They CAme As Democrats

Booo, It's Obama's Halloween

Didn't want to hear what Joe the Plumber was trying to tell you about Obama, hopey changey, how's that shuck and jive crap working out for you now?

Recommended Reading: Obama Lied; The Economy Died - Commentary by Tony Blankley

Oh yeah, almost forgot, here are your jobs America ... If they look a lot like FDR's failed jobs programs, it's beacuse they are FDR's failed jobs programs, just no dams this time.


You look down America, have a sucker on me:

New World Record

7 lies in under 2 minutes.

I think this is a new world's record for a dirty, lying politician, even ScamWOW couldn't top this. Wow. Not one element of truth in there. Not one. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

The Afghanistan Plan -- The Rubberband Man

Rush Limbaugh plays a parody of Obama as the "Rubberband Man" by the Spinners with the title "The Afghanistan Plan".

Crap Government, What Tyranny Looks Like

Venezuela’s Soaring Murder Rate Blamed on Too Many Guns

Of course it could be too many government executions ...

Venezuela could close out the year with more than 18,000 murders, a scourge that is increasing and the solution to which, in the opinion of analysts, includes the disarmament of the civilian population.

It is calculated that in this country there are between 9 million and 15 million weapons in the hands of the public, the president of the Institute for Investigations of Coexistence and Citizen Security, or INCOSEC, Pedro Rangel, told Efe in an interview, drawing his figures from data from a congressional committee.

And who exactly is "the media in Venezuela? It's the government.

The media has determined that the average Venezuelan household has three weapons, something that is “completely out of proportion” in Rangel’s judgment since “the possession of weapons on the part of the civilian population notably influences the violence in the streets.”

INCOSEC figures gathered in the Caracas metropolitan area during the first half of 2009 show that 98 percent of the murders were committed with firearms and 60 percent of the bodies had been hit by more than five bullets.

This shows “exacerbated levels of violence,” Rangel said, noting that 36 percent of the victims were males between the ages of 15 and 29.

As times get tough for Chavez's shuck and jive act, the guns have got to be taken out of the people's hands, else they may become revolutionaries themselves.

Source:

Charlie -- Chris Mathew's Guy

Charlie is Obama's guy ... Otherwise known as a sellout.

Vote the real Conservative, Marco Rubio.

Reagan -- The Speech

A Time for Choosing, also known as "The Speech", was presented on a number of speaking occasions during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.

Home Sales -- Lesson In Big Government Meddling In The Market

Hah, totally unexpected --- Sales of new U.S. homes unexpectedly fell in September, a sign the Lamestream Media's ginned up housing recovery may lose momentum after a government tax credit expires. Really, why would you ever think that?

Hey how is automobile sales going after cash for clunkers ended?

Sales decreased 3.6 percent to a 402,000 annual pace, lower than the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. The median price of a new home dropped 9.1 percent from September 2008.

When government meddles, nothing goes according to plan. Keep that in mind when you hear that government rationed healthcare will be great... It won't it will drive up costs, decrease quality, and ration what's left.

Let's save we institute a government supplied food for you ... You need to get your gruel coupons from a federal office, and then you can go and exchange the coupons for your free food ... Soylent Green.

Far fetched, nope not at all, go with the government rationed healthcare, and see where that takes you. Oh no, tell me you weren't one of those Obamao voters?

New 4Runner Takes On The Rubicon

2010 Toyota 4Runner Trail Test Drive: Is This the Last 4X4 -- Last of a breed? One of the reasons the 4Runner will continue as an off-roader is the rest of the world. Toyota has the very popular "Land Cruiser Prado" as their worldwide off road truck-car. And until the world is paved, it will likely remain. Looks like Toyota is combining brands and uses differing 'faces' to change the looks.

GM bailed on its mid-size, body-on-frame SUVs last year. There is no Dodge Durango for 2010. The body-on-frame Ford Explorer is doomed. Rumor is that Nissan is even thinking of killing the Xterra. The traditional mid-size SUV may have been the definitive vehicle of the 1990s, but it's an endangered species now. Whistling right past the SUV graveyard is the new, fifth-generation, 2010 Toyota 4Runner. Park the new one next to a 2009 4Runner and they look similar. But every body panel is different and it's a more capable machine than ever before. It's not a wannabe SUV or a crossover done up in rugged duds. The new 4Runner is a full-frame rock crawler. It may still be called 4Runner, but it's not a forerunner of anything now. It's a survivor—maybe the last of its kind.

2010 Prado


2010 4Runner

Marco Rubio On Morning Joe -- 10-27-09

Crist is a TINO ...

Fred Thompson on Hoffman NY-23

Way to go Fred, thanks ...

Now That Crist Wants You To Thnk He Is Conservative

Charlie is a laugh track at best ...




President Barack Obama and Gov. Charlie Crist embrace during a town hall meeting Feb. 10 in Fort Myers.


Singer Sheryl('one square') Crow and Gov. Charlie Crist speak at a news conference as part of the "Stop Global Warming" college tour in Gainesville this month. Crist is the first governor in the South and one of a handful of Republicans nationally to so publicly get behind the issue of global warming. - an issue to which Crist's predecessor, Jeb Bush, gave little attention.



And hey, ACORN knows their main man.

What's In The Pretty Balloon

Shock and Awe

Shocker: Iran Rejects UN Nuclear Plan

From a shocked and amazed Associated Press

The moo is off the 'siah.

Drain The Swamp Nancy

All hat no cattle, that's our botox nanny.

Sarah Palin Endorse Doug Hoffman NY-23

Support Doug Hoffman

The people of the 23rd Congressional District of New York are ready to shake things up, and Doug Hoffman is coming on strong as Election Day approaches! He needs our help now.

The votes of every member of Congress affect every American, so it's important for all of us to pay attention to this important Congressional campaign in upstate New York. I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York's 23rd Congressional district. It's my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law.

Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a "time for choosing."

The federal government borrows, spends, and prints too much money, while our national debt hits a record high. Government is growing while the private sector is shrinking, and unemployment is on the rise. Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas.

And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.

Doug Hoffman stands for the principles that all Republicans should share: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and a commitment to individual liberty.

Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party's ticket.

Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.

You can help Doug by visiting his official website below and joining me in supporting his campaign:
http://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com/donate3.html.

- Sarah Palin

Video: Dick Cheney Rips Obama On The War On Terror and More

Why Is GE Exempt From Government-Ordered Pay Cuts?

Since the government is now deciding who gets paid what at companies that received TARP bailouts, it begs the questions: Why are employees of General Electric, owner of NBC-MSNBC, Obama's favorite network, exempt from these pay cuts?

Oh, they have a loophole as noted in this item from a few months back? How convenient.

Beck: Must See TV -- Common Obama Attack Line: "Wrong Thinking", "Danger", "Profit"

Common Obama Attack Line: "Wrong Thinking", "Danger", "Profit"

Beck, Progressives, three tactics. To understand progressives and liberals, you must see this TV show -- You will not be disappointed. Glen Beck slices and dices these progressives as you have never seen before.

This is the entire Glenn Beck show from Wednesday, October 21st, 2009. In this episode entitled “Progressives’ Three Tactics”, Beck discusses “wrong thinking”, “danger”, and “profit”. He also concludes that the White House war on Fox News is a distraction while ObamaCare is pushed through the approval process. He interviews John Stossel.

These videos are from the InfoHwyGuy YouTube channel.

He references USdebtClock.org.

White House E-Mailing MSNBC During Shows

"Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution." Joseph Goebbels

Apparently the White House can't call Beck, but are watching and do call MSNBC. White House e-mails Mika Brezinksy mid-segment to "correct" her -- good liberal Mika immediately makes the correction and begins pushing the White House line -- And FNC is biased?





Beck's Mao guy is going to be sad, his pigeons are at the ready in case your phone doesn't work.

Illegal Aliens

Apparently the actual illegals are upset by this costume, so they forced the retailers to discontinue sale. So you can get them in the thrift stores.

Illegal Aliens, just stealing the jobs real legal Americans used to have.

Scam WOW, New World Record

A reader, not a leader -- 7 lies in under 2 minutes.

I think this is a new world's record for a dirty, lying politician, even ScamWOW couldn't top this. Wow. Not one element of truth in there. Not one. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Reagan

Gingrich wants a big tent to include the liberal in New York. Let’s quote Reagan back to Gingrich, shall we? From his seminal 1975 CPAC address:

Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.

Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.

Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.

Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.

And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”

We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Read the whole thing at the link above.

Obammunsim ... Rush Explains

Just about covers the Obama request "judge me by my friends and associates" ... doesn't it.

And our lame-stream lapdog media, not a whimper from the Chihuahua.

Obama Balloon

Charlton Heston: Cold Dead Hands

Taken For A Ride

Ron Bloom, Obama Manufacturing Czar

Another Obama Maoist ... This fellow is 'the joke'. A union thug.





Kindo, sorta agrees with Mao "All power comes largely from the barrel of a gun". Yes you heard that right, a union thug, Obama administration Czar telling you where they get their power. This thug shouldn't be in the same city with freedom loving American people.

Rush Limbaugh's Official Obama Criticizer

Bo Snerdly ... Rush's main man and call screener. If you have called Rush you have probably talked to Bo.

Beck Has Them On The Run

Barrack Hussein Obama ... mmmm, mmmm, mmmmphh

More Trouble For IPCC Consensus: Cosmic Pattern To UK Tree Growth

BBC - Earth News - Cosmic pattern to UK tree growth

The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space.

Researchers made the discovery studying how growth rings of spruce trees have varied over the past half a century.

As yet, they cannot explain the pattern, but variation in cosmic rays impacted tree growth more than changes in temperature or precipitation.

...

"The correlation between growth and cosmic rays was moderately high, but the correlation with the climatological variables was barely visible," Ms Dengel told the BBC.

Risky Behavior

God and guns are what our country was founded upon. Any new history student of the Revolutionary period quickly learns that. They are what keep us strong, or what should keep us strong. They are there for our defense, personal, others, and State.

If you own guns, smoke, eat too much, drive powerful cars, ride motorcycles, or engage in other government defined risky behavior, you will have to pay more for your health insurance. Gun related violence is a public health problem? More stupid things have been said but this has a purpose, disarming you.

Washington Times has the story:

More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics as whether teenagers who carry firearms run a different risk of getting shot compared with suffering other sorts of injuries.

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, it's about preventing America from being taken over by tyrants, elected or otherwise. Read the federalist papers.

Government Rationed Healthcare Bumper Sticker

Sarah Palin: Good Intentions Aren't Enough with Health Care Reform

Now that the Senate Finance Committee has approved its health care bill, it’s a good time to step back and take a look at the long term consequences should its provisions be enacted into law.

The bill prohibits insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and from charging sick people higher premiums. [1] It attempts to offset the costs this will impose on insurance companies by requiring everyone to purchase coverage, which in theory would expand the pool of paying policy holders.

However, the maximum fine for those who refuse to purchase health insurance is $750. [2] Even factoring in government subsidies, the cost of purchasing a plan is much more than $750. The result: many people, especially the young and healthy, will simply not buy coverage, choosing to pay the fine instead. They’ll wait until they’re sick to buy health insurance, confident in the knowledge that insurance companies can’t deny them coverage. Such a scenario is a perfect storm for increasing the cost of health care and creating an unsustainable mandate program.

Those driving this plan no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough. There were good intentions behind the drive to increase home ownership for lower-income Americans, but forcing financial institutions to give loans to people who couldn’t afford them had terrible unintended consequences. We all felt those consequences during the financial collapse last year. Unintended consequences always result from top-down big government plans like the current health care proposals, and we can’t afford to ignore that fact again.

Supposedly the Senate Finance bill will be paid for by cutting Medicare by nearly half a trillion dollars and by taxing the so-called “Cadillac” health care plans enjoyed by many union members. The plan will also impose heavy taxes on insurers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and clinical labs. [3] The result of all of these taxes is clear. As Douglas Holtz-Eakin noted in the Wall Street Journal, these new taxes “will be passed on to consumers by either directly raising insurance premiums, or by fueling higher health-care costs that inevitably lead to higher premiums.” [4] Unfortunately, it will lead to lower wages too, as employees will have to sacrifice a greater percentage of their paychecks to cover these higher premiums. [5] In other words, if the Democrats succeed in overhauling health care, we’ll all bear the costs. The Senate Finance bill is effectively a middle class tax increase, and as Holtz-Eakin points out, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation those making less than $200,000 will be hit hardest. [6]

With our country’s debt and deficits growing at an alarming rate, many of us can’t help but wonder how we can afford a new trillion dollar entitlement program. The president has promised that he won’t sign a health care bill if it “adds even one dime to our deficit over the next decade.” [7] But his administration also promised that his nearly trillion dollar stimulus plan would keep the unemployment rate below 8%. [8] Last month, our unemployment rate was 9.8%, the highest it’s been in 26 years. [9] At first the current administration promised that the stimulus would save or create 3 to 4 million jobs. [10] Then they declared that it created 1 million jobs, but the stimulus reports released this week showed that a mere 30,083 jobs have been created, while nearly 3.4 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus was passed. [11] Should we believe the administration’s claims about health care when their promises have proven so unreliable about the stimulus?

In January 2008, presidential candidate Obama promised not to negotiate behind closed doors with health care lobbyists. In fact, he committed to “broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are. Because part of what we have to do is enlist the American people in this process. And overcoming the special interests and the lobbyists...” [12] However, last February, after serving only a few weeks in office, President Obama met privately at the White House with health care industry executives and lobbyists. [13] Yesterday, POLITICO reported that aides to President Obama and Democrat Senator Max Baucus met with corporate lobbyists in April to help “set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.” [14] Needless to say, their negotiations were not broadcast on C-SPAN for the American people to see.

Presidential candidate Obama also promised that he would not “sign any nonemergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days.” [15] PolitiFact reports that this promise has already been broken three times by the current administration. [16] We can only hope that it won’t be broken again with health care reform.

All of this certainly gives the appearance of politics-as-usual in Washington with no change in sight.

Americans want health care reform because we want affordable health care. We don’t need subsidies or a public option. We don’t need a nationalized health care industry. We need to reduce health care costs. But the Senate Finance plan will dramatically increase those costs, all the while ignoring common sense cost-saving measures like tort reform. Though a Congressional Budget Office report confirmed that reforming medical malpractice and liability laws could save as much as $54 billion over the next ten years, tort reform is nowhere to be found in the Senate Finance bill. [17]

Here’s a novel idea. Instead of working contrary to the free market, let’s embrace the free market. Instead of going to war with certain private sector companies, let’s embrace real private-sector competition and allow consumers to purchase plans across state lines. Instead of taxing the so-called “Cadillac” plans that people get through their employers, let’s give individuals who purchase their own health care the same tax benefits we currently give employer-provided health care recipients. Instead of crippling Medicare, let’s reform it by providing recipients with vouchers so that they can purchase their own coverage.

Now is the time to make your voices heard before it’s too late. If we don’t fight for the market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven reform plan that we deserve, we’ll be left with the disastrous unintended consequences of the plans currently being cooked up in Washington.

- Sarah Palin

Well Done Cliff Kincaid and Fox News

Just got this Accuracy in Media press release.

It seems that Fox news has gotten rid of radical commentator Mark Lamont Hill.

Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid today welcomed FOX News Channel’s decision to fire cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a paid analyst. Kincaid learned of Hill’s firing this morning at the annual meeting of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News, in New York City. Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.

Kincaid was in the middle of raising a question that he has asked in a series of recent columns – namely, while properly questioning how the Obama Administration could possibly have hired Van Jones, with his radical background, how did FOX News hire Marc Lamont Hill as an analyst, when Hill had an easily documentable record in support of cop-killers.

Before Kincaid completed the background for his question, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch interrupted Kincaid to say that he appreciated Cliff’s work on this matter, and that Hill had been “fired” last week.

Kincaid announced that he will have more to say on this in the coming days. His previous columns on Marc Lamont Hill are available on the AIM website.

Great work Cliff and kudos to Fox for making the right call.

Barrack Hussein Obama .... mmmm, mmmm, mmmph

Tin foil and flapping ears.

Sarah Says Drill

Drill

Petroleum is a major part of America’s energy picture. Shall we get it here or abroad?

By Sarah Palin

Given that we’re spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we’ll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will be powered, at least in part, by diesel fuel or gasoline. To fuel that driving, we need access to oil. The less use we make of our own reserves, the more we will have to import, which leads to a number of harmful consequences. That means we need to drill here and drill now.

We rely on petroleum for much more than just powering our vehicles: It is essential in everything from jet fuel to petrochemicals, plastics to fertilizers, pesticides to pharmaceuticals. Ac­cord­ing to the Energy Information Ad­min­is­tra­tion, our total domestic petroleum consumption last year was 19.5 million barrels per day (bpd). Motor gasoline and diesel fuel accounted for less than 13 million bpd of that. Meanwhile, we produced only 4.95 million bpd of domestic crude. In other words, even if we ran all our vehicles on something else (which won’t happen anytime soon), we would still have to depend on imported oil. And we’ll continue that dependence until we develop our own oil resources to their fullest extent.

Those who oppose domestic drilling are motivated primarily by environmental considerations, but many of the countries we’re forced to import from have few if any environmental-protection laws, and those that do exist often go unenforced. In effect, American environmentalists are preventing responsible development here at home while supporting irresponsible development overseas.

My home state of Alaska shows how it’s possible to be both pro-environment and pro-resource-development. Alaskans would never support anything that endangered our pristine air, clean water, and abundant wildlife (which, among other things, provides many of us with our livelihood). The state’s government has made safeguarding resources a priority; when I was governor, for instance, we created a petroleum-systems-integrity office to monitor our oil and gas infrastructure for any potential environmental risks.

Alaska also shows how oil drilling is thoroughly compatible with energy conservation and renewable-energy development. Over 20 percent of Alas­ka’s electricity currently comes from renewable sources, and as governor I put forward a long-term plan to increase that figure to 50 percent by 2025. Alaska’s comprehensive plan identifies renewable options across the state that can help rural villages transition away from expensive diesel-generated electricity — allowing each community to choose the solution that best fits its needs. That’s important in any energy plan: Tempting as they may be to central planners, top-down, one-size-fits-all solutions are recipes for failure.

For the same reason, the federal government shouldn’t push a single, uni­versal approach to alternative-powered vehicles. Electric cars might work in Los Angeles, but they don’t work in Alaska, where you can drive hundreds of miles without seeing many people, let alone many electrical sockets. And while electric and hybrid cars have their advantages, producing the electricity to power them still requires an energy source. For the sake of the environment, that energy should be generated from the cleanest source available.

Natural gas is one promising clean alternative. It contains fewer pollutants than other fossil fuels, it’s easier to collect and process, and it is found throughout our country. In Alaska, we’re developing the largest private-sector energy project in history — a 3,000-mile, $40 billion pipeline to transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to markets across the United States. Onshore and offshore na­tural gas from Alaska and the Lower 48 can satisfy a large part of our energy needs for decades, bringing us closer to energy independence. Whether we use it to power natural-gas cars or to run natural-gas power plants that charge electric cars — or ideally for both — natural gas can act as a clean “bridge fuel” to a future when more renewable sources are available.

In addition to drilling, we need to build new refineries. America currently has roughly 150 refineries, down from over 300 in the 1970s. Due mainly to environmental regulations, we haven’t built a major new refinery since 1976, though our oil consumption has increased significantly since then. That’s no way to secure our energy supply. The post-Katrina jump in gas prices proved that we can’t leave ourselves at the mercy of a hurricane that knocks a few refineries out of commission.

Building an energy-independent Amer­ica will mean a real economic stimulus. It will mean American jobs that can never be shipped overseas. Think about how much of our trade deficit is fueled by the oil we import — sometimes as much as half of the total. Through this massive transfer of wealth, we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year that could be invested in our economy. Instead it goes to foreign countries, including some repressive regimes that use it to fund activities that threaten our security.

Reliance on foreign sources of energy weakens America. When a riot breaks out in an OPEC nation, or a developing country talks about nationalizing its oil industry, or a petro-dictator threatens to cut off exports, the probability is great that the price of oil will shoot up. Even in friendly nations, business and financial decisions made for local reasons can de­stabilize Amer­i­ca’s energy market, since the price we pay for foreign oil is subject to rising and falling exchange rates. Decreasing our dependence on foreign sources of energy will reduce the impact of world events on our economy.

In the end, energy independence is not just about the environment or the economy. It’s about freedom and confidence. It’s about building a more secure and peaceful America, an America in which our energy needs will not be subject to the whims of nature, currency speculators, or madmen in possession of vast oil reserves.

Alternative sources of energy are part of the answer, but only part. There’s no getting around the fact that we still need to “drill, baby, drill!” And if those in D.C. say otherwise, we need to tell them: “Yes, we can!”

Bet You Didn't Know

This is Anita Dunn, the White House Communications Director whose charter is to get FNC.

She is part of Obama's inner circle, an adviser almost on a par with security risk David Axelrod. She is married to Obama's personal lawyer Robert Bauer.

Earlier this year, June 5, 2009, Dunn addressed an audience of High School students.

Glenn Beck nails Dunn with her own words.




Hey, other people have quoted Mao. Like Jim Jones, he was based in San Francisco.

Quotes from Mao Tse Tung 'Little Red Book':

You know the lizard flicks just drive me batty, what's with that 'tic'.

Obama Merchandise Collaspe

You have to watch this killer video by Evan Coyne Maloney, one of America’s sharpest young conservative film-makers. It’s called The Rise and Fall of ObamaMarketing and it reveals that, all of a sudden, no one wants to buy Obama T-shirts except for a handful of foreign tourists. Meanwhile, merchandise mocking the president is suddenly doing extremely well. But the best part of the film is listening to the naive garbage that Maloney persuaded Obama supporters to spout a few months ago. Already, it seems as dated as the euphoria surrounding Jimmy Carter’s election.







How is that hope and change working out for you? Are you one of the free loaders.

The Real War We Hve To Win

O-dumb-boy used to say that about Afghanistan, when he was trying to smear Bush and downplay the war of convenience, the Iraq war ... But now the genrals want 40,000 more troops to implement O-dumb-boy's new policy in Afghanistan. But seems like there are more pressing matters tha must be dealt with first, before we can fight "the right war".



Seems like it is just one glib never ending shuck and jive act with O-dumb-boy.

Beck-ed

Dollar's Plunge

"The biggest story in the world economy is the continuing fall of the U.S. dollar, or at least it is everywhere outside of Washington, D.C., the place most responsible for its declining value." -- The Wall Street Journal

News journalists in America hardly know what the truth is anymore, much less report factual news to the people.

The US Dollar has dropped about 37% and the news journalists seem to not care. The dollar's plunge is the biggest financial story on the planet. Here, from the FT, is the S&P 500 plotted after adjusting for the dollar's move relative to a broad index:


And here's the FT's take on it:

According to Corrigan, the chart — which is set to a logarithmic scale — shows the extent to which money illusion has boosted the apparent performance of US equities. As he explains:

Strip out the effect of the sickly greenback (by multiplying by the TWI) and we see that this bust has clearly spelt doom for a three-decade uptrend; that we are both hovering dangerously at the 50% mark of that whole move and also threatening to fail at the previous 2003 low. were that to occur, it could mean a much deeper unwind of the post-Tequila bubble era range.

Notice how Clinton and his policies moved the dollar off the straightline curve into unsustainable territory.

Chavez Takes Over the Hilton Hotel

Makes you want to head right down there for a lavish vacation stay, in the paradise that is commie Venezuela ... doesn't it.



As the Venezuelan economy closes in on Chavez, oil price imploding, he needs money, income sources, fast ... I guess his economic plan number 786,342,002 didn't work either. he needs money to pay his thugs, and hope the natives don't get too restless.

President Hugo Chavez has ordered the "acquisition by force" of a landmark Hilton Hotel on Venezuela's Margarita island, the government's Official Gazette announced Tuesday.
The facility, on the Caribbean resort island of Margarita in Nueva Esparta state, was targeted for state takeover less than a month after it was used to host the Africa-South America Summit.

"The acquisition by force of the real estate, furnishings, and related assets (...) of the Margarita Hilton & Suites Hotel Complex, along with the Marina owned by Inversiones Pueblamar y Desarrollos MBK, have been ordered," a presidential decree in the official register read.

The sprawling complex includes 280 rooms, 210 suites, a casino, stores, restaurants, offices and meeting areas, as well as the adjoining marina.

The assets will be held by the state tourism corporation Venetur, which reports to the Tourism Ministry, as part of an "urgent" effort to boost "the social development side of the tourism and hotel industries in Nueva Esparta state," the Gazette said.

It is not the first time Chavez's government has checked into a Hilton and stayed for good.

Caracas has already seized the Hotel Hilton in Caracas, rechristening it the Hotel Alba, a reference to the Venezuelan-led leftist regional alliance Alianza Bolivariana para las Americas

Lou Dobbs: Al Gore, "Not Evil Just Wrong" Global Warming Debate

First Mainstream Media TV news story about the planet not warming since 1998.

Phelim McAleer the director and producer of Not Evil Just Wrong, is debating Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund. You would think that a major public policy decision to tax us through Cap and Trade should be open for debate, especially in light of the new evidence man does not cause climate change, or global warming, or global cooling.

CO2 should not be the basis for any environmental legislation!

The ruling actually said the film had to include a disclaimer that the film was fiction and unproven film-making. The 11 inconvenient inaccuracies in the Inconvenient Truth.

Recently, the science behind the whole CO2 hoax has fallen flat. There is no real science left that is able to stand on it's own, and be tested by other scientists. The hockey stick fell when the people behind the hockey stick hoax finally had to disclose the complete data set and admit they had cherry picked the data. This post "The Yamal Implosion" explains the history of the hockey stick lies.

Government Plane

In all the talk about health care reform, it can get confusing what the future would look like. Here’s a fun video on health care reform where the public plan becomes a public plane and competes on the private market.





Planes help define government rationing health care. Make sure the private planes can still fly!

Sounds Vaguely Familiar, Doesn't It

Of course one of the things keeping outside investments down is the highest murder rates in the world, Caracas Venezuela had 130 murders per 100,000 people in 2008.

President Hugo Chavez is pressing Venezuela's private banks to increase lending in an attempt to trigger economic activity in the last months of the year, a move that could ram the financial industry against the wall.

A cornerstone of the government's economic stimulus plan is to rekindle lending to key industries, according to Chavez. His announcement comes as the government is wrestling with a 2.4% drop in economic activity in the second quarter, the first since 2003, and struggles to fight off a contraction for the year.

The president said Monday his administration is studying 54 measures to address four key areas: the drop in economic activity, inflation, the gap between the official and parallel exchange rate for U.S. currency, and commercial bank lending.

Seems like I have heard the same preaching from Obama .... hmmm hmmm, hmmph.

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You Lie

I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.. --- Barcky Hussein Obama, otherwise known as the liar.

87 percent of the revenue in the original Baucus proposal to finance Obamacare would come from individuals with incomes of less than $200,000.

Call A Plumber

Pelosi has a stopped up drain in her swamp.

Obama's Reich Says Old Folks Should Just Die, Quick, Save Money

He affirms that this is what an educated, honorable, realistic, democracy should support:

-Younger people should pay more

-Healthier people should pay more

-Older people should just die- they're "too expensive"

-There should be "less innovation" in medical technology

-You should not expect to live longer than your parents.

You heard it yourself, right here:

Top 10 Questions For Obama's Government Rationing of Healthcare Plan.

The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition has health care questions for the president.

Watch — then send them to the White House Reality Check squad!

Jive talking, a shuck and jive act that results in a dizzying circle of lies for the attendees.

White House Wants To End Fishing

A recently released White House document could result in the closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas. Shimano reported:

Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

Dave Pfeiffer, President of Shimano American Corporation explained, “In spite of extensive submissions from the recreational fishing community to the Task Force in person and in writing, they failed to include any mention of the over one million jobs or the 6o million anglers which may be affected by the new policies coast to coast. Input from the environmental groups who want to put us off the water was adopted into the report verbatim – the key points we submitted as an industry were ignored.”

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures. Through the Sport Fish Restoration program, anglers have provided more than $5 billion through excise taxes on fishing tackle to fishery conservation and education for decades.

In addition to the economic aspects, anglers lead the nation in volunteer conservation efforts on behalf of improving fish habitat, water quality and related environmental areas. “There was no mention of the fishery conservation efforts which anglers have led for over 50 years in every state – an environmental success story that has no equal in the world”, said Phil Morlock, Director, Environmental Affairs for Shimano. “The Task Force did not make any distinction between the dramatic differences between harmful commercial fishing harvest methods and recreational fishing, even though we spelled it out for them in detail,” added Morlock.

Claiming to be the result of a public consultation process the report states, “Having considered a broad range of public comments, this report reflects the requests and concerns of all interested parties.”

The original White House memo and not surprisingly the Task Force report contains multiple references to developing a national policy where Great Lakes and coastal regions are managed, “consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” - a 300-page treaty the U.S. has never ratified.

“We question what implications there will be for state authority and jurisdiction in the Great Lakes and coastal regions if the U.S. adopts the U.N. Treaty,” said Pfeiffer.

$10 trillion Or Else, Says UN

The scamsters want $10 trillion US dollars for their contrived hoax. And they want the money to be spent on nonexistent green energy, like I suppose wood stoves to heat food, like most of the world uses. One of the biggest problems in Africa is the stealing of wood from forests under UN control to produce illegal charcoal.

If excess CO2 is the problem, maybe reducing the burning of agricultural wastes in third world countries could go a long way. Here is a website "Fire Mapper" that tracks such activities using the AQUA satellite. It takes little to show where the fires are, and who is burning the Amazon Jungle ...

An investment of $10 trillion in renewable energy and other carbon-abatement technology will be necessary over the next two decades to limit the rise in the Earth's temperature, the International Energy Agency warns in a new report.

The IEA, energy adviser to the world's richest nations, urges more-aggressive reductions in carbon emissions than what many nations are currently planning. In the report, to be released Tuesday, the IEA calls for investment -- in clean-energy initiatives such as solar power, new nuclear plants and other measures -- of $500 billion a year over the next 20 years.

That is 37% more investment than what the IEA estimated was necessary just a year ago. Some analysts put the current level of investment in clean energy at around $100 billion a year.

The UN obviously thinks you are stupid, led by the stupid oafs in congress.

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Socialised Medicine, Death Sentence In England

In Great Britain, the elderly are having treatment withdrawn or being denied treatment and left to die. Read how one woman had to fight to save her mother. Do you really want a system similar to this in America? This is un-American.

From Times Online:

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.

Hypocritic Oaf

Win One For The Teleprompter

Empty Suit!

What Happens When You Run Out Of Other People's Money To Give Away ?

You print your own, what Obama is now doing. And what happens next? Perhaps there is a lesson in Venezuela?

Venezuela’s pestilent inflation again accelerated in September, with prices rising another 2.5 percent, compared with 2.2 percent in August and boosting the increase on a year before to 27.3 percent against 26.7 percent on the same measure of comparison.

The figures from the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) once more belied official claims that the government was getting on top of inflation, which continues to run at the highest level of any country in Latin America.

The only good news, such as it was, was that the accumulated increase for the year so far came out at 18.5 percent, compared with 21.8 percent during the first nine months of 2008. That, as one economist acerbically commented, “wasn’t that much of a compensation” in the circumstances.

The annualized rate is getting near the 30.9 percent recorded on the official index for last year, which exceeded the 25.5 percent chalked up in 2007and the 17.1 percent rise seen in 2007. Finance Minister Alí Rodríguez Araque has revised the original 2009 forecast from 15 percent (and before that 11 percent) to between 26 and 28 percent.

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Of course, the Obama administration said unemployment wouldn't go above 8% if we just pass this porkulus bill for his voters.

Words, Just Words

UAW, Ford to start Formal Talks On Contract Concessions

I wonder if the gold plated health care plans are on the table? Look everyone knows the reason GM, Chrysler and Ford can't compete is because of excessive union pay, benefits and retirement plans. Something foreign manufacturers had enough sense to realise weren't sustainable in an open market. So will GM and Chrysler survive, only if major concessions are made. Will Ford survive, probably, Ford has about 50% of their sales to other countries.

The United Auto Workers has summoned local union leaders to Detroit on Tuesday to discuss calls by Ford Motor Co. to match recent concessions the UAW gave to its cross-town rivals.

A UAW source said the union's national leadership is expected to ask for permission to begin formal negotiations with the Dearborn automaker on the proposed contract changes, which include a freeze on entry level wages, fewer job classifications for skilled trades workers and a "no strike" pledge.

The two sides have been talking informally for several weeks.

The UAW has special provisions in various health care bills, bills that are designed to lower the quantity and quality of Americans health care, but not those that are protected.

Breaking Awards

GM Sells All American Hummer To The Chinese

Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once epitomised America's love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker. Rumor has it that Hummer only brought $150 million of the expected $500 million sales price. During GM’s bankruptcy filings this summer, GM had hoped Hummer could bring over $500,000,000.

General Motors Co. and Chinese Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. finally signed the much-anticipated deal to sell the brand on Friday.

Tengzhong will get an 80 percent stake in the company, while Hong Kong investor Suolang Duoji, who indirectly owns a big stake in Tengzhong through an investment company called Sichuan Huatong Investment Holding Co., will get 20 percent. The investors will also get Hummer's nationwide dealer network.

AGW Hoaxers Go Silent

Anthony Watts has a good post on the deafening silence greeting the news of Antarctica's record-low snow-melt this summer.

Barack Czarface Obama the Windy City Windbag

ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations

What did you think ACORN was doing?

ACORN wants people to register to vote – as long as they’re Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash.

Here is a first-hand account of how it happens. In February 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying people three dollars for each voter they could register. ACORN paid her three dollars for each voter she registered, but Fatiyyah Muhammad says that the group threw out her votes and fired her when she brought them registrations of Republican voters.

Read the rest here, with video.

Isn't It Strange

Senior Citizen Speaks About Government Rationed Healthcare

Commie health care.

White House's Botched 'Doctor' Photo Op

President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet -- and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell AstroTurf health-care message.

In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op of 150 doctors to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama. Did anybody check to see they were actual doctors and not the usual, playing one on TV types.



On Sept 11, 2009, thousands of doctors rallied on the "green" with and without their own coats, with their own signs. They paid there own way as well. The White House must have seen this and decided to do their own 150 doctors flown in photo op.

Complete story at the 'one newspaper' who would cover it, the New York Post.

DMV Style Health Care

A parody PSA about Big Government and its plans to take over health care. A spoof of Will Ferrell's ad for MoveOn.org

Obama Conducts a Dictators Hootenanny.

Mark Levin: The real Obama Economy

Barron v. Baltimore

Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 243 (1833) established a precedent on whether the United States Bill of Rights could be applied to state governments.

John Barron co-owned a profitable wharf in the Baltimore harbor. He sued the mayor of Baltimore for damages, claiming that when the city had diverted the flow of streams while engaging in street construction, it had created mounds of sand and earth near his wharf making the water too shallow for most vessels. The trial court awarded Barron damages of $4,500, but the appellate court reversed the ruling.

The Supreme Court decided that the Bill of Rights, specifically the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that government takings of private property for public use require just compensation, are restrictions on the federal government alone. Writing for a unanimous court, Chief Justice John Marshall held "[t]hese [first ten] amendments contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the state governments. This court cannot so apply them." Barron v. Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243, 250.

The case was particularly important in terms of American government because it stated that the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights did not restrict the state governments. Later Supreme Court rulings would reaffirm this ruling of Barron, most notably United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875). However, beginning in the early 20th century, the Supreme Court has used the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states through the process and doctrine of selective incorporation. Therefore, as to most, but not all, provisions of the Bill of Rights, Barron and its progeny have been circumvented, if not actually overruled.

So this means the McDonald v. City of Chicago case should be a slam dunk. How could they possibly rule against the Bill of Rights? OK, I take that back, we have Dodomayor on the court now, and empathy rules apply.

It's interesting to note that McDonald is black and the original intent of the 14th Amendment's 'incorporation' provisions was to prevent the new 'freedmen' from being barred the ownership of arms.

SNL: Obama's Done Nothing

When NBC's SNL gets on the Oba-Mao's case, trouble is brewing for the mmmmm00000-saih.





Good news: The Leftwing Media has finally figured out that maybe there is something funny about Obama after all.

Democrat's Have A Plan

Wheel Of Misfortune

A little cartoon to brighten your day, even as Senate Democrats seem Hell-bent on trying to hit the dimmer switch on our economy ...

Here, Have A Sucker On Me!

Karl Rove whacks Juan Williams on Fannie and Freddie

Juan Williams, sitting in for Bill O'Reilly, steps in it when he accuses Rover and the Bush administration of doing nothing themselves to stop the financial melt down. That's when Rove explodes and Juan listens. Enjoy!

Magic Smoke Has Died

AGW, RIP

This article by Ross McKitrick appeared in today's Financial Post:

Flawed climate data -- Only by playing with the data can scientists come up with the infamous 'hockey stick' graph of global warming. And playing means faking it.

Beginning in 2003, I worked with Stephen McIntyre to replicate a famous result in paleoclimatology known as the Hockey Stick graph. Developed by a U.S. climatologist named Michael Mann, it was a statistical compilation of tree ring data supposedly proving that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years, then soared off the charts in the 20th century. Prior to the publication of the Hockey Stick, scientists had held that the medieval-era was warmer than the present, making the scale of 20th century global warming seem relatively unimportant. The dramatic revision to this view occasioned by the Hockey Stick's publication made it the poster child of the global warming movement. It was featured prominently in a 2001 report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as government websites and countless review reports.

Steve and I showed that the mathematics behind the Mann Hockey Stick were badly flawed, such that its shape was determined by suspect bristlecone tree ring data. Controversies quickly piled up: Two expert panels involving the U.S. National Academy of Sciences were asked to investigate, the U.S. Congress held a hearing, and the media followed the story around the world.

The expert reports upheld all of our criticisms of the Mann Hockey Stick, both of the mathematics and of its reliance on flawed bristlecone pine data. One of the panels, however, argued that while the Mann Hockey Stick itself was flawed, a series of other studies published since 1998 had similar shapes, thus providing support for the view that the late 20th century is unusually warm. The IPCC also made this argument in its 2007 report. But the second expert panel, led by statistician Edward Wegman, pointed out that the other studies are not independent. They are written by the same small circle of authors, only the names are in different orders, and they reuse the same few data climate proxy series over and over.

Most of the proxy data does not show anything unusual about the 20th century. But two data series have reappeared over and over that do have a hockey stick shape. One was the flawed bristlecone data that the National Academy of Sciences panel said should not be used, so the studies using it can be set aside. The second was a tree ring curve from the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, compiled by UK scientist Keith Briffa.

Briffa had published a paper in 1995 claiming that the Medieval period actually contained the coldest year of the millennium. But this claim depended on just three tree ring records (called cores) from the Polar Urals. Later, a colleague of his named F.H. Schweingruber produced a much larger sample from the Polar Urals, but it told a very different story: The medieval era was actually quite warm and the late 20th century was unexceptional. Briffa and Schweingruber never published those data, instead they dropped the Polar Urals altogether from their climate reconstruction papers.

In its place they used a new series that Briffa had calculated from tree ring data from the nearby Yamal Peninsula that had a pronounced Hockey Stick shape: relatively flat for 900 years then sharply rising in the 20th century. This Yamal series was a composite of an undisclosed number of individual tree cores. In order to check the steps involved in producing the composite, it would be necessary to have the individual tree ring measurements themselves. But Briffa didn't release his raw data.

Over the next nine years, at least one paper per year appeared in prominent journals using Briffa's Yamal composite to support a hockey stick-like result. The IPCC relied on these studies to defend the Hockey Stick view, and since it had appointed Briffa himself to be the IPCC Lead Author for this topic, there was no chance it would question the Yamal data.

Despite the fact that these papers appeared in top journals like Nature and Science, none of the journal reviewers or editors ever required Briffa to release his Yamal data. Steve McIntyre's repeated requests for them to uphold their own data disclosure rules were ignored.

Then in 2008 Briffa, Schweingruber and some colleagues published a paper using the Yamal series (again) in a journal called the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which has very strict data sharing rules. Steve sent in his customary request for the data, and this time an editor stepped up to the plate, ordering the authors to release their data. A short while ago the data appeared on the internet. Steve could finally begin to unpack the Yamal composite.

It turns out that many of the samples were taken from dead (partially fossilized) trees and they have no particular trend. The sharp uptrend in the late 20th century came from cores of 10 living trees alive as of 1990, and five living trees alive as of 1995. Based on scientific standards, this is too small a sample on which to produce a publication-grade proxy composite. The 18th and 19th century portion of the sample, for instance, contains at least 30 trees per year. But that portion doesn't show a warming spike. The only segment that does is the late 20th century, where the sample size collapses. Once again a dramatic hockey stick shape turns out to depend on the least reliable portion of a dataset.

But an even more disquieting discovery soon came to light. Steve searched a paleoclimate data archive to see if there were other tree ring cores from at or near the Yamal site that could have been used to increase the sample size. He quickly found a large set of 34 up-to-date core samples, taken from living trees in Yamal by none other than Schweingruber himself!Had these been added to Briffa's small group the 20th century would simply be flat. It would appear completely unexceptional compared to the rest of the millennium.

Combining data from different samples would not have been an unusual step. Briffa added data from another Schweingruber site to a different composite, from the Taimyr Peninsula. The additional data were gathered more than 400 km away from the primary site. And in that case the primary site had three or four times as many cores to begin with as the Yamal site. Why did he not fill out the Yamal data with the readily-available data from his own coauthor? Why did Briffa seek out additional data for the already well-represented Taimyr site and not for the inadequate Yamal site?

Thus the key ingredient in most of the studies that have been invoked to support the Hockey Stick, namely the Briffa Yamal series, depends on the influence of a woefully thin subsample of trees and the exclusion of readily-available data for the same area. Whatever is going on here, it is not science.

I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent. The surface temperature data is a contaminated mess with a significant warm bias, and as I have detailed elsewhere the IPCC fabricated evidence in its 2007 report to cover up the problem. Climate models are in gross disagreement with observations, and the discrepancy is growing with each passing year. The often-hyped claim that the modern climate has departed from natural variability depended on flawed statistical methods and low-quality data. The IPCC review process, of which I was a member last time, is nothing at all like what the public has been told: Conflicts of interest are endemic, critical evidence is systematically ignored and there are no effective checks and balances against bias or distortion.

I get exasperated with fellow academics, and others who ought to know better, who pile on to the supposed global warming consensus without bothering to investigate any of the glaring scientific discrepancies and procedural flaws. Over the coming few years, as the costs of global warming policies mount and the evidence of a crisis continues to collapse, perhaps it will become socially permissible for people to start thinking for themselves again. In the meantime I am grateful for those few independent thinkers, like Steve McIntyre, who continue to ask the right questions and insist on scientific standards of openness and transparency. - Ross McKitrick is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph, and coauthor of Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming.