Today's Recommended Reading

I knew Keith Olbermann was a little psycho, but this article from American Thinker is hillarious.

Liberal Logic Strikes Again, the Sean Penn Edition

Sean Penn has called for reporters who describe Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as a dictator (whoops!) to be put in jail. Ironically, I'm pretty sure that's what Hugo Chavez does in Venezuela. I remember Sean Penn being down here in a pirouge (flat bottomed canoe to you non-Louisiana folks) post Katrina. If I'd been stuck on a roof and he came rowing up I'd wait for the next boat.

Liberal Logic Strikes Again

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) in comments to the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties stated that we need to pass the health care legislation to find out what's in the bill. Let that sink in for a minute. If you submitted that statement to a robot it's head would explode.

Saving $1 Trillion Meaningless Dollars

President Obama in a recent health care speech mentioned the Congressional Budget Office had said his health care bill (which hasn't been scored by the CBO but he was referring to the Senate bill) would save $1 trillion in its first ten years due to the savings it would create (by taking $500 billion out of Medicare and shifting it elsewhere so that you can count it twice). When it was pointed out to the White House that the CBO didn't say that, spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the President misspoke and was referring to the second decade of the health care program. Of course, the CBO stated that it's estimates for the second decade of savings was essentially meaningless because there are too many variables and assumptions that would have to be made.

Oh yeah, the CBO is also obligated to estimate costs based upon what Congress says it is going to do, not reality. So when Congress says it won't spend additional money the CBO is bound by the lie. Anyone else feel like they're listening to Charlie Brown's teacher at this point?

Developing Story on Eric Massa

Representative Eric Massa (D. N.Y.) whose resignation is supposed to take effect at 5 p.m. Eastern today has hinted he may rescind the resignation because it was the result of an ethics probe designed to force him out as a result of his position as a "no" vote on healthcare.

This is a rather astounding claim. I wouldn't be surprised if Massa is just grasping at straws to try and save his reputation and political career, but given this administration's attitude of passing health care at any cost, I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be true. In either case, this story bears watching.

Tonight's Academy Awards

To the best of my knowledge, Bruce Willis wasn't nominated for anything.

Scientology: The Fakest Religion Ever

The so-called Church of Scientology is one of my favorite targets for finding a little truth in life. They are a thuggish cult under investigation or banned in many countries. they were founded by a L.R. Hubbard, a science fiction writer who said "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." It's brutal practices have been well documented on the internet, including possible involvement and coverups in the deaths of members, though the cult is known to try to "scrub" the internet of negative references. Well, even the New York Times still gets it right every now and then, publishing this expose interviewing ex-members who detail incidences of abuse. I can only hope that the author is right about declining membership rolls. I would love to see the cult of Tom Cruise crumble.