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Iranian Craziness

What is Iran Planning for Thursday?

My vote goes to the “huge, bloody crackdown” option. To be followed by gasps of shock and amazement from the usual dumbasses, who “never expected the tottering regime to do something like that.”



Dumbasses Strike Back

WH: Some Critics ‘Serving the Goals of al Qaeda’ - Political Punch

In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”

Yep, yep, anybody who doesn’t like The Obama’s national defense policies is not only racist, but also in league with Al-Qaeda.

Good move, guys. I predict you crack Rasmussen’s 20 level of disapproval within a month. Things like this Beavis and O’Butthead move will drive the drop.



Crazy Like A Fox

Obama Official Criticizes Hike in Anthem Blue Cross Rate | TopNews United States

California insurance regulators have ordered Anthem Blue Cross to delay controversial rate increases of as much as 39% for individual policies, hikes that have landed subscribers and brokers in frenzy.

The Obama administration summoned California’s largest for-profit insurer to pose a justification its rate lifts, revealing that the increases were alarming at a time when subscribers face soaring healthcare costs.

Amazing. A 40% price hike just as socialized medicine is breathing its last - and the Obama administration comes riding to the rescue. You’d almost think that the HealthCos are suicidal - or that they stand to make a ton of money from ObmamaCare if they can somehow resuscitate it.

But that’s just crazy talk, isn’t it?



Fee Fi Fo Fooey

Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — Google has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobilenetwork.

The Google fee was dropped to $150 from $350, but customers who break a contract on the phone will still have to pay an early termination fee of $200 to T-Mobile.

Still sounds pricy, but there is this:

The lower “equipment recovery fee” on the Nexus One, which took effect on Jan. 4, will apply to customers who break their contract after the 14-day trial period but before 120 days. Customers who break the contract after 120 days will not have to pay any fee.

That’s even better.



Ad Hoc

10 best Super Bowl ads of all time - Business of Super Bowl XLIV- msnbc.com

Some of these were pretty good.



Porkulus, not Jobs

Jobs bill: A chance for bipartisanship or election strategy? - CNN.com

Washington (CNN) — As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.

Understand that in CNN’s world, “bipartisanship” has only one meaning - that Republicans should supinely rubber stamp any initiative the leftist Democrats dream up.

Let’s get one thing clear: government cannot create jobs. Any money used to attempt this must come from one of two sources - either the pockets of taxpayers, so that it cannot be spent or invested to actually create new jobs, or borrowed in such a way that it crowds out legitimate job-creating investments in favor of government bonds, which create nothing.

So CNN blats about bipartisan support for the latest Democrat Porkulus Spendulus Stimulus, another bloated bag of boodle for Friends of Obama and other Democrats. Merely by naming the New Porkulus a “jobs bill,” CNN reveals where its true loyalties lie: in acting as a propaganda shill for the left and the Democrat party.



Another Obama Fail

Iran plans to build 10 more nuclear plants - latimes.com

Reporting from Paris and Beirut - As Iran moved to enrich uranium to a higher level of purity and build new nuclear-fuel plants, U.S. and French defense officials suggested Monday that sanctions were needed to force Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

Speaking in Paris, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates again dismissed military action but said that given Iran’s rejections of Western proposals, the international community needed to apply some pressure.

How’s that “Diplomatic Change” working out for you, President Dumbass and all your dumbass followers?

Let me explain it in terms simple enough for you to understand. Iran’s goal is Shia domination of the Middle East. In order for them to succeed, they must become a nuclear power - at least that is how they see it. For you to demand that they not become a nuclear power is to demand that they give up the justification for their regime - the triumph of the Shia sect in the Muslim world.

In short, you are demanding that they commit suicide, but you are not offering any threats against the regime itself. Any sanctions will fall on the people, not the leaders and, in fact, as under Saddam, will be used to strengthen the regime itself.

You are a fool and a failure, Obama, and we will be well rid of you when we finally throw you out of office after your utterly failed first term. Unfortunately, we will then have to deal with all your mistakes and failures, among which both a nuclear North Korea and a nuclear Iran will rank high.



Is Audi showing us the future?


It’s only an ad. Or is it?



One less porker.

Rep. John Murtha Dies at 77

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a powerful and controversial force in congressional spending on defense, died Monday at age 77.

Don’t expect me to grieve for a renowned porker and a man who railroads innocent Marines.



Awwww…..

I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones - Times Online

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Poor guy. I think we’re supposed to feel sorry for him. Of course, it would never occur to him that he brought it all on himself. And yes, he still stands by the “science” of global warming 100%.

I am somehow managing to restrain my sympathy for him.



Huh?

Mullings An American Cyber Column By Rich Galen

PUBLIC SERVICE ALERT

The Federal government is closed today in the National Capital Area. Please let me know if you notice.

END PUBLIC SERVICE ALERT

Who? What?



Palin - 1, Leftards - 0.

Screaming on the left over Sarah writing notes on her hand. Sarah’s response.
hi mom
Via BigGov and Daylife.
DU is not amused. They seem to think it’s “childish”. I thnk making a big deal about 6 words written on her hand is just plain stupid.



At least she’s a pro.

And better looking. Kristen Davis to run for NY governor.
kd

Davis has spoken in the past about running against former Gov. (and alleged former client) Eliot Spitzer - to draw attention to the fact that she served nearly four months on Rikers Island while Client 9 escaped indictment.

“This started out being about Spitzer,” admitted Stone, who in 2007 tipped off the FBI to Spitzer’s hooker habit. “But now that it looks like he won’t run, Kristin still wants to use her celebrity to highlight a reform agenda.”

“I was valedictorian of my high-school class,” said the golden-tressed Davis, sporting a modest black suit but wicked Christian Louboutins with 5-inch heels. “I worked 10 years in finance. I was vice president of a hedge fund. I went on to build a multimillion-dollar business from scratch.”

I wouldn’t say it was from “scratch”. And the business was more honest than most hedge funds.

While branding “taxation as confiscation,” the former escort empress said the legalization of prostitution and marijuana could provide $2.5 billion in revenue to help close the budget gap.

Contradictory but probably the best way to get pot legalized.

“I’m a natural Libertarian,” said Davis, who also embraces gay marriage and the views of the National Rifle Association.

Definitely not a Neo-con.

Davis already has backers. She says that rapper 50 Cent has offered to put his G-Unit staff at her disposal. Northern California pot growers are also said to have promised contributions. And then there are Davis’ former clients, some of whom are quite wealthy.

“They may be inclined to contribute to keep her from revealing their names,” said one insider. “Or because they agree with her on the issues.”

I’m inclined to believe it’s “to keep her from revealing their names”.

“Unlike other candidates, she has nothing to hide,” said Stone

Duh.
Via BigGov



Proof he’s an idiot.

New sanctions on Iran are only path left: Gates
No , there’s always the nuclear option. Or you could just transfer the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan to Tehran.



I wonder why.

Climate scepticism ‘on the rise’, BBC poll shows

The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found 25% did not think global warming was happening, an increase of 10% since a similar poll was conducted in November.

The percentage of respondents who said climate change was a reality had fallen from 83% in November to 75% this month.

And only 26% of those asked believed climate change was happening and “now established as largely man-made”.

The findings are based on interviews carried out on 3-4 February.

In November 2009, a similar poll by Populus - commissioned by the Times newspaper - showed that 41% agreed that climate change was happening and it was largely the result of human activities.



I Must Have Missed It

Hitchens attacks Gore Vidal for being a ‘crackpot’ - News, People - The Independent

As literary feuds go it has the all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America’s great man of letters, Gore Vidal.

I’m sorry, but when did Vidal become “America’s great man of letters?”



Sarah Palin as President? Why Is That Ridiculous?

Glenn Reynolds offers a Sarah Palin speech roundup here.

I don’t have anything to say about her speech that hasn’t already been said. But what I’d like to do is confront head-on the carefully crafted meme Palin’s enemies on the left and within the RINO wing of the GOP (and yes, I’m talking about you, John McCain and that whole dog’s breakfast of a campaign crew that has been flailing wildly away at Palin ever since she kept your prexy run from being stomped even worse than it was).

The meme boils down to this: She’s not a real pol. She hasn’t got the credentials, the education, the experience, or the smarts to be President.

Well, let’s take a look at the “credentialed” Presidents we’ve had over the past half century or so. First, Obama. We think he’s credentialed - although he won’t show us his grades. He had a couple of years as a Senator, a month or two in state offices, and he was a college sort-of professor. But we aren’t supposed to even utter Palin’s name in the same sentence with Obama’s, if we are talking qualifications.

Prior to that, we had Yalie-Harvard scion of political family George Bush, a two-time governor of Texas. All he did was destroy the GOP brand, and enable every two-bit dictator except for the one who tried to kill his dad to go ahead with their nefarious deeds. He also trashed the constitution, expanded the power and control of government, and launched the largest new entitlement program since FDR.

Before that, there was multi-elected former governor BJ Clinton. He trashed his office, tried to nationalize health care (and failed) and was kept under control solely because his early mis-steps caused the GOP to get a large congressional majority to stymie any furter encroachments on the public purse.

He was preceded by George Bush Senior, the ultimate in credentialism, the President who suffered a bad case of bellus interruptus, who managed to squander the highest presidential approval rating in history to become a one term President, thanks to the fact that when we read his lips, we noticed that he was a liar and a fool.

More on the next guy in a bit. Before him, another governor, a “nuclear scientist,” and possibly the worst President of the last century, the man who nearly singlehandedly jumpstarted Islamic terror as a method of attacking the United States - successfully.

Before him, a placeholder who wasn’t all that bad, but wasn’t very good, either, even though he boasted decades of government experience.

And before Ford, there was Nixon, a RINO in crook’s clothing, also credentialed out the wazoo. Before Nixon, LBJ, a man with a legendary rep as a politician who was hounded from office after giving us Vietnam as we came to hate it, and before LBJ, JFK, all the right schools, the right history, a Congressman and a Senator who actually completed a term in the Senate and was re-elected before seeking the White House. He is remembered more for Camelot - the shining liberal dream - than for anything concrete he actually managed to accomplish.

Which leaves the two best Presidents of the past fifty or so years, Eisenhower and Reagan. Eisenhower was a soldier, and a great one, but he had zero American political experience. After he left the military, he was President of Columbia, and then headed up the newly-organizing NATO before being drafted by the GOP as its candidate. And then there was Reagan. Two terms as governor of California comprised this actor’s political record before reaching the Oval Office. The left mocked him as a “Bedtime for Bonzo” moron. Yet he was the best President we’ve had since FDR, and FDR tops him only for winning WWII, and not for his domestic record, which was disastrous.

Both Eisenhower and Reagan behaved as if they not only respected common people, but were common folks themselves. They both attained great success leading our nation. I don’t see anything in this history that automatically disqualifies a woman like Sarah Palin from doing likewise.

I think a lot of Americans agree with me, too.



Obama, Tribealism, and Physics - A Chorus of Stupid

Pajamas Media » Obama vs. Einstein

A renowned physicist demolishes a paper by Laurence Tribe, that President Obama played some roll in crafting, on the “revolutionary” aspects and legal implications of 20th century physics.

via Instapundit comes this delightful demolishing of liberal pretensions to an understanding of a real science, physics.

My fondest wish is that Larry Tribe, his Obama-like ego punctured, will offer to publicly debate Tipler on the physics herein discussed.

I’d pay to see that one.



I Don’t See the Problem Here

Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE ILLINOIS DEVELOPMENTS: Dem. Ill. lt. gov. candidate exits race amid furor. “The pawn broker a…

MORE ILLINOIS DEVELOPMENTS: Dem. Ill. lt. gov. candidate exits race amid furor. “The pawn broker and owner of a cleaning supplies company won the nomination Tuesday. Since then, it has become widely know that he was accused of abusing his ex-wife and holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend.”

I don’t know why this would be considered a liability. Sounds like a typical Dem Chicago Way pol to me.



Profits First, Safety Never In the Picture at All

2/5/2010 - Cleveland Taking Down Red Light Cameras - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com

Cleveland city officials said red light cameras in the city seem to be effective, but the company furnishing the cameras has asked that the cameras come down.

Accordingly, they will be removed at the end of March.

The firm that supplied the cameras said both it and the city have been losing money on the operation.

A statement from the city manager’s office said, “The city of Cleveland is in a contract with Traffipax, Inc. for an automated traffic light enforcement system (red light cameras). The red light camera program has demonstrated safety as well as a decrease in accidents per statistics shown below:
Click to learn more…

Pre-Camera FY08
Post- Camera FY09
Paul Huff/Keith 59 20
25th/Keith 46 23
20th/Keith 7 4
Raider/Keith 5 10
25th/Peerless 19 18

“On Feb. 1 the city received a letter from Traffipax, Inc., requesting the
removal of cameras at each location. Therefore, the red light cameras will be decommissioned by March 31, 2010.”

These damned things are never about anything more than how much money in hidden taxes and fees they can raise for whatever government body installs them. Anybody with more than half a brain knows this. Of course, this means that most liberals, and certain all nanny-statists, haven’t a clue about the real purpose of these surveillance-state monstrosities.



Global Warming Hits Washington, D.C.

Olympian Snow: A Brief Tour - Kathryn Jean Lopez

A bunch of cool, er, downright frigid snaps of D.C. buried under several feet of global warming.

Is Big Honest Al Gore, the Snake Oil Man, in town or something? I wonder if this will “cool” the ardor of watermelon Dems for destroying the American economy to save it from all this globule warmening?



I Case You Wondered…

I’m rooting for the Naptown Colts in the Big Game today.

How else? I’m from Indiana.

And if you want to be a fool in public, post your score predictions here.



Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

FOXNews.com - Specter Wins Pennsylvania Democratic Party Backing for Senate Primary Bid

In the latest polls out of The Keystone State, Specter has a comfortable lead over Sestak, but trails his potential general election rival, former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey.

When Specter switched to the Democratic Party last spring, he cited an uphill battle in winning the senatorial GOP primary as one of the reasons behind his decisions.

So Toomey is still going to be able to kick Specter’s worthless RINO ass. Good.

I want to see this professional politurd booted right out of politics and onto the trash heap of history. And I want the same for the party he joined in a futile effort to save his useless skin.



President Blabbermouth Not Connecting

Obama seeks to rally glum Dems amid GOP challenges - Yahoo! News

“We can’t win in 2010 if all we’re doing is celebrating the election of 2008,” said Buckley, who is also vice chairman of the DNC. “We haven’t gotten out the message of this administration’s successes.”

Aside from the obvious question, “What successes?”, if the administration hasn’t “gotten out the message,” the only conclusion that can be reached is that the administration’s chief spokesman, who has been on a compliant MSM’s podium almost daily since his election, is incapable of effective public speaking.

You can also arrive at the same conclusion simply by listening to as much as you can stand of one of his endless, droning, teleprompted encomiums to His Own Wonderful Self.



Dumbasses on Parade: Kennedy Chapter

RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC | Washington Examiner

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

Since RFK Jr., unlike his father a noted dumbass, seems to believe noting changes in weather patterns means man is changing the climate, perhaps now he will acknowledge the reality of global cooling.

Or perhaps not.



A few amusing videos.

From the Minnesotans For Global Warming. Youtube channel. Some good videos there.


Imagine There’s No Global Warming
From someone else but related and funny.
Al Gore’s Travelin’ Global Warming Show



Horseshit of the Purest Ray Serene

In Kirk’s farewell, a call for return to unity of Kennedy era - The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - Paul Kirk said a poignant goodbye yesterday to the Senate, invoking the memory of the man he briefly replaced, Edward M. Kennedy, as he implored his colleagues to adopt Kennedy’s bipartisan spirit and get to work on fixing the nation’s problems.

What whooping horseshit. I knew the Kennedys, I worked with the Kennedys, and there was never a moment when they weren’t the toughest partisan brawlers imaginable.

Kirk is gilding a lily that never existed. And, in a typically hypocritical moment, Kirk’s speech itself was nothing other than a long, partisan howl.



Help, I’m Meltinggggg……

India forms new climate change body - Telegraph

India forms new climate change body
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.

Apparently that “settled consensus” represented by the UN isn’t quite as settled as everyboob thought.



The Justices Should Refuse to Be Obama Tools

Clarence Thomas on Why He Skips the State of the Union | The Weekly Standard

Thomas offered several reasons for the court’s decision, which I won’t repeat here; but what intrigued me was his parenthetical explanation for his absence from the State of the Union address. “I don’t go because it has become so partisan,” he said, “and it’s very uncomfortable for a judge to sit there. There’s a lot that you don’t hear on TV: The catcalls, the whooping and hollering and under-the-breath comments. One of the consequences is now the court becomes part of the conversation, if you want to call it that, in the speeches. It’s just an example of why I don’t go.”

Obama is an untutored boob. As long as that is the case, I think the justices should stay away. Why let themselves become pawns in his partisan scams?



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