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Dan Riehls the Left, Riehl World View:
Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?
I’m not sure I quite understand this, given that cost is so important as a burden to taxpayers when it comes to health care. If Democrats want so badly to abort babies because of it, why are we bothering with someone who has a broken neck and back at 69? It sounds to me like she’s pretty well used up and has probably been living off the taxpayers for plenty of years to begin with. Aren’t we at least going to get a vote on it?
Dirty Harry Reid and Mrs. Pelosi favor killing unborn human beings to reduce health care costs. Dan has enraged the leftosphere. But so far, I have found no blogger who can explain pt defend the democrat’s double standard. Why is important for some people to die in order to save money, but not others?
The Toyota Hoax, Michael Fumento, Forbes:
Over a 23-minute period the 911 dispatcher repeatedly pleaded with Sikes to shift into neutral. He simply refused and then essentially stopped talking to her except to say that he thought he could smell his brakes burning.
“I thought about” shifting into neutral, Sikes said at a televised press conference the day after the incident. But “I had never played with this kind of a transmission, especially when you’re driving and I was actually afraid to do that.” Sikes, who has driven the car for two years, also said “I figured if I knocked it over [the gear knob] the car might flip.”
The problem has been found with the Toyota accelerators. It is a loose nut between the driver’s ears.
Goring the Preventive Medicine Ox,
CHICAGO (AP) – Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system.
[...]
Americans, including the commander in chief, need to realize that “more care is not necessarily better care,” wrote cardiologist Dr. Rita Redberg, editor of Archives of Internal Medicine. She was commenting on Obama’s recent physical.
Goring Junk Science Lawyers, Maggie Fox:
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children’s illness.
Points:
- One, strongly held belief does not constitute proof.
- Two, the fact the A happened, the B happened, does not prove that A caused B.
How’s that Coffee Party working out for ya, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:
BIG FAIL. St. Louis Libs Hold Coffee Party – 30 People Show Up
On Wednesday morning, 2,225 patriots turned out at the “Kill the Bill” rally in St. Charles, Missouri.
They were expecting 600…… But, 2,225 turned out.
Have a good one.
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I may have actually remarked on this in the past…. but is there something to the idea that the geniuses in the Obama Administration (a subsidiary of ACORN) have chosen to call “Census Day” April first…. the day most of us refer to as “April Fool’s Day”?
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Jennifer Rubin over at Commentary, this morning, casts into words a lot of folks have already noticed:
Obama seems not to respect his fellow citizens — the uninformed rubes who crashed the health-care town halls — nor care what they think. All his energy now is devoted to disregarding their strong aversion to his idea of health-care reform and forcing through a vote on something the public doesn’t want. It’s hard to bond with the American people, (…..) when your agenda conveys disdain for their concerns.
Well, exactly so.
And that, in turn, explains his approval numbers in free-fall. The people are starting to catch onto the idea that what they were sold mis not exactly what they got. And I suggest that when they put together the idea that they were outright lied to by this president while he was a candidate, the response will be far louder.
As we noted here yesterday, Obama and company apparently see the Tea Party as the biggest threat to their power…. witness the thinly veiled, leftist dominated ‘coffee party’, that we discussed here yesterday. When the general population finally wakes up to the degree to which they’ve been lied to by the Democrats…. and some have already done so… the response will make the Tea Party and the problems it presents the left seem minuscule by comparison.
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I make this point up front. Destitution, the lack of access to the essential commodities of life is bad. Poverty, as officially defined is not necessarily bad. Destitution means lack of ability to get the needed commodities of life. Poverty, as officially defined, means lack of access to cash. Yet a person my have access to commodities, food, shelter, bodily warmth without necessarily having access to cash, from Dr. Thomas Sowell, 1999, Jewish World Review:
There was a time when poverty referred to a lack of food, shelter or clothing. Today, it refers to earning an income below a level arbitrarily selected to keep poverty alive and big enough to maintain political support for big-government programs.
And, Sowell, 2006, National Review:
Except for people who can’t work or won’t work, there is very little real poverty in the United States today, except among people who come from poverty-stricken countries and bring their poverty with them.
By classic measure, there is virtually no poverty in this country. Yet poverty remains a political war drum for perpetual big government, from William M. Briggs, Pajamas Media:
President Obama Makes Poverty Permanent
With a simple abuse of mathematics, Obama just gave birth to eternal grievance.
50% earn less than the median income. Something needs to be done!
Robert Rector, National Review:
This week, the Obama administration announced it will create a new poverty-measurement system that will eventually displace the current poverty measure. This new measure, which has little or nothing to do with actual poverty, will serve as the propaganda tool in Obama’s endless quest to “spread the wealth.”
Under the new measure, a family will be judged “poor” if its income falls below a certain specified income threshold. Nothing new there, but, unlike the current poverty standards, the new income thresholds will have a built-in escalator clause: They will rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the living standards of the average American
As Obama has defined the problem of poverty, it can not be solved. By definition half will always be below the median. I wonder what Obama did while he was pretending to go to college. Economics is not exactly his strong suit.
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Bitsblog reminder: Spring ahead, lose an hour of sleep, NASDAQ:
The U.S. and much of Canada will move to daylight-saving time from standard time on Sunday, when clocks will be moved forward by one hour.
Regular items transmitted from these countries will appear one hour earlier in terms of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Not to worry, you’ll get the lost hour of sleep back in the fall.
Soul of American, Kevin Johnson, American Thinker:
If American women in general are the heart of America, then black women are certainly its soul. Aside from running the household for many white women back in the mid-1900s, black women were the confidantes of the ladies of the house for whom many of them worked as servants, caretakers, nannies, and maids.
I think Mr. Johnson’s essay may be more about character than color. It certainly is a good read.
Wrong answer, wrong question,Rachel Ward:
ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) – Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks says she won’t be running for congress. The Republican had been considering a bid for the seat that was vacated by Democrat Eric Massa.
Maggie needs to run for Congress but not in the Twenty-Ninth. Her target should be Louise Slaughter. That Louise Slaughter as in the Slaughter Rule, from Kim Priestap, Wizbang:
In case you’re unfamiliar, the Slaughter Rule is named after Louise “she wore her dead sister’s dentures” Slaughter and it works like this: The speaker brings a bill containing a list of changes that the House wants to make to the Senate bill to the floor for a vote. When the House members vote for and pass this list of changes to the Senate bill, the House will deem the Senate bill as passed as well, even though the Senate bill itself was never voted on to begin with.
Slaughtering the Constituti0n for party, president and Mrs. Pelosi.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Mark Levin is not willing to wait till January, video:
Hat tip: Allah Pundit, Hot Air.
What the flock is Mrs. Clinton smoking, by Matthew Lee:
WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior U.S. official says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain bluntly about Israel’s announcement this week of new housing settlements in East Jerusalem.
The official said Clinton spoke with Netanyahu Friday “to deliver a very strong message with regard to events over the past week.” She said that Israel is expected to take actions to improve the prospects for relaunching peace talks with the Palestinians. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the call.
Mrs. Clinton wants the State of Israel to negotiate with a party, the Palestinians, that refuse to recognize Israels right to even exist, and she so stupid as to think that apartment building are obstacle to peace.
More, Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:
[T]he Obami’s insistence that it is building in Israel’s capital, not the persistence of terrorism or the refusal to recognize the Jewish state, that serves to “undermine trust.” As skewed and as unwelcome as much of that public message
Out.
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Still in Dallas while the truck goes through some repairs. Some added comments on the world around us today, in Ramble format::
- CUT IT OUT: How can any honest assessment of the founding of these United States, leave out Thomas Jefferson?
- POT TO KETTLE: Howell Rains should perhaps recall just why it is that he is the FORMER Editor of the New York Times…. his lack of editorial and personal honesty, as well as that of his staffers including Jayson Blair.. His calling the honesty of Roger Ailes into question wraps my Irony meter around the pin four or five times. This editorial is obviously an attempt to get himself bac in the good graces of the leftist press in which he was so very prominent. Check the comments of “This ain’t Hell….”
- REID’S WIFE: Is it possible that Harry Reid’s wife was driving with her head up her ass? Why is it assumed almost out of hand that the truck driver is at fault?
- COFFEE I commented earlier today about the Coffee Party. Here’s a link on that point.
I’ll be back to my base of Springfield, OH on or about the 22nd of this month, and will be getting home soon after. After re-establishing myself in the house, I’ll be getting a laptop computer so as to prevent this blogus interuptus nonsense from happening again.
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So should anyone be shocked that the so-called “Coffee Party”… the self-proclaimed alternative to the Tea Party, is being run by Anabele Park, a lifelong Democrat who worked for the Obama Campaign?
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(Irving TX)– We’re in the shop for some minor repairs, andI ran into another driver who was nice enough to allow me to use his laptop.
A few casual observations of the world around me:
- Eric Massa:Yeah, I said to Donna the moment his resignation started breaking that there was some hint of scandal going on and that it was being driven by the Wite House and it’s pursuit of Obamacare. That observation seems to me well confirmed when I see the usual left wing crazies attacking Massa… and digging up anything they can to attach him to homosexual beavior. I note Lan Colmes has spent the last several nights on his radio show sliming Massa with inuendo. Now, given that were we on the right talking that way about, say, Saint Andrew The Incontinant Sullivan, as an offhand example, these same left wing voices would be calling us homophobes, it seems safe to assume that there is in fact political motivations involved in the left’s attacks on Massa today. Just ask Jim Trafficant, folks… the pattern’s the same. Support from the party… regardless of any crimes involved, only lasts as long as the individual is willing to tow the party line.
- BIG This country is much larger physically than most people know… and I say you can’t really get a handle on that till you drive across it.
More as I get time and bandwith.
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Once the husband hits a high rank and supervisory status, the wife is expected to take on a new identity. The perfect military wife will make it look effortless and not complain in public.
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Wearing the husband’s rank gets her panties in a wad…
It was once described to me as, “having his rank embroidered on her panties”—when the leadership’s wife is accused of wearing her husband’s rank. In the military, an established and respected chain of command results in a well-run squadron. At the top, there is the boss with his spouse. From there, the job trickles from his shoulder boards all the way down to getting her panties in a wad.
I like to call it the “two-fer” deal. For example, once a woman’s husband becomes a squadron commander, she should plan on being the “woman behind the man”–to dutifully support him and his squadron. The military member’s career absorbs the whole While the man is running the business of the squadron, the wife is running the social end of things. By default, she is in charge of heading the spouses’ monthly coffees, perhaps publishing a newsletter, and even rustling up a fundraiser. Heck, she may need to hostess the children’s Christmas party, too. Don’t forget that she should attend the base’s official spouses’ club activities; warm a seat at those functions. Never mind that the official base club needs her to take a seat on the board.
In fact, she may have to organize a theme party for one of the year’s official spousal club meetings. While she is selling chili dogs to help pay for the children’s Christmas party, she needs to remember to call the spouses of the deployed and check on their wellbeing. Oh, and tell her to not forget to take care of whatever she used to do before her husband was named the commander.
The buy-one-get-one (BOGO), the two-fer, is assumed. He receives the paycheck and she tries to seamlessly double her family’s supportive efforts at the workplace.
A commander spouse friend of mine once said, “The only way to get out of all that is to get a job, get sick, or have a baby.”
Those are the top three salable excuses. However, they are only excused temporarily until it can all get juggled. And she will get it handled. She has to.
Military spouses need each other. Someone has to be the leader. The easy out is to hang it on the commander’s wife. Sometimes a woman may take on her title like a bad pageant queen: show-off, go out of bounds, and boss people around. But, those are the jerks and the exceptions. Behind a strong military husband, is an even stronger military wife.
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Alas poor Dirty Harry, Jay Newton-Small, Time:
Both Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York say they firmly believe Reid will be reelected, but for several months the number two and three Democrats in the Senate have been trying to one up each other in wooing their colleagues. Schumer’s speeches to the Democratic caucus are filled with shout-outs to all those whose hard work he appreciates. Durbin lavishes praise on a long list of contributing Senators on his bills. They both are racing from issue to issue — health care, jobs, filibusters — trying to position themselves as the next leader for the party.
WaPo covers up for Rahm Emanuel, by Philip Rucker, Washington Post:
It’s no secret that members of Congress broker deals on the treadmill or in the weight room of the House and Senate gyms. But former congressman Eric Massa’s accusation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once berated him in the gym’s shower over his vote against President Obama’s budget left Washington watchers wondering how much business politicians conduct while naked.
So just how smart is this reporter, Rucker. Rahm Emanuel and Eric Massa has and encounter in the House Gym. So Rucker goes and interviews six senators and one seating representative. Some reporting.
More Massa Messa, the dude lived in a male whorehouse, Ace:
Oh, My: Massa Hired Lots of Young Gay Men, Paid Them So Little They Had to Live With Him In His Weird Gay Frathouse
This even beats out Barney Frank, who chauffeur ran the whorehouse.
Some analysis, glamor and presidents:
Hat tip: Little Miss Attila
Moron NY Law Maker Wants Salt Banned in Restaurant Cooking, Lisa Derrick, Fire Dog Lake:
New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is one of the most idiotic morans to hold office this decade–and the decade is young, so I’m sure there wil be plenty of contenders. But in the meantine, Ortiz, a Democrat for Brooklyn who is obviously dumber than my dog and gives the party a bad name by being such an utter idiot–wants to ban salt from food preparation. Bill A 10129 proposes that
I have two modest proposals:
- One extend the salt ban to all food served in all state government buildings.
- Two, all restaurants should post a sign: “We reserve the right to refuse to serve politicians.”
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I was interviewed by Stefano DiPietrantonio for the Fox19 10 O’Clock news, we discussed saving money by abandoning your shopping cart and waiting for special discounts.
You can watch this interview and many others on my YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es4WfJbqqFE
I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions for other topics.
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Go for it Liz, from Alex Spillius, Telegraph(UK):
Ms Cheney is now reportedly contemplating a run for office herself either in Virginia, where she was raised, or in Wyoming, her parents’ home state.
Don’t be too quick to rule out the Empire State. There are several potential openings.
The Backasswards Mrs.Pelosi, David Freddoso, Washington Examiner, quoting Mrs. Pelosi on why to pass Obama Care:
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
Intelligence Americans want to read the bill before it is enacted. Then has the bill even been written yet?
United States Senate libels Matt Drudge. Fox News:
The Senate’s official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com “are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate,” according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.
[...]
The Drudge Report noted that it served more than 29 million pages Monday without an e-mail complaint about “‘pop ups,’ or the site serving ‘viruses.’”
Any website serving up twenty-nine million hits a day, which also was serving up viruses would be news. And in turn
Drudge Mocks Congress:
'END' OF THE 'END GAME' OR 'THE END'?
TODAY: Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)
Last year:
July 28: Healthcare endgame on Capitol Hill (Reuters)
August 21: Analysis: Health care endgame near but uncertain (AP)
October 14: Senate, administration begin healthcare endgame as Dem leaders express unity (Hill)
October 25: Senators say health care bill endgame is in sight (Politico)
October 27: End Game: So When Will Health Care Really Happen? (TPM)
October 30: Health reform inches closer to endgame (WaPo)
November 23: The Health Care Endgame (NPR)
Dirty Harry should know better than to pick a fight with person who buys bandwidth by the truckload.
Seared, Seared into our minds, John Kass, Chicago Tribune:
A naked, wet and angry Rahm Emanuel?
That’s the last image Americans need in our minds right now.
But it’s been seared onto our brains — just like that weird wrestling scene from the movie “Borat” — thanks to former U.S. Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., who resigned the other day amid allegations he sexually harassed male staffers
Err it seems more like the San Francisco way to me.
Mrs. Pelosi, why are you allowing this perv to run naked around the men’s locker room?
What did Rahm Emanuel know about Eric Massa’s perversions? Massa’s peccadilloes were well known by the press and what can I say, under reported. From Joshua Green, Atlantic:
According to Peter Clarke, a Navy shipmate, Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates. He tells the story of his friend Stuart Borsch, with whom Massa shared a hotel room while on leave during the first Gulf War. “Stuart’s at the edge of the bed,” Clarke says Borsch told him at the time, “and [Massa] starts massaging him. Massa said, ‘You’ll have to get one of my special massages.’ He called them ‘Massa Massages.’” Ron Moss, a Navy shipmate and Borsch’s roommate, confirmed that Borsch told him this story at the time.
Vetting in only for republicans.
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Denial is a river that runs through the White House.
Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner.
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Fred Phelps and Phree Speech, ok Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church are loud vulgar, but political, bunch. But if the First Amendment does not protect loud and vulgar political speech, what good is it. From, Chris Weigant, Puffington Post:
As for the hate-filled speech Phelps offers up, unless the courts decide that it borders on obscenity or “fighting words,” Phelps will likely be allowed to continue. The history of religious fanatics in America is a long one, going back to some of our original settlers (whom we honor by eating a turkey every November). And as I said, the more offensive any speech is (even “religious” speech), the more it is in need of First Amendment protection.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not defending the utterly indefensible crackpot ravings of Phelps, on any level whatsoever. But, on free speech grounds, I must (distasteful as it is) defend his right to speak in a public place. Call me a First Amendment absolutist, if you will.
WTF, Over! St. Louis Business Journal
President Barack Obama plans to continue his push for healthcare reform in a speech Wednesday at St. Charles High School.
The address is scheduled for 3:50 p.m. and is invitation-only, according to the White House.
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.
Al in Wonderland. Gina Miller, Dakota Voice:
I thought that Gore and his fellow members of the Church of Climate Change are the most audacious liars I’ve ever seen–because I can’t possibly bring myself to accept that they actually believe what they profess. I stopped counting the lies after a few paragraphs
This one is easy. Not even Algore is stupid enough to believe in anthropogenic global warming. Nobody who worshiped at the altar of AGW would live a mansion the size of small city block and fly arond the world in a private jet.
Where art thou Barack, Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:
I recently asked several senior administration officials, separately, to name a foreign leader with whom Barack Obama has forged a strong personal relationship during his first year in office. A lot of hemming and hawing ensued.
Eric Massa the Snake, Bob Lonsberry:
Eric Massa is a brilliant, audacious snake.
But he is still a snake.
Massa got more stories that I have socks.
Massa meltdown, video:
Again, don’t blame me. I voted for Randy Kuhl.
Worst ever interview, William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:
Glenn Beck’s just-concluded interview with Eric Massa.
Learned nothing.
Only thing concrete was that Massa is standing by his Rahm-in-the-shower incident.
So questions for Mrs. Polosi:
- when were the shower curtains taken down in the men’s shower?
- Were they also taken down in the ladies shower?
- If not, why not?
Out.
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Tbe Obama administration to declare war on angless and state budgets. While I am not a fisherman, there a lot fisherman in New York. It is big business and the state sells lots of fishing licenses, but no more, from ESPN:
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
[....]
Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.
I never thought the Obama administration could be this stupid.
Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.
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