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Comments Area Enhanced
2009-03-28 17:37:00 I’ve managed to get a WYSIWYG editor to the comments area. Tiny MCE is nice if it works, but for some reason I’ve never figured out, it doesn’t get along with this theme. So I found another way to get a visual editor in place. Let me know what you think. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. More About: Comments , Area
George Tiller: Kansas Butcher
2009-03-28 12:32:00 Look at the bright side with a gross income in excess of a million and half dollars a year, George Tiller is the type of small business man that Barack Obama wants to punish, Associated Press: Tiller estimated that he performed 250 to 300 late-term abortions in 2003, each costing an average of $6,000. Tiller said he is one of three doctors in the U.S. who currently perform late-term abortions. The others are in Boulder, Colo., and Los Angeles, he said. This is one case where I can sympathize with Obama’s vindictive economic policies. Doctor Tiller’s victims were not available for comment. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. More About: Kansas
Eric Cantor Knows the Better Deal
2009-03-28 11:48:00 Representative Eric Cantor (Virginia - Seven) has created a media firestorm because he went to a Britney Spears concert rather than a Barack Obama press conference, Anne Schroeder Mullins, Politico: Everybody has been asking GOP Whip Eric Cantor about going to the Britney Spears concert on Tuesday night. The Takeaway asked yesterday, to which Cantor replied that he didn’t understand what the big deal was - he was attending a political event at the concert. And this morning, “Fox & Friends” ribbed him about it, too Elementary! By going to Britney Spears concert, Eric Cantor got to see two boobs. If Cantor had gone to the one’s presser, Cantor would have only heard one boob. Plus between Spears and Obama, Spears is the smarter one. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. More About: Deal
England Dan Seals, RIP
2009-03-27 22:09:00 Sad word from the radio just now… Dan Seals… One half of the duo of England Dan and John Ford Coley, has died. Apparently, Seals contracted lymphoma two years ago, and it was complicatioons from that, that took his life at age 61. A very talented person, that, and a sad loss. from the Palm Treo.. No tags for this post. Related posts No related posts.
Nightly Ramble: The Wonderful Wino Edition
2009-03-27 16:47:00 Welcome one and all to the most intense nghtly read anywhere on the sphere: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble This is the ‘Wonderful Wino” edition. Olberman still a loser: Glenn Reynolds notes that Glenn Beck is outdrawing Keith Overbite. Like, this is a surprise? Rove in 2010?: I’ve been watching Karl Rove quite closely the last several weeks. I started once I started noticing he was quite a bit more visable than any of the other Bush White House alums. I’ve long since started to wonder if he’s going to be a player in the 2010 election. He clearly will be a large voice for the mid-terms. Anyone who rattles the left that badly while being the nice guy that he invariably is, has to be worth something. He’s a little too centrist for my taste politically, but… Trouble in Doggie Land: Word on the wire is that Dylan Ratigan has quit over at CNBC. Apparently this has been brewing for a while. Apparently Ratigan is blaming the problem on network ... More About: Edition
Presidential Pablum
2009-03-27 15:30:00 The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes. Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” Your truly: The last time I checked Obama has a hack lawyer, who has never released his college or law school transcripts and never published anything, he himself, has written. Obama has trouble understanding laws or executive orders he has signed. Translation, if Obama is really a lawyer, he not a very good one. So this hack lawyer makes this radical economic pronouncement that somehow economic recovery is magically linked to enacting his bloated three trillion dollar budget. Since when? Obama has no economic credentials.. He cites no economic experts who can collaborate his theory. In short Obama gives us no reason to believe that his private theory is true. Eric, on the clueless... More About: Presidential
Facing the Real Problems with American Car Makers
2009-03-27 14:01:00 James Joyner, this morning: President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.” “We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help to auto workers — or to auto companies. But my job is to measure the costs of allowing these auto companies just to collapse versus us figuring out — can they come up with a viable plan?” He added: “If they’re not willing to make the changes and the restructurings that are necessary, then I’m not willing to have taxpayer money chase after bad money.” ... “Everybody is going to have to give a little bit — shareholders, workers, creditors, suppliers, dealers — everybody is going to have to recognize that the current model, economic model, of the U.S. auto industry is unsustainable,” Obama said. Says James; Obama’s absolutely right that, if the federal taxpayer is going to bail out these companies, then the government ... More About: American , Problems , Real , Makers , Facing
Boom Goes the Mail Server
2009-03-21 15:30:00 As most of you will know, I recently obtained a Palm Treo650, which I quickly tied onto the florack.us mail servers. Last night while adding a spam handler to the little bugger’s feed, I apparently fouled up somewhere. To handle all the mail around here, both for the blog and the family and personal situations, I have several individual email accounts, across four different domains. These are all being handled with a (yes, one) Thunderbird client. T-bird automatically manages each account, for spam, who needs to see what, what needs to get sent to the Palm eventually and which I need to know about right now. It also manages killing of old mail from itself and from the servers. While writing new client scripts last night, to handle some new situations that came up recently, I must have gotten one of the scripts crossed up in the direction it was supposed to fire stuff off in, because about 3 this morning, it fired off something… I’ve yet to determine just ... More About: Mail , Server , Boom
BO Starts a Trade War with Mexico
2009-03-21 14:17:00 Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of Hope and Change. There doesn’t appear to be much hope for Hope, but BO is sure bring on the Change, albeit all bad. BO and his fellow ‘rats in Congress have started a trade war with Mexico If it can be but played on his teleprompter, Obama would discover what William Barret Travis learned at the Alamo, the Mexicans shoot back and their aim is pretty good. Forbes: Mexico announced, effective March 19, tariff increases ranging between 10% and 45% on 90 products whose imports from the U.S. amount to $2.4 billion. This was done because President Obama earlier in the month signed a spending bill that removed funding for a pilot program that allowed designated Mexican trucks to bring cargo directly to destinations in the U.S. Mexico’s retaliation was neither rash nor hurried in that this issue has been in dispute since 1995. The U.S. government agreed in the North American Free Trade Agreement to allow Mexican trucks to b...
The Barack Obama And Joe Biden Gaffe Machine
2009-03-21 12:02:00 The British press is doing the job the American press simply will not do, exposing the incompetency of the Obama adminstration. Toby Harnden(?), Telegraph(UK) has his videos of his top ten BO and Delaware Blue Hen gaffes. BitsBlog Tags: joe biden, W, Joe, law, UK Related posts I Don’t Think So, Either. (1) Mrs. Clinton Panics (0) Black Liberation Theology (2) Enforcement Works: Illegals Get the Messsage (0) Slate Shows It’s Quality;More Bailout; More (Thursday, December 4, 2008)">Nightly Ramble: Slate Shows It’s Quality;More Bailout; More (0) More About: Barack Obama , Machine , Barack , Joe Biden
Senators Kerry And Boxer Fall for Algore’s Hoax
2009-03-21 11:43:00 Senator John Kerry and Barbara Boxer are both rich and stupid: Washington (CNSNews.com) - Democratic Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer told CNSNews.com that the nation must adopt the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon emissions, even if it results in massive increases in gasoline and electricity prices. Anthropogenic global warming is a fraud and a hoax. We, the hard working taxpayers of the United States, unlike the idle rich of the United States Senate, need a carbon tax like a fish needs a bicycle. Kerry has millions. He married into it. He can afford the carbon tax. I don’t have milllion, and can not afford the tax. Can you? BitsBlog Tags: hoax, massive increases, senator john kerry, Obama, gasoline Related posts And Then, There were Four (0) Further Thoughts on Presidential Appointements And Taxes (2) Fred Gets It. (0) Breakfast Scramble (0) Breakfast Scramble (0) More About: Hoax , Fall , Algore
Snark of the Day: Jammie Wearing Fool
2009-03-21 10:31:00 Heh: Obama’s Bracket Goes Bust Coach K was right. He should stick to his day job. Then again, he’s screwing that up as well. Jammie Wearing Fool . BitsBlog Tags: snark, jammie, heh, Snark of the day, G Related posts What If a Chunk of These Fires in SouCal were Set for Political Purposes? (4) Here Come Those Santa Ana Winds Again… (0) Bhutto Under Arrest… By Whose Order? (0) Once Exposed to It, Canadians Like Conservative Government. (2) Gabler Backlash (0)
Nightly Ramble: More Pizza Edition
2009-03-20 21:05:00 Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…;The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble This is the “More Pizza ” edition. I feel like Pizza for some reason, tonight. Sping, perhaps. What is rich? Megan says: …that the definition of “very rich” seems increasingly to be set at “just above the level a top-notch journalist in a two-earner couple could be expected to pull down”…. No. the more universal method of determining “Rich” is someone who makes dollar one more than the speaker does. That said, however, let’s face this one: all this smoke and fury on wealth envy is actually driven by those interested in making government bigger, and more powerful. The Peasants are revolting: Among other places, in Kansas and Connecticut. I keep hearing about how Obama turned down a Meet the Depressed stint because he thought David Gregory wasn’t enough of a challange. Yeah, right. Oh, more than granted, Grego... More About: Edition
Snark of the Day: Drew M (Ace)
2009-03-20 18:23:00 What’s more retarded? Making a Special Olympics crack or saying Geithner is doing a heck of a job? Drew M. Ace of Spades BitsBlog Tags: Ace of Spades, heck of a job, crack, special olympics, geithner Related posts Nightly Ramble: Back in the Saddle Again (3) Nightly Ramble: The Smears; Celebrity, She’s a MAN, Baby!; No Recession Here; More (0) BO’s Class Shows (0) Political Winds? (0) Snowzilla (1)
Alas Poor BO
2009-03-20 17:15:00 Andrew Malcolm, Los Angelos Times, quoting the President’s official schedule, has the ironic news bit of the day from the : “Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press.” Lucky for BO he is not a republican. BO is as naive as Jimmy Carte, but Carter was not stupid. BitsBlog Tags: los angelos times, Andrew Malcolm, newsmaker, newspaper publisher, state dining room Related posts There’s No Way Obama Didn’t Know About Richardson (0) Snark of the Day: Hamid Karzai (1) Mission Accomplished: BO Eats Faux Presidential Seal (1) More About: Poor
Memo to Mrs. Pelosi: Put Up Or Shut Up
2009-03-20 14:54:00 Mrs. Pelosi thnks immigration enforcement is unpatriotic. Well take these Mrs. Pelosi, Evan Perez, Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners. Mr. Holder, in a briefing with reporters, said administration officials are still reviewing individual cases of the approximately 250 detainees to determine which will be put on trial and which may be released to comply with plans to close the detention facility by next year. Kim Priestap, Wizbang, who I beleve lives in the PRM(People’s Rebulican of Michigan) says not in her backyard: Here are some suggestions: How about Chicago? DC? Los Angeles? Hollywood! Seriously, though. When our attorney general says that some detainees who are currently being held in Guantanamo Bay for their role in 9/11 or for supporting, aiding, and a... More About: Memo , Shut , Shut Up
About Those DVD’s… I Called It
2009-03-20 14:09:00 Back on the 11th of this month, I posted a quick note from my Palm Treo, asking about those DVD’s Obama gave Gordon Brown. Were they even playable, I wondered, given the technology changes between the states and the UK. Wrong region, and wrong encoding scheme. Person giving the gift being clueless. By way of James Joyner, I note an article in the Telegraph which answers that question: Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem. The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words “wrong region” came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or “special partnership”, as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint…. A Downing Street spokesman said he was “confident” that any gift Obama gave Brown would have been “well thought through,” but ...
Welcome to Spring!
2009-03-20 12:44:00 As of 07:44 ET today, spring is among us. I can’t think of any better way to honor the arrival of the end of winter than to pass along this grand old tune. BitsBlog Tags: spring, poisining pigions in the park Related posts No related posts. More About: Spring
Yo Eric Holder, You Reprobate
2009-03-20 12:22:00 If the reprobate, who thinks he is Attorney General, Eric Holder, has commented on this case, I am not aware of it. James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, reports on an effort to recall a New Orleans council woman because she is the wrong race, to wit white: WDSU-TV reports that a group styling itself Citizens For Accountability and Transparency in Government has filed a recall petition against Stacy Head, a New Orleans city councilman. The station quotes the group’s head: “This is a majority black district, and we think that it should have black representation,” said Malcolm Suber, who is leading the recall petition. “And if it is going to be a white representative, they should be sensitive to the black community, and she is not . . . She is opposed to the interests of the black community, and again I think she’s a racist.” So, just to sum up, Suber’s complaints about Head are as follows: 1) She’s the wrong color. 2) She’s raci...
BO’s Book Deal Reeks
2009-03-20 11:13:00 As Eric rambled: The Book : You’ve heard about Obama’s half billion dollar kids book deal, right? How many copies are being sold to school districts on the taxpayer dime, I wonder? And he didn’t even write the bloody thing. Steven Green has more to say on that subject. Jim McElhatton and Christina Bellantoni, Washington Times: As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children’s book project, a disclosure report shows. The terms of the book deal were disclosed in a Senate financial disclosure report filed Tuesday. This is not a book deal, It is a bribe. Barack Obama can”t speak without a teleprompter. Obama certainly did not write Dreams of Our Fathers. Do you know of a single author who is captive to his teleprompter? Neither do I. Obama is sure the heck incapable of writing any book. Half million dollars for a book O... More About: Deal
Nightly Ramble:The White Billboard Edition
2009-03-19 21:03:00 Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere; The Bitsblog Nightly Ramble When reality strikes: It has become startlingly clear that there’s a major difference between candidate Obama and President Obama… as I have always insisted there would be. References to this today come from all over, notably James Joyner, Byron York, and the AP. Clearly, the now axiomatic point that all of Obama’s promses come with an experation date, is being reinforced daily. What’s that line? I want to take a second to officially anounce I am a Duke fan, again. And I couldn’t even care less about March Madness. Indeed, I’m constantly amused with the idea that anyone is. Never could get into college sports. The cause: Here it comes, America… a UN levied tax on oil. “green new deal’ they call it. Now, think; Obama is now saying his cap and trade thing would end up costing us about three times w... More About: White , Edition , Billboard
The Measurement of Obama’s Outrage
2009-03-19 15:25:00 From the Morning Bell from The Heritage Foundation Speaking to a crowd of 1,500 supporters in Costa Mesa, California, about the bonuses given to employees of 80% taxpayer owned AIG, President Barack Obama said [1]: “I know a lot of you are outraged about this. I’m outraged, too.” We’ll leave for others to decide the level of Obama’s outrage, especially considering reports [2] this morning that the Obama Administration found out about the bonuses on February 28, not March 10, as they originally claimed. But what we would like to see some genuine outrage over are the millions of taxpayer dollars going to executives at the taxpayer owned companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae [3]. Fannie and Freddie reported combined losses of about $108 billion last year [4]. But the damage they caused the entire economy goes for beyond the losses on their balance sheets. Fannie and Freddie are at the core [5] of the current economic meltdown. Although they were only rec...
The Wolves are Circling, But is Timothy Geithner the Main Course, Or an App
2009-03-19 14:08:00 Things are moving fast with the Obama administration, as I suggested previously they would. They are in fact moving faster than even I foresaw… and I thought my statements on the matter long- played the voter anger out there by quite a bit. Turns out, even that was an under-estimation. You’ll recall at the end of one month of the new Obama administration, I observed: In looking at all of this, I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election. The amazing part is, whereas it took Bill Clinton quite literally years to get to this point, we’re only 30 days into the Obama presidency. We still have 1470 days, more or less, to go. Frankly, it’s becoming a question of him lasting quite that long. This morning, James Joyner notes: A few weeks ago on OTB Radio, Dave Schuler predicted that Timothy Geithner would be out as Treasury Secretary by the end of the year. At t... More About: Wolves , Main , Main Course , The Main
Union Evils
2009-03-19 12:24:00 File under too ironic to shcch, Washington Post: The Service Employees International Union , considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of its national field staff and organizers that 75 of them are being laid off. In return, the workers’ union, which goes by the somewhat postmodern name of the Union of Union Representatives, has filed unfair labor practices charges against SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board. The staff union’s leaders say that SEIU is engaging in the same kind of practices that some businesses use — laying off workers without proper notice, contracting out work to temp firms, banning union activities and reclassifying workers to reduce union numbers Savor. BitsBlog Tags: labor relations board, service employees international union, union representatives, workers union, washington post Related posts Deeper Into the Edwards Scandal (0) If We Don’t Talk Enough About Race...
What Did the President Know, And When Did He Know It?
2009-03-19 11:08:00 Old question, new President , David Freddoso, National Review: Sen. Chris Dodd (D, Conn.), who until today has been blamed as the author of the statutory protection for bonuses, is in turn blaming the Obama administration for insisting on the provision back in February. Just how long had the president really known about the situation before he made his melodramatic denunciation of AIG on Monday? ‘Rat on ‘rat fratracide, love it. BitsBlog Tags: provision, denunciation, conn, president david, david freddoso Related posts Ya Say You Want a Revolution? Well, You Know…. (0) Dodd And the Polls (0) Obama’s State of the Union Address, with Commentary (1) Nightly Ramble:The ‘Like a Freight Train;’ Edition (2) Nightly Ramble: The Tourist Trap Edition (0) More About: The President
BO to Vets, FY (Updated And Bumped)
2009-03-19 00:00:00 President Obama is mulling declaring war on wounded veterans, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is considering making veterans use private insurance to pay for treatment of combat and service-related injuries. The plan would be an about-face on what veterans believe is a long-standing pledge to pay for health care costs that result from their military service. But in a White House meeting Monday, veterans groups apparently failed to persuade President Obama to take the plan off the table. ... Veterans claim that the costs of treating expensive war injuries could raise their insurance costs, as well as those for their employers. Some worried that it also could make it more difficult for disabled veterans to find work More, Gateway Pundit, and we second the motion of This Ain’t Hell: To General Shinseki I say RESIGN NOW. This is the only possible way to preserve your integrity as a soldier’s soldier. To do anything less is to s...
Mrs. Pelosi: Imigration Enforcement is Unpatriotic
2009-03-18 21:06:00 Mrs. Pelosi , a/k/a Speaker Table Cloth, evidently thinks it is acceptable to pander to illegals, and their supporters, by insulting our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents, from Real Clear Politics: Appearing in front of a group of legal and illegal immigrants at a church in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it is “un-American” to enforce current US immigration law Video: Now let me see if I can get the gist of what Speaker Table Cloth is saying, and not saying. Having imigrations laws on the books is not unpatriotic. However actually enforcing said laws somehow is unpatriotic? Well nobody has ever accused Mrs. Pelosi of being smart. Congressman Lamar Smith(Texas - Twenty One), courtesy of Michelle: “The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Speaker Pelosi called worksite arrests and deportation of illegal workers ‘un-American.’ That’s quite a powerful word - ‘un-American.’ And it’s quite a spectacle to have th...
B.J. Clinton May Not be an Actual Idiot, But He Plays One on Television
2009-03-14 11:59:00 Then what would you expect from a hick from Arkansas who is so dumb that he didn’t know the meaning of sex or even the definition of “is:” Suggestion, maybe it the quest host contract that the Larry’s fill in has to play dumb like Larry and just accept everything the quest says at face value. Hat tip and more: Stop the ACLU: I guess Clinton was deprived of “comprehensive sex education” in school. As well as sleeping through his ethics classes in law school. BitsBlog Tags: suggestion, television, plays one, face value, meaning of sex Related posts Dick Martin Laugh-In Star (0) Jim McKay, RIP At Age 86 (1) Nightly Ramble: The Milli Vanilli Edition (0) Daisy Ad Creator Dies (0) FDR’s Television Appearence, By Way of Joe Biden’s Memory (0) More About: Idiot , Plays
Nightly Ramble: The Mirror Image Edition
2009-03-13 21:05:00 Welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ’sphere… The BigsBlog Nightly Ramble This is the “Mirror Image ” edition. I got to thinking; What would happen if I started applying the website CSS to other objects? This is the first result. And yeah, I’ve used it before. But I’m working on another one, which brought this to mind. The party’s over: Looks like Obamas approval ratings are falling fast. The article doesn’t except well, so I’ll ask you to simply Go and RTWT. Oh, and on that point, it’s nice to see Megan McArdle finally recognizing reality on Obama. I called that one, too. Jen Rubin has a great piece on this today, as well. Remember I said that the administration was using the crisis to push an agenda they’d have pushed anyway? They’d better hurry. Maybe it’s the people: The Obama nominess are dropping like flies. I’m not even keeping up with them in the blog anymore. ... More About: Edition
Mrs. Pelosi Traps Herself Between a Rock And Hard Spot
More articles from this author:2009-03-13 17:40:00 I don’t exactly consider Mrs. Pelosi to the sharpest knife in the drawer, but on the other hand, at least she can count votes. Consider these facts: The Obama economy is cratering. The $trillion or so Porkulus package utterly failed to stimulate the economy(how could it?). Mrs. Pelosi got exactly zero Republican votes for Porkulus. The Obama economy is failing, and Mrs Pelosi and her ‘rats own it Yet, having seen Congress waste a trillion dollars on one phony stimulus bill, the public seems ill inclined to support yet another. Mrs. Pelosi needs to get the economy turned around yet she does not have the votes for another stimulus. Ben Pershing, Washington Post: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that a second economic stimulus package is not “in the cards” in the short term, disappointing those seeking another quick infusion of federal money into the struggling economy. When Mrs. Pelosi says that a second stimulus pac... More About: Rock , Spot , Hard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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