All Fall Down
Well, here we are. The last week-and-a-half has been just filled with WTF moments, so many I feel pretty much numb. The Lightbringer
seems determined that, by gawd, if he can’t have four more years, then he’s going to bring the whole mess down around us. It also seems a large proportion of the citizenry are just fine with that.
As Zevon said, It Ain’t That Pretty At All.
Some links for your perusal-
Richard Fernandez talks about shame
The One on Letterman, via Ann Althouse
The Diplomad has a Thought For The Day
Gerard reminisces
Miz Weasel admits defeat
Lastly, House of Eratosthenes (whom, if you are not reading regularly, you should be) savages an old friend from Atlanta.
To close, I’m going to quote an Eighties band I heard this morning, mainly because the song spoke to me about where we seem to be headed. Remember, a tyrant’s best method for diverting attention from trouble at home is to start trouble abroad…
Ultravox
All Fall DownWhen I was a boy there’s a dream that I had
That a war if it’s fought was for good against bad
And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad
And we’d all fall downAnd I feel like a child again sitting observing
You’re toying with power, your fingers are burning
You’re pushing so hard that the worms won’t be turning
We’ll all fall downWhile you try to pretend you’re a god upon high
With your party ideals and your squeaky clean lies
When it comes to the crunch you’re no smarter than I
And we’ll all fall downIf it’s colour or creed or your old time religion
Well fighting for that shows a pure lack of vision
The fight that we strive is the fight to survive
And we’ll all fall downWell look in the mirror and what do you see
An American, Russian, a soldier or me
When you’ve all pressed the buttons just where will you be
When we all fall downIt gets harder to see just what future’s in store for us
Hard to see through all the wool you pull over us
Words that you give are just words to console us
We’ll all fall downAnd what will you do when you’ve pulled the release
When the sound of the thunder has drowned out the pleas
Cos after all that was your idea of peace
When we all fall downNo sun for a world that once stood so tall
No wind’s going to blow and no rain’s going to fall
No flowers for graves, in fact no graves at all
When we all fall down
Nice, new feature enabled. Now back to the Sherman and OT-34; pics later
NOW is this thing on?
testing, testing
Word.
Follow the chain, and out them all
This is the picture that should cost the Lightbringer his job–
I want folk to follow the decision chain, from the very top to the deputies who “just followed orders” and arrested this man, and call them all to account. This is not America. At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, this is Nazi Germany. They hung a few folk for their behavior then; perhaps it’s time we did the same- pour encourager les autres.
via Glenn
https://twitter.com/rsmccain/status/247167200954302464
Winston Churchill on Islam
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belongto some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proseltyzing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Yes, I have been doing something
-and at the end of the day…
Numb
I should be shocked, but I’m not-
Obama didn't know a storm was gathering, but people who played EVE online did http://t.co/7MeGo3eU
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 14, 2012
@AceofSpadesHQ So a bunch of fantasy gamer-geeks have a better grasp of reality than our President. I want to be a general. Let's play Halo.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) September 14, 2012
I guess he just told his fellow gamers his life was in peril without bothering to tell the Department of State, though.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 14, 2012
Yeah, he should have told his bosses- problem is, they had 48 hours of warning
I’m going back to modeling. Building things doesn’t make me feel this bad. Back later.
Sanity break
Obama Got His 3 a.m. Call. He Decided To Sleep Through It.
Sometimes one can’t improve by commenting so- Res ipsa loquitur
Dead U.S. Ambassador dragged through the streets, Obama heads for Vegas
Click if you’re a voyeur. Filthy animals, shooting’s too good for them.
Mitt on yesterdays, um, ‘events’
Go get ’em Mitt! I like how he wouldn’t let the press weasels (but I repeat myself) make him back down, because, dammit, he’s right.
It just gets better
The One just on TV. Weak. Shifty eyes. I hope he’s realizing he’s toast.
Peggy Noonan follows on FNC. Describes Obama and Clinton as distancing themselves, “shying away from the higher meaning” of this event. Honey, they realize that with the death of our ambassador their political careers went up in smoke! Then she goes on to say, “I was thinking as he spoke, I think I belong to the old school of thinking- that in times of great drama and heightened crisis and in times when something violent has happened to your people, I always think that discretion is the better way to go. When you step forward in the midst of a political enviroment and start giving statements on something dramatic and violent that has happened, you’re always leaving yourself open to accusations that you are trying to exploit things politically. I don’t think Mr. Romney has been doing himself any favors…”
I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi.
It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.
Sounds like speaking truth to power to me. Ms. Noonan, you are such a hack.