Quote Me

"Politicians are like fiction writers. They only need the talent to dream it up, not to prove it works."

Tara Lynn Thompson

Just like Justin

Still think government run healthcare is a good idea? Then here's an entertaining video to explain why you're insane.

Another day older and deeper in debt

When facing economic slavery, you should have a pithy song to pass the time. Very catchy.



Thanks Ghost of Tennessee Ernie Ford!

Whatever you tell us stays within these walls

The "Mona Lisa" Project did it again. They found another Planned Parenthood office, this time in Alabama, unwilling to report a case of a 14-year-old girl impregnated by her 31-year-old boyfriend. That is a violation of Alabama state law concerning statutory rape.

Reading not required

I'm considering getting into politics. Maybe run for a U.S. Congressional seat. Maybe become a Czar. The job responsibilities are cush. And the pay is excellent. Plus, you get comped healthcare, retirement, and then there are all those lobbyists around to take you to dinner.
In fact, you don't even need to be able to read. Not anything. Not even bills.

The recent Cap & Trade Bill, the largest tax increase in history recently passed in the House, hasn't been read, it seems, by anyone. Not Congress, because the bill wasn't submitted when the vote was taken. Not even Obama's Energy Czar.

Steve Doocey on Fox and Friends this morning asked her one question, "Have you read the bill?" And she found it unfair.



So it seems there are absolutely no requirements to hold down a government job. Geez. Sign me up. In the private sector, they actually expect talent and ability, hard work and even results. If you are out promoting a Cap & Trade bill, I can assure you those mean capitalists in the private sector would demand you actually read it.
1,000 pages. Yeah, reading all that is too much to ask for the Energy Czar. And to think, this spring I voluntarily read 1,168 pages of Atlas Shrugged.

$250,000 and under: now among the rich

No taxes for anyone making less than $250,000. Remember that Obama campaign pledge?
Well, it's over.

NY Democrat hissy fit

If the Dems in the NY congress don't get their way, well...they'll, they'll, they'll just...uh...not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. There. Take that.



This juvenile stunt is like saying, "I know you are. But what am I. I know you are. But what am I." Adulthood does not come via age but via actions. And this group is a bunch of spoiled children. All I can say...I'm so very glad I don't live in New York.

And on a side note: Government should definitely be running the private sector. They do their own jobs so well. They should be telling us how to do ours.

Monday Fun on Tuesday

Via Townhall.com

The Rahm Brothers and Barack Circus

With 300,000+ Americans losing their jobs every month, the House of Representatives passing the Cap & Trade Bill (the biggest tax increase in history) last night that will increase every household electric bill between $700 and $1,400 a year by 2012, and Iranian freedom fighters being slaughtered daily in the streets, it's comforting to know the Obama White House can still find time to clown around. Life is good when you're a dictator.



Just when I think that narcissistic man-child and his cronies can't get any more ridiculous, I'm proven wrong. They laugh and joke while the liberal majority in the House, all directed by Obama, pass the Cap & Trade bill which will directly attack every single family and individual in America. How much will they be affected? Here's a FoxNews report on Cap & Trade if you're in the mood to freak out:



Think of energy as the life blood of our economy. You limit the blood flow, you start killing off the organs, create sickness, lethargy, pain and eventual death. That is Obama's grandiose plan.

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

Barack Obama

Higher energy costs will not only increase your electric bill, but every single item you buy. Food? It takes energy to produce it, energy to transport it, energy to put it inside stores to be purchased. And you'll pay the energy cost increase. Fuel? Clothing? Everything.
The production of the nation's products will now be costlier which means you'll be paying more for everything. Imagine an across the board tax increase with no increase in salary. That is what happened last night in the House of Representatives. I say it's time to clean these representatives out. There were 8 REPUBLICANS who voted for this.

• Mary Bono Mack, CA-45
• Mike Castle, DE
• Mark Steven Kirk, IL-10
• Leonard Lance, NJ-7
• Frank LoBiondo, NJ-2
• John McHugh, NY-23
• Dave Reichert, WA-8
• Chris Smit, NJ-4

Without their vote, it wouldn't have passed. And 50 Democrats who voted 'no'. Good for you!
I'm just furious with these politically correct cowards on both sides of the aisle. If they can't protect their consituents any better than this, out ya go. Bye, bye.

So again, thanks Obama for making life just a little bit more miserable. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, believes the Senate will kill this bill. We can only hope and pray.

Yes, today I'm mad. Can you tell? I'm really, really mad. I can hardly stomach Obama and Rahm and Gibbs laughing it up at the White House with Americans struggling to survive and our President attacking our pocket book and freedom and future from within. It's disgusting and filthy.

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

Here's an exit question: How long can Obama and his Congress abuse hard-working, tax-paying Americans before they begin to revolt in the streets, too? Anyone have a green scarf? I'm ready.

Your money. Their schedule

Government run healthcare. All I can think about is the annoyance I feel every time I pay my water bill or a speeding ticket. It's as if government employees are all coming off a caffeine high, their blood sugar crashing, and moving as slowly as possible. In fact, rarely do you even get greeted.
Yep. That's the kind of service I want in my healthcare.



HotAir links to another tragic story of exactly what government healthcare means. This single-payer system Obama is in love with has been in operation forever. It's called the VA. And this is the kind of medical treatment our military experiences:

Amid growing controversy over procedures that exposed 10,000 veterans to the AIDS and hepatitis viruses, the Department of Veterans Affairs is now bracing against news that one of its facilities in Pennsylvania gave botched radiation treatments to nearly 100 cancer patients.

Veterans groups and lawmakers say VA hospitals have permitted these violations because federal regulations allow doctors to work with little outside scrutiny. They say the VA health system, with its under-funded hospitals and overworked doctors, is showing signs of an “institutional breakdown,” in the words of one congressman.

An official with the American Legion who visits and inspects VA health centers said complacency, poor funding and little oversight led to the violations that failed the cancer patients in Philadelphia and possibly infected 53 veterans with hepatitis and HIV from unsterilized equipment at three VA health centers in Florida, Tennessee and Georgia.

Quote Them

"Maybe you're better off, uhh, not having the surgery, but, uhh, taking the painkiller."

President Barack Obama
during his ABC healthcare infomercial



PS Is Obama in bed with Big Pharm? Forget getting better, just get high.

Obama: good healthcare for me, not for thee

Obama was asked a pointed question by Dr. Orrin Devinsky last night during his ABC healthcare infomercial. Here's the paraphrase: Will you abide by the rules you are setting for everyone else? Or as someone with wealth, will you opt out should your family need more care than the government plan allows?

Obama would not make that pledge. In fact, he gave a generic answer about all families wanting the best care for their families. In other words, socialized medicine is great. But I don't want it.

Here's the video.

And ABC, themselves, felt the President's response was important enough to lead with today.
Here is their take on their infomercial with their beloved Dear Leader:

President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.["]

Buyer's Remorse: country club windows

photo via therainierclub.com

Sen. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) wants to help out his country club buddies, some of the richest and most politically connected residents, by earmarking $250,000 for "window repair and limestone sill replacement" for The Rainier Club in Seattle, a premier private club.

One little check for a quarter of a cool mill and he'll be the most popular boy on the golf course.

Is Common Sense alive in NY?

Flaming liberals are really closeted conservatives. They just aren't educated about conservatism enough to know it.



Awww...poor liberals. Probably rushed home to reprogram with some Olbermann.

NYT poll claiming 72% support for Obama healthcare plan stacked with Obama supporters

This calls for another media bias joke. But after constant repetition, it isn't funny anymore.

Were all these reporters nerds in school? They act like social misfits vying for attention from the snotty, self-absorbed captain of the football team.

A New York Times/CBS News poll released Saturday that showed broad bipartisan support for President Obama’s health care reform, over-sampled Obama voters compared to McCain voters, critics say.

I'm not shocked.

The poll, administered June 12-16, found that 72 percent of respondents favored the creation of a government health-insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.

72 percent. That's all? They should have said 100 percent. It'd be just as believable.

But critics including pollster Kellyanne Conway say the results are inaccurate because they are heavily skewed toward those who voted for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

The reporters polled themselves.

Similarly, the Times/CBS poll said 48 percent of respondents had voted for Obama, versus 25 percent for McCain, a nearly two-to-one advantage for Obama supporters.

This constant liberal bias is boring me to tears. Anyone want to grab a fruit smoothie?

The Times ran an accompanying story on the front page of the Sunday edition with the headline “In Poll, Wide Support for Government Run Health.” The findings were also reported by most other major outlets.

Of course they did. You can't go to the trouble of making the news and not report it.

Iran: the battle for freedom

It's quiet here. The only sound is the hypnotic lull of my washer in the background. There's no screaming. No popping sounds of gunfire. No yells for freedom or for help.

Here, it's quiet. I can walk outside into the light and enjoy the warm. It's peaceful and common. It's a day like most others. There is no burning buildings or acrid air. No choking gas.

No, here, it's quiet. When I need to speak, I'm heard. I do not need to scream above the noise, scream into the chaos, scream for my basic right to live free.

Here. It's quiet.



Find updates about the ongoing massacre in Iran at Baharestan Square here. And prepare yourself. Civilians are being killed, captured, and beaten without mercy. These brave men and women, facing insurmountable odds of harm, are not backing down. They are demanding the Creator endowed right to liberty. And it's costing them their life.

What are we doing about this? What is our American government doing? We, the bastion of liberty and home of freedom for the world. What is our President doing in support of the protesters?
He invited Iranian diplomats, the very monsters, to a July 4th cookout and still has not rescinded the invitation, despite being asked why yesterday by the White House press.
They kill their own people who only want freedom. And we celebrate our Independence Day with them.

My revulsion is immeasurable.

Buyer's Remorse

photo courtesy of Arkive.org

Perfectly ironic. The government is in the monkey business, spending $7.4 million on a new feng shui building to house golden snub-nosed monkeys from China...except China changed their minds. No monkeys, just an empty $7.4 million building at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Wonder why California is going bankrupt?

Michelle Obama: Clothing Czar?

Via Patriot Post

"I doubt whether there are many Americans who think Congress has either the right or competency to choose where they live, what clothes they wear or what cars they drive. Yet many Americans stand ready to allow Congress to decide what doctors they go to and what treatments they receive. We forget that once we have government-sponsored health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on liberty."

Walter E. Williams
economist

Do I want Michelle Obama picking out my clothes?







I think not.

Quote Them

Via Patriot Post

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."

James Madison

Close but No Cigar

photo courtesy of Vapeape.com

Taxes help the economy by forcing 100+ year-old businesses to close and lay off 500 employees. The new tobacco tax signed by our smoking President, that just seems hypocritical somehow, increased from 39-cents a pack to $1.01. The steep tax means higher prices for consumers, most low-income, and fewer tobacco industry jobs.

Obama is using the tax to fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program. But you can only tap a source so many times before it dries up. Or in this case, goes up in a puff of smoke.

TAMPA - Tampa will lose part of its cigar heritage in August when Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory near Seffner and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902.

It survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal, the anti-smoking campaign, but couldn't survive Obama. That's a truly historic President.

The company announced the closing today.

Many employees there make Hav-A-Tampa's iconic Jewels, inexpensive machine-made cigars known for their birchwood tips. Some workers have labored there for two decades or longer, including one who's been there for 50 years, said Richard McKenzie, a senior vice president of human resources for Altadis USA, which owns Hav-A-Tampa.

Employed there 50 years? Well, change has come. Oh, and hope.

Altadis tried to keep the plant open by closing it for a week or two at a time and furloughing workers. Eventually, though, the company couldn't cope with a steep drop in consumer demand, brought on by the recession and a large new tax on tobacco products, McKenzie said.

We're stimulating the economy. Did you get that memo?

Work that had been done in Tampa will now be performed in an Altadis plant in Puerto Rico, where it has extra manufacturing capacity, McKenzie said. The company is not closing its nearby distribution center off U.S. 301, where it employs about 150 people.

Puerto Rico. Good place to send our car manufacturing companies, too.

Employees on Tuesday were digesting how they would find work in an economy where more than one in 10 people in the area already are unemployed.

Check in Wyoming. They're needing toad breeders.

Buyer's Remorse

Did you know you're putting children overseas through school? How altruistic of you.

A government program is spending $10 million on schooling Cambodian children. That was nice. Really. And so unexpected.

Buyer's Remorse

Wasteful spending in government has become a given. No one really argues the point. Yet there are still people out there believing Obama's outrageous, insane spending spree will somehow rescue the economy, like feeding a fatty unlimited Swiss Cake Rolls and believing their body will eventually get all it's needed nutrients. There's just too much junk mixed in to do any good.
And the skyrocketing unemployment and deepening recession hasn't given Obama a hint he's going the wrong way. If he can't see the signs, the man doesn't need to be driving.

So as my animosity for all this fruitless spending mounts, I'm going to spread the news. What's frustration if it can't be shared?
If I keep hearing about all the ignorant projects the government is funding with our tax dollars, then you're going to hear about it too. Ignorance, my friends, is no longer bliss. Although it was nice while it lasted.

Here's my first installment of "Buyer's Remorse", a new American disease more viral than the swine flu.

Meet Toady.

Photo: Suzanne L. Collins

The government is spending $100,000 to breed toads in Wyoming...because everyone needs some lovin'.

Yes I Can

People trust themselves with their own money. How glorious. Rasmussen's new poll shows more people are beginning to blame Obama for the bad economy than Bush, that "blame the predessor" game can only last so long.
And with their plummeting confidence in The One comes rising self-assurance.

And the clouds parted and the sun shown and all who saw it rejoiced and were glad.

Here's the article:

While most U.S. voters still blame the Bush Administration for the nation’s economic problems, a growing number are inclined to blame President Barack Obama.

Was it Obama's last trillion in deficit spending that's tipping them off?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of voters now say the country’s economic problems are caused more by the policies Obama has put in place. That’s a 12-point jump from a month ago.

But, but, but...he's so cool and svelte and Ben Affleck likes him.

Fifty-four percent (54%) still say the country’s economic woes are due to the recession Obama inherited from President Bush. That figure is down eight points from 62% from early June.

We might learn slow but we still learn.

By a two-to-one margin, voters also have more confidence in themselves than in the president when it comes to the economy. This marks a significant shift from just after Obama took office.

The $3.4 million turtle tunnel Obama is building in Florida may have changed their minds.

Sixty percent (60%) of voters now trust their own economic judgment more than the president’s. In early February, 49% had more trust in themselves while 39% trusted the president more.

I trust myself 104.7% more than I trust Obama.

Now only 30% trust Obama more when it comes to the economic issues facing the nation.

And they are all currently employed as White House Czars.

Hero Worship

Obama is a parody. So it's appropriate Jib Jab represent him as such.

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He's been compared to being "sort of" God, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jordan, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. What historic figures are left? I'd love to hear some of your ideas. Ghandi? Mother Teresa? Captain America?
I wonder when he'll just be Barrack Obama, a President who quadrupled our deficit, ignored his Constitutional boundaries and seized historical executive power, created the highest unemployment in 25 years, led the government takeover of private business, appointed 21 unelected Czars, and continues to alienate our foreign allies and befriend our foes?

I could think of a few different historical figures his actions bring to mind.

Monday Fun

Via Townhall.com

the blundering, Sunburned freedom fighter

The sunburn stops abruptly at an imaginary line long my shoulder, ending where my sleeves did double duty - clothing my nakedness and blocking the sun. When time mellows the red, all I'll have left is a farmer's tan and thicker freckles.
I've heard of sunscreen. I simply chose to ignore it.
By the end of today's cookout, a project for a group of needy children in West Tulsa, I'd also wrenched my back by following a spry boy around on the jungle gym.
Girls can hang upside down on monkey bars without incident.
Women cannot.
I made some pretty ignorant mistakes today. And I'm not all that stupid, usually. In fact, I'm considered intelligent...when the comparison is on a curve.
But I'm human. The word can also be translated into "flawed". I'm human; therefore, I err. It's one of those quirky characteristics that make us...well, quirky. It gives us character. And it gives us pain. It's a great reminder should we mistake ourselves for divinity.
This is the lesson that big government advocates missed. How? I have no idea. I'm not God. I'm human, remember?
They believe, they must because of their actions, that only certain humans are flawed. Only those outside of government (all capitalists are either ignorant or evil or both).

But back to my sunburn. I can't stop thinking about it. It won't let me.
I thought about it when I read about Obama issuing a generic statement about Iran before heading out for ice cream with his daughters.
I thought about it when I listened to a poem an Iranian woman recited over the nighttime sounds of chanting, screaming, and gunshots.
I thought about it when I watched a young girl, observing the protests with her father, targeted by the regime and shot in the heart. I couldn't stop thinking about it while this strikingly beautiful young woman bled to death before my eyes, before the eyes of the world, before the eyes of her father. I just couldn't stop thinking about my sunburn.

Humans, we're imperfect. We are. Gloriously defunct. We make mistakes, sometimes the same ones, over and over again. Our choices are often wrong. Our opinions are often misinformed. Our actions are often poorly motivated.
We're gaffe masters. And if not given the leg room to stretch out our faux paus, we'll never learn. We'll never really live.
That is what the Iranian protesters are fighting for: the right to make their own mistakes without fear of government punishment. To fail and succeed. To choose one or the other. To truly live. They are so hungry for freedom, they are dying in the streets to obtain it.
For big government advocates, control is compassion. We've got to stop people from making mistakes so we'll imprison them with mandatory regulations.
In truth, this is only a trade. Government lovers swap the choice to make your own mistakes for the lack of choice to make the government's mistakes.
Governments err, too. They are comprised of humans, of course they err. In fact, the bigger they are, the more errant they become. Why? My hypothesis is it takes more people to control more people.
The Iranian protests simply want to be individuals. Singular malfunctioning humans.
And that will always be under attack. The free mind is the only real threat of dictators, socialist rulers, and big government advocates. The free mind cannot be governed. Cannot be controlled. Cannot be enslaved.
The free mind chooses whether to apply sunscreen or whether to suffer the consequences later. The major difference: when I made my mistake, the only one burned was myself.

You're Fired!

What should a President do when one of his supporters is caught misusing large amounts of government funds and under investigation?
Why, fire the investigator, of course. Smear his reputation. Say he's got dementia. Then no one will hurt your poor, thieving, criminal supporter.

Link:

They call it thug politics and it's roosting in the White House. Here's a brief description from Gateway Pundit of the background information concerning Walpin's firing.

Last week, Dear Leader fired inspector general Gerald Walpin after he identified millions of dollars in AmeriCorps funds that were wasted or misspent. The man in charge of Americorps is a top Obama supporter and friend. Mayor Kevin Johnson used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car.

I love this quote from Gerald Walpin, turning the tables on his accusers:

“I would never say President Obama doesn’t have the capacity to continue to serve because of his (statement) that there are 56 states,” Walpin said, adding that the same holds for Vice President Biden and his “many express confusions that have been highlighted by the media.”

Don't mistake the media's lack of attention concerning this story as unimportance. This is a horrendously criminal misuse of power by Obama, starting with Obstruction of Justice. Congressional hearings should follow. If it was a Republican in office, they'd be talking "impeachment" and "trials". Instead, the media are handing over their entire networks to air Obama Infomercials.

The week before he left for the Middle East, it was NBC, which devoted four hours in prime time to its day at the White House.

ABC announced this week that it will air all its news broadcasts from within the White House next Wednesday, June 24.

And CBS News announced on Wednesday that this Friday, Harry Smith will interview the president for "Two Sides of Barack Obama.":

On Father's Day, "Sunday Morning" will feature "Barack Obama: An American Dad."

On Monday, "The Early Show" will run "Barack Obama: The American President."

It's rare, in this day and age or outside cheesy chick flicks, to see such devotion and love. But the media has it and it's all Obama, all the time. Thankfully, there's an off button.

Christian, Muslim, or all of the above Nation?

Congressman Randy Forbes has the answer. It's poignant. Succinct. And unarguable.



You can choose to redirect the path of the country, as Obama is doing, but you cannot rewrite the journey of our history. We were and are a Judeo-Christian nation.

For those who have forgotten our history, our heritage: If/When this great country topples, which seems at the present time inevitable, that will be the moment you remember again.

the Tests are Racist

Obama's Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor...well...she doesn't do so well in tests. In fact, her scores were quite a bit lower than her fellow classmates at Princeton and Yale.
Not her fault, though. The tests are bigoted. Rigged, undoubtedly by rich white men, to discriminate against Latino women.

Thankfully, affirmative action saved the day.

"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."

Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Quote Them

"When you accept your talent not as something to take pride in but as something for which to be grateful, you set the ego aside, and you are freed from the desire to impress, and you enter into play. When that happens, the consequent spontaneity enriches the work, and you experience moments that are spiritually exhilarating, an awareness of God within and without."

Dean Koontz
Tara Lynn's favorite thrill writer

The Vandal Inside Her

Jessica Alba, one of the Fantastic Four whose superpowers often render her naked, had some downtime in Oklahoma City while filming the movie, "The Killer Inside Me."
So, what do you do with a little free time? Grab some coffee? Read a book? Volunteer? Compete in a stare competition online?
Nah. You glue posters about saving sharks in various public places, like a bridge and a United Way advertisement.

The incident was reported after the pictures of Alba posing beside her vandalism...I mean, artistic expression...were published on a website which said, "International pressure is the only way to do it and that starts in Oklahoma, the heartland of America."

Yes, that's right. Oklahoma, a state so intimately involved in the battle of life for the great white shark since we're basically a peninsula, should get involved. Save the shark. While plants are closing, businesses filing bankruptcy, unemployment spiking, gas prices skyrocketing, families concerned about their own survival, what better time than now to remind people about the plight of the great white shark.

Here is Alba's apology quote:

I got involved in something I should have had no part of.

But when the vandal mood strikes, it strikes.

I realize that I should have used better judgment,

Or any judgement

and I regret not thinking things through before I made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people behind this campaign.

Peer pressure bites. It really whales.

I sincerely apologize to the citizens of Oklahoma City and to the United Way for my involvement in this incident.

Great. Now go remove the posters and pay for the damage. Apology accepted.

Steven Crowder, ladies and gentlemen

How have I been missing Crowder's latest videos?
I'm ashamed as a conservative blogger. I should apologize. But following the President's example, I will never accept responsibility for my own actions and will only apologize for others, preferably while on foreign soil.

Now...Steven!

Smile No More

In a future of total federal government control, we won't need anyone telling us not to smile.

Jon Voight: false prophet Obama

"It was amazing to me how the media and the young generation were taken in by Obama's false haloistic presence."

Jon Voight



Just keep talking Jon. Just keeping speaking. People are listening. Maybe even your daughter will hear. Maybe she already has.

Glenn on 20/20

Glenn Beck made the list of Forbes magazines 100 richest and most influential celebrities in America, alongside Angelina Jolie and Oprah Winfrey. And on Friday, John Stossel on ABC shows the behind-the-scenes life of Glenn. See a preview here.

Quote Them

"Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office..."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright
on his relationship with Obama

Why doesn't Sarah love Dave?

Well...for starters, his Top 10 List called her "slutty", then he followed that up with a joke about Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow getting knocked up at Yankee Stadium by A-Rod during a game. And since jokes about statutory rape are just the gift that keeps on giving, the next night Letterman again joked about 14-year-old Willow.

"The hardest part of her visit [to New York] was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter," Letterman said.

So when John Ziegler interviewed Sarah on his radio program, Sarah called David Letterman "pathetic." And this MSNBC reporter, interviewing Ziegler, just could not comprehend why Sarah would be offended.
She should have laughed, right? Because not only are those funny jokes, who doesn't mind some geezer on national television mocking the virtue of their 14-year-old daughter?
Hilarious.



This woman was clearly over her head, stopping the interview after each of Ziegler's answers. It was like a car ride that couldn't get out of the garage because the driver kept slamming on the brakes. And then I wonder, what was that last bit at the end about her being a "common sense thinker"? When did the interview become about her?

This is what happens when journalism is no longer journalism, but a propaganda machine. You aren't allowed to stray from their talking points or they cut off your mic.

UPDATE

Rush made a good point. The MSNBC reporter doesn't understand why Sarah Palin should be offended by David Letterman calling her "slutty" and joking about her 14-year-old daughter, yet she ends the interview upset and saying how Ziegler has offended her?
So offense for me, not for thee.

UPDATE II

Todd Palin responds:

"Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too."

- Todd Palin

Quote Them

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."

Benjamin Franklin


PS That includes a cup of sugar from the cute socialist dictator on your block.

They are Just So Into Him

Here's a comparison video for how the media treated the GDP growth and deficit reduction during the Bush years, minus the fawning, sycophantic coverage of Obama's economic disaster.

And we're suppose to trust these people to report factually?
In the immortal words of Obama, "Uh, uh, uh..."



Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit gives you a few figures about the economy under Bush, what you will never hear reported from the media or acknowledged by Obama:

...During the Bush years, despite the 2000 Recession, the attacks on Sept. 11, the stock market scandals, Hurricane Katrina and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush Administration was able to reduce the budget deficit from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007, a sixty percent drop. In 2004, the federal budget deficit was 412 billion dollars. In 2005, it dropped to 318 billion dollars. In 2006, the deficit dipped to 248 billion dollars. And, in 2007, it fell below 200 billion to 162 billion dollars. During the Bush years, the average unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, the economy saw the strongest productivity growth in four decades and there was robust GDP growth. These were amazing accomplishments considering the unexpected challenges. You certainly didn't read much about this in the press.

But, things changed in 2007. Democrats took over Congress, gas prices started to rise, and at the end of the year and into 2008 several financial institutions started to crumble as the housing bubble began to burst. Of course, it should be noted that President Bush publicly called for the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 17 times in 2008 alone before Congress acted. Democrats, on the other hand, blocked reform numerous times. It was later reported after the 2008 election that Bush had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Hoover Institution visiting fellow Scott S. Powell wrote in Barron's in February of this year that the present crisis began in the 1970s, during the Carter administration, with passage of the Community Reinvestment Act to stem bank redlining and liberalize lending in order to extend home ownership in lower-income communities. This risk was acknowledged in the Bush administration's first fiscal-year budget, released in April 2001. Sadly these warnings were ignored by Congress.

Infantile-ruler Obama, suffocating his Presidency with childish blame games and immature finger pointing, can't stop himself from passing the buck to his predecessors. I use to do that to...when I was 4.
Then you grow up, you take a position of leadership, you take responsibility for yourself and anyone beneath you, you take criticism on the chin and you move forward with solutions. And if things go wrong, again, you take the blame. That's part of being a leader. It requires self-sacrifice, even loss of face. But you do it for the good of the job or organization or group or family or life that you lead. You do it.

Obama, however, governs like he won a popularity contest, not a presidency. And the media daily reinforces the notion.

Quote Them

"We would never have used a formula like 'save or create,'" he tells me. "To begin with, the number is pure fiction -- the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being 'saved.' And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it."

Tony Fratto
Senior Member of White House Communications under George W. Bush

Palin popularity despite

I remember when Letterman's Top 10 List was funny. But I have a very long memory.



Poor Dave. He's grouchy because even Conan scores more viewers. And here's another Palin hater who's ratings are looking gaunt.



Yet Palin's popularity is still strong. Even CNN had to report it.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newt Gingrich was the keynote speaker at Monday night's fundraising dinner for the Senate and House Republican campaign committees, but it was Sarah Palin who stole the show.

Unemployment makes Obama proud

The unemployment rate is now at 9.4%, the highest in 25 years. The unemployment numbers for May have just been released, 345,000 jobs lost. In the Land of Obama, all news about him is good news. You've got to admire the guys delusions. Nothing gets him down.
Strike up the band boys! Unemployment is rising!
Here is his response. Enjoy the "uh"s.

Uh, on Friday we learned that we had lost, uh, an additional 345,000, uh, jobs in the month of May.

Bummer. But the happy, happy, joy, joy spin is coming. Wait for it...

Um, that was far less than was expected, uh,

That's the good stuff right there. Just find a vein and keep it coming.

but it’s still too many.

344,999 would have been fine.

Uh, that means that, uh, their families were still losing, not only their jobs, but maybe losing their homes, finding themselves under extraordinary financial straits.

Are Michelle and the girls enjoying their shopping trip in Paris?

And it’s a reminder that we’re still in the middle of a very deep recession, uh, that was years in the making.

A real man doesn't take responsibility for his actions, like his Senate votes, his party's support of sub-prime mortgage lending, his historic spending, money printing, and borrowing from China. A real man passes the buck to anyone else.

And its going to take, uh, a considerable amount of time for us to pull out of.

Translated from Obama-speak means, "Don't question me, ever. No matter how long the economy declines."

Uh, having said that, this was the fewest number of jobs, uh, that we have lost, um, uh, in about eight months. So it was about half of the number lost of just a few months ago.

Silver lining. Love it. But, you know, just to make conversation, maybe it's because there aren't as many people employed who can lose their jobs.

And it’s a sign that we’re moving in the right direction.

That's right. If you don't succeed with spending other people's money, try, try, try again. And then try some more.

The key is for us to build on, uh, the modest progress that has been made in, uh, the months to come.

Next month only 300,000 people currently employed will lose their source of income. Progress!

Uh, sst, when we arrived here, uh, we were confronting the most significant recession since the great depression.

Unless you count the recession in the early 80s that Reagan inherited with 13.5% inflation and 10.8% unemployment and responded with lowering taxes and removing restrictions from the private sector. Yeah, yeah. He's right. Obama has it worse. Spend on!

It was bad and it was getting worse. Had we done nothing, uh, I think it’s fair to say that, uh, most economists, uh, believe, uh, we could have, uh, really gone into a tailspin.

A tailspin. That sounds really, really bad. Glad we're only losing jobs and homes and companies and international confidence in the dollar and creating a deficit for the next several generations.

Uh, we decided to move swiftly and boldly, uh, and I signed a recovery act into law, uh, just over 100 days ago, uh, and we’ve done more than ever, faster than ever, more responsibly than ever, to get the gears of the economy moving again.

So quickly, so very quickly, in a speedy fashion, America has lost 1.6 million jobs in five months under Obama. Imagine if it had happened in seven months, instead. Thus is much better.

We created and saved, as you said Joe, at least 150,000 jobs.

"Created and saved". Interesting phrase. I've created and saved 15,000 lives by driving on the right side of the road. I've created and saved $7 million in groceries by not spending $7 million in groceries. I've created and saved 300 swine by not eating pork. Obama's use of this phrase is a misnomer, an made-up phrase impossible to confirm.

Jobs of teachers and nurses and firefighters and police officers,

Hmmm...government job, soon-to-be government job, government job, another government job.

uh, people who have been laid off are not being laid off.

Not sure how that is possible. People who have been laid off are not being laid off...from...being laid off?

Folks who, uh, might have seen that plant close, as you pointed out in my home town, suddenly they started seeing orders coming back in.

And people who shouldn't be seeing that plant close, like in my current home town, are seeing the plant most likely close down. So my home town cancels out his.

the Mocking of Teleprompter President

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