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Is Brooke Shields really John Edwards’ love child?

Teri Shields has not yet denied that John Edwards is her baby daddy.
Teri Shields has not yet denied that John Edwards is her baby daddy.

According to actress Brooke Shields, the National Enquirer kidnapped her demented mother from a retirement home in New Jersey.

As keen observers of the National Enquirer, we think it’s pretty obvious that they were simply trying to determine if Brooke Shields is another John Edwards love child.

The irate Shields told People Magazine that her mother was checked out of the home by a Natonal Enquirer reporter in pursuit a “tabloid story.”

“My mother Teri Shields has been diagnosed with dementia. For her safety, she has temporarily been in a senior living facility, a very difficult decision for me,” she says. “Late Thursday afternoon, I was alerted by Old Tappan Police that my mother had been signed out of the facility by two reporters of the National Enquirer…who falsely claimed they were friends of hers.”

According to police, Teri Shields, 75, was found talking to the freelance reporter several hours later at a restaurant next door to her assisted living center.

“I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act,” Brooke Shields said in her statement to People.

Yes, we know it sounds highly unlikely that John Edwards could be Brooke Shields’ father, because he was only 12 years old when she was born. But would you put anything past the guy at this point?

Source: People.com

Gallup survey can’t find one British Muslim who approves of homosexuality

It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple
It's much easier to be a Muslim cross-dresser because the burkha hides your adam's apple

Bad news for Elton John. According to a recent survey, British Muslims have zero tolerance for homosexual acts.

What’s that? They didn’t mean show business acts performed by homosexuals? Oh. Our apologies to Elton.

Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with 500 Muslims in the UK, France and Germany.

“The most dramatic contrast was found in attitudes towards homosexuality,” the study said. “None of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable.”

Remarkable. They couldn’t find a single British Muslim who would come out publicly in support of homosexuals. Not one.

“By comparison, 35% of French Muslims found homosexual acts to be acceptable,” it continued. “A question on pornography also elicited different reactions, with French and German Muslims more likely than British Muslims to believe that watching or reading pornography was morally acceptable.”

So much for the glories of multiculturalism. Like all liberal philosophies, it grossly over-promises and dramatically under-delivers. Kind of like an Elton John concert.

Source: Guardian UK

Shocking: Obama’s government spending follows same pattern as his personal spending

Conservatives often look at government spending, shake their heads and say, “They wouldn’t spend their own money like that.”

Turns out if you’re Barack Obama, you would. A new financial analysis indicates that he’s always spent far more than he made.

Here’s how The New York Daily News reports it:

In the words of Pink Floyd, "Money, money, money, money...money."
In the words of Pink Floyd, "Money, money, money, money...money."

A close examination of their finances shows that the Obamas were living off lines of credit along with other income for several years until 2005, when Obama’s book royalties came through and Michelle received her 260% pay raise at the University of Chicago. This was also the year Obama started serving in the U.S. Senate…

In April 1999, they purchased a Chicago condo and obtained a mortgage for $159,250. In May 1999, they took out a line of credit for $20,750. Then, in 2002, they refinanced the condo with a $210,000 mortgage, which means they took out about $50,000 in equity. Finally, in 2004, they took out another line of credit for $100,000 on top of the mortgage.

Tax returns for 2004 reveal $14,395 in mortgage deductions. If we assume an effective interest rate of 6%, then they owed about $240,000 on a home they purchased for about $159,250.

This means they spent perhaps $80,000 beyond their income from 1999 to 2004.

We have to admit that this information frightens us. Based on his past experience, we fear the President thinks he can pay off the nation’s skyrocketing debt by writing another best selling autobiography and getting Michelle another dubious, but highly-paid job.

Genius.

Source: New York Daily News via GatewayPundit.com

Harry Reid confused, but Nevada voters aren’t

Democrat Senator Harry Reid salutes the voters of Nevada
Democrat Senator Harry Reid salutes the voters of Nevada

Harry Reid looked stupid three times in one news conference on Tuesday. And that’s not a smart thing to do on a day when a poll showed he’s unlikely to be re-elected by Nevada voters.

First, when asked if Teddy Kennedy’s cancer was in remission, Reid answered, “As far as I know, it is, yes.” A Kennedy spokesperson declined to comment, the classic form of denial in Washington, DC.

Then Reid noted that Senator Robert Byrd would soon be released from the hospital. A Byrd spokesman later said, “…his doctors, in consultation with his family, have not yet determined when he will be released.”

Finally, Reed didn’t know his own party’s position on Gitmo detainees. “Part of what we don’t want is them be put in prisons in the United States,” Reid said. But that differs significantly from what the administration has said.

When asked if President Obama’s position put his Democrat colleagues in an awkward position, Reid said, “Not at all.” But when Reid’s second-in-command, Senator Dick Durban was asked the same question, he clearly contradicted his boss and answered, “Yes.”

Reid’s errors came on a day when a poll showed that only 35% of Nevada voters would vote to re-elect him.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.”

“About a third of the state’s voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but 45 percent say they would definitely vote to replace him. Seventeen percent would consider another candidate.”

So even though Harry screwed up, the voters got it right.

Source: Associated Press, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Beware the “Climate-Industrial Complex”

Al Gore, frontman for the climate-industrial complex
Al Gore, frontman for the climate-industrial complex

President Eisenhower warned of the “military-industrial complex.” Now on the eve of the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, “Skeptical Environmentalist” author Bjorn Lomborg warns of the “climate-industrial complex.”

Lomborg, hardly a conservative, writes, “We are told that very expensive carbon regulations are the only way to respond to global warming, despite ample evidence that this approach does not pass a basic cost-benefit test. We must ask whether a “climate-industrial complex” is emerging, pressing taxpayers to fork over money to please those who stand to gain.”

This global warming…oops…climate change cabal has invited none other than Al “He Played On Our Fears” Gore to be the keynote speaker. How is it that this Oscar/Grammy/Nobel “Peace” Prize-winning crackpot is still taken seriously after being thoroughly debunked for his phony “documentary” and general hysteria? *Sigh*

As Lomborg rightly points out, Gore represents all three groups that stand to benefit. “He is a politician, a campaigner and the chair of a green private-equity firm invested in products that a climate-scared world would buy.”

Coincidentally, all the so-called experts at this Summit hold the same alarmist views of global, er… climate change.

So whatever happened to diversity and tolerance of other viewpoints? It’s nowhere to be found in this forum. As Lomborg notes, “There would be an outcry — and rightfully so — if big oil organized a climate change conference and invited only climate-change deniers. The partnership among self-interested businesses, grandstanding politicians and alarmist campaigners truly is an unholy alliance. Spending a fortune on global carbon regulations will benefit a few, but dearly cost everybody else.”

Obama once said, “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works…” Our question is, what if it’s too big and still doesn’t work?

Source: Wall Street Journal

Outrageous California school district wants to battle “homophobia” in kindergarten

Dangerous little homophobes like this must be re-educated (photo credit: phineas h)
Dangerous little homophobes like this must be re-educated (photo credit: phineas h)

Back when we were in kindergarten our biggest concern was learning our ABCs. Apparently, the kids in Alameda, California have bigger (and stranger) things to worry about.

California’s Alameda Unified School District may institute a supplemental curriculum aimed at eradicating “homophobia” in kindergarten kids.

Let’s just pause for a moment while you digest that concept.

OK?

“Nowhere at anytime did it give any protection for children being bullied because of their faith, their religion, their size, their race, ethnicity,” said Brad Dacus, founder of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It is only going to give this special anti-bullying protection for homosexuals and transsexuals.”
 


Welcome to Alameda, California. Where the kids don’t know their ABCs, but do know their AC/DCs.

Source: OneNewsNow.com

President refuses to meet with governor, governor calls him a hypocrite

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is not happy with President Obama
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is not happy with President Obama

Earlier this year, the President Obama told an Elkhart, Indiana audience, “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.”

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons fired back on Tuesday after Obama declined an invitation to meet with Gibbons and the state’s business leaders.

“I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration,” Gibbons said. “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments.”

“President Obama is coming to Las Vegas to raise campaign cash for Senator Harry Reid, apparently our money is good enough for the President, but our tourism, jobs, and economic future are not.” Gibbons added, “This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada.”


Since Obama’s comments, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has lost more than 400 conventions and meetings, costing Vegas in excess of $100 million.

We say keep President Obama out of Las Vegas. The way he’s been going, he’d might be tempted to head for the roulette tables and put all the stimulus money on red.

What the hell, his odds of success are probably higher than the way he’s gambling it all away now.

Source: KTNV.com

Obama faith-based advisor wants us to move beyond “heteronormative” fatherhood

C'mon, give daddy sugar. It's Non-Heteronormative Father's Day
C'mon, give daddy sugar. It's Non-Heteronormative Father's Day

Harry Knox, a member of President Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, says that promoting responsible fatherhood should include moving away from the “heteronormative view of fatherhood.”

Don’t you love words like “heteronormative?”

What it means is that traditional fatherhood is passe. Now gays should be fathers. Lesbians should be fathers. Trans-sexuals should be fathers. Amoebas should be fathers. Lamp posts should be fathers. Everyone and everything should be fathers.

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships divvies up the big pot of federal money among religious non-profit and charitable groups.

Don’t forget. Father’s Day is June 21. We’re not sure when Non-Heteronormative Father’s Day is.

Source: CNSnews.com

One of the sinister Sanchez sisters wants blog gulag

Congresswoman Linda Sanchez parties after a long day of jailing bloggers
Congresswoman Linda Sanchez parties after a long day of jailing bloggers

You never know what to expect from the sinister Sanchez sisters – Linda and Loretta both Democrat representatives from California – but you know it won’t be good.

Rep Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, says, “Congress has no interest in censoring.” Of course, she said that in defense of her bill that censors the internet.

Sister Linda has introduced the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. Despite her claim that “Congress has no interest in censoring,” Civil libertarians call the overly-broad bill “the Internet Censorship Act of 2009.”

“Put simply,” she commented in a piece for the Huffington Post, “this legislation would be used as a tool for a judge and jury to determine whether there is significant evidence to prove that a person ‘cyberbullied’ another. That is: did they have the required intent, did they use electronic means of communication, and was the communication severe, hostile, and repeated? So — bloggers, e-mailers, texters, spiteful exes and those who have blogged against this bill have no fear — your words are still protected under the same American values.”

Sanchez shows her deep commitment to the First Amendment by including the phrase “so-called free speech” in her HuffPo article.

Methods of communication where so-called hostile speech would be criminalized include telephones, websites, e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, and text messages. No word of whether sexting is included.

Murphy’s Law says, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s corollary, Sanchez’ Law says, “Whatever I say is wrong is wrong.”

Source: wired.com via sitfu.com

William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright lead Mideast peace rally and Israeli hatefest

Those two veteran America haters, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers enjoy each other's company at a weekend protest
Those two veteran America haters, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers enjoy each other's company at a weekend protest

Those two harmless jesters who don’t know each other, never met each other, barely knew Barack Obama, and wouldn’t really know him if they ran into him on a Chicago street, got together in Chicago on Sunday.

Yes, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright led a group of community activists, clergy and residents on a march “demanding a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Translation: Screw the Israelis.

“We can’t be squelching viewpoints because they are unpopular or because someone has a reputation through Fox News,” said Caren Levy Van Slyke, a spokeswoman for the group.

Translation: Fox News shouldn’t have told the truth about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

When asked about the event, President Obama said, “Who? Bill Who? Jeremiah Who? I don’t believe I’m familiar with either of those gentlemen.” Then he laughed his ass off and said, “Gotta go. I’m nationalizing a couple more industries this afternoon.”

OK, the previous paragraph is a complete fabrication. But it could have happened.

Source: ChicagoTribune.com

Uh-oh. We just found out why Janet Napolitano called you a right wing terrorist

Of course, Janet Napolitano can have a gun. She didn't define herself as a terrorist
Of course, Janet Napolitano can have a gun. She didn't define herself as a terrorist

They call it “The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.”

It sounds like a good idea until you find out that it would authorize the Attorney General to deny the sale of firearms to known or “suspected” terrorists.

Of course, you don’t have to remember back more than a couple weeks to remember who Janet Napolitano “suspects” as a terrorist.

Who? You. That’s who.

What Napolitano called “extremists,” more rational civil libertarians call “advocates” for frightening things like Christian identity, anti-abortion, anti-immigration and states rights.

“It doesn’t say anything about trials and due process,” commented Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America said about the proposed legislation. “This is one of the most outrageous pieces of legislation to come along in some time. It’s basically saying, ‘I suspect you, so your rights are toast.'”

We’re no mathematicians, Janet, but we can add two and two and get 1776.

Source: Fox News

Media downplays huge Hispanic protest against gay marriage

While the left demonized those damn white conservatives — evildoers like Miss California Carrie Prejean — as homophobes, a huge, mostly Hispanic crowd took to the streets of New York in opposition to Governor Patterson’s same-sex bill. The crowd, which some estimate at 20,000, gathered at the Governor’s Manhattan office, stretching from 35th to 40th Street on 3rd Avenue.

Welcome to the family, fellow right wing extremists.

Source: DissidentVoice

Now they’re going to spend $117,000 to study party drugs in Brazil. Yes, Brazil.

Ecstasy. That's what it's called when the government pays you to study party drugs in Brazil.
Ecstasy. That's what it's called when the government pays you to study party drugs in Brazil.

First it was $400,000 to study gay drinking and sex habits in Argentina. Then it was $2.6 million to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes. And now they’re going to spend $117,000 to study the use of “party drugs” in Brazil.

CSNnews.com reports that, “The National Institutes of Health is studying the use of ecstasy, LSD and other ‘party drugs’ in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a $117,876 investment from taxpayers. According to an NIH summary of the grant, ‘The topic is interesting and the data will be useful to understand the emerging problem of club drugs and raves in Brazil.’

Looks like college professors have figured out how to get the government to fund their kinky foreign vacations.

So we’re thinking of studying the sex habits of middle-aged men in Bora Bora. We figure it should cost about a quarter mil. Anybody know where to get the application forms?

Source: CNSnews.com

FBI investigates former North Carolina governor,
AP takes eight paragraphs to mention he’s a Democrat

Awkward moment between Democrat Governor Mike Easley and Democrat President Barack Obama (See how easy that was, AP?)
Awkward moment between Democrat Governor Mike Easley and Democrat President Barack Obama (See how easy that was, AP?)

Here’s a rule of thumb: If a newspaper story doesn’t mention the party of a politician who’s in trouble, bet your house it’s a Democrat.

AP proved the wisdom of that betting strategy again on Friday when it took eight paragraphs to identify the party of former North Carolina Governor Mike Easley.

Here’s how Associated Press framed the story:

Federal authorities revealed Friday that they are looking into who paid for flights former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley and his family took on privately owned aircraft while he was in office.

The FBI subpoenaed the state Highway Patrol and a trooper who was the head of the governor’s personal security detail, seeking information about the travel, documents involving payments and any communication the agency had with the Easleys about those private flights.

The subpoenas also ask for public inquiries of the flights and the patrol’s policies on keeping records related to the Easleys’ trips.

Where do they mention the former governor’s party affiliation? Not for five more paragraphs.

Easley, a Democrat, didn’t immediately return a phone call at his law office in Raleigh.

If he’d been a Republican, the headline would have said, “Republican investigated by FBI.” Maybe even “Evil Racist Republican investigated by the FBI.” Possibly even “Evil Racist, Gun-Loving, Misogynist Republican investigated by the FBI. Dems demand immediate resignation.”

Sigh.

Source: Associated Press via Earthlink

New “killer chip” could track terrorists, then eliminate them by releasing poison

The "killer chip" (also known as "the Napolitano Chip" at the Department of Homeland Security)
The "killer chip" (also known as "the Napolitano Chip" at the Department of Homeland Security)

A Saudi inventor has developed “the killer chip,” a tiny semiconductor-controlled device that can be implanted in a person, allowing authorities to track them from anywhere in the world with GPS.

A second version of the device could remotely release poison to “eliminate” anyone who becomes “a security risk.”

The patent application was tossed by Germany’s Patent and Trademark Office because that nation doesn’t recognize inventions they deem unethical or a danger to the public.

Sadly, Attorney General Eric Holder would never consider using this product on the terrorists he wants to release in the United States, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano probably would consider using it on those dreaded rightwing terrorists.

Source: World Net Daily

Leading climate change scientist says carbon offsets won’t work, “Enjoy life while you can”

James Lovelock says, "The world is doomed, so let's party, dude."
James Lovelock says, "The world is doomed, so let's party, dude."

On one hand, renowned climate expert James Lovelock thinks the global warming will destroy the world. On the other hand, he thinks all the political solutions are a scam.

The Guardian UK reports Lovelock’s heresy:

He dismisses eco ideas briskly, one by one. “Carbon offsetting? I wouldn’t dream of it. It’s just a joke. To pay money to plant trees, to think you’re offsetting the carbon? You’re probably making matters worse. You’re far better off giving to the charity Cool Earth, which gives the money to the native peoples to not take down their forests.”

Do he and his wife try to limit the number of flights they take? “No we don’t. Because we can’t.” And recycling, he adds, is “almost certainly a waste of time and energy”, while having a “green lifestyle” amounts to little more than “ostentatious grand gestures”. He distrusts the notion of ethical consumption. “Because always, in the end, it turns out to be a scam … or if it wasn’t one in the beginning, it becomes one.”

The Guardian continues:

You’re never going to get enough energy from wind to run a society such as ours,” he says. “Windmills! Oh no. No way of doing it. You can cover the whole country with the blasted things, millions of them. Waste of time.”

So given all this, what would Lovelock do now? “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.”

A round of applause for James Lovelock for his honesty. Anyone Al Gore disagrees with is alright with us.

Source: Guardian UK

Extreme cold keeps British global warming expedition from reaching North Pole

Larry, Moe and Curly of the Catlin Arctic Survey
Larry, Moe and Curly of the Catlin Arctic Survey

We’re sad to report that the trio of British ecological explorers who’ve been trying to reach the North Pole had to give up their global warming expedition because – are you ready? – it was too cold.

The Catlin Arctic Survey team had to be rescued this week after finishing less than half their trek. In fact, they fell short by more than 300 miles.

WattsUpWithThat.com summarizes the hilarious results:

  • Due to horrifically cold weather, hypothermia and frostbite, they made it less than half way to the pole.
  • Some of the distance they did travel was due to polar drift. They reported crossing the 85th parallel “in their sleep.”
  • They started on ice which was already known to be first year ice, yet were “surprised” to find that it was first year ice.
  • They stayed on first year ice for most of the truncated journey.
  • Their ice measurements tell us that the first year ice this year is fairly thick.
  • Their ice measurements tell us very little or about the thickness or “health” of multi-year ice.
  • They will no doubt get an invite to St. James Palace for tea with Prince Charles.

We feel confident predicting that the team’s final report will blame the extremely cold conditions on global warming.

Source: WattsUpWithThat.com

Idiot Republican calls Charles Schumer “that Jew,” then makes it worse

Our advice to Kim Hendren: Shut the hell up.
Our advice to Kim Hendren: Shut the hell up.

Republican Kim Hendren, minority leader of the Arkansas state Senate, got mad the other day and called New York Senator Charles Schumer “that Jew” after Schumer told a TV interviewer that conservative Republicans are “hard right.”

Remarkably, Hendren attempted to explain away his gaffe by pointing out that he says a lot of stupid things.

“I don’t use a Teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my mouth,” he said.

Later, when asked to name a Jewish person he admires, he said, “ Jesus.” He also said he likes Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.

“I ought not to have referred to it at all,” Hendren said. “When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people.”

Schumer didn’t want to get anywhere near this stupidity and simply said, “Apology accepted.”

In other news, Hendren called Hillary Clinton “that bitch.” He didn’t really. But he should have.

Source: Fox News

Boneheaded Biden blabs location of super secret Vice President bunker

Nuclear codes, military secrets or anything else you want to know, Joe Biden will tell you.
Nuclear codes, military secrets or anything else you want to know, Joe Biden will tell you.

Vice President Joe Biden has put his foot squarely in his mouth again, accidentally revealing classified information meant to protect sitting vice presidents. You know, sitting vice presidents like Joe Biden.

While filling in for President Obama at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an Biden revealed the existence of a secret bunker under the historic U.S. Naval Observatory, which serves as the official residence of the vice president.

According to reporter Eleanor Clift, Biden “said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.”

“The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down,” Clift continued, “this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.”

Biden’s blabbery seems to confirm reports of a massive underground construction project that began at the Observatory back in 2002. Neighbors were told the work was “sensitive in nature” and “classified.”

Fact is, you wouldn’t have to waterboard Joe Biden to get him to reveal secret information. You’d just need to say hi.

Source: FoxNews

Holder says administration will “do its best” not to release dangerous prisoners from Gitmo

Don't miss the Jihad booth at the Wednesday night Farmer's Market in Fairfax County.
Don't miss the Jihad booth at the Wednesday night Farmer's Market in Fairfax County.

The President’s going to do his best to make sure dangerous terrorists aren’t released in the United States.

Of course, this is the same guy whose best choice for Vice President was Joe Biden and whose best choice for Treasury Secretary was Timothy Geithner and whose best choice for Health & Human Services Secretary was Tom Daschle and whose best choice of a gift for Queen Elizabeth was an iPod.

CNSNews.com reports:

Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee that his department will “do its best” to make sure that Guantanamo Bay detainees who pose a threat to the United States are kept imprisoned after President Barack Obama’s order to close down Gitmo is carried out.

The story continues:

Suspected al-Qaeda terrorists aren’t the only ones being detained at Gitmo. Holder was asked about 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo known as Uighurs (WEE-gurs).

“In terms of release [of Uighurs], we don’t have a choice, they have to be released,” said Holder during the testimony. “Unless (you’re asking) us to defy an order from the United States court.”

The Uighurs were cleared of suspected terrorism, but have been held at Gitmo because they cannot be returned to China.

Obama’s current plan is to release the Uighurs in Fairfax County, Virginia. But rest assured that the administration will do its best to keep them from slaughtering too many innocent Americans.

Source: CNSNews.com

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