Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Grandma's got a gun! OR Medicare Wild Wild West-style!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
A short story that describes an alternative to nursing home care for a senior citizen when the government tells them there are none available and when they don't have the money to pay for one.
Read the story at The Political Commentator here.
News..............
Coast Guard Crows Save Russell Crowe’s Day
Fair Warning to GA GOP '13 Candidates
Hometown honors last surviving Enola Gay crew member
Debt clock hits $16 Trillion as DNC celebrates Hope and Chair 2012
3rd Infantry Division takes command of Regional Command-South
Defence Minister, Slovak delegation discuss means of cooperation in military field
Dems having trouble filling stadium for Obama acceptance speech
How nine British heroes entered SAS legend by fighting off 400 bloodthirsty fanatics with their last bullets
New Zealand confirms early Afghan exit
Biden Vilifies Romney/Ryan at Labor Day Rally, Unaware that Unions Invested $1.56 Billion with Bain
Japan close to buying disputed islets
Chicago ghetto wilding/flash mob attacks caught on video
Chinese Economy Shows Signs of Severe Slowdown
Iraq's ambassador: Signing of Ukrainian-Iraqi agreement on defense cooperation to stimulate bilateral relations
Paper Details Obama Admin’s Alleged Secret Note Sent to Iran: If Israel Attacks, We Won’t Get Involved
Argentine warship harasses fishing vessels in Falklands waters
Can science prevent the great global food crisis?
Global crisis moves East as China suffers rapid downturn
Sailors' wages docked after £1.2m MoD error
Tokyo population to halve in next 90 years
US close to $1bn debt relief deal with Egypt, says senior US official
Euro Crisis Starts to Bite - German Export Orders Fell Sharply in August
The World’s Gaze Turns to the South Pacific
Island Mania in the Asia-Pacific
The Sand Man Cometh
Top Ten Lines from Joe Biden’s Convention Speech
Chicken stuffed with cocaine found at Nigerian airport
Triumphing over the culture of victimhood
Paul Ryan, John Kerry, and running marathons
Moody's lowers EU rating outlook to 'negative'
Monday, 3 September 2012
Bad Omens as DNC Convention Opens!
By Alan Caruba
(Satire)
In ancient times, sages, seers, and shamans were consulted regarding what day would be most propitious for an event such as a wedding or a battle. I fear that the Democratic Party may have selected in inauspicious day—September 4—to open their 2012 national convention.
For example, on September 4, 470 AD, Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself the King of Italy. The good old days when the empire stretched from Britannia to Constantinople were over. Not a good omen for the Democratic Party, stretching from California to New York State.
In 1666 it was a tough day in London as the Great Fire raged on. Fortunately, Charlotte only has to deal with the President’s 700-car motorcade.
In 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee took the Army of Northern Virginia north, commencing the Maryland Campaign. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the war eventually turned against the Confederacy, dragging on until surrender in 1865. I wish I had the white flag concession at the convention.
1870 was not a good year for Emperor Napoleon III of France. The Third Republic was declared after Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon I, was deposed. He holds the distinction of having been elected president by popular vote in 1848 before declaring himself emperor in 1852. Would Obama declare himself emperor if he thought he could get away with it? You bet!
In more modern times, on September 4, 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, a Democrat, called out the National Guard on this day to prevent black students from enrolling in Little Rock’s segregated Central High School. A Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, sent in federal troops to uphold the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision. In 1992, Bill Clinton, an Arkansas Governor and allegedly the first black President was elected.
On September 4, 1957, the Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel, a car that was so ugly nobody wanted to be seen driving it. It was a better day in 1998 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google!
Surely the Democratic Party could have hired some shamans to examine the entrails and bones of chickens to warn them against opening their convention on September 4th, but they were more likely distracted by all the polls and surveys indicating that while President Obama’s personal popularity was still relatively intact, the stats regarding his performance on the job were heading south faster than Lincoln’s Grand Old Army of the Republic.
From Romulus Augustulus to Barack Hussein Obama, the convention is likely to be remembered as the beginning of the end of Democratic Party control of Congress and the White House starting officially on January 20, 2013; the same day in 1980 that President Carter announced a U.S. boycott of the Olympics in Moscow after the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan. For some strange reason, U.S. troops are still there.
Suffice to say, September 4 is replete with bad omens, not the least of which was the rain, a day or so earlier, that washed away the base of the 16-foot-high sand sculpture of Obama outside the convention hall in Charlotte.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Late News..........
Eastwooding Derivatives
DNA evidence helps solve 37-year-old cold case
Near Silent (Boom) Supersonic Ninja Star Jet?
Liberia sells almost quarter of country to logging companies
'Iran must steer clear of US interests in Gulf'
"Going Dark on Facebook" or "We're WINNING!"
Obama campaign still looking out for number one
Right rallies for 'Empty Chair Day'
Obamateurism of the Day
Plaintiffs in Obama class-action housing lawsuit got coupons
Another about-face from an Obama supporter
Rain Destroys Obama Sand Sculpture
Ouch! Total State Debt Tops $4 Trillion Dollars, California Ranked the Worst
“Posers” or “The Only Known Photo of Marx and 0bama”
Rahm Lies, Media Sucks it Up
Army Spends $100M On Piece of Equipment That Doesn't Do Anything
5 Insane Falls You Won't Believe People Survived
Photos and Video From the Go Topless Protest at the White House
Not bad for a protest.
See: "Go Topless Protest at the White House."
Some of those women really loves protesting in the buff, especially that perky redhead with the huge rack.
Breaking news!...............from Rico
Here are some exclusive photos of Barry visiting Louisiana to review the damage from Hurricane Isaac.
Breath-taking! Incredible!
From now until the election in November, there will be a 'token' chair in front of my house.
- Have I said "thank you" yet Mr. Eastwood?
30 Dolphins stranding and incredibly saved!
About 30 Dolphins stranded and saved by local people at Arraial do Cabo (Brazil) in the morning at 8:00 AM on March 5th 2012.
H/T Shelly
The Incredible Israeli Left.................from Dan Friedman
[There is the left and then there is Israel’s left. Its capacity to resurrect itself, repackage itself and recycle bogus threats to Israel (“demographic time bomb,” “loss of Jewish character” etc., etc.) if Israelis don’t toe the party line is unique in political history. But this report that the Israeli left may have cried “wolf!” one too many times is cause for very cautious optimism. df]
Commentary, 09.03.2012
It’s about the Iranian Bomb, Not Obama
No, it really isn’t about Obama–it’s about the Iranian bomb. And as long as the left is incapable of understanding that, it will never regain Israelis’ trust.
Warming up..............from Rico
There are very many reasons NOT to re-elect Barry, but here is one of them you definitely will NOT be hearing at the DNC in Charlotte, from the presstitutes, or any of the enablers of the faux-pResident.
This 'achievement' dwarfs any of the disastrous things that other Commie-loser Jimmuh Carter ever did. Hands down!
- In only one term in office, Barry has "vaporized" thirty years of middle-class net worth, returning the median net worth of Americans to the level of three decades ago! [For Barry supporters: median means half below, and half above; three decades is 30 years.]
The net worth trendline is still on a downward trajectory.
- No, the proverbial 'fat lady' isn't singing yet....but you can hear her warming up right now.
We would have been FAR better off with an empty chair than this guy!
He may fool some of you but Barack Obama cannot fool our soldiers!...from Mike Haltman at TPC
While President Obama circles the country in his primary chosen role of Campaigner-in-Chief he attempts to use the military as just another tool for his one and only goal, reelection.
In this article and video it is obvious that while he is helped in this task by the MSM that members of the military and their families know a truth that the rest of the undecided Americans need to know as well!
Read more at The Political Commentator here.
NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY
Latest symbol of the only legitimate political grassroots movement in contemporary America politics is associated with American Original Toughguy Clint "Feel lucky, punk?" Eastwood . . .
. . . Annoy a Liberal! Put an empty chair out in front of your house from now until November 6th!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
Pew Research Quiz: Where are you on the political spectrum?...from Mike Haltman at TPC
Take this Political Party Quiz from Pew Research that will give you an idea of where on the political spectrum you fall.
The quiz is broken down into economic and social issues and at the end of the twelve questions it will place you on the political bar that ranges from Very Liberal to Very Conservative.
Find out more at The Political Commentator here.
British MP Galloway: I Am Against the Enemies of the Syrian Regime
The incoherent rantings of a madman.......
H/T Amnon
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