Why Dede Scozzafava Withdrew From the New York 23 Race

There has been a lot of speculation as to the reason for Dede Scozzafava's withdrawal from the special election race in New York's 23rd Congressional District. As support grew for Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman grew support for Scozzafava dwindled. But what proved to be the knockout punch, the last straw?

Besides money pouring in for support of Hoffman, he also garnered endorsements from the following list:

Sarah Palin
George Pataki
Fred Thompson
Dick Armey
Rick Santorum
Tim Pawlenty
Jim Demint
James Dobson

Club For Growth
Police Benevolent Association
Concerned Women
Citizens of the Republic
Susan B. Anthony List
American Conservative Union
Citizens United Political Victory Fund
Campaign for Working Families
NYS Right to Life PAC
GING-PAC
Conservative Victory Fund
Eagle Forum
912candidates.org
Nat'l Organization for Marriage
America's Independent Party
National Conservative Fund
Gun Owners of American-PVF
Life and Liberty PAC
Minuteman PAC
Right Principles PAC
Term Limits America PAC
Congressman Jeff Flake - AZ
Congressman Linder - GA
The Heart PAC
Republican Majority PAC
Family Research Council PAC
Leadership for America's Future
etc, etc...

These had no influence in the Scozzafava camp, however.

The atomic bomb came on Thursday and everyone knew that it was curtains for Dede.

Iowahawk endorses Doug Hoffman. (Or at least his 1955 Chevy)

Grandbaby Halloween

We asked Izzy what she wanted to be this Halloween. She exclaimed,

"Izzy Pelosi!"

Izzy's got her eyes down pat, too.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Television Reruns

On Tuesday, November 3rd, ABC will begin airing a new series titled V.


The plot:

Giant spaceships appear over all major cities of the world, and Anna, the beautiful and charismatic leader of the extra-terrestrial "Visitors", claims to come in peace. As a small number of humans begin to doubt the sincerity of the seemingly benevolent Visitors, FBI counter-terrorism agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have spent decades infiltrating human governments and businesses, and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the planet. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, a Visitor sleeper agent who wants to save humanity. However, the aliens have won favor among the people of Earth by curing a variety of diseases, and have recruited Earth's youth—including Erica's son—to serve them unknowingly as spies.1

It all sounds familiar, however. A benevolent charismatic leader bringing peace and health care, while co-opting the young, infiltrating the government and business, while a small group of tea baggers doubt the sincerity and realize the visit as an attempt to take over the planet.

Yup, it seems that I've been watching this series for about 9 months already. It uses this promotional logo card:




Reruns already.

Digging in the Graveyard

Since it is getting close to Halloween I needed to find something to scare the grandbabies. As I wandered through a local graveyard I noticed a small gravestone with mostly unreadable markings. The only letters that I could make out after cleaning it off the best I could were a 'O' and the letters 'DNC.' I decided to dig it up. After just a few minutes I found a small pamphlet and pulled it up. I shook off the dirt and found that it was a copy of something titled 'The Constitution of the United States.' In recent years I had begun to doubt that it really had ever existed, but there it was in my dirty hands.

I opened the little book and attempted to read it.

We the Zombies... no... people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish social justice... no... justice, insure the health care... no... insure domestic tranquility, prevent... no... provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, and secede... no... secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I remembered that long ago I complained that 'the general welfare' clause above was being interpreted that the federal government could do anything it wanted by claiming it was for 'the general welfare.' But now in context with 'the common defense' it means that President Obama should authorize the requested troops for Afghanistan to promote General McChrystal's troops' welfare.

H1N1 Update

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D. discusses the Swine Flu hyperdemic

Additionally, and even more disturbing, many cases are assumed to be H1N1 without testing. Yes, the CDC advised the states to stop testing for and tracking cases of H1N1. Their rationale? There is no need to waste resources when the government has already confirmed there is an epidemic. In other words, just trust us. The debate is over. I had no idea Al Gore and the IPCC were working for the CDC. As I originally contended, the number of cases of H1N1 has been overestimated, and even CBS News reported this. (emphasis mine)

This is another example of Alinsky strategy to keep the community agitated and fearful. As in many other aspects of American life this situation has become another outbreak of Whine Flu.

(H.T. Lucianne.com.)

Pro-Market vs. Pro-Business

Luigi Zingales posts a good analysis in an Investors Business Daily editorial. He discusses the advantages of a pro-market strategy over a pro-business one.

Excerpt:

The Republican Party has to move from a pro-business strategy that defends the interests of existing companies to a pro- market strategy that fosters open competition and freedom of entry.

While the two agendas sometimes coincide, they are often at odds. Established firms are threatened by competition and frequently use their political muscle to restrict new entries into their industry, strengthening their positions but putting their customers at a disadvantage.

A pro-market strategy aims to encourage the best conditions for doing business, for everyone. Large banks benefit from trading derivatives (such as credit default swaps) over the counter, rather than in an organized exchange.

(H.T. Dad29.)

Obama Snubbs Fox

Work has put me out of the news loop for several days and I'm trying to catch up.

What's this about President Obama snubbifying Megan Fox?

Critique of Cleveland Browns Defense

I was listening to ESPN radio at work this evening as they discussed the Packers' thumping of the Browns this afternoon. The fact that Packer QB Aaron Rodgers was not sacked received this response:

"Aaron Rodgers would get sacked at least once in the Lingerie Bowl."

In other words, the Browns' pass rush really stinks.

Obama's Uses Trial Runs to Direct Foreign Policy

President Obama is a brilliant man. On any issue he listens to all the relevant facts, meditates, ponders, and tests hypotheses thoroughly and carefully before acting. When questioned about his delayed actions against Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea, Dear Leader is purported to have replied:

Some say we should send additional troops, attack, sanction, and embargo our enemies. I do not desire to act in haste so I have been intensely studying these policies for efficacy. In one study, we tested the effectiveness of additional troops to attack our enemy furiously, sanctioned our greatest enemies, and imposed an embargo on outside assistance of any kind on them. It was a disastrous FAIL. So if it didn't work on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, but instead sent their viewer numbers through the roof, why would we ever expect them to work against Iran, Afghanistan, or North Korea?

But, at least now we know how to keep Iran or North Korea from owning an NFL team.

Good point, Mr. President, and good science.

Do the Florida Gators Have an ACORN Connection?

Gator Doug and I often pick at each other's college sports teams. He supports the Florida Reptilians and I take the high road and laud the goodness of the noble Wisconsin Badgers.

At present, Doug's Gators are ridin' high and ranked number one. My Badgers are suffering a two game losing streak. As I pondered potential differences that may underlie this difference, I wondered about facilities, personnel, and coaching styles. Perhaps there are some 'intangibles' that I have not considered.

Last week Doug's Walking-Talking-Crawl-on-Their-Bellies-Crocs came from behind in the 4th quarter to break the unranked Arkansas Razorback mountain. Gator Doug posted Whew!!!!. In his post's comment section I questioned the officiating during the game, especially in the 4th quarter's final drive by the Gators. There appeared to be a couple of phantom calls on that drive to assist Florida's matriculation down the field.

Little did I know that I was onto the 'intangible' success for the Large-Water-Lizard's top ranking.

The Southeastern Conference has suspended officials from last weekend's Arkansas-Florida game after the crew was involved in its second controversial call of the year.

Referee Marc Curles' crew called a personal foul on Arkansas defensive lineman Malcolm Sheppard in the fourth quarter as the Gators were rallying for a 23-20 victory. The league said there was no video evidence to support the call.

Rep. Alan 'Die Quickly' Grayson (D-FL) is a Gator fan.

I have not made a direct Florida Gator/ACORN link yet, but can it be far behind?

G- Getting
A- ACORN
T- To
O- Oversee
R- Referees

(Some say I stir up bad blood, but I just report. You decide.)

(H.T. Fishersville Mike's revelation.)

Trog Dodges a Bullet

A couple of weeks ago I was taking a walk in our neighborhood at dusk. As I approached the corner of Glen Street and Milton Avenue I saw a man wearing a trench coat, floppy hat, and sun glasses leaning on a telephone pole. When I drew near he spit out his toothpick and spoke.

"Pssst! C'mere."

"What? I can hear you from here."

"I gots a proposition fer ya."

"Something I can't refuse, I suppose?"

"Nah, nuttin' like dat. I heared ya got posting privileges on The TrogloPundit."

"Maybe I do. What's it to you?"

"Well, I have been authorized by the DNC to give ya $37.50 if ya post something about The TrogloPundit supporting Cap & Trade. Half now, half after the job is done."

"Now why would I want to do that... even for 2 weeks pay?"

"Well, fer da chilluns, fer one. And besides, the real TrogloPundit has a completely backwards -- troglodytic, in fact -- position on climate change. He's behind the rest of the world and he seems to be working hard to -- trying to make the US the laughingstock of the world. You know, if we send President Obama to Copenhagen in December to the Copenhagen Climate Coun -- Conference without a strong climate bill, uh, the US will be behind the rest of the world, will be the laughingstock of the world, and will be dooming the planet according to the science. He's selfishly doing it for entirely economic reasons. It's not because he don't believe the science. Everybody who -- I mean if you believe in science at all, you have to believe that climate change is real and it's human caused."

"Well, give me my $23.75 half now and I'll see what I can do."

"Here ya go... 21, 22, 23... 25, 40, 60, 75. Yer a reel Pattriot. If we couldn't get on TrogloPundit, George Soros sed weed hafta try the Chamber of Commerce or sumpin."

$23.75. A 12 pack of Dinkel Acker and a 12 pack of Warsteiner. Troglodytic, indeed.

Thanks, DNC!

The Scariest Halloween Evah!

(The Meghan-o-lantern via TheChive.)

(H.T. Linkiest.)

Limbaugh to Succeed Goodell as NFL Commissioner

"Any thoughts, Keith?"

"#@%*$ raaaaacist %^&#@! The NFL is 113% minority. This selection defines the end of civilization, even though the NFL and its players will profit and grow immeasurably. Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"Did you watch the show's replay, Keith?"

"No, I don't watch any program that has me as a commentator."

"Besides, Barack Obama, George Soros, Howard Dean, Kanye West, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Janeane Garofalo, Harry Reid, Hugo Chavez, and I were having a seance to conjure up Saul Alinsky to find out what to do next."

Over the Edge

Gotta keep pace with the TrogloPundit:



UPDATE: Lance the TrogloMotivator suggested the original for possible further abusage:



AutoMotivator page.

Altered Halloween Costume

Being heavy into multiculturalism and diversity, we were sure to check with the Mexicans in the neighborhood to get their opinion as we did not want to offend.


"Obama's people dressed me. Trick or treat!"

They all said, "Está bien. Ella es de Puerto Rico. Es muy cómico."

Anita Dunn's Favorite Political Philosophers

Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa

Comments and articles about White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's June speech are vast and various. All of them that I have seen and read deal with her commendation of Chairman Mao who followed his own path of Hope & Change while refusing to heed the naysayers.

Fair enough. But this is but one among the numerous bright and shining stars in Obama's America as he strives to enlighten the darkness that is the U.S. Nothing at all out of the ordinary in Washington.

However, I wanted to know what Mother Teresa's political philosophy was. After much time in deep meditation... (some of you know the great depth of which that usually plumbs)... it finally struck me what the Communications Czar was saying in her coupling Mao and Teresa. Mao's policies of Hope & Change killed, maimed, starved millions of people. Mother Teresa ministered to the needs of those who suffered the best she could throughout their suffering and death. The perfect complementary couple.

Ms. Dunn, your ability to communicate is simply amazing. She asked her audience for volunteers to step forward and prepare to minister to the suffering that the Obama Administration envisions for this country.

Compassionate Hope & Change.

Government Run Health Care Puts Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

Christopher Reeve would have discarded his wheelchair and dominated Dancing with the Stars had Al Gore and John Kerry been elected. Science would again have been honored over superstition. With intensive research in fetal stem cells and government oversight of aborted baby parts, even Humpty Dumpty would have risen from the rubble:

Under the repressive Republicans:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Under the Socialists' watchful and caring eye:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Made Humpty happy again.

We must pass ObamaCare now! It's for the children.

(H.T. Lucianne.com.)

Peace Prize Prediction From June 5th

While searching for another old post, I came across this posted on June 5th of this year:

Should Obama Accept His Nobel Peace Prize Now...
or wait until they actually hand it to him?
It is only a matter of time before President Barack Hussein will be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing peace to the Middle East. Although the desired peace has not yet come to fruition, the President has proceeded farther toward that goal than any human ever has. And there remains only one step to be taken to bring true and lasting peace there.

President Obama has put into motion a brilliant plan. The first two phases have brought the Middle East to the brink of peace and the third will seal the deal.Here are the first two steps summated:

1) "One of the great strengths of the United States, is ... we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation..." (And we apologize for our buildings that attacked your citizens who had commandeered those planes on 9/11.)

2) “And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

Conservative writers have consulted cold, unfeeling statisticians and claimed that the President's statements are purely bull. They come up with the fact that the United States' population considers itself more that 2/3 Christian and less than 1% Muslim. How can the President hope to get away with such foolishness?

Of course, they never stopped to consider the hearts and minds of the Middle Eastern Muslims who are by now thinking that perhaps America isn't so bad after all and that they should immediately stop all plans for terror attacks there.

But the greatest wisdom of Obama is yet to come. After acceptance of the first two premises, the third will slide right in and complete the peace puzzle.

3) Israel, which is 16% Muslim, is therefore also a Muslim nation.

Immediately all fatwahs and calls to jihad will be recalled because Muslims never fight or attack Muslim nations.

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revalation
And the mind's true liberation

Middle East peace.

Nobel Peace Prize.

Raise your hands and sway. Flick your Bics.

When the caliphate is in Obama's House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of Abarryus
The age of Abarryus
Abarryus!
Abarryus!

Grandpa John's- Scooping the world before there is even anything to scoop.

Grandpa John's- The Super-Duper Pooper Scooper of the blogosphere.

Fox News Digs Up the Only 3 Minority Members on Earth that Don't Like the Treatment of Limbaugh

From Juan Williams' porch:



Tammy Bruce is White, Ken Hutcherson is a Christian, and Juan works for Fox News, so none of them really count.

(H.T. Little Miss Attila.)

I Wish Our President Were as Cool as the Maldives'

This is genuine 'Hope & Change.'

Nasheed has already announced plans for a fund to buy a new homeland for his people if the 1,192 low-lying coral islands are submerged.

That's it... a 'Hope & Change' tax to save his people.

Government ministers in scuba gear prepared Friday to hold an underwater meeting of the Maldives' Cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses...

The President, Vice President, the cabinet, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barney Frank all in SCUBA gear several meters under the Atlantic?

Did the Hekawi Tribe Vote for Obama?

"It is ballooooon!" Big bag gas.

Since childhood Zack Rawsthorne has been facinated from afar by seemingly normal people impelled to weird, destructive things-- a behavior exemplified by movies like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," or by the Democratic Party.

(H.T. Moonbattery.)

Are Meghan McCain's Breasts Real?

I can't be sure, but there is sure something fishy about them:

Truth in Tombstoning

Snaggletoothie of the Loyal Opposition has exhumed several examples of Mexican tombstones that express the honest sentiments of the survivors. Here is one of his examples:

Hope & Pilsner

The scientists in our secret basement laboratory have been testing urban myths long before the popular TV show 'Myth Busters' ever graced the small screen.

One of our favorites we have tested is "There's a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow." Technically, it was a myth busted, but...

(Photo from Wicked Thoughts.)

White House Celebrates Latin Music

Aye, aye, aye-aye, I am the Frito Bandito. Give me Fritos cornchips and I'll be your friend. The Frito Bandito you must not offend.

WASHINGTON — The White House swayed to Latin beats, as President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted Hispanic musicians and singers on the mansion's south lawn.

"Even though it is constantly evolving and changing, Latin music speaks to us in a language we all can understand... it moves us, and it tends to make us move a little bit ourselves," Obama said in welcoming his guests at the "Fiesta Latina" gala on Tuesday.

Chorus:
La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
Ya no quieres caminar,
Porque no tienes,
Porque le falta,
Marihuana que fumar.

Chorus:
The cockroach, the cockroach,
Doesn't want to travel on
Because she hasn't,
Oh no, she hasn't
Marijuana to smoke.

I, I, I-I, I am the Freedom Bandito. Give me Free Flow Tax Bills and I'll be your friend. The Free World Bandito you must not offend.

American Girl Dolls Get Real

American Girl dolls are a popular item with young girls in the U.S. The company produces dolls that represent a broad spectrum of American life.

The latest model to hit the market is named Gwen. Gwen represents the millions of homeless among us. Her family's finances have been skewered by Daddy's job loss from the Obama Administration's stimulus plan and other economic policies. Accessories include raggedy dresses, oversized bib overalls, an old Chevy station wagon, cheap wine in a paper bag, welfare checks signed by Obama himself, and an authentic 55 gallon drum 'burn barrel.'



UPDATE: The doll manufacturer will soon introduce a new doll in the 'Get Real' line of products. This one will be named Josefina de Bellota. Josefina has recently 'immigrated' from El Salvador by the heroic actions of the humanitarian ACORN organization and has been given a job to help feed her poor family back home. Her accessories include thongs, heavy adult looking make-up, money to pay off local police and immigration authorities, SEIU membership card, and the following ensemble to help her remember the poverty from which ACORN freed her:



Some of the puritanical prudes among us are claiming that these toys are forcing our children to grow up too early and miss the most important times of childhood. But, we say, "Get real."

Obama Awarded Dada Prize

The Dada Institute, located at the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, has awarded American President Barack Obama with its highest award, The Dada Prize for Disgustability.

The prize is awarded semi-wheneverly for irrationality and negation of traditional values.

President Obama has lost confidence in Western culture. He strives audaciously for everything traditionally American to be demolished. He hopes to begin again after the newly legislated "tabula rasa". He bitch-slaps common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, and good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order.

The President's ObamaCare Plan

No, wait. It's his Cap & Trade Plan.
Errr... No, I think it's his Afghanistan Policy.
Or maybe it's an arugula recipe.

Truth To Power

It takes great courage to speak unpopular truth to the powerful:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn appeared Sunday morning on Howard Kurtz's CNN show Reliable Sources to discuss her comments in my TIME magazine story this week. She continued her criticism of Fox News:

But let's be realistic here, Howie. You know, they are widely viewed as, you know, part of the Republican Party. Take their talking points, put them on the air. Take their opposition research, put them on the air and that's fine. But let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is.

giggle...Courage...giggle

The Union/Big Government Complex

Oleg Atbashian, former resident of Ukraine and creator of The People's Cube, has written a couple of articles noting the similarities between union activities in the old Soviet Union with community organization tactics here in the U.S.

The inital article is titled Obama the Pitchfork Operator: A Remake of the Soviet Classic.

In a balanced society, an angry mob is never a part of the equation. But if the goal is to throw a capitalist society off balance in order to change it, an angry mob is the ticket. Anger is known to be the easiest and the most effective tool of crowd manipulation. Angry mobs cancel out the rule of law. Infusing anger into a community and turning it into an angry mob, canceling out the rule of law, and changing the balance in a society — this is what community organizers do for a living.

Atbashian received numerous request to expand on this theme. His first response of 7 is titled Unions, Lenin, and the American Way (Part I).

Excerpt:

A sad joke from that era describes the repressive political climate as follows. Three gulag prisoners are sharing stories of how they got there:

“I came to work five minutes late and was accused of sabotage.”

“I came to work five minutes early and was accused of spying.”

“I came to work on time and was accused of being a Swiss secret agent.”

I am looking forward to the remaining 6 articles.

Creme DeMint

Senator Jim DeMint tells of his recent visit to Honduras:

In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.[...]

Hondurans are therefore left scratching their heads. They know why Hugo Chávez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers oppose free elections and the removal of would-be dictators, but they can't understand why the Obama administration does.

Because, you silly Senator, Obama is a man of peace.

Health Care Crisis

It took Canada's superior health care system to discover and reveal another point of inferiority in the American system.

According to the Hamilton Academy of Veterinarian Medicine, a "huge increase" in heartworm disease in dogs -- 10 times the normal in 2008 -- threatens to reach epidemic proportions and will take years to curtail.

The prime reason: Abandoned dogs imported from Louisiana by the Hamilton SPCA after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which hadn't been adequately tested, and carried the disease that is spread by mosquitoes.

Another glaring Bush failure.

I, for one, am not worried, because I know that President and the Democrats really care about the people and dogs of this country. I, therefore, assume that tucked away in one or all of the health care bills is a canine option. Any pet owner who does not opt for this option will be subject to fines and prison time.

Sing it, Grandbabies!

Obama loves me
This I know.
For his babble tells me so.

Little ones to him belong.
They are weak, but he is strong.

Yes, Obama loves me.
Yes, Obama loves me.
Yes, Obama loves me.
His Peace Prize tells me so.

Al Gore Must Be Nearby

Current local temperature is 37 degrees and dropping. Snow thrower is at the ready.

That explains it:

MADISON, Wis. -- Former Vice President Al Gore is in Madison for a convention of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Obama the Next Miss America?

Pageant administrators nip this potential problem in the bud. Don Surber today:

Rush Limbaugh will be one of the judges for the Miss America pageant in January. But I thought Perez Hilton said you have to be gay to judge women’s beauty.

Hey, maybe the winner can become a Rams cheerleader.

Actually, they signed Rush on to make sure the committee does not pull a surprise and award the honor to Barack Obama.

Obama's Wee-weed Uppityness Wins Pees Prize

Other Headlines:

-Beauty Pageant Contestants Who Wish for World Peace Come in a Close Second

-Obama Administration Bombs Moon- Wins Nobel Peace Prize

-Obama Dog, Bo, Pinches Loaf on Air Force One, Not Swatted With Newspaper- Obama Earns Nobel Peace Prize

-Obama Negotiations With Bill Ayers Stop Bombings- Wins Nobel Peace Prize

-Obama Wins Seinfeld Peace Prize- A Great Show About Nothing

-Liberal Christian Denominations Debate: Is This the fulfillment of the prophecy?

"Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Obammuel... For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Negotiator, Mighty Cool, Everlasting Teleprompter, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of Stalin and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with social justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the DNC will do this."(Isaiah 7:14b, 9:6,7 New Liberal Standard Version)

Grandpa Jerry & Alice Cooper

What do Grandpa Jerry and Alice Cooper have in common?

"When I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched."

This Sophisticated White House

Nancy Benac, an Associated Press writer, schools us in the high culture of the Obama White House.

You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House.

The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls.[...] Bold colors, odd shapes, squiggly lines have arrived.

What is your question for the Magic Teleprompter?

Ed Ruscha's 1983 oil on canvas painting, 'I' think I'll...'

When everyone leaves, a special light is switched on to show the alternate image painted on this canvas for the Obamas to enjoy.

Photo by Rene Burri

If the author of the AP article had been Robert Stacy McCain:

Bold colors, odd shapes, squiggly lines have arrived.

Bold colors: The White Supremacist McCain is calling the Obamas Negroes.

Odd shapes: The raaaaacist McCain is making fun of Michelle Obama's appearance and wardrobe.

Squiggly lines: The raaaaacist White Supremacist McCain is making fun of nappy hair.

All indisputable proof that Robert Stacy McCain is indeed a raaaaacist White Supremacist & Southern Rube.

But since the article was gushingly written by sympathetic Nancy Benac, it's cool.

Hopelessly Blocked

What do Jack Cashill, Christopher Andersen, and Bill Ayers have in common?

All three claim that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams from my Father.

Jack Cashill is an author of 7 books including Hoodwinked, a study of intellectual and literary fraud. He has studied the style of 'Dreams.' One article is here with 9 of his other articles linked.

Christopher Andersen is the author of Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Cashill writes:

Andersen contends that the ambitious Obama, unaware of JFK's own literary fraud, hoped to launch his own political career with a book as did John Kennedy with the discreetly ghost-written Profiles In Courage.

Despite a large advance, Obama found himself "hopelessly blocked." After four futile years of trying to finish, Obama "sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." This he did "at Michelle's urging," she being the more pragmatic half of the couple.

Anne Leary of Backyard Conservative had a chance meeting with Bill Ayers in Washington where he claimed to have written 'Dreams.'

[...]Then, unprompted he said--I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said--Michelle asked me to.[...]

At least now Obama is no longer 'hopelessly blocked.' His teleprompter takes care of that. I just hope that his socialistic agenda remains hopelessly blocked.

But, I thought Bill Ayers was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Oh, he was probably blocked and didn't have the accurate information immediately available to his cerebral cortex.

A Legislative Initiative That Would Sum Up Obama's America

Dan Miller suggests in Pajamas Media

I’m waiting for some congresscritter, a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy, to offer legislation replacing the eagle with the dodo bird as the country’s national emblem.

Observations on Sunday Night Football

The Chargers' defense missed the flight to Pittsburgh and could not make the game.

The Steelers sent their defense out for pizzas at halftime and they got hung up in traffic on the way back and missed the whole second half.

Pitiful. Just pitiful.

Capitalism Will Find a Way

Priceless!
Henry Samuel reporting from Paris for Telegraph.co.uk writes:

Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.

Yes, I'll have a McSnooty, a McSurrender, and a small order of McAmerican McFries.

Not all of the natives were pleased:

What's next, a WalMart?

Hmmm, not a bad idea!

(H.T. Instapundit.)

Why Chicago Lost Its Olympic Bid

There are a lot of blame and accusations flying around concerning Chicago's anemic showing among the 2016 Summer Olympic bidders. Most blame Bush, but others blame the Obamas, Mayor Daley, Oprah, or even raaaaacism. But more thorough research and a statement made by Eydie Gorme show the true blame:



Yeah, we should blame it on the Bossa Nova and the fact that Chicago has a world-wide reputation as a corrupt town ruled by gangsters with no other redeeming qualities. Detroit would have gotten more IOC votes that Chicago.

The World Already Knows What Many Americans are just Figuring Out

An entrepreneurial Chinese artist is marketing a new line of Oba Mao tee shirts honoring two great world leaders. Whole video at American Power by that raaaaacist Donald Douglas.



The artist notes that he even depicted Obama with his hat on sideways 'cause that's the way all Americans wear them.

His next project will be boxer shorts in the same vein. Will he be able to portray the skid marks accurately?

Ahmadinejad Hygiene

Now that Iran is quickly moving into the nuclear neighborhood, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is turning his attention to making Iran into an world economic powerhouse. In his talks without preconditions with the Obama Administration he conceded that he would curtail some of his beating and killing of Iranian protesters if Obama would use some of his legendary rhetorical skills to assist in promoting Iranian products for sale around the world.

The first Iranian product introduced to the world's markets is a line of laundry and kitchen hygienic products:

"We use Barf products for all of our White House needs. Barf gets our fine china sparkling clean. Michelle's cutting edge wardrobe is kept looking brand new by laundering in Barf. Barf shampoo keeps our hair shiny and clean. Barf scouring powder keeps our finger prints from showing up on anything dirty."

"Worried about rough, dry hands? Relax, you're soaking in Barf!"

"Barf, the cleanser that cleaned up Chicago. (It's great on blood stains!)"

Garofalo is at it Again

Although Janeane Garofalo ranted again on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the bigger story is that of Grandpa Steve 'Garofalo' ranting at Meal Time with Oscar Mayer:

It's obvious to anybody who has eyes in this country that Progressives, the 9-10ers, these separatist groups that pretend that it's about policy – they are clearly socialistic movements. They're clearly government power movements. What they don't like about the President is that he's American – or half American (applause) – and they, what also is shocking is that people keep pretending that that's not really the case with these people.

I'm not talking about people that do have problems with his pussy-footing, that's fine. But these people, who are also being led by the Nancy Pelosis, the Harry Reids, the Blarney Franks [presumably Barney], whomever, they are no different than any other socialistic movement that's part of our history. This has been going on since the founding of this country that centralized power movements have tried to establish themselves and hold onto power.

It's very weird that whenever this comes up in conversation, so few people are willing to say that yes it is socialism, straight up socialism. And the Democrat Party has been willing to carry water for socialists in this country since about the 1930s. (Applause)

Electorally, these socialist people don't have their own party – maybe they will one day – so they are electorally-dependent on the Democrats. But also troubling, the main stream media is happy to feed into this; Hollywood is happy to feed into this. They will continue to do this til somebody does something.

What you're saying [Rush] is absolutely true, there's this tacit nudging towards violence. Then also, how about showing up armed? What if socialist people showed up armed at a tea party rally? What would be the response of that?

(H.T. Memeorandum.)

Treating Tyrants with Dignity

President Obama's version of the Patriot Act must have gotten wind of our secret basement laboratory's computer hackers' foreknowledge of the selection of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The F.B.I. is staking out the house again. They just don't seem to catch on that our secret lab has a secret tunnel for our scientists, techs, and researchers to enter and exit over on Monroe Street. In the meantime I can neither confirm nor deny the laboratory's existence.

I am often asked how the lab is financially supported. We employ about 87 of the top men and women in various scientific disciplines who do not come cheaply. Besides the bake sales and door-to-door band candy income, we also get many grants from organizations working to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. But we also have some pretty savvy entrepreneurs. Our latest foray into capitalistic enterprise has been extremely fruitful allowing us to give bonuses to everybody.

Since Obama's inauguration we have developed and marketed what we call Despot Disposable Diapers to tyrannical regimes throughout the world. We are able to sell them even to nations under sanctions in that this product is considered medical, humaitarian aid.

Here is the usual scenario for which our product fills a dire need. Someone like Hugo Chavez meets with his cadre of sycophants to discuss possible threats from the United States. Since Obama has ascended to the American throne, these meetings soon devolve into giggle-and-guffaw fests causing such abdominal strain that everyone wets themselves. Our disposables are designed to absorb nearly two liters of urine and are highly valued by all attendees to meetings such as this.

Their value is further proven as the meetings progress. As the jingoist jocularity escalates, invariably one of the attendees laughingly states that in 2012 the Americans might even elect Sarah Palin as President. After a brief titter or two, the mood abruptly changes and there occurs a mass bowel evacuation with matching flatulence. Our disposables are designed to absorb and hold nearly 4 kilograms of projectile fecal matter.

And they are biodegradable... good for the Earth... and the children.

And they bring in top dollar to our secret basement laboratory's coffers.

So Easy, Even a TrogloPundit Could Do It*

Don Surber spoofs a Garrison Keillor column in the Chicago Tribune's News Columns. The Keillor statement getting all the press is

Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

Don't get sick, Republicans, but if you do get sick, die quickly, you knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.

That certainly is getting all the discussion, but Keillor says so many goofy things in this article, that much is overlooked.

...except elect dullards to office who brought a certain nihilistic approach to governance that helped bring about the disaster in the banking industry that ate up a lot of 401(k)s, and all thanks to high-flyers in shirts like cheap wallpaper who never learned enough to let it discourage them from believing that they had magical powers over the laws of economics and could hand out mortgages to people with no assets and somehow the sun would come out tomorrow. The anti-regulation conservatives enabled those people. We're still waiting for an apology.

I would like to see his line of reasoning to make this statement. The Community Reinvestment Act was Jimmy Carter's and its supercharging was during Bill Clinton's terms. I never knew how anti-regulation Conservative they were. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government sponsored enterprises.

And now here comes the U.S. Supreme Court, about to rule in the case of a little plywood cross erected, as it turns out, on federal land in the Mojave Desert as a memorial to the war dead -- could there be anything less pressing right now? But we shall have great legal minds wrangling over something that doesn't make a dime's worth of difference to anybody whomsoever.

It must make a difference to somebody or it wouldn't be there. Besides, does the Supreme Court have anything better to do? Is it supposed to order by fiat the things that Keillor thinks are important?

Thirty-six years of bitterness over Roe vs. Wade and what has it gotten us?

Tens of millions of dead babies.

Conservatives and liberals can agree on the basics -- that the nation wallows in debt, that it is shortsighted of the states to cut back on the most essential work of government which is the education of the young, and that somehow we have got to become a more productive nation and less consumptive...

The nation wallows in debt... Pass ObamaCare now and deny Conservatives health care and all is solved?

The most essential work of government is the education of the young... It is? And if it is they have been in charge of it for generations with what result? But we should double down again anyway?

Somehow we have got to become a more productive nation and less consumptive. More productive by nationalizing the auto and banking industries? Less consumptive by passing cap & trade or not utilizing our natural resources?

Old men shouldn't be allowed to doze off at the switch and muck up the works for the young who will have to repair the damage. Get over yourselves. Your replacements have arrived,...

Get over yourself, Keillor. Move over, there are many O'Keefes and Giles that have arrived.

(*Nobody actually said that, but we all know that is what they really are saying.)