Obama and Biden’s 2010 Year-end review!
And they sing it, too! See how many references to events over the past year you can spot:
Tuesday Open Thread – Gift Wrapping Night at Casa ST :)
It’s Christmas gift wrapping night at Casa ST, where I’ll be joined by Mama Toldjah as we frantically try to get all wrapping done and out of the way so we can relax a tiny bit in the few days left before Christmas. I may tweet a couple of pix of the wrapping fun later, so stay tuned.
Nazis and Muslims had a common enemy: the Jews
Here’s a recent piece from the Jerusalem Post that reminds us of the ideological simpatico between Islam and Nazism, focusing on Yasser Arafat’s uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini:
Bad news for Dems: Congressional reapportionment data from Census likely to benefit GOP
Remember the heavy push from the Obama administration and other Democrats last year and in the early part of this year to get people to fill out their Census forms – all in the unsaid but nevertheless clearly there hopes that more “minorities” would fill out their forms, thereby increasing the possibility that Democrats would gain more Congressional seats? Doesn’t look like their hopes will be realized (via Memeorandum):
Photos/video: George & Laura Bush sign books in Charlotte – Rev. Graham makes appearance
As you can imagine, the local news networks/papers were all over the story of former President Bush and Laura Bush being in town at the Rev. Billy Graham Library to sign copies of their books to people who had camped out Friday night to get a wristband Saturday, and who camped out last night to get a good spot in line today. Reportedly there were around 1,000 people waiting in line to meet them (you can view photos here of the long lines and traffic), and many of those who stood in line got the rare chance to briefly see the Rev. Graham himself. Graham, 92, doesn’t make many public appearances these days due to health issues.
North Korea: Bandit King backs down
I’ve written before that North Korea can be reasonably described as a mountain bandit state, a kingdom of bullies that extorts what it needs to survive from its neighbors by threatening to do something violent, no matter how crazy it looks. And they keep doing it because it works. Time and again since the accession of North Korean mutant psycho-dwarf dictator Kim Jong-Il, North Korea has threatened war and devastation. Then, afraid North Korea might really start a huge conflagration (and most everyone admits that a renewed war on the Korean peninsula would be a bloodbath), concerned nations rush into give Kim everything he wants while pretending to be firm with him, in return for promises not to do whatever it was again. North Korea then breaks these promises, gets more stuff it can’t produce on its own, and the whole farcical ballet starts again. Rinse and repeat.