Require Americans To Purchase A Gun And A Bible

"There’s a lot more evidence that owning a gun and a Bible is better for society than everyone having to own health insurance."

 

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/31/coulter-if-interstate-commerce-clause-allows-health-insurance-mandate-gop-should-mandate-guns-and-a-bible/#ixzz1Cg9RGS00

Just When You Thought The Obama Regime Couldn't Get Stupider

They're planning to burn even more food in your car.

Nearly two-thirds of cars on the road could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday.


The agency said that 15 percent ethanol blended with gasoline is safe for cars and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006, expanding an October decision that the higher blend is safe for cars built since 2007.The maximum gasoline blend has been 10 percent ethanol.

Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional

In its entirety. As Joe Biden might say, "this is a big fucking deal."

In a decision steeped in the words of the Founding Fathers, a federal judge has ruled for the second time the President Obama’s health-care law is unconstitutional and must be “declared void in full.”

Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida also warned in the ruling that Obamacare’s legal precedent could open the doors to virtually unlimited power by Congress.

The ruling says the “individual mandate,” which imposes a fine on individuals who do not purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional and not “severable” from the full law. Therefore, “the entire act must be declared void,” the ruling says.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/31/2nd-federal-judge-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional/#ixzz1CehiKnJV

Chuck U. Schumer's Three Branches Of Government

The House, the Senate, and the President. Uh, not quite Chuckie. Maybe this bit of news will help him recall his grade school civics lessons. Somehow I doubt that Chuck U will have to worry about getting the Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman treatment for Chris Matthews tonight.

“They are getting wary because of the large debt we have, which we have to get down, but if they feel that people are willing to shut down the government, you could risk the credit markets really losing some confidence in the United States Treasury, and that could create a deeper recession than we had over the last several years — God forbid, even a depression. So I would urge my Republican colleagues, no matter how strongly they feel — you know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a president. And all three of us are going to have to come together and give some, but it is playing with fire to risk the shutting down of the government, just as it is playing with fire to risk not paying the debt ceiling.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/31/chuck-schumers-civics-lesson-omits-judiciary-as-branch-of-government/#ixzz1Ceyoe6m5

Obama E Neuman

What? Me worry? Well there are more important things in life than the fate of Egypt and its consequences for Middle Easter peace - like partying.

Everyone is nervously eyeing (sic) Egypt, wondering if strong man M. Mubarak will survive or whether he will be toppled by the multitude clamoring for  . . .  what exactly are they clamoring for?  Therein lies the rub.  Most responsible commentators, I would argue, worry that although “freedom,” “democracy,” and “self-determination” are on their lips, sharia and theocratic tyranny may well be in their hearts.

Mr. Riedel-Newman is having none of it. In a remarkable piece for The Daily Beast called “Don’t Fear the Muslim Brotherhood,” he assures readers that the Brotherhood has long since renounced violence and may well be the “most reasonable” option for Egypt. To listen to Mr. Riedel-Neuman, you would think that the Muslim Brotherhood was nearly indistinguishable from a Great Society social welfare program: “it has an enormous social-welfare infrastructure that provides cheap education and health care.” It even worked hard, according to Mr. Riedel-Neuman, to assure fair elections in Egypt last time around.

Of Course, We Could Blame The Egytian Insurrection On Global Warm Mongers

And their stupid ethanol subsidies. Burning food in cars causes shortages and inflation.

It is food inflation that is ultimately breaking the the back of the Mubarak regime. Traders on Friday noted that Fitch, in downgrading Egypt's outlook to negative, specifically cited the high food inflation, which is running at about 17 percent a year. Staples like meat, sugar and vegetables have been climbing out of the reach of the ordinary Egyptian for a year.

Bottom line: we are watching a major economic story — global food inflation — play out now as a major geopolitical event.

If Taxpayers Don't Pay For Abortions, Then We're The Taliban?

According to the deep thinkers at the Daily Kos. Well, if it's no longer acceptable to call Republicans Nazis, then the left needs to descend even lower. Of course, those of us with long memories recall that this isn't the first time that Republicans have been compared to the Taliban by Democrats. And now that the New York Times has claimed for itself the position as judge, jury and executioner the uncivil, it's worth noting that Bill Keller, the Times' executive editor deployed this smear.

Following up on CBS worrying about Republicans satisfying the "conservative right wing" on abortion: At the Daily Kos, Saturday's Open Thread by Dante Atkins kissed up to Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, hyping his "American Taliban" attack line again, this time about H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Atkins can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want their tax dollars going to the exercise of the heroic right to abortion, especially after statutory rape:

It's the type of thing that really makes you wonder what's wrong with people. Is it any wonder that women tend to vote for Democrats? The GOP thinks that unless you were hogtied or had a knife brandished at you, you deserve whatever you get. Why not just put women in a burqa, assign them a male relative as an escort, and be done with it? Then the transition to American Taliban can be complete. 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/01/31/daily-kos-ending-tax-funded-abortions-means-transition-american-taliban-#ixzz1CcaFHDpx

Egyptian Insurrection Caused By Global Warming?

Global warm mongering hits a new low. But I doubt the standard will last long.

On Friday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blamed the crisis in Egypt on George W. Bush and the Iraq war.

Two days later, climate alarmist extraodinaire Joe Romm blamed it on - wait for it! - global warming:

This summer’s extreme global weather raised fears of a “Coming Food Crisis,” as CAP’s John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in Foreign Policy:  “Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse.”  Earlier this month I discussed how, in fact, “Extreme weather events helped drive food prices to record highs.”  Back then, experts were worried about food riots.  Now they are happening.

 

The Washington Post reported on the connection between food prices and Tunisian  violence in mid-January, in a piece headlined, “Spike in global food prices contributes to Tunisian violence.” [...]

Robin Niblett, director of the Chatham House, was interviewed at Davos (click here) and said the Egyptian riots “were driven partly of course by the rise of food prices.”

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/31/climate-alarmist-blames-egypt-crisis-global-warming#ixzz1CcZQwq9D

MSNBC's Bachman Obsession

WTF?

Will Egypt Complete Obama's Transformation?

Into Jimmy Carter?

As Egypt’s regime totters on the verge of collapse, President Obama is looking less like Ronald Reagan and more like the Gipper’s predecessor, Jimmy Carter. The turmoil in Egypt is markedly similar to the revolution that gripped Iran 33 years ago. Egypt may be to Mr. ObamaIran was to Mr. Carter. what

President Carter’s emphasis on human rights in foreign policy set the stage for the 1979 revolt in Iran. Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Carter adopted a tone of moral superiority to the policies that had preceded him. When small-scale demonstrations began to break out in Iran in the fall of 1977, the State Department simply chastised the Shah’s government, which had been a firm U.S. ally, to get ahead of reform or get out of the way. This emboldened the oppositionists, a mix of liberal reformers and radical followers of the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, who kept up the pressure. 

A year later, the situation had deteriorated to the point where the Shah’s regime was hanging by a thread. Crowds were in the streets, the security forces were crumbling, and the Ayatollah Khomeini’s influence was growing. Mr. Carter abandoned human-rights posturing and informed the Shah that he should do what he needed to keep order. By then, it was too late

Freedom Of (Hate) Speech

Only anti-Israel rhetoric permitted.

On Saturday night, January 29, anti-Zionist organizations barred hundreds of Jewish and pro-Israel gatherers from attending an event on the New Brunswick campus comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. The program, titled “Never Again for Anyone,” was intended to coincide with the UN sanctioned International Holocaust Remembrance Day and “honor” the victims of the Holocaust. I, along with Rutgers University Hillel President Sarah Morrison and many others, viewed this event as an outright minimization of the Holocaust and defamation of the Jewish people.

Upon circulating information pertaining to this event around the tri-state area, the Jewish community along with those who seek to preserve the righteous memory of those murdered at the hands of the Nazis sought to audit the event. BAKA – Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, the host of the event, printed on the event page on Facebook that the event was free and open to the public. In addition, the group Never Again for Anyone, which is the host of the abhorrent tour, printed on the website for the event that a suggested donation of $5-$20 would be asked for at the door. Only after 200-400 pro-Israel supporters showed up did the event–held in a state school, paid for by both tax dollars and student fees–begin to discriminate who could enter the event free-of-cost.

Egyptians Get Obama's Cold Shoulder

Just as the Iranians experienced, Barack Hussein Obama will not take the side of liberty over tyranny. He won't even do it in this hemisphere. After all, he put his weight behind Honduras's wannabe dictator when push came to shove.

In the streets of Cairo, many protesters are now openly denouncing the United States for supporting President Hosni Mubarak, saying the price has been their freedom. They say the Obama administration has offered only tepid criticism of a regime that has received billions of dollars in U.S. aid. 

The United States walks a fine line between a weakened leader and the pro-democracy protesters who could overthrow him. But the prospect of Mubarak being ousted by a movement that feels ignored by the United States raises questions about future relations between Washington and a strategic ally in a volatile region of the world. 

"Tell America that we get to choose our president," Manshawi said. "We choose him, not them."
Many protesters said they were stirred by the death of Khaled Said, an activist who was beaten to death by security forces last year. He became a symbol of abuse at the hands of the security forces under Mubarak. 

"We want a government elected by the people, not a government dictated to the people," said Mohammed Ramadan, 40, an accountant who was demonstrating along the Nile on Saturday, as he has for the past five days.

Sounds like these people want "democracy, whiskey, sexy" too. Sorry, only Republicans care about that.

Chris Matthews Channels His Inner Rick Sanchez

What color is the White House? Who's buried in Grant's tomb? Where's the Panama Canal? Pay special attention at about 1:20.

Just so remember who Rick Sanchez was, when he wasn't getting drunk and running down pedestrians...

Pay Your Squeeze, Buy A Waiver

Friends and allies of Obama's political machine are getting exemptions from Obamacare.

If you would like to know what the White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.

Last year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned that the number of Obamacare privileged escapes has skyrocketed to 733.

Among the fortunate is a who’s who list of unions, businesses and even several cities and four states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee) but none of the friends of Barack feature as prominently as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Unilateral Disarmament

While China tests anti-satellite weapons, Obama and the EUnuchs plan to stop our own research.

The Obama administration is negotiating with the European Union on an agreement limiting the use of anti-satellite weapons, a move that some critics say could curb U.S. development of space weapons in general.

Three congressional staffers told The Washington Times that Pentagon and intelligence analysts said in a briefing Monday that the administration is looking to sign on to the European Union‘s Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities.

The briefing followed the completion of an interagency review that recommends the United States sign on to the document with only a few minor changes to its language, according to two administration officials familiar with the review.

Obama Lied, Egyptians Died

No, Barack Hussein Obama did not press Hosni Mubarak on human rights. This was a lie. Jake Tapper is usually better than this, but notice how he tries to feed Axelrod the right narrative.

To hear soon-to-depart White House senior adviser David Axelrod tell it, President Barack Obama has long taken a tough line with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over human rights and political reform issues in his country.

"The way [Obama has] confronted it, is he went to Cairo and talked about the need, the universal human rights of people. He’s on several occasions directly confronted Pres. Mubarak on it. And pushed him on the need for political reform in his country," Axelrod told ABC's Jake Tapper Friday, on the adviser's last day of work at the White House.

"To get ahead of this?" Tapper asked.

"Exactly. To get ahead of this. This is a project he’s been working on for two years and today the president is working hard to encourage restraint and a cessation of violence against the people of Egypt," said Axelrod.

"Nice myth," said one human rights advocate I asked about Axelrod's description.

There are a couple of problems with Axelrod's account. First, there's little public evidence that Obama "confronted" Mubarak on these issues. White House officials have said the subjects were raised in meetings between the men, but when the two met publicly there was little indication that Obama was pressuring Mubarak on the issue.

Kathleen Sebelius Compares Healthcare Right To The Right To Own A Television

The smartest people in the world. Of course, the error in her analogy is that government has deprived health care providers of the authority to charge for their services making it optional for people to pay their bills. We treat television salesmen much better than doctors.

The Extravagance Of Queen Nancy (Pelosi)

This horrible woman certainly treats herself nicely. Perhaps appreciating that her reign was coming to an end, Nancy Pelosi took 43 trips on the taxpayers' dime, covering more than 90,000 miles at a cost of over $2 million, including more than $100,000 for in flight service. Her in flight expenditures included liquor and chocolate covered strawberries. 

So this is what saving the planet looks like.

The most recent documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include a Passenger Mission Activity chart detailing all of former Speaker Pelosi’s flights January 1 to October 1, 2010, as well as detailed shopping lists for some flights, flight authorization forms, Mission Expense Records and internal Air Force correspondence related to the flights. Among the highlights from the documents, obtained pursuant to a FOIA request filed on September 10, 2010:

• Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 43 trips, covering 90,155 miles, from January 1 through October 1, 2010. The Air Force documented in-flight expenses for 22 of these flights totaling $1,821.33. The Air Force did not provide expense information for the remaining 21 flights.
• Former Speaker Pelosi received chocolate covered strawberries as a birthday surprise on a March 26, 2010 flight. According to one internal Air Force email sent on March 25, 2010: “The speaker’s office is requesting egg salad sandwiches on wheat toast with fruit (watermelon, etc) for desert [sic]. It’s the speaker’s B-Day tomorrow so we’re also asking for something like chocolate covered strawberries (dark chocolate preferred)…” The immediate response to the email from another member of the Air Force staff: “Copy all. We’ll plan something for the birthday and take care of the meal.”

Standard Operating Procedure In Some Countries

SEIU Partnering With Hamas And FARC?

Hardly a surprise. The left is more about anti-Americanism than it is pro anything else.

Prominent current and former members of SEIU local 73 are being investigated for their potential ties to the Hamas and FARC terrorist groups.

Late last year, their homes were raided by the FBI, and they were subpoenaed to appear in front of a grand jury for questioning.

Joe Iosbaker, Chief Steward of SEIU 73, and Tom Burke (former board member of SEIU 73) are among 9 people who are subjects in the investigation. None of them have been charged with any crimes, yet.
Two days ago, they refused again to appear in front of the grand jury.

The interesting thing about these SEIU folks is that they also belong to a violently radical group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. From their website:

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States.

1) We stand for the right to self-determination up to and including secession for the African American nation in the Black Belt South.

While rejecting Zionist claims on Palestine and white supremacist claims to a white southern nation or northwestern nation, we do acknowledge the fact that the most advanced sections of the Black liberation movement, from the 1800s on, have demanded a Black Republic in the South.

Portland, Oregon Invited To Rejoin America

What's wrong with Portland?

The Tigard City Council approved a resolution, Tuesday, urging the city of Portland to rejoin the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a group that partners the FBI with police and law enforcement agencies across the country.

For Tigard City Councilor Nick Wilson the choice is clear: Portland should rejoin. Now.

“What’s wrong with Portland?” Wilson said in an interview with The Times before Tuesday’s council meeting. “I mean it, what’s wrong with Portland?”

Wilson, who had family members at Pioneer Square the night of the bomb threat on Nov. 26, said that terrorist plots against Portland affect Tigard and other surrounding areas as well.

“Potential threats are regional in nature,” he said. “I don’t confine my activities to one city and neither do criminals.”

The Portland Police Bureau was pulled out of the multi-jurisdictional task force in 2005 amid concerns over anti-terrorism policies, but the issue resurfaced after the FBI arrested Mohamed Osman Mohamud for allegedly plotting to bomb the Nov. 26 Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Tortured Narratives, Not News

The final category of Kozmos is reserved for the news media. As they clearly demonstrated after the Tucson massacre, they have clear and unambiguous ideological narratives prepared in which they only have to fill in the blanks. In the meantime, they insist that their reporting is only the purest and unbiased recitation of the day’s events. Their fatal flaw is that they can’t get their minds around the idea that they no longer monopolize information. And it is that free market of thoughts that makes this edition of the Kozmos possible, even inevitable.

For example, after Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa placed a hold on one of President Obama’s judicial appointments because the man had represented terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times predictably thundered that, “Demagogues on the right are smearing loyal Americans as disloyal and charging that the government is being undermined from within.

These voices--often heard on Fox News--are going after Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantánamo detainees when they were in private practice. It is not nearly enough to say that these lawyers did nothing wrong. In fact, they upheld the highest standards of their profession and advanced the cause of democratic justice. The Justice Department is right to stand up to this ugly bullying.”

It should surprise no one that The Times is practicing a bit of hypocrisy here. During the Bush years, the administration asked lawyers to interpret US anti-torture laws to establish the legal limits of enhanced interrogation. Needless to say, the Times disapproved of their conclusions: “Their acts were a grotesque abrogation of duty and breach of faith: as government officials sworn to protect the Constitution; as lawyers bound to render competent and honest legal opinions; and as citizens who played a major role in events that disgraced this country.”

The Times went on to demand that lawyers who delivered work that the Times did not approve of be disbarred. So the Times earns a Kozmo for behaving as a demagogue on the left smearing loyal Americans as disloyal and charging that the government is being undermined from within.

McClatchy News Service wins the Twisted Logic of 2010 Kozmo for somehow finding a way to blame Republicans for some Americans’ unrealistic expectations of Obamacare.

 After years of promising to deliver a government run health care system modeled after those in Great Britain and Canada, the final result was considerably different from what the Democrats’ most loyal constituents had been promised. But somehow, the McClatchy News Service found a way to blame these disappointed expectations on Republicans: “That widespread misconception may have originated in part from distorted rhetoric about the legislation bubbling up from the hyper-partisan debate about it in Washington and some media outlets, such as when opponents denounced it as socialism.”

Fine work McClatchy.

Few things are as predictable as the New York Times’ attitude toward Senate filibusters. When Republicans are in the majority, they’re essential. When Democrats hold power, nothing is more urgent than filibuster reform. For example, on September 10th of the past year, the New York Times complained that, “"President Obama, the House and a majority of senators clearly support an end to 'don't ask, don't tell,' but that, of course, is insufficient in the upside-down world of today's Senate, where 40 members can block anything."

The New York Times has a history of flip flopping on this issue, and they know it. During the Bush Administration, when Democrats were promiscuously exploiting the filibuster to block judicial appointments and the Republican majority was considering filibuster reform, the Times wrote, “The Senate, of all places, should be sensitive to the fact that this large and diverse country has never believed in government by an unrestrained majority rule. . . . A decade ago, this page expressed support for tactics that would have gone even further than the 'nuclear option' in eliminating the power of the filibuster. At the time, we had vivid memories of the difficulty that Senate Republicans had given much of Bill Clinton's early agenda. But we were still wrong. To see the filibuster fully, it's obviously a good idea to have to live on both sides of it. We hope acknowledging our own error may remind some wavering Republican senators that someday they, too, will be on the other side and in need of all the protections the Senate rules can provide.”

The Situational Principles Kozmos goes again, to the New York Times. The Times might as well retire the trophy.

Barack Hussein Obama - Neocon?

Suddenly, Barack Obama is pro-democracy.

Good for Barack Obama who seems to be taking a strong pro-democracy stand in his conversation with Hosni Mubarak. This is a far cry, alas, from the US President’s behavior during the massive democracy demonstrations in Iran when Obama was curiously silent, seemingly determined to negotiate with a leader at least as fascistic (most likely more) as Mubarak – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Behead Sarah Palin!

In a children's play. Tell me again about how hate speech emanates from conservatives.

First I would like to compliment you and the entire staff of "The Mikado" on the beautiful sets, costuming and professional performance we experienced on Sunday, Jan. 23. However, I must call you on something that was inserted into the play which I am almost positive was not in the original book.

The comments made in such a cavalier and oh-so-humorous way were uncalled for. Now, I realize you play to a mostly liberal audience in Missoula and so, I am sure, felt comfortable in your calling for the beheading of Sarah Palin. I am painfully aware that most in the audience tittered with laughter and clapped because "no one would miss her" but there were some in your audience who took great offense to this "uncivil tone" about another human being.

If Any Of You Are Missing Keith Olbermann, There's Dramatic Chipmunk Ready To Fill In

The Verdict Is In On Eric Holder And The New Black Panthers

The ugliest politics imaginable. Now wonder Michael Mukasey is so disgusted.

After a year of DOJ's intransigence and baseless refusals to comply with our subpoenas, two Department attorneys bravely defied orders to testify before the Commission: the former Civil Rights Division Voting Section chief, Christopher Coates, and a lead trial attorney in the NBPP case, J. Christian Adams. Their testimony and the sworn affidavits from former DOJ staff portray a pervasive culture of hostility to race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws in the Civil Rights Division. The detailed allegations include: a former section chief who doctored a memo to try to prevent a meritorious case from being filed against black defendants, racially offensive statements by several supervisors and staff, and repeated instances of harassment and intimidation directed against anyone willing to work on lawsuits against minority defendants.

Al Qaeda Taking A Beating

Wouldn't be ironic if Barack Hussein Obama's sole success as president turns out to be his performance as a war time president? Although, I have a feeling that whatever success we're having on the battlefield is because he has outsourced that responsibility to grownups.

A purported al-Qaida leader in Pakistan says the terror network is losing territory and fighters amid a U.S. drone strike campaign, according to an audio message monitored by a U.S. organization that tracks militant propaganda.


The rare admission by Ustadh Ahmad Farooq follows an escalation in U.S. missile hits against al-Qaida and Taliban targets in the tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, as well as increased Pakistani army operations over the last three years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/27/al-qaida-leader-admits-facing-pressure-drones/#ixzz1CL5mosGS

GDP Grows At 3.2%

Unexpectedly slow.

The U.S. economy gathered speed in the fourth quarter, though a touch below expectations, with the biggest gain in consumer spending in more than four years and strong exports offering the clearest signals yet that a sustainable recovery is under way.

Even with growth quickening, however, progress reducing unemployment has been painfully slow, and the report on U.S. gross domestic product on Friday is little comfort for millions of unemployed Americans or the Federal Reserve officials on a jobs-creation vigil.

The economy grew at a solid 3.2 percent annual rate in the final three months of 2010, the Commerce Department said, after expanding at a 2.6 percent pace in the third quarter. The rise was a touch below economists' expectations for a 3.5 percent rate.

Chris Matthews Coming Apart At The Seams

Obsession.

The most entertaining segment of Hardball the past few nights has been watching host Chris Matthews consistently seethe at the mere mention of the name Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. And with Sarah Palin’s “WTF” moment, she too has re-entered Matthews’ zone of contempt, a place where Matthews seriously serves up an endless supply of eye-catching insults. 


For the past few days, after a clip of Bachmann played, smoke would nearly come out of Matthews’ ears as he then proceeded to mock her as a “balloon-head,” yelled at Tea Party leaders for refusing to admit she’s ignorant, or worried she might lack the comprehension to know when she is “making an ass” out of herself. And who can forget old classics like Matthews suggesting she acts like a “zombie” and wondering if she’s persistently “hypnotized.”

Has The BP Oil Spill Become Pigford II?

Another Obama corruption scam.

The $20 billion fund responsible for compensating victims of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has received more than 7,000 potentially fraudulent claims, many of which have been referred to the Justice Department for criminal investigations, the fund's administrator told a Senate panel on Thursday.

Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who is overseeing the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, said of more than 481,000 claims filed, 7,575 are considered "to be multi-claimant scams or even efforts at criminal fraud."

One difference is that the Obama Regime is encouraging Pigford fraud.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2011/01/potential-scams-top-7000-bp-spill-compensation-0#ixzz1CL0lELYT

Who Cares What Megan McCain Feels?

Notice that I did not say, "Who Cares What Megan McCain THINKS?" But the question remains. Somebody show me Megan McCain's credentials. On the other hand, left wing media still go to Levi Johnston for "expert" commentary on Sarah Palin. On top of everything else, she's just a one trick pony anyway - and it's not much of a trick.

Waivers For Favors

Barack Hussein Obama is giving away Get-Out-Of-Obamacare-Free cards to political allies. 

At the end of last year, the Department of Health and Human Services had granted some 222 temporary waivers to businesses small and large, insurers, labor and other organizations that offer affordable health insurance or prescription drug coverage with limited benefits. On Wednesday, the agency quietly updated its online list, which now reveals a whopping total of 729 Obamacare escapees -- in addition to four states, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee -- who collectively cover about 2.1 million enrollees.

At least one eyebrow-raising waiver recipient -- the left-leaning, nationalized health care-promoting Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- has direct ties to the White House. Obama health care czar Nancy-Ann DeParle sits on the foundation's board of trustees.
Most noteworthy: One-fourth of all the waivers (182) so far have gone to Big Labor groups across the country.

The Teamsters Union, which hailed Obama last March for "enacting historic health care reform, providing health insurance to millions of Americans who don't have it and controlling costs for millions more who do," obtained waivers for 17 different locals.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which celebrated the passage of Obamacare as "an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," secured waivers for 28 different affiliates.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers -- which exulted after the health care law's passage that "finally, affordable and comprehensive health care coverage will be available for millions of working Americans" -- saw eight of its affiliates win shelter from the Obamacare wrecking ball.

PETA Sponsoring Kiddie Porn

You're surprised?

Half a dozen advertisers come out against the show, a result of an organized campaign by watchdog group the Parents Television Council. 

 

But MTV has ten episodes of the show and plans to air all of them, according to a network spokesperson.

 

The cancelation rumor was likely spurred by the tune-in decline for the show’s second episode. It attracted 1.6 million viewers last Monday, down 52 percent compared to the opener on Jan. 17, when 3.3 million tuned in after a new episode of Jersey Shore that attracted more than 7 million viewers. This week, Skins had a Jersey Shore rerun as its lead-in.

 

And if MTV’s sales team continues to see a sponsor exodus, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have graciously offered the step into the breach — and generate some publicity of its own.

Brutal Dictator

Is not a dictator, according to Joe Biden.

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the PBS NewsHour tonight with the most direct US governent comments yet about the gathering Egypt protests against President Hosni Mubarak's 29-year reign.

Mr. Biden's comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down. About eight protesters and one policeman have died this week as Egypt has sought to bring down the heavy hand of the state against opponents. Since the US provides about $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt a year, the repressive apparatus of the state is seen by many in Egypt as hand in glove with the US. 

What an asshole!

When Is An Insult Not An Insult?

When you're too stupid to know that you've been insulted - sort of like that whole tree falling in the woods when no one's around to hear it thing. 

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor told ABC News that “any suggestion that this was an insult to the United States is just flat wrong.  As Lang Lang has stated before, he plays this song regularly because it is one of his favorite Chinese melodies, which is very widely known and popular in China for its melody.  Lang Lang played the song without lyrics or reference to any political themes during the entertainment portion of the State Dinner. He simply stated the song’s title and noted it was well known in China.”

Funny! That's not what they're saying in China.

The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades. CCP propaganda has always referred to the Korean War as the “movement to resist America and help [North] Korea.” The message of the propaganda is that the United States is an enemy—in fighting in the Korean War the United States’ real goal was said to be to invade and conquer China. The victory at Triangle Hill was promoted as a victory over imperialists.

The song Lang Lang played describes how beautiful China is and then near the end has this verse, “When friends are here, there is fine wine /But if the jackal comes /What greets it is the hunting rifle.” The “jackal” in the song is the United States.

Global Warming Conference Cancelled Due To Severe Winter Weather

All Gore! Call home.

The workshop, originally scheduled for 6 p.m., is being postponed in the face of a predicted winter storm that could drop between 4 and 8 inches on Central Virginia, with the heaviest snowfall between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Who Needs Gun Control?

When you have socialism? According to this guy, we could reduce our homicide rate by spreading poverty around equally.

The best predictor of high homicide rates in a region, they asserted, is income inequality. As a measure of such inequality, Daly and Wilson employed the so-called Gini index (named after its originator, the Italian statistician Corrado Gini), which ranks inequality on a scale ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. A region in which everyone has exactly the same income would have a Gini score of 0.0, whereas a region in which one person makes all the money has a score of 1.0.

Daly and Wilson found a strong correlation between high Gini scores and high homicide rates in Canadian provinces and U.S. counties. High Gini scores predicted homicides better than low average income, high unemployment and simpler measures. Basically, Daly and Wilson were blaming homicides not on poverty per se but on the collision of poverty and affluence, the ancient tug-of-war between haves and have-nots. The income-inequality hypothesis, Daly and Wilson asserted, can account for the "radically different national homicide rates" of the U.S. and Canada, the latter of which has more generous social-welfare programs (including universal health care) and hence fewer economic disparities.

Darrell Issa Reminds The Grandstanders: It's Not About You

House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa doesn't think that witnesses should be forced to sit around for an hour while committee members indulge their narcissism.How many people do they think turn on C-SPAN to watch this crap anyway?

At the start of the hearing, chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced the committee members would waive their opening statements and instead would have seven days to place them into the record.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking Democrat, immediately fought back questioning this deviation in traditional procedure, but Issa held his ground.


“I recognize that tradition is we hold the members, the witnesses here for sometimes an hour through opening statements.  That is a tradition that I intend to break,” Issa said.  “That doesn’t mean there won’t be opening statements in the future.”


Issa’s decision to omit opening statements at the hearing stems from his desire to hear from the witnesses, Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for TARP, and Tim Massad, a Treasury official, first instead of from the committee members.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich later interrupted and stated, “I’ve been in the Congress for 14 years, and I’ve never - it’s just unprecedented that the ranking member not be permitted to give an opening statement.”

Issa shot down Kucinich and continued to stop Rep. Stephen Lynch from voicing his opinion on the issue as well.

Plagiarist In Chief?

It would be tempting to say that Joe Biden has something to do with this. But the truth is that this is consistent with Obama's own history.

Had Obama or his writers been considerate enough to have informed listeners of where some of the president’s best lines and offered-up ideas originated, the speech might be remembered for its cutting and pasting of great and not-so-great moments of the past performance of others. After quoting Robert Kennedy early on, Obama tried to have his listeners believe that everything else he said that we might remember were his or his writers’ creations. Had the president submitted the text of his second State of the Union Address in the form of a college term paper, he would have been sent forthwith to the nearest academic dean. Once again, our public affairs are such that we have one standard for presidents and another for undergraduates.

WTF?

A reasonable question.

“His theme last night was wtf, winning the future,” she continued. “I thought, okay, that acronym - spot on. There were a lot of wtf moments throughout that speech.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48276.html#ixzz1CFAo14Os

Michelle Obama Is Taking Over Your Diet

And that's how it should be. And it's just a start.

Unemployment Claims Rise

Unexpectedly - sigh! Tell us again how you've broken the back of the recession Barack Hussein Obama.

New applications for unemployment benefits jumped last week by 51,000 to 454,000, partly because poor weather caused administrative backlogs in four Southern states, the Labor Department reported Thursday. A labor spokesman said snowstorms earlier in the month forced unemployment offices in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to open fewer hours and process fewer claims. A reduction in the backlog contributed to the sharp increase in new claims, the spokesman said. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected initial claims in the week ended Jan. 22 to rise to a seasonally adjusted 408,000 from a revised 403,000 the week before. Continuing claims, which reflect the number of people already receiving unemployment compensation, rose 94,000 to a seasonally adjusted 3.99 million in the week ended Jan. 15.

The Human Brain Is Shrinking

If we're so smart, then why is the human brain is shrinking. Personally, this is why I avoid tofu.

Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimeters to 1,350 cc, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball. The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion. “I’d call that major downsizing in an evolutionary eyeblink,” he says. “This happened in China, Europe, Africa—everywhere we look.” If our brain keeps dwindling at that rate over the next 20,000 years, it will start to approach the size of that found in Homo erectus, a relative that lived half a million years ago and had a brain volume of only 1,100 cc.

SOTU: Increasing Spending

While extolling frugality. Why not? He's still claiming to have created or saved millions of jobs.

Obama Calls For A Five Year Spending Freeze

While calling for new spending. Insincerity? Not even the normally worshipful Associated Press is buying this crap.

Saying "this is our generation's Sputnik moment," Obama said his forthcoming budget blueprint will include funding for biomedical research, information technology and clean energy -- all part of his push for "innovation" as a way to jump-start job creation.

To pay for it, Obama called on Congress to end tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry -- a move that would free up an estimated $4 billion. He called on the two parties to support an overhaul of the federal tax code as it applies to business.

"Get rid of the loopholes," Obama said. "Level the playing field. And use the savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years -- without adding to our deficit."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/white-house/2011/01/obama-calls-5-year-spending-freeze#ixzz1C9PzagbI

Obama Thumbs His Nose At The Greenies

People want jobs more than polar bears.

While President Obama called for an “investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people” in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, the president did not emphasize the need for continued investment in biofuels and clean energy technology.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/25/state-of-the-union-offers-little-for-environmental-community/#ixzz1C9NNId00

Nancy Pelosi Tries Her Hand At Comedy

Everybody's getting into the act. Well, the leftists saw their politics rejected and its well documented that you don't have to possess talent to succeed as a leftist comedienne.

Nancy Pelosi says Obama created more jobs in 2010 than G. W. Bush did in eight years. In a post-State of the Union speech interview, the fired speaker and current minority leader was quick to dish out more Democrat propaganda to shore up what she thought was an excellent SotU speech by the president. Proving the Democrats are anything but for a new, civil tone, contrary to the calls for just that by Obama, Pelosi also tore into the GOP, defaming them as the “Just Say No To Jobs Party” for their repeated opposition to Obama’s “job-creating” initiatives in his first two years. To cap her provocative interview, Pelosi then touted the apparent “higher ground” that she said her party took, after she just misrepresented facts and name-called her GOP colleagues.

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MSNBC Expands Into Comedy

MSNBC does not have a political agenda.

Bill Wolff, MSNBC's VP of primetime programming, who moonlights as Rachel Maddow's executive producer, let the side-splitter slip in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.  The subject matter was the MSM's fixation with Sarah Palin.  Wolff argued that Palin merits extensive coverage because she's "powerful and important" and what she says "matters."  Wolff should have quit while he was ahead, but apparently couldn't resist adding his fact-defying claim as to MSNBC's impartiality.

Quoth the Wolff-man:

"MSNBC does not have a political agenda. The idea that we’re beholden to one side or the other is ridiculous."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/01/26/hilarious-honcho-msnbc-does-not-have-political-agenda#ixzz1C9Je9a5j

School Starts Teaching After Dumping The Union

Somebody's ass is going to be in a crack after this screw up. Of course, I'm assuming that the mainstream media will actually report this.

“Three years ago, it was rated one of the worst schools in Colorado; located on turf between two rival gangs. But last May, 97% of the seniors received their diploma. Most will be the first in their family to go to college. And after the first year of the school’s transformation, the principal who made it possible wiped away tears when a student said ‘Thank you, Mrs. Waters, for showing… that we are smart and we can make it.’” Obama said, according to his prepared remarks.

Notably, a key factor in the school’s success was a move to ditch the rules of teachers’ unions.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/25/school-obama-cited-as-success-benefited-from-ditching-teachers-union-rules/#ixzz1C798K2Fq

Democrats Situational Ethics Regarding Redistricting

Would they even mention this if they had won the election?

As states get ready to redraw their congressional maps for the first time in a decade, two Democrats in Congress are resurrecting proposals they say will inject more transparency into the process and prevent the new boundaries from being drawn in a way that gives a lopsided advantage to one political party.


U.S. Reps. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, and Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, N.C., said the bills they intend to file this week would lead to more evenly balanced districts and ultimately a Congress that better reflects the will of voters.

Why I Won't Vote For Mike Huckabee

Seriously. If he were the Republican nominee in 2012, I might vote for Obama. A seriously substandard Republican is bad for the brand. Just look at what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the Republican Party in California.

Huckabee flatly denied being a "pro-life liberal," an accusation often made in certain quarters on the right. Not a trace of defensiveness could be detected on this point. To the contrary, the governor gave an all-out defense of his tax hikes while governor of Arkansas on the grounds that they were the only responsible course of action to repair state roads. He snorted with derision at "libertarians" who fail to recognize that "we don't have a health-care crisis in this country, but a health crisis." He spoke with passion and knowledge on the need for preventative care to bring down exorbitant costs. And then, without the least amount of prompting, he mustered a vigorous defense of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity. This was the "art of governing," he argued, rather than the cheap "science of campaigning." He finished his call to a compassionate conservatism by echoing recent comments made by Governor Daniels touting prison reform.

Threats Of Violence Force Restaurant To Change Menu

I have no doubt that the Tea Party is behind this.

An Arizona restaurant has decided to scrap plans to offer African lion meat in its tacos.



Bryan Mazon, the owner of Boca Tacos and Tequila, said Monday that his Tucson eatery has received "many threats" against the restaurant, family members, customers and vendors since he announced last week that he was taking prepaid orders for the exotic tacos.


Boca planned to start serving the lion tacos Feb. 16 at a cost of $8.75 apiece.


Mazon says his restaurant received orders from people around the world. The eatery already has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo, rattlesnake, oysters, turtle, duck and frog legs in its tacos.

The Saul Alinskyites Sharpen Their Knives For Paul Ryan

Number 11: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it." Get ready Paul Ryan. Chuck U. Schumer's coming after you. It sounds like the Democrats are planning to be a civil as ever.

Schumer's strategy reflects an effort to revitalize a party messaging operation that many Democrats say fell apart after Obama won the White House. Senate Democrats face a daunting political map in 2012 and are looking to launch early, coordinated attacks on Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) new majority. 

Schumer’s strategy is to highlight the link between GOP efforts to cut as much as $50 billion from the federal budget and a “roadmap” to create private accounts for Social Security and Medicare that Ryan created.

“This is an initial volley in a three-day effort — 72-hour window — to try to muddle Paul Ryan’s foray onto the national scene,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide. “We want to make the House Republicans or Republicans at large own his roadmap and what it would entail for Social Security.”

Gengis Khan - Environmentalist Hero

For cleansing the earth of humans. Maybe this guy should be a hero too.

Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

 

In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.

 

"It's a common misconception that the human impact on climate began with the large-scale burning of coal and oil in the industrial era," said Julia Pongratz, who headed the Carnegie Institution research project. "Actually, humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago by changing the vegetation cover of the Earth's landscapes when we cleared forests for agriculture."

Judge Restores Constitutional Rights

On a technicality. Ruling class unhappy.

"I'm disappointed because the NRA went shopping for the right court and the right judge and it looks like they found him," he said. "It was a politicized decision. ... In light of what just took place in Tucson as well as a string of shootings that took place last week in Los Angeles ... it’s disappointing. What we’re trying to do is to protect families and children, not trying to prevent anyone from lawfully getting ammunition.”

Keith Olbermann's Greatest Hits

From the man who lectured us on civility.

Examples:

“...the total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred — without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

"In Scott Brown, we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives.”

Not Only Do Democrats Lie About Jobs "Created or Saved"

They also exaggerate government layoffs.

Gov. Chris Gregoire recently told reporters that between 2009 and the end of the next budget in 2013 "we will lay off about 10,000 people overall in state employment and teachers." She also has said about 8,200 state workers already have lost their jobs and an additional 1,800 are expected to over the next two years.

 Untrue.

Who Owns The Democratic Party?

It's not you. More on that here.

"Here's why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that, the more stuff you put into it, the more enemies you make. And the reason the tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everyone else they were taking on and that is the plain and simple truth."

Dean's admission was especially shocking because for years study after study has shown that doctors are forced to practice defensive medicine -- ordering unneeded tests and procedures in case they were sued by trial lawyers looking for deep pockets and big paydays that come with multimillion-dollar settlements. Tort reforms that put limits on such unrestrained class-action medical lawsuits by trial lawyers would save $40 billion annually, and up to $400 billion over a decade.

But President Obama and his Democratic congressional allies in the 111th Congress dared not alienate the Big Lawyers special interest of class-action trial attorneys.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/special-reports/2011/01/special-report-examiner-special-report-plain-truth-about-who-owns-de#ixzz1C3RQRPI4

Francis Fox Piven Advocates Violence

And the New York Times blames Glenn Beck?

Although Stelter’s NYT’s article purports to be even handed, Stelter puts the onus not on Fox Piven for calling for violence which she denies, but on Beck for pointing out her statements on his Fox program. And Beck has as far as I have seen not only consistently argued for non-violence in all protest, but has been a strong advocate of First Amendment freedoms, and has quoted Piven’s own words accurately, and without distortion.

Israel Vindicated In Flotilla Raid

Somehow, the mainstream news media isn't spending as much energy reporting the truth as they did spreading the lie.

An Israeli inquiry into last year's deadly commando raid on a six-ship flotilla seeking to break the country's blockade of the Gaza Strip released its findings Sunday, exonerating the government, the military, and the soldiers involved in the incident — a report that comes as the flotilla's organizers prepare an even larger convoy for this spring.

The commission said that "the actions carried out by Israel on May 31, 2010, to enforce the naval blockade had the regrettable consequences of the loss of human life and physical injuries" but that "the actions taken were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law."

Immelt and Dailey Appointment Solidifies Anti-Free Market White House

Fascists need to control everything. Plus, companies that are dependent upon government mandates and subsidies cough up more in campaign contributions.

Since his party's November shellacking, President Obama has worked hard to show America that he is not anti-business, notably by picking General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Chicago banker Bill Daley for prominent posts in his administration. But their selection does not mean Obama is "pro-business," at least as the term is commonly understood. The president is no champion of open markets and free competition. His idea of being friendly to business means more government subsidies and corporate-government cooperation, both of which are mother's milk to Immelt and Daley.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/01/immelt-daley-and-obamas-antipathy-free-markets#ixzz1BxaqwL64

Style Over Substance

Obama expected to channel Jimmy Carter.

In his speech, the president will talk about jobs, the deficit and the future of the nation’s troubled economy, but most of the attention is going to be on the theatrics in the room. It will be a night defined by the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and murder of six bystanders in Tucson less than a month ago and the highly public soul-searching that has played out since then on the need for greater civility in political debate.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48036.html#ixzz1BxYyTEZE

Hitler Learns That Keith Olbermann Has Been Fired

Even Leftists Are Sick Of Keith Olbermann

At least the leftists a Salon. Good night and good riddance.

First reactions to Olbermann’s exit have broken along lines as partisan as they were predictable. That the New York Post would respond to the news with glee and The Huffington Post with a gnashing of teeth was hardly a shock.

But back in the real world, I cannot imagine I am the only viewer who is basically simpatico with Olbermann's worldview, but who had come to find him and his show utterly insufferable. The glibness, the pomposity, the narcissism -- all these foibles had, of late, reached gut-wrenching proportions.

Chinese Dictator Rubs Shit In Obama's Face

Smart diplomacy.

Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”

The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”