Lunch Break - mix and match headlines, a poll for fun, but first....
Music: First things First. Carolyn at Make Them Accountable has some great stuff to read...the stuff about The Nation's excuses for Obama almost made my head explode, so FIRST watch the Do Re Mi clip THEN peruse the news, it will go down easier.
JSOM HERE: "The Worst Is Yet to Come": If You're Not Petrified, You're a damn fool."
Howard Davidowitz - "The bailout money is in the sewer and gone"
Ostensive definition (by Mike Flugennock at Stop Me Before I Vote Again)
JSOM HERE: Waking up from the American Dream
Sympathy Barf (by John Caruso at A Tiny Revolution)
Katrina vanden Heuvel's ode to the alpha Democrat:"On Afghanistan, I am concerned that it will bleed us of the resources needed for economic recovery, further destabilize Pakistan, open a rift with our European allies, and negate the positive effects of withdrawing from Iraq on our image in the Muslim world." Got that? Incinerating poor people in Afghanistan is bad because it might cost too much money to allow us to prop up the economy-among other similarly weighty and pressing concerns.
Note in particular the lack of any moral basis for rejecting a massive increase in the level of death and destruction inflicted by the American military in Afghanistan. This is par for the course for liberals these days; piffling considerations like human life or international law are discounted for them in the age of Obama, in which the golden calf of Pragmatism is worshiped with single-minded devotion. No, such outmoded concerns are the sole provenance of fuzzy-headed idealists who haven't managed to grasp that all the fundamental equations of moral calculus changed the instant a Democrat started doing the killing.
More on Katrina's editorial:
Exceptionally Awful (by Arthur Silber at the Power of Narrative)
From Katrina the Kut-up: "negate the positive effects of withdrawing from Iraq..." In what universe is maintaining a residual force of 50,000-75,000 American personnel, military and otherwise, for decades to come, along with a series of "enduring bases" and an embassy the size of Vatican City, in what is in every operative respect an American colony, considered "withdrawing"? You silly goose: in the universe of the lib-prog who lies steadily and with malice aforethought when it suits her political purposes. But this is lying for a Democratic president, so it's All Exceptionally Good. About Iraq and America's plans for same, one might say: We Are Not Leaving. One might say that, as I did a few years ago.
Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why don’t cops do it? (The Raw Story)
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on ABC’s The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an "enhanced interrogation technique." "If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know?" he asked to a chorus of applause.
Click here for more politics and media news headlines.
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
For the correct answer click on "Waking up From the American Dream" above.
JSOM HERE: "The Worst Is Yet to Come": If You're Not Petrified, You're a damn fool."
Howard Davidowitz - "The bailout money is in the sewer and gone"
Ostensive definition (by Mike Flugennock at Stop Me Before I Vote Again)
JSOM HERE: Waking up from the American Dream
Sympathy Barf (by John Caruso at A Tiny Revolution)
Katrina vanden Heuvel's ode to the alpha Democrat:"On Afghanistan, I am concerned that it will bleed us of the resources needed for economic recovery, further destabilize Pakistan, open a rift with our European allies, and negate the positive effects of withdrawing from Iraq on our image in the Muslim world." Got that? Incinerating poor people in Afghanistan is bad because it might cost too much money to allow us to prop up the economy-among other similarly weighty and pressing concerns.
Note in particular the lack of any moral basis for rejecting a massive increase in the level of death and destruction inflicted by the American military in Afghanistan. This is par for the course for liberals these days; piffling considerations like human life or international law are discounted for them in the age of Obama, in which the golden calf of Pragmatism is worshiped with single-minded devotion. No, such outmoded concerns are the sole provenance of fuzzy-headed idealists who haven't managed to grasp that all the fundamental equations of moral calculus changed the instant a Democrat started doing the killing.
More on Katrina's editorial:
Exceptionally Awful (by Arthur Silber at the Power of Narrative)
From Katrina the Kut-up: "negate the positive effects of withdrawing from Iraq..." In what universe is maintaining a residual force of 50,000-75,000 American personnel, military and otherwise, for decades to come, along with a series of "enduring bases" and an embassy the size of Vatican City, in what is in every operative respect an American colony, considered "withdrawing"? You silly goose: in the universe of the lib-prog who lies steadily and with malice aforethought when it suits her political purposes. But this is lying for a Democratic president, so it's All Exceptionally Good. About Iraq and America's plans for same, one might say: We Are Not Leaving. One might say that, as I did a few years ago.
Ventura on The View: If waterboarding is fine, why don’t cops do it? (The Raw Story)
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, making a guest appearance on ABC’s The View, gave co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a lesson or two about the torture technique known as waterboarding. Ventura, who underwent a barrage of torture techniques at the military Survival, Evade, Resist and Escape (SERE) school, confirmed for Hasselbeck that waterboarding is torture and not just an "enhanced interrogation technique." "If waterboarding is okay, why don't we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know?" he asked to a chorus of applause.
Click here for more politics and media news headlines.
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
For the correct answer click on "Waking up From the American Dream" above.
Labels: blindspots, do re mi, economy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, stupid liberals
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