violence on the left:

 war on women: Libtalker Mike Papantonio Loathes Weak-Kneed Democrats, Especially Women

PAPANTONIO: ... we don't need Mary Beth Cahill types who lost the Kerry election.

SCHECTER (trying to get word in edgewise): Right ...

PAPANTONIO: We don't need Laura Schwartz who was a Democratic strategist who shows up on Fox.

SCHECTER (deflated): Right.

PAPANTONIO: We don't need Susan Estrich, a Dukakis advisor who lost that election.

SCHECTER: Oh God ...

PAPANTONIO: We don't need Donna Brazile who lost the Gore election. We don't need these people who don't understand that there is a tactic to a fight.

 

Asking a potential voter for his driver’s license? Civil-rights violation! Assassinating a U.S. citizen? Not a civil-rights violation!

Obama Ad: Little Girls Need Government Condoms to Make 'Dreams' Come True

JIM TREACHER: Smartest. President. Ever.

embroiled as they are in the Fauxcahontas story and having a favorite son in the POTUS race ....

from Sportspickle.com

Yesterday my mother in law casualy referred to me a a Nazi.  It was shortly after I pointed out that the taxpayers in the Columbus Public School District are paying her not to work.

And when I pointed out that the POTUS is now "selling the right t kill Bald Eagles" to "green" energy companies my wife said "now you're talking like a Republican."  I said thank you.  Then the tears started.

It's going to be a long five months.

The Tennessean, the daily newspaper in Tennessee's capital city Nashville, over the weekend trumpeted this headline: "Vanderbilt Poll: Obama Closes Gap With Romney."

According to the article, Obama is just one point behind Romney in one of the reddest states in the South, a state John McCain won in 2008 by 15.1 percentage points over Obama. It's also a state where the Republican Party captured near two-thirds majorities in both houses of the state legislature in 2010 and where voters chose Republicans in 7 of 9 congressional districts. The state has a popular Republican governor elected in landslide that same year, and both its U.S. Senators are Republicans.

So … how does it appear that Obama has “closed the gap” with Romney?

By some basic polling trickery, judging from this part of the story:

The poll of 1,002 Tennessee residents who are 18 and older found 42 percent would vote for Romney and 41 percent for Obama if the election were held now. The survey, conducted May 2-9 by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for Vanderbilt, had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

They polled residents. Not “likely voters.” Not even “registered voters.”

Good pollsters know that you get the most accurate poll results when you poll likely voters, since elections are won by getting more people to vote for you than vote against you.

Interestingly, as the paper reports, when the pollsters in this case delete the non-registered from the results, Romney leads Obama by 7 among registered voters.

Learn how to read ... and do math ... Leftists.

of course, nobody in the MSM will, but there ARE people out there who ... um ... know things.  And this is a two-fer.

First we had this, from the PMF awards: 

Obama Nazi death camp gaffe ‘hurt all Poles’: PM.

Poland’s prime minister said Wednesday that remarks by President Barack Obama erroneously identifying a Nazi death camp as Polish had hurt all Poles and he expected more from the US than “regret”.

“I am convinced that our American friends can today allow themselves a stronger reaction than a simple expression of regret from the White House spokesman — a reaction more inclined to eliminate once and for all these kinds of errors,” Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw.

Obama on Tuesday mistakenly called a Nazi facility used to process Jews for execution as a “Polish death camp.” The White House later said the president “misspoke” and expressed “regret”.

The linguistic faux pas overshadowed his posthumous award of America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Jan Karski, a former Polish anti-Nazi underground officer who provided the Allied powers with early eyewitness accounts of the Germany’s Holocaust against Jews.

Good thing we got rid of that dumb cowboy, Bush.  "Mis-spoke" my ass.  He read what was directly in front of him.  He did NOT misspeak.  Does anybody check these speeches with anybody knowledgable about anything? Nobody read the speech and noted how inaccurate as well as offensive that remark is to Poland? Guess not.  Despite the predictable and strong reaction from our Polish friends to this slur, the White House has refused to apologize (Note: Imagine if he had offended the Muslims.)

And then there was this, from the Weekly Standard…

In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more “about Judaism” than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.

“Obama … stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it,”

First question:  Has he ever read about Christianity?

Second question:  If he's read so much about the Jews, how come he didn't know Nazi Death Camps in Poland weren't Polish?

Final point from Kevin D Williamson over at The Corner:  John Podhoretz, points out that James Madison and John Adams, who both read Hebrew, certainly knew more about Judaism than does Barack Obama. In fact, most educated Americans in the early days of our country probably knew more about Judaism than does Obama: Part of the Puritan heritage is a very strong identification with Israel. American universities were offering regular Hebrew courses long before their English counterparts, and the careful study of the Jewish scriptures was part of any gentleman’s education in religion and ethics. Hebrew was compulsory at Harvard at one point. Which is not to say that the Puritans and their descendents were exactly philo-Semitic — only that they knew something. President Wilson, a nasty but well-educated man, appreciated as much when he spoke of the Hebrew commonwealth as a model for the American commonwealth.

But one need not look back so far. Jimmy Carter is no friend of the Jewish state, but as a student of scripture probably knows more about Jewish thought than does our current president.

 HMM: Obama’s Poland gaffe — you know, it was a Poland gaffe that lost the election in 1976 for Gerald Ford.

The US Department of Homeland Security has released a list of the keywords and phrases the agency monitors online to find potential threats.

Here's the full list.

Folks got back from Hawaii lameting the "beached whales" they saw.  And with my traveling I see LOTS of "inappropriate" attire.  Always said somebody should open a mirror shop in C-bus 'cause it's obvious most of these people don't OWN one!

When I found two good lists in my daily reading

Seven Rules for Public Decency When I rule the World and 5 Behaviors That Make You Trash.

From the first article:

7. Bike shorts are not interchangeable with actual shorts.

6. Muffin-tops belong on muffins

2. If you can wear it on a pole, don’t.

1. Pajama bottoms are not the same thing as pants.

And from the second:

Profanity in Public, Letting Your Brats Run Wild. Having a Nasty Yard.Dress for Failure.

Heading to southern Madison County shortly to visit the two cemetaries wherein my ancestors enjoy their final repose ... the QOTD comes from George Patton:

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”