Chris Matthews: Democrats Totally United?

Just heard Mr. Tingles state that the Demos are like so totally united because Hillary has shown her complete fealty to Obama and Billy has been a good boy, ergo they're all together. Huh?

Evan Bayh. Ahem, he is thinking of actually working in the private sector because if he can create just one job, he will have created more jobs than our current administration has in the last six months.

Health care reform. Now there is a model of being a tight team.

Oh, never mind.

The Wall

Newark, Ohio

Ohio Thaw And Carpenter Gothic

Friday Fugly Ain't

The Ugly House isn't.

Obama Does Las Vegas Chicago Style

Obama told us not to blow our kids college savings in Vegas. We don't have to, he blew everybody's college fund in Vegas for us, saving us the trip.

OBAMA JACKPOT GIVEAWAY IN VEGAS: $1,500,000,000 HOUSING HELP...

Bribery, aka Chicago love, to the tune $1.5 Billion to forget all the nasty things Obama has said about Las Vegas.

Now Obama says, and let me be clear on this, Obama loves Vegas. But does Vegas love Obama? Or Reid? Or any Democrat? Love is a gamble.

Johnny 'Man of the People' Cougar For Senate!

via Have Coffee Will Write

“John and Elaine live informally,” says Gibson. “They don’t have a separate dining room; there’s not a lot of division between areas. Their enjoyment of the land and the views was paramount.” Writing table, right, Pierce Martin. Torchères from Sotheby’s. Edelman leather.

'We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial' on January 18, 2009 at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Hard Headed Earnhardt, Sr.

This says it all for me.
"When I stopped, I looked at it and got in the ambulance and looked back over there and I said 'man, the wheels ain't knocked off that car yet,'" Earnhardt said.

"I went back over there and looked at the wheels and I told the guy in the car to fire it up. "It fired up and I said, 'Get out. Unhook me, I've got to go."

"We took off after 'em. You've got to get all the laps you can. That's what we're running for the championship for."

The other Earnhardt, Sr.
From the grandstands, he was beheld as superhuman. And somehow when the fans came close to him, to talk or touch him, they never could quite humanize him. They were skittish. They would grasp their autographs gratefully and hurry away, careful to keep their distance once more.

But if you knew him, really knew the complicated, enormously gruff but deeply compassionate man (oh, how he hated it when his big heart showed in public), risen from the textile mill town of Kannapolis, N.C., with a ninth-grade education . . . if you really knew him, then Ralph Dale Earnhardt was so very, very human, so deeply of the commonfolk who loved him.

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Love him or hate him, Ralph Dale Earnhardt paid you back for your time and money everytime he raced.

Elm Farm Ollie - First Cow To Fly And To Self Serve Inflight Beverage

Elm Farm Ollie (known as "Nellie Jay" and post-flight as "Sky Queen") was the first cow to fly in an airplane, doing so on 18 February 1930, as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. On the same trip, which covered 72 miles from Bismarck, Missouri, to St. Louis, she also became the first cow milked in flight. This was done ostensibly to allow scientists to observe midair effects on animals, as well as for publicity purposes. A St. Louis newspaper trumpeted her mission as being "to blaze a trail for the transportation of livestock by air."

Obama Establishes Bipartisan National Commission

Today, President Obama will sign an executive order establishing the bipartisan National Commission on Reproductive Responsibility and Reform and announce that Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez (born Natalie Denise Suleman, July 11, 1975) known as Octomom will serve as the Commission's chair.

In other news, President Obama also will establish the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and announce that former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip Alan Simpson will serve as the Commission’s co-chairs.

"Of course, there are screwballs, lightweights and boobs in Congress. There are idiots in all walks of life, and we wouldn't want those people to not be represented!" Retired U.S. Senator Alan Simpson

Yvo de Boer Calls It Quits Over Global Warming Scams

U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer to quit in July

CV History

Born in Vienna, Yvo de Boer is married and has 3 children. As the son of a Dutch diplomat, he travelled the world extensively before entering boarding school in the United Kingdom and obtaining a technical degree in social work in the Netherlands.

Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT)
World Business Council on Sustainable Development
Netherlands' negotiator on global warming
Worked on Dutch prison policy and housing
Member China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
Bureau of the Environment Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Advisory Group of the Community Development Carbon Fund of the World Bank
Board of Directors of the Centre for Clean Air Policy
Helped prepare the position of the EU - Kyoto Protocol
Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC

So, Yvo is quitting. How can one quit when one has never really had a job?

More newsworthy is that the Washington Post never once mentioned in the above article about Yvo the apparent scam called global warming that is growing daily with more and more scientists admitting to their false statements, others admitting they're too disorganized to find their proof and even more going on extended holiday far from those asking questions.

To the Washington Post Yvo has just found a "ripe time" to go into the private sector with nonconsensous as the backdrop to his four years of failure. The private sector should run like hell.

Sade Is Back And Sounding Great

This is excellent news.

Sade storms to the top of the U.S. and French charts 25 years after winning her first Brit Award

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."
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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.

Snow In Ohio - Evening Version

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Time For A Tea Party Toss Out - RECALL!

Members of the House will have their "recall" election this November for their shenanigans with health care "reform", but there are also 12 senators who are not up for re-election from nine states who appear to be able to be recalled by their voters.

Health Care “Tricks”
“Did you know that nine states have provisions in their constitutions for recalling elected officials, possibly including the senators and congressmen representing them in Washington?

I say recall.

h/t Patterico

Jabberin' Joe Biden Now Loves 'Bush's" War!

Is this unbelievable or what? Just think, if Joey had his way, he could by 3 times happier!

Joe Biden update: Iraq one of Obama's 'great achievements'

Obama and his cronies will only be angry that Joe said this out loud, no doubt, because they believe it too.

Stimulus Outrage - IPod Giveaway

Polk school district to give iPods to some parents
The school district is using the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who fill out a 10-minute online survey. The district wants to know how well it's connecting with the parents and how to get parents involved in their children's education.

The district is spending about $350,000 in federal stimulus money for the iPods.

Abortion: Was Health Care 'Reform' Ever Really About Health Care

Democrats, using smoke and mirror tactics, plan to pass health care "reform" over the objections of the American voting public. Many have questioned why Democrats would doggedly continue on with a bill, overwhelmingly rejected by the public, which could result in massive losses for Democrats in the upcoming elections. It now appears that health care reform was never the actual goal, but simply a tool used to distract voters away from a massive government takeover of the economy and their long sought goal of federally funded abortions nationwide.

Health care reform is the sugar coating on the bitter pill of government control of individuals.
How else does one explain the deceitful legislative trickery, outright bribes and total refusal by Democrats to listen to their constituents to pass such a travesty?

Pelosi aide says Democratic congressional leaders have settled on legislative "trick" to pass Obamacare; So why have a summit?
"In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate's pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.

'The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,' Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.

“'There's a certain skill, there's a trick, but I think we'll get it done,' he said."

Democrats hope to get the bill passed and signed by Obama so that super majority votes are not necessary thus giving endangered Democrats an out on any future legislative voting. Under this plan each vote will only need 50% + one and will prevent Republicans from filibustering (preventing) passage of very controversial amendments.

Who are the Democrats who will stand and say 'No', this wrong and unethical and I won't be part of it? Will Zack Space allow the subversion of our Constitution? Will Stupak be part of the thwarting of the will of the people? Who will speak out the truth of what Pelosi, Reid and Obama are doing?

I fear cowards will prevail and in their salons clap each other on the backs for fighting the good fight and then go home and count their bribes.

Unions Use 'Slush' Funds To Elect Dems And Trash Americans

The war against the Tea Party movement is wholly funded by unions and their war room is in a lawyer's office in Washington DC.

300 M Street, Suite 1102 is the law office of Joseph Sandler, a longtime general counsel to the Democratic National Committee. From this office millions of dollars of union members (some of which object to this) flows to help Democrats get elected. campaigning against other views and to push union legislation such as card check in an obvious quid pro quid with the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party. It is unethical and dishonest, but they claim it is legal.

Anti-Tea Party Web Site Part of Scheme to Funnel Funds

Outside of that firm, the center of their activity appears to be a single office in Southeast D.C. -- 300 M Street, Suite 1102 -- which plays host to a sprawling political shell game they have established.

Public records show at least seven political shops listed in Suite 1102, most of which are essentially clones of one another, but all of which have offered money -- from measly thousands to game-changing millions -- in state-level elections across the country:

-The American Public Policy Committee Donations IRS forms

-Patriot Majority Donations IRS forms

-Citizens for Progress Donations IRS forms

-Oklahoma Freedom Fund Donations IRS forms

-Mid Atlantic Leadership Fund Donations IRS forms

-Public Security Now Donations IRS forms

-Pioneer Majority Donations IRS forms

-Bluegrass Freedom Fund Donations IRS forms

The APPC, which developed the anti-tea party ads, has gotten all of its money for 2010 from Patriot Majority and from Citizens for Progress, which is also called Patriot Majority West.
Patriot Majority West sent them $25,000 in January, and Patriot Majority added another $5,000. The groups, both run by Varoga and Rakis, also swap hundreds of thousands of dollars between themselves, money often buttressed by gifts from Patriot Majority Midwest, seen above as the Oklahoma Freedom Fund.

The confusing naming system is intentional, say election law experts, who generally disapprove of the practice.

Is it any wonder that more and more Americans look at unions as corrupt? What took so long...

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UPDATE: Per Webutante's comment;

Unionism, Government And The Pig Stuck Public

Still There

Snow Part Deux

Starting again.

Ron Paul And Things I Wish I Had Missed

The Ron Paul rEvolution is till there, unfortunately. Now they're kicking things up a notch in their effort to isolate America and prevent us from protecting ourselves. They've become better dressed anti war hippies for today's generation. That they may cripple us and help kill our soldiers abroad doesn't seem to be a connect for them. Nor do they see a connect with the America hating left, but sometimes a political movement just has an agenda to raise money that is being driven by a tin ear.

Stuck on stupid
Remember how well the Ron Paul Blimp worked when it propelled Ron Paul into the Oval Office in 2008? Me neither. But that doesn’t deter the Paulians from launching a campaign to litter our skies with a “Peace Blimp"

Please join us this March 20th for the largest online monetary war protest
in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $10 each
(minimum), creating a one day total of millions to fly the Peace Blimp until we
the people force our government to end this war.

That these "leaders" feel that they will alter the course of America is laughable, but then is that their real goal? Better a bigger fish in a smallish pond, eh?

Via This Ain't Hell - a really good blog.

Unionism, Government And The Pig Stuck Public

I have long maintained that too much governmental bureaucracy is a grave problem for the United States. That large sections of government, including state and local ones, are now part of unions, collective bargaining and threats to the smooth function of government only makes this problem even worse.

Enter Michael Barone:

Obama and his party are acting in collusion with unions that contributed something like $400,000,000 to Democrats in the 2008 campaign cycle. Public-sector unionism tends to be a self-perpetuating machine that extracts money from taxpayers and then puts it on a conveyor belt to the Democratic party.

Gee, could there be anything wrong with government bureaucrats working in a whole government health care system having a work slow down over negotiations or CIA support employees saying that an enemy attack should not happen on holidays?

And you thought the real problem was that unions are really just a massive fund raising arm of the Democratic Party instead of merely an adversarial machine to blackmail employers into meeting their demands. Wait. Uh-oh, are taxpayers the employers here?

Palin CHEATS! Left Stuck On Stupid.

Seems that Sarah Palin writing notes on her hand has some people convinced that she is a cheat. I have a friend who has always written phone numbers, notes and reminders on her left hand. Now, as a successful business woman, she still does., but she never was nor is now a cheat.
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Doing a simple search brings up Palin supposedly cheating in various ways or maybe her husband cheating or maybe her body parts cheating or maybe someone connected to her cheating, quite possibly in league with her. Or someone she knows. Like McCain. Or one of his pets, but also possibly an Alaskan moose, which is probably why she shot it.
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Illness should never be ridiculed, that would be wrong, but people suffering from Palin Misogyny Syndrom (PMS) should be treated with all means available including psychiatric ridicule.
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As a comfort, these people should also be shown the half full glass of logic that appears to reflect that Palin has never been shown to openly cheat on Andrew Sullivan's uterus. Such a reassurance uttered before the administration of warm cocoa and a lullaby just before bed should ease their pain.

Best Headline Ever

And so true.

HEH: Reagan wins: DC shut down on his birthday.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.....

Via Instapundit

Saturday After The Snow And Ice Storm

3rd Hour Of Snow

2nd Hour Of Snow

Stern/Franken/Couric/Kennedy: 4 Clowns Whose Mere Presence Dooms Success

Howard Stern to Replace Simon Cowell on 'IDOL'?
I guess I am in a minority of one, but I couldn't care less about Idol.

NO JOKE: FRANKEN SLAMS AXELROD AND WHITE HOUSE HEALTH CARE STRATEGY...
Maybe Franken can stomp his feet and punch someone. Maybe snarling while wearing a diaper. Yeah, that'll make statesman like.

VIDEO SHOCK: Katie Couric frolics in Haute Couture and diamonds as CBSNEWS cuts staff...

I seldom watch CBS and I never watch when Couric is on.

Kennedy: Scott Brown's candidacy 'a joke'...

A skinny Melvin Purvis impersonator has more gravitas than Patrick Kennedy. Hey, even Franken and Stern have more gravitas than Patrick Kennedy and Couric is taller than Purvis and she doesn't appear to have a Kennedy problem with driving.

Zack Space Makes US Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt

Way to go Zack, you Blue Dog Democrat! Ohio is oh so proud of you. You can betcha on that. In fact, each and every one of us is $6,000 more proud of you now that you and the government own us.

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Now that you have gone completely over to the dark side against your constituents and Ohio, you might as well just go ahead and vote for health care "reform" since we're so far in debt we can't afford aspirin, let alone a doctor. Maybe then you'll get to play doctor with your madam Pelosi.

UPDATE: The Ohio Blue Dogs voted liberal and Kucinich voted with the Republicans.

Representative Steve Driehaus (D - 01) Y
Representative Jean Schmidt (R - 02) N
Representative Michael Turner (R - 03) N
Representative Jim Jordan (R - 04) N
Representative Bob Latta (R - 05) N
Representative Charlie Wilson (D - 06) Y
Representative Steve Austria (R - 07) N
Representative John Boehner (R - 08) N
Representative Marcy Kaptur (D - 09) Y
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich (D - 10) N
Representative Marcia L. Fudge (D - 11) Y
Representative Patrick J. Tiberi (R - 12) N
Representative Betty Sutton (D - 13) Y
Representative Steven C. LaTourette (R - 14) N
Representative Mary Jo Kilroy (D - 15) Y
Representative John A. Boccieri (D - 16) Y
Representative Tim Ryan (D - 17) Y
Representative Zack Space (D - 18) Y

UPDATE II:

From Weapons of Mass Discussion

With today's vote adding $6,000 to each and every one's debt, here's the new total:

As of today, the current national debt stands at $12,357,792,719,324.2, leaving every American citizen responsible for $40,151.42.

Obama Prayer Breakfast Prayer For Obama

Start: Me. I. Self. Unero numero. Moi.

Body: My integrity. My policies. My truthfullness. My blah. My faith.

Wrap: My God.

H.J. Res. 45 Armageddon

"We don't have a choice," said Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. "We are on an unsustainable march toward a fiscal Armageddon."

Yep, and when we arrive in Armageddon, we'll know exactly who got us there, but you'll be able to say you made sure that we all need to share the burden equally. Equal partners and all, eh?

UPDATE: When the vote happens you can find out who voted how HERE. It is important because this vote will add $6,000 to each and every American's share of the debt. Enjoy your day...

Fisher Doomed?

Fisher replaces campaign manager

Bringing in a guy that worked with Angelo's friend Chris Dodd and Louisianna Purchase Landrieu is going to help Fisher? Hopefully Howser can get Fisher a good mortgage deal on an Arcadian shotgun house after the election.

Cupcake Couric $300,000 A Week Rankles Rank And File

COURIC FACES PAY CUT; DEEP LAYOFFS HIT CBSNEWS
Couric's $300,000 a week paycheck has become the obsession of disgruntled CBS staff, just as deep layoffs rock the fishbowl.

Dozens of employees -- including staff members in D.C., San Francisco, Miami, London, Los Angeles and Moscow -- are being let go, the NEW YORK OBSERVER reports.

Couric's current CBS contract expires next year.

Is there a conflict of interest when high dollar talking heads report on high dollar Wall Street?

It's enough to make Dan Rather cry.

Gamekeepers Cottage

Manscombe woods in Cockington village.

So Much For That Military Spending Out Of Control Meme

From Cato

The Union Thugs That Monied Obama Into Office Plan A Tea Party Takedown

In October of 2008 I wrote about Patriot Majority and their peripheral groups and individuals being a front for unions to pour money into Obama's election.

ACORN, Bankers & Now Union Dupes, Patriot Majority For Obama


Well, they're back. Last time they characterized a radical as mainstream in hopes of lining their pockets after he was elected. This time they want to characterize the views of middle class Americans as radical because these "radicals" just might stop their gravy train from fully enriching them in trade for their full support.

Labor union money linked to anti-Tea Party Web site

These groups hope to become the shadow government.

Daily Kos & Political Polls As Propagandic Politics

via Ann Althouse

This type of poll is at least two layered in that it plants ideas in the polled persons minds and when the desired result is obtained the poll can then be used a propaganda by the person paying for the poll.

Ann Althouse delves into the veracity of the poll. That is good to do because the Kos poll results are crap. Kos know it, the media knows it and any thinking person knows it, but many will report it as fact. For Kos, a master of media manipulation, it is a win-win. Some will believe while others will be driven to Kos' site.

Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President

• 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.

• 63% think Obama is a socialist.

• Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.

• 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election -- that is, that Obama didn't actually win it, and isn't legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are "not sure." This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election.

• 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president.

• 23% want to secede from the United States.

• 73% think gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. This position puts the GOP base well to the right of none other than Ronald Reagan, who helped defeat the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 referendum in California that would have forbidden gays or people who advocated gay rights from teaching in public schools.

• 31% want contraception to be outlawed.

I wonder if among those polled by Kos there is a probability of 78% who are po'd at being had or if that 78% is snickering at foisting another lie onto the public. Kos gets how this works and is still expecting a governmental post somewhere. May I suggest at the Ministry of Propaganda.

Canadian Leader Shuns Canadian Health Care

Canadian Premier COMES TO USA for surgery...

Where will Canadians go for quality health care after ObamaCare becomes law? Probably where ever our Congress ends up going, but it won't be here.

Ah, To Have Such A Statesman Today

One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”

Indicator Of Ohio's Demise

When people leave and take their money and patronage with them, it is an indicator of deep problems whether it is a small business or big business. When business goes elsewhere, well, then somebody has screwed the pooch big time.


Welcome to Ohio.



Unfortunately this cannot all be blamed on Democrats, unions and their allies in poaching the public purse.


Remember Bob Taft? Remember state elected Republicans and those in Washington as they emulated Democrats? Yep, they were spending our money like drunks in a Tijuana whorehouse with no repercussions or remorse.


They did so to be re-elected or they had convinced themselves that government, and our money, could right the ills of a society that government had caused in the first place. Either way, a disaster.

If workers and business continue to flee Ohio we won't have to worry that 30% of workers will have to support the other 70% of Ohio's population. At that point governments workers from those states with fiscal sense will be supporting 100% of Ohio's population.


How low Ohio has sunk. If things do not turn around dramatically and soon, Ohio's demise will be imminent.

INTERNET WARNING:

If you get an email titled "Nude photo of Nancy Pelosi," don't open it...It contains a nude photo of Nancy Pelosi.

My Birthday Present

The first picture from my new camera!

Zack Space Reneging His Cap And Trade Support

Yep, time for little Zack to try to move back to the middle after voting to undermine and over tax his constituents since the last election.

Lawmakers Form Coal Caucus in Congress

By the next election day Zack should once again be just to the right of Ronald Reagan.

Queen Pelosi Vows A Health Care Reform That Her Subjects Don't Want

Food and booze Pelosi has announced after Scott Brown's taking of Ted Kennedy's that she will "let them eat cake" if they're too poor to pay for her socialized medicine program. How nice of her to deign to speak to the people in between jet trips.

U.S. Democrats vow to move ahead on healthcare

High Speed Trains From Elsewhere May Go To Nowhere

Obama is giving Ohio big money to start a high speed train system. Huh? Why? It's a big money we don't have that will spent on trains that nobody wants which will be used by crowds of people big enough to almost fill a Prius which will get people there faster and cheaper. In other words, high speed trains in Ohio is a government boondoggle just for show.

Oh, and the boondoggle will be foreign built using foreign technology.

Obama unveils $8B plan for high-speed rail

Another tidbit not quite bantered about by supporters is that the money isn't enough to complete the system here in Ohio. Who really needs a high speed train from the wrong side of Cleveland to Blue Ball, Ohio?

Cult Suicide By Presidential Decree

The polls are all out there. Virginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts have slapped Obama in the face. People are angry nationwide with lefties more angry than most and Obama sends a clear message through his Maltese Falcon, Gibbs, that their losses are victories because the polls show it so and they are staying the course.

Unfortunately, the course is so foggy and inept that most people don't know the course setting, but they know they don't like it.

A year ago I saw Hope, Change and Obama on every surface possible. Today, even Volvos display a shadow where those stickers have been torn off. The cult of Obama is in shambles as is his administration and his presidency, but Obama keeps touching on, thinking deeply and showing his shallowness at every turn, especially as he worries about things that citizens don't care about.

What was heralded as a new beginning is now nothing. Jobs are gone, homes are gone and Obama doesn't seem to get it nor does he seem to care. He offers up now cliched platitudes about Bush's fault, corporate greed, banker fat cats, truck driving fools and countless insults against every faction of society and as a child would, sinks into his presidential throne and sulks.

Those that have and do represent the greatness of America weep while those begging for more government largess keep grabbing for more as the ship sinks.

The cult is rearranging the deck chairs.

Zack Space Sick Over Health Care Wind Changes

Thanks to WMD


Space Says No to Healthcare Bill
An Ohio Congressman takes a stand when it comes to the healthcare debate.

Takes a stand? Yeah, and if you don't like it, just wait minute...

On the heels of an announcement by House leadership that they may try and bring the Senate Healthcare Bill to a vote in the House of Representatives, Congressman Zack Space says the legislation is unacceptable to the 18th Congressional District, his constituents and Ohioans across the state.

Unacceptable? Like Cap and Trade? Like all his other votes for socialized medicine? Where's he standing now?

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Congressman says he will not support the current healthcare bill saying that by forcing consumers to purchase insurance it will mean higher costs for constituents and mean a financial burden they cannot manage.

Financial burden? You mean like all the trillions of dollars that we don't have, but Zacko still votes to spend? That's a stance. Right?

Space also says he's disappointed that the leadership would even consider this plan.

Disappointed? Yeah, Zack we're pretty disappointed in the leadership being demonstrated in Washington, but you stay firm in your stance on puppies and free candy for all.

Gee, I wonder if a wind of change named Scott Brown blew up your skirt. Uncomfortable, eh?

You're In Trouble When Even Your Kids Don't Like You

MAG: Even kids starting to turn on Obama...

He's completely toast when Bo bites him.

via Drudge

Ultimate Guide To The Stupidity Of Government Control

Today is the anniversary of the enactment of prohibition. The government, in all of its glory, set out to save America from itself. Just as today we have the green movement, anti-tobacco zealots and over reaching paternalistic Judas' such as New York Mayor Bloomberg, prohibitionists enacted onerous taxes, fees, programs to indoctrinate the youth and segregationist laws placing saloons and bars away from downtown society. In short, prohibitionists knew better than the joe sixpack of the day much as blue staters today want to lord over red staters and other Americans too "dumb" to know what's good for them.

So, on the anniversary of prohibition we find ourselves facing a different playing field with the election of Senator Scott Brown which leaves today's "prohibitionists" short one vote for their health care reform. The have done to their current targets of prohibition, such as tobacco, the same things they did then to alcohol. They have taxed, regulated and harassed doctors, insurance companies and to the average citizen they have offered government care for the betterment of all.

Just as the society controllers of prohibition failed then, they will fail now. Just as they put millions of Americans out of work then, they will do so now. Just as they created organized crime then, they will obliquely create new crime and new crime syndicates now. Just as then, government is not the answer now.

As with the federally enacted prohibition against the imbibing of alcohol, today's purveyors of mandatory health care cite the need for such legislation as a moral imperative for the health of the nation, the health of industry and business and for the good of society as a whole. Indeed, just as prohibitionists spoke of the dregs of society, the indigent, the immigrant, the negro and the rural ignorant, being helped, today's "reformists" speak in more veiled terms of he disadvantaged, the undocumented, the mentally challenged and those unable to grasp the true needs of a modern day society. Prohibitionists thumped Bibles for the cause and marched and swung axes in pursuit of propriety. Today's reformers thump political tracts and 'white papers" of reported gravitas, march and swing government promises and money in pursuit of a just society.

The people are awakening, just as they did to the unintended consequences of prohibition, to what this massive government takeover of health care will mean to their lives. People have historically trusted politicians in this country and that trust was and now is being betrayed by politicians. These politicians believe they are smarter than those they represent and as is usually the case, politicians are quite surprised when a wake up call points out just how stupidly they have been acting.

Scott Brown is the de jour wake up call.

Meatloaf Loves Obama, Except For That Whole Two Out Of Three Thing

How many elections can Obama cause to be lost?

He went to support Coakley and he caused defeat. Coakley is now talking about wars past, as if she could even begin to understand any conflict in her whiny concession speech.

She only shows how stupid she is..

Obama Rejected By The Slovenly, Fat, No Brain America That Makes America Work, Kennedy Weeps, But Not For Mary Joe

Scott Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Seat - Coakley Concedes

She, as Obama, has been a wuss. Ted Kennedy's seat has gone to a Republican.

The liberal/progressive/socialist/communist party in America has been told to shut up, you're killing our party and now we have lost the safest seat in America.

Good for the people.

Brown Has Won

How much will the Democrats mitigate the victory? Cut the margin of victory, that's how. And they will do it. Just to lessen the slap in the face the Democrats have received. It is they're only hope.

Coakley Concedes

Kennedy is dead, long live the Brown.

Coakley Looking Bad

It appears that all there is to decide is whether the voters and Brown win or whether the unions, ACORN and a totally out of touch Democrat machine wins.

No Unshaven Jihadis

Just got back. I talked to a good Father, good friends and family members that are shrinkologists and I still cannot find the plan or the logic in a wonderful life gone so soon. At his point any plan or logic is beyond my understanding ergo I will not write about it again until I do.

I spent days with old friends, many that I have not seen for years. In and out of conversations the main topic was Scott Brown. Those of the old school scoffed that a Republican had no chance while the converted dreamily smiled that Brown will win. For the most part those I spoke with wouldn't understand Massachusetts politics if it bit them.

I believe Brown will win the election, but I am not sure that he will win the count.

On the plus side, absentee ballots had to in and logged before the machine knew it was in trouble. Without the multiple voters and the dead Coakley loses a vast edge. With all the typical union thug money and boots on the ground Coakley gets back some edge, but the electorate seems to have finally tired of the same old schtick. Polls, always unreliable, and anecdotal evidence such as yard signs and die hard Democrat neighbors who are voting for Brown can't tell the real story. Massachusetts has produced winners before that were 9 points down before the election, but won by 4.

The real election will be in the precincts after the polls have closed and might be decided by the (re)strength of the Kennedy machine that has become somewhat complacent. With the death of the Lion of the Senate, Dearest Teddy, still fresh in some minds the machine may creak and move into action. Still, the machine may have lost its lust with the last of the Kennedy boys gone.

One can't really get the gist of successful political tactics while sipping drinks at the yacht club with someone else's wife. The younger Kennedys might be counting on the Southies to do their magic, but are the Southies still in the game? Will they turn their rough and tough minds and fists to politics once again to ensure a group of swill sipping punk kids of the older generation will stay in power? If it were me, I'd tell them it ain't rain making them wet.

Will the army of Kennedy volunteers rise one last time like Napoleon's ghost army to protect the first family of Massachusetts? Will the numbers runners fill the back counting rooms to fill the ballot boxes with the correct number of correct votes precinct by precinct? Have they this time even taken the time to make those numbers add up in just the correct ratio?

I don't know.

One thing I did learn on this trip is that when a sad, unshaven old man in a dress coat two sizes too large approaches airport security, he gets through security a lot faster than those less tired and better groomed. I presume that in the footnotes of the TSA manual there is mention of the fact that there are no unshaven Jihadists.