“… in the early days like with the clinging-to-guns stuff,” said O’Keefe, referring to an incident at a San Francisco fundraiser in which candidate Obama said small-town Americans “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
O’Keefe said he also expected the ruse would be unmasked when Obama said that “under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” and again when Obama claimed, “I’ve now been in 57 (U.S.) states,” with “one left to go.”
“We modeled the 57-states gaffe on Dan Quayle’s ‘potatoe’ mistake,” said O’Keefe, referring to a 1992 incident at a Trenton, N.J., elementary school in which then-Vice President Dan Quayle added an “e” to “potato.” “We figured Obama would become a national laughingstock like Quayle, (but we) underestimated the tendency of the press and the public to forgive mistakes by people they like.”
Justin Trudeau’s Inner Tweets
Chad Blenkin: In A League Of His Own
There’s no crying in Twitter, Chad.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough!
“We cannot have a health system where the stories that land on the front page of the paper determine our health-care policy. It would be unfair to those who do not get their stories on the front page if we were to give priority to those who do.” *
Obama’s Past: Not Prologue Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau, March 2009 – [W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
Michael Walsh, March 2011 – President Obama would be much more comfortable as a monarch without too many demanding duties, thus leaving him plenty of time for golf, hoops, trips to the winter palace in Hawaii, and, of course, vacations and down time.
Similar observations here… “he’s not even pretending anymore to take part in the governing process.”
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips amusement, brought to us by the folks at Old Jews Telling Jokes, Harold Zapolski, Professor Emeritus of the Physics department of Rutgers University and former Program Director for Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation, tells the one about the deli.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a totalitarian party to vote for.
A leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Egypt’s largest opposition group, said on Monday that the MB’s new “Freedom and Justice Party” would continue to stick by its view that Christians and women are unsuitable for the presidency.
“None of this amounts to ‘another Chernobyl’.”
The core of a nuclear reactor operates at about 550 degrees Fahrenheit, well below the temperature of a coal furnace and only slightly hotter than a kitchen oven. If anything unusual occurs, the control rods immediately drop, shutting off the nuclear reaction. You can’t have a “runaway reactor,” nor can a reactor explode like a nuclear bomb. A commercial reactor is to a bomb what Vaseline is to napalm. Although both are made from petroleum jelly, only one of them has potentially explosive material.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Scientists backtrack on coconut oil.
When The Only Tool You Have Is A Keyboard
Everything looks like the Internet;
Two facts are often overlooked by pundits attributing North African social unrest to a social media campaign. First, according to the CIA World Fact Book, less than 10% of the combined populations of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have internet access. Second, the literacy rate across these four countries averages approximately 68% of the adult population. Collectively, these penetration rates across the populations mentioned do not translate into the levels of protest seen in the streets of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Something more was at work.
h/t Adrian
Time Magazine’s “Dead Man Walker”
“Too far west…nope, now it’s too far east…”
The Star’s Susan Delacourt, the writer with “Ottawa insider” at all times written all over her, writes about the “buzzing” in “political circles” over the impending resignations of two Conservative ministers from the west and a western MP. The danger, you see, is that the Conservatives have packed up their belongings and relocated east to The Boogeyman’s Palace:
What may be most interesting about this news is the signal that Harper’s government increasingly is rooted in Ontario, and in particular, Mike Harris’s Ontario…
“Mike Harris’s Ontario” – the perfect pseudo-geographical intended-scare-phrase talking point for any anti-Conservative with Ottawa insider written all over her.
Alberta Aardvark:
If the PM found a cure for cancer, the Toronto Star would write an op-ed on how he is putting doctors out of work…
Pretty much.
A Canadian Wheat Board Youtube Goes Horribly Wrong
“This field next year will be planted to canola“.
h/t Derek
Vogueing in the Bubble
Here are a few choice excerpts from a “Tiger Beat” column…whoops, sorry, they’re from an Ottawa Magazine article, titled “Queen of the Hill”, about CBC parliamentary reporter Kady O’Malley:
“The Hill Times, the newspaper of record in the parliamentary precinct, has named her one of the 100 most influential people in government and politics for the past two years running….”
Kady O’Malley is one of the most influential people in Canadian government and politics?
“Put simply, O’Malley is trending…”
A trending reporter? Who knew?
Columnist Rob Thomas love-love-loves her style:
“…she looks like the town gunslinger, wearing heels and low-slung jeans with two Blackberries clipped to her belt. And if it were an Old West scene, her desk would be the requisite tumbleweed, a chest-high jumble of papers with a netbook perched on top…”
Yes, if Kady O’Malley was living in the Old West, her desk would be “the requisite tumbleweed” with a computer perched on top of it – makes perfect sense, really, for someone raised in Ottawa who “was hooked on politics early” and whose father, Peter O’Malley, “was director of communications to NDP leader Ed Broadbent, while her mother worked as a government economist.”
Choice quote from the comments under the article:
“Kady O’Malley isn’t a journalist…she drinks Red Bull and squawks on her blackberry like any 17 year old girl would. Only difference is a 17 year old would hate the cheerleaders, Kady hates Conservatives.”
She’s the perfect CBC employee, in other words.
Reader Tips
Because of the language barrier and the absence of subtitles, it’s not immediately apparent that the play-by-play man who is the subject of the action in tonight’s video was a personally troubled, obsessive-compulsive, nit-picking critic. And a pothead.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Attention all Nerds
Just a reminder for all the nerds, misfits, losers, math students and fans of Big Bang Theory – you’ll want to have the right atire and at 1:59 tomorrow be ready to mark the occasion of Pi Day.
I’m not sure what one does on such an occasion, but apparently it is not to be missed.
Car 54, Where Are You?
| Car 54, Where Are You? was an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963. The series followed the adventures of NYPD officers Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon in the fictional 53rd precinct in the Bronx. The 33 episodes that I’ve been able to find on the Internet are now available at my new Car 54, Where Are You? page at The Sagacious Iconoclast. |
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Good news for Islamic Women
Who says the status of women is not advancing in the Islamic world?
In fact they have a new magazine:
Al-Qaeda has launched a women’s magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.
I Dream of Adhān in the Morning
The town of Saguenay in Quebec doesn’t have any Muslim citizens, so its mayor is proactively looking for some. He wants the town to construct a mosque — “If we build it, they will come.”
We Are Winning
Some days it’s hard to keep track of all the bad news for Global Warmists.
Example:
Half of the temperature increase in the Arctic can be traced to black exhaust dust (soot).
[…]
Because of these new findings, the so-called German Environment Aid group (DUH) is now calling for diesel filters for heavy construction machinery.”
Even the glaciers are getting into the joke:
Lead scientist Robin Bell of Columbia University said that the models of ice sheet – which are relevant for the behavior of Greenland and Antarctica, which subsequently influence the sea level, ice-albedo feedbacks, and other things – were as wrong as models of cars without tires. What happened?
… much more @ Cjunk