Warm, caring, open-minded, liberal students at Columbia Univesity taunt disabled veteran

The classy college crowd at Columbia University mocked, jeered and outright laughed at a returning Iraq War veteran Anthony Mascheck, an Army sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times.

Have you ever seen stories about the morons at the Westboro Baptist Church who protest military funerals and wondered, “Where do idiots like that come from?” The answer, it appears, may be the Ivy League in general and Columbia University specifically.

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The Columbia Taliban jeered veteran Anthony Maschek

The New York Post details how the classy college crowd at Columbia mocked, jeered and outright laughed at a returning Iraq War veteran.

“‘Racist!’ some students yelled at Anthony Mascheck, a Columbia freshman and former Army sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008. Others hissed and booed the veteran.”

And what had Maschek done to provoke the taunting? He spoke at a town-hall meeting to “issue an impassioned challenge to fellow students on their perceptions of the military.”

After saying “It doesn’t matter how you feel about the war, it doesn’t matter how you feel about fighting. There are bad men out there plotting to kill you,” several students laughed and jeered the Idaho native.

Apparently Columbia’s student body is up in arms – pardon our use of violent rhetoric – about the horrors of ROTC returning to their peace-loving campus.

The University had previously rejected the return of ROTC because of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. So now that DADT has been overturned, they’ve come up with a new excuse – the military bans transgender soldiers. According to senior Sean Udell, “Transpeople are part of the Columbia community.”

No word on why Columbia will reject the ROTC after the military begins accepting transgender recruits. Perhaps it will be the fact that they accept so few elite leftist idiots, which will no doubt keep the University in excuses for the next hundred years or so.

Source: New York Post

Who is the greatest President in history? Hint: He’s not on Mount Rushmore yet.

In honor of Presidents Day, USA Today/Gallup did a poll that asked the simple question, “Who is the greatest American President in history?” The answer is exactly what most IHateTheMedia.com readers would expect.

In honor of Presidents Day, USA Today/Gallup did a poll that asked the simple question, “Who is the greatest American President in history?”

The answer is exactly what most IHateTheMedia.com readers would expect. And exactly what most liberals dread.

Is there room on Mount Rushmore for one more of history’s giants?

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“Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 2-5, 2011, with a random sample of 1,015 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.”

Source: Gallop

Democrats offended that Republicans use the O-word on the House floor

If you’re like us, and for your sake we pray to god that you’re not, you’re probably wondering what offensive word begins with the letter “o.”

If you’re like us, and for your sake we pray to god that you’re not, you’re probably wondering what offensive word begins with the letter “o.”

TheHill.com has the story of Republicans’ o-verly o-ffended o-pponents:

House Republicans and Democrats started Friday morning’s debate over whether to defund last year’s healthcare law, and as part of this debate sparred over whether members should be allowed to call that law “ObamaCare.”

After two House Republicans called it “ObamaCare,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) asked the chairman whether these “disparaging” remarks should be allowed on the House floor.

“That is a disparaging reference to the president of the United States; it is meant as a disparaging reference to the president of the United States, and it is clearly in violation of the House rules against that,” she said.

Of course, Wasserman Schultz’ idiotic plea only egged on Republicans, who ratcheted up their efforts:

… Rep. Denny Rehberg (Mont.), who sponsored the amendment to defund the law, said he refers to it as ObamaCare and said, “You would think he wants his name attached to his signature legislation.

“So we call it what it is,” he continued. “It is ObamaCare. It’s a travesty. It is big government. It is not controlling healthcare costs, and it needs to be repealed and today we’re going to try to defund it to the best of our ability. And if we’re not successful this time, we’re going to try again and again and again until we either have a Senate that’s willing to pass it or a president that understands that we cannot do this to the American people.”

If they’re going to begin banning words from the floor of the House we can think of three more they should consider:

Debbie. Wasserman. Schultz.

Source: TheHill.com

Stop the invasion: 67% think states should enforce immigration laws if Feds won’t

Janet Napolitano be damned. A new Rasmussen poll shows that very few Americans agree with the Obama administration’s official policy on border enforcement. It’s a case of the old saying, “Lead, follow or get out of the way.”

Janet Napolitano be damned. A new Rasmussen poll shows that very few Americans agree with the Obama administration’s official policy on border enforcement. It’s a case of the old saying, “Lead, follow or get out of the way.”

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The American people vote no on Janet Napolitano-style border security

Rasmussen has the details:

In response to the Justice Department challenge of its effort to crack down on illegal immigration, Arizona has sued the federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws. Most voters continue to support Arizona’s new immigration law and strongly believe states should be able to fight illegal immigration if the federal government is not.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters – two-out-of-three – think a state should have the right to enforce immigration laws if it believes the federal government is not enforcing them. Just 22% disagree and say states should not have that right…

Arizona is seeking reimbursement in its suit against the federal government, and nearly half (49%) believe the federal government should reimburse states for expenses incurred as a result of illegal immigration. Thirty percent (30%) say the government should not have to reimburse states, but another 21% are not sure.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters continue to favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state. Twenty-eight percent (28%) oppose such a law, and 15% are undecided about it.

If you wondered why Janet Napolitano announced that she wouldn’t run for the vacant U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, look no further. Her policies are about as popular as herpes and her chances of getting elected in that state fall somewhere between slim and are-you-friggin-kidding-me?

Source: Rasmussen

NEWS FLASH: Lindsey Graham isn’t a total tool, supports Scott Walker

Lindsay Graham pointed out that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when he was elected a mere four months ago.

South Carolina RINO Lindsey Graham guested on Meet the Press Sunday and actually said things – for once – that didn’t make conservatives hair stand on end.

Shocking, but true.

He pointed out that despite all the union goon signs calling Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a dictator and comparing him (unfavorably, we might add) to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hosni Mubarak, he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when he was elected a mere four months ago.

In other words, he’s doing exactly the people of Wisconsin elected him to do.

Graham: In a democracy, when you run on something, you do have an obligation to fulfill your promise. He didn’t take anybody by surprise, he’s doing exactly what he said. There was a referendum on this issue and the unions lost, and the Democrats in Wisconsin should come back to Wisconsin to have votes.

Far be it from us to be cynical, but it appears that November’s elections have impacted politics in South Carolina as well as in Wisconsin.

The Other Donald speaks: Rumsfeld rips Obama

Admit it. Don’t you kind of miss Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Iraq war press conferences? The ones where he’d rip the heart out of any reporter who asked a stupid questi

Admit it. Don’t you kind of miss Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Iraq war press conferences? The ones where he’d rip the heart out of any reporter who asked a stupid question?

Rumsfeld is now out flogging a book and Politico.com reports on his appearance on CNN’s State of the Union:

Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” by host Candy Crowley whether the U.S. is looked at differently than under his tenure, Rumsfeld replied, “I don’t think there’s data that supports that.”

“I think [Obama] has made a practice of trying to apologize for America,” Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld also downplayed Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.

“He had not accomplished a thing when he got the Nobel Prize. It was given to him on hope,” Rumsfeld said. “He’d been in office 15 minutes.”

Our favorite part of this clip was watching Crowley try to construct a question that defended Obama’s popularity around the world when she knows he’s been burned in effigy in Pakistan and Egypt in the last week.

But this is CNN, damn it, and they are the most trusted name in news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvSF4zUiBY

Source: Politico.com

Admitting the obvious: ABC says Obama condemned Scott Walker quicker, more forcefully than Hosni Mubarak

In Egypt you had ordinary citizens attempting to overthrow a despot. In Wisconsin you have union goons attempting to overthrow a democratically-elected governor doing what he was just elected to do.

In Egypt you had ordinary citizens attempting to overthrow a despot. In Wisconsin you have union goons attempting to overthrow a democratically-elected governor doing what he was just elected to do.

Was there really any question which side Obama would come down on in each case?

Nevertheless, it’s shocking to see ABC News attack President Obama:

“The President was quicker and more forceful of his denouncement of Gov. Scott Walker than he was of denouncing Hosni Mubarak,” [ABC Senior Political Correspondent Jon] Karl said. “Madison, Wisconsin – the state of Wisconsin — this is arguably ground zero for the 2012 presidential campaign. Look, this is a state if President Obama loses, he’s almost certainly going to not win re-election,” Karl explained.

This is no mystery. Obviously, President Obama was slower to attack Mubarak because he feels a certain respect for a man who is able to hold power for 30 years against the will of his people.

Global warming heating up the House: Republicans vote to kill funding for corrupt UN IPCC

Things got hot in the House of Representatives in the early hours of Saturday morning and it was all caused by global warming. Missouri Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer sponsored a “defund the IPCC amendment” and his Republican cohorts overwhelmed Democrat opposition in a 244-179 vote.

Things got hot in the House of Representatives in the early hours of Saturday morning and it was all caused by global warming. Missouri Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer sponsored a “defund the IPCC amendment” and his Republican cohorts overwhelmed Democrat opposition in a 244-179 vote.

Luetkemeyer lead up to the vote by reading aloud from a 2009 U.S. Senate report by more than 700 dissenting scientists.

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Republican Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer was hot about global warming funding

And we quote Luetkemeyer:

“Scientists manipulated climate data, suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals, and researchers were asked to destroy emails, so that a small number of climate alarmists could continue to advance their environmental agenda.

“Since then, more than 700 acclaimed international scientists have challenged the claims made by the IPCC, in this comprehensive 740-page report. These 700 scientists represent some of the most respected institutions at home and around the world, including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, U.S. Air Force and Navy, and even the Environmental Protection Agency.

“For example, famed Princeton University physicist Dr. Robert Austin, who has published 170 scientific papers and was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Austin told a congressional committee that, unfortunately, climate has become a political science. It is tragic the some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best.

“Mr. Chairman, if the families in my district have been able to tighten their belts, surely the federal government can do the same and stop funding an organization that is fraught with waste and abuse. My amendment simply says that no funds in this bill can go to the IPCC. This would save taxpayers millions of dollars this year and millions of dollars in years to come. In fact, the President has requested an additional $13 million in his fiscal 2012 budget request.

“My constituents should not have to continue to foot the bill for an organization to keep producing corrupt findings that can be used as justification to impose a massive new energy tax on every American.”

Four words for the House of Representatives:

It. Is. About. Time.

Source: ClimateDepot.com

Veteran arrested for silently turning his back on Hillary

If Hosni Mubarak has moved this decisively, this quickly, this ruthlessly, he’d still be running the show in Egypt. Of course, ol’ Hosni was an amateur autocrat compared to our Secretary of State.

If Hosni Mubarak has moved this decisively, this quickly, this ruthlessly, he’d still be running the show in Egypt. Of course, ol’ Hosni was an amateur autocrat compared to our Secretary of State.

The Sky Valley Chronicle highlights Hillary’s hypocrisy:

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression – and lauding freedom of speech on the Internet – 71-year-old military veteran Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes and hustled out of the building and, according to McGovern and his supporters, was “brutalized and left bleeding in jail.”

What McGovern did was simply remain standing silently in the audience and turned his back on her as Secretary Clinton began her speech…

According to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, “For this peaceful expression of dissent, he ended up bruised, bloodied, arrested, and jailed. Secretary Clinton never paused, continuing her speech lecturing other countries about the need to allow freedom of expression and dissent, while Mr. McGovern was hauled out in front of her.”

McGovern was later found to have his arm covered with bruises. The metal handcuffs were fastened so tightly that his wrists were cut and some blood flowed from the cuts.

After being held by local police, McGovern was told he was being charged with disorderly conduct.

Just based on the name of McGovern’s group, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, we assume he’s a wacko liberal, but we have to come to his defense.

How does silently turning your back on a public official qualify as disorderly conduct?

Source: Sky Valley Chronicle

Michael Moore has a great new idea and it involves your kids

Being on Michael Moore’s email list is fun. A lot of fun, in fact. We get emails in which he rants and raves and comes up with all kinds of stupid leftist ideas. It’s a giant laughfest of leftist stupidity.

Being on Michael Moore’s email list is fun. A lot of fun, in fact. We get emails in which he rants and raves and comes up with all kinds of stupid leftist ideas. It’s a giant laughfest of leftist stupidity.

And now he’s come up with his dumbest idea yet. Let’s just let the fat filmmaker explain it in his own words:

From: Michael Moore
Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Join My High School Newspaper …a note to students from Michael Moore
To: The Administrator

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Adults now ignore fat filmmaker Michael Moore, so he's going after children

Dear High School Students:

…We like to say that we have this great “free press,” and yet how free are high school newspapers? How free are you to write or blog about what you want? I’ve been sent stories from teenagers that they couldn’t get published at school. Why not? Why must we silence or keep out of sight the voice of our teenagers?

It’s not that way in other countries. The voting age in places like Austria, Brazil or Nicaragua is 16. In France, students can shut down the country by simply walking out of school and taking to the streets.But here in the U.S. you’re told to obey and to basically butt out and let the adults run the show.

Let’s change that! I’m starting something on my site called, “HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER.” Here you will be able to write what you want and I will publish it. I will also post those articles that you’ve tried to get published at your school but were turned down. On my site you will have freedom and an open forum and a chance to have your voice heard by millions.

I’ve asked my 17-year-old niece, Molly, to kick things off by editing this page for the first six months. She will ask you to send her your stories and ideas and the best ones will be posted on MichaelMoore.com . I’ll give you the platform you deserve. It will be my honor to have you on my site and I encourage you to take advantage of it.

You are often called “our future.” That future is today, right here, right now. You’ve already proven you can change the world. Keep doing it. And I’d be honored to help you.

Yours,
Michael Moore
[email protected]
MichaelMoore.com

Questions:

  1. What are the odds that Moore will print any conservative articles?
  2. How embarrassing is it to be outed as Michael Moore’s niece?
  3. Would you want Michael Moore hanging out with your children?
  4. If Michael Moore is going to begin hanging out around high schools, will Michelle Obama make him begin eating at one of her salad bars?
  5. If the writers for Michael Moore’s high school newspaper wanted to unionize and demand salaries and healthcare benefits, would Moore embrace their efforts or fire them?
  6. Is this a violation of child labor laws?

Horrible, shocking news about Fox News’ Juan Williams

As far as liberals are concerned, this is bad. This is real bad. This is worse than if they’d found photos of Juan in compromising positions with farm animals. Juan Williams’ son is a Republican.

As far as liberals are concerned, this is bad. This is real bad. This is worse than if they’d found photos of Juan in compromising positions with farm animals. Worse than if they’d found him posing shirtless on Craig’s List. Worse than … worse than … well, worse than almost anything.

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Tony Williams, son of Fox News' Juan Williams and (gasp) Republican

Juan Williams’ son is a Republican.

We don’t know how we missed this one. Young Tony ran for, but lost his bid for the Washington, DC city council back in 2006. But somehow this story slipped right by us.

Here’s how the National Black Republican Association describes the liberal heartache that is young Tony Williams:

Juan Williams who is a liberal intellect and political commentator for NPR and Fox News has a son, Tony Williams, who is a Republican and running for the Washington, DC Ward 6 City Council Seat.

Tony grew up in Washington, DC, and his parents taught him, by example, that America is the land of opportunity and, with hard work, he could accomplish anything.

After living the principles of the Republican Party and becoming successful himself, Tony rejected the socialist policies of the Democrat Party and became a Republican. Tony’s goal as a politician is to help the children of DC get out of poverty and on the on the road to prosperity.

Good lord, Tony  even spent one summer interning in Strom Thurmond’s office and then worked as a speechwriter for former Senator Norm Coleman.

Far as liberals are concerned, the only thing that could make this situation worse is if Tony follows his father’s footsteps and goes to work at Fox.

Source: National Black Republican Association

Pakistanis erect statue to honor President Obama and John Kerry

Yeah, that Cairo speech is really paying some handsome dividends now. Barack Obama is beloved as the President of the World and John Kerry is a highly respected international diplomat.

They love ‘em some Barack Obama and some John Kerry in the Muslim world. Yeah, that Cairo speech is really paying some handsome dividends now. Obama is beloved as the President of the World and Kerry is a highly respected international diplomat. Together they …

What’s that? It’s not a statue? The Pakistanis are hanging them in effigy?

Never mind.

It’s about time: Proposed budget amendment would end aid to countries that oppose U.S. at the U.N.

A budget-cutting amendment proposed by Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, would base future aid on the positions other countries take at the U.N. Vote with us, you qualify for aid. Vote against us, sorry, Charlie.

A budget-cutting amendment proposed by Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, would base future aid on the positions other countries take at the U.N. Vote with us, you qualify for aid. Vote against us, sorry, Charlie.

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Or we could follow the old policy of rewarding our enemies
CNSNews.com has the details:

According to the amendment, a U.N. member state would be ineligible for U.S. aid if it voted contrary to the U.S. stance more than 50 percent of the time during the most recent session of the U.N. General Assembly.

In 2009 – the latest figures available – 14 of the 15 biggest recipients of U.S. aid took opposing positions to those taken by the U.S. in U.N. votes more often than not. Israel was the exception, with a world-beating 97 percent voting coincidence with the U.S…

His United Nations Voting Accountability Act made provision for exemptions in two cases: If the president determined that an exemption was in the U.S. national interest, and if the secretary of state certified that a “fundamental change in the leadership and policies” of a particular government meant it would no longer oppose U.S. positions.

Send money to our friends, don’t send money to our enemies. What a concept!

Obviously, this will never pass. It makes far too much sense.

Source: CNSNews.com

The good news: Poll shows Obama tied with generic Republican. The bad news: They’re all friggin’ generic.

This new Gallup poll shows both the opportunity and the problem. The opportunity: Obama can be beaten. The problem: All the Republican candidates seem pretty damn generic to us.

This new Gallup poll shows both the opportunity and the problem. The opportunity: Obama can be beaten. The problem: All the Republican candidates seem pretty damn generic to us.

You know, generic. Vanilla. Ordinary. Plain. Unexciting. Would someone please find us a thesaurus and would someone else please find us a candidate?

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We have too many damn generic Republicans

TheHill.com has the story of our 2012 conundrum:

A new Gallup poll found registered voters are split over whether they would vote for President Obama in 2012.

Asked if they would vote for Obama or a generic Republican next year, 45 percent said they would support Obama and 45 percent said they would vote for the GOP candidate in the survey released Wednesday.

The poll shows opportunity for the large field of potential Republican candidates looking to defeat Obama on the heels of the Democrats’ “shellacking” in the 2010 midterm elections, when they lost control of the House and six Senate seats.

Come on. Give us Marco Rubio. Give us Allen West. Give us Mike Pence. Give us Paul Ryan. Give us Chris Christie. Give us somebody who can get us fired up.

Because we’re bored to death with these generic Republicans.

Source: TheHill.com

Oopsie! Fox News apologizes for “smearing” Ron Paul

Seems like a relatively minor mistake to us, but the left wing blogosphere is atwitter with news that Fox was forced to apologize after intentionally smearing Ron Paul.

We’ve finally found something the left hates more than Ron Paul – Fox News.

Seems like a relatively minor mistake to us, but the left wing blogosphere is atwitter with news that Fox was forced to apologize after intentionally smearing Ron Paul. Faux News lied. Fuks News intentionally defamed Ron Paul. Fox blah-blah-blah.

Source: DailyBail.com

Justice must be served: Quadriplegic sues Disney for stranding him on “Small World” ride

A quadriplegic man is suing Disneyland after being stranded on the “It’s A Small World” ride for more than 40 minutes during an evacuation.

Go ahead. Try to tell us that you don’t break out in a cold sweat at the mere thought of being stranded on Disneyland’s “Small World” ride. Try to tell us the sound of that annoying song doesn’t fill you with a terror unlike any other.

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They should change the name to "It's A Small, Very Annoying World"

Time Newsfeed has the details:

A quadriplegic man is suing Disneyland after being stranded on the “It’s A Small World” ride for more than 40 minutes during an evacuation.

Jose Martinez is suing the “Happiest Place on Earth” for negligence, emotional distress and liability, claiming that after the famous ride stalled, Disney staff evacuated other passengers, while leaving him and his wife behind.

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court by the Disability Rights Legal Center on behalf of Martinez, claims that Disney violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not having proper procedures in place to evacuate disabled passengers. Martinez also alleges that Disney staffers refused to call the paramedics after the stress of the situation caused his blood pressure to rise.

We pause now for another one of those mildly amusing stories from the Editor’s sordid past:

When I was about 17, my dad’s Rotary Club paid for a group of local Cub Scouts to attend Disneyland’s annual Scout Day extravaganza. My dad decided it would be a character building experience if I were to pack my car full of Cubbies and drive them to the amusement park. The good news was that he paid for my ticket, too.

It was not only the middle of summer, but a particularly hot Southern California day. No, that doesn’t quite describe it. It was freakin’ torrid. Steaming. Hotter than hell. And I was in this amusement park with 10,000 screaming little scouts.

It was fun for a while, but as the temperature soared I desperately began searching for a place – any place – out of the sun. Then I thought of “It’s A Small World.” I handed over what I remember as a “C” coupon (c’mon, It’s A Small World couldn’t have been more than a “C” coupon) and boarded my boat for a short cruise through the air-conditioned building. Life was going to be good for the next seven or eight minutes.

Then, halfway through the ride, the boats ground to a halt. Cool, I thought. Figuratively and literally. I’ll get a few extra minutes in here out of the heat.

Unfortunately, the minutes dragged on. And on. And friggin’ on. I was forced to sit there with a boatload of heat-crazed, screaming Cub Scouts waiting for the ride to start up again.

But the sound of the screaming Scouts was nothing, a mere distraction. The real problem was that damn song. Those friggin’ little foreign-dressed figures kept singing “It’s A Small World” over and over and over again, searing it into my brain, driving me ever close to that fine line between sanity and lunacy.

Eventually – I lost track of time, but it must have been three or four days – they fixed the ride and we completed our circuit of “It’s A Small World.”

To this day, though, I hate that damn song. Absolutely hate it. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

So, Mr. Jose Martinez, I completely understand why you’re suing Disneyland. I hope you take ‘em to the cleaners. I hope you win so much money that they’re forced to change the name of the place to JoseLand.

That’s what I hope.

Source: Time

Hypocrisy on steroids: What liberals said then vs. what liberals say now

This is a great little video called “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Liberal Protest of Gov. Walker’s Budget Repair Plan.” You may find this hard to believe, but the liberal tune has changed since November.

This is a great little video called “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Liberal Protest of Gov. Walker’s Budget Repair Plan.”

You may find this hard to believe, but the liberal tune has changed since November.

Kerry carries on like a rock star: No tomatoes backstage at his speeches

If we were John Kerry, we’d want to make sure that no one in the audience has any tomatoes. But the haughty, vaguely French-looking Massachusetts Democrat is more concerned that there are no tomatoes backstage when he speaks.

If we were John Kerry, we’d want to make sure that no one in the audience has any tomatoes. But the haughty, vaguely French-looking Massachusetts Democrat is more concerned that there are no tomatoes backstage when he speaks. Well, at least he’s not specifying no brown M&Ms.

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We suspect that Teresa was the little tomato John Kerry didn't want backstage

Yahoo.com has the demanding details:

Musicians aren’t the only ones with demands. Even politicians, like former presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, have them. But while Kerry’s rider outlines specific dishes like “Szechwan string beans” as must-haves, perhaps more interesting is what he omits. “NEVER order: Tomato based products OR sandwiches,” Kerry’s rider explicitly said, which is made all the more humorous by the fact that his wife became wealthy from the $550 million she took away from her first marriage to the heir to the Heinz fortune.

“Yes, lovey, the Szechwan string beans are fabulous tonight. This is precisely how I had Bao Mihn prepare them when I was in Vietnam. Have I ever mentioned that I served in Vietnam?”

Source: Yahoo.com

Cot with their pants down: Chris Christie challenges state Democrats on government shutdown

The Rotund One explains what he would do if the Democrats in the state legislature decide to shut down the state government. And, of course, he does it in his usual hilarious, take-no-prisoners manner.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revels in confronting Democrats and pointing out the foibles of his predecessor. In this clip The Rotund One explains what he would do if the Democrats in the state legislature decide to shut down the state government. And, of course, he does it in his usual hilarious, take-no-prisoners manner.

“Take a look at me. You think I’m sleeping on a cot? It’s not happening.”

In other words, “When you’re hot, you’re hot. And when you’re cot, you’re not.”

Howdy Doody disappoints Buffalo Bob: George Soros says Obama has lost control

George Soros will be on CNN Sunday morning with Fareed Zakaria. In this pre-released clip, the shadowy billionaire puppet master says President Barack Obama has “lost control” of the national economy.

Here’s something you don’t see every day — the puppet master discussing the puppet’s performance.

George Soros, source of the left’s seemingly infinite supply of money, will be on CNN Sunday morning with Fareed Zakaria. In this pre-released clip, the shadowy billionaire puppet master says President Barack Obama has “lost control” of the national economy.

You almost have to feel sorry for Soros. He’s invested a small fortune (well, small by his standards) to elect extreme left wing Democrats and now he bemoans the fact that Republicans are setting the national agenda.

Of course, Soros predicts that that agenda will fail because, well, because it’s not what he wants.

“They are going to pursue a very strong effort to cut services by refusing to have any tax increases. I think this agenda will be successful. But it will be pursued, I think, to an extent where it’s more directed at cutting services and achieving the ideological purposes of the Republicans rather than to get the economy going. So I think this will have a negative effect on the economy.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFwRB36ILk

The $64 gazillion question: “This budget never, ever, ever reduces the debt. Is that right?”

Rep. Rob Woodall, a Georgia Republican, danced around with Tim Geithner and finally couldn’t take it anymore. So he asked the question so clearly and slowly that even a Treasury Secretary could understand it.

Rep. Rob Woodall, a Georgia Republican, danced around with Tim Geithner and finally couldn’t take it anymore. So he asked the question so clearly and slowly that even a Treasury Secretary could understand it:

“This budget never, ever, ever reduces the debt, is that right?”


We knew the answer. You know the answer. But it’s worth investing 22 seconds of your life to watch Geithner say the words.

LA spends $600 million building two schools, may lay off more than 5000

We can only assume that the district has already laid off all its math teachers. Because it’s easy to see that $600 million for two schools minus 5000 employees, mostly teachers, does not add up.

Where do they find these geniuses? Are they all born and raised in Los Angeles or do they have to bring them in from other districts?

The Daily Breeze has the details:

Faced with an estimated $408 million budget deficit in the coming school year, the Los Angeles school board on Tuesday will consider authorizing layoff-warning notices for more than 5,000 employees, including more than 4,000 teachers.

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There's not a lot left over for teachers when you spend $500 million for the Roybal Learning Center

The notices don’t necessarily mean all of the employees will lose their jobs for the 2011-12 school year, but school districts by law must notify workers that their positions are in jeopardy.

“We must plan for the worst because it just might happen,” Deputy Superintendent John Deasy wrote in a memo to the board and Superintendent Ramon Cortines.

We can’t help but wonder how many employees might be able to keep their jobs if the Einsteins in charge of the school district hadn’t spent nearly $600 million building just two schools in recent years.

Yes, you read that correctly. $600 million building just two schools.

One of them was the Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences, which set the district back $75.5 million. But that one pales in comparison to the infamous Belmont High School, which cost nearly $500 million.

ParentAdvocates.org has that story:

Costs to date for the development are $175 million. The Los Angeles Unified School Board has already approved an additional $110 million for demolition, reconstruction and completion of the on the Belmont campus, which was built on top of one thousand closed oil wells and is plagued with methane gas and other toxic substances. Unbudgeted remediation cost estimates vary from $14 million to $107 million.

Of course, they’ve now changed the name of the Belmont Learning Center to the Roybal Learning Center, so add the cost of new signs to that total.

We can only assume that the district has already laid off all its math teachers. Because it’s easy to see that $600 million for two schools minus 4,000 teachers and 1,000 other employees does not add up.

Source: DailyBreeze.com, Parent Advocates.org

Step One: Put climate station in paved parking lot in desert. Step Two: Issue dire global warming alert

One might think that a group of highly-educated meteorologists would anticipate that putting a climate station in the middle of a paved parking lot in the middle of a desert might provide temperature data that skews slightly high. Not so.

One might think that a group of highly-educated meteorologists would anticipate that putting a climate station in the middle of a paved parking lot in the middle of a desert might provide temperature data that skews slightly high. Not so.

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Middle of paved parking lot, middle of desert: The official climate station at the University of Arizona

The geniuses at the Department of Atmospheric Science at the esteemed University of Arizona did exactly that. And then they issued the following dire global warming alert:

Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists.

The Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts will be particularly hard hit. Miami, New Orleans, Tampa, Fla., and Virginia Beach, Va. could lose more than 10 percent of their land area by 2100.

The research is the first analysis of vulnerability to sea-level rise that includes every U.S. coastal city in the lower 48 with a population of 50,000 or more.

Using similar research methods to work, we put a thermometer in the refrigerator at ITHM HQ and we were shocked to discover that it shows temperatures are plummeting and that a new Ice Age is upon us.

Ain’t science grand?

Source: WattsUpWithThat.com

Anti-Semite and racist: Helen Thomas says, “I thought Obama would be more liberal because he’s black”

Joy Behar interviewed Helen Thomas. She couldn’t allow herself to show the anger she would show toward, say, Tea Partiers, but it’s still obvious that she thinks Thomas is way off base.

Crusty old anti-Semite Helen Thomas showed up on the Joy Behar Show. Why, we cannot say, because know that no conservative who said the things Thomas said would ever be allowed on television again.

Nevertheless, Behar interviewed Thomas. She couldn’t allow herself to show the anger she would show toward, say, Tea Partiers, but it’s still obvious that she thinks Thomas is waaaaay off base.

Behar: Things have changed. And President Obama, do you like him? Do you think he is doing a good job? We started out the conversation before about it a little bit.
Thomas: I think he lacks courage
Behar: He lacks courage?
Thomas: And he is not a liberal. I had hoped he was. I suppose I thought he was, because he was black, I thought he would automatically be —
Behar: Well, that was your mistake.
Thomas: That was my mistake. I thought he would be a liberal.
Behar: Can’t judge a person by the color.
Thomas: Absolutely. You are so right. But I really thought that he would have an empathy for all the blacks, what they had gone through in life.

Go to the 6:27 mark for the above conversation. But the whole damn thing is remarkable for it’s ignorance, anti-Semitism, and racism.

Not that Helen would be interested, but we’d really like to introduce her to a black conservative (gasp) like Allen West just to see her head spin around like a dreadle.

Oops. That’s a Jewish toy. Sorry, Helen.

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