http://tobypetzold.com/blog a well-scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:38:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry that this blog sucks. I am becoming indifferent to it. http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/25/sore-decayer/ Did you see Obama's renomination of Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve today? Bernanke's slightly better on the TelePrompTer. What a creepy bit of historical B-roll. Again: how does Obama manage to convince people he's that smart? http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/25/obama-bernanke-are-animatronica/ Glenn Reynolds links to this piece of news tonight from the Department of State (emphasis added): The OAS Foreign Ministers mission is in Honduras seeking support for the San Jose Accord, which would restore the democratic and constitutional order and resolve the political crisis in Honduras. In support of this mission ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/25/anti-constitutionalist-marxism-2/ To permit this ridiculous fraud of a President and his useful idiots in Congress to expand our country's debt way into the trillions is morally insane. Our civilization cannot survive with that kind of debt and the concomitant taxation. We have been warned. Now we should act. http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/23/america-versus-the-democrats/ Did you hear this ridiculous liar of a President we're stuck with say this [yester]day? (emphasis mine) President Obama made what his advisers believe were his first public comments on the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, basically knocking its performance during his health-care-themed town hall in New Hampshire. He said an audience member ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/12/succinctitude/ I heard Richard Holbrooke say the other day that the United States is no longer going to participate in the destruction of poppy fields in Afghanistan. Why? Because, Holbrooke said, it wasn't accomplishing anything: it was antagonizing the little guys and not depriving al-Qaedists or the Taliban of their funding. ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/03/doctrinally-addicted/ Is anyone paying attention to this? The guy looks awful. Also, the things coming out of his mouth are shit. Billious, booming, and very boring shit. How can wealthy men involve themselves in Socialist schemes? Easy: they know that their complicities are indemnified by the elites. There will always be speeches, board ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/08/02/larry-summers-is-obviously-ill/ I think it's great that the President of the United States is comfortable enough in his own skin to share a beer with a couple of guys out on the lawn of his house. But what brought him there is ridiculous, although entirely predictable: pride, arrogance, and a kind of narcissism that ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/07/30/the-beer-summit/ Why has Obama found himself inviting Cambridge (Mass.) police sergeant James Crowley and Br'er Rabbit to share some beer with him in the White House? Because he is an egotistical bastard who made a huge blunder that he cannot bring himself to apologize for. So, instead, he raises the stakes beyond all proportion ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/07/27/beer-for-brer-rabbit/ I like Skip Gates as far as I know him from his work on PBS, but the stink over his recent arrest for disorderly conduct marks him for the prissy little celebrity bitch he is. And for the Lying Narcissist to hold forth on a hugely unimportant incident concocted by some academic friend of his, ... http://tobypetzold.com/blog/2009/07/23/manufacture-of-anecdote/