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Obama skips visits to military bases…in order to visit throng of thrilled European fans

But hey, Senator Arugula “supports the troops”, right?  From Germany:

++ Visit to US Military Bases Cancelled ++

1:42 p.m.: SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. “Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. “I don’t know why.” Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.

Landstuhl houses wounded American soldiers, among other patients.  Barry O loves the troops so gosh darn much that…he can’t even pay a little face time to the wounded.  Nice.

Notes Ed Morrissey:

The message here is that thousands of screaming German fans at the Tiergarten take precedence over visiting Americans serving their country at Rammstein and Landstuhl.  Maybe one of the networks following Obama could interview a few of the soldiers about how they perceive that set of priorities from Obama.

Ed notes that though the French are not as enthused about the Obamessiah’s visit as the Krauts are, Barry O still feels like gracing Gay Paree with his presence…thus showing that even the Frogs get priority over our soldiers!

What a disgusting piece of trash the left has nominated!

July 24, 2008 Posted by | Euros, Obama, shameful | 10 Comments

Obama’s new target audience: convicted death row killers

Barry O must be proud.  From Mississippi:

The youngest inmate executed in Mississippi in two decades urged death penalty opponents to vote for presidential candidate Barack Obama in order to end executions and apologized to the family of the victim in his final moments.

Dale Leo Bishop, 34, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday for his role in the 1998 claw hammer bludgeoning of a friend.

Congrats to the Obamessiah for this most coveted endorsement.

July 24, 2008 Posted by | capital punishment, Obama, shameful | 7 Comments

The left’s anti-war hypocrites

Excellent analysis by Ralph Peters that nails the moonbats for their blatant hypocrisy on the war on terror.  Read it, please.  Here’s the intro:

AM I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week.

Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq to Afghanistan – expanding that war. (He’s discussed possibly invading Pakistan, too.)

And the left’s quiet as a graveyard at midnight.

Where are the outraged protests from MoveOn or the DailyKos? I thought the extreme left felt sorry for our service members in harm’s way and wanted to reunite them with their families.

What happened?

We all know exactly what happened. The left has nothing against foreign wars (as long as they don’t have to fight in person). They just want to pick our wars themselves.

The problem with Iraq wasn’t that America toppled Saddam Hussein, but that George W. Bush did it. I’ve been saying it for years: Had Bill Clinton done the job, the left would’ve celebrated him as the greatest liberator since Abraham Lincoln. …

Hit the nail on the head with that one, didn’t he?  Think about it: Bosnia was kosher for the left, since the Clenis was the one prosecuting it.  Sure, there were no American interests involved, but by golly, if the Chief Diddler of Portly Interns said it was needed, then that’s all we peasants needed to know!

July 24, 2008 Posted by | Afghanistan, hypocrisy, Iraq, moonbats, Obama | 6 Comments

MSM donates to Dems by a 100-to-1 ratio?

From IBD:

… True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy than the other. In other words, there is no media bias. It is we, the hoi polloi, who reveal our bias by questioning the neutrality of these learned professionals in their ivory-towered newsrooms.

Big Media applies this rationalization to every argument used to point out bias. “It’s not a result of bias,” they say. “It’s a matter of news judgment.”

And, like the man who knows his wallet was pickpocketed but can’t prove it, the public is left to futilely rage against the injustice of it all.

The “newsworthy” argument can be applied to every metric — one-sided imbalances in airtime, story placement, column inches, number of stories, etc. — save one.

An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .

Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.
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The contributions [of individuals who reported being employed by major media organizations] add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans — most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.

What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).

Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.

But I’m just sure that this disparity never shows up in reporting or coverage, o rlack thereof!  Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 24, 2008 Posted by | media bias | 2 Comments

Euros want weaker America, and thus support Obama

From Neal Boortz:

To say that Europeans are fond of Barack Obama would be an understatement. It seems that he has reached the same level of adulation and worship as he has in the United States. So when asked who Europeans would prefer to see elected as the next US president, it is no surprise that citizens of France, Germany and the UK all chose Barack Obama … by a landslide. In the UK, Obama was favored 60-15. In France, 64-4. And in Germany, they chose Barack Obama by a margin of 62-10 over John McCain. Frankly, I’m surprised that the numbers were this low.

Now if it were up to people like Barack Obama, the opinions of these foreign countries would matter. Remember Obama’s thermostat comment … “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” What does it matter what other countries think about our habits? In fact, what business is it of our president? But the Europeans sure can’t wait for this guy to be in power.

Now here’s something that you won’t hear from any of the networks when it comes to analyzing the European infatuation over Obama. Several months ago the Pew Research Center did some polling in Europe. That polling showed that 58 percent of Europeans want the United States to be weakened. They want a weaker America. Oddly, that 58 percent figure is pretty close to the margin for Obama. So how are you going to feel about European attitudes about our presidential election if you walk up to someone on the street and have this dialogue:

“Would you like the United States to be weaker or stronger.”

“Weaker.”

“Who do you support, then, for president?”

“Barack Obama”

Does anyone care to look into the motives behind this European love affair with The Messiah?

It’s quite simple: Euros don’t like America and want us weak, and they think Barry O is just the guy for the job of weakening us.  A pretty good barometer of who you should vote for is whoever the Euros don’t want to win.

July 24, 2008 Posted by | Euros, Obama | 9 Comments

Senate GOP: Drill, or we’ll block everything else

Where were these nads when they ruled the chamber?  From The Hill:

Senate Republicans have threatened to block nearly all other bills pending before the August recess if Democrats refuse to vote with them on expanding offshore drilling.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said bills that do not pertain to energy can wait until after the August recess, with gas prices now surpassing $4 per gallon. McConnell and top Republicans indicated Wednesday they would oppose any procedural votes to take up other legislation, which require 60 votes to succeed.

“We think there is nothing more important that we can do right now than to deal with the Number One issue of the country,” McConnell said. “This is the biggest issue since terrorism right after 9/11. People are pounding on their desks, saying, Why don’t these people get together and do something about this problem?”

The hardball tactics reflect Republican confidence that they can pull off a major election-year victory with gas prices at record highs, after they have been battered at the polls and have lost on several recent high-profile legislative battles. …

Good luck with that.

July 24, 2008 Posted by | environuts, oil | 6 Comments

Obama blasts Bush for not boycotting Olympics opening ceremonies…then buys sponsorship!

The Obamessiah then:

Democrat Barack Obama took issue Monday with President Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, saying he would go to Beijing only if he saw progress between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.

“In the absence of some sense of progress, in the absence of some sense from the Dalai Lama that there was progress, I would not have gone,” the presidential candidate told reporters at a news conference.

The Obamaliar now:

It’s official. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.

According to NBC’s political file, the campaign had initially requested information about 500,000, $2 million and $4 million package of Olympics spots. The network also offered the candidate a $10 million package.

Shameless piece of human waste, no?

July 24, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Obama, shameful | 2 Comments

Obama touts his Senate Banking Committee seat…that he doesn’t hold

This is just like him taking credit for passing that veterans health care bill that he didn’t vote for.  Now he’s touting work he did on the Senate Banking Committee, which would be great if (a) he did anything legislatively at all or (b) he was actually on the SBC…which he’s not.

Exit question: How do you not know what committee(s) on which you serve?

July 23, 2008 Posted by | Obama, shameful | 6 Comments

Quote of the day

McCain on the Obamessiah:

I would much rather lose a campaign than lose a war. Sen. Obama has indicated that by his failure to acknowledge the success of the surge (in Iraq), that he would rather lose a war than lose a campaign.

That’s all the left cares about though: winning campaigns.

“Hope” and “change” and stuff.

July 23, 2008 Posted by | defeatism, McCain, Obama, shameful | 3 Comments

McCain spoofs on MSM lovefest for Obama

Videos here.  But Michelle Malkin wonders:

But doesn’t anyone at McCain Central feel the least bit silly mocking the same suck-up media that McCain himself basked in so warmly until just very recently and spent his entire career wooing?

Indeed.  In the primary, McLame was touting his NYT endorsement…until his advisors told him to stop because that was not a good thing!  Oh, well, McLame can look on the bright side: if he loses to that pathological liar in November, he will be back in the MSM’s good graces.

July 23, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 3 Comments

Bushism…from Obama

Barry O, via NRO:

“You know, it’s always a bad practice to say ‘always’ or ‘never.’” — Obama, speaking in Amman today.

July 22, 2008 Posted by | humor, Obama | 2 Comments

Dems don’t oppose ALL gas tax holidays

Just ask Denver:

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city’s gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.

“There’s something there that just doesn’t seem right to me because, in a sense, you’re saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them (welcome to the liberal way! – Ed.), and that concerns me,” Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.
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“By doing it this way, by running it through our Fleet Maintenance, that means that that fuel does not pay state or federal highway taxes,” Faatz said.

I guess that “gimmick” that McCain proposes doesn’t sound so bad to those leftist hypocrites after all!

Quips Ed:

Democrats — making sure only the peasants pay the taxes they impose.

How true.

July 22, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, moonbats | 2 Comments

Obama’s nuance

Without a teleprompter, dude is more worthless than a football bat, no?  From ABC News blog:

“Let me be absolutely clear,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.”

How true.

July 22, 2008 Posted by | Israel, Obama | 4 Comments

Michael Savage needs an #sskicking of Biblical proportions

I am not a violent guy.  A smart aleck?  Yeah.  A sarcastic schmuck?  Sure.  Sometimes (some might say “more than frequently”) a jerk.  Believe it or not, I’m really not proud of that.

But man, what I wouldn’t give for just five minutes alone with Michael Savage right about now!  The thrashing I would give to that cretin would be legendary.  UFC fighters would pay me to learn some of what I would do to Savage.  From the NY Daily News:

WOR radio talk show host Michael Savage, who makes a good living being outrageous, found himself in the middle of a new firestorm Monday after he branded most autistic children fakers who just need tougher parenting.

“In 99% of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent?” Savage said last week in remarks that lit up the Internet over the weekend.

“They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz.’”
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Ed Moffitt, 75, proudly showed a picture of Bob, his 8-year-old grandnephew. “Bob can’t speak. He never called Savage any names,” Moffitt said.

“We are dying to hear him say ‘Mommy’ or ‘Daddy.’ And [Savage] says that he is just acting out?” said the boy’s grandfather, retired NYPD officer Bob Moffitt. “It hurts me.”
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On the air last night, Savage said his comments were “ripped out of context” by “far left Stalinists.”

He said he was talking about kids who were “misdiagnosed,” but repeated his contention that most children who are called autistic aren’t really sick.
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Last month, Savage blamed the prevalence of autism on “a racket” to get disability payments dreamed up by “poorer families who have found a new way to be parasites on the government.” … 

I am trying to compose myself as I type this, and attempting to do so is proving more challenging than trying to reason with a moonbat.

Anyone who knows me well on a personal level recognizes my sensitivity to and awareness of autism.  Many people out there do not know what autism is, and I do my best to educate people when possible.  I recognize that many people who are underinformed on autism got their limited exposure to autism from the movie Rainman, and that’s a shame, since very few autistic folks are savants like Dustin Hoffman’s character.  Chances are that you will never meet an autistic savant.

Lack of education is one thing.  But a total callous disregard for those who suffer from an illness that affects 1 out of every 150 babies born is inexcusable.  Savage says that his comments were “ripped out of context” by “far left Stalinists.”  Considering I am the polar opposite of a “Stalinist”, I would love for someone to tell me in what context I am to infer his comments, because right now, I’m seething.

July 22, 2008 Posted by | autism, shameful | 16 Comments

Former Clintonista: Yep, the MSM is in the tank for Obama

Dee Dee Myers says what we all know: the MSM is doing its level best to elect the Obamessiah.  Her take on that?  Deal with it:

At the end of the day, this will be a long campaign, and what’s true in July may not be true in November. But what seems indisputably true—to quote another dazzling young Democrat who received disproportionately favorable media attention, John Kennedy—is this: “Life is unfair.”

No, life is not fair.  That’s a point that we righties have made for years, much to the chagrin of the outcome-based leftists.  However, there are certain expectations that journalists should not be molding outcomes during the course of their jobs.  Ah, those were the good old days!

Exit question: if the MSM was as in the tank for any Republican presidential candidate as it is for the Obamaliar, would the left have the same cavalier “Oh, well. Life’s not fair. Get over it!” attitude?

July 22, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama | 1 Comment

Quote of the day

From Barry O’s moonbatty anti-American old lady:

I wish we had time to be divided. I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did.

I dunno…to me, it looks like she’s made time for all that.

July 22, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, Obama, quote of the day | 4 Comments

UK’s government schools mandate exposure to Islamic culture and tradition

The dhimmitude of the UK continues.  From the Daily Mail:

State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons.

The move  -  part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday  -  is designed to curb extremism. (Yeah, good luck with that. – Ed.)

Education campaigners warned however against giving Islam a privileged position over other faiths.  (Too late. – Ed.)

I notice they’re not mandating Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, etc., education for this.  How sad that this once powerful empire has succumbed to political correctness.

July 21, 2008 Posted by | dhimmitude, Euros, political correctness, public education | 4 Comments

Leftists spit on soldiers

Go ahead, lefties, and tell me again just how gosh darn much you “support the troops“!  I keep forgetting.

July 21, 2008 Posted by | moonbats, shameful | 11 Comments

NYT refuses to run McCain editorial…less than a week after running Obama’s editorial

From Drudge:

NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA
Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET
An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The paper’s decision to refuse McCain’s direct rebuttal to Obama’s ‘My Plan for Iraq’

has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.
‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece,’ NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain’s staff. ‘I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.’

MORE

In McCain’s submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: ‘I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war—only of ending it… if we don’t win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.’

NYT’s Shipley advised McCain to try again: ‘I’d be pleased, though, to look at another draft.’

[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]

MORE

A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator’s Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not “re-work the draft.”

McCain writes in the rejected essay: ‘Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. ‘I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,’ he said on January 10, 2007. ‘In fact, I think it will do the reverse.’

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Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.

‘The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.’

Shipley continues: ‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.’

Developing…

“Mirrors Obama’s editorial”? Um, McCain’s editorial doesn’t “mirror” the Obamessiah’s editorial because he doesn’t believe the same d##ned things as Obama does! Their policies are incredibly different, so why in the Sam Hill would McCain’s editorial “mirror” Barry O’s? Dear Lord, they’re not even trying to hide it over at the NYT, are they?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 21, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 4 Comments

Obama – MSM lovefest spoof

Michelle Malkin has a photoshop contest to see who can come up with the best spoof on the Big Three’s international cultist trip with the Obamessiah.  The contest is here.  My vote goes to the following, from my friends Buckley and Potfry over at the most hilarious (and politically incorrect) political satire site on the entire Internets…The Nose On Your Face.

Couric needs a shave, n’est-ce pas?

July 21, 2008 Posted by | humor, media bias, Obama, satire | 2 Comments

Denver ordinance to combat moonbats at DNC convention will ban possession of…feces?

If you want an idea just how low the ‘bat base is of the left, you need look no further than the steps that Denver is taking to rein in the ‘bats for their convention.  From Denver:

Denver leaders are racing to pass a bill aimed at protecting people from protestors at the Democratic National Convention. The proposal bans demonstrators from having certain items. City leaders call it a “very restrictive,” but limited ordinance.
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“We’re simply saying you can’t have those in a protest or on site if we can prove you’re intending to use them,” Linkhart says.

The proposed bill would also make it illegal to possess any noxious substance, such as human waste. …

Rumor has it that the proposed ordinance was crafted by a Chinese immigrant Democrat councilman named Hu Flung Pu.  For those of you on the left, that was a joke…lighten up, and don’t toss your bowel mud at me.

Seriously, just how deranged must the Dems’ base be when the city of Denver has to resort to passing laws like this to keep the tinfoilers that make up the bulk of the base at bay?

July 21, 2008 Posted by | moonbats | 8 Comments

Poll: Most Americans aren’t blind to MSM’s agenda with Obama

From Rasmussen:

The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.

Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help John McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.

A plurality of Democrats—37%– say most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of the campaign. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe most reporters are trying to help Obama and 21% in Obama’s party think reporters are trying to help McCain.  (Even more Dems see the MSM bias towards their guy than towards McCain! – Ed.)

Among Republicans, 78% believe reporters are trying to help Obama and 10% see most offering unbiased coverage.

As for unaffiliated voters, 50% see a pro-Obama bias and 21% see unbiased coverage. Just 12% of those not affiliated with either major party believe the reporters are trying to help McCain. …

When half of America sees the naked partisanship of our MSM, then it’s pretty clear the MSM is in the tank for the Obamessiah.  But no…no liberal media bias!

July 21, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama | Leave a Comment

Dems want to raise gas tax

Just to make sure I understand this correctly:

Since Democrats took over Congress and promised us cheaper gas, gas prices have nearly doubled. As a result, American families and businesses are feeling the pinch in their pocketbooks. To help Americans deal with this reduction in household and business income, the Dems are proposing…to increase the federal gas tax?

They don’t want us to drill for more oil. They don’t want us to make more refineries or nuclear power plants. They don’t want us to recover oil from the large oil shale deposits out west. They oppose wind farms because some birds might get hurt. And to top it off, they want to increase our taxes, make energy more expensive, and take an even bigger bite out of our paychecks.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: a liberal will always, without fail, expect YOU to do more with less, but will NEVER demand the same of themselves and their beloved bloated imperial federal government.

July 21, 2008 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, oil, taxes | 7 Comments

Satire alert: New Obama biography

Absolutely hilarious way to start the week off, courtesy of The People’s Cube.  From the upcoming biography “The Audacity of the Dope”, here’s the opening excerpt:

CHAPTER 1 – THE BEGINNING OF THE START

Barack Obama was born Steven Urkel in a log cabin near Springfield, Illinois. His father was a militant piano tuner from one of those African countries where they change the national boundaries every other week. His mother was a loan officer at the Oppressed Proletariat Bank and Trust Company where she spent her days rejecting loans to people who had little more to cling to than God and guns. As a communist, she hated that her job forced her to oppress the poor and disenfranchised; but, also as a communist, she loved power and control so she threw herself into her work with alacrity. His father, not finding a large number of militant pianos in the American Great Plains, left the fledgling family for places with more bellicose musical tastes, leaving young Steven and his mom to fight capitalism alone. 

Please do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.  While stand-up comics may have a hard time finding something to laugh about with regards of the Obamessiah, we here at Crush Liberalism have no humor-impairedness at all.

Courtesy of The People’s Cube

July 21, 2008 Posted by | Obama, satire | 1 Comment

Obama holds German speech at Hitler’s pet landmark

Maybe if his German was better than that “embarrassing” “merci beaucoup” French that the linguistically challenged rubes he derided us for a couple of weeks ago, this wouldn’t have nearly the hilarity factor that is currently has for me!  From Germany’s Spiegel:

Still, even as the issue of his speech’s location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin are still dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessäule — or Victory Column — was erected in memory of Prussia’s victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital “Germania.”

“The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France,” the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brüderle, told Bild am Sonntag. He raised the question as to “whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessäule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world.”

Just another “inartful” expression of his depth of historical knowledge, I guess.  Wait, wait, lemme guess: “This is not the Germany I knew!”  Actually, in his case, I could believe it.

July 20, 2008 Posted by | Euros, Obama, shameful | 5 Comments

Obama: I could be president for a whole decade

In addition to Magellan not being familiar with the number of American states, the constitutional lawyer must be also thoroughly unfamiliar with the 22nd amendment.  From ABC News blog:

Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

Yet the left harbors parnoia that Bu$hitler McRummyburton will suspend the Constitution and remain in power!  I’m guessing that were the Obamessiah to do it, the howls of protest from the moonbatosphere would be minimal.  After all, totalitarianism isn’t so bad when a leftist like Castro (or Obama) is in power?

July 20, 2008 Posted by | Obama | 3 Comments

Anniversary of Chappaquiddick

WMD Maker reminded me that today marks the 39th anniversary of Ted Kennedrunk getting away with vehicular manslaughter (and worse).

Mary Ko Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | Kennedrunk | 6 Comments

NPR: Bad economy starves morbidly obese folks

If this had been on NPR’s subsidized TV sister PBS, the hilarity factor would have been off the charts!  Instead, their listeners (both of them) had endure this tear-jerker (hat tip Moonbattery):

A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez’s family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver’s education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

Nunez’s van broke down last fall. Now, her 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.

Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps. Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation.
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The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

I hate to sound like a heartless jerk , but does it look like these two are going to die of malnutrition anytime soon?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 18, 2008 Posted by | media bias | 11 Comments

“Proved: There is no climate crisis”

That’s the title of a report by the Science and Public Policy Institute, a title that merely confirms what we’ve known all along.  Excerpt:

Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports.

Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.

Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. …

Gore and his cronies on the IPCC won their Nobel “Peace” Prize under fraudulent circumstances.  Normally, a little anti-Americanism is enough to win that formerly prestigious award.  He could have done like Jimmah and merely spouted a little anti-American drivel, and saved himself the trouble of peddling discredited junk science fads.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | global warming | 3 Comments

California’s economic ignorance exacerbates its fiscal problem, leads to humiliation

Californiastan, the socialist mecca on the Left Coast, seems to come up with a brilliant plan every year when they face a budget shortfall: raise taxes on the rich.  As a result, the “rich” (i.e. those earning more than $100k) are fleeing CA by the droves.

This WSJ column points out how CA’s Marxist approach is exacerbating its problems in the real estate sector, government sector, etc.  But how about adding this insult to injury?

Then last week Toyota announced it is canceling plans to build its new Prius hybrid at its plant in the San Francisco Bay area because of the high tax and regulatory costs. Adding to the humiliation is that Toyota will now take this investment and about 1,000 jobs to a more progressive and pro-business state: Mississippi.

Ouch!  Let that sink in for a moment.  The granola-eating, treehugging, burlap-wearing, incense-burning, unemployable, Gaia-worshipping earth muffins from Californiastan just saw a cause near and dear to their hearts get outsourced to Mississippi…because in terms of business, Mississippi is more progressive!  :lol:

Alas, the citizens of CA won’t learn their lessons anytime soon.  They will continue to keep putting class envy economic illiterates in power, until their state finally collapses under the weight of horrid fiscal management policies.

July 18, 2008 Posted by | California, economic ignorance, socialism, taxes | 8 Comments

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