Toon via theo
How much time do men spend looking at women? Never, never try to tell me that women are not sex objects to men. And if they are more than that too, so much the better for all.
Cries of "Tyranny" in Tampa. Whether Left, Conservative, or Compromising, Americans never take crap from their politicians. A plea to push back when the union thugs show up on their busses.
And, as we predicted yesterday, invited unions fill Town Hall: regular folks locked out in St. Louis
Taking the dissident data base seriously: Powerline. I refuse to take it seriously. Steyn: See you in the database. Maloney: "I'm gonna report myself."
Sibelius to America: Don't sweat the details. Too complicated for the little people.
Bill Clinton had Hollywood arrange the reporting of his N Korea rescue. Why?
AARP has been co-opted by the Left for years. Now they do not want to hear from their members.
You can't make this stuff up: Cash for refrigerators. As for the Cash for Clunkers, read this and weep.
Just like the Russian subs off New York: Russian state security working with Hezbollah. Maybe a beer with Putin might encourage him to give up his nation's pursuit of their own power interests...
Hanson on Congress' new G-5s. 3 of them. God forbid members of Congress fly with the citizens. Citizens might want to talk to them.
Betsy begins:
If you ever doubted that teachers unions were interested mainly in protecting teacher salaries rather than what was best for the students, you should read these two examples of how the unions are trying to block worthy programs just because they are more concerned about their own paychecks.
Nothing wrong with teachers, or anybody else, wanting to make more money. Problem is that it's the peoples' involuntary money. I believe that public employee unions should be illegal (can you imagine the military unionizing?), and that nobody in a unionized job can be regarded as a professional. In fact, I believe that unions are pretty much obsolete today - a relic from the old and truly abusive company town industrial era when there was no effective labor market and minimal mobility.
Robin of Berkeley: How I became Conservative so fast.
Why the uproar? VHD:
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Prairie-Fire Anger. “The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives—cap-and-trade, health care overhaul, government take over of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus—are already less than half of polled voters. Obama’s own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent. A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda. The Republicans—written off just a few weeks ago as an obsolete party headed for oblivion—are now often polling higher in generic surveys than are Democrats. Why the sudden uproar?”
From No Left Turns:
To the degree that this old post is on the mark, it suggests some of the reasons why things are getting tense just now. What if Americans are frustrated with the modern administrative/ bureacratic state, and the feeling that they can’t control it?
Re the death of John Hughes, an outtake from Ferris Bueller:
FERRIS:
My uncle went to Canada to protest the war, right? On the Fourth of July he was down with my aunt and he got drunk and told my Dad he felt guilty he didn't fight in Viet Nam. So I said, "What's the deal, Uncle Jeff? In wartime you want to be a pacifist and in peacetime you want to be a soldier. It took you twenty years to find out you don't believe in anything?"
(snaps his fingers)
Grounded. Just like that. Two weeks.
(pause)
Be careful when you deal with old hippies. They can be real touchy.
Powerline on energy:
If Russia, Cuba and others can drill off the coast of Florida, why can't we?
