Ron Howard's brother conservative?

That's not really the important point of this video. But I'm just curious. Clint Howard in a Heritage video about government spending, MIA congressmen, and the health care takeover? Is he conservative?

Life is so peculiar. As are the characters Clint usually plays.

Check out the video. He does an excellent spineless Congressman.

2008 Obama: My father served in WWII

His father was 9-years-old at the end of the World War II. His step-father was ten.

Via IHateTheMedia.com:

Barack Obama, Sr. was born in 1936, making him 9-years old and at the war’s end. And before you say that he must have been referring to his step father, be aware that Lolo Soetero was born in 1935, which means he was only ten when Japan surrendered.

I'm not sure what "services" Obama's child-warrior-father received when finally returning home from the war as he walked through the door carrying his Maltese Falcon lunch box and Colt revolver. Perhaps the government sat down and made him a pb & j.

Who's extreme?

Martha's Vineyard Hot New Fashion: Bush T-shirts

Call him a flash in the pan. President Obama's ridiculously unfounded popularity, based on the fact the man could read from a teleprompter, hasn't lasted long even in Martha's Vineyard. There's something about actions and words and one louder than the other that fits here.

Obama and family, going for their PhD in vacationing, are heading to Martha's Vineyard for their fourth or fifth vacation in as many weeks. Last year, while Obama unwound from his exhausting speeches, golf games and appearances on Letterman, the family vacationed in Martha's Vineyard while, in equal parts fanaticism and disillusionment, people couldn't get enough of Obama gear.

This year? Bush's "Miss Me Yet?" t-shirts are the hot seller on Martha's Vineyard. Check out the video here.

If the coming fall fashions weren't bad enough news, Bush is polling six-points higher than Obama in "Frontline" districts. And last time I checked, Bush wasn't running.

A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.

What would Scooby-Do say to a Democrat at a time like this? Something like, "Rut Roh."

"This mosque. It's wrong. It's so wrong."

There's a reason we have memorials. It's for remembrance, respect, and solemn reverence to sacrifice. If we don't learn from our past, we're doomed to repeat it. Having a complacent attitude toward fanatical Islam is the same mistake we made pre-9/11. The same mistake we are making now.



The Ground Zero Mosque isn't just a mosque. It's a symbol to radicals that ground has been conquered and won. That's not just my opinion, lowly girl that I am. That is the opinion of Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, the director of the Dubai-based Arab Television network.

"I can't imagine that Muslims [actually] want a mosque at this particular location, because it will become an arena for the promoters of hatred, and a monument to those who committed the crime," writes Al-Rashed in the column, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "Moreover, there are no practicing Muslims in the area who need a place to worship, because it is a commercial district. Is there anyone who is [really] eager [to build] this mosque?"

He adds, "I do not think that the majority of Muslims want to build a monument or a place of worship that tomorrow may become a source of pride for the terrorists and their Muslim followers, nor do they want a mosque that will become a shrine for the haters of Islam."

With 100+ mosques in New York, why is there such a desire to build another one in a commercial district where no Muslims live and near the most famous act of terrorism ever committed on American soil by extremists of that same religion?

Seems...ill-conceived.

Al-Rashed agrees. He went on to say that the New York Islamic leader Faisal Abdul Rauf, president of the Cordoba Initiative,who is leading the plans for the Ground Zero mosque, is making a decision that is "not at all an intelligent one". As only 20% of Americans favor its construction, the idea this mosque is a way to create reconciliation is again...what's the word?....right...ill-conceived.

So either the man's an imbecile. Or his motives aren't exactly pure. Okay, not pure at all.

In the meantime, Obama stuck his tongue out and stepped on it last week. He supported the mosque, an unpopular opinion and, as we can see from Al-Rashed's statements, also an unfounded one.

Rahm Emanuel, according to Sean Hannity, spent the weekend calling Democrats and begging them not to oppose the President and his mosque opinion.



What's got Rahm sweating? He knows it was a bad political move, I'm guessing. Or he just wants another excuse to talk to Congressional members while they shower. It could go either way.

He's not the only one sweating. Obama's decision to publicly support the Ground Zero Mosque even has liberal pundits begging for George W. Bush to make a statement and save their Barry boy from his own motor mouth.

"It's time for W. to weigh in," writes the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Bush, Dowd explains, understands that "you can't have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam." Dowd finds it "odd" that Obama seems less sure on that matter. But to set things back on the right course, she says, "W. needs to get his bullhorn back out" -- a reference to Bush's famous "the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!" speech at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is also looking for an assist from Bush. "I…would love to hear from former President Bush on this issue," Robinson wrote Tuesday in a Post chat session. "He held Ramadan iftar dinners in the White House as part of a much broader effort to show that our fight against the al-Qaeda murderers who attacked us on 9/11 was not a crusade against Islam. He was absolutely right on this point, and it would be helpful to hear his views."

And Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic, is also feeling some nostalgia for the former president. "Words I never thought I'd write: I pine for George W. Bush," Beinart wrote Tuesday in The Daily Beast. "Whatever his flaws, the man respected religion, all religion." Beinart longs for the days when Bush "used to say that the 'war on terror' was a struggle on behalf of Muslims, decent folks who wanted nothing more than to live free like you and me…"

Sorry ya'll. Daddy is retired and won't comment. Junior is in charge now and must reap the political backlash that he sows. I think it's called being President. But if that title doesn't fit, maybe we should remind Barry he's an adult now.

How does Obama respond to all this yammering about his previous yammering? He doubles down and yammers some more. If at first you don't succeed...that has to be Obama's mantra.




Woohoo! And the ride just keeps going round and round and round. No need to plunk in a quarter.

While Sen. Harry Reid, a most nasally-annoying yet powerful Democrat, speaks against the Ground Zero Mosque, his girl pal Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate anyone who opposes it. I don't think they'll be painting each other's toes for awhile.

Today, Rush tagged her actions "soft tyranny". Has a nice ring to it.



Who does she want investigated?

Oh. Right. These people.



And now we're full circle.

UPDATE:

The Ground Zero Mosque backers admitted today they won't refuse money from Saudia Arabia or Iran to build their mosque. Fifteen of the 19 terrorists of 9/11 were Saudi Arabian and Iran is an official sponsor of terrorism, according to the U.S. government.

Yep. It's so obvious this is about reconciliation. I feel like holding someone's hand.

He loves them, he loves them not

Deciphering the words of Barney Frank feels like swimming in spit with ear plugs in. That, and the man lies without compulsion. But hey, someone voted him in office so we have to deal. Spit and all.

“There were people in this society who for economic and, frankly, social reasons can’t and shouldn’t be homeowners,” Frank said. “I think we should, particularly, stop this assumption that you put everybody into home ownership.”

Interesting idea, Rep. Frank.

In the video, he begins singing his own praises like a bird, a Tweetie Bird actually, about how he tried, oh desperately tried, by 2005 to stop this train wreck that is Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Mmkay.

June 2005

"You're not going to see the collapse that you see when people talk about the bubble. So those of us on our committee in particular will continue to push for home ownership." Barney Frank

In other words: Bubble? What bubble? Fire up the federal subsidizing. We need more people who can't afford homes to get taxpayer supported home loans! Drinks all around. I need to wet my whistle.

He's tried this lie before. On a different channel. An old Chinese proverb says that if a silly man repeats his lies often enough, silly liberal media will help him.




Am I being unfair? Let's ask Bill.



Frank saying he didn't see the bubble but insisting we should listen to his opinion about the housing crisis is like a military commander directing his men into an obvious death trap while he watches the bloodshed from a mountain top, smokes a Havana, and applauds his skills as a military strategist.

Babs and Barry split?

Oh, heartbreak upon heartbreak. Barbra Streisand ditched last night's fundraiser with The One, leaving Obama with nothing but memories from the corner of his mind about the way they were.

Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg were no-shows at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser the two were to co-host Monday night at the Los Angeles home of television producer John Wells.

President Obama spoke at the event, and other co-hosts included Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams.

What a funny lady.