Thursday, September 11. 2008
Naturally, the Obamas send their kids to elite private schools. Would not want them associating with the riff-raff or being taught by unionized teachers. That's what wealthy Liberals do. Lefties seem to consist mainly of the condescending and/or guilty elites and the "gimme more" poor - and the young kids who know nothing about real life. Public schools are for us proles, I guess. Us middle-class proles who work hard and pay our taxes and worry about our savings. Palin's kids go to public school.
 They probably faked that proton thingy. Who could tell if they're fooling us, cuz them proton thingys are so teensy-weensy that you can hardly see the dang thing to break it with a 21 oz. hammer.
The growing consensus on global cooling. Yeah, I was for global cooling before I was for global warming...or is it the other way around? OMG. Canadians afraid Palin's example might reduce the number of abortions. God forbid! Palin takes a couple of days off to send off her son to serve the USA. This is real. No styrofoam. Repubs were hopeless two months ago. Now the Dems are fearful. The NYT busts its delivery unions. Nice greedy liberals. Freddie and Fannie had multiple personality disorder Vanishing American barns. Sad. Same thing in New England. h/t, Flares USA Today says Palin busts feminist template. Indeed she does. Foreigners do not understand the real America. And here's Melissa on Sexy Conservative Women From Stop the ACLU: Did you know: Senator John McCain routinely physically abuses his wife, Sarah Palin is a devil-worshiping satanist, Governor Palin wants to secede from the Union, Baby Trig was actually stolen from another couple in a complex scam at the hospital, Governor Palin slashed funding for special needs kids, and (as everyone on this site already knows), banned every book ever written. Where did I learn these things? The Daily Kos? Andrew Sullivan? MSNBC? No, I learned these things from the Barack Obama campaign website.
UK Update: Don't litter, but please kill the old folks Roger Kimball goes after the NYT, and other easy targets. A quote: One lesson–hardly a new lesson, but still worth mentioning–is that Democratic candidates get one sort of treatment from the Times, Republicans get quite another sort of treatment. Sarah Palin supposedly lacks the experience to be Vice-President; but what experience does Obama have to be President? What has he done? What legislation has he sponsored? What executive experience has he had? What does he stand for–beyond, I mean, the calculated political expediency that will advance his career? Where, for example, does he stand on the war in Iraq and the Surge: adamantly opposed–until it became too expensive politically, at which point he declared that the Surge succeeded beyond his “wildest dreams.” Where does he stand on offshore drilling? On taxes? On Russia’s invasion of Georgia? On an nuclear Iran? On Israel?
Roger Stone: Obama hurt himself badly. Americans are not stupid. We may not all study Sartre and Marx, but we know how to clean a carburetor or a deer or a gun, and how to drink beer. We are quite unsophisticated. Obama rattled. Or On his heels. Or flailing. Gotta feel badly for the guy. He's never had a contested election, and he's not ready for this. How's that executive experience going, Obama? The NYT discovers the Annenberg Challenge. One of the few things Obama has done, and it was a failure and waste of $150 million of money another person earned by creating real jobs and real products that people wanted. Dems are smarter than Repubs, right? Further, Bainbridge considers the sophisticated Dems. Me? I am a redneck country bumpkin, moved to NYC and growing more sophisticated and conservative by the day. Gender gaps around the world. A quote: A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal Botswanan clan seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France. The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similar jobs, the more their personalities seem to diverge.
What is "the war on terror"? We have saved Iraq, and are chipping away at the sick craziness in Afghanistan - but what is it? In my opinion, it's only a "war" in the sense that there is a "war against cancer." It's a cultural cancer: If it stays where it is, who cares? But if it invades us, we do care. Photo: Company A, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment remove concertina wire to clean up Baghdad. It's not needed any more.
Some people are going stark raving mad over politics. Examples: Stark raving mad: Powerline. Holy Mackeral, what a putz. Andrew Sullivan goes over the edge. Not the first time. Obama on Barack the bomb thrower. Why remind us of your buddy Ayers? Noted commentator Matt Damon. Who is this guy? Roger Ebert, unhinged. Good grief. Dem leaders attack Palin for not having abortions. Maybe they wish they had been aborted. Obama updates the Sermon on the Mount. Hey, why not? It's obsolete, like the Constitution and all that old-fashioned stuff. Biden: "I wasn't the best choice." Honest, for once. A faux-feminist's primal scream. They do hate happy women.
Wednesday, September 10. 2008
Paglia: The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Mrs. Palin is mobilizing women of all sorts. Good on her. We are all sick of the unattractive feminazi academic lesbians. Takes 3-4 hrs of activity/day to fight your fat genes. Chop some wood. Clean the house. Peel some potatoes. Carry that load. Mow the lawn. Turn off the TV. Turn off the internet (except for Maggie's Farm). Weed the garden. Carry some rocks. Go to Costco. Tip some cows. Shoot a caribou. Carbon is a lost cause. Sure is. The coming global cooling crisis. Lehman is screwed. I feel badly for the long-time Lehman guys who thought they were wealthy. A great American company which, I assume, did not listen to their risk managers. Obama dies on O'Reilly. He really cannot give a straight answer, only lawyerly evasions. But his people can do the dozens (that's a ghetto expression). Steyn on the world wanting Obama. Funny. Certainly PM Brown's endorsement will not carry much water in the US. We do not want to be like today's UK. Europe is in a death-spiral. What about all those "green jobs"? People in government couldn't run a profitable candy store. Obama's big contribution to education? Sex ed for kindergartners. That is perverted, sick. It's the big education debate. I happen to want the feds entirely out of education. "Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits." Bush revealed as Lincoln and Grant. Someday the nation will appreciate Bush. Obama unplugged. Herald
A pig and an old fish? At Insty. This is good: Meeting Chloe
Tuesday, September 9. 2008
 It's just this simple! Now go vote!
Independents moving to McCain. Duh. Even Jules now alarmed about global cooling. T. Boone Pickens cares only about one thing. Jeremiah Wright has a new scandal. Skirt-chasing. I thought he was offensive enough before this. Africans pay the price for greenie moonbattery Gaffe Central: My Muslim Faith. Sheesh. It's sad. Obama now is for Charter schools. With a wink to the unions? I do not believe this. Sarah on the basketball court. Shoots and scores. Now they say Obama is running against Palin. Weird. Two on one, since Biden is a joke (somebody forgot to tell Obama). Sipp on politics: All politics is the prayer for a deus ex machina. Yes, always. Do not look to those jokers for your life's salvation. Mankind will never be ready for democracy, or dictatorship either. Dems have no respect for regular Americans. That is true. I am a regular American, neither elite nor a victim, and not interested in being either. I guess that makes me a Repub. Michelle's boot camp for radical propaganda. Shades of Stalin and Mao. Rejecting Obama for the right reasons. That's me. I'd vote for a black Conservative without any hesitation. Poll: Lefties against the Constitution. Horrifying...but somehow not surprising either. It's OK, Oprah. No, really! It's OK! Got to add that site to our blogroll.
 US mulls Google lawsuit
Command and control? From Outside the Beltway: In watching/listening to the two acceptance speeches by both candidates one thing struck me. Both appear to believe, or at least promulgate, this notion that the President of the United States can control and/or has great and precise influence over the economy.
DC's crusading school chancellor takes on teacher pay - and the union The Palin smear job is moving so fast you need somebody to keep track The search for ancient Ithaca. Smithsonian Should I manage my adult daughter's money? Palin is from the wrong side of the tracks? Dino wonders whether Obama believes his new age claptrap
Monday, September 8. 2008
Remember when feminism was concerned with overcoming artificial and essentially irrational “glass ceilings” in employment and other activities? Well, with time and legislation, those areas are pretty well fixed – as the positions of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, Sally Krawcheck, etc., etc. have demonstrated. What now for the Departments of Feminist Studies at universities all over our country? Unemployment? Hardly. The feminist movement has morphed into the Feminist Party, and it has An Agenda. Gwynnie spoke to a Feminist Chair at a big university this weekend and got an education. Suggesting that Sarah’s nomination might have appeal to what we thought were feminists (shattering another ceiling, inspirational to young girls, etc.), we were bowled over by the furious attack – turns out that Sarah is hated by the “Feminist” Party. We asked the professor what the “Feminists” regard as their major issues, and it turns out that they are: - Gun control
- Abortion on demand, federally subsidized if necessary
- Anti “creationism”
- And the balance of the standard Liberal agenda.
We had guessed that abortion would be a criteria for admission to the “Feminist” elite, but gun control? Creationism? It’s sort of sad that as real feminism has almost blown away the glass ceilings, “Feminists” would dilute themselves into becoming merely liberals with skirts (or pantsuits). This whole week has been educational. The following letter was written by a Bryn Mawr graduate in Alaska (don’t ask why she was there):
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The Feds should have privatized Fanny and Freddie, not taken them over. Running the mortgage market is not part of the government's job according to the Constitution. One day later, now the auto biz asks for Fed support. It's a slippery slope if failing businesses can run to the Feds (eg our wallets). Scientists get death threats re Hadron Collider VW Microbus to return? Flower decals and peace symbols optional. Biden: Life begins at conception Missouri picks winners. What's up with Andrew Sullivan and Obama? Kristol: "McCain didn’t just pick a politician who could appeal to Wal-Mart Moms. He picked a Wal-Mart Mom." It's refreshing. I tire of these elites who always are certain that they know what's best for me. Related: Tammy on Palin (via Insty), a quote: The party has moved from taking the female vote for granted to outright contempt for women. That's why Palin represents the most serious conservative threat ever to the modern liberal claim on issues of cultural and social superiority. Why? Because men and women who never before would have considered voting for a Republican have either decided, or are seriously considering, doing so. They are deciding women's rights must be more than a slogan and actually belong to every woman, not just the sort approved of by left-wing special interest groups. Palin's candidacy brings both figurative and literal feminist change. The simple act of thinking outside the liberal box, which has insisted for generations that only liberals and Democrats can be trusted on issues of import to women, is the political equivalent of a nuclear explosion.
Sunday, September 7. 2008
 The latest McCain video ad. Not bad.
The Palin book-banning lies. Lies of all sorts are swirling around her. Throw enough sh-t at the wall and hope some sticks. That's the approach. Grasso's compensation and the courts. Prof B Palin rises above the shrill media What does a "community organizer" do? Why Ayers matters. Neoneo Raul, Cuba, and the internet What's all this about speeches? Althouse All the gals now want the Palin look Two small(?)-town Dems wonder whether local Repubs care about small towns The UN wants me to have meatless Fridays? I guess it's a new religion. I have plenty of meatless days, but not to be good - just because I like other stuff too. Good news on the free speech front. Coyote Death from above in Afghanistan Are we watching the end of boomer wierdness? Are all of the photo-shopped Palin photos ethical? Probably not, unless identified as such. The Dems' hidden Soros slush fund A visit to Palin's church. The Pastor is from NJ. Extremist claims Palin is an extremist. Compared to Boxer, probably so. Roger Simon with general thoughts about the election and the culture of narcissism How McCain is running as the candidate of an unpopular president's party. Barone Palin did it. Surber. She's the one we've been waiting for! Krauthammer disagrees, but everybody's allowed to be wrong once in a while. Meanwhile, Palinomania is spreading overseas! Good for them. What is McCain all about? Samiz How Obama lost the election. Spengler Insty: JUST TALKED TO MICHAEL YON on the satphone from Afghanistan. He reports that the big picture remains poor, but reports some big tactical successes, including a successful turbine delivery of to the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric facility. He's posted a big report on the operation, which was the biggest of the war. He's with British troops now, and his comment is: "These guys are studs. All they do is work out and fight." He says troop morale generally in Afghanistan is really good, partly because there's more public support for that war, but that the overall situation is "not great" and "clearly deteriorating." He adds that "we're not losing," but that we're not making progress either. "I'll tell you Glenn, we really need more troops here." With what he describes as a "meltdown" going on in Pakistan, he says that Afghanistan needs a lot more troops -- like 50,000 or more. Part of the problem, he adds, is that many of the Coalition troops, like the Germans, aren't really allowed to fight, making the effective number of available troops lower than it seems. Meanwhile, remember that Michael is supported by reader donations. With people focused on the election it's worth remembering that he's still out there covering this stuff. I've donated.
Photo stolen from Theo
Saturday, September 6. 2008
 This must be a bug. It can't be intentional.
Thanks, MSM: Kristol. Also, Why They Hate Her. Related: Hey, Oprah - you're missing some killer ratings. The Palin smears: all lies, but they are putting them out there anyway Economists like McCain's health policies. (Don't you love that "health" euphemism." What is meant is sickness.) Pelosi endorses Palin. Sort-of. Climate change reveals climate change. Hmmm. Little Brother? Brits reward kids for snooping on adults. They have gone insane. Abortion cultists target Palin A plea for calm in the immigration debate A glimpse of the new Repubs. David Brooks Fighting fire with fire: Obama is a Muslim From Obama's crisis at Pajamas: In his selection of Gov. Palin, McCain has exposed what was perhaps Obama’s greatest weakness, namely how the Obama project has really been a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to extend the miserable life of the New Deal/Great Society Democratic Party — the very bloated big government model they have pushed with the past three candidates: Al Gore, John Kerry, and now Barack Obama. Can anyone really tell the difference between these political triplets? Make no mistake; Democrats are frantic now that the man behind the curtain has been revealed. Despite their shameless attempt to mask their plans behind identity politics, the Obama campaign has always been about big government liberalism, labor union dinosaurs, and K Street fat-cat lobbyists — Washington politics as usual. America saw this with his vice-presidential pick, Joe Biden.
Image: People Magazine cover has caption added by an unhappy Hillary supporter, via My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Friday, September 5. 2008
 Fight with me. Jules
Is your computer a zombie? Hey, Prof. Change my grade. This reminds me of the old one: "I don't have my homework because my dog ate my brain." Time to re-deploy out of Chicago? Higher death count than the Middle East. Andrew Jackson: a real-estate lawyer who was laughed at by the Eastern elites. HACNS1 is an interesting gene Cute as heck: Piper fixes baby brother's hair Can you taste anything with your eyes closed? The Brits don't get Palin. Their loss. They need a Palin, or another Maggie. American men love Palin. A moving speech. Classical USC censors Koran, removes Jew-killing hadiths. Obama sending the gals out to protect him. That's what metros do. Obama worried? Plays race card again. But he already played that card. Can you play the same card twice? Right Wing Prof wants you to see this short video: Palin on Omama and the surge. McCain's viewership topped Obama's - without styrofoam pillars! Hmmm. Typical lefty: Charlie Rangel forgot to pay his taxes for 20 years. Just like Ted Kennedy, with his wealth offshore. Or Soros, for that matter. It's amazing how much Lefties love their $. Obama today: “And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? …The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’
Well said, Barack. Now you are running against yourself. From Roger today, about the Boston phone book, a quote: The liberal consensus has tenure. I mean, it is thoroughly institutionalized, and not only in academia. It has metastasized throughout elite culture. It’s what you are likely to uphold if you were graduated from an Ivy League college, went to law school, or work for The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc. It explains the little frisson Chris Matthews felt travelling up his leg as Obama spoke last winter. It also explains the incredulous, spluttering rage that Sarah Palin has provoked in purlieus of liberal self-satisfaction. I call it “Palin Hysteria Syndrome.” Just this morning, for example, I received this email from an acquaintance (I preserve the original orthography and diction: he is a careful writer as a rule, but clearly his emotion got the better of him here): i read you blog posting on Sarah Palin. Quite a suprise. Never would I have thought you suceptible to trailer trash. More suprising were the comments about Palin’s “executive experience” and being governor of the country’s “largest state.” Once upon a time, those were the sort of sphistries against which you waged glorious battle. The strange bedfellows induced by politics are not integrity and compromise.
“Trailer trash,” eh? Clearly, as Victor Davis Hanson put it yesterday, “Team Obama, the mainstream media, and the entire American intelligentsia” are acting “as if they were collectively hit by a cruise missile aimed from Middle America.” “Cruise missile” is good: it suggests the unexpectedness and deadly accuracy of the blow. But I like to think that Boston phone book–or maybe it’s the Juneau phone book–is finally getting some of its own back. Bill Buckley would be pleased.
HuffPo has a Palin family shooting gallery. Where does this hate come from? It seems unhealthy. I don't hate Obama, I just don't want him to be our President. Toon below is from Atlas - 
Obama's relationship with al-Mansour. Birds of a feather...
Michelle has McCain's speech. Yes, he promises change. Rich Lowry's advice for McCain. I heard that many were moved by what he had to say. McCain is obviously no flashy orator, but how did he do in getting his message across?
Thursday, September 4. 2008
 Neilsen: Obama's speech 38 million viewers. Palin's speech 37 million. Wow.
The right side of the internets sure is enthused about Sarah. More at Dirty Harry's. Polls show people believe reporters want to damage her. People aren't stupid. She shoots...she scores! John Fund Gloria Steinem hates her feminist sister Palin. Is the only correct way to be a "liberated woman" to be a screeching angry victimized lesbian abortion-loving man-hating bitch? Or is it a wonderful thing that women can chose to be and do what they want? Repub ticket is a lawyer-free zone. That's refreshing. VDH discusses Quote from Henninger: I asked a number of women this week to account for Sarah Palin's sudden appeal. Here are the common threads.
The angry woman-as-victim drives them nuts. They hate victimology. As one woman said, "The point is that across the ages women have been doing pretty much what Sarah Palin has been doing: bearing children, feeding families, bringing in an income, working to improve their communities."
Another woman said, "Her story reflects a more normal reality" of active women; "the harder you work, the luckier you get." Hillary Clinton still plays the victim card. Sarah Palin gives off no victim vibes. These women mentioned her grit, determination and character.
They also said the Roe v. Wade litmus test has become too knee-jerk. Simply writing off Sarah Palin as "pro-life" caricatures pregnancy and motherhood.
Off-topic: Sad news about The NY Sun. I love that paper.
My focus group (of one - my wife) sees something special in Sarah Palin, besides her humor, good cheer, and optimism. She said "She is the candidate for the heartland of America. No... for the heart of America. She's not the candidate for New York City or Cambridge or San Francisco, where the elites don't know anybody who ever started up a gas station or a dry cleaner." Of course, my wife is just a small town Connecticut Wellesley ex-PTA rube.
 How do you think Sarah did? Many Dems were impressed.
Tape of it on previous post today. (That t-shirt is available via here) As Lifson said yesterday: The same sort of swells who laugh at Sarah Palin as trailer trash categorized Ronald Reagan as an amiable dunce when in a charitable mood, spelled his name Ray-Gun, and felt ashamed to have a graduate of Eureka College, not some Ivy League campus, representing America on the world stage.
Ronald Reagan never let the contempt of the cultural, literary and journalistic elites bother him. He simply spoke over their heads directly to the American people. And changed the world. In Sarah Palin, we may well have a figure able to do the same.
The Left and the Dems have merged. Strange how that happened. Bill Clinton just stood there with his finger in the dike. NYC drives away its middle class; Houston doesn't. Glaeser in City Journal The Guide to Top U.S. Colleges for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith From Coyote: "I have written on a number of occasions that I thought it odd that the left (and women's groups in particular) don't see a contradiction between their support for government health care and their long-held abortion beliefs that people should be free of government coercion when it comes to decisions about their body and their health." Read the sad story from the NHS. Solar panels: check the numbers before buying Is 3-D printing on the way? Totally cool. How's your sex life? Quiz. Women often pick men who look like Dad Brit bien pensants sacrifice their kids on altar of "common good" A quote from a home-schooler, at Pajamas: We believe everything you need to know about parenting can be gleaned from Little House on the Prairie. Growing up in wildly dysfunctional households, we both learned that you can do much worse than the Ingalls family. We decided when we got married that our home would be better than what we knew as children. The foundation is love, order, and relentless application of rules like: Eat all your vegetables, and Mind your manners, and Don’t push your brother’s head into the toilet.
Private tuition hits $50,000/year Tiger notes the news that AGW causes cooling. Athlete's foot, too. E.D. Hill, FOX fox and mother of 8, wrote a book about being a parent. Will the Hadron Collider kill us all? I sure hope not. That would be a bummer. Dick Morris: Attacks on Palin certain to backfire. Related: A Lib is ashamed of these attacks. Related: Joe Biden says Palin is qualified for the job. Related: It's a deep rot in the press. Related: Press infallibility Related: Note subtle propaganda in photos below (h/t, Dust My Broom): 
Wednesday, September 3. 2008
From Peggy Noonan's piece today, re Palin: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy. She could become a transformative political presence. So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick. And it's going to be brutal. It's already getting there.
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