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There are so many things that stick out like a sore thumb about this interview, I don’t know how to begin.
This may have been a frustrating exchange for him, but that’s par for the course these days. At least he has ceased that infernal ‘I won the election’ nonsense.

The first family flew to New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Obama skipped the wreath laying ceremony at Arlington last Memorial Day. He skipped the Boy Scout’s Jamboree marking the organization’s 100th anniversary, skipped jury duty, skipped President Bush’s farewell address to the nation, skipped the Salute to Heroes Inaugural ball. Reportedly skips church constantly in lieu of golf.
But he made it down to Louisiana for the anniversary of a hurricane?

Some gems from the interview:

“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,”

Frustrated much? A man who spends a good deal of money to seal all his records should just shut up. He has brought the speculation on himself.

About the gathering of 500,000 this past weekend:

“It’s not surprising that someone like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of [the American people]. … That’s been true throughout our history,” he said.

I’ve got news for him; I never watch or listen to ‘Mr. Beck’, yet if I could have made it to D.C., I would have gone in a heartbeat. Obama is the impetus, the horrible decisions he has made is all the prompting I and many thousands of other people need to show up and protest.
Not Beck or Palin or whoever else was there. Obama is the reason for the malaise. The cure comes in November.

Astrodome, original scoreboard

I loved the snorting bulls and six shooters. And the concerts… and the rodeos. Who remembers ‘Luv Ya Blue’?

Alabama Theater

The Alabama on S. Shepherd opened October 23, 1939 with the film “Man About Town”, starring Jack Benny and Dorothy Lamour.
I remember the Alabama [as it's always been known] as a Bookstop in the River Oaks Shopping Center, sandwiched between Whole Earth on one side and Whole Foods on the other, a Butera’s sandwich shop on the south end.
They finally closed the Bookstop last year and though the old Alabama is listed as a historic building, it’s definitely on the ‘endangered’ list.
I loved that shopping center but don’t think I want to see the big, bland concrete edifices that have gone up on either side of the Alabama. Progress, you know.

The River Oaks theater on West Gray, also built in 1939, is sort of a ‘sister’ site and is also endangered.

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Woohoo! I’m 1 for 6…

I always considered myself middle class but as of right now, from this list, all I have LEFT is a car…Welcome to the Obamanation.

Turns out I did have some help, in the form of a cuban anole. Tail-free, courtesy a predator. He was especially coy with me as I stalked him from one side of the tree to the other, usually allowing only one eye to show.

Click to embiggen.

Not really; I had a go at some yesterday and this is the product of that sweaty 3 hour funfest.

Not helping me pick up palm debris:

Dogs can be so bloody selfish.

Thanks to Folly for the updated information!

The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition filed by environmental activists seeking to ban lead in ammunition and fishing tackle, saying such regulation is beyond the agency’s authority.

The agency’s decision, announced Friday shortly after FoxNews.com published its report on the issue, sided with hunters and fishermen who had argued that the such regulations weren’t allowed under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

Our friend Anthony in the studio with Chris Brade.

There is a definite limit to how much fish and skinless white meat chicken I can consume before I crave red meat like a caged lioness dreaming of a fat wildebeest over a bowl of kibble. So I went out on a limb with a hamburger last night. Made with extra lean beef, the assumption was that blotting the thing with paper towels and smothering it with lettuce, tomato and a water roll would somehow absorb the fat molecules.

All that paper towel action Didn’t Work. But the sucker sure did taste good.

So this morning I had my cranky pants on, as Joanie would say. Had a minor meltdown and deleted Farmville. Then took it one step further and deleted my entire Facebook account. Neither made me feel any better.
Autumn is rising, but only in my bones. As deeply rooted as the need for red meat, I feel like getting behind the wheel and going in any direction Liz is pointed.
Obviously, I’ve been feeling sorry for myself over my wonky bits, but only off and on. Mostly off.

The Italian woman’s son has Lou Gehrig disease. That’s how it was put to us this week, right after we’d voted in the primary and stepped outside to talk to a neighbor. Another neighbor drove up to the door of the clubhouse, which also happens to be our polling place, and said “the Italian woman’s son fell and can’t get up”. We went to look, but he’d managed to rise and was making his way home, falling two more times on the way.

When we first moved to the neighborhood nine years ago he was a common sight on our sidewalks. Though it was obvious that something was wrong, he walked almost normally. Throughout the years he has deteriorated to the point where he cannot stand up straight and can barely walk; it was heart rending to watch him, his body now mostly beyond his control, tenaciously battling the disease that will kill him. Sooner than later.

There’s nothing can make your problems feel small like a man courageously fighting for his life.

Well, I’m burning daylight.

SadHill

Excellent new photo essay by El Marco: Stealth Jihad Behind Ground Zero Mosque.

They aim to dominate the West and are active in ninety countries, where they promote a doctrine of both violent jihad and stealth jihad. Violent jihad is the terrorism we see throughout the world today. Stealth jihad is, in part, the manipulation of the press and the government in order to topple a target society or a nation from within.

Imam Rauf defends Wahhabism, calls for Sharia law in America, and the elimination of the state of Israel (one state final solution). He also has defended Bin Laden by claiming that America made him into the terrorist that he is. He apologizes for radical Islam and justifies acts of violence by blaming the United States and the West in general, and never blames terrorists for waging war against western countries. What he does is blame the U.S. for aggression against Islam.

He couches a lot of his rhetoric in soft new-age speak, yet one of Rauf’s partners in the Cordoba Initiative is Jamal Barzinji, one of the founders of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood in America. Barzinji founded Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which incubated numerous terrorist plots, including the 9/11 attacks and the Fort Hood murders.

Tolerance in the face of stealth jihad certainly leads somewhere other than a happy and healthy long life…

So, the radicals responsible for the Ground Zero mosque cry racism and intolerance, but who are the real victims of hate crimes?

Via iOTW.

Thought so.

Wahabism Delenda Est – still. Has it ever changed?

Our president just threw Arizona under the wheels of the United Nations Human Rights Council bus. Is he ready and willing to countermand states rights, either by taking them by force or handing them over to the UN?

Arizona is not the only state to pass this type of law, which only reiterates federal law… yet the others aren’t headline grabbers, are they?

A judge just blocked Arizona from utilizing 7 key parts of the law, like allowing police to determine legal status. There were half a million illegal aliens in the state, draining resources… not to mention the unmitigated violence at the border. Between the drug smugglers and kidnappers, the feds have given up portions of land near the border as ‘too violent’. Arizona, like the other border states, are at their wits end and are only trying to protect their citizens. Yet obama finds some twisted joy in acting as if the state is in the wrong, throwing himself on the mercy of countries like Cuba. It’s sickening.

Also not to be missed… According to obama the rest of the country is filled with masochistic, racist homophobes. He loathes us; he really, really loathes us.

Obama Hauls Arizona Before the UN Human Rights Council

Apparently Barack Obama is not content to make a federal case out of his immigration feud with Arizona; he just made it an international one.

The president’s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash Arizona’s immigration law — and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN.

Throughout the report, which sounds like an Obama campaign speech, the president discusses “the original flaw” of the U.S. Constitution, America’s tolerance for slavery, and his version of our long and despicable history of discriminating against and oppressing minorities, women, homosexuals, and the handicapped. After each complaint, he addresses how he is delivering us from ourselves, patting himself on the back for such initiatives as ending “torture,” promoting Affirmative Action, and passing health care legislation.

In his section on “Values and Immigration,” he praised the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to provide better medical care for detainees and increase “Alternatives To Detention” (e.g., letting them go). Then he turned to the one state that has had the temerity to stand in his way of fundamentally transforming the American electorate:

A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined.

On Obama’s command, Attorney General Eric Holder has sued the State of Arizona for passing a law that he criticized without reading, and which merely upholds federal law. (He gave sanctuary cities a pass.) He now threatens an additional lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio for “racial profiling” when arresting illegal immigrants near the Mexican border.

Read the entire article at AIP.