Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago….
Senate Republicans on Monday called [...]
This is a point about B.O. being awarded the Nobel Prize that I had not thought of before.
Keeping the Nobel Prize would violate the Constitution
Congratulations, Mr. President, but if you care about the rule of law, you’ll have to fork over the Nobel Peace Prize within 60 days of [...]
Yet ANOTHER set of reports on this…am going for the Q & D listing & minimal summary. Go to the header links for more details.
Former NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud
A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific world’s most cited authorities on [...]
This reads like something from Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk sci-fi novel Snow Crash:
Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair
In Somalia’s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate….
It is a [...]
Here’s the latest spew of California Donkey Party Congresscritter Henry Waxman.
Govt will need to help shape U.S. media: Waxman
A top Democratic lawmaker predicted on Wednesday that the government will be involved in shaping the future for struggling U.S. media organizations.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, saying quality [...]
Wow! MORE stuff on this! The gift that keeps on giving.
Climate scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down
This has gotten enough notice that even the WaPo has to take cognizance.
A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the [...]
Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee has controversial record of freeing criminals
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s record of freeing criminals from prison was controversial even before news that the man sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers had a lengthy prison sentence commuted by Huckabee.
The original [...]
At U, future teachers may be reeducated
They must denounce exclusionary biases and embrace the vision. (Or else.)
Sometimes the Chief has heard seni-laughing references from Minnesota friends about the “People’s Republic of Minnesota.
If this is any indication, maybe the laughter should be gone, leaving nothing but the “People’s Republic”…for [...]
7 stories Barack Obama doesn’t want told
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, [...]
Once again, the London Telegraph filling in details somehow overlooked in most of the virtually state-controlled MainStreamMedia.
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across [...]
Sioux Falls was full to the seams with “black Friday” shoppers, as anyone who had to negotiate traffic around 41st & Louise (for example) can testify. Not everyone was partaking of said holiday “cheer”(?).
A small but enthusiastic group of the local Tea Party group was out on a late notice [...]
Several reports extending the scope of the Climategate disclosures that continue the processes of destruction and loss of credibility by the Glowbull Warming (junk science) establishment
Firstly, here’s one detailing that some of the e-mails rigging the debate are to/from/involving B.O. “Science Czar” John Holdren. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Dubai default threat rattles world stocks
Global stock markets tumbled Thursday on mounting anxiety over a debt default request by Dubai and tighter lending conditions in China, analysts said.
London lost 1.86 percent to 5,264.97 points in late morning trade but was suspended at about 1030 GMT owing to a technical [...]
This comes from MINNESOTANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING. It speaks for itself.
(If you’ve been in Minnesota in the winter you know why global warming could be appreciated!)
Bob Ainsworth criticises Barack Obama over Afghanistan
It’s GOT to be bad when even the IngSoc government thinks B.O. is too squishy on the war.
Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan.
Mr Ainsworth [...]
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are [...]
There’s bad news, and at least locally, some not so bad news.
The ‘Real’ Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed.
According [...]
Lieberman Digs In on Public Option
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I’m going to be stubborn on this.”
Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a “public option,” or government-run health-insurance plan, [...]
Dusty Harry Reid has adopted the classic philosophy of high pressure salemen: “Money talks, and no body walks.”
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of [...]
The Brits are starting to position themselves for their next election cycle. This is part of that positioning from the opposition Conservatives
Tories to pull British forces out of Germany
British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as [...]
More in the London Telegraph:
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite [...]
VIRUS in the VOTING MACHINES: Tainted Results in NY-23
The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any [...]
Reported by that bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy called the New York Times!
Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists [...]
Work site arrests of illegals fall dramatically
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.
Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show [...]
Let’s see…B.O.’s had the information and proposals from HIS selected commanding combat General since August. It’s now November. Meanwhile the conduct of the war continues to stagnate, our local allies hold their breath as they wait to decide whether and/or when to jump ship, and any potential local allies take [...]
As more information comes out over time, the self-affiliation of the terrorist assassin Hasan as an Islamic jihadi continues to thicken.
Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife
American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?
United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told [...]
Obama warns on US public debt pile
After doubling the budget deficit since he came into office, and pushing hard for a massive increase in public spending for a number of programs including the Obamacare health “hellth” bill, it takes nothing if not a massive display of chutzpah to make [...]
Holder’s move to criminalize terrorists shows that he has totally lost his situational awareness, or else has determined to put a bullet into the war on terrorism by enabling some of the worst of the worst a very real chance of getting a legal pass.
French hotel offers guests a night as a hamster
It’s a unique concept according to its creators,…
Well, that’s ONE way to put it.
…a hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
…but WHY would you want to? This seems on the verge [...]
This is sourced from Reuters…not exactly noted as a nerve center of the VRWC!
China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform
Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his [...]
[UK] Army tells its soldiers to ‘bribe’ the Taleban
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
Army commanders should also talk to insurgent leaders with “blood on their hands” in order to hasten the end of the [...]
Well, more stuff keeps coming out, further reinforcing the image of Nidal Hasan as viewing himself to be a militant jihadi.
Now, not only his own leavings like his e-mails, business card captions self-proclaiming himself to be a “Soldier of Allah”, but his Yemeni Sheikh correspondent modestly concedes that he could [...]
ATTENTION! Among the late dispatches received from Airstrip concerning the latest Ingsoc Party proposal:
Everyone in Britain could be given a personal ‘carbon allowance’
Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.
Lord Smith [...]
This is obviously a scurrilous attack of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VWRC) on Our Enlightened President designed to make him look like a Communist!
…uh…oh. It’s not. It’s the ChiComs themselves welcoming him into their club!
Chinese greet ‘Oba Mao’ with flaming statue, fakes
The Chinese have learned [...]
Perry says Obama taking U.S. toward socialism
Texas Governor:Â “The Emperor Has No Clothes!”
[Texas Governor] Gov. Rick Perry had some pretty strong comments about the Obama administration on Wednesday in Midland, saying, “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”
There’s a video clip of this [...]
Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens even as Rep. Bill Owens is sworn into House seat
They say it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. In the NY-23 election, contrary to reports, this hasn’t happened yet.
Vote count errors, and 10K+ uncounted absentee ballots could actually reverse the election outcome…unfortunately the [...]
Federal program to help company that processes Black Hills wood chips
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has selected Western Biomass Energy LLC to participate in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. Western Biomass Energy converts wood chips from the Black Hills into renewable fuels.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., authored BCAP, which was [...]
B.O. administration non-decisiveness chickens are starting to come home to roost.
Is Yemen the most dangerous new front in the war on terror?
In case you don’t recall, one of Major Hasan’s internet e-mail pen pals is Yemeni Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki.
Sheikh Anwar’s latest blogpost describes Major Hasan as a “hero”, a [...]
[Dunn to Step Down as White House Communications Chief]
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn will step down by the end of November and be replaced by her deputy Dan Pfeiffer, Fox News has learned.
Dunn’s departure had been expected as she took [...]
Say it isn’t so! A major new governmental program proposal (this one from the Donkey Party) that will exceed it’s initial estimated cost?
AHHEEEEEEE! What’s the world coming to!
‘Fuzzy math’ could drive health bill cost higher
The official $1.1 trillion price tag for the House Democrats’ health care bill excludes dozens [...]
In spite of what some may think out by Lake Madison, this is some tangible evidence that the Chief isn’t making something out of nothing in his concerns about P.C. trumping realism in the latest episode of domestic terrorism.
EDITORIAL: Too scared to recognize terrorism
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared [...]
Every phone call, email and internet click stored by ’state spying’ databases
Big Brother is arriving in what used to be known as Britain…but which now might more appropriately be given Orwell’s designation from 1984: “Airstrip One”.
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep [...]
The plot thickens.
U.S. had al Qaeda intelligence on Fort Hood shooter
U.S. intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist tried to contact Islamists with suspected al Qaeda links and relayed that information to federal authorities before the man allegedly went on a shooting spree in Texas last week, U.S. sources said [...]
Army Chief Concerned for Muslim Troops
General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said on Sunday that he was concerned that speculation about the religious beliefs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 12 fellow soldiers and one civilian and wounding dozens of others in a shooting [...]
Landmark health bill passes House on close vote
SanFranNan was able to beat the bushes enough to get her abortion of a hellth-care bill passed by a close margin.
The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature [...]
House Dems struggle for final votes on health care
Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes.
“We’re very close” to having enough votes to prevail, [...]
Suspected Gunman in Custody After 12 Killed in Rampage at Fort Hood
An Army psychiatrist who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas that left 12 dead and 31 wounded, an Army official said Thursday [...]
The Worst Bill Ever
Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The [...]
First, the positive outlook for the GOP on this bye-election eve:
Republicans Are Poised for Gains in Key Elections
Republicans appear positioned for strong results in three hard-fought elections Tuesday. But isolated, off-year contests aren’t always reliable indicators of what will happen in the wider federal and state races held in [...]
Payments to Taliban widespread
Yet ANOTHER sign of the fecklessness of the age of B.O.’s role as the so-called leader of the NATO alliance.
NATO officially denies that any of its members pay insurgents in Afghanistan for peace, but military sources said yesterday the practice is widespread among foreign forces fighting [...]
