In Rome

Where I ran to avoid FreakShow2012.  Literally.

Yes, I followed all the hooha, thanks to the miracle of the World-Wide AlGore Web.  I didn't hear any of the speeches, I just read reactions to them on Twitter, and then read some on Best of the Web, and all I want to do is respond to John Kerry's "Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago."

OK, I'll bite, and just to show I'm a good sport, I'll pretend that Osama bin Laden speaks English and he's not dead.  

Me: "Mr. bin Laden, are you better of now than you were 4 years ago."

OBL: "I'm dead, you idiot!  What I wouldn't give to be living on borrowed time, holed up with my 27 year-old love-bundle-in-a-burqa with internet and satellite TV and video poker.  Now I'm fish food!"

Me, pondering the question of whether I'm better off than I was four years ago: "Oh, okay: things could be worse.  The President of the United States hasn't killed me.  He wouldn't anyway because I'm an American citizen with civil rights 'n stuff.  Oh, wait…"

That's the thing.  I'm getting very, very tired of the bumperstickerism of all of this stuff.  While I believe that shallow thinking resides on both sides and along the continuum of political thought, you really find completely unrepentent stupidity on the Left.  In fact, one has to say that if Elizabeth Warren and Barrack Obama can rise to the highest level of their party on the basis of their (claimed) bloodlines and time-served in the hatching factories of the Institutional Left (entry of course contingent on said bloodlines), our oh-so prestigious universities, well the process of intellectual decay is complete. 

National Empty Chair Day: We Have a Winner!

Thank you, @GrandmaLunes!

"A Silly, Profligate Man"

Mitt Romney has apparently lost the Dead Asian Republican Immigrant vote.

Ms. Ok-Lee's dad sounds like a Democrat demographic, anyway.  He is dead, after all.  And I wonder, while he was alive, did he notice how his daughter looked down on him?  Did he know she thought he was simplistic and one-dimensional?  That he was such a simpleton that he wouldn't be able to see that someone who eats only the tops off muffins can share the rest with someone else, but someone who give the OK for his wife and children to take a separate plane, at taxpayer expense, on vacation because they can't wait four hours for him, might have far worse issues with profligacy?  Hmm?

National Empty Chair Day

Some of my faves:

The iconic Empty Chair moment

And, Winston will have his revenge for the bust insult:

We're Better Off! Yeah!

For the Files of the Unintelligible, which includes many of Ted Kennedy's speeches,

Ungrammatical and unsupportable! Yeah!  I don't know why he didn't do the talk show rounds yesterday instead of Dave "Uhhh…uhh…" Axelrod and Robert Gibbs. 

"Jerry Brown? Jerry Brown??"

Time to Get Your Patriot On

If this doesn't have you dancing on a Monday morning**, you need to move to France.   It's OK to play your air guitar.  Really.

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**(or evening, if you are so disciplined you don't check out blogs during the day) 

Democrats Not A Major Party

That's the only reasonable conclusion you can draw from the opening paragraph of this Huffpo article:

Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate marks the first time in American history that no Protestant will appear on a major-party ticket for president. Ryan is Roman Catholic, and Romney, of course, is Mormon.

Let's see, Romney's a Mormon, Paul Ryan is Catholic, Biden is Catholic, and everyone except the benighted knuckledraggers clinging to their guns and [creationist, anti-science] religion knows that Barack Obama is a Protestant.  So the Democrat Party isn't a major party.

From the Huffington Post to G*d's [Catholic] ears.