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Here is some of the nuanced diplomacy of the Obama administration (emphaisis mine):

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."

Who knew Hope^TM and Change^TM meant snubbing countries who are nice to us and sucking up to countries who want to wipe us off the map?  Oh, right, just 48% of Americans.

(h/t)

Update:  Apparently this was already written about (see comment #2).  I really should start reading this blog or something.

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Goldstein's response

Goldstein is going to have an opportunity to respond to Patterico's post on the Limbaugh story at Hotair.  Jeff's got a preview up at PW, so take a look, and be sure to check out his Hotair post when that goes up.

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Shocka! Marxist Latin American Political Candidate Has Ties To The Deciders.

In this case, it's some guy in El Salvador. And his former employer?

After a 12-year civil war and a peace undermined by soaring crime, leftists in El Salvador are on the verge of completing a remarkable journey from armed struggle to the presidential palace.

Their candidate is a veteran TV broadcaster and morning talk show host, Mauricio Funes, whose Facebook page lists his political views as “other.” Funes, 49, a former correspondent for CNN en Español, was recently recruited by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the revolutionary group-turned-mainstream political party that is favored by polls to win the presidency in a vote scheduled for March 15....

Funes considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama -- an agent of change in a country beset by the highest murder rate in Latin America and an economy in free fall.

The comparison is overt: Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department), saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists. The FMLN television spots complete the link by employing the Obama slogan in English and Spanish, vowing "Yes, we can!"...

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Jim Cramer Fires Back At Obama's Defenders

Nice.

Take Frank Rich and Jon Stewart. Both seize on the urban legend that I recommended Bear Stearns the week before it collapsed, even though I was saying that I thought it could be worthless as soon as the following week. I did tell an emailer that his deposit in his account at Bear Stearns was safe, but through a clever sound bite, Stewart, and subsequently Rich -- neither of whom have bothered to listen to the context of the pulled quote -- pass off the notion of account safety as an out-and-out buy recommendation. The absurdity astounds me. [...]

We need to declare a war on unemployment and solve it before we let it get out of hand. We need to stop house-price depreciation. Neither the pork-laden stimulus plan nor the confusing mortgage proposal put forward by Obama will defeat either enemy. When Obama trounces both unemployment and house-price depreciation, he will have the power to enact anything he wants. But all the initiatives he wants to rush, like tax hikes, changes in health care, tinkering with the mortgage deduction -- good grief, right now in the midst of the worst housing downturn ever -- and the tough cap-and-trade rules, will derail any chance we have of turning this economy around. Instead, they put the Second Great Depression smack on the nation's table. The markets thought he could stop it; hence the giant relief rally when he was elected. But in fewer than 50 days of his ascendancy, the markets' hopes were totally dashed and the averages are now forecasting the worst decline since the Great Depression. As someone who listens to what the averages are screaming, I think they are accurately predicting the future. [...]

(Oh, and memo to Bill Maher: Stop insulting my faux great-great-uncle Vlad Lenin. I am using him to dramatize the point of a failed nationalization and confiscation of the banks at the hands of the people. It is funny how the right is certainly very civil as my old friends and new allies as of last week, Fred Barnes and Sean Hannity, don't hold my left wing social view against me when they talk about my criticism of the president! I always love anyone from Fox on the team because they are fierce in their defense with much less gratuitous slamming.)

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Great Moments In Fast Food

I wonder if this is one of the Colonel's secret spices.

District Fire Chief Al Poulin said the 20-year-old man, whose identity wasn't available, had been cleaning an exhaust hood over the fryer.

"He slipped and fell, and he fell down into the Friolator," Poulin said.

The man suffered burns to both arms, his face and his chest, Poulin said. The severity of the burns was not known, he said. The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Late last month, three employees of the same KFC were taken to a hospital for decontamination after a hoax phone call directed employees to test the eatery's fire-suppressant system.

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Remember When Hoping For The President To Fail Was "Patriotic"?

Well, it was 2006.

 

Thanks to Patterico.

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The sequel

How many 90 year olds could you take in a fight?

(h/t)

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Uh-Oh! Hobo Hunting Just Became More Difficult.

Introducing the, the EDAR, A.K.A. the Hobo-tron, Version 2.0

The designers have continued their involvement with EDAR since the original design, tweaking the product and completing numerous mock-ups by working closely with Mike Orozco of Precision Wire, Inc., all on pro-bono basis.

Modifications since the first iteration have included decreasing the amount of wire to reduce rattling, and simplifying the frame configuration to decrease the number of breakable parts.

The resulting lightweight metal tube frame is approximately the width of a wheelchair and sits on four lockable wheels. It has closable wire baskets at either end, sandwiching a sturdy, waterproof canvas body complete with mesh vision panels and reflective edge stripping.

In "day mode," the EDAR slips easily over pavement. The unit converts quickly and easily to "night mode," in which it can comfortably sleep someone well over six feet (two meters) tall on a mattress supported by a metal-and-wood base. The entire unit bears a slight resemblance to a space invader from the Atari video game.

Each unit costs just under $500 to make. EDAR, Inc. sells them at cost to shelters, churches, and other interested organizations. How those organizations use or distribute the EDARs is up to them, but Samuelson's intent is to make them available to homeless clients free of charge.

 

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I Know! Let's Have A "Stop The Violence" Concert

Good idea.

Too bad reality got in the way.

The free Stop the Violence youth concert was held Saturday night on Ellsworth Street in downtown Silver Spring in memory of 14-year-old Montgomery Blair High School student Tai Lam, who was shot to death in November.

Police say fighting broke out near the stage toward the end of the concert and at least one person resisted arrest. Police say 16 adults and juveniles were arrested for offenses such as assault and

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MyPhone

It's not like I'm a luddite or anything, but my cell phone?  You know what it can do?  It can make a motherfucking phone call.  That's about it.  You know why that's all it does?  Because it's a telephone.  It doesn't need a bunch of "apps."

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Things You Missed During The Limbaugh Scuffle

Given the desire of the media to play PR Agents for the O-Ministration, some other developments seemed to have slipped under the radar. Maybe I should start a sometimes recurring segment on events the media just plum forgo about.

First: Oxford Grad Rachel Maddow can't get a Congressman's name correct.

Next: Unreported Shoe Tossing.

Any others?

Seriously, I have been dealing with some rather serious stuff at home, so I have missed a lot.

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I think I'll stick with khakis, thanks

If you thought the world of fashion wasn't sufficiently ridiculous, well, here you go...

This season, menswear has been taken to new levels of skinniness. Guys, wince and whimper a painful "hello" to man-leggings, or "meggings".

Um, no. Just no.

(Thanks to TI.)

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Oh noes!

Kids these days apparently aren't reading books that are sufficiently radical.  How awful.

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Exconservacation: Christopher Buckley

Go fuck yourself, dipshit.  You're out.

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Patterico does not speak for me *Update*

Ya know, since everyone is obsessed with who is speaking for whom these days.

[dpud] Sorry, I have to add this, if you read Patterico's post here, be sure to read Jeff Goldstein's posts here and here to see what this is all about. 

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Maybe it's just me...

...but has anyone else noticed that Hollywood is praising a talk show host for working against one president while, at the same time, we don't hear as much as a peep from the same people about a certain other president while his aides are working hard to demonize another talk show host?

Puzzling, no?  It's almost like there's some sort of double standard.  Funny, that.

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I am posting this for the shoes

Yup.  The shoes is why.  No other reason.  None whatsoever. 



Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go watch Sin City.  She's got a collection, don't you know. 

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"I would still vote Obama"

...and that would still make you a retard, Chris.

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Smart diplomacy, continued

Can we insult America's staunchest ally? Yes We Can!

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment." The apparent lack of attention to detail by the Obama administration is indicative of what many believe to be Mr Obama's determination to do too much too quickly.

That's putting it kindly. Very kindly. There's plenty more at the link, including this gem:

Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.

Wait, you mean actually being President of The United States is harder than just giving airy-fairy speeches about Hope ands Change? The hell, you say.

(h/t)

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Smart diplomacy

Remember how hilarious/horrifying it was when Chimpy McBu$hitler couldn't come up with the names of some foreign leaders some years back? That was because he was teh stoopid, right? But when a member of Team Hopenchange mangles some similar things, well, it's because of too much hard work, apparently...

Tiredness appeared to show Friday when she answered questions in front of 500 young Europeans at the European Parliament, where she was the highest-ranking U.S. visitor since the late President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding:

"I have never understood multiparty democracy.

"It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy."

The remark provoked much headshaking in the parliament of a bloc that likes to trace back its democratic tradition thousands of years to the days of classical Greece.

One working lunch later with EU leaders, Clinton raised more eyebrows when she referred to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who stood beside her, as "High Representative Solano."

She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as "Benito."

I can't wait until the MSM begins cataloguing instances of the Obama administration's ineptitude in matters such as these. I'm not holding my breath, but I can't wait.

Oh, and this gives me pause:

Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering was effusive in his praise, saying that with the new administration, the United States and Europe once again "share the same values."

"What you said mostly could have been said by a European," he told Clinton after she fielded questions ranging from climate change to energy security and aid to Africa and one on gay rights from a participant wearing an "I love Hillary" t-shirt.

Well, that's just fan-fucking-tastic. I can't wait until we have laws regulating the sale of "misshapen" produce and speech codes that prohibit people who produce films condemning radical Islamists from flying between, say, Texas and Oregon.

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