Oh that nuclear program

Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq


I patiently await a groveling apology from the entire dextrosphere as well as the MSM and every Democrat except Joe Lieberman.

We now resume with our regularly scheduled silence.

George W. Bush is a moron

and so is John McCain. At least that's what I keep hearing. Every utterance from the President is scrutinized for any possible interpretation that makes him look stupid. McCain is derided for saying Shia when he meant Sunni.

What would the world say if either of them referred to the "57 States" they've visited? There would be unceasing howls from Berkley to Boston and rightfully so.

So what to make of Obama describing his visits to 57 states? Some in the audience laugh but it's clear he's not joking. He goes on to say that he wanted to visit Alaska and Hawaii but his staff couldn't justify it. The fact that this is not news anywhere on the MSM is proof positive that democrats and especially The One will never be subjected to the same cynical eye cast on republicans

Selling Votes

...as only the DNC can.

DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale
Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote

It's OK though because he wants to spend it on illegal alien voter registration Mexican-American voters. Right. None of that money would be redirected, squandered, stolen or what have you.

A Really Inconvenient Truth

Inconvenient Untruth

There is new evidence of misleading information in Al Gore's Oscar-winning global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth."

ABC News reports one of the most famous shots in the movie — of Antarctic ice shelves — is a fake. The film's visual effects supervisor says the film took the shot from the fictional movie "The Day After Tomorrow," which created it from Styrofoam and scanned it into a computer.

"Yeah, that's our shot," she says. "That's a fully computer-generated shot. There's nothing real in there."

ABC wanted to ask Gore whether it was wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated shot to make a point, but says he did not return their calls.


I can hear it now. "It doesn't matter if the footage is fake! He's trying to make a point you dolt! It speaks to a larger truth even if he's using footage from an alarmist Hollywood thriller."

Corporate greed

These guys are always raising hue and cry about corporate greed. Somehow they missed this one:

Unable to say exactly how it happened, DFL Senate candidate Al Franken acknowledged Friday that his personal corporation wrongly failed to provide employees with workers' compensation insurance in New York for nearly three years.

According to campaign manager Andy Barr, the accountant for Alan Franken Inc. (AFI) who investigated the case for five weeks was unable to figure out "the exact circumstances that led to the oversight."

However, the accountant "has determined that, in fact, AFI was not in full compliance during the period in question," Barr said in a statement. "Therefore, no further attempt will be made to contest the resolved judgment."

New York state officials said Friday that since Franken had paid the $25,000 court judgment entered against AFI last year, they also considered the matter closed.

Not so state Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey, who said Friday that several questions remain unanswered.

"To this day, Al Franken has remained silent" on a number of issues, Carey said at a state Capitol news conference, including how many people he employed and why he didn't respond sooner to the state of New York.

Labor comes to his defense

Labor unions backing Franken in his bid to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman came to his defense, saying the DFLer had properly addressed the matter.

"He made a mistake, got it investigated, found out he was wrong and did the remedy. What more can you do?" said Ray Waldron, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, which endorsed Franken last week.

Ew.

Why do politics drive away the best people?


“Get me more white people, we need more white people.”

From the "Heads I win, tails you lose" file

John McCain's reckless machoism.

Is "machoism" even a word? (that's beside the point. Get on with it. -ed)

Anyway...Dana is annoyed with John McCain for not having a protective detail. He's putting himself at risk and blah blah blah. If, however, there was a report touting McCain for availing himself of extra protection the blog post would have read "McCain lives in fear, wastes taxpayer money with unnecessary security" or some such.

Partisanship is boring. Less please.

Name That Party

Anyone? No takers?

Remember the Republicans are corrupt thieves giving money to their fatcat friends. Democrats are noble public servants thinking only of the children.

Banana Republic

No, not that one, this one.

Exhibit A: Nancy Pelosi telling General Petreus what his testimony should be before he gives it.

To wit:

A few days before General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker appear before House and Senate committees to deliver their latest update on Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes clear what she hopes they will not say.

In a news conference together with the chairmen of the House committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs, she refers to the recent fighting in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, saying Petraeus and Crocker should not attempt to put a positive spin on events.

"We have to know the real ground truths of what is happening there, not put a shine on events because of a resolution [of the situation in Basra] that looks less violent when it has in fact been dictated by someone [Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada] al-Sadr who can grant or withhold that call for violence or not," said Nancy Pelosi.

Emphasis added. The legal term for this is subborning perjury and is a felony. Somehow this is legal for Congresscritters. The last line about Sadr is laughable because anyone who's paying attention knows that Mookie's boys got their asses handed to them six ways from Sunday and folded faster than Superman on laundry day.


Exhibit B: Jessie "The Body" Ventura goes on Alex "The Professional Moonbat Conspiracy Theorist" Jones show to dispute the official 9/11 story.

“How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them both of those World Trade Center buildings were on the ground in ten seconds - how can that be?”

Well, I guess we know why he's "The Body" and not "The Brain". This man was Governor of a State! Maybe Minnesotans would have been better off with Bobby Heenan instead.

Exhibit C: A brief video



Texans should be storming the legislature with shotguns and torches. Considering the disposition of Texans, I'm surprised they haven't. They should review those tapes and expel any member who voted more than once for any reason. Don't bullshit me about necessity or the lack of bathroom breaks. This is not how we do things.

Quote of the Day

As heard in an interview with Dennis Miller:

"Buying carbon offsets is like going on a bender and flinging money out the window as you drive by an AA fundraiser" - Ed Begley Jr.

As much as I carp on "greenstanders" I have no brief w/ Ed. He's been walking the walk since the 1970's.

Daily Roundup

Classical Values asks "when is enough enough?" I think he makes some cogent points but I think he's missing something. The people who are annoyed or otherwise uncomfortable with 9/11 memorials are uncomfortable with the idea that there are people who are actively working to kill us all. Not just one person that they have a personal grudge with, or that they're merely happy to be left to chant angry slogans and burn American flags in their country. Rather, they really, truly do want to kill us. Not to get any sort of concession or because of some foreign policy or other but just because we're infidels. That's a very upsetting thing but it's reality. Something a great many people don't want to own up to.


These guys claim to have an idea to replace batteries with capacitors. I'll wait and see on this one.


Insty has a link to this story. He points to this as a indication of a lack of confidence in civil authority. This, as he notes, is not unprecedented. Rather, it's one of the most famous stories of our nation's founding. It has a much more recent history as the article notes with both Loyalist and Republican gangs doing this, and much worse, in the recent past. In my view, this speaks volumes in that the Loyalists community in NI is much more closely tied to civil authorities than the Republican/Catholic community. That those more closely tied to the cops are not getting a response they needs makes me wonder what conditions are like for Catholics. Given the popularity of "Happy Slapping" in the UK and hoodies (a response to CCTV surveilence) and that it is illegal to defend yourself against violent criminals in your own home, it's small wonder that people are losing confidence in civil authorities.

The Goose Creek case continues to unfold and it's looking grim.

My opinion of Huckabee increased a thousand fold when he uttered the following:

Even if we lose elections we should not lose our honor and that is more important than the Republican party.

Say what you will about him, but that is a principled stand.

Vote for the war, send the troops over and then tell them they're doing a shitty job.

Megan McArdle notices hypocrisy of gobsmacking proportions. People are actually proposing that it's OK to fly off hither and yon and keep brown people naked, poor and living in primitive conditions to offset your self-indulgence.

I will tell you this: We are better prepared today for the war on terror than at any time in our history. We have done an incredible amount of things since 9/11, across the board. Intelligence is better. They are sharing it better. We are taking the terrorists down. We are working with the allies very carefully. We are doing the strategic operational planning, going after every element in the terrorist life cycle. So we have come a long way. But these guys are smart. They are determined. They are patient. So over time we are going to lose a battle or two. We are going to get hit again, you know, but you’ve got to have the stick-to-itiveness or persistence to outlast it.

Emphasis mine. This is not to laud the Bush Administration, but rather, it took the death of 3,000 Americans to wake this nation up and make them realize we were doing jack squat to fight terror beforehand. We still have a long way to go (IMNHO) and I fear it will take another very serious attack to take those next steps.

Pay heed America. Without vigilance, this is your future:




If Sen. Craig was English:



English humor at it's finest.

A frequent topic of mine is our (collective) inability to see things that in in front of our faces because it does not conform to our prejudices. It turns out this may be directly related to biological and evolutionary factors. That means we're going to have to work much harder to overcome that sort of conditioning.


George Will unloads on Gonzales with a broadside:

[S]peaking of the tone-deaf, Alberto Gonzales could not even leave high office without advertising his unfitness for it. As he habitually has done, he reminded the nation that he has "lived the American Dream," which he evidently thinks is epitomized by his success in attaching himself to a politician not known for demanding quality in assistants. Gonzales then demonstrated how uncomprehending he is of essential American values. He said: "Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days."

Well. His father married and had eight children—nine wonderful days, days even better, one would have thought, than any of the days his son spent floundering at the Justice Department. Furthermore, Gonzales's father had the fulfillment of a lifetime spent providing for his family. But what is any of that, Gonzales implies, compared with the satisfaction of occupying, however unsatisfactorily, a high office? This implicit disparagement of his father's life of responsibility and self-sufficiency turns conservatism inside out. It is going to take conservatism a while to recuperate from becoming associated with such people.

George Will has been the most consistent Conservative voice for decades. He has not changed one iota in favor of partisanship. Thank God we have him.


Imagine being an author and getting invited on Oprah and not being allowed to even mention your book:

And, by the end of today, I will probably be one of America's most famously depressed citizens -- right up there with Terry Bradshaw and Brooke Shields -- rather than one of its new, hot, young (well, young-ish) writers.

This is what my life has come to; representing New Orleans on national TV as the city's most obviously disturbed public figure.

Well, after the mayor, that is, but I guess he wasn't available for Oprah because he's off in Shreveport or Bunkie trying to convince the people there that if they elect him governor, then he can perform the same healing magic on the state that he has bestowed upon the city.

(And O's people think I'm crazy?)

Brilliant.

Can we get one of these here in Delaware?


Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?

Answer: Yes.

"We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims."

Nesting dolls...

Quite a day for irony. Another great one.

Read the whole thing

Game, set, match.

Irony overload

Reporter Who Called Bush ‘Idiot’ for Segway Fall Cracks Ribs in Fall from Contraption

I wonder if he'll write an editorial about his own idiocy.

Santuary Cities

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for “sanctuary cities” that offer protection to illegal immigrants. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 29% are opposed. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney proposed such a plan earlier this week.

Anti-American War groups always point to poll numbers citing as proof the President should pull the troops out of Iraq. Given these poll numbers I anxiously await their breathless support for the elimination of funding from said cities.

Hard choices

Al Gore is going on about "hard choices" required to save the planet. Apparently, you're the one that's going to be making them, not him. He was asked directly by Inhofe if he would change his habits to use no more energy than the average American household and he changed the subject to talking about paying more for "green energy". That is, he gets a pass because he can afford it and the energy he buys is somehow zero emissions. Poppycock. Even if we believe his claim of zero emissions, that means only that he is using much more available green energy than the normal user. That leaves less available for others to use which forces them to use non-green energy sources. In effect, he forces others to pollute in order to keep his lifestyle. Ignore the portion of the video talking about the Bush ranch and it's environmentally friendliness. Take this issue on it's own. It is absurd on it's face to talk to me about conserving energy and making hard choices when your daughter drives a Maserati and you're spending $30,000 on electricity per year. That's before we even get to the air travel. Am I to believe Gore is tooling around in a Prius? Please. He's in a limo or SUV when he goes anywhere.

Liberals always freak out at any real or imagined hypocrisy by religious figures or Republicans who propound family values. Sometimes they're even right. Their overweening silence on Gore and DiCaprio et al is very illuminating (if you'll pardon the pun).

Al Gore's son out on bail after arrest in O.C.

Al Gore's son out on bail after arrest in O.C. - Los Angeles Times

When the Bush daughter was busted trying to buy a drink in a bar when underage, we were clobbered with wall to wall coverage from Regis to Letterman and every program in between. There were countless pundits castigating the Bushes for their inadequate parenting. The deafening silence of Gore's son being arrested is very telling. Perhaps it's because this is his first scrape with the law? Well, no.


Gore, 24, was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana in Bethesda, Md., in 2003 and later was ordered to participate in a substance abuse program. In September 2002, military police ticketed Gore for driving under the influence near Ft. Myer, Va., a military base outside Washington.

In August 2000, he was ticketed by the North Carolina Highway Patrol after being clocked driving 97 mph in a 55-mph zone. In an agreement with prosecutors, a reckless driving charge was dropped. Gore was fined $125 and his driving privileges were suspended in that state.


So, here we have a serial drunk driver who's powerful father gets him out of scrape after scrape and it's not a story? Do you think you would get off with a mere fine if you were driving 97 miles and hour while drunk?

Blue on Blue

I gotta side with Jonah on this one. They're silent for a reason. I must say I'm very disappointed they feel they can't defend their position in a debate with anyone let alone someone from the same side of the aisle.

Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project

Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project. Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical.

Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.

We Are All in It Together, Clinton Says

We Are All in It Together, Clinton Says. To which I ask, "Whaddaya mean "we"?

Coming from a woman who's lived off the largesse of others for decades this comes off a bit rich (if you'll pardon the pun).

The Anchoress notes that Bill Clinton is trying to soak taxpayers for $1.16 million in expenses. The man has no shame. Odd that his predecessor asked for exactly nothing. He's making money hand over fist in speaking fees and he has he gall to ask for over a million dollars in expenses? How about an itemized bill, Bill?

This couple also sold their friendships quite readily. Oxblog notes that such a purchase is quite lucrative. Selling diplomatic posts is not new and not confined to Democrats but the practice is unAmerican.

I used to think the people who said that Hillary was perilous to the liberty of this nation were overwrought and histrionic. No longer. With quotes like this and others about taking things away from me for the "common good" and how we're overly concerned with the rights of ordinary Americans make me realize the woman will seize on Executive power that would make Alberto Gonzales blush.