Monthly Archives: September 2013

Go get ’em, Ted

Posted on September 24, 2013 | 8 comments

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s effort to defund Obamacare, which has proven to be far more expensive, intrusive and faulty than its Democrat backers promised, is getting as much flack from the GOP elite as the donks themselves.

“The GOP Establishment is so mad they have momentarily stopped attacking Sarah Palin…Fortunately, Governor Palin has not forgotten…”

Even the WSJ headlines Ted’s “confrontational tone.” Oh, dear. How rude of him.

And Ted’s co-senator, Corny Cornyn, is taking whacks at him, too. Corny, who isn’t really a conservative but only plays one on TV, needs to be recalled.

Ted, who also wisely wants to abolish the IRS, has taken to the Web, where all of us can register our backing for his effort. I did and you can, too. Go get ’em, Ted.

UPDATE:  Here’s a good excerpt from Ted’s marathon about how Obozocare is killing jobs. Time will tell whether he accomplished what he wanted, which was to energize the Tea Party and other small-government voters to more, not less, participation next year in the Congressional races and for the White House in 2016.

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Obozo’s Bingoism

Posted on September 23, 2013 | 4 comments

This is for those of you who can still stand to watch/listen to one of our Moron-in-Chief’s interminable boilerplate speeches. Instructions for its use as a game card are found here. Good luck. You have a stronger stomach than I do, Gunga Din.

Via Planck’s Constant

UPDATE:  Always worth remembering, as Instapundit periodically does, that the M-i-C  “joked” in 2009 about having the IRS audit his enemies.

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The Horns unsuck

Posted on September 22, 2013 | Comments Off on The Horns unsuck

A new Longhorns team showed up in Austin Saturday night and beat KState 31-21 for the first time in ten years. The suck Horns of the past two games were nowhere to be seen. Unfortunately, QB David Ash seems to have another concussion.

Can’t imagine Ash’s parents (if not his coaches) would allow him to continue playing, as he would risk disability or even death. And if he doesn’t play again, the unsuck Horns could quickly be back to suck. He apparently is their only QB with an accurate long ball in him.

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Johnny F’ing Football

Posted on September 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Johnny F’ing Football

Texas Monthly’s cover article on Aggie’s QB Johnny Manziel is a good ‘un. I like him much better now. Thought himjust a typical teenage jerk before.

He’s from an old Texas family of Lebanese Americans who made it big in oil back in the early Twentieth. The wunderkind is fresh out of a tiny Kerrville high school of no football reputation, except for him when he played QB there. I wasn’t surprised to learn that UT turned him down for a scholarship. They’ve turned down all the good QBs, lately, it seems. But so did Baylor and TCU.

And so did A&M’s old coach Mike Sherman. Only Sherman’s firing, bringing in Kevin Sumlin, saved JFF. So far, anyhow. If he just doesn’t blow it. But he’ll always have the size issue (just 6’1″) far as the NFL is concerned.

Darkwater, an Aggie alum, says “Manziel’s young and immensely talented, but I hope that what appears to be cockiness (as opposed to a great sense of humor) can be kept in check. His Heisman does invite a huge target on his back, and some of the stories are inflated.”

Let’s hope. After watching UT’s Vince Young self-destruct with a bad attitude and Colt McCoy dissemble for the Cleveland Browns, we need a smart, achieving Texas quarterback to brag on. If we didn’t have JFF, ’bout all that’s left (other than Redskins’ RGIII) would be Baker Mayfield, formerly of Lake Travis High, one of the Austin area’s richest preps, now with the Red Raiders.

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President Asterisk

Posted on September 21, 2013 | 2 comments

“As we have argued before, Barack Obama’s re-election deserves to be listed with an asterisk in the record books. He is the political equivalent of an athlete found to have used illicit performance-enhancing drugs,” writes James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal, and continues:

“Whether he would have won in 2012 absent the IRS’s political corruption is unknowable. We know only that he did win with the help of a corrupt IRS. And if indeed the election was stolen, many in the media were complicit in its theft.”

Some of us have wondered how he could be reelected presiding over such an awful economy. A corrupt IRS suppressing his opposition’s get-out-the-vote drive is how.

Via Instapundit.

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Rule 5: Alizee’s butt

Posted on September 20, 2013 | 2 comments

Bernie at Planck’s Constant has updated this hits magnet of mine in the comments there with a link to the original (above) before it was photoshopped to be quite a bit more daring. I actually like this pre-photoshop better, though it is not the best pix of the French pop singer’s fetching face. I like to use my imagination.

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At least he drove a Prius

Posted on September 19, 2013 | 4 comments

The Navy Yard mass murderer Aaron Alexis, that is. Or, I suppose we should say was. Bless his heart, he was so concerned about the environment. It was people he had trouble with.

“First we learned that Alexis didn’t use an evil AR-15 to kill all those people. Instead, he used a nice, friendly, Biden-approved shotgun . . . Now we learn that Alexis was a Prius-driving, African-American liberal who liked Obama.”

Really kills the Democrat news media’s preferred massacre narrative, doesn’t it? And it’s been so reliable since Timothy McVeigh in 1995. Alexis was not onlynot a right-wing crazy, he was a lefty who liked Obongo, and that other rare thing: a mass murdering African American.

Mass murderers usually are white men, like McVeigh. You could look it up. Discounting anomalies like the South Korean who shot up Virginia Tech in 2007, of course. We’re still waiting for a mass murdering woman.

At least we won’t have to endure the usual post-massacre, diversionary twaddle about banning “assault rifles” and such. Whew.That was a close one.

(As Mr. Goon wrote in a comment, it’s just too bad none of the civilians at the Navy Yard was carrying. Assuming that would have been allowed, in this age of “gun free” zones full of potential victims. Not that we’re likely to see or hear much about either of those counter-narratives.)

Via Instapundit

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