'Iowahawk' just wants to help

(Tweeting a picture of 'little Anthony'--this guy will go far in the Democratic Party.)

Iowahawk:

"Since the incident, the famously modest Congressman Weiner had remained demure on how he single-handedly thwarted his anonymous attacker, and how the attacker managed to possibly steal his Blackberry camera phone. And, for whatever reason, has thusfar also chosen not to involve the law enforcement authorities."

"As much as I admire Congressman Weiner's Gandhi-like forgiving attitude toward his assailant - as well as his world class ninja programming skills - I'm afraid this incident doesn't just involve him. For, after all, what Internet user is safe when the person who hacked this unsuspecting Weiner remains at large? Okay, maybe not "large," but still, come on man. Who's to say this same criminal hasn't somehow hacked my last 5 federal income tax returns with fraudulent deductions for alcohol-related blogging expenses?"

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

Seriously, what is the Democratic plan to fix Medicare?

...because all I see now is a bunch of assholes DEMOGOGUING THE RYAN PLAN. Here is the DNC Chairidiot proving my point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHi5yQEAww

Mansions of the Lord

Mansions of the Lord

To fallen soldiers let us sing,
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing,
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord

No more weeping,
No more fight,
No friends bleeding through the night,
Just Devine embrace,
Eternal light,
In the Mansions of the Lord

Where no mothers cry
And no children weep,
We shall stand and guard
Though the angels sleep,
Oh, through the ages let us keep
The Mansions of the Lord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4aTWGTGFQk&feature=related

Obama's cheerleaders in the mainstream media

Why is every economic report prefaced with the word 'unexpectedly'?

Michael Barone comes up with the answer:

"As Instapundit reader Gordon Stewart, quoted by Reynolds on May 17, put it, "How many times in a row can something happen unexpectedly before the experts start to, you know, expect it? At some point, shouldn't they be required to state the foundation for their expectations?"

"One answer is that many in the mainstream media have been cheerleading for Barack Obama. They and he both naturally hope for a strong economic recovery. After all, Obama can't keep blaming the economic doldrums on George W. Bush forever."

"I'm confident that any comparison of economic coverage in the Bush years and the coverage now would show far fewer variants of the word "unexpectedly" in stories suggesting economic doldrums."

"It's obviously going to be hard to achieve the unacknowledged goal of many mainstream journalists -- the president's re-election -- if the economic slump continues. So they characterize economic setbacks as unexpected, with the implication that there's still every reason to believe that, in Herbert Hoover's phrase, prosperity is just around the corner."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/pro-obama-media-always-shocked-bad-economic-news

California is a 'failed state'.

I agree with Walter Russell Mead who said:

"Let there be no mistake: when you produce so many criminals that you can’t afford to lock them up, you are a failed state. Virtually every important civil institution in society has to fail to get you to this point. Your homes and houses of worship are failing to build law abiding citizens, much less responsible and informed voters. Your schools aren’t educating enough of your kids to make an honest living. Your taxes and policies are so bad that you are driving thousands of businesses away. Your management systems must be fouled and confused to the max for you to create something so dysfunctional, so wildly beyond your means, that the Supreme Court of the United States (wisely or foolishly is another question) starts to micromanage your jails."

"California used to be the glory of this country, the dream by the sea, the magic state. Now it produces so many criminals it can’t pay to keep them locked up."

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/05/27/scotus-makes-it-official-california-a-failed-state/

David Mamet's conversion to Conservatism

David Mamet has won a Pulitzer, and written plays (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow), and movie scripts (The Verdict, The Untouchables, Wag the Dog). Mr. Mamet has written a new book, The Secret Knowledge: The Dismantling of American Culture.

Mr. Mamet has converted from Liberalism to Conservatism and in the book he takes on the liberal Hollywood Establishment whom he says were communists "because they hadn't invented Pilates yet."

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Knowledge-Dismantling-American-Culture/dp/1595230769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306617918&sr=1-1

DNC chairman: do as I say, not as I do.

Is this loser the best the Democratic party could put in charge of their campaign committee?

The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to drive a foreign car, despite criticizing Republican presidential candidates for supposedly favoring foreign auto manufacturers.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the DNC, ripped into Republican presidential contenders who opposed President Obama's 2009 bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.

"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes," she said at a breakfast for reporters organized by The Christian Science Monitor.

But according to Florida motor vehicle records, the Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan, another Japanese company. The car appears to be hers, since its license plate includes her initials.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/163567-dnc-chairwoman-doesnt-drive-american

Shrimps on treadmills, and Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole

The Feds must have an agency whose sole purpose is to find outlandish ways to waste taxpayer money. They seem to excel at it.




From the Washington Times:


The Senate’s top watchdog on government waste, in a new report Thursday, said taxpayer money has gone to fund such programs as Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole, testing shrimp’s exercise ability on a treadmill and a laundry-folding robot, all funded by the National Science Foundation.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, said he identified more than $3 billion in mismanagement at NSF, ranging from questionable studies to exorbitant operating costs, and in some cases duplication by the science agency of operations performed by other agencies.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/tax-dollars-shrimp-treadmills-jell-o-wrestling/

2011 first quarter GDP: 1.8%

Pathetic--even liberals have got to be bummed. How can they redistribute wealth if there is none?

From Reuters:

Corporate profits in the U.S. unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter to record their first decline in more than two years and the economy grew at the same pedestrian pace as previously estimated, a government report showed on Thursday.

After-tax corporate profits fell at a rate of 0.9 percent, the Commerce Department said, after rising at a 3.3 percent rate in the fourth quarter. The drop in profits, the first since the fourth quarter of 2008, likely reflected a slowdown in productivity growth as businesses stepped up hiring. Economists had expected corporate profits to grow at a 2.3 percent pace.

Gross domestic product growth was unrevised at annual rate of 1.8 percent, the department said in its second estimate, below economists' expectations for a 2.1 percent pace.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Corporate-profits-drop-in-Q1-rb-1412999475.html?x=0&.v=1

Feminist group calls for suspension of Ed Schultz

I was wrong. A feminist group did come to Laura Ingraham's defense. Good for them.


The feminist media watchdog group the Women’s Media Center (WMC) is calling on MSNBC to suspend television host Ed Schultz for calling conservative talker Laura Ingraham a “slut.”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/25/feminist-watchdog-group-to-msnbc-suspend-schultz/

Libtard of the Week Award

I am honored to give my first Libtard of the Week award to Ed Schultz. Mr. Schultz has a show on MSNBC and a liberal radio program. Both people who listen to it says it is swell and it helps them pass the time while flipping hamburgers. Today Mr. Ed outdid himself by saying that conservative talk show host, Laura Ingraham, was 'a slut'. Check the Youtube link for proof of this.

Do you know what you will hear from the liberal women's advocacy groups regarding this misogynistic rant? The answer is crickets chirping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeGQr9TK6g

Stimulus Fail

It is like the government went out of its way to find the worst collection of tax cheats and human pond scum and then said here, take this money and do whatever you want with it. Just spend it, return a little in the form of campaign funds to us, and give the rest to your favorite union.

Stimulus recipients found to be tax cheats. 3,700 owed $757M, GAO report reveals.

All told, government investigators found that during the period they examined, one out of every six stimulus contract or grant dollars went to a known tax cheat, according to Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who, along with several colleagues, requested the GAO review.

The review found that at least 3,700 stimulus recipients owed a total of more than $757 million in taxes, but were awarded $24 billion in stimulus money.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/24/stimulus-recipients-found-to-be-tax-cheats/

John Edwards: Democratic slimeball hypocrite

Remember his favorite campaign slogan, something about there being two America's: one for the poor saps who would believe his bullshit and another America of taxpayers who would foot the bill for the first group?

Well, it looks like Mr. Populist is about to get indicted soon for using campaign money to keep his girlfriend happy.

Mr. Edwards, there are two Americas: one consisting of indicted scum like you, and the other being hard-working Americans that innocently go about hacking out a living in this Obama-sustained recession we are in.

From the AP:

Federal prosecutors have completed a wide-ranging investigation into John Edwards’ political dealings and could indict the two-time Democratic presidential candidate within days, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/25/ap-source-john-edwards-could-indicted-within-days/

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends -- politics Chicago style

Michael Barone on Obama's crony favoritism:

In his new book "The Origins of Political Order," Francis Fukuyama identifies the chief building blocks of liberal democracy as a strong central state, a society strong enough to hold the state accountable and -- equally crucial -- the rule of law.

One basic principle of the rule of law is that laws apply to everybody. If the sign says "No Parking," you're not supposed to park there even if you're a pal of the alderman.

Another principle of the rule of law is that government can't make up new rules to help its cronies and hurt its adversaries except through due process, such as getting a legislature to pass a new law.

The Obamacare waiver process appears to violate that first rule. Two other recent Obama administration actions appear to violate the second.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/obama-skirts-rule-law-reward-pals-punish-foes

Durable goods orders drop 3.6% in April

From the Commerce Dept. this morning:

New orders for manufactured durable goods in April decreased $7.1 billion or 3.6 percent to $189.9 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This decrease, down two of the last three months, followed a 4.4 percent March increase. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 1.5 percent. Excluding defense, new orders decreased 3.6 percent. Transportation equipment, also down two of the last three months, had the largest decrease, $4.9 billion or 9.5 percent to $46.7 billion.

Obama's Toast Blooper

When Bush committed a gaffe the MSM called him stupid. Let's see how Mr. Teleprompter fares with them on this one.


President Barack Obama has made light of a musical mishap that threatened to cut short his toast at Tuesday night's state dinner in London.

Obama had just toasted the Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace when the band, apparently deciding that he had finished his speech, struck up "God Save the Queen."

Obama talked over the music, praising the relationship between Britain and the United States and quoting Shakespeare before the music ended.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110525/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obama_toast

100 IRS employees caught using tax credit fraud

Who do they think they are, Timothy Geithner?

More than 100 employees of the Internal Revenue Service cheated the government by fraudulently claiming a first-time homebuyer tax credit included in the 2008 and 2009 economic stimulus packages, according to federal investigators.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, in several reports over the past few years, has identified a total of 128 IRS employees who claimed the credit but who also made other claims that showed they either weren’t first-time buyers or bought their homes outside the eligibility period for the credit, which was worth up to $8,000.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/irs-staff-committed-tax-credit-fraud/

Inconvenient Truth: SUV's Saved Chrysler

First the polar bears are doing great, and now news that
SUV's are selling like hotcakes--Al Gore is NOT having a good day.


Chrysler and the White House will celebrate the Detroit icon's $5.9 billion repayment of government loans Tuesday in a ceremony that will be hailed by both sides for the same reason: The government bailout had become a liability for both entities.


...it is the resurgence of America's appetite for trucks that has brought Chrysler back from the dead. Chrysler Group reported sales were up 17 percent to 1.1 million vehicles in 2010 on the strength of its wildly popular, redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs. For CEO Marchionne, the SUVs success in the U.S. market has been a revelation and he is planning to expand the SUV lineup into Europe with Alfa Romeo and Maserati-badged trucks.





http://detnews.com/article/20110524/MIVIEW/105240374/Payne--SUVs-saved-Chrysler

The 'governing class': our new overlords

The brilliant Mark Steyn on our 'governing class':

"The arrest of a mediocre international civil servant in the first-class cabin of his jet isn’t just a sex story: It’s a glimpse of the widening gulf between the government class and their subjects in a post-prosperity West. Neither Geithner nor Strauss-Kahn has ever created a dime of wealth in his life. They have devoted their careers to “public service,” and thus are in the happy position of rarely if ever having to write a personal check. At the Sofitel in New York, DSK was in a $3,000-per-night suite. Was the IMF picking up the tab? If so, you the plucky U.S. taxpayer paid around 550 bucks of that, whereas Strauss-Kahn’s fellow Frenchmen put up less than $150. So if, as Le Nouvel Observateur suggests, France and America really do belong in entirely different civilizations, the French one ought to start looking for a new patron for the heroic DSK’s lifestyle."

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267762/yes-they-kahn-mark-steyn

Share the Tax Pain

The US is spending $4 billion a day more than it is taking in.

From David Walker, former Comptroller General of the U.S.:

Walker leans more towards the spending-cut side, but also sees inequities in the tax structure that must be corrected to help generate revenue.

"We have to broaden the base—51 percent of Americans don't have any income taxes," he said. "That's not acceptable in a democracy."

Solving America's problems will require a combination weighted toward spending reductions but one that also will require spreading the taxation burden around more evenly, said Walker, the former US comptroller general.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43134077

Polar bear extinction and other Global Warming Alarmist bullshit

The Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the organization of scientists that has attempted to monitor the global polar bear population since the 1960s, has issued a report indicating that there was no change in the overall global polar bear population in the most recent four-year period studied.

“The total number of polar bears is still thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000,” the group said in a press release published together with a report on the proceedings of its 15th meeting.

20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide is exactly the same population estimate the group made following its 14th international meeting.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/international-conservation-group-global

'Chicago Way' politics from a fascist White House

Marc A. Thiessen writing in the Washington Post:

"...as the president prepares to issue a far-reaching executive order that would require the government to collect detailed information about the political activities of anyone applying for a federal contract. The proposed order would require businesses to furnish, with each contract proposal, a list not only of their contributions to political candidates and committees, but also their contributions to groups that do not under current law have to reveal their donors. The president’s order would force anyone seeking a federal contract to declare whether they are a friend or an enemy — excuse me, “opponent” — of the Obama White House. Worse still, it would set up a central database listing those contributions at a federal government Web site — creating what amounts to an electronic, searchable “enemies list.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-milhous-obama/2011/05/23/AFzdYn9G_story.html

Pilot error cited in Air France crash probe

The pilots of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago apparently became distracted with faulty airspeed indicators and failed to properly deal with other vital systems, including adjusting engine thrust, according to people familiar with preliminary findings from the plane's recorders.

The final moments inside the cockpit of the twin-engine Airbus A330, these people said, indicate the pilots seemingly were confused by alarms they received from various automated flight-control systems as the plane passed through some turbulence typical on the route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. They also faced unexpectedly heavy icing at 35,000 feet. Such icing is renowned for making airspeed-indicators and other external sensors unreliable.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576341631579541512.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

Can Pakistan guard its nukes from Islamists?

The brazen attack on a Pakistani naval air base has sent shockwaves through the nuclear-armed country, raising concerns about the military’s ability to protect sophisticated weaponry .

The ease with which six Taliban militants stormed the PNS Mehran base in Karachi, close to the city’s busy commercial airport, and destroyed two newly US-supplied P-3C Orion maritime surveillance aircraft has unnerved Pakistan’s military establishment.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7c98ddc-84b1-11e0-afcb-00144feabdc0.html

Bacteria 'linked' to Parkinson's disease

The bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers have been linked to Parkinson's disease, according to researchers in the US.

Mice infected with Helicobacter pylori went onto develop Parkinson's like symptoms.

The study, presented at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, argues that infection could play "a significant role".

The charity Parkinson's UK said the results should be treated with caution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13469716

Heritage Flight--Joint Service Open House--Andrews AFB 5/22/2011

F-15 Eagle, P-51 Mustang, and A-10 Thunderbolt II

Jimmy Carter: I'm A Superior Ex-President

Carter is wrong. For now, he is the worst ex-president we have ever had. I don't care how much moral preening he shows off while building habitats for poor folks. He has spent too much of his post-presidential time slamming this country while in other countries. He was a running joke as president, and it follows he has been a failure as an ex-president.

Former President Jimmy Carter isn't letting modesty stand in the way of his assessment of his post-presidential life.


"I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents," Mr. Carter said in an interview with NBC News.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/05/22/carter-im-the-superior-former-president/

Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates

Please, please release all of them in San Francisco.


The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that "needless suffering and death" had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions.

Justices upheld an order from a three-judge panel in California that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. Since then, the state has transferred about 9,000 state inmates to county jails. As a result, the total prison population is now about 32,000 more than the capacity limit set by the panel.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the majority, said California's prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" because of overcrowding. As many as 200 prisoners may live in gymnasium, he said, and as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet.

Kennedy insisted that the state had no choice but to release more prisoners. The justices, however, agreed that California officials should be given more time to make the needed reductions.

In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the ruling "staggering" and "absurd."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/sc-dc-0524-court-prisons-web-20110523,0,2337401.story

Chicago man alleged to have helped plan Mumbai attack

U.S. prosecutors on Monday outlined an elaborate plot that allegedly preceded the 2008 attack on Mumbai, saying a Chicago businessman helped make it possible for militants to scout their targets.

The trial of Tahawwur Rana began weeks after the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces that raised questions about whether Pakistani authorities knew the al Qaeda leader was in their country and about their commitment to fighting militant groups.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/23/us-pakistan-usa-trial-idUSTRE74M0D720110523

Politically Correct Bullshit Going to Court

t’s known as the candy-cane case. And it’s all about religious discrimination.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments today in Morgan v. Swanson. The case demonstrates just how badly political correctness has corrupted our public schools and illustrates the extremes to which radical school administrators will go to impose their ideological, anti-religious views on our children.

The lawsuit was filed by the families of several elementary-school students in Plano, Texas. The suit states that, although the schools hold birthday and “winter break” parties, no Christmas parties are allowed. Moreover, the schools ban all “references to and symbols of the Christian religion and the celebration of the Christian religious holiday, Christmas,” at the winter-break parties. Even “red and green Christmas colors” are banned. And students were explicitly instructed “not to write ‘Merry Christmas’ on greeting cards sent to United States soldiers [or to retirement homes] because that phrase might be offensive.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/267810/candy-cane-cops-hans-von-spakovsky

Obama's Mole Rats at Work

Obama digging up dirt on potential opponent Chris Christie


President Obama's re-election campaign is trying to dig up dirt in the Garden State.

Despite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's repeated pronouncements that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination, Obama operatives are compiling a dossier of what they call "opposition research" -- material that could be used to damage Christie if he changes his mind, The Post has learned.

The Obama campaign is trying to keep its efforts from public view, concerned they would only elevate Christie's already impressive standing within the Republican Party, sources said.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/research_destroy_yhiecoqPgh4cpbgEZ4gmmM

Liberal Tool supports Gadhafi

Cynthia McKinney is a publicity whore. She has made a habit of criticizing her home country every chance she gets--and the MSM always gives her a forum to speak.

A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the "last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war."

The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview was spliced with what appeared to be rallies in support of the embattled Libyan leader.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-21/world/libya.mckinney_1_moammar-gadhafi-economic-policies-mckinney?_s=PM:WORLD