In Afghanistan, President Obama has run out of "blame Bush" passes
Old Soviet joke:
Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev.
"Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble."
A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: "Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe."
A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: "Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, Uncle Joe."
Third crisis. Opens envelope 3: "Prepare three envelopes."
In the Barack Obama version, there are 50 or so such blame-Bush free passes before the gig is up. By my calculation, Obama has already burned through a good 49. Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush for? The economy, global warming, the credit crisis, Middle East stalemate, the deficit, anti-Americanism abroad — everything but swine flu.
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Scozzafava Throws Support to Owens
ReplyDeleteIt is in this spirit that I am writing to let you know I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same.
Because, just like Owens, she supports the stimulus, card check, cap & trade, and Obamacare.
/but hey, don't you dare call her a RINO
The avitar! SHE IS MINE ME ME ME!
ReplyDeleteThird!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think that trip to Dover was? A freaking photo op to set-up that upcoming decision (which will be made right after the elections on the 3rd)
ReplyDeleteThe Won will say something like "Unlike the previous administration, who gave little forethought to the consequences of military misadventures, I have taken great time considering what it means to send our men and women in uniform into harms way. Last week, I personally witnessed some of the worst of that. Therefore, I have come to the understanding that the best use of our military that is in keeping with our time-honored values and traditions, is to deploy 20,000 more troops to the Afghanistan. The will not be combat deployed. These troops will be training the Afghan people to be good citizens of their own country, to give them the skills, educations and resources they need for their security and development".
See how easy that is?
I'll send him my invoice.
Hiya WriterMom - it's yer old buddy grayp!
ReplyDeleteOblahblah is a jackass. The only thing this moron has ever run is his mouth. A little over 3 more years of this to go. I hope I make it.
ReplyDeleteHey, Atilla--j'ever get a chance to delve into John Dos Passos?
ReplyDeleteThere's a new thread upstairs about that Scozzofucker or whatever her name is, if anyone is interested. Either way. :)
ReplyDeletebuzz - I've skimmed it - haven't had a chance to tell you but I've got a new assignment at work that I'm loving! I'm the primary researcher on a project of a coalition of trade organizations that want to fight climate change legislation. That's the good news. The bad news is that I get to read EPA Economic Analyses of climate change legislation (which turns out to be worse the the freakin' Federal Register, if you can believe it).
ReplyDeleteTONS AND TONS of technical reading.
You were absolutely right about the art being worth the expense, tho.
Glad you like the art. Once you get into the stories, the pictures--which stand beautifully on their own--really come into their own.
ReplyDeleteGood going on the climate change stuff, but the necessity of reading those reports....ugh.
I'm just PRAYING no one asks me to summarize the IPCC report.
ReplyDeleteOk, here we go.
Thomas Sowell On Economics Of Medical Care
A dozen patients with splints and slings sit in a dark corridor awaiting their turn at a 1950s-vintage fluoroscope. "We wind up seeing the same patients several times over," the doctor goes on, "when one thorough examination could have solved the problem if we had the time."
Although the Soviet Union was an extreme example, similar policies have tended to produce similar results in other countries. Under government-paid medical care in Japan, patients also have shorter and more numerous visits than patients in the United States.
Under a Korean medical care system copied from Japan, a study found that "even injections of drugs were often split in half to make two visits necessary," because "the doctor can charge for two office visits and two injection fees."