Playing Pretend

Just try and get me out of your head, Barry.

Dick Cheney's 12/29/09 statement to POLITICO:

"As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.


“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, ‘war on terror,’ we won’t be at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society. President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war."

"No Indication."

Me hold gun, look like warrior!

So our Homeland Security Sec says that there is no indication that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is part of a larger plot. Even though Abdulmutallab told FBI agents interrogating him something like "I'm part of a larger plot."

Oh, and there's the fact that Al Queda has claimed credit for this whole to-do.

But no indication that the botched Christmas crotch bomb was all part of something bigger. Nope.

Insufferable

"Portrait of a loser"

Here's what I want to know. Why was this piece of human debris presiding over the Senate? This idiot couldn't successfully preside over the dunking of a donut in a cup of coffee.

For Franken to deny a routine courtesy to Senator Lieberman, just for the sake of spite, speaks volumes to the world about what a skidmark on the underwear of society the junior Senator from Minnesota is.

Few things make me really, really angry anymore about politics. The farce that is Senator Al Franken is one of those few things. It is exceedingly difficult not to despise this worthless wad of bloody phlegm.

Smackdown, Texas Style

The Architect gives Obama a much needed, long overdue taking over the knee.

Favorite quote:

...This kind of attack gives Mr. Obama's words a slippery quality. For example, he voted for the bank rescue plan in September 2008 and praised it during the campaign. Yet on Dec. 8 at the Brookings Institution, Mr. Obama called it "flawed" and blamed "the last administration" for launching it "hastily."

Really? Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner designed it. If it was "flawed," why did Mr. Obama later nominate Mr. Bernanke to a second term as Fed chairman and make Mr. Geithner his Treasury secretary?

What it's all about

So a little boy in Taunton MA gets sent home from school and "ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation" after drawing this picture for an assignment to "sketch something that remind[ed him] of Christmas."

Stories here and here.

Now I know what you're thinking. "How dare the boy's teacher use the word "Christmas" in a public school!" No, actually you're not thinking that, because no normal, sane person thinks that way. But such (pardon the redundancy) insane political correctness (pervasive in our culture to the extent that Lowes now sells "Holiday Trees," and Target eschews the Salvation Army bell ringers at Christmas time) is a symptom of the sort of depraved mentality that would cause a teacher to be horrified by a depiction of one of the Stations of the Cross. Growing up Catholic, I observed images similar to this boy's depiction every day in Parochial school and every Sunday at mass. Does this boy's teacher, principal, superintendent, school board, etc., believe that parochial school should be closed, and all the students therein subjected to psychiatric evaluation?

But more to the point. My first response when I read this article was "when I think of Christmas, I am reminded of the crucifixion too." Of what does this idiot teacher suppose Christmas is to remind one? Santa? Tell the kid to draw a picture of Santa. Or a tree. Or Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776 (as if there's anything laudable in THAT). The point is, for a lot of people, Christmas is about the first six letters in the word "Christmas." For a lot of people, it is about Jesus Christ coming into the world. So that He could preach that He is "the way, the truth and the life," and that none would come to the Father except through Him; to demonstrate, through miraculous signs and wonders, that He was who He said He was (and is)--God; to raise up and train the men who would lead His conquest of souls, and then, most importantly, to die. Jesus Christ was born to die. To be slain, as payment for the sins of mankind. And to rise, as Lord and Savior to all who would believe in him and receive his atonement for them.

It is impossible for me to think about Christmas and not think about the fact that it is about a little baby who was born precisely to die. For me. I don't know that an eight year old could have drawn a more appropriate picture of the meaning of Christmas. If anyone needs psychiatric help, it's his teacher.

Merry Muppets

Via Hotair:



Merry Christmas

Kinda says it all, don't it?

Photo currently under the banner on Drudge.

Gadzooks.

Meant to post this yesterday.

...a six degree per century trend? And in the shape of a regular stepped pyramid climbing to heaven? What’s up with that?

LOL of the Day.

"A" is for...

"Not a Baby."

HT Ed Morrissey

Oh. My. Word.

There is absolutely no way that Harry Reid will not be forced to offer some kind of retraction, if not apology, for this statement.

Apparently Harry failed to learn from Dick Durbin's little snafu. Reid rushes in where fools fear to tread.

Bah-dum-bah.

Hey kids, here's a fun game. Unfortunately I can't get this all in one browser so there's a little setup work on your part.

Step 1: Open this link in another window. Minimize both windows so they fit side by side on your monitor.

Step 2: watch this video, and every time he finishes a sentence, push the red button in the other browser window.

THAT'll Learn 'em!

Steven Hayward, the only man to ever accurately report on the link between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, shares an email (on which he was cc'd)from U of I Global Cooling Denier Michael Schlesinger to NT Times Science Reporter Andy Revkin. The gist: Mike is peeved at Andy for what he perceives to be Andy's less than total devotion to the party line.

The bestest exerpt evah:

But, I sense that you are about to experience the 'Big Cutoff' from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.

Dude, it makes about as much sense for you to refuse to play nice with the NY Times as it would have made for Stalin to spurn Times reporter Walter Durranty. Never bite the hand that spins the illusion for you.

Bizarro World

Wouldja believe...

What Bizarro World do we live in where the views of a global warming skeptic are reported as if they are credible?

I have to resist the eyeroll impulse at the Express's reporting certain long-known facts as if they are just coming to light for the first time (the Vikings grew crops in Greenland during the middle ages? The HELL you say!). Still, better late that never.