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Why I root for Texas

Posted on April 1, 2014 | 2 comments

Even though I spent my undergraduate years at the University of Maryland. Some sometimes ask, including one particularly obnoxious OCS classmate.

Not that I have spent a great amount of time thinking about this. But this post by Althouse reminded me and I liked her answer. To paraphrase her: I have lived in Austin for 36 years. In Austin the sports teams are the Longhorns. Period.

Besides, I only spent three years at Maryland and the last one was in 1967. And during them I was never very interested in sports of any kind. Attended a few football games, but none other. So the Terps hold no magic for me and they wouldn’t even if the Longhorns played them, which they don’t often.

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Abortion Barbie is ready for prime time!

Posted on January 22, 2014 | 2 comments

WENDY DAVIS: My paraplegic opponent**, Greg Abbott, doesn’t understand my struggle, “hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.”

“There’s a gaffe for the ages.”

Via Instapundit & Althouse.

**Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott—Davis’ opponent for governor—has been a paraplegic in a wheelchair since an accident in 1984.

UPDATE:  Now her slogan is “Stand With Wendy.” Fat chance. Lefties have such a talent for shooting themselves. Abortion Barbie’s candidacy was goofy enough. Who could have imagined that she and her dipsy supporters could turn it into a clown act.

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Losing Fallujah

Posted on January 16, 2014 | 2 comments

You could blame B. Hussein and the Democrats for withdrawing from Iraq. You could blame Bush-the-Younger and the neocons for sending American troops there in the first place.

You certainly could blame the Iraqis for handing the town back to the Jihadis. But maybe they really like living in the 7th century CE.

The Marines who fought there, of course, are anguished. As undoubtedly are the Army soldiers who fought there, too, although to much less publicity. As were a lot of combat veterans of Vietnam when the feckless pols withdrew from there, leaving the American dead to have died for nothing.

Well, not for nothing. They died for the Marines, for the Army, for their comrades-in-arms. That might not be enough for their survivors. But, in the end, it’s about all there ever is in war.

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Monica micromanages the Groper’s next blowjob

Posted on July 31, 2013 | Comments Off on Monica micromanages the Groper’s next blowjob

That’s Althouse’s headline, with my own slight alteration, re the newly surfaced audiotape about Slick Willie’s “I did not have sex with that woman” lie of the late 90s. Too rich.

“Since I know you will be alone tomorrow evening, I have two proposals for you, neither of which is you not seeing me… Now the first thing that has to happen is that you need to pre-plan with Betty…”

“Betty Currie was [the Willie’s] secretary.”

I hope this recording is just the first of many such reminders of how sleazy the Clintons really are. Slick Willie for being a groper of women (War on Women, anyone?), even then-young Monica who was his daughter’s age, and Lady Macbeth for being so power mad she’d stay a cuckhold rather than surrender her access to the throne. Heh.

And why we could do without the former secretary of state who left an ambassador to die in Benghazi as Wormtongue’s White House successor.

Via Althouse.

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Hate crime hoaxes

Posted on May 12, 2013 | Comments Off on Hate crime hoaxes

Instead of federal gun control in the face of declining gun crimes and more tax money for the climate change boondoggle when global warming ceased sixteen years ago, how ’bout a mental health investigation of the curious wave of these instances of Leftist Progressive lying?

Have these self-proclaimed saviors of the world truly nothing better to do than conjure up phony hate crimes to confirm their agenda and, not incidentally, attract public pity for themselves?

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Fat Candy pimps for Obama

Posted on October 16, 2012 | Comments Off on Fat Candy pimps for Obama

Now there’s a surprise. CNN’s poster woman for journalistic obesity acted as a hand puppet for Barry, says Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse:

“CANDY CROWLEY INSERTED HERSELF INTO THE DEBATE, OUTRAGEOUSLY, to break up Romney’s most dramatic moment, when Romney was questioning what Obama said the day after the attack in Benghazi. Obama had said he’d called the attack an “act of terror” and Romney was staring him down about it.

“Crowley broke up the showdown, saying ‘He did in fact call it an act of terror,’ which took the wind out of Romney’s sails. We were advised to check the transcript, but the dramatic moment was lost. The transcript shows Romney was right, and Crowley and Obama were wrong.”

Gee, you don’t say. You mean presidents actually lie in “debates,” abetted by their journalistic shills? Oh my, what is the Republic coming to? The end, I fear. Now that most of our news media has the objectivity and credibility of the old Pravda and Izvestia.

“At one point, I thought Crowley might get out her Obama pom-poms and do a little cheer: ‘Give me an ‘O’!'” —Elizabeth Price Foley at Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Well, Fat Candy didn’t go that far, but Queen Michelle broke the rules to lead the clapping for Candy’s Libya interruption, or maybe it was for that and the 27 other interruptions. The queen is determined to keep her million-dollar taxpayer vacations.

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Can we please get rid of this clown?

Posted on August 27, 2012 | Comments Off on Can we please get rid of this clown?

In my cosmology, all politicians should serve one term, and only one term. And that includes Mittens, if he wins in November. In Obozo’s case, the “forward” on the sign should be “backward,” not only because he and his cronies have screwed up the economy, but because he needs to return to Chicago. Soonest.

As for Obozo, per se, I like this comment at Althouse’s review of the new Dinesh D’Souza movie about him: “How we acquired this Affirmantive Action Communist Jive Talking’ Huckster as President will be written about for generations….”

Well, it was P.T. Barnum, H.L. Mencken, I believe, who said no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

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