Tom Jocelyn at the Standard writes a good post today on the fact that “Obama’s Popularity Abroad Does Not Equal Gains for America.” In short: his personal popularity has not changed any of the complexes of problems with which President … Continue reading →
‘Puter went and got his seasonal flu vaccination today, free of charge (not really; insurance paid) at a local clinic. Oddly, the doctor required ‘Puter to remove all his clothes. ‘Puter also wonders why this clinic was held in a … Continue reading →
Readers may recall the Czar has a love-hate relationship with theater. He mostly hates it, and avoids it completely. Why? Check this out. Contact, the Musical. Yeah, the Carl Sagan book/Jodie Foster movie. How timely, too, since the book is … Continue reading →
FoxNews is reporting on a CNN interview—if you need to take a moment to follow that—with Russian President Dmitri “Side Dish” Medvedev,* in which Medvedev downplays the risk of an Israeli strike on Iran. In a carefully worded response, Medvedev … Continue reading →
How badly can the current administration screw things up? Only 10 months after becoming the radically pro-environmental green-the-world carbon crediting, cap’n’trade president, Barack Obama has reduced the United States to environmental moron status, and China is the country we all … Continue reading →
‘Puter, tell the Bills’ players not to worry. People are much more polite in Toronto. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Especially on game day. First, a chucklehead defaces Leodis McKelvin’s lawn for fumbling away a sure win over New England last week. An excellent example of an “adult” reaction to a game. But with Buffalo (the city, not the team … Continue reading →
If this quote in the Guardian is right, then either someone flunked junior-high Civics, or the Administration’s opinion of itself is, uh, expansive? Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and … Continue reading →
Did anyone else here see Wall*E, the movie? I went along with the kids and aside from some nice animation was rather unenthralled by it. However, one of the main themes in the movie is how humans become reliant upon … Continue reading →
Confucius* has not seen this movie, but it comes recommended by someone whose opinion he respects greatly. If anyone checks it out, let us know, and perhaps we’ll have a screening at Castle Gormogon. *For those who came in late: … Continue reading →
Homeland haters can bite us. Rasmussen poll reveals that 57% of Americans still think the rest of the world should be more like America. That constitutes a majority. Once the Progressives are bounced out of office starting next year, those … Continue reading →
Two stories today on the Church, God save her from her churchmen. Stupid: CCHD has funnelled $7.3M to ACORN over the years. Apparently ended last year. Evil: Fêted Fairfield Prep grad sets up children’s charity in Haiti in order to … Continue reading →
The Associated Press, in its ongoing attempts to break news stories well over a week old, has basically concluded that ACORN is dying, if not already dead. Let us certainly hope so. We all love to see a blood-sucking parasite … Continue reading →
Lots of commentators are pointing out seemingly scary similarities between Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama. Heck, they just say that because both are Progressives. In fact, there are lots of differences between Wilson and Obama. For example: Wilson lived most … Continue reading →
Suddenly, Russia has an opinion? Fresh on the heels of the Czar’s revelation that there may be some ménage à trois between Russia, Israel, and America leading to an Israeli attack on Iran comes four more interesting events. First, Russia … Continue reading →
GorT is correct in his summation that, “The power, control, praise and blame for this action while directly attributable to Eric Holder, stop and lie on the desk of President Obama,” but the President and the administration really don’t care. … Continue reading →
To jump on the Czar’s excellent post let me say that two more CIA directors are alive and would have likely signed it but Stansfield Turner is 86 years old (which would add another 4 years of service to the … Continue reading →
Because it’s super-late on Friday night, when the news media releases any information that looks bad for the Obama administration in hopes you miss it in your libertine haze. But not to the Gormogon’s all-seeing eye. Yeah, you read that … Continue reading →
Check out this story from West Virginia. I wonder if he updated his status to read, “Jonathan Parker is so robbing this house right now!” I doubt he got any points for his MobWars character for actually committing a felony. … Continue reading →
As loyal Gormogon readers surely know, Democrats are planning on unprecedented government intervention in Wall Street’s business. Bureaucrats will determine everything from proper salaries, to what constitutes a fair profit, to acceptable urinal spacing. ‘Puter made that last one up, … Continue reading →
Well at least we can say that President Obama didn’t lie to the American people. According to this article from today’s Washington Times web site President Obama is pushing for “comprehensive” immigration reform. Funny how we can’t afford to cover … Continue reading →
A Washington State mental hospital took some of its residents to the Spokane County Interstate Fair yesterday. Unfortunately, one of the mentally ill patients, one Phillip Arnold Paul*, walked away. The problem? Mr. Paul is a murderer, acquitted by reason … Continue reading →
As those that will not see. Yeah, it’s a cheap shot. New York’s accidental governor, David Paterson, hired a campaign manager yesterday for his planned reelection campaign. Unfortunately for ‘Puter’s governor, the electorate doesn’t seem to like him. At all. … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin has discovered an article by Aaron Klein on the WorldNetDaily web site that outlines regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein’s belief that President Obama, not the courts, should interpret the law. This would probably work if Obama were a dictator … Continue reading →
There’s nothing better than someone tying a note to a brick and hurling it through the front window of the Castle Gormogon. Unless of course it goes through an open bedroom window and wallops ‘Puter smack in the head. God, … Continue reading →
Rumors keep crossing the Czar’s butcher block desk that there is more to President Obama’s concession to Russia on the missile defense shield. Vastly more. The rumors, now buzzing on conservative radio, Israeli chat forums, and whispered discussions, suggest that … Continue reading →
So the Czar just got a letter from the Superintendent of the Muscovy School Board, SD 474F5254, that said: “By the Grace of God, et cetera [lots of nice things omitted], we respectfully wish to inform your Czarness that henceforth, … Continue reading →
The Czar has just realized that there hasn’t been a post today. We apologize. Not sure where everyone is… there’s lots of activity in and around the Castle, so I supposed it slipped everyone’s mind. Any way, plenty of conspiracies … Continue reading →
Honestly, your Czaritude, I was just as happy to pass on Etruscan for Business Travellers. I always felt it was a little sleazy. Chapter 14 was “Tarxna After Dark.” Ein thuta lautnitha, fase ti turo.Not-chaste freedwoman, I give you a … Continue reading →
Know who else was over at the Castle Gormogon today? Patrick from Popehat! He came by to borrow the Volgi’s Etruscan For Business Travelers and mentioned to us that your Czar is the best candidate for Czar: What Democratic and … Continue reading →
Love it. Update. Backstory courtesy of the Czar & Czesarevich. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →AP is freaking out. The world’s oceans are the hottest they have ever been, ever, since 1880! And they state, as a matter of fact and record, that climate change has been raising the planet’s temperature steadily since 1997. The … Continue reading →
We’re selling out the Poles and Czechs to suck up to Bad Vlad. We are now on the clock for the next contemptuous gesture by Russia. And a Georgetown professor talks down to Burmese democrats. Thanks to Mike Goldfarb for … Continue reading →
And it’s the democrats? Yep. Go read this story. So the White House has a private contractor crawling the web and social networking sites, collecting data (likely data that would fall into the PII (that’s Personally Identifiable Information) category and … Continue reading →
Quick: name a utopia that worked. By that, the Czar wants you to name a society that mapped out its infrastructure in advance, performed extensive individual economic planning, established a volunteer military, eliminated financial concerns, and provided for the continuously … Continue reading →
Russia and China are both developing “fifth generation” fighters that will be widely exported at prices that will undercut the F-35 price tag. Both nations will thus acquire “near F-22 performance… while attempting to proliferate the [aircraft] to perhaps near … Continue reading →
These two items are doubtless coincidental. Rathke, a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get Americans on welfare, devotes an entire chapter of his book to what he calls “The ‘Maximum Eligible Participation’ Solution.” It is … Continue reading →
Updated: Guess who agrees with us? President Jimmy Carter declared Rep. Joe Wilson a racist on Tuesday, for calling President Obama a liar during the latter’s health care sales pitch last week. The White House, in a little recognized story, … Continue reading →
By Robb Allen @ Sharp As A Marble. Be sure to check the cute baby picture on his About page and read his proposal story. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Over in the Corner, Jonah Goldberg got flamed by some guy who seems to want to exculpate Rousseau, “smart people,” and “intellectuals” from murderous frenzy of the French Revolution. The historical nuts and bolts come later. Feel free to skip … Continue reading →
It seems like one of those science fiction clichés, where a news story from the future drops some weird headline that seems very implausible by today’s standards. And yet, here it is. The country of Lesotho is officially open to … Continue reading →
Confucius* sagely wrote: Alas, Lane failed to ask the Mandarin if he could borrow his helicopter to shoot the crowd from above… Lane should know the Mandarin would not only loan him the helicopter, but several BMG .50s to shoot … Continue reading →
Now with more Manson Family members! That horrible crunching sound you’re hearing is the skulls of all the local Chambers of Commerce presidents smacking against their office walls. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims … Continue reading →
The first Gormogon collaborator to point out that the Freemasons had slipped the Czar a ringer of a picture was noted hippiephobe Gullyborg over at Resistance Is Futile!. Visit his blog and drop him a note of thanks. Also, Lane … Continue reading →
We, as a country and a people, are treading into some dangerous waters. For those unaware there are relatively new terms surfacing in the American political scene. Most notably is the term “libertarian paternalism” and along with it “choice architect”. … Continue reading →
…by amica Gormogonorum Claire Berlinski is up at City Journal’s site. It’s a great read. I walk alone through almost every neighborhood of Istanbul, often at night. This is a megacity of at least 12 million people, many of whom … Continue reading →
Unfortunately on us. Prince Mikey G writes: Every time we try and capitulate, they slap us around some more. What fresh hell is this? Oh, well, Ahmadî-Nezhâd’s press advisor is claiming that we were offering to sell them some Boeing … Continue reading →
Your Volgi will merely reproduce Vince the Film Drunk’s headline: BRUCE CAMPBELL PLAYS ‘BIG PART’ IN SPIDEY 4 Oh hell to the yeah. Wait, what are you still doing here? That was the end of the post. Oh, you thought … Continue reading →
So Confucius’s brother Li Bai, after a few bottles of rice wine, noted that Van Jones left the stage too early, with significant amounts of comedy left unmined. Not least the fact that no one in the blogosphere seems to … Continue reading →
Patrick Swayze is dead. The Czar is of three minds on this man. On the one hand, he will be forever tormented by the day Swayze walked into his roadhouse. He called himself Dalton, then, and was nice. Until it … Continue reading →
According to Politico, our President referred to Kanye West as a “jackass.” In keeping with Gormogon policy, ‘Puter can indeed confirm that Kanye West is, in fact, a jackass. Listen, getting lit up on Hennessey and picking on women is … Continue reading →
Sorry, Volgi. The Czar just loves being embarrassed like this, although he believes the computational method quite sound. Except that photograph submitted to him indeed was incorrect. The Czar asked the okhrana bunch to go pay the dude a visit … Continue reading →
Turns out we screwed up. The picture the Czar found turns out to be of a Promise Keepers’ rally a decade ago. Click here for a version with the site of the missing National Museum of the American Indian circled. … Continue reading →
According to Breitbart.com, Obama, Clinton eat Italian after Obama’s NY speech. What did the poor bastard do to deserve that fate? I would think you would have to cook him over a medium heat as not to dry him out. … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →In two words or less: loser pays. If that won’t wring the litigation-based waste out of the health care system, nothing will. But again, ‘Puter expects President Obama to put the interests of reliable, big-dollar Democrat campaign donors like the … Continue reading →
Especially when one must advertise one’s name on yard signs. Behold! ‘Puter wonders if the undercover “pimp” busting ACORN used this guy’s name as his pseudonym. It would have been most appropriate. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer … Continue reading →
The big 9/12 protest certainly attracted a ton of people. How many seems to be an open question. The Washington Post reported “tens of thousands,” so a conservative might reasonably expect there to have been at least a hundred thousand. … Continue reading →
And so the plot thickens. According to the latest news from the Chicago Sun-Times web site, Kelly’s girlfriend has “lawyered up” and is no longer talking to the police. In addition to the silent girlfriend, the police are trying to … Continue reading →
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting on the death of Christopher Kelly who was an adviser to former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. According to initial reports the cause of Mr. Kelly’s demise is an apparent aspirin overdose. OK, let me tighten … Continue reading →
Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times really wants President Obama to make him czar of something. Anything. He is well qualified. For one thing, he likes “pragmatism,” and he thinks national socialism is a good idea. In an … Continue reading →
Wow, we’ve seen some bad press on ACORN lately, haven’t we, boys and girls? ACORN, which stands for Acronyms Created Outta Radical Nonsense, is a taxpayer-funded effort to mobilize the under-served voters and work for social justice. As you know, … Continue reading →
Imagine. The Japanese elect a blatantly liberal government, and the next thing you know they are shocked, shocked, to learn that the new government is already cranking up anti-business regulations under the guise of environmental protection to where manufacturers have … Continue reading →
His new name is Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov. (Yes, and at least two of his nerdonyms appear to be misspelled.) Now you know. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →No need to apologize to Baltimore. Regardless of the Nation’s Capital’s problems, the Charm City is still like school on Saturday. No class. Your Volgi is partially correct. ACORN’s tutorials on how to run a stable of prostitutes financed by … Continue reading →
Looks like D.C. ACORN is just as guilty. Confucius* says: it seemed curious that the woman who played the prostitute told Glenn Beck that she’d emptied her savings to finance the exposé. To walk into one office with a hidden … Continue reading →
Fortunately, ACORN is here to help! Good God, ’Puter’s sitting at home playing “count the felonies.” Congrats to Andrew Breitbart for rolling out biggovernment.com with an incredibly splash story. (That the media will do their level best to ignore.) Would … Continue reading →
Is the Pope Bavarian? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine takes on the state of America’ healthcare system and manages to get everything pretty much dead wrong. Obviously, he is a sucker for a single payer—that is, Federally run—system. He couldn’t be printed in … Continue reading →
Like almost anyone reading this, the Czar remembers exactly where he was eight years ago. The weirdly blue and open skies. The strangely hushed start to the morning. The people gathering by anything like a television. The Czar only glances … Continue reading →
…made them feel secure enough to crack heads after the election fraud was revealed, says David Ignatius. One Iranian political figure has told a Western intermediary that the Obama administration may have unwittingly encouraged the regime’s power grab by sending … Continue reading →
What is most interesting about the [Ted Kennedy’s letter to the Pope], however, is its concise expression of the view that personal salvation can be achieved through liberal politics. —James Bowman. Read on. Illustration: Antipope, Max Ernst, 1941. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
America and capitalism has done more to advance a citizens’ standard of living than any other “-ism” or means fo government. How much so? The poor in this country (roughly about 30 Million by the Census Bureau’s annual poverty report) … Continue reading →
A Boeing plant in South Carolina voted to oust its union, by a vote of 199-68. This means that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is done, gone, out. It of course means that a new or different … Continue reading →
Probably even more after this: The hosts asked him at some point what he thought of New York.“Well, it’s not bad,” Ovechkin said. “It’s not best place in the world, but it’s ok.”And a thousand Washingtonians breathed sweet sighs of … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s been reading a lot of the commentary on President Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress last night. Here’s one item that ‘Puter thinks has gotten short shrift. President Obama declared that in his preferred health care reform … Continue reading →
‘Puter penned this post Tuesday, regarding Mr. Kevin Chavous’ protest of the Democrats killing D.C.’s school voucher program. Today, the Wall Street Journal drops an unsigned editorial eerily similar to ‘Puter’s post. There is nothing beyond your Gormogons’ reach. 'PuterAlways … Continue reading →
The web site WorldNetDaily (www.wnd.com) has this headline on their web site today – Chinese flag to flutter over Ellipse in D.C. The flag will be flown on September 20th to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Communist Chinese regime. … Continue reading →
If you enjoy theatrically baroque and erudite prose, hie thee to Fr. Geo. Rutler’s “Speaking Well of the Dead.” Terrific read. No such favor was granted on July 29 [1997] in St. Matthew’s Cathedral [at the funeral of Justice Wm. … Continue reading →
Not to pick on fair Baltimore, but… The Orioles, in a aesthetically-challenged, if apparently sincere (with the Devil owning the team, one never knows), tribute to their greats, erected four-foot aluminum numerals corresponding to the team’s retired numbers at Camden … Continue reading →
Oprah celebrated her 24th season premiere on Michigan Avenue in Chicago today, along with the Black Eyed Peas. The Gormogons were there. Test for faithful readers with sharp eyes: Can you spot the hidden Gormogon? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
You’d think someone would write a book. Not that there’s a word of truth in Jonah Goldberg’s tragically best-selling compendium of scurrilous rumors and accounts of idiosyncratic, marginal cranks like Woodrow Wilson, George Creel, Mitchell Palmer, Herbert Croly, Fr. Coughlin, … Continue reading →
Beck took the time to decipher the clues of the Hollywood conspiracy to turn America into a socialist regime. Glenn analyzed photos of Oliver Stone with Chavez on his arm. The two arrived in an armored gondola that Beck noticed … Continue reading →
If you’ve ever wondered why America has taken a serious dislike to politicians of all stripes, meet California Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R). Politicians seem to be uncouth, tacky, liars and all-around nogoodniks these days, regardless of political persuasion (cf., Rangel, … Continue reading →
And in this video, Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option … Continue reading →
According to this report from Foxnews.com, the actor Charlie Sheen is demanding a meeting with President Obama to discuss the “truth” behind the September 11th terrorist attack. Looks like Mr. Sheen holds the same belief of former Green Jobs Czar … Continue reading →
But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical … Continue reading →
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation’s health care … Continue reading →
Man, she shows up everywhere. Photoshopping by Brendon Donnelly at What Would Tyler Durden Do? Safe(ish) for work at WWTDD, not so safe for the work, if you click down a further level. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Imagine your Mandarin’s shock and dismay over this headline – Immigration Activists Urge Census Boycott – from The Boston Globe. So let me try to wrap my mind around this: • Illegal immigrants want to boycott the 2010 census to … Continue reading →
Rich, Might we suggest: ro·ta·sub·ter·i·a·tion ˌrō-tə-səb-tēr-ē-ˈā-ʃən, n., oft. fig., 1. to throw someone under a bus; to discard an individual once they no longer serve one’s purposes. 2. The state or result of being thrown under a bus or discarded … Continue reading →
Ah sō des’ ne, as those sandal-wearing goldfish tenders say. Silly me, I was still calling it “September Eleventh.” I had no idea it had been Day-ified. Update: Ok, so I’ve been thinking about this for way too long. Shouldn’t … Continue reading →
On the steps of the U.S. Department of Education building this morning former D.C. City Councilman Kevin P. Chavous, and others, protested the Obama Adminstration’s refusal to continue funding of a successful school voucher program. Via The Corner, ‘Puter notes … Continue reading →
Patriot Day is in remembrance of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. I am looking at my Veterans of Foreign Wars calendar sitting over my desk that not only recognizes the day, but also reminds us that the flag is … Continue reading →
What the heck is Patriot Day? Is this some Hallmark holiday to supplement July 4th? Or have I just missed this for the past several decades? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →While reviewing the political cartoons at Townhall.com today, this one really caught my attention. I think the cartoon’s artist is illustrating what for me is the inability to distinguish between indoctrination to a distinct set of political views and the … Continue reading →
Many of us Gormogons hail from Washington, D.C., which maintains a healthy and reciprocal hatred with Baltimore, Sinkhole of the Universe. So we are happy to reprint the following: 4. CRIMINALS! Everyone knows Baltimore is the shit-stained asshole of the … Continue reading →
I do like the ability to travel through time – it provides the chance to reflect on the changing times. For example, I recently went back to October 1991. President George H. W. Bush (Bush, Sr., if you will) had … Continue reading →
Today is the birthday of the B.V.M. (Blessed Virigin Mary, for those non-Catholics among us), as it is nine months after the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is also the birthday of ‘Puter’s nephew Jack. So to Jack, get … Continue reading →
