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Janet Napolitano "The System Has Worked"

Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano was interviewed about the attempted terrorist attack man-caused disaster aboard a Northwest Airlines flight into Detroit on Christmas Day.  She said the fact that the plane was not destroyed and the terrorist suspect was apprehended was evidence that "the system has worked".

Really?

What system is that Janet?  The bureaucratic, politically correct system designed to prevent security personnel from giving Muslim males the additional screening they deserve?  Yes, I guess THAT system worked perfectly. 

This woman is a joke.

I was not aware "the system" required PASSENGERS to subdue terrorists men attempting to cause disasters in the aisles mid-flight.  I thought "the system" was supposed to prevent terrorists men attempting to cause disasters from getting on-board in the first place, or at least prevent them from bringing aboard the tools necessary to hijack or destroy an aircraft.

DEMOCRATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE SECURITY OF THIS NATION.  They will allow political correctness to hamper all our efforts to defeat the enemy, both at home and abroad.  Liberals are pussies, and the terrorists men attempting to cause disasters know this.  Hell, even Vice President Biden knows this, and he said as much on the campaign trail!

Before Obama's term is up I'm afraid we will learn this lesson the hard way.

Obama's Alinsky Tactics Are Succeeding

Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" is the bible of left wing Chicago style power politics, and Alinsky is one of Obama's mentors, and Barry is successfully using Alisnky's tactics to advance his liberal remaking of AmeriKKKa.

Case in point:

Rule #8 - Keep the pressure on.  Overwhelm your enemy.

The Democrats have succeeded at this. 

How else can you explain a blogger like me not even posting once about the ridiculous health care "reform" bill getting rammed through the Senate at a midnight roll call on a party line vote bought with hundreds of billions in taxpayer funded bribes to several Democrat Senators? 

I'm just worn out... You can't be outraged all the time about everything can you?  I can't.

Crowder Examines The Failure Of Detroit

The Dishonesty Of Climate Change Exposed In One Easy Click...

Via CMBlake6 and BMEWS here is all the dishonesty of the global warming hoax exposed in one fell swoop.

This is like the "hockey stick" temperature chart that Al Gore made famous in his ironically title film An Inconvenient Truth:

Wow.  Those recent temps are really skyrocketing.  We've got to do something to stop it or we'll all be dead!!!

Okay.  Now calm yourself and click here to see the WHOLE truth.

Once you see the full history of temperatures instead of just the little section right at the end it makes the entire man-made global warming argument absurd.

How did such an asinine concept get such a grip on our culture?  How was something so ludicrous allowed to be taught in schools?  Why did we waste billions upon billions of dollars tilting at this windmill?

Oh... I forgot, socialism.  Now I get it.

Merry Christmas

From the Wall Street Journal:

Mike Smith, who works as Santa at the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, Ohio, says a 5-year-old girl wearing a Dora the Explorer sweat shirt last month hopped in his lap and asked, "Can you turn my daddy into an elf?" "Why?" he asked.

"Because my daddy's out of work, and we're about to lose our house," she said.

The girl's mother, standing by her little brother's stroller, burst into tears. A stunned Mr. Smith asked the girl if her father was good with a hammer, and the girl said yes. "I didn't know what to say after that, so we just took the picture," he says with regret.

Yeah, really... what do you say to that? 

I hope those responsible for this recession are proud of themselves... but I heard they just passed out huge bonuses and increased salaries where they work so they probably don't give a crap about us regular folks and our struggles. 

Dr. Zero's Open Letter To The Climate Change Cultists

This is a must read:

Dear global warming fanatics,

Please. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Take a deep breath, and try to understand what has happened to you during the past month. You need to accept that your dreams of global domination are over. Increasingly shrill attempts to terrify the masses into ignoring Climagate are only making you look foolish. The con job you’ve been running for the last thirty years is busted forever.

Click over to Hot Air's Greenroom and read the whole thing.  Brilliant, through and through.

 

New Obama Speechwriter... Mark Steyn?

Mark Steyn weighs in on Obama's increasing banality with this brilliant caricature of a typical Øbama speech:

"There are those who say there is no evil in the world. There are others who argue that pink fluffy bunnies are the spawn of Satan and conspiring to overthrow civilization.  Let me be clear: I believe people of goodwill on all sides can find common ground between the absurdly implausible caricatures I attribute to them on a daily basis. We must begin by finding the courage to acknowledge the hard truth that I am living testimony to the power of nuance to triumph over hard truth and come to the end of the sentence on a note of sonorous, polysyllabic, if somewhat hollow, uplift. Pause for applause."

Click over to National Review Online to read the rest.

 

44% Of Americans Want Bush Back

From Public Policy Polling: 

Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they'd rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that's somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country's difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited.  

Here's a little pie chart for you.  I love charts and graphs!

Barack Hussein Obama is on track to be the next Jimmy Carter and I predict that the enormity of his failure will make most people reconsider their feelings about good old W. 

Bush's standing will increase over time as people judge history without the filter of the MSM/DNC Cabal.

Ann Coulter On The Chicanery Of The Green Movement

Ann hits it out of the park with this one: 

It's always the same thing with primitive people -- voodoo practitioners, rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts, debate and a weighing of the evidence, religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor, a "scientific consensus," "the Constitution" or "historians are agreed."

Liberals won't tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent lightbulbs by 2014 -- a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead, they tell us there's a "scientific consensus" that we have to use fluorescent lightbulbs or we'll all die.

They won't tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead, they tell us "the Constitution" says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesn't remotely say).

They won't tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that "few American Communists were spies" -- until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)

[...] Even if the Earth were warming -- which apparently it is not -- the idea that humans using energy-efficient lightbulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs' belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living, breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.

Sadly, the "human sacrifice deniers" lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists, who explained that there was a "scientific consensus" on the benefits of ritual murder.

But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of "climate change." The global warming cultists want us all dead.

Be sure to click over and read the whole thing.  Brilliant as always.

Hat tip to Shooting The Messenger.

Glenn Beck Asks "Who Is Robert Creamer?"

In case you missed it, this is Glenn Beck's show from Monday.  It's a real eye opener that deserves to be sent around.

Here's part 1 of 4:

Be sure to click through to YouTube and watch the other clips.  Glenn was really on a roll Monday, and this message needs to get out. 

The MSM/DNC Cabal will try to supress this information just like they did with the ACORN scandals and Climategate, but we can't let that happen. 

Best Buy Could Care Less About Christmas, But Wishes You A Happy Eid Al-Adha

Best Buy doesn't use the word Christmas... ever.  They're more than happy to take all the money you plan to spend on Christmas presents, but none of their staff or advertisments will ever actually make use of the dreaded C Word.

Now, this isn't so unusual in today's business climate, but what is unusual is the following advertisement Best Buy just sent out across the nation:

Hmm... so wishing us a Merry Christmas is inappropriate, but wishing Muslims a happy Eid al-Adha is something to proudly advertise?

I think the Obama voters working at Best Buy's HQ just stepped in it bigtime.  They'd better roll out some Merry Christmas in their stores and advertisments ASAP or there'll be a whole lot of ticked off Christians taking their CHRISTMAS shopping to other retailers.

The Democrat Party Should Be Renamed The Lawyers Party

Via Mitchieville:

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party.

• Barack Obama was a lawyer. 
• Michelle Obama was a lawyer. 
• Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. 
• Bill Clinton was a lawyer. 
• John Edwards was a lawyer. 
• Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.

Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).

Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

• Harry Reid was a lawyer.
• Nancy Pelosi was a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.

• President Bush was a businessman.
• Vice President Cheney was a businessman.

The leaders of the Republican Revolution:

• Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
• Tom Delay was an exterminator.
• Dick Armey was an economist.
• House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
• The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.  The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.

Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Click over to American Energy Crisis to read the rest.  Good stuff!

Meet Congressional Candidate Allen West

This guy is a breath of fresh air. 

I just wish I had candidates like this to vote for!  I'm stuck in a dark blue district of a purple state, so passing this on to people who live in areas where a conservative voice actually has a chance of winning is the best I can do.

Hat tip to CMBlake6.

But It Will Be Different THIS Time!

From my e-mail inbox, with some minor "improvements":

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the legislature,

It is now official, you are all corrupt morons:

• The U.S. Postal service was established in 1775 you have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.  
• Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.   
• Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.  
• The “War on Poverty” started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.  
• Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.  
• Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.  
• The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure. 

You have failed in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars and you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

Democrats Want To Tax Wall Street To Fund "Job Creation"

Yet another example of Democrats doing exactly the opposite of what's required to fix a problem. 

Via The Hill:

Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face a 0.25 percent tax.

The bill, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, is titled the “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009.”

Half of the $150 billion in tax revenue would go toward reducing the deficit, while the other half would be deposited in a “Job Creation Reserve” to support new jobs.

No... that is not a joke.  They really did call the bill  the “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009"... like a bunch of snotty little kids.  The title alone makes clear that this legislation is nothing but class warfare.  They know voters will be angry at the continued economic turmoil, and rather than doing something to fix it they will set up another straw man and use it to buy votes.

This tax will put a drag on investing, and investing (in companies) is what creates jobs.  Federal grants and subsidies do little to spur genuine, long term employment. 

And these people are supposed to lead us out of this mess?  We're so screwed.

Well, What Do You Know? Man Made Global Warming Exposed As A Hoax

From The Washington Times:

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."

Try to explain away "hide the decline" Mr. Scientist...  I could use a good laugh!

This is what happens when the scientists are dependent on government grants for their livelihood.  They will furnish whatver conclusion the political elite are seeking as long as the money keeps on coming.

The Telegraph has more on the rampant malfeasance of the so-called scientists, including:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

The independent media (not so much the MSN/DNC Cabal) has dubbed this "Climategate".  You gotta love that!

I will enjoy watching this global scam designed soley to advance socialism fall apart at the seams.  I wonder if taxpayers can sue the "scientists" to recover grant money awarded under false pretenses?

UPDATE: Ian Murray at Pajamas Media has a great primer on the scandal.

UPDATE: News Busters reports that the MSN/DNC Cabal is trying to suppress this story.  Only Fox News has covered it so far on television.  Surprise surprise.  It will be like the Acorn child prostitution thing... they'll eventually be dragged kicking and screming to the story, but they'll give the left a few days to come up with a cover story.

Americans Should Not Have To Choose...

Good News! The Economy Won't Complete It's Collapse Until Late 2010

All this economic turmoil so far is just a prelude to the train wreck headed our way.  Prudent Bear says it's barreling down the tracks at us and cannot be stopped. 

At some point, probably before the end of 2010, the bubble will burst. The deflationary effect on the U.S. economy of $150 plus oil will overwhelm the modest forces of genuine economic expansion. The Treasury bond market will collapse, overwhelmed by the weight of deficit financing.

[...] In the next downturn, the Fed will not be able to cut interest rates, because inflation will be spiraling, as in 1980. Instead it will need to raise them while dealing with a profound crisis in the bond markets. Capital in the U.S. will become still more difficult to come by, and unemployment will approach 15%. The U.S.'s only saving graces will be that the inflation will have prevented much further decline in the nominal prices of houses, while the decline in the dollar will have finally swung the payments deficit towards balance. U.S. real wages will be forced downwards by high unemployment, while banks' relief on the home mortgage front will be balanced by a tsunami of collapsed credit card debt and other consumer debt.

2011 and 2012 will be very unpleasant years, as the Obama administration struggles to get closer to budget balance without pushing up taxes so far as to cause yet a third recession. Stock prices will be at or below their March 2009 lows, and will stay there even as earnings of export-oriented companies will be robust. (Conversely, retailers dealing in cheap imported goods, such as Wal-Mart, will be devastated.) Wages will be generally declining relative to prices, although may show some growth in nominal terms as inflation will be considerable. Foreign goods and services will be inordinately expensive in dollar terms.

[...] As I said, a train wreck. Probability of arrival: close to 100%. Time of arrival: around the end of 2010, or possibly a bit earlier. And at this stage, there's very little anyone can do about it; the definitive rise of gold above $1,000 marked the point of no return.

Well, the silver lining may be that Øbama will have a really hard time getting re-elected after this.

Remember Me

Today is Veteran's Day, so take a moment, grab a box of Kleenex and shed a tear or two as you watch this video saluting the brave men and women of our armed forces.

Good stuff.

Hat tip to Hoosier Army Mom.

Pat Condell "Wake Up America"

This guy is amazing.  He deserves his own show on Fox News.

Even if you disagree with his initial atheistic statement, just let it play out.  He's using that to make a really good point about liberty in a broader sense.

Hat tip to Cmblake6.

Iowahawk On "Barack Octavius Obama"

Rocco Landesman, chairman of the NEA, recently claimed Barack Obama was "the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar"...  Was that meant to be a joke Rocco?  You are aware that Bill Ayers ghost wrote both of "Obama's" books aren't you?  No?  Well, let's not dwell on Rocco's ignorance or man-crush because this fool has just given us some good material for Iowahawk to riff on!

Take it away Dave:

Yo mortal, how you livin'? It's your old pal JC, a/k/a Juicy Julius, a/k/a Flavius Flav. What's it been -- two, three millenniums? Yeah, longtimes. After that Forum dagger driveby by that punkass bitch Brutus and his crew, The Juice has been keepin' his shit on the downlow. Much respect to my homeboy Octavius for the deification. [...]

[...] Anyhow, every since we got wifi at the Pantheon, I've been spending a lot more time online checkin' out the dillyo back in the mortal 'hood. That when I read about this choad praetor Rocco Landesman, saying that your new imperator Obamacus is "the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar." At first I was LMFAO because, let's face it, the Juice didn't waste his prime warrior time word processing a bunch of papyrus scrolls. Word cuz, where I come from that kind of bullshit is for light-in-the-sandals scribefags like Livy and Plutarch. So I guess it was like hearing "Obama is the greatest chariot mechanic since Julius Erving." But then I think about it, and I'm like, WTF? This asslick is comparing Obama to me? Srsly?

Click over to Iowahawk for the rest.  Much love to that brutha fo bringin' tha funny.  I loves me some Iowahawk!

Dr. Zero Lays Out A Plan

Dr. Zero is back with yet another brilliant post over at Hot Air's Greenroom.  It's too consistently good to excerpt, but here's the introductory paragraph:

Those who are concerned about the current state of affairs in our government often ask what they can do, to help set things right. I wish it were as simple as following a ten-step program to American renewal, but the task ahead is truly formidable, and it will not be solved by a simple formula. We’ve been heading toward a cliff for a long time – Obama is stepping on the gas, but our course was set long before he was born. Correcting the problem will ultimately require reforms, such as a flat tax or term limits, that can only be enacted by compelling the political class to act against its own interests. Let’s be honest about how difficult it will be to achieve those goals… but let’s not allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking it’s impossible, either.

Be sure to click through and read the whole thing.  Maybe bookmark it for later reference even.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells California Legislature F-U!

No, this is not a joke.  This is exactly what was sent by the Governor's office to the State Legislature, except I've highlighted the first letter in each line so you can see the hidden message.

Oh, that's rich!  Mr. Schwarzenneger may be a RINO, but he's earned back at least some of my respect with this move.  LMAO!

Ronald Reagan "A Time For Choosing"

This may be Ronald Reagan at his best. 

Funny how we are still having the same argument forty five years later, and after Reagan's principles proved victorious over the very enemy that he spoke of.  We never learn from history do we?  Perhaps that's because we've put too many liberals in charge of teaching it...

Hat tip to Third World County.

UPDATE: Found another good one over at Cmblake6.

Obama Versus Fox News

Via the fabulous blog of S. Weasel.  Pop over there for more genius anytime you are running low.

Glenn Beck In Rare Form

The man is really on a roll here. 

This is a good one to e-mail around to friends and family.  He lays it all out and then ties it up with a bow.  Nice work Beck.  

Obama Prepared To Sign Away Our Sovereignty?

Here's the biggest news story that nobody in the "news" is talking about.  Via Soylent Green:

At Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; of course he’ll sign it.

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution, and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it. 

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

Yeah, that sounds like something Obama would do, but luckily a stroke of the POTUS pen isn't sufficient to bind us to a treaty.  According to that dusty old Constitution two thirds of the Senate must ratify any treaty before it is law. 

UPDATE: I found video of Mockton's address on YouTube.

Obama And The Democrats Are Bleeding Us Dry

The defecit numbers tell the tale:

And as dramatic as that chart is, it doesn't even take into account their pending universal healthcare entitlement and "cap and tax" energy legislation, which will dramatically increase spending while dramatically slowing the economy.

So why would they do such a thing?  Some have suggested they may be trying to overwhelm our Capitalist system (the root of all evil in the world according to the far left) in order to force its replacement with Socialism, using a political strategy called Cloward-Piven.

From Wikipedia:

The Cloward-Piven strategy refers to a political strategy outlined by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, then both sociologists and political activists at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in a 1966 article in The Nation. The two argued that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would create a political crisis that would force U.S. politicians, particularly the Democratic Party, to enact legislation "establishing a guaranteed national income."

It sounds implausible for a sitting President and his party to conspire to deliberately make our economy worse, but their actions to date (rushing through massive spending, taxation and entitlement programs one after another), statements like Rahm Emanuel's "never let a serious crisis go to waste" comment, and these defecit numbers going forward give credence to what would otherwise be a ludicrous notion. 

The Democrats are apparently trying to worsen the very economic downturn that they themselves are responsible for causing, and if we don't have a major course correction in the mid term elections it may be too late to stop them.

Keep America Safe

A new organization, a new website, and a video to get things rolling.

Looking forward to seeing them engaged on these issues.  Liz Cheney rocks.

Mike Monsoor's Sacrifice Is Newsworthy, But You'd Never Hear It On The News

Via an e-mail from Paulie, and Snopes:

PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals.

Here is an excerpt from the official Summary Of Action report that describes the incident in detail:

"While vigilantly watching for enemy activity, an enemy fighter hurled a hand grenade onto the roof from an unseen location. The grenade hit him in the chest and bounced onto the deck. He immediately leapt to his feet and yelled "grenade" to alert his teammates of impending danger, but they could not evacuate the sniper hide-sight in time to escape harm. Without hesitation and showing no regard for his own life, he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates who were lying in close proximity. The grenade detonated as he came down on top of it, mortally wounding him.

Petty Officer Monsoor's actions could not have been more selfless or clearly intentional. Of the three SEALs on that rooftop corner, he had the only avenue of escape away from the blast, and if he had so chosen, he could have easily escaped. Instead, Monsoor chose to protect his comrades by the sacrifice of his own life. By his courageous and selfless actions, he saved the lives of his two fellow SEALs and he is the most deserving of the special recognition afforded by awarding the Medal of Honor."

During Mike's funeral in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEALs were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving up the center.  As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it, a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.

In April 2008 Mike Monsoor was posthumously awarded our the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Did you hear about it?  Was it on the news?  What's wrong with our media?  What's wrong with our fellow citizens?  Does our country even deserve men like Mike?  Is it okay to have a hero who was in the military nowadays, or must all our heroes be community organizers and environmental crusaders?  Is it too late to turn back this trend?  If so what have we lost as a nation?

Think on it.

UPDATE: Here's a YouTube video of Mike's memorial service, including a short shot at the very end of the pins being slapped onto the casket.

UPDATE: Here's a link to a Wikipedia page on Michael.  Did you know President Bush attended the funeral ceremony?

Help Obama Win The Heisman Trophy!

Since we are handing out prestigious awards based on future possibilites instead of real accomplishments, let's go all the way!  Let's win the Heisman Trophy for Obama!!!  After all, he's as qualified for that award as he was for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Via the Washington Examiner here's a link to an ESPN page where you can place your vote for the Heisman, including the option to write in your own candidate.  Be sure to enter "Barack Obama" so his votes aren't split up between multiple spellings etc.

Nobel Committee: "Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm Mmm Mmmm"

When I saw the headline I had to check my calendar.  "Is it April first already?" I thought.

"U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament."

No.  Sadly, it's not a joke, although the entire idea of a Nobel prize soon will be.

The Nobel committee's statement:

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

I see... so the prize wasn't so much about peace as it was about Obama and the Democrats working to castrate America and make it a docile lackey of the UN and EU. 

Some perspective from the AP:

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?

For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an enormous honor.

The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance. Work on the president's ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee.

And what about peace? Obama is running two wars in the Muslim world — in Iraq and Afghanistan — and can't get a climate change bill through his own Congress.  -Associated Press

He was nominated before he'd finished his first two weeks in office.  Are you kidding me?  This really does make a mockery of the entire Nobel organization... and Norway, and Norwegians in general.  You all suck in my book. 

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of thought on this farce, including her awesome headline "Story of Obama’s life: “Rather than recognizing concrete achievement...”

UPDATE: I found some video of the Nobel committee debating the Obama peace prize. It sheds some light on their reasoning, or lack thereof... skip to about 40 seconds in for the good part.

UPDATE: Iowahawk chimes in with a remix of the post he did on Al Gore's Nobel "win" from 2007.  Even replays of Iowahawk are hilarious.

UPDATE: Here's a list of Obama's accomplishments during the 12 days between his inauguration and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

UPDATE: Andy McCarthy at National Review pretty much nails it:

"The award is a symbolic statement of opposition to American exceptionalism, American might, American capitalism, American self-determinism, and American pursuit of America's interests in the world. That is why Obama could win it based on only ten days in office — merely by capturing the White House and the levers of power, he stands to do more for the Left's 'knock America off its pedestal' program than any figure in history."

Yes, that's precisely what this award really means.

UPDATE: Here's a great comment I found somwhere on the interwebs.

"This will be his albatross. He should have turned it down. Instead, he looks like a buffoon. I hope he wears it everywhere like Flavor Flav."

Venezuelan "Community Organizers" Seize Farm For "The People"

Here is the ugly side of Hugo Chavez's Socialist / Marxist revolution on display.  A farmer who has spent the last twenty three years building a life and business watches as a group of red shirted thugs descends on his property and steals it out from under him.

Here's the video via Michelle Malkin:

Blogger Fausta Wertz translates for us gringos:

A group of red shirt-wearing Chavista thugs show up at a farm and seize the farm in the name of the government, under the pretext that the 103 hectare farm is “idle land” and that the law allows them to take it over for “food production.”

The farmer protests politely, explaining that he’s been raising cattle on his farm for 23 years. He is rebuffed by another guy, who says, “this is not going to be a debate; this is a public act approved by the Venezuelan people. I’m governor and I’m here to ensure public order. There won’t be a debate, I ask you to listen to the document, after which the public will take charge of the land.”

When the farmer’s wife protests, he tells her to discuss it in court.

Chavez controls the judiciary.

The farmer is told to sign the form, and then to gather the animals so they can be accounted for.

When another one of the people who lived at the farm tries to ask a question, the man who identified himself as the governor insists that “this is not a debate, this is not a meeting, and if there’s any disruption, the public force is here,” pointing to the crowd in red shirts.

This is exactly what's coming to America if we keep allowing Obama, Pelosi, Acorn and the unions to have their way with us. 

If government's role in the auto industry doesn't  cease, but grows, as well meaning politicians seek to prop up nationalized companies whose unions have already doomed them to failure, how long before they blame the auto dealers markup for low sales and start taking them over?  They certainly won't ask for any sacrifices from their union voting base.

If government's role in the healthcare follows the Democrats not so secret plan to kill the private insurance industry how long before they decide to nationalize your doctor's office?  I can't see a government run back end with a privately run front end lasting too long.  They'll want to streamline it "for the greater good" and make all those employees of the doctors union members (Democrat voters) and ensure that doctors can't make "too much" money.

The Democrat's have already taken us quite a ways down this road.  Hopefully Americans are waking up and seeing what's at the end of it (what this video illustrates) and will give us a course correction in 2010.  If not... well you just saw what will happen if not.

Obama = Fatal Error

If you don't pay careful attention something brilliant gets posted at The People's Cube and you miss it,  like this beauty from February.

I must have been slacking that week.  A belated kudos to Red Square.

 

P.S. I actually own a real People's Cube.  It sits on the bookshelf in my office next to the original Rubik's Cube, and makes a great conversation piece.

David Letterman Hoisted By His Own Petard

Late night funny man nasty jerk David Letterman announced to his audience yesterday that he had been having sexual relations with female members of his staff and had been the target of a shakedown.  While I commend Letterman for going to the authorities and coming clean with his audience, I do find it more than a little ironic. 

Verum Serum apparently agrees, because they beat me to the punch.  Here are some highlights (lowlights?) from a list they compiled of David Letterman joking about the sex scandals of politicians.

“Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared…and it turned out he was in South America. And then it turned out he was down there because he was sleeping with a woman from Argentina. Once again, foreigners taking jobs that Americans won’t do.” –David Letterman

“Several prominent Republicans are calling on Sen. Larry Craig to resign. And a couple are asking for his phone number.” –David Letterman

“David Vitter has admitted he dates hookers in Washington, D.C., and also in Louisiana. He said in his defense he always selected the girl who made the lowest bid, so he’s fiscally prudent.” –David Letterman

“The Republicans reacted quickly. They transferred Foley to a different parish.” –David Letterman

“You know who was in town this weekend, went to a Yankee game? Sarah Palin … One awkward moment, though, during the game. Maybe you heard about it, maybe you saw it on one of the highlight reels, one awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” –David Letterman

I'm really having a hard time finding any sympathy for Dave.  They say you reap what you sow, and this seems like some perfectly appropriate cosmic justice to me.

Regular Americans Respond To Overpaid Hollywood Celebrities Campaigning For ObamaCare

Doctor Zero On The Left's Excuse Making For Criminals

Oh boy, Doctor Zero's on a roll.  His acerbic wit is fast approaching Coulteresque proportions.

[...] None of the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay was innocent, or thirteen years old, and none of them were drugged, raped, and sodomized, but the Obama Administration is keen on prosecuting the people who interrogated them. If Roman Polanski had covered his victim’s face with a wet towel, maybe his defense would be a bit less energetic.

[...] The Party makes a very clear distinction between its political masters, the elevated elite class surrounding them, and the little people who provide its electoral muscle. The elite are permitted indulgences that could not be made available to the unwashed masses. No matter how faithfully you might have voted Democrat for your entire life, the Clinton defenses against perjury and adultery would not be accepted from you. Likewise, your odds of successfully fleeing the rape of an underage girl, to become the toast of Paris, are extremely slim. [...]

Be sure to click over to Hot Air and read the whole thing.  Brilliant!

Liberal Cultists Worshiping Obama

"Hear our cry Obama!", "Deliver us Obama!" the "community organizers" cry out to their God, The One, the messiah of the cult of Hope and Change.

Who in their right mind thinks this is appropriate?  Then again Democrats don't use their right minds, they operate strictly on emotion... I guess you could say liberals are not "reality based".

Hat tip to Hot Air.

Democrat Math

Let's take a look at how the public just got taken to the cleaners:

If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you get $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000.  Wow!  Good deal.  Not so fast...

You now have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto dealer will tell you).  If you are in the 30% tax bracket, you will pay $1350 on that $4500.  So, rather than save $1000, you actually pay an extra $350 to the IRS.

In addition, you traded in a car that was most likely paid for.  Now you have four or five years of payments (and interest) on a car that you did not need, that was costing you less to run than the payments that you will now be making.

But wait, it gets even better!  You also got ripped off by the dealer.  For example, every dealer in LA was selling the Ford Focus with all the goodies including A/C, auto transmission, power windows, etc for $12,500 the month before the "cash for clunkers" program started.  When "cash for clunkers" came along, they stopped discounting them and instead sold them at the list price of $15,500.  So, you paid $3000 more than you would have the month before. (Honda, Toyota, and Kia played the same list price game that Ford and Chevy did).

So let's do the final tally here:

You traded in a car worth: $3500 You got a discount of: $4500

Net so far +$1000

But you have to pay: $1350 in taxes on the $4500

Net so far: -$350

And you paid: $3000 more than the car was selling for the month before

Net -$3350

We could also add in the additional taxes (sales tax, state tax, etc.) on the extra $3000 that you paid for the car, along with the five years of interest on the car loan but you get the idea.

So who actually made out on the deal?  The Government collected taxes on the car along with taxes on the $4500 they "gave" you.  Politicians got an opportunity to hold press conferences about how they "saved" the economy.  Car dealers made an extra $3000 or more on every car they sold along with the kickbacks from the manufacturers and the loan companies.  The manufacturers got to dump lots of cars they could not give away the month before.  And the taxpayers (or their children and grandchildren) got saddled with even more debt that they cannot afford.

Obama and his band of merry men convinced Joe consumer that he was getting $4500 in "free" money from the "government" when in fact Joe was giving away his $3500 car and paying an additional $3350 for the privilege.

Enjoy your new car, and be sure to vote Democrat next election!

The Hitler Obama Youth Brigade Indoctrination Sessions Continue

Via Drudge Report here's another one of those freaky Obama worship sessions being pushed on our kids by teachers community organizers:

Anyone dumb enough to think this is appropriate (especially at a public school) should not be in charge of teaching children. 

In case you missed them, the other Obama Youth videos are here, here, and I'm sure there are a few more I'm forgetting, but you get the point. 

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future." -Adolf Hitler

Is Obama going to fly them all to Guyana next?  He is following Jim Jones' progressive socialist example after all.

UPDATE: Here's another sickening example of a "teacher" indoctrinating our kids.

UPDATE: And yet another one, this time a little more subtle insidious.

Has Glenn Beck Jumped The Shark?

From an interview with Katie Couric:

I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.

Glenn... Glenn, Glenn, Glenn.  I think you need a vacation buddy.  You're obviously losing it.  I don't care how you spin it, or what the context is, that remark is pure unadulterated lunacy.

UPDATE: Dr. Zero over at Hot Air chimes in with a defense of McCain and dismantling of Beck's stupid remark:

He was an awful candidate… but McCain would not have bitten his tongue while Iran murdered its citizens, leaving their Fourth of July picnic invitation on the table. He would not be working to install a Chavez puppet as dictator of Honduras. He wouldn’t have tried to sacrifice American intelligence agents in a show trial for political gain. He wouldn’t shower America’s adversaries with concessions while gaining nothing in return. McCain would have plenty of opponents, but he wouldn’t spend an unseemly amount of time designating groups of his constituents as enemies. He would know better than to casually accuse a cop of racism on national television.

Click through for the full rest. Good reading as always with this guy.

The Rules Of The Multiculturalism Cult

Okay all you white and/or politically incorrect readers, LISTEN UP.  Here are the rules of the cult of multiculturalism, as practiced by the left third of this country and their media allies in the MSM/DNC Cabal. You'll want to abide by this code if you want to stay safely non-racist.  Any deviation from this may have you tarred and feathered quicker than you can say "Reverend Wright", then again saying that might get you tarred and feathered a second time.

Via Evan Maloney at Big Government:

1. If a person is a member of a group guilty of past racial oppression, that person has no moral standing in relation to anyone in any group that’s ever been a victim of that oppression.
2. A member of an oppressor group is always assumed to be guilty in relation to a member of a victim group.
3. An oppressor can only avoid presumed guilt by making a display of his or her sympathy for the oppressed.
4. Members of victim groups can lose their moral standing by expressing a preference for individual rights as opposed to group rights.
5. Advocating on behalf of a victim makes one almost as unassailable as being that victim.
6. Coming to the defense of an oppressor is even more repugnant than being that oppressor. 

Now that you know the rules, you have no more excuses for your racist ways.  Print out a few copies and post one on your fridge and maybe keep one in your wallet too.  You never know (if you are white) when those racist tendencies that have been bred into you since birth might come rushing to the fore.

Be sure to click through for the rest of Evan's editorial.  His rules help explain why the "mainstream media" deliberately ignored the ACORN scandal, why Kanye West's tirade against Taylor Swift was portrayed as idotic instead of racist, and how a former community organizer with a thin resume got elected President of the United States of AmeriKKKa. 

Racist "Teabaggers"

From CNN alone, on just one evening:

CAMPBELL BROWN: (music) ...vicious, racist imagery attacking our first African-American president.

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: (newsroom noise) Gentleman Joe Wilson has done much to make the racist history of South Carolina jump back into our present consciousness.

CANDY CROWLEY: (b-roll) Critics think this is about resistance to a black man as president.

JAMES CARVILLE: People are upset with President Obama because of the color of his skin. Who cannot believe that?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Could there be a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president because of his race?

WOLF BLITZER: A small but disturbing minority within the tea party movement is also blatantly anti-black.

JOHN RIDLEY: When you talk about racial image, this is not just standard debate.

ELAINE QUIJANO: (b-roll) A small but passionate minority is also voicing what some see as racist rhetoric.

JOHN AVLON: Hitler. Communism. Racism. All this ugliness is bubbling up.

ANDERSON COOPER: There is an undercurrent of racism in some of the criticism of the president.

JUAN WILLIAMS:  An attack on somebody because you really don't like the fact that they are president or because of their race.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Clearly Barack Obama's race plays some role in the kind of anxieties that are roiling the political right.

CLARENCE PAGE: (outdoor noise) People are not just mad at Obama. They are mad at Jesse Jackson. They are mad at Reverend Wright. They are mad at Al Sharpton. They are mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.

Transcript via Rush Limbaugh's excellent rant about all this obsession with race in Obama's AmeriKKKa.

Half Of Physicians May Retire If Government Runs The Healthcare System

If this doesn't put the final nail in the coffin I don't know what will!

How screwed will we be if millions more people are brought into the healthcare system and half of our physicians opt for early retirement instead of submitting to dictates from Washington?  They wouldn't even need the death panels, people would just die waiting months or years to see a doctor. 

The MSM/DNC Cabal Presses On All Fronts, Even Book Review Columns

Mark Levin's Liberty & Tyranny

NUMBER OF COPIES SOLD:

NUMBER OF REVIEWS IN NY TIMES:

NUMBER OF REVIEWS IN WASH POST:

I'd be curious to see how many other books selling a million copies in 4½ months have been completely ignored by the unbiased mainstream media... 

OMG! The ACORN Scandals Just Keep On Coming!

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse... when you thought enabling child prostitution, money laundering and tax evasion was as low as they'd go, ACORN's San Bernadino California office goes even lower:

Now we can add HOMICIDE and BEATING 14 YEAR OLD PROSTITUTES to the list of crimes ACORN offers to use Federal funds to enable.  Wow... that really takes the cake.  Or does it?  I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings.

I loved this line:

"If they were liberal they'd be helping you."

So all these ACORN workers across the country equate liberal Democratic policies with moral decay and depravity... hmmm.  I guess all us right wingers have been right all along.

To think that these are the people who've already spent $53,000,000 taxpayer dollars since 1994! 

WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END?

Hannah Giles... Sexy RepubliBabe

Let's face it... every red blooded man who watched those undercover ACORN videos was probably thinking the same thing I was:

"OMFG! I wanna see more of that hottie in the miniskirt!"

Seeing a need that wasn't being served, I decided to capture some stills from various video clips and assemble this little Hannah Giles photo gallery... for the greater good of course.

Yet Another ACORN Taxpayer Funded Child Prostitution / Tax Evasion / Money Laundering Class

Well, first we had this in Baltimore, then in Washington DC, and now in New York: 

When will the mainstream media stop covering for the Democrats?  When will Congress investigate the widespread corruption in this federally subsidized organization?  When will either one do their damn jobs?!

Oh... yeah, the fix is in, and it's working.  I forgot.

Click over to Hot Air for the rest. 

EXIT QUESTION: I wonder where all the welfare mothers went to work after they could no longer scam that system?

Mainstream Media Continues Shameless Cover Up For Democrats

I swiped this idea from Glenn Beck's show, but I wanted to include it here on my blog for future reference, since media bias and the MSM/DNC Cabal are such pet peeves of mine.

NUMBER OF REPORTS ON ACORN'S
CHILD PROSTITUTION SCANDAL AS OF SEPT 11, 2009:

FOX NEWS
CNN
MSNBC
ABC NEWS
CBS NEWS
NBC NEWS
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON POST
WALL ST JOURNAL

Wow... you'd figure two seperate instances of a group with close ties to the Obama White House and millions (soon to be billions) in funding from the Federal Government encouraging child prostitution, tax evasion and money laundering would be big news, but the silence is deafening. 

I guess this is par for the course after their complete boycott of the Van Jones scandal last week, and their synchronized retreat from covering Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA deliberately misled Congress.  Just mere coincidences?  Not on your life...

MSM/DNC Cabal Journalist's Rulebook, Page 121:

If the story is bad for the Democrats look for another story.

Is there anyone out there still denying that the media are in bed with the Democrat party?  If so please refer them to my site for a little recap. 

September 11th