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Kevin S. Willis
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yellojktTurns out that Spock is gay. This news cannot surprise longtime fans of Star Trek, who frequently noticed the homosexual tensions between Kirk and Spock.
Not to mention the many writers of fan fiction out there.
In another indicator of a tentatively improving economy, charitable giving was up in 2010.
In Philadelphia, mentally handicapped adults were held captive in a basement while their captors collected their Social Security disability. And the captors clearly didn’t have it all together, mentally, either, which was the only reason they got caught. Makes me wonder how much this sort of fraud is going on. Not so much kidnapping and keeping prisoner in the basement, but handicapped folks getting government assistance where the assistance goes to the “caretaker” and their lifestyle, rather than to support the handicapped individual.
It’s now well-established that the science is in, and Global Warming is an established fact like the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and taxes must be raised immediately to fund the green energy owned by personal friends of powerful politicians. Although it’s too late to do anything about global warming and we’re almost certainly doomed, it’s even worse than you thought. It’s not just the ice caps that are shrinking. Its the polar bears.
Aside: I am vaguely irritated that Michael Crichton’s speeches on global warming and other issues have disappeared from his own website. I’m note sure he’d approve of that posthumous revisionary stewardship.
This post brought to you by parenthood.
— KW
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All Things in Moderation 
Ah, thanks, Kevin! Cute daughter song; how old is yours now?
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Oldest is 13. Boys circle like sharks. But if they are going to spend any time with our daughter, they have to talk to us. So far, none with that much courage.
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And let me guess–you remember yourself at that age!
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No, that does not make Spock gay. Have you ever actually seen Star Trek?Fair warning to my liberal friends: I am in one grouchy mood after hearing clips of Obama out on his noncampaign campaign tour. It made my blood boil and left me wondering whether I will be able to have a civil discussion about anything related to this guy any time soon.So, before I start going nuclear on him, can someone give a decent defense of his attacking and demonizing Republicans for opposing his jobs bill in the Senate when HIS OWN PARTY is in control and won't pass it?
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A decent defense? No, not really. He's a politician doing what politicians do. Even us bleeding heart, tree-hugging, practically commie pinko liberals have given up on him doing anything other than being a politician.Having said that, the Senate Republicans have made it awfully easy for him to demonize them, so I can't fault him for taking the easy shot. Of course, Senate Democrats are just plain nonfunctional, so there's a lot of fiddling going on while the economy burns.Did that help the grouchiness at all?
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Still grouchy.The dishonesty of it is really staggering to me. I honestly can't recall any President in my lifetime who practiced this kind of overt, caustic divisiveness and vitriol.Obama is a small, petty, immature man. He still has no clue how to behave as President. Postpartisan uniter my eye.
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The dishonesty of it is really staggering to me. I honestly can't recall any President in my lifetime who practiced this kind of overt, caustic divisiveness and vitriol.Obama is a small, petty, immature man. He still has no clue how to behave as President. Well, we'll have to disagree on that, but great minds don't always agree on everything.And, BTW, there's a reason why I never listened to GWB speak; he had much the same effect on me. Maybe you should just not listen to and Obama talks for a while.
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"I am in one grouchy mood after hearing clips of Obama out on his noncampaign campaign tour."Sounds like the liberals' reactions for 8 years during the Bush admin.
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Qb: are you seriously asking me if I've seen Star Trek? Are you daft.I grew up on it. I watched Star Trek TMP fifty times. BTW, Sulu is also gay. At least TOS Sulu.
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First, Milli Vanilli, now the story of Sybil a fraud? (HT Instapundit)Plus, bonus Reynolds imitation:They told me that if I voted for John McCain, the government would operate in secret and engage in global warming coverups, and they were right!
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Obama makes me sleepy. True story. The speeches, I mean. I'm not nearly as hostile to O as qb is, but I find his ortatory capable of producing narcolepsy.
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I was kidding, kdub. Kidding!I can actually remember the first time I saw some of the episodes. How sad is that.
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Indeed, Obama is pretty boring most of the time. His oratory has to be the most overrated in U.S. Presidential history. Maybe all U.S. political history. Maybe ALL history.
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They told me if I voted for John McCain, he would die and Sarah Palin would be in charge. I always get in trouble for this, but President Palin would have been worth it just for the press coverage. And the punditry.
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Well, I like listening to the O man talk, even if I've become a little jaded. Just because he isn't your cup of tea. . .Just sayin'
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He's campaigning. Didn't someone say he was going to need a cool billion to win? Bush used to set my teeth on edge but I still listened to his State of the Union and major speeches, just to be in the loop so to speak. I do the same for Obama but gave up on campaign stuff decades ago, they're soliciting from their base. They all do it. He tried bi-partisanship and the GOP wasn't buying what he was selling so now he's going back to the money pit.Anyone see that pic of Romney with his Bain Capital buddies…………money hanging out of their pockets everywhere……..funny but possibly damaging.
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A query (and a bit of a blind canyon full of "hostiles"):After the President talks, what can one point to as his core principles?nb.: Over at PL, the Orcs (with the exception of the credible, honest and sincere shrink2) are trying to come up with a few magic words to pithily convey and disseminate the unfortunately amorphous and vacuous OWS message. I'm reminded of "Hope & Change," and the reluctance of the OWS organizers to get specific convinces me of the heavy presence of the usual Dem ops behind the scenes. Freakin' ToTo could pull back the curtain faster than the MSM. BTW: Nate Silver over at the NYTimes estimates 70,000 occupiers were out on the streets this wk/end…the .000199%!
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core principles=no clue, he's all over the mapOWS=traditional Dem ops are too dumb to be behind it, but they'll try to co-opt it for sure. Not saying the organizers aren't progressives though
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This will probably disapoint you all but for the rest of the week my commenting will be spotty to nonexistent. Company meeting. Enjoy the week all!
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lms,"Ninety nine percent of the residents of New York are going to suffer from this tax giveaway so the 1% who already live in absolute luxury can put more money in their pockets," said Doug Forand, one of the march organizers. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/10/2011-10-10_occupy_wall_street_protesters_can_stay_in_zuccotti_park_indefinitely_says_mayor_.html Doug Forand is this longtime NYS DSCC consultant: http://redhorsestrategies.com/doug.html Also quoted here: "The letter from Espada's election lawyer charges the political action committee of wealthy Democratic activist Bill Samuels has been improperly coordinating efforts with Rivera's campaign, the Working Families Party and another group. {snip} Samuels spokesman Doug Forand scoffed at Espada's claims. "It's a complete lie," Forand said. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/03/2010-08-03_now_espada_demands_probe.htmlSamuels is a major contributor to the NYS Democratic party. A medium scope Dem Koch, if you will. At no time in the former NY/DN article is Mr. Forand identified as a Dem consultant. I figured it out last week in about .99 minutes.Why is that?
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tao: .99 minutes. So it took you 1 minutes and 39 seconds? ;)lm: Michigoose touched on his core principles, which involve doing whatever is necessary to get the gears of government turning. He's a policy guy. Wonking is a core principle. Statecraft. He will engage in compromise that alienates his base or attacks that further incense his political enemies, all with the end goal of getting some politics gone. He's an artist who likes the process of painting, it really doesn't matter whether or not it's a portrait or a still life. The point is to fill the canvas. I do not disrespect that, BTW. One of the things that has won me over about Obama is his process-oriented pragmatism (not that his version of pragmatic is always the best approach, but I believe there is about as much earnestness there as you can expect from a politician, and I like what he's done regarding disrupting terror networks, although perhaps not his tendency to spread our troops ever thinner in the world (What? Drones don't fly in Uganda?)But campaign stuff bores me. Bush's campaign stuff bored me. And I loved hearing Bush talk, but then with both Bush and Obama I don't come to the table thinking this is a Bad Man who wants to do Bad Things and a Liar™ and a Socialist™ or Fascist™ so I must come to what they say with an understanding of their near infinite capacity for evil. ;)Not that anybody else does that. Especially not here! But I've been suspicious of others, on other blogs (not that I'd name any names) in the past.
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Obama on Libya: days, not weeks. And now it's months. And I thought Dubya was too prone to military adventurism. 🙂
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Wow, kev. His core principles are simply about moving the gears of government? Getting the government to do stuff? Otherwise known as … megalomania, power for power's sake, narcissism? What you've described is at best a dangerously unwise and unprincipled kind of person.There's no evidence that he is a "policy guy" in the sense that he is wise or good at policy of any kind. He famously bragged during his campaign that he was better at every single thing he had advisors to advise him about, but there's no evidence he's actually good at anything except making caustic and divisive speeches, mocking his opponents, and preening for audiences. Seriously. No evidence that he is good at any of it. Zero understanding of economics in particular.I didn't start off in 2008 thinking he was a Bad Man with bad intent, though. I didn't. I thought he was a believer in a lot of bad ideas, and was totally unqualified and nothing but a mirage. But he has completely won me over. He is indeed a bad man. Listen to him out on the noncampaign trail. You don't engage in that level of dishonesty and divisiveness without having something bad about your character.You don't viciously attack your political enemies (and that's how he treats them) and encourage others to attack them as war criminals, Constitution shredders, etc., and then do all that he's done to put on a show of being the "real" tough guy. He couldn't have believed any of those calumnies in the first place if it was even within the realm of possibility that he would be launching drones killing large numbers of civilians, assassinating an American "enemy combatant," and all the rest he's done. We all know what he'd have said about that. He loved filibusters as a junior Senator. He was happy to use the debt ceiling as a political weapon. Now this is villainy, he says.He takes responsibility for nothing. His economic policies are worse than a complete failure, but as someone else said yesterday, his whole new plan is to go out and tell the country that unless his "jobs bill" is passed intact everything will be the minority party's fault, even though his own party won't pass the piece of garbage. Character. Obama's really is bad. Even with the country in this dire state, and his policies a failure, it is beyond him to act like a real leader of the whole country and try to find solutions that both sides can accept, let alone rethink any of the results of what you call his pragmatism. In the end, that seems to me the ultimate indictment of the man as you portray him: if he is just a policy pragmatist and a good man with good intentions, how is it that the failure of his policies doesn't lead to anything but retrenchment and recriminations against the people who said they were wrong in the first place? How is his response to the death of CLASS, declared by his own administration, not a perfect microcosm of his Presidency? He's a very unpragmatic pragmatist.What he is, I now firmly believe, is a narcissistic President with little in the way of moral compass. It's all about him. (Told you he made my blood boil yesterday.)
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qb:You should really get off the fence about O and take a position, 😉
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"This will probably disapoint you all but for the rest of the week my commenting will be spotty to nonexistent."I for one am disappointed. Enjoy your meetings (drawing caricatures of whoever is speaking is a good survival tactic).
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Scott,I've always been wishy washy like this. Just can't make up my mind about things. But I think I can probably say that O won't have my vote.
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