Innocent or Crude?

It might be simply an unintentional double-entendre. It certainly could be passed by quickly if not for the audience before which it was delivered. Placed in the context of the group he was addressing it becomes a very intentional and decidedly unpresidential statement.

LGBT Learns About Michelle

I never would have guessed that about her.

Pathetic

They don't seem to learn. You can get away with a lot of BS hanging around the local bar and sweet-talking the impressionable young ladies who generally are clueless and simply looking for a hook-up. If they get to make it with a war hero, all the more exciting.

But, if you are going to go on television nationally and you're going to spin a yarn about heroism and war injury and combat trauma then somebody is going to check you out.

America's Got Talent and Liars Too

This from TMZ says it all:

We asked Tim to prove it really happened.  He said he received treatment at a military medical facility in Afghanistan before being transferred to a medical center in Landstuhl, Germany. Tim says he was then transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.  He did not produce any documents to support his claim.

Tim says he plans to sue his ex-wife and several others for telling the media he was lying.

We asked Tim for ANY hard proof to back his claims -- he gave us nothing, saying he can't release pics or documents for legal reasons. So we gotta ask ...

Yep, another one of those super-secret mission types who can't release his records because they are highly classified. Nobody in his unit knew he was wounded. Who then picked him up and brought him out? How did he avoid the routine issuance of a Purple Heart?

These people are simply disgusting. When you've offended Howard Stern, you're really at the championship level for slime-crawling maggots.

Pay No Attention

I was watching election results last night and as the percentage of precincts reporting rose and the two-to-one margin for Walker held consistent, I wondered why Fox News hadn't declared a victory. So, I went to the other major cable news outlets. First I took a look at CNN where Wolf Blitzer was fighting back tears but still depending upon exit polls from earlier in the day while viewers were seeing actual counts appear in the crawl at the bottom of the screen. Denial was blatant.

So, I really went afield to MSNBC and Rachel Maddow. That's when it really became surreal:

"Too Close to Call---Walker To Be Indicted"

These people live in a twilight zone.

Particularly note-worthy was Ed Schultz bleating about the injustice of campaign funding superiority by the winner. Somehow ignoring the billion dollar slush fund that the Messiah has amassed and alluding to corruption of the democratic process; truly remarkable.

Who'da Thunk It?

Dick Morris, once a Clinton staffer and now a convert to conservatism, speaks the words which are obvious to all:



The question, however, is why? What's Bill Clinton's game? What does he gain by an Obama loss?

Hillary is a senior administration official. They don't get much higher than SecState. She's cobbled together a credible resume of governmental service reaching beyond the rather nebulous credential of having been First Lady. She's been at Bill's side in state government, she watched the executive branch from inside the White House, she's been a US Senator and now the manager of foreign policy for the nation. That's heavy duty regardless of your ideology.

She ran a bitter primary race against the Bamster in 2008. When he won, she was marginalized even as SecState. The Messiah was on the global apology tour and Hillary was visiting central African back-waters. She's still got the presidential jones unsatisfied.

The Bamster is not likely to swap her for Biden at veep. Bill is making sure that won't happen by dumping these clinkers on the Obama campaign. Obama doesn't want Bill around the White House catching the lime-light. If Obama gets a second term, Hillary will be history and that leaves her four years in the wilderness.

If Obama gets re-elected the country will be in such a mess by 2016 that the second coming of Christ wouldn't be sure of a Democratic election win. Hillary doesn't want to be seeking the Bamster's seat then. It works much better for her if Romney wins and she can campaign against a Republican president in 2016. Give her four years as the face of the opposition and she's a shoo-in. QED.

On Sale: Distressed Merchandise

"The president who started off with such dazzle now seems incapable of stimulating either the economy or the voters. His campaign is offering Obama 2012 car magnets for a donation of $10; cat collars reading “I Meow for Michelle” for $12; an Obama grill spatula for $40, and discounted hoodies and T-shirts. How the mighty have fallen."

That tidbit is from a left-wing top-level editorial writer for the New York Times. It's not a right-wing hit piece. It leaves me pondering whether I would get more use out of an Obama burger flipper or a nice hoodie to roam gated communities at night.

Here is the entire sad story:

Maureed Dowd No Longer Feeling Bamster Tingles

So, are they essentially paraphrasing that great Lincoln quote regarding how you can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time?

Three Days in Dallas

Just finished a delightful three days in Dallas observing the economic impact of Gov. Perry's gross mismanagement of the state economy so that we can't begin to aspire to the success of places like Detroit, Newark or Chicago. Admittedly it is a struggle, but Texans are a hardy lot and we manage to make do.

We stayed at a rundown refurbished Motel 6 which is so broke they no longer leave a light on for you.

But, it's more than a bedroom and a TV bolted to the wall. You an relax in the cramped and beat-up furniture of the lobby or beg some sustenance from the street vendors or possibly find something in the dumpsters nearby:

You can gobble your gleanings indoors or out, depending upon your mood and the temperature. You have to be cautious that the other down and out Dallas-ites waiting for their Obama-Bucks don't try to steal from your shopping cart of possessions.

Second night we ventured away from the shack to a less exotic locale with a future so bright they've got to wear shades. Italian cooking in a cozy retro style of neighborhood joint. They are so poor that they can't even afford canned goods. They have to make everything on the menu from scratch and it shows. Bread, salumi, pates, fresh pasta, risotto, sauces and deserts all get cobbled together from whatever ingredients they can find:

Lucia's Booked A Month In Advance

No, the food is not the quality of MRE's warmed on the exhaust manifold of a HumVee, but then what really can compete with that?

Finally we finished up our three-day survival exercise with some ethnic cuisine handled by Asian folks who are so poor they can't even afford to cook a lot of their fish:

Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Korean and More

Like so many places suffering the legacy of the Bush administration's evil policies, the place was populated by middle-aged men accompanied by leggy, busty, stylish women who were all apparently turned down by "Real Housewives of Somewhere" casting calls as being too beautiful, too well-mannered, too polite and too sophisticated to be real housewives.

When we departed these two rickshaws were pulled up in front, apparently waiting for two trucks to haul them away after break-downs:

Yes those are twin Bentley cabriolets both still wearing dealer plates and representing a cool half-million in automotive luxury. 

It was a tough three days but we survived it. Until next time...

Saturday Morning Rocker

Intrusion

Convenience be damned. Discretion? We don' need no steenkin' discretion. Free choice? Not in Progressive America. OK, I haven't had a soft drink in a couple of decades. I drink water usually, beer occasionally and wine with most dinners. I'm fat, but I prefer to think of myself as prosperous. It's my free choice. Not, a very bright future for free choice in New York though. The pseudo-Republican mayor seeks to control size of soft drinks. Nothing larger than 16 ounces to be sold. No more Big Gulp at the convience store. I'm not sure about two liter bottles of Pepsi and the brackets on stuff like lo-cal or zero calories soft drinks aren't clear either. I'm wondering how a 40 of malt liquor fits in the equation. You see the saintly Mayor Himmler...er make that Bloomberg, seeks to pare down the large diameter of NYC denizens. You see the average 8 ounce Coke contains sugar, about 25 calories worth. Than means a 16 ounce limited drink will have 50 calories of sugar. For the average teen-ager or active young adult that is a pretty small component of a typical 2000 calorie recommended intake each day. But, read this: Shut Up and Take It Gotta love the liberal dietician who blatantly claims no food value. Somehow I thought calories equaled energy and the most concentrated forms are the complex sugars. If you don't get them directly, your body converts carbohydrates into sugar first before producing energy to keep you going. Particularly noteworthy is the now characteristic of the left-wing apologist to pepper his debate with supportive language gleaned from the lowest levels of society and throw in the occasional reference to the intelligence level of the reader. The essential here is that control of portion size is not a role of government. Good for you or bad for you is your choice...or it is in the rest of the country.

Living Large

A few days R&R at the Mansion at Turtle Creek.

Muscle Car

If you ever stumble on Channel 60 "Outlaw Country" on Sirius/XM you may hear Elizabeth Cook hosting a couple of hours. She's got a bit of a mouth on her, but she plays some funky country. Occasionally she will talk about being on the road and doing some gigs with other country folks. I wondered what she looked and sounded like. Then yesterday I caught this one.



I'm not sure I like her.

Perpetuating Power

When you are in the palace, it is pretty easy to get the Praetorians to impose your will upon the people. Who is going to charge you with using tax dollars for your own benefit? Who is going to complain about selective categorization of groups? Who will notice a breach of the establishment clause of the First Amendment? Who will refute the logic of identification being equivalent to racial discrimination?

Explaining IRS Nuances to Black Pastors

Will this road show also gather Jewish rabbis? How about suburban Methodists? Catholic priests anybody?

Where are the limits for this man? Are there any left?

The Gang Still Misses the Target

The gaffe-prone administration is running just as fast as their pasty little legs will carry them to touch base with all voting blocs in the nation. On Memorial Day it was the pandering apologia to Vietnam Vets rendered before The Wall. Despite his campaign claims that vets love him, the preponderance of poll data give the Bamster a two-to-one deficit against his opponent among vets. We simply don't think much of him and it isn't without good reason. Dismantling the military, abandoning two theaters of conflict, sneaking a 40% increase in co-pay for prescriptions into healthcare, and repealing the arguably effective DA/DT policy all tend to grate with us.

So far I've gotten a dozen emails from military folks in the DC region ranging from Special Forces senior NCOs to NamPOWS to major and lieutenant generals, all complaining that the President's campaign events at Arlington and The Wall denied them access to these locations on a special day. Security for previous Presidential wreath-layings had never done that before. Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes all managed to conduct a remembrance without locking out the very people who are most vested in those sacred places.

Yesterday it was a White House Medal of Freedom ceremony. That's where he blindly followed Mr. Teleprompter down the Rose Garden path to offending a large population demographic and a NATO ally as well:

"Polish Death Camps..."

(Note to Presidential Re-Election Campaign Staff: The Polish demographic in rust-belt cities in your strong areas is quite large. The Nazi demographic in America is very small and your loyal media minions normally characterize them as Republicans generically and Tea Party proponents specifically.)

To get the African-American poetry demographic he hung a ribbon on the neck of Toni Morrison, but that was already pretty well sewn up since she read at the first Clinton inauguration.

And in an apparently choreographed historical amnesia topper, the Bamster decorated that great American dope-smoker and mono-tonal rambler, Bob Dylan. Mr. Dylan appeared in large sun-glasses to hide his widely dilated eyes and wearing a tasty black suit decorated with silver buckles and straps, apparently a Goodwill store find from Michael Jackson's wardrobe discards.

You will recall Mr. Dylan's greatest work included Tambourine Man, an acknowledgement of gratitude to drug pushers of the nation as well as Blowing in the Wind, which provided the name for Bamster supporter Bill Ayers' patriotic organization, The Weathermen.

With that award, the Messiah effectively denies the pot-smoking anarchist vote to Romney.

Late To The Party

I try to keep up, but in the modern info-centric world beyond mainstream media it is difficult to stumble upon every significant story. I've been seeing the name Brett Kimberlin popping up on a lot of my regular stops. I haven't gone there to explore, generally relegating the issue to a urinating competition between bloggers with flame-throwers.

This morning curiosity got the better of me. Here's a pretty good summary of what this is about.

Kimberlin SWATting, Bombing, SLAPPing and Soros

There are way too many links there to get them all finished in a quick exploration, but there's a deja vu about a Bill Ayers character implementing "change" through creative chemistry, a connection to socialist financial angel, George Soros, some incredibly dangerous exercises of America's convoluted legal process, and a raft of credible bloggers looking at the situation.

Do I believe it all? Some is irrefutable. Some is questionable. Is there enough there to be worried? Will the MSM assuage my doubts with some quality journalism?

Simply MSNBC

Yes, you can be certain he never served. Yes, you can conclude he is a pompous ass by language such as "rhetorically proximate." The poor baby feels "uncomfortable" speaking of men and women who have fallen in defense of their nation.

The Wall

Washington D. C. is a city of beautiful buildings and soaring monuments. The capital dominates with its majestic dome and broad stairways. The Supreme Court similarly rises among the stately trees with strength in its columns and classic façade. The memorials to the greats of our nations are white, broad and tall befitting the stature of the military and political leaders which they honor. But, the Wall is black and buried, a depression in the ground symbolizing the depression of the nation that did not win the war or respect the men who fought it. You can see the Washington Monument from miles away and you won’t need a map to find Lincoln or Jefferson or the World War II memorial, but you could walk within a hundred yards of the Wall and never see it. We seem to want to hide it, maybe hoping that an obligation has been fulfilled but no one wants to admit that the obligation existed in the first place.

The names are listed in a paper directory, dog-eared and dirty from thousands of hands searching through it for a name of a friend or family member who was lost. It’s chained to a plywood pedestal like a small town phone book at a gas station pay-phone, almost as an afterthought by the government that maybe some visitor might want to know where on the wall among the 58,000 names their special person is memorialized. But, they do want to know. They come from across the country to see and to feel and to remember. Some say they come for closure or to heal, but that is only a few. More come for respect and to belatedly honor the fallen. And some come out of guilt that they hadn’t gone or hadn’t done the right thing at the time.

The sidewalk along the brooding black marble wall slopes gradually, there are no steps along the way. It’s almost a metaphor for the gradualism that led us to failure. It marks the descent into the immorality of sending men to die for a cause that the nation wants to ignore. But when you reach the deepest point, the walk rises again and gradually, over time returns to the level of the street and the city. All things pass and maybe this represents a return to normalcy and patriotism and honor; belief in your country’s might and the principles that the other soaring white monuments of Washington commemorate. Maybe.

Children visiting the Wall from the inner cities of America laugh and tussle on the grass, showing little of the solemnity that we might wish for this spot. They don’t know these many years later exactly what this is all about. They don’t make a great distinction between Verdun and Vietnam. But, that guy over there, the one in the dark suit with the sunglasses, he knows the difference. The gray-haired fellow coming down the walk with his grand-son holding his hand, he knows many of these names. The heavy-set fellow in the West Point sweatshirt, sitting on the park bench with the cane by his side was there. The one in the tattered field jacket, with the beard and dirty matted long hair? No, probably not. Odds are he’s ten years too young and simply another poseur and “wannabe.” There are a lot of them these days. You can buy the jacket in any town and the medals can be found on eBay. But, that’s the stereotype; the homeless, drug or alcohol addicted hulk destroyed by the war. The reality is that the great majority of the survivors of the war are just quiet old men, living out their lives and remembering.

"Palace Cobra" Chap. 14 

St . Martin's Press, NYC NY, 2006 

Seemed Like A Good Idea

Face it, tats do not exude an aura of professionalism. The fad du jour is not going to be around forever, but the tat will almost certainly be with you for the rest of your life.

Night of the Iguana

"Mommy, what is that funny writing Grandma has on her back?"

Memorial Day

Dead On Arrival

This is one proposal that shouldn't even be seriously considered. It is abrogation of our national sovereignty and clear erosion of our First Amendment protections. It is opposed by the Republican-controlled House, the Democratic-controlled Senate and even the Marxist-controlled administration.

Turn Over Internet Regulation to UN?

There are far too many instances of governments large and small in the UN that are averse to freedom for us to even have this proposal on the table.

Main Stream Media Report

You might expect a story like this in a grocery store check-out line tabloid, but this is ABC News:

Choom Gang

Sort of brings a new meaning to the acronym POTUS, doesn't it?

Saturday Rocker

Gotta wake up on a Saturday morning after a Willie ballad: