Woody's Place

Chen Guangchen Is Morpheus

Obama's Big "Green Energy" Fail

Obama's Lego Lesson On Socialism

Shannon Bream

I have just come to the conclusion that Fox News channel's Shannon Bream may be the cutest woman on television.

Beautiful, petite, classy, intelligent and in her "right mind" if you know what I'm saying.  (I guess she reminds me of someone else I know.)

 

Oh yeah, and I kinda dig chicks with cute ears. She's like a sexy little elf or something, but with a high IQ and a law degree.

Video Apology To Afghanistan On Behalf Of America

Obama To Catholics: Scripture? I Know Better, Trust In ME

When Choosing A President, Look For The Union Label

Since they did such a great job with my last suggestion, I e-mailed this idea to Red Square over at The Peoples Cube and voilá!

You gotta love that!  Be sure to click over and see the other version.  Quite a creative collective they'd got over there.

Obama Vs. The Catholic Church

The Obama Administration attempting to force Catholic churches, universities and schools to purchase contraception is the equivalent of requiring the NAACP to purchase Confederate flags.

When Did Americans Become Rotten Souless Voyeurs?

Take a look at these two recent YouTube clips and tell me something's not rotting at the core of our culture.

The first clip is a man being confronted by police at a Carl's Jr. restaurant.  He repeatedly refuses to cooperate, shrugs off the taser, then moves to swing a metal tool of some kind at one of the officers and is shot dead.

Someone gets shot ten times right in front of you and you giggle hysterically?  Really?

The second clip shows an elderly woman driving in the median of the highway.  Apparently she was having some sort of medical issue which caused her to be confused.

"I wanna see what happens when they get to the bridge! Ha ha ha!"

Now both clips are breathtaking to watch, and I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't watch YouTube, but when did it become commonplace for Americans to laugh at people who are suffering?

I weep for the future.

Quote Of The Day: The Meaning Behind Newt's Recent Surge With GOP Voters

From Karl at Hot Air's Green Room:

[...] it might say nothing more than Republican voters looking at the political environment of 2012 and deciding — rightly or wrongly — that “abrasive loose cannon” is a marginally better brand than “animatronic plutocrat.”

Animatronic plutocrat!  LMAO!  So true, and so much more descriptive than bland, boring, uninspiring, and milquetoast.

Here's The REAL State Of The Union: Obama's Economic Record, By The Numbers

Hat tip to the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

UPDATE: Here are links to all the source data in case you think I'm making it up.  Facts are stubborn things.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS13000000 
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W 
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np 
http://www.census.gov/ 
http://rpc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=misery-index 
http://trends.collegeboard.org/college_pricing/report_findings/indicator/884#f9011 
http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/8226.pdf 
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/34snapmonthly.htm 
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239.pdf 
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/ 
http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-2011-2012/ 

Vote Newt Music Video!

Hat tip to Anomaly Central.

Highlights From CNN's South Carolina GOP Debate

Wherein Newt shows us that he will not be led meekly like a lamb to slaughter by the MSM/DNC cabal, as so many GOP candidates have done in the past.

"I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans!"

He may be incredibly flawed, but I just love the moxy of this guy.

Conversations: Talking To Liberals About Taxes

	We need to improve public health by raising taxes on cigarettes and fatty foods.
	So you think raising taxes on these behavors will discourage them and cause people to pursue other activities?
	Yes I do.
	Do you also support raising taxes on capital gains and corporate profits?
	Certainly.
	And you don't think that will discourage savings, investment and job creation?
	Well... that's different, because it's about fairness.
	So people getting laid off and/or not being able to find a job is something you support as long as the byproduct of their misery is that it allowed you the satisfaction of poking someone wealthier than you in the eye?
	...pretty much.
	And you don't care about the suffering of those who lost their jobs,their homes, or even their family?
	Oh no, I do care. That's why I voted for the candidate who supports increased spending on food assistance, public housing, drug rehabilitation, suicide prevention and extended unemployment benefits. :)

Highlights From The Fox News South Carolina GOP Debate

Wherein Newt Gingrich shows us why he's the one best equipped to kick Obama's ass in a Presidential debate.

Standing ovation?  Now that's something you don't see very often in a debate.

I just don't get why we'd want to put some milquetoast candidate like Romney or Santorum up against Øbama, when we could have a brawler like this man blow him away with the whole world watching. 

Quote Of The Day War On Terror: Sgt. Maj. Herb Freidman RE: Marines Urinating On Killed Taliban

This guy absolutely nails it.  Via Hot Air:

"They are murderers and terrorists that think nothing of blowing up soldiers, civilians, women and children. What have they done to deserve our respect?

There are Marines being killed and maimed on a daily basis by these people. They are flying in from Muslim countries all over the world to get their crack at martyrdom.

If some Marine that fought them in battle fair and square feels that he has the right to urinate on a defeated enemy, what is the problem? Hell, it could be worse…. It is a fight to the death, not some sort of gentlemanly duel with seconds and everyone very politely drinking a fine wine afterwards."
-Army Sgt. Maj. Herb Freidman

And he dared to utter this non-PC view on MSNBC?  Wish I'd have seen that, the host of the program probably passed out from shock.

UPDATE: Rep Allen West chimes in.

[...] I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

No sir, selective outrage is a specialty of today's Western liberal media elite.  They caterwaul only when it fits their template.

The Big Difference Between Gingrich And Romney? Balls

Folks, do we want to defeat Obama in 2012 or not?  Do we want to run a safe candidate, or a successful one?  Do we want to be Mr. Nice Guy, or Mr. President?

In order to defeat Obama, his billion dollars of campaign cash, and the 95% of TV and print media that is chomping at the bit to tilt the news coverage in the favor of Democrats, we'll need to do something in 2012 that no other GOP candidate has done in decades... kick ass.

Now, I've got nothing against Mitt Romney.  If he ends up winning the nomination I will strongly support him; however, I don't believe Romney is different enough from previous GOP candidates to really take the fight to Obama & Co.  Romney is Mr. Nice Guy.  Romney is safe.  We don't need nice and safe, we need to a champion, and Newt Gingrich is a rhetorical gladiator of the highest order.

Nice and safe Republicans try to make the media their friends, like McCain did.  How'd that work out for us?

Nice and safe Republicans accept Democrat mischaracterizations and try to turn them to our advantage, like Bush's "compassionate conservatism" meme.  Wow, was that a dumb move, you could almost hear America saying "Well I guess those other conservatives really were heartless like the Democrats said."

Nice and safe Republicans meekly follow the lead of the liberal media and step right into their bear traps, like Sarah Palin.  You think Newt would have answered that question about what papers he reads?  He'd have looked the reporter in his face and told him to stop asking such stupid questions.

Here's a great example of what I'm talking about, the "pious baloney" moment from the New Hampshire debate.  Can anyone find me a clip of Romney going for the jugular like this?  Or Santorum?  Or Ron Paul?

This is like Reagan turning the table on Mondale over the age issue.  One knockout punch turned the MSM/DNC cabal's narrative on it's head, made the Democrat look like a fool, and the GOP won a landslide victory.

The debates are our chance to get past the filter of the liberal media bias and speak directly to the American people.  The debates are our chance to take down a President so buoyed by the willful ignorance of his followers that he maintains a 44% approval rating despite presiding over the worst debt and unemployment rates in decades. 

Newt excels at this stuff.  Here he is making ABC News look like chumps:

If Sarah Palin would have done something like this her political career would be soaring right now, instead she's still trying to combat America's first impression of her, which courtesy the MSM/DNC cabal was that of a bimbo unqualified to hold office.  We can't afford to keep making those kinds of mistakes folks.

Newt Gingrich is the only candidate I see who has the skills to rhetorically kick the ass of Obama, the entire Democrat party, and their allies in the media.  This is how we can turn back the tide and start a new movement like Reagan did in the 80's, or Gingrich (hey, look at that!) did in the 90's.  Nice and safe won't cut it next year.  Nice and safe means Obama pulls out a win and we spend four more years being painted as the party of No.

It's the Chicago Way folks, you don't bring a Romney to a Gingrich fight.

 

Quote Of The Day: Sowell On Gingrich Vs. Romney

From an editorial in The Detroit News:

"Romney is a smooth talker, but what did he actually accomplish as governor of Massachusetts, compared to what Gingrich accomplished as Speaker of the House? [...] Can you name one important positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase the chances of victory in November 2012? A lot of candidates like that have lost, from Thomas E. Dewey to John McCain."

Bingo. 

Ron Paul Vs. Martin Luther King

Ron Paul Vs. Kennedy

Ron Paul Vs. Ronald Reagan

Ron Paul 2012... Yo Iowa, R U 4 Rlz?

We interrupt this blog hiatus to wonder how in the Hell someone like Ron Paul could get this close to winning the Iowa caucuses. WTF?

Well... I Guess This Ain't Happening

Too bad... It would have been cool to see two intellectual heavyweights kicking Obama & Biden around in the debates.  Who are we left with?  Ron Paul?  Puhleeze.  Daniels?  Milquetoast.  Romney?  Maybe... or maybe not.  Perry?  Cain?  I'm starting over, so I'm open to suggestion.

Super MariObama

Now Wait Just A Godamned Minute...

Obama comes in at the end of the fourth quarter to kick a field goal scoring the final point and liberals start acting like he's Tom Brady or something?  Gimme a break! 

I give him credit for making the call to go into Pakistan, and for keeping most of Bush's policies and National Security team in place, but that's all.  This was bigger than Obama, and let's not forget that the intelligence trail that led to Bin Laden also leads right back to terrorists captured (and likely waterboarded) during the Bush administration. 

Bottom line: if Obama's policies had been in place since 2004 we would never have gotten the lead that allowed us to catch up to Osama.

Don't try to re-write history.

What To Do With Bin Laden's Remains?

Since President Obama has already bestowed a respectful burial at sea to his fellow Muslim, this is only a rehtorical exercise, but I thought it might allow some of us a final opportunity to vent at Bin Laden.  Even imaginarily and posthumously it's bound to be both cathartic and entertaining.

So, what do you think we should have done to Bin Laden's remains?  Here are few of my suggestions:

1. Wrapped in bacon, cremated, ashes mixed into porcelain powder, cast into a toilet, then the Bin Laden Memorial toilet is installed in a ground floor unisex guest lavatory of the new Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York.
2. Finely minced, mixed with ground pork, then slowly sprinkled from a B2 bomber cruising at 40,000 feet to rain down all over the Middle East.
3. Preserved Lenin style and put on display at the Smisthonian in Washington as a permanent example to all future Bin Laden's as to what fate awaits them if they attack the USA.

Got any other ideas?  Post 'em in the comments below!  Let's see how many creative ways we could have found to dispose of this piece of human garbage.

Bin Laden Killed!

Boom!  You dead motherfucker.

Good riddance.  I hope they mix his body parts with bacon and drop it over Mecca, but I guess since our President's middle name is Hussein that's not likely to happen.

UPDATE: Obama's speech wasn't bad, but I resent the implication that the military and CIA only began searching in earnest with the appointment of Leon Panetta.  Fuck you buddy, lot's of people have been risking their lives for this score since back when you were a community organizer.

UPDATE: I hope somebody at Newsbusters was recording the circle jerk between George Stephanopolous and Richard Clark over at ABC (All Barack Channel).  They went out of their way to make it sound like Obama flew the chopper in and personally pulled the trigger on Bin Laden.  Shameless.

UPDATE: The media has shown the crowd reaction at The White House and at Ground Zero, but what I'd really like to see is the crowd reaction at Guantanamo Bay.  LOL.

Anti-Obama Sticky Note Campaign

Some people on Facebook created a grass roots campaign to blanket our communities with Post-It-Notes to remind the public how much things have changed (for the worse) since President Obama took office.

I love the idea, but I'm not the kind of guy who hand writes a whole pad of sticky notes, so I made use of technology to create a few designs and a nifty template to align an entire sheet of sticky notes for printing.

   

So join in the fun folks!  It's as easy as 1,2,3:

1. Download the blank template and print it out.
2. Place the sticky notes on the template and load it in your printer.
3. Download the design of your choice above and print it onto the notes six at a time!

You can stick these on the gas pump, the shelf at the grocery store, the ATM machine, the windshield of a car with pro-Obama bumper stickers, or just about anyplace where people might see it and take a moment to reflect on what a colossal failure Hope & Change has been for the nation.

Got an idea for another note design?  Post it here in the comments section, and maybe I'll create a design for it and make it available here for download.

Have fun.

Hat tip to The Blaze and Stop Shouting.

Obama's Birth Certificate Is A Photoshopped Fake?

O.M.G.

 

UPDATE: National Review's Nathan Golding says it's not a fake, and has scanned documents with similair results.  Evidently the OCR (optical character recognition) feature of Adobe picks out all the letters it recognizes and puts them into groups, then creates other layers for various squiggles and such.

Obama Finally Releases His Birth Certificate

Washington, DC:

"After two and a half years of controversy, Obama finally released his long form birth certificate, and apologized to Americans for not being more forthcoming and wasting their time with an issue that should have been taken care of during his campaign."

By the way, that's not a real news quote up there, but it should be.  Instead of skewering Obama for his obfuscation on this, the media (and many Republicans) will use it to once again heap ridicule and scorn on the people who were just asking for this one simple thing all along.

Obama, Commander In Chief? Not So Much...

Tax Day Reality Check

According to IRS's own figures from 2008, the top 10% of earners are carrying 69% of the tax burden, while the bottom 50% pay only 2.7%. Yet some people keep saying these folks at the top "aren't paying their fair share"?

If these people really wanted fairness they'd advocate for a flat tax, where we all pay the same percentage no matter how much or how little we earn, but they don't really want fairness... they want to keep buying votes with somebody else's money.

Fairness in the tax code should be about how much we all PAY, not about how much some people have left over that we can further redistribute.

Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches

From President Obama's hometown (go figure):

A Chicago school has banned homemade lunches to protect students from their parents' bad choices, the Chicago Tribune reports.

But students at the kindergarten-through-8th grade Little Village Academy say they are often forced to go hungry because school lunches are so bad.

Principal Carmona says only kids who have a medical excuse are allowed to bring their own food. "Nutrition wise, it is better,” she told the paper. “It's milk versus a Coke.”

What struck me is that this is so emblamatic of the typical Democrat approach to every problem:

• You WILL eat our healthy lunch, it's for the greater good.  Your taste and preference is irrelevant.
• You WILL use our eco-friendly lightbulbs, it's for the greater good.  If you won't we'll just ban the old ones outright.
• You WILL pay more for gas or get a "green" vehicle, it's for the greater good.  If you don't we'll keep interfering with domestic oil exploration and let the price of oil keep shooting up until you have no choice but to comply. 
• You WILL pay tax dollars to bail out the UAW, it's for the greater good.  Especially for us come election time.
• You WILL pay 60% in taxes, it's for the greater good.  Unless you are a typical Democrat voter, then you will likely get more back than you pay in taxes, but don't you dare call it welfare!
• You WILL make home loans to people with bad credit, it's for the greater good.  Then when the stock market finally chokes on the trillions of mortgage backed securities we made you create we'll still blame you for it.
• You WILL pay tax dollars to fund abortions, it's for the greater good.  If you dare to disagree we'll say your against women's health screenings. 

Reminds me of that political spectrum chart I posted awhile back.  Democrats are always pushing us towards some fascist system where all our choices are made for us, yet they pretend we're the ones akin to the Nazi's. 

Ann Barnhardt Takes On Islam And Wussified Republican Lindsay Graham

OMG. This chick is all kinds of awesome. 

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Don't miss part two where she actually burns pages from the Koran and gives her full name and address for any Jihadi's (or First Ammendment challenged politicians) who want to "come get some". 

"...bacon makes the best Koranic bookmark."

Hope nothing happens to her.  She just drew a big dotted "cut here" line across her throat for a few millions jihadis.  Talk about a soft target!  Hope she's packing.

Hat tip to Third World County.

Obama's Scalp Scars Explained?

Tsunami Hits Japan

Am I the only one who expected to see Godzilla rising out of the sea this morning?

Collective Bargaining 101

Check out this new video from The Heritage Foundation on public employee unions:

I don't know who makes these videos, but they deserve a fat raise and three times the staff.  Nobody breaks these issues down and does a better presentation than Heritage.  Their "Tax Day By The Numbers" was great too.  The RNC and future Republican candidates should take lessons from these guys.

Iowahawk On Wisconsin Vs. Texas Education Rank

Saw this meme floating around on Facebook last week:

Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:

South Carolina – 50th
North Carolina – 49th
Georgia – 48th
Texas – 47th
Virginia – 44th

If you are wondering, Wisconsin, with its collective bargaining for teachers, is ranked 2nd in the country.

Then it was repeated in a column by vaunted New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. 

I knew something wasn't right with this comparison, but was too busy to dig in.  Thankfully Iowahawk stepped out of satire mode and stepped up to the plate:

[...] a state's "average ACT/SAT" is, for all intents and purposes, a proxy for the percent of white people who live there. In fact, the lion's share of state-to-state variance in test scores is accounted for by differences in ethnic composition. Minority students - regardless of state residence - tend to score lower than white students on standardized test, and the higher the proportion of minority students in a state the lower its overall test scores tend to be.

He goes on to state the obvious, that the minority test score gap is primarily due to socioeconomic and cultural issues that have nothing to do with the quality of teachers or schools.  If a kid doesn't think education is important, you'll never be able to get him to participate, union or no.

Then we see the comparison broken down in a way that's actually useful (for something besides advancing the MSM/DNC Cabal agenda):

2009 4th Grade Math

White students: Texas 254, Wisconsin 250 (national average 248)
Black students: Texas 231, Wisconsin 217 (national 222)
Hispanic students: Texas 233, Wisconsin 228 (national 227)

2009 8th Grade Math

White students: Texas 301, Wisconsin 294 (national 294)
Black students: Texas 272, Wisconsin 254 (national 260)
Hispanic students: Texas 277, Wisconsin 268 (national 260)

2009 4th Grade Reading

White students: Texas 232, Wisconsin 227 (national 229)
Black students: Texas 213, Wisconsin 192 (national 204)
Hispanic students: Texas 210, Wisconsin 202 (national 204)

2009 8th Grade Reading

White students: Texas 273, Wisconsin 271 (national 271)
Black students: Texas 249, Wisconsin 238 (national 245)
Hispanic students: Texas 251, Wisconsin 250 (national 248)

2009 4th Grade Science

White students: Texas 168, Wisconsin 164 (national 162)
Black students: Texas 139, Wisconsin 121 (national 127)
Hispanic students: Wisconsin 138, Texas 136 (national 130)

2009 8th Grade Science

White students: Texas 167, Wisconsin 165 (national 161)
Black students: Texas 133, Wisconsin 120 (national 125)
Hispanic students: Texas 141, Wisconsin 134 (national 131)

This turns the left's cute little factoid on it's ear!  You can clearly see that students, especially minority students, fare better in non-union Texas than they do in union utopia Wisconsin.

Major hat tip to Iowahawk for taking the time to shine a little light on the left's lazy, biased, and/or intellectually dishonest comparison. 

I Heart Wisconsin

Not since Arizona's defiant stance against the Federal government's refusal to enforce their own border laws have I been so impressed by a State legislature and Governor. 

Wisconsin is doing yoeman's work in beginning to pare back the excessive compensation, pension and corruption doled out to state employee unions in return for their support at the ballot box by a long line of politicians hoping they would not be in office when the bill eventually came due. 

Well the waiter is standing here at the table, and the bill is due now, and it looks like we're tapped out.  So either the taxpayers go work it off slaving in the kitchens, or the unions will have to take some cuts just like everyone else has in this economy.  The Wisconsin voters decided the issue last fall, but apparently these Democrats have no respect for the democractic process...

Teacher's unions staged a massive protest and invaded the State Capital building.

Teacher's unions conducted massive fraud against the taxpayers of Wisconsin by arranging for fake doctors to write excuse notes for protestors:

Then Senate Democrats fled their responsibilities and the state, preventing the State Senate from obtaining a quorum needed to conduct a vote.

Even union thugs invading the State Assembly chamber during a vote could not stop the courageous Republican legislators from doing what they were elected to do, what a majority of Wisconsin voters wants them to do:

Who should be ashamed?  The people doing the will of the voters, or the people trying to thwart Democracy by attempting to shut down the government?

I hope Governor Walker and the state legislators crush the Wisconsin unions and other states follow their lead.  Our fiscal day of reckoning approaches, and everyone needs to have some skin in the game. 

A CAIR Member Gets Owned By Rep. Allen West

Via The Blaze:

I guess the lesson here is "don't bring a Koran to a history fight".

Quote Of The Day: Obama's Unintentional Honesty

This from the guy who's spent millions of dollars on lawyers fighting to keep all of his school and birth records sealed away from public scrutiny?

Hat tip to Third World County.

Professor Barack Obama...

You'd think the "smartest President ever" and a former Professor Of Constitutional Law would have known that ObamaCare would be ruled unconstitutional... but perthaps his scholarship of our founding document was just about finding ways to subvert it?

Quote Of The Day: Florida Governor Rick Scott On Unemployment

"Taxation, regulation and litigation, those three form the axis of unemployment."

Quote Of The Day: The Desperation Of Democrats

Patrick Ishmael just posted a great piece over at Hot Air.  Here's the money quote:

"The Democrats are this decade’s Party of No. They are desperate. And because they are desperate, they’re trying to sow as much chaos into the national conversation as they possibly can, in hopes of avoiding a definitive political comeuppance for their proven ideological failures, revealed over the past two years."

Exactly... They held the reins of power for two years, but half of their feel-good campaign promises didn't pass their own smell test and the other half failed miserably once enacted.  A costly lesson for our nation, but at least it appears we are learning from it.

Bill Whittle Grades Obama's Epic Failure Of A Presidency

Bill Whittle rocks!  What do we have to do to get him to run for President?  Damn.

Or better yet my dream team could win and make Whittle the White House Press Secretary!  LMAO.

Keith Olbermann Is The Jared Loughner Of TV News

Like Loughner, Keith is apparently mentally deranged and singularly obsessed with destroying a female politician.

There's just no denying it.  He needs to seek professional help for this affliction.  Hopefully he can get well before he becomes a danger to himself or someone else.

Bernie Madoff & Social Security, A Side By Side Comparison

Bernie Madoff was sent to prison for running what's called a Ponzi scheme.  He convinced people to invest with him but instead of actually investing their money, he just spent it.  When someone wanted to withdraw the money Madoff had been entrusted with he just used the funds from his new "clients" to pay back the old "clients".  But, like all Ponzi schemes, eventually there are not enough new investors to pay back the old investors and the whole thing just implodes.

Now Bernie Madoff is one of the most hated men in America and he is off to jail, and rightfully so.  He stole the life savings and dashed the hopes and dreams of thousands of American families, but the dirty little secret here is that the US government has been doing exactly what Madoff did to his investors to all of us for over seventy years with the Social Security program.  There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that one was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by Washington politicians who are rewarded by the very people they are defrauding.

You doubt me?  Well here's a side by side comparison:

BERNIE MADOFF	Took money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later.
SOCIAL SECURITY	Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a "Trust Fund" and made available to them later.
BERNIE MADOFF	Instead of investing the money Madoff spent it on mansions, limousines and yachts.
SOCIAL SECURITY	Instead of depositing money in the "Trust Fund" the politicians spend the money on pork barrel projects and "freebies" to buy votes.
BERNIE MADOFF	When the time came to pay some investors back Madoff simply used some of the funds from newer investors.
SOCIAL SECURITY	When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger wage earners.
BERNIE MADOFF	When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash.
SOCIAL SECURITY	When Social Security eventually runs out of money they will simply force you to send them even more of your wages, and then congratulate themselves for "saving" Social Security.

Bernie Madoff is in jail, but the politicians remain in Washington enjoying the perks and privilges of their offices, once again proving that there is no place more corrupt and hypocritical on this Earth than Washington DC.

P.S.This came in my inbox today and I just tweaked the wording a bit, made the table and added the photos.  The original author is unknown to me, but I figured he's still due a hat tip for his efforts.  I didn't want to pull a Joe Biden and try to pass off his words as my own.

Austrian MP Takes On Islam, The Turkish Ambassador & European "Tolerance Romantics"

Via CmBlake6:

Damn.  That was awesome!  Makes me wish he'd apply for a "Certificate Of Live Birth" from Hawaii so he could run for President of our country.  We need some backbone like that in Washington.

WikiLeaks Has Crossed Over A Line...

Previously leaking only war-related material, ostensibly to hasten the conclusion of hostilities, they now are leaking diplomatic communiques for no apparent reason than to prove that they can.  It is no longer a protest, it is an attack, a provocation of the highest order.  Their irresponsible act has endangered countless lives, set back international relations, damaged US national security and made already difficult to obtain international cooperation a near impossibility in the near term.

The former Army PFC Bradley Manning has committed a heinous act of treason by leaking this top-secret information.  He needs to be tried quickly and publicly executed, preferably by firing squad.

Julian Asaange and his group of geeks should be hunted down and exterminated by the US military and/or CIA.  Car bombs, snipers, poison, I really don't care what method is used, just don't make it look like an accident.  Send a message and send it unapologetically.

The sooner this all happens, the sooner the world will take our government, it's word, and it's laws seriously again.  And the sooner our own people will take them seriously too.

UPDATE: And another thing, the New York Times refused to print the "Climategate" e-mails proving scientists manipulated data to promote the man-made global warming myth because the info was obtained illegaly. But fast forward to yesterday and the Times has no problem whatsoever printing leaked diplomatic cables that have set back our foreign relations ten years and damaged our national security... Just what journalistic standard are they applying here? Anti-left wing = bad, anti-America = good? Looks like.

George Bush & Barack Obama Are At A Barber Shop...

George Bush and Barack Obama somehow ended up at the same barber shop.

As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken. The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics.

As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had Obama in his chair reached for the aftershave. Obama was quick to stop him saying, 'No thanks, my wife Michelle will smell that and think I've been in a whorehouse.'

The second barber turned to Bush and said, 'How about you sir?' Bush replied, 'Go right ahead... MY wife doesn't know what a whorehouse smells like.'