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ere is a messy subject: the sheer, physical dirtiness of the Left poor. The detritus of the Left poor. I grew up with it, in Ann Arbor: the placards, the sleeping bags, the leaflets, the graffiti, the tent cities, the associated garbage. We see the same thing in lovely Madison now. These people expect other people to clean up after them: the “working people” they claim to love and represent.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260957/god-save-king-and-motion-picture-storytelling-mark-steyn

lol

man they love that dude over there

Most importantly, teachers have important non-financial compensation — working with children in a universally admired profession, etc.

is this part of their reasoning about the joys of unpaid motherhood too?

Nordlinger's been awesome the last week:

On Michelle’s Jetting, Etc.

March 1, 2011 10:34 A.M.
By Jay Nordlinger

In Impromptus today, I talk a little about presidents’ vacations — and first ladies’ vacations. Poor Bill Clinton: When he was running for reelection, he was forced to vacation in Wyoming. Before that, it had been the Vineyard. After that, it would be the Vineyard again. Oh, what people have to put up with for the sake of politics!

After writing my column, I had a memory of Dick Cheney. He arrives in Davos, that perfect specimen of Alpine splendor. And he says, “Almost as nice as my valley in Wyoming.” He goes there even when he’s not running. Strange people, Republicans.

Remember this: If you’re a liberal Democratic first lady, you can go to Vail, the Vineyard, the Costa del Sol. If you’re a Republican first lady — a ranch in sweltering Texas is for you, bucko. (I realize a first lady is not really a “bucko.”) (I also realize that Kennebunkport is pretty nice in the summer.) (No, I will not talk about cloth coats.)

man, the myth of W.'s "crawford ranch."

the hair splitting is so fine that when Clinton goes to Wyoming it doesn't even count.

If you’re a liberal Democratic first lady, you can go to Vail, the Vineyard, the Costa del Sol.

Michelle O., rootless cosmopolitan

quick, when was the last time anybody thought about sirhan sirhan?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261094/sirhans-parole-victor-davis-hanson

while we're at it, this kurtz dude is a trip

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Where-s-Waldo-Reading-Alinsky

During campaign 2008, the "leaders" of Obama’s original community group regaled the press with tales of Obama’s modesty. He sat in the back of the room, while they did the talking. In fact, their actions were elaborately scripted and choreographed by Obama, the group’s real leader. An Alinskyite organizer is supposed to look as if he’s beyond ideology, stirring up the group to action only when reacting to some apparent slight by the powers that be. (In fact, organizers have elaborate techniques for provoking potential targets into apparent offenses against the group.)

talk about owned

Not long ago, I was in Norway, talking with some politicos — right of center. (Well, in Norway, you could be a socialist, and still be right of center. I mean “right of center” even in American terms.) I said, “Obama is the perfect American president for the Norwegian political culture, isn’t he? I mean, no wonder they gave him the Nobel prize. He’s left-wing, he apologizes for America, he wants a more Norwegian-like state, he’s pro-abortion, he’s anti-Israel, he venerates the U.N. — he’s even black. He’s perfect.”

One of the Norwegians said, “No, he could be gay. Then he’d be perfect.” I said, “I stand corrected, my friend.”

"he's even black"

these guys are such lame choads.

The Hug Shot
March 3, 2011 5:45 A.M.
By John J. Miller

President Obama and Jeb Bush will share the stage of a Miami high school to tout education reform tomorrow. If I were advising Obama, I’d urge him to achieve a single objective: hug Bush. Two years ago, the Obama Embrace served as a Crist of Death–i.e., it imperiled the political future of Charlie Crist, Bush’s successor as governor of Florida. Obama certainly didn’t mean the hurt Crist. Who doubts that he wouldn’t rather deal with a Sen. Crist than a Sen. Rubio? Yet his hug worked like a reverse Midas Touch on the onetime Republican and created an opening for Rubio’s conservative insurgency.

According to Chris Good of the Atlantic, it wasn’t even much of a hug:

But let’s go to the tape, and realize something: Crist didn’t actually hug Obama, so much as Obama hugged him. Crist put himself in the position, but he was not the agent of this embrace. He basically just stood there.

So apparently it was like date rape.

I don’t think Jeb Bush is going to run for president in 2012. But I also think he’d be a stronger candidate than many Republicans assume. Don’t take it from me–take it from Democrats: In a recent National Journal “insider’s poll,” Democrats rank Bush as the GOP’s third most formidable potential presidential nominee (after Mitt Romney and Mitch Daniels). A hug shot with Obama would make it more difficult for him to win the GOP nomination. The image would not go away, either. It probably would hurt in 2016 too.

you've come a long way, baby?

http://mikemillsweb.com/images/home/richard-nixon-sammy-davis-jr.jpg

straight up: the corner = refuge for racist a-holes

i am not usually as gung-ho on some framing/semantics stuff as i should be but

he’s pro-abortion

is so hilarious in this context. like really, how does one assert one's celebratory, pro-abortion stance. joyously impregnating interns?

classy and sensual

Couldn't agree with you more about the food and women.

This white American dude has dated many Indian women and has very fond memories. Not only can Indian women be among the most stunning in the world, but as a group I consider them classy, intellectual, well mannered, intellectually curious, charming, sensual, and proudly feminine. And I now make a mean chicken curry I would add.

Gents, don't believe me about their looks? Go on Facebook and search a random Indian surname, such as "Malhotra".

Link???

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261255/subcontinental-feeling-jay-nordlinger

"I do. The advent of Indians in America is a wonderful thing. Forget the engineering, think of the food, the girls . . ."

he needs to tour east asia with momus

to be fair, Indian food IS delicious

So apparently it was like date rape.

"We have you surrounded...Drop the dog whistle and put your hands up!"

Peter Kirsanow is just asking question here

Random observation: Setting aside for a moment the standard arguments (and the merits thereof) in the pro-choice/pro-life debate, a fact remains: In black neighborhoods, liberal-leaning groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of fewer black babies; conservative groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of more black babies.

The observation is simply that: not an analysis, conclusion, or judgment. Those are left to the solons in the mainstream media. I suspect, however, that the observation will somehow be confirmation of conservative bigotry.

conservative groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of more black babies.

What procedure is that? Surely not sex?

dunno if i'd characterize the lack of access to abortion as a "procedure"

Maybe incoherent posting English is a procedure...?

i'm trying to come up with the right characterization of jay nordlinger and i can't quite do it. he's very childlike and, i don't want to say feminine, but something like that. cloistered?

British?

buggered?

lol he reminds me of lj, that's it

uh, re: bnw, not Alfred

what is a solon?

where colons hang out

Solon was an ancient Greek elegiac poet but hey, if Nordlinger thinks it means 'footsoldier' I doff my cap to his edumakayshun.

"wise person"

Also the vibe I get from Nordy is 'moist little boy with undiagnosed tummy thrush', but there you go.

also 'nordlinger' sounds like the name of the evil dean in an 80s college flick

I think "prissy" is the word for Nordlinger, his clueless stuffiness reminds me of certain Nabokov characters

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261366/jean-jacques-jihad-andrew-c-mccarthy

"Jean-Jacques Jihad"

Clever title! But as usual he's a dumbass. He evidently hasn't read his Locke (a real small-government conservative unlike NR's fascists), who writes in Section 87 of the Second Treatise on Government:

But because no political society can be, nor subsist, without having in itself the power to preserve the property, and in order thereunto punish the offences of all those of that society, there, and there only, is political society where every one of the members hath quitted this natural power, resigned it up into the hands of the community in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it. And thus all private judgment of every particular member being excluded, the community comes to be umpire, and by understanding indifferent rules and men authorised by the community for their execution, decides all the differences that may happen between any members of that society concerning any matter of right, and punishes those offences which any member hath committed against the society with such penalties as the law has established.

Surely this jackass knows that the Second Treatise was a primary influence upon Jefferson, Madison, et. al.? Rousseau's an important figure but it's not like the idea of surrounding personal freedom to the state in exchange for civil protection is his alone.

fuck, didn't mean "surrounding", meant "surrendering"

Those Eva Braun pictures reminded me of Qaddafi's "voluptuous blond," both of whom lead me to wonder—why can't dictators find better-looking mistresses? Hitler and Khadafy are (were) absolute rulers over millions of subjects, and these girls are the best they can do? It's not like either woman was ugly, but with all that money and power, you'd these goons could find a super-model willing to be their "nurse."

^^ what we're all thinking

i think my favorite thing about the corner is its naked fascination with power

a commenter voices doubts

At the risk of being labeled a pc prude, I have to ask, am I the only one who thinks it's kind of creepy to muse on the question of why insane and murderous dictators don't find better looking women to rape and terrorize and into a "relationship?" Classy stuff.

excellent use of the passive voice here from Nordlinger

In vino veritas, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: In “undercover videos,” veritas. And what’s the name of James O’Keefe’s website? “Project Veritas.” O’Keefe is the sting impresario who stung NPR, and, before them, ACORN. Another way to put that is — he shed light on them.

We might debate the ethics of stinging. But do you know more about ACORN and NPR than you once did? Or, have you had your suspicions confirmed? How about Planned Parenthood, whom “Live Action” stung?

I was in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, covering a voice recital (Joyce DiDonato). I encountered a distinguished fellow critic. He is on the left, of course, as almost all arts-world people are. He told me he was sending pizzas to the union demonstrators in the Wisconsin capitol. I said, “How nice. Can you tell them to throw the boxes away? Why can’t they clean up after themselves?”

There was more, but — this column has been irritable enough.

In vino veritas, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: In “undercover videos,” veritas. And what’s the name of James O’Keefe’s website? “Project Veritas.” O’Keefe is the sting impresario who stung NPR, and, before them, ACORN. Another way to put that is — he shed light on them.

E pluribus unum, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: E pluribus Oakland Raiders. And what's the name of a football team? The Oakland Raiders. Al Davis is the aged impresario who moved the Raiders from LA to Oakland, and, before that, from Oakland to LA. Another way to put that is - he owns the Raiders.

e pluribus oakland raiderae