When you run for president as a community organizer, and a writer, or even a professor of constitutional law, perhaps it's politic to hide a few salient details about your actual lifestyle that might mess up the "savior of the downtrodden" narrative. It's important to keep up the fiction that only spoiled, indifferent, wealthy Republicans have personal servants.
And how the hell do you clean the house and make the dinner and do the shopping? I know I am sounding like a complete idiot here but I’m telling you, every last one of you from the beginning of time should be given a medal, and free health insurance, and food coupons, and a government subsidized housekeeper that comes in one day a week per child.
Headline: 'Doomsday Machine' Might Indeed Destroy World
Riff: Otherwise, it'd be a pretty crappy 'Doomsday Machine.'
As an eco-aware, planetary resource parasite, you will eventually want to kill yourself to spare the environment any further damage that your personal existence has already caused. However, it is important that you plan your suicide carefully as not to disturb the ecosystem’s delicate balance. Self immolation, while poignant, can release up to 50 kg of airborne fluorocarbons. Why not try the the hot new Malibu trend, ritual Japanese sepukku? it’s exotic, elegant, and your intact corpse will make a great compost pile addition!
Indiana, Michigan job losses deeper than Wisconsin's
I didn't know Michigan had any jobs left to lose. *srednop*
Meanwhile, looks like I won't be going back to heavy off-road automotive software anytime soon, now that the market has a glut of Caterpiller and Deere workers. And my friend in Bavaria got axed in the Texas Instruments purge yesterday.
Too bad I didn't get laid off a week earlier, I could have signed up at MATC to learn some sort of useful skill that can't be outsourced to Russia.
Youngsters of both genders avoid careers that involve math and science because they lack confidence in those topics, "despite the fact that the largest number of kids ranked math and science as their favorite subjects."
All told, 85% of kids say that they are not interested in an engineering career, according to a survey released Monday from the American Society for Quality.
ASQ cited numbers from the National Science Foundation, which projects that the U.S. shortage of engineers will reach 70,000 by 2010*, even as the nation's employers court talent from China and India.
Bloggers have been predicting plenty of spin-off merchandise will be sold to clothe the action figures, including miniaturised Chicago Bulls strips for the basketball-mad President, dancing shoes for State occasions, and even a jogging trousers and Nike trainers so the action figure can resemble Obama during his morning workouts.
I will tell the story of Obamacles through my scribe Iowahawk.
But this poem is copyrighted, so reproduce at your peril.
(Yeah, I have to deal with this internet crush on Iowahawk. Maybe if I keep reminding myself he's a stinkin' Hawkeye...)
I've been dragged kicking and screaming into Facebook.
I seem to be the only person there listing "Mark Steyn" as an interest.
What is WRONG with kids today?
UPDATE: and everyone one of these jerks I know "in real life" is posting anti-Bush crap all over today. When Obama taxes my employer out of business, I'm showing up on their doorstep. With Satan's Little Helper and his litter box. Sheesh.
Michelle Obama tells teens and tweens at kids' concert they 'are the future'
"For many of you, they're you're[sic] moms and dads, right?" Obama said.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Colts Retire Tony Dungy's Sweater Vest
No one's rocked a sweater like that since Mr. Rogers.
Two local residents charged in GOP national convention incident
Jan. 17, 2009 10:41 a.m. | Two Wisconsin residents and a Texas resident have been accused of throwing a large road sign off a bridge during the Republican National Convention.
Twenty-three-year-old Bradley Crowder of Austin, Texas, 23-year-old Karen Meissner of Menomonee Falls and 18-year-old Christina Vana of West Bend were charged Friday with aiding and abetting second-degree assault.
According to a criminal complaint, protesters picked up sandbags used to hold down a street sign and used them to try to stop buses carrying delegates to the Xcel Energy Center on Sept. 1.
The three are accused of throwing a metal sign off the Marion Street bridge over Interstate 94 and the 5th Street exit ramp. It landed three feet from an officer who was trying to remove a sandbag thrown by a protesters.
The business of our nation goes forward. These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people.
Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem.
From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.
President Bush called for a "compassionate" Republican Party and warned against the GOP becoming "anti-immigrant" in one of his last interviews as president, defending his vision of the party, which has become unpopular among some Republicans.
Joyce Guinn, a Catholic who has visited the West Bank three times in recent years, was among the protesters. She said Israel is using weapons against the Palestinians that were bought with American tax dollars.
"This is not about rockets or self-defense, it's about continuing the 40-year occupation of people who have nowhere to run," Guinn said.
And that was all she wrote for Reid, who by next week should be on all fours like Kevin Bacon in Animal House, shouting, “Thank you sir! May I have another?” as Burris paddles him.
H.J.RES.5
Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Sponsor: Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] (introduced 1/6/2009)
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article--
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'.
The 60s called, they want Andy Warhol back.
I made an interesting noise when I got to "Red and blue to remind us that his election crossed party lines." My ass.
At Ace, check out what's lurking under the cute reassuring titles of Henry Reid's plans for the Senate.
I particularly loathe S.3, Homeowner Protection and Wall Street Accountability Act of 2009, which will assure I will never ever be able to afford a house. And S.5, Cleaner, Greener, and Smarter Act of 2009, has us all starving to death in the dark to Save Teh Planet from Global Warming.
And no one knows what's in S.4, Comprehensive Health Reform Act of 2009, but with a name like that it's gotta be bad.
I knew it!
Newsbusters link
Fatosphere link (they're mostly Obamatrons, so I'm surprised anyone took the time to criticize the pick)
It's bad when even Paul Krugman calls you out.
The good news is they won't have to line me up against a wall and shoot me during the Great Enlightenment (hee!) at re-education camp--after a week of eating nothing but an Obama/Gupta-approved diet I'll kill myself.
(My mother once signed me up for "Lighten up Iowa", a government weight-loss program. So I made Iowa X pounds lighter by moving. Heh!)
Jay Nordlinger chronicles some abuses of non-political public occasions. The last one on the third page is especially horrendous.
I'd like to thank the MSO for not doing this Friday night. There were no words spoken at all from the stage--they just came out and played the music. And the pre-performance educational talk (which I really appreciate, since I know so little about classical music) was all about the pieces being performed. The composers, the soloist, how the conductor chose to follow the tempo markings in the original manuscript instead of slowing it down like most 21st-century conductors do.
I also love that I wasn't the only woman wearing heavy warm winter boots with dress pants. ;) How many cities in the world will let women wear weather-appropriate footwear to high-culture events with nary a eye-rolling?
* It's a pun. We all know damn well they want a two-class society: Their in-crowd of wealthy "educated" true-believers, and everyone else to do the work.
Contra John F'n Kerry, Islamists who hated America during the George Bush years still hate America, despite our election of a black man.
They even hate that black man. And he hasn't done anything yet. Wait, maybe that's why...
It's almost like some cultures don't believe that every culture is equally valuable, or something. Maybe we can air-drop them some liberal "educators" to teach them of the beauty of multicultural acceptance. Win-win, I'd say.
"I know it's an individual award, but ... truly, in my opinion, a team award," said Manning, who received 32 votes
Backlash. Entertaining. Click repeatedly.
His confident smile and kind eyes are an inspiration to us all. Where's my unicorn?
2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first public demonstration of the telescope, and the International Year of Astronomy.
So in addition to "drink beer" and "eat vegetables" (but only vegetables I can identify), I've added "look at the sky" to my list of New Year's Irresolutions. I spent a lot of time looking at the sky as a child (I got yelled at a lot for setting my alarm clock for the middle of the night), but not so much after I graduated from college and started living in cities. I'll have to see what's going on around here.
