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Close Obama encounters

Posted by Scott Keys on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:02:01 PM
I have a friend who has a relative very highly positioned in the Obama campaign. They recently dined together and talked about the Illinois senator. Some excerpts from my friend's e-mail about the conversation:

    ...their argument is Obama handsome and and well spoken.  Speaks for
    the masses and wants everyone to be involved and represented.  An updated
    JFK that cares more about poor people.  Any questions about his positions -
    they don't know.  Because he is an outsider to DC, he hasn't quite put them
    altogether yet, though working hard on it.  One thing they did know was
    Obama was against the Iraq war from the beginning.  When asked why and how
    he knew it wasn't a good idea, when from Clinton on down the rest of the
    Democratic elite were in favor, don't know.  He['s] almost a Messianic presence
    that will lead us to peace and understanding....

I wrote back:

    I would love to talk to them about him even though I realize it would be futile. He's handsome? We'll dismiss that out of hand as a     actual qualification. Well-spoken? So was Hitler. Speaks for the masses? Oh really! How does he know that? Wants everyone to     be represented and involved? How nice. Then we can all have a cookie and take a nap before recess. A DC outsider? I suppose,     if you don't count the 2-plus years he's been a senator. But that's supposed to mean he hasn't thought about any of this stuff     before? Not even before declaring himself ready to be President? Give me a break. He won't state his positions because he's a     screaming leftie and the sooner he does that the sooner he'll have to start answering tough questions about all of them. I'm sorry,     but I think it's really mostly guilty white people patronizingly latching onto a black person. Not that I have a strong opinion about     any of this.


Are the kids in your elementary school not acknowledging themselves as "political beings"? Have they yet to embrace the inevitably logical concept of collectivism? Do they play with their Legos without a sense of "social justice"? Building structures that aren't of "standard size"? Do they have a disturbing habit of acting like 7 and 8 year-olds? Send them to school at the HIlltop Children's Center in Seattle for re-education. Or we will send them for you.
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Tuesday things

Posted by Scott Keys on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:29:36 PM
A sewage disaster in a small village in Gaza with ensuing unnecessary and tragic loss of life. The UN warned them two years ago. Israel offered to help. Draw your own conclusions.

Here's an account of a hilarious protest action in, where else, Berkeley, California, where activists disrobed and laid down on the ground to save an old-growth grove of trees that are being cleared to make way for a new structure at UC Berkeley. Some of 'em climbed and laid down in the trees, too! Wow, that's dedication to a cause. Oh, except they're not actually old-growth trees. Oh, and they aren't going to cut all of them down. Oh yes, and eventually there will be more trees in the area because of the project. Oh, sorry, and the project's been shelved for the time being due to seismic concerns. Hmmm. Come to think of it, why are we doffing our clothes and risking a bark or wood chip enema? Oh heck, let's admit it's just for the attention. Warning! Nudity! And I'm not talking Playboy models and Chippendale dancers. Ick.
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Oh, baby!! Good eatin' !!

Posted by Scott Keys on Friday, March 23, 2007 1:37:05 PM
Here's a post for us guys if there ever was one. Hot dogs with more on them than necessary...but not really. I'll think I'll follow this up with a deep-fried Twinkie!
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My daughter the Martyr

Posted by Scott Keys on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:01:41 PM
I can't believe I let my daughter grow up past the point where I could talk her into dressing in fatigues, strapping on bombs and blowing herself up for the glory of Allah. What a cute picture this is of someone's lucky little girl. Original Arabic website here.

I suppose this is what passes for logic in the brave, new nether- world of animal rights activism. We'll kill the polar bear cub to save it from a dysfunctional life of dependency. No, really.

Blogger Cathy Seipp is in the hospital for the last time, having been battling cancer. Her site.

Wow!! Here's the new Lufthansa Airbus A380 landing at JFK yesterday. This thing is HUGE, man!

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But don't call us unpatriotic!!

Posted by Scott Keys on Monday, March 19, 2007 8:56:31 PM
Ok, we do do stuff like this, but that doesn't mean we  don't "support the troops." Geez, at the very least can't we agree this is egregiously disgusting behavior?
Update: In video of this available here you can here the chants that went along with this charming protest action. Here are three:
Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the soldiers on the top. Put the fascists in the middle and burn the f***ing lot.
Bye, bye, GI. In Iraq you're gonna' die.
It's not just Bush it's the soldiers, too. Fascist war is nothing new.
Kind of puts me in the mind of some of Emily Dickinson's more strident stuff.

Here's an alert from the Middle East Media Research Institute to be on the lookout for mendacious posts on chat sites and blogs. People wouldn't really do this, would they? That would be mean!
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Who's your favorite Beatle?

Posted by Scott Keys on Monday, March 19, 2007 2:56:14 PM
I knew there was a serious rationale for preferring Paul McCartney to John Lennon, on several levels. A very good essay from a former Soviet citizen.

I thought Jeff Goldblum's new TV series, Raines, was pretty good. The writing was sharp, witty and intelligent, and the characters were substantive. I've always liked Goldblum, all the way back to Ten Speed and BrownShoe, his 1980 private detective series with Ben Vereen. Even with the mannerisms that made him an easy target for parodists I always found him likable and fun to watch. He's also very tall. That being said, I couldn't have been the only one that noticed the elephantine nature of Jeff's ears, seemingly accentuated by the length of his sideburns. Just check out the pics at the NBC site linked above and see what you think. I suspect he may be the progeny of a dalliance here on earth by Mr. Spock. Holy cow. Take a look. Seriously.
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Gandhi's legacy

Posted by Scott Keys on Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:26:52 PM
Fred Thompson calls attention to radical anti-war group Code Pink's infatuation with Mahatma Gandhi and the extreme nature of Gandhi's pacifism, of which I'll bet most people are not aware. An excerpt:

         During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to
         surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized
         Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka.
         “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should
         have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer,
         “would have been heroism.”
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Not exactly a Culture of Life

Posted by Scott Keys on Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:57:09 PM
Impossibly depressing images as two young children talk about their "martyred" mother.

For all you musical types: an Austrian man rehabilitates Thelonius Monk's music. Results are...much less angular, shall we say.

I'm sorry, but I just thought this was funny. It was an e-mail to Jonah Goldberg at NRO:

         Jonah,  I enjoy NRO and particularly like your "work" in The Corner.
         However you have not lived [me - died?] until you have been trapped for 15 minutes
         behind a truck on a single lane road, with both of your parents and a
         friend, staring at a large sticker proclaiming   "ORGASM  DONOR."


Here's a big shocker - Britney's found a new boyfriend in rehab!! And another - he's a rock musician!!

Something to watch for you Montanans. Volcanic activity in Yellowstone.

Seems like this is going out of your way to legitimize an oppressive practice and culture. Being encouraged by women against women. I don't understand. Having the girls walk around in burquas was just a way of provoking reactions you're already expecting, a self-fullfilling prophecy scenario.
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My Nobel nominee

Posted by Scott Keys on Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:18:36 PM
How about this wonderful woman for the Nobel Peace Prize? I know Al Gore's done a lot, but maybe 97 year-old Righteous Gentile Irena Sandler should get it instead.
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A nadir at Zenith

Posted by Scott Keys on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:49:36 PM
The man who co-invented the TV remote control and pioneered the Zenith Space Command television has died. My dad, the gadgetmeister, bought what had to be one of the first of these sets in northwestern Ohio so we Lavender kids have been sitting on our butts with the remote practically our whole lives! CHONG--CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK. CHONG--CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK. That's the sound of the Zenith Space Command!!! (cue martial Star Wars-like music)

The Irish turning their backs on Guiness? This is exciting for wine snobs, I suppose, but a little sad for us regular-type beer guys and gals.

Watching American Idol? First thought: the guys are generally sub-par this season and secondly, all you need to know are two words: Melinda Doolittle.
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Spandau ballet

Posted by Scott Keys on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:29:39 PM
Uh oh. Looks like Albert Speer knew about the "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem despite escaping a death sentence for denying it.

Appears there's a serious backlash developing in the scientific community to the global warming hysteria and accompanying claims of consensus.

The Democratic braintrust in live performance . Anyone can get tongue-tied and misspeak in piblic but this seems an egregious example of befuddlement give the purported gravity of the resolution at hand.
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definition of "irony"

Posted by Scott Keys on Monday, March 12, 2007 8:35:22 PM
Doesn't get better than this. More global warming "evidence."

My whine of the day:
Not that anyone asked, but here's one of my pet peeves: having to clarify a perfectly clear statement or listen to someone else have to do it, just because the other person hasn't listened to what was said but instead heard only what they wanted to hear. Geez, it happens all the time. Just wait for it; it'll happen to you sometime soon. Must be a human nature thing.
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What to do - what to do?

Posted by Scott Keys on Friday, March 09, 2007 3:01:22 PM
This is too good. Christian preacher in the Phillipines suggests Muslims have some violent tendencies. What's the proper response to this outrageous assertion? Go see for yourself.

This is very good news for 2nd Amendment fans. Uh, that should be all of you, by the way.
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You say soda-I say pop

Posted by Scott Keys on Saturday, March 03, 2007 8:22:23 PM
Here's a fun map of where in the country people say "pop" and where they say "soda."
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Update on Kent State guy

Posted by Scott Keys on Friday, March 02, 2007 9:14:09 AM
Today's update has a very slightly mitigating report on Kent State teacher Julio "Assad" Pino's affiliation with the jihadist website linked here yesterday. The picture on the home page of the website, by the way, is 9/11 United 93 hijacker Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi. Hat tip LittleGreenFootballs.
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