The UN Blood Libel: The Goldstone Report at the UN Human Rights Council

Watch the UN in action

He's trying to put together a Kennedy like resume

State Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio said he “panicked” when he bolted the scene of a car crash Sunday that left one person injured, but he refused yesterday to discuss where he was in the hours leading up to the 5:30 p.m. hit-and-run.

The Cambridge Democrat yesterday issued a statement expressing regret for fleeing, attributing his getaway attempt to his “prior driving record,” which includes two drunken driving convictions.

But in an interview with the Herald, Galluccio repeatedly refused to discuss his whereabouts earlier that day and whether he’d been drinking.

C'mon, the guy was just padding his record to become a US senator someday.

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And we want these guys to run health care?

From Taxprof.......

During the 2009 Filing Season, 75.7 million total dialed attempts were made to the IRS toll-free telephone lines. Through automation and assistors, the IRS answered 35.8 million (47.3%) calls during normal hours of operation. However, 22.4 million calls were not answered during normal hours of operation because the taxpayers hung up, were courtesy disconnected5 by the IRS, or received a busy signal. IRS officials stated that the 22.4 million calls included calls from taxpayers who called back and received service, dialed the IRS repeatedly, or hung up for reasons outside the IRS’ control. The IRS experienced high call demand during the last two filing seasons. Nevertheless, even when the IRS achieves more than an 80% Level of Service, millions of calls are not answered by IRS assistors.

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school promotion concept

Here's a "safe school czar" in his own words

Are you serious?

From the WSJ..........

Federal prosecutors said Monday that they won't seek the death penalty in the criminal case against Ahmed Ghailani, the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to face prosecution in the U.S.

In a letter filed Monday, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said they had been directed by U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. not to seek the death penalty against Ghailani

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Ted Strickland lies

I haven't had a chance to get into this but last week Ted Strickland is requesting "postponing the final year of a state income-tax cut as a way to fill a looming budget hole".

For the record, to say that you are postponing a tax cut is totally dishonest and a flat out lie.

Let me remind everyone out there that this "tax cut" was part of a restructuring of Ohio's tax code to shift the tax burden over to business via a CAT tax. As a result of the CAT implementation, Ohioan's are already paying higher taxes through increase prices passed on by businesses.

The reduction in the state income tax was a way to make the changes "revenue neutral" to Ohio residents.

As a result, the elimination of income tax cuts is a tax increase to Ohioans.

Who could have predicted this debacle when Bob Taft and his band of merry RINO's put this into play?

Anyone with an ounce of brains.

Who did she vote for? #800

Meet Maylesa Cline. Why is Ms. Cline in the news?

A 21-year-old Colerain Township woman will be in a Cincinnati courtroom this morning on a child endangering charge after sheriff's deputies checked out a report that her 1-year-old daughter may have ingested cocaine.

he baby, according to Hamilton County court documents, had white powder on her hands when police arrived at Maylesa Cline's apartment on Endeavor Drive.

They also found powder cocaine on the back of seat of Cline's car right next to the baby's car seat.

Now this past November, did Ms. Cline vote for the Hope and change policies of The Obama or four more years of Bush/McCain?

By the way, no word in the article about the baby's father.

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Life in "Progress" City

From the motor city of Detroit, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since Chief Pontiac commenced the Pontiac rebellion...............

Thousands of people have lined up Tuesday for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars set aside to help Detroit's homeless and low-income residents.The money is available to help low-income residents from becoming homeless and homeless residents to find housing.

Some people in line falsely believed they were registering for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama Administration.City officials told Local 4 that Detroit was granted $15 million to help residents pay bills and their rent or find temporary housing for the homeless.

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The cases they won't hear

You may remember the US Supreme Court as those brainy legal scholars who brought us Plessy v Ferguson and McCain Feingold.

But actually the cases the court won't hear may be as important as those they will.

Reader Jeremy with the article......

The term's opening is also the day for the court to turn down litigants. The justices released a list of more than 1,800 appeals that they turned down without comment.

In an abortion-related case, the court turned down a pro-adoption group called Choose Life Illinois that said it had a free-speech right to have "Choose Life" license plates. The state refused and said it did not want to get involved in the abortion controversy. (Choose Life vs. White)

The court rejected an appeal from a Florida youth who said he had a right to sit silently during the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Florida law says students can be excused from this ritual only with the parents' permission. (Frazier vs. Smith)

The court turned away a free-speech appeal from high school students in Tennessee who said they had a right to wear T-shirts displaying a Confederate flag. (Barr vs. LaFron)

The court refused a request from the Catholic archdiocese in Bridgeport, Conn., seeking to block the release of files on priests accused of sexual abuse. A state court had ordered the release, and the church argued, unsuccessfully, that this would violate its rights under the 1st Amendment. (Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp. vs. New York Times)

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Mike Blowers Prediction Seattle Mariners."The Call Of The Year".09-29-2K9.

This is pretty incredible if you haven't seen it

Graph of the day

From the American Thinker

Way to bastardize the normal market flow

Bob Herbert, racist

It's kind of weird to know that Bob Herbert is a racist, being black and all, but what other motive could there be when one criticizes our first black president.........

The big question on the domestic front right now is whether President Obama understands the gravity of the employment crisis facing the country. Does he get it? The signals coming out of the White House have not been encouraging.

The Beltway crowd and the Einsteins of high finance who never saw this economic collapse coming are now telling us with their usual breezy arrogance that the Great Recession is probably over. Their focus, of course, is on data, abstractions like the gross domestic product, not the continued suffering of living, breathing human beings struggling with the nightmare of joblessness.

Even Mr. Obama, in an interview with The Times, gave short shrift to the idea of an additional economic stimulus package, telling John Harwood a few weeks ago that the economy had likely turned a corner. “As you know,” the president said, “jobs tend to be a lagging indicator; they come last.”

The view of most American families is somewhat less blasé. Faced with the relentless monthly costs of housing, transportation, food, clothing, education and so forth, they have precious little time to wait for this lagging indicator to come creeping across the finish line.

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Quote of the day

"Nearly one year ago, on a clear November night, people from every corner of the world gathered in the city of Chicago or in front of their televisions to watch the results of the U.S. Presidential election. Their interest wasn’t about me as an individual. Rather, it was rooted in the belief that America’s experiment in democracy still speaks to a set of universal aspirations and ideals. Their interest sprung from the hope that in this ever-shrinking world, our diversity could be a source of strength , a cause for celebration; and that with sustained work and determination, we could learn to live and prosper together during the fleeting moment we share on this earth.’

B. Obama


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Who did she vote for? #4100

Meet Maxine Smiley. Why is Maxine in the news?

A 41-year-old Price Hill woman is behind bars, accused of hitting a police officer with her car while fleeing a traffic stop. Officer Mike Roth pulled over Maxine Smiley on Monday evening for an open warrant.

Police say she struck Roth as she fled, but was apprehended a short time later. Smiley is now charged with felonious assault.

Now this past November, did Maxine vote for the Hope and Change message of Barack Obama or the four more years of Bush message of John McCain?

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SNL parody - fact or fiction?

If you ever wanted evidence of media bias, you need only read this Yahoo news piece (which I assume is an AP produced piece).

The article assesses Obama's success against his campaign problems.......

1. Close the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay:
2. Pull all troops out of Iraq:
3. Improve the situation in Afghanistan:
4. Reform the nation's health care system:
5. Cut down on global warming:
6. Reform the nation's immigration policies:
7. Changing the military's policies on gay soldiers:
8. Placing limits on executive powers:
9. Prosecute those who facilitate torture:

Reading through the analysis Obama would get a big "F" on all these initiatives, even in today's public schools system.

But the writer's conclusion.........

So, taking all of this into consideration, are SNL's satirical criticisms of President Obama's do-nothingness valid? Probably not, mainly because, as illustrated by the old adage about how one shouldn't watch sausage or legislation get made, the process of "change" and getting anything done in Washington is a long and messy one, and Obama is merely nine months into his term as president. But that doesn't mean that Saturday's SNL skit was humorless, which, for once, it most definitely was not.

Now wait a minute, some of these initiatives could have been accomplished simply by waving his wand over the process (see don't ask don't tell). In addition, Obama didn't qualify his campaign statements with the caveat of "I will close Guantanamo with the cooperation of congress".

So exactly how would this writer judge "doing something"?

Another Obama fumble

This guy should be a Cleveland Brown the way he's fumbled everything he's had his hand on........

Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January — so much so that he’s expected to leave the White House in short order.

But sources familiar with the process believe Craig is being set-up as the fall guy and say the blame for missing the deadline extends well beyond him.

Instead, it was a widespread breakdown on the political, legislative, policy and planning fronts that contributed to what is shaping up as one of Obama’s most high-profile setbacks, these people say.

The White House misread the congressional mood – as it found out abruptly in May, when the Senate voted 90-6 against funds for closing the base after Republicans stoked fears about bringing prisoners to the U.S. The House also went on record last week opposing bringing Gitmo detainees here.

Probably the same people who misread the whole Olympics fiasco..........

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But hey, I've got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.

"The most ethical congress in history"

Of course, when you fail to investigate or punish any ethics lapses, that will ultimately be true. But will it come back to bite Lollapelosi and Co.?

The investigation into Rep. Charlie Rangel's alleged financial shenanigans is probably the most touchy question to pose to senior House Democrats and their aides these days. As the New York Times's Carl Hulse implied over the weekend, if Rangel were not the chairman of the Ways of Means Committee, if he were not a beloved figure among his colleagues, if fears of internal racial politics weren't in the mix, Rangel would be as good as stripped from his position. (Rangel says he's innocent and chides journalists who ask him about the investigation.) Rangel is one of several congressional Democrats who could plausibly become significant albatrosses around the neck of House incumbents next year, not the least of which because of his high-status position as the nation's chief tax writer. Events are conspiring with House Democrats to give Republicans a pretty solid anti-corruption narrative to run on. Of the 15 members of Congress who are under some sort of investigation, according to CREW, 11 are Democrats.

Last week, for example, it was revealed that the Obama administration's corporate compensation overseer, Ken Feinberg, had given his "blessing" to a $10.5 million bonus for the AIG CEO. Republicans already plan to run on the charge that health care reform will result in millions of middle class taxpayers paying more for health care. Even though Feinberg's decision was within social and political norms, it's the type of thing that the party in power gets blamed for, and will therefore make for a great Republican TV ad in the Midwest, in the Rocky Mountains and in the South. Add to this combustible mix a broad anti-government sentiment a frustration with Democratic insularity, solid GOP recruitment and relative fundraising parity.

And who, again, will be overseeing a broader tax reform effort next year? Whose committee will oversee the tax changes resulting from health care? Rangel, who is being investigated for failing to pay taxes on income and property he did not disclose, among other things.

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Richard Cohen, racist

This is Richard Cohen's second column in a week critical of our first black president. I'm starting to think he must wear a hood when he's out with his friends.......

Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be an unfair description), it poses some questions about his presidency that are way more important than the proper venue for synchronized swimming. The first, and to my mind most important, is whether Obama knows who he is.

This business of self-knowledge is no minor issue. It bears greatly on the single most crucial issue facing this young and untested president: Afghanistan. Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do. This MacArthuresque star turn called for a Trumanesque response, but Obama offered nothing of the kind. Instead, he used McChrystal as a prop, adding a bit of four-star gravitas to that silly trip to Copenhagen by having the general meet with him there.

Wow, you think these questions would have been posed when Obama was running for president instead of waiting until he actually had the job.


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MM MM MMM Barney Frank has got to go

Cash for Clunkers, the epitaph

Remember "cash for clunkers," the program that subsidized Americans to the tune of nearly $3 billion to buy a new car and destroy an old one? Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood declared in August that, "This is the one stimulus program that seems to be working better than just about any other program."

If that's true, heaven help the other programs. Last week U.S. automakers reported that new car sales for September, the first month since the clunker program expired, sank by 25% from a year earlier. Sales at GM and Chrysler fell by 45% and 42%, respectively. Ford was down about 5%. Some 700,000 cars were sold in the summer under the program as buyers received up to $4,500 to buy a new car they would probably have purchased anyway, so all the program seems to have done is steal those sales from the future. Exactly as critics predicted.

Cash for clunkers had two objectives: help the environment by increasing fuel efficiency, and boost car sales to help Detroit and the economy. It achieved neither. According to Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer, at best "the reduction in gasoline consumption will cut our oil consumption by 0.2 percent per year, or less than a single day's gasoline use." Burton Abrams and George Parsons of the University of Delaware added up the total benefits from reduced gas consumption, environmental improvements and the benefit to car buyers and companies, minus the overall cost of cash for clunkers, and found a net cost of roughly $2,000 per vehicle. Rather than stimulating the economy, the program made the nation as a whole $1.4 billion poorer.

The basic fallacy of cash for clunkers is that you can somehow create wealth by destroying existing assets that are still productive, in this case cars that still work. Under the program, auto dealers were required to destroy the car engines of trade-ins with a sodium silicate solution, then smash them and send them to the junk yard. As the journalist Henry Hazlitt wrote in his classic, "Economics in One Lesson," you can't raise living standards by breaking windows so some people can get jobs repairing them.

In the category of all-time dumb ideas, cash for clunkers rivals the New Deal brainstorm to slaughter pigs to raise pork prices. The people who really belong in the junk yard are the wizards in Washington who peddled this economic malarkey.

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NY Times editorial broad, racist

I didn't know the NY Times editorial board was racist until I read this op ed critical of our first black president............

Hopes for an effective law that would protect the public’s access to essential news from inside government have been dealt a severe setback by the Obama administration.

As a senator, President Obama co-sponsored a robust proposal to protect journalists and their sources who rely on confidentiality to reveal abuses, scandals and other inner workings of government agencies. But, White House officials are now proposing deep revisions to a Senate Judiciary Committee bill that weaken protections against forcing reporters to reveal their sources.

Four more years of Bush...........

You mean the world doesn't really have to like us?

Remember the good old days when gay meant happy, Ayds was a dietary candy and the world hated us because George Bush was president.

Well, despite being told that it was important for the world needed to like us, an op ed in the NY Times suggests that we now ignore being popular with the world community...........

To be sure, opinion toward the United States today is not overwhelmingly negative, thanks to widespread approval of President Obama. A recent survey from the German Marshall Fund suggested that positive opinion of the United States had skyrocketed in Europe. Likewise, a Pew survey showed that approval of America has jumped to 75 percent in France and 69 percent in Britain. But the comparable figures were 63 percent and 75 percent, respectively, in the second year of George W. Bush’s administration, and we all know where the numbers went from there. It merely may be that new American presidents tend to enjoy a honeymoon in foreign opinion.

Given these mixed signals, which surveys should President Obama pay attention to — the ones that suggest approval of his leadership or the more negative appraisals? The answer is neither. His only concern should be whether favorable public opinion abroad will help him achieve America’s own goals, and there is little evidence that that is the case.

Rather, history suggests that there is only one sure way for President Obama to ensure the popularity of the United States abroad: reduce the power of the United States or simply don’t exercise it — either militarily, economically or even diplomatically. The world simply distrusts the big guy on the block, and the only way to address this is to stop behaving like a superpower. A much better option, of course, would be to pay less attention to foreign opinion surveys and more to our own ideals and interests.

I think he's doing both.

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Non partisan Consumer Reports

Is this a Brown's highlight?

Watch the dumbest football play you'll ever see.

About the 1:30 mark

Roman Polanski On To Catch A Predator

Frank Rich, racist

I didn't know Frank Rich was a racist until I read this column critical of America's first black president........

Barack Obama promised a change from this revolving-door, behind-closed-doors collaboration between special interests and government. He vowed to “do our business in the light of day” — with health care negotiations broadcast on C-Span — and to “restore the vital trust between people and their government.” He said, “I intend to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” That those lobbyists would so extravagantly flaunt their undiminished role shows just how little they believe that a new sheriff has arrived in Dodge.

In his scathing Wall Street Journal column on The Post articles last week, Thomas Frank crystallized the gap between Obama’s pledge and this reality. “There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists.” That’s no joke: It was donated by Tony and Heather Podesta.

Obama’s promise to make Americans trust the government again was not just another campaign bullet point; it’s the foundation of his brand of governance and essential to his success in office. At the first anniversary of the TARP bailout of the banks, we can see how far he has to go. Americans’ continued suspicion that Washington is in cahoots with powerful interests in joints like Tosca is contributing to their confusion and skepticism about what’s happening out of view in the battle over health care reform.

The public is not wrong. The administration’s legislative deals with the pharmaceutical companies were made in back rooms. Business Week reported in early August that the UnitedHealth Group and its fellow insurance giants had already quietly rounded up moderate Democrats in the House to block any public health care option that would compete with them for business. UnitedHealth’s hired Beltway gunslingers include both Elmendorf Strategies and Daschle, a public supporter of the public option who nonetheless does some of his “wink, wink” counseling for UnitedHealth. The company’s in-house lobbyist is a former chief of staff to Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader. Gephardt consults there too.

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Half a president

Does Obama cherry pick the easy parts of his job description to do leaving the heavy lifting for others?

It appears that Barack Obama views himself as the head of state only. As such he cannot be bothered with the day to day responsibility of governance. He is, in his narcissistic world, above all that; thus he delegates the writing of the Stimulus, health care and other major bills to Nancy Pelosi, puts off any decisions on Iran and Afghanistan, appoints czars with power to spend and set policy and prefers to spend his time on television speaking to the huddled masses.

His responsibilities as the head of government have been assigned to others, who in many cases are not answerable to the American people. This has created untold chaos in Congress and apprehension among the citizenry. Yet the President appears not to care, as his interests lie elsewhere.

The Presidency of the United States to Mr. Obama is nothing more than a stage so he, pre-ordained by destiny, can act as head of state for the world. He is much too busy enjoying the trappings of royalty, despite his oft-declared disdain for that class, to be bothered about the dismal long term future of the United States if the left wing policies of his government are enacted. It appears President Obama also believes as the world head of state he can, by sheer force of his will, charm and persuasion convince the most brutal of global adversaries to live in peace.

The rest of the world has begun to see through his unrestrained self-absorption. The rejection of the Olympics for Chicago despite his personal intervention, and the published mockery of him by Nicholas Sarkozy are just the tip of the iceberg that is the real consensus of opinion, particularly in Europe.

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Hey NY Times, here's a story

I'd like to think that an organized attempt to politicize the NEA would be a story worth looking into.

So do you think that editor for the Times looking into blogger scoops will advance this one?

As many of you may know by now, my original article, entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?, discussed a conference call organized by the White House and two federal agencies, those being the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) & the Corporation for National and Community Service (The Corporation). In the original article and subsequent series I presented an irrefutable fact – that the federal government encouraged a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate.

To prove that the government set out to politicize a federal agency, it would take more than one federal employee acting inappropriately during the August 10th conference call. However, once a second federal employee is found acting with the same intentions as the first, by definition collusion is a possibility.

I think it can be shown that Yosi Sergant did not act alone, but namely, Buffy Wicks and Nell Abernathy prescribed to the very same behavior.

On September 24th, the former Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergant, resigned from his position at the NEA. In a statement issued two days earlier, the Chairman of the NEA, Rocco Landesman, outlined a list of facts regarding the conference call, including that “the former NEA Director of Communications helped organize and participated in an August 10^th conference call to introduce members of the arts community to United We Serve” and that he “acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell.”

Let’s assume for a second that no one at the NEA knew of Sergant’s efforts, which is what it appears Mr. Landesman is saying. We can give the agency that caveat for now. However, the assumption of ignorance must stop there. Why? Because we know from several sources that the White House and The Corporation, a federal agency that promotes volunteerism, also played a role in initiating, organizing, and planning the meeting.

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Susan Rice On Afghanistan Can't Answer A Simple Question

Obama's accomplishments

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And we're all better off for it.

Minimum wage

Once again, let me state that I'm not a conservative for me but for the working class types who need low skilled jobs.

With that said, let's look at what the hike in the minimum wage has done to unemployment, specifically, teen unemployment.

Earlier this year, economist David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, wrote on these pages that the 70-cent-an-hour increase in the minimum wage would cost some 300,000 jobs. Sure enough, the mandated increase to $7.25 took effect in July, and right on cue the August and September jobless numbers confirm the rapid disappearance of jobs for teenagers.

The September teen unemployment rate hit 25.9%, the highest rate since World War II and up from 23.8% in July. Some 330,000 teen jobs have vanished in two months. Hardest hit of all: black male teens, whose unemployment rate shot up to a catastrophic 50.4%. It was merely a terrible 39.2% in July.

The biggest explanation is of course the bad economy. But it's precisely when the economy is down and businesses are slashing costs that raising the minimum wage is so destructive to job creation. Congress began raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour in July 2007, and there are now 691,000 fewer teens working.

As the minimum wage has risen, the gap between the overall unemployment rate and the teen rate has widened, as it did again last month. (See nearby chart.) The current Congress has spent billions of dollars—including $1.5 billion in the stimulus bill—on summer youth employment programs and job training. Yet the jobless numbers suggest that the minimum wage destroyed far more jobs than the government programs helped to create.

Once again, let me ask my liberal brethren out there. If the minimum wage is such a good idea, why don't we make it $20/hr.?

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Tucker Carlson, racist

I didn't know Tucker Carlton was a racist until I read this note criticizing our first black president......

But here's the most interesting question about today's Olympic vote: Why didn't Obama see this coming? He spends all this time, gets all this press, uses all this political capital to promote Chicago, and then loses? What an amateur. Prosecutors don't ask witnesses questions in court unless they're sure of the answers. Presidents don't stake their personal reputations on contests whose outcomes are uncertain. Very foolish move. No wonder he can't get health care passed.

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Thank God (Obama) for the Stimulus

It s good thing we kicked that stimulus in otherwise we'd end up with 8.5% unemployment.

Let me ask this of my liberal brethren out there.

If it took a 1 trillion stimulus to keep our unemployment "down" to 9.8% what would a couple of trillion more get us?

What the Olympic fiasco says about the Obamunists

From The Campaign Spot.......

There's actually something worrisome about this whole Chicago fiasco, and it goes back to President Obama's inexperience. Diplomacy 101 tells us that your head of state only shows up on the high-profile stage when a deal is complete. The lesson that most politicians learn well before they gain positions of power is that diplomacy is done by diplomats, professionals who work through all the negotiations and the hardball tactics and the carrot/stick combinations. The principals in the matter gather to discuss high-level topics and to smile for the cameras as the agreement is being signed. Heads of state do not conduct diplomacy, they ratify it, and surprises are entirely unwelcome at those summits and signing events (hence Reagan's anger in Iceland.)

Why were you and Ramesh surprised? Because you thought that President Obama at least knew this very basic lesson. Today's announcement suggests that he does not, and it just got advertised big-time to countries who already were pretty sure we had a rookie at the helm who didn't know how to use international power. President Obama just got upstaged by an organization against whom no retaliation is acceptable, and he wants to meet with the Iranians next month? We are in deep, deep trouble.

Their inexperience mirrors their lack of econ 101 knowledge.

But they were supposed to love us

Remember the good old days when boys wore those canvas Chuck Taylor Converse to hoop in and the world hated us because George Bush was president?

Someone need to send a freakin' memo to the IOC who bounced the US on the first ballot........

"The shock of Chicago's elimination was greater for the fact that it came in the first round. And greater for the fact that President Obama had taken valuable hours from his packed and tense political schedule to travel to Copenhagen. His legendary powers of persuasion will be said to have failed him, though in reality it will be Chicago's bid that failed him. Nonetheless, this is a moment which allows the president's detractors to allege waning prestige on the part of his presidency. And it will raise questions about the political advice that he is receiving."

Yep.

Don't worry, it's probably the same advice he's getting when he names a NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association) fan to head safe schools for children.

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Jack Webb Schools Roman Polanski on Sex with Children

The libertarian dilemma, Issue 3

Last June, I posted my distaste for the horrible casino issues we keep getting in this state.

I don't go to casinos and I don't care if you go. In my opinion, casinos are a monumental waste of money, time and energy. But I like my beer and for some that would be a monumental waste of money, time and energy.

So I don't care if we have a casino in every square mile of Ohio, I won't be there and it doesn't bother me if you go there.

None the less, I'm going to ring the clue phone to the jack asses who keep putting these casino votes on the ballot and explain to them why I keep voting them down and why Ohioans in general keep voting them down.

When you vote for a gambling issue, you are not voting for legalized gaming in Ohio, you are voting for a legal real estate/gaming cartel.

In this particular vote, we get to vote for a casino in one of four predetermined locations around the state. Wouldn't you just know that the guys who put the ballot up for vote just happen to own that particular real estate.

So what incentive does someone in Marietta, Lima, Portsmouth, Warren, Sidney, Springfield, et al. have to vote for a casino? They get no benefit from any development that occurs from casino activity. In fact, you could argue that money gets sapped from their communities just like Indiana and Michigan sucks money out of Ohio.

Here's a take from MVRed in Youngstown

Supporters of Issue 3 can go on and on about how
this area will receive $11 million annually in casino revenues, but these supporters fail to realize this Amendment will make it nearly impossible for a casino to ever be built right here in the Mahoning Valley! I don’t know about you, but I’d love to see a casino built in downtown Youngstown sometime in my lifetime.

If the casino supporters truly want to pass a piece of legislation that a MAJORITY of Ohioans will pass, then they need to make casino gambling legal in the ENTIRE state, not just the four largest cities. The reason these ballot measures continue to fail is because they are granting a handful of locations the ability to build casinos, NOT the entire State, which is wrong.

He is 100% correct.

If the dipsticks in this state want legalized casino's they'd set up a commission to issue gamimg licenses. In order to get a license you'd have to go through capitalization and legal guidelines with a healthy application fee.

Then you can leave it up to each individual community to establish zoning guidelines just like you have with bars, strip joints and race tracks.

By doing that, an Ohioan in Nelsonville or Cambridge or Sandusky can feel like they have a vested interest in Ohio gaming.

As it is now, unless you live in one of the "chosen" cities, Ohioans get to vote to make sure they'll never get a casino.

Vote No on 3.

Congratulations Chicago

As we know from history, America presidents don't travel to lobby. They travel to take credit. So Obama's trip wasn't to lobby for Chicago's bid for the Olympics as much as it was a opportunity to takle credit.

My prediction, the Olympics will be in Chicago in 2016, if we all don't die from global warming before hand.

Maybe by 2016, the city's population will be wiped out from homicides.

Death in "Progress" City

From the motor city of Detroit, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since Henry Ford rolled the first Model T off the assembly line.........

At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money."

Lifelong Detroit residents Darrell and Cheryl Vickers understand this firsthand. On a chilly September morning they had to visit the freezer to identify the body of Darrell's aunt, Nancy Graham -- and say their goodbyes.

You know what Detroit need? A tax increase. Just ask Gov. Granholm.

What's so "progressive" about piling up dead bodies?

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But hey, it's not rape rape

The stuff that comes out on this Kevin Jennings guy just gets more and more disgusting.

We're expecting this guy to make our schools safer? From who, him?

Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.

But failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings' worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.

Roman provides damning details and links here. She also notes that Jennings wrote the forward "to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers." Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber from the 1960s who is just an "acquaintance" of Obama.

Every presidential administration ends up with scandals inspired by controversial appointees, but typically those tend to revolve around financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, or some other form of white-collar misconduct. For Obama, the scandals seem to be develping in a pattern of disclosures revolving around radical left ideology that raises questions about their fitness for any job in government.

In all seriousness, it's truly amateur hour for this collection of dolts.

Article here.

Baby games

Carla Bruni - Nobody knows you when you're down and out

If you ever needed a sign that Armageddon was upon us this is it.

We've got an American running France, a Frenchman running the US and French First Lady hotter than our Miss America.

Thursday humor

Life in "Progress" city

From the Olympic city of Chicago, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since Mrs. O'Leary's cow started a fire.......

A 14-year-old boy was chased down a street in the Edgewater neighborhood this morning and hit with a pipe, fracturing his skull, according to police and witnesses.

Another teenage boy in Chicago attacked in the streets? If you are a parent in Chicago, you may want your thirteen year old shipped off to Iraq where it's safer.

When the sprinters come in during the Olympics I hope they can run faster than a speeding bullet.

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How good is the US health care system?

Good enough for this............

Baker began by offering a blunt disclosure. “I make my living sending patients to the U.S.,” he said. “This is medical tourism, but instead of sending someone to Thailand, we’re sending them to Delaware.”

Through an innovative partnership with 22 independent American surgery centers and doctors in 13 states, Baker and his American counterparts transport Canadians to the U.S. for timely care at cost savings up to 80 percent. The partnership operates largely outside the traditional health insurance system. And this isn’t just about helping Canadians. Baker now also provides a similar state-to-state service for Americans seeking more affordable or timely care.

Under Canada’s controversial federal health legislation, surgeons are prohibited from charging patients to provide “medically necessary” treatment. In addition, they are limited to performing surgeries to six hours a week. Gilbert recalled one surgeon telling her, “I spend six hours in surgery each week, less time than I spend explaining to sick patients why I can’t perform theirs.”

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Is this a good thing?

When you read, this you wonder......

Michelle Obama working IOC like a politician

I know whenever I get worked over "like a politician", I always have rectal bleeding.

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But they love us now III

Remember the good old days when milk was sold in glass bottles and the world hated us because of George W. Bush.

Someone needs to tell Israel they're supposed to love us now............

The president's approval rating has fallen to an astonishingly low 4 percent in the Holy Land

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David Corn, racist

I didn't know David Corn was a racist until I read this piece critical of our first black president...........

Is President Obama serious about Afghanistan?

Of course, he's serious when it comes to his goal of disrupting and destroying al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies. No doubt, he and his aides are thinking long and hard about what to do there and how to respond to the recent assessment submitted by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. (In that review, McChrystal notes that the "overall situation is deteriorating" and that the Afghan government is a major problem, but he implicitly makes the case for more troops.) On Wednesday afternoon, Obama's scheduled to hold a big powwow on Afghanistan with his entire national security squad, including Vice President Joseph Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Adm. Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, CIA chief Leon Panetta, McChrystal and others.

Yet Obama is caught in a rhetorical trap regarding his devotion to the war in Afghanistan, as I've noted before. And on Tuesday, the White House fell into it again.

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The ACORN protection racket

Don't you love to go to game in some cities where, not only do you have to pay to park, you also have to pay for someone to watch your car and keep from being ripped off, usually by the same people hitting you up.

Or where you have to pay some guy named Carmine for protection of your store from some group of Soprano like gangsters.

ACORN was playing the same game for years on large banks. Because banks were so sensitive to their CRA evaluations (those evaluations was a determinate factor in merger approval by the justice department), they basically paid off ACORN and Rainbow coalition types just so they wouldn't protest.

As a former small business bank lender, I got to see this first hand. Whenever my boss would hand me an application and say "this is a CRA deal", I knew it was a piece of shit and needed a lackey to sign off on it. Usually they were small deals to help out a friend in "the community" or loans the more specialized areas of the bank wanted no part of because it meant bending so many loan policies.

None the less, the ACORN scandal is now exposing this extortion...........

On Sep 29, the article “Bank of America Pulls ACORN funding” appeared on the CNN political ticker. While the short piece thankfully does list some of ACORN’s recent scandals, such as the Breitbart video investigation and the voter registration fraud, it didn’t answer the question that was surely on every reader’s mind: What exactly was Bank of America paying ACORN for?

Let’s not fault writer/editor Amy Sabha for not addressing the topic, as she was clearly very busy working on this video in which she goes up and down the UN escalator.

Instead we can just go to the Bank of America community website, which notes that the firm works with ACORN in more than 20 cities to provide “special mortgage products.” Or we can go to the ACORN Housing website, which describes a program that produced $246 million in mortgages from Bank of America with “flexible underwriting and discounted pricing.” Or this page, which describes a program with low down payments, no private mortgage insurance, no cash reserve necessary, and flexibility on income requirements, such as being able to include public assistance.

Yes, ACORN and Bank of America joined forces to become the ultimate subprime lender. So much for the organization’s lofty social justice rhetoric.

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Global Warming Challenge Update

The updated score for the global warming challenge.

The average high temperature for the month of September was 76.6 degrees v a historical average high of 78.0 degrees.

The average low temperature for the month was 59.1 degrees v a historical average low of 56.8 degrees.

So the month of September is a kiss your sister tie and brings the total score through September.

Warm -9
Cool - 9


By the way, it's been three months since that dolt Eric from plunderbong called me out for not "putting my money where my mouth is".

So, once again, Eric I'm willing to lay $100.00 on this. Where are you?