Aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting a bill behind closed doors (S.773), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
Think it can’t happen? Read our next article.
H/T: DaybyDayCartoon
Jayson Blair, former New York Times reporter, is now integrating a sage bit of wisdom into his new career as a Life Coach: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” He’s a life coach if he thinks he is.
“It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
That was George Costanza’s advice to Jerry Seinfeld who was trying to beat a lie detector.
Jayson Blair, former New York Times reporter, is now integrating that sage bit of wisdom into his new career as a Life Coach. He’s a life coach if he thinks he is.
However, Blair is uniquely suited to be a life coach because he’s led so many of them. For instance, he was a college student who “schmoozed” his way into a reporting job. And, he was also a victim of racial discrimination even though there’s evidence he had his job because of diversity hiring practices.
Besides being two people at once, he’s capable of being two places at once. As a reporter, he could cover a story even though he was hundreds of miles away drinking.
The article indicates that Blair will help with career counseling. Maybe he could offer some tips in creative resume writing?
Washington Post
Malaysia recently sentenced a woman to caning for drinking a cold, frosty one. But, since Islam is the religion of peace, the Sharia courts granted a Ramadan reprieve.
The country that alerted us to the spread of H1N1 by homosexuals is now putting the whip down–or the cane down–on beer drinking women.
Malaysia recently sentenced a woman to caning for drinking a cold, frosty one. But, since Islam is the religion of peace, the Sharia courts granted a Ramadan reprieve.
Thankfully, for the millions of caning fans out there, the thrashing will happen after the Islamic holiday. Ramadan is a month-long period of fasting. The Islamic judges may be worried that the caners might be a little weak from the lack of food to deliver a good whuppin’ witha rattan rod.
Amnesty International condemns caning, unless it’s being performed on former Bush administration officials.
Source: New York Times
In another who-gives-a-crap moment, Sean Penn and wife, Robin, are calling it quits for at least the third time. If Sean was a conservative, like Sarah Palin, the malicious rumors would be swirling.
In another who-gives-a-crap moment, Sean Penn and wife, Robin, are calling it quits for at least the third time.
If Sean was a conservative, like Sarah Palin, the malicious rumors would be swirling. So, what the hell? Please feel free to read between the following lines.
Penn’s breakup to a good-looking female comes hot on the high heels after his portrayal of America’s first openly gay elected official and big Jim Jones supporter, Harvey Milk. Prior to the breakup, Penn made some pretty strong statements about gay marriage and called his fellow actors “commie, homo-loving, sons of guns” when he won an Oscar as Best Actor In A Homophobic Country for his role in Milk. (Penn later apologized for mentioning “guns” in his acceptance speech.)
Penn, who was once married to bi-sexual singer (tri-sexual if you count the dog from her Sex book) Madonna, recently backed out of a movie about three inseparable men.
Adding to the Tinseltown tongue wagging, paparazzi have said they recently saw Penn out on the arm of a pretty brunette. (Is Brad Pitt a brunette?)
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Source: Examiner.com
White House Spokesman Bill Burton explained to the media that President Obama now needs “a break from his vacation”. So as soon as his sojourn at Marxist Vineyard is over, he’ll rest up at Camp David for a few days before finally heading back to Washington, DC.
Remember the good old days when we had a manly President who relaxed by clearing brush and chopping logs at the Western White House? Reinvigorated, Ronald Reagan then winged his way back to Washington to beat up on Democrats for fun.
Well, strolling on the beach, window shopping, reappointing Federal Reserve chairmen and not visiting dying senators is even more exhausting than chopping logs and clearing brush.
White House Spokesman Bill Burton explained to the media that President Obama now needs “a break from his vacation”.
So as soon as his sojourn at Marxist Vineyard is over, he’ll rest up at Camp David for a few days before finally heading back to Washington, DC.
It appears that the President wants to stay away as long as possible.
His current vacation was preceded by family trips to Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks. And that was preceded by another trip to Camp David that ended on July 20. And, of course, even when he’s in Washington, he gets still manages get away from the house to play 18 holes of golf every week.
We should have anticipated this. You could see it coming a mile away.
You wouldn’t be in a hurry to go home, either, if your mother-in-law lived with you. Or is this simply a case of what psychologists call projection?
What better way to end the week and honor the memory of the Lion of the Senate than to partake of his favorite drink. Teddy reportedly called Chivas Regal “that life-sustaining liquid” and his favorite drink was Chivas & Soda.
What better way to end the week and honor the memory of the Lion of the Senate than to partake of his favorite drink.
Teddy reportedly called Chivas Regal “that life-sustaining liquid” and his favorite drink was Chivas & Soda.
So please join us and do as we’re going to do. Take off work a little early, head for your favorite watering hole, and order yourself a big fistful of Chivas & Soda. Repeat as necessary. Follow that by making a waitress sandwich with one of your closest friends and the nearest cocktail waitresss. Then sit back and watch the sun set.
Ahhhh, life is good when you’re a Kennedy. And death ain’t so bad, either, as long as it hasn’t been forced upon you by ObamaCare.
We’re embarrassed to admit that IHateTheMedia.com has been ripped off by Charles Davis, an Associate Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Davis thinks newspapers should create a “hate” beat to keep an eye on you angry Nazis who oppose ObamaCare.
We’re embarrassed to admit that IHateTheMedia.com has been ripped off by Charles Davis, an Associate Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. We’d feel a lot better about it if we’d been ripped off by a full professor, but alas, that was not meant to be. We were ripped off by a mere Associate Professor.
Davis thinks newspapers should create a “hate” beat.
Of course, the “hate” he’s referring to is that displayed by you angry Nazis who oppose ObamaCare:
The shrill incivility framing what passes for discourse on health care reform seems to have long ago crossed over into territory unrecognized by most rational citizens of the republic.
In the age of instant cable punditry, e-mail Astroturf campaigns left and right and made-to-order outrage, it’s easy to sigh, close the old browser and get back to the business of preseason football, but scratch a bit harder at the random news offered as so many one-off stories about unhinged denizens from the “town hall” meetings (has ever an honored democratic practice been so tarnished?), and a clear trend emerges.
Hate, shuffled off stage in the post-racial haze of the election of the nation’s first black president, is back with a vengeance. Hate, if it ever truly threatened to leave the political stage, is most definitely back, larger and nastier than ever.
As a near-absolutist First Amendment advocate, my prescription for hate speech is always more speech: Give the bigot a microphone as big as the hatred, I say, and watch as the marketplace of ideas works its magic.
Perhaps that’s why I worry, as I watch an emboldened mob grow more irresponsible with each passing day, that the mainstream media fails to give hate the coverage it deserves today.
My proposition is simple: Major news organizations need to cover hate the way they once did — as a standalone beat.
We hate that idea. We hate Associate Professor Davis. We hate the fact that he’s tenured. We hate his tie. We hate his pants. We hate his university. We hate its football team. We hate its cheerleaders. We hate its fraternities. We hate its lousy weather.
Back off, Associate Professor Davis. Hate is our turf.
Source: Columbia Tribune via Reason
The global warming fanatics have won another round in the European Union. From September 1, it will be illegal to import conventional pearl or frosted bulbs of any shape or wattage into the U.K. and will send out “trading standard officers” to check.
The global warming fanatics have won another round in the European Union. Consider this frightening story from the Telegraph UK:
From September 1, it will be illegal to import conventional pearl or frosted bulbs of any shape or wattage. Traditional incandescent bulbs of 100 watts will also be banned under European law aimed at reducing energy bills and carbon dioxide emissions.
They will be replaced by energy saving lights, which usually use flourescent tubes, but it is thought some consumers will still prefer their ‘traditional’ bulbs, particularly for reading lamps.
There is evidence of people hoarding the old fashioned bulbs around Europe and enforcement agencies are ready to crack down on unscrupulous businessmen who continue to import the “illegal bulbs” from factories in China.
The story gets worse. Much worse. Great Britain will actually send out “trading standard officers” to make sure businesses aren’t selling any of the old-fashioned light bulbs people actually want. The public will also be encouraged to report anyone who has the temerity to sell illegal bulbs. Individuals who import the bulbs are subject to a £5,000 fine. And big companies can get nailed for even more.
This scares the hell out of Nigel Farrage, the leader of UKIP.
“Under this Government we begin to resemble East Germany in the 1980s where we snoop and report on local businesses,” he said. “No doubt the next move will be to snoop on your parents if they continue to use old fashioned light bulbs.”
We can foresee a future where small groups of people gather in dark living rooms around Great Britain and someone will say, “Let’s light one up.” But they’ll just be talking about illegal incandescent bulbs.
Source: Telegraph UK via The Big Feed
Transgender eco-anarchist Maurice Schwenkler (aka Ariel Attack) vandalized Democrat headquarters in Denver the other night. Transgender. Eco. Anarchist. Seriously. There’s no real story here. We just wanted to see that remarkable combination of words in print.
Transgender eco-anarchist Maurice Schwenkler (aka Ariel Attack) vandalized Democrat headquarters in Denver the other night.
Transgender. Eco. Anarchist. Seriously.
There’s no real story here. We just wanted to see that remarkable combination of words in print.
We’re tempted to say, “Only in America,” but it would be more accurate to say, “Only in the Democrat party.”
And with that, my friends (with apologies to John McCain), we present the Steve Miller Band singing about Maurice.
The One has only been in office for seven months and American life expectancy is already up 1.4 years. “The 2007 increase in life expectancy, up from 77.7 in 2006, represents a continuation of a trend,” the Centers for Disease Control announced.
The One has only been in office for seven months and American life expectancy is already up 1.4 years.
“The 2007 increase in life expectancy, up from 77.7 in 2006, represents a continuation of a trend,” the Centers for Disease Control announced. “Over a decade, life expectancy has increased 1.4 years from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007.”
You may scoff and say those results occurred before Obama took office. But we say, nay, doubter.
The One is now The One-Point-Four.
Mark Lloyd, the FCC’s new Chief Diversity Officer (whatever the hell that is) is one of Barack Obama’s more frightening revolutionary pals. In this clip, Glenn Beck exposes what he is, what he does, what he wants.
Mark Lloyd, the FCC’s new Chief Diversity Officer (whatever the hell that is) is one of Barack Obama’s more frightening revolutionary pals.
In this clip, Glenn Beck exposes what he is, what he does, what he wants.
Here one quote from Lloyd:
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”
Here’s another:
“What I do, to make is simple, I’m basically a community organizer inside the federal family.”
We thought we already had one of those.
Source: LiveLink.com
There she goes again. Nancy Pelosi better muzzle ultra-liberal Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Beijing). She keeps spilling the beans on the Democrats’ real plans. “I ask what is the point? {of kicking out illegal aliens)”
There she goes again. Nancy Pelosi better muzzle ultra-liberal Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Beijing). She keeps spilling the beans on the Democrats’ real plans.
“I ask what is the point?,” Schakowsky asked. “How is this helpful in anyway to destroy families and to destroy lives and to rob ourselves of the talent, of the taxes, of the work, of the education that these individuals stand to gain?”
Ahhh, what the hell. Let’s just put a Welcome Wagon on the border, give every Mexican citizen a social security card, an ObamaCare card, a citizenship application and a voter registration card.
C’mon, everybody, let’s do it for Teddy.
Remember how the Democrats howled last week when a swastika was painted on the wall of Congressman David Scott’s office in Georgia? “It’s the work of those evil, angry Nazis from the Town Hall meetings,” they said. Flash forward to this week with the Denver Post.
Remember how the Democrats howled last week when a swastika was painted on the wall of Congressman David Scott’s office in Georgia?
“It’s the work of those evil, angry Nazis from the Town Hall meetings,” they said. When those evil, angry Nazis suggested that, perhaps, the vandalism had been performed by Democrats in an attempt to cloud the healthcare issue, the “victims” raged with righteous indignation.
Flash forward to this week with the Denver Post:
A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions.
Maurice Schwenkler wore a shirt over his face, a hooded sweatshirt and latex gloves before he and another man fled the scene on bicycles. Police arrested Schwenkler after a short chase. The other suspect remains at-large.
While Schwenkler does not appear in the state’s voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition for “communications,” according to campaign finance disclosures.
The accountantfor the 527 appears to be the same woman who handles the books for many other Democratic-leaning political committees.
A Maurice Schwenkler also signed an online 2005 petition to free anti-war Christian protesters who were captured in Iraq.
State Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak initially blamed the vandalism on animosity surrounding the health care debate, though Denver police declined to comment on possible motives.
Oops. Looks like you angry, evil Nazis were right. Kind of like you were about ObamaCare.
Source: DenverPost.com
We’re not the biggest Dick Morris fans. Nevertheless, Morris appeared on the Sean Hannity televison show the other night and predicted that democrats could lose up to 100 Congressional seats next year.
We’re not the biggest Dick Morris fans. We just have a sense that if we looked back at all this guru’s predictions, they’d be correct about as often as Haley’s Comet swings by this part of the universe.
Nevertheless, Morris appeared on the Sean Hannity televison show the other night and predicted that democrats could lose up to 100 Congressional seats next year.
Dear God: If you let Dick Morris be right about this one prediction, we swear we’ll never skip church again. And if you’re in a generous mood, please let Courtney Friel have her own show on Fox. Amen.
H/T: BluegrassPundit.com
This video provides proof that John McCain still doesn’t know why he lost the election. Here he is pandering to the left again. Pandering, senile old coot.
“Consarn you gol’ dang kids. Stop makin’ so much noise or I’ll take you all out behind the woodshed and tan your hides.”
Pandering, senile old coot.
Maybe the Razorbacks haven’t exactly gone on an apology tour like Barack Obama did, but they’ve done the next best thing: they responded to a Public Policy poll in ways the leftist polling organization won’t like. Not at all.
Maybe the Razorbacks haven’t exactly gone on an apology tour like Barack Obama did, but they’ve done the next best thing: they responded to a Public Policy poll in ways the leftist polling organization won’t like. Not at all.
Consider these results:
56% of voters in the state disapprove of the job Obama is doing so far as President, with just 40% approving. Those numbers are down from a March Arkansas survey that found the spread at a favorable 47/45. 72% of Democrats, 30% of independents, and 9% of Republicans give him good marks.
On health care, just 29% of Arkansans say they support Obama’s plans with 60% opposed. On that front he has the support of only 54% of Democrats and 20% of independents.
When asked whether they think Obama or (Rush) Limbaugh has a better vision for the country, 55% of respondents selected Limbaugh in spite of the fact only 35% of them have a favorable opinion of him, compared to 44% unfavorable.
“These numbers, taken together, show why Blanche Lincoln’s Senate seat is becoming an enticing target for Republicans in spite of their candidate recruitment issues,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “There are few states that have an electorate more conservative than Arkansas’ and if the GOP can effectively nationalize the race it’ll be close.”
Hey, these people were considered progressive geniuses when they gave us America’s First Black President. How’d they turn into such unlightened boobs now that we have another First Black President?
Source: Public Policy Polling
The media is all atwitter over the books taken to Martha’s Island by President Obama, anointing him not only The Greatest President In History, but now The Most Literate President In History. Only one problem. Either the guy needs a quick refresher course at Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics.
The media is all atwitter over the books taken to Martha’s Island by President Obama, anointing him not only The Greatest President In History, but now The Most Literate President In History.
Only one problem. Either the guy needs a quick refresher course at Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics or he needs to spend more time reading books and less time reading the greens out on the golf course.
Our point? The Most Literate President in History is a very slow reader.
Back in June Obama told a British interviewer that he was reading a book titled Netherland. We pointed out that he’d previously told another interviewer that he was reading the same book in three months earlier.
Now the media has announced that the Commander in Chief’s list of beach books includes Thomas Friedman’s “Hot, Flat and Crowded.” Good lord, the President claimed to have read the same book almost a year earlier and even quoted it at a rally in Flint, Michigan eleven months ago. Yet the same book has shown up again on the list of books Obama plans to read on his current vacation.
To review: It took him three months to finish the 270-page Netherland and a now it’s taken nearly a year for him to finish the 448-page “Hot, Flat and Crowded.”
Lord help us if he ever attempts to read his own 1018-page healthcare bill.
Source: New York Post
Once again, President Obama is at odds with candidate Obama. “The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation.” How is this possible? How could the Greatest President In History continue a program that’s so hated by his most ardent supporters?
Once again, President Obama is at odds with candidate Obama.
“The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation,” the New York Times reports, “but will monitor their treatment to ensure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.”
How is this possible? How could the Greatest President In History continue a program that’s so hated by his most ardent supporters?
It’s Bush’s fault.
Source: New York Times
Our first inclination was to show respect for the dead. But then we reflected on the life of Teddy Kennedy and realized the college test cheating, Mary Jo Kopechne killing, immigration reform leading, Thomas Bork borking, Clarence Thomas attacking son-of-a-bitch didn’t deserve the false respect we almost gave him.
Our first inclination was to show respect for the dead. But then we reflected on the life of Teddy Kennedy and realized the college test cheating, Mary Jo Kopechne killing, immigration reform leading, Thomas Bork borking, Clarence Thomas attacking son-of-a-bitch didn’t deserve the false respect we almost gave him.
So in honor of the horrible things the lunatic left said about Tony Snow and Ronald Reagan, here are some Twelve Funny Teddy Tweets:
Continue reading “12 funny Teddy tweets”
Robert Reich demonstrates his mastery of mixed metaphors: “Anybody who says that we are out of the woods or even moving out of the woods has got to be lost at sea.”
“Anybody who says that we are out of the woods or even moving out of the woods has got to be lost at sea.”
– Robert Reich
Source: ABCNews.com
The White House has released President Obama’s official activity schedule for today, August 26, 2009. Here’s the breakdown, hour by hour.
The White House has released President Obama’s official activity schedule for today, August 26, 2009.
8:00 am – Walk all over the beach with Malia and Sasha
8:30 am – Walk all over Constitution with Harry and Nancy
9:00 am – Get in another 18 holes of golf
1:00 pm – Get America in an even bigger financial hole
1:30 pm – Lie in the sun
2:00 pm – Lie to American people
2:30 pm – Take siesta to sympathize with plight of illegal aliens who desperately need amnesty
3:00 pm – Go fishing
4:30 pm – Intercept fishy emails
5:00 pm – Go shopping for T-shirt that says, “Marxist Vineyard”
6:00 pm – Sip on a pina colada while watching the sun go down on the American empire
8:00 pm – Sit on the porch with Michelle and talk about the good old days, AKA February.
Until now the media has paid almost no attention to Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar.” Now the big guns of Glenn Beck are trained squarely on the only member of the Obama administration willing to admit he’s a communist.
Until now the media has paid almost no attention to Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar.”
Sure, we ran the story Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” is admitted communist about Jones last month, but we’re small potatoes. Maybe even small potato. But now the big guns of Glenn Beck are trained squarely on the only member of the Obama administration willing to admit he’s a communist.
Welcome aboard, Glenn.
Barack Obama is in Martha’s Vineyard vacationing. One member of it foursome is very interesting: Mr. Robert Wolf of UBS, most recently in the headlines for the ongoing case in which it’s accused of helping wealthy clients evade taxes.
Sometimes it’s the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated items that makes a third item pop out. Here’s what we mean:
News item #1: In the early months of his presidency, everyone President Obama tried to appoint to his administration had tax evasion problems.
News items #2: The IRS has forced UBS, the Swiss banking giant, to reveal the names of its American clients with secret Swiss accounts.
News Item #3: While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the President is playing golf.
The fact that the president is playing golf is unremarkable in itself, but one member of his foursome is very interesting. Here’s how Politico.com reports it:
[Obama] played some tennis with the First Lady, is going to hit the links today with Congressman Clyburn, Mr. [Robert] Wolf of UBS, and Marvin Nicholson of the White House.
Wolf is the president of UBS, most recently in the headlines for the ongoing case in which it’s accused of helping wealthy clients evade taxes. Which is to say that this new foundation stuff has its limits.
… Wolf is not only President of UBS Americas Group, he is also Obama’s biggest campaign bundler. And yet, just last week the IRS Commissioner said on television that UBS “was facilitating tax evasion.” This seems like one of those cases where the media would have some questions if Obama were a Republican.
No wonder Obama didn’t want the press taking any photos of his vacation.
Source: Politico.com
First time we saw this video, we thought it was Wolf Blitzer. False alarm. Turns out it’s a cow giving birth. For some reason, CNN decided to show this video clip of reporter Deborah Feyerick helping a calf be born. We can’t explain it.
First time we saw this video, we thought it was Wolf Blitzer. False alarm. Turns out it’s a cow giving birth.
For some reason, CNN decided to show this video clip of reporter Deborah Feyerick helping a calf be born.
We can’t explain it.
Beck’s ratings are higher than ever. Remarkably, his show doesn’t run during primetime, yet his audience is larger than every prime time on every cable news network except Fox News’ O’Reilly-Hannity tandem. How long until Fox moves him into a more prominent time slot? And who will go to make room for him?
If President Obama’s henchmen are organizing a boycott of Glenn Beck, the ratings show that no one’s paying attention.
Beck’s ratings are higher than ever. Remarkably, his show doesn’t run during primetime, yet his audience is larger than every prime time on every cable news network except Fox News’ O’Reilly-Hannity tandem.
How long until Fox moves him into a more prominent time slot? And who will go or move to make room for him?
| Network | Program | Total Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Fox News | O’Reilly | 3,440,000 |
| Fox News | Hannity | 2,937,000 |
| Fox News | Beck | 2,810,000 |
| Fox News | Greta | 2,450,000 |
| Fox News | Baier | 2,066,000 |
| Fox News | Smith | 1,860,000 |
| MSNBC | Olbermann | 1,114,000 |
| CNN | King | 1,063,000 |
| MSNBC | Maddow | 885,000 |
| CNN | Cooper | 827,000 |
| MSNBC | Hardball | 640,000 |
Source: MediaBistro.com
