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Lame Streamers Lose Hope in Change
2011-12-02 04:28:00 Who says I never cite Morning Joe, video: Reax, Karen the Lonely Conservative: Tina Brown: Obama Doesn’t Like His Job, Doesn’t Know How to Exercise Power Ace of Spades calls this the one Morning Joe transcript worth a few minutes of your time. Head over there for the pertinent parts. Or kick back and and enjoy the video below of liberal Tina Brown explaining how the “professorial” President Obama doesn’t like his job and has no clue how to exercise power. NewsBusters points out she’s not the first liberal to take notice. I submit that the entire Morning Joe premise is wrong. The MJ gang assumes the narrative was true, that Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama had some unique transcending talent, and for some reason, failed to utilize his talent a president. My premise is much simpler, I assert that Dumbo is, snd has always been, a moron, and lazy to boot. Prove me wrong. For once Brown is not totally out to lunch. It not that Dumbo does not like his present job,... More About: Change , Hope
Mickey D’s Out Smarts SF Nannies
2011-12-01 12:54:00 Them that can, go into business. Those that can not settle for becoming politicians. The nanny staters of San Francisco got out smarted by the suits from McDonalds from Karen, the Lonely Conservative: The nannies in San Francisco thought it would be a good idea to ban toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals to force kids to eat healthier. Not only did the plan backfire, the kids whose parents used to just fork over a couple of bucks for the toy, and skipped the meal, now have to buy the meal to get the toy. SF Weekly explains: When it comes to food, I am pro-choice. If you don’t like the food at McDonalds, don’t eat there. Link to this post!
Frank to Join Weiner
2011-11-30 22:46:00 Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch: On Monday, Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank announced that he will not seek reelection next year, and American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer decided to celebrate Frank’s retirement by attacking the congressman for being gay. On Focal Point yesterday, Fischer claimed that Frank may have used his prominent position to “influence” other men into becoming gay who may have later contracted AIDS. “This is a dangerous, risky, immoral, unhealthy lifestyle, and Barney Frank has been an open practitioner of a lifestyle that is condemning one young man after another to an early grave,” Fischer said, “this is not somebody to admire, this is not somebody to honor.” Fischer went on to say that Frank “modeled a lifestyle which is really a death-style,” wondering, “Who knows how many people were drawn or encouraged in some way by Barney Frank’s example to dabble in a lifestyle that eventually cost them their health and maybe ... More About: Join
The Ramble for 11/29/11
2011-11-29 18:18:00 Buffalo, NY– I’m at the Erie County Medical Center, dropping off some furniture that I picked up at Elkhart IN. A nice little stretch of the legs. I’ll be back at the yard in a few hours and ready for my next adventure. This trip out west is likely a rare event, but I must say I woldn’t mind it happening more often. I’ve been getting a bit tired of New York City. That said I’ll doubtless end up there in the next day or two. Leadership? Which way? I’m convinced, in talking and reading, that there is enough momentum in the rank and file of the GOP… and, after Obama, many rank and file Democrats, for that matter, to put a real conservative in the White House and in most seats in both houses of Congress. That said, I’ve also become convinced that the GOP leadership, which has been tilting increasingly to the left for generations now, is our sole roadblock to getting a real conservative in the White House. With the current GOP c... More About: Ramble
Barney Frank to Retire
2011-11-29 01:56:00 Spittle shield vendors to be hit hardest. The number one source of spittle on Capital Hill, Barney Frank, has announced his retirement, Karen is heartbroken, from Lonely Conservative: Good Riddance! Barney Frank to Retire Now that the damage is done, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is retiring. Good riddance to him. Here’s a video report on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2008 – listen carefully from the 1:20 mark on Reaxs Michelle and RS McCain. The bad news is that Franks’ retirement makes Maxine Waters (D – Moon) ranking ‘rat on the banking committee. Link to this post!
Herman Accused of Having Consentual Sex with a White Woman
2011-11-29 01:13:00 John, Verum Ssrum, reports Herman Cain has been accused on having a consensual affair, link. Wow! No allegations of illegality, or sexual harassment. Just an allegation of a thirteen year affair. Wake me up when the lame streamers have some news to report. Funny, when B.J. Clinton was president the lame streamers ignored evidence of rape and sexual harassment. However let a black man dare run for president, all media restraints are off. Link to this post! More About: White , Woman
Riech Comes Up Short
2011-11-27 22:49:00 Robert Reich continues to demonstrate that his blood never quite reaches his brain, from San Francisco Chronicle: Some of the excesses of "Occupy Wall Street" leaking out A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum: It was hijacked. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech, and corporations are now people. Yet when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances – clubbed, pepper-sprayed, thrown out of public parks and evicted from public spaces. ... Yet as Occupiers seek to make their voices heard about all this, they’re told the First Amendment doesn’t apply. When they peacefully assemble – erecting tents in public spaces – they’re attacked and evicted. In Reich’s demented view, real people are not entitled to express their views, if they do so through a corporations, which are me...
Kimberly Webb Joyner, 1970 to 2011
2011-11-27 15:47:00 Over at Outside the Beltway, comes the sad, and somewhat shocking news of the death of Kim Joyner, James’ wife. Stop by and leave a note. Link to this post! More About: Webb
Mark Kelly Goes Over the Deep End
2011-11-27 12:07:00 Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, Navy Commander (retired) Mark Kelly is as plum loco as the man who shot her. Jared Loughner, from Newsbusters: PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Some interesting insights in the book into who, you know, walked to the plate and who didn’t, really, in terms of political colleagues and people that she had worked for and against. Sarah Palin doesn’t come out of this very well, I don’t think, because there was a woman who at the time had been putting these cross hair things on her website and stuff, including Gabby. And in her haste to take responsibility didn’t even bother to pick the phone up, to write, do anything. MARK KELLY: Yeah, we were never contacted by her. MORGAN: I find that extraordinary. KELLY: Yeah, I was surprised too. You know, certainly the targets that she put over Gabby’s and other people’s districts, in our opinion, was not the right thing to do. She is not the first person to do that. And it hasn’t alway... More About: Deep
Turkey Trot in Webster Draws Five Thousand
2011-11-27 01:56:00 Turkey Trot, 24 November 2011, Webster,NY, from 13-WHAM: Webster, N.Y. – Thanksgiving means food and football for many – but before all that – thousands of runners took the opportunity to burn off some calories before the big meal. More than 4-thousand runners took part in the annual Webster Turkey Trot Thursday morning. video: We had close to five thousand runners in Webster and another one thousand in Greece. We had more runners that all the Organize Wall Streets had demonstrators. Yet nobody calls the Turkey Trotters the Ninety-Nine percent. Nor should they. Link to this post! More About: Turkey , Thousand
Solving the Problem Means Correctly Identifying the Problem First.
2011-11-26 20:18:00 We here in America have a problem. It is a major problem. There are large number of people in this country, indeed I begin to suspect majority, who are sensing danger and destruction in our near future if this problem isn’t solved. Certainly it can be considered an economic problem, but I suspect that most people of come to the understanding that runs far deeper than this. There are a large number of people, who have correctly identified that the locus of the problem is in Washington. That said, they’re a little vague as to specifics. There are a large number of people who will directly blame Barack Obama for our current problems. These will tell us, that the president is inept. And that our problems, are because of that massive ineptitude. Certainly, Obama shares in the blame. Indeed, he is the representation of the philosophy that is to blame. No argument. However, Ineptitude? ummmm.. No. Observe a rather forceful example; Can you possibly imagin... More About: Problem
Frank[ly] Bob, I Don’t Give a Damn
2011-11-26 02:13:00 How dumb to you have to be to be a liberal? Liberals only seem to support free choice when it kills a living person, see abortion. Robert H. Frank, moron, who for reasons unknown to modern man, is employed as economics professor at Cornell, wants to wage war on Black Friday. Aside, I quipped during Thanksgiving, that human has the innate ability to turn anything into a competitive sport, both men and women included. An glimpse into the competitive [blood] sport of shopping, video; Hat tip video: Ed Morrissey, Hot Air As for me, I take a live and let shop attitude. If you don’t like competitive shopping on Black Friday, don’t. On the other paw, Frank seems to be mortally offended that some people would choose to shop on the day after Thanksgiving, from New York Times: These costs might be worth bearing if they led to even larger gains. But when all outlets open earlier, no one benefits. Few people actually want to shop in the wee hours, and ... More About: Give
Giving Thanks… for What, Exactly?
2011-11-24 20:05:00 Editor’s note: As this is written, (Edited, really) I’m preparing to go to bed. I have to leave at 3am for Southern PA from my western NY home, to make a 10am delivery. As such I really don’t have a bunch of time to write a new thought for this thanksgiving day. Fortunately, I have several years worth of writings to lean back on. Here’s a post I put up a couple years ago, on the subject of Thanksgiving, and as usual, it takes a cultural bend…. -1- Britt Hume a couple nights ago: A traditional Thanksgiving meal between two elementary schools in Claremont, California, has parents in an uproar over costumes. The kindergarteners have long celebrated the holiday by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and taking turns visiting the other school to share in a holiday feast, but parents this year are divided over what the costumes represent and whether they should be allowed at all. Michelle Raheja, whose daughter is a kindergarten student, wrote to he... More About: Giving
About That So-called Arab Spring
2011-11-24 16:14:00 Word to the wise, change is not a synonym for improvement, see frying pan, fire, from Kim Sengupta and Solomon Hughes,Independent (UK): Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Many of the prisoners are suffering torture and systematic mistreatment while being held in private jails outside the control of the country’s new government. The document, seen by The Independent, states that while political prisoners being held by the Gaddafi regime have been released, their places have been taken by up to 7,000 new “enemies of the state”, “disappeared” in a dysfunctional system, with no recourse to the law. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Muammar Gaddafi fan club. However I am yet to be convinced that Muslims have the inherent capacity for self-governance. Prove me wrong. The world would be better place... More About: Spring
Occutard Mob Set to Get Mobbed on Black Friday
2011-11-24 02:04:00 From Cadie Thompson, CNBC: Some demonstrators[morons] are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest “the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street.” ... The goal of the movement is to impact the profits of major corporations this holiday season. Just what the American woman needs, even more motivation to shop, from Karen, the Lonely Conservative (but not so lonely shopper): What better reason to stay home and shop right here than to avoid the disease and bug infected criminal occupy mob on Black Friday? I hope they keep it up, not because it could help my own bottom line, but because it will show the 99% that these degenerates don’t stand for them. And hopefully, enough people will wake up to the fact that the Democrats and President Obama stand with those working overtime to destroy our way of life. More reax, Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations: Ye gods … save us from the economically challenged and politically unhinged. Clever, no? If...
Where Arth Thou Occuchicks?
2011-11-23 01:35:00 For a movement which claims to represent ninety-nine percent of the population, the Occutards seem to suffer a shortage of chicks. Whereas the Tea Party was organized by and had plenty of participation by Tea Mommas., from Nice Deb: So, the #Occupy movement is led by scruffy, whiny, white dudes, who look the other way when women are sexually assaulted at their encampments, but are baffled and embarrassed because more women are not a part of their movement. The Tea Party, on the other hand, is led by fierce, strong willed women, who are looking out for their children’s futures like “Mama Grizzlies”. One poll indicated that 55% of the Tea Party movement is made up of women. Some of the excesses of "Occupy Wall Street" leaking out Seldom at a loss for words, RS McCain offers his take, from the Other McCain: There are probably women who aren’t bothered much by poor hygiene, and there may be women who aren’t bothered by a lack of toilet and bathing facilities. B...
Pretty in Pink, Not
2011-11-21 23:59:00 PIAPS, a/k/a Mrs. B.J. Clinton evidently wants to do for the Clinton administration, what she did for the Cold War, from Karen, the Lonely Conservative: Two Democrat pollsters, Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, have a piece in The Wall Street Journal urging President Obama to abandon his campaign for a second term. They argue that the nasty campaign will make it impossible for him to govern. (Not that he’s very interested in governing, I might add.) I probably don’t have to tell you who they believe should run in his place What Mrs. Clinton and her ham handed diplomacy did was re “reset” the Cold War. Now Mrs. Clinton wants to reset the Clinton administration, from Carl in Jerusalem, Israel Matzav: In the ‘bad old’ days of George W. Bush (and for that matter, Bill Clinton), the United States was the World’s sole superpower. Now, President Obama has ‘re-set’ relations with Russia and they’re back in picture stirring up trouble just like ... More About: Pink , Pretty
The Ramble for 11-21-11
2011-11-21 21:21:00 Milton, PA– I came down here last night with a load of green beans and such. They’re unloading me as I write this. It’s cool around here today, but not yet cold, except at night. My truck is running fine. My internet connectivity is a little screwy as I get used to the new phone. That will pass, I’m sure. Let’s get to it. OWS and Animal Farm:Glenn notes: #OCCUPYFAIL: OWS Organizers Occupying Luxury Hotels. “Tents are not for me.”It really is getting more and more like Animal Farm all the time, isn’t it? Quite. If there’s anything surprising about this it’s that anybody is surprised. I notice over to OTB Joyner is bemoaning the violence now being used occasionally against OWS protesters. I tell him: There is a point in time at which civil disobedience becomes criminal. Force is used against criminals every day of the year. In every kind of country including ours. Why, after months of this nonsense, is anyone… even Gree... More About: Ramble
Why Fer the DOE
2011-11-20 18:20:00 Why we we pay good taxpayer dollars to support the useless Department of Energy? Graph curtsey of Department of Energy Graph Source: Department of Energy. In the thirty-four years the federal Department of Energy has existed, domestic consumption of oil has increased, domestic production decreased and imports increased. In other words the DOE has been a massive failure. So why do we continue to pour tax dollars down the DOE drain: President Barack Obama unveiled on May 7 a $26.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2010, including $2.3 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The budget aims to substantially expand the use of renewable energy sources while improving energy transmission infrastructure. It also makes significant investments in hybrids and plug-in hybrids, in smart grid technologies, and in scientific research and innovation.[6] Hat tip: Wikipedia. Link to this post!
Predatory Hell At PSU
2011-11-20 12:36:00 Alan Colmes has his knickers in twist over this statement by Alan Keyes, Liberaland: If the allegations against Sandusky are true, there’s an aspect of the situation that doesn’t make sense. Why would higher-ups be willing to risk their reputations and life-long careers to cover for the wrongdoing of one of their subordinates? Despite the almost religious promotion of homosexuality now in evidence at all too many of America’s institutions of so-called “higher learning,” it’s hard to believe that they would thus willingly sacrifice themselves to the gods of “political correctness,” especially given the fact that the zealous advocates of homosexual rights are still pretending to draw the line at the sexual abuse of children. Reax. Lisa Graas: Keyes is right. The “line” they draw is based on nothing but personal opinion and, as such, is subject to change. “Because I say so” and “because most people believe it” is an imaginary “line”. What was considere... More About: Hell
Reich Comes Up Short, Again
2011-11-20 02:07:00 Has anybody ever called Robert Reich smart? I never have. To prove that Reich is two all beef patties short of a quarter pounder, consider this Reich idiocy from the Puffington Post: The real question is how to stop this austerity train wreck, and substitute the following: First: No cuts before jobs are back — until unemployment is down to 5 percent. Until then, the economy needs a boost, not a cut. Consumers — whose spending is 70 percent of the economy — don’t have the money to boost the economy on their own. Their pay is dropping and they’re losing jobs. ... Fourth: Cut the budget where the real bloat is. Military spending and corporate welfare. End weapons systems that don’t work and stop wars we shouldn’t be fighting to begin with, and we save over $300 billion a year. Cut corporate welfare — subsidies and special tax breaks going to big agribusiness, big oil, big pharma, and big insurance — and we save anoth...
Gingrich, Et Al
2011-11-19 23:06:00 I note with some degree of interest with a resurgency of Newt Gingrich in the early polling for Iowa. There seems a good deal of objection to his showing up, particularly among the press who like Rick Perry and Herman Cain before him (and Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin before him… ) is now the subject of an anal exam by the press. The reason that he’s getting this extraordinary amount of attention from the liberals both in the DNC and the GOP establishment , is that he is both conservative, and he surging in the polls, therefore he is a serious threat to both of the above. As were these others, of course. You can always tell who’s leading in the polls by who is getting bashed the most by the establishment the opie, and the democrats, whose goals should appear to be quite similar these days, more so than should be comfortable for any American. But why is the surging in the polls? Frankly, there’s nobody on the planet that should be surprised ...
Occupy This
2011-11-19 22:00:00 Kathleen McCaffrey ponders liberal myth and Organize Wall Street peeves, one and the same, from Legal Insurrection: I also think that a lot of people in favor of OWS are mourning the death of a dream. I can sympathize with that. A lot of the rhetoric I heard while growing up in the 1990s was akin to this: if you get good grades, go to a decent college, and don’t screw up, you can live comfortably. I think that, for a lot of folks who did just this, the past three years have been particularly difficult for them. It has been more of a struggle than they anticipated. Wall Street is their chosen scape goat, but I really doubt it’s the source of the difficulty a lot of 20-somethings have come across. That’s a post for another day, I suppose. It not a dream, but rather a myth. Liberal mythology is that you can pay good money to attend a esteemed brick and mortar college, and somehow, as if by osmosis, get a well paid college level position which will allow you to both repay your...
We’re Back
2011-11-19 20:21:00 We were down because of a registration issue on the domain. That has since been resolved, and we’re back on line. Essentially, that one’s my fault. I lost track of the time. I believe enough, the phone that would have advised me of the domain expiring , was just replaced a couple of days ago. Doesn’t that figure? Link to this post! More About: Back
Friday List Dump
2011-11-18 03:29:00 The persons, or groups, Dim Won, a/k/a Dumbo, b/k/a Barrack Obama has insulted: African Americans: “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’.” Americans: Are “not a model for the world” and have a “tragic history.” Also, “we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” and, more recently, we have gotten “a little soft” and lost our “competitive edge.” Bankers: “Fat cats” Border enforcement: Its overzealous adherents want “alligators and moats” on the border and would arrest children on their way to get ice cream. The Cambridge, Mass., police: “Acted stupidly” and, like law-enforcement officers in general, racially profile Corporate-jet owners: “Are you willing to compromise your kids’ safety so some corporate-jet owner can get a tax break?” Democratic base: Must “shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up . . . if people now wa... More About: List , Friday
The Ramble for 11-16-11
2011-11-17 01:57:00 Columbia, NJ- I’m set to run into the city at about 3am, and am taking a rest break before doing that. It’s raining here, fairly hard, though the radar says it’ll slack off shortly. Hacking: The last few days, I’ve been having problems hitting Limbaugh’s site. Anyone else notice this one? Obamacare: Walter Russel Mead suggests that Obamacare is killing small medical practices. He’s right, of course. One more reason why most Americans want this Obamacare monster killed.Both are points largely ignored by the Obama house organs in the supposedly mainstream media. UNCLE SAM: RIPOFF ARTIST: Frank Flemming, by way of Glenn: It wouldn’t be so bad if Uncle Sam earned his money, but he doesn’t. He’s never produced anything — he gets all his money through deception.For instance, he said he was going to provide retirement savings for everyone, but the whole thing is a Ponzi scheme in which Uncle Sam constantly raids the funds while giving people a ... More About: Ramble
Comrade Molotov Meet Mr. John Moses Browning
2011-11-17 00:30:00 Karen, the Lonely Conservative, passes on this from the Organize Wall Street scum: Democrats in Congress have criticized NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for shutting down the OWS encampment at Zuccotti Park. Apparently, that means they support this guy, who oddly signs autographs while threatening to burn New York City to the ground and bomb Macy’s. Comrade Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov meet Mr. John Moses Browning. If you don’t like Macy’s, don’t shop there. Link to this post! More About: Meet
The Ramble for 11-15-11 Sandusky, McQuery, Michael Jackson, And Star Power
2011-11-16 01:44:00 Utica, NY– I’m back. In more ways than one. I spent the weekend here with my wife of 22 years, and had a wonderful time. Odd, that this was one of the first places I had to come to unload freight. It’s not as nice a place to be, as it was over the weekend. Got a new phone over the weekend, as well. The Droid 2. Nice phone but lots of things I have to unlearn. It’s quite different from the Palm I’ve carried for quite some time, now. The Palm was getting a little beat up…. life in the truck is hard on people…. and harder, I think on electronics. I’m sitting in a Star bucks, drinking cocoa. They’re already playing Christmas music on the speakers. Too early. Just now, they’re playing a cut from the Neil Diamond Christmas album. I’ve always admired Diamond, a wonderful voice and from all accounts a nice sort. But there’s something about one of the more popular Jewish entertainers, singing about Christ t... More About: Power , Michael Jackson , Michael , Ramble
Welcoming Chelsea Clinton to the Media
2011-11-14 22:35:00 Cripes Suzette links this story: Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices on Monday morning, said Steve Capus, president of NBC News, and will begin work on stories that NBC expects to use as part of its “Making a Difference” series, which runs on “NBC Nightly News … Mr. Capus said an intermediary contacted him in July with word that “she was kicking around what she wanted to do next.” Hat tip: Cripes Suzette Reax: She’s probably going to be a big hit at this. I do think with her background and experience that she could provide illumination on many issues that Americans would be interested in. I’d like to suggest for a start: cosmetic surgery keeping Dad away when your girlfriends come over gluten-free power breakfasts with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton what to avoid when choosing your wedding gown hosting a Come To Jesus meeting when your husband announces his intention of being ... More About: Media , The Media
Professor Althouse Slams Newt
More articles from this author:2011-11-14 01:50:00 Professor Althouse likes Newt Gingrich, link: There’s something I like about Newt Gingrich. He reminds me of a law professor Maybe law professors have their roles, like teaching law, but as bloggers I find the vast majority to be over rated and some akin to useless. However in this case the professor makes a good point and has evidence to prove it, video: Professor Gingrich slices and dices a useless moderator, Scott Pelley. from Byron Preston, PJ Media: All in all, it was a good night for most on the stage, and a bad night for Barack Obama, who clearly is a failed president on foreign policy, and who is clearly inferior to almost everyone who was on stage tonight. This was also a bad night for CBS, whose moderators lacked anything close to a pulse and whose broadcast decisions served America poorly. If you intend to host a debate on a Saturday night, at least make sure the nation can see it. Is it time to CBS to bring back Dan Rather? Link to this post! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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