Monday morning stuff

New tone #10,345
Today we start another era of a “kinder gentler tone” here at Lex.  So King SFB is out and The Empty Suit or TES is in.  While SFB might perfectly describe TES’s mental acumen, that being a smarmy narcissistic smug punk, it is vulgar.  So in a new era of “new tone” it must go.

The Empty is Suit is also a very accurate descriptor.  As the world burns TES has hit the links on Martha’s Vineyard.  What else would you expect from an empty suit?  They don’t know what to do about any of the world’s problems so they insert their hands deep into their pockets while walking to the next campaign stop or golf tee.  They drop their “g”s while asking why everyone is “hatin” all the time.

It’s annoying and a sure sign of a being a punk.

ASIDE: Another sure sign of a punk is a grown man walking with both hands in his trouser pockets.   People put their hands in their pockets for a lot of good reasons, helping them walk is not one of them.

Then There's this
TES claims it was “bad intelligence” that led him to underestimate ISIS.  He’s right.  But it’s not the CIA intelligence at fault.  It’s the intelligence of the empty suit occupying the Oval Office that is the real culprit. 

I’m a big Ann Coulter fan
She is smart, funny with a quick and sharp wit that can fillet a Lefty Lib so finely that they don’t even notice the bleeding until they go to stand up after the debate and faint from the sight of the 3 quarts of their own rhetorical blood at their feet.

Ann got it wrong in this column on Dr. Kent Brantly who went to Africa to treat ebola patients.  Ann’s contention is that there are plenty of people right here in America who need a doctor.  Therefore there is no good reason to travel looking for them.  In and of itself, that’s not a horrible point.

Ann overlooks the missionary nature of Dr. Brantly’s work.  Dr. Brantly didn’t travel to Africa solely to treat infected Africans.  He went to spread the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ while doing good works with Samaritan's Purse.  That’s a bit different than Angelina Jolie and Madonna’s sort of self-serving stops at Africa orphanages on the way back from vacation for a photo op and to pick up a couple of designer babies they can adopt.

Dr. Brantly was following the word found in Matthew 28 18-20

¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  So yeah, I’d give the Doc a break.

A great line from Dr. Thomas Sowell:

“I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.”

There are these two accounts.  The first is a report on the “knockout game” (also known as aggravated assault) which doesn’t “report” that the assaulters are primarily black and their victims primarily white.  The second is about a racist black school principal. But it would be remiss not to mention the racist black man who has been raised to high public office.  That would be Eric the wad Holder.  Then there’s half-black racist who has risen to high public office.  That would be TES. 

UPDATE:  Just ran across this.  It's too hard to believe.  Now we know how TES got through college.

Pat Condell nails it again
This guy almost always gets it almost 100% right.  That or am I just mesmerized by the British accent which can make an American think an idiot is intelligent?  If you get an announcer with a British accent to comment on pig wrestling it gives the whole thing an air of sophistication.

I say “almost always” “almost 100% right” because Condell is an atheist.  That’s a big mistake in my opinion, but, like Christopher Hitchens (RIP), I admire his clarity of thought and the piercing logic of his presentations.  Notice there is none of the Bill Maher - LOOK AT ME EVERYONE!  I’m ATTACKING RELIGION,” style attacks on the religious nature of the war.  Maher is as intolerant of all religion as Muslims are of any religion not their own.  Condell can and does take on religion but does not do so gratuitously.  

This is a brilliant piece.

Remember the TSA (Thugs Standing Around)?
It’s sad this excrement has been going on for so long that we now take it for granted and have almost forgotten how disgusting it is.  In 10 years we’ll be stripped naked, probed and irradiated to point our hair falls out just to board an airplane, and we’ll think nothing of it.  It’s all about “safety” you know.  This is Eric the wad Holder and TES’s America.  Here’s Remy’s funny take on a sad situation.