Monday Night News and Notes

I've been busy and this blog has taken a back seat but I'm feeling more full of venom with each passing day and should be back to more regular posting in the near future.

Here's what's news:

-The unions are getting fat, dumb and happy during the early Obama admin. They, being greedy bastards want much, much more.

-Teddy Kennedy and the KGB.

-We in the US can't drill, can't dig and can't do, well, anything because of the onerous environmental lobby in the US who has gained Obama's ear. Canada is stepping in and taking the spoils.

-You see, us idiots who oppose socialized medicine are only against it because Obama hasn't framed his message correctly, not because we see the folly in it or have actually read the bill.

Words That May Be Regretted

Dick Cheney is getting under Obama's skin so The One sent out his National Security Advisor to rebut Cheney's charge that the Obama administration is not quite ready for prime time in the fight against Islamo-fascism:

Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

“This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international."

Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

Obama has been in office less time than Bush had been when we were attacked on 9/11, He has not filled his national security team including filling the TSA top spot and he's not mentioned Afghanistan in months even when troop deaths are peaking (except to blame Bush of course).

When we were attacked on that dreadful day, the left slammed Bush as one who left us unprepared and not ready to lead us in a time of crisis. He was scorched because of the bin-Laden PDB and essentially was blamed for the days events even though he had been in office only 7+ months and had to wait until the election fiasco was sorted out before assembling his transition team and key players. Despite the fact that we were not attacked in the eight years since 9/11, the liberals kept on attacking themselves.

Reading what Jim Jones said makes me think that Obama is trying to bluster and strut while al-Qaeda gets stronger and plans their next operation. They have to get lucky once while we have to be successful every time and Jones' has set his boss up for a serious fall should the next attempt be the lucky one. It's more proof that Obama is not ready for prime time in the least and he has proven the exact opposite of what was intended. If we fail and they get to us once again, Jones and Obama will be forced to eat these words.

Cheney wins again by baiting them into this.

Kennedy Coverage Makes Me Want To Puke

Enough already. Ted Kennedy was a drunken slob with a penchant for sexual roughness, a man who would do anything to protect his family even when those in it faced credible charges including rape and was a serial adulterer. In fact, those were his good points.

I'm watching ABC News simply because I'm awaiting the start of the Eagles game and it's on the same station (ironically, Michael Vick is going to play and his offenses seem alot more irrelevant when compared to Kennedy) and they are have been going on for ten damn minutes showing his hearse traveling through the state that was stupid enough to keep electing him.

I'm in shutdown mode when it comes to lionizing such a sleazebag. I'm with Breitbart on the outrage meter on this one. At least some liberals have sense about this and put it into proper perspective.

When the former KKK kleagle Robert Byrd finally kicks, we'll be forced to watch endless stories of how he was a huge supporter of civil rights I assume.

More Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

A look at what America will be under Obamacare?

The British health care system is, as depicted by the Obama administration, excellent and would be a great goal for an American system.

Er, probably not:

Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:

63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;

117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;

115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;

399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.

Additionally, overstretched maternity units shut their doors to any more women in labour on 553 occasions last year.

Babies were born in offices, lifts, toilets and a caravan, according to the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008 from 117 out of 147 trusts which provide maternity services.

Let's see, when my kids were born, my wife had her own room that was essentially a five-star hotel room with space for me to rest and the best care imaginable. The atmosphere was as relaxing as one could ever have while experiencing the miracle of birth and the aftercare was top notch. Now granted, you can't compare that to giving birth in an office, elevator or even a bathroom but we Americans are just not as sophisticated as Europeans are; or at least that's what liberals keep telling us.

Thoughts on the Death of Ted Kennedy

If anyone had a claim to a pseudo-monarchy in the US where we fought to overthrow a monarchy, it was the Kennedy clan. From JFK and RFK through Edward and their collective offspring, they held a position in the country no other family has held. They dictated policies and pushed through legislation that not many others had the muscle to.

Ted Kennedy in particular lived a life that would have been impossible for any other politician. He was involved in the death of a woman who was not his wife and some believe he was responsible. He left the scene while the woman was trapped and drowning, didn't contact the police until the next day and only did so after phoning his lawyer.

Today, we see obituaries that lionize Kennedy as a near mythical figure because he was an unabashed liberal. The fact that he was directly responsible for ending a woman's life never figures into the equation for liberals as they will overlook nearly anything if it means forwarding their agenda. So no, I'm not going to get weepy or even say he was a great American. I will say he was a tough debater when it came to pushing his position and his death will finally end what the media made into American royalty: the Kennedy family having a key position in the direction of our nation. I pray for his family and hope they find comfort but can't bring myself to say a good word for a man who robbed a woman of her future and allowed her to die in the cold water near a bridge in Chappaquiddick, MA.

Semper Fi, Brother

"I kept my oath, do you intend to keep yours?"

The Folly of Big Government

In the last seven months, we've seen government expand at a rate greater than at any time in American history including WWII. We've added "czars" for capping spending limits on private business and czars for health care. Hell, we'll be seeing a "czar" to oversee all the other "czars" before too long.

We've seen a stimulus program tank when the proof is clear it wasn't ever needed and the country didn't even want. When a European nation leads the way on escaping recession by not spending money, one has to sit up and take note.

Anyway, we're now seeing a simple program designed by this administration to spur auto sales become so burdensome and expensive that those it was designed to assist may end up losing money and the government is forced to divert staffers from another, much more important agency, to help keep it running. Note, The One actually said that the Post Office was a great example of a government-run entity that was efficient and would be a model for how health care would be run:



So let's sum up, shall we? Obamacare is on the ropes because Americans like what we have and the costs would be incredible so they protest and are treated like vermin plus get dissed by their elected representatives. A nation known for a socialist bent spends no money and allows the markets to work themselves out is out of the recession while we are still deeply mired. And finally, we have a test program of small scale and little complexity that the government has turned into a quagmire due to incompetence and pure planning and they still expect us to support the largest, single program the nation has ever seen.

Matt Welch has the last word:

After 11 months of federal bailouts and freakouts, Americans have become bone tired of panicky power grabs from Washington. It's the big government, stupid.

The message of the various Tea Party protests, which predated this summer's ahistorical media panic over town hall "lynch mobs," has been pretty simple, says Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the nonprofit that has helped organize the protests, told Reason magazine this spring. "It was: stop spending so much money, stop borrowing so much money, and stop bailing out people who were irresponsible."

Friday Night Videos--Saturday Afternoon Edition

It's a stormy Saturday in the Garden State and the Sox are putting it to the Yanks so I figured I crack a cold one and post some good music. As I write, the rain is pounding and the thunder is ragin' overhead. A great excuse to get out of doing the yard work that needs to be done.

Let's start with the Dead doing the classic Merle Haggard piece Sing Me Back Home. No video but incredible audio. Jerry always soared on songs like this including the epic Stella Blue, High Time and I Shall Be Released and is why I was drawn to the band in the first place...Jerry's voice.



Next we have the late, great Stevie Ray doing what has to be the most frequently played songs by great blues guitarist's: Little Wing. Hendrix, Clapton and myriad others did it but SRV's version is most excellent. It's been almost 19-years to the day that SRV died at the young age of 35 when a helicopter: he was flying in crashed after playing a gig with Clapton and Robert Cray:



Finally, Alice in Chains classic Rooster without video but nice quality audio. Layne Staley had a great voice and a flawed personality and that may be why he was so brilliant. Jerry Cantrell and the boys are out on the road in support of some new stuff and sounding good:

Saturday Morning News & Notes

As I've said, time is lacking and I've had to cut back on some things. This blog has always been a hobby and has led me to money-making opportunities but still remains my bastion of sanity in Obamanation. I'll try to increase posting as time progresses.

Here's what's new in the world.

-Gregg Allman calls Rolling Stone magazine "tired" and says their piece on him "sucked". He takes aim at them for calling him a "redneck". Considering the Allman's were an integrated band before integration was cool, he's right, Rolling Stone has been garbage ever since PJ O'Rourke left. An altogether good interview before the Allmans played in Camden last night.

-Lost in all the empty rhetoric being thrown around by the media calling health care protesters everything from fascists to rednecks is the simple fact that it is a fundamental good for our elected representatives to be scared of the people who voted for them. They were elected to speak and legislate for us and have grown accustomed to the elitism that pervades the nation's capital. Democrats are feeling it now and the will of the electorate has forced them to take notice of what we as a nation want for our future. That future does not include socialized medicine.

-The race card is such a tired and lame excuse for failure but then again, David Paterson is tired and lame as a governor so there you go.

-Americans are living longer than ever thanks to the best health care system in the world. That would be the system Obama wants to break.

-Conservatives own Twitter according to, well, everyone. Witness this where Sarah Palin's Facebook page is enormously popular.

Let's end this with the great Lowell George leading Little Feat playing the epic Dixie Chicken in London in 1977:

Hope and Change Meet Crash and Burn

It's been another difficult week for The One and although I've been too busy to write about it, others haven't been.

Working backward, yesterday Obama admitted that he did indeed lie about the amount of the deficit:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.

The higher deficit figure, based on updated economic data, brings the White House budget office into line with outside estimates and gives further fuel to President Barack Obama's opponents, who say his spending plans are too expensive in light of budget shortfalls.

The White House took heat for sticking with its $7.108 trillion forecast earlier this year after the Congressional Budget Office forecast that deficits between 2010 and 2019 would total $9.1 trillion.

So the CBO numbers where correct, huh? Who would've thought that to be the case except every single conservative with a blog. I know that we have become numb to the exact amount of money a trillion is but let's put it this way, Obama was off by approximately $2,000,000,000,000.

Prior to that, Obama talked to us the way he viewed us--as children by actually using the phrase "we-weed up" on an Internet telecast. Yes, the President of the US said that forcing his already inane-sounding spokesman to defend it's use.

Finally we have new polling data that shows just how far Obama has fallen in such a short time with one poll showing him under 50% and two others hovering just above that mark. ABC News/WaPo has him at 57%, which is far above every other sample, they must have conducted the polling of registered Democrats in Massachussetts or something to get such a high number as the rest of Obamanation are about sick of his act and his single-minded goal of socializing the nation.

Tuesday Night News and Notes

Posting very light due to work constraints and, to be honest, I needed a break from the grind.

Here's what's news:

-Howard Dean makes Joe Biden seem quick on his feet and downright smart.

-RIP Robert Novak.

-RIP Rose Friedman. A sad day for free market conservatives to be sure.

-Why The One is not so messianic anymore.

-AARP loses 60,000 members. Remember that this uprising against Obamacare is purely a staged event by the GOP and the health care lobby.

-Giving away American money has proved to be a boon for Japanese and Brazilian companies (and George Soros).

Great Moments in Socialized Medicine

In what is probably a good example of what Obamacare will be like and why many patriotic Americans are protesting, we have an a great example right here:

A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.

Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.

But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

The country is against it in every circumstance and they still push and push because it's what is best for us whether we smart enough to know it or not.

Obama's train wreck continues on.

When Did Cubs Fans Become Such Pussies?

There once was a time I had admiration for fans of the Chicago Cubs. They were lovable diehards who packed Wrigley field and lived and died (always) with their team every season. They were people you could respect because they seemed to respect the game.

Unfortunately, it turns out they are ill-tempered and thin-skinned Chicagoans of the Obama mode where I had them as more of the tough Al Capone mode.

Earlier this week some cretin poured his beer on Phillies Shane Victorino as he was catching a ball at the wall during a 12-2 ass kicking the Phightin's were dropping on the Cubbies. Number 8 made the catch anyway. Here's the vid (from a sorry Mets fan, btw):



Cowardly and representative of what the media portrays Phillies fans like myself as when it's not true.

Now we have word that a few fans in the right field section are perturbed that Cubs rightfielder Milton Bradley allegedly gave them the finger. Their own player gave them the finger? They probably deserved it.

Quit whining, pussies, I got the finger about eight times today alone driving down the NJ Turnpike for crying out loud. Suck it up you formerly lovable losers and start showing at least an iota of class. Just because Obama is a president from Chicago who asks like a San Franciscan doesn't mean you have to.

For the record, I hope the Cardinals win the NL Central by ten friggin' games.

Politics As Usual in Obamanation

You may have heard how us conservative/real Americans are acting violently and spraying swastikas on Democrat representatives signs. I for one was quite sceptical because it seems well outside the character of most conservatives I've met and read for years but seems right up the alley of liberals who--with no facts on their side--resort to tactics such as this. We now have confirmation:



I seem to recall the hours of coverage of those who held signs such as the one below in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco during the anti-AmericaWar protests in the run-up and start of the war to depose the murderous Saddam:

Sen. Specter (D-Traitor) Feels the Heat

How's that whole party jumping thing working for you, Arlen?



Specter was clearly overwhelmed by the crowd and love the guy who belittles his party jumpin' ways.

Man Who Did Most to Discredited Media Tries Saving It

It's been awhile since we had the opportunity to pick on Dan Rather. Oh how I've pined for those days when he was making up stories about Bush and then showing his true character by throwing his producer under the bus. You recall, don't you? He pushed faux military docs on us and when busted stuck with his story until CBS had to boot his ass out like a tumble weed across a Texas prairie.

Now Dan is trying to regain some fame as the savior of the news business:

You don't have to care about media companies or reporters to care about the state of the news, because if it's in trouble - and it surely is - this country is in trouble. That's why I recently called on President Obama to form a commission to address the perilous state of America's news media.

Perhaps The One can appoint a News Czar to go with all the other czars he's appointed. And damn, they've all been so successful too.

Some might scoff at the notion that a president and a country occupied by two wars and a recession should add the woes of the news media to a crowded plate. But the way the news is delivered, and the quality of the information the public gets about what's going on here and abroad, have and will continue to have a profound effect on these issues and the overall quality of government.

Profound indeed. July was the bloodiest month in Afghanistan since the war started in 2001 and no one in the media has had the balls to ask Obama about it. If it had been Bush, every single death would have been laid directly at his feet. But the media has had a tremendous effect on the quality of government and the current quality blows.

I am not calling for any government bailout for media companies. Nor am I encouraging any government control over them. I want the president to convene a nonpartisan, blue-ribbon commission to assess the state of the news as an institution and an industry, and to make recommendations for improving and stabilizing it.

Yeah, we know how those non-partisan, blue-ribbon commissions always seem to solve problems. They're kind of like the UN in that regard. I for one will make a suggestion for stabilizing media companies; tell them to quit being partisan hacks and kissing Obamas ass on a daily basis (or bowing in the case of Brian Williams)

Why bring the president into it? Because it's the only way I could think of to generate the sort of attention the subject deserves. Academia and think tanks generate study after study, yet their findings don't reach the people who need to be reached.

Academia is about the only portion of this country further left than the media, they should help things out magnificently.

We need a broad public discussion of the role news is meant to play in our system of government and a better public understanding of the news infrastructure's fragile condition. We need to know how things got this way and what we need to change.

Things got this way because the media decided they were going to choose sides and not report the news straight. It was Rather, Brokaw and Peter Jennings who were the main cause of the decline in respect and trust of the media. They bent over backwards portraying Reagan as a buffoon and W. as a bloodthirty redneck.

...We need news that breeds understanding, not contempt; that fosters a healthy skepticism of power, rather than a paralyzing cynicism. We need the basic information that a self-governing people requires. The old news model is crumbling, while the Internet, for all its immense promise, is not yet ready to rise in its place - and won't be until it can provide the nuts-and-bolts reporting that most people so take for granted that it escapes their notice.

"Nuts-and-bolts" reporting like that of Mary Mapes, Dan?

Perhaps Dan hasn't taken note of the good reporting happening on the Internet by people such as Gateway Pundit, Dan Riehl or the team at PJ Media. Dare I say that those organizations have...courage?

Monday Morning News & Notes

Still busy and that's a great thing in Obamanation, isn't it?

Here's what's new:

-This is non-biased journalism. In a San Fran paper no less.

-Americans souring even more on environmental issues and the Global Warming Swindle.

-Hey, I'm un-American. Funny, I served in the Navy, gave months of my life away from my wife and believe in freedom. If that's un-American, I'm guilty. This is a major faux pas by San Fran Nan and her shoeshine boy Steny Hoyer.

-More un-Americanism on video.

Democrats Continue to Meltdown on Health Care

Those who were tasked with gaining support for the health care plan they've set forth have been shown to be ill-suited with explaining it, irate when questioned on it and generally incapable of holding rational debate.

Rep. David Scott (D-GA) is just the latest but will not be the last as he went on a "tirade" against a doctor who questioned the past results of socialized medicine in a town hall meeting:



Sen. McCaskill (D-MO) canceled an event due to "safety concerns", an obvious attempt to dodge her constituents questions on the issue and a convenient one at that.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) got an earful as well when he held a town hall and the police had to break up arguments.

And on and on...

I find it humorous that when the mob scenes organized by liberal groups such as Moveon and A.N.S.W.E.R. were screaming at elected leaders they were showing their patriotism or some other such drivel while real Americans not affiliated with anyone and probably have never advocated a political position to such an extent are labeled as "astroturfers" and other terms to marginalize them. In the You Tube generation, the unions and their Democratic backers can no longer lie and obfuscate, they've been flat busted.

This is an issue that will stay in peoples minds for awhile and if they ram the legislation through we'll see a backlash of unprecedented proportions come 2010.

Black is White, War is Peace, SEIU is Victim

Orwellian is the way it was described at Sweetness and Light and I can't think of a more apt word. The SEIU beat a man who ended up in the hospital and has the balls to blame Glenn Beck and "Teabaggers" for the violence. Savor the lies my friends:

August 7, 2009

Things are turning ugly. Town halls, which typically serve as open, safe environments to ask questions of elected officials, have degenerated into violent shouting matches.

Last night in St. Louis, Missouri, a reverend and member of SEIU was assaulted at a town hall. The incident, along with a town hall in Tampa, Florida, has been all over the radio and cable news shows. GOP operatives are rushing to paint it as SEIU "thug" violence. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Cable news channels are broadcasting images of neighbors turning against one another in chaotic, sometimes frightening town hall meetings. Incited by extremist radio and TV hosts, "teabagger" protesters are yelling and chanting talking points that span from radicalism to racism.

Enough is enough. Click here to sign a pledge for civil, honest debates about health care reform: http://action.seiu.org/townhall

It is extremely discouraging to see people treating one another like this. And it’s a reminder of how GOP scare-tactics ("the government will kill the elderly,!" [sic] "the government will choose your doctors!" or "the government will ration care!") use fear to overpower the truth.

We are at a turning point. To succeed, we will continue to elevate this conversation, distinguish ourselves from the opposition, and speak to our fellow Americans with respect and dignity. Where we disagree, we’ll invite discussion. And when we agree, we’ll work together toward a solution.

That’s the only way we’re going to solve our nation’s health care crisis. When it comes to quality, affordable health care, the stakes are too high to let shouting run the show.

Thanks for standing up.

This is the definition of "standing up" I guess:



We're at a crucial moment in our country with regard to politics and one in which we could see the fastest pendulum swing ever. A president who came into office with more goodwill than any predecessor has implemented programs that has sent his poll numbers into a tailspin and has led to partisanship on a monumental scale. This will only help the GOP in the midterms and may send the Democrats back to irrelevance for a decade.

The Inane "Birther" Debate

Both sides of the issue on Obama's birth certificate have made ludicrous arguments and it's now at the point that it's not even debatable. The excellent Chip Bok sums it up perfectly:



See all of Bok's cartoons here.

Waterloo Indeed: Black Protester Beat By Union Thugs

The Democrat's henchmen--the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU)--attacked a black man selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags for doing nothing more than practicing his God-given right to protest:

St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.

Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don't tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.

“It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

This is not going well for the Dems with Pelosi's appearance in Denver drawing a crowd that scuffled and events elsewhere ending in violence by unions against protesters.

Everyone knows that unions support Democrats and these videos will be used by the GOP in the midterms with devastating effect. I foresee this driving down support by at least ten points in the next week and if more events are marred by violence, we'll see a twenty point drop by the time Congress reconvenes in September.

The impact this is having on Obama is immeasurable at this point. It may well be his Waterloo.

Epic Fail: Obama's Numbers Worse Than Bush's

How can a man who had tons of good will, a massively compliant media, majorities in both the House and Senate and a huge organization pushing his agenda on a daily basis fail so suddenly and so definitively?

Epic fail:

A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?"

Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a "failure," while 51% consider it a "success" and 11% say it's still "too soon to tell."

An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a "success" while only 32% considered it a "failure."

I, of course, blame Bush as should you (not sure how but it's the default setting).

More to the point, I see this as a collective fuck you to socialism and socialist polcies by the American people. When you have nearly 10% nationally without jobs and without health insurance, one would think that it would be fertile ground to sow the seeds of socialized medicine and Obama and the Dems are struggling mightily getting any bill passed.

I can't wait for the mid-terms.

Frigid Legislative Climate Freezing Out Global Warming Bill

Democrats have a huge majority in the House and a veto-proof majority in the Senate and still are seeing major legislation tied up by a concerted effort by right-thinking Americans and the GOP elected officials riding our coat tails.

Because of this confluence of events, Cap and Trade is dying a slow death:

With the fight over health care reform absorbing all the bandwidth on Capitol Hill, Democrats fear a major climate change bill may be left on the cutting-room floor this year.

A handful of key senators on climate change are almost guaranteed to be tied up well into the fall on health care. Democrats from the Midwest and the South are resistant to a cap-and-trade proposal. And few if any Republicans are jumping in to help push a global warming and energy initiative.

As a result, many Democrats fear the lack of political will and the congressional calendar will conspire to punt climate change into next year.

“The reality is [the health reform bill] is going to happen before cap and trade,” said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Collin Peterson, who’s been working with farm-state senators on the climate legislation. “Who knows if it will ever come out of the Senate?”

That last sentence is a thing of absolute beauty. If we can keep any global warming legislation out of the Senate it would be the single-best thing accomplished this year short of stopping health care.

Four Years Ago, Dissent Was Patriotic

Back when the left was hoping for more soldier deaths to make Bush look bad and marching in the streets with disgusting posters they claimed that dissent was patriotic. Their action, although despicable were allowed under the first amendment but were far from patriotic.

But now that real Americans and not those rounded up and bussed to protests by groups like ANSWER and Moveon.org are actually peacefully dissenting without going anti-Semitic dissent is suddenly "hooliganism":



There is nothing more patriotic than putting your representative on the hot seat. They are representatives for us in Congress and have one responsibility: to stand up for their constituents.

Note that Mr. Ms. Maddow is appalled that protesters would hold a sign showing their representative as the devil. I seem to recall Ms. Maddow had no problems with this:

Monday Night News and Notes

How y'all doin?

Here's what's goin on in this crazy old world.

-Shocka! States that abided by the time-tested ideals of fiscal conservatism are doing great while those that spent in the time-tested liberal fashion are cratering. The death of conservatism has been exaggerated.

-Sen. Arlen Specter (Turncoat-PA) is finding out that his decision to be politically expedient wasn't such a good idea.

-Things are not going so well in Afghanistan. I trust Michael Yon to give us the straight story more than anyone. I guess we'll start seeing massive protests in San Francisco any day now that the war monger Obama is letting our troops die.

-Big Brother lives.

-Decidedly unstudly stud gets his comeuppance. Not quite sure what they did with the superglue and probably don't want to find out.

-Libs freaking out over the Obama picture plastered around liberal bastion LA pictured at right.

Don't Negotiate With Terrorist's

When the Maersk Alabama was high jacked, the crew fought back with the captain giving himself up for his men and a fate unknown. It worked out for the best with the SEAL's blowing the pirates brains all over the boat they were holding the good captain on. All's well that ends well.

The EU couldn't bring themselves to be that fierce and we have a situation in which they are about to pay to get their boat back:

There’s new hope for the crew of the hijacked German-owned ship, the Hansa Stavanger. This Monday a ransom of millions was handed over to the pirates holding the ship off the coast of Somalia — the pirates have been holding the freighter, owned by Hamburg shipping firm, Leonhardt and Blumberg, for several months now.

A spokesperson for the European Union counter-piracy operation, Operation Atalanta, which has several warships patrolling the pirate-infested area, confirmed the ransom transfer. “The money is on board and the pirates are counting it,” the spokesperson told SPIEGEL ONLINE, although he would not elaborate further.

Through sources close to German intelligence agencies and local sourcees, SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that a small plane was used to throw a package containing $2.75 million (€ 1.9 million) worth of ransom onto the Hansa Stavanger. It is hoped that when the money has been counted the ship and the crewwill be set free. Whether that will still happen on Monday is uncertain although the security authorities estimate a release should happen within 24 hours.

So the Euro's are paying off the pirates and thus ensuring themselves a decade of pirated boats and captured crews.

Perhaps if they had the guts to set the SBS M Squadron loose they'd see a different result but alas, they do not.

Hat tip: Hot Air.

How To Lose a War

The media hasn't been paying attention and Obama neglects to comment on it but we are losing a war that was once won in Afghanistan.

Obama cares about domestic issues such as health care, the failed stimulus and the "cash for clunkers" debacle yet can't summon up words to support our men and women in uniform who are dying at a higher rate than ever before. Three more died today and we hear nothing from the Commander in Chief.

The situation is so bad that our coalition partners have taken the rare step of criticizing the approach we are currently taking:

As for Britain's roughly 9,000 troops in Afghanistan -- who in July suffered their worst month since the 2001 invasion with 22 deaths -- the members of parliament (MPs) said their role has seen "significant mission creep".

They were initially sent to counter international terrorism and are now working on areas like fighting the drugs trade and counter-insurgency, it said, adding the military had not been given "clear direction".

"We conclude that the UK's mission in Afghanistan has taken on a significantly different and considerably expanded character since the first British troops were deployed there in 2001," the report said.

"The UK deployment to Helmand (province) was undermined by unrealistic planning at senior levels, poor coordination between Whitehall (government) departments and crucially, a failure to provide the military with clear direction."

Britain's role as lead international partner on counter-narcotics was "a poisoned chalice", the report said, adding there was "little evidence" to suggest that cuts in poppy cultivation were down to deliberate strategy.

74 coalition troops died while 49 Americans died in July and August has started off even more deadly.

While Obama has a beer with a racist professor, our men and women are fighting with inadequate direction, a dearth of reinforcements and an enemy that is emboldened. We risk alienating our allies who we will need at some future date.

This war is Obama's war. He stressed that we were distracted by the Iraq invasion and that the true battle in the War on Terror was Afghanistan. When he became the CinC, he voted present and the media has been complicit by not splashing every death across the front page as they did in the Iraq conflict.

Iraq showed that a clear, concise approach in concert with strong leadership and changing methods when required can result in a victory over radical Islam. We are doing none of these things in Afghanistan.

During the worst days of the Iraq War, the left was harping that Bush was not providing our troops with adequate armor and sub par protection for humvees. Now they are silent while our president is not only not acknowledging the deaths of these heroes but is ignoring them altogether. That's a slap in the face to each and every person now serving and the veterans who served before them.

The Week That Was

Busy as hell this week.

Here's the week that was:

The "Beer Summit" took place this week with the man American's would least like to have a beer with--Joe Biden--in attendance. The event was hailed as some type of race conference but accomplished nothing except provide us this picture of how real people act and an elite acts:


The supposed racist cop is helping the elderly race-baiter down the steps of the White House while The One shows his compassion.

In other news, the government "cash for clunkers" program has been such a smashing success it is bankrupt and the government has bungled it in epic fashion. This is a harbinger of Obamacare.

In The House, Speaker Pelosi continues to be her usual hypocritical self slamming health care companies as villains after taking their money.