Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell….
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The latest Obama administration nominee to draw fire from the right is also drawing fire from the left. Charles “Chas” Freeman is being pounded from both sides. On the right many are denouncing his stance toward terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. (He is on record wanting to negotiate with them). From the left comes this attack: Freeman appears to be in favor of national ID cards. Can internal passports be far behind?
One new development, revealed here for the first time, which is likely to further damage Freeman’s already battered standing is that the former ambassador advocated creating a national identity system in the US as a part of the war on terror. During a 9/11 Commission interview, Freeman remarked that of three major changes the US government should make to effectively combat terror, one was that “the United States should implement a national identity system, so we better know who is who.”
I seldom agree with the folks who post over at HuffnPuffPo, but I agree this time. This guy should not be in any position of power. I don’t care who he worked for before.
It has taken a lot of years, many career changes and a seemingly unlimited wardrobe budget. But she has finally reached that holy grail! Yes, she can finally get her membership card!
Barbie can officially join AARP. She is 50 now.
An Australian family got a first hand taste of the Animal Uprising™ on Sunday when a teenage mutant ninja kangaroo smashed into their home through a bedroom window. The Raging ‘roo did a boogaloo on the bed then tried to get under the covers. Fortunately, the man of the house decided that enough was enough. He wrestled the mad marsupial to the ground and dragged it, kicking and screaming, out of the house.
About 2 a.m. Sunday, their dog began barking furiously. Possibly possums, they thought.
The family had put up with possums scampering across their roof every night since they moved in three weeks ago.
Moments later, the window was smashed and a black figure landed on their bed…..
….The kangaroo jumped on top of the blanket that Beman and her 9-year-old daughter were hiding under. It then leaped onto the nightstand, punched holes in the furniture and left blood stains on the wall as it bounced into their son’s room.
The man, Beat Ettlin, is originally from Switzerland. So apparently, psycho-killer kangaroos have it in for more than just Irish actors and elderly Australian women. They are after the Swiss, too. Frankly, I think Ettlin, who is a chef, missed a golden opportunity to make a tasty snack.
Robert Samuelson dubs Barack Obama a “Great Pretender” because Obama is great at saying one thing while doing another.
To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician — more honest, more courageous — please don’t examine his administration’s budget. If you do, you may sadly conclude that he resembles presidents stretching back to John Kennedy in one crucial respect. He won’t tax voters for all the government services they want. That’s the main reason we’ve run budget deficits in 43 of the past 48 years.
Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he’s doing things that he isn’t, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made “responsibility” a personal theme; the budget’s cover line is “A New Era of Responsibility.” He says the budget begins “making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline.” It doesn’t.
Double talk is nothing new for a politician. But Obama does more of it, more blatantly than most. The media is giving him a free pass on it, too. The American taxpayers deserve more honesty and less contempt from their elected officials.
Politics | Gaius March 9, 2009 | 
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