POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

So They Loaded Up Their Truck and They Drove to Ashbury

Carol's latest:

Haight, that is. Protest march moonbat stars. (NSFW)

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Stage Fright: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture

Nothing starts a long weekend off on the right foot quite like reading about a bizarre double murder for hire, and I'm thinking this might end up being the paragraph of the day:

Wozniak, a stage actor who recently starred in the lead role as Guido Contini in the musical "Nine" at the Hunger Artists Theatre Company in Fullerton, is accused of dismembering Herr's body on May 21, leaving his torso at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base and scattering the limbs and head in a Long Beach park. Wozniak's fiancee, Rachel Buffet, starred alongside him in the musical production.

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Moron Sleazestakgate (Now with Moron Walpingate)

PJM:

Of course in the case of Sestak and his putative job offer, we have no idea what actually happened. But we do know the sleaze factor is high – and not just because of the presence of Bill Clinton whose SQ (Sleaze Quotient) may be even higher than his IQ. Clinton is merely a product of “The Culture of Narcissism.” Obama et al are the product of something worse – “The Culture of Chicago.”

Frankly, I have a tad of nostalgia for Clinton because, Monica excluded, he was a much more sensible (and honest – believe it or not?) man than Obama and far less of a threat to our country and the world. Not nearly as much went wrong under eight years of Clinton’s watch than in less than one year of Obama’s. It’s pathetic, actually, that Bill is now so willing, as apparently he was, to carry water for the new President in this kind of cheesy operation. Can you imagine George W. Bush doing such a thing for some Republican president? I can’t.

But the real issue now is not the “Deep Dish Sleazemeisters” from Chicago. They are who they are. Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama are all cut from the same cloth.

The real issue is our media – the Fourth Estate that we all are supposed to depend on to vet these people. When Nixon was President, they did so with an alacrity hitherto unseen. With Obama, as we all know, it has been completely the reverse. The press’ record on investigating the President – as a candidate and in office – has been nothing short of embarrassing. Even at the recent press conference, the first in months, only Fox News’ Major Garrett and ABC’s Jake Tapper disported themselves as genuine journalists. The rest appeared like Izvestia wannabes at a Moscow presser circa 1962, only slightly better dressed.

Relax, Chumley. President Obama cannot fail. We'll call up Phineas J. Clinton.

Heh. The Man with the Golden Thing.

Related: Court dawdles on Walpingate. More pressure tactics, and offering jobs that people are ineligible to take.

I would say they got complacent, because of the press's incuriosity regarding anything that might reflect badly on Teh One.

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Sestak and Desistak

From TWS.

But---"There's nothing wrong that was done". Have you ever spoken a sentence like that one? I don't think I have.

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Case of Oregon Man Who Assumed Dead Boy’s Identity Still Unravelling

We posted about it here, earlier.

Krasev had claimed to be Jason Robert Evers, a 3-year-old boy who was killed in Cincinnati in 1982. But a passport application check led to his arrest last month during a national investigation that finally turned up his real name on Thursday.

"We've been relentless," said Patrick Durkin, special agent in charge of the San Francisco field office for the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. State Department.

The San Francisco office began a program called "Operation Death Match" in 2005 to compare passport applications and state death certificates, leading to convictions against more than 120 imposters.

Durkin said Friday that investigators are still following up leads on Krasev on the East Coast.

The Washington Post reported on its website Friday that Krasev came to the United States from Bulgaria after his parents consented to let him live with Michael Horowitz, former general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration, and his wife, Devra Marcus, a physician.

The McLean, Va., couple told the newspaper Krasev's parents were intellectuals that Horowitz met while studying the effects of communism in Eastern Europe and they wanted a better life for their son.

They said Krasev lived with them for two years in the early 1990s, graduated from Georgetown Day, a prestigious high school in Washington, D.C., and earned a scholarship to Davidson College in North Carolina before he disappeared.

"I love him, actually," Marcus told the Post. "I was heartbroken. I talked to cops, patients who were cops. One said, 'He's dead, you can forget it.' I never did think he was dead. I just didn't."

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Michigan Ponders Licensure of Journalists

Warner Todd Huston:

This is the face of tyranny. A Michigan State Senator has introduced an Orwellian bill that would provide for the licensing of journalists. There is no doubt that this thing is aimed squarely at delegitimizing the New Media, silencing bloggers, and creating a protected class of state approved “journalists.”

State Senator Bruce Patterson is the braintrust behind this flouting of the U.S. Constitution and outrageously enough, this Patterson fellow claims to be a “constitutional lawyer.” Pair him with the “constitutional scholar” we have as president and we have a matched set of revisionists out to steal as much power for themselves as one can find in any tinpot dictatorship! Even more ridiculously, this mustachioed villain is a Michigan Republican, proving that this sort of megalomania infests both sides of the aisle.

So what is this licensing deal supposed to do for we, the stupid people not able to figure out what end is up with current events, anyway? According to Patterson we can’t get “good information” any more because of the proliferation of new sources of info. But not to worry, granny Patterson is here to save the day and he’ll selflessly take it upon himself to determine what news source is a “legitimate media source.” What could possibly go wrong, eh?

Looks like this Constitutional Scholar has been reading his Cass Sunstein. Read the whole thing.

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Hey, Big Spender!

Let me get right to the point: Looking for a beautiful S.E. Wisconsin lake house? Check out the folks' place. Mom's got frontal lobe dementia, and Dad's nearly blind, which means that they're he's considering any reasonable offer for the little villa.

Enoch and fishman and I would buy the place, but a) we ain't got no money, honey, and b) we'd KILL each other.

Good lookin', so refined. Fabulous Collins karma at no additional cost. Peace out.

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Being There – The Detachable President

Noonan writes:

The president, in my view, continues to govern in a way that suggests he is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of his countrymen.

Besides being racist a somewhat obvious observation, it is a worthwhile one. Specifically, because we on the right figured the Boy in the Bubble Syndrome would in fact be a problem it begs the question as to why this is so.

Last night, Fishman and I discussed this very topic and I think Fishman really nailed it:

Look, whether or not he was born in Kenya, there's no question he was raised in Hawaii and then went on to Harvard. Neither of which are America, really. So, he's never really lived in America. America is foreign to him.

A very insightful, no bullshit, Keep-It-Simple-Stupid analysis... which is Fishman's approach to almost everything.

Then we opined about how in the hell this happened. How does it happen that someone so detached becomes Commander In Chief of the United States?

Someone somewhere coddled him, groomed him like a pet, passed him to another pet groomer, etcetera... all the way up the chain. Couple that with dumb luck and it could very well explain this current disaster (the Obama Outlier). You ever seen "Being There"? The movie with Peter Sellers? Where this sheltered, completely out-of-touch character (named Chance) wanders out into society for the first time... and instead of falling on his face for being so ignorant of the reality around him, he is instead catapulted up the social ladder... revered for his "insights" into this-and-that topic (of which he has no clue) because those who interact with him assume his blather is instead indicative of deep metaphorical brilliance.

This seems plausible to me. I have seen it happen in Corporateland for sure. And it happens in the Music Industry every day. Certainly 'splains ineffective bosses an the songs on the radio.

Maybe it 'splains this president too.

I feel a P-Shop Diddy Coming on...

And for you audiophiles, you knew I'd link to this

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AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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Alessandra Ambrosio Palate Cleanser

I can haz cheezburger?

via Guyism. (Best viewed from front or back, as practically 2-dimensional)

If I post again today, it won't be until evening, as I have other responsibilities to tend, so have at it, fellow posters. Thanks!

Special: create an Alessandra Ambrosio holograph!

1) Paste image of Alessandra from behind to image of Alessandra from front, facing away from each other.

2) Voila!

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Teacher Who Griped to Christie Makes $86k

and that's before pension and benefits, amounting to over $100k.

Yesterday, I linked to this post about a communist indoctrination event hosted by Chicago's public school system, which provoked this question in comments of that post.

Dylan said...

Just curious Tom...if you were going to organize an expo to teach schoolkids the value of social awareness, what sort of exhibits would you feature? Or is the idea of promoting social awareness itself off-limits for you?
May 27, 2010 10:59 AM

You know, life has a way of teaching "social awareness." As far as I'm concerned, they can shelve "social awareness" until the students have learned the fundamentals of language, math, science, civics, for starters. "Social awareness" is what morons teach. It works this way: you cultivate ignorance, and then blame it on "society," and you feel good about collecting a paycheck for salving egos who are able to pin their deprivation on their ersatz "victimizers"---the society that pays you to spew your rubbish. Nice work, if you can get it.

It's nice to know, though, that some of the propagators of "social awareness" take their own victimization lessons so to heart.

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