Archive for 2012
September 23, 2012
Just when you find the perfect presidential candidate, you find he’s foreign born!
THE DEATH OF THE GROWN-UP: “Someday, someone is going to seek the presidency by demystifying it,” George Will writes. “Many voters will be astonished by, and even be grateful for, the novelty of being addressed as adults.”
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Suicide is now the leading cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame.
THE GREAT EQUIVOCATOR: “I think that, you know, as president I bear responsibility for everything, to some degree,” Obama told CBS’s Sixty Minutes on Sunday night.
In much the same way, presumably that, as Mr. Obama said in early 2009, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
RELATED: “CBS Doesn’t Air Obama Admitting Mistakes in Campaign Ads;” relegated to Internet out-takes.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ohio State Head Spends $7.7M to Travel, Entertain.
THE FLESHLIGHT TAILOR-MADE FOR THOMAS FRIEDMAN’S MANSION.
PUPPIES FOR OBAMA: It’s a bumper sticker…and a cookbook! (Probably a darn good floor polish/dessert topping, to boot.)
REPORT: Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan In ICU. Well, a death from natural causes would certainly be more convenient than a trial, which would be embarrassing for a lot of people. But so far, the report is unconfirmed.
GEORGE WILL ON MIA LOVE. “Aspecter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration. It is discomforting enough that the caucus has included a Republican among its 43 members since 2011, when Florida’s Allen West became the first Republican to join since 1997. South Carolina’s Tim Scott, an African American, also came to Congress in 2011 but declined to join the CBC. And soon a second might move in. There goes the neighborhood.”
ROMNEY’S “TERRIBLE WEEK” JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE: Obama, Romney Now In Statistical Dead Heat in Pennsylvania.
He’s had four years. Why can’t Obama close the deal?
Oh, yeah. Those four years.
“IT’S A CATASTROPHIC INTELLIGENCE LOSS . . . WE GOT OUR EYES POKED OUT:” Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts.
AT AMAZON: Markdowns on Bedding.
THE VIDEO MADE THEM DO IT– JUST KIDDING! Stephen Hayes over at the Weekly Standard hits the nail on the head, asserting that for over a week the Obama Administration insisted the attacks on American installations were “spontaneous” outbursts against a stupid Mohammed video on YouTube. He concludes:
So we are left with this: Four Americans were killed in a premeditated terrorist attack on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, and for more than a week the Obama administration misled the country about what happened.
This isn’t just a problem. It’s a scandal.
Yet unsurprisingly, the bulk of the lamestream media doesn’t seem to care.
“OBAMA IS NOT A FOREIGN BORN SOCIALIST GIVING AWAY FREE HEALTH CARE. That would be Jesus.”
Just one of the many bumper stickers of Madison, Wisconsin. (Enlarge to read text.)
AFTER THE MOB ATTACKS, Some Questions For President Obama. That the press is unlikely to ask, at least until after the election. . . .
THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Vaccine Protests And The Return of Whooping Cough.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Obama Campaign’s Flag Poster No Longer Appears In Store.
Looking at the above juxtaposition, I can’t understand at all why they’d pull that from the shelves. But then, pages have a tendency to disappear themselves from Obama Websites at purely random intervals for no apparent reason at all.
POPCORN LUNG???? REALLY???? Apparently so. A jury in Colorado late last week awarded a staggering $7.2 million against a microwave popcorn manufacturer and grocery store, as remedy for “popcorn lung“–a rare bronchial lung disease apparently caused by inhaling that yummy fake butter smell. Guess it’s time to break out the old pan and oil again and do it the old fashioned way. Real butter is better anyway!
BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS ACHIEVED AT LAST: Bill Maher and Jonah Goldberg each question the MSM’s obsession with undecided voters in the last month of the presidential election.
GREECE: The Thatcher Rule begins to kick in.
I THOUGHT THIS ONLY HAPPENED TO CHICAGO MACHINE HACKS ON ELECTION DAY: “Media Put 18,000 in Not-Quite-Full 5,000-Seat Arena for Obama in Wisconsin.”
THE TRAGIC UNTRUSTWORTHINESS of “human lie detectors.”