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The new fascism

More, inevitably, on Barry, the Chicago hate-America crowd (Ayers & Wright) he surrounds himself with, and his nutty wife who talks about how he will save our souls, whether we like it or not:

"The primary question in my head about Obama is beginning to move beyond ‘Is this guy a lightwight?’ to a simpler one: ‘Is this guy simply a walking lie, in a deep way and on multiple levels?’"

Either that or, like his terrorist pal and racist thug minister of twenty years, he’s truly creepy. At best, I think, we can all Hope to Change the subject. Go ahead Dems, save your party from collapse. Pick the lying Hillary.

MORE:  Occurs to me, reading these comments and links at Instapundit, that what Rev. God damn America was up to yesterday at the National Press Club might have been getting even with Barry for falling asleep in church once too often. But, hey, the NAACP loved it. They sure have changed.

Too beautiful to miss

 

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More from the Seablogger’s tour of the West: A Montana landscape with bird box in foreground.

Computer sewing machines

The only thing I could legitmately use a sewing machine for would be sewing some of the missing buttons back on my shirts. But there’s hardly enough missing to justify buying one, much less paying $300 for a computer-driven one.

But it’s tempting. Embroidery, for instance. The computer ones store digital templates, apparently. You can even design your own embroidery on your PC and run it through. I got on this idea from an ad at Miriam’s Ideas. Then found this cool site that shows how a sewing machine works. I never used one. But I watched my maternal grandmother run a mechanical, push-pedal model years ago. I can still hear it and smell the lubricating oil.

The savage South

You’d think, the Civil War being over for, what?, one hundred and forty-three years, that the old North-South division would be healed by now, or at least papered over. Especially since immigration has seen to it that only a small fraction of the population (including me) can still claim ancestry to either side.

Uh-uh. Southern Appeal points out in commenting on this Newsweek column lamenting the "savage, unsophisticated" South’s influence in national politics, that the split resurfaces in the MSM with every presidential election. It’s a handy excuse, if you’re a Northern liberal, as much of the influential MSM is. No Northern liberal has won  the presidency since JFK in 1960–and it’s becoming obvious, even to the most obtuse, that neither Barry or Hilarity is going to break the mold.

The Irish Brigade

Reading the History of the 29th Massachusettes Infantry Regiment, 1861-65, last night, I came to the part, in the summer of 1862, where they were assigned to the Irish Brigade. The 29th went through the battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, with the Irish. But they were transferred to another brigade right before Fredericksburg in early December. Putting the book aside for a bit, I went Web wandering and chanced upon this touching clip from Gods and Generals, at Southern Appeal, on the Irish Brigade’s fateful charge at Fredericksburg. It took about fifty percent casualties. The 29th was luckily held in reserve throughout the battle.

Yellowstone NP

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Cavorting elk, as the Seablogger puts it, on Yellowstone Lake. Just one of several good ones, including some he shot himself, on in a brief Panoramio photo trip through the park I’ve never been to. Is it too late to go, I wonder? Probably. 

Happy Passover

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Hag Pesah Sameach!

Picture (a photo?!) courtesy of Simply Jews