Is it me, or does the dude sound a bit Carville-esque, as presented.
Anyway, for what it’s worth. A teaser:
Barack Obama ain’t ever learned that lesson. He’s been told since day one – been told life owes him something. Been told he’s special. Been told America is all wrong, that it needs to be changed up. Not just improved – hell, I would be the first to say it could be improved. No, Obama’s been told it needs to be…what did his wife say? America needs to be transformed? Right? Something like that? He never had to work to be where he is. Never had to…his grandparents spoiled the sh-t out of him. Colleges spoiled the sh-t out of him. Such a bright young man, right? What did Biden say about that? He speaks well and is “clean”? Jes-s H. Chr-st. That’s been Obama’s M.O. his whole life! The well spoken Black guy. Tellin’ him he’s smart. He deserves success. Jarrett sniffs his potential and gives him opportunity – just hands it to him. Those Chicago people, they mark him as their guy. More is given to him. A house. A campaign. The guy was fast-tracked all the way. Jack Kennedy was given a sh-tload of privilege but he also got his back broke up to sh-t in WWII. He at least knew something about sacrifice. Not Obama. Not ever. What has he sacrificed? Nothing. He’s been told what to think, what to say – and that is what is happening in the White House. Since day one. When the campaign ended in 2008 – anyone paying attention, anyone around the administration began to realize the guy can’t function without being told what to think and what to say. And as long as what is being told to him is that he is great…that this country f-cking owes him something…he’s ok with…he’s ok with it.
If it’s fiction, it’s compelling fiction.
Because it’s hard not to notice that the “insider” reinforces much of what many of us believe we see in Obama. Which makes me nervous.
— Though it’s also quite possible Obama is exactly what we’ve always thought he is — and that there really isn’t anymore there there than, well, that’s actually there.
In which case, life really does perhaps imitate art — or else what we’re getting from “Ulsterman” is the real deal.
The tone is off as compared to the previous stuff. Like the subject is drunk, perhaps.
Maybe Ayers wrote this one. Whatever it is, it’s compelling indeed, especially as much of it has been confirmed elsewhere.
The tone is off as compared to the previous stuff.
I noticed that too. Less Hal Holbrooke, more vulgar Mark Shields.
Some days, I think the only prayer we have for saving our Republic is for the Chicago machine and the Beltway machine to weaken each other enough that we Teatards can get the upper hand for a while. We for damn sure need to encourage such struggles on their side.
Two links. You can decide whether they’re related.
“Insider”‘s half of the dialogue always gives me this mental image of Teddy Salad from Monty Python— like a Brit’s idea of the way Americans talk. The real tipoff would be if he said “goddam” all the time (with the emphasis on the first syllable, although that wouldn’t show up in print). I dunno if he represents a real person or is a composite, but I think he’s being heavily paraphrased.
I think he’s being heavily imagined myself.
“Insider” doesn’t have to name names, but he could at least indicated what types of “investors” we got here: unions? Soros? What?
“Gimme anotha meatball an’ I’ll tell ya!”
It’s not James Carville, it’s David Frum.
I keed, I keed.
one thing for sure is someone has told Obama to lay low for awhile and to not be in everyone’s faces for now… Obama fatigue is very real i think even if the media disallows the phrase
“If I answer that question you keep asking. If I give you the name of the big enchilada, then its bon voyage, Deano. Like a bullet in my head, you dig? You’re a mouse fighting a gorilla. Kennedys as dead as that crab meat, the governments alive and breathing.”
It’s Dean Andrews, I tell you…
Maybe it’s Bob Woodward channeling the ghost of Bob Casey, or something like that.
OK, this thing Newt said bugs me because I don’t know if it’s true:
Is it a fact that people fail to take Lipitor because it’s not subsidized? Can you show that those people are at a substantially higher risk of being operated on? Now that Medicare D is in place, have any savings on the “big” things been shown because of spendings on the little things?
Also, he’s saying that there’s something bad “on the human level” with paying for dialysis but not insulin. As if it were the job of the gubmint to be humane rather than, oh, I don’t know, just? Prudent?
And then this:
Nice jab at Glenn’s brand-name, Newt. But merely citing Hamilton justifies action now? Why? You can find plenty of bad ideas in play during the Constitutional convention and afterwards. Being a history buff doesn’t spare you having to justify an idea.
Nifty shift from “yes, I do believe in picking winners and losers even though I don’t want to admit it” to “Look! Welfare Slackers!” Oh, he’s a rhetorically slick one, he is. No wonder he’s been fooling so many people: he hides his big-gubmint assumptions in “conservative” language so well that Obama’s handlers must be kicking themselves they didn’t hire Newt.
he’s still better than Obama or Romney I think
but he needs to tell us what he wants to do as president and stop yammering about Alexander Hamilton’s stupid manufacturing reports
crédit mobilier spits the ghost of james j. hill
Hill was different.
You-you-you… learn that life ain’t always gonna cut your way. You can lose. And it hurts – fu–ing literally hurts. That’s life. Life don’t owe you nothin’ and sometimes it might just kick your ass in the dirt.
Barack Obama ain’t ever learned that lesson.
I’ve been blessed with the task of raising 7 teenagers. As I’ve told my wife (who agrees!), Obama is just a spoiled teenager who never had to grow up.
Oh, I don’t know if it has been discussed here before, but I find the hew AMC series “Hell on Wheels” pretty interesting so far (about 4 episodes in). If you’re not familiar with it, the backdrop is the building of the Union Pacific railroad. The protagonist is an ex-rebel slaveholder looking vengeance upon them what kilt and sullied his wife.
god bless you
that is many
Hell on Wheels had very very bad and enigmatic marketing during the walking dead – i remember we all puzzled over it… but mostly we were kinda inclined to give it a shot
but I don’t think any of us ever did
The protagonist is an ex-rebel slaveholder looking vengeance upon them what kilt and sullied his wife.
That has the makings of a country song.
And, bless your heart! That is a lot of young’uns.
newt on greta
“it is a badge of honor to be attacked by pelosi”
that’s lowering the badge of honor bar quite a bit
Thanks. Not a task we necessarily sought, but accepted and executed nonetheless. Our lives are richer, if not our savings.
all of england is but a filty anti-human socialist pissoir and those kids were right to try and burn it down I think
their most notable export being candids of pippa middleton’s whore ass
this in response to some tripe by one Theodore Dalrymple I found at that Hot Air place
speaking of… where is the good Mr. Whistle?
he seemed kind of offended at one point by my sympathy with the rioters there
…
This is one of those agree to disagree matters I think.
nah getting hit by a cum slut hoochie is a plus. go big italian tits.
you really just need one of the seven to hit it big Mr. bilder
not the worst odds, really
“If you’re not familiar with it, the backdrop is the building of the Union Pacific railroad. The protagonist is an ex-rebel slaveholder looking vengeance upon them what kilt and sullied his wife.”
yea don’t looked too deeply into gov’t scandal credit moblier. we need more solyndra
some tripe by one Theodore Dalrymple
Fucking idiot
I’ll pause here while you fetch Mr. Dalrymple’s slippers
and do be a love and grab the brandy snifter on your way back
*snifters* I mean
and also DO please ask the help if they fancy the hearing of a bit of Kipling
Mr. Dalrymple is in something of a mood tonight
One graduated in 2010 with a BS in chem engineering. It took him over a year to find a full time job. You keep hearing that there are plenty of jobs in this economy for people with skills. Just more MSM bullshit to help prop up SCOAMF.
(BTW, we are very proud of him. He overcame a lot of hurdles.)
“Mr. Dalrymple”
dealt with crazy folks no?
“One graduated in 2010 with a BS in chem engineering. It took him over a year to find a full time job”
i feel your pain – bill clinton
my guess is if he’d been willing to go overseas he would have found work straightaway… but some things are worth waiting for
Dalrymple is a psychiatrist who is now retired, but worked in the prison system for many years. He has some good insights about the yobs across the pond.
Dalrymple is a pseudonym, but I’m too lazy to google it. Andrew or Anthony something.
but congratulations all the same … my parents can claim no such achievement
“that there are plenty of jobs in this economy for people with skills.”
a bullshit in science ain’t “skills”
“a bullshit in science ain’t “skills””
try to build something with a chem e degree?
The good Mr. Dalrymple is maundering on about the riots many many moons after the fact… riots that were as righteous as any riots you’re ever likely come across whilst the planning of a Royal Wedding is afoot
I say
Mr. newrouter I believe the good Mr. Schreiber retrieved an extra snifter…
do please join us
He’s old. I cut him some slack.
It’s like your grandpa telling you about his adventures as a Fuller Brush man back in the day.
LA is about due for a nice, righteous riot. Been nearly 20 years now.
I hope you all enjoy Mark Steyn’s 1998 encomium to Newt Gingrich as much as I did.
That’s true, Pablo. I wish I had pictures of the righteous Korean store owners on their rooftops with high-powered rifles. It was a thing of beauty.
nonono Ms. leigh…. that was back in the day… but if ever there were a place where riots are passe it’s the ever so charming union whore Villaraigosa’s LA
Nanny Bloomberg’s NY isn’t even ripe
my best guess would be … keep your eye on Washington D.C.
or maybe Portland, or Milwaukee
here’s a famous picture leigh I looked it up during the london kerfuffle what has the good Mr. Dalrymple in his cups
my good dicentra… Mr. Newt is the best Team R was able to do this cycle
one mustn’t seek bitterness lest it find one, mustn’t one?
Took a look at the Dalrymple piece. It was perhaps the least controversial conservative take on the riots imaginable.
As for righteousness, it’s a quandary to me that civilized societies have long accepted shooting such practitioners of righteousness in a public street in the middle of the day.
It’s a paradox, I guess.
that doesn’t mean one can’t root for them all the same
*clink*
if he’d been willing to go overseas he would have found work straightaway
He did. In Africa.
Now you’re a fucking idiot with your thumb in your ass and a big grin to pass the time of day with.
It would be rather sporting to root for them whilst dropping them.
ummm… Mr. Schreiber? I was talking there about a certain young chemical engineer who braved a relatively brief period of uncertain prospects… but it all turned out well enough in the end.
even when I’m walking on a wire
My turn to look stupid then.
oh… I put that link in a different thread I think
you don’t look stupid in the least Mr. Ernst
it’s not as if this were a battle of wits
you’re ever likely *to* come across whilst the planning of a Royal Wedding is afoot I mean
There should be a point system, Pablo. Sort of like “Top Shot”. If you drop one in the act of, say, swinging a tire iron at your store front window and don’t break the window in the process of dropping them: Maximum points alloted.
doesn’t it rather depend on what it is one has displayed in the store front window in question?
What if they’ve secreted Paula Abdul’s unwashed 1986 danskins behind yon window?
Maximum points?
Really?
…
Really?
Jewelry, silly.
carry on then
My God, it looks like a marshmallow Peeps delivery truck crashed here.
I’ll check back tomorrow.
Well, that was a provocative read. The Washington Insider fellow comes across sounding like an escapee from one of Alex Joneses lockers. I’m wondering if it all is but a loaded crap sandwich.
But, playing along, a couple names perhaps behind the two-term Barack edifice would must be Soros and that Warren Buffet mental midget.
Oh, here’s a quick and funny read from the Gutenberg; ‘feets, this is a story about an advertiser. I’ve heard you are a mogul at that sort of thing. )
This ought to hook you…
Several points about that Dalrymple piece:
Firstly, the Gini coefficient was cooked up by an Italian Fascist.
Secondly
and
strike me as very much as “foolish, or at least shallow, reflecting the typical materialistic assumptions of the intelligentsia.”
Thirdly, the reason to take it seriously is that the London riots of this past August presage the #OWSie riots of July/August next. They’ll make a nice counter-point to Mitt’s acceptance speech at the GOP convention.
Finally, it’s only a kerfuffle if it’s not your livelihood they’re burning.
no no no the ad-man amongst us is the goodly Mr. Froman
Me I’m not at all up to the stress.
thanks for adding the [to] part it’s a graciousness that’s far too uncommon
and, no, the London riots do NOT presage that contrived Soros-funded “occupy” crap you sots across the pond reveled in so garishly
and what I heard is… one of the shops that burned… had in truth fashioned a gorgeous dress … a gorgeous dress precisely fitted for Pippa Middleton’s most gorgeous ass!
oh the humanity
One thing doesn’t ring right about the Dalrymple piece anyhow: those street punks are nothing like honest barbarians, who would sooner bury a small hatchet in the middle of the punks’ foreheads without so much as a word of explanation, than hold a pointless discussion with them. Barbarians tended to be efficient that way.
Barbarians have feeling you know. Bless their tiny chav hearts.
how did anyone think that rot was going to end I ask you
[T]he London riots do NOT presage that contrived Soros-funded “occupy” crap you sots across the pond reveled in so garishly
That’s true of both the upper-middle/lower-upper class would-be distributers of public largesse and the lower class recipients of same.
Who is it camped out there in Zuccotti Park again?
And I’m in flyover country. But I can understand your confusion. Coast to coast or across the pond, it’s such a long flight, and there’s nothing to see looking out the window.
I suppose the difference sdferr is that only our modern rebarbarized barbarian feel the need to justify their looting. Natural barbarians simply take.
no… the londoner yoot were genuinely angry… the level of condescending paternalistic nanny bullshit they’ve endured is one the New World as yet aspires to
don’t you read those websites what end in .uk?
it’s a screaming horror it is, what they’ve done to the notion of liberty
No TRVE Barbarian would feel the need to come up with a justifcation fo his barbarism.
Is there any pudding the Brits don’t love?
[These street punks do have at least one commonality with the Bar-bar-barbarians: neither speak Greek.]
The Brits do love their pudd and a nice joint for Sunday lunch. The meat kind not the herb.
it is pudding, after all
nom nom nom
I concede that you have a point about the difference between ginned-up anger and genuine anger. At the same time however, note that these people didn’t march on council offices and burn them down.
We’re in for a long hot summer, and it won’t be because of the Climatic Research Unit.
you have a good point as well
the whole affair lacked symbolism of any utility whatsoever
me I hope they do better next time
how wicked of me
let’s not tell Mr. Silver I said that
I’d submit the justice of Billy’s blow to Taggart’s forehead, as an instance of what I suspect is coming, and much will it be to the modern Taggarts’ surprise and dismay, so used are they to lying without consequence. Billy too, was termed a barbarian, if I remember right.
I’m not following: Billy and Taggart? Must be getting late.
There is one sense in which this is true: once something has been done once, you have moved the risk from “possibly impossible” to “possible but difficult”. That lower level of risk can provide the margin needed to get private investing involved. Other examples: space travel, internet.
The foretopman, E.
things what can’t go on forever won’t
Taggart is all wrong though, Claggart was his name.
Ah. Melville instead of Brookes. For a minute there, I was thinking Billy must be Bart’s first name.
It is getting late. I misspelled Brooks.
And I thought “Billy“.
Was that the one run by the single mum who had every last shilling she had sunk into the place she’d sewed her fingers to the bone to build and lost it all because arson got trendy?
hard to say
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no… the londoner yoot were genuinely angry… the level of condescending paternalistic nanny bullshit they’ve endured is one the New World as yet aspires to
Angry? Maybe, maybe not. Who cares? Regardless, it wasn’t anger at the “condescending paternalistic nanny bullshit” – if anything, they complained about needing more paternalistic nannyism (I think you’ve coined an oxymoron, by the way).
there you are… yes as Mr. Ernst pointed out they didn’t lash out in a way that supports any real thesis… the contrived occupy losers over here would never have that problem
how do you live in a house for 45 years and still owe $275,000 on it?
Fourth mortgage. Maybe he sent three kids to an Ivy.
…and all three have their diplomas proudly on display in their workspaces where they say, “Do you want fries with that?”
This is what happens when you use your house as a credit card. But remember, it’s the bank’s fault you’re stupid.
Manic here, too. Good grief. Someone needs to get out of mom’s basement.
they’re scraping the bottom of the poster boy barrel I think
0342 hrs local standard time: Minesweeper Condor reports “Sighted submerged submarine on westerly course, speed 9 knots[,]” less than 2 miles from the entrance to Pearl Harbor. Destroyer Ward begins a search for the submarine.
I’m wondering how on Earth one can have a $275,000 mortgage and expect to only pay $800 a month. Someone needs to learn some math skills; that’s practically an interest-free loan over 30 years.
And that doesn’t even account for taxes and insurance.
If the house only fetched $80k at auction, it was probably never worth near $275k. Peak Zestimate was just over $230k; current valuation is about $150k.
So, someone got it for 50 cents on the dollar. Imagine if banks required that you invest enough in the house that if it was foreclosed on, they’d recover their nut. Imagine that.
BTW the tax assessor’s office still has Hull listed as owner, not that that means anything. Things can happen quicker than the local government can track. But you’d think that a house auctioned in August would have the ownership changed, at this point in time.
Ad just seen at Instapundit:
Put Progressive Alan Grayson back in Congress
Yeah, like that’s gonna happen. The guy was such a complete embarrassment that if there was a literal ejection handle, we (the district he represented) would have pulled it before he’d been seated a year.
OT, but Osawatomie, helpfully defined.
You know what they say about how serial killers look like anybody else? Alan Grayson looks like a serial killer.
Unseized property, an expense.
I don’t think he hears himself, at all. Or else, he’s simply content to lie.
speaking of… where is the good Mr. Whistle?
he seemed kind of offended at one point by my sympathy with the rioters there
I save up my offendedness for the important stuff, feets.
Three Pinocchios
Mickey Kaus (modified), via Insty:
that is very wise Mr. Whistle I think
it would be fun to have billions of dollars and sign the giving pledge and then leave everything to your kids
maybe that would be a good new year’s resolution for somebody
that is very wise Mr. Whistle I think
Given the price of ammo these days feets, there’s no point in cultivating a thin skin.
0610 hrs local standard time: Admiral Nagumo orders the carriers of his strike force, Akagi, Kaga, S?ry?, Hiry?, Sh?kaku, and Zuikaku to turn into the wind. The 183-plane first wave, 49 high-altitude bombers, 51 dive-bombers, 40 torpedo planes, and 43 fighters begins to take off. During their approach to Pearl, they will use the signal of a Honolulu radio station as a navigation beacon.
that reminds me I finally got bit by one of my turtles – when I was trying to separate them… the one I was trying to help bit me – kind of like in a striking motion, which is good cause if they hold on they can clamp down something fierce when you try to dislodge them… anyway it was a clean cut just like a razor blade and it bled clean… it bled a lot really
then I googled and read they tend to get mean when they get older, but we’re not there yet.
Sh?kaku
Sunk, June 19, 1944, by torpedoes from USS Cavalla, commanded by Herman Kossler, my one-time next door neighbor.
Three cheers for Lt Cdr Kossler.
Ok, time to really start going through Newt’s dissertation line by line. Oh, we absolutely need to spend this kind of effort, the man might become president (well, at least the Republican nominee). Totally just due diligence on our part. What’s that you say, what about this president’s history, or at least college transcripts? Not needed anymore of course, that’s old news and coded language for a racial attack. We have his record in office now. Errrrr. Well, really Bush’s or the TEA Partier’s economy of course, but we still don’t need to go back and look at those closed chapter, we have Obama’s record, a record of, ah, of having a vision. Of a Transformed America, divided along class lines. Equality.
HEY! Look at that Republican clown show, don’t you giggle a little just saying “Newt”? Help us People’s Ridicule Brigade, you’re our only hope!
-The August Voice of the New York Times
The Pearl Harbor comments are great, fellas. Cheers.
0630 hrs local standard time: Antares, towing a 500 steel barge sights suspicious object 1500 yards to the starboard quarter. Antares signals Ward
And three too for Cavalla: she lives on the eastern tip of Pelican Island, near Galveston, Tx.
0645 hrs local standard time: Destroyer Ward locates and procedes to attack midget submarine previously sighted by Antares.
0653 hrs local standard time: Ward sends coded message to 14th Naval HQ reporting: “We have attacked, fired upon, and dropped depth charges upon submarine operating in defensive sea area.”
From Pablo’s link above. My bolding.
Whine and hubris in one compact phrase. Efficient
wordsmithinglying.0702 hrs local standard time: Opana Mobile Radar Station, in operation for less than a month, detects a large formation of aircraft heading for Oahu. The sighting is reported to the Fort Shafter information center.
0715 hrs local standard time: Code clerks at 14th Naval HQ decode message sent by Ward and forward the message through channels.
0720 hrs local standard time: Expecting the arrival of a flight of B-17s on their way to Midway from California, the duty officer at the radio-network operations center at Fort Shafter, informs the operators of the Opana Radar Station to disregard the formation they spotted.
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0733 hrs local standard time: From a Tokyo-to-Washington message, intercepted and decoded by U.S. Naval Intelligence code breakers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, learn that Japanese negotiators in Washington have been told to break off talks. Believing this may mean war, Marshall sends a warning to Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, commander of U.S. Army forces in Hawaii.
Because atmospheric static blacks out communications with Hawaii, Marshall’s message goes via commercial telegraph.
our job… is keep our boot on the neck of British Petroleum
is *to* keep our boot on the neck I mean
bad pasting skills
0740 hrs local standard time: Planes of the first wave approach Oahu’s Kakuku Point.
0748 hrs local standard time: Lt. Fuchida signals strike force: TO RA, TO RA, TO RA indicating surprise attack achieved.
0749 hrs local standard time: Bomb explosions and planes heard and sighted attacking Ford Island hangars.
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Oops, blockquote fail.