Saturday Morning Open Thread

And what happened to Friday?  Good question.

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[bunky]

Good Morning! Say a prayer and be happy.

[kim]

Nomeste.
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[Scott]

Could it be you were so amused by a second rate politician and a corrupt gov turning reid et al in to hypocritical fools you just couldn't belive it enough to blog it?

[kim]

Oh, yah, yah, hah, hah. And made Obama show that big stick. Why does it pack such a wallop, huh?
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[bgates]

"turning"?

[kim]

I mean, he woofs at DiFi, who subsides, mumbling about future 'interesting' questions, and Harry the Reed bounces off the ropes with an entirely new look on his face.
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[kim]

Maybe he meant 'turning the perception of'. I forgot to say Jay is hiding in them thar hills somewhars.
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[hit and run]

Good morning.

Friday succombed to Change.

[pagar]

Good Morning,

Harry Reid "an entirely new look on his face".
Must have chewed two lemons at a time instead of one.

[peter]

John Smoltz to pitch for the Red Sox? strange days we are living in, I tell ya.

[centralcal]

Happy Saturday, everybody. Been away a couple of days and I see (on another thread) that a JOM cookbook is in the works! Hooray. What a wonderful idea.

I think Hit should be assigned to naming (renaming) of the recipes. Nothing better than a good giggle when you are whipping up a meal.

[kim]

Things are shakin' like a bowl full of jellowstone.
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[ObamapoliceuseyourbodyandlifeforcashlikeObama]

Obama's gone down the hole like we all do to be safe.

Sure we all want to go to church. Worship with the ONE HOBO.-

TV is a thing of the past, yes everyone is passing cause they're smart. Real live reporters! Just bums.

Spring Break is in a month. Secure your future!

[kim]

Is ONE HOBO what you call your dashboard Jesus?
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[Rick Ballard]

I've been following the unpleasantness which Israel has been enduring and I'm 'one cheer' pleased with Kadima's conduct of the operation to date. They are not backing down and the point of the exercise appears to be within reach. Apparently they're going to step up operations in the face of the idiotic UN resolution. Good for them. The Israeli's have done a good job in responding to the muslim loving press accounts regarding mosque arm depots and UN/Hams indoctrination center artillery bases. They really should take out the hospital described at the end of this piece. Perhaps they would catch Abbas asleep in the nursery.

[ObamapoliceuseyourbodyandlifeforcashlikeObama]

I heard them prostitoots do that.

Ticketmaster and MTV swear in the Great ONE Hobo and tickets are only 25. The things want cheaper gas.

[JM Hanes]

Obamapoliceu........

May I ask why on earth you've taken up residence here?

[Cecil Turner]

Here's a gem: Democrats bring back Nuremberg defense (H/T Instapundit):

As President-elect Barack Obama assures intelligence officials that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them, there are growing hints from Democratic Senate allies that spy agency veterans will not be prosecuted for past harsh interrogation and detainee policies.

Because it's not really about the "torture" y'see . . . it's about the evil policies that might enable it. The utter cluelessness of giving torturers a pass while simultaneously criminalizing the political decision-makers is all very reminiscent of Abu Ghraib, where the liberal hand-wringers decided the leadership must be the root cause, despite universal agreement that the chain of command (Karpinski) had nothing to do with it (except dereliction of duty).

But the real irony is that, in an effort to provide constitutional privileges and criminal due process to unlawful combatants, the "ain't gonna study war no more" crowd is industriously working to dismantle the single most important precept in preventing war crimes: strict accountability of the chain of command. The primacy of that concept is reflected in the very first irregular criterion for combatant status:

• (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;

In what you'd think should be an obvious corollary, the responsibility is reciprocal: a senior can no more be responsible for something his junior didn't do, any more than a junior can be responsible for something he didn't do, even if he'd received an unlawful order. Breaking the chain in any fashion allows uncontrolled actions by subordinates, which invariably leads to breakdowns like Abu Grhaib. And in the ardent pursuit of faux violations, those advocating this course are opening the door to actual ones.

[hit and run]

JMH:
May I ask why on earth you've taken up residence here?

I Question the Timing

[Jane]

Hmmmmm Hit,

Yesterday I was driving home at sunset and I thought the sun looked bigger than I've ever seen it.

What a coincidence.

[Mel]

JMH-

I believe that some have discovered the power of the RSS feeder.

As far as my netvibes page, I live on it. I keep about 60 feeders running. Really cool tool, and you need to be kinda geeky to need it.

NZ Bear built a similar fixed feeder at TheNewsRightNow.

[ObamapoliceuseyourbodyandlifeforcashlikeObama]

'The call of the minaret.'

'Stop the *** loving press accounts regarding ******* arm depots and UN/**** indoctrination center artillery bases.........'

Undewear man. You really are just a punk to me, so don't go think'n you run this here blog cause I can kick your old ass too. Maybe you should move? You write allot and say allot and no one really wants to hear it. You can pay them and they're even nicer, like your Oba ma.

[clarice]

Cecil--that is an excellent(really brilliant) observation unlikely to be made elsewhere. Please send it to editor@americanthinker.com and tell him I sent you ,

[Pofarmer]

So, why in the world hasn't Joe Biden resigned from the Senate yet?

[ObamapoliceuseyourbodyandlifeforcashlikeObama]

JMH is feeling all warmed up and in charge and stuff. Anyone warming up? Prostitutes usually have diseases, so when you get Obama's from be'in all Hanesy, don't blame the *******.

I tried to read and figured out what Ap O Gee means.

I'm going to buy shit, bye.

[clarice]

Pofarmer, he wants the salary and bennies..really. He otherwise gets none during the transition.

[Rick Ballard]

Cecil,

If you started writing a "We've Always Been at War with Eastasia, Winston" column, I'd pay to read it. You won't lack for fodder going forward.

[Ranger]

Ok, a trivia question for all the long term political junkies here. What is the most cabinet appointees to quit before confirmation during a presidential transition?

I think we may be near tagging the Obama transition as an Epic Fail. If Holder goes down that will make two, which I think at least ties, if not beats the record.

[peter]

Aaarrrggggh! poetic justice @ LUN

[Mel]

Ranger-

If I recall, there were 3 Clinton AG fails, not including the "ballon" appointments.

Got a bit to go, but I get your point.

Hard to make decisions through the lens of a "focus group".

[Mel]

peter-

Nice news, I like irony.

[Ranger]

Mel,

I see your point, but I was just focusing on the period between election day and taking office. Having two proposed cabinet members both dropped because of ties to coruption should give the Rs enough cover to start raising serious questions about all of Obama's appointments and policy proposals. It is clear that Obama simply can't see corruption, even when he is looking directly at it (as he said in 2006, his top political priority was getting Blago re-elected). The Rs should be decent enough to help him spot it.

[MayBee]

In the cookbook, every 10th page or so we should just print "lucifer"!

[clarice]

Not a bad idea,MayBee..and then we need a Bananas Plame' dessert, A Fitz fizz drink,Pinch punch,Sweet Caroline Trifle etc..

[Ann]

Is anyone else watching President Bush on Fox?
Tears in my eyes...ten days left.

[JM Hanes]

It's not even about evil policies, Cecil. It's about evil people. Motive based criticism is the ultimate political win-win, and it's always been the basic building block of BDS. Obama can endorse evil Bush policies without eliciting more than random grumbles, because his motives are unimpeachable.

That may be something of a bright side in this instance. I doubt that Obama will be ceding any of the executive ground "usurped" by Cheney, so he's likely to discourage anything more than a superficial backward glance. Outside of throwing a bone to the Waxman wing, show trials for war crimes are not in Obama's best interest. We can all move forward, in that great bipartisan spirit from above, now that Bush is gone.

[Topsecretk9]

buckle up...

FBI agents investigating alleged City Hall corruption delivered a grand jury subpoena Friday to a former aide of Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers, the former aide's attorney confirmed.

Michelle Yancy, who worked for Conyers in 2006, received the subpoena Friday in connection with the federal investigation of Conyers, people familiar with the investigation said. Yancy's Detroit attorney, Mark Kriger, confirmed the subpoena...

...Another former Conyers aide, Yakima Washington, testified before the grand jury in December, and agents are interested in talking to other former aides to Conyers, people familiar with the investigation said...

...Federal officials have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Conyers to receiving a payment or payments in connection with the Synagro contract, which the City Council approved in a 5-4 vote after Conyers changed her position on the deal, persons familiar with the investigation said...

[Topsecretk9]

Meanwhile -- here's a knee slapper

The city may be on the cusp of financial meltdown, but it hasn't put a crimp in the City Council's travel plans.

Council President Monica Conyers left Wednesday for a seven-day "educational and humanitarian" mission to the Middle East. The City Council will take a five-day recess, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16-22 for members who want to attend the presidential inauguration. It was a four-day recess but Conyers on Wednesday moved to extend it.

[JM Hanes]

hit:

I thought there seemed to be a lot of ambient light last night! Your timely article suggests that the tides will, indeed, be subsiding as Obama takes the oath, no?

Obamapoliceu........

I freely admit that my posts are harder to scroll than yours.

[Jane]

How fun is this commissioning ceremony!

[Barney Frank]

Council President Monica Conyers left Wednesday for a seven-day "educational and humanitarian" mission to the Middle East.

They might want to check if she bought a return ticket.

[MayBee]

Yesterday I was driving home at sunset and I thought the sun looked bigger than I've ever seen it.

Yesterday here, the moon was bright in the sky by 4:00 pm. Not the usual just kind of visible, but glowy.

My son and I decided if it were our first day on earth, we would think the earth had a day moon. I can't wait to see it tonight.

[MayBee]

They might want to check if she bought a return ticket.

She might want to check if they bought her a return ticket.

[Caro]

How fun is this commissioning ceremony!

Jane, it is wonderful. Somehow I can't imagine our next administration involved in such a moving event.

Doro seems more impressive than Caroline, IMHO.

Thanks, Ann, for the heads up.

[BobS]

Morning Gang! While I'm happy to hear that Eric Holder is receiving some resistance - but only from REP senators. Its looks as if the REPS will make the DEMS revisit all on those weird Clinton pardons. Hopefully they will be inclined to remind DEM members of the Judiciary Com what they themselves were saying at the time.

I'm sure Clarice was interested to hear in the WAPO story (LUN) this morning that James Comey wrote a letter of recommendation for Holder. I wonder if Schumer's office wrote it for him.

[PD]

Quote from the drowned-pirates article:

"There has been human and monetary loss but what makes us feel sad is that we don't still have the dead bodies of our relatives. Four are still missing and one washed up on the shore."

It's as though they were under the impression that pirating was a risk-free occupation.

[BobS]

Those trolls you're talking to really are children.....and living off their parents. See this LUN from Gateway Pundit.

[Danube of Thought]

"...Another former Conyers aide, Yakima Washington, testified before the grand jury in December."

This is a joke, right? There isn't actually a real person named Yakima Washington, right? Does (s)he maybe have a brother Spokane?

[Danube of Thought]

My impression has always been that the focus of the left's ire has been on John Yoo at OLC (in addition, of course, to Bushitler and Cheney). Yoo wrote the famous memo interpeting the law governing interrogation techniques.

So the can of Abu Ghraib, such as it is, has been tied to his tail, nothwithstanding the absurdity of the idea that anyone at the prison had ever seen or heard of the memo. But the absence of any connection doesn't faze the wackos--it's enough that Yoo's memo "created an atmosphere" in which it was OK to perform frat-house-rush pranks on prisoners. Fasten your seat belts, folks.

[Danube of Thought]

Take a look at O's choice for the positon once held by Yoo, and try to figure what it portends. LUN.