1. The New Editor wants to know, “Who’s Your Favorite ‘Chickenhawk’”? I went with Ben Franklin, largely for the combination pot-bellied stove and bi-focals thing—though I was very close to going with John Jay, who anticipated Chuck Schumer, calling him “an insufferable prick” (Federalist #64). Plus, legend has it he could drink like an Irish soccer hooligan.
2. Dig yourself some free speech? Then consider signing this letter supporting Oriana Fallaci (via Michelle Malkin; h/t Dan Collins). See also, “When Speech Becomes a Crime”.
3. It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting around in a straw cowboy hat sipping expensive tequila and making place mats out of thatch. And I have to tell you, I keep getting the strangest urge to hop a fence and make a run for the neighbor’s house. I asked my wife why this might be, and she said, “uh, because you’re a racist?” Hmm. Quizás.
I’ve gotta go with Lincoln, on the strength of this:
Plus he had that Amish-looking beard! Well played, Pablo. Well played.
The man knew how to get the very best hatemongering out of unemployed rednecks, he did. The downside here is that if this gets out, John Wilkes Booth is going to have a historical makeover coming his way. Maybe even a retroactive Nobel Prize for shooting truthiness into a Republican or some such.
Henery.
Yep, heading over to the neighbors to ‘break a few eggs’.
Game, set and match, Goldstein.
“Spanish” omelets indeed…
What iz it with the straw hatz that gits you boyz all hot to trot? Man!
Sent the following to the New Editor, after I voted:
James Madison.
He wanted to hang another whipping on Britian, just on general principals. Or maybe it was force of habit.
Anyway, the guy really knew how to stir up a war.
TW:why. Well, it wasn’t for oil, I’ll tell ya that.
I vote for James Wilson – not on the list, but sure oughta be. The dude was the real intellectual powerhouse at the Constitutional Convention, and one of the premier members of the Supreme Court. His age and health disbarred him from serving in the Continental forces, so clearly he’s an ideal chickenhawk as well!
– The square buckle shoes…. definately….
– Dianna… rolling in the straw?…. How can it not?…..
TW: Whoever has the short straw goes back to bar tending while the rest of us party harty….
IT’S BECAUSE OF THE OUTSOURCING!!
oh, now you’re just taunting me. ;P
Tonight I discovered that Jeff Gannon has his own blog. And he expects to be taken seriously! Is this a great country or what?
Around here we call them red-tails. My favorite is the one killing pigeons in my back yard – I actually once saw it stoop and take one in mid-flight.
If memory serves, didn’t Benjamin Franklin lead an expedition composed of Pennsylvania militia during the French and Indian War?
I did my part for the Republican War On Science by voting for Benjamin Rush, whose legendary laxatives, Rush’s Bilious Pills, were basically little vodka Jello shotsâ€â€but they didn’t have Jello then, so he used mercury.
In case anyone is really in the mood for some heavy-duty cockslapping, Actus is over at Patterico’s defending Bill Keller.
Are you kidding?! I refuse to debate Anus here, much less going elsewhere to do it.
TW:Yes, it IS a great country. (lefties exepted)
Dan,
Are you sure actus is actually defending Keller, rather than just being his normally snide contrarian self?
FWIW,
Down Under, it’s apparently referred to as turkey slapping.
A transcript of the now-infamous Big Brother incident.
Spicular Viking,
Yes, you’re probably right. He’s perhaps not defending Keller per se, but he’s managing to exude his squid ink all around the place. Not that I read the comments. It’s just that Patterico’s has one of those high-tech gadgets that tells one who the last 10 or so commenters have been, and Actus, typically, is 7 of them.
I went with Madison, just cause I am a fanboy. But seeing this Poor Richard quote the other day made it close:
Force shites on reason’s back.
“Beating them with their own Sickle and Hammer!”
That kills me! LOl
You’re MY favorite chickenhawk, Jeff.
You can whip me with your cock any time you please.
Man, Jeff gets all the tail.
I totally went for Ben Franklin too. That man was pimp.
Sortelli – Ben Franklin, a Father of our Country….and apparently of several dozen French shorties too. Now that is an Ambassador that can get some backing for your nation!
Its all about the Benjamin’s.
Even more surprising, David Brock has a whole website and expects to be taken seriously.
Aravosis has a blog and expects to be taken seriously too. Hell, Jane Hamsher has a blog and expects to be taken seriously.
So, what exactly is the problem with Gannon, cynn?
He’s kinda dumb.
Pot. Kettle. Cucumber.
OIAP
– How about: “Beating them with their own Hampsher and Marcotte”.
TW: help…As in these “things” need help badly
The mark of a true man is the ability to not look awkward in a straw cowboy hat.
Hmmm. I ain’t much of a man by that standard, Beck.
One of our most overrated Presidents is also a chickenhawk by Democrat standards: Thomas Jefferson.
Shows what you know: In Spain, they make omelettes out of eggs, onions, and cubes of cooked potatos. The omelette is so dense you can pick it up and throw it like a frisbee.
And it is not served with salsa.
mrp is quite right. Ben Franklin did lead Pennsylvania militia forces with his son during the French and Indian war. He was no chickenhawk.