 as quickly and certainly as Obama killed that fly. No, Tomobama, we are not impressed.
Wimpocracy - June 26, 2009
Harry Smith’s Early Show once more has given us a glimpse of why the United States is having such a hard time supporting itself these days. He had a doctor tell us how to pack a child’s bag for summer camp. Weird.
Prescription medications and hand sanitizer, and a comfort item with some of mom’s perfume on it. And be sure and write to the kid early, so he won’t be homesick.
The land of Daniel Boone and Henry Ford is now led by a Hawaiian yuppie who gave his kids a hypoallergenic dog.
Where is whose voice? - June 25, 2009
Neda, shot in the heart, died nearly immediately, like Obama’s fly.
Chris Matthews said it looks like Ahmadinejad won the election. Freedom of the press is dead in its tracks in Iran, leaving us with only citizens’ reports on the Internet! Does Matthews have a telepathic connection with mice in ballot boxes?
What it looks like is that millions of people are risking their lives to say that it doesn’t look like that to them, and they are the people who put the ballots in the boxes. And Matthews also suggested that, if Obama were to use the freedom of speech we have in the United States and used to elect him to a bully pulpit for his, he would be giving Ahmadinejad an excuse to develop nuclear weapons. No one can give Ahmadinejad an excuse to develop nuclear weapons, and he’ll try to do it regardless of anything Obama says. Do you believe Obama reads two or three voters’ letters a day about anything?
While we call Obama a great orator, he is refusing to orate. In his first press conference on the current crisis, he said he decries the threats and beatings. Of the killings, he said only that we’d seen a woman bleeding to death. He has no calling.
Obama’s presidency is bleeding to death because he has no heart.
Significantly cheap - June 24, 2009
While Obama blows off Iran, his Secretary of State is involving herself in a child custody battle not personal to her, and look at the details of the case.
The father, whose side Clinton has taken, is a model who wasn't supporting his family when the child's mother took him to Brazil and divorced herself from the father, and it isn't like that Rockefeller business.
The father saw his son and estranged wife off at the airport. In Brazil, after the divorce, the mother remarried and had a daughter with her new husband, and died. It's all personal, not governmental as with that Cuban kid.
But Clinton has made the question whether the governments should honor the boy's with to stay with his his stepfather and stepsister or force him to leave his home to live on another continent with the deadbeat.
Of course a huge question is why she sides with the deadbeat dad, but the first question is why she should or would have anything to do with it.
Prejudice - June 23, 2009
In response to being asked whether he thinks the media are giving him a free ride, Obama said that one television station devotes itself 24 hours a day to criticizing his administration. We wouldn’t be surprised to learn that more than one of the many thousands of television stations do that, but the media seem to assume that he was referring to the Fox News network.
If so, Palin doesn’t prefer any particular newspaper, while Obama doesn’t know what a television station is. But Palin plainly does read newspapers, while Obama apparent doesn’t watch Fox News enough to know that he isn’t its only subject.
Yet, still, Fox News is the only major television network that doesn’t support Obama.
Iran is not a theocracy. - June 22, 2009
Israel is not a democracy. - June 21, 2009
How cheap can he get? - June 20, 2009
The person the media called the first black president couldn't preside over his own fly. Now, the first black president expects us to be impressed at his ability to hurt a fly. We are neither impressed nor amused.
We would be impressed if he could preside over Ahmadinajad or Netanyahu or Pelosi. But he doesn't want to take ownership of the problem in Iran, as he doesn't want to tell Netanyahu to do anything the Israelis haven't already agreed to do and failed to do, as he let's Pelosi ram her agenda around what he says is his. We guess he just likes to talk.
Neither are we impressed or amused by his comment that he had to skip a date night with his wife for Tai food in Bangkok to dine with the media, as neither would we if he had used our tax money for that.
Creep - June 19, 2009
Harry Smith's early show last week asked whether the new Calvin Klein advertisement on the outside of the five story building in Manhattan should be publicly displayed. Smith and ABC showed it on morning television, while kids are eating breakfast and watching television before going to school. So, apparently, Smith and ABC think is should be publicly displayed.
And, apparently, the FCC thinks it should be publicly displayed. The FCC has no jurisdiction over the Manhattan building, but it does have jurisdiction over Harry Smith and CBS as it has no jurisdiction over Boston trolley cars painted as rum advertisements but does have jurisdiction over beer and Janet Jackson's nipple on television football broadcasts.
We want to know why the FCC thinks a nipple is more pornographic than that advertisement and why ABC lets Harry Smith fill in for Bob Schieffer, as we want to know why the United States' justice system permits advertising booze on streetcars but not on television. We can turn off our televisions, but we can't keep our kids off the streets.
War, religion, and credibility - June 18, 2009
The book of Numbers begins with a count of all the Israelite men able for war, except the men of the tribe of Levi. Levi was the tribe of Moses and Aaron, and they were exempt from war so they could be priests or maintain the tabernacle. The third chapter of numbers designates order of battle.
So we have to ask how Judaism is a peaceful religion, but we also have to ask how so many people survived then and there. The count is over 600 thousand, and adding the tribe of Levi and all the others exempt from war, with the conservative estimate of one wife and two children for each of the counted men and one person unable for war for each household takes the count to nearly twice the population of Manhattan.
Manhattan is the most densely populated area in the United States, and what makes the density possible is that nearly every building has more than one story, and still Manhattan is more than twenty square miles, excluding Central Park. The Israelites were still living in tents in a barren wilderness.
The ditch - June 17, 2009
For weeks, Fidelity Investments has aired commercials saying we should give them our money so they can tell us what to do and where to go, letting them drive you down a green path of their making. We found those commercials despicable, and now Prudential is airing similar commercials. Be careful.
Insurance companies are investment companies in business to make money, not for you, for them. Think for yourself and look closely at the market and at any company before you give it your money. It ain’t soap.
Fidelity Investments is famous for corrupt business practices. Prudential is big, but it isn’t a rock. Don’t forget AIG.
Knocked up? - June 16, 2009
David Letterman said that Alex Rodriguez knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter between innings of a Yankees game. Palin said that Letterman was joking about statutory rape and thereby demeaning young women anywhere. Letterman’s argument against Palin was that her daughter isn’t fourteen anymore but eighteen. Wrong daughter.
But, anyway, eighteen is young, and much younger than Rodriguez, who is also much older than the boy who knocked up that young woman when he was nearly as young as she was. But yes years have passed, and a few years and having a child can teach much to a young woman. Letterman should have considered that also.
Letterman also said that Governor Palin had initiated conciliation with him by inviting him hunting, as though she were comparable to a former Vice President and Secretary of Defense, and as though Cheney had shot his friend on purpose. Bad taste is a term too polite for Letterman. He relies on ignorance.
Joe Scarborough, who talks like a Valley girl, said that Palin’s defending her daughter was like Rush Limbaugh’s calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Scarborough is as crazy as Rush Limbaugh, but the craziest thing about the whole situation is that Letterman and Limbaugh are popular. That’s tragic.
It’s tragic because the populace is the electorate, and so the electorate must be crazy. And it is crazy, with the NOW and the NEA supporting Bill Clinton to preside after he destroyed the career of a female intern by being unable to preside over his own zipper. Kennedys are still what is is.
Does Letterman's saying he's sorry and will try to do better mean he'll try to slam the right daughter next time?
P. T. Obama - June 15, 2009
P. T. Barnum said that a sucker is born every minute. A sucker is what anyone is who believes Obama’s claim that providing health insurance to all Americans will save tax pay