Aw jees, Mitt: Romney's first foreign policy foray a disaster

Rick Moran "I suppose I could spin it and say it really wasn't that bad, and that the British press exaggerates everything. Both points are valid. Romney didn't say anyting fatal, nor does anyone imagine the tabloid editors in England as anything but gutter merchants.
"But face it: Romney stunk. And he made no friends over there despite the opportunity to shine in contrast to the president."

Olympian Carl Lewis spoke to the UK Guardian  "Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country," the nine-times Olympic gold medal winner told the Independent."


UK Guardian; Mitt Romney's London Olympic 'shambles' seized upon by Democrats
My only consolation is that the Guardian is a paper that carries columns by Noam Chomsky .

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UK Mail; 'London IS ready': Romney completes humiliating u-turn in new UK charm offensive after Olympics gaffe  "He had been branded ‘Mitt the Twit’ and ‘Party Pooper’ by the British press for a string of gaffes in which he said The Games would be a failure.

"The blunder was compounded because he made them whilst on a visit to London, his first foreign trip as a presidential candidate."

Mary Katharine and Krauthammer on Romney’s Olympics comments: What was he thinking?

"You didn't build that!" Just words?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

I said-you didn't build that!

Many more at Patriot Post

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/07/lecturing-the-successful/


Daniel Henninger; With Barack Obama, the competition between the private economy and the public economy is clear
"For a long time, the United States had one economy. Now we have two economies that compete for America's wealth: A private economy and a public economy. The 2012 election will decide which will be subordinate to the other. One economy will lead. The other will follow."

Reason.com; Obama is wrong—entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats, created "this unbelievable American system."  "The crucial point that the president misses is that “this unbelievable American system” thrives chiefly on private enterprise, and that a lot of the government intervention that he favors is hindering rather than helping businesses and entrepreneurs create new jobs and more wealth."

In Defense of Eating at Chick-fil-A

The Atlantic; Do we really want a country where people won't do commerce with those who have beliefs different than their own?
"First of all, Chick-fil-A is not a hate group. In a statement released yesterday, company leaders made their commitment to equal service clear, "The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect -- regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender." "
...."I agree: I don't care how my dry cleaner votes. I just want to know if he/she can press my Oxfords without burning my sleeves. I find no compelling reason to treat sandwiches differently than shirts."
                                                                                                 

Beforeitsnews; Drag Queens Mock Anti-Gay Fast Food Chain Chick Fil-A In Song

...".If white meat's not your thing, try the Golden Arches. But if you want a perfectly fried chicken sandwich, Chick-fil-A, will be happy to serve you -- gay or straight. In this case, those who boycott are the ones missing out."

Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Plano,TX


Chick-fil-A chief spokesman Don Perry dies unexpectedly   "Local news outlets reported that Perry suffered a heart attack."

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Brent Bozell: Hollywood's War on Chicken  "It's the company's donations through its WinShape Foundation that have launched the intolerant gay left into action. Chick-fil-A has dared to donate their profits to groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Horrors!) and the Marriage and Family Foundation (No!)."
.... "But few can compare with the undiluted spite of Roseanne Barr, who grabbed all the attention with her death wishes on Twitter: "anyone who eats S--t Fil-A deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ."

"This came after she had called them "chick filet- nazi chicken f---ing pricks.".... 

Pelosi Weighs In On Chick-Fil-A Controversy: “I Prefer Kentucky Fried Chicken”…

Lebanese Olympic Judo Team Demands & Gets Barrier Between Them & The Israeli Team

JAWA  "This is just another example of what dhimmitude does to anti-Semitic p-----s of the OIC.

Note the "forced:"

The Lebanese judo team forced International Olympic Committee officials to erect a barrier between themselves and the Israeli judo squad, Friday afternoon in London, just hours before the Games’ opening ceremony, reports Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot. 

 More here.

The Times of Israel has this:    "It happened only days after the Iranian delegation head stated his nation’s athletes would compete with Israelis, a statement which was quickly rejected by Tehran, which tried to suggest that his true sentiment was lost in translation."






(Right) Two of Israel's judokas, Arik Zeevi (right) and Alice Schlesinger at the entrance to the Israeli building at the Olympic village, 

Pat Condell: The Great Palestinian Lie

Un:dhimmi   "In something of a change of heart (he had been a little more ‘plague on both your houses’ on Israel/’Palestine’ previously), Pat Condell deftly nails the Islamo-Left pantomime – and in particular the version written by Western libtards – enjoy."

Piano for rappers

‘USA, USA, USA!’: See the Speech That Got a Standing Ovation in Congress Today

Dancing Czars  "Representative Mike Kelly, speaking on the House floor today, managed something very rare in the history of the institution – he got a standing ovation. Applause is usually forbidden in the house, but Kelly‘s blistering attack on regulatory red tape and Washington’s culture of control was apparently so powerful that several of his fellow house members couldn’t resist showing their support, clapping, standing up and shouting “USA! USA! USA!” "

Dancing Czars

Victor Davis Hanson; Blowing Up History

Victor Davis Hanson "....most recent regrettable Islamist attack on the past was the Taliban's 2001 dynamiting and shelling of the huge twin 6th-century AD statues of Buddha carved into a cliff at Bamiyan in Afghanistan. "We are destroying the statues," Taliban spokesmen at the time bragged, "in accordance with Islamic law, and it is purely a religious issue."....

"One of the joys of visiting California's Yosemite Valley is a series of historic arched bridges  that span the Merced River on the valley floor. One, the 80-year-old Stoneman Bridge, is an architectural masterpiece and a tribute to Depression-era ingenuity and artistic elegance, while the sister Ahwahnee Bridge and the Sugar Pine Bridge were likewise designed to combine functionalism and beauty. All are used daily, appreciated by thousands of visitors each summer, and now are listed as endangered treasures by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

"Environmental zealots in the National Park Service are now proposing to demolish all three bridges, motivated by their pie-in-the-sky dreams of allowing the flood-prone Merced River to be freed to find its original course, without human contamination. To paraphrase the Taliban, these green fundamentalists would probably believe that the bridges are "symbols of humanism" and their destruction is "purely an environmental issue.""

When will so-called "journalists" ever feel shame at what they have become?

http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/

Video: The Liberal Media's History of Falsely Blaming Conservatives for Massacres "Our friends at MRCTV have a great new video that goes through a short history of the liberal media's penchant for hastily laying the blame for spree shootings and other violent attacks on conservatives. Yet time after time, when all the facts came out, we learned that it was anything but conservatives behind each and every incident.

Donate to Obama and join the elite

Celebs open their wallets in White House race, mostly for Obama  "Members of the entertainment industry have a long history of sending money to their preferred presidential candidates, usually but not exclusively to Democrats. Below is a non-comprehensive list of some of the celebrities past and present who made a donation in May or June to the major political committees involved in the 2012 race for the White House."
Click here for the list...

Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights): $3250 in June, $5000 to dateSam Waterston (Law and Order): $2250 in June, $5000to dateIan Somerhalder (Lost, Vampire Diaries) : $2500Olivia Wilde (House MD, Cowboys & Aliens) : $2500Johnny Galecki (Roseanne, Big Bang Theory): $2500Maria Bello (Prime Suspect): $2500Ronald Guttman (Mad Men): $2075 in June, $4825 to dateTyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey): $2000

More names at the link... Hat tip to Neal Boortz 

Allvoices

Weasel Zippers; 80% of Obama’s Top 2008 Campaign Bundlers Received Political Appointments…  "When President Obama named Hillary Rodham Clinton secretary of state after the 2008 election, he turned a rival into a loyalist. But he also lost Mrs. Clinton as one of the most popular Democratic fund-raisers for his re-election effort, since the nation’s chief diplomat is not allowed to engage in campaigning."

The Once-Noble Democrat-- Party

The Patriot Post  "The real question is not so much what has happened to the Party of Jefferson, but what has happened to "the people" who now call themselves Democrats?

"Obama is not the problem, just its manifestation. The problem is that we are a nation with a collapsing foundation of broken families, where the faith of our founders has been replaced with the real "opiate of the masses," the mass media, and where ignorance has been institutionalized through our "public education apparatchiks." "

politicalhumor.about.com 

 

Unmasking The Occupiers

Accuracy in Academia  "The deceptive strategies and conflicting philosophies of OWS put it in sharp contrast to a genuinely grassroots movement such as the Tea Party. Darby also mentioned the discovery of over 3400 emails from Occupy organizers, which proved that there was an orchestrated attempt to create absolute chaos."
....
"Despite the Occupy movement’s abuse of the First Amendment to incite terror, such left-wing media types as Michael Moore and even members of Congress such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have praised the OWS for its “spontaneity” and apparent commitment to financial responsibility. The President himself has even commended the Wall Street protesters for their efforts."

Occupy Unmasked Trailer  


Breitbart 'Occupy Unmasked' Panel, CPAC 2012  "This video is from a blogger briefing hosted by Citizens United with David Bossie, Andrew Breitbart, filmmaker Stephen Bannon, Brandon Darby, and Lee Stranahan, on their latest project, a soon to be released film on the Occupy movement they've titled, Occupy Unmasked."  One of Andrew Breitbart's last appearances before his death.