Washington Rebel

Choke-an'-gaggin'

Flying off to promote old style Chicago politics is not a sacrifice.  Just a payback to the Mayor King and the rest of the Chicago Crook County (union) Contractors and Crummy Creeps he's (flotus, too) conspired with for centuries.  (the 20th and 21st)

Don't forget the

Cronies,Tonys,Phonies,

and Gibronees

Oh, by the way, Michelle thinks those  Chicago kids are fat

I'm thinking, Rio

Obama - 0, Taxpayers - 8

Channeling Bill

This ain't no stinking tax. So say's, da new prez.

Obama's school rap, nicely re-done by a commenter at Brutally Honest

Mmm, Mmm, Mm! Barack Insane Obama,
Doesn’t care about your needs,
His priority is Union greed!

I Can See Your Smiles and Smiles and Smiles ....

Barack O Smile'a'lot.  Read this comment first, then watch the vid.

Esquire has got this down pat:

"Any time you smile, you contract the zygomatic major, the muscle that runs from the corner of the mouth to the top of your jaw. A smile using the zygomatic major is easy. It's what we use to deliver a fake smile. The customer-service rep smiles like that. You're smiling like that in your driver's-license photo. Ryan Seacrest is smiling like that right now. It's a manufactured smile. You're not lighting up the room."

[www.esquire.com]

Hat Tip to a MikeyB (for the comment)

On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr (link below). And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Gatorized!

Hey, MDD, the Gator Liked Your Post.

For those of you who aren't very nuanced, MDD is a Forks High School graduate.

We're pretty damn nuanced, see?

This just in:  FAIR, BUT ROUGH

That's how folks see Washington Rebel??!

Ms. Dowd

Boy-oh-boy

Booker T. Washington Quote

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

The class has grown to include any on the left who can see and hear and those like ms. Dowd who can hear the unsaid.
  Booker T. felt race needed a cure that came from the bottom.
 Labor.

Dopey, Sneezy, and Mom

Gibbs in a gotcha moment tells mom it was Chucky who sneezed.  "give him some purell" and send in Elmo.

Chuck, we expect most of the msm to write the words and not follow them themselves, but, but, you showed us last week how to sneeze.  Come-on. Or, was this an attempted fluing toward Gibby?  Obama has attempted to do the same himself

Never Forget

 

July Fourth 2009 my wife and I were in DC for the celebration of America’s Independence.

  It was our first trip to the capitol and it was such a memorable and moving experience we will never forget that special vacation.  One of the things we did that is totally related to mine and several million other Americans' resurgence in patriotism was to attend a “First Signing Ceremony”.  A little blurb on a DC site was the only mention that I heard of before we got there.  As we got closer to the Newseum and saw that the DCFD had twin ladder trucks holding a 15’ x 30’ flag, I knew we came to the right place.  Two long steel I-beams that are to be used in the construction of the Pentagon wing of the WTC 911 Memorial were available for everybody to sign and pass along thoughts, prayers and thank you’s.  At the “First Signing” we were honored to be addressed by several First  Responders. DC/Pentagon police and fire, 911 Victims’ Family members, and survivors as well.

All wonderful people.

 

In our eyes, Heroes.

In their eyes they were just people going about their normal lives. Doin’ their jobs.

 

One was Mickey Kross, NYFD, he survived a falling WTC tower with little more than a bloody face.  In his words, there was nothing special about Mickey Kross. 

Millions and millions would disagree.

Thanks again, Mickey.  You are a Hero.

Another Hero that I noticed while I waited for the special guests, was a young man on a beautiful Harley.  He looked proud, strong, and determined.  I would have loved to thank him, too.  I did seek out the rider to show my appreciation and found his mother, who I gave my thanks and condolences to. After that, she told me of his death in Iraq.  She proudly rides in a saddle made from the Humvee he was riding in at the time of an IED explosion.

She’s a Hero, too.

Before we left, I noticed something that still chokes me up when I think about it.  Mickey and the Soldier’s mother had been talking after the speeches ended when I lost track of them.  Mickey passed us too quickly while we were in the queue for the signing, so I missed shaking his hand.  But, after I left my message on the beam and took my lovely wife’s picture between four of DC’s first responder firemen in front of thier ladder truck.  I glanced back for another look at the Harley.  That's when I noticed the soldier’s mother was holding Mickey’s white lieutenant’s dress hat.

Selflessness, Mickey, that’s why you’re a Hero.

Thanks 911 Memorial, and the Newseum too.

Dear Readers, never forget, and thank a fireman, a policeman, or a soldier today.

Lives and Money

When someone is elected to a position in which they control other people's lives and money, all the while receiving a paycheck from the same people who elected them to represent the best interest of the city, state, or nation, would it be too much to ask them to at least pay attention when a budget is being debated?

I guess not. 
This picture is from Connecticut, where the state budget has been approved after an extra session of 63 days. (that would be 1500 games of solitaire, or 560 innings of baseball). 

Department of Jokers.

A little bit of e-mail chatter on the NYC fly-over (or flu-over)
SNaFU.  Goes well with the Pentagon's release of photos

Who's taking over one clunker at a time? 
Do not enter Carz dot Gov.  (No wonder Washington printed - appropiated from TARP -  the money to keep this going.

Hack Panthers

- Not to be confused with black panthers pictured below

Just a few more examples of change - hope ya 'ave a great weekend

btw - what really scares me is, they know exactly what they're doing

Pale Ale

The President's unique perspective on pilsner politics and draft diplomacy will surely be the talk of the evening on Thirsty Thursday. 
 

Will he pour a glass and offer a toast that will end Gates-gate?
  Would a Blond Lager be appropriate?
  What about a Porter?  Or Red Beer maybe?

  How many coolies would the President need to consume before he had to hand Biden the Nuclear Basketball?
  Did we provide any stimulus money for the beer bong, and does that count as a job created?
  Is the President's desk large enough to qualify as an official beer pong surface?

  Bud Light has a "Born On" date and bottling location, does the President?
  Who's the third wheel when you have:  Two executive branchers  - one college professor or Two Harvard chums - one Cambrige cop?
  What do you suppose will be the cost per sip?
  

And, if the end result is the President smokin' a fag while pissin' on the south lawn, can we get a new picture?

BTW - Here's some of the real country western the president likes so much.