Kansas, land of E Pluribus Unum, allegedly

I’m off to See Aunty Em, and take in sum toto a certain anniversary event.

the magic carpet

Meantime, May pictures and sechlike.

Them Scandals Some More

Long-time David Koch associate and political operative Howard Rich
has this up on the “Americans for Limited Government” website

I am reliably informed that this was the thesis statement from Sunday’s”Them Scandals“:

Obamacare kicks in in 2014. So, with only a little more than seven months to derail it, the GOPs is gonna be trying some desperate measures to abort it in its third trimester, cutting its little spinal cord even if it’s almost out of the birth canal, right?

“Reliably informed” because I took honors English in college and, thus, was never taught what a “thesis statement” actually is, and have to rely on the word of my college girlfriend and her roommate. I am not here to praise college English, but to gild my thesis statement.

Under ObamaCare, IRS Is Creating Chaos For Doctors, Patients
Charles Willey, M.D. / Investor’s Business Daily

IRS Illegally Usurps Congress with New Law in Obamacare

As an internist, I have dedicated my 30-year career to advancing the long-term health of all of my patients, one patient at a time.

Unfortunately, the greatest barrier to this goal is government intervention into my professional judgment, my office management and my patient care. This has been increasingly true long before enactment of the onerous Affordable Care Act (ACA), but it’s especially true now.

ObamaCare is being increasingly recognized as a “train wreck.” Trust me: it is demoralizing doctors, distracting providers toward bureaucracy and away from patient care. It is disrupting quality and access, and damaging health…

This is not the only drumbeat, but it pays the observant reader to note that senile Obama Über-hater and former Laura Bush press spokeserpent Andrew Malcolm (whom I am reliably informed is NOT a vicious, sleazy monster in person, but only in print) was hired away from the LA Times (where he had become an embarrassment) by  Investors Business Daily. But that’s just the top of the iceberg.

Fox News Then and Now

 Hi there! I’m with NewsCorp and I’d like to discuss your future.

A fellow who has sold his soul to the foreign dark prince of Lies writes:

Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
John Podhoretz / New York Post

The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday.  —  We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press…

Why does this hogswill sound so familiar to me? Hmmm. Oh, that’s right. His Southern forebears!

Scandal Eyes

The “Whitewater” school of phony outrage has been turned all the way up to eleven on the media amplifiers.

from “This is Spinal Tap”

There is nothing surprising in this. What is surprising is that the same tired con works on the same tired brains with the same tired conclusions that it did back in the good ‘ol Ken Starr daze:

Obama’s Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal

The White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday…

Making the case for evolution even more dodgy.

Them Scandals

Returning from one of the most isolated places in the lower 48, it seems there has been a storm of shite. Or, perhaps, to properly headlinify it, Superstorm Scandy.

(That way, as every cable outfit has, since the first Gulf War, it will make a nice logo against a background of proper gravitas with, in the early daze, its very own short musical theme. Dun dun DUNNNN!)

Even out in the backwoods loglands of the Olympic Peninsula, we still gets The Daily Show. And Rupert’s Roughstuff Outrage-O-Rama, of course. Hey! Screw the Bombing thing and the murder thing. It’s the IRS! It’s Benghazi! It’s the Associated Almighty Press! (But mostly, it’s the IRS.

B Back Soon

I, your Wizard par ardua ad alta, am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere. To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother wizards.

Try to behave while I’m gone.

See you in a few days.

Courage.

GOP War On Reality Continues

GOP “wimmen’s rahts” practice

Another day another debacle: GOP decides to scuttle committee  vote on EPA nominee. GOP continues to pretend that mindless sequester cuts aren’t hurting the country or economy. GOP continues to block judicial nominations, leaving a massive federal courts crisis to get worse and worse. GOP continues attack on women, women’s rights. GOP continues hating immigrants and blaming them for de facto slavery. GOP pretends that Benghazi is a big scandal. And their propaganda machine clanks into full “I dreamed a dream” mode, crocodile tears included at no extra charge.

Listen:

Official Offers Account From Libya of Benghazi Attack
New York Times

WASHINGTON — A State Department official presented a minute-by-minute account on Wednesday of what happened during the seige of the diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11, offering the first public testimony from an American official …

But that’s not the real show.