Your Bid, Mr. Abbas - Article - National Review Online

For a change Mr. Krauthammer isn't reaming the Obama administration.
The most erudite of today's Conservative editorialists, is generally is spot on with his criticism of Obama's leadership failings.
Here he gives the meek credit for framing peace talks with a requirement that the Palestinians have never let enter the discussion.
Palestinian leader Abbas recently was quoted...

“We won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”

Krauthammer and the diplomats have it right, if you set up walls like that, we are wasting our time trying to talk.
The Palestinians are like the autistic children of the middle east, banging their heads against brick walls and making everyone around them miserable. Abbas and his followers are doomed to a life of poverty. Much of it unnecessary.

Your Bid, Mr. Abbas - Article - National Review Online

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Fanny and Alexander

Foreign films are not really my thing, but this time the critics were right. This has got to be one of the most artistic films I have ever watched.

Fanny and Alexander if the semi-autobiographical movie written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Released in 1982. This is the story of two children, as titled, of father Oscar and mother Emilie in the early 1900's of Sweden. Oscar, the beloved owner of a theater dies and the mother Emilie marries a local bishop. The bishop and his family are minimalists in a Puritan like deity. The children having lived in the artistically rich theatrical world of their father and grandmother don't fit very well. The are immediate conflicts between Alexander and the bishop. Eventually the the mother Emilie escapes with the children and the bishop dies in a terrible accidental fire. The children return to the luxurious home of their grandmother the beautiful farmer actress.

 

The cast was unknown to me though I felt the parts played by the grandmother and mother Emilie were excellent, not to mention the work of Bertil Guve who played Alexander. In the cast as Rosa played the actress Lena Olin still active today in Hollywood.

 

In 1984 this movie won 4 Oscars.

• Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
• Best Cinematography
• Best Costume Design
• Best Foreign Language Film

and was nominated for 2 more awards

• Best Director
• Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Very strong work by Bergman, take to time to watch you will not be disappointed.

 

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No Varnish

Found the link to this video clip at Grouchy Old Cripple. New Jersey Governor Christie has a manner of directness that could never play nationally, but he sure has a way of saying what so many of the conservative centered majority feel.
We've been listening and experiencing the progressive crap for so long now, the backlash will be felt like the snap of a wet towel on a fat ass.  It will hurt and it's hard to miss.

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Don't Wish for That

I met a fairy today who said she would grant me one wish.

"I want to live forever," I said.

"Sorry" said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that!"

"Fine," I said, "I want to die after the Democrats get their heads out of their asses!"

"You crafty bastard," said the fairy.

Thank you for the Saturday morning chuckle DGJ….

Lawyers' Party

Compliments of PJMS. 

These are the type of people that belittle and punish the productive. 

They want to be in control as a ruling class.

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.  
Barack Obama is a lawyer. 
Michelle Obama is a lawyer. 
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.  
Bill Clinton is a lawyer. 
John Edwards is a lawyer.  
Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer. 

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. 

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:  

Harry Reid is a lawyer.  
Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.    
  
The Republican Party is different.

President Bush was a businessman.  
Vice President Cheney was a businessman. 
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:  Newt Gingrich was a history professor.  Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist.  House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.   The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. 

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago.  Bear in mind that Ford was appointed, not elected.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers. 

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers and bankrolled by lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. 

The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America .  And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow. 

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation (and creating jobs). 

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, 
they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. 

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.  When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming.  Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government.  We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit.  We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. 

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.

America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great.  When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. 

We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America    Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789.  Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders.  Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy. 

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of 
lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. 

The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as "spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you" and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the 
Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high! 

62% Say No Matter How Bad Things Are, Congress Can Make Them Worse

The title says it all, it cracks me up that the pollsters think this is even a valid hypothesis to research.
Within the body includes the comment..

This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress.

Rasmussen is by the left considered a right leaning pollster. The Wall Street Journal judges him as more accurate with regards to election predictions, because the pollster's sampling is aimed at potential voters rather than simple cross section of populace. These numbers, 62% and 53%, suggest that the majority of all voters, Republican and Democrat alike, believe that Congress is filled with f..k ups.

62% Say No Matter How Bad Things Are, Congress Can Make Them Worse

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Flied Lice

This picture, a gift from DGJ, does not look Photoshopped.
Who cares, it's funny.

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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Maybe we are the party of no. That is what you do when you disapprove of something.
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

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Go Gretchen

The bride isn't a big fan with all her preening, but give her credit, Carlson makes Robert Gibbs look like a bumbling idiot in this clip.

"I guess that would be cute."

Gibbs' is supposed to be the White House Press Secretary, skilled at dealing with the press. I think he when put under pressure responded in a childlike manner.
What do you think?

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A Tribute To Our Warriors

GW Bush will always be a better man than B Obama, he has love in heart for those who express their love for our country by service.
Glad you are home Ricky.

GOPUSA » Commentary » Sherline: A Tribute To Our Warriors

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