What The Bloggess brought to her daughter's school to celebrate Multi-Cultural Day

All right, first of all, I’ll wait for all the heads to finish exploding over a Texas school celebrating “Multi-Cultural Day.”

OK, then. Next, I will remind you that Jenny, The Bloggess, is my dear friend and that I invented the acronym PFNFNDHTIN (pee first, no food, no drinks, have tissues and inhaler nearby) to rate her humor and caution people before they read it. I’ll wait.

Finally, if you do not follow The Bloggess — and if you don’t, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? — let me fill in some relevant biographical details. She was born and raised in Texas and still lives there with her husband, Victor, and five-year-old daughter, Hailey. Her father is a taxidermist. When she went back home to her parents’ house for Independence Day in 2009, the CANNON in her father’s yard was so unremarkable in its milieu that she did not notice it UNTIL HE FIRED IT AS PART OF THE EVENING’S FESTIVITIES. Also, she killed a bear when she was only three. No, wait, that was Daniel Boone. Now, I remember — the Bloggess knew how to fire a rifle by the time she was five.

OK, do you have some sense of dear Jenny, The Bloggess now? And you’ve PFNFNDHTIN?

Then you are cleared to learn what The Bloggess brought to her daughter’s school to celebrate Multi-Cultural Day.

Best video round-up of Obama's broken promises is on — Comedy Central?

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Jon Stewart at Comedy Central has pulled together the best collection of videos of Obama making campaign pledges that he never intended to keep, which some people uncharitably, but accurately, brand as “lies.”

Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters has a partial transcript of Stewart’s report and the following interchange between Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee sums up Obama’s blunder:

STEWART: Senior political analyst Samantha Bee joins with us more. Sam, this looks and sounds pretty bad for Obama.

SAMANTHA BEE: Well, only if you are watching and listening, Jon. This has been a real problem for the President.

STEWART: Because he is now being held accountable for his promises.

BEE: No, because he made promises he could be held accountable for. Listen, it’s fine to pledge transparency and openness, subjective concepts, but for God’s sake don’t start telling people what channel they can go watch it on. You’re just setting yourself up.

STEWART: You are saying that politicians then in your mind should never emphatically promise anything.

BEE: On no, they can promise emphatically, but never specifically.

H/T Newsbusters and Instapundit.

But wait! There’s more!

Even Jack Cafferty is fed up with Obama’s lies — apparently they become obvious and important after they thwart Cafferty’s wishes, although clearly not until, as Neo-Neocon discerningly observes:

The “public” that’s being shut out isn’t just the Republicans. If it had been, somehow I very much doubt that Cafferty would be speaking out against the process, despite the broken promises. But shutting out everyone else — including liberals and the press — well, “how dare they?” indeed!

Obama’s one real talent is his ability to tell people exactly what they want to hear in order to get them to relax and stop paying attention while he does whatever he wants. It will be very instructive to  idealistic liberals when they start matching Obama’s words to his deeds in a one-to-one correspondence 100 percent of the time. Their current habit of tuning in only when he’s telling them what they want to hear only works with honest people who do keep their promises and have real values and believe what they say. Sampling doesn’t work with Obama.

Vastu — 'Nature has an architecture'

From Channel 4, NBC, in Washington, D.C.:

PBS Nightly Business Report:

Glad tidings! I finished my course yesterday. It was about Vastu, um, Sthapatya Ved — er, Fortune-Creating ® Buildings.

I’m going to let the videos explain. They feature Jeffrey Abramson, whom I know as a long-time acquaintance, discussing the application of the principles of ancient Vedic architecture and modern Green approaches in the design and construction of his family’s newest office building, 2000 Tower Oaks, in Bethesda, Maryland, which opened in 2008.

In the 1990’s, Margaret and I attended a fundraiser in Jeffrey’s mansion in Maryland, which was among the very first Fortune-Creating ® homes built in the United States, to raise money to build the first office building in the U.S. built according to the ancient principles for Fortune-Creating ® buildings to house the activities for teaching the Transcendental Meditation program in Bethesda, Maryland. Margaret and I were founding donors.

Anyway, Jeffrey’s a good man who acts and speaks from entirely positive intentions. I know that conservatives are wary of the Green movement because parts of it have been hijacked in order to destroy capitalism. However, there are people and groups who support Green ideals and programs while being entirely supportive of capitalism — Jeffrey and the people behind the Fortune-Creating ® buildings are among them. I am saying this from knowing them for 30-ish years and the fact that their capitalistic can-do spirit and creativity have made Fairfield, Iowa, the entrepreneurial hotbed for the state. (ABC’s “Nightline” was going to run a story on Fairfield and Fortune-Creating ® buildings tonight, but they bumped it. They don’t post the video and embed code until after they run the story, so I’ll write about it when they do.)

By the way, I’ve attended meetings in 2000 Tower Oaks, Jeffrey’s Fortune-Creating ® building featured above, and was on one of the first tours he led. It really is a delightful place to be — nourishing, kind, joyful. I really felt like I sparkled inside when I was there. I absolutely believe him when he says his employees are eager to come to work in that environment.

Update, 1/9/10, Sat.: When Jeffrey refers to something being “in accordance with natural law,” or “laws of Nature,” he is talking about actual laws of science — such as spherical harmonics, Super String Theory, Grand Unification Theory, and so on — and phenomena observed by science, such as research showing the firing of the neurons in the hypothalamus of the human brain is affected by the direction the person is facing. He is NOT alluding to the concept of “natural law” invoked by various religions, philosophies, monarchies or totalisms to create the illusion that their authority is divine and people must do what they say.

Really, Sen. McCain? What tipped you off? UPDATED

OK, when John McCain is finally willing to characterize Obama accurately without worrying about being called a RAAAAACIST!, it looks to me like a watershed moment all-around.

I blame Bush.

Updated, 1/9/10, Sat.:

Patterico had a guest post in 2008 featuring a letter dated February 6, 2006, from Sen. McCain to his new colleague, Obama, showing that McCain actually had Obama’s character sussed out correctly almost as soon as Obama set foot in the Senate. Here’s how it begins — and it gets better as McCain continues, so be sure to read the whole thing:

Dear Senator Obama:

I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions. I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble. Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again.

Play him off, Keyboard Cat

OK, here’s the scoop on the number one video in the list of the “30 Most Important Cats of 2009” (scroll down to the post below this one): his name is Fatso, the video was made 20 years ago and Fatso is now in heaven. (Pause to say a prayer for his soul and wipe away a tear.) However, he has become quite the YouTube celebrity for mash-ups, frequently to play someone off, as in, play while someone leaves the stage. The video explains how Fatso was able to play, and I hope this post will inspire more kitty music videos and mash-ups:

Here’s the Keyboard Cat/Hall and Oates mash-up:

'The 30 most important cats of 2009'

Have you seen this cat? Because it is AWESOME.
Have you seen this cat? Because it is AWESOME.

I saw this linked at Ace of Spades HQ and loved it — if you check out the link, my personal favorites are the musical cats, #8 and #1, and I’d love to hear about your nominees. The direct link is here.

I’m sorry for the light posting this week — I am taking an online course that I need to finish by Jan. 8.

This means that I am too pre-occupied to point out that I was calling for Michael Steele’s resignation last summer, when I thought he was too incompetent to chair the RNC. Now I’m wondering whose side he’s on — he seems determined to seize defeat from the jaws of victory in November. Is he that incompetent naturally or does the RNC have a walking, talking concern troll at its helm? He’s got to go, five-point obedience tests/loyalty oaths and all. See Ace, especially the comments, for the well-reasoned shellacking. Steele’s remark that I find the most outrageous is that he is not familiar with Republican candidates, which tells me he has no idea that that’s the essence of his job. Obama is no genius but at least HE is smart enough to cover his ass by recruiting other people to do his work for him so he can take the credit. Steele isn’t even smart enough to do that.

Also, if Steele is planning to use the “five conservative ideals” he describes in his book to purge new fiscal conservatives and new Republicans like me, I have news: I refuse to be purged and I am busy recruiting more people like me!

P.S.

Has this blog been slow to load for you? It has for me tonight and my ISP couldn’t give me an immediate answer on why, but their engineers are looking into it.

P.P.S.

The Weblog Awards people say they can’t afford the bandwidth for the voting so they won’t be doing the awards this year. I found several new blogs I enjoy last year from this contest, so I’m sorry it won’t be introducing me to more this year. However, I am grateful to my kind readers for nominating me in various categories.

Charles Johnson outraged that a Democrat's photo attempt to prove Obama ever had a real job before becoming president is a PhotoShop

Really. He’s threatening legal action and everything. Ace has the story.

[Shoulders shaking, church guffaw about to burst out.]

Update, 1/2/2010, Sat.:

Patterico, too: but ask dear Little Miss Attila, who also explains here why he might not be buying her a drink at this year’s CPAC.