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McCain’s fabled temper…

Posted on May 28, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain’s fabled temper…

…is just that, a fable. You could also call it The Big Lie. Originated by and beloved of the news media. Here’s more proof. As I have said before, he could not have survived torture as a POW if he couldn’t control his temper. Something very few journalists today would know about because almost none of them have been through training to resist torture. The military calls it SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistence, Escape.

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Bye-bye Huntley and Brinkley

Posted on May 28, 2008 | Comments Off on Bye-bye Huntley and Brinkley

Well, actually, they’re long gone. But so is their struggle (or at least pretense) to objectivity. Their heirs have swung all the way to the Left. Which I think is good. They weren’t very successful at hiding what they really were, anyhow. What we need, though, is another John Cameron Swazye–as in "hopscotching the world for headlines!" You just couldn’t beat the "Camel News Caravan." (Insert smoker’s cough.)

Via Instapundit

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Barry’s uncle was in the Red Army?

Posted on May 27, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry’s uncle was in the Red Army?

Either that or Barry has been caught in another gaffe-lie-whatever, whilst straining to "prove" to a Memorial Day campaign audience that warriors will come home psychologically-broken men and women whose government must take care of them–the latest Dem twist on the troops-as-victims, the only way they see them at all.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Now, did Barry even have an uncle in WW2? Meanwhile, a genuine story, the littleknown Nazi death camp of Ohrdruf Nord. 

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Will It Blend?

Posted on May 25, 2008 | Comments Off on Will It Blend?

Here’s a real hoot in a series of videos. Don’t miss the twelve-hour lantern. You probably shouldn’t try it, though.

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Barry is an Arab-American?

Posted on May 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry is an Arab-American?

So it says here. We already knew Barry was an associate of racists, terrorists, and crooks. And that he’s a prevaricator, if not an outright liar. Could it be that he’s not even an African-American? We report, you decide.

Via The People’s Cube (the Stalinist version of the Onion)

UPDATE:  Baldilocks very effectively calls B.S. on all this. I merely thought it was a funny notion, but apparently some have taken it much too seriously. She explains why it isn’t true.

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Stuffed toys

Posted on May 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Stuffed toys

Every morning lately on my mile walk I’ve encountered a big cardboard box outside a house along the street. It’s out there waiting for the city’s recycling pickup, which comes tomorrow morning. The box is old and worn and hand-lettering on one flap reads "stuffed toys." But it’s filled with empty liquor and beer bottles, and I mean filled. Sometimes I imagine the drinker is the divorced father of a child who moved out with his mother. Sometimes I think the drinker is the widower of a woman and child who were killed in a car wreck or a plane crash. Sometimes I just wonder why the drinker buys bottles of beer instead of cans. I expect the truth is mundane. But you never know.

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Farmers on the dole

Posted on May 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Farmers on the dole

Nevermind "windfall profits" tax for Big Oil. Watch the Dems help Big Corn suck it up:

"Since the last farm bill in 2002, the price of cotton is up 105%, soybeans 164%, corn 169% and wheat 256%. Yet when Mr. Bush proposed the genuine change of limiting farm welfare to those earning less than $200,000 a year, he was laughed out of town. The bill purports to limit subsidies to those earning a mere $750,000, but loopholes and spousal qualifications make it closer to $2.5 million. As Barack Obama likes to say, it’s time Washington worked for ‘the middle class,’ which apparently includes millionaire corn and sugar farmers."

Now that’s change we can’t really believe in, Barry–so why don’t you stop being so cynical?

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