Thinking We're Getting Somewhere

"[English Prime Minister Gordon] Brown has put himself clearly in the 'Shut up, he explained' school, which isn’t science at all. It’s what leaders of a cult say when the brainwashing starts to weaken."

-- Ed Morrissey, who I think will now forget he wrote it - along with what it's implications are - because, when it comes to NewAge, I'm learning to accept that most people are (or play) dumb and spew Hot Air.

Smile, Dummy

You can read about it here. But why would you? It screams "Lame!" all on it's own,...

First, Daniel Hannon And Now Nigel Farage - In England, Political Stars Are Being Born Before Our Eyes - So Let It Begin: We Will Not Follow!!!

Here is Nigel Farage, the United Kingdom Independence Party member, before Daniel Hannon gave the speech that has electrified conservatives around the globe. If you ask TMR, the old boy took a pretty good whack at Brown himself - and deserves a bit of credit for it.

It's a shame: In America, most people run from men who talk like this now, when it's exactly what's called for - The Macho Response.



Here's Farage later, enjoying a beer, and describing the fallout: Those motherfuckers got money. Good for them.

And many thanks to UKIP for bringing men such as these to our attention. We're with you!!!

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
by thefastlane2hell

Barack OBoredom

"Oh Gordon, your smile! The Prime Minister, appearing alongside Barack Obama after breakfast today, stared at his American visitor and almost shattered the TV camera lenses with his moony grin.

You could have played Jewish harp with his lower lip, it was stretched so twangy tight.

Messrs Mills and Boon, when next looking for a book cover for one of their romantic novellas, when next seeking an illustration of doggy devotion, could do worse than use a photograph of the Prime Minister at the meeting.

Mr Obama uttered a sentence. Mr Brown nodded. Mr Obama paused. Mr Brown froze, frowning. Mr Obama made a very slight joke. Mr Brown gassed himself, laughing for a good 30 seconds, eyelids fluttering like the wings of a soft-flapping Cabbage White.

Allegedly the most charismatic politician in the world, Mr Obama was a disappointment,...

...He spoke slowly, in a meandering manner. Some might say that he was thoughtful and professorial. Others might call his manner circuitous, even yarny. Am I saying that he was a bore? Oh dear. I find that I possibly am."

-- Quentin Letts, noticing what anyone who isn't under the spell of cultism sees, in The Daily Mail.

From Hannan To Hannity To Barack To Brown

"It's Common Sense When You Are In Debt You Spend Less - Anyone But a Politician Can See That."

-- Daniel Hannan, the new sensation of the British Parliament, by way of The Gateway Pundit.



Hat Tip: Neocon Express

Fine: Start With The Greens (It Was Their Idea)

"JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society."

-- Jonathan Leake and Brendan Montague, bringing us news of an idea that's already occurred to TMR, sort of, in The Times Online.

Confirmed: Obama Is NOTHING Like Lincoln

O.K., We See It Now As Well: Thank Goodness The Democrats Have Come Along To Finally Put A "Really Smart" President In The White House

"British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.



The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.

And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”

Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart: Lot of classics in there, I’m sure — Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Sound of Music — though this sort of collection always slips in a couple of Dude, Where’s My Car? 3 and Police Academy 12 just to make up the numbers. I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players."

-- Mark Steyn, making us miss the wisdom of George W. Bush, more and more, with each passing day, in The National Review Online.

From Black To Brown: So Sorry, The "Messiah" Is Too Busy Lowering The Levels Of The Oceans - And Fighting The Chill Of Global Warming - To Call In

"Not the standing podium-to-podium with the Messiah image that Mr Brown imagined."

-- Ben Brogan, commenting on the cancellation of Barack Obama's press conference with the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown - "because of snow" - in The Telegraph.U.K..

Hilarious.

This Is The Speech That You'll All Be Speaking Soon

"This is a moment that will live in history as long as history books are written."

-- Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Britain, sending presidential congratulations by clumsily trying out the cultish thought-stopping language that worked so well for Mr. "We Are The Ones That We've Been Waiting For", in the Scotsman News.

The U.S. Under George W. Bush: Steadily Growing More Unpopular By The Minute

Gordon Brown launched an extraordinary American charm offensive last night in an attempt to mend fences with George Bush over the Iraq war.

In a striking change of tone, he embraced the legacy of Tony Blair by revealing he would have stood alongside the American president to depose Saddam Hussein.

He risked dismaying some of his supporters by setting out a passionate defence of the war as "the right thing to do".

On his way to New York at the start of a three day visit to the United States that will take him to Washington and Boston, the Prime Minister lavished praise on America.

He tapped into American resentments by repeatedly singling out "European colleagues" such as France and Germany who "did not support President Bush in Iraq".

-- From The Daily Mail

Let's see now - what have I been saying recently? I don't know. Something about America's ability to gain "respect" in international affairs? Something about us "doing fine" without begging other nation's for friendship? I'm not sure. I must be having a "brain fart" of some kind.

Or was that YOU?