Life gets tedious- Churchill and stuff

Ducky asks, "How come we get to chose from just two people to run for president but over 50 for Miss America?"

It has rained and stormed for 5 out of the last 6 days. I sure wish that Global Warming would get here....

I think I am suffering from overload. So much to be shocked and outraged about and so little time.

Some good news? Well, maybe funny news. In case you missed it Old Changeable Specter didn't get a lot for his sell out. He is now the JUNIOR Senator, having lost all seniority when he became a Dimicrat.... Specter.... Specter... Spectre.

Bond. James Bond. Shaken not stirred.

Maybe I should show another cat picture, or dog picture....

More funny news? Silicon Valley is all upset at Obamie for changing the way they have been avoiding taxes. Speaking of getting what you deserve..

Preview of what's to come to the US when the hate crime laws are in place?

Michael Savage is barred from going to England because his words provoke....that old free speech gets'm every time.

Some good news?? The market is all the way back to 8500 and the Lefties are crowing like it never fell from 14000 after they took over Congress... and gasoline just cracked $2.00.... The Left never learns.

Feel good stuff... Just rejected a comment from Weeder Gander. Decided to take Ducky's advice...

Serious time? Well, remember last week and Obamie screwed up what Churchill did re terror?? Well, here's a bit more...

PRESIDENT Obama's forays into history, especially Eu ropean history, are interest ing but not always accurate. Who can forget his description during the presidential campaign of African-American GIs liberating Auschwitz? (It was the Russians.) Or his admission during his recent European trip that he didn't know how to translate a certain word into Austrian? (There is no "Austrian"; Austrians speak German.)

His evocation of Winston Churchill in his press conference last Wednesday took confusion to a new height. The president cited the great British prime minister in support of his ban on enhanced interrogation techniques at Gitmo and elsewhere, noting that Churchill never allowed torture of German detainees in World War II "even when London was being bombed to smithereens."

Apparently, Obama got his new, sunny view of Churchill not from reading the Churchill biography that Prime Minster Gordon Brown gave him last month but from Andrew Sullivan's blog. Maybe we should be grateful to Sullivan and Obama for their confusion, however, because Churchill's actual position on what is morally permitted against a nation's enemies illuminates much more about the relationship between torture and civilization than their fictitious version.

Churchill recognized that torture -- the cruel, needless infliction of pain as a means of domination and control of others -- was emblematic of man's barbarism, as opposed to the values of what he called "Christian civilization." It was precisely this barbarism that he saw in the Nazi death camps and the Soviet gulag -- and that we see among the Muslim fanatics who will stone women to death for refusing to wear the veil or behead reporters.

But Churchill also understood that, if barbarism was one enemy of civilization, another was a moral cowardice disguised as moral qualms -- an instinctive flinching in the face of danger, dressed up as "upholding our values."

Churchill had seen this flinching in such 1930s appeasers as Neville Chamberlain, and he feared that he'd see it again among Britons and their leaders after the war.

Link to the article by Arthur Herman

There is a reason I call Obamie, Obamie. Remember Jackie is the diminutive of Jack.

There is a question that I keep asking the Lefties... If my side is right and your side is wrong, will you accept moral responsibility for all the deaths and injuries?

The silence is so very loud and clear. The poor dears are afraid to be harsh to our enemies and afraid to take what will come if they do not. What a dog's life they lead; pandering to every bit of PC nonsense and denying what their eyes must show them!

Life thoughts from Ducky

Never argue with an idiot.....people might not be able tell who's who.

Hat tip to Jimmy M.

That's one I need to work on!

Van Gogh's ear had to go

(May 4) - For more than a century, Vincent Van Gogh has been known as the tortured genius who sliced off his own ear in a fit of madness. But a new study claims Paul Gauguin lopped off the organ with a sword as the two artists argued over a prostitute.

If I asked who gives a flip would I be considered grumpy?

A Spanish judge wants to try Bush?

I have a Mpeg player of some type… certainly not an IPOD… but on it I have over 400 songs that I listen to while doing my every other day bit on the treadmill…. I have everything from Glen Miller to the Eagles to Blondie to well… you get the idea. This PM, as I was striding along to “Love Potion No. 9” it dawned on me, about the same time the cop was being kissed on the corner of 34th and Vine, that in 50 short years we have went from “kissing everyone in sight” to Viagra… from “Love Story” to “Sexual Enhancement Clinics”…… from “roll me in designer sheets”.... To ….”size is important.”

I mean color me a romantic fool, but sooner or later you have to talk to each other… or at least that use to be part of the package….

From being the “Defender of the free world” to being insulted by some unknown Spanish judge who thinks his “hasn’t done anything country since the English kicked their ass” has the right to try people in our government for what isn’t torture… Even worse, we have went from government leaders who would have called up the Spanish PM and say, “Are you kidding me?” to a Prez who couldn’t stand up to an angry 14 year with an AG who opines that he will have to comply with requests for information.

You know, the Soviets would have loved to have had a second shot at Spain. Too damn bad we stood between them.

Patton noted that Eisenhower should have turned him loose and he would have kicked the Soviets all the way back to the Arctic Circle. Now I grant you that would have been a chore, but seeing as how we had two extra nukes we didn’t need I think it could have been done.

The Cold War would never have happened and we wouldn’t have had to protect Europe while they pissed in our soup and got fat and lazy, not to mention stupid when it came to history.

Or maybe we should have just pulled back to England and told old Joe, they’re yours and they want socialism. Give’em the full Monty! A few years of putting up with France and Belgium and Spain and Italy and the Balkans….. well, the Soviets would have been begging us to take’em back.

“Look, Joe. We’ll take’em all except Germany. They’re either at your feet or at your throat and frankly we don’t want to put up with them.”

But we didn’t and we spent 50 years changing their nappies and we have wound up with a bunch of socialist Marxist jerks who are letting the Muslim world run over them because they got too interested in lattes and dope and forgot that people get married and have kids… and yeah, most kids are pains in the pautute for the first 20 years or so but then a miracle happens and they turn into people.

So we have a lady from Paris marrying a cousin in Tangiers and the average Muslim family is three or four times the size of the average Catholic family and some asshole in Spain wants to argue because we waterboarded a terrorist who would be happy to cut his head off…

I mean, I am sick and tired of stupid people. A few lines up I chided the Muslims for the arranged cousins marrying. But based on what I see in Europe it must have been going on long before Mohammed showed up demanding money and his rights!

And speaking of Mpegs and music, I have NO Springstein (or Dixie Chocks). If you want o know why:

More than 18,000 fans and friends showed up on Sunday night for a concert at Madison Square Garden honoring Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. USA TODAY was there, too.
The cause: Folk singer/songwriter, political/environmental activist and rock heroes' hero Pete Seeger turned 90 Sunday night, and some of his better-known disciples came out to celebrate.

Could I add something there Ms Gardner? Something that evidently you or your editor at the Nations Newspaper didn’t know?

Seeger was and probably still is, a communist. Now I know such details aren’t important to all the Obamie idiots , but maybe there is still a few people around who think patriotism is important.

So no Brucie music on my Mpeg and if “You Can Call me Speedo” isn’t fast enough then dial the “Heartbreak Hotel.”

Don't you think it is time for a Special Prosecutor?

This is such an abuse of power that it must be challenged.

A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News Saturday that Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms, an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration's Chrysler bankruptcy plan, the White House

Link

Now we know why he wants that Civilain National Security force that is just as powerful,just as strong and just as well funded as the miliatry.

I thought Obama was gonna fix things like this..

The British government has paid nearly $900,000 in legal fees on behalf of three associates of Osama bin Laden who have fended off attempts by the U.S. government to extradite them for a decade, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The three al-Qaeda suspects were arrested in London shortly after the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people. British authorities pledged to extradite them swiftly to the United States to stand trial for their alleged roles in the attacks.

I mean, don't they know The Messiah has assumed control and that it is okay to have relations with us?????????

Do you think maybe it was the Churchill's bust deal?

I mean it's only been 11 years......

Beheading! It's a cultural thing!

It has happened in England, Canada, and the United States. It was bound to happen in France. An innocent Frenchman was found decapitated in Lyons. This report is from Le Progres, via François Desouche:

A victim atrociously mutilated on the 12th floor. A suspect who lived on the 5th floor. The entire affair is concentrated on #5 of a large complex of residences, 65, rue de Saint-Cyr in Lyons. On Saturday afternoon (April 25), Raymond Arveuf, 62, was found decapitated (note: the head was missing) in his apartment on the top floor of the building by his brother who was concerned that he had not been present at the usual family dinner on Saturday. The night before he had been watching a soccer match with friends in a bar in Valse......

Youcef Djellouli, 29, a neighbor on the 5th floor, whose speech was confused. Taken into custody...(he) did not delay in admitting to the murder. The young man spoke, in substance, of a sudden desire to kill.

To be PC or not PC, that is the question.

And yes, the beheader appears to be slightly off his rocker.... as if that matters to the beheadee...

It is also known as the Jihadist trance...