Lightning Hits White House

The lightning, the darkness and blurry image combine for a perfect description of what the White House is going through, thus us.

This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel. And I want the world to know once and for all, and without any shame, that we love him. I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you how to walk, how to speak, how to move, how to think. Together, you and I are going to make the greatest single contribution to science since the creation of fire.

Yeah.

Polls And Reporting Be Damned. America Is Feeling The Financial Heat Of Failure.

Everybody has a poll. Most polls are biased. At best they are simply a snapshot of the moment if they are done correctly. Reporters like pollsters let their bias seep into their stories and like polls their stories are at best snapshots of that point in time. In the end the polls and the reports are merely bias put to print.

Any lawmaker in a swing district can expect to take criticism from his right flank at a town hall meeting. But at an American Veterans outpost tucked deep in the Pocono Mountains this week, freshman Republican Rep. Lou Barletta took heat from every direction — from Democrats angry with the tax cuts in the GOP budget, to conservatives who thought he caved on the last continuing resolution vote, to a precocious 16-year-old critical of the lawmaker’s environmental record.

First Barletta was told “not to be steadfast in Paul Ryan’s Republican plan,” to “bend a little, work and come together to pass something that’s agreeable to everybody.” Moments later, another constituent told him, “I don’t want you to bend; I want you to stand firm” on spending, even if that means a national debt default.

Jimmy Carter allowed America to taste failure and he paid the price of defeat at the polls. Obama is facing the same problem and the problem for Obama is that the problems of his administration's doing are getting worse. People do not feel positive about their children's future and they even believe their immediate future is bleak.

Voters are giving congressmen hell. The left wants to protect their handouts. The right wants to cut. The left believes that government has a duty to give, not just protect, but give. The right doesn't believe in this.

It all doesn't mean anything because the left will lose their handouts and the right will see programs they like cut to the bone. These things may happen soon, which is doubtful, or they will happen after the next election, but they have to happen. We, as a nation, have spent ourselves into poverty which is a longer way of spelling debt.

Voters across the middle are getting incredibly angry over those things not in their control while the left is getting angry because Obama hasn't gone all the way to a government that does all and those on the right will say, "I told you so" because Obama is an abject failure as president.

Polls and news reporting cannot capture the reality because most have no desire to do so.

The Hypocrisy Of Obama Part 3,678,879,013

via Cato

You Look Mahvelous

Posted by David Boaz

“Bijan Pakzad, an extravagant fashion designer and boutique owner who happily and unabashedly made wealthy men look rich, feel rich and smell rich,” has died, reports the Washington Post. Mr. Pakzad explained that he catered to customers who “normally aren’t concerned about inflation.”

His slogan — “the costliest men’s wear in the world” — helped his opulent clothing store become known as the West Coast’s one-stop Savile Row.

While drinking champagne presented by white-gloved butlers, customers could shop for $2,500 silk pajamas, $1,500 cologne, a $24,000 mink-lined topcoat, a $19,000 ostrich vest, $55,000 crocodile luggage or even a $120,000 Mongolian chinchilla bedspread lined with silk.

Who could afford such clothes? Warren Buffett and Bill Gates? Yes, but they don’t look like they spend so much money on clothes. The Post names a few customers:

From the moment in 1976 when Mr. Pakzad first opened Bijan, his Rodeo Drive emporium, three words bedecked the entrance: “By appointment only.”

The locked-door policy made clear that Mr. Pakzad exclusively catered to men who had money, power or fame — and usually all three. His clients included President Obama, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Stevie Wonder, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Jordan.

Wait, President Obama? That’s not the same Barack Obama who told college graduates not to “take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy,” is it?

This actually pales in comparison to Obama's trainer being flown in once a week, the jetting off to endless vacations and a lifestyle of the rich and famous. The most successful despots have lived in posh elegance while their subjects lived in poverty They too probably wore one of Mr. Pakzad's suits.. 

Happy Easter

The Adoration of the Holy Trinity by All the Saints, from the All Saint's altarpiece by Albrecht Dürer, 1511.

LibProg Teacher's Unions & Government Teach Earth Day Hate

Profit is bad thus business itself is bad thus business owners are bad. Oh, actually we are are bad. To Mother Earth. Plus we're really mean to disagree with their crap.

This is propaganda to indoctrinate little children and it and all those that made it an acceptable tool to use in public schools should be fired and never be allowed within 500 yards of a child ever again.

Things That Should Surprise You

But probably won't.

Illegal alien works six years as cop for Anchorage police department... House next to fire station burns down... HUMP DAY: Obama to Chicago for Oprah, then to NYC fundraiser... Man Arrested For Filming Cop... TSA Screener Charged with Child Pornography... Economic Recovery Prompts Rebound in Divorce Rates... $5.69 GALLON IN ORLANDO -- FOR REGULAR... U.S. LAUNCHES FIRST DRONE ATTACK IN LIBYA...

OH NO! Not Another Democrat Convicted Of Voter Fraud! OH NOES!

Voter fraud doesn't exist. Right?


NAACP official convicted of voter fraud

Remember, vote Democrat because they are the black man's friend because they brought them civil rights  and balanced our budget and had a surplus.

No wonder their symbol is an ass.

Obama 2012 - Cope And Strange

Obamatrons are already pumping out slogans such as "Together we thrive", but I don't think they're going to buy much. This time voters know who Obama is or, more importantly, who Obama isn't so instead of slogans, social media and such, Obama's handlers should follow the successful Democrat tradition. Buy votes. They seem to be on this path as they tout a billion dollar campaign budget for Obama's reelection.

Another tactic might be honesty. Yes, I am aware this is a little used device in campaigning, but the shock value might be enough to get him reelected by an electorate that has been obviously willing to try anything like, say, an unknown community organizer with questionable academic credentials, degrees and background.

The whole Hope and Change thing hasn't exactly worked out, but we, as nonpartisans, should all lend a hand to our president in his quest help all of us to maintain a mantle of low expectations as an odd reason to keep him around. For my part I say spend more, a lot more, than a billion dollars and find a catchier campaign slogan like "Cope and Strange."

Clyde Barrow To Dump Bonnie For New Crime Spree?

Yeah, I know. Rearranging Titanic's deck chairs. Custer changing his hairdo.

There has been some scuttlebutt that Obama may replace Biden on the ticket with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


I will admit that Jabberin' Joe Biden has some similarities to Buck Barrow.

Is Wisconsin's Kloppenburg Saying Minnesota's Dead Union Votes For Al Franken Went To Prosser?

Ann Althouse is having fun with the "recount" in Wisconsin and with JoAnne Kloppenburg's accusations of Republican wrongdoing by correcting a mistake and reporting the actual vote. According to Kloppenburg, this is just not acceptable in Wisconsin. And she has a long list to make it so.

Her list of things that "raise significant questions" about the process in
Waukesha felt long, but what is really on it?

a one-and-a-half day delay in notifying any responsible party about
a county vote total that [the clerk] knew was incorrect


the absence of any reasonable basis for her explanations


the prior knowledge by conservative bloggers


the complete absence of knowledge by the canvass
board until the press conference

It sounded like big list, but there are only 4 items. And 2 of the items are the absence of
anything. An absence of evidence might be probative of something that
matters, but you have to build a foundation for why it matters.

It's sad when one has their own device used against them, especially when it appears they are unable to see the irony. The question is not whether there are fraudulent votes that were cast in Wisconsin, there most probably were some, but who those votes were for.

I'd blame Bush, but that has gotten old even for those on the far left so I'm going with funny boy Franken as the guy to blame because if there weren't enough fraudulent votes for Kloppenburg it's because Franken and Friends (Inc.) weren't paying enough. Dead voters today just don't understand.

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No, Chivalry Is Not Dead

I beg to disagree with the writer who calls the death of chivalry  the clarion call announcing the death of society. If society is dying a terminal death it is not due to a lack of civility and chivalry. It is because a small, but loud and obnoxious crowd is saying things that are not true and are doing so in a rude manner that would be called by better folk lying if they were less polite.

Yes, I speak of my family which is polite and whose daily actions are based on the code of chivalry and I also speak of the actions of a wide swath of people that I see in my travels. The lady who is struggling who welcomes the help of a stranger. The Muslim who helped others in the wake of 9/11 and received in return support because they deserved it. The person who risked their life to save another from a burning car. The young man who kept the smile on his face as a woman strolled through an opened door without so much as a smile let alone a thank you. The woman who kept her tongue as a political elite questioned her femininity because she dared to disagree.

There has always been and always will be those that deny the society who has given them much and has allowed them to become who they are, but, in the end, the arbiters of bad manners, bad taste and bad society will not win. They may not know this because society is too polite to point out just how tragically wrong they are, but to them the game is never really over. If it were what would they have to do with their lives?

Democrats Vote Own Death Panel On Health Care Funding

It’s an odd thing when the condemned themselves cry “dead man walking”.

McCaskill had said earlier in the day that she would vote against any effort to cut off money for the law.

"I voted for the bill and I think there are real cost savings in the bill."

2012

Via Gateway Pundit

Lewis Hine: Forgotten Genius

Power house mechanic working on steam pump

In 1936, Hine was selected as the photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration, but his work there was never completed.

The last years of his life were filled with professional struggles due to loss of government and corporate patronage. Few people were interested in his work, past or present, and Hine lost his house and applied for welfare. He died at age 66 on November 3, 1940 at Dobbs Ferry Hospital in Dobbs Ferry, New York, after an operation.^[7]

After Lewis Hine's death his son Corydon donated his prints and negatives to the Photo League, which was dismantled in 1951. The Museum of Modern Artwas offered his pictures but did not accept them; but the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York did.

Pelosi Fades

Some saw her as historic. Others saw her a 100 pound bull in a china shop with spiked heels and not as nearly as nice. All knew, for good or bad, she was a force to be reckoned with.

Nancy Pelosi fades as power player

But her hands would have been idle if she had stayed in Washington: The White House didn’t want her involved in the talks.

Payback is never fun so it is best when one remembers there will be a tomorrow when people look back to how they were treated. 


There are a lot of people remembering.

AP poll shows 6 in 10 Americans want spending cuts, not tax hikes

Among the public, 62 percent say they favor cutting government services to sop up the red ink. Just 29 percent say raise taxes.


If AP polling is reporting "6 in 10" I would think the actual number is 8 in 10 Americans want spending cuts, not tax hikes.