Replacement Refs
I thought I’d take a break from drawing about lying, incompetent politicians and instead draw about stupid, incompetent NFL replacement refs.
Here’s a Bleacher Report that looks into who the replacement refs really are, including one who was kicked out of the Lingerie League!
Obama Foreign Policy
Osama bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run…well…running through burning American embassies where it tortures and drags off dead ambassadors.
The UN General Assembly opened in New York on Monday. The Celebrity of the United States went there for serious talks with the world leaders of The View. He appeared with his wife, Michelle (airbrushed out of the image above), and quipped,”I’ve been told I’m eye candy here“. No, really, he did. I think it came from the same teleprompter voice that told him, “Harry, I have a gift”.
Victor Davis Hanson has a piece called The Fantasy House of Barack Obama. I recommend it to you.
Amish Beard Trimming
I get no kick from the Campaign. Islamic jihad doesn’t thrill me at all. I get a kick out of Amish beard cutting.
Especially when the cutter’s name is Samuel Mullet.
Men normally allow their beards to grow as a symbol of faith in the Amish religion. The Amish pride themselves on being plain. Actually they hate pride, but they do like plain. Anyway, Mr. Mullet appointed himself police of plainness and ordered his followers to cut off the beards of those not deemed by him to be sufficiently plain.
This was too much for a federal court, which said Mullet was guilty of hate crimes because the beard cutting was motivated by a religious dispute.
That’s an interesting take. American courts now settle religious disputes. If someone drags you out of your house and cuts off your beard, without an appointment, I might think of it as an aggravated hair assault. Or a Mitt Romney high school high jinx. But a hate crime? That would mean you are guilty of a state of mind – hate – religious hate to be specific. It would be a thought crime, or a faith crime. Do we really want to go down that road?
What other religious practices could be determined to be hate crimes? – Beheadings, blowing up embassies, crashing airplanes into buildings?
Seems awfully intolerant.
Lead From Behind
One thing the president is not taking credit for these days is his “lead from behind policy” in Libya. Here’s a column by the Richard Cohen in the Washington Post on the subject.
Romney’s 47 Percent
Romney says 47% of voters depend on government and should be written off to Obama.
In 2008 Obama said that blue collar voters “cling to their guns and religion”.
Slate’s William Saletan says it’s not the same because in the end “Obama tells his audience not to write off any group”.
Thomas B. Edsall of the NYT missed that memo when he wrote last November that the Obama campaign would abandon the white working class vote:
“For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.”
As for Romney, it’s true that almost half the population doesn’t pay federal income tax. But his 47% isn’t a permanent class of government serfs. It includes retired people and people just starting out, or starting over, who may hope one day to join the evil 1% who pay 38% of all federal income taxes.
Mitt should take Obama’s earlier advice.
