Day: October 25, 2009

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“President Pantywaist” Gets “Tough” With Fox News

Yeh, yeh, it’s been all over the place for a week or so. The 0! picking a fight with an organization that doesn’t even have to buy ink by the barrel (cos electrons don’t need ink). Well, Mark Steyn chimes in, too:

We were told that Obama would use “soft power” and “smart diplomacy” to get his way. Russia and Iran are big players with global ambitions, but Obama’s soft power is so soft it doesn’t even work its magic on a client regime in Kabul whose leaders’ very lives are dependent on Western troops. If Obama’s “smart diplomacy” is so smart that even Hamid Karzai ignores it with impunity, why should anyone else pay attention?

The strange disparity between the heavy-handed community organization at home and the ever cockier untouchables abroad risks making the commander in chief look like a weenie – like “President Pantywaist,” as Britain’s Daily Telegraph has taken to calling him.

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Walking Ears Down Memory Lane

(Yeh, if you don’t like that metaphor, I’ve got worse ones. :-))

If you only remember this from The (old) Dating Game, then you are a johnnie-come-lately, not nearly “olde pharte-ish” enough. *heh*

Gotta love the album cover, eh?

Ah, here’s another, just for the sheer brass of it:

BTW, While I appreciate a neat lil command line script that lets me download YouTube videoa in Linux, I have to say that YouTube Downloader for Windows edges it out in functionality. Download YouTube videos, convert them to another video format or even extract the audio and save as mp3. Neat lil app. Hmmm, I need to see about installing it in Ubuntu using WINE…

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Stolen Humor

I saw this at Woody’s Place and warned him I was stealing it…

Obama And The Cowboy

A cowboy from Texas attended a social function where Barack Obama was trying to gather support for his healthcare reform plan. When he discovered the cowboy was from President Bush’s town, Barack started to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.

As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy said, “Y’all havin’ some problem with them circle flies?”

Obama stopped talking and said, “Well, yes, if that’s what they’re called, but I’ve never heard of circle flies.”

“Well Sir,” the cowboy replied, “circle flies hang around ranches. They’re called circle flies because they’re almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.”

“Oh,” Obama replied as he went back to rambling. But, a moment later he stopped and bluntly asked, “Are you calling me a horse’s ass?”

“No, Sir,” the cowboy answered, “I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their President a horse’s ass.”

“That’s a good thing,” said Obama as he began rambling on once more.

After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl said, “Hard to fool them flies, though.”

Y’all be sure to head on over to Woody’s for more of his wit and wisdom, ‘K?