Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dorothy Rabinowitz Defines Barack Obama
Great writing distills the essence of a situation, pulling together references and experiences from all points of the compass. This article, by Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal, is great writing.
OS is simultaneously grateful for her work, and profoundly envious. He's never come close to this level of craft. Still, he proudly share this essay with you, because she puts her finger on the pulse of the Obama administration, and unblinkingly relates what she concludes:
In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man," a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely. The most essential rule: "Deny! Deny! Deny!"—no matter what. In an instructive scene, he's shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with reason: She has just walked in on her husband making love to a glamorous stranger.
"What are you doing," she wails, "who is that woman?"
"What woman, where?" the husband serenely counters, as he and the tart in question get out of bed and calmly dress.
So the scene proceeds, with the distraught wife pointing to the woman she clearly sees before her, while her husband, unruffled, continues to look blankly at her, asking, "What woman?" Confused by her spouse's unblinking assurance, she gives up. Two minutes later she's asking him what he'd like for dinner.
For much of the past four years, the Obama administration's propensity for asserting views of reality wildly at odds with those evident to most rational citizens has looked increasingly like a page from that film script.
Ms. Rabinowitz has nailed it. On. The. Head.
Bulls-eye. Full marks. 10 for 10.
God bless her.
OS is simultaneously grateful for her work, and profoundly envious. He's never come close to this level of craft. Still, he proudly share this essay with you, because she puts her finger on the pulse of the Obama administration, and unblinkingly relates what she concludes:
In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man," a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely. The most essential rule: "Deny! Deny! Deny!"—no matter what. In an instructive scene, he's shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with reason: She has just walked in on her husband making love to a glamorous stranger.
"What are you doing," she wails, "who is that woman?"
"What woman, where?" the husband serenely counters, as he and the tart in question get out of bed and calmly dress.
So the scene proceeds, with the distraught wife pointing to the woman she clearly sees before her, while her husband, unruffled, continues to look blankly at her, asking, "What woman?" Confused by her spouse's unblinking assurance, she gives up. Two minutes later she's asking him what he'd like for dinner.
For much of the past four years, the Obama administration's propensity for asserting views of reality wildly at odds with those evident to most rational citizens has looked increasingly like a page from that film script.
Ms. Rabinowitz has nailed it. On. The. Head.
Bulls-eye. Full marks. 10 for 10.
God bless her.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Main Things, Plain Things: A Few Simple Ideas To Remember As November Approaches
There is a wonderful Scots preacher who holds forth in Cleveland, Ohio, by the name of Alistair Begg.
Amongst his pithy gems of wisdom, he returns often to this statement:
Let's keep the main thing the plain thing, and the plain thing the main thing.
In the coming days, it is going to get seriously crazy. There will likely be October Surprises pulled by the Obama Campaign. Past examples include forged documents about George W. Bush seeking to avoid military service--that was a gem! Also, a DUI from when GW was 26 years old, a time of his life he had previously freely admitted was marked by his excesses.
The Obama campaign, as Leftists do, will attempt to sow confusion. Remember Florida in 2000, hanging chads, etc.? After the dust had settled, three separate audits of results were undertaken, one by the YewNorkTimez. All three confirmed Bush won. That news never made the front pages, did it?
So, OS offers a few Plain Things to keep in mind when the excrement begins to contact the air circulation device:
We are 16 TRILLION dollars in debt, a huge part of that created in the past four years. There is NO plan to address this forthcoming from the Democrats. The Senate, controlled by that party, has passed NO budget in three years. The Senate and the current occupant of the White House both must be changed in order to save the Republic.
Food Stamp usage has soared, with no plan to reverse the trajectory.
Women are viewed as convenient idiots by Duh Left, and this woman calls them out on it.
Massive bank fraud continues, there have been no prosecutions, and will never be under Eric Holder.
And if you read nothing else of what OS offers, read this, and pass it along if you are so moved.
We don't have to put up with this nonsense. It will take a long time to undo the damage.
No time like the present to begin.
In the meantime, don't get distracted by the noise emanating from Campaign Obama.
Amongst his pithy gems of wisdom, he returns often to this statement:
Let's keep the main thing the plain thing, and the plain thing the main thing.
In the coming days, it is going to get seriously crazy. There will likely be October Surprises pulled by the Obama Campaign. Past examples include forged documents about George W. Bush seeking to avoid military service--that was a gem! Also, a DUI from when GW was 26 years old, a time of his life he had previously freely admitted was marked by his excesses.
The Obama campaign, as Leftists do, will attempt to sow confusion. Remember Florida in 2000, hanging chads, etc.? After the dust had settled, three separate audits of results were undertaken, one by the YewNorkTimez. All three confirmed Bush won. That news never made the front pages, did it?
So, OS offers a few Plain Things to keep in mind when the excrement begins to contact the air circulation device:
We are 16 TRILLION dollars in debt, a huge part of that created in the past four years. There is NO plan to address this forthcoming from the Democrats. The Senate, controlled by that party, has passed NO budget in three years. The Senate and the current occupant of the White House both must be changed in order to save the Republic.
Food Stamp usage has soared, with no plan to reverse the trajectory.
Women are viewed as convenient idiots by Duh Left, and this woman calls them out on it.
Massive bank fraud continues, there have been no prosecutions, and will never be under Eric Holder.
And if you read nothing else of what OS offers, read this, and pass it along if you are so moved.
We don't have to put up with this nonsense. It will take a long time to undo the damage.
No time like the present to begin.
In the meantime, don't get distracted by the noise emanating from Campaign Obama.
Dear Mr. Romney: When You Discuss Foreign Policy With Himself, You Might Mention That Drug Smugglers Are Driving Across The Arizona Border In Broad Daylight
Just sayin'...
Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.
His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.
Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.
This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.
Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.
Chaos creates opportunity.
Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.
His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.
Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.
This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.
Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.
Chaos creates opportunity.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Man. Bites. Dog. The Nashville Tennessean Endorses Romney For President
Loooosey!!! Wha' happened?!!!!
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
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