The Great Benghazi Butt-Fumble – If The US State Dept Were An NFL Franchise

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  December 19th at 12:00 PM  | 

Sometimes professional sports provide us the perfect metaphor for the utterly Darwinist and unfair world into which we all are hurled at birth. Those who do well, work together. They go all-in like brothers-at-arms and never accept less than the best. We can watch what transpires for the rest below.

The end result of such tomfoolery is loss of one’s status and livelihood. Results matter, money talks, bull-bleep runs the marathon. You must deliver if you want the pay-wad. If you loaf, you learn the hard way what St. Paul meant in 2 Thessalonians (3:10). That is what is right. That is what is good in life. On the other end of the spectrum we get the US State Department.

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When Did the EPA Jump the Shark?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  December 10th at 02:00 PM  | 

Iron Eyes Cody cried at the sight of polluted waters and skies in a famous public service announcement, first aired in 1971. Old Iron Eyes may have been a faux-Indian, but his message resonated with people. The Crying Indian PSA was one of the most successful ever. It resonated because it was true. In the early ’70s, the environment was a mess. Urban skies were | Read More »

Obama to farmer: ‘Call the USDA.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 19th at 08:30 PM  | 

So, Wednesday – while campaigning in Illinois, although I understand that we’re supposed to pretend that Obama isn’t actually campaigning, for some bizarre reason – the President of the United States faced with a technical question (the effects of new EPA’s soil and dust regulations on Illinois farmers) by a technical expert (an Illinois farmer). Despite the fact that the technical question is in fact | Read More »

Conservative Vision vs Republican Trench Warfare

By: Vassar Bushmills (Diary)  |  February 5th at 01:00 PM  | 

[promoted by consensus. --streiff] Sofia, 1700 hours, Thursday I’m waiting to be picked up for dinner, which around here starts at 2200. Last night I spent in the mountains, no computer access, so wrote a few notes longhand, as I was bowled over by the depth of Coldwarrior’s piece on Tea Partiers and Precinct Committees, and his personal effort to push it forward, as it | Read More »