Tuesday Interlude

With Ray Conniff and his Orchestra. From the 1963 stereo release, Johnny's Greatest Hits. Song reached #14, Billboard Hot 100 1957.

That Was Then, This is Worse

In 2009, Newsweek published the cover on the left with an accompanying featured article, trumpeting "In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French."

Much of that argument was a fair analysis of how we got where we were, and how under the (then) new Obama administration, we would continue to accelerate in a massively indebted, euro-socialist direction.

But for some reason, Neo-Cons are eebil & veddy bad for daring to suggest Obama is a socialist.

Ok, fine. That was then, this is worse.

How about he's a once eloquent visionary who claimed to slow the ocean’s rise and heal the planet, but now is a feckless, tone deaf functionary addicted to other people's money, surrounded by incompetent sycophants enamored of failed policies, who cannot tame 500+ congress critters, all the while whistling Cloward–Piven's greatest hits on the golf course.


But that copy doesn't lend itself well to a magazine cover.

Is it 2012, yet?

TY TS

Update: TY Jack Cashill for the subject/predicate heads up.

Anti-Malware Can be Found at the Ballot Box

(you, too, Mac users!)

TY Q & O

Hmm. What If the World Had Malware / Anti-Virus Protection...?

Taskmaster in Chief Obamanation

Some things to think about...

"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. " - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - (dubiously attributed to) Alexander Tytler

TY B