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Since James Taranto's Away, I'll Handle This One

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:44:13 PM
James Taranto of WSJ has a recurring feature in his Best of the Web Today columns called Shortest Books ever written.  I found  an article on the American Thinker website called The Ethics of Eric Holder that would qualify.  Boy, if you printed that book the pages would be as blank as Joe Biden's brain scan.
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Short Subjects

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Sunday, May 08, 2011 3:44:13 PM
Does anyone besides me think that one of the reasons Osama bin Laden was killed rather than captured was to keep Eric Holder and his Jihadi Bar Associates in the Department of Just Us from protecting him?
 
 
 
This congressional campaign coming up in 2012 is going to be, I predict, the dirtiest on record.  I am confident not only because of the moral collapse of the Democratic Party, which respects nothing but power and will use any means to obtain it, fair or foul, but because the detestable Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has been named chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  Ms. W-S is remembered by me for, among other reasons, being the most remorseless liar of all of the Democrats who brought us the Black Sunday passage of the infamous Obamacare Health Deform Act.  Her statements on national TV were breathtaking in their absolute audacity and near-perfect mendacity. 
 
Veteran Washington watchers were not wholly surprised.  W-S is one of the the Democratic House delegation's crapola cavalry, women who have no qualms about telling lies so outrageous that even Steny Hoyer refuses to utter them.  Nazi Pelosi is their leader, of course, but other infamous officers include Louise Slaughter (the Unborn) and cover-up queen Zoe Lofgren.  (I'll resist the temptation to include Barney Frank in their ranks.)
 
This is going to get ugly even by Washington standards.
 
 
 
Ann Coulter, in an otherwise fine celebration of OBL's overdue trip to the hereafter to the sound of our laughter, made one small error.  She said that OBL's film crew was now in the unemployment line.  I wouldn't worry about them.  I'm sure that if Al-Jazeera doesn't hire them, there will be room for them at MSNBC.
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My Wife Asked Me Who I Thought Leaked the Afghanistan Documents...

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Monday, July 26, 2010 8:00:55 PM
...I told her I figure it was Eric Holder.
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Lucky Break

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:15:25 PM
From the Townhall.com Blog:
 

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Updated: Harry Reid & Co. Attend Weekend Fundraiser... in Canada
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 11:27 AM
Expect the GOP to attack this from all angles...

According to Politico, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid followed the money trail of his trial lawyer buddies all the way to Vancouver over the weekend, attending the American Association for Justice's convention north of the border. 

It's bad enough that some of his biggest donors hail from the trial lawyers' lobby, but it's pretty sad the event didn't even take place in the U.S., let alone Reid's home state of Nevada which is currently suffering with the nation's highest unemployment rate at 14 percent.

It's not clear what other Dem Senate candidates were at the convention, but a fundraising form distributed at the convention encouraged donors to contribute to at least a dozen others in addition to Reid and promised personal meetings with the candidates.

Update: At least one other Dem candidate has been identified in raising campaign funds in Canada over the weekend.  According to the Lexington Herald-Ledger, Kentucky Dem Senate candidate Jack Conway also raised some campaign cash in Canada with Harry Reid from their trial lawyer friends.
Isn't accepting foreign campaign contributions illegal?  Boy, it's a lucky break for Harry and Jack that Eric "See-No-Evil (on the Left)" Holder is Attorney General...
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The Scrap Heap

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:42:30 PM
I suppose in a weird way I owe thanks to Attorney General Eric Holder.  Being "only" 50 years old, I figured I had arrived too late to see a blatantly racist Attorney General.
 
 
 
Speaking of racism, one of the reasons given by BO, Speedy Gonzalez Calderon, and others for opposing the Arizona Illegal Immigration Law is that it "might be applied unfairly".  Just as a casual inquiry, may I ask what law cannot be applied unfairly?
 
 
 
 Reading Mark Steyn's latest National Review Online column, I was led to reflect on how the fascination with BO's cool, detached, almost inhuman "Spock-like" demeanor has evaporated.  It's simple to explain, really.  The cool detachment is only partially admirable, and it has to be combined with at least above-average competence, or else you just wind up looking like an arrogant jerk.  BO doesn't seem to
 know this, or much of anything else for that matter.
 
 
 
Did you know that the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah (we don't cringe from identifying terrorists at the Crab) has a television station?  'Tis true.  It's called Al-Manar (properly pronounced "Owl Manure").
 
Did you know that the state of Georgia has a Cynthia McKinney Highway?  'Tis also true.  I can't imagine why I thought of these two facts together...
 
 
 
 I heard a few clips of BO's Oval Office speech of the week past (I refuse to listen to his repetitive drones, as life is running out on me as it is), and I was taken aback at the incredible statements he made (incredible, in this case, meaning "absolutely not credible").  Our self-infatuated President seems not to have noticed that the media, once so adoring, is beginning to point out the lies in his statements, or some of them, anyway.  I don't think it ever occurs to President Narcissus that someone could ever fall out of love with him.
 
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Impolite Thoughts - Holiday Weekend Edition

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:39:56 PM
A few updates ago I wrote of what I consider to be President BO's deliberate discrediting of America and its institutions.  I referred to his appointment of Eric Holder as Attorney General as discrediting the Department of Justice, given Holder's previously-demonstrated corruption.  I made an oversight in that item, apparently.  I forgot "incompetence".
 
 
 
My friend Libertarian Tony sent me an article on the hacked files from the East Anglia Unviersity of Scare-mongering (or whatever in East Anglia they are), disclosing what those of us on the global warming "skeptic" side have known all along -- that the global-warming/climate-change science is so obviously flawed (read: faked) that the scientists and other advocates of this phony theory had to know that they were perpetrating a fraud on the public.  Tony sent the link with the subject line "But don't we know that the scientific debate is over?"  I suggested that substituting the word "cancelled" for the word "over" might be more accurate...
 
 
 
One of my favorite occupations is reading the Impromptus columns of the invariably entertaining and thought-provoking Jay Nordlinger of NationalReview.com.  While reading his latest Impromptus, I ran across this:
 
"In a previous column, I mentioned Yoani Sánchez, the incredibly brave blogger in Cuba. She was recently beaten mercilessly by the usual goons. She survived and she is still making a glorious nuisance of herself — actually believing that she ought to be free.

Sánchez posed some questions for President Obama. And the president, or someone speaking for him, answered her. You can see those answers at Sánchez’s blog, here. They are pretty bland — pretty noncommittal, hardly Reaganesque, or GWB-esque — but acceptable, you may agree. Obama’s best sentence is his final one: “I look forward to visit[ing] a Cuba in which all citizens enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other citizens in the hemisphere.'"
 
I thought that BO's last line might be more ominous than our Jay may have apprehended.  Is the One advocating more liberty for Cubans -- or less for the other citizens of the hemisphere?  The BO administration hasn't exactly distinguished itself with its devotion to individual liberty.
 
 
 
 
 Also in Jay's latest, I read this:
 
 "As I write, there is talk of a prisoner exchange in the Middle East: 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. That would be a more balanced deal than some we have seen in the past: when the Israelis gave up a mass of live prisoners — terrorists, mostly — for a few corpses. To see a little roundup of this history, go here."
 
I thought about this.  After all, I am the new, improved Christian Crab of TownHall.com, not the old atheist Hermit Crab of the now-defunct MyOnlinePublication.  Thus I'm not allowed to think "I would make that trade if I were the Israelis.  That is, I would as soon as I had infected all of the 'Palistinian' criminals being returned with a deadly disease, or inoculated them with a slow-acting poison.  Give the Pallys a taste of their own bargaining sincerity"
 
Am I?
 
 
 
Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  I'll be back soon -- thanks for visiting!  ( A little Norlingerian geniality, for a change.)
 
 
 
 
 
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Thanks Again, Spineless Republicans Who Voted to Confirm Holder

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Friday, November 13, 2009 3:20:34 PM
Public opinion is erupting over the Obama Administration's feckless or perhaps treacherous decision to move Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and some others from the Islamic Merry Band of Lunatics within our borders for trial, almost certainly with all of the rights of American citizens.  Many people will be writing of this in the coming days, but we should not forget the gutless Republicans who voted to confirm an obviously corrupt Attorney General nominee, the current Attorney General Eric Holder (see this article by National Review's Andrew McCarthy), because they were afraid to oppose a nominee who is black.  They were
 
Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Chambliss (R-Ga)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
 
-- List obtained at Michelle Malkin's blogsite.
 
Eric Holder, of course, is an American Wilhelm Keitel, a man who will unhesitatingly carry out any order from his chief, no matter how distasteful or morally deplorable.  He deserves the criticism he's getting today, but these Republican weaklings who put their own cowardice ahead of their country's welfare bear some of the blame, as well.
 
Let's not let them forget it.
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The Nobel Prize for Irony

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:25:46 AM
I've suspected for some time that President BO is trying to discredit American institutions in the eyes of Americans and the world, as well.  Consider:
 
He appointed the notoriously corrupt Eric Holder Attorney General, thus ruining the reputation of the Justice Department.
 
 He nominated Judge Sonia Somediocre (she of the one-page opinions, thumb-on-the-scale rulings, and vacuous public statements) to the Supreme Court, thus spoiling the reputation of that once-revered institution.
 
 He awarded the Medal of Freedom to the likes of Mary Robinson (of Durban Anti-Semitism Festival fame) and Harvey Milk (who won apparently for being openly homosexual and a murder victim).
 
He appoints "czars" by the dozen, thus discrediting the Constitution's "advise and consent" clause.
 
Given the above, I think it amusingly appropriate that BO has also managed to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize simply by winning it without having done the slightest thing to earn it.
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