Today's Recommended Reading

This is an interesting and rather creepy article regarding George Soros, the Secretary of State Project, and voter fraud.

From One of the People Who Brought You Airplane

David Zucker, one of the co-creators of the Airplane! movies, amongst other spoofs, has made a video skewering Senator Barabara Boxer (D. Cal.) for her infamous "Call me Senator, please" chiding of a Brigadier General during hearings. I only wish it were enough to put her down in the polls. Unfortunately, the Real Clear Politics average has Senator Boxer up 4.3 points in the various polls, though she appears to be trending downward in her fight against Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina.

Bias? What Bias?

This article from NewBusters shows NPR's Nina Totenberg (who once suggested God might give Jesse Helms or his grandchildren AIDS from a blood transfusion) and Newsweek's Evan Thomas discussing the upcoming November elections on "Inside Washington". If you ever doubted that media bias tends to the liberal view, their discussion should clear things up for you. Apparently the American people voting conservative is to be a source of fear or a joke of historic proportions.

Then there is this phone call from an Alaska news station that someone didn't properly hang up. In it the reporters appear to be discussing possibly creating negative stories against GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller. I would have thought his cheesy permanent 5 o'clock shadow would be negative enough.

There was a time when the media at least didn't openly mock conservatives. The derision is getting out of hand.

Today's Recommended Reading

I normally don't use the "Recommended Reading" posts to refer to someone who I think is an idiot, but I think it serves as an educational experience to read the moronic ravings of left-wing ideologue Paul Krugman of the New York Times. In this editorial he predicts that history books will speak of the disaster rained down on America by Republicans taking control of the House. As opposed to the disaster of President Obama. He's right to some extent. Since the liberals right the textbooks, it probably will be portrayed as a horrific event. Reality will speak otherwise.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Part II

I wrote earlier about Joe Sestak (D. PA) helping promote a fake Tea Party candidate to draw votes away from his Republican opponent. Further, Sestak was asked to drop from the primary to allow Arlen Specter (RINO Monday 2-5 pm, Democrat the rest of the week depending on polling) to take the Democratic nomination in exchange for what he termed a job. Now comes word that former President Bill Clinton (Felon, Ark.) asked Senate candidate Kendrick Meeks (D. Fla.) to drop out of the race so that the supposedly independent Charlie Crist (see Arlen Specter), who I've written about before, could defeat the Republican candidate, Marco Rubio (Cubans know better than to vote Democrat/Castro). This because Democrats are worried that the charismatic Rubio would attract Hispanics to the Republican party. Winning at any cost because power is the only goal.

Dear Nanny Government, Can I Stay Up Past Midnight Tonight?

Baltimore, a city so crime-ridden that HBO has a dramatic series based there, is definitely looking out for its citizens' safety. You of course are thinking they just hired some great police chief known for turning around cities with bad crime problems, or maybe they elected Rudy Giuliani as mayor, or maybe they've beefed up the police force. Nope, they've handed out their first ticket for dangerous butter. The city banned trans fats in amounts over 0.5 grams in non-prepackaged foods in 2009. The particular offender had been using a margarine with 3 grams of trans fats when it first came to the attention of the city that they were utilizing this margarine to murder and rob its citizens. When the city followed up on this dangerously aggressive murderous activity, they found that the offender had raped dozens, if not hundreds of citizens with its replacement 2 gram trans fat margarine. Remember that "slippery slope" argument that everyone guffawed at that when government becomes involved in running health care they become involved in every part of the citizenry's lives? I give you the Baltimore nanny state.

By the way, the ban on trans fats came into effect September 2009. According to the Baltimore police, in the first three months of 2010 there were 41 murders, 29 forcible rapes, 690 robberies, and 1,130 aggravated assaults. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the crimes and there is a separate category of "violent crimes" that is undefined, so I didn't give the number. This is just in a city, mind you, not a state. Assuming the statistic cited in the article of 30,000 deaths per year nation-wide attributable to trans fats (which is something that doesn't appear on coroner's cause of death options) is correct I think the city has bigger problems than making sure you don't enjoy your meal. The priorities of government are upside down from reality.

Liberal Idiocy in a Nutshell

Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as stating the following at a fundraiser for Representative Tim Bishop (D. NY):

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”

Note the complete disconnect from reality and the utter disrespect for private enterprise. Liberals believe that all good things stem from government, not individuals. It boggles my mind that Mr. Biden (who is known for his verbal gaffes) actually thinks this way but it certainly explains their policy world view.

More Questions Coming From Nevada

The attorney for Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle has accused the incumbent Harry Reid (D. NV) of violating state law by offering free food and gift cards in exchange for votes for Mr. Reid. Further, updating the earlier post regarding machines seeming to automatically check Harry Reid as the vote, it appears the voting machines are serviced by SEIU. Again, there isn't any evidence (other than anecdotal) that SEIU or the Democrats have done anything to influence the machines, but this definitely bears watching.

This Needs to Stop

A liberal activist associated with Moveon.org was assaulted outside of the Kentucky Senate debate between Rand Paul (R) and Jack Conway (D). She was pushed to the ground and stomped on by someone who appeared to be a Rand Paul supporter. Acts of idiocy like this will only play into the meme set forth by the left that the Tea Party (which is a big supporter of Paul) is full of violent radicals conservatives. This kind of thing is simply unacceptable and more reminiscent of the thuggery of SEIU and other leftist groups than what the Tea Party activities.

This Bears Watching

Several voters are complaining that when they went to vote in the Nevada Senate race Senator Harry Reid (D. NV) was already checked off on the ballot. While such a tactic to take an election is probably too blatant to be anything other than a mistake, it could easily bring what is already a tight race under greater scrutiny.

Pot Issues Report; Call Kettle Black; Nation Unsure if Ironic or Hypocritical

I've written before briefly regarding the racism of the NAACP. Well, once again, the race bating, progressive far left hand of the Democratic Party has pulled the race card again. Seeing the effect the Tea Party has had on the upcoming November elections and fearful of the Democrats losing their majority in the House and the super majority in the Senate, the NAACP has issued a report linking the Tea Parties to racists and bigots. Thanks, NAACP. It's nice to see the "Civil Rights" movement is now a joke.

Green, the Color of Lies

The Chevy Volt, President Obama's (or is that President and CEO of GM?) proclaimed savior of the American car industry is just another piece of crap produced by unions run by thugs. The Volt, which was supposedly capable of running solely on its electric engine for 50 (50!!! WOW!!!) miles and would get 230 miles per gallon (after they had to add a small gas engine to recharge to battery because most homeowners won't let you pull over and plug in for a while) does a grand total of none of the above. At 70 mph and above and when the battery runs low, the engine takes over, so its really just another hybrid. Journalists who have test driven the car have seen 37.5 city and between 30 and 40 for longer trips, so no 230, unless President Obama has redefined what a gallon is (it depends on what you mean by is?, and keeping up with 80 mph traffic on a highway produced 26 miles per gallon (about what I get with the top down on my all gas V6). Well, I take it back, one part is true. It appears the car is capable of going 50 miles without stopping. So what you have in the end is a $41,000.00 hybrid with worse gas mileage than a $15,000.00 all gas Hyundai Accent, that the government has to offer a $7,500.00 to get anyone other than Ed Beagley, Jr., to even look sideways at the car (so the government gives a tax break to bet people to buy a car from a company owned by the government...I'm pretty sure that's stupid). Congratulations, GM, you've proved that attempting to force supposedly green technology in violation of physics is a pretty difficult proposition.

As If We Needed More Evidence that Higher Education Has a Liberal Bias

Winston-Salem State University sent out e-mails to 6,400 staffers and students to vote early and help the Democratic Party. This was a violation of state law, but perhaps even worse, it shows that higher education is attempting to affect the political leanings of its students.

Good Old Unbiased National Public Radio

Juan Williams, a frequent contributor on FOX News and one of the few liberals that I consider to be fair, honest and principled (as opposed to FOX News contributor Alan Colmes or Ellis Hannigan who are simple ideologues), is also a news analyst for National Public Radio. Or at least he was. Mr. Williams contract was terminated after he appeared on "The Factor with Bill O'Reilly" and admitted that he gets nervous if he's on a plane with someone in full traditional Muslim garb. Of course, NPR didn't seem to care that he spent the majority of the interview chastising O'Reilly about lumping all Muslims in the same boat as terrorists (O'Reillly had stated on "The View" while discussing the Ground Zero mosque that Muslims killed Americans on 9/11). NPR stated that "His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR". This is apparently code for the government and donation funded radio station for "his comments seemed conservative". I've listened to NPR quite often and they don't tolerate conservatism, nor does most of their listening audience. I remember listening to audience comments a day after a Newt Gingrich interview. The announcer talked about the wide ranging diversity of opinions received by NPR after the interview. As examples of this wide disparity of opinion, she read an email from one man who said Gingrich was a liar and he would never agree with anything he ever said. The other email she read said I can't believe I kind of agree with that lying scumbag. Truly a diverse audience.

Today's Recommended Reading

If you define yourself as a conservative but felt uneasy about much of President Bush, Jr.'s domestic policies and rampant spending, you may like to read this article. I often found myself defending Bush because I believed in the war on terror and his general foreign policy efforts, though certainly not all of them. I also believed it was unfair to call him stupid and would react by defending him. But his denigration of conservatism shows that, in the end, he was more akin to a hawkish Democrat (think Joe Lieberman or John McCain) than any true conservative.

And He Wonders Why Some People Think He's a Socialist

Many on the left ridicule anyone who mentions the concept of socialism in connection with President Obama. Call me crazy, but when the Natoinal Chair of the Communist Party USA has a blog post prominently featured on the official Obama campaign website, Organizing for America, it seems like those accusing the President of having socialist leanings seem pretty damned reasonable.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Republicans have been accusing Democrats of supporting false Tea Party candidates to syphon away votes from Republican candidates in the upcoming November elections. Now those accusations are being borne out as true. Bryan Lentz (D. PA), a candidate to replace former Congressman and Senate candidate Joe Sestak (D. PA), who you may remember as the candidate who said that the administration offered him a job to not run against the now-defeated incumbent Arlen Specter (Moron, PA), has admitted to helping a fake Tea Party candidate, Jim Schneller, get on the ballot for that very reason. Lentz stated that he didn't think it was a bad thing for the process or for his candidacy. Basically he's admitted what I've long though of most Democrats, that to them the process is only about getting them elected or re-elected and anything that aids in that cause can't be bad for the process.

Seriously? Aqua Buddha?

The Kentucky Senate race is proof that we are living in the post-sanity world of politics. Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway decided that taste, class, decency and credibility were no longer necessary. Conway ran an advertisement in which he accused Republican opponent Rand Paul of belonging to a secret society when he attended Baylor 30 years ago that makes fun of Christians. The advertisement further accused Paul of having tied up a woman and forced her to worship an idol of a god called Aqua Buddha. Conway's source for this rather incredulously story? The unsubstantiated accusations of the woman who claims to have been tied up. At a recent debate, not only did Conway refuse to apologize, he repeated the accusations as if they were set-in-stone facts. Paul, rightly in my view, refused to shake Conway's hand after the debate. I hope Conway loses a ton of votes over this.

The Tolerance of the Left

I'm fond of saying that open-minded people are the most close-minded people I know. I say this because every time I've been accused of being close-minded it has been because I didn't agree with the person accusing me of being close-minded (just for the record, I looked it up to make sure and close-minded is acceptable as well as closed-minded). In a similar vein, I've always believed that liberals tend to be more racists because they believe that there are groups of people incapable of getting by without them. Or at least as long as members of those groups don't disagree with them. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (the first African-American justice and a noted civil rights attorney) once noted he would resign from the Court if a female Justice were ever appointed and was hesitant to hire females as law clerks. Noted liberal columnist Maureen O'Dowd of the New York Times has called every female Republican politician a bully and derided them as crazy. Chris Matthews of MSNBC and Mrs. Polly's class of the criminally stupid immediately resorted to deriding a Rich Lott, an Ohio Congressional candidate, as participating in something "homoerotic" for being a part of WWII reenactments.

These are the people of tolerance. They know what is best for you idiots. Why is it you don't listen? I guess you're close-minded, or closed-minded even.

The Truth in Advertising People are Probably Cool with It

Green Party Chicago gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney had his name misspelled on many ballots including in some prominent African-American districts as Rich Whitey. Between that and the fact that he's in the Green Party, I'm guessing his election is a low probability.

Today's Recommended Reading

The blog New Zeal has an excellent history of detailing the links between communist/socialist factions in the Democratic party. This post is especially good, detailing a meeting between Representative John Conyors (D. Mich.) and the Democratic Socialists of America. The ties between progressives and socialists is startling. I highly recommend this guy's blog.

And Yet Another Democrat Commits a Crime

It appears First Lady Michelle Obama violated Illinois law by campaigning inside a polling place. Democrats have a long history of violating campaigning laws. President Clinton used the White House to solicit and reward campaign donors and our esteemed lord and savior President Barack Obama has apparently committed a felony before as well by giving access to federal buildings in return for campaign donations. Republicans are not above reproach, but the blatant manner in which Democrats openly violate laws is disturbing, especially given they seem to be held to a different standard and never face prosecution over these issues.

Boys and Girls, Can You Spell Ironic?

A teacher who stood in the Oval Office and watched President Barack Obama sign the idiotic "stimulus" package has been laid off for the second time this year. The Toledo Public Schools haven't spent a dime of the $7.6 million they received as their share of the "stimulus" package. They are saving the money to spend next year...to rehire employees...who probably won't be teachers. Your tax dollars at work!

Whoops! Guess I Shouldn't Have Spent All Those Billions After All

President Obama, in excerpts from an interview with the New York Times, admits he realized too late that there are no "shovel-ready" projects. Whoopsie! If I didn't already think he was a chronic liar and a moron, I'd be convinced of one or the other by that statement alone.

No Need to Try and Close That Border

The Mexican investigator looking into the murder of an American on a border lake was decapitated and his head was delivered to the Mexican military. The drug gangs have essentially taken over the border areas of Mexico. I can't imagine why we'd want to have more border guards and tighter control.

G.E. Short for God***ned Evil

In case you need a reminder, here is a link to my long ago post about the association between General Electric and the Obama administration. Revelations today make it even more clear that President Obama is in bed with G.E. (maybe literally). It seems G.E. received $24.9 million in "stimulus" grants while they cut 18,000 jobs. Oh, and the apparently capital starved company made $156 billion last year. G.E. also received jobs as the primary contractor for four other stimulus grant recipients. Democrats raged that Haliburton, who was the only contractor capable of performing all aspects of the job, had been associated with Dick Cheney, who gave up his interests in the company well before he became Vice-President and yet somehow, no one seems to care that the President of G.E. is on the President of the United States' council of economic advisers and his company has benefited immensely from programs the President has implemented and potentially could benefit from programs he advocates.

New Democrats, Same Old Tactics

The Democrats are unleashing the IRS and Justice Department on those who would support Republicans in the coming elections. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, he of the untraceable campaign funding, is attacking Republicans and the Chamber of Commerce for supposedly accepting foreign money to fund campaigns. His basis? A blog entry by the highly pro-Obama, George Soros and Center for Progress affiliated "Think Progress" which cites to no real source for the accusation. The Baltimore Sun TV critic is even offended.

President Obama swept into office believing that he had a mandate to truly transform the country into a European social-democracy. He and his far left, progressive supporters salivated at the idea that they were going to see the big-government America they had prayed (to no one) for under Clinton. Majorities in both Houses of Congress and possession of the White House, with progressive idiots like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cali.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Ried (D. Nev.) who were fully on board for the moron train instead of supposed moderate Democrats meant the Congress had the chance to legislatively transform the nation into something the Constitution wouldn't recognize. With victory so close, especially after having to endure their hatred of President Bush for eight years, the angst was raised to new highs when the country fought back against the agenda. Who were these yokels to comment upon their benevolent elites handing them social programs?

Now, finding that power is likely slipping away during the mid-term elections, the left is willing to sling any accusation at the conservatives in a last-ditch effort to hold on. I can only hope the public sees through this and elects true conservatives (Arizona and McCain are a lost cause). November 2 will be a very interesting evening.

Astroturf at Its Finest

President Obama, always hip to hang out with young morons who think "Jersey Shore" is good TV, is having a town hall sponsored by MTV, BET and CMT. The town, however, is apparently subject to a casting call for young actors who agree with the President. I'm sure the questions aren't pre-screened either.

Today's Recommended Reading

Charles Krauthammer is once again on the money with his insight into the failures of this Democratic Congress and President in this article.

Gloria Allred, Politcal Hack

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was blindsided by Gloria Allred, who must have no motivation other than derailing the Republican's campaign. Ms. Allred violated her professional ethics by exposing her client to deportation and possible jailing by bringing her out to accuse Whitman of knowingly employing an illegal alien as a housekeeper. The problem is Ms. Whitman checked her Social Security card and driver's license, both of which were fake, when she hired her. The Social Security Administration sent a letter saying that the number might be fake, and warned that taking any action in firing the housekeeper on the basis of the letter might be a violation of state and/or federal law. The husband wrote on it asking the housekeeper to look into the problem. Last, but not least, there is no evidence to indicate the husband ever showed the letter to Whitman and that he simply forgot about the matter. If you really want to see this loser (Allred) taken apart, watch the video here of Greta Van Sustern (a former attorney) tearing her to shreds. It's about 9 and a half minutes but definitely worth watching.

Nostrobamus

President Obama is a big fan of making predictions that have no basis in reality. Nostrobamus has already predicted that we would double our alternative energy production (his plan? subsidize it by taxing the hell out of existing cheap energy to make feasible expensive and inefficient energy production). At his State of the Union address he, without any basis, said we would double or exports (apparently shipping our wealth to China is now an export). And recently, the esteemed scholar in constitutional law who apparently has never read the Constitution, predicted that we would once again lead the world in college graduation rates. How exactly is the President supposed to do this? Or for that matter, what power does the Presdient posess that would even allow him to try? All this from the first President to refuse to release his college transcripts. I'm positive he graduated moron cum laude.

The Master Orator and All Around Genius

Former Vice President Walter Mondale has advised President Obama to get rid of the "idiot boards", i.e., teleprompters, and speak directly to the people. President Obama is apparently so dependent upon them that he apparently even uses them in low-level business meetings. If you have watched President Obama when he ad-libs, the man is an idiot and cannot speak worth a damn. He might want to keep the teleprompter-in-chief around.

Today's Recommended Reading

This is an excellent opinion piece by a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who, in my humble opinion, is one of the finest jurists to have sat on that bench.