TO THOSE ON THE LEFT, monumental hypocrisy is not a bug, but feature. Read it all.

Link from Instapundit.

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID. This from my email:

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on he "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.

A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!!

Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request that before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.

This is obviously not real, but ... it does neatly encapsulate the growing lack of confidence in government by the Harvard-educated "elite."

IS THE TEA PARTY a "social justice" movement?

Link from Instapundit.

CAN DO, CAN TALK: Apollo versus Obama.

HARSHING OBAMA'S MELLOW: Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama.

Link from Instapundit.

BRIGHTNESS VS MERE COMPETENCE: Instapundit links to a series of posts on intellectual capacity versus mere competence to achieve great things as seen through the lens of the Obama administration's appalling incompetence to accomplish anything. Follow all the links.

As a PhD myself and an employee of an organization that boasts of a (very) high percentage of PhD's on staff, I have to agree with the conclusions: great accomplishments and great intellects are not well correlated.

OBAMA BEGINS "LIFESTYLE HEALTH MODIFICATION" PROGRAM, mandating behavioural changes within U.S. society. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?

From the comments: "I have a lot of contact with Public Health people and they are the biggest fascists of all. They have powers the police would love to have. All they have to do is define something as a 'public health threat' and they can do anything they want to you."

Instapundit suggests it's time to modify the nannyist's lifestyle instead. I agree.

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW.


Caldwell County courthouse, Lockhart, TX, 12 June 2010.

OBAMA NO LONGER trusting BP's word on offshore oil drilling. I suspect BP no longer trusts Obama's word on anything. I wouldn't either.

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW


Austin, TX, 2:30 pm, 14 June.

SARCASM IS LOST ON LIBERALS. Joan Vennochi of the Boston Globe can't tell the difference. Discussing Helen Thomas' anti-semitic remarks, Vennochi wrote:

Ironically, in discussing it, Beck might be accused of similar insensitivity. Before her retirement was announced, he questioned why Thomas was still employed: "You know, may I tell you this Jewish-run media, really, they're really bad at running the media, if they are indeed Jewish. You know what I mean? The Zionist masters really suck at being Zionist masters."

Sarcasm or anti-Semitism?

The PC police can't tell the difference.

TENNESSEE DEMOCRAT ON FEMALE REPUBLICANS: “You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women.” But you don't have to drop their pants to know male Democrats aren't real men.

THE GOVERNMENT thinks I'm greedy. I think my grandchildren have a better friend in their "greedy" grandparents than they do in their paternalistic government.

THE PRESIDENT said what?

ARE UNIVERSITY ETHNIC STUDIES DEPARTMENTS RUNNING THE COUNTRY? Victor Davis Hanson thinks so.

William F. Buckley famously said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard." He was right.

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN'S assault on a student reporter deserves censure. No, it deserves criminal charges - at a minimum.

UPDATE: more here.

WITH GULF CRISIS, Obama in over his head. Ya think?

Link from Instapundit.

SMART CARS aren't so smart. And this is a commercial company running the program. Can you imagine what it would be like if the government were involved?

OBAMA TO BP: speed up the pace or we'll, ... we'll hold our breath until we turn blue.

MAN ARRESTED for saving life. Making government look bad one example at a time.

Link from Instapundit.