Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

3 Stooges: Obama, Reid, Pelosi

Too funny to pass up…

“Where are those three loafers?”
“They’re in there, talking politics. I just heard one of them say, ‘Let’s have a New Deal’.”
- Harrison Greene & Hilda Title, ANTS IN THE PANTRY, 1938
Would you fight for this great Republic, and…”
“Republican?! Naw, I’m a Democrat!”
“Not me!! I’m a pedestrian!”
- Edward LeSaint, Moe and Curly, [...]

October 29, 2008

You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers

Just to remind you, Barney Frank was one of the Democrats in the 110th Congress who was in a position to oversee and reform Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac before the September debacle. Barney Frank, in his own words (at 4:50 and [...]

October 28, 2008

Jedi Mind Trick: No LGBT curriculum here, move along

Update: School Clams Up on ‘Gay’ Pledge Cards Given to Kindergartners, FoxNews.com

Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought that schools were supposed to teach kids to read and write and expose them to the worlds of math, science and history. I don’t understand why the following has to a part of an [...]

October 27, 2008

The Audacity of Redistribution

“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical,” Obama said in the interview, a recording of which surfaced on the [...]

October 26, 2008

Saturday Night Songs: Dikanda

Dikanda is a Polish folk group whose music is flavored with gypsy, Macedonian and African motifs.

October 25, 2008

Conservative, Average Joe and Proud of It

I’ve always been a dedicated reader of The Rightwing Nuthouse. Blogger Rick Moran always posts interesting, thoughtful commentary. He seems to be increasingly resentful of the criticism that certain “conservative” writers such as Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker have received for their remarks about John McCain’s candidacy and his choice of [...]

October 24, 2008

Revolutionary Hymns: There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama

For your amusement, here’s a little ditty from Berzerkley’s Starry Plough club. Take note of the quotation on the wall behind the singer:
“No Revolutionary movement is complete without its poetic expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagiantion [sic] of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the [...]

October 23, 2008

Most Ethical Ever: Curbing Campaign Bundlers

Your daily dose of irony….

Watchdogs Want To Curb Campaign Bundlers after Obama Tidal Wave
CQ Politics, 10/23/08
Watchdogs are drafting ways to attempt in the next Congress to curb big-dollar presidential campaign bundlers without discouraging the wave of small-dollar contributions flowing in through the Internet.
This movement comes after Barack Obama ’s record-shattering fundraising for president — [...]

October 23, 2008

Evil Plot Uncovered: American women are being fattened up to produce conservative children!

In her Blog at the New York Times, Olivia Judson writes:
Here’s something I’ve found myself speculating about recently: could the obesity epidemic have a political impact? In particular, could obesity in a pregnant woman influence the eventual political outlook of her child?
This a fine example of ever-increasing attempts to disrespect conservatives (i.e., Republicans) before the [...]

October 20, 2008

Come on people now, smile on each other, everybody get together, try to love one another right now

A “libertarian” listener called into the Armstrong & Getty radio program this morning to defend Colin Powell’s support of Barack Obama. Like most Obamatons, the caller moved on to the hopey-changey sentiment, vowing that he would vote for Obama because Barack will end the political and social divisiveness that has ripped apart the nation [...]