Stuff I missed while tending to a sick little boy with fever spikes over 106:
1) Valerie Jarrett, CiC! So, what are Senate Republicans going to do with this info? Well, I can’t speak for all of them, but John McCain and Princess Lindsey are over in Egypt attempting to get the military to release the erstwhile terrorist regime ousted in a public uprising.
Which is exactly the position our old friend (and Jeff stalker) tim b. took on Twitter: do you wingnuts hate elections now, too? he asked?
To which I replied, no, not at all. But when the elected party, upon seizing power, begins dismantling the very democratic system the electorate relies upon as a check upon government — and people rightly revolt — that’s really not the same as being anti-democratic. In fact, it’s being anti-autocratic.
Which is why tim b — along with McCain, Lindsey, and our Muslim Brotherhood-embracing foreign policy team, headed by Barack Obama (or is it Valerie Jarrett?) — rejected the popular uprising.
RINOs, progressives, and tim b: Birds of a feather. Who evidently believe that no matter how much snow is on the ground, and how chilly is the temperature, it’s always Arab Spring.
— Of course, I used different and more descriptive wording in my original rebuttal to our old pal tim. But then, you probably guessed that. I mean, this is tim b we’re talking about. A guy who I think established a Twitter account just to contact me.
It’s sad. And not a little flattering.
2) A none-too-subtle Nazi reference — only this time, featuring someone other than conservatives in the role of genocidal, authoritarian socialists whose god worshipped nature and who believed, like Margaret Sanger (among other more contemporary Democrats), in a kind of racial cleansing.
Of course, the Nazi’s use of death chambers ruined that gambit for everyone. So now it’s just standing up for the right to slaughter a viable baby in the uterus — and receiving acclaim and plaudits for your courage.
Because those viable fetuses sleeping in a sac of fluid can be real mean bastards when you go after them with scissors and tongs.
3) Paul Ryan wants to be a conservative again. Though not really in actions, so much. But with the words, well, he’s like the love child of Goldwater and Calvin Coolidge!
Perhaps he can teach the joys of limited government, personal responsibility, and individual autonomy to the millions of low-skill illegals he’s hoping gain citizenship and wind up, eventually, as Democrat voters on all sort of government aid.
4) Democrats call for unlimited debt limit, arguing that the inability of the government to spend money that doesn’t exist is dangerous and needs to be abolished. But first, they have to fix some tricky language. For instance: when is part-time really full-time?
Why, when the Democrats simply change the definitions, silly!
As our dearly departed old friend the brilliant Ric Locke would no doubt have reminded us, it’s easy to be a vegetarian once you start calling your double cheeseburgers “broccoli salad.”
here’s one for the barf bag
Obama to Speak at Lincoln Memorial to Mark 50th Anniversary of ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
A trio of House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a bill to eliminate the debt ceiling so that the Treasury Department would be able to borrow money without limit.
AKA the “All Your Bonds Are Belong To Us” bill.
same-sex senators John McCain and Princess Lindsey
FTFY
it’s easy to be a vegetarian once you start calling your double cheeseburgers “broccoli salad.”
Good, because I’m on a low-carb diet, and I’m pretty sure I don’t get enough green veg.
same-sex senators John McCain and Princess Lindsey
The love that dare not speak its name.
No, not that you guys. Power.
Dollars to donuts Valerie Jarrett has been the de facto POTUS since the beginning. She’s have ordered the IRS investigations, nixed the bin Laden raid, and gave the “stand down” order.
Nobody in Washington dares point a finger at her, let alone challenge her openly, lest they be found months later at the bottom of the Potomac, neck chained to an engine block.
Dollars to donuts Valerie Jarrett has been the de facto POTUS since the beginning.
Kroners to cronuts. Surely at this point no one thinks Obama actually bothers to do his job. That is for lesser mortals. His place is to preen and bask and fumble geography on Leno.
– More double cheeseburger brocolli salad:…..
“The left understand that CNN and NBC are at their most effective at winning elections for Democrats when they hide behind a phony shield of objectivity. For good reason, the left is concerned these Hillary projects might weaken that shield.”
– Lying liars what lie. For the greater good of course.
– A unique moment in Congressional history, A democrat says something absolutely trueful.
Yyyyyyyeah, I need double bacon on my broccoli cheesesaladburger, what with the unlimited debt limit and all.
Oh, and this amber libation in my extra-tall iced-tea glass? Iced tea of course. Ignore the lack of ice, and the three newly emptied Scotch bottles strewn across the floor.
Why isn’t Rick Santorum the GOP 2016 frontrunner?
Jarrett would not have to order anything. No military unit can cross a border and engage in action unless the President issues them “Cross Border Authority.”
This is the perfect Obama situation. Doing nothing, being unavailable, busy, at the time when only by his affirmative action will all those forces move means he never had to say “stand down” he just had to say nothing and no one could “stand up.” Leading from behind doesn’t get much better than this.
The only forces that could respond without Presidential Cross Border Authority were what few were already in Libya.
…lest they be found months later at the bottom of the Potomac, neck chained to an engine block.
So that’s what Cash-For-Clunkers was all about! I thought that the destruction of perfectly useful capital made no sense, but it was really all about providing enough “necklaces” for Val’s Enemies List.
As for Paul Ryan — he may be deeply flawed, but he’s just about the only guy we’ve got making the case for our movement. At least he’s reminding the American people that there are choices apart from Democratic Socialist and Socialist Democrat. (One of those is the GOP, but I can never remember which one.)
– I think the term you’re looking for is Progressive Republicrats.
– Fukushima is really fuckood up.
– Disney can probably be safe in assuming at this point that strapping a dead bird to your head is probably not a winning formula.
– Hard to believe that Depp is worth a 190 million dollar loss.
As long as were highlighting links highlighting Administration double-speak:
Yes Jay,
Al Qaeda is on the run; RIGHT INTO THE FRICKIN VACUUM YOU IDIOTS ARE CREATING IN IRAQ, LYBIA, EGYPT, AND AFGHANISTAN!!!
Wife Of Ft. Hood Survivor: “DOD Is Gagging Us” *UPDATED
too bad the place needs a “brain” drain
UPDATE 1-U.S. Congress wins relief on Obamacare health plan subsidies – Ruling aimed at avoiding “brain drain” on Capitol Hill
Speaking of definitions, anybody have an idea for a greco-latinate neologism meaning “rule of the deserving, rule by those entitled to rule”?
It has to end in -ocracy or -archy, of course.
The person who comes up with the best suggestion wins a Romeo y Julieta Churchill en Tubo cigar tube.
Second prize, the celophane wrapper from an El Rey del Mundo Olvidados Chateaux D.
All prizes shipped COD.
prepper alert
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Hardening the grid would cost too much money without providing enough opportunities for graft.
Besides, look at it from Obama’s point of view: is there a better way to build a green energy future than upon the ruins of the past?
– Truth be told this administration would probably consider a total shutdown of the net a feature. They have hardened backup communications, so its not the end of the world for them if it happens.
– Thus the total lack of urgency.
Brahminarchy
I really like that dicentra. Thanks.
Malorumocracy
1) Alternate ibuprofen and acetaminophen. It works, although not as well as a cure.
2) Damp sponge baths. If you need to, full-immersion lukewarm bath. You just need the water to be cooler than skin temp, and it will bring his temp down quickly.
Your problem has likely passed, but sometimes you get a kid that spikes super-high fevers (my first did that, fairly regularly), so it’s good to keep these in your toolbox.
My second didn’t spike as high, but on one occasion she absolutely refused to keep hydrated, so we had to bring her into the emergency room. Being a fairly receptive kid (at 2 years of age), she understood that this uncomfortable needle stuck in her arm could have been avoided if she’d only taken fluids when we told her to.
Brahmin-ocracy
Malum-archy
Right now I’m trying to figure out a pronouncible way to combine meretricious and -archy, as a counterpoint to meritocracy. Which is what the New Elite want to believe we have since they’re the ones running the show.
Meretriarchy?
Hardening the grid would cost too much money without providing enough opportunities for graft.
Because driving up people’s energy bills for windmills is Good and Righteous, but driving up people’s energy bills for infrastructure upgrades is A Horrible Idea From Gaea-Raping Plutocrats Who Hate The Poor.
This seems related to the Democrat habit of redefining things that are troublesome.
Always wondered about all those “lucky” traffic stops that seem to come from speeding or failed tail lights and lead to the trunk full of pot. They are just being very recreative.
Wouldn’t a “Malorumocracy” imply rule by idiot squishy ‘Republican’ pundits who are all about the gay marriagings?
Actually, that seems a fair enough description of the current system.
P.J.O’Rourke wrote the book, but I dunno if he boiled it down to a single term.
Well the latin root of meretricious IS merere from whence derives meretrix, prostitute, after all.
We are a McCainocracy where one’s political power is determined solely by how much a a creepy old man’s daughter likes you at the moment.