November 28, 2009

Youa Culpa

We need another category, Maybe I was Wrong about Obama.
We could just call it "Althouse/Noonan" because they're the prime practitioners of the art.
The latest from Peggy Noonan (via the puppy blender, but I have a point!)

Ms. Drew reports that while the president was in Asia last week, "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man." They once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama," and were key to his rise, but now they are concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought."

It goes on to talk about how the people who matter are starting to figure out what we unhelpful types knew two years ago, Obama is a thin-skinned, neophyte, marxist, far-left, Chicago-machine politician who has no idea what the hell he's doing.
As Instapundit once said, he thought Obama was just running to run for whatever reason, not to win, and suddenly he was winning. He had no idea what the hell to do.

Too bad nobody who counted thought that before. Oh well, they're better than we are, they've put in the time, so we should just do what they tell us and hopefully they'll do better the next time.


Or not.

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November 07, 2009

Fuck You, Joseph Cao! Fuck You, Stupak Amendment Supporters! And Fuck You, Anybody who Supported Obamacare!

Fuck you, Joseph Cao. And fuck you too, supporters of the Stupak Amendment, that helped push Obamacare through the House tonight. Fuck you for what you did to every fucking American, including those not yet around. Fuck you with the molten hot hate of a person who fucking does not want to see this country slide down the fucking path of Euro Fucking Socialism. Fuck you up your fucking goatse loving goat fucking asses with the 1900 fucking page bill you didn't read but fucking passed. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!

Enjoy the ends of your Congressional careers, fuckfaces. And to those who supported this travesty, I hope you suffer the most under the new system we will get. Enjoy it, because Karma is a bitch.

Sadly, we have to hope this fucking pile of assfistery dies in the Senate. How fucking sad is that?

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It's All About The Counting Now

For the most part, all that can be done about Obamacare now is to flood the phone lines and watch the results. But, it appears that even though the plan appears to be as well thought out as my plans to get my wife to spend a few minutes of "alone time" with me, Granny McBotox is having trouble snagging the necessary votes.

Lets see what deals are made, and who votes which way. If I didn't have shit to do today, I would actually kinda watch the TV.

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November 05, 2009

It means what they say it means.

I was commenting at Classical Values last week and I wrote something like
"I'm surprised that the Dems aren't using the 'promote the general welfare' part from the preamble to say whatever they do with health care is constitutional."

Eric provided links to people like Madison saying, "That's not an omnibus deal, it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want".

Well, looky here. Steny Hoyer, noted Constitutional Scholar and man who's better and smarter than we proles, says,
“Well, in promoting the general welfare the Constitution obviously gives broad authority to Congress to effect that end,” Hoyer said. “The end that we’re trying to effect is to make health care affordable, so I think clearly this is within our constitutional responsibility.”

I sent that story to Eric and he replied that it was at least a step to the good that they were actually attempting to consider the Constitution.

Me? I think it's the worst thing that could happen.

If they can make that stick, then they can do whatever the hell they claim is for the "common good".

If the Supreme Court can allow John McCain and Russ Feingold restrict political speech, then they'll allow just about anything.

We are so screwed.

I didn't put this in "Funniest End of Civilization Ever" because, while it's darn endy, it's not funny at all.

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November 04, 2009

They're not French

Uh-Oh. This is going to be interesting.
The EUnuchs say Italy has to remove crosses from classrooms.

That could be huge for a few reasons.
First, for Italians the Catholic Church is theirs. They own it, they're very casual about their religion, but that's because they've owned the Church for so long. Sure the last two popes weren't Italian, but before that they were Italian for a long time. The last non-Italian pope might have been during the Avignon Papacy (when there were two popes for a while), at least the last non-Italian pope was hundreds of years ago.
They're Catholic and that's that, at mass they'll bring lunch, climb over the pews to chat with friends and are generally very possessive about the Church.

Second, and possibly even more important than the first point, is that they're having problems with Muslim immigrants. They're new immigrants and aren't very assimilated and they're mostly still poor and are the beggars. The French and some other countries just stick their Muslims in ghettos and let them be poor and unassimilated, Italy hasn't gone that route. They're the country most like America in that respect (I think of them as our hillbillly cousins).

When I was there in the 80s, black Africans were a decent sized immigrant class, but they were assimilating and they worked hard. They weren't disliked, they were even liked as they were often the ones selling stuff on the streets the way you can buy stuff in Chinatown in NYC or something. Italians like buying stuff that "fell off the truck", it's in their psyche (the stuff in the Egypt museum in Turin "fell of the truck", Napoleon was transporting his plunder through Italy to France and it was in Turin when he fell so they kept it.)
Muslims aren't learning Italian and they aren't even trying to assimilate. I saw a number of newspaper articles when I was there talking about how Muslims had little loyalty to Italy. There were also stickers all over the place with "Muslim" with the red circle and slash (no Muslims in other words).

Third, Italians already aren't really happy about being part of EUnuchstan, they really don't like the Euro very much, or at least the ones I talked to in 2006 didn't. Pretty much everyone I talked to wanted the Lira back.

Italians are a weird people. They're not into conflict in general, they just want to eat, drink and be merry. But..... I don't think they're as beat down as so many of the other EUnuchstanian people appear to be so I have a feeling this will be huge.

The EUnuchs are telling them to change their whole culture and the Italians will see it as the EUnuchs sticking up for Muslims against them.

The backlash against the EU and Muslims could be huge.
The decision is being appealed, I predict that appeal will fail and I predict that Berlusconi will then tell the EU to go screw and that he'll be viciously attacked in the media (the part he doesn't own) and will become even more popular with the Italian people.
It'll be interesting to see what happens after that. I don't know if they'll revolt against the EU, but I bet a lot that they'll never let them take the crucifixes from their classrooms.
I have to admit, I agree. Italy was like that when the Muslims moved in, if they didn't like the Catholic Church they shouldn't have gone to Italy, they should go where they are willing to be dhimmis.

What the EU does after that will be interesting. They'll do economic stuff against Italy and then it gets interesting. Overreach can be an ugly thing.

Saw the link the same place as you, Hot Air headlines.

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November 03, 2009

Better than you

No, surprisingly enough, this is not a post about the GOP, it's about Illinois Nazis.... Democrats.
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Chicago aldermen with their noses out of joint Friday demanded to know why they are searched along with the masses at the city's central headquarters for administrative hearings.

"So where's the Nazi part Veeshir? Did you misread this one too?" you ask? (Stop asking so many questions, and it's Mr Veeshir to you)
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"It's not a matter of giving anybody any preference. But us that are aldermen -- we are the ones who set your budget. If we're the ones setting your budget maybe we'll take an adjustment" downward, if the policy is not rescinded, Austin warned.

It's not a matter of giving anybody preference, but give them preference or they'll cut your budget.
Unbelievabile.

(By the way, if you're going to be a snotty, superior jackace, use good grammar "But we that are...")

Of course the voters there will never elect Republicans or conservatives because they'll take away Chicagoan's rights or something.

Another Agitator link, if you guys would read him I wouldn't have to steal so much of his stuff.

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October 30, 2009

NRCC comes to its senses - Gently Ditches Dede

73wire and RedState are reporting that the NRCC is now focused on running negatives on Owens in NY-23, pulling all the pro-Scozzafava and anti-Hoffman stuff.

While I'm certainly not the first person to suggest dumping Dede, I did suggest that the "dumping" needn't be explicit, that they could just stop supporting her and let nature take its course.  So yay me.

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October 29, 2009

Let's Throw A Can of Petrol Onto the Fire That Is NY-23!

Well, it appears as though moveon.org has decided to enter the fray.

From their fundraising letter:

Charlie Cook, one of the most respected political analysts in Washington, says that a Hoffman win would “shock Washington and force both parties to rethink their strategies.”4

It would dramatically strengthen the Sarah Palin wing of the Republican party. And as for the Democrats—remember how the teabaggers’ town hall disruptions rattled conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats? Imagine how hard it’ll be to pass progressive legislation if conservative Democrats spend the next year worrying that they may be unseated by people who think Medicare is socialism and President Obama isn’t a U.S. citizen.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. But it is. Which is why Bill Clinton and others are working hard to raise the money Bill Owens needs to win. Local MoveOn members voted 77% to endorse Owens. But they need our help.

Most of us probably haven’t heard of this race. But it will have an impact on health care and everything else we’re fighting for. So can you spare $10 or $20 to help stop the far-right from scoring a major victory? I’m contributing. Will you join me?

Yeah, this should end well.

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October 21, 2009

Have "they" gone too far?

Some school had a series of 'streakings'. Then, they caught some of the kids.

Okay, so detention? Suspension? Expulsion? Community Service?
Guess again.
one of the teenagers could be charged with criminal sexual conduct because of his nudity

A sex crime. He'll be on the sex-crimes database if they do it. Imagine him at 50 and everywhere he goes they tell his neighbors a sex-offender is moving in?

But the officials say it's a good idea
Harapat pointed out that the last football game was streaker-free.

Oh well, that's worth destroying that kid's life.
H/T I forget. Sorry.

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October 10, 2009

BBC Questions Global Warming

Really, the BBC? It appears so:

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Excuse me I think I hear 4 horses in the parking lot. It has to be the beginning of the end times there is just no other explanation.

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October 02, 2009

Best Billboard Ever

Yeah, I get the feeling these folks are fired up about things.

 

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September 30, 2009

The Twat gets told twice

Eddie linked this in comments, but there's nothing quite so deserving of its own post as David Frum having his nose rubbed into his own failure.

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September 23, 2009

Pro-Honduras Rally In STL Tonight

Not surprisingly, the STL media avoided the gathering. But Jim at Gateway Pundit was there, with hot girly action.




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September 21, 2009

The Good Guys Win One

No, not another Giants post (But they did beat the Cowboys last night, you see the game?), a Pittsburgh G20 gun ban post.

I read on some blog (anybody know which one?) about how Pittsburgh was thinking about trying to become Philadelphia and ban certain guns during the protests.

I can't find anything more recent than last week where they had "delayed giving police the power" to enforce the statute they already passed. (I think I read about that on some blog, eh, probably not).

But in the above story, we find this
References to a list of "assault weapons" that the city banned in 1993 -- only to have the ban quashed by the General Assembly in 1994 -- have been deleted from the legislation. Council members feared they would be mired in a lawsuit with the National Rifle Association that the city would likely lose.


Maybe they realized they would be "mired" in more lawsuits they'd lose. And cost lots of money.
Hence the title, a win for the good guys. Too bad they had to use to the courts to do it.
The law shouldn't be that much of a ass.

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September 18, 2009

We waited just one damn year too long to overthrow this dictatorship

Notes on the other revolution, the shooting one in Iran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned the opposition against turning anti-Israel rallies to street protests against the clerical establishment.

Too bad, so sad. Instead of the expected Holocaust denial and "Death to both Satans, Big and Little" they got
Defeated presidential candidates Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi said they would attend the rally.
...snip...
"Death to the dictators," and "Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, We are ready to die for Iran," chanted protesters.

So naturally, they have to be arrested and beaten.
Shooting them down in the streets coming soon!
I'm sure Obama will urge both sides to step back and stop the provocations.

The world is finding out that Bush wasn't so bad and maybe, just maybe, America and American hegemony aren't the worst things in the world.

Too bad there are going to be lots of wars, repression and nukular "disagreements" to help drive that lesson home.

Forgot the H/T again, sorry Meryl

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September 17, 2009

Pittsburgh might not become Philly

I know nobody reads this blog, but I did a post early this month about Pittsburgh trying to ban certain guns at the G-20 contra PA laws.

So the City Council "tentatively" passed the ordinance 9/8, but this story from 9/15 claims they "delayed giving police" the power to enforce it.

I'm wondering if the outcry stopped them or if they're just trying to wait until it's too late to take the ordinance to court.
It'll be interesting to find out.

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Awwwwww.

I can't link non youtube videos, I try every now and then and just break my blog.
So you'll have to go here and watch that video of Nancy tearing up and getting all "awwww, poor widdle woman can't stand the harsh words". I just saw a clip on Cavuto and I was stunned.

Yo Nancy, go screw.
You have been a purveyor of some of the harshest rhetoric directed at Bush and any American who disagrees with you and now that it's directed at you and beating you like a baby with a puppy you're gonna start crying and ask us won't we please make the bad words go away?

That's about un-be-lieve-a-bile.
Will any feminists call her out on this?

I mean, there was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America crying about all the bad words during a press conference, thereby reinforcing all the stereotype of women that they get all emotional and fall apart when someone says bad words to them.
She was trying to look like a poor, vulnerable woman that we all want to just give a hug and make the bad words go away.

Nancy Pelosi calling for civility is bad enough after 8 years of Chimpy McBusHitler, but her crying while she does it just makes it worse.

I know I've said it before, but they have no shame. None at all.

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September 16, 2009

Intertubes Round-up

If I may indulge in a little blog pimping, -- Every once in a while I do a top-5(ish) list for PAWatercooler.  This is a decent one, IMHO. Rather than try to copy and paste the html and bugger everything up, I'm just linking.

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September 15, 2009

More nuts falling out of the tree

Update: Video below the fold. It's worth it, I've been watching it on Beck.
Via the Confederate Yankee we see that they're not done batting Acorn around.

Hannah Giles
writing about why and how they did it. It's about funny in that it's what investigative reporters used to do to everybody, not just Sarah Palin and random plumbers.

She's listing the steps involved and has this one

4)      Experiment: Baltimore, DC, Brooklyn, San Bernardino, and…

 Check out the "and....", there are more tapes.
 They keep releasing one, allowing Acorn to dig itself deeper, and then release another tape.
Now I have to wonder how many they have.

They're supposedly releasing the latest, San Bernadino tape on Beck and it supposedly contains a comment about murder and which politicians they're 'friendly' with.
Okay, I'm going to have to watch Beck's entire show today.
It's going to be hysterical when the FBI shuts down Acorn offices around the country and the first 'report' from Minitru will still be trying to cover it up.

I wonder when Obama is going to have to answer any questions about Acorn.
Sorry, I just like to make myself laugh.
more...

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Paul Revered

One of my favorite posters from Saturday
http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/images/redcoats.JPG

Notice in every picture you see of the tea parties, almost all of the signs are hand-made.
And a lot of them are darn funny. There's shirts out there now that say, "Don't tax me bro!" (I got one), that was a poster I saw at the 4/15, DC Tea Party, I think Insty put it up and now it's famous.

What Congress doesn't understand is why Americans are angry. They're not all angry at the exact same thing, but all the different "things" they're angry about boil down to "Stop leftying up our country!"
If only the GOP had learned that lesson from the previous, two elections.

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