Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt:
Allow me to remind you what Obama said a week ago: “Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”
Since Obama scoffed about those who warn about tyranny, we’ve learned that the IRS targeted Americans based upon their political beliefs, his Health and Human Services secretary is shaking down companies for cash, his attorney general is secretly listening in to conversations between journalists and their sources, and they threatened whistleblowers on Benghazi.
It may not seem so at first blush, but this bit from Geraghty — which is dead solid perfect, by the way, so kudos to Jim — is something of a game changer. Or I should say, potentially so. Because if someone as professionally circumspect as is Geraghty about claims from we purists that socialists, Marxists, and liberal fascists have been for the past four years lurking in America’s bushes and hiding in its corn chowders can begin evincing a degree of comfort with the word “tyranny” as it applies to the current administration, we may not be done quite yet as a party or a country.
Which, hope and change!
Scandal of the day: Obama’s EPA waives fee requests for friendly “green” groups, not for ideologic enemies
So what are we up to now:
1. Fast and Furious
2. Pigford
3. IRS targeting of
3.a. TEA Party and Patriot groups
3.b. Jewish pro-Israel groups
4. Benghazi
5. HHS shakedown on health industry companies
6. Solyndra
You’d think with all this there would be more to talk about this morning than Angelina Jolie’s former yabbos.
sanfrannan gets one right
Nancy Pelosi: Female John Boehner would be called the ‘weakest speaker’
*subscribes to DarthLevin’s newsletter
Something happened to Angelina Jolie’s yabbos?
*Internet search*
That’s a damn shame.
What were you talking about again?
She had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for new foobs.
Please, God — don’t let them take Christina Hendricks’ too.
They already got Christina Applegate’s.
Back on topic: Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Obama Interview
Jolie can have the best preventative medicine money can buy.
I can no longer afford health insurance.
But thanks for sharing Jolie.
As for the “newsworthyness” – she shared to help others. Sorry. Not buying it. My aunt has this done over 20 years ago after she lost her sister and mom. Women in such families are away of preventative mastectomies.
Only some women can afford the expensive testing and reconstructive surgery, etc.
But thanks for sharing Jolie.
The founder of True The Vote in Houston was asked by the IRS for every Twitter tweet and Facebook post she’s ever put up.
the fire has jumped the fire line
Video: These IRS and DOJ scandals are among the worst excesses I’ve seen, says … Andrea Mitchell
Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Obama Interview
Wait…she underwent an elective surgery, just in case she ever got breast cancer? Before everyone else in the world was free to do so?
Huh.
Her mother died of breast cancer at 56. AJ has all the markers that indicate she too is likely to get breast cancer.
She and Brad just won’t get married until all the gheys can marry. Or so says Brad.
At least Jim Geraghty still
has his boobsis a boob. It hardly seems fair.Seconded.
Helping to round out Darth’s list:
7. Arbitrary war in Libya
8. New Black Panther voter intimidation
9. Telling Medvedev about having “flexibility” to sell out missile defense after the election
10. Massive hunger strike at Gitmo (didn’t he shut Gitmo down years ago?)
What’s worse is how many of these scandals have body counts attached to them. Nixon was impeached for a plain old office break-in that killed nobody, and he’d carried 49 states in his re-election.
Plus which, keeping the earth in balance, Jessica Biel still has her own tits! Amirite, Barry? Fairness distributed.
Please, God — don’t let them take Christina Hendricks’ too.
Seconded.
I’m glad to see you guys have your priorities in order.
11. AP phone records, I forgot that one for a minute. Although my sympathy for them is measured in units beginning with either pico- or femto-
Guess where the data demanded by the IRS about, donors, members, employees & their families, of conservative and Jewish groups was headed. Yup.
They’re guys, Carin. You know how they are.
ok i understand why you might want to get a preventive masectomy but what’s the timing involved exactly?
why can’t you wait one more year (and then maybe one more year)
i think even if i resolved to cut something off I’d still procrastinate
plus american hospitals are mrsa-infested shitholes
plus there has to be a way for super highly at-risk breast cancer peoples to get a super early warning and then go under the knife asap after that – or there should be
I thought there were special mutant sniffer dogs trained for this or a blood test or what have you
The irony, Geoff, is that the IRS certainly wanted to know everything about everyone who worked, or was related to anyone who worked, in these partisan organization. But the government doesn’t seem to care about marriage relationships between members of the white house administration and major news outlets.
Boobs.
There are other ironies. Like the DoJ teaming with HHS to look into fraud in Medicare, rather than looking at Medicare as a fraud. Or the forcible passage of ObaZmaCare against the express wishes of the American people looked at as reasonable government, rather than as a scandal in itself (it tends to get left off of lists of late, so little is it understood as a scandal of the highest order).
Yup.
*Please, God — don’t let them take Christina Hendricks’ too. *
They should be declared a national landmark imho.
Hey, now. Angelina is a libertarian with a strong distaste for Barky, and her dad is an outright Tea Partier.
Why all the hate?
The report I saw said that this gene gives her something like an 85% chance of getting breast cancer, and that her mom and grandmother had both died from it.
Seems pragmatic to get the surgery before the cancer has a chance to form and maybe spread.
You have to go back to Jolie’s account of her procedure. It sounds like it was done with full consideration for aesthetics (not that I have any problem with that, except for whatever limitations the ACA has imposed upon non-Hollywood women receiving similar treatment). It sounds like she was able to keep her nipples, and has only some small scars. (Thank you, free-market innovation!)
This ought to barely be a story outside of her immediate family.
SBP says May 14, 2013 at 11:18 am
Angelina is a libertarian with a strong distaste for Barky,
You sure about that? Seems way out of character for her.
There was some squaks about her being libertarian and a huge Ayn Rand fan, but she and her husband were Obama supporters and have visited the White House rather often.
She has been quoted as saying she is disappointed that he wasn’t able to do MORE.
“You sure about that? Seems way out of character for her.”
She’s on record as supporting staying in Iraq, and worked hard to get the Atlas Shrugged movie made. She’s made numerous other pro-liberty statements, and not too many moonbat statements that I recall.
Pitt is an O-fan. Angelina is not.
She has been quoted as saying she is disappointed that he wasn’t able to do MORE.
I seem to recall that too, and I remember Pitt’s non-defense of his mother when she publicly complained about Obama.
it’s oddly comforting to know that she gets to keep her nipples
thank you for sharing that
happyfeet says May 14, 2013 at 11:37 am
You would have known it, if the media would do its job. I notice they leave the impression that she just had them chopped off and sewn up. She reports with a fair amount of detail what she went through. As usual, a rank amateur can do a better job of conveying facts than a “media professional”.
For DarthLevin’s list:
3.c. Businessmen who articulate anti-Obama/pro-liberty (BIRM) views and give financial support to conservative causes
3.d. Reporters who ask “hard questions” of Obama
“Helping to round out Darth’s list:”
Can we find room for the firing of Gerald Walpin on the list?
yes all I heard was that cackling propaganda crone on CNN talking about it this morning in lieu of talking about benghazi or the IRS or the AP
I can’t remember her name off the top of my head
she’s the hooch what just got mugged for her iphone
they pulled her hair it was a nightmare
Carol somebody
Looking at Christina Hendricks makes me forget, for a few moments, that this country is going to hell in an handbasket and that the current administration would really like to be rid of people like me.
Without a distraction every now and then, I would likely go crazy from the pressure of the ever-growing tyranny that is our government.
Christina Hendricks’ figure, like beer, is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
cranky-d says May 14, 2013 at 1:23 pm
My wife can’t believe she ranks so highly on “most beautiful” lists (as actually chosen by men). She seems to think the typical Hollywood type is what men really want. I’ve tried to explain that the Hollywood standard is just a slight relaxation of the runway model standard, and that standard comes from homosexual males’ opinion of the ideal female form.
mondamay, you need to watch some old movies from the thirties, forties and fifties together. Back when women looked like women, not 13 year old boys with attitude. I love to watch them for the civility, the manners and the brilliant put-downs—all without copious swearing and excessive nakedness. Norma Shearer could cut a bitch with just a look.
Yes. She likes Hitchcock, so we may have to watch (and re-watch) some of his older stuff.
I need to check Amazon Prime availability on stuff from the 30’s through the 50’s. I know we’d enjoy those.
Do you get TCM? They show a lot of really great movies without commercial interruption. I watched “How Green Was My Valley” on Saturday. Maureen O’Hara was so beautiful and she continued her career and her enviable figure while giving birth to seven children over the years. A lot of the old actresses had more than three kids of their own and managed to stay married, too.
Watch the entire Thin Man series, mondamay. Trust me.
“yes all I heard was that cackling propaganda crone on CNN talking about it this morning”
You should stop watching that tripe.
Gave up cable about 5 years ago. Haven’t missed it a bit.
i just got a friend’s directv password is all or something
maybe dish
but anyway I just stream it sometimes cause it puts me to sleep, but then a lot of times that means it will be on the next morning and I know for sure that when I hear the crone it’s time to get up
and if the crone is talking about angelina jolie’s breasts getting removed it’s just a weird weird weird start to the day
That’s like drinking a giant slurpee to put yourself to sleep. Likely even worse, because it’s polluting your dreams.
Not a good long-term strategy.
Get a Kindle. Read a good book.
I love my Kindle.
i need a kindle this is true
They are teh awsum for reading in bed.
Yes, they are. Finally there is no more sighing and elaborate pillow arranging from Hubs while I read half the night away.
Love my Kindle, too.
No cable for us. TCM is one of the roughly 10 channels I miss.
Scary coincidence that Maureen O’Hara was mentioned, and then the Thin Man, because when I think of beautiful actresses from old movies. Maureen O’Hara (saw her in Hotel Jamaica and McClintock) and Maureen O’Sullivan (who was apparently in The Thin Man, but I’ll always remember from the Tarzan movies) are who I think of. I almost mentioned them both before.
I’ll be sure to check out How Green was My Valley, and The Thin Man. Thanks for the recommendations!
Damn. I’m sorry I missed this post.
Watch anything with Myrna Loy in it. That woman could say more with an arched eyebrow than your stereotypical hollywood starlet of today can say with full frontal nudity.
Also, nobody made alcoholism sexier than Myrna Loy and William Powell.
Maureen O’Hara was another classy broad.
I mean that in the best possible sense.