"I HAVEN’T BEEN WATCHING CNN, but folks on Facebook and Twitter say they seem disappointed that it wasn’t the MONSTER SUPERSTORM OF DEATH that they promised."

But, but ... We were promised a catastrophe. We bought popcorn. Those damned southern hick hillbillies disappointed us again by not living down to our expectations.

As someone who now lives in northern Georgia, I now have the honor of being one of those downtrodden hillbilly hicks.

INSTAPUNDIT remembers 9/11. This comment warrants repeating over and over again:

One thing I guess I didn’t believe 16 years ago is that America would elect such a feckless President in 2008, and stand idly by while he flushed our global position, and security, down a left-wing toilet. But we did, and we’ll be paying the price for a long time.

Obama should go down in history as the first - and hopefully only - President to commit treason against his own country.

UPDATE:

THIS QUESTION should have been asked about (former) President Obama.

JERRY POURNELLE passes. He was not my favorite sci-fi author, but I always found his stories solid, well-founded in science, and with strong, believable characters.

R.I.P.

WHAT AN UGLY LITTLE SNOT: Follow the links to the Daily Mail article. More here.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN PICTURES:

Taken from PowerLine's Week in Pictures.

MICHELLE MALKIN: "Reminder: You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out."

It's damned hard to do, there's so much stupid out there....

HEH:

All they can do is take - and destroy.

BEWARE OF HURRICANE HARVEY SCAMS: Nonprofit fundraises for . . . abortion?

A HEARTWARMING STORY: Returning the favor.

FROM TUCKER CARLSON'S SHOW LAST NIGHT: "Should Antifa groups be barred from gathering?"

My answer: No, they should be gathering behind bars.

SO WHEN DID FISH START COLLEGE? "[W]e’re producing a generation of sexually confused fish who respond to stimuli in a self-destructive manner."

TRUMP GIVES $1M FOR HURRICANE RELIEF, but it's still not enough to satisfy his critics.

Not to mention that he donates his entire salary to charity.

Question: How much has former President Obama donated?

VIRTUE SIGNALING FROM VOX: $330,000 in financial aid bought me a slot in the American meritocracy. Now I see its flaws.

My question: now that he has all that virtue, does he intend to pay any of it back?

Linked from Instapundit.

CAJUN NAVY assisted by monster truck.

SCORE ANOTHER FOR MELANIA: Liberal twit(ter)s snicker over her wearing high heels to board Air Force One to Texas.

She got off wearing sneakers....

FINALLY IT'S SAFE TO GO OUT TO EAT: Applebees gives up on appealing to millenials.

I KNOW, I KNOW: Hurricane Harvey devastated Rockport and Houston is still flooding. But can we at least dial back the coverage to 23/7?

TOXIC MASCULINITY AND WHITE PRIVILEGE: it's not for Pajama Boy.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, statuesque edition. Here's my favorite:

There are many more - go see them.