Hey, Don’t Kid Yourself, Those Things Sting Like Hell

In Obama’s defense, it was a killer bee and it kept landing on his teleprompter.

Obama The Naif

 

So, was Obama sincere? Did he spent 20 years as an intimate of Wright and a parishioner of his church without ever having an inkling that the guy is a wacko hatemonger?

If so, can you think of anything more terrifying than sending such a naïf to the White House while there’s a war on?

Well, yeah, they could elect Jimmy Carter again.

The Future Of The Republican Party

And potential McCain running-mate? Governor Bobby Jindal.

This is the kind of change I can live with.

Friend And Mentor Or Just His Pastor - You Decide

Because evidently Barry cannot.

So Many Joke Possibilities

All with “rear-end” in them. Feel free to provide a few in the comments.

Things To Do With Matzah

For my friend Neil. Yeah I know it’s been a while since Passover, but I just found the thing, so cut me some slack, okay?

To Help You Get Through Hump-Day

Groovy Dancing Girl

As an aside, she appears to be a ginger. Is this what gingers do when they are bored?

UPDATE:

This song and video are addictive. Much like potato chips and gingers I imagine, once you have one you just can’t stop.

One Day

One day,
long, long ago…….

there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or
bitch.

But this was a long time ago…….

and it was just
that one day.

The End

Hat-tip to my friend Chuck.

I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

Obama Then: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”

Obama Now: “They [Wright's remarks] offend me, they rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced, and that’s what I am doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.”

It appears to me that the only “change” here is the amazing way Wright magically changed during the past few weeks compared to how he was for those 20 years Obama was attending his church. And it appears the only “hope” here is Obama’s hope that Wright will shut the hell up and fade into obscurity.

Hope and Change - I don’t think those words mean what we think they mean.

Jug Town

  

This reminds me of heading down to the Yazoo Brewery and picking-up a half-gallon growler. And I mean that in a good way.  Yeah, yeah, I know one is wine and the other beer, but dreams spring from no one particular alcoholic beverage.

Hat-tip to Blowing Smoke.

Feed An American Liberal’s Hybrid, Starve A Third-Worlder

A few posts ago I said I was a global food-shortage denier. I stand by my denial, in that I don’t believe that global warming, or “climate change” as the left loves to call it now (because it is harder to define and therefore easier to defend), is the cause of any global food shortage. However, I do find this interesting. It seems that global warming may have caused food shortages - if by global warming you mean the overreaction to the alleged threat of global warming has caused food shortages.

Unlike “global warming,” food rioting is a planet-wide phenomenon, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Ivory Coast to the tortilla rampages in Mexico and even pasta protests in Italy.

So what happened?

Well, Western governments listened to the eco-warriors, and introduced some of the “wartime measures” they’ve been urging. The EU decreed that 5.75 percent of petrol and diesel must come from “biofuels” by 2010, rising to 10 percent by 2020. The U.S. added to its 51 cents-per-gallon ethanol subsidy by mandating a five-fold increase in “biofuels” production by 2022.

The result is that big government accomplished at a stroke what the free market could never have done: They turned the food supply into a subsidiary of the energy industry. When you divert 28 percent of U.S. grain into fuel production, and when you artificially make its value as fuel higher than its value as food, why be surprised that you’ve suddenly got less to eat? Or, to be more precise, it’s not “you” who’s got less to eat but those starving peasants in distant lands you claim to care so much about.

Heigh-ho. In the greater scheme of things, a few dead natives keeled over with distended bellies is a small price to pay for saving the planet, right? Except that turning food into fuel does nothing for the planet in the first place. That tree the U.S. Marines are raising on Iwo Jima was most likely cut down to make way for an ethanol-producing corn field: Researchers at Princeton calculate that to date the “carbon debt” created by the biofuels arboricide will take 167 years to reverse.

The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. On April 15, the Independent, the impeccably progressive British newspaper, editorialized: “The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world’s environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?”

Eh, my conscience is clear, I drive a big-ass gasoline-guzzling SUV.

QUESTION: When Did Racism Become Trendy?

ANSWER:  When Barack Hussein Obama decided to run for president with the support of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his long-time mentor (we’re talking 20 years).

Now sit back and imagine for a moment. What would the response be, by blacks and the liberal elite media, if a white person were giving this speech about the innate differences between blacks and whites?  Come on, you don’t have to imagine very hard, do you?  It’s happened before in our history.  Racist whites used that excuse to segregate schools and diners and bathrooms not too long ago if you remember.

And good men like Martin Luther King, Jr. marched against that kind of thinking and policy.

But now, it’s okay evidently.  More than okay.  It’s the new trendy thing. 

The Obama thing.

Oh yes, and before anyone jumps on me for using the words of Reverend Wright against Obama, you should know that Barry himself said his relationship with this racist, anti-American, anti-Semite is a legitimate political issue. Of course, he then got pissed when McCain used it as such, but what do you expect from a guy who hangs with the likes of Reverend Wright.

Obama is not bringing us together folks.  He is driving us apart.

UPDATE:

Tons of stuff in the blogosphere about Wright’s racist speech (in the video above).  Most of it saying that it is killing Obama’s chances of getting the nomination, much less winning the general election, but then there is this.

And now, for a really far-out theory… Wright goes out, makes even more outrageous remarks, and it gives Obama the opportunity to finally sever the ties. A statement like, “I loved this man, but I cannot abide what he is saying now… I am leaving that church and must disavow Jeremiah Wright.”

Issue resolved. Obama is given credit for being a healer, for a courageous move, for standing up against divisiveness at great personal emotional expense, etc. …

Hmmm, stranger things have happened. And while it would certainly help him with the media and his supporters in their talking-points, I don’t believe the typically bitter, gun-toting, God-clinging, white person is going to buy it.  What with our brains being wired differently and all.

** I also corrected some typos and added some clarification. 

UPDATE - 4/29/08:

Obama threw Wright under the bus today. You just knew he would now that he is a real threat. He’s lying though - he knew what kind of man this guy was long before this got into the public eye this year. He has known it for two decades. And nothing Wright said yesterday is any worse than what he said earlier this year, yet Obama didn’t react then. Now it’s all politics.

He’s no better than Wright as far as I am concerned. But let’s see how this plays out. The media will no doubt say he has finally put it all behind him now, but frankly I don’t see the American people buying it. I’m beginning to think Hillary has a very real chance.

Rambling

Loving wife and I went to see Leatherheads yesterday. It kinda sucked. Not major suckage, but definitely suckage. It’s an HBO kind of movie.

After the movie we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner. The food was great, but the drinks - margaritas - sucked. We noticed this a few months ago when we went there so it must be a training thing instead of just one bad bartender. Next time we go it will be beer for me and wine for her.

Does that ever happen to you? You know, you go to a place and either the food sucks or the drinks or the service or something and you swear you won’t ever go there again but then time goes by and you end up back there remembering your pledge as you suffer through the same thing again? It happens to me quite a bit. One of the hazards of a poor memory I guess.

Anyway, there was a lot of suckage last night.

The bad kind.

Quit thinking dirty thoughts.

Sheesh.

And when you go out do you worry about violence? I rarely do. Maybe it’s because I am armed most of the time, but our city is pretty peaceful and I just don’t think about it. Well, it seems foreigners think we are peaceful too. America that is. At least more peaceful than Britain, anyway. Makes sense to me, although it may be because of more than our guns; it may be because we are just nicer and not as drunk. Or maybe just nicer drunks.

Oh yes, back to the movies. They previewed the upcoming Sex and the City movie and loving wife wants to go see it. Not with me thank goodness, because I am pretty sure it is going to suck (again there’s that suckage). Full disclosure here and with the risk of casting doubt on my manliness, I have seen every episode of the series. Don’t give me that look, it was like a soap opera - you see one or two and you get hooked. I just think too much time has passed, both in terms of the ages of these women and in terms of the trendiness of their lives, for the movie to be worth a damn. It will be a cliche. Anyway, That’s What She Blogged talks about some of her favorite Sex and the City episodes in anticipation of the new movie. I hope she won’t be disappointed.

I know this is jumping from subject to subject, but my sons are done with college for the summer, so this is appropriate. It’s how I remember college anyway.

Yohzaa!

I mentioned John Adams in an earlier post. Fantastic book. Remarkable, no great, man. Arguably the greatest of men of that time. Read the book.

Obama Pastorale 2 by Mr. Goodbar.

That’s What She Said

Over and over again.

I Got Back Home

Late last night. My two flights back from New Jersey were just as uneventful and timely as the ones going up there, so I don’t really have any complaints. Northwest did a good job or I got very lucky. Either way, kudos to them for making the trip as painless as air travel can be. It was a very busy week and I am a little tired from the training, which was mostly field work and just a little class time.

I’m too old for this stuff I think.

I know.

I’ve paid very little attention to current events or politics this past week. It was quite nice, actually, but I do feel like I am very behind on my reading. Hillary won a big primary, pretty much insuring that she will take the fight all the way to the convention.

Good.

I can’t wait to watch the fireworks.

Obama continues his chameleon campaign, changing colors and his website links as fast as people can find the anti-semitism terrorist-supporting messages in them. Will the media ever notice? Probably not.

I did catch something on the news about a food shortage. The media is all over it pushing panic, of course. I don’t believe a word of it. Neither should you.

I guess I am now both a Global Warming Denier and a Global Food-Shortage Denier.

Cool.

Did I mention my nice two and a half hour chat with the 23 year old very cute, very sweet, very classy Southern-belle blonde from Louisiana who was on her way to New York City? No? How silly of me. Well, it’s a long story - too long for here - but let’s just say I had a great time and never once opened my book or turned on my portable DVD player. And just so you know, I gave her several opportunities to ignore me and sleep or read or just look out the window, but she declined and just kept on chatting. No doubt in awe of the awesomeness of me.

My lawn is up to my knees. Almost. And it is raining so I won’t get to mow it until it gets even higher. Sigh. It’s also cold here today. What the hell? And they opened out pool while I was gone, too.

Did any of you watch the John Adams series on HBO? I did. Fantastic film-making. I also picked-up a copy of the book** while sitting around the airport. Check both out.

Okay, well, that’s it for the moment. Things to do.

BTW, this is an old picture but it is what I do when I am in training. Like I said, I am too old for this.

** Link fixed.