The Monsters Are Coming…
July 31, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html
I’m telling you, Baracolae Carpathia has secretly annexed Plum Island (great Nelson DeMille book, by the way; read it) and has authorized biological experiments there in search of the perfect demon for the coming Apocalypse.
An American Tail…
July 31, 2008
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp
No comment necessary.
Hannibal Rides Again…
July 31, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,394925,00.html
When you have a guy named Anthony Hopkins keeping his wife’s body in the freezer, you have to wonder what his plans for it were.
Barack Obamania Nonpareil…
July 31, 2008
“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” —Barack Obama
The defense rests. But if I was a Christian, I’d start re-reading the Left Behind series. Chris Matthews is no doubt sending his wife out for more Jergens and Kleenex.
Richard Pryor Was Right…
July 30, 2008
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/07/30/obama%e2%80%99s-women-problem/
“In fact, the gap between male and female voting preference in this election is far lower than it normally is. Among people under 40, men back Obama by eight points and women support him by 13. Among those in their 40s, men back McCain by 11 points and women support him by four. And for those over 50, men vote for the Republican by a nine-point margin while women prefer him by three points.”
…”There’s no such thing as a dumb old person.”
PETA, Round 2…
July 30, 2008
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/07/payback_is_hell.php
I have already documented (“More Words I Never Imagined I’d Utter”, 5/5/08) that PETA can, in the immortal words of Seth Rogen, gargle my balls. But I don’t find this billboard clever or funny, nor do I imagine that the survivors of, or the survivors of the victims of, shark attacks do.
Several years ago PETA tried the sex angle (http://youtube.com/watch?v=8rMAj538V-Y) to get some attention. Perhaps if they hadn’t employed a slouching, flapjack-breasted, used-up streetwalker for a model, it may have worked. I found the second half of the video more appetizing than I did her. I wouldn’t even give this trollop a Bismarck. Might I suggest Megyn Kelly?
Anyway, I will continue to risk 2/0 hooks thru the webs of my thumbs (check), laundry that smells like a French movie star (check), and lovely infections of the genus Vibrio (not yet) in pursuit of these noble animals and their aquatic brethren.
Comments On Obama’s Speech…
July 29, 2008
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
After the typical political address greetings, he opens up with…a lie. He wouldn’t be there if he wasn’t running for president, just like he hadn’t been in Iraq, etc. for 900+ days, and wouldn’t have been if he wasn’t a candidate. In fact, he’s on this entire trip only as a candidate. If any otherwise were true, why did he make this speech there and now?
The “citizen of the world ” moniker indeed sets the stage for the trouble to come later.
When you, the German people, tore down that wall..
This is like saying that Melvin Q. Petway, auto mechanic, built the Model T. He did not; Henry Ford did. Likewise, the German people did not tear down the Berlin Wall; it was torn down by one man, and one man only…Ronald Wilson Reagan.
As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
Christ, I thought we got rid of Al Gore in 2000. In a very few years, we will be looking back and laughing at the idea of man-caused (and even more so at the idea of man-solvable) global warming. At least this icon of the blame America first crowd assigns some of the responsibility to China.
America has no better partner than Europe.
Well, yeah, we do; it’s called Israel. No European country is anywhere near as committed as they to the most important issue for the United States…the elimination of Islamofascist terrorism. Europe? They laugh at us, they think their dinky little cultures are superior to ours, and then there’s France.
This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.
Oh, that deadly, naughty atom; great. He wants to emasculate us, in other words. He would eliminate the greatest weapons in our defense arsenal. It’s the anti-gun control argument, which is a cliche, but a true one: if guns are illegal, only criminals will have guns. If Obama gets his way on this, do you really think that these other dipshit countries are going to lose theirs? Or the terrorists when, not if, they finally get their own? I can guarantee you one thing—Israel isn’t going to dump their nukes.* And thank your god for that.
The rest of the speech is mostly the proposal of a, for lack of a better term, new world order, and not worth parsing. A big, happy global community. This will never happen. Period. There are always going to be new Hitlers, new Stalins, new Bin Ladens. Someone is always going to want to challenge the biggest kid on the block. The question is…do you want us to continue to be the biggest kid on the block?
*Maybe on Iran
Let Me Clarify This For You…
July 29, 2008
After a spirited discussion with a dear friend over this:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/snubbing_wounded_troops.html
The Obama campaign canceled the visit with wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, Obama says, when he learned that the Pentagon would not allow him to bring along a retired Air Force major general who is serving as a foreign policy adviser to the campaign. Obama says that “triggered then a concern that maybe our visit was going to be perceived as political.”
Okay. Obama was disallowed (because it is against longstanding rules) to bring campaign people along, because that would make it political. Obama then refused to visit those troops alone because, he says, that would be political. It seems to me that the visit would have seemed much more genuine and less political without dragging the campaign baggage along.
Yes, he visited other troops. But he snubbed these. He canceled a visit because he was going to have to go in without a campaign advisor. Period.
“Assertions in early news reports that the Pentagon had told Mr. Obama he could not visit the medical center were incorrect, said Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon spokesman. He said the military personnel in Germany had made arrangements for Mr. Obama’s visit and were surprised when it was called off. “—New York Times
Oh Please, Oh Please, Oh Please…
July 29, 2008
This would be great, as it would accomplish 3 major things:
1. It would get him and his taxes the hell out of Virginia and put Bill Bolling in office.
2. It would consign him to a position for which he is perfectly suited, wherein his major duties are to attend state funerals in second rate countries and to wade through gifts of shrunken heads and animal-bone jewelry given to the president by other heads of state.
3. It would allow me to say that my Dad grew up in a house subsequently purchased by a guy who rose to the vice presidency, where he languished for 4 years and then was never heard from again.
On an even brighter note, he’d lose.
Let’s face it. If Obama nominates this schmuck, it’s for one reason: he might help deliver Virginia. For the first time in quite a while, we are a toss-up state. Gone are the sensible days when Virginia could be relied upon to elect a Republican president.
In other words, this nomination has nothing to do with qualifications for the job; it’s purely political. Kaine has no military, foreign affairs, or homeland security credentials, the 3 things which are arguably Obama’s greatest weaknesses (although it’s hard to identify a single strength, other than oratory). The irony is that if an Obama/Kaine ticket is elected and then something were to happen to Obama, we would actually end up having a more qualified incompetent in office.
Gee, Do Ya Think?
July 28, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nUCVL2tLICg
Pure genius.
From Rasmussen polls:
Voters who have served in the U.S. military favor John McCain over Barack Obama by a 56% to 37% margin.
Voters with no military service favor Obama 50% to 43%.
A separate survey also found that 63% of Americans do not believe the stopovers in the two war-torn countries made the Democratic candidate any more qualified to be president.
The same survey also found that less than a third (32%) thought Obama learned from his trip to Iraq, while 40% said his mind was already made up about how to deal with the war there.
In the new survey, 61% of military veterans have a favorable opinion of McCain while 46% say the same about Obama. Thirty-seven percent (37%) have an unfavorable opinion of McCain while 51% offer an unfavorable opinion of Obama.
Jawja…
July 28, 2008
A Georgia State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-75. The trooper asked, “Got any I. D.?”
The driver replied, “Bout whut?”
I Found Something Else I Love About Catholicism!
July 28, 2008
Sister Dick Cheney, right on target.
http://www.entertainmentevents.com/video/late_nite_catechism_2/2/broll.asx
And Apparently Ya Gotta Love This Guy Too…
July 25, 2008
Someone does, anyway.
Can’t John Edwards’ hair do any better than this? Bye bye, Attorney Generalship.
These are the “Two Americas” Edwards has scolded us about…the America where you don’t cheat on your wife, and the one where you do.
