Uh-Oh
“Military officials said Obama has asked for a rewrite and resisted what one official called a one-way highway toward war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation for more troops. The sense that he was being railroaded has stiffened Obama’s resolve to seek information and options beyond military planning.“
Looks like Generals Axelrod and Emanuel will be taking over war planning and execution.
Uh-Oh
Looks like we’ll soon be flying AirObama and Statist Airlines.
It Wasn’t Wine That I Had Too Much Of, It Was A Double Shot Of My Baby’s Love
From the Department of Who Knew, a news story about a woman who became amnesic after sex says there is a name for this malady: Transient Global Amnesia (TGA).
TGA is caused by pressure in blood vessels in the brain and is triggered by strenuous activities, most commonly sex and most commonly afflicting the over 50 crowd.
I can see all sorts of applications for TGA in legal defense when a person killed someone after they moved a piano or pushed a car out of a ditch or snowbank.
Imagine this courtroom scene:
Your honor, I have no recollection of murdering the deceased; the last thing I remember was helping my idiot brother-in-law move.
But there are wider implications; rather than the lame pre-post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome Major Hasan’s champions are promoting, this might be a dandy alternative legal defense . His lawyers could claim he strained himself lunging toward a stripper in an attempt to place a $20 in her g-string.
Hey, stranger things have happened.
h/t: Althouse
Snark Of The Day
President Obama skipped out of the Fall of the Wall ceremonies in Berlin.
But Obama wasn’t entirely absent, he sent a two minute video containing this jaw-dropper:
“Few would have foreseen…that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent.”
What a hoot! What a fatuous bore!
What a sterile, cramped little world Obama inhabits; crowded on the one side by blinkered ideology and identity politics and on the other side total and complete self-absorption—the ideology of Me! Me! Me!
I Enjoy Being A Girl
At some point Major Hasan, who refused to have his picture taken with women, will learn that he was brought down and shot by a mere girl.
Question Of The Day
From The Narrator:
“When a laptop went missing from the VA, Secretary Nicholson was forced to resign. Congressmen had grandiose hearings on the Hill for suddenly only they were concerned for our vets. Representative Phil Hare called for ‘a veteran’s veteran who will put the needs of our fighting men and women above any political ideology.’
“Sir – where are you now? This VA allowed Maj. Hassan (sic) to treat our vets. After being questioned. After complaints. After concerns were expressed.”
Hey, I know the answer to this question—Nicholson was part of a Republican Administration, but the current Secretary is a Obama appointee.
Which is why it is left to people like Joe Lieberman to call for congressional investigations and hearings to “put the needs of our fighting men and women above any political ideology.”
Exposing Hare’s hypocrisy is almost as much fun as exposing his lies—unfortunately, both are too damned easy to do.
Let’s hope we get an honorable congressman next year to replace the despicable hack we have now.
When Committing Atrocities, Remember To Shriek “Allahu Akbar” Rather Than “The Wages Of Sin Is Death”
“Here’s a simple test: If Nadal Malik Hasan had been a devout Christian with pronounced anti-abortion views, and had he attacked, say, a Planned Parenthood office, would his religion have been considered relevant as we tried to understand the motivation and meaning of the attack? Of course. Elite opinion makers do not, as a rule, try to protect Christians and Christian belief from investigation and criticism. Quite the opposite. It would be useful to apply the same standard of inquiry and criticism to all religions.”
Well yeah, except for the fact that Muslims are part of the PC protected class—criticize a Muslim and you’re a bigot.
It’s almost comical the way the military, politicians and the press ignore the elephant jihad in the room.
The Army has ordered all soldiers to NOT discuss Hasan’s religion; the liberal commetariat is clutching their collective pearls about “backlash”, and Obama has delivered his usual leftwing drivel about “diversity”.
The only people thinking about “backlash” are the people listed above—which says more about them than the people they fear will do the backlashing.
That Deaf, Dumb And Blind Kid Sure Plays A Mean Pinball
Rick Moran on the passage of the Pelosicare bill which “nobody has read, that contains nobody knows what, that no one has a clue of what kind of impact it will have on the current health care system, with a cost known only to God”:
“National Health Care Reform represents a new way of governing; the blind leading the deaf and dumb, toward an unknowable future – driving the engine of government at full speed, and without any brakes. Can’t see the break in the tracks up ahead? Ooops! My bad. We’ll pick up the pieces later.”
A Fearless Prediction
Yesterday our wonderful congressman Phil Hare voted to extend unemployment benefits and the first time homebuyer’s tax credit of $8000 to April 30, 2010. The income caps for the homebuyer exemption was raised to $125K for individuals and $225K for married couples—the real downtrodden, no?
Hare still wasn’t satisfied with this and was quoted as saying the “extension is not as long as I preferred”.
What a surprise.
It’s not just me, but those I know engaged in the real estate biz believe that this $8000 first time homebuyer’s tax credit will live in perpetuity like the farm subsidies—the real estate lobby is too powerful for politicians like Hare to ignore.
At least this isn’t costing us money like the Cash for Clunkers deal—this time it will cut federal revenues which will be made up by—-gee, I dunno, ask Phil.
Hope! Change! Unemployment 10.2%!
So what happened with Obama who is purported to be the most brilliant man on the planet?
I believe the temptation to turn every progressive’s wet dream into reality caused him to take his eye off the ball of what concerns most Americans—the economy and jobs.
He thought he could run up the deficit, enact sweeping changes in health care and climate change without any notice. So how smart was that?
I didn’t vote for Obama, but I thought he was at least smart enough to understand his own country and to behave in a way that would protect his own legacy. At what point will he come to realize that just being President Of The Leftwingers isn’t a plan for a successful presidency?
