Awww.

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Two videos at The Right Scoop, including an interview with one of the pension-losing workers that Obama screwed over.

It should be noted, however, that Obama did not murder his wife. So far.

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(I put this up last year and it was well received. So here it is again.) Bumped By Ace for the anniversary of Nagasaki.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked 67 years ago. 31 years ago Paul Fussell wrote this important essay, 'Thank God for the Atom Bomb'.

21 year old 2nd Lt. Fussell commanded infantry in WWII France. Later, he had to sit around waiting to invade Japan and die. That was the general expectation of the vets of the European theater - they didn't think they'd survive Japan.

Then Aug 6th happened.

When the atom bombs were dropped and news began to circulate that "Operation Olympic" would not, after all, be necessary, when we learned to our astonishment that we would not be obliged in a few months to rush up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being machine-gunned, mortared, and shelled, for all the practiced phlegm of our tough facades we broke down and cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow to adulthood after all.

The point of this post is to entice you click on the above link and read the essay. These excerpts give you a sense of the essay but don't include every example and argument. That's why you should Read The Whole Thing.

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And thus he announces his intent is in fact to create a corporatist/socialist partnership with every large employer in the US.

“I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” he said. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.

“I don’t want those jobs taking root in places like China, I want those jobs taking root in places like Pueblo,” Obama told a crowd gathered for a campaign rally at the Palace of Agriculture at the Colorado State Fairgrounds here.

Politico has now "fixed" the story, because they claim they were "unclear" about Obama's intent, about his main thrust. Although they don't say so, they're attempting to now say Obama did not mean he wants to heavily invest government money in every industry -- even though his actual examples are about precisely that (subsidies for the wind farm industry, for example).

Another case where the Obama Palace Guard actually has a scoop but refuses to report it, or at least report it as such -- thus Drudge sweeps in and gets it right.

And Drudge does get it right, despite Politico's attempt to cover up yet another "I didn't say that" moment by Obama.

LET'S REPEAT AUTO BAILOUT 'WITH EVERY INDUSTRY'

All from Drudge.

Anyone notice a pattern continuing from 2008...? Obama continuously expresses his strong preference for European socialism -- "redistribute the wealth," "you didn't build that," let's do bailouts "with every industry" -- and the media is always Johnny-On-The-Spot to insist to you your ears did not just hear what they just heard.

At what point do we begin crediting the alleged super-genius and supposed master orator of our time with comprehending the words that come tumbling out of his corrupt mouth?

Is Obama a big boy? Does he wear his big boy pants? Then let him choose his own big boy words, and stop trying to tell us he meant something other than what he said.

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Now you're just Obama that I used to know.

As Erika Johnson points out at Hot Air, it may be important that these guys don't seem to be conservative.

In a video posted online this week, Justin Monticello and Ryan Newbrough, both Harvard University graduates, replaced the lyrics of Goyte’s hit summer song “Somebody that I Used to Know” with a downtrodden ballad mourning Obama’s unfulfilled promises. …

“People feel they had invested so much in Obama on what he had said and what he was capable of and it just hasn’t happened that way,” he said.

I'm always interested in what non-conservatives think, mostly because I don't know. Due to my job and the cohort I interact with most frequently, I have a pretty good sense of what conservatives think. But they're only 35-40% of the population; what do non-conservatives think?

(Clarification: I mean I want to know what the persuadable middle thinks. Of course I know what the liberals think; the media blares me that opinion every day. And I know what the harder left thinks: the blogs and MSNBC's follies tell me that. But what about the people who don't yap all day about politics?)

Much of the bite in this ad comes from the left, or at least the libertarian side; they question why Obama sics the police on pot-smokers, when he used to toke everything in sight. But a lot of it's also about the economy -- "the change I got was that I moved in with my mother."

It also goofs on Obama's soaringly vapid rhetoric.

I pretty much hate this song but whatever, I have to post it, I guess.
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Not a name that pops out at me, despite his good work on Gone, Baby, Gone.

Let me suggest the Justice League movie will fail, and not because of Affleck, per se, and not because I don't like the Justice League (I like them better than the Avengers).

It will fail because the hidden story in the success of the Avengers is a business story: Six competent-to-good-to-very-good movies, all by different writers and directors, are not made accidentally. It's not just chance that the Marvel movies are good-to-better.

In the 90s, if I'm remembering right, the Denver Broncos had a great, great running back. Thousand-plus yarder. Who knows, maybe 2000 yards.

Then he got hurt. ACL. Career-threatening injury. Next guy comes in. Now he runs for like 1600 yards.

That guy gets hurt, or gets traded, or whatever. Another guy comes in. Also burns up the field.

At this point you have to begin to think it's not that the Denver Broncos just got lucky three times; at this point, you begin to suspect the team surrounding the running back is just a really good running team.

Everyone talks about Joss Whedon. Well, certainly he did a good job. As did Jon Favreau. As did, unexpectedly, Kenneth Brannagh directing, bizarrely, Thor. Justin Thereaux turned in a good script for Iron Man 2; a little known French director, whose name escapes me, turned in a terrific (and unexpected) reboot of The Incredible Hulk. A film I thought was utterly unnecessary, and saw absolutely no reason for, but then really enjoyed once I saw it (and I only watched it because of the three-second Tony Stark cameo).

When Joss Whedon was doubting he could bring the Avengers together, he got in touch with Jon Favreau, who advised him: "Trust in the machine, the machine will not let you fail." By "the machine," I assume he meant the production team assembled by Marvel Studios for the films, the producers, the... much-maligned "suits."

It's commonplace to say "the suits" are responsible for every bad thing that happens in Hollywood; but when a production team produces one good-to-better movie after another, maybe it's time to consider the fact that these particular suits know what the hell they're doing.

Compare this team's track record to other superhero films: The last two Spider-Man pictures were bad (I'm told the last one was bad; I know the one before that was bad, because I unfortunately saw it). The Superman reboot was misbegotten. I loves me some Nick Cage but I'm not going to claim the Ghost Rider movies were any good (though the sequel was, well, watchable, at least).

Let me bring this around to two connected political points:

1. Gee, sometimes people with business acumen are kind of competent at their jobs, huh?

and

2. Gee, it's amazing how well people perform when the people above them, creating the environment for work and business, actually know what the hell they're doing, and attempt to assist in the business rather than retarding it and sabotaging it at every step, huh?

It Occurs To Me... That if Obama wants to take credit for the now-rare business success, he must also take "credit" for the much-more-common business failure, yes?

You didn't build that. You didn't build an environment calculated to undermine you and sabotage you at every turn.

Obama did that.

Clarification: Let me clear this up: When I say "Marvel Movies" I mean those produced by Marvel Studios -- not merely Marvel characters whose movies are made by other studios.

Marvel Studios does not do Spiderman, or the X-Men, or Ghost Rider, because they sold those properties off to other studios. Sony owns Spiderman, Fox owns X-Men. I forget who owns Ghost Rider. Probably someone down the foodchain like Lionsgate or something.

This is actually why the Avengers happened-- Marvel had sold off most of its headliners, and was left with its B-team; they can't do Spiderman as they don't own it (at least not the movie rights).

Everyone forgets this now but like six years ago Iron Man was kind of a nobody. Beyond geeks and fanboys, who the hell knew who Iron Man was? Nobody, that's who.

All of these movies have that 'Marvel" thing at the beginning, the flipping pages, but they're not done by Marvel Studios, which I believe is a sub-studio of Disney, now.

Completely Forgot: Buzzion reminds me that Warner Bros. animated division knows what it's doing with Superman, Batman, the Justice League... even The Spirit!

I completely forgot about that and I love the DC animated stuff.

So: Okay. If Warner Bros. comprehended it has a team in the DC Animated properties division, and trusted that division and put them in charge -- yes, this could, possibly, work.

So That Was You:

One of my favorite memories from college was kicking all of you weirdos out of your dorm so we would have a place to live after the Alpha Beta house burned down as a result of a freak fire blowing accident. -- Gristle Encased Head

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Not far from the truth.

'Romney Murdered JonBenét Ramsey,' New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges

Titled “He Did It,” the advertisement asks if anyone can truly remember where Romney was the night of the child’s murder, and whether the U.S. populace wants a president capable of strangling a little girl and dumping her body in her parents’ basement.

President Obama appears at the end of the advertisement to approve the message.

“I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.”

More there. I wasn't even going to read the article, figuring the joke was all in the headline and picture, but then it got pretty funny.

Meanwhile, more abuse pours in on poor Obama, including this RNC ad.

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At Revealing Politics, via @ben_howe.

"That's a good question."

Here's another good question:

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Question mark...? Rising piiiitch...? more...

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Not just Susan B. Anthony, either. It was a crowded scene, man.

“My chair was getting crowded in,” said Pelosi. “I swear this happened, never happened before, it never happened since.

“My chair was getting crowded in and I couldn’t figure out what it was, it was like this,” she said.

“And then I realized Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, you name it, they were all in that chair, they were,” said Pelosi. “More than I named and I could hear them say: ‘At last we have a seat at the table.’ And then they were gone.”

You say "New Age Psychotic Break." I, being a more reasonable, moderate-mannered, charitably-minded sort, say "mixing medications."

Audio here.

It's like the world's most ill-conceived Cinemax plotline.

Nancy Pelosi

The sexy ghosts of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth routinely attempt to scissor me at public functions.

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