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Friday, October 21, 2011

FULL CIRCLE? So Romney and Perry are slapping at one another like jealous cheerleaders. Great. Romney was wanting Anderson Cooper (?) to save him from his Rick Perry confrontation. He was almost stamping his feet. Rick Perry was in the mode of "I'll say no every time you say yeah" and "I'lll say yeah every time you say no. And your Mormon mother wears army boots." Presidential. Right. Bunch of girls gouging each other with their fingernails.

They think they're carving up the Republican electorate. Herman Cain thinks he's mopping up the blood they spill between them. How can we be in this much of a mess? The president is a disaster. All we need is a credible candidate. But Romney's a liar. Perry's a dunce. (Even I can't stand that mush-mouthed Texas twang...) Cain's an amateur in a year when, let's face it, amateurs aren't exactly what the electorate wants.

Which leaves us where we were four years ago. With the only man who can be absolutely counted on to annihilate Obama in the debates.

Boy, am I depressed.

IT'S SIMPLE. Stop pining for a leader. Seriously. Stop. It. This podcast explains what we really need.


You can read a half-reliable transcript after the jump.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

THE CURSE OF MEMORY. Ah. The irony. The man who won the Nobel Peace Prize before he'd been president even a few months has precious few accomplishments to brag about. Domestically, he's turned a recession into what looks to be an FDR-style generational depression. In foreign policy, he's concluded no peace treaties of any kind and has succeeded in pissing off such long-term allies as the U.K., Germany, and Israel.

So what's his claim to fame? He's managed to engineer the violent deaths of three leaders of the muslim world he kowtowed to in his apologetic "outreach" to Islam:  Bin Laden, Awlaki, and Qaddafi. And some members of his own party are hopping mad about his kill order on Awlaki because he was an American and absolutely in line with the Democrats on matters of foreign policy. How could Hating America First be a killing offense?

It wouldn't be so funny if he had any other foreign policy successes. But he doesn't. Just last week, the Germans told him to piss off and mess out of the E.U.'s ongoing financial meltdown. "Like we need your advice, Mr. Deficit...) And we understand the Mexicans are very understanding about the Fast & Furious program that killed one Border Patrol agent and 200 Mexicans. Although the Iranians do appreciate the fact that his sanctions against an intended act of war on U.S. soil amount to holding their man-purse in the teacher's drawer until the end of the day's classes.

But with all the sixties nostalgia that's going on, we can't help thinking of the old chant outside the Johnson White House: ""Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?"

Hey, hey, BHO! How many hits are still to go?

No wonder the Republican party leadership is too nervous to point out that the jobs bill is exclusively about government jobs. I mean, drones work just as well over the Maryland suburbs as they do over Afghanistan.

We won't know for sure until he announces that his 2012 campaign slogan is, "I'll be back."


With a pronunciation of the letter "a" that matches his pronunciation of "Pakistan."

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

I TOLD YOU NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.... I don't care what all the other polls say. Generic Republican beats Obama. Herman Cain beats Obama. 64 percent hold Federal Government More to Blame than Wall Street. OWS protesters know Nothing about Economics. Here's the real kick in the teeth:


All those idiot friends and acquaintances of yours whom you blithely assume have at least some idea of what's going on don't know anything at all.

Get to work. Do the unthinkable. Talk to them. About politics. The country you save may be your own.

CORRECTION. Serendicity again. Found this critique of the National Journal poll. No big deal. But then, this afternoon, I received an honest-to-God local polling call myself about our upcoming county elections. It was the push poll to end all push polls. Clearly slanderous statements about the Republican candidates for freeholder were read off, followed by the bland question, "Does this make you more, or less, likely to vote for this person?" Even the pollster began to laugh when I interrupted him to finish the next intended slander by accusing the Republican of abusing his Pomeranian in the front yard of his palatial home. At the end, he thanked me for "not blowing up at me like the lady I talked to last did." I told him it wasn't his fault. At least he has a job. I guess he'd like to keep it.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

FIFTY CENT? What we're up against. The Dems have box office stars like George Clooney, Matt Damon, Samuel Jackson,  Morgan Freeman, and Leonardo diCaprio, and we have Bo Derek, Heather Locklear, Shannen Doherty, Cindy Crawford, Angie Harmon, and Jessica Simpson. Sheesh. And we've got some of the male braintrust of Hollywood too: Kevin Sorbo, Nick Lachey, Sylvester Stallone, Stephen Baldwin, Chuck Norris, Adam Sandler, and, vitally, "The Rock." Sheesh squared.

With the help of a little rounding error, that lot easily adds up to 100 IQ points.

Oh well. Hollywood isn't exactly representative of the whole country, is it? It's full of people who pretend to be heroes of various kinds for a living. A very good living, indeed, but can't you imagine how it galls to make millions only pretending to be brave and just and fine? If there's any set of millionaires on earth who are more likely to feel they haven't earned their fortunes, I don't know where you'd go to look for them.

Before anyone says otherwise, let me hasten to say I'm not looking for Cindy Crawford to express her political views. Here's what she's good at:


Just like this is what George Clooney is good at:


I don't begrudge them their success and wealth. But I just don't give a damn what their political opinions are. Because, by the nature of their lives, those opinions have nothing to do with my life or, probably, yours.

Monday, October 17, 2011

THE BOOK OF WILLIE. Pardon the lowercase superscripts. They refer to things todays's kids can't refer to. Because the kids don't know anything. The rest of the lesson from a generation ago seems pretty much spot on. Except that nobody's even asked this particular set of semi-conscious losers to sacrifice anything. Unless you count not sexting on your cellphone while driving. Awww. Poor babies.


Am I bitter? Yeah. I've spent my whole life watching half-educated idiots fooling totally uneducated idiots into destroying my country. Now I have to face the prospect of somewhat educated idiots finishing the job.

I finally understand Mark Twain's bit about about Hadleyburg. And I will not apologize to anyone about anything I've said. I'm right. As I have been for eight years. Eight? Let's try twenty.

Friday, October 14, 2011

SHAMMADAMMA. You really can't get much sillier than all the MSM hype of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest. Liberals are so desperate to have a grassroots movement of their own that they're unable to see the manifold absurdities of this idiotic throwback to the Sixties. They keep encouraging the protesters to become more focused, which is hardly the problem. They're focused like a laser. On a hundred discrepant varieties of nuttery. The problem is education. Laughably, I've heard lib pundits refer to them as highly educated, meaning that many of them are the product of American higher education. Which has taught them absolutely nothing. They've all had their little splinter majors in womyns studies and third-world post-modern political science and the awfulness of imperialist amerika and eco-drama and Gaia and nothing whatever about economics, the enlightenment, and the history of the United States and its constitution.

The one thing their professors have communicated to them is their own nostalgia for the anarchic tantrums of the radical sixties and its vacuously vicious bumper-sticker vocabulary. Of course, the media stars and decision makers are mostly members themselves of that secret society which is more potent and damaging than Skull & Bones ever was -- they joined the great altruistic political movement of those who did not want to be drafted to fight the Vietnam War. That's why the media can't see these pitiful losers for what they are. They sympathize. Scratch that. They empathize. So much so that they have reconfigured their own personal histories through this funhouse lens: they choose, for the moment, to transform their own development from selfish spoiled brats to functioning members of the establishment into the sellout their infantile adolescent selves would have deemed it.  And it makes them feel young again. Which is why they're not really listening ...


And in the process, they reveal themselves. They didn't ever really change. Their educations were sabotaged too. They never learned to understand the true strengths of the country they were born into. They just learned how to succeed at any cost. For which a passive-aggressive snit-fit like this one makes them feel guiltily reminiscent. They feel obligated to apply all their painfully acquired propaganda skills to the ludicrous of task of elevating ignorant, lazy, posturing narcissists into a nascent political movement that might somehow save their unexamined and mindlessly promoted totem, Barack Obama. Even though most of the, yes, highly focused targets of attack are at least as much Obama's fault as they are of the 'right wing, capitalist pig conspiracy.' (Yeah, I was there, Charlie. Any of YOU know the sweet purple smell of damp mimeographs papering the streets of a college demonstration? I thought not.)

It's a joke...


They're a joke. The whole situation is a joke. A bunch of dirty, smelly, pot-smoking morons are camping out on Wall Street with the implicit endorsement of a billionaire mayor who has purchased all his terms in office with an outlay of hundreds of millions of dollars and yet sympathizes with their inarticulate rage because he's, you know, at heart, a squishy sixties liberal.

If you want to see how this farce really should play out, watch the full episode.

It won't happen this way, of course. Too many fine words still to be farted from the mouths of Mike Lupica, Christiane Ammanpour, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Diane Sawyer, and all the other numbskulls who infest our airwaves with glossy degrees from corrupt universities that failed to give them an education multiple generations ago.

But as I continue to insist, if you can't laugh in this insane environment, you will ultimately go mad.

P.S. You think it was cool? You heard it was cool? Here's what the high-toned libs are nostalgic for:


No wonder they sympathize with the decision not to clean the garbage pit protesters have made of their Wall Street squatting ground. Want a picture of idealism in action?


Of course, it takes some real digging to uncover the extent of the mob violence that occurred that summer in Chicago. Many supposedly responsible adults still want to see the rioters as idealists.


Most of the MSM remembrances emphasize the brutality of Mayor Daley, not the shootings, arson, and other outrages of the "peace" protesters.


It's always Democrats who unload the heavy artillery against those they disagree with. Like bullies everywhere, they've learned they can get away with it. Even when they're occasionally and accidentally right. In the final analysis, they're always the bully party.


Whether Christianne Ammanpour knows it or not, we can't afford to turn the United States into the Jew-hating middle east. But bullies never know when to quit.

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