ARRRG! They are NOT centrists!

He's got his work cut out to outspend Bush.

Methinks he'll just squeak by

What passes for "centrist" now never ceases to amaze me.

I agree. This is all part of his standard, "no sudden moves" philosophy that he claimed to develop in dealing with white people.

re: #1 Hard Right

ARRRG! They are NOT centrists!

The old Clintonistas never were centrists, nor are the people Obama's appointed from the Chicago Mob Machine thing Daley claims doesn't exist.

I. Am. Not. Fooled.

What? Are you saying that Obama might not be what he says he is? I don't believe that.

///

I haven't been fooled. I'm just hunkering down and hoping the blast is localized.

Why is it that "proggresives" only seem to regress?

re: #3 jwb7605

What passes for "centrist" now never ceases to amaze me.

Exactly. Apparently centrist simply means someone that is left wing, but not batsh*t crazy left.

Smokescreen

Nothing about Obama fools me.

Reporter in 2009: Mr President: Why do you think your administration has been plagued with corruption scandals?

Answer: "Well, George Bush..."

That guy from Chicago is who we thought he was!

/apologies to Denny Green...

What "centrist" appointments?
Have you seen his greenies?
OMG!
[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Obama's Carbon Busters
A team of Al Gore's protégés takes over energy policy.

"... the moderate in this bunch may be Steven Chu, who has reportedly been tapped as Energy Secretary. Mr. Chu is the respected director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the 1997 Nobel physics laureate has spent the last four years chasing a breakthrough in advanced biofuels, solar and other high-tech ventures.

Mr. Chu's special passion is climate change, and he favors putting a price on greenhouse emissions.

...

Carol Browner, the Al Gore protégé who ran the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton years gets a promotion to "energy czar," a new job that Mr. Obama envisions as akin to National Security Advisor but for climate. "Czar" is an apt title for Ms. Browner, who built a reputation as the most left-leaning of Bill Clinton's advisers...
During her EPA salad days, she put out air-pollution standards that even the agency itself said would have no measurable impact on public health, purely as antibusiness punishment. She forced GE to dredge the Hudson River of PCBs that posed no threat to the public. Ms. Browner also rewrote a law called New Source Review so that power plants, refineries and other industries were always breaking the particulate emissions rules."

Read the whole thing.
Not so ''Centrist."

re: #14 Dave_Da_Kid

That guy from Chicago is who we thought he was!

/apologies to Denny Green...

Don't apologize. He sucked as a coach.

I'm waiting for the Messiah to try to amend the 'fatally flawed' Constitution to cover 'social justice'.

I'm trying to think of a country to relocate to...

Damn your facts and logic, Dr. Krauthammer. I am trying to lull myself into a false sense of security so I'm not perpetually angry for the next four years.

You know, it's pretty wild to watch the world rip apart right before your eyes.

Does Dr K do satire?

The ONE and his gang of thugs will BLEEP this country, big time.

When they get the chance, they will move to send Israel down the tubes.

Heaven help us.

re: #16 Hard Right

Don't apologize. He sucked as a coach.

True. But I try to be respectful just as a rule.

The biggest change since the New Deal, and the biggest inflation since the Wiemar republic.

Economists now say the New Deal extended the depression by 7 years. How many years with this change extend the current recession?

At least we'll get free health care. I hear that Dr. Kevorkian will be in charge.

re: #19 vxbush

You know, it's pretty wild to watch the world rip apart right before your eyes.

Yup. Helps to have a "different" sense of humor, too.

re: #25 jwb7605

Yup. Helps to have a "different" sense of humor, too.

Or, in my case, looking for peace in a different place...

Yesterday a Lizard posted an e-mail from a friend who went to some CBBHO grass-roots training. Does anyone else remember this?

I'm not about to throw Obama's ability to be a great POTUS under the bus quite yet, but I wouldn't put diversion past him.

This is so Bush's fault!

One of the most powerful a President can do domestically, is quietly put people into lower profile positions.

I would not want to start up a business in the US in the next few years. How many small businessmen who voted for "change" last month will be harassed by over zealous ADA enforcers. Or will get sued by lawyers who caught on to the "your-employees-were-forced-to-work-off-the-clock" lawsuit scam.

And the neo-pagen earth worshipers controlling environmental regulation.

Ironically, when the economy tanked in mid-September, it was assumed that both presidential candidates could simply forget about their domestic agendas because with $700 billion drained by financial system rescues, not a penny would be left to spend on anything else.

On the contrary. With the country clamoring for action and with all psychological barriers to government intervention obliterated (by the conservative party, no less), the stage is set for a young, ambitious, supremely confident president -- who sees himself as a world-historical figure before even having been sworn in -- to begin a restructuring of the American economy and the forging of a new relationship between government and people.

Don't be fooled by Bob Gates staying on. Obama didn't get elected to manage Afghanistan. He intends to transform America. And he has the money, the mandate and the moxie to go for it.

I'd like to believe that the essential character of America will survive the next four years, but it's becoming harder to do so.

re: #29 WrathofG-d

I'm not about to throw Obama's ability to be a great POTUS under the bus quite yet, but I wouldn't put diversion past him.

And I'm not saying the Chargers won't make the playoffs, but it ain't likely to happen.

Does no one in DC or the MSM have a problem with the term Czar? Do they think it's a nifty little title? Don't any of them know what happened to the Czars? I HATE this word as applied to a title for a Federal position.

re: #26 buzzsawmonkey

It will take even Obama some time to match Robert Mugabe's achievements in this area.

Not that he won't try.

Heh.
He can look at Great Britain under Labour in the 1970s.
was called 'stagflation', then: inflation plus recession. The Lab government had to go cap in hand to the IMF and ask to be bailed out ...

I wonder if the IMF today has enough money to bail out the failed B0 regime?

re: #33 CyanSnowHawk

And I'm not saying the Chargers won't make the playoffs, but it ain't likely to happen.

I'm not saying the Broncos have any business getting to the playoffs, but that's also likely to happen.

re: #34 Russkilitlover

Does no one in DC or the MSM have a problem with the term Czar? Do they think it's a nifty little title? Don't any of them know what happened to the Czars? I HATE this word as applied to a title for a Federal position.

The root of Czar is Ceasar, and I don't like the idea of one of those running around in the Republic.

re: #36 jwb7605

I'm not saying the Broncos have any business getting to the playoffs, but that's also likely to happen.

And my Pats could go 11-5 and still miss the playoffs.

re: #15 mean Gene

Chu was also a Berkeley tree sitter, so he's probably acquainted with Dumpster muffin. (He was there for a GW photo shoot for Vanity Fair)

Centrists, like Krauthammer.

re: #38 Iron Fist

BOHICA!

re: #37 CyanSnowHawk

The root of Czar is Ceasar, and I don't like the idea of one of those running around in the Republic.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Maybe we will suffer enough pain, that when people with real financial talent tell us what needs to be done - like Mitt Romney - we will be willing to listen. Maybe there will come a day when those who demonize business and wealth - like Huckabee - will be ignored and derided.

Maybe we are laying the groundwork for a business and small government renaissance.

Obama will spend what?

He will get it from where?

Such a tax bite will move things forward?

The future of what unborn generation will he hock?

This is no good.

Oh no! Does this mean publicly funding infrastructural development?!

re: #36 jwb7605

I'm not saying the Broncos have any business getting to the playoffs, but that's also likely to happen.

The Broncos only have to win one and they clinch. If the Broncos lose out, the Chargers can get in only if they win out. I'm at least hoping that it comes down to the final game on Dec. 28th. Broncos at Chargers for the division will have this town (SD) in a football frenzy.

You simply can't get to the Left of the Left, and trying to do so projects weakness.

Minn Gov'nr Pawlenty said this fall what many of us have been saying for years. "You can't outspend the Democrats". He said we need to spend our cash wisely, get the most for our money. Hence the term "Sam's Club Republicans".

re: #29 WrathofG-d

I'm not about to throw Obama's ability to be a great POTUS under the bus quite yet, but I wouldn't put diversion past him.

By the time we all wait around to give him the benefit of doubt, it will be too late. The "compliant Congress" part is the worst. Barry's could become more like a Clinton administration if there were enough Repub or, even, an Repub with balls. But I see neither in the next year.

re: #35 yma o hyd

Heh.
He can look at Great Britain under Labour in the 1970s.
was called 'stagflation', then: inflation plus recession. The Lab government had to go cap in hand to the IMF and ask to be bailed out ...

I wonder if the IMF today has enough money to bail out the failed B0 regime?

And look who saved Britain's economy, it was an IRON Lady.
Isn't Sarah P. also quite steely herself?

SARAH! SARAH! SARAH!

re: #40 Thanos

Chu was also a Berkeley tree sitter, so he's probably acquainted with Dumpster muffin. (He was there for a GW photo shoot for Vanity Fair)

And this is the man who will assume stewardship of our nuclear stockpile.

We are so screwed...

Meanwhile, back in the world, Iran moves closer to getting the bomb. Remember the bomb that Bush said he would never allow Iran to obtain?

Meanwhile, Bush spends money to bail out the banks...and oh yeah, so what if one of the main shareholders of Citibank is a Saudi?
[Link: money.cnn.com...]

I'm not fooled by Obama as much as Krauthammer is/was fooled by Bush.

re: #33 CyanSnowHawk

And I'm not saying the Chargers won't make the playoffs, but it ain't likely to happen.

I've never been a sports person.

re: #47 CyanSnowHawk

The Broncos only have to win one and they clinch. If the Broncos lose out, the Chargers can get in only if they win out. I'm at least hoping that it comes down to the final game on Dec. 28th. Broncos at Chargers for the division will have this town (SD) in a football frenzy.

As a dedicated Bronco fan, I'm with you on this.
(Would that the AFC West not be allowed in the playoffs this year!)

Jeeze, Charles is really stacking up the posts here. Community organizer's wildest dream. ha. Aren't there still a lot of unfilled positions he can put some real lefties into? Like education for example ... Yes we shouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security, we may still be headed to hell in a hand basket.

OT

Hubby is on the phone with some, um, 'friends' - looks like Clinton's replacement in the Senate will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

blech.

re: #37 CyanSnowHawk

The root of Czar is Ceasar, and I don't like the idea of one of those running around in the Republic.

Republic?
Just looking at Ill and reading about all those families governing state and towns, inehrited from father to offspring, intermarrying - that looks like a feudal state to me ...

(Not that we've got exacly the same problem with our Old and NuLab families!)

Maybe the Ayers/Obama destroy the country scheme switched from general revolution (if he lost) to spend us into the ground (if he won)?

Caroline Glick warns Israel about Obama's "Centrists"

People who have been in close contact with Obama's foreign policy transition team have privately acknowledged that the widespread belief that Obama will move swiftly to put the screws on Israel is fully justified. According to one source who has spent a great deal of time with the transition team since last month's US elections, Obama's people are "scope-locked" on Israel.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #56 wahabicorridor

OT

Hubby is on the phone with some, um, 'friends' - looks like Clinton's replacement in the Senate will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

blech.

I love LGF, all the breaking news.

bbl, need do work. Damn, things are hot here today too.

re: #50 callahan23

Well said!
Updinged ya.

Btw - NuLab is still blaming Maggie for everything!

re: #58 buzzsawmonkey

Was he really an actual tree sitter, or is he just wacky 'bout warming?

He was actually there for a vanity fair article, posed for photos etc with the tree sitters. I don't know if he actually went up the tree or not.

re: #54 jwb7605

As a dedicated Bronco fan, I'm with you on this.
(Would that the AFC West not be allowed in the playoffs this year!)

Don't worry, they won't go further than the wildcard round.

When I get my free healthcare I am going to schedule a whole bunch of appointments and then the day I am to be there I am going to scalp them to the people waiting in the mile long cue line outside...
/

re: #50 callahan23

Palin was the only candidate who told the truth to the public; during the campaign
she upbraided the American people: "Some of us did not make prudent decisions," she said of people's personal finances.

No one will get us out of this mess without telling the truth.

Obama got elected by pandering.

Enough of us fell for it that there will be longer rough times as a consequence.

Palin 1012.

re: #15 mean Gene

What "centrist" appointments?
Have you seen his greenies?
OMG!
[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Obama's Carbon Busters
A team of Al Gore's protégés takes over energy policy.

"... the moderate in this bunch may be Steven Chu, who has reportedly been tapped as Energy Secretary. Mr. Chu is the respected director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the 1997 Nobel physics laureate has spent the last four years chasing a breakthrough in advanced biofuels, solar and other high-tech ventures.

Mr. Chu's special passion is climate change, and he favors putting a price on greenhouse emissions.

...

Carol Browner, the Al Gore protégé who ran the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton years gets a promotion to "energy czar," a new job that Mr. Obama envisions as akin to National Security Advisor but for climate. "Czar" is an apt title for Ms. Browner, who built a reputation as the most left-leaning of Bill Clinton's advisers...
During her EPA salad days, she put out air-pollution standards that even the agency itself said would have no measurable impact on public health, purely as antibusiness punishment. She forced GE to dredge the Hudson River of PCBs that posed no threat to the public. Ms. Browner also rewrote a law called New Source Review so that power plants, refineries and other industries were always breaking the particulate emissions rules."

Read the whole thing.
Not so ''Centrist."

Chu did some Berkley tree sitting.
Ms. Browner illegally erased records from her computer. ([Link: michellemalkin.com...] She was also rebuked by the court for using "junk science" to push her agenda.
Rahm is not a moderate. Bill Richardson is not. Daschle? Hillary Rodham Clinton? Susan E. Rice? Lawrence H. Summers? Cecelia Munoz?
Moderates? Where?

re: #34 Russkilitlover

Does no one in DC or the MSM have a problem with the term Czar? Do they think it's a nifty little title?

I think instead of "czar" a more accurate title would be "central planner".

re: #62 yma o hyd

Well said!
Updinged ya.

Btw - NuLab is still blaming Maggie for everything!

Thanks.

Every Brit I have spoken to has the utmost respect for Maggie Thatcher.

Here's the relevant snip from the AP article on Chu:

Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, has been a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combat global warming.

Chu, a Chinese-American who currently is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, has in recent years campaigned to bring together a cross-section of scientific disciplines to find ways to counter climate change.

Since 2004, Chu has been director of the Berkeley lab, the oldest of the Energy Department's national laboratories, with its 4,000 employees and a budget of $650 million.

...A few years ago he was one of six Nobel Prize-winning scientists who expressed their concern about global warming by sitting against and climbing into a massive tree on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley for a photograph that appeared in a special environmental issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

re: #60 Opinionated

Caroline Glick warns Israel about Obama's "Centrists"

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

Is it too early yet to say, 'we told you so!'?

re: #69 gregg

I think instead of "czar" a more accurate title would be "central planner".

Which is really scary if you have ever seen the movie "Brazil."

re: #38 Iron Fist

A "centerist" is a Republican who votes like a Democrat. McCain is a "centerist", but not "centerist" enough for the media not to give him hell when he was running for President. You simply can't get to the Left of the Left, and trying to do so projects weakness. McCain deserved to lose, but I don't think we deserve Obama.

Like it or not, though, here it comes again.

BOHICA

re: #69 gregg

I think instead of "czar" a more accurate title would be "central planner".

"Comrade" pretty much says it all...

re: #56 wahabicorridor

OT

Hubby is on the phone with some, um, 'friends' - looks like Clinton's replacement in the Senate will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

blech.

I demand an investigation.

re: #49 Russkilitlover

By the time we all wait around to give him the benefit of doubt, it will be too late. The "compliant Congress" part is the worst. Barry's could become more like a Clinton administration if there were enough Repub or, even, an Repub with balls. But I see neither in the next year.

I definitely do not see Congress doing much, if anything, to stop Mr. Obama from pushing forward whatever Leftist agenda he wishes to. But he isn't POTUS yet, I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt so far.

That being said, Krauthammer is correct when he points out that all of the "good" appointments have been to foreign issue cabinets.

However, insofar that I have been pleasantly surprised with those choices, I am going to withhold judgment on what he WOULD do domestically. That being said, will I be surprised if he goes Socialist? No!

re: #72 yma o hyd

Is it too early yet to say, 'we told you so!'?

You should really wait until Jan. 21 for that.

re: #68 Hard Right

Obama's Carbon Busters
A team of Al Gore's protégés takes over energy policy.

"... the moderate in this bunch may be Steven Chu, who has reportedly been tapped as Energy Secretary. Mr. Chu is the respected director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the 1997 Nobel physics laureate has spent the last four years chasing a breakthrough in advanced biofuels, solar and other high-tech ventures.

All that fossil carbon used to be in biological circulation, it benefits life to get it back out of the ground & perhaps we are staving off the next ice age with it.

re: #65 CyanSnowHawk

Don't worry, they won't go further than the wildcard round.

Good point.
Having lived through this year, though, I'm thinking Superbowl is more likely, because it seems least likely.

re: #56 wahabicorridor

OT

Hubby is on the phone with some, um, 'friends' - looks like Clinton's replacement in the Senate will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

blech.

yep, I waiting to hear that . . . , isn't there some sort of mandate stating a Kennedy MUST be in a high profile political office in America at all times?

I think the Zero is going to take away gasoline so we are back to 9th century living. Evens the playing ground for his lil [bigoted word] friends.

The first hint came yesterday, when Obama claimed, "If we want to overcome our economic challenges, we must also finally address our health care challenge" -- the perfect non sequitur that gives carte blanche to whatever health-care reform and spending the Obama team dreams up. It is the community organizer's ultimate dream.

the perfect non sequitur - Yep. What's another few hundred billion?
Some for this..
Some for that..
ahh.. don't be so worried.. so glum. What could happen?

/

re: #76 CIA Reject

"Comrade" pretty much says it all...

That was the point I was trying to make. I'm not sure what they called them in USSR, but it looks like we're gonna get us one of 'em.

re: #85 unrealizedviewpoint

we must also finally address our health care challenge

We ought to get off our butts and move around,

And QUIT SMOKING.

re: #70 callahan23

Thanks.

Every Brit I have spoken to has the utmost respect for Maggie Thatcher.

Yep - the normal people up and down the country.
The 'intelligentsia', those in the MSM and what we call the #glitterati' hated her guts and smeared her from day one.
Some of her colleagues also hated her, especially her predecessor, Edward Heath ... and in the end, they treated her shabbily.

re: #60 Opinionated

Caroline Glick warns Israel about Obama's "Centrists"

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

From the article:

Obama's team, like its supporters in the international foreign policy establishment, is dismayed by the Israeli opinion polls that show that Likud, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, is favored to win February 10's general elections by a wide margin.

In anticipation of Likud's expected electoral victory, they have been piling on against Netanyahu and the party. This was most recently evident at last week's Middle East policy conclave in Washington organized by the pro-Obama and post-Zionist Saban Middle East Forum at the Brookings Institute. There, both secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton's surrogate, former president Bill Clinton, and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice castigated Netanyahu's assertion that peace must be built from the bottom up through the liberalization of Palestinian society, rather than from the top down by giving land to terrorists.

Netanyahu foresees Palestinian liberalization coming through economic development in an "economic peace process."

Both the former US president and Rice attacked his plan, claiming that it is antithetical to the sacrosanct "two-state solution."

Unbelievable. We have lost our collective mind.

re: #69 gregg

I think instead of "czar" a more accurate title would be "central planner".

Commissar.

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

I see a market for the "9th Century Living" lifestyle magazine.

I'm sure Martha Stewart is rushing to the copyright office as we speak...

These appointments he has made so far are cover for his Other Plans to change America drastically. In reality, a Secretary of Commerce, labor or State can't do any thing substantial. Ask Collin Powell. The 2nd or 3rd level appointees run the show. Those are the ones we should be concerned about

I ask again- WHAT 'centrist' appointments? By whose standard are people like Hillary or David Bonier 'Centrist'?

My wife is not entirely happy about me being at her side, here at the hospital. I kind of get a little, shall we say, intense at times like this.

Nothing serious...but, not the best person at waiting you've ever met.

re: #89 yma o hyd

Spot on!

BBL

re: #56 wahabicorridor

OT

Hubby is on the phone with some, um, 'friends' - looks like Clinton's replacement in the Senate will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

blech.

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

re: #74 buzzsawmonkey

We really shouldn't condemn tree sitting.

If you don't hire a tree sitter, the young trees can get into all kinds of trouble while you and the missus are at the movies.

Young trees, the result of morning wood?

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

Funny you should say that; I heard that Helena Handbasket was going to head the Obama education team.

I want that name for a sockpuppet. I grabbed Hallie Burton a couple of years ago and only used it once or twice. Can you auction sockpuppets on eBay?

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

no way!

re: #79 CyanSnowHawk

You should really wait until Jan. 21 for that.

Ok.

Seems that at least some Isrelis are getting what the B0 regime will mean for israel.

re: #95 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My wife is not entirely happy about me being at her side, here at the hospital. I kind of get a little, shall we say, intense at times like this.

Nothing serious...but, not the best person at waiting you've ever met.

How's is she doing?

re: #82 jwb7605

Good point.
Having lived through this year, though, I'm thinking Superbowl is more likely, because it seems least likely.

Should I go with the flying monkey anal reference here?
Or perhaps the Super Lotto win the night before SB?

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

And if appointed, she can continue in same manner.

re: #81 Ojoe

All that fossil carbon used to be in biological circulation, it benefits life to get it back out of the ground & perhaps we are staving off the next ice age with it.

No, no,no. According to mister Chu we must not recirculate it! There is no cooling trend. This is not the cooling trend you are looking for...

re: #90 scottishbuzzsaw

Unbelievable. We have lost our collective mind.

Someone should forward Obama, and Bibi the following articles:

Al-Aqsa (ie: PA/PLO/Fatah) TV: "Slaughter The Jews; We Need A 3rd 'intifada'"

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

The graph charting that trend points more and more vertical every year...liberal utopia...

Had to weigh in here on the possibility that Caroline Kennedy will take over for Hillary. What a crock of shit! What has she ever done? I think they should just throw out all the members of Congress and start over again. It should go the way the founding fathers set it up. Ordinary farmers,and other regular citizens, met to see to it the Country was progressing on the right path. After their sessions they returned home to their regular occupations. It was not meant to be a permanent career.Send all the bums home!

re: #106 Hard Right

This is not the cooling trend you are looking for...

Rotating title.

re: #95 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My wife is not entirely happy about me being at her side, here at the hospital. I kind of get a little, shall we say, intense at times like this.

Nothing serious...but, not the best person at waiting you've ever met.

Hospital! I hope you're wife has a full and speedy recovery.

re: #110 Ojoe

This is not the cooling trend you are looking for...

Rotating title.

Second!

re: #84 Wishing

I think the Zero is going to take away gasoline so we are back to 9th century living. Evens the playing ground for his lil Muslim friends.

Ooohhh - he can't do that!
How would his lil Muslim friends pay for all those mosques, madrassas and terrorists if they can't sell their black stuff any longer?

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

You're kidding. Didn't she do something at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a while? I guess that could have been part-time. Must be nice to have a trust fund and friends in high places.

re: #83 outsidephilly

yep, I waiting to hear that . . . , isn't there some sort of mandate stating a Kennedy MUST be in a high profile political office in America at all times?

* * * *

Why, Yes! In Camelot, CAMELOT! Kennedys Must Always Have A THRONE.

* * *
It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That's how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

re: #103 outsidephilly

fine as a frog's hair. sitting here beside me. waiting to be wheeled "behind the door".

What a sour apple.

What does Krauthammer suggest, specifically - about anything?

After WWII, a group of ex-GI's took the whole matter of corruption and political machines into their own arms...errr, hands:
How to get rid of corruption, locally.

re: #60 Opinionated

Caroline Glick warns Israel about Obama's "Centrists"

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

G-d punishes those who hate Israel. The US is screwed if this is his policy.

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

I see a market for the "9th Century Living" lifestyle magazine.

Aww, the 'prehistoric diet' is sooo good at combatting obesity!
Two birds with one stone, see - that B0 isn't so dumb after all ...

/just in case

re: #111 doppelganglander

Hospital! I hope you're wife has a full and speedy recovery.

We're getting some kidney stones shock waved...

The scariest thing about that article are the hateful, bigoted comments left by the readers.

So you're sitting there with nothing to do at your Mom's house and you either just voted in your first election or aren't old enough yet and what do you do? You vomit out your hateful opinions on a newspaper comments section over an article you either didn't read or don't understand and then sit back and think about how awesome you are.

'Pathetic commentary' is the word I will use until I can find one with more power.

re: #83 outsidephilly

yep, I waiting to hear that . . . , isn't there some sort of mandate stating a Kennedy MUST be in a high profile political office in America at all times?

Good afternoon/ morning everyone! That is a nice smooth transition to keep a Kennedy in the senate. She will be just as powerful as her uncle Ted. She is a liberal, but, as far as a Kennedy goes, remember she and her brother were raised far from the Kennedy's. Their mother kept them away from that side of the family as much as possible. Wether she will be better than Ted, who knows, but she cannot possibly be worse.

re: #116 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

fine as a frog's hair. sitting here beside me. waiting to be wheeled "behind the door".

No doubt, all will go well 'behind the door' . . . , you're not bothering the nurses, are you?

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

* * *
She has SERVED her family and done SO MUCH for New York.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said so.

Rudy Giuliani, ehhh, hasn't done so much for NY, liberals will say.

The Broncos still have to play my Bills. That game's a definite Broncos win. Winning games isn't really high on Dick Jauron's list of priorities. He'd rather not push his players too hard.

re: #47 CyanSnowHawk

The Broncos only have to win one and they clinch. If the Broncos lose out, the Chargers can get in only if they win out. I'm at least hoping that it comes down to the final game on Dec. 28th. Broncos at Chargers for the division will have this town (SD) in a football frenzy.

re: #115 alegrias

I prefer this one.

Camelot - Monty Python

We're Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
We're Knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

In war we're tough and able,
Quite indefatigable.
Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.
It's a busy life in Camelot.

I have to push the pram a lot.

re: #94 right_wing2

I ask again- WHAT 'centrist' appointments? By whose standard are people like Hillary or David Bonier 'Centrist'?

Compared with 0bama they're centrists.

re: #113 yma o hyd

Ooohhh - he can't do that!
How would his lil Muslim friends pay for all those mosques, madrassas and terrorists if they can't sell their black stuff any longer?

IIRC, living without all the goodies is what they WANT to do.

re: #119 Kosh's Shadow

G-d punishes those who hate Israel. The US is screwed if this is his policy.

God will bless those who bless Israel. God will curse those who curse Israel.

re: #117 itellu3times

What a sour apple.

What does Krauthammer suggest, specifically - about anything?

As I remember, he suggested that Sarah Palin had no experience and her ideas would be bad for Republicans and we didn't have the luxury of letting her get on the job training.
IMHO, he's helped us all into this.

re: #125 alegrias

* * *
She has SERVED her family and done SO MUCH for New York.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said so.

Rudy Giuliani, ehhh, hasn't done so much for NY, liberals will say.

Didn't we fight the British (twice) to remove ourselves from Monarchy? Or was I just dreaming?

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

I see a market for the "9th Century Living" lifestyle magazine.

how fabulous. i'll edit the fashion and accessories section.
hand made leather shoes and belts, hand woven flax and wool clothing,
fur hats from a to z, shell jewelry, bear skin coats, shawls,
features can include: how to make your own buttons, how to construct a pocketbook from an ostrich egg, bone needles for raffia embroidery,
appropriate feathers for hat making.
we need a furniture editor, a home construction expert, someone for cooking and recipes, and a skilled hunter and tool maker.

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

* * *
Caroline rode a pony around the White House and played in the Oval Office. Innocently.

So she's squeaky clean by dem standards.

The Obamessiah's Cabinet nominees are further proof that America will become a Kakistocracy under his alleged 'leadership'.

re: #117 itellu3times

What a sour apple.

What does Krauthammer suggest, specifically - about anything?

Secretly he is overjoyed that that Bitter clingy back country rube of a woman is back in the land of ice and snow. (and I despise him for his help in putting her there).

re: #97 midwestgak

Did you know she has NEVER held even a full-time job?

Yes, she did before she married. Something to do with museums I think. Look, I have nothing against the woman personally - I gather that one advantage they see in her appointment is that they would have to move anyone from the NY House delegation over, thereby needing ANOTHER appt. Basically, the chessboard stays static.

Hubby is very disappointed - he REALLY liked working with Hillary and can't imagine that Kennedy would bring the same energy - and intellect - to the job. Hiillary was the quickest study he's ever met.

But hey, it's not a done deal yet.

re: #107 WrathofG-d

Someone should forward Obama, and Bibi the following articles:

Al-Aqsa (ie: PA/PLO/Fatah) TV: "Slaughter The Jews; We Need A 3rd 'intifada'"

Just in time.

US army Gen. Keith Dayton is quietly overseeing the recruitment and training of a seven-battalion Palestinian National Security Force. Already partially deployed in the West Bank, the NSF is intended to confront the bad guys - not the Israelis. The general well understands why Israelis may doubt the viability of this effort. And he fully believes the skeptics will be proved wrong.

We have an iron clad guarantee that these US trained and prepared terrorists will never fight Israel. So relax what could go wrong?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #107 WrathofG-d

Someone should forward Obama, and Bibi the following articles:

Al-Aqsa (ie: PA/PLO/Fatah) TV: "Slaughter The Jews; We Need A 3rd 'intifada'"

0bama will think this is the way to "reboot his image in the Muslim world".
Maybe throwing Israel to the wolves is exactly what he plans for this.

The Obama team leaders are working a twelve year plan. The team includes news media, entertainment, the arts, the nonprofit sector, ethnic minority groups, liberals, young professionals, a good percentage of senior citizens, most of the academic community that includes the sciences, big dollar business leaders, Wall Street, public education and the unions, environmentalists, 85% of the State Department. I take a breath, but don't have the heart to continue. Congress, and a large percentage of the nation's judiciary. And the "Commissariat" is with team Obama.

Opposing the Obama team is us. We are right of center bloggers, right of center people, talk radio, Fox News. That's it.

So, barring an unforseen, monumental event to derail the Great Leap Forward, we are fighting to ameliorate the damage.

re: #127 CyanSnowHawk

When they do the shot in the dungeon of the prisoner clapping as he's hanging on the wall, it always makes me happy.

Funniest damn thing in the movie, IMHO.

re: #3 jwb7605

centrist is the new buzz word for Liberals and RINOs. I'll pass

Needed a Hero, got a Zero.

Lucky us.

re: #109 nigella

Had to weigh in here on the possibility that Caroline Kennedy will take over for Hillary. What a crock of shit! What has she ever done? I think they should just throw out all the members of Congress and start over again. It should go the way the founding fathers set it up. Ordinary farmers,and other regular citizens, met to see to it the Country was progressing on the right path. After their sessions they returned home to their regular occupations. It was not meant to be a permanent career.Send all the bums home!

i'd like to know how she is more qualified than sarah palin.

re: #131 jwb7605

ahh. I understand now.. it's Krauthammer's fault. oh jeez!

Someone commented in our local paper once that we should be happy that we're able to live in the same country as the Kennedy family.

re: #66 Oh no...Sand People!

Well, if you ever get an appointment before you die though. Ask any sane Canadian about it

Laurentide Ice Sheet.

BBL

re: #56 wahabicorridor
Wasn't Caroline Kennedy on Obama's campaign team - the one that "spoiled" Hillary's dream? WTH was Hillary thinking when she took the Sec of State position? What kind of bargain did she make with the devil?
And btw, I hope someone, somewhere, shows Caroline the dedication of Obama's buddy Ayer's book Prarie Fire to Sirhan Sirhan. Not that it'd make her a more "independent" Senator or anything, but maybe she'd feel a TWINGE of guilt.

re: #17 wahabicorridor

I'm trying to think of a country to relocate to...

I have a friend trying to talk me into Argentina. But, please do share what you come up with. ;)

re: #150 unreconstructed rebel

Stay put

re: #150 unreconstructed rebel

or Ireland?

re: #130 outsidephilly

God will bless those who bless Israel. God will curse those who curse Israel.

Yes, but I want the US to be on the side that gets blessed. It looks like 0bama might bring the curses.

re: #123 CapeCoddah

Good afternoon/ morning everyone! That is a nice smooth transition to keep a Kennedy in the senate. She will be just as powerful as her uncle Ted. She is a liberal, but, as far as a Kennedy goes, remember she and her brother were raised far from the Kennedy's. Their mother kept them away from that side of the family as much as possible. Wether she will be better than Ted, who knows, but she cannot possibly be worse.

Which Kennedy is on standby for when Uncle Teddy passes? I'm not sure which ones are Massachusetts residents.

re: #139 Kosh's Shadow

0bama will think this is the way to "reboot his image in the Muslim world".
Maybe throwing Israel to the wolves is exactly what he plans for this.

He will use his middle name! Then he will toss em Israel to PROVE what a good Hussein he is!

re: #123 CapeCoddah

Good afternoon/ morning everyone! That is a nice smooth transition to keep a Kennedy in the senate. She will be just as powerful as her uncle Ted. She is a liberal, but, as far as a Kennedy goes, remember she and her brother were raised far from the Kennedy's. Their mother kept them away from that side of the family as much as possible. Wether she will be better than Ted, who knows, but she cannot possibly be worse.

Yes, All Hail the Queen!

What the fuck.

re: #123 CapeCoddah

Good afternoon/ morning everyone! That is a nice smooth transition to keep a Kennedy in the senate. She will be just as powerful as her uncle Ted. She is a liberal, but, as far as a Kennedy goes, remember she and her brother were raised far from the Kennedy's. Their mother kept them away from that side of the family as much as possible. Wether she will be better than Ted, who knows, but she cannot possibly be worse.

* * *
Good point. Onassis, the tough Greek shipping magnate, was Caroline's stepfather when Jackie O married him. Maybe Caroline has insights about shipping, combatting piracy in the high seas, etc., which the Admiral of Chappaquidick wouldn't know about since he turned sail, turned tail when bad things happened to his passengers.

re: #114 doppelganglander

You're kidding. Didn't she do something at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a while? I guess that could have been part-time. Must be nice to have a trust fund and friends in high places.

Part-time.

re: #149 realwest

Hi real! Yeah, she was on his VP search team...and came up with BIDEN!

TA DA!

re: #26 buzzsawmonkey

It will take even Obama some time to match Robert Mugabe's achievements in this area.

Not that he won't try.

As of August of this year, Mugabe has scored a whopping 11,400,000%. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

re: #132 Noam Chumpski

Didn't we fight the British (twice) to remove ourselves from Monarchy? Or was I just dreaming?

Heh.
Seems quite a good model fo government, once you've got rid of the original incumbents and can get their positions for yourselves.

Worked very well for Stalin and his crowd, too ... for a while ...

re: #119 Kosh's Shadow

G-d punishes those who hate Israel. The US is screwed if this is his policy.

We elected Obama. We're already screwed.

Ah yes, the Alinsky scheme is going as planned. Change indeed.

re: #153 Kosh's Shadow

Yes, but I want the US to be on the side that gets blessed. It looks like 0bama might bring the curses.

Sad, isn't it?

re: #138 Opinionated

We have an iron clad guarantee that these US trained and prepared terrorists will never fight Israel. So relax what could go wrong?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

It is fine. The US trained the Saudis, the Iraqis and now the Pals.

Relax there is a plan.

(I have to believe that... or I will never be able to sleep)

re: #149 realwest

Wasn't Caroline Kennedy on Obama's campaign team - the one that "spoiled" Hillary's dream? WTH was Hillary thinking when she took the Sec of State position? What kind of bargain did she make with the devil?
And btw, I hope someone, somewhere, shows Caroline the dedication of Obama's buddy Ayer's book Prarie Fire to Sirhan Sirhan. Not that it'd make her a more "independent" Senator or anything, but maybe she'd feel a TWINGE of guilt.

She's a lightweight who seized an easy way into prestige and power. She's gonna be Senator for life, based on sentiment and her aristocratic political pedigree.

re: #154 doppelganglander

Which Kennedy is on standby for when Uncle Teddy passes? I'm not sure which ones are Massachusetts residents.

Put down any liquid susantance.

It's his wife, Vicki.

re: #154 doppelganglander

Which Kennedy is on standby for when Uncle Teddy passes? I'm not sure which ones are Massachusetts residents.

Whenever did that matter? :)

re: #137 wahabicorridor

Yes, she did before she married. Something to do with museums I think. Look, I have nothing against the woman personally - I gather that one advantage they see in her appointment is that they would have to move anyone from the NY House delegation over, thereby needing ANOTHER appt. Basically, the chessboard stays static.

Hubby is very disappointed - he REALLY liked working with Hillary and can't imagine that Kennedy would bring the same energy - and intellect - to the job. Hiillary was the quickest study he's ever met.

But hey, it's not a done deal yet.

A quick study maybe but no Social EQ. Made enemies every where she went. Claimed she was oblivious to her serial adulterer/rapist husband Bill Clinton. Completely alienated the people she was working with on health care.

re: #137 wahabicorridor

Yes, she did before she married. Something to do with museums I think. Look, I have nothing against the woman personally - I gather that one advantage they see in her appointment is that they would have to move anyone from the NY House delegation over, thereby needing ANOTHER appt. Basically, the chessboard stays static.

Hubby is very disappointed - he REALLY liked working with Hillary and can't imagine that Kennedy would bring the same energy - and intellect - to the job. Hiillary was the quickest study he's ever met.

But hey, it's not a done deal yet.

Part-time

re: #137 wahabicorridor

Hubby is very disappointed - he REALLY liked working with Hillary and can't imagine that Kennedy would bring the same energy - and intellect - to the job. Hiillary was the quickest study he's ever met.

That makes me feel a little better about her going to State. My initial reaction was fairly positive because I think she actually understands that we have enemies in the world. I was concerned about her foreign affairs experience being limited to hugging Suha Arafat, but she is smart and a hard worker. I'll hope for the best.

re: #119 Kosh's Shadow

OT:

Some food for thought!

...and it will come to pass, if you will diligently listen to my mitzvot which I command you today to love H'S your G-d and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul/resources [then] I will gave rain for your land at the right time... Be careful lest your heart be tempted and you trun astray and serve other gods and bow to them then H'S will act angrily with you [and] he will restrain the skies and there will be no rain...and you will quickly be cast out from the good land which H'S gives you...

re: #118 Wishing

After WWII, a group of ex-GI's took the whole matter of corruption and political machines into their own arms...errr, hands:
How to get rid of corruption, locally.

Incredible. I was born and raised in Tennessee (Memphis), and now live in central Arkansas, where a similar situation threatened to take place (per the excerpts below the main article)... and I've never heard of this. Unbelievable. We'll be adding this to our homeschool curriculum.

THANK YOU for this. Wow.

re: #150 unreconstructed rebel

I'm trying to think of a country to relocate to...

I have a friend trying to talk me into Argentina. But, please do share what you come up with. ;)

Good lord NOT Argentina. Their gov't is busy running their economy into the ground AGAIN.

And I won't go near the EU.

I know many women like Caroline and they are a very nice type of people. It's just great.

... but deserving of having an unelected Senate seat in the Congress of the most powerful nation in the history of man HANDED to them because they share the same blood of a man whom was once President (for a little while)?

Hardly. That's just the kind of nepotistic bullshit this Country no longer needs.

re: #167 wahabicorridor

Put down any liquid susantance.

It's his wife, Vicki.

Good Lord. Why not just appoint his dog Splash?

re: #152 winston06

I was thinking Ireland as well. Of course, it's part of the EU and has all the problems that go along with that...

Still, the whiskey's good and the country is beautiful.

Anybody remember Deliverance?

Now squeal for me. Squeal like a pig!

The green indoctrination and Israel as an Apartheid state is well along in our schools.Try and unring that bell with this jerk as POTUS.

re: #178 razorbacker

Anybody remember Deliverance?

I kayak in Rabun county...

re: #132 Noam Chumpski

Didn't we fight the British (twice) to remove ourselves from Monarchy? Or was I just dreaming?

* * *
Kennedys aren't monarchy, nor royalty--they're machine thugocracy not far removed from Daley's Blagoyevich machine politicians. Faux "people of the people", they want to "rule", not govern or serve.

Whereas frontierswoman Sarah Palin is my kind of American Princess, fearless like Sacajawea, a public servant & fit to govern.

I haven't posted in quite some time (for a variety of reasons not need mentioned). But this column by K. demands an opnion of me. I enjoy his columns and believe him to be on target the majority of the time.He has been privy to that which he covers for a very long time. That said,my last post was well before the election. Things went exactly as I had believed they would.This dismays me to no end. A self admitted "blank slate" was elected to the "highest office in the land(i.e.world)" and all we really know of him is his extremely thin record of public office and a group of associates that can only be described generously as "dubious". I had great fear for my country prior to this election and my fear has only intensified since the election. I do not believe that O will govern as a centrist,but will do all he can to incrementally push forward his socialist agenda,regardless of the cost fiscally and every other way of measuring cost to a society. I came to adulthood in time for the Carter years and recall with vivid clarity the situation as it was in the area of New York I was living in at the time.Things were not good. I expect to look back at what I have for decades considered the worst administration in my 50 year lifetime as being positively wonderful compared to the next 4 years. My hope is that my worst case scenario fear of living out the scenes portrayed in the middle/later chapters of Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" ( although I personaly am well prepared for such a thing). Anything is possible,but I do believe that the worst is yet to come and it ain't gonna be pretty.

re: #141 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

When they do the shot in the dungeon of the prisoner clapping as he's hanging on the wall, it always makes me happy.

Funniest damn thing in the movie, IMHO.

That was genius.

re: #172 WrathofG-d

OT:

Some food for thought!

...and it will come to pass, if you will diligently listen to my mitzvot which I command you today to love H'S your G-d and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul/resources [then] I will gave rain for your land at the right time... Be careful lest your heart be tempted and you trun astray and serve other gods and bow to them then H'S will act angrily with you [and] he will restrain the skies and there will be no rain...and you will quickly be cast out from the good land which H'S gives you...

I know; I say this twice a day (but in Hebrew).
But it looks like Netanyahu will be elected, so maybe things will get better.
And even Livni has been saying better things recently than Olmerde ever did.

re: #180 Noam Chumpski

I kayak in Rabun county...

I'll bet that you can paddle like a 200 hp Evinrude;)

re: #177 right_wing2

Been there a couple of times, lovely,good Guiness, but afraid they are now partaking of the green koolaid. Northern Ireland may be a safer bet and they used to like us a lot. Haven't visited in years.

re: #119 Kosh's Shadow

G-d punishes those who hate Israel. The US is screwed if this is his policy.

If anyone really believes that, they can look to Bush insisting on a Palestinian State and his funding and supporting and training Palestinian terrorists, and all the pressure Rice has poured on Israel, etc.

Then conclude that the financial meltdown and all the rest of the troubles besetting this country- and even Obama's election- is a curse on the US.

If you really believe.

It's public 'service' folks.

Like the ram services the ewe.

Like the bull services the cows.

Like the stallion services the mares.

Like the buck services the does.

Like the boar services the sow.

Like...aw hell, if'n you don't get it yet, you ain't gonna get it.

mmm. Guiness. And whiskey.

On the plus side, I believe Ireland has become the 'Celtic Tiger' by lowering tax rates and cutting regulation.

re: #184 Kosh's Shadow

I know; I say this twice a day (but in Hebrew).
But it looks like Netanyahu will be elected, so maybe things will get better.
And even Livni has been saying better things recently than Olmerde ever did.

Did you click the link? I was presenting "proof" (nothing will be enough for those who refuse to believe) of G-d. He said do X & you will get Y. Israel is doing X and getting Y. Pretty clear cut to me.

As for Bibi, don't count on it. Its not like we don't know what he would do in office...he was in office & he didn't do what he says he would.

As for Livni, he is doing what all politicians do in Israel (what Sharon did & what Olmert did), speak tough (what the populace wants in general) but then does the complete opposite once in office. Do you remember Sharon's "on inch in Gaza is like one inch in Tel Aviv"? Yea, well...so said the Jewish Traitor.

WrathofG-d

OT:

Some food for thought!

...and it will come to pass, if you will diligently listen to my mitzvot which I command you today to love H'S your G-d and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul/resources [then] I will gave rain for your land at the right time... Be careful lest your heart be tempted and you trun astray and serve other gods and bow to them then H'S will act angrily with you [and] he will restrain the skies and there will be no rain...and you will quickly be cast out from the good land which H'S gives you...

re: #184 Kosh's Shadow

I know; I say this twice a day (but in Hebrew).
But it looks like Netanyahu will be elected, so maybe things will get better.
And even Livni has been saying better things recently than Olmerde ever did.

This is EXACTLY what God wants us to remember, thank you for posting this!

re: #187 Opinionated

X+Y = Z?

Sounds like a hypothesis!

re: #184 Kosh's Shadow

At least with Bibi there's half a chance Isreal will tell Obama go go piss up a rope.

re: #191 outsidephilly

WrathofG-d

OT:

Some food for thought!

...and it will come to pass, if you will diligently listen to my mitzvot which I command you today to love H'S your G-d and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul/resources [then] I will gave rain for your land at the right time... Be careful lest your heart be tempted and you trun astray and serve other gods and bow to them then H'S will act angrily with you [and] he will restrain the skies and there will be no rain...and you will quickly be cast out from the good land which H'S gives you...

This is EXACTLY what God wants us to remember, thank you for posting this!

He said it, we did it, its happening...there you go!

re: #190 WrathofG-d

Did you click the link? I was presenting "proof" (nothing will be enough for those who refuse to believe) of G-d. He said do X & you will get Y. Israel is doing X and getting Y. Pretty clear cut to me.

As for Bibi, don't count on it. Its not like we don't know what he would do in office...he was in office & he didn't do what he says he would.

As for Livni, he is doing what all politicians do in Israel (what Sharon did & what Olmert did), speak tough (what the populace wants in general) but then does the complete opposite once in office. Do you remember Sharon's "on inch in Gaza is like one inch in Tel Aviv"? Yea, well...so said the Jewish Traitor.

Yes, I did click the link; that is why I was bring hope that Bibi would change things.
Either that, or we're seeing the disasters that presage the coming of Mashiach. That doesn't have to be in pain, but it sure looks like it will be.

re: #193 wahabicorridor

At least with Bibi there's half a chance Isreal will tell Obama go go piss up a rope.

Netanyahu has a strange way of campaigning.

He is sending reassuring (appeasing) messages to the World and screwing his domestic Nationalistic allies.

re: #195 Kosh's Shadow

Yes, I did click the link; that is why I was bring hope that Bibi would change things.
Either that, or we're seeing the disasters that presage the coming of Mashiach. That doesn't have to be in pain, but it sure looks like it will be.

Zigunisht Moshiachist. We aren't allowed to discuss David's offspring on LGF. But...

re: #196 Opinionated

Netanyahu has a strange way of campaigning.

He is sending reassuring (appeasing) messages to the World and screwing his domestic Nationalistic allies.

During an election two things inevitably happen. (1) all realistic parties talk tough. (2) they all malign the "nationalists".

The first is because they know that is what the populace wants. The second is because they know that the "nationalists" would probably accomplish it & thus they would be out of a job. Likud/Labor is a political mafia in Israel.

re: #166 Joan

She's a lightweight who seized an easy way into prestige and power. She's gonna be Senator for life, based on sentiment and her aristocratic political pedigree.

* * *
C'mon, New Yorkers! Bring to the Senate your New York republican Vito Fosella (sp?) who only had a second family and a little drink in Virginia, but got sent to jail here.

By Kennedy standards, he's an upstanding citizen. He recognized his own out of wedlock child and is doing the right thing. Yes, shocking by democrat standards.

re: #162 Opinionated

We elected Obama. We're already screwed.

* * *
Who'se "WE", Opinionated? He will be my President but I didn't elect him.

re: #198 WrathofG-d

During an election two things inevitably happen. (1) all realistic parties talk tough. (2) they all malign the "nationalists".

The first is because they know that is what the populace wants. The second is because they know that the "nationalists" would probably accomplish it & thus they would be out of a job. Likud/Labor is a political mafia in Israel.

The fraud of manipulating the listing after a fair democratic vote and pushing people he dislikes further down the list is beyond the pale and shows his real nature.

Still Netanyahu is the best of a bad lot.

re: #200 alegrias

* * *
Who'se "WE", Opinionated? He will be my President but I didn't elect him.

If I may humbly speak for "opinionated".

The "we" is Americans.
You might not have voted for him, but you did elect him.

re: #162 Opinionated

We elected Obama. We're already screwed.

If what you say is true, there are more friends to Israel per square mile in the U.S.A. than anywhere else in the world. (okay, I don't have an official poll to prove it, but it's probably true anyway. at least our enemies think so.)

"Do not fear what men may do to you, but rather, fear Him from Whose Hand none can deliver." It's probably in one of the four Gospels, but cuts to the chase pretty good across all lines. Priorities, priorities, priorities!

re: #200 alegrias

* * *
Who'se "WE", Opinionated? He will be my President but I didn't elect him.

When we go to the polls we explicitly acknowledge that we are all united and bound by the result. So, yeah, we the People of the United States elected Obama.

re: #201 Opinionated

The present leadership in Israel (Likud, Labor, and Likudlabor known as Kadima) is exactly the type of individual that is warned against by H'S in The Shema. They put their faith in "The United States", "The Arabs", "The U.N", and other "other gods", and act exceptionally un-Jewishly. This is exactly why once "old Zionist guard" of Begin, Ben-Gurion, etc., who were personally secular, yet acted very Jewishly left the political scene, there was a sharp change in the benefits put upon Israel. When the "leadership" began acting in self-interest an against the warnings, Israel began to suffer. As we all know, with the present "post-Zionist", Anti-G-d, "leadership", Israel has been in a decline.

The Likud/Labor political mafia see the "old guard" in the "nationalists" and know that once they get into power, things will get better. Yet, they are so self-interested, and destined to maintain power, they see this as a threat. Not to the State, but to their hegemony of power over the Country. This is why they attack them with such fervor.

This is further evidenced by the fact that when trying to get elected, the Likud/Labor Mafia-ites speak like "nationalists", and make "nationalist" promises. Yet when in power, and no longer threatened, they act like the corrupt, self interested Erev Rav (I believe the term is) that they are.

re: #201 Opinionated

The fraud of manipulating the listing after a fair democratic vote and pushing people he dislikes further down the list is beyond the pale and shows his real nature.

Still Netanyahu is the best of a bad lot.

This is what the present "leadership" in Israel does to their G-d fearing, land loving, true Zionist, "Jews" among Jews . ... and ...this is why Israel (Am and Eretz) suffers.

Either the fools in charge have realized they can vote themselves the treasury, in which case we are fiscally dooomed OR we have the culmination of a very long capmaign against the US in which a certain party has been hijacked and is about to it's best to bankrupt the US totally by making the dollar worthless... in which case we're pretty much dooomed...
yargle...
I was thinking that if I get a zillion dollars in bailout money I could use it wallpaper the room... then go hunting some of the deer that are hanging out in suburbia and trade some of the meat for something useful, like a new camera for the biz...

re: #205 WrathofG-d

Ultimately, the fault rests with the voters.

re: #206 WrathofG-d

This is what the present "leadership" in Israel does to their G-d fearing, land loving, true Zionist, "Jews" among Jews . ... and ...this is why Israel (Am and Eretz) suffers.

Blydi 'eck - thats shameful!
Thanks for the link - can't believe what I just read in there.

His dream= my nightmare. Hope I wake up before I hit the ground.

re: #208 Opinionated

Well yes it does, in total we have been stupid.

BBL

re: #128 Kosh's Shadow

Compared with 0bama they're centrists.

Compared to Marx...

re: #208 Opinionated

Not really. The voters voted in He Who Kahannot Be Named, and he was shunned illegally by the Knesset, then ultimately the Likud/Labor worked to simply outlaw his political party. Created brand new laws to do so as well.
re: #209 yma o hyd

Blydi 'eck - thats shameful!
Thanks for the link - can't believe what I just read in there.

Horribly shameful! A serious shonda!

Caroline Kennedy for Hillary's senate seat? Did anyone hear her speech at the Convention? Is there any evidence that this woman has a brain?

I'm old enough to remember when she lost her father, as well as her uncle, her mother, her brother ... I feel bad for her. But I've heard nothing about her that even remotely qualifies her for public office.

re: #204 Opinionated

When we go to the polls we explicitly acknowledge that we are all united and bound by the result. So, yeah, we the People of the United States elected Obama.

I just don't feel bound by the result of this election. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. We don't HAVE to follow the rest of the lemmings over the cliff. But there seems to be this attitude that we just have to sit back and LET Obama do whatever he wants to do.

re: #140 joan

The Obama team leaders are working a twelve year plan. The team includes news media, entertainment, the arts, the nonprofit sector, ethnic minority groups, liberals, young professionals, a good percentage of senior citizens, most of the academic community that includes the sciences, big dollar business leaders, Wall Street, public education and the unions, environmentalists, 85% of the State Department. I take a breath, but don't have the heart to continue. Congress, and a large percentage of the nation's judiciary. And the "Commissariat" is with team Obama.

Opposing the Obama team is us. We are right of center bloggers, right of center people, talk radio, Fox News. That's it.

So, barring an unforseen, monumental event to derail the Great Leap Forward, we are fighting to ameliorate the damage.

That's a daunting list and I hope we're not fighting the long defeat. The only thing that gives me hope is that, that same list has been arrayed against us for the last 30 years or so and there are still roughly half of us who haven't succumbed. Common sense has a great power, that can withstand even all the brainwashing machinery arrayed against it. We need to try to make it more infectious...

re: #216 Tigger2005

I just don't feel bound by the result of this election. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. We don't HAVE to follow the rest of the lemmings over the cliff. But there seems to be this attitude that we just have to sit back and LET Obama do whatever he wants to do.

Whoa there! You don't feel bound by result of this election? WTF?

re: #218 Lynn B.

Whoa there! You don't feel bound by result of this election? WTF?

Why should I? Socialism is anti-Constitutional and anti-Freedom. I can't help it if half the people are too goddamn stupid to see that.

re: #219 Iron Fist

We could all move to Alaska. Then seccede. Then we could drill in ANWAR. Just that alone would be worth the fight. Watch as the moonbats' heads explode :-)

Pretty easy place to defend too...

re: #220 Tigger2005

Why should I? Socialism is anti-Constitutional and anti-Freedom. I can't help it if half the people are too goddamn stupid to see that.

I see. You disagree with the result so you're free to ignore it.

We've been hearing exactly that from the other side for the past 8 years (with a word or two substituted).

You're usually much more rational than this. Please take a deep breath. And start working to convince the "stupid people" to see it in the next election.

re: #223 Lynn B.

I see. You disagree with the result so you're free to ignore it.

We've been hearing exactly that from the other side for the past 8 years (with a word or two substituted).

You're usually much more rational than this. Please take a deep breath. And start working to convince the "stupid people" to see it in the next election.

"Not my President"
~eh...no!

I call it at 11:41 PST

This thread is gone, going...gone.

Exactly.

up next - Government run socialized medicine. Instead of choice, we will get crap free health care.

re: #226 FrogMarch

Exactly.

up next - Government run socialized medicine. Instead of choice, we will get crap free health care.

I know this sounds crazy, as if you want something to work you don't hand it over to the Government, but Socialized medicine works in other countries so there is a possibility that it would be ok here.

I voted against this mishagaus, but now that I am stuck with it, i'm just Sitting, Waiting, Wishing.

And let's not forget Obama's got a possible SCOTUS issues. Wrotnowski's suit was discussed in conference today but no decision was made. Considering a similar lawsuit was in conference last Friday and decision made (but not released until the following Monday) leads me to believe Wrotnowski has the Connecticut SoS by the short hairs.

re: #215 Lynn B.

Caroline Kennedy for Hillary's senate seat? Did anyone hear her speech at the Convention? Is there any evidence that this woman has a brain?

I'm old enough to remember when she lost her father, as well as her uncle, her mother, her brother ... I feel bad for her. But I've heard nothing about her that even remotely qualifies her for public office.

But she's a Kennedy, a Kennedy! that's all the qualifacation she needs.

Centrist is the Right! (according to the media)

Centrist is the new Right! (according to the media

So, will HE still our souls? Will there be a Civilian National Security Force (CNSF) as he mentioned in Denver this summer? Will we be allowed to stay in our homes or will we be made to make room for the less fortunate amongst us? Why are we being made to wait for HIS presidency, the ONE we've been waiting for? It's just words, words written on an old piece of paper! Will those of us who didn't vote for HIM have to wear a dark start on our shirt fronts?

./snark off

OBTW: I do hope HE's successful because for him to fail would mean misery for the country at this time.

we're so boned

we are too damn nice to survive as a country.
We are Britain.

While he didn't fool a lot of us, the obamomania is still flourishing. I don't know what it will take to bring down his popularity.

He had me at "extrasolar planets".

"Girl, you hotter than HD 149026 b"

The preceding comments have in general understated the problems presented by BHO's willingness to spend. He will rely on the fear of the average Democrat of social and economic relations in America going south with the austerity measures that are necessary to reverse the impending corporate and government failures, which will prompt more spending on their parts. Meanwhile, Ayers and Alinsky (from his grave) will clap their hands and do a jig.

What is it that we don't understand about the Cloward-Pavin maneuver to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat.

The only way out of this fiasco will be to declare bankruptcy, which will turn the world upside down on OUR heads. Forgiveness of debt was not favored for poor countries' problems; will it be tolerated for a nanosecond by Russia, China and Saudi Arabia?!