Open Thread Friday

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole...

Don't know what the Aussie pols down under have that ours don't, but our pols need to take note, (I'm talking to you, repubs) and grow some spine or some backbone before 2010.

"If in doubt, vote them out!"

Normally I am glad when the Prez screws up. Each misstep puts us one step closer to electing a competent administration in 2012.

Barry's narcissim bordering on delusional and his screw-ups internationally, however, are very dangerous for our republic. Someone with common sense and international experience had better take up residence in the West Wing or we're going to have a monumental job recovering from his incompetence.

It will make Reagan's herculean efforts to right the ship of state following Carter's disastrous tenure look like child's play.

This past June, 0bama fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Walpin.

The reason?

Walpin was probing hush money used to cover up Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's sex scandal involving underage girls.

The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah
In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grunman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.

At that same time, in America's other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_compet...

Oh sure – Aunt Eller – thanks for the clarification!

I vote for Celeste Holm…

Now that Thanksgiving is over (Bama said he was "going to eat this sucker" referring to the turkey he pardoned, class, class all the way) don't take your eye off the ball. He and the DemoRats are going to keep switching the cup that it's under to keep us looking in the wrong direction.

Not too many Americans remember a time when a man's word was his action. When he says he supports the 2nd Amendment look out 'cause he's coming to make it as hard as possible to continue owning one, when he says he's going to insure the 25-40 million who don't have health insurance and that you can keep your present coverage – lookout, cause he's coming to take yours or make it as hard on your insurance company to keep offering it until it goes out of business and you have no other option than to get Govt. run insurance.

He's the liar of our time.

http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

So true…this idiot/man/clown is doing damage beyong comprehension…

I know that's just a line from a movie, but what this couple did, they did for the reality of it…and for keeps (on Facebook). So this was far more comical than some jumble of Three Stooges not Vetting Crashers on Absolut Bauer for Dinner at 1600-

But the final nail-in-the-coffin came from the very sick Veep under 0bama's spell. Despite mounting erroneous recovery.gov data, 0bama stood by his false claim, "Nobody messes with Joe!" And they don't…
They just get their picture taken with him.

Nonie Darwish, the executive director of Former Muslims United and author of "Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law," was scheduled to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities last week, but both events were canceled under pressure from Muslim groups on campus.

Columbia, where Ahmadinejad was welcomed like a returning king.

I read a couple days ago that Walpin was cleared and found to be fully competent. But they did not offer to rehire him! Apparently he is guilty of doing his job. Intolerable!

Thanksgiving was strange this year, with everyone delicately keeping quiet about things they shouted in my face last year.
No mention of Obama, polotics, etc., from a family where I'm the only conservative.
They eerily discussed Bozo the Clown and old kid's shows for an inordinate amount of time.

That's very telling.

In all my years of debating modern liberals, changing the subject is a sign they know they're cornered.

To be fair, I'm sure secret service had their hands full with the Hollywood modern liberals.

I can just imagine them screaming into cell phones at their agents. "Some guy here wants to frisk me and search through my man-purse! GET DOWN HERE AND TELL THEM WHO I AM!"

Charlotte Greenwood is a long time favorite of anyone who watches 20th Century-Fox musicals of the 1940s. She's a panic. She usually plays the same type of character in every film. She almost always gets to do some of her eccentric dancing which is amazing to see b/c she was about 50 y/o before she hit her stride in films. (Aunt Eller in OKLAHOMA is her last film and pretty much a coda to her biggest films of the 40s.)

Here she is in one of 'her' best films – MOON OVER MIAMI from 1941 playing the aunt of Betty Grable and Carole Landis (Mmmmm…Carole Landis!) as all three woman are down in Miami seeking rich husbands. It's an earlier version of HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE. She in the entire clip, but her song and dance number with Jack Haley (The Tin Woodsman from The Wizard of Oz) begins at the 4:20 minute mark….and watcch her hand at the 5:07 mark as she steals the moment from Jack Haley. Too much!

That's why this country is arming itself at RECORD PACE! I support EVERY AMERICAN that exercises his or her right to defend themselves from the coming Islamic storm.

Not in North America diaperheads, not our America.

I read it. l loved it. I passed it along. Thanks!

Both very effective methods for changing the subject.

This video was great. Everyone on this board ought to view it! It is so true!

I'd give obamashuga_nuts 25 points for this one, if I could.

The penguin knows.

I remember her as Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma!"

I saw a clip on YouTube from "Down Argentine Way" that demonstrates how she earned the reputation, rather odd-sounding by today's standards, of being the only woman in the world who could kick a giraffe in the eye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQvZUltlRRw

Her singing voice was beautiful, perhaps her greatest gift (though I'm just judging it by a few scenes on YouTube).

She was too tall, too active and muscular, not pretty, not particularly buxom, and with a loud voice that could drown out others — how could she have become a success? I think it was vaudeville, when unusual features were popular ones. She was human, like her audience, but in addition, she was entertaining and interesting. She was also one of the few that carried over into movies.

BTW, there is also a YouTube clip of her doing a similar "I love you!" shtick with Buster Keaton, in "Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath," but Buster (my number one favorite comedian of the silent days) was in his alcoholic phase then, unfortunately, and seems to sabotage the whole thing. It's really awful. Greenwood's frustration with him here may be real as well as scripted. It's depressing for a Keaton fan, but useful to contrast with the Eddie Cantor clip to see just how hard Cantor was actually working, even though Greenwood seems to be carrying the whole scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGeFzg0N2-o

Cantor looked taller than that somehow, but it's hard to tell — maybe that IMDb height measurement was before she got him on the table (BG!).

So true. I have lived 16 years with liberal master debaters (with mean streaks). Finally I have caught up with them and now have the added bonus of being one of the few unbotoxed faces – meaning I can give them the look of superiority, incredulousness, skepticism, doubt… while they remain poker-faced. Unfortunately, they have the upper hand at cards later in the evening!

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