….. But I don’t Have Any Time For:
- Gerald Warner at the UK Telegraph, a week ago — “It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.” Indeed, that era has begun (text of Executive Order is here).
- From last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal — “Agents Raid Two Pennsylvania Defense Contractors.” The plants involved are in the district of Pennsylvania congressman John Murtha, who got these companies millions in earmarks. This could work out really well. Murtha has volunteered to have terrorists currently detained at Guantanamo Bay housed in his district. If the plants raided are shut down, those buildings could be used for Murtha’s desired prison. In a perfect world, John “Abscam” Murtha could join the Gitmo guys as an inmate.
- Gunga Dann’s leftovers dumped on taxpayers — “AG women settle with state for $495,000.”
- Juan Williams — “Yet there is fear, especially among black people, that criticism of him or any of his failures might be twisted into evidence that people of color cannot effectively lead. That amounts to wasting time and energy reacting to hateful stereotypes. It also leads to treating all criticism of Mr. Obama, whether legitimate, wrong-headed or even mean-spirited, as racist. This is patronizing. Worse, it carries an implicit presumption of inferiority. Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.” Less than a week after Obama’s inauguration, CNN is already going there (“Will Obama have to be better because he’s black?”; HT Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters).
- I wonder if Williams were a student at Ohio State, and his comments in the previous item offended another student, would he be hauled before the university’s Bias Assessment and Response Team (HT Collecting My Thoughts)?
- Flashback — The Rev. Joseph Lowery who did the racist riff in his “benediction” at Obama’s inauguration is the same guy who, in his presence, ripped on then-President Bush at Coretta Scott King’s funeral three years ago, declaring “We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there (in Iraq).” (Sigh ….) Yes …. there …. were, not to mention 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium.