Quick hits – UPDATED

Will be out most of the day but wanted to leave a few quick links for you

Via Brutally Honest:

American Digest: Resigning from the Revolution

Not-About-Me-Gates: It’s not about you. It’s about “my PBS Special” you have repeatedly shilled while lecturing the nation and otherwise. Almost makes one wonder…Am curious to hear the tapes and discover who the cowards are

Pelosi: Doesn’t care if she’s unpopular. Boy, she hated President Bush when he said things like that.

Be troubled by this sort of thuggery. And by this astonishing number the press ignores. It, and the firing of Inspectors General who dare to look too closely at things, and of course ACORN’s shady way should concern us a lot. Thank God a few people in government are still doing their jobs.

Yes, you can: Dems, who have ample majorities in both houses to pass whatever they choose, say can’t do it without GOP covering their backs.

His virginity is interesting, but the smallest part of who he is in some ways. But in our culture, it’s SHOOOOOCKING!

UPDATE: Home for just 25 minutes, so here are a few more interesting stories and links, scattershot:

Muslims in “Democracy School.” Very Interesting

Perpetual Adoration: Making a comeback in Boston after 40 years. Adoration is where I’ll be at this afternoon for a few hours. It bears tremendous
good fruit.

Christian Martyrdom: It’s not just for history books; it happens today.

I wonder if she is Obama’s “Mother figure”: Michelle Malkin on the NY Times Magazine glamfeature on Valerie Jarrett.

Bookworm has a different focus on that same article:

“…aside from hearing effusive praise for Valerie Jarrett, the President’s consigliere, you also learn so much about Obama. Just on the first page, you learn that he’s whiny, bad-tempered, lazy, ill-informed, stubborn, a loose cannon, and, when it comes to strong women, submissive. (Oh, gee, just the qualities I want in my president.) “

Irony: Ted Kennedy, from his own sick bed, fights for Obamacare, under which policy he would likely be counseled to be a good citizen and die…were he not in Congress.

Obama likes to say “the Republicans would have us do nothing,” but the truth is, he just doesn’t want to hear other ideas.

Meanwhile, in the UK the Swine Flu Minister (is that like an Obamian czar?) is being blamed for chaos. The CBO is trying to tell us that Obamacare is a fantasy that will bankrupt us and Bookie ponders what we mean when we say, “if I’m ever dying…”

Nurse says she was Forced to perform an abortion. Obama’s “Science Czar” would say “so? What’s the problem?”. That’s part of the plan.

Or, to put it another way: “Useless Eaters” should not be allowed to affect the bottom line and should die.

And You should not be allowed to make sense of a thing.

Pursuing Holiness rightly notes that Catholic Hospitals will be spending a lot on lawyers, soon.

Five Reasons why: GatesGate Matters. It seems the big narrative, that the lady who called in what she thought was an attempted break in, did not bring up race until asked for a description, and then it sounds to me like she says “Hispanic.” Is it just me, or does the dispatcher sound a bit grumpy? As I said before – I think all three men involved, Gates, Crowley and the president could have handled themselves better. Victor Davis Hanson has related thoughts

Clarice Feldman asks: Just how smart is Obama, really? Hmmm…Can he fly a plane? Fred Barnes says Obama seems seriously lacking a sufficient background in economics. I should think common sense would be adequate. When you’re in a recession, you don’t raise taxes. Even Schwartzenegger and Angela Merkel have figured that out.

Opposite: Everything coming out of DC is the opposite of what they say.

Rep. Conyers: (paraphrased) What good is reading the bill? It’s a thousand pages long! Just vote for it!. Or, as the rest of the Dems say: JUST TRUST US. They used to jeeringly suggest that Bush was saying that, too. Hmmm…

The Great Climate Change Hoax continues, assisted by those who would rather you put your dreams away and not aspire to live as they do.

Oh, and…other not-so settled science.

A story About Bob Hope, convert (H/T Reader Jill)