Month: November 2009

AP assures us that Obama’s Afghanistan dithering is actually a show of strength *UPDATED*

Obama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan.  This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential,

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Just Because — It’s Johnny Mercer’s 100th birthday

I couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCp32NBXmU[/youtube] Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer

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