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I suspect that with his history of supporting organizations like Acorn and friendships with people like Ayers, Barack Obama wouldn’t be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance or get a job with the Secret Service.
Then, how can he be the leading candidate for the Presidency?
Anyone who knows the criteria for either of the above credentials care to comment?

I’ve had a hard time understanding how anyone in my acquaintance could either support or defend Barack Obama.
That’s because I believe, or believed, that my friends and closest relatives have above-average intelligence and political sensibilities and are liberty-loving people.
Obama asked the Justice Department to shut down the American Issues Project for running ads about his relationship with William Ayers.
This past August, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to intimidate radio station WGN by flooding the show with calls when respected conservative commentator Stanley Kurtz was a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show.
Incredible, isn’t it, that liberal news organizations like the Washington Post and the New York Times have ignored these assaults on freedom of political speech, simply because of their adolescent infatuation with a fascist who wears clothes well and has a good speaking voice.

Between Sandra Bernhart’s cursing the “goyisha, shicksa” New Testament, Madonna’s screaming “I will kick (Sarah Palin’s) ass” and the cropping up of putrid green “Sarah Palin is a C*” t-shirts, it’s been all about the intolerance of the Obamacons this weekend and the MSM’s relative silence thereon, the LA Times being a notable exception.

Continue reading National (Bloody) Brotherhood Week

I phoned Countrywide today to see if I could get in on any of the sweet-sounding (2.5% interest) deals that are being offered to their 2/28 customers.
Turns out, I can’t.

Continue reading Chat with Countrywide

For a while now, I’ve been paying close attention to my diet, avoiding fatty and sugary foods, falling off the wagon only for savory carbs.
That, plus occasional exercise and meds, have caused my blood pressure and cholesterol levels to plummet, and that’s good.
I’m so tired of being good, though.
I want a thick steak, a lobster, a salad with about a cup of Roquefort dressing, and a piece of pecan pie with an equal amount of whipped cream.
After all my clean living, though, if I ate a meal like that, I believe my stomach would eject itself.

Thanks to our congressman Bill Delahunt and his colleague Stephen “Iron Worker” Lynch for voting against the second, pork-laden version of the so-called bailout bill, which was passed by the House after it grew from $700 billion to almost $1 trillion.

Can’t express it any better than this, from Quin Hillyer of The American Spectator:
“Matters got worse when, after principled House members of the right and left combined to slow down the legislative stampede, the Senate decided to collectively play mob boss. By attaching this incredibly important and deservedly controversial bailout bill to not one but two utterly unrelated bills — one on mental health, and one on tax policy — the Senate stole the House’s constitutional prerogative to originate all revenue bills, used extraneous items as both bribe and blackmail to force the House’s hand, and muddied waters that needed clarifying.
“Meanwhile, the presidential campaign is marred, on one side, by a radical and utterly unaccomplished leftist ideologue joined by a serial plagiarist and exaggerator, and on the other side by a man temperamentally unsuited to the presidency joined by a running mate of high character but embarrassingly low familiarity with national affairs of state.
“Yes, this is bad. Actually, awful.”

While Obama and McCain stand around with egg on their faces, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader are the only candidates who showed Presidential judgment in rejecting the terms of Congress’s bailout bill before it came to a vote.
And what’s with Obama’s nonsequitur about increasing the level of FDIC insurance or the McCain campaign’s blaming Obama for Congress’s most recent exercise in self-destructiveness and irrelevance.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi had to give her enemies yet another excuse to complain about her leadership style. Her attack on the Republicans was unproductive and pointless.
Yup, it’s the end of September, all right.

I was overjoyed when John McCain announced that Sarah Palin was joining his ticket, and I’ve been publicly irritated with her mistreatment by the MSM, but her inability to respond coherently to questions even from the likes of Katie Couric are a cold shower reality that I can no longer ignore, much as I’d like to.

Continue reading “Such As”: Palin Must Go

These days, it’s almost impossible to avoid preachy advice columns about how to save money, and coffee shop prices seem to be a favorite target.
“Better to home brew”, although the lady who drank her morning cuppa after it was filtered through a bat that had hidden in her coffeemaker might disagree.
These discussions remind me of a group of masochistic housemates I met years ago who were insanely, nuttily frugal.
One of their economies was to brew coffee only once every several days. I don’t recall the exact schedule, nor why they thought that this saved money. I do recall their otherwise dour faces breaking into dreamy smiles when they thought about being able to drink coffee on the day it was brewed.
An example of collective insanity, which is perhaps why this particular memory is paradigmatic for this particular point in time.