- When we mourn the death of a celebrity, is it their death or how it notes our own aging we are mourning?
- The Iranian ambassador to Mexico has insinuated the CIA was behind Neda Agha=Soltan’s death. Yeah, let’s reach out to these people. Starting with a left hook, followed by a right cross and maybe an uppercut or two. Seriously, when if ever will the present administration get over its inflated sense of self and realize that not only is the world not inclined to believe the MSM’s propaganda about Obama being a lightworker, you can’t have rational relationships with madmen?
- President Obama is pushing hard for his cap and trade plan, calling it a “jobs bill.” Which is true. You’ll need two jobs to pay for everything as everything manufactured using any form of energy skyrocket, and Steve Jobs will be one of the handful of people who’ll be able to afford the cost of living.
That said, it’ll be solely through the passage of legislation such as this that the American populace at large will realize the ruinous nature of the Obama administration’s plans and goals. We live in a society addicted to bread and circuses. Obama promises us bread, and the media broadcasts circuses. Only through direct, dramatic impact on everyone’s wallet as well as bungled health care availability should the nationalized plan under government control come to pass will the majority see the truth.
A recent example of this was how California elected a career bureaucrat governor in the person of Gray Davis, realizing his ineptitude only when he botched the state’s energy policy so badly it suffered a series of rolling blackouts. That got attention. It will take something that brutal or worse to make people understand they’ve been duped by Obama and his PR firm, a/k/a the news media. In the case of foreign relations, it’ll tragically take another attack on U.S. soil to force realization that Obama’s stance as a weakling apologist will never placate our foes. Never.
- I’m thinking about starting up a line of action figures based on renowned bloggers. This is something of an oxymoron, since one hundred and ten out of one hundred people on the street don’t know these people exist, but I digress. My first one will be the Ace of Spades model. Shaped suspiciously like a parrot, wind it up and it repeats everything Allahpundit has to say. Granted, that’s not much. But not my problem.
Regarding the first, I think it’s more about mourning the passing of our own age. Was thinking this morning about how Farrah & MJ dying wiped out a big part of the pop culture of my childhood. Farrah was THE woman and MJ was THE music.
True. I find myself being more upset when someone from my parents generation passes away than my own, as it’s one less tangible connection for me to them.