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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

ACORN "Community Organizers" Help Set Up Brothel For Underage Illegal Immigrants

Via Hot Air and Big Government:

Be sure to click over and watch part two of the video and read the whole transcript.  It's mind blowing. 

EXIT QUESTION:  Will the mainstream media bother covering this, or will they sweep it under the rug like they did with Van Jones?

UPDATE: Surprise, surprise!  The same thing happened again at ACORN's D.C. office.  I guess now we know where Pelosi and the Democrats learned that "culture of corruption" thing.

UPDATE: According to my buddy Hank, ACORN stands for "Actual Communists Organizing to Ruin a Nation".  I'm using that from now on.  Good one Hank!

Happy Labor Day Comrade!

Most Americans Believe That Unions Hurt The US Economy

Gallup has conducted a new poll on organized labor, and the results indicate that a strong majority of Americans view unions as a drag on the US economy.

Ed Morrisey writing at Hot Air sums up the main reason for this errosion of public support:

At one time in this 72-year history, unions took care to court politicians across the entire political spectrum and keep themselves in the mainstream of political thought.  That has changed over the last twenty years, but it took that long for Americans to realize it.  The union movement has now adopted radical positions on environmentalism, health care, energy, and other issues that sometimes run counter to the economic benefit of their own members — but provide a carbon copy of the hard Left of the Democratic Party.

As a result, unions are no longer just alienating Republicans.  As Gallup points out, independents have now begun rejecting union activism in large numbers.  A year ago, 63% of independents approved of unions, but that number dropped 19 points to 44% today.  In contrast, unions lost 9 points among Republicans (to 29%), and even lost six points among Democrats, dropping from 72% to 66%.  Moderates have begun questioning the labor movement’s goals and tactics.

That whole Government Motors thing surely didn't help, and the UAW's hard left political activism has turned off a large percentage of GM's potential customer base. 

Good luck with that come back fellas...

The MSM/DNC Cabal Is Circling The Wagons For Obama's Green Czar

From Byron York, as of the evening of Friday September 4th:

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

Now ask yourself, if Karl Rove had called the entire Democratic party "assholes" would there have been silence from the media? 

If Tony Snow had joined a political group that accused former President Clinton of complicity in the deaths of thousands of American citizens would there be silence from the media? 

If President Bush had appointed a "czar" who was a convicted criminal, and whatever the right wing equivalent of an open communist is would there be silence from the media? 

If Dick Cheney had made a speech about being part of a clandestine movement to incrementally dismantle the American way of life would there be silence from the media?

Van Jones is/has done essentially all these things, but the MSM/DNC Cabal has kept a tight lid on the story.  I can't recall such a shocking example of a coordinated media coverup since they all simultaneously dropped coverage of Nancy Pelosi's accusations against the CIA.

Media bias?  What media bias?

UPDATE: The New York Post gives us a post mortem evisceration of The New York Times participation in the cover up.

Obama's Communist "Green Jobs" Czar Admits Green Movement Is Just A Trojan Horse For Overthrowing Capitalism

Don't take my word for it.  Listen to this asshole er, excuse me, self described communist Van Jones explain it in his own words:

Kind of dovetails with what I've been saying all along doesn't it?  But nevermind the facts, all us right wingers who've been calling Obama a Marxist, socialist or communist are just CRAZY?  That just wacko!

Riiiiiight...

We've put true revolutionaries in charge of our country now, and they are bent on reducing it into a mere shadow of it's former self.  Our grandchildren will curse us for being the ignorant and self absorbed idiots that we are.  And when I say we I mean the Democrats of course...

Glenn Beck To Congress: Are You In Or Out In 2010?

Glenn Beck has proposed we ask our elected representatives to take the following pledges or we vote them out in 2010. 

The Five Pledges

1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.

2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.

3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.

4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.

5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.

Sounds good to me... which is exactly why I know very few in Congress would agree to it.

We really, really need a revolution to clean up all this mess, but there are more takers than makers at this point and Congress actually IS doing the will of the majority of lazy ass "what's in it for me" Americans. 

I guess going Galt is our best option unless we just give up on the USA and start our own country somewhere else as the new Pilgrims.  Say... that's not a bad idea.  An entire country poulated by people who take responsibility for themselves and are not bound by liberal political correctness?  Plus we'd could literally walk away from all this debt the liberals have run up over the past forty years.  Let the Democrats pay for their own welfare state...

Hmm... need to start searching the globe for an underpopulated country we can colonize.

Quote Of The Day

Via Hot Air:

Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and threatening, but never intending, to kill the children of Khalid Sheik Muhammad?

Yes... that's how far we have fallen been dragged down by the liberals and their politically correct effemanization of our once proud country.  Click over to read the whole thing.  Pat may be a looney on some issues, but he's right on the money with this one.

Police Officer Forces Healthcare Protestor To Surrender His Sign Before Entering Town Hall

Prepare to be amazed... and repulsed.  A so-called "police officer" (who is acting more like an SEIU or ACORN thug than a cop) refuses to allow an anti-ObamaCare protestor to bring in his sign into a town hall forum because... well, we really never find out why.

The "did I really just hear that" moment:

PROTESTOR: "This used to be America!"

POLICE OFFICER: "It ain't no mo okay?" 

No, it's not okay!

Officer Cheeks was asked again and again for a reason as to why this particular sign was not allowed in while all the other signs were.  He never gave an answer.  It's clear to me that the answer he refused to give is that this sign mocked "The One" and that is not allowed when Officer Cheeks is on duty.  Well Mr. Cheeks we have this little thing in America called the "First Ammendment", perhaps you'd better take your uneducated ass to the library and read it ten or twenty times until all the big words finally soak through your thick skull.

This is unbelievable.  If something like this had been done to Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink the media would have been apopleptic.  Think this will get any play?  Yeah right.

From now on I'd encourage all healthcare protestors to carry nothing BUT Obama-Joker posters to EVERY town hall meeting.  Forget all the other lame-ass messages, and just have hundreds of people showing up with the Obama-Joker image.  They can't kick you all out, and if they did perhaps the Obama police state would finally become too big of a story for the media to ignore.

Hat tip to Weazel Zippers and Soylent Green.

Why The Democrats Class Warfare Rhetoric Is Complete Bull$#!+

You'll often hear Democrat politicians like Barack Hussein Obama, Howard "Screamin" Dean or Nancy "Nazi" Pelosi going on and on about how the wealthiest Americans don't pay their "fair share".  Is this really the case?  Well, let's take a look at the numbers.

Here is the top 1% of American wage earners, represented by a tiny sliver on this pie chart.  We're not talking about a big group here.  Bill Gates is in there, my pal Warren Buffet is in there, most successful entrepeneurs are in there, most Doctors and lawyers are in there and pretty much all the professional athletes and Hollywood stars are in there too.  The top 1% is basically anyone earning over $375,000 a year.

Now let's look at income. 

Obviously there have always been people who work harder, are smarter, and/or are luckier than the rest of us.  This is true all around the world, and all throughout history.  I don't think any rational person would want to change society so everyone got the same income as every other person.  Things would quickly grind to a halt, because there'd be nothing for anyone to work or strive for.

So as it stands here in the real world, the top 1% earn 18% of all the income.

Now let's keep in mind that the top 1% are a mostly self sufficient bunch.  They don't use government services at anywhere near the rate of the poorest of Americans or even the middle class, yet take a look at their tax burden!

How the hell is this even fair?  And more importantly, how is it not paying their "fair share" as the Democrats so frequently claim?

Obviously the claim that these people aren't paying their "fair share" is an outright lie.  I believe the deception is deliberate, and is intended to keep the uneducated "working people" riled up and voting Democrat.

The truth is that the top 1% are getting hosed by the system far, far worse than any of us regular Joes, and all these lying liberals know it.  Worse yet, these same lying politicians want the top 1% to pay an even BIGGER share.  They would tax this country back into the stone age if they could, all in the pursuit of some warped idea of "fairness" power.  

Iowahawk Riffs On Obamacare

Iowahawk strikes again, this time giving us his reimagining of Scrubs with Barack Obama as an orderly, just trying give little old Mrs. Petrowski the best "end-of-life" care he possibly can, regardless of her age and lack of terminal illness.

Please, Mrs. Petrowski, put down the phone. The other patients are all asleep. Besides, after that incident yesterday, you know we had to unplug it. You remember how agitated you made everybody with those crazy stories about "death panels" and what not. Remember when I was giving you the sedatives, and I explained that your mind was playing tricks on you? And how those nice men were only End-of-Life Quality Assurance Counselors?

*ding*

Okay! Elevator's here! Next stop, bottom floor, cafeteria... aaaand... therrrre's...

*swiiip*

a goddamn elevator car in the shaft.

sigh.

Alright, whatever. Let's get on.

Click over for the rest.  Iowahawk is the Charles Nelson Riley of the blogosphere.

Marine Vet David Hendrick Confronts Congressman Baird Over Federal Healthcare Takeover

Yes, the same Congressman Brian Baird who likened the healthcare protestors to a "lynch mob" and accused them of "brown-shirt tactics".

Via Hot Air:

That's priceless.  Kudos to Mr. Hendrick for 'speaking truth to power"... I never thought I'd find a genuine use for that favored phrase of the left wingers, but it certainly fits here doesn't it?

UPDATE: Mr. Hendrick appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends show this morning.

Spot on.  He's Joe The Plumber, but with better communication skills.

Socialism Is Consuming America...

Prior to 1930 the state and federal government's share of the US national income averaged 12% or less.

After World War II and the New Deal the government's share of our economy had grown a bit to 22%.

Fast forward to 2008 and after decades of the Democrats buying votes with welfare and entitlement programs the government's share of the US economy is a whopping 45%!

That 45% figure also leaves out the cost of compliance with state and federal regulations, so 50-55% is probably more accurate.

Democrats don't even think 45% of the economy is enough.  They want MORE!

Hat tip to Soylent Green for the charts.

ACLU Reveals Identities Of CIA Agents To 9-11 Terrorists, Will The Media Care?

When the identity of Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame was released to a reporter the MSM/DNC Cabal went apeshit, and the "scandal" was given priority coverage for months on end, even though Valerie Plame was NOT covert, and the information was given to a member of the press. 

Now we have the identites and perhaps home addresses of covert CIA agents released to the enemy, in fact the very terrorists who planned the attacks of September 11th.

Via The Washington Post:

The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Investigators are looking into allegations that laws protecting classified information were breached when three lawyers showed their clients the photographs, the sources said. The lawyers were apparently attempting to identify CIA officers and contractors involved in the agency's interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects in facilities outside the United States, where the agency employed harsh techniques.

[...] government investigators are now looking into whether the defense team went too far by allegedly showing the detainees the photos of CIA officers, in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes. 

I have a hard time truly expressing how f-ed up this is.  Liberals have no shame. 

The big question of course is will the MSM/DNC Cabal give this even a fraction the publicity they gave to the so-called scandal of "Plamegate"?

Hmm... a liberal Democrat is President... and there's no chance Cheney can be blamed... nah, nothing to see here folks, move along. 

If the terrorists murder one of the CIA agents and their family in their home then will it be newsworthy Mr. "Journalist"? 

How Media Bias Works

This is a great little film from the 70's illustrating just how media bias works to advance an agenda, and warning us of the dangers of the decision makers in the media and the political elite having a common ideology, thereby turning the media into a propaganda machine.

Hat tip to Where Are My Keys and The Interface.

Unfortunately we did not heed Dr. Schaeffer's warning...  The MSM/DNC Cabal is now well entrenched and has been succesfully using this manipulation technique for decades now.

Reagan is President?  Let's do lot's of stories on the homeless, and let's all portray this as the decade of greed. 

Clinton is President now?  No more homeless "crisis", and even though people are spending their dot com stock returns on Hummers and McMansions let's drop that whole greed meme m'kay?

The cumulative effect of all the cabal's manipulations is truly devastating to our Republic.  For example, if the American people were truly informed, would they have elected the people who caused the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression to lead the country?  No, they would not.... yet that's exactly what happened.  The community organizer who once pressured banks to loan more and more money to people who couldn't afford to repay it is now President, and the Congress that blocked every effort to head off this recession is rewarded by the voters with a supermajority. 

Rep. Lamar Smith said:

"To me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias."

He is correct.  The MSM/DNC Cabal is a greater threat to America than Osama Bin Laden's terrorists or Obama Bin President's defecits. 

Look For The Union Label

Hat tip to Third World County.

A Sneak Peek At Socialized Medecine

Here's what kind of "treatement" we can expect from ObamaCare.

"Life saving therapy?  Not so much... we don't think it's right for you, but have you thought about hospice?"

Hat tip to MAinfo and Soylent Green.

Quote Of The Day

A wise man once said:

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.  You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.  You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.  You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.  You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

What great Republican leader said this?  Reagan?  Bush?  Gingrich?  Friedman? 

Voting Democrat Gets You Nowhere...

Here are the ten US cities most stricken by poverty, and their percentage of residents living below the poverty line:

1. Detroit, MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo, NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati, OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland, OH 27.0%
5. Miami, FL 26.9%
6. St. Louis, MO 26.8%
7. El Paso,  TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee, WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia, PA 25.1%
10. Newark, NJ 24.2%

What do all those cities have in common?

• Detroit, MI hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
• Buffalo, NY hasn't elected one since 1954.
• Cincinnati, OH hasn't elected one since 1984.
• Cleveland, OH hasn't elected one since 1989.
• Miami, FL has never had a Republican mayor.
• St. Louis, MO hasn't elected one since 1949.
• El Paso, TX has never had a Republican mayor.
• Milwaukee, WI hasn't elected one since 1908.
• Philadelphia, PA hasn't elected one since 1952.
• Newark, NJ hasn't elected one since 1907.

Hmm... the poor vote Democrat for generations, yet they remain poor.  Wonder why that is? 

Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Q.E.D. Democrat voters are insane.