Clearly, the nation is heading in the wrong direction. There isn’t a single sign of job recovery in this latest report despite four months of Porkulus spending. Not one single sector except for government shows job growth, or even a hint of it.
NOW you’re getting it.
The most hideous and disturbing picture I’ve seen yet of what Obama’s theofascist pals in Iran are capable of. These are the people he wants to go crawling to for more futile negotiations. These are the people he wants to see maintained in power. These are the people he’s sided with.
And our Supreme Leader would instead prefer to expend American power, prestige, and honor on reinstalling a communist dictator-wannabe in Honduras, insulting the Brits, and harassing Israel, rather than making anything more than a cursory denunciation of these Iranian monsters. It tells you all you’re ever going to need to know about how morally bereft he truly is.
Obama is a sorry excuse for a man, and an absolute disaster as a president. He disgraces us all, just by being his despicable self.
Update! The Fat Guy says it — good and hard.
Somebody’s finally reading the abomination, and the result…well, given what Obama and the Democrat Socialists are, it shouldn’t really surprise anybody either:
And how will this bill affect you? It has regulations on every single aspect of your daily life. There are light bulb restrictions (no more than 60 watts in your candelabra); in fact there’s a whole section that deals with lamps. If you decide to build a new home, it must meet new and specific energy requirements. If you decide to sell your existing home, a federal inspector must inspect your home, determine it’s energy rating, and if your home is found to be unacceptable then you must retrofit and make changes before you will be able to sell.
There’s an entire section on planting trees including guidelines on “scientific based measurements outlining the species and minimum distance required between trees planted…in addition to the minimum required distance to be maintained between such trees and building foundations, air conditioning units, driveways and walkways…”. Do we really need the federal government telling us where we can plant trees?
No, we do not. But apparently, way too many of us want it to, and believe it has the right. And that’s the real problem here: statist megalomaniacs have always been with us, and always will be, continually looking for a way to get a foot in the door. But they’d never get anywhere if there weren’t enough of us willing to fling it wide open to allow them to rig an election. Obama and the rest of his socialist gang should never have been able to get within sniffing distance of stealing the presidency and taking over the government — and he wouldn’t have if America was still America, and we hadn’t already been incrementally dragged so far left by both Democrats and RINOs. If the villainous mountebank had tried it a hundred years ago, he’d have been ridden out of DC on a rail — as he should be now.
Somebody at last says what many of us were thinking all along:
OK, I said it — and it’s about time somebody had the nerve to say what millions of people must feel and believe about the once-talented black man who turned himself into a white woman before turning himself into a monster.
Yes indeed. Read all of it — she has some personal knowledge of what the over-indulged grotesquerie was really like that really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody. The fact that he remains a hero to millions says a lot, and none of it good.
(Via Bill)
Update! Brilliant. And all too true.
He certainly is. I’d call him a dirty scumbag too, but that would be an insult to unclean bags of scum.
From President Obama: “I would suggest Mr. Ahmadinejad think carefully about the obligations he owes to his own people. And he might want to consider looking at the families of those who have been beaten or shot or detained.” Most of us are aware of the fact that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has thought carefully about it (for three decades) and then decided both that the Iranian people have no rights to assemble or speak freely and that the Iranian government has a right to order that they be beaten, shot, and detained at will.
So came the next question. Don’t the events of the past few weeks undermine your hopes for meaningful dialogue, and aren’t you just losing precious time? To which Obama responded: “On the Iranian issue, I think that we are still waiting to see how the situation in Iran plays out…We don’t yet know how any potential dialogue will have been affected until we see what’s happened inside of Iran.”
Refusing to be sidetracked, reporters pressed on, and finally the president ’fessed up. He told the world that events in Iran will have no effect whatsoever on his policy to engage in dialogue with Iran.
Now let’s get going yet again with the tired expressions of shock and surprise, and the ongoing refusal to face facts about our dictator-fellating douchebag of a pResident. Meanwhile:
While Obama improves relations with Venezuela, Obama has cut military ties to Honduras, is considering a cut-off of all aid, is doing nothing to stop loan suspensions by international organizations over which the U.S. has substantial influence, and is supporting international efforts to isolate Honduras.
Poor and tiny Honduras faces the full wrath of the United States, United Nations, and much of the rest of the world, while nothing is done about Iran. On Iran, Obama and the world acted with the utmost deference, and there were no efforts by the Obama administration at international action. None.
But Honduras, enforcing its own laws against a renegade wannabe President-for-life, for some reason warrants the full force of the United States government and international community. Honduras gets condemnation from Obama, while Chavez gets hugs and Ahmadinejad gets deference. Wonderful. No, horrible.
Or, as Bayefsky puts it: obscene. The Current Occupant is an affront to decency, an insult to American ideals, and an enemy of liberty. How many atrocious examples must pile up before the ostriches pull their heads out of the sand? To switch to another avian metaphor here: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…it’s a damn duck, alright?
(CNSNews.com) – Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press.
“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.
“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said.
Why, yes. Yes, they do. And they’re correct, as you and your fellow Obama baglappers have proved conclusively time and time again.
“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.
“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well–for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”
Well, yeah. And so should you. Now back on your knees, gorgon.
(Via AP)
I never did get it either, but hey, I’m a Ford guy anyway:
How beloved are these cars? There is an urban legend that claims that after the newly-styled ‘58 Chevrolets were introduced, a renegade group of GM employees continued building unauthorized copies of the ’57s in a secret factory for another ten years out of sheer unadulterated car lust. That didn’t really happen, at least not the way legend has it, but if you want a new 1957-design Chevrolet Bel Air with all zeroes on the odometer, you can get one–there is enough demand for them that exact replicas are being manufactured today, some using NOS parts for that extra measure of authenticity.
Personally, I just don’t get what all the fuss is about.
Before you form a mob and drag me off to be burned at the stake for heresy, let me say in my defense that I don’t dislike ‘57 Chevys. I have nothing against them or their fans, but I just don’t feel the love myself. I’ve never cared for the styling of most cars from this period–the typical mid-to-late-1950s flat front end makes the car look like a loaf of bread with headlights (examples here, here, here, here, and here) and I don’t like the overstated chrome gewgaws (including the his-and-hers hood ornaments) that were so hot and trendy back then. That doesn’t make the ‘57 Chevy an object of car disgust, it just means that it’s not my cup of motor oil–and I fully realize that makes me an outlier among car fans.
Shit-ton of links not transcribed due to author laziness. Personally, I always liked the ’58s better. The ’57s are like assholes and opinions: everybody’s got one. For me, there ain’t but one ‘57 that matters: this one:
Oh, and anyone wanting to excoriate me for hypocrisy because of the pic below is welcome to have at it; I can make no excuses for this outrage against decency.
Update! I have no doubt that he’s right about this:
That said, if I were running GM, I’d have someone working on a crash project to design the 2010 Bel Air Classic. It would probably best be built on the Impala platform–the current-generation Impala’s length and width is almost exactly the same as the ’57’s. (The fact that it’s FWD may offend the purists, but employing a modern drivetrain didn’t hurt the New Beetle.) Give it styling that picks up all the major visual cues of its illustrious predecessor, including a retro interior with a CD/MP3 player and an iPod adapter cleverly hidden in what looks like a tube radio. Offer it in vivid two-tone colors, and make the upper trim level a “Cruiser” version with a V-8 and side pipes, accessory fuzzy dice and available “flame job” appearance package.
The 2010 Bel Air Classic would have a distinctive, all-American personality combined with competent modern engineering. It would be interesting in a way that far too many contemporary cars are not. So what if it’s not quite the “little green car” that all the experts in D.C. are promising us? Build a version with a plug-in hybrid drive train (in exclusive “Ecology Green” two-tone paint with “Rainforest” organic cloth upholstery!) if that’s what it takes to placate the tree-huggers and the politicians.
Go for it, GM. You’ll sell a million of ‘em. Maybe even a million and a half.
Now wouldn’t that be something. A radical idea nowadays: build a car based not on what the God-Emperor wants to force us all to drive, but on good, esthetically-pleasing design; functionality not as a tool in the phony war against Climate Change (formerly Global Warming, formerly Global Cooling, formerly “the weather”) but as a damned car; and what people might actually like. And there’s no chance whatsoever that it’ll ever happen again. Not in the USSSA.
How small we’ve become. Stilted, pinched, tight-assed liberal constipation has sucked the soul right out of us.
And another unfunny clown joins the worst, most incompetent circus in history.
Don’t hold your breath, guys. He’s on the other side.
(Via Ace, who has plenty more to say about it)
Update! Another huge anti-dictator protest for Obamandias to ignore.
Updated update! Q & O’s Billy Hollis mentioned these in the comments to an earlier post, and I think it’s be well worth bringing ‘em out front here: more firsthand reports from the Honduran protests, here and here.
Professor Jacobson makes the sort of fine, crucial moral distinction of which liberals, for all their sophistication, nuance, and superior intellect, seem curiously incapable:
Neda should have no place in the phony Palestinian victimhood narrative, and it is a pathetic stretch for Blumenthal to go there. Neda never strapped on a bomb or tried to blow up a bus, didn’t support people who did such things, and doesn’t deserve to be used as a pawn in the internet Intifada against Israel.
Actually, “pathetic” isn’t quite the mot juste. I’d have gone with “reprehensible,” “disgusting,” “odious,” “vile,” or “despicable” myself.
Lock her up, throw away the key:
Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other activists.
McKinney, a longtime supporter of Palestinians, said her Greek-flagged boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys to Gaza when it was boarded by the Israeli navy.
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us,” said McKinney. “Our boat was not in Israeli waters and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”
WELL then. If Obamandias, King of the Whole Fucking World, dictated his wishes to the Israelis, that settles it. So it is written, so it shall be done. There’s probably a commission somewhere in the federal leviathan working out plans right now to nuke Israel for its outrageous flouting of God’s will.
Looks like there’s no chance of the Israelis just keeping the worthless polyp, either:
The statement said navy personnel boarded the freighter Arion without any shots being fired, and those on board were to be handed over to immigration authorities. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel was planning to free the crew and passengers.
“Nobody wants to keep them here,” he said. “They will be released as soon as they are checked.”
Well, nobody wants her stupid ass here, either. Say, what with Obama releasing terrorists hither and yon, there’s bound to be some space open at Gitmo…?
Great news: Our Savior’s dismantling of the economy is really kicking into high gear, freeing millions of Americans from the soul-destroying dead-end jobs the Bush economy created and allowing them to fully enjoy Funemployment™!
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US private sector shed 473,000 jobs in June to cope with a prolonged recession, a survey by payrolls firm ADP showed Wednesday with a warning that unemployment will rise for several more months.
The June job cuts were worse than the 395,000 expected by most analysts but lower than 485,000 in May, which was revised from the previous 532,000 figure.
In other news, the Marxist Messiah has now created or saved almost 3 million jobs — if by “created or saved” you mean “destroyed or done away with.” PRAISE BE!
(Via JWF)
This is just too delicious: our own domestic despot just got a lesson in the rule of law from Honduras:
Honduras’ interim leader warned that the only way his predecessor will return to office is through a foreign invasion, setting up a dramatic showdown with the ousted president who is preparing to come home accompanied by world leaders.
A defiant Roberto Micheletti said in an interview with The Associated Press late Tuesday that “no one can make me resign,” defying the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Obama administration and other leaders that have condemned the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Micheletti vowed Zelaya would be arrested if he followed through with plans to return to Honduras on Thursday, even though the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador have signed on to accompany him along with the heads of the Organization of American States and the U.N. General Assembly.
As he damned sure ought to be, no matter how many communist thugs line up behind him to help out. Good to see the constitutional government of a free and sovereign nation standing up to interfering, dictator-coddling tyrants like (gulp) our pResident. The jug-eared cretin has put America on the wrong side of the eternal fight for liberty and constitutional government, and until he’s gone, we richly merit every good, hard slap in the face we get from our betters. It’s a terrible thing to have to say, but it’s the simple truth.
The only question remaining now is whether the God-Emperor is willing to risk war to re-install a dictator in Honduras. Since it’s not a question of American security but one of supporting the kind of overreaching, all-powerful, cult-of-personality government he clearly favors, I wouldn’t bet the rent against it.
(Via Captain Ed)
Update! Joshua Muravchik makes sense of it all:
Obama seems to believe that democracy is overrated, or at least overvalued. When asked about the subject in his pre-inaugural interview with the Washington Post, Obama said that he is more concerned with “actually delivering a better life for people on the ground and less obsessed with form, more concerned with substance.”
Whether or not the President was aware of it, he was echoing a theme first propounded long ago by Soviet propagandists and later sung in many variations by all manner of Third World dictators, Left to Right. It has long since been discredited by a welter of research showing that democracies perform better in fostering economic and social well being, keeping the peace, and averting catastrophes. Never mind that it is untoward for a President of the United States to speak of democracy as a mere “form,” less important than substance.
Oh, he was aware of it all right. When it comes to human rights, democracy, and standing up for American ideals, the Supreme Leader isn’t merely indifferent; he’s actively ag’in it. People who don’t wish to confront this fact are doomed to ongoing puzzlement, because his actions simply aren’t explicable any other way.
So now Palin Derangement Syndrome has supplanted Bush Derangement Syndrome as the most prevalent pathology among demented liberals. For committing the shocking crime against humanity of running for vice president on the RINO ticket, the monster Palin will never again know a moment’s peace: bottom-feeding media scumbags will forever be rummaging through her trash bins; vicious, depraved lunatics like Andrew Sullivan will continue demanding that she allow them to insert a speculum into her vagina on CNN to determine once and for all that Trig was actually fathered by a space alien, and whelped by the family dog. And mouth-breathing boobs like Todd Purdum will continue to come out with the occasional hatchet job that takes fifty thousand words to say the same thing: we hates her, preciousss! We hates them all!
As Stacy says:
What is it with these people? We’re eight months past the election and more than three years away from the next one and yet, day after day, they find excuses to attack her!
Speaking of “the questions that any sane person would ask”: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
No foolin’. One can only marvel at the depths to which these despicable freaks would have sunk if she’d won. And yeah, go ahead and tell me again all about how liberals would just loooove it if she ran for prez in ‘12. They’re terrified of her and what she represents, and their morbid obsession with her makes that all too clear.
Sarah Palin is an It Girl.
See Don Surber – http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/06/30/run-sarah-run/#more-9007
And this drives the left crazy, because the It Girls are supposed to be on the left. All of the movies and novels say so. So why is this 45 year old mother-of-five sizzler driving them insane? She doesn’t do what fiction says, she should be destroyed by life’s troubles, but she keeps on coming on, putting troubles away and behind her.
And she has It.
When it comes to freedom from oppressive taxation, we may not be number one — but we’re way ahead of whoever’s in thirteenth place.
(Via Insty)
Hey, I think it’s nice that liberals have at long last found a form of treason they’re opposed to.
Another excellent Green Room post from Doc Zero, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorites out there:
In the midst of a sour economy marked by falling market values, rising unemployment, and the specter of rampant inflation, the House passes an economy-killing cap-and-trade bill, which will cost each American household thousands of dollars per year and plunge the American economy into an essentially permanent recession… all to address a hoax promoted with junk science, while ignoring foreign industry that will go on pumping out the “greenhouse gases” the bill purports to control. A supposedly impartial news network hands its air time over to the dominant political party, to promote a massive health-care scheme that will shove another trillion-dollar knife into the economy Congress voted to eviscerate today… and already we hear about special exemptions written into the deadly socialized medicine plan, for the benefit of powerful union allies of the Democrat Party. A confused president dithers for days as peaceful demonstrators are murdered on the streets of Iran, before finally coughing up the stern condemnation he should have offered weeks ago. Fourth of July invitations to the ambassadors of the murderous Tehran regime are finally rescinded, after days of leaving them on the table as festering insults to every American citizen who truly embraces the spirit of that noble holiday.
What can we do to fix this broken, dysfunctional government, before it does any more damage to the strength or honor of the country?
Personally, I don’t have a whole lot of faith anymore in any solution short of violently ousting the rent-seekers, RINOs, and commie bastards. But the good Doctor has a prescription, and it’s certainly worth a look.
Boy, those racist Teabaggers who hate the Current Occupant because he’s black are just popping up all over the place, aren’t they?
Denunciation of these fine folks as self-hating tokens from the demented bitch in 5…4…3…2…
Allahpundit says he’s taking a chance on “exploding what little right-wing blog cred I have left,” but hey, I still love the big lug. Maybe I can explain things to him in a relatively snark-free way. The setup:
Just days after reestablishing diplomatic ties with Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez is accusing the U.S. of staging a coup in Honduras as President Obama expressed concern over President Manuel Zelaya’s arrest…
Chavez, who succeeded on his second try to push a similar referendum that allows his indefinite re-election, lashed out at the U.S. and Obama in Caracas, alleging “the Yankee empire had a lot to do” with the “coup d’etat” against his fellow leftist leader.
“I call on the president of the United States to issue a statement as we have, rejecting this affront, which not only goes against Honduras but against all the peoples of Latin America,” Chavez said.
AP’s punchline:
At the risk of exploding what little right-wing blog cred I have left, I can’t believe The One would align himself with Chavez without some compelling reason. Even if you believe the worst conservative suspicions about him, i.e. that he’s some lefty dictator fanboy, the political price he’ll pay for doing this is too steep to justify it unless there’s a greater good he’s aiming at. Witness Drudge’s headline right now (“Obama lashes out at Honduras; sides with Chavez, Castro”) or Krauthammer in the clip below offering a useful rule of thumb for Latin America. Barry’s going to eat a ton of shinola for this — but why? What’s the strategic benefit?
Leave aside for the nonce the latest excruciating example of the God-Emperor’s willingness to suck up to dictators in hopes of fostering a better opinion of the US exploding in his face — again. Barry’s going to eat a ton of shinola, all right — from Drudge, Krauthammer, me, and a handful of other Right-leaning observers and pundits. Nobody believes for a moment that he or his Lefty lemmings give a tinker’s dam about that, do they? Do they really?
As the merest of examples, let’s check in on the WaPo article I cited yesterday for the MSM spin:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Soldiers ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras on Sunday and Congress named a successor…
The first military takeover of a Central American government in 16 years drew widespread condemnation from governments in Latin America and the world…
President Manuel Zelaya was awakened Sunday by gunfire and detained while still in his pajamas, hours before an unpopular constitutional referendum many saw as a power grab…
“Many saw” a naked, illegal, unconstitutional power grab as a naked, illegal, unconstitutional power grab. “Many saw.” With all the sneering contempt for rightwingnazineocon knuckledraggers that statement so strongly implies. “Many saw” — but not us reasonable, intelligent, sophisty-cated types, who are capable of savoring the sweet, creamy nectar of nuance, in which we marinate all our so-subtle rationalizations and obfuscations.
Looky here: it fucking well WAS a power grab. The military acted on the instructions of the Supreme Court, in defense of the Honduran Constitution, with the support of the legislature and most of the would-be dictator-for-life’s own friggin’ party. Every democratic institution in Honduras supported the move to oust this megalomaniacal cretin. It was their last hope for maintaining the rule of law in their country, in opposition to the depredations of a two-bit tyrant intent on doing away with it.
And yet the WaPo, following their master Obama’s lead, tries every weasel-word and loaded statement they can gin up to create the right idea in the minds of their liberal readership: ie, that this was some sort of “military coup,” an outrage against the very rule of law it was intended to uphold.
I haven’t seen a lot of other MSM reportage on this, simply because I haven’t looked; I know well enough what their spin will be. And so should you, and so should Allahpundit. There is simply no reason whatsoever to think — to blindly hope — that the NYT, the networks, the CNN/MSNBC axis, or any of the other usual propagandist suspects are going to depart much (if at all) from the Obama-approved line here, any more than they have anywhere else.
His ouster came hours before polls were to open on a constitutional referendum that Zelaya was pushing ahead even after the Supreme Court and the attorney general said it was illegal. The constitution bars changes to some of its clauses, such as the ban on a president serving more than one term, they said.
“They said.” Look, this too is pretty damned simple: either it does, or it doesn’t. And it does:
The constitution may be amended by the National Congress after a two-thirds vote of all its members in two consecutive regular annual sessions. However, several constitutional provisions may not be amended. These consist of the amendment process itself, as well as provisions covering the form of government, national territory, and several articles covering the presidency, including term of office and prohibition from reelection.
Pretty effective at waving away the fog generated by Obama and his media sycophants, innit? The only coup launched here was the one attempted by the president. It failed, after conscientious and correct efforts on the part of the legislature, the courts, the military, the church, the people, and Zelaya’s own party to get him to see reason and abandon his dictatorial ambitions. Ahh, but let’s have another look at the terrible, terrible political price the media will exact from Obama for his remorseless support for dictators:
Latin Americans suffered at least three dozen military coups d’etat from the 1960s through the end of the 20th century. They believed they had put that unsavory history behind them with a wave of democratically elected civilian governments, and for the most part they had, until Honduras returned to that bygone era this week with army tanks in the streets, the president ushered into exile at gunpoint — in his pajamas — and the Congress waving a phony resignation letter before naming a new president. This was a coup, and it must be reversed.
Ooh, that’s gonna leave a mark — one that looks a lot like lipstick, right on the ass of our Supreme Leader.
Obama is — demonstrably and undeniably — no friend of liberty, democracy, or the rule of law; if his efforts to subvert our own Constitution didn’t make that plain enough, his unflinching support for Left dictators like Chavez and Castro, his refusal to condemn one of the most monstrous tyrannies in the world for the slaughter of its own peacefully-protesting subjects until he could no longer avoid it without embarrassment, his obvious antipathy for our democratic allies the world over, and his eagerness to lend aid and comfort to this Honduran brigand immediately after a week-long refusal to denounce Iran’s murderous regime in terms anywhere near as strong as he’s applied to his domestic political opposition certainly ought to clear up any misconceptions.
He is a hard Left would-be despot himself; it should not surprise anyone with open eyes that he sides with the thugs, communists, and dictators every time he thinks he can get away with it — which, so long as he has the butt-suck media backstopping his worthless ass, is all of them. Obama needs “some compelling reason” for doing this? All flailing and floundering about to avoid recognizing the obvious aside, he has one: he’s on their side.
Reality is not altered by anyone’s refusal to look at it, and being surprised each time it grabs you by the lapels and gives you a good shaking doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have seen it coming.
A: Umm, because they’re assholes?
Ugh. No comment necessary from me, I just wanted to use that headline once in my life.
Once, I said.
Can’t un-see it update! Oh, god. Oh god, no. Please, no.
Actually, spiraling — ever downwards:
Within days of assuming office, President Obama ostentatiously announced his intention to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year. That his administration had no workable plan to do so was beside the point; details were not about to obstruct the path to Hopenchange. Obama has since been thrashed by former Vice President Cheney in a public debate on this matter, and public opinion polls are trending decisively against his rushed and irresponsible decision.
Nevertheless, to avoid allowing a campaign promise to go by the wayside—while (quietly) adopting yet another staple of the previous administration’s supposed failures—Obama has been working hard to relocate Gitmo detainees. He first floated the idea of releasing some of the supposedly least threatening blokes, Chinese Uighurs, onto US soil, where they’d be supported with welfare checks. His own party was so receptive to that lead balloon that they voted down funding to close the prison altogether. Obama then went knocking at the collective door of the same “international community” that had decried the facility’s very existence for years. Strangely, none of those nations were especially keen on welcoming radical Islamists onto their streets. After being rebuffed more than 100 times, the president finally identified two takers; the island paradises of Bermuda and Palau.
After training with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the Uighers were caught on the battlefield (the terrorist Miranda warning policy wasn’t in effect at the time—a grave injustice) and transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where they were afforded soccer, television, and pizza privileges. Their TV viewing got a bit dicey at times, as they reportedly destroyed a television set after being subjected to the obscene image of a woman’s bare arms. Aside from picayune details like that, they’re generally regarded as a pretty reasonable, well-adjusted bunch. They’re now arriving in exotic vacation destinations, along with millions of US tax dollars in aid—making themselves at home on pristine tropical islands. Islands, mind you, that most law-abiding, tax-paying, non-terrorist American citizens couldn’t afford to visit right now, given the current economy. Wage war against the West, and you too might end up catching rays in Bermuda! What a deal.
Sadly, there’s plenty more. With pResident Pissant there always is.
Update! Dan connects the dots.
V-man reads the leaves:
Now we are a weaker breed of man, and find ourselves in a similar circumstance of uncertainty and dire straits. Who will we be? Who will we prostrate ourselves before for the metaphysical equivalent of a sour raw turnip? I am no diviner of entrails, but a quick glance at the electoral map shows me that we are, to a statistically significant factor, sucklers. And not for that sweet potato: we are as a nation sucklers for someone to mitigate our mortgages, to pump the bilge from the holds of our foundering 401ks, to guarantee our jobs even as it means creating ourselves silly, self-procreating paperpushing jobs from the sweat of another man’s brow.
We are become Jeeter Lester.
We are hallooing at God for our fate, and ready, willing and eager to steal another man’s turnips for no other reason than we want them. It isn’t out fault. It’s never our fault. It’s that other guy what did it to us.
We are present at the onset of the most earth-shattering, revolutionary capsizing of a civilization ever contemplated, and we are allowing ourselves to be rushed headlong into it, with no more forethought than one would give the purchase of a laptop computer.
Yep. Say, anybody bother reading the Crap and Tax bill yet? Anyone? Congressmen…? Bueller…?
Forethought? Slaves and subjects don’t need no steenkin’ forethought.
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