I have often walked down this street before
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour out of every door?
No, it's just on the street where you live

And oh, the Powering feeling just to know
Somehow you are near
The overtowering feeling that any second
You may suddenly appear

People stop and stare, they don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by, I don't care if I can be here
On the street where you live

Romantic in 1956. Stalking in 2009. :)

Posting for those who don't know but care as to the source of what I think will be my new subject catch phrase. Actually, mainly I'm posting to pimp this excellent show. I love it because it has that rebellious "truth to power" feel to it without using that particular phrase. I loathe that catch phrase because it's the calling card of Liberal lemmings who are doing no such thing. If you know the context this one is dead on.

Poor quality video, low quality audio.

No video, good audio here
She delivers that final line and it still brings a tear to my eye.

Best scifi television series of all time. Indisputable. Don't bother to try. And if you say BSG I feel genuinely sorry for you.

Two Global Climate Warming Change items.

Fascinating stuff. Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line "The Earth's axis has been calculated to "wobble" on a 40,000-year cycle. This 'wobble' is known as 'precession,' and this phenomenon is well-documented by astronomical observations throughout history."
[Pst, doesn't that mean a change in distance from the Sun? Isn't that the thing that causes winter and summer? Maybe the Sun, source of all surface heat and therefore life is important? You know, maybe? What do I know? I'm not an academic.]
"The now-discredited Dr. Jones of East Anglia University [...] fails to take into account the 'wobble' of the Earth's axis"
[ARE YOU !@#$ING KIDDING ME?!? *ahem* Sorry...]
"The bigger question is this: Why was this small piece of the puzzle omitted from the reports generated by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that Dr. Jones helped compile?"
"These types of 'errors' and 'omissions' seem to be indicative of the entire 'Global Warming' investigation conducted through, or in collaboration with, Dr. Jones. Perhaps the best conclusion to come to is that the entire body of work compiled by the IPCC is tainted and therefore unreliable for any policymaker."

In my opinion those not treating this as a religion would demand "the consensus" start from scratch with full transparency. There is time. All predictions of immediate urgency have been blown out of the water, shown to be pure hysterics by "the consensus" at this point. (e.g. the 2005 hurricane season and Katrina illustrated hurricanes would become more frequent and more severe due to "global warming")

Letter from 141 scientists to UN Sec Gen Ban states skeptics case
"The website globalwarminghoax.com posts a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon signed by 141 scientists stating the case for why anthropogenic (manmade) global warming (AGW) is far from settled science."
( The questions )

Pretty simple questions. The answers returned, when it is isn't "read the report" are rarely simple when they really should be. (See the topic on intellectuals in my last and other entries) Let's see if they get dismissive rhetoric or answers. Frankly I'll be stunned by any reply at all. Leftist elites are Leftist elites.

#6 is a personal favorite and a fundamental part of my outrage on this issue.

Personally I would add one or two. Here's one off the top of my head.
11. ANY IPCC report to date should be used given increasing evidence some or all of the foundational data used to reach the end conclusions has been found to be fraudulent. (i.e. Garbage in, garbage out)

Press corps grills Gibbs: Um, didn’t Obama totally shamelessly lie about C-SPAN? [Well done media! Even if it's only because of a shot to their ego, they are finally starting to wake up and get mad!] "There is, and can be, no defense here, and everyone in the room knows it. [...] In fact, the best he can do by way of an answer is to mumble that The One wants a bill on his desk as soon as possible, an implicit admission that the White House is prepared to sacrifice all its gauzy promises about transparency on the altar of finally ramming this travesty through."
Video after cut one. "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs looks arrogant, dismissive and angry. If he could, it sure looks like he'd handle these questions from a challenging press with Mao's version of political power. His responses here should be unacceptable to ANYone. Please watch it.
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More damning video follows. Again, I get that the best of intentions sometimes meet reality, altering plans. But reality has been the polar opposite of Obama's promises. This is for no good reason anyone can guess, and the Obamunists refuse to explain! The following is Obama's "One Word" ad, that attacked McCain for a plan in this bill!
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Taxing health care, raising taxes on the middle class, not bargaining with "Big Pharma," not bargaining with "Big Insurance," transparency. When so much of Obama's direct and constantly repeated campaign promises regarding health care are antipodal to what has come about, and all created in secret negotiations, yet he still demands a bill that he will sign on any terms, it becomes undeniable to rational people with any integrity this is not about health care, but about setting up to rule the people.

In my opinion a must read. This is coming. What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration "A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves [...] What do they know that we don't?'"
"Fund describes the proposal as follows: 'In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. [...] It means all of the state laws on elections will be overridden by a federal mandate'"
"Universal voter registration will create massive vulnerabilities to systemic voter fraud nationwide, and if Democrats have proven anything in recent years, it is that they can win elections that way. The George-Soros-funded Secretary of State project (SOS) was designed to take advantage of such vulnerabilities and may have been developed in anticipation of the universal voter registration plan." No good, all bad, a feel-good facade->The insatiable beast of statism and permanent Democrat rule.

Obamateurism of the Day "Obama says that al-Qaeda expanded to Yemen because we opened Gitmo" [Video at link. Obambi:] "'In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.'"
"Except that it actually wasn’t [...] 'Did AQAP explicitly give Guantanamo as the reason for its rebirth? Judge for yourself: Part 1 of the video can be viewed here and part 2 here.' [...] 'The problem with the president’s argument is that Guantanamo was not given as a rationale for AQAP’s rebirth or 'formation.' Instead, AQAP’s 'rationale' was al Qaeda’s stock-in-trade Zionist-Crusader conspiracy theory [...] the group’s ultimate goal is to conquer Jerusalem and take control of the al Aqsa mosque.' [...] 'Yes, Guantanamo is mentioned right at the beginning [...] However, Gitmo is only mentioned in the context of announcing al Shihri’s and al Awfi’s miraculous return to jihad.'
Does anyone at the White House even bother to do research before filling Obama’s teleprompter?" Liars or fools? The answer, of course, is that the Communisty Organizer in Chief and Team Teleprompter don't care what the truth is in the slightest. They will decide "the truth" citizen. 52% proved they'll lap it up.

Dangerous Minds By Thomas Sowell "When we look back on the Spanish Inquisition, on the Crusades of the past, and the jihads of the past and present, we see chilling examples of the effects of ideas. But the secular ideologies of the 20th century killed millions more people in Germany, Russia, and China"
[If we could get Progressives/Liberals/Democrats/Socialists to grasp this one concept to follow, Leftism would die in a day:] "If there is any lesson in the history of ideas, it is that good intentions tell you nothing about the actual consequences. But intellectuals who generate ideas do not have to pay the consequences.
Academic intellectuals are shielded by the principles of academic freedom and journalists in democratic societies are shielded by the principle of freedom of the press. Seldom do those who produce or peddle dangerous, or even fatal, ideas have to pay [any] price"
"Woodrow Wilson — our only president with a Ph.D. — was an academic intellectual for years before entering politics, and his ideas about a war to end wars, making the world safe for democracy, and the right of self-determination of peoples, have been revered in utter disregard of what happened when Wilson’s notions were put into practice [...] No one today takes seriously the idea that the First World War was a war to end wars, and many now see it as setting the stage for the Second World War."
"But Woodrow Wilson’s words sounded great — and that is what he and other intellectuals are judged by."
"Intellectuals and their followers have often been overly impressed by the fact that intellectuals tend, on average, to have more knowledge than other individuals in their society. What they have overlooked is that intellectuals have far less knowledge than the total knowledge possessed by the millions of other people whom they disdain and whose decisions they seek to override."

The insatiable beast that is statism still waxing. How long before this is federal, especially if socialized health care is passed? Minnesota to start database of people taking painkillers "So the state will have a list of everyone who has prescribed painkillers. What could possibly go wrong?" Minuscule legitimate good, enormous bad, and more government employees paid with more taxpayer dollars to do it. "This penalizes everyone, and invades the privacy of law-abiding citizens, in a nanny-state attempt to protect a few people from themselves. It’s not hard to imagine where this might lead. After all, when the state has access to personal information, it rarely misses a chance to use it."

If you voted for him because you believed what he was saying you truly are a sucker.

Keep pretending Democrats are the party of the people.


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Who Is Wesley Mouch? by John Stossel
Tomorrow, my Fox Business Network show about Ayn Rand's novel 'Atlas Shrugged' will finally air. That should stop the emails like this one from Karen Cooper:
'Oh for the love of god! 'Atlas Shrugged' explains about 99 percent of what's wrong in all of the arenas of topics: health care, education, climate change, unions, the economy, etc. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE cover 'Atlas.''
Cooper makes a good point. Even though Rand published 'Atlas' in 1957, her descriptions of intrusive and bloated government read like today's news. The 'Preservation of Livelihood Law' and 'Equalization of Opportunity Law' could be Nancy Pelosi's or Harry Reid's work."

"My first guest on the show (FBN, 8 p.m. Eastern Thursday, repeating at 10 p.m. Friday) is BB&T Chairman and 'Atlas' fan John Allison. Allison's bank, the ninth largest in America, is doing very well, but he's angry the government forced him to take TARP money (http://tinyurl.com/lguje9).
Allison once told The New York Times, 'To say man is bad because he is selfish is to say it's bad because he's alive.'"

(These men are correct, but it's past time they go one step further. They need to start saying, "Those who claim government must prevent us from being selfish are among the most selfish of them all." Or maybe, "Those pointing a finger and claiming government must prevent us from being selfish are surely taking your wallet with the other hand." I dunno. I'll work on it.)

"Also, I'll get a fish pedicure. Really.
This is a dubious Turkish idea that's become popular in Asia and is now trying for a foothold (pun intended) here. Instead of scraping dead skin off their feet, people have little garra rufa fish gently chew on them.
Fourteen states have banned fish pedicures, claiming they are unsafe, and other local governments have proposed bans. OK, compared to the assault on entrepreneurship described in 'Atlas Shrugged,' this is sort of a dumb example, but look -- I work in television -- dumb examples can make good points. [LOL He's learning from Beck!]
The bureaucrats say the fish can't be sterilized without killing them. They say customers will get infections. People could die! It's not safe! And it's cruel to the fish!
Has anyone died? Can you refer me to someone who got an infection? Anyone? The bureaucrats' answer is always no. But it's better to be cautious, they say.
In fact, the free market sorts such things out far more efficiently than bureaucrats. [...] That's not a perfect system, but it's much better than central planning. Had today's bureaucrats been in charge decades ago, they would have banned things like aspirin, cars and airplanes."
[That's not a joke, BTW. Aspirin would certainly be prescription-only. Aspirin.]

[PAY ATTENTION LIBERALS:] "Although Rand idolizes businessman in the abstract, 'Atlas Shrugged' makes clear that she (like Adam Smith) understood that they are not natural friends of free markets. They are often first in line for privileges bestowed by the state. That's called 'crony capitalism,' and that's what Orren Boyle practices in 'Atlas.' After my 'Atlas Shrugged' show, I plan a show on that subject. Suggestions invited.
I don't want to be controlled by business any more than I want to be regulated by Nancy Pelosi or Wesley Mouch.
I want the freedom to make my own choices." [How sad this needs to be declared.]

Corrupt Democrat Dodd is stepping down so the Democrat Party can put lunatic Democrat Blumenthal up as a supposed new face.

Via patriotress at conservacorner, an excerpt from and link to a mind blowing interview Glenn Beck has with Blumenthal. Here's the key moment I want to share.

Keep in mind, this is the state Attorney General, that's the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.

"GLENN: Oh, I know how this works. I'm asking you, sir. You're the attorney general. I'm asking you for the law that they broke that gave you the ability. Are you not the defender of the law in Connecticut?
BLUMENTHAL: The law that they broke ... is the law that requires that they serve the public interests"

This is what Liberals/Progressives/Democrats think of the law and your rights. Nothing matters to them except ideology.

Liberals. Progressives. Democrats. Socialists.
Whatever name for the same thing they go by, I remain mystified why any rational person would back these people.

This is really how they think. Click for full size

Spanking makes kids perform better in school, helps them become more successful: study

These people are daring to question decades of the feminized orthodoxy, the "consensus of experts" if you will, that now guides Western Civilization (downward). They are done for.

"The research, by Calvin College psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe, found that kids smacked before age 6 grew up to be more successful, and that there was not enough evidence to say that smacking harms most kids"

"'The claims that are made for not spanking children fail to hold up. I think of spanking as a dangerous tool, but then there are times when there is a job big enough for a dangerous tool. You don’t use it for all your jobs.'"

Oh the humanity! Child abusers! Hatemongers! Promoters of violence!

Common sense breaks out upon the land... and will be quickly snuffed out.

Democrats who don't condemn them are complicit. Make no mistake, what their elite do, anything their elite decide, your Liberal/progressive/Democrat friends will support. From breitbart.tv, Obama the liar:

This isn't the promises of an empty suit amateur meeting the hard, cold face of real politics. It isn't a "oh it's hard to herd cats" scenario. For all of his ubiquitous appearances and speeches since his election he has made ZERO attempt to live up to this promise. It is therefore undeniable that he openly, deliberately, with malice and forethought, deceived the American public to get elected. And this is just an obvious one we know about. What's happening behind the scenes?

Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises
"A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.
'There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,' quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public."
Here is video of her giggling at the fact the President was a habitual liar on the campaign trail!
Oh ho ho! Isn't that HILARIOUS?
Then she goes on to say she referred a letter that asked HER a question on to her assistant. Um, what?

And let's not forget what this delusional nutjob said yesterday, that would have made Goebbels or the Soviet propagandists weep with pride:
"There has never been a more open process for any legislation" than the health care bill.
It is not possible to make a statement that is more in opposition to the truth.

The American public does not want this bill. Obama made campaign promises KNOWING he was lying and would shove his nation-changing ideology down our throats. They have hidden and lied about this all along the way. Most of them don't even know what's in it, and those that do are desperately trying to hide it. The very entities he demonized on the campaign trail benefit from back door deals in this bill. They will push it no matter the cost to this nation in lives, misery or your tax dollars. Because it is about their POWER and nothing else, not health, not fairness, not rights, only the increased power of their elite.

And every Liberal you know, no matter how polite or thoughtful or seemingly harmless, supports it all. I have yet to see evidence they will fail to support any behavior from their "rulers". Rewatch all the above and please consider this. As I said to someone else recently, the Liberal you know might not be willing to put the gun to your head, but they've proven they'll ignore the sound of the shot.

I'd forgotten to post about this, so now c/o from john_j_enright, C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists.

"The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and other classified sensors — to assess the hidden complexities of environmental change."

So good news. If you were worried about a rogue ice flow overthrowing a foreign country or nuking one of our cities off the map, our chief foreign intelligence entity has got it all covered! They have their eye on the ball!

Revealing classified assets to "climate scientists," fanatics who condone fraud. Using those assets to look at the environment. See, to tell the scientists the results and the impact they need to be briefed on the capabilities of those assets. And then no one can question it if they "fix" the stats, because no one else can be in on anything involved with gathering the data that might reveal the source.

Someone observed to me several months ago how cool it must be to work for CIA. I doubt it. Can you imagine what it must be like to dedicate your life to protecting this country, analyzing the intelligence of the world or out in the field putting your life on the line, to be guaranteed that you will do this with no hope of recognition, and that no matter how high you rise you will always end up with your whole career in constant peril at the whim of political bureaucrats who would even consider tasking ONE IOTA of the agency's energies to something like this? Imagine spending your career immersing yourself in, say, the languages and culture of Iran, which could explode at any moment, only to find out you are now on ice flow duty, which you will accept or be terminated. At least in the military there is a chain of command and a brotherhood, where someone should see reason even if a perfumed prince like Wesley Clark is in charge, someone has your back, and at least there might be some recognition and benefits on the return home. I pity these poor bastards. Join the CIA, carefully monitor ice for a political agenda. It's for the good of your country.

I really need Liberals/progressives to provide me with some benchmarks as to when their behavior is so insane I'm then granted permission to recognize enough is enough. I need it now rather than later, because the way their ideology works they are constantly making the insane the new normal.

"You can not kill the truth. And the truth is back in business."

This is why we are on the road we're on. Witness the results of a century of increasingly "progressive" education. America fails the Founders quiz "If I asked you, do you find this right to be essential, important but not essential or not that important, how would you answer? [...] The right to a fair trial. [...] PAT: Did anybody say not essential? GLENN: Not that important was 1%. Important, the right to a fair trial, important but not essential. 14%. PAT: So that's 15% between the two." There's more. We have a lot of work to do.

Republicans Botched Health Care First And we need to remember that. "It's not that Republicans didn't do anything; in fact they passed a lot of legislation on health care. [...] But they didn't have any coherent analysis of the real problems in the U.S. health care system."

Worth considering. However, that should not allow us to accept this disgusting, sick, undemocratic, unamerican assault against the will of the people and hidden from their view:

Blitzkrieg Remains Dems' Favored Tactic "If our Democrat rulers thought they were acting in the country's best interests, they wouldn't be in such a hurry to rush through unpopular legislation before anyone can stop them: [And Liberals have no honest reply to this] 'House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass traditional procedures when they negotiate a final compromise on health care legislation'"
Now witness the purest of liars or the delusional. Pelosi tells C-SPAN: 'There has never been a more open process' [as she denies cameras for negotiations]. "'We will do what is necessary to pass the bill,' Pelosi said." This woman is the most extreme of fanatics. She is either quite obviously lying, or utterly delusional. Note the number of Liberals criticizing her despite her spewing pure fantasy. Then please realize there is literally nothing they won't rationalize for their ideology.

Surprise: ABC Investigates Frivolous Laws, Impact of Estate Tax Return in 2011 "In a welcome change of pace, Good Morning America on Saturday provided a skeptical look about a glut of new laws that have gone into effect in 2010." Newsbusters is somewhat in error. Good for those few on ABC for their exchange, but the inevitable Liberal spin will be in supporting the government Graverobbing tax.

Our reliably extreme Left press: How Tiny a Protest Is 'News'? N.Y. Times Publicizes a Four-Person March for Illegal Immigrants "Four marchers somehow merited a 780-word New York Times article by reliably pro-amnesty reporter Julia Preston, 'To Overhaul Immigration, Advocates Alter Tactics.'
By contrast, a massive anti-Obama rally that attracted over 100,000 people to the Capitol on September 12 resulted in virtually the same level of print coverage in the Times: A 932-word article." Some animals are more equal than others.

On Today: Fill Out Census or You Won't Get Government Goodies!
"to encourage people to fill out the Census forms or risk, as Locke warned, miss out on '$400 billion of federal funds,' to which Matt Lauer underlined, 'This is vitally important to communities.'" Handing out your money for their goals.

This is an absolutely perfect representation of Liberal/progressive/Obamanomics. Please do pass it on.

Attn Liberal lurkers. This is a must read for you. Get some perspective. Wake up.

Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell "There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society."

"something as intangible as ideas can dominate the most concrete things in our lives. What Karl Marx called 'the blaze of ideas' has set whole nations on fire and consumed whole generations."

"All these people produced a tangible product or service and they were judged by whether those products and services worked. But intellectuals are people whose end products are intangible ideas, and they are usually judged by whether those ideas sound good to other intellectuals or resonate with the public."

"Some of the most distinguished intellectuals in the Western world in the 1930s gave ringing praise to the Soviet Union, while millions of people there were literally starved to death and vast numbers of others were being shipped off to slave labor camps."

"In too many other eras-- including our own today-- intellectuals of unquestionable brilliance have advocated similarly childish and dangerous notions. How and why such patterns have existed among intellectuals is a challenging question, whose answer can determine the fate of millions of other people."

Too intellectual for you intellectuals who lecture me about how intellectual you are? I'll help you out. If you put "hope and change" above "effort and results" the outcome is inevitable. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Che, many more. Misery and death for all but the elite.

Sticking with the theme of the cartoon, something to consider.
The Preemptive Scapegoat "A few of the old progressives, believing that America’s real enemy was Joe McCarthy and not Joe Stalin, would protest that they were not pro-Communist, but anti-anti-Communist, if anti-Communist meant Richard Nixon and Whittaker Chambers and such. There was much dishonesty wrapped within that argument [understatement!!] , but there was something to it. Borrowing the form, one might argue that those on the right who are sympathetic to besieged Fed chairman Ben Bernanke are not so much pro-Bernanke as anti-anti-Bernanke."
"When he is not courting ideologues, the president prefers to select knuckle-dragging enforcers (Rahm Emanuel) or yes-men (Joe Biden, Tim Geithner)."
"President Obama is more than capable of appointing a Paul Krugman type, if not Professor Krugman himself, to the Fed. And that prospect should be worrisome indeed to" [EVERY RATIONAL PERSON].

For those who missed it you really should go back to my first post on this and enjoy the Liberal frenzy in the comments You can always tell you've hit the mark and the Liberals know it when they start getting really agitated. I got everything from the empty ridicule of morons to pedants and would be intellectuals condescending to regurgitate at me about my supposed ignorance. Comedy. It turns out as they were dutifully regurgitating talking points from DailyKos Breaitbart was continuing to address the issue as well. Followup: Mao and the Christmas Tree: The President’s Yuletide Jeer "The most interesting commentary came out of the smackdown between the art critic for the Los Angeles Times Christopher Knight and Breitbart. [...] On this occasion, Knight thought he outdid the right-wing commentators by making a distinction between any old portrait of Mao and 'Andy Warhol’s ‘Mao'—from which the White House ball derived." What a coincidence! I got this same laughable argument! "Pop Art irony has no place in what should be the least ironic house in the nation." Best case, this was wildly inappropriate and disrespectful on Obama's part.

You know what I was just thinking...? What we need is more government employees and more regulations regarding tax preparation. Really, when it comes to taxes there are no better solutions. And let's not forget, this is straight from the tax cheat kings of this admin and Congress. Fantastic. IRS to start regulating paid tax preparers "The Internal Revenue Service plans to start regulating paid tax preparers, requiring them to register with the government, pass competency tests and adhere to ethical standards."
Who wants to bet the classes and tests will be administered by former ACORN and SEIU employees?

Newsweek: Saudis briefed top Obama official about “underwear bombers” in October; Update: MI5 knew of bomber three years ago "Not just underwear bombers generally, either, but underwear bombers trained in Yemen."
Remember when similar happened with Bush, who had been in office for 9 months and didn't have the example of 9/11 to prove the seriousness of the matter? They've been screaming about the memo for years. Yet suddenly now they have nothing to say. It's sickening.

Kristol Crushes "Bill Kristol has set forth a stinging indictment of the Obama admin's handling of the war on terror. His two-minute monologue on today's Fox News Sunday delineated a devastating bill of particulars:"
"As to Brennan's claim that there was no 'smoking gun' regarding Abdul Mutallab: 'He is the smoking gun,' going on to detail all the red flags surrounding him. 'Frankly, for Mr. Brennan to say, well, no smoking gun, that itself shows a kind of not-serious-about-the-war mentality.'"

Mayo Clinic dropping Medicare patients "Barack Obama hailed the Mayo Clinic system as a model for health-care reform last summer — until Mayo opposed ObamaCare as a reform solution. They warned at the time that the bill passing through Congress would make Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements too low to pay for the costs of service and that providers would stop treating patients in those systems. Last week, that became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts:"

Bigger government. More costs. Less safety. Worse health care. What Democrats have to offer.
Speaking of which, I was recently sent this exceptional piece:
The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. WELL worth the read. You will not want to believe it. This is how they plan to run the federal government. "Despite its spending more money per capita, period, than almost any city in the nation, San Francisco has poorly managed, budget-busting capital projects, overlapping social programs no one is certain are working, and a transportation system where the only thing running ahead of schedule is the size of its deficit.
It's time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America."
In that vein a repost of a shorter piece, Commentary: The poverty of Democrats' ideas for cities "Over the past 50 years, the eight cities listed above have had Republican leadership for a combined 36 years. The rest of the time -- a combined 364 years -- they've been led by Democrats."
The results of Democrat policies.

Some among the Left may be waking up. Keep the Big Tent big "Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come." The nation does not accept Liberal ideology when they are honest about it. It's becoming so obvious they can't lie, and that's why the polls are going down. Barry better be careful. The brother of the Mayor of Chicago probably knows where all those bodies in his hidden history are buried.

And finally, if you're a tea partier, YOUR tax dollars go to making a video ridiculing YOU:
NPR using your tax dollars to insult you "It is time for NPR to be thrown on the ash heap of history. When tax dollars are used to promote a video that is dripping with contempt for the tax payers themselves it is time to stop feeding the beast." Watch the video. But brace yourself to get pissed off. The next person who tries to tell me NPR is nonpartisan might get cracked in the teeth. They shouldn't get a dime of taxpayer money, starting now.

(EDIT: Be sure not to miss the lemming Liberal lovefest in the comments. They have so much comedy to offer. Don't miss it.)

There were certainly a lot of options. Even with Team Teleprompter keeping the Empty Suit on a leash they all still managed to bungle oh so very much. Hot Air held a poll to see which moment from the many options seemed best. I think they picked the winner.

"I'd like to apologize to the Native Americans I've been talking to for having to interrupt my speech for something so unimportant, oh and give a shout out to my homey for that award thingy I pinned on him and can't remember the name of, and so now on to the 14 soldiers murdered on our own soil in the name of Jihad."

No moment more starkly laid bare Obama's complete disinterest in or contempt for our soldiers, or for that matter anything off his communisty organizer list of radical Left priorities. Much like the "I don't have all the facts, but whitey was wrong," it illustrates he sees everything through the lens of his radical beliefs.


Click the pic for other obamateurisms throughout the year.

And the Obamateurism of the Year is ….

"In case it has slipped from memory, Barack Obama called a press conference to react to the massacre by Army Major Nidal Hasan, who turned out to have connections to al-Qaeda and a suspected operational member of the 9/11 conspiracy, Anwar al-Awlaki. As a nation watched to see its President take charge in a crisis, Obama appeared to act as though the big issue of his address was the people in the audience:"

14 dead and our President addresses the nation to say...
"'THE PRESIDENT: Please, everybody have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor [Joe is not a Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States, winner] winner. It’s good to see you. (Applause.)'" [TWO FULL MINUTES LATER] "'Now, I have to say, though, that beyond that, I plan to make some broader remarks about the challenges that lay ahead for Native Americans, as well as collaboration with our administration, but as some of you might have heard, there has been a tragic shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.'"

Yes, Mr. President, some of us had heard. Glad we knocked out the priority of thanking the organizers of a meeting, American Indian grievances, the shout out for the award you hung on him but got wrong, and a bit of applause delays before getting to that other little matter of slaughtered troops.

"As I wrote at the time:
'It took Obama almost two full minutes from the time he began speaking until he got around to mentioning the shooting at Fort Hood — the reason everyone tuned into Obama’s speech. The nation wanted some leadership at a time when it appeared that a terrorist attack may have taken place on American soil — and Obama was apparently more concerned about giving a 'shout out' to his friends at the Tribal Nations Conference. Indeed, he tells the audience above that he’s been inconvenienced out of delivering his lengthier remarks because the shooting has intruded itself on his daily business.'"

Sickening. But this will be the rule when the nation hires a man-child, empty suit, "progressive," community organizer, what Democrats have to offer, as their President.

Chill map

U.S. East Coast Faces Deep Freeze; Florida Oranges Threatened

World coping with Winter weather

Good news, though! I bet the number of "endangered" polar bears, which has been increasing for decades, is still on the rise. Sure we're screwed, but the carnivores of the northern wastelands are cozy. Yippee.

"Wah! But MeeeeeelvIN! The poor and downtrodden get hurt by the rising osheeeeeeens. What about the indigenous peeeeeeeples?!?"

Like these? Peru's mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter.

Oh, but it ain't just the 3rd world. Warm is inconvenient. Cold is crippling.

Video: Car dominos
Video: Sliding car carnage

Heat can be managed with prosperity and technology. Cold just buggers everyone all around.

Oh, also, maybe it's the sun!

"The No. 1 item on the agenda is fixing the economy, so the new administration immediately sets about the daunting task of trying to nominate somebody -- anybody -- to a high-level government post who actually remembered to pay his or her taxes. Among those who forgot this pesky chore is Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, who sheepishly admits that he failed to pay $35,000 in federal self-employment taxes. He says that the error was a result of his using TurboTax, which he also blames for his involvement in an eight-state spree of bank robberies. He is confirmed after the Obama administration explains that it inherited the U.S. Tax Code from the Bush administration."

Damn funny.

Two more of my favorites, but by no means the only funny stuff...
"MARCH
. . . an angry nation learns that the giant insurance company AIG, which received $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts and posted a $61 billion loss, is paying executive bonuses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. This news shocks and outrages President Obama and members of Congress, who happen to be the very people who passed the legislation that authorized both the bailouts and the bonuses, but of course they did that during a crisis and thus had no time to find out what the hell they were voting for. "

"GM is now essentially a subsidiary of the federal government, which promises to use its legendary business and marketing savvy to get the crippled auto giant back on its feet, starting with an exciting new lineup of cars such as the Chevrolet Consensus, a 'green' car featuring a compressed-soybean chassis, the world's first engine powered entirely by dew, and a 14,500-page owner's manual, accompanied by nearly 6,000 pages of amendments."

Dave Barry's year in review: 2009

Well worth the read for non-Liberals. I expect the Liberals stomped their feet and screeched "not fair" quite a few times.

I missed the last few days of Kwanzaa. How could I allow such a tragedy? Ah well. I'd covered most of what is awful about the "holiday" already. All I needed to do was a few final comments.
( The final three days of Kwanzaa after the cut )

Moonbattery offers a handy year in review. I find with the onslaught of Liberal insanity that has taken place I need it, as there is just so much of it it's hard to keep track. The Year in Moonbattery - 2009 A sample:
"December -- An enormous contingent of moonbats flew to Copehagen in a veritable air force of private jets, generating as much CO2 in a week as an African country emits in a year, to save the planet from the dire consequences of wasteful CO2 production. And just to prove He has a sense of humor, God dumped half a foot of snow on them.
Senate Democrats finally passed a version of ObamaCare using last minute bribes to Senators Mary 'Hello Sailor' Landrieu and Ben 'Love You Long Time' Nelson.
On Christmas Day, a jihadist came within seconds of detonating a bomb on an aircraft with 278 people on board. The Secretary of Homeland Security declared that the system had worked perfectly, and the TSA would avoid future near-disasters by making it illegal for passengers to leave their seats during the last hour of a flight.
One year down, three to go... if we're lucky."


Sadly, even that wouldn't wake him up.

Let me be clear. This is not an endorsement of the guy overall. I just like this kind of reaction from a world leader when it comes to terrorism. Newsbusters makes a very good point in relation to the comment. Ouch! Putin Answer About Terrorism Stuns Press Conference to Silence
"And Putin wasn't joking as evidenced by his lack of even a hint of a smile and the deadly look of steel in his eyes. While we are busy Mirandizing terrorists such as the Nigerian underwear bomber, Putin has a whole different approach to terrorism."
"I don't agree with much of Putin's imperial attitude and policies but after watching this video, it is frightening to think how much he must dominate Obama in private negotiations. And what must Putin think about Americans reading Miranda rights to apprehended terrorists?"

Via Moonbattery:

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin




"Dog is indeed man's best friend, but hair of the dog is his gift from the gods." - Melvin udall

If we could get Liberals to understand this one simple concept the potential of America would be limitless.

I think they could have stopped right here...



After the cut is a visual aid for Liberals I'd seen somewhere online and forgotten all about. Criminals versus terrorists.

( It amused me. )

Obama's first speech on the foiled Christmas Day terrorist attack. Transcript of Obama remarks on airline security and terror watch lists

I'm going to cut to the chase here and just quickly fisk through this. It stands as exceptional evidence of why no terrorist or hostile nation should take this country remotely seriously with this narcissist child in charge.

( Read more... )

Again, why would ANY terrorist or foreign government take this seriously when the President of the United States and all his followers treat a terrorist attack like looting during a hurricane?

Feel free to post if you can address the OP. If you're a Liberal with the usually empty mockery, useless excuses and cowardly distractions, why not just stay under your rock or go to one of the vermin echo chambers and get back to the circle jerk.

The 29th, day four of the Marxist, seditious, racist "holiday" that is Kwanzaa. "Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together." There isn't much to say here not already said over the past few days. Spend and buy based on skin color, then redistribute any wealth among our race. Marxism, racism, segregation. Some lemming Liberals will cry out, "But what about Chinatown or the Italian quarter, you racist?" Well, aside from them not being based on skin color, the last I checked those examples are not part of a holiday they've created to foment sedition. Idiots.
Speaking of Marxist, racist, anti-Americans, Obamas stress Kwanzaa virtues. While inaccurate that was pretty tame. It's much less offensive than was Bush's.

I had all these and comments to provide about what a nightmare of a disaster Barry and the rest of the Obamunist Administration have been with the Christmas terrorist attack, but so much information keeps coming out to illustrate how much of a clusterfuck it is, and they are, I can't keep up! These links from this morning will now accompany only brief remarks, as in twelve more hours I'm sure Obama will have taken a few minutes from the golf course to royally fuck it all up some more.
Let's not let this go down the memory hole: Janet Napolitano Got a Free Pass When She Insisted Terrorism Be Called 'Man-Caused Disaster' "If you wondered which media outlets covered that gaffe last spring, the answer is: Most didn't." "'NAPOLITANO: [...] That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks'" Her comment that the system works was not out of context and not a slip. This is her consistent mindset. She, and therefore Obama, consider American innocents murdered by terrorists on our soil as no different than a hurricane.
Transcript of Obama remarks on airline security and terror watch lists
I am going to fully fisk this speech in a different post even though just a day later our Dear Reader has been instructed by Team Teleprompter to pretend to take this seriously. President Obama: 'Systemic failure has occurred'. So let's see, T+3 hours he is finally notified of the attack. T+3 DAYS and he finally comes out to talk about it, and that only after the DHS Secretary proved herself yet again a blundering fool. During that speech he illustrates how ass backwards their thinking is. (I'll get to that in the next post.) And now T+4 DAYS and he's actually appearing to take this seriously. Clearly we're safe and Liberals are competent.

Speaking of, Morning Briefs for Tuesday - Did you know the ACLU considers the Terrorist Watch List one of the 10 Worst Abuses of power since 9/11? "As NRO's Andy McCarthy puts it: 'It would be nice if the ACLU could explain how exactly a Nigerian national boarding an aircraft in Nigeria, or Amsterdam, has an American 'constitutional right to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and to due process of law.' But that's the sort of question only a sane person would ask." Never forget, your life is not as important to Liberals as Liberal ideology.

Jake Tapper joins in the Liberal spin. Political Punch - Bush Administration Claimed Success When Public Stopped Shoe-bomber "Interestingly, this notion that the government can claim success when an aspiring terrorist proceeds through airport security, boards a plane with explosives, and is only stopped because of his own incompetence and a vigilant public, is not new to the Obama administration.‬‪" Oh yes, that's SOOOoo interesting, Jake! I guess he isn't being invited to the right parties anymore. Here's a thought... "the system worked," when it verifiably failed in every way is not the same as Ashcroft encouraging the vigilance of the citizenry and lack of dependence on government.

More on the Empty Suit and his incompetent foreign affairs. Video: Obama denounces Iranian crackdown on protesters "The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens, which has apparently resulted in detentions, injuries, and even death." Two points. 1) Maybe this latest round wouldn't be happening if the last time there was video of innocents being slaughtered in the streets the Obama admin didn't refer to it as "vigorous debate." 2) "APPARENTLY resulted?" It's on VIDEO, lawyer! The last video showed an innocent woman shot to death in the street by police! Watch Neda die again, jackass. "APPARENTLY resulted?" Why would any foreign power or terrorist take us seriously? Why?

Pay attention Liberals. Buchanan is hard core conservative, yet note how he wrote "decade", not "last few years?" We don't march in lockstep. You could learn from that.
A Decade of Self-Delusion by Pat Buchanan "After a decade of self-delusion and self-indulgence, we must stop deceiving ourselves. As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, the 'can-do' nation that won World War II in Europe and the Pacific in less than four years, that put a man on the moon in the same decade JFK said we would, is history.
We have a government that cannot balance its books, defend its borders or win its wars. And what is it now doing? Drafting another entitlement program as we are informed that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds have unfunded liabilities in the trillions.
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the question is not whether we will preside over the creation of a New World Order, but whether America's decline is irreversible."