When Life Gives You Lemons...

Remember the dog named Faith.

Christmas Decorations

Bah, humbug!

Daytime closeup of rooftop Santa:

Lawn sign: "Happy Holidays, America. Here's your present."

(H.T. top photo, GatorDoug from Theo Spark.)

Nobel Peace Prize... Tiny 'Taters!

President Obama's Most Coveted Prize:

Diplomatic Faux Pas

"They don't use Wagyu Kobe Japanese beef in the Whopper."

(H.T. Real Debate Wisconsin.)

Monday Night Football- Snark of the Day

While trying to fill time during Monday night's football yawner between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens the subject veered into the league's regular use of throwback uniforms. Jon Gruden stirred the bad blood between the two teams by saying,

"If the Ravens wore throwback jerseys, they'd be the Cleveland Browns."

Dig that knife in a little deeper, Jon. Art Modell is already the most hated man in Cleveland.





(Jon Gruden, AKA 'Chucky.')

Golf & I.Q.

Mark Finkelstein reports through NewsBusters:

Joe Scarborough:

I know Howard Dean. I've spoken to Howard Dean. It is such a disservice to compare--forget ideology, conservatives!--I think Howard's way left and all that. But it is such a disservice to compare Sarah Palin in any aspect to Howard Dean. Yes, because that is an insult to Howard Dean's intelligence.

Joe, I.Q. is not like golf. A lower score is not better.

Eagle Scouts Unveil New Badge

Scout Kevin Anderson of Allentown, PA, is the first in the nation to earn this award. Jarrett Renshaw reports:

In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Here you go, Kevin:


In another unprecedented action, the Boy Scouts for America issued honorary badges to James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles:



(H.T. Michelle Malkin and Paco Enterprises.)

Of the Children, By the Children, For the Children

I believe that children are our future.
Propagandize them well and let them lead the way.

Or perhaps we should teach them well, let them gain experience, and wait their turn.

(H.T. One's Observations.)

Giving Honor Where Honor is Due

The President has been receiving a lot of criticism for bowing before the Japanese Emperor Akihito during a visit to Japan this week. The criticism is unwarranted, however. President Obama has a long tradition of honoring that which he considers honorable.

A show of respect for the Japanese Emperor:

Honoring the honorable Saudi King Abdullah:

Candidate Obama showing his great respect during the National Anthem:

President Obama's respect for America is emulated by a young supporter:

Please note that the President is keeping a watchful eye on his teleprompter.

Congressional Response to Health Care 'Crisis'

Here's our solution:

Here, America, make a sandwich!

The Neck Bone Connected to the Head Bone...

The sculptor, artist, and luminary Antony Gormley has really got it goin' on. He outlines the answers to all our problems.

My idea to change the world is to dispense with your shoes; dispense with your socks to get in touch with the Earth. Get your most feeling part of skin in touch with all those different surfaces. It can be carpeting; it can be concrete; it can be earth; it can be grass.

The idea with this really is a feature of making the world a better place; a kind of act of solidarity with those that perhaps don't have the choice whether they wear shoes or not.

But the fact is that our feet connect with our brains and they're an amazing perceptual instrument thru which we engage with weather, time, temperature; with all the different surfaces and textures of our world.

This is a time of Global Warming. Through our feet, I think, we can begin to feel it. Through our feet, I think, we can begin to be one people standing through gravity on one Earth.

With his head bone solidly articulating with his rectum bone, Mr. Gormley must be angling for some czar position in the Obama Administation or perhaps to replace the present Speaker of the House of Representatives.








(H.T. Fausta's Blog.)

American Imperialism

The President's plan unveiled:

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon (the Pacific coast)," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."1

Where did those extra states come from?

Well, now we know.

TOKYO — Trying to reassure allies and rivals, President Barack Obama billed himself Saturday as "America’s first Pacific president," promising the nations of Asia "a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect."2

Now More Than Ever

Michael Socolow marks a 40 year anniversary in the Bangor Daily News.

It remains the most influential indictment of American journalism ever made. Forty years ago today, this famous figure began railing against the corporate media. “A broader spectrum of national opinion should be represented among the commentators of the network news,” he argued, explaining that “men who can articulate other points of view should be brought forward, and the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”...

This spokesman for democratic media reform was none other than the Republican vice president of the United States, Spiro Agnew.

Reporter Lance Morrow in also observed in 1996, “...issues of media bias, arrogance and unaccountability that are still banging around in the American mind.”

Some Agnew timeless gems:

“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

“...have never done a productive thing in their lives,”... “They take their tactics from Fidel Castro and their money from daddy.”

“...we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism...”

“...pusillanimous pussyfooters,” “vicars of vacillation,” and “the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.” Democrats are “radic-libs” and “ideological eunuchs...”

“...tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one...”

Back to Sokolow:

Were Agnew alive today, he would undoubtedly be pleased by his contribution to the current media environment. Never have the American media been bombarded by such constant criticism — from both the right and the left. The motivations, assumptions and biases of professional journalists are closely and constantly examined, and the authority of their work has correspondingly eroded.

This was Agnew's ultimate goal; he envisioned a future where journalists would be called down “from their ivory towers to enjoy the rough and tumble of public debate.” Relishing the cacophony and name-calling incited by his speech, Spiro Agnew would have loved the blogosphere. For better or worse, we live in his world. (emphasis mine)

(H.T. Instapundit.)

Farce: The Final Frontier

No moldy cheddar, but...

NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today.

Hubble image

White House Counsel, Greg Craig, Getting Tire Tread Tattoo

It has been reported that White House Counsel Greg Craig will be forcibly bussed out in favor of Mr. Anita Dunn, AKA Bob Bauer.

White House scuttlebutt has it that some Craig memos were discovered that caused President Obama to shudder. One memo reportedly stated:

I am planning to send agents into the White House of Barack Obama, remove him, put him in a van, take him to a place where there is an airplane, fly him to Andrews Air Force Base, where he will be reunited with his relatives and flown back to Kenya.

Elian Gonzalez could not be reached for comment.

Bob Bauer, on the other hand, will prod the Justice Department to find a means by which to prosecute FOX News for openly publishing videos of his wife's speeches.

Islam vs. Islamism

I promise that I won't be publishing Chris Matthews or Hardball segments very often, but I wanted to feature Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, the chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a devout Muslim:



The Left has long feared a phantom Christian Theocracy. Dr. Jasser outlines the reality of an Islamist Theocracy desired by a good percentage of even American Muslims.

Here is the A.I.F.D. homepage.

(Many thanks to William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection for linking this as Post of the Day.)

(Thanks as well to Smitty of The Other McCain for the link, but especially for featuring Dr. Jasser and his critically important work.)