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.