Creditable national leadership in the Australian disasters
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News, Representative Government | Comments Off
I have always had some time for Prime Minister Rudd. His instincts seem to be good even if, as a Leftist, he is at times prone to some silly ideas. I have now been particularly impressed by his attitude to the bushfires. Instead of just paying a flying [...]
Read More..>>Pepsi Gets More HopeyChangey
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Barack Obama, News | 5 Comments
Lite fare for your evening entertainment. Marketing Shift finds out something interesting about the new Pepsi marketing style (besides the gawdawful Obambi style logo)
During your last trip to the grocery store, you may have noticed a few changes in the soft drink aisle. If you’re a fan of Pepsi, Mug Root Beer, Sierra Mistor Mountain [...]
AGW Today: Mercury and OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Coal/Energy Resources, Democrats, Economy, Energy, Global Warming, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Science/pseudo-science, environmentalism | 6 Comments
The United Nations is not real fond of mercury
Environment ministers must crack down on mercury poisoning to protect the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Sunday.
“A clear and unequivocal vision of a low mercury future needs to be set,” UNEP head Achim Steiner said on the [...]
Chicago Suburban Democrats Throw Homeless Man off Ballot
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Democrats, Liberal World, News, liberalism | 4 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Savor that headline, will you? The Democratic stronghold of Oak Park, home of trendy downtown shops and many Obama signs, is working with its lawyers to keep a homeless man off the ballot for the next village election.
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Oak Park’s village board voted 2-1 to prevent [...]
The inimitable Pat Condell sums up Leftist Britain’s latest attack on free speech in his usual merciless way
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Islam, Islamicfascism, Liberal Media/Bias, Multiculturalism/PC, National Security, News, Political Correctness, Politics As Usual, Video | 1 Comment
Condell’s site here
Pat Condell may be the only man in Britain who is game to speak the truth about Islam. If you have not seen his videos before, there are a couple of previous ones here and here
Interestingly, he is an atheist, so that seems to give him some protection. When [...]
Bury the Shovel, Will Ya Barack
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Democrats, Economy, News, bailouts, liberalism | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
John Bergstrom over at Attack Comics has a hilarious comic on what Barack Obama’s newest “shovel ready” project he’s working on for us.
When Did Obama Decide to Turn Against Himself?
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Democrats, Earmarks, Economy, Internet, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Politics As Usual, bailouts, liberalism | 8 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Shocking video of Obama campaign promises that he wantonly violated with this stimulus bill!
We were told by every love struck denizen of the Old Media that Barack Obama was bringing a “new” politics to Washington. He was, we were assured, a candidate that was post-partisan, post-racial, and anti-business-as-usual. We were told we [...]
Read More..>>Barry Scores Early Victory, But Not With His Coins
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, Nancy Pelosi, News, bailouts | 6 Comments
Here’s your “impartial” MSM in action, by Obama prostitutes Michael D. Shear and Alec MacGillis
Obama Scores Early Victory of Historic Proportions
Twenty-four days into his presidency, Barack Obama recorded last night a legislative achievement of the sort that few of his predecessors achieved at any point in their tenure.
In size and scope, there is almost nothing [...]
Read More..>>Possibly 100K Parents Of US Citizens Deported As Illegals
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Democrats, Illegal Aliens/Immigration, News | 5 Comments
Sure to bring out all the bleeding hearts
More than 100,000 parents whose children are U.S. citizens were deported over the decade that ended in 2007, a Department of Homeland Security’s investigation has found.
The parents were removed from the country on immigration violations or because they had committed crimes. The removals of the 108,434 parents were [...]
Karzai: Barry Needs To Settle Down And Show Better Judgement
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
So, let’s see: Obama is trying to play pattycake with Iran, making nice-nice, and ticking off Afghan President Hamid Karzai. And Karzai, playing the experienced executive, takes an oh-so-nice shot back
Here’s one unsettling exchange with the Afghan chief of state sounding a tad displeased with his newbie presidential counterpart:
Zakaria: “Mr. President, how will you deal [...]
How to talk about old people
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, News, Political Correctness, Psychology, Social Engineering, Stupidity | 2 Comments
Some California “wisdom” below. The report is from Ireland and I think they had fun listing all the “forbidden” terms. I must confess I had a few laughs myself.
“‘Codger’ is out, and don’t even think about using ‘fogey’, ‘fossil’ or ‘elderly’, ageism activists in the US have warned. In fact, [...]
‘Name That Party’ Reaches House Floor
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under "Name That Party", Crime, Democrats, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Republican, Republicans, liberalism | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
We have for a few years now been chronicling the constant failure of the media to label a criminal or troubled politician with his party affiliation when that politician is a Democrat, we all know. Every couple of days we detail a new “name that party” story where an Old Media outlet [...]
Boehner: Thanks to Dems, We Don’t Have Time to Let America Know What’s in This Stimulus Bill
Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Communism, Conservatism, Democrats, Economy, News, Republican, Republicans, bailouts, liberalism | 2 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Representative John Boehner (R-OH), Minority leader of the House has been very good on Obama’s Generational Debt Bill — obscenely known as the “stimulus bill.” Here he is scolding Democrats for not giving Congress time to even read this 1,100 page bill. Boehner contends that “not one member has read.”
Boehner deserves a [...]
Read More..>>Even McClatchy Isn’t Buying The Stimulus
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Democrats, Economy, Liberal Media/Bias, News | 3 Comments
Look, you know that a newspaper leans far to the left when it features “Truth To Power” as its tag line. But even they aren’t buying the hopeNchange of the porkapalooza plan
Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no
The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate [...]
Surrender Monkey Friday: Excitable Andy Purchases His Clown Suit
Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Barack Obama, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, News, Unhinged | 1 Comment
Surrendie has brought out his clown suit, plus, I think he is a bit drunk, to bring you the wonderful insanity of Andrew Sullivan, the Commander In Wacko of the adultless The Atlantic. Excitable Wackadoodle Andy, the self proclaimed Last Real Conservative, is spinning like a drug infused top in order to protect his man-crush, [...]
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