Progress Comrades!

It wasn't too long ago when a leader with similar ideological inspirations would just have this pesky member of the masses shipped off for a 'tenner' at some labor camp. Today, just a scuffle on the sidewalk. Now THAT'S progress!



Can't wait for the public apology. Something to the effect he is "overburdened with his constituent's needs, blah, blah, blah".

U/T: Breitbart

Not enough progress for you, comrade? How about these comments found through Instapundit on education and unions:

Liberal 'conservative' David Brooks at The Atlantic (only a decade late or so...), Teachers are Fair Game:

The unions feel the sand eroding under their feet. They sense their lack of legitimacy, especially within the media and the political class. They still fight to preserve their interests, but they’ve lost their moral authority, as we’ve seen in New York City, Denver, Chicago, and even Washington, D.C.

Mona Charen at the Washington Examiner, Abolishing Department of Education Isn't Extreme:

There are hundreds of federal programs that could be eliminated tomorrow with only the happiest consequences for the nation. And yes, the whole Department of Education could be scrapped. It vacuums up money and produces ... what exactly?
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Between 1973 and 2004, a period in which federal spending on education more than quadrupled, mathematics scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress rose just one percent for American 17-year-olds. Between 1971 and 2004, reading scores remained completely flat.
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There is no accountability. There are no consequences for failure, except perhaps, requests for even greater funding next year.

The Department of Education is a great burbling vat of waste and it is not extremist to say so.

Commie TV

Found at Weasel Zippers. Note the channel numbers in the top right of the TV screen.

On the bright side, no CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. Maybe it really is for the greater good...

495 more...

From Global National:

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Russia has uncovered at least 495 skeletons, many with head gunshot wounds, in a mass grave probably dating back to purges under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the 1930s, municipal authorities said on Wednesday.

At least 3.5 tonnes of bones were extracted from the site on the outskirts of the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok after it was discovered by workmen building a road, the city government said in a statement.

U/T: SayUncle

Monday Afternoon Cigar

A CAO Brazilia smoldered as we watched the play-by-play of Steve Jobs' keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010.

He might be a liberal, but he is one of the few true believers in innovation and capitalism, and is our hero for it.

Pic from our favorite Apple blog, MacRumors.com:

Only the Left

We're a little late to the topic of the NYC 'Ground Zero' Mosque. Here are two videos that express the justified outrage, and another video of Jew-Hating Americans. We think these videos belong in the same post. Do you?



Pat Condell with a great contrast between liberal progressive communist hatred for Nazi's and embracing of Islam. And these comments:

Building mosques on conquered sacred ground is standard practice. It is was Islam has always done to assert its supremacy, and that is what is happening here. And of course they know how insulting it is, how offensive it is. Are you kidding? Why do you think they chose a site as close to ground zero? Or do you think that was just an accident?

Bob:

This is like building a statue of Hitler in the middle of Auschwitz.
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This is like building a Beni Hana at frick'in Pearl Harbor two years after the Japs bombed the hell out of it. Do you think your grandparents would have shown up in their Hawaiian shirts and a fist full of money ready to buy sushi?

Helen Thomas, both the face of Evil and of the MSM:

Remember, these people [Palestinians] are occupied, and its their land. It's not Germany. It's not Poland.

Whoopi Goldberg's defense of Helen Thomas, as just reported by Debbie Schlussel:

For many years, there were not Jews in Israel.

Only the left is ready (and anxious) to surrender the liberties of all.
Only the left speak of relocating people.
Only the left share the values of the National Socialists and Communists.

We turned to Moonbattery, Debbie, and IOTW as our sources for this post.

UPDATE 15 minutes later...

Helen Thomas announces her retirement. Pic at Drudge:

Sunday Afternoon Cigar

Remembering D-Day with a Santa Domiana.

Pic is one from many at from Weasel Zippers.

Videolapooza!

Look at all the creative videos we found this morning at our favorite blogs!

Pro-Choice

If you're not pro-choice, you're a loser! That is, pro-choice for children's education...

Found at HotAir:

Christie speaks in Washington DC, calling Newark schools 'absolutely disgraceful'

Incompetence? Or Deliberate?

You decide. (We already have...)

Drudge posted a link to Dick Morris' latest article calling Obama out for his incompetence. Obama Doesn't Have a Clue

Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis.

America is watching the president alternate between wringing his hands in helplessness and pointing his finger in blame when he should be solving the most pressing environmental problem America has faced in the past 50 years. We are watching generations of environmental protection swept away as marshes, fisheries, vacation spots, recreational beaches, wetlands, hatcheries and sanctuaries fall prey to the oil spill invasion. And, all the while, the president acts like a spectator, interrupting his basketball games only to excoriate BP for its failure to contain the spill.

Stu Tarlowe at American Thinker has a blog post suggesting Obama's actions are deliberate. Don't Be Fooled By Obama's 'Incompetence'

It is a tremendous mistake to think that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will help convince Americans of Barack Obama's incompetence. Obama's true agenda is so insidious that even his inability to handle a crisis serves his greater strategy.
And that strategy has a name: it is the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Named for the two Leftist sociology professors who formulated it, its purpose is to bring about the demise of capitalism by overloading the system, largely by making more people desperate and dependent on the government.

And a follow-up question: If golf and vacations are more important than a major oil leak, could we now agree that environmentalism is more about politics than clean air and water?

Bones

How symbolic.

More bones pics posted at IOTW.