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It Would Be a Wonderful Life

As Obama’s poll numbers sink below the horizon, the folks on the left are scratching their heads (or worse) and asking “Wha hoppened?” As an example, take this column (please!) by Ed Kilgore titled “The World Without Obama.” (I know it’s not how Kilgore meant the title, but what a lovely ring that has.) What [...]

¶ Posted 19 February 2010 † Howard Portnoy § 2010 Elections § Barack Obama § Politics ‡ Comments (34) °

When You’re Running Neck-and-Neck with No One in Particular, You’ve Got Problems

Le plus ça change, le plus c’est la même chose. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Maybe that bit of wisdom courtesy of Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr should have provided fair warning to voters who supported the hope-and-change candidate in the 2008 presidential election, but apparently at least some of them [...]

¶ Posted 18 February 2010 † Howard Portnoy § Politics ‡ Comments (10) °

Palin’s uncertain path to a nomination not worth having

Leftwing data-cruncher Nate Silver is, like a whole lot of other observers (including I guess me), still riding the latest Sarah Palin publicity wave. His latest effort is an analysis that answers, in somewhat excruciating detail, a question that no one in his or her right mind (i.e., possibly excluding you and me) would be [...]

¶ Posted 10 February 2010 † CK MacLeod § Sarah Palin ‡ Comments (95) ° Tagged: Huckabee, Nate Silver, Palin, Romney

Massachusetts, Like the Nation, Seeing Red

For too many months now, Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats turned their back on a growingly impatient nation in order to secretly hammer out a deal to commandeer a sixth of the nation’s economy under the pretense of health care reform. With each new payoff and each new round of backroom wheeling and dealing, the [...]

¶ Posted 20 January 2010 † Howard Portnoy § 2010 Elections § Barack Obama § Obamanauts § Politics ‡ Comments (20) °

Bad News for the Dems Not Necessarily Good News for Republicans–Unless. . .

Gail Collins, writing in the New York Times, has words of hope for Democrats regarding the changes that are in the wind. Her message, in a nutshell: it’s not as bad as it looks. Though much of her optimism amounts to whistling past the graveyard (she importunes Democrats in North Dakota to scour the countryside [...]

¶ Posted 07 January 2010 † Howard Portnoy § 2010 Elections § Democratic Party ‡ Comments (35) ° Tagged: Tea Parties

Someone had to say it…

Coincidentally, the President’s arbitrary deadline assumes the war will be winding down and troops returning home just when the Administration is ramping up its campaign for re-election. Hatch: Obama, Eyeing Reelection, Has ‘Handicapped’ U.S. Forces – NRO

¶ Posted 01 December 2009 † CK MacLeod § Afghanistan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: Orrin Hatch, West Point speech

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – mother of all disasters

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¶ Posted 22 November 2009 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Sarah Palin ‡ Comments (13) ° Tagged: 2012, Sarah Palin

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Zolt The Jew: I finished "The Israel Test" on the plane coming home from the beach, Colin et all my dear frems. I will try to email Colin a brief review tomorrow. It is a very important book, of just over 250 big print pages. I could write more on it right now but right now the blonde below is distracting my attention. There is something about blondes with that look and the puckered lips which drives Jewish men crazy, crazy, crazy, even after a full day of Shabbas prayer, oy vey!
CK MacLeod: The Blonde Below...
CK MacLeod: Stop distracting me... I'm conjoining universes...
narciso: Just to get it straight, you're talking about Lady Gaga,
fustidious: clean up on the recbrow aisle needed!
CK MacLeod: feh
fuster the never satisfried: I see that you've grown more fond of the menu on top thing. I liked it from the git, but wonder if you might to able to work on the eye-appeal of it.
Howard Portnoy: Wow, it's my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander's rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security, Sapo, Larsson's journalist background does allow him to expound on the 'national security state' hidden in Social Democracy

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- when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…
  March 6, 2010 | 12:17 pm
  … (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
  
  “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
  
  Margo @ Yet another global warming apocalypse.
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Collected Poetry of Sully
- Telomeres
  February 17, 2010 | 6:23 am
  Telomeres of defined length,
  Were by his God in mankind bent,
  To make it sure that aged ones,
  Would pass to make room for their sons,
  Before they learn to mount the hill,
  They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
  
  New daughters too then see their day,
  As the used up old fair pass away,
  And the brighter young can in their turn,
  Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
  
  One day mankind may beat the odds,
  And take on the powers of the gods.
  Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
  And include within his toy’s equippage,
  A strictly limited telomere,
  To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
  
  For once a former God is whipped,
  Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
  The former toy learns something odd,
  About possession of the mind of God,
  Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
  Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
  
  Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
  For their script entire a God knows for sure,
  To divert a toy must have free will,
  And at least a chance to climb the hill,
  There to displace its God, a bitter pill
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