And you thought the drones were just for our enemies: I thought I was joking about this. It turns out, it’s true.
Best Read of the Week: Mark Steyn.
The trouble is it isn’t tough, not where toughness counts. Who are the real “Untouchables” here? In Moscow, it’s Putin and his gang, contemptuously mocking U.S. officials even when (as with Secretary Clinton) they’re still on Russian soil. In Tehran, it’s Ahmadinejad and the mullahs openly nuclearizing as ever feebler warnings and woozier deadlines from the Great Powers come and go. Even Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from the Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.
Biden’s Week: One day, the Wall Street Journal reveals that the expert analysts couldn’t base a military strategy on his hare-brained propsals (his own staff had to pull something out of the nether reaches to counter General McChrystal’s recommendations); three days later, the Washington Times finds him comparable in many some a few in one way to Cheney, in the same week that the first Cheney takes the chainsaw to aforesaid hare-brained proposals. Sandwiched between, this little gem:
Asked what he thought about criticisms former Vice President Cheney had made about the Obama administration, Vice President Joe Biden told reporters “Who cares what – ” and then stopped himself.
The Ladies Are Restless: I, too, was annoyed about the “all boys” basketball game. Kathleen Sebelius played in college, for heaven’s sake: she’s shut out, but Timmy The Jockey plays? This is taking affirmative action too far. But we all know why it has to be this way: females would get in the way of all the man-crushy mojo.
Now Joanne Lipmann whines in an OpEd for the NYT (h/t J-Rub, Contentions.) It’s another “Oh, gawd” moment: she blames 9/11 for the flatlining of “women’s progress” then veers off into “But we need to measure progress differently” because “women are different from men.” So, by the new metric, women are really doing well, right? Uh, no. Forget it, Joanne: everyone knows that it’s your progress you’re worried about. You’re out of a job and you’re projecting. Get a grip, honey.
Not to be outdone, MoDo is on a tear about nuns being second class citizens in the Catholic Church. Breaking news from Nought-A.D.
Michelle as you’ve never seen her: Is it my imagination or is that hula hoop fitting a little more snugly these days? I confess, I love the “home movie” quality of this video, especially the part where she kinda runs off into the woods… oh, darn, she comes back. Watch out- double dutch disaster! I think she and Kathleen should just crash the damn basketball game and show the boys some moves, like a few personal fouls (is there a right hook in basketball?)
Yay for the Underdog, er, Underbird!:
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That was wonderful, Barbara.
They must have been very hungry.
October 25th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
What’s with all this thinking the gals have to play basketball with the guys? So old school. The first female president needs to turn the WH into a day spa once a week and have all the girlfriends in for facials and Botox. In fact, a really hip male president would be doing just that. And a big spike heels swap party? How fun would that be? Bring your Jimmy Choos that hurt too much and you only wore twice and swap ‘em for a nice pair of Manolos. Especially if you got ‘em from the bargain shelf for $139.99. I mean, what a way to stretch that shoe dollar. Oooh, and gift baskets for everyone from Sephora. Café granita and little petit-fours? Eeeek!!!! How darling!
I thought Michelle was really game with the hula hoop, BTW. I’ve never been able to keep one going.
October 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
First FGWO – now SNAWWU… “So Not All Wee-Wee’d Up”? I feel so dim.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Sunday night
October 25th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
and don’t worry about being dim.
are you a good cook?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Well, not to brag, but I did once win a competition in Home Ec for a gingerbread I made.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Love the video, especially in conjunction with the Mark Steyn piece. Wimpy killer whales, lacking a resolute leader, overawed by the opinion of the humans in the puny boat, unwilling to do what was necessary to get at the tasty poultry.
Unlike these well led, goal directed, orcas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDZW4k8tCY
October 26th, 2009 at 9:02 am
@ J.E. Dyer:
The only reason I’d want to be in on the game would be to foul Timmy. I know: easy pickin’s. Not fair. Pick on someone your own size… oh, wait: he is my size.
Now that you mention it, I think maybe there is no basketball game: the guys are getting facials and pedicures, they just don’t want anyone to know.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:09 am
@ J.E. Dyer:
I assume Rudy was your pick in the election just passed?
http://www.windypundit.com/archives/2007/images/2007-06-26-Giuliani_Marilyn_With_Trump.jpg
Awfully hard not to fall into the uncanny valley. A great chance discovery – zombies inhabit the bottom of the uncanny valley per the graph on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
October 26th, 2009 at 9:36 am
@ Sully:
Actually it was ultimately Romney, and I don’t even want a mental flash from the visual on that. Ee-yeuuwww.
Uncanny Valley sounds about right, although it also sounds like canned peas, not to mention a seriously great name for a rock band.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I vaguely remember an old flick sequence of an Orca chasing a guy (I think it was a person tho I may be having a senior moment) who was running back and forth on the ice.
I guess these killer whales didn’t realize how big and powerful they were, and hadn’t yet placed humans on their menu of delicious treats.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Tastes like chicken!
One of the big changes I’ve noticed in my TV viewing habits since the onset of The Rapture, a.k.a. The Age of Obama, is that I’m really getting into the “Most Horrific Animal Attacks” genre of dramatizations. They are mostly pretty awful, but they seem to capture my mood. I don’t like seeing real animals die, however. I know it’s normal and the way life is, but I don’t care to watch it. I can’t stand to watch “Whale Wars” for that reason, and I’m full-square behind the so-called environmentalist whackos who interfere with the Japanese whalers.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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