Then Again, Maybe Not: Of Rats and Ratholes

Then Again, Maybe Not: Of Rats and Ratholes

We’re all entitled to change our minds. Given the fallibility of the human species, rarely are people’s opinions and ideas so chiselled in stone that they never re-think their actions and beliefs.

Exceptions to that rule of thumb must be made for individuals who are so caught up in themselves, so arrogantly obsessed with their own rectitude and infallibility that their pride negates any possibility of reassessment and retrenching.

Barack Obama comes to mind in that regard but we mortals frequently change our minds, whether for better or worse.

A number of opinion changes have hit the wires lately, mostly forced changes:

. Civilian shimilian, who cares?

Obama’s attorney general may have at least a smattering of that mortality since he seems ready to reassess a significant and erroneous decision, namely trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four sidekicks in a civilian court within crying distance of Ground Zero.

Some still refer to KSM as the “alleged” or the “accused” mastermind of the 9/11 atrocity but he’s much more than that. With a little help from America’s best interrogation friend, waterboarding, Mohammed spilled his guts so in my book he’s the confessed leader of that rat pack.

Months ago, Eric Holder, obviously running interference for his boss, made the ostensibly independent decision to hold the trial in federal court in lower Manhattan. This was while Obama and Holder still believed they had control of our government and the minds of the people.

Neither is the case any longer.

Holder and his minions have used the Bush precedent of successfully trying shoe bomber Richard Reid and other terrorists in civilian courts which was a misleading deception from the outset.

Most of those trials took place in the early days of the war on . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1492)

Two Sick Political Jokes

Two Sick Political Jokes

These aren’t knee-slapping, turn-your-face-red-and-bring-tears-to-your-eyes-from- laughing kind of yuks but rather sick, these-guy-can’t be-real jokes.

First up is that Rhode Island funster who’s about as funny as his dad was when Ted Kennedy related his favorite Chappaquiddick witticisms.

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree and Rep. Patrick Kennedy who has a knack about him for wowing the crowds came out with another good one the other day. This followed his previous entertainment just prior to the recent special election in Massachusetts.

Addressing a small rally for Martha Coakley, Dem candidate for his late daddy’s seat in the Senate, Patrick may have been under the influence, as they say and as he is wont to be, when he couldn’t get Mrs. Coakley’s given name straight.

Working without cue cards, Patrick twice called her “Marcia” before shutting up and without being chagrined in the slightest by the fact he couldn’t bother to learn the name of the Democratic candidate in the race against the Republican upstart, Scott Brown.

He still hasn’t shut up.

Still petulantly speaking about that election, he said on Thursday, ”Brown’s whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama’s appointment to the NLRB.”

I failed to catch either the humor or the sense of his remark, unless of course he was being sarcastic in which case he was just being the boob that he is.

Scott Brown was elected almost 10 days ago, went to Washington certified credentials in hand and claimed his senate seat as soon as Harry Reid realized how callow and foolish he would look should he roadblock Brown.

He wasn’t in any way “sworn in early,” although if his first vote is cast to block left winger Craig Becker from appointment to the NLRB, then more power to him!

In a mindless leap of imagination, Patrick Kennedy elaborated: . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1478)

Coakley vs. Brown: Updates

Coakley vs. Brown: Updates

What?? Me worry??

Complacent Martha or is it Marcia: Somehow, it doesn’t seem that Massachusetts A.G. is awfully worried about her Tuesday match-up with State Sen. Scott Brown for “the Kennedy seat” in the United States Senate.

For one thing, she’s staged a lackluster, non-campaign as if she knew from the start she would end up a loser even though, at the start, she seemed a shoo-in to head to D.C. to be that crucial 60th vote for Obamacare. (That assumes Harry Reid doesn’t pull an end run and goes to the reconciliation ploy needing only 51 Democrats to foist that obamanation on the American people.)

For another thing, Martha Coakley really seems as if she doesn’t want the job.

As Brian McGrory writes for Boston.com in an article titled, “Race Is in a Spinout,” despite her claims to have traveled the state meeting tremendous people, “If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name . . . Literally, she all but vanished. She refused to debate on TV unless it was exactly on her terms. She went days without venturing out in public:” http://bit.ly/8qLU4S

Not exactly the best way to win a seat in the Senate.

A Kennedy Weighs In: A scion of the Kennedy clan doesn’t seem too worried either, not even concerned enough to get her name straight.

Speaking to reporters after President Obama tried to rally the troops and dragging out the worn-out Bush card to blame GWB for every problem in the universe, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D. R.I) repeatedly referred to “Marcia Coakley,” . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1432)

Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Theologian

Rep. Patrick Joseph Kennedy, Theologian

Could there be a finer Irish name than Patrick Kennedy?

Sure and begorrah, there could not, and, Patrick, you’ve done a foine job at presenting yourself, indeed.

Could there be a worse exemplar of Irishness and Catholicity than Congressman Patrick Kennedy? Sure, now, there couldn’t!

Catholic theologian-wannabe Patrick has now weighed in on the abortion-in-Obamacare controversy and the right of the Catholic Church to express an opinion on the matter: http://bit.ly/zt9Wr.

He declared that the Church is sowing the seeds, “flames of dissent and discord,” he called it, by its opposition to Obamacare simply because Obama’s cure for the nation’s health care issue incorporates provisions for solving any health problems of the pre-born by killing them.

Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, me-boy, are you not aware that the other Irishman, Barack O’Bama, has said abortion will not be incorporated in Obamacare? If not, would you be beating a dead horse?

And, how can you say, “I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human person is being respected by the fact that we’re caring and giving health care to the human person–that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured?”

That number, by the way, seems to grow and blow in the wind.

Patrick, in the immortal words of Irish playwright, Sean O’Casey, surely you don’t believe that “The whole world’s in a state of chassis” or that health care supersedes the issue of killing pre-born babies as “the biggest social issue of our time?”

For the life of me, I can’t fathom your thinking!

Is not ending the lives of some 50,000,000 human beings long before their time more consequential than inaugurating a socialistic welfare program?

Patrick, Patrick, Patrick! . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1279)