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Up until about thirty years ago the model for the television cop show was Dragnet starring, and created by, Jack Webb. At the time the show was being first broadcast it was a favorite among the thin blue line in Los Angeles because it was, compared to much of the competition, realistic and always showed the LAPD in a good light.

Jack Webb passed away many years ago and the television cop show has descended into soap opera with murder. But from beyond the grave Joe Friday gives Our Dear Leader a little dose of wisdom:

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The "health care" debate goes on and concerned citizens who doubt the viability of the proposed health care plans have made it a point to attend town hall meetings to express their opposition to the various forms of health "reform". Here a young woman challenges her congressman to take her money after expressing her skepticism toward anything that the Congress or White House attempt to push through:

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When this writer was an apprentice machinist and a young journeyman in the trade he worked in a shop making parts for both civilian and military nuclear reactors. In order to perform the tasks he was required to have several security clearances -- one from the Department of Defense and a second from the Atomic Energy Commission. Despite the fact that your faithful correspondent had already been issued a Secret clearance while in the Navy, an investigation of his background was performed, including conversations by the investigators with people this writer had never spoken to. The investigation was a lot of work to assume the various governmental entities that this writer was not a Communist, a Nazi, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World or the Sons of the Rising Sun.

The One decided to appoint another czar (I fell sleep in the good ol' USA and woke up in pre-revolutionary Russia. In spades), and apparently didn't even bother to have the man's background investigated. Or perhaps Mr. Obama, in his almost divine wisdom, decided that the man's communist background was meaningless and that the Yankee public was such a bunch a rubes that he could hide the fact that the man he named as a czar was a goddamn nut.

Charles Krauthamer has a few things to say about the deal:

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For the past couple of months there has been a crisis of sorts in Honduras. Basically the story is this:
The man who had, up until recently, Zelaya, been president of the nation decided that he had the right to change the constitution of Honduras so that he could run for another term as president. The Honduran constitution is adamant concerning presidential terms. The number and length of presidential term cannot be changed at all by anyone including the president or the legislative branch. When Mr. Zelaya decided that an exception should be made in his case the Honduran Supreme Court decided that Mr. Zelaya was violating the Constitution and should probably, for his own good, take a vacation in neighboring Nicarauga. Some people, most of them outside of Honduras, have decided that the removal of Mr. Zelaya was not an enforcement of the Constitution but, rather, a coup. Among those who think that Mr. Zelaya was given a bad deal are the Messiah and Lady Hillary.

Mr. Zelaya is a man heavily influenced by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who is influenced by Fidel Castro of Cuba. In other words, Mr Chavez (a man who is not loathe to shut down radio and television stations that are critical of his Marxist agenda) is a Mini-Me to the Beast of Cuba (Castro), and Mr. Zelaya is a acolyte of Mr. Chavez. Or to put it in the terms of the popular culture and preceding metaphor, a Micro-Me. Or an imitation of an imitation, which is the most flattering form of flattery.

Our Dear Leader seems to forget that one of the great platitudes mentioned in the United States is that we are a country not of men but law. The Honduran Supreme Court and Congress have followed the law. Mr Obama wants the nation to hitch its self to a man. Perhaps in the same way that he wants the United States to hitch its self to him instead of the Constitution, which he has violated many times in the past nine months.

The National Review has a good essay concerning the problem:

Stop Bullying Honduras by The Editors on National Review Online

We here at the Manor are considering mounting a campaign called, "Buy Your Congressman and Senator a Skateboard." The whole idea is based on the idea that if we, as a public, can convince our elected rulers to take up skateboarding we can expect either one of two things. The first is that the clumsy will fall and break their necks (or at least their hips). The second is that they will discover that there is something more fun than sticking their noses into other people's business. Then they might leave us alone.