“‘Forward (™), the Lightbringer Brigade!’
Was there a Democrat dismay’d?
Not tho’ the media reported
The President had blunder’d;
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to vote and die:
Onto the nearest golf course
Rode Barack Obama.”
Heh.
Via The People’s Cube.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot
Considering the broadly understood (one recent book) corruption of our political class, when you see one of them taken down by the “justice” department and its lapdog Fart, Barf & Itch, you know there’s some other motive.
“Menendez has been one of the top Democratic critics in Congress of the Obama administration’s negotiations and forthcoming deal with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions. Earlier this year, the New Jersey Democrat said the White House’s talking points on the Iran deal were ‘straight out of Tehran.’”
As much as they’d have liked to, they couldn’t arrest Bibi for opposing the Worm’s Iran sellout. So they did the next best thing. Attacked a Democrat who did.
Via Althouse.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, 47 Republican senators send a warning letter to Tehran… And Joey Hairplugs shakes his fist at them.
Posted in Obamalot, Obsessions, The War
Tagged Iran policy, Richard Fernandez, Robert Menendez
Looks like low oil prices aren’t the only thing costing folks like Andy their jobs down in the Eagle Ford. It’s not Obozo, much as he and his Green base would like to quash the fracking boom. No, says the WSJ’s Holman Jenkins, it’s the 40-year-old hangover from the 1970s oil embargoes: laws banning export of American oil.
“Oil has been one of the few boom industries in Obama’s America, creating a disproportionate share of new jobs. Among many stupidities, very light petroleum known as a condensate can be exported if it happens to come out of a gas well. If the same material comes out of an oil well, it can’t be exported without special permission. Ultra-light crudes account for a high proportion of booming Eagle Ford Shale production in Texas. Such crudes are especially coveted by Asian refiners, which means domestic producers are leaving a large premium on the table.
“Who wins? Domestic refiners get artificially cheap oil to run their plants. An industry mythology claims consumers also benefit thanks to cheaper gasoline. Don’t buy it. Gasoline flows freely in and out of the country, so its price is set by the world market.”
One thing’s for sure, as the oil shale jobs are cut back, down in the Eagle Ford of south Texas and way up in North Dakota, the Obozo Economy is going to get a lot worse. Not that he or his greedy party care. They have theirs.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Obamalot, Texana, The Economy
Tagged choking the fracking boom, eagle ford shale, oil export ban
Google backed off from its recent push to de-nudify Blogger. It still requires an “adult” label on blogs there that post nude pictures. I’m not sure if that means partially-nude Rule 5 cheesecake, but we’re talking about a machine’s rankings here, after all.
Now Google’s machine is hunting for “truth” (read political correctness) and will be basing site rankings not on popularity as it does now but on a database they call the “Knowledge Vault.” Probably already FCC-approved.
The Vault likes Wikipedia, with which I mostly concur. No encyclopedia was ever completely without bias. But the Vault also likes government sites, with which no unpoliticized person could possibly agree. Not after years of the feds, for instance, pushing carbs and sugar into an obesity and diabetes epidemic.
So, henceforth, any federally-unapproved criticism of global warming or illegal immigration…
Nice little page ranking you have there, comrade. Be a shame to lose it.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Here’s a good example of why those government websites can’t be trusted to be truthful.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, The Culture
As TeaPartyLee says at Instapundit, the Lizard Queen is a one-woman criminal conspiracy. And Roger L. Simon adds:
“…the American public is being given a test. Are they going to elect Hillary Clinton, a serial liar who purposefully hides her communications from the public and the government she is supposed to be leading while making [Clinton] Foundation [donation] deals with Qatar and Algeria in the middle of a war against militant Islam?”
Well, we can be sure they won’t be getting any help from most of the big snooze media. Few have noted the flaws in her apparent willingness to release her emails. Most will be too busy chorusing with her: “What difference at this point does it make?”
And then they’ll get back to bashing Scott Walker.
“We can not win this war by killing them,” Marie Harf said on MSNBC of ISIS in what is now widely-agreed to have been a stunningly stupid remark.
“War is one of the few things in life we can reliably kill our way out of,” Sultan Knish reminds. “The United States has had a great track record of killing our way out of wars. We killed our way out of WW1. We killed our way out of WW2. The problem began when we stopped trying to kill our way out of wars and started trying to hug our way out of wars instead…Because the solution to war is so obvious that no progressive could possibly think of it.”
Certainly not the low-information Democrat progressives of our overpaid and blundering federal government.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Obsessions, The War
Tagged hugging our way out of war, killing our way out of war
Couldn’t have said it better myself. But, then, I’m not James Delingpole.
“And there was I thinking that one of the key facets of conservatism is that it is a practical and honest creed. It’s not about airy-fairy theories about what might work if only we closed our eyes tight enough and said ‘I believe in Tinkerbell.’ It’s about what actually does work in the real world, as demonstrated by hard evidence.
“…see also: the ban on smoking in public places, introduced to prevent the dangers of ‘second-hand smoking’ which, all serious studies show are non-existent…But hey, the government is going to go ahead with it any way.”
Similar to the FCC’s still secret 332-page plan to fix what ain’t broken, i.e. the Internet. Just wait. They’ll see to it that it’ll be broken soon enough.
Ready to start paying 48 cents per email?
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot
Tagged compassionate conservatism, fixing the unbroken Internet, James Delingpole
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 