best way to start, without violating anybody’s sense of moral concern or perception on the part of their mates.

I don’t know. We’re not there yet. And it’s one of those hypotheticals at this point that we have to consider but we won’t have to deal with until the law changes, if it does.

The law will CHANGE, General. Unfortunately, Democrats are all for forcing things to fit where they shouldn't.

Well, I think we need more stimulus. The first wave of stimulus to hit in November; augmented by a strong followup in 2012.

Again, and to belabor the point, we won't see improvements in the United States economy, and new jobs, until the far-left Social Democrats are voted out of office.

Is it November yet ?

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Barack Obama and the Iraq War

...neatly served up in a political cartoon.

Mirrors exactly what I posted yesterday. BHO, as Senator and candidate, wanted the Iraq war to fail; then, in his wooden Oral Office speech - where he spent most of his time glancing back and forth between teleprompters and seldom looked out at his 'audience' (most of this speech was aimed at his far-left voting base... I WON!) - he delivered a real stinker. But you already knew that.

I'll be less-busy sometime later, maybe.

Spotted at Theo's.

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Barack Obama wanted the War in Iraq to Fail: Remember the Democrat's SENATE SLEEPOVER! to PROTEST the SURGE!

He seemed a bit nervous last night; as if someone would question him on his early role in the Democrat's protest of the Iraq war. As a junior senator from Illinois, opposing the surge of troops in Iraq; that very surge that effectively won the war, and vaulted General Petraeus to the forefront as a decisive strategist. Can we ever forget BHO's and the Democrat's divisive hatreds? Looking into Obama's eyes, I felt I could see his hidden fears. Allow me to remind you:

Barack Hussein Obama joined Senate Democrats in opposing the surge.



From the WSJ, a blast from the past...

Mr. Bush's disfavor in Washington owes more to his greatest success. Simply put, there are those who will never forgive Mr. Bush for not losing a war they had all declared unwinnable.

Here in the afterglow of the turnaround led by Gen. David Petraeus, it's easy to forget what the smart set was saying two years ago -- and how categorical they all were in their certainty. The president was a simpleton, it was agreed. Didn't he know that Iraq was a civil war, and the only answer was to get out as fast as we could?

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- the man who will be sworn in as vice president today -- didn't limit himself to his own opinion. Days before the president announced the surge, Joe Biden suggested to the Washington Post he knew the president's people had also concluded the war was lost. They were, he said, just trying to "keep it from totally collapsing" until they could "hand it off to the next guy."

For his part, on the night Mr. Bush announced the surge, Barack Obama said he was "not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Three months after that, before the surge had even started, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pronounced the war in Iraq "lost." These and similar comments, moreover, were amplified by a media echo chamber even more absolute in its sense of hopelessness about Iraq and its contempt for the president. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Barack Hussein Obama campaigned and won on his party's contempt for George Bush and for the Iraq war. Each and every one of 'em tried their damndest to lose it for us. Remember the Senate Sleepover?

Barack Obama at Senate Sleepover

Fearless, feckless, future Social Democrat Moocher leader was there, stretching out his cot and fitting his bedsheets. A protest against the surge, against General David Petraeus, against the war in Iraq, against George Bush, against America.

You go, girl.

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