Thursday Afternoon Cigar

We smoked a CAO Brazilia while we read-up on the latest Obama-New Party news. We'll add a post on the subject later tonight.

A Glimpse Into the Future

A prescient look at Karl in the near future:

Our preemptive apology to our Dear Leader Obama, assuming he wins.

Sunday Afternoon Cigar

We burned another Camacho SLR Maduro after watching the new movie American Carol. We highly recommend both the cigar and the movie!

Karl's Weekend Reading

The $750 billion bailout was the main event of the week, with the Pelosi-whatshisname debate a strong second. There was plenty of great commentary on both, but only one worth passing on. We're supplementing this short list with three bailout-related videos.

Mary Anastasia o"Grady at the WSJ writes in Monday's paper, What We Can Learn From Chile's Financial Crisis. She writes before Friday's bailout bill that an alternative similar to Chile's would be better for America, namely government loans to the banks rather than government taking responsibility for managing the assets.

It took several years for Chile to recover from its banking crisis and the U.S. will also need time to work off its credit mania. Federal assistance may be required. But that doesn't mean that we need to hand a blank check to the government that will allow it to expand its powers yet again.

So true. We first mentioned this solution in a list of suggestions by Newt Gingrich, September 24th.

Bill O'Reilly goes off on the culprit of the financial disaster, Barney Frank. This is mild compared to the appropriate response:

We nominate the National Republican Congressional Committee for the best political commercial - ever.

And Saturday Night Live comes pretty close to the facts in last night's skit. U/T Babalu.

NBC pulls the controversial clip. See it here. U/T: SondraK

UPDATE - 15 minutes later: Found a video of proud Ushanka owner Ann Coulter suggesting war-crimes tribunals! U/T: Sweetness & Light.

Mac vs. PC: I'm a PC

Would you agree there are too many PCs in the world, and not enough MAC's?

Our thanks to the following PCs: Al Gore, Keith Olberman, Nancy Pelosi, Lenin, Dukakis, Rachel Maddow, Joe Biden, Trotsky, John F. Kerry, Lloyd Bentson, Harry Reid, Stalin, Howard Dean, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Campbell Brown, Walter Mondale, Khrushchev, and, uh, Barack Hussein Obama.

Children O' Mao

We're not the only ones that see through this charade. We heard Mark Levin play the audio of these kids singing their Obama song, and his first thought was of Mao. Nice to see someone added the proper perspective in this video remix:

The New Standard

We regret we have to use the word "New" in this post title. In a perfect world, this would be the "Usual Standard" and probably wouldn't warrant a blog post. But in a perfect world, we wouldn't be asking the taxpayers for a bailout.

U/T: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-MI for speaking for the people.

U/T: SondraK for video

Hugo-Glover Pictures Presents

There are some in Hollywood that are uncomfortable with how the town has become a bastion of right wing neo-cons. Danny Glover is one such celebrity.

His solution is to go to the source, as former SAG President Ronald Reagan would put it. Danny Glover has penned a financing agreement with Hugo Chavez for two movies - $20 million. Both movies will be about Latin American revolutionaries.

We were hoping Glover could work on a couple sequels:

U/T to Sweetness & Light for the story and picture.

The Bias in the MSM

We've saved several links from the past days that all seem to fit in this post about the liberal bias in the MSM. Normally we pass on posting content like this, as we prove the MSM bias beyond any shadow of the doubt each and every day on our home page. But today we're motivated by the MSM's unprofessional coverage of Gov. Palin leading up to the debate. It is a clear attempt to discredit her, and to fill the liberal minds of mush among the Democrat pawns out there with mindless talking points.

From Instapundit, Sept. 29:

A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working." I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.

From HotAir, Oct. 1, a video showing the MSM's contempt for Gov. Palin:

The story came out this week that Gwen Ifill, the moderator of tonight's VP debate, has a book coming out in November called The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Bill Dyer at Hugh Hewitt's blog responds to her deception, and PBS's bias by ignoring the conflict of interest, with this suggestion:

...if for no other reason than the potential appearance of a conflict of interest, Gwen Ifill should publicly disclose her book's impending release and title to the entire nation at the very beginning of tomorrow night's debate. To do anything less would be unethical.

And today, Mike Allen at Politico writing on this story, writes this nonsense:

Ifill is moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." She is viewed as one of Washington's fairest journalists.

Not anymore, Mike.

Jim Treacher offers some suggested questions for the debate.

The Obama Debate, Uh, Drinking Game

UPDATE 10/2: YouTuber barackhObamadotcom posted this similar video on Sept. 26: