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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 24, 2010, 10:31 PM
“It is illegal to offer someone anything of importance or value in return for a vote, or running or not running for office.”
Dick Morris was on with Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Joe Sestak bribe scandal. Morris noted that if the Obama Administration offered Sestak a position in government in order to keep him from running for US Senator, this would be an impeachable offense.
VIDEO AT LINK
THE ANCHORESS ON TOM FRIEDMAN: “Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world. It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we’ve got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on ‘remaking America.’”
Two Americas, the stark contrast
—Purple Avenger
There's the political class, then there's everyone else.
...An overwhelming majority (88%) of the Political Class are confident in members of Congress to handle current economic problems. Nine-two percent (92%) of Mainstream voters don't share that confidence...
Ever wonder who
THEY are? The ones who are always out to get us - the dark shadowy cabals plotting to keep their jackboot heels on the necks of the common man? I'm starting to get a sense of who
THEY are.
Posted by Purple Avenger at
06:33 PM New Comments Thingy
Hillary asks China to spank North Korea? Pretty, pretty please! Do it for Obama!!
There is at least a 40% chance that the biggest danger to the Chinese was they might split a gut laughing at that. The torpedo (not) heard around the world may have been fired by the Chinese navy.
Think about it. China has been investing in super-quiet submarines. We know that, because of at least one embarassing incident where a Chines sub surfaced inside the defensive perimeter around a US aircraft carrier. North Korea is desperate for money, and undoubtedly sells torpedoes on the black market.
So the Chinese buy some North Korean torpedoes through deniable channels, pop them in a stealthy submarine, and take a gentle motor across the Yellow Sea. Then they wait off the west coast of North Korea until a suitable target comes along.
The Chinese get to answer a very important question — Is Obama really the spineless incompetent he appears to be, or is he playing a deep game? And by pretending to be North Koreans attacking South Koreans, the Chinese answer this question at very low risk to themselves. Link to this Comment
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 24, 2010, 9:49 PM
Alabama Does It Again…
Just when you thought Alabama politics could not get any better, along comes Rick Barber, Republican candidate for the Congress in Alabama’s Second District.
He gets it.
There’s still hope for America — As long as we have Alabama:
H/t Mizz Jodee
One woman, in every generation, to stand against the thugs, bullies, and all who want to do this nation harm.
One woman, with courage, conviction, and strength to every day take down the Left, beat them at their own game, and rally behind others the Left is attacking.
Sarah Heath Palin…the Slayer…is throwing her Facebook Ninja Stars again…this time at those attacking Nikki Haley in South Carolina.
Behold the might of a Momma Grizzly roaring back at the Left.
Now, can you ever in your lives imagine Romney, Pawlenty, Daniels, or anyone else in the cucumbers-and-mayonnaise-guild being as forceful or effective as this?
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UPDATE: When you read this latest Ninja Throwing Star, you can clearly see why we like Palin so much, on a personal as well as policy level.
First off, she talks like us.
She does not mince words and goes for the throat, which we love.
She really hammers the idiotic media, and she takes the fight right to the Left.
She does NOT play the usual Republican game of sitting around quietly, twiddling thumbs, and “ignoring all this” so they can “take the high road”.
The Left and the media, together, long ago taught Republicans to be battered housewives that take punch after punch without complaint, forever afraid to stand up and fight back because they DESPERATELY yearn for media love and affection, and have been told that will never come if they ever “don’t take the high road” and speak up.
Well, Palin’s in the kitchen now, folks, and she’s cooking with gas. When the media hits her or someone she supports, Palin grabs the nearest skillet and she starts whacking those responsible upside the head. This is Pioneer Feminism, and sign us up for as much of it as we can possibly get.
Republicans should have been behaving like this for the last 30 years.
May 24, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I posted this on the open thread, but it buttresses this post on Palin.
The war against Palin widens:
http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2010/05/scope-of-campaign-to-destroy-sarah.html
May 24, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Hillbuzz:
There are still Republicans and these psedo-intellectual types saying that Palin should not have defended Rand Paul. For example, some blogger named Dan Riehl, stated that Palin was “playing the victim card” by attacking MSM bias.
I wish we could banish the mealy-mouthed, dying-to-be-accepted-by-the-LSM mentality in Republican ranks. It is what sunk the McCain campaign, and its alive and well at the RNC and the NRSC. Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney (even George Bush) are the poster boys for this.
May 24, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Oh Lord. Ace @ Ace of Spades is utterly eviscerating this Will Folks guy over this Nikki Haley load. It’s crass, but it’s hilarious.
http://minx.cc/?post=301902
http://minx.cc/?post=301905
Just an observation — but as our current effete and blundering socialist president tanks our economy, insults our friends and allies, and bows and cowers before Islam and our other foreign enemies, it’s amazing to see the American Resistance to anti-exceptionalism coalesce around a valkyrie brigade of tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners, get-it-done, God-Bless-America, moms and other awesome women.
Sarah Palin, our nation’s greatest hope, Momma Grizzly in Chief.
Michele Bachmann, who should be our next Speaker of the House.
Liz Cheney, firebrand and truthteller.
Jan Brewer, the most courageous member of the GOP, standing up to Liberalism and protecting her people the way no man before her had the guts to do.
Nikki Haley, who should be the next Governor of South Carolina.
Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Mercy Otis Warren, and Betsy Ross would be very proud indeed.
When America needs it most, the ladies are answering that clarion call.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, John Thune, Jon Hunstman, Mitch Daniels, and the other wimpy men the Lamestream Media keeps trying to foist upon us as the 2012 GOP nominee are gathered at a lacy-tableclothed table, sipping lukewarm tea and eating soggy cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches discussing ways they could bend over more flexibly and serve as further appeasement to this president and the insane things he’s hellbent on doing to our nation.
READ IT ALL- at the link...
May 24, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Sarah Palin Defends Nikki Haley Against S.C. Blogger’s Affair Claim
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/24/sarah-palin-defends-nikki-haley-against-s-c-bloggers-affair-cl/
Just another way of lying when Nikki Haley is ahead of the polls.
"“Well, whaddaya know?” Palin wrote. “South Carolina’s conservative candidate, Nikki Haley, recently zipped to the front of the line in her state’s race for governor; and lo and behold, now accusations of an affair surface.”"
This is really bizarre.
Three agents of The Religion of Peace were apprehended breaking into Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. They claim they were looking for a lost wallet.
The catch: no games have been played in Heinz Field since December.
It’s now May.
The stadium has a customer service/guest affairs/security/lost-and-found department that’s probably open every weekday during business hours. These Muslims could have contacted someone about a lost wallet at any time. Without having to break into the stadium to look for it themselves.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports those apprehended as:
(1) Shazad Hosi Mehta (28) — Elmhurst, IL
(2) Adil A. Minocherhomjee (22) — La Jolla, CA
(3) Neville Noshir Medhora (27) — Austin, TX
As noted in the HotAir piece linked above, it’s just so strange three men from states so far apart would converge upon Heinz Field early one weekend morning, climb a fence, sneak into the stadium…FOR WHAT?
What were they up to?
Are Muslims doing this at other stadiums across the country too?
We’ve always been surprised, actually, that The Religion of Peace has never attempted to take out a major sporting event, Tom Clancy-style.
May 24, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Sooner or later O’s administration is going to run out of their luck with terrorism failures in the U.S. It doesn’t seem to be a priority with these idiots. When it happens Bambi will get on his pulpit and start his blame game.
His policies have given these radicals a green light to speed up their agenda here in the U.S.
May 25, 2010 at 3:02 am
Yes, Ma’am- I was one ( not the only one ) who covered it:
http://tinyurl.com/2dfaj49
The University of Oklahoma Bomber- Link Roundup
various links | 10-05-05 | the heavy equipment guy
May 24, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Be polite.
Be professional.
Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
That said, too many people walk around completely oblivious to their surroundings and the people on the street. So, when something happens, they are caught completely unaware – and have to immediately from Condition White to Condition Red; usually, with bad, sad results.
You need to be aware of what is going on around you at all times — Condition Green. If you see something hinky, you move up to Condition Orange – on the extreme alert and ready to react if need be. From there, if the need arises, you move to Condition Red – weapon out and ready to stop the threat.
We are going to start seeing more attacks in places like malls, department stores, arenas, etc. Any place there are a lot of targets. Mumbai was NOT a one-off, people. There are people out there who hate us just because we’re not them – and they want to kill us. That’s not paranoid – just realistic.
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05/25/2010 1:54:27 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
So, America- how many times does this race-hustling pimp have to bitch-slap you before you wake up to what you have put in office?
Maybe 15 years ago, I’d have had an ounce of sympathy. When these good folks invaded my home area en masse and turned it into a border town, neighbors from hell that have harrassed us for almost 3 years straight, and one of these fine fellows tried to murder a cop with a knife across the street from my home (for which the newspapers didn’t bother to cover), I’ve had just about enough. Deport them all, either by force, or by their own accord. What part of “illegal” is so hard to comprehend ?
Send in the Klowns:
Gun Rights: Not happy with interfering in our internal affairs by savaging Arizona's new immigration law, the president of Mexico wants to shred our Second Amendment too. And the mayor of Chicago wants to help.
There stood Mexican President Felipe Calderon before Congress, blaming America for the violence on his side of the border and, among other things, the guns that fuel the Mexican drug war that has claimed more than 23,000 Mexican lives since he took office in 2006. Rather than taking responsibility himself, he shoved the blame on America.
It would all stop, he implied, if America would reinstate a ban on semiautomatic weapons. The violence in Mexico, he said, "coincides, at least, with the lifting of the assault weapons ban in 2004."
He repeated the canard that in the past three years Mexican authorities have seized some 75,000 weapons, more than 80% of them traceable to the United States. Rubbish on both counts.
First, Mexico sends only about one-third of its confiscated weapons to the U.S. for tracing. Of that third, many can't be traced at all due to efforts to remove registration markings.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
And Now!
In the midst of the worst recession in memory?
Hike everybody's expenses!
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:53 AM
The democrats in Congress finally jumped into action. The tax-and-spend liberals decided the best thing they could do to help out in the Gulf after the disastrous oil spill was to quadruple the gas tax.
What a complete stunner.
Here comes higher gas prices for everyone thanks once again to democrats.
The AP reported:
Responding to the massive BP oil spill, Congress is getting ready to quadruple—to 32 cents a barrel—a tax on oil used to help finance cleanups. The increase would raise nearly $11 billion over the next decade.
The tax is levied on oil produced in the U.S. or imported from foreign countries. The revenue goes to a fund managed by the Coast Guard to help pay to clean up spills in waterways, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
The tax increase is part of a larger bill that has grown into a nearly $200 billion grab bag of unfinished business that lawmakers hope to complete before Memorial Day. The key provisions are a one-year extension of about 50 popular tax breaks that expired at the end of last year, and expanded unemployment benefits, including subsidies for health insurance, through the end of the year.
The House could vote on the bill as early as Tuesday. Senate leaders hope to complete work on it before Congress goes on a weeklong break next week.
Lawmakers want to increase the current 8-cent-a-barrel tax on oil to make sure there is enough money available to respond to oil spills. At least 6 million gallons of crude have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico since a drilling rig exploded April 20 off the Louisiana coast.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have said they expect BP to foot the bill for the cleanup.
“Taxpayers will not pick up the tab,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday.
BP executives told Congress last week they would pay “all legitimate claims” for damages. But the government needs upfront money to respond to spills, as well as money to pay for cleanups when the responsible party is unable to pay, or is unknown. Money spent from the fund can later be recovered from the company responsible for the spill.
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05/25/2010 6:18:24 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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May 25, 2010 11:20 AM by Doug Powers
President Obama went to Arlington Cemetery to lay the wreath last year, but this year Obama’s handing the wreath to Plugs and heading off to the more welcoming political climes of Chicago:
Obama will however make it back to Washington in time next week to honor Paul McCartney, who has sacrificed so much for the freedoms we enjoy.
Boy, I’m starting to think that West Point speech wasn’t from the heart.82 Comments
"That’s what you get when you elect an anti-American, ineligible man. There was a reason the founders insisted on “natural born citizen”. "
"Another vacation? Is he taking a vacation from his vacation? "
"If Obama keeps taking vacations, he is going to have to find a “guest president” to fill in for him."
"Words absolutely fail me. What else can this clown do to show his contempt for the military and those who gave all?"
MOAR rude comments about Kommander Zer0 here: Posted by Ace at
12:31 PM New Comments Thingy
19 I honestly believe that Obama has already given up on any hope of a second term. As a matter of fact, I think there never was a hope of that. From the start, Obama has been only a Manchurian Candidate on a kamakazi mission to destroy capitalism beyond the point of no return.
At what point do even blacks start to become embarrassed that he is their ambassador to greatness as a people? This oil spill is clearly his Katrina and its only getting worse. Even the MSM is turning on him.
And why should we be surprised that the least experienced man ever elected to the White House should govern like - well..., like he has no experience?
The Culture Wars Are Turning. " It’s partly the Tea Parties, but it’s more than that. It’s the zeitgeist. The times, they are definitely a-changin’. Liberalism, as we have known it for decades, is on the defensive. With the welfare state unsustainable, it has nowhere to turn and its adherents are turning tail in every direction. They are mad and they are, in many cases, unmoored. Lifetime ideologies are beginning to crumble. Personality constructs are at risk."
...when you start calling domestic differences “sedition,” it starts to sound like you hate the American political process.
Reynolds: “They told me if I voted for … oh, hell, this is getting too easy.”*
HotAir: Grow a set, lefties. Stop qualifying the “sedition” slur and just say it.
NRO’s The Corner notes the lefty embrace of sedition laws. Woodrow Wilson was a big fan.
A THUG TOO FAR, PART THREE. Plus this, from Big Journalism: As D.C. Cops Fine-Tune Their Story, Where’s the Washington Post On the SEIU Protest At the Bank Of America Exec’s Home? If he were a doctor who performed abortions or a “civil rights” leader they’d be in full-blown have-you-no-decency-sir mode. But since he’s an Enemy Of The Regime, not so much. Still, the precedent has been noted.
“LITTLE NOTICED” is the new “unexpected.”
Un
President
Ed...
RADLEY BALKO: Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones: How aggressive SWAT tactics contributed to the death of a 7-year-old Detroit girl.
Y2Kyoto: Hide The Decline!
Uh oh...
A survey in February by the BBC found that only 26 percent of Britons believed that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely manmade,” down from 41 percent in November 2009. A poll conducted for the German magazine Der Spiegel found that 42 percent of Germans feared global warming, down from 62 percent four years earlier.
[...]
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, said at the meeting of environmentalists here. “This is happening in the context of overwhelming scientific agreement that climate change is real and a threat. But the poll figures are going through the floor.”
'Yes, when you tell a lie and then people (inevitably) find out about it, your poll numbers "go through the floor."'
By Michelle Malkin • May 25, 2010 10:19 AM
Former top federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has been one of America’s bravest and most stalwart warriors against Islamic jihad. He’s battled them in court. He’s exposed them here at home and around the globe.
His new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is out today, and I urge you all to get a copy — and then share it with all your friends and family. If you care about the survival of our country, McCarthy’s work is must-read. He thoroughly demonstrates how our external Muslim enemies join with out internal Alinskyite enemies to destroy all we hold dear.
You can follow him on Twitter here.
His latest piece at NRO asks trenchantly as always: How long can a people remain a People when its leaders side with its foes? McCarthy writes:
A number of years ago, at some risk to myself and my family, I prosecuted savage jihadists who had made themselves enemies of the United States. I was lauded for doing so by the Clinton administration. Though I disagreed with that administration philosophically, and particularly with its conception of international terrorism as a crime problem, I praised the much-needed overhaul by which it put teeth in our counterterrorism laws. Our disagreement was over the best way to protect the country, not over the imperative that the country be protected. Our debate was the traditional Right-Left debate.
Moreover, as a New York lawyer who made no secret of having conservative views, I was a decided minority, even among my fellow prosecutors. But that only mattered in the occasional, friendly joust over a beer. Day to day, our politics had nothing to do with how we went about our jobs. At the office, I had friends across the ideological spectrum. Most of them were from the political left, but we liked and respected one another. The bond we shared, the sense that we were doing something good for the nation we all loved, was stronger than any ideological divisions.
Why does that matter now? Because, for the first time in our history, we have a president who would be much more comfortable sitting in a room with Bill Ayers than sitting in a room with me. We have a governing class that is too often comfortable with anti-American radicals, with rogue and dysfunctional governments that blame America for their problems, and with Muslim Brotherhood ideologues who abhor individual liberty, capitalism, freedom of conscience, and, in general, Western enlightenment. To this president and his government, I am the problem.
Bullseye.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 12:47 PM
Elizabeth Scalia
A quick tear across the tabs:
Private Pay Shrinks to Historic Lows. Hey, our newest car is nine years old. We’d love to help out the automakers by buying something new, but between the taxes, the raise-freeze, increased costs and so forth, it’s not happening this year.
On the same subject, Ed Morrissey says that if we haven’t figured it out before, now is a good time to understand that we’re in serious trouble, since Obama has decided to double down on the very disaster he whines about inheriting.
Chilling. But don’t worry, while your 401K is dying, the union pensions will be getting a bail out.
If Obama makes us poor enough, will he redistribute the wealth of the union/fed workers back to the rest of us, privately employed, folk? That’s sort of a new order of things, isn’t it?
Free Enterprise vs Government Control
Financial Reform Bill “a disaster”. Who is surprised?
Gold rising. Wish I could afford some; see above.
Confucius Classroom. California schools teaching elementary school students Chinese, with China footing the bill. The teacher says, “with their support, it’s a lot easier.” The funniest line: the schools are convinced they have enough “checks and balances” to keep out propaganda, you know, like the Texas schools social studies books! China-lovin’ Tom Friedman will be so happy his heart will come out of his chest and fall down on the floor!
Sorry. Tom Friedman’s happy heart reminded me of that scene. I am sick, remember, and on cough meds. Thank you, Dong!
This Sestak story reminds me of the bungling, corrupt leadership of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. I don’t think the story is going away no matter how many times the WH investigates itself and finds that it always never said it would give Sestak a job. Or at least there is “no proof”. Kind of like “no controlling legal authority.”
Go to Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day? Not me, I’m just the Commander in Chief. Obama seems profoundly bored by any aspect of the presidency that does not advance his domestic agenda. What does not bore him, inconveniences him, like the oil spill in the Gulf. This will be his second “getaway” since that happened, what, 35 days ago? And patriotic stuff like observing Memorial Day appears to both bore and inconvenience.
I know, it’s tiresome, but the thought goes round and round: just imagine if it were Bush.
Discretionary hate speech
A story that bears keeping in mind, down the road. I too wonder if these three will show up for their court date. Sounds very odd, indeed.
The Banker and the Missionary Inspiring.
“I kind of see myself as a man of God, and being like Joseph”. Also inspiring.
Poisoned PDF Antidote
Reclaiming language
An interesting sounding book – also read this piece by Spengler.
Yes, this IS a great commercial. And it makes me long to have bad-ass sock monkey with a “Mom” tattoo!
Coupla Catholic guys sittin’ around talking spirituality and gnosticism
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05/25/2010 11:47:33 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Yep- death is so permanent...
Mr. 'bow to the terrorists and alienate our allies' has made the world a very unstable place.
Victor Davis Hanson expands on the growing risk of nuclear war.
Har, har, har-dee har har...
The fault of:
Bush
SUV's
Tea Party
Republicans
Conservatives
Christianity
Balding White Guys in Red Shirts
Interesting post on the oildrum.com
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6493
With appropriate caveats:
BP contracted Schlumberger (SLB) to run the Cement Bond Log (CBL) test that was the final test on the plug that was skipped. The people testifying have been very coy about mentioning this, and you’ll see why.
SLB is an extremely highly regarded (and incredibly expensive) service company. They place a high standard on safety and train their workers to shut down unsafe operations.
SLB gets out to the Deepwater Horizon to run the CBL, and they find the well still kicking heavily, which it should not be that late in the operation. SLB orders the “company man” (BP’s man on the scene that runs the operation) to dump kill fluid down the well and shut-in the well. The company man refuses. SLB in the very next sentence asks for a helo to take all SLB personel back to shore. The company man says there are no more helo’s scheduled for the rest of the week (translation: you’re here to do a job, now do it). SLB gets on the horn to shore, calls SLB’s corporate HQ, and gets a helo flown out there at SLB’s expense and takes all SLB personel to shore.
6 hours later, the platform explodes.
Pick your jaw up off the floor now. No CBL was run after the pressure tests because the contractor high-tailed it out of there. If this story is true, the company man (who survived) should go to jail for 11 counts of negligent homicide.
OK...
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05/25/2010 2:15:33 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Chime in with your theories on what’s going on here, but Robert Gibbs sweats profusely whenever the media asks a question about the bribe the White House offered Joe Sestak to drop out of the Pennsylvania primary so that Arlen Specter could have won the Democrat nomination.
Gibbs flat out refuses to answer these questions. If Saturday Night Live really did its job, they’d lampoon this by having Gibbs start reading favorite family recipes instead of talking about what he was asked. ”Why did the White House offer Sestak that bribe?”. ”Uh, here’s Aunt Sally’s pound cake recipe. First, you need some butter, then…”
It really is that bad.
Our gut feeling is this business has legs...
May 25, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Notice that Axelwad keeps saying “there is no evidence that Sestak was offered a job for dropping out”. He didn’t say they didn’t offer him a job. He said there is no evidence that they offered him a job. Lawyer speak.
"...a writer on American Thinker magazine believes that this is the Clinton payback..."
Here’s the article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/the_senator_from_sandy_berger.html
The... crime would be Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest: Acceptance or solicitation to obtain appointive public office. There’s a good article about it here:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/22/specter-race-scandal-sestak-ac/
May 25, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Sestak Bribery Impeachable Offense:
Video courtesy Fox News:
http://tinyurl.com/29urjvz
BLACKFIVE:
Most of the Navy guys I know would not let themselves be called a liar by a sad sack like Robert Gibbs if they weren’t, you know, lying.
COVERUP? Justice Department declines to appoint independent counsel for Sestak case. Remember Nixon & Watergate?
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 9:28 PM
Jay Sekulow from the American Center for Law and Justice told Sean Hannity tonight that if the Obama Administration does not come clean on the Sestak bribery scandal, and come clean quickly, this “Tempest in a Teapot” is about to blow. And, it could blow back on the Obama Administration and senior officials very significantly.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d have a President who’d expand clandestine military actions throughout the Middle East. And they were right! Ah, the fierce moral urgency of change. Remember that? You gullible fools were played like a violin by Duh!1...
MASS DEMOCRAT DEFECTION: Liberals Attack Obama’s Response to Oil Spill Crisis.
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 12:13 PM
Here’s an instant classic by Chris Muir…
Related… Libtalkers Worry Public Outrage Shifting Toward Obama.
Previously:
** Thick Blobs of Tar Begin Washing Up on Alabama Shore – Obama Goes Golfing
** Oil Spill Reaches Louisiana Coast… Obama Goes Golfing
** Obama to Take Second Vacation This Month Since Gulf Oil Rig Explosion
By Michelle Malkin • May 25, 2010 03:34 PM
Scroll for updates…
Photoshop credit: Applecross Media and Big Fur Hat
The most glaring sign that President Obama’s announcement of border funding and National Guard troops is one big, phony charade? He apparently didn’t even bother to let the governor of besieged Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, know about it. Via Yahoo News:
The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to improve border security, an Arizona congresswoman said.
Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords also said in a statement released Tuesday that President Barack Obama will request $500 million in funding for border security.
Part of Giffords’ district borders Mexico.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s spokesman said the governor hadn’t been told of the move prior to her office being contacted by The Associated Press and had no immediate comment.
I called out the Bush administration and Republicans countless times when they used border security as a campaign ploy and performed Get Tough Theater only to flake out on systemic immigration enforcement reform — and then drop the shamnesty shoe.
This is no different. Both political parties in Washington reek on the issue.
The only thing worse than open-borders Obama exploiting our illegal immigration woes is open-borders Johnny-come-lately John McCain continuing to do the same.
Until politicians with proven integrity and commitment to securing this country against invasion step into the leadership vacuum, Arizona’s DIY policy on border security is the only trustworthy one:
Do It Yourself.
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Update: GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions responds:
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement today regarding reports that President Obama plans to request funding for 1,200 National Guard troops to be sent to the U.S.–Mexico border:
“The only thing that matters is whether the president—the Chief Executive and the top law enforcement officer of the country—is personally committed to ending illegality at the border. Announcing and taking specific steps can be helpful, but only if it’s part of a determined and consistent effort to fix the problem. The president’s decision to send up to 1,200 troops to the border, while helpful, will not fix the problem. Indeed, it is less than a third of the troops ordered to the border by President Bush.
“Just days ago, members of President Obama’s administration gave Mexican President Felipe Calderón a standing ovation as Calderón proceeded to slander the state of Arizona for its efforts to protect its citizens. President Obama’s chief immigration officer, John Morton, announced that he might not enforce immigration crimes reported by Arizona officials. And, both the Attorney General and the Homeland Security Secretary have attacked the Arizona law, though they later admitted to having never actually read it.
“It is critical that President Obama make border security a true priority and send a clear signal that his administration is dedicated to consistently enforcing the rule of law. Sending National Guard troops to the border can be an important step in the right direction, but it should be followed with a commitment to vigorous worksite enforcement, full cooperation with state and local law enforcement officials, strong support for completion of the border fence, and all other necessary border measures. If these policies are resolutely done, the massive current illegality will be dramatically improved.”
Update: Mexico tells us how to police our border:
Regarding the Administration’s decision to send 1,200 National Guard servicemen to the US Southern border, the Government of Mexico trusts that this decision will help to channel additional US resources to enhance efforts to prevent the illegal flows of weapons and bulk cash into Mexico, which provide organized crime with its firepower and its ability to corrupt.
Additionally, the Government of Mexico expects that National Guard personnel will strengthen US operations in the fight against transnational organized crime that operates on both sides of our common border and that it will not, in accordance to its legal obligations, conduct activities directly linked to the enforcement of immigration laws.
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 9:57 PM
Ace of Spades nailed it.
The Obama Administration announced today that they would send 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border. Ace said it was just cover for the Administration so that they could go after the Arizona immigration law. Ace was right. In fact, today’s announcement was just a diversion. Barack Obama knew before today’s troop announcement that his Justice Department would challenge Arizona’s immigration law. His ingrained radicalism is predictable.
Tonight, a team of radical Obama Justice Department attorneys recommended that the U.S. government challenge the Arizona state immigration law.
FOX News reported:
A team of Justice Department attorneys reviewing the new immigration law in Arizona has recommended that the U.S. government challenge the state law in federal court, but the recommendation faces an uncertain future and tough scrutiny from others in the Justice Department, sources with knowledge of the process tell Fox News.
Staff attorneys within the Justice Department recently sent higher-ups the recommendation. At the same time, the Justice Department’s Civil Division, which oversees the majority of immigration enforcement issues for the department, has drafted a “civil complaint” that would be filed in federal court in Arizona, sources said.
The draft complaint challenges the Arizona law as unconstitutional, saying it is illegal because it impedes federal law, according to the sources, who would not offer any more details about the draft complaint or the arguments made in it.
Two weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers such an issue was being considered by Justice Department lawyers reviewing the new law, which outlines and possibly broadens the authority of police to detain those suspected of being in the country illegally.
The Arizona immigration law reinforces this national immigration law that has been in effect for 70 years.
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BRING BACK DDT (CONT’D): More on Florida’s dengue fever outbreak. “Last August, an alert doctor in upstate New York realized that one of his patients, whose only recent travel had been to Key West, Fla., had dengue — a mosquito-borne virus that causes joint pain so severe it is nicknamed “break-bone fever” in Latin America and Asia. According to last week’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida health authorities have since found 27 more cases, all in Key West, the last in April. . . . Although there have been outbreaks along the Texas-Mexico border since 1980, the disease had not been seen in Florida since 1934. Unlike malaria, which is caused by a parasite, dengue is a virus, and there is no cure.”
BUT OF COURSE: Rear-end collisions jump at red-light camera intersections in West Palm Beach. “Rear-end collisions more than doubled and accidents increased overall in the first 70 days of red-light cameras in West Palm Beach compared to the same period of 2009, traffic records reviewed by The Palm Beach Post show.”
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05/26/2010 12:54:29 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Oh well, it was all more or less predicted 7 months ago here on FR right after the famous November Tokyo "Bow" by Obama, but really a no-brainer...many of us saw it coming. Because we know how Asians in general and North Koreans in particular think and react to IMAGERY. Potent imagery:
"To: Candor7 Yep. This brilliant man just really stepped in the guano, didnt he, here in Asia? They will play him like a stradivarious all around Asia now, particularly in Beijing, and even where he is not going, in enemy Pyongyang. This was the tone he set at the OAS meeting where Chavez stepped up and used him, whereupon Zelaya in Honduras was immediately emboldened to try to seize unending power through a referendum coup and had to be constitutionally removed, I am convinced (looking at the timeline). This is dangerous. This imagery can become the precursors to the precursors to war, because it emboldens the enemy in their psych profiling of our leaders and whether they are made of "the stuff" or not. Now watch North Korea REALLY start to test him, to rattle his cage to see if he gets the squirts, by stepping up provocations in the Yellow (West) Sea along the NLL and the DMZ, prior to him going to Seoul next week. 211 posted on 11-14-2009 16:28:04 by AmericanInTokyo"
Meanwhile, The Obama family will take their second vacation this month...
Not to mention, the Illegal Alien Invasion:
One of our "betters" speaks:
And I agree- this sort of paramilitary nonsense has no place in America- it's the stuff of bananna boat "republics..."
But if the economy was to fail, you'd see a lot of desperate people doing really weird things. A FReeper once posted an experience he had a couple of years back when some computer systems at his local walmart failed (for debit/credit cards), and the ATM machine was not working either, and in 20 minutes people were complaining about people with cash being able to buy. In a very short span of time people can truly degenerate.
The Voice of Lunacy speaks:
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“LEFTIST REBELS?!?”
It was the freaking Shining Path Maoist Communists, who butchered thousands of Peruvian peasants with the viciousness of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge!
When the Shining Path Maoist Communists took over the Japanese embassy, and offered to slit the throats of everyone inside, President Fujimori sent in a special police unit that sent every one of the evil bastards straight to Hell.
Lori Berensen was arrested in a Shining Path Maoist Communist safe house in Lima. The place was full of guns and explosives, and plans to conduct a horrific terrorist campaign against innocent people.
Don’t for an instant let the left or the MSM pretend that the Shining Path Maoist Communists were anything better, or deserved to live any more than Nazi concentration camp guards, cannibal serial killers, Thuggee stranglers, or any other of the human monsters who have done their part to redefine the word “evil” throughout human history.
“...Our position is very clear. We reject and condemn human rights because they are bourgeois, reactionary, counterrevolutionary rights, and are today a weapon of revisionists and imperialists, principally Yankee imperialists.”
– Communist Party of Peru, Sobre las Dos Colinas
Berenson was involved with the Tupac Amaru, not the Shining Path. The Tupac Amaru were Castroites, not Maoists. They were the ones who attacked the Japanese Embassy.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:41:50 PM by
Jacob Kell
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posted on
05/26/2010 3:02:56 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Son of a Bitch! Read this:
CHANGE: ( sure "hope" yer luvvin' it... )
Price of single-family homes drop for sixth straight month. This is actually good news, since that’s what it will take to clear the market, but it also means a lot of families are seeing a major deterioration in household wealth. And things may be worse than they look...
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:
Death of the Postmodernist Dream. “As crises mount abroad and voters’ anger grows at home, Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death. . . . So the welfare state is discredited. In the past, we used to be warned that static population growth, vast public-sector employment, early and generous retirement benefits, and high taxes were not sustainable. In recent years, those lectures were caricatured as partisan or hypothetical. No longer. The Greek meltdown — with Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain on the brink — has shown that European socialism does not work. Bankruptcy, not politics, is the final arbiter: Individuals, firms, and nations either buy particular bonds or they don’t. And a nation like Greece, in turn, either pays what it has borrowed or it doesn’t. All the op-eds in the
New York Times cannot change that fact.”
OBAMACARE’S
COOKED BOOKS. LIBERALS, DEMS OBJECT TO THE TERM
“ObamaCare.” Funny, it was supposed to be so wildly popular that you’d think they’d want credit. . .
BOOOOOOSH!
In an effort to better corral the BP oil spill story — for which Obama is being increasingly scrutinized, even by some of his most diehard media fluffers — Democrats have broken out an old standby: it’s all Bush’s fault.
Reached for comment, John Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, Regis, shrugged. “Yeah, well, what’d you expect? They’re assholes.”
‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome chimp?’
Someone, please, tell me again how smart Barack Obama is. Because I've lost sight of any proof of that statement.
First up, while the BP oil spill continues unchecked, he announces that he's going to take a break from keeping his boot on their neck to enjoy a little vacation time back in sweet home Chicago. On Memorial Day. Leaving the traditional laying of a wreath at the Tomb Of The Unknowns to Sheriff Joe.
Now, Barack Obama has no place at Arlington Cemetery. He never served in the military, has never shown any particular respect or reverence for the military, and spent way, way too much time palling around with someone who actively plotted to kill members of the military.
But the President of the United States... that's another story. It's become a tradition for the Commander In Chief, on that solemn day, to pay his respects to those who have fallen in our nation's service. It's a subtle reinforcement of the fact that our military is subject to civilian command, as well as the duly elected representative of the American people to show that loyalty, honor, and respect are a two-way street.
Media Matters, in defending Obama's decision to blow off this, cites two examples from the last 30-odd years when presidents didn't attend. (It's occasionally fun to use the "other side" as a source, and I'm perfectly content to let those tools do the rope-weaving before I hang them with it.) In 1983, President Reagan was attending an economic summit, so he sent a Deputy Secretary of Defense in his stead.
What they don't mention was that the Deputy in question was a distinguished World War II veteran, Navy ace, and former test pilot who, coincidentally enough, died barely two weeks ago. So, in that case, I think Reagan found a suitable proxy.
((On the other hand, in 1985 he pleaded guilty to participating in an insider-trading scheme where he didn't personally profit, but helped others, so he wasn't exactly a sterling character, but that wasn't known at the time he stood in for Reagan. But I digress.))
The other example was President George H. W. Bush in 1992, who -- like Obama -- took a family vacation and sent his vice-president, Dan Quayle, in his stead. But unlike Biden, Quayle had a military background -- an entirely undistinguished stint in the Illinois National Guard. And Bush himself was, like Reagan's proxy, a distinguished Navy pilot from World War II.
Another time Media Matters managed to overlook was in 2002, when George W. Bush skipped it. At the time, he was in Europe, and he paid his respects at Normandy.
Meanwhile, Obama is showing just how serious he's taking Arizona's concern about its southern border. After years of yelling, pleading, and begging, they're finally getting some National Guard support along the southern border. Obama finally heard them.
But apparently not too clearly. He's sending a grand total of 1,200 Guard members to cover the entire border, four states' worth. And he didn't bother to notify the states' members of Congress about it in advance.
VAN SUSTEREN: ...You and Senator Kyl have been writing the president on multiple occasions and for quite some time. Did the president actually respond to you and say, Senator McCain, I can't give you 6,000, but I can give you 1,200, or did you just learn about this in the press? MCCAIN: We learned about it in the press. And the interesting thing was that at the luncheon that the president came to with Republican senators, the issue came up and I discussed it with the president, including the fact that we had to secure the borders first, otherwise, we would be faced with a continuous problem of illegal immigrants. And Jon Kyl mentioned the supplemental and that we needed additional troops, and the president didn't say anything then. And a half hour afterwards, there was a statement or a press release from the administration saying they had 1,200 -- they were sending 1,200 additional. So -- and at the same time, I had an amendment on the floor, which we'll be voting on tomorrow, to fund 6,000 additional troops. Interesting -- all these are interesting coincidences.
I can't even find any accounts of whether he notified their governors first.
In both cases, while not strictly legally mandated, it's considered a common courtesy to notify the political leaders of a state before you send in the troops. Back during Hurricane Katrina, President Bush went to great pains to keep the governors of the afflicted states -- even the astonishingly incompetent Democratic governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco -- in the loop as much as possible.
My own theory is that since three of the four states have Republican governors (California's Schwarzenegger, Arizona's Brewer, and Texas' Perry), politics probably played a part. New Mexico's Bill Richardson might have gotten a tip-off, but there's an old saw: "never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence." Considering how inept this administration has proven thus far, I'll grant them the benefit of the doubt and guess they only thought of Brewer and Perry, and said "screw 'em." They simply didn't think about it enough to realize the full implications of the deployment.
The biggest problem Obama seems to have is that the guy just won't listen when others try to tell him he's making a mistake. Worse, he's surrounded himself with tons of people who won't even try to tell him.
Remember that Obama attended Harvard Law School? There's an old saying that comes to mind: "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."
Because they already know it all. Just ask them.
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posted on
05/26/2010 7:50:57 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Thugocracy 2.0--
An American working in Mexico
From the other side of the fence...
"I spent five years working in Mexico. I worked under a tourist Visa for three months and could legally renew it for three more months. After that you were working illegally. I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the FM3 approval.
"During that six months our Mexican and U.S. attorneys were working to secure a permanent work visa called a 'FM3'. It was in addition to my U.S. passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the country. Barbara's was the same, except hers did not permit her to work.
"To apply for the FM3, I needed to submit the following notarized originals (not copies): 1. Birth certificate for Barbara and me. 2. Marriage certificate. 3. High school transcripts and proof of graduation. 4. College transcripts for every college I attended and proof of graduation. 5. Two letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked for at least one year. 6. A letter from the St. Louis Chief of Police indicating that I had no arrest record in the U.S. and no outstanding warrants and, was "a citizen in good standing". 7. "Finally, I had to write a letter about myself that clearly stated why there was no Mexican citizen with my skills and why my skills were important to Mexico. We called it our 'I am the greatest person on Earth' letter. It was fun to write."
"All of the above were in English that had to be translated into Spanish and be certified as legal translations, and our signatures notarized. It produced a folder about 1.5 inches thick with English on the left side & Spanish on the right."
"Once they were completed Barbara and I spent about five hours, accompanied by a Mexican attorney, touring Mexican government office locations and being photographed and fingerprinted at least three times at each location, and we remember at least four locations where we were instructed on Mexican tax, labor, housing, and criminal law and that we were required to obey their laws or face the consequences. We could not protest any of the government's actions or we would be committing a felony. We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and bribes to complete the process. When this was done we could legally bring in our household goods that were held by U.S. Customs in Laredo, Texas. This meant we had rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our goods. There were extensive fees involved here that the company paid. We could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates and under contract and compliance with Mexican law."
"We were required to get a Mexican driver's license. This was an amazing process. The company arranged for the licensing agency to come to our headquarters location with their photography and fingerprint equipment and the laminating machine. We showed our U.S. license, were photographed and fingerprinted again and issued the license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not take a written or driving test and never received instructions on the rules of the road. Our only instruction was to never give a policeman your license if stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it against the inside window away from his grasp. If he got his hands on it you would have to pay ransom to get it back."
"We then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the number of our FM3 as our ID number. The company's Mexican accountants did this for us and we just signed what they prepared. It was about twenty legal size pages annually."
"The FM3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after paying more fees."
"Leaving the country meant turning in the FM3 and certifying we were leaving no debts behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants, tickets or liens) before our household goods were released to customs."
"It was a real adventure and if any of our Senators or Congressmen went through it once they would have a different attitude toward Mexico. The Mexican government uses its vast military and police forces to keep its citizens intimidated and compliant. They never protest at their capitol or government offices, but do protest daily in front of the United States Embassy. The U.S. Embassy looks like a strongly reinforced fortress and during most protests the Mexican military surrounds the block with their men standing shoulder to shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests are never shown on U.S. or Mexican TV. There is a large public park across the street where they do their protesting. Anything can cause a protest such as proposed law changes in California or Texas."
Please feel free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being hard on the illegals.
DAMMIT!
When are these vermin going to stop squandering our money?
Carville’s a liar. Of course, he knows why obama is doing nothing. And Carville would approve of this tactic if the disaster were anywhere but his own back yard.
Obama’s doing nothing in order to capitalize on a crisis; the hope among the Axelrod-Emanuel-Obama axis of evil is that the environmental damage will be so severe and long lasting that big oil will be forever demonized in the minds of all Americans, and domestic drilling will be doomed for all time.
And the dirty little secret is that, even if he did decide to act, even with the power of the entire US executive department at his disposal, he wouldn’t know what to do...
WRONG! President Bush was planning for Katrina BEFORE she ever made landfall. It was Ma Blanco and Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin who dropped the ball on preparations for the hurricane. Even afterwards, it was the responsibility of the State's Governor to ask the President for assistance, though she was in charge of her own National Guard, so she could have sent them to NO at any time.
In Katrina, the Bush Administration had the Coast Guard in the air within 24 hours, plucking people off their rooftops. FEMA was waiting outside the city, not being allowed to go in because the media was putting out reports (erroneous it turns out) that rescue workers were being fired on by who knows who! FEMA wasn't going to place its folks in harms way, so they held off til there was protection for them. The blame for so many people living in squalid conditions until FEMA could get there should be laid squarely at the feet of the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana.
On the other hand, as soon as this BP accident occurred, whatever Federal agency in charge of responding to this sort of thing should have been on the horn IMMEDIATELY to the President, who could have called on the Navy and Coast Guard who could have begun action to contain the spill closer to the site. Apparently the person who was supposed to be in charge of those things either didn't KNOW they were in charge, or they simply didn't bother to do what they're supposed to do. OR it's possible that Obama WAS informed, but his 'get out the minority vote' tour was too important to be interrupted.
8 posted on
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:45:30 PM by
SuziQ
Brilliant idea in the middle of a recession.
this from Judge Napolitano earlier:
Sestak case deepens--did White House commit a felony by offering a job to Sestak?
Well the ramifications are potentially enormous. I mean to offer someone something of value in order to affect their official behavior as a member of Congress is a felony. We call it a bribe. To offer someone something of value to affect the outcome of an election is a felony. Each of those carries five years with them.
Enemy Inside The Gates Alert:
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12,388
posted on
05/26/2010 12:47:01 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
You know this all could be cover for the 1) Blago trial, starting in a week
2) the Sestak bribery inquiry
3) the “Man’s Club” news coming out of Chicago.
There’s just so much going on that its hard to keep it all in perspective…gee kinda makes you wonder.
Welcome to the USSA, comrades. They are welding the escape holes shut.
CW2 Ping
In the land of zero nukes, the 1-nuke man is king. As we’ve seen with the failed efforts of UN arms inspectors to contain the development of nukes in Iraq, Iran and elsewhere, we lack the capacity to prevent rogue states from covertly developing nukes. Thus, by going to zero, the U.S. will set off a race among many nations to covertly develop and deploy just a handful of nukes that could become a game-changer when push comes to shove.
The mentality behind zero nukes is the same one that drives draconian efforts at gun control: that things are somehow made safer if everyone is disarmed. But what that really does is just make the world safer for bad guys. In a world where many are armed, the bad-guy advantage goes away etc.
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posted on
05/26/2010 4:20:29 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Obama’s slide continues.
I suspect that explains why Elena Kagan’s numbers are going south, too. The less voters think of Obama, the less favorably they’re likely to view his nominee.
VIDEO: Carville goes ballistic on Obama over oil spill.
NINA EASTON: What I saw at the SEIU thug protest at that banker’s home. “Has Captain Civility or his flack-in-chief been asked about this yet by any reporter, incidentally? Not that they’re obligated to answer for every sin committed by every crank on their side of the aisle; that privilege is reserved for Republicans. But after all the demagoguery about teabaggers gone wild coupled with all the finger-wagging at conservatives about disagreeing without being disagreeable, you’d think he might have thoughts on his closest union crony sending a rampaging horde to intimidate a banker at his home. But then, this is the guy who once told a group of financial CEOs, ‘My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.’” The precedent has been set. Don’t think people haven’t noticed. It’ll be pitchforks all around before this is over . . .
MICHAEL SILENCE: Stalking Palin For A Book. “McGinniss is looking to sell books. Nothing wrong with that. It’s just the way he’s going about it is downright creepy. By the way, have any journalists moved next door to the Gores? Not that any could afford to.”
Tender Cuts
Asteroid avoidance: “'Show, don’t tell' at its best."
Posted by Kate at
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Comments (28)"Drunken sailors with permanent unlimited access to your money. "
May 26, 2010 10:28 AM by Michelle Malkin168 Comments | 3 Trackbacks
The officials of New York City have about as much respect for the opinions of its denizens as Mr. Obama has for those of most American citizens.
Which is to say none whatsoever.
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While we are all up in the air (with valid reason) about the WTC mosque(s)…we are missing the symbolism of Flt 93 memorial-shaped exactly like a star and crescent and only off a couple of degrees as far as Mecca is concerned. THAT is just as shameful.
http://www.google.com/imgres?i.....s%3Disch:1
Or Take your pick of sites to visit… http://www.google.com/images?r.....CDAQsAQwAw
And we will continue to allow these cretins to do this to us! What in the hell is the matter with us?!
This is from Gates of Vienna blog:
Abu Imran, leader of Sharia4Belgium -
Because we are Muslims and thus we are victors, who are here to dominate. And those who cannot accept the dominance of Islam will have to leave. For my part, to hell.”
Anjem Choudary, leader of the in England banned Islam4UK, sounded very threatening in Antwerp.
“We will only rest when the flag of Islam flies everywhere.”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 6:44 PM
“We need a quarterback on the field like the law says he’s supposed to be. He’s not supposed to be the commentator in the booth.”
As crude oil continued to ooze through the marshes in Louisiana, Barack Obama flew to California to hold 3 fundraisers with liberal Senator Barbara “Ma’am” Boxer yesterday. Tomorrow he goes on his second vacation since the oil rig blew up in May.
Via FOX Nation:
VIDEO AT LINK
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Filed under Crime, Democratic Party, Humor, Leftists, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Racism, illegals at May 26th, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Yesterday, hackers changed the message on one of the ubiquitous portable illuminated traffic signs in Florida. From NBC Miami, we get this report:
A highway sign flashing “NO LATINOS NO TACOS” greeted drivers on the Palmetto Expressway in Northwest Miami-Dade, after hackers managed to alter it early Tuesday morning.
The sign was in the northbound side of the 826, right near the Northwest 25th street exit.
It’s unknown how long the sign had been flashing the message, but by 6 a.m., members of the Florida Highway Patrol and a road crew had turned the sign away from the highway and were working to erase the message.
Almost immediately the MSM and left-wing blogs (like this one) tagged the prank as right-wing racism. Seems that everyone has forgotten about this unadulterated image:
According to the race-baiters, illegal immigrants and legal hispanics are way too stooopid to figure out the complexity of a programmable road sign, so it’s gotta be the evil Mr. Whitey McConservative. Good thing that the lovely and gracious Missus X is a Latina, because I’d never be able figure out how to make tacos or burritos on my own.
Meanwhile, this was spotted near Copperhill, Tennessee:
Much of today’s racism is promoted by the left, just like it always has been. And because of it, we have another post for an Overnight Open Thread.
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It knew no limitation, didnt it. I remember idiots jumping up and down in orgasmic bliss in all these villages, hamlets and big cities all over the globe (CNN was there every minute) from Auckland to Lima to Dubai to Prague to Osaka to Nairobi to Berlin, all over the world, on that horrid November night. What idiots. This man is going to get us into a horrendous war, and he has already ruined our economy and trashed our Constitution. Wonderful, ain’t it?"...that horrid November night."
I remember feeling sick at all the the cheering going on.
"Worse than Jimmy Carter,"
Lawbreaking: There's only one way to find out if Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate nominee, Joe Sestak, is telling the truth about the White House bribe offer: Have a prosecutor place him under oath.
The White House has a real, live snowballing scandal on its hands. And Rep. Sestak, who won the Senate primary against Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter, is painting himself into a corner it will be tough to get out of before November.
In February, then repeatedly since, the maverick Democrat claimed that a White House aide offered him a big government job if he wouldn't run against Specter.
That's a felony, pure and simple. The Daily Caller this week featured the text of three areas of federal statute that apply, which House Oversight Committee ranking Republican Darrell Issa of California cited in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder calling for a special prosecutor.
One, 18 USC 600, prohibits promising "any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress ... in connection with any primary election" under penalty of fine or prison or both.
A second, 18 USC 211, prohibits soliciting or receiving "any money or thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States."
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GETTING THE SCOOP on ice cream scoopers.
12,390
posted on
05/27/2010 2:13:26 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
READ THE WHOLE THING. Just Damn...
James Carville loves Louisana the way we love Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Texas — some of our own home towns and states. You don’t mess with Texas, and you don’t f*** with Cleveland, not on our watches. No matter how old we get, or what city we currently live in, we have that strong attachment to where we came from — and we would do anything we could to strike back against those who hurt our home towns in any way.
So, that makes us wonder what’s going through the mind of Ragin’ Cajun James Carville — Democrat operative to the core, but Louisiana native at his heart.
Carville’s an interesting bird, to put it mildly...
Read it all- it's good writing- a sample:
"Remember, people, when Obama campaigned in 2008 he stood on pedestals in the capitals of Europe and declared himself to be sent from the stars to “lower the oceans, plug the hole in the ozone, and usher in a new era of Hope and Change”. He waived his hand, Christ-like, and klieg lights ignited from the stage, the way the band members of KISS used to do, only with less makeup and better costuming."
The comments:
May 27, 2010 at 8:03 am
I just saw the rant Carville made against Obama. His beautiful wife was right next to him shaking her head in disgust and AGREEMENT with her husband. I never saw the two of them agree on much of anything, but it brought a smile to my face to see this. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006016-503544.html
May 27, 2010 at 8:15 am
I think Obama and his staff failed to grasp the enormity of the problem. Whoever thought it was a great idea for him to go on two vacations, play golf (twice in the past week), play basketball (daily), have a party for Mexico (two months early so they could politicize Arizona), go campaigning for Boxer TWICE, and have the usual Wednesday cocktail parties was NOT thinking straight. It is becoming obvious what this president’s priorities are. As this situation worsens and ordinary Americans see the damage, this president is mud.
May 27, 2010 at 9:19 am
...On a dismal note, ask yourself as you watch the Obama administration flop around in total incompetence on this oil spill tragedy – wait until they are in charge of all the health care in this country.
May 27, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Hillbuzz guys-this is a much more in depth coverage of Man’s Country in Chicago. Holy Cow.
http://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/
Ahhg! Just Aggh!
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05/27/2010 11:46:41 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Told Ya So....
Elizabeth Burnbaum is an OBAMA appointee.
A THUG TOO FAR,
PART 5: “When Nina Easton found a mob of union thugs demonstrating at her neighbor’s Chevy Chase house last week, she used her professional skills to ascertain what all the fuss was about. She filed an illuminating report. The mainstream media have avoided the story.”
Invest in lead & copper...
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05/27/2010 1:42:45 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 27, 2010, 11:02 AM
A man has his priorities, you know.
Obama will hold a few more photo ops before addressing the BP oil spill disaster today.
President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP)
Political Punch reported:
This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men’s basketball champion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden.
Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team and former President Bill Clinton, who is chairing the 2018 World Cup bid, on the North Portico. The White House has previously announced that Vice President Biden and Jill Biden will attend the World Cup in South Africa next month.
Afterward, the president will a private have lunch with President Clinton in the Private Dining Room.
In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks on the BP oil spill and the conclusions of his ordered 30-day safety review and hold a press conference in the East Room.
The president will announce standards to strengthen oversight of the industry and enhance safety, a first step in a process that the independent Presidential Commission will continue, a White House official says.
In the meantime, the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells will continue for a period of six months
A country gets the foreign policy, nearly all the time, that its population WANTS. About 60% of the US population want the US humiliated and defeated because they are not in fact, American. They are Post-American. “Citizens of the World.”
Link to this Comment
Obama To Appear on Coast Guard Ship With "Plug the Damn Hole! Mission Accomplished" Sign
—Ace
I made up that last part, but my oh my, the victory laps this guy is going to take after letting oil gout into the Gulf for 36 days.
When he makes his Memorial Day photo-op here, I expect the letter "I" to be used an awful lot in speaking of the disaster arrested; on the other hand, I expect the letters "BP" to be used a lot when speaking of the month before.
Now that the flood of oil was stopped, they can safely admit how much oil they had been allowing into the Gulf:
Allen also said that later today, an interagency team will release a revised estimate of how much oil was flowing from the well into the Gulf. The Coast Guard has estimated the flow at 5,000 barrels a day, but independent estimates suggest it is much higher -- perhaps tens of thousands of barrels a day.
You might think that this could help the cause of energy production a little. A Worst Case Scenario has been handled (we think), after all. But you'd be wrong: Obama's cancelling licenses for offshore drilling.
This Just In: Gadsden Flag Now Officially "Offensive" In America
—Ace
Tread on you I shall.
'Tea Party' flag rankles some Flag, one of nation's oldest, causes stir after being raised over Town Common
By Ted Hayes
WARREN — The Warren Fire Department drew fire Friday morning when members raised one of the nation’s oldest — but these days, controversial — flags from one of three flagpoles they maintain at the Warren Town Common.
Their flying of the Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War-era flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the slogan “Don’t Tread On Me” below it, angered some residents because though it was originally created to protest the British government prior to and during the American Revolution, it has become a symbol to some of the American Tea Party movement....
[The Fire Chief who raised it said:] “It was only done for history’s sake. If people got offended I apologize. I just hope the American flag isn’t offending anyone, becaue that’s one flag I’ll never take down.”
That offends all the same people, but they know better than to admit it.
132Just wait till they hear about this "Live Free or Die" thing. Then they'll be boycotting New Hampshire.
What did
the White House promise Joe Sestak if he dropped out of the Senate race
Hedges proposes
Burn, America, Burn. What's the matter with these people?
Rand Paul's
lack of political depth. He's an idealistic beginner. He will learn - he's a doctor.
Palin
derangement syndrome. Why the obsession? Is he in love with her? Isn't this "stalking"?
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05/27/2010 4:20:47 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
OBAMA’S KATRINA: “The media started riding Bush about his response to Katrina within a couple of days. Obama got a pass for over a month.”
Katrina? More like Chernobyl.
Yes, Mo'Bambam is an idiot...
Yes, you put him in office...
Yes, you are...
As Shawn mentioned below, the Obama press conference today was literally unbelievable. The "checkers moment" ("daddy, did you plug the hole"?) he tried to insert in the presser came after an hour of unctuous lecturing and evasion. This may have been the most disastrous presidential press news conference since Nixon's famous "I am not a crook" moment.
It's hard to imagine a Republican president getting away with the weasel words offered today by Barack Obama. The President couldn't determine if MMS head Elizabeth Birnbaum was fired or she resigned. Even the Obama bread carriers at CBS were skeptical:
Elizabeth Birnbaum's departure was first reported as a "firing." Later, a "resignation." When asked for clarity, President Obama told the press corps today he had no idea. "Did she resign," asked CBS White House Correspondent Chip Reid. "Was she fired? Was she forced out? And if so, why?"
"I found out about her resignation today," the president answered, "so I don't know the circumstances in which this occurred."
An incredulous press corps followed up.
"How is it that you didn't know about Ms. Birnbaum's resignation/firing before?" asked another reporter.
Mr. Obama: "Well, you're assuming it was a firing. If it was a resignation, then she would have submitted a letter to Mr. Salazar this morning at a time when I had a whole bunch of other stuff going on... Come on, I don't know. I'm telling you I found out about it this morning. So I don't yet know the circumstances, and Ken Salazar has been in testimony on the Hill."
After unequivocally stating that he owned and controlled every aspect of the BP oil spill catastrophe, this President doesn't know if his own Minerals and Management Service Director, which had oversight authority of the BP, was fired or resigned? He found out about it just this morning? What we need to know, actually, is who owns Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: the President or Congress?
Then came this whopper from Fox News about the Sestak job kick back/bribe allegation that simply won't go away:
President Obama said Thursday that the White House is preparing to issue a formal explanation regarding the allegation that it offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Democratic primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter. The president, addressing the matter in public for the first time since the Pennsylvania congressman leveled the claim in February, said the statement should answer questions about the claim and insisted "nothing improper" happened.
"There will be an official response shortly on the Sestak matter," Obama said, when asked about the issue by Fox News at the president's press conference. "I mean shortly -- I don't mean weeks or months. ... I can assure the public that nothing improper took place."
This form of "I'll get back to you on that" answer is truly outrageous. Even the genuflecting hard core liberals in the White House Press Corps had trouble swallowing that command. Is there anything that this president believes he can't make happen with his ability to turn a phrase and make his listeners disabuse themselves of doubt? As Allah noted, via Breitbart:
"White House cover-up of Sestak job offer not quite finished yet."
What makes me think this inexperienced young President, a recipient of the odd combination of a nation's goodwill and racial guilt, has suddenly found himself wagering greatly on the outcome of one press conference? (That was Charles Krauthammer's point tonight on Fox News) Barak Obama did not have to hold this presser today but he did, perhaps because of a confluence of events that were bearing down on him: the Sestak matter, the BP disaster, his falling poll numbers, the looming 2010 midterms and maybe James Carville's unhinged and unguarded critique of the president this weekend. So why did he do it? And perform so poorly?
This president is not just losing the ideological battle spectacularly. He is being consumed by a tidal wave of events that only an experienced executive can effectively manage. In short, he's in over his head and we will suffer the consequences.
By Michelle Malkin • May 27, 2010 10:49 AM
Scroll down for Obama press conference updates…
News leaking ahead of President Obama’s scheduled 12:45pm Eastern press conference today: the first head has been delivered.
Via AP:
Democratic sources say the Obama administration has fired the head of the U.S. Minerals Management Service in response to blistering criticism over lax oversight of offshore drilling.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity before the official announcement, tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama will announce the decision Thursday.
Meanwhile, there are reports that BP’s “Top Kill” strategy to plug the leak is working:
BP has stopped the flow of oil and gas from a ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, a US official told local media.
The company’s “top kill” effort has “stabilised the wellhead”, Coast Guard commander Thad Allen said, adding that it was too early to declare success.
This is the first step, using mud, in BP’s plan to seal the well for good with cement.
Eleven workers were killed in the initial explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig five weeks ago.
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Make that the second head to hit the ground. As I noted last week, MMS official Chris Oynes resigned after news of the agency’s 2009 safety award for Deepwater Horizon surfaced.
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Critics on both the left and right want to know: What about Heckuva Job Kenny Salazar?
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1:00pm Eastern Summary of Obama’s oil spill remarks: Bush at fault. Cozy regulators at fault. Solution: More government, no more drilling.
Obama defends his sluggish response by criticizing dumb Americans. Bottom line: You all are too stupid and uninformed to realize that this has been his “highest priority” and that the White House has been “singularly focused” on the oil spill.
Obama: “Those who think we were slow in our response or lacked urgency don’t know the facts.”
That’s always his excuse.
Obama writes his own self-aggrandizing history: “I’m confident that people are going to look back and say that this administration was on top of what was an unprecedented crisis.”
1:42pm Eastern. Obama insists he is working with full urgency on the issue, but refuses to take ownership of firing MMS head Liz Birnbaum. He said he only found out about it this morning when he was “busy with other things” (um, wasn’t he “singularly focused” on oil spill?) and that he is unclear about the circumstances of her stepping down.
Dragging his daughters into the public fray again: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”
"This is the time when the seas stop rising. Obama (PBUH) has done it! It only took 5 weeks!"
“Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”
This is a Jimmy Carter moment...
"I like the “OBlamer” handle. There are many, many times we can use it, interchangeably, of course, with Duh!1..."
“New York Is Almost Out of Cash”
The east coast’s version of California! So chic! So bohemian! And soon, so freakin’ broke! Betsy McCaughy, former NY Lt. Governor, WSJ:
The way to solve the problem, naturally, is to cut government spending. But as more and more workers rely on government work for pay, fewer and fewer voters will be willing to vote for those who propose any such cuts in spending. And so Democrats continue to pander and promise — and voters continue to vote “in the economic interests.”
Until the money is gone. Or the city can get, say, about six hundred or so Superbowls in a single year. Whichever comes first.
Personally, I’m tired of caring. Just so long as nobody has the lameass idea to cast Robin Williams as an immigrant gyro vendor in Greece on the Hudson, I’m good.
(h/t TerryH)
Well, we can't have you peasants speaking out against your betters, now, can we?
When you can’t solve a problem, change the terms of reference so that you can.
President Obama in a newly released document has redefined national security policy in terms of domestic policy. Blaming the Bush administration for relying on “military might”, Obama declared that what was important was the home front. David Martin of CBS News writes “if you had to pick one sentence in this 52 page document which defines President Obama’s National Security Strategy it would be this: “the foundation of American leadership must be a prosperous economy.” By implication President Obama is going to give America that prosperous economy in order to defend it. But can he do it?
(more…)
"The question is can Obama’s magical thinking of ‘Extend and Pretend” “prosperity” extend past the elections of 2010? or even 2012? Everyone else will just have to fend for themselves while we conduct our civil war at home. It is just as well because the Ignoramus in Chief can’t even be counted on to fight on the right side as we saw just last year in South America where he backed the attempted coup in Honduras."
"Whatever
schadenfreude one might be tempted to feel should be weighed against the real dangers coming on fast. The dangers that were supposed to be held off by the stimulus, cash for clunkers and green shoots, and green jobs, and America’s new moral standing in the world. The perils that were supposed to have been banished by the address to Muslim world in Cairo university, the moment the seas began to fall, grand bargains, wars only of necessity, health care “reform”, teaching moments, engagement, strategic patience and now, a new national security model.
All those menaces, both real and imagined, are coming on fast.“We have a President!” Andrew Sullivan declared in response to BHO’s reluctance to meet McChrystal for months. But maybe it was only the sound of a man playing President that he heard; not a President really. "
"...no one is at the wheel. Just a guy who makes one speech after the other..."
"In fairness, President Obama is entirely a product of the political system and the gatekeeping system that thrust him forward. Even if he was never elected someone like him would have been. The ethnicity is immaterial...He just played the part. And maybe society deserved him too... "
Mark Steyn, reflecting on Western folly says that by rights, "We’re too broke to be this stupid" , funding one crapola program after the other. After enumerating ever misbegotten program he can think of, Steyn writes:
By the way, where does the government get the money to fund all these immensely useful programs?
According to a Fox News poll earlier this year, 65 per cent of Americans understand that the government gets its money from taxpayers, but 24 per cent think the government has “plenty of its own money without using taxpayer dollars.” You can hardly blame them for getting that impression in an age in which there is almost nothing the state won’t pay for. I confess I warmed to that much-mocked mayor in Doncaster, England, who announced a year or two back that he wanted to stop funding for the Gay Pride parade on the grounds that, if they’re so damn proud of it, why can’t they pay for it? He was actually making a rather profound point, but, as I recall, he was soon forced to back down. In Canada, almost every ethnocultural booster group is on the public teat. Outside Palestine House in Toronto the other week, the young Muslim men were caught on tape making explicitly eliminationist threats about Jews, but c’mon, everything else in Canada is taxpayer-funded, why not genocidal incitement? We’re rich enough that we can afford to be stupid.
But what happens when the money runs out, the check kiting no longer works?
“…24 per cent think the government has “plenty of its own money without using taxpayer dollars.”
When Obama came down to Florida to help announce the new Sunrail high speed train between Miami, Orlando and Tampa one local mayor was quoted as saying:
“I hope the government will pay for the entire cost of the train so that the taxpayers don’t have to.”
Here’s an example of... government at work:
The city of Vernon, CA has 91 inhabitants. The city manager just retired and draws almost $500,000 a year in CalPers pension:
http://taxdollars.freedomblogging.com/2009/05/08/wrongful-death-suit-filed-after-man-choked-on-tuna-sandwich/17895/
by Speranza ( 134 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama at May 27th, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Victor Davis Hanson correctly sees Obama as a person who demands perfection from the United States while asking the rest of the world to merely be ok. His constant apologies for alleged American sins, his snubbing of our friends, cultivating our foes, and his enabling the outrageous behavior of President Calderon of Mexico when he was a guest in this country, shows a man who has a warped set of priorities.
by Rodan ( 203 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2010, Financial, Investments, Media, Misery Index, Progressives, Republican Party at May 27th, 2010 - 11:40 am
The unprecedented economic boom unleashed by Obama’s debt spending as claimed by Newsweek and Bob Beckel, has slowed from 5.6% in the 4th quarter of 2009 to just 3% in the 1st quarter of 2010. The Stock Market has declined 11% in the last month due to the European debt crisis and Obama’s spending policies. These facts don’t matter. The media is still pushing the Obama boom theme and it seems to be having an effect. Two months ago the GOP had an average lead in the Congressional races of 3-5%, now in most polls they are trailing the Democrats. Clearly the Progressive media’s propaganda is working and the GOP is blowing it by not getting aggressive. The 3% growth is being called healthy in contrast to the Bush years when it was called stagnant.
"OMG! These stupid people need to be locked in a cell and forced to read Economics, 24/7. And not the Keynesian BS, but the real stuff. Hayek, Friedman, Mises, Rothbard, for starters."
Snort, I used to buy into the "overworked, underpaid poor teacher" spiel -- before I actually started teaching. It's not an easy job, but it isn't that awful either.
And now, now that I watch the local teachers driving around in brand spanking new vehicles, sending their kids to fancy expensive camps, doing fancy remodels on their homes or buying newer bigger ones (paying for unheard of luxuries even 10 years ago on a teacher's salary back then) -- while I'm scraping to pay my mortgage, crossing my fingers that my 12 yo. car keeps running, and see my taxes going up, up, up while at the same time the schools are having more and more problems and they scream for more and more money...suddenly I don't feel the warm, fuzzy love for the poor, poor teachers anymore.
Eff them and the union they flew in on -- this keeps up they will need protection from the pitchforks, and some of them *used to be* my good friends (not anymore, they only hang out with other teachers, or school or county board members now...movin' on up and all that).
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05/28/2010 1:24:52 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Energy: An administration never enthusiastic about offshore drilling is using the Gulf oil spill as an excuse to suspend Arctic exploration. Who could've seen that coming? Now we'll be more dependent on foreign oil.
Suspicions in some quarters that the administration was being deliberately lax in its response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in order to pursue a larger, anti-domestic energy agenda were met with derision. But if not deliberate, the effect is the same as the administration prepares to shut down our search for new oil.
President Obama on Thursday announced a suspension of offshore drilling in the Arctic until the causes and solutions to the Gulf spill are found. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a report delivered to the White House on Thursday that he will not consider applications for permits to drill in the Arctic until 2011. Shell Oil was poised to begin exploratory drilling this summer on leases as far as 140 miles offshore.
The irony here is that it's been the reluctance of Congress and the White House to allow more onshore development of our vast untapped oil and natural gas energy reserves that has forced oil companies such as Shell and British Petroleum to go farther and farther offshore to drill deeper and deeper in riskier waters.
"I am frustrated that this decision by the Obama administration to halt offshore development for a year will cause more delays and higher costs for domestic oil and gas production to meet the nation's energy needs," Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said in a statement. As with nuclear power, domestic oil exploration will now be consigned to the "study forever, develop never" category.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
America is no longer a democratic republic, it’s a kleptocracy.
This subject comes up everytime there’s a Democrat in the White House.
Darrel Issa (R-C.A.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-M.E.) are demanding answers following the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s discovery that taxpayer money is going to the radical Dar al-Hijrah mosque of Falls Church, Virginia. The revelation is an unsettling reminder of how jihadists are using America’s freedoms and ineptitude of the government to their advantage.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has found that the Census Bureau has been paying Dar al-Hijrah about $23,000 per month since November 2008 to rent space in one of its buildings. The State Department has used the mosque in its videos about America’s Muslim community and sent students from its Foreign Service Institute to Dar al-Hijrah this month.
Dave Gaubatz, a former Special Agent with the U.S. Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, and author of Muslim Mafia, described Dar al-Hijrah to FrontPage as “Wahhabi quarter,” in reference to the oppressive form of Islam practiced and promoted by Saudi Arabia.
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05/28/2010 4:48:00 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
Obutthole had fear in his eyes yesterday. Clueless and fearful...someone who is in over their head and has no idea what to do.
Not only does this man of the Left believe what he is saying, but he does it with passion and conviction. Smiley--a so-called Christian--is the product of a liberal education. Liberalism in America has triumphed. Its disciples use the Christian label only for leftist political means. The label is a badge of authenticity and authority in order to destroy the foundation of the structure they claim to live in.
For liberal "Christians" like Smiley, the old America was a concentration camp where blacks, Indians, women, and homosexuals were persecuted, while the America-to-come--always just a little beyond the horizon--is a Marxist paradise or multicultural university campus in which any human being's desires are satisfied regardless of the quality of those desires or his willingness to work for them.
Smiley sees the world through a left-wing lens--not a Christian one. This is the only way one can explain such idiocy. If leftists continue to succeed in maligning Christians and excusing or exalting Muslims, we can only hope that American pop culture and education will destroy the character of their people as it has done to ours.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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05/28/2010 12:52:27 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: All
By Michelle Malkin • May 28, 2010 08:52 AM
Scroll for updates…the Memorial Day document dump does not end this story…
I repeat: Look who’s behind the White House/Sestak wall.
The law says directly or indirectly.
And this is not just about the law. It’s about the spirit of corruption that pervades Chicago on the Potomac.
Culture of corruption…confirmed.
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So, who was the “buffer” for the Romanoff job-trade offer — noted on this blog in February and in my column in March?
White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, we’re looking at you.
You know who’s laughing right now? Rod Blago.
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Record of Previous Answers Says Sestak and White House Are Coordinating In a Lie
—Ace
Either Joe Sestak was lying then, or he's lying now.
Comparing Sestak's present tale to the first answers he gave to Larry Kane...
Sestak confirms to Kane that the White House offered him a job, or at least he fails to disabuse Kane of that notion in his affirmative answer. And note Sestak assents that he was offered a high-ranking federal job. Each word here is important. There are more than 60 boards, commissions and committees that at one time or another have advised the president. Most are not considered "high-ranking" administration positions, nor upgrades from a House seat, let alone a seat in the Senate. Besides, though vague on details, both the White House memo and Sestak use the words "Advisory Board," of which there are only two currently active: The Economic Recovery Board and the Intelligence Advisory Board. Sestak is no economist, so the most logical conclusion to draw from the White House memo — that "By virtue of his career in public service, including distinguished military service, Congressman Sestak was viewed to be highly qualified to hold a range of advisory positions. . .while holding his House seat" — is that Sestak was being considered for the Intelligence Advisory Board. The only problem with that option, as the NYT reported, is that Sestak could not have retained his House seat while serving.
In short, it appears that there is no "advisory position" in existence that Sestak would 1) be qualified for and 2) consider preferable to a Senate run and 3) allow him to retain his House seat. Which brings us to the word "job." Sestak uses it himself, not "position" or "role" or "advisory capacity" or anything else. Federal jobs pay (just ask Derb). Jobs bring clout. Jobs open up, in the language of the White House memo, "alternative paths to service" (read: power) that could give a man second thoughts about a Senate run. Could this just be sloppy language from Sestak? Maybe, maybe not.
Umm... I say no.
Via SorenKay.
Oh Dear:
Clinton doesn't merely refuse comment. He refuses to even say "no comment."
260Slick Willie knows better than anyone it is the stuff that you think is little shit that gets you. Rahm probably told Sestak's brother - You know that Clinton almost got taken down by a chubby blowjob, after getting away with the FBI files, the travel office, Vince Foster, the Rose billing records, and Whitewater. Don't let Joe be Obama's blowjob.
7 The post LauraW put up this morning (about the Denver Post maintaining radio silence on its own story about a Colorado Senate candidate getting a job offer from the Obama White House as an enticement to drop his primary challenge) is also very important. It establishes a pattern, and also demonstrates how the White House could have been emboldened by the lack of press follow-up on that story, enough to feel safe about Sestak.
Carter the Second
The weakest, most narcissistic "leader" in the world proves it.
One big ass mistake America. Weakness is the source of the scent that drives the mad dogs to a frenzy. When the strong aren't strong, there is no leash to hold the murderous to heel.
I only hope that his tenure doesn't end on the same notes as the peanut farmer's.
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BP Buses In 400 Fake Workers to Serve as Backdrop For Obama's Fake Photo Op
—Ace
Let's all stand on the beach together lookin' like we're large and in charge.
President Obama pauses after burning away
an acre of oil slick with his heat-ray vision.
Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn't look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him. Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, whose district encompasses Grand Isle, told Yahoo! News that BP bused in "hundreds" of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. And as soon as the president was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too, Roberts said.
"The level of cleanup and cooperation we've gotten from BP in the past is in no way consistent to the effort shown on the island today," Roberts said by telephone. "As soon as the president left, they were immediately put back on the buses and sent home."
A pretend army for a pretend president.
And for those of you who doubted Obama's willingness to cut the federal budget: doubt no more.
Three months before the massive BP oil spill erupted in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration proposed downsizing the Coast Guard national coordination center for oil spill responses, prompting its senior officers to warn that the agency's readiness for catastrophic events would be weakened. That proposal is feeding a mounting debate over whether the federal government is able to regulate deep-sea oil extraction. Defense analysts and retired agency leaders question whether the Coast Guard -- which shares oversight of offshore drilling with the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service -- has the expertise and resources to keep pace with industry advances.
Accidents happen, "but what you're seeing here is the government is not properly set up to deal with this kind of issue," said Robbin Laird, a defense consultant who has worked on Coast Guard issues. "The idea that you would even think about getting rid of catastrophic environmental spill equipment or expertise at the Department of Homeland Security, are you kidding me?"
But Obama has to cut things like this because he's so inflated the size of government spending on what are, frankly, secondary and tertiary responsibilities of the government, if at all.
Thanks to Phil for that last one.
381 Shouldn't that be Faux-to Op?
Note- the player froze my PC- be advised.
FYI, FWIW- a anonynmous tip:
Reports Surfacing of Multi-State National Guard Mobilizations | Before It’s News
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/47/954/Reports_Surfacing_of_Multi-State_N...
OUCH: “There are legitimate questions as to whether he’s out of his depth or not.”
GOOD GRIEF: Pathetic: BP Buses in Temps for Obama Photo Op. “Well, we all figured this would be a carefully choreographed photo op for the current occupant of the White House, but little did we know having their boot firmly on the neck of BP meant the folks at BP were obliged to send in some stooges for the visuals.”
May 28, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Guys,
What do you think of the coming Obama impeachment?
Lame Cherry says it well:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/
SHOCKER: NJ Teacher who complained of low pay to Gov. Chris Christie makes $100,000+ with benefits.
CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGAL ALIENS in . . . Massachusetts?
Related: As Arizona goes, so goes the nation? Ask Massachusetts.
UPDATE: “Racists.”
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INTELLIGENT spy cameras.
FASTER, PLEASE: Body’s Own Stem Cells Can Lead to Tooth Regeneration: Work at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine Holds Promise for a Biological Substitute for Dental Implants. I’ve got a dental implant, replacing a tooth that was damaged by trauma some years ago. It’s fine, but the process was annoyingly lengthy. I’d rather grow a new tooth. FASTER, PLEASE: Retina Grown From Stem Cells.
DO WE CLAMP THE UMBILICAL CORD TOO SOON? “Delaying clamping the umbilical cord for a slightly longer period of time allows more umbilical cord blood volume to transfer from mother to infant and, with that critical period extended, many good physiological ‘gifts’ are transferred through ‘nature’s first stem cell transplant’ occurring at birth. . . . The researchers concluded that many common disorders in newborns related to the immaturity of organ systems may receive benefits from delayed clamping. These may include: respiratory distress; anemia; sepsis; intraventricular haemorrhage; and periventricular leukomalacia. They also speculate that other health problems, such as chronic lung disease, prematurity apneas and retinopathy of prematurity, may also be affected by a delay in cord blood clamping.”
UPDATE: Reader Fernando Colina writes: “So this is a case in which you might say, slower, please?” Heh. Indeed.
Dengue Fever And Florida
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posted on
05/29/2010 1:38:11 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
To: backhoe
To: backhoe
To: raygun
The Gadsen flag?
It goes back to the Revolutionary War.
12,400
posted on
05/29/2010 2:00:05 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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