Posted on 05/24/2012 11:47:18 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
When Barack Obama two years ago joked at the White House Correspondents Dinner that potential suitors of his two daughters might have to deal with Predator drones (But boys, dont get any ideas. Two words for you: Predator drones. You will never see it coming.), the liberal crowd roared. That failed macabre joke would have earned George W. Bush a week of headline condemnation from the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Obama, in fact, has increased those judge/jury/executioner targeted assassinations tenfold during his tenure. But apparently, the combination of Obamas postracial cool and the video-game nature of such airborne death no CNN clips of charred torsos and smoldering legs, no prisoners with their ACLU lawyers in Guantanamo, no Seymour Hersh exposé on a Waziristan granny who was vaporized for being too near her terrorist-suspect grandson, no American losses for Code Pink and Moveon.org to demonstrate against earned general exemption for that new liberal way of war. What bothered us about the Predator strikes in 20062008 was not the kills per se but the uncool nature of twangy Texan George Bush, who ordered them.
Last week 28-year-old, $17 billionrich, jeans-clad Mark Zuckerberg took Wall Street for a multibillion-dollar ride, making his original buddies instant billionaires and his loyal larger circle millionaires. Note that there is no Occupy Wall Street protest at Facebook headquarters. Just as there are none at Oprahs house or the residence of Leonardo DiCaprio, despite their take each year of between $50 and $100 million...
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The prospect of “O” amd MO for in-laws would be enough to keep those girls single for ever.
Cool the second time, too. Search Tool fails again!
“Cool” or “Hip” is nothing but another term for “worldly”.
Oustanding...and let’s not forget “Big Sports” while we’re at it.
Classic VDH!!
It would be money well-spent for a student to take a class from Hanson.
Davis
((blushing))
i’ve been saying for years that “Cool” is one of the worst things that ever happened to our society.
Parents want to be cool. Artists want to be cool. Teachers want to be cool. Scientists want to be cool.
Biggest trouble is that cool is a feeling, and seeks acceptance by the in-crowd.
Truth, hard work, thrift, discipline etc. all left by the wayside.
I have done it too. But here’s the deal...
The “s” and the “d” are neighbors on the keyboard. Gotta be a typo, right?
: )
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