YOU DON’T SAY

'Racist' claims defuse once powerful word. Umm, why? Just because conservatives are using the word correctly?

Okay, so how about if I just call them bigots?

MUGGED BY REALITY

Irving Kristol has died. Kristol was known as “the godfather of Neoconservatism” for his definition of a neo-conservative as “a liberal mugged by reality.” It was a great gift: an unforgettable reminder that ideas matter because of the realities they nurture or discourage. Rest in Peace.

MAINSTREAM UNICORNS

From the comments section of a Hot Air post on race-baiting: ”Liberals painting their critics as outside of the mainstream is nothing new ....”

Of course not. Liberals believe they are the mainstream. They also believe in unicorns.

ADVANCED PLANNING DIRECTIVES

Much has been said and http://a-shadow-world.blogspot.com/2009/09/your-life-your-choices.htmlwritten about advanced planning directives under ObamaCare. Here are some lighter views.

From Brewster Rockit:





And my personal ObamaCare counseling invitation:



(with apologies to the cemetary; the mailing just happened to arrive at the right time)

OBAMACARE IS DEAD?

Are the Democrats signaling defeat on ObamaCare?

Maybe it’s time to start reading HR3200, the Republican alternative, which can be found here. As with the Democrat’s bill, it is only 1,000 pages long, which (to me) says it’s also problematic.

WHY ARE LIBERALS STILL ANGRY?

After all, they won the Presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Frank J. Fleming explains:

The most fundamental principle liberals have is that they are all very, very smart, and everyone should listen to them. Nothing angers them more than [having someone challenge] them.

Heh.

CLUELESSNESS

"We have seen an ongoing theme from Barack Obama of general cluelessness on private industry, and especially on profit. For Obama, profit is part of 'overhead,' or 'taken off the top.' "

"Profits are not taken off the top but are what’s left at the bottom, after expenses get paid — and expenses are the 'overhead,' which includes items like salaries, supplies, rent, and so on."

"By the way, that’s why it’s called 'the bottom line,' because that’s where people find the profits in a ledger. Profits come last."

WIMP OR WARRIOR?

"It's time for conservatives--mainstream Americans, in other words--to throw off the shackles and get aggressive. Our beliefs are correct, our values are the foundation of any society that doesn't have a death wish, and our interests, unlike those of the leftists, are legitimate. We deserve to govern this country, and before long, we will."

Yes.

GRADING THE QDR

The Center for Strategic and International Studies grades the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review:

The 2010 QDR seeks to answer the question of whether the US should posture its forces and focus its acquisitions on dealing with conventional threats from rising peer competitors or more asymmetric threats emanating from weak and failing states.

The search for answers is being structured around the concept of "hybrid warfare," ... a concept ... so loosely defined that it does not provide clear criteria for decision-making. Service efforts to define it have so far been little more that shopping lists for every possible contingency mixed with buzzwords that appear to have meaning only as long as they are not examined in any detail.

In practice, any concept that effectively justifies anything ends in justifying absolutely nothing.

The QDR is, at its best, a difficult high-wire act with no safety net, long on good intentions and short on successful actions. Given the dramatic philosophical difference between the Bush and Obama administrations and the demonstrated incompetence of the Obama administration with respect to its domestic agenda, dead on arrival looks right.

THE PROBLEM WITH YOU CONSERVATIVES

An enlightened leftist reaches across the aisle.

This would be funny if it weren't almost word-for-word the Pacifica radio script I listened to last month.