Thoughts on MSNBC from Dave Brody.
I Do Not Think That Word Means
Hoyer echoed Pelosi in saying Obama had tried to be flexible, but said there was “great difficulty” in trying to find a compromise.
“We had a pretty fulsome discussion on the specifics that the White House was prepared to agree to, or at least that they thought were options that were viable,” Hoyer said in an interview shortly after the meeting at the White House.
Emphasis mine.
From the dictionary:
ful·some
[fool-suhm, fuhl-]
–adjective
1. offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
2. disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods.
3. excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration
I can imagine either definitions (1) or (2) applying, but I don’t think that’s what he meant. I’m not sure if this is a Kinsleyan gaffe, because while he was telling the truth, he probably didn’t realize it.
Firefox Problems
So, I recently upgraded to Firefox 4 in Fedora Core 14. It’s not officially supported (it’s supposed to be part of Core 15), but it seemed to install all right from an rpm. The other day, after an unrelated reboot, it started acting strangely. It wouldn’t reload my tabs from the previous session (the “Restore” button did nothing but go gray when I hit it). Also, it’s no longer loading Firefox 4 when I click on the icon for it — it loads 3.6. I actually removed 3.6, and 4, and reinstalled 4, using yum (after renaming my old .mozilla folder). I didn’t reinstall 3.6. Yet when I run Firefox, it runs 3.6. Other symptoms — the Firefox tab in the task manager at the bottom of the screen has no Firefox icon (it’s just generic), the search function doesn’t work.
Does anyone have any idea what’s going on?
[Update a while later]
Per a suggestion in comments, I did find a Firefox 5 package for Fedora 14. It seems to be working all right so far, except I’ve probably lost all the open tabs I had (and there were many dozen). Though perhaps all of the open tabs were part of my problem…
He’s Always The Last To Know
Hitler has found out about Carmageddon.
For once, I feel his pain. Fortunately, I don’t have any reason to go to the Valley this weekend.
Allowing Murder, To Disarm Us
It’s been pretty obvious that the primary purpose of “Fast and Furious” was to bolster the administration’s agenda for gun control, but Town Hall has the smoking email that proves it:
Once again, liberals and the Obama Administration are focused on guns rather than criminals and federal government incompetence. Operation Fast and Furious is looking more and more like a set up from the beginning to push Obama and Holder’s radical anti-Second Amendment agenda as they used law abiding gun shop owners to enable government officals to break the law, then turned around and blamed the very same gun shops for illegal gun trafficking, despite those shops being forced by ATF to help ATF agents carry out Operation Fast and Furious, and now, those shops are being punished through new Justice Department gun control measures. Obama and Holder both have long records of being outspoken opponents of gunrights and both support the reinstatement of the “assault” rifle ban, better described as a ban on semi-automatic rifles.
They’re not “liberals.” They’re criminals.
[Update a few minutes later]
Patrick Richardson has more.
[Mid-morning update]
Say it ain’t so: witness tampering at the Justice Department? This isn’t just worse than Iran-Contra — I suspect that it’s got the potential for another Watergate.
Except for the fact that the media don’t want it to be, of course.
The Country’s In The Very Best Of Hands
“Eric, don’t call my bluff.”
Somehow, I think that he doesn’t quite get the concept of bluffing.
I’d love to play poker with him. Does he know that it’s played with cards?
Yes, I categorized this as humor. So I don’t cry.
I have to say, I see a big future in tee shirts and bumper stickers from this. Not to mention campaign ads.
[Update a few minutes later]
“A Total Failure”
That’s the description of our success in assimilating Somalis in Minnesota.
Democracy, immigration, multi-culturalism: pick any two.
On The Radio
I’m going to be on The American Conservative Radio Show tonight, at 10 PM EDT, talking space policy. Here’s a link for those who want to listen in.
Raise Taxes
…or Granny gets it:
…he drew plaudits from what used to be called the mainstream media. “Obama Grasping Centrist Banner in Debt Impasse” read the New York Times headline. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza dubbed him “Dad-in-Chief,” explaining: “Boil Obama’s message down and you get this: Adults sometimes have to do things that they don’t want to do. This is one of those times. So, let’s get it done.”
The kids are acting up, so he threatens to starve Granny to death. That’s just how a strong father behaves.
It looks to us as if Obama may once again be overestimating his persuasive powers by relying for feedback on journalists who, for a combination of ideological, partisan and personal reasons, are predisposed to take his side. NewsBusters.org has a useful compilation of what it calls the “softballs” reporters lobbed at yesterday’s press conference. Some of them were actually a bit adversarial, but only from the left.
I hope he continues to live in his leftist media cocoon. It will only reduce his chances of reelection.
His advice to the American people seems to be that if one has a problem with taxes, one should get better tax software and stop asking so many questions, or find the severed head of a horse in your bed.
If I were a Republican candidate, I’d make a statement that, if I were president, I wouldn’t use the elderly as human shields to compel people meet my unreasonable demands.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of press sycophancy, is Obamageddon coming to a city near you?
The election of the first African-American president was widely hailed as a giant step forward for American racial politics. The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening alienation, anger and despair in America’s inner cities.
Not since the 1960s, when scores of American cities were shaken by one race riot after another, have African-Americans faced such deadly conditions: high expectations and hopes running up against a reality of vanishing jobs, shrinking government budgets and a fractured and fragmented leadership. Barring an unlikely change in economic fortunes we could soon face a new period of explosive anger and even violence; alternatively, the urban poor could fall prey to a new kind of passive despair and anomie as hope dies on one inner city street after another.
Either way, the mainstream press’s slowly fading intoxication with the Obama administration has led it to miss the dimensions of the new urban crisis now stalking the United States. The liberal Reagan, they swooned back in the good old days. No — the new FDR! No, wait! The new Lincoln!
But as the rosy glow surrounding the administration and all its works slowly dies away, many Americans will be taken aback at the urban crisis that quietly and unostentatiously took shape while the fatuously exhilarated press choirs sang about the hope and the change that was coming our way.
It is ironic that he may be the worst president for blacks, ever.
[Update a while later]
The president needs to stop scaring seniors. Apparently he disagrees.
The Thugs Win
They’re not guilty. Not guilty at all.
But that’s what happens in a thugocracy. And a racist one.