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I thought blogging would be easy and plentiful today, but far from it. I’m in the OC, helping Dr. Fiancee with some things; and I couldn’t get my hands on a computer until after 10AM, when a nearby library finally opened for business; but then the computer turned out not to be in the best of shapes. So I thought I’d do some errands instead.
Now I’m back in the library, with what seems like a perfectly working PC; but I’m just starting to catch up with news. So it’s likely I won’t blog much at all today.
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Newsweek: Hedge funds are the model firm of the future.
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I saw a trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s new film The Limits of Control last weekend; and I kept forgetting to post about it. Here’s a little blurb on the film and its director from the WSJ. Sounds (and looks) good!
It opens in limited release on May 1.
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Mark Steyn on the “9/11 via Canada” kerfuffle: Maybe it’s an Arizona thing.
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I guess today’s blogging was more prolific than I had expected. My errands just didn’t take as long as I thought they would. Hopefully tomorrow will be the same.
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Our domestic enlightened being – and President – Barack Obama blames America first and endures anti-American diatribes (for all the bad stuff that happened before the New Age); and yet the Dalai Lama calls America a “Champion of Freedom”.
Who will prevail in this debate? My money is on the old man. He’s been reincarnated 13 times, you know? Besides, if the Obama White House can’t even neutralize the rhetoric of widely unpopular Dick Cheney, what chance does it have against the highly sympathetic Dalai Lama? I mean, it’s not like Hollywood can even give him the Miss California treatment. He’s the Dalai Lama, for Chi’s sake! Tibet’s spiritual leader!
Does it really take Buddhist wisdom to perceive American exceptionalism? Or is it that the Dalai Lama’s mentors didn’t feature any Buddhist monk equivalents of Reverend Wright?
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Moe Lane: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Number 3, in a special “100 Days” Series.
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Greg Gutfeld: Bill Maher’s Not Himself Anymore.
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Legal Insurrection: “What If” May Be Here Soon.
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First Obey on multiple foreign policy issues, now Dingell on cap and trade.
Let’s see if these Democrats get demonized by interest groups and Obama supporters any time soon.
There’s just no telling with these things. Look at poor Miss California: she agreed with Obama and got demonized anyway.
UPDATE: Related: WSJ‘s Kim Strassel on Global Warming Overreach.
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WaPo: Style-over-susbtance cost-cutting from the White House: “This is not exactly the revolution in government efficiency that President Obama has promised.”
What else is new?
(Thanks to Dr. Fiancee for the tip. By the way, Dr. Fiancee blogs about national security and counterterrorism here.)
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Carousel: An amazing Phillips commercial for their new flat-screen TV. Directed by Adam Berg.
Via Very Short List.
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100 days in, Henrietta Hughes is still struggling.
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A threat of federal charges for merely mailing a tea bag?
Just another pathetic display from members of the Political Class. But Janet Napolitano’s infamous DHS report is probably not helping either.
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Yes, The Godfather
is one of my favorite films ever, in case you hadn’t noticed. But I’m serious here. As I noted back in February, I believe the White House’s prime directive is “Politics above everything. Nothing above politics.”
That is the tone the administration set from the start; and this week we’re seeing its blind adherence to partisanship (at its dumbest) confirmed for a fact: the WaPo has revealed that the CIA “torture” memos were released – in large part – for political reasons.
And so it’s come to pass that this White House has endangered both national security and CIA morale in the blink of an eye, just to score political points against Dick Cheney, but for little to none political payoff.
Talk about counterproductive. Do they know what they’re doing? I guess there’s more than one Fredo in the administration…
UPDATE: Via American Power: Voters unimpressed by Dems “torture” theme.
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First, the auto industry got a raw deal. Now it looks like there hardly will be a domestic auto industry as we’ve come to know it.
Wouldn’t it have been easier and cheaper to just have Chrysler declare bankruptcy months ago?
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Unprecedented inroads on civil rights. That’s if you think of “inroads” as a synonym for “erosion”…
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Glenn Trush: Pelosi briefed on waterboarding in 2002.
I’m too tired to crack wise about the monumental hypocrisy of Rep. Pelosi, but who cares? The thing speaks for itself. Just another day in the Age of Obama. The Political Class proposes (and poses) and Reality disposes (even as it bites).
Meanwhile, these senators will only become emboldened by the news.
(Via Memeorandum)
UPDATE: Maybe she wasn’t paying attention (H/T: Insty).
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AP Poll: “For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public’s mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.”
Hmm. I wonder if their methodology on that poll was anything close to the Rasmussen poll pubished yesterday?
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Fox News: Hollywood celebs pile on Miss California.
Funny. I don’t remember them piling on Obama when he stated he believed in a traditional definition of marriage (H/T: Instapundit), just as Miss California did.
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Moe Lane: Garofalo orders a shot of racism – straight/no chaser - and chokes.
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Sorry I posted so little yesterday, but I had a deadline and a lot of housekeeping to do, so it couldn’t be helped (laundry, for the most part). I’m afraid today and tomorrow will not be much different. I have some business to attend to downtown and some more closer to home.
I should have plenty of time to blog Saturday. Weekend traffic is typically very low for my blog, but at least I’ll have more time…
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I was never into The Fall Guy
, but The Six Million Dollar Man was one of my favorite shows ever.
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The Hill: Pelosi hits back at Jon Stewart.
Why is it that Republicans never do that? Who’s coaching them? Jim Cramer?
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John Romano: The Coming Republican Alamo.
Related content at Instapundit: Tea Party movement could be GOP’s demise?
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Politico: As Obama reaches the 100-day mark, here’s the White House’s official version of history.
I still think Carter will end up looking better when all is said and done.
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(H/T: Instapundit)
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I and others have certainly been beating the “Obama = Carter” drum since the Inauguration, but I’m starting to get the feeling that when we look back at the Obama years (hopefully in 2013 and not later), the Carter years will look better by comparison.
Jimmy Carter may have presided over a feckless foreign policy, something we see again today, but isn’t it scary how the Obama administration has managed to defang the CIA (via Instapundit) to a greater extent than anything Jimmy Carter and Senator Church ever accomplished? And with much less effort, in a clumsy fashion, and for all the wrong reasons?
Similarly, although the American economy was less than stellar during the Carter years, at least President Carter wasn’t out to nationalize banks, or anything else government could inject money into, was he?
If anything, Carter seemed impotent vis a vis the country’s economic and foreign policy challenges of the era, even as he blamed the American people for “malaise”, but the Obama White House – which seems intent on blaming the USA for all the world’s misery – seems both incompetent and irresponsbile with our current economic situation (just look at how the matter of GM is going), to say nothing about our national security and foreign policy challenges.
Maybe Carter tried his best, but his best was all wrong. (More …)
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Has Obama overreached to such a degree that he is quickly sowing the seeds of a Reaganist Renaissance? Rasmussen says 60% of Americans think government has too much power and too much money (via Instapundit, who links to even more Rasmussen data here.) Talk about the Left needing a bigger Sorosphere!
It was already apparent to me back in February the irony of how the most popular Democratic President in recent memory – if not of all time – could actually be making Democrats more vulnerable.
Is that why the Left is wigging out, even in their time of victory?
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Uh-oh. The Left is going to need a bigger Sorosphere: THR: GE shareholders not happy with MSNBC’s “leftward tilt”.
UPDATE: Ace links! Thanks!
MORE: Ed Driscoll links. Thanks! He has lots more related content.
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US News‘s Mary Kate Cary: Democrats hysterical over Tea Party Republicans.
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And that’s Obama’s CIA saying it now…
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WSJ: Obama creates his very own Gitmo. And the irrepressible Helen Thomas realizes it!
It’s something some of us had already noted some 10 days ago.
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David Axelrod says Obama’s recent trips abroad have managed to make anti-Americanism “uncool”.
If only. I believe history shows us that anti-Americanism will not go away anytime soon, not unless the USA loses its exceptional qualities as a country.
David Axelrod probably mistakes the fact that Obama is making anti-Americanism acceptable – through his international apology and American humiliation tours – with Obama making anti-Americanism uncool.
Either that or – if anti-Americanism is now uncool in Axelrod’s eyes – it’s because the White House deems it politically incorrect to add the stigma of the prefix “anti” to what the administration perceives as a perfectly objective view of what America is…due to transgressions committed before Obama’s time of course. History apparently is divided into two eras now, Before Obama and After Obama. Ask Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega. He knows.
At least I’m hoping that’s what Axelrod and the administration think. If everyone in the White House actually believes the world community loves us now, we’re in for a rude national security awakening before too long…
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Kudlow: A backdoor path to bank nationalization; or as Rush might say: From stress tests to possess tests.
UPDATED: WSJ: A Backdoor Nationalization.
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Is the man who so successfully led Al Gore and John Kerry to failure at the polls completely unaware of yesterday’s Rasmussen poll?
He sure sounds like it…
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Because politicos now know someone is paying attention to stuff like this:
Washington Times: Sen Feinstein’s (Democrat – CA) husband cashes in on crisis.
Plus: Bailout may hurt taxpayers, be open to fraud. (Duh!)
UPDATE: Related content at the L.A. Times: Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases – for starters.
And a big Culture of Corruption round-up at Instapundit.
If most Americans weren’t suspicious of big government before, they sure will be by 2010.
The Left is going to need a bigger Sorosphere…
