A CBS hit on Rush.

GWB is responsible for the F-5 tornado that hit Kansas.   

A MINI RANT

THE REAL QUEEN VISITS WASHINGTON

A few conservative bloggers are determined to be wet blankets and do the ‘who needs it’ with the Royal Visit, but what’s the big deal?  We’re family.  You know how it is when your parents come for a visit.  You spruce up the house, attempt to fix an edible meal, clean out the dirty litter box, and try to do your best.  I don’t see any difference with the Queen’s visit? We’re family. 

Humorous, typical GWB gaffe with the Queen.  I thought it was funny.  What people don’t realize is she has an absolutely sick sense of humor, so I doubt if any insult was taken.

  I love the way Sister Toldjah put this: 

 “Move Over Speaker Pelosi, There’s a Real Queen in Town!”

  Note to HRM Nancy I, This is the REAL queen of the nation's capitol!

The Menu

The Visit

The Guest List

The Dinner

And yes, I can still do a formal court courtesy…if I don’t fall flat on my face.  The right knee creaks a little, but I can still pull it off, then I fall on myface!

And Itzhak Perlman was the featured entertainment.  (sigh)

Once Upon A Time

the UK was the most powerful country in the world,

and the monarch the most powerful person in the world. 

Today - THIS MAN is the most powerful man in the world! 

MUST READ:  Wonderful James Lewis American Thinker homage to President George W. Bush.

“…Why doesn't George W explain himself more clearly? Because he's more comfortable with action than talk. W is focused like a laser beam on the war on terror. He knows from his Harvard Business training that an executive can only accomplish two or three big things. The war is the biggest thing his administration has to get right --- and there is no doubt that W suffers, as Lincoln did, from the agonizing need to send young people into combat. He visits them privately, and cries at their flag-covered caskets. Privately. Get that. No photo ops, no marching US Marine detachments across the West Lawn for the TV crews. In fact, no funeral photo ops at all, because soldiers' funerals are not to be used to manipulate poll numbers. I appreciate that about him.

 

Like Abraham Lincoln, W is guilt-driven in spite of his firm belief that this war is necessary, and that it will save lives over the longer run. What do you think it took for a man like Lincoln to pursue the bloodiest war in American history? When Lincoln was assassinated, in a sense he joined the soldiers he had ordered to war. He was prepared for it, just as he was ready to be killed on any day of the Civil War. I don't think he wanted to be shot that day in 1865, but he knew it was likely to happen. 200,000 dead Americans made Lincoln's assassination almost inevitable. The nation needed a last sacrifice, in order to live with itself.

 

George W. is not pathologically guilty about the iron necessity of sending young people to war. But it takes a toll on him, like it does on Dick Cheney and all the decent people in this White house. They are Americans the way Americans used to be. 

 

Meanwhile, corruption and demagogy are standard on the Left, because Democrats are never, ever scrutinized. They know the press will let them get away with it.

 

Rarely in American history is morality and common decency so clearly on one side of the political divide. Republicans have no lock on decency. But the Sixties Left is cynical, self-indulgent and flagrantly immoral --- as Nicolas Sarkozy just pointed out in France. The Summer of Love turned into a Winter of Moral Decay a long time ago. It's too bad, but it's true. The Left is still drunk with self-love, enchanted with its divine right to political power. That won't change, because narcissism is not a curable condition.

 

In reaction, Americans who despise intellectually lazy, morally self-indulgent Boomer Leftists have just switched parties. That's what parties are for.  The Democratic Party has slipped away from Middle America, and is now in bed with the worst elements in the country. It's too bad, but it will take at least a generation to change, if it ever does.

 

So W. is the man. He's made the toughest decisions, and he was far and away the best choice for this very hard time. I admire him, and also see his limits. That's life. We don't get perfection in presidents. Lincoln had a squeaky voice. Washington had false teeth. Jefferson kept slaves. Humans are flawed.

 

We're just blessed that in a time of real danger, the United States has lucked out again and found the right man for the job.”