Ohio Dems Avg Day: TVs For POs And Judges For Sale

Well, the Ohio Democrat Machine is running a tad bad today. What with a former Democratic chairman, union officials, judges, a county commissioner, school board members, an ex-mayor, county employees, contractors, an auditor and his son all being charged with a plethora of charges such as bribery and taking gifts such as a talkative "massage" giver.

“I just said, she gives a massage. Is that how we're going to start her out?” Dimora tells a buddy in a conversation secretly taped by investigators.

I'm thinking by "start her out" he means getting her certified to be a union plumbing assistant.

I knew things are bad in the land of the Cuyahoga, but trading television sets for contracts? I'm trusting they were really big flat screens that didn't "fall" off a Teamster truck.
 
Investigators say the younger Russo conspired to trade television sets for consulting contracts.
 
The courts will take care of all this, right? Uh, maybe not.
 
According to the indictment, Dimora bribed McCafferty and Terry to influence litigation (cases) in their respective courtrooms.

The unions should really do something about judge's pay so judges don't have to moonlight in other jobs such as being bribees.

Ohio Democrats never tire in their work to improve the lives of Democrats Ohio's workers. That's why Team Strickland never sleeps.

Christine O'Donnell Asks The NRSC, "Do You Love Me?"

They told her she couldn't dance. I hope Cornyn and the boys have boned up on their Mashed Potato and the Twist.

Liberal Progressive Bloomberg Wants To Ban Smoking In All Of NYC

NYC to try banning smoking in parks and beaches

Bloomberg (Smug Party-Mayor NYC) is on a roll. Salt, fat, smoke and whatever else his smugness wants to protect us from, he justs limits or bans. He ought to cut to the chase and pick Soros as a running mate and roll Obama and Bite Me who obviously aren't progressive enough for Mayor Short.

Justice Dept Priorities: Black Panthers Purr, Deer Hunters A Burr To Justice In America

"Book'em Danno!"

OMG! Holder must have Jack Lord directing the Swat Teams in this take down of a massive criminal conspiracy. With Justice's Yahweh Five-O on the case, these rubes never had a chance.

Feds target 60 hunters in Kansas hunting probe

If convicted and given maximum sentences, they could face lengthy prison terms. Jim Cross, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas, said in an e-mail that it was the biggest case of its kind prosecuted in the state.

This is huge. PETA will weep. The deer will vanish!

“The state of Kansas has paid out over $100,000 to independent contractors to thin the Kansas deer herd for management purposes,” Kerns said in an e-mail. “And now our tax money is being spent making federal cases out of alleged rednecks who supposedly harvest an extra deer.”

Bring in the FBI because they took dead deer across state lines.

The Butlers are charged with conspiring to violate the Lacey Act, a federal law that prohibits the interstate transport of any wildlife taken in violation of state regulations. The indictment alleges they violated the act by purchasing and selling white-tailed deer and mule deer.

It is so fortunate for the health of this nation that there were no black-tailed and donkey deer because that would show a racist fear of liberal policies which may have resulted in prosecutions under not just the Lacey Act, but sweeping indictments under the Mann Act. Holder and his J-Men never sleep as they lock up the bad guys and savagely beat thuggery back. Man, I wish I coulda been a Junior J-Man just to take on this conspiracy of crooks who thought they could break the civil law. HA!

Personally, I now know why I slept so soundly last night. As I drifted off to slumber, images of the forces of right slaughtering the evils of might allowed me a quick moment of self righteous smugness making my dreams of Black Panthers helping little old ladies vote so much sweeter.

The next Bambi that eats my garden is going to get poached.

Time For A Break - Time For The Young Rascals

Okay, I've been traveling all over doing what I love to do which is politics. I know, I know, I leave all of you without my wit and wisdom, but a guy gotta do what a guy gotta do, but time slows (or speeds) when deadlines are set and hotel rooms all look alike after a while.

Time for the music I had burst into my head somewhere just east of nowhere, a little south of I'm Lost Again and dap smack in the middle of no radio signal land.

Not The Rascals, not Rascal Flats, but the original blue-eyed soulsters THE YOUNG RASCALS!



Three Eyetalians and a WASP from Jersey, but no bass player. When I first started drumming I used to try to play and look like Dino Danelli, but I couldn't hold the sticks like him, I had kinky hair and I was fat. Oh well, I got better, lost a ton of weight and Jimi Hendrix occurred. Viola, I had a better chance at cool. That most of our audiences were stoned increased my odds dramatically. At least until they crashed.

Omar, Ohio

Omar Chapel

Nana Arugula To Squash Restaurant Rights

Having worked in numerous restaurants I know that having a full dining room night after night is no sign that restaurateurs know what people need. It is a sign of what they want. Or so they think.

Next, Michelle Obama's health reform plan for the nation's restaurant menus and families dining out

Okay, let's start a short list:

Heat and air conditioning is bad for us, especially the way we like to use them.
They cars and trucks we like are just no good for us.
We should know that we would like to drive to California rather than fly. Walking would be even better for us.
Our houses are bad for us and Mother Gaia.
Seat belts aren't just for people. They're for dummies like you which is why you're getting a ticket dummy.
If you don't know what a “Body Mass Index” is, then you'll be paying us fatty
Kids on bikes without helmets means fork over you fine. Your kids will thank us.
Sure it's your house, but light up and bingo, you guessed it, pay up.
Like a drink? Oh wait, we tried that.
You want to do what on your property? I don't think so. Not until government approves it. Yep, you have to pay for that approval.
As parents we should know that government knows what our children need to be taught. So, let us all shut up.
Salt? Fries? Burgers? Oh, shut up. Because government said so.

Maybe Michelle should start at home. With arugula.

Maybe her husband should start here in America by realizing we are a nation of rights, not a nation of subjects tearfully thanking the government for nursing us. If he wants to protect us he might start at the borders and in terrorist territories around the world and leave us alone to build a better America one idea at a time.

Obama Keeps Just Missing Zack Space

"Congressman Space, President Obama wants to talk to you. Hello? Anybody there?"

It's one thing to duck your constituents on a daily basis, but how does he keep ducking Obama, his president and party leader. You'd think that Zack is embarrassed by Obama.

Nowhere to be seen was another Democrat from Ohio, Rep. Zack Space, who was dealing with a "personal family matter," according to his campaign. Not that it was likely to matter - Space skipped an appearance with Obama in nearby Columbus last month, choosing instead to drive around his district, campaigning on his own.

Driving around his district and campaigning on his own. Zack? Huh? Zack knows where Ohio is? I'm thinking Zack was driving around listening to Cheryl Crow at top volume allowing his self allotted one a day square to gently touch his cheek for every high note. You know, to wipe away the tear.

September 10

1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, during the War of 1812.

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

Dear General:

We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.

Yours with great respect and esteem,
O.H. Perry

and
 
Brig Niagara, off the Western Sister,
Head of Lake Erie September 10, 4 P. M.
 
Sir:- It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of the United States a signal victory over their enemies on this lake. The British squadron, consisting of two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop, have this moment surrendered to the force under my command after a sharp conflict.

I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. H. Perry

I've lost a few battles at Put-In-Bay, but that is another discussion for another time.

Obama Versus JFK

From The Winston Group.



Big government is never the answer. It is the problem.

Obama's Crippling Debt

Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data

14 wars, the Great Depression, the Louisianna Purchase, the Alaska Purchase, the Marshall Plan and going to the moon are but a few things the first 40 presidents dealt with and their combined debt couldn't match the debt of Obama's ego.

A Bumper Sticker We All Need

In my email:

We were in slow-moving traffic the other day and the car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it. It read:

"Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

Allah Must Weep For His Word And His People

I don't condone burning any book, especially a holy book, but I am fed up with the perpetual whining of Islamofascists who know no holy books but ones of their own making. They may not know much about the Koran which they say they are quoting, but they know each and every chapter and verse of perceived wrongs and sadistic ways to punish such perceived wrongs that are listed in their holy books.

Allah must be weeping at what has been wrought in his name and what those who murder, maim and burn in his name are doing.

I'll make a bet with the frothing Ayatollah du jour and the current Imams at the top of this week's Murder Inc's demented chart. If all of the followers of your cults stop flying planes into buildings, stop using suicide bombers and generally just stop killing, people here in America will stop burning Korans. If you don't take the bet, you're cowards and if you don't like the bet, you're liars. You can bet on that. Plus, if you're in a betting mood, I wouldn't bet on 72 virgins and fruit juice, you'll just end up parched if you know what I mean. Mā šāʾ Allāh.

Righthaven Sues Angle For Las Vegas Review-Journal To Help Reid

No, I won't link to the reprobates at the Las Vegas Review-Journal nor Righthaven. One chases ambulances and the other reports it, but now it appears they have thrown their collective hats in the ring to help Hapless Harry Reid get re-elected.

Sharron Angle Faces Copyright Lawsuit

A company has sued Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, claiming she reprinted two Las Vegas Review-Journal articles on her campaign website without permission.

I am amazed at the tin ear decisions of the LVR-J and the bait and switch legal maneuvers of Righthaven to harass bloggers, but for them to get in the gutter with Harry Reid is more than a tad political.

If you lay down with rats you gonna get bit. In this case the trifecta of stupid, which is Reid, LVR-J and Righthaven, deserve each other in their backroom deals.

It's too bad LVR-J doesn't like links to their articles. If my two readers (but I boast) were to link to them it might just double their readership.

Russ & Barack Secret Meeting Place Finally Set For Milwaukee

A secret and anonymous source has said that Barack and Russ negotiated a secret meeting which would avoid any mention by the press. The same source stated that last minute instructions to the meeting would be placed in a box of tissues next to the teleprompter and that only the president should read them

Secret abandoned warehouse

Feingold to miss Obama Labor Day visit

Unfortunately, the president couldn't figure out which teleprompter would tell him what to do. At this point other secret sources say the meeting is in jeopardy.

An intrepid, though unnamed secret, source within the Feingold campaign supplied photographs showing the meeting place only after having been assured that the images would not publicly be shown until they were out of town due to "pressing personal problems." Follow up investigations found an empty apartment and disconnected telephones. Near midnight an unnamed witness in sunglasses at the unnamed source's former apartment stated that he had never seen anyone fitting the description of the anonymous source. He also stated that he had never heard of Renegade, Renaissance nor Rosebud and Radiance.

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BLAME BUSH! Why Not?

When all of one's plans for the economy only makes it worse and you haven't a clue what to do, blame Bush. It's easy, it will make you feel better and all of your like minded friends will nod their heads and stroke their chins in a sage repose of wisdom.

Record number in government anti-poverty programs

Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.

Obama: "It Took Nearly A Decade To Dig The Hole That We're In"

President Obama criticizes the economic policies of former President Bush and the current "partisan minority" in Congress. Obama asks Republicans to drop the economic "blockade."

Obama says he ignored Beck rally... Drudge

“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That's been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

I am sure that President Obama, being the highly educated professor that he says he is, has heard of the "bully pulpit." He might reach back in his memory and even remember that that bear shootin' SOB, Teddy Roosevelt, defined it clearly and understood its use completely.

The caveat to the bully pulpit is that one can speak to people's values or one can plant a seed of thought, but one can never speak to the baseness of man nor plant a seed in a barren field of ideas and expect growth.

Beck spoke to the moral character of our nation and planted the seed of returning to America's greatness and it works because people believe him and believe in that which he spoke. Obama has yet to learn that just sayin' it don't make it so. Tough for a professor to grasp, but with time he can get his head around such an idea or ideal, if you will.

Obama To Offer Forehead As Billboard

'I CAN'T SPEND ALL OF MY TIME WITH MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE PLASTERED ON MY FOREHEAD'

Self funding of Obama "Miss Me Yet" billboards in the plans, but not a $12 copy of his birth certificate.

The Emmy Awards

My wife has the Emmy Awards show on which reminded me that last week I actually saw a hetrosexual couple on TV.

Unfortunately, their unexpected appearance on television caused my TV to melt.

Murkowski Is Like Crist: Screw'em. Give Me The Power And The Money

NRSC Triptik

Murkowski, like Crist of Florida, might be busy proving that they are little republican in the Republican Party that believe only in themselves and are only out for themselves. That the NRSC is assisting her in undermining real Republicans in Alaska is a sign of bureaucratic bloatedness and comfort in positions they feel are no longer answerable to Republican voters nationwide.

300,000 - 500,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial feel differently. The left is paying close attention to that rally to find imagined racism and any other fault they can find. The Republican power elites seem to not only have not heard of the rally, but seem to have forgotten where the Lincoln Memorial is sited. If they were to find the memorial they'd be able to read Lincoln's words and then possibly find their way back to believing in what the Republican Party stands for.

If they don't know where the Lincoln Memorial is they just have to remember the next time they go to the Public Affairs Office for the US Mint for some coin, that they continue on west to their favorite, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Then hop back on Independence Ave going west until they see the Lincoln Memorial on the right. Maybe it might be more simple to just ask any tourist in town to guide them.

Once there they will find Lincoln quotes such as, "Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government," which is actually part of this quote, "I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government."

Remember the "just powers of government" part of the quote if remembering all of it is just too much.

Ohio 161

Shelter

NPR First In Media To Lie About Beck Rally In DC

Photos: Glenn Beck Rally Has People Seeing Red ‎

NPR - 17 minutes ago

Thousands turned out to hear Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin speak in front of the Lincoln Monument in Washington, DC, on Saturday.

It may actually be that "thousands" listen to NPR coast to coast. There were a tad more than thousands at the "Restoring Honor" rally in DC. 300,000 to 500,000 people turned up in the Federal City for the rally. There are no crowd estimates for those who may or may not be listening to NPR.

Liberal Heads Exploding Over Beck Rally

They're calling it a Nazi rally. Some are saying it is the largest KKK rally in years. The knee slapping crowd is calling it Whitestock. Whatever they are calling it they seem to be really scared of Beck and his rally.

On Twitter the left is full of snark.

Meanwhile at Whitestock or the rally, whatever, an American Indian is giving a medal to a black preacher who attended the Republican MLK rally held there many years ago. The left is angry that such men of color would try to "steal" the heritage of the Civil Rights movement, especially when they speak of Jesus. They left wants Jesus to be a communist and MLK to be agnostic when they want to use them for their political ends.

On other sites leftists question whether Beck will allow God and MLK to be mentioned and then ridicule him when they are not only mentioned, but held in the highest esteem. Others want to have answer to that burning question, are Beck and Palin being paid and if so, how much? The theme is that capitalists can be bought to speak on behalf of anything, unlike any on the left. That the great unwashed rubes of America attending the rally are really what is wrong about America, unlike those on the left. That people that want less government intrusion, less power and less spending are the problem, unlike the left.

This is what makes the left so open to other ideas.

Columbus, Ohio

Up

Keep America Safe Scorecard - Ohio

Few surprises listed here. For the complete scorecard go HERE.

Rep. Steve Austria (R OH-7) A

Rep. John Boccieri (D OH-16) C

Rep. John A. Boehner (R OH-8) A

Rep. Steve Driehaus (D OH-1) F

Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D OH-11) F

Rep. Jim Jordan (R OH-4) A

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D OH-9) F

Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D OH-15) F

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D OH-10) F

Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R OH-14) A

Rep. Bob Latta (R OH-5) A

Rep. Tim Ryan (D OH-17) F

Rep. Jean Schmidt (R OH-2) A

Rep. Zachary T. Space (D OH-18) A

Rep. Betty Sutton (D OH-13) F

Rep. Patrick J. Tiberi (R OH-12) A

Rep. Michael Turner (R OH-3) A

Rep. Charles A. Wilson (D OH-6) F

Granville, Ohio

Graveyard

Newark, Ohio Downtown

Mural

Obama's Driver/Ditch Analogy Meets Reality

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --P. J. O'Rourke

Of course P. J. may need to include girls now that we have the estimatable Nancy Nana Pelosi buying all that booze for the rest of the kids at the party.

Ohio Park

Shed

Michigan Dems In Fraud Against McCotter & Other Republicans.

It is still uncertain if McCotter's opponent Natalie Mosher' campaign was involved, but party officials in Oakland County, Michigan had to fire one of their employees (after it was published that the Democrat Party official) started a fake "Tea Party" to try and siphon votes away from McCotter and other Republicans.

DEM commissioners call for party worker's removal

"[W]e ask for the immediate removal of Jason Bauer as an employee of the Oakland County Democratic Party. Our caucus members and candidates demand the highest ethical standards of ourselves, our government and our party, and any violation of those standards must have real and significant consequences.”

Yep, turn on the lights and watch them scatter.

Rich Care For Petraeus Moist With Crocodile Tears

Oh, weep for the brave warrior as Frank Rich weeps. Must we allow our brave warriors fall on the sword of neo con stupidity? If only we had the stamina to wake each morning and look hard into the mirror and see ourselves as Rich can only see himself.

How Fox Betrayed Petraeus

It’s poignant, really. Even as America’s most venerable soldier returned from the front to valiantly assume the role of Willy Loman, the product he was selling was being discredited and discontinued by his own self-proclaimed allies at home.

Poignant? Ah, exactly the word I'd expect Frank to use to describe any situation of a soldier. Really, I expect that type of sensitivity from Frank. Frank is so sensitive he must, late on dark nights, quote to himself, "I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been" and wonder if his brother was right at last.

Another Soon To Be A Party Switching Democrat?

Police: Fla. congressional candidate robbed at gunpoint while waiting for campaign appearance

At the very least he should be the primary sponsor of conceal-carry. If elected to anything.

Individual $44K Per Person National Debt Obligation Far From What It Should Be

To paraphrase John Paul Jones, Obama whispers to aides, "I have not yet begun to spend!"

USA DEBT: $13,310,379,000,000.00

$44,000 PER CITIZEN...
 
Actually, Americans need to cough up more than a mere $44K per person on the debt when it is costing about $75K per day for the Obamas to vacation and that's just Marie Antoinette Michelle. That's a $31K disparity. Time to buck up John and Jane Q. Publick.
 
Of course the Obamas, even on vacation, can't swim in the sea of poo surrounding Martha's Vineyard, but us mere taxpayers already know that feeling.

Sociology Students Feel Put Upon By Visit To Creation Museum And Ethnography 'Proves' It

I wonder if sociology students are upset when creationists are forced to listen to the evolution theory in government supported classes or are confronted with a belief they disagree with in museums on the National Mall that spout evolution as fact?

Would they be upset? No, because that would mean that they would have to believe the rubes have a belief different than theirs, but just as viable. That is something they only will not do, but they will also openly laugh at such an idea. They are that sure that they are correct that it allows them to mock, belittle, laugh at and get articles so full of crock as the one below published about their publishing a "scientific" paper base on ethnographyy. Ethnography, a subjective narrative based on one's bias, is considered a scientific research by those that agree with its findings. An example might be, "Jews act badly, in my opinion, towards Palestinians, ergo my bias against Jews and for Palestinians is correct."

When sociology students visit Creation Museum
A professor of sociology led a field trip through Kentucky's Creation Museum, a fundamentalist Christian facility. The professor found that non-fundamentalists felt uncomfortable there. Museum officials say they've received death threats and the site sometimes draws anti-Creationist protesters.

Barton combined hours of observation and analysis of museum materials into an ethnography, a detailed narrative about a place and its culture that is often used in sociology. Unlike other research methods, the ethnography does not strive for impartiality; rather, the researchers recognize and reflect on their own reactions to what they see. (read the entire article)

“Politically acceptable” is only acceptable to one side and they do not pray to God to be right.

Alley

Alley

APB: Zack Space Missing Again!

Zack wasn't at the OEC when they found he had made false statements in campaign ads.

Zack announced mucho bucks for broadband access. From where he announced nobody knows. He must have been out scouting placement of lines because he just announced it, but wasn't there to announce it in person.

Zack might be at Ground Zero doing inspections because he hasn't been around to state his position on the subject. Maybe he was in Las Vegas chatting up Harry Reid on the subject.

Zack might also beal so chatting up the SEIU and other previous union supporters about his brave vote against government health care. Or was his vote against the fact that the bill didn't go far enough? $25,000 is $25,000 and it beats having to actually meet with constituents and ask for donations.

Zack might be out there helping coal miners dig a little bit as contrition for screwing them out of their jobs by supporting Cap and Trade. Maybe. He hasn't been seen talking to his voters or giving them advice on how to pay the thousands of extra dollars in taxes to pay for it. Maybe that is what he's talking to the coal miners about. Well, that and how they're going to pay extra being out of work and all.

Wait! We found Zack! At least we found where he has spent some of his money. He is attacking people that disagree with him because they don't live in the district except they obviously know where the district is. Maybe Zack was the one filming. The video is taken from far away and is pretty shaky. Distant and shaky? Maybe we really have found Zack.

Maybe Zack is hiding out at Bob Gibbs rallies. It's not like anyone would recognize him. It's tough actually talking to constituents, especially when it takes so much time away from trolling Washington DC for campaign donations and support to the tune of $1,115,303.

I hope Zack calls home soon. There might be people worried about him

All I Want Is A Hibachi

Home Depot? Nada.
Lowes? Zip.
Sears? Only online (I want one now. Not next week)
Target? They have something called Son of Hibachi which means daddy isn't the real daddy.
Local patio store? Yep, they have a foofoo French model. For $110.00. Ain't happening.
Krogers? I asked and got a stare that only a dead fish could love.
Giant Eagle? "Honey, that's a great suggestion. We should get some in."
Lawn and Garden shop nearby? "We only sell real grills!"
Gander Mountain? Nope, but they had a cast iron pan I could hold over a fire.

With this administration's economy I might have better luck checking pawn shops.

Hidden Agendas To Use Capital To Destroy Capitalism

Paco has a post on the unelected who elect to rule us through privately funded groups. Mix in all of the unelected bureaucrats who actually make law from the local to the state to the federal level and there occurs trillions of dollars through these innocent sounding foundations and tax dollars. If that's not enough to get your panties in a twist read some of these sites.

Start here:

Who elected these people?

Then go to this site which is actually a few years behind:

Activist Cash

Of course every one's fav is George Soros who as a child hid his Jewish heritage by posing as a godchild to an official employed by the Nazi Waffen SS to confiscate Jewish property. Dear George accompanied him on his missions of pay before you die and feels absolutely no guilt or remorse basically saying it was them or me.

Discover the Networks

Even a quick perusal will give one the sense and immense scope of these groups influencing government to education to unions and to movements such environmentalism. All Americans should be troubled by hidden agendas and hidden government.

I'm So Sick Of This

Muslim employee sues Disneyland over headscarf ban...

RT 79 Heath

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Ohio 4th In Nation For Welfare Bureaucrats

This is a bummer. Ohio used to have low taxes, smaller government and a great economy. Now we lose jobs by the 100,000s and more people are leaving than coming into Ohio. Actually, this isn't a bummer, it sucks. Literally and figuratively. Yeah, both.

By The Numbers: How many local government public welfare bureaucrats are there?

Top 10 states ranked by local government public welfare employees per 100,000 residents

New York                    256
Wisconsin                     249
New Hampshire           241
Ohio                            228
Minnesota                   208
California                    189
Pennsylvania               178
North Carolina           174
North Dakota            164
New Jersey               146

Source: U.S. Census Bureau data, author’s calculations, employees per 100,000 population

Obama Easing Restrictions On Travel To Cuba For Castro Cultists

What's not to love about a stinky old dictator and the gulags, poverty and death he brought to Cuba?

U.S. plans to ease travel to Cuba: lawmaker's aide

This should make it so much easier for the likes of Spielberg, Costner, Belafonte, and the other stars that genuflect to the scum like Castro, to go see a society locked in the 1950s. Unfortunately, they will never ask to speak to dissidents and prisoners. They're actors and reality scares them.

Obama & Holder Use Federal Threat Of Law To Bully Opponents

Case in point is Sheriff Joe. The boys in Washington are ticked off at all things Arizona and especially Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I too would be ticked if I had acted so incredibly stupid that a mere sheriff could make me, the president, look like a complete fool.

U.S. may sue Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio for not cooperating in investigation
The investigations reflect the tangled politics surrounding the immigration debate. The criminal probe is led by Dennis K. Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix who was a top aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Two of Arpaio's attorneys, Robert N. Driscoll and Asheesh Agarwal, were officials in the Justice Department's civil rights division in the George W. Bush administration. They denied that the sheriff, a Republican who has been reelected four times since 1992, has been uncooperative or has engaged in racial profiling, misusing money or targeting political enemies.

"The sheriff's office is cooperating fully with the grand jury investigation and has complete confidence that the inquiry will clear it of any wrongdoing," Agarwal said. "The office has always fulfilled its responsibilities truthfully, honorably, and in full compliance with state and federal law."

Arpaio's attorneys contend that the investigations are politically motivated, citing a news conference in March at which Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was quoted as saying he expects the inquiries to "produce results."

This administration proves daily that they are clueless and incompetent, but this Chicago-style thuggery should be even below them. Unfortunately, it appears to be their modus operandi .

Thuggery is as thuggery does.

A Fine Draftsman Drawing On His Life

From a wonderful site - Paul Madonna who also has a new concept comic "strip" called All Over Coffee.

Click on image to enlarge

Far From Incipiency The Bureaucracy Grows Older, Fatter And Deadlier

Tom Blumer has the rundown on our runaway bureaucracy which out earns us and is outspending our ability to feed it all in a quest to try to make itself relevant.

The Ruling Class Takes Care of Its Own
The excess pay and benefits are outrageous — and unaffordable.

What has the bureaucracy ever produced? Besides Foreign Affair disasters, National Security breaches and huge deficits? They have that going for them.

UPDATE: An emailer writes to remind me that it is the bad cholesterol that kills the fat man, not the good cholesterol. Duly noted.

Madam Pelosi Miffed Over Ground Zero Mosque Opposition, Wants Americans Investigated

Madam Nana is miffed. She wants the Ground Zero Mosque built so we can see what's in it. To those ugly Americans that say it is legal to build there, but question the reasons why it is being built there and also question the the tin ear of Muslims, Madam Nana says she will investigate where they're getting the money to "gin" up this outrage. I have no doubt that Madam Nana will find Nazis underneath it all. Well, Nazis and right wing nuts, but she digresses.

Rep. Pelosi calls for investigation of WTC mosque opposition

I do have an admission, I am opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque. Now that I am being investigated should I have all my paychecks, coin purses and past tip jars available for the perusal of Nana's pink booted thugs?

Interesting fact: I googled "Is Pelosi stupid? and Google found About 1,270,000 results (0.22 seconds)

UPDATE: Yid With Lid ( a great site, go read it) has a great post on this story with a follow up concerning Madam Nana trying to take her dog of a comment on a walk aback.

Shut Up Mayor Bloomberg

Bloomberg attacks salt, smoke, fat and other personal peccadilloes, but not murderers and Islamofascists nor does he seem to interested in bedbugs, muggers and common thugs patrolling his city. Why should he when a few kind words for and some harsh words against those speaking about the proposed mosque near ground zero might be to his profit.

Ground Zero Mosque Madness: NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Bloomberg LLC expanding its financial center to a regional hub in Dubai

Paralleling Mayor Bloomberg’s veiled insults towards those acutely aware of the historical Islamic conquest of non-Muslim lands by their building of mosques on top of or dominating a conquered people’s holy sites, is the concurrent Bloomberg LLC’s expansion of its Dubai financial center into a regional hub for the UAE. Founded in 1981 by Michael Bloomberg, who privately owns 85% of the limited liability corporation, Bloomberg LLC is a dominant player in global financial software, data gathering and news, commanding one third of its market niche estimated at $16 billion dollars.

The ultimate arrogance of Bloomberg is that he actually believes that others care what he thinks. He is the 8th richest American and Mayor of New York City. He is not the brightest man in America nor is he a national level politician, but merely a mayor of a city on the rocks. That he wishes to portray a mosque 2 blocks from ground zero, while knowing that its construction start is to be September 11, 2010, in a positive light is rank hypocrisy with the stink of private profit while in public office. It makes him seem just that much more a merely local scoundrel who has no place in a debate of the people, but maybe more rightly the subject of a debate by a jury of his peers.

Mayor Bloomberg is a rich spoiled arrogant embarrassment to honest hardworking people. He should just shut up.

1/2 Term President Obama

Sounds about right.

Obama, the one-term president

Q: Will Barack Obama be a one-term president?

A: Yes, he might last that long.

So Much For A Post-Racial America?

Race is on to make the first 3D porn movie

Geez...

Ross'

Window

'Change' Failed So "Let's Reach For Hope."

In a nod to Democrats past Obama is attempting a "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," shtick to buttress his fading message of hope as the pushback against his "change" grows across America.

Obama pleads to voters: 'Don't give in to fear'

Using very catchy metaphors such as his one about Republicans and driving: put the car in "D" (as in Democrat) if you want to move ahead, "R" if you want to go backward, Obama is trying to rally Democrats to head off what they fear (oops!) will be a disastrous midterm election. They hope (oh yeah!) that with Obama in full gear campaign mode and without the burdens of actually being president that Obama will re inject his stump magic into campaigns.

If I were a Democrat running next November I'd be afearing what Obama asked for and was given by pliant Democrats in Congress. The real change wrought by Obama and Congress is a shattered economy that will only get worse and the only hope for Democrats is that November isn't a total blowout.

Obama Land Grab

Some form of government owns approximately 30% of the United States. The federal government owns approx 90% of Nevada, 70% of Alaska and so forth. We could balance the budget if the Fed sold off these lands. Sorry Teddy, but the government should not be in the business of owning land unless it is used for governance, roads or defense as examples.

Now Obama wants another 15 million, possibly more, acres.

How Obama is locking up our land

(Click on map to enlarge)

In April, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his “21st century strategy for America’s great outdoors.” It was addressed to the Interior Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The memo calls on the officials to conduct “listening and learning sessions” with the public to “identify the places that mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the Federal Government” to “protect” outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned sessions have already been held. But there’s much more to the agenda than simply “reconnecting Americans to nature.”

The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States. This is apparently not enough. At a “listening session” in New Hampshire last week, government bureaucrats trained their sights on millions of private forest land throughout the New England region. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for “the need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the need to promptly support full funding of that fund.”

Cindy Sheehan, Desperate For Spotlight, Proves Why She's In The Dark

"Robert Gibbs on the 'Professional Left': 'Those People Ought to Be Drug Tested' "-- Reason.com, Aug. 10

"I will put my urine up against Gibbs's any day, and in fact, will travel to Washington to give him a fresh and warm sample. I actually think supporters of Obama should be tested for 'Hopium' in their urine, myself. Since Gibbs is a liar and a jerk, I will challenge him to a pee-off."--Cindy Sheehan, Washington Times, Aug. 12

Anniversary Of The World's Greatest Ponzi Scam

August 14, 1935 Social Security Act Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.

Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program in the United States.

Socialists In Congress Named

Time to clean house. We do not need Socialists serving in our government. They violate our form of government by their thinking alone, but it is their actions that are most damning.

WHO ARE THE SOCIALIST IN ELECTED OFFICE TODAY:

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?

A: See the listing below Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)

Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)

Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Licking County

Blue

Scottish Drunk Drawn

Pencil Test Depot
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Machu Picchu Stone

Stonework: The Incas utilized existing boulders which they carved and incorporated rocks cut into intricate shapes to fill and for support.

And People Thought Steinbrenner Was Tough

North Korea probed over claims World Cup flops were tortured after early exit from tournament

Raccoon Valley

Park

KTUU Reports Ted Stevens Dead

Stevens killed in crash near Dillingham

Former Sen Ted Stevens & Former LSU Chancellor, NASA chief On Plane, Reported 4 Survivors

Tribble Agency Sez Ted Stevens Dead & Lefties Start With The Jokes

Senator Ted Stevens Killed in Plane Crash

Ah, the love of the Left is as fake as their belief in what is good for the people. Now they've started quipping about it should have been Sarah Palin on that plane or that Stevens should have taken the Bridge to Nowhere or that he should have landed at the Ted Stevens Airport.

Sen. Ted Stevens In Plane Crash?

Ted Stevens told friends that he was traveling by plane to Agulowak Lodge.

Plane with 8 on board crashes off Dillingham

Friends of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said he was traveling Monday to the GCI-owned Agulowak Lodge near Lake Aleknagik, and they were concerned for him.

Environmentalists Causing The Worsening Blackouts.

And they are just making the problem of the lack of power worse.

U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing

Smart grids, modernization and gimmicks are what are being offered in the article (I encourage you to read it), but what is not being offered is reality. The United States needs more power plants, more refineries and more sources of power such as nuclear, coal and oil. The very things that so-called environmentalists have prevented for 20 plus years. And in those 20 plus years, through government interference and predatory lawsuits, the cost of producing power has risen astronomically as the avenues to produce any viable amounts of new power has shrunk.

Just as they have been doing to the health care industry these groups have emplaced rules, regulations and legislation to make citizens suffer financially for their energy wants and needs so that citizens will see no other way out, but to bow to the dictates of the government. That is not freedom, but tyranny. It is tyranny no matter how benevolent the tyranny believes itself to be. And health care reform, Cap and Trade and the energy crisis are just the beginning.

Maxine "OneUnited" Waters Drowning In The Swamp

When swimming with sharks like Nancy "The Tuna" Pelosi Maxine Waters should have been more vigilant of swamp rats. Especially when she swam with Charlie "Calypso" Rangel for Hillary "Whitewater" Clinton against Barack "Rezko" Obama.

Rep. Waters charged on three ethics counts

Is the swamp always filled with so many AKAs? Sounds kind of like the streets of Chicago.

Michelle Vacation Spin Starts

After a supposed $375,000 price tag, 40 rooms at a 5 star hotels, shut down beaches and towns and lunch with a king the White House has finally noticed that the little subjects are wagging their tongues. Start spin.

Spain vacation with 'a dear friend' whose father recently died

Mr. Sensitive, Robert Gibbs stated that, "The first lady is on a private trip. She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I'd leave it at that."  Hogwash.

So, a friend's father passed away and a month later they have a get together. The First Lady traveled to Spain using Secret Service personnel, White House staffers and represented the United States to the King of Spain. Never mind that the hotel cost enough a night to pay the monthly rent or mortgage for many Americans out of work right now.

Losing a parent is a hurtful thing and Mrs. Obama has every right, in fact a duty, to console her friend, but not on the taxpayer dime which spent at the rate it was spent is like spitting in the eye of every family going through financial difficulty at the moment. If the First Family and the White House don't get that they are not tone deaf, they are deaf, dumb and blind. Which, in fact, may be their only excuse.

RT 161

Asphalt

BP Buries Obama Plan For Overbearing Enviro Legislation

Obama, ET AL, proclaimed it the worst environmental disaster ever for America. They did so as an intro for their endangered environmental bill to ensure its passage.

It is not the worst environmental disaster for our country. It is laughably short of that moniker. It is laughable even by Obama's record which is laughable to the rest of us suffering under this cartoon regime.

The bill can now only be passed by a pitiful and laughably sad lame duck Congress. And repealed by a new Congress.

BP has handed to Obama and friends their own rear ends.

A win by the good guys.

Heights Don't Scare Some

Margaret Bourke-White, one of my favorite photographers, took amazing photographs of people and the world they lived in. This is one, taken by her assistant, of her shooting an urban landscape from atop a modern gargoyle attached near the top of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan . She was fearless.

Assistants do not always have it easy. The one above wasn't as far out as Bourke-White, but pretty darned close. Once I was with my boss, I was an apprentice, because his real assistant became ill and could not go with him to photograph Machu Picchu. I was in the plane with him as he prepared to shoot when he yelled grab my belt, pointing to the small of his back. I did. He then signaled the pilot who immediately turned the small plane, no windows, on its side and he photographed straight down from above Machu Picchu .

It scared the beJesus out of me.

Later, when I asked why he hadn't told me what he had planned he told me that I probably would have had doubts. I then asked him about what would have happened if I couldn't hold on and he replied that the shot was more important to think about. I then drank way too much of the local brew. The photographs were breath taking.

BTW, the pilot, on looks alone, wouldn't have been able to even get an interview with Wings of Herb Airlines. On his best day. But he took off, flew and landed. For $35.00. Which included gas.

Margaret Bourke-White would've flown the plane, photographed and landed by herself.

Maybe Milwaukee Teachers Can get Someone To Hold It For Them

In times of crisis and layoffs the union is worried about sex. Recreational sex for the most part. Hopefully, recreational sex that doesn't include students. Boy, they must be hard up.

Milwaukee teachers fight for Viagra drug coverage

With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.

And it appears that these teachers really (really, really) need them some Viagra.

Board and union negotiators reached a deal in 2002 to cover six tablets per month for erectile dysfunction drugs in health plans that insure 10,000 employees, dependents and retirees. They quickly became popular.

By 2004, the number of claimants receiving prescriptions skyrocketed to more than 1,000 per year, costing the district $207,000. During negotiations in 2005, the board proposed eliminating the benefit and an arbitrator adopted the plan.

It's a wonder they have the time and the energy to teach. OTOH, may 'splain some of those test scores since the teachers are getting scores on their own.
 
Readin', writin', rithmatic and recreatin'! The new educational experience.

RT 16, Licking County

Swing

Enviro Mentals Want To Kill Another 174,000 Coal Jobs

They not only want to reach in the pockets of coal workers and steal their pay they also want to steal money from all the other people that use energy to go to work, work, live and purchase any product in America.

Cap and Trade alone will cost the average household in America about $1,800 and this will cost far more:

Peak coal could happen by 2011... if we don't start any more mines!

The paper just released by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley is limited to looking at production from existing coal fields and mines, which is expected to start declining after 2011. Of course, this is only a problem if no new coal production is started, something that is not expected for many decades to come.

Total coal-related jobs

There are approximately 174,000 blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S.: mining (83,000), transportation (31,000), and power plant employment (60,000). (See below for details on each sector.) The U.S. civilian labor force totaled 141,730,000 workers in 2005; thus, permanent blue-collar coal industry employees represent 0.12% of the U.S. workforce.[1] (Compare this percentage with the 1.89% of U.S. workers who worked in coal mining alone in 1920.)

This total does not include indirect employment - workers who are not directly employed in the coal industry, but whose jobs are supported by that industry. It is entirely possible that thousands - even tens of thousands - of workers are indirectly supported entirely by the coal industry. However, the National Coal Association's 1994 estimate that the coal industry directly and indirectly employs around 1.5 million people[2] seems exaggerated. The level of indirect employment is in the low hundreds of thousands - not in the millions.

Islamofascism In America

There is no honor in what this father did. His god must be weeping. He is weeping because murders, rapists and pedophiles worldwide are doing their perverted acts in his name.

Honor Killing in America

As 911 operators listened in, Sarah appeared to name her father as the killer — her dying words: "Help! Help! My dad shot me... and now I'm dying!"


The investigation is ongoing.

Short Debrief Of Kagan Confirmation

Via Paco

The five Republicans voting yes were the Maine dames and three testicular atrophy cases led by (who else?) Lindsey Graham.

Elena Kagan 112th Member Of The SCOTUS - Oh Crap, Thanks RINOs

Finding possibly the worst candidate for the Supreme Court of the US is something a community organizer would be good at, but getting her put in place takes geniuses like the group of RINOs who didn't even fight for our country.

Elena Kagan, the 112th U.S. Supreme Court Justice

The five Republicans who supported Kagan were Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

So now we have a community organizer that can't organize as president and a supreme court judge that knows nothing of the bench sitting on the highest court in the land. At least Obama will be gone soon, but Kagan will be there long enough to subject the US to the World Court thus demoting her and her fellow Supremes to the next highest court in the land.

Obama Buying The 2010 Election?

Actually, yes.

An August Surprise from Obama?

Buying (once again) union love, buying back (insert various left whacked blocs name) allies, buying rich people's money, buying the corporate vote, oh, you can finish on your own. Now though, Obama is aiming at that most important bloc, the middle class mother. They fear losing their homes or that they can't pay for the extras they feel the family needs. And they, according to polls, have abandoned Obama and he needs them back if only through the first Tuesday in November.

Enter Freddie and Fannie who are the paragons of business and ethics with which Obama will buy these voters. The purchase price on each vote is debt relief on their mortgages. It is a simple transaction really, Obama's benevolent government will pay part of your mortgage and you will see him, and Democrats, as saviors. Plus, it's bonus time, Obama's vision of bigger government looks better which might make it easier to pass more atrocities such as health care reform, Cap and Trade and other boondoggles for the government and its cronies. That government created the mess called Freddie and Fannie and Congress forced them to fail is irrelevant because Mama Soccer will be happy.

Is there anyone left in the Demo world left unbought? Have them call 1-800-GOV-ELEC. The free money give away is a limited offer and may disappear forever in November.