
That's MM's summation of nine percent nancy's moist, mumbling approval of a $3.4 TRILLION budget as proof of 'our national values'.
'Values' that enslave our children on the leftist plantation with monumental debt before they're even born.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton

That's MM's summation of nine percent nancy's moist, mumbling approval of a $3.4 TRILLION budget as proof of 'our national values'.
'Values' that enslave our children on the leftist plantation with monumental debt before they're even born.
The target, of course, is the histrionic hypocrite, Herr Ubermann, who just received a HUGE pay raise from his employer, for his garrulous, far left, talking head screed.
Herr Ubermann's shameless, pro-obama employer is MSNBC.
That network is owned by General Electric. Share holders, at a recent share holders meeting, cheered as G.E.'s CEO, Jeff Immelt, got ripped a new one for MSNBC's essence of blatant, far left, agitprop.
G.E. recently received a $126 Billion bailout from Obama's lapdoggie congress. But there is no media bias...
Yet, unlike the free speech suppressing, FOX news hating & talk radio bashing, far left totalitarians, I won't call for MSNBC to be regulated into silence. MSNBC's in-the-toilet ratings are enough of a laughable albatross, already.
Nope. Speak truth to power - G.E.'s board, stock holders, and the histrionic hypocrite, Herr Ubermann, hisself. Sign the 'Worst Bailout in the World' Petition and tell Herr Ubermann to return his ill gotten bailout booty.
What's so hard to understand about freedom for these obtuse heads?
TY these guys
What other headline did you expect?
With Cap & Trade - the enviro-nutjobs' pet-wood project - on hold in Congress, from democrat opposition, Pres. Obama wants to continue oppressing the Red Man via bureaucratic fiat:
EPA seeks remand of Navajo power plant permit.
"The tribe's Dine Power Authority and Houston-based Sithe Global LLC have partnered to build the 1,500-megawatt power plant on the Navajo reservation south of Farmington. They have said Desert Rock would be one of the cleanest coal-burning plants in the nation and it would generate more than $50 million in annual revenues and create jobs on a reservation where more than half of people are unemployed."
"This isn't just about energy," (Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr) said. "This is about sovereignty. This is about saving self. This is about the Navajo Nation regaining its independence by developing the financial wherewithal to take care of its own problems."
Jeff Holmstead, lead attorney in the fight to build Desert Rock and a former assistant administrator for air at EPA, was surprised by the EPA's action and said the agency seems to have little regard for due process or fairness.
"We are well into the appeals process, and now EPA wants the Navajo Nation and its partners to go back and start over again under different rules," he said."
"We're talking clean coal. We're talking carbon capture," Shirley said in a recent interview. "We want the Desert Rock power plant to be not only a model for the United States of America but for the world regarding the use of clean coal technology."
That's my first reaction to the usual lot of over-priced, under-talented hollyweird attention whores rambling on about their cause du jur. But, when an unusual actor or actress is out of lock step with the leftist marching orders, I pay attention. Like Angie Harmon or Gary Sinise.
Or, when JC posts about The Great Michael Caine, star (along w/ Sean Connery) of the greatest film ever made (The Man Who Would Be King*), I have to link up, and say Hear! Hear!, because what he says makes a lot of sense.
Time to put on your tinfoil hats and determine if the smartest person EVAH, in the Oval Office, is a machiavellian genius to orchestrate a publicity stunt to test the electorate's collective post- 9/11 response to such a scare, or is he simply a self-aggrandizing, titular stooge out front of a cadre of buffoons??.
April 6, 2009: Canadian steals Cessna 172 and illegally enters U.S. air space. F-16s scrambled to intercept. Madison, WI capital building evacuated on fears of 9-11 style attack.
Suspect captured in Missouri. Awaits psych eval for trial.
April 24, 2009: Two small private planes stray into restricted space over Washington D.C. F-16s scrambled to intercept. The White House and Capitol went on alert. The Pres. & V.P. were moved to more secure locations on fears of 9-11 style attack.
Pilot and instrument errors to blame. Planes land safely.
April 27, 2009: Boeing 747 makes repeated low flights for 30 minutes over lower Manhattan - site of worst attack on U.S. in its history. An F-16 tales the larger aircraft. Startled office workers empty out of high rise buildings. "Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low." Emergency dispatchers inundated with calls on fears of 9-11 style attack.
No worries. Some idiot in the White House is to blame for scheduling a photo op of Air Force One around famous NY landmarks. Are you freekin' kidding me?!
Recriminations fly after NYC jet flyover photo op (video).
"It was carried out by the Defense Department with little warning, infuriating New York officials and putting the White House on the defense. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't know about it, and he later called it "insensitive" to fly so near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The director of the White House military office, Louis Caldera, took the blame a few hours later. One of the planes was a 747 that is called Air Force One when used by the president."
Good thing the hated Boooshitler didn't pull something like this, or our vaunted MSM might be upset.
S&L is simply amazed at the rare bit of actual reporting from the Politico:
"This is such a shame. TFA pays for the training of these young, dedicated teachers and then places them in the most challenging situations. These young, often Ivy-League educated graduates vie for the opportunity to tackle teaching in some of the most at-risk schools in the nation. The program has been an amazing success. In fact, I had thought that the limit on the number of applicants accepted was designed as sort of a mechanism to increase the desirability of winning a place by creating a false scarcity. I should have known that teachers unions were the true cause. They can't stand the thought that anyone could become an excellent teacher without going through education programs."
We dealt with the Afghani component of these murdering Taliban fascists here , when they publicly executed two young lovers for 'immoral acts'.
Lovely religion. Isn't it?
The Pakistani branch of this cult of mohammed is just as virulently violent. Surprise!
Taliban gun down couple for “adultery” in Pakistan.
"According to the Telegraph, the Taliban actually invited a local reporter to record this as a warning to anyone who might see it of what’s coming (video)."Warning: graphic images. NSFW
AP Poll: After Obama's 100 days, U.S. on right track.
Only 18% of those polled consider themselves Republican.
Hey. Lets go pitch fork FOX News. (!)
A bunch of time wasters for all you time wasters out there.
OTB Caption Jam
Sorta related:
Ty to this guy.
Update below: Updated
Or is it?
Republicans Put Brakes On Sebelius' Nomination.
"Some Republicans have previously objected to Sebelius' support for abortion rights and for her alleged failure to properly report campaign contributions that she received from a doctor who performs abortions, The Washington Post reports."
One thing's for sure; she's dead serious consistent about her rabid, pro-abortion stance: Sebelius vetoes abortion bill."In 2006, Sebelius said: "My Catholic faith teaches me that all life is sacred, and personally I believeabortionmurderracismchild abuse is wrong. However, I disagree with the suggestion that criminalizingwomenmurderersracistschild abusers and theirdoctorsaccomplicesinstitutionsenablers is an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the number ofabortionsmurdersracial assaultsabused children in our nation."
"He who has the gold, makes the rules."
That goes for he who owns massive amounts of our debt, too.
Don't pay attention to Jackie Chan. The Chinese are not dumb.
I make no secret of the fact: Dick Cheney is my hero. I'm of the opinion that this man has more courage, wisdom & true blue character in his bum ticker heart than Obama's whole ramshackle gang in the unicorn forest. And then some.
Obama is wrong, and looks a fool for this 'memo-gate' boondoggle. I agree with Sister Toldjah when she states, "This administration is in over its head on this issue, and doesn’t know how to get out of it."
And, yes, the Democratic Leaders of Congress knew damn well what was going on in 2002.
Still, I have to give these Kafka-esque politicos some credit for having a heated, if brief, debate before eventually inevitably over-riding those holding to conservative security issues. Althouse asks, "This suggests that the argument for withholding the memos was political, but wasn't the argument for releasing them also political?"
Yes. But common sense is not prized by this bunch.
Nor is it much in evidence with the Left's fave swarm of parasites, the ACLU. Like some numb skull juvenile, they just can't help but whiz on that electrified fence; again. Because We Have Nothing Better To Keep Obsessing About - than the release of 44 more photos depicting possible abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Useful idiots.
Way to aid and abet the enemy's propaganda, with all our soldiers in harms way.
Related: From the 'cultural diversity rule book': You want to Know what Real Torture is? (WARNING: graphic language and disturbing imagery; nsfw)
My shrug opinion of Rand's simplistic, "I am Galt, F.U.!", sanitized atheism not with standing, I can appreciate and praise Rand as a noble champion for the sublime power of productive individuals - and the rights inherent there in.
Many of us believe those to be God-given rights.
I don't get any sense of that from this current administration.
To me, Obama's mouth simply wa-wa's a repeating phrase: "You will be assimilated. You will be assimilated. You will be assimilated. You will be assimil......"
It's called 'baby shaker'. The game's over when the baby dies.
Who would download such a thing?
Who at Apple approved it to be uploaded to their App Store?? (video)
"It’s not a threat. It’s a fact.
Either man takes the Earth’s raw materials—such as trees, petroleum, aluminum, and atoms—and transforms them into the requirements of his life, or he dies. To live, man must produce the goods on which his life depends; he must produce homes, automobiles, computers, electricity, and the like; he must seize nature and use it to his advantage. There is no escaping this fact. Even the allegedly “noble” savage must pick or perish. Indeed, even if a person produces nothing, insofar as he remains alive he indirectly exploits the Earth by parasitically surviving off the exploitative efforts of others.
The fact annoys some people. But it shouldn’t: Hence our “Exploit the Earth or Die” campaign."
Update below.
His invitation to indict Bush officials will haunt Obama's Presidency.
"Just as with the AIG bonuses, he is trying to co-opt his left-wing base by playing to it -- only to encourage it more. Within hours of Mr. Obama's Tuesday comments, Senator Carl Levin piled on with his own accusatory Intelligence Committee report. The demands for a "special counsel" at Justice and a Congressional show trial are louder than ever, and both Europe's left and the U.N. are signaling their desire to file their own charges against former U.S. officials.
Those officials won't be the only ones who suffer if all of this goes forward. Congress will face questions about what the Members knew and when, especially Nancy Pelosi when she was on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002. The Speaker now says she remembers hearing about waterboarding, though not that it would actually be used. Does anyone believe that? Porter Goss, her GOP counterpart at the time, says he knew exactly what he was hearing and that, if anything, Ms. Pelosi worried the CIA wasn't doing enough to stop another attack. By all means, put her under oath.
Mr. Obama may think he can soar above all of this, but he'll soon learn otherwise. The Beltway's political energy will focus more on the spectacle of revenge, and less on his agenda. The CIA will have its reputation smeared, and its agents second-guessing themselves. And if there is another terror attack against Americans, Mr. Obama will have set himself up for the argument that his campaign against the Bush policies is partly to blame."
Oh, yas. You wanna take this poll.
But, wait! There's more.
According to Time Magazine(!), illegal immigrants pose an environmental hazard.
Gawd, I'm insensitive.
Oh, yas. You wanna take this poll.
But, wait! There's more.
According to Time Magazine(!), illegal immigrants pose an environmental hazard.
Gawd, I'm insensitive.
"HAVANA – Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's remarks regarding the United States and bristled at the suggestion that Cuba should free political prisoners or cut taxes on dollars people send to the island.
Raul Castro touched off a whirlwind of speculation last week that the U.S. and Cuba could be headed toward a thaw after nearly a half-century of chilly relations. The speculation began when the Cuban president said leaders would be willing to sit down with their U.S. counterparts and discuss "everything, everything, everything," including human rights, freedom of the press and expression, and political prisoners.
Obama responded at the Summit of the Americas by saying Washington seeks a new beginning with Cuba. But as he prepared to leave the summit Sunday, Obama also called on Cuba to release political prisoners and reduce taxes on remittances from the U.S.
That appeared to enrage Fidel Castro, 82, who wrote in an essay published Wednesday that Obama "without a doubt misinterpreted Raul's declarations."
When its keynote speaker is the most vile, holocaust denying, Jew hating, totalitarian swine on the planet.
That's right, boys n girls, Iran's petulant president, Herr Ahmadinejad, can stink up a room and clear it faster than gramps after too much beer n chili:
"Everyone who walked out on camera was right to do so. Most, if not all, were from Europe. It’s strange, then, that a European country is hosting this hate-fest in the first place. They had no reason to expect anything different. This second “Durban” conference held in Geneva is just a rerun of the first one held in Durban, South Africa, which also was little more than a bigoted group-scream against Israel and the United States. It was obvious years ago when the conference was planned what would be on the agenda. A representative from Libya, one of the most brutally oppressive countries on earth, was chairman of the preparatory committee. Its vice chairman included representatives from Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia. None of these countries can teach Western democracies about racism or human rights. The Obama administration was right to boycott this fiasco before it even began."
That is until Hope n Change seeks to lasso the Military into the Unicorn Forest...
"Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old computer specialist from Berkeley, Calif., is wanted for the 2003 bombings of two corporate offices in California.
Authorities describe San Diego as an animal rights activist who turned to bomb attacks and say he has tattoo that proclaims, "It only takes a spark."
A law enforcement official said the FBI was to announce Tuesday that San Diego was being added to the "Most Wanted" terrorist list. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the announcement ahead of time.
San Diego would be the 24th person on the list, and the only domestic terror suspect.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko declined to comment on the pending announcement.
The move to add a domestic, left-wing terrorist to the list comes only days after the Obama administration was criticized for internal reports suggesting some military veterans could be susceptible to right-wing extremist recruiters or commit lone acts of violence. That prompted angry reactions from some lawmakers and veterans groups."
I guess drunk teen girls look bad on a resume`.
But good thing it wasn't a Priest pervin' on some choir boy, or the press might actually have a story to pillory for the next three weeks.
Yup. Because the clown meme is currently over-exposed.
All you lil Pards need to head on over to Flopping Aces for a whole herd of funnies!
Tell 'em LB sent ya.
Update below 
Yahoo beclowns their headlines to disparage a California class act who would rather stick to her principles than pander for a cheap win. (video)
I don't care who won, but for those who do, click here. Oh, and Yahoo was sure to include snips about last year's non- scandal, too!
But there's no media bias.
Update: Pageant judge v-blogs to call Miss California a DUMB B*TCH??? (video)
Gotta luv that peaceful vitriolic open-minded hidebound Lib tolerance jaundice.
"If there is no absolute truth and knowledge about reality is socially constructed by our ethnic, religious and political groups, then the attempt to appeal to a universal ethic is imperialist oppression of one culture over another. Society cannot be ruled by an agreed upon transcendent authority or criteria because there is none. In short, Left Wing radical theory, and by extension the Obama administration is the demonic stepchild of Nietzsche’s “will to power.” There is no truth, just people seeking to impose their wills upon others. This is why liberals, and other left wing radicals are the juvenile kings and queens of protest and out-shouting their adversaries. This is why you hear liberals reduce culture to “power relations.” This is why they have pursued the control of education, the media, law and government. Because they believe in the will to power as the ultimate truth. This is why they are so effective at creating slogans like “Proposition Hate,” and “Bush lied, people died.” Because they believe in the power of language to shape knowledge. Whoever controls the instruments and institutions of knowledge controls “reality.” If you change the language, you change reality to be what you want it to be rather than what your opponent thinks it is.
And therein lies the dirty little secret of Leftist political theory: They engage in the very same imposition of power over those whom they accuse of imposing power over others. They are modern fascists, who in fact worship power as deity. It is no coincidence, as Jonah Goldberg has proven in his book, Liberal Fascism, that the Left has a history of a fascistic abuse of power, and as Gene Veith has pointed out in Modern Fascism, postmodernism asserts the same doctrines and philosophy as does fascism. It is no coincidence that the rise of the Obama Left brings with it the Fairness Doctrine (Which hereafter all conservatives need to continually call, The Fascist Doctrine). After all, fascism is a worldview of the will to power. When you negate transcendent absolutes like the Law of God or natural law, you are left with power as the only ultimate, and the State becomes the transcendent absolute or the deity of society. And that is why the State must get busy circumscribing every aspect of society, because the deity is always the absolute sovereign of every aspect of life. Socialism is a religion of creation and salvation through the State. Like God in Genesis who creates through his mere pronouncement of words “Let there be…” and separates his creation from chaos, so the Obama administration seeks to create reality through its mere pronouncement of words to separate Islamism from its chaotic essence of terrorism. Talk about a Satanic inversion of truth. Obama is lying, people are dying."
NB's assoc. producer, Cristina Gonzalez, puts in her two cents:
"I've got bad news for Latin America .. you aren't going to get what you want. Look, I will be the first to tell you that our relationship with Cuba needs to change. I'll spare you the arduous details right now, but there are 500 steps that come before an all out lifting of the embargo. What you need to remember is that Cuba is a communist nation."
Russia number three??
I'm not a fan of polls. There's lies, damn lies, then there's poll numbers. Or something like that...
Especially when performed by an international market research company. But it's interesting reading.
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reports Doctors are opting out of Medicare. With good reason.
But Libs have a hard time understanding human nature.
A probability study from The Onion.
Never let an absurdly good crisis go to waste.
Update below
Still, that not stopped the EPA from going collectively insane, and licking the jackboots of Machiavellian special interest groups, to declare a naturally occurring element in nature - CO2 - to be 'a pollutant'. "Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off — I’m talking 100km or 200km long — every 10 or 20 or 50 years.”
After all, the Libs are entitled to selective outrage & 'in context' censorship.
Back in my heathen days, long before I married my raven haired beauty, Mrs. Locomotivebreath, I dated a sweet young woman from the Philippines. She was Muslim. Well, a Muslim in the same way that Pelosi, Sebelius, or Wise Guys are Catholic: Lasped, to the point of perversion.
Although her Father strongly disapproved and disowned her for it, my long ago Filipino hottie was in the Mid-West on an educational scholarship; a coed in pursuit of a good time. I obliged.
I did notice some peculiar tendencies, however, which, I assume, were reminiscent of her Muslim upbringing: she religiously helped out at relief orgs for the poor (and dragged me along), yet she refused to have the name Jesus mentioned in her presence; she shielded her eyes going past a Church; she refused to enter any place a cross was hung; refused all pork; eschewed alcohol; but wore swim suits; fondly used the words 'f**k & sh*t'; and wildly begged me to...
But, I digress.
Long story, short, I was reminded of my quirky Filipino hottie upon reading this seemingly ignominious headline & story:
Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request.
"(CNSNews.com) - Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the “IHS” monogram that had previously adorned the stage at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was still covered up--when the pediment where it had appeared was photographed by CNSNews.com."

"(Julie Green Bataille, associate vice president for communications at Georgetown, told CNSNews.com,) “The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches,” she added. “Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context."
"Obama did not mention the name of Jesus during his address. However, he did mention Christ’s Sermon on the Mount."

"This is the sand on which the new foundation is constructed. Obama has the magic to make words mean almost anything. Numbers are more resistant to his charms."
With their own, eh - not so much.
Bush was more charitable than Obama: 23% to 6.5%
Surber has a couple of good conclusions on this fact.
There's some ironic schadenfreude in there somewhere.
I guess it's to be expected from our friends on the left. Their disapproval frequently resorts to the gutter. So, I wasn't surprised by reports about uber-liberal MSNBC jumping the shark with 'teabagging' mockery from David Schuster.
And given CNN's lemming race to the ratings bottom, I was neither surprised by Anderson Cooper's juvenile sexual innuendo toward 'teabagging' when reporting sittin' 'round chewing his cud on the upcoming tea party protests. (not that there's anything wrong with that, andy ;p)
Disappointed, but not surprised. Disappointed that the level of so-called professional discourse on network television had sunk to such a vacuous level. But beware of that evil FOX NEWS, the chanters chant!
I didn't give it much thought until I perused what I consider to be a staid, Mid-Western blog of left-leaning sensibilities which utilized same crude 'tea bagging' reference.
And my search in google news for "tea bagging" turned up no less than 105 results.
Then it hit me; what a wretched beast we've become. I think it says a lot about a person’s, or organization’s corruption when an innocuous reference to a colonial insurgency spurs obscure sexual innuendo as a reaction.
Is it any wonder that a tsunami of 'new media' arose to speak truth to power because the 'old media' won't get out of its own echo chamber?
Hope n change. Right, boys?
The lovely & talented Ann Coulter agrees with moi, but takes this notion all the way into the unicorn forest:
"You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clinton's name were "Ima Douche." Unfortunately, it's not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up, realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats' modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
Obama's biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats, which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats' admiration for raising taxes on the productive.
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. Evidently, offering to expand welfare payments isn't a big vote-getter.
Even Bush had a "stimulus" bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didn't stimulate the economy. Obama's stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. ("O" stands for Obama, not Oprah, but there's probably a lot of overlap.)
And all that government spending on the Democrats' constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive."
(Update below)
But ACE says there's a special place in news rating h3ll for useful idiots like CNN's Susan Roesgen. (mildy nsfw)
TY to this guy.
Update: When will us Right Wingnut Threats learn that there's no media bias??
Heck, it's just a nationwide grassroots movement that's practically scorned by most major 'news' outlets.
But what I don’t understand is why the signs aren’t all of one or two colors and professionally printed, like they are in all of the leftwing “grassroots” demonstrations??
"The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties and will hold his own event today," ABC’s Dan Harris said on “Good Morning America” on April 15."
As in Loosie Lunacy vs Tighty Thinking. Note, not just the verbiage, but the underlying mindset behind these two writers.
First, tighty thinking:
"Because these events are highly decentralized, with no significant institutional organization or funding behind them, they represent a genuine outpouring of grassroots opinion with enormous political importance. For every person out in the streets today, there are undoubtedly many more who didn't make it who share the same opinions. The bigger the demonstrations today, the bigger the rest of the iceberg under water. Moreover, this movement represents genuine grassroots organization, as names and contact information are collected, and this will be valuable for future political activity."
"Fox News is flogging Astroturf "tea parties" underwritten by corporate lobbyists, while its pundits warn that raising the top income tax rate to the level it was under Bill Clinton constitutes "socialism." The Wall Street Journal editorializes about the evils of the estate tax. Ari Fleischer, Daddy Bush's old flack, is trotted out to complain that "redistribution of income" through the tax code "is getting out of hand."
Really? Here's the grim reality. Since 1980, when the conservative era began, inequality has reached Gilded Age extremes - while top end tax rates have been cut. The wealthiest few captured ever more of the nation's income while successfully lowering their tax rates."
Click here or the image for a Tea Party Protest near you.
Just remember to keep this hope for change from oppressive federal debt & taxation come the mid-term elections of 2010.
TY to L
300 Afghan Women Assaulted for Protesting 'Sex on Demand Marriage Law'.
"Women's rights activists scheduled a protest Wednesday attended by mostly young women. But the group was swamped by counter-protesters — both men and women — who shouted down the women's chants.
Some picked up gravel and stones and threw them at the women, while others shouted "Death to the slaves of the Christians!" Female police held hands around the group to create a protective barrier."
Islam "insulted" by alleged child killer's mug shot.An Illinois woman is accused of beating her two y.o. toddler to death, and her husband is upset - that she wasn't allowed to wear her hijab (head covering) for her mug shot.
The young lovers were executed for 'immoral acts', which are somehow less honorable than the immorality of murder.
"Bashir's comments came after a visit to Sudan this month by Obama's special envoy to the country, Scott Gration, who met officials from the government, rebel groups and international organizations, promising to "look, learn and listen."
Learn what? That more than 200,000 Black Africans have been murdered under this tyrant's brutal regime?
JP over at CC says good thing I know more about America than just what Pres. Obama tells me, or I'd start to think that America is some third tier Eastern bloc country...
Of course they do. Especially when Congress can funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out a malfeasance mess they foisted upon Wall Street, yet vote to de-fund a successful voucher system that provided a great educational opportunity for hundreds of Washington D.C.'s poor, mostly black, children.
And without that great educational opportunity, many of these children will grow to be adults stranded on the liberal entitlement plantation, dependent on gub'mint subsidies. A vicious cycle some conclude is by design?
"Those benefiting from this vicious cycle - a group that does not include the children or the taxpayers - say the schools need the money.
People of ordinary intelligence, however, recognize that the public schools lose nothing when a student goes to another school. If they don't have the child to educate, they don't need the money to educate the child.
One educator tried to "explain" to me that the public schools have certain fixed costs that remain even when a child leaves. In turn, I explained to him that if 600 children leave, that is one less expensive elementary school that needs to be built.
It was also necessary to explain that the cost of a voucher always is less than the cost of a public school, so the taxpayers save heaps of money. Jay Greene, a Harvard Ph.D. at the Manhattan Institute, also found that Florida public schools showed improvement when forced to compete for students eligible for vouchers.
Then there is the bottom line. By getting an education, poor kids have a shot at becoming prosperous and productive, which also saves future taxpayers gobs of money.
This is all beside the point to the teacher union bosses. Results don't matter to them. All that matters is the input: money."
It's no secret that I, along with 99 million of my fellow citizens, hate the current, wickedly convoluted, regressive income tax system. It's also no secret that I strongly (strongly!) favor a flat 10% income tax system for all citizens (see below), as opposed to any other proposed revamps of our current income tax system.
Ari Fleischer, a former press secretary for President George W. Bush, kinda sorta agrees with moi (at least on the taxing everyone part).
In his WSJ article, dated today, he correctly states that the top ten percent of all income earners pay over 70% of the income taxes, and likens that structure to an inverted pyramid. (For those who went to gub'mint school, an inverted pyramid means it is upside down, is inherently unstable and requires exhaustive artificial support to prevent dangerous collapse.)
It's bad for our democracy to exempt half the country.
"Mr. Obama is adding to this trend with his "Make Work Pay" tax cut that means almost 50% of the country will no longer pay any income taxes, up from a little over 40% today. A certain amount of income redistribution in a capitalistic society is healthy, but this goes too far. The economic and moral problem is that when 50% of the country gets benefits without paying for them and an increasingly smaller number of taxpayers foot the bill, the spinning triangle will no longer be able to support itself. Eventually, it will spin so slowly that it falls down, especially when the economy is contracting and the number of wealthy taxpayers is in sharp decline.
In addition to exempting almost 50% of the country from income taxes, today nearly every other social cause is given a loophole -- or a preference -- in the tax code. Want to buy a hybrid vehicle? You get a tax break. Do you own a solar water heater? You get a credit. Want to give to charity? You get a deduction. Own a house? There's another tax deduction for you. How about college savings, certain medical costs, and retirement savings? Yes, yes, and of course yes. Did you move, pay alimony, or "provide housing to a Midwestern displaced individual"? More deductions, credits and exemptions there too, if you qualify.
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. On both the spending and the tax side, the wolves are devouring our children's future."
"Out of sight; out of mind. And the oink-oink politicians know it.
[This is a re-print from 2006 (with minor edits), but the facts and figures haven't changed much (except increase), and Lord knows ponderous tax code hasn't gotten any simpler - so happy reading!]
It's that time of year again.
My annual rant is included with eleventeen ga-jillion other blog sites that blow off on this topic every April. I am convinced the blogosphere would shrink by half if the IRS were to vanish tomorrow.
The tax burden on all tax paying citizens is a drain on the economy, slows the growth of wealth and penalizes hard work and achievement. It costs the businesses & citizens of this nation $500 billion (with a 'B') every year to comply with the ponderous tax code. I say eliminate the dreaded IRS with its boon-doggle, back @ssward, punitive and expensive method of collection, and replace it with a 10 percent flat tax on all income earners.
An 'out sight; out of mind' mentality is a powerful weapon the money hungry politicos in Washington D.C. rely upon to feed this gargantuan federal bureaucracy. And the notion of a 'with holding tax' places the cost and liability on the already over-burdened business owner to funnel those payroll tax dollars into the federal and state coffers. Coupled to this is a 'before tax / after tax' mindset which pacifies the electorate into willing dupes to keep the monetary flow unchecked. Want to see a tax revolt? Eliminate the with holding tax requirement, have millions of tax paying citizens be responsible for their own book keeping, and write one fat check on April 15th. Talk about screaming and gnashing of teeth! More than a few politicians would be out of work the following election.
To solve this strangling stupidity, I recommend a universal 'ten percent flat tax' on everyone. Yes, that includes the precious poor (here's where the leftist utopians scream for my blood). Make them pay their fair share and end this 'gimme, gimme' leach mentality bred from generation to generation. And I'm pretty sure I support the idea of having the responsibility of paying taxes tied to the privilege of voting. After all, if you don't help pay for the system, why should you have a say in how the money is spent? (gasp!)
Sadly, most folks don't get too worked up over taxes and tax cuts. They just grumble and let the government keep bending them over. If you ask most folks, they say it doesn't bother their ravaged wallet too much because, heck, they got a refund! Whoopee. What's totally lost on them is that the govt. still screwed 'em, and they didn't even get dinner out of the deal. More than likely they ended up paying for some one else's free lunch.
The pork politicians of this country have turned the 16th amendment into a social engineering tool and use it to punish hard workers and high achievers. The politician then use those tax dollars to buy votes from the obtuse citizens with duplicitous shell games like the 'earned income credit'. There's nothing 'earned' about it. It is a welfare check and people like you & me are paying for it.
The sad fact is that 48% of the income earners in this country don't pay a dime to fund this government. Most simply have their hand out. The other 52% of the populace pays all the operating costs of the government with the top 5% of income earners (translation: the hated rich) paying thirty-three percent of all taxes to run this government. This is fair? What happened to "equal under the law"? Oh, but we can't have any tax cuts. Oh, no. That wouldn't be fair. Call a waa-mbulance.
Once again, de-construct the IRS and implement a 10 percent flat tax on all income earners; no deductions, no loop holes, no write offs, and no with holding. It's fair, simple and cheap. And don't give me this hogwash about 'making corporations pay their fair share'. The plain truth is that corporation don't pay income taxes; only individuals pay income taxes. Oh sure, corporations fill out a tax return and forward a check onto the government, but corporations view taxes like any thing else; it's a business expense. Like labor or raw materials, taxes are simply incorporated into the price of their goods or services. And taxes can be absorbed into the increased price of goods or services more readily than almost any other component of business because taxes effect everyone equally across the board. Sadly, it is those at the bottom of the economic ladder that bear this government imposed increased cost of goods and services more than others. Let the leftist utopians chew on that fact for a while.
A graduated income tax is one of the hallmarks of a communist philosophy of government and the defunct USSR has proven that it doesn't work. Even the resurrected new Republic of Russia saw the flaw in graduated taxes, and has at the center piece of its new government operating policy a flat income tax. After all, it is the only fair and equal way to treat all citizens under the law.
The U.S. of A. deserves no less. Contact you congress person today.
You don't know who that person is? Then look here."
1 pirate taken into custody. May the Lord have mercy on their miserable souls.
"Right now the praise belongs to Capt. Phillips, some kick ass SEAL snipers, CDR Castellano, the men and women of USS Bainbridge and the rest of the military and FBI that provided support on this mission."
"But I tell you that this matter will lead to retaliation and we will hunt down particularly American citizens travelling our waters."And the U.S. Navy will pay you another visit.
Callous heathens and their bands. Go figure.
Wait. It gets worse.
You're welcome.
Hey. We here at locomotivebreath1901 are nothing, if not tolerant. Seriously.
We're always up for some equal opportunity time for our fave, erudite, cranky atheist Burt, as he weighs in on, well... stuff:
"As I have always contended, anyone who doesn’t regard himself as a conservative or at least a Republican is nearly always a liberal in sheep’s clothing who simply doesn’t wish to be pigeonholed. I have an acquaintance who kept insisting for years that he was an independent. When I finally pinned him to the wall and demanded he name the last Republican he had voted for, he admitted it was Richard Nixon in 1972! Which makes him just about as independent as Howard Dean or James Carville.
It is my belief that by a huge margin independents and moderates go along with Obama’s plan to eliminate charitable deductions from the tax code. It isn’t that these people are necessarily opposed to charities, they are merely opposed to individuals, particularly those of a religious bent, deciding for themselves which ones to support. They prefer that the decisions be made by left-wing politicians. So, while they would be happy to see hundreds of millions of dollars going to ACORN, abortion clinics, the National Endowment of the Arts, National Public Radio and AmeriCorps, they hate to see a dime go to churches, the Boy Scouts or the Salvation Army."
Much has been made about the recent debate between noted (notorious?) atheist Christopher Hitchens and Dr. William Lane Craig on the topic “Does God Exist?” at BIOLA University.
I think the answer to that question is obvious, so let's narrow the scope of discussion to the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus.
The secular world has tried unsuccessfully for decades to dismiss, debunk or dilute the historical Jesus with books like 'The Passover Plot' or movies like 'The Da Vinci Code'. Their problem is that the facts keep getting in their way...
But, unlike some adherents to certain religions, Christians don't resort to ad hoc rage or mob violence to protest their critics. We welcome reasoned debate and endure overt offense. Likewise, unlike some members of certain political persuasions, Christians don't revile 'pundits who persecute' via the power of elected office, nor do Christians seek to silence, via the force of law, the outlets of those who oppose us. We welcome reasoned debate and endure overt offense.
And then quietly, yet persistently, present our argument:
Sorry. No bell curve. And spelling counts.
It's Easter Sunday. What else did ya expect?
I've long said that Easter is far more important to the Christian than the now indulgent holiday of Christmas. After all, if Christ never rose from the dead, there would be no Gospel to preach.
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus is more fitting for Easter, IMHO.
The Apostles’ Creed: (from approx. 140 A.D. )
“I believe in God the Father Almighty. And in Jesus Christ His only (begotten) Son our Lord, who was born of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary; crucified under Pontius Pilate, and buried; the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost; the holy Church; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and life everlasting.”
We here at locomotivebreath1901 have long maintain that no reasonable person can spell 'unethical' without U.N.
And we're not alone in exposing the moral turpitude inside this U.S.A. hating, terrorist enabling, den of wickedness & villainy.
"The United Nations was founded on the principles of maintaining international security and promoting the dignity of mankind. But as the 20th century became the 21st century, it seems that we haven't seen a marked improvement in our defense of human rights and collective security.
U.N Me is a film that exposes the perversity of the U.N. and its failure to live up to its founding principles all wrapped up in a highly entertaining film."