The Broken Chair: July 2009 Archives

Bay Ridge Fire

A fire decimated a four story building in Bay Ride last night. I passed the scene on the way to work and it didn't look good. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured.

Twelve firefighters were hurt in an overnight fire in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

A massive fire ripped through a four-story building at 6805 Third Avenue. Several stores and residences were destroyed.

Fire officials are looking into the possibility the fire started in a ground floor deli.

Along with the firefighters, two residents suffered minor injuries.

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Quote of the Day

Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites.

This quote resonates with me since I've become to believe, as party of the Godless, the left tries to fill the spiritual void by worshiping the gods of Global Warming.

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The Ultimate Rubber Chicken

Classic. You can't get a better rubber chicken than this.

Facing the first real rough patch of his presidency, President Obama and his supporters are once again resorting to a tried-and-true tactic: attacking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

In his White House press conference last week, Mr. Obama referred to the Bush era at least nine times, three times lamenting that he "inherited" a $1.3 trillion debt that has set back his administration's efforts to fix the economy.

With the former president lying low in Dallas, largely focused on crafting his memoirs, Mr. Obama has increasingly attempted to exploit Mr. Bush when discussing the weak economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the difficulty closing the military prison at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As he took power, Mr. Obama promised a "new era of responsibility" that would transcend partisan politics.

"For a guy who campaigned on taking responsibility and looking forward, he spends an awful lot of time pointing fingers and looking backward," said former Bush deputy press secretary Tony Fratto, who has begun defending the previous administration.

But the money quote comes from Democrat strategist Liz Chadderdon:

Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months.

You hear that voters, you have short memories and you need to be reminded of how bad things were. Reminded over and over until a falsehood becomes true.

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Rush: The Press Has Met Their Waterloo and It's Obama

Via Hot Air

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Quote of the Day

Here is a well-meaning government official who so fails to grasp the problem in health care that he can present such absurd oversimplifications and suggest that this sort of thing is the real problem -- doctors simply lack the common sense to make obvious medical decisions. President Obama wants us to solve this problem by putting himself and other government officials in charge of rescuing medicine from the medical profession. If medical doctors with a decade of schooling cannot distinguish between good cures and ineffective ones that must be discontinued, then by gosh, we're lucky that the good folks from the government can.

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Tell Us Something We Don't Know

Suddenly, now that it looks like they've successfully destroyed Sarah Palin, some in the MSM are owning up to their dirty work.

In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race. I don't know that we played a decisive role in that campaign, and I'm not saying the better side lost. What I am saying is that we simply didn't hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.

Deceiving in it's sincerity. Insulting in it's obviousness. Like commenter motherbelt states, "now that the damage has been done, [Cannon] thinks he can score points by appearing to be critical of himself and his buddies."

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