From On High

• A Huge Disconnect

  60% of the United States Senate supports ObamaCare.
  
  Nearly 60% of America opposes it.
  
  What's wrong with this picture?
  Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low
  Rasmussen Reports
  
  Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:13am EST
  

• It Seems So Simple

  "We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
  -- Jeff Bezos
  
  Yeah?  If only.
  
  So I was standing in line at the bank [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:07am EST
  

• 'Low Ebb,' Gutter, One in the Same

  A point to be made about those who hate - or fear - Sarah Palin:
  Sarah Palin and the low ebb of the cultural left
  By Claude Sandroff, American Thinker
  
  One of the great challenges when writing about Palin is to keep focus on her concrete accomplishments (the energy [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:05am EST
  

• Really?

  Here's a liberal Washington Post columnist's take on Obama's submissive bow to the emperor of Japan:
  
  "There's been a lot of misguided criticism of President Obama's trip to Asia. You're upset that he bowed to the emperor of Japan? Get over it. Obama was being respectful'" [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:59am EST
  

• What's Al Gore Going To Do For a Living Now?

  Even his close allies in the struggle to turn us back to the Ice Age are abandoning ship:
  Global Warming Promoter 'Dismayed and Deeply Shaken' by ClimateGate
  By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters
  
  One of the world's leading promoters of the anthropogenic global warming myth claimed Monday he is convinced the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:41am EST
  

• How's That War Planning Coming, Barry?

  Obama Thanks Hollywood With Coveted Invites To First White House State Dinner
  [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:23am EST
  

• Trying To Provide Cover

  Feebly.
  
  From today's Roanoke Times, a laugher:
  A real threat to Medicare
  editorial
  
  There is one real and immediate threat to Medicare patients that touches on the health care reform debate: Republicans and some fiscal hawks among Democrats are balking at a measure to avert a 21 percent [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:23am EST
  

• Whereas Joe Biden Couldn't Pack a Denny's Restaurant ...

  .. at lunch hour, Sarah Palin drew the masses on Sunday:
  
  Palin welcomed by 1000+ fans at Roanoke book signing
  
  Wow. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:04am EST
  

• A Permanent Situation, We Hope

  Fort Hood suspect paralyzed from chest down, lawyer says
  [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:47am EST
  

• We Want Someone's Head on a Platter

  Here's the least we can expect from ClimateGate, the evolving story that has to do with those global warming scientists activists who cooked their data - and colluded in how best to present it and argue it:
  
  Names are being named.
  
  Reputations are being ruined.
  
  Careers are' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:17am EST
  

• A Telling Tale About Those Who Hate Sarah

  Jonah Goldberg, writing in National Review:
  Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writing chops, excerpting the following [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:54am EST
  

• This Is Just Great

  You can bet, Osama bin Ladin and 12 million other Muslim fanatics around the globe will be tuned to their TV sets for this:
  Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
  By Karen Matthews, Associated Press
  
  New York (AP) - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:42am EST
  

• When Fools Run Things

  I'm not sure whether I should be more upset with tho L.A. Times reporters or with idiotic Congressional spokesmen over this one:
  LA Times Changes Its Mind: Science Doesn't Matter On Climate Bill
  By Candace Moore, NewsBusters
  
  That thumping sound you hear is the Los Angeles Times moving the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

• He's Goin' Down

  I'm no expert but I'm guessing this isn't good:
  
  
  Why aren't more people approving of Obama's job performance, I wonder.  Shouldn't we all be appreciative of his efforts to reduce unemplo ... of his efforts to win the war on terr ... of his efforts' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:27am EST
  

• Did Anyone Expect a Different Outcome?

  After all, they are DEMOCRATS:
  
  Reid bill: 16M uninsured U.S. citizens pay a penalty tax. 8M uninsured illegal aliens do not.
  
  I'm trying to remember, when Obama was campaigning to be president, did he tell us that his primary goal was to punish Americans and reward illegals?' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:13am EST
  

• A Phenomenon in the Making

  Even the Beatles, in their heyday, wouldn't have garnered such enthusiasm:
  Hundreds waiting for Palin's book signing in Roanoke; video of overnight campers
  By Katelyn Polantz, The Roanoke Times
  
  7:10 a.m.: More than 300 people camped overnight Saturday outside Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Valley View Mall to await' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:22am EST
  

• I'm Not Sure What To Make Of This

  As anyone who lives in rural Virginia can tell you, skilled craftsmen and contractors are hard to come by.  Electricians, plumbers, builders, carpenters - ya need a good one?  Get in line.  And prepare to wait.
  
  So what happens when ...
  
  (a) the government pours a pile of [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:09am EST
  

• For You Car Buffs

  What is it?
  
  
  Hmmm.  The front kinda looks like a '57 Chevy.  But the back looks more like a '59.
  
  You're right!
  
  
  
  
  It's a custom (seriously custom) 1957, 1958, and 1959 Chevy!
  
  I think it looks' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:49am EST
  

• Lies. Damn Lies. And Global Warming Studies.

  If, for all these years, you've maintained your faith in the "evidence" provided you by those global warming "scientists" as being supportive of your belief that the planet is, in fact, warming, you don't want to read "The Alarmists Do 'Science': A Case Study," an exhaustive analysis of the [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:17am EST
  

• The Church Must Stand For Something

  Or it might as well not exist.*
  
  Well, let it be known that the Roman Catholic diocese of Providence, Rhode Island stands for something.  And thank God for it:
  Report: Kennedy barred from communion by bishop
  By Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer
  
  Providence, R.I. (AP) — Roman [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:11am EST
  

• He Never Liked Them Anyway

  " Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza.  Ethnic cleansing [by] the Zionists is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel.
  
  
  "The Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:31am EST
  

• How Cool Is This

  In the "How did they think that up" department:
  
  
  
  
  The lengths to which they'll go to sell a car ...' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:20am EST
  

• Obama's Plan To Bankrupt the Coal Industry ...

  ... kicks into high gear:
  
  Interior increases oversight of mountaintop mining
  
  Here's the short-hand version of the article:
  
  Obama's Interior Department will soon be rolling out regulations that will make it impossible for any proposed surface mine to ever receive the necessary permit again.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:38am EST
  

• 'I Am Stupid'

  "So Philip Morris owes me $300 million."
  
  Only in America, 2009:
  Ex-Smoker Wins Against Philip Morris
  By Duff Wilson, New York Times
  
  Legal experts predict that thousands of tobacco lawsuits could gain momentum in Florida after a Fort Lauderdale jury ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

• Spin 101

  The New York Times this morning:
  
  "A variety of economists say that stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would."
  
  Like Obama's "jobs saved or created" chimera, this cynical "fewer shed" jobs' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

• This Is News?

  About an hour ago, a pack of coyotes was howling and yipping like crazy in the pitch darkness that enshrouded the forest just beyond my barn.  Like they do every morning.
  
  It's an every-night/morning occurrence.
  
  That's why this doesn't startle me:
  
  Coyotes roam Botetourt area
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:17am EST
  

• Say What?

  So I'm perusing a list of endangered sites in the Roanoke region as provided to the Roanoke Times by the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation, and, mixed in with the not-surprising homesteads and abandoned factory buildings, I came across this on the list:
  Several mountainsides that are undergoing logging operations,' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:10am EST
  

• Titan In Running Shorts

  They've tried their best to destroy her.
  
  They have failed.
  
  She shoulders on.
  
  Still they hate her.
  Palin-Hating 101
  By S.E. Cupp, Town Hall
  
  Her influence and allure are practically unprecedented among failed vice presidential candidates. (Can anyone imagine Lloyd Bentsen, Jack Kemp or' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:04am EST
  

• Obama Is Known To Say Just About Anything

  As he stood atop the Great Wall, amiring its "majesty":
  
  Obama says Asia trip about jobs
  
  
  Whatever you say, Barry. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:06am EST
  

• Lest We Forget

  There are those we become accustomed to ignoring.
  
  Those who never ignored us.
  
  
  
  I think I'll call my mother this afternoon.' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:13am EST
  

• Solutions To All Our Problems

  From the desk of former Delegate Barnie Day:
  Solving The Budget Crisis
  
  Forget the $3-per-ton tax credit we give Virginia’s billion-dollar-profit utilities for burning Virginia coal. Forget the billion-dollar rebate we send to localities for taxes they impose. Forget the hundred million dollar fee we pay retailers just for [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:04am EST
  

• It Isn't Funny Any More

  I always got the biggest kick out of ridiculing those "scientists" who believed - despite all evidence to the contrary - that the globe is warming.
  
  This goes beyond fun.  And deserves far more than ridicule in response.
  
  Exile is appropriate.  If not the lash.
  
  As [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:56am EST
  

• It's Come To This

  Where once thousands were employed, this part of Virginia now looks for someone to kick in a few thousand ... dollars:
  Railroading groups join to woo tourists
  By Jenny Kincaid Boone
  
  Tourism gurus have a plethora of options for marketing the Roanoke Valley and its surrounding areas as a [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

• Quote of the Day

  From Charles Krauthammer:
  Finally, there's the moral logic. It's not as if [Attorney General Eric] Holder opposes military commissions on principle. On the same day he sent KSM to a civilian trial in New York, Holder announced he was sending Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, (accused) mastermind of the attack on [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

• Like a Ping Pong ball

  This was our foreign policy two weeks ago:
  
  US vows to get tough on Karzai
  
  This is our policy today:
  
  A softer approach to Karzai
  
  Two weeks from now?
  
  If I were Karzai, I'd be finding a new "ally."' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:59am EST
  

• Obama Embarrasses Us All

  
  
  This is humiliating:
  Obama in China: A wake-up call!
  By David Gergen, AC360
  
  Barack Obama has recently been reading up on the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Coming home from China, he might well focus on Kennedy’s first summit overseas with the leader of the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:32am EST
  

• I Learn a New Word

  Intaxicaton
  Noun: intaxication  in-täx-sə-ˈkā-shən
  
  1. Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15am EST
  

• Frightening

  Go to "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession" to see an evolving map depicting the spread - by county - of the effects of the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress (and later of the White House) on the economy.
  
  This should give you nightmares. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:09am EST
  

• I Learn Another Word

  Palinoia
  Noun: palinoia pā-ly-noi'-uh
  1. A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution by Sarah Palin.
  Palinoia
  by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
  
  Y'all well know that I really don't like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole schtick' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:07am EST
  

• Giving New Meaning To a Word

  Watchdog
  Noun: watchdog wŏch'dôg'
   1. What Obama's Stimulus Watchdog ain't.
  Watchdog Urges Caution on Claims of 640,000 Stimulus Jobs
  By Michael Cooper, New York Times
  
  Washington — The government watchdog overseeing the federal stimulus program testified Thursday that he could not vouch for the Obama administration’s recent claims' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:05am EST
  

• Global Non-Warming Gaining Mainstream Attention

  Hey, Al.  Want an inconvenient truth?
  Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
  By Gerald Traufetter, Der Spiegel
  
  Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:49am EST
  

• These People Have a Screw Loose

  From the lunatic asylum:
  ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
  By Joseph Holandes Ubalde, GMANews.TV
  
  Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade.
  
  Suneeta [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:38am EST
  

• How They've Changed Their Tune

  Whereas in 2006, Democrats were admonishing young Americans to "study hard, do their homework, and make an effort to be smart," or they'll be forced to go into the military, today the Democrats see those in uniform differently.  Now that Obama's in charge, they're useful tools:
  
  "You'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

• We Love Her In The Heartland

  Truly a phenomenon:
  Palin's Gold Mine
  by Duff McDonald, The Daily Beast
  
  Going Rogue is going gangbusters, and it looks like both Palin and her publisher, HarperCollins, are going to make some serious money off of it.
  
  A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:26am EST
  

• Sad

  But also rather revealing when it comes to the pandemic that could kill millions.
  
  Two months ago:
  
  Swine flu ‘could kill millions’ and cause anarchy in poor nations, UN warns
  
  Today:
  
  NY teen dies of complications from swine flu
  
  When bad news can [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:58am EST
  

• When There's Nothing Else Making News ...

  ... give 'em crap like this:
  
  10-year-old refuses to pledge allegiance until gays can marry
  
  A ten-year-old.
  
  He's probably still grappling with the whole Santa Claus concept too.
  
  We care about this why?' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:38am EST
  

• Food For Thought

  To adapt a line delivered by Shakespeare's Queen Gertude:
  
  You, o liberal, doth protest too much, methinks.
  
  David Darsanyi on the hatred being spewed at Sarah Palin:
  The Palin Experience
  Denver Post
  
  These days, where you fall on the crucial issue of Sarah Palin tells the rest [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:31am EST
  

• This Is The Guy Who Thinks The Globe Is Warming

  Al Gore:
  
  "... but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ..."
  
  John Derbyshire:
  
  "The temperature at the surface of'" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:06am EST
  

• ObamaCare, As Viewed By a Health Care Expert

  Jeffrey S. Flier, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
  As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade.
  
  In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that,' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:54am EST
  

• How's That War Strategy Coming, Barry?

  Obama visits Great Wall, "inspired by its majesty"
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:40am EST