It is good, every now and again, to be reminded of how stupid, or evil, or both, some people can be. Case in point is one Iraqi ex-pat by the name of Andy Shallal, who established the lefty hangout Busboys and Poets.
Shallal has put up images of Che and Lenin in his eating [...]
Archive for 2009
A true believer
Posted in Idiotarians, Tyranny on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, and we eat babies, too
Posted in Idiotarians, Nanny State on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If they are going to send idiots like Eleanor Holmes Norton to be their non-voting delegate in Congress, then it’s best for the country that they don’t get real congressmen or senators, who could do some real damage. “They” being the citizens of the People’s Republic of Columbia, otherwise known as our Nation’s [...]
Here’s how to do it
Posted in Governance on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Victor Davis Hanson, a quick summary of what we should be striving towards:
Republicans should be learning that instead of triangulating and seeking to ingratiate themselves as enlightened moderates, they need a strong, coherent alternative message that stresses the basics: balanced budgets; no more tax increases; energy exploration and development of more nuclear plants, [...]
“Squeaker”
Posted in Politics on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Christie is New Jersey’s governor-elect. He won in a three-man race, besting incumbent Jon Corzine by about 4 percent.
Close? In Virginia, maybe, a four percent spread would be considered close. In New Jersey, which went for Obama by 15 points last year, this is a tidal [...]
True colors
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dede Scozzafava, (RINO-NY) has shown her true colors. From the Watertown Daily News, this sums it up:
Please join me in voting for Bill Owens [the Democrat] on Tuesday. To address the tough challenges ahead, we must rise above partisanship and politics and work together. There’s too much at stake in this election to [...]
Photo op in Dover
Posted in Hypocrites, War and Peace on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So Obama went to Dover, Delaware, to “honor” some of our fallen brave. Mostly, he went to honor himself; else why have the White House press corps along for the ride? Oh, right, the photo op.
A real leader might have gone without the press entourage. Might have; President Bush [...]
Shocker
Posted in Iran on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Shocked, shocked, we are: Iran has rejected the sweetheart deal brokered by the pro-Iran IAEA, the pro-Iran Russkies, the feckless French, and, Obambi the Appeaser and his outstretched hoof.
Turns out the mullahs were doing exactly what they wanted to: pretend to agree to cease-and-desist, have endless talks about nothing with [...]
“beyond disgraceful”
Posted in Afghanistan, Obama on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, Charles Krauthammer had this to say about the Ditherer-in-Chief:
I want to point out one thing about what Obama had said when he talked about “the long years of drift.” There is something truly disgusting about the way he cannot refrain from attacking Bush when he’s being defensive about himself. [...]
“naïve nonsense”
Posted in Obama, War and Peace on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Best two-word description of Obama’s foreign policy, from Charles Krauthammer’s interview with der Spiegel. Here is a tasty extract, with the good Doctor K. shredding Obama’s “realism”:
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that diplomacy always fails?
Krauthammer: No, foolishness does. Perhaps when he gets nowhere on Iran, nowhere with North Korea, when he gets nothing from [...]
Race to the bottom
Posted in education on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal has an important discussion up today on the sad state of math and science education. We lag behind a goodly number of other developed nations, and this is not a new phenomenon.
One factor that does not get mentioned in the WSJ discussion is race. It [...]
Agincourt
Posted in War and Peace on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, October 25, is St. Crispin’s Day. Perhaps St Crispin’s Day is best known for the “Band of Brothers” speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V, which celebrates one of the greatest military victories in history, by the English over the French at the Battle of Agincourt, October 25, 1415:
We few, we happy few, [...]
You don’t say
Posted in Afghanistan on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s selection as our military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, requested more troops at the end of August. The president, being who he is, voted “present” and has been dithering on whether to go along with his man on the ground.
Obama, no doubt drawing on his years as a military commander and geopolitical [...]
Spooky alien
Posted in Immigration on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
truly scary Halloween costume. Of course, it has scared all the usual suspects, those who shill for breaking our immigration laws.
Via Yahoo! News, we are lectured that this costume is “distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.”
And Happy Halloween to you, too. This sort [...]
He will take the tenth of your flocks
Posted in Tyranny on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is much wisdom in the Old Testament; some of it even pointing to the hazards of wishing for a king. Is Obama our king, appointed by the will of God to rule over us? No, but you might not know this if all you listened to were the glowing accolades [...]
Unrepresentative?
Posted in Racism on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The current mayor of Baltimore (current motto: “Just like Scranton, but without the glitz”), Sheila Dixon, is under indictment for theft and perjury. If convicted, a replacement mayor would need to be appointed. Mayor Dixon is, wait for it, black. She’s actually more cafe-au-lait, but, hey, she’s a dues paying [...]
Tribes
Posted in Christianity, Judaism on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi David Novak has some bracing words for those who believe that Judaism is exclusively tribal, whereas Christianity may only be meaningfully called universal:
[Conrad] Black’s second error concerns the present state of the Jews and Judaism. What does he mean when he says “Judaism, though close theologically, is more tribal and philosophical than spiritual”? I [...]
The new prize in the Cracker Jack box
Posted in Simply outragious on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summing up the new prize in a Cracker Jack box, Charles Krauthammer (via Contentions):
…as he [Obama] made his hajj from Strasbourg to Prague to Ankara to Istanbul to Cairo and finally to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama drew the picture of an America quite exceptional — exceptional in moral culpability and heavy-handedness, exceptional in guilt [...]
The cross should go
Posted in Christianity, Liberty on October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
he Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial cross has been standing for 75 years as a memorial to the fallen American dead of World War I. The cross happens to be on public land, hence the usual culprits have sued to have it removed.
The basic story can easily be found by Googling, and yesterday there was [...]
Still the best
Posted in New York City on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was growing up in New York City, the Empire State Building was touted as being the true embodiment of New York, its essence so to speak. Well, it’s hard to argue with that. After all, the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world at the time. And it [...]
Clunker wisdom
Posted in economy on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s Wall Street Journal, an excellent summary of why the “cash for clunkers” program didn’t work:
The basic fallacy of cash for clunkers is that you can somehow create wealth by destroying existing assets that are still productive, in this case cars that still work. Under the program, auto dealers were required to destroy the [...]
So that’s what they call appeasement these days
Posted in Tyranny on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time since 1991, the Dalai Lama will not be invited to see the president on his visit to Washington. Even the WaPo gets it right, although with perhaps unintended sarcasm:
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai [...]
Nuclear fools
Posted in Idiotarians on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop N.T. “Tom” Wright is a liberal Anglican. That’s not exactly redundant, but pretty close. Theologically, as best I understand it, Bishop Wright is a stalwart defender of the Trinity, which puts him to the far right in Church of England circles. Politically, though, he seems to be a [...]
“a high honor”
Posted in Tyranny on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
he Empire State Building has been lit up to celebrate 60 years of communist tyranny in China. Does this honor the people of China? Does this honor the tens of millions killed by the Chinese regime during the past 60 years?
According to at least one fool, yes. From [...]
Apartheid
Posted in Arabs, Israel on September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is timely, after the hate-fest that just went on at Turtle Bay in New York at the United Nations General Conference. One of the now-normal slams against Israel is that it is an “apartheid” state. You know, like big, bad, South Africa before Saint Nelson freed them. My [...]
“I’m not interested in victory”
Posted in Iran on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The quotation is from B. H. Obama, currently taking a sabbatical from community organizing and play-acting as president of the United States.
As reported at the Corner, this q&a on the topic of sanctioning rogue state Iran for its blatant nuclear weapons program:
Reporter: What kind of sanctions, at all, would have bite with Iran?
Obama: This isn’t [...]
The 800 lb. Taliban in the U.N. General Assembly Room
Posted in Afghanistan on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Nate Beeler ‘toon, from The Examiner.
Isn’t he cute?
Posted in International on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, those frisky socialist nutballs. Manuel Zelaya, the constitutionally ousted president of Honduras, is holed up like the raton he is in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya was ousted for trying an end-around on the people of Honduras. They, being the lumpen proles, just wouldn’t go along with remaking [...]
Obamarrhoids
Posted in Afghanistan on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, Derb, don’t be shy, tell us what you really think. Obamarrhoids is a new one to me; I’ve always preferred Obamatons, strongly implying that those who follow Dear Leader Barack have, at the very least, drunk deeply of the Kool Aid.
From John Derbyshire at the Corner, a plaint about the fecklessness of Obama [...]
