And now, a Nasrudin story.

While researching the last post, I came across this – and it was too good to pass up:

Nasrudin is with his cronies drinking coffee:

They are discussing death, “When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning upon you, what would you like to hear them say about you?”

The first crony says, “I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man.”

The second says, ” I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher which made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow.”

Nasrudin says, ” I would like to hear them say… LOOK!! HE’S MOVING!!!”

Bobby Bright takes deportment lessons from Alan Grayson.

Apparently, Bright thinks that the best way to avoid answering the question Are you going to vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker next year? is to make a joke about how she might die before then*.  As Andrew Malcolm noted in that article, this would be a firestorm if a Republican had said it; Jim Geraghty noted in his Morning Jolt that Bright also avoided the question like a cowardly little suckweasel (I paraphrase).  Heck, even Greg Sargent is unhappy: which means with any luck that so will the rest of the Left.

But why is anybody actually surprised?  As the title suggests, language like this by Democrats is perfectly acceptable when it’s directed against Republicans, particularly female ones; Bright’s error was that he assumed that similar language could be directed against anyone that stands between him and re-election.  Which these days certainly includes Nancy Pelosi.  I don’t wish for Madame Speaker’s death, obviously; but I do find it disingenuous when folks on the Left get surprised when chickens come home… to roost.

I don’t really know what the solution is, here… except to vote for Martha Roby, of course.

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#rsrh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:

The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow lawsuits against major emitters for their contributions to global warming, stunning environmentalists who see the case as a powerful prod on climate change.

(Via Hot Air Headlines)

He can be taught! – Mind you, the argument here from the government is that the EPA has regulatory authority over carbon dioxide already, thus making it unnecessary for guaranteed-heavy Democratic donor groups to pursue punitive lawsuits against not-guaranteed-heavy Democratic donor groups.  Or is that too cynical?  Heck, does “too cynical” even mean anything, these days? Continue reading #rsrh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

The August Rasmussen Trust Numbers.

The latest Rasmussen trust numbers are out, after what was an odd formatting thing that made me decide to stop reporting them until things settled down.  Short version: Rasmussen has replaced Abortion with Afghanistan in the top ten category; the GOP won all ten, including that perennial heartbreaker Government Ethics; and the numbers nonetheless show a shift away from July’s numbers, mostly because July’s numbers were uniformly awful for the Democrats. Continue reading The August Rasmussen Trust Numbers.

Union murder apologist upset at being called a thug.

‘if you strike a match and put your finger in, common sense tells you you’re going to burn your finger.’

AFL-CIO head thug Dick Trumka is worried about THAT WOMAN’s ‘poisonous‘ rhetoric.  The thug feels that a June speech in which she referred to ‘union thugs’ hit a little too close to home is an incitement to violence:

“And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about — and I quote — ‘union thugs.’ What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are,” Trumka will say. “That’s poisonous. There’s history behind that rhetoric. That’s how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers.”

Eddie York could not be reached for comment.

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#rsrh Belated advice for Lisa Murkowski.

She must be wondering right now where it all went wrong. I suggest that a goodly portion of it can be seen via this passage from the article on the looming upset in the GOP AK-SEN primary:

Even before the results poured in, Murkowski revealed her frustration with the impact that Palin had on the race in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Shushannah Walshe, who spoke to the incumbent senator at a last-minute Murkowski rally in Wasilla.

OK, stop right there.  The Daily Beast?  She’s a Republican, and she’s complaining to The Daily Beast?  No.

No, no, no.

They are the enemy.  They hate us, and by ‘us’ I mean the GOP.  Yes, they’re up on the sidebar – but I don’t bloody trust them, and neither should Murkowksi.  If this lapse of judgment is diagnostic… well.  No wonder it looks like she lost.

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