Handle every stressful situation like a dog.

If you can’t eat it or play with it, piss on it and walk away.

Looks like Barack Obama was a model student at the Jimmy Carter school of Energy Policy. We all know how well those policies worked out.

Obama yesterday:

“You can’t drive your SUVs, eat what you want, and heat your homes to 72 degrees and expect other countries to just say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”

Carter on July 15, 1979:

“And I’m asking you for your good and for your nation’s security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel”

Hat Tip to Francis Cianfrocca at Redstate who summed it up nicely:

If nothing else, he’s now made completely clear his view that the answer to the global energy problem is for Americans to net-reduce our usage of energy, even before more efficient technologies become available. To Obama, this is leadership. He may suppose that everyone else will say “if you do that, we’ll do it too.” Their actual response is more likely to be: ”Thanks for the cheaper energy, suckers.

“It’s wonderful to be back in Oregon”. Obama said. Over the last fifteen 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”.

Has this man lost his bearings? Or can we blame it on “Schoolhouse Rock” or that typical white grandmother?

Proposed SAT question: How many states compose the United States if politician (A) has visited 57 states and has one more state to visit which is actually two states? Show your work.

UPDATE: Isn’t capitalism wonderful? These available soon!

“There is nothing more dangerous than a General Idea in narrow, empty minds. Being empty, they are incapable of questioning it; being narrow, before long it becomes an obsession. Thenceforth, it takes complete control of them. They are no longer their own master, but become in the most literal sense, possessed.”

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828-1893)

I know. You never heard of him. But this little observation of his is true for Obama-mania as well as for Bush’s type of compassionate conservatism.

Is this ever true this year.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.–Plato

[snip]
“You’ve got to represent the wishes of your constituency,” Scott said in an interview Wednesday in the Capitol. “My proper position would be to vote the wishes of my constituents.” The third-term lawmaker represents a district that gave more than 80 percent of its vote to Obama in the Feb. 5 Georgia primary. [snip]–Rep. David Scott (D) Ga.

This has to be the first time he ever said THAT!

I get all my exercise as a
pallbearer for friends who exercised.

Via JustOneMinute:

Let me see if I understand this - John Edwards and the Krugman Democrats want to negotiate with the Iranians and North Koreans but not the drug companies or health insurers.

Well, as long as we are clear who the bad guys are.

Speaking of Iran, it looks like they almost got more than they bargained for when provoking US Navy warships this weekend (HT: Gateway Pundit):

In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels.

U.S. forces were on the verge of firing on the Iranian boats in the early Sunday incident, when the boats turned and moved away, a Pentagon official said. “It is the most serious provocation of this sort that we’ve seen yet,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “We urge the Iranians to refrain from such provocative actions that could lead to a dangerous incident in the future.”

…There were no injuries but the official said there could have been, because the Iranian boats turned away “literally at the very moment that U.S. forces were preparing to open fire” in self defense.

The official said he didn’t have the precise transcript of communications that passed between the two forces, but said the Iranians radioed something like “we’re coming at you and you’ll explode in a couple minutes.”

We should have given them an express ticket to meet Allah.

A campaign thought on Iowa and NH.

Forget the early bird getting the worm.

The second mouse collects the cheese!

Jack Murtha relieves himself, so speak, with astonishing insight into the military definition of “surge” and a revelation about the final goal of the Iraq War. 

“In the whole world of things conceivable there is nothing so unmercifully hopeless as an infinity of mere facetiousness, a tyrannical nightmare of jesting.”

G. K. Chesterton -

Why this?  It describes American popular culture, from reality programming to the dimly jocose verbal dueling of news co-anchors, to TV weathermen sparring with the co-anchors, to workplace repartee, to the dialogue of commercials featuring a moronic husband and long-suffering wife, or a nebbish white man being admonished by a clever, patient minority or brilliant girl-child, or a patronizing, brainless grandfather slobbering over a cookie or a shingle of peanut butter.  We’ve become a nation of idiots who, with no capacity for seriousness, aspire only to be funny.        

Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented immigrant’
is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist’.

Both do a job regular Americans won’t do!

“The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late.”–Mitt Romney 10/18/2007

One question for Mitt, Are you just coming to this realization now?

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.” –Robert Heinlein

From the start of recorded time to now this is an absolute, as absolute as an absolute can be. Starting with the Pantheists to the Deists, Romans and Greeks, Christians, Jews, Anglicans and Muslims, next to the fouler of the collection, Liberals, Socialists and Communists and finally to the most corrupt, the Environmentalists, all will have you live their way or be destroyed.

Believe not, listen to their preachings and be warned!

Still a Liberal’s law for the proles.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.- Leon Trotsky