by Smitty (h/t Da Tech Guy)
This blog is proud to announce that one of its favorited scratching posts has achieved the rare feat of mention in Klavan On The Culture. Top that, anyone in Barney Frank’s district!
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A Question, Now That ObamaCare Lost Another Appeal
by Smitty
HotAir, and the rest of the blogosphere, has the story of the 11th Circuit delivering yet another finely shaded variation on the theme of “no matter how you slice it, ObamaCare comes up ‘turd'”. Jazz Shaw notes via Politico:
Team Obama says they are “confident” that they will still prevail. They now have 90 days to appeal to either the Supremes or the full 11th circuit.
My question: What is the source of this confidence?
ObamaCare, whether you are for or against the notion, is a BFD. The Vice President said so. That it’s a BFD is not contentious.
What is the source of the Presidence confidence his BFD will previal, when neither the courts nor the people seem terribly thrilled about the concept? Three follow-up questions:
- Did God tell President Obama that this was His will? I don’t claim to have heard any explicit Divine voice speaking audibly, myself. But maybe the President did.
- Does this confidence spring from a stash of *ahem* sitting around somewhere? Wouldn’t want to accuse the President of anything, at all, but that might have some explanatory power here.
- Is the President, in his confidence, not dealing any longer with reality in the ‘reasonable person’ mode? I’m no doctor, and a blog post is no diagnosis, but the overall Presidential detachment may cross the line into the spooky realm Real Soon Now.
ObamaCare is certainly one tragic plotline in the larger tragedy that is the Obama Administration, which is the climax of the tragic epic of Progressivism. If it wasn’t so flipping expensive and uncertain, one would be tempted to say that it’s a great time to be a blogger. Instead, we must continue the struggle for liberty in the face of the Tyranny of the Progressives.
Oh, So, Like A Service Academy, Then?
by Smitty
Via Insty:
“Whether your own college experience was more like The Paper Chase or Animal House, you can be sure that today’s campuses are neither. Instead, your tuition and tax dollars are funding an ever-growing army of bureaucrats that police everything from free speech to dating. Administrators now outnumber faculty on our nation’s campuses, and even students’ innermost thoughts are subject to their oversight. Each year, the college experience gets closer to that of a TSA line at the airport — but one that you have to live in for four years.”
Of course, the big difference was that USNA wansn’t four years of indoctrination to godless Communism, either.
Herman Cain Speaks at Iowa State Fair
DES MOINES, Iowa
Here are the photos of Herman Cain’s soap box speech this morning:
I counted no fewer than eight TV cameras recording the speech. I’ve got videos, but this McDonald’s where I’m working has crappy bandwidth on the WiFi, so the videos will have to wait for later.
The Butter Cow Is SEXY!
DES MOINES, Iowa
Sometime before you die, you must visit the Iowa State Fair. And when you visit the Iowa State Fair, the one exhibit you must see is the world-famous Butter Cow: A sculpture. Of a cow. Made of butter.
By the way, I won two blue ribbons for Blogging Excellence:
Couple Of Thoughts On Leadership
by Smitty
Proof Positive quotes Mark Levin:
“I would vote for a can of orange juice over Obama, but I would prefer a conservative.”
Ben Howe offers a more extended meditation on the theme:
The sad part about the clip is either the ease of the target or the difficulty in whittling down the material–unsure which.
I’ll vote for Levin’s glass of orange juice before I vote for somebody just because I personally admire them. Leadership isn’t a personality contest. Leadership is not about race, gender or creed. If we’re jingoistic lemmings, as the Left was in ’08, only about a conservative, then we haven’t advanced the cause of liberty.
Update: Ed Driscoll ‘lanche!
Fishersvile Mike Rocks The Parody
by Smitty
In Iowa, Stacy McCain has fallen in love with the Butter Cow. Meanwhile, in Virginia, noted parody tunesmith Fishersville Mike thinks about a Palin Candidacy and feels like it’s already Christmas. A bit of ribbon:
You better watch out
as liberals cry
Here comes a force
They cannot deny
Sarah Palin’s coming to town
RTWT.
If I thought there was much religious content remaining in the Saturnalia, I might denouce Mike as some rampant Christianist or something.
Me, I just enjoy the Nativity.
Not Buying So Much Gloom
by Smitty
Via Protein Wisdom, we have this Zero Hedge article that is a bolt of pure hairshirt.
“Welcome to the Age of Instability”. Yes, it’s going to be turbulent for a decade-ish. Yes, the centralized world order is dead on its feet. Yes, some folks in the forty-to-sixty age bracket, like me, are getting a haircut of sizeable proportions.
Deal with it.
You can ‘go British’, and crap in your dinner plate, or you can man up and re-embrace that exceptional American commitment to liberty. All I want to see is political leadership that can go after the Code of Federal Regulations: Continue reading Not Buying So Much Gloom →