President Skunky Beer

The idiotic "Beer Summit" occurred to today, and it looks like it was a major failure by all counts. Gates is still a Harvard Faculty Asshole, and Obama is still pretending it is we who need to learn a lesson about "ginning up anger." For his part, Crowley appears to be a pretty regular guy.

But, on to important things...the beer menu:

Gates brought a Red Stripe, the official beer of the Harvard Faculty Asshole. People like Gates grin and drink it because it comes from a foreign country, even as it goes down like the swill it is.

Disappointingly, Crowley brought Blue Moon, which is just another cloudy swill..with orange flavoring. If you've ever had it, you know how God awful it is. However, I will at least give him credit for grabbing something from the specialty shelf, which is more than I can say for President Focus Group.

Obama drinks...you guessed it...Bud Light. Tom D. and I concluded that the only reason the President of the F-ing United States would drink that piss water is that some plebe in the administration said it would go over well with the non-Harvard Faculty Asshole set. My own observations tell me he likely will get a poll bump with the just-turned-21-and-need-to-get-wasted-on-the-cheap bloc (pictured). It may even be the official beer of Overweight Pool Players of Wisconsin. It tastes going down about like it tastes coming up four hours later, in the parking lot on Karaoke night. Ryan82SM at ratebeer.com sums it up nicely, "The King of Peroxide flavored beers."

Obama has either no taste or he is a serious cheapskate.

All the way around, the beer menu for the so-called "Beer Summit" was a major disappointment. I can think of ten readily-available beers offhand that would have actually allowed the three to enjoy a decent beer while they posed for the photo op:

Stella Artois
Michelob Amber Bock
Bass Ale
Sam Adams
Grolsch
Rolling Rock
Leinenkugels
Heineken
Guiness
Killians

Surely I missed a few. Feel free to add more in comments.

Put This in Your Pipe...

This one's for the Wyoming Mole: I might be out on a limb assuming you have yet to make its acquaintance, but given the quality of the latest offering now seems like a perfect time to introduce you to the genius of Iowahawk:

When I first learned of the arrest of my colleague Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates after he stood up to the fascist jackboots of a declasse, ill-educated Cambridge police officer, I was of course angered -- but scarcely shocked. L'Affaire Gates simply aired, in public, the dirty 100-thread-count table linen of an American culture where Harvard faculty assholes still face a daily struggle against profiling, abuse, and insolence.

Check it out.

And then, check out the great Seething Midwest Explodes Over Lombardi Cartoons, and one of my personal favorites, Flood Ravaged Iowans Idiotically Move On:

As an Iowan and the proud owner of two big screen LCDs from Coralville Rent-A-Center, I've seen my share of weather disasters. But, even with full 1080p HD, I never really stopped to think that it could happen to me. So when the floodwaters of the Iowa River reached my own home this week, I suppose I was unprepared for the devastation -- and the aftershock that my fellow Iowans would sabotage my once-in-a-lifetime golden ticket on the FEMA gravy train.

Good stuff at the homepage too.

Oh, My Freakin' Gawd

This person shows all the qualifications to be a highly ranked Obama advisor, maybe in foreign policy:

Hail to the Rube

President Obama, who just days ago publicly maligned the Cambridge Police in defense of a friend who was flinging "racist!" around like so much poo, is today doing the mother of all backpedals. But that doesn't mean he can't find the energy to condescend:

Obama said he hoped the event would end up being a "teachable moment, where all of us instead of pumping up the volume spend a little more time listening to each other" and improve race relations "instead of flinging accusations."

All of us? Thank goodness father Barack is there to protect us from the lesser angels of our nature.

Incidentally, he goes on to say that no one is talking about health care since this episode began, pretending of course that he is frustrated by that. Some Democrats though, are talking about health care:

The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill.

“I’ve been lied to,” Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chairman Charlie Melancon (D-La.) said on Friday. “We have not had legitimate negotiations.

Obama might want to consider calling another citizen "stupid."

UPDATE: This statement is a beautiful Obama gem:

"In my choice of words [ A quick choice of words refresher - "The Cambridge Police, acted stupidly" - Ed.], I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically."

Who would've thought everyone would have gotten such a wackie impression? Give the moron back his teleprompter! Please!

That's One Small Right Cross For Man...

Unfortunately, we live in a country where paranoid crackpots can call national icons "cowards" and "liars" to their face without any basis other than their sick pathology. Fortunately, we still live in a country where an honorable man can smack the shit out of paranoid crackpots.

Alford Needs to Get in Step

Watching the exchange between Sen. Boxer and Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry C. Alford is painful. Alford, a businessman, was testifying in opposition to the new energy bill. In response, Boxer appears to be attempting to explain to Alford that many of his race support the bill, as if that has anything to do with anything.

Boxer actually seems to be trying to demonstrate to Alford that he is not thinking like the rest of the black people. Interestingly enough, Alford does appear to be thinking like a business person.

Alford rightly hammers her for it during the hearing and said it called to mind "Mississippi in 1945" in a post-hearing interview.

For years it has been patiently explained to me by my liberal friends that minorities have absolute moral authority when it comes to recognizing racism. Therefore, if Alford believes Boxer exhibited racism in her questioning, Barbara Boxer must be a racist.

It's always in the background but its one of those things you're not allowed to say: abortion rights were born in racism. Here's Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this very week:

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.

I know, you immediately wonder who "populations that we don’t want to have too many of" refers to. Who wouldn't? Well, apparently the NYT reporter (whose job it is to think of these things) didn't find the follow-up worth the effort, and instead immediately changed the subject:

Q: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?

Ginsburg just admitted publicly that she understood choice as a way to control "certain" populations. Nothing newsworthy there...apparently.

Then there's Obama's "Science Czar" John Holdren. Zombie reports on Holdren's 1977 book "Ecoscience," which includes support for the following:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.

Yes, these are liberals in charge of justice and science at the highest levels of government.

"Reproductive rights," it turns out is just another sweet sounding bumper sticker slogan used to distract people from the elites actual, self-admitted goal of reigning in the populations of undesirable populations - those who contribute to social deterioration.

Could these people be any more creepy?

It's a Sickness

At HuffPo, will the attacks on Sarah Palin using her children ever cease?

In Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That’s a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people.

Too bad HuffPo pulled this insidious post. The world would know the left much better if it didn't have such easy access to the "delete" key.

Read the post in its entirety here.

Over at TPM, a really classy joke:

Q: What's the difference between Sarah Palin's mouth and her vagina.
A: Only some of the things that come out of her vagina are retarded.

Of course, the world would be so much better if the right wasn't so hateful.

No Brainer

We're back.

Lot's to tell but not right now. The starter cord on the Johnson is fixed, it's a beautiful day, and we're going fishing.

At right is a picture of Scroo-Loo at Fisherman's Wharf. We had seafood there at Castagnola's with my dad's brother and family; the crab and scallops were divine.

We also had dinner at Michelangelo caffe in North Beach, and steak at John's Grill in the financial district. Despite the fact that the restaurant was packed, our dinner was in front of us within ten minutes of ordering. Amazing.

By far the biggest culinary adventure though, was the $5.99 dim sum and Chinese barbeque in Chinatown. Suffice to say we spent the rest of the night waiting for the other shoe to drop.

All in all, food-wise, it was a great trip. And we actually lost a couple of pounds anyway due to all the walking.

More to come.