* There was the 840th Republican debate last night. I only caught a bit of it, but apparently it was one of Romney’s worst debates. Of course, it doesn’t really matter as we’re only a few more primaries away from where we stop pretending someone else might be the nominee. The main thing now is to watch Romney talk policy and see if we can now get energized by him to stand with him against Obama.
Not quite feeling it yet. Maybe I need to take another blue pill.
* Huntsman wasn’t a part of the debate as he finally realized the inevitable that he wasn’t going to turn a third place finish in New Hampshire into the presidency. If you’re going to run for the Republican nomination, you have to at least act like you’re not ashamed of Republicans.
Maybe he should have made it more known that he can speak Chinese. That totally should have clinched it for him.
* Obama says he plans to shrink government. Yeah, we totally believe him on that. And it was a great pitch: “I’m going to shrink government smaller than you’ve ever seen in your lifetime. By the way, give me 1.2 trillion more dollars.”
I know Obama is desperate about his reelection chances, but he has to try to make some claims that are at least somewhat plausible. Like instead, he should have said, “I plan to increase government at a slower rate than I did before.” I still wouldn’t believe that — he probably will increase it slower because of more Republicans in Congress, not because it was his “plan” — but it’s more plausible.
* So, have you seen the new Newsweek cover? My first reaction was “I don’t remember writing a satire piece for Newsweek.” Oh, Newsweek claims it’s supposed to be serious. If so, then why did they hire Andrew Sullivan to write it?
Really, that’s the sort of trolling that would be shameful if done on my blog, but for a magazine trying to pretend it’s still respectful? Just remember not to urinate on a copy of Newsweek as it’s wrong to pee on corpses.
* A Canadian doctor is suggesting that patients not be told the sex of their unborn baby so as to stop gender-based abortions. I guess that’s… one way to go about stopping that.
Who would have guessed killing babies could lead to other ethical dilemmas?
* Wisdom of the Day from Derek Hunter:
Same media that wouldn’t show cartoons of Muhammad for fear of enraging the Muslim world runs the urine pictures/video non-stop.
* Much like with evolution, there is a new controversy about teaching about global warming in the classroom. We’re always going to have controversy over what’s taught in school because having the government pick what your kids should learn is just begging for trouble. That’s why public schools are always going to be a round peg shoved into the square hole of our concept of liberty.
Here’s my idea: Just don’t teach science in public school. Most of what I was taught as scientific fact as a kid is outdated now, so what’s the point? I know we have like a dozen years of education to fill and science seems like a good filler, but why don’t instead we just teach kids the scientific method and if they want to know what the current consensus is they can look it up on Wikipedia. The internet is also science.
For some reason, kooky Muslims won’t blow up CBS, NBC, etc for showing pictures of Tali-can use. So the networks can be all brave and stuff. As we know from lefties over the last 40 years, it’s good to be brave when no one will hit you back. Only a rightie will be brave when there is a real danger attached.
Oooooooo, that’s rich.
Given that the Taliban soldiers were quite clearly dead, would it not be reasonable to include a disclaimer with the video, “No Taliban members were harmed in the making of this film.”
Do you get the feeling that the Republican debate series is kinda like the baseball season but without the fun of a league championship series followed by the world series?
Same media that wouldn’t show cartoons of Muhammad for fear of enraging the Muslim world runs the urine pictures/video non-stop.
That truly is a piece of wisdom…
That’s funny because my first reaction was that it reminded me of your “Why you dum stoopids no want free healthcare?” article you wrote awhile back. “Why you dum stoopids criticize prezdent?”
The media who suppressed cartoons of Mohammad were concerned about enraging the Muslim world against the media. They don’t care in the least if they enrage the Muslim world against Western civilization in general, or the United States military in particular. In fact, it seems to be an important part of their business plan.
To spice up the debates the podiums should be loaded with robotic fists that knock out the debaters upon uttering anything stupand/or liberal. The last one standing and not needing dentures wins.
The mistake by the Italian ship captian was not getting drunk, wrecking and sinking his craft, and abandoning people to drown so he could sober up, but not doing at Chappaquidick. If he had done it there he would not only get away scot free, but win the praise of democrats everywhere.
Let me see if I fully understand this:
Setting an American flag on fire or stomping around on it…in America…for no apparent reason = patriot.
Pissing on the guy who was at war with your country, that just tried to kill you and your buddies = uncivilized.
Liberals = morons.
Now everybody, they shouldn’t be urinating on them, they should treat them in the respectful way they treat American dead, strip them naked and drag them through the streets.
Obama’s gonna shrink government with his mind.
Uh huh.
How can we get every news agency in America to open tonight’s telecast with this quote from storm1911?
Liberals need to be punched in their stupid monkey faces with powerful illustrations of their own flaming hypocrisy at every opportunity.
Most of what you were taught as scientific fact as a kid is outdated now? You mean, I really can’t decontaminate myself of nuclear radiation with a bar of Irish Spring?
President Null will shrink the government of today by putting it up beside the government he envisions for tomorrow.
Hey! This is exactly the way Congress “cuts” budgets, too!
5000 useless hack government workers in 3 useless hack government agencies all combined into one useless hack government agency….3 is smaller than 1! Government shrunk! Wow, he’s gonna get reelected now for sure, the man is a genius!!! (He won’t show you his grades cuz well…you know, it might hurt your self esteem and he wouldn’t want that)
Burma,
It sucks because a liberal version of the Yankees is going to win. Again.
wow shrink 3 to 1 but not lay anyone off. guess the savings will be in stationary and coffee mugs.
When did NEWSWEEK get occupied by THE ONION?
What kind of soldier pees on his enemy after he’s dead? You can’t see the look on their face if you do it out of order like that.
Back when I learned Science! Pluto was more than a Disney Character. Maybe future generations of hippies will look back and say Global Warming used to be more than a plot device in global disaster movies and Oscar winning “documentaries.”
You mean that if Minneapolis is Nuked I WON’T be OK by simply “ducking and covering” under my desk? That’s what I was taught in school! Awwwwww!!! They also never told us about that evil Higgs Boson! That sucks! And we learned that the Founding Fathers were good guys…now we know that they were a bunch of White racist guys bent on destroying Mother Earth and wiping out all people who weren’t white!!!
“Here’s my idea: Just don’t teach science in public school. Most of what I was taught as scientific fact as a kid is outdated now, so what’s the point?”
God as my witness, PLUTO WILL BE A PLANET AGAIN!