Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself. – Charles Krauthammer, Who Does He Think He Is?
Tag: QotD
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Quote of the Day
If you pay eleven million dollars for a photograph of a still-living human, you should do a half-gainer into the Soylent Green tank without being pushed, simply out of shame. – Tam, The end times are nigh.
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She knows what she is doing. A lawyer who goes to the shooting range. The worst kind. – Michael Crichton, Next, pg. 500
A great quote from one of the more disturbing novels I’ve read this year.
Hell, this decade.
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America is the last thing standing between humanity’s intact testicles and the quivering blade of liberalism. – Rachel Lucas, No. You cannot possibly be serious.
I wish I could write like that.
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Quote of the Day
Some people go through life thinking there’s a halo over their heads when that glowing ring they see is actually the sphincter of their own eternal asshat. – Pugs of War
The majority of them go into politics.
You’ve GOTTA Read THIS!
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Quote of the Day
More from the place where Great Britain used to be:
Steve Kink apprehended a thug after catching him breaking into a mobile phone shop late at night. Although the 47-year-old was punched in the face, he managed to pin the offender to the floor. Passers-by called the police while he stood over him until officers arrested the 25-year-old man.
Mr Kink, who owns a tattoo parlour, was stunned when he found out the next day the suspect had been let off with a caution for criminal damage. But his shock turned to fury when days later police officers turned up at his house to arrest him for assaulting the thug. He was taken to his local police station and held in a cell for six hours before being interviewed.
He was then charged with assault and battery and is due to appear before magistrates next week.
That’s not the Quote of the Day. It’s a lead-in.
Here’s the Quote of the Day:
I’m an alumna of Pepperdine University, a school which proudly owns a house/campus on Exhibition Road, literally across the street from the Imperial University, in the middle of South Kensington, right near Harrods, Hyde Park, the Albert Hall. Within two days of arriving for our first semester in London, our relatively small [American] class (37 students, 10 men, 27 women) was visited by a local police officer to instruct us on living in London. Her first question was to the women, ‘How many of you brought mace?’ Three girls raised their hands. She told us we couldn’t use it, shouldn’t even carry it, it was illegal.
Had any of us brought any other type of weapon, such as a knife? Several of the men in our group indicated that they carried pocket knives. She told us to leave them at home too.
Then she instructed us on how to properly be a victim. If we were attacked, we were to assume a defensive posture, such as raising our hands to block an attack. The reason was (and she spelled it out in no uncertain terms) that if a witness saw the incident and we were to attempt to defend ourselves by fighting back, the witness would be unable to tell who the agressor was. However, if we rolled up in a ball, it would be quite clear who the victim was.
The feeling I got was, in London, it is not permissable(sic) to defend oneself. I also understood that this police officer thought Americans were more likely to be agressive(sic) and/or cause more damage to a potential attacker. She was warning us for our own good. I have to admit, she did not make me feel particularly safe.
(My emphasis.) Mr. Kink’s arrest reminds me of the story of 64 year-old Diane Bond from 2006 where something very similar happened to her. She was precisely correct when she said:
This sends out the message that if you stand up for yourself, if you try to take action to stop anti-social behaviour, you are likely to end up being arrested.
There’s a few more like Ms. Bond listed in this post.
UPDATE 7/8: Rachel has another example.
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Quote of the Day
Not everyone is Martha Stewart with a kitchen full of matching cookware, but Martha can’t do a two inch grouping at 50 feet either. – Brigid, General Tso’s Chicken, at Home on the Range
And, unless I’m misinformed, Martha’s conviction for lying to the FBI voids her right to arms, so we’ll never be able to test that proposition…
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Visit any elite campus in our great nation and you can thrill to the heartwarming spectacle of the children of white businesspeople and professionals studying and playing alongside the children of black, Asian, and Latino businesspeople and professionals. At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class while being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it. – William Deresiewicz, The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, The American Scholar, Summer, 2008
RTWT.
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Limbaugh’s audience is often underestimated by critics who don’t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identity themselves as “liberal,” according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of “news knowledge questions,” Limbaugh’s “Dittoheads” — the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience — scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that “readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.” – New York Times Magazine “Late-Period Limbaugh”
This is the piece in which it was announced that Limbaugh had signed up for another eight years with Clear Channel for a reported $400 million. Yes, friends, the Left is correct: the rich do keep getting richer.
One reason: they don’t ignore “flyover country.” Them ignorant rubes on the farm aren’t so ignorant nor such rubes, and we have money, too. It may surprise you to know, but Jeff “You Might Be a Redneck” Foxworthy is, I believe, the highest-earning comedian going. According to Forbes, his 11 comedy albums have sold 14 million copies – more than any other comedian including Bill Cosby; he earns up to $150k per stand-up show, his merchandise earns him $2.5 million a year. A quote from Foxworthy, while I’m at it:
I remember being in a meeting in L.A. and the guy had a turtle neck and his hair pulled back in a pony tail and three or four earrings and he had on a cashmere turtleneck and a blazer and he goes, “Jeff, I know your people.” And I’m looking at him: “My people would beat the hell out of you,” you know? But to me, it’s like between the two (Los Angeles and New York), there’s 200 million people and they would tell me, “Well, you`re not hip or you’re not on the cutting edge.” I’m like, “There’s 200 million people not hip and not on the cutting edge. You don’t get that.”
Not hip, not cutting edge, but not stupid either.
Limbaugh and Foxworthy are cashing on on the 200 million people who live in “flyover country,” even when that country is L.A. or N.Y.C.
And more power to them.
Except Obama wants to tax the hell out of them for making obscene profits.