Saturday, July 26, 2008

Hard to believe.... NOT!

Dear Parents - Please Relax, It’s Just Camp

This just reinforces my long standing belief that parents (especially affluent ones) have become idiots. It started mostly with my generation, and has gradually become that much more serious an issue as parents have turned into slaves for their kids, thinking that they are doing them a big favor. The counterpoint to that is that the (ahem!) adults here are so insecure and self-indulgent that they are using this destructive behavior to do little more than make themselves feel better at the expense of their kids.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Althouse

CNN's horrific Obamamania.:
"I'm sitting in an airport where I'm forced to listen to CNN TV constantly, and the endless enthusiasm over Barack Obama is appalling. There's no pretense of journalistic neutrality. Barack Obama is getting a rockstar welcome... blah blah blah... ugh!"

Why would anyone be surprised?

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Scary....

Why should my tax dollars help forgive Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac debt when they won't forgive mine?

Michael Yon:

"Many people are coming to realize that the war in Iraq is over. The situation is still violent, but the fast progress is undeniable. The Iraqi government is inept, yet is largely seen as legitimate. The Iraqi government has dramas, but we need look no further than to our friends in Thailand or South Korea or India to see even greater governmental dramas. I remember living in Poland when they traded communism for democracy and capitalism. Unemployment, inflation and economic woes were as bad (perhaps even worse) than in Iraq. Poland is one of America's closest allies and has been an important partner in Iraq. Poland knows that Iraq can make it, although the war has been divisive in Poland, too."

And she's voting for him....

Obama talks to Berlin "as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.": "
I guess we're not supposed to think about how Obama wanted and still wants to give up on the Iraq war. Surely, if he'd been there in 1948, he would have said the Berlin airlift is hopeless. He thought the surge was hopeless.

I won't excerpt the rest of the speech. You can read it, but I'll summarize: Come on, people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another, right now.

Everyone should read....

Beyond Complacency

Precisely what this blog is all about...

The 60's won't go away
Those who protested some 40 years ago often still congratulate themselves that their loud zeal alone brought needed “change” to America in civil rights, the environment, women’s liberation, and world peace. Maybe. But critics counter that the larger culture that followed was the most self-absorbed in memory.

...By now, we’ve grown accustomed to elites railing about America’s pathologies from the comfort of their own privilege — along with the usual ’60s-style apologies that their own lives don’t need to match their rhetoric, and that we should just concentrate on their near-divine messages.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Althouse is pretty smart...

Joe Klein's scurrilous meltdown.:
"I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major journalist. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether Klein has the right temperament for Time Magazine. How sad."

Ass backwards....

Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
"It's a tribute to our society that even amid a terrible war we are capable of seeing the humanity of an enemy raised and trained to hate and kill us. Some of us are still waiting for that same presumption of humanity to be extended to the good men and women doing their imperfect best to keep us safe."

No Sh_t.....

Investors' Business Daily:
"If you doubt the media are in the tank for Obama, doubt no more. The refusal of the New York Times to print McCain's op-ed on Obama after an Obama piece was published has nothing to do with editorial judgment and everything to do with protecting the media's heartthrob."

Uh, Oh....

Mr. Obama in Iraq
"Did he really find support for his withdrawal plan?"

The Soviets have won..... (via: Instapundit)

GAS TAXES FOR THEE, but not for me. "The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today. 'There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me,' Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said."

Plus, the free car washes: ""Why are we washing cars in the middle of a drought? . . . Where are the green police when we need them? Are they poking around restaurants to see that nobody fries food?"

Again - Where is the ACLU?

Excuse Me While I Get My Gun:
"How about erring, just this once, in the direction of respecting civil liberties?"