In his speech at Normandy today, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the site of the D-Day invasion “Obama Beach” instead of Omaha Beach. Was it an honest mistake? Or was it a not-so-subliminal plea to the American president to storm the beaches once again to rescue him from evil conservatives who are about to topple him from power?
Author: editor
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is talking. Are you listening, Arnold?
Mitch Daniels isn’t a riveting speaker. He’s short. And he has a bad comb over. But we understand why the people of Indiana have elected him governor twice.
“Despite the terrible national economy, Indiana remains in vastly better shape than most states and any of our neighbors. We have over a billion dollars in reserves and a triple A credit rating. Anywhere else, any reserves are long gone. They’re slashing education by as much as ten to fifteen percent. They’re releasing convicts from prison early. And worst of all, when families are struggling, they’re raising taxes.”
“There’s only one reason we are so different – because we have held government spending down to a level of our income. But if we lose our sense of discipline now, in no time we’ll look just like Michigan or Illinois or, heaven forbid, California.”
He sums it all up by saying, “Add a dollar, cut a dollar. And no tax increases.”
There’s no question which party he belongs to, is there?
Thousands of dead people voting in Minnesota?
As many as 2,812 dead people may have voted in Minnesota. Is it human error or fraud?
A conservative advocacy group says the problem is that the Minnesota Secretary of State neglects to purge the names of dead people from the voter rolls.
For example, Julie Webster died in 2006, but voter records show that she voted two years later on Nov. 4, 2008. Her husband Henry Webster said, “I’m here to tell you, there’s no malice on my end. (Election officials and I) had a two-way conversation that my wife had died and that she won’t be coming in. So I wrote deceased.”
An election worker, it appears, tallied the late Mrs. Webster as a voter who showed up and cast a ballot.
Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann says the problem should be blamed on mistakes, not fraud.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people,” he insisted. “You’re going to have human error. We’re doing our best to correct that human error.”
We vote for fraud. In fact, we voted for it five times.
Source: KSTP.com
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Pissed-Off Progressive of the Day #2: John Murtha
Make no mistake about it, John Murtha is very sensitive about being corrupt. Or being caught at being corrupt. Or being questioned about being corrupt. Or doing business with a corrupt company. Or even hearing the word corrupt uttered in his presence.
Kuchera Defense Systems is currently being investigated for fraud. What’s Murtha’s connection? Well, this reporter tries to find out and gets nothing but the brunt of Murtha’s anger.
We would say Murtha is a little thin skinned, but the words “thin” and “John Murtha” should never be used in the same sentence.
H/T: BluegrassPundit.com
Pissed-Off Progressive of the Day: Nancy Pelosi
A little advice for reporters: Don’t bother asking Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi about the CIA anymore.
She’s finished lying talking about those lying liars. She’s lied said all she’s going to lie say. And that’s that.
Queen Nancy hath lied spoken.
Source: Gateway Pundit
That idiot George Bush read ten times more books than that genius Barack Obama
When asked what he was currently reading by a BBC interviewer on Tuesday, President Obama named Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland.”
Really? Obama also said he began reading the 270-page novel back in April. That’s only about six pages per day.
George Bush, on the other hand, was well-known as a voracious reader and polished off more than 100 books per year. At Obama’s current pace, he’ll only complete about 10 books this year.
In President Obama’s defense, it takes far longer to read a book when it’s on a Teleprompter.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
Maybe the problem is that President Obama just isn’t very good at math
We heard a joke today. It’s a sick joke, but it goes to prove a point. It goes like this:
Rahm Emanuel heard about the Brazilian plane crash, ran into the Oval Office and said, “Mr. President, we just lost 200 Brazilians.”
Obama looks concerned and says, “How many trillion in a brazillion?”
Point is, this guy proves over and over that he has no grasp of basic math.
Obviously, the projected deficits prove that trillions are meaningless to him. But now it appears that he has no grasp of millions, either.
As it was reported in the New York Times, “In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as ‘one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.’”
“’And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,’ Mr. Obama said.”
That’s nonsense. According to NationMaster.com, the United States ranks just 34th in the world with approximately 6,000,000 Muslims. That puts us right behind tiny nations like Tajikistan, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Azerbiajan, and the President’s own Kenya. Many authorities think that 6,000,000 number is vastly inflated.
Obviously, Obama has trouble with complex numbers. He’s baffled by millions, billions and trillions. In fact, the only number he’s really concerned with is The One.
Source: New York Times, NationMaster.com
And the score at the end of three innings: British Press 2, Robert Gibbs 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeVuDn4feU
Smarmy, condescending Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may want to reconsider his recent attacks on the British Press. Because these guys kick butt and take names. Especially if the name is Gibbs.
Just take a look at this scathing column by James Delinpole of the Telegraph UK:
Memo to Obama attack dog Robert Gibbs: stop pooping on our lawn
Memo to US Press secetary Robert Gibbs
1. Congratulations. Your presidential regime has managed to secure the most supine, slobbering, spineless, unquestioning media coverage since Enver Hoxha’s Albania. A report last month by the Center for Media and Public Affairs said Obama has received more coverage than his two predecessors combined. On ABC, CBS and NBC news the majority of evaluations – 58 per cent – have been favourable. (Compare GW Bush – 33 per cent; Bill Clinton 44 per cent – in first 50 days of office). More importantly, you have Pravda. Yes, no less than 73 per cent of all evaluative comments in your chief propaganda organ – aka The New York Times – have been favourable to Obama.
2. Sure your congenitally libtard Mainstream Media were probably biased that way anyway, but you have played your part. Your combative style – which led you to dismiss the entire British print media just now in one glib, sneering phrase – has earned you the nickname “The Enforcer.” You have a reputation for coming down hard on any media outlet which doesn’t follow your approved version of reality. “I work the referee a little bit,” as you once put it. (A reference, perhaps, to when you played goalkeeper for your college football team).
3. If you are going to make clever-sounding football references displaying your rich understanding of the British press, try to get your terminology right. We call it the “Champions League.” Not the “Champions League cup.”
4. That’s only the beginning of your problems, matey. Your treatment not just of the British media but of Britain generally smacks of a risible ineptitude. First, you let President Obama send back the Winston Churchill bust. Then, you insult our visiting prime minister with a dismally low-key reception (worthy of a minor African head of state, not your closest and most loyal ally) and shoddy gifts (those DVDs). Then you compound the insult by having one of your monkeys declare, Chicago-politics-style, “”There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.” OK so we know Obama’s not much interested in foreign affairs and has a special loathing for Britain because it roughed up his Kenyan granddad during the Mau Mau insurrection. But don’t you realise, that one of your jobs as his press secretary is to make out like he loves us so much even his underpants have a union flag on them?
5. Insulting the British print media. Big mistake. We know we’re not angels. We know we can go over the top sometimes. But unfortunately that’s a much bigger problem for you than it is for us. You see, while a lot of your mainstream media will hold fire on stories which they think may reflect poorly on your wondrous Obamamessiah – what his half-brother has been up to, say – we have fewer qualms about telling it like it is. So far, you’ve had a pretty easy ride. The Obama Kool Aid has proved almost as popular beverage in Britain as it is in the US. But just you wait till we start showing our teeth.
6. A lot of Americans know this. They appreciate our irreverence. They enjoy our frank criticisms of all the myriad areas where Obama is getting it so badly wrong – everything from his disastrous cap and trade measures, to his brutal treatment of Chrysler dealerships which didn’t support him, to his pork barrelling, to his failure to do anything that looks remotely like rescuing the US economy. That’s why they come to read us online: because they can and there’s nothing you can do to stop them.
7. We had a guy just like you over here once. Guy named Alastair Campbell. Did for our now heavily discredited prime minister Tony Blair what you do for Obama: a little light press bullying; professional turd polishing; that kind of thing. We hated Alastair Campbell, really loathed him. But he got away with bullying us because in those days we didn’t know any better. We were still going through this sort of dumb-cattle phase where we still had some vestigial respect for politicians and trust that they knew what they were doing.
8. But we don’t respect politicians any more. Not our politicians, and not yours either. Imagine how this new strain of irreverence bordering on utter contempt is going to affect our reporting of political affairs. Actually, you’ve no need to imagine. Just read some of our Telegraph blogs.
Our congratulations to Robert Gibbs, the first press secretary capable of pissing off the press of our closest ally.
Source: Telegraph UK
Fatheads issue fatwah: Bangladeshi woman caned 39 times for “lying” about child’s father
This is one of those items you rarely read in the biased liberal media because it calls into question their devotion to moral relativism.
A 22-year old woman is fighting for her life after being caned 39 times in Bangladesh.
Police chief Moshiur Rahman said the 22-year-old unmarried woman angered Islamic clerics by telling friends that a neighbor was the father of her six-year old son.
When she and the alleged father appeared before a Islamic court, the man denied the charge.
“He held a Koran in one hand and swore to the village clerics that he was not the father of the boy. The village court found him not guilty,” Rahman said. “They also issued a fatwa that the woman should be caned 39 times for lying.”
Half the players in the NBA immediately called their attorneys and told them to try “the Bangladeshi defense.”
Source: GatewayPundit
Dueling Headlines
“Fewer confessions and new sins”
Source: BBC.co.uk
“Priest caught with girlfriend says church is about forgiveness”
Source: CNSnews.com
Unless we’re mistaken, this guy should be able to get the average back up all by himself.
Harry Reid is completely ignorant, wants to remain completely ignorant, and is remarkably proud of his complete ignorance
Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid put on a virtuoso performance yesterday when asked about Sonia Sotomayor’s academic and professional qualifications to be on the Supreme Court.
“Everyone in America, I want them to understand that we have the whole package here,” Reid said. “If that wasn’t enough, her background is very significant — we could not have anyone better qualified.”
“I understand that during her career, she’s written hundreds and hundreds of opinions,” he continued. “I haven’t read a single one of them, and if I’m fortunate before we end this, I won’t have to read one of them.”
If the rest of us are fortunate, the voters of Nevada will send this guy off to represent Sun City in the next election.
Source: HotAir.com
Bush tells reporter “United States is one of the largest Christian nations in the world”
That idiot, former President George Bush, showed his total disregard for the separation of church and state today when he told a French reporter that the United States was a Christian nation.
Here’s how the New York Times reported it:
“In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Bush noted that the United States also could be considered as ‘one of the largest Christian countries in the world.’”
“’And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Christian Americans, we’d be one of the largest Christian countries in the world,’ Mr. Bush said.”
Shocking, isn’t it. Except for one thing. We switched two words in the New York Times story. We substituted “Bush” for “Obama” and “Christian” for “Muslim.”
Even though the statement we attributed to Bush would have been true, just imagine the leftist howls of protest about the separation of church and state if he had actually said it.
Yet, instead of condemning Obama’s demonstrably false statement as a violation of church and state, the liberal media merely quibbles about his numbers.
In the words of King Barack, “l’État, c’est moi.” And in the words of the press, “l’État, c’est il.”
Reference: New York Times
Nancy Reagan calls Obama “a lefty” and he admits it
On the sad day that General Motors became Government Motors, we choose to believe that Nancy was talking about his politics.
Conservative ex-congressman Tom Tancredo tells CNN Sotomayor a member of “Latino KKK”
Appearing on CNN, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, attacked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for saying wise Latinas make better decisions than white men.
Horrified by Sotomayor’s membership in an “immigrants’ rights group” called La Raza (Translation: “The Race”), Tancredo called it “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.”
Rick Sanchez, the CNN host who’s never met a left wing extremist he doesn’t love, was horrified by Tancredo’s assertion.
We were horrified when we realized we were watching CNN.
Quote of the Day:
“As administration officials tilt at windmills and talk of painting our roofs white, a real energy solution has emerged from the Arctic deep. So why has only Alaska’s Sarah Palin noticed?”
Investors Business Daily again demonstrates the logic that the biased liberal media won’t.
“…It was thought that Chukchi’s waters northwest of Alaska’s landmass held 30 billion cubic feet of natural gas.”
“Today, Science magazine reports that the U.S. Geological Survey now finds it holds more than anyone thought — 1.6 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered gas, or 30% of the world’s supply and 83 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, 4% of the global conventional resources.
That’s enough U.S. energy to achieve self-sufficiency and never worry about it as a national security question again.”
Source: Investors Business Daily
Energy Secretary comes up with stupidest idea in the history of human thought
We’ve been told that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, is a genius. An absolute genius. The smartest man alive other than President Obama.
Chu’s latest brainstorm would have us combat global warming by painting everything white – roofs, roads, sidewalks, everything gets a coat of white paint.
Unfortunately, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair did the math on this brilliant strategy:
The total area of the U.S. (50 states + D.C.) equals 9,826,630 km^2.
According to a 2004 study by the U.S. Geophysical Union, all constructed so-called “impervious surfaces” (buildings, roads, parking lots, roofs, etc.) in the USA total a combined 112,610 km^2. Which is a bit less than the total area of Ohio, a bit more than Virginia.
That means we’ve got about 1.14% for Dr. Chu to paint.
That should make a big difference.
This isn’t Chu’s idea. It was actually proposed last year by Hashem Akbari, a scientist based at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Eco wackos assume the entire world looks like Manhattan. As anyone who’s ever flown over the country knows, it’s mostly empty. 98.86% empty, in fact.
Blair points out that Chu accentuated his hypocrisy by travelling to and from the meeting in a jet-black SUV.
Someone needs to find out if Chu owns stock in a paint company.
Source: Tim Blair/SyndeyDailyTelegraph
Jokin’ Joe Biden makes crack about Obama’s teleprompter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuGi2bMwODs Vice President Biden was speaking at the Air Force Academy graduation recently when the wind took out his teleprompter. Jokin’ Joe then makes a crack at his boss’ expense: “What am I gonna tell the president when I tell him his Teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?” Hilarity ensues.
Perhaps even funnier is when the Fox reporter then segues from “Plugs” Biden to a story about the gene that is linked to baldness, saying it could put the Hair Club for Men out of business.
Coincidence?
Obama’s ping pong Pyongyang foreign policy
If you ask what the Obama administration’s policy on North Korea is, you have to then ask another question: What day of the week is it? Because the policy seems to change daily.
Ping: Back in April, when Pyongyang tested its first long-range missile, the President deemed North Korea a “regional threat.”
Pong: After the North Koreans’ latest missile test last week, he called them a global threat.
Ping: National security adviser James Jones said last week that the rogue nation poses no imminent threat to the US.
Pong: Later in the week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, “The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state…North Korea’s nuclear program and actions constitute a threat to regional peace and security. We unequivocally reaffirm our commitment to the defense of our allies in the region.”
Ping: On Friday, Gates dialed back the rhetoric and said, “I don’t think that anybody in the [Obama] administration thinks there is a crisis.”
The Obama administration should take note that no one beats the Asians when it comes to ping pong.
Source: Flopping Aces via HotAir.com
Another bad day at the polls for the Barackistas
Here are the results of a series of polls reported Tuesday by Rasmussen. The question is, how long will it take for the American people to notice that they don’t agree with this administration on very much?
Just 21% Favor GM Bailout Plan, 67% Oppose
42% Expect Housing Market Will Take More Than Three Years To Recover
77% of Georgia Voters Favor ID Checks Before Voting, Justice Department Disagrees
52% Still Fear Government Will ‘Help’ Economy Too Much
Voters Put More Emphasis On Deficit Cutting Over Health Care Reform
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Monday: UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says she’ll fight Michael Savage’s libel claim. Tuesday: Smith resigns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeZZJihtDs In the words of the old Dinah Washington song, “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours.”
On Monday, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that she would fight a defamation suit brought by American talk show host Michael Savage after he was barred from entering the UK.
On Tuesday, Smith submitted her resignation to unpopular Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Savage was “outraged” when Smith lumped him together on the list with a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, a skinhead gang leader and a Hezbollah militant who spent 30 years in prison.
Savage, was reportedly asking for as much as $150,000 in damages and an apology.
British observers believe the Savage issue may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Smith.
Great Britain is currently embroiled in a scandal over Members of Parliament submitting fraudulent expense reports for personal items. Smith was caught up in the controversy when she submitted an expense report that included the costs of her husband’s porn purchases.
Whether you like Savage or not, you have to admit that he’s never been a danger to anyone. Except, perhaps, Smith and her career.
Source: Daily Mail UK
Jake Tapper is about this far from losing his seat
on Air Force One
ABC News’ Jake Tapper actually confronted the unconfrontable truth of Barack Obama’s Muslim roots Tueday on his ABC blog.
His willingness to deviate from the media’s blind allegiance to Barack Obama is truly startling. If Tapper keeps this up he’s likely to become ABC’s new Siberian correspondent.
The Emergence of President Obama’s Muslim roots
The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or gen4ral election campaign.
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama’s trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said “the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to – or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world – you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father – obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”
Tapper concluded:
In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama reference how many “Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them.”
Well, that clears it all up. He’s one of them. Because he certainly hasn’t acted like he’s one of us.
Source: ABC News
Obama says Sotomayor wants a do-over on her “wise Latina” comment
“President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor…‘I’m sure she would have restated it,’ Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.”
While we’re at it, Joe Biden wants to restate a bunch of stuff he said, too.
Source: Associated Press
Brian Williams shows subservience,
bows to King Barack
NBC News anchor Brian Williams actually bowed to President Obama on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, the President was facing in the wrong direction, making it anatomically impossible for Williams to kiss his butt before leaving the White House.
“This,” the President thought to himself, “must be what ol’ King Abdul Aziz felt like when I bowed to him.”
Huffington Post goes crazy over Tiller murder and virtually ignores Army recruiter murder
We signed up for the Huffington Post’s Daily Briefs email list a few months ago. To the best of our recollection, while we receive their Daily Briefs, we’ve never received an “Alert” until May 31, when we received this one:
ALERT: Abortion Doctor Murdered At Kansas Church
Oddly enough, no such email alert was sent out the next day for this similar story:
Carlos Bledsoe, Muslim Convert Opposed To US Military, Shot And Killed Army-Navy Recruiter
It struck us as rather selective outrage, but we wanted to be certain before we made any wild, unsubstantiated accusations. So we went to HuffingtonPost.com and used its search function to compare the number of stories on the two murders. There were a least a hundred hits for stories referencing George Tiller’s murder. We say at least, because we stopped counting at that point as the list just kept going and going and going. We have no idea how many more there were.
Then we did another search to see how many references we could find on the Arkansas recruiter murder. Eight. That’s all. Eight. And no, we didn’t search for very specific words like “Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad” or “Carlos Bledsoe.” We erred on the side of caution and performed very loose searches.
While it’s not an exact science, the results were clear: Far more than a hundred Tiller references, but just eight on the Arkansas recruiter (let’s give the poor, ignored guy a name–William Long) murder.
For further study, we then went to Google and did an advanced “site search” where you can search for words found on just a particular site, posted within a specified date range, and various other boolean search criteria. We searched just the HuffingtonPost.com website. The closest date range we could use was “past week.” Close enough.
The results were startling, but we’re not going to publish them because there are too many variables that can get called into question with the search terms. But we ask you to do to your own searches: go to Google, click on Advanced Search, enter “HuffingtonPost.com” into the search site field, set the date range, and try some of your own searches. Remember if you are putting two words together like William Long, they have to be keyed as “William Long” or it will search for William OR long, which will skew the results. Let us know what you find out.
But we did do two simple searches we will tell you about. We simply searched the the Huffingtonpost.com site for “George Tiller” and then for “William Long.” The results were 12,900 pages for George Tiller, but just 6 for William Long.
We understand the George Tiller was more well known than William Long, but Good God, can we honor Private Long just a bit more?
Our conclusion? Huffington Post has a genetic predisposition against the pro-life position. But they seem to have an equally strong pre-dispositon to ignore news that casts Muslims in a negative light.
