The Korean girl group After School had a dance contest and so naturally it would make sense to set the dozens of entries to dance to the beat of The SOS Band’s “Take Your Time (Do It Right).” Throw in an Italian American soldier dancing to Thriller, quotes from Hugh Hewitt and Dick Morris and congressional phone numbers and here is the result:

It takes nerve to post dance videos to YouTube. You risk someone doing this with them.

C.S. Lewis was even cooler than I thought or so I concluded when I ran across this masterful put-down that I had never read before:

[Responding to a critic.] The Professor has his own explanation … he thinks that I am unconsciously motivated by the fact that I ‘stand to lose by social change’. And indeed it would be hard for me to welcome a change which might well consign me to a concentration camp. I might add that it would likewise be easy for the Professor to welcome a change …

David Axelrod quoted in the New York Times article Deep in Health Bill, Very Specific Beneficiaries:

“Every senator uses whatever leverage they have to help their states…That’s the way it has been. That’s the way it will always be.”

From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall:

We stood as we have always stood, for reward – in’ the men that won the victory. They call that the spoils system… When the Republicans had the docks under Low and Strong, you didn’t hear them sayin’ anything about graft, did you? No; they’ just went in and …

This video deserves to go viral if for no other reason than these unshaven, uncoordinated, dead-tired looking medical students prove that making the effort is what counts. And wearing the same outfit helps.

If this goes viral it will raise the average IQ of the top 20 YouTube stars considerably.

“Everyone from Bibi Netanyahu to the Japanese prime minister to sundry Iranian mullahs is stomping all over Mr. Happy.
And he doesn’t even seem to realize it.”
This from David Michael Green who blogs at The Smirking Chimp.  He is a professor of political science at Hofstra University.  Funny thing about Hofstra: a few years back a visiting Hofstra professor told me that Hofstra to this day is still best remembered as the opponent in the football game where Bill Cosby got kicked in the groin.

I like using Google’s goog-411 info lookup number (800 466-4411) to find the local office of elected representatives. For example, call 800 466-4411 and say “Senator Blanche Lincoln” and “Little Rock, Arkansas” and they’ll connect you directly to the local office, not the office in D.C. I assume these guys hear from the local office so the more points of contact you can make with them the better. Many senators have offices in different large cities, so if you’ve got a long morning commute entertain yourself by using goog-411 to …

HOORAY! It is amazing how a link on a BreitBart site, InstaPundit, or HotAir can start an avalanche of links. It’s six hours later and now linked at 1,000+ web sites.
With CNN reporting on 10 DEC 09 that 61% of us are against this bill, give the President a B+ for keeping a straight face while explaining how our only real choice is to pass a 2,000 page bill that includes no tort reform. Here’s what I wish Jack Webb had said to him:

Obama: things are a mess, so let’s …

It’s been a long week, and I am dropping all pretense of reasonableness to vent.
Their best guys couldn’t figure out the Cash for Clunkers program would run through it’s first billion in six days. Let’s please remind them that they can’t possibly predict all of the unintended consequences of these 2,000 page health reform laws.
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You can work for 30 years to keep a good job and get good things for your family, including good health insurance, and then your elected officials can decide to throw it all up in the air so …

Very simple and very effective: go to www.SenatorGilbertBaker.com and donate to help get Senator Gilbert Baker elected. As of today her office reports that Lincoln has not come out either for or against the current bill being debated in the senate. Please let’s get her attention and remind her that Howard Dean’s admission that their party’s unwillingness to disappoint trial lawyers by proposing tort reform will get her fired in 2010. Call her at (202) 224-3121.