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A Prayer For The Presidential Health

Posted on | September 6, 2010 | 46 Comments

by Smitty

Those on the right should answer firmly, in a positive way, any sort of negative talk concerning the Presidential health:

Almighty God, we pray that President Barack Obama should pass old, dignified, and full of years, calm in the knowledge of the abject falsehood of his policies.
We pray he grasp that foreign policy need be neither feckless nor ignorant of history.
We pray he grasp that domestic policy must be founded upon sane, mature economic principles, not mistaking the cart for the horse.
We pray he grasp that traditional American politics model human nature in an exceptional, optimal way; that FDR’s notion of “freedom from want” is the political equivalent of crack cocaine; and that a leader is someone with followers, while his current course is an increasingly lonely one.
In summary, we pray for a Road to Damascus moment for this President, so that the nadir of American history be reached before We The People usher into his office someone or something more effective, even a lowly pushbroom.
Amen.

Category: Barack Obama, humor

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

Posted on | September 6, 2010 | 113 Comments

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 9/12.

Probably no more travel for weeks, even months.

Completed immobilized, just at the onset of the campaign season.

An irretrievable disaster.

I’m emotionally wiped out.

UPDATE: TERRORISM ON FOUR HOOVES!

Category: Uncategorized

As If On Cue . . .

Posted on | September 6, 2010 | 7 Comments

. . . another liberal obsessed with race:

“We haven’t talked about the elephant in the room, and I don’t mean the Republicans: race. Changing demographics. Fear of a white minority. . . . Obama’s election has suddenly made many white Americans aware of the loss of a white majority. . . . That’s what this crazy summer has been all about. Anti-mosque construction. Anti-immigrant ravings. . . . That fear is very difficult for Obama to overcome.”
— Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“The accusation that conservatives are motivated by bad faith (mala fides) is essential to the Left’s attacks. Stigmatizing and marginalizing conservatives is much easier than debating them. Cogent arguments about policy become unnecessary to advancing the Left’s political agenda if they can dismiss its opponents as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Atlanta native who says the Journal-Constitution hasn’t been worth the paper it’s printed on since Lewis Grizzard died

And there’s this headline from CBS:

Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections

See? Liberals are “panicking,” and therefore the onus of “fear” must be projected elsewhere.

Category: Media Bias

Mark Levin vs. Allahpundit (PLUS: How Many Pro-Lifer Voters in Delaware?)

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 30 Comments

Levin is rapidly becoming talk radio’s most Web 2.0-savvy host. He’s got nearly 40,000 Twitter followers and more than 200,000 fans on Facebook. And he’s not only reading blogs, he’s arguing with bloggers:

Allahpundit over at Hotair, linking to like-minded bloggers here and there, argues, among other things, that he thought Beck was wrong when Beck said he’d rather have seen Obama as president than McCain.  This is off the mark.  I criticized Beck for the same thing.  But comparing a conservative challenge to a liberal in a Republican primary to Obama v. McCain in a general election is incoherent. . . .

Read the whole thing. The subject is the Delaware GOP Senate primary, where Levin is Christine O’Donnell’s most influential supporter. Here’s his June 24 interview with Christine:

O’Donnell points out that she could beat Mike Castle in the Delaware with as few as 20,000 votes. Let’s parse those numbers just a bit. According to a CNN exit poll, 27% of Delaware voters in 2008 were Catholic, and 39% of those voted for John McCain. So roughly 11% of the Delaware electorate are Republican Catholics — probably solid pro-lifers — and in 2008, the turnout in Delaware was 408,000 voters.

So let’s say there are 40,000 pro-life Catholic voters in Delaware, and there have got to be at least 10,000 pro-life evangelical Protestants. If there are 50,000 pro-life voters in Delaware, that’s almost exactly the total turnout (50,237) in the 2008 Delaware GOP primary. But this is an off-year election and, in 2006, the total vote in the Republican primary was 14,386.

Do Delaware’s pro-life they know that Mike Castle gets only a 10% score from the National Right to Life Committee? Do these pro-life voters know that Mike Castle was one of only 11 Republicans who voted against a law that would have made it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for abortion without parental notification? Have they seen the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List’s endorsement of O’Donnell, when SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser said:

“Unlike her primary opponent, who has an explicitly pro-abortion voting record, O’Donnell has expressed her strong determination to be a vocal advocate for women and unborn children in abortion debates on the floor of the U.S. Senate . . . A new women’s movement which affirms its original pro-life roots is making its way to the U.S. Senate and O’Donnell is one of its brightest new stars.”

Forget about everything else: This is about life vs. death, Christine O’Donnell is pro-life, and I know what pro-lifers are like. They vote. They will crawl through broken glass and scale a 10-foot fence with three strands of concertina wire on top just to get to the polls on Election Day, if you show them a candidate who will stand up for the right to life. We know who that candidate is, don’t we?

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

Category: Abortion, Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election, Mark Levin

ELO Laid Low

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

ELO is the source of my favorite St00p3d Qustion: “In the name, is ‘Light’ an adjective or a noun? Is it ‘Electric Light’ Orchestra, or Electric ‘Light Orchestra’.”
Piece of Work in Progress reports the sad demise of a former band cellist.
My favorite ELO cut, though I guess the deceased didn’t play on it, is Last Train to London. I remember enjoying the music and being completely unable to parse “Lasrainoo-onon” in my youth. Wasn’t life so much simpler then?

Heaven rest Mike Edwards, or whatever is appropriate to mark the passage of a Buddhist.

Category: Piece of Work in Progress, Video

‘Send the Body to John Holdren’

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 14 Comments

If a domestic terrorist’s rhetoric had echoed the arguments of a Bush administration official, the media would be in a howling fury, so why no fury over the deranged kook who took over the Discovery Networks headquarters? Professor Glenn Reynolds explains:

Filthy. Parasites. Disgusting, overbreeding candidates for sterilization and extermination. Possessed of false morals and a “breeding culture.”
Hitler talking about the Jews? Nope. This is Discovery Channel hostage-taker James Lee talking about . . . human beings. . . .
Looking at the environmental literature, we find terms like those used above — the currently stylish description is “eliminationist rhetoric” — used widely, and plans for mass sterilization are fairly common.
And, as Mark Hemingway pointed out in these pages a few days ago, one need only look to the writings of President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren to find something similar. Seeing humanity as destructive, Holdren wrote in favor of forced abortion and putting sterilizing agents in the drinking water, and in particular of sterilizing people who cause “social deterioration.” . . .

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: As Dan Riehl notes, Patterico gets ‘Lanched for playing dumb. I might resent that, were it not for the fact that “playing dumb” is my raison d’etre.

Seriously, though: The FBI has acknowledged eco-terrorism as a threat. James Lee’s twisted neo-Malthusian beliefs are shared by many “mainstream” environmentalists, including Ted Turner, who endorses China’s one-child policy. If Ted Turner is correct, if “too many people” are such a crucial threat, then wasn’t James Lee justified in his protests against Discovery/TLC, the network that celebrates the Duggar family?

Elena Donovan Mauer asks, “Did the Duggars Push the Discovery Channel Gunman Over the Edge?” I think that’s a serious question and, as a father of six myself, I’ve long been concerned by the anti-natalist rhetoric of environmentalism. It’s bad enough that it encourages useless kooks like Julia Buttefly Hill to waste their lives leading idiotic protests, but the movement also routinely produces criminal violence by Earth Liberation Front and others. 

James Lee was the tip of a very large Green iceberg of dangerous ideas.

UPDATE II: “Then lettuce be thankful his efforts wilted.”

Insta-PUNNED-it!

(Rimshot, please!)

Category: Environmentalism, Terrorism

A Belated ‘Roll Tide!’

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 10 Comments

Yesterday, I was so excited by Jax State’s upset of Ole Miss that I forgot to blog Alabama’s 48-3 season-opening stomp of San Jose State. My buddy Tookie sent me the highlight video. At the 30-second mark, you’ll see ‘Bama’s backup QB throw 39 yards for a touchdown to Julio Jones, who makes a spectacular one-handed catch:

When Alabama scores 48 points without their Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram — including 111 yards and two TDs by redshirt freshman Eddie Lacy — that makes me think I need to start planning for a trip to Arizona for Jan. 10. But before we start thinking ahead, next up is my trip to Delaware.

Category: Alabama, Football

Turning Into An Andrew McCarthy Fan

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Big Journalism)

I followed Michael Walsh’s advice and read Andrew McCarthy’s review of the new book on Saul Alinsky.
McCarthy, who wrote Grand Jihad, sees through the sycophant author to the diabolical mind of Alinsky.
The last two sentences of the review, where another Alinsky acolyte, Obama, has attained the White House, are of note:

The fox has made it to the hen house. The old master would be proud.

I’m not sure Obama is a fox in the sense of Odysseus, and I’m not sure that Alinsky would feel ‘pride’ in any way commonly understood.
These two characters are fascinating. Obama and Alinsky, circumstantially, seem to have some fairy-tale vision. A Kingdom of God, without so much God. Yet their tactics seem void of creativity, capable only of achievement through destruction.
McCarthy’s review leaves one genuinely interested in Alinsky from a criminal psychology standpoint. Was there any ‘there’ there, or can an Alinsky (and an Obama) exist only parasitically, having something notionally functional like a Bush both to sustain them, and attack?
RTWT. It’s one of those pieces one is tempted to quote in full.

Category: Barack Obama
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