Woody's Place

Coldplay "Clocks" (Latin Mix By Rhythms Del Mundo)

Coldplay's "Clocks" is a really great song, and this remix takes it in a completely new direction. 

At first I didn't know what to think, but it's kind of growing on me...  What do YOU think?

OBAMA = One Big Awful Mistake America

Found On Web: What If Al Gore Lived In Ancient Greece?

From Historical And Modern Day News And Trivia:

Long, long ago in a Grecian city far, far away there lived a man named Albertus Goreus. Albertus was a wealthy citizen from Athens who could buy anything his heart(or stomach) desired. While most of his class of citizens were content with their lives, Albertus felt unloved. And, so, one summer's day as he sat upon the steps of the temple of Zeus, he noticed how warm the air was. He placed his hands upon the giant stone steps. And they were scorching hot! Albertus stared at the sun. How bright it shone! He could feel the heat pouring from the giant, golden orb of Apollo.

Ten minutes later, as he was being carried away from the temple because he had stared at the sun to long, he thought, "Oh, my! The world will be burnt to a crisp if I don't do something about it!"

It's pretty clever.  Go read the rest where Albertus Goreus tries to have Socrates arrested for questioning his beliefs.

Hat tip to Wyatt a.k.a. "pimp daddy" at Support Your Local Gunfighter.

UPDATE: From her profile I see that Elm is into Legend Of Zelda, Queen Elizabeth, conservative politics and history.  What an interesting mix.  Must... add to... blogroll.

Iowahawk Strikes Again

The master of political satire sits back and lets the Democrats satire themselves with this awesome video compilation of liberal gaffes and goofs.  While you watch remember all those Democrats who said Obama's election made them finally proud to be American again...

Do these people make you proud? 

Be sure to catch Iowahawk's other post which makes clear why the USA won World War II in record time.  I'm in complete agreement and would start a war myself if I could.  Wowza.

Pole Dance Instructional Video

Strippers Exotic dancers have always fascinated me for some reason, but it wasn't until watching this video that I realized it was the intricacies of their pole dancing technique that I found so captivating.

Yeah, I could watch that for hours... Hey, where did all these dollar bills on my keyboard come from?

Quote Of The Day: Ed Gillespie On Media Bias

From National Review:

Over the past few months, a steady stream of journalists from mainstream-media outlets — at least eight, led by Time Washington-bureau chief Jay Carney — have abandoned journalism for positions in the Obama administration or with congressional Democrats. Fortunately for them, the difficult transition from objective reporting to ardent advocacy of a party’s agenda was made easier by the head start they got in last year’s campaign. Though there have long been concerns about liberal bias in the media, 2008 was the year the referees took off their striped shirts and donned a team’s jersey. [...]

Excellent anaolgy, and that's exactly how it feels to Republicans.  We can't get a fair shake in the media outside of Fox News and AM talk radio. 

[...] Today, newspapers are folding, Washington bureaus being shuttered. And as the national media have become smaller, they have become even more homogeneous — and that makes it easier for them to indulge their cultural biases and be swayed by liberal blogs. The recent mainstream-media flap over Rush Limbaugh, generated and fueled by the Obama political machine, is only the latest evidence of the changed media dynamic.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs helped move the story along by suggesting that reporters ask Republican members of Congress whether they agree or disagree with Limbaugh’s comments.

Now, this is the kind of suggestion that operatives from both parties give reporters from time to time, but it’s usually whispered at a campaign event, or after half a bottle of wine at one of those painful black-tie press dinners. President Obama’s press secretary can say it right out loud from the White House podium. And instead of being insulted, or asking Gibbs whether it’s proper for a public official paid with taxpayer dollars to say such a thing, the reporters carry out the hit.

Media watchdogs?  More like lapdogs...  be sure to go read the rest.

Friendly Fires "Skeleton Boy"

Great tune.  Lyrics after the jump.

Photo Faves: Chrysanthemum

Spring has finally arrived, so I think I might as well post that beautiful picture I took at the botanical gardens a few years ago.

This is one of the best photos I've ever taken IMHO.

Catholic University Honors Politician Who Voted Against Bill Banning Infanticide

The University Of Notre Dame has invited Barack Obama to speak at it's upcoming commencement address...  This despite Obama's voting down of a bill banning infanticide as a Chicago State Representative.  This despite President Obama authorizing Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  This despite Obama's executive order authorizing federal funding of international "aid groups" that perform abortions abroad.  This despite Obama's intention to appoint only pro-abortion judges to the Supreme Court.

Maybe next year they will invite Satan to learn from his life experiences and unique perspective on world events.  It's all about being open minded right?

The Challenge

Found at A Major's Perspective via The Rott.

The challenge issued by a flight attendant during a recent commercial air flight seemed innocuous enough: "Name just one of the five Medal of Honor recipients from the current engagements in Afghanistan or Iraq, and get a free drink coupon."

Dale Shelton, an Annapolis, Md., resident who served five years as a Navy intelligence specialist, was the only passenger to press the button over his seat to beckon the attendant. Shelton's response: Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith, the first Medal of Honor recipient in the Global War on Terror and in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Smith received the highest military honor for valor posthumously on April 3, 2005, two years to the day after saving more than 100 Soldiers in the battle for Baghdad's airport. His young son and widow accepted the award on his behalf during a solemn White House ceremony.

The flight attendant gave free drink coupons to Shelton, as well as his wife, Jean, and two other traveling companions. Then he returned to crew area to announce over the intercom that only one person had correctly answered the challenge.

This time, the attendant offered a second challenge: "Name an 'American Idol' winner." The cabin lit up like a pinball machine as 43 passengers scrambled to push their attendant call button. Passengers named various Idol winners.

The attendant announced that he wasn't going to award drink coupons for that answer, telling the passengers that "naming an Idol winner was not worth a free drink," Shelton recalled.

"He concluded his announcement with the question: 'What's wrong with our country when out of 150 passengers, only one can name a Medal of Honor recipient, but 43 can name an American Idol winner?'"

Good question.  What IS wrong with our country?

I'll give you a hint, it starts with an L and ends with IBERALISM.

I've never heard of people tipping a flight attendant, but I'd have felt the urge.  I wonder what airline that was and if they fired the guy yet for being politically incorrect...

Taylor Swift

I'm not a major fan of country music, but I do know a babe when I see one...

Devalued Leader Of A Devalued Government

Here is a must see video of a British Member Of Parliment savaging UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the "devalued prime minister of a devalued government" for spending the country into bankruptcy.

Our current Federal government is just as devalued.  Where is our Daniel Hannan who will expose Obama as the Emperor with no clothes? 

The GOP needs an eloquent pit bull like this guy.  Newt Gingrich used to fill that role, but he seems to be a recluse nowadays.  Maybe Rush really is our only leader now.

A Guide To Democratic Newspeak

The Obama administration has begun implementing Newspeak.  Phrases used during the evil Bush administration are soon to be replaced by these new terms.  Those loyal to The Party such as members of the MSM/DNC cabal will be using only these new gooder phrases from now on:

OLDSPEAK	NEWSPEAK
"War On Terror"	"Overseas Contingency Operation"
"Terrorism"	"Man Made Disaster"
"Enemy Combatants"	"Detainees"
"Fight Terror Over There"	"Prosecute After They Strike Us Here"
"We Will Not Stop Until They Are Defeated"	"We Will Unclench Our Fist And Be Open To Dialogue "

So avoid Crimethought by using Newspeak comrades!

UPDATE: Robert George writing at The New York News calls this "the airbrushing of the post 9-11 world".

"Freedom Tower?" Gone.

"War on Terror?" Gone.

"Enemy combatants?" Gone

"Terrorism?" Gone.

Three-thousand Americans? Gone?

Oh, right.

Well, at least they got the memo early. 

Read the rest, it's called "Change We Can Bereave In".  

Obama's Unprecedented Budget Deficits

Via the Wall Street Journal and the Congressional Budget Office, here are the Federal Government's budget deficits and surpluses since the 1980's.

You can see what the War On Terror did to our budgets during the Bush years, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to Obama's War On Capitalism. 

Oh well, the Democrats got us into this mess, so at least the bill is coming due on their watch. 

Cat Shit One? (Japanese People Are Crazy)

This is a trailer for a Japanese animated movie called Cat Shit One... Yes, that's the real title.  I'm assuming it sounded really badass in Japanese. 

Okay.. I'm confused.  Part of me is thinking "wow, that was actually kinda cool", but the other part of me is thinking "Cute bunny snipers? WTF? I want no part of this Japanese insanity".

UPDATE: I think I might have figured this out somewhat.  Why make the movie with bunnies and muslim-looking camels?  Because political correctness would make doing it with people a real hassle.  This way the filmakers can say "What do you mean you are offended?  Are you a camel?"

Automaker's Actions Speak Louder Than Words

This came in my e-mail today:

CNN Headline News did a short news listing regarding Ford and GM's contributions to the relief and recovery efforts in New York and Washington as a result of 9-11.

The findings are as follows.....

1. Ford   - $10 million to American Red Cross matching employee contributions of the same number plus 10 Excursions to NY Fire Dept.   The company also offered ER response team services and office space to displaced government employees.

2. GM   - $10 million to American Red Cross matching employee contributions of the same number and a fleet of Vans, SUV's, and Trucks.

3. Daimler Chrysler   -   $10 million to support of the children and victims of the Sept. 11 attack.

 4. Harley Davidson motorcycles  - $1 million and 30 new motorcycles to the New York Police Dept.

5. Volkswagen  -  Employees and management created a Sept 11 Foundation, funded initial with $2 million, for the assistance of the children and victims of the WTC.

6. Hyundai  - $300,000 to the American Red Cross.

7. Audi  - see VW

8. BMW - Nothing.

9. Daewoo - Nothing.

10. Fiat - Nothing.

11. Honda - Nothing despite boasting of second best sales month ever in August 2001

12. Isuzu - Nothing.

13. Mitsubishi - Nothing.

14. Nissan - Nothing.

15. Porsche - Nothing. Press release with condolences via the Porsche website.

16. Subaru - Nothing.

17. Suzuki - Nothing.

18. Toyota - Nothing despite claims of high sales in July and August 2001.  Condolences posted on the website .

Whenever the time may be for you to purchase a new vehicle, keep this information in mind.   You might want to give more consideration to a car manufactured by an American-owned and / or American based company.   

Apart from Hyundai and Volkswagen, the foreign car companies contributed nothing at all to the citizens of the United States.... It's OK for these companies to take money out of this country, but it is apparently not acceptable to return some in a time of crisis.    I believe we should not forget things like this.   Say thank you in a way that gets their attention...

So if I read this right, the Big Three US automakers and their employees donated over fifty million dollars in the wake of 9-11 and the foreign automakers donated almost nothing.  Stay classy Toyota.

I'm all for buying American cars, because I believe in keeping a viable US owned and operated manufacturing base here in case we need it someday.  What if we'd been buying all our manufactured goods from Germany and Japan when World War II erupted?  Can you say screwed?  This is just icing on the cake for me.

Change We Can Believe In? Hardly...

Where The Wild Things Are

Wow... this looks absolutely amazing.  I can't wait. 

Click on the pic to see the rest. 

UPDATE: Here is the trailer!

The Bird Feeder

Found this over at Cmblake6 today:

I bought a bird feeder.  I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed.  What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed.  Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. 

Then came the poop.  It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table... everywhere!

Then some of the birds turned mean.  They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud.  They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore.  So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone.  I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be... quiet, serene... and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let’s see.

Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.

Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands.  Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services;  small apartments are housing 5 families;  you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor;  your child’s second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.  Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box;  I have to ‘press one ‘ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ‘Old Glory’ are squawking and screaming  in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

Very good analogy, but unfortunately the birds are running the government now.  That bird feeder AIN'T comin' down, and you ARE gonna buy more bird seed wether you like it or not.  In a Democracy the majority rules, and over half of today's voters don't pay any income tax.

Pay up sucka.

Sunday People "Swing With Me"

Mellow bossa nova flavored electronic music with vocals by a German woman? 

Not bad...

Common Sense

Hat tip to Cmblake6.

Crocodile Tears

All this faux outrage on the part of Democrats over AIG bonuses (that they knew about months ago, and in fact authorized by law) is simply crocodile tears.  Nothing more than a show for the cameras to distract the voters from real corruption that is going on right there behind the podium and all across Washington DC. 

Where is the Democrat's outrage at the hundreds of thousands of dollars AIG donated to Democratic political campaigns?  Are they going to retroactively tax that away from themselves?  No... I thought not.

Where is their outrage over the bonuses paid to people at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?  Those companies created the toxic assets that AIG traded.  Democrat Franklin Raines got over $90,000,000 and Democrat Jamie Gorelick got $24,000,000 for running the agency into the ground.  Any moves to retroactively tax that money away?  No, there's a different set of standards for Democrats.

Of course Fannie and Freddie were doing Congresses bidding, so we can't raise their profile lest more people discover the dirty little secret that Congress created this whole mess... 

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

Fascism Approaches

Via Cmblake6 here's an e-mail from a soldier serving at Fort Bliss in Texas:

Bliss is mandating that all soldiers who own POWs (privately owned weapons) cannot store their firearms on post housing.  They must be turned into the arms room.  All soldiers must register any weapons they own with the provost marshall regardless of whether or not they live on post.  Further, the post commander has mandated that if soldiers do not comply, they will face courts martial.

The counseling statement I recieved on this new policy stated that privately owned firearms are a serious threat to the safety of the community.  I kid you not.

Here it is: they're now figuring out who in the military is a firearms owner as a pretext to disarming these soldiers first before going after everyone else's guns.

What other reason could there be?  Soldiers can't be trusted with firearms?  As if... 

A Study In Contrasts

Hat tip to Shooting The Messenger.

Obama's $2,000,000,000 Tax Increase / Job Killer

From The Washington Times:

President Obama's climate plan could cost industry close to $2 trillion, nearly three times the White House's initial estimate of the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation, according to Senate staffers who were briefed by the White House.

All in the name of preventing "man made global warming", which is being revealed as just a hoax to advance the left's political agenda more and more with each passing day. 

"The last thing we need is a massive tax increase in a recession, but reportedly that's what the White House is offering: up to $1.9 trillion in tax hikes on every single American who drives a car, turns on a light switch or buys a product made in the United States," said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner. "And since this energy tax won't affect manufacturers in Mexico, India and China, it will do nothing but drive American jobs overseas."

The "working people" voted Obama in and they are going to be hurt most by his policies.  If it weren't so bad for our country you could almost enjoy the irony...

Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale is a natural beauty, and a pretty good actress too.

The Imperial March Played On A Tesla Coil... WTF?

Hat tip to Geekologie.

Thank God Sarah Palin Didn't Win!

Via Hot Air here's Noemie Emery writing for the DC Examiner:

Now that the Obama presidency is nearing the 60-day mark, it’s time to thank those fastidious scribes on the left and the right who worked so hard to warn us against Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, and the dire things that would surely occur if she ever got close to executive power.

How right they were to insist that she was unfit for high office. Let’s just imagine what she might have done:

As president, she might have caused the stock market to plunge over 2,000 points in the six weeks after she assumed office, left important posts in the Treasury unfilled for two months, been described by insiders as ‘overwhelmed’ by the office, and then gone on to diss the British Prime Minister on his first state visit, giving him, as one head of state to another, a set of DVDs plucked from the aisles of Wal Mart, a tasteful gift, even if they can’t be played on a TV in Britain. (Note, the Prime Minister, who is losing his eyesight, may even be blind in one eye).

As vice president, she might have told Katie Couric that when the stock market crashed in 1929, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on TV to reassure a terrified nation. Or on her first trip abroad as Secretary of State, she might have, as the AP reported, “raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe...when she mispronounced her “EU counterparts names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe’s,” then gave the Russian minister a gag “reset” button, on which the word “reset” was translated incorrectly.

What a good thing that Palin, whom Christopher Buckley called “an embarrassment, and a dangerous one,” wasn’t in office to cause such debacles, and that we have Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton instead.  [...]

Yes.  Thankfully Obama won and we've been spared all that drama and embarrasment.

Quote Of The Day

Misha from The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler on the Rush Limbaugh wanting Obama to fail brouhaha:

[...] he was asked a question, and he answered it.

Truthfully and honestly, true to his conservative beliefs, which is worth something.

And it’s worth a whole heck of a lot more than the feckless behavior of you “conservatives” who gleefully and readily give up ground in order to not appear “uncivil.”

We suppose that, had you been Germans a scant 7 decades ago, you would have been up in arms about people criticizing the “relocation” of “undesirables” as well, hoping that said “undesirables” would kill their captors instead.

Unfair?

Not really. It’s a perfectly good analogy. Ask, if you like, any of the millions who disappeared into Soviet Gulags over the decades, if you can find any, because nobody wanted to be the ones to hope for the Soviet system to fail.

That would be rude and uncivil, after all.

Bullseye.

The MSM/DNC Cabal

I've been using the term MSM/DNC Cabal to describe the "mainstream media" off and on for a few years now.  It started back in 2005 on The Cassandra Page where MSM and DNC were merged into a singular noun since their cooperation was blatantly obvious, then I felt the need to add the cabal descriptor, since they try to keep their coordination secret in order to appear impartial and responsible.

Now today we have this news from The Politico:

For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.

The story goes on to cite members of this secret list saying it's not a conspiracy, just a conversation.  Yeah right... a conversation about what you will teach, write, and broadcast and how it all fits together, hosted on a private invitaion-only network, with all conversations kept secret.  NO, THAT'S NOTHING AT ALL LIKE A CONSPIRACY.

We also recently learned about the DAILY conference calls between Obama's Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ABC's George Stephonopolous, and CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala.  It's just coffee talk, I'm sure!  There's NO coordination or plotting to advance a political agenda going on between these old Democratic colleagues.

The incestuous ties between Democrats and the media go on and on.  Here's just a few that come to mind:

• MSNBC's Chris Matthews worked for many Democratic Senators and has campaigned for office as a Democrat.
• ABC's Charlie Gibson's daughter worked in the Clinton White House.
• CBS News and Dan Rather tried to smear President George W. Bush with fake documents supplied to them by a Democratic operative, all the while Rather's producer Mary Mapes keeps senior Kerry campaign officials in the loop. 
• ABC's Chris Cuomo's father is long time New York Democrat Mario Cuomo, and his brother served in the Clinton White House.
• Clinton staffer George Stephonopolous found a home at ABC News after his stint in the White House.
• ABC News correspondent Linda Douglas became Director of Communications for the Obama White House Office of Health Reform. 
• Time Magazine's Washington Bureau Chief went to work as Director Of Communications for Vice President Biden.
• Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent Peter Gosslein became Tim Geithner's speechwriter.
• Chicago Tribune Washington correspondent Jill zuckman became Director of Public Affairs for the Obama Dept. of Transportation.
• ABC News's Justice Department correspondent Beverly Lumpkin became Press Secretary for... you guessed it, Obama's Justice Department.

And the list goes on and on and on.  To pretend that this is all some kind of coincidence is just ridiculous. 

You may (or may not) recall that during the last Presidential election Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit got an e-mail from someone in the news business that made the bias of the media clear as day (emphasis added):

"Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into Obama is derided or flat out ignored. THE FIX IS IN, AND IT'S WORKING."

As I recall this was swept under the rug pretty quickly.  The media were quick to relay unsubstantiated rumours about Sarah Palin's family life, but ingored the skeletons in their own closet.

So, I guess there's no better time than the present for me to revive my use of the term, and to use this post to explain it to readers here on my new blog.

MSM: Mainstream media.  CNN, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, MSNBC, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Early Show, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times etc. etc. 

DNC: Democratic National Committee, but here it's just a reference to the Democrat party in general.

CABAL: A group plotting in secret to advance a hidden agenda.

Hence we have the MSM/DNC Cabal.  I will be using it frequently, and will link back to this post for clarity's sake.  I encourage my readers to adopt it as well.  We cannot trust the media to be impartial, and we need to constantly remind ourselves and those around us of this fact, lest we fall back into a trance and accept the media's distortions at face value. 

The Internet Ate My Newspaper

Via Where Are My Keys, here's a great take from American Digest on the closing of the Seatle Post Intelligencerand the overall implosion of the newspaper business. 

The death of the P.I. and its "life in death" on the Web is only the second in a trend that will grow. And as the other papers fail into the Web we will hear, again and again, about the Internet, about Craigslist, about The Drudge Report, and a hundred other reasons these papers are dead. What we will never hear is that their editorial policies and news slanting were part and parcel of their demise. We will never hear about the willed insults, slights, and snubbing of fully half of their potential circulation pool.Journalists and editors write a lot about "taking personal responsibility" when it comes to others. You never hear them write that about themselves. There's no mea culpa among liberal newspaper journalists these days. There's only "The Internet ate my newspaper."

I've been thinking about that same idea for a while now, workers so focused on their political agenda that they piss off a good portion of their potential customers.  The concept could apply to other businesses as well. 

Network TV news is a similar downward spiral.  Glenn Beck gets a new show on Fox News at 5:00 in the afternoon (a notoriously bad time of day for TV news), and his ratings suddenly go through the roof.  Why is that?  Its because he's speaking to the 50%of the public being snubbed by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, HLN,and MSNBC.  In fact, his ratings for recent shows were much higher than all the other cable news networks COMBINED.  Do you think the other TV networks will change their ways?  Nah... too busy "making a difference" to try making a profit.

Would auto sales for the Big Three be higher now if the UAW hadn't been out on the streets for decades attempting to intimidate the half of the American people who vote Republican?  Those Republicans buy cars fellas... you'd rather they drove Lexus than Cadillac?  I'm not making this up.  I've been visited at my office by a union thug trying to bully me into taking down campaign signs on our property, and I've been personally slandered by a union representative during the introduction at a presidential campaign rally in front of thousands of people. 

I'm sure this type of behavior does not have a positive impact on sales, but screw 'em... they're liberals.  Maybe they deserve to fail.

A Letter From The Boss

Here's a layoff I don't mind hearing about:

Dear Staff,

As the CFO of a business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8%. Since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead.

This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here, and I didn’t know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did: I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars, and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem.

These folks wanted change; I gave it to them. If you have a better idea, let me know.

Sincerely,

The Boss

Hat tip to The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.

Quote(s) Of The Day

From Bernard Chapin's excoriation of David Frum at Pajamas Media:

"When compared to Obama, Rush Limbaugh is the epitome of intellectual brilliance and courage, while the president is a glossy, cool, New Age deceiver."

"My former senator’s entire life has been devoted to baritoning out vapid banalities while using jejune platitudes as a means to cloak his leftism. Without a teleprompter, he is more lost than Ira Hayes without an American flag."

Exactly. 

This whole brouhaha with Frum reminds me of yet another quote, from my friend Warren Buffet:

"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." 

Now that the electoral and popularity tide has receeded we find out who's been just using the conservative movement without really being on our side.  David Frum has milked us for book sales and think tank positions while his sympathies apparently lie elsewhere. 

Michelle Obama's Got Some Choppers

I'm just sayin...

I Miss My Big Wheel

Obama On Mount Rushmore

Hat tip to IowaHawk.

China "Worried" About US Treasury Holdings

Well, we may be close to checking off the next item on my To Do List for the Democrat controlled  Congress...

BEIJING (AP) - China's premier expressed concern Friday about its massive holdings of Treasuries and other U.S. debt, appealing to Washington to safeguard their value, and said Beijing is ready to expand its stimulus if the economy worsens.

Premier Wen Jiabao noted that Beijing is the biggest foreign creditor to the United States and called on Washington to see that its response to the global slowdown does not damage the value of Chinese holdings.

"We have made a huge amount of loans to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I'm a little bit worried," Wen said at a news conference following the closing of China's annual legislative session. "I would like to call on the United States to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets."

If other nations start to flee the dollar the shit will really hit the fan.  It would essentially be a vote of no confidence in the Democrats economic policies.  The world is beginning to see that Obama, Peloi and the rest of the liberals are more focused on using the crisis to advance their political agenda than in actually solving it.

Manahmanah

Obama's First 50 Days, A Disaster

From Gateway Pundit via my friends over at GM's Place: 

It’s hard to imagine we’re only 50 days into the Barack Obama Presidency.

• Obama is on track to spend more money than any person in the history of the planet.
• Obama and Pelosi’s stimulus bill was the largest spending bill in the history of the planet.
• Obama and democrats have already saddled America’s children and grand children with massive debt. Not that this bothers them.
• He’s lost at least 3 administration nominees due to tax fraud.
• He’s promoted a tax cheat to run the IRS and Treasury.
• He’s insulted America’s greatest ally, Great Britain.
• He’s reneged on missile agreements with allies Poland and the Czech Republic.
• His administration has already met with the murderous Assad Regime from Syria. 
• Obama signed legislation to close Gitmo.
• Obama freed a dirty bomber from Gitmo to Great Britain.
• Obama told US soldiers and marines in Afghanistan, “We’re losing.”
• Obama’s VP told US soldiers and marines that US deaths will rise in Afghanistan.
• Obama has already discussed holding peace talks with the Taliban.
• The Obama stock market had its worst January in 113 years.
• The stock market had its worst February since 1933.
• The Dow has dropped faster under Obama than any other new president in 90 years.
• Obama’s budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — combined.
• Obama managed to spend more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
• Obama will quadruple the deficit this year.
• Cap & trade was introduced that will cost America 4 million jobs and cost Americans at least $700 per family per year.
• Team Obama announced easing restrictions with communist Cuba.
• Meanwhile, democrats further restricted free trade with ally Colombia.
• Obama passed legislation to fund foreign abortions.
• Obama passed legislation to fund embryonic stem cell research.
• Democrats already banned offshore drilling.
• Democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah for energy development.
• Obama’s party permanently banned drilling in ANWR. 

If his goal is to destabilize, demoralize and deincentivize our nation he's off to a rousing start.  More crisis = more opportunity according to Rahm Emanuel, so the conversion to full on Socialism may be complete before the midterm elections. 

The Next Big Thing?

Democrats Make No Sense Whatsoever...

Compare and contrast this recent headline:

Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students

Ramallah, West Bank — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new million-dollar scholarship program to help Palestinian students enroll at Palestinian and American universities.

With this one:

Spending Plan Kills Funding For Washington School Vouchers

Washington DC - Congress is poised to do away with one of former President George W. Bush's signature initiatives in education: the taxpayer-funded vouchers that enable students from low-income families in the District of Columbia to attend private schools.

About 1,700 children in kindergarten through 12th grade receive the $7,500 annual scholarships. Four times as many apply.

So let me get this straight...  Obama and the Democrats are funding free college scholarships for the people who danced in the streets on 9-11, while at the same time yanking disadvantadged American kids out of the best schools they have ever known? 

Bringing these people over here to live and learn in our country... yeah, what could POSSIBLY go wrong, and hurting school kids just to please the teacher's unions? 

This makes no sense at all.  Perhaps this shows Rush Limbaugh was right, that liberalism is a form of mental illness.  It certainly is deranged to kiss the ass of your enemy while you punish the children of your own people.

Anonymous Hottie

I have no idea who this chick is, but she's certainly worthy of inclusion here in the Babes section of my site, don't you think?

Hat tip to Aardvarks & Asshats.  

UPDATE: She's not anonymous anymore. Her name is Christina Vlahakis, and this photo is from her Playboy pictorial.

Obama Is The Manchurian Candidate?

Via Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg:

Imagine that some hypothetical enemy state spent years preparing a “Manchurian Candidate” to destroy the U.S. economy once elected. What policies might that leader pursue?

He might discourage private capital from entering the financial sector by instructing his Treasury secretary to repeatedly promise a brilliant rescue plan, but never actually have one. Private firms, spooked by the thought of what government might do, would shy away from transactions altogether. If the secretary were smooth and played rope-a-dope long enough, the whole financial sector would be gone before voters could demand action.

Another diabolical idea would be to significantly increase taxes on whatever firms are still standing. That would require subterfuge, since increasing tax rates would be too obvious. Our Manchurian Candidate would have plenty of sophisticated ideas on changing the rules to get more revenue without increasing rates, such as auctioning off “permits.”

These steps would create near-term distress. If our Manchurian Candidate leader really wanted to knock the country down for good, he would have to provide insurance against any long-run recovery.

There are two steps to accomplish that.

Discourage Innovation

First, one way the economy might finally take off is for some entrepreneur to invent an amazing new product that launches something on the scale of the dot-com boom. If you want to destroy an economy, you have to persuade those innovators not even to try.

Second, you need to initiate entitlement programs that are difficult to change once enacted. These programs should transfer assets away from productive areas of the economy as efficiently as possible. Ideally, the government will have no choice but to increase taxes sharply in the future to pay for new entitlements.

A leader who pulled off all that might be able to finish off the country.

Be sure to go read the rest. as he compares Obama's policies to the fictional(?) Manchurian Candidate.

Everything Is Amazing And Nobody's Happy

I just found this hilarious must see YouTube clip over at Where Are My Keys.  Did I mention it's HILARIOUS?  Did I tell you it's a MUST SEE?  Okay, good. 

No idea who that guy is, but he hit the nail on the frickin' head. 

Milton Friedman Vs. Phil Donahue On Capitalism

Here's economist / intellectual / guru Milton Friedman appearing on the Phil Donahue show back in 1979 answering Phil's charge that capitalism is bad because it is based on what he calls "greed".  It's a classic.

This is every bit as relevant today, and perhaps even more so, as it was back then.  Times change, the truth does not. 

I was too young to watch Donahue very often, but looking at this makes me want to give him at least a modicum of respect for having guests on who challenged his views, and for actually letting them SPEAK.  Perhaps the classless modern liberal douche bags like Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews could learn from the old master.

Geithner's IRS Goes After Tax Cheat Stamp Creator!

Welcome to the People's Republik Of Amerika comrade.

The man responsible for the Tax Cheat currency stamp is now being audited by the IRS! 

Today I received a letter from the IRS that my 2007 tax returns are being audited. Less than one month after launching TaxCheatStamps.com.

There's a list of "proposed changes" they want to make to my 2007 return that would require me to pay almost $14,000 in taxes, penalties, and interest. All the "discrepancies" they list are bogus and I have documentation to prove it. I keep meticulous records and always pay every cent I owe to Uncle Sam. We're going to talk to a lawyer ASAP.

There is no doubt in my mind that my family is being politically persecuted for making a mockery of our new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Obama administration.

He deserves our support, and he surely deserves better from his government.  Let's all e-mail the link around and get him enough business to offset at least part of his attorney fees.  You also donate via PayPal at his site.  We can't let the Obama administration's IRS intimidation scare tactics succeed.

UPDATE: I just spoke to the call screener for Glenn Beck's radio program.  Hopefully Glenn will shine some light on this. 

UPDATE: Here's a funny carton my cousin Bob e-mailed me:

Wrangling With Rangel

This is hilarious!  Hot Air's Jason Mattera confronts corrupt politician Democrat Charlie Rangel in the corridors of Capitol Hill about his membership in Pelosi's "most honest, ethical and open Congress in history".  The answer he gets from Rangel is none of those things.

Hey Rangel!  Why don't YOU mind the PEOPLE'S business?

Hat tip to Jason for having the balls to get in their faces.

Forget "tea parties"!  What we need is a whole brigade of Jasons waiting outside every chamber of the House and Senate so these guys feel the pressure to bring "change we can believe in".

AP: Obama Recovery Plans Sowing Some Unease

Wow... That headline is... I'm stunned.  If the liberal media types like the Associated Press are starting to realize Obama's in over his head, then things must be even worse that we think they are.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama offered his domestic-policy proposals as a "break from a troubled past." But the economic outlook now is more troubled than it was even in January, despite Obama's bold rhetoric and commitment of more trillions of dollars.

And while his personal popularity remains high, some economists and lawmakers are beginning to question whether Obama's agenda of increased government activism is helping, or hurting, by sowing uncertainty among businesses, investors and consumers that could prolong the recession.

Although the administration likes to say it "inherited" the recession and trillion-dollar deficits, the economic wreckage has worsened on Obama's still-young watch.

Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.

More than 4 million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December 2007 — roughly half in the past three months.

Stocks have tumbled to levels not seen since 1997. They are down more than 50 percent from their 2007 highs and 20 percent since Obama's inauguration.

The president's suggestion that it was a good time for investors with "a long-term perspective" to buy stocks may have been intended to help lift battered markets. But a big sell-off followed.

Obama talks, people listen.  Go figure.  And remember, he's just getting STARTED folks.  Dow 4,000 by the end of the year.  How's that IRA doing?

Many health care stocks are down because of fears of new government restrictions and mandates as part a health care overhaul. Private student loan providers were pounded because of the increased government lending role proposed by Obama. Industries that use oil and other carbon-based fuels are being shunned, apparently in part because of Obama's proposal for fees on greenhouse-gas polluters.

Not to mention the countless small business owners laying off employees and scaling back in advance of Obama's confiscatory wealth redistibution scheme a.k.a. "tax increases".

We warned you guys, but you didn't listen.  You got suckered by "hope" and "change" without looking at the specifics.  Now we have no choice but to ride it out with the same ignorant leftards who got us into this mess, and they'll probably make us pay for their screwups too.  Is it too late to secede and start our own country?

Joust

One of my favorite classic video games is Williams Joust from 1982.

I play it several times a week on my MAME cabinet.  It's always a favorite when we have company too, because two people can play simultaneously instead of taking turns.

Maybe someday I'll pick up the Joust pinball machine too.  It's one of the rarest pinballs out there, so fat chance, but a geek can hope right?

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