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Try to Act Surprised

Posted on | March 28, 2011 | 36 Comments

You know how, when somebody gives you a gift and for some reason you already knew what they were going to give you, as a courtesy you make a point of acting surprised anyway?

“A sweater! Wow! Aunt Mary, how thoughtful of you!”

Byron York just gave you a sweater:

Evidence is emerging that United States forces are waging war in Libya on behalf of rebels whose ranks include jihadis who fought against the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Right. Like we didn’t see that one coming.

Also, Obama gave his big Libya speech, which was drunkblogged by VodkaPundit, who may or may not have gotten a perfect score while playing “Barack’s Bullshit Rationalization Bingo.”

UPDATE: Any excuse to drop bombs will always satisfy Bill Kristol, but I’m sticking with my gut-hunch instinct that, if this war was actually good for America, Obama would be 100% against it.

It’s like with John Kerry. When he voted for the Iraq invasion, that should have been a big red-flag warning that it was a bad idea. It was only after we’d already invaded, and Kerry turned against the war he’d voted for, that I was 100% in favor of the war. We should always try our best to win any war that John Kerry opposes, and never support any war if John Kerry is in favor of it.

Here’s an entire op-ed column by John Kerry about what a humdinger nifty war this Libya thing is. That’s how you know it’s going to be a complete disaster.

UPDATE: Linked by Republican Redefined, Uncoverage, Practical State and Ed Driscoll — thanks! — and welcome Instapundit readers!


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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Would I be laughed out of here if I wondered if this is the reason why he finally went in to Libya?

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    I watched the first fifteen minutes before my eyes glazed over, plus I had to go pick up my granddaughter from color guard practice at the HS, then take her to the CVS for some female things…jeez, I wish she’d get her Mother or Grandmother to take her shopping.

  • JeffS

    No.

  • JeffS

    I didn’t watch O!bama at all. I was too busy with more important things, like trimming my toe nails.

  • Anonymous

    I guess they figured, since you’d just spent fifteen minutes staring at a douchebag, you were ready to go down “that aisle”.

  • Anonymous

    take her to the CVS for some female things

    Yeesh. Even worse: Being sent to buy “female things” for the womenfolk. I remember wandering the “Feminine Products” aisle at the supermarket, having written down the exact style of “product” my wife wanted, thin maxipads with wings or whatever. All these ladies with their shopping carts pushing past me — “Excuse me.” “Sorry, my fault.” — while I desperately scanned the shelves then grabbed what I hoped was the correct product and headed to the checkout.

    So then you try to stand in line calmly, confidently and casually, as if you hadn’t any sense of embarrassment that you’re a man holding a package of thin maxipads with wings. Then you get to the register and, of course, the cashier is an attractive young woman, so now you’re really striking the Clint Eastwood pose, a macho posture intended to convey (wordlessly) the message: “Just a guy buying feminine hygiene products. You got a problem with that, pal?”

    It takes a tough man to be a husband sometimes.

  • http://twitter.com/alwaysfiredup alwaysfiredup

    Is this where we squeal “ewww, cooties!”? Male Kotex-ophobia is quite something to see.

  • Anonymous

    Male Kotex-ophobia is quite something to see.

    Except nobody actually saw any such thing when I was sent to purchase “feminine things.” No, as far as any casual observer could tell, I was completely at ease with this experience. Utterly stoic — not one visible flinch. As casual as if I’d been buying a 10-pound sack of charcoal briquettes for the backyard grill.

    It would have taken a trained expert to spot my dilated pupils, the gleam of cold sweat on my forehead and the rapid throbbing of my carotid artery.

  • johnl

    Don’t hold back Stacey. Tell us what you really think.

  • johnl

    More evidence for a disaster, John McCain weighs in as a supporter. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mccain-praises-obamas-libya-speech_555624.html

  • JeffS

    Oh, God, John Effin’ Kerry supports the war, er, ah, kinetic military action in Libya?

    We. Are. So. Screwed.

  • Anonymous

    Totally predictable: Any potential conflict anywhere in the world will inspire John McCain to demand bombing immediately and call for a re-instatement of the draft. He’s probably got a “Remember the Maine!” tattoo on his ass.

  • JeffS

    And now John McCain. Sigh. I need a drink.

    But I suspect that tattoo actually says “Remember the Alamo!”, Stacey.

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  • Anonymous

    “54-40 or Fight!”

  • MrPaulRevere

    Stacy, have you seen this profile of Barrett Brown? If not it’s must read material: http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2011/April/How_Barrett_Brown_Helped_Overthrow_the_Government_of_Tunisia.aspx

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    ‘Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute’ – I couldn’t resist.

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  • Anonymous

    I assume that the frontyard grill is gas? Mine is too.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I was going to write something about that over the weekend, but didn’t get around to it.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    At this rate maybe Barrett will attempt to “primary” Obama.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Actually, it turned out to be some kind of makeup or something. I was waiting in the car while she went in and finally went in after about twenty minutes…”What the heck is taking so long?” She…” Well, you said I could only spend ten bucks and the foundation was over ten so I’m looking at shampoo.”

    Being married with three daughters, five granddaughters,( even the dog’s a bitch), I’m not embarrassed in the least about buying those unmentionable feminine products. Just another object in the shopping cart.

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  • Malclave

    Byron York just gave you a sweater

    I’m shocked, shocked! to find that gambling is going on at Rick’s!

  • Malclave

    Byron York just gave you a sweater

    I’m shocked, shocked! to find that gambling is going on at Rick’s!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Quoted from and Linked to at:
    I Am Gomer Pyleacus!

  • MarkJ

    “Loose lips sink ships.”

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  • Kat

    My husband always said buying “female things” never bothered him, because it wasn’t like anybody was going to think he was buying them for himself.

  • Jason_2001

    Hahaha! Great post, read it 10 minutes ago and I am still chuckling

  • ed

    “Scoobby-Doo where are you?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sauer-Thirtyeight/100000080388186 Sauer Thirtyeight

    You think YOU have it tough. I used to design the machinery which made the things. It was a tough job – I never saw a man go into the R&D lab. The R&D women would come out and tell the design engineers – all men, naturally – that if we would make a machine which put cotton HERE and string THERE, instead of string HERE and cotton THERE, well, that might be useful. It was all very mysterious.

  • http://profiles.google.com/humanitarian2112 John Smith

    Seriously? I always love it when I’m sent for the feminine products. They ask if I need a bag, I respond “No, thanks, I’ll eat them on the way.”

    Too easy.

  • qwerty

    http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf

    Read pages 8-9 to see where they came from and why they don’t want us.

    Figure 6 on page 12 is good

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