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  1. Zombie at PJM, channeling a future role as television program director:
    “We here at TLC realize that our fabulous new hit series Sarah Palin’s Alaska may not appeal to all our viewers. We understand that a substantial segment of the population has no interest in watching Sarah Palin or taking a tour of Alaska.”
    “And so it is with great pleasure that we’d like to announce a new show carefully designed to appeal to those of you who don’t like Sarah Palin, her state, or her values: TLC presents Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco….”
    (Warning: disturbing images (pixelated where appropriate) of our “friends” on the addled left.)

  2. Wrt recent riots in the UK, here’s an excerpt from an article in the Telegraph by Charles Moore:
    “Public protest has become over-sanctified by human rights. Rioters now turn up with their own legal advisers filming and taking notes. It has become harder to get convictions against troublemakers for the ancient offence of ‘breach of the peace’. Yet without that peace being kept, our great traditions of liberty don’t work…”

  4. I admit of my own free will, that I’ve already seen most of those photos Zombie has posted at PJmedia… I think he needs a special award of some sort, or at least a world class eye bath to help ease his soul. An outstanding selection of offensiveness, full points for that.
    *if “infinity squared” has any rum left from yesterday (I doubt it), he knows where to send it. (to Zombie’s eye bath trust…)

  7. From Sam Schulman’s “Pretentiousness Kills”, in The Weekly Standard:
    “The history of the left’s attraction to tyranny is a very old one. Less well appreciated is its attraction to pomposity and pretension, so well illustrated in the (Geert) Wilders saga. Fashionable academic theory has completely unhinged the best and brightest minds in the West—rendering too many of our elites incapable of thinking clearly about matters of ordinary justice, racism, and democracy, which they fancy they have special expertise to fix. Judge Schalken, Professor Peters, and their like, in Europe and America, are happy to render certain kinds of discussion illegal because of utterly abstract concerns that are real to them only because of dogmas absent-mindedly absorbed from Foucault and his followers. They would be worthier opponents if they were morally suicidal or loathers of European civilization. They’re not—they merely enjoy the feeling of superiority to which they believe they are entitled by the argot of anti-essentialism and the social construction of reality. They should be pitied, and also sometimes feared.”
    The whole thing here.

  9. Well boys and girls, I just saw my first commercial honoring the three greatest presidents, Washington, Lincoln and Obama as Chia planters and for a limited time offer the Statue of Liberty is available.

  11. First question of the day:
    Why did Jean Chretien want to attend the Rizzuto funeral?
    Answer: Professional courtesy.
    Second question of the day:
    Why did the Rizzuto family tell Chretien not to attend?
    They didn’t want the Don’s life associated with the criminal element.

  12. gimbol @6:57
    I’m crying at that those 2 questions/answers…
    At first I thought it was because it was so funny…then I realized it was because it is so true.
    Good one!

  13. Update: Liberal Iggy’s O’Harvard buddy.
    I…i… .
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    “The Incredible Shrinking President
    Thomas Lifson
    Barack Obama’s global stature has taken a catastrophic fall, as evidenced by his latest trip overseas. Even the New York Times cannot avert its eyes from the disastrous decline in his (and therefore America’s) influence: Obama’s economic view is rejected on world stage:
    President Barack Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free-trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts Thursday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/the_incredible_shrinking_presi.html
    …-
    “Embarrassment in Seoul
    The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America.”
    “Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals while getting pounded by other world leaders for failing U.S. policies and lagging growth.
    The root of this embarrassment is political and intellectual: Rather than leading the world from a position of strength, Mr. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner came to Seoul blaming the rest of the world for U.S. economic weakness. America’s problem, in their view, is the export and exchange rate policies of the Germans, Chinese or Brazilians. And the U.S. solution is to have the Fed print enough money to devalue the dollar so America can grow by stealing demand from the rest of the world.
    But why should anyone heed this U.S. refrain?”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575609770024501384.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter

  15. Some of you may enjoy this American Enterprise Institute webcast tomorrow:
    A Priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan Walk into a Bar
    Two Views on Loving Our Neighbor in the Twenty-first Century
    with Shane Claiborne and Peter Greer
    Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    6:00 PM — 8:00 PM EST
    Video of this event will be livestreamed…
    The parable of the Good Samaritan changed the world forever. Christians have since been challenged to model their charity not after theologians and priests, but after the loving service of a man who was supposed to be the enemy. How do we make sense of the parable of the Good Samaritan two thousand years after it was first taught? In a globalized world, how do we show mercy to those who are most in need? What does it mean to “go and do likewise”?
    At this event, Shane Claiborne, founding member of The Simple Way, a New Monastic community located in Philadelphia, and Peter Greer, president of HOPE International, a Christian faith-based nonprofit organization focused on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development, will discuss their very different approaches to helping the poor through the lens of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

  17. For the Juxtapose This thread
    ———————————-
    Newsweek’s Evan Thomas – June 5, 2009
    I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.
    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god#ixzz15NI8XGaB
    Newsweek’s Daniel Stone – Nov 13, 2010
    The presidency has grown, and grown and grown, into the most powerful, most impossible job in the world.
    http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/13/is-the-presidency-too-big-a-job.html#

  18. Don’t follow your dream?
    WTF?
    If you don’t have any dreams, however outlandish “others” may opine, how do you advance? How do you carry on without your eye on the prize?
    Stupid article.

  19. OttRob,
    I was just about to post the Newsweek link. Absolutely hilarious! Of course the job’s too big for one man: when you’re trying to turn a thriving capitalist democracy into a socialist wastebasket, it usually takes an army.

  20. Jerry Meyerle, Megan Katt, and Jim Gavrilis, Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan: How different units adapted to local conditions
    This book provides a glimpse into what relatively small military units—teams, platoons, companies, and highly dispersed battalions—have done to roll back the insurgency in some of the more remote areas of Afghanistan. The focus is on counterinsurgency at the tactical and local levels. The book includes 15 vignettes about different units from the US Marines, Army, and Special Forces, the British Army and Marines, the Dutch Army and Marines, and the Canadian Army. The case studies cover ten provinces in Afghanistan’s south and east. They describe the diverse conditions these units faced, how they responded to these conditions, what worked and what did not, and the successes they achieved. The research is based almost entirely on interviews with those involved in these operations.

    Vignette 15: Canadian Soldiers and Engineers in Dand, Kandahar, 2009
    From April to November 2009, a company of Canadian Soldiers and engineers created an island of peace and stability in the restive Panjwayi Valley south of Kandahar City.
    The team initially focused on the village of Deh-e-Bagh in Dand district, then “oil-spotted” outwards into nearby hamlets. Soldiers dispersed into small patrol bases and conducted regular patrols, while engineers implemented projects through local leaders.
    The Canadians aimed to employ as many local fighting-age males as possible on low-tech, labor-intensive projects. The engineers spread these jobs out as widely as possible by hiring roughly one person from each compound or extended family.
    By the fall of 2009, the insurgents were unable to operate in much of Dand district. Taliban commanders complained they were unable to recruit local fighters. Large-scale job creation effectively tied the local population to the Canadian effort….

  21. PET Cemetery Report:
    Our left-liberal Voodoo has failed.
    Will Liberal IggyRae send “peacekeepers” to Haiti?
    …-
    “Anti-UN riots hit Haiti, blame UN troops for cholera”
    “Protesters in Haiti who blamed United Nations peacekeepers for the epidemic of cholera there rioted in two cities on Monday, hurling rocks and setting fire to a police station, police and eyewitnesses said.
    In the northern city of Cap-Haitien, the demonstrators torched a police station after confronting U.N. troops, while in Hinche in the central region, they threw stones at Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers.
    A cholera epidemic, which broke out last month, has killed more than 900 people in the poor earthquake-hit Caribbean country, and the U.N. mission has repeatedly denied widespread rumors that Nepalese U.N. troops brought the deadly disease to Haiti. ”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1526377120101115
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/11/14/note-to-regular-readers/#comment-55509

  22. Vis a vis The Staples. Thanks, EBD. You just can’t beat Gospel sung with conviction, passion, and in close harmony. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

  23. Warren Peace, GIs testing ‘smart’ weapons that leave nowhere to hide
    The combat zone just got a little more high-tech as soldiers in Afghanistan began testing and training on five prototype weapons that fire smart bullets.
    Army officials are calling the XM25 Counter Defilade Targeting Engagement System revolutionary since it is the first time soldiers will have a smart weapon in their hands. Smart weapons have some form of a processing unit that allows them to be self-guided or, in this case, have self-adjusting sights and programmable rounds….

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