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Ungrateful Limeys!

Posted on | July 27, 2012 | 18 Comments

The British press and politicians are having an Olympic field day at Mitt Romney’s expense, with assistance of U.S. media.

Never mind that we twice bailed them out against the Huns, eh? Maybe they’re still pissed off about us sending them Madonna.

Category: Great Britain

Didn’t A Horse Pull The Cart With The Stones That Built The Appian Way?

Posted on | July 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty


So much of our current political challenge seems to be overcoming the cart-horse reversal that is Progressivism:
People aren’t necessarily that stupid; we’ve just been giving the benefit of the doubt to these self-proclaimed ‘experts’ for too long.

Category: Uncategorized

#YouDidntDoThat Because You Were Buried In Jacked-Up Regulations

Posted on | July 27, 2012 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Representative Mike Kelly on the topic of HR 4078:

To provide that no agency may take any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate is equal to or less than 6.0 percent.

In fairness to #OccupyResoluteDesk, enacting this would severely limit the amount of kickbacks, graft, carve-outs, chiseling, thuggery, corruption, patronage, favors, handouts, grease, vigorish, and influencing that the administration could engage in.

Who is turbulent Congressman, and how dare he limit the administration to doing its job?

via The Blaze and NVAPatriot

Update: oh and here is Gerry Connolly, doing Virginia proud:

House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Darrell Issa asked Connolly if he would object to the typo being fixed, since the Republicans unanimously requested it. Connolly chortled triumphantly, “This member will reserve the right to object at the appropriate time.”
Genuinely pissed off, Issa retorted, “Nothing could be more insincere than to pick on professional staff on a typographical error. If we have to … go to the Rules Committee, I guess we will, but I’m really sorry to see that kind of an attitude on what the gentleman and all of us know was simply a typographical error.”
Connolly then played ball like a girl, whimpering to the chair, “Did this member hear … the distinguished chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee characterize a member as insincere?”

Chris Perkins for Congress

Sad embarrassments like Gerry Connolly must go!

Update: Hogewash is onboard.

Update II: Red Alexandria makes a good point, although whether or not Connolly actually read the bill by his very own self would be an interesting question to ask of the man.

Update III: Not sure I agree with Bill Quick, but that too is an interesting point. Ah, the joys of enforcing perfectionism against the opponent. . .

Update IV: Jackie Wellfonder brings it: #YouDidntDoThat Because You’re Betting on Government, Not We the People.

Category: GOP

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.27.12

Posted on | July 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Syrian Legislator From Aleppo Defects To Turkey

Wounded five-year-old carried to aid station in Aleppo

State Department accuses Assad regime of planning a massacre in rebel-held city

London Mayor Chides Romney Over Olympics Remarks
Boris Johnson unhappy with comments that London isn’t ready

High Winds Sweep Through Midwest, Northeast
Tornado strikes Elmira, NY



POLITICS
DEA Arrests 91, Seizes Over $36 Million In Synthetic Drug Crackdown

Special Agent Joe Arabit talks with reporters about Operation Log Jam

Also seized: synthetic marijuana, precursor chemicals

Pew Poll: Voters Don’t Care About Romney’s Mormonism

Philly Alderman Slams Chick-Fil-A, But Happy To Let City Cash Their Checks



Florida Lt. Gov Apologizes For Saying Lesbians Don’t Look Like Her

WH Press Secretary Says Obama Not Going To Push For Gun Control Legislation

Pennsylvania Auditor General Calls For Changes At Penn State

O’Malley To Announce Special Session For Gambling



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Slightly As Equities, Euro Gain: NYMEX $88.97, Brent $104.38
Asian Stocks Climb As Draghi Vows To Save Euro
Facebook Meets Targets, Shares Slump
Drought Has Commodity Prices Sizzling
Samsung Widens Lead Over Apple In Smartphone Market Share
Contra Weill, Former Senator Gramm Argues Breaking Up Banks Won’t Make Them Safer
Spanish Unemployment Nears 25%
Amazon Has Steepest Profit Drop In A Decade After Warehouse Splurge
Early iPad, iPhone Prototypes Revealed In Apple-Samsung Trial
Google Offers Ultrafast Fiber-Optic Internet In KC For $70/month
Yammer To Remain Free After Microsoft Purchase
Crysis 3 On Wii U a Possibility
Apple Disappoints At First Black Hat Conference
Valve Boss Calls Windows 8 A Catastrophe



SPORTS
On World Stage, Culture Clashes Inevitable

Saudi judoka told she can't wear hijab

Much whining from Muslims, complaints from others over IOC gaffes

Time For Sox Is Now

Pirates Prospect Homers On First Pitch, Astros Fall Again, 5-3

NBA 2012-13 Schedule Features Early NY Clash, Christmas Finals Rematch

Tebow Makes Splash On First Day Of Jets’ Training Camp; Avoids Talking About QB Controversy

Harvey Fans 11 In Debut As Mets Top Snakes 3-1, Stop Skid

Nationals Hit Twenty Games Over .500 With 8-2 Battering Of Brewers; Tied For Best Record In Baseball



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Mad Men” Creator Weighs In On Peggy’s Future, Season 7 Outlook

Eilzabeth Moss and Jessica Pare

Also, the mega-Megan backlash

US Beach Volleyball Players Refuse To Ditch Bikinis For Olympics

Kristen Bell & Fiance: Justin Bieber Not The Best Beighbor



“Grey’s Anatomy” Exclusive: Eric Dane Checks Out

Russell Brand Avoids Jail For Smashing iPhone

More Stuff About Kristen Stewart Cheating Than You Ever Wanted To Know

“New Girl” Casting Scoop: Meet Zooey Deschanel’s New Love

“Cloud Atlas” Trailer With Halle Berry, Tom Hanks Hits The Web



FOREIGNERS
PRC Charges Bo Xilai’s Wife With Murder In Death Of UK Businessman
Turkey Says They’ll Act To Stop Kurdish Rule In Syria
More Empty Stomachs For Norks As Kim Plans Reforms
PRC Raises Beijing Flooding Body Count To 77 After Public Outcry
Raul Castro Says Cuba Willing To Sit Down With US
Iran Nuke Talks Limp Forward
Extradition-Wary Enviropest Watson Jumps Bail In Germany, Flees Country
Putin To Discuss Kuriles With Japanese Foreign Minister



BLOGS & STUFF
Washington Times: UN Gun Grab Flops
PJ Tatler: Romney’s Rookie Mistake In London
Beltway Confidential: You Can Favor Gay Marriage And Still Believe In The Right To Oppose Gay Marriage
Weasel Zippers: Mumbles Menino Admits He Can’t Block Chick-Fil-A From Boston
American Thinker: Rahmbo Says Chick-Fil-A Values Not Chicago Values
Volokh Conspiracy: Chicago Alderman Doubles Down On First Amendment Violation
Michael Totten: Like It Or Not, Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital
Lonely Conservative: Gee, MF Global’s Jon Corzine Sure Is Tight With The Folks At The Department Of Justice
Legal Insurrection: WaPo Columnist Fears Voters Will Think It’s Okay To Vote Against Obama “And Not Be Thought Of As Racist”
Jim Geraghty: “We Tried Our Plan And It Worked” Going To Hurt Obama Just As Much As “You Didn’t Build That”
Joshuapundit: The WSJ’s Washington Wire Misrepresents In Order To Slam Romney
Gateway Pundit: Romney Tells London Supporters He’s Looking Forward To Having Churchill’s Bust In The Oval Office Again
NRO Corner: Don’t Tell Me How To Defend My Family
Hit & Run: Kid’s Hot Dog Stand Shut Down By City Before It Even Opens

Category: Live at Five

Alienated and Angry and Arrogant

Posted on | July 26, 2012 | 25 Comments

We have recently been presented with the puzzle of James Holmes, who has been arrested for the massacre that killed 12 people and wounded dozens more at a Colorado movie theatre. You have to shake your head in dismay at reading stories like this:

Holmes was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. . . .
It gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive neuroscience program at the University of Colorado in Denver. Holmes was one of six neuroscience students at the school to get the grant money.

Then there was the report that Holmes had sent a package to a psychiatry professor detailing his mass-murder plans. At some point, we’ll get the full background on how Holmes went from being a promising science student to being a cold-blooded killer.

Tonight, however, I’m thinking about Lee Harvey Oswald.

A few days ago, I explained my idea for a book about the 15 years in American history from 1948 to 1963, from the re-election of Harry Truman to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This idea was inspired, as I said, by Robert Bork’s observation that the radical uprising of the 1960s could not have succeeded as swiftly and easily as it did, if the Establishment had not “already been eaten hollow” by liberal beliefs.

Well, what about Lee Harvey Oswald? Wouldn’t Oswald’s life during this era provide some interesting episodes for the narrative history I have in mind? So I went to Amazon and found a 1978 book, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, by Edward Jay Epstein.

In 1948, when he was nine years old, Oswald’s mother divorced his stepfather, a divorce that had the effect of drasttically lowering the family’s socio-economic status. By the time he was 15, Oswald became an avowed Marxist, and at age 20 defected to the Soviet Union.

This was a rather extreme manifestation of alienation. What happened? Oswald later said that he became attracted to Marxism after he was handed a Communist Party pamphlet by a woman protesting the execution of Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953, and Oswald was living in New York at that time, so this seems plausible.

One other interesting tidbit: Oswald’s favorite TV program was I Led Three Lives, based on the story of Herbert Philbrick, who infiltrated the Communist Party for the FBI.

While the Communists were the bad guys and the FBI agent was the good guy in the series — which aired 1953-56 — it would appear that Oswald identified with the villains.

Think about that. And consider something else: Over and over again, those who encountered Oswald described him as “arrogant.”

Oswald was intensely alienated from American society, he was very arrogant, and he identified with his nation’s Communist enemies.

Lee Harvey Oswald is, of course, just one character in a very large historical narrative of an era which preceded the eruption of Sixties radicalism, but he strikes me as a sort of symbolic harbinger.

American have become unfortunately accustomed to tragedies inflicted on innocents by angry, alienated young men. Where did it begin?

 

Category: History

World’s Youngest Blogger At 1 Year: Already A Big Planner

Posted on | July 26, 2012 | 15 Comments

The World's Youngest Blogger expounds on his plan to rebuild America using Legos and blocks.

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Romney Busted? No, Obama

Posted on | July 26, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty (via JWF on Twitter)

Well, Romney is at least showing interest in being busted:

At an event in London, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, “I’m looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again.”

Romney’s trip to Ol’ Blighty might help to explain the attempt to play an Anglo-Saxon race card. Breitbart, however, reports that the Anglo-Saxon kerfuffle was Rancid Pile of Hooey #8,442 from #OccupyResoluteDesk:

Obama’s desperate Media Palace Guards don’t want to talk about the flood of bad economic news we’ve been hit with this week, and they surely don’t want to talk about Obama’s revealing “you didn’t build that” comment for another day. So, ever in search of a new distraction-narrative, what we are now witnessing before our very eyes is the media ginning up a coordinated attack against Romney based on an unsourced quote that the Romney campaign has already denied.
In an email the Romney campaign just told me: “Flat out. Wasn’t our campaign.”
Won’t matter though; the media has a failed president to save.

Will not November come, so we can rid ourselves of this turbulent turdmonger?
More at The Corner:

Unfortunately, the alleged statement by the unnamed Romney adviser, if it actually happened as relayed, distracted attention from the underlying reality behind the sentiment expressed, and by the unfortunate choice of an outdated term, let the statement become the issue. To be fair, the adviser was probably somebody who followed the European financial press closely, where the term Anglo-Saxon is a standard and uncontroversial term for describing the English-speaking economies, especially in the French press. However, in a campaign, nobody is going to stop to be fair.

Update: linked at Hogewash

Category: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

“We Tried Our Plan And. . .” “We Don’t Have A Definitive Solution. . .We Just Don’t Like Yours”

Posted on | July 26, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

While this new Romney ad is good. . .

I think the mail on #OccupyResoluteDesk’s speechifying is better answered by TurboTax Timmy, back in February:

It should be increasingly clear to all that, while America is not a failed state, we are under a failed Administration.

Category: Barack Obama
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