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Why yes, I wear a Timex

Posted on March 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Why yes, I wear a Timex

You might think only the little people wear Timex watches. After all, they are pretty cheap. Indeed, What Kind of Man Wears A Timex, Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club asks.

Well, George W. Bush, for one. And, uh, me. Mine’s a plastic case analog with a sweep second hand and 24-hour numbers inside the usual 12. The Groper also wears one. Grrr. A plastic Ironman LCD model, a digital, according to Richard. Ironman for a fatso. Figures.

So who is most likely to wear the Rolexes and other expensive brands? Thugs, for one. Hugo Chavez (I wonder who inherited his Rolex, or will it forever be on his wrist in his Stalinesque glass tomb?) and, of course, Hugo’s best buddy Fidel. Also crooks like Jesse Jackson Jr.

Truth is I bought a Rolex in Vietnam, but it was stolen. I was only 25. Richard says Marilyn Monroe sent JFK a gold one. He got rid of it. Smart man. I’ll stick with Timex. It works. It’s cheap. What can I tell you? Besides I always liked George W. Pity about the Groper Slick Willie though.

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Moral models at the, uh, CIA

Posted on November 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Moral models at the, uh, CIA

“A lady said to me yesterday wasn’t it terrible that the Director of Central Intelligence should provide such a poor moral model for the CIA?

“’Wouldn’t you think,’ I said, “that an agency whose business is to spy, steal, cheat, lie and probably kill dozens of people each month would be somewhat less than shocked at something like marital infidelity.

“That how curious it was that an agency like the FBI should find the time to investigate threatening emails? How passingly strange it is that the FBI should authorize any kind of investigation of its rival the CIA unless it was a big deal?’”   —-Richard Fernandez

Well, it’s a big deal for some people. Barry and Hillary, for certain. Probably the FBI, as well.

But most Americans? I doubt it. If they couldn’t be bothered to vote last week, and more than seven million of them couldn’t, then why would they get exercised about whatever it is that’s really going on behind the Petraeus-Allen-Broadwell-Kelly sexual smoke screen? Especially when the Democrat media is still struggling to keep Benghazi buried and, so far, most of the Republicans in Congress are cooperating.

With the notable exceptions, at least in words, of Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

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Did he make your day?

Posted on August 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Did he make your day?

He made mine. I enjoyed Clint Eastwood’s eleven and a half minute oration for the GOP convention, including the device of the empty chair with a teleprompter. It was a performance to remember. I watched it here. Sure he faltered a bit now and then in his speech. He’s 82-years-old, after all.

But he told good jokes, especially when he made it clear what he meant when he felt it would be crass to use the actual expletive. Not everyone of us is comfortable using (let alone hearing) the F-word.

And his best line by far was a bit of obvious intelligence to the effect that when someone (i.e. Obumbles) doesn’t do the job, you have to let him go.

UPDATE:  The actual words: “We own this country . . . Politicians are employees of ours . . . And when somebody does not do the job, we’ve got to let them go”

Naturally some of the Democrat media clones didn’t like it. Oh, boo hoo.

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Why the birthers will live on

Posted on May 2, 2011 | Comments Off on Why the birthers will live on

Because, as Richard Fernandez says, they, and a growing part of the electorate who don’t care about the birth certificate, don’t trust Obama.

“At least part of this mistrust springs from the reticence of Obama himself. He has cloaked his school records and civil documents in confidentiality and it was normal to wonder at the contents of a locked box. It is impossible to understand the birth certificate drama without realizing that was never about the birth certificate document. It was about building or destroying trust in Obama.”

UPDATE:  For instance, Osama was supposedly “quickly buried at sea.” If this was Bush in office, nobody in the media would buy that. It’s truly touching that they’re buying it when Barry is prez. But why should anyone else? Something is fishy here, and it’s more than the O Man.

MORE: Meanwhile, Obamalot’s story of the alleged killing of OBL is unraveling. But his supporters say, hey, if you don’t trust him, you’re a racist! Yeah, that’ll convince ’em.

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Who, as opposed to what, gets on the plane

Posted on November 23, 2010 | Comments Off on Who, as opposed to what, gets on the plane

The El Al security system is far less intrusive than the TSA one (there is no groin grope or X-Ray machine), and it works just fine.

Because, unlike the feds, El Al is not concerned with political correctness, only safety.

Michael Totten, who gets profiled every time he flies through Tel Aviv, explains how Israel does it:

By eschewing the “Security Theater” approach, which is to always fight the last “war,” i.e. remove your shoes, bring no shampoo, let them grope your underwear, etc.

Despite that Al Q never strikes the same way twice, the Feds always do.

(I’m hoping to experience the Israeli Way when I fly to Tel Aviv in the spring.)

Meanwhile, Thomas Sowell sees more of Obamalot’s disdain for America here:

“If anything good comes out of the airport ‘security’ outrages, it may be in opening the eyes of more people to the utter contempt that this administration has for the American people.”

Still more from Instapundit, who thinks the flying public’s anger over TSA’s groin grope is far from over.

Because, for one thing, Obamalot is considering exempting Muslim women.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the federal bigs are breezing right on through. No scan or grope for them. And no surprise, either.

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Georgia on My Mind

Posted on August 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Georgia on My Mind

The best joke I’ve seen is that the Russians won’t make it past Macon, let alone enter Atlanta. But the Russian invasion of the other Georgia, our ally on the other side of the world which sent two thousand troops to Iraq, really isn’t funny. It’s quite a bit of food for thought. It seems obvious to me that we will do nothing, other than prattle about condemnation and seek meaningless resolutions from the Dictator’s Club.

Not because our military is weak, despite its being well committed already, but because our society is weak, and has no stomach for war with Russia, whatever they do with Georgia, Ukraine or any of their other former "colonies." As to all that, Richard Fernandez, author of the Belmont Club blog, and his stalwart commenters are among the best sources available on what’s happening and what it is all likely to mean in the future. See also this column by military writer Ralph Peters.

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