32 Cats Who Are Way Too Curious For Their Own Good

Buzzfeed  15. This cat who has learned he hates the bathtub perhaps more than anything else in the world.

 

32. And this cat who will never trust the laser pointer EVER AGAIN.

Meaning of Words Have Changed Under the Obama Administration

Breitbart  "Representative Steven Pearce details the changing rhetoric under the Obama administration and how the power of words have affected the debate." 

Hat tip to Margi Hawks; Liberty, MO

Don’t Detroit America; We need to tell the story of Detroit — and of its opposite, Texas.

Michigan Central Station From Time
Detroit's main train station, opened in 1913, has not been used since 1988
 

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE "People and businesses didn’t just move from Detroit, they fled. And what they were fleeing was liberalism, the accumulated detritus of 50 straight years of Democratic leadership. They kept fleeing until there was so little left for city leaders to tax — so little business left there from which to extract revenue — that Detroit was forced to declare bankruptcy.

"Detroit is the Left’s Ground Zero. And it was caused not by a terrorist strike or an invading army but by a combination of union greed, government incompetence, bad policies, broken promises, outright corruption, and a lot of bad faith."
Not a failure of capitalism, but a failure to practice capitalism.

United Artists Theater
This spectacular Spanish Gothic theater, built in 1928, was closed in the 1970s.

 Looks much like undersea photos of the Titanic

Our Peevish President

Storming the Barry-cades

It’s within his power to avoid the ludicrous scenes of this “shutdown.”  

..."The more important point to grasp here is not that the various heavy-handed antics in which the Park Service has seen fit to indulge itself since last Monday are unimaginable absent a shutdown, but that almost none of them had to happen because of the shutdown. The offending behavior has, in other words, been a choice — a deliberate ploy contrived and prosecuted by a man seeking to make a public point."...

More to the point:

....“It takes federal action to close the sites,” this website’s editorial noted, “and none to keep them open. This is not what an inactive government looks like, but a spiteful one.” An anonymous Park Service ranger confirmed that malice ... Staff, the employee said, had “been told to “make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”....

National Review Online

 

 Who Do Students At University Of Colorado Blame For Gov Shutdown?

 

Petulant, vindictive and...tacky! Obama’s Park Service Removes Handles From Water Fountains In Park Frequented By Joggers And Bikers…

"Doesn’t get any more spiteful than this."

Comment to this post by xerocky

"What a very very small man this 'Obama' is."

Expunging Oswald: JFK and liberalism’s descent; Now we have "Punitive Liberalism"

“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963

George Will  "Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate whose sickness required “punitive liberalism.”

"That phrase is from James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute, whose 2007 book “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism” is a profound meditation on the reverberations of the rifle shots in Dealey Plaza.

"The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nation’s trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America."....

Via Rush Limbaugh: George Will on the JFK Assassination and the Advent of Punitive Liberalism
" 'Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president," and that's what they created.  Punitive liberalism.  Punish.  We're going to punish people.  We need, as a nation, to repent for our sordid history of crimes and misdeeds that had been so bad and so noxious that they created an aura and a universe and an atmosphere and a culture capable of killing the most popular beloved president ever."....

Name the names now!

American Thinker   "We, the people, demand that our elected representatives compel the White House  to release the names of those who came up with the idea to withhold the military death benefit, and those in the White House who authorized this heinous act. In military matters the buck stops in the Oval Office. Until Jay Carney tells us who these folks are, and who in the White House authorized that choice, the American people shall irrevocably hold our Commander in Chief, B.H. Obama, personally responsible for this horror.
....
"We, the people, demand that our elected representatives compel the White House  to release the names of those who came up with the idea to withhold the military death benefit, and those in the White House who authorized this heinous act. In military matters the buck stops in the Oval Office. Until Jay Carney tells us who these folks are, and who in the White House authorized that choice, the American people shall irrevocably hold our Commander in Chief, B.H. Obama, personally responsible for this horror. "....Emphasis added

 

Obamacare Angles For Starring Role On Primetime TV

Deadline   "Will Obamacare become plot fodder for CBS’ Hostages and Under The Dome? A $500,000 grant awarded this week to USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program certainly suggests it’s a possibility. In the latest push to get Tinseltown to promote President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the decade-old program has received the money from the private California Endowment to give Hollywood producers, writers and execs details about the newly launched health insurance initiative."....