Canuck Ski Chicks V the IOC

G. D. Maxwell, Pique:

Now, now, let’s not get too uppity here. We need to be understanding. We need to be unified. We need to be supportive. We need to be patient. We need to pretend everything’s hunky-dory. We

There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday.  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them:

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was

Jim Geraghty’s Law, National Review

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

The one, January 20:

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and

Rush Limbaugh

He is called the Great One for good reason.    Where some were expecting a full throated frontal attack on Wanda Syles, or, like me, an attack on the one, Limbaugh caught both his fans and critics flat footed.  

Robert Reich, Salon, issues a warming:

The President seems to me especially thoughtful and passionate about one of the great moral questions of domestic policy today: widening inequality of income and wealth, and therefore of opportunity and political power.

The one has decreed a new holiday”Cuatro de Cinco.”   Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quips:

So, Obama, I will not turn your tendency to mispeak (and, then reprimand your Teleprompter) into an international incident, but I will note it

The Frogs act, Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:

[T]he French government said that its navy on Friday freed a yacht that was captured over the weekend, but that one hostage had died in a gun battle

Evidently Barack Obama’s teleprompter is not programmable.

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – […]Obama was asked to comment on the situation several times by reporters at a White House event on refinancing for homeowners. Obama, however, stuck closely to

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘shpere… The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the Teleprompter Edition.

We have written a virus that only works on Teleprompters, as demonstrated here, on the President’s prompters

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This is the ‘Gee, you’re smart” edition.

• Irony, but no starchy:  I note Michael Barone  this morning, pointing out that Obama

Look, let’s face it; if the teleprompter actually had anything major to give us, he’d have been leaking it for the last week and a half now. The precedes that we saw, the White House at around 1800 eastern told

Frank Rich, New York Times, is asking for the real Barack Obama to stand-up and speak out:

A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won’t fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers’ bonuses won’t fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner

Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of Hope and Change.  There doesn’t appear to be much hope for Hope, but BO is sure bring on the Change, albeit all bad.   BO and his fellow ‘rats in Congress have started a

Back on the 11th of this month, I posted a quick note from my Palm Treo, asking about those DVD’s Obama gave Gordon Brown. Were they even playable, I wondered, given the technology changes between the states and the

As Eric rambled:

The Book: You’ve heard about Obama’s half billion dollar kids book deal, right?  How many copies are being sold to school districts on the taxpayer dime, I wonder?  And he didn’t even write the bloody