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Just so you know, the dog survived and is doing fine.  But really, this is one owie set of photographs, and one very lucky little dog.

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The Washington Post is warning Republican senators not to be mean to poor Judge Sotomayor.  It’s a funny (inadvertently funny) article, because the Post editors acknowledge that Obama was anything but gracious when he was a Senator; then they explain why, even though he wasn’t gracious, he was right; and then they urge Republicans to [...]

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There are some very special people out there.  This woman is one of those people. Hat tip:  Brutally Honest, who saw it at Confederate Yankee, who found it at Argghhh!

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The cat’s out of the bag now, and it’s clear that the Democrats and Obama are planning on destroying small businesses in America.  This is no surprise, of course, given that small business — entrepreneurship, independence and individualism — is the antithesis of a government run marketplace: In the middle of a recession and with [...]

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UPDATE:  You, my readers, are clearly right, and you’ve shown once again that context is king.  Obama is introducing Medvedev to his people and not vice versa.  Although this still does not account for Obama’s exasperated expression. **************************** This is a fairly shocking 13 second video showing myriad Russians refusing, quite blatantly, to shake Obama’s [...]

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Marguerite emailed me the following splendid parable. Do any of you know its origin? Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my [...]

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I liked the group Madness then, and I still like it now: And for reasons known only to my brain, the above song always reminds me of The Kinks’ “Come Dancing”:

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Okay, the article didn’t really say the fish had PMS.  It’s just what I thought when I read the last sentence.

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One of the lesser known gems of MGM’s great musical era is a 1945 Fred Astaire movie called Yolanda and the Thief, with Fred as the thief and Lucille Bremer as Yolanda.  (Lesser know, probably, because it was a huge box office bust with end-of-the-war audiences.)  The plot is paper thin, but the visuals are [...]

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Last week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press.  Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall. Cannon begins by pointing out that, after offering their [...]

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Those who are pushing for universal health care here in America might want to take just a second to contemplate what Britain’s National Health Service (“NHS”) is doing in the area of teen sex.  Because Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, which no doubt is quite costly to the NHS, you might [...]

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Yesterday was the huge county swim meet that closes out the season.  At the end of the day, my daughter pointed out that, according to her admittedly informal information gathering, one of the lanes in which she swam had better outcomes than did the other lanes.  “I think it was the timer there.  He was [...]

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Republicans are finally figuring out how to push back: I like Ed Morrissey’s comment about the video: Today, Barack Obama once again dishonestly claimed that Porkulus opponents wanted to “do nothing” in the face of the economic collapse, but that’s simply not true — which Obama might have learned had he leaned on Nancy Pelosi [...]

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Hat tip:  Zhombre

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If you read Michelle Malkin, you already know about Zombie’s post exposing the unrepentant eugenicist past of John Holdren, Obama’s science czar.  Writing in the early 1970s, when the trendy concern was the population explosion (promising every a brutish Malthusian future), Holdren eagerly espoused a world order with forced abortions; mandatory sterliziation of those deemed [...]

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If you haven’t already read this Politics Daily article about the medias sowing the seeds of it’s own destruction through its reporting on Sarah Palin, you must. Hat tip:  The Provocateur

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Mike Devx meant the following to be a comment, but it’s such an important point, I’m making it a post: I ran across a blurb on Instapundit: JOE SCARBOROUGH’S NEW BOOK gets a rather unenthusiastic review from Nick Gillespie. “He unwittingly tells us that conservatives can at best stand athwart history yelling ‘Slow down,’ but [...]

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England has generated a lot of pig headlines lately.  The first round involved Britons actually removing, just thinking about removing, pigs from public sight for fear of offending Muslims.  Those stories were scary in an attenuated fashion, because they symbolized England’s loss of will and her willing submission to a dominant minority. This current round [...]

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Aside from the fact that nothing in today’s headlines has inspired me to write, work and family have conspired to keep me away from the computer.  I’ll get back to you all later today, I promise.  Until then, enjoy yourselves, here or elsewhere.

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Today is the day I read and vote on the Watcher’s Council submissions for the week.  As always, I anticipate an enjoyable and educational time: Council Submissions The Provocateur – How Bonds Work (and How Current Policy Will Wreck Them and the Economy With It) Right Truth – Pride Or Lack Thereof Rhymes With Right [...]

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A few days ago, the University of California at Merced announced that the First Lady’s commencement address cost this public institution a fortune — although it hastened to assure us that most of the cost would be covered, not by California’s overburdened taxpayers, but by private donors. The nation’s overburdened taxpayers, it seems, are not [...]

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In his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said.  (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.)  The American people were good and fooled.  The [...]

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I will admit that we’ve all committed social faux pas.  We forget names, stare blankly as friends wave to us, give inappropriate gifts, and a thousand other thoughtless things that we later come to regret.  None of us, however, are president of the United States.  He gets less slack then the rest of us do.  [...]

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Amazing — and honest:

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Drowning is drowning, and it’s not the way I want to die.  Nevertheless, there would be a certain symmetry if I were to die as this man did, drowning in a vat of melted chocolate. As it is, my dream is to do the Bing Crosby thing:  be somewhere gorgeous, doing the thing you like [...]

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