My love of broccoli is well-known, but I assure you, I was nowhere near Villa Park this week.

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Projectile vomit alert: if you read on, or click on this link too soon after eating, please be advised that I am not responsible for the consequences.

Lynn Sweet must not be available to write a year-end Valentine to He Who Walks on Water, Barack Obama so the editors resorted to getting material from–are you ready for this?!–the Huffington Post! Not only that, but this drivel, written by a self-described mom, who pours out her heart to Michelle Obama about her fear that someone here in this racist country will assassinate her husband, is teased on the front page in a full-color banner at the top. Here’s some choice nuggets from the post by Ms. Erin Kotecki Vest.

“How does a family like yours decide between changing the world and risking your lives?”

“I look at my husband and my two beautiful children, and I wonder how on earth you and your family will make this decision. It would be a sacrifice, no question. Possibly the biggest sacrifice a family could make. We all know it wouldn’t just be the usual pressures of the job or public life, it could very well mean the word no one wants to say but everyone is thinking: “assassination.”

The ugly truth is some in America may not be ready to see a black family in the White House. The ugly truth is the decision to run for president could mean the death of your husband or family member or yourself. Is any job worth it? I don’t know. There are no easy answers. Would I risk my own family to change the world? I don’t know. I honestly do not know.”

“Whatever you decide, the Moms, if no one else, will understand and have your back. If you make the choice to change the world, we’ll be there with flags flying, and we’ll remember the sacrifice your family is making for ours. If you decide to refrain from the Oval Office, we Moms will know exactly why. We will not for a moment question the protection of your family.”

I realize that a lot of people are on vacation this week, but is that really an excuse for the Chicago Sun-Times, which is a fine paper in many ways, and one in which I have been honored to have some of my scribbling appear, to resort to reprinting this screed? I think not.

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Devoted listeners of my radio show know that I watch a prodigious amount of television, and that in addition to C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” and Keith Olbermann’s trainwreck of a show, my “I watch it so you don’t have to list” has included “Celebrity Fit Club” and “Breaking Bonaduce.” I have endured the ridicule of friends and loved ones for wasting time on that last one, but now I think I am vindicated. Check out this video of Danny Bonaduce smacking down this America-hating conspiracy goofball, John Conner.

Thanks, Danny. I have to admit I don’t always agree with some of your choices–the steroids spring to mind–but in this case, I’m with you 100%.

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I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas. We did, and now we are getting set for New Year’s. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I figure if you realize something is working and needs to change, you should change it NOW not later. Still, I must concede that there is something about a year ending that focuses the mind on all those things that you want to do better, and in my case, all the ways I’ve fallen short of where I should be. All this by way of explaining that I am spending this week getting organized and getting ready to hit the ground running in the new year, which is why I haven’t been posting all my sublime and ridiculous thoughts here as often as they occur to me. Still, it’s not like I’m not paying attention. For example, you’ve got to check out this hilarious photo of John Francois Kerry in Iraq, and the commentary from the guys at the excellent Power Line blog.

And this buffoon thinks–no, he KNOWS that he should have been president. And is it any wonder when he can write brilliant sentences like this one:

“There’s something much worse than being accused of “flip-flopping”: refusing to flip when it’s obvious that your course of action is a flop.”

Why do I picture him re-reading that drivel and thinking “Damn, I’m clever!” Are you kidding me, Kerry?

Say what you want about the democrats. They are entertaining. I almost wet myself laughing at Hillary’s appearance on “The View,” especially the part about her and Bill decorating the Christmas tree and enjoying all the memories as they lovingly look at each ornament. Repeating: are you kidding me? I almost believe that Bil and Hillary spend Christmas in Chapaqua baking sugar cookies, listening to Christmas carols and exchanging affectionate glances. If these two weren’t both so hostile to the 2nd amendment, they’d probably be exchanging gun shots, for heaven’s sake. Watch for more of this sort of mendacious blather. To paraphrase The Carpenters, it’s only just begun.

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What would Christmas be without another article about the guy, who to listen to our MSM friends, gives Jesus a run for his money in the Messiah department? From this morning’s Liberal Death Star:

“Mr. Obama has sought to navigate the competing currents of celebrity and substance, initially fearful of being caricatured as a lightweight. While most Democrats do not question his aptitude for grasping foreign or domestic policy, it remains unclear whether an Obama candidacy would present a slate of new ideas or just offer a fresh way of articulating familiar ideology.”

Gee, that’s a real mystery for the ages, no? Liberals haven’t had a new idea since the New Deal, and Barack Hussein Obama aka He Who Walks on Water is no exception. Granted, he’s very skilled at couching his socialist ideas in the language of reasonableness and common sense, but when the mask is stripped off, it’s more of the same “health care is a right,” “tax cuts for the rich” class envy crap that we’ve heard from all the other lefties.

Something else to note from the article:

“It’s not always easy for a black politician to gauge the right tone to take — too angry? not angry enough?” he writes in his latest book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
But in the same chapter on race, he notes, “Whatever preconceived notions white Americans may continue to hold, the overwhelming majority of them these days are able — if given the time — to look beyond race in making their judgments of people.”

The man-god had better hope that white people don’t look beyond race because it is only the liberal white guilt of many that causes them to be swept up in the emotional appeal of his “lyrical” speeches, while ignoring his extremely left-wing voting record and points of view.

He’s probably running. We’ll find out when he gets back from Hawaii. It might take him longer to return than his family, since they will fly, and he will walk.

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In yesterday’s post I wrote that the Marines charged in the Haditha incident were charged with “premeditated murder,” and recommended that you read the excellent post by the Machete of Truth on this outrageous prosecution. The Machete writes that they are charged with “unpremeditated murder.” The Machete is right. In my anger over the way these Marines are being treated, I got a little sloppy. Sorry about that!

Hat tip: Mensa.

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Like many of you, I have been disgusted and flummoxed by the hero worship for Castro’s gleeful executioner, Che Guevara. If there was ever a more cruel, vicious, sick, twisted figure, it’s hard to imagine one, yet from “The Motorcycle Diaries” to the heroic image of this brutal killer on t-shirts, he is lionized and nearly canonized. That’s why I was delighted to hear that Target had pulled a CD-case emblazoned with Che’s image from its shelves. As several critics have noted, this character is not exactly the poster boy for peace, love and understanding. Kudos to Investor’s Business Daily for writing in their editorial “What next? Hitler backpacks? Pol Pot cookware? Pinochet pantyhose?” wrote Investor’s Business Daily in an editorial earlier this month, citing the Guevara case as a model of “tyrant-chic,” and to Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady for contacting Target earlier this week to ask the same question.

The time is long passed when the fraud that is communism, and its essential reliance on terror and murder, can pretend to be about “social justice,” and telling the truth about this scumbag is a good step in that direction.

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Four marines have been charged with premeditated murder in Haditha. I find this disgusting and outrageous, and rather than try to say more, let me commend your attention to this post by the Machete of Truth, who says it better than I could.

And some people wonder why it’s taking so long to defeat this enemy. (They would be ones who don’t want us to win, in case you were wondering.)

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From “just another reason to be ashamed to be a baby boomer” file: Arrested development case Walter Klein and his “girlfriend” Susan Joncha. Is it just me, or does it seem ridiculous for anyone over 50 to be a “girlfriend” or a “boyfriend?” If you haven’t read about these two mopes and their Christmas tug-of-war over two adopted Chinese girls, ages 2 and 6, check out today’s Chicago Sun-Times.

We first read about Klein and Joncha in last Sunday’s Sun-Times. There we learned the following facts:

• They started dating in 1992.
• In 2001 they moved to Tucson (another red flag).
• They went to China together, picked up the first child, and returned to Tucson to resume shacking up.
• In 2005, they went back for a second helping of Chinese (you know what they say about Chinese and getting hungry an hour later), and returned to Chicago.
• They broke up just before Christmas 2005.

Walter Klein, 56, claims he is the girls’ “father,” and is therefore entitled to visit them on Christmas. That’s what the lawsuit was all about. Yesterday Mr. Klein was confronted with reality in the form of Judge Leida Santiago’s verdict, wisely denying him any visitation.

Most of you are probably wondering why these two didn’t just get married, as quaint as they may sound to hipsters like them. Here’s the answer, as reported in the Sun-Times. “Klein was married once before and did not like it, he said.” Which part don’t you like, Mr. Klein? The responsibility? The commitment? You seem to like the benefits of having a wife and family, but that other stuff, …not so much. “I want to see my kids. Whaaa! Whaaa! Whaaa!,” you whine. My answer to you is grow up. We’re trying to have a civilization here, and marriage is the glue that holds it together. If you want to make a mockery of the fundamental building block of our society, you can just sit home alone on Christmas sucking on a frozen Swanson’s turkey dinner for all I care. If you love your “children,” you’d want them to have the best, which includes married parents, but I have a feeling that this is all about you, no?

As for the “girlfriend,” Lady, what the !@#$*& were you thinking? “Dating,” as in shacking up, for 13 years? Adopting kids with a guy who was never going to do the right thing for you and for them? You say he was “just a guy [you] dated.” Thank God that the Chinese government is restricting adoptions to prevent dumb bunnies like you from using children as props to play house with guys you “date.” Those commies have more sense than either you or your narcissistic “boyfriend.” Isn’t it great to know that this dingbat is a teacher? There’s a fine example for young people.

Thanks, Judge Leida Santiago, for a common sense ruling.

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Sen.Patrick Leahy on C-SPAN (from an interview that took place on Thursday), in response to a question about Sen. Jeff Sessions’ suggestion that the same democrats who criticize President Bush for the NSA international terrorist surveillance program would be blaming him for not connecting the dots in the event of another terrorist attack, saying that even though September 11 happened on the Bush administration’s watch, democrats didn’t blame them for “dropping the ball.” Wait—what just happened? You don’t blame them for “dropping the ball,” Senator Leahy? You mean other than just now?

David Brooks on Meet The Press saying that Barack Obama is “a different kind of politician,” praising him and urging him to run, all the while stating how much he disagrees with him on virtually everything. Granted, Mr. Brooks didn’t say he’d vote for him, but it’s hard to believe anyone with a Lynn Sweet style slobbering school girl crush, and Mr. Brooks is showing all the signs, could avoid doing so.

Tom Friedman on Meet The Press, illustrating how democrat voters, cast their votes for President in 2000 and 2004, by holding his nose and saying “Gore,” and “Kerry.” Probably true in many cases, but it looked and sounded ridiculous.

Ted Kennedy, in his first appearance, on Fox News Sunday babbling incoherently about big government, and claiming that 36 million Americans go to bed hungry every night. One thing’s for sure: he’s not one of them. Where in the name of God did he get this statistic? The bottom of the Chappaquiddick River? See it here.

What was your favorite stupid remark on this morning’s Sunday shows? Please post your comments here.

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