Much Ado About Nothing

Gates caller says she didn’t cite race

The woman whose report of a possible house break-in led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said she never mentioned race during her 911 call and is “personally devastated’’ by media accounts that suggest she placed the call because the men she observed on the porch were black,

Listen to the call here.

1. Mr. Gates should go the concerned neighbor and personally apologize and thank her for looking out for his house.

2. Mr. Gates and President Obama should personally apologize to officer Crowley and the Cambridge police department and police across the country.

3. In my opinion, this puts the lie to what Henry Gates and others black leaders have been teaching for years. It's time to put the race baiters out of business.
If Obama wants to be a leader and not a divider, he should lead in that.

Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray

A Broken Wall

I pray that we heed these words.

Christian Executed in North Korea

North Korea Publicly Executes Christian Woman for Distributing Bible

North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman (Ri Hyon Ok, 33) last month for distributing the Bible, which is banned in the communist nation, South Korean activists said Friday.

"North Korea appears to have judged that Christian forces could pose a threat to its regime," Do Hee-youn, a leading activist, told reporters, claiming public executions, arrest and detention of North Koreans are prevalent.

Christian ideas are a threat to anyone seeking to oppress the people. That's why they are trying to deny or downplay all traces of God in the founding of the United States

It's Good to Be an American

Where, in most places, you are allowed to defend yourself and loved ones from violent criminals. Not in England. In England you have to cower fearfully in your home and hope they don't find you before the police can get there.

A businessman was held on suspicion of attempted murder after confronting a gang of youths who allegedly threatened to kill his wife and attacked his stepson outside their home.

How dare a government take away a man's God given right to self-defense?

"Any action taken by my husband was as a result of a desire to protect his family and loved ones, and to defend his property."

Don't let them do this to Americans. Support the Second Amendment.

We Lost Our Way

Thanks Rich.

Our Leaders are Delusional

"Climate change is a threat to our national security."

As opposed to actual threats like say, Iran, North Korea, statism or militant Islamism. Yes, lets have a conversation with those who wish to destroy us and put all our energy into fighting a ghost.

They that hate you shall reign over you. And you shall flee when none pursues you. Leviticus 26:17

Truth is Liberating

The flat-earth myth and creationism

The story that Christians believed in a flat earth until Columbus’ time, and for some time thereafter, began as part of a fictional story that was elevated to historical fact by late 19th-century Darwinists who used it primarily as a means to ridicule Christians.

Shock and surprise.

In fact, those who opposed Columbus not only knew the earth was a sphere, but also had a good idea of how large it was—and this was the major reason why they opposed Columbus. Columbus and his men were not afraid of falling off the earth as Irving claimed, but of travelling so far from land in an unknown part of the world. They did not know the American continent existed, and, for this reason, Columbus’ critics correctly believed that a voyage to the Far East would take far too long and cost way too much. Unfortunately, Irving used many facts from reputable references to make his fictional account appear well supported, and, as a result, ‘the public was fooled into taking his literary game as history.’ A careful reading of Irving makes it clear that his ‘history’ was deliberately designed to make Christianity appear prejudiced, dogmatic and ignorant, and to make scientists appear as objective persons who were carefully weighing the facts and who, in the end, were correct. As Morrison correctly concluded, Irving’s account is ‘mischievous nonsense … . The sphericity of the globe was not in question. The issue was the width of the ocean,’ and on this question Columbus’ opposition was correct.

That makes so much more sense than what is commonly taught. Why do we insist on thinking our modern generations are so much smarter than previous generations? The evidence seems to point in the opposite direction or that they were at least as smart as we are. We have a larger body of knowledge now but we are far from superior in knowing how to use it.

Journalists Have Lost All Credibility

Couldn't agree with that more.

Craig Ferguson Has Figured It Out

Another Point of View

Mark Steyn: Obama knows 'stupidly' when he doesn't see it

By common consent, the most memorable moment of Barack Obama's otherwise listless press conference on "health care" were his robust remarks on the "racist" incident involving professor Henry Louis Gates and the Cambridge police. The latter "acted stupidly," pronounced the chief of state. The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power. And thank God the leader of the free world had the guts to stand up and speak truth to municipal police Sgt. James Crowley.

Perspective

What are you complaining about?

Real Life

How true it is!

No Apology

I just saw Obama backtrack on his "acted stupidly" comment and stop short of an apology. He needs to man up.

The Statists are Here!

Obama to America: 'Who's your daddy?'

"Have you ever considered the possibility that the reason they are seeking that degree of control is that – like others before them – they're simply evil?" I asked.

After all, despots and tyrannical governments have never come along and said: "Hi, I'm evil. Would you mind putting the future and fortunes of yourself and your posterity into my hands? Thank you very much." Typically, they devise a manner by which they might acquire the power desired before they manifest their true intentions. More often than not it is in the form of a real smoothie who represents himself as something wholly other than what he is.

It's not just Obama, he's just the 'slick' figurehead. Statism, Marxism, Fascism, Communism - all have been epic failures every time they are implemented. They are the enemy of freedom and therefore the enemy of America. They are anti-American and anyone who espouses those philosophies are necessarily anti-American. Oil and water don't mix.

Obama Owes the Police an Apology

Obama says the police acted stupidly in the case of Henry Gates. He said this before he even knew the facts of the case. I contend that not only has Henry Gates acted stupidly, but Obama has as well. Mr. Gates is the one who over reacted to something that could have happened to anyone. I've been in a similar situation myself and while it was a bit annoying, it's no reason to act like an ASS. Henry Gates is an ass. Obama is also an ass for saying what he did. He should not have said anything until he knew the facts. The police have a job to do and they should never let some ASS shouting racial accusations keep them from doing their job. And the president should back the police officers unless it becomes obvious there has been a stepping over the line. Yeah, that happens, but it does not appear to be the case here. Here's the police report. Obama needs to apologize to the officers and America.

"Yo Quiero Taco Bell"

Taco Bell Chihuahua Dies

"She made so many people happy,"

The Logical Bible

The Creation According to Atheists

Atheists are often an unfairly feared and scorned group. Many people tend to look upon them with disdain just because they have doubts about theology and like to go on TV and scream about how the majority of Americans are stupid for believing in God. This has led many religious people to have negative misconceptions about atheists, thinking among other things that they are followers of Satan.

That’s ridiculous. Atheists don’t worship Satan. They worship Athor, rational god of logic, who cherishes all that is logical and smites all that is illogical, such as religion. His worshipers leave him gifts of logic, like Sudoku puzzles, at his altar so that Athor might bestow upon them rational thought and they can better spot ideas that are stupid and worth mocking. This leads to the greatest gift Athor has to offer his followers: a feeling of superiority.

This is a good one.

None for Me, Thanks

Come and See the Violence Inherent in the System

Prof rages at "racist" cops

Gates was already inside the house when police arrived but initially refused to identify himself, cops said.

This could have been real simple.

Gates: Hi, I'm Henry Gates, this is my house, I locked myself out, here's my identification.

Police: Sorry to trouble you sir, have a nice day.

"They did not believe him when he said that he was in his own home. He was totally mistreated,"

So, police should just believe everything they're told when they are investigating a possible crime? Because criminals will always tell the truth, won't they? "No, I don't live here, you got me, I was stealing."

When Gates was asked to step out on the front porch and talk, he allegedly responded, "No, I will not!" and, "I'll speak with your mama outside!"

When the cop explained he was investigating a break-in, Gates snarled, "Why, because I'm a black man?" the report claims.

Gates finally produced a Harvard ID.

As police started to leave, "Gates began to yell . . . accusing me of being a racist," one officer said in the report.

Gates eventually came outside, where the shouting continued in front of witnesses.

Then Gates -- ranting, yelling and "alarming" passers-by with his "outburst" -- was arrested, cops said.

His bad attitude is what got him arrested. The police were leaving after they saw his ID. He was acting like an ass, plain and simple. If the police thought he had broken into someones house he would have been on the ground at gunpoint, not taunting them while they were trying to ask some questions. They were called about a possible break-in, they have to know for sure before they leave, it's their job.

Truth, Smuth. It's the Sentiment that Counts

Mr. President, we have a problem

"I should note, just personally, I grew up in Hawaii, as many of you know, and I still recall sitting on my grandfather's shoulders when those capsules would land in the middle of the Pacific and they'd get brought back and we'd go out and we'd pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home. And I remember waving American flags and my grandfather telling me that the Apollo mission was an example of how Americans can do anything they put their minds to."

Except, apparently, he was in Indonesia at the time, and with his parents, not grandparents. But, why quibble.

But It's Not About Him

"You're going to destroy my presidency."

Our Government

When the wicked rule

Are you mourning yet over the spiritual, moral, cultural and political direction of our nation?

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." (Proverbs 29:2)

Wicked rulers reject God, embrace evil and impose theft, death and destruction upon the people.

Sounding familiar?

Theft, they got down. Death and destruction? They're working on it, watch what happens when the economy collapses.

Laugh Them Off the Stage

A novel concept. We need to laugh these people out of office.

I Know...

Let's put government in charge of health care, too.

An Orlando woman just lost her driver's license because of a DUI from 30 years ago.

In fact, officials in Tallahassee seemed more out of date than a pair of bell bottoms, unable to explain whether Frey deserves a license or if she's been driving illegally for 30 years. Either way, the system seems to have broken down. So, for now, she sits idle, unable to drive, but with some advice.

"Anybody who goes to that driver's license office, keep all your paperwork for the rest of your life, cause you may need it," Frey said.

Whether You Want It or Not

Neal Boortz:

Have you noticed something rather odd about Obama's seizure of America's health care system? This odd little fact has been hiding, as they say, in plain sight. The only people who are really pushing this government takeover of health care are "activists" or politicians. There is absolutely no public pressure to get this done.

How Can You Tell When a Statist is Lying?

His lips are moving.

Obama on health care: "This isn't about me. This isn't about politics."

To Obama, everything is about Obama, and everything the statist does is about politics.

Moment of Clarity Coming to More Americans

Dennis Prager says Americans Are Beginning to Understand the Left

There is only one good thing about the Obama administration's attempts to nationalize most health care and to begin to control Americans' energy consumption through cap-and-trade: clarity about the left. These attempts are enabling more and more Americans to understand the thinking and therefore the danger of the left.

Very good points in there, give it a read. The truth is getting out, at least to those willing to hear.

Yes, It's True

We are now so spineless, I will never see a man walk on Mars

Their fellow-pilots died in fires and crashes. They used sextants and slide-rules and bits of paper to navigate space, and when the Eagle finally landed, the Eagle was within seconds of running out of fuel.

The whole thing was so touch and go that it simply wouldn't be allowed today. The insurers wouldn't go near it. The risk assessments would be fatal to any such venture. The rockets would remain on the launch pad, choked and smothered by the lianas of health and safety.

The tragedy of our age is that the lawyer-ridden western world is 100 times more phobic and more paranoid than the generation that flew to the Moon.

You're a Very Naughty Boy

Clinton likens North Korea to unruly children ...Unruly children with nukes!

No wonder they think time-out works. Stupid hippies are going to get a lot of innocent people killed.

I've Never Actually Done This ...

But I've wanted to. I know the feeling.

The Writing is on the Wall Blog for All to See

The Long, Agonizing Decline of the United States

The root cause of Great Britain’s decline and of ours is the disavowal of Christianity and the adoption of the secular, materialistic religion of socialism.

Socialism upends the individualism, self-reliance, and moral imperative of the Christian ethos, transferring all of it to the political state. Individuals, burdened by huge taxes and trained over the generations to look to the government for everything, become passive and focused almost exclusively upon personal sensual gratification.

Peace at any price is rationalized under socialism’s phantasmic vision of world government administered by councils of intellectuals, whose superior knowledge (materialistic gnosticism) will bring about harmony among all peoples, ending crime and war.

Families and personal responsibility decline in frequency and importance, to be replaced by sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, and unmarried mothers with morally untethered children. Crime rates rise, personal saving declines, and people become wards of the political state, believing that they are entitled, without regard to personal effort, to a share in all of society’s goods.

Great Britain’s history limns our future.

There are no excuses.

I'd Buy a Truck From This Guy

America needs more people like him.

Red Neck Traffic Control

Slow Down (pic)

Dangerous Things

The "do-gooders" of the world have created a Fear Culture, teaching and advocating that ANY object, device, or thing that could possibly cause harm should be avoided and outlawed.

Good stuff!

The Power of the Chainsaw ...

Re-engineered for the desktop? Introducing the World's first USB-powered Chainsaw: i.Saw

Well, it's about time, I've been waiting for this.

Let's Dance

Japan's Electromagnetic Trains Cause Paperclips to Dance

I Feel a Migraine Coming On

Joe Biden: 'We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt'

Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

Are we a nation of idiots? Really? These guys remind me of gamblers who don't know when to stop and just keeping pumping that money into the slot machine until it's all gone. "I'm gonna hit the jackpot next pull, I can feel it!"

They always go home broke, paycheck gone, credit cards maxed out, rent due. Our leaders are a national nightmare.

What happened to this once proud country? We lost our way and our national values, and most importantly our God.

What's on Obama's iPod?

Free Healthcare for Everyone! Eventually.

1. Nothing is free. Somebody Everybody is paying for it.

2. They are not getting their money's worth.

3. We, Americans, don't want it. No to ObamaCare.

4. No to ObamaCare. Hell to the no.

5. Watch the Freedom video from yesterday, too, below this one.

6. Watch Gianna Jessen tell her story as an abortion survivor.

7. No to oppression, No to socialism, No to Cap and Trade, No to world government - but I repeat myself. No to oppression, hell to the no!

Freedom

For When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong

Part 1


Part 2

--to give up in order to gain, to lose in order to win, to go down to defeat in order to arise as a victor. --Ray Stedman

Thanks to Rich for bringing this to my attention.

The World on the Brink - of Insanity

Mark Steyn: The Ecopalypse, 96 Months Away?

"Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse, the Prince of Wales has warned... And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the 'age of convenience' was over."

He then got in his limo and was driven to his other palace.

The sharp mind of the Prince of Wales, oh yeah, he's an expert on global warming and economic collapse. Gaia's pope.

Capitalism is liberating: You’re born a peasant but you don’t have to die one. You can work hard and get a nice place in the suburbs. If you were a 19th century Russian peasant and you got to Ellis Island, you’d be living in a tenement on the Lower East Side, but your kids would get an education and move uptown, and your grandkids would be doctors and accountants in Westchester County.

And your great-grandchild would be a Harvard-educated environmental activist demanding an end to all this electricity and indoor toilets.

Environmentalism opposes that kind of mobility. It seeks to return us to the age of kings when the masses are restrained by a privileged elite. Sometimes they will be hereditary monarchs, such as the Prince of Wales. Sometimes they will be merely the gilded princelings of the government apparatus – Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi. In the old days, they were endowed with absolute authority by God.

Today, they’re endowed by Mother Nature, empowered by Gaia to act on her behalf. But the object remains control – to constrain you in a million ways,

The Etiquette of Political Correctness

Queer Tee For The Straight Jew

I'm not gay, I just falsely claim to be, and then complain about being taken at my word.

The etiquette of political correctness grows ever more complex. See if you can follow this:

You have to read that post, you just can't make this stuff up.

No Creator Reqiured

"The DNA Code" - New Research Shows Life Hardwired in the Universe

The implications are staggering: good news for anyone worried about how we're alone, and bad news for anyone who demands some kind of "Designer" to put life together - it seems that physics can assemble the organic jigsaw all by itself, thank you very much, and has probably done so throughout space since the beginning of everything.

The person who wrote this article must be 12. It may be as this article says, DNA wise - I don't pretend to know - it is irrelevant. Where did the physics come from? How did the DNA get programed to do what it does? From where came the matter? The atoms, the protons, neutrons, electrons, quarks? The atom didn't just put itself together. Physics can't assemble the organic jigsaw without a program, instruction, or laws that govern how it acts.

What was the beginning of everything? And how? The universe had a beginning and it will have an end. Earth is not permanent. The sun will burn out. Every species - animal or plant - that is alive today will die. We live a temporary existence in a temporary world. Is there a different, timeless (for lack of a better word) dimension within which our universe exists?

Everything in the universe is beautifully and intricately designed, from whatever angle, near or far, where ever you look, the artistry is amazing, awesome. We stand humbled by every aspect of the universe if we stop long enough to notice. To steal a popular phrase, "Open your mind" and see the truth. It takes an intelligent, ordered mind to create something - anything. The more complicated, the more intelligence is required, be it a chair, a house, a car, a computer. Artistry and design require a mind.

The universe is perhaps billions of years old but a man all of 18 years old or so decides he knows it all came together by itself, no Creator required. He is wise beyond his years.

The Most Open and Transparent Administration in History

"Put nothing in writing, ever." --Carol Browner, Climate Czar

How to Destroy a Country in 1400 Pages or More

Democratic Leader Laughs at Idea That House Members Would Actually Read Health-Care Bill Before Voting On It

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

Death by Chocolate

The reality not quite as good as the dessert.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin By David Kahane

I don't know why I'm telling you this, but maybe now you're beginning to understand the high-stakes game we’re playing here. This ain't John McCain's logrolling senatorial club any more. This is a deadly serious attempt to realize the vision of the 1960s and to fundamentally transform the United States of America. This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing. For the first time in history, the patrician class is deliberately selling its own country down the river just to prove a point: that, yes, we can! This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it.

In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We're not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall "Agent 202" Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

You really must read that whole article. The nation really needs to open its eyes to what is really going on here. I don't believe most people who identify themselves as democrats think this way but they are blindly following and trusting some very dangerous people.

Most of us have neither the time nor inclination to keep up with and understand all the issues of the country. We have our own lives and loved ones to worry about and trust our elected leaders to do the right thing, but while we've been looking the other way they have been becoming increasingly emboldened to do what benefits them, empowering and enriching themselves at the expense of the people. They are selling this country down the river - you better believe it because it's true.

They are using your greed against you, your desire to get something for nothing, the oldest sales approach in the book. Well, here's the oldest advice, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Yet people still fall for it.

Pot Calls Kettle Black

Landlords Accused Of Pocketing Rent Money

Stacey Kleinfeld runs Lake County's Section 8 Housing program, which helps lower income tenants pay their rent. However, a growing number of Section 8 landlords aren't paying their mortgages.

"The federal government is being taken advantage of,"

You lead by example, whether you mean to or not. Corrupt government, corrupt politicians, corrupt judges - don't be surprised when some of the people start to follow in your footsteps.

I am in no way excusing the behavior, wrong is wrong, just pointing out some governmental hypocrisy.

The Power of Nature

How to Open a Banana

Amaze your friends.

In humor there is Truth

Why Does Barack Obama Hate Our Economy?

The leading theory on why Obama hates and wants to destroy the economy is its focus on merit, which is an anathema to Obama. In a capitalistic society, you need products that actually do useful things so you can sell them and make money. You can make all the claims you want, but at some point people are going to expect the product to actually do something.

That has to be a foreign concept to someone who has written multiple autobiographies before ever actually accomplishing anything. He expects people to take his word that he’s really smart and great without ever having to do anything to prove it. That doesn’t work in our economy; think of the Amazon.com reviews he’d have if he were a product. Yes, a few people would think he looked neat and preorder, but soon he’d have a bunch of one-star reviews saying, “Doesn’t actually do anything. Don’t waste trillions of dollars on it.” You can see how Obama might be angry at something that would find no value in him, like the economy.

America Needs to Stand with Liberty

All eyes on Honduras

Even if you know little or nothing about the crisis in Honduras, nearly all you need to know in order to ascertain which side is morally right is this: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Cuba's Castro brothers, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States are all lined up against Honduras.

And Obama.

"Tax-and-Bankrupt" Energy Policy

Let's cap all the hot air from D.C.

During a long but little-reported interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2008, candidate Barack Obama explained how his "cap and trade" energy policy would affect consumers if he became president:

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket….Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was . . . they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."

Unfortunately, this is one of the campaign promises that Obama plans to keep.

United Breaks Guitars

This needs to be spread around. Why?

This, Jen, is the Internet

This is hilarious. (Can't embed that one)



Funny show.

Not Too Intrusive

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest

The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions;

They want to track each person? Sure, just inject a small carbon emitter detector into the left frontal lobe of each person that beams signals to a central data collection center in the basement of the White House. No problem. What could go wrong?

Stay on the Good Side of Your "Master"

Honduras at the Tipping Point

Why is the U.S. not supporting the rule of law?

Mr. Zelaya's violations of the rule of law in recent months were numerous. But the tipping point came 10 days ago, when he led a violent mob that stormed a military base to seize and distribute Venezuelan-printed ballots for an illegal referendum.

All but a handful of my letters pleaded for international understanding of the threat to the constitutional democracy that Mr. Zelaya presented. One phrase occurred again and again: "Please pray for us."

Hondurans have good cause for calling on divine intervention: Reason has gone AWOL in places like Turtle Bay and Foggy Bottom. Ruling the debate on Mr. Zelaya's behavior is Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, who is now the reigning international authority on "democracy."

What a shame that the leader of the free world is on the wrong side of this, too. But it is not surprising, anyone actually paying attention and reading the signs knew where he was on the political spectrum a long time ago. He is proving us right.

A Loss for America

The Triumph of Crony Capitalism

The effect of Obama's approach to business has been enormous. In less than six months, he's changed the relationship between the private sector and Washington. Companies increasingly "compete for government favoritism, not for consumer choice or preferences," says Republican representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

"Members of Congress are being besieged with calls from businesses who have an expectation of getting a check from Washington," Ryan says. "The business mindset is, if the government is going to pick winners and losers, I want to be a winner. What it means is all roads lead to Washington."

The weeds are taking over the garden.

I Wonder If He'll Get the Trains to Run On time?

Warning: American Gestapo ahead

The similarity is remarkable, between the rise of the Democratic Socialist Party now in control of Washington and the rise of the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany in the 1930s.

Led by an articulate orator, the German government set out to nationalize health care, transportation, manufacturing and law enforcement. The Obama government has set out to nationalize manufacturing of autos and the finance industry. The Obama-backed "cap and trade" legislation will effectively nationalize the energy and transportation industries. And Obama's nationalized health care program is on the front burner.

Now here's another similarity: nationalization of law enforcement. H.R. 675, sponsored by Democrat Rep. Bob Filner, was introduced to:

"Provide police officers, criminal investigators, and game law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense with the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms." (Emphasis added.)

I think the similarities exist because the ideology is the same - they're both Socialists. Hopefully it ends more like Honduras than Germany. We'll find out where this goes soon enough.

Scam of the Century

Yee Haw!

Global warming is so last century

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and their chums are spending at a rate that threatens American stability. And, except for the scale and the dollar figure, it's all been tried before, and it's all failed before. There's nothing cool about Obama. He's a nonstop square dance, swinging us around till we're dozy, and he's got all the dough.

Good read.

Nearly a Laugh ...

Liberals are almost comical. . . almost

These are the people that support murdering unborn children, and then call members of the military "baby killers."

These are people that accuse the Republicans of being all about greedy big corporate America, and then applaud Obama for spending tax dollars on bailing out greedy big corporate America.

These are people who accuses conservatives of dictating to them what they can do in their bedroom, and then shoves the gay agenda into our living room, schools, and streets - and uses thuggish behavior when Proposition 8 passes in California.

These are people who scream and cry whenever it is even mentioned that Creation ought to be taught alongside Evolution as a possible alternative in our schools, then pushes for homosexuality to be taught as normal in the school system, regardless of what parents think, or desire.

These are the people who enjoy the prosperity of the United States, and then blame Capitalism for a struggling economy that is the result of decades of liberal economic tactics.

These are the same people who believe that the best way to solve the struggling economy is to more than double the national deficit.

These are the same people who believe that the best way to make health care better is to allow the government to take control of it, and ration care.

These are the same people who believe that freedom is a wonderful thing, unless Iranians, or Hondurans cry out for it.

These are the people who hate capitalism because they say it encourages greed and then force laws down the throats of the American people that stagnate and kill the economy so they and their friends can siphon millions billions trillions for themselves and their friends from the private sector, taking from everyone to give to themselves. They want power and money and they don't care who gets hurt.

Pigs.

Gangster Government

Cute!

But Can they Bring World Peace?

Ant mega-colony takes over world

They forgot to tell the humans.

Stop Feeding the Monkey!

'We're in the Middle of a Crash'

Anything that's fragile like the financial system will eventually crash, he said.

"We're in the middle of a crash," Taleb said. "So if I'm going to forecast something, it is that it's going to get worse, not better."

The government needs to deleverage debt and not try stimulus packages that will inflate assets, he said.

"What makes me very pessimistic in not seeing any leadership or awareness on parts of government on what has to be done, which is deleverage $40-to-$70 trillion," Taleb said.

"The monkey on our back is debt," he added.

The Illusion of Openness and Transparency

Not working anymore?

"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and you have controlled..."

Listen till the end.

This is Not Funny

Everything inside the state

The Obama Administration has begun paving the way for the massive tax hikes that anyone capable of coherent thought knew were coming. A clumsy attempt by the White House spokesman to dodge the issue was met by laughter from the press corps, and outrage from anyone more interested in their own future than President Obama’s political success.

Every American needs to read that.

We Look for Freedom and Democracy

Are you being served?

That's funny.

Did He Just Use California As a Positive Example?

We know the benefits. In the late 1970s, the state of California enacted tougher energy-efficiency policies. Over the next three decades, those policies helped create almost 1.5 million jobs. And today, Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average -- which, over time, has prevented the need to build at least 24 new power plants. Think about that. California -- producing jobs, their economy keeping pace with the rest of the country, and yet they have been able to maintain their energy usage at a much lower level than the rest of the country. --President Barack Obama

In the late 70's, California started its spiraling descent into the morally and financially bankrupt state that it is today. That's what he wants for America? It is the policies of the left, the progressives, that have brought California (and Michigan, New York, New Jersey, among others) to its knees.

He wants what happened to California to happen all across America? That's not acceptable.

The Foundational Document

Why a Bill of Rights?

Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights. Think about it. Why in the world would they have written the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from enacting any law that abridges freedom of speech and the press? The answer is that in the absence of such a limitation Congress would abridge free speech and free press. That same distrust of Congress explains the other amendments found in our Bill of Rights protecting rights such as our rights to property, fair trial and to bear arms. The Bill of Rights should serve as a constant reminder of the deep distrust our founders had of government. They knew that some government was necessary, but they rightfully saw government as the enemy of the people and they sought to limit government and provide us with protections.

Beware the Goggles!

School bans pupils from wearing goggles

"If it carries on like this we are going to be breeding a generation of namby pambies.

Going to be? I'm surprised they're still allowed to use pencils.

Bat in the House?

You need this cat.

One Tough Laptop

The Tiger-Resistant Laptop

You might think this is unnecessary testing for a laptop. Advertising is always brimming with over-the-top claims. We've heard about "durable" notebooks before. But the ones we lug to press conferences seem to be as touchy as a bunch of squirrels. Surely, Panasonic's claims of toughness are, well, over-the-top.

Video goodness

You have to see that. Incredible.

He Is On the Wrong Side of Every Issue

Obama says coup in Honduras is illegal

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was illegal and would set a "terrible precedent" of transition by military force unless it was reversed.

A "Terrible precedent?" Why, because he's afraid it could happen to him?

Zelaya was violating his country’s constitution with his referendum that would have, Chavez-style, repealed term limits on the presidency. The Honduras Supreme Court ruled the referendum illegal, and the military refused to distribute the ballots. Instead of backing down, Zelaya fired the head of the military, which precipitated the ouster.

Clearly, democracies cannot abide armed overthrow of elected governments, but that presumes that the government acts within the rule of law. Zelaya had no intention of doing so, and his flagrant violations and attempt to accrue personal power made that crystal clear. Zelaya had begun seizing dictatorial powers, and the military responded by arresting him. The military then handed power back to the legislature rather than keeping it for themselves, which makes this less of a coup and more of a military impeachment.

The President, Congress, and many judges have been playing fast and loose with the U.S. Constitution for years now and this present administration has taken that to an unprecedented level in this country. As more and more Americans start feeling the bars of socialism closing in on them I find it hard to believe they will not rise up and throw off the chains. Hard to believe, but not impossible. :-(

It was not a coup, it was the people of Honduras upholding their constitution.

What the World Needs Now is ...

Carnivorous Robots?

I don't see this ending well. What are they thinking? They couldn't make them herbivorous?

Coming to a theater near you.

It Already Passed the House

Our Democratic Socialist Party

"Cap and trade" is a euphemism for limiting the quantity of energy an entity may use. If government controls what comes out of the pipe, it automatically controls what goes into the pipe. By setting an arbitrary limit on emissions at a level known to be less than is required by the business, and then arbitrarily setting a price for excess emissions, a business must either reduce its operations or pay the government-mandated extra costs. Regardless of how it may be described, any government-mandated cost is a tax. Therefore, any "cap and trade" program is, in reality, a "cap and tax" program.

This program is designed to give government the power and the mechanism to increase the cost of energy produced by fossil fuel to a price higher than the cost of energy produced by wind and solar sources. This agenda item will give government the power to essentially control the economy, by controlling the supply and price of energy that runs the economy. It will also give government the appearance of protecting the environment, which is a sop to environmental organizations and to the international community. And it will extract windfall taxes to allow government to redistribute America's wealth to achieve the social equity goals of the Democratic socialist majority.

'Cap and trade' your freedom

"Cap and trade" is not a solution to climate change. It is a prescription for taking America down as a world power, as a free nation and as the most prosperous country on the planet.

This is sad. A once proud nation cutting itself off at the knees, and the American people are hypnotized and can't pull themselves away from their own little worlds long enough to notice. I guess we do get the government we deserve. And now we'll have to pay for it.

Minority Leader John Boehner: Climate bill a 'pile of s--t'

When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of s--t."

Why don't they ask the rest of them why they passed another bill without reading it?

Fail!

Peggy Noonan says Obama's one sentence description of his presidency should be:

"He brought America back from economic collapse and kept us strong and secure in the age of terror."

And I agree, it should be, but Obama is not on the same page. He's not even in the same book.

Soylent Green

Obama's Health Future

"Look, the first thing for all of us to understand that is we actually have some -- some choices to make about how we want to deal with our own end-of-life care," Mr. Obama replied. After discussing ways "we as a culture and as a society [can start] to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves," he continued that in general "at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what? Maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller." --President Obama

Retirement age may yet take on a whole new meaning, we can call it "going home."

I know it's completely ridiculous to be comparing the movie, Soylent Green, to the direction the country is taking but then again, it seems to actually be the direction the country is taking. I think the left gets their ideas from movies like this. I can't yet see the whole eating people thing happening - give it time - but assisted suicide is here, it's just a matter of building the euthanasia centers. Hey, maybe you're better off taking the "painkiller."

When will America wake up?

Congratulations Orlando

You made number 22 in the Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in the U.S.

To be fair, it's only one neighborhood in Orlando but trust me, it spreads out from the center. Tampa and Miami are 17 and 3 respectively.

All are Equal, but Some are More Equal than Others

Well, I think it’s worth making, because if you look at Canada, for example, everyone in Canada is supposed to have the same access to health care. In other words, there should be no difference if Joe Schmo gets a problem, and he has to get on the three year waiting list, and a cabinet minister gets the same health problem, he’s supposed to be on the same three year waiting list. In the end, those cabinet ministers manage to access a special…basically, cabinet ministers and hockey players seem able to access a special level of care up there that nobody else can get. -- Mark Steyn, radio transcript

It will be different in the U.S., right? If you think so, you're a sucker.

"Never give a sucker an even break." --W.C. Fields

Politicians take that to heart. Yes, Obama does, too. They see a whole lot of suckers right now, and they're salivating - they can't wait to pass cap and trade and health care. They see a nice, thick, juicy steak, and you're paying.

Johnny Carson Punched in the Face

Funny.

Power Hungry Megalomaniacs Need Your Money

The Cap and Tax Fiction

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.

Despite House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman's many payoffs to Members, rural and Blue Dog Democrats remain wary of voting for a bill that will impose crushing costs on their home-district businesses and consumers. The leadership's solution to this problem is to simply claim the bill defies the laws of economics.

If this passes it is going to hurt your wallet - big time. When they say it won't, they are lying. This will bury us.

Even as Democrats have promised that this cap-and-trade legislation won't pinch wallets, behind the scenes they've acknowledged the energy price tsunami that is coming. During the brief few days in which the bill was debated in the House Energy Committee, Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them.

Oh, and it won't help the environment either. That's a lie as well. Think ethanol.

Freedom Come To ALL Nation

Someone wrote that on a fence at the start of the video.



The people are clamoring for freedom in all nations, Iran now being the most obvious example. Why are we, whose constitution recognizes our inherent right to freedom and limits our government to protect our freedom, so eager to give it all away for a mirage? An illusion?

You want free health care? Your going to lose your freedom and still not get the health care you expected. Freedom doesn't mean you get things for free. There is always a cost.

You want to save the Earth? You think giving megalomaniacs power over you will accomplish that? They will do more damage in the name of saving the Earth than you could ever imagine. They don't really know what they are doing. It's a scam. They are fooling you. Cap and trade will make them rich, rich with money and rich with power - OVER YOU.

That's how evil works, it promises everything, delivers nothing and leaves you empty. Make no mistake, evil is rising up and trying to subdue the world once more. They're coming for you.

Don't Let Them Fool You

The "Global Warming Crisis," AKA "Climate Change," is also an illusion, albeit for more nefarious purposes.

Because this plot is not about saving you from higher temperatures. It's about empowering themselves at your expense.

They're coming for you, for your money, your freedom, your spirit, your soul. They're coming, and they will tell you everything you want to hear to get what they want. It's a trap. Don't fall for it.

You are Getting Sleepy

Cool optical illusion.




Do you see the blue and the green?

There's no blue in the picture. Explanation.

Money for Nothing

Checks for free

Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.

Obama Knows Suppression of Ideas

It took Barack Obama some time to offer encouragement to the people of Iran as they rose up against their illegitimate and repressive rules.

And when he finally did, he said something interesting: "Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away."

Maybe Obama should take his own advice. Maybe he should learn from his own rare words of wisdom.

The Obama administration is marked by suppressing ideas.

That's what it does when it attacks lively and open debate on talk radio.

That's what it does when it sees one cable news network even daring to offer the mildest criticism of his administration mixed in with plenty of Obamamania.

That's what it does when it summarily fires independent government watchdogs hired specifically to ferret out fraud, waste, abuse and corruption inside the administration.

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A Confused Nation

Who's Regulating Obama?

People that voted Obama who are getting upset but they don't understand what he's doing. They misunderstand totally. They were expecting Obama to throw shovels of money at them. Instead, they think he's bailing out Wall Street and big business. They think he's just another typical Washington Republican Democrat conglomerate politician who cares about big business. They don't see what he's doing to big business. They don't see that he's destroying future job opportunities, creativity, competition. They don't see the destruction the man is wreaking. They see him playing favorites, and they thought they were going to be the favorites, and now they're not. That's why they're upset.

He's not helping business any, and he's sure not helping the little guy who voted for him thinking it was going to be payback time. He's paying back all his cronies right now and when they are done there won't be anything left for anyone.

Be Happy!

Great Read!

Why do liberals bleed?

I heard a philosopher once say that one of the biggest existential tasks of life is giving up the fantasy of the ultimate rescuer. Liberalism reinforced this fantasy for me, as it does for so many others. Now I see the truth: We come into this world alone, and we will leave it alone. When we live our lives in the back seat of the car expecting Daddy to drive us, we only have a child's view of the world.

A Harsh Awakening

Why socialism makes rights dispensable by Alan Keyes

Though I think few of Obama's supporters realized and intended it, the Obama faction's ambitious socialist transformation requires the abandonment of the basic concepts of rights and of limitations on government abuse that at least allowed individuals the opportunity to make a stand against abusive power. Once the transformation has taken place, all will come to know what it means to be stripped of the safeguards we have been able to take for granted. It will be a harsh awakening, and too late.

Alcohol May Have Been Involved

How can you sleep when someone is tattooing 56 stars on your face?


6/23 Update: She lied.

Another Mom of the Year

And Grandmother, too.

Queens mom performed voodoo fire ritual that left daughter, 6, scarred

While young Frantzcia Saintil was "engulfed in flames," Marie Lauradin let the screaming girl burn, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Thursday.

The girl told cops "the flames crawled up her body and burned her," the criminal complaint said.

Eventually, Frantzcia's grandmother doused the flames with cold water, but the women then put the girl to bed instead of getting her help, Brown said.

Frantzcia suffered for a whole day before a relative begged them to take her to a hospital.

When doctors finally saw her, Frantzcia had second- and third-degree burns covering 25% of her body, including her face, torso and legs, court papers state.

Empty Airport Sucks Up Stimulus

It's interesting how they say it is courtesy of John Murtha. Murtha didn't pay for all those improvements - YOU did. Murtha stole the money from you via the federal government. The people that benefited from the Gambino or Gotti crime family thought they were great guys, too. Our government has become the biggest crime family in America.

Please Read the Letter

This is important, this is good. This is how I feel, too.

I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Read the rest here. Or watch it:





This, because I like it:

The Silence is Deafening

Remember all the hoopla about President Bush trampling our constitutional rights with wire-tapping? See here and here to refresh your memory.

Now King Obama rules as if the constitution didn't even exist, completely circumventing the checks and balances written into it, taking upon himself powers that were never meant for the presidency, firing and/or demonizing all who oppose him, and where is the media in all this?

Under his thumb.

Mother of the Year (Real)

Mother fought off cougar to save toddler from attack

"All of a sudden it just flew on her, rolled her a couple of times and grabbed her under its belly on the ground like in the fetal position," Lee recalled.

"She [Maya] was on her back and he had his paws in her head, and I just knew I had to react quick, so I just jumped in there and wedged myself between the cougar and her on the ground, and I just got up and threw it off my back and grabbed her and booked it," she said.