The Uncle in the Attic

Senator Obama had to correct his statement regarding the liberation of a Nazi death camp. Basically, he named the wrong camp while addressing a group of Jewish voters. The camp in question was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz; and the uncle was his Great Uncle. That is not my point.

This is my point.

In November of 2007, Senator Obama referred to Vice President Cheny as 'a crazy uncle in the attic'. If you saw the rest of the story referenced above, you also saw that Senator Obama's great-uncle had difficulty when he returned from the war.

"I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. The story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months," Obama said.

actually Buchenwald, not Auschwitz as corrected by the Senator's campaign.

If the good senator is serious about changing dialog and exposing us to beneficent hand of liberalism, why does he make offhand remarks about serious medical conditions - is this how 'white folks' can expect to be treated if Senator O is elected? He will use his ill uncle as the punchline of a disparaging remark about a political opponent -- who happens to be his 8th cousin. We are not allowed to talk about Senator Obama's wife but I guess 8th cousins and 'white folks' are fair game.

Obama to Tennessee GOP: Lay Off My Wife

Ultimate Office

Rich Sloan has his, I have mine.

Toshiba Portege M400 w/ Docking Station
Widescreen Display - need another one!
1.5 TB direct attached storage
.5 TB Network Storage
Wireless Printserver with Duplex laser printer
USB Scanner
Grand Central for Business Phone
WiFi Hotspot
Google Apps in place of a true company intranet

Moonbat? Monbiot!

Another one bites the dust.

I may begin to refer to all moonbats as Monbiots.

Technorati Tags: Moonbat, Iraq

Ann is dead on!

Ann Coulter's latest column is exactly right. The synopsis is:

There are three times to engage a dictator:

1. When you are looking for an ally against some other dictatorship (Nixon w/ China)
2. When you have to - because they can hold you equally at risk (Engagement with the USSR)
3. When you are accepting their surrender (MacArthur w/ Imperial Japanese Forces - September 2, 1945)

Senator Obama's desire to meet without precondition with America's state enemies conform to none of these, unless his 'preparations' mean something a whole lot different than what they seem to mean.



Marc Ambinder has more.

Technorati Tags: Obama, Diplomacy, Politics

Would you meet diplomatically with these countries' leaders?

Skydiving Record remains intact

Unfortunately Michel Fournier suffered a technical mishap and will not be able to make the attempt. This means that the record of 102,800 feet set August 16, 1960 currently held by Joseph Kittinger remains intact.

This reminds me of a movie I saw once as a kid. It was a story of designing ejection seats and culminated in a parachute jump from a balloon. I thought they might be related. Searching via Google using the terms "movie USAF Kittinger" did not find it but, "movie USAF rocket sled parachute jump" yielded the movie On The Threshold of Space (1956) from Turner Classic Movies. Here is the TCM page. Here it is on the IMDB. I knew I had seen this story before. I hope they play it again soon.