Morning C2, fresh coffee, smear and croissants on the side bar.
This is the precise reason why Obama never should have gone to Copenhagen; it was a complete lose-lose situation. It was lose-lose because let’s just pretend that Obama goes, greases some palms and then Chicago wins the Olympic bid, what then? Well, then it looks like the only reason Chicago was chosen is because the President of the most powerful country in the world went over there and made sure the vote came out the right way. Given the fact that the IOC is the second most corrupt body in the world (behind the UN) no one would be surprised of charges of corruption.
But after Iran's disclosure, Medvedev suggested that Tehran's offer to open the site to IAEA inspectors could satisfy Moscow, which in turn would satisfy China, which has been just as reluctant as Russia to impose new sanctions.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by a greater-than-expected 263,000 in September, the Labor Department reported. It marked the 21st consecutive month of job losses.
Since the recession began in December 2007, 7.2 million jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate has doubled.
Currently, one-third favors the legislation being considered (33 percent) and a slight majority (53 percent) opposes it. This compares to 38 percent favoring and 48 percent opposing the legislation two weeks ago (15-16 September 2009).Americans are split along party lines in their support of health reform. A majority of Democrats favors the legislation (60 percent) while a large majority of Republicans opposes it (85 percent). Independents, an important swing group, are more likely to oppose health reform than favor it (57 percent oppose and 27 percent favor).
Herat province in west Afghanistan is seen as one of the country’s safest areas. It is one of the largest, most prosperous Afghan provinces — its capital’s wide, smooth and tree-lined boulevards are a far cry from Kabul’s crumbling skyline.But the past few months have seen a sharp increase in violence.Last month a cabinet minister and former militia leader, Ismail Khan, was the target of a bomb attack in Herat city. A day earlier, Herati traders took to the streets to protest against rising insecurity in the province.
So, how is that Hope and Change working out?
Posted by JCM.
FIRST!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNICE thread, JCM! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks!
lol,
ReplyDeleteMaybe not so nice, but here we are......
Mornin' Real, lol, and the rest!
ReplyDeleteAll the bad news to ruin digestion. :p
ReplyDelete/thanks JCM, really. ;)
Let me rephrase...nice LOOKING thread.
ReplyDelete/the subject matter is enough to make you SICK. :-(
//may I have a croissant, please?
I was raging to myself downstairs - so repost!
ReplyDeleteWhat a week, though. Can you flippin' believe Media Matters is trying to justify what Safe School KaaZar Jennings did because the kid was 16 at the time? That makes it ok? Perhaps it resolves the statutory rape thing (though Jennings thought the kid was 15, so I'm not sure the resolution is iron clad) - but sheesh - this kid is trolling for sex in a BATHROOM and told Jennings repeatedly about his "adventures" (Jennings words, not mine) and no one on the left thinks it was a problem Jennings didn't discourage this kid? Offer counseling? Tell parents? SOMETHING?
I'm hoping to find some change.
ReplyDeleteGood morning (again).
ReplyDeleteI have taken today off to catch up on things which have accumulated the last 18 months with me working 6-7 days a week on this new job.
Hiya {numbers man}!
AW - whatever dress you decide to buy for your visit to your dad, please do not go with the "yellow number" you-know-who wore to Copenhagen. (just mho of course)
Yea, REALWEST does happy dance, then plops down in comfy chair exhausted from dancing! LOL!
ReplyDeleteHey what the heck is goning on here- fruit cup, bagels and bialys and now more bagels bialy's and now croissants too?!
C'mon y'all, where the hell are the egss and bacon and sausage and -well, basically Denny's menu huh? What are we, AMERICANS or semi-healthy wannabe some one else's? Hmmmmmmm?
Oh and in other news, Ireland has capitulated - er - voted for the EU bringing the total to 23(or maybe it's 27, lost count, damnit!) countries that want to increase employment in Europe by adding a whole additional layer of beaurcrats for whom they don't have any money to pay for, either!
and oh by the way, this guy is a fan of one of the founders of NAMBLA, but you know, that is merely details.
ReplyDeleteAnd good morning to JCM!
ReplyDelete/One of my internet-met heroes (for what you do for so many children).
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to find some change.
Go look under the couch cushions. That is going to be the only change you find. :)))
Gettinby -
ReplyDeleteNo worries - I wish Michelle would listen to my fashion advice. I offer and offer up things such as "looking like a Rollo Candy bar is not becoming to ANYONE" but does she listen? NOOOOO! Just like those cinched up belts.
no one on the left thinks it was a problem Jennings didn't discourage this kid? Offer counseling? Tell parents? SOMETHING?
ReplyDeleteOf course not.
/Your point?
//This is said with something far beyond sarcasm.
AW,
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Jennings stuff is sickening.
This what we get in WA State.
Dept. Social and Health Services (DSHS) has a two decade history of kids under their supervision getting killed and abused.
So they go and hire a new admin out of WI someone who got fired for a child under her watch getting killed.
Revels Robinson lands post in Washington state
The Milwaukee bureau, under her leadership, was heavily criticized for the way it handled the November 2008 beating death of Christopher Thomas. Christopher and his sister had been tortured by their aunt, Crystal Keith, a court-ordered kinship foster parent, even as caseworkers repeatedly visited their home.
Next time a liberal or (D) tells me "it's for the children" I'm going the slap them silly with Jennings and Robinson.
Who wears yellow, anyway?!
ReplyDelete/sheesh
Rollo Candy bar
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is funny!
gettinby,
ReplyDeleteThank you...
*blushes*
Pew! Airborne Military Laser Takes Out Truck on Video
ReplyDeleteIn a recent test at the White Sands Missile Range, a specially equipped C-130 plane fried a parked truck with a powerful laser. And while we still haven't seen evidence of the laser "defeating" a ground target, as Boeing puts it, a video of it scorching a direct hit on the hood of a truck is still pretty amazing.
As you can see, the laser beam burns right through the truck's hood, and then through the engine, "defeating" the vehicle. Called the "Advanced Tactical Laser" (ATL), this is the first time the megawatt-powered chemical laser has been used to engage a target in a combat simulation situation.
/don't tell Obama, he'll probably cancel the program
Hey gettinby - did you see my compliment to you on your new avatar on the prior thread?!? Didja get the shoes and handbags to match?!
ReplyDeleteAnd ArmyWife - morning to y'all!And who us this guy Jennings and what did he do that Media Matters is defending him? I hesitate to ask but my curiousity got the better of me!
Going to run some errands. BBL
ReplyDeleteJust disgusting. But the real sickening part in the Jennings situation is the meme "it was consensual sex". Cheese and crackers, people, this was a kid and incapable of consensual anything!
ReplyDeleteRW - Jennings is the The One's Safe Schools Czar.
ReplyDeleteHi, KB! Trivia for you - my sister was born in White Sands Missile Range!
ReplyDeletereal6p00e55005f9c78834west
ReplyDelete(I have taken the liberty of using your full name. Hope you don't mind.)
Thanks for the avatar compliment. The color is symbolic of my anger at, well, where do I start?!
Killian,
ReplyDeleteCool stuff!
New arrows in our quiver!
Good morning KILLIAN! Neat video, but it doesn't indicate what altitude the C-130 was flying at when it fried that car hood and I'm assuming your right about it frying right throug the hood and into the motor but it's also hard to tell cause the vehicle was standing still too.
ReplyDeleteAnd - to be candid - I was hoping for some more flash bang type stuff from an airborne laser!!
Who wears yellow, anyway?!
ReplyDeleteI just took a look in my closet.
Nope.
No yellow anything.
/I'm considered out-of-style now I suppose.
/Oh, wait! I have a yellow bathing suit that I refuse to wear. Does that count? LOL
ArmyWife - I got that part, but what the hell did he do that has MM rushing to his defense? Or what was he alleged to have done?!
ReplyDeleteDo y'all have a link?
I'll go get the links...and MM is defending him because they are a liberal kook group. It's what they do!
ReplyDeleteReal,
ReplyDeleteSome flash bang laser stuff.....
Mobile / Tactical High Energy Laser
(M-THEL) Technology Demonstration Program
Hey there JCM! Shoot, I forgot to say hi to you when I was kvetching about the lack of an All-American breakfast - fat, baked and grilled, followed by a gallon of caffine!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the ticket! LOL!
How are you today my friend?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
ReplyDeleteA photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.
Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.
/he should wipe himself off the map
Real,
ReplyDeleteExcellent. The horde got up early so I put on a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD and threw up he thread.
One special breakfast for Real, coming up.
Media Matters on Jennings
ReplyDeleteLinky
Afghan soldier shoots dead two American troops
ReplyDeleteAn Afghan soldier on guard at a joint base with U.S. troops shot dead two American servicemen and wounded two others as they slept, a provincial official said on Saturday.
Shahedullah Shahed, spokesman for the governor of Wardak province west of Kabul, said the shooting took place after a combined team of Afghan and U.S. forces had returned from a joint operation late on Friday.
"The Americans were in the middle of sleep when an Afghan soldier on duty opened fire on them," Shahed said.
"We have no clue as to why he shot them."
Gee, I bet I could guess why.
/damned if we stay, damned if we leave, Obama wants to go down in history as damned for the latter
Oh, THANK YOU JCM! YUM!
ReplyDeleteExperts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.
ReplyDeleteOr...he could just hate Jews.
/he should wipe himself off the map
I agree.
;-)
On the Jennings thing -- the left is divided into two groups: the true believers, and the tyrannized masses.
ReplyDeleteThe true believers would tell you that parents have no business knowing about such things, the anyone, regardless of age, should be free to choose their sexuality. And, in fact, they should be actively encouraged to embrace homosexuality, or at least to "experiment."
For these people, physical pleasure is the only good. And the solipsistic self is the only form of individualism they can identify with. We must be morally autonomous, but that means socially isolated and atomized. Meanwhile, while we enjoy the physical pleasures of the "liberated self," we identify with no bond other than the bond of Society. No loved ones, no families, no neighborhoods, no community. Only Society and our Bodies; the latter being the only "self" we possess.
It is materialist nihilism.
The case of the average self-identified liberal is easier to understand. They are tyrannized. Even if at some level they are repelled by this they would never dare speak out lest they be accused of being "homophobes." And they shame themselves for even feeling that way and embrace all the nice liberal platitidues the left offers to justify to themselves their inaction and silence.
They want to be "good" people. They are terrified of being thought otherwise.
Such folks are useful tools of the elite who succeed by creating moral confusion and self doubt; meanwhile the confused masses can easily be directed to whatever goal they choose. But the goal ultimately has nothing to do with "the good" in any abstract or concrete sense. It's simply about power.
The Sexual dominance of an adult man over a boy for the purposes of momentary pleasure with no responsibility or affection attached -- the immediate gratificatio of the most primal urges -- is the ultimate expression of power. That's why they glorify it. But the ones who support them in power will not see it -- they are too afraid of being accused of not being "good."
/he should wipe himself off the map
ReplyDeleteWorks for me.
/damned if we stay, damned if we leave, Obama wants to go down in history as damned for the latter
/Let's really try to make him go down as a one-term President (and obviously, I mean the "go down" in re-election terminology only).
"F*** the Jews, they'll vote for us anyway"
ReplyDelete/pardon me while my head explodes...
Thanks ArmyWife and Lucius but having waded through the sewer known as Media Matters I STILL DON'T KNOW what Jennings did or allegedly did, whether or not there was an arrest and if so a conviction and I don't understand all the comments at MM about the boy being 16 not 15 - in most states the "age of consent" is 17.
ReplyDeletearmy wife
ReplyDeleteyou could tell michelle when she wears her belt under her breasts, it looks like her ass begins at her armpits
ugh
JCM -- that chicken-fried steak looks really good.
ReplyDeleteI had steak and eggs and fried potatoes for breakfast this morning.
Hey {littleoldlady}! From your link:
ReplyDelete"Snub Follows Admission that Consulate Caters to PA
The High Holidays snub follows an admission in August that the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem views itself as America's representative to the PA, while the embassy in Tel Aviv is seen as the representative to Israel. Consulate staff explained that they are “the principal representation to the Palestinian Authority” in an email to a Jewish American concerned by the lack of balance in consulate events.
The admission angered many American citizens in Israel. America's apparent recognition of the PA's claim to rights in Jerusalem was seen as a slap in the face, particularly because America takes care not to recognize Israeli rights in the capital city despite more than 40 years of Israeli sovereignty in the greater Jerusalem area.
The U.S. has repeatedly declined to move its embassy to Jerusalem, the seat of Israel's government, and American citizens born in Jerusalem are not registered as having been born in Israel.
Embassy Ignores Judaism as Well
While admitting that U.S. representatives in Jerusalem cater to the PA, consulate staff defended that decision by pointing to the Tel Aviv embassy as the existing representative to Israel. However, the Tel Aviv embassy website provides no mention of the major Jewish holidays in September and October.
The only mention of any autumn holidays, Jewish or Muslim, appears in the form of a video from a dinner hosted at the Ambassador's residence in celebration of Iftar."
And it may well have angered American Jews IN Israel, but I don't recall reading anything about it here, either. Do y'all think American Jews know about this "snub" (which it isn't - it's an INSULT, PURE AND SIMPLE)?
Lucius,
ReplyDeleteMorally and intellectually bankrupt.
ploomie! :-)
ReplyDeleteSeveral years ago I got all dolled up to go to some fancy family event and walked out of the bedroom to the oohs and aahs of my family...my little brother exclaimed, "Wow! You look great! Now if you just make sure you stand with your butt to the wall and not MOVE the entire evening, nobody will know..."
/somebody should tell Michelle the same thing
LoL
ReplyDeleteIsrael has the means and the authority to close this office and have it moved to Ramallah
and ISrael should do that
realwest,
ReplyDeleteDo y'all think American Jews know about this "snub"
78% of American Jews don't care. :-(
Chicago Out Of Contention For 2016 Olympics Senator Rowland Burris Blames Bush
ReplyDeleteBurris stated in an interview, shortly after the announcement, that the image of the U. S. has been so tarnished in the last 8 years that, even Barack Obama making an unprecedented pitch for the games could not overcome the hatred the world has for us as a result of George Bush.
/you just knew it was coming
ploome,
ReplyDeleteEvidently there are no consequences whatsoever for any mistreatment of Israel by the United States, symbolic or otherwise.
(Somebody rewrite that for me, please? Grammar-deficient today...)
ReplyDelete78% of American Jews don't care. :-(
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine says that he's convinced everytime his elderly parents pull the D lever, they think they're still voting for Adlai Stevenson.
So many American Jews are so wedded to their old left views that it's impossible for them to think outside that box. David Horowitz suggesed that it was a function of the move from the Stetl to the city -- in the Jewish enclaves in American cities, the Stetl mentality remained, but with political ideology replacing religion as the distinguishing characteristic. Radical politics was a way of creating community within community, of maintaining a separate identity and resisting assimilation, largely on account of a dep, well-learned suspicion and fear of the larger Gentile culture.
Interesting thought.
Killian -- I'm surprised it took this long.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long we'll be blaming Bush?
Killian,
ReplyDeleteI posted exactly that prediction shortly after the loss.
I posted exactly that prediction shortly after the loss.
ReplyDeletePredicting that response is like predicting the Royals won't make the playoffs.
RW - Jennings was a teacher when this happened and the student confided in him with all the sordid details. Jennings the teacher's response to the child was "I hope you wear a condom". At the time, another teacher threatened to report Jennings for not saying anything to authorities, and Jennings responded by threatening to sue the teacher.
ReplyDeleteLater, Jennings wrote a book and included an except on this situation - his point wasn't the disgust of an old man preying on a boy, but that they boy stated he didn't need a condom because his life wasn't worth living - relating the angst of a homosexual kid who doesn't feel free to out himself in this cruel, cruel world
A friend of mine says that he's convinced everytime his elderly parents pull the D lever, they think they're still voting for Adlai Stevenson.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I think that is SO TRUE! LOL!
people are afraid to talk about this for fear of being labeled a homophobe. I am not anti-gay. I am anti-preying on children.
ReplyDeleteLucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeletethe Royals won't make the playoffs.
They just need to lose two more games.
/that's all we ask, oh, and Detroit needs to lose at least one more
Lucius,
ReplyDeleteNope, not hard at all..........
KB - do you think he missed all the jokes about this? When he read that, did he think people were serious and he said "I'll jump on that bandwagon?" . Roland, baby. Your guy is a chump. He is naive, he is dangerous and the impending train wreck will have nothing to do with Bush and everything to do with their deranged idea that just dialogue will cure all.
ReplyDeleteAW -- but notice how they've merged the two categories. It's like the case with the gay researcher at Duke who was sexually molesting a 6-year-old boy he and his partner had adopted. Where was the public outrage? Where the NYT front page stories? The documentaries? The protests? The full-page ads signed by the Duke faculty?
ReplyDelete*crickets*
No one would speak out for the simple reason that he was gay.
The same is true here -- they have packaged it so that you cannot speak out against pederasty without being labled "homophobe." This is the sort of thing that makes me less and less sympathetic to the "rights" movement.
I washed and refilled the cats' "nipper" mice yesterday.
ReplyDelete/big mistake
Army Wife - I'm just astounded that Jennings didn't contact SOMEONE to help this boy/young man whatever you want to call him, out of his feelings of desperation and despair.
ReplyDeleteThat he would simply suggest he wear a condom is just unconscionale. And No, I'm not a homophobe either, but this isn't about gay vs straight in any event, this is purely a question of a teacher helping/hurting a student. Period.
RW - agreed. That is my point. Let's put the gay/straight thing aside and deal with the facts of the case - a young and troubled child was reaching out for help and what did he get? Thrown back to the wolves with a quick "be careful out there, ok?"
ReplyDeleteI would be equally outraged if the kid was trolling old women in a bathroom. The kid wanted help. He got sex advice instead.
JCM,Like what you've done with the place!
ReplyDeleteThat waffle looks good....
Jennings was a teacher.
ReplyDelete/he was a mandatory reporter by law
Morning sas!
ReplyDeleteSeems we don't need to want The Wee Won to fail, he's doing just fine all by 'isself.
Let's put the gay/straight thing aside and deal with the facts of the case - a young and troubled child was reaching out for help and what did he get? Thrown back to the wolves with a quick "be careful out there, ok?"
ReplyDeleteBut to the hard-core left, there is nothing wrong with that. Quite the opposite -- the way the story is told, it is all of US -- the "straights" in the world -- who are wrong for making this poor boy hate himself for being gay.
They simply will not allow us to unhitch the case from the radical homosexual agenda. To merely express concern for the boy is in itslef an act of homophobia and the reason he hated himself.
Jennings was enjoying his self imposed "victim" status and needed this to prove how oppressive this all was - he was/is a "gay rights" activist first, teacher second.
ReplyDelete/he was a mandatory reporter by law
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but in his world, he took a courageous stand against laws that are designed for the oppression of the homosexual youth.
No sarc -- that's how these folks think.
Uh,littleoldlady and Lucius - Nope, that's not the answer - I don't believe that 76% of American Jews think they are pulling the lever for Adlai Stevenson. Elderly folks MAYBE, but not all the succeeding generations.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get it. Except that if you asked the leaders of Israel do you feel Israel is safer with a Republican or a Democrat as POTUS, I'd wager hard earned money, that the overwhelming majority of them would say "Republican" [and geez, just look at Carter for a reason] and am thus reduced to suspecting, at least, that younger generations of American Jews do not STRONGLY identify with the State of Israel or at least the survival of the State of Israel.
he was/is a "gay rights" activist first, teacher second.
ReplyDeleteJust like the Won is a "community organizer" first and President of the United States second, or perhaps third or fourth.
RW -- actually, younger Jews are far more likely to identify with Israel and be politically conservative than their parents' or grandparents' generations. There is a gradual shift going on.
ReplyDeleteAs for the older generation, they are still stuck in the old-left mentality more from habit than anything else.
JCM said...
ReplyDeleteAnother Stratfor vid for you on the P-5+1.
Hey! Hi there Sasquatch! How are ya doing today?
ReplyDeleteBetween littleoldlady's SUPERB fruitcup, supplemented by maudgonnes' bagels and bialy's, and then having JCM supply all of his goodies, I've probably put on like 5 pounds just from LOOKING at the food here at C2!
Queering Elementary Education
ReplyDeleteForeword by Kevin Jennings. That's elementary education.
/hey, I know, let's make him the national "safe schools czar", what could possibly go wrong?
sas,
ReplyDelete"The entire strategy is in the hands of the Iranians."
yep......
Morning Real.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I know. I've been trying to shed some pounds, but every time I come here there's pictures of food!
It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!
How're you feeling today?
Good morning!
ReplyDelete{{realwest}} *smoochie-smooch* Happy to see you today and
*does a double take*
saaaaaaaaaay - have you put on a little weight lately?
JCM said...
ReplyDeletesame old, same old, but with less time....
"safe schools" means "schools where it is safe to be queer." That is what they mean by it. Jennings is absolutely honest about having deliberately stolen the term "safe" from the right to use to advance a queer agenda.
ReplyDeleteHe is a very bad man and has no business being anywhere near schools or children.
I'm here, well for a short time. Dang paper work is getting the best of me. )-:
ReplyDeleteSo how is everyone this fine morning?
ReplyDeleteDUSTOFF! Woot! Glad to see you - it's been a long time! How's life treating you?
ReplyDeleteDustoff!?!?
ReplyDeleteThat you?
Welcome! That weird as string of numbers is Realwest in disguise!
Lucius -
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is right for a student to be relentlessly ridiculed for sexual orientation. That said, I don't think it is necessary to go WAYYY overboard, awarding special status if you will, to counter that, either. We protect the rights of ALL of us. Example: allowing "transgendered" to use the ladies room runs over my rights - transgendered rights are NOT above mine. If they feel like a girl, more power to them. Fact is, they aren't one, so men's room it is.
Yep JCM.. it's me. LOL
ReplyDeleteMorning Miss Trixie. (-:
ReplyDeleteHi Dustoff! Wow, this is going to be fun when Mr. Armywife is on! He is using "Dustoff Doc"! I can't wait for you two to talk. OH BIG HUGS YOUR WAY!!!
ReplyDeleteBack from travel... "again" )-:
ReplyDeleteArmy wife. SWEET.
ReplyDeleteBut I must admit. I'm the first and only true DUSTOFF! LOL
ReplyDeleteMorning Miss Trixie, Dustoff. A kinda nice fall morning here in what we Canadians jokingly call the Big Smoke. :)
ReplyDeleteAW -- well that's because you're a reasonable person and view people as human beings and not as means to a political end.
ReplyDeleteJennings is in the the other camp.
Morning PaladinPhil
ReplyDeleteI think you have seniority on him, if I recall from our exchanges!
ReplyDeleteDustoff! Niceataseelya. Pull up a chair and get yourself a drink -- the cooler is over there.
ReplyDeleteIve been Dustoff for a LONG time. (-:
ReplyDeleteHave to keep up the motto from my former Medic unit. (57th)
Lucius Septimius
ReplyDeleteMorning.... Have my coffee, but can't stay long.
Busy day for me.
When I have your wounded.
ReplyDeleteDustoff,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the new joint, this spots temporary till construction is finished.
How was the vacation?
Morning Phil. It's not too bad here in the valley either - a little damp, some sunny moments but not to miserable.
ReplyDeleteBig Smoke? I've never heard of that before - does that refer to Toronto?
BTW - real cute dog in your avatar. What a sweetie. :)
Thank heavens. Saturday.
ReplyDeleteJCM, this is a great post. But I would take exception to one thing you wrote.
the most powerful country in the world
I think The Won has pretty much destroyed that since he's been in office.
And your cute pic for the day:
Honey is in the house
That's it.... Thanks!
ReplyDeleteLucius with all due respect, if lol is right about that 76% of all American Jews pulling the lever for Democrats in the voting booth then that "shift" is almost glacially slow in coming.
ReplyDeleteI really think it's something other that that.
BUT I also think that the Democrats "Big Tent" is too big - it pretends to include gays and blacks and women, for example, but has Jimmy Carter, noted Racist AND Anti-Semite in the same tent, had national primaries last year which Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote (albeit by a hair-thin margin) and ALL OF the major electoral states (except of course for Obama's home state) in popular vote and ta da - the Democratic Party didn't nominate Hillary Clinton because the old boy "cigar smoked" chambers of the Super-Delegates gave the nomination to to Barry Obama - someone with NO track record - other than voting present a lot - on the US National Stage; someone who was a 20 + year voluntary member of a Black Liberation Theology Church (can you say "Jeremiah Wright"?) and someone who, I suspected didn't like or respect America (or at least White America) very much and has proved me correct with his world apology tours, someone who has played to the VERY FAR LEFT and now is having trouble reconciling cap and trade, for example with states such as Pa, Ohio, hell all of the "rust belt" states by announcing he would kill the coal industry; who has made great friends with the UAW and SEIU but has alienated the NEA and is tripping all over himself with the environmental lobby AND the national defense (or national surrender) lobby on Afghanistan. IS there really ANY DOUBT AT ALL that Hillary didn't get the nomination because she's a woman? Seriously?
AtillaTheHoney
ReplyDeleteI think The Won has pretty much destroyed that since he's been in office.
++++++++++++++++++
True, but we shall come back. It's what WE Americans do!
JCM
ReplyDeleteHow was the vacation?
Wasn't long enough buddy. Went to San diego to see my brother, then to Rotan for some diving
Hi guys.
ReplyDeleteLong time no see
Dustoff
ReplyDeleteYup. What you said.
DG! Hola!
ReplyDeleteAtilla,
ReplyDeleteWe're still the most powerful.
But that's moot if POTUS is unwilling to flex the economic, military, political muscle.
Miss Trixie.
ReplyDeleteThank you. So how is life these days?
Great I hope. (-:
WHOA - hi there Dustoff, {Miss Trixie} *smoochies*, Atilla the Honey ( the BEST NIC IN THE BLOGSPHERE!) and all y'all who've arrived since I started my last comment - THIS IS REALWEST - Typepad gave me a number and took away my name!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo3Wqf86N4w&feature=related
Ayatollah!
ReplyDeleteOMG!
Sooooo good to see you!
(formerly (wahabbicorridor) - now my frieds just call me Honey.
Miss Trixie: Yeah, that's what us Central Ontarians called Toronto. And yes the dog in the picture is a real cutie. :)
ReplyDeleteWait till I do a blog post about him. Should take two or three days just to cover it. :D
Ayatollah Ghilmeini!
ReplyDeleteWelcome!
OMIGOSH! Ayatollah in da house?
ReplyDelete*swoon*
6p00e55005f9c78834
ReplyDeleteRealwest??????? That's you. LOL
Odd picture, you take that yourself. (-:
And Hello to Ayatollah Ghilmeini!!! Wow, great to see you out here!
ReplyDeleteHope you're doing well!!
Ghilmeini ?
ReplyDeleteAwesome !!
RW -- no doubt the shift is glacial. As with so many demographic groups, the cadre of younger jews is small compared with the middle-aged/elderly cadres. And they still tend to self identify as liberals. That said, among the 18 to 30 group, they are more than twice as likely to vote Republican than the older groups; one survey I saw showed it as more than 50%. In that sense, younger Jews are voting more like middle America. As far as the last election is concerned, I haven't studied the breakdown yet, but the problem was a weak Republican candidate. The Palin thing also played on fears, fears I've heard oft repeated at AIPAC events, that the Evangelicals are only interested in Israel for their own ends. Even fairly conservative Jews get nervous when they hear the "Christian nation" trope. It plays on too many deep seated fears.
ReplyDeleteDustoff said...
ReplyDelete6p00e55005f9c78834
Realwest??????? That's you. LOL
Odd picture, you take that yourself. (-:
I told him to use a better camera. But noooo, he wouldn't listen...
/then again it helps to protect his secret identity.
Ayatollah Akbar!
ReplyDeleteJCM
ReplyDeleteBut that's moot if POTUS is unwilling to flex the economic, military, political muscle.
He's licking his wounds right now. He thought the games would be a gimme. Finding out that no one besides himself and WAB thinks he walks on warm water is going to make him a lot less likely to 'flex' anything.
PaladinPhil
ReplyDeleteLOL,,,,
I can see I'll end up on Realwest bad list real quick!
Hey Dustoff amigo!! Just click on my name in the contributors list and you'll see my "photo"!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason the Corressondence Committee carded me cause I didn't look old enough to get in here!
You, OTOH, don't even have a photo, so they musta been pretty sure of your age! LOL!
Oh shit -- twenty mintute to kick off and there isn't enough beer in the fridge. CRISIS!!!!
ReplyDeleteanyone know how to get a hold of TFK?
ReplyDeleteOk folks. As I said before. I can't stay long. Much to do around here and Coco is giving me the stare down about where is HER food.
ReplyDeleteSo off to the store for the best dog food of all.
(well she thinks so) And then paper work and clean my place.
By the way. How does your house get dirty, when your not home????
realwest - Great video! Here's another in return. :D
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6diOn54OWs
Cage Match!
ReplyDeleteObama v. Ahmadinejad
Atilla,
ReplyDeleteThe Olympics is trivial, but BHO invest the office of POTUS in it and lost.
That is being watched and studied by unfriendly eyes. That effects national security, and that is anything but trivial.
BHO doesn't see the connections.
I usually limit myself to one beer a quarter. That means with nine games on the tube that I need to have 36 cold ones at hand.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe what anyone tells you, but being a drunk is hard work.
Ayatollah Ghilmeini!
ReplyDeleteOMG! I was looking all over for you and you found US!
YAYYYYYY!
JCM
ReplyDeleteBHO doesn't see the connections.
The only connection this guy has ever seen in in the mirror.
gotta go. Molly wants to go next door and play with her girlfriend.
New Thread!
ReplyDeleteHey There {Miss Trixie} gorgeous! Thankew very much for that - but good Lord didja look at all the video's on the sidebar to that one?
ReplyDeleteIf I listened to half of 'em I might actually, ya know, WAKE UP!! LOL!
Thoughts On A Failing Presidency
ReplyDeleteWhile it does take a while for Presidents to learn their jobs, our Barry has not had a good nine months. He has planted some great seeds from which will grow a generation of problems.
The Economy- At the meeting in Pittsburgh, the President apologiezed for America's unsustainabale consumption. Pray what is an economy if not the buying and selling of goods to meet demand? If he drives down demand for goods, you can say goodbye to econoomic growth. So which is it? Being a citizen of the world that just uses the same as everyone else (what a "beautiful" dream!) or the dynamic engine of global growth that feeds and enriches the lives of billions of people?
The Mid East- He has so screwed up the Iranian nuclear issue that the only question is when the big war comes and how many die. And it will be a big war and while Bush deserves a lot of the blame, Barry's irresolute "let's talk" to the butchers of the streets of Tehran is respect and prestige conferred on the worst of human leadership. It is appeasement and appeasement makes dictatorshiops stronger and you get the war when the dictators are ready.
Health Care- The power and majesty of Obama's leadership was never so on display as this past week. The finance committee voted down his programs in a big way. The dems will vote out something for healthcare but the American public is already looking forward to doing employeee evaluations in 14 months and a lot of Democrats are going to get crushed at the polls.
The Olympics- Obama screwed up royally by not doing his prep work on this and putting his personal prestige on the line, inviting Hugo Chavez and all the other folks who don't like us to stick it in the US collective eye. Unlike most, I never cheer when the US loses. It is vital to our national interests that we are respected and we have credibility in all that we do. He should have sent Michelle only and told Clinton that anyone expecting foreign aid better vote Chicago. This fiasco underscores his complete lack of adminsitrative leadership abilities and his arroagance. It also shows that the man is way overextended and is not focused enough to get the results he wants. He has given 1 hour to General McChrystal to discuss the Afghan war, I promise you he has spent far more time on his re-election committee.
This Barry's most awful week yet and let me add that John McCain would not have done half of these screw-ups.
Yeah. I am back
ReplyDeleteAyatollah Ghilmeini - We are all so GLAD to have you here! We just couldn't find you anywhere!!
ReplyDeleteOh and this is realwest - I am personally very, very happy to see you again and hope you'll stick around C2 to give us some of your almost always brilliant insights!!
Yeah. I am back
ReplyDeleteAnd I AM HAPPY! :-)
/does somebody have your email or a way to contact you?
Oh and Ayatollah Ghilmeini - y'all should know that a) this is our temporary home while our new, spiffy blogsite is being finished up for us!
ReplyDeleteIF you feel comfortable in doing so, y'all ought to e-mail one of us (I'm at my nic @earthlink.net)but shisssh, don't tell anyone, so we can make sure you find it ok when it's up and running!and b) I hadn't read your analysis before I posted my last comment to you! And I have to say I agree with a lot of it, but don't really know how much "blame" still rests with Bush.
Ayatollah Ghilmeini - oh and btw, my nic to go with my addy is realwest, not those stupid letters and numbers TypePad insists on giving me!
ReplyDeleteOK - headed over to the new thread y'all!
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