Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Kerry (& Open Thread)

Teak–Your avatar is now the cover from Zappa’s Weasel’s Rip My Flesh?  I’m in awe . . .

It is obvious that John Kerry would advocate enforcing a no-fly zone.  Here we see a picture showing how the great Gooseslayer personally enforced a no-fly zone over an Eastern Ohio cornfield:

I just heard, I think, that a public union in Wisconsin has dropped a lawsuit to get Viagara added back into health care coverage. No joke.

Breeze–have you seen/heard this today?

That “Libya” picture was probably taken on the beach at Malibu . . . much easier to hire a few extras than fly all the way over there and risk your neck….

Bachmann stands by statement:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-203887-1.html?ET=rollcall:e9939:80104117a:&st=email&pos=epol

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No, not a mention anywhere….

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Did you all notice that the ‘bitching’ about my posting news has

stopped after I called them ‘concern trolls’?

Kathy Griffin Has No
Intention Of Leaving Sarah
Palin’s 16 Year-Old Daughter Alone
 
Mediaite,
by Colby Hall   

Original Article

3/7/2011

During an appearance on Fox News this weekend Sarah Palin was asked about comedian Kathy Griffin and her frequent jokes/attacks on not just Palin, but her daughter’s as well.  The former Alaskan Governor called Griffin a “50 year-old adult bully” before requesting that Griffin “leave (her) kids alone.”

The War On Glenn Beck

Big Journalism,
by Dan Riehl   

Original Article

3/7/2011

I’ve been critical of Glenn Beck in the past.  Several commenters at my personal blog who are fans of his can attest to that. But what I have never advocated is trying to silence him.  So, it’s interesting that in a New York Times article containing this quote, the item reads like just another hit in a currently on going effort to get him off the air at Fox.  It seems his numbers have dropped a bit.  Okay. But in general, political energy is certainly down…..

Do you mean…..this Cathy Griffin? She really shouldn’t be throwing stones.

What is she doing there, Oa?  Is she break-dancing?

Obama Ratifies Bush

Wall Street Journal,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/7/2011

No one has done more to revive the reputation of Bush-era antiterror policies than the Obama Administration.  In its latest policy reversal, yesterday Mr. Obama said the U.S. would resume the military tribunals for Guantanamo terrorists that he unilaterally suspended two years ago, and he may even begin referring new charges to military commissions within days or weeks.  The political left is enraged…..

Oil Hypocrisy

Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/7/2011

Energy Policy: As the White House goes to court to defend its self-imposed drilling moratorium, it floats the idea of tapping our strategic petroleum reserve to lower rising prices.  How about the oil offshore and in Alaska?  Listening to mainstream punditry, you’d think $4 gas is due solely to Mideast unrest and global demand.  Those are factors, but so are our self-imposed restrictions on supply.

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I’d say she was stoned, stoned, stoned….

From
Al Qaeda’s Deadly New Nest

by Bruce Riedel
snip
Another al Qaeda ally, Lashkar e-Taiba, which carried out the attack on Mumbai in November 2008 from Karachi still enjoys the patronage of the army. The interrogation of the convicted American citizen, David Headley, who did the reconnaissance missions to prepare for the Mumbai attacks show he was an agent of both al Qaeda, Lashkar e-Taiba and the Pakistani army’s Inter Services Intelligence bureau, the ISI. The man who was head of the ISI when the Mumbai plot was hatched and developed is today Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-05/al-qaedas-deadly-new-nest-in-pakistan/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL8

Hillary and Womens issues (from the Beast) 

“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton tells Newsweek. And as the Middle East’s revolution continues to rage, she refuses to divorce her feminist mission from her policy-setting work as secretary of state. Everywhere she goes, Clinton is paying attention to whether women’s voices are being included. She has told leaders in Egypt and Yemen that they’d be wise to include women’s rights in their new reforms. She also requested $1.2 billion in her 2012 fiscal-year budget for programs specifically targeting women. Tellingly, comparisons with past years can’t be made, since the department only started tracking women-focused dollars in 2010.

Listening to Nancy and her lap dog Barky any new drilling wouldn’t produce oil for ten years anyway. By then we won’t need it. I remember it well. Just air up your tires everybody. Is it any wonder we are in trouble here?

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I usually do not comment on the articles on purpose, until someone does -
(I report, you decide….)

This article makes it very hard to keep my thoughts to myself…..

Sadly, the team she’s playing for has a different agenda.

“The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.”

Talk about a booby prize . . .

The real problem facing the boy president is Saudi Arabia.  How Obama handles Libyal, will set the tone for Saudi Arabia, having its demonstrations on March 11 and thereafter.   I will buy some popcorn.

POTUS set the tone a long time ago when he bowed before the Muslim king. Almost nobody here was watching, but in the Mid East everybody was watching. A few wise people said this would prove to be problematic. They were right.

Okay–let’s scrutinize!  The initial report has not been debunked yet.  Right now we are only at the posturing stage . . .

NPR, PBS campaigns
to keep federal
funds called unlawful

Washington Times,
by Stephen Dinan and
Seth McLaughlin    Original Article

3/7/2011

NPR and PBS stations nationwide are rallying their audiences to contact Congress to fight against Republicans’ proposed spending cuts, but some affiliates’ pleas may violate laws preventing nonprofits or government-funded groups from lobbying.  Interrupting popular programs, the stations air warnings that cuts could end beloved children’s television shows such as “Sesame Street.”  Some stations urge their audience to call and let Congress know their feelings, while others go further, instructing viewers to “stop the Senate” or “defend federal funding” for public broadcasting.

That too . . .

This really pissed me off:

In Afghanistan, U.S. shifts strategy on women’s rights as it eyes wider priorities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/05/AR2011030503668.html?sid=ST2011030504573

Especially this part:

“Gender issues are going to have to take a back seat to other priorities,” said the senior official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy deliberations. “There’s no way we can be successful if we maintain every special interest and pet project. All those pet rocks in our rucksack were taking us down.”

Rocks in a rucksack?? That’s what women are to this administration?? Pet rocks??! A special interest?? Women are half the human race, they aren’t a pet project! Show me a country of terrorists where women are empowered and have some rights. There isn’t one. Step one to becoming a problem country that harbors terrorism, opppress the women.

Renowned Historian Lauds
Sarah Palin, Tea Party and America

American Thinker,
by M Catharine Evans   

Original Article

3/7/2011

Paul Johnson doesn’t suffer from PDS like some others.  Rather he sees Sarah Palin as a courageous leader and likes “the cut of her jib.”  The celebrated British historian and journalist Paul Johnson expounded on American exceptionalism, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin in a Wall Street Journal interview this past Saturday.  He’s optimistic about this “marvelous country” and its ability to overcome the forces working to undermine its greatness.   Johnson specifically credits conservative women as key players in shaping a new direction for the country in 2012.

And who will be Commerce Sec.?  An Okie-Dokie buddy, by fiat.

At this time, it means more fuel on the ME fires.

How about using mullahs carrying the Quran as human shields?

I’d vote for that one.

Oh, maybe monthly!
Guess that didn’t help your blood pressure, huh?

Oh, maybe monthly!  
Guess that didn’t help your blood pressure, huh?

A lot of people who don’t really need SS. collect it anyway. I don’t blame them, 12.4% of your wages go into it, people want to get a return for their investment. But there’s a couple of problems, SS isn’t means tested, so you can be really wealthy and still collect it. However, if you work part time at McDonalds they’ll deduct your earnings from your check. Another problem is that the amount you pay into SS is capped, so wages over 100,000 don’t have to pay into SS.

One real problem with SS (and medi) is that they’re great programs for people with some money. If you can afford retirement savings and six differant insurance plans to suppliment your medi, SS is a great thing. But if you’re poor and you have to live off of it, it sucks. Medi hardly covers anything and SS doesn’t even cover the rent.

When I was a child, I spake as a child… BO’s arrested development

Legal Workers Line Up for Restaurant Jobs After Sheriff Joe Raids

LOL…

imagine what that must have done to his ego!

Many problems with funding would disappear if the cap were taken off.
Why they won’t do that is beyond me.

Well, who would of thought!?

Oprah Winfrey’s new TV channel fails to win viewers
Oprah Winfrey’s new television channel is floundering in the ratings as it struggles to pull in viewers.  
 
The OWN channel, which launched two months ago, is being watched by only 135,000 people at any one time.  
The ratings are 10 per cent lower than for the cable channel it replaced which was called Discovery Health.

Swiss numbered accounts?

Hey Kerry you racist, did you really think the world would love America because of a black US president? How’s that working out for ya?

No surprise here. Oprah sold her soul when she called that demonic entity Obama “the one” and karma is a byotch, baby.

Those liberals are their own worst enemies. Look how well their false racism accusations against the Tea Party worked out – a landslide midterm election. Keep up the good work, you braindead bots!

WOW! A little violent there, Cindy! =-O However, sounds good to me!

Not the thought police here but I would refrain from even hinting at condoing the tire slashing and violent rhetoric. Those nutcase attention seeking church folks have a right to be meanspirited boobs. I prefer to counter them with rightous non-violent outrage.

And no, I am not acusing anyone here of condoning violence or vandalism.

Smart kids – not the lemmings/hitler youth the Pied Piper of Shamlin BO hoped for.

Well, Greg was making a joke, which I thought was funny, and wasn’t trying to use inflammatory rhetoric. He is a comic. The point was that in his opinion, it would be ludicrous to call beating them up “performance art”….just as ludicrous, in his opinion as calling what they’re doing “free speech”.

I understand it was a joke, just not one I would make.

Kathy Griffin is despicable. And, she’s not in the least funny. Calling her a 50-year-old child is charitable to say the least. Griffin is a desperate old hag. 

Well, George Friedman at STRATFOR certainly seems to agree with Beck’s analysis of possible repercussions in the Middle East:

Stratfor’s Latest is Chilling:
Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia

Read more: Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia | STRATFOR 

Well, we may not like Saudi Arabia; but the alternative [Iran] would be a disaster beyond your imagination. Hobson’s Choice. 

It is almost impossible to decline Social Security. My grandmother, a well-off woman, tried to tell the government that she didn’t need Social Security and to please take it back. She was told the paperwork to not pay it was prohibitive and they had never had someone not want to collect it. So she used the SS payment to supplement local scholarship students who got tuition and needed living expenses at college. The SS went to their living expenses. She said that college students could happily live in a group house, on sandwiches, on that amount of money. She continued the practice until she died, 30 years later.

What Is Obama Thinking?

Commentary Magazine,
by John Steele Gordon   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The House Republicans want $61 billion in cuts between now and the end of the fiscal year on September 30. The Obama administration says it wants to meet them “half way” by offering cuts amounting to $10.5 billion. That’s a good example of just how bizarre Washington mathematics can be. Meanwhile, the budget deficit for just the month of February was $223 billion…..

Obama’s Edifice Complex

American Thinker,
by Ed Lasky   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Barack Obama proclaimed on the eve of his primary triumph in 2008 that future generations would look back and remember: “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…this was the time we came together to remake this great nation.” With echoes of Genesis, the world was on the verge of becoming not only his stage but also his dominion.

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See Mark Helprin’s article in the Wall Street Journal. We’ve let our Navy down.

And, someday soon, we will pay the price.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166362512952294.html

Pump pain for President Obama

The Hill
[Washington, DC],
by Sam Youngman   

Original Article

3/8/2011 

Skyrocketing oil prices are creating new political risks for President Obama, who is considering tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to relieve drivers suffering at the pump.

(Snip) The high gas and oil prices, which rose more last week than they have in two years, are resonating loudly within a White House that recognizes how quickly political fortunes can change when a gallon of gas nears $4. The national average price of a gallon of gasoline was $3.51 on Monday, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $2.75.

Women in most Middle East countries have many rights. Women in the Middle East have the right to be stoned, buried alive, whipped and beaten, the right to female genital mutilatiion, and have the right to be subject to “Honor” killings on the decisions of their male relatives.

Courage: The Scott Walker story
 
Daily Caller,
by Fred Malek   

Original Article

3/8/2011

On October 28th, just days before the November general elections, I wrote about four gubernatorial candidates to watch as unconventional politicians. Those included New Mexico’s Susana Martinez, Nevada’s Brian Sandoval, Oregon’s Chris Dudley and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker. Dudley, a terrific man, lost, but hopefully he will be back to fight again. The other three candidates won and are already showing results.

Feds Request Leniency For Terrorist
Who Still Backs Killing Of Americans

ABC News,
by Richard Esposito   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The U.S. government formally requested the early release of a convicted terrorist from federal prison, even though the terrorist admitted that he continued to support the killing of U.S. soldiers serving in Muslim countries. Mohammed Babar, born and raised in New York City, was arrested in 2004 and pled guilty to four counts of providing material support to al Qaeda and one count of providing funds to Al Qaeda. After Babar had served four years and eight months, he was released on bail in late 2008. In late 2010, the government filed a sealed request for leniency for Babar…..

Obama’s incumbent advantage

Washington Times,
by Tony Blankley   

Original Article

3/8/2011 

The media tend to be filled with many items that are either untrue or obvious. Last week – from Politico to cable television, from Karl Rove to Mike Huckabee – was a moment for the obvious to be stated and restated: “The GOP should not underestimate how hard it will be to defeat President Obama next November; indeed, he has to be considered the favorite to win the next presidential election.” True.

(Snip) So, yes, of course, Republicans should not take lightly the challenge of defeating Mr. Obama. On the other hand, rarely has an incumbent president presided over a…..

Senate Democrats ask for
help with their 2012 slogan

Politico,
by John Bresnahan   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of Senate Democrats, needs your help.  No, not a check, at least not this time.  The DSCC wants help coming up with a new slogan for bumper stickers and other paraphernalia that it gives out this cycle. And they’ll definitely need a catchy slogan.  Senate Democrats have to defend 23 seats this cycle, versus only 10 for Republicans. Five Senate Democrats – Kent Conrad, Daniel Akaka, Jim Webb, Jeff Bingaman and Joe Lieberman, technically an independent who caucuses with Democrats – have already announced their
retirements…..

Germany’s Jihad Murders
Point Up the West’s Denial

Human Events,
by Robert Spencer   

Original Article

3/8/2011

A Kosovar Albanian Muslim, Arid Uka, murdered two American airmen outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany last Wednesday. “I did it for Allah,” he explained.  Like so many jihad attacks these days, this one was initially dismissed as having nothing to do with terrorism.  Boris Rhein, interior minister for Germany’s Hesse state, almost immediately declared that there were no indications that the shootings had been a terror attack.  After Uka’s openly jihadist statements, Rhein had to reverse himself.  But his initial reaction was indicative of the general tendency toward denial…..

‘Islam has no place in our
country’: New German minister
sparks immigration row

Daily Mail [UK],
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Germany’s new interior minister has waded straight into controversy by claiming that Islam is not a key part of the German way of life. Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office last week in a cabinet reshuffle, stoked an increasingly serious row about immigration in his country when he told journalists:  ’Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point.’  Mr Friedrich was speaking in the context of an inquiry into the killing last week of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt Airport.

Obama Learns to Love
Military Trials at Gitmo

National Review Online,
by Jim Geraghty   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Then-candidate Barack Obama, February 13, 2008: Obama said the desire to punish the perpetrators of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, shouldn’t blind people to the flaws of the military tribunals that the Bush administration established to try Guantanamo inmates.  “These trials will need to be above reproach,” the Illinois senator said in a statement Monday.  “These trials are too important to be held in a flawed military commission system that has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks and that has been embroiled in legal challenges.”

Palin already booked on debate day

The Hill
[Washington, DC],
by Jordan Fabian   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will headline a military appreciation event and fundraiser on May 2 in Colorado — the same day as the first GOP presidential primary debate in California.The potential presidential candidate is scheduled to speak at an event titled “Tribute to the Troops with Sarah Palin” at Colorado Christian University, in the Denver area.

Teachers’ Unions on the Ropes:
We “Let The Union Police
Our Own Profession”

Townhall,
by Greg Hengler   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, was on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” and got an excellent call. This is the new state of affairs, with “We the People” now fully informed–and able to challenge the power of a union like the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) directly–and on national TV. Listen to Weingarten’s answer. She thinks that the best way to improve teacher performance is–as she states: we “let the Union police our own profession.” This makes about as much sense as putting inmates in charge of parole hearings.

Boxcutters on Flight From
JFK — No, We’re Not Safer
Than Before 9/11

Fox News,
by Michael Boyd   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Recently a passenger brought box cutters through a passenger screening point and on to an airliner. In response to this, the Transportation Security Administration announced that the screeners responsible would get “remedial training.” There’s been a lot of coverage of this event, including legitimate outrage that the sloppy TSA employees weren’t fired. What most people don’t realize is that tolerating failure and outright sloppy work has been a hallmark of U.S. aviation security from the beginning. The truth is nobody has ever been held accountable for aviation security failures – nobody.

NPR CEO: ‘We Get a Tremendous
Amount of Criticism for
Being Too Conservative’

Cybercast News Service,
by Nicholas Ballasy   

Original Article

3/8/2011

National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller said Monday that NPR gets a “tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative.” At a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Schiller was asked by a moderator: “Do you believe there’s an imbalance at NPR in terms of liberals and conservatives in the newsroom–I think I know which side they’d like to have better represented there–if the answer is yes, what do you propose to do about it?”

IBD/TIPP Poll: Americans
Back Offshore, ANWR Drilling

Investor’s Business Daily,
by Sean Higgins   

Original Article

3/8/2011

With the price of gas up 39 cents at the pump in a month and heading higher amid turmoil in much of the Middle East, Americans wonder why the U.S. isn’t doing more to exploit its own oil resources. They favor drilling in territorial waters, 67%-29%, according to a new IBD/TIPP poll. That is up from 61%-30% from last May and 64%-25% when Republicans touted drilling in the 2008 election as oil topped $147 a barrel. There’s also been a solid shift toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge…..

Freshman Democrat Joe Manchin:
Obama has ‘failed to lead’ on budget

Politico,
by Jennifer Epstein   

Original Article

3/8/2011

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who’s clearly worried about the politics of deficit spending as he faces a tough re-election in 2012.Manchin says the president has failed to lead the way in reducing spending, but he’s also criticizing Republicans for “partisan” and “unrealistic” budget proposals as well.

A Rally at Times Square and a
Time for a Muslim Moral Reckoning
 
Canada Free Press,
by Daniel Greenfield   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The occupant of the White House’s middle name is Hussein, every school curriculum lists a whitewashed history of Islam that ignores the genocides and atrocities, and there are now more positive depictions of Muslims on TV, than there are of Christians and Jews combined. But Muslims in America still aren’t happy. From all the wailing and boohooing, you might think that mosques were being shelled, the way Muslims are attacking monasteries in Egypt. Or that Muslim politicians were being gunned down in the street the way that Christian politicians are in Pakistan.

What are Republicans Waiting
for, $10 a Gallon at the Pump?

Human Events,
by Editorial   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The GOP is all for talking up (if not necessarily imposing) “draconian” budget cuts, going after entitlements, removing bargaining rights from public employee unions, etc.—all of which we think are necessary—but, as Jack Kemp used to say, the GOP also needs to be viewed as the pro-jobs, pro-growth party. Spending cuts fit into this strategy, but still smack somewhat of painful root canal surgery. How about Republicans go after some low-hanging fruit? You know, like the prices of gasoline at the pump.

NEA can’t teach kids to read,
but it will teach them orgasms

Washington Examiner,
by Barbara Hollingsworth   

Original Article

3/8/2011

A representative of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union, recently told attendees at a United Nations conference on the status of women that “oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education” worldwide. The advice for promoting sexual activity among children comes union-run schools in the U.S. continue failing to teach children basic reading and math, despite a doubling of education funding in the U.S. since the 1970s.  Diane Schneider, the NEA reprepsentative, didn’t explain what such graphic sex education for middle-schoolers has to do with helping women and girls gain access…..

What do we need cash for?  You know, it’s so much easier to use the cash card–just swoop it through the scanner, and a billion or so is withdrawn from our account.   We don’t have a billion in our account?  Then it automatically goes on credit–I assume the government has overdraft protection with China or somebody!?!?

Or am I just totally clueless? (don’t need to answer that) . . .

Feds cover the northern border….
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/drug-smuggling/feds-alleged-ecstasy-smuggler-hid-her-stash-octomomesque-protuberance

Let them eat cake…

oh yes, gas prices going up.

One other thought about the Westboro Baptist Church: where are the Hells Angels, Satans Slaves, and the Gypsy Jokers when we need them?

where are the Hells Angels, Satans Slaves, and the Gypsy Jokers when we need them?

they’re union and can’t cross picket line? Just a guess.

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Hey, unions: There’s no free lunch
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Thomas Sowell

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The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” that the Obama administration tried to push through Congress. Employees’ free choice as to whether or not to join a union is precisely what that legislation would destroy.
Workers already have a free choice in secret-ballot elections conducted under existing laws. As more and more workers in the private sector have voted to reject having a union represent them, the unions’ answer has been to take away secret-ballot elections.

Under the “Employee Free Choice Act,” unions would not have to win in secret-ballot elections in order to represent the workers. Instead, union representatives could simply collect signatures from the workers until they had a majority.
Why do we have secret ballots in the first place, whether in elections for unions or elections for government officials? To prevent intimidation and allow people to vote how they want to, without fear of retaliation.

Read more: Hey, unions: There’s no free lunch http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=272181#ixzz1G1qHZxj7

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Hey, unions: There’s no free lunch  

 
March 08, 2011  
Thomas Sowell  
 
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.  
 
Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” that the Obama administration tried to push through Congress. Employees’ free choice as to whether or not to join a union is precisely what that legislation would destroy.  

Workers already have a free choice in secret-ballot elections conducted under existing laws. As more and more workers in the private sector have voted to reject having a union represent them, the unions’ answer has been to take away secret-ballot elections.  
 
Under the “Employee Free Choice Act,” unions would not have to win in secret-ballot elections in order to represent the workers. Instead, union representatives could simply collect signatures from the workers until they had a majority.  

Why do we have secret ballots in the first place, whether in elections for unions or elections for government officials? To prevent intimidation and allow people to vote how they want to, without fear of retaliation.  
 
 
Read more: Hey, unions: There’s no free lunch http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=272181#ixzz1G1qHZxj7

~JustMe~  hilarious! Thanks.

Well let’s hope this Granny never gets to them!

Europe Takes the Lead in Defending Freedom and Western Values

by Ryan Mauro

While President Obama stays in the background, European leaders have moved to the forefront of efforts to protect the West from Islamic extremism.

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It’s their war – not ours
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by Pat Buchanan

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Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two.

What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep Moammar Gadhafi from using his air force to attack civilians.
But if Gadhafi uses tanks to crush the rebellion, as Nikita Khrushchev did in Hungary and the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square, would that be OK?

Read more: It’s their war – not ours http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=272237#ixzz1G1wFNmzx

It’s their war – not ours  

March 08, 2011  
by Pat Buchanan  
 © 2011     
 
Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two.  
 
What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep Moammar Gadhafi from using his air force to attack civilians.  

But if Gadhafi uses tanks to crush the rebellion, as Nikita Khrushchev did in Hungary and the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square, would that be OK?  
 
 
Read more: It’s their war – not ours http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=272237#ixzz1G1wFNmzx

In January, ’09, he quoted Corinthians in a speech.  Said we were a young country but it is time to put away childish things.  Another clear example of his collective salvation which is NOT part of Christendom.

what a scream, oowawa…..and ya know who could have parted those waters and saved the ship??? Moses Moore!

I don’t want to see what she brings back to the nest.  I’ll stick with the hummingbird live cam . . .

There was just a news alert on Fox that 50 liberal groups sent a letter to Pete King not to have the hearings on Islamic terrorism in the USA. He has received death threats and needed more security. The other day there was a rally with the muslims protesting the idea of this hearing.
Gee wouldn’t it be nice if all the protests were against the people like the times square bomber and the guy in Seattle who wanted to bomb a Christmas celebrations. They seem to be real quiet when those things happen.
I hope we do have the hearings. More information is needed by the public on what to look for and why people who grew up in a free country want to blow themselves and others to kingdom come.
You go Mr King remember some people will always mistake kindness for weakness.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

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Way to go, AA!!!

Keep up the good work.

Stoking irrational fears about Islam

Washington Post,
by Eugene Robinson   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is about to convene hearings whose premise offends our nation’s founding ideals and whose targets are law-abiding members of a religious minority. King has decided to investigate Islam. A Republican from Long Island in his 10th term, King seems untroubled that the freedoms of religion and association are guaranteed by the Constitution. His public exercise in Islamophobia, scheduled to begin Thursday, can do no good – and much harm.

Wouldn’t be nice if these same groups protesting the hearings would protest the  so called  honor killings. They seem to be very quiet when they happen in this country. No matter what you want to call it , it is murder.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

Another problem is that the amount you pay into SS is capped,

To me, that is the major problem. Why do we have the @#$%# cap. It seems to me that if we removed the cap, we might even be able to lower the percentage.
Just about to do our taxes again. I think Social Security has to be factored in and is taxed. If so, the government gets it back from well-off people.

Wow, Sowsear, we posted that at the same time!

Hoyer Says Federal Budget May
Not Be Balanced for 20 Years

Cybercast News Service,
by Matt Cover   

Original Article

3/8/2011
Washington

– House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that it may take as many as 20 years to balance the federal budget after years of deficit spending in Washington.  At Hoyer’s weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, CNSNews.com noted that President Obama’s latest budget proposal does not balance at any time in the next 10 years and asked Hoyer,  ”Do you plan on introducing anything that balances within that 10-year timeframe, or is that possible?” Hoyer said.

Anger brews over government
workers’ benefits

Associated Press,
by GEOFF MULVIHILL   

Original Article

3/8/2011

When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn’t ever expect to get.  And it makes her mad.  ”I don’t think that a federal employee or government employee is worth any more than anybody else who does their job and does it well,” said the Slinger, Wis., woman.  She’s been working a couple of bartending jobs since January, when she was laid off from her job at a Harley Davidson plant after almost a decade.  She’s not alone in seeing public servants as public enemies in some ways.

US official’s ‘mockery’ angers Japan
 
Agence France-Presse,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011  
Tokyo

- Japan officially complained on Tuesday over derogatory remarks allegedly made by a US state department official about the people of Okinawa Island, the reluctant hosts of many American bases.  Kevin Maher, who heads the US state department’s Japanese affairs office, reportedly called Okinawans “lazy” in an off-the-record speech to students in Washington in December.  He also called the islanders “masters of manipulation and extortion” as they seek compensation for hosting the US bases, according to a Kyodo News agency report based on notes provided by students who heard the speech.

Price of oil retreats as OPEC
mulls raising output

MSNBC,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011 
New York

- Oil Prices retreated Tuesday as OPEC ministers discussed whether to ramp up oil production in the wake of the Libyan uprising.

Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery was lately down 46 cents to just below $104 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.  In London, Brent crude dropped $2.79 to $112.25 per barrel.

(Snip) “We are in consultations about a potential output increase but have not yet decided,” Kuwait Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah Al-Sabah told reporters Tuesday.

The mewlings of Gadaffi’s son,
the president

Canada Free Press,
by Judi McLeod   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Why is it that only when the spotlight of revolution is thrown upon the despots of the mid East we find out about their riches of ill gotten gains?  Politicians from western countries were trucking openly with Moammar Gadaffi long before protesters came to call for his ouster in Libya.

Chrysler Investing in Mexico Means Fiat
May Add to Brazil Sales
 
Bloomberg News,
by Tim Higgins   

Original Article

3/8/2011
Mexico City

- Chrysler Group LLC, having begun production of the subcompact Fiat 500 in Mexico, is poised to benefit from free-trade agreements that may help Fiat SpA (F) add to its leadership in Brazil. Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of both automakers, celebrated the start of 500 production at Chrysler’s Toluca, Mexico, assembly plant yesterday.

(Snip) While the Fiat 500 is being used to reintroduce the brand to the U.S. after almost 30 years, factories in Mexico can also supply Latin American markets and avoid import tariffs such as Brazil’s 35 percent tax.

Wis. Dems File Ethics
Complaint Against Walker

Associated Press,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011
MADISON, Wis.

— The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Scott Walker for statements made during a recorded prank phone call. The complaint that’s been filed with the Government Accountability Board claims Walker violated ethics regulations, including those prohibiting use of state offices for political purposes. Monday’s complaint says Walker’s statements asking campaign contributors for support constituted “illegal third-party coordination” in violation of campaign finance regulations. Walker made the statements during a call with a blogger posing as David Koch, a Walker campaign contributor. Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie says the allegations are baseless.

Right!

NPR Cans Ronald Schiller

Slate,
by David Weigel   

Original Article

3/8/2011 

That, from the new statement from NPR’s Dana Rehm, is the shoe that took all day to drop. The entire statement, which also clarifies that Schiller decided to leave before the sting occurred: The comments contained in the video released today are contrary to everything we stand for, and we completely disavow the views expressed. NPR is fair and open minded about the people we cover. Our reporting reflects those values every single day – in the civility of our programming, the range of opinions we reflect and the diversity of stories we tell.

Last Straw For NPR?

Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Taxes Misspent: It’s bad enough that taxpayers are forced to support a left-wing media outlet long since rendered obsolete by the Internet. Now we learn NPR is seeking booty from terrorist sources.  Where to begin in describing the damning revelations produced by filmmaker James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas in its videotaped undercover sting of National Public Radio officials?  NPR claims innocence, but why was Ron Schiller, until recently the president of the NPR Foundation, so eager to do lunch at Georgetown’s schmancy Cafe Milano with two men posing as high-ranking members of a Muslim Brotherhood front?

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FROM HILLBUZZ:

Bev Says:
http://sheeplearebaaaad.blogspot.com/2011/03/despite-propagandaamericans-know-right.html

We are starting the new election cycle and it is going to get ugly folks.

The liberal media is poised and ready to attack the right and we need to prepare for it. They started with Glenn Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh and it’s going to get worse. We can beat them back, tho.  We just have to hold firm and fight back.

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Deep cover Says:
Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a typical Leftist race-baiting hypocrite.  He was ripped in a scathing expose in Harpers Magazine in 2000, and apparently is managing to squeak by on a compensation package worth $350,000.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/04/hbc-90006860

I read Nelly Furtado donated her $1 million to charity.

Seems to be working.

ObamaCare’s Numbers Game

Investor’s Business Daily,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Gov’t Accountability: A Cabinet member has admitted that the administration used misleading numbers when it was peddling ObamaCare.  Fraudulent accounting, though, is nothing new in Washington.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted last Thursday that in taking $500 billion from Medicare and moving it to ObamaCare, the White House counted twice the same pile of money and claimed that it would reduce the deficit and sustain Medicare.  “Both,” replied Sebelius when Rep. John Shimkus asked her during a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing if the $500 billion was for “preserving Medicare or funding the health care law?”

Rules Committee sets up votes
to terminate mortgage programs

The Hill
[Washington, DC],
by Pete Kasperowicz   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The House Rules Committee on Tuesday night approved two rules for bills that would terminate two federal mortgage assistance programs, setting up consideration of the rules and the bills this week. The committee approved rules for H.R. 830, which would terminate the Federal Housing Administration’s mortgage refinance program, and H.R. 836, which would terminate an emergency mortgage relief program approved last year. The White House on Tuesday said it would veto both bills if they were presented for President Obama’s signature.

Wisconsin Governor Proposes
Union Compromise in E-Mails

Fox News & Associated Press,
by Staff   

Original Article

3/8/2011

Appearing to blink first in a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office. But the e-mails weren’t enough to end a stalemate that has drawn national attention and ignited a storm of protest from union workers and their supporters.

European left is fragmenting
as the right is unifying

Guardian (UK),
by David Miliband   

Original Article

3/8/2011 

Social democratic parties across Europe are losing elections on an “unprecedented scale”, according to former foreign secretary David Miliband.  He said the parties were “fragmenting as the right is unifying”. He named six countries – Britain, Sweden, Germany, France, Holland and Italy – that he said had a “good claim to represent the historic heartland of European social democracy”, but that are no longer run by the centre-left.  In a speech to the London School of Economicson Tuesday, Miliband called for social democratic parties in those countries to try to regain ground by focusing on wealth creation…..

Our Man-Made Energy Crisis

Wall Street Journal,
by Nansen G. Saleri   

Original Article

3/8/2011

The unfolding turmoil in Libya has amplified concerns about the reliability of global energy supplies in an era of political uncertainty. Is oil at $200 per barrel inescapable?  Is this the beginning of the end so vigorously underscored by peak oil enthusiasts for the last several decades?  The short answer is clearly “No.”  Yet the question remains: What will happen to the price of crude?  This, in turn, necessitates an appreciation of the “anxiety” component in current and future prices.  The anxiety premium may range from $10 to $30 given current events in Libya and their spillover effects.

New Hampshire to candidates: Prove where you were born Politico ^ | 3-8-11 | Juana SummersPresidential hopefuls looking to compete in New Hampshire might soon have to provide their birth certificate to get on the ballot.  The Granite State’s legislature is the latest to pile on to the flurry of birther-related bills since the opening of 2011 state legislative sessions in January.  Republican State Rep. David Bates, who chairs the New Hampshire House’s election law committee, told the Associated Press his panel will hear a bill Wednesday that would require candidates to provide a birth certificate and affidavit swearing they are at least 35 years old and have lived in the United States for 14…

Poll: Majority of Maine Republicans want conservative alternative to Snowe The Hill ^ | 3-8-11 | Shane D’Aprile Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) may have the support of Maine’s Tea Party-backed governor in her reelection bid, but she could still be in for a tough primary battle next year.   New numbers from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) show 58 percent of Maine Republicans prefer a generic “more conservative” alternative to Snowe in 2012.   And just 33 percent of Maine Republicans said they will support her.   According to the poll, 58 percent of Republicans in the state think Snowe is too liberal, while another 33 percent don’t even think she belongs in the GOP, saying she should be a Democrat.

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Activist (James O’Keefe) says he targeted NPR because of Juan Williams firing cnn ^ | 3/8/2011 | Kevin LiptakThe conservative activist responsible for producing an undercover video showing a National Public Radio senior executive slamming the Tea Party as “racist” and “scary” is speaking out about why he went after the organization. And late Tuesday, NPR announced it has placed the executive, Senior Vice President for Fundraising Ron Schiller, on administrative leave. Filmmaker James O’Keefe said the idea for the sting stemmed from an incident in October when NPR fired analyst Juan Williams after he said he got scared when people wore Muslim garb on airplanes.