Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | November 9th at 02:39 PM |
There is little to be gained at the moment rehashing the 2214 different opinions uttered since Tuesday night at about 10:00 pm regarding the demise of the GOP and its prospective resurrection, but there is one stream of thought that needs to be immediately addressed, to wit: that somehow George Bush is to blame for Obama’s 2012 election. Sorry, Laura, no sale. I will grant | Read More »
Romney’s Performance was a Verbal Waterboarding
By: Lords86 (Diary) | October 4th at 09:07 AM |
The Geneva Convention was brazenly violated last night. A civilian – heretofore protected by the mainstream media and insulated from harm – was mercilessly subjected to torture – a verbal waterboarding – and the Red Cross was nowhere to be found. In the end, the civilian’s handlers were left to muddle through a post-debate critique, muttering the same ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ that plagued the civilian | Read More »
Conservatives’ Golden Ticket
By: Lords86 (Diary) | September 21st at 03:56 PM |
Who says a Carter has never something good for the country? Thanks to James Earl Carter IV, the grandson of the formerly incomparable 39th president of the United States, there is now some clarity, some much needed definition to this election. On the left, you have the ‘redistribution favoring,’ tax, tax, and tax (thank you, Mr. Chief Justice) and spend, spend, and spend liberal, President | Read More »
A square peg is a square peg is a square peg.
By: Lords86 (Diary) | June 30th at 09:20 AM |
Law school teaches a few basic legal axioms that are predicates of our legal system and which all lawyers refer back to during their career – contracts require consideration in some form or another, hearsay is only so when used for the truth of the matter asserted, writings are to be interpreted according to their plain meaning and parol evidence is only admissible to clarify an | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 20th at 10:07 PM |
If there is any question that Obama has lost the lustre, is no longer the ‘in’ man in Washington, D.C., have no worries. Obama is aptly demonstrating that he is ‘in’competent, ‘in’effective, ‘in’adequate and ‘in’ept. Too bad, we can’t call his presidency ‘in’consequential. While on her tour of the Mideast, Sarah Palin has been openly and repeatedly critical of the Obama Administration. While I agree | Read More »
Wallis’ Progressive Call to Arms Misses [the] Mark
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 3rd at 06:39 AM |
Promoted from the diaries by Bill S. Jim Wallis, the longtime leader of Sojourners, a Washington D.C. based ministry dedicated to articulating “the biblical call to social justice,” used the opportunity in a February 24, 2011 column, “This is Not Fiscal Conservatism. It’s Just Politics,” to take an errant shot at recent Congressional Republican budget proposals and Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker. Reverend Wallis, as you may recall, | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | February 23rd at 09:37 PM |
Reflecting on Libya today, President Obama labeled government aggression towards its citizenry as ‘outrageous’ and ‘intolerable.’ Ok . . . if Gaddafi’s actions are ‘outrageous’ and ‘intolerable’ – and they are – why does it take the American president four or five days to condemn the activity? I mean, c’mon, labeling Hitler’s actions despicable and deplorable years after Nazi atrocities wasn’t exactly pushing the envelope, | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | February 13th at 07:49 PM |
1959 - Cuba – Fulgencio Batista, dictator, militarist led a corrupt and repressive regime. An American puppet, but hardly a democrat. Seeds of discontent disturb the Cuban countryside and soon the streets of Havana – America stands largely silent. After a couple intermediate steps, who emerges from the rudderless revolution? Fidel Castro – dictator, militarist, communist, who has led a corrupt and repressive regime for more | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | May 28th at 10:24 PM |
1970′s Redux – WOW!! What a week!! In the span of just seven days, President Obama is proving that his administration is as crooked as President Nixon’s and as incompetent as President Carter’s. In an amazing display of idiocy, the White House trots out an explanation today in Sestakgate (nah . . . don’t like that – not catchy enough) . . . an explanation today in Spectergate | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | May 9th at 09:33 AM |
There are three people to whom I owe everything – Jesus Christ, my father and my mother. On this Mother’s Day, I know you share my gratitude and appreciation for everything that mothers do. Yesterday, between cold, blustery Little League games, I got to spend some unplanned time with my mom – while my son’s team struggled on the field, the opportunity to see and | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 29th at 09:07 PM |
The Iowa presidential caucuses should be immediately canceled. No state which has residents whom think like this should be permitted to influence the election of a President of the United States. The Obamafication of America continues – you can not make this crap up, you just can’t. Ok . . . so let me get this straight, first, Obamacare lacks any real enforcement mechanism for those | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 22nd at 10:08 PM |
Healthcare passes – greatest social welfare achievement of the last 45 years right and CNN, which was fawning over the President last night, releases a poll today highlighting that 59% of Americans oppose Obamacare. BE VERY WARY of this poll, people. If you think for one second that CNN isn’t still a shill for this administration and congressional Democrats, think again. Watch when CNN conducts | Read More »
Obamacare Will Create Havoc for Democrats Everywhere
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 18th at 01:00 PM |
Somewhere lost in all the discussion about the effect that Obamacare will have about this Fall’s Congressional elections is the fact that, should this legislation pass by any method – straight out vote or “deem and pass,” Obamacare will be a factor in each and every contested state legislative and gubernatorial election, as well. Idaho and Virginia and 35 other state legislatures have seen to | Read More »
Slivers Just Do What Slivers Do
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 17th at 10:45 PM |
Ok . . . so Spring is here and you’re outside doing the first few items on your honey-do list – the very first of which is clearing the brush and briarpatches out of the wooded area in front of your home. This was the project that your brother-in-law – yes, the same brother-in-law – suggested to your wife last Fall at your birthday party, | Read More »
Keep America Safe Ad and Critics Both Miss the Mark
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 7th at 04:18 PM |
Liz Cheney is coming under fire for the Keep America Safe video spot, which challenges Attorney General Eric Holder’s hiring of nine attorneys, who formerly represented terrorist detainees prior to their work in the Obama Justice Department – labeling seven of those whose identities are still unknown, as the “Al qaeda Seven.” Criticism is being leveled at Cheney both from the left and the right, with the Huffington Post gleefully | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 5th at 08:46 PM |
Let me see, hmmm. First, we are asked to believe that global warming actually helped cause last month’s blizzards throughout the midwest and east coast. Now, we are asked to believe that the blizzards caused job losses. Now, you know, I mean you KNOW that someone in the White House is going to trot out the argument at some point soon that global warming causes | Read More »
The President Who Cried Wolf
By: Lords86 (Diary) | March 4th at 09:44 PM |
We all know the age-old story oft-recounted by parents in response to a child’s foray into fibbing – you say a wolf is coming, once and it is not, twice and it is not, three times and it is not and each time the crowd comes to your rescue only to learn that it was a lie; and, then you say it a fourth time, | Read More »
Obama Administration Declares Global Warming Crisis Over
By: Lords86 (Diary) | February 23rd at 07:51 PM |
In a terrific bit of good news at the EPA Budget hearings today, Obama Administration EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson has declared that the global warming crisis is over. Don’t believe this wonderful turn of events, then watch for yourself, about 56 minutes in. Quoting directly from the hearing, when Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) asked Ms. Jackson whether she still considered the International Panel on Climate Change report | Read More »
Obama/Biden About to Lose 2012 Election
By: Lords86 (Diary) | February 21st at 09:45 AM |
Far be it from me to warn Democrats about impending election doom – frankly, I’d like to do nothing but increase the speed of the careening bus that will bring electoral disaster in 2010. But, from a purely ‘political junkie’ perspective, I continue to be amazed at the brazen acts of political suicide which appear to be the modus operandi not only on Capitol Hill, | Read More »
Observations from the Cheap Seats
By: Lords86 (Diary) | February 20th at 08:26 PM |
As CPAC ends its three day conference in Washington, D.C., we are undoubtedly heartened by the growing energy and passion which conservatives displayed. But, in order that we not lose the momentum as we head towards November, we need to remember the girl we brung to the dance. And, no, I don’t mean Sarah Palin . . . and not, Ann Coulter, either. The girl we | Read More »