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These 57 United States of America

Eh, whatever.

That's the state count according to Barry Obama. And liberals say McCain is the 3rd Bush! Hahahaha! And hey, it's turning into a Barrypalooza day, and we're still 27 weeks away from the general election.

We all know he doesn't really give a damn about the United States but is it too much to ask him to pretend a little better that he might have a clue about the country? He doesn't mind causing damage by raising taxes. He likes having associations with racist bigots and unrepentant terrorists, and now it's revealed he has no clue how many states are in the union itself. Yeah, that's a man who deserves to sleep where John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Reagan slept. Yep, no difference whatsoever.

If so much weren't at stake, this would be funny.

Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States

In his prepared remarks Obama was ready to start blasting Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, to show the Illinois Democrat is moving on to the general election campaign.

But first the freshman senator had to go through all the obligatory delighted to see you, delighted to be here part of stump speeches that also require that you actually know where you are.

Obama pulled that off O.K. But then he drifted away from the text a tad, as rookies are wont to do sometimes, forgetting how exhausting this primary process is and should be. And trusting in their instincts, their very tired instincts.

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

(UPDATE: At a later stop Obama was talking with reporters and expressed concern he'd also mis-stated the number of potential cyclone victims in Burma. He said, "I hope I said 100,000 people the first time instead of 100 million. I understand I said there were 57 states today. It's a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh." At that point, an aide cut him off and ushered journalists out. Before he could mis-speak again?)

His numeracy? Numeracy is having "an ability to reason with numbers and other mathematical concepts." It's not not having a firm grip on numerical facts, like the number of states or the number of people killed by a cyclone. At the same time, if he used that word because he's been diagnosed with Innumeracy that would explain why he wants to raise taxes, confiscate oil company profits, and do other various and sundry insane things economically, because he just doesn't comprehend the consequences of such acts.

Whatever his diagnosis, let's guess what the other 7 states are in Barryland:

Guam (a territory)
Canada (another country)
Mexico (a country, more like a big drug cartel)
District of Columbia (a district)
The Bahamas (he visited there, it's sorta close)
Kenya (Gramma lives there but it's not a state)
Michelle Obama (a state, perhaps a world, unto herself)

Any other suggestion?

Posted by Tammy · May 9, 2008 03:10 PM · Permalink · Comments (1)
Just Plain Stupid

"I Want To Rip Bill Clinton's Eyes Out"

Would-be First Lady Michelle Obama illustrates how she's more Non-Mean and Morally Superior to all of you who simply want the Clintons to go away. She actually imagines doing physical harm to those with whom she disagrees. When you start thinking it might be a good idea to install padded walls in one of the White House rooms you know we're in trouble.

'I want to rip Bill Clinton's eyes out. Kidding! See, that's what gets me into trouble'

...She is often called 'regal' but her bearing is less royal than military: brisk, often stone-faced (even when making jokes), mordant. Obama works out like 'a gladiator', a friend has said. When people - they're almost always shorter - ask her to pose for pictures, instead of bending her knees she leans at the waist. Her smile is doled out sparingly, a privilege to be earned, rather than an icebreaker or an entreaty...

In Wisconsin, I asked her if she was offended by Bill Clinton's use of the phrase 'fairytale' to describe her husband's characterisation of his position on the Iraq war. At first, Obama responded with a curt 'No'. But, after a few seconds, she affected a funny voice. 'I want to rip his eyes out!' she said, clawing at the air with her fingernails. One of her advisers gave her a nervous look. 'Kidding!' Obama said. 'See, this is what gets me into trouble.'

Yes, Michelle, despite efforts to mask what you and your husband think and who you really are, being honest and exposing the truth will indeed always get you in trouble. As it should.

Posted by Tammy · May 7, 2008 01:38 PM · Permalink · Comments (13)
Just Plain Stupid | Malignant Narcissism | Politics

Scientists: Religion a Figment of Human Imagination

Scientists, most of whom represent the epitome of narcissism, once again get their boxers in a twist trying to explain the one thing they will never be able to explain--the Divine. Scientists, you see, unable to comprehend something beyond themselves, have decided that faith and God is all in our heads. With their incredible imaginations, funny how they've just never been able to figure out that 'Big Bang' theory. Yes, my friends, that sound you hear is God laughing. You should, too. Weave pity in there for the 'scientists' while you're at it.

Religion a figment of human imagination

Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination.
That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as has been argued by some anthropologists.

Instead, he argues that first, we had to evolve the necessary brain architecture to imagine things and beings that don't physically exist, and the possibility that people somehow live on after they've died..."Religious-like phenomena in general are an inseparable part of a key adaptation unique to modern humans, and this is the capacity to imagine other worlds, an adaptation that I argue is the very foundation of the sociality of modern human society."

"Once we realise this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, nothing special is left to explain concerning religion," he says..."As soon as you have theory of mind, you have the possibility of deceiving others, or being deceived," he says. This, in turn, generates a sense of fairness and unfairness, which could lead to moral codes and the possibility of an unseen "enforcer" - God – who can see and punish all wrong-doers.

Maynard's comment

It should be remembered that science cannot explain the phenomena of consciousness and free will, and that free will in fact provably cannot exist, in that it violates fundamental laws of causality and/or probability. Some scientists address this conundrum by suggesting that free will is merely an illusion. You can believe that if you (ahem!) so choose. The rest of us must acknowledge that there is a supernatural aspect to our existence.

These pompous academic dismissals are the words of educated imbeciles who are offended by the notion of any Authority higher than themselves. Arguments like this, while cloaked in words of reason, are in fact appeals to Man's vanity.

What is God? What does He want of us? These are questions we can (and should) debate and discuss. But, setting aside the specifics of theology...as the man said, "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Hey! While we're on the subject...This is exactly what the movie Expelled is about. See it!

Posted by Tammy · May 5, 2008 05:49 AM · Permalink · Comments (15)
Faith/The Divine | Just Plain Stupid | Science & Technology

Quote of the Day

"They think we're dumber than we are..."

Actually, we know exactly how dumb you are.

Posted by Tammy · May 2, 2008 01:36 PM · Permalink · Comments (2)
Just Plain Stupid | Politics

Cigarettes, Terrorists, and Stupid Policies

A post by Maynard

FoxNews is reporting that cigarette smugglers in New York are funneling profits to terrorists. The G-men are looking to crack down, as a matter of national security, not to mention the large loss of revenue.

Does everybody understand that the zeal to punish smokers has merely stolen from the poor and given to the rich (media outlets and professional antismoking profiteers), while making criminal activity hugely profitable? I'm not defending smokers or smoking (and I don't smoke), but smokers have become the modern whipping boy of the new political puritans.

As another bit of social engineering, New York's policy of "forebearance" (they ignore sales of Native American tax-free cigarettes to non-Native Americans) has created a source of untaxed cigarettes which are quickly diverted into taxable channels.

Actually, this is all old news. Five years ago, the Cato Institute published this article which said pretty much the same thing:

Smugglers are now being investigated for possible terrorist ties....Mayor Michael Bloomberg hiked the city's cigarette excise tax from 8 cents to $1.50 per pack. That hike, coupled with a series of recent increases in the state cigarette tax, has pushed the price of legal brand name cigarettes to more than $7.50 per pack. As a result, it is possible to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars on every truckload of cigarettes smuggled into the city...The tax hikes also spurred crime against legal businesses, [causing] distributors and retailers to be confronted almost daily with the risk and dangers of personal violence which are now inherent in their industry.

So, thanks to artificially high prices, hijacking a cigarette truck is almost as profitable as hijacking a bank truck.

These are the laws of unintended consequences. If taxes are low and reasonable, we shrug and pay them. If they're high and arbitrary, the government loses respect and people become motivated to evade. Criminal activity becomes entrenched and widespread.

Why is this simple logic, which is so obvious to the man on the street, such an alien concept to our leaders?

Posted by Maynard · April 29, 2008 02:06 AM · Permalink · Comments (3)
Crime | Just Plain Stupid | Maynard Post | Terrorism

Feds Want Kinder, Gentler Language About Islamist Terrorists

They're not Genocidal, Islamist Fascists, they're, uh, Angry Puppies! Yeah, that's so much less offensive.

This has go to be one of the most ridiculous constructions ever developed by the those brainwashed by political correctness. The Feds have decided that calling Islamist Fascists Islamist Fascists is too broad based, and could potentially offend "moderate" Muslims. It's this sort of news that makes this post even more apropos.

'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon

The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.

Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.

The reason: Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offense to moderates.

For example, while Americans may understand "jihad" to mean "holy war," it is in fact a broader Islamic concept of the struggle to do good, says the guidance prepared for diplomats and other officials tasked with explaining the war on terror to the public. Similarly, "mujahedeen," which means those engaged in jihad, must be seen in its broader context.

U.S. officials may be "unintentionally portraying terrorists, who lack moral and religious legitimacy, as brave fighters, legitimate soldiers or spokesmen for ordinary Muslims," says a Homeland Security report. It's entitled "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims."

Gee, and I wonder who those "American Muslims" are who seem more concerned with the truth than they do with the raping of Islam by other Muslims. It's not Vikings, or Quakers, or Scientologists out there marauding in the name of Islam. It's actual Muslims who follow the fundamental Whabbist interpretation of Islam. It is a legitimate, if not the richest, most powerful arm in Islam, based in Saudi Arabia. it is also the sect which has build and funs the majority of mosques in the United States. To ignore that fact means we will never address the core of the problem.

What are some of the suggested elements of the vague, non-offensive way to refer to our throat-cutting, head-slicing, child-murdering Islamist enemy?

"Never use the terms 'jihadist' or 'mujahedeen' in conversation to describe the terrorists. ... Calling our enemies 'jihadis' and their movement a global 'jihad' unintentionally legitimizes their actions." [...]

On the other hand, avoid ill-defined and offensive terminology: "We are communicating with, not confronting, our audiences. Don't insult or confuse them with pejorative terms such as 'Islamo-fascism,' which are considered offensive by many Muslims." [...]

"We must carefully avoid giving bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders the legitimacy they crave, but do not possess, by characterizing them as religious figures, or in terms that may make them seem to be noble in the eyes of some," it said.

Just one note here--anyone who could remotely see the shooting of a child in the back and the murder of thousands of innocent civilians as 'noble' is already a lost, disturbed soul and a mentally ill person and is not affected by whatever words we might use. To think otherwise is the epitome of Narcissism, Groupthink and just plain old idiocy.

This is not some renegade band of Muslims. It is a movement of fundementalist Islamists who, along with Iran, Syria, Lybia, and Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, have a worldwide network with a goal of establishment a global caliphate. For our own government to deny this is deadly madness as they implement nothing less than a whitewashing of language in order to further ignore who our savage, genocidal enemy really is.

Bottom line, here's a newsflash for the DoD, The State Dept, Homeland Security and the White House: If a Muslim is moderate, they wouldn't be concerned with us using accurate terms to describe the enemy, and understand it's not what we say that's a danger, it's what Islamist are doing which is the threat. That is, if they were actually moderates 'advising' our government. Moderate would be more concerned with madmen using the name of their prophet to murder innocents; moderates are fervent supporters of the United States and appalled at the increasing violence done in the name of Islam; if they're moderate, they would be marching for and demanding an end to the obscene violence done by Islamists and encouraged by the Whabbist sect of Islam based in Saudi Arabia. Moderates understand it's not the lexicon the United States uses in fighting this rabid enemy that's the problem, it's a worldwide Islamic movement that is destroying whatever vestiges of actually "moderate" Islam that existed.

At this point, we all have to wonder what in the world the collective Fed is smoking. But after almost seven years, I suppose it is sort of fun for them to eliminate Islamic Fascism and jihadists with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps then they think we won't notice that bin Laden, Zawahiri, and so many other Islamic Fascist jihadists are out there planning to murder as many people as possible.

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Posted by Tammy · April 25, 2008 07:57 PM · Permalink · Comments (6)
Balls, Lack Of | Just Plain Stupid | Just Wrong | Moronic Convergence | Political Correctness

You Small Town, Bitter, Ignorant Reactionary Rednecks, You

It's interesting what we learn about the Obama's when they open their mouths, isn't it? Make no mistake--one of the hallmarks of Marxists is their disdain for people in general. Barack Obama has judged you and declared you Stupid and Shallow. Barack Hussein Obama has determined that your faith in God, your commitment to the founding principles of this great nation, including the Second Amendment, and your love of this nation and her sovereignty, are simple refuges for the depressed, bitter and ignorant.

What should you take from his comments? That Barack Obama is a self-righteous, MalNar Snob who is stupid enough and In Love with HImself enough to not know what not to say or even to realize how pathetic he is.
Combine his tripe with the Missus' declaration that we're also mean and a bunch of failures, well, I'd say we need to make very sure these freaks don't get anywhere near the White House. Ever.

Obama has already apologized, sorta. But let's start from the beginning. Here's Politico's coverage of The Messiah's description of you Stone-Agers in the Midwest:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Wow, so what have you people been doing out of work for 25 years? Oh yeah, getting angry, and in your stupid shallowness perhaps wanting revenge because Big Brother abandoned you, you're buying guns, getting faith, and deciding you don't like the Mexicans. Sure.

Now Obama realizes he made a mistake. He's not sorry for saying it, he;s sorry for how he said it and sorry, too, if you're offended. But he's not sorry for being an arrogant ass who's finally revealed the depth of his contempt for the average American. And average American, btw, whose families have saved the world many time over in the past few hundred years.

I suppose this is the problem a Smart Guy like him has when the Stupid People are too stupid to fully understand him.

Obama Admits Misspeaking, But Defends Comments

MUNCIE, IND. -- Barack Obama admitted today that he may not have expressed himself well when he said that Pennsylvania voters turn to guns and religion as a result of their frustration with government.

“Now I didn’t say it as well as I should have, because the truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That’s what sustains us,” Obama said at town hall meeting at Ball State University.

Nevertheless, he continued to defend the idea that many voters are “bitter” towards government and have turned to other things for support.

“What is absolutely true is that people don’t feel like they're being listened to. And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives,” Obama said. “What we need is a government that is actually paying attention, a government that is actually fighting for working people day in and day out, making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream. And that’s what this campaign is about."

Genius. So he confirms that yes, this is what he meant, but still insists he's right, but wasn't gentle enough in condemning people being independent as opposed to relying on government. What is wrong with this man?

But he is sorry if he offended you by telling you the truth about your miserable, independent, silly selves.

Obama Regrets If He Offended....

[O]bviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so.

The Los Angeles, in the meantime, has the Clinton and McCain reactions. Too bad Hillary is so self-destructive. Despite Obama's true character revealing itself each day, I truly think now Hillary does not want the nomination. But at least she responds to this freakish debacle properly. Obama also digs further in restating that what he saif about you hicks out there is "true."

Obama seeks to explain 'guns or religion' remark

Seeking to defuse the damage among blue-collar Democrats essential to his chances in upcoming primaries in Pennsylvania and Indiana, Obama told a crowd in Muncie, Ind., that he only meant to show empathy.

"Lately, there's been a little typical sort of political flare-up because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter," Obama said...

Fellow Democrat Clinton, campaigning in Pennsylvania ahead of the state's April 22 primary, seized on the remarks, suggesting that Obama was offering condescension rather than solutions. "Pennsylvania doesn't need a president who looks down on them," the New York senator said at a Philadelphia rally. "They need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them."

Responding today to Obama's concession that his words were ill chosen, the New York senator continued her attack. "Sen. Obama's remarks are elitist and out of touch," she said. "They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know." She added, "If you want to be the president of all Americans, you need to respect all Americans." [...]

A strategist for Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) also joined in the criticism. "Instead of apologizing to small-town Americans for dismissing their values, Barack Obama arrogantly tried to spin his way out of his outrageous San Francisco remarks," said campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. "You can't be more out of touch than that."

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Posted by Tammy · April 12, 2008 03:29 PM · Permalink · Comments (18)
Incompetence | Just Plain Stupid | Leftists | Politics

What Happens When You Put Food Into Cars

The price of food goes up because supply can't meet demand, much like oil. The only difference is, if the price of oil goes up, the price of gas goes up, and one can choose to use less gas, and use alternatives. When the price of food goes up there aren't any alternatives. The wealthy, of course, can pay more, but the less well off don't have as much flexibility.

One of the more dramatic headlines in the last couple of days has been the rising price of corn, a result of 'climate change' hysteria. It is the fault of a world so willing to goose-step into line with frantic and ridiculous leftists who worship Al Gore as they pander to his non-existent and yet implacable enemy.

Skyrocketing corn prices hit ethanol profits

The continuing surge in the price of corn, which is punishing households with higher food prices, is cutting the profits of American ethanol producers and playing havoc with an industry that was blamed for causing the grain shortage.

The price of a bushel of corn soared above $6 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, pushed higher by news that American farmers were planting less corn...Expensive corn is hurting the livestock industry, which in turn will raise the price of meat, Rich Feltes, senior vice-president of commodity research for MF Global, said. “Hog producers are liquidating sows, the farmers are operating in the red,” he said.

The skyrocketing cost of corn is rebounding on the ethanol industry, which is taking an ever larger proportion of the US corn harvest to manufacture road fuel.

Yeah, this man looks like he knows what's healthy for the rest of us.

This is what we get when the world engages in what Hilary Clinton most recently brought to our attention--Mythomania, a psychiatric term describing individuals who make up fantastical stories and convey then as if they really exist or have happened. You think Hillary's Bosnia airport story was bad? Al Gore and the Climate Change Hysterics are no better, the only reason they haven't been so handily exposed is because God and Nature don't have cameras and YouTube to defend the truth of their matter.

All this courtesy of the Leftists who insist the world will be better off if we find 'alternatives' to Big Oil. Yes, now at the expense of Starving People. Geniuses.

Clear-thinkers regularly decry the Fabulist agenda of Climate Change moonbats like Al Gore and his minions, as we point out not just the absurdity of their agenda but also its dangerousness. I suppose it's meant to be made more difficult as were told that "climate change" is murdering polar bears, puppies, kittens and doves, but I for one was even more astounded by the Time Magazine cover story from a couple of weeks ago that actually declared The Clean Energy Scam. Instead of pointing to Leftist Climate Change pygmies as they should, Time now manages to place all the blame on 'politicians and corporations.' In fact, at no point in their story about how biofuels are a dangerous problem, does Al Gore's name get mentioned once.

...Propelled by mounting anxieties over soaring oil costs and climate change, biofuels have become the vanguard of the green-tech revolution, the trendy way for politicians and corporations to show they're serious about finding alternative sources of energy and in the process slowing global warming. The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol--ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter--in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it. Corn ethanol, always environmentally suspect, turns out to be environmentally disastrous. Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil-derived gasoline.

Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year. Harvests are being plucked to fuel our cars instead of ourselves. The U.N.'s World Food Program says it needs $500 million in additional funding and supplies, calling the rising costs for food nothing less than a global emergency. Soaring corn prices have sparked tortilla riots in Mexico City, and skyrocketing flour prices have destabilized Pakistan, which wasn't exactly tranquil when flour was affordable.

We can thank Al Gore for this, as well as leftist agitators, and yes, politicians on both sides of the aisle who do not have the vision or courage to reject the nature contradicted, increasingly silly, and regularly debunked claims of global climate catastrophe.

The real folly and disaster is that of mankind thinking it knows all, kmows better, and has more influence and power than Mother Nature herself. Eventually she reminds us, to our great peril.

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Thinking Is Hard!

That's the reason, at least, an illegal alien has given to explain her opposition to her workplace requirement she speak English on the job.

...Expecting a baby in May, Rios expressed concern about speaking out publicly against the policy. However, she said she felt compelled to do so because she believes it is unfair.

"This is my first language -- Spanish -- and it's hard for me sometimes when I'm speaking. I have to stop and think what I'm going to say in English," Rios said. [Yeah, that's called "learning another language."]

She said supervisors have been cracking down and told her she could not say "hola," but "hi."

Hmm, yeah, that "thinking" part when it comes to saying hello. Now that's a back-breaker! I wonder if she's planning on buying extra diapers when she as the baby--you know, some for the infant and some for herself?

Posted by Tammy · March 31, 2008 01:40 PM · Permalink · Comments (11)
Immigration | Incompetence | Just Plain Stupid

Hillary the Fabulist=Photoshop of the Day

Delightful Pic of the Day courtesy of Peep Kim.

Hillary, I am disturbed to report, very well may be a Fabulist. This is pretty serious, and quite different from simply disagreeing with someone on policy or style. It's not even really as simple as lying about something; it's making up a scenario out of whole cloth. Not spinning or shading the truth, but making making up a story completely. Most of us were wondering if she was capable of being a Fabulist with the Bosnian airport landing fantasy. This event, covered by hundreds of journalists and witnessed by thousands of others, including reporters, troops and government officials, as well as a certain comedian and guitar player, yet she described something that not only didn't happen, but was unrelated to the experience entirely. Now we have to ask, what is she capable of when it comes to events that have no witnesses?

New York Magazine gives us some background on Hillary as Fabulist, as does ABC News. Here's a bit o the New York piece. Truly, I felt Hillary was at least an acceptable mess and my preferred Dem nominee. Now McCain is looking better all the time.

Fabulist Hillary Clinton Gives Margaret Seltzer a Run for Her Money

When the National Archives released more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Clinton's daily schedule during her First Lady days last week, the press was pissy because much of it was heavily redacted, and boring to boot. "She received a gift basket sometime between 3:45 and 4:35 p.m., if all went according to schedule," the Washington Post sniped about the schedule that Newsday described as "bland, sanitized." Several days later, though, they've refocused (perhaps recalling that in a post-Spitzer-scandal age, Monica's sloppy sub-desk blow jobs are just sad and gross). As it turns out, Hillary may have a gift for embellishment! By which we mean flat-out invention of the whole-cloth variety.

Oh wait! I am so sorry. Hillary did see fire in Bosnia.

Snippery!

Posted by Tammy · March 26, 2008 10:46 AM · Permalink · Comments (6)
Just Plain Stupid | Malignant Narcissism | Mental Health, Lack Of

Chinese-Made Heparin Contaminent Identified

Maybe everything from China is cheaper because they use deadly counterfeit ingredients. As some are now suggesting on the internet, let's have the Chinese make our nuclear weapons, too, if it's such a great bargain and China is such a great friend.

FDA identifies contaminant in blood thinner
The substance wouldn't have occurred naturally in the heparin from China, the agency says, suggesting a counterfeit drug could be involved. The import may have led to the deaths of up to 19 in the U.S.

The Food and Drug Administration said today it has identified a mystery ingredient that contaminated a type of blood thinner imported from China that could have led to as many as 19 U.S. deaths and hundreds of severe allergic reactions among frail patients.

FDA Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock said the contaminant would not have occurred naturally in the many steps involved in processing the blood thinner heparin. That raised the possibility that a counterfeit drug could ultimately be blamed in the case.

"At this moment, we don't know whether it was introduced intentionally or by accident," she said. Officials stopped short of saying they suspected the heparin to be counterfeit, but they clearly indicated they were investigating that possibility.

Gee, like when the Chinese laced toothpaste and cough syrup with antifreeze? And the time they sent melamine for use as a pet food ingredient? Like those other possibilities of counterfeit ingredients?

It Just Never Ends

The new governor of New York appears to be as pathetic as the last one. And this man has the gall to take the office after knowing the circumstances that brought him to it. Astounding. I'm simply speechless.

Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs...In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999...

Given the call-girl scandal that erupted last week and forced Spitzer's stunning resignation, Paterson conceded that top government officials are bound to come under closer scrutiny for their personal actions.

The governor flatly denied what he called a "sporadic rumor in Albany that I had a love child" by another woman. "That's just not true," he said.

"Don't you think he'd take care of a child if he'd had one?" Michelle Paterson said, in obvious disgust over that persistent rumor. Asked if he had stayed with anyone else since 2001 at the same West Side hotel, Paterson said, "From time to time I used to take Michelle to that hotel."

Please read the whole thing. You simply can't make up this stuff.

Posted by Tammy · March 17, 2008 11:21 PM · Permalink · Comments (9)
Death of Right and Wrong | Just Plain Stupid | Relationships

Obama and His Racist, America-Hating "Pastor"

The very cozy Obama and Wright.

**Television programming note**: Gateway Pundit is noting that Major Garrett will have Barack Obama tonight on Hannity & Colmes/Fox News to discuss the Wright situation. They also have the full collection of Wright video spew. Perhaps now we know the real reason the Obama campaign has been desperate to paint Hillary and her supporters as 'racist'--to distract from their own ugly, racist underbelly.

After working feverishly to ignore the extraordinary racist, hate-filled comments by Barack Hussein Obama's "pastor", Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., they finally have been forced to admit he exist. Initially, Obama refused to outright condemn comments that ranged from urging black Americans to sing "God damn America," to proposing the theory that America engineered the AIDS virus to genocide people of color and deliberately distributes drugs to me of color, and that America is a terrorist nation. When you hear these remarkably paranoid assertions Michelle Obama's paranoid and America-hating rants make a lot more sense. After all, this is the man who has been Obama's mentor for 20 years, married the Obamas, and baptized their daughters (which means those two bright little girls are exposed to this racist, hate-based insanity.

Ron Kessler, who is associated with the McCain campaign, provided an opinion piece in today's WSJ, the first national newspaper to address this remarkable relationship between the leading Democrat candidate and a hate-monger:

Obama and the Minister

In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Mr. Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school's Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006...Mr. Wright thundered on: "America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God." [...]

As for Mr. Wright's repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks because of what Mr. Wright calls its racist and violent policies, Mr. Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be "provocative."

Hearing Mr. Wright's venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through numerous similar sermons by Mr. Wright.

Indeed, Mr. Obama has described Mr. Wright as his "sounding board" during the two decades he has known him. Mr. Obama has said he found religion through the minister in the 1980s. He joined the church in 1991 and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith.

The title of Mr. Obama's bestseller "The Audacity of Hope" comes from one of Wright's sermons. Mr. Wright is one of the first people Mr. Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Mr. Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.

Mr. Obama obviously would not choose to belong to Mr. Wright's church and seek his advice unless he agreed with at least some of his views. In light of Mr. Wright's perspective, Michelle Obama's comment that she feels proud of America for the first time in her adult life makes perfect sense.

The WSJ piece follows ABC News and their coverage of Wright stating we were to blame for 9/11 and that blacks should condemn the United States. Finally, of Obama and his racist mentor. Finally, Obama responds with a little fluff piece, on the lefty hate blog Huffington Post of all places, which once again waxes on about how great the 'pastor' is but Obama rejects his comments. He skips over the intense relationship they have, including the fact that it was Wright with whom Obama consulted when he was deciding whether or not to run for president, and then "prayed" with him as he decided to do so. Obama also thanked Wright prominently when he first won his senate seat. Yet Obama claims, absurdly, that Wright was never a mentor, and that he never, ever heard this man say anything at all ever close to what has been revealed in the past few weeks.
Yeah, sure.

This last week has been rather priceless--here we have Obama and his minions still pushing the absurdity of the entire Hillary campaign as racist, including the smear against Geraldine Ferraro. Ferraro leaves the Clinton campaign, and HiIllary apologizes to every black person on Earth for everything that ever happened. Yet the stench of racism and hate emanates from only one place--the Barack Obama campaign, his closest friend and adviser, and arguably from Obama himself and his wife. Yet no one has apologized. In fact, big news has been made of the fact thatWright stepped down from one Obama campaign position he held yet the Obama campaign insists he will stay on as a "spirtual adviser." I guess that would be the Racist, Hate America First fort of spirituality.

The next question needs to be, does Hillary and Co. have what it takes to demand an apology from Obama and his minions for the racism and hate they've been spewing? Will she demand Obama apologize for Wright, and that Wright be banished from his campaign entirely? If she doesn't have the cajones to face down a bunch of political thugs and a depraved, paranoid, how can we expect her to deal with the world's tyrants?

This is a test for Hillary. I noted weeks ago, that with all we detest about th Clintons, it's safe to say they do not hate this country. Now we know the Obamas truly do.

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McCain Takes Boy Trip to Israel, Europe

And he took along his boyfriends Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Grahamnesty. Gee, maybe it's been so long since he's seen a Conservative when he heard it's a weird minority in Europe, he's gone looking for us there.

A little suggestion for Senator McCain--the people you need to impress and persuade are over here. We're called Independent Conservatives and we're not in London or Paris.

McCain heads to Israel, Europe

Fresh from sealing the Republican White House nomination, Senator John McCain will burnish his foreign policy credentials with a trip next week to Israel and Europe, his office said Monday. Joined by two close Senate colleagues, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, McCain will visit Jerusalem on March 18, London the next two days, and Paris on March 21, according to a statement.

Well, no rush I guess to do anything here at home. The Clinton/Obama ticket raised $90 million last month alone. In February McCain raised $12 million. Maybe McCain is looking for foreign money? Or maybe he thinks we're writing such big checks to him it's taking a very long time and he might as well take a vacation. You know, with all those zeroes we're adding in. Not.

Oh, and a little aside here--Lindsay Grahamnesty is always at McCain's side these days. I said including Huckabee on the ticket would be the one deal breaker for me. Make choosing Grahamnesty as the Veep a dealbreaker as well.

Posted by Tammy · March 11, 2008 11:03 AM · Permalink · Comments (8)
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Barack 'Monster' Aide Resigns

The woman who referred to Hillary Clinton as a monster to a British reporter has resigned. This is just one more instance of an Obama campaign person, finally having to answer questions, letting the truth slip. We've seen it from Michelle, the candidate himself, Obama's "Sr. foreign policy adviser" (actually, that would be George Soros but he can't let you see who's behind the curtain so they prop up a genius like this one) who notes neither Barack or Hillary is ready for the 3am call, , and now the resigned Samantha Power.

Talk about a meltdown...Oh yeah, the Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor say she's sorry, too. Yeah, amazing the sort of idiocy that comes from 'geniuses', isn't it?

Obama Aide Sorry for 'Monster' Comment

An adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apologized Friday for telling a Scottish newspaper that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is "a monster."

Samantha Power, a foreign policy adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and Pulitzer Prize winner, was quoted in remarks she later attempted to retract as saying in The Scotsman newspaper that Clinton was stooping to low tactics to recover ground in the race to win the party's presidential nomination.

The Harvard professor is quoted as telling the newspaper Obama's team had been disappointed with Clinton's campaign win in Ohio on Tuesday.

"In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Power is quoted as saying. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything." [...]

Power issued a statement Friday in which she acknowledged the comments but said she "deeply regretted them."

"It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," she said in the statement. "I apologize to Senator Clinton and to Senator Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics.

Posted by Tammy · March 7, 2008 09:55 AM · Permalink · Comments (2)
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Monica Need Not Apply

Just when you thought it was safe to go to back into the bathroom.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Idaho Senator Larry Craig is currently seeking intern applications for the summer term, which runs from May to August. The application deadline is March 15, however if more time is needed for the application process, please contact Senator Craig's office for an extension.

"Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office," said Craig. "They participate in the legislative process as well as ensure that constituent services run smoothly. For those interested in politics, it is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions while serving the people of Idaho."

Barack Hussein Obama--Believe Him

Do yourself a favor and believe every word he says. When I say this man is the most dangerous candidate for president we may have ever seen, I mean it. The disarmament agenda he spews in this video is classic George Soros theory aimed at knocking America into a second-world country, putting us at grave risk to tyrannical regimes around the world. It is craven self-loathing, aimed at ending the future of our country, capitalism and liberty. And imagine, Obama says these things with the world at war and as genocidal regimes continue to build their bombs despite 'promising' not to do so, or being 'banned' from doing so.

Let's See, Congress Holds Hearings on Baseball Steroid Use

While Iran continues to perfect it's nuclear bomb, two of three presidential candidates want to surrender, and China and Russia are harassing our military and spying on our defense infrastructure. Yeah, sounds like we have a bunch of liberals running the country--in Congress and the White House--who have no clue and are too afraid to actually take a stand on things that matter.

Well, thanks to the Congressional "investigation" into Roger Clemens' alleged steroids use, at least we know Jose Canseco has a really nice house, who was at Canseco's pre-game house party and the fact that it would have been a better party had it not been a day before the game so they could only drink iced tea. Thanks Congress. I had no idea.

Next, could you check on China and see what they're doing? You know, about spying on us, and sending us poisoned food and medicine, funding the Darfur genocide and testing satellite killing lasers? And maybe, if you have time, line up banking officials and ask them who they hell they've been giving sub-prime mortgages to? Oh yeah, and ask Russia about that buzzing of the Nimitz the other day. Only if you have time though, you know, in between talking to baseball players, and having more secret, back room deals writing another amnesty bill.

We better get this fixed in November, folks.

Iran testing advanced uranium centrifuges: diplomat

Iran has begun testing advanced second-generation centrifuges, defying UN Security Council demands to end its uranium enrichment activities, Western diplomats said Wednesday.

According to the diplomats, who are posted to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Iran has begun real tests of P2 centrifuges with uranium gas with the aim of producing enriched uranium.

"The Iranians are showing their face and it is clear that they want to develop their new centrifuges," said one Western diplomat. The tests are the exact "opposite" of what the United Nations expects from Iran, said a European diplomat.

They cant be serious. Iran is doing the opposite of what the UN expects? How can that be? And wait a minute, North Korea's been lying to us, too. But Condi believed them, and how can she be wrong? Or stupid? Or pathetic?

Posted by Tammy · February 13, 2008 11:49 PM · Permalink · Comments (13)
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Obama Pledges Driver Licenses for Illegals

His style may be similar to JFK, but the substance couldn't be more different. Bottom line: Obama is more from the Teddy wing than the RFK wing of that particular family. And if I were Obama, the last person I'd be taking 'driving' lessons from would be Teddy.

Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue

Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them [Ha! It's illegal aliens who want them, not "Latinos." Americans who are of Hispanic descent are as opposed to rewarding illegal aliens as much as everyone else. Sheesh.] It's also a huge issue for the general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former Gov. Gray Davis.

Clinton stumbled into that minefield in a debate last fall and quickly backed off. First she suggested a New York proposal for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants might be reasonable. Then she denied endorsing the idea, and later came out against them.

Asked directly about the issue now, her California campaign spokesman said Clinton "believes the solution is to pass comprehensive immigration reform."

They're all the same. Never forget the hit Hillary took when she supported Spitzer's plan. Now her answer to that is to employ the McCain style of lying to us. After all, they are such good friends. And as the saying gores, with friends like these who needs Osama bin Laden to destroy the country?

Remember, this issue emerged during a November debate because of that Spitzer debacle. On a serious issue Obama isn't quite as 'inspirational,' is he? Now, when he needs t pander to the illegal alien vote, he seems to have found his voice, something that was missing on November when asked for a yes or no answer.

Like I said, they're all the same.

Posted by Tammy · January 28, 2008 12:32 PM · Permalink · Comments (7)
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Oh Brother: Duncan Hunter Endorses Huckabee

Well, I guess this proves you can be good on the border and a dumbass on other things.

Posted by Tammy · January 23, 2008 03:14 PM · Permalink · Comments (13)
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Bush Dances with the Enemy

Dancing around with a machete sword--you know, the kind the Islamists use to chop people's body parts off. Here's one thing I can tell you--you would never see Giuliani dancing around with these misogynist beasts. (HT LGF).

Posted by Tammy · January 16, 2008 06:50 PM · Permalink · Comments (8)
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Marcia Clark, Failed Prosecutor

**Bumped up for the KABC listeners**

And even worse plastic surgery and peroxide enabler.

Marcia version 1 Marcia version 2

Marcia Clark, a 'smart attractive' in 1997, and now in 2007, not.

Really, why do women do this to themselves? The difference here is not about age--it's about having so much plastic surgery you don't even look like yourself anymore.

So, what we really had all along as the chief prosecutor during the Butcher of Brentwood's murder trial was a wanna-be plastic-surgeried blond bimbo who parlayed being the most famous loser in the world into being an entertainment reporter, 'covering' the beast who walked because of her incompetence.

Fantastic. And yes, I'm still bitter about the whole damn eff-up.

Posted by Tammy · January 11, 2008 05:54 PM · Permalink · Comments (11)
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