the real world, where words and deeds have consequences beyond the PR value of soundbites and campaigns, our former allies, the people with whom we once shared a special and enduring relationship are opining on our Prez (kickin’ any ass lately, O?) Former foreign Secretary with sensible analysis The US will never take the blame […]
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our ass-kickin’ president…
Image via Wikipedia I guess I am glad Spike Lee didn’t suggest that Obama should drop a bomb somewhere to beef up his street cred, yo’ Could Robert Gibbs (D-oofus) be any more clueless about how business runs than to suggest CEOs arent the real power in corporations, in defense of why Obama hasn’t talked […]
Obama and competence
Image via Wikipedia Conservatives are as nutty over Obama as liberals were over Bush I agree with everything #38 posted except for the evil part. He’s evil, as evil as Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot. as evil as Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot?! really? the greatest mass murderers in history? for one thing, he […]
Obama: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”:: Bush : “Mission Accomplished”
Image via Wikipedia The left used the “mission accomplished” phrase as a way to demonstrate the disconnectedness and tin ear of the Bush administration. Obama unwittingly offered a similar phrase to characterize his own administration’s performance in the Gulf oil spill when he quoted his daughters as saying “Did you plug the hle yet, Daddy?”. […]
Systems dynamics meets the Afghan war via Powerpoint
It is becoming a common practice to laugh at that slide, but try on this thought experiment: what if someone made a slide of a zoom in on the surface of a semi-conductor chip? Wouldn’t that seem as incomprehensible and “foolish”? and yet by the slow process of developing knowledge we have become capable of extraordinary […]
Obama declares people of Arizona are irresponsible
Image via Wikipedia Obama, elected by citizens, according to the law, has declared the citizens and their duly elected representatives, who followed the law to pass a law, as irresponsible. You would expect that from true believers, who see the world in absolutes: the members of this group include children, the naive, idealists, utopianists, and […]
Stanley Cup vs Superbowl: Peyton’s walk of shame
Image via Wikipedia all the controversy about Manning walking off the field only highlights the difference between hockey and football culture Football is full of “me me me”: TO, Ocho Cinco, trash talking: juvenile Hockey is about the team AND respect for the other teams, all of them, who pushed you beyond what you thought […]
Forked tongue, 2 faces and a ton of debt
Image via Wikipedia Out of one side of his mouth: “When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript of his appearance Tuesday at a high school in North Nashua, N.H. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage,” Obama said. “You don’t […]
SOTU doublespeak. Sad clown is sad.
Image via Wikipedia In the same breath, Obama chastises Republicans as the party of “No” while simultaneously calling for a spirit of bi-partisanship and an end to acrimony. If he were self aware, he’d see the irony, It is a measure of his disconnectedness that he can make those statements without blinking. Perhaps he is […]
A note to John Edwards: choke yourself
Image by bunchofpants via Flickr Why is this clown getting any airtime? Why isn’t he getting the Tiger Woods treatment? I bet he is planning on how he can rehabilitate his career, because he believes he owes the country the value of his special leadership. Here is an interview with his hair. Update: now see […]