Behold! The torso-enhancing shirt!
Dorothy posted this at 4:22 PM EDT on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 as I have seen the future. . ., Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!
July 3rd, 2009
Tee-hee
Colin Powell: “I Wasn’t Paying Attention When I Endorsed Obama”
Well, that might as well be what he said. If there is anyone who paid attention to the campaign and didn’t conclude that Obama would propose huge and expensive expansions of government, then that person was a credulous fool. And since I don’t think that phrase describes Colin Powell, I’m just going to presume he wasn’ t paying attention.
Apollo posted this at 4:06 PM EDT on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 as CHANGE!
July 2nd, 2009
You Betcha!
Dr. K hands out some wisdom on Saint Sarah of Wasilla:
*wink*
Jamie posted this at 8:24 PM EDT on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 as Kraut-hammered, Politics, The Passion of St. Sarah of Wasilla
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . .
. . . but for Malta?
Apollo posted this at 3:56 PM EDT on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 as Running with the antelope
July 1st, 2009
Tell Cerrano to Stop with the Voodoo Already
My favorite baseball team has 1. a player who can’t play because he swung his bat wrong, 2. a player who can’t play because he eats too much late at night, and 3. a player who can’t play because of anxiety. That’s the stupidest list of injuries I’ve ever seen on one team.
Apollo posted this at 2:24 PM EDT on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 as Uncategorized
Growing in Office
It’s impressive to compare this with this. It’s not as though this has taken place over a lengthy tenure; however long it seems like Obama has been president, it’s only been about five months. And already this is a complete turnaround on an issue that Obama campaigned on and something that was always near the very top of every Democrat’s list of complaints about George Bush.
Those of us who think signing statements are alright can look at this as Obama growing in office, in much the same way a living Constitution types have watched formerly conservative Supreme Court justices move to the left. Of course, with Supreme Court justices, that’s a process that happens over decades, because of the gradual effects of the persuasive force of colleagues and the media. With Obama, it took less than five months. It’s hard to see that as changing his mind, so much as simply giving in to expediency.
Apollo posted this at 8:03 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 as CHANGE!, We don't need no stinkin' Constitution
June 30th, 2009
The Press does its job Right!
Really.
(H/T)
I kind of feel sorry for Robert Gibbs. Defending the indefensible must get old.
Hubbard posted this at 8:43 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 as Uncategorized
There’s Just Enough, and Then There’s Too Much
I love to hit at easy targets as much as anyone, and low-hanging fruit is often the sweetest. But come on, Birthers. It’s not that you’ve passed the point of self-parody. It’s that when you look at it out the rear window, it’s so severely red-shifted.
Geoff posted this at 7:31 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 as CHANGE!
Now THAT’s a bio!
Michael Arth is a long shot gubernatorial candidate for Florida, but at least he has a sense of humor in his campaign biography, which opens thus:
Michael Edward Arth was born near Liverpool, England at a U.S. Air Force Base on April 27, 1953. In 1955 his parents moved to New Mexico. This was followed by a move to Midland, Texas where he was taught at a parochial school by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, all of whom were named Mary, but none of whom were immaculately conceived. His own mother however was born on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, but named Evelyn Yvonne instead of Mary.
The family genealogy is known quite well in the far distant past and the recent past, but it is the chain of ancestors in the middle that is less certain. More than 3.8 billion years ago his ancestors were rather rudimentary life forms that either immigrated to Earth on an asteroid or were cooked up in the primordial soup. Leaping forward to modern times, it appears that his mother is a mixture of black Irish and American melting pot, including perhaps some Native American. A family genealogy traces her side of the family back to some Irish kings, including “Art Boy Cavanaugh” and Dermot MacMurrough Kavanaugh, who was the 12th century scoundrel from Leinster who sold out the country to Henry II of England in order to save his tee-na-na from a neighboring tribal chieftan who wanted revenge for kidnapping his wife. The same genealogy also claims that the family’s ancestors came to Ireland from Greece in the 2nd century.
Hubbard posted this at 12:43 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 as Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Humor
Declare Bankruptcy Already
So California is issuing IOUs? Why are the state’s creditors are letting them use IOUs instead of promissory notes? The state needs to declare bankruptcy already and get it over with. The longer Governor Schwarzenegger delays the inevitable, the messier it’s going to be.
Hubbard posted this at 10:05 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 as Bailoutistan
June 29th, 2009
The Return of Comical Ali
The Supreme Court issues an opinion in which not a single justice took the position taken by Sonia Sottomayor, and that’s proof that Sottomayor’s not biased. Looks like someone is giving Scott McClellan a run for his money in the Dumbest White House Spokesman of the Decade competition.
Apollo posted this at 3:42 PM EDT on Monday, June 29th, 2009 as Buffoon Watch, CHANGE!
Mixed Messages
So our worst enemy, a government that has been in a state of war with us since its inception 30 years ago, that speaks of wiping our closest ally off the map, that funds terrorism around the world, and that is openly pursuing nuclear weapons, rigs its already quite unfree elections and commits violence against those citizens who object, and the American voice of Hope and Change says we have to remain silent and neutral on the matter.
Half-way around the world, the elected legislature and volunteer military in a small democratic country – that seems to have taken no history of agression against us - takes non-violent action to stop its left-wing president from becoming the Hugo Chavez of central America, and, after the country’s supreme court declared his efforts to amend the constitution illegal, removes him from power. Now that is something worth denouncing.
You know what a bully does? A bully picks on those who can’t fight back, but doesn’t bother those who can. This president is turning us into a bully, and the message to other countries could not be clearer: start up a nuclear program, then tell America to shove off.
Addendum: I just saw in the updated story that the Honduran supreme court was involved in ordering the president’s removal. But Obama has declared this action illegal. Who do you think knows more about Honduran law, the Honduran supreme court, or Barack Obama? Who do you think has more invested in protecting Honduran democracy, the Honduran congress or Barack Obama? Freedom-loving people in Honduras see Hugo Chavez and understand that what he’s done to Venezuala is a very real possibility for their future if a leftwing populist starts accumulating power in the presidency. Barack Obama sees Hugo Chavez and thinks, “There’s a guy I want to meet with.”
Apollo posted this at 3:19 PM EDT on Monday, June 29th, 2009 as CHANGE!
June 28th, 2009
Chavez vs. The Hat
Reading a little about the situation in Honduras, obviously it’s sorta hard to have an opinion that’s more than mere prejudice. But what happens when multiple prejudices intereact? My first prejudice is that anyone who wears a cowboy hat with a suit can’t be all bad. My second prejudice is that if Hugo Chavez says something is bad, it must be good. This is particularly true for things involving “the Yankee empire.”
Perhaps if the guy who takes over now will also wear a cowboy hat, everything will be okay.
Apollo posted this at 4:54 PM EDT on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 as Those Wacky Foreigners
June 26th, 2009
Bad Journalism
This might be one of the worst articles I’ve ever read. Its dripping with the biases of the writers, in no way illuminates the deep divisions behind the bill, and fails to give equal time to both sides.
No wonder we’re about to damage our economy irreparably.
Jamie posted this at 11:05 AM EDT on Friday, June 26th, 2009 as CHANGE!, Convenient Truth, Journalism
June 25th, 2009
Really Weird Correlation
Of the 20 state high courts that have female chief justices, 15 are in states that George Bush won twice.
Apollo posted this at 11:07 PM EDT on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 as Politics