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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
At the turn of the year 2005 to 2006, I ushered in the New Year with this bit o' wisdom from a fella called Sgt. Grit:
"THE YEAR OF THE LIE"
Well, hard as it may be to believe, 2008 may surpass its predecessor for the title of:
"YEAR OF THE BIGGEST BATCH OF LIES EVER"
One is always ready to say that the outrage of any particular day is "unprecedented", but there is no fitter word for what we have seen this past year on the part of the news media, upon whom the average Joe has long depended for a picture of the world as it is. The traditional media -- newspapers, the "big three" of network television with a few of their spin-off brethren, the major news magazines -- have never in the history of American politics been so transparently activist for one candidate over another. Barack Obama is their long-awaited perfect candidate, and they will stop at nothing to put him in office.
And he is, in so many frightening ways, the perfect candidate for the present day: physically attractive, photogenic, smooth-talking (with notes), overflowing with vapid verbal fuzzies and pledges so comforting and lofty that their staggering hubris is lost in the mist. Obama is the perfect candidate for an age when a huge proportion of the voting public is either over-"educated" with fallacies and conspiracy theories, and seething with irrational anger over non-existent injustices (like a "stolen" election or "inside job" terrorism) -- or brain-dead from celebrity worship, with an addiction to fake reality TV and mainstreamed soft-porn serials. Both segments of society are fatally vulnerable to hysteria over a well-packaged candidate whose persona is fundamentally an illusion.
This illusion was founded in the "post-racial, post-partisan" mythology of a candidate who has spent his short but calculated political career caressed in the ample bosom of race-baiting agitation and socialist activism, fused (oddly) to an old-fashioned jack-booted money-grubbing Chicago political machine. The few genuine touchstones of his life about whom we know -- father, mother, spiritual and political mentors -- have been papered over by the same media that celebrates the idea, but suppresses the contents, of Obama's two ridiculously premature autobiographies. (Including those parts now shown to be falsified.) The vast unknowns are being dug out of the crevices by various hard-scrabbling journalists, but will remain untouched by the incurious mainstream.
Hard to imagine that the biggest mountain of B.S. yet to appear would make its debut just a month before the election, but so it has. There has been no bigger lie than the attempt by Obama and his party to hang the economic implosion on the Republicans, when the truth is 180 degrees opposite, and the fault is at least 98% the Democrats'. And the indisputable evidence is everywhere -- except on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, and the various self-appointed papers of record.
So 2008 seems poised to be the YEAR OF THE WHOPPIN' BIG LIE, WITH CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
As I said more than two years ago, the ORCS are winning.
Obama collects illegal campaign contributions in the millions.
Obama's friends, supporters, spiritual mentors, and political resume, and his destructive effect on the community he claimed to be helping -- all completely uninteresting to the mainstream press -- form a saga of radical left activism that should make America shudder.
NBC and the New York Times try to trivialize or cast doubt on McCain's history of torture in Vietnam.
Obama thug squads are trying to suppress criticism of his campaign, much in the vein that he has always been most successful not by winning elections so much as choreographing them, by shoving his opponents off a cliff.
And then, of course, the all-out blitzkrieg against Sarah Palin: Top 7 here , more here.
The Orc is the lie. It is swarming over the hillsides and bearing down upon the hapless Middle Earthlings.
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit contributes this:
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR.I then offered a retrospective in which I dubbed 2005:
"THE YEAR OF THE LIE"
Well, hard as it may be to believe, 2008 may surpass its predecessor for the title of:
"YEAR OF THE BIGGEST BATCH OF LIES EVER"
One is always ready to say that the outrage of any particular day is "unprecedented", but there is no fitter word for what we have seen this past year on the part of the news media, upon whom the average Joe has long depended for a picture of the world as it is. The traditional media -- newspapers, the "big three" of network television with a few of their spin-off brethren, the major news magazines -- have never in the history of American politics been so transparently activist for one candidate over another. Barack Obama is their long-awaited perfect candidate, and they will stop at nothing to put him in office.
And he is, in so many frightening ways, the perfect candidate for the present day: physically attractive, photogenic, smooth-talking (with notes), overflowing with vapid verbal fuzzies and pledges so comforting and lofty that their staggering hubris is lost in the mist. Obama is the perfect candidate for an age when a huge proportion of the voting public is either over-"educated" with fallacies and conspiracy theories, and seething with irrational anger over non-existent injustices (like a "stolen" election or "inside job" terrorism) -- or brain-dead from celebrity worship, with an addiction to fake reality TV and mainstreamed soft-porn serials. Both segments of society are fatally vulnerable to hysteria over a well-packaged candidate whose persona is fundamentally an illusion.
This illusion was founded in the "post-racial, post-partisan" mythology of a candidate who has spent his short but calculated political career caressed in the ample bosom of race-baiting agitation and socialist activism, fused (oddly) to an old-fashioned jack-booted money-grubbing Chicago political machine. The few genuine touchstones of his life about whom we know -- father, mother, spiritual and political mentors -- have been papered over by the same media that celebrates the idea, but suppresses the contents, of Obama's two ridiculously premature autobiographies. (Including those parts now shown to be falsified.) The vast unknowns are being dug out of the crevices by various hard-scrabbling journalists, but will remain untouched by the incurious mainstream.
Hard to imagine that the biggest mountain of B.S. yet to appear would make its debut just a month before the election, but so it has. There has been no bigger lie than the attempt by Obama and his party to hang the economic implosion on the Republicans, when the truth is 180 degrees opposite, and the fault is at least 98% the Democrats'. And the indisputable evidence is everywhere -- except on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, and the various self-appointed papers of record.
So 2008 seems poised to be the YEAR OF THE WHOPPIN' BIG LIE, WITH CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
As I said more than two years ago, the ORCS are winning.
Here's just a little sampling of this year's most flagrant use of lies, damned lies, and statistics:Back when the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy came out, and there was some controversy over the various actors’ reflections on whether or not it was appropriate to draw parallels between the fictitious battles for Middle Earth and the all-too-real battles against Al Qaeda and its sponsors, my sense was that the left-leaning types who rejected the parallels probably assumed that we pro-war crazies saw in those waves of Orcs, sweeping down upon the cornered Good Guys, the faces of Islamist “militants.” Not, in my view, a wholly unjustified interpretation of those scenes.
However, at the time I expressed a somewhat different take on those brilliantly executed scenes of descending hoards, especially the terrifying attack at Helm’s Deep in film II (The Two Towers). What I saw in the deformed bodies and ghoulish monster faces of the Orcs was the physical embodiment of The Lie, and the overwhelming power of an accumulation of Lie upon Lie upon Lie. This was evil incarnate. This was the vision of why Satan is called The Father of Lies.
Obama collects illegal campaign contributions in the millions.
Obama's friends, supporters, spiritual mentors, and political resume, and his destructive effect on the community he claimed to be helping -- all completely uninteresting to the mainstream press -- form a saga of radical left activism that should make America shudder.
NBC and the New York Times try to trivialize or cast doubt on McCain's history of torture in Vietnam.
Obama thug squads are trying to suppress criticism of his campaign, much in the vein that he has always been most successful not by winning elections so much as choreographing them, by shoving his opponents off a cliff.
And then, of course, the all-out blitzkrieg against Sarah Palin: Top 7 here , more here.
The Orc is the lie. It is swarming over the hillsides and bearing down upon the hapless Middle Earthlings.
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit contributes this:
A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS:The fix for Obama is in, and it's wORCing.
"Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into Obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working."
UN-FREAKIN'-BELIEVABLE
Vice-Presidential Debate "moderator" GWEN IFILL will release her new book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009. (Notice that there's no cover image on the ad -- she's waiting for the Obama victory photo.)
Ifill has barely concealed her bias over time. But this is too much. Listen to her gush here.
McCain campaign claims not to have known until today.
Shake these people up -- if there's any hope for democracy in America, call or write the McCain people and INSIST that they INSIST that Ifill step down.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
(703) 418-2008
Lord Save Us.
Vice-Presidential Debate "moderator" GWEN IFILL will release her new book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009. (Notice that there's no cover image on the ad -- she's waiting for the Obama victory photo.)
Ifill has barely concealed her bias over time. But this is too much. Listen to her gush here.
McCain campaign claims not to have known until today.
Shake these people up -- if there's any hope for democracy in America, call or write the McCain people and INSIST that they INSIST that Ifill step down.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
(703) 418-2008
Lord Save Us.
OBAMA COURTS THE GRADE-SCHOOL KIDS' VOTE
What do you mean, they can't vote? ACORN will fix that.
They'll start with this spontaneous, original, Columbus-Day-type kid-generated pageant, with all its simple, childlike appeal (provided by the CEO of NBC, Jeff Zucker, and a complete professional Hollywood film crew...)
Oddly reminiscent of....
Massive HAT-TIP and thanks to Small Dead Animals
Updated: Even the lefty British Guardian finds the singing Obamabits CREEPY.
This a.m. on Dennis Miller:
What do you mean, they can't vote? ACORN will fix that.
They'll start with this spontaneous, original, Columbus-Day-type kid-generated pageant, with all its simple, childlike appeal (provided by the CEO of NBC, Jeff Zucker, and a complete professional Hollywood film crew...)
Oddly reminiscent of....
Massive HAT-TIP and thanks to Small Dead Animals
Updated: Even the lefty British Guardian finds the singing Obamabits CREEPY.
This a.m. on Dennis Miller:
"Happy Birthday to former President Jimmy Carter, who turns 84 today, NOW SHUT UP!"
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
NOW WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS
Want to keep an eye on your kid in Iraq? Join his unit!
48-year-old retired Marine Jane Strand quit the corps, had six kids, waited for her Marine husband to retire, and then joined the North Carolina National Guard. So did her youngest son, Timothy. Now they're both about to deploy. OOH-RAH.
Drudge brings us the story.
TRYING TO FOLLOW THE CREDIT MESS/ELECTION FROM
Québèc City
Hard to collect too many thoughts when left with mere CNN on the hotel TV, and an hotel internet that moves a little slowly.
Having to remind myself that when Sarah Palin's interview performances are pronounced a failure, this is being done by the same people who think she's sub-human because she didn't go to Princeton. (Loved her answer to Katie Perky about not having had the leisure to back-pack around Europe.)
Is there important stuff she doesn't know? Sure. Can she learn it quickly? Absolutely. She's smart and master of all she surveys -- up until now she's been surveying Alaska. Now she'll move on and survey the wider world, with a big staff of people to do the digesting, and her Bullshit-Meter in full working order.
She'll be fine. Cool it, McCain campaign. Chill. Don't overwhelm her with coaching -- she's starting to come off a bit too self-conscious and trying too hard, just as Bush did (fatally) when made to feel inadequate by his handlers.
Been thinking of Ms. Palin and her position a lot while touring around the city here. One of the most powerful forces to settle here in the 17th century was the order of Ursuline Sisters of Tours, who came to this remote and primitive outpost to establish education for women -- both the local native girls (their primary mission) and the daughters of the European settlers. They proved more successful than did the Jesuits with the native boys.
Nearly four centuries later, in a profoundly secularized
(downright irreligious) Québèc, the Ursulines persevere in their vocation to young women, operating an elementary school with 500 students,
located on their original grounds -- to say nothing of the vast apostolate which spread across North America from the arrival of a few intrepid French women on the muddy shores of 17th-century Québèc.
[Dare we propose that, um, they don't make Frenchies like they used to?....]
Monument to education of women, in front of Ursuline Chapel, Québèc City.
Want to keep an eye on your kid in Iraq? Join his unit!
48-year-old retired Marine Jane Strand quit the corps, had six kids, waited for her Marine husband to retire, and then joined the North Carolina National Guard. So did her youngest son, Timothy. Now they're both about to deploy. OOH-RAH.
Drudge brings us the story.
TRYING TO FOLLOW THE CREDIT MESS/ELECTION FROM
Québèc City
Hard to collect too many thoughts when left with mere CNN on the hotel TV, and an hotel internet that moves a little slowly.Having to remind myself that when Sarah Palin's interview performances are pronounced a failure, this is being done by the same people who think she's sub-human because she didn't go to Princeton. (Loved her answer to Katie Perky about not having had the leisure to back-pack around Europe.)
Is there important stuff she doesn't know? Sure. Can she learn it quickly? Absolutely. She's smart and master of all she surveys -- up until now she's been surveying Alaska. Now she'll move on and survey the wider world, with a big staff of people to do the digesting, and her Bullshit-Meter in full working order.
She'll be fine. Cool it, McCain campaign. Chill. Don't overwhelm her with coaching -- she's starting to come off a bit too self-conscious and trying too hard, just as Bush did (fatally) when made to feel inadequate by his handlers.
Been thinking of Ms. Palin and her position a lot while touring around the city here. One of the most powerful forces to settle here in the 17th century was the order of Ursuline Sisters of Tours, who came to this remote and primitive outpost to establish education for women -- both the local native girls (their primary mission) and the daughters of the European settlers. They proved more successful than did the Jesuits with the native boys.
Nearly four centuries later, in a profoundly secularized
(downright irreligious) Québèc, the Ursulines persevere in their vocation to young women, operating an elementary school with 500 students,
located on their original grounds -- to say nothing of the vast apostolate which spread across North America from the arrival of a few intrepid French women on the muddy shores of 17th-century Québèc.[Dare we propose that, um, they don't make Frenchies like they used to?....]
Monument to education of women, in front of Ursuline Chapel, Québèc City.
Monday, September 22, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT Updated
A too-typically lame sketch from Saturday Night Live about allegedly dishonest McCain ads. Nothing to lie awake nights about -- but one does long for some equal-opportunity shot-taking at his messianically mockable rival.
The sketch is too weak to warrant much tooth-grinding amongst Republicans, except for the fact that it was apparently the "inspiration" of former SNL writer/performer, and current Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken, a man known both for his limitations and his mean-spiritedness even before he left the show for the second time in 1995.
And another SNL effort, which is taking mucho heat on the grounds that it was aimed, yet again, at Sarah Palin and her family.
Sorry -- I'm in the camp that says it was instead a total burn on the New York Times and its insulated, snobby, deeply ignorant readership. Like much modern satire, it's so close to the truth it's almost not funny.
The controversial "incest" element was, however, unnecessary and should not have passed network self-censorship. that having been said, it did accurately reflect exactly the kind mindless bigoted filter through which the urban chattering classes see the heartland people about whom they understand absolutely nothing. Pulled by NBC -- an attack of decency? Who Knew!
IN OTHER ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
The lowest-rated Emmy award broadcast in history was the occasion of celebrity idiocy on a grand scale. I only watched it while channel-hopping, so I wasn't aware of the full depths of horror purveyed by the five-person reality-tv hosting team, but I gather they SUCKED hugely.
What I did see was Laura Linney -- a beautiful woman wearing o
ne of the ugliest and most ill-fitting dresses I've ever seen an award-winner in who was dressing to be taken fashion-seriously [meow]-- accepting her award for the privilege of playing the towering Abigail Adams. In so doing, she delivered her well-rehearsed innocuous-sounding lead-in to the deranged punch-line that the Founding Fathers of the United States were "community organizers."
P-U-U-H-H-L-E-E-E-Z-E.
As someone famous (me) once said, Try this on, Laura: the Founding Fathers "organized" their "community" under one condition certainly NOT shared by metrosexual Harvard boys lately from Chicago: the threat of being captured during the revolution they fomented, and being HUNG for treason. Every one of them risked their lives, whether or not they were ever in an army or militia.
Then we had the spectacle of brain-fried old hippie Tommy Smothers further tarnishing our happy memories of his once-comic persona by babbling anti-war gibberish with spasmodic howls of victimology, as he accepted a fantasy award allegedly delayed by forty years or so, from back when the Brothers' show was cancelled because they skated too near the edges of blasphemy (courtesy of David Steinberg) as much as political tub-thumping.
CANADIAN POLITICAL MIND-BOGGLE
Just saw shreikin' Sheila Copps on Steve Paikin's Agenda, defending the Sarah Palin choice and speaking quite calmly and sensibly, about sexism in electoral politics and about the prospect of La Palin being elected. Carumba. I believe pigs may fly.
THIS TOO
Former British PM Tony Blair put his swell suit in the chair at Jon Stewart's Daily Show tonight. I couldn't watch more than about 30 seconds. I'm sorry. There are some things for which Stewart's excessive glibitude is just too lightweight -- stupid questions about how he (Tony) and Bush decided to go to war. Blair replied that this was a serious decision, not made lightly.
People are dead -- history has been changed forever. Get with it, Stewart. Not the time to sacrifice all other considerations to your need to be cute and clever.
A too-typically lame sketch from Saturday Night Live about allegedly dishonest McCain ads. Nothing to lie awake nights about -- but one does long for some equal-opportunity shot-taking at his messianically mockable rival.
The sketch is too weak to warrant much tooth-grinding amongst Republicans, except for the fact that it was apparently the "inspiration" of former SNL writer/performer, and current Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken, a man known both for his limitations and his mean-spiritedness even before he left the show for the second time in 1995.
And another SNL effort, which is taking mucho heat on the grounds that it was aimed, yet again, at Sarah Palin and her family.
Sorry -- I'm in the camp that says it was instead a total burn on the New York Times and its insulated, snobby, deeply ignorant readership. Like much modern satire, it's so close to the truth it's almost not funny.
The controversial "incest" element was, however, unnecessary and should not have passed network self-censorship. that having been said, it did accurately reflect exactly the kind mindless bigoted filter through which the urban chattering classes see the heartland people about whom they understand absolutely nothing. Pulled by NBC -- an attack of decency? Who Knew!
IN OTHER ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
The lowest-rated Emmy award broadcast in history was the occasion of celebrity idiocy on a grand scale. I only watched it while channel-hopping, so I wasn't aware of the full depths of horror purveyed by the five-person reality-tv hosting team, but I gather they SUCKED hugely.
What I did see was Laura Linney -- a beautiful woman wearing o
ne of the ugliest and most ill-fitting dresses I've ever seen an award-winner in who was dressing to be taken fashion-seriously [meow]-- accepting her award for the privilege of playing the towering Abigail Adams. In so doing, she delivered her well-rehearsed innocuous-sounding lead-in to the deranged punch-line that the Founding Fathers of the United States were "community organizers."P-U-U-H-H-L-E-E-E-Z-E.
As someone famous (me) once said, Try this on, Laura: the Founding Fathers "organized" their "community" under one condition certainly NOT shared by metrosexual Harvard boys lately from Chicago: the threat of being captured during the revolution they fomented, and being HUNG for treason. Every one of them risked their lives, whether or not they were ever in an army or militia.
Then we had the spectacle of brain-fried old hippie Tommy Smothers further tarnishing our happy memories of his once-comic persona by babbling anti-war gibberish with spasmodic howls of victimology, as he accepted a fantasy award allegedly delayed by forty years or so, from back when the Brothers' show was cancelled because they skated too near the edges of blasphemy (courtesy of David Steinberg) as much as political tub-thumping.
Oh, Tommy, boo-hoo.
Why didn't you find something else to do?
CANADIAN POLITICAL MIND-BOGGLE
Just saw shreikin' Sheila Copps on Steve Paikin's Agenda, defending the Sarah Palin choice and speaking quite calmly and sensibly, about sexism in electoral politics and about the prospect of La Palin being elected. Carumba. I believe pigs may fly.
THIS TOO
Former British PM Tony Blair put his swell suit in the chair at Jon Stewart's Daily Show tonight. I couldn't watch more than about 30 seconds. I'm sorry. There are some things for which Stewart's excessive glibitude is just too lightweight -- stupid questions about how he (Tony) and Bush decided to go to war. Blair replied that this was a serious decision, not made lightly.
People are dead -- history has been changed forever. Get with it, Stewart. Not the time to sacrifice all other considerations to your need to be cute and clever.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
BEEN THINKIN' ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLY
STUPID MEME
now floating about the lefty discourse, from the pursed lips of Congressmen, Actors, TV Talking Headcases, and Moonbat Disciples of Hopey-Changitude everywhere:
[For "Jesus" read Barack Obamessiah/
For "governor" read Sarah Barracuda]
So I'm thinkin'.....
Jesus worked to improve living conditions and civil rights for Jews in the occupied Holy Land, which is why the Romans granted them all citizenship and permitted them to form an elected government with laws based on the Torah. And then the Romans outlawed slavery. And eventually they withdrew and let the Jews run their own country, of which the Second Temple, still standing in Jerusalem, is the cultural centerpiece. And Jesus died of a heart attack when Josephus the historian misrepresented and disrespected his public service record.
Yeah, that happened.
Whereas
that governor, Pontius Pilate, served as the model for governors of all time -- of cowardice, corruption, cruelty, indifference and irresponsibility, ducking and washing his hands of the difficult, history-making decisions. And it is supremely fair, by association, to tar all subsequent bearers of his title with the faults of his character -- bearers like Sarah Palin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Adlai Stevenson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, William McKinley, Mario Cuomo, Anne Richards, Michael Dukakis, and William Jefferson Clinton.
Yeah, that's fair.
Meme retort of the month:
STUPID MEME
now floating about the lefty discourse, from the pursed lips of Congressmen, Actors, TV Talking Headcases, and Moonbat Disciples of Hopey-Changitude everywhere:
Jesus was a community organizer/
Pontius Pilate was a governor.
[For "Jesus" read Barack Obamessiah/
For "governor" read Sarah Barracuda]
So I'm thinkin'.....
Jesus worked to improve living conditions and civil rights for Jews in the occupied Holy Land, which is why the Romans granted them all citizenship and permitted them to form an elected government with laws based on the Torah. And then the Romans outlawed slavery. And eventually they withdrew and let the Jews run their own country, of which the Second Temple, still standing in Jerusalem, is the cultural centerpiece. And Jesus died of a heart attack when Josephus the historian misrepresented and disrespected his public service record.
Yeah, that happened.
Whereas
that governor, Pontius Pilate, served as the model for governors of all time -- of cowardice, corruption, cruelty, indifference and irresponsibility, ducking and washing his hands of the difficult, history-making decisions. And it is supremely fair, by association, to tar all subsequent bearers of his title with the faults of his character -- bearers like Sarah Palin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Adlai Stevenson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, William McKinley, Mario Cuomo, Anne Richards, Michael Dukakis, and William Jefferson Clinton. Yeah, that's fair.
Meme retort of the month:
Pontius Pilate voted "present."
Friday, September 19, 2008
SPEAKING OF FANNIE MAE...
No, not that Fannie May.
MORE MELTDOWN RETROSPECTIF:
It's Winter 2000 (Bubba still at the helm).
City Journal's Howard Husock lets fly.
Read the rest here.
BREAKING NEWS!!! (Yeah, I know, it broke last night or somethin'....)
The heinous hackings and postings of Sarah Palin's private emails appear to be the work of ONE LITTLE SNOT-NOSED COLLEGE KID.
Who (it is alleged) just happens to be the son of a Tennesee Democratic State Representative.
[h/t Gateway Pundit via The Anchoress]
MSM strangely MUM on the subject -- and when they finally twig to it, wanna bet we'll be playing "Name That Party" regarding the subject's political affiliations? And that any rumblings about Sarah Palin's inability to control her teenaged daughter's conduct will disappear overnight? Mum's the word!
No, not that Fannie May.
MORE MELTDOWN RETROSPECTIF:
It's Winter 2000 (Bubba still at the helm).
City Journal's Howard Husock lets fly.
The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities
The Community Reinvestment Act funnels billions to left-wing activists, while threatening to destabilize lower-middle-class neighborhoods.
The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act...[into a] vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks.
Read the rest here.
BREAKING NEWS!!! (Yeah, I know, it broke last night or somethin'....)
The heinous hackings and postings of Sarah Palin's private emails appear to be the work of ONE LITTLE SNOT-NOSED COLLEGE KID.
Who (it is alleged) just happens to be the son of a Tennesee Democratic State Representative.
[h/t Gateway Pundit via The Anchoress]
MSM strangely MUM on the subject -- and when they finally twig to it, wanna bet we'll be playing "Name That Party" regarding the subject's political affiliations? And that any rumblings about Sarah Palin's inability to control her teenaged daughter's conduct will disappear overnight? Mum's the word!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
AND FOR YOU SPANISH-SPEAKERS AMONG US:
Take a gander at the latest excretions from the Obama campaign. Are you buying?
Translation, via FoxNews:
Take a gander at the latest excretions from the Obama campaign. Are you buying?
Translation, via FoxNews:
Says John Hinderaker (of the Law Firm of Power, Line)"They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance," the announcer says in one of the ads as a picture of Limbaugh appears onscreen and the talk show host is quoted saying, “Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out.”
"They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much,” the announcer continues. “John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote, and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families.”
I don't think I've ever seen a more deeply contemptible political ad... In the mainstream media, the last week has been consumed by tut-tutting over the supposed "lies" perpetrated by two McCain ads--which, however, were inconveniently true. It will be interesting to see how liberal pundits react to what must be the most dishonest, racist and hateful campaign ad published in many years.Dittos.
GET OUT YOUR SHOVELS --MAJOR TOPSOIL
COMIN' YOUR WAY!!
Remember where you heard it first:
The Sarah Palin Phenomenon is Doomed
Why?
The primary reason why the Palin bubble will burst is that the media will decide that they are bored with her...Jon Friedman of CBS News says so. So there.
The interview with Gibson may be remembered as the first brick being pulled out of the wall. The reviews weren't favorable from the media in the segments when Gibson asked Palin questions about foreign policy...
Gibson, as dignified a newsperson as America has now*, treated Palin fairly and didn't resort to hectoring her with "gotcha" questions, either...
The media aren't the bad guys in the Palin discussion.
* [sad, but true -- ed. -- all emphases mine]
FINALLY
...light is beginning to be shed upon Barack Obambi's 'Lost Years' of post-law school employment and community organza period. It seems that before he heard the Divine Summons to Chicago's south side, The Chosen One had a hard time getting chosen for employment upon graduating from Columbia. For this we have his own words in the first of his two epic autobiographies, Dreams From My Father.
True enough, we suppose. But a couple of people who worked with him in his early, pre-non-profit days, say his own account of this period of his life, ahem, departs somewhat from the facts as they remember them.
[hat-tip: Sweetness & Light] Read the whole thing and enjoy.
DAVID FREDDOSO has been dropping bits-n-bytes from his new book, The Case Against Obama, about those much-touted 'Daley years'. Bring it on.
John Maki at Windy Citizen reports from deep within Chicago's communities and sets some records straight about what those community organgrinder people (himself included) DO, when they do whatever it is they do.
I can't lie awake too many nights wondering how Barry Obambi misspent his youth. But I do worry about what kind of back-room sell-out he may have been working on with the leadership of Iraq. At the New York Post, Amir Taheri spills the beans on Obama's attempt to play liar's poker with the future of Iraq and with the welfare of American military personnel in order to have the resolution of Iraq's democratic future take place on the watch of the next president (that would be Barry). Check it out.
The Obambi campaign has issued something like a denial, which doesn't in fact deny much of anything about this appalling account. Say again?
NOW ABOUT THAT WALL STREET MELTDOWN:
YOUR PRIMER ON HOW WE GOT HERE
(1) WHAT'S WITH THIS WOMAN AND HER WALLS?
When disaster strikes, up in the skies or down on the streets of New York City, why do we keep finding the fingerprints of this woman, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, all over the mess? A few interesting summaries here, and here.
The Clinton Administration: continuing to make memories all Americans will treasure.
(2) EARLY WARNING SYSTEM -- New York Times, September 11, 2003
"New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae"
Read it all here.The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
(3) AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?
Investors Business Daily tells the Rest of the Story:
Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.
The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory."
(4) WAS NO ONE WATCHING?
Well, yes. The senior Senator from Arizona.
Congressional Record, May 25, 2006:
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs--and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO's report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO's report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
(5) AND HOW DID THIS END?
Last Action: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.Status: Dead (emphasis MINE)
It never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis. Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money. "Obama in just four years in the Senate raked more contributions from Fannie and Freddie than any other Senator in the last 19 years." [h/t NRO, Mark Hemingway at the Corner.
If you're not so much into reading, watch the exciting climax of this epic drama here:
Makes you kinda go, "Hm-m-m-m."
Just wish this particular Arizona Senator would speak up about what he saw and what he tried to do. Have you forgotten, Johnny Mac? Don't fuel those rumours about senility, PLEEEEZE!.
If you're not so much into reading, watch the exciting climax of this epic drama here:
Makes you kinda go, "Hm-m-m-m."
Just wish this particular Arizona Senator would speak up about what he saw and what he tried to do. Have you forgotten, Johnny Mac? Don't fuel those rumours about senility, PLEEEEZE!.
SEEN IN THIS MORNING'S NATIONAL POST,
AND I'M NOT KIDDING
This photo:
And this caption:
AND I'M NOT KIDDING
This photo:
And this caption:
Brad Pitt knows the travails of trying to foster socially responsible consumerism. When the actor had to choose a scent for his new line of environmentally friendly body wash for Kiehl's, he ran into a problem: "Not much biodegrades," he said. "There were only three scents to choose from. I chose aloe."Brad Pitt -- St. Francis of Ass-hatsy.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
From the preamble to the North Carolina Democratic Party Platform:
This item is NOT official
campaign gear
from state or national Democratic Party affiliates-- but sometimes the genealogy of inspiration is traceable.
Stay classy, libs.
[hat-tip: Kathy Shaidle, via Malkin, via somebody else I can't remember....]
We take pride in our Democratic heritage as a party of spiritual and patriotic values; a party of inclusiveness; a party of diversity; a party of compassion; a party of educational and economic opportunities; a party of social justice; and a party of responsible leadership."
This item is NOT official
campaign gear
from state or national Democratic Party affiliates-- but sometimes the genealogy of inspiration is traceable.
Stay classy, libs.
[hat-tip: Kathy Shaidle, via Malkin, via somebody else I can't remember....]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for the Obama campaign....
Greta Van Susteren interviews ALASKA 'FIRST DUDE' TODD PALIN -- and -- DAMN! the guy can talk!!!!
DAMN!
If this is w
hat constitutes a high school education in Alaska, then good for you Alaska. Todd Palin is charming, chatty, well-spoken, good vocab, ready to engage and answer at length. Not a rube, not a hillbilly, not a red-flannel-shirted red-state red-neck, not a duh-h-h-h, yup, nope, fer shure, land'o'goshen ma'am, ah couldn't rightly say, gun-totin', beer-swillin' MORON.
NOT, NOT, NOT!
DAMN!
This is not what was supposed to happen. How dare he?! He's an accomplished, natural, reflective man, as worldly-wise as he needs to be, and perfectly presentable when it comes time to meet those Heads of State Charlie Gibson is so concerned about impressing.
Damn, double damn, with an extra helping of damn on the side!
SPEAKING OF SARAHS
Like, I
so TOTALLY KNEW that Dr. Sara Tancredi on FOX's Prison Break was SO NOT DEAD, even when Linc was supposed to have found her HEAD in a box -- I just KNEW this couldn't be the end of the barely budding affair between her and Michael. (Actress Sarah Wayne Callies was preggers and took a season off. Nice to see her back in one piece.)
Duly noted: Domenic Purcell is now getting first
billing in the credits,
ahead of Wentworth Miller. This probably has something to do with contract haggles, Domenic perhaps feeling that he had a more pivotal role than his second billing would indicate, especially since he stopped being the guy off someplace on death row, only heard from in passing, as he was during season one.
Glad the show is back. I hardly watch any TV entertainment shows
with regularity (news junkie that I am), but for some reason I'm hooked on two of the most brutally violent ones, Prison Break and CSI:NY. Downright kinky sometimes (the shows, that is -- me, not so much). But I like the characters, and the writing is good (CSI not so good sometimes). And of course, I'm always happy to support the work of troop-supporter and Iraqi-kid benefactor Gary Sinise.
Rock on, Detective.
Semper Fi.
Greta Van Susteren interviews ALASKA 'FIRST DUDE' TODD PALIN -- and -- DAMN! the guy can talk!!!!
DAMN!
If this is w
hat constitutes a high school education in Alaska, then good for you Alaska. Todd Palin is charming, chatty, well-spoken, good vocab, ready to engage and answer at length. Not a rube, not a hillbilly, not a red-flannel-shirted red-state red-neck, not a duh-h-h-h, yup, nope, fer shure, land'o'goshen ma'am, ah couldn't rightly say, gun-totin', beer-swillin' MORON.NOT, NOT, NOT!
DAMN!
This is not what was supposed to happen. How dare he?! He's an accomplished, natural, reflective man, as worldly-wise as he needs to be, and perfectly presentable when it comes time to meet those Heads of State Charlie Gibson is so concerned about impressing.
Damn, double damn, with an extra helping of damn on the side!
SPEAKING OF SARAHS
Like, I
so TOTALLY KNEW that Dr. Sara Tancredi on FOX's Prison Break was SO NOT DEAD, even when Linc was supposed to have found her HEAD in a box -- I just KNEW this couldn't be the end of the barely budding affair between her and Michael. (Actress Sarah Wayne Callies was preggers and took a season off. Nice to see her back in one piece.)Duly noted: Domenic Purcell is now getting first
billing in the credits, ahead of Wentworth Miller. This probably has something to do with contract haggles, Domenic perhaps feeling that he had a more pivotal role than his second billing would indicate, especially since he stopped being the guy off someplace on death row, only heard from in passing, as he was during season one.
Glad the show is back. I hardly watch any TV entertainment shows
with regularity (news junkie that I am), but for some reason I'm hooked on two of the most brutally violent ones, Prison Break and CSI:NY. Downright kinky sometimes (the shows, that is -- me, not so much). But I like the characters, and the writing is good (CSI not so good sometimes). And of course, I'm always happy to support the work of troop-supporter and Iraqi-kid benefactor Gary Sinise.Rock on, Detective.
Semper Fi.
LOTS OF SERIOUS DIRT to shovel today
but time is short this a.m., so I'll just proffer THIS, because Republicans have a sense of humor.
You just gotta laugh -- I mean, you GOTTA.
[hat-tip: RealClearPolitics]
Fey -- she's da BOMB. Brilliant.
but time is short this a.m., so I'll just proffer THIS, because Republicans have a sense of humor.
You just gotta laugh -- I mean, you GOTTA.
[hat-tip: RealClearPolitics]
Fey -- she's da BOMB. Brilliant.
Friday, September 12, 2008
WHO WON?
ABC's morning anchorperson took on Governor Sarah for her first Most Excellent TV Interview Adventure.
She had her weak moments. But at the end of the day, the imperious, supercilious, self-important Professor Gibson just made himself look...small.
H-m-m-m-m
It has come to me recently that I have one very, very big fear about the 2008 U.S. election:
But I sure hope it doesn't turn out to be former-conservative-turned-alien-life-form Andrew Sullivan, cuz Andrew's, er, "husband" is a REALLY big dude too,
and he might decide that, like Mr. Palin, he has to step in and..., um,... defend his woman.... as 'twere.
Among Sullivan's early reactions to the Palin pick [even before he became an irresponsible smear-monger in the National Enquirer mode]:
Hurricane Ike -- bearing down on my little niece's house! STOP THAT!
ABC's morning anchorperson took on Governor Sarah for her first Most Excellent TV Interview Adventure.
She had her weak moments. But at the end of the day, the imperious, supercilious, self-important Professor Gibson just made himself look...small.
H-m-m-m-m
It has come to me recently that I have one very, very big fear about the 2008 U.S. election:
I fear that at some point, Sarah Palin's mountain man husband, Todd
is just gonna HAVE to CLOCK somebody!!!And I would SO want to be there when it happens! Please, somebody, have the camera rolling!
But I sure hope it doesn't turn out to be former-conservative-turned-alien-life-form Andrew Sullivan, cuz Andrew's, er, "husband" is a REALLY big dude too,
and he might decide that, like Mr. Palin, he has to step in and..., um,... defend his woman.... as 'twere.
Among Sullivan's early reactions to the Palin pick [even before he became an irresponsible smear-monger in the National Enquirer mode]:
And later, after flogging every scandal he could scrape off the bottom of his shoe [about Bristol being Trig's mother, about an affair with a business partner, you name it, he disseminated it]:Squaring The Christianist Circle
29 Aug 2008 11:35 am
Now I understand: she's a pro-life mother of a Down Syndrome child. And she's not from the South.
She is a long-time member of the Assemblies Of God. That's all you need to know.Sully, we hardly know ye..... Well, yeah -- we do now.
Hurricane Ike -- bearing down on my little niece's house! STOP THAT!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
STILL STANDING
The Marine Corps flag hangs straight and still, in the corner of a Pentagon office blown open by the deliberate crash of Flight 77, September 11, 2001.
We mourn and remember:
Ken Basnicki
David Barkway
Jack Charles Aron
and
Rick Rescorla
and the 2996.
And we celebrate
and pray for
the living --
those who were left behind,
those who survived,
those who protected,
repaired, nursed,
sheltered, rebuilt.
And those who fought, died fighting, still fight, will fight,
and who will, in the end, be the best of our peacemakers.
Let us give [vote] them leadership worthy of their sacrifice.
[Three photos above by Michael Yon]
The Marine Corps flag hangs straight and still, in the corner of a Pentagon office blown open by the deliberate crash of Flight 77, September 11, 2001.
We mourn and remember:
Ken Basnicki
David Barkway
Jack Charles Aron
and
Rick Rescorla
and the 2996.
And we celebrate
and pray for
the living --
those who were left behind,
those who survived,
those who protected,
repaired, nursed,
sheltered, rebuilt.
And those who fought, died fighting, still fight, will fight,
and who will, in the end, be the best of our peacemakers.
Let us give [vote] them leadership worthy of their sacrifice.
[Three photos above by Michael Yon]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I TAKE IT ALL BACK
Here I was, feeling like I had to soften the blow of a mouthy Canadian newsbabe who fired off a bazooka-sized bitch-slap on Sarah Palin, via the CBC webpage [scroll down].
Well, why should I be surprised that once again America has built something bigger and better. Or in this case, badder and bitchier. Check out the Malign-a Monologue by some mistress of the frickatives named Cintra Wilson at Salon.com. I won't even quote any of it here. Reading it once was too exhausting.
Re: the weird tilt toward Puritanism exhibited by the most lefty of the left when they take on a person of sincere traditional moral convictions. Strange how Mrs. Palin brings out the over-sexed smut-mouthed prose stylings in these feminist columnists, who sex-up every angle of every argument, but do so with this bizarre, dripping disgust -- you can almost see the lace hanky being brought to the turned up nose and the cry for smelling salts, like a spectator at the Ascot races who just heard Eliza Doolittle holler, "Come on Dover, move your bloomin' arse!"
Or, more to the point, they are as seized by seething shock as the nice little church ladies who sat at their dinner table and endured Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen's on-screen alter ego) gracing their gathering with a bag of feces and a two-bit hooker.
Spare us the gasps and squeemish dry heaves, ladies. Go ahead and strike something, if it makes you feel better, but not this particular pose.
Here I was, feeling like I had to soften the blow of a mouthy Canadian newsbabe who fired off a bazooka-sized bitch-slap on Sarah Palin, via the CBC webpage [scroll down].
Well, why should I be surprised that once again America has built something bigger and better. Or in this case, badder and bitchier. Check out the Malign-a Monologue by some mistress of the frickatives named Cintra Wilson at Salon.com. I won't even quote any of it here. Reading it once was too exhausting.
Re: the weird tilt toward Puritanism exhibited by the most lefty of the left when they take on a person of sincere traditional moral convictions. Strange how Mrs. Palin brings out the over-sexed smut-mouthed prose stylings in these feminist columnists, who sex-up every angle of every argument, but do so with this bizarre, dripping disgust -- you can almost see the lace hanky being brought to the turned up nose and the cry for smelling salts, like a spectator at the Ascot races who just heard Eliza Doolittle holler, "Come on Dover, move your bloomin' arse!"
Or, more to the point, they are as seized by seething shock as the nice little church ladies who sat at their dinner table and endured Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen's on-screen alter ego) gracing their gathering with a bag of feces and a two-bit hooker.
Spare us the gasps and squeemish dry heaves, ladies. Go ahead and strike something, if it makes you feel better, but not this particular pose.
TRANSCANADA GAS PIPELINE, or
CANADIAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS STRIKE!
Many a Canadian is delighted that before becoming internationally famous, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pushed to seal the deal on the gas pipeline that will bring north Alaska gas to the lower 48 via western Canadian territory. (details here, maps here)
That project will take some years to come online, but in the meantime there's been a blast of Canadian unnatural gas that is blowing all across the United States, and nations abroad. ** Journalista Heather Mallick, a viciously anti-American asp who has worn out readerships in newsprint and codex form, and is now on her last legs on the CBC website. Marshalling all the poisons in her alchemical closet, Mallick churned out a piece called A Mighty Wind Blows Through Republican Convention a few days ago. It starts like this:
Just passin' this on, so's people don't assume from the 'Mallick aforethought' that everybody in this banana-like republic is certifiably bananas.
NOT A PICTURE OF HEATHER MALLICK --
NOT, NOT, NOT
CANADIAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS STRIKE!
Many a Canadian is delighted that before becoming internationally famous, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pushed to seal the deal on the gas pipeline that will bring north Alaska gas to the lower 48 via western Canadian territory. (details here, maps here)
That project will take some years to come online, but in the meantime there's been a blast of Canadian unnatural gas that is blowing all across the United States, and nations abroad. ** Journalista Heather Mallick, a viciously anti-American asp who has worn out readerships in newsprint and codex form, and is now on her last legs on the CBC website. Marshalling all the poisons in her alchemical closet, Mallick churned out a piece called A Mighty Wind Blows Through Republican Convention a few days ago. It starts like this:
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.Then builds to stuff like this:
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a fuckin' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?
You get the picture.
[**Mallick also re-worked her malice for Britain's Guardian]
Fortunately, one of the people who made this column famous was James Lileks, who conducted a world-class fisking on it here. Even more fortunately, Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay dismantled Mallick, and her employers, in today's National Post, with Another week, another disgrace at the CBC.
In the same issue of the Post, Jonathan is one-upped by his mom, Barbara Kay, who writes this!:
Bottom line:I imagine his pre-speech expression as alert, but relaxed paternalism, like a chief surgeon set to supervise a lowly resident's clumsy initial attempt at an appendectomy. Then puzzlement as the surgeon realizes that he's to be the patient, and finally horror as, strapped to the table and, before a nation of fascinated onlookers, he is subjected to ... a palinoscopy!
Oh, she got through to him all right. For eight months critics haven't really laid more than glancing blows on Obama, because they were jabbing away at his exterior. Sarah got him right in the gut.
Palin's mockery tickled Obama's worrisome polyps of swollen self-regard (the "styrofoam pillars"), his history of words over action ("two memoirs, but no major bills"), his curious pattern of risk avoidance (unlike community organizers, mayors have "actual responsibilities") and his tendency to solipsism(presidential journeys are not "voyages of personal discovery").
...Palin wasn't ever committed to any collectivity but America itself. She was never "I am Woman, hear me roar." She was always, "I am Sarah, watch me act."Mama Mia!
Just passin' this on, so's people don't assume from the 'Mallick aforethought' that everybody in this banana-like republic is certifiably bananas.
NOT A PICTURE OF HEATHER MALLICK --
NOT, NOT, NOT
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