Kanye West said George Bush hates black people. Desmond Tutu just said the same thing about Barack Obama. Or words to that effect.
Bono just called and he wants his sunglasses back.
Kanye West said George Bush hates black people. Desmond Tutu just said the same thing about Barack Obama. Or words to that effect.
The New York Times quotes Tutu’s tirade:
HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa.
George W. Bush made an impressive commitment to the international fight against AIDS when he formed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program. Since 2004, Pepfar has spent $19 billion to help distribute anti-viral treatments to about 2.5 million Africans infected with H.I.V.
Thanks to these efforts — and similar initiatives, like those spearheaded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — the number of African patients with access to AIDS drugs jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2008. Since 2004, the AIDS-related mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped 18 percent.
Yet President Obama added only $366 million to the program this year — well below the $1 billion per year he promised to add when he was on the campaign trail. (Pepfar’s total budget now stands at $7 billion.) Most of the countries in Pepfar will see no increase in aid.
Back off, Tutu. President Obama is spending all our money on shovel ready projects. He can’t be bothered with Africa’s shovel ready people.
Imagine that you’re a congressman or even an exalted United States senator. In your mind, you’re one of the most important people in the world. Now imagine how you’d feel when you find out that al Jazeera TV was told about NASA’s Muslim outreach before you were.
Imagine that you’re a congressman or even an exalted United States senator. In your mind, you’re one of the most important people in the world. Now imagine how you’d feel when you find out that al Jazeera TV was told about NASA’s Muslim outreach before you were.
Uh-oh. The Washington Examiner has the surprising details of the surprised congressmen:
Rep. Pete Olson, the ranking Republican on the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, got a call from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on June 28, the day the White House released its new long-term plan for the space program. “He ran down some of the things from the president’s new space policy, and mentioned outreach to Muslims,” Olson recalls. “That stunned me. I didn’t believe it.”
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Democrat who chairs the subcommittee (and is also married to astronaut Mark Kelly), got a briefing from Bolden the same day, according to a spokesman.
As it happens, Bolden’s calls to Giffords and Olson came several days after Bolden discussed the Muslim initiative with Al Jazeera. According to a NASA spokesman, Bolden sat down with Al Jazeera’s Imran Garda on June 17, during a stop in Doha, Qatar. Bolden’s Mideast trip, which was timed to mark the first anniversary of President Obama’s June 2009 Muslim outreach speech, was devoted to pursuing “a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.”
Make no mistake. Bolden’s interview with Al Jazeera interview aired on June 30, after Bolden briefed members of Congress. But it was recorded on June 17, before they were briefed.
Look for Congress to issue a fatwa on Charles Bolden.
There was one folk singer in the 60s who stood out from all the rest. While the rest of them were singing This Land Is Your Land and Kumbaya and Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore and Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Janet Greene said, “The hell with that liberal crap. Let’s sing about the real problems in America.”
There was one folk singer in the 60s who stood out from all the rest. While the rest of them were singing This Land Is Your Land and Kumbaya and Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore and Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Janet Greene said, “The hell with that liberal crap. Let’s sing about the real problems in America.”
That’s actually our interpretation of what Dick Morris said. But Morris did cut through all the crap and explain Shirley Sherrod in one short, pithy line:
That’s actually our interpretation of what Dick Morris said. But Morris did cut through all the crap and explain Shirley Sherrod in one short, pithy line:
“Having radical leftist Shirley Sherrod in her job is like having Jeremiah Wright on staff.”
(Read all of our Shirley Sherrod stories, and we have a lot of them.)
We would like to offer our congratulations to Miss Sherrod for possibly no longer being a racist.
Several days ago, a video broke showing now former (or maybe current) USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to be a racist.
In light of this discovery, the Obama administration forced her to resign from her position with the government.
Shirley Sherrod was once a racist but is now a former racist. She was once a former USDA employee, but is now a current USDA employee. She was once a socialist, but is still a socialist. You need a damn scorecard on this one.
Not so fast, gentlemen. As it turns out, Sherrod was the victim of some malicious editing.
A more careful viewing of the damning video in its entirety shows that Sherrod only used to be a racist and possibly may no longer be one.
We would like to offer our congratulations to Miss Sherrod for possibly no longer being a racist.
We would also like her to know that that David Duke, Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd have saved her a seat at their table.
(Read all of our Shirley Sherrod stories, and we have a lot of them.)
Indonesia’s top Islamic body declared Tuesday that Muslims can drink civet coffee—the world’s most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the dung of civet cats.
This is a civet or as it's known in Indonesia, the coffee maker.
Don’t call it a frappé, call it a crappé. Breitbart reports the tale of the lousy Indonesian latté:
Indonesia’s top Islamic body declared Tuesday that Muslims can drink civet coffee—the world’s most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the dung of civet cats.
A preacher recently suggested the beverage might not be “halal”—or religiously approved—because its unusual provenance makes it unclean. But after a long discussion Tuesday, the influential Indonesian Ulema Council said that the coffee, known locally as Kopi Luwak, could be consumed as long as the beans were washed.
This photo has absolutely nothing to do with this story, but WTF?
Kopi Luwak, which takes it name from the Indonesian word for civets, is made from hard beans that have been eaten by the nocturnal critters and then fermented in their stomachs before being pooped out and roasted. Civet cats are mongoose-like animals.
It’s highly prized for its smooth flavor and bitterless aftertaste, sometimes fetching well over $200 a pound ($440 per kilogram) online.
“Kopi Luwak can be declared ‘halal’ after passing through a washing process,” said Maruf Amien, acting head of the council. “Producing, selling and drinking it is allowed.”
“I’d like a tall, half-skinny, half-1%, extra hot split quad shot latte with light whip. And my friend would like a a cup of cat crap coffee.”
Why, slap us naked if Nate Whigham and Herman Cain aren’t black. What the hell are they doing supporting the Tea Party? Either they’re self-loathing blacks or they’re good American citizens who care about what’s happening to their country.
Why, slap us naked if Nate Whigham and Herman Cain aren’t black. What the hell are they doing supporting the Tea Party?
We have two choices:
Either they’re self-loathing blacks or they’re good American citizens who care about what’s happening to their country.
The mystery, the real, honest-to-god mystery, is why conservatives bother going on MSNBC. It’s not a lot of them ever get invited to guest on cable TV’s answer to the Titanic, but some do.
The mystery, the real, honest-to-god mystery, is why conservatives bother going on MSNBC. It’s not a lot of them ever get invited to guest on cable TV’s answer to the Titanic, but some do.
J.P. Freire, editor of the Washington Examiner, learned his lesson the hard way on Monday when he guested with hothead MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and had the temerity to expect to be treated as well as Ratigan’s liberal guest.
They said the individual mandate wasn’t a tax, but now it turns out it is. They said you could keep your own insurance, but now it turns out you can’t. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t fund abortions, but now it turns out it will. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t be extended to illegal aliens, but now…
The international symbol for "Illegal aliens taking their children to the doctor"
They said the individual mandate wasn’t a tax, but now it turns out it is. They said you could keep your own insurance, but now it turns out you can’t. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t fund abortions, but now it turns out it will. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t be extended to illegal aliens, but now…
Politico.com has the details:
A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to fix one of the most hotly contested aspects of the health care law … The move by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would add a contentious new element to an already monumental task — passing a bill that puts 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. But the lawmakers say they’re merely following through on a pledge they made when the health care overhaul passed in March, and they expect the White House and Democratic leadership to do the same.
Retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Obey paid more than $30,000 on polling just eight days before announcing his retirement, according to the longtime congressman’s latest filing with the FEC.
Wisconsin voters are bone-tired of being boned by David Obey
Do you remember back in May when Congressman David Obey, one of the leaders of the House Democrats, suddenly announced that he was retiring because he was “bone tired?” Turns out the real reason is that his constituents are bone tired of him.
WisPolitics.com reports the particulars of the unpleasant polling:
Retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Obey paid more than $30,000 on polling just eight days before announcing his retirement, according to the longtime congressman’s latest filing with the FEC.
Obey announced his retirement May 5 after more than four decades in the House, saying he wanted to see health care reform passed and was simply “bone tired.” But insiders in both parties questioned the abrupt announcement during a tough election year, and Republicans suggested he may not have wanted to fight against a GOP tide and then-Ashland Co. DA Sean Duffy.
The Wausau Democrat brushed off such talk, saying he’s never walked away from a fight in his life. But his recent campaign finance report shows payment to D.C.-based Hart Research Associates for polling on April 27 — the largest expenditure of his more than $126,000 in reported disbursements in the second quarter.
We’re pretty sure Obey won’t walk away from this fight, either. Instead, he’ll be whisked away in a long, black limousine straight to his new job as a highly-paid lobbyist.
Glenn Beck dissects a video that was produced by Think Progress, the Podesta group that’s funded by Soros, in an attempt to make the Tea Party look racist. He demonstrates the truth as only Glenn Beck can.
George Soros and John Podesta are two exceptionally evil, twisted men. One supplies the money to smear conservatives, the other supplies the strategy.
In this clip, Glenn Beck dissects a video that was produced by Think Progress, the Podesta group that’s funded by Soros, in an attempt to make the Tea Party look racist. He demonstrates the truth as only Glenn Beck can.
Pardon our schadenfreude, but there’s nothing more enjoyable than seeing a pompous buffoon get pricked by his own…uhhhh…prick. That’s the situation Al Gore finds himself in today.
"Whew! It's getting hot in here. Maybe I should take my pants off."
Pardon our schadenfreude, but there’s nothing more enjoyable than seeing a pompous buffoon get pricked by his own…uhhhh…prick. That’s the situation Al Gore finds himself in today.
Naturally, it’s the National Enquirer that has the exclusive:
The ENQUIRER reports in an exclusive bombshell that police have investigated charges from TWO MORE WOMEN who claimed they were abused by former VP AL GORE!
The allegations come hot on the heels of an ongoing Portland, Ore., police investigation that reopened after The ENQUIRER exclusively revealed accusations by a licensed massage therapist who says Gore groped her in 2006.
The ENQUIRER recently uncovered shocking allegations, from two other massage therapists.
The first incident allegedly took place at a Beverly Hills luxury hotel when Gore, 62, was in Hollywood to attend the Oscars in 2007.
The second reportedly occurred a year later at a hotel in Tokyo. A Beverly Hills hotel source told The ENQUIRER:
“The therapist claimed that when they were alone, Gore shrugged off a towel and stood naked in front of her.
“He pointed at his erect penis and ordered her, ‘Take care of THIS.'”
Who ever would have thought that Al Gore would have more sex scandals than Bill Clinton.
The Obama administration announced Monday that illegal immigrants from Mexico have until Aug. 1 to make it across the U.S. border before it gets really serious about border security with the deployment of 1,200 additional National Guardsmen there.
We'll believe President Obama sent National Guard troops to the Mexican border when we see them there
Many years ago, we found ourselves drinking a beer or three with a couple of Kiwis in a pub out in the middle of the Australian Outback. The owner of the pub, a pleasant middle-aged woman, came around to tell us we had to leave because it was closing time. We hadn’t finished our beer, so we lingered. A few minutes later she came around again to tell us we really had to leave.
We still hadn’t finished, so one of the Kiwis asked, “What happens if we don’t?”
“Ahhh, then you’d be in big trouble” she said with a big smile on her face. “Because I’d call the police and you’d only have three days before they showed up to arrest you.”
That summarizes President Obama rapid response to violence on the Arizona border as reported by the Los Angeles Times:
The Obama administration announced Monday that illegal immigrants from Mexico have until Aug. 1 to make it across the U.S. border before it gets really serious about border security with the deployment of 1,200 additional National Guardsmen there.
The Times story goes on to say:
The Aug. 1 troop deployment, announced weeks ago and being implemented next month to supplement previous border efforts, comes just three days after Arizona’s tough new illegal immigrant enforcement is scheduled to take effect. The ACLU, Obama administration and government of Mexico, among others, are challenging the law in federal courts, seeking an injunction to halt the July 29 implementation, called S.B. 1070.
The Department of Homeland Security said the additional troops would be deployed for one year to support surveillance and efforts to combat international drug trafficking along the border.
It said 524 troops would go to Arizona, 224 to California, 250 to Texas, 72 to New Mexico and 130 somewhere else in command support roles. The troops set for Arizona equal almost two per mile of state border with Mexico.
Far be it from us to dispute the Honorable Janet Napolitano, but those numbers didn’t sound right to us.
130 of them will be stationed “somewhere else in command support roles”, which leaves just 1070 that will actually be stationed on the border. (A remarkable coincidence, isn’t it, that Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law is SB 1070 and that Obama will station 1070 troops on the border?)
According to Wikipedia, the length of the Mexican-American border is actually 1,969 miles. So rather than two per mile as Napolitano claims, there will actually be just one National Guardsman every 1.84 miles.
Assuming that they patrol in three 8-hour shifts, that means one National Guardsman every 5.5 miles.
But even that is being far too generous, because if we assume that they patrol in groups of at least ten for safety reasons, that means one group of National Guardsman every 55 miles, far from the two per mile that Napolitano touted.
Feeling more secure now?
Claiming “a sense of unprecedented urgency,” the DHS statement quoted Secy. Janet Napolitano as saying:
Over the past year and a half, this administration has pursued a new border security strategy with an unprecedented sense of urgency, making historic investments in personnel, technology and infrastructure. These troops will provide direct support to federal law enforcement officers and agents working in high-risk areas to disrupt criminal organizations seeking to move people and goods illegally across the Southwest border.
Napolitano’s press release was issued on July 19. To complete the analogy started way back at the beginning of this story, the illegal aliens, drug runners, people smugglers and terrorists only have 12 days to finish their beers before the police show up.
And even then, they won’t have to worry too much because there won’t be enough “police” to actually make a difference.
Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs.
Democrats should remember the words of Yogi Berra, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
This story may come from Great Britain, but don’t kid yourself. It will happen here soon enough.
The Daily Mail UK has this story of liberal constituencies in conflict:
Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs … George Herridge, 73, a retired hospital maintenance manager, told the Daily Mail he was ‘stunned’ to be twice asked by bus drivers to leave their vehicles because of his guide dog Andy, a black Labrador.
Mr Herridge, who lives with wife Janet, 69, in Tilehurst, Reading, said that on the first occasion two years ago, he got off at the request of a Muslim driver because some Muslim children on board were ‘screaming’ because of the dog.
He found himself in a similar scenario in May last year, when a Muslim woman and her children became ‘hysterical’.
Which constituency will the liberals side with when this happens in the United States? Those with physical disabilities or those with mental disabilities?
Under normal circumstances, we’d say liberals would always support the side that’s against religion. But since we’re talking about Islam here, all bets are off.
We’re told that Belgium is Islamophobic for banning the burkha! That France is Islamophobic for banning the burkha! But now that meme has been upset because – are you ready? – Syria has banned the burkha.
France and Belgium welcome Syria to the OBBN (Organization of Burkha Banning Nations)
We’re told that Belgium is Islamophobic for banning the burkha! That France is Islamophobic for banning the burkha! But now that meme has been upset because – are you ready? – Syria has banned the burkha.
The Syrian minister of higher education has prohibited the entrance of veiled female students into universities and colleges throughout the country, news agencies reported Sunday.
Dr. Ghitath Barakat explained that the donning of face veils, which cover everything but the woman’s eyes, “opposes the morals and values of the academy”.
Barakat’s decree followed similar ones approved by a number of European parliaments, including Belgium and France.
Racists! Those damn Syrians are racists. Evil, Islamophobic racists.
What’s that? The Obama administration made a rash economic decision that’s come back to bit them in the butt? Hard to believe that this gang of geniuses could make a mistake.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner screwed up again. And this time he can't blame Turbo Tax.
What’s that? The Obama administration made a rash economic decision that’s come back to bit them in the butt? Hard to believe that this gang of geniuses could make a mistake.
The Associated Press reports the bad deal for car dealers:
A report released Sunday by the special inspector general for the government’s bailout program raised questions about whether the Obama administration’s auto task force considered the job losses from the closings while pressuring the companies to reduce costs.
Treasury didn’t show why the cuts were “either necessary for the sake of the companies’ economic survival or prudent for the sake of the nation’s economic recovery,” said the audit by Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $787 billion stimulus program known as TARP.
“Treasury made a series of decisions that may have substantially contributed to the accelerated shuttering of thousands of small businesses,” investigators said.
Those decisions resulted in “potentially adding tens of thousands of workers to the already lengthy unemployment rolls — all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions’ broader economic impact,” the report said.
But Tim Geithner said it was a good idea. Tim Geithner said it was necessary. Tim Geithner said…ahhh, screw Tim Geithner and the Pinto he rode in on.
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We see so many websites these days begging for money. It’s just so unseemly.
Even though we’ve had to cut back on feeding our office cat Obama to once a week, we will not stoop to that level. But being the anti-welfare capitalists we are, we can sell you something. And it’s something we know you are dying to have anyway.
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The NAACP calls the Tea Party racist. Then they turn around and have a black racist speak at their 20th Annual Freedom Fund banquet. Definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as it were.
UPDATE: Was Shirley Sherrod railroaded? Was the tape unfairly edited? She’s now been fired and is lashing out at the White House, the USDA, Fox News and Andrew Breitbart. We’ve added some information to the bottom of the story, and Breitbart’s response as well.
The NAACP calls the Tea Party racist. Then they turn around and have a black racist speak at their 20th Annual Freedom Fund banquet. Definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as it were.
“He had to come to me for help,” said Shirley Sherrod, George State Director of Rural Development for the USDA. “What he didn’t know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him,” she said. “I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land — so I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough.”
Got that? She discriminated against farmers because they were white.
The statement itself is shocking enough. But what’s even worse is that the audience – members of an organization that’s raison d’etre is supposedly to support equal rights – didn’t object. Didn’t react. Didn’t boo. Didn’t hiss. Didn’t seem to object at all.
Of course, a firestorm erupted after BigGovernment.com made the video public and Sherrod has now been forced to “resign.”
But the once proud NAACP, which warmly greeted anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and put out the welcome mat for America-hating Marxist Jeremiah Wright, has lost the ability to call itself an equal rights organization.
(Read all of our Shirley Sherrod stories, and we have a lot of them.)
The lunatic racist latino group Brown Berets showed up to harass Tea Party patriots at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California who were, in turn, there in support of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Ever heard of the Brown Berets? Neither had we and we spent most of our lives in Southern California.
It’s a paramilitary organization that’s also called the Tan Klan or Latino KKK. They support illegal immigration as a means to create a racially-pure homeland for Latinos to be called Aztlan.
Well, this group of lunatics showed up to harass Tea Party patriots at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California who were, in turn, there in support of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obama’s personal Chicago cook as “Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.”
Food Czar Sam Kass knows it pays to have friends in high places
This is one of the strangest stories yet out of the strangest White House yet.
Judicial Watch has the dietary details:
In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obama’s personal Chicago cook as “Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.”
It’s no joke, even though is sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chef’s rapid ascension, reported this week by a conservative Washington D.C. newspaper, has been kept under the radar for the last month. Sam Kass went from being a 20-something, Windy City gourmet cook—privately paid by the Obama’s to feed them—to big-time White House adviser in a matter of months.
In between, Michelle Obama made Kass a “Food Initiative Coordinator” for her new healthy nutrition program which is supposed to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation, especially in the nation’s inner cities. The First Lady claims that childhood obesity is a threat to national security and a crisis equivalent to AIDS and youth violence.
Because it’s such a dire situation, she has convinced her husband’s administration to spend $400 million a year to bring “healthy foods” to low-income neighborhoods and $10 billion to revise a decades-old federal measure that already feeds tens of millions of poor children at school for free.
This culinary revolution no doubt requires a trusted senior policy adviser—like Kass—who is an expert in healthy cuisine. The First Lady refers to her cook as a “partner in crime” and says it’s “just pretty powerful” to see what started out as talk in her South Side Chicago kitchen turn into a major initiative that “hopefully will change the way we think as a country.”
What’s next? Court jester? Oh, wait. We already have Joe Biden.
Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president’s own food and water.
Here’s a story that seems to have slipped by the rest of the American media. It comes from the G-20 meetings in London a few weeks ago:
Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president’s own food and water.
And, according to the Evening Standard, he also came with “35 vehicles in all, four speech writers and 12 teleprompters.” For sure, our president is not going to be at a loss for words.
The press duly reported on Air Force One and all its bells and whistles but also on the presence of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, and a fleet of identical decoys to ferry him from Stansted airport to central London.
The article concluded with this note:
The president is entitled to all the security, communications and support he feels necessary to do his job but surely, when we’re trying to project a more restrained, humble image to the world, the president’s huge retinue could be scaled back to something less than the triumphal march from “Aida.”
Hey, Scripps, just exactly what are you trying to pull with that Aida reference? Aida is a Verdi opera that takes place in Egypt, which is in Africa. Was that some kind of birther comment?
These are dark days for the global warming crowd. So dark, in fact, that one might assume they’ve already succeeded in turning all the the electricity and moved into a cave. Which, figuratively, they have.
The Amazon rain forest is a lot healthier than the IPCC report
These are dark days for the global warming crowd. So dark, in fact, that one might assume they’ve already succeeded in turning all the the electricity and moved into a cave. Which, figuratively, they have.
Christopher Booker exposes the false claims of yet another IPCC source:
Last week, after six months of evasions, obfuscation, denials and retractions, a story which has preoccupied this column on and off since January came to a startling conclusion. It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in the 2007 report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a claim on which tens of billions of dollars could hang – was not based on peer-reviewed science, as repeatedly claimed, but originated solely from anonymous propaganda published on the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group …
Fire in the Amazon, it turns out, was not a “report” or a scientific paper but, as the WWF now acknowledges, a “text published by IPAM… on its website in 1999”. It was merely a brief, anonymous and unreferenced note on the exposure of the forest to fire risks, posted in February 1999 and taken down four years later. Here, at last, is the sole source for the statement later published by the IPCC.
Let’s review: The rain forests are ok. The glaciers aren’t melting. The polar bears aren’t dying. The sea levels aren’t rising.
In fact, the only thing that’s rising is public skepticism.
White guys all look alike: Genius Janet Napolitano can’t tell governor of Mississippi from Governor of Alabama.
Janet Napolitano, the genius who runs Homeland Security, did an interview with a Mobile, Alabama radio station late last week.
She wanted to give herself a little pat on the back by bragging about how closely she’s been working with Alabama officials on the Gusher in the Gulf. Among those officials, she said, was Alabama Governor Haley Barbour.
Problem is, Barbour is the governor of Mississippi.
Don’t know about you, but we’re feeling a little insecure about Homeland Security right now.
Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer showed up on CNN’s Reliable Scoures on Sunday to answer charges that he showed his true left wing leanings when he neglected to ask Eric Holder about the New Black Panters case in an interview the previous weekend.
Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer showed up on CNN’s Reliable Scoures on Sunday to answer charges that he showed his true left wing leanings when he neglected to ask Eric Holder about the New Black Panters case in an interview the previous weekend.
To paraphrase Schieffer’s defense, “I’m not a left winger, I’m just incompetent.”
Here’s the verbatim Q & A:
Kurtz: Let’s start with the obvious question. Why did you not ask Eric Holder in that interview about this former Justice official’s allegation that a case against the New Black Panther Party was dropped because of racial politics?
Schieffer: Well, it’s certainly a question that is a legitimate question to ask. And basically what happened was this all really became a story when the whistleblower came out and testified that he’d had to leave the Justice Department and so on. And, frankly, had I known about that, I would have asked the question. I was on vacation that week. This happened — apparently, it got very little publicity. And, you know, I just didn’t know about it.
Apparently Sunday show hosts don’t both reading up on what happened while the were on vacation before conducting an interview after returning from that vacation.
What? The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? I didn’t know. I was on vacation.
Barack Obama? He wants to know how fat each and every American is. In fact, he demands to know.
"Put down the Twinkie and step away from the refrigerator. The Fat Police are watching you."
George Washington didn’t care how if your ancestors were packing a few extra pounds. Neither did Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, nor even LBJ. And Bill Clinton definitely didn’t care.
But Barack Obama? He wants to know how fat each and every American is. In fact, he demands to know.
CNSnews.com has the disturbing dietary details:
New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records — that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year — must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
The obesity-rating regulation states that every American’s electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”
The law also requires that these electronic health records be available — with appropriate security measures — on a national exchange.
Remarkable. Would you be surprised if this administration begins issuing tickets and assessing fines for being overweight?
