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One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse
Source: treehugger.com
Earth-Sized Planet Discovered By Scientists
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
Take your choice of punch lines: That other one must be the planet liberals live on. (rimshot) Just in time for the children to migrate. (rimshot) Let’s hope it has more intelligent life forms than this one does. (rimshot)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this guy is in charge of America’s energy future.
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) asked the energy expert where oil comes from and Steven Chu begins babbling about continental plates drifting around and geology and scientific stuff like that. But he finally bit on Barton’s bait and said, in effect, “Yes, the oil drifted up there.”
Kind of like this administration is drifting. Only slower.
Oh, my! We have a battle going in Kenya. Muslims claim Christians are trying to convert Sarah Obama, who just happens to be the president’s grannie.
Mrs Obama, who’s been basking in her grandson’s aura since he became the most powerful man in the world, was recently stopped from going to a Seventh Day Adventist Church by local Muslims who feared she might convert to Christianity.
Not to worry, say the Seventh Day Adventists. They say she had merely been invited to attend one of their events.
“We had invited her to grace our meeting in Kisumu which was to mark the end of a three-week convention, but although she had prepared, she did not attend,” said Lewis Ondiek, a senior church figure.
Hey, Reverend Wright. Get your butt on a plane bound for Kenya. You may have lost one Obama, but it looks like there’s another one ripe for conversion.
Source: Ecumenical News International via Telegraph UK
So much for “looking forward”.
Well, if government officials are to be prosecuted for approving “torture,” shouldn’t we include Congress? After all, Congress was fully briefed and approved of the “enhanced” interrogation tactics used by the CIA. But then, that would mean Congress would have to investigate and prosecute itself. You know, kind of like Barney Frank fixing the financial mess he helped create.
The Wall Street Journal notes in its “Presidential Poison” editorial that Bush officials won’t (or shouldn’t) be the only ones on the hot seat if this goes forward: “Congress will face questions about what the Members knew and when, especially Nancy Pelosi when she was on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002.
The Speaker now says she remembers hearing about waterboarding, though not that it would actually be used. Porter Goss, her GOP counterpart at the time, says he knew exactly what he was hearing and that, if anything, Ms. Pelosi worried the CIA wasn’t doing enough to stop another attack. By all means, put her under oath.
Here’s an idea that might help jog Pelosi’s memory as to what she actually heard and approved:
Waterboard ‘er.
Source: Wall Street Journal
We’re talking about big, beefy butterballs. Citizens of the Blimpish Empire. Chunky folks. Corpulence incorporated. The elephantine. Hefty hombres. The euphemistically-fleshy. The terminally obese. Lard bottoms. Fatties. Moby Dickheads. The rolypoly, pudgy, paunchy, porcine, portly, potbbellied and the pudgy. Al Gore.
This is irony at its finest.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
A quick review of recent polls shown at Rasmussen Reports may indicate that the Obama administration may be looking at trouble on several fronts.
45% View Homeland Security’s Napolitano Unfavorably
58% Say Release of CIA Memos Endangers National Security
60% Say Government Has Too Much Power, Too Much Money
Most Americans Say Bailouts Were Bad Idea, Political Class Disagrees
53% Say Next President Likely To Be A Republican
Voters See Long-Term Pain in Bank Bailouts
Republicans Close The Gap With Democrats on Several Key Issues
Most Voters Say They Pay More Than Their Share of Taxes, Political Class Disagrees
Source: Rasmussen Reports
I know President Chavez well. Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor (who daily risks his own life for his country in ways Dick Cheney could never imagine). To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we’ve done enough of that. Say what you will, but it has only resulted in the self-celebration of our smirking spitters, while costing us international respect, American lives, and left wounds in the hands of our children’s future. The Cheneys, down to the O’Reillys and Hannitys and Limbaughs, effectively hate the principles upon which we were founded. They are among the greatest cowards in all of American history. I applaud an American President who’s tough enough…to smile.
Oh, if only Barack Obama had been president back before the Iraq war. He could have smiled at Penn’s other buddy, Saddam Hussein.
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying in Congress yesterday. It wasn’t pretty.
When long-time conservative California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher asked her about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to release additional CIA interrogation documents, Hillary tried to deflect the question by saying, “I don’t find him to be a particularly reliable source of information.”
Rohrabacher jumped on her like a bulldog on a bone. It was a thing of beauty. What Rohrabacher did, not Hillary.
“Mademe Secretary, I asked you a specific question…we’re not asking your opinion of Dick Cheney…you want to maintain your credibility with us, what is your opinion on the release of those documents”
The woman didn’t answer, wouldn’t answer, couldn’t answer, all of the above.
Source: CNN via BluegrassPundit.com
The reason for Obama’s appearance at CIA headquarters was to explain his release of OLC memos that tell terrorists exactly how to train against U.S. interrogation methods.
You may be wondering, how will we defeat jihadists now that they know how far we’re willing to go to extract information? Better technology? Better weapons? An army of lawyers armed with lawsuits?
Here’s how Obama explained his reason for releasing the OLC memos and how he plans to wage the War on Terror, or whatever it’s called now:
“I believe that our nation is stronger and more secure when we deploy the full measure of both our power and the power of our values –- including the rule of law.”
Bask for a moment in the power of our values. It sure put a quick stop to those Somali pirates, didn’t it?
Don’t you feel safer already?
Source: WhiteHouse.gov
If this is hope, where’s the change? Why bother trying to save any money at all? The Feds are printing new money faster than all of us together can earn it. (Though not as fast as Congress can spend it.)
We say, enjoy it now. Do what the politicians do and blow it on your own special interests. Buy a boat. Name a building after yourself. Rack up your credit cards like there’s no tomorrow. Then vote yourself a raise.
Source: Forbes
Let’s subtitle this story “The extremist who was missing an extremity.”
This genius Afghani jihadist crammed his artificial leg full of explosives, then detonated it inside a provincial governor’s compound. The good news is that this suicide bomber truly was a suicide bomber, because he was the only one to die in the explosion.
Here are more hilarious details from Afghanistan:
The bomber hobbled into the heavily guarded compound of the governor in the western city of Herat and exploded his bombs after police fired at him, deputy provincial police chief Delawar Shah Delawar said.
“Today a suicide attacker, a disabled man who placed his bombs in his artificial leg, was able to enter the governor’s compound. He exploded himself after our police fired at him,” he said.
The report continues:
Chief Delawar said intelligence reports tipped off authorities about a possible suicide attack on the compound, which houses the provincial governor and other government entities.
The blast took place about 500m from the governor’s office.
The explosion shattered windows and scattered body parts of the attacker, including shards of his artificial leg, an AFP reporter said.
In honor of this peglegged lunatic, we present you with ZZ Top’s big hit “Legs.” On one hand, it features a scantily-clad Carmen Electra dancing, which should horrify all good jihadists. On the other hand, the two bearded members of ZZ Top look as if they should be hiding in a cave with Osama bin Laden, which should mollify them.
We take great pleasure in thinking about how conflicted IslamoFascists will be when they watch the video.
Source: InfidelsAreCool.com
The One took two flights on Air Force One, four flights on Marine One. That’s one strange way to save the earth.
Source: CBS News
Source: Gateway Pundit
(UPDATE BELOW)
Anger erupted at GE’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. “The crowd was angry with MSNBC because of its leftward tilt,” one person observed. “Some former employees said they were embarrassed by it.”
The complaints came hot and heavy. During the question-and-answer period, shareholders repeatedly asked executives about political views expressed on MSNBC and CNBC.
They were pissed about the report that GE honcho Jeff Immelt and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker reportedly held a dinner meeting at which they told top CNBC executives and and on-air talent to take it easy on President Obama.
They were steamed that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann didn’t challenge of lunatic Janeane Garofalo’s lunatic ramblings in an interview last week.
It went on and on. The angry questioners refused to be silenced. GE finally resorted to shutting off their microphones, which angered them even more.
“My biggest surprise was the open hostility to MSNBC,” noted one shareholder. “It was noticeable and loud. I don’t remember any of this going on last year.”
A few weeks ago, President Obama told a group of executives, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Looks like President Obama was right about the pitchforks. But this isn’t quite the way he had envisioned them being used.
Source: HollywoodReporter.com
UPDATE: AUDIO TRACK OF CROWD BOOS WHEN GE CEO’S DEFENDS MSNBC
“O’Reilly Factor” producer Jesse Watters attended Wednesday’s annual GE shareholder meeting as both a GE shareholder and producer of “The O’ReillyFactor.”
He asked asked GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt if Janeane Garofalo’s comments on MSNBC qualified as hate speech.
The other shareholders booed the CEO’s answer.
Source: FoxNation.com
Remember how the media was so upset about the infamous “panties on the head” torture technique employed at Abu Ghraib? Well, now ABC News has it collective (and collectivist) panties in a wad about a completely different, but equally wimpy torture technique.
“Tonight, secret memos,” ABC News’ Charles Gibson intoned, “new documents reveal in vivid detail just how far the Bush administration went in interrogating terror suspects, using insects, confinement boxes, water-boards and more.”
“Even some congressional officials who had the highest security clearances were surprised by some of the details today,” George Stephanopoulos added, “especially that detail about the fact that (Abu) Zubayda was tortured with an insect in a confinement box.”
Ahhh, but ABC left out one important detail.
“In the case of al-Qaeda figure Abu Zubaydah, who feared insects,” Pete Williams noted on NBC News, “interrogators were given permission to put a harmless one like a caterpillar in a box in which he was confined, but that technique was never used.”
Ironic, isn’t it, that vermin should be afraid of insects.
Source: ABC and NBC via NewsBusters
California Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein was wealthy when she came to the senate. And thanks to the way she’s blatantly directed federal funds to her husband’s many businesses, she’s become far wealthier.
Most of the media buries this story as deeply as they buried her past corruption. But here’s how the Washington Times and Fox News describe her latest personal money grab:
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday. Continue reading “California Sen Feinstein doesn’t try to hide her corruption, husband cashes in on financial crisis”
Carrie Prejean, the California beauty who would have won the Miss USA title had it not been for the militant gay egomaniac Perez Hilton, showed up on Neil Cavuto’s Fox program on Tuesday.
She was fabulous. Warm. Gracious. Intelligent. Well-spoken. Amazingly, she appears to genuinely hold no ill will toward Perez Hilton. And she seems to have all the right points of view to qualify for a job at Fox News.
Here’s one brief exchange between Cavuto and Parjean.
Cavuto: (wondering how she would have answered the question posed to Miss Arizona) What do you think of the bailouts?
Carrie: I don’t feel that taxpayers’ money should be used for bailing out companies. I don’t. Do I agree that they should be used for welfare? No. I don’t.
But then Cavuto got the heart of the matter – Prejean’s plans for the future:
Cavuto: What do you want to be?
Carrie: You know, I’m not sure. I’m continuing my modeling career and I’m not sure how far that’s going to lead me. Maybe get into politics, you never know.
Cavuto: You know, half of ‘em want to get into TV news.
Carrie: No, I don’t think I want to get into that. Definitely not. Maybe motivational speaking.
Cavuto: (Whistles) Whew. Breathe a sigh of relief there. OK, good. Because I don’t need the competition. I just want to avoid that.
Carrie: I know.
Carrie Prejean. Smarter than Perez Hilton. More attractive than Paris Hilton. And vice versa, too.
Source: Fox News via HotAir.com
You’ve read a lot about waterboarding. You’ve heard a lot about waterboarding. But have you ever seen someone actually waterboarded?
We hadn’t until we saw this video. Playboy reporter Mike Guy got the unenviable assignment to experience waterboarding personally, which probably makes him the first guy who ever considered working for Playboy to be torture.
Turns out waterboarding is nothing like we expected and it’s definitely nothing like tough talking Mike Guy expected.
Source: Playboy via HotAir.com
Republic Rep. Peter King appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday and said some things that are sure to land him in hot water with the Obama administration. And Muslim extremists, too.
“Janet Napolitano testified before the Homeland Security Committee a few weeks ago and never once used the word terrorism. Nowhere in her statement was the word terrorism. When I questioned her about that she basically said she didn’t want to use the word terrorism. She was talking about al Qaeda or bin Laden. We cannot use the word terrorism. They made a point of saying this just generates fear, it generates hysteria and we shouldn’t use the word terrorist.” Continue reading “Congressman Peter King: Napolitano won’t call
al Qaeda terrorists, but will call veterans terrorists”
Good news. President Obama’s soaring, staggering, stunning deficit will soon be a mere pittance.
All because the President has announced that the Department of Homeland Security will soon begin buying office supplies in bulk.
In an effort to hurry along the process, we stopped by our local CostCo yesterday and signed up the President. So in addition to office supplies, every government agency will soon buy everything in bulk. Aircraft carriers by the dozens, dark blue FBI suits by the rackful, teleprompters by the truckload.
We have one other genius idea:
Costco gives away free food samples every day at lunch. Today we had their vegetarian lasagna, beef jerky, crab on cracker, and apple juice. They were all delicious.
Instead of giving people food stamps, give them CostCo membership cards. Then instruct them to head for CostCo at lunchtime to gorge themselves on free samples.
The savings will dwarf whatever Janet Napolitano saves on office supplies.
Wikipedia says 2,998 people died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. So we’d say Khalid Shaikh Mohammed still owes us at least another 2,815 waterboarding sessions.
Time to pay up, Khalid.
Source: FoxNews.com
Christ was born in a manger because the inns were full. On the other hand, it looks like they booted someone out of the inn to make room for Obama, then renamed it in his honor. Perhaps this is where his Christ complex originates.
(Photographic evidence courtesy of our IHateTheMedia.com foreign correspondent in Uganda)
First, the group made a high-profile visit to Cuba last month. Members of the Caucus embarrassed themselves by acting aged dictator Fidel Castro’s rock ‘n roll groupies.
Now they’ve taken Obama to task for doing something right — boycotting the UN racism conference, the follow-up to a 2001 confab that defined Zionism as racism. The conference was also boycotted by Israel, Canada, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Australia.
The Telegraph UK describes it this way: “Only the United Nations could hold an ‘anti-racism’ conference that is actually a celebration of anti-Semitism featuring genocidal maniacs like Iranian president and holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. World leaders are already gathering for the Durban Review Conference in Geneva to be held from April 20-24, one of the biggest hate fests on the planet, wasting millions of dollars.”
Members of the Congressional Black Circus attended the hatefest on their own. But we suspect the American taxpayers will somehow end up footing the bill.
It’s called “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.”
Hey, at least they left out “Tea Parties.”
Source: New York Daily News
Al Gore is not going to like the latest Rasmussen Report on global warming. No, he’s not going to like it at all.
A year ago, 47% of likely American voters thought man was the primary cause of global warming. This year just 34% agree while 48% say climate change is the result of long-term planetary trends. 7% blame “something else.” 11% just aren’t sure. It’s the worst repudiation of Gore’s unscientific theory to date.
As you might expect, 51% of knee jerk Democrats agree with Gore that man is to blame. Luckily, 66% of Republicans and 47% independents disagree.
Gore has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an ad campaign to convince the American people that his global warming hogwash is true, but the public’s not buying it. Kind of like his presidential campaign. Except he actually won that vote.
Source: RasmussenReports.com
Press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to tap dance around a question yesterday, but in a major surprise, the press didn’t let him get away with it.
AP reporter Jennifer Loven and ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Gibbs to explain why President Obama bragged about saving $100 million in his proposed budget when he had downplayed $8 billion in earmark spending several weeks ago.
It wasn’t pretty. Gibbs eventually adopted the strategy of talking and talking and talking until everyone forgot what the question was.
Source: ABC News via RealClearPolitics.com
