Oh Boy This Is going To Leave a Mark

SNL skit ... "Martha Coakley, you are a disgrace," he continued. "You couldn't beat Dick Cheney for mayor of Berkeley"





Trying to reduce the effect of the Scott Brown victory, are we?

Tea Bags a-Falling On My Head

Digits

Obama On The Mythical CO2 Driven Greenhouse Effect

This funny from the WSJ:

The Greenhouse Effect--II
Our favorite moment in the State of the Union was when Obama said this:

I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.

To be sure, this was a "to be sure" sentence: The president went on to say global warming is worth fighting even if imaginary. But we liked this moment for two reasons: First, because the president felt obliged to acknowledge disagreement. Second, because his laughable assertion about "the overwhelming scientific evidence" was greeted with laughter. The climate-change climate has changed.

Venezuela Experiences Continuing Daily Mass Protests Against Chavez

The thing hanging from the policeman's waste is called a flail weapon -- Just in case he needs to render a barbaric beat down of the protesters. Probably shouldn't show this picture to the SEIU types, may give them ideas.

Police fired tear gas to chase off thousands of students demonstrating in the capital Friday, a sixth day of protests against President Hugo Chavez for forcing cable and satellite TV providers to cut opposition channels as well as to publicly voice their concerns surrounding the government’s electricity rationing plan for the capital.

Over two thousand students marched to the headquarters of the nationally owned electricity company (Corpoelec) in Caracas, where they were met by a barrage of metropolitan police that opened fire on them with tear gas and rubber bullets, leaving three wounded. The students had earlier changed the course of their march in order to avoid any possibility of confrontation.

Protesters in two other parts of Venezuela, Barquisimeto and Valencia, were also confronted by police and the National Guard. Two students were arrested and “several” retained injuries having been hit with rubber bullets.

Chavez warned that he will not let opposition sectors of Venezuela “burn” the country and warned that “if they continue down that road then [he] will be forced to take radical measures”, although he did not specify what these could be. These words were spoken on the backdrop of six consecutive days of opposition marches that have already left 2 dead.

More at laht.com

How Cold Is It In Minnesota ?

Cold enough to freeze your wind turbines, and stop your electricity.

From KSTP-TV:

“Wind turbines placed in cities across Minnesota to generate power aren’t working because of the cold temperatures.

The Minnesota Municipal Power Association bought 11 turbines for $300,000 each from a company in Palm Springs, Calif.

Special hydraulic fluid designed for colder temperatures was used in the turbines, but it’s not working, so neither are the turbines.

There is a plan to heat the fluid, but officials must find a contractor to do the work.”

I wonder what the electricity costs from a stopped windmill? And what you do when the windmill stops, along with your electricity? Anybody spot another problem with windmill use for electricity generation?

Sarah Palin on TOTUS' SOTU Address

This is brutal. It’s no wonder the lame-stream media and far left kooks hate her. Sarah Palin smacks the Narcissist in Chief down a few notches after his confusing and insulting SOTU Address on Wednesday.

From her Facebook Page:

Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.

He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”

He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.

He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.

Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.

He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.

He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.

He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.

He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.

He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?

He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.

He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?…

Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.

Our Lords And Ladys ...

Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'

From WND ..

It reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.

But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for "in-flight services" – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That's almost $1,000 per week.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.

"Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. "And these documents suggest the Speaker's congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else."

Meanwhile -- The Senate also voted to approve a $1.9 trillion boost in the amount of debt the federal government can take out. The measure passed by a 60 to 40 vote on strict party lines. It took the now illegal vote of Senator Temporary Kirk to break the filibuster. So why exactly is this now illegal Senator still voting? Democrats didn't get the memo the Massachusetts election has been held?

Rush Plays - Let Me Be Your Daddy

Rush has heart to heart with his boy Obama.

State of 'Polulist' Disaster

You Lie !!!

The State of Oops:

WOW: Meltdown in PA: Toomey up 14 over Specter other Democrat is down 15.

But wait, there’s more: ObamaCare now 20 points down — in CNN poll. Most polls it's down 20-25

Plus this: GOP Up 5 In Generic Congressional Ballot — Says NPR. Rasmussen has the generic ballot GOP up 9 points

I can't help but wonder how many Obama voters are now in a "State of Oops"

The Truth Flops Out

Hugo Chavez style government for America ... "We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle."





And I suppose the white poeple are supposed to be taxed for this new 'governing coalition' and all those freebies they are being promised. From health care on, right?

And so does the answer to these progressive tyrant wanna bee whackos:

Obama Vists Tampa Tomorrow ...

....... and the Tampa Tea Party people will be there to do a meet and greet.

I wonder if Crist will show?

Obama Speaking To A Room Of People On His Middle Class Task Force

One thing up front, government does not create jobs, it destroys jobs. Now that said, who drags out a teleprompter for a "stop by" six and a half minute speech to a task force ... And why would anyone do this?

Count the people in the room:





It's 43 minutes long, so you can jump out instead of listening to the Biden drone's lies. Go to minute 37 for the start of the seance speech.

Obama Explained: Operation American People

Explaining Obama's first year in less time than it takes to consume a cup of coffee ... roll tape ...

Full version:




Abridged version:




Just in case, Wile E Coyote is played by Obama.

Palin: Can you hear us now, Mr. President?

Sarah Palin stuck it to the president in her latest Facebook missive.

“Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people,” Palin said.

John McCain would have done better. Sarah Plain would have done better. Hillary Clinton would have done better. Heck, Joe Biden would have done better.

Palin’s post in its entirety:

Mr. President: Please Try, “I’m Listening, People,” Instead of “Listen Up, People!”

We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.

Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.

Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.

Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.

Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.

More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?

Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.

- Sarah Palin

Delaware Senate Race: Republican Castle Up 56%-27% Over Dem

WOW, just WOW. Biden's seat is really at great risk -- Rasmussen reported today that Republican Mike Castle leads likely democrat Chris Coons 56% to 27% in the Delaware Senate race:

A first look at Delaware’s U.S. Senate race following Beau Biden’s decision not to run shows why Democrats were hoping Biden would enter the race.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Delaware voters shows longtime GOP congressman Mike Castle leading New Castle County Executive Chris Coons 56% to 27%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and 13% are undecided.

The survey was taken Monday night following the announcement by Biden, the state’s Democratic attorney general, that he will not run for the Senate. In October, Castle led Biden 47% to 42% in a hypothetical match-up for the seat Biden’s father, now the vice president, held for 36 years.

The younger Biden’s decision, coming just after the upset GOP Senate win in Massachusetts, still took Democrats by surprise, particularly in a state that has trended blue in recent years.

Rubio Edges Crist In Florida Gop Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; President Obama Under Water As Voters Disapprove

Rubio is the real deal conservative, Crist is an Obama RINO. Even more surprising Rubio, the former State Speaker of the house, beats all likely Democrats by a wide margin as well. The tea party people are playing a big part of the campaign.

Rubio edges into the lead, says a surprised Quinnipiac polling group:

Former State House Speaker Marco Rubio has squeaked past Gov. Charlie Crist in the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, leading 47 - 44 percent and topping Gov. Crist on trust, values and conservative credentials, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Rubio beats the leading Democrat, South Florida Congressman Kendrick Meek, 44 - 35 percent in a general election matchup, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. Crist leads Meek 48 - 36 percent.

President Barack Obama is under water in Florida as voters disapprove 49 - 45 percent of his job performance, down from a 48 - 46 percent approval rating October 21.

Rubio's lead over Crist in the horse race represents a major reversal from October when the Governor led 50 - 35 percent; from August's 55 - 26 percent Crist lead and from June's lead of 54 - 23 percent.

"Who would have thunk it? A former state lawmaker virtually unknown outside of his South Florida home whose challenge to an exceedingly popular sitting governor for a U.S. Senate nomination had many insiders scratching their heads. He enters the race 31 points behind and seven months later sneaks into the lead," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "And, the horse race numbers are not a fluke. Rubio also tops Crist on a number of other measurements from registered Republicans, who are the only folks who can vote in the primary. Rubio's grassroots campaigning among Republican activists around the state clearly has paid off.

"President Obama, who enjoyed a 64 - 23 percent approval rating in Florida in the first post-inaugural poll last February, is now under water."

"It is a reasonable assumption that the anger towards incumbents we are seeing around the country has hurt the Governor, who is the virtual incumbent in this race," Brown added.

Europian Parliment And The AGW Fraud

First we had MEP Daniel Hannan eviscerating Gordon Brown for our YouTube delight, now we have another British MEP all fired up about global warming. When did the European Parliament become so entertaining?




Applause at the end !!!

Don't Try To Adjust Your Set

Let's celebrate ...

No Rules for Radicals

Sometimes It Takes A While To Read The Fine Print

Scott Brown Raised Some Serious Cash

According to the Boston Globe Scott Brown ended up raising $13M and has an astonishing $4M on hand with two years left to pad that amount before coming up for reelection.

Brown raised so much late money - about $1 million a day via the Internet at the end - that he couldn't spend it all. He ended the campaign with an estimated $4 million in his campaign account, spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. The campaign's original budget was $1.2 million, but it ultimately raised about $13 million. With a flush campaign account, Brown will enter office in a stronger position to defend against an almost certain challenge in 2012.
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The explosion of late spending was all the more remarkable because the campaign lacked excitement until the last 10 days, when polls showed it tightening, the national ramifications became clear, and a torrent of money poured into the Bay State as never before. Only a few weeks earlier, both campaigns were running on fumes after winning their respective primaries.
...

The Republican insurgent outspent Coakley, roughly $8.7 million to $5.1 million during the six weeks following the primaries, according to estimates provided by the campaigns. Coakley also received help from the national and state Democratic Party committees, who spent about $4.3 million, mostly on advertising and all of it in the last week, to prop up her wilting candidacy. Their GOP counterparts did not pay for any ads to help Brown. Outside interest groups also played a major role, with seven organizations spending nearly $2.7 million to help Brown, and five others spending more than $1.8 million on Coakley's behalf.

Tea Party people added the rocket fuel to the last 10 days of the campaign. As Axelrod said "we didn't see it coming".

Turbines Drafting

Turbine Contrails: Clouds form in the wake of the front row of wind turbines at the Horns Rev offshore wind farm near Denmark.

Creating weather? At the very least it shows the problem with stacking windmills in neat rows and columns. Didn't the Dutch learn this some time ago?

OR -- Did the turbines learn this trick from NASCAR to reduce their required efforts?

Oops, Sorry

Getting It Done: The Year In Obama-Led Health Care Reform

The year in review ... And then there was the Senator Scott Brown election to Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts ... phttttt a year wasted, a year the American people will not soon forget.

ZERO needs refresher course on 'consent of the governed'.

The GHOST of Ted Kennedy Speaks!!

Democrat Evolution

Oracle-Sun Deal Gets Green Light

TODAY: The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.

Oracle is free to combine with Sun without any restrictions, meaning it does not have to spin off MySQL, Sun's open-source database that was the primary subject of the EC's review.

"Although MySQL and Oracle compete in certain parts of the database market, they are not close competitors in others, such as the high-end segment," the EC launched last year by MySQL founder Monty Widenius. "Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products," EC competition commissioner Neelie Kroes, said in a statement.

Rivals such as IBM, VMware, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, have started preparing for a combined Oracle and Sun as a much larger competitor bringing together their respective hardware and software assets. Many have speculated the Oracle-Sun combination was among several reasons for last week's a MySQL migration tool for its SQL Server database.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison next Wednesday will outline the merged company's strategy during a five-hour presentation at its Redwood Shores, Calif. headquarters

The Day Obama Care Died

Hitler Figures Out Scott Brown Won

Obama Says: Just A Flesh Wound I Tell You

Obama the black knight ... Virgina, New Jersey and now Massachusetts, just a flesh wound I tell you.

The Brown Revolution

Just because you wanted Republicans out, didn't mean you wanted Obama fundamentally changing America .... Republicans still are not that popular -- Unless they take that 'Brown' lesson to heart and get back to their conservative small government roots, they will remain on the outs.

Scott Brown campaigned as a Reagan Conservative. He backed Reagan's way and it worked. Reagan won Massachusetts, twice.

Tweeting The News

We now enter the era of crowd sourced journalism, where you avoid the lame-stream media and source your own news.

Welcome to the citizen based news bureau. And what happened in Massachusetts and the Scott Brown election. Blogs add the context ...

We Are All Socialists Now

Burning Down The House: What Caused The Mortgage Mess

Time for a refresh ... Both parties are at fault, both parties are playing the American people for suckers, while destroying our financial system. The comments by then Pres Clinton on the final video around the six menite mark are really important.





Fannie and Fredie need half a trillion more to be healthy ... So Obama gives them a blank check, while you were snoozing.

The Treasury announced Thursday it was removing the caps that limited the amount of available capital to the companies to $200 billion each.
Unlimited access to bailout funds through 2012 was "necessary for preserving the continued strength and stability of the mortgage market," the Treasury said. Fannie and Freddie purchase or guarantee most U.S. home mortgages and have run up huge losses stemming from the worst wave of defaults since the 1930s.
"The timing of this executive order giving Fannie and Freddie a blank check is no coincidence," said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee. He said the Christmas Eve announcement was designed "to prevent the general public from taking note."

And then what happened, how the financial world got stuffed with government backed useless paper. Wall street people tried to unload the crap:

All roads to this crash of the financial system lead through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ...








This all started in the Carter years with the CRA for primarily low income home buyers -- Otherwise known as unqualified buyers. 1977's Community Reinvestment Act(CRA) which required banks and savings institutions to make loans to the lower-income areas in the communities they served. Read that as unqualified buyers, that was the goal, give loans to those who could not afford to repay, it was only fair, don't you know.

Then in the 1990s, the Clinton and Democrat obsession with doing away with the nonexistent process of 'redlining' continued. The sub-prime loans were bundled and shipped off to Fannie and Freddie and others to use as collateral to back up requirements for capital at those institutions.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate income families -- ACORN, who was pushing this practice on all fronts, was street agitator Obama's employer -- Obama was one of the lawyers who represented ACORN in forcing more sub-prime loans. The threats to banks and others who wouldn't take the sub-prime loans on continued. All was fine since FANNIE and FREDDIE were backing up the paper.

In 1999 -- An agreement between the Clinton administration and congressional Republicans, sets the stage for passage of the most sweeping banking deregulation bill in American history, lifting virtually all restraints on the operation of the financial system. The result was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999.

The certain result of repeal of most of the remaining restrictions of Glass-Steagall it was thought there would be a wave of new money pumped into the unqualified buyer home market -- Most saw this as an area of expansion of market. The Wall Street Journal wrote, "With the stroke of the president's pen, investment firms like Merrill Lynch & Co. and banks like Bank of America Corp., are expected to be on the prowl for acquisitions." The financial press predicted that the most likely mergers would come from big banks acquiring insurance brokerage companies, with John Hancock, Prudential and The Hartford all expected to be targeted.
Short history of the Glass-Steagal Act up until it's repeal in 1999. It took $100s of millions in lobbyist payoffs to Congress people before Glass-Steagall was finally repealed.
Then came the American Dream Down payment Initiative(ADDI - 2003), which essentially made loan qualification, credit checks and other standard procedures when lending money for home mortgages, a form of discrimination. It was then off to the races, the rest as they say is history.

Bush tried to reinstate regulations and increase real capital margins in 2003 and McCain tried in 2005 to blow the whistle on this 'ponsie scheme' of home mortgages, but both attempts were blocked by Sen Dodd and Rep Barney Frank banking committee chairs in the respective Houses. In 2008, there were 18 additional instances of President Bush trying to call attention to the looming crisis before the financial system went off the rails -- But it was too late.

In the end it was all about massive liberal social engineering, the massive desire to get rid of financial controls which prevented home loans to unqualified people -- People that would have no chance of paying the loans back. Yep, illegals as well, bought sub-prime mortgage houses, most of which have hightailed it back over the border.

Well it has all came crashing down. And Obama is making it worse with each passing day.





And now over a trillion will have been poured down the Democrat pit ...

Massachuetts Sends Shot Heard Round The World

In a stunning reversal of fortunes for the progressives, the Tea Party people beat back tyranny of the majority, and save freedom and liberty to fight another day. The party that stuck to their principles, won the day. That is some lesson to take away from the Massachusetts Senate election.

In the bluest of blue state, in the bluest of blue races, the American people have spoken, loud and clear. Even tin-eared Obama can hear the shout out. WE DON'T WANT GOVERNMENT RATIONED ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY NOT GOVERNMENT RATIONED HEALTH-CARE!!!



From the UK Telegraph:

President Barack Obama is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after Scott Brown, a little known Republican, took the senate seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy

In what is being called the most momentous political shock in the United States for a generation, the victory of Mr Brown, a state senator and property lawyer, means that the Democrats have lost the 60-seat majority in the senate that enables them to close debate on legislation.

The president's cherished health care reform is now in grave danger of failing or being forced back to the drawing board, along with plans to tax carbon emissions and other ambitious items on his agenda.

Mr Brown won by 52 per cent to 47 per cent over Democrat Martha Coakley, the state's attorney general who ran an unexciting campaign, took Christmas week off and misspelled the state's name in an advertisement.

The vote was however seen chiefly as a referendum on health care and Barack Obama's first year in office, the anniversary of which falls today.

A packed hotel ballroom in Boston erupted in jubilation when the news of his victory was announced by Ayla Brown, the candidate's daughter. A former American Idol finalist, she had just taken the stage to perform and promptly burst into a rendition of Dancing in the Street.

We are Americans, tyrants need not apply.

They Did It: Scott Brown WINS!!!

SCOTT BROWN, the 41st vote!!!!

Kerry Draws EPIC Crowd in Worchester

From Red Mass Group:
They had John Kerry, their sitting US Senator, Jim McGovern their sitting US Congressman (and a supporter of terrorists), Tim Murray, our sitting Lt Governor and former mayor of Worcester, and the current mayor of Worcester, Joe O'Brien. They still ONLY turned out about maybe 150 people. Two hours later there were thousands showing up for Scott a couple blocks down the street. I thought this was pathetic and showed the weakness of their campaign.

Massachusetts Miracle

If you are in Massachuetts, vote Liberty -- VOTE SCOTT BROWN!!!

Scott Brown Worcester Rally

Obama Heckled At Coakley Rally

The heckling went on for 3-4 minutes, at the University hall, they wouldn't let Obama talk. I know the leftist thought it was so much fun to watch those lady's in pink shout down Bush ... So what say you about this?




As a note, the last time Obama had a rally in Boston in Feb 2008, about 10,000 showed up. He saw no need to return -- But now, the magic is gone, even the hopey-changers deserting the socialist ship.

Coakley -- Obama: Fail

It's not over until it's over ... It’s not over until ACORN counts the votes ... Don’t give up now folks, keep the heat turned on HIGH ...


Was the problem? "WAS the problem? .... She was slow walking the inevitable win, she thought she had won the election when she won the primary. Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall at a university. Attendance at the 3000 seat hall was about 2000.

CNN doesn't do much better:



Meanwhile across town it was a mob scene:

A REPORT FROM THE SCOTT BROWN RALLY AT WORCESTER: “It’s an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It’s mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.”

Meanwhile, reader Sean Fitzpatrick writes: “Pictures don’t do justice. Nothing like this in Mass since JFK. Worcester rally starts in thirty minutes and the streets are already packed.” Here’s a pic.


Brown Rally, out in the streets photo above.


UPDATE: Fitzpatrick sends another picture from inside the hall, and comments: “If the Brown campaign were worried that they wouldn’t fill the hall then they needn’t have. It is standing room only and the hall management is concerned about OVERcrowding.”

Inside the hall Brown rally photo below.



I like the “Whole World Is Watching” sign at the lower left.

Ray Stevens

Yes, We Can

Don't Look For Snook: Cold Snap Forces Snook Fishing Ban

Florida State wildlife regulators have closed fishing for snook, bonefish and tarpon because of damage to fish stocks caused by last week's freezing temperatures.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday banned fishing for snook until Sept. 1, 2009. The commission also banned fishing for bonefish and tarpon until April 1, 2009. All three are popular game fish.

The bans are intended to let fish populations recover from cold-related fatalities. It will also give researchers time to assess the scope of damage caused by the weather, FWC Chairman Rodney Barreto said in a written statement.

Last week's freezing temperatures caused widespread fish kills in rivers, Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

The order also lets people remove cold-killed fish from the water and from shorelines without buying a permit. The fish can't be eaten and must be disposed of properly.

If Obamacare is so Great, Why So Many Exemptions ?

Firefox 3.6, Real Soon Now

FireFox 3.6 RC1 The Next Version, Is Now Available.

Feeling adventurous? If so, you can try out the release candidate of the upcoming new version of FireFox, 3.6. The 7.7 MB download will give you a taste of what’s to come in this version, and we’re talking about some very interesting changes. I am using 3.6 on my Ubuntu 9.10 box right now. It runs slightly faster on my aged P-4 3.0 GHz box, the old box is a good test for low end laptop useage.

FireFox 3.6 runs on the well-tested Gecko 1.9.2 web-rendering platform, bringing support for new web technologies, better speed, stability, faster start-up and load times, as well as improved Javascript performance.

As far as new features go, perhaps the most interesting one is 'Personas', which lets users change the appearance of the browser with one click. Furthermore, the new Firefox will alert you when your plugins are out of date, and, finally, it’s optimized for small device operating systems, for example Windows CE and Maemo.

See the release notes for Firefox 3.6 RC1 here, and download it here. The latest version of FireFox is 3.5.7, upgrade if you are not at the least revision, there are some important security updates in there.

Additionally it looks like FireFox 3.7 has died off in favor of smaller updates with a shorter update time frame. These updates will come automatically, bypassing one major problem, users not doing timely security updates. The feature changes should be small in nature.

I just updated my Thunderbird browser to version 3.0, and have to say the changes were major and took some time to get used to. I doubt most users would be too happy with the upgrade, at least at first.

For users programs that are now deemed critical, I think the slower upgrade of features may be far more desirable than dumping entirely new versions out.

Massachusetts Doom Watch

Democrats for Coakley have some new ads up ...





A little fun...

NASA Implicated in ClimateGate

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, January 14, 2010 Source: KUSI-TV

Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14th at www.kusi.com.

In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations.

The report is available online at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceref.com ...

Should be an Internet vidoe later ...

America's Culture Of Greed

Black Liberation Theology as taught by the Rev Wright, to his student Barrack Obama:





And yesterday this 'Greed culture' killing planet:

The consumer culture has spread from America across the globe, it said, with excess now accepted as a symbol of success in developing countries from Brazil to India.

"That's just how white folks will do you." -- Barack Obama

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke at the 60th anniversary of the Marxist magazine, Monthly Review, with his usual blast at America — “the land of the greed and the home of the brave, excuse me, the land of the greed and the home of the slave” — an irony because decades of preaching hate of America to middle-class and yuppie black people in Chicago made him a millionaire who can live in a gated community that is 97% white.

I listened to this Marxist Wright and laughed. I only had to listen to a few minutes of this to realize what a Marxist and narcissist this man is. Our president spent 20 years in his pews and wrote a tribute to him?

And Obama? That's self evident, isn't it?

Michelle Obama's "Plastic Turkey"

Of course, President Bush didn't actually serve a plastic turkey in Iraq for Thanksgiving. The lefturds and their community-based reality made that up and even the NY Times ran a correction noting that the turkey was real, not fake. But that hasn't stopped roughly half of Americans from believing in the myth of the Bush served a plastic turkey.

The Left milked that non-event for all it was worth, squawking about phony presidents and staged photo-ops.

Enter Michelle Obama, who couldn't be more fake.

Congress Will Get The Point(s) in November

Coakley Aide Shoved Reporter To The Ground

The journalist was Weekly Standard reporter/blogger John McCormack -- He asked a question about Coakley saying 'there were no terrorists in Afghanistan'.





The aide is Obama appointee, Michael Meehan, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Broadcasting Board of Governors(BBG) in November. He has not been confirmed. An aide to a Republican senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, which handles nominations to the BBG, says the shoving incident “will certainly be an issue if the White House continues to back his nomination.”

Here is a still photo of Coakley watching as the reporter is pushed to the ground. She later said she didn't see anything or something equally stupid like that... Why is that important, she is the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and is the top law enforcement officer of the State.



How's that hopey changey thing working out for you? You like watching your country destroyed by thugs? Did you miss the Rev Wright's videos, Wright was Obama's mentor and pastor for 20 odd years, the videos of his sermons were going around before the election... You did watch them, didn't you? If you had you would know what Black Liberation Theology is all about.

By the way, this type of tactic is taught to body guards, how to shove people to the ground and keep walking, so they can't get back up.

Did The Tea Party Already Win Massassachuets??

Tea Party fervor becomes real in the minds of elected Democrats ... And they’re being forced to combat the very real fact that if it can happen in the bluest of blue State, it can happen in Arkansas or Nevada or Virginia, anywhere -- and out of the blue sky the attack can come.

In a sure sign that the people don't like being pushed around by Democrat Party tyranny ... win, lose or draw, did Scott Brown already WIN? The speed of the Tea Party strike on Massachusetts has taken everyone by surprise. It was a carefully timed well thought out sneak attack. The "money-bomb" was timed to give Scott Brown's campaign the biggest push at gaining momentum so it could carry him to victory.

Who would have expected this ...

The Tea Party "money-bomb" attack stunned the Democrats, striking deep into enemy territory, in the bluest of blue with the bluest of blue race in the country. And WOW, did it hit home. The Tea Party "money-bomb" for Scott Brown added in excess of $1.3 million, from a hoped for $500,000, it scored beyond wildest dreams.

The fact that this is a race at all, much less a neck and neck race, the fact that it’s being treated like a must win race for Democrats over the final week is itself a victory that tells important tales for both parties. A narrative for 2010 didn’t have to wait beyond the first month of the new year to get written. The Tea Party people are the deadly enemy of tyranny, now finding a home in the Democrat party. They now must be taken serious, but who is their leader, how do they attack them. Their leader can't be attacked, because there is no leader, there is only their unity of purpose, around principles and values(Beck's 9/12 project).

Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza write in The Washington Post. “A victory, or even a narrow loss, by Brown in the competition for the symbolically important seat would be interpreted as another sign that voters have turned away from the Democrats at the start of the midterm election year.”

The latest Gallup Poll numbers shows new lows, a 37 percent approval for the president’s handling of health care, and 40 percent approval on the economy. Most pollsters are reporting the president is polling in the mid 40s on overall aproval. A sign buyer's remorse is cutting across all political classes.

If Coakley loses, health care and the Obama agenda of tyranny for America is dead. The final battle will be the election of 2010.

Bombs away ...

Chavez: Venezuela Announces Power-Rationing Plan

The latest Communist paradise, Venezuela, enters a new phase. Apparently the water level of the lake that runs the generators has reached new lows, the grid is having huge failure problems.

The Venezuelan government will kick off a nationwide power-rationing plan, the nation’s electricity minister said.

Official news agency ABN cited Angel Rodriguez as saying that directors of the state-owned National Electric Corporation will explain to the public how the measure will be applied in each region so that people can take the necessary precautions.

“We expect that the information provided will allow the kind of problems that can be caused by this kind of action to be minimized,” the minister said.

Rodriguez said that the measures, set to take effect Tuesday, seek to promote a level of energy savings that will keep the country active.

The minister warned that, if these measures are not observed, the descent in the water level at Guri Dam, which powers plants that generate 70 percent of Venezuela’s electricity, will put the country in a “critical” situation by the end of February.

“We’re trying to avoid Guri putting us in a very critical situation by the end of February. A general blackout in the country,” Rodriguez said.

If the measures for saving energy are applied adequately, the country can manage until the start of the rainy season and the dam fills up again, he said.

Chavez Hits The Poor -- Hard

UPDATE: Venezuelan Stores Closed for Boosting Prices after Devaluation

A must read editorial from IBD: Chavez Hits The Poor

Latin America: For all his pious talk about sticking up for the little guy, Hugo Chavez clobbered Venezuela's poor over the weekend by devaluing their currency. When are his apologists going to learn?

Over the weekend, ordinary Venezuelans lined up in panic to buy TV sets as a hedge against inflation. Seems even small electronic devices will hold their value better than Venezuela's bolivar, which Chavez devalued as much as 50% last Friday.

The sophisticated classes had seen this coming and made arrangements. But, as usual, the TV set hedge was a last refuge for the poor.

Bellowing about speculators and blaming businesses for his own incompetence, the Venezuelan strongman Sunday declared that the bolivar currency's value would be reduced 21% to 2.6 bolivars per dollar, from 2.15 per dollar — but that only to import food, buy medicine or pay bureaucrats.

Anything else and the little guy pays 4.3 bolivars to the dollar, a more than 50% devaluation. Any merchant caught raising prices gets expropriated. And Chavez would send the army out after him.

But contrary to Chavez's claims, it's not the speculators who are going to pay. It's the very poor. And for a dictator who claims to champion them, the mask is coming off.

"I think what this is is a collapse of a strategy, not a desired policy," said Harvard University's Ricardo Hausmann, an expert on the Venezuelan economy. "It's a defeat. It is the recognition of failure." But in creating a two-tier system instead of a free float, it's also the same socialist control that means more devaluations ahead.

For starters, it's a tax. "The government has decided to recognize the massive accumulated inflation in the country and is trying to increase the purchasing power of the (dwindling) dollars it has . .. (by selling) dollars to the private sector at a higher price," explained Hausmann. "In the short run, this is like a tax on the sale of dollars."

Despite Chavez's devaluation, it didn't even keep up with free market signals. In Venezuela's black market, traders today sell dollars for 6.25 bolivars apiece. They're betting on more turmoil to come.

Venezuela has managed to rack up $800 billion in hard-dollar earnings for its oil exports in the last 10 years but owing to gross mismanagement, has devalued repeatedly as if it had no money at all. This has hurt local businesses, which depend on imports. As the devaluations pile up and the poor lose their savings, they're panicking.

It's what happens when you devalue your currency.

Marco Rubio -- Cover Of New York Times Magazine

This past Sunday, the New York Times Magazine featured Marco on its cover, highlighting how his message of limited government, free enterprise, traditional values and individual freedom is energizing Floridians in this U.S. Senate race.

The cover story is a lengthy one, but it’s worth a read. Here are some notable excerpts:

Rubio, a self-styled “movement conservative” whose parents were exiled from Castro’s Cuba, is a great hope to a party that has suffered an exodus of Hispanic voters in recent elections. He made the cover of National Review, won the endorsement of the Club for Growth, a conservative imprimatur and A.T.M., and has drawn big love from George Will, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh, the Palm Beach resident. Sarah Palin has not spoken publicly about the race, but Rubio supporters who met her during book stops in Florida say she spoke glowingly of Rubio, and it would surprise no one if she endorsed him.

Crist has all along been the establishment candidate, whose blessings from entities like John McCain, the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, John Cornyn, are seen by many conservatives as proof that Crist is the same-old vintage of Republican from the party’s 2006 and 2008 debacles. “Conservatives don’t need to be served these cookie-cutter candidates like Charlie Crist,” the conservative blogger Michelle Malkin said in a speech to conservative women, which I attended last summer in Nashville. “Otherwise we’re just going to keep getting the same results.” The room exploded in applause. It was the first time I had heard of Marco Rubio. Everyone else in that room of hard-core activists seemed to know exactly who he was.

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He speaks fast, off the cuff and with great self-assurance, reminiscent of a not-yet-humbled dot-com entrepreneur from the late 1990s. He tells the story of his father, who emigrated from Cuba and worked 16-hour days into his 70s as a banquet bartender to support his wife and four children. “My father stood behind rollaway bars, just like this one, so I could stand behind this podium talking to you,” he said. His mother worked as a hotel maid and a stock clerk at Kmart.

Even when standing in one place, Rubio is a quivering bundle, his right leg shaking behind the lectern. He jackhammers his message about America’s exceptional status in the world. “This is the only society in history where your future is not determined by where you were born,” he said. “I believe that the United States of America is the greatest society in the history of humanity.” America is unique for its belief in limited government, he says, not because it is anointed. “Does God love us more than Belgium?” he asked. “No.”

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The centerpiece of his speech is a sweeping homage to conservative principle. “We are not debating stimulus bills or tax codes,” he said. “We are debating the essence of what government should be and what role it should play.”

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I asked Rubio if he was surprised at the national attention he was receiving. That day, he had learned that he would be the keynote speaker next month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual confab of the right in Washington. He sucked his teeth in an exaggerated grimace. “I’m not a fan of personality-based politics,” Rubio said. “Very third worldish.” People who pin their trust and faith in a person are bound to be disappointed, he said. “I’m just a messenger for a set of ideas.”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Marco Rubio has attended a few Tea Party Events, he is a good candidate and will do Florida and Conservatives proud in the US Senate.

You Can't Fix Chicago Stupid

Climate change and the 'Chicago Way' --- We say it's global warming, you say it's global warming -- Capice?

Lester Kinsolving asked the question, the White House reporter for wnd.com

Gibbs: "I think that one only has to step outside here or visit where I used to work in Chicago to understand that climate change, and the record temperature that climate change is likely causing, is with us....I would say that eve in places that are used to getting very cold weather, record cold...our weather patterns have been affected by change in our climate"

Finally a sane and accurate White House reporter joins the corps. Visit wnd.com daily. So let me see if I got it --- Record low temperatures will be the result of climate change, record high temperatures in the summer is the result of climate change ... uh huh.

How To Spot A Bigot

What Obama Can Learn From Communist China

They're Communists after all ... Less tax, better growth (China Daily)

Strong fiscal revenue growth has long been deemed as solid evidence of the Chinese economy's resilience as last year's double-digit increase in fiscal revenue clearly shows.

But if China is to boost consumer-led growth by improving income distribution, policymakers must take another examination at the current rise in fiscal revenues.

Yes, more taxes do enable the government to better finance public investment and expand public services. But a bigger tax burden can also undermine the country's endeavor to change its growth model by relying more on domestic spending than on investment and export for growth.

During most of 2009, tax and financial authorities had repeatedly expressed their worries about how to meet the fiscal revenue growth target of 8 percent that was regarded as necessary for budgetary concerns.

As the worst global recession in more than 70 years slowed China's economic growth to 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest in a decade, the country's fiscal revenue shrank 8.3 percent over the same period last year.

And Obama says ??

Scott Brown Soaring - "The People's Seat"

With all due respect, it is not Ted Kennedy’s seat, it is not the Democrats seat, it is the People’s Seat.

Role that around on the tip of your tongue for a few minutes

'IT IS NOT KENNEDY'S SEAT, IT IS THE PEOPLE'S SEAT'

Scott's campaign collects over a million with Monday's Internet 'money bomb' and then debates last night ... Try this juicy tidbit:

UPDATE: now totals over $1.3 million collected.




Nice to have an biased moderator, Democrat 'gurgles' and then watch this biased stooge get slapped down by Brown.