Schmaltz und Grieben mit Alois, Klaus, Deb und der Lugers

April 2008

04/30/08:

IMAGE OF THE DAY: Supercell thunderstorm over the Canadian prairies.

Image credit: Sean McCormick, Neutral Hills Stills via SDA

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Isn’t politics fun? A couple months ago Obama was trying to prove he wasn’t a Muslim, and now the more he can prove that he doesn’t go to church, the better he’s going to do.” — Former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris

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SUMMER'S COMING... and we've got proof.

Meanwhile, happy Wednesday!

Image credit: Paris Photography

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04/29/08:

HEY! LET'S HATE ON KORPORATE ASSKLOWNZ! Pink Floyd's immortal Dogs (intro), and some nastiness with Beanie Babies.

Sam the Sham, this Bud's for you!

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LEFTIES: MY PET TIGER JUST BIT ME IN THE ASS. Speaking of "Rev." Wright's chickens coming home to roost...

Daily Kos: Obama, Get Wright's Dirt Off Your Coattails

Whoops, my pet tiger just turned on me!

So now we see the endgame of political correctness in all its ugliness. The "progressive" left is stuck between the Scylla and Charybdis of pretending on one hand that Wright's vile, foaming hatred is okey-dokey because it comes from an angry black man, and on the other hand realizing that Wright's hatred is directed at them, and that the white portion of the electorate (and that's still an awful lot of folks) has already begun to wonder how much Wright may really be speaking for Obama (the Senator's mild protestations aside).

To quote Carlo Marx in Kerouac's On The Road : "You pin a dragon to your hats, you're up in the attic with the bats."

[UPDATE 04/29/08 AM: Joe Katzman at Winds of Change offers a more multilayered and nuanced look. Don't miss.]

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04/28/08:

GRANDE DAME LUCAS LOSES HER MIND AND DOES THE ULTIMATE. Tell me that you can handle this, delivered piping hot to your door:

What’s funny about watching Rev. Wright stand at a podium and rant about “blackness” is that that guy is about as black as my dad. He’s going on about how blacks and whites are inherently different because of heritage, but sorry dude. You obviously have just as much European blood in you as African. How about Obama? He’s half and half. Oh wait, I bet I know the answer: mixed-race people are the ideal? Perfect humans, using both sides of their brains? I mean really, where else do you take his argument?

Whatever. My tooth still hurts and I’m going to the doctor.

Y'know, Rachel, you may be onto something. Just think of the folks that your theory would go a long way toward explaining: Malcolm X. Louis Farrakhan (who even I am darker than, at least on a sunny summer's day). Quanah Parker, war chief of the Comanche. Adam Gadahn!

Here's a recent shot taken of some black guys (and, just for the record, a white fella too) at the National Press Club. I dunno, maybe they're too dark or something?

The white fella's sign, just for the record, reads DAMN WRIGHT, NOT AMERICA.

Which reminds me that if it weren't for professional racists like Wright bringing up that slavery-slash-honkie-technoid-brain thing and preying on the tender mercies of the easily led, we'd probably all just get along by now...

Image credit: Jonn Lilyea

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COLORADO CITY, STEP UP! I've learned quite a few things about our readership via the handy little Feedjit sitemeter at the bottom of our blog. Much more interesting than sheer numbers (I can get those through TypePad anyway), this device lets me know where people are tuning in from.

We have, for instance, an extremely loyal reader in Colorado City, Texas. This person checks in every day and sometimes several times a day, but to my knowledge has never commented on a single thread.

So now we're curious, Colorado City: What has made Schmaltz und Grieben an essential part of your daily regimen?

(You always have the option of a private e-mail if you'd wish... see the left sidebar.)

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NEW WORD: I think I have just added a new word to the English language. Say it with me:

Puffoon.

Kinda rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

I think I shall be using my new word a lot. And I think I shall first use it to describe Barack Obama, who epitomizes the term.

Any questions or comments can be referred to this office.

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04/27/08:

QUOTE OF THE DAY: When he speaks, you can just hear how much he loves himself, and his notion of grandiosity is simply astonishing. He keeps saying that by the very act of voting for him, you are voting for “Change”; in fact, you will be changed and you will have transcendence by voting for him.

What can you say to such megalomania, that refuses to answer questions, that brooks no opposition? — Thomas, perfectly summarizing the problem many of us have with the Obamessiah

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04/26/08:

EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE: Here's how.

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