It’s 5 a.m. and I Haven’t Been Able to Sleep All Night

Last night, just after 11, I decided to go to the store.
And hit a deer.
The car that my son worked so hard to fix?
The car I just spent $700 to fix?
Totalled.
The insurance probably won’t pay as much as we owed on it.
So . . . the trip I’d planned to Delaware today is canceled.
Probably no BlogCon, no [...]

Barny Frank And The Right Wing Effort

by Smitty (h/t Gateway Pundit)
So what we have is this right wing effort to remove any constructive role for the public sector.

If there is anyone who should be granted a doctorate in the PIT, the Progressive Inversion Tongue, it should be Barny Frank, and this phrase alone is an example of why.
Let’s zoom in on [...]

Paco Enterprises Takes Us All To Task

by Smitty
Paco eloquently makes the argument that BHO is our common cross:
Permit me to anticipate a complaint: “Hold the phone, there, amigo! I didn’t vote for him! What do I have to repent of?” Let us be rigorously fair in the matter: we are all to blame. Who among us doesn’t have a gullible friend [...]

Somebody Has To Stand Up For The SEIU

by Smitty (h/t Nice Deb)

Everyone is giving the SEIU the Dan Quayle treatment for inability to spell ‘American’. Joke’s on you. SEIU representative Jessica Jacksonville* reveals the full sign should be understood as:
Standing Up For The
Actual
Majoritarian
Equal
Redistribution
Community
Activist
Neo-socialist
Dream
For certain ‘nightmare’ values of ‘dream’, of course.
And, yes, we can be confident that the Secretary of ‘Edumacation’ approved this [...]

Restoring Honor: Thank You, Warriors

by Smitty
REFLECTING POOL, WASHINGTON, DC–It’s an hour into the Restoring Honor event. What a great undertaking. This is a great exercise in American Exceptionalism. Beck’s religiosity is right out front, but mostly ecumenical. While no mention is made of anyone in office, one wonders if the monitors carry the word ‘Faith’ to [...]

Grinder Reminder

by Smitty
Via IsraellyCool, we have this gem:

While most people know about the ‘farmer tan’ on the arm, many don’t know that the parade field at a Navy boot camp is called a ‘grinder’. You get shaved bald, and walk around in the sun a few hours, and the result, for those of European extraction, [...]

Attending A Uniquely Cool School

by Smitty
The Naval Academy has a special claim to fame among American schools, and it was an honor to attend. Thank you, taxpayers! It was here that Ensign Albert Michelson conducted experiments to determine the speed of light with reasonable accuracy, which informed the work of Albert Einstein. Should we name more [...]

What Did I Say?

“Dan Riehl is from New Jersey, as I often point out, and my advice to anyone who asks about him is always, ‘Don’t f— with Dan Riehl.’”
Please examine what Dan does to Conor Friedersdorf in this Human Events column and pay especial attention to this:
More troubling and misguided, if not dangerous, are his tactics. Mislabeled [...]

Is The Government My Shepherd?

by Smitty
Via Insty, John Samples at Cato says “They Should Earn Our Trust“.
He concludes that these signs of distrust “point toward a widely shared conviction that the country’s public and private leadership is protecting its own interest at the expense of average (and even comfortable) Americans.”
Via HotAir Gene Healy at the Examiner starts off by [...]

Slight FMJRA Delay

by Smitty
I’m off to support my local candidate, Patrick Murray, in the Retire Jim Moran effort. Will get the FMJRA finalized and posted early this afternoon. You’re encouraged to submit links if it looks like my flawed system for crediting our awesome readers is flawed to the point of having flaws.
Remember: it’s important [...]

Dear Mrs. Other McCain

As you know, I’m actually on a plane to California now, and this was written in advance for posting while I’m offline. The whole “traveling campaign correspondent” thing is kind of fun, but it’s tough being out on the road so much. Anyway, don’t forget I love you.

In Addition To Ron Miller, You Need To Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali

by Smitty
Pat in Shreveport has a post concerning BHO’s Ramadan message. Not to distract too greatly from this blog or Ron Miller, you need to check out Nomad.
I hope to meet Ayaan and get an autograph in my copy of Nomad, from which I’ll pull some excellent quotations Real Soon Now. To characterize [...]

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