Saturday, January 16, 2010

Hope-ocalypse!

Liberal Panic: Brown Win Would Mean
'End of Change As We Know It!'

Hope-ocalypse.

 
A senior Democratic official on Friday described Ms. Coakley’s as within striking distance of Scott Brown

Top House Dem warns: If the American people throw a hissy-fit thinking they can stop us from doing what we want, they have another thought comeing!

Leftist Poll - only 62% of voters said President Obama was born in the United States   Them's a lot of birthers.

Bank Heist

The big bank tax: Obama's fee fraud
 Comrade Obama does his stand-up Lenin routine

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

The bulk of TARP's estimated $117 billion in losses will come not from banks, but from the auto industry ($80 billion), AIG and government-chartered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama's tax will apply to AIG, but not the others, even though Fannie and Freddie are expected to cost U.S. taxpayers more than all the TARP losses combined.

Instead of applying to the firms that owe the taxpayers money, Obama's tax will apply to about 50 big financial institutions, many of which never took a dime in TARP money. Administration officials told The Washington Post that the real goal of the tax is to reduce compensation at large Wall Street firms. The President hopes they will absorb the tax by cutting pay. [Story]

Friday, January 15, 2010

Coverup in progress ?

Subject: Orwellian NOAA Prior Commitment
to Global Warming Summer of '09

 
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Subject: Orwellian NOAA Prior Commitment to Global Warming Summer of '09

I have been using NOOA weather maps for years.  Their mission is to report and support weather programs related to forecasting and preparation.  It appears now that last summer that w/o public or private input they are now on a mission to eliminate supposed US contributions to Global Warming.  This is happening by our Government with our monies and with little, skewed or, arbitrary information at best and under our noses w/o our knowledge.  We are systematically and immediately losing control of our Government.  I'm sorry but, it is very frightening to me.  I do agree that we need to eliminate pollution as a major cause of environmental damage but, the scheme that Al Gore (carbon setabacks and credits), and his followers have worked up is very dangerous and only exists to make them huge sums of money and, will effect our economy in such a way as to make us a third world country overnight.


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090616_climatereport.html


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Cuzzin Ricky

Axelrod's broken record

Axelrod’s missing facts

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical


 "If Democrat Operative is going to take issue with _AMERICAN  numbers, then Democrat Operative  should have the decency to actually cite what specific facts AMERICAN got wrong."

This so elementary a response, when dealing with those people, that it should be hard-wired into the brain of any would-be defender of the faith, or guardian of the Republic. . Alex Conant demonstrates. 


In a personally scathing piece today in the Washington Post, David Axelrod defends President Obama’s budget management, saying that Karl Rove’s recent criticism are factually inaccurate:

There’s an old saying that everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts. The next time Karl Rove would like to offer us some advice, I’d urge him to take that to heart.

I know the Obama Administration is eager to pick fights with their predecessors, in part because they still like the Bush-Obama comparisons. But if Axelrod is going to take issue with Rove’s numbers, then he should have the decency to actually cite what specific facts Rove got wrong. But he doesn’t do that; no where in the article does he say what facts Rove got wrong — probably because every fact cited by Rove was 100 percent accurate.

Read Axelrod's haughty, condescending Post article, and notice what the real message is.  Blame Bush.

Answers

Answers

WHY WOMEN CAN'T SLEEP
Have you ever wondered how a woman's brain works?

Well.....it's finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:


Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done,  A decision or a problem that needs to be solved.

Man has only 2 balls and they consume all his thoughts. Easy, wot.
      
C/R
 There's another reason why so many of us can't sleep.  Our gummint. Politics. Democrats. The economy.   I know three women & a  dude who've  stopped reading blogs altogether ( if I named them, so do you). They can't stand to read the news any more. At least one is under doctor's orders to stay away. Besides me.

This  post will be the first one mirrored in my new sidekick blog, Boned Jello  It has the same layout as C&S, save for the header.  All links to political blogs are gone (only survivor is Agent BedHead), but I have more to add. Every day I have two or three posts that are news neutral, and it's thosethat I'll also put in Jello.

Boned Jello .  No politics.  No Swearing.  Emphasis on Happy. You're Welcome.

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
I boned the Jello so you don't get hurt.

I forgot Joe Kennedt was running ...

Suffolk University Poll
 

Another surprise -- The Kennedy family's endorsement may have actually hurt Coakley. With 27% said it makes them less likely to vote for her... 20% more likely.

"The Kennedy endorsement resonates among registered Democrats, but registered Democrats are spoken for," Paleologos said.

And here's one more surprise. While Brown is beating Coakley head-to-head, 64% of voters we surveyed say Coakley will win the election.

"People don't believe that the rest of the state of Massachusetts will vote for Scott Brown, despite the fact that they personally will vote for Scott Brown," Paleologos said.

If -- repeat if -- Scott Brown wins next Tuesday, it is no exaggeration to say he will change the world of politics as we know it.

WAR

Editorial: War with Iran nears

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Today's WaTimes editorial makes the case.
  • Yesterday's assassination of important Iranian scientist alerts to more bloodshed ahead
  • The Obama administration's diplomatic outreach effort is dead,
  • Last month, top-secret technical notes from Iran's nuclear program were leaked that detailed research on a neutron initiator, the triggering mechanism for an atomic bomb.
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the Obama White House a year to make progress with Iran, and instead, the situation has grown worse.
  • This week, a biological-warfare-preparedness exercise is being held in Tel Aviv and other cities. Starting late next month, gas masks will begin to be distributed to every Israeli citizen;
  • America is doubling the value of emergency military equipment stockpiled in Israel, which will be available for Israeli use in the event of an emergency.
The coming conflict will not be an overnight air strike followed by bellicose language, like the Israeli attack on the Syrian nuclear site in September 2007. Disrupting Iran's nuclear program will require Israel to undertake a sustained campaign. Iran will launch reprisal attacks through its proxies in Gaza and Lebanon, encourage Syria to respond, foment chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan and potentially order terror attacks on Western targets.


Editorializing the Editorial.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.  ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Obama has shown some independence from the hard left surrender monkeys who engineered his election.  If I'm him, I'm thinking "my entire presidency is already verging on failure, so what can I do to turn it around?"  Well, someone will mention to Obama (I doubt he is that familiar with US History) that it was war, not FDR's New Deal, that ended the Great Depression.  He will also be told that WWII unified the nation in a balls-out effort to win it, so what the hell? Win-win, for him, right?

 So. Obama's question is, would he end up being FDR, or LBJ?  The answer: The United States can never, never ever, win any war as long as Democrats have any say in its execution.  It's LBJ/All the Way.  Sorry.


Yeah. Encabulator.

Understanding the Turbo Encabulator
 
"All those words you said make perfect sense to me, but maybe you should explain it again more simply so other people understand."
NEXT: The Snuggie D-Lux NSFW
C/R

On second thought

In Passing

In Passing ...
I see weird stuff going on out there


Rick Perry - Great American, Great Governor, Schweppes Man!
Texas Says No Thanks to Federal Education Funds 

First Chrysler, now Segway
NH transporter maker Segway acquired by UK company
(Prolly put a Rolls-Royce Merlin in it, and win the war!)

It's a Good Thing for Martha Coakley That There Are No Catholics in Massachusetts  
Oh. Wait. There are a few, aren't there?

 
Phony Fruits in the Obama White House Garden
Well, of course. They’ve stocked health care town halls with partisan goons and benefactors. They’ve provided lab coats to doctor donors to make their health care lobbying look more authentic. And they’ve treated soldiers, in President Obama’s own words, as “pretty good photo ops.”

Kombiz Lavasany Twitter
i think that's the first time I've seen john stewart taking a shot at maddow

Actual funny lawyer TV ad
(Hell, I think they're all hilarious.  I mean that in the bad way.

Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools
I use DVD Shrink (Windows, Free)

Eye test that spots Alzheimer's 20 years before symptoms:

Middle-aged could be screened at routine optician's visit

Let's Hope These 4 Things Don't Happen
World famous economist Cuzzin Ricky "bets 3 of 4" will happen.  Can you make an argument against them?

China Shoots Down Missiles
domestically developed and manufactured HQ-9 anti-aircraft system had successfully shot down a ballistic missile.

Snow in DC

Snowstorm at the White House?
 The Save Jersey blog stitches together some fascinating detective work that begins with a discussion thread at 4chan. [Doug Ross]

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

The difference between this and rampant drug use in the Clinton WH is - Blogs.  This story will see the light of day.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Raff out Rowd

Kaboom! Brown Now Leads Coakley by Four!
Eight Points! (TPM) by Four!
Jammie Wearing Fool

SOBs

State and local workers and union
members are exempted until 2017!

 The White House has reached a deal with health care negotiators, including labor unions, on taxing the high-level "Cadillac" plans that workers with high-risk jobs often purchase.

Frantic in Mass

Kennedy's widow does ad
for Mass. Senate candidate

Mary Jo Kopechne sends her regrets.


Obama chips in with  e-mail and video (right) which  will be sent out Thursday to the Massachusetts distribution list of Organizing for America, the president's political arm at the Democratic National Committee.


On the ol' Inspiro-meter, I'd say the president has hit that rarely reached sweet spot right between Droopy the Dog and Eyeore. Note, in particular, the deadness in his eyes as he closes out his appeal: - Mary Katherine Ham.

Kristol: Mass. Senate Update

Self Made Man

A pox on your Harvard MBA
 If the viewer doesn't work, click here
MarcM

This Old House

Old Stuff

I mentioned this in the way back, but those few of you who remember will forgive this veteran of the charge up San Juan Hill a relapse.  Oh, we're talking about this  portfolio of abandoned houses.  I think all of us will be plaintively reminded of something from our own past, except for young Josh who's still building his. The house in Ringgold, NE  reminds me of hunting for pheasant in Nebraska, just on the Colorado and South Dakota borders. Came across it, and while the others went on, I stayed, and read old catalogs, newspapers, and sorted through scattered family pictures.  Memory says they dated back to c. 1920.  Hardscrabble.  I don't remember the details anymore, just being captivated by this worm hole into the past.  You can smell these houses. That old house smell.  Linoleum. Musty newsprint and curtains.   Have a look.  City people may find Scouting New York more to the task at hand. Nostalgia.

WaTimes WTF?

EXCLUSIVE: Obama wins more cuts in spending than Bush
What am I missing here?

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

That's a featured story in today's Times. No, not the New York Times.  The Washington Times. I read it, and still don't know what to make of the editor's decision to promote it.
President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year. An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.

Among the president's victories are canceling the multibillion-dollar F-22 Raptor program, ending the LORAN-C radio-based ship navigation system and culling a series of low-dollar education grants. In each of those cases, Mr. Obama succeeded in eliminating programs that Mr. Bush repeatedly failed to end.
The key cut was the military's F-22 Raptor program.  Well, stop the presses!  Democrat cuts military spending.  The LORAN-C was made obsolete by GPS, so that was pretty much a no-brainer.  Unless, like me, you think the first casualty of the next big war will be our satellite system.  If that happens, then the drone aircraft that supposedly made the F-22 expendable, and our ability to navigate at sea, will be kaputsky.  Reminds me of DOD brainiacs leaving guns off the  F-4 Phantom - because missiles made them obsolete. 

But, too much barking over small bones. Does anyone have a firm figure on how many trillions of dollars Obama has already spent?  Even before adding the trillions of dollars that  he wants to spend on Obamacare?   Well, enough to calculate that it's more than  every previous U.S. President combined!  His proposed, utterly useless, Climate Change bill alone will cost more than the reported spending cuts combined (8 billion v. 6.9 billion).

So what am I missing?

2+2=6 !

In Passing

In passing ...
 It's a Horror Show for Obamunists

Why Treasury chief should be probed and fired
Tim Geithner should not only be fired as Treasury Secretary, he should then be investigated for criminal activity --

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009
#30 -  If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district. -- John Murtha

100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss
I love the Internet

Liberals and Conservatives
“You know, when the battery fires?” asked the American. “Those two guys off to the side with their arms in the air? What are they doing?”

Palin was 'set up to fail'
Kathleen Parker wears her best Dixie Chicks face

Schumer Goes Gutter
I got the message below from Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki, and I wanted to make sure you saw it.
Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican.
It would be bad enough to lose this seat [blah-blah-blah]

EDITORIAL: Google jihad
Google has been accused of pandering to Muslims by censoring negative search suggestions in its main search box. Type "Christianity is" in the search bar, and Google suggests helpful endings to your query, such as "not a religion," "a lie," "a cult," and so on. ...

SEIU-affiliated union endorses…Scott Brown
How bad is it, Martha?

Sarah Palin admits questions about Sept. 11

Or, rather, concedes that Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. got something right.

Palin FNC Ratings Sky High
The Nielsen ratings are in and former V.P. hopeful Sarah Palin hit the nearly 4 million viewer jackpot last night for her debut appearance on Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor" as a Fox News contributor.

Quote of the day - Sen. Scott Brown’s daughter Ayla
“She even spelled Massachusetts wrong in her original ad which is very embarrassing, I must say as a young woman.”


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Coakley's Thugs

President Kennedy Runs Into Bullets
As he Drives Through Dallas - AP

This is just as silly, but it's real.

Reporter stumbles chasing hopeful for Kennedy seat
Reporter stumbles chasing hopeful for Kennedy seat
 

BOSTON – A reporter trying to question the Democrat seeking to replace Edward Kennedy in the Senate has been involved in a scuffle with one of her advisers.

John McCormack of the Weekly Standard fell Tuesday night near Attorney General Martha Coakley. He was audiotaping her while trying to pass a metal grate on a Washington sidewalk.

Photos and video show Coakely adviser Michael Meehan trying to help McCormack up. (LOL)


What the heck, they haven't even tried to hide their bias for several years, although this does seem a bit far to port.  Gateway has tons on this, here, here2, and here3.

Ted's Seat

SPLAT!

Boned Jello

Just last week I read that the DNC was urging House democrats to run with Obama when they go home to campaign.  Unless.   Unless his poll nunbers should fall into the low 40s, at which point it's every man for himself.  Ahem.

Twitter / West Wing Report: Latest Obama polls: 45% ap ...

While dismissing any real possibility that Martha Coakley will lose the "Kennedy" senate seat. Rick Klein [The Note] affirms that Mass Democrats are terrorized by the closeness of the race. 
And, asked whether she’s asked President Obama to campaign for her, Coakley told reporters: “I haven’t.”

And this ... Desperate Dems try to Palinize Massachusetts Senate race

Frantic over the possibility that a Democrat might lose the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, the Democratic National Committee has sent its top spinner, Hari Sevugan, to the aid of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, who appears to be rapidly losing ground to Republican Scott Brown. But what can Sevugan do to shore up Coakley's struggling campaign? Well, he spent his first day on the job trying to tie Brown to Sarah Palin.

Early Monday afternoon, Sevugan sent out an email to reporters featuring a link to a story on the lefty website TPM. The headline: "Is Sarah Palin Avoiding Mass Senate Race?" The story quoted a Democratic strategist saying that "it's interesting" that Palin is "nowhere to be found in this race." TPM conceded that GOP sources say there has been "no talk" about Palin visiting Massachusetts. But that didn't stop Sevugan, who is quoted declaring that Palin's supporters "are anxious for her to weigh in." At the top of his email to journalists, Sevugan wrote, "Come on, Sarah, why are you being so shy?"


Ain't this fun?


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Top Ten

Top Ten Reasons
to go to work naked
1. Your boss is always yelling, "I wanna see your ass in here by 8:00!"

2. Can take advantage of computer monitor radiation to work on your tan.

3. "I'd love to chip in, but I left my wallet in my pants."

4. To stop those creepy guys in Marketing from looking down your blouse.

5. You want to see if it's like the dream.

6. So that with a little help from Muzak you can add "Exotic Dancer" to your exaggerated resume.

7. People stop stealing your pens after they've seen where you keep them.

8. Diverts attention from the fact that you also came to work drunk.

9. Gives "bad hair day" a whole new meaning.

10. No one steals your chair.
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

When crooks investigate themselves

CRC report on ACORN
 DIY Kit:  study commissioned by John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Here's a snippet. from Report On ACORN An Incompetent Whitewash

Not surprisingly, the new Congressional Research Service report on ACORN continues the Democrats’ coverup of President Obama’s favorite advocacy group.

The CRS report commissioned by House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) –both longtime ACORN allies– is a whitewash.

The first finding Conyers and Frank crow about in a press release is this:

    There were no instances of individuals who were allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN or its employees and who were reported “attempting to vote at the polls.”

This is demonstrably false.  Darnell Nash of Cleveland, Ohio, was registered to vote nine times by ACORN. After fraudulently casting a ballot, he was convicted of both vote fraud and voter registration fraud and sentenced to six months imprisonment. ACORN remains under investigation ....

The beginning of nothing

The beginning of nothing


Aside from sneering at a certain "religion" started by a science fiction writer, on a bet, and which depends on scare tactics, and endless litigation to squelch discussion of  their cult, and pointing out that Islam is a cultural desert, hate machine, and mortal enemy of free men everywhere, I avoid, other than philosophically, religious discussion on this blog.  Live and let live is my motto.  Anyway, this does fall under the philosophical rubric, because we, all of us, have asked ourselves this same question at one time.  Or, so you'da thunk. 


Disclosure: I was born a Baptist, raised as, and am still, a Catholic.  I believe that the Blessed Mother would not wear patent leather shoes, nor chew gum. Additionally, I was ordained  a  minister (now Bishop) in the Universal Life Church (so I can marry people and give ad hoc funeral eulogies). 

One crack lawyer

In Passing

In Passing ...
 Quick - pull her finger

The Devil
Scott Brown raises $1.3 million in a day.  Average donation $77.00

Martha Coakley goes to a fundraiser with her "bundlers" raising at least $10,000 per person, and the party is full of registered lobbyists.

NEWSDAY: Sarah Palin's 1st night on FNC
Sarah Palin's TV career began on "The O'Reilly Factor" last night,  and now, time for a grade:    C.   OK, C +.

David Gergen's (Future) Epitaph
To paraphrase Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman, every word that comes out of his mouth is a cliche, and that includes “the,” “but,” and “and.”  Almost nothing he says is ever original, insightful or thoughtful, although he delivers his empty phrases in a professorial honk that seems to convey authority.  If you want to know what everybody else within the Beltway is thinking, Dave is your go-to guy.(Michael Walsh)

Agent looking for 'Climategate' insiders re Penn State's Michael Mann
Former CIA agent Kent Clizbe sent letters to 27 Penn State faculty members ... "As an intelligence collector targeting foreign or enemy government, we recruit an insider," said Clizbe.

New York Mag's hilarious Edwards scandal art
At the terminal, the couple fought in the passenger waiting area. They fought outside in the parking lot. Elizabeth was sobbing, out of control, incoherent. As their aides tried to avert their eyes, she tore off her blouse, exposing herself. “Look at me!” she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground.



Steel Worker Union Guy: Yeah, Coakley's Campaign Paid Me Fifty Bucks to Stand Here Holding a Coakley Sign, But I'm Voting for Brown

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

California's Proposition 71 Failure
Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no therapies and little progress. So supporters are embracing research they once opposed.

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Stuff Obama can't do

11 years old; no teleprompter

Reagan Health Care Bite

The best 60 second sound
bite you'll hear all day

 

Direct Access
MoSup

Gold Hill, OR

Gold Hill, OR

Free AKs

Culture Clash: CNN Anchorette Wants to Know Why Truck Dealer's Motto Is "God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks," and Why He's Giving Away a Free AK-47 With Every Truck
—Ace
 
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical  "Her distaste and apprehension is palpable.'

Cable Guy

No wonder sound comes out of my nose
 
The Cable Connector Quiz

Score: 70% (7 out of 10)

Bacon Salt

Mmmmm... Bacon

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Just got my WOOT purchase of J&D's Bacon Lover's Survival Kit.  When I ordered it I thought all salts, but not so.  The big jar  is bacon spread.  It taste's an awful lot like bacon fat and mayonnaise, which means it's really good, but I wouldn't go paying any $14.29 for it, which is what Amazon sells it for, and what I paid for this whole kit. One TBSP=80 cal seems pretty good though, wot?  Of course, there are occasions when you want something to taste extra scrumptious, and this is awfully convenient.  Ahem.

The Lip Balm was a total surprise.  What a hoot.  And yes, it is a balm, and yes, it tastes like bacon.  The salts too, which is where I see the real value.  Should be great on salads and bacon.

More South America Lessons

That George Santayana Thing

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Marc Miller  From Marc M

Rodge ...

More from South America. Lee Rogers read this on his morning show today.I Googled this to find the author, not sure but it's all over the net.First time I've heard the story and comparison. - m 
 
 
I can see why - here's an excerpt ...

In 1916, a new president was elected. Hipólito Irigoyen had formed a party called The Radicals under the banner of "fundamental change" with an appeal to the middle class.  ("Fundamental change"... now where have I heard that?)


Among Irigoyen's changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Put simply, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country's operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts.  (Beginning to sound more familiar?)


With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government's payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers' contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like our Social Security and Medicare programs.  (And, more!)


The death knell for the Argentine economy, however, came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón

 Doug Ross had this picture essay last year.
 

Elephants and Blow jobs

Pssst
We're making a break for it -pass it on.

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Hell, a few years ago Charles Blow would have been getting us coffee.

Carbon Offset Fraud

Carbon trading fraud in Belgium
 “up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities”


Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

One wonders how deep Algore's arm goes into this cesspool?  Watt's up with that?  also has this story ...

Cap and Trade revolt beginning on California’s AB32 Global Warming Solutions Act


This feel-good law to reduce the state’s carbon footprint was enacted with great hoopla by the Democratic legislature and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006

Stupid Gore & the hijacked 'toon

Can Brown really win?



What if Mass Dems are unable
to cheat to keep Republican Scott Brown from
winning the "Kennedy seat" because, never
 having faced such prospect before,
they don't know how ?





Yes, an idle thought

I'm jacked up!

I'm Dyin' Here Boss
 This will have special meaning for MoSup

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

In Passing

In Passing
 I saw stuff that amused me

The Double Secret Obama Veto
The first veto of the Obama presidency was not supposed to be a big deal, but President Obama's rejection of an obscure spending bill late last month is raising some

Media does matter for America
The launch of the Daily Caller is a necessary step toward creating ideological parity in the all-too-clearly biased mainstream media. It is a good thing that you, Tucker, are admitting that you come to the table with certain ideological baggage, and my new site Big Journalism will be there to watch your back when the well-funded, organized left’s knives come out to try to discredit and attempt to destroy you. Believe me, they will.

Re: 'His Bad'   [Stephen Spruiell]
Biden's oleaginous appeal has inspired some of the Onion's best recent work. Your post prompted me to dip back into the Biden vault, starting with the classic "Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway," and not overlooking "Biden Requests To Be Named Special Envoy To Reno."

The missing quote
As predicted, the media focus on Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview, where McCain advisor Schmidt pronounced Sarah Palin a disaster waiting to happen, ignores his after action report: "Now Schmidt says she “more than held her own” against Biden and that she prevented the Barack Obama-Biden victory from being lopsided."

"It's The People's Seat." (video)
Scott Brown at the Massachusetts Senate debate. "With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy's seat, it's... not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat... See also, Scott Brown's Best Moment Monday Night 

Justices may rule soon on campaign-finance case
a looming decision that could rock the national political landscape in this year of midterm congressional elections.

Biden Criticized For Appearing In Hennessy Ads

Trial lawyers association outlines its 2010 legislative agenda
Buy more Democrats