Thursday, December 31, 2009

Quick Quips – 12/31/09

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne." – Robert Burns

Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked' by Ann Coulter at Townhall.com
   Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed….
  An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say? 
   The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.

Naked Liberalism - The liberal movement is quite literally running out of ideological steam after it’s meteoric run, but now a long period of acrimony and infighting awaits. I only hope conservatives are ready.

More Guns, Less Crime in '09 > but U.S. military personnel still can't carry personal firearms! http://ow.ly/Ri9I

2009 Chickens and their 2010 Roost - In other words, 2009 may seem to have ended relatively quietly. But in our foreign relations, in the war against terror, in our massive borrowing, and in our energy policies, we created chickens that soon will come home to roost in 2010.

*** After $787 billion in stimulus spending and $700 billion in bank bailouts, the nation’s bulging debt is now $12.1 trillion.

*** The Obama administration’s latest $3.8 billion bail out of GMAC makes taxpayers the majority owners of the firm.

*** Fears are growing that Greece or another weak country may default on its sovereign debt obligations, forcing the richer countries in Europe to ride to the rescue.

"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain

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