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Liberalism: Why think when you can “feel”?

"Carbon" offsets? Pfft…

How about something more useful and fun (and just as logical) as carbon offsets? Courtesy of Hot Air:

It’s the only socially conscious way to properly compensate for your, um, emissions.

I’m almost afraid to ask, but ask I shall: what would be the anatomical equivalent here of one’s “carbon footprint”?

At Cheatneutral, we believe that we should all try to reduce the amount we cheat on our partners, but we also realise that fidelity isn’t always possible.

That’s why we help you neutralise your cheating. Your actions are offset by a global network of fidelity, developed by us. By paying Cheatneutral, you’re funding monogamy-boosting offset projects – we simply invest the money you give us in monogamous, faithful or just plain single people, to encourage them to stay that way.

There’s a place where singles can sign up to be a “project,” too.

Yes, it’s a parody site, but it does a phenomenal job of illustrating the absurdity of the enviroweenies’ “carbon offsets” argument.

“I’m not just the president of Cheatneutral, but I’m also a client!”

March 14, 2007 Posted by | global warming, humor | Leave a Comment

Obama: Those poor, poor Palestinians

Here’s leftard rag The Nation’s puff piece on Obama kissing some Palestinian posterior:

Barack Obama did the unthinkable recently: he had the audacity to mention the Palestinians.

“Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people,” Obama told voters in Iowa on Sunday. That remark hardly endeared him to the hawkish pro-Israel supporters at AIPAC, where Obama (and Hillary) spoke on Monday.

According to the New York Times, Obama and Hillary held dueling receptions to woo Jewish voters. Hillary offered the standard pro-Israel line, even displaying a sign spelling her name in Hebrew (can’t imagine Barack translates very well).

In the past, Obama has spoken highly of the Palestinian people and the calamities they’ve faced. No doubt, his opponents will now try and use that against him.

Indeed I will. Here are these poor souls for whom Obama’s (and The Nation’s) hearts bleed:

Aw, aren’t they adorable? I tell ya, those little jihadis blow up…er, grow up…so fast these days!

March 14, 2007 Posted by | moonbats, Obama, religion of peace | Leave a Comment

More on the Halliburton move to Dubai

I mentioned this a few days ago, but Tony Blankley has a great column on the issue as well. From RCP:

Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman threatened hearings on the Halliburton move (birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, Waxman gotta threaten hearings), while Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy complained that Halliburton was somehow trying to cheat the American taxpayers (even though Halliburton is going to continue to pay its corporate taxes to the IRS — and anyway, Dubai doesn’t tax corporations that site in their city. Hm? No taxes as an inducement to increased business activity — there’s an idea to which Sen. Leahy probably hasn’t given sufficient thought.)

Rather than hold hearings, or construct phantom conspiratorial tax evasion theories, Waxman, Leahy and their fellow ilk might consider that since Congress won’t permit American oil companies to drill for the more than 140 billion barrels of recoverable oil that exists under American ground and in our coastal waters, it only makes sense for oil drilling companies to go where oil drilling is permitted.

I wouldn’t blame Halliburton if it moved all its assets out of a country (that would be the United States) that slanders their good name rather than appreciates their world-class, vitally needed skills. What a pity if Waxman and his fellow anti-capitalists soon won’t have Halliburton to kick around anymore.
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But as America is now driving its productive assets and people (such as Halliburton) away, we shouldn’t be too smug.

A modern day version of Atlas Shrugged, perhaps?

March 14, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, Halliburton | Leave a Comment

Hillary: the VRWC is back!

Catering to the paranoid moonbat base of the Dems, Her Highness revives the Lewinksy-era leftover and leftard bogeyman “”. From NewsMax:

The “vast, right-wing conspiracy” is back, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan plotting.

Once derided for her use of the phrase, Clinton is now trying to turn the imagery to her advantage.

Speaking Tuesday to Democratic municipal officials, the New York senator used the term to hammer Republicans on election irregularities.

She also used the phrase similarly during a campaign appearance over the weekend in New Hampshire.

Clinton was first lady when she famously charged allegations of an affair between her then-president husband Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky were the result of a conservative conspiracy.

As evidence of the affair eventually came to light, the comment was ridiculed. But many Democrats have since insisted that Clinton was correct, pointing to the well-documented efforts by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife to fund a network of anti-Clinton investigations.

Yeah, we sure made up that whole “stained blue dress belonging to a young portly intern” and “lying under oath to deprive a woman her day in court” thingy, didn’t we? Mr. Scaife, you magnificent evil bastard, you! Anywho:

New Hampshire Democratic Party chairwoman Kathy Sullivan said she absolutely agreed with the senator’s description of the case.

“People think we’re paranoid when we talk about the vast right-wing conspiracy (ya think? – Ed.), but there is a real connection of these groups – the same names keep popping up,” said Sullivan. “They are the most disgusting group of political thugs that I have ever seen.”

Maybe after Shrillary forces her socialist piece of garbage known as “universal health care” on normal America, she and her @sshat ilk can finally get some meds that they have desparately needed for quite some time now.

March 14, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, moonbats | Leave a Comment

UPDATED: When eight is more than 93

UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM.

More Democrat fuzzy math. Compare this…:

Congressional Democrats on Monday singled out presidential adviser Karl Rove for questioning about the firings of eight federal prosecutors and whether the dismissals were politically motivated.

…to this:

So there’s a sense of irony as congressional hearings open on whether the Bush administration has politicized appointments of U.S. attorneys. After all, it was Bill Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, who fired all 93 U.S. attorneys after her appointment in March 1993, something no administration has done before or since.

Reno stated that the unprecedented action was a “joint decision” with the White House, and no doubt it was. The Justice Department liaison with the White House at the time was associate attorney general Webster Hubbell. He would later plead guilty to a felony count of concealing his legal work on a failed Arkansas land deal and one misdemeanor count of tax invasion as part of a plea deal with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

(Whitewater history and connections here…)

On Aug. 16, 1993, Paula Casey, an active Democrat and a law student of Bill Clinton’s, took over from her Republican predecessor. Her job was to run interference and thwart any criminal referrals related to Whitewater and the Rose Law Firm.

In addition to quashing a criminal referral of Madison from the Resolution Trust Corp., she also was tasked to prevent Judge David Hale, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud, from testifying against the Clintons. She rejected Hale’s effort at a plea bargain. He had offered to share information on the “banking and borrowing practices of some individuals in the elite political circles of the state of Arkansas.” Guess who?

Last Thursday, House Democrats issued their first subpoenas to a number of U.S. attorneys, among them David Iglesias of New Mexico. He believes, and Democrats concur, that he was dismissed because he resisted pressure by two congressmen to rush indictments in an alleged Democratic kickback scheme involving construction contracts and a prominent Democratic former state senator.

But Democrats had no problem in rushing things when it came to U.S. Attorney and now special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s mindless and unwarranted pursuit of Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, Scooter Libby. They had hoped Fitzgerald would bring down Cheney, Karl Rove and even President Bush himself.

So Democrats endorse “political” moves by U.S. attorneys when it suits their purpose just as they supported the politically motivated dismissal of all 93 U.S. attorneys by Janet Reno — a move intended to protect her boss from political, and criminal, repercussions from his and his wife’s past wheelings and dealings.

In other words, letting go of eight prosecutors stinks to high heaven, but letting go of 93 in order to run obvious interference for the supremely corrupt Clintons was A-OK. Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

UPDATE (3/14/07 – 11:16 A.M. EST): Thanks to Kira for passing this along from Opinion Journal. Please read it, as it is both short AND relevant to this post. Teaser: Her Highness, being thoroughly familiar with mass firings of US Attorneys (and hiring replacements who are FOB’s), is slamming Bush for the firings. This b#tch knows no shame (with “b#tch” meaning Hillary, NOT Kira! ;-) ).

March 14, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy | 1 Comment

Iran teetering on bankruptcy?

We should be so lucky. From the NY Sun:

Iran’s civil society is experiencing major breakdowns, the country’s reformist press and Web loggers are reporting. Signs of growing economic instability include high inflation, rising prices, food shortages, and long lines at gas stations. (With the exception of the latter, it sounds an awful lot like Hugo Chavez’ “worker’s paradise”, doesn’t it? – Ed.)
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The January 20 edition of the Iranian reformist daily Rooz included an interview with an economist, Saeed Leilaz. ” Iran is on the verge of economic collapse,” he said. “A large portion of the economic turn for the worse is due to Ahmadinejad’s policies and management style … [which] have prompted many to publicly criticize [him]. … The administration has increased government expenditures so much that we will face an enormous budget deficit in the coming year.”

Mr. Leilaz also said Iran’s deep economic crisis could “ultimately lead to the disintegration of the government.”

Maybe we’ll get lucky and see Ahmanutjob tossed out on his tuchus before Israel has to bomb their nuke facilities.

March 14, 2007 Posted by | Ahmanutjob, Iran | Leave a Comment

   

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