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Obama’s fuzzy math: 3 = 1?

More on Barry O’s verbal contortionism:

The Obamas are trying very hard to avoid the elitist tag that Barack Obama’s remarks about middle America has stuck to them. This week, both Obamas have tried very hard to emphasize their modest upbringing as the lens through which they see the world. Unfortunately, as Jim Geraghty points out, that’s leading to some rhetorical gymnastics:

Elsewhere, Jen Rubin notes that Obama is talking about his humble roots to dispel the charge of elitism and snobbery. (He apparently keeps referring to his three-bedroom condo as a one-bedroom.) But snobbery is less about income than it is about one’s attitude towards other people — most often expressed when one is among one’s own (say, while drinking wine among San Francisco’s elites).

Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in the country, but I don’t know if Americans think of him as a snob. A nerd, maybe, but not a snob. Professional athletes, musicians, and actors all make enormous sums of money, but the appeal of the latter groups depends on their ability to establish an emotional connection with the much less wealthy members of their audience. George W. Bush is enormously wealthy, but he, too, rarely gives off a snobbish vibe, and I’ll bet many Americans actually look down their nose at him as unsophisticated.

Oh, if I had a nickel for every time I confused a 3BR house with a 1BR house, I would…well, I wouldn’t even have a nickel.  By Snob-ama’s logic, I currently own a 12BR pad.  Not bad for a rural rube, huh?

Dude’s a liar…plain and simple.

April 16, 2008 Posted by | Obama | 6 Comments

Video clip: Kennedrunk stammers on tax hypocrisy

Check this out, from Hot Air TV.  It’s a video clip of Jason Materra from the conservative group Young America’s Foundation, nailing the pickled MA Senator on why he defends the estate tax…when he and his clan fight like hell to get around paying it themselves!  “Good enough for me, but not for thee!”

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment. 

April 16, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Kennedrunk | 1 Comment

Jimmy Carter extolls the convenience of dealing with dictators

Wow.  Just “wow”!  Straight from the peanut farmer’s mouth, via WSJ:

Former President Jimmy Carter has an interesting way of saying more than he intends. He lusts in his heart. He turns to his 13-year-old daughter for foreign policy wisdom (Now THAT explains a lot! – Ed.). He titles a book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.” What Mr. Carter means to say is that he is a flesh-and-blood human being, a caring father, a missionary for peace. What he actually communicates is that he is weirdly libidinal, scarily naive and obsessively hostile to Israel.

Now the 2002 Nobel laureate is in reprise mode. “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels,” he said over the weekend, responding to a question from an Israeli journalist who noted that Mr. Carter had been snubbed by most of Israel’s top leadership and reprimanded by its president, Shimon Peres. “When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.”

April 16, 2008 Posted by | Carter, dhimmitude, shameful | 4 Comments

Judge gives pedophile a slap on the wrist, then orders FBI to babysit perv’s cat

These are the kinds of judges that liberals try to put on the bench every day: judicial activists.  From Minnesotastan:

Chief U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum surprised a courtroom full of federal agents, prosecutors and public defenders Tuesday when he sentenced a man who collected child pornography to less than half the recommended time behind bars.

He also ordered Assistant U.S. Attorney William Otteson to find someone to take care of the St. Paul man’s pet cat, “Mike.”

Rosenbaum has no love for child pornographers. Last May, he sentenced a 53-year-old Burnsville man to 750 years in prison for taking lascivious photographs of two young relatives and three of their friends and posting them to the Internet.

But he gave Frederick Kennedy-Hippchen, 63, just four years for collecting similar pictures.

Cynthia Brown, a computer expert with the FBI, testified at a hearing Tuesday that Kennedy-Hippchen was downloading child porn when agents arrived to search his St. Paul apartment in January 2006.

Brown said he had installed the Lime Wire file-sharing program to find media files based on specific search terms.
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Kennedy-Hippchen’s attorney, Timothy Anderson, argued for probation. He said his client’s reprehensible conduct should not obliterate a lifetime of volunteering and good works. (Um, yeah…it should. – Ed.)

Kennedy-Hippchen earned a master’s degree in theology and a master’s in divinity equivalency, Anderson noted.  (Is this dude auditioning for Catholic priesthood? – Ed.)  He has worked in chemical dependency counseling and recently completed paralegal course work.

“There was no previous history,” he said. “I’m reasonably comfortable he will not re-offend.”

Rosenbaum agreed. “There is no evidence that this defendant is likely to further offend,” he said.  (Right, because pedophiles never do, right?  Imbecile! – Ed.)

So the new legal standard for wiping your robed backside with sentencing guidelines is a “reasonable comfort” that a kiddie p0rn viewer won’t do it again?  Friggin’ wonderful.

This part probably p#sses me off as much as the sentence:

Rosenbaum asked Otteson if he could assure the court that the government could take care of the pets. After checking with FBI agents, Otteson said he could not, as he knew of nothing authorizing the FBI to do that.

“Oh yes you can,” Rosenbaum boomed. “You can take that on an emergency basis to the 8th Circuit [Court of Appeals] if you like,” he said. “Somebody’s got to take care of the animals!”

So the job of the federal government in general, and the FBI in particular, is to pet-sit?  Wouldn’t it have been more reasonable for the pervert’s attorney to have taken care of that?  Why, of course not!  Instead, let’s divert federal agents from the job of protecting America to watch after Fluffy while its owner is in the pen for ogling naked kids!

What liberals cannot achieve legislatively, they achieve judicially.  Some bleeding heart moron gets his own court and completely ignores his role in order to advance his own sick agenda.

April 16, 2008 Posted by | judiciary, shameful | 4 Comments

Junk science fad known as global “warming” starving the world

As I awoke this 40-degree Florida morning, I was perusing the Internets (for those of you on the left, that’s a Bushism) when I ran across this story from the UK:

We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

“The reality is that people are dying already,” said Jacques Diouf, of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Naturally people won’t be sitting dying of starvation, they will react,” he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted “massacres” unless the biofuel policy is halted.

We are all part of this drama whether we fill up with petrol or ethanol. The substitution effect across global markets makes the two morally identical.

Mr Diouf says world grain stocks have fallen to a quarter-century low of 5m tonnes, rations for eight to 12 weeks. America – the world’s food superpower – will divert 18pc of its grain output for ethanol this year, chiefly to break dependency on oil imports. It has a 45pc biofuel target for corn by 2015.
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Brazil has the world’s biggest reserves of “potential arable land” with 483m hectares (it currently cultivates 67m), and Colombia has 62m – both offering biannual harvests.

The catch is obvious. “The idea that you cut down rainforest to actually grow biofuels seems profoundly stupid,” said Professor John Beddington, Britain’s chief scientific adviser. …

I hope you’re happy, treehuggers.  Not only are you making people entertain the idea of chopping down rainforests, but you’re starving more people and driving food costs up.  Is that your goal, to kill off more people so Mother Gaia can go on unmolested by the vile human race?

“Mama, I’m hungry!”  “Sorry, Little Mboute, but Americans and Euros needed the corn for their cars.  Sucks for us, child.”

April 16, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 11 Comments

   

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