Month: May 2012
Watcher’s Council winners for May 4, 2012
Good shtuff, folks, ridiculously, insanely, outrageously good stuff. And the winners, placers, and multiple show-ers are: Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! The Noisy Room – Pathological Politics – Predatory Partners and Persecuting Patriots Second place with 2 2/3 votes – Joshuapundit Obama Campaign’s Latest Claim – ‘Romney
Continue readingWhen it comes to playing politics, not all Marines are subject to the same rules
Sgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines because he created a web page critical of President Obama. Despite the fact that I agree with Sgt. Stein’s political views, I think the Marines did the right thing. One of the things that makes our military great is the fact that
Continue readingMaurice Sendak has died, aged 83
At first, I couldn’t understand why people on my Facebook page were posting excerpts from Where The Wild Things Are. After the third post, I realized that Maurice Sendak must have died. And so it is — Maurice Sendak has died, aged 83. He was a prolific writer and illustrator,
Continue readingIt’s time to help the Republican party pick out appropriate music for the campaign season
Yesterday, I posted a Hot Chelle Rae song about walking away from a dysfunctional relationship, and hoped that this was the song the American people would sing in November. You guys came back with some equally good “good-bye” songs. That was informal. Let’s make it official. This is the place,
Continue readingHot Chelle Rae’s “Good riddance to bad rubbish” *UPDATED*
I like Hot chelle Rae’s new break-up song. Rather than being a whiny dirge about a broken heart, it’s a cheery ditty about walking away from a disastrous, damaging relationship. I like to think that this will be America’s theme song in November 2012, as voters give Obama the boot.
Continue readingMarin County: What it’s like to live in one of the most affluent and liberal outposts in America
Marin County — blessed by nature and haven to the rich. It’s where I live. My house is blessed by nature and my neighborhood is a haven to the Marin middle class (a middle class that works ridiculously hard and pays obscene sums of money for the pleasure of living
Continue readingThe Leftist sales pitch: illogical, strident, obscene, and selfish
A gazillion of my liberal facebook friends have posted this little bit of wit and wisdom: After seeing this post once too often, I cracked. The last person amongst my friends who posted it got a message from me asking precisely how compelling an argument can be when it compares
Continue readingFormer Navy SEAL (who looks like Keanu Reeves) challenges Obama’s self-absorbed reliance on the SEALS as campaign tools
I got an email from Andrea Shea King (the Radio Patriot) that had in it a picture of Keanu Reeves and a headline about a post with one former Navy SEAL’s challenge to Barack Obama because of the latter’s narcissistic reliance on the SEALS as his own personal campaign tool.
Continue readingBarack Obama: the lazy manager of a frantic government
Calvin Coolidge was famed for sleeping 12 hours a day, and generally not working up a sweat. His work ethic was consistent with his belief about government’s role. He was an old-fashioned Republican who was comfortable with the adage that the government that governs best is that which governs least.
Continue readingTwo very different shame/honor cultures
Years ago, I read in an Efraim Karsh book something to the effect that the Arab honor culture is actually a shame culture. That is, in America, honor is a personal standard, one by which we measure ourselves. Arab honor, however, is a public face one presents to the world.
Continue readingObama’s intellectual love affair with T.S. Eliot
Everyone is having a good laugh at young Obama’s pompous, turgid, and self-referential writing about T.S. Eliot. My thoughts actually went somewhere else. T.S. Eliot was a tried-and-true antisemite. That’s why I’ve always given him a wide berth. The young Obama apparently did not feel the same way about Eliot’s
Continue readingAre Obama’s Bay Area donors getting any Obama bang for their big bucks?
I posted earlier today about Obama’s visit to the Bay Area, one that is expected to net him and the Democratic party lots and lots of money. One reader, who asked to remain anonymous, noticed something interesting about Obama’s schedule: Obama has scheduled: – 4:30 appearance in Palo Alto for
Continue readingObama’s peculiar definition of “courage” vis a vis the bin Laden raid
When Don Quixote and I talked yesterday about Obama’s use of the bin Laden raid as a campaign talking point, he pointed out that any sitting president who is running for reelection would use the raid as a talking point. I agree. The problem isn’t that Obama politicized the raid,
Continue readingIt’s rather strange that Obama’s composite girlfriend matches Bill Ayers’s real one
Much is being made of the fact that it’s finally becoming big news that Obama, in Dreams From My Father, “compressed” a girlfriend. That is, he’s acknowledged in his book that some people referenced in the book were “composites.” It’s just that no one realized that at least one of
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