This is excellent news.
Sade storms to the top of the U.S. and French charts 25 years after winning her first Brit Award
Sade storms to the top of the U.S. and French charts 25 years after winning her first Brit Award
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Progressive Criminals Are Another Person's Terrorists
Cheney Admits He's A War Criminal
That's the headline over at Progress Ohio. Their 'scoop' is based on Section 2340A of the federal criminal code. Below are the pertinent parts of the interview in which VP Cheney "admitted" he broke said section of the criminal code:
CHENEY: Well, I don't think so, in a sense that it -- if it -- if you interpret that as taking you to the point where all of these people are going to be treated as though they're guilty of individual criminal acts.
I want to come back again to the basic point I tried to make at the outset, John. And up until 9/11, all terrorist attacks were criminal acts. After 9/11, we made the decision that these were acts of war, these were strategic threats to the United States.
Once you make that judgment, then you can use a much broader range of tools, in terms of going after your adversary. You go after those who provide them safe harbor and sanctuary. You go after those who finance and those who provide weapons for them and those who train them. And you treat them as unlawful enemy combatants.
There's a huge distinction here in terms of the kinds of policies you put in place going forward. And what I'm most concerned about isn't so much argument about all the stuff in the past, about what happened to Abdulmutallab or Richard Reid. I think the relevant point is: What are the policies going to be going forward?
And if you're really serious and you believe this is a war and if you believe the greatest threat is a 9/11 with nukes or a 9/11 with a biological agent of some kind, then you have to consider it as a war, you have to consider it as something we may have to deal with tomorrow. You don't want the vice president of the United States running around saying, "Oh, it's not likely to happen."
...
CHENEY: Well, I suppose it depends on which battle you're talking about. I won some; I lost some. I can't...
(CROSSTALK)
KARL: ... waterboarding, clearly, what was your...
CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that...
KARL: And you opposed the administration's actions of doing away with waterboarding?
CHENEY: Yes.
Clearly a gray area of admission on Cheney's part. Then there is another problem, the enemy combatants were not criminals, they were/are terrorists being held at a military base, thus they did not fall under the federal criminal code of the United States of America. Ooops.
That's the headline over at Progress Ohio. Their 'scoop' is based on Section 2340A of the federal criminal code. Below are the pertinent parts of the interview in which VP Cheney "admitted" he broke said section of the criminal code:
CHENEY: Well, I don't think so, in a sense that it -- if it -- if you interpret that as taking you to the point where all of these people are going to be treated as though they're guilty of individual criminal acts.
I want to come back again to the basic point I tried to make at the outset, John. And up until 9/11, all terrorist attacks were criminal acts. After 9/11, we made the decision that these were acts of war, these were strategic threats to the United States.
Once you make that judgment, then you can use a much broader range of tools, in terms of going after your adversary. You go after those who provide them safe harbor and sanctuary. You go after those who finance and those who provide weapons for them and those who train them. And you treat them as unlawful enemy combatants.
There's a huge distinction here in terms of the kinds of policies you put in place going forward. And what I'm most concerned about isn't so much argument about all the stuff in the past, about what happened to Abdulmutallab or Richard Reid. I think the relevant point is: What are the policies going to be going forward?
And if you're really serious and you believe this is a war and if you believe the greatest threat is a 9/11 with nukes or a 9/11 with a biological agent of some kind, then you have to consider it as a war, you have to consider it as something we may have to deal with tomorrow. You don't want the vice president of the United States running around saying, "Oh, it's not likely to happen."
...
CHENEY: Well, I suppose it depends on which battle you're talking about. I won some; I lost some. I can't...
(CROSSTALK)
KARL: ... waterboarding, clearly, what was your...
CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that...
KARL: And you opposed the administration's actions of doing away with waterboarding?
CHENEY: Yes.
Clearly a gray area of admission on Cheney's part. Then there is another problem, the enemy combatants were not criminals, they were/are terrorists being held at a military base, thus they did not fall under the federal criminal code of the United States of America. Ooops.
Zack Space's War On Coal
Oh, he'll attempt a Socratean look and deny it, but his support of Cap and Trade, aka War On Coal, is just one vote amongst many in which he has voted against his constituents.
Below is what Zack bases his votes on concerning fuels like coal:
Effects on the US: A Congressional national assessment on climate change, published in June 2000, predicts:
An average temperature rise of 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit, with gentler winters and
more summer heat waves.
More agricultural production and forest growth due
to carbon dioxide fertilization; but loss of coastal wetlands and Alpine
meadows.
More winter rain, with a 10% increase in overall precipitation, but
a 60% increase in the Southwest.
More extreme storms and more pollution
runoff due to rainstorms.
More drought in the Midwest, especially in Kansas
and Colorado; and a 5-foot drop in Great Lakes water levels.
Of course, all these assumptions are based on false science as we've seen. Way to go Zacko.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Hey Greece, Time To Call θείος Soros
George loves your way of doing things. 4 day work week, government pays for everything and personal and governmental corruption is the norm.
Germany rejects European fund for Greece
Yeah, call Uncle George. Be sure to ask in Esperanto. George will like that as long as it isn't a Greek Jew asking.
Germany rejects European fund for Greece
Yeah, call Uncle George. Be sure to ask in Esperanto. George will like that as long as it isn't a Greek Jew asking.
15 Years Later The America's Cup Is Coming Home
BMW Oracle easily wins the America’s Cup CONGRATULATIONS to US software magnate Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle team who swept to an easy victory in the best of three series to win the America’s Cup. After 30-months of wrangling in US courtrooms for the right to race head-to-head with America’s Cup defender Alinghi, backed by biotechnology tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli, BMW Oracle proved to the sailing community that they did indeed have the fastest boat and one that deserved to win the America’s Cup.
Buh Bayh
$13 million in the bank and a 20 point lead, but Evan Bayh is retiring. The Demo bench in Indiana is pretty deep, but Dan Coates is a formidable candidate.
Indiana's Evan Bayh to retire from Senate
How many more Democrats will decide the fight ahead isn't worth the price? I'm hoping a great many will. Of course.
Indiana's Evan Bayh to retire from Senate
How many more Democrats will decide the fight ahead isn't worth the price? I'm hoping a great many will. Of course.
ACORN Pimps Cities For CDBG Grants In Spite Of Congressional Ban
$4,000,000,000. $4 Billion. Four Billion Dollars.
Of course, it is your $4,000,000,000 going to advisors to the Pimps.
Acorn-ucopia
Didn't Acorn, the corrupt community organizer, get its federal funding yanked after its last scandal? Actually, no. Through municipal middlemen, it's poised to rake in another $4 billion. Where is the outrage?
You'd think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, helping criminals interested in bringing child prostitutes to the U.S. would have been ruled ineligible for federal aid long ago.
But think again, because these aid rats are experts at survival.
FrontPage magazine reports that federal Judge Nina Gershon ruled that Acorn is eligible for the Obama administration's proposed $4 billion in Housing and Urban Development grants within the $3.83 trillion federal budget proposal for 2011.
That cancels the ban Congress placed on Acorn funding late last year after at least five of the group's offices willingly aided undercover reporters posing as a pimp and prostitute to get federal funding for a brothel and cheat on their taxes.
Once again, the Democrats are all robe, no law. As with all their other hollow "change", they have decided upon a duplicitous show of doing something that was never intended by them.
Typical.
Of course, it is your $4,000,000,000 going to advisors to the Pimps.
Acorn-ucopia
Didn't Acorn, the corrupt community organizer, get its federal funding yanked after its last scandal? Actually, no. Through municipal middlemen, it's poised to rake in another $4 billion. Where is the outrage?
You'd think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, helping criminals interested in bringing child prostitutes to the U.S. would have been ruled ineligible for federal aid long ago.
But think again, because these aid rats are experts at survival.
FrontPage magazine reports that federal Judge Nina Gershon ruled that Acorn is eligible for the Obama administration's proposed $4 billion in Housing and Urban Development grants within the $3.83 trillion federal budget proposal for 2011.
That cancels the ban Congress placed on Acorn funding late last year after at least five of the group's offices willingly aided undercover reporters posing as a pimp and prostitute to get federal funding for a brothel and cheat on their taxes.
Once again, the Democrats are all robe, no law. As with all their other hollow "change", they have decided upon a duplicitous show of doing something that was never intended by them.
Typical.
Even More Snow For Ohio
Yep, we're getting more snow. The yard is still pretty from already fallen snow, but the streets are dirty and the curbs are piled high with mounds of plowed snow, especially in front of my driveway. The roads and highways are hiding patches of ice that won't go away.
More snow? Try as many as 9 inches
Talking with a good friend who still believes Obama is the second coming, even though he is not a believer, climate change came up, of course. He believes man has raped and plundered the earth, kinda like Jimmy and the Doors sang about years ago, and now the earth is striking back with global warming. This, as we watched snow falling outside. Me, I am not a believer in Mother Gia or whatever our planet is being called now, but I am a believer in climate change because I've witnessed it all my life.
As a child, my friends and I reveled in snow from pretty much Thanksgiving to March. Kinda like this year. As an adult, I'd like the snow to appear two days before Christmas, with notice thank you, and then go back to Hudson Bay or where ever it comes from, by December 27 at the latest.
As a child, I would hop in the car and go with my father to the latest area destroyed by tornadoes. Sometimes it was a hurt farmer with a missing barn and sometimes it was half or all of a village or town destroyed with tremendous amounts of death, destruction and injuries. As an adult, tornadoes are rare here in central Ohio, which is fine by me. That is climate change I can believe in. Of course, because of the threats of lawsuits and other modern conveniences, my father, if alive, couldn't even think of actually going to the people hurt and dying, even if he could get through the throngs of lawyers desperately vying for clients to sue someone.
We're possibly getting another 9" of snow. On top of what we already have. I love working from home.
More snow? Try as many as 9 inches
Talking with a good friend who still believes Obama is the second coming, even though he is not a believer, climate change came up, of course. He believes man has raped and plundered the earth, kinda like Jimmy and the Doors sang about years ago, and now the earth is striking back with global warming. This, as we watched snow falling outside. Me, I am not a believer in Mother Gia or whatever our planet is being called now, but I am a believer in climate change because I've witnessed it all my life.
As a child, my friends and I reveled in snow from pretty much Thanksgiving to March. Kinda like this year. As an adult, I'd like the snow to appear two days before Christmas, with notice thank you, and then go back to Hudson Bay or where ever it comes from, by December 27 at the latest.
As a child, I would hop in the car and go with my father to the latest area destroyed by tornadoes. Sometimes it was a hurt farmer with a missing barn and sometimes it was half or all of a village or town destroyed with tremendous amounts of death, destruction and injuries. As an adult, tornadoes are rare here in central Ohio, which is fine by me. That is climate change I can believe in. Of course, because of the threats of lawsuits and other modern conveniences, my father, if alive, couldn't even think of actually going to the people hurt and dying, even if he could get through the throngs of lawyers desperately vying for clients to sue someone.
We're possibly getting another 9" of snow. On top of what we already have. I love working from home.
Tea Party Equal TeaPublicans
Great advice from Matt Naugle. Now is the time to get involved, making a big difference and get to work.
TEA Party Activists Get Serious, Take Over Party Establishments
via Right Ohio
TEA Party Activists Get Serious, Take Over Party Establishments
via Right Ohio
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Biden: Way To Go Joe - Belittle Soldier's Sacrifice
Joe Biden must not think through what comes out of his mouth. Obviously. His history proves that. Daily.
Biden says Iraq war wasn't worth `horrible price'
Serving soldiers believe in what they are doing. Joe may not understand that. Soldiers who have sacrificed their lives did so believing they were doing what they were meant to do. Joe doesn't seem to care about that. Joe also has the bedside manner of an oaf as witnessed by the wives, children and family of the dead. Joe is a moron.
Hey Joe, tell your crap to the families of the dead and then tell it to the 50+ million people of Iraq and Afghanistan that their sacrifice wasn't worth it. If you and Obama totally screw the pooch on Iraq and Afghanistan, as most people expect, then the dead, the raped and the subjugated will remember you in their tortured dreams.
Way to go Joe. You moron.
Biden says Iraq war wasn't worth `horrible price'
Serving soldiers believe in what they are doing. Joe may not understand that. Soldiers who have sacrificed their lives did so believing they were doing what they were meant to do. Joe doesn't seem to care about that. Joe also has the bedside manner of an oaf as witnessed by the wives, children and family of the dead. Joe is a moron.
Hey Joe, tell your crap to the families of the dead and then tell it to the 50+ million people of Iraq and Afghanistan that their sacrifice wasn't worth it. If you and Obama totally screw the pooch on Iraq and Afghanistan, as most people expect, then the dead, the raped and the subjugated will remember you in their tortured dreams.
Way to go Joe. You moron.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Haiti Bush's Fault
The Obama Administration will be honoring the 43rd President of the United States by naming the gap between the tectonic plates beneath Haiti after him.
The area will now officially be referred to as "Bush's Fault."
The area will now officially be referred to as "Bush's Fault."
Mr Obama, Tear Down This Gall*
h/t Patterico
Who is worse, Jabberin' Joe or Gliby Gibbs?
Vice President Joe Biden:
“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”
Asked to comment on Biden’s statement, Press Secretary Gibbs responded:
“Gibbs said the achievement was “putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year.”
A reporter pointed out that the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the president took office.
Gibbs called that agreement “something I think that the political pressure that the president, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about.”
*gall - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
Who is worse, Jabberin' Joe or Gliby Gibbs?
Vice President Joe Biden:
“On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.”
Asked to comment on Biden’s statement, Press Secretary Gibbs responded:
“Gibbs said the achievement was “putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year.”
A reporter pointed out that the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the president took office.
Gibbs called that agreement “something I think that the political pressure that the president, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about.”
*gall - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
America Wins Race One In America's Cup
As has become the norm the American racing team driving a BMW sailboat won the America's Cup first race off the coast of Valencia Spain against the naval power of Switzerland.
33rd America's Cup.
America's Cup Match.
BMW ORACLE Racing (Challenger) 1 - -
Alinghi (Defender) 0 - -
The first team to win two races in this Deed of Gift Match is the winner of the 33rd America’s Cup.
America's Cup Match.
BMW ORACLE Racing (Challenger) 1 - -
Alinghi (Defender) 0 - -
The first team to win two races in this Deed of Gift Match is the winner of the 33rd America’s Cup.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Obama: To Hell With The People-I'll Tax & Spend All I Want
... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Ironically, it is the president that freed the slaves that condemns the first black president with his words echoing from the grave.
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...
Where is this sentiment in the halls of congress, in the White House and in the union halls and K Street?
The people no longer matter. There is no longer a "of", "by" or "for", just twisted raw power that tells the people that they'll be governed by government, by their betters and to the people.
via Drudge
Cap and Trade is now known by the people to be a lie and is really a power grab and a tax to support that grab. So, the hell with the people:
NYT SATURDAY: White House officials are searching for ways for Obama to 'use executive powers to advance energy, environmental and other policy priorities'... Developing...
People want "reform" in health care in terms of making it easier and cheaper to get, not a lousy government controlled health care that will lower quality and make it more expensive just as Medicare/Medicaid did. So, Obama and his unAmerican ideologues will just repackage the latest spin on health care "reform" and attempt to bank on Obama's charm, faux openness and truthfulness and sham marketing to try and hoodwink the people again:
Obama intends to publish on the internet a proposed Health bill in advance of Blair House televised discussions on Feb 25th... Developing...
At what point will Obama, Pelosi and Reid and the rest of their ilk understand that the American people don't want their brand of government? At what point will Obama and his fellow travelers understand that their politics of ignoring the people, whatever Obama's real goals, will destroy the greatest experiment in life and liberty ever attempted?
This is shameless on Obama's part and he and his ego should be ridiculed and laughed out of office.
Ironically, it is the president that freed the slaves that condemns the first black president with his words echoing from the grave.
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...
Where is this sentiment in the halls of congress, in the White House and in the union halls and K Street?
The people no longer matter. There is no longer a "of", "by" or "for", just twisted raw power that tells the people that they'll be governed by government, by their betters and to the people.
via Drudge
Cap and Trade is now known by the people to be a lie and is really a power grab and a tax to support that grab. So, the hell with the people:
NYT SATURDAY: White House officials are searching for ways for Obama to 'use executive powers to advance energy, environmental and other policy priorities'... Developing...
People want "reform" in health care in terms of making it easier and cheaper to get, not a lousy government controlled health care that will lower quality and make it more expensive just as Medicare/Medicaid did. So, Obama and his unAmerican ideologues will just repackage the latest spin on health care "reform" and attempt to bank on Obama's charm, faux openness and truthfulness and sham marketing to try and hoodwink the people again:
Obama intends to publish on the internet a proposed Health bill in advance of Blair House televised discussions on Feb 25th... Developing...
At what point will Obama, Pelosi and Reid and the rest of their ilk understand that the American people don't want their brand of government? At what point will Obama and his fellow travelers understand that their politics of ignoring the people, whatever Obama's real goals, will destroy the greatest experiment in life and liberty ever attempted?
This is shameless on Obama's part and he and his ego should be ridiculed and laughed out of office.
Obama Not To Be Believed!
Don't blame me. I would never ever, ever, ever, say such a thing, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) did.
Dem Sen. Rockefeller on Obama: 'He's beginning to not be believable to me'...
When a Rockefeller doubts an Obama I would advise not fully unpacking at the White House.
Dem Sen. Rockefeller on Obama: 'He's beginning to not be believable to me'...
When a Rockefeller doubts an Obama I would advise not fully unpacking at the White House.
The Elite Want The NAMES of Bloggers And Commenters
As part of the Soros Davos Economic Forum a personage who lists himself as chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, Craig Mundie, wants the identities of all Internet users to be public information, especially to governments. Hey, Mundie, learned a bit in China didn't you. Maybe all that censorship and arrests of dissidents were just part of your business plan. I have to ask though, did the plan include salves for the wounds, food for the starving or a plan to get out? I mean a plan to get the dissidents out of jail not for Microsoft to exit China. That doesn't seem to fit your plan for the largest imprisoned market in the world, eh?
Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers' anonymity – be very afraid
If there is ever a one world government, Microsoft will be the sole source provider for security against those that want to be free.
Publius would be the first arrested.
Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers' anonymity – be very afraid
If there is ever a one world government, Microsoft will be the sole source provider for security against those that want to be free.
Publius would be the first arrested.
All 50 States Have Snow
Snow in All 50 States: Record Dallas Snowfall, Snow in Florida
Ahem...
Climate versus weather. SHRIEK, close all coal mines, plants and every damned gas station in the universe.
No need to verify data because it still under the Cash For Flunkers rule of grant giving.
Ahem...
Climate versus weather. SHRIEK, close all coal mines, plants and every damned gas station in the universe.
No need to verify data because it still under the Cash For Flunkers rule of grant giving.
Wind Power Folly
Certain esteemed members of opinion makers are make quite the hue and cry for wind power generation. That means wind power generation sites.
For over $900 million in subsidies, chump change to Obamanites, we get heavily subsidized electricity from wind. Less than 13% of our need and only in targeted areas.
People here in Ohio are hueing and crying for Strickland to do something, in fact anything not embarrassing, and have hued and cried for wind power above the 25% clean energy bill. That's 25% too much.
Generation sites that destroy the land around them, drive off wildlife and create widespread maintinence areas and roads. Forty-story wind turbines. Fan-blade shadow flicker. Red strobe lights in the night sky instead of stars. As an added bonus wind power generation sites create a constant low resonance hum that makes people crazy. We've got enough crazies.
How about the guv save a lot of jobs here in Ohio, say with clean coal or natural gas or, let's go out on a limb here, oil? How about some safe, quiet and nonpolluting nuclear power?
h/t Maine
For over $900 million in subsidies, chump change to Obamanites, we get heavily subsidized electricity from wind. Less than 13% of our need and only in targeted areas.
People here in Ohio are hueing and crying for Strickland to do something, in fact anything not embarrassing, and have hued and cried for wind power above the 25% clean energy bill. That's 25% too much.
Generation sites that destroy the land around them, drive off wildlife and create widespread maintinence areas and roads. Forty-story wind turbines. Fan-blade shadow flicker. Red strobe lights in the night sky instead of stars. As an added bonus wind power generation sites create a constant low resonance hum that makes people crazy. We've got enough crazies.
How about the guv save a lot of jobs here in Ohio, say with clean coal or natural gas or, let's go out on a limb here, oil? How about some safe, quiet and nonpolluting nuclear power?
h/t Maine
Another Kennedy Bites The Dust
Insider polling showed that he might face the unthinkable, defeat.
End of the line for Patrick Kennedy
Patrick said he was moving in a "new direction." Stay off the crosswalks.
End of the line for Patrick Kennedy
Patrick said he was moving in a "new direction." Stay off the crosswalks.
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