The beauty of the Internet and blogging, as opposed to real writing, is you can pluck out of the ether something like this and send it off for others to have the dirty laugh you just had.
It’s a comment on the report in The Hill of Big O. telling his helpers, “Plug the damn hole!” I mean this:
Send BIG SIS down there and let her Fat Ass sit on it till they fix it and send some illegals with her to help!!BY on 05/25/2010 at 12:18
Lifted from Newsalert:
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on Obama friend Eric Whitaker:
Based on a recommendation from Obama, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich hired Whitaker to be the state’s director of Public Health in 2003. Like other major state posts in those days, it was screened by Tony Rezko, who has since been convicted of influence-peddling.
A federal grand jury is investigating the department’s funding of several faith-based initiatives that Whitaker helped start, though, as Whitaker emphasized today, “The organizations the subpoenas were about — they received funding in the last month of my tenure at the Illinois Department of Public Health.
There’s more:
Is sending government money to pastors to talk about chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension good public policy? Whitaker said “yes.”
Who’s says Democrats are for separation of church and state?
Not I. Do we expect churchly influence to be ignored by political movers and shakers?
I recall the Baptist pastor I interviewed in the 70s on Chicago’s South Side. He had just run a two-hour service for a devoted congregation. We talked in his office, among other things about office-seekers wanting to use his pulpit. He did not surrender it to them, and so did not have his sidewalk repaired.
Separation? You kidding?
Here’s an excellent case of media fudging because they can’t resist making a point even if it’s not there to make.
It’s Rand Paul with Rachel Maddow, saying “uh-yeh” as an apparently meaningless vocalization after he and Maddow had been briefly talking over each other.
But the transcript sent out by MSNBC-Maddow has Paul saying “Yes” to her question whether a private business had the right not to serve blacks. NYTimes and many other outlets skipped the tape and went with the misleading transcript. Here you have libs making news fit to print, that is, to fit their template.
Get not a story, but the story, I remember Mike Royko saying a long time ago. I was new in the business but got the point, which is crucial to credibility.
This rebuttal is on Maddow’s network, by the way.
For a loyal coterie of workers at Phillips Family Hospitality in Dorchester, staying employed means staying healthy, active — and alive.
“It’s what keeps me going, you know?’’ said Tony Piccuito, 91, as he unloaded trays of water and other beverages from the trunk of the Ford Taurus he drives to work daily from Weymouth. Piccuito, the energetic owner of a sharp sense of humor and a tendency to ignore doctor’s orders to ease up, pushed stacks of bottles in a cart taller than his stocky frame. “You keep working and you forget about how you feel.’’
I have never said I’m retired. A friend referred to me some years back as semi-retired, and when pushed, that’s what I say. Most ask me, “Are you still writing?” and accept that I will never stop.
Doesn’t mean I don’t get sidetracked. Internet is wonderful, but it can eat up your time too. Just the other day, I realized I have to get to work on one of the many books I have in mind — the one nearest completion.
It’s important to stay busy, but more important to stay focused.
Catholic bishops get religion:
“The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights regrets the decision by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to discontinue its membership in The Leadership Conference. The USCCB has been an important and valued member of The Leadership Conference for many years, and we have – and will continue to have – many shared goals.
Progressive Catholics responded on Thursday by accusing the bishops of being “completely beholden to the extreme conservative wing of Catholicism.”
“In recent months, (the bishops) have shown that it is more important to them that they placate the demands of a few loud conservatives than to promote civility, human rights and social justice,” said Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice.
The bishops withdrew from LCCR after the coalition took one more position in opposition to USCCB policy, this time taking a stand on a Supreme Court nominee. Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre NY, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Peace, announced the withdrawal May 19.
It’s overdue, says Deal Hudson, who broke the news of the Kagan endorsement:
. . . the Kagan endorsement wasn’t the first pro-abortion activity the coalition has promoted.
[Deal Hudson] wrote: “For many years, LCCHR has lobbied hard against the confirmation of pro-life judges and justices. In the midst of the debate of pro-abortion nominee Dawn Johnsen, [Deputy Director] Nancy Zirkin asserted that civil-rights groups are upset that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) hasn’t made the abortion advocate a higher priority. ‘There’s frustration she’s not at the top of the list,’ Zirkin said.”
“The avid support for Elena Kagan, whose support for abortion “rights” has been widely documented, must be regarded as the final straw, a clear signal that the USCCB needs to withdraw from membership in the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights,” Hudson concluded.
Now if the bishops could get a handle on illegal immigration . . .
WSJ’s Daniel Henninger asks, “How about a good Catholic story?”
Here’s a good one from Canada-based Liberty quotes:
“Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.”
— Heywood Hale Broun (1918-2001) American sportswriter, commentator, and actor
H.H. Broun is a hero of U.S. newspaper unionism, led formation of The American Newspaper Guild — later renamed The Newspaper Guild (I’m not sure why), which gives an award named after him.
He might be saying this in re: Iranian mullahs or N. Korea these days, where hope and change reigns.
One good reason, please, for preferring to see the glass half full in Pennsylvania:
Mark Critzis a “Rush Limbaugh Democrat” who campaigned against almost everything Obama and Murtha support.
. . . [H]e was more conservative than the McCain campaign of 2008 and was more apt to criticize Obama than is, say, Lindsay Graham.
This was hardly a race that can be celebrated by the Democrat leadership today. Critz is the type of Democrat that Nancy Pelosi was hoping to lose in November.
Tom Roeser resurrects this from Teddy Roosevelt:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else—for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American.
“…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for one language here and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
[A]fter [Obama] signed the bill [promoting press freedom around the world], and as the press “wranglers” began aggressively herding us out of the room, I asked if he still has confidence in BP [whom he excoriated on Friday, taking no questions]. He ignored the question so I tried this: “In the interest of press freedom, would you take a couple questions on BP?”
That did elicit a smile, and he told me I was free to ask questions. Someone else shouted, “Will you answer them?”
He said he’s not holding a press conference today as we were escorted out the door.
Look, he’s a very superior fella, in every way. Can you get that straight?
