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It is one thing (what thing that is we are not sure, but we have heard others say it, so like all good lemmings we will say it too) for Rick Perry to call Social Security a ponzi scheme. After all he is some crazy, foaming in the mouth conservative, as uber-Keynesian liberal Paul Krugman may call him. And that's fine. What confuses us, however, is why Social Security would be called a ponzi by the same liberal noted previously: none other than Paul Krugman himself. Exhibit A, from a distant 1997, which perhaps one would have expected to remain...

Not having any real reason to look into it any deeper, Sarah Palin's statement that Revere warned the British that the colonial militias were waiting seemed odd. But it appears that the popular version is not complete. In fact, as pointed out at Conservatives4Palin, Revere did in fact tell the British that the colonial militias, who had been alerted, were waiting for them. Here is the original historical text written by Revere (spelling in original, bold added): "I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and...

Well, now that Obama has made his major Mid East Speech, it is obvious that Obama learned a major lesson from Sarah Palin: You can do anything to the Jews except say the words “Blood Libel.” We know this is true because poor foolish Sarah Palin used those words in a speech back in January 2011 and was savaged by liberal newspapers, liberal talking heads, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and other leftist pundits for a combination of Anti-Semitism ala Insensitivity with a dollop of Stupidity on top. See this Internet Article if your memory needs a jog: The Democrats'...

Ed Schultz just said: President Barack Obama, he waves the flag, too. Come on, Nashville! Give me a song! If you won’t do it, we’d like to hear from our viewers. If you have a patriotic song or even a rendition of another song already in the can and ready to go, you can go to our blog at Ed.MSNBC.com and leave a link to it. We’ll check them out and maybe even play it on the air, because I think President Obama and the SEALS deserve a song from those fun loving American rednecks in Nashville, Tennessee who love...

Birthers! Get The Birthers!!!> First, Enquiring Minds want to know, what is HIGH DUDGEON??? This is a term that is used to describe INTENSE INDIGNATION. Here it is, almost 2 weeks after Obama finally coughed up his long form birth certificate. Things have quieted down and polls indicate that the number of people who had reasonable suspicions about where Obama was born have dropped in half, or more. Post Birth Certificate Polling Shows It Wasn't About Race, But About EvidenceYet, the Obotski are still in HIGH DUDGEON with numerous articles slamming Birthers, and most stating that Birtherism was never anything...

My President, The Car??? (Or, Show me the BIRTHFAX !!!) Way back in the olden days there was a TV show called “My Mother the Car.” Wiki says, “My Mother the Car is an American fantasy sitcom which aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 1965 and September 6, 1966. A total of thirty episodes were produced by United Artists Television. Critics and adult viewers generally panned the show, often savagely. In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst of all time, just behind The Jerry Springer Show.[1] In 2010 The O’Reilly Factor recorded its...

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. (Napoleon Bonaparte)I have written on this general theme before, but let me discuss how Scientific Birtherism provides a window in Obama’s soul. I have long held that the REAL Birther Question is WHY Obama does not resolve this matter by providing a copy of his long form birth certificate. I answer that question with the KISS Matrix which provides a framework of possible reasons which analyze WHY: 1. KENYA. He is born in Kenya, or there is something embarrassing on the long form. 2. IGNORANT. Obama...

Oh, my BFF Fabia Sheen, who is an Attorney, told me about these legal things called Requests for Admissions, where one side in a lawsuit gets to ask the other side to Admit or Deny something so that the process can move along faster. Sooo, since I write poetry and she writes all this legal stuff, we wrote the following like it was from the Obotski, who are just convinced that the ONLY reason people don't like Obama is because he is Black and we are just a bunch of racists. OH, do we ever get them back!!! Tee Hee!...

Oh, I am probably going to be struck by Lightning for mixing politics and religion, but I just got to thinking about something in the Bible. The story of Doubting Thomas. Here is the story from verses 24-28 of the 20th Chapter of the Book of John: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him [Thomas], We have seen the LORD. But he [Thomas]said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of...

"img src="http://squeekyfromm.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/chutzpah.jpg?w=181&h=279" Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and a grudging admiration. In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.“ Perhaps we need a similar word for what David Ploufe , a senior White House aide said about...

It is said that history repeats itself and the recent tsunami of confusion that has washed over the Hawaii Governor’s office is proof of this. Gov. Neal Abercrombie pledged that he would personally put an end to the questions of WHERE Obama was born by releasing documentary proof. Which was assumed by most reasonable people to mean the Long From Birth Certificate with verifiable information on it. Much like the infamous statement by former President Clinton, however, we are finding that for Obama Apologists, words sort of mean whatever they need them to mean at the moment. For refreshers, let...

Well now if this doesn’t just beat all. One of the victims of the Tucson shooter has threatened a Tea Party member. The threat wasn’t just some cross hairs on a election map. Or somebody calling the other side of the political spectrum names, in an un-civil and toned-UP manner. Oh no. This person, James Eric Fuller, came right out at a televised Town Hall meeting, and shot a picture of Trent Humphries, a co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party, and said “You’re dead!” Apparently James Eric Fuller has NOT put rambling crazy things on youtube, or took pictures of...

Oh, the phony baloney crap about the use of the term “blood libel” by Sarah Palin is just DISGUSTING!!! The Democrats are complaining about the use of the term, which originally described some sort of anti-Semitic stuff about eating Christian kids for supper or something. Alan Dershowitz, a famous lawyer, and Jewish to boot, pretty much says it is no big deal and that the term has come to stand for “false accusations” in a general way. The Anti-Defamation League, which is a Jewish group that tries to “stop defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair...

This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8. The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political...

Obama and the Newspaper Boy by Squeeky Once upon a time, there was a man named Obama, who owned a Baloney sandwich restaurant, The House of Baloney. He served the very best Baloney sandwiches, made from the very finest Baloney, imported all the way from Hawaii, or Connecticut, and maybe even Kenya. People came from far and wide to get his Baloney. They would say, “Ohhh, but this is such Good Baloney!” They were so fanatic, people even started calling them “O-buts.” Then one day, a little newspaper boy bought some baloney sandwiches, and when he got home, he discovered...