A bit of solace here and there ...

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Tree-hugging Brit Loves American Military!

Expectations of Great White Sharking
Related Link » O Presidency Shark Jumped “I’m afraid the Obama administration is in serious danger of jumping the shark before the first year’s out. Between racking up a historic deficit on pork, dragging out a critical war decision for purposes of minor tinkering, insulting and alarming key allies, playing foot-in-mouth with street cops, watching major agenda items bog down despite one-party rule … how can he hope to top that season without resorting to cheap, obvious gimmicks?” [emphasis added] — ‘Jules Crittenden’Having already exceeded expectations for His audacity, it boggles the mind what The Obama can conjure up to jump the great white. Will The O'Fonz

Happy Thanksgiving, as it were
Related Link » Riding the Back of the Tiger “The survival of Israel now depends on its pilots and missiles, not on any guarantees from the US. In today’s currency, what we guarantee is worth about as much as US treasury bills, or promises of missile defense for Eastern Europe. [...] The problem with all this pessimistic view of human nature is that our elite and anointed smirk at it. They seem to say, ‘Tsk, tsk, we are 21st century Ivy-Leaguers in the postmodern age. [...] But does anyone think human nature has changed (since the Greeks) due to improved diet, or that brain chemistry has altered with video games? Obama inherited, he did not make the rules — whether he thinks he ca

I'll see your mysteries and raise you some more
Related Link » Side issue “How, you might wonder, can [Hugo Chávez] be a friend to the likes of [Carlos the Jackal, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe], rather than to Women of Zimbabwe Arise? How be on the side of ... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rather than on the side of those fighting for democratic reform in Iran? In fact, that's less of a mystery than why Hugo Chávez should have become the hero of Camden.” [emphasis added] — ‘Norman Geras, November 26, 2009’Continuing in Norm's vein, how, you might really wonder, can the President of the United States strive to befriend the likes of Chávez and I'madinnerjacket, sworn enemies of the United States, and self-proclaimed scum o

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Proud Mary
{Song #39 « Song #40 » T•of•C} § ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music. Song #40 is Proud Mary, sung by Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Proud Mary" is a song written by American singer and guitarist John Fogerty. It was first recorded by rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), in which Fogerty played lead guitar and sang lead vocals, on the 1969 album Bayou Country. Released as a single in January 1969, it became the band’s first top-ten hit on the U.S. Pop chart, peaking at number two. It was the first of five s

Ground-level Is Too High
Related Link » Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage “Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even slightly forlorn. The CNN cameras had already been set up. But then Obama decided not to play along, and not to answer the question he had already been asked several times on his trip: what did he plan to take home with him? Instead, he simply said ‘thank you, guys’, and disappeared. David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's ex