Archive for December, 2010

Dan Calabrese

Senate Democrats have decided the way to muster public support for President Obama’s START treaty with the Russians is to present the issue as a choice between rational, experienced, calm foreign policy heads . . . and an airhead.

Specifically Sarah Palin, or at least the Saturday Night Live cartoon version of Sarah Palin.

Respect their authoritah!

On their web site, Senate Democrats pose the question thusly:

Brett Noel

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Bob Maistros

So the other day a Facebook friend and former colleague put up a post praising four Republican Senators (Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska) who had ditched their colleagues and helped repeal the law banning overt homosexuals from serving in the military.

I commented, in my own inimitable way, “Unlike.  RINOs.”

Taken from my good side.

To which this Facebook friend responded in equally witty fashion:  “UN-like BOB. Neanderthal.”

Which got me to thinking:  what does someone like this individual mean when he calls someone like me a “Neanderthal?”

Employing my usual depth and thoroughness of research, I found my way to Wikipedia and discovered the following:

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Herman Cain

He was not born into a royal family, but He left a royal impression on the world.

For 30 years, He learned the ways of the world without becoming of the world. He then changed the world for the better.

He led without a mandate. He taught without a script. His common sense parables filled people with promise and compassion, His words forever inspiring.

Power.

He never condemned what others believed – just sin, evil and corruption.

He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health care system. He feed the hungry without food stamps. And everywhere He went, it turned into a rally, attracting large crowds, and giving them hope, encouragement and inspiration.

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Dan Calabrese

The past week’s defeat of Harry Reid’s $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill was, in itself, only a temporary victory for fiscal sanity. Remember that Democrats never passed a fiscal year 2011 federal budget because they didn’t want to pay the political price for the irresponsible pile of crap it surely would have represented.

This does not happen.

Imagine them doing even worse at the polls than they did in November. That’s what they hoped to avoid by saying, “Budget? We don’t really need one of those, do we?”

So with 12 days remaining in the year, and FY 2011 already underway, Congress needs to pass some sort of spending authorization to keep the government running. It won’t be the earmark-larded abomination Reid tried to sneak through, but that’s no guarantee the new Republican majority will pass something that puts the nation on the road to fiscal health. They can prove themselves there when they get the chance in January.

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Brett Noel

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Bob Maistros

Last night in the Maistros household, we had what they call a “teachable moment.”

The word came via email from the Cleveland Plain Dealer site that legendary Indians hurler Bob Feller had passed away.  I mentioned this news with sadness to my kids in the room … and was met with blank stares and “who’s that?”

This is what a genuine hero looks like.

Needless to say, I was stunned and (nearly) speechless.  My own children, steeped in Tribe lore and tradition from the time they could crawl, knew nothing of the greatest athlete in all of Cleveland history?

We quickly rectified this improbable state of affairs.  I offered some highlights from Rapid Robert’s career, whereupon Mia, my grad student, did what all young people of her generation do:  immediately Googled him.  Combining her findings with my institutional memory of North Coast sports, we marveled at his exploits.

How the Iowa farmboy learned to pitch playing catch every day with his dad – until a ball got past and broke a couple of Feller pere’s ribs.

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Bob Maistros

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Ima Maven joined by Luke N. Good, and we are here in New York’s fabulous Lincoln Center for the 2010 Political Fashion Week.  Tonight we’ll be seeing the collection from the marvelous and cleverly-named new No Labels label – hosted by those well-known moderates at MSNBC – and Luke, the glitterati are out in force.”

No Labels, no thanks. (Photo Courtesy Rosenberg, licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

“Yes, Ima, it’s another one of those political events that everyone is so excited about and no one knows why.  But it’s probably because we have a virtual Who’s Who of Fringe Politicians, Opinion-Leading Pundits and Consultants and Self-Important People Out of Power for Good Reason, all representing America’s stylish and popular-with-the-media – but completely irrelevant – political center.”

“Yes, indeed, Luke.  And coming down the catwalk now, resplendent in an ensemble in Benedict Arnold Yellow, is the left’s favorite former George W. Bush speechwriter, David Frum.”

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Dan Calabrese

ORLANDO – I realize I’m not getting any sympathy from my friends in places like Minneapolis or Detroit, but dude, the high here yesterday was 42.

42!

Florida has fall colors this year.

Yep. Florida.

Last night, as I rode my bike from the ESPN Zone (only place to see the Vikings’ horrible performance against the Giants) to the resort, the temperature was 27. It could have snowed!

It’s not even winter yet.

Remember all that talk from the global warmists about how 2010 was the hottest year on record or some such thing? They should have waited until after December to say that. Does below-freezing weather in Florida count toward the average?

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