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________________________________________ The Patriot Post Chronicle 1-13-2010 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription ________________________________________
"The most startling news since Barack Obama's colossal victory over Hillary Clinton in Iowa was the Democratic poll in Massachusetts the other day showing the little-known Republican Scott Brown beating the state's attorney general, Martha Coakley, in the special contest for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat by a point. A subsequent poll by the Boston Globe had the Democrat winning by 15. Somebody is very wrong here, obviously, and we won't know until next Tuesday's election which poll got the Massachusetts electorate right. But if the Democratic poll is closer to the truth, and if Coakley can't come up with something to pull Brown's numbers down over the next week, she is going to lose and a Republican is going to win an ineffable symbolic victory against Barack Obama and especially against health care." --columnist John Podhoretz
Insight
"We owe these blessings, under Heaven, to the Constitution and Government ... bequeathed to us by our fathers, and which it is our sacred duty to transmit ... to our children." --President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --American industrialist Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"If at first you don't succeed, then quit! There's no use being a stupid fool about it!" --American comedian and writer W. C. Fields (1880-1946)
Dezinformatsia
Bumbling into the truth: "Is it possible it's not what he said but what he didn't say? Isn't Harry Reid implying that a dark-skinned African-American who speaks in a way that some would consider more stereotypical would not be electable?" --NBC's Matt Lauer
Talk about racist: "And they're monochromatic right? ... Every picture I see shows them to be. ... Meaning they're all white. All of them, every single one of them is white." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tea Party protesters (Bob Parks, a black man who attended a Tea Party, begs to differ.)
Shut up, she explained: "There are a lot of interesting ways to talk about the right way to respond to [climate change], but instead, it's ClimateGate, it's all made up. Following the Republican framing into nonsense land and we've ended up talking about stuff that is not real instead of talking about policy. I want to have policy fights. I don't want to be fighting with people who refuse to acknowledge reality." --MSNBC's Rachel Maddow
Bush Derangement Syndrome: "Even George Bush said that, you know, we could be attacked tomorrow. He didn't like to talk about it. I knew him well and knew that he was counting the minutes and the days until he got out of there and could claim he kept us safe." --Newsweek's Howard Fineman
Blame America: "I think that we have inspired more jihadis against us." --NBC's Andrea Mitchell on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Liberals just need a dad: "Our professorial president is no feckless W., biking through Katrina. He is no doubt on top of the [the Christmas bomber] crisis in terms of studying it top to bottom. But his inner certainty creates an outer disconnect. He's so sure of himself and his actions that he fails to see that he misses the moment to be president -- to be the strong father who protects the home from invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments. He's more like the aloof father who's turned the Situation Room into a Seminar Room." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd (He's more like one of the children play-acting the role of father -- unsuccessfully.)
Belly Laugh of the Week: "Democratic 'progressives' now feel let down because they had assumed the new president was a 'liberal' who believed that the government should initiate New Deal-style programs to get the country back on its feet. Instead, he has conducted his first year in office as a cautious centrist, guided by a more moderate social philosophy than had been generally assumed." --White House press corps journalist Helen Thomas, sounding the world's smallest violin
Newspulper Headlines:
'These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For': "Mind-Reading Systems Could Change Air Security" --Associated Press
We Blame Global Warming: "Flames Too Hot for Predators" --Canadian Press ++ "Talks Frozen in Belarus Oil Dispute" --Moscow Times
Climate Scientists Share Data With Anyone -- Now That Would Be News: "C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists" --The New York Times
Comet Eats Sun -- Now That Would Be News: "Sun Eats Comet Flying Too Close" --WTVW-TV Web site (Evansville, IN)
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Self Destructing Supernova Explosion May Wipe Out Earth" --News.com.au
Bottom Stories of the Day: "Comments by Fox's Brit Hume Upset Some Buddhists" --Associated Press
(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)
Village Idiots
Vast, right-wing conspiracy: "Most of the domestic groups that we pay attention to here are white supremacist groups. They're anti-government, in most cases anti-abortion, they are usually survivalist type in nature, identity oriented. ... Those groups are groups that claim to be extremely anti-government and Christian identity oriented." --TSA nominee Erroll Southers
It's cold 'cause it's hot: "I think that one only has to step outside here or visit where I used to work in Chicago to understand that climate change, and the record temperature that climate change is likely causing, is with us.... I would say that eve in places that are used to getting very cold weather, record cold ... our weather patterns have been affected by change in our climate." --White House climatologist Robert Gibbs
Non Compos Mentis: "I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up." --former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
And the apology: "It's a stupid metaphor to say I'm blacker than Barack Obama, that I apologize for. It's not appropriate for me, a white person, to stand out somehow and claim to be a black person, that's just wrong." --Rod Blagojevich
Short Cuts
"President Obama ordered airport passenger scanners upgraded Thursday. It's all tied in with health care reform. If you don't have a personal physician you just fly somewhere and the TSA screener will tell you if your gall bladder looks all right." --comedian Argus Hamilton
"In an effort to calm people after the latest security problems, the White House said it is working even harder to find Osama bin Laden. The frustrating part is that we almost had him. Earlier this year, he snuck into the White House state dinner." --comedian Jay Leno
"Thus, one of the most unsavory troikas in the history of American politics -- Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama -- are cobbling together a take-it-or-leave-it takeover of one-sixth of the American economy. Moe, Larry and Curly couldn't have done a better job of mocking transparent government." --columnist Arnold Ahlert
"How do you explain why anyone in a theoretically free society would willingly surrender his brain to Soviet-like thought control? The best answer I can come up with is that there's a herd instinct among human beings that's akin to the one that governs the behavior of cattle, sheep and lemmings. To think like a liberal, a conservative merely needs to get down on all fours and then bang his head on a wall until he's managed to knock 50 points off his IQ." --columnist Burt Prelutsky
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Veritas vos Liberabit -- Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff.
(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)
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