Mubarak 'Hiding' Under Obama Bus

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

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

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

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

Total. Failure.

Lactivists Or Boobs In Public?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cue the outrage.

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

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

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

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

ROBERT FRANK
photographed by Richard Avedon, 1975

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

- Eugene Richards

Dana Milbank Breaks Palin Pledge Daily Hourly

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

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

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

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

One can hear the taunts from classmates,

"You’re in love with Sarah."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am not. She's stoopid."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winter In Art

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

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

Yu-tang Yang (b. 1956)

God's Masterpiece-2006

Richard Schmid
Victorian Winter

Long Island July 2010

Jones Beach Ice Cream Parlor 2010

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

Say What Obama?

'I Didn't Raise Taxes Once'

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To My Minion: Some Help Please

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

Go here:

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

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

Thanks and please pass this on to others.

Moore: Fat Man Wants Fatter 9/11 Check

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

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

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

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here

Old Licking County Jail

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

Mug Shot of Elderly Murderer Laura Bell Devlin

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

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

Bill O'Reilly Called Me Nuts

via Lonely Conservative

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

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

Obama's Super Obesity Bowl Party

Beer from Super Bowl states heads up Obama's party

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

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

Obama + Greenies = Disaster For America

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

Big Green groups tell Obama to tell Canada to Drop Dead

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

Reagan To Make An Appearance At Super Bowl

Is there anything he can't do?

President Reagan Once Again Back To Comfort The Nation

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

He’s back.

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

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

He never left.

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

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

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

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

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

Residential Architecture

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

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

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

Ngozi Pole, Former Kennedy Staffer Guilty Of Excessive Stealing

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

Former Ted Kennedy staffer caught stealing from the Senate

Write your own jokes.


You just can't make this stuff up.

Sarah Palin Rhetoric Responsible For Violence And Threats In Egypt.

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

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

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

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

How Many Other Loyal Allies Will Obama Stab In The Back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Google Art Site Is Very Cool

Click HERE to see whole image

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

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

Hamlet

Andrej Dugin Hamlet

Gertrude 36 X 36 cm, mixed media, paper

Obama's HealthCare Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional!

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

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

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Is Anti-American

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

Jordan's opposition: Arabs will topple tyrants

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


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

Hempstead Pike

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

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

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

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

Buffoons all.

Enviromental Expertise Worth About A Buck Two Ninety Eight

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

Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds

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

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

Palin 2, Lefties 0

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

 Soviet space expert James Oberg

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

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

Hubris, Nemesis, and Partying Like It’s 1773

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

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

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

Ill Supreme Court Sez Rahm Emanuel On Ballot

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

We discussed this before here.

HUD = Hookers & Unsavory Dead

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

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

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

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

Richard Avedon's Twiggy

Hair
Twiggy
1968
by
Richard Avedon

Obama To Push Gun Control

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

Newsweek has this to say:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monkey Butt

Couldn't resist.

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

Lutherans threaten America

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

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

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

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

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

Unemployment: 454,000 Get Bucks But No Work

Those stimuli are working overtime making America stronger, eh?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SOTU Poll - Yawning Voters W/ Update

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

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

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

Bottom Feeders -

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

Top Feeders -

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

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

UPDATE:

IOTW says WTF

Obama SOTU Speech A Bust

Spoke in blandishments.

Tried to hide more entitlements.

Spoke of deeds he will never do.

A waste of many minutes.

Pundits Wrong About Reagan And Obama

Obama never mentioned Reagan let alone praised Reagan.

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

SOTU Off The Rails

Bam Bam has gone completely la la.

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

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

Now he wants to talk about no illusions.

Our democracy is messy, but good!

Panadering in the fast lane.

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

By spending trillions we don't have?

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

What a crock.

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

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

Big joke about being smoked referring to salmon.

Love that humor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health Care Reform And Balanced Budget Lies

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

So he builds his case on lies.

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

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

Right.

Lower The Corporate Tax Rate????

Liberal heads exploding nationwide.

Will it happen?

No.

Is Obama campaigning or is he telling the truth?

Yes and no.

High Speed Rail And Internet?

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

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

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

Highest Proportion Of College Graduates In The World.

BS. Not in your administration.

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

Moron.

Good Lord, A Call For Another 100,000 Teachers

Unions? I guess.

Pandering going ballistic.

"We'll Show You The Money"

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

What baloney.

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

First Blush of SOTU- Fluff-lite

What crap.

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

Lord, let me not smash my TV.

Payola? Rahmbo Back On the Ballot

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

Maybe this ruling stinks of something other than the law.

Taft Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio, United States)



Robert Louis Stevenson

John Singer Sargent - 1887
Painting - oil on canvas



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pepsi Refresh Contestant Claims Rules Were Broken

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

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

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

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

As Usual, Experts Wrong About Tunisian Revolution And Freedom

Govt Should Not Be In The Drug Business

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

Federal agency to spearhead new drug-development center

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

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

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

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

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

Ron Paul Fails To Win New Hampshire Straw Poll

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

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

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

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

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

Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show

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

Bring Keith Olbermann Back

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

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

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

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

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No Proof Obama Born In Hawaii?

This clown posse could screw up a sure thing.

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

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

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

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie Is A Marxist


via I Own The World

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

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

Abortion Stops A Beating Heart

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

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

Then the debate entered the area of partial birth abortion.

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

Doesn't matter, this "debate."

Every abortion stops a beating heart.

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

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

Jackie Chan, Barbra Streisand lead Hu state dinner guests

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

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

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

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

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

Huffington, Maddow And Frank Rich With Obama?

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

O summons journos

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

Key question, was Michelle out of town?

Americans Should Wish Iranians A Happy Valentine's Day!

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

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

Nothing says love to an Iranian like the color red.

White House Defines Trash And Treasure

You decide which they think is trash.

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

Dear Government, Where's The Damn Money Gone?

Dear Government,

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

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

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

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

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

Inquisitively,
Your employer

Bravo Don Surber! Lefties, Bite Me With your Civility Crap (On Your Terms, Of Course)

I do not want civil discourse

For a decade, from the election of Bush 43 forward, the Left has lied and cheated as it tried to return to power. Al Gore made a mockery out of the American electoral system by being a spoilsport over Florida, which Bush indeed won by 537 votes. Dan Rather forged a document to try to derail Bush’s re-election. Twice Democrats stole U.S. senators from the Republicans. After voting to support the war to get by the 2002 election, many Democrats quickly soured on the war. The profane protests were cheered by liberals who misattributed “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”to Thomas Jefferson; the words belong to the late historian Howard Zinn.

Once in power, liberals were the opposite of gracious.

For two years now, I have been called ignorant, racist, angry and violent by the left. The very foul-mouthed protesters of Bush dare to now label my words as “hate speech.”

Last week, the left quickly blamed the right for the national tragedy of a shooting spree by a madman who never watched Fox News, never listened to Rush Limbaugh and likely did not know who Sarah Palin is.

Fortunately, the American public rejected out of hand that idiotic notion that the right was responsible.

Rather than apologize, the left wants to change the tone of the political debate.

The left suddenly wants civil discourse.

Bite me.

The left wants to play games of semantics.

Bite me.

The left wants us to be civil — after being so uncivil for a decade.

Bite me.

There is grown-up work to do now. Liberals ran up the federal credit card, destroyed the American medical system and undermined the rule of law — which is the foundation of capitalism — with a bunch of unconstitutional fiats from the president and his bureaucracy.

The economy is a mess. The president “inherited” a 7.6% unemployment rate. It’s now 9.4% — after we spent a record $787 billion on a stimulus.

I was not consulted on that stimulus. I had a very good argument against it. I said the money supply was too large and printing more money would fail. I said let the economic downturn run its course.

Lefties were too busy celebrating the 2008 election to listen.

When people protested lefties made vulgar remarks about tea-bagging and giggled.

So screw you and your civil discourse.

I don’t want to hear it.

I have been screamed at for 10 years.

It’s my turn now. I am not going to scream back. But I refuse to allow anyone to dictate what I say or how I say it. I refuse to allow the same foul-mouthed, foul-spirited foul people who dumped on me to now try to tell me what I may or may not say.

My free speech matters more than the feelings of anyone on the left. You don’t like what I say? Tough.

I will not allow people to label my words Hate Speech or try to lecture me on civility. I saw the lefty signs. The left’s definition of civil discourse is surreal.

We have a terribly unfit president who has expanded government control beyond not only what is constitutional but what is healthy for our freedom.

Indeed, this call for civil discourse is itself a direct threat to my free speech.

So screw you.

You don’t like my words? You don’t like my tone? You feel threatened?

Too bad.

No.

Actually, that is what I want. I want the lefties to feel bad. I want them to feel hurt. I want them to cry to their mommies.

That way the field will be cleared so we grown-ups can fix the nation and the economy. If you can’t put up with a little excrement, get the hell out of the barn.

Bill Maher And The Founding Fathers. Not A Match Made In Heaven.

via Tony Phyrillas!

Breitbart.tv » Maher: Founding Fathers Would Have Hated 'Teabaggers' Guts

Actually, the Founding Fathers would have hated Bill Maher's guts. Well, maybe not. They might have listened for a minute or two and then ignored him forever after that. When building a new nation why would they want to be around a loser?

Matthews, Krugman, Moulitsas, Olbermann & Other Lefties Get Support On Tea Party Link To Giffords Shooting

Yep, and how apropos that they get support from Communist Party USA.

Communist Party mourns victims in AZ shooting; Decries incitement

Yet, the link to rhetoric and violence doesn't end with the Palin and her tea party. It extends to the political leadership of Arizona and the Republican Party, who have fomented laws and policies that logically lead to violence. Starting with the anti-immigrant SB 1070 and banning ethnic studies, leaders like Governor Jan Brewer, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have to take as much responsibility for this violence as Palin and her cohorts. All their condolences ring hollow because of their callous inflammatory rhetoric and romanticization of guns and "Second Amendment remedies". Arizona is burning. It is Ground Zero for this extreme far-right, and their corporate, multi-billionaire sponsors. In the words of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in responding to political mood leading to the shooting shooting, "Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

They should be so proud! They should be members if they already aren't because they deserve each other. Clowns. Losers.

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Government Out Of Control

$14,000,000,000,000

U.S. bills cash-strapped states $1.3 billion...
Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare...
Feds threaten to sue states over union laws...
Houston stops couple's outreach to homeless; Must have 'feeding' permit...
OBAMA PLANS BILLION-DOLLAR REELECTION CAMPAIGN...
City Of Detroit Sends Out 60,000 Incorrect Property Tax Bills...
Judge rules inmate 'bitten on penis by rodent' may sue...
Wrestling Coach Put on Leave for Insulting Obama, Challenging Him to Fight...
Middle School Bans Sledding Down Dangerous Hill...
School Hands Out Misdemeanor Tickets To Elementary School Students...
UPDATE: RI GOV. CALLS FOR AD BAN ON TALKRADIO...
Freedom 'in decline worldwide'...
Missouri blogger claims FBI intimidation...

Too much debt, too much government and too much government power. I believe our Founders warned us about this.

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

$5 Gas. When Will Our Congress Support US?

$100 OIL: DEAL WITH IT

It really does seem that Congress is purposely trying to hurt us and kill our country. I'm pretty sure that was not the intended purpose of Congress by our founders.

Stop the bans. Lift the restrictions. On oil, on gas, on coal and on nuclear power. The United States could be the energy powerhouse of the world creating jobs, a better economy and better lives, but no, Congress can't have that.

Why isn't Congress supporting us and the US? Shouldn't they?

Most Stupid Idea Of The Year

Bipartisan seating in Congress for the State of the Union.

GOP leader endorses bipartisan seating at State of the Union

Enough with this symbolic crap. Start by repealing health care reform, Cap and Trade, the Stimulus and others. That's where bipartisanship should begin.

Partisanship is good. That's why Democrats are afraid of it.




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Rio San Moise, Venice

Those Environmentalist Kill Another Town Again

I say "those" because there is a majority of people that love their environment and then there are those that hate other people's environment. "Those" environmentalists destroy in the name of good and smugly go back to their huge offices to gather their electronic "needs", drive their cars home and sip wine before eating an expensive environmentally "safe" dinner.

Not so in the Sharples area of West Virginia.

Area coal industry leaders, lawmakers react to EPA mine permit revocation

“the Obama administration and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson are addressing the importance of environmental justice in Appalachia and taking steps to begin protecting these communities,” according to a press release issued by Earthjustice.

Justice? Right. Justice would be if these credentialed know-nothings were made to live, actually live, and work in the areas they smugly control through government decree rulings from their puppets in unnecessary departments of government such as the EPA.

President Obama is now being ruled by the monster he empowered and enlarged, called the bureaucracy, as they slap not just him, but also citizens, in the face by making him a liar. In the not too distant past the president had this to say:

“Five miles into a mountain. The only light, the lamp on their caps. Day after day they would burrow into the coal. The fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted. The electricity that lights up a convention center; that lights up our church or our home our school our office. The energy that powers our country. The energy that powers the world."

Not now. The energy that powers the world is being crushed by mere bureaucrats and naive and ignorant extremists groups like Earth Justice. A statement of purpose from Earth Justice on the ruling:

Although we are grateful for the EPA’s action today, EPA must follow through by vetoing the scores of other Corps permits that violate the Clean Water Act and that would allow mountaintop mines to lay waste to our mountains and streams.”

So, by government fiat Earth Justice wants to crush projects all over Appalachia. Just as these groups have done in the Western parts of North America they now want to include Appalachia in a system of protected areas that already include over 1/3 of the entire land mass of the United States of America. That is 1/3 of our land that not only forbids our energy future, but also is under the complete control of government. That control means that for a fee a citizen might enjoy the land for a few minutes, but they cannot produce, nor can they live, on that land. That is not only theft by government on individuals, but also theft that robs all of our citizens as the land stays fallow.

These anti-societal groups envision a land mass called the Appalachian National Park that citizens can gaze at, but not touch. The citizens will do so from cold homes which offer no comfort for the unemployed and those devastated by a ruined economy, but what will Earth Justice care? They will still have jobs in cramped expensive urban cores where they live because we will still pay through our taxes their salaries so they can mete out more "justice."

That will bring comfort to the people of Sharples.

A deserted house on a military range, Denmark.