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They're at it again! The folks who brought us the timeless children's classic, "Why Mommy is a Democrap" have now brought us "Mama Voted for Obama"! Yay! More mindless fun from mindless people to make our children mindless Obama youth. That's from the "Daddy" book. See what Dims do? See the implication in the first picture - the helpless children "made safe" from the stampeding elephant - get it, elephant!?!?! - by the kind, gracious Dims? The mama pajama obama de lama book concludes, it would seem, by telling us how SOME evil Mamas voted for John McCain. And they...

Here is video of President Obama talking with NBC's Chuck Todd in Moscow where he gave his assessment of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He also once again called Putin by the wrong title, referring to him as "President" rather than "Prime Minister." Chuck Todd called Obama on the mistake, telling him "You've done that three times now." . . . . . (Watch Video)

had a chat with a lib re: Palin's resignation at the office.....paraphrasing... Lib: …she quit before her term was over. How could she possibly expect to be President? How reliable is she, walking out on her responsibilities?!... Me: …Obama left the Senate before his term was over. So you agree he shouldn’t be President? Lib:…that’s different. He wasn’t the boss. She was the governor, in charge of the state… Me: …so you concede Palin has more executive experience actually running something than Obama? Lib:…er,…..no…….but………….(drools)………….(head explodes)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is warning fellow Democrats that even though they now have a filibuster-proof majority to not expect any dramatic changes. From the Politico Oh, the burdens of a Democratic supermajority. After eight months in limbo, Al Franken is poised to be sworn in as the 60th Democratic senator — cause for celebration among party activists, the lefty blogosphere and his fellow Democrats planning to give him a hero’s welcome at Tuesday’s caucus lunch. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) isn’t feeling especially giddy — and he’s trying to bridge the gap between his herd-the-cats daily...

Psalm 9 16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. 19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

We seem to have beaten back Cap and Trade. Nancy Pelosi embarrassed herself and ended up getting it through with a slim margin narrowly withstanding the humiliating defection of 44 Democrats. Nevertheless, Obama’s constant attacks are far from over. We can’t rest for a minute in our fight for America. Radical Socialist: Sotomayor The next fight is keeping Sonia Sotomayor off the Supreme Court. Because of Harry Reid’s ineptitude it won’t be an easy task. Reid is frightened of the matter. His popularity is waning in Nevada and Obama’s popularity is sinking nationally. It appears Reid has made a tactical...

CRITICISM OVER FDIC RULES FOR PE BUYS OF BANKS-- FDIC boss Sheila Bair may have overstepped her authority with a proposal to limit how private-equity firms can snap up fallen banks. Banking agencies expressed concern about Bair's plan. The FDIC guarantees deposits---the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision regulate aspects of banking. [OCC chief] John Dugan said, "we are very concerned that the tone of the proposed guidelines would scare off private-equity money." The hope is that the rules will change before the formal vote which follows a 30-day comment period. John Douglas,...

An interesting organization I came across via the "True Conservatives" page on Facebook after they posted this video, Oath Keepers is an association of active duty armed forces, police, etc., who are pledging not to merely follow orders, but to disavow any and all orders that they know to be illegal. The organization was started by former paratrooper Stewart Rhodes, who after graduating from Yale Law School, now serves as a staff attorney with the Jefferson Legal Foundation. This stirring video outlines the ten orders that members of Oath Keepers will NOT obey.

How brave of Kate Snow. Not only making the trek to Flyover Country North, but even getting close to some yucky fish. That seemed to be Diane Sawyer's attitude in congratulating Snow for snagging an interview with Sarah Palin. The soon-to-be-former Governor of Alaska invited Snow out for some salmon fishing. At one point the intrepid ABC reporter observes to Palin: "you have some fish guts on you." Back in the studio, Sawyer saluted Snow's guts. View video here.

London, U.K. (AHN) - A research group in Britain has chosen Costa Rica as the happiest place in the world citing its content people, long life expectancy and tiny carbon footprint due to the use of renewable energy.The Central American country topped the Happy Planet Index published on Monday by the New Economics Foundation, a British think-tank. The index measured the ecological footprint, life-satisfaction and life-expectancy of 143 countries. According to the HPI, life expectancy in Costa Rica is 78.5 years and 99 percent of its energy comes from renewable resources. NEF started conducting the survey for the HPI in...

Helicopter Crash - Two Canadian and one ISAF soldier have died and three others injuredCEFCOM NR–09.019 - July 7, 2009OTTAWA– Two Canadian air crew members and one ISAF soldier were killed when a Canadian CH-146 Griffon helicopter crashed during take-off. The incident occurred at a Forward Operating Base in Tarnak Va Jaldak, Zabul Province, northeast of Kandahar City at around 1:50 p.m., Kandahar time, on 6 July 2009. Killed in action were MCpl Pat Audet from 430e Escadron tactique d'hélicoptères based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier and Cpl Martin Joannette from the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment based at Canadian...

Hollywood, CA (BANG) - Michael Jackson's life was "infiltrated" by the Nation of Islam, according to his former publicist. The 'Thriller' singer became a devotee of the controversial 'black power' Islamic sect shortly after child abuse charges were brought against him in 2003 - according to publicist Stuart Backerman, who left as Jackson's closest adviser when the group "took hold" of him. Backerman said: "I quit because the Nation of Islam had infiltrated Michael's world. I was the only one who was left standing at that point because Michael wasn't in his right mind. "It was heartbreaking for him to...

Mandy Sellars is your typical, single 34-year-old woman. She loves to go the movies, hang out with her friends, go out for lunch and have a good chat. But there is just one thing that sets Sellars apart: She suffers from a rare condition that has caused her legs to grow at an alarming rate. “When I was born, they knew straight away that there was something completely different about me,” Sellars, who lives outside of Manchester, England,told FOXNews.com. “They actually didn’t let my parents see me. They took me away from my mom and I think they kept me...

Testifying before a Pennsylvania court in October, former ACORN employee provided some of the inner workings of the often indicted "community organizing" group and its bully tactics: "Forty percent was OK," said Anita Moncrief, referring to the number of bona fide registrations that officials at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now believed was acceptable... ...Moncrief also testified about an effort she called "muscle for the money" in which ACORN would, for a price, organize protests against corporations on behalf of clients such as unions. H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and Sherwin Williams were among the companies targeted for protest...

Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina made the first attempt to bring to the floor of the Senate a Ron Paul bill to audit the Federal Reserve. As one would expect, the Dems block the measure. With raising political pressure for yet another stimulus package, I, personally, can't see how the Dems are going to be successful, if they don't allow the Federal Reserve to be audited first. The Republican Congressional delegation's new motto should be: Audit first, then we talk about another stimulus.           ex animo          davidfarrar

I’m under the impression that every time Caribbean and Latin American countries meet with the President of the United States of America it’s to ask for something or complain about things. Almost always it’s to blame the United States for our past, present and future problems. I don’t think that’s completely fair. We mustn’t forget that Latin America had universities before the United States created Harvard or William & Mary, which were the first universities in that country. We can’t forget that on this continent, as well as the world over, at least until 1750 all Americans were more or...

Quick, name the two largest recipients of American foreign aid. If you guessed Israel and Egypt, you'd be correct. Since 1997, the US has provided between $2 billion and $3 billion dollars annually to Israel and between $1b. and $2b. to Egypt, accounting for about a third of its total foreign aid budget. But while the US enjoys a friendly relationship with both countries, a yawning gap has opened recently between the treatment President Barack Obama's administration has bestowed on Jerusalem and its advances to Cairo. Much has already been written about Obama's general tendency to express forceful disagreement with...

There's little doubt that US Vice President Joe Biden was signaling, in his Sunday television interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose military force to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. Biden: Israel has the right to determine its course of action GS: Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it pretty clear that he agreed with President Obama to give until the end of the year for this whole process of engagement to work. After that, he's prepared to take matters into his own hands. Is that the right approach?...

Evidence continues to accumulate that President Obama regards the Constitution's requirements as merely suggestions. ABC News reports: With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate's constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a "provisional basis" until the Senate ratifies the treaty. Jonah Goldberg comments, "Senat, Shhmenate". The Anchoress provides a roundup of web...

The comedian Al Franken will be welcomed by fellow Democrats at a lunch on Capitol Hill today after he has been sworn in as senator, taking the party’s Senate vote bank to the magic threshold of 60. His arrival makes the Democrats the first party in three decades to attain the fabled super majority, allowing them – in theory – to override Republican filibusters and implement their legislative agenda. A week after Mr Franken was declared Senator of Minnesota, however, doubts are growing as to how politically useful a super majority will be when the hard bargaining over controversial issues...