The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum

We live in the Age of the Absurd.

If this nonsense appeared in a novel, readers would cry, "Too implausible!"

Spew alert! Set down your beverage before reading on.

Even A Blind Squirrel...

finds a nut once in a while:

All Is Well

A follow-up post to "Secondary Cataract":

Video: America Stands At A Crossroads

Created by Political Clown Parade:


Reading: "O-Man the Destroyer" at Western Hero (Silverfiddle's site). Worth your time.

The Choices For Voters In 2012

Political cartoon below the fold (from Obama Cartoons):

Secondary Cataract

On Monday, I'll be undergoing this procedure on my right eye — over three years after cataract surgery:

Tantrums On The Tarmac

Gotta love the music too (hat tip to Capitalist Preservation):


A little something else below the fold.

Quote Of The Day

Possibly the quote of the century!

From commenter FreeThinke in THIS THREAD here at Always On Watch:

Sorry to have to be the one to say it, but Obama will win in November simply because he's so "cute." He has "charisma."

The average person doesn't know anything about "policy" and couldn't care less. Obama, whether YOU think so or not, has "Charisma."

Ever since the disaster of the Nixon-Kennedy debates, "Sex Appeal" has largely been the determining factor in American politics.

Most people do NOT think, do not KNOW, and do not CARE. They just FEEL.

If this were not true, why else do you think the Lie Factories of the Ad Industry have been so enormously successful?

The public has been deliberately "dumbed down" for the past hundred years. This has conditioned most of us to ACCEPT the ever growing amounts of [excrement] that gets forced down our throats every day.

We've been SEDUCED and then BRAINWASHED by crafty manipulators. There could be no other logical explanation for what has happened.

Opposing view HERE in "The President Plays Small Ball" by Charles Krauthammer.

Islamophobia Kills

When Muslims are involved, child-protection laws get thrown out the window for fear of offending Muslims (hat tip to Razor Sharp Claws):


Additional information, including the verdict, HERE (hat tip to A New Dark Age Is Dawning). Brief excerpt:

This Weekend's Document Dump

HERE (hat tip to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS).

What did Eric Holder know, and when did he know it?

Strange, But Interesting

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)

Please read the story before watching the video below (with a hat tip to FJ):

Obama's Legislative Record

Obama's populism may not help him on Election Day, after all:

Liar-In-Chief

(Hat tip to I Hate the Media for the video in this post)

Watch the short video. Then read the information below the fold.


And just who designed the crazy regulations on spilled milk, anyway?

Dumber Than Dumb

A while back, Bunkerville posted "Next Generation, Dumb As Dumb Can Be?" I found myself returning several times to Bunkerville's post and also reading the more lengthy essay at The American Dream.

Excerpt:

The Sad Inevitability

Gabrielle Giffords resigns this week:


It's a miracle that Giffords is alive. May she continue to get stronger and to improve as she focuses on her recovery! And may her husband remain encouraged of heart! He's suffering right along with her, you know.

If Obama Debated Romney

Video below the fold:

Movie Heroes

(If you must have politics, please scroll down. Some lively discussions going on!)

Sad but true (hat tip to Beamish, who entitled his post "Gunslingers Vs. Gumflappers"):

The Sad Irony

(Hat tip to Reliapundit for the graphic in this post)


The facts about jobs related to tourism:

All American Muslim Girls

With a hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance:


Note the following words:

You're supposed to talk to people peacefully first.

What, then, comes second?

More On Solyndra

A different kind of Watergate, one that has really fleeced the American taxpayer (hat tip to Be Sure You're RIGHT, Then Go Ahead):



Will the mainstream media harp on the above story enough to damage Obama's chances for re-election?

Recommended reading: "Anybody But Obama, 2012" at Be Sure You're RIGHT, Then Go Ahead. Nine more reasons not to vote for Obama in 2012!

Miserable Cold

(This post stuck here for several days. Please scroll down)

I have several posts queued up to auto-publish, so I'm not taking an official blog break.

Thanks to this miserable head cold, however, my participation in comments threads and making of blog rounds will be limited.

Your Weekend Funny

With a hat tip to Be Sure You're RIGHT, Then Go Ahead:


Pretty much sums up all the GOP division and divisiveness that we're seeing these days.

Americans are indeed a contentious bunch!

Check These Graphs

From Infidel Bloggers Alliance: but you may need to be taking anti-depressants not to crash and burn:

The Entitlement Mentality

Spew alert!

Set down your beverage before watching the video below the fold (hat tip to TOTUS):

Mitt Romney's Convictions

What are they?

The Arab Spring

Video of Egyptian Cleric Yousuf Al-Badri below the fold (hat tip to Alex):

This Blog Is A Winner!

As bestowed by Zilla of the Resistance:


Mr. AOW and I have won a Zilla Award for Awesomeness in the Dextrosphere: Blogging Super Couple (U.S.A.)!

Read Zilla's announcement HERE. She has listed several winning dextrosphere blogs to visit.

The Present Constitutional Crisis

Listen to the brief audio HERE.

Comparing Carter And Obama

(hat tip to Reliapundit of THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS for the video below)


Maybe we've reached the 1980 tipping point: the White House incumbent will lose in the next national election. That's what happened to Jimmy Peanut when Reagan, the non-incumbent, won the highest ever number of electoral votes against incumbent Carter:

Indoctrination In Albemarle County, Virginia

Of all places! Usually, this area is more conservative than to allow the following:

DHS Surveillance

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch states as follows in this announcement on January 2, 2012:

Today's Recommended Reading

See Your Share of Unfunded Public Pensions is $424,500 over at Maggie's Notebook. Apparently, each of us owes that amount on top of the taxes we already pay! This problem is even more serious than the national debt.

Happy New Year!

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)


By the close of 2012, may we be celebrating regime change in Washington! In the words of this old song:

Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow.

As I think back on 2011, I have three personal things that I'm most grateful for:

Silencing Voices

For the second time in a month, CAIR has managed to get get Wordpress to take down the web site Bare Naked Islam. See the update at the bottom of the post below.

You can keep up to date with what's happening with Bare Naked Islam by following BNI's Twitter feed.

Make no mistake: what's happening with this silencing of the voice of Bare Naked Islam could easily spread to silencing a wide range of voices on the web.

This morning, I posted the following at Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

Pigs And Dogs In Pakistan (Updated!)

From Bare Naked Islam:

Christmas Day 2011: Texas Honor Killings?

See Texas Christmas Honor Killings: Mass Murderer Didn’t Want Daughter Dating Non-Muslim at Gateway Pundit. MORE at Bared Naked Islam, including family photos and news video.

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

The Ugly Side Of George Barnard Shaw

You are likely familiar with one particular work of George Barnard Shaw, who wrote numerous works and won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar for Pygmalion, upon which the delightful musical My Fair Lady was based:

No Matter What Your Reservations About The EDL

You must watch this video all the way through:


Information about the English Defence League (EDL) HERE and HERE. Also see THIS LENGTHY INDEX of posts at Lionheart UK.

Yes, much controversy exists with regard to the EDL.

Nevertheless, much of what Tommy Robinson says in the video above the fold is clearly happening.

Furthermore, notice the following, which I posted last week at Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

Christmas Is Here

Let the joyful bells ring!


Rejoice! (hat tip to Matt):

Merry Christmas!

Cameo And The Christmas Tree

(This post stuck here through the Christmas season. Please scroll down)

With many thanks to Stogie, who made the graphic for this post! Click directly on the picture to enlarge it:


I wrote the story below the fold in 2005. Within the past several months, Cameo has mellowed (somewhat, anyway, in large part due to her recent illness). But the memories of those bygone days Cameo's terrorizing the Christmas tree still bring a smile to our faces. I hope that the anecdote will bring a smile to your face too.

Fröhliche Weihnachten!

The beloved Christmas carol "Silent Night" in the original German:

The Obamabots' Sacrilege Of Christmas

(THREE posts today. Please scroll down)

With a hat tip to Matt of Conservative Hideout 2.0:

A Christmas Miracle

See the story that Mr. AOW has posted. On Christmas 1993 Mr. AOW and I had a personal reason to rejoice!

Ronald Reagan's Christmas Address (1981)

Musical Interlude

(If you must have politics, keep scrolling)

"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

(If you just have politics, keep scrolling)

A lovely version of the old carol (hat tip to Bunkerville):

Video: A Voter's Guide To Republicans

With a hat tip to Z!:

The Ego Of The Man!

Have we ever had such an arrogant and self-worshiping President of the United States?

Today's Recommended Reading (Plus Video)

Recently, in a speech in Kansas, Obama "channeled" Teddy Roosevelt.

How much do you really know about Teddy Roosevelt? See Obama Unmasked: Calls for National Socialism and Will the Progressives Run the GOP? over at Mark America. Worth your time.

Brief excerpt from the first essay below the fold, plus a video (hat tip to Conservative Hideout 2.0 for the video).

Pepsi Cans In Afghanistan

From Bare Naked Islam (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):

Those Pepsi cans were manufactured in Dubai.

Is the image a rendering of the Twin Towers? Evaluations on that matter have been mixed.

Obama Campaign: Supporters Should Snitch On Their Republican Friends

You can't make this stuff up:

Musical Interlude

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)

A wonderful song with an interesting historical background (hat tip to Bunkerville):

Indefinite Detainment

At Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Midnight Rider states the following:

If you don't already realize it, the measure passed yesterday all but scuppers the Bill of Rights. Off the top of my head the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth can ALL be swept aside and denied to American Citizens if they are deemed to be substantially supportive of Al Qaida and their ilk.

[...]

This is not a slippery slope. It is a landslide threatening to engulf your Constitutionally protected Freedoms.

This could make Waco and Ruby Ridge look like a sandlot scuffle.

Find out how your Congress critter voted HERE.

Video below the fold:

The Occupier Mentality

Surreal and fanatic "mother love":


Children as tools of the Leftist agenda in the disturbing video below the fold (A must-see!):

November 2012 Can't Come Soon Enough

Please take a few moments to watch the video is below the fold hat tip to Will):

Buy Lowe's!

(Hat tip to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS)

Exercising its prerogative as a business, Lowe's has pulled its sponsorship of the television show All-American Muslim.

The usual suspects are all riled up over Lowe's decision.

And get this!

Musical Interlude

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)


The lyrics:

Jihad In Hollywood?

On December 9, 2011.

The 12 Days Of Obama

An all-too-true parody:

(If Attack Watch is still up and running, that is)

The Shape of Things To Come?

Not a good sign for the future of an America which is not The Nanny State:



Also see Indoctrination Outrage: California Teacher Uses 'Media Matters' Anti-Fox News Article in 'World History' Class. Excerpt:

Ode to the Welfare State

A 1949 poem (hat tip to Z!. Click directly on the image to enlarge it):


As FreeThinke pointed out in a comment in this thread over at Western Hero:

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Even though 70 years have passed since December 7, 1941, interment services continue in Honolulu:

Gag!

The following email soliciting funds for the Obama campaign sounds like a googoo-eyed teeny bopper's fan letter (hat tip to Weasel Zippers):

Change We Pay For

And pay and pay and pay!

With a hat tip to Bloviating Zeppelin:


From this opinion piece in the Washington Times:

Musical Interlude

The story that never grows old:

Patriotism Does Live!

With thanks to homeschool parent CG, who emailed me the following video, best viewed in full-screen mode (Click on the button on the bottom right, the button with the arrows):

Where's The Beef?

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

Or should I say horse meat:

President Obama last month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry...

If a Republican President had signed this bill, the story would be all over the mainstream media and PETA would be out rioting on Pennsylvania Avenue.

How safe is horse meat for human consumption?

The Muslim Brotherhood's Inroads

Please watch the video below the fold (hat tip to Will):

Today's Recommended Reading

See They are no different than Richard Nixon at Infidel Bloggers Alliance. Worth your time and consideration.

Meanwhile...

Video: Islam's Secret Santa

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

Wrap your mind around this "logic," that Allah wants mankind to sin (hat tip to Will):

The Disconnect

I don't often post a Glenn Beck video because I'm not particularly fond of his delivery. The statistics included in the video below are significant, however. Please watch:

Further Into The Depts Of Absurdity

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)



From NewsBusters, HERE is your post-Thanksgiving reading, utter stupidity spouted by Professor Melissa Harris-Perry of Tulane University and MSNBC commentator.

Excerpt:

Is Another Economic Meltdown Upon Us?

Did you chuckle and say, "This can't happen to me."

Think again. See THIS and THIS and THIS. Excerpt from the last link:

Blog Break (With A Feel-Good Addendum)

For this Thanksgiving weekend. I'll be back on Monday, November 28.

I am co-hosting The Gathering Storm Radio Show today, Friday, November 25, at noon Pacific Time. Warren is our scheduled guest.

Addendum:

Thanksgiving 2011

(A great big "Thank you!" to Stogie, who, at my request, designed the graphic for this post. CLICK HERE to see the Thanksgiving graphic that Stogie created for his own site)


As most who frequent this blog know, I do a lot of moaning and groaning about the present condition of our nation.

Nevertheless, despite all of the negative things that we bloggers opine about, we Americans have so much to be thankful for! I am ever aware of that fact.

The Worm Turns

Apparently, Tingles is disillusioned and may have discovered that Obama is not "The One" after all (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):


Money quote:

Newt Gingrich On The Occupiers

I'm no big fan of Newt Gingrich, but he is spot on about the Occupiers:

The Medicare Maze

I spent most of yesterday trying to understand and navigate the complexities of Medigap coverage.

You see, this week Mr. AOW's Medicare card arrived in the mail.

When Bloggers Leave

Recently, some of my dearest blogging friends have abandoned the task: Mustang of Social Sense, Karen of Eastern Right, and Pastorius of Infidel Bloggers Alliance. Pastorius made his announcement HERE. You can probably add to the short list I just provided.

Other bloggers, myself included, are posting with less frequency. In my case, schedule is one factor, discouragement the other. I do, however, slog on.

Even though I still enjoy the fellowship and the discussion here in the blogosphere, I no longer believe that I am "making a difference."

Meanwhile, In Nigeria

Jihad continues apace in Nigeria. This jihad in Nigeria is sometimes referred to as "the lesser-known jihad."

Click directly on the image below to enlarge it:


From this source, dated November 11, 2011 (hat tip to Weasel Zippers):

Quote Of The Day

From An Ol' Broad's Ramblings:

Obama & Company

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

The above applies to more than the Obama administration, of course.

Art Or Not Art? That Is The Question.

Over at Brooke's site last week, Alligator left the following comment about modern art (if one can indeed call some of the works on display any kind of art at all):

...I was in the Baltimore Museum of Art a few years back. In the middle of an exhibition floor was a wooden crate, a bucket and several dirty rags strewn about and a stack of old newspapers. I told my wife they must be doing some work. I got too close to it and a guard asked me to step away form the exhibit. Sure enough on the other side was a label. I mean, this was stuff you find in a dumpster, and it was just sitting on the bare floor. Yet, people in high dollar outfits would walk by and oooh and ahhh over this!...

In his comment, Alligator also provided this link. Excerpt:

Musical Interlude

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)

With thanks to Big Bubba, who emailed me the link to the following wonderful dance routine:


In the above video, Bob Hope is age fifty-two, and James Cagney is age fifty-six.

By the way, at the time of the filming of that dance routine, Bob Hope was a Republican, and James Cagney was a Democrat. But they got along. A lesson in civility!

The Virginia 2011 Elections

A bellwether for 2012?

From this source:

Veterans Day 2011

See this post at Mr. AOW's site.

Rick Perry Is Finished

Not a mere brain cramp, but rather a total brain freeze. Video below the fold.

The Mighty Huntress

Don't let Mysti's sweet face deceive you. That cat CAN hunt!

Below the fold, see what Mysti hunted down and slew in our cellar last week. I found "the gift" on the kitchen floor when I arrived home from work one day last week.

What Degeneracy!

(With a hat tip to Will of The Other News)

Warning! Graphic images in the video below the fold:

The Inhumane Occupiers

As one whose spouse is wheelchair bound, I find the following action by the Occupiers disgusting (hat tip to Conservative Hideout 2.0):

A Parable For Our Times?

The next time that a utopian offers to help you, take heed from the following:


Information about the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man"

Footage That The Mainstream Media Will Not Air

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

Must-watch below the fold (hat tip to Stogie of Saber Point):

Today's Recommended Reading

See "Anatomy of an Occupation" at American Spectator and worth your time. The author is a former Leftist.

In a comment below, Silverfiddle reminded me that the linked video in the American Spectator is a must watch. I have now posted the video below the fold in this post.

Another Cartoonifada

This time in France (hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning).

From the Daily Telegraph:

Further Descent Into Absurdity

(With a hat tip to Chuck Thinks Right)

The Catholic University of America

Have you seen this story about Muslim demands at Catholic University? Excerpt:

The Perfect Topic For Halloween

(If you must have politics, please scroll down)

Lizzie Borden, of course. Video below the fold:

Obama's Economic Record

Click directly on the image to enlarge it (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):

Related information: Is another downgrade of United States debt coming soon? See THIS.

Weekend Humor (Or Not)

Put together a demonstration, and the strangest people show up. Video below the fold:

Musical Interlude For Mr. AOW's Birthday

One of our favorite songs from Toto IV, a CD that Mr. AOW and I will be listening to over this birthday weekend:

Breivik Fallout?

(Note to readers: Please scroll down for my other post today)

Maybe I'm interpreting THIS incorrectly.

Maybe not.

The word "imminent" in the letter below doesn't make sense in the Breivik context, but perhaps the hotel decided not to risk slander by using that particular word.

Politics In America Today

Chilling video below the fold (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):