http://neveryetmelted.com The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Michael D. Tanner lists some of the reasons we need to defeat the democrat Health Care Bill: staggering costs resulting in higher taxes and insurance premiums for which working Americans will get lower quality and rationed services. Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/20/a-real-turkey/ Hold on to your hats. Sarah Palin's book has actually garnered a positive review from San Francisco liberal democrat Sandra Tsing Loh, and in Salon no less. Tsing Loh concedes that Palin's opus has "surprising charms." Now hold your horses, you snarky, lefty, NPR-listening, New York Times-subscribing readers of Salon. I ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/20/sandra-tsing-loh-sf-democrat-likes-palins-book/ Don Troiani, Bunker Hill From Gateway Pundit: Senate Democrats will only deliberate 10 hours on Saturday before they vote to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy. The bill will nationalize the nation’s health care industry, increase costs, ration care, tax cosmetic surgery, cut Medicare, charge a monthly abortion fee, and take away your ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/20/here-they-come/ Heaven knows, Andrew Sullivan is a prolific and occasionally intelligent blogger. Andrew combines a rather wide ranging curiosity with a penchant for enthusiastic argument. But... Andrew has turned into a textbook case demonstrating how sexual deviants, though often extraordinarily talented, are too frequently irrational, irresponsible, and abusive ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/19/deport-andrew-sullivan/ Barack Obama received a lectureship in Law at the University of Chicago without ever publishing any legal articles or monographs. He won election to the Illinois State Senate (in a solid democrat district) without opposition by disqualifying his primary opponents. He won a seat in the United States ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/19/obama-receives-tae-kwon-do-black-belt/ Lindsey Graham must have decided that he wants to keep his job. Yesterday he left Eric Holder baffled during Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, simply by asking him: Can you give me a case in United States history where a enemy combatant caught on a battlefield was tried in civilian ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/19/graham-demolishes-holder/ Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for giving mankind scientific advice about the earth's climate, but how good a scientific authority is he really? Here he is a few days ago talking with Conan O'Brian about geothermal energy. 1:24 video Quote the Goracle: "two kilometers or so down in most ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/18/al-gore-not-so-good-at-science/ http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/18/the-president-greets-a-visitor/ An hospitable Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) makes every effort to feed National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen, but is frustrated by the strange incompetence of the clueless biped at the simple feat of eating penguin. 1:48 video Hat tip to Karen L. Myers. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/18/eat-your-penguin-its-good-for-you/ Megan McArdle reads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report on ObamaCare and finds that the prognosis is bad. Democrats can't simply legislate more health care loaves and fishes miraculously into existence. (T)he most worrying item is tucked into the CMS's "caveats and limitations of estimates" section, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/18/wishes-arent-doctors/ THE ECONOMY IS SO BAD, that . . . I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. CEO's are now playing miniature golf. I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?" If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/17/viral-email-humor-of-the-day/ Rightwingliberal is extremely impressed with the success of the democrat's stimulus package. The government's own web-site (Recovery.gov) demonstrates that Washington has managed to figure out a way to spend money, and save jobs, in Congressional districts that don't exist. I really, really wanted to believe this was an Onion ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/17/stimulus-saves-thousands-of-jobs-in-non-existent-places/ There was a time when American leaders did not bow to foreign princes. Wesley Pruden delivers some well-deserved criticism of Barack Obama's mistakes in presidential protocol. So far it's a memorable trip. He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/17/obama-bows-nation-cringes/ Andrew Malcolm, at the LA Times, sits on the sidelines, marveling at the enormous avalanche of leftwing abuse prompted by the publisher's release of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Wow, for somebody who's supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/17/palin-book-release-upsets-left/ photo:Vaclav Silha London Times: Czech photographer Vaclav Silha shooting on the banks of the Grumeti River in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania happened to be in the right place at the right time to record a crocodile's untimely end. (An) incautious croc (Crocodylus niloticus) got too close to a female (Hippopotamus amphibius) who ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/17/too-bad-for-that-crocodile/ Oregon democrat Earl Blumenauer made liberals happy with a New York Times editorial calling conservative critics of democrat Health Care Reform "liars" and ridiculing the very idea that what Sarah Palin referred to on Facebook as "death panels" could possibly be found in the bill passed by the House of ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/16/its-representative-blumenauers-pants-that-are-on-fire/ Barack Obama once promised that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would receive "a full military trial." What happens to KSM is now up to him, and he has clearly changed his mind. How embarrassing that this video has turned up! 1:17 video http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/16/promises-promises/ Are you a genetically a dandelion or an orchid? Both have their place in the evolutionary scheme of things according to a recent article in the Atlantic by David Dobbs. Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/16/dandelion-or-orchid/ Courtesy of our elite law schools, Shearman & Sterling, and a liberal Supreme Court majority, some news agency reports that federal judges are busy right now turning captured jihadis loose. Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse (In Washington, D.C.) are giving detainees ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/16/coming-soon-to-a-neighborhood-near-you/ Vladimir Putin doesn't bow HotAirPundit demonstrates that he-men heads of state don't bow to Akihito. OTOH, Kathy Kattenburg thinks caring about these kinds of issues (Republic vs. Monarchy, Government by Consent vs. Divine Right) makes you a "yokel." For her, politically correct guilt over Harry Truman dropping the bomb on ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/15/pondering-the-protocol/ 89-Year-Old Huntsman Melvin Poe leads the Bath County Hounds out on a beautiful November morning (click on image for larger picture) The Bath County Hounds are a private pack, founded in 1992, after Melvin Poe's retirement as huntsman of Orange County, by George L. Ohrstrom to hunt his 3000-acre Fassifern Farm ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/15/hunting-with-the-bath-county-hounds/ The President of the United States bows before the Emperor of Japan The LA Times reports that the Chosen One bent low again, this time to Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan. Obama's bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia last April produced widespread criticism as a violation of American Republican principle and ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/14/obama-bows-again/ How can a case against a foreign enemy apprehended by another government possibly be prosecuted within the rules of domestic criminal procedure? Khalid Shaikh Mohammed obviously was never Mirandized. What can Eric Holder and Barack Obama possibly be thinking? Are these people hopelessly naive? Andrew McCarthy doesn't think so. He thinks ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/14/why-give-ksm-a-civilian-trial/ Cropped and enlarged "Boa" photo Despite the "internet sensation" claim, Ananova is really the only news source on this one. A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has become an internet sensation. It was originally posted in a thread on the website of the People's Daily, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/14/giant-snake-story/ We were buried in the clouds associated with Tropical Storm Ida today, causing satellite Internet connectivity to grind to a halt. Sorry, it just was not working, so I read a book instead. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/13/clouds-on-the-blue-ridge/ This photo is making the rounds via viral email. Hat tip to Rich Duff. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/13/email-photo-of-the-day/ These Japanese tried charging into the teeth of determined American resistance. Even Time magazine recognizes that democrat efforts to impose socialized health care on an unwilling nation are looking more anjd more like the hopeless and futile Banzai attacks made by suicidal Japanese units on well-prepared Marine positions on South Pacific ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/12/democrat-suicide-by-health-care/ Caroline Glick admires the classy, non-political gesture. A couple of days ago I heard the news that George and Laura Bush paid a private visit to the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood. They specifically requested that the base commander not inform the media of their visit. They came. They comforted the ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/12/george-laura-bush-secretly-visited-fort-hood/ In his Fort Hood speech (the one that gave Marc Ambinder goosebumps), Barack Obama graciously complimented the slain American soldiers, but he did it implicitly at everyone else's expense. "In an age of selfishness, they embody responsibility. In an era of division, they call upon us to come together. In ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/12/whos-being-divisive/ Humans... They're what's for dinner. One of the participants on a bamboo fly rod list forwarded the link to this 2007 YouTube video of a mountain lion looking into the window of a Colorado home in very much the manner of a house cat sitting patiently outside a mouse hole. The ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/12/quite-interested-lion-eyes-woman-and-children-inside-house/ Bird Dog asks: If the ObamaCare proposal is so good, why do you have to imprison people who don’t want to participate? Dick Morris identifies the relevant portions of the Bill. The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reported that the House version of the healthcare bill specifies that those who don’t ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/12/buy-insurance-or-go-to-jail/ —this post is repeated annually— WWI came to an end by an armistice arranged to occur at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The date and time, selected at a point in history when mens’ memories ran much longer, represented a compliment to St. ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/11/armistice-day-later-known-as-veterans-day-also-known-as-martinmas/ Michel Felice Corne, The Constitution and the Guerriere Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/11/old-ironsides-under-fire-from-bourgeois-neighbors/ David Brooks is enough of a liberal himself that he dutifully identifies Islamicism as a fringe feature of the Muslim world. That fringe tends to do awfully well whenever opinion polls of Muslims get taken. But even Brooks thinks the epidemic of political correctness following the Fort Hood ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/11/a-national-rush-to-therapy/ Marc Ambinder thought Obama's Fort Hood Speech was his best since the Inauguration, possibly his best ever. It was so wonderful that Ambinder admits that he experienced a classic Obamagasm. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/11/different-reactions-to-obamas-fort-hood-speech/ Founded November 10, 1775. ------------------------------ Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune's Birthday Message RPS ORDERS No. 47 (Series 1921) HEADQUARTERS U.S. MARINE CORPS Washington, November 1, 1921 759. The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/10/happy-birthday-united-states-marine-corps/ Asiatic black bear (Selenarctos thibetanus) Strategy Page reports that a formidable new ally, a powerful fighter particularly skilled in mountain warfare, recently joined the Western Anti-Jihadist Coalition. In Indian Kashmir, an Islamic terrorist leader, and one of his followers was killed by a black bear. Two other terrorists were wounded, but ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/10/islamic-terrorists-killed-in-kashmiri-cave/ Tim Blair describes the mental acrobatics performed by the MSM worldwide in order to avoid identifying Islamic fanaticism as the motive behind Nidal Malik Hasan's deadly attack. The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)'s first significant report on the atrocity, presented at midday on Friday by Washington correspondent Lisa Millar, avoided any ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/09/reporting-an-islamically-motivated-massacre/ The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall with this 5:06 video. I was watching this video which mentions that 200 people were killed trying to get over the wall after the East German government issued orders to fire upon defectors, and I ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/09/die-mauer-ist-weg-the-wall-is-gone/ Back in 1969, when Richard Nixon was trying to conscript me, part of the process accompanying physical examinations and aptitude testing was a lengthy background form. The US Military was extremely conservative, since in 1969 it was still seeking assurances that prospective draftees were not members or associates of such ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/09/nidal-malik-hasan-had-certain-ties/ Twenty years ago, the Soviet Empire was beginning to collapse. In the Telegraph, Charles S. Maier recalls the suddenness of the end. As late as the summer of 1989, the protesting groups seemed small and fragmented, but then, encouraged by the sense of change that their own activity helped to ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/09/20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ "to thunderous applause." Two video clips via the BlogProf. http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/08/this-is-how-liberty-dies/ Rep. Paul Ryan ( R -- 1 WI), in his 2 minute House speech captured in this 1:53 video, correctly observes that the democrat's health care bill is not about reforming the system or lowering costs. It's about ideology. What side of history do democrats want to be on? Not ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/08/what-side-of-history-do-you-want-to-be-on/ Like housebreakers waiting until Saturday night when American adults would be out for the evening, Nancy Pelosi and the House democrats, joined among Republicans only by former Representative William ("office cooler full of cash") Jefferson's replacement Joseph Cao ("R" -- 2 LA), narrowly passed the labrynthine multi-trillion dollar bill proposing ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/08/midnight-smash-and-grab/ The most epic World of Warcraft duel is not going to be fought inside the game, reports the New York Times. Nor will broadswords, enchanted armor, and magic spells be producing the decision. DPS will be inflicted by interagency memoranda, and the Communist Party rather than the program algorithm ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/chinese-ministries-battle-over-wow/ Rich Lowry makes the same point, observing that the democrats are operating on the basis of a mandate for radical change that they never had. On November 3, the fairy tale died. The election results in Virginia and New Jersey dismantled the self-satisfied, just-so story that Democrats have been ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/the-democrats-mandate-gap/ David Brooks, too, observes that the willingness of democrats to try for radical change at the risk of the economy is costing them the support of the non-ideological center. Independents turned on the Republican Party because the MSM persuaded them that it was George W. Bush's intransigent extremism which ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/07/democrats-scaring-independents/ Sergeant Kimberly Munley The commanding officer of Fort Hood, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, reported today that a civilian police officer was responsible for ending the massacre at the Army base. Fort Hood police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner arrived in under three minutes after receiving reports of gunfire on Thursday afternoon. ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/she-shot-him-four-times-though-hit-twice-herself/ How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. --Winston Churchill, The River War, 1899. As the commentariat sharpens its pencils and waits for further information on the ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/the-liberals-will-not-blame-islam/ Nidal Malik Hasan The Roanoke Times offers background on the Army psychiatrist who ran amok yesterday at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding 30 others. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 12 people to death and wounding 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, was the ... http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/11/06/fort-hood-shootings/