Joe Biden, class clown: “What’s he doing back there?”
Important new endorsements for Barack Obama.
Not all Europeans are blind to the risk of cultural suicide.
Coal-fired anger.
Governor Christie sums up Obama’s leadership problem: “He's like a man wandering around a dark room, hands up against the wall, clutching for the light switch of leadership, and he just can't find it, and he won't find it in the next 18 days.”
Obama: slow to see terrorism at home and abroad.
Who is Robert Roche, and why does he enjoy such influence with President Obama?
An African-American citizen directs his ire at Obama and the federal deficit (Warning: Strong language).
Radio caller: hey, why are we encouraging deer to cross busy highways by putting up all those deer crossing signs? (Sounds like your typical undecided voter, to me).
To break for a moment from politics, the Daily Telegraph has a very interesting article about Kim Novak, including details on her working relationship with Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart (H/T: Captain Heinrichs). And Seraphic Secret takes a look at one very peculiar aspect of the stormy relationship between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Not all Europeans are blind to the risk of cultural suicide.
ReplyDeleteOccupying a mosque seems like an obnoxious tactic. Occupying the immigration minister's office might be more effective. I think occupation is a fine tactic if you occupy, say, a place like the Stasi headquarters but occupying almost anything is else is just being a jerk.
Obama: slow to see terrorism at home and abroad.
Not so fast. The Obama administration's representative Joe Biden and a number of other democrats didn't seem to have a problem labeling the TEA party with the word "terrorists" for suggesting some restraint when spending money you don't have and will have to borrow. (btw, remember when Obama talked about a "net spending cut"?)
Generally I agree with you about the sort of place that protestors ought to occupy, i.e., the offices of those whose policies make cultural civil war possible - although I believe that occupying Stasi headquarters during the communist reign in East Germany might have been a tad...suicidal. That's a rather high bar.
ReplyDeleteA thousand 'Thank You's' for linking that article on Miss Novak.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see that she has such a great life.
It was great to fall in love with her all over again.
[She had the most beautiful back in show business - I bet she still does.]
I remember my mother and aunts poring over fan magazines and wondering aloud why Kim Novak quit Hollywood and stardom. Reading about her life now, I think she made a good choice. I'd love to see examples of her painting.
ReplyDeleteAh. Found a couple.
ReplyDeleteNot bad.
Bob: Her front isn't so bad, either.
ReplyDeleteThey did occupy the Stasi HQ as the GDR was going down the tubes but it was a good use of occupation because it made a tool of totalitarians unusable. I think it was in the book Stasiland that describes it as the protestors refusing to leave the Stasi building and with the Stasi being vastly outnumbered they told them ok, you can stay but you'll have to sign the visitor's log and (despite the fact that it'd be used for retaliation) being germans they got in line and signed in. It was an remarkable risk but less since Gorby ended the Khrushchev Doctrine so the USSR wouldn't invade countries that became "counter-revolutionary." I can't help but wonder what would have happened if it had been tried earlier or tried over and over.
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