Fast and Furious Questioning | Eric Holder Hearing | Zoning Out

Fast and Furious Questioning | Eric Holder Hearing | Zoning Out | The Daily Caller

Matthew Boyle 2-2-12

Attorney General Eric Holder stopped paying attention during a line of questioning from Tennessee Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais in the middle of Thursday’s House oversight committee hearing about Operation Fast and Furious.

DesJarlais introduced a graphic titled “Fortress Holder” that visualized how Holder’s Department of Justice has stonewalled congressional document requests.

“You said you were notified probably within 24 hours of [Border Patrol] agent [Brian] Terry’s death, is that what I heard you say?” DesJarlais asked Holder, referring to the border guard who was murdered with a weapon the U.S. government intentionally allowed to disappear into Mexico.

Holder didn’t respond.

“Sir?” DesJarlais followed up.

“I’m sorry,” Holder responded. “I was looking at Fortress Holder. That was kind of interesting.”

“We can get a copy of it for you,” DesJarlais then said.

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A Movie for All Time

This is the film Bill Murray tried to make years earlier when he re-made W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge." The book dealt more with reincarnation, the 1946 film had the better cast and production, and Bill Murray's 1984 version dealt more with the horror and terror of war, but ultimately seemed to miss the redemption that the Murray character, Larry Darrell, was seeking. This film failed to give the viewer the satisfaction present in the earlier film version and in the book.

"Groundhog Day" finds the means to the redemption Bill Murray had been seeking in the earlier film and was led into after innumerable mistrial days in this one. There is satisfaction for the viewer in this.

My only question is how and why was Andie MacDowell cast in this film. She added six more weeks of winter to the film by her presence in it. She did the same destruction to "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

PC platitudes, tripe toasts for "world peace' through her great-northern-bean-like teeth were in no way endearing or an enhancement to this otherwise great film. ♘

A Movie for All Time - National Review Online

by Jonah Goldberg

OK, campers, rise and shine! It’s become a Groundhog’s Day tradition around here to run this cover story from the February 14, 2005, issue of National Review over and over and over . .

...In a wonderful essay for the Christian magazine Touchstone, theology professor Michael P. Foley wrote that Groundhog Day is “a stunning allegory of moral, intellectual, and even religious excellence in the face of postmodern decay, a sort of Christian-Aristotelian Pilgrim’s Progress for those lost in the contemporary cosmos.” Charles Murray, author of Human Accomplishment, has cited Groundhog Day more than once as one of the few cultural achievements of recent times that will be remembered centuries from now. He was quoted in The New Yorker declaring, “It is a brilliant moral fable offering an Aristotelian view of the world.”...

DUMB ASS! First lady Michelle Obama cites 'remarkable progress' on the economy

First lady Michelle Obama cites 'remarkable progress' on the economy - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Michelle Obama cited "remarkable progress" on the economy during a speech for a small crowd of high-profile Hollywood names in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.

"In the last three years, we've worked hard to get out of this mess and we've made some remarkable progress," the first lady told a group of about 135 supporters at a private campaign event for her husband. She listed President Obama's accomplishments on healthcare reform, the removal of troops from Iraq and the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" among other items on the list of "promises kept" touted by Obama's reelection campaign.

The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

Total public debt subject to limit Jan. 30

15,313,699,000,000

The question is, What fools bought them?! Must have been some Gov't agency. Volt sales fall in January

Volt sales fall in January | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

A voting machine in Chicago managed to fall out of a window on election day

"... having lived in Chicago for a while in the late 1970s, I occasionally wonder if, with no effort on my part, I have continued voting there ever since."

And now as a Democrat, no doubt!

The Rosett Report » “The government dole will rot your soul”

By Claudia Rosett 1-31-12

Just 46 more states, two conventions and nine more months till we get to go into the voting booths and mark the hanging chads — or whatever technological wizardry awaits us in this next election. I still remember, with disconcerting fondness, a report many years ago of a voting machine in Chicago that managed to fall out of a window on election day. For that matter, having lived in Chicago for a while in the late 1970s, I occasionally wonder if, with no effort on my part, I have continued voting there ever since.

Anyway, while I have enormous respect for the democratic process, right now this campaign year looks interminable. Take your comfort where you find it.

In that spirit, I’m going to take a break tonight from the debates about the debates, the perfidies of multilateral institutions and the horrors of assorted tyrants who do indeed have designs on our general well-being. This is a note about music. A few months ago, my husband came across the music of Stan Rogers, a Canadian folk singer. Rogers died young, in 1983, in an airplane fire. But during his short span, he wrote some terrific songs, most of them about the sea-faring life. All by himself, he’s a reason to pay more attention to Canada (which has been looking better and better lately).

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Recipients were asking for payments in $1 bills - House Set to Ban Welfare Payments at Strip Clubs

House Set to Ban Welfare Payments at Strip Clubs - US News and World Report

Some people never learn - Prince William deploys to Falkland Islands as tensions rise with Argentina

Prince William deploys to Falkland Islands as tensions rise with Argentina

2-1-12

Yesterday it emerged that one of the Royal Navy's most advanced new warships is being sent to the area.

HMS Dauntless, a Type 45 destroyer, is due to set sail for the South Atlantic on her maiden mission in the coming months to replace frigate HMS Montrose.

Today it was confirmed that the Duke of Cambridge will begin his six-week deployment as a helicopter pilot earlier than expected. He will fly out from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, tonight.

He will be crewing one of two search-and-rescue helicopters on call 24 hours a day for missions flying out of a large British military base, 45 minutes from Stanley, the islands' capital.

Argentina's foreign ministry slammed Prince William's visit, saying that the heir to the British throne would be arriving as a "conqueror."

-more at link-

The historic and monumental disappointment President Obama has been - 'Islamist Firster' president not what he claimed

"Obama has devoted his administration to raising taxes, adding to the byzantine structure of the federal government, and has created a whole new massive bureaucracy"

HURT: 'Islamist Firster' president not what he claimed - Washington Times

by Charles Hurt 1-31-12

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

GOLAN HEIGHTS — Surveying the live minefields, cratered roads and mortar-pocked concrete buildings along the border here between Syria and Israel, it is hard not to be reminded of the historic and monumental disappointment President Obama has been.

When he was campaigning to become the most powerful man in the last standing superpower on Earth, he spoke passionately about changing the world, restoring America's greatness and bringing more peace and fairness to everyone.

In both foreign and domestic matters, Mr. Obama had unique credibility to change things as few presidents ever had.

Despite his background as a liberal street organizer, he campaigned on tax cuts and personal responsibility and preached that the government simply cannot be the answer to every problem. Republicans would have no choice but to go along with an agenda to shrink the tax burden and get the federal government out of our everyday lives.

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Happy Birthday Moose!

We Fear He Lacks the Intestinal Fortitude to Take Out Obama, he may be another McCain - Romney Rising for a Fall?

Will he also be afraid to call Obama 'Hussein', bring up Obama's inept 'green' policies, his crony favoritism, his week international relations and chronic apologies for America, wasteful spending and taxing, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, ...?

Romney Rising | FrontPage Magazine

By Ryan Mauro On February 1, 2012

Mitt Romney won a big victory in Florida’s primary yesterday, taking the state’s 50 delegates with 46% of the vote. There’s still a long road ahead, as Romney only has 87 of the 1,144 delegates needed to officially win the nomination. In their speeches following the primary results, the candidates indicate that the contest will take a more positive direction.

Romney did not mention any of his opponents by name in his victory speech. The only criticism he made was that the others did not have the experience in creating jobs that he has. His focus was completely on President Obama, sounding as if the general election campaign had already begun. He pledged to “end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.”

He said that President Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” the country and that he be the one to bring true hope and change. One standout line in Romney’s speech was, “Hope is a new paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.” A look at Romney’s financial advantage and the upcoming contests helps explain why Romney sounded so confident and is, once again, talking as if the nomination is his. “If you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour, not our destiny, then I am asking for your vote,” he said.

The Romney campaign has nearly 10 times the money that Newt Gingrich has with no debt. It is likely that Romney will score 7 victories in a row by the end of February, as political analyst Dick Morris pointed out. The next contest will be on February 4 when Nevada holds its caucus.

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