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  2. Related to the above, Mark Steyn at NRO:

    I see the Obama “reset” is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything like the dictator who gassed his own people that the discredited warmonger Bush spent 2002 and early 2003 staggering ever more punchily around the country inveighing against. The 2003 dictator who gassed his own people was the leader of the Baath Party of Iraq. The 2013 dictator who gassed his own people is the leader of the Baath Party of Syria. Whole other ball of wax.

    The whole thing here.

  3. Could you imagine what it would be like to be one of those dorks who booed Stevie Ray Vaughan at that seminal Montreaux appearance?
    [Friend] Hey man, weren’t you at Stevie Ray Vaughan’s first appearance at Montreaux?
    [Dork] Um, yeah.
    [Friend] Say, that was the concert in which some dorks in the audience booed SRV. Did you see those guys?
    [Dork] Um, no. They were way on the other side.
    [Friend] What a bunch of clueless dorks – imagine booing Stevie Ray Vaughan!
    [Dork] Yeah, um, a bunch of dorks.

  4. So barry announces today that he is planning on bombing Syria, but not too much or for too long, and also announces he’ll go to Congress to get their approval for the use of force, and then he and uncle joe go play golf. Imagine if you will if GWB had done the same after going to Congress to get “use of force” resolution on Iraq. The howls of outrage would still be echoing across the USA. Charles Krauthammer has it exactly right when he says that this is the way barry will get out of doing anything, because Congress will vote the same way the British Parliament did and nothing will happen. What a freakin coward. If it is as important as your Secretary of State declared on Friday, have the courage of your convictions and bomb anyway. You didn’t consult when you bombed Libya. Clinton didn’t when he bombed the drug factory in Sudan, some tents in Afghanistan but did when he bombed Kosovo.

  12. “Grey Lady of Argyle Street”!? Oh, cringe. Well, I guess Argyle does have a few nice pubs.

  15. Of O’narcissist and the Media Party.
    “The preposterous puff piece won Wintour and her writer, Joan Juliet Buck, last year’s Walter Duranty Award for Journalistic Mendacity.”
    …-
    “Aristotle Gives Obama a Lesson about Syria”
    “So what’s a panicked Alinskyite narcissist to do?”
    “I doubt whether Vogue will be running more pieces like “A Rose In the Desert” any time soon.”
    http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/
    …-
    “The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue’s Asma al-Assad”
    Max Fisher Jan 3 2012
    “In February, Vogue magazine published, for the benefit of its 11.7 million readers, an article titled “A Rose in the Desert” about the first lady of Syria. Asma al-Assad has British roots, wears designer fashion, worked for years in banking, and is married to the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has killed over 5,000 civilians and hundreds of children this year. The glowing article praised the Assads as a “wildly democratic” family-focused couple who vacation in Europe, foster Christianity, are at ease with American celebrities, made theirs the “safest country in the Middle East,” and want to give Syria a “brand essence.”
    Vogue’s editors defended the controversial article as “a way of opening a window into this world a little bit,” conceding only that Assad’s Syria is “not as secular as we might like.” A senior editor responsible for the story told me the magazine stood by it. A few weeks later, the article and all references to it were removed from Vogue’s website without explanation.”
    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/the-only-remaining-online-copy-of-vogues-asma-al-assad-profile/250753/

  16. I saw two concerts at the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival. Ricki Lee Jones and Jackson Browne.
    Can’t believe I missed Stevie Ray Vaughn. Bummer.

  17. How would you like to pay 40 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity? Now wonder we had no air conditioning in the places we stayed at in Germany in late July and early August.
    The people that advocate solar and wind are the criminals, not the AGW skeptics as David Suzuki suggests.
    From The Global Warming Policy Foundation
    “Europe Pulls The Plug On Its Green Future”
    “Germany has the most expensive electricity in Europe, with an average price of 26.8 euro cents (40c) a kilowatt hour.”
    http://www.thegwpf.org/benny-peiser-europe-pulls-plug-green-future/?NewsWatchCanada.ca

  23. POT Party Presents PET Cemetery Report & Al-Justine’s Back Monkey.
    …-
    “Deaths force cancellation of New York City music festival”
    “An electronic music festival that attracted thousands to New York City’s Randall’s Island was canceled on Sunday after two concertgoers died of apparent drug overdoses and four others became critically ill.” (G-M)
    …-
    “How Trudeau is shifting the thinking behind smoking up”
    http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/9e8/news/national/article14058286.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/conversation-trudeau30fo2.JPG

  24. Neo-AGW PR.
    H/T UNaBomber Mao Stlong* c/o “abnormal weather”.
    …-
    “Severe snowstorms kill at least 6 people, 30,000 animals in Peru and Bolivia”
    “Meteorologist Nelson Quispe said Sunday that the abnormal weather included the first snowfall in Chile’s Atacama desert in 30 years.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/severe-snowstorms-kill-at-least-6-people-30000-animals-in-peru-and-bolivia/article14068518/
    *Ex-liberal leader Rae’s uncle c/o Red China.

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