August 2010
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Fifth person pleads guilty to passport snooping →
When someone pooh-poohs your concern over having your medical records put into a government database through National Health Information Technology, remind them of dear Mr. Kevin Young, who worked for the State Department for 22 years and as of today, pleaded guilty “to illegally accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications for celebrities, professional athletes and a...
July 2009
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“You simultaneously ban and tax soda the same way you do with...”
– — DemFools commenting on Riehl World View’s post titled “More On Health Care Reform,” which asks how you can simultaneously ban and tax soda
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BTW, anyone else notice the odd phenomenon of a rash of “legalizing for the sake of taxing” marijuana...
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“Pete Rawlings comments “I’d rather have someone who agrees with me...”
– — DemFools commenting on Riehl World View’s post titled “Republicans Recruit Stimulus Advocate Ayotte?”
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Look at CQ Politics’ Vote Studies of 2009 To Date. Snowe and Collins vote with Obama 92% of the time and with the Republicans 42%/44%...
June 2009
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NYC Could Require Anti-Smoking Signs At Retailers →
The story, at wcbstv.com, says:
The New York City health department is moving forward with a plan that would require about 12,000 cigarette retailers to post large anti-smoking signs. It’s billed as the first such regulation in the United States. The eye-level signs would have information about the harmful effects of smoking, possibly with an image. The assistant commissioner for...
May 2009
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“There are “more problems than we thought,” Obama told a man who...”
– — from “Obama stops at Five Guys for cheeseburger” at msnbc.com
Good grief. Just what did he “think” it was going to be? Sitting behind a big, pretty desk bored and twiddling his thumbs during the morning; heading out with the limo for some local afternoon adoration at...
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“The European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ireland v. United Kingdom...”
– — from “Critics Still Haven’t Read the ‘Torture’ Memos” by Victoria Toensing at WSJ.com
But what would they think of “caterpillaring”?
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“Please…be judgmental. As free people, we agree to tolerate any conduct...”
– Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, speaking at the Butler University graduation, as quoted in “The Future Of The GOP” at Forbes.com
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“White House is changing the name of the Office of Public Liaison to the Office...”
– per ABC news @jaketapper on Twitter
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Write Your Own Joke
Greensburg, KS (the town wiped out by a tornado) has gone full-bore eco-freak and decided to become “the greenest town in the country.” Their projects range from erecting reinforced-concrete silo houses to building a wind farm to power the town.
Wiped out by tornado. Building wind farm.
Wiped out by tornado. Building wind farm.
The altruistic triumvirate of Obama, Gore and T. Boone...
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Media Sigh:
Breathy Op/Ed Titled “Obama Revels in Power.” Substitute Castro, Kim Jong Il or…Bush. Still OK?
Coming from Reuters, what else could we expect? Yet, the editorialist, Steve Holland, is probably considered a right-wing extremist at that moderate communist wire service. In his op/ed piece, he actually credits Ronald Reagan with winning the Cold War.
But as much as Holland’s...
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Specter Defection Will Haunt Dems On Souter... →
Per this post at the blog Legal Insurrection, Specter was the Democrats’ necessary single minority vote on the Judiciary Committee to end a committee level filibuster.
But the blogger frets that Lindsey Graham would likely step into Specter’s wishy-washy go-along-to-get-along self-glorification shoes.
Ah, but if Flimsey were nominated to the Supreme Court, it would be a win-win. Dems...
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“Press conference? You mean that stage show where the nation’s leading...”
– a Dem Fools comment on the “Obama’s ratings slide: press conference down 29%” story at the Live Feed at The Hollywood Reporter.
April 2009
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Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not... →
Will this stop the use of the wrong numbers now? Will the establishment media now issue corrections for all of their hyperventilating and swooning and generally effeminate reporting on the issue?
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“Ironic that Obama is ruling by fiat in announcing the Chrysler-Fiat deal...”
– a DemFools comment on the story “Obama announces Chrysler-Fiat partnership”
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Stages of Denial: Take pity on the left as it... →
Clever essay showing that the denial and anger expressed by the Left over the Tea Parties is just their expression of the first two stages of grief on the stillborn death of their Hope and Change fantasies.
Beware, though. It was written by the president of the evil FreedomWorks Foundation—the group that, according to the establishment media, duped, coerced, paid, drug, and commanded nearly...
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“Flimsey Graham started campaigning for Tom Ridge before the rotten-apple stench...”
– quoting a DemFools comment on HotAir.com article titled “GOP to support primary challenger against Toomey?”
Know Your Nominees: Obama Taps Activist MADD CEO... →
Hello traffic cameras, GPS driver tracking, Carter-era mandated speed limits, draconian .04-blood alcohol DWI levels, and so on.
Goodbye getting into your car and driving to the grocery store without having government bureaucrats riding along and observing you every inch of the way.
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AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US →
The poll’s dirty little secret is omitted in the fable told above by Fournier. Check out the demographics…specifically the party identification section. This unbiased sampling of the American populace polled 2-to-1 Democrats to Republicans: 36% dems, 18% reps. When they tried to push the Independents (26%) and None (18%) off the fence in asking them which way they leaned if had to,...
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“instructing two parts of the Department of Justice to do paperless forfeiture...”
– — from “GOP-ers mock Obama’s budget cuts” by Jonathan Martin at Politico.com
What? Paperless forfeiture notices? So now the government will be able to take things from the citizenry by just shooting an email out into the ether and that’s sufficient.
Where do we write...
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“Republicans were quick to point out that borrowing costs for February’s...”
– — from an AP analysis of the President’s PR move of the day to tell his Cabinet to find $100 million between themselves to eliminate over the next decade or two, titled “Obama’s Latest Budget-Tightening Effort Hardly Makes a Dime’s Worth of Difference”
Wow. AP...
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Obama to challenge Cabinet to cut $100 million in... →
The great 0.002777778% challenge!
Minions, gather round and cut ye 3/1,000ths of a percent out of ye $3.6 trillion budget to demonstrate our fiscal conservancy!
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Axelrod suggests ‘Tea Party’ movement is... →
Intimidation squad fans out.
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“President Barack Obama says he won’t yet assess his foreign policy. For...”
– — from AP press report “Obama gets chatty with press”
Of course he would feel incredibly comfortable, safe and secure in knowing that “definitive” statement would be a shining example of hagiography, as Chuck is the head clapper of the Obama press claque.
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Biden's List of Political Blunders →
Why isn’t there an official website dedicated to this?
What a goldmine!
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MSNBC & CNN Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as... →
Anyone see the movie Idiocracy, where intelligence degenerates over generations, so that 500 years from now humans are incapable of thinking and expressing themselves in little more than sexual banter and vulgarity.
It was supposed to be a comedy. Unfortunately for the left and the so-called mainstream media, 500 years into the future is today’s reality.
And they’re proud of it.
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“the federal government “will be working with its state and local partners...”
– from a Washington Times article on “Federal agency warns of radicals on right”
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Ohio wants $57M in stimulus for highway... →
Stamp this item “Obama-approved.”
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California funds stimulated golden road--$25... →
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Caltrans Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Site →
Ah. So transparent. So clear as to how many workers are on the job today due to the government’s beneficence.
A bouquet of bureaucratic jargon available only in .pdf, .doc and .xls formats.
“Under the terms of the agreement, which he said could still fall apart at any...”
– — from a Bloomberg news story “Pirate Says Implementation of Deal on U.S. Captain Postponed”
It continues: “The New York Times quoted Somali officials as saying negotiations had broken down after U.S. officials insisted that the pirates be arrested and a group of Somali...
Squatter groups moving into foreclosures--with no... →
We are living in an Obama world.
Perhaps we shoul become buddies with Cuba again. There’s little difference between us now.
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False Front Predators ALERT: Major Leftist... →
Just trying to add a Google link here to make it easier for veterans to get accurate information before getting involved with the radical left-wing, anti-military group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).
It sounds so lovely and patriotic, but it’s not. Before you sell your soul to George Soros, read Pat Dollard’s reporting on the IAVA by clicking the link above.
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FLASHBACK: Limbaugh, hitting back over usage in... →
Early on in the Obama administration, they began planned attacks on Rush Limbaugh. But we had forgotten, it wasn’t the first time.
Going through a collection of old links we intended to write about, we found this one to a Politico blog about a Spanish-language ad that Obama ran taking Limbaugh’s quotes out of context (not even acknowledging that in the quoted language, Limbaugh was...
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“I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of...”
– from an editorial by smart-cookie Stuart Varney, titled “Obama Maintains Control Over Banks By Refusing to Accept Repayment of TARP Money” at WSJ.com
UK Times Deletes Negative Obama Comments
How curious that the Times Online UK story about Michelle Obama touching the Queen has only glowing, oopy-goopy sweet comments about how wonderful both Michelle and the Queen are and la la la. (Oddly, the Times lists the story as one of their “most commented on” but when we first read their slavering coverage, there were only 33 comments.) Yet various media outlets have used these very...
March 2009
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Take the Limbaugh Challenge →
Funny. Too challenging for many, though.
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Now Ground Zero's FREEDOM TOWER Has Been... →
You have to read to the very last paragraph to learn the real reason for the so-called more marketable(!) name “One World Trade Center”:
“Port Authority officials addressed the name change after signing a lease with the Chinese firm, Vantone Industrial, which is the first private tenant to take space in the 2.6 million square foot tower. Vantone will lease 190,000 square feet...
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How Can Obama Justify Taking $4 Billion or More... →
So asks Jim Geraghty’s “The Campaign Spot” at the National Review Online.
What his round-up of charitable-dollars loss estimates neglects is that in addition to taking over banks and health care and Constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Obama also plans to take over charitable giving.
With his GIVE/SERVE boondoggle, the government will play a more...
“When the president and his Teleprompter visit London for the G20 summit in a...”
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— Mark Steyn commenting on the potential revenge a “grudge-nursing” Prime Minister Gordon Brown might exact on Obama for the Presidential gift DVDs that did indeed turn out to be unplayable outside the US. (via The Corner on National Review Online)
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