Batman's Manifestoes

Soledad O'Brien: Left wing hysterical ding bat

2012-03-08T17:22:00.000-06:00

This is a bit long, but very insightful on yet another idiot CNN "journalist." Notice how defesive and cocky Soledad O'Brien gets with Breitbart.Com editor Joel Pollack...she even has to have one of her lefty loon sidekicks jump in when Pollack is schooling her.

BTW - Soledad didn't know what she was talking about either...as backed up by UCLA School of Public Affairs ‘Critical Race Theory’--- CNN’s Soledad O’Brien makes False Claim about ‘Critical Race Theory’ and White Supremacy

Perhaps this is why she was so defensive...she's an apparent Bell fan:

More to the story:

Did Soledad O’Brien Rely On Wikipedia Cliffs Notes When Joel Pollak Confronted Her?

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s venomously sarcastic interview with Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak culminated with her throwing out her definition of “Critical Race Theory” in the heat of her interview over the Obama/Bell Tapes released last night. Pollak had already requested that O’Brien define the term more than once, and at the 1:45 mark in the video below, she finally does. One problem–O’Brien’s definition appears to be lifted almost word-for-word from a wikipedia page, presumedly hurriedly communicated to Soledad in the midst of her interview.

Apology necessary?

2012-03-07T17:41:00.000-06:00

Don't like it, head south of the Rio Grande.

Silly and sickening. When exactly did it become racist to chant USA? I guess since people started working full time at being offended.

School apologizes for its “racist” chant of … “USA! USA! USA!”
After a high school boys basketball championship game last weekend, a handful of Texas high school kids chanted “USA! USA! USA!” to celebrate their school’s win. Trouble is, the losing team interpreted the cheer as a … racist chant. KENS 5 of San Antonio reports:

Hear that last line? "Some of the students involved were Hispanic themselves."
So, what does that mean? Self hating Hispanics?

Big winner and loser

2012-03-07T13:28:00.001-06:00

District Nine in Ohio (where my in-laws live and wife grew up) was recently redrawn. As a result, two sitting Democrats had to run against each other in the primary. Dennis J. Kucinich LOST to Rep. Marcy Kaptur.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffers primary defeat in Ohio

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential candidate and icon of the antiwar left, suffered a bruising primary defeat Tuesday as a new Republican-drawn congressional map threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in Congress.

With most attention focused on the state’s GOP presidential primary battle, and no Democratic primary for president, Kucinich was left in a low-turnout race in a newly drawn district against his once-close ally, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).

With about 90 percent of the vote in, Kaptur led 60 to 36 percent.

In that same district, Joe the Plumber (whom I met in April 2009) WON the Republican Primary last night and will face Rep. Marcy Kaptur in November.

'Joe the Plumber' wins Ohio primary, faces tough race in November

I MET (TRACKED HIM DOWN) JOE IN APRIL 2009

An Ohio plumber thrust into national politics during the 2008 presidential campaign has won the Republican nomination in his home state as he makes a bid for Congress.

Samuel Wurzelbacher gained the nickname "Joe the Plumber" for expressing working-class concerns about taxes to then-candidate Barack Obama during a stop to the region.

The Toledo-area plumber defeated Steve Kraus, a Sandusky real estate agent, early Wednesday to grab the GOP nomination in Ohio's 9th Congressional District.

Super Tuesday 2012

2012-03-06T21:45:00.000-06:00

The Watts Family cast 4 votes for Newt Gingrich today in Tennessee.

The results thus far:
Santorum wins Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota
Romney wins Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts
Gingrich wins Georgia
Paul wins...nothing

Not called as of 9:45pm:
Ohio, Idaho, Alaska

Called late last night:
Romney wins Ohio, Idaho, Alaska
*Sarah Palin voted for Newt in the Alaska Caucus

What the Fluke?

2012-03-05T19:19:00.000-06:00

More coming out about this poor girl that just wants what's best for women...like sex changes apparently.

Sandra Fluke Argued for Mandatory Coverage for Sex-Change Surgery

Rather belatedly, we are becoming aware that this supposedly typical Georgetown coed is not very typical at all:

[B]irth control is not all that Ms. Fluke believes private health insurance must cover. She also, apparently, believes that it is discrimination deserving of legal action if “gender reassignment” surgeries are not covered by employer provided health insurance. She makes these views clear in an article she co-edited with Karen Hu in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
The title of the article . . . is “Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons” and was published in the Journal’s 2011 Annual Review.

Remember, as Byron York previously reported, Fluke was rejected as a last-minute substitute witness at a Feb. 16 committee hearing because staffers for Chairman Issa were unable to discover Fluke’s claim to expertise relevant to the subject of the hearing. This law school journal article is the sort of thing that might have been discovered about Fluke’s background, had the Democrats who put Fluke forward as a witness done so with the usual 72-hour advance notice. Here’s one brief quote from the article:

Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label the surgery as cosmetic or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered.

Now, imagine Fluke trying to defend this language about “heterosexist” policies in a public hearing, with Republican members of the committee questioning her about whether religious institutions (or private businesses, or taxpayers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gender reassignment.”

Congratulations, America: You’ve been scammed!

Jesse and AL - M.I.A.

2012-03-04T18:19:00.000-06:00

Not one word about this being a "racially motivated" attack...probably not enough evidence to support that.

(Black) Pair Set 13-Year-Old (White) Boy On Fire
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 13-year-old Kansas City boy is back home after two teenagers poured gasoline on him and lit him on fire.

It happened Tuesday at the teen's home on Quincy Avenue, just down the street from Kansas City's East High School. The boy lives less than two blocks away from the school and was walking home when the attack happened.

Melissa Coon said her son turned from the school's stadium onto Quincy Avenue and noticed two teenagers following him. She said the teens followed her son home and attacked him outside his front door.

"And they rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door open," she said. "(One of them) poured the gasoline, then flicked the Bic, and said, 'This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy'."

Rush feeling the heat

2012-03-03T18:23:00.000-06:00

Apparently four sponsors pulled advertisements from his show...kinda surprises me that he did this. This girl's name is pronounced "Fluck" by the way...fitting.

Rush Limbaugh apologizes for 'slut' remarks aimed at Sandra Fluke

In what was surely a rare move for the conservative radio host, Rush Limbaugh apologized Saturday to the Georgetown University law school student he called a "slut" and "prostitute" earlier in the week.

The apology, posted to his website, said he did not mean to make a "personal attack" against Sandra Fluke. The third-year law student had testified before Democrats in favor of President Obama's new rule requiring employers to offer health insurance plans that cover birth control.

"My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir," he wrote. "I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices."

Limbaugh's words had sparked an immediate backlash, drawing ire from all sides and leading some companies to pull advertising support for his show.

But although he apologized for the remarks, Limbaugh did not back down from his position on the contraceptive requirement.

"I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress," he wrote. "I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability?"

The Limbaugh-related firestorm had ignited a dispute between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, with each side blaming the other for allowing rhetoric on the debate over contraceptive insurance coverage to spiral out of control.

In the aftermath, several of Limbaugh’s sponsors, including Sleep Train and Sleep Number, announced on Twitter that they had pulled their ads from his show. Sleep Train, a Sacramento-area mattress company, had advertised on the show for more than 25 years.

A spokesperson for Sleep Number said on Twitter that the company had decided to immediately pull its advertisements because Limbaugh’s statements “do not align with our values.”

President Obama personally called Fluke to offer his encouragement.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president called Fluke “to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks, and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.”

Obama's past - finally coming to light?

2012-03-03T17:44:00.001-06:00

Obama 2004 "We've Got A Revolution That Has To Place"
Barack Obama interview on Chicago local television in 2004, speaking about his college days at Columbia

Don't know if this is a taste of what Andrew Breitbart was referring to when he said "I have videos" which show “why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.” I kinda doubt it though...but look forward to seeing them.

The new Obama Girl

2012-03-02T19:30:00.000-06:00

This girl wants us to have to cover her contraception costs so she can have sex. Rush Limbaugh called her a slut to which I agree...Obama called her today to offer his support.

Pitiful.

Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate

A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they’re going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control.

UNDRESSING AGAIN?

Speaking at a hearing held by Pelosi to tout Pres. Obama’s mandate that virtually every health insurance plan cover the full cost of contraception and abortion-inducing products, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that it’s too expensive to have sex in law school without mandated insurance coverage.

Apparently, four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception, Fluke's research shows.

"Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggled financially as a result of this policy (Georgetown student insurance not covering contraception), Fluke reported.

It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations.

"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school," Fluke told the hearing.

$3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it.

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

2012-03-01T09:49:00.000-06:00

Conservative writer and website publisher Andrew Breitbart died of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center about midnight last night at age 43.

Sean Hannity just phoned into Fox News' America's Newsroom and said that he did have heart trouble about a year ago.

Scary...I'm 43. God bless and keep his family.

The not so little dirty secret

2012-02-29T20:01:00.001-06:00

Regardless what you hear Obama say about gas prices...

Morning Bell: White House Wants to Keep Gas Prices High

With the national average of gas prices hitting $3.65 a gallon, nearing $6 in some parts of the country, and poised to head even higher, America’s families are wondering when the bleeding at the pump will stop. But for Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, those steep prices aren’t even a concern. In fact, he says his goal is not to get the price of gasoline to go down.

Chu delivered those stunning remarks in testimony before Congress yesterday. When Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss.) asked Chu whether it’s his “overall goal to get our price” of gasoline lower, Chu said, “No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy.”

As shocking as his remarks are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise. Chu has a long record of advocating for higher gas prices. In 2008, he stated, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Last March, he reiterated his point in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, noting that his focus is to ease the pain felt by his energy policies by forcing automakers to make more fuel-efficient automobiles. “What I’m doing since I became Secretary of Energy has been quite clear. What I have been doing is developing methods to take the pain out of high gas prices.”

Gizmo recovering

2012-02-29T17:00:00.003-06:00

One of our 6 dogs, and THE most skittish dog we have, had to have surgery this past Monday. He had a hematoma from a fall or impact. We took him to the vet 3-4 weeks ago for it and it was drained. Vet said to keep an eye on it because it could fill back up if the leakage didn't heal on it's own. Well, it didn't. In fact, it swelled to the size of a small orange. Sunday when it began to leak and seep, we knew it was now a MUST to get it repaired.

It had abscessed, got infected, and even had black tissue around it. So, after an 18 inch incision to get in there to clean it all out, clamp one vein and cauterize two others, he's home and not liking his condition.

Drainage tube, pain meds, oral antibiotics as well as an ointment for the incision, means we have a much more skittish dog for the next couple of weeks.

Wish us luck.

Whites for Watts Bunker?

2012-02-26T20:36:00.000-06:00

Why not? Obama has ‘African Americans for Obama,’ so it can't be racist.

President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of African Americans for Obama

Silly, sad, and expected.

Good for insomnia

2012-02-24T22:22:00.001-06:00

Too funny!

Man Struggles to Stay Awake During VP Biden's Speech
Man in the background of VP Joe Biden's speech at North Carolina Community College has trouble staying awake for the VP's speech (2/24/2012)

A classic wussified

2012-02-23T17:33:00.000-06:00

This really bugs me. Sure, the scene was altered back in 1997 when the Special Edition came out, but it was just this month that George Lucas tried to convince us that we never saw what we actually saw.

George Lucas: Han Never Shot First -
Star Wars creator says fans have misunderstood all these years.
In an attempt to address the lingering "Han shot first" controversy, Star Wars creator George Lucas may have only fanned the flames of fandom even more. You see, Lucas says Han Solo never actually fired first in his classic showdown with Greedo. Fans only wanted to think that. So basically it's all your own fault.

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter (via /Film), Lucas said, "The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn't. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."

Really? Take a look yourself:

First, I'm not some guy who wants people "gunned down" - at least not those who don't deserve it. Trust me, Greedo deserved it. He was about to kill Han Solo. Would you wait until the guy who has a gun pointed at you to shoot first before "gunning him down?" Of course not.

George Lucas has become a real liberal of late. So why not just say he changed it because he's a wuss rather than insult our intelligence by saying we never saw the first shot because it was a close up? This is just one more way to make classics politically correct by their liberal directors (who didn't have a problem with it when first released apparently). Steven Spielberg took out the line "you look like a terrorist" when kids were dressed for Halloween in the 2002 Special Edition cut of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on DVD. Rumor has it that when he releases it on Blu-ray it will be the original cut...meaning the word "terrorist" will be in it.

Apparently Spielberg learned his lesson: DON'T MESS WITH A CLASSIC. Could you imagine him changing the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones shoots the guy with the big sword rather than fight him? What if he digitally changed the scene to where the guy throws his sword first before Jones shoots him? It would be silly.

Thus what Lucas did with Star Wars...but it was never really changed...according to him.

Footage found

2012-02-22T21:53:00.000-06:00

Dad out of ICU and making improvements.

Weird...this is ONE of only TWO known amateur videos of the 1986 Shuttle Disaster. It was found when transferring VHS to DVD.

Prayers please

2012-02-20T22:39:00.002-06:00

This pic was taken before my dad went to ICU last night. My brother and his family was in town over the weekend (he hated leaving today). Late last night he was moved to Intensive Care Unit because his heart rate was exceeding 150 beats per minute. Dad's heart rate is leveling out now between 95-105 bpm depending on pain intensity.

Rib x-ray still shows no jags or puncture. He's in and out a lot due to meds and gets easily confused. He will be in ICU at least another day or so depending on how well he responds to treatment.

All your prayers are appreciated.

Is the fix in?

2012-02-16T19:13:00.002-06:00

I believe Obama will be re-elected. But I wonder if some of these models are using "wishful thinking" when it comes to their projections.

This chart predicts the Republican nominee wins back Florida, North Carolina, and Indiana...states Obama flipped from Red to Blue in 2008. Obama does hold onto Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, and Nevada...states he flipped that were Red in 2004.

I personally don't think Obama will get over 300 electoral votes...but he only has to hit the 270 mark to keep the keys to the White House.

Obama poised to win 2012 election with 303 electoral votes

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With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee's 235.

How do we know? We don't, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data--based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists--suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.

Not better?

2012-02-16T16:58:00.000-06:00

Obama's rising in the polls because the unemployment rate is going down. He's leading in the polls in crucial swing states. This is what we've been told the past week...but anyone who knows better, this garbage is just that...garbage.

Obama has eliminated 2.5 million jobs from the available jobs work force which lowered the unemployment rate. It was a smoke and mirror move to manipulate the numbers. Problem is, the average idiot will go along with it.

Today, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report on the real numbers...maybe that's why Obama's Approval Drops to 43 Percent today.

New CBO Report Decimates 'Obamanomics': Real Unemployment Hits 15%

“The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The official unemployment rate excludes those individuals who would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks as well as those who are working part-time but would prefer full-time work; if those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been about 15 percent. Compounding the problem of high unemployment, the share of unemployed people looking for work for more than six months—referred to as the long-term unemployed—topped 40 percent in December 2009 for the first time since 1948, when such data began to be collected; it has remained above that level ever since.”

Read the PDF document at CBO.gov

Sad and disgusting

2012-02-15T18:16:00.001-06:00

This woman, whom I've met and called to pick up stray dogs in our area, has been busted and charged with one count of animal cruelty. Latest reports state Graves County Sheriff's Dept could file additional charges.

The city of Fulton had even contracted with her to take animals picked up by Fulton Animal Control...though I don't know what the status of that has been lately. The shelter was in Wingo, KY...about 13 miles from us.

Authorities serve warrant at local animal shelter
GRAVES COUNTY, Ky. - The Graves County Sheriff's Department along with the Animal Rescue Corps, served a search warrant at Paws and Claws in Wingo, Kentucky this morning. This is an animal shelter run out of a home.

After receiving multiple complaints from neighbors, Animal Rescue Corps concluded a seven-month investigation on the business and presented their findings to the Graves County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday. A search warrant was secured and the search and seizure was executed this morning. The Graves County Sheriff's department had been getting complaints for more than two years, but could not build a good enough case against them.

Authorities say at least 100 dogs have been found alive while multiple dogs were found dead.

The owner of the business is Shannon Lacewell. She was not there at the time of the search and an arrest warrant on one count of animal cruelty has been issued. More counts could be added as the investigation continues.

Education or Perversion?

2012-02-14T19:13:00.000-06:00

This video, if you can stand watching it, is sick and disturbing. This guy from The American Life League, shows the actual graphics that Planned Parenthood are showing to 10 year olds. His best line: If a dirty old man showed these pictures to a 10 year old in a park, he'd be arrested.

Yep...that he would. Don't forget, Planned Parenthood receives our tax dollars.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CARTOON IMAGES

I'm not the only one ranting

2012-02-14T09:23:00.000-06:00

FB friend Randy Swanson posted the video below as a response to this pic I posted on Facebook...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this...

Celebrating celebrities that do themselves in

2012-02-13T20:20:00.001-06:00

It's been nearly non-stop Whitney Houston coverage since her death on Saturday. Of course, people go overboard stating just how great a person is after they die...even when they do themselves in. For crying out loud, they way some people react, you'd think they were personal friends of hers. Megyn Kelly of Fox News went so far today to call her "America's sweetheart." When exactly did she become that?

Tragic? Yes. Sad? Yes. Unexpected? Absolutely not. But I guess when you overdose, the greater the tribute will be.

An excellent read:
It sure is hard for me to get real upset about Whitney Houston killing herself with drugs and alcohol
That about sums it up for Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and other superstars who met their early demise due to drug addiction.
These are people who had it all. She had it all. She (at one point) had a dream life in front of her, but destroyed it with substance abuse.

She had a great voice. Her singing of the Star Spangled Banner in front of the 1991 Super Bowl audience was one of the best renditions of the National Anthem I can remember — rivaling the great Kate Smith (who managed not to kill herself with drugs and alcohol).

Whitney Houston’s theme song for the Body Guard movie was amazing — really the only thing good about that Kevin Costner dud of a film, saved only by the Whitney Houston theme song.

Most people do not have the kind of charmed life Whitney Houston had.

Most people are not fabulously wealthy, amazingly talented, and stunningly beautiful the way she was. Most 48 year-olds are also not stumbling around night clubs at 3 a.m. in a drug and alcohol induced haze.

Most adults have to go to work every day, struggle to pay their bills, raise families — without killing themselves with drugs and alcohol.

Whitney Houston had a great voice . . . in the 1980s and early 1990s.

She killed that voice by abusing herself. She tried to make something of a come-back in 2009. But anyone who heard her performances knew her voice was gone — not even a trace there of what it was. Her vocal chords destroyed by drugs, alcohol, smoking, and whatever else she was doing.

Too bad. But kinda predictable, don’t you think?

So her talent was not completely wasted. Some of her work will live on, probably for quite a while. But she could have, should have, achieved so much more with her amazing talent.

I’m getting pretty fed up with all these national tributes to celebrities who kill themselves. She’s a disgrace for wasting the talent and fairy tale life God gave her.

This is the theme Shakespeare wrote about all the time. King Lear had it all too — but squandered it on stupidity.

Leadership

2012-02-13T16:40:00.000-06:00

Straight from the horse's arse...

Finally, SOME truth in the matter

2012-02-12T17:55:00.000-06:00

We knew this, but it's good to see someone admit it.

These are Samuel L. Jackson's words, not mine...so much for the end of racism now that Obama's president. Odd it's coming from the black community.

Samuel L. Jackson - I Voted for Obama BECAUSE HE'S BLACK

Barack Obama's politics meant nothing to Samuel L. Jackson because the "Pulp Fiction" star only voted for the president for one reason and one reason only ... because he's black.

In an interview with Ebony magazine, Jackson explained, "I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them ... That's American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn't mean [bleep] to me."

Jackson then went on to drop the N-word several times when discussing Obama, telling the mag, "When it comes down to it, they wouldn't have elected a nigger. Because, what's a nigger? A nigger is scary. Obama ain't scary at all. Niggers don't have beers at the White House. Niggers don't let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A nigger would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?' I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected."

Smacks of ... Obama needs to Black it up.

Whitney Houston DIES at 48

2012-02-11T23:01:00.003-06:00

The day Sarah Palin turned 48.

She was found unresponsive at a Beverly Hill hotel room...wanna guess the cause of death?

Last photos taken of her 2 days ago...

Happy Birthday Sarah!

2012-02-11T17:58:00.002-06:00

She turned 48 today :)

Discipline the cowboy way

2012-02-10T16:37:00.003-06:00

This guy was fed up with his 15 year old daughter's rebellion, posting on Facebook talking bad about her parents, and blocking them so they couldn't see it...or so she thought.

At the end of the video, he shoots the girl's laptop full of holes with his .45 handgun....AWESOME!

Needless to say, he's getting a lot of attention and feedback, both good and bad....more than he ever thought according to a recent Facebook post of his.

h/t Barracuda Brigade

Job well done Lindora!

2012-02-10T10:10:00.000-06:00

As a bus driver for special needs children I know just how fast she had to get these kids out of the bus. The NTSB has tested how long it takes for a bus to be completely engulfed in flames once a flame is sparked...it's less than 2 minutes.

Lindora Richardson, North Carolina bus driver, saves children from burning bus
Richardson escorted six children out of the back of the bus before it exploded into flames

A bus driver in North Carolina is being hailed as a hero after she saved six young students from a potentially deadly blaze.

Lindora Richardson noticed an odor on her bus near the end of her route on Wednesday, the Charlotte Observer reported. When she stopped the vehicle to check it out, smoke immediately began pouring into the front of the bus.

The quick-thinking driver corralled the students to the back and helped them escape through the rear door — seconds before the bus erupted into flames.

"I was just glad I was able to get them off safely," Richardson told the newspaper. "I think it was a little more exciting for them because it was a fire."

The children were between 5 and 10 years old.

What a difference a President makes

2012-02-09T21:29:00.000-06:00

It's all okay now...

Democrats Now Support Drone Strikes, Gitmo
Allahpundit nails it. Not only has the left retreated from anti-war activity in the age of Obama, they’ve actually signed on to the same programs they despised under Bush:

The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.

Obama has also relied on armed drones far more than Bush did, and he has expanded their use beyond America’s defined war zones. The Post-ABC News poll found that 83 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s drone policy, which administration officials refuse to discuss, citing security concerns…

But fully 77 percent of liberal Democrats endorse the use of drones, meaning that Obama is unlikely to suffer any political consequences as a result of his policy in this election year.

We put up with 5-6 years of their shrill nonsense and now it turns out it was just politics all along. And these are the people who were calling Republicans “nihilists”, i.e. those who believe in nothing but power. Right.

Yep...it's amazing how attitudes and "core convictions" seem to change when liberal idiots get "their guy" in the chair.

Why be normal?

2012-02-09T17:58:00.000-06:00

Everything has to be some kind of illness, disorder, or condition. I remember when my ex (pulling one of her many stunts) insisted I get a psychological evaluation to get primary custody of Luke. In it, the doc said I was fit for custody but was experiencing temporary "adjustment disorder" because I was adjusting to my new life as a single/divorced father...in other words, normal emotions associated with going through a divorce. But he had to justify his fee I suppose.

So now, even more normal emotions or personal traits will be labeled "Mental Illness."

Guess I'll be seeing you in Arkham.

Shyness, grieving soon to be classified as mental illness
Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.

In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health experts said its new categories and "tick-box" diagnosis systems were at best "silly" and at worst "worrying and dangerous."

Some diagnoses - for conditions like "oppositional defiant disorder" and "apathy syndrome" - risk devaluing the seriousness of mental illness and medicalising behaviors most people would consider normal or just mildly eccentric, the experts said.

President Sarah Palin vs Space NAZIs

2012-02-08T19:16:00.004-06:00

Yeah, she'd be the one to take them on. I have to say...I look forward to seeing this when it hits DVD!

'Iron Sky' trailer sees Nazis face President Sarah Palin

The first theatrical trailer for Finnish science fiction movie Iron Sky has been released.
Director Timo Vuorensola's movie sees an America led by President Sarah Palin fighting off an invasion from exiled Nazis attacking from the dark side of the moon.

Santorum WINS MN and MO

2012-02-07T22:16:00.001-06:00

The caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado were won by Rick Santorum tonight. The Missouri "primary" was held tonight as well. All of these contests are "non binding" though, which means the delegates will be awarded later in state conventions.

Jubilant Santorum wins Minnesota, nonbinding Mo.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota's Republican caucuses with ease Tuesday night, relegating GOP front-runner Mitt Romney to a distant third-place finish that raised fresh questions about his ability to attract ardent conservatives at the core of the party's political base.

Santorum was victorious, as well, in a nonbinding Missouri primary that was worth bragging rights but no delegates.

Why do I have the feeling this could be finagled to go for Romney anyway?

UPDATE: 5:15am 2/8/12 -
SANTORUM WINS COLORADO IN UPSET - 40% TO ROMNEY'S 35%

Spider-Man REDUX

2012-02-07T19:30:00.000-06:00

10 years after it's blockbuster release, Columbia Pictures is remaking their own Spiderman film. Why? Rumor has it (from my son) they want a "darker" version of the character so now this is the "untold story." Makes sense since Batman Begins redefined what a true "dark" hero movie can and should be. My question is, why not just do that in the first place?

I liked Spiderman (2002) and REALLY liked Spiderman 2 (2004)...but Spiderman 3 (2007) was dreadfully bad. This new one looks promising...though I don't need to see the origin of how Peter Parker becomes Spiderman again.

Go ahead...make Obama's day

2012-02-07T17:52:00.000-06:00

Kinda surprised Eastwood did this commercial, though he says he intended it to be "apolitical," this has now surfaced...

If you thought that Eastwood Super Bowl Ad looked Like an Obamam Campaign Ad, here is why
The “Halftime in America” was made by a bunch of Democratic Party supporters with ties to the Obama campaign.

WASHINGTON — Chrysler’s chief executive is insisting his company’s Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood has “zero political content,” even though members of the advertising team that created the spot have ties to President Obama.

Democrats, including the White House, cheered “Halftime in America” and its upbeat message in which Eastwood offers the auto industry comeback as proof of America’s resilience. Many Republicans, though, panned it, calling it payback for the government bailout Chrysler received in 2008. And Eastwood confirmed CEO Sergio Marchionne’s contention that the ad was not an endorsement of any candidate.

“We are as apolitical as you can make us,” Marchionne said in a radio interview in Detroit yesterday. “I wasn’t expressing a view and certainly nobody inside Chrysler was attempting to influence decisions.”

Eastwood echoed Marchionne’s comments.

“I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama,” Eastwood told Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” “It was meant to be a message ... just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it.”

Still, the advertising agency that created the commercial — Wieden + Kennedy — has members who have designed Obama campaign items or who have worked on behalf of Democratic causes.

Here's the commercial...judge for yourself. Some believe the "halftime in America" could be taken as half way through Obama's two terms. Yes...I said two terms.

Looking out for the troops?

2012-02-06T20:36:00.000-06:00

Uh, huh. Talk about pinching the wrong pennies in order to "save" money...if that's what this is even about.

Obama Pulls Combat Pay for U.S. Troops

President Obama’s latest policy outrage makes no attempt to hide his contempt for our military, as he is ordering that our troops serving overseas in war zones overseas are not to receive combat pay unless they are being shot at, or at risk of being injured by hostile aggression. A Marine who lives in Florida(also currently serving in Afghanistan) has just posted a note on Facebook which stated that he received a letter from his MyPay account that he would only be receiving his Hazard pay (Imminent Danger Pay) if he is actually in a hostile area and at risk of being shot at.

So I just got a letter from MyPay (the way we get paid in the military), saying that I will only reason Combat Pay while deployed for the days that I take fire or am in a hostile area. Now, as an Infantry Marine, I’m constantly in a combat zone…it may not always be popping off, but for them to take that away from us is bullshit. Now, the aviation tech who sits on Camp Leatherneck, sure, I can see him not getting Combat Pay, but to take it away from the grunts, the ground pounders, the front line of defense…come on, Uncle Sam. You let the Liberals win a big one here… Marine from Florida (We are not posting his name for obvious reasons)

According to Military.com, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (H.R. 1540-7 Sec 616) as of February 1, 2012, this new measure went into effect, and soldiers who are to receive the additional $225/mo. combat pay ‘must’ be in immediate risk of harm. The measure is very specific in its criteria for receiving the additonal pay.

The rules for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay have changed. Service members will now receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas. This change went in effect on February 1, 2012.
A member of a uniformed service may be entitled to Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger pay at the rate of $225 for any month in which he/she was entitled to basic pay and in which he/she was:
Subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
On duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period he was on duty in that area, other members of the uniformed services were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
Killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action; or
On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.

On that last point...Don't most of the places our troops are deployed nowadays CONSTITUTE A WARTIME CONDITION????!!!!

Yet...Obama will most likely get away with this.

Un-be-lieve-able

2012-02-06T17:56:00.001-06:00

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.

RINO Fever

2012-02-06T17:41:00.000-06:00

Careful, it can get even the strongest conservatives...

Who Castrated Ann Coulter?

There is no conservative writer that I admire more than Ann Coulter. She's smart as hell and, more importantly, she is courageous. She has always been willing to write what other conservatives believe but don't have the guts to say in print. She has never played it safe and has certainly never adjusted her opinions for the sake of conforming to the conventional wisdom of Old Guard Republicans. In 2008, for example, she declared that she would not merely vote for, but actively campaign for Hillary Clinton if the Republican Party were foolish enough to nominate John McCain for President: "If you are looking at substance rather than if there is an R or a D after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate, than Hillary is going to be our girl, because she's more conservative than he is."

But something has happened to Coulter. I don't have firsthand knowledge that she was kidnapped by RINO Team Six and taken to an offshore medical facility where she was forced to undergo a gruesome surgical procedure, but many of her recent columns suggest that something of the sort must have occurred. What else could explain her endorsement of Mitt Romney? Once immutable where her core convictions were concerned, she has executed a vertigo-inducing volte-face in order to promote a brazen opportunist whose positions on the big issues were the opposite of hers before he began running for President. She relentlessly trashes Republican "moderates" like McCain, yet now supports a candidate who makes the Arizona Senator look like Barry Goldwater by comparison.

It first became apparent that something awful had happened to Coulter last November, when she wrote a column asking "If Not Romney, Who? If Not Now, When?" In this surreal effusion, she claimed that the media were "pushing Newt Gingrich" and other alternatives to Romney "because they are terrified of running against him." This, as many pointed out at the time, was preposterous.
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2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show

2012-02-05T22:11:00.001-06:00

I didn't watch the game or the halftime show (was at church), and probably would not of watched it had I not been at church anyway. Apparently, M.I.A. flipped the bird during the show...which means it may well be a return to geezer fest in the years to come. Regardless of what people say, I still really enjoyed the Black Eyed Peas' performance last year.

Oh yeah, the Giants beat the Patriots...but who cares?

Romney wins Nevada Caucus

2012-02-04T21:21:00.002-06:00

No big surprise...he won it in 2008. He got it tonight with over 42% of the vote. FOX NEWS using words like "decisive" and "overwhelmingly" again to describe the win.

There is one person really happy about this...

Mission accomplished?

2012-02-04T19:14:00.000-06:00

‎"Hillary Clinton says she plans to step-down soon as Secretary of State. Hmm...let's see, Mexico is run by drug cartels, the Muslim Brotherhood now controls Egypt, and Iran is about to have a nuclear bomb...guess her work is done." - Jodi Miller, NewsBusted

Separation of church and state?

2012-02-04T13:06:00.000-06:00

So the church can have NO influence in government (according to liberals), but the government CAN ~~influence~~ dictate what the church does...or in this case, what it cannot say.

The Military Is Now Telling Catholic Chaplains What They Can And Can't Say About The Obama Administration
The emerging conflict between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration may have a new front: in the U.S. military itself.

The Catholic Church is fighting mad about an HHS ruling that would have them buy insurance for things they consider sinful–contraception, sterilization and abortion.

All the bishops in the country sent out a letter to be read in their parishes promising that the Church "cannot-and will not-comply with this unjust law."

Even Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is in charge of Catholic military chaplains sent out the same letter.

But after he did, the Army's Office of the Chief of Chaplains sent out another communication forbidding Catholic priests to read the letter, in part because it seemed to encourage civil disobedience, and could be read as seditious against the Commander-in-Chief.

Go fish

2012-02-02T17:02:00.000-06:00

From a guy who seems to bend over backward for Allah...

Obama: I Pushed Dodd-Frank And Health Care Reform Because Of Christ
President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health care reform, but today at the National Prayer Breakfast he claimed support from on high to defend two of his most controversial legislative achievements.

"And so when I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years, and I believe in God’s command to 'love thy neighbor as thyself.'

...And I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually think that’s going to make economic sense. But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required."

As Twitter friend Rhonda Nelson pointed out, Jesus performed a miracle by taking a coin out of a fish's mouth to pay a tax (Matthew 17:24-27)...Obama can go do the same.

I concur, since Obama has a "Christ like" arrogance. But since he can't do as Jesus, he has to go after the "rich."

Soccer Spring?

2012-02-01T17:26:00.000-06:00

Of all the things to die over...

More than 70 people killed in deadly Egypt soccer riot
The clashes and ensuing stampede did not appear to be directly linked to the political turmoil in Egypt, but the violence raised fresh concerns about the ability of the state police to manage crowds. Most of the hundreds of black-uniformed police with helmets and shields stood in lines and did nothing as soccer fans chased either, some wielding sharp objects and others hurling sticks and rocks.

In an interview with the team’s station, Mohammed Abu Trika, a player with Al-Ahly, criticized police for standing by and not intervening in the violence. “People here are dying and no one is doing a thing. It’s like a war,” he told the team TV station. “Is life this cheap?”

In Muslim ruled countries...yes.

Election projectionS

2012-02-01T16:16:00.000-06:00

Does it really matter 10 months out? A week can be an eternity in politics.

Gallup just released annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers. According to Beltway Confidential, "If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215."

Gallup Map:

Believable? Who knows. Approval numbers do not necessarily reflect how people will vote. I may not be thrilled with the job a certain official is doing, but still vote for them because I think they will still be better than the other guy.

Contrast the above map with that of Election Projection. Assuming Romney is the nominee, they project the following:

Barack Obama 272
Barack Obama 49.1%

Mitt Romney 266
Mitt Romney 49.4%

Wow, Obama wins Electoral College but actually loses the popular vote by 0.3%

Election Projection map:

But like I asked...does all this really matter now?

What a difference a headline makes

2012-02-01T09:21:00.000-06:00

Matt Drudge is in the tank for Romney...as I mentioned last week.

Look at the headlines for Romney's Florida Primary win, compared to the headline for Newt's win in South Carolina.

Newt won South Carolina by 13% points over Romney. Romney beat Newt in Florida by 14% points...yet the media uses words like "decisive," "landslide," and "huge" to describe the Florida win by Romney.

Romney reportedly spent $17 million to defeat Newt just in Florida. Newt was well outspent in SC and "decisively" beat Romney anyway. How much will Romney have to spend to defeat Obama?

Romney wins Florida

2012-01-31T20:03:00.000-06:00

Needless to say, I'm less than happy about it.

Romney won the Florida Primary with approximately ~~48%~~ 46% of vote...which means ~~52%~~ 54% of Republican voters in the state don't want him as the nominee. Fox News and Drudge Report can barely contain themselves with joy over the win...

Don't say the M word

2012-01-30T21:24:00.000-06:00

Protect the Muslim religion of peace at all costs I suppose...

From NewsBusters:
NBC, AP Avoid 'M-word' in Report About 'Honor Killings'

It is the religion that dare not speak its name...at least on NBC News and at the Associated Press among other politically correct circles. Both media outlets reported on a verdict in an "honor killings" case in Canada while managing to avoid mentioning a certain religion whose name starts with "M." To watch or read both reports, you would think that "honor killings" was some sort of bizarre ritual limited to the family in question or perhaps a few other members of an unidentified "patriarchal culture."

First the AP report on the MSNBC site which does mention a religion but not the one you think:

KINGSTON, Ontario — A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor."

The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians from coast to coast. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.

A religion is finally mentioned in the report but only the one in which is politically correct to do so:

The prosecution said her parents found condoms in Sahar's room as well as photos of her wearing short skirts and hugging her Christian boyfriend, a relationship she had kept secret...

The NBC News broadcast of this case also managed to avoid mentioning the taboo M-word as you can see in this video:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Here is a partial transcript:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: A verdict has been reached in a murder case that's gotten a lot of attention because it involved so-called honor killings of family members by family members. In this case an Afghan family living in Canada. It is a culture clash getting a lot of attention to our north. NBC's Kevin Tibbles has the story.

Culture clash? And what culture would that be? Brian Williams leaves us in the dark as does reporter Kevin Tibbles.

KEVIN TIBBLES: Three teenage sisters murdered because of how they wanted to live their lives. Dress like westerners, use the internet, meet boys. Also killed, their father's first wife, by a strict religious family that felt it had been disgraced.

A "strict religious family" yet Tibbles bizarrely neglects to mention that religion. How much does anybody want to bet that if there were such a thing as Baptist honor killings that "Baptist" would be prominently mentioned in every NBC News or AP story about such a crime?

More times than you could count.

Not common with the common folk

2012-01-30T19:51:00.000-06:00

This is how out of touch Obama is...he really does not know why a person can't find a job.

Obama Tells Woman: "Interesting" Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job
During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn't be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it "interesting" because he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away."

Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband's resume.

The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.

Jar Jar out of joint

2012-01-30T17:14:00.000-06:00

“In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we’re going to talk about our own little Capt. Schettino, which is President Obama who’s abandoning the ship here in the United States. He’s more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president.” ~ RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on Meet the Press 1/29/12

That remark, which I think is a pretty good metaphor, (Obama does blame everyone and everything other than himself for failure) prompted a response from DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
“I’m not going to give any credence to those incendiary remarks,” Wasserman Schultz said on Fox News. “The captain of the Costa Concordia has been charged with manslaughter and for the RNC chairman to compare the President of the United States to someone who has been charged with manslaughter shows a dramatic level of insensitivity to the families of those victims. Unbelievable comparison.”

Apparently, Jar Jar Wasserman does not read political cartoons:

And my FAVORITE:

You white? You racist!

2012-01-29T17:58:00.001-06:00

Idiot Mayor in Duluth, MN uses tax dollars to call his town of 90% whitey racist.

Don Ness
Mayor
Mayor's Office
dness@duluthmn.gov
Room 402, 411 West First Street
Duluth, MN 55802
Phone: (218) 730-5230

West 2012?

2012-01-29T16:08:00.000-06:00

How I wish he were running...of course, the Establishment GOP would never allow it. Along with every black leader who call him a "sell out."

Rep. Allen West - "Obama, Reid, Pelosi, get the hell out of the USA"

Romney wants to do what?

2012-01-28T17:07:00.000-06:00

Oops! Florida AG Pam Bondi Says Mitt Wants Romneycare In Every State

h/t American Freedom

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Romney supporter, let the cat out of the bag last night. The Florida Republican told Greta Van Susteren that Mitt wants Romneycare in every state.

She also said she would be on Romney’s Health Care Advisory Team “when he’s president.”

She's wrong that the Romney plan reduces costs. The CATO Institute published this about the 'Lessons from the Fall of RomneyCare':

The Massachusetts plan was supposed to accomplish two things-achieve universal health insurance coverage while controlling costs. As Romney wrote in theWall Street Journal, "Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced." In reality, the plan has done neither.

Hey, what are details anyway?

Ringing endorsement

2012-01-28T15:48:00.000-06:00

It should tell you all you need to know.

George Soros: there 'isn’t all that much difference' between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama
This isn't exactly the kind of endorsement the Romney campaign is looking for. It's probably even less welcome than the purported nod for Newt Gingrich from crooked GOP congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham sent from his jail cell.

Speaking in Davos, gathering place for the global elites and upscale chattering classes, billionaire investor George Soros - loathed by conservative activists for his "zillion-dollar left-wing radical agenda machine" - seemed to be pretty much OK with the notion of a Romney presidency.

"Well, look, either you’ll have an extremist conservative, be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case I think it will make a big difference which of the two comes in," he told Chrystia Freeland of Reuters in a videotaped interview. "If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them."

Soros theorised that "Romney would have to take Gingrich or Santorum as a Vice President and you probably have some pretty extreme candidates for the Supreme Court" but the "Obama administration is a bit exhausted" so presumably - he implied - a Romney administration would at least have the advantage of renewed vim.

"So it won't be that great a difference and I think there won't be a great deal of enthusiasm on either side of the battleground. It will be more civilised than the previous elections have been."

Sarah's take on the Establishment GOP

2012-01-28T13:21:00.002-06:00

Cannibals in GOP Establishment Employ Tactics of the Left

by Sarah Palin on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 2:57pm

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.

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Low Clearance

2012-01-27T17:00:00.000-06:00

You'd think someone on the ship would have known that.

This happened 56 miles from us in Aurora, KY.

Pieces of the Eggner Ferry Bridge on U.S. 68 at Aurora, Ky., can be seen strewn across the front of the motor vessel Delta Mariner as it sits at the site of a Thursday accident. The huge cargo ship, carrying aviation parts, struck the main span of the bridge Thursday evening. Two spans of the heavily-traveled bridge collapsed. According to initial reports, there were no injuries and no cars on the bridge at the time of the accident. The bridge carries approximately 2,800 vehicles across the lake per day.

Well, it did carry that many cars a day.

Stacking the deck

2012-01-27T16:28:00.000-06:00

While watching the CNN Florida Debate last night, I told Dawn the audience was stacked for Romney. The virtually applauded everything Romney said.

Today, the Newt campaign had this to say:

Gingrich Campaign: Debate Audience Stacked For Romney

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich rode a strong performance and crowd enthusiasm at a debate in South Carolina to victory in that state’s primary, but the crowds at two debates in Florida this week haven’t been as wild for Gingrich. Now his campaign is claiming that rival Mitt Romney’s campaign stacked the audience at Thursday’s debate with its supporters to shift the energy toward Romney, the Huffington Post reported.

“They definitely packed the room," Kevin Kellems, a Gingrich adviser, told the Post.

But that’s not the case, according to both the Florida Republican Party and the Romney campaign. The party, which doled out 900 of the 1,200 tickets, says most of them went to “rank and file” Republicans.

Hmmm..."rank and file" Republicans. In other words, Romney supporters.

Encouraging...and poetic

2012-01-27T09:46:00.000-06:00

MSNBC does have some of the lowest ratings...it should come as no surprise.

Participants on the game show Jeopardy were shown a picture of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and asked to identify her. All three contestants sat in silence until the buzzer.

Mark Levin RIPS Romney a new one

2012-01-26T19:03:00.001-06:00

He too is sick of the establishment...this is a MUST listen!
h/t Barracuda Brigade

Drudge = Romney hack

2012-01-26T17:50:00.000-06:00

Drudge Report posts misleadingly edited video of Newt supposedly bashing Reagan

h/t American Freedom

But..

Video Of Newt Bashing Reagan Is Bogus

There's a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Reagan when talking about how Bush, Sr. should run. As I suspected, it's edited to give a false impression. What you don't see is immediately after when Gingrich praises Reaganism and the Reagan platform. If you can't watch it all, it begins at about 2:30 in to confirm it's the same segment. It's the minute or two afterward you also need to hear to understand that Newt wasn't bashing Reagan at all.

He was merely saying, Bush isn't Reagan and the GOP needs something new to sell. He even points out the Reagan landslide, saying Reagan's platform won 48, or whatever states and was inclusive.

The full C-SPAN video, also embedded below.

Yet another sign of Government success

2012-01-26T17:31:00.000-06:00

Remember this? You cannot push cars and an industry on consumers that do not want the product...but Obama refuses to get that, at OUR taxpayer expense.

Electric-Car Firm That Got Biden Visit, $118M in Stimulus, Files for Bankruptcy

(CNSNews.com) - Ener1--a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama’s State of the Union Address—announced today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

In last year’s State of the Union Address, delivered Jan. 25, 2011, President Obama set a national goal of having a million electric vehicles on the road in the United States by 2015—a goal that would be achieved, Obama said, by taking money out of the oil industry and “investing” it in new technology.

I'm sure it failed because even more money wasn't spent on it.

RINO's out in full force

2012-01-26T16:29:00.003-06:00

I am so sick of the establishment GOP telling us who we need to vote for. Dole...really? He ran a horrible campaign against Clinton in '96...incessantly saying it was "his time." Well, the message hasn't changed much, he now says it's "Romney's time." Why? Because he came in second last time?

That's another thing I don't get either...the guy who came in second last election cycle deserves to win nomination this time around. Again, why? Dole lost. McCain came in second in 2000, got nomination in '08...lost. If Romney gets the nomination this time because "it's his time since he came in second"...he will lose.

I wonder if that means all the establishment types will be pushing Newt in 2016 if he comes in second this time around. After all, according to their logic...it will be his time.

None better

2012-01-25T21:26:00.001-06:00

The United States Military is just AWESOME! Too bad our president's respect for them is mere lip service.

Captives Freed: Inside the SEALs Raid

Arizona smackdown

2012-01-25T20:50:00.000-06:00

Classic Obama. He objects to Governor Jan Brewer's claim in her book that Obama acted "arrogantly" when she met with him at the White House...so he arrogantly walks away from her while she's speaking to him.

OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV
POOL REPORT: President Obama arrived in Phoenix at 3:15 pm local time, finding the chilly weather of Iowa giving way to sunny skies and temperatures in the high 60s.

He stepped off Air Force One at 3:28 pm and was greeted by Gov. Jan Brewer. She handed him a handwritten letter in an envelope and they spoke intensely for a few minutes. At one point, she pointed her finger at him.

Afterwards, your pooler spoke with the governor.

"He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So."

Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: "That he didn't feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn't get my sentence finished. Anyway, we're glad he's here. I'll regroup."

On the letter, she said it was personal letter asking him to sit down with her to discuss the "Arizona comeback."

She said she "reiterated an invitation that I've extended to him before with regards to coming to arizona and going to the border with me." She said she would take him to lunch.

"We've had a remarkable comeback here and I want to share that with him."

She said the president brought up the book.

"I thought we probably would've talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country."

It was clear from the moment they greeted one another that this would not be a run-of-the-mill encounter between the president and a local official. At one point, she was pointing her finger at him and at another, they were talking at the same time, seemingly over each other.

He appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking, and she confirmed that by saying she didn't finish her sentence.

When Brewer spoke with your pooler, the AP and an NBC producer for several minutes afterwards, she appeared a bit flustered and taken aback by the conversation. Asked if she was, that's when Brewer said, "I'll regroup."

SOTU bombs

2012-01-25T20:17:00.000-06:00

I guess "Hope" changed the dial...

Obama’s SOTU ratings tank 12%, worst of presidency

President Obama’s State of the Union Address was the lowest rated of his presidency, down 12 percent from last year’s speech.

Obama drew 37.75 million viewers last night on 14 networks and cable news channels, according to the website TVbythenumbers, which tracks television ratings.

During his first speech to a joint session of Congress in February 2009, Obama drew 52.4 million viewers. His first official State of the Union Address on January 2010 attracted 48 million and last year’s SOTU had 42.8 million.

State of the Union 2012

2012-01-24T22:06:00.003-06:00

Obama just finished up with his third SOTU. I did my best to watch the whole thing, and did. Main thing I noticed, he was orange...

Obama: 'Mission at hand' is to rebuild American dream

President Obama suggested Tuesday that Americans try to follow the lead of U.S. military forces and get past personal ambition and partisan obsession to "focus on the mission at hand" -- keeping alive the American dream by restoring a U.S. economy.

In his annual State of the Union address, Obama said that the "defining issue of our time" is finding the means to uphold the promise that if people work hard, they will succeed.

"No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules," he said.

But the devil is in the details and Republicans are unlikely to agree to many of the proposals the president laid out. According to excerpts released ahead of time, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who was to deliver the response, is to say that the president's rigid adherence to ideology was suffocating innovation.

Another sign of Government success

2012-01-24T17:55:00.001-06:00

You cannot make people buy what they do not want...no matter how "green" it is...

Some Chevy dealers spurn Volt allocation - GM cites concern over fire investigation

DETROIT -- Some Chevrolet dealers are turning down Volts that General Motors wants to ship to them, a potential stumbling block as GM looks to accelerate sales of the plug-in hybrid.

For example, consider the New York City market. Last month, GM allocated 104 Volts to 14 dealerships in the area, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Dealers took just 31 of them, the lowest take rate for any Chevy model in that market last month. That group of dealers ordered more than 90 percent of the other vehicles they were eligible to take, the source said.

...GM spokesman Rob Peterson confirmed that "dealer ordering is down" for the Volt. He said many dealers have been waiting for resolution of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's investigation into the risk of fires in the car's battery pack. Last year three packs caught fire in the days or weeks following government test crashes.

Sure, blame it on "waiting for resolution," but maybe because it only travels 25 to 50 miles on its battery then rely on the evil fossil fuel to get any further. Of course,the $43,568 price tag for a standard model before a $7,500 rebate doesn't make
it very affordable for the 99 percent-ers that Obama cares so much for.

But what does it all matter anyway? It's only our tax dollars supporting this
fiasco of a vehicle.

More firsts under Obama

2012-01-24T16:53:00.001-06:00

You know that 'do nothing' Republican House of Representatives that Obama fusses about? He fails to point out, and I'm sure he won't bring it up in the State of Dis-union address tonight, that he, has missed his statutory requirement to present a budget on time for the third time in four years.

Today marks the 1000th day that the U.S. Senate has failed to pass a budget. That's the Democrat controlled Senate under the leadership of Harry Reid by the way.

I'm sure that won't be brought in Obama's re-election State of the Union address tonight either. Hopefully Governor Mitch Daniels does when he gives the Republican response...but don't plan on seeing that on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, or CBS.

Sexy weighs in

2012-01-24T09:23:00.000-06:00

Twitter friend and fellow blogger Donlyn Turnbull of Dirty Sex and Politics (you will be warned upon entering - LOL), was at the WBBJ studios in Tampa last night to watch the first Florida Primary debate, and, was asked to give her thoughts afterward...though she said the local NBC station cut her negative comments on Mitt Romney...shocked?

Donlyn, you're gorgeous...thanks so much for the link :)

Chris Christie - The REAL embarrassment

2012-01-23T16:34:00.000-06:00

Ann Coulter's other glory boy (the one she REALLY wanted to run for president) is knocking Newt Gingrich and calling him an embarrassment to the Republican party. Christie, who endorsed Romney, and could be his VP pick, is carrying a lot of water for his guy.

Christie is a "in you face" kind of Governor of New Jersey...a lot like Newt is with the press.

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Let's remember the pandering Chris Christie did for the Muslim community when he appointed and defended the Muslim Hamas Judge he put on the bench, WHO WAS A LAWYER TO ASSORTED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!

That, is the real embarrassment...kissing up to a NJ community that cheered the 9/11 WTC attack. You're a disgrace Christie...shut up about Newt.

UPDATE - 5:30pm: The Five had Sarah Palin's response to Christie...Love Sarah!
Thanks to Barracuda Brigade for the video.

Mayor murdered

2012-01-23T09:06:00.001-06:00

Heard this first thing this morning on WCMT Radio. If this Tommy Lattus is the person I know...it truly is sad. Hickman is 18 miles west of us. I'll post more about that when more details become available.

Western Kentucky Mayor Shot and Killed

HICKMAN, KY (AP) - The police chief of a western Kentucky city says the mayor has been fatally shot and a man has turned himself in to police.

Hickman Police Chief Tony Grogan said in a statement that 30-year-old Tommy Lattus walked into the police station early Monday morning and told officers he killed Mayor Charles Murphy. Grogan said a witness came in a short time later and reported hearing shots at Murphy's home. An officer found Murphy unresponsive around 1 a.m.

Lattus has been charged with murder and was being held at the Fulton County Detention Facility, where records do not indicate whether he has an attorney.

Murphy was in his second term as mayor and had served earlier terms on the city board.

UPDATE 9:30am - Just found the Fulton County Detention Center booking photo. It's not the same Lattus I know, though he could be a relative. The name threw me off, suspect's full name is Thomas Joseph "Tommy" Lattus.

UPDATE 10:15pm - WPSD is reporting that Tommy Lattus was upset about the 71 year old Mayor dating his mom. Now, David Lattus, who is a city commissioner, and a distant relative of the shooter, will become the mayor pro tem until the November election. Welcome to Kentucky!

Ann Coulter has jumped the shark

2012-01-22T17:36:00.000-06:00

Sad really, I use to like her...I use to.

Apparently, throwing conservative principles down the toilet (I Newt not's perfect on it) is more important in order to win. However Ann, if we all rally behind Romney like you want us too, and he loses...what then?

This is a stark contrast from 2008 when she "voted for Sarah Palin" because she was the real conservative. And who was it that just made this comment 2 months ago?
"Consistency is not such a great thing. Especially someone like John McCain who consistently annoyed conservatives, bragged about annoying conservatives." Oh yeah, that was Ann Coulter.

Here she is this morning in all her moronic reasoning:

Ann, McCain was nice to Obama, said he "can work with the other side" just like Romney is now...why didn't McCain win?

NEWT WINS BIG in SC

2012-01-21T19:31:00.002-06:00

Polls closed at 7pm EST, Fox News projected Newt Gingrich won and may win by as much as 10 points. Very impressive since just a week ago Romney was leading Newt by double digits. Newt was also outspent in South Carolina by $8 million dollars.

7 out of 10 Tea Party voters went with Newt.

Hey, I wonder if John King of CNN can moderate the next debate in Florida...LOL!

UPDATE 9:00PM: 100% of the precincts in - Newt 41%, Romney at 27% - 13 point margin. Newt has won nearly ALL 46 SC counties. Fox News projects Newt will win 19 of 25 SC delegates.

Orange Counties = Newt win

UPDATE 9:50PM: Fox News has confirmed that Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who was rumored to endorse Mitt Romney, has now decided to stay "neutral" before the Jan 31 Florida primary. Perhaps he doesn't want egg on his face like SC Gov Nikki Haley...who was elected in 2010 thanks to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, then endorsed Romney in her state's primary.

STAR WARS: The Fan Edition

2012-01-21T16:00:00.000-06:00

This, is just plain cool, awesome, and great! The Star Wars Movie recreated from beginning to end.

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor - http://www.aaronvaldez.com) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing - http://www.pughtube.com) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

We can't thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.

Follow SWU!

Oh Canada!

2012-01-21T14:00:00.002-06:00

Canadian Talk Show Host Destroys Obama Over Keystone Pipeline Decision

Enjoy!

Last polls - SC

2012-01-20T21:03:00.001-06:00

Real Clear Politics has a plurality of the polls showing Newt now has a 2 point lead (in part to the ABC/ex-wife smear interview) over Romney going into tomorrow's South Carolina Primary. Since 1980, no Republican became the nominee without winning South Carolina. Could the trend change? Sure. But a lot is riding on a Newt win tomorrow...it'd certainly knock Romney out of the presumptive inevitable nominee status.

UPDATE Saturday 1/21 - Real Clear Politics has raised the lead to Gingrich +5.0

Newt goes nuclear!

2012-01-19T21:04:00.000-06:00

The CNN debate in South Carolina just finished...Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, and Paul.

A lot of good stuff, but it will be this that is remembered most. Newt nailed moderator John King and CNN on his ex-wife's charges:

PC Madness

2012-01-19T17:38:00.000-06:00

A tad bit sensitive are we?

One of the schools I drive to in Obion County has the Cougars as it's team/mascots...I can't say I ever thought of "a sexually agressive middle-aged woman who attracts younger men" when I see the logo.

What's wrong with people?

Utah School Board Says Cougar Mascot Too Offensive To Women

DRAPER, Utah (CBS Las Vegas) – One Utah school district believes a cougar mascot would be insensitive to women.

The Canyons School District overrode the students top choice of a cougar mascot for their high school that is to be completed in 2013.

Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose the Cougars as their mascot — a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an ugly connotation that is disrespectful to women.

The school board, which consists of six men and one woman, thought the Charger would be more appropriate, which was on the ballot but failed to appeal to students as the cougar had.

Isn't "Charger" offensive? I mean, it could refer to someone who "charges" into war...or could offend someone who is deep in credit card debt.

These six "men" on the board need to stop being such pansies. Did I just offend you?

Perry out

2012-01-19T09:49:00.002-06:00

I never really liked Rick Perry, and certainly don't know what all the fuss was about him when he announced. I imagine he campaigned much better in Texas running for governor than he did running for president. He's going to back Newt Gingrich. Hopefully his supporters rally behind Newt to stop Romney in South Carolina.

Sources: Perry dropping out of GOP race

Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) - Rick Perry is telling supporters that he will drop his bid Thursday for the Republican presidential nomination, two sources familiar with his plans told CNN.

9:50am - He's about to go live at the podium

History made, then reversed, now unresolved

2012-01-19T09:42:00.000-06:00

This seemed to have been coming as I posted earlier in the week. If Iowa can't get their act together on vote counts, how about the state NOT be first in the nation?

This is a real disservice to Rick Santorum.

REGISTER EXCLUSIVE: 2012 GOP caucus count unresolved

THE RESULTS: Santorum finished ahead by 34 votes
MISSING DATA: 8 precincts’ numbers will never be certified
PARTY VERDICT: GOP official says, ‘It’s a split decision’
Rick Santorum – Final total: 29,839 Change: -168
Mitt Romney – Final total: 29,805 Change: -210
It’s a tie for the ages.
There are too many holes in the certified totals from the Iowa caucuses to know for certain who won, but Rick Santorum wound up with a 34-vote advantage.

UPDATE: 5pm -

(CNN) – Mitt Romney made a "polite" phone call Thursday to rival Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to "concede victory" in Iowa, according to Santorum's spokesman Hogan Gidley.

But Romney's team objected, saying his campaign didn't concede.
"Gov. Romney called Sen. Santorum to congratulate him on the Iowa results," said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul.

Neutered?

2012-01-18T21:41:00.000-06:00

How do you know when someone poses a threat? When "bombshell" information is about to hit this close to an election...or in this case, the South Carolina Primary Saturday, Jan 21.

Why now? Why not last month when Gingrich was nearly 20 points ahead in national polls?

Gingrich Camp Responds to Ex-Wife’s Interview

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Anticipating a potentially damaging interview with one of Newt Gingrich’s former wives ahead of the South Carolina primary, the Gingrich campaign issued an open letter on Wednesday night to “ABC News leadership,’’ the network that conducted the interview, in preparation for a Thursday night broadcast.

Marianne Gingrich, the second of Mr. Gingrich’s former wives, was married to him for 18 years. After they divorced, Mr. Gingrich married his current wife, the former Callista Bisek, with whom he admitted conducting a lengthy affair while he was still married.

Word of the interview was leaked to The Drudge Report, which reported on Wednesday afternoon that a debate was taking place within ABC over whether it was fair to broadcast it so close to the crucial primary in South Carolina on Saturday.

An ABC source confirmed there was disagreement over the timing of the interview, which was conducted by Brian Ross of the investigative unit, which operates separately from the political news division.
The push-back on ABC from the Gingrich campaign was in the form of a letter signed by Mr. Gingrich’s two daughters from his first marriage, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, who regularly accompany him on the stump.

“ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election,’’ they wrote, adding that their father’s campaign would concentrate on issues important to voters.

Down the drain

2012-01-18T17:14:00.000-06:00

That seems to be where what little money we have goes. Amazing the problems a plumbing flange can cause. The wood flooring has been damaged and has to be replaced.

On the up side, Dawn gets to redo the bathroom the way she wants. New floor tile and a "better" color of paint will be added. Will post the finished product hopefully by Saturday.

RIP Keystone pipeline

2012-01-18T16:20:00.000-06:00

Obama has officially rejected the proposed pipeline...of course, it's the Republicans fault. Canada will now most likely sell it's oil to China.

Obama Rejecting Pipeline, Pokes Back At GOP

In a decision that quickly re-ignited a fierce energy debate, the Obama administration on Wednesday rejected the controversial Keystone XL pipeline because the 60-day deadline imposed by Republicans did not allow adequate time to review an alternate route through an ecologically sensitive area in Nebraska.

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns made the announcement on President Obama's behalf on the project that would carry oil from Canada's carbon-heavy tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. TransCanada, the company seeking to build the $7 billion, 1,700-mile pipeline, will be able to reapply with a new route avoiding an ecologically sensitive area of Nebraska, sources told National Journal.

Put more simply, the Obama administration hit back at Republicans by saying no because of their forcing him to decide on the project in just 60 days. Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail promptly painted the decision as a rejection of thousands of American jobs purely for political reasons.

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, decried the news. “President Obama is about to destroy tens of thousands of American jobs and sell American energy security to the Chinese,” said Brendan Buck. “The president won’t stand up to his political base even to create American jobs. This is not the end of this fight.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry also jumped on it. "The president's focused more on the next election than on the next generation."

Obama's Loonies come knockin'

2012-01-17T21:52:00.001-06:00

From 50 minutes ago:

A group of over 1,000 far left #occupy protesters chucked smoke bombs over the fence tonight forcing the White House to go on lock down. Reporters were escorted to the basement due to the attack.

Not...so fast

2012-01-17T19:25:00.000-06:00

History may not have been made by Romney being the first 'Republican' to win Iowa and New Hampshire since 1976.

Wouldn't this be nice?

York: Final count could show Romney lost Iowa
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- It's conventional wisdom in Republican circles here in South Carolina that if Mitt Romney wins the state's primary this Saturday -- having already won in Iowa and New Hampshire -- he'll be the GOP presidential nominee.

"If for some reason he's not derailed here and Mitt Romney wins South Carolina -- no one's ever won all three -- I think it should be over," Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "That would be quite a testament to his ability as a candidate and a campaigner."

But what if Romney did not actually win Iowa? That could change the calculation considerably. And there is a very real chance that the Republican Party of Iowa will announce this week that Rick Santorum, and not Romney, won the Iowa caucuses.

In the past two weeks, party employees have been working nearly nonstop to certify the results from each of Iowa's 1,774 precincts. During that time, they have regularly briefed campaign representatives on what's going on. In the next few days, they are expected to finish tallying and certifying the last Form Es and come up with official certified results.

The final numbers will be different from those released on caucus night. One campaign source says the vote count as of midday Monday showed Santorum ahead by 80-something votes. If that number holds through certification of the last precincts, Santorum will win. Of course, there is always the possibility that some of the final precincts will contain discrepancies that put Romney back on top. It's just not clear.

Talk it, Walk it

2012-01-17T18:49:00.000-06:00

I'm sooooo tired of hearing Romney say Obama is a "nice guy" - he's just in over his head.
Needless to say, this, was refreshing.

I hope it's not too late for him to pull it off in South Carolina.

Newt NAILS it!

2012-01-16T23:38:00.000-06:00

One of the best highlights from the Fox News Debate in Myrtle Beach, SC tonight---
Newt gets a standing ovation for defending the work ethic saying "only the elites despise earning money," and "I'm going to continue to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn how to get a better job, and learn someday to own the job."

NYT: Sarah Palin RIGHT?!

2012-01-16T23:19:00.000-06:00

Just picked my teeth up off the floor...what the New York Times most have had done to themselves to print this.

From Conservatives for Palin:

NY Times Editorial Board: “Sarah Palin Got It Right Last Week"

Sarah Palin got it right last week when she supported calls for Mr. Romney to release recent tax returns before the South Carolina vote, along with information bearing on his record at Bain Capital, the private equity firm. Mr. Romney also can look to his own father, George. He released a dozen years of tax returns when he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 1968, leading Richard Nixon to follow suit

Good question...answer anyone?

2012-01-16T22:20:00.002-06:00

Why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama? ~ Newt Gingrich

501(c)(3) Status

2012-01-16T19:16:00.001-06:00

How do they get away with it? Never mind.

From Tax Exemptions vs. Church Political Activity, Current Policies and Laws:
By not taxing churches, the government is prevented from directly interfering with how those churches operate. By the same token, those churches are also prevented from directly interfering with how the government operates in that they cannot endorse any political candidates, they cannot campaign on behalf of any candidates, and they cannot attack any political candidate such that the effectively endorse that person’s opponent

Got that? Now get this:
Valerie Jarrett Blasts Republicans from the Pulpit
On the Sunday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to give a political speech, in support of her boss (Barack Obama) and congressional Democrats:

"Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress--well let me be specific--because the Republicans in Congress," Jarrett told the crowd. According to the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, at this point, "Before she could finish her sentence, people in the congregation were laughing, and applauding."

At the Sunday service, Jarrett also brought up Osama bin Laden's death in order to praise the president. "We all sleep a little better at night knowing Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants are not plotting a terrorist attack against the United States," Jarrett said. Then she pivoted to Iraq: "I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays."

At the end of Sunday's sermon, after Jarrett had delivered her remarks to the congregation, the church held a voter registration drive.

So, who will make the first move to revoke this church's 501(c)(3) status? You could be rest assured that if it were a Republican doing this in a church, that individual and church would be under heavy fire by the time service was over.

But, such is life.

How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?

2012-01-16T17:58:00.003-06:00

That is the title of Dr. Alveda C. King (niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) published in 2008.
This morning on Fox and Friends, she told how her uncle would be pro-life if he were alive today. I don't think that would set very well with the powers that be...who believe they know best for the black community.

Bias much?

2012-01-15T17:53:00.000-06:00

A peek at Newsweek's newest cover...I'm actually surprised they didn't ask why are they racist too? Maybe next week.
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Can you believe it? Sure...if you disagree with Obama you MUST be too dumb to understand his brilliance...of bankruptcy.

A stopped clock...

2012-01-14T20:50:00.000-06:00

...is right twice a day.
I can't believe THIS report was done on Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show.'
Actually calling out media hypocrisy!

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Snow Day

2012-01-13T06:42:00.000-06:00

Today is the first snow day of the 2011-2012 School Year for Obion County Schools...not much snow though, black ice. Many districts in NW Tennessee and SW Kentucky closed due to it. Didn't expect them to close since Obion County Central High School has it's basketball Homecoming Game tonight...so it is slick out there. This makes it a 4 day weekend now that MLK Day is Monday.

Not even November...

2012-01-12T19:51:00.000-06:00

...and I feel like this. Can the Republicans do anything else to slice their own throats with this all out attack on Romney for being a businessman thing?

Happy Birthday Rush!!!

2012-01-12T17:42:00.000-06:00

The most popular radio host in America turned 61 today...thank you for the info and entertainment!

A perfect example of idiocy

2012-01-11T19:50:00.000-06:00

Why is it Sarah Palin haters resort to making insults about her son Trigg, who has Down Syndrome?
Apparently, they think it's funny, like Sebb on Twitter:

Logic and Articulation must be two of the things that "kill him inside."

As one of five Administrators at the Barracuda Brigade's Facebook page, I have an active search "Sarah Palin" column on Tweetdeck to pick up news and tidbits about her. Of course, by doing this, you see those who must be threatened by her for whatever reason making snide remarks about her. Last night during her appearance on Fox News for the New Hampshire primary results, the idiots came out in full force. And still today, they were continuing their intellectual thoughts about her. Now Sebb, from Norway, usually posts in Norwegian, but decided to grace Twitter with this post in English:

(click pics to enlarge)

LOL...How funny, right? I mean I get it, Sarah Palin gave birth to a retarded child. Forget that it makes no sense, seeing that she gave birth to five children and only one was born with Down Syndrome. So the "almost everything" line is idiotic. But hey, what does that matter.

Seeing this hilarious joke, I responded and he, responded to that:

No, no diss...it's only a joke. Down Syndrome IS a joke? Hardly. Of my 18 special needs children I transport each day, one has Down Syndrome. She has had three open heart surgeries and she's nine years old. Pretty funny. She has digestive problems that require constant attention and special medication. Because of her immune system, anytime she has dental work done, she ends up being hospitalized in Louisville, KY (a children's hospital that is 286 mi, or 4 hours 38 mins away). This as you can imagine, puts enormous stress on the family...but again, that's funny.

So I sent this reply, in which he responded back:

Great comeback, eh? So now, the buckshot is fired:

As of yet, no response. Am I being over sensitive? I don't think so. Whatever happened to leaving the children out of it? Oh yeah, that only applies if the kids belong to Democrat politicians. And why are people in other countries so engrossed about Sarah Palin? Is she really that ~~insignificant~~ big of a threat?

Anyway...that's it on this. For now.

UPDATE 10am Thursday 1-12-12:
Got a a couple Tweet posts on my comment, and some comments below. Had to translate...They're saying Americans can't take jokes, and making issues about my pro gun and "Live Free or Die Hard" avatar. Socialists...wonderful people.

The 'Supreme' Democrat Challenging Obama

2012-01-10T22:16:00.000-06:00

There were other Democrats running for the nomination against Obama in New Hampshire...want a pony? Meet Vermin Supreme:

Vermin Supreme took part at the Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum on December 19. Seriously, New Hampshire actually had him take part in the debate. http://bit.ly/A6lv5M

The great uniter?

2012-01-10T19:31:00.000-06:00

Obama made another ~~spew~~ speech today...
From the White House press release:
. . . We have so much more work to do. And everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line — the basic promise that no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, this is a place where you could make it if you try. The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another — that’s at stake in this election. Don’t take my word for it. Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.
I highlighted those two lines for my points.

First, Obama is the essence of destroying the very core of what this country stands for. Taking over the health care system which will take away the "choice" individuals will have in the matter which liberals say they trumpet for all. Wanting to tax the rich into oblivion for the sole purpose of redistributing the money to those too lazy to work because that's the "fair" thing to do.

Second, that line of 'The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another — that’s at stake in this election' sounds like, again, pitting groups against each other...dividing the country if you will. Something he claimed he would not do. The have-nots must hate does who actually worked, sacrificed, and took risks...because it is the rich people's fault the have-nots have not. The National Debt, under Obama, now Surpasses Economic Output.

But what has Obama done for the poor, and the black community? Since he took office unemployment among blacks spiked to 16.7%, It’s the highest level of African-American joblessness in 27 years. The Congressional Black Caucus was very upset about it, and even said they “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president. Yet blacks continue to support him in large numbers...apparently thinking he is/or will take care of them.

So if you're happy with those kind of numbers and progress, and that is what's at stake...then yeah, by all means...vote for Obama.