Tone Deaf

To the contrary, Mr. President. We simply can't afford anymore clarity.

TY L

Doood! I Want My Sex Tape Back!

This is a sordid tale of greed, ambition, lust & lies that spells "WRETCHED DUMB 4SS" in big letters from here to the steps of the National Enquirer. And a little two y.o. girl suffers at the center of this adolescent maelstrom.

From a titillated ABC News:

$1 Million Spent to Cover Up John Edwards' Pregnant Mistress During Democrat Primaries in 2007.

"...(Edwards) concocted an elaborate scheme to keep the scandal a secret, according to the once-loyal aide who helped smuggle the woman through a series of luxurious hideaways. Wealthy benefactors were called on and their sizable contributions funded the lavish life on the lam...

Edwards' campaign aide, Andrew Young helped facilitate the surreal scheme.

Young and his wife, Cheri, said they had less than 12 hours to make the decision to go on the lam with his boss's mistress -- Rielle Hunter -- but ultimately agreed to go into hiding with her. According to Young, Edwards' campaign finance chairman, Fred Baron, who's now deceased, made it possible for them to effectively disappear.

"Fred said to me, 'Andrew, I got more money than I can ever spend. You spend whatever it takes to take care of the situation. And let us focus on making him president, vice president or attorney general," Young recalled."

Wowser. The rich really aren't like you & me.

Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, gave birth to a girl sometime in 2008. Andrew Young originally feigned fatherhood of the little girl, and having long denied paternity, Edwards finally fessed up to the little squirt, now 2 years old.

But in the interim, can you imagine having some other guy take the rap, hide his own wife with the mistress and ship their own kids off to the grandparents during this maniacal scheme?!

I wonder which of John Edwards' "two Americas" that would take place?

But, wait. It's gets even more queer: The mistress wants the sex tape of her & John returned to her.

"In his book out this week, Young describes viewing a sex tape that showed a naked Edwards and a woman he assumed was Hunter. Young says Hunter left the tape inside a "box of trash" at a house Edwards rented for her. He claimed the tape ribbon had been pulled out, but he was able to fix it."

Krykee. Can this Young guy spell P.E.R.V.E.R.T. or what?

And they say homosexuals are destroying "marriage."

Free Publicity

This year's Super Bowl commercials will run between $2.5 million & $3 million per 30 second spot. We got yer car commercials, beer commercials, chip commercials, cell phone commercials, and even one for the U.S. Census Bureau.

But one commercial making quite a stir won't air during the Super Bowl. And the company is getting exactly what's its not paying for: publicity. The best kind.

Even inside the tiny verge of homosexual hook ups, few had heard of it, but a homosexual dating web site has scored big with rejection: CBS won't air Super Bowl ad from 'Mancrunch.'

CBS says it's simply a matter of money. The network couldn't verify the homosexual website's credit worthiness to pay for the $2.6 million dollar per 30 second ad.

"A rep for Mancrunch claims the company has the money and even offered to pay cash upfront for the commercial. CBS tells EW the network has no record of such an offer."

And GLAAD - being the CAIR of same-same concupiscence - declared the rejection of Mancrunch's ad to be queer because CBS did accept an ad about a Heisman Trophy winning QB from the uber-conservative Christian Focus on the Family advocacy group.

Although GLAAD didn't juxtapose a complaint against any other ad accepted by CBS, GLAAD rationalized that this obviously means CBS is like, you know, uh, homophobic. Or something.

Of course, all of this would've never made the light of day if this decision was made about a tax service or clothing line or soft drink, but rump ranger rodeos are the tizzy fit du jour these days and send the daytime cackle fests into overdrive.

Gee, I wonder who's playing in the Super Bowl??

Friday Night Hoop-la

Los Lobos - Canción Del Mariachi

From the Dept. of Diktat Dept.

Employer told she can't advertise for 'realiable' workers because that would discriminate against 'unreliable' workers.

Ya think?!

Apparently, in the U.K., even the completely useless must be considered for employment.



Coming soon to a North American continent near you.

TY NN

Question of the Day

What color is an airplanes black box?

1925 Bugatti Wreck Worth More Than a Roadworthy Version.

I'm not sure that's accurate, but at least that's what some collector was willing to pay at auction recently.

"Since the Bugatti broke the surface of Lake Maggiore in 2009 it has been making waves in another way – it has emerged that a car in a Japanese collection bears the identical chassis number.

Clearly someone has some explaining to do."

The Campaign Has Never Stopped

S & L is reporting on an email he received from President Barack Obama last night, shortly after Obama's speech. The email demagogues the usual capitalist suspects, and then - you guessed it - asks for money.

Apparently, trillions of tax dollars aren't enough for this administration.

A copy of that form letter is posted here. The big red 'donate' button is clickable. You get what you pay for so I gave 3 cents.

The 'Legal Compliance' list in the lower right hand corner has some interesting items. Number one is "I am a United States citizen or a permanent resident alien."

Number two is "This contribution is not made from the general treasury funds of a corporation, labor organization or national bank" - which SCOTUS recently struck down.

And number six is "The funds I am donating are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution." This transports us back to Barack's heady days on the campaign trail when hundreds of millions of dollars were being raised every month - much of it suspect and potentially illegal from anonymous overseas contributors via untraceable gift cards.

Ironically, the same FEC that lost a recent SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance is the same FEC that audited John McCain's publicly financed campaign contributions, but refused to audit President Obama's campaign contributions.

Suddenly President Obama seems all concerned about "the rules" now.

Funny how that works.

Any person may file an allegation of fraud or noncompliance...

Very interesting information.

About That SCOTUS Ruling on Campaign Finance...

"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech..."

"The Citizens United v. FEC case overturns a variety of campaign finance laws enacted over the past century. For example, it nullifies part of a century-old statute known as the Tillman Act (1907), which barred corporations from using treasury funds to engage in the political process. It also vitiated similar prohibitions imposed on unions after World War II. Moreover, the decision invalidates part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold) that prohibited certain types of ads within 60 days of a general election and 30 days from a primary.

Bottom line: Both corporations and labor unions may now use their general treasury funds to pay for unlimited independent expenditures, including advertisements, for or against candidates at any time."

Oh. About those "floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections..?" In the words of Justice Alito: "Not true."


TY TS for the 'toon, via MF

CNN's Resident Racialist Chris Matthews "Forgot Obama Was Black Tonight "

WTF does that have to do with anything, you dillweed???!

Update: Ooops. Matthews works for MSNBC. But what do I know? All those white people look alike to me.

SOTU: A Supermarket of a Speech

President Obama's speech seemed to have everything in it, including the kitchen sink - 7200 hundred words of faded campaign promises, reiterated liberal policies, a mea culpa, derision of the separation of powers, plus a bone to the energy sector and the homosexuals (no pun!). Although he never mentioned not closing GITMO. Nutroots unite!

It was almost like he was on the campaign trail again: He used the word "I" or some variation, like "I've" or "I'm", 99 times during his speech; he used the word "congress" 11 times; he used the word "bank", "banker", or "bankrolled" also eleven times; he used the words "recovery act" (read: porkulus) six times; but he only used the word "military" twice, and the words "freedom" and "democracy" once and never used the words "liberty" or "opportunity" at all.

By comparison, the Republican response from the newly sworn in Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell(R) was a parsimonious civics lesson on the founding principles of this great nation: "Opportunity - nine times; "Liberty" - three times; "Honor" - twice; "Individual" - twice; "growth" - twice and "congress" - twice.

Oh. McDonnell only used the word "I", or some variation there of, 6 times.

Anti-Choice

It's a 30 second commercial that few have previewed which heralds the sacrificial love of a mother for her unborn child, but apparently, some things are not to be tolerated by those peccant progressives with their enlightened view of the world.

"The Heisman Trophy winning quarterback — one of the most celebrated college football players of all time — has cut an ad with his mother Pam, who tells of her decision not to end her 1987 pregnancy in spite of advice from doctors to do so. Pam Tebow and her husband were working as missionaries in the Philippines at the time when doctors there advised her to have an abortion due to health concerns. She did not, and Tim Tebow was born.

The ad will debut during the Super Bowl, prompting protests from numerous women’s groups and organizations supporting abortion that say the ad violates CBS’s longstanding tradition of not airing controversial ads during sports events.

“The abortion debate has no place in the Super Bowl. I organize abortion rights rallies all the time and I recognize how inappropriate it would be for me to sit in the stands with signs at the Super Bowl,” said Erin Matson, vice president of the National Organization for Women, which has called on CBS to reject the ad."

"...no place in the Super Bowl?" It's the story of a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, the triumph of family and a mother's love. That seems to me to be exactly the place for such a high profile advertisement. Unless, of course, one is a boisterous bigot opposed to those kinds of choices, then I can understand their objection.

It is encouraging, though, to notice that some Lefties agree with me and see this as nothing more than the free market doing what it does best - offer choice. Unless, of course, one is a fickle fascist opposed to those kinds of choices, then I can understand their objection.

Colts 37 - Saints 24

Place yer bets, boys n girls.

They Execute Traitors, Don't They?

The last person convicted of treason against the U.S. of A. was Tomoya Kawakita. In 1952, he was sentenced to death for his collaboration with Imperial Japan during WW2. President Eisenhower commuted the death sentence to life in prison.

Article III Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution defines treason as:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Kawakita didn't deny his collaboration, but objected to the treason charge as he claimed to have renounced his U.S. citizenship, and thus could not be tried for treason.

By 2002, creeping relativism introduced more shades of gray to the question of treason. John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" fighter, was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan. After Lindh's lawyers threatened to muddy the judicial waters by having Lindh's battlefield confession thrown out and cast dispersion upon his interrogators for not reading him his Miranda Rights, Lindh copped a deal and plead guilty to "conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban." He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Fast forward to 2010, and the Obama administration's post, post modern world of ten thousand shades of gray, with its current 'man caused disaster' conundrum: U.S. Mulls Legality of Killing American al Qaeda "Turncoat", Radical Muslim Cleric Anwar Awlaki, In Yemen.

"While Awlaki has not been charged with any crimes under U.S. law, intelligence officials say recent intelligence reports and electronic intercepts show he played an important role in recruiting the accused "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Awlaki also carried on extensive e-mail communication with the accused Fort Hood shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, prior to the attack that killed 12 soldiers and one civilian.

According to the people who were briefed on the issue, American officials fear the possibility of criminal prosecution without approval in advance from the White House for a targeted strike against Awlaki."

But that labyrinth extends far beyond White House approval, as demonstrated by the Obama administration's own threats to prosecute former Bush administration officials for 'abuses' - from CIA interrogators and the Office of Legal Counsel, right up to V.P. Dick Cheney.

What a wicked web we weave...

Jane over at the JR puts a finer point on it all:

"If (Obama's Attorney General Eric) Holder determines that the US has legal justification for a hit on Awlaki, what's to say the next Attorney General won't disagree and haul the commander who executed the order into court, as an individual? That's what happened to some CIA operatives. Its no wonder officials are risk averse and dithering for a month, its a whole new world."

Krykee. The circular firing squad is now officially a cabinet level position. I long for the good ol' days when the Pledge of Allegiance was understood by any grade school kid, and we knew decisively what to do with traitors.

Private Donations to Aid Haiti Exceed $470-Million

From the Chronicle of Philanthropy:

"Thirteen days after the massive earthquake struck, donors have contributed more than $470-million to 39 U.S. nonprofit groups..."

This is above and beyond the 100 million U.S. govt. dollars pledged by President Obama on Jan. 14, one day after the horrific earthquake that devastated Haiti.

"Many groups are raising large sums for relief efforts in Haiti online and through text messages. By Friday, the American Red Cross had received $29-million through its campaign to encourage $10 gifts through texts.

That’s a record for the group in terms of text messages. In contrast, it raised $200,000 from texts during the 2008 hurricane season."

And all this in the midst of worst economy since the great depression, and a poltergeist named 'Hoover' haunting the White House.

You can't out give the American people.

But with complaints about the Haitian government's management of relief supplies and medical assistance mounting, there are still miracles that keep survivors and rescuers buoyed with hope: Survivor pulled from rubble 12 days after earthquake .

Here's Something You Don't See Everyday

Man Caught At Airport With 44 Lizards In Pants.

Is that a lizard in your pocket or are you just happy to see me, must've been security's first clue.

I guess this clown should've detoured through Detroit for a better chance at success.

Propagandist Oliver Stone Veers into Gore Vidal Nutjob Territory

Hitler 'enabled by Western bankers'.

"BANGKOK (AP) - Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday.

Stone, who is working on a 10-part documentary on the 20th century titled "The Secret History of the United States," said the German dictator was "enabled by Western bankers" and managed to "seduce" Germany's military industrial complex."

Oh noes! Not BANKERS. Especially Western Bankers.

Hey, Oliver. Last I looked Germany was in the West and long part of the West's engine of Money, Industry, Science, Religion and Politics - for, oh, I don't know - the last 400 YEARS!

A war weary world, after WW1, was in no mood to confront a rabidly revived, militaristic Germany. Just ask your progressive buddy, Woodrow Wilson(D) who probably facilitated the political ramp-up to WW2 more than "Western bankers."

What's next? Blame the Jews for supplying the barbed wire & crematoriums?

Why don't you just hook up with Michael Moore to draw this anti-capitalism agitprop out to its inevitable conclusion and blame Bush, already.

Copenhagen Congressional Junket Costs Tax Payers $1.1 Million

And nothing of any consequence was accomplished.

From CBS News, 'in all fairness':

"CBS News Investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports official filings and our own investigation show at least 106 people from the House and Senate attended - spouses, a doctor, a protocol expert and even a photographer.

For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That's $2,200 a day - more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage payment.

CBS News asked members of Congress and staff about whether they're mindful that it's public tax dollars they're spending. Many said they had never even seen the bills or the expense reports.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is a key climate change player. He went to Copenhagen last year. Last week, we asked him about the $2,200-a-day bill for room and food.

"I can't believe that," Rep. Waxman said. "I can't believe it, but I don't know."

But his name is in black and white in the expense reports. The group expense report was filed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She wouldn't talk about it when our producer tried to ask."

Being a profligate D-Bag who spends other people's money is easy; getting a clue and subsequently re-elected is hard.

Democracy is Easy. Public Speaking is Hard

Obama Brings TelePrompter to Speak to 6th Grade Class.

Doppelgänger

Colbert channels Sigmund.

Has Barack Obama failed, or has he succeeded at failing? Or is he Adolph Carter? Discuss.

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The Rock Band 'Scorpions' Break Up

Yup. That was my first reaction. "Who?"

My second reaction was Schließlich! I mean the guitarist and lede singer are both 61.

Seriously, though, 45 years for any going concern is quite impressive - especially in R & R.

Click here and you'll also say, "Hey. I know those songs!"

We Can Do Better Than This Grim Milestone

I'm not sure in what brutal universe I would be granted the private right to smother grandma to death in the privacy of my own home simply because grandma couldn't survive outside the care of my home, but apparently that right is granted to those who wish to kill unborn babies - ostensibly because those babies can't survive outside the womb, and society shouldn't judge the private decisions of others because it's like, you know, uh, private.

Huh?

Last Friday marked the 37th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Since then 50 million unborn babies have been killed.

Tens of thousands of people marched in the cold last Friday in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate against abortion. (video)

"Abortion opponents have held the annual march since 1974. The goal is to protest the Supreme Court's Jan. 22, 1973, ruling that most laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy. Over the years, the march has grown into one of the largest events for abortion opponents.

The events began early Friday morning with a youth rally at the Verizon Center. The rally, organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, featured religious bands, a Mass conducted by bishops from across the country, including Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, and a "confess-a-thon," in which more than 100 priests heard confessions at stations set up in the arena.

Friday afternoon, the march on the Mall went along Constitution Avenue, up Capitol Hill and then to the Supreme Court."

I bet our loyalist lap dog network talking heads didn't make but a passing mention of this event all weekend. Maybe Monday. Or when the crickets stop chirping.

However, the usual suspects championed Roe v Wade, and vowed to continue this 'fundamental right' of carnage (I wonder if pro-abortionists are descended from those who thought Dred Scott was only 4/5ths of a human being? But I digress).

We can do better. And the youth are leading the way: New survey shows youth becoming more pro-life.

"Members of the Millennial generation (18-29 y.o.) say abortion is “morally wrong” at a rate of 58 percent.

The survey, which was conducted between December 2009 and January 2010, was co-sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and the Marists. It asked, among other things, if abortion was “morally wrong.”

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they thought that abortion was indeed “morally wrong.”

The survey shows that Americans are becoming more pro-life, but more importantly, it showed that the upcoming generations are more pro-life than those nearing retirement."

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Rachel House is committed to serving women, men and babies in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Our staff and volunteers are committed to serving with kindness and consideration, providing accurate information in a loving manner, and, listening to the client, loving her where she is."

Because we can do better.

Blog Notes

Some links:

Court Dates Moved In The Gladney Case.

Actress Jean Simmons Dead at 80.

Dusting Off the Political F-Word.

Gallup: Americans Agree with High Court’s Political Speech Ruling.

U.S. to Appeal Dismissal of Charges Against Blackwater.

Most Union Members Work For Gov’t.

Now That's Internet Dominance.

Desperation

The Gray Lady gives Charles' lil green johnson wood.

(I know... I'll go hang my head in shame, now)

Krykee Doodle

Absolutely scandalous! Anyone who contributed to that horrid 80's techno-pop should be expelled from the country.

Friday Night Hoop-la

The Vogues - You're The One



Psst. That spinning thang is a 'turn table.' And thank technology for digital!

Your Tax Dollars at Work

First came the NPR produced 'Learn To Speak Tea Bag' cartoon poking fun at "Tea Baggers" (the Tea Party political movement, not the homosexual sex act) - with the usual applause from the Left and jeers from the Right; not because the Right wants to squash free speech, but because the Right doesn't want this type of Leftist agitprop subsidized with tax dollars.

Now the tax payer subsidized agitprop raises its ugly head again: NPR Commentator Denounces Limbaugh as 'Excrement In Broadcasting.'

Limbaugh, schmimbaugh. He's is in the same political bomb throw theatre as Glen Beck. If the market place gives 'em an audience, God bless 'em and good luck. As for me - thanks, but no thanks. I know how to use the 'off' button.

The main issue, once again, is our collective tax dollars funding this Leftist bias at NPR, which is hemmoraging money - kinda like the free market Air America did for years, and inevitably, finally went out of business yesterday. But, I digress.

The Lefties may not like Limbaugh or Levin or Savage, et al., but at least the Lefties are not forced to subsidize their salaries, but we right wingers are forced to subsidize those whom we disagree with at NPR via our tax dollars.

That's a distinction with quite a difference, but one that is totally lost on the Leftists.

Blog notes

Lite posting the rest of today. Wife's orders. I have to finish trimming out and painting her kitchen.

I'll be back tomorrow with the final word on the demise of Air America; the free at last, free at last, SCOTUS free speech ruling, and how the ATF puts 250 million illegal cigarettes on streets. Gub'mint healthcare anyone?

Kill Chachi

"Scott Baio, who supported Scott Brown in Massachusetts, received death threats this week after he posted an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama on twitter."

I'm no longer surprised. Death threats and violence against those they disagree with is a typical tolerant Lefty response.

But Baio is wasting his time trying to use satire and reason with Lefties. It just confuses ‘em and makes ‘em mad.

A Picture of a Republican's Daughters in Bikinis

Oh noes! How dare they be young and attractive.



The commenters over at HuffyPoo are just not happy, and let their wonderful Lefty prurient prejudices shine through.

TGIF

"See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil"

We now return to our regular programming. That Massachusetts' Senate race pretty much sucked the air out the room for the last week, so this (sadly) got relegated to the shadows: The Pentagon's release, last Friday, of its official report on the tragic Ft. Hood Massacre.

In short, 86 pages of nothing detailing how the system did not work. In fact, it bloody well facilitated Major Nidal Hasan's efforts to ramp up and commit his murderous massacre last November.

Although you'd never know it from the authors of that report.

From Robert Spencer writing for Human Events:

"Although there were numerous signs that Nidal Hasan was an Islamic jihadist who believed it part of his religious responsibility as a Muslim to wage war against Infidels, the words “jihad,” “Muslim,” “Islam” and even “Islamist” never appear in the 86-page mélange of droning bureaucratese."

Mr. Spencer expounds on the point:

"Political correctness was responsible for the murders of thirteen people at Fort Hood. If it had not held the political and military establishments in a stranglehold, Nidal Hasan would never have remained in the U.S. military, much less risen to the rank of major. He would have been removed from the ranks long before he had had a chance to murder anyone at Fort Hood. Political correctness was responsible for the fear among his superior officers -- they knew that if they disciplined or removed Hasan, they would have faced charges of “discrimination” and “bigotry.” And such charges can ruin careers these days.

But that same political correctness is still very much in place, as the Fort Hood report abundantly indicates. And so for all its bluster about preventing the next attack, it will stand -- after the next jihad attack, and the one after that -- as a monument to the cowardice and myopia that held sway at the highest levels in Washington during the first year of the Obama Administration."

"We may not be at war with Islam, but apparently its at war with us."

And home grown Muslim extremism is a rising threat.

Does Scott Brown(R) Have Coat Tails?

A new Rasmussen survey says Roy Blunt(R) is now up by six points over Robin Carnahan(D) in Missouri's upcoming Senate race.

I'm not much for polls, except the one on election day. The perennially political Carnahan family is much entrenched in Missouri politics and has a big bad machine to back 'em up, so make of it what you will.

Private Charity to Haiti Far Outpaces U.S. Govt. Aid

You can't outgive the American people.

According to the The Chronicle of Philanthropy, private charitable contributions have topped $305,000,000.00, eight days after the horrific quake devastated Haiti.

"The pace of giving for Haiti is running ahead of the amount donated in the same period after the Asian tsunamis in 2004, but slower than the outpouring of gifts after the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

In the six days after the flooding started in New Orleans, Americans gave at least $457-million for relief efforts. In the nine days after the Asian tsunamis, major U.S. relief groups raised $163-million."

Well, there is a recession going on.

Last Thursday, President Obama pledged $100,000,000.00 in government aid to Haiti, with a promise of more to come. This money is ultimately provided by private citizens, in the form a tax dollars.

The issue of our military presence in Haiti would add considerable government expenditures to these figures, but, again, those costs are incurred by the U.S. tax payer.

You can't outgive the American people.

Of course, the Lefties are prattling on with some tangential screed about wealth redistribution and our meager gub'mint aid to Haiti when compared to the production costs of the movie "Avatar." Or something.

This dissonant thought pattern totally discounts the private charity, but that's typical of Lefties.

I wonder if that author bothered to ask how big a check director James Cameron wrote for relief efforts?

Was Ted Kennedy Instrumental in Electing Scott Brown?

In 2004, Massachusetts had a Republican governor, Mitt Romney. One of its senator's, John Kerry(D), was running for POTUS. Massachusetts' law gave the governor power to directly fill any vacancy created, if Kerry won the Presidency in 2004.

Ted Kennedy(D) was successful in removing that power from the governor by changing state law to require a special Senate election within 145 to 160 days of receiving a resignation letter from said Senator.

By 2007, Massachusetts had a Democrat governor, Deval Patrick. Shortly before Ted Kennedy's death in August, 2009, Kennedy petitioned the state legislature to give the power to directly fill any Senate vacancy back to the now Democrat governor. (Not that Mr. Kennedy was a manipulative, partisan hack, or anything...)

The Massachusetts legislature never pursued the idea.

So, thank you, Ted! If it wasn't for you, Scott Brown(R) would have never had a chance at winning "the people's seat."

Closer to Home:

Missouri lawmakers approve resolution against federal health care overhaul.

"Jefferson City -- The Missouri House sent a bipartisan message to the state's congressional delegation Tuesday: scrap the current federal health care reform legislation and start over.

Twenty-two Democrats joined 89 Republicans in passing a resolution urging Missouri's nine House members and two U.S. Senators to vote against the current health care reform bills before Congress.

The vote came just minutes after polls closed Tuesday in a Massachusetts special election in which Republican Scott Brown ran on a platform of breaking the Democratic supermajority in the U.S. Senate and possibly derailing President Obama's health care agenda."

It was a non-binding resolution, but merely intended to send a message to Congress.

Other Missouri democrats were clueless.

"While many Republican lawmakers viewed approval of the resolution as a key stance against the federal health care overhaul, some Democrats dismissed it as partisan posturing. Minority Leader Paul LeVota, D-Independence, called the debate “political theater” ..."

I disagree with Mr. LeVota's assessment, but if a state legislature can't engage in political theatre inside the state legislature, just where the h3ll can they???

Icing on the Cake

"Nutjob" Erroll Southers withdraws as Obama's TSA nominee.

He then complained that his nomination had become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda.

Yup. Mr. Southers is totally apolitical.

Not only does Southers believe that thwarting terrorism should be no higher a priority than global warming or education, but this kook rattled off every leftwing nut conspiracy in one interview.

When will this circus ever leave town???

Scott Brown(R) even Won Barney Frank's District

That would be Massachusetts' Fourth Congressional District. Two thirds of the state was painted red by Brown's victory, and perhaps that's why Barney is now the head rat jumping off the Obamacare ship:

"If Martha Coakley had won, I believe we could have worked out a reasonable compromise between the House and Senate health care bills. But since Scott Brown has won and the Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate, that approach is no longer appropriate."

But, in all fairness (we are nothing, if not fair, here at LB1901) Mr. Frank was making more aggressive noises along that defeatists line just 5 days ago by proclaiming, "If Scott Brown wins, it'll kill the health bill."


By golly. It's like there was so much hand writing on the wall that he knew the wall would fall down?

Ah, come on, Barney. Don't fear an agitated electorate - especially when you're up for reelection this year.

Which brings me to this lil nugget from that perennial liberal useful idiot, Jon Stewart, who, like a blind squirrel, even finds a nut once in a while: what's so magical about 60 votes when the hated boooshitler got so much more done with less?

The Scott Heard 'Round the World

Scott Brown(R) wins Massachusetts' senate seat.

“I never thought I’d see the day when a Republican replaces Ted Kennedy,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Herald last night. “I think Scott Brown caught the wave of anger that’s out there, and the wave of anti-Obama.”

A Rasmussen Reports poll found one in five Democrats supported Brown, who benefited from high suburban turnout to beat Coakley by 52 to 47 percent."

This guy was a virtual unknown two weeks ago. Except for that 15 minutes in 1982 when he posed semi-nude in Cosmo. Don't look, Martha!

And did you watch Brown's victory speech last night? He sounded an awful lot like a man running for president (not that an obscure junior senator with little management experience would ever have a chance).

Democracy now, indeed. Viva La Revolution!

If Brown Wins, Democrats to Implement "Hurry up & Stall"

From an observant Washington Times:

"Some of the groundwork has already been laid by the Democratic establishment who have given reporters different reasons why seating Republican Brown would take longer than Massachusetts Democrats Kennedy and Tsonges.

The Massachusetts Attorney General William F. Gavin, a Democrat, has said it would take at least 10 days to certify a new senator because it would take that long to count absentee ballots.

Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, have suggested Mr. Brown will also have to wait until Vice President Joe Biden is "available" to swear him in although the law also permits other Senate officials, like the Secretary of Senate, to perform swearing-in duties.

It didn't take nearly as long in 1962 or 2007 when two other Massachusetts Democrats won special elections.

Mr. Kennedy was seated a day after winning his special election, on Nov. 7, 1962, to fill his brother John F. Kennedy's seat.

In fact, Mr. Kennedy's certification papers weren't even ready when he became the Senate's youngest member. The archived certificate is dated Nov. 21, 1962 and the Senate didn't mark it "received" until Nov. 28.

Rep. Tsongas also benefited from a swift seating process.

She won her Oct. 16, 2007 special election for former Rep. Marty Meehan's seat and was sworn in two days later."

How convenient, but it's the typical liberal definition of situational democracy.

TY CS

"If We Don't Win, You Cheated!"

That will be the rally cry of democrats in Massachusetts' Senate election tomorrow if democrat Coakley loses. And that looks pretty likely.

Republican candidate Scott Brown is so sure of that typical democrat post-election stink bomb, he's requested volunteers from society's new priesthood to thwart any voter fraud sheenanigans from the democrats.

And based upon the total train wreck of a campaign Coakley's ran so far, that's a wise decision on Brown's part.

From the Boston Herald:

"Win or lose, she will forever be Martha the Blind - the woman who couldn’t see terrorists in Afghanistan, or a staffer giving a beatdown to a reporter right before her eyes. She’s Sen. Spellcheck, forced to pull one ad because her campaign misspelled Massachusetts, then another because it superimposed Scott Brown’s image in front of the World Trade Center.

Given the incompetence of her campaign, she was lucky it was a pre-9/11 photo of the towers.

In the Democratic primary, Coakley ran on the one thing she couldn’t get wrong: being a woman. It’s been downhill ever since."

But this election portends a bigger issue:

"This has now turned into a referendum on health care in the bluest state. If Brown wins, technical 60 vote aside, there are a lot of mod[erate] Ds who are going to flip and this thing will be in trouble, not dead, but delayed and possibly scaled back," said a Democratic health care industry insider, adding that a Republican win will make it that much harder for Democratic congressional leaders to sell a final deal to their members.

Republican strategist Phil Blando agreed. He said the argument over whether Kirk's vote will count or not is "a legal technicality in the broader political earthquake that a Brown victory would signal. The concern isn't that you lose Kirk's vote, but that you lose Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln and Joe Lieberman and a bunch of Blue Dogs."

And any Democratic move to slow-walk seating Brown in order to pass reform, Blando said, is "just naked, pure power politics where, at that point, you're just thwarting the will of the people."

Tic-Toc.

Make Me an Angel to Fly From Montgomery

"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." - Dr. Martin L. King, April 3, 1968, The Eve Of His Assassination

I found the following to be most interesting. A 1956 comic book illustrating the life and public ministry of Dr. King. It's posted in full on the web and is interactive. It is 15 pages long. The title page reads:

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.
"How 50,000 Negros found a new way to end racial discrimination."



Click the image. I think it is worth reminding our Liberal friends that Dr. King was a Baptist minister, and a Republican, who championed traditional marriage, opposed abortion and opposed government imposed racial preference - for whites or Blacks. "A letter from a Birmingham Jail" is a classic example of anti-statism, instead demanding the morality of God be the arbiter of justice.

His niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, works to keep his dream alive - in particular, for the unborn.

Weekends Are Good For You, Study Finds

From the "No S**t Sherlock" Department:

"Working men and women across all occupations felt mentally and physically better on the weekends regardless of income, work hours, education, age or marital status, the researchers found."

Though not specifically mentioning it, the study assumes a 7 day week and merely confirms the failed grand social manipulations of centuries gone by.

The French attempted a 10 day week after their Revolution in 1791, and the Soviet Union tried to implement a 5 day week many times, but both were counter productive, and inevitably abandoned for the tried and true 7 day week with an obvious weekend.

Throughout history, archeological records show the 7 day week as the preeminent model for human activity.

The traditional 7 day week could be posited as a social construct or religious edict, but I think it has more to do with our original design and disconnection to the natural cycles of this rock we live upon.

But I’m just silly that way...

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Evil, Capitalistic, Bigoted America Comes to Haiti’s Assistance.

"Y’know, in reality—as in a blistering, natural disaster reality—one always finds that it is America that rocks the hardest in regard to real relief. We blow away other nations. Yep, whether it is a tsunami or an earthquake, you can count on evil, mean, nasty, bigoted, murderous, Christian American men and women to be the first responders to offer no-BS help in time of need.

It’ll be interesting to see how many (and at what level) Muslim organizations and nations, atheist organizations, Code Pink, PETA punks, Chavez and Castro, GLSEN, euro-socialist dillweeds, Green Peace, and Avatar’s woodsy blue people pony up and help the Haitians through their hellish nightmare. I wonder if they’ll even come close to our American Judeo-Christian largesse?

It’s also really interesting to me how mean, white America runs to relieve a city that’s 99.9% black without blinking. At least we’re not going around like Reid, Biden and Byrd and calling them “clean Negroes” who can turn their black slang on and off."

TY L

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

SEIU members in Massachusetts hold up signs supporting Republican Scott Brown.

With all this glowbull warming is it still possible that h3ll has frozen over??!

World Classless 4sshole: MSNBC's Ed Schultz

Concerning Scott Brown's candidacy for a Massachusetts Senate seat, Ed said,

"Yeah, that's right. I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. 'Cause that's exactly what they are."

Registering dead people to vote; assaulting political opponents; stuffing the ballot box.

Typical liberal definition of 'democracy'.

But don't expect any outrage from our media watchdogs for Ed's confession. It's that nasty FOX News that's all biased and unfair...

Obama Enlists GW Bush & Bill Clinton for Haiti Relief Effort

You can donate or volunteer your help to the International Salvation Army; the Red Cross or Heart to Heart.

"Mr. Obama met in the Oval Office with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to discuss the fund-raising effort.

"By coming together in this way, these two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and to the people of the world," Mr. Obama said in the Rose Garden, standing between Messrs. Bush and Clinton. "In these difficult hours, America stands united. We stand united with the people of Haiti, who have shown such incredible resilience, and we will help them to recover and to rebuild."

Just wondering, though… Since the hated boooshitler doesn't care about Black people and let them all die after Hurricane Katrina, wouldn’t Obama be guilty by association of not caring about Black people and wanting them to die, also?

Or is this a super secret double agent political insurgency to counter Limbaugh’s charge that everything is political with this president and he's merely doing anything to curry favor with light skinned Black people with minimal Negro dialect??


AP over at HA simply wants to know if The One is finally starting to heal the planet and stop the ocean's rise.

My head hurts.

TY TS for the 'toon.

I think this means Sarah gets a sainthood or something

Palin rallies union members to oppose Obamacare.

More Rat Killin'...

Or, if you tempt that darwin award committee severely enough, you'll get your booby prize.

Friday Night Hoop-la

In honor of Democratic US Senate candidate Martha Coakley's brawling lieutenant, Michael Meehan, for continuing that tried and true SEIU tactic of assaulting your political opponents, we present Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones.



Hey. What's the democrat party if it's not dead people voting and the tactics of thuggery?

Uh oh. The bottom has fallen out of Coakley's poll numbers and the democrats scramble for some Obama CYA.

Public Person's Offensive Statement Flowchart

You know where this is going...

(click to enlarge)

Pocket edition available soon.

TY MF via V & PI

Illegal Immigration Causes Global Warming

That ought to make the Lefties collective head explode.

It's been documented before how illegals trash the border and destroy the delicate desert environment, but those stories are usually buried with obscure local papers and local ranching concerns.

I found this headline on Yah00 this evening. (video) Click the pic.



It reads "Illegal immigration threatens an Arizona desert monument."

Read that again: "Illegal immigration threatens an Arizona desert monument." That would be the Ironwood Forest National Monument. The (video) details, once again, how illegals trash the areas they traverse and destroy the delicate desert ecosystem with their unlawful migration.

Update: per usual, anything which refutes or minimizes a Lefty mantra, or bolsters a conservative position, is short lived on Yah00 headlines. This headline disappeared within 14 minutes. The antipodal holds true, too.

Marco Rubio(R) Calls For Suspending Congress For Two Years

"First, do no harm."

It's a good mantra for medicine and politics, as well. But our Lefty friends over at the oddly named "Think Progress" have messed themselves over Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio's comment:(video)

"Last night on CNBC, Marco Rubio, a right-wing Republican running for US Senate in Florida, told host Larry Kudlow about his “solutions to the high unemployment” and economic recession. Rubio chafed at responding with any actual ideas, policies, or solutions. In fact, Rubio proposed that if he were elected, he would call for “a two year recess or something” so no laws or reforms could be enacted..."

Seriously?

Suspend Congress for only two years???

I think a half dozen would be the bare minimum...

Notice how the author labeled Rubio a "right-wing" Republican, a clear nod to the alternative of democrat-lite RINO Republican.

Rubio is a big hit on the Tea Party circuit, and the author was considerate enough to label Rubio with the "tea partiers" - and not use the more vulgar missive for that group.

But then the author's boooshitler wheels fall off with the oft repeated Lefty mendacity concerning "former Bush advisers responsible for inflating the housing market, refusing to increase financial oversight, and funneling tax subsidies to the privileged elite...blah, blah, blah, when it's well documented how congressional Democrats ran that train off the rails.

Of course, the real reason Lefties object to Rubio is that Lefties don't like Brown people. It's just that simple.

H3LL Freezes Over As Herr Ubermann Agrees with Me

Herr Ubermann then launches some screed about Limbaugh being worse than the lowest worm squished in Haiti's rubble; blah, blah, blah...

Jesus dealt with Pat Robertson's warped gospel of punishment via natural disaster in John 9:1-5.

It's time to retire, Pat. You're nothing but a laughing stock, and give the Gospel of Christ (as perverse as you present it) a bad name.

I wonder if Herr Ubermann was as articulate and vociferous in denouncing the unreverend Jeremiah (G*DD*MN AMERICA) Wright?

Old news. Just wondering.

The devastation in Haiti is astounding, and relief aid is coming to the Island nation from all over the world:

"Aid was delivered or promised from many countries, including Brazil, the European Union, Britain, Germany, Israel, France, Switzerland, South Korea and Canada. China dispatched a chartered plane carrying 10 tons of tents, food, medical equipment and sniffer dogs, along with a 60-member earthquake relief team who worked in China's own 2008 earthquake, which killed some 90,000 people.

The Red Cross estimated that some 3 million people in Haiti will require aid, ranging from shelter to food and clean water, and said many Haitians could need relief aid for a full year."

Cuba, with its Leftist vaunted health care system, has yet to offer anything to its neighbor, a mere 40 miles away.

You can donate or volunteer your help to the International Salvation Army; the Red Cross or Heart to Heart.

Things to Remember While Helping Haiti. Good advice.

You Can't Spell 'Unethical' without 'U.N.'

"Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.

Apparently, Mr. Ritter has a perverse criminal history with underage girls.

This is Just Wrong

Judge opens door to lesser sentence in Roeder case.

"Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, is charged with first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death of Tiller inside his church. Roeder also faces two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly threatening two ushers.

Jury selection begins Monday and is expected to take from two days to a week. More than 60 prospective jurors will show up in court Monday.

And a surprise decision by Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert virtually assures that the trial will thrust Wichita even more in the spotlight.

The judge said Friday that he will allow the defense to present testimony that Roeder acted “upon an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force.”

That means jurors could have the option of finding Roeder guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which carries a much lighter sentence than first-degree murder."

How can something be 'honest' if it's 'unreasonable?'

The judge may have anti-abortion sympathies, and is attempting to mitigate this horrendous situation by allowing such a defense, or, perhaps, surreptitiously allow a forum for anti-abortion sentiment in the courtroom, but I believe he does the whole issue of pro-life a great disservice.

Indignant vigilantism should not be used to circumvent due process by depriving others of life, anymore than violent medical procedures against the most helpless of human beings should deprive them of life.

Whether it's Roeder taking the life of Tiller, or Tiller (and those whose use tortured logic to rationalize) killing unborn babies, the law should be clear: murder is murder! Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

Some Lefties do agree with me, but for perverse reasons:

"...Judge Warren Wilbert's ruling will only provide fresh oxygen for the violent fringe."

The sick irony being that the horrific violence against millions of unborn is lost on these ignorant journalists.

This graphic distinction with a monumental difference is compounded by the fact that pro-lifers do want murderers prosecuted, while the pro-abortion crowd seeks more murder via federal funding.

May God have mercy on your miserable souls.

Seriously?

This hate mongering bigot, and ignorant racialist, Wanda Sykes, who has wished death upon her political opposite, has a television show on the FOX network?!

Wicked irony.

The Teacher Taught Pi R squared

The lil boy replied, "My mamma's pies are round."

Pi = 3.14159265 rounded off, but it actually goes on forever.

Make mine apple, please.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609...

A French computer scientist claims to have calculated Pi to nearly 2.7 trillion decimal places, a new record made even more impressive because he did it on a personal computer.

I'm Suing AlGore & The Church of Glowbull Warming Faithful

This is the fourth morning in a row that we've awoke to record low, or near record low, single digit temperatures.



KCP&L asks customers to conserve electricity. (because all those wind turbines & solar panels do such a good job?)

The rest of the nation ain't doing so hot, either.

Cold stuns Floridians, causes deaths elsewhere. (shouldn't there be criminal culpability for this AGW scam?)

Snow, freezing weather hit Europe, disrupt travel. (Copenhagen worked!)

AlGore, call yer office.

Yup. Once again, weather is not climate, but climate is comprised of weather patterns. Does the climate change? Of course it does. Ice core samples from around the world, which look back 10, 20, even 30 thousand years show a repeated and continuing pattern of warm periods and cold periods. Like a cycle or something!

Something that a puny lil, bi-pedal primate with a large brain and a wicked imagination has little or no influence upon.



Lawyer up, Michael Mann.

Friday Night Hoop-la

Motörhead - The Ace Of Spades



Everything to start your new years off right - head banging, ear bleeding, guitar hero wannabe.

Accused Holocaust museum killer dies in prison

Good riddance to bad rubbish:

"Accused Holocaust Memorial Museum gunman James Von Brunn has died in a prison hospital more than six months after a rampage that left one security guard dead. Von Brunn was rushed to the Butner Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., Wednesday where he was pronounced dead just before 1 p.m., Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said.

It wasn't clear what caused his death, but Von Brunn, 89, had long been in poor health and was wounded in the June 10 shooting. He was in a massive federal prison in Butner, N.C., undergoing psychiatric evaluation while awaiting trial for the slaying of Stephen Johns, a veteran security guard, at the Southwest D.C. museum."

Not a day after the tragic shooting, the Lefties were quick paint Von Brunn as a wingnut birther, and blame it all on talk radio.

Not that the lefties were being prejudiced or judgmental or anything...

Of course, it wasn't so black & white with absolute certainty (something Lefties claim to loathe). True, Von Brunn was a white supremacist who hated Jews and liberals, but he was also a 9/11 'truther' who hated neo-cons, George Bush, John McCain, Bill O'Reilly & FOX news magnate, Ruppert Murdoch.

And he was an evolutionist. Oh noes!

"As with ALL LIBERAL ideologies, miscegenation is totally
inconsistent with Natural Law: the species are improved
through in-breeding, natural selection and mutation. Only
the strong survive. Cross-breeding Whites with species lower
on the evolutionary scale diminishes the White gene-pool
while increasing the number of physiologically, psychologically
and behaviorally deprived mongrels."

Krykee. Proof positive that this theory drives people over the brink. Best put it on the naughty list with Christianistas, talk radio, Gitmo, and SUVs.

Blog notes

Heading out to somewhere...

Won't be back for awhile.

Friday Night Hoop-la

The Shape I'm In by The Band.



From Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary.