Category Archives: Scribbles

The inconvenient Obama

Just in time for Baby Barry’s coronation: There’s his recently-surfaced and long-ignored 26-year-old half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, who lives in poverty in Kenya. As if the multi-millionaire BB didn’t have enough controversial baggage already. As Instapundit says, maybe the McCains could adopt him.

Meanwhile, the Texas GOP has borrowed him for this campaign ad.

Grandpa and the kid

I’m trying to recall the last presidential candidate who picked a vice president almost old enough to be his father, if not his grandfather. As Baby Barry has done with Joe Biden, who was in the Senate before BB was born. Mike Dukakis’s choice of Lloyd Bentsen, I think it was. At least in my lifetime. Although Bentsen was only about twelve years older than Dukakis, he looked older because his hair was white. Not a good omen for the Dems, of course, as Dukakis went down in flames–carrying only ten states and D.C.

The Golden Gate baloney

One of the great myths of this country is the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s generally phographed from an angle that makes it look like it’s longer than it really is, and disappearing into a thick fog. Really waaay out there. It’s only when you get up close to it, as this photo shows, and as Mr. B. discovered to his consternation on a recent trip to California, that it’s really not all that impressive. It’s rather stuffed into a small body of water called the Golden Gate. Which is a reminder of another thing. The bridge itself isn’t golden. It’s reddish orange.

The electric vehicle’s one little problem

Electric cars–and now a dual-cab pickup truck–are truly neat. But they beg the question: Where is all the extra electricity to charge them over and over going to come from? The Electric Power Research Institute doesn’t seem to be worried, and indeed is working with General Motors to advance the idea. But I still wonder. Peak energy usage for air conditioning in the summer already causes problems for Texas utilities. Add millions of electrics cars and what happens then?

Via Dustbury.

B. Hussein Obama’s bud

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The now-law-professor wife of B. Hussein’s former "business" partner, the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, when she was a fugitive in 1970. Barry has dismissed them as mere neighbors, a convenient prevarication just now begining to come unraveled.

Via LGF.

Now, that’s funny!

Well, in picking Joe "Gaffe-a-minute" Biden as his running mate, Baby Barry at least has finally shown that he has a sense of humor. He still has a little Hope left. Very little. But he’s thrown his Change out the window. Now watch his base self-destruct.

MORE: Some of Biden’s greatest hits. And many more. You can’t run out of this stuff.

The Dems’ upside-down flag

Too funny. An upside-down national flag is the international symbol for distress. Could the Dems finally be admitting something here?