Can't this guy ever give it a rest?
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Gag Me With a Teleprompter!
I just saw Barack Obama on an NBC "The More You Know" spot.
Can't this guy ever give it a rest?
Can't this guy ever give it a rest?
Quote du jour
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
-Herm Albright
Saturday Linkaround
Actually, Huck, It's Palin Who Gets It
New EPA regulations January 2 that will likely cost many Americans their jobs
China will quietly invade North Dakota to see what the response will be. No one will notice.
Uncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca
Radical-In-Chief: Truth Finally Comes Out On Jeremiah Wright Connection
The Net Neutrality Coup –John Fund
Obama Destined to Be a Footnote in Presidential History
2010: Don’t forget, and do tell –Herman Cain
Krauthammer to GOP: Don’t Defund ObamaCare –Bad idea
Couple Arrested By Police, Charged With Theft For Not Tipping Waitress
Disgusting. White House Says Bush Supported Death Panels Too — NOT True (Video)
Even The Ocean Is Mocking Obama (PG-13)
Herman Cain Invited to Iowa Forum
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: R. Lee Ermey (video)
Family members of a fallen hero are stung by the callousness of politicians
Obama’s Million Dollar Hawaiian Vacation: Costs to Taxpayers Detailed –six beachfront houses just for the Secret Service and Navy Seals
'Study' Claiming Fox News Viewers 'Misinformed' Is Fraught With Errors
The Obama Wallet
Democrats Force ‘Birther’ Issue to Rise Again: What Gives?
“The Constitution Is Very Important”- by Ezra Klein (Iowahawk)
Rule Five Roundup*:
Weekend Caption Contest (Three bikini girls) –Support your local Gunfighter
Rule Five Sunday Falls on Monday –The Other McCain
Rule Five Saturday –Camp of the Saints
Catherine Zeta Jones –Mind Numbed Robot
Eye of Polyphemus – Hayden Panettiere
Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, Christmas patriotic pinup –Pirates Cove
NSFW
Naomi Campbell bikini
Friday Pin up -Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Friday Night Babe – Penelope Cruz
Vintage Babe of the Week – Yvonne Craig
Rule Five Shameless Plugging -Yankee Phil
Bikini spread –Last Tradition
*By no means comprehensive.
Use the comments as an open thread on any of these topics.
Cross posted at Say Anything
Katy Perry: California Girls
In case you haven't seen a gummi bear give you the finger yet this year...
On New Years and Other Fictions
Last year, I did a piece on New Year's Resolutions, so, if you're thinking of making some resolutions, you might want to peruse it.
This year, I'm looking at things a little bit differently. A lot of people view the New Year as a tabula rasa - a blank or erased slate, to be written or rewritten according to our will.
Only the slate is never completely erased, is it? The "tabula" is never completely "rasaed". The planet revolves on is axis and orbits the sun, oblivious to whatever marks the pages of our calendars.
The cartoon stereotype is the tiny infant in diaper and sash greeted by an old bearded man, representing the old and new years. But, in truth, the two are twins. Each nearly identical to the one before,changed only by the good and bad decisions made by those who mark the time in such a fashion.
We live with the consequences of those decisions as well as the decisions made by others, out of our control. If being "resolved" one day of the year helps you to make better decisions, then more power to you. Read last year's piece, it might help you.
But, honestly, other than remembering to put "11" on your checks instead of "10", (and the promise of a new Congress) is this day any different than yesterday? Other than a great excuse to have a party, was yesterday any different than today?
The question I have, that maybe you can help me out with, is, After three score years on the planet, is this perspective wisdom, or cynicism, or both, or something else?
I used to post a poll once a week, and I'm not saying I resolve to start again, because, quite frankly, I can't remember why I stopped (unless it was to accommodate Ten Buck Fridays). But I am going to post that question as the first poll of the new year. Help me out here. Am I one step away from yelling at the kids to get off my lawn, am I morphing into a philosopher/elder statesman, or do I just need to finish my second cup of coffee?
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