Of Melting Glaciers and Filthy Lucre

Related Link » Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen
“The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt. Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists. The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions. [...] Dr. Pacharui has also been accused of using the error to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.” [emphasis added]
— Ben Webster, Environment Editor, January 30, 2010 (TheTimesOnline)

Is there a rational being left on this planet who would believe anything these filthy-lucre diggers have to say about our earth's climate — past, present, or future? That is, besides The Obama Himself, Who continues to advocate the onerous cap-and-trade wealth transfers. His claims on rationality, however, are tenuous at best.

BTW, has anyone ever revealed Our Great Visionary-Scholar's academic records?

h/t TheDC
Would you buy a used car from this dirt-bag?

Post #1,114 Of Melting Glaciers and Filthy Lucre

An Unprecedented Optical Illusion of Grandiosity

Related Link » GOP: Obama has ‘blind spot’ on terror war
“‘President Obama recently used the phrase that "we are at war" with terrorists. But unfortunately his rhetoric does not match the actions of his administration’, [Maine Sen. Susan] Collins said in the weekly GOP Internet and radio address. ‘The Obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism’.” — Will Lester 01/30/10 (TheDC)

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“I am not a crook.” — Richard Nixon

“I am not an ideologue.” — The Obama Himself

“You is what you is, motherf*cker.” — Anomnibus

If The Obama Himself has a "blind spot" for the war on terrorism, then Hirohito had a blind spot for Little Boy. It took almost a month, including Fat Man's reiteration that Thou shalt not f*ck with America, before Japan surrendered.

Of all His "blind spots", the One for the GWOT is the most egregious. After all, The Obama Himself is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America! Think about that colossal incongruity. The Commander of America's Armed Forces has a blind spot for an internationally-funded, ideologically-motivated, hate-induced, asymmetrically-effected, insanely-murderous war against America and its allies, specifically, and Western civilization in general.

What we have here is not merely a problem in observation. That would be what passes for irony in Holyshitwood. No; what we are faced with is an unprecedented optical illusion of grandiosity.

h/t Theo  h/t Theo

Post #1,113 An Unprecedented Optical Illusion of Grandiosity

What price mindless abrogation of responsibility?

Related Link » The handling of the Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows
“After 50 minutes of questioning him, the Obama administration chose, reflexively and mindlessly, to give the chatty terrorist the right to remain silent. Which he immediately did, undoubtedly denying us crucial information about al-Qaeda in Yemen, which had trained, armed and dispatched him. We have since learned that the decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab had been made without the knowledge of or consultation with (1) the secretary of defense, (2) the secretary of homeland security, (3) the director of the FBI, (4) the director of the National Counterterrorism Center or (5) the director of national intelligence (DNI). The Justice Department acted not just unilaterally but unaccountably. Obama's own DNI said that Abdulmutallab should have been interrogated by the HIG, the administration's new High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. [...] Travesties of this magnitude are not lost on the American people. One of the reasons Scott Brown won in Massachusetts was his focus on the Mirandizing of Abdulmutallab. Of course, this case is just a reflection of a larger problem: an administration that insists on treating Islamist terrorism as a law-enforcement issue. Which is why the Justice Department's other egregious terror decision, granting Khalid Sheik Mohammed a civilian trial in New York, is now the subject of a letter from six senators -- three Republicans, two Democrats and Joe Lieberman -- asking Attorney General Eric Holder to reverse the decision.”
— Charles Krauthammer, January 29, 2010

I keep saying to myself, "Myself, if you put your thinking-cap on and really, really concentrate hard, you may be able to figure out what in the name of God is going on in this obstinate, obsessed, infuriatingly mindless, counter-intuitive, f*cking administration." But, dear reader, I can not for the life of me figure it out. What is it going to take to get through to these people in the White House?

Is it going to require another mass murder of thousands of American civilians? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? WTF?!!!

Post #1,111 What price mindless abrogation of responsibility?

POTUS SOTU DISSES SCOTUS IN COTUS!

Related Link » Obama insults Supreme Court with uncivil remarks
“There was, however, one part of the president’s 70-minute speech that is deserving of serious opprobrium; and this has nothing to do with partisanship. In a truly unprecedented display of incivility, Obama in his speech explicitly criticized a particular, recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, and then called on the Congress to pass legislation overturning the decision. He did this with the nine justices of the Court sitting directly in front of him. [...] This unpresidential display of rudeness far exceeds in infamy last year’s outburst of ‘you lie’ made by one Republican congressman during a less-weighty address to a joint House-Senate audience. Obama’s remarks Wednesday night were hardly a spontaneous outburst in response to something that happened during the state of the union. The words were deliberately and with premeditation inserted into the speech by Obama’s speech writers; done obviously with his approval. He knew exactly what he was doing. [...] In asking the Congress ‘to right this wrong’ of the ruling by the Court, Obama displayed further ignorance of that about which he was speaking. The fact is, the case last week specifically overturned an Act of the Congress that had taken away the long-recognized rights of corporations to express themselves and their shareholders under the First Amendment. If Congress were to heed the president’s call, it would be deliberately passing legislation that already had been declared unconstitutional! Clearly, the absurdity of such an argument didn’t stand in the way of a president all-too-eager to score political points wherever he can — even at the expense of deliberately trying to demean the one institution in our country that should remain outside the arena in which such attacks are so often made these days. President Obama should know this, and it is disappointing in the extreme that he appears not to.”
— Bob Barr, January 28, 2010 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The Obama, Himself quite sensitive to perceived slights from others, saw fit to berate the Supreme Court of the United States during His State of the Union address in front of both chambers of the Congress of the United States. All this by a supposed legal scholar, no less, and the perfidious preface, "With all due deference to separation of powers". Reprehensible.

Where is the liberal-left outrage now, I wonder.

h/t Theo

h/t Secular Apostate
I wouldn't worry about the "really good" thing either.

Post #1,110 POTUS SOTU DISSES SCOTUS IN COTUS!

There Is No Free Bacon

Related Link » Beggin' Strips Commercial: "IT'S BACON!"

Dogs may not know it's not bacon, but this little dog knows there is no free lunch:

No Treats From Obama
h/t STORMBRINGER
That is one smart pooch!

Post #1,109 There Is No Free Bacon

Of adulation and airport security

Related Link » Great Scott!
“The President could wait months before deciding to give a general the troops he asked for to fight the war in Afghanistan but there was never to be enough time for the health care bill to be exposed in the light of day to the usual Congressional hearings and debate. Moreover, despite all the haste, the health care program would not actually go into effect until after the 2012 presidential election. In other words, the public was not supposed to find out whether the government's takeover of medical care actually made things better or worse until after it was too late. [...] President Obama's desire to do something "historic" by succeeding, where previous presidents had failed, was perfectly consistent for a man consumed with his own ego satisfaction, rather than the welfare of the country or even of his own political party.”
— Thomas Sowell, January 26, 2010

There is a useful analogy to be made between the way our electorate evaluates The Obama's agenda and the way in which airport security is performed in the United States. In both situations, the focus seems to be on excruciatingly methodical inspection of the putative goals of His policies and of the putative purposes of all flyers, respectively.

In both situations, however, the focus should be primarily on the probable intentions of the respective agents (The Obama Himself and all flyers), rather than on their respective putative goals and purposes. The Israelis do a much better job at airport security. They are not ridiculously self-constrained from examining all flyers as to their behavior-response profiles, which are the keys to identifying potential terrorists. And this is why they, among all target nations of international terrorism, have the best success in counter-terrorism.

Similarly, rather than straining mightily to understand the intentionally opaque goals of The Obama's agenda, the electorate needs to understand that His true agenda is first, last, and always the aggrandizement of adulation from His slavish admirers.

Post #1,108 Of adulation and airport security

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Letter Duet (Canzonetta sull'aria…)

{Song #50 « Song #51 » Song #52}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #51 is Canzonetta sull'aria… from Act 3 of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Although the play by Beaumarchais, on which the opera is based, was at first banned in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy (considered dangerous in the decade before the French revolution), the opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. It is now regarded as a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire, and it appears as number six on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.

A central scene in the film The Shawshank Redemption features Mozart's "Letter Duet" ("Canzonetta sull'aria") from Le Nozze di Figaro when the beautiful little song Sull'aria was broadcast to the prisoners at Shawshank State Prison by Andy Dufresne.

Canzonetta sull'aria: Schwarzkopf/Moffo; Janowitz/Mathis


Post #1,108 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Letter Duet (Canzonetta sull'aria…)

Mila 18, Warsaw, Poland

Related Link » International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw Poland
“I'm in Warsaw Poland, and today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the frigid negative temperatures, I walked through the streets of Warsaw to honor the Jews who were murdered here by the Nazis. I stopped off at 18 Mila Street to remember Mordechai Anielewicz, and the ŻOB [Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, Polish for the Jewish Combat Organization, which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising].” [emphasis added; [comment] inserted]
— DoubleTapper, 27 JANUARY 2010

My Dad's boyhood home was at Mila 21 in Warsaw. He and my Mom (also a Warsaw native) survived the Holocaust (along with their then-toddler son). Mom and Dad both lived into their 80's, passing away in their retirement in Tampa, Florida.


Memorial at Mila 18 honors Jewish heroes of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Post #1,106 Mila 18, Warsaw, Poland

The Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.

The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle'."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.

The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'."

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself; he doesn't belong up there; and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there; and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with." [Thanx, Marty]

Good question.

Post #1,105 The Post Turtle

Schrödinger's Cat, Obamacare, Death, and Social Studies

Related Link » Schrödinger's health care bill
“Like a famous physics cat, the health care bill is in a state of quantum uncertainty. As strange as it may sound, the health care bill is simultaneously both alive and dead. Only when we are able to see inside the box that is the House Democratic Caucus will this uncertainty be resolved. Then we will see that the bill is either alive or dead. My money is on dead.”
— Keith Hennessey [h/t Craig]

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“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
— Richard Feynman

If you think you understand Obamacare, Obamacare can't help you.

(You can quote me on that).

h/t Secular Apostate
"My fellow Fifth-Graders: ask not what your President
can do for you — for your President hasn't a clue."

Post #1,104 Schrödinger's Cat, Obamacare, Death, and Social Studies

Been there; done that ... (as if ...)

Related Link » Terje Håkonsen - norwegian snowboarder
“Mind blowing downhill snowboarding!”
— snotr

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!

Post #1,103 Been there; done that ... (as if ...)

Big dog or small horse?

Related Link » One BIG Pooch

Great Dane called George (from Arizona) clinches Guinness world record for tallest dog

Post #1,102 Big dog or small horse?

A Ray of Sunshine in the Middle-East Cesspool

Related Link » I Am Israel - Documentary Film Version
“I am Israel-- I have been attacked four times by Arab armies since I declared independence in 1948. I told the Arabs who lived on my land that they were welcome to stay, but they were told by the neighboring states to leave temporarily while the Jews were "taken care of". I have been offering a message of peace since the day I was born, but my enemies answered only in bullets. I am a survivor -- I won every war. Realizing they could not defeat me with arms, my enemies have turned to lies.”
— Terrorism Awareness Project

h/t Theo

Post #1,101 A Ray of Sunshine in the Middle-East Cesspool

The Obama National Security Policy

Related Link » Suddenly Regretting Not Labeling Key Ring
h/t Newmark's Door
see more There I Fixed It

Post #1,100 The Obama National Security Policy

V20K

The 20,000th visit to "Remembrance in Spacetime" has been recorded!

Herewith, a smattering of visitor sadistics from sitemeter:
(click the images to enlarge them)

 

 

Post #1,099 V20K

Let sleeping dogs lie

Related Link » What Scott Brown's win means for the Democrats
“Democratic cocooners will tell themselves that Coakley was a terrible candidate who even managed to diss Curt Schilling. True, Brown had Schilling. But Coakley had Obama. When the bloody sock beats the presidential seal -- of a man who had them swooning only a year ago -- something is going on beyond personality. That something is substance -- political ideas and legislative agendas. Democrats, if they wish, can write off their Massachusetts humiliation to high unemployment, to Coakley or, the current favorite among sophisticates, to generalized anger. That implies an inchoate, unthinking lashing-out at whoever happens to be in power -- even at your liberal betters who are forcing on you an agenda that you can't even see is in your own interest. Democrats must so rationalize, otherwise they must take democracy seriously, and ask themselves: If the people really don't want it, could they possibly have a point? ‘If you lose Massachusetts and that's not a wake-up call’, said moderate -- and sentient -- Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, ‘there's no hope of waking up’. I say: Let them sleep.” [emphasis added]
— Charles Krauthammer, January 22, 2010

I say: Let sleeping dogs lie (both yellow and blue), particularly if they are rabid.

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UPDATE:

Related Link » Post-election Thoughts
“This sort of unreality will ensure that the Obama flame continues to engulf the congress of liberal moths that swarm to it. Did Obama really think the laws of physics did not apply to him — that one can in a year and a half run up over $3 trillion [$3,000 billion!] without consequences or nominate a nut like Van Jones or bow to a Saudi royal or denigrate the police or serially break his promises or attempt to socialize medicine or claim that employment comes as manna from heaven once a rhetorician calls for so many billions to be borrowed for so many millions of jobs?” [comment inserted]
— Victor Davis Hanson, January 22, 2010

Post #1,098 Let sleeping dogs lie

Is Dean insane? Tingles reports; you decide ...

Related Link » Chris Matthews V Howard Dean Over Massachusetts Election

h/t Secular Apostate

Post #1,097 Is Dean insane? Tingles reports; you decide ...

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: The Star-Spangled Banner

{Song #49 « Song #50 » Song #51}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #50 is The Star-Spangled Banner, written in 1814 by the 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889, and was made the National Anthem by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931, which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.

With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing, and many popular singers have flubbed it while attempting to "personalize" its rendition at the start of various team sporting events. One of the best renditions I have ever heard is the one presented below, sung by Ayla Brown, whose Dad is the newly-minted Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The Star-Spangled Banner — Ayla Brown with the Boston Pops
h/t Secular Apostate

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BONUS: Ayla Brown's (future) Mom appeared in this 1984-video for Boston-based musician Digney Fignus.

The Girl With the Curious Hand by Digney Fignus
h/t TheDC

Post #1,096 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: The Star-Spangled Banner

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: La Bamba

{Song #48 « Song #49 » Song #50}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #49 is La Bamba, sung by Ritchie Valens. "La Bamba" was originally a Mexican folk song that Valens transformed with a rock rhythm and beat that became a hit in 1958, making Valens a pioneer of the Spanish-speaking rock and roll movement.

On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as The Day the Music Died, Valens was killed in a small-plane crash in Iowa, a tragedy that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.

La Bamba (1987 version) — Richie Valens


Post #1,095 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: La Bamba

Something that might actually fly?

Related Link » Republican Party Time
“So does Obama go back to the drawing board, try to play to the middle, start reaching across the aisle? If he’s smart [which The Obama Himself claims He is — TBH], he’ll ditch that thing and moderate going forward. Or his presidency is over. Not that Obama asked, but if he did, I’d suggest he start with a big warm welcome to the newest senator from Massachusetts. If he wants to walk away from this health care thing with anything intact, I’d suggest he do what he should have done in the first place. Come out and admit that he made a mistake trying to ram through [via Rahm "It Up Your Ass" Emanuel — TBH] an onerous highly partisan agenda item that threatens to wreak economic havoc in the middle of a recession. Recognize that this is an incredibly complex and divisive issue, and appoint a bi-partisan commission to study and propose ways in this country we can (a) reduce health care costs and, (b) expand access. Maybe by the time they are done we won’t be in the middle of a recession anymore, and they’ll have something that might be [able to] actually fly.” [emphasis added and [comments] inserted]
— Jules Crittenden, January 20, 2010

Ironically, given the aloofness of The Obama Administration, I don't see The Obama Himself producing anything that could actually fly. But what do I know? Pigs flew yesterday ...

Chicken!
h/t DBD

Post #1,094 Something that might actually fly?

To the known "edge"; and back!

Related Link » The Known Universe by AMNH
“The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.”
— For more information visit The Known Universe

A Stunning Round Trip of Cosmic Proportions

Post #1,093 To the known "edge"; and back!

Pigs Have Flown Over Frozen Hell

Related Link » Barney Frank Deals Potential Death Blow to Obamacare
“I feel strongly that the Democratic majority in Congress must respect the process and make no effort to bypass the electoral results. If Martha Coakley had won, I believe we could have worked out a reasonable compromise between the House and Senate health care bills. But since Scott Brown has won and the Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate, that approach is no longer appropriate. I am hopeful that some Republican Senators will be willing to discuss a revised version of health care reform because I do not think that the country would be well-served by the health care status quo. But our respect for democratic procedures must rule out any effort to pass a health care bill as if the Massachusetts election had not happened. Going forward, I hope there will be a serious effort to change the Senate rule which means that 59 votes are not enough to pass major legislation, but those are the rules by which the health care bill was considered, and it would be wrong to change them in the middle of the process.”
— Part of Barney Frank's statement, read by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC,
as transcribed by Philip Klein on 1.19.10 @ 11:39PM (AMSPECBLOG)

Arguably the most obnoxious Democrat partisan in the House of Representatives, which also includes such outstanding examples of skin-crawling-inducers as Nancy Pelosi, has released a sane statement in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Mass. When pigs have flown, I am honor-bound to acknowledge it, much as I am inclined to think it a desperate attempt to stave-off his own defeat in November.

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UPDATE: Hold on; one of the flying pigs just crashed back to stasis earth:

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, blamed the voters’ anger on former President George W. Bush, who he said “drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident.”
— By Jon Ward and Alex Pappas - The Daily Caller

Will someone please explain how that "evil" Dubya, who, as every sophisticated Demorat will attest is incapable of uttering a comprehensible sentence, manages to mastermind every inconvenient calamity that befalls said Demorats?

h/t Theo

Post #1,092 Pigs Have Flown Over Frozen Hell

Blah, blah, blah ...

Related Link » Cartoon Round Up


— Theo

Yeah, dude; words do matter. Just not yours.

Post #1,091 Blah, blah, blah ...

Teeth D'Olbermann Devours Yesterday's Lunch

Related Link » No offense to Ben Affleck, but this is the best Olbermann impression I’ve ever seen
“Not that there are a lot of Olbermann impersonators out there.”
— The DC Trawler, January 18th, 2010 (TheDC)

Keith Olbermann impression / impersonation
h/t Michael Terry
Teeth D'Olbermann Devours Yesterday's Lunch

Post #1,090 Teeth D'Olbermann Devours Yesterday's Lunch

Global Warming is a Red Herring

Related Link » Are Republicans "Due"?
“Those of us who are not Republicans nevertheless have a huge stake in this fall's elections, because the current administration in Washington is not merely deficient but dangerous, both at home and abroad. [...] Increasing numbers of Americans are saying that they are having trouble recognizing the country in which they were born and grew up. They will have even more trouble recognizing America if the Washington juggernaut does not lose a substantial part of its power in this year's election. [...] The dangers are not only in domestic policy but even more so in the Obama administration's foreign policy. Their diddling around while fanatical leaders of a terrorist-sponsoring nation like Iran are moving toward producing nuclear bombs can take us and the world to a point of no return.” [emphasis added]
— Thomas Sowell, January 19, 2010 (Townhall)

Proponents of the global-warming hysteria may or may not be prescient about their favorite doomsday scenario. But that particular scenario is irrelevant in the real world we live in. The reason is simple — there is a more immediate doomsday scenario looming that, from the standpoint of human existence, makes global warming moot.

I am reminded of an old physics joke: A physicist gives a talk to an audience of interested laymen about the natural evolution of a star like our own sun. After the talk, a very worried man approaches the physicist and asks him to clarify when the ultimate catastrophe, wherein the sun becomes a red giant and essentially fries the earth to a crisp, will occur. "In about five billion years," answers the physicist. "Thank god," replies the worried man. "I thought you had said million!"

The Iranian fanatics are within a year or three of getting their bloody hands on nuclear weapons. That would not be an "ultimate" calamity for earth. But it would surely be the most immediate calamity facing Western civilization as we know it. And a very real precursor for such a looming calamity would be the upcoming November elections if our electorate preserves the Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress.

Post #1,089 Global Warming is a Red Herring

I Root for Old Guys with Dyslexic French Names

Related Link » Brett Favre 'emotional' after Vikings' 34-3 win vs. Cowboys
“Vikings QB Brett Favre got emotional on the field after completing a 34-3 win against the Cowboys on Sunday that clinched a berth in the NFC title game. Less than five months removed from his un-retirement and signing with the Vikings, Favre threw four TD passes to move one game away from the Super Bowl. ‘I'm kind of worn out right now’, Favre said in an interview with Fox. ‘It was emotional before the game, just to be in this position after all the stuff that took place. It's a wonderful moment’.”
— Sean Leahy

Was that last TD necessary? Probably not. On the other hand, there is no "throwing in the towel" to concede defeat in the NFL. The Vikings couldn't simply run-out all the remaining time at that point in the game, either. Moreover, the Cowboys were calling time-outs to prevent time from running out before they got another possession, so they were clearly not conceding defeat. Under the circumstances, I think the Vikings had to continue playing the game.

In any case shouldn't Brett's name be spelled "Farve"? Or is everyone mispronouncing "Favre"?

I Gotta Feeling - Viking Song
h/t Theo

Post #1,088 I Root for Old Guys with Dyslexic French Names

"OK, fine; it's the leftist agenda, stupid!"

Related Link » A More Descriptive Metaphor
“Just a minor quibble with the erudite Charles Germanicus Martel. In place of ‘empty vessel’, I would have chosen the more descriptive metaphor, ‘empty suit’.”
— TheBigHenry, JANUARY 14, 2010

Some persons whose opinions I respect have convinced me that I have allowed my emotions to interfere with my reasoned analysis of our Nation's welfare. I will make a greater effort to reign in my passions when considering the detrimental effects of The Obama's policies on the health and well being of the United States of America, my home.

The Obama Himself may be a well meaning American, though I personally have seen precious-little evidence of such good intentions. Nevertheless, I will grant that He is an outwardly personable individual, and One who easily satisfies the prerequisites for our idol-worshiping public. But I absolutely detest His leftist agenda, and His mobster-like tactics to implement it through the efforts of His bare-knuckle gang of Chicago-bred thugs.

That said, I think Charles Germanicus Martel may have exaggerated the rumors of The Obama's demise. Clearly, He [the capitalized pronoun signifies that I refer to The Obama Himself] has more than enough time before the next presidential election to spin (and have spun for Him) the Rahm-ifications of His leftist agenda, as perceived by the easily (and perpetually) perplexed seekers of free lunch, who seem to be a ubiquitous presence.

Those of us who worry about the blatant onslaught and Rahm-ification of leftist policy into the very fabric of our free-market society, must contend with an adversary Who appeals to the shallow scrutiny of the general public. More dire than that even, His unconscionable disregard of our Nation's security, resulting from His incredible naiveté, jibes with the incredible naiveté of His liberal-left base of support.

Nevertheless, it behooves us to stick to a dispassionate critique of the policy itself, rather than the tempting ad-hominem alternative. The latter can be, and frequently is, spun into false charges of racism.

Post #1,087 "OK, fine; it's the leftist agenda, stupid!"

Tyranny, Death and Taxes

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
— Beatitudes

“'The earth' is a euphemism for 'tyranny, death and taxes'.”
— TheBigHenry

Please don't misunderstand — I have always had compassion, in the traditional-liberal sense, for the meek and unfortunate. I count myself among the meek, and I am descended from a very long line of meekness. As recently as the Holocaust, all of my meek and unfortunate grandparents perished at the hands of tyrannical murderous Nazism.

I applaud the just-announced Haiti Relief Efforts to be led by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. I would expect no less from the basic humanitarian instincts of our great good nation. But, along with sentiments and actions of compassion, we have an obligation to try and understand how humanity's own failings contribute in no small measure to the misery it inherits.

My antecedents who perished in the gas chambers of Treblinka in 1942 had a minute chance of escaping their horrible fate. But, in hindsight, perhaps they might have suffered less had they been able to foresee the inevitability of their extermination, and thereby elected to die fighting, as did those Warsaw ghetto internees who finally recognized the extent of their tormentors' evil.

The poor Haitian people have suffered mightily as a result of hurricanes, earthquakes, and other calamities inflicted by Mother Nature. But, their own corrupt and tyrannical leaders have also abused them mercilessly for generations. Such a miserable state of affairs is, sadly, the natural state of affairs. The kingdom of god has not yet, certainly not completely, been extended to earth from its origin in heaven.

It is a very fine thought to turn the other cheek and celebrate the blessings of meekness. But in order to experience some of the implicit heavenly reward here on unforgiving earth, brutality and evil must be resisted, just as our Founding Fathers did over two centuries ago, and our patriots have done many times since.

Brutality and tyranny come in many flavors; one size does not fit all. There is, in fact, such a thing as "the tyranny of the majority", which our Founding Fathers were keenly aware of. When, as now, we are saddled with a super-majority in Congress (including a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate), and a like-minded Executive Branch, stoked by an insidious fifth-column of media-controlling scum (in the main), we have tyranny, plain and simple. It is a virtually unstoppable feed-back loop of insanely obsessed folly. This can't be good for anyone, including the raving lunatics in charge.

Post #1,086 Tyranny, Death and Taxes

Mealy-mouthed lies and the contemptible liars who compound them

“Everybody lies.”
— Gregory House

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
— term popularized by Mark Twain

“Lies, damned lies, and mealy-mouthed lies.”
— TheBigHenry

“Lie like a man, motherf*cker.”
— TheBigHenry

Remember "Bush lied; people died"? Well, whether or not he lied, as frequently asserted by the mealy-mouthed liars of the left, many did die; deservedly so. But at least he didn't claim his dog ate his homework.

Everybody, with the possible exceptions of Mother Theresa, Barry Bonds, and The Obama Himself, lies. But some lies are more contemptible than others. For example, I would not hesitate to lie if I thought it would save a life worth saving. But take The Obama Himself — please! Or take any of His lying lackeys, who change their doodie pants less often than their mealy-mouthed lies.

"Oh, well, my words were taken out of context". "My dog ate my homework". "I was misquoted". "Mis-contextualized". "Mis-apprehended". "Mistaken identity". "Misspoke myself". "Harshly toilet trained". "Deprived of my Miranda rights". "Depraved indifferently". Any mealy-mouthed bullshit taken at random from their inexhaustible list of bullshit excuses. "It was all a big mistake that just dribbled down my chin of its own accord". Props to Slick Willie, however, for his clever "it all depends on what the meaning of is is". I'll take clever over craven any day.

The most obnoxious weasel word is "mistake". A mistake is an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc. A lie doesn't qualify. A lie is not an error. A lie is intentional. Calling a lie a mistake effects a compounded lie. And a mealy-mouthed one, at that.

Post #1,085 Mealy-mouthed lies and the contemptible liars who compound them

A More Descriptive Metaphor

Related Link » One year out: President Obama's fall
“The health-care drive is the most important reason Obama has sunk to 46 percent. But this reflects something larger. In the end, what matters is not the persona but the agenda. In a country where politics is fought between the 40-yard lines, Obama has insisted on pushing hard for the 30. And the American people -- disorganized and unled but nonetheless agitated and mobilized -- have put up a stout defense somewhere just left of midfield. Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. It's inherently risky for any charismatic politician to legislate. To act is to choose and to choose is to disappoint the expectations of many who had poured their hopes into the empty vessel -- of which candidate Obama was the greatest representative in recent American political history.” [emphasis added]
— Charles Krauthammer, January 15, 2010 (WaPost)

Just a minor quibble with the erudite Charles Germanicus Martel. In place of "empty vessel", I would have chosen the more descriptive metaphor, "empty suit".

h/t Theo
Demo-rats Jumping Ship

Post #1,084 A More Descriptive Metaphor

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Come Go with Me

{Song #47 « Song #48 » Song #49}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #48 is Come Go with Me, sung by The Del-Vikings, which became a hit single in 1957, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the group's highest-charting song. The song was later featured in the films "American Graffiti" (1973) and "Stand by Me" (1986).

To me, this song says 2 (or 3) words: high-school sophomore. I'm 15; just shuffling along; minding my own business. Suddenly, and without warning, bam! So that's why we need girls!

Come Go with Me — The Del-Vikings


Post #1,083 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Come Go with Me

47% of Americans in Desperate Need of a Clue

Related Link » CNN Poll: Americans split on success of Obama presidency
“Washington (CNN) - Americans are giving Barack Obama a split decision on his first year in office, according to a new national poll. Forty-eight percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say Obama's presidency has been a failure so far, with 47 percent saying Obama has been a success.”
[emphasis added]
— Posted: January 12th, 2010 01:32 PM ET (CNN)

Related Link » Obama's Boo-yah Address
“Obama looks back at his first year in office -- performing amazing feats while listing his accomplishments. Featuring Marcus Bishop Wright as Obama, Alex Charak, Tommy Alsip, Amanda Bloom, Rachel Bloom, Chris Chianesi, Junie Kenworthy, Emma Koening, Mary Lane Haskell, Janna Belfiore, Natalie Obedos Bradford Jordan, Don Fanelli, Dom Manzolillo, Marcia Mitchell, Nicole Shabtai, Justin Brown, Steve Levine, Dan Spenser and Mike Antonucci. Booyah shot by Noah Yuan-Vogel.”
h/t Theo

Post #1,082 47% of Americans in Desperate Need of a Clue

WhatTF is going on here? And WhyTF is it going on here?

Related Link » "Notional" Security
“There is no stronger indication of danger than officials who don't want to hear what anybody else has to say, even when those who offer to help have a system that works better than ours. The fundamental issue goes beyond the Fort Hood massacre or the Christmas bomber. These are just symptoms of a larger set of attitudes and expediences reflecting the same outlook. Putting terrorists on trial in American criminal courts, under rules designed for American citizens, tells you all you need to know about whether the Obama administration is serious about security or is still playing the political correctness game. Terrorists are not covered by the Geneva convention for the simple reason that they do not abide by the Geneva convention. They are enemy combatants and you do not turn enemy combatants loose to go back to killing Americans while the war is still on — not if you are being serious, as distinguished from being political or ideological.” [emphasis added]
— Thomas Sowell, January 12, 2010

These are not difficult notions, are they? Terrorists are not entitled to the Constitutional protections for American citizens. Terrorists who want to kill Americans are, from our perspective, enemy combatants. The United States of America and, most especially, its Commander-in-Chief should command our armed forces to deal with these enemy combatants not as mere criminals, not as nimble adversaries, but as our mortal enemies. This is not just the obligation of The Obama Himself. It is His sworn duty!



Post #1,081 WhatTF is going on here? And WhyTF is it going on here?

No Relief in Sight or Sound

Related Link » We Shall CYA On The Beaches!
“Headlines after [Obama's] speech focused almost exclusively on four of the President’s words: "We are at war." Given this administration’s efforts to distance itself from war-on-terror rhetoric, these four words became the man-bites-dog story. However, my interest is in the form of speech as well as "grading" it in the context of other speeches given by civilian commanders in times of war. [...] Verbiage is a real problem with President Obama. His entire "Christmas Bomber" speech ran 1,964 words. In contrast, FDR spent 512 words to ask for war against Japan, Harry Truman devoted 1,150 words to announce that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, and most famously at Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln managed in 278 words to recast Union objectives for the entire Civil War. [...] Does prolixity make a difference? Yes, for in the absence of memorable word smithing, prolixity obscures, befogs, and lowers the clouds on what should be a crystalline rhetorical landscape. [...] Winston Churchill exemplified this for all time when he declared that "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory." In the same speech, he offered his audience nothing but, "blood, toil, tears and sweat". [...] If the President made a show of taking responsibility — unimaginatively piggybacking on [Truman's] meme "the buck stops here" — it was only to make sure that the buck did not, in fact, stop with him — at least for now.” [emphasis added]
— Richard F. Miller, Harvard-trained historian and author of In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History

We live in a time when sheep receive their marching orders from the likes of "American Idol" judges and pseudo-newscasters, who not only worship at the footstool and the evacuated stool of The Obama Himself, but tinkle on the tingle that creeps in its petty pace up their hairy legs. These clownish "judges" who lavish praise and spittle on every secretion that emanates from the vacuoles of their false-god's holiness, establish the meritorious standards for our society of ignoramuses.

Nevertheless, The Obama Himself offers nothing but smoke, mirrors, beers, and whines. A whole lot of nothing but grief, with no relief in sight or sound.

Post #1,080 No Relief in Sight or Sound

Perhaps a breath of fresh air heading our way ...

Related Link » Carlson Launches Right’s Answer to HuffPost
“Whenever he’s asked, Carlson will happily admit the lofty goals he’s set for the site. It’s got to fill the gap that the ‘pathetic’ media has left in coverage of how government works. It’s got to generate buzz and drive the conversation, getting stories that other media have to chase and topping a million page-views a month, ‘although one word I’ll never use is "metric"’. It’s got to be fun. That’s the point of the foreign clocks and the random posters Carlson has placed around the office. But there’s the occasional strange found object that makes a greater point, like the photo of a joyful Korean businessman perched on top of his store during the L.A. riots, holding a rifle.

‘Because he’s taken the time to defend himself with a firearm’, explained Carlson, ‘he’s not going to be victimized by the racist mobs below. He is smiling. That’s a smile that reflects both his self-satisfaction and also the promise of America. The promise of America is "We’ll let you do what you want, as long as you defend yourself". I just love that. I’ve had that over every desk I’ve ever had as an adult’.”
— By DAVID WEIGEL 1/7/10 (TWI)

Post #1,079 Perhaps a breath of fresh air heading our way ...

Some Dots Are Connected to Common Sense

Related Link » Obama: ‘We Are at War’
“President Obama on Thursday ordered a series of steps to improve the government’s ability to collect, share, analyze and act on intelligence of terrorist threats, saying the findings of a government review of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day revealed significant shortcomings in national security. [...] The president’s statement marked the second time in as many days that he delivered public remarks on the case of the attempted airline bombing and the intelligence lapses that surrounded it. He said Tuesday that the government had enough information to uncover the plot, but intelligence officials ‘failed to connect those dots’.” [emphasis added]
— By JEFF ZELENY AND HELENE COOPER, (NYT)

Ah, those treacherous little "dots", otherwise known as "fragments of information"! How can any national security organization do anything of consequence with these measly little dots, unless some third-grader connects them first? SRSLY!

When a prominent Nigerian man reports to an American embassy that his son has been radicalized and poses a significant violent threat, does such a fragment of information (AKA "dot") need further connecting before The Obama Himself's Secretarial Lackey of State, or any one of her numerous underlings, musters enough common sense to revoke said radicalized son's American visa? Before he is able to board a plane heading to the United States, with a bomb inside his doodie pants? WhatTF is going on here, and WhyTF is it going on here?

My fellow Americans, I know we are all very busy dealing with the everyday business of surviving in unusually difficult economic times. But still and all, how much bullshit are we willing to swallow from an Administration that is willfully inept and risks American lives on a daily basis? Is there a limit beyond which we can no longer contain our outrage? SRSLY!

Post #1,078 Some Dots Are Connected to Common Sense

Smog required to be healthy!

Related Link » E.P.A. Announces Strict New Health Standards for Smog

In a brazen encroachment on smog's inalienable right to be as unhealthy as it damn-well pleases to be, The Obama Himself's Environmental "Protection" Agency has finally crossed the line beyond which even the most fascistic regimes dared not go, till now.

What in the name of tarnation-usurpation is going on here? And why in the name of tarnation-usurpation is it going on here? I ask you.

Post #1,077 Smog required to be healthy!

Rocket scientists rule!

Related Link » Two Loaned Ferraris Wrecked By High School Baseball Players
“A high school baseball coach in Oklahoma City loaned both his Ferraris to a quartet of his players — who managed to wreck the hell out of them in a mall parking lot. The players, all juniors, had been given the cars completely unsupervised by the coach, who apparently has a terminally dangerous case of bad decision making. The former neurosurgeon gave the kids his 1991 Ferrari Testarossa and 1995 Ferrari 348, which inevitably ended in the 348 T-boning the Testarossa.”
— By Ben Wojdyla, Apr 1, 2009

This story reads like an April Fool's joke, but I have reason to believe its posting date was coincidental. In any case, as crazy as the financial wreck was, I think the back-story is even more interesting.

A brain surgeon lets a bunch of yahoos, whom he coaches in high school baseball, borrow unsupervised two very expensive cars; which they proceed to wreck. Surprise, surprise? Well, yes, it is surprising to some extent.

It is not very surprising that a former brain surgeon owns multiple Ferraris; he performed brain surgery, for god's sake. It pays a bit more than slicing salami at the deli, you know? What is surprising, however, is that a brain surgeon would act contrary to common sense in a situation that does not exactly rise to the intellectual level of "brain surgery"!

This story, however, settles, once and for all, the age old hierarchical dilemma: Which put-down for stupid actions carries greater clout: "It's not exactly brain surgery!"; or, "It's not rocket science!"?

I rest my case.

Post #1,076 Rocket scientists rule!

This Is Nearly Unhinged

Related Link » Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It!
“Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (‘make no mistake about it’): (a) promised to close it; (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen; and (c) claimed it was a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda (i.e., apparently Bush’s Gulag had prompted the likes of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to try to blow up an airliner). This is nearly unhinged.”
— Victor Davis Hanson, January 6th, 2010

I think The Obama Himself passed "nearly" nearly a year ago. As he nears the end of his freshman year, this sophomoric president has nearly run out of junior inanities, and is embarking on senior mayhem via economic, societal, diplomatic, and, most of all, national security folly.

Every time I think I have seen the limit of what can truly be tolerated by this most resilient of nation states, He pries another screw out of the hinge that supports the trap-door to insanity. While half the nation holds its breath, the other half cheers the modern reincarnation of Nero, the lunatic who fiddled while Rome burned.

Lord have mercy on us all.

Post #1,075 This Is Nearly Unhinged

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Rock and Roll Music

{Song #46 « Song #47 » Song #48}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #47 is Rock and Roll Music, written and originally recorded by Chuck Berry, which became a hit single in 1957, reaching #8 in the U.S. chart, and was later covered by many artists, notably The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

Chuck Berry's version is, of course, the original and is ranked number 128 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. But I actually prefer The Beatles' rendition. Go figure. It's classic rock and roll.

Rock and Roll Music — The Beatles


Post #1,074 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Rock and Roll Music

Closing Barn Door After Underpants Soiled

Related Link » Boy, now he's in real trouble; Obama administration revokes U.S. visa of accused Nigerian bomber
“Under the category of looks-like-about-12-days-too-late, the State Department has announced it is revoking the U.S. visa for suspected Nigerian underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. That will show him, and who knows how many others, that the Obama administration really means business.”
— Andrew Malcolm, January 6, 2010 (LA Times)

Yeah. You don't mess (your doodie pants) with The Obama Himself.

Post #1,073 Closing Barn Door After Underpants Soiled

Foreign Policy from Just Beyond Uranus

Related Link » Obama: We failed to connect the dots or act promptly
“The president announced that additional Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay would not be sent back to Yemen at this time [really big of you, dude]. ‘But Gitmo will be shut in a manner that keeps the American people safe and secure’.” [emphasis added and [editorial remark] inserted]
— DEBKAfile, January 5, 2010

The Obama Himself can surely talk-the-talk and chew gum at the same time. Meanwhile, His Secretarial Lackey of State informs us that, "The Obama administration wants to keep the door to dialogue open with Iran", right after the "end of 2009" deadline has come and gone.

The "foreign policy" emanates from all sides of every orifice in the Administration.

"Will someone please direct me to the bathroom?"

Post #1,072 Foreign Policy from Just Beyond Uranus

You can never have too much information ...

h/t Theo
h/t Theo

Post #1,071 You can never have too much information ...

Twinners

h/t Theo
So much to be proud of; so little sophrosyne.

h/t Theo

Post #1,070 Twinners

A Thousand Words for "Smug"

Related Link » OBAMA AND BIDEN
“Analyze the body language.”

— Instapundit, January 3, 2010

Post #1,069 A Thousand Words for "Smug"

Gordian Knot — Occam's Razor — Maginot Line

Related Link » Gordian Knot
“Let's cut to the chase, shall we?”
— Alex LeGrand

Related Link » Knowledge of Truth
“Nature abhors everything, with the single exception of perfect symmetry.”
— TheBigHenry's Law of Nature

Related Link » Timshel Negentropy Redux²
“Life is timshel negentropy.”
— TheBigHenry's Definition of Life

As just one example for human complexity, take Obamacare (Please!), AKA Congressional folly run amok. It is only the latest in a never-ending series of monstrous kludges that are the usual products of fuzzy thinking by committees of occasionally well-meaning but frequently addled men and women. What, in the name of god and/or sanity, to do about such enormous obstacles to sensible solutions for difficult societal problems? There are, as luck would have it, two well-established approaches: annihilation of the complexity; and/or evasion of the obstacle.

Alexander The Great's approach to solving a knotty problem was to draw his sword and annihilate the problem. Say what you will about the brutality of such an approach, it is simple and it is direct. Your mileage (that is to say, the value of the solution) may vary. It worked for Alex, whose purpose was to conquer Asia. If we allow it, it will work for Islamic fundamentalists who crave a return to a Caliphate that would benefit their own position within the greater community of nations.

The Gordian Knot legend is illustrative of the principle of Occam's razor: the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. But in matters human, simplicity alone is not always the most satisfactory course of action, as any of Alexander's (or any other tyrant's) victims could have attested, had they been able to attest to anything after the slaughter.

Life and, in particular, humanity is nourished by low entropy, because the Second Law of Thermodynamics, with the great assist from dark energy, foretells of the inexorable increase of universal entropy until the perfect symmetry of heat-death obtains. Until our universe approaches such a state (in roughly 10 to the googol-power years), however, humanity can not survive on simplicity alone. We all of us are, literally, asymmetric complexity.

What else could satisfy Occam's razor but could, in principle, also satisfy a greater number of beneficiaries? Ironically, the action by minions of history's personification of evil demonstrated such an approach: evasion in support of invasion. When France constructed its Maginot Line along its borders with Germany and Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and in the run-up to World War II, the Germans flanked the Maginot Line, and proceeded relatively unobstructed. Hitler was ultimately defeated, largely due to the incredible sacrifices made by the Russian people, but not before his ridiculously easy defeat of the French.

Both approaches incorporate the appeal of simplicity to a process that in general produces mixed results. But there is another approach that is as simple in conception and arguably as likely to produce satisfactory results for a greater number of beneficiaries than either annihilation or evasion.

Humanity has come very far in the past couple hundred millennia. In the process, we have encountered seemingly insurmountable barriers to further progress, suffered hideously inflicted acts of annihilation, as well as experienced exhilarating triumphs of spirit and the will to live. Among such triumphs has been The United States of America — not a perfect union of 300 million souls, but far and away the best societal organization produced to date. In the process, we have, without a doubt, incorporated some poorly conceived elements of our complex structure, which most would agree are in need of improvement. But because of the complexity of our edifice, we should, nay we must, find ways to accomplish the necessary improvements without mass destruction of what works. The only sensible approach that comes to my mind is one that is incremental in nature.

Post #1,068 Gordian Knot — Occam's Razor — Maginot Line

The Enemy Within

Related Link » The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother
“‘It is mindboggling for us Israelis to look at what happens in North America, because we went through this 50 years ago’, said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. He's worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world. [...] ‘Do you know why Israelis are so calm? We have brutal terror attacks on our civilians and still, life in Israel is pretty good. The reason is that people trust their defence forces, their police, their response teams and the security agencies. They know they're doing a good job. You can't say the same thing about Americans and Canadians. They don't trust anybody’, Sela said.” [emphasis added]
— thestar.com, Dec 30 2009 [thanx, Norm]

Nor should they. How can you trust the DHS when The Obama Himself and His Administration refuse to acknowledge we have a security problem, let alone acknowledge that we are dealing with international terrorists that would like nothing better than to kill Americans. It is absolutely galling that the POTUS and His loutish lackeys are themselves the greatest barrier to American security. There is, seemingly, no end to their machinations to deny, deflect, and deter any and all efforts by anyone who does not buy into their ridiculous notions for dealing with our avowed enemies.

Moreover, we have a vast media network overwhelmingly dedicated to the proposition that the terrorists have legitimate grievances against Western civilization, which latter is, supposedly, responsible for everything that is wrong with the world. And the same goes for the majority of our Congress, the overwhelming majority of our university staffs and their naively impressionable students, and of course, the great majority of our celebrities, who have a powerful influence on those Americans whose lives revolve around the debaucheries of our rich and infamous jerks.

Yikes, what a sorry excuse for what once was a proud and ethical society.

Post #1,067 The Enemy Within

Another inept hack crawls out of the woodwork

Related Link » Democrats Join Calls for Napolitano to Step Down Following Failed Attack
“‘Unfortunately too many are engaged in the typical Washington game of pointing fingers and making political hay, instead of working together to find solutions to make our country safer’, Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog.”
— FOXNews.com, January 01, 2010

No sooner is one Dummkopf of The Obama Society of Idioten revealed to be completely inept, Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer rears his ignorant head. Clue for Dan Pfeiffer: pointing out the inept oversight of the DHS by its current Cabinet Secretary is the first important step in "working together to find solutions to make our country safer".

What part of "Napolitano is an inept hack" don't you understand, you inept hack?

h/t Theo

Post #1,066 Another inept hack crawls out of the woodwork