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Let’s Try To Help Hah-vuhd Further Beclown Itself

Posted on | April 12, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Via the Blaze, word of the new course you can take:

According to the Harvard course catalog, “Understanding Obama” is taught by the president’s longtime mentor Charles Ogletree. Here’s how the course is described:

This reading group will focus on the way in which race, religion, and politics have impacted the development of President Obama as a leader. We will explore his views as a biracial child, his time as a student at Harvard Law School, the successes and failures of his political campaigns, and the way religion and his views on faith nearly derailed his campaign. Finally, time will be spent analyzing the challenges he faces as President of the United States in establishing both his domestic and global policies.

This blog would like to extend a joy-buzzer wielding hand to the Yahd, with a few other course suggestions:

  • Just Deconstructing the Difference Between Social Justice, Racial Justice, and Plain Old Justice-Justice

    This applied Alinsky lab course will help successful Community Organizers take their game to another level by offering practical off-campus learning experiences. Students will take field trips to other states where tragedies have occurred and apply advanced propaganda means to scuttle the truth and substitute alternate narratives in its place. The capstone project will involve simulated fomenting of a race war.

  • Barack Obama’s Startling Intellectual Sports Mastery

    This course will help equally nebbish students understand that the real arena for sports is in the mind. It’s quite alright to be a mediocre basketball player, a general embarrassment on the golf course, and stand accused of throwing like a little girl in your mom jeans. This course will nevertheless give you the chops you need to sound Cosellian in your sporting erudition, while you feel like a triathlete about yourself. Pre-requisite: Stuart Smalley 101.

  • From Voodoo to Doodoo: Postmodern Economics

    This course is about applied prevarication using bogus statistics, non-Tuftian displays of quantitative information, and euphemisms for currency inflation. Students will disregard facts with a nihilistic regard for reality and truth, and instead focus on the pseudo-optical discipline of public rectal solar projection. Guest lecturer “Zimbabwe” Ben Bernanke is back to offer fascinating, opaque insights into how an audience can be both enriched and beggared, as he simultaneously fills students with ‘knowledge’ while sapping the value of their specie.

Update: linked at Daily Pundit

Category: Barack Obama, humor

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.12.12

Posted on | April 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Prosecutor Files Second-Degree Murder Charges In Trayvon Martin Slaying

George Zimmerman

Zimmerman turns himself in at county jail, intends to plead not guilty; experts say murder rap will be tough for prosecutors to convict on

Lull In Fighting After Syria Deadline
No pullback by Assad loyalists, but no firing in former combat zones either
Related: Erdogan Says NATO An Option To Defend Border With Syria
May invoke Article 5 if Syria keeps firing across the border


Indonesia’s Tsunami Warning System Passes Quake Test
Some panic but little damage



POLITICS
Politifact Finds Romney’s Claim Of Womens’ Job Losses True But Embarrassing To Obama

Mitt Romney

Post, AP beclown themselves yet again

No Parole For Charles Manson This Time Either

FDA Calls For Voluntary Restrictions On Livestock Antibiotics



Richlands, NC’s Chief Of Police Loses Gun, Badge

CNN’s Hilary Rosen Slams Ann Romney, Gets Bipartisan Smackdown On Twitter

Debate Reveals Little Difference Between Lugar, Mourdock

Ron Paul Not Planning To Endorse Romney Any Time Soon



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Inches Toward $102 On Weak Dollar
Feds Allege Apple, E-Book Publishers Fixed Prices
Stocks Make U-Turn, Rising After Yesterday’s Decline
Italy 3-Year Yields Seen Jumping At Auction
VW Conducting National Search To Fill Chattanooga Jobs
US Foreclosures Fall To Lowest Point Since 2007
Natural Gas Falls To Lowest Point In Decade
Solar Firm BrightSource Pulls IPO
IBM Unveils PureSystems Private Cloud Packages
Microsoft Wins Restraining Order In Motorola Patent Case
Google Plus Gets Facebook-Like Makeover
Microsoft-Accenture Venture To Fluff Azure’s Clouds
Verizon To Start Charging For Cell Phone Upgrades
Amazon Now Lets You Trade In Used CDs



SPORTS
Bynum Plucks 30 Rebounds As Lakers Crush Spurs

16 points, 30 rebounds, one crushing win

No need for Kobe as Lakers romp 98-84

Flyers Erase 3-0 Deficit, Stun Pens In OT

Knicks Edge Bucks In Battle For Eighth Place

Persistent Kings Make Canucks Pay, Win 4-2


Lincecum, Giants Fall Hard In Colorado

Swisher’s Sayonara Homer Lifts Yanks Over O’s In 10th For Sweep

Strasburg Hits Benchmark, Picks Up Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Britney To Get Record $15 Million Payday To Serve As “X Factor” Judge

Hollywood's latest power couple?

It’s a package deal: Brit’s fiance Jason Trawick will be credited as producer

Mr. Big Officially Off The Market

Marc Anthony Files For Divorce From J-Lo


Pop Princess Mollie King Finds Her Prince (Harry)

Kanye West Thinks K-Dash Is His Beyonce

Axl Rose Not Attending Rock & Roll HOF Ceremonies, Declines Induction

Denise Richards To Reunite With Charlie Sheen On Anger Management



FOREIGNERS
Strong Earthquake Strikes Off Mexican Coast
Japan’s Diet Passes Resolution Against Nork Launch; Patriot ABM Systems Deployed On Defense
Did Heywood Stash Bo Xilai’s Foreign Financial Secrets As Insurance?
PRC Papers Express Consensus On Purge: “Sacking Bo Xilai Is Right
New Frontiers Party Chief Park Geun-Hye Gets Credit For Party’s Surprising Win In Parliamentary Elections
Mugabe Looking Fit On Return From Singapore
Snap Elections For Greek Parliament Called For May 5
Cameron Says World Should “Get Behind Burma”



BLOGS & STUFF
The POH Diaries: Eric Holder Praises Al Sharpton, George Zimmerman Charged With Second Degree Murder
American Thinker: Is Gawker’s “Fox Mole” A Real Person?
Lonely Conservative: On Average, Obama’s White House Pays Women 18% Less Than Men
Weasel Zippers: Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairs Accuse Allen West Of “McCarthyism” After Communism Allegation
Legal Insurrection: Hillary Rosen – Ann Romney Never Worked A Day In Her Life
Texts From Hillary: TTYL
NewsBusters: CNN Uses Bogus Politifact Rating To Discredit Romney Campaign Claim
NRO corner: Obama v. Romney – Activism v. Leadership
Michelle Malkin: Don’t Do Business With Progressive Appeasers
Protein Wisdom: EPA Levels $438K In Fines, Mandatory “Environmental Projects” On School Bus Contractor For “Excessive Idling”
Jawa Report: Florida Atlantic U’s Jews Receive “Eviction Notices” To Leave Or Face Arrest

Category: Live at Five

Good News, Bad News

Posted on | April 12, 2012 | 16 Comments

Mitt Romney calls Rick Santorum and says, “Rick, I’ve got good news for you, and I’ve got bad news for you. Which do you want to hear first?”

Santorum says, “Well, gosh, Mitt, I just quit the race, and I’m still kinda bummed out. Guess I could use the good news first.”

Romney says, “OK, you’ll be glad to know, my advisers and I have been talking it over and, with all the hard feelings after that tough primary campaign, we think it’s really important to unify the party. So we want you to give a primetime speech at the convention in Tampa.”

Santorum says, “Wow, Mitt! Thanks! That’s really a great gesture, and I appreciate how much this will mean to getting conservatives fired up for the fall campaign. But . . . what’s the bad news?” Read more

Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum

Don’t Tell Michael Zak

Posted on | April 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

. . .but Leno had a genuinely funny tee-hee-hee on you-know-who. If the Grand Old Partisan finds out, I could be in deep Krugman.

Category: humor, Mitt Romney

A Couple Things Wrong, Jim Antle

Posted on | April 11, 2012 | 61 Comments

Jim Antle of the American Spectator gets almost everything right in this column about the 2012 campaign. His two most glaring errors:

Yet if Santorum had done just a bit better in Michigan and Ohio, we could be having a very different discussion right now. Santorum showed future conservative contenders how to go hunting where the ducks are. As the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat observed, a Republican like Bobby Jindal could take the Santorum coalition — Southerners, Midwesterners, evangelicals, Catholics, and Reagan Democrats — and build on it.

  1. Error: Never quote Ross Douchebag.
  2. Error: Bobby Jindal zigged when he should have zagged.
    I remember the Sept. 13 CNN Tea Party Express debate in Tampa, encountering Bobby Jindal as he exited the CNN tent outside the auditorium. Jindal had endorsed Rick Perry and was appearing on CNN as a Perry surrogate along with Objective Political Analyst Erick Erickson.

The Perry campaign was a predictable disaster — “The Phantom Menace” — and the way Jindal climbed aboard that bandwagon irritated me at the time. I’ve always liked Jindal, but Ross Douchebag’s idea that Jindal “could take the Santorum coalition” is based on the presumption that Santorum has no future plans for that coalition.

It’s one of those ideas Ivy-educated Boy Geniuses get, like “Tim Pawlenty, Conservative Alternative to Romney,” or “Second Look at Newt.”

Pundits like to think up clever ideas that impress their peers as “counterintuitive,” but are actually just counter to common sense. The really genius ideas, however, are always the kind of common sense things that seem stupid to people who think of themselves as clever.

What does common-sense genius look like? I remember when Steve Foley called me on Election Night 2010 and said, “Whaddya think about Herman Cain?” That was a genius idea. I remember when Lisa Graas said to me in August, “Hey, while you’re in Iowa, do you think you could go check out Rick Santorum?” That was a genius idea.

Now, here’s another common-sense genius idea: Rick Santorum spends the next four months working on his convention speech. And I mean honing it ’til it shines: Every word, every pause, the whole thing committed to memory and rehearsed until it is absolutely perfect.

So that when Santorum gets his primetime moment in Tampa, millions of Americans will say, “Damn. Why didn’t Republicans nominate him?”

Yesterday, somebody started the “Rick 2016? Facebook page.

Common-sense genius, you see.

Category: American Spectator, Election 2012, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Foreboding Gloom Pervades Vanuatu

Posted on | April 11, 2012 | 85 Comments

“After having destroyed every conservative that came on the scene, you can’t say ‘You have to line up behind me.’ No, no, no. Conservatives are not going to jump until they hear where Governor Romney wants to take everybody.”
— Richard Viguerie, veteran conservative leader

“I still think Mitt’s electability is a myth and a lot of conservatives are going to have to sell their souls to support Mitt (More than a few of them have already gotten started). There are a lot of conservatives who’ve put their reputations on the line to assure everyone that Mitt is actually very conservative — and extremely electable. Of course, some of those same people started doing CYA-backpedaling when it looked like Romney almost had the nomination locked up, which begs the question: If you don’t think Mitt is going to win, why were you working so hard to undermine all the other candidates and push Mitt in the first place?”
— John Hawkins, Right Wing News

“Wednesday April 11th is day one of the general election. But there are things I’m seeing that tell me that Mitt Romney is kicking off the campaign in a telling defensive posture.”
— Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo

“You go to war with the Mitt you have.”
— William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection

My ambition to abandon the drudgery of journalism for an exciting new career in diplomacy as the Future U.S. Ambassador to Vanuatu suffered a major setback Tuesday. When Rick Santorum promised me that ambassadorship in December — in a telephone interview, while he was still in sixth place in the Iowa polls, waiting to catch a plane during his layover in Fort Worth on the cheapest available flight from Des Moines to D.C. —  I made sure I saved the recording.

Because I knew, when the miraculous Iowa victory came through, Santorum’s political advisors would try to talk him out of it.

So I was prepared to hold him accountable to that promise, and he not only won Iowa, he won 10 other states. Santorum raised $9 million in February, beat Newt Gingrich in Southern states like Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana — oh, it was so close, I could taste it. And I had the digital audio of that ironclad promise, the Word of Honor of a Christian Gentleman that next year I’d be jetting off to Porta Vila to begin my new career in South Pacific diplomacy.

Dreams die hard and, despite the professional requirements of Neutral Objective Journalism, my friends, I dared to dream.

When I’m feeling this low, it’s nice to know I’m not suffering alone: I’m not depressed; the world objectively sucks.

Yesterday, after Rick Santorum quit, my 13-year-old son Jefferson asked, “Does this mean I have to stop bad-mouthing Mitt Romney?”

“Yeah,” I said. “It doesn’t mean you have to start good-mouthing him, but you have to stop bad-mouthing him.”

Then I went on to explain that, having been saddled with a nominee whom we had opposed with all our might, we cannot be held responsible for the inevitable disaster. Therefore, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, we will be ready to demand an accounting from those responsible. Read more

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Shoe Leather Fund, Vanuatu

#OccupyResoluteDesk: “I’m Not Trying To Redistribute Wealth”

Posted on | April 11, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

The #Occupier-in-Chief said that while peddling his class warfare wares yesterday, as reported in The Examiner.
Barack is accurate here: he’s not trying, he is effecting redistribution of wealth. Now, zoom in for the sub-pixel-sized image of the bearded Yoda, Rutherford B. Hayes, that follows BHO’s statement:

Category: Barack Obama

Our Double-Secret Strategy To Ensure GOP Triumph

Posted on | April 11, 2012 | 123 Comments

by Smitty

While I haven’t been as deep in the tank for any candidate as the marquee name on this blog, I have been consistent in my disdain for Ol’ Willard Mitt. In that spirit, I dared say on Twitter:

This earned me a stern note from Michael Zak, whose book Back to Basics for the Republican Party, is somewhere in my to-read stack:

This invites the question: should we just form up and join the March for Mittens? Why, no: no, we should not. Look folks, the American spirit wasn’t crushed when the Japanese nuked the Alamo, and we’re just not going to roll over for a conservative show-horse, even if he could take a Canadian beauty contest. Read more

Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney
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