Obama's New Clubs

It is a wonderful tale masterfully rendered. Please go and read the whole piece. via Don Surber

The Emperor's New Clubs

This Week's Earworm

has left, or been evicted this morning.

It was The Decemberists' "The Wanting Comes in Waves".

It was bumped by something completely politically incorrect which was on the radio this a.m. that I will need to add later...

Ugh. Bring back the forest tale.




Ahh...screw it...here is the new earworm, "Fry that Chicken"...Listen and it will feast on your soul as well.

I sympathize with this German gentleman and the vexing breeze:

"Upon further investigation, police found the musical greeting card on his windowsill, where occasional breezes opened the card just enough to play an irritating tune."

that via Dave Barry

I am an American

not a Republican, though I cherish the way in which our Representative republic has preserved much of what Mr. Brooks fears as deleterious chaos these days, and once upon a time the Republicans had something of a competent role to play...

David Brooks insults me and my values as he pretends to voice his own concerns while he carries water for an administration of thugs who have not civic order but their own thieving power to further.

He firms up his notions at those elite dinners, clearly.

Yes, David. I am a black hatted cowboy and a dangerous anarchist because I want less intrusion...The churches are up and I want the government to stay out of my life aside from filling the occasional pothole.

Why am I wasting my keystrokes on that douche? I now believe they have something on him, or could he really be that much of a wuss? After the recent threats who could deny that Nixon was a choir boy by comparison? I can only hope for the integrity of Mr. Brooks that they do indeed have photos or audio which would destroy his family. I would somehow find myself less embarrassed on his behalf.

Here we have Gillibrand's traitorous adjustments, noted beforehand by Schumer.

Jeebus creeping sakes. Do they now have everyone's phone conversations from the last 8 years now that they have NSA privileges from top to bottom?

It makes the FBI filegate scandal look like the good old days.

Meenakshi Wadhwa

An interview.

More "In Her Own Words" in Discover magazine.

She is a meteoriticist.

Media Having Trouble

finding proper angle.

Here is a nice Onion piece on how the JourOlists are propagandizing for Obama. I'm copying and pasting a significant portion for you to read and laugh and then tear your hair out and cry before vowing to tar and feather editors around the nation:

WASHINGTON—More than a week after President Barack Obama's cold-blooded killing of a local couple, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they were still trying to find the best angle for covering the gruesome crime.

"I know there's a story in there somewhere," said Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, referring to Obama's home invasion and execution-style slaying of Jeff and Sue Finowicz on Apr. 8. "Right now though, it's probably best to just sit back and wait for more information to come in. After all, the only thing we know for sure is that our president senselessly murdered two unsuspecting Americans without emotion or hesitation."

Added Meacham, "It's not so cut and dried."

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Associated Press reporters investigate any possible gym training regimens the president might have used to get into peak physical condition for the murders.

Since the killings took place, reporters across the country have struggled to come up with an appropriate take on the ruthless crime, with some wondering whether it warrants front-page coverage, and others questioning its relevance in a fast-changing media landscape.

"What exactly is the news hook here?" asked Rick Kaplan, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. "Is this an upbeat human-interest story about a 'day in the life' of a bloodthirsty president who likes to kill people? Or is it more of an examination of how Obama's unusual upbringing in Hawaii helped to shape the way he would one day viciously butcher two helpless citizens in their own home?"

"Or maybe the story is just that murder is cool now," Kaplan continued. "I don't know. There are a million different angles on this one."

So far, the president's double-homicide has not been covered by any major news outlets. The only two mentions of the heinous tragedy have been a 100-word blurb on the Associated Press wire and an obituary on page E7 of this week's edition of the Lake County Examiner.

While Obama has expressed no remorse for the grisly murders—point-blank shootings with an unregistered .38-caliber revolver—many journalists said it would be irresponsible for the press to sensationalize the story.

"There's been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all," Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy said while on assignment at a local dog show. "It's enough of a tragedy without the press jumping in and pointing fingers or, worse, exploiting the violence. Plus, we need to be sensitive to the victims' families at this time. Their loved ones were brutally, brutally murdered, after all."

Nevertheless, a small contingent of independent journalists has begun to express its disapproval and growing shock over the president's actions.

"I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but we are in the midst of an economic crisis here," political pundit Marcus Reid said. "Why was our president ritualistically dismembering the corpses of his prey when he should have been working on a new tax proposal for small businesses? I, for one, am outraged."

The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every Tuesday and "fill [his] heavenly palace with slaves for the afterlife" unless the police "stop the darkness from screaming."

"President Obama's letter presents us with a classic journalistic quandary," executive editor Bill Keller said. "If we print it, then we're giving him control over the kinds of stories we choose to run. It would be an acknowledgment that we somehow give the nation's commander in chief special treatment."

Added Keller, "And that's just not how the press in this country works."

Sotomayor Video

The legal minds at Volokh, I site which I love, are parsing the intent behind this short snip.

I am no legal scholar but I sure have watched people over the years.

She is saying that courts make law, very clearly. She is also acknowledging that this non-secret continue to be denied of necessity in a lazy charade for the rubes who compose the general public.

Here is the relevant snippet (from the Heritage Foundation's blog The Foundry):

Without Comment?

Update:

This post I intended to edit for clarity but I see today that I posted it without leaving it in the edit file. I will leave it now as it was because, well, that's how I put it up. So there:

Liberals are racists and determine good by pigment and gender.

Who doubts that this "opinion" piece is in line with NPR management and cultural politic?

How is this different from Fox News and the culture for which they have a reputation?

It's an "opinion piece"? So is O'Reilly's hour.

The difference is that NPR takes money out of my paycheck. Get me started on the nature of the "consent" involved in that theft...please.

Here NPR has an "opinion" piece by Christopher Eisgruber, a consummate ass:

"Souter is a moderate liberal, and the president will undoubtedly replace him with a liberal. Even if Obama gets one or two more appointments during his first term, they are unlikely to change voting patterns significantly, since the oldest justices are also liberals.

So what can Obama do to change the court? He can diversify it. The most obvious opportunities are demographic. Only one woman now serves on the court, and no Hispanic-American or Asian-American has held a Supreme Court seat.

Diversifying the court in terms of race and gender would be consistent with Obama's principles and his Cabinet appointments. It would also be smart politics."

"Christopher Eisgruber is provost and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University. His latest book is The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process . Princeton University"

Eisgruber is a racist and a sexist who wishes to make federal appointments in accordance with race and gender.

Read the entire piece. We will see appointments which are intended to result in an atmosphere which will defy historical processes of recourse to judicial grievance, if you are not a sanctioned member of a minority class, and/or a useful idiot. This short-circuiting of judicial grievance will make legislative processes an abysmal futility. The state constitutions will be reinvigorated to no avail. Liberty minded people of swarthy, foreign, homosexual or any other "minority" persuasion will be on the short list of the vilification.

Happy Birthday George Will!!!

Long before these computers I watched and read material which made me feel as though sanity did exist out there...

Thank You Mr. Will.

H/T Adam

I noticed a site which has quotes which do not do Mr. Will justice. It has one I can't resist, though.

This quote is true and speaks volumes on gender and youth and life and much more, so I will place it while I look for more:

'Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"'--
George Will

CitiBank

A slightly funny commercial for nationalized banking with NSFW profanity.

Andrew McCarthy

Please take the brief time to read Andrew McCarthy's letter to Attorney General (stop there...just call him A.G. and leave it at that...please...for your own good...did I type this parenthetical restraint or just think it?) Eric Holder.

Ohhh....ARLEN Spector!

Jimmy provides the accurate individual regarding this weeks rebranding.

Rats! I was, for some reason, off a bit on that news:

Diversity Lane

A new comic. It is quite pointed, and the associated blog has interesting links. I'm bookmarking it. Does anyone have a recommendation for collating my bookmarks from several computers and thumbdrives to one online resource for efficiency and as a fallback? I lost all of the bookmarks on my thumbdrive during my last Firefox update. Here is an example of a Diversity Lane panel:

Piglet

A swine flu Pooh comic copied and pasted from FMFT:

Jon Leibowitz

who chooses to be called Jon Stewart, is a conceited fool.

We all knew that. His luxuriant dismissal of Truman as a war criminal who can be forgiven by way of "temporary insanity" is just sad. It says so much about liberals, who's behavior and judgements have been so pathetic and clear for so long that they now wish to be called "progressives" to distance themselves from their own idiocy and shameless wretchedness.

Here is the original Cliff May clip.

Here is a fantastic 17 minute riposte by Bill Whittle.

This previous post is closely related.

This also.

Helicopter Friday

Afghanistan is a challenge, here is a PopMech photo/embed.

A little NASA SMARTRotor here:

NASA wind tunnel tests of the SMART Rotor

and here.

Counter rotating, it should work, no? Must be a sham, or a shamwow?

They spin and have blades so they get in today (those pitchmen)....counter rotational helicopters work also, (this is also how I do museums. Can you tell? I will link to Dinosaur Park etc...):