Foreign affairs and the election

Same old, same old

This may be the best political ad of the campaign.  It brings home the message, nothing has changed. 

And here is a new ad targeting Jewish voters

Direct and to the point

The real scandal: Was State warned before the attack?

The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missingfrom the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

In the meantime the Obama Administration denies it was warned or that the attack on Benghazi was premeditated. 

Gaffes on foreign policy?

As the press tries to look the other way and say the Romney committed a gaffe by commenting so quickly on the American Embassy’s twitter condemnation of a movie producer in California, the current White House occupant actually did commit a gaffe.

Kirsten Powers finds media obsession with Romney’s Cairo statement inexplicable

Kirsten sounds like a Republican commentator here.

Obama lied and an ambassador died

And it wasn’t just an ambassador.  Peace and security in the Middle East seems to be gone as well.  The reset button didn’t do a very good job.

 

Romney was right

Later Wednesday morning, both the president and Secretary of State Clinton made second statements, both tough condemnations of the violence.  But Romney remains right: the administration's first instinct was to express regret for hurting any Muslim feelings, and not to strongly condemn attacks against the United States.

Romney was also correct in his statement to condemn the violence.  President Obama caught up with that 16 hours after the Cairo Embassy posted their twitter condemning the film maker.  

Liberals at MSNBC side with the Islamists in Egypt and Libya

It seems if the liberals at MSNBC were in charge free speech could have you end up in jail. 

Over at MSNBC, a riot of consensus broke out when contributors Mike Barnicle and Donny Deutsch as well as University of Pennsylvania professor Anthea Butler all agreed that the people behind the video should be indicted as accessories to murder.

Sometimes I suspect hard core liberalism is a mental disease, and other times I know it.

Meanwhile Obama from 2009 in Cairo

It appears Obama’s new beginning has not worked out well. 

Obama misses 56.2 percent of his daily briefings

The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama's schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) -- the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times -- or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent -- falling to just over 38 percent.

Der Spiegel: America’s Middle East Policy is in Ruins

This link has summaries of seven different German Newspapers or periodicals.  It’s not good news for Mr. Obama.

Steyn on Obama:  Every American should be ashamed

Mark Steyn lets loose on Obama’s speech in Las Vegas on the deaths in the Middle East.

The empty Chair loses in November

 The author of this article claim Obama will lose and lose big in November and goes through the list of people who voted for him in 2008 and won’t in 2012.  

Morris chimes in on why Obama loses in November

Most interesting was the Gallup Poll he sites which found 54% of voters chose “leave me alone” vs 35% who chose “lend me a hand.”  

Rasmussen:  The Bounce for Obama is over

Today’s daily tracking poll has Romney up 48% to 45% for Obama with 5% undecided.  Obama gets 48% of the population at least somewhat approving of his performance while 42% strongly disapprove.  If the undecided break 4-1 the current poll has Romney 52% Obama 46% which is close to what I think it will end up.  

The choice in November

It appears President Obama wants to change America and its economic system from what made us the richest country in the world to one that will make us the fairest.  

Churchill understood the choice perfectly. He said, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”

First Lady asked where they would live is they lose the election?

When asked by a kid where the Obamas wouldlive if President Obama loses, "The First Lady said they could figure that out later," according to the pool report.

That would be plan B.  Oh, that’s right; Obama doesn’t have a plan B. 

Chicago Teacher’s Strike Continues over teacher evaluations

The Chicago Teachers Union claims relying on student testing for evaluation of teachers is madness (it’s 20% of the rating).  But isn’t it more like quality assurance?  Aren’t businesses sued when their product fails to do what it is supposed to do? 

7 Examples of why voter fraud is a national problem

This article details out 7 examples of voter fraud.  It seemed that after the 2000 election and the problems in Florida both Democrats and Republicans were concerned about voter fraud.  Now the Republicans still are, but the Democrats seem to feel we don’t need to worry any more.

The Politics gets dialed up

What’s new Today

Story #1relates a rally over the weekend in Washington by the Tea Party to repeal Obamacare.  #2 talks about Obama’s etch-a-sketch moment.  #3 codifies the left’s process they use to try and get what they want.  #4 compares Obama’s new video with one done by the Gipper in 1984.  #5 give us a glimpse of Obama’s planned tactics against Governor Romney.  I hope you like my answer to his charges.  #6 is the first news on hearing about Obamacare in the Supreme Court and my prediction of how is will turn out.  #7 is a good example of how the left views free speech.  And #8 is the strangest political video I’ve seen. 

1.  Rally to Repeal Obamacare

…the Tea Party Patriots did a great job organizing today’s rally in Washington DC. Thousands of people turned out in the rain stayed for the over two hour rally. And after the last speaker Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) led the crowd over to the Supreme Court Building.

Tea Parties have gathered in Washington D.C. for the Rally to Repeal Obamacare. Herman Cain and Jim Hoft were some of the speakers at the rally….

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/tea-parties-rally-in-d-c-to-repeal-obamacare/

After seeing what the Democrats were planning is great to see the Tea Party out again. 

2.  Obama’s Etch-a-Sketch moment

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

When asked to explain what President Obama meant, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told ABC News that there is room for the U.S. and Russia to reach an accommodation, but “there is a lot of rhetoric around this issue — there always is — in both countries.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/president-obama-asks-medvedev-for-space-on-missile-defense-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility/

The big difference is that Romney’s etch-a-sketch moment was said by an aide and it meant the Romney would tell people what he plans to do before the election.  Obama’s was said by himself and indicated that he wouldn’t tell the American people what he plans to do before the election. 

3.  Liberal technique to get what they want

…Most of us are rational human beings, able to look at both sides of an issue and make the right choice. So how is it that the libs get remarkably bad policy through congress? Well, if you think about it their MO has changed very little since Woodrow Wilson, and it goes something like this:

1. Create a victim (blacks, illegal immigrants, college students w/o birth control, Gaia, etc.)
   
   
2. Exaggerate the plight of the victim (Protests, get on friendly media, protests some more, etc.)
3. Find a villain you can blame the plight of the victim on (Big Oil, big banks, big coal, rich, Koch Brothers, big insurance etc.)
4. Demagogue the villain (Fat-cat bankers, fat-cat oil execs, fat-cat fill in the blank).
5. Get your way!
6. Rinse and repeat
   
   

Don't believe me? Let's take the Sandra Fluke nonsense as one example. Nancy Pelosi wants abortions. I truly believe she thinks that killing babies is good policy but let's leave that for another post. Pelosi wants free birth control right? But if she just asks for it rational folks would tell her to take a hike. So what did she do: Check out the bullet points above:

1. Got a victim? (Poor broke college student who can't afford to have sex) Check!
   
   
2. Exaggerate the issue? ($3,000/year for condoms) Check!
3. Got a villain? (Big bad insurance companies/Republicans) Check!
4. Demagogue the villain? (Republicans WAGE WAR ON WOMAN'S HEALTH!) Big time check!
5. Get your way? Well we'll see...
   
   

http://derek-alexander.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-liberals-get-their-way.html

I thought this was very insightful.  It is the way they do it. 

4.  It’s not “Morning in America” in Obama’s video

President Barack Obama's 17-minute video, "The Road We've Traveled," gives us an idea of how he wants to frame the issues in the fall election.

The first thing you notice about the video is that the atmosphere is dark, wintry, minor key. You see but don't hear the election night crowd in Grant Park, and then the video switches to graphics about the economic meltdown that followed the financial crisis of 2008.

There are gloomy scenes throughout. Obama's economic advisers arrive in a bleak Chicago after a snowstorm. The president is shown in the Oval Office through a window at night.

The visuals are oddly antique for a president who promised hope and change. When narrator Tom Hanks talks of the "middle class," we see downscale neighborhoods with houses built in the 1910s or 1920s. When he talks about economic recovery, we see an early 1950s Ford coming off the assembly line…

… For a contrast, look at the 1984 Reagan campaign's "Morning in America" ad. The narrator, ad man Hal Riney, has a soothing voice like Hanks', but his message is vastly more upbeat. America is "prouder and stronger and better," he proclaims, because of the policies of President Reagan.

You see more flags than you do in the Obama video, more smiles, couples at the altar. It looks like springtime and is filled with light.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2012/03/26/in_obama_campaign_video_its_not_morning_in_america

The grey and dark tones of Obama’s video may be a Freudian slip.  Perhaps he is portraying that it is evening in Obama’s America. So much for Hope and Change, it’s now Excuses and Blame. 

5.  It’s Mitt’s Fault

… In an interview with Public Radio International that was released Thursday, Obama attacked his likely GOP opponent in the fall, Mitt Romney, on the subject of healthcare, an area that could be a weakness for the Republican front-runner.

Obama said the law Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts was a model for his federal law, and accused the Republican of “pretending" he came up with a different plan.

"We designed a program that actually previously had support of Republicans — including the person who may end up being the Republican standard-bearer and is now pretending like he came up with something different," Obama said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/217761-white-house-marks-healthcare-anniversary-with-caution-defiance

This is very weak.  It is the equivalent of a kid explaining why he failed an exam by saying, “I copied from the wrong person.”

6.   SCOTUS starts to hear the arguments on Obamacare

The Supreme Court plunged into debate Monday on the fate of the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system, starting with pointed questions about a legal issue that could derail the case.

A decision is expected by late June, in the midst of a presidential election campaign in which all of President Obama's Republican challengers oppose the law and promise its repeal if the high court hasn't struck it down in the meantime.

With demonstrators chanting outside, eight of the nine justices fired two dozen questions in less than a half hour Monday morning at Washington attorney Robert Long. He had been appointed by the justices to argue that the case has been brought prematurely because a law bars tax disputes from being heard in the courts before the taxes have been paid.

"Only Justice Clarence Thomas was silent," CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen said. "He hasn't asked a question in six years, and no one expected him to start today."

The prematurity issue is significant because the key part of the law -- the requirement that all Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty on their taxes -- doesn't take effect until 2014, CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford reports.

At issue is whether that penalty is a tax.

One federal appeals court ruled the lawsuits should wait until the law actually takes effect. But even if the Supreme Court agrees, the justices this week will go ahead and hear all the other arguments against the law.

Some of the justices reacted skeptically to the idea that the penalties encapsulated in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were actually a tax.

"What is the parade of horribles?" asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor, if the court decides that penalties are not a tax and the health care case goes forward? Long suggested it could encourage more challenges to the long-standing system in which the general rule is that taxpayers must pay a disputed tax before they can go to court.

Outside the court building, about 100 supporters of the law walked in a circle holding signs that read, "Protect my healthcare," and chanting, "Care for you, care for me, care for every family." A half-dozen opponents shouted, "We love the Constitution!"…

 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57404535/supreme-court-plunges-into-health-care-debate/

FYI.  Nothing significant will be known until June.  My prediction is that this objection to the suit loses, the mandate loses, but the court won’t strike down the entire law allowing the election to settle that. 

7.  Leftwing student:  “Free speech to me, but not for thee”

Steven Landsburg, the professor who was denounced by his university for criticizing Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, stuck to his position in an exclusive interview with The College Fix.

“Everyone deserves respect, but some people are not interested in discussing their ideas, or possibly examining a different side,” said Landsburg, a bestselling author and professor of economics at the University of Rochester. “Fluke clearly has no desire to do this.”

Fluke, an advocate for mandatory insurance coverage of birth control, was called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh. On his blog, The Big Questions, Landsburg wrote: “While Ms. Fluke herself deserves the same basic respect we owe to any human being, her position… deserves none whatsoever. It deserves only to be ridiculed, mocked and jeered… I expect there are respectable arguments for subsidizing contraception, but Ms. Fluke has made no such argument.”

His opinion sparked controversy at the University of Rochester. Student protesters entered Landsburg’s mid-afternoon lecture and formed a line, shoulder-to-shoulder, between him and the class. Landsburg continued to lecture. The students distributed fliers that read: “We denounce professor Steven Landsburg’s attempt to smear a gender with derogatory terms.”

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/10381

Can you image how universities would react if right winged students did this to a left wing professor?  I imagine there would be some suspensions and/or probation of those students for disrupting their fellow students’ rights to learn. 

If you would like to read Professor’s Landsburg’s blog, you can here.

http://www.thebigquestions.com/

8.  A very Strange Video

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294407/rabbits-are-new-cigarettes-katrina-trinko

No wonder small businesses are not reproducing like rabbits right now. 

Egypt Army rounds up journalists

Update:  Egypt rounds up journalists

I'm going to make a prediction here. The Army is rounding up journalists. I think with what has been going on, within 48 hours YOU WILL SEE THE ARMY DECLARE MARSHALL LAW AND CRACK DOWN ON THE DEMONSTRATORS.

Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are storming hotels in Cairo and chasing journalists, Reuters reported on Thursday.



Earlier Thursday, the Egyptian military began rounding up journalists, possibly for their own protection, after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been attacking anti-government protesters.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEas...

WikeLeaks Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons

Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and RECRUITING ROGUE SCIENTISTS TO BUILD "DIRTY" BOMBS, according to leaked diplomatic documents.


A leading atomic regulator has privately warned that THE WORLD STANDS ON THE BRINK OF A "NUCLEAR 9/11".

Security briefings suggest that jihadi groups are also close to producing "workable and efficient" biological and chemical weapons that could kill thousands if unleashed in attacks on the West.

Thousands of classified American cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph DETAIL THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE TO STOP THE SPREAD OF WEAPONS-GRADE NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL AROUND THE GLOBE


http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Qaida+brink+using+nuclear+bomb/4205104/story.html#ixzz1CnoVYp1D

Perhaps this explains why Obama has kept most of the policies on the war on terror of the Bush Administration in place.

Egypt: What’s going on

…..On the political front the story was evolving. More troops were pouring into Cairo. MUBARAK DECIDED TO APPOINT OMAR SULIMAN AS VICE PRESIDENT AND AHMED SHAFIK AS PRIME MINISTER. BOTH ARE MILITARY MEN, Suliman being the Chief of the Egyptian Intelligence Service and Shafik being the former commander of the Air Forces. To understand the moves one has to understand the nature of the ruling coalition in Egypt and the role of the army in it…..


…THE ARMY NEVER LIKED GAMAL OR HIS FRIENDS. GAMAL HAD NEVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY. To add insult to injury his friends were threatening the dominance of the army. The technocrat's neo-liberal policies were threatening the army's dominance of the closed economy and the party was becoming step by step an actual organization that competes with the army officers in filling administrative positions.

SUDDENLY THE DOORS TO POWER IN EGYPT WERE NOT A MILITARY CAREER BUT A PARTY ID CARD. As long as the President was there however, the army was silent. THE ARMY IS 100% LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT. He is an October War hero and their Commander in Chief. He is seen as an Egyptian patriot by them who has served his country well. Moreover Gamal Abdel Nasser having conducted his own military coup in 1952 put mechanisms in the army to ensure that no one else would do the same and remove him…..

So where are we today? Well the answer is still not clear, yet a couple of conclusions are evident.

1. The Gamal inheritance scenario is finished.

2. Mubarak will not run for another Presidential term. His term ends in October and either he will serve the rest of his term or will resign once things cool down for health reasons, which are real. He is dying.

3. THE ARMY IS IN CONTROL NOW. We are heading back to the "golden age" of army rule. The "kids" are no longer in charge. The "men' are.

4. Until the economy fails again, the neo-liberal economic policies are over. FORGET ABOUT AN OPEN ECONOMY FOR SOME TIME.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/the_story_of_the_egyptian_revo.html


What’s going on is very disturbing, but expect to see the Army take over very soon. This article is a very worthwhile read for anyone who wants to know what’s going on.

Egypt part 2: Are They Nuts?

There are all sorts of unattributed quotes being reported in the press from “Obama administration officials” and “White House staff members” to the effect that WE CAN WORK WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SINCE IT HAS “RENOUNCED VIOLENCE,” A LUNACY THAT SUMMED UP THE ASSORTED BACK-DOOR AMERICAN PILGRIMAGES TO FRANCE TO CONSULT WITH THE “REASONABLE” KHOMEINI — who, remember, on arrival in Iran swore that he was not interested in secular power.

APPARENTLY OBAMA & CO. HAVE NO HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE IRANIAN DEBACLE: The Carter administration’s problem was not just its shabby and indecisive clinging to/pushing out/disowning an ailing Shah, but that it (a) at first thought the murderous Islamists were at least better than the corrupt Shah; (b) then that it could finesse radical Islamists; (c) and finally that pampered Europhile intellectuals could stand up to radical-Islamic killers and thugs.

IF THIS ADMINISTRATION IS SENDING OUT PEACE FEELERS THROUGH BACK CHANNELS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, OR TRYING TO TRIANGULATE BY HAVING AIDES LEAK NAMBY-PAMBY PRAISE OF A SUPPOSEDLY NON-VIOLENT BROTHERHOOD, then it all but will ensure a Shah/Banisadr/Khomeini sequence in Egypt by fall. They should cease all such suicidal talk now, since even whispers of IT HELP TO DOOM MODERATES AND ANTI-ISLAMISTS IN THE STREET, as well as the dying Mubarak regime’s promise to keep enough order to allow a transition to follow.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258688/are-they-nuts-victor-davis-hanson

Those who fail to understand history are destine to repeat it.

Obama Administration is in contempt

The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill HELD THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT IN CONTEMPT WEDNESDAY, AND ORDERED THE FEDERAL AGENCY TO PAY ATTORNEYS' FEES FOR SEVERAL OFFSHORE OIL COMPANIES.


U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman chided the department for its "dismissive conduct" after he overturned the agency's decision to halt any new permits for deepwater projects and suspend drilling on 33 exploratory wells after the Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 workers and triggered the massive spill.

AFTER FELDMAN OVERTURNED THE GOVERNMENT'S MORATORIUM IN JUNE, THE AGENCY ISSUED A SECOND NEARLY IDENTICAL SUSPENSION.

"Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, PROVIDE THIS COURT WITH CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTEMPT OF THIS COURT'S PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ORDER," HE WROTE.

A magistrate will consider how much the companies' attorneys should get…..

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12827405


The Obama administration is also in contempt of the American people. This job killing action is exactly the wrong thing to do in an economy like the one we have today.


Obama's antique vision of technological progress

Barack Obama, like all American politicians, LIKES TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS FUTURE-ORIENTED and open to technological progress. Yet the vision he set out in his State of the Union address is oddly antique and disturbingly static.

"This is our generation's Sputnik moment," he said. But Sputnik and America's supposedly less advanced rocket programs of 1957 were government projects, at a time when government defense spending, like the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, drove technology.

But today, as Obama noted a few sentences before, "OUR FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IS WHAT DRIVES INNOVATION." PRIVATE FIRMS DEVELOP SOFTWARE FASTER THAN GOVERNMENT CAN PROCURE IT.

Undaunted, Obama calls for more government spending on "biomedical research, information technology and especially clean energy technology." Government has some role in biotech, though a subsidiary one, but IT development is almost exclusively a private-sector function and clean energy technology that is not private-sector-driven is almost inevitably uneconomic.

And then there is transportation. "WITHIN 25 YEARS," OBAMA SAID, "OUR GOAL IS TO GIVE 80 PERCENT OF AMERICANS ACCESS TO HIGH-SPEED RAIL. This could allow you," he said breathlessly, "to go places in half the time it takes to travel by car. For some trips, it will be faster than flying."

Wow! There's some advanced technology. Except that FRANCE INAUGURATED SERVICE ON ITS TGV HIGH-SPEED RAIL FROM PARIS TO LYON IN 1981. That's 30 years ago. It's as if President Eisenhower was inspired by Sputnik to promote the technology of 30 years before, Charles Lindbergh's single-engine propeller plane the Spirit of St. Louis. It's as antique as the Tomorrowland of the original Disneyland.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/02/obamas-antique-vision-technological-progress#ixzz1CoChV7AH


As a history buff I am impressed by the role the railroad played in progress in the 19th Century. But Obama’s vision of within 25 years 80% of Americans having access to high speed rail certainly isn’t JFK’s by the end of the decade landing a man on the moon. It seems every day we realize that progressive are opposed to progress.



South Dakota mandate: Must buy a gun

FIVE SOUTH DAKOTA LAWMAKERS HAVE INTRODUCED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REQUIRE ANY ADULT 21 OR OLDER TO BUY A FIREARM “SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR ORDINARY SELF-DEFENSE.”

The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. THE PROVISION DOES NOT APPLY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BARRED FROM OWNING A FIREARM.

Nor does the measure specify what type of firearm. Instead, residents would pick one “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.”

The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.”

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20110131/UPDATES/110131031/Bill-would-require-all-S-D-citizens-buy-gun


Harry Reid confronted in grocery store

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) may never go grocery shopping for his wife again.


While shopping this past Saturday afternoon amongst the food aisles at his local gourmet grocer in McLean, Virginia, Sen. Reid came across a fellow shopper who recognized him and asked a question that the senior senator from Nevada plainly did not want to answer.


The private citizen acknowledged upfront to the U.S. Senate's most powerful Democrat that he was a Republican and WANTED TO KNOW FROM MR. REID HIMSELF WHY THE MAJORITY LEADER WAS REFUSING TO ALLOW THE JUST-PASSED HOUSE BILL TO REPEAL OBAMACARE TO COME TO THE FLOOR OF THE U.S. SENATE FOR A VOTE.


Mr. Reid, walking beside the store's imported bottled condiments, responded to his questioner that HE WAS FOCUSED ON HIS SHOPPING RIGHT NOW AND DID NOT WISH TO DISCUSS THE MATTER.


Mr. Reid's Republican antagonist was not to be put off and persisted in his questioning.


Leader Reid, who by now was perusing the store's extensive cheese selection, refused to say anything further.

http://berkshireeagle.blogspot.com/2011/01/obamacare-repeal-harry-reid-confronted.html


It did go the floor yesterday where the Democrats defeated it on a party line vote.  And this time they had a better idea of what was in the bill.
Obamacare: A chance to get it right?

Monday's ruling by federal Judge Roger Vinson that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- a k a ObamaCare -- is unconstitutional is a signal event in modern American history. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE FDR BROWBEAT THE SUPREME COURT INTO ACCEPTING MOST OF HIS NEW DEAL, THE LEVIATHAN KNOWN AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ROCKED BACK ON ITS HEELS.

If the administration and the Senate Democrats had any sense, they'd take Judge Vinson's ruling as a gift, not a setback. Because, whether they know it or not, THE JUDGE JUST HANDED THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET HEALTH CARE RIGHT.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/house_of_cards_TIfXhKWof8TRA6vS8GcdsL#ixzz1Co97lfgw


A different take on what’s happening in the courts and in the House. But it appears the Democrats won't take that chance. 

Maddow Blames Beck and Other Conservatives for Her Getting Duped by Satirical Website

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC'S RACHEL MADDOW ON MONDAY GOT DUPED BY A SATIRICAL WEBSITE QUOTING FROM THEIR SPOOF ARTICLE ABOUT SARAH PALIN advocating an attack on Egypt as if it was a serious commentary.

On Tuesday, proving once again that it takes a lot of rationalizations to be a liberal these days, MADDOW BLAMED HER MISTAKE ON FOX NEWS'S GLENN BECK AND OTHER PROMINENT CONSERVATIVES (video follows with partial transcript and commentary

From her show:

MADDOW: And if you are wondering, yes, THIS IS ALL AN ELABORATE EXCUSE SLASH EXPLANATION FOR US BELIEVING THAT CHRISTWIRE.ORG WAS SOMETHING OTHER THAN SATIRE YESTERDAY.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/02/02/maddow-blames-beck-and-other-conservatives-her-getting-duped-satirica#ixzz1ComkD6DS


Sometimes it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.



Canada: ‘Human Rights’ Tribunal orders woman’s house seized after she said Muslim employee’s lunch smelled bad

That October 2009 decision ORDERED TELFER TO PAY $36,000 TO A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN HER EMPLOYEE FOR SIX WEEKS. LAWYERS WANTED THE SHERIFF TO SEIZE AND SELL TELFER’S HOME TO COLLECT THE MONEY.


The woman who lodged the complaint, Seema Saadi, told the tribunal she felt pressured to wear skirts and heels instead of her hijab. Saadi also said TELFER COMPLAINED ABOUT THE SMELL OF FOOD THAT SHE WARMED IN THE MICROWAVE. (…)

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2011/02/canada-human-rights-tribunal-orders-womans-house-seized-after-she-said-muslim-employees-lunch-smelled-bad/

Rather than Egyptians being in the streets protesting government oppression, perhaps the Canadians should be out on the streets.

What global warming looks like

Al Gore answers Bill O’Reilly

“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades THAT GLOBAL WARMING COULD MAKE SNOWSTORMS MORE SEVERE. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”

http://blog.algore.com/2011/02/an_answer_for_bill.html


More baloney from the baloney King. Here’s what I said in February2010 in the face of all those snowstorms back east.


With the blizzards in the East Coast we are hearing from global warming fanatics that this simply is another manifestation of global warming. As counterintuitive as this may seem, I wrote this up to explain it.



This is the way science works for the supporters of AGW

 Increased warming means higher temperatures and therefore less snow. But increased warming means more water vapor in the atmosphere leading to more precipitation. Therefore AGW can cause big blizzards. So too little snow or too much snow is an indication of global warming.



More warming can mean glaciers will shrink. But more precipitation means glaciers can grow. Therefore if glaciers are growing or shrinking it means global warming is happening.



More warming means more energy for hurricanes and therefore more and stronger hurricanes are in the future. But more warming also means more wind sheer which cuts off hurricanes and can mean fewer hurricanes. So more or fewer hurricanes is caused by global warming.

 More water vapor means more clouds and more precipitation. More clouds and precipitation causes cooling which could lead to global cooling. So if it is warming or cooling, it is proof of global warming.



No wonder Al Gore says the science is settled. It predicts everything that has and can happen.



Although this looks like a parody, it isn't. I've seen these arguments by warmists on various sites to explain things that don't seem to compute with global warming.


And with Al Gore giving his explanation, I rest my case.

Miracle or something out of Star Trek

This is really something you want to see. Spray on skin!!  The link below as a video with it.

http://gizmodo.com/5749968/the-skin-gun-that-sprays-new-skin-on-burn-victims-is-real


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