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Don’t ask how I stumbled across this video of a song from Tom Jones’ 1969 BBC TV show.  Just enjoy the pudgy male dancers in the white jumpsuits.  I am still wiping tears of helpless laughter from my eyes.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so horribly staged, yet done with such self-assured panache. [...]

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Charles Krauthammer spells it out:  America’s decline is not a by-product of Obama’s myriad Left wing policies; it is, instead, his primary goal.  Think of that as you wonder why a Leftist European prize committee awarded the formerly prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to Obama. Of course, this isn’t new to any of you.  I’ve been [...]

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By now you all know that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  After deciding that the Nobel Committee probably didn’t award it as a consolation prize for Obama’s having lost before the International Olympic Committee, I tried to figure out what “peace” the Nobel Committee meant.  After all, this is a guy so ineffectual that [...]

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I took my daughter to the doctor today for what turned out to be a sinus infection.  The pediatrician is a lovely man — kind, skilled at his work, and (obviously) good with children.  I trust him as a doctor.  As a deep thinker, though, well . . . the jury won’t be out very [...]

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Clearly, French music is the way to go today:

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Don Quixote forwarded me an email that perfectly explains just how bad the economy is: Just how bad IS the economy? The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. It’s so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you afford [...]

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When we met the Blues, one of the people we met was the team’s flight surgeon, who struck me as a lovely young woman:  warm, dedicated and intelligent.  I’m sure Neptunus Lex wasn’t talking about her when he wrote this hysterically funny post a few years ago.  (And no, I didn’t go hunting that post [...]

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Sometimes, silly news is the antidote to the incredibly depressing news emanating from D.C.  This story worked for me.  When you see the second photo, you’ll understand the title I gave this post. By the way, is it me or are Democrats remarkably defensive considering that they’ve got their dream government?  All during the Bush [...]

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Teddy Kennedy may be a lion of the Left, but, boy!, he sure is a poor excuse for a human being:  manslaughterer, plagarizer, alcoholic and, as he admitted himself, compulsive, completely immoral womanizer.  BTW, it’s not the sheer number I find offensive.  It’s his boast that he preyed on his own friend’s wives.  What a [...]

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From Jennifer Rubin: There is an almost total disconnect between the real issues facing the country — a growing nuclear threat from Iran, a floundering war effort in Afghanistan, a bulging debt, a falling dollar, and near double-digit unemployment — and the focus of the Congress and the president. The Obama administration either doesn’t know [...]

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The only thing I’ll add to the my post title by way of commentary is that this is the America that Obama and the Democrats envision for you, since increased government control inevitably presages the rise of regulations that destroy initiative, innovation and courage: A jobsworth ambulance boss refused to allow his staff to enter [...]

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Better late than never, here are the winner’s of last week’s Watcher’s Council vote.  I’m impressed by the number of ties that occurred: Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Rhymes With Right – A Note On The “Tenther” Smear Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Soccer Dad – Leaving [...]

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Check out these wonderful motivational posters based upon Churchill’s sayings.  Obama should be forced to memorize each of these and to recite them daily, morning and evening, to his face in the mirror.  Given the international scene right now (and Obama’s feckless and wuss-ish approach) I particularly like the one for “fortitude”: “Never give in, [...]

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England is a benefits culture.  The government, although strapped for cash, hands out benefits like candy, and each Briton feels entitled to his or her share.  It’s no wonder, of course.  Not only is there no stigma attached to benefits, there’s no upside to avoiding them.  Already back in the early 1980s, I had a [...]

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It’s a joke to call Alexander McQueen’s work fashion, because these clothes were never meant to be worn by real people, even fashionable real people.  However, there’s a bizarre beauty to the images he was able to create with fantasy clothes, leggy models, peculiar hairstyles, shaved eyebrows, and twelve inch high platform shoes.  The only [...]

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My sister and I are teaming to send a few hundred books to the troops.  Or at least, that’s what we want to do.  The problem is that I cannot remember which organization to go through or which method to use to get the books to them.  Do any of you have information on that?

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I blogged last week about Bravo Troop 361 Cavalry, the unit that was overrun by a horde of Taliban, and whose members stayed to fight despite their wounds.  As with all these stories, there’s a back story too, and the back story is that the guys in that fight didn’t lose just their friends, they [...]

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After House Vote, Rangel Still Ways and Means Chairman The 6 Republicans who voted in favor of keeping the tax cheat I bet are not  running for office any time soon. The two Dems should be rewarded with a medal. The 246 who thought that keeping him was a good idea are in need of [...]

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Glancing at New York Times this morning told me that Obama used his presidential prerogative to borrow a whole bunch of paintings to furnish his new home.  I didn’t look at the article or the paintings, though.  Turns out I should have. Hat tip:  Sadie

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As usual, the gal’s nailed it: One almost gets the sense that the Obama team may have not learned anything from our recent experiences in two war theaters. It is not as if Donald Rumsfeld and a slew of generals didn’t try in Iraq to use the fewest possible troops, spend the least possible amount of [...]

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Although the dinosaur media has assiduously ignored the story about Ayer’s authorship of Dreams of my Father, people are beginning to recognize the impact from the combination of Jack Cashill’s articles about the stylistic similarities between Dreams of my Father and Bill Ayer’s writing (similarities too great to be mere coincidence), and a new book’s [...]

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You know it’s been a good evening when Mom, Dad, and the kids all leave a party ebullient.  The party in question was a fund-raising reception aboard the USS Hornet, which is a floating museum.  The guests of honor were members of the Blue Angels team.  My husband was a bit dubious about the whole [...]

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The first scandal that unfolded was an autobiographical confession from Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar.”  Jennings proudly wrote that, when he elicited from a teenage boy the fact that the teenager was sexually involved with an adult man, Jennings didn’t flinch.  Unconcerned about such minutiae as statutory rape, child abuse, and pedophilia, Jennings focused [...]

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