NEA & Unions (same thing) Lie & Teach Our Children To Lie

Being held to the realities of economies, which they helped destroy, is a harsh lesson for teachers, bureaucrats and unions. So they lie, cheat and shirk they responsibilities and in the process teach students to do the same.

Every one of them should be fired and prosecuted.

Obama Health Care Could Shut Down 84,000 Lives With The Flick Of A Switch

It's funny, the dictionary doesn't have U.S. Government as the definition of "competence."

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

Yeah, knowing it's just one of those quirky government glitches will perk you right up when you're dead. Right? With Obama Care at least 84,000 people will rest more comfortably in their coffins.


Maybe that's why Obama wants an Internet "kill switch" for. It would be so much less messy in the press than death panels.

Sistine Chapel

Very good site HERE

How Liberals/Progressives Justify Their Hatred Bias Via Megan McArdle

What Does Bias Look Like?

Those people offered their own alternate theories, which boiled down to:

• Smart people are almost always liberal
• Curiosity and interest in ideas is a liberal trait
• Conservatives are too rigid and authoritarian to maintain the open mind required of a professor
• Education erases false conservative ideas and turns people into liberals
• Conservatives don't want to be professors because they're more interested in something else (money, the military)
• Conservatives don't want to be professors because they're anti-intellectual
• Conservatives hold false beliefs that make them ineligible to be professors

Megan McArdle has had a very interesting couple of posts on bias as practiced by liberals. I have a large contingent of family members who are professors and I, because of my work, have spent a good amount of time guest speaking at high schools and colleges. The arrogance, especially ideological arrogance, is really quite astounding.

I was once informed that my speaking to a senior civics class was so Neanderthal-like that it took the teacher a week to undo the damage I had done. It seemed that some of the students had never heard that the Civil War was not, as they had been taught, really just the "war to free the slaves" nor was there a constitutional authority to create a hyper-equal citizen that should or does receive extra special consideration under the law.

The second time I spoke at that school other teachers attended the class I was speaking with to "correct" me when I spoke heretical thoughts. It was quite a lot of fun as they had no real basic knowledge of history, law and the constitution. They just had relative outta-be thoughts and their thoughts of what people such as the Founding Fathers were really thinking as they formed our nation (think the dead white rich guy scthtick). Now they just avoid me when I speak. Well, I should say mostly they avoid me because I have become friendly with some, who while still disagreeing with me, like to speak or debate with me outside of the classroom setting. We have fun and I have learned from them. I hope I have imparted so thoughts that they have thought more about.

McArdle focused on the academic world, but it made think of life in general and specifically politics. I believe her list of points could be a liberal list of what is wrong with conservative voters.

•Smart people are almost always liberal

•Curiosity and interest in ideas is a liberal trait

•Conservatives are too rigid and authoritarian to maintain the open mind
required of a voter

•Education can erase false conservative ideas and turn good people into liberals

•Conservatives shouldn’t be voters because they’re more interested in something
else (money, the military) that is detrimental to democracy

•Conservatives are anti-intellectual voters

•Conservatives hold false beliefs that make them ineligible to be voters

Democrats Aid Progressives To Slime Opponents To Block Truth

It is constantly asked, "How low will the Democrats go"? With the help of Progressives, a euphemism for Socialists, they have set their sights on going further into the sewer than they have ever gone before.

Look for the main stream media to immediately assist these people because in the end, the media is part of the group.

Liberals launch anti-Darrell Issa crusade

The group will be run by the principals of SCN Strategies, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that produced ads last cycle for California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). One of those deeply involved is Averell “Ace” Smith — who ran Hillary Clinton’s successful 2008 California and Texas primary operations and is known as one of the more cutthroat political operatives in the business.

Dan Newman of SCN Strategies, one of the three people leading the anti-Issa campaign, declines to disclose how much is being spent on the effort or who is bankrolling it, telling POLITICO it is being paid for by “patriotic Americans who don’t want to see the potential of an ethically challenged congressional investigator run amok with McCarthyesque fishing expeditions.”

The structure of the organization does not require that it disclose its funding.

But the goal is clear: Newman, Smith and the third partner, Sean Clegg, want to raise enough questions about Issa’s background and personal history that anything he turns up in probes of the Obama administration will be immediately discredited.

It is time to find out who these people are, who they are connected to, who is funding them and to find out how many crimes they have committed.

Grammys

Several people have asked me if I watched the Grammys and, if so, what I thought.

For some reason we watched the Grammys this year. I watched to the very end. I had to. I was so horrified by what I saw and heard I had to watch.

It was horrifying.

Obama's Budget Delivered A Joke

I believe Obama must think that as long as he has checks he must still have money.

The budget he delivered to capital hill is a joke. We'd all laugh if we weren't crying. Having an administration so disconnected from reality is very scary.

Obama's 'have it all' budget: Can he cut, spend, and grow?

I think this type of thinking can no longer be thought of as reckless or the work of people that have no understanding of economics. This is criminal.

Ron Paul's Bogus Straw Poll Win At CPAC

In real life Ron Paul gets maybe 3%. Maybe, but when it comes to straw polls RP wins. Supporters say that their work (swarm) stands and RP should be the nominee. BS.

Ask yourself how many people you know like what Ron Paul stands for. Then ask yourself how many people you know think Ron Paul has a snow ball's chance of winning the presidency. They don't have to be close friends. They can be anyone you've ever met, talked to or seen. There is no credibility.

Then there are Ron Paul dEvolution members. They are abrasive, rude and underhanded and that's the good side. Cheap tricks don't a president make.

CPAC's RP straw poll win isn't just bogus, it is a cheap trick and it makes Ron Paul look like a cheap one trick pony.

Some Things Shouldn't Change

Vogue once had in vogue women

Museums once had art

Obama: It's 11:00 PM. Do You Know Where Your Mubarak Is?

Just asking.

Obama Admin To Strengthen UN Instead Of US

Ms. Rice states that we need the UN. That the UN fills a vital need on behalf of the US. Like the US needs the UN as much as the UN needs the US.

Susan Rice kicks off U.N. series

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the nation should “strengthen” — not “starve” — the world body.

The address is the first in a series of speeches — to continue this spring — making the case to the American people for why the U.N. matters to national security, and detailing how it is being improved. The ambassador will be speaking to the World Affairs Council of Oregon in Portland.

The United Nations is a good thought. Communism is a good thought. Both want what Rodney King wants. They all say "Can't we all just get along" after they have hurt, lied, threatened, stole, killed and murdered.

Many ideas are thoughtful, but do not work because the reality of bad people ruin the idea. The UN is filled with such bad people. Thugs, representatives of dictators, assassins and murderers. The good people in the UN have one thing in common with the bad people, they are anti-US.

I humbly submit that President Obama, his administration and the federal bureaucrats try their darndest to start thinking about strengthening America. It will be very hard for them, but I would like to see them at least try it. Once.

Obama Is Not Ignorant He Is Stupid

He didn't see the events in Egypt. He has no idea what to do since the events in Egypt have changed..

The man is in the deep end when he should be wearing water wing in the shallow end,

The man, in so many categories, is stupid.

He is not ignorant. That would be kind.

He is stupid.

Dumber than a box of rocks.

Cut $100 Billion? Why Not $500 Billion? A Trillion?

Government has grown by ridiculous proportions since Team Obama took over, but government has grown massively for 20 plus years including when Republicans had control.

Republicans promise $100 billion in spending cuts


If the personage in Congress and the White House don't understand the concept of limited government they might pick up a copy of the United States Constitution and since they are not busy reading the legislation they are passing maybe the could bone up on what our founders had to say about the correct role of government.
 
Yeah, like that is going to happen. They could have one of their $120,000 staffers read to them. If those people can read.

Ron Paul Supporters Prove They're Not Conservative Republican Smart

CPAC - Ron Paul's dEvolution has some really good people, but has been hijacked by some complete idiots. Huh? Well, to highlight their support of America they embarrass the pre-eminent conservative convention, a conservative former Secretary of Defense and a conservative former Vice President of the United States of America. This current Team Paul isn't libertarian, they are idiotarian and it shows.

Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion

One Paul Foolian screamed "War criminal" at Cheney which has the Foolian's brothers and sisters at DU cheering. The MSM has already picked up the story (otherwise they would have ignored CPAC) and is, with the help of these morons, attempting to make conservatives look bad.

Good Lord, how far is this group from passing out copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and whispering Illuminati conspiracies. Oh, wait...

They're not very bright.

Mubarak 'Hiding' Under Obama Bus

It is reported that Hosni Mubarak with step down from power in a recorded address to Egypt. The recording was supposedly recorded yesterday. Mubarak, it is reported, has been in negotiations for his removal. It is not being reported with whom Mubarak has been negotiating with.

After thirty years in partnership with the United States and Israel Mubarak has been prodded by the Obama administration to step aside. It appears that Obama has thrown Mubarak under the proverbial Obama bus, but it is also apparent that not only did Washington not see this coming, Washington and the administration have no idea what will happen in Egypt with the departure of Mubarak.

Once Mubarak steps down we will have to idly sit aside and watch whether it will be Islamofascists such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the military or pro-democracy forces that will take power. There is no other way to look at this than as a total failure by the Obama administration.

If the worst happens Israel will be the first to feel the wrath of this failure and then free nations around the world will have to brace for best trained and best equipped military in the Middle East to start making moves led by religious fanatics.

Total. Failure.

Lactivists Or Boobs In Public?

Why is it necessary to breast feed in public? It isn't. Why is it inappropriate to breast feed in public, especially in a museum on the National Mall? Because families, as in children, are in attendance and many people find it too personal and a form of public nudity. It is also inappropriate because there are perverts and voyeurs who will be titillated by such public events.

Dozens plan 'nurse-in' at Hirshhorn to highlight right to breast-feed in public

Aita, a stay-at-home mother from Rockville, said she couldn't find anywhere to sit in the restroom, so she returned to the bench. The guard then told her to try sitting on the toilet. When she moved to another bench instead, another Smithsonian guard told her to stop.

"I was shocked," Aita said Tuesday as her 11-month-old, Elaine, chattered away. "What's wrong with nursing? But I wasn't sure of my rights and the law, so I told my husband: 'Let's just go home.' "

There, Aita jumped online and learned of the Right to Breastfeed Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1999 as part of an appropriations bill. The law ensures a woman's right to breast-feed her child on any federal property where she and her infant are otherwise permitted.

Benches in federally owned properties such as the Hirshhorn, for instance.

Cue the outrage.

Aita was "shocked." Well, I am shocked that it was Bill Clinton who signed a bill allowing public showing of breasts, It must have been in his "blue" period.

Talk about boobs in public. That should be the outrage.

Richard Avedon Photograph Of Robert Frank (With Comment By Eugene Richards)

Robert Frank's photography changed the way I looked at the world and I immediately moved from painting to photography. Richard Avedon, who I watched as an apprentice, changed the way I interpreted the images I looked to record. Eugene Richards sucked the drama out of my vision and gave me clearness.

ROBERT FRANK
photographed by Richard Avedon, 1975

The people who made his book The Americans important were the people of my generation - the people who came of age in the late Sixties, that generation of people dealing with the Vietnam War and questions about the country. The book was a fractured view of the country. It addressed a lot of the obvious metaphors for what America was like, and turned them on end. I first saw that book when I came back from the South in the late Sixties, and I was pretty upset about the country. So then you see this photo book that reflects your emotions of the time, and it becomes a very important work to you. It felt very close to what you were experiencing. Later, you saw it as a remarkable personal expression. At first, the book was a combination of politics and art to me. That's what made it inspirational - that you could actually get your political feelings into pictures. I had been trying, and when I saw that book, I felt very much at home with the guy. Frank is very direct and not overly emotional, but a straightforward guy. He's right to the point. He takes life very seriously. He's low-key, kind of egoless, and very harsh at the same time. As for his other work, I've never been disappointed. I don't know how much of a weight that book is around his neck. Probably a lot. It's a book that rocks everybody.

- Eugene Richards

Dana Milbank Breaks Palin Pledge Daily Hourly

Just like Jimmah Carter ole Monte Milbank can't help himself. There must be a journolist group that secretly meets (electronically with cams) to discuss their lust for Sarah Palin.

Hourly, nee by the minute, they lust in their hearts for Sarah Palin. It's as if they have not just a passion, but an obsession for her.

At the water cooler, "Psst, did you SEE what she was wearing?"

Oh, they mask it by trying to tear her down, just like they did in school when all the popular girls never noticed them. They do have some remorse, even repressed anger, that Gov. Palin can handle a long rifle better than their dad and with more style. It's killing them that she is a better athlete than they ever were, but, ah, the allure. It's driving them to distraction.

One can hear the taunts from classmates,

"You’re in love with Sarah."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am not. She's stoopid."

"Ha, Dana's in love with Sarah."

"If you don't shut up I'm gonna tell mommy."

(Chorus) "Dana's in love with Sarah."

"I hate her. I hate her. I hate her."

I hope Milbank isn't waking up with the sweats from his repressed thoughts about a Palin free February. Ole Milbank, that devil, he chose the lover's month to hide his dirty deeds.

Dana's Valentine’s Day will be very rough.

Winter In Art

Edward Simmons (1852-1931)
Boston Public Garden,1893

Abraham Beerstraten (b. Amsterdam ,ca.1644 (?) 1627-1666)
Winter View of Leyden

Yu-tang Yang (b. 1956)

God's Masterpiece-2006

Richard Schmid
Victorian Winter

Long Island July 2010

Jones Beach Ice Cream Parlor 2010

The West Bath House at Jones Beach,
designed by Herbert Magoon (and Robert Moses)
c. 1930 in Wantagh, Long Island, New York.

Say What Obama?

'I Didn't Raise Taxes Once'

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Huh? Say again.

To My Minion: Some Help Please

Okay, both of you (I hope at least one is at home to read this). A friend of IA has had some misfortune and needs an infusion of love. Donate what you can. If you can't, please send some serious and personal prayers.

Go here:

http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/02/going-dark.html#more

Please hit her Tip Jar and I'll give you my half of the Brooklyn Bridge. Deal? Good.

Thanks and please pass this on to others.

Moore: Fat Man Wants Fatter 9/11 Check

Michael Moore. What can one say other than he is a hypocrite who has made millions making “documentaries” that would in any sane world be merely clumsy propaganda. Now he wants to further profit from the murder of thousands here in America by Islamic thugs posing as religious warriors. Both had profit as their base motive.

Michael Moore vs Movie Accounting: Sues Weinsteins For More 9/11 Movie Profits After Already Pocketing $19.8 Million; Yes Or No - "He Redefines The Term Greedy"?

This is disgusting on so many levels by so many disgusting people. Those that died on 9/11 are merely a profit factor by those that have no feelings or remorse for the dead.

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here

Old Licking County Jail

North wall of old Licking County jail located at 155 East Main Street,
Newark, OH.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A lovely inmate there for a time.
 

Mug Shot of Elderly Murderer Laura Bell Devlin

Original caption: 1/7/1947-Newark, OH: Mrs. Laura Bell Devlin, 72, shown above, who murderd her 75-year-old husband, Thomas, then dismembered his body with a hacksaw and scattered the parts in the backyard, today professed her dislike for jail. She protested vehemently when officials tried to fingerprint her saying "that ink will make my hands dirty," and again when she was placed before the camera, "No," she asserted. She kept repeating "Can I go home now?', unmoved and in no way penitent for the alleged crime.

IMAGE: © Bettmann/CORBIS
DATE PHOTOGRAPHED January 07, 1947
LOCATION Newark, Ohio, USA

Bill O'Reilly Called Me Nuts

via Lonely Conservative

I don’t read the blogs. Most of those people are mentally ill.

Kinda confirms what I have thought of Bill. He and his owhininess.

Obama's Super Obesity Bowl Party

Beer from Super Bowl states heads up Obama's party

bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips and dips.

And ice cream. Every responsible dietary example needs ice cream. And not one, but two brands of beer.

Obama + Greenies = Disaster For America

Obama has stopped 1/3 of America's energy supply in the Gulf. A coalition of 89 "green" groups, who make a ton of green off people like Obama, want to stop Canada from building a pipeline to the US that would bring in millions of barrels of oil.

Big Green groups tell Obama to tell Canada to Drop Dead

Together they have set out to destroy our economy. Why do we tolerate them?

Reagan To Make An Appearance At Super Bowl

Is there anything he can't do?

President Reagan Once Again Back To Comfort The Nation

Republicans have looked for another Reagan since he left office never knowing they didn’t find him, he found and saved them. Democrats hoisted Tip O’Neill as the anti-Reagan, vilified Reagan, called him a stupid B movie star and then vilified Reagan further from the comfort zone of a defanged Evil Empire. Up until his death Reagan gave comfort to all, but the raging left and right of our political spectrum.

He’s back.

The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth is February 6. This anniversary has authors, writers, activists and any who have a political stake bringing up his name. The Gipper is back, for good and bad, for one more moment in the political discourse of the chattering class of our time.

Conservatives say, “if only he were here,” Liberals say, “if only he hadn’t,” and those in power imply, “if only you knew.” If only we knew just how much our current president is like Reagan, if only our president stopped acting like Reagan and if only our president thought like Reagan.

He never left.

As Craig Shirley, Reagan author/historian said of Reagan on Washington Post Live online;

As an historian, I focus on the facts. And the facts about Reagan make him one of America's four greatest presidents. But don't ask me, ask Ted Kennedy who gave Reagan all the credit for winning the Cold War, ask liberal historians John Patrick Diggings, who rated Rr as one of the four greatest because they all liberated many people (Washington, Lincoln, FDR and Reagan) or liberal historian James MacGregor Burns, who put Reagan in the great or near great category.

Beyond the facts is what Reagan did best. He returned America to us and with America he gave us comfort. Comfort in who we were and were not. Comfort in the great experiment called the United States of America. Reagan gave us our identity back. The identity we knew in our hearts, but had seemed to have lost. The identity that made us good Americans. Made America good. The identity that made America the “shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.”

As long as America is America Ronald Reagan will be with us, for good and bad, for he still gives us enough comfort to voice our opinion of what America should be. Those who still oppose Reagan will use him to bolster their argument. Those who still support Reagan will use him to support their argument. Those desperate will use Reagan to compare or contrast themselves or their candidate to Reagan.

Mainly, there will people who will keep Reagan in their hearts as that to which America should strive to attain. It is comforting to do so.

Residential Architecture

I typed in "architectural residence" for images and below are the results. They were what I expected. I prefer more comforting environments, but I have spent a great deal of time in modern homes. Some have been stunning while some have just been cold. I found none of them warm.

The house I currently live in started as a one room structure that is now the living room. A half story second floor was then utilized with the addition of a steep staircase when needed and then other rooms. With the addition of the other rooms the owner at the time styled the structure into a simple rural gothic with arched windows in front, steep roof lines and gables. Later still one owner enclosed a two story rear porch for rooms, but forgot about a proper foundation and later still another owner enclosed an ill advised front porch into another room with no foundation at all.

The house has character. The faults are being fixed and the character retained.

Ngozi Pole, Former Kennedy Staffer Guilty Of Excessive Stealing

Oh boy. This is too rich. Stealing from one who stole his salary for years.

Former Ted Kennedy staffer caught stealing from the Senate

Write your own jokes.


You just can't make this stuff up.

Sarah Palin Rhetoric Responsible For Violence And Threats In Egypt.

I'm sure Dana Monte Milbank will want a piece of this, but really solid reporters are thinking that Sarah Palin's use of DNC imagery and dAilykoS rhetoric has caused this:

Mohammed ElBaradei has ordered Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave the country by Friday – or he will be a “dead man walking” and not just a lame-duck president.

OMG. Dead man walking? The language! The thought! The threat must be right out of lesser people than the lefty Milbanks of the world.

I blame Sarah Palin for the thoughts that caused the words to come out of ElBaradei's mouth! Is there anything she can't do?

How Many Other Loyal Allies Will Obama Stab In The Back

I'm sure Hugo Chavez is safe from the Obama bus if Venezuela rises against him. I am also pretty sure that Jintao is safe if China rises up against him. To Obama that would be the diplomatic thing to do. Not so with Egypt's Mubarak. Obama is slowing twisting the knife in the back of a leader who has helped us and who has helped stabilize the Arab world and stood with us in the fight against Islamic terror.

Other allies are watching Obama closely because they now know that the loyalty they have shown us will not be repaid, at least not nearly as well as ingratitude.

Who will lead Egypt after Mubarak? Absolutely no one knows for sure and it is absolutely sure that the Obama team doesn't. I would probably take a bet against most of the Obama team being able to name the countries around Egypt. Denial may be a strong point for the Obama administration, but they probably don't get denile jokes.

Is Mubarak a good leader? No. Loyal, yes. Was there a better way to handle this? You betcha, Maybe Team Obama was blindsided, which is very believable, but their first reaction was to stab Mubarak in the back instead of their vaunted use of the crisis for something they want. What is it Obama wants?

Did Obama plan to send a message to unsavory leaders worldwide or just to those with whom we have influence? If so, forewarned is forearmed and those leaders may dig in for the expected traitorous behavior of a friend and make the situation even worse. Was that Obama's plan? To make things worse? Why?

Has Obama planned for the onslaught of friends and fellow terrorists allied with the Muslim Brotherhood that will try to take power as did Hamas and other groups that took over pro-democracy movements elsewhere? Did Obama even consider this scenario?

Lots of questions with really no information about the thought process, the goals or any future strategy and tactics that Team Obama will employ in the future  The only other question is how many other loyal allies will Obama stab in the back? Oh, one more, what will it cost America?

New Google Art Site Is Very Cool

Click HERE to see whole image

This what the human eye could take in at about 2 inches from the canvas.

It's from the Google art site which is pretty cool.

Hamlet

Andrej Dugin Hamlet

Gertrude 36 X 36 cm, mixed media, paper

Obama's HealthCare Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional!

Just out - since the mandate is unconstitutional the entire act is unconstitutional. No stay was granted.

He ruled that Congress over stepped its boundary by forcing individuals to purchase anything.

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Is Anti-American

In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood is the father of al Qeada.

Jordan's opposition: Arabs will topple tyrants

The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.


They were allies of the Nazis is WWII, fomented terror in british controlled Palestine and even though the Brotherhood maintains they are nonviolent they have a long documented history of terror, murder and assassination.
 
They are not pro-democracy. They are anti-Israel. They are anti-American. They are just another way to spell Jihad.

Hempstead Pike

Will Obama Lose The Egyptian Revolution Like Carter Lost The Iranian Revolution?

Yep. Pro-democracy forces needing our help will not get that help and another Islamic Bananna Republic will be set up by another Ayatollah Khomeini.

It's like Obama and Carter were twins separated at birth. Who got the left side of the brain?

I think another set of twins separated at birth were Billy Carter and Jabberin' Joe Biden. At least Billy had beer going for him.

Buffoons all.

Enviromental Expertise Worth About A Buck Two Ninety Eight

And that amount of environmental expertise is funded with billions of our dollars. Somebody is gettin' screwed.

Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds

Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be melted within quarter of a century.

The environmentalists do have the UN on their side, but what could go wrong with that?

Palin 2, Lefties 0

There are so many points which lefties hoped to take down Sarah Palin. Each time they failed. Each time they proved that they, not Palin, were the ones ignorant of history. Each time they became more frustrated and descended further into ignorance and madness as they squirmed to explain themselves. It's kind of beautiful to watch.

 Soviet space expert James Oberg

It's more complicated, but the essence is, Palin was right: the Soviets sowed the seed of their own collapse by setting off the Space Race.

Before this there was the 1773 moment. Lefties pounced faster than the Right assassinated Rep. Giffords crowd. Their ignorance of significant events in the birth of the United States was stupefying.

Hubris, Nemesis, and Partying Like It’s 1773

When Sarah Palin told a Tea Party crowd last Monday that it wasn’t time yet to “party like it’s 1773,” segments of the left such as Kos’s founder Markos Moulitsas chortled at her supposed stupidity. Their kneejerk assumption was that Palin was so ignorant that she didn’t even know the date of early events in the American Revolution. But since it was actually the Boston Tea Party (1773) to which she was referring, it was Sarah who had the last laugh.

More stupefying is their sense of being part of the intellectual elite which allows them to feel, and thus imply Sarah Palin as trailer trash in the nicest of Daisy Duke traditions that make elites so witty and condescending.

Well, Palin is setting her own tradition. She's 2 for 2 and those intellectual elites are 0 for 0 and it's making them crazier than an outhouse rat in a red hot barrel. With no way out.

Ill Supreme Court Sez Rahm Emanuel On Ballot

Gee, who da thunk? A Schicago machine pol asks for a ruling and viola, the Ill Supremes say here ya go.

We discussed this before here.

HUD = Hookers & Unsavory Dead

Add in paying for belly dancers, mismanagement, sex offenders, embezzlement, employee bonuses, cost-of-living increases and severance awards and children damaged for life, to name a few, and you have a perfect example of government agencies too big, too corrupt and too stupid to do any job right.

Public Housing, Private Frustration
HUD-Funded Housing Projects Wasted Money on Belly Dancers, Sex Offenders and Dead Residents

Read the whole article. If ObamaCare becomes a reality maybe doctors and you may suffer, but some administrator will probably have a "million dollar mansion in Florida, with a Lamborghini and BMW parked out front."

UPDATE: Link was missing, but now fixed thanks to a heads up from Zilla. You can read her here and here.

Richard Avedon's Twiggy

Hair
Twiggy
1968
by
Richard Avedon

Obama To Push Gun Control

He purposely left any mention out of the SOTU preferring to speak of high speed trains and proposals of economic responsibility which will be the last we ever hear that.

Newsweek has this to say:

But throughout the hourlong speech, he never addressed the issue at the core of the Giffords tragedy—gun control—and what lawmakers would, or should, do to reform American firearm-access laws.

No, gun control is not the core issue. If they wanted to speak about a nut that was allowed to roam free even though authorities knew him to be dangerous as the core issue then they'd have a point. But nuts being confined doesn't fit the meme.

That was intentional, according to the White House. An administration official says Obama didn’t mention guns in his speech because of the omnipresent controversy surrounding the Second Amendment and gun control. Tuesday’s speech was designed to be more about the economy and how, as Obama repeated nine times, the U.S. could “win the future.”

But in the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort in which it will urge Congress to strengthen current laws, which now allow some mentally unstable people, such as alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, to obtain certain assault weapons, in some cases without even a background check.

Poor Rep. Giffords, a second amendment supporter, will once again be used by the Obama administration to further another goal. They want Obama's economic policy and his abysmal SOTU address off the front pages so they'll use Giffords to that end plus they can use the media to paint those opposing such gun control efforts as heartless and evil. Double win!

If they can chip away at the 2nd amendment, well, that's a bonus.

Meghan McCain Says Michelle Bachman Is Poor Man's Sarah Palin

Classy bimbette Meghan  'Who the hell is Sarah Palin?' McCain says that Bachman is a poor man's Palin and if she thinks Palin is trailer trash, as she has implied, then what must she really think of Bachman?

Meghan states that Palin brought "drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to her father's presidential campaign. Maybe the thought of one day getting all that beer money has clouded her thinking because Palin also brought a lot more votes to the ticket. Maybe she's just projecting about her Xanax problem. Talk about bringing stress to a campaign.

Maybe Meghan is stuck in the first act of Xanadu. Meg, keep dreaming of someday.

Monkey Butt

Couldn't resist.

Congressman: We Shouldn't Focus On Muslims In War On Terror

Lutherans threaten America

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, wrote:

We cannot cripple ourselves by ignoring the fact that terrorist activity knows no race, ethnicity or religion.

He was writing to say that there are other terrorist group and that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.)  should not focus on just Muslims. While there are obviously dangerous groups such as Lunatic Lutherans planning death to America I think their numbers and organization might not be up to par with Muslim jihadists though, if lutefisk sales start rising like the cost of oil, then we may have a problem, but I don't think King is focusing on just Muslims. He is focusing on them because they have been behind murder and death all over the world, but I'm thinking that there is general knowledge of other terrorists.

I don't know much about Bennie, but it appears that only MLK or Malcom X could beat him so his district is pretty safe for him. So safe he can play stupid and dangerous political games with the security of the United States of America.

I'd say that Bennie Thompson is the Olbermann of the week.

Unemployment: 454,000 Get Bucks But No Work

Those stimuli are working overtime making America stronger, eh?

Pundits, even conservatives, are saying that Obama will be reelected in 2012.

Now I know what Obama was referring to with his WTF.

Aunt Samantha Sucker Punched Uncle Sam, She's Now In Charge w/Update From ManBearPig's Sibling

And she is going to make the world safe whether you like it or not. Behave or Auntie will spank you with court papers and new laws. Auntie loves you. You cretin. You'll understand some day.

Lawyers and lawsuits shut down prime sledding hills...
NYC Lawmaker Proposes Ban On 'Talking And Walking'...
Mom jailed for enrolling kids in better school district...

And Aunt Samantha ain't just shutting down lunches that your kid might like, she's suing the shorts off anyone who tells her where to shove her nannanista ways.

And she has the federal government as her junk yard dog to help show you the errors of your ways.

UPDATE:
ManBearPig's sib, NanBarePrig, Dennis Kucinich is suing because the caddy health care plan left him short in the enjoyment and pain department after oral surgery which he say's is the House cafeteria's fault. It's not clear if pain and enjoyment were listed in the same catagory, but it's the pits for sure! Auntie Samantha couldn't fix it with just a gold plated plan so let's get to suing somebody!

SOTU Poll - Yawning Voters W/ Update

The state of the union appears to be listing to one side as the ship of state is porting into any harbor it can find. This, then, is a wrap up of the tempest in a teapot called the SOTU:

Fox News - 'FLAT'
CBS - Obama: "The Future is Ours to Win"
CBS Poll - Poll: High Marks for Obama's State of the Union Speech  91% loved it say they!
ABC - State of the Union 2011: Obama Emphasizes Bipartisanship to Promote Jobs, Growth, Innovation
NBC - A new spirit in Washington, but same old divisions linger
AP - State of the Union stirs current of hope, doubt

But, but, but...AP - Fact check: Obama ledger out of balance

Bottom Feeders -

SOTU - Infrastructure/Innovation
Randy Andy Sullivan appears to have spent the evening elsewhere. Probably researching his own high speed train proposal(s).
Meh.
From Ezra of the "I" generation - Lots of vision, but few policy specifics

Top Feeders -

IA Poll (including household, blogs and the Internet):

BUST! - Shoulda gone bowling. Alone. Better use of time.

UPDATE:

IOTW says WTF

Obama SOTU Speech A Bust

Spoke in blandishments.

Tried to hide more entitlements.

Spoke of deeds he will never do.

A waste of many minutes.

Pundits Wrong About Reagan And Obama

Obama never mentioned Reagan let alone praised Reagan.

Musta come to his senses. Any mention of Reagan would have put the lie to his administration.

SOTU Off The Rails

Bam Bam has gone completely la la.

Trying to wrap up a completely disingenuous SOTU Obama is now dribbling.

To wrap up Obama is showing his support of the troops by promising to give them what they need to fight which is giving them the right to be openly gay.

Now he wants to talk about no illusions.

Our democracy is messy, but good!

Panadering in the fast lane.

We do big things. That is how we win the future.

By spending trillions we don't have?

Oh, BTW our union is strong.....

What a crock.

No Real Cuts, No Real Tax Cuts, Just Rhetoric As Usual.

Now is the time to act, for Republicans and Democrats to do abosutely squat to make us more efficient and better people.

Big joke about being smoked referring to salmon.

Love that humor.

Obama is going to reorganize government and will allow every citizen to see online just how wonderful government is.

For the third time Obama says he will veto any bill with earmarks. Waiting.

As Obama tells us that America's leadership has been renewed and the world now loves us once again Jabberin' Joe is falling asleep.

Biden should be falling asleep because Obama has switched into his "I wanna be Bush" mode complete with coaltion talk, but without reality.

In short, Obama will defeat the enemy even though he can't defeat Republicans.

On to nuke talk. Always a great talking point for one who has the wind in his face.

Health Care Reform And Balanced Budget Lies

Obama is pulling out the sick to try and save his ObamaScare. He has to if he has any chance of reeelection.

So he builds his case on lies.

Building on one lie to another he moves to lessening our debt and balancing our budgets.

He's willing to cut, but only on his terms and referenced by his catchy little phrases (see list of supporters who gave the big bucks) he wants to cut programs that he never in a minute will ever cut, but Obama is going all bi-partisan.

Right.

Lower The Corporate Tax Rate????

Liberal heads exploding nationwide.

Will it happen?

No.

Is Obama campaigning or is he telling the truth?

Yes and no.

High Speed Rail And Internet?

Even Biden can't get excited. Maybe he'll promise ice cream to all children and then tonight double his efforts to ensure that promise.

High speed rail for 80% of Americans without the grab and grope.

What a lie of a promise that will never want because no one wants it nor do they want to pay for it. 

Highest Proportion Of College Graduates In The World.

BS. Not in your administration.

Thus we must give citizenship to illegal immigrants to save America.

Moron.

Good Lord, A Call For Another 100,000 Teachers

Unions? I guess.

Pandering going ballistic.

"We'll Show You The Money"

How presidential. Speaking of what will never really happen in education Obama said show us the new idea and we'll show you the money.

What baloney.

Some of the dates aren't standing with their partners.

First Blush of SOTU- Fluff-lite

What crap.

Obama quotes, cites and lies about what may have been and trashes what is. What a political loser

Lord, let me not smash my TV.

Payola? Rahmbo Back On the Ballot

He's back! It was interesting that in a press conference he immediately got his spin going by saying that what is important is the companies that have left Schicago in the last year and the companies that will come to Schicago in the next year. Like, is Rahmbo going to change the tax, spend and corrupt atmosphere in Schicago and Illinois?
Maybe Rahmbo will get Cook County exempted from the new state taxes. Maybe certain children (cough, cough) will get cushy jobs with one of the new companies Rahmbo will be getting to come to Schicago.

Maybe this ruling stinks of something other than the law.

Taft Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States)



Robert Louis Stevenson

John Singer Sargent - 1887
Painting - oil on canvas



Why Has The Main Stream Media Spiked Story About A(nother) Left Wing Assassin

Casey Bresik. Hopeful assassin. Increasingly the face of the left. He slit the throat of a college dean thinking it was the governor. He was dressed for the part in dark clothes. The media has hidden this story for months. By omission they are liars. And accomplices.

Wrong. People such as Bresik have always been the true face of leftists. Crazed, not right in the head and angry. The main stream media is threatened by this face. Actually, most threatened is the message, rightfully so, and the main stream media believes it may fail because the average human would be repelled if they thought a Bresik represented that message.

Casey Bresik is a failure because he is nuts, stupid and entirely unable to form a sane thought so he became a leftist.

American Power has a much better post on this and I suggest if you want to better understand this spiking of a story by the main stream media, you read it and follow the links.

A Specific Example Of How Unions & Govt Are Killing The American Dream

I agree with most of this article except where Mr. Augustine calls for more government intervention in education. I read this because a friend wrote to me about how unfair conservatives are to unions and government. I still disagree.

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation

Part of the problem is the lack of priority U.S. parents place on core education. But there are also problems inherent in our public education system. We simply don’t have enough qualified math and science teachers. Many of those teaching math and science have never taken a university-level course in those subjects.

I’ve always wanted to be a teacher; in fact, I took early retirement from my job in the aerospace industry to pursue a career in education. But I was deemed unqualified to teach 8th-grade math in any school in my state. Ironically, I was welcomed to the faculty at Princeton University, where the student newspaper ranked my course as one of 10 that every undergraduate should take.

Schools need to be filled with teachers that excel in the knowledge of what they teach, not excel in what teacher's unions feel is necessary to be a good teacher. Some of the most disagreeable teachers that taught classes in which I was a student taught me the most. Many of the most agreeable teachers I had taught me little because they were the student's friend in place of the student's teacher.

Many engineers are entrepreneurs who delight in discovery, invention and profit from those discoveries and inventions. Many cannot afford to be entrepreneurs because of government rules, regulations and laws that do not protect their work and tax it at prohibitive rates.

Unions and government, which are becoming the same thing, are killing our innovation and hard work ethic which are the bedrock of the American dream. The punishment of innovators by government and the mediocrity of unions is a very bad partnership, but who doesn't know that.

MoveOn & Liberal/Progressive Groups Stealing Pepsi Charity Money From Kids With Cancer

Stealing from taxpayers isn't enough it seems, so liberal and union groups are gaming the system using their political operations to win charity donations Pepsi to be used for political purposes.

They are using politics to steal from real charities, like Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation, to fatten their campaign coffers.

Pepsi Refresh Contestant Claims Rules Were Broken

Groups belonging to the Progressive Slate, many of which are skilled at voter registration and community organizing, are collectively working to help each other win the contest. The strategy is proving successful: as of Thursday evening, eight of the top 10 contestants in the $50,000 category were Slate members, and two members were among the top five contestants vying for $250,000.

Many of their Web sites promote liberal agendas, featuring comments from MoveOn.org, recommending LeftyBlogs.com, and displaying membership lists that include labor unions.

They are led by the Center for Progressive Leadership, a nonprofit group whose eight-member board includes two Democratic members of the House of Representatives; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat and the former lieutenant governor of Maryland; Matt Dunn, a Democrat who failed to win the party’s nomination to be governor of Vermont; and Mike Lux, a Democratic political operative who helped found the organization.

It appears Progressives will stoop to any low to get money, even cheat kids with cancer out of their hope to get well.

As Usual, Experts Wrong About Tunisian Revolution And Freedom

Govt Should Not Be In The Drug Business

This is a huge example of what government should not be doing, especially since it was government that created the need they are now attempting to fill.

Federal agency to spearhead new drug-development center

The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

The new effort comes as many large drugmakers, unable to find enough new drugs, are paring back research. Promising discoveries in such illnesses as depression and Parkinson's that once would have led to clinical trials are instead going unexplored because companies have neither the will nor the resources to undertake the effort. Drug companies have typically spent twice as much on marketing as on research, a business model that is increasingly suspect.

The line I highlight in bold is such a false statement that I am appalled it made it into print. Big Pharma doesn't have the "will" to make more money through the development of new drugs? Hah! I thought this was the big complaint about Big Pharma, that they actually wanted to make a profit from their research and development. Lack of "will" is a false flag denoting they don't care which is a lie.

That they don't have the "resources" might be true in the sense that the federal government has crippled them with rules, regulations, taxes and lawsuits. In fact, Big Pharma is not going to produce new drugs with which they can not only not make money, but may get them sued, put in prison and put out of business. Thanks Big Government for what you have done for us by hurting Big Pharma.

Government should not be in competition with the private sector. They do a lousy job, cost jobs and flatten the market for anything new and good.

Ron Paul Fails To Win New Hampshire Straw Poll

The RonPaulian cult rEvolution was unable to upset RomneyCare in the NH straw poll of delegates to the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Republican Party. RomneyCare won over a 3 - 1 advantage as the bi-polar delegates voted in Tea Partier Jack Kimball to head the state committee.

In other NH news, they all decided to recoat the capital dome in sugar free chocolate for the health of the children.

Why Isn't Social Security Money In A Separate Account Of Its Own?

How much money would have been accumulated if politicians hadn't taken our SS payments from us and spent them on projects (pork) they wanted for their reelections?

Herr Olbermann and his over-the-top fan nuts w/UPDATE

Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show

There is already a fan page on Facebook demanding he be brought back!

Bring Keith Olbermann Back

Keith was and still is the best of us...and now it's our turn to step up to the plate. We cannot allow this to continue...because soon we will have 500 channels of Conservative Pravda going on 24/7 if we don't fight.

We can write, call, or do whatever. Hell, let's march on the Capitol...100,000 strong for Keith. If Glenn Beck can do it, so can we.

Maybe Pelosi will form a new committee to investigate the ruination of entertainment news in America. Sometimes life is beautiful.

UPDATE: Herr Olbermann set up the page himself! How rich is that...
Get yourself fired after quitting a few times, make your network look like a loser, whine like a baby for more money to embarrass your network and political causes even more and then set up a Facebook page to appear the victim. Fits his politics and his multi-millionaire liberal lifestyle perfectly.

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No Proof Obama Born In Hawaii?

This clown posse could screw up a sure thing.

Hawaii governor claims record of Obama's birth 'exists in archives' but can't produce the vital document

What was the pressing necessity for this fellow to open his mouth in the first place? Boy, Rahm leaves for just a few minutes and these clowns are falling over each other in their successful attempts to look foolish for no other reason than to look foolish. But Hey! It keeps them in the news, eh?

UPDATE: Ask and ye shall be answered. The clown gov of HI is an exhippie marxist who hates our military as well as the American way of life. That'd be proof A that he ain't quite right in the head. Proof B would be that when he is spouting hig political agenda the press yawns, and the man do love his press, so he goes half cocked and starts talking about whether Obama is really an American.

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie Is A Marxist


via I Own The World

Life Without Liberals, Progressives, Socialists & Progressives Is Within Reach!

daILyKoS has a little project called "Ignore Sarah Palin Week". Cute, no? They swear if they see, hear or read about her they're going to bug off. That sounds delightful. It's only for a week, but it is a start.

Abortion Stops A Beating Heart

There is an abortion debate. Has been. For a while.

It used to be a debate about whether a child was a child while still in the womb. Did it have a soul? Could it feel pain.

Then the debate entered the area of partial birth abortion.

Now the debate is whether a child is a child outside the womb as The Other McCain discusses.

Doesn't matter, this "debate."

Every abortion stops a beating heart.

Lobster, Aged Beef, Sparkling Wine & Glitterati For Hu, But No Jobs For You

Food inflation, those Nazi-Republicans, and low expectations for jobs forced them to forgo eating cake.

Jackie Chan, Barbra Streisand lead Hu state dinner guests

Action star Jackie Chan and pop diva Barbra Streisand topped a guest list including three presidents and political and media elites at a US state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday.

At the request of the Chinese side, the menu for the dinner honoring Hu, after a day of frank talks at the White House, was quintessentially American fare, such as poached Maine lobster and dry-aged rib eye with creamed spinach.

And nothing could be more American than the old fashioned apple pie offered as dessert in a final flourish for a meal washed down with a selection of wines from California and Washington state.

Hu, wearing a business suit, posed with President Barack Obama, in black tie, and First Lady Michelle Obama, who was wearing a flowing red and black off-the-shoulder dress, after arriving at the North Portico of the White House.

All of the swirling gowns and fine music obscured the looming guillotine waiting to drop. But there was pie.

Huffington, Maddow And Frank Rich With Obama?

Secret meeting? Have there been more? Maybe Helen Thomas, Deborah Solomon, Andrew Sullivan will next partner up with Obama for a super secret meeting. Just to catch up.

O summons journos

You don't know this, because few know this because it's secret because nobody wants anybody to know this because who knows why? A pack of wide open tonsils like Frank Rich, Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow were imported to the White House for a hear all, tell all, blab all q.t. meeting. It's been by deliberation unreported. And the raison d'etre? So America's Talker-in-Chief can brainpick, monitor their views, borrow ideas, pin the tail on the conservatives and get re-elected.

Key question, was Michelle out of town?

Americans Should Wish Iranians A Happy Valentine's Day!

Just to show the love we have for Chairman Short and his band of merry mullahs we should all send cards, roses or emails to Iranians.

Iran bans production of Valentine's Day gifts...

Nothing says love to an Iranian like the color red.

White House Defines Trash And Treasure

You decide which they think is trash.

One got feted by Obama and the other got set out with the garbage.

Dear Government, Where's The Damn Money Gone?

Dear Government,

Everyday you get and spend billions of dollars. From coast to shining coast the money flows like honey to and from one government entity to another with some falling into the economy.

Each hour people pay taxes on everything they eat, drink, think, sell, buy, drive, see and touch. Each minute we hear dire economic news, police being laid off, schools closing, firemen without equipment, hospital shortages and banks being closed.

Where is the damn money going if it is not going to fix those things we pay taxes for? Please don't put some bureaucrat on TV spouting micro this and macro that and the needs of left winged pouty puss wrens. Make it simple. It's time for you dear government to offer some explanations.

You have spent trillions and we got nothing to show for it? Why? Who spent it and is spending it as we speak? Where's it being spent?

We'd like to know instead of you all making speeches about nothing. Where did the damn money go?

Inquisitively,
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