Luncheon at Liberal Rapture

midday items:

1. An Air America post lays out why the Baucus bill sucks.

2. Splendeed - wild card good deed this week. Do it.

3. I like Peter Schiff. I think he is an interesting man. I am not sure he has a chance at defeating a moderate GOP or a Dem in Connecticut. I'd have cherry picked another senate seat to run for in Utah or Idaho. Connecticut Dems are going to rip him to pieces if he gets the GOP nom.

4. Very Funny:



5. Music: Because some tuesdays I feel like hearing french pop music about business men who pretend to be bulls on the streets of Paris. Is that so wrong?

Lunch Break - random-o-nium

Love: Give Gender Gappers some love.

Holly would but Holly can't: Change is paying a visit to the major film studios as well. Layoffs and downsizing are happening industry wide.

Why I miss Bill Clinton: Obama's fiscal blueprint builds on profligate habits established by George W. Bush.

When a no accomplishment, lying, show pony becomes President:... among people I talk to there's a growing sense of frustration, even panic, over Mr. Obama's failure to match his words with deeds.

When a no accomplishment, lying, show pony becomes President, Part 2: Paul Volcker, an economic adviser to President Barack Obama, recently called the lack of staff (at Treasury) "shameful"

Another BHO appointee runs for the hills: Gupta's gotta go! Sanjay sez SAYORNARA!

Pop Music from the 50s: 3 cigarettes in the ashtray, 1957.

Lunch Break

Movies: Very good writing about some movies you may not have seen but should - here.

Dressing for the endtimes: The well of souls is empty. Further evidence that we have become almost irredeemably decadent and God ought to be in the last stages of smote preparation mode about now. Food Network did an entire show, quite seriously, in which designers made dresses out of chocolate and then chocolate coated models strutted the cat walk. Ah me...Rome, we are catching up so very fast.

Myth destruction. Hilarious take in the O.C. Register on the failing Obama myth.

Minor Prophesy: I predicted at least twice last year that when the MSM turned on Obama that the NY Times would be first to jump ship. I would like to gloat: here and here.
Mr. Obama's postpartisan yearnings may also explain why he didn't do something crucially important: speak forcefully...

Music: Pop from the 90s. My friend Javier correctly mocks me for loving this song. The silly lyrics in Get Here, sung by Oleta Adams, are almost inexcusably bad. Still I love this song.

Lunch Break - Depression notes, a photo, Silent Night, F.D.R.

No idea about the photo. I googled "Christmas in Boston" and this is first image that came up. I was thinking New England/Cozy/Patriotic Christmas... but whatever... works for me...

Notes from the Depression Front.
Is this good news or a really bad sign?
Is this our future?
New Depression Benefit: Malls are dying.

Quote:

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


Music
a gorgeous Silent Night

Lunch Break - I'm Doing Fine.

Quote:

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain


Note: Barry needs to stop being so negative. He whines here and here. Leave negativity to the bloggers. Whining does not become a President during a recession and/or a couple a three wars.

Note: I am a little surprised at how much I already loath Obama. Seriously. I am. I was thinking I'd adjust a bit after the election. Lighten up. Eat some crow - not spend time cooking crow pot pies to feed Pods - But he really is a gross narcissist with a greedy, nasty wife.

(Don't you just know she'd slap the help if she could get away with it.)

Ha! Who knew?....I was thinking power might midwife a decent bloke under the Chicago Pol. Not so much, not so far. He is a vaguely cooler, smoking version of W. and like W he's prone to taking vacations every 3 months. It looks more and more like we were all correct about him. Wow.

Dana M. has some thoughts...
Bush: We're in the midst of an ongoing investigation, and I will be more than happy to comment further once the investigation is completed

Obama: I would ask for your patience, because I do not want to interfere with an ongoing investigation.


Some Music. A protest Song From Down Under -
Xavier Rudd.
G.B.A.

Some of the lyrics...

Yes you have the funds and size and power to make some change
What you have will break their smiles
so many people so many ways
each Child who walks their line
should be free to run their race
it's such a shame that all this shit exists here on this earth, this magical place

I'm doing fine...

Big Lunch Break! Photo, Quote, William Shakespeare, John Lennon, Heath Ledger, Milli Vanilli, Hollywood, Depression tips, The Beatles

The photo was sent from Ireland where a friend was attending a wedding. Seems like a leprechaun - or perhaps a small Kennedy - should be peaking out from behind that tree...

A Hard Times/New Depression tips: Eat your Veggies!

2 hometown notes: The meme that the movie business is not affected by bad economic times ain't gonna be true this time. Viacom (MTV, Paramount, etc) is cutting back. And - I wonder if there will be a Milli Vanilli exhibit?

Music - I was not posting John Lennon this week because of the anniversary of his death (I had no idea it was upcoming)but I am now. Lots of Ireland in this clip as well:


And a Beatles song for good measure. I have this song on every Itunes list I've ever made and never get sick of it...odd...I'm still not sick of it.



Shakespeare: Earlier this week I posted a clip from my favorite version of Taming of the Shrew. Here is a clip from my second favorite version - a modern adaptation called "10 Things I Hate About You." Here Heath Ledger in the Petruchio role ("Patrick Verona") continues his wooing of Katherine (Kat Stratford ). Much is written about the "battle of the sexes" in "Shrew" To me the play is about the delicious power of human sexuality. It's about flirting really. And how much fun it is to flirt. The "10 Things" modern version gets it.



A quote: I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Voltaire

Lunch Break -Obama cult poster, No on 8, Go Brad!!!, BHO flip flops, AGAIN!, Evan Dando, The Graduate

The great pic was sent in from a reader in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Sort of says it all...

No on 8 - help out if you can.

Let's hear it for Brad Pitt!!!

Obama flip flops on major gay rights issue.
The how many times can he do the flip flop dance and still get the support the Prius, Whole Foods, Huffington, msnbc, "SMUG AS A WAY OF LIFE" crowd?

Obama is a pathological liar. Iraq, Fisa, Public Financing, NAFTA- Now Don't Ask Don't Tell.

And finally, a little Evan Dando, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft mash up:

Lunch Break! Posh Nosh!

Way off topic- but this clip is over the top hilarious. Thanks to Jay for sending me this...Enjoy!



Thoughts for later posts either tonight or Friday:

* Obama Pod contempt for the working class and how it expresses itself. Further: How to identify it in self described "liberals."

This came up in a comment on a post last night. Some pod could not or would not respond directly to my post about BHO using a terrorist organization for security - he/she attacked me personally (Typical. This person wrote as if he/she knew me - they do not - and it is a comment full of inaccuracies.)

HOWEVER: he/she tried to insult me by insulting those who do clerical work. This is typical Huffington/Geffen/Dean/Obama - faux liberalism. A true contempt for workers ALWAYS appears eventually. It is a liberalism based in entitlement and "we know better than you" condescension. There is nothing egalitarian or classically liberal about what these frauds want.
In fact, they hate the working class. More later...

or

* The arrogance of the trip overseas - will there be a backlash? I wonder.