I know that local officials say the Obama administration is more responsive and more effective than the Bush administration, but that's not saying much. What says more is that New Orleans still doesn't have an operational full-service hospital. And that an adequate flood barrier is still not in place.
"I wish I could just write a check," Obama said. If that was his message, he should have stayed home. We now know that our government can make hundreds of billions of dollars available to irresponsible Wall Street institutions within a matter of days, if necessary. We can open up the floodgates of credit to too-big-to-fail banks at the stroke of a pen. But when it comes to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, well, these things take time.
I doubt these are the priorities Obama wants to be remembered for.
"I hope that the election was not just a fad," the president said. "I hope that people didn't just think, 'Well, that's done, that was fun, I really liked those posters.' I need you guys to understand that what we're trying to do is hard. And I want you to be excited by that. I want you to be energized by that. Because if it was easy it would have already been done. If it was easy it wouldn't have been worth all the effort to get here.
"And I want everybody to know who are standing in the way of progress: I'm not tired. I'm just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me -- keep it coming, we're going to get this done."
"And I want everybody to know who are standing in the way of progress: I'm not tired. I'm just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me -- keep it coming, we're going to get this done."
I've seen the vid of that many times and it always comes across as a threat rather than an inspirational message.
It seems to me that music was more integrated forty years ago.I mean teenagers like me could enjoy Sly and The Family Stone as much as Cream. it seems more stratified now.
FYI, no gas here. The line is in the street but it's $2000+ to connect it. Besides at least with heating oil we can shop around rather than live or die with PGW...
So, costwise, propane is cheaper than heating oil?
We have two wood burning fireplaces. One is new and we use it (usually with duralogs). It's one of those insert things we installed when we added on a family room. It has a blower, too. Heats up the room like crazy, but uses electric.
The other one is original to the house but it makes me nervous. We put in a new oil heater, they say it burns hotter, and in fact our terracotta chimney liner is cracked and needs to be replaced.
Aluminum, thank you very much. May as well take out a 3rd mortgage now... :-(
Just sent oldest boy out the door and off to his last regular season football game. The two teams are undefeated with identical records 5-0-1. The tie was from the first game of the season ... when they played each other.
He wanted his mom to go with him. Fine with me. It's frickin' cold here -- 42 degrees and damp.
As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.
These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.
Hmmmmm -- slaming tea-party folks and town-hall meeting folks as racists, right-wing extremists ... rings a bell, doesn't it?
Dad takes him to practice and to most games. I've had a horrible week, and am frankily enjoying a little peace and quiet.
Plus it's hard for me to watch him play sometimes. I get frustrated when I seem him not putting in the effort I know he's capable of. Typical oldest kid.
Sticks and stones and all that jazz...but Michael Vick who is an actual murderer of animals can play football?!
You can't say that!!! Dog murder is a letitimate part of African-American Culture*!!! RACIST!!!!
Gosh, that's easy -- no wonder leftist fall for it so quickly -- requires no thought at all.
*A comment actually made during an ESPN sponsored townhall meeting in Atlanta over the Michael Vick case. In that meeting, something like 80% of the attendees said they saw absolutely nothing wrong with dog fighting. Yet another beacon day for our glorious city.
I was a swim mom. Would scream myself hoarse yelling KICK! KICK! KICK while MNTS was swimming. The entire team, plus coaches and parents would do the same thing. (Unbelievable upper body strength; lazy FEET! ;-)
One day she decided to tell me it was a total waste since she couldn't hear me when she was under water.
Lol -- I tend not to say much. I try to remind him of what he's supposed to be doing. He has a tendency to rationalize doing something other than what his coach wants him to do, which never works out well.
Every practice his coach says the same thing: "I need to see more effort out of you." And it goes in one ear and out the other every time.
scobuzz -- no heat. Owing to an Obama-up on the billing our gas was cut off on Wednesday (the day they mailed out the notice, as it turned out). The earliest anyone can get it back on is Monday. Originally they told me next Friday was the earliest, at which point I filed a complaint with the public service commission. That got their attention.
In yesterday's WSJ, there was a good piece on the Limbaugh fiasco -- I liked this part:
Mr. Goodell implied in a statement that Mr. Limbaugh's off-the-cuff comment in 2003 about quarterback Donovan McNabb (that the media wanted a black quarterback to do well) violated the league's "high standard."
We suspect Mr. Limbaugh would be happy to withdraw the 2003 remark, but to elevate it to racism, hatred and disqualification from doing business with the saintly NFL beggars belief. On the evidence, the NFL is the most forgiving league in sports. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, just for starters, must be thankful Mr. Goodell's "high standard" doesn't mean a lifetime ban from the NFL.
What happened here, and is happening elsewhere in American life, is that Mr. Limbaugh's outspoken political conservatism is being deemed sufficient reason to ostracize him from polite society. By contrast, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who fires off his own brand of high-velocity, left-wing political commentary but lacks Mr. Limbaugh's sense of humor, appears weekly as co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America." We haven't heard anyone on the right say Mr. Olbermann's nightly ad-hominem rants should disqualify him from hanging around the NFL. Al Franken made it all the way to the U.S. Senate on a river of political vitriol.
But Rush Limbaugh gets hung out to dry by someone of Roger Goodell's establishment prominence, and barely a soul from that same fastidious establishment has the courage to step forward to criticize it.
Help yourselves!
SHABBAT SHALOM, Y'ALL!
ReplyDeleteWe only get 5 posts with avatars and then...either white bread slices or little generic men.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of using up all 5.
ReplyDeleteCranky Flakes, anyone?
ReplyDeleteThey go well with fruitcup!
ReplyDelete/bon appetit!
THE END.
ReplyDeletelittleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteCan we Photoshop faces for ourselves? ;-)
Right now, it's only set up as 1 default icon with a generic man, which is better than those blank boxes, even though it's not a fix.
Thank you littleoldlady!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to The No Frills Blog!
ReplyDelete/we're all the same now! the commies have won!
//damn...I can't remember the name of the movie!(50's version, not the remake) :-(
MMMM...generic fruitcup!
ReplyDelete(Now I remember! WHEW! I thought I was really losing it...)
ReplyDeleteGeneric Men (and Women)!
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteSHABBAT SHALOM, Y'ALL
Back atcha:
שבת-שלום
littleoldlady, Is this it?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044750/
Boy, I'll tell ya, Pi Guy...you are really a coding freak today!
ReplyDelete/psst! ditch the dash! ;-)
BatGuano,
ReplyDeleteNope! (see my link above)
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteBoy, I'll tell ya, Pi Guy...you are really a coding freak today!
/psst! ditch the dash! ;-)
Coding freak? Yes.
Language expert? Not so much.
But otherwise you did GREAT! :-)
ReplyDeletelol. That was the first movie that popped into mind! But, nOooo, I had to be more obscure.
ReplyDeleteMore wake up music.
ReplyDeleteDefensive?! You mean they can JUSTIFY themselves?!
ReplyDeletePatience...patience...OKAY! Free books!
ReplyDeletelittleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteMore wake up music.
You really want to wake someone up? Play this theme song loudly!
Why wake them up in a bad mood? ;-)
ReplyDeleteHoo-boy! Obama disappoints...again...but in the Washington Post?!
ReplyDeleteI know that local officials say the Obama administration is more responsive and more effective than the Bush administration, but that's not saying much. What says more is that New Orleans still doesn't have an operational full-service hospital. And that an adequate flood barrier is still not in place.
"I wish I could just write a check," Obama said. If that was his message, he should have stayed home. We now know that our government can make hundreds of billions of dollars available to irresponsible Wall Street institutions within a matter of days, if necessary. We can open up the floodgates of credit to too-big-to-fail banks at the stroke of a pen. But when it comes to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, well, these things take time.
I doubt these are the priorities Obama wants to be remembered for.
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteHoo-boy! Obama disappoints...again...but in the Washington Post?!
Ouch!
Interesting, too.
Monsters of Prozac! LOL!
ReplyDelete/another OUCH.
"'I wish I could just write a check,' Obama said."
ReplyDeleteHe can write a check.If Wapo is dissatisfied,the Gray Lady could be next.
If Wapo is dissatisfied,the Gray Lady could be next.
ReplyDeleteRight. I'd love to see pigs fly...
If you were thinking of sleeping (ever again!) you need to know that Obama is "just getting started"
ReplyDelete"I hope that the election was not just a fad," the president said. "I hope that people didn't just think, 'Well, that's done, that was fun, I really liked those posters.' I need you guys to understand that what we're trying to do is hard. And I want you to be excited by that. I want you to be energized by that. Because if it was easy it would have already been done. If it was easy it wouldn't have been worth all the effort to get here.
"And I want everybody to know who are standing in the way of progress: I'm not tired. I'm just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me -- keep it coming, we're going to get this done."
BatGuano said...
ReplyDelete"'I wish I could just write a check,' Obama said."
He can write a check.If Wapo is dissatisfied,the Gray Lady could be next.
The old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be.
Why not? The New York Times isn't any better...
ReplyDeleteUK court wants to publish U.S. intelligence on detainee
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteIf you were thinking of sleeping (ever again!) you need to know that Obama is "just getting started"
The Black-Eyed Peas were never more prophetic:
Everybody, everybody, let's get into it.
Get stupid.
Get it started, get it started, get it started.
"And I want everybody to know who are standing in the way of progress: I'm not tired. I'm just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me -- keep it coming, we're going to get this done."
ReplyDeleteI've seen the vid of that many times and it always comes across as a threat rather than an inspirational message.
For Pi Guy...not that he needs it or anything!
ReplyDeleteBatGuano,
ReplyDeleteMe too. :-(
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteFor Pi Guy...not that he needs it or anything!
You probably won't be surprised to hear this, but did I ever mention that I juggle?
YES YOU DID! :-)
ReplyDeletelittleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteBatGuano,
Me too. :-(
Prepare for re-Neducation!
Invasion of the Brain Snatchers!
ReplyDeleteGoodnight, all!
ReplyDelete/Well, it's 3 o'clock in the morning...
G'night Pi!
ReplyDeleteDON'T GO TO SLEEP, Pi Guy!
ReplyDelete/they'll take your body and turn you into an iPOD!
//...oh. wait. That should be POD!
;-)
'Night!
Okay. I've run out of news...EVERYBODY DANCE!
ReplyDeleteDeath before disco!
ReplyDeleteUs generics don't care what genre we generate.
ReplyDelete/something like that ;-)
Is that better, Bat? ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd furthermore...
ReplyDeletelol, you know what I like. I watched every second! :)
ReplyDeleteGood mornin Lol, Bat....
ReplyDeleteAH! There's life! YAY!
ReplyDeleteenuff!
Hi, enuff!
ReplyDeleteMe too, Bat. Hard to beat Fred and Ginger...
ReplyDeleteMore dancing
ReplyDeleteCobwebs...can't get the damned cobwebs out from between my ears this morning - gahhh.
ReplyDeleteenuff,
ReplyDeleteTry DANCING!
;-)
It seems to me that music was more integrated forty years ago.I mean teenagers like me could enjoy Sly and The Family Stone as much as Cream. it seems more stratified now.
ReplyDeleteHey babe.
ReplyDeleteBat,
ReplyDeleteNah. My kid (21 - TODAY!) is listening to pretty much what we did. The thing is, she thinks it comes from HER generation! LOL!
Formercorpsman!!! w00t! :-)
ReplyDeleteNice weather.
ReplyDeleteHow are you, neighbor?
ReplyDelete/has enough rain yet? :-/
Winter coats...in October?!
ReplyDelete/I'm not ready!
Funny about that music / generational thing.
ReplyDeleteI can remember when I was stationed down in LeJeune, and sitting in local mall pizza shop. On the radio was the Jackson 5's, "I'll be there"
Well the girls in the booth next to us were so upset that someone that quickly, ripped off the Mariah Carey song.
Yeah, I have my coat. I'm getting ready to get some Wawa fuel in a little bit.
ReplyDeleteAND it's dark out there!
ReplyDelete/just took the dog out
What the heck happened?!
;-)
This day in history October 17th (apologies to Pi Guy):
ReplyDelete1989: Loma Prieta earthquake registered 7.1 on the richter scale. BatGuano nearly soiled himself.
1988: littleoldlady was blessed with a child.
And my oil bill! OY.
ReplyDeleteI need a(nother) job.
I remember both, Bat!
ReplyDelete/trying to watch TV while having a birthday party...
Yeah, I just had to order 200 more gallons of propane.
ReplyDeleteFormercorpsman,
ReplyDeletePropane?
Yeah, like Hank Hill?
ReplyDeletePretty much everything we have in the house runs on LP, not natural gas like you city folk.
Good night everyone. I have to be up at the crack of 1030 am, PST.
ReplyDelete'Night, Bat! :-)
ReplyDeleteFormercorpsman,
Do you have a tank buried outside?
/city folk? For us "city folk" this is the country! ;-)
Yeah, right in the back yard. I have a wood stove I need to get in the basement as well. That would help quite a bit.
ReplyDeleteFYI, no gas here. The line is in the street but it's $2000+ to connect it. Besides at least with heating oil we can shop around rather than live or die with PGW...
ReplyDeleteSo, costwise, propane is cheaper than heating oil?
No, probably not. I do like the idea of being able to shop the price.
ReplyDeleteI really would like to get the stove in though. I can still split would. Might be good exercise in the process too.
We have two wood burning fireplaces. One is new and we use it (usually with duralogs). It's one of those insert things we installed when we added on a family room. It has a blower, too. Heats up the room like crazy, but uses electric.
ReplyDelete/and I have a hate/hate relationship with PECO...
I understand the PECO thing totally.
ReplyDeleteI'll be back later, I NEED coffee.
Wawa run.
The other one is original to the house but it makes me nervous. We put in a new oil heater, they say it burns hotter, and in fact our terracotta chimney liner is cracked and needs to be replaced.
ReplyDeleteAluminum, thank you very much. May as well take out a 3rd mortgage now... :-(
Pick me up a cheese pocket, please?
ReplyDeleteI'm hungry. No one cares.
ReplyDelete:-(
I've got some oat cream scones to share if you'd like, {lol}...
ReplyDeletescotti!
ReplyDeleteYummm! That sounds great! THANKS!
/nom nom nom...
Serenity.
ReplyDeleteMore serenity
ReplyDeleteWTFF? Are we now the Southwest Airlines of Blogs?
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer to be the Midwest Express -- they serve cookies.
*gently swaying to music*
ReplyDelete(something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto)
'Morning, Lucius! :-)
ReplyDeleteWell...there's fruitcup.
/got cheese pocket?
Just sent oldest boy out the door and off to his last regular season football game. The two teams are undefeated with identical records 5-0-1. The tie was from the first game of the season ... when they played each other.
ReplyDeleteHe wanted his mom to go with him. Fine with me. It's frickin' cold here -- 42 degrees and damp.
Rush has a piece in today's WSJ. The ending of it pretty much nails the matter:
ReplyDeleteAs I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.
These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.
Hmmmmm -- slaming tea-party folks and town-hall meeting folks as racists, right-wing extremists ... rings a bell, doesn't it?
No cheese pocket for me, thanks. I'm thinking of having some oatmeal, thought.
ReplyDeleteThe lamb stew I made last night was really good.
Mom's luckier than Dad?
ReplyDeleteDad takes him to practice and to most games. I've had a horrible week, and am frankily enjoying a little peace and quiet.
ReplyDeletePlus it's hard for me to watch him play sometimes. I get frustrated when I seem him not putting in the effort I know he's capable of. Typical oldest kid.
Sticks and stones and all that jazz...but Michael Vick who is an actual murderer of animals can play football?!
ReplyDeleteLord, mi tipeeng iz weigh oph twodey.
ReplyDeleteI have GOT to try this recipe!
ReplyDeleteLS, he has it totally correct.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much more to say, but I am sure you could probably write my next paragraph.
Sticks and stones and all that jazz...but Michael Vick who is an actual murderer of animals can play football?!
ReplyDeleteYou can't say that!!! Dog murder is a letitimate part of African-American Culture*!!! RACIST!!!!
Gosh, that's easy -- no wonder leftist fall for it so quickly -- requires no thought at all.
*A comment actually made during an ESPN sponsored townhall meeting in Atlanta over the Michael Vick case. In that meeting, something like 80% of the attendees said they saw absolutely nothing wrong with dog fighting. Yet another beacon day for our glorious city.
Lucius,
ReplyDeleteI was a swim mom. Would scream myself hoarse yelling KICK! KICK! KICK while MNTS was swimming. The entire team, plus coaches and parents would do the same thing. (Unbelievable upper body strength; lazy FEET! ;-)
One day she decided to tell me it was a total waste since she couldn't hear me when she was under water.
/I miss those days! ;-)
mmmmmm -- those muffins look mighty tasty.
ReplyDeleteLucius,
ReplyDeleteMY TEAM HIRED HIM after he was convicted!!!
/which city is worse? :-(
Lol -- I tend not to say much. I try to remind him of what he's supposed to be doing. He has a tendency to rationalize doing something other than what his coach wants him to do, which never works out well.
ReplyDeleteEvery practice his coach says the same thing: "I need to see more effort out of you." And it goes in one ear and out the other every time.
Oh, Philly by far.
ReplyDelete(Spoken by a long-term Eagles-hater)
Supposed to freeze here tonight. That will be fun with no heat.
ReplyDeleteThese intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.
ReplyDelete*sigh* Very true, and depressing.
LS: No heat?!
ReplyDeletescobuzz -- no heat. Owing to an Obama-up on the billing our gas was cut off on Wednesday (the day they mailed out the notice, as it turned out). The earliest anyone can get it back on is Monday. Originally they told me next Friday was the earliest, at which point I filed a complaint with the public service commission. That got their attention.
ReplyDeleteMNTS was at a USS swim meet and her coach asked her, "Hey! Do you think you could swim FASTER?"
ReplyDeleteThe look on her face was priceless. "Oh. I'm supposed to swim FASTER?...Sure. I can do that!"
The amazing thing was...she did! Got a ribbon for her efforts, too.
In yesterday's WSJ, there was a good piece on the Limbaugh fiasco -- I liked this part:
ReplyDeleteMr. Goodell implied in a statement that Mr. Limbaugh's off-the-cuff comment in 2003 about quarterback Donovan McNabb (that the media wanted a black quarterback to do well) violated the league's "high standard."
We suspect Mr. Limbaugh would be happy to withdraw the 2003 remark, but to elevate it to racism, hatred and disqualification from doing business with the saintly NFL beggars belief. On the evidence, the NFL is the most forgiving league in sports. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, just for starters, must be thankful Mr. Goodell's "high standard" doesn't mean a lifetime ban from the NFL.
What happened here, and is happening elsewhere in American life, is that Mr. Limbaugh's outspoken political conservatism is being deemed sufficient reason to ostracize him from polite society. By contrast, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who fires off his own brand of high-velocity, left-wing political commentary but lacks Mr. Limbaugh's sense of humor, appears weekly as co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America." We haven't heard anyone on the right say Mr. Olbermann's nightly ad-hominem rants should disqualify him from hanging around the NFL. Al Franken made it all the way to the U.S. Senate on a river of political vitriol.
But Rush Limbaugh gets hung out to dry by someone of Roger Goodell's establishment prominence, and barely a soul from that same fastidious establishment has the courage to step forward to criticize it.
Lots of blankets? Afghans? Body heat? (personal favorite after losing electricity during a blizzard)
ReplyDeleteThe sump pump just kicked in...
ReplyDelete/I REALLY wish Lucius had kept that rain!
And there's a new thread! ↑