Archive for March, 2010

Dan Calabrese

I realized something a few years back about “death threats,” at least the ones you hear about.

This epiphany occurred in the aftermath of the incident in which Roseanne Barr crapped all over the national anthem at a San Diego Padres game. Why they invited her to “sing” it, I will never know, but pigs do what they do, and after Ms. Barr screeched out the sort of rendition that would inspire you to gouge your ears out, she grabbed her crotch, spit and walked off the field to a deafening round of boos.

She was making it up just like you.

Knowing she had done something incredibly stupid, and having no excuse whatsoever, Ms. Barr claimed within days that she was receiving death threats.

Ah. Death threats. The last refuge of people who make interminable asses of themselves. It was the only way to make herself look like a sympathetic figure in the aftermath of her public display of douchebaggery.

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Bob Maistros

See Bibi.  Bibi is the leader of Israel.  Israel is a in a place called the Middle East.  Israel is a nice warm, sunny place to live with lots of milk and honey.  Bibi and Israel should be very happy.  Hooray, Bibi and Israel!

Bibi, go to the corner.

See Barack and Hillary.  Barack is the president of America.  Hillary is the Secretary of State of America.  Hillary talks to other countries for America.  Her job is to help our friends and scare our enemies.  Hooray, Barack and Hillary! Read the rest of this entry »

David Karki

And so it begins.

The paratroopers quietly drop into every doctor’s office, hospital, insurance company, and pharmaceutical office in the land. 16,500 new IRS agents quietly stick their noses in everyone’s bank accounts.

Curious onlookers, not having been vigilant and ignorant of what they should have known, come out to see what’s going on. And in a moment, they lie dead and bleeding.

As it was in the opening of 1984′s Red Dawn, so too it is with the passage of Obamacare: communism has landed on American soil, and we are behind enemy lines. Do we have what it takes to fight – and to die, and to kill if necessary– as that group of high school students did in order to defend they country they loved from invasion? Are we willing to become real-life Wolverines if that’s what it takes?

Wolverines!!

This renewed Cold War, the first shot of which was fired by the left on Sunday, aimed at all that America is about and all that believe in those values, has begun. It’s non-violent, and I certainly pray it stays that way, but seeing the ruthless determination with which the left has forced its values down our throats and the vicious smearing of anyone who objected to it, I’m hard-pressed to see how anything short of that will stop them.

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Kelly Anderson Wright

I’ll admit, some of the provisions in the health care bill seem like the right thing to do. I don’t want anyone dumped by an insurance company just because they need heart surgery, do you? It doesn’t seem right to put limits on health insurance coverage for long-term disorders like cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s, either. Protecting ourselves against unforeseen catastrophes is why we buy insurance, right?

He'll be watching you.

BUT (and that’s a big but, obviously)…

… there are so many things wrong with this bill, it seemed to myself, half of Congress and the majority of Americans, that we should have just killed the bill and started over, with the parts we could all agree on.

We know by now that that didn’t happen. It might happen in the future, with Republican lawmakers threatening to repeal the bill, and a dozen or more state governors, including Nevada’s Jim Gibbons, saying they intend to challenge the constitutionality of the bill in court.

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Bob Franken

Forgive still another sports cliche, but oftentimes it’s true that the “Best Defense is a Good Offense”. As an example, in a contract negotiation sometimes the best way to get someone to stop making ridiculous lowball offers is to respond each time, not by reducing your price but by raising it.

Fight fire with fire, Nance.

In the same way then, maybe the way to confront those who are hellbent on repealing health care reform through politics and destructive legal action is again not by resisting them but instead hammering them with aggressive tactics, raising the stakes.

They want to repeal the health care compromise? Sure. Submit legislation that would replace it with a Public Option, one that would take the big steps that would really reform the system instead of something that tippy toes like this one does.

If you’re going to create a frenzy on the right anyway, why not give them good reason to act in such ignorant and bigoted ways? Let’s face it, their strings are pulled so easily by the Status Quo puppeteers that we may as well go all out and manipulate all their fears and prejudices.

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Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

“This is fargin war!” – Roman Moroni

You can’t really overstate the stakes in the necessary battle that must be waged to eviscerate ObamaCare. A nation already headed for fiscal disaster because of $71 trillion in unfunded entitlement obligations, and needing to change course on that score immediately, instead doubles down and creates a whole new massive entitlement, packed with dishonest budget numbers that would be laughed at even in Fantasyland, where they’ll believe almost anything.

You suminabotches have violated my fargin rights.

Congressional Republicans simply must do everything they can to dismantle this monster. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t employ a smart and strategic approach.

It appears that the latest litmus test of “true conservatism” is the insistence that the entire bill must be repealed all at once.

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Bob Franken

Forgive the self-indulgent self-flagellation, but it’s time to own up. I was wrong. I was one of the many Washington Lemmings who had abandoned any prospect of real change once the Massachusetts rats had jumped the Democratic ship.

Yeah, yeah, it passed. Time to move on.

Do you know the sound that Washington Lemmings make as they move in a mass? We murmur. And as we marched in lock step through the snows of February we were all murmuring “Health Care Reform is Dead. Health Care Reform is Dead”. Murmuring, hell: We were shouting it from the cable news rooftops!

Well that turned out to be just another snow job. Over at the White House Mess, the chefs whipped up a mess of gumption and soon the president and his fellow Democrats on the Hill did a turnaround and began their relentless March march to history.

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Jill Ciminillo

I have to admit that I’m not typically a fan of SUVs of any sort. They’re big brutish vehicles that overtake the road. And, many times, the people who are driving them are incompetent. I mean, really, just because you’re bigger than a car doesn’t give you the right to take up two lanes on the highway, straddle the line between two parking spaces or parallel park on the curb like an idiot.

That being said, there are a few select SUVs that have a nice sleek shape and drive like a car—even incompetent drivers can manage these. One of the best of that group is the Mazda CX-7.

Mazda CX-7

Straight off, I have to tell you there isn’t anything super special about this little SUV. But in a way, it’s that very lack of whistles and bells that makes this one of the more comfortable, intuitive crossovers I’ve driven.

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