Hey, remember me?

No, I haven't been in hiding since the Same Old Jets got crushed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. There's a flu bug going around, and on Sunday morning it got around to me. My doctor said he's been seeing 8 to 10 cases a day of this latest gastro-intestinal virus. Yippee.

Yes I watched the game. From under a blanket with a Gatorade IV by my side. And for all my trash-talking at his site, Ed from The Daley Gator was gracious in victory, directing his sarcasm not at this down-and-out Jets fan, but at the Internet legions of Cheese Heads and their delusions of Super Bowl glory.

Let's see, what else did I miss? Oh yeah, TOTUS fed Barry another rehash of canned platitudes. Whoop de doo. High Speed Rail? Seriously? Having solved all of our nation's other problems Il Duce is ready to make the trains run on time?

And if that whole "Date of the Union" Kumbaya nonsense is really the bees knees, how come Madam Botox and Dingy Harry didn't think of it when the GOP was in the minority?

I was very disappointed to see John Thune buy into that stupidity. He sat next to Kirsten Gillibrand, the 2^nd biggest bimbo in the Senate. (Al Franken being the first, naturally.) I had high hopes for Senator Thune as the kind of conservative we need to lead us past the Mike Huckabees and Mitt Romneys of the establishment GOP.

Rush Limbaugh:

If there is a common enemy among those who will sit together tonight, it is the Tea Party. The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because it engineered their defeat. Some Republicans don't like it because it illustrates what they have to do to win and they're not really comfortable with that.

Yup. The days of the go along to get along Republican Party are over. And Senator Thune? You're off my short list for 2012. Why? Pat Austin explains:

As someone said to me last night, "Don't those Republicans get it? Didn't they learn anything in November?! We don't WANT them to go up there and hold hands and everyone get along. We WANT things to be different!" I understand this point. Bickering is not necessarily productive, but bi-partisanship is over rated.

Remember, to a Democrat, bi-partisanship means "do what I want". They never compromise, why should we?

Speaking of no compromise, the Religion of Peace™ reacted to the slow pace of construction on the Ground Zero Death To America Victory Mosque by blowing up an airport in Moscow (and a bus in Manila). That'll teach us to defy the Soldiers of Allah! Or something.

Alas, death and destruction is all the Mohammedan knows how to do. Whether it's beheading an uppity wife or crushing an unruly teenager with his car, the Muslim way is to kill first and ask questions later. Sort of like your average Philadelphia abortionist, no?

They destroy; we build. And rebuild. Check out the engineering genius going into raising the Bayonne Bridge:

Imagine building a stretch of four-lane highway 20 stories in the air, and hanging it by steel cables from a gigantic steel arch. Then, imagine staging the job from an area 60 feet below, on a construction site just 20 feet wide, with cars and trucks rushing by on either side, high above a busy waterway.

Hey, we don't do small.

According to the managers and engineers overseeing the project at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, raising the road from 151 to 215 feet above the Kill van Kull, while keeping the bridge open to traffic, will be more than a Herculean feat of engineering and construction. The project would also achieve the dual goals of raising the height clearance of the bridge to accommodate larger container ships, thus assuring the continued viability of the region's port industry, while keeping open a vital commuter link between the two states.

How's that for a "Sputnik Moment", eh Barry?

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