Humor--in The Washington Post
Dana Milbank has some fun at the expense of the Holy Gore, and in the unlikeliest place--The Washington Post. I've not read the paper, only remembering how it sneered at every politician that I liked and seemed enamored of ones that I held in contempt. But here is a delightfully snide report on the Holy Gore's performance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
There are many jewels: Dick Lugar
Dick Lugar (Ind.), the ranking Republican, agreed that there will be "an almost existential impact" from the climate changes Gore described.
I really hate that the word "existential" has come into popular usage and by people who haven't a clue. Well, it will join "ironic" and "judgmental" as words destroyed by people wanting to sound impressive without the trouble of learning the words.
Johnny Isakson, another Republican, asked the Holy Gore
"I stand to be corrected, and I defer to your position, you're probably right, and I'm probably wrong." He ended his question by saying: "I'm not questioning you; I'm questioning myself."
Is there anything more depressing than to find a Republican licking the boots of this sanctimonious scold and fraud? Oh, yes, there is. The Republicans voting for the banking bailout. Well, it's a tie.
Milbank zings these stuffed shirts again and again, one of the best being
Mostly, however, the lawmakers took turns asking the Goracle for advice, as if playing with a Magic 8 Ball.
Worth the read.
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Otto, there are others that I don't bite--in fact I sort of kissed and made up with Stu Pidasso. Remember when I denied that he was a useful idiot? The Holy Gore is the most useful of useful idiots and I would hate to think that someone would try to meet that standard.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was the most intelligent mind in the Senate until a bottle cursed him, as it does so many others, wrote in I believed 1968 what we could expect from the welfare state: the pathology of the urban ghetto which we're seeing now--and two generations on. I watch lots of documentaries--that's all I watch--and never miss one on prisons or on urban blight and I see the same thing: people who simply live as though their actions don't have consequences and I blame a paternalistic government for a lot of that.
I do not know of a better way to enslave people than to unlink actions from consequences. Liberals have tried to do so, with welfare, their various cries for "justice," which is anything but, "accountability," which is one-sided, and the refusal to make people take the consequences of their actions. As a result a goodly portion of the country acts like spoiled trust-fund children. And as the Obama regime reduces the number of people actually paying income tax, there will be an increased number of people willing to vote for more and more government programs, because their actions will not have immediate consequences.
Walter Williams adamantly states that everyone should pay some income tax because that way they would be responsible. He's an intelligent man.
Theo, I'm sorry for hijacking your space here and I hope you'll forgive me the next time they..take you there ...( I will always be available with spicy rum , in plastic containers, and friendly conversation...as I seem to be the only contributor you do not bite ,...er hard.) but !
There has been much praise lauded to President Obama including a California woman giving birth to eight , 8 , babies . *(good for her BUT......)
She already has six ,6 , children and is unmarried..
This has jack to do with our president but everything to do with the media who believe that because Our President was elected you can get mo' babies.
Wear da babbydaddy ?! who be gwyn ta pay for dem schoo !..... whoops!
Where is the father of these children and will this woman's insurance be adequate to pay for future schooling ?
Please forgive me as sometimes I think I'm too clever.
I'm sure this was a difficult decision as one MUST have been to a fertility clinic and stated that ALL babies must be there as she only has six others and if something happened to any of the other six....who would be able to steal for her.
ok ok joking Ha Ha !
I think.