Congress, President Shocked By Concept That Giving People Money Will Cause Them to Spend

To begin here, I am by no means in favor of the cash for clunkers program. The "clunkers" are perfectly good new cars for the most part and the program is a thinly veiled attempt to make people purchase "green" vehicles, or at least greener vehicles. It's anti-market government directed spending and I'm not all that sure it benefits the U.S. car manufacturers as they were taking losses on these vehicles before. I'm sure we'll hear Congress and the President crow about how this is an example of how people really want the greener cars, not the $9,000.00 off that results in next to no note (some manufacturers are matching apparently, especially the government ones, which means they are double subsidizing the purchase of these vehicles). Meanwhile, the perfectly good cars are destroyed, rather than resold which is kind of like the Soviet Union tactics and those of FDR with farmers in the New Deal, meaning we're creating false demand and directing the economy. In other words, this program is pretty much evil, but since it looks good on paper and distracts people with new shiny things, it's going to continue.

What should be taken from this is if the government had cut taxes in the first place, rather than spending tons of money to supposedly generate jobs, the economy would have bounced back in the first quarter. Now we're just creating more long term debt as the government sucks up tax dollars to subsidize green vehicle purchases. The snake oil salesman have found their tonic.

No Waste Here!!

Remember folks, there wasn't any pork or waste in the stimulus package. However, funding for self-proclaimed perverts version of art, now that's stimulus.

Now That's Funny

Our new Science Czar, John Holdren, advocated giving trees legal standing to sue in court.

It's Rare to Find Someone Who Can be Tacky and Hypocritical at the Same Time

President Obama invited four CEOs to the White House for lunch, then had staff collect credit card information to bill them for it. Let's forget for a second that this is just a breach of common etiquette and protocol. This is the White House that was serving incredibly expensive Kobe beef at cocktail parties, which they were or are having once a week. This in the midst of daily forecasts of gloom and doom came out of the White House about how the economy would collapse to third world status if we didn't pass a stimulus package. Someone please wake me up and tell me this is not reality.

"Beer Summit" Apparently Conceived of in Drunken Stupor

President Obama or his advisers must have been either drunk or high when they came up with the "beer summit". I can almost see Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel passing a joint to the next person saying "Dude, it would be so &^$%ing cool if you like, totally $%@@ing got together for a $%#^ing beer with these $%#@s. You could do it in the %^*&ing backyard like one of those $#%@ing inbred yokels clinging to their guns and religion. You could walk out with no $@%^ing jacket and your #$%@ing sleeves rolled up like you've had a real job in your $@%#ing life. And $#@%ing pretzels and peanuts, man!!!" Rahm does, after all, curse quite a bit. Next to Rahm, ABC's George Stephanopolous who, as a member of the independent, unbiased, untouchable media, helps craft the Obama administration message says "But we have to make him appeal even more to the masses. He has to have a beer people can identify. I got it, Bud Light is the highest seller in the country, he'll have that!" Then President Obama interjects "Why can't I just do a line of coke and call him a racist pig?"

The point here is that the meeting looked as staged and awkward as anything I've ever seen. Both Professor Henry Louis Gates and Police Sergeant James Crowley kept their jackets on. The few highlights I've seen showed Gates, Obama and Biden laughing while Crowley looks like he's ready to make an arrest. Who can blame him? He's sitting with a cokehead, a plagiarist, and a guy who appears to be an asshole (teaching at Harvard should be probable cause for an arrest for brainwashing). Afterwards, Sergeant Crowley admitted that no apologies had been exchanged, but then I've already said Obama could not apologize, and it appears he and Gates on a similar line of thought. This was nothing but a photo op in the hopes to restore some credibility to President Obama who after admitting he didn't know the facts, he figured the police acted stupidly. What do you call it when you enter into a situation with a preconceived notion and then make a judgment based not upon facts but upon your ideas of how people act? I think it's prejudice.

Update on Dems' Strategy Coming Out of the Closet

A memorandum containing Democratic strategy to counter the Republican theme of government takeover of health care has leaked. Surprise, surprise, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) was just firing the first shots when she called insurance companies "villains". It seems the new strategy is to target the insurers (the new objects of hatred to join the wealthy) using the talking point of getting insurers out from in between doctors and patients. People in business must be terrified of this government and its willingness to villify the very industries that support the population in order to achieve its questionable social goals.

Overexposed

An older lady in Iowa is selling her televisions because she is sick of seeing President Obama every time she turns on the TV. I only wish I could sell my nightmares, as he is omnipresent there as well.

Common Sense is Clearly on Vacation

There's no way this can go wrong. Over one thousand Rhode Island businesses face closure for failure to pay their sales taxes. So surely once they are closed they'll be able to pay their taxes. Maybe to avoid closure they just won't pay their employees, who will, in turn, be placed in jail for failure to pay their taxes. Maybe the business will close, the employees won't get paid and the state will get nothing. But I'm sure the state's plan will work.

It's Eveybody's Fault But Ours!!!

House Democrats have now blamed the media for setting an August deadline on the passage of some form of health care legislation and Republicans for blocking it. Isn't that right up there with the old joke: "The food here is terrible, and such small portions"? You media folks created a fake deadline, and it's the Republican's fault we can't make that fake deadline. How can anyone take the Democratic party seriously anymore? Oh, by the way, here's video of President Obama defending his August deadline that the media supposedly created. This administration compares people like me to Holocaust deniers and then the party comes out blatantly ignoring truth? My head is spinning and I think I need to lay down.

Time to Pull the Strategy Out of the Closet

As if it weren't obvious enough that the long time strategy of most liberals is to create an enemy, i.e. President Obama villifies people with incomes, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) decided to remove the subtlety. Representative Pelosi flat out called insurance companies the villians of health care today. Now, I don't particularly love insurance companies, but villians? Let's keep in mind that insurance is one of the most highly regulated industries in the country. But the point here is that the strategy is out of the closet. Liberals love to make you believe companies are evil. Ralph Nader, anyone? This is also because the implication then becomes that government is the benevolent good-guy. This likely explains the fact that we have people who believe government can somehow generate wealth, rather than simply producing dependence, by taking it from some and giving it to others. Government is not, by itself, evil, and neither are insurance or any other companies. Facts don't matter to liberals, inflamed passions do. If they can get you to hate, they can get you to act.

President Laughs at Newsweek Cover He Probably Prompted

Newsweek's cover states "The Recession is Over" and President Obama criticizes it. Isn't this the same guy who said he rescued the economy not that long ago? From the radio reports I heard of the content of the speech, he basically said the same thing. Meanwhile, the Newsweek reporter that was imbedded with the campaign and supposed to write an unbiased account of it has joined the administration. I wonder if that counts as another job saved by the stimulus package.

Study Shows Flashbulbs and Marine Biologists Killing Coral Reefs

Not really, but wouldn't it be great?

Yet Another Blow Struck For Illiteracy

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D. Mich.) questioned the advisability of Congressmen reading a bill if it is over 1,000 pages and they would need two days and two attorneys to know what it means. So expecting our representatives to know what they vote on is asking too much? When asked about his son's homework, Conyers responded, "I just don't see the point in my son reading 'A Tale of Two Cities' if he's only got a week and Charles Dickens doesn't explain it to him."

UPDATE: Yes, I know the original title said "Stuck"

Blue Dogs Starting to Show Their True Colors

Remember now, Blue Dog "fiscally conservative" Democrats are just those that don't want the federal government paying the tab. So now, it appears that they are reaching a compromise to support the health care reform legislation currently before the House, having pared it down to a measly $900 billion dollars over 10 years. How did they come to shave a full 10% off the bill so that these "fiscally conservative" people would sign on, you ask? Well, they are going to squeeze additional money out of Medicare by empowering a panel to review treatments to keep costs down (unless Congress acts to give an alternative recomendation, so your Congressman or this panel will be responsible for people's individual treatment options). Happy death day, Grandma!! No heart bypass for you, take the blue pill and shut up. The rest of the savings would come from driving private insurers out of business by regulating the living crap out of them, forcing people into the government plans. Wait, that doesn't make any sense at all! None of this does though, unless you look at it from the perspective that now, the government will have a reason to control what you eat, how you exercise and every other little aspect of your life.

The Time For Denial Continues to be Over

Despite President Obama and other's protestations that man made global warming is indisputable because there is a consensus, you know, like that consensus we reached on gravity that made it a fact, or the consensus that 2 + 2 is 4 which makes all math possible, scientists continue to proclaim, in the face of strong lobbying by environmenatl groups, the mythological nature of anthropogenic global warming. But the, President Obama seems to think anyone who disagrees with him is wrong.

The Revolt Continues

As has been occurring in so many states, now Nebraskans may be set to assert 10th Amendment protections from overreaching by the federal government.

OK, It Shouldn't Be a Popularity Contest But...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) doesn't care that people hate her or that they don't trust her. I'm pretty favorable that a political candidate shouldn't be winning on popularity, but at some point, if the people who elected you in a representative democracy universally disagree with you, and you don't care, you need to step down. Her attitude demonstrates a universal truth of the elites, they got into office to execute their own agenda, they could care less about what the people they represent want.

Waterloo Indeed

As if anyone needs more evidence that the health care bill shouldn't be passed, the CBO has announced that the plan to use an independent panel to keep Medicare costs low will result in negligible savings. This plan is not about health care, it is about power.

He's Like That Annoying Kid in School Who Wouldn't Stop Talking to You

With his latest press conference on health care President Barack Obama has now held as many of these little forums as President Bush (the second one) did in eight years.

I Wonder if She and Her Personal Nurse are Free Friday Night

A 77 year-old man, apparently sick of looking at just how far his testicles were willing to descend, has undergone gender transformation surgery to become an infertile, cold, post-menopausal woman. This is a gender issue and not a mental illness? Really? When my grandfather has to wonder about whether or not the person in front of him still has the same parts, we're entering weird territory.

Health Care Bill Debacle Continues to Unfold

Blue Dog Democrats stormed out of the Energy and Commerce Committee negotiations saying Representative Henry Waxman (D. Cali.), truly the most snubbed person on last years People's 100 Sexiest list, had lied to them and negotiated in bad faith on provisions of the bill. Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff, strong arm, wartime consigliari, general prick, and overall bad guy, Rahm Emanuel emerged from a meeting with Democratic leadership confident that a vote would move forward on the floor of the House next week. This coincides with Waxman's, again, truly the most beautiful man to grace the face of this Earth, proclamation earlier that he would bypass the committee procedure and bring the bill to a vote without committee approval. Blue Dog leader Charlie Melancon (D. La.) indicated his confidence that if the bill is brought to the floor it will be defeated due to the 40-45 Blue Dogs that will vote "no".

It's kind of fun watching the Democratic Party self destruct. It is good to see that some Democrats have some sense on this bill, even though conservative Democrat means they want the program, they just don't want to pay for it, which means they pass the buck through unfunded mandates to the states.

Meanwhile Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has alluded to making a Tenth Amendment challenge if the bill passes. Between Louisiana and Texas, I think we should secede. Lord knows we have the oil.

Update on Police Acting Stupidly

Rush Limbaugh is reporting the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has stated of course the cops would ask the President to apologize, the fraternal order of police endorsed McCain. Nice.

UPDATE 3:05 p.m.

President Obama, far from apologizing, says he used an unfortunate choice of words and could have "calibrated those words differently". Perhaps he could have said "I acted stupidly".

Business As Usual

Representative Henry Waxman (D. Cali.), who is clearly the sexiest man alive, has threatened to bypass the committee and bring the health care reform bill straight to the House floor for a vote so that the blue dog democrats can't impede it. Just business as usual for this administration. They believe they are entitled to pass their programs. Resistance and dissent are not allowed and they will bully through whatever they want.

It's Not About Me, It's About Me

Any time someone says it's not about me, they're telling you it is about them and nothing more than them. As I previously noted, President Obama has complained that others may destroy his presidency. When he says his health care reform isn't about him, he means it's about him and him alone. There has been a disturbing trend in his speeches to speak in the first person singular, saying I or me, rather than speaking about or on behalf of the nation. In fact, the only time he refers to the United States, he doesn't say "we", he uses the proper name of the country to distinguish itself from him, and he only seems to mention the country when he's apologizing for one of the perceived faults. So what are the odds that he will honor the request of the police who he said acted stupidly, and review the facts and apologize?

President Barack Obama on Racial Profiling

President Obama elaborated on his earlier comment that police acted stupidly in arresting Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who had to break in to his own home after losing his keys. From the police officers story, Gates didn't exactly act above board at the time. Comedian Bill Cosby proved he has more common sense than President Obama, expressing that he would have waited before weighing in with such a statement. Meantime, the cop who wrote out the report was Hispanic, another on the scene was black, and the only white cop was a police trainer who specialized in teaching anti-profiling at the academy. Gates' home had been broken into while he was gone. He came out abusing the cops and instantly claiming they were there because he was black. By the way, President Obama compared his own experience being followed by cops. He's an admitted cocaine user. Shouldn't the cops have been following him?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but given that Obama pulled the race card before anyone else had the chance on the campaign trail, his willingness to use divisive politics by demonizing the rich and those who don't agree with him and his radical past, maybe this isn't just a mistake and it is an insight to what our President believes.

Finally Someone Has Articulated the Midget Defense

Amy Winehouse has claimed she can't have hit a fan because he was tall and she is short. Finally, I have an alibi for all those tall folks I've hit.

If You Watch Closely in the Wild, You'll See They Eat Their Young

A democratic strategist appeared on Neil Cavuto's program this afternoon calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) to step aside. The strategist detailed how it has been Nancy Pelosi who seems to have failed in implementing the programs which President Obama wanted correctly and suggested that she was the source of much of the partisan discord which has left republicans out of the loop on much of the legislation.

Anyone else think this looks like the patsy being set up for a fall? Pelosi's approval numbers are dismal and she would make the easiest target to shift blame from the administration. Have no doubt, though, she and President Obama have the same agenda.

George Orwell to Sue For Intellectual Property Rights Violations

In yet another Orwellian feat, President Barack Obama has now started talking about health insurance reform, rather than health care reform. I guess he finally figured out if people know what he's talking about, they'll probably disagree with him. Maybe that's why Democrats have moved to block Republicans from communicating with their constituents about the beauracracy that the legislation would create. If Orwell were alive today I think he'd be shocked that the United States was where his playbook for "1984" was going to unfold.

My Experts Are Pure and Unbiased

As many a global warming alarmist will tell you, oil companies spend massive amounts of money funding global warming research which tends to disprove global warming. These scientists, in order to procure more funding, are manipulated and directed by the oil companies to their findings, regardless of the true science.

RIGHT!!!

So the truth could be that billions in grants issued by governments world wide have a huge influence on climate researchers dependent upon those grants for their existence. In fact, most scientists who do not produce anything which can be utilized in society or the marketplace, such as archeologists, historians and climate researchers, depend on grants to live. They are common place. But certainly these people are more pure, the oil companies provide more filthy lucre and the science is therefore more correct, yes? Not just no, but hell no. The U.S. federal government has spent $79 billion on climate research since 1989. The costs of carbon trading in 2008 was a $126 billion dollar marketplace. I wonder how much the vaunted IPCC study cost to rely on a chart, the so-called "hockey stick", which had been shown false a decade earlier?

Maybe the bad science shows why the alarmists have to attack from every angle, convening hearings on global warming as a threat to national defense. This is politicized science and the politics of fear.

My experts are better than yours.

The Kennedy Legacy

American Thinker posts this interesting article addressing the question of whether or not Senator Ted Kennedy (D. Mass.) would be receiving treatment for his cancer under the national health care plan he has advocated for so long.

Silly Boy, Of Course You Want That

Though people in her own party dispute it, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.), and her ever present arthritic digit, has announced that she has the votes to pass health care legislation in the House. Representative Pelosi has proved that, like the TARP bill under President Bush before it, Washington, D.C., is always willing to give the country a bill it doesn't want. This is the classic elitist position that you don't know what's good for you, they do. You can also replace "you" in that sentence with banks, insurance companies, GM, Chevrolet, etc.

Finally Someone in Government Who Will Approve of My Dating Chimps and Aborting Two Year Olds

The nomination of Cass Sunstein, a Harvard professor, for Regulatory Czar (what the hell is that?) is being held up by Senator John Cornyn (R. Tex) because of his positions on gun rights. He is also a fan of Peter Singer, a highly influential bioethics professor at Princeton. Ole' Petey believes a child should be allowed to be aborted up to the age of two and that sex with animals is kosher as long as they consent. When did the country's elite intelligentsia become so stupid? It's pretty disturbing to see this kind of person even make it to the nominee stage, but it does support my theory that Obama's only restriction on abortion is if the kid is able to evade you. I'd love to find a clip of him referring to babies as "the most dangerous game" while dressed up as a hunter.

Obama : "You're Going to Destroy My Presidency"

Senator Charles Grassley (R. Iowa) states that a democratic congressman spoke with President Obama, advising that health care legislation would not pass unless changes were made, to which he replied "You're going to destroy my presidency." Note the lack of concern about the country. It's all about his presidency, his legacy, his remaking of America. We can only be so lucky if his presidency is destroyed by the defeat of universal(ly bad idea) health care.

He Can Leap Over the Truth With a Single Bound

President Barack Obama (Moron, Ill.) is expected to hold a press conference regarding his health care program tonight in which, according to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, he will talk about how he rescued the economy. No, seriously. President Barack Obama (Socialist, Ill.) rescued the economy. Stop laughing, he means it. President Barack Obama (Liar, Ill.) has gotten the stock market back up. What do you mean it's still down 7,000 points or so? President Barack Obama (he's not black, he's just that full of shit, Ill.) saved us all. After all, those Google searches are down, aren't they? I'm sorry, what's that about the 9.5% unemployment rate? Jim Boehner has it right.

Yo Quiero La Vida

In tragic news, the Taco Bell spokesdog has died. It is rumored that, in honor of his memory, he will be ground up and added to the beef taco mix.

I Love This State

Secretary of Health and Hospitals Katherine Sebilius was at a "town hall" meeting in Reserve, LA. Rush Limbaugh played audio of an unidentified audience member saying "It'll be a cold day in hell before he socialized my country", to thunderous applause. The people are beginning to strike back.

Madames et Monsiers, Je Vous Presente La Sante de les Etats Unis

Steven Crowder, comedian, Canadian and Pajama TV correspondent posted this expose of the Canadian health care system. Though not precisely what the administration proposal is, the Canadian system is a good example of what it will become, a single payer system, which is the actual goal of the reform.

Update on Senator Barbara Boxer, Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Racists Piece of Crap

The Chairman of the Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford, on Bill O'Reilly brought up some interesting tidbits about Barabara Boxer's assualt on conservative blacks. He accused Babs of orchestrating the Anita Hill attacks on then Supreme Court nominee and now Justice Clarence Thomas. He further accused ole' Barbie of orchestrating the attack on the 2004 vote results in Ohio against Ohio Secretary of State Kim Blackwell, another african american. Alford further stated "She loves poor black folks and black folks in their place." Pretty harsh and, honestly, pretty much the attitude of most elitist liberals. Harry has a new fan in me.

Worst Case Scenario $23 Trillion in Federal Spending on Bailouts

Whew! I was so worried it would be less than TWICE the GDP for a single year. Thank goodness Bush and Obama have decided to save all those institutions. Who knows what it might have cost to let them fail. Shoot me now. It is interesting to note that the sum total of FDR's New Deal was calculated to be $500 billion in 2008 dollars. Seriously, President Obama's 2010 budget is $3.6 trillion. How insane has federal spending become?

The New Open Administration

The White House is delaying the release of the budget update, typically released in July, until August. Now what could be the motivation for that? Well, unemployment and deficits are expected to be reported as much higher than in President Obama's budget projections, i.e., there's going to be bad news. President Obama wants health care legislation by the end of the month. It's pretty obvious that President Obama wants to try and push through health care reform before the country realized exactly how much it cannot be afforded. Voila!! The new "open" administration, the most transparent in history, that President Obama promised. The only thing that is transparent about this administration is how little it cares about economic realities and how beholden it is to the social reforms it wants to implement and how little it wants the public to really know what it is doing.

A Call to the Tea Parties and 912 Groups

The tide is turning in this country. The opinion polls have been turning towards the points of view we hold and they continue to push higher as long as the force of "change" without reason or sense push against us. Like the tide, as the moon moves against us, we shall gain momentum, force and mass, as the oceans of reason and freedom follow us to rise up to meet the pull of the moon. If we are successful, if we can defeat cap and trade, the health care bill, and any future calls for a second stimulus package, where will we lay? Will we be the high tide that crested, and, successful in encroaching new ground, draw back to the sea? Will we lap at the edges of the land we fought for, neither gaining nor losing ground? Or are we capable of moving past the shore, sweeping the land?

I use these metaphors for specific reasons. Many of those involved in this movement were not interested in politics until recently, many do not know how the political system operates, many do not know history, and many formed an organization only to ask what they should do. Many have called in to Glenn Beck's show asking what is next? This shows that the wave has a sort of mass direction without focus.

Back to the metaphors. Waves have happened in the past against the force of government. They have lapped back away from the shore, satisfied that it went far, but not too far, and letting the shore advance against them, just as Louisiana has surrendered land to the sea each year. When FDR did the New Deal, World War II stopped him, and only that. When LBJ started the Great Society, we fought back, but it advanced. It has advanced again under Barack Obama and President Bush in TARP and the stimulus bills. In truth, it has advanced under every president, even Reagan, though he fought more than most, not despite our resistance, but more often than not, underneath it.

If we are successful, what next? Can a group that gets offended by being called conservative or republican or democrat still cohesively defend against the threat of government expansion? Can it hope to move it back? Can we push government to the ideals we seem to hold true together now or of limited interference? Or is it limited spending? Or limited now vs. the past?

We sit without definition or purpose, because, in truth, we are reacting. We can be more. We can define ourselves and become the free men and women we once were.

We stand at the precipice of the only sort of revolution that occurs without violence, the movement of democracy, and to have as a goal the return of the principles we began with. We are unique in history because of this. We face an administration that duplicates the past.

We need to be prepared for what is next, win or lose, and this is where we will be defined.

That Larry Guy From Three's Company Shouldn't Be Giving President Obama Advice

Larry Summers, top economic advisor to President Barack Obama, cited less searches on Google for the term "economic depression" as proof that the economy is progressing favorably. Do I really have to say anything about this? Larry, maybe searches were down because so many people no longer have a computer. Maybe they are afraid of goofing off on their work computer as they might lose their job. Maybe they are now homeless.

In fact, by this theory, if everyone's electricity gets cut off, then no one will search Google for "economic depression", therefore, the economy will have improved and everything will be all right. Finally, the theory behind Cap and Trade revealed!!!

Good News!! You're Governor May Be Looking Out For You!!

Word from the National Governor's Association meeting is that Governors share concerns over President Barack Obama's (Communist, Kenya) proposed health care legislation (yeah, it's coming out of four committees in two branches of Congress right now, but this is his baby). Key to their concerns are potential unfunded mandates, or what Democrats often insert in legislation to call themselves fiscally conservative (that's really not fair, both parties historically are guilty of utilizing unfunded mandates). An unfunded mandate is when the federal government sets a goal for the states to meet and does not give them any money to implement the programs. Ironically, this is how the E.U. works as well. I'm pretty sure it's not in the Constitution (actually I'm positive) and, frankly, the procedure should be banned. But the good news is, your Governor may actually be smarter than the President, but then, I'm betting that you are, too.

Barbar Boxer, Senator, Advocate for Minorities, Asshole

Senator Barbara Boxer (D. Cali.) has twice in recent weeks made a rather revealing show of her true attitudes. The first was her condescending request that Brigadier General Michael Walsh call her Senator rather than "ma'am" since she's worked so very hard to get that title. The second was her extremely condescending exchange with CEO of the Black Chamber of Comberce, Harry Alford, who was presenting testimony on Capitol Hill regarding Cap and Trade legislation. What the exchange shows, and Glenn Beck with Ann Coulter beat me to it Friday, is that Sen. Boxer doesn't see Harry Alford as a man presenting testimony. He is simply a black interest group, a minority whose opinion is to be rebutted by other minority statements read into the record. Liberals are far more often the racists among us, because they do not think minorities are capable of standing without their help, that minorities must be protected from competition. Liberals see minorities as little children who can't feed themselves yet.

In a related note, I listened to a radio program with the Reverand Jesse Jackson (does he have a church?) this morning. Mr. Jackson cited as continued examples of discrimination: 1) higher infant mortality among blacks; 2) shorter life expectancies among minorities (guess he didn't check the charts for Asians and Hispanics); 3) the number of blacks in jail; and 4) black on black violence. The most obvious example of a "huh?" moment is number 4. How in God's name is that discrimination? None of these things represent discrimination. Honestly, the only racist to be heard from on the radio show was Rev. Jackson.

The Tactics of Change

The Obama administration, which often has simply ignored Republican criticism, has now taken to actively bullying those who criticize administration policies. Such tactics include visits from the Vice President. I don't think even I would be intimidated by Joe Biden, so I'm not sure how that one works. More sinister tactics are to call up the home state governors of Republicans who protest the wasteful stimulus bill and subtely threaten to redirect any funding heading to their area. The administration has further taken to bullying Democrats who may not be supporting the administration position. Senator Mary Landrieu (D. La.) is an example, as she has been attacked by administration proxies such as the George Soros funded MoveOn.org for her early position that she might not support the health care reform package being pushed by President Obama. We have already seen credible evidence that his administration has bullied banks, fired CEO's, and bullied GM into bankruptcy. I think somewhere underneath that supposedly calm exterior of the guy who cares about the people rages an angry man who thinks that he is smarter than everyone else and that he has the right to remake the country to fit his ideals. But then, I think that's true of most of the Democratic leadership.

Sometimes It's Just Not Your Day

Does insurance cover this?

Just One More Reason You Should Make Decisions For Yourself

The American Conservative Union has apparently been exposed for selling it's opinions. I say apparently because, if you read closely, it may simply be that ACU was asking for the company to pay for the costs of the campaign. What's scarier, however, is that legislation is going through that makes each location of the FedEx and UPS distribution centers a separate, rather than national, union. Even if the companies got the best deal from the unions by negotiating at each location, the expense of doing so would outweigh any short term savings. So why is the administration doing this? Another favor to the unions. And since there doesn't appear to be much opposition, the Republicans are laying down on it too.

Walter Cronkite Has Called it: "My Life is No Longer Liveable"

Walter Cronkite, who, according to the movie "Good Morning, Vietnam" called the Vietnam War, has passed away. I honestly don't know much about him. He was called the most trusted man in America at one time. I do know that he was important to the development of televised media in this country.

In other updates, Michael Jackson and Steve McNair appear to be still dead.

Why I Love Louisiana

What's missing here? Firearms!!! I love Louisiana!

Sanity Invades Democratic Party

Twenty two Democratic Congressmen, all but one freshmen, have written a letter to speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) protesting the proposed tax increase on the wealthy to finance health care "reform". In other news, cats have been seen sleeping with dogs and Barney Frank has been seen with a woman. In all seriousness, it is good to see some conscientious Democrats standing up for common sense.

Speaking Truth to Power (A.K.A. the Greatest Moment Ever on CNN)

Speaking truth to power is an overused term that was heavily abused during the last presidential campaign. The idea behind it is that if you speak truth, power comes from that truth, not necessarily to yourself, but it will bring power to your message. At least that's my interpretation. It was most misused as politicians who were speaking lies got raves for their bullshit. Well, every now and then, someone who isn't blind or doesn't know they are supposed to play along speaks truth and destroys power.

President George Bush, Jr., did more for Africa than any liberal whining about Darfur ever accomplished, directing tons (both literally and figuratively) to Africa for various causes such as hunger, AIDS and other diseases (while liberals were still banning DDT on bad science, which would probably have eliminated malaria by now). However, President Barack Obama, as the first socialist tyrant to visit the country....I mean African American...should have brought the house down.

Now CNN was all about this. The question from a black reporter to an African was loaded. Isn't this momentous, or something like that. If I asked that in court I'd get an objection, leading the witness. Of course it is counselor, you've suggested as much to me with the question (isn't it true, wouldn't it be correct to say, aren't you fat, these are other examples of questions that lead the response). The person being interviewed didn't take the bait, probably because she knows, like all people who aren't racists, that it isn't about Obama being black, it's about who he is. When asked about how great the visit was, she said, "Oh no, it is not the first, President Bush came to cheering crowds and danced and played drums with us." Now, my memory is by no means exact on this, but I'm looking for the video clip to post. It shows a great deal about what non-racial politics should mean.

And Now For Something Completely Different

On the lighter side. Thousands of giant Humboldt squid have been washing up on beaches in San Diego after a recent off-shore earthquake. Scientists are not sure what is driving the squid to San Diego. My guess? Legalized pot, baby! It's either that or they think the might enjoy the level of conversation with people that would vote for Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, etc.

If Your Own Child Said This You Would Call Him or Her Stupid

"We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt", Vice President Joe Biden. I kid you not, I did not make this up. The website didn't make it up. There is friggin audio of this anencephalic adult.

How much can the American public possibly take of this moronically brazen attitude in Washington? Why hasn't this entire administration, everyone who voted yes on TARP and the stimulus package, been rendered as the newest Dan Quayle. Ineptly stupid is not a sufficient manner to describe the tripe coming out of Washington, D.C. But Janeane Garofalo thinks its just about racism. Last I checked, V.P. Joe Biden is about as white as they come, hair plugs and all.

A History of Hypocrisy

Ann Coulter does a nice job of detailing (with great sarcasm) the difference in the recent treatment of Supreme Court nominees offered up by differing Republican and Democrat Presidents. I'm sometimes amazed at my capacity to still be surprised by the disparity between the parties in their modus operandi. Democrats, the supposed champions of minorities, are the most racist people around, desperately covetting the votes of the minorities in such a way that they will go to extremes to destroy any minority who has a Republican label (Sarah Palin, anyone?). Meanwhile, the Republicans are too civil to do anything in the end but praise the candidate and move on, no matter how flawed (I wouldn't let Sonia Sotomayor speak on the role of appeals courts to my high school, or for that matter Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). I don't appeal to the Republicans to adopt the tactics of Demcrats by any means, but I do think you have to be willing to stick your neck out to stop an obviously flawed candidate from becominng a lifetime appointment. In the end, after all, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican, according to his niece and the National Black Republican Association. I highly recommend you link to the "A Covenant With Life" Adobe file and read some of the history of racism by Democrats as opposed to the treatment by supposedly racist Republicans. All of us are old enough to remember that the South used to be the bastion of the yellow dog Democrats who would rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican because of Lincoln (though Reconstruction didn't help that much.)

We're Broke!!! Ain't That a Hoot!!!

OK, I was going to hold off on this, but, during the All-Star Game, President Barack Obama was in the booth talking baseball. On the whole, he was being a likable guy, which I'm sure he is when you take away his need to rape the country. However, they were joking around about either the NL losing 11 (now 12) straight All Star games or the futility of the Washington Nationals (as of this writing, the best minor league team playing in the majors). The commentator joked about a bail-out being available. The President's joking reply was "We're out of money." No link, I listened to the exchange personally.

The President is trying to tax the living crap out of every man, woman and child to the point that 60% of the population will probably end up on welfare to pass massive social programs and he has the nerve to joke about the country being broke? Outstanding. Maybe we could have had President Bush cracking jokes about home runs out of Yankee stadium taking down skyscrapers. Stay classy, Mr. President.

Health Care for Those of You Living in 1984

Rush Limbaugh is reporting on his radio program that page 16 of the proposed health care bill will ban private insurance contracts from being formed after the effective date of the bill. You can keep the coverage you have (as it withers dead on the vine) but you will not be allowed to buy a contract other than the "public option". How freeking Orwellian is the term public option in a bill that destroys all other options.

This Should be a T-Shirt

From Michelle Malkin's blog. Read the accompanying post here.

Restoring Science to It's Rightful Place, Politics

Here is the Wikipedia entry for John Holdren, President Obama's science czar (whatever the hell that is). I'd like you to focus on the controversy section. You may recall from an earlier post regarding Ruth Bader Ginsburg the discussion of population control. You may also notice that this guy has been wrong for an awful long time. But then, science is subject to the whim of politicization in this administration. Truth is written by the winners, then usually re-written by the liberals.

Universal Health Care, You Know, Like Massachucettes Has

A hospital in Massachusetts is suing the state as a result of the hospital facing its first loss this year, and it anticipates losing $100 million next year. Which raises the question: where are we supposed to get this universal care when hospitals start closing their doors because they can't make a profit? Government will be forced to open and operate hospitals instead, which should take care of those imaginary benefits from cost control and preventative care that wouldn't have worked anyway. If the President really believes his own bullshit, he is criminally stupid.

Just a Thought

This is just a thought. I don't particularly want to take the time to collect all the references for the moment. If we allow Congress and the President to pass this bill, it will bankrupt the country. The President wants to pass this legislation quickly knowing that if the citizens have time to think about it, they will relent. The nebulous concept of health care reform has support widely, but the specifics being set down all poll poorly and, upon examination, are horrific steps. I encourage anyone who reads this to contact their Congressional Representative and both of their Senators and demand that, at least, they vote no so that time can be taken to actually review and think about a well considered plan, if any. This President and his party are determined to steamroll their programs through, and some supposed Republicans have participated in this farce. Health care and Cap and Trade are the two major bills that will fundamentally change our country forever and for the worse. We cannot sit by and allow this.

A Sense of Entitlement to Those Who Hand Out Entitlements

We all remember the vitriol unleashed by President Obama about companies possibly taking trips to Las Vegas. Now the Social Security Administration is taking lavish trips of its own. Ahhhhh...the hypocrisy is so thick you can almost soak in it.

Eat the Rich Part II

Top earners in New York could face up to 57% of their earnings going to taxes if health care legislation passes. Which raises the question, do they make money for themselves and pay taxes, or do they make money for the government which benevolently allows them to keep some of their income? It certainly seems like the latter.

President Obama's Aide Shows a Bit of His True Feelings

"Ultimately, this is not about a process, it's about results." So speaks David Axelrod, political strategist to King for Life Barack Obama. Axelrod is specifically referring to President Obama's willingness to rely on Democrats alone to pass health care reform legislation, but it might well have been a campaign slogan. This is a democracy. It is all about the process. But President Obama does not respect that process. He does not respect opposing viewpoints. He will ram his social programs down the throats of Americans, like it or not, unless his own party has the courage to stand for what's right and stop him.

The Andrew Sheppard Memorial Thought Police

In April, the House passed the Matthew Sheppard Act along a party line vote. The Act allows the federal government to prosecute crimes committed because of sexual orientation, amongst other things. You may remember Matthew Sheppard as the young man killed for being gay, though a 20/20 report later cast some doubt on whether or not that was the motive. So be careful to only rob and murder straight white males from here on out. That was you can stay in state court, the federal government doesn't care if you kill them.

Eat the Rich!!!

First rule in a recession: tax the people that can afford to employ people. Wait, that can't be right. And yet today the House is set to propose taxing anyone making over $1 million an additional 5.4% in order to support their monstrosity of a health care plan. That's what you get for achieving something.

Jane Roe Arrested at Sotomayor Hearing Protesting Abortion

It is kept relatively quiet in media circles and among liberals, but, after the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, the plaintiff, alias Jane Roe, Norma McCorvey, became an activist crusading against abortion after converting to Christianity. Ms. McCorvey was one of four anti-abortion protesters arrested during the course of the first day of hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's nomination.

Is He Sneaking Another Radical in the Backdoor?

President Barack Obama has taken the opportunity of everyone paying attention to the the hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to comparatively quietly announce his nominee to be Surgeon General, Regina M. Benjamin. Not to seem like I think the President might be using the news cycle to hide another radical nomination, but I think the President might be using the news cycle to hide another radical nomination. We'll see. If she was a great nominee, I'd think he would want the news cycle to be devoted to her, not the Sotomayor hearings. Rush Limbaugh mentioned on his radio show that she doesn't believe doctors should make a profit, which makes her a perfect Obaminee (did I just coin a term there?", though I haven't confirmed this elsewhere at this time. She does run a non-profit clinic. Again, we'll see just what comes out about this lady.

If You Watch Closely, You Can Tell She's Lying. See? Her Lips Moved.

On the first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonio Sotomayor she showed she has no problem contradicting reality in order to try and get on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor who has repeatedly stated that a wise Latina women would make a better decision than some old cracker, has now lied to Congress, saying that throughout her seventeen years on the bench, she has sought not to serve the interests of any one litigant, but always to serve the larger interest of impartial justice. This despite her failure to even bother addressing the constitutional merits of the now infamous Ricci case dealing with white and hispanic firefighters who weren't promoted despite passing the approved test because no African Americans passed. In fact, all 9 Justices disagreed with her particular holding in the case. Her position was, at least from my own legal analysis, idiotic, that the mere idea of a potential lawsuit by the African American firefighters who did not pass the test was sufficient to throw out the results and deny promotions. It is, however, a typically liberal position. She was right to the extent that she doesn't favor a particular litigant. The people she was favoring weren't even a party to the suit. Of the five Appeals Court decisions she has authored that were reviewed by the Supreme Court, not including the Ricci decision which I do not know if she fully authored, as it was unsigned, four have said she failed to correctly interpret the law, including one in which it upheld her result. This would suggest she is either ruling with an agenda, or that she is just a mediocre judge. I'm willing to say she's probably both. But she'll say whatever it takes to get through the hearing process, then rule that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to states, making it completely irrelevant and allowing states to ban guns entirely. That one was unsigned too. She seems to be a fan of anonymous rulings, which is pretty concerning for a judge that has been nominated to the Supreme Court, as it makes it that much more difficult to reveiw and discern her true opinion.

Supreme Court Justice Admits She's All For Genocide

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated in an inteview with the New York Times: "Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe (v. Wade, the case legalizing abortion) was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

And now for a brief history lesson. Planned Parenthood (an agency that could only be named by a liberal as getting an abortion is the opposite of planning for parenthood) the modern American champion of abortion evolved from the eugenics movement in the early 20th century. You may remember eugenics as the time when many believed that we could selectively breed humans to be a better breed by forced sterilization of minorities and people with mental defects and, in the extreme expression of this policy, killing them. That's right, Hitler was a big fan of eugenics. Eugenics sought to control certain populations. Sound familiar?

The effect continues today. Modern abortion disproportionately affects black populations. Hmmm.

Supposedly Intelligent Man Says Something Incredibly Stupid

President Barack Obama (Socialist, Ill.) in his weekly radio address says that the stimulus package is working as intended. This despite his claims that unemployment would not rise above 8% if it was passed. This is also despite Vice President Joe Biden's claims that the administration underestimated the economic situation, which is an excuse for why the stimulus is not working as intended. Which kind of begs the question, with all those meetings of economic advisors, how could they have missed it?

But maybe it is working as intended. If the stimulus package was meant to be a pork laden bill for Democrats and their constituencies, it might be working just fine. Representative John Murtha (D. Penn.) seems to be doing pretty well off of it. His little airport project may be the worst example of the waste in the stimulus, but it is far from the only one. If the goal is to bankrupt the U.S.A. in order to remake it, the stimulus is working like a charm. I mean it's not like there was any historical precedent that showed this wouldn't work ("We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent and it does not work." Henry J. Morgenthau, Jr., Treasury Secretary to President Franklin Delano Rosevelt, May 9, 1939.) But then, what do you expect from a supposedly brilliant man who can't make a speech without a teleprompter (Rush Limbaugh, college dropout, gave an extemporaneous speech at CPAC in excess of 1 and a half hours) and can't get through a paragraph without saying "uh" 14 times? There was a girl in my law school class we used to make fun of for that.

Environmentalist Gore Hints at True Aim of "Global Warming" Sham

Former Vice President Al Gore, speaking earlier this month in the U.K., revealed the intention behind global warming, global governance. As I have previously mentioned, global warming isn't an environmental concern, it is rather a tool. Though I haven't mentioned it prior, one of the reasons I have felt is behind the movement is a desire to utilize the global problem as a concept to push towards integrated global government. This is not much of a stretch when one compares the recent history of liberalism to the development of the European Union. Few focus on the fact that the E.U. was first conceptualized by the French as a means to tie Germany so integrally into the rest of Western Europe that it would never start another war (see footnote 4, "the problem of Germany". The recent history of American liberalism shows a similar thought process with its source being a hatred of America and it's supposed imperialistic tendencies. Though the French drew the U.S.A. into Vietnam, when they pulled out it became the Americans war and the fight against Communists in the North took on the appearance among liberals of America imposing its will upon an undeveloped country (never mind that Ho Chi Mihn slaughtered millions of Vietnamese after we pulled out as a result of largely liberal war policies with no goal, that's just what communist regimes do.) Further, the liberal conception of group rights (universal human rights, civil rights, universal health care) being superior to individual rights (the United States Bill of Rights, the English Magna Carta) is more amenable to socialist and communist ideologies, making America and its founding document and ideological enemy. The modern European liberal looks at America as a cultural and corporate imperialist. The French detest EuroDisney (though I honestly have to agree with them on this, they'd probably be more in favor of it if they new about Walt's communist leanings) and deplore that, not only are there McDonald's in Paris, but that they are doing well. They require a certain percentage of broadcasts to be made in the native French language rather than English language broadcasting. The French are just the best example of this. The turn of voters to xenophobic parties demonstrates the fear of a loss of culture coming to bear in most Western European democracies, though the more prevalent threat at the moment is immigration of largely Muslim peoples. Modern liberalism, therefore, sees America as a belligerent imperialist culture which must be stopped. The best way to reign in the U.S.A. is to tie them in to global governmental structures such as the U.N. and the IMF. The failure of these organizations to somehow reduce American wealth and independence necessitates the concept of this global disaster theology of climate change. If the world can convince Americans that the world is at threat, the global community can tie in America and regulate her industry through the concept of carbon emissions. It doesn't help that many of these liberals are so adamant about the theology that they truly believe their own line of crap.

Enter President Barack Obama and his willingness to tie America into these non-binding resolutions on climate change (see my earlier post "Your Friendly Neighborhood Weathermen"). Luckily, to this point they are only non-binding, but as can be seen from the comments of Al Gore, linked to above, the eventual goal is a global government structure with limited local sovereignty similar to the E.U. which, coincidentally, has been showing signs of rifts which might eventually lead to its collapse. As Americans, we certainly should be aware of and watchful for the motivations and tools of the modern liberalism in order to preserve our liberty. In theory, world peace is a wonderful idea, but at what cost? Do we abandon all freedom and individuality to subject ourselves to global goods in order to preserve peace, or do we die like Mel Gibson's William Wallace in "Braveheart", crying freedom.

Newsweek Publishes Article By Crack Fiend

Seriously, President Barack Obama better represents Catholics than the Pope? Isn't it enough that the editor of the magazine compared him to Christ? Or that he is depicted as Christ by artists? Or that celebutards like Susan Sarandon compare him to Christ and Ghandi? Or that members of his party do the same thing? So a man who voted "present" most of his time as a state senator and who spent his time as a federal senator running for President is Christ like because he was a community organizer? What a joke.

It's Right Up There With Partaking of the Wine and Bread That Symbolizes Their Savior's Blood and Flesh

That's right, the holy liberal sacrament of abortion. Ann Coulter and others have weighed in on the status of abortion as sacrament. The liberal lord and savior President Barack Obama elevates the right to abortion above the First Amendment to the Constitution in supporting legislation that would require doctors who for religious or conscientious reasons refuse to perform abortions to perform them anyway. I guess if you're Catholic you had better not look into being an OBGYN. My theory is that President Obama's only limitation on abortions is that you shouldn't be allowed to shoot them with an automatic weapon after the "fetus" has reached the age of two or registered to hold a government job. So along this theme, it is not suprising the legislation has been introduced which would require your tax dollars to pay for abortions. Though this is often a party line issue, it is worth noting that one Democrat actually stood against this, Senator Bob Casey (D. Penn.). I suppose if you're Catholic you'd better not pay taxes either. If this passes, I'm pretty sure I won't. (DISCLAIMER : I am not advising anyone to break the law.)

Dear Mr. Friedman, Despite Your Nobel Prize We Think We'll Go This Route

Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist and personal hero of mine, campaigned against the minimum wage, dispelling the myth that it is a good thing. Congress, never a body that has cared much for real economics, and that is by no means something new to this administration and in fact the bill was passed in 2007 (though this administration insists that no one disagrees with its moronic economics even when hundreds of economists sign a letter and publish it saying they disagree, but I digress) has decided, in the midst of high unemployment and payroll cuts, that now is a good time to jack up the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour. Ready for that $400.00 coke at your local convenience store? Let's see, that's only $.70 increase, or approximately 15% or so (somebody check my math on that). Obviously, in times like this when the economy is booming there is no sense in revisiting what was an idiotic law at the time and continues to be one. Repeal, anyone? Admittedly, I'm just jealous because the guy at the drive through window is soon going to be making as much as I do without the crushing student loan debt.

Wow, Three Democrats in One Day I Agree With

Senator Robert Byrd (D. Va.) has blasted Cap and Trade. This is a man who brings home so much pork that half the structures in the state is named after him. I'd be willing to bet there's a Robert Byrd toilet out there somewhere. Senator Byrd's opposition is a little more understandable given that coal is one of the major economic resources in his state and he would be abandoning any hope of reelection if he got behind the bill.

Finally Something the President and I Agree On.

I think I'd probably be taking a look too. President Sarkozy seems pretty engaged as well, though in traditional French fashion, he's striking the cooler, and more admiring, pose.

Where's My Apology?

President Obama has once again apologized on behalf of America for or irresponsibility with regard to global warming, Fox News reports. He further noted that America will show its responsibility by ignoring the costs associated with the change necessary to curb global warming. Is he planning on apologizing to all the Americans that Cap and Trade will put out of work? Will he apologize to the families that will no longer be able to heat their homes? Will he apologize to the people whose income is destroyed by the higher energy prices that will drive up the cost of producing literally everything? President Obama seems to believe that America has been responsible for damned near everything bad in the world. Every time he steps on foreign soil he apologizes to the locals. Hell, in the Middle East he stopped just shy of apologizing for putting buildings in their flight paths. Most days this man's policies just make me sick. Days like this they make me violently ill. So where is my apology?

She Must Have Taken Her Medication Today

I mentioned earlier that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) was having a "sane day" when she refused to allow the Michael Jackson Humanitarian Alleged Pedophile of the Year Award debate to come to the floor of the House. I say this because she also, earlier today in her weekly press conference, said that she would not support a second stimulus package at this time, though that is a reversal of her earlier statements. Strangely, Senate Majority Lead Harry Reid (D. Nev.) also has come out against a second stimulus package. I can only hope that they maintain this stance, as a second stimulus would be twice as asinine as the first one was.

Take My Life, Please!!

For anyone who feels that Nanny State is too harsh or condescending a term, the federal government is now in charge of what your children eat at school. Seriously, the solemn power of the federal government will now be utilized to make sure your kid doesn't have a twinkie.

Meanwhile, the health care bill apparently has billions set aside for parks, farmer's markets, walking paths, streetlights and jungle gyms. It's hard to imagine how anyone will ever get healthy with all this pork being flung around.

I Wonder if She Also Does Weddings

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D. Tex.), who spoke at Michael Jackson's funeral, and has asked to bring a resolution to the floor of the House honoring Jackson, the world's most celebrated psychotic, apparently is very fond of eulogies. According to Mark Steyn, aids to Ms. Lee have been asked to comb the obituaries for funerals for her to speak at and one has even said she remembers bringing Ms. Lee to five funerals in one day. Luckily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.), who is apparently having one of her rare sane days, has decided not to allow the debate, mainly because she's worried about opening up debate about the pedophile allegations.

If the People Know What's In the Legislation, They Might Not Support It.

Chris Dodd, (D. Conn.), basically used the excuse of two wrongs does, in deed, make a right by saying that since Congress has passed legislation without really paying attention to its impact in the past, the health care bill should be no different. This is, again, a sign of the practices which have taken place since January where every piece of major legislation, especially if it has a social agenda, must be passed quickly and without delay or discussion. President Obama routinely says how it has to happen now. Anyone notice just how quickly two huge corporations, GM and Chrysler, just went through their bankruptcies? I imagine if the American people had enough time to recognize exactly what occurred in those two cases, not the least of which was the sweeping aside of federal law by the administration, there would be a lot more outrage. Speed kills.

Who Wouldn't Keep Their Money in a Freezer in This Economy?

Dollar Bill Jefferson, on trial for bribery and being stupid enough to keep $90,000.00 in Boca Burger containers in his freezer, was seen on tape accepting the bribes by the jury. I could sympathize with the cash in the freezer, what with government taking over the banking industry, but I think the video may make a conviction a foregone conclusion. Apparently the bribes were for brokering deals in Africa. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, the "boob with shoes" according to local radio commentator John Osterlind (and I wholeheartedly agree), has taken multiple trips to South Africa, after the latest of which, he was quarantined by China. It's a shame, China finally does the world a favor and then let him go. Jefferson is the head of the so called political machine in New Orleans. His whole family, seriously, damned near every one of them, is either under indictment or has been charged with some sort of abuse of public office. Given the recent activities at city hall such as the suddenly missing email account of Nagin, I wonder if it is too much to think that maybe the FBI should be looking into him for similar abuses.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Weathermen

As if being associated with former Weatherman Bill Ayers, the unapologetic terrorist, wasn't enough for President Obama, he has now concluded that he has the ability to control the weather. He and other leaders at the G-8 have decided to become the world's most inefficient thermostat, agreeing to try to keep global temperatures from rising over 2 degrees. I'm not sure I have the words to describe the idiocy involved here. They further committed to a goal of a 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. So get used to not exhaling anymore, which should be easier since you won't be working and, as a result, not eating, unless you are a government employee. Never mind that global warming is, at best, questionable science, never mind that China, India and other industrialized nations aren't part of this moronic commitment, what exactly are we trying to do to business? What is this loathing of corporations and employment that the G-8 has? We are setting ourselves up to be incapable of competing in the world economy. If the President is able to get this goal pushed into a law somehow, we won't have to worry about what he does at the G-8 anymore, we won't qualify to be in it.

Representative Steny Hoyer's Salute to Illiteracy

Let Freedom Ring has circulated a pledge to members of Congress asking that they simply pledge to read legislation before passing it. Fox News reports that upon hearing of the pledge, House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D. Maryland), laughed and said if everyone read the laws, there would be very few votes. Is this really the manner in which we want our elected officials to act, by ridiculing the notion that they should read the crap they are voting for? But then, this just confirms how the democrats have been doing business since January, withholding bills from review, last minute 300 page amendments, and breaking their own party leader's pledge to post the bills online for citizens to review prior to votes as well as letting the bill sit on the President's desk for five days prior to signing. This is disturbing behavior to say the least.

UPDATE:

I beat Michelle Malkin to the punch.

A Little Insight Goes a Long Way

This is an excellent article from National Review Online, which probably doesn't need any commentary by me.

37,000 and Not One Garafolo

Michelle Malkin reports that 37,000 people attended the Dallas Tea Party on the Fourth of July. Despite an open invitation, Janeane Garofalo did not attend to defend her comments calling the original tea parties a gathering of redneck racists whose sole issue was that Barack Obama is black. In the video you can hear ultraleftist Keith Olberman, who used to be a good sportscaster and constantly brags about his the Ivy League education he received from a non-Ivy League school, agreeing with the statement. This is not particularly surprising. Some media outlets were writing the parties off before they occurred. Despite large attendance, there wasn't much in the way of media coverage. No matter, the movement is alive and well and will continue to grow as people become more and more disaffected with this administration's rampant spending. For Pete's sake, they are already talking about stimulus II. This is only a beginning. I've received information from my local tea party regarding a planned march on Washington, D.C. That will be a big test of the movement, and I look forward to seeing what occurs.

Stop Polluting, You Anti-Semite!!!

Regarding "climate change" or "global warming" or whatever words environmentally brainwashed people are using to promote their agenda, Barack Obama said "The time for denial is over." The phrase vaguely smacks of comparison to Holocaust deniers such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Well, Al Gore, who was at the meeting prompting that statement, has come out with something a bit more blatant. He has compared the threat of global warming to Nazis. I should hope that this shows that global warming is an ideology, not a scientific fact or even a well supported theory at this point. Al Gore's mentor was a denier. The founder of the Weather Channel is a denier and actually wants to sue Al Gore for fraud. Michael Chricton argued that global warming is a religion. Scenes from "An Inconvenient Truth" were too inconvenient to film and so Gore used CGI from "The Day After Tomorrow." Hundreds of scientists say global warming isn't being caused by man or isn't occurring outright. Think the oil companies are directing research? Governments fund global warming research. The only way to get more grants is to continue to say that there is a problem.

Global warming is a tool for the implementation of policy. It is a scare tactic outright, without basis, but they have to make you afraid of it to enact the policies they want. Gore stands to make billions and he is not unique in this.

Perhaps the best question you should ask yourself if you still are concerned about global warming is this: Why should we spend billions upon billions of dollars on this when there are people starving all around the world? Keep your money out of governments hands and donate it to feed some kids instead, namely, my brother's, they're getting expensive.

The language being used by the global warming advocates is incendiary to say the least. But then, it's when an unreasoning beast gets backed into a corner that it becomes loudest and most fierce.

Is God Violating U.S. Airspace?

Apparently concerned that someone might be converted to Christianity by the overbearing viewpoint of a large banner hauled by a plane, the Pentagon has denied a traditional flyover of the "God and Country" rally.

The ACLU has our country so scared of lawsuits that we are denying harmless displays of faith. I'm surprised we haven't seen a suit against a congresswoman who has a cross necklace or maybe an injunction preventing Nancy Pelosi from visiting the Pope earlier this year. OK, maybe the ACLU suing Pelosi is a bit out there. When will we stop this idiotic "separation of church and state" mantra and realize that the First Amendment doesn't even say that. It prohibits the establishment of religion, i.e., a state church, like the Anglican church was at the time in Britain. Further, the First Amendment directly addresses laws enacted by Congress, not Pentagon airspace. Lastly, the First Amendment prohibits Congress from enacting any law which would prohibit the free exercise of religion, which would seem to fit the fly over, though here there is no Congressional action.

Don't believe me? Here is the relevant text of the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

One would think that this was a pretty straightforward expression of the will of the founding fathers and yet anytime some ACLU intern drives around town to try and get offended by some display in a public place, we get a lawsuit costing thousands of dollars, at least, against the state, local or federal government.

And the Seventh Seal Was Broken and Out Poured....Alec Baldwin?

So it appears that God's sense of humor doesn't end with the infliction of Al Franken upon the U.S. Senate and, by proxy, upon all of America, now Alec Baldwin is showing interest in making a run for a seat in Congress according to CNN. As if Rahm Emmanuel's habit of dropping F-bombs on everyone in sight wasn't enough, we can now look forward to debates on the floor of the House of Senate which degrade into Baldwin yelling at his kid. Seriously, if he's willing to call his own child a thoughtless pig how do you think he'll describe the opposing Republicans?

Of course, maybe, like Franken, he'll put on this atmosphere of seriousness that belies his earlier days of raving lunacy. In the end, the only guarantee is that both of these guys are so far to the left that they would have felt perfectly at home in the Soviet Union. In the end, I suppose that doesn't make them any worse than Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Democratic leadership.