UPDATED: Sheryl Crow’s answer to global warming: wipe your pooper with one square!
UPDATE BELOW.
Why Hollyweirdos are better seen and not heard. Well, she makes a living singing, so she has to be heard, but you get my drift. Anywho, from Lance Armstrong’s ex, via Hot Air:
Green earth = brown hand!
Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who’s judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”
Hey, it’s “think globally, act locally,” not “think globally, act locally except for your pooper.”
Exit question one: Just how, um, tidy are Sheryl Crow’s evacuations that one thin square of toilet paper is enough to do the trick? You think the Goracle gets by with one?
Sheryl may trust her brother’s judgment, but I certainly don’t. Not if he’s telling me to wipe with one square and rinse it off afterwards! I’d like to think she’s joking, but with these Hollyweirdo types, you can never be certain.
Come on, people…you just knew I’d be back to my juvenile self in no time.
UPDATE (4/23/2007 – 9:53 A.M. EST): While Crow is imploring us to use one square of TP for our bungholes in order to keep the planet from baking, she has no objections to having four carbon-spewing tour busses, three gas-guzzling tractor-trailers, and six cars for her own personal usage. I tell you, between her and Gore and the Silky Pony living the energy-gorging lifestyles they tell us is killing the planet, they certainly don’t seem too concerned about it…ergo, why should we be?
Insanity in D.C.
Another huge reason that we desparately need change in D.C.: some idiot there gave an invitation to the White House Correspondents Dinner…to Sanjaya.
Cartoon of the day
From Creators Syndicate:
Pelosi, Feingold, Murtha, and Reid doing their part to “support the troops”!
Oh, those special interests?
The “most ethical majority ever” in Congress is showing their Republican counterparts the correct way to be beholden to special interests. From ABC:
The campaign coffers of the new Democratic House committee chairmen have seen a big jump in contributions from lobbyists and special interests since the Democratic takeover of Congress, according to new campaign finance filings available on PoliticalMoneyLine.com.In some cases, Democrats in powerful posts are raising more money from special interest groups than the Republicans they replaced…
The chairman to receive the most PAC money was Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, who reported raising $486,669 from PACs, compared to $7,500 during the same period two years ago. Rangel’s PAC donors compromised more than half the money he raised and represent a broad array of industries including health care, finance, transportation, agriculture, technology, retailers and organized labor.
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The former Republican chairmen of those committees received significantly less PAC money than their Democratic counterparts. Rep. Joe Barton, former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, received $50,000, one-sixth the amount [John] Dingell received. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, former chairman of the Agriculture committee, received $80,000, half the amount [Collin] Peterson received.
Just to clarify things for you:
gun rights, businesses, the religious, anti-abortionists, pro-families, and anti-illegal immigrant groups are all considered “special interest” groups capable of corrupting politicians…and all these groups just so happen to coinkidinkally be Republican “special interest” groups; however…
anti-gun rights, treehuggers, anti-religious, pro-abortionist, pro-illegal immigrant, trial lawyers, labor unions, teachers unions, and anti-military groups are ALL proper and “good cause” groups, completely devoid of any special interests, and incapable of corrupting politicians…and all these groups just so happen to coinkidinkally be Democrat “special interest” groups.
Clear now?
Goodbye, old friend…part II
Man, this has been a sh#tty couple of months for me, I don’t mind telling you.
Those who know me know that I have been the proud owner of two Rottweilers: Duchess and Xena. The regulars here know that Duchess died two months ago of kidney failure, and that was a bitter pill for me to swallow. Well, bitter pill #2 was swallowed today.
My loyal friend Xena was born in November of 1998. I bought her from an auto mechanic in Jacksonville in March of 1999 when she weighed a mere 13 lbs. at 13 weeks of age.
Xena never perfected the art of playing fetch, but she did like snatching the ball from Duchess after Duchess did the grunt work of going to retrieve it. Xena loved car rides, and it didn’t matter what kind of vehicle you wanted to take her in: car, van, SUV, Yugo, whatever. As with Duchess, Xena loved everyone, man, and child…defying the media-fed stereotypes of the Rottweiler as a devil dog. The mailman loved her. The neighborhood kids loved her. Hell, everyone did.
Xena was a mild-mannered, timid, obedient dog who knew several commands: sit, down, come here, paw, speak, and “crate” (she slept in a dog crate), as well as a couple of tricks like “Bang” (she’d drop on her back and throw her paws up in the air, like she was dead) and “high five” (she’d throw her paw up high to touch your palm). She loved chasing squirrels, especially along the fence. She had the dubious distinction of getting her #ss kicked by a near-toothless poodle in Tallahassee in 2001.
Xena was incredibly affectionate. She loved howling at sirens, or howling at me whenever I would wail like a siren. She had an incredible amount of energy, from puppyhood through last week. She still acted like a puppy, the big goof.
Xena lived a full life, experiencing much love and happiness. I was blessed enough to have had her as my dog. But all good things must come to an end, and as a result of a rapid onset of lymphoma, Xena’s dignity needed to be preserved. I consulted with the vet to see what the options were, and they were few and unpromising: doggy chemotherapy, an expensive procedure which might buy a year or two (and quality of life wasn’t guaranteed); do nothing, in which case she would die painfully and slowly over a 2 – 4 week period; or put her to sleep. She was euthanized today, ending her suffering but exacerbating mine. However, as with Duchess, I loved that dog too much to keep her alive for my selfish reasons.
I asked the vet if there was a possibility that the dogs were exposed to something in their environment that may have contributed to their deaths. She answered “No, because lymphoma is more of a genetic disease, with no proof to any environmental contributors. Duchess’ kidney failure is something seen in a lot of old Rotties. Your dogs didn’t die of anything in the environment…they died of old age.” Yeah, but only two months apart? “Well, that’s just crappy luck on your part.” Definitely an understatement.
Rest in peace, Xena. I thank God for the wonderful memories you left me. Suffer no more, my friend, and go get that squirrel!
Xena: November 1998 – April 2007
Eisner’s Congressional ally in "feeling, not thinking"
From Hot Air:
I wish I could show you the bill (H.R. 1859) but the text isn’t online at Thomas yet. It’s probably identical or nearly identical to this bill, which she (Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY) introduced in February, to reinstate the assault-weapons ban. Tucker Carlson scrounged up a copy and put a simple question to her: since she’s so worried about weapons with barrel shrouds, could she at least explain to the viewers what a “barrel shroud” is?This is why Eisner’s so hot for the “emotional, story-driven” approach.
The video is provided in the link. The short answer to the question that McCarthy (ironic name, no?) was asked is “No, I haven’t a freaking clue.”
Exit (yet rhetorical and sarcastic) question: Who would have thought that a legislator would propose a bill, intended for us idiot peons, that the legislator himself/herself didn’t even understand?
Night & Day
Headline: Lefties Scorn Bush As ‘Mourner-In-Chief,’ But to ABC, Clinton Was ‘Chaplain-in-Chief’, via Newsbusters.
When the President is a Republican:
Over at the Huffington Post’s Eat the Press blog, Jason Linkins objected Tuesday night to MSNBC’s description of President Bush as “mourner-in-chief,” demanding they stop because “It’s emo and it’s weird.” Linkins admitted MSNBC was not the first to use this terminology.
When the President is a Democrat:
In fact, on the July 25, 1996 World News Tonight, after a TWA plane crash, ABC’s Jim Wooten tenderly hailed the Sensitive President, Bill Clinton, the nation’s “chaplain in chief,” an even stranger choice of words, given Clinton’s historic reputation for indulgence:
Mr. Clinton is clearly more and more comfortable now in the role these times have forced on our Presidents — first mourner and chaplain-in-chief. But his moments with the families must have struck him as especially poignant today, for when he left them in the hotel and entered his car, he buried his head on Mrs. Clinton’s shoulder.”
How NOT to prove your point
As the Washington comPost was trying to rustle up some foreigners’ opinions on our Second Amendment rights, I think they did themselves a great disservice by undermining their own point thusly (from Newsbusters):
But (author Molly) Moore’s article turned unintentionally comic when she quoted an Iraqi praising the gun-control policies of….Saddam Hussein. “But America has terrorism and they are exporting it to us. We did not have this violence in the Saddam era because the law was so tough on guns.”Perhaps it’s not surprising for a liberal newspaper to use a terrible mass shooting as an opportunity for pro-Saddam Iraqis to condemn how the United States has ruined their paradise. But it’s hardly a poster for the Brady Campaign’s gun-control aims – and Saddam’s dictatorship is hardly a model of nonviolence. (It can, however, illustrate the gun-rights crowd’s belief in guns as a bulwark against dictatorship.)
Pardon me for just a moment…
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
OK…*snort*…*sniffle*…*chuckle*…I’m back. Thanks for bearing with me! Man, was that freakin’ hilarious or what?
Eisner proves CLOWNS definition of liberalism
Leftard media moron Michael Eisner, formerly of ABC/Disney, agrees with us here at the Crush Liberalism Objective World News Service (aka CLOWNS): Liberalism is a “feeling, not thinking” ideology. Eisner’s admission:
“I’ve always wanted to do position through story on the ridiculousness of having guns and automatic weapons in our society. And it’s been very much obviously in the news, sadly, sadly. But when you’re in a public company and you’re in Washington — I was just saying “Don’t fight the NRA” — or you’re in a big company where your major constituencies are middle Americans, and where you don’t own the company, you’re working for your shareholders, you’ve got to be very careful. And we pushed through same-sex health insurance, some very advanced things… But we never could do the kind of material that I can now do because nobody can tell me I can’t do it. So I think the solution is to get the public, in an emotional, story-driven way, behind the goal of an abolition of handguns and automatic weapons.
Yeah, that whole “appealing to logic and reason” thingy is sooooooooo yesterday. The MSM and CLOWNS just seem to go together, don’t they?
Memo to non-Asians: Don’t call VT shooter "Asian", got it?
So sayeth the Asian American Journalists Association!
Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident.As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason. There is no evidence at this early point that the race or ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident, and to include such mention serves only to unfairly portray an entire people.
Just to make sure I’m understanding this correctly: pointing out that the deranged shooter at VT was Korean somehow makes it look like all Koreans (or all Asians) are deranged shooter wannabes? Um…no. Not quite.
Then, they reinforce the message to people like me:
We further remind members of the media that the standards of news reporting should be universal and applied equally no matter the platform or medium, including blogs.
Sorry, guys, but I don’t worship at your church of political correctness, so I’m gonna have to take a pass on your invitation. Good luck with that.
Exit question: isn’t it just a tad bit hypocritical for a journalism organization that identifies itself by their collective ethnicities to be lecturing ANYONE on ignoring race within news stories?
Euros to criminalize Holocaust denial
Any time a leftard says how the Euros are so much more “evolved” than Americans, I roll my eyes in disgust and disbelief. I can easily rebut such a ludicrous claim, and stories like this make rebuttal even easier. From the Financial Times:
Laws that make denying or trivialising the Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced across the European Union, according to a proposal expecting to win backing from ministers Thursday.Offenders will face up to three years in jail under the proposed legislation, which will also apply to inciting violence against ethnic, religious or national groups.
I certainly don’t have a problem with criminalizing the inciting of a riot, and I wish we had a law like that here in the States. Oh, wait…we DO have such a law, don’t we? It just applies to everyone not named “Sharpton”! My bad. But I digress.
I most certainly have a problem with criminalizing people saying stupid things like “The Holocaust never happened”! While such idiots are certainly worthy of our contempt and scorn, throwing someone in jail for being a moron is going a bit far. If we had such a law here, many of our politicians would be in jail. Hmmmm…I’m kind of undermining my own point, aren’t I? (For those of you on the left, that was a joke.)
Wait a minute! Something just dawned on me. Recall how Ellen Goodman of the Boston Goob said that global “warming” skeptics were the same as Holocaust deniers? Well, I’m a global “warming” skeptic, so I wonder if that would make me a criminal were I to ever grace the Euros with my presence? I should probably be quiet about that, so as not to give the Euros any more bright ideas like this one.
What is it about freedom that stumps the Euros so badly?
Predictably, moonbats blame Bush for VT shootings
The only surprise is that it took this long. Via Hot Air:
Keith Olbermann tried to blame President Bush and the Republican Congress for yesterday’s massacre because they “allowed” a ban on 9mm clips like the one used to murder 32 people to expire. Transcript:
At least one of the weapons used by the shooter is believed, as we said, to be in nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol, which would be like this one, with a clip designed to hold more than 10 shots. Clips like those were banned under the Assault Weapons Law of 1994, but Congress and President Bush allowed that law to expire more than two years ago.
Confederate Yankee points out one small problem with Blabberman’s observation:
High-capacity magazines have been around for more than half a century, and the sale of high-capacity magazines was not impacted whatsoever by the 1994 Crime Bill. These magazines were freely and commercially available, both in retail stores and online, without interruption, for the 10-year life of the ban, the decades preceding it, and afterward.
Blabberman, you may want to go ahead and issue that correction, so both of your viewers will be up to speed.
Geez, if it’s not American moonbats blaming Bush, it’s those idiot Euros blaming Charlton Heston. Exit question: did we export moonbattery to other countries, or did we import it from other countries?
"Religious" nutcase media whores getting in on VT shooting
In due time, these sunsabeeches will get theirs. From Moonbattery:
As if Virginia Tech doesn’t have enough to deal with, the obnoxious cult calling itself the Westboro Baptist Church is on its way to Blacksburg, in hopes of attracting attention. Moonbats will be pleased to note that they regard George Bush as a “bloody tyrant.” From their website, GodHatesAmerica.com:
WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is “horrified” by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming. (WHAT?? A Hillary presidency?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! – Ed.)You see, God is going to come and wreak havoc in accordance with the WBC’s simple message:
God Hates Fags. God Hates You. (Seems contrary to the New Testament and the message of Christ. One would think that “people of God” might have read that thing. – Ed.) The World is Doomed.According to WBC, “God sent a crazed madman” to Virginia Tech. More are on the way.
I’m going to use seemingly contrasting labels here: moonbats AND wingnuts. I’m using “wingnuts”, since they’re a purported “religious” group, though their paltry membership of under 200 indicates that they’re shunned by normal religious groups. I’m also using “moonbats”, since their leader, Fred Phelps, is a registered Democrat and has campaigned for Democrat politicians over the years (including Al Gore in 2000).
Either label, these are some sick freaks who are in desparate need of an #sskicking. I know, I know, that’s not very Christianlike of me. So sue me for being human. This crap angers me to no end.
Quote of the day
From Neal Boortz:
John Edwards spends $400 a month on his haircuts? Yup … here is a real man of the people. Now I see why so many low and middle income Americans admire this man so. When you’re struggling to put food on the table it really is easy to identify with someone who spends four bills on a haircut.
But hey, that Silky Pony hair sure looks good, doesn’t it?
NYT breathlessly runs hit piece targeting Second Amendment
Well now…that didn’t take long, now did it? From the Old Gray Hag:
Yesterday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech — the worst in American history — is another horrifying reminder that some of the gravest dangers Americans face come from killers at home armed with guns that are frighteningly easy to obtain…
…Our hearts and the hearts of all Americans go out to the victims and their families. Sympathy was not enough at the time of Columbine, and eight years later it is not enough. What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.
As Bull Dog Pundit notes, “In one sentence they say is that it is ‘premature to draw too many lessons,’ yet they then go on to say that stronger laws are needed over ‘lethal weapons,’ even though nothing is known about how he got them.”
Does it even matter to these people that the VT shooter allegedly bought his guns illegally? Gun control would stop legal purchases of firearms by law-abiding citizens, but it would do nothing to stop illegal purchases by law-breakers. But hey, why worry about practicality, when we can feel good about ourselves by “doing something” (or appearing as though we are) about the problem?
Kos kooks tout neo-Nazi video
From LGF:
Now featured in a diary at Daily Kos, a video clip from the neo-Nazi site Vanguard News Network (vnnforum.com): Daily Kos: Portrait of a Great Taboo: The Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
LGF has the link to the Kos-tards’ site, as well as a screen capture of their anti-Semitic diary, so I shan’t link to them.
As one commenter at Hot Air notes: “So I guess if you go far enough crazy left (Kos) you end up on the crazy right (Nazi)? They’ve come full circle!” Good point, except I would argue that despite stereotypes that reflexively categorize Nazis as extreme right-wing, I consider them extreme left-wing since they were National Socialists. If socialism is right wing, then Bill Clinton is president of the Promise Keepers.
Va Tech shootings postpone Gonzales inquisition…er, questioning
Headline: “Va. Tech tragedy delays Gonzales testimony”
How long until the moonbatosphere concocts conspiracy theories linking these two events (or, more appropriately, this event and non-event) together? Maybe Chimpy McHitlerburton planted the shooter (you know, the way he bombed the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 9/11?) to take the heat off of Gonzo! That evil b@stard!!!
Quote of the day
Some moonbat chick on the dismissal of charges against the Duke lacrosse team:
The charges were dropped. Does this mean that they are innocent?
Well…uhhh….yeah. Yeah, Toots, it means exactly that, especially since that Attorney General feller said so:
“We believe that these cases were the tragic result of a rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations,” Cooper said. “Based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness, we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges.”Cooper’s declaration that the three were innocent — a word prosecutors rarely use — brought a long-awaited freedom for men who lived the past year under the threat of decades in prison.
He jumped through hoops to say that they were exonerated and innocent. He didn’t say “lack of evidence” or “inconsistency in testimony” or any technicalities like that. No, he said “innocent”. Google it, Yummybritches.
Her post is entitled “You will not shame me”, though I’m convinced she left off the words “into accepting reality”.
I’ve been tagged to do a Meme
I’m not much into memes, but my new friend and visitor Ev has kindly requested me to do so, and so I shall.
Why are the 5 reasons we blog?
1. To educating America to the pitfalls and perils of the “feeling, but not thinking” ideology known as modern American liberalism.
2. I’m passionate about politics.
3. I’m passionate about writing.
4. I like to entertain. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
5. Because no one in his/her right mind would ever pay me to write my crap for a living, so I have to do it gratis. 
Florida legislator calls illegal aliens…“illegal aliens”!
If dude’s not careful, he’s gonna get the Imus treatment! From Jacksonville.com:
At least one member of the Florida Hispanic Legislative Caucus has demanded a public apology over an e-mail that a fellow Republican lawmaker thought was a funny way to remind people to pay their taxes.Rep. Don Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, recently forwarded a cartoon from his state e-mail account to his colleagues that read: “Don’t forget to pay your taxes … 12 million illegal aliens are depending on you!”
Brown said Friday he meant the message as a joke, but it was met with a fierce reaction from many other lawmakers. He later sent a follow-up e-mail to apologize.
Brown still needs to make a public apology, said Rep. Juan Carlos “J.C.” Planas, a Miami Republican and member of the Hispanic caucus.
“I think he has to specifically state that he understands now that that term, illegal alien, is extremely insulting to many individuals, and I think there has to be something a little bit more public and a little bit more contrite in his apology,” Planas said.
“That term, illegal alien, is extremely insulting to many individuals”…such as illegal aliens! Yessiree, if I were an illegal alien, I’d sure as hell hate for someone to remind me of that! If I were Brown, I would have responded to Planas’ galling demand for more contrition thusly:
“I represent the good people of DeFuniak Springs, none of whom are, to my knowledge, illegal aliens. Those who are illegal aliens in DeFuniak Springs can simply forget to ask me for their representation. I am disheartened to see my esteemed colleague, J.C. Planas, taking up the cause for illegal aliens in his district and volunteering his services of representation for them. I would like to encourage him to represent his legal constituents as his oath of office compels him to do.”
Here’s how Imus should have handled the “nappy-headed” flap:
Brown said he’s finished with the issue.“People were offended by it and I have apologized to those who were offended by it,” Brown said. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m done. Now if they want to elevate it to an entire new debate about illegal aliens, then we can have that debate.”
Well done, Brown. Personally, I wouldn’t have apologized for it at all, and I’d tell people to go pound sand before getting an apology out of me for stating the obvious (a fact that pro-illegal immigration apologists frequently tune out): illegal aliens impose a cost on society. However, if he is determined to bow at the altar of political correctness, he did so the right way: say it, and be done with it. After all, groveling and perpetual apologies didn’t Imus anywhere, now did it?
Mockumentary leftard "Sicko" Moore takes 9/11 reponders to Cuba for health care
Sometimes, words just don’t properly convey the outrage felt, but I’m going to give it my level best. From the NY Post:
Filmmaker Michael Moore’s production company took ailing Ground Zero responders to Cuba in a stunt aimed at showing that the U.S. health-care system is inferior to Fidel Castro’s socialized medicine, according to several sources with knowledge of the trip.The trip was to be filmed as part of the controversial director’s latest documentary, “Sicko,” an attack on American drug companies and HMOs that Moore hopes to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Two years in the making, the flick also takes aim at the medical care being provided to people who worked on the toxic World Trade Center debris pile, according to several 9/11 workers approached by Moore’s producers.
But the sick sojourn, which some say uses ill 9/11 workers as pawns, has angered many in the responder community.
“He’s using people that are in a bad situation and that’s wrong, that’s morally wrong,” railed Jeff Endean, a former SWAT commander from Morris County, N.J., who spent a month at Ground Zero and suffers from respiratory problems.
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Regardless, some ill 9/11 workers balked at Moore’s idea.“I would rather die in America than go to Cuba,” said Joe Picurro, a Toms River, N.J., ironworker approached by the filmmaker via an e-mail that read, “Joe and Mike in Cuba.”
After helping remove debris from Ground Zero, Picurro has a laundry list of respiratory and other ailments so bad that he relies on fund-raisers to help pay his expenses.
He said, “I just laughed. I couldn’t do it.”
Another ill worker who said he was willing to take the trip ended up being stiffed by Moore.
Michael McCormack, 48, a disabled medic who found an American flag at Ground Zero that once flew atop the Twin Towers, was all set to go to.
The film crew contacted him by phone and took him by limo from his Ridge, L.I., home to Manhattan for an on-camera interview.
“What he [Moore] wanted to do is shove it up George W’s rear end that 9/11 heroes had to go to a communist country to get adequate health care,” said McCormack, who suffers from chronic respiratory illness.
But McCormack said he was abandoned by Moore. At a March fund-raiser for another 9/11 responder in New Jersey, McCormack learned Moore had gone to Cuba without him.
“It’s the ultimate betrayal,” he said. “You’re promised that you’re going to be taken care of and then you find out you’re not. He’s trying to profiteer off of our suffering.”
The left accuses Bush and his buddies from “profiteering off of the war”, but I guess that Moore profiteering off of the suffering of 9/11 responders is A-OK.
Might I suggest that the next time Moore takes his ample posterior to Cuba, he should check out the free gastric bypass they offer? His bloated socialist mindset must be getting choked off.
By the way, here is an accurate representation of the real Cuban health care system. While the Silky Pony may be campaigning on “Two Americas”, there are “Two Cubas” when it comes to health care. Something tells me that Moore has seen only the better of the two in Castroland.
Dem Congress taking lavish junkets on taxpayer dime
Why, it seems like yesterday that Dems were sharing our outrage at excessive and unnecessary Republican spending! They campaigned on cleaning things up in D.C., including curbing unneeded spending. Apparently, the unneeded spending they wanted to curb must be defense spending, because I’m not seeing it much in other areas. From the Examiner:
Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi took his wife, nine Democrats and two Republicans – Reps. Dan Lungren of California and Mike Rogers of Alabama – on a whirlwind tour of the Caribbean last week. After stops in Honduras and Mexico, they stopped in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the delegation stayed at the five-star Caneel Bay resort.In a separate trip to the Caribbean last week, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York squired his wife and four Democratic members to Grenada and Trinidad.
All told, the military flew at least 13 congressional delegations to various destinations during the Easter recess — at an estimated rate of $10,000 or more per flying hour.
The congressional delegation trips, known as CODELs, are paid for by taxpayers. They are supposed to be directly related to members’ official duties, and House guidelines also stipulate that delegations include members of both parties to qualify for military planes — a requirement that Speaker Nancy Pelosi waived for Engel’s group and two other delegations.
“There was a good faith effort made to include Republican members,” a Pelosi spokesman said. “For one reason or another, that did not work.”
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In their successful campaign to win control of Congress last fall, Democrats accused Republicans of extravagant travel paid for by lobbyists. Some of these trips carried a strong whiff of influence peddling. The worst that can be said of CODELS, and critics often say it, is that they’re junkets.
BEVERAGE ALERT! Put down your drink. You’ve been warned!
Thompson’s office said he toured the Caribbean because he now chairs the Homeland Security Committee and wanted to see vacation hot spots to “examine border security and port security.” Three other members of the delegation also brought along their spouses.
Yeah, and I’d also like to check out St. Croix and Cancun to see how Al Qaeda might hit us there! Continuing:
At the Caneel Bay resort, where room rates reach $1,100 per night, the spokeswoman said Thompson and his wife paid the “government rate.” But, according to the reservations department, Caneel Bay doesn’t “offer any government rates.”
How’s that for “fiscal responsibility”? Let’s stay at a $1100/nt. hotel with no government rates. Obviously, a Red Roof Inn would be beneath them, huh?
Storm front’s damage
Floods in New York and New Jersey. Winds are beating down D.C. Snow, winds, tornados…everywhere. Record cold temperatures here in Florida.
You know what caused this mess, don’t you? No, it wasn’t a Nor’easter. It was Chimpy McHitlerburton’$ evil Rovian anti-Kyoto global “warming” machine! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Speaking of which, some global “warming” Chicken Littles braved freezing cold temperatures (and obvious undermining irony) to alert the world to how serious global “warming” really is. Other activists, however, pansied out and opted not to freeze in the “feverish” elements.
Irony…it’s not just for breakfast anymore!
Cheney destroying wildlife
No, not with his big #ss “carbon footprint”, but by a more diabolical and brutal method! Does this man’s savagery know no end? From Chicago (Da Bears):
A bird appears to have flown into and damaged the engine of Vice President Dick Cheney’s plane as it arrived in Chicago Friday morning.As of 10:30 a.m., mechanics were inspecting the plane to see if repairs are necessary and if the plane can return to Washington. The plane landed safely, and no one was hurt.
“No one was hurt”?? What about that poor, helpless bird? Sucked into Cheney’s carbon polluter and chopped into bits, and “no one was hurt”?? Someone call PETA, and pronto! If PETA’s not too busy killing animals themselves, they can take care of this b#stard post haste!
For those of you on the left, the prior paragraph was sarcasm. By the way, how long will it be before the moonbats lament that the plane didn’t crash and burn Cheney to a crispy nub (like they lamented the failed assassination attempt in Afghanistan)?
Religion of peace / political correctness update
The backwards “religion of peace” strikes again. From LGF:
What do you get when you put a Koran together with a couple of slices of crisp, juicy bacon? Bacon: The New Hate Crime.
CAIR SEEKS FBI PROBE OF ‘HATE CRIME’ AT TN MOSQUEPolitical, religious leaders asked to repudiate growing Islamophobia
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/10/07) — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the FBI to investigated what Tennessee law enforcement authorities are calling a “hate crime” targeting a mosque in that state.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR said worshipers at the Islamic Center of Clarksville found a defaced copy of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, on the front steps of the mosque just before communal prayers (Jummah) on Friday. Two strips of bacon, which is prohibited for Muslims to eat, were smeared in the Quran. Local police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
SEE: Muslims on Alert After Hate Crime (Leaf-Chronicle)
“We once again urge local, state and national political and religious leaders to repudiate the growing level of anti-Muslim rhetoric in our society that can lead to such troubling incidents,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.
Here’s an intemperate question: if something is to be classified as a “hate crime”, doesn’t it by definition have to be a “crime” first? Could someone please tell me what crime sticking a couple of strips of bacon into a book constitutes? I’d be very grateful.
Wolfowitz to be fired from World Bank?
Looks like the former second in command at the Pentagon has some ‘splaining to do. From FNC:
Can World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz survive in his job? Increasingly, there is speculation that he cannot.Wolfowitz, 63, is facing the biggest crisis of his career: a scandal involving promotions and pay hikes to his girlfriend that threatens his control of the world’s largest and most influential anti-poverty institution, which doles out some $20 billion annually in loans and grants to developing countries.
After a week of shifting explanations by bank officials, a clearly-beleaguered Wolfowitz on Thursday announced at a Washington press briefing that he made “a mistake for which I am sorry” over his handling of a promotion and huge pay increases for bank staffer Shaha Riza, who had a romantic relationship with Wolfowitz that precedes his appointment to the bank’s helm in 2005.
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The pressure has been building rapidly on Wolfowitz, following allegations that he may have broken bank rules in ordering hikes in job status and pay for Riza. (Both are divorced.) The main problem is that Wolfowitz may have done this without consulting organs of the bank board that would otherwise deal with such conflicts of interest.
One word comes to mind when I think of Wolfowitz in this story: dumb#ss!
Seriously, dude, did you think that giving promotions and perks to the woman with whom you bump uglies isn’t going to attract any attention? Did you not think “You know, it might be a good idea for me to recuse myself from this process”? What a serious lapse in judgment!
BTW, is it just me, or does anyone else think that Wolfowitz looks a lot like Peter Coyote?
NJ guv Corzine critically injured in car wreck
From CNN:
New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine won’t be able to walk normally for months because of a car accident that left him hospitalized with serious injuries, a doctor said.The doctor said it will be at least several days before Corzine can resume his duties as governor.
Corzine, 60, was in critical condition Friday after undergoing two hours of surgery Thursday night to repair his broken leg and other injuries sustained in the crash on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. (Watch helicopter footage of the crash aftermath )
“He’s got a pretty significant rehab in front of him,” said Dr. Robert Ostrum, who performed the surgery at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
He said a rod was inserted in Corzine’s leg, and additional operations were scheduled for Saturday and Monday.
Here’s hoping that Gov. Corzine has a speedy and full recovery, and that he and his family remain strong for the coming months of rehab.
Iraqi militias train in Iran
Well thank God Allah that My Damn Speaker Pe-loco is gonna go have a chat with Ahmanutjob! Maybe she’ll give him a stern talking-to, San Franistan style! From Forbes:
Iraqi militia fighters are being trained in Iran to build and use deadly armor-piercing roadside bombs and complex attack strategies against American forces, the U.S. military said Wednesday.U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell would not say how many militiamen had gone to Iran but said that questioning of fighters captured as recently as this month confirmed many had been in Iranian training camps.
“They do receive training on how to assemble and employ EFPs,” Caldwell said, adding that fighters also were taught how to carry out attacks that use explosives followed by assaults with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
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The accusations are the latest attempt by the United States to show that Iran is meddling in the Iraq war. If true, the training poses a serious threat to both U.S. forces and Iraqi stability. Iraq, which like Iran is majority Shiite, has found itself in a difficult position since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, trying to maintain good relations with its neighbor while not angering the Americans.
Yeah, I’d like to maintain good relations with my neighbors if they were trying to kill me.
Republicans correct educrats’ snub of Jeb
From the Orlando Slant-inel:
Just a few weeks after the University of Florida’s faculty Senate voted against awarding Jeb Bush an honorary degree, a Republican-controlled House council decided this morning to make the university name its entire college of education after the former governor.The University of Florida’s education school would be renamed the “Jeb Bush College of Education,” under an amendment approved this morning by the House Schools & Learning Council. What’s more, UF would also have to erect “suitable markers” noting the college’s new name and include the revised name in all university documents, including catalogues and brochures.
The provision, which was inserted into a broader bill (HB 621) renaming buildings at various state universities, was offered by Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami. Rivera’s a top lieutenant to House Speaker Marco Rubio, who has long admired Bush and regularly seeks counsel from the former governor.
Personally, I object to the actions of the legislature. Why? Because I like Jeb too much to ever associate him with UF!
Duke lacrosse players to sue? Plus, parallels with Imus
From Breitbart/AP:
The disgraced district attorney in the Duke lacrosse rape case apologized to the three athletes in a carefully worded statement Thursday as their lawyers weighed whether to sue him—and some legal experts say they have a case.While prosecutors generally have immunity for what they do inside the courtroom, experts said that protection probably doesn’t cover some of Mike Nifong’s more questionable actions in his handling of the case—such as calling the lacrosse players “a bunch of hooligans” in one of several interviews deemed unethical by the state bar.
“I think their chances of success suing Mr. Nifong are reasonably good, despite what we call prosecutorial immunity,” said John Banzhaf, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law.
Sue him into submission, gentlemen! Speaking of the Duke lacrosse players, this from Drudge:
On Imus’ radio program (no longer simulcast on MSNBC) this morning, Chris Carlin, who covers sports for the program, discussed yesterday’s dismissal of charges against the Duke lacrosse players.(rough transcript)
DON IMUS: When will Al Sharpton be apologizing to them?
(LAUGHTER)
CARLIN: I’m unaware of such a press conference.
IMUS: I’ll be darned…
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: What Imus said was stupid, ignorant, and hurtful. However, I can only take so much of this leftist double-standard shizit for so long.
Let’s recap:
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and a bunch of other race-hustling poverty pimps tar and feather the Duke lacrosse players as racist, using “white privilege” to terrorize a black stripper, being sexual predators, etc. Now that the charges against the players have been dropped, no apologies have come from these racebaiters. In other words, defame a group of innocent white males, and who cares?
In contrast, Don Imus calls the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed ho’s” (or is it “hos” or “hoes”? But I digress.), and he loses his radio and TV shows. In other words, defame a group of innocent black females, and everyone cares!
Hey, it’s not like black females are to be protected from these kinds of references. As Michelle points out, a cursory glance at certain rap songs (and these are but a drop in the bucket) use language and objectification astronomically worse than what Imus said. What happens to these rap artists? They sell millions of records, t-shirts, posters, etc., and are adored by fans world-wide. As Texas Rainmaker notes, “if only Imus had been young, black and full of rage…”
Then again, we can’t fault Snoop D-o-double-jizzle or the pedophile R. Kelly for the way they objectify women, since it’s all George W’s fault…as in George Washington! Of course, Snoop says the ho’s he raps about are completely different kinds of ho’s…be-yotch. Cool…that clears it up for me. Thanks, Mr. Dizzle.
My heart doesn’t bleed for Imus, but it weeps for the carnage that political correctness has levied upon this country.
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