NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

I can see it now: Romney turns to Obama in debate and says, “We need businessmen, Mr. President. If we didn’t have them — GROCERY BAG”

okay winner

no this is the winnner:

To my homies’ posts below — here and here — I’d like to add something. It would seem far-fetched that George W. Bush could ever be a Nobel peace laureate. After all, the committee hated his guts. You could argue that they gave five awards against Bush 43 — or in reaction to him, or with him in mind. In 2001, Kofi Annan and the U.N. In 2002, Jimmy Carter. In 2005, Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA. In 2007, Al Gore and the IPCC. And in 2009, Barack Obama.

When Carter won, the committee chairman did us the favor of stating, bluntly, that they were rapping Bush, as well as honoring Carter.

But consider: The committee hated Reagan’s guts too — in the 1980s, I mean, when the Gipper was president. There were some anti-Reagan Nobels. The committee told Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias in 1987 that they were giving him the prize in order to arm him with a weapon against Reagan. Arias later remarked to Robert Kagan, “Reagan was responsible for my prize.”

Okay, flash forward — in 2009, the chairman is giving the “presentation speech” for Obama. And he cites Reagan. Favorably. Hails him as a president who recognized that “America’s ideals were the world’s ideals”! A stunning turn of events.

I say in my book, “In future Nobel ceremonies, will chairmen be praising and quoting George W. Bush?” Stranger things have happened (though maybe not many). Time can be a healer and clarifier.

that almost made me punch my computer screen

he had me at "homies"

homies rapping Bush

man, knowing even a few things about central america in the 70s and 80s is enough to make that shit about Arias turn your stomach

Nordlinger grimly tallying rainbows

In Saugatuck, there are many rainbow flags, outside shops and homes. There are even more in neighboring Douglas — more than in Greenwich Village, I think. Years ago, the chant was, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.” Oh, I think we’re plenty used to it by now. Are the signs and flags all that necessary?

His coy "oh"s and short sentences bespeak a kind of retardation.

Oh, I think we’re plenty used to it by now.

Then why does the Corner continue to whine constantly about gay people?

It is comforting to know that I was correct in my assessment that Romney is not Bane. Yet that has not stopped Democrats from continuing their Internet campaign to connect the two characters, as evidenced below.

http://c6.nrostatic.com/dest/2012/07/19/pic_corner_071912_NB_B_2_2eb18ca02e7af875160824f7405cc02d.jpg

tbh when i first saw that i thought . . . boba fett?

what if he doesn't win? He's worth a lot to me

whatta maroon

The Polish View of the 2012 Campaign
by George Weigel

no offense but seriously who gives a shit

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/310400/why-did-chicken-cross-gays-mark-steyn

[Approved commenter] Teflon93
07/24/12 08:56

We shouldn't be surprised by The Muppets' turn---they spend their lives with a man's fist wedged up their backsides.

otm

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/311448/rap-radio-resentment-and-romney-kevin-d-williamson

go to it, guys

oh absolutely not

there is something about the peculiar sensation of being trapped in an epic traffic jam (the slow crescendo of building rage, the sense that one is witnessing an immense institutional failure of a particularly urban variety) that makes rap music sound to my ear like the appropriate soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlDBi0cyIA

If I were Romney, I’d track down the first Republican rapper I could find (Eazy-E, where are you in our hour of need?)

Does . . . does he really not know?

i think he knows. about that one thing, anyway.

i think his central point - that americans are pretty money-obsessed wealth-worshipping consumerists - is fairly otm

the real question is whether you can pitch a successful campaign to our petty demons + win. probably yes.

americans Cornerists are pretty money-obsessed wealth-worshipping consumerists

it is amazing that he managed to write (Eazy-E, where are you in our hour of need?) and then GOT WORSE

it's true that all squares are rectangles xp

What in the

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312225/interesting-piece-kathryn-jean-lopez

"interesting-piece-kathryn-jean-lopez"

this is the most sinister URL

[Approved commenter] MikeB
07/25/12 09:07

The reactions to K-Lo posting this are gonna be a helluva lot more interesting.

K-Lo, where are you in our hour of need?

Rocket_J_Squirrel 07/25/12 10:25
Ko-Lo,

Excellent link.

As for other posters that can't quite figure this out, please follow a quick crumb trail here. If this is outlandish then all of Christianity is outlandish. So too was it then outlandish when Congress corrected Thomas Jefferson and insisted that he add the words "...endowed by our Creator..." to the Declaration of Independence thus making it clear that our rights are unalienable because they come from God Himself and are not bestowed on us by any men.
For you debonair agnostics out there who say "well I believe in God, but I don't believe in Satan and Moses and Jesus and the Saints or basically anything in the Bible...." well okay, but just look at what you are doing. You are believing not in any revealed truth extending through the experience of billions of men and women for thousands of years but rather in some God you put together in your basement. And you're calling Christians nuts?

debonair believers like "Rocket J. Squirrel."

i can hear pareene's gleeful laughter from here

as he adjusts his debonair ascot

"Father Dwight Longenecker"

so, are we living in a pynchon or a vonnegut novel now?

srsly can't wait for the asthmatic K-Lo posts to come in October and November.

Some say the demonic Joker drove Heath Ledger to kill himself.

Now it's getting spooky. There was a weird phone message with bizarre guttural voices and moans. Was he demon possessed? Maybe. It happens.

All we can do when faced with mindless evil is recognize that it is mindless. The only answer is that there is no answer. The murders in Aurora and the crazed face of James Holmes remind us that real evil is random and meaningless. It is deadly and ruthless and cruel simply to be deadly, ruthless and cruel. All we can do is gaze on in fascinated horror at the senseless suffering.

not exactly jesuitical logic from fr dwight

lol @ someone called "slipkid" quoting Patterson Hood lyrics!

hey guess what we're all a bunch of liars

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312203/romney-didnt-build-lie-john-osullivan

"By now almost everyone else on the Corner has had his say on President Obama’s statement that if a business owner has built a business, then he hasn’t really built it himself."

I happened to be reading the chapter on “Community” in Jonah Goldberg’s new book, The Tyranny of Clichés, when this controversy broke. He demolished the “roads and bridges” argument, but also the underlying wider statist argument, in this crisp comparison:

It is the sort of things Romans said about the aqueducts and Egyptians about the pyramids . . . What separates our great projects from those of other civilizations are the values — moral, legal, constitutional — of those who produced them. It is the difference between inheriting a mansion from your father or grandfather and inheriting the values that enabled your father to afford one.

this crisp comparison

whut

so... Egyptian society was great because of slave labor?

redoing the curbs on snelling and selby isn't the fucking pyramids bozo

this guy is an intellectual, people

what was the last big American engineering project? (plz don't say The Big Dig)

http://www.worldslargestthings.com/minnesota/mntwineSubheader2.jpg

apollo program?

New Orleans levies lol

democracy in the middle east