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The alternative title for this post is “Sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.”  There’s also no real point to this post.  I just found the story I’m about to tell you amusing. While driving along today, my daughter commented that one of her classmates would be attending High School X this [...]

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Clear and funny.  I wish everyone would watch these short videos:

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In the wake of Weinergate, a lot of people were pointing out that Weiner left himself open to some serious blackmail.  Given the fact that he’s not a fishmonger but is, instead, a member of Congress, the blackmail implications affect all of us. It turns out, though, that this may be the least of our [...]

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My post title is a lie.  Last night, just before falling asleep, I had a brilliant thought.  You know the kind — it was one of those insights that completely sums up our political scene in a single sentence.  This morning, I don’t have a thought in my head, plus I have a sneaking suspicion [...]

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It seems to me that, nowadays, famous people might want to disassociate themselves from their tweets.  Not so BHO: This week, the Obama 2012 campaign took over the duties of manning the president’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. Updates will likely come from staff for the most part, but when the president does tweet, he will [...]

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Many congratulations to this week’s winners: Council Winners *First place with 4 1/3 votes! The Noisy Room–-An American descent Into Hell Second place with 2 votes – The Colossus of Rhodey-“X-Men: First Class,” Israel, and the line between good and evil Third place with 1 2/3 votes – New Zeal-Why Panetta? Is Slashing Defense the [...]

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To many of us, the Carter-Obama analogy is a no-brainer.  Whether one looks to failing economies, rising oil prices, despair, Iranian troubles, arrogance, etc., the two are joined at the hip.  Conservatives hope that the similarities extend to Obama’s being a one-term president.  Jay Cost warns, though, that while their governing styles are similar (with [...]

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I’m sorry I’ve been a little less prolific than usual.  I’ve had a lot on my plate — end of the school year, aged mother, part of a team planning a major youth athletic event, preparation for big vacation, starting a new business, plus a little legal work on the side — and I seem [...]

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I’m working on a lengthy article about words and the real meaning lurking beneath them, so this seemed like an appropriate song about words versus thoughts and deeds:

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What I’m reading right now: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – “X-Men: First Class,” Israel, and the line between good and evil Simply Jews – Matthew Hess: rabid, but how rabid he is indeed? Joshuapundit-The Weiner Affair And The Disintegration Of Our Politics The Noisy Room – An American Descent Into Hell New Zeal [...]

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Sean Hannity professed not to understand why Weiner got forced out while Clinton didn’t.  I have to think that he was being disingenuous, because I think the differences are obvious: 1.  Weiner started the scandal by exposing himself to the world, figuratively and literally.  In Clinton’s case, until the blue dress suddenly emerged, it was [...]

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Sadie asks the right question regarding Google’s special ad thang with the Obama team: “This is an experiment and while we generally do not comment on those experiments we can tell you that we have not sold a single CPL [cost-per-lead] ad unit to any political candidates or committees,” said Parrillo. Asks Sadie, “Does the [...]

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The following letter went out to all NASA employees: I’m not focusing on the merits of the Administrator’s statements.  I’m just wondering about the appropriateness of NASA’s Administrator taking it upon himself to be an LGBT spokesperson, broadcasting those views on NASA’s behalf to the entire NASA community.  I was under the impression that NASA [...]

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The news is good, at least for the time being, but I was rather amazed to learn that JROTC, which has been around since before WWI, all over America, is “controversial”: The San Francisco school board gave the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps yet another vote of confidence Tuesday, ensuring that the controversial military leadership [...]

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He’s an exhibitionist, and always has been.  The last thing he wants to do is take himself out of the public eye.  For this guy, who’s been obsessed with showing himself off since he was a young’un, there is no such thing as bad publicity (which also explains his over-the-top rants in Congress).  While normal [...]

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We political junkies know this.  Are ordinary voters catching on? And as you read that, you might want to read this, which looks as the overreaching EPA and the wall it seems to have it.

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I’m embarrassed that I withheld from you so long the results of last week’s Watcher’s Council vote — although you could have checked the results out yourself if you felt so inclined.  As always, competition was fierce, and the winners are deserving: Council Winners *First place with 4 votes! Joshuapundit–-What Does Peace Mean, Anyway? Second [...]

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Gathering my thoughts.  Still working on aged mom issues.  Open thread.

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A sad story out of Los Angeles about a 780 year old relic stolen from a Catholic Church.  It was the last sentence, though, that made wince: Police say they are seeking a woman who they call a person of interest. Has no one taught these so-called “journalists” about the difference between subjects or objects? [...]

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Since my detailed knowledge of economics is small, I’m wondering if this SF Chronicle article that tries to put this endless recession into an ordinary pattern, rather than treating it as an American anomaly, is spin or accurate?  All I know is that we bounced back faced under Reagan, and we bounced back fast under [...]

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A man died while in the act of raping an elderly woman: The Refugio (reh-FYOO’-ree-yoh) County Sheriff’s Office identifies the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff’s Sgt. Gary Wright says the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his 77-year-old victim in the tiny [...]

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I thought Evan Sayet’s column on being a climate change skeptic was a good rebuttal to abc’s claim that I am an intellectual troglodyte, corrupting my child.

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The discussion on my recent climate change post has one side saying “expert consensus” and the other side saying “facts.”  Let me state something very important here:  An expert consensus is not a fact.  Experts used to think the sun revolved around the earth (wrong), that bad air caused disease (wrong), that spicy food and [...]

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At Rhymes with Right, Greg has written a moving post about the way in which he and his wife, both of whom deviate from politically correct norms, are often on the receiving end of rude and brutish behavior.  He ends by asking: And they have lead me to wonder — where are the manners? Where [...]

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With regard to my post about public sector unions, this story about a very generous retirement pension is a good follow-up. And with regard to my post about Obama screaming in hysteric anger after Netanyahu explained that Israel was not going to commit suicide at Obama’s behest, I realize that I forgot the pivotal sarcastic [...]

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