Voting with Cousin Pookie

Obama wants Democrats to make sure they get “Cousin Pookie” off the couch and into the voting booth, tomorrow. The president is trying out a joke, obviously. They’re unamused at Hot Air, and are innocently asking who is Cousin Pookie? Obama is from Chicago, after all. Check the pet cemeteries. Make your own gravestone!

Four Amusing Links – UPDATED

UPDATE: Okay, call it FIVE amusing links, thanks to Iowahawk First up: Mark Steyn had me guffawing over my cornflakes this morning with this one: The Senior Advisor [Valerie Jarrett] seems to have forgotten that she is the power. Admittedly, this is a recurring lapse on the part of the administration. There was Barack Obama [...]

Brilliant Artists are Privileged

Now, this is a curious thing. The Rhetoritician makes the valid point that Hollywood wishes to excuse men like Roman Polanski from their wrongdoing, but will work to destroy men like Mark Foley for theirs. Recalling Orwell’s Animal Farm The Rhetoritician entitles his piece Some are more Equal than Others. Looking at pictures from U2′s [...]

Who can have a Catholic Funeral & more

That seems to be the question of the hour in my email, and thankfully, Deacon Greg has a helpful post on the subject: Because of its public nature the Church’s public intercession for a departed soul is more limited. A funeral Mass can be celebrated for most Catholics, but there are some specific cases in [...]

Sebelius cheers thugs & a GREAT photo essay

There is offensive language on this video, so if that bothers you, you are warned. To my way of thinking the physical violence is more offensive: Source: The indispensable Hot Air The day after the attack on a fellow selling buttons and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags (and which immediately preceded this event), Health Secretary [...]

Our freezing summer makes me gripe

It’s freezing here; we can’t swim, can’t have the windows open. Every day is cold. It just convinces me more than ever that solar flares (or the lack of them) have more to do with the ever-changing climate of planet earth. And more resentful of policies, programs and restrictions put in our way, in service [...]

Podcast; Office for the Dead (for Iran)

As I explain in the podcast, after turning alternative media for lack of MSM coverage, and reading tons of material on Iran, and listening to the president’s remarks, and reading Twittered Tweets from people in Iran trying to get information and images out of that country, I was already inclined to pray for the people [...]