Remember the good ol’ days when Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to people who actually lived lives filled with peaceful pursuits? People like the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, and Mother Teresa.
Remember the good ol’ days when Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to people who actually lived lives filled with peaceful pursuits? People like the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, and Mother Teresa.
Well, those days are gone. Long gone. More recent Nobel Peace Prizes have gone to unabashed terrorist Yasser Arafat, newly-minted war monger Barack Obama, and Egyptian Presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei plotting a kinetic peace action against Israel
YNet reveals ElBaradei’s warmongering:
Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that “if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.”
In an interview with the Al-Watan newspaper he said: “In case of any future Israeli attack on Gaza — as the next president of Egypt — I will open the Rafah border crossing and will consider different ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement.”
He also stated that “Israel controls Palestinian soil” adding that that “there has been no tangible breakthrough in reconciliation process because of the imbalance of power in the region — a situation that creates a kind of one way peace.”
“One way peace” sounds like something that occurs immediately prior to a “kinetic military action.”
If this guy doesn’t become President of Egypt, he surely has a future in the Obama administration.
And we quote the Director of Homeland Security when we say, “The border’s not out of control.” Whether it is or isn’t, we’re pretty sure Janet Napolitano is out of control.
And we quote the Director of Homeland Security when we say, “The border’s not out of control.”
Whether it is or isn’t, we’re pretty sure Janet Napolitano is out of control.
So let’s just ignore those murders, drug dealing, beheadings, kidnappings, shootings, thefts and areas that the government has already declared unsafe for American citizens. Because if Janet Napolitano says the border area is safe, then by god, the border area is safe.
Now let’s sit back for a moment and imagine Napolitano playing the Jack Nicholson role in “A Few Good Men” and screaming, “You can’t handle the truth.”
“Look these are tough times for America. We don’t need a good politician. We need a strong leader. We need to engage this country on the issues that are necessary to secure our prosperity, to get this debt paid off. “
Paul Ryan talked to Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday morning about upcoming Republican budget proposals:
“Senate Democrats have not even passed a bill to prevent a government shutdown. We’ve passed two… I find it kind of ironic that the week we are trying to engage the president, the democrats and the country with an honest debate about our budget with real solutions to fix this country’s problems and prevent a debt crisis, the president’s launching his reelection campaign. Look these are tough times for America. We don’t need a good politician. We need a strong leader. We need to engage this country on the issues that are necessary to secure our prosperity, to get this debt paid off. To get our economy growing right now. We know for a fact that we are giving our children and grandchildren a lower standing of living. And, we don’t need good politics. We don’t need to keep making empty promises to people. We need to engage and fix these problems while they are still under our control.”
Do you think Ryan may have been speaking about himself? Naaaaah.
Voters continue to view the Republican agenda in Congress as more mainstream than the agenda of the Democrats.
Last week Chuck Schumer trotted out the results of the Democrats’ latest focus group and ordered his party’s other senators to begin calling the Republican agenda “extreme” in every other sentence. Now we know why.
Rasmussen has the bad news for Schumer:
We would imagine that 50% of likely voters also consider Schumer to be a complete schmuck
Voters continue to view the Republican agenda in Congress as more mainstream than the agenda of the Democrats. But only one-in-four voters think the average member of either party shares the same ideology they do.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 45% say it would be more accurate to describe the agenda of Republicans in Congress as mainstream, up five points from last month. Thirty-eight percent (38%) say it’s more accurate to describe that agenda as extreme, while 17% more are undecided.
But half of voters (50%) say the Democratic agenda in Congress is extreme, while 37% see it as mainstream, also up five points from a month ago. Another 14% are not sure.
Surely Schumer finds these results disappointing in the extreme.
During a Cornell University Q & A session, Olbermann took a question from the president of the university’s conservative club. His answer is exactly what you’d expect from Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann was invited to speak at Cornell University, his alma mater. Apparently, Charlie Sheen was unavailable.
During the Q & A session, Olbermann took a question from the president of the university’s conservative club.
His answer is exactly what you’d expect from Olbermann.
This video made by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the Path to Prosperity, clearly, compellingly outlines the fiscal problems we face.
He’s remarkably bright. He has complete command of he issues and the numbers. He’s a great speaker. He’s telegenic. And he chewed up and spit out President Obama during the healthcare debate.
This video, the Path to Prosperity, clearly, compellingly outlines the fiscal problems we face.
Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill revealed the silver lining to the recession: lack of economic activity has reduced those pesky greenhouse gasses.
California Democrat Barbara Boxer has long held the unofficial title of World’s Dumbest Senator. But now it looks like she may have a little competition from Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill.
McCaskill’s glass was half full, but her brain was half empty when she spoke to the Georgetown University College Democrats on March 28. That’s when she revealed that there’s a silver lining to the recession: The lack of economic activity has reduced those pesky greenhouse gasses.
It does appear, however, that the bullshit and resultant methane emissions were rather heavy that day at Georgetown.
Holy crap. Has this guy ever said anything that’s true?
Holy crap. Has this guy ever said anything that’s true?
He said he’d end the war in Iraq, but we still have 50,000 U.S. troops there. He said he’d close Gitmo, but it’s still open for business. He said he’d bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan in July 2011, but that’s not going to happen. He said he’d end rendition, but it’s still going on. He said he’d stop using torture, but hasn’t. He said he’d lift the embargo on Cuba, but it’s still in place.
He says he was born in Hawaii. Is it any wonder people doubt him?
Good lord, you Second Amendment zealots have had your way and this is the result. This is exactly what happens when you give people the unfettered right to guns and those bullety thingamajigs that go in them.
Good lord, you Second Amendment zealots have had your way and this is the result. This is exactly what happens when you give people the unfettered right to guns and those bullety thingamajigs that go in them.
If you recognize this unidentified bullet, please call the Yorkshire Police Department immediately
The horrifying details are brought to you by York Press:
A STARTLED man has told how he found a bullet lying in a York city-centre street.
Tim Stark said he was unloading items into the MOR Music store where he works in Fossgate yesterday morning when he spotted what he believed to be a live .22 bullet gleaming in a puddle.
He said he immediately called police, who came and took it away.
“I have no idea what it was doing there,” he said.
A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said the bullet had been put into safe storage, and CID had confirmed it was not thought to be connected with any incident currently under investigation.
He asked anyone with any information about the bullet and how it came to be in Fossgate to phone the force on 0845 60 60 47.
In the words of Hardwurkindaddy, who sent us this tip, “Has everyone in the entire friggin’ world LOST THIER MINDS?”
Our point of view? Unless the bullet they found in the street was in a body they found in the street, we’re not even sure what the issue is.
Thousands of Nazi soldiers were using the drug crystal meth by the time the Soviet Union was invaded in 1941.
As our regular readers are well aware, Cops is the Editor’s favorite TV show. His normal life is lived in a peaceful, antiseptic bubble and everything he knows about the horrors of the outside world comes from that outstanding program. And if there’s one thing he’s learned from years of watching Cops, it’s that crystal meth is one bad mofo drug.
Nazi soldiers racing for the nearest pharmacy
Now it turns out that Hitler’s army was whacked out on the stuff 60 years ago.
The News Australia has the story:
The German army’s drug of choice as it overran Poland, Holland, Belgium and France was Pervitin – pills made of methamphetamine, known today as crystal meth.
Thousands of Nazi soldiers were using the drug by the time the Soviet Union was invaded in 1941.
About 200 million Pervitin pills were given to Nazi troops between 1939 and 1945, research by the German Doctors’ Association revealed.
A pharmacologist from the GDA said this week: “The blitzkrieg was fuelled by Pervitin. The idea was to turn ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen into automatons capable of superhuman performance.”
The downside to the scheme was that many soldiers became addicted to the drug and of no use in any theatre of war.
… In January 1942, a group of 500 troops surrounded by the Red Army was attempting to escape in temperatures of -30C.
The unit’s medical officer wrote: “I decided to give them Pervitin as they began to lie down in the snow wanting to die. After half an hour the men began spontaneously reporting that they felt better.
“They began marching in orderly fashion again, their spirits improved, and they became more alert.”
So thanks to crystal meth, Nazi soldiers were completely alert as they were freezing to death, being slaughtered by the Red Army or captured and sent to Soviet slave camps.
The Editor’s wife might prefer any of those options over watching another episode of Cops. But her taste in television is as questionable as her taste in men.
In this video clip, the Michigan Republican Thaddeus McCotter gives the spenders and the cowards hell in the House of Representatives.
We love Thaddeus McCotter. He edges out Paul Ryan as our favorite Congressman.
In this video clip, the Michigan Republican gives the spenders and the cowards hell in the House of Representatives. Or as Harry Truman said, “I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
Harry and Thad would probably get along pretty well, don’t you think?
A morning protest in Jalalabad city was peaceful, with shouting for U.S. troops to leave and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama.
Consider this “But They Were Supposed To Love Us After That Cairo Speech – Part XXXVI.”
The Associated Press reports the latest example of what a media-fueled farce Obama’s Cairo speech was:
A morning protest in Jalalabad city was peaceful, with hundreds of people blocking a main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama before dispersing, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
Hold on just a damn minute. We don’t think that’s an effigy of President Obama. The ears are too small and the bulge in the pants is too big. Might be Michelle instead.
At least six Afghan insurgents were killed Saturday in an attack on a NATO military base, two of whom were wearing the Muslim full-body women’s burqas.
Taliban transvestites. What other conclusion can be drawn from this report from Afghanistan? None, we tell you. Absolutely none.
UPI (crap, we didn’t even know they were still in business) has the details:
Transvestite Taliban getting ready for the catwalk. Or for a sneak attack. Which ever comes first.
At least six Afghan insurgents were killed Saturday in an attack on a NATO military base near Kabul, military officials said.
Three NATO soldiers were injured in the attack by the guerrillas, two of whom were wearing the Muslim full-body women’s burqas, The Washington Post reported.
The insurgents were armed with Kalashnikov automatic weapons, but didn’t breach the base’s perimeter, NATO said. U.S. military said its forces shot two of the attackers and the others detonated suicide bomb-vests.
The vests were made of a delicate lavender silk with traditional Afghan embroidery. The ensemble was completed with jaunty burqas from the Calvin Klein summer collection. Shoes by Dolce & Gabbana. Dynamite by Alfred Nobel.
Just as we were thinking, “You know, we haven’t heard anything stupid from PETA lately,” the animal rights wackos have plumbed new depths of inanity.
Just as we were thinking, “You know, we haven’t heard anything stupid from PETA lately,” the animal rights wackos have plumbed new depths of inanity.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (which technically, should be PFTETOA, not PETA) sent a letter to the mayor of San Francisco requesting that the city’s Tenderloin District be renamed the “Tempeh District.”
How about if they called it Homeless Town or Shopping Cart City or Result-of-Liberal-Policies-ville?
In case you’re as unfamiliar with tempeh as we were, Mrs Editor confidently states that it’s a traditional Indonesian soy dish. (Looks like all those hours watching the Food Channel have finally paid off.)
NBC Bay Area has the letter and the story:
“I am writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 2 million members and supporters, including thousands in the Bay Area, with an idea that could help revitalize the struggling Tenderloin district: rename it the “Tempeh District.” By discarding an outdated moniker that evokes the horrors of the meat trade, you’ll be sending a strong message to progressive businesses and health-conscious residents that this neighborhood is ready for a fresh start.”
The letter goes on to explain how tempeh is healthier and cruelty-free, while tenderloin is full of suffering.
Reiman goes on to offer other suggestions if Tempeh doesn’t have the right ring to it,
“If Tempeh doesn’t excite you, how about Granola Flats or Seitan’s Lair? You could even run a contest to choose a veggie moniker.”
We’d open this contest up to our readers, but we’re pretty sure you lunatics would all come up with names like “Tube Steak Town.”
We’re willing to call both sides wacko, but Reuters can’t bring itself to do the same. It only seems to have a problem with one side of this issue and we’re pretty sure you can probably guess which side it is.
Terry Jones, the wacko Christian preacher in Florida, burned a Koran in public the other day. That was followed by wacko Muslims rioting in Afghanistan.
We’re willing to call both sides wacko, but Reuters can’t bring itself to do the same. It only seems to have a problem with one side of this issue and we’re pretty sure you can probably guess which side it is.
Reuters calls Terry Jones, who burned a Koran, a radical, fundamentalist exremist
In an 859-word article headlined “Ten dead in Afghan Koran burning protests,” the huge European news service refers to Jones as “a radical fundamentalist Christian” and “extremist Christian preacher Terry Jones.” Yet no similar incendiary adjectives were used to describe the Muslim Afghan protesters who rioted in the streets of Kandahar and killed ten people. Quite to the contrary, they are called “deeply religious.”
For example, shouldn’t someone performing a suicide attack be considered extremist? Not to Reuters:
A suicide attack also hit a NATO military base in the capital Kabul, the day after protesters over-ran a U.N. mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and killed seven foreign staff, in the deadliest attack on the UN in Afghanistan.
Taliban extremists are transformed into “burkha-clad insurgents” by Reuters:
In Kabul on Saturday, a small group of burkha-clad insurgents attacked a coalition base,
Reuters says Afghani rioters who killed ten people and injured dozens are "deeply religious"
Riot all you want and commit mayhem for days on end, but if you’re Muslim Reuters will not use harsh adjectives to describe you:
A band of around 150 men who had taken to the streets to denounce the Koran burning set tires alight, smashed shops and assaulted an Afghan photographer, Reuters’ witnesses said. Some of the attackers were carrying guns.
The photographer was hit over the head and had his camera taken from him and smashed, by protesters who discussed killing him.
They’re demonstrators, not extremists and certainly not fundamentalists:
Around 5,000 demonstrators flooded into the streets…
The violence was extreme, perhaps, but not those who committed it:
Some were horrified by the extreme violence but not all had sympathy for the foreign dead.
And finally, the article concludes with this:
More volatile protests are possible across deeply religious Afghanistan…
So the way we understand this totally impartial article, Terry Jones is a “radical fundamentalist…extremist” because he burned a Koran in public, but the Afghan rioters who killed ten people, slit at least one throat, injured dozens, and destroyed private property are “deeply religious.”
And that, friends, is what Reuters calls balanced reportage.
Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. Don’t panic. Don’t freak out. The terrorist organization doesn’t inspire enough Google searches to be a force for ill in Egypt.
Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. Don’t panic. Don’t freak out. The terrorist organization doesn’t inspire enough Google searches to be a force for ill in Egypt.
At least that’s the theory that some in the military intelligence community would have us believe.
Napoleon comes down with indigestion at the mere thought of the Muslim Brotherhood
A lot of your tax dollars were wasted by NPR to bring you this report:
Consider the debate raging in Washington, D.C., about the Muslim Brotherhood as the revolution unfolded in Egypt, he [Lt. Col. Reid Sawyer, an Army intelligence officer and head of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center] says. There were concerns in the U.S. intelligence community that the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political group, might come to power.
“If the decision makers could have understood how little the Muslim Brotherhood was animating the online searches inside of Egypt,” Sawyer continued, “how might it have led to different decisions or different discussions, at least, that were being held in the halls of Washington?”
In other words, few seemed interested enough in the Muslim Brotherhood to search for them on Google. So how much of a role could the group have been playing in day-to-day conversations in Egypt?
It is unfortunate that Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet back in the summer of 1789. Otherwise we could all have been assured that France stood little chance of becoming a military dictatorship. After all, hardly anyone – on or around July 14th of that year – would have had much interest in Googling an obscure little Corsican by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein says just find Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and arrest him. Simple as that.
Would someone please call Dog the Bounty Hunter. California Senator Dianne Feinstein has a job for him.
Look for Dog to wait outside Gaddafi’s house. When the Libyan dictator comes home after a long day killing rebels and humiliating President Obama, Dog will pounce, slap on the cuffs and take Gadhafi down to the local police station to collect his reward.
Genius, Senator Feinstein. Pure, unadulterated genius.
Would someone please send the results of this new Rasmussen poll to John Boehner and the rest of the cowardly Republicans in Washington, DC.
“Drill, baby, drill” now has a doppelgänger known as “Cut, baby, cut.”
Would someone please send the results of this new Rasmussen poll to John Boehner and the rest of the cowardly Republicans in Washington, DC:
Budget Chainsaw Massacre, starring Rand Paul, coming soon to a theater near you
A majority of voters are fine with a partial shutdown of the federal government if that’s what it takes to get deeper cuts in federal government spending.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for 2011 is more important than avoiding a partial government shutdown. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree and say avoiding a shutdown is more important. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.
Republicans want to make more spending cuts in the current budget than Democrats do, but 36% of voters think it would be better to avoid a government shutdown by authorizing spending at a level most Democrats will agree to. Fifty-seven percent (57%) would rather have a shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on deeper spending cuts.
Everyone in Washington is addicted to spending and there’s only one way to cure it:
Jimmy Carter’s bucket list apparently includes failing in every country in the world, so he’s working diligently to check off the few remaining nations that were missing. Cuba? Check.
Jimmy Carter’s bucket list apparently includes failing in every country in the world, so he’s working diligently to check off the few remaining nations that were missing.
Cuba? Check.
Two rabid old anti-Americans shake hands in Havana
The Associated Press reports Carter’s latest success at failing:
Former President Jimmy Carter met with a jailed American contractor before leaving Cuba on Wednesday but said Cuban leaders had made it clear they do not plan to release him.
The announcement was a disappointment to supporters of Alan Gross after the trip had raised expectations the 86-year-old former American president would be allowed to bring the Maryland native home. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence after being convicted earlier this month of bringing communications equipment into Cuba illegally.
State Department officials have said privately that Cuban authorities indicated they might release Gross on humanitarian grounds following the trial. But Carter said that from the very beginning, he knew Gross would not be freed during the visit.
“The Cuban officials made it very clear to me before I left my home that the freedom of Alan Gross would not be granted.”
In other words, Carter knew his mission would fail, but went to Cuba anyway? Yeah, right.
Carter also sat down Wednesday with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, a day after holding talks with President Raul Castro.
“We welcomed each other as old friends,” Carter said of the meeting with the 84-year-old former Cuban leader.
This is the only part of this story that makes sense to us. My god, those two evil old sons of bitches deserve each other.
Call us crazy (lord knows you’ve called us worse), but we love UFOs. Don’t know what they are or if they really exist, but there’s enough stuff out there to make even a skeptic wonder.
Call us crazy (lord knows you’ve called us worse), but we love UFOs. Don’t know what they are or if they really exist, but there’s enough stuff out there to make even a skeptic wonder.
Here’s a clip of two guys shooting a UFO over the Denver area. As a triangle of lights hovers above them, one guy says, “I wonder if there will be anything in the news about this tomorrow.”
“Dude, totally,” says his friend. “This is the creepiest thing ever.”
Air traffic controllers, of course, reported nothing unusual.
Remember when the Democrats said ObamaCare would give all Americans the kind of government-operated healthcare that’s available to the British? That’s exactly what we’re afraid of.
Remember when the Democrats said ObamaCare would give all Americans the kind of government-operated healthcare that’s available to the British? That’s exactly what we’re afraid of.
The Daily Mail UK explains what critics of ObamaCare were talking about:
Poor Margaret Hutchon died of a severe case of government healthcare
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation – at her own hospital.
Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.
Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust – the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
He said: ‘I don’t really know why she died. I did not get a reason from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off.’
To repeat: A former Director of the Great Britain’s National Health Service died when her operation was canceled four times at her own hospital. John Lennon summed up this situation perfectly:
Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead
President Obama took time out of his very busy schedule to record an important YouTube message for the people of the Ivory Coast.
President Obama took time out of his very busy schedule to record an important YouTube message for the people of the Ivory Coast.
We suppose that’s all well and good. Except for a couple things:
First, the President refers to the nation as Côte d’Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast for a good reason – French is its official language, but they also speak 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken. Yet the President recorded his message in English.
Second, the per capita GDP of Côte d’Ivoire is a mere $1800 per year, so we question how many of the nation’s residents have computers on which to view the President’s message.
On the other hand, Côte d’Ivoire’s unemployment rate is estimated to be 40-50%, so perhaps its citizens have spent their ample idle hours sitting around learning English and watching YouTube videos.
Hey, have you seen the one about the dog that says, “Je t’aime.”
From 30,000 feet, everybody down there kind of looks alike what with all the women in burkas, all the men in keffiyehs, and all the goats in fear.
It’s a tragedy, but what’s a NATO pilot supposed to do? From 30,000 feet, everybody down there kind of looks alike what with all the women in burkas, all the men in keffiyehs, and all the goats in fear.
Reuters has details of NATO’s mission gone wrong:
Defining the mission: We had to kill the civilians to save the civilians
At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses.
“The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli,” said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli.
“I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people,” he told Fides, the news agency of the Vatican missionary arm.
Libyan officials have taken foreign reporters to the sites of what they say were the aftermath of Western air strikes on Tripoli but evidence of civilian casualties has been inconclusive.
Western powers say they have no confirmed evidence of civilian casualties from air strikes, which they have carried out under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians caught in conflict between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and rebels.
“It’s true that the bombardments seem pretty much on target, but it is also true that when they hit military targets, which are in the middle of civilian neighborhoods, the population is also involved,” Martinelli said.
Translation: Shit happens.
Is it just us or does this sound suspiciously like “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
You can’t watch this CBS News story from the sands of Libya without rolling your eyes and asking yourself, “What the hell are we doing supporting this band of morons?”
You can’t watch this CBS News story from the sands of Libya without rolling your eyes and asking yourself, “What the hell are we doing supporting this band of morons?”
It’s not the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. It’s the gang that shoots at random.
Of course, as we’ve come to expect from this administration, 100% doesn’t eally mean 100% and the rule of law is often replaced by the rule of “good for thee, but not for me.”
The Obama administration and Government Motors bet the windfarm that electric and hybrid cars would be the latest rage, but they’re so expensive and impractical that no one’s buying them. What’s a president to do?
The Detroit News reveals that President Obama intends to rig the game by having the federal government buy the cars in massive numbers:
President Obama wonders how far he could go between charges in a bulletproof, bombproof Chevy Volt limousine
Obama announced the plan this week to “green” the federal fleet.
“I’m directing our departments and our agencies to make sure 100 percent of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean energy cars and trucks by 2015. Not 50 percent, not 75 percent — 100 percent of our vehicles,” Obama said today at an appearance in Landover, Md., at UPS facility.
Of course, as we’ve come to expect from this administration, 100% doesn’t eally mean 100% and the rule of law is often replaced by the rule of “good for thee, but not for me.”
The U.S. Secret Service said today that some federal vehicles for law enforcement and security purposes will be exempt from President Barack Obama’s directive that all federal vehicles purchased starting 2015 be advanced technology models.
Secret Service spokesman Robert Novy said the directive wouldn’t apply to vehicles used for some law enforcement or security reasons by various federal agencies.
“Certain specialized vehicles including those with law enforcement and security specifications are not subject to this directive,” Novy said.
That would include the GM-built Cadillac presidential limousine and other vehicles in the motorcade.
Interesting, isn’t it, that this regulation should be proposed by someone whose only driving experience has been driving the nation to the edge of bankruptcy.
