or 'arrogant', or any of the other actual reasons lots of people wouldn't vote for her.
Because dealing with those things would mean accepting responsibility, and that's unthinkable.
Good. Anymore, I figure anyone who trusts a prosecutor- ANY prosecutor- with this kind if discretion is a fool.
More reason to get both the .gov and your work out of insurance/health care: this "We pay, so we can monitor what you eat/how you live and adjust your rates as we choose" crap is just going to get worse.
Showing posts with label Arrogance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrogance. Show all posts
Sunday, April 09, 2017
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Considering how hard they worked before to hide
just who was committing most of the rapes, and assaults on police and so forth, how bad is it that they're doing this and admitting why?
The city of Östersund in central Sweden has decided to cancel its participation in Saturday’s Earth Hour because of the increased rape risk when streets are dark.
Earth Hour is an annual event where people turn off electricity for one hour to conserve energy. Östersund usually turns off its street lighting, but has decided to keep it lit due to a spree of sexual assaults.
...
Fourteen cases of sexual assault have been reported in Östersund since January. The attacks are carried out by both young immigrant gangs and lone-wolf perpetrators, according to descriptions from the victims.
Throw in how pissed more and more people are at being called names and threatened when they dare to speak about it. Must be getting very damned tense.
No, Trump is not big on the 2nd Amendment. Or stopping illegal immigration. He just says he is because it plays well.
More recently, while conservatives were fighting the Gang of Eight amnesty bill and Obama’s sanctuary nation policies, Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala Harris, the California attorney general who is, perhaps, one of the most notorious supporters of sanctuary cities in the country. In 2014, his daughter, Ivanka, also cut a $2,000 check to the queen of sanctuary cities. That was after Harris championed the despicable Trust Act, which turned the entire state of California into a sanctuary for illegals.
...
And Trump’s $2,500 donation to then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2009 was after he declared the following:
And as Chris also notes about Harris:
You know, the most anti-gun attorney general in the country?
The one who is currently conducting door to door gun seizures in California?
And who has Trump's support. But we can trust him. Sure.
Well, Click, if this is true then you were incompetent to hold that position in the first place. Now go away, you vile bitch.
From the asshat who thought Obama would be a great ruler because "I like the crease in his trousers."
The city of Östersund in central Sweden has decided to cancel its participation in Saturday’s Earth Hour because of the increased rape risk when streets are dark.
Earth Hour is an annual event where people turn off electricity for one hour to conserve energy. Östersund usually turns off its street lighting, but has decided to keep it lit due to a spree of sexual assaults.
...
Fourteen cases of sexual assault have been reported in Östersund since January. The attacks are carried out by both young immigrant gangs and lone-wolf perpetrators, according to descriptions from the victims.
Throw in how pissed more and more people are at being called names and threatened when they dare to speak about it. Must be getting very damned tense.
No, Trump is not big on the 2nd Amendment. Or stopping illegal immigration. He just says he is because it plays well.
More recently, while conservatives were fighting the Gang of Eight amnesty bill and Obama’s sanctuary nation policies, Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala Harris, the California attorney general who is, perhaps, one of the most notorious supporters of sanctuary cities in the country. In 2014, his daughter, Ivanka, also cut a $2,000 check to the queen of sanctuary cities. That was after Harris championed the despicable Trust Act, which turned the entire state of California into a sanctuary for illegals.
...
And Trump’s $2,500 donation to then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2009 was after he declared the following:
I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated
with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids.
We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it.
You know, the most anti-gun attorney general in the country?
The one who is currently conducting door to door gun seizures in California?
And who has Trump's support. But we can trust him. Sure.
Well, Click, if this is true then you were incompetent to hold that position in the first place. Now go away, you vile bitch.
From the asshat who thought Obama would be a great ruler because "I like the crease in his trousers."
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Connected with ISIS and
illegally in Belgium; this isn't going to help the "Let everybody in!" people at all.
In a preview clip of a Fox News special called “Rising Threats — Shrinking Military,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Bret Baier that the president went against the advice of the “entire national security team” during the Egyptian coup that ousted the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, in 2013.
And yet Gates just kept sitting there and taking orders. Which he's now bitching about. Apparently giving up that office was just too much for him.
Remember: NONE of the ATF/FBI/DOJ/Others involved in Gunwalker paid any actual price; none fired, none charged.
But the whistleblowers all got screwed.
The EffingBI needs to be told to go screw itself. Frequently. Because they lie, and cheat, and give us no reason to trust them, then the Director gripes that he can't understand why we don't want to hand them more authority to abuse.
Speaking of the EffingBI:
New findings by law enforcement officials suggest that an FBI agent on the scene of the fatal shooting of Bundy-affiliated protester LaVoy Finicum during a Jun. 26 felony stop might have fired two shots that were not reported, and agents on the scene might have disposed of bullet casings to cover them up.
Can you say 'lying on official reports'? Can you say 'tampering with evidence'? Can you say 'And how many ways does THIS complicate the mess?'
FBI special agent in charge Greg Bretzing announced at a press conference last week, “The question of who fired these shots has not been resolved.” He declined to provide further comment noting that the federal investigation is still underway.
And left to their own devices we'd all be dead and gone before they'd release anything that might tarnish the reputation of the Sacred Bureau. Because that counts most of all.
In a preview clip of a Fox News special called “Rising Threats — Shrinking Military,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Bret Baier that the president went against the advice of the “entire national security team” during the Egyptian coup that ousted the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, in 2013.
And yet Gates just kept sitting there and taking orders. Which he's now bitching about. Apparently giving up that office was just too much for him.
Remember: NONE of the ATF/FBI/DOJ/Others involved in Gunwalker paid any actual price; none fired, none charged.
But the whistleblowers all got screwed.
The EffingBI needs to be told to go screw itself. Frequently. Because they lie, and cheat, and give us no reason to trust them, then the Director gripes that he can't understand why we don't want to hand them more authority to abuse.
Speaking of the EffingBI:
New findings by law enforcement officials suggest that an FBI agent on the scene of the fatal shooting of Bundy-affiliated protester LaVoy Finicum during a Jun. 26 felony stop might have fired two shots that were not reported, and agents on the scene might have disposed of bullet casings to cover them up.
Can you say 'lying on official reports'? Can you say 'tampering with evidence'? Can you say 'And how many ways does THIS complicate the mess?'
FBI special agent in charge Greg Bretzing announced at a press conference last week, “The question of who fired these shots has not been resolved.” He declined to provide further comment noting that the federal investigation is still underway.
And left to their own devices we'd all be dead and gone before they'd release anything that might tarnish the reputation of the Sacred Bureau. Because that counts most of all.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
'Tone shaming'?
As Michael Williamson said, you can't parody these people, they do it themselves.
Martin O'Malley really is a friggin' idiot.
"How dare you peasants criticize me!"
'Obama's Christian faith'... I don't think he's Christian any more than he's Muslim. For one thing, to have such a faith he'd have to worship something other than himself.
Planned Parenthood... these people really do suck.
And that's enough of that crap for tonight
Martin O'Malley really is a friggin' idiot.
"How dare you peasants criticize me!"
'Obama's Christian faith'... I don't think he's Christian any more than he's Muslim. For one thing, to have such a faith he'd have to worship something other than himself.
Planned Parenthood... these people really do suck.
And that's enough of that crap for tonight
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Well, Dear Leader has always thought he's the smartest human on the planet,
with plenty of sycophants(and probably a couple of puppet-masters) telling him he is, so this isn't exactly a surprise.
This pervasive contempt for the views of others is one of the President’s greatest weaknesses and least attractive traits. Inevitably, it percolates throughout his Administration and prevails in particular at the White House.
Tends to show through when he's unable to shove something through: "Don't you peasants understand my genius? You should be thanking me for lowering myself to tell you how to live!" Etc.
Not only are their efforts pointless—if Obama is his own strategist, why should he listen to you, foolish or wicked veterans of the Bush Administration?—they are misguided. One can only judge a policy on its implementation, and although a no-fly zone conceived by a tough-minded Commander in Chief and implemented by Bob Gates might be just the thing, a no-fly zone put into place by the President who brought you vanishing red lines, a botched withdrawal from Iraq, the reset with Russia that wasn’t, repeated groveling apologies for the inevitable accidents of war, and much else, could be a debacle.
After which he'll- again- tell us "It wasn't MY idea, so it's not MY fault this is falling apart!"
This pervasive contempt for the views of others is one of the President’s greatest weaknesses and least attractive traits. Inevitably, it percolates throughout his Administration and prevails in particular at the White House.
Tends to show through when he's unable to shove something through: "Don't you peasants understand my genius? You should be thanking me for lowering myself to tell you how to live!" Etc.
Not only are their efforts pointless—if Obama is his own strategist, why should he listen to you, foolish or wicked veterans of the Bush Administration?—they are misguided. One can only judge a policy on its implementation, and although a no-fly zone conceived by a tough-minded Commander in Chief and implemented by Bob Gates might be just the thing, a no-fly zone put into place by the President who brought you vanishing red lines, a botched withdrawal from Iraq, the reset with Russia that wasn’t, repeated groveling apologies for the inevitable accidents of war, and much else, could be a debacle.
After which he'll- again- tell us "It wasn't MY idea, so it's not MY fault this is falling apart!"
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Well, a lot of these European leaders crapped on Bush every chance
they got, and they kissed Obamas' ass over and over. Now they've discovered just what they helped put into office, and they're not liking it.
Smart Diplomacy:
Mr. Obama’s disinterest in America’s European allies is a long-standing story, however. In September 2009, as part of his “reset” of relations with Moscow, he abruptly shelved plans to deploy ballistic missile defenses in eastern Europe that Poland and the Czech Republic had signed on to at considerable political risk. As a Washington Post assessment notes, administration officials “failed to give a heads-up to the Poles and the Czechs, making it appear like a diplomatic snub at their expense.” Characterizing the U.S. consultation process, a senior national security official in Warsaw lamented that “we heard through the media.”
...
Observing the noticeable difference in style between Mr. Obama and his predecessor, who was reviled by foreign publics but still took the time to build relationships with leaders abroad, Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post warned a year into the Obama presidency that “coolness has its cost.”
Bush was a number of things but arrogantly stupid wasn't one of them. And that's a large part of all Obama's got.
And one of the cherries on top:
Things got worse at the G-20 St. Petersburg summit meeting the next week. Again, Germany found the United States curtly dismissive. It wanted Germany’s signature at once on the joint statement on Syria; Germany wanted to wait a day until a joint European Union statement was ready and so declined. ‘The sense from Rice was that we are not interested in your view and not interested in the E.U. view,’ the official said. ‘We left Petersburg very offended. This is not what you want your best partner to look like.’
I repeat: you clowns trashed Bush constantly, and when Obama popped up you kissed his ass and said "THIS is the President we need!" Well, you got it.
Smart Diplomacy:
Mr. Obama’s disinterest in America’s European allies is a long-standing story, however. In September 2009, as part of his “reset” of relations with Moscow, he abruptly shelved plans to deploy ballistic missile defenses in eastern Europe that Poland and the Czech Republic had signed on to at considerable political risk. As a Washington Post assessment notes, administration officials “failed to give a heads-up to the Poles and the Czechs, making it appear like a diplomatic snub at their expense.” Characterizing the U.S. consultation process, a senior national security official in Warsaw lamented that “we heard through the media.”
...
Observing the noticeable difference in style between Mr. Obama and his predecessor, who was reviled by foreign publics but still took the time to build relationships with leaders abroad, Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post warned a year into the Obama presidency that “coolness has its cost.”
Bush was a number of things but arrogantly stupid wasn't one of them. And that's a large part of all Obama's got.
And one of the cherries on top:
Things got worse at the G-20 St. Petersburg summit meeting the next week. Again, Germany found the United States curtly dismissive. It wanted Germany’s signature at once on the joint statement on Syria; Germany wanted to wait a day until a joint European Union statement was ready and so declined. ‘The sense from Rice was that we are not interested in your view and not interested in the E.U. view,’ the official said. ‘We left Petersburg very offended. This is not what you want your best partner to look like.’
I repeat: you clowns trashed Bush constantly, and when Obama popped up you kissed his ass and said "THIS is the President we need!" Well, you got it.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The race mongers won't care, but in the Martin-Zimmerman case
the Preferred Narrativetm is falling apart. Further apart, I should say.
A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
...
WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.
I wish I could come up with lines like this:
And don't get me started about how every Sayeret Matkal troopie supposedly has his micro-Tavor bullpup (which is the best gun ever, of course,) fruited up with cheap-ass plastic Mako accessories like a third-grade schoolgirl's notebook with My Little Pony stickers.
Does it count as 'narcissist' or just 'arrogant fool' to do something like this?
"Join the TSA and screw with people who still have more balls than you ever will!"
Another fine case of Dance, Monkey! And shut the hell up otherwise. Or we'll sic Jennifer on you.
A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.
...
WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.
I wish I could come up with lines like this:
And don't get me started about how every Sayeret Matkal troopie supposedly has his micro-Tavor bullpup (which is the best gun ever, of course,) fruited up with cheap-ass plastic Mako accessories like a third-grade schoolgirl's notebook with My Little Pony stickers.
Does it count as 'narcissist' or just 'arrogant fool' to do something like this?
"Join the TSA and screw with people who still have more balls than you ever will!"
Another fine case of Dance, Monkey! And shut the hell up otherwise. Or we'll sic Jennifer on you.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Yeah, if those SEALs had all died, would've been terrible
For Obama; not so bad for the deceased, I guess.
Former president Bill Clinton just appeared in a reelection television commercial for President Barack Obama. At one point, Clinton weighs in on the potential consequences of Obama’s decision to go ahead with the planned assassination of Osama bin Laden. He smiles and then pontificates, “Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there . . . suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him [Obama].”
Like they say, any further questions about why Clinton did and did not do some of the crap during his tenure? Because if it went bad 'it would have been horrible for me'.
Former president Bill Clinton just appeared in a reelection television commercial for President Barack Obama. At one point, Clinton weighs in on the potential consequences of Obama’s decision to go ahead with the planned assassination of Osama bin Laden. He smiles and then pontificates, “Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there . . . suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him [Obama].”
Like they say, any further questions about why Clinton did and did not do some of the crap during his tenure? Because if it went bad 'it would have been horrible for me'.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Is it any surprise that this is what people like Mahar
and Carr think of people in flyover country?
New York Times columnist David Carr responds to Bill Maher implying Alabama and Kansas are not the "smart states."
David Carr: "If it's Kansas, Missouri, no big deal. You know, that's the dance of the low-sloping foreheads. The middle places, right? [pause] Did I just say that aloud?"
Yes, you did, and we heard you.
A blog I hadn't seen before had a piece on "How do I get him to be more dominant in bed?" Which brought to mind a bit Roissy(discovered through Dr. Helen) had on how to treat a girlfriend who publicly insults you. His firm response makes sense, but there's a problem: in the current climate holding a girl's arm and saying "Don't every talk to me that way again" can get you arrested if one of her friends(or she) calls the cops. Which is the reason why most guys would want a very solid "This is what I want!" from the female before getting really aggressive.
Very strange world out there.
New York Times columnist David Carr responds to Bill Maher implying Alabama and Kansas are not the "smart states."
David Carr: "If it's Kansas, Missouri, no big deal. You know, that's the dance of the low-sloping foreheads. The middle places, right? [pause] Did I just say that aloud?"
Yes, you did, and we heard you.
A blog I hadn't seen before had a piece on "How do I get him to be more dominant in bed?" Which brought to mind a bit Roissy(discovered through Dr. Helen) had on how to treat a girlfriend who publicly insults you. His firm response makes sense, but there's a problem: in the current climate holding a girl's arm and saying "Don't every talk to me that way again" can get you arrested if one of her friends(or she) calls the cops. Which is the reason why most guys would want a very solid "This is what I want!" from the female before getting really aggressive.
Very strange world out there.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Reference Obama's comments on gas prices
the other day, a couple more things that come to mind:
Hey, genius, if someone is having trouble buying gas how the HELL are they going to afford one of your new Government Motors cars? Especially at, what, 30-50 thousand?
Who the hell do you think you are to tell someone "Screw off and buy a new car"? You're not our boss, no matter what you think.
And who the hell are you to tell someone "Your family isn't big enough to need a big car, get a little one!" ? You know the family? You know how much stuff they need to take along?
The President is an arrogant dumbass, isn't he?
Friend, when I pointed to the Insty post, actually said "This is what peak oil looks like." Which is idiotic, ignores all the oil and gas we have that The Lightworker doesn't want us to drill for, and works quite conveniently for someone who seems to think that no Democrat can really do anything wrong and that somehow every disappointment from Obama is somehow the fault of Republicans and conservatives. And she's probably got a plan for those troublesome libertarians, too.
Hey, genius, if someone is having trouble buying gas how the HELL are they going to afford one of your new Government Motors cars? Especially at, what, 30-50 thousand?
Who the hell do you think you are to tell someone "Screw off and buy a new car"? You're not our boss, no matter what you think.
And who the hell are you to tell someone "Your family isn't big enough to need a big car, get a little one!" ? You know the family? You know how much stuff they need to take along?
The President is an arrogant dumbass, isn't he?
Friend, when I pointed to the Insty post, actually said "This is what peak oil looks like." Which is idiotic, ignores all the oil and gas we have that The Lightworker doesn't want us to drill for, and works quite conveniently for someone who seems to think that no Democrat can really do anything wrong and that somehow every disappointment from Obama is somehow the fault of Republicans and conservatives. And she's probably got a plan for those troublesome libertarians, too.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Once again John Effin' Kerry opens mouth and very elegantly (updated)
inserts foot.
And his defense... "You people are too busy to pay attention to what's happening" from one of his ass-kissers. Yeah, all those tea parties and such are because we don't really care enough to pay attention, right?
Kerry made the remarks on voters following questions about U.S. Rep Barney Frank’s re-election campaign and queries about securing federal funding for the Hub hospital.
“I think a lot of the anger today - while it’s appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people,” said Kerry. “Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what we’re doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what we’re doing, it frankly makes sense.”
That would be Frank trying to shove more of our money into Fannie and Freddie? And I'm still waiting for Frank to recuse himself from anything touching on these agencies since- far as I know- he's STILL sleeping with someone on the Fannie board of directors(unethical as hell, that).
And, Sen. Kerry, we've BEEN listening to your 'explanations'; that's one reason we're so damn mad, you arrogant little boob.
Update: Breda notes Simple slogan? You mean like "Yes, we can"? How about "Hope" and "Change"? That sound familiar?
I had to laugh.
And his defense... "You people are too busy to pay attention to what's happening" from one of his ass-kissers. Yeah, all those tea parties and such are because we don't really care enough to pay attention, right?
Kerry made the remarks on voters following questions about U.S. Rep Barney Frank’s re-election campaign and queries about securing federal funding for the Hub hospital.
“I think a lot of the anger today - while it’s appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people,” said Kerry. “Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what we’re doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what we’re doing, it frankly makes sense.”
That would be Frank trying to shove more of our money into Fannie and Freddie? And I'm still waiting for Frank to recuse himself from anything touching on these agencies since- far as I know- he's STILL sleeping with someone on the Fannie board of directors(unethical as hell, that).
And, Sen. Kerry, we've BEEN listening to your 'explanations'; that's one reason we're so damn mad, you arrogant little boob.
Update: Breda notes Simple slogan? You mean like "Yes, we can"? How about "Hope" and "Change"? That sound familiar?
I had to laugh.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
VP Biden is a miserable, arrogant little bastard
and I finally have an actual use for him. First, what started this:
Vice President Biden called the manager
of a custard shop outside of Milwaukee, Wis., a "smartass" after the man asked him to lower taxes.
After realizing that A: this would get out and B: just how it would reveal what he thinks of those nasty peasants who won't keep in their place,
The manager said later in an interview with WISN that he thought Biden didn’t seem happy initially about the taxes comment, but that the vice president later whispered that he was just kidding.
Kidding. Yeah. Well, here's the use: I just helped Dad dig out a hole, cut a partly-rotted post, enlarge the hole so we could put in a steel plate and screw jack and lift the porch corner to replace the post with some cement blocks, and with a little digging I think Biden would help fill the hole.
And to anybody catching their breath and saying "Can you believe he actually wrote this?", the only other actual use for Biden- besides fill- is the fact that he opens his mouth and lets the truth about what he and his master think of us out.
Thanks to Dick for messing up my mood at the end of what had been a happy and productive weekend
Vice President Biden called the manager
of a custard shop outside of Milwaukee, Wis., a "smartass" after the man asked him to lower taxes.
After realizing that A: this would get out and B: just how it would reveal what he thinks of those nasty peasants who won't keep in their place,
The manager said later in an interview with WISN that he thought Biden didn’t seem happy initially about the taxes comment, but that the vice president later whispered that he was just kidding.
Kidding. Yeah. Well, here's the use: I just helped Dad dig out a hole, cut a partly-rotted post, enlarge the hole so we could put in a steel plate and screw jack and lift the porch corner to replace the post with some cement blocks, and with a little digging I think Biden would help fill the hole.
And to anybody catching their breath and saying "Can you believe he actually wrote this?", the only other actual use for Biden- besides fill- is the fact that he opens his mouth and lets the truth about what he and his master think of us out.
Thanks to Dick for messing up my mood at the end of what had been a happy and productive weekend
Sunday, June 13, 2010
From Mark Steyn, two politicisns who deserve each other
Anyway, a couple of years back, Michael Ignatieff, a professor at Harvard and previously a BBC late-night intellectual telly host, returned to his native land of Canada in order to become prime minister, and to that end got himself elected as leader of the Liberal party. And, as is the fashion nowadays, he cranked out a quickie tome laying out his political “vision.” Having spent his entire adult life abroad, he was aware that some of the natives were uncertain about his commitment to the land of his birth. So he was careful to issue a sort of pledge of a kind of allegiance, explaining that writing a book about Canada had “deepened my attachment to the place on earth that, if I needed one, I would call home.”
Gee, that’s awfully big of you. As John Robson commented in the Ottawa Citizen: “I’m worried that a man so postmodern he doesn’t need a home wants to lead my country. Why? Is it quaint? An interesting sociological experiment?”
Indeed. But there’s a lot of it about. Many Americans are beginning to pick up the strange vibe that, for Barack Obama, governing America is “an interesting sociological experiment,” too. He would doubtless agree that the United States is “the place on earth that, if I needed one, I would call home.” But he doesn’t, not really: It is hard to imagine Obama wandering along to watch a Memorial Day or Fourth of July parade until the job required him to. That’s not to say he’s un-American or anti-American, but merely that he’s beyond all that. Way beyond. He’s the first president to give off the pronounced whiff that he’s condescending to the job — that it’s really too small for him and he’s just killing time until something more commensurate with his stature comes along.
Read it all.
And I'm beginning to think that we should interpret 'professor at Harvard' or 'Harvard grad' as meaning something along the lines of 'wants to destroy the country' or 'the enemy'.
Gee, that’s awfully big of you. As John Robson commented in the Ottawa Citizen: “I’m worried that a man so postmodern he doesn’t need a home wants to lead my country. Why? Is it quaint? An interesting sociological experiment?”
Indeed. But there’s a lot of it about. Many Americans are beginning to pick up the strange vibe that, for Barack Obama, governing America is “an interesting sociological experiment,” too. He would doubtless agree that the United States is “the place on earth that, if I needed one, I would call home.” But he doesn’t, not really: It is hard to imagine Obama wandering along to watch a Memorial Day or Fourth of July parade until the job required him to. That’s not to say he’s un-American or anti-American, but merely that he’s beyond all that. Way beyond. He’s the first president to give off the pronounced whiff that he’s condescending to the job — that it’s really too small for him and he’s just killing time until something more commensurate with his stature comes along.
Read it all.
And I'm beginning to think that we should interpret 'professor at Harvard' or 'Harvard grad' as meaning something along the lines of 'wants to destroy the country' or 'the enemy'.
Friday, February 12, 2010
The weather is shifting around again, which means I feel like a bear
that just woke up in spring: "Uh. Wha? It's that time?(groan...)" Which is somewhat tempered by some of the news, like Patrick Kennedy(Drunk Driving Liberal-RI) not running for reelection:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election to Congress, saying his life is "taking a new direction."
My first thought is YEAH! Second thought is Is he generally scared, or has he heard things indicating that RI has finally developed enough brains to get rid of him? Either way, bye bye, you arrogant bastard.
Further "Oh crap!" moment for the weenies,
Students, residents and community leaders will join together on Friday, February 12, to demand a fair and independent investigation of Michael Mann and Climategate. The University has a conflict of interest, and should not conduct an internal investigation without external oversight.
And about damn time; Mann and the university weenies trying to protect him and all that AGW money they've been getting must be having fits.
Well, the people of Californicated have a right to be mad at the idiots in the legislature; but they'd better reserve a large portion of anger for themselves, because they're the idiots who put these morons in office. Over and over and over.
Speaking of which, hey, North Carolina: you'd better do something about the progressive bastards running your schools. Into the ground. I've got a question for you folks: just how well- meaning 'accurately' and 'truthfully'- are these jerks covering this history in elementary and junior high? And if the answer is what I suspect, why are you putting up with it?
Right now, all I'll say about this battle beginning is that if we wind up with troops dead because of McChrystal's ROE not allowing them to fire when they should or get arty or air support when they need it, I hope they haunt him for the rest of his life. Or if troops fighting in some of the worst kind of conditions wind up being charged with crimes for not following the letter of those rules, for that matter; there's been far too much of that shit.
Added: more here at Mudville. And yeah, maybe I'm being too hard toward McChrystal; just after reading some of the previous accounts of consequences of the ROE I'm not feeling too tolerant.
No, I don't think Medina was set up; I think she got a question she didn't want to answer and tried to talk around it and let the cat out of the bag. Perry has some things I'm not wild about in his record, but we do not need a damned 9/11 truther- another one- in DC. No, I'm not in Texas and can't vote on this, I'm just stating opinion.
For that matter, was just listening to Glenn Beck, he says that during the interview they had people from Perry's campaign calling and raising hell along the lines of "Why are you talking to this woman, why are you giving her air time?" His response was basically "Screw you, I'll talk to and question anybody I want."
As to the 'trick' Pelosi wants to use to shove the socialized medicine bill through, if they do this then to hell with the tar and feathers, let's go straight to rope for a bunch of them. Lots of trees and lampposts in DC.
He does present a good question: all the journalists who didn't do their jobs during the elections, and have given aide and comfort to Obama & Co. since, will they actually start doing their job approaching the next elections? Or keep kissing up to the progressives and socialists and telling people looking for information "WE will tell you what (we decide)you NEED to know."?
That's it for now. Lots of stuff out there, but I need some aspirin. Maybe a fainting couch. Later, folks.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election to Congress, saying his life is "taking a new direction."
My first thought is YEAH! Second thought is Is he generally scared, or has he heard things indicating that RI has finally developed enough brains to get rid of him? Either way, bye bye, you arrogant bastard.
Further "Oh crap!" moment for the weenies,
Students, residents and community leaders will join together on Friday, February 12, to demand a fair and independent investigation of Michael Mann and Climategate. The University has a conflict of interest, and should not conduct an internal investigation without external oversight.
And about damn time; Mann and the university weenies trying to protect him and all that AGW money they've been getting must be having fits.
Well, the people of Californicated have a right to be mad at the idiots in the legislature; but they'd better reserve a large portion of anger for themselves, because they're the idiots who put these morons in office. Over and over and over.
Speaking of which, hey, North Carolina: you'd better do something about the progressive bastards running your schools. Into the ground. I've got a question for you folks: just how well- meaning 'accurately' and 'truthfully'- are these jerks covering this history in elementary and junior high? And if the answer is what I suspect, why are you putting up with it?
Right now, all I'll say about this battle beginning is that if we wind up with troops dead because of McChrystal's ROE not allowing them to fire when they should or get arty or air support when they need it, I hope they haunt him for the rest of his life. Or if troops fighting in some of the worst kind of conditions wind up being charged with crimes for not following the letter of those rules, for that matter; there's been far too much of that shit.
Added: more here at Mudville. And yeah, maybe I'm being too hard toward McChrystal; just after reading some of the previous accounts of consequences of the ROE I'm not feeling too tolerant.
No, I don't think Medina was set up; I think she got a question she didn't want to answer and tried to talk around it and let the cat out of the bag. Perry has some things I'm not wild about in his record, but we do not need a damned 9/11 truther- another one- in DC. No, I'm not in Texas and can't vote on this, I'm just stating opinion.
For that matter, was just listening to Glenn Beck, he says that during the interview they had people from Perry's campaign calling and raising hell along the lines of "Why are you talking to this woman, why are you giving her air time?" His response was basically "Screw you, I'll talk to and question anybody I want."
As to the 'trick' Pelosi wants to use to shove the socialized medicine bill through, if they do this then to hell with the tar and feathers, let's go straight to rope for a bunch of them. Lots of trees and lampposts in DC.
He does present a good question: all the journalists who didn't do their jobs during the elections, and have given aide and comfort to Obama & Co. since, will they actually start doing their job approaching the next elections? Or keep kissing up to the progressives and socialists and telling people looking for information "WE will tell you what (we decide)you NEED to know."?
That's it for now. Lots of stuff out there, but I need some aspirin. Maybe a fainting couch. Later, folks.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
The things that happen when you're out buying stuff Updated
Over at Insty, among other things, we find a really cool killer drone(a little bitty one);
And we have a link to this critique of a piece of bullcrap from David Brooks. Insty says the Brooks piece doesn't seem that bad, that it might be Brooks trying to explain this stuff to the Upper West Side crowd; problem is, Brooks also crapped all over Palin at every opportunity, etc; he's explaining this by saying "Those cretins in flyover country aren't as smart or as well-educated as you, and so they oppose everything the Educated Class stands for." As Ace says,
Did you catch that? The public doesn't like the educated class, so -- because of that -- they childishly, petulantly take the position opposite that class.
Rather than: The majority of the public disagrees with this self-declared technocratic soft-socialistic urban would-be elite on most issues, so -- because of that -- their estimation of this small but extraordinarily noisy cohort necessarily diminishes.
And adds
We disagree with you because we disagree with you; and we think you are arrogant, effete, entitled douchemongers because you are arrogant, effete, entitled douchemongers.
Update: I now have to add this link to Claire; go read.
Oh, wow, the Educated Class mental titans at the White House have decided it wouldn't be a good idea to send a bunch of terrorists to Yemen after all.
Tough call. Super-tough. I mean, it's just that a dozen Yemeni terrorists whom we released into Yemen's "custody" (and who then "escaped" -- whoopsie!) have rejoined Al Qaeda and are trying to kill us. Including blowing up planes over Detroit.
You know, it's a fundamental, unshakable premise on the left that these Gitmo detainees are innocent-as-lambs dudes who were just "scooped up" by our stupid, non-educated-class military.
It's kind of hard to make that claim when they all keep rejoining Al Qaeda, isn't it?
Oh, crap. If the fast food rejects with police powers known as TSA really wanted to demonstrate that a lot of their personnal are friggin' idiots, they picked a good way.
Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not "arrested", but they definitely handcuffed me.) Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security. Port authority police eve...ntually came -- they were professionals -- and rescued me from the border bullies.
If this is indeed what happened, why the HELL were these clowns demanding to know that? Damn.
Also update: Play-Doh
It should be noted: Michael Steele is a jackass.
And someone who really was a communist bigshot warns of what the Democrat Party is trying to do to this country. Y'know, maybe some of the clowns in Congress should remember what happened in Romania when people finally blew up.
Stuff to do, guns to clean from the range trip. See you later
And we have a link to this critique of a piece of bullcrap from David Brooks. Insty says the Brooks piece doesn't seem that bad, that it might be Brooks trying to explain this stuff to the Upper West Side crowd; problem is, Brooks also crapped all over Palin at every opportunity, etc; he's explaining this by saying "Those cretins in flyover country aren't as smart or as well-educated as you, and so they oppose everything the Educated Class stands for." As Ace says,
Did you catch that? The public doesn't like the educated class, so -- because of that -- they childishly, petulantly take the position opposite that class.
Rather than: The majority of the public disagrees with this self-declared technocratic soft-socialistic urban would-be elite on most issues, so -- because of that -- their estimation of this small but extraordinarily noisy cohort necessarily diminishes.
And adds
We disagree with you because we disagree with you; and we think you are arrogant, effete, entitled douchemongers because you are arrogant, effete, entitled douchemongers.
Update: I now have to add this link to Claire; go read.
Oh, wow, the Educated Class mental titans at the White House have decided it wouldn't be a good idea to send a bunch of terrorists to Yemen after all.
Tough call. Super-tough. I mean, it's just that a dozen Yemeni terrorists whom we released into Yemen's "custody" (and who then "escaped" -- whoopsie!) have rejoined Al Qaeda and are trying to kill us. Including blowing up planes over Detroit.
You know, it's a fundamental, unshakable premise on the left that these Gitmo detainees are innocent-as-lambs dudes who were just "scooped up" by our stupid, non-educated-class military.
It's kind of hard to make that claim when they all keep rejoining Al Qaeda, isn't it?
Oh, crap. If the fast food rejects with police powers known as TSA really wanted to demonstrate that a lot of their personnal are friggin' idiots, they picked a good way.
Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not "arrested", but they definitely handcuffed me.) Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security. Port authority police eve...ntually came -- they were professionals -- and rescued me from the border bullies.
If this is indeed what happened, why the HELL were these clowns demanding to know that? Damn.
Also update: Play-Doh
It should be noted: Michael Steele is a jackass.
And someone who really was a communist bigshot warns of what the Democrat Party is trying to do to this country. Y'know, maybe some of the clowns in Congress should remember what happened in Romania when people finally blew up.
Stuff to do, guns to clean from the range trip. See you later
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Starting off- after the other stuff- with a bit on the idiocy of the green movement
It’s also worth noting that Carter stopped the development of the nuclear fuel recycling program, which meant that thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste had to be stored rather than reused.
...
So here’s the really aggravating part of Speth's preening self-congratulation about stopping the commercialization of breeder reactors: In an alternative universe where 200 fast breeders come online, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions would be about a third lower than they currently are. (Note that I am not considering the economics and subsidies of fast breeder reactors, just as Speth does not take the economics and subsidies of solar power, geothermal, or fusion power—which he favors—into account. In world where carbon dioxide is not rationed, burning coal and natural gas will be cheaper than any of the current renewable fuel alternatives.)
Consider that burning coal accounts for 36 percent of current U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Since 90 percent of the coal burned in the U.S. is used to produce electricity, replacing all coal-fired generating plants with zero-carbon electricity generation plants (say, nuclear reactors) would cut emissions by roughly 2 billion tons.
Like Insty says, if these clowns want us to breathlessly swoon about the threat of CO2, they need to start acting like it actually is a threat; which they refuse to do.
A nice piece on the enviroweenie 'people problem'. Easy to point out; problem is, the serious morons really would like to see most of the human race disappear, and they're not going to change.
According to rumors in the Bella Center, US President Barack Obama at about 11 PM, had impatiently asked to speak with Wen Jiabao in order to advance the discussion. But Obama had to wait. Wen, who, it was rumored, had rarely left his hotel room, could not be found. Finally, the US delegation located him in a room set aside for negotiations. A visibly furious Obama, according to reports, stormed into the room. “Are you now ready to talk with me, Premier Wen?” he was reported to have shouted. “Are you now ready? Premier Wen, are you now ready to talk with me?” What a scene for a US president.
Translation: "How dare you not speak with Us when I desire that you do?"
Actually, got things have to run out and do; more later.
...
So here’s the really aggravating part of Speth's preening self-congratulation about stopping the commercialization of breeder reactors: In an alternative universe where 200 fast breeders come online, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions would be about a third lower than they currently are. (Note that I am not considering the economics and subsidies of fast breeder reactors, just as Speth does not take the economics and subsidies of solar power, geothermal, or fusion power—which he favors—into account. In world where carbon dioxide is not rationed, burning coal and natural gas will be cheaper than any of the current renewable fuel alternatives.)
Consider that burning coal accounts for 36 percent of current U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Since 90 percent of the coal burned in the U.S. is used to produce electricity, replacing all coal-fired generating plants with zero-carbon electricity generation plants (say, nuclear reactors) would cut emissions by roughly 2 billion tons.
Like Insty says, if these clowns want us to breathlessly swoon about the threat of CO2, they need to start acting like it actually is a threat; which they refuse to do.
A nice piece on the enviroweenie 'people problem'. Easy to point out; problem is, the serious morons really would like to see most of the human race disappear, and they're not going to change.
According to rumors in the Bella Center, US President Barack Obama at about 11 PM, had impatiently asked to speak with Wen Jiabao in order to advance the discussion. But Obama had to wait. Wen, who, it was rumored, had rarely left his hotel room, could not be found. Finally, the US delegation located him in a room set aside for negotiations. A visibly furious Obama, according to reports, stormed into the room. “Are you now ready to talk with me, Premier Wen?” he was reported to have shouted. “Are you now ready? Premier Wen, are you now ready to talk with me?” What a scene for a US president.
Translation: "How dare you not speak with Us when I desire that you do?"
Actually, got things have to run out and do; more later.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)