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Let’s STOP talking about who were going to SEAT, and START talking about UNSEATING, ‘cut & run’ Dingy Harry Reid!! Who the hell does this arrogant bastard think he is? Has this idiot finally gone MAD? I can now see why his senate seat is in jeopardy in Nevada….Papa Mike
Tensions are beginning to erupt in the U.S. Senate over a Democratic effort to seat Al Franken as the new senator from Minnesota. Majority Leader Harry Reid has proclaimed Franken the likely winner of the state’s controversial recount, but Republican John Cornyn says nobody should be seated after an election in which some votes “are counted twice.” Uncle Jay Explains: Year-end 2008
GOP leaders reacted angrily Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s tactic of all but projecting Al Franken the victor over incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman, even as Minnesota election officials continue to count the votes.
“At this stage, it appears that Franken will be certified the winner by the State Canvassing Board,” said a statement Reid’s office released Tuesday. “We’re keeping abreast of the situation and will make a decision with regard to Senate action at the appropriate point in the process.”
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a leading contender for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, blasted Reid for politicizing the recount.
“The American people will see right through Harry Reid’s crass partisan power grab,” Blackwell tells Newsmax. “He wants to manufacture a filibuster-proof majority to push through his liberal agenda. Americans expect fairness, but Reid is offering political games. There are over 1,300 disputed ballots in Minnesota that must be resolved before anyone is seated.”
Adds Blackwell, “This is just another example of the sleazy political boss antics that has Harry Reid at risk of losing his own Senate seat in Nevada.”
Now we’ll watch the United Nations, The New York Times, Michael Moore, Rossie O’Donnell, “the bitch’s on the VIEW”, ( less Elisabeth Hasselbeck ) and the rest of the world wring their hands and question Israel’s right to shoot back!! Why not just turn the other cheek and let Hamas rocket away?????? Papa Mike
On Tuesday, Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari’a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, it legalizes crucifixion.
Hamas’s endorsement of nailing enemies of Islam to crosses came at the same time it renewed its jihad. Here, too, Hamas wanted to make sure that Christians didn’t feel neglected as its fighters launched missiles at Jewish day care centers and schools. So on Wednesday, Hamas lobbed a mortar shell at the Erez crossing point into Israel just as a group of Gazan Christians were standing on line waiting to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas.
I know I’m getting to be a broken record on this, but how long will this country keep trying to cure the disease with the disease?
Headline: “GMAC loosens credit to make vehicles easier to buy.” Call it the subprime auto loan prescription.
Easier auto loans for more people.
The struggling financing arm of General Motors Corp., rescued by $5 billion in federal aid on Monday, plans to use some of the money to make cars and trucks more affordable to a larger pool of customers.
It’s the first time that a financial institution has said it will use money from the $700 billion bank bailout to offer more affordable credit to consumers.
On Tuesday, Detroit-based GM said it will offer zero percent or low-interest financing on some slower-selling 2008 and 2009 models as part of a year-end sales push — a move made possible by the newly available cash at the financing arm.
Translation: More bad loans to risky borrowers.
Flashback Nov. 17: Dumb idea of the day: Hey, let’s encourage a nation in debt to borrow and buy even more!
Flashback Nov. 25: Borrow. Spend. Panic. Repeat.
Mish sums this madness up perfectly:
The more money wasted on stupidity like this, the longer the recession, and the slower the recovery. There is only so much capital, and using that capital to keep failed business models alive is sickening.
Pardon me while I bang my head against the wall some more.
I watched the entire video plea by 10-year-old aspiring reporter, Damon Weaver, asking the President-elect for a brief interview during Inauguration week.
And I’m surprised the Obama Administration made the boneheaded decision not to give press credentials to this cute, smart boy. That’s not to mention that this is a young Black kid, for whom Obama–we are told–is supposed to be a role model.
Yes, it’s hard to understand some of what he’s saying, but remember, he’s only ten.
If the Obama camp were smart, they would have granted young Weaver press credentials when he asked for them, and they would have publicized and promoted the heck out of it. Instead, Obama’s crew is looking like a bunch of grinches.
Remember, “Yes, We Can”? That was just a campaign slogan about opening up your wallets to pay for his stuff. For everything else, including Damon Weaver, it’s more like, “No, We Can’t.” Heartless. And more than that, just stupid.
Even Joe Biden was smarter on this. He gave an interview.
Bleeding Heart Liberals–they bleed for themselves, those who can help them, and those who hate America. But they don’t bleed for you (or this cute little kid who could have made for great press).
My guess is that the Obama gang will eventually back down . . . if they’re smart.
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The polar bears will be fine despite all the propaganda and ‘voodoo science’ from Al Gore and the rest of the Dimocrats….Papa Mike
The first, on May 21, headed “Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts” , reported that the entire Alpine “winter sports industry” could soon “grind to a halt for lack of snow”. The second, on December 19, headed “The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation” , reported that this winter’s Alpine snowfalls “look set to beat all records by New Year’s Day”.
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.
First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.
Read the rest of this article….HERE
Hamas declared this earlier in the week. They must think they are a “legal organization”.
Meanwhile, they are getting their asses pounded heavily by the IDF. Leaves little time for crucifying doesn’t it Hamas. teh…
Palestinian Media Watch captured this clip of a young girl who lost family members in the bombing raids this weekend.
She blames “Hamas is the cause of all wars”.”
PMW reported:
A Palestinian girl whose family members was killed yesterday in Gaza after an Israeli air attack was interviewed today on Palestinian TV and placed the blame for the war on Hamas:
[Girl] “We were sleeping 7 girls in the room. We were asleep and didn’t know what was happening. In the morning all the bricks were on top of my head, and the heads of all my sisters. My 4 year old sister next to me was dead.”
[Interviewer] “How many were you?”
[Girl] “Seven.In the other room were my mother, my father, my yonger brother and another sister, who is 13 days old. I say, Hamas is the cause, in the first place, of all wars.”
This film was made by a 15 year old girl. It is without a doubt the hottest thing on the Internet.
Lizzie Palmer who put this program together, is 15 years old. There have been over 26,198,851 hits as of 8:45 this evening. In case you missed it, here it is.
Be sure to watch all of it…….because as a good friend of mine who sent it to me said, “This video will pull your insides out, but we need to see it, just so we don’t forget”. Thanks DB…….Papa Mike
So what is the “anointed one”going to do about this, try and sit down with these ‘terrorists’ and ask them please, pretty please stop all the killing? Do you think you can negotiate with these murdering bastards? Would you allow Iran to kill Israelis along side of those murdering Hamas terrorists? The picture below shows Iran Protesters praying for the destruction of Israel. Now we all know what President Bush would do. He would first tell Iran to stay out of this, and then DEMAND that the violence to stop immediately, by saying Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel, and NO more ‘suicide bombers’ killing innocent women and children on public buses or anywhere inside Israel, and agree to respect a sustainable and durable cease-fire…..If not, the U.S. will stand behind Israel in the destruction of Hamas….Papa Mike
TEHRAN, Iran — A group of influential conservative Iranian clerics launched an online registration drive on Monday seeking volunteers to fight against Israel in response to its air assault on the Gaza Strip.
About 3,550 people registered Monday with the Combatant Clergy Society’s Web site. The weeklong online campaign gives volunteers three options on ways they can fight Israel: military, financial and propaganda.
The group, which has considerable political and economic power in Iran, did not provide further details on the program including how it would contact the volunteers or implement the program.
The conservative clerics decided to sign up volunteers after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious decree on Sunday that said anyone killed while defending Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip against Israeli attacks would be considered a martyr.
Khamenei’s religious decree was not considered a government decision and did not oblige the government to launch attacks against Israel.
But Iran considers Israel its archenemy, and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Iran also is Hamas’ main backer, though Tehran denies sending weapons to the Islamic militant group that took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
Israel’s airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have sparked outrage in Iran and throughout the rest of the Muslim world. About 300 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded since the air assault began Saturday. Israel says it launched its campaign in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns.
Also Monday, the Iranian Red Crescent sent a ship carrying 2,000 tons of food to Palestinians living in Gaza to be delivered via Egypt. An Iranian military plane also landed at Cairo International Airport carrying 24 tons of food and medicine destined for Gaza.
The head of Iran’s Red Crescent, Masoud Khatami, said three more ships were waiting to be loaded with humanitarian aid, and Iranian hospitals were ready to receive injured Gazans, according to the official Iran news agency, IRNA.
He may be a redneck, but with no TV and no phone to bother him, he will probably out enjoy, and out live, all of us city folks….Papa Mike
Thanks Harriett
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports – in the year 2007 there were 9.8 million crimes against property in the United States. This included about 2.2 million burglaries, 6.6 million larceny-thefts, and 1.1 million car thefts.
Now that may sound like a whole lot of crime going on — in fact the total loss in all of these 9.8 million crimes was $17.6 Billion. That’s a whole lotta bucks.
Pilgrims, I can’t even make a wild ass guess as to how many lives this effected, how many victims suffered irrecoverable damage. How many criminals were convicted and sentenced to how many years in jail… Millions of years in jail – at least. Probably a lot of these criminals are still sitting in jail waiting for trial. Who knows?
What Ole’ Pecozbill on about you ask? Here’s what;
Bernard Madoff, New York mastermind of the greatest fraud in history – is awaiting trial for stealing $50 BILLION. That is $50,000,000,000! Is he incarcerated? He stole more money that all of the theft crimes in this country in an entire year TIMES THREE. What jail is he in? He ain’t!
Nosiree — Ole’ Bernie the thief, has been placed under house arrest and is not allowed to leave his $7,000,000 New York City penthouse..
Folks have been robbed of millions and ruined — at least one has committed suicide —- and there sit’s ole’ Bernie – livin’ the good life.
And folks wonder why honest hard working citizens in this country, and not just the ones whose retirement plans have gone bust, whose money managers have closed shop and gone off to start anew or been bailed out with their tax dollars —- are getting short tempered and angry~
It’s time for a change in this country all right!!
In the white collar courthouses for starters!
“Charles Johnson is a man of his word.
On Oct. 4, 1936, then 19, Johnson promised to love and protect his bride, Berlie Mae.
On Tuesday, he did.
Now 91, he scared off two home invaders with his 38-caliber revolver when the men threatened his wife of 72 years at their home east of Ocoee.
“I was going to kill him either way,” the retired jack-of-all-trades said Wednesday. “She’s all I’ve got to live for . . . Why would I want to live?”
Terror erupted in the Johnsons’ heavily barred house on Lake Stanley Road shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday as the couple watched TV news. She was sitting in her wheelchair. He was sitting nearby on the sofa.
That’s when a stranger stepped through the back door.
“What are you doing? What are you doing?” Berlie Mae Johnson, 90, remembered asking as the man stepped on her shiny-clean tile floor. “By then, he had the gun to my head. I don’t know what all I said.”
The man ordered the couple: “Be quiet. Don’t say a word. Don’t move.”
Read the rest of this article….HERE
Caroline Kennedy tells Daily News: I wouldn’t be beholden to anybody
“I’m really coming into this as somebody who isn’t, you know, part of the system, who obviously, you know, stands for the values of, you know, the Democratic Party,” Kennedy told the Daily News Saturday during a wide-ranging interview.
“I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person. And, you know, and that would be obviously true with my relationship with the mayor.”
Criticized for ignoring reporters after her name surfaced as a possible Clinton replacement, Kennedy sat down with the media this weekend. Displaying her notorious shyness during the 30-minute chat, the mother of three, author and public education advocate was pleasant, but spoke softly and rarely made eye contact. Her speech was often punctuated with extra “you knows” and “ums.”
Kennedy revealed she has had several recent discussions with her former cousin-in-law, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who is also considered a serious candidate for the Senate seat.
“Andrew is, you know, highly qualified for this job,” she said. “He’s doing a, you know, a great job as attorney general, and we’ve spoken throughout this process.”
“You know, I think, you know, we’re sort of, uh, sharing some of this experience. And um, as I’ve said, he was a friend, a family member, and um so, and uh obviously, he’s, you know, he’s also had an impressive career in public office.”
“It’s really, you know, it’s not about just the Kennedy name,” she said. “It’s about my own work and what I’ve done with those values.”
ENOUGH!
Her brother John Jr. was an acquaintance of mine. Once, perhaps twice a week on average we’d wind up in the same little breakfast diner in downtown Manhattan, and while the guy was salt of the earth, he was considerably dumber than your average box of claw hammers.
And even HE would laugh at how stupid his sister was.
Which of course means she is perfectly suited to be a politician.
You could see this coming…
Tina Fey was honored with Entertainer of the Year Awards for her role in completely decimating the popular governor of Alaska on Saturday Night Live.
Fey made headlines for effectively portraying Sarah Palin as a complete incompetent hick from the sticks on the weekly show.
She has been a huge hit with the liberal media ever since.
At least the media was honest about this award:
Tina Fey is the entertainer of the year? You betcha. Fey was voted The Associated Press’ Entertainer of the Year, an annual honor chosen by newspaper editors and broadcast producers across the country.
Fey was selected by AP members as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008.
Fey was successful in painting the Alaska Governor, who enjoyed an 80% approval rating in her state, as a complete idiot before the American public could get to know her.
Fey’s work did not go unnoticed by conservatives.
Newt Gingrich said Fey and Saturday Night Live should have been sued for slandering Palin while ignoring the many, many gaffes by Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Obviously, Fey’s award was only possible because Palin was a conservative.
And, it’s also obvious the liberal media doesn’t give a flip that they are offending conservatives who saw Governor Palin grossly mistreated during the campaign.
Sick! Sick! Sick!
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Laura is such a ‘class act’ and it is obvious, Michelle Obama has indeed some HUGE shoes to fill…..Papa Mike
Laura Bush says the liberal media has “absolutely not” been fair to her husband.
The First Lady believes that the president will be vindicated for keeping America safe and for liberating 50,000,000 Muslims:
Obviously, Michelle Obama has some big shoes to fill.
From A Recon US Marine In Afghanistan—
It’s freezing here. I’m sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar ‘Yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I’ve actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that’s where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement.
It’s all about intelligence. We haven’t even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they’re in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin.
I dream of Bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat, as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I’m a romantic. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: This country blows, man. It’s not even a country There are no roads, there’s no infrastructure, there’s no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade, or join the army. That’s it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that’s your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those ‘tent cities of the walking dead’ is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I’ve been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of ‘em, are Huns, Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It’s what they do. It’s ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families, or for each other, or for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves, and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts, who feed on each other’s barbarism. Cavemen with AK47s! Then again, maybe I’m just cranky.
I’m freezing my ass off on this stupid hill, because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can’t recharge it until the sun comes up, in a few hours
Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson, and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown, to stop calling the Taliban “smart”. They are not smart! I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary, because the word they are looking for is ‘cunning.’ The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites, who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they’re real smart….
They’ve spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of The Devil. They’re still figuring out how to work a Bic Lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life, is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated, and sticks you in the eye with it.
OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I’m good at it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets, and move on with your lives.
The story line you are getting from CNN, and other news agencies, is utter Bullshit, and designed not to deliver truth, but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We’ve got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we’re doing over here, because you have no idea what we’re doing, and really, you don’t want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do.
You wanna help? Buy Bonds, America.
Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
Thanks Jim
Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.) We Texans love y’all, but we’ll probably have to take action since B. Hussein Obama won the election. We’ll miss you too. Here is what can happen:
#1: Barack Hussein Obama becomes President of the United States , Texas immediately secedes from the Union.
#2: George W. Bush will become the President of the Republic of Texas . So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?
1. NASA is just south of Houston , Texas . We will control the space industry.
2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States .
3. Defense Industry–we have over 65% of it. The term “Don’t mess with Texas ,” will take on a whole new meaning.
4. Oil – we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.
5. Natural Gas – again we have all we need and it’s too bad about those Northern States. John Kerry will have to figure out a way to keep them warm….
6. Computer Industry – we currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications–small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Miconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.
7. Medical Care – We have the largest research centers for cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, as well as other large health centers. Dallas has some of the best hospitals in the United States ..
8. We have enough colleges to keep us going: University of Texas , Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston , Baylor, UNT ( University of North Texas ), Texas Women’s University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway.
9. We have a ready supply of workers. We could just open the border when we need some more.
10. We have essential control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.
11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don’t have an Army, but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an Army in 24 hours if we need one. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over Chuck Norris and a couple of Texas Rangers.
12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs, and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables, and let’s not forget seafood from the Gulf. Also, everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don’t need any food.
This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn’t a thing out there that we need and don’t have. Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama: Since you won’t have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in his big 9 mpg SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes. You won’t have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off satellite communications. You won’t have any natural gas to heat your homes, but since Mr. Obama has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will take to get enough heat from Global Warming. Signed, The People of Texas P.S. This is not a threatening letter – just a note to give you something to think about!
SLEEP WELL TONIGHT THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU!!
Thanks Willy
You GOT To Be Kidding ME!!…… This interview was somewhere on this planet?
I was young once a long time ago, but if I had EVER talked like this, my friends would have kicked my ass….DUDE!!….Papa Mike
Suprisingly… Al Gore’s “the North Pole will disappear in 5 years” did not make the list this year:
Oh well, there’s always 2013.
Canada Free Press released its “Worst Climate Predictions of 2008″ list today, via Free Republic.
It was a very bad year for the global warming nuts:
“2008 will be the hottest year in a century:” The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008, Hurricanes, Arctic Ice, Coral, Drinking water, Aspen skiing
“You could potentially sail, kayak or even swim to the North Pole by the end of the summer. Climate scientists say that the Arctic ice… is currently on track to melt sometime in 2008.” Ted Alvarez, Backpacker Magazine Blogs, June, 2008.
Soon after this prediction, a huge Russian icebreaker got trapped in the thick ice of the Northwest Passage for a full week…
“Hurricane Effects Will Only Get Worse.” Live Science, September 19, 2008.
So wrote the on-line tech website Live Science, but the number of Atlantic hurricanes 2006–2008 has been 22 percent below average…
No More Skiing? “Climate Change and Aspen,” Aspen, CO city-funded study, June, 2007.
Aspen’s study predicted global warming would change the climate to resemble hot, dry Amarillo, Texas. But in 2008, European ski resorts opened a month early, after Switzerland recorded more October snow than ever before. Would-be skiers in Aspen had lots of winter snow—but a chill factor of 18 below zero F. kept them at their fireplaces instead of on the slopes.
There’s more at Canada Free Press.
Urgent Agenda has more from Frank Tipler, the distinguished mathematical physicist at Tulane University, on the global warming scam.
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