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Here is an animation showing how unemployment has grown by county throughout the US.

Impressive, isn’t it.

Every once in a while we get so fed up we just need some release. Single folks have no spouse to beat up. Mormons and AA members can’t tip themselves a drink. Most of the rest of us want to stay married and sober so what’s a poor angry soul to do?

Find release in Ann Coulter?  I mean by reading her stuff, and yelling “Right on Ann ! Give it to ‘em”. That might help but the trouble is some of us don’t care too much for Ann. The next time you need a quick fix try Burt, Burt Prelutsky. If Krauthammer is Mozart, Prelutsky is Rachmaninoff. Some of your liberal friends might say he is more like acid rock.

Here is a free sample:

Speaking of paying for political favors, inquiring minds want to know if Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu have to return their bribes now that ObamaCare has been given the big thumbs down by one of Obama’s very own death panels. (laughter and applause)

The other day, while thinking about the fact that things such as the Copenhagen global-warming fiasco; the East Anglia Climategate scandal; Obama’s absolute lack of transparency; his packing his administration with lobbyists and tax cheats; the lock-outs of Republicans by Pelosi and Reid from the legislative process; the trashing of the Tea Party participants by the Democrats; and the insistence by Obama that conservatives sit down and shut up; are either ignored or sanctioned by the mass media, I found myself wondering what actually takes place at an editorial board meeting at the New York Times and the Washington Post. Do these left-wing elitists really, as I suspect, just sit around and ask one another which major news stories they won’t cover in tomorrow’s edition?

Now that you got that off your chest, even if just by proxy, don’t you feel a bit better?

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Yogi Berra was famous for such sayings as “People don’t go there any more. It’s too crowded.”  Yogi’s pronouncements were short and sweet. the illogic was  noticeable immediately. There is another form of verbal blunder called an Irish Bull, which is an expression that seems to make sense but after a moment’s reflection is seen to be wildly illogical.

The term Irish Bull harks back to Sir Boyle Roche, a member of the 18th-century Irish parliament who was given to earnest inanities. For example, there was his response to another member’s appeal for some measure because it would benefit posterity. “Why, Mr. Speaker, should we do anything for posterity?” Sir Boyle asked. “What has posterity done for us?” 

Sir Boyle was a dual patriot, deeply attached to both England and Ireland. Indeed, he wanted “the two sisters to embrace like one brother.” But he feared that Irish grievances would never be addressed. Or as he put it: “So long as Ireland is silent on this question, England will be deaf to our entreaties.” 

This master of the Irish bull was moved to tears by Ireland’s troubles. “The country is overflowing with absentee landlords,” he complained, and, what’s more, “The cup of Ireland’s misfortunes has been overflowing for centuries, and is not full yet.” 

Consider this poetic passage from one of Sir Boyle’s orations: “All along the un-trodden path of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.”

Clarence Manion, a law school dean and minor ideologue in the 1950s earned a place among the immortals with this towering piece Irish Bull bloviation:

“There is every reason to believe that Republican forms of government, every branch of which is constitutionally committed to the protection of unalienable individual rights, could and would permanently solve the political aches and pains of the whole world. But there, as here and everywhere, mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.”

Irish Bull

“When the chickens that didn’t hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.”   Paul Krugman, wailing against the Bush tax cuts. 

Yogiisms

“A zebra cannot change its spots.”  Al Gore, referring to George Bush during the presidential campaign of 2000.

”I hope that he will understand, if he is the nominee, the degree of disillusionment that will happen if he doesn’t become a greater man than he will ever be,”    Sean Penn commenting on Obama at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Bob B

Air America has filed for bankruptcy. They could not find an investor.

Of course they couldn’t. Hate and slime do not sell. If you think my characterization is too strong you must not have heard much of their programming. Randi Rhodes and Al Franken made Keith Olbermann look like Ronald Reagan.

When Minnesota Democrats elected Keith Ellison it was an honorable mistake. But when they nominated Al Franken they lost their honor.

The demise of Air America is a significant step in the fight to reduce air pollution.

Brown 52  Coakley 47.

Angry Dems blame their player, Coakley, for the loss. Say she dropped the ball, did not run well, made too many errors. But since when did these things matter in Massachusetts where the only real challenge was getting the Democratic nomination? The Commonwealth state had not elected a Republican to the Senate in over 30 years. Of their ten elected House members not one is a Republican.

Coakley did not blow it, Washington did.  The terrible triumvirate was responsible, Pelosi, Reid and Obama in that order. Yes, Congress more so than the President. Google their approval ratings.

The Boston Tea Party of 1773  was not about breaking away from England. It was about not being heard. The protest slogan then was “No taxation without representation“. Today’s Tea Party movement is also about not being heard. With Tuesday’s vote the people screamed. Blaming Coakley and her campaign tells me the people are still not being heard.

UPDATE

Power Line reports only 12% of voters in Massachusetts are registered as Republicans

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