Van Jones Town Pitchforks!

As Pat the Pernicious Peevish Girl has now officially claimed:

"The commenter formerly known as K-Rod"

Oh my!!!!

Oh shit, was there a bounty on K-Rod? Is K-Rod dead?

What would Swift do?

Captain Ed Explains It to You

This was grumpy enough to belong here, too, although it originally appeared at my place.

Begin rant.

If you want to understand how daft the Left really is, consider this shrewd observation from Ed Morrissey:

The global economy still requires mass manufacturing, mining, construction, and other traditional labor-intensive tasks. However, globalization and the heavy cost of unions to business has pushed much of those activities out of the country, except for those industries tasked with deriving the natural resources from America. Organized labor will still play a part in those industries, but ironically, those are the industries most under fire from the politicians that get elected with union dollars: Democrats. Oil, coal, and gas extraction could create millions of new well-paying and union jobs, but the unions keep contributing to those politicians most likely to block the extraction and use of all three. That’s another reason why the unions are fast becoming an anachronism.

Emphasis mine. Think about it, since these boneheads won't: if the public-sector unions gave a damn about their brethren in private sector union, they wouldn't support the environmentalist Left candidates who spend their days gumming up the works. Instead, they are in an alliance with the Al Gores of the world, providing a variety of, ahem, inverse services that delay or deny permitting, exploration and implementation of energy extraction, to say nothing of siting and permitting of refineries and the like. Private sector unions standing in solidarity with their public sector brethren are being played for fools. Meanwhile the price of gas at the SuperAmerica down the street is $3.60 a gallon this afternoon. Remember when we heard people saying "drill, baby, drill?" Guess not.

And while all this is happening the young people of Madison are chanting "si se puede" in the Capitol building as they rally to the defense of clerks who favor their own sinecures over all else and cast their own appetites as intrinsic to the public good. And the young people, who will receive the bill for the continuing largesse our clerks demand, are doubling down on their behalf. Will these noble dunces chanting "si se puede" be paying a hell of a lot more money, and have a hell of a lot fewer choices over the conduct and range of options available for their adult lives, if they somehow manage to shout down Scott Walker? No cabe duda.

I believe the term Lenin used for such people was "useful idiots." I also believe the term is too charitable.

End rant. Further affiant sayeth not.

Lefty Blogger Quotes

From the Peevish Boy:

"You see things, underline SEE, your way, that's clear.

...after 4 years - and I've explained this numerous times - after 4 years of seeing Lilliputians like Yoss, AK, KR, Brad C, Badda and a few other wing-nuts..."

Hey Brad, we both made the list.
Bwwwwaaaaaahahahahahaaaa!

But this one is still my favorite to quote:

"put another nail in the coffin of the idea of Isreal"

Real nice, peevee, real nice. So that is Peevee's final solution.

Facepalm

Vulgar Bill, indeed it is, Mr. VP.

Vice President Slo Joe Biden said the ObamaNationHeathCareTakeover bill is vulgar:

Big F***ing Deal



No Class!


Will this get as much media coverage as telling Leahy to go Cheney himself?

Will the FCC fine and censor Biden?

Personal Responsibility v. Blaming Others

Does climbing the corporate ladder really make you lose self control and become obese?

One local blogger made that very claim:

"the higher you get in a corporation, the more unhealthy the job is. As you can see by my rotund profile, I have been too high up on the food chain for too long."

A Grumpy Old Man would probably say:

"I'm fat 'cuz I eat way too much of my lovely wife's cooking! Now get off my lawn!!"

....update....

But wait, there's more; maybe the real blame should be placed on Booosh:

"I am dead serious when I say that I'd be thinner if the economy were better."

How's that for personal responsibility!!!

Folks, you just can't make this stuff up.

Don't misunderestimate the liberals' blind devotion to the "cause".

A local lefty blogger made the claim that MMGW is better understood than gravity.

How else do you respond but uncontrollable laughter?

Pithy

Thank you, Jerry Holbert.

License to shill

I haven't watched any news programs this morning, but one thing is usually certain on any anniversary of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks: Democrat politicians and/or liberal pundits will appear on news shows and ponder the obligatory "Are we safer than we were ___ years ago?" We will then hear how George Bush made us less safe and how the Iraq war bogged us down, etc., etc., etc.

Again, this banter may have taken place already today but thus far I have yet to hear any instances of this usual coarse rhetoric. Then again, Keith Olbermann and Ron Reagan Rachel Maddow are on in primetime.

A scenario for leftists to ponder

One of the more despicable claims made by the American left is that those who engage in tea parties and town hall protests are nothing but racists who fear a black man spending their money.

So if you cling to that idiotic meme, answer me this: Do you honestly think conservatives would stand pat if ultra liberal John Edwards were the President making the same policy decisions? Or would you accuse us of what you're guilty of on a regular basis: That is, blaming the country's problems on a Southern white male?