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-Michelle Obama demands sacrifices be made for Health Care...Just not by her.

2010-01-22T09:07:00.005-06:00

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower: One-- paid for personally out of President's salary.

Jackie Kennedy: One

Roseline Carter: One

Barbara Bush: One

Hilary Clinton: Three

Laura Bush: One

Michele Obama: Twenty-two

Michele Obama's personal staff:

One.. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

Two.. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of
Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

Three.. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House
Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)

Four.. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications
for the First Lady)

Five.. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First
Lady)

Six.. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

Seven.. $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

Eight.. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

Nine.. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)

Ten.. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

Eleven.. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

Twelve.. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First
Lady)

Thirteen.. $60,000 Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

Fourteen.. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

Fifteen... $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
Sixteen.. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

Seventeen.. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)

Eighteen.. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

Nineteen.. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

Twenty.. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

Twenty-One.. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

Twenty-Two.. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

Total.. $1,591,200 in annual salaries

Such a sense of entitlement! Which, of course, is the main problem to begin with in this country.

h/t Mike E

-Scott Brown!

2010-01-19T23:46:00.002-06:00

-Ed Schultz endorses the ACORN method in Massachusetts

2010-01-18T01:01:00.001-06:00

-Hilarious Harry Reid Cartoon

2010-01-14T19:58:00.003-06:00

-Probable Terrorists on Tuesday Detroit Flight

2010-01-14T19:32:00.007-06:00

From MyFoxDetroit:

A flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan Airport was held on the tarmac after landing because of unruly behavior by some of the passengers.

The source says four men from Saudi Arabia were saying something in Arabic that alarmed four on-board Federal Air Marshals. The Marshals speak Arabic. A decision was made to stop the plane on the tarmac away from the passenger terminal and remove the men from the plane.

Once the men were removed, the rest of passengers were then taken to the terminal for deboarding.

The Transportation Security Administration says the unruly passengers were interviewed by Customs and Border Protection officials.

But the TSA says the passengers were released and no arrests were made.

It's okay, we can just let them go and be on their merry way. Don't these TSA idiots realize that terrorists from MIDDLE EASTERN countries run test runs on these flights, in preparation for any possible attack? I suppose they are just taking after Obama: Don't address it, don't acknowledge it, and definitely don't do anything to stop it.

Source: Creeping Sharia

-Germany has a little Obama to call its own now

2010-01-13T15:20:00.004-06:00

From Yahoo News:

A musical about Barack Obama's "Yes we can" election campaign premieres in Germany this weekend, including love songs by the president to his wife Michelle and duets with Hillary Clinton.

Even John McCain and Sarah Palin are given stage time, with actors portraying the losing Republican candidates and belting out songs on their behalf.

In all, 30 singers, actors and dancers are to perform in the musical "Hope — the Obama Musical Story" when it opens at the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt in a bilingual mix of English and German. The audience may recognize that many songs quote from the politicians' stump speeches during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

Gross. I would love to find some clips of this debacle.

-He's Barack Obama, He's Come to Save the Day

2010-01-12T11:08:00.001-06:00

Just thought I'd bring back an old classic, since the last month of posting has been sparse:

-Congressional Candidate Scott Brown

2010-01-12T10:37:00.003-06:00

"Sit down sir!" Says Scott Brown. Contributions to Mr. Brown can be made here. Make the "Kennedy seat" the people's seat in Massachusetts.

h/t Common Cents

-Rasmussen: 45% Say Random Group from Phone Book Better than Current Congress

2010-01-12T10:19:00.004-06:00

I say let it happen. From Rasmussen:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of likely U.S. voters now think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. That’s up 12 points from October 2008, just before the last congressional elections. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree, and another 19% are not sure.

Sixty percent (60%) of voters continue to believe those in Congress are paid too much. This is virtually identical to findings last August. but in October 2008, only 49% felt that way.

Three percent (3%) say members of Congress are paid too little and 28% say Congress’ pay is about right.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That’s the highest negative finding since Rasmussen Reports began surveying on the question in November 2006.

The end is in sight for Democrats. If a Republican majority lets America down in the next two elections, with continued big spending and big government policies, then who knows? In the words of Thomas Jefferson...

"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I hope our politicians, both present and future, keep those words in mind.

Source: IHatetheMedia

-Queen Pelosi's New Jet

2010-01-09T11:28:00.004-06:00

It would seem that Nancy's Gulfstream III, that comes with the Speaker's job just couldn't quite cut it when it came to shuttling back and forth from D.C. to California. Queen Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a 200-seat, USAF C-32, Boeing 757 jet that could get her back to California without stopping.

Since she only works three days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California every Friday and returns every Monday, at a cost to the taxpayers of about $60,000, one way. That is $480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to us of $5,760,000.

Not to mention her "carbon footprint." Government hypocrisy knows no bounds.

On a tip from Mike E.

-UN's ridiculous climate change summit in Copenhagen opens with ridiculous video

2009-12-08T22:37:00.003-06:00

Are you kidding me? If this isn't fear mongering and propaganda, I don't know what is.

This is basically 2012 shortened down to five minutes... How long are we going to blind ourselves to this garbage, and continue to ignore facts?\

Source: Wired

-Elin Woods Golf Club

2009-11-30T12:16:00.003-06:00

-Joy Behar: Wah Wah Racism blah blah Black Friday whine Great White Guilt etc.

2009-11-30T11:50:00.004-06:00

The Great White Guilt strikes again! At least Whoopi makes the comment at the end that "no one would have thought of that if you hadn't said it JOY." Hmm... Whoopi Goldberg displaying common sense? Maybe this is the end of the world...

But alas, it wasn't meant to be... Whoopi went back to her usually whining about how white people have kept her down.

Goldberg: Oh, hello and welcome to ‘The View.’ Today is Black Friday, all day long. And I’m going to stay black all day because of it.  

Behar: Isn’t it a little racist to call it Black Friday?  

Goldberg: Well, I would have called it African American Friday, but that’s taking something away from it. 

Behar: But there’s a negative connotation to it? Or does it mean something else? 

Goldberg: No, it’s like when you make all the money – you’re in the black.  

Behar: So it’s positive?  

Goldberg: Yeah. It’s in the black, so it’s a huge great thing.  

Behar: A lot of times, like blackmail is negative, black sheep.

 Goldberg: Black people.  

Behar: No, not black people.  

Goldberg: But it used to be, it used to be.

So very profound Whoopi!

And here we see Joy making up for the evils of the white race by being cordial to an African-American:

h/t IHatetheMedia

-Obama Bowing in Shanghai

2009-11-17T12:14:00.001-06:00

The mad bower strikes again...

-Fellow Muslim won't condemn Nidal Malik Hasan; has "no pity" for Fort Hood victims

2009-11-10T09:27:00.006-06:00

The BBC's Gavin Lee paid a little visit to the Islamic mosque that Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan frequented, and here is what "Duane"had to say on the matter. Prepare to be shocked. Or not if you're as jaded as we are.

Here's the transcript:

Duane: I’m not going to condemn him for what he did. I don’t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He’s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.

Lee: There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.

Duane: Well, that’s the way it is. I don’t speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him.

Lee: What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?

Duane: They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It’s just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they’ll be shocked, after that they’ll forget about them and go on their day.

h/t IHatetheMedia

-Guest Post: The State of the Nation

2009-11-09T21:29:00.003-06:00

I am officially disgusted with what are country is becoming.

A man from Home Depot was fired for wearing a pin that said “God Bless America.” Now how is that so offensive to atheists and liberals that this man had to be fired? Did he really impose his religious views so predominantly that it insulted shoppers? This is similar to the woman who was told to remove her American Flag from her window when her son was serving overseas. Why do we persecute those who are just living out their lives as Christians or as patriots?

Christians are the most persecuted people in our country today. It is not the Muslims or the Jews. Why is it that stores can’t say “Merry Christmas” or sell “Christmas Trees.” I am fed up with these liberals and I will not have my freedoms oppressed because they are afraid that it might offend some Muslim or atheist. They have the freedom to do, say and protest anything there heart desires, but when a conservative or Christian expresses their beliefs they are instantly ridiculed and attacked for simply expressing a different view. I am not insensitive to others views, I just have an opinion of my own.

It comes down to the double standard and political correctness our society has today.

A lady can’t hang a flag to show support for her country and son, but anti-war liberals can protest at soldier’s funerals and show truly hateful signs.

A man can’t wear a pin that says “God Bless America”, but atheists can hang posters all over New York City saying “A million New Yorkers Do Fine without God…Are You.”

One that I find very disrespectful are the posters that say “What goes around comes around.” Why is okay for these people to blatantly disrespect the men and women who put their lives on the line day in and day out for them just to be ridiculed by the people they are protecting?

This is the country we live in today….and I am disgusted.

I will not shy away from my faith or my conservative beliefs because it might offend some liberal, atheist, or Muslim. They offend me, my fellow Marines, and my country every day with hate speech and protests of their own. I will not stand for this double standard any longer.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS. GOD BLESS OUR FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND RADICAL ISLAM.

~Barrett Mays, USMC

-DailyKos readers weigh in on the Fort Hood shootings

2009-11-05T22:14:00.004-06:00

via Stop The ACLU:

Molotov: idiots. you teach people to kill without remorse, then act surprised when they do

primarydoc: and we have to consider the selective disclosure/spin from the military if it turns out that the reason for the shooting might undermine our “noble” wars, as in the case of Pat Tillman or Jessica Lynch

Alien Abductee: Maybe he’s just seen too much destruction of the mental health of his fellow soldiers and finally snapped himself.

olo: Maybe they just put the gun in his hand because be looks like a brown terror monger, is named Hasan (sounds & looks similar to Hussein) — and was the most convenient of the dozen bodies to blame this shit on.)

ferralike: It appears through the latest reporting on MSNBC that the shooter who was killed, Army Maj Malik Nadal Hasan, was possibly enraged about being shipped over to Iraq per Chris Matthews (at ~ 5:55 est). So it sounds as if the second possibility I raised was more correct. However, this guy could have already served multiple tours and this could still be a PTSD related incident. Who knows?

I actually feel for this guy if he was pushed to go this far that he flipped out and killed 12 and injured 31 (the number at this moment.) I hate that he did this and there are so many grieving and worried families but I doubt this was driven because he simply did not want to go over there on his first tour.

If this is true, this is indicative of a much larger disaster imminently waiting to happen for many, many other soldiers about to be deployed. We can’t keep this up sending these soldiers over time after time and expecting them to come back without being mentally and emotionally affected. This is very very tragic.

Julia Grey: I personally hope very much that he isn’t black. He’d be made out as an Obama confederate, part of the underground preparations for the coup, a guy who was so excited about destroying America that he started too early, yadda yadda. It’s already bad enough that he has an Arabic name.

Lying eyes: Good thing Bush is no longer in charge…. continued… True. But I was thinking if this guy has an Arabic name and is a muslim, Bush would use the tragedy to attack Iran. Or some convenient country.

MillieNeon: I just hope this doesn’t come with a huge Muslim backlash, or kick Muslims out of the military, etc.

How very say for the people who lost their lives, their families, for the moderate Muslim who already have so much difficulty in this country right now.

And my heart really goes out to all the soldiers with PTSD. They need much more support and treatment. It’s immoral to bring people back from war and leave them in psychological torture chambers.

Also, I think we should re-examine soldier training. They are taught to de-humanize the enemy so they can kill easier. How do you “undo” that? What are we doing to these poorsoldiers?

SantaFeMarie: Why is it “surely just coincidence” that people in Texas commit violent homicides?

The Navigator: Let’s all hope it’s not wingers or the radical right that did this, but rather just a few disturbed soldiers.

o the umanity: I still can’t figure out what happened. When I was a little girl, it was an honor to serve. My father and all my brothers did. So did my uncles and one of my grandfathers.

And then came ‘Nam, and it’s been all downhill since

-Malik Nadal Hasan murders twelve soldiers at Fort Hood, media ignores his name

2009-11-05T19:27:00.005-06:00

From Fox News:

A military doctor who feared an impending war deployment is believed to be the gunman behind a shooting rampage Thursday afternoon at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas that killed 11 and wounded 31 before the gunman was fatally shot.

Two soldiers were taken into custoy [sic] as possible suspects, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told reporters Thursday evening, though the pair later were released and it isn't clear whether they they were involved in the violence.

Authorities have not identified the gunman publicly, but official sources have named Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a psychiatrist who reportedly didn't believe in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and wanted out of the military before he was set to be deployed overseas.

And since you can't put it much more eloquently than they did, here is how the gentlemen at I Hate the Media evaluated the media situation:

We hear that a Major Malik Nadal Hasan has murdered, execution-style, twelve soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. Political correctness be damned. To us, the shooter doesn’t sound Baptist, doesn’t sound Catholic, doesn’t sound Jewish, doesn’t sound Hindu, doesn’t sound Buddhist. What does that leave? We wonder. But, we do recall the story of the founder of the Muslim-American BridgesTV network that beheaded his wife in Buffalo, New York. His name? Muzzammil Hassan.

It should be very, very interesting to see how this plays out.

UPDATE: Previous reports on Hasan being killed at the scene are incorrect; he is in stable condition at a local hospital.

-Planned Parenthood director quits after watching an abortion ultrasound

2009-11-04T10:29:00.005-06:00

via Hot Air:

After eight years working at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, including two years as its director, Abby Johnson suddenly decided that she could no longer participate in abortions. What pushed Johnson out was both an ultrasound of an abortion and a renewed emphasis on the cash-generating business in the failing economy. After being told to deemphasize prevention and market for abortions, Johnson finally had enough:

From KTBX College Station:

According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.

“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that,” said Johnson.

Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about. …

Johnson now supports the Coalition For Life, the pro-life group with a building down the street from Planned Parenthood. Coalition volunteers can regularly be seen praying on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Johnson has been meeting with the coalition’s executive director, Shawn Carney, and has prayed with volunteers outside Planned Parenthood.

-Taliban attacks United Nations in Kabul

2009-10-28T00:35:00.005-05:00

From Fox News:

KABUL — Gunmen with automatic weapons and homicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people including six U.N. staff, officials said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was meant as an assault on the upcoming presidential election.

Heavy gunfire reverberated through the streets shortly after dawn and a large plume of smoke rose over the city following the attack on the hostel in the Shar-e-Naw district. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahman said seven people were killed, including some attackers.

U.N. spokesman Adrian Edwards confirmed that six U.N. staff were among the dead. He said 20 U.N. staff were living at the guest house, some of them known to be registered there but he was unsure whether all were there at the time of the attack.

It will sure be interesting to hear the UN make excuses for terrorists this time, when it is their own.

-Barney Frank finally tells the truth to the American people

2009-10-28T00:16:00.003-05:00

From Ed Schultz's show on MSNBC:

1:05 - "We are trying on every front to increase the government."

-Obama has played as much golf as Bush did in nearly three years

2009-10-26T08:13:00.003-05:00

From Politico:

President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.

CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

This news comes on the heels of today's news that Obama played golf with a woman — chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes — for the first time since taking office.

Remember how the media would tear Bush apart for what he did in his "spare" time? That's what happens when you don't learn how to control the media during your campaign.

-A Little Taste of your ObamaCare Future

2009-10-26T08:09:00.002-05:00

From IHatetheMedia:

Milwaukee residents lined up in the rain and waited hours for flu shots. Mike O’Keefe brought a sign that put the whole thing in perspective.

-Anita Dunn, WH Communications director, praises Chairman Mao

2009-10-15T20:38:00.002-05:00

And in related news, this wonderful lady is spearheading the pathetic attacks on Fox News.

-Video: Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile

2009-09-28T12:48:00.000-05:00

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

-Barack Obama, our benevolent leader, refuses pensions to World War II veterans

2009-09-28T12:33:00.003-05:00

From McClatchy News Service via Moonbattery:

In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard.

-Video: Schoolchildren taught to praise Barack Obama

2009-09-25T10:35:00.004-05:00

Turn your volume up for this catchy little ditty! Thanks kids!

Lyrics
========
Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"

Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!

Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country's economy number one again!

Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!

So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----

Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!

-Jimmy Carter, the real racist?

2009-09-23T13:29:00.002-05:00

-Obama lies right to the face of the people he governs

2009-09-21T13:53:00.003-05:00

Barack Obama on The Week with George Stephanopoulos, lying right to your face and contradicting himself as he so often does...

And the always reliable truths he spouted during his campaign in 12/7 where he says how ACORN will help shape his agenda.

h/t Mofopolitics

-GUEST POST: Racism, Liberals, and the Dysfunctional Media

2009-09-15T20:19:00.003-05:00

If you find yourself disagreeing with President Obama, or any liberal policy for that matter, then you are a racist. Whether you know it or not, you are unconsciously a racist. That is what I learned today from a woman who called on the Ed Shultz show 99.9 FM. She stated that “Anyone who disagrees with a public option, foreign policy, or don’t want their children listen to President Obama’s speech to students is a racist…they can not hide beneath kind words, they may not know it, but they are racist.”

Why does that make a person a racist? Is it sole because they disagree with a minorities view? Minorities always find a way to shut down any opposing view: they pull the race card. At the beginning of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency I was swayed by then Senator Obama’s charismatic speeches. Then as I did more research into his policies, I found many policies and plans he would enact if elected that I did not agree with. Over the course of the campaign I found myself being called a racist because I would not vote for Obama. I would engage initially in a friendly debate and ask “Why do you support Senator Obama?” Many responses I received included “He represents change” or “He is such a cool guy.” When I attempted to engage in a debate about his policies and revealed that I disagreed with them, I was immediately accused of being a racist. I disagree with the majority of President Obama’s policies, but I am not a racist. The only race I see is the Human race. A racist would vote for an individual sole on race…as many of the individuals who voted for Senator Obama did. There was a 90% increase in minority voters from the previous election to this one. To them, I am a racist because I disagreed with his policies and the direction he would take our country ….Interesting.

Another statement that drives me crazy that liberals love to use is “How could you not support a public option, or welfare, don’t you want to help out your fellow Americans.” Well of course I want to help out fellow Americans. Anyone who reaches into his own pocket to help out a fellow citizen should be applauded. However it if I was to reach into the pocket of a neighbor and take money to give to the homeless man down the street, I would be arrested for theft. That is essentially what the government is doing and will do with programs such as welfare and a public option.

I WANT THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY POCKET

~Barrett Mays

-Democrats ban saying virutally anything negative about President Obama

2009-09-15T20:09:00.004-05:00

Democratic House Members decide to put the kibosh on freedom of speech...

From Politico:

House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) has released a helpful, updated primer for members regarding their conduct on the floor and in committees.

Especially useful: The section on how to properly insult the executive branch in the in the chamber.

Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:

• refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
• refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
• refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
• refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”

Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
• call the President a “liar.”
• call the President a “hypocrite.”
• describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
• charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
• refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
• refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”

-Tea Party Time Lapse: 2 million march on Washington D.C. against government spending

2009-09-12T21:15:00.005-05:00

-George Bush gets laughed at and interrupted by Congress during his State of the Union address

2009-09-10T20:28:00.006-05:00

Hypocritical Democrats are all up in arms about Joe Wilson yelling out "liar" during Obama's address to Congress on Health Care. But take a look at this video in which George W. Bush, trying to display common sense, is interrupted and ridiculed by the Democrats.

And our pal Obama sure wasn't going to miss the party...

h/t Gateway Pundit

-Perez Hilton offers words of wisdom on health care

2009-09-10T20:22:00.003-05:00

Apparently this clown thinks his audience is stupid and doesn't need reasons or explanations. Kind of like Obama and his nonsense health care speech? Follow the crowd sheeple. Don't worry, ol' Obama will take care of everything.

-Audience yells "liar" at Obama's address to Congress on health care

2009-09-09T23:43:00.001-05:00

-National Republican Congressional Committee ad shows compilation of Town Hall videos

2009-09-08T23:18:00.003-05:00

Welcome back Democratic Congress! Hope they enjoyed their vacation.

-Van Jones Resigns

2009-09-06T01:13:00.005-05:00

It's a sad sad day in conservative blogger world. No more writing about radical Communist czar Van Jones.

The Associated Press reports:

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

The resignation comes as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

Jones issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in the administration."

The matter surfaced after news reports of a derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and separately, of Jones' name appearing on a petition connected to the events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. That 2004 petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations into whether high-level government officers had allowed the attacks to occur.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."

Jones said he has been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight."

But he said he cannot in good conscience ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his past.

Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not agree with the petition's stand on the 9/11 attacks and that "it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever."

As for his other comments he made before joining Obama's team, Jones said, "If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."

via FoxNews

-Montel Williams tells Michele Bachmann to slit her wrists

2009-09-04T20:47:00.003-05:00

More evidence of the pathetic state of liberal talk radio. Is it any wonder conservatives are the only ones worth listening to?

-"I Pledge Allegance to the Earth" Posters coming to a classroom near you

2009-09-03T19:45:00.006-05:00

Glenn Beck reported on the new posters that are pervading our children's classrooms:

"Well, how about this one? This was sent in by a listener of the radio program. This is a poster that was in their child's classroom. Look at this. I pledge allegiance to the Earth.

We have people that want to ban the pledge of allegiance to the flag, but now, the teachers are trying to get the kids to pledge allegiance to the Earth? The Earth and the environment are the progressive replacement for God. This is not my opinion. Read about the early 20th century progressives.

You will bow. You will obey, and you will worship it. It is above you."

But don't let your kids have all the fun! Own your own propaganda piece! Get it here.

-Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor says raping prisoners is permissable

2009-09-02T22:24:00.003-05:00

This is so warped and disgusting.

Israel National News reported via Gateway Pundit:

Ahmadinejad's spiritual advisor told followers this week that raping prisoners is okay but wash your hands first...

But, if the prisoner enjoys it then please don't repeat the rape.

According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), an independent Israeli intelligence analysis organization, Mesbah-Yazdi is considered Ahmadinejad's personal spiritual guide. A radical totalitarian even in Iranian terms, he holds messianic views, supports increasing Islamization, calls for violent suppression of domestic political opponents, and, according to the ITIC, "declared that obeying a president supported by the Supreme Leader was tantamount to obeying God."

At the Jamkaran gathering, Mesbah-Yazdi and Ahmadinejad answered questions about the rape and torture charges. The following text is from a transcript alleged by Iranian dissidents to be a series of questions and answers exchanged between the ayatollah and some of his supporters.

Asked if a confession obtained "by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure" was "valid and considered credible according to Islam," Mesbah-Yazdi replied: "Getting a confession from any person who is against the Velayat-e Faqih ("Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists", or the regime of Iran's mullahs) is permissible under any condition." The ayatollah gave the identical answer when asked about confessions obtained through drugging the prisoner with opiates or addictive substances.

"Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in order to obtain a confession?" was the follow-up question posed to the Islamic cleric.

Mesbah-Yazdi answered: "The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness present. If it is a male prisoner, then it's acceptable for someone else to watch while the rape is committed."

This reply, and reports of the rape of teen male prisoners in Iranian jails, may have prompted the following question: "Is the rape of men and young boys considered sodomy?"

Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi: "No, because it is not consensual. Of course, if the prisoner is aroused and enjoys the rape, then caution must be taken not to repeat the rape."

Where are the people who complain about torture in Guantanamo now? Why don't they speak up against this? Where is the ACLU? Pathetic.

-Quote of the Day: Harry Reid on Ted Kennedy's death

2009-09-01T22:44:00.003-05:00

Harry is paving a quick path out of office. Good riddance.

Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy's death affect things?

A: I think it's going to help us. He hasn't been around for some time. We're going to have a new chairman of that committee, it'll be, I don't know for sure, but I think Sen. (Chris) Dodd, (D-Conn.). He has a right to take it. Either him or (U.S. Sen. Tom) Harkin, (D-Iowa), whichever one wants it can have it. I think he (Kennedy) will be a help. He's an inspiration for us. That was the issue of his life and he didn't get it done.

Haha Harry. This may be the most honest he's been in a very long time.

h/t Jammie Wearing Fool

-Van Jones, Communist and Obama Czar, calls Republicans A$$holes

2009-09-01T22:24:00.003-05:00

Van Jones! My man. This guy is quickly becoming a personal favorite of mine.

Classy talk. Bipartisan? Post-partisan? Yeah right.

-Politicians play Solitare during budget debate

2009-09-01T10:13:00.003-05:00

Priceless. Via Drudge

-Organizing for America website says we are "heirs of Bin Laden"

2009-08-31T21:37:00.006-05:00

Yeah this is getting ridiculous. But he'll get a free pass on this as well. This is really on his website.

In case you can't read that...

---* RECLAIM OUR LAND FROM THE HEIRS OF, YES: BIN LADEN *---* YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE *---

In case you haven't seen it in the News: Republican Representatives, Senators, GOP Party Leader, GOP Political Machine top personnel (e.g., Gingritch), etc etc etc --- they're ALL every one of them applauding and encouraging their zealot-horde by merrily referring to them as "Proud Right-Wing Terrorists". Google it - I'm not pulling your leg.

But don't hate them: Misguided citizens are easy-pickings for demagogues, whom they blindly follow because they’ve been trained all their lives not to question the dogma of their religion, so it’s natural for them NOT TO QUESTION what’s being spoon-fed to them by their FALSE PROPHETS who, themselves, shamelessly seek Worldly Glory.

They don’t apply the simple Test: “Am I being led closer to God, when I do what these folks say? – Or, am I on a Bullet-Train to the Devil, and I’m just a pawn to make these folks richer and more powerful?” Because, you know: the Faith one has in God, is different from faith one should have in Man. And you need to be even MORE skeptical, when one of ‘em says that God picked them for something or another. You can bet whatever they’re doing is making them more powerful/ more wealthy, and certainly less pious, no? Ooops, and following them is making YOU less pious too, in thought, and in deed. Yesseree, it’s a real thing to chew on.

Just remember: We Are The Super-Heroes Who Yes WE DID, and YES, WE SHALL commence administering Super-Hero Karate Chops, beginning now.

Oh, and can some of you facebook and tweat this around? I'm not that good at it yet.
IF YOU MISS THIS DAY, JUST DO IT OVER THE WEEKEND – IT'LL ALL GET REPORTED TO THE RESPECTIVE SENATORS ON MONDAY, ANYWAY.

- Rasmussen: Obama Job Approval hits new low of 46%

2009-08-31T10:49:00.003-05:00

Presidential Job Approval
Approve 46%
Disapprove 53%

66% of Independents disapprove
30% of voters strongly approve, 41% strongly disapprove

He's struck the iceberg, and he's slowing sinking.

-Charlie Rangel, chairman of the committee that writes tax laws, fails to report over a million dollars of income

2009-08-31T10:25:00.004-05:00

Charlie Rangel, Democratic congressman from New York and chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. This man truly is the cliche corrupt and pathetic politician of the common man's nightmares. The man doesn't know how to file his own taxes, and yet he is worthy of writing tax laws? Just check out his Wikipedia page for a slew of scandals and tasteless comments. If the media was doing its job this would be common knowledge.

From the New York Post:

Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.

The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.

This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business deals that had not been reported when the reports were originally filed.

In 2004, for instance, Rangel reported earning between $4,000 and $10,000 in outside earnings on top of his $158,100 congressional salary.

But the amended filings show that after the sale of a property on West 132nd Street, his outside income that year was somewhere between $118,000 and $1.04 million.

h/t I Hate the Media

-Kennedy kids exploited at funeral for the sake of Obama Care

2009-08-30T22:10:00.002-05:00

This was the scene at the funeral of Ted Kennedy. Imagine the outrage if Republicans had used a death and religion as a pedestal for pushing an agenda.

h/t Gateway Pundit, Jammie Wearing Fool, Hot Air

-Cop to Town Hall Protestor: This ain't America no more

2009-08-29T09:08:00.002-05:00

This occurred outside of Rep. Jim Moran's town hall meeting...

-Proposed Bill would give Obama control of... the Internet

2009-08-28T22:10:00.004-05:00

From CNET news:

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill." …

If your company is deemed "critical," a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

And no, this isn't about terrorism either. No good intentions here.

In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Let's just continue to watch as our freedoms and America is eroded away right before our eyes.

-ABC News poll asks "What do the Kennedys mean to you?"

2009-08-27T14:41:00.003-05:00

What Do the Kennedys Mean to You?
Is there a single memory of a member of the Kennedy clan that sticks out in your mind? Do you think they are better known for their work in government, or as a wealthy and powerful family? And with the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, do you think another member of the family will emerge as its public leader? Tell us your thoughts...

There are sure to be more responses throughout the day, they are classic. Poor ABC.

-Give birth in a bathroom in Great Britain, thanks to government healthcare

2009-08-26T13:19:00.005-05:00

One word: Change! The change from a comfortable hospital bed with caring professionals and people you love around you to to a public restroom, prying eyes, and excruciating pain!

The Daily Mall reports:

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:

* 63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;

* 117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;

* 115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;

* 399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.

Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.

h/t Bluegrass Pundit

-Ted Kennedy is dead

2009-08-26T13:06:00.005-05:00

I was told never to speak ill of the dead, so I won't. Even though I desperately want to. Maybe I'll change my mind later, so people know the truth not just the media spin.

Ted Kennedy
1932-2009.

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

-9/11 is now the "Day of National Service" according to Obama

2009-08-25T13:42:00.003-05:00

As if you weren't disgusted enough with the Obama administration, here is a story that will make you cringe.

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing....

On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something "positive," "forward-leaning," and "productive," said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

"They think it needs to be taken back from the right," said the source. "They're taking that day and they're breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day."...

-Czar Van Jones: Glenn Beck gets on board with Obama's communist czar

2009-08-24T22:59:00.002-05:00

-Spokesclown Gibbs argues with Major Garrett over White House emails

2009-08-23T23:05:00.003-05:00

Much more background on yet another frightening story at Bluegrass Pundit.

-America's Nation Parks: The new racist hotspots, according to ABC

2009-08-22T22:57:00.002-05:00

Newsflash! The President is black, and won pretty handily. And political correctness aside, has anyone stopped to consider that black people may be *gasp* different than white people? Maybe black people don't want to visit a national park. Maybe white people generally like uppity activities like that. It's okay to speak in generalities when they are on point.

-Quote of the Day: Obama playing God again

2009-08-20T14:28:00.003-05:00

"We are God's partners in matters of life and death"
~Barack Obama.

Source: Politico

-Cash for Clunkers: The debacle continues. Even Rep. Joe Sestak isn't happy.

2009-08-18T22:41:00.003-05:00

Even liberal socialized healthcare pusher Rep. Joe Sestak realizes Cash for Clunkers is a stupid bureaucratic nightmare, and that is exactly what it has become.

The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program, a Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed up the process.

Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., called for "immediate action" to address the problem in a statement Sunday, after writing a letter to President Obama Saturday expressing his concerns.

In the letter, Sestak said only 2 percent of claims have been paid and that four of every five applications have been "rejected for minor oversight."

In recent days, auto dealers across the country have been complaining that the reimbursement payments are slow to process. And they said some of their applications were being rejected because of apparent procedural issues. The statistics Sestak cited suggest those complaints are not based on isolated incidents.

Wait wait wait... did I read that correctly? 2% of the claims have been paid out? Hurray for government efficiency! Let them handle healthcare! Aw hell let them give all of us auto insurance and houses too! After all, it isn't fair that only the rich get those fancy things. We are a much evolved and enlightened society and EVERYONE should have them right? Wait for it friends.

-Pay a tree for its sacrifice of absorbing your nasty carbon footprint

2009-08-18T13:24:00.005-05:00

Just one of those stories... oh how far we have fallen.

Designer Nitipak Samsen has designed the Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine (ATREEM), which essentially allows you to purchase carbon credits from a tree. The gadget measures the growth of a tree, translating into how much carbon dioxide the tree has absorbed. The gadget is designed to highlight just how long it takes for our carbon dioxide emissions to be reabsorbed.

The device is more about awareness than being a practical method for charging people for their carbon dioxide emissions. However, the gadget is capable of charging credit cards using its swipe-card interface.

Source: Moonbattery

-The Onion: Obama has Bipolar Disorder.

2009-08-18T00:07:00.004-05:00

NO it's not true. Good for a laugh though.

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

h/t Hot Air

-Video: Rep. Eric Massa: “I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district”

2009-08-17T23:56:00.001-05:00

Some refreshing honesty from a Democrat. Pelosi and Obama should take notes.

-ObamaCare: Which side looks like a "Rent-a-Mob" to you?

2009-08-17T00:16:00.001-05:00

Via Moonbattery

-"Smart" Car accidents!: Five Reasons NOT to Buy These Stupid Cars

2009-08-15T23:56:00.006-05:00

Lately I've been seeing an influx of so called "Smart" cars on the road. Let's put an end to this nonsense... I hope that the .00000001 percent of the Carbon Dioxide that you saved from being emitted into the atmosphere was worth it for these eco-literate drivers...

Not so smart now!

ObamaInsurance. Coming soon to a politically correct car near you.

The Devolution of a Revolution

The Trees and Birds thank you for your sacrifice. Not Obama though he's gonna tax your all the money you left to your wife and 3 kids.

He didn't feel a thing. Thank you Smart Car.

-Video: The truth about rationing in ObamaCare

2009-08-15T15:26:00.001-05:00

-Yale Press removed Muhammad cartoon from a book about...Mohammed cartoons

2009-08-13T00:12:00.006-05:00

This is hilarious. And pathetic. Or Orwellian.

From the New York Times:

Yale University and Yale University Press consulted two dozen authorities, including diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism, and the recommendation was unanimous: The book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” should not include the 12 Danish drawings that originally appeared in September 2005. What’s more, they suggested that the Yale press also refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included, specifically, a drawing for a children’s book; an Ottoman print; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Doré of Muhammad being tormented in Hell, an episode from Dante’s “Inferno” that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin and Dalí…

John Donatich, the director of Yale University Press, said by telephone that the decision was difficult, but the recommendation to withdraw the images, including the historical ones of Muhammad, was “overwhelming and unanimous.” The cartoons are freely available on the Internet and can be accurately described in words, Mr. Donatich said, so reprinting them could be interpreted easily as gratuitous.

He noted that he had been involved in publishing other controversial books — like “The King Never Smiles” by Paul M. Handley, a recent unauthorized biography of Thailand’s current monarch — and “I’ve never blinked.” But, he said, “when it came between that and blood on my hands, there was no question.”

Oh we're so "progressive" and "culturally sensitive"! Give me a break. Want to see one of the offfending cartoons? Well, we will be so bold as to publish one, at the risk of death threats.

h/t Hot Air

-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee makes a mockery of the democratic process at a town hall meeting

2009-08-12T23:52:00.003-05:00

Watch as Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) takes a phone call while being asked a question.

Um, Your Highness? You answer to these people, the same ones that you see as peasants and sycophants, apparently.

-Quote of the Day: Barack Obama on countering Republican campaign attacks

2009-08-11T22:37:00.004-05:00

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,”

Yeah, he really said that. Check out the Town Hall violence instigated by Obama's brownshirts...

And from more from Gateway Pundit:

Obama to His Followers: "Get in Their Faces!"
Obama on ACORN Mobs: "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I'm angry!"
Obama To His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”

-Rachel Maddow at MSNBC demonstrates the liberal hypocrisy that is so prevalent right now

2009-08-10T23:21:00.005-05:00

In keeping with the MSNBC is a joke theme, here is the hypocrisy demonstrated by "talk show host" Rachel Maddow. These really speak for themselves, you don't have to watch the videos in their entirety, just get a taste.

Rachel Maddow is just wrong about her "crazy conspiracy theories." These are legitimate concerns that have a basis in fact, unlike much of her weak show. Anyway, here is how she described the incident of President George W. Bush getting a shoe thrown at him in "protest" while in Iraq.

Keep the material coming, MSNBC.

h/t Mofo Politics

-Idiot MSNBC analyst poses the illuminating question: is "socialist" becoming the new "n-word"?

2009-08-10T23:12:00.002-05:00

What utter nonsense. For a guy who mentions "birthers", a group of people he and his cohorts have routinely bashed for being an outrageous group of conspiracy theorists, he sure is bold to suggest a conspiracy theory that is completely illegitimate and with zero basis in fact in order to stir up a pot of bulls***.

Congratulations MSNBC. You continually show what a classy, government-run media group you truly are.

-Quote of the Day: Ayn Rand

2009-08-09T23:09:00.002-05:00

"The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence, which is man, for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the morality of life and yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth."

~John Galt in Atlas Shrugged

-California forces business to pay taxes on worthless IOUs

2009-08-09T12:32:00.003-05:00

What a joke. California will not pay back these IOUs, banks do not honor them because they are essentially worthless and have no backing, and now California is demanding that small business pay taxes on these worthless pieces of paper.

Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes. The vendors' federal class action claims the state is trying to balance its budget on their backs.

Lead plaintiff Nancy Baird filled her contract with California to provide embroidered polo shirts to a youth camp run by the National Guard, but never was paid the $27,000 she was owed. She says California "paid" her with an IOU that two banks refused to accept - yet she had to pay California sales tax on the so-called "sale" of the uniforms.

The class consists mostly of small business owners, many of whom rely on income from government contracts to keep afloat. They say California has used them as "suckers" as it looks for a way to bankroll its operations while avoiding its own financial obligations.

h/t Bluegrass Pundit

-Rush Limbaugh might get his wish about Obama...

2009-08-08T14:32:00.002-05:00

Hm..the Obama agenda already a failure? Hopefully.

-Obama Quote: 'I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess'...

2009-08-07T10:31:00.005-05:00

Newsflash stupid:

Democrats control Congress and have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

It's your own fault that you can't get your radical agenda done, the American people aren't stupid enough to listen to you blame Bush for that.

UNEMPLOYMENT IS 9.4%. You have fixed NOTHING.

And your irresponsible deficit spending is likely to raise inflation rates to Zimbabwean levels.

The list could go on and on.

-Mike Malloy, Liberal talking head, wants Glenn Beck to commit suicide on TV

2009-08-06T11:57:00.008-05:00

Mike Malloy, liberal talk radio host and hate speech spewer, let loose a barrage of excrement that would cause any conservative who said it to likely lose their job. In fact, if you can send me in some quotes of a conservative talk radio or television personality who said anything comparable to this on air send it our way.

Liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy lashed out at conservative commentator Glenn Beck, who has a program on the Fox News Channel, saying he hopes Beck commits suicide “on camera,” particularly given that suicide “is rampant in his family” and that Beck apparently is “self-destructive.”

“I have good news to report,” said Malloy on his Aug. 4 radio program. “Glenn Beck appears closer to suicide. I'm hoping that he does it on camera.”

“Suicide is rampant in his family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction,” said Malloy, “I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it’s on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular little piece of video for months.”

Has Glenn Beck ever said anything this vicious or hate filled to anyone?

Source: Radio Equalizer Blog

-One in every nine Americans is on the food stamp list

2009-08-06T11:22:00.005-05:00

Reuters reported today via Drudge that 34 million Americans are on the food stamp list, the highest in its history. Um, Obama is trying to say he pulled us out of this recession? What a joke.

For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday, a sign of the longest and one of the deepest recessions since the Great Depression

Enrollment surged by 2 percent to reach a record 34.4 million people, or one in nine Americans, in May, the latest month for which figures are available.

As if Americans (liberals) needed any more of a sense of entitlement. Gimme gimme gimme, like a child. As John F. Kennedy said, ask not what your country can do for you- but what can you do for your country. Kennedy, as a pretty fiscally conservative president who successfully cut taxes at a pivotal time, often has that quote get warped by liberals to suit their agenda. Your country and its people are not required to give you anything, and you are NOT entitled to anything either.

-Obama passing new law to allow searching of computers, American media silent.

2009-08-06T00:39:00.004-05:00

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs posted a very interesting story earlier...well I suppose interesting might be the wrong way to put it. I'm sick of having to use the word "scary" but this falls into that category unfortunately.

"In extreme secrecy from the public, the Obama administration is hammering out an international treaty with other several other countries and the EU ......under ACTA, the government will get sweeping new powers to search and seize material thought to be in breach of copyright. But why all the secrecy? What it will do on a larger scale is let big brother watch you; however, this time on a completely different level."

"Border guards will be given unprecedented powers to search travelers without warning. They will be able to go through and confiscate any material a person has on their laptop."

"America is being overtaken by a culture of surveillance."

If Bush's Patriot Act was an infringement on freedom, privacy, and your liberty, then what the hell is this? And WHY haven't we heard about this in America? Spread the word on this developing nightmare.

-Congress buys more Gulfstreams on your dime, but won't let CEOs

2009-08-05T16:10:00.003-05:00

Congress doesn't mind spending your money on themselves, apparently.

Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies.

But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.

Because the Appropriations Committee viewed the additional aircraft as an expansion of an existing Defense Department program, it did not treat the money for two more planes as an earmark, and the legislation does not disclose which Member had requested the additional money.

The Gulfstream G550 is a luxury business jet, which the company advertises as featuring long-range flight capacity that "easily links Washington, D.C., with Dubai, London with Singapore and Tokyo with Paris." The company's promotional materials say, "The cabin aboard the G550 combines productivity with exceptional comfort. It features up to four distinct living areas, three temperature zones, a choice of 12 floor plan configurations with seating for up to 18 passengers."

But we can't afford to pay for F-22s that defend our countries...

-Russian nuclear powered attack submarines seen patrolling off the East Coast.

2009-08-04T19:50:00.003-05:00

Yes, that's the east coast of the United States. About 200 miles off the coast. Just another problem for the Chosen One to deal with. But I'm sure he'll figure it out. After all, he wouldn't say who won the Cold War, so maybe he thinks it's not over?

A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military.

The episode has echoes of the cold war era, when the United States and the Soviet Union regularly parked submarines off each other’s coasts to steal military secrets, track the movements of their underwater fleets — and be poised for war.

-1984: Whitehouse.gov wants you to snitch on your neighbors who don't fall in line with ObamaCare

2009-08-04T16:20:00.008-05:00

Whitehouse.gov has issued a call to action. The American citizens are catching on to Obama's facade, when will the mainstream media catch up?

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

What exactly would the government do with that information? This is the lovely transition from Socialism to Communism folks...

Oh yes, this is the picture the Leftists are freaking out about, calling it racist somehow. I didn't hear any of that talk over the disgusting things done to Bush's image.

Source: JammieWearingFool

-Queen Michelle Obama doesn't mind "Mean America" paying for her posse.

2009-08-04T10:18:00.004-05:00

I wonder if Michelle Obama still finds America a "downright mean" country now that its taxpayers are footing the bill for her elaborate entourage.

1.$172,2000 - Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
2.$140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
3.$113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
4.$102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
5.Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
6.$90,000 - Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
7.$84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
8.$75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
9.$70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
10.$65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
11.Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
12.$62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
13.$60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
14.Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
15.$52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
16.$50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
17.$45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
18.Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
19.$40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
20.$36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
21.Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
22.Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

-Sen. Arlen Specter and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius laughed at and booed at Townhall meeting

2009-08-03T23:33:00.002-05:00

Many pompous people were proud when the uninformed and misled voters of the United States of America elected the first "black" president. (Would it have been the same if he was conservative?) Well what makes me proud is to finally see people standing up for what they believe in, not allowing themselves to be lied to anymore, and doing something about it

-ObamaCare: Harry Reid goes after private health insurance companies

2009-08-02T21:10:00.005-05:00

Don’t 'Cry Great Big Tears About the Insurance Industry'

When the government starts to literally attack private enterprise, we are really in trouble.

OK Harry...then why are you going to keep your old insurance policy?

Source: CNSNews

-Cash for Clunkers: Another stupid liberal idea that does more harm than good

2009-08-01T20:19:00.003-05:00

Here's the problem with the Cash for Clunkers program that has been talked about so much on the news. It's another stupid leftist program simple as that. It's all just getting ridiculous.

The Cash for Clunkers program is stupid for a lot of reasons. Not only is it just another tax-payer bailout of the unions automakers, who can sell more cars at artificially depressed prices so they can keep the doors open. It also screws with the free-market (big surprise there) by pulling forward demand that isn’t there now, only to kill demand over the next 1-2 years. Killing off the clunkers also hurts the used car market, the spare parts market, and the auto repair business. If there aren’t any old cars to buy or fix, those guys are all out of a job.

But one of the most asinine parts of the plan is that they take old cars, many of which were being used as functional day-to-day transportation the day before, and destroy them. A perfectly good and useful machine destroyed for political reasons…

In a normal world, you take your trade-in to the dealer, he buys it from you, and then he resells it at the auto auction. It is the most efficient allocation of resources for the product. In this case, the government buys your trade-in and, instead of using it for its full value, it destroys the vehicle.

I know people will say that some of these cars were maintenance disasters to own and if the blue book is less that what someone will pay you for it, then there is no point in keeping it. But the Cash for Clunkers program requires that a working vehicle be destroyed. What about giving it to charity, or to your teenager, or to whomever deems the thing more useful than a $4,500 credit on a new car.

-Gates, Crowley, Obama Beer Summit

2009-08-01T09:41:00.003-05:00

A picture speaks a thousand words:

Van Jones, self proclaimed Communist and Obama's Green Jobs Czar, has produced zero jobs.

2009-07-31T11:43:00.002-05:00

Van Jones, one of many of Obama's czars, was allotted $60 billion in Obama's massive "stimulus" bill. How many "green" jobs has he produced? Or any jobs for that matter? Not 1000, not 100, not 1. Zero. And who reported this sad fact? Not the evil Fox News, not the Wall Street Journal, not even CNN, but Newsweek. The same Newsweek whose staff wrote the adoring book A Long Time Coming about Obama and his campaign.

President Obama devoted nearly $60 billion of his stimulus package to building a new green-based economy rich in renewable energy and strategies to cut carbon. But despite the price tag, not one green job yet exists.

Hmm...I'm betting we'll never see a "green job" from this administration, just more spending.

-Sky News reporter David Speers goes after Mark Arbib, Australian "Employment Minister" on Green Jobs claim

2009-07-31T11:26:00.005-05:00

American reporters and commentators could learn quite a bit about how to interview someone and get facts out of them from the foreign news outlets.

Speers: Does that mean that you are calling this a job or does that mean they’ll be remaining on the unemployment benefit?

Arbib: No, well, this is … yeah this is a work experience program.

Speers: Is it a job or is it a work experience program?

Arbib: A work experience program is a job. They’ll be actually working during this time.

Speers: When you say it’s a job, do they get sick leave? Do they get superannuation? How is it just not the same as the work for the dole scheme?

Arbib: Well, I don’t have all the details.

Speers: But you’re the minister.

Arbib: Well, I am, but I don’t have all the details today for you mate. But what I can tell you …

Speers: But it’s just been announced by the Prime Minister.

Arbib: 10,000 young people, 26 weeks’ training, plus work, day after day, it’s a great, great result.

Speers: But it is still being worked out.

Arbib: No, no, this scheme will be under way in January 2010, and obviously some of the detail will still have to be finalized, but …

Speers: Is one of those details whether it will be a job or work experience?

Arbib: Well, well … it’s a fine line but can I tell you it is work experience. Work experience is a job.

h/t IHatetheMedia

-Video: Mainstream Media on Obama's low approval and health care poll ratings

2009-07-30T14:31:00.004-05:00

We could run a post a day covering Obama's free-falling poll numbers. But this video from Politico sums them up nicely thus far.

-Video: So Racist!!

2009-07-30T10:56:00.000-05:00

-Fun with Bailouts: How much is a trillion dollars?

2009-07-30T10:20:00.003-05:00

Senators are tossing around the word 'trillion' as a part of their everyday language now a days, especially regarding healthcare. That's really not ok.

-More on Obama's Czars: Science Czar John Holdren's radical views

2009-07-29T08:16:00.006-05:00

From CNSNews:

President Obama’s top science adviser said in a book he co-authored in 1973 that a newborn child “will ultimately develop into a human being” if he or she is properly fed and socialized.

“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being,” John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.”

“There seems little doubt that the forced bearing of unwanted children has undesirable consequences not only for the children themselves and their families but for society as well, apart from the problems of overpopulation,” wrote the authors.

“Those who oppose abortion often raise the argument that a decision is being made for an unborn person who ‘has no say,’” write the authors. “But unthinking actions of the very same people help to commit future unheard generations to misery and early death on an overcrowded planet.”

“The third approach to population control is that of involuntary fertility control,” write the Ehrlichs and Holdren. “Several coercive proposals deserve discussion mainly because societies may ultimately have to resort to them unless current trends in birth rates are rapidly reversed by other means.”

“Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying” the authors state at the end of the subsection. “As those alternatives become clearer to an increasing number of people in the 1970s, we may well find them demanding such control. A far better choice, in our view, is to begin now with milder methods of influencing family size preferences, while ensuring that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being on Earth within the shortest possible time. If effective action is taken promptly, perhaps the need for involuntary or repressive measures can be averted.”

Dear Leader Obama has certainly surrounded himself by radicals. The worst thing about this guy is that unlike many of Obama's other czars, Holdren was approved by the Senate because he was also appointed to the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Sad. Let's hope America wakes up to this nonsense by 2012, or it might be too late.

-Quote of the Day: North Korea's Kim Jong Il on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

2009-07-28T23:00:00.005-05:00

Hilarious! Just picture his little bobble troll doll head saying this, and Hillary looking all indignant.

“We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community. Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.”

-Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel wishes Obama Care wouldn't treat those to don't contribute as much to the greater good

2009-07-28T19:05:00.005-05:00

Rahm Emanuel, Obama's right hand lackey, is probably to Obama what Cheney was to Bush. Rahm "Dead Fish" Emanuel is a piece of work. His brother, Ezekiel? Another thing entirely. His views are, sadly and as fear-mongering as it sounds, reminiscent of the practices of the Nazi regime. Not only does he apparently advocate rationing of health care, but...well just read on as the New York Post documents the lunacy. Oh did we mention that Ezekiel holds the key positions of health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget, and is a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.

...(Emanuel) wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

Many doctors are horrified by this notion; they'll tell you that a doctor's job is to achieve social justice one patient at a time.

Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens … An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).

Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy.

Here's how Ezekiel defends denying healthcare to the elderly:

Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years

And do you know what the worst part of this is? Ezekiel is right. If ObamaCare does, God help us, come to pass, this is how it will have to be due to high demand, a larger clientele base, and a dwindling number of doctors.

-Muslim model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor gets caning for drinking a beer in Malaysia

2009-07-28T09:44:00.004-05:00

From the Jawa Report:

Malaysian model, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, was caught drinking beer in a hotel and sentenced by an Islamic court to six lashes with a rattan cane.

Women's rights activists and members of the public have expressed outrage, however, Islamic lawyers say she will be whipped with a thin cane which "does not cause severe pain."

Hey, anything can happen when your nation is ruled by Islamic Law! New surprises everyday.

-Global Warming! Save the polar bears!

2009-07-28T08:58:00.003-05:00

This commercial from WWF will make you sick.

Here's the problem with this nonsense. It's not getting warmer, and the polar bear population is increasing. Also, polar bears enjoy the delicacy of human flesh. And is it just me, or is this no name about to break out in laughter throughout the commercial?

h/t Moonbattery

-Cambridge cop says she won't vote for Obama again after Professor Gates incident

2009-07-27T19:23:00.005-05:00

THIS is post-racial America, not that nonsense spouted during Barack Obama's farcical campaign.

via Hot Air

-Baton Rouge Police censor citizens talking about ObamaCare with the encourage of ACORN

2009-07-27T12:33:00.002-05:00

From Bluegrass Pundit:

Everyone in America needs to see this video. The police in Baton Rouge trample on American's free speech rights at the direction of Acorn. Is this the change people were expecting when they voted for Obama?

-Who is America's most trusted newscaster now? According to Time Magazine, Jon freakin' Stewart.

2009-07-27T12:17:00.003-05:00

The poll question was "“Now that Walter Cronkite has passed away, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?”

7% Katie Couric
19% Charlie Gibson
29% Brian Williams
44% Jon Stewart

There's a sad, sad statistic. Stewart is merely a comedian. With liberal leanings not so cleverly disguised. At least it explains how Obama got elected. And by whom.

Source: Time

-This is why you need the RaceCard

2009-07-26T19:39:00.002-05:00

via IOwntheWorld

-ACORN thugs try to intimidate Tea Party Protesters

2009-07-26T09:54:00.003-05:00

Obama has stopped funding the Honduras government who ousted a Leftist dictator that had no right to remain in office, but he still hands billions of dollars to his ACORN strongmen? What a joke. Thank God for these protesters.

h/t Gateway Pundit

Quote of the Day: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini

2009-07-25T22:24:00.003-05:00

"Let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world."

-Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini