Fun with Mitt and Mormons
Comments (0) Stephen Colbert has a little fun
with presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, and this:
He does a pretty good and fair job, though I’d stay inside when the thunder clouds gather if I were him.
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Jesse Stone
By Gregory Taggart, July 30, 2011 5:36 pm
My wife and I discovered an interesting TV series starring Tom Selleck. No, not Blue Bloods, though we enjoy it as well. No, the Jesse Stone series is better all around. Better story. Better cinematography. Just better.
Selleck plays the new police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, a small coastal town. Formerly of the Santa Monica police department, he’s recently divorced, has a drinking problem, an attracts women like . . . well, like boys in high school dream.
Check it out.
Next We’ll See Muhammad’s Head Photoshopped on Porky the Pig
By Gregory Taggart, June 6, 2011 12:14 pm
Yeah, right.
In any case, this is galling. And so New York centric as to be self-parody. No wonder this rag sold for $1.00 — that’s the entire rag, including building, desks, copiers, and kool-aid stand.
The Midnight Lynching of Sarah Palin
By Gregory Taggart, June 4, 2011 12:18 pm
They’re at it again. Palin’s critics. They’re beclowning themselves even as they attempt to turn her into one. It began with this video:
Her garbled comment set the Leftosphere afire. That dumb Palin got her history wrong again! How can conservatives be soooo stupid!
Then Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection rode to her defense (many links at this link). Among other things, he posted Paul Revere’s personal account of his adventure. In the relevant part, it reads (spelling in original, bolding mine):
I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms
Jacobson also links to David Hackett Fischer’s book, Paul Revere’s Ride at Google Books. If you’re interested, read pages 140-143, but here’s a snippet to save you the trouble:
[Revere] rode directly to the house of Captain Isaac Hall, commander of Medford’s minutemen, who instantly triggered the town’s alarm system. A townsman remembered that ‘repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of bells filled the air’ . . . Along the North Shore of Massachusetts, church bells began to toll and the heavy beat of drums could be heard for many miles in the night air. Some towns responded to these warnings before a courier reached them. North Reading was awakened by alarm guns before sunrise. The first messenger appeared a little later (140). . . . [Another] express rider delivered the alarm to a Whig leader who went to an outcropping called Bell Rick, and rang the town bell. That prearranged signal summoned the men of Malden with their weapons . . . (141) . . . Along Paul Revere’s northern route, the town leaders and company captains instantly triggered the alarm system . . . (142).
So did Paul Revere ring bells, beat drums, and shoot guns to warn his compatriots? Probably not, but who really knows. What we do know is that he and his fellow express riders were certainly the “triggers” that set off the warning system of bells, drums, and gunshots.
Yes, Palin could have been more clear, but what she said was spot on. Revere did warn the British that they were in for a fight, and he “triggered” a pre-arranged warning system.
Meanwhile, her bitter critics on the left cling to their copies of Longfellow’s poem.
Oh, Newt!
By Gregory Taggart, May 20, 2011 1:47 pm
Go here to read the actual press release. Simply amazing that a politician would let something like that see the light of day.
This Money Is Apparently Not Paying Attention To Those Mouths
By Gregory Taggart, May 17, 2011 9:39 am
The talking heads have had nothing good to say about Mitt Romney lately, and especially since his healthcare speech in Michigan last week. Are his backers not paying attention? What do they see that the talking heads don’t?
You’d Never Confuse the Press with the Birthers
By Gregory Taggart, May 2, 2011 4:20 pm
Birthers are skeptical. The press, at least when it came to Obama’s birth and education credentials, were not. And that’s a tragedy.
Just sayin’.
And thus it hurt to watch the following as the President acted unpresidential, and the press howled with no apparent self-awareness.
There, Now That Wasn’t So Bad, Was It?
By Gregory Taggart, April 27, 2011 8:41 am
Obama finally releases his long-form birth certificate (here’s the short form).
We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” Obama said. “We’ve got better stuff to do.”
Like releasing your college transcripts?
Save your breath. I’m not a birther. I am someone who wants to know why the man who leads this country is so unwilling to let his followers know who he is. I also want to know why the press has let him get away with it for so long. His stonewalling and their enabling–now that’s silliness.
UPDATE: The “silliness” continues as The Smoking Gun kicks the ball back into play. What Obama could have learned from the Nixon White House.
He’s Baaaaack! And So Is His Cheer Squad!
By Gregory Taggart, April 17, 2011 6:07 pm
Barack Obama is back, and the press–in the person of Jonathan Alter–is carrying his water, again. In a column titled Republican Horror Movie Sequel Hits Theaters Alter breathlessly warns Republicans to
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
And why? Because of that speech BO gave last this week at George Washington University. You know, the one universally panned as not serious, awful, presidential politicking at its worst? Yeah, that one.
So why is Alter experiencing that special tingle? Well, for one, BO’ s a great story teller. I agree, but then I’m thinking of story in the sense that the man says whatever is to hand, whether it’s true or not. When his lips move, well, my antennae go up. I don’t think that’s what Alter meant.
The other think that’s ginned up the good columnist is that idea that
Most important, the president stressed the fundamental American values of fairness and compassion.
In other words, we’re back to Joe the Plumber talk–redistribution.
A highlight of Alter’s piece for me was his admission that Democrats are given to demagoguery. In taking his swipes at Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, Alter writes,
Older, independent voters that Republicans won in 2010 will despise the Ryan plan once it filters down to them. A Democratic war cry of “They’re killing Medicare!” isn’t demagoguery this time. It’s true.
No, in fact it’s not true and Democratic talk like this continues to be demagoguery, especially given the fact that they refuse to offer a plan of their own with any specifics in it. Exactly how would they deal with Medicaid and Medicare, plans that Alter in one breathe says are “wildly popular” yet “must be reformed”?
As he admits, we’ll get no help from the Annointed One.
The president offered few specifics about how to save $4 trillion over 12 years beyond letting the tax cuts for wealthy expire in late 2012. That won’t be enough. But teeing up tax cuts for the rich as a campaign issue will clearly help the Democrats, as it did in 2008.
Yeah, that should scare Republicans. Drag out the hoary ghost of campaigns past, the “tax cuts for the wealthy” meme. If this is BO’s game, it brings to mind this game:
He’ll not win this time, not throwing like that. I’m not sure our fawning press will manage to carry that ball over the plate.
The Bubble Bubble?
By Gregory Taggart, April 9, 2011 6:36 pm
Higher Education Bubble Poised to Burst.
The Impending Collapse of the Gold Bubble Part 2
Is this a 2011 Internet tech bubble?
How to trade the popping alternative energy bubble
Is for-profit education a bubble, as Posner and Eisman claim?
Are College Loans the Next Bubble?
Shiller Speaks: Here Comes a Commodity Bubble
JP Morgan Analyst Predicts Bubble Burst For Apple iPad 2 Rivals
Biz Break: Social networking bubble? A warning from Warren Buffett
Is the Porn Bubble About to Pop?
When Will the Next Bubble Burst?
A couple of these links go back as far as March 2010. Most are recent headlines. Can you short the shorts?
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