Category Archives: Blogosphere

Dumbo, R.I.P.

Disney’s incredibly inept coverup is finally, sadly, but voluminously (and, indeed, artfully) exposed.

Seablogger blogs a cruise

His Holland America cruise ship has "a nice deep sea heave," Alan Sullivan reports, as he sails into hurricane weather out of Miami. The water in the upper deck swimming pools is "jumping and sliding like limbo dancers." He had to pay one hundred dollars for two hundred fifty minutes of Web connection time via satellite, so he’s limited in what he can do. But he’s already promising photos soon. Click on the blog title at the top of the page to check for the latest post.

UPDATE:  A nautical tracking map shows where his ship, the Noordam, is at the moment. 

Obamalot

Hey, Barry did compare himself to JFK–minus the military service, war-hero part, of course:

"The terrorists won’t bother us again
Because everyone on Earth is now our friend
Charisma he has lots
Specifics he has not
But happily we really don’t care here
In Obamalot."

Chuckle. 

Via Don Suber

Wisdom for Mr. Boy

"…let your children overhear you saying complimentary things about them to other adults,"  is a bit of wisdom I’ve decided to try that comes from Treppenwitz in Israel, in an essay worth a read for the other good ideas as well.

Looking askance

Steven Den Beste, who I think of as the dean of conservative realists in the blogosphere, pretty much speaks for me:

"I think Obama is going to turn out to be the worst president since Carter, and for the same reason: good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their toes on the wayward rocks of reality, and fall on their faces. And the world doesn’t respond to benign behavior benignly. But there’s another reason why: Obama has been hiding his light under a basket. A lot of people bought a pig in a poke today, and now they’re going to find out what they bought. Obama isn’t what most of them think he is. The intoxication of the cult will wear off, leaving a monumental hangover."

The gullible are congratulating Barry for "his brilliant campaign." They are presuming, against all evidence, that he will govern as a bi-partisan centrist. They’ve already forgotten the fellow who flipped the bird to Hillary and Mac, and called Sarah a pig. Who helped ACORN commit vote fraud, intentionally gathered illegal foreign contributions, and etc., ad nauseum.

But me, I’m going to skip derangement and just look askance, stop writing about politics unless it affects me personally, as in whether Barry’s coming tax and electricity hikes actually cost me money. Otherwise, I’m going to get back to the original war-supporting, eclectic intentions of this blog.

I’m taking my Holiday from History. Adios. Good luck. You’re going to need it.

UPDATE: Well, that’s a promise I’m not likely to able to keep. And to give the devil his due, here’s a transcript of Barry’s victory speech which I finally got around to reading. It’s very Democrat, with all the historical Democrat tropes familiar to supporters of FDR and Truman, Carter and Clinton. Maybe he means it. We’re going to find out. 

DSL problems

Posting will be minimal, if any, for a while. My DSL modem is on the fritz. AT&T has promised to come Monday and check the line, if not necessarily replace the modem. The thing’s warranty is out, and it seems to be the major difficulty, so I hope they replace it.

If not, I may consider switching ISPs, though that would be a major hassle and AT&T has provided good service up to now. We think a thunderstorm a couple of weeks ago, which knocked out the landline service (which contains the DSL connection) may have been the culprit here. The techs said the line was the victim of a power surge. We were thinking about having the landline disconnected anyhow. We use the cell phones most of the time.

ADDENDUM: Yes, we were disappointed by last night’s Texas loss to Texas Tech. But Tech, a longtime in-state rival, played a great game and deserves to be No. 1, even if the BCS computers don’t agree. The Horns also beat themselves, with too many dropped passes (and one almost-interception), costly penalties, an OL that couldn’t stop Tech’s D, etc. Hope Texas stays in the top five. They’ll be back.

New Hampshire Dem Chief: Phony Soldier?

Turns out the chairman of the Democrat Party in New Hampshire may be another phony Vietnam War wannabee. Hey, there are more than thirteen million of them, according to the 2000 census. But why are so many of them Dumbocrats? Oh, right, now I remember. They protested or shirked at the time. But this guy, Ray Buckley, doesn’t have that excuse. He was only twelve years old in 1972. Guess he’s just another guy who would rather lie than try.

Via Black Five.