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The crucifixions begin

Posted on August 18, 2012 | Comments Off on The crucifixions begin

Hey, don’t blame Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. They’re just fundies who follow the rules and crucifixions for Christians and other infidels are required by the Koran. You could look it up.

Course you could blame Obozo for being a moron for pulling the rug from under Mubarak, calling the Brotherhood moderates and backing their takeover of Egypt. But he can’t help it, any more than Biden can restrain himself. Unless, of course, maybe Old Slow Joey has got a plan. Ya think?

Via Drudge and Instapundit.

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The Chillicothe Speech

Posted on August 15, 2012 | Comments Off on The Chillicothe Speech

Stacy McCain’s right, Romney ‘s fired up and this is a good one worth reading:

“America runs on freedom. Free men and women, pursuing their dreams, working hard to build a better future for their families. This is what propels our economy. When an American succeeds, when she wins a promotion, when he creates a business, it is that individual, that American that has earned it, that has built it. Government does not build our businesses, the American people do.”

Not many political speeches make good reading. This one does. Try it.

Via Instapundit.

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Our corrupt federal government

Posted on August 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Our corrupt federal government

Other than the occasional multi-billion-dollar Mars landing, from a famously-bloated federal agency which has impeded manned space exploration with politically-motivated safety requirements, what have we got?

While Obozo pursues his retreaded class war against the rich (which was old when FDR did it in the 1930s), his preferred Big Government is spending our money with careless abandon. Not to mention he and his extravagant wife and their pricey vacations.

The worst part is how obvious the federal thievery has become and that it’s the “little guy” Democrats who are profiting the most, not the “rich” Republicans:

“As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped 40 percent from 2007 to 2010 to an average of $77,300.

“In 2010, the average net worth for a U.S. senator was $13,224,333. The average net worth for a Democratic senator was $19,383,524, compared to $7,054,258 for a Republican senator. That’s a difference of $12.3 million.”

These guys are stealing, plain and simple. They’re allowed to do such things as “insider trading” for which they have passed laws that would send the rest of us to prison. We need to make them all one-termers stat.

It hardly matters whether there’s a Big Government-promoting Democrat in the White House or a Big Government-diminishing Republican. Just as FEMA will screw up (again) if a hurricane hits New Orleans (again). And how will Congress react? Why, they’ll pass more laws to make FEMA even bigger, of course, and to create more opportunities for insiders to spend (and steal) tax money.

Via Instapundit.

Here’s irony for you: All of this was old news more than two hundred years ago. It can actually be found in the Declaration of Independence: the Brits of the day were continuing to erect “a multitude of new offices” and sending “swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” —from the late conservative economist Milton Friedman’s ever-popular book Free To Choose.

So popular that the TV series of the same name is still available on YouTube. The vid is long on emotion and short on ideas, though. Get the book.

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Using the Army to stop the Tea Party

Posted on August 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Using the Army to stop the Tea Party

Nevermind the Pentagon striking the word jihad from the military lexicon, at Obozo’s order, thereby eliminating references to a genuine threat.

How about this new effort by a retired Army colonel and a University of Kansas historian? They wrote an Army War College scenario telling how the military can take over the role of the civilian police and quash a right-wing Tea Party takeover of an American town.

“In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest…”

The Occupy Movement, composed of genuine thugs, rapists and assorted felons, isn’t mentioned. Well, they had Obozo’s backing.

The colonel and the professor, not to mention the War College, really need to stop watching MSNBC as much as they apparently do. Waste of time, folks. And more: it’s criminally stupid.

This little scenario, alone, is going to cost you in credibility and respect from the American people, without whose continuing regard the military cannot succeed at anything.

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The mystical violin

Posted on August 9, 2012 | Comments Off on The mystical violin

My new violin teacher, a professional performer, is quite mystical about the instrument: the less you think with the violin, he said, the better.

He found no issues with my left hand, though I still feel I squeeze the neck more than I should. Good intonation, he said, good choice of fingering. Avoid string crossings where possible. But the right hand, the bow hand, definitely is my albatross. The bow takes long-term practice, he said, and I can believe it.

Here’s where it gets mystical: feel connected with the string, he said, be consistently engaged with the string. Engaged with the string. Use the whole bow, moving farther and faster, all the way to the tip and all the way back to the frog. Don’t take the bow off the string!

Too many beginners, he said, don’t go all the way down to the frog and then they lift the bow off the string and set it down again to begin a new upstroke and they crash land with a bounce and a wobble. That’s me.

The hardest part, he said, is the frog, getting to it and getting out of it. As bad as it may sound at first. No kidding, it’s very scratchy down there. He demonstrated playing toneful scales at the frog and insisted I practice that at least five minutes a day until I can get as warm a tone out of it as he can. Hmm. That may take forever.

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Mars we’re onto you, again!

Posted on August 6, 2012 | Comments Off on Mars we’re onto you, again!

And how. Lots of fun watching NASA-TV on the Web via C/Net as the new robot Curiosity—about the size of an Austin Mini Cooper automobile—touched down on the Red Planet thirty-nine minutes after midnight Sunday here, or about 3 p.m. Martian time.

A gentle touchdown, apparently, as Curiosity quickly sent back the first photos of one of its wheels and the distant Martian horizon. They were relayed to Earth through Odyssey, another NASA robot in orbit—since 2001.

Curiosity is a one ton, mobile chemistry lab and it landed in a basin crater called Gale which is believed to contain sediments washed downhill a long, long time ago that may contain… Who knows? We’ll be finding out in the next two years and, probably, even longer.

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Let’s see Harry Reid’s tax returns

Posted on August 3, 2012 | Comments Off on Let’s see Harry Reid’s tax returns

Maybe that way we can figure out just how the Democrat Senate Majority Leader (also known as the pederast-without-a-brain) got so filthy rich.

How did this supposed champion of the little guy, as the Dems all claim to be, accumulate $10 million in assets on a measly $193,000 annual income?

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