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Today's headlines:

Jobless Claims Rise to 474,000 For Week - 8 Month High

Dollar Hits 3 Year Low

1 in 7 on Food Stamps!


Cash-Strapped School Districts Considering 4-Day Weeks

Treasury Suggest $2 Trillion Debt Cap Raise

Food Prices Rise to Near-Record as Inflation Accelerates

Obama Floats Plan to Tax Cars By The Mile 

Gas is up 115%, raising the price of everything else, and Obama is looking for yet another way to tax us and add to our financial burden.  Someone this disconnected from reality needs a guardian.








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An Unexpected Touch of Class


The left has been working overtime to heap praise on Obama for getting Osama.  Lost in the hoopla is the fact that it took Obama 16 hours and a "sleep on it" to make the decision.  (This gift was dumped in his lap and still he dithered?  Was he hoping that Osama would make a run for it to spare him actually having to make a decision?)  

But I digress.  

The left has uniformly barely given a nod to Bush, even though it was his policies and programs - so vilified by the left - that made this moment possible.  Obama didn't even mention Bush's name in his ungracious victory-lap speech. The right, on the other hand, has not hesitated to congratulate Obama.  

So, it was with great surprise that I saw on the ticker last night that Nancy Pelosi had called Bush to congratulate him. Such an act from such a partisan is a breath of fresh air in the fetid swamp that is today's politics.  

It would be nice if it wasn't the only one
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At Long Last


Osama bin Laden is dead and is beginning the warm eternity he so richly deserves.  Apparently, Hitler also died on May 1.  Perhaps they've already met up and are exchanging notes.

Although this happened on Obama's watch, credit is due President Bush and the programs he put in place - routinely and exhaustively trashed by the left.  These are:  secret CIA camps, Gitmo, and waterboarding.  Without these, Osama would still be running around free

And, of course, credit is due to the Navy Seals who actually did the deed and all others who helped bring this moment about

The person least deserving of praise is Barack Obama, who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.  I'm sure he's more than a little miffed that this happened now and not next year when it would have been a real boost to his re-election campaign, but the stars aligned now, and he had to take the shot.

Thanks to a lot of people who worked tirelessly, an evil man who contributed nothing to the world except death and destruction is gone and we are all better for it.





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Losers of the Week


Joy Behar for comparing Sarah Palin to "jock itch." 

Atheists
who seek to become chaplains in the military. 

Brad Johnson
of the Center for American Progress for blaming the recent tornadoes on the "congressional delegations of " Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, George, Virginia, and Kentucky for "overwhelmingly" voting to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous.  They are deliberately ignoring the warning from scientists." 

Mr. Johnson was relying on Kevin Trenberth who said, "Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of 'of course we cannot attribute any particular weather event to global warming.'" 

Firstly, if global warming is actually occurring, then it is occurring, regardless of how people feel about it or how they vote in congress.  Secondly, the inane comment is that all weather events are affected by global warming.  If it's hot when it's supposed to be hot and cold when it's expected to be cold and rainy when it's expected to be rainy and sunny when it's expected to be sunny - and all of these weather events are affected by global warming - then why is global warming such a threat?

Eugene Robinson
for playing the race card yet again in his most recent column, in which he said, "It seems obvious to me that this campaign to paint the president as some sort of usurper . . . has everything to do with race.  Does anyone disagree?" 

Yes, Mr. Robinson, millions of us disagree that criticism of Obama is about race.  During the 2008 campaign, the exceedingly white Mr. McCain was forced to produce his birth certificate.  Was that about race? 

Mr. Robinson also says in the same column ". . . Obama's stellar academic record - a little too stellar, perhaps?  A bit too perfect?"  Truth is, we know absolutely nothing about Obama's academic record because he refuses to release his transcripts.  

Like most of the left, Mr. Robinson is desperately clinging to the Obama myth because there's no reality to hang onto.  Obama is highly partisan, not the colossus who could bridge the partisan divide that was sold to us during the campaign.  He can give a great speech, so long as it's written by somebody else and the teleprompter is working.  Left to his own devices, he can barely put together a coherent sentence.  He has not restored our standing in the world.  His complete and utter incompetence has left this country on the verge of ruin. 

In short, the reality of Obama is nothing at all like the bill of goods sold to us in 2008.  In an way it's kind of sad that the only ammunition the left has with which to refute the fact is, in fact, no ammunition at all.  The response to every criticism of Obama  cannot always be "you're a racist."  Like the boy who cried wolf, pretty soon no one hears that anymore. 

And by the way, always yelling racism is exactly what keeps racism alive in this country.



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But None Dare Call Them Stupid


I read an article today by those who claim to be academics that calling our pets "pets" is insulting to them.  Really?  Did one of their cats or dogs say so?  The appropriate term is "companion animals".  "Owners" are henceforth to be known as "human carers."

The term "wildlife" is also insulting because "wildness" is synonymous with "uncivilized, unrestrained, and barbarous."  All wildlife should now be referred to as "free-living," "free-ranging," or "free-roaming."  Do these people really think that lions and tigers and bears (oh my!) give a darn what they're called? 

Phrases such as "sly as a fox," "eat like a pig," or "drunk as a skunk" should also be avoided because "We shall not be able to think clearly unless we discipline ourselves to use less than partial adjectives in our exploration of animals and our moral relations with them."


You have so got to be kidding me. 

On a related note, I watched a woman last night say that nature should be given the same rights as humans.  Air has the "right" to be clean.  Water has the "right" to be clean.  Being a liberal, of course, she has not taken into account how breathtakingly stupid such comments are. 

If air has the same rights as me, what am I supposed to breathe?  If water has the same rights as me, what am I supposed to drink?  If the ground as the same rights as me, what am I supposed to walk on? 

We have obviously reached the point where some people have taken complete leave of their senses and are incapable of understanding the simple fact that they're stupid.  They belong in institutions, not in classrooms.



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Reading Between the Lines


Obama - who has never really worked a day in his life - is running for re-election, to a job he is unqualified for and isn't really interested in.  Oh, he's interested in the perks and the benefits, but not the day-to-day actual job.  He likes the attention.  He likes the adulation.  But, he doesn't like the job, which is why he spends most of his time avoiding it, except when he can't. 

Jim Messina, former deputy chief of staff and now campaign manager, released a video outlining what he hopes will be a winning strategy.  Here are the five steps: 

Expand the electorate
  (Legalize all illegal immigrants and get them registered.) 

Build something new
  (I have no accomplishments on which to run.)

Grow the grassroots in the states
  (I've lost voters right and left.) 

Measure our progress
(Make sure the MSM is on board to cover my butt.) 

Work for every vote  (Be all things to all people, even if that means saying one thing on Monday and another on Tuesday.) 

Messina went on to say, "We ought not act like an incumbent, we've got to act like an insurgent campaign that wakes up every single day, trying to get every single vote we can." 

Such a "strategy" would not be necessary if Obama was doing a good job.  The ultimate insider cannot be an outsider.  The MSM can selectively report things and it can attack the Republican with a vengeance, but the American people still have to put gas in the tank and buy groceries.  They have to deal with the rising cost of everything, and no amount of blather from Obama and his minions in the MSM can change that reality.  Obama cannot run away from his time in office, no matter how hard he tries. 

Rightly or wrongly, the President gets the credit when things are good and the blame when things are bad.  At some point in time, pointing the finger at everyone but himself will get Obama nowhere.  People don't care who's to blame.  All they want to know is who's going to fix things . . . and how soon. 

As the price of gas creeps up and up, how many people will be able to attend Obama's events?  The man who Evan Thomas of Newsweek claimed was "sort of God" in 2008, might very well find himself to be the incredible shrinking man in 2012, with the venues to match.



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Do They Think We Don't Know


Despite the fact that today marks the 34th straight day that gas prices have gone up - making prices $1.00 higher than last year at this time and $2.00 higher than when Obama took office - The Business & Media Institute found that only 1% of stories done by the network evening shows mentioned Obama's drilling moratorium and the regulatory hurdles instituted by his administration. 

The leftist MSM has blamed unrest in the Mideast and speculators.  It's not Obama's moratorium in the Gulf.  Oh no.  It's not the new regulatory hurdles put in place by Obama's EPA.  Oh no.  It's not the fact that our own resources are just sitting there.  Oh no.

The MSM views the American public as stupid.  If they direct our attention to what they say the problem is, without ever mentioning anything else, we will believe them.  Despite their falling numbers, the Big Three still think that they're it, that we're sitting glued to our TV sets taking in - and believing - everything they say. 

Meanwhile, they're giving the Incompetent-in-Chief a pass that they would never give a Republican.  You can bet your bottom dollar that if a Republican were in the White House, higher gas prices would be all his fault.  And you can also bet your bottom dollar that when the rising price of gas causes a double-dip recession, the Adolescent-in-Chief will blame the previous administration, and the MSM will be right there to help him. 

The truth is out there, it's just that there are some folks who have no interest in telling it.






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Losers of the Week


Barack Obama for saying, "I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff . . . I'm like, 'C'mon guys.  I'm the president of the United States.  Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?'  It doesn't happen."  

He lives in a mansion, rent-free.  Every single one of his wants and need is met immediately.  He has a private plane available to him 24/7.  The airwaves are his for the asking at any time.  He is in charge of the largest and best military on the planet.  He is known as the Leader of the Free World.  

Yet he wants a "cool phone."  Would someone please take the Spoiled Brat-in-Chief to Toys 'R Us for a shopping trip.
  
Salon Magazine
for launching yet another investigation into whether or not Sarah Palin is actually the mother of Trig Palin.  Sarah Palin is a private citizen.  She was basically hounded from office by the neverending investigations of the left . . . the left that couldn't find a single second to investigate whether or not Barack Obama was qualified - in any sense of the word - to be President of the United States.  

The left, who is obviously scared to death of this woman, sees nothing wrong with investigating whether or not Sarah Palin actually gave birth to her fifth child, but finds the "birthers" ridiculous, showing yet again that the left feels free to criticize the behavior of the right when it's own is much worse . . . and it does so without a thought to its own hypocrisy . . . because, let's face it, it's a much more important issue whether or not Sarah Palin has five children than whether or not Barack Obama meets the qualifications of the Constitution.  

I mean, really, everyone knows that.






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Would You Believe


Back in 2005, the U.N. Environment Program predicted that climate change would create 50 million "climate refugees" by 2010.  Some of the places from where people were supposed to flee were:

     1.  The Bahamas . . . whose population has increased by over 50,000 in the last 10 years.

     2.  St. Lucia . . . whose population has increased by 5% in the last 10 years
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     3.  The Seychelles . . . whose population has increased by 9% since 2002.

     4.  The Solomon Islands . . . whose population has increased by 100,000 in the last 10 years.

Since their dire predictions did not come true, the U.N. Environment Program is now saying that climate change will create "50 Million Environmental Refugees" by 2020.

Would you believe . . .




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Losers of the Week


Ed Markey (D-MA) for saying that Republicans "want to destroy the whole wide world."

Howard Dean
(D-VT) for saying that Republicans ". . . hate Medicare . . . hate the welfare state . . . hate Social Security . . . hate anything that helps ordinary people.  They are in the pay of corporations, that's who paid for their campaigns and of course that is whose tune their going to dance to."  (Unlike democrats who ask how high when unions say jump.)

Barack Obama for telling a man at a townhall event, who asked about the rising price of gas, to buy another car.

Barack Obama
, for inviting Congressman Paul Ryan to sit in the front row of his recent budget speech and then berating him for the plan he proposed.

Barack Obama
for having no class whatsoever.





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Good Point


On a recent episode of "The View," Joy Behar said that Obama went to Harvard and Colombia, therefore, he was intelligent.  She was utterly speechless when Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked if the same went for George W. Bush. 

This exchange shows the utter shamelessness of the left.  Barack Obama allegedly went to Columbia and Harvard.  I say allegedly because he won't release his transcripts.  He was president of the Harvard Law Review, so I guess it's certain that he went there.  But we don't know his grades.  I'm of the opinion that if he had gotten good grades, he would have released his transcripts.  His ego is too big not to.

George W. Bush got a bachelors from Yale and an MBA from Harvard.  We know this for a fact because he released his transcripts.  During the 2004 campaign, it was revealed that he got higher grades than John Kerry. 

The left is perfectly willing to accept the fact that Obama is intelligent because of where he went to school, but completely unwilling to accept the same about George W. Bush.  And they do so unapologetically, without a second thought as to the blatant contradiction. 

Why is that?




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Unbelievable


Bolivia has just passed The Law of Mother Earth," which gives our planet specific "rights," including "the right to life and to exist."  I would presume that at some point in time, water's right to life is going to intersect with peoples' right to life . . . and water is going to lose.  I would also presume that at some point in time, an animal's right to life is going to intersect with people's right to life . . . and the animal is going to lose.  Vegetarian you say?  Vegetables have the right to life, too.  

But, never fear, the law has made provision for that.  Water and animals and vegetables are just a little less equal than humans.  So are the trees and other items that will be necessary for building, and the minerals that are mined to provide revenue.  

I'm sure your first thought is, "How stupid can you get."  Don't fret, all will be made clear shortly.  

The law establishes a "Ministry of Mother Earth," which provides the planet with an "ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state."  

In other words, it's BS wrapped up in a pretty ribbon.  

Maybe all the environmental activists who have done such harm in this country will want to move to Bolivia, where they've just been given carte blanche to run amok . . . until they run afoul of the state, that is.






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Reading the Comments


The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch recently carried a column from the Houston Chronicle, which quotes Obama as saying, "I just miss, I miss being anonymous.  I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.  I can't take a walk".  Here are some reader comments:

  • We miss you being anonymous, too.         
  • By all means, be our guest,  Americans would love it if you returned to anonymity.  In fact, why not start today?
  • Just do us all a favor and resign.
  • Get your privacy back . . . don't run for re-election.  Make everybody Happy!
  • Really, he ran for the office and wanted the job, no surprises, he could always resign, dismiss the security team, save the tax payers a bundle and let Joe take over.
  • The pathological liar is up to his same old tricks again.  His poll numbers are dropping like rocks so he figures he wants to try and humanize himself with the American people.  See, I'm just like you!  Hogwash!
  • We miss you being anonymous too sir, and look forward to when that day comes again.
  • Mr. President, your wish is our intent.  I think your calendar will open WIDE up come January 21, 2013.
  • Then do the country and us a favor and resign before our country is totally ruined.
  • Don't worry, you will be able to be anonymous after 2012 elections. 
These comments help you see why in November, Republicans won all 5 statewide offices (taking 4 of them from democrats), including governor, and retook the Ohio Legislature.  Ohio is scheduled to lose 2 congressional seats, and Republicans will be in charge of the redistricting process. 

Coincidentally, there are only 2 democrats in Ohio's congressional roster.






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Losers


Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on why the budget wasn't done last year when it should have been:  "We didn't get to it.  We didn't do it.  It was a political hot potato . . ." 

Louise Slaughter (D-NY) regarding Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood:  "In '94 people were elected simply to come here to kill the National Endowment for the Arts.  Now they're here to kill women." 

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for saying, "Federal funds have never supported abortion, do not support abortion, will not support abortion." 

Federal funds support Planned Parenthood, which is the biggest abortion provider in America, having performed an estimated 5.3 million since 1970. 




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Can You Say "Politics"


Back in November 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder bragged about how the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, in a civilian trial in New York City was his and his alone, didn't even consult with Obama.  Just a year ago, he said that the civilian trial of KSM was "the defining event of my time as Attorney General." 

Before I continue, a little background is in order.  Prior to this decision, KSM and his fellow miscreants were prepared to plead guilty and be sentenced by a military tribunal.  Holder wiped all that out in order to have a big show trial in NYC, just a few blocks away from the slaughter of 9/11.  And make no mistake about it, it was going to be a show trial.

After making his unilateral decision, Holder was summoned before the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked about what would happen in the event of an acquittal.  Mr. Holder pooh-poohed the notion and said:  "What I told the prosecutors and what I will tell you is that failure is not an option.  These are cases that have to be won.  I don't expect that we will have a contrary result." 

The senators continued to press him for an answer, to which he responded, "Under the regime we are contemplating . . . the ability to detain under laws of war, we would retain that ability . . . we have the capacity to make sure that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is not released into the United States." 

In other words, Mr. Holder was going to give KSM a "fair" trial and if all didn't go as expected, then we would continue to hold him anyway.  Then what would be the point of the trial and the millions upon millions it would have cost
?

Fast forward to today.  The first civilian trial of a Gitmo prisoner, Ahmed Ghailani, ended with an acquittal on all but one count - out of a total of 281.  He was convicted of conspiracy to destroy U.S. buildings and property in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania - but not of the murder of the 224 people that died in those bombings. 

The judge in charge of the proceedings barred a key witness from testifying because his name came up while Ghailani was held at a CIA camp where suspects were allegedly tortured.

Just this week, Holder had to announce that the "defining event" of his AG career is, alas, not to be.  KSM and his cohorts will indeed be tried by a military tribunal at Gitmo.  

Why?  Because, Barack Obama is running for re-election.  You think this decision announced the same day as Obama's re-election bid is a coincidence? 

There was no way in the universe that a civilian trial of the masterminds of 9/11 was going to be allowed during The One's re-election campaign . . . especially with the specter of an acquittal shimmering on the horizon.  If a federal judge can prevent the testimony of a key witness because of alleged torture, he/she could do plenty with the fact that KSM was waterboarded. 

Mr. Holder was very unhappy about having to walk back his grand notion and said, "The prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators should never have been about settling ideological arguments or scoring political points." 

Fact is, it was always about politics.  Obama and Holder were going to put on a gaudy show for the world, never once thinking about the consequences because, "failure is not an option."  

Failure is always an option, Mr. Holder.  Especially when you don't know what you're doing.



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