Frank Rich

This is Rich

Where Farts Come From “ The State of the Union Is Comatose By FRANK RICH Published: January 30, 2010 HANDS down, the State of the Union’s big moment was Barack Obama’s direct hit on the delicate sensibilities of the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The president was right to blast the 5-to-4 decision giving corporate interests an even greater stranglehold over a government they already regard as a partially owned onshore subsidiary. How satisfying it was to watch him provoke Alito into a “You lie!” snit. Here was a fight we could believe in. ” I think I found the prollem. Notice that the The New York Times Newsroom Navigator  does not list among it's resources The New York Times.  That's prolly why Rich missed Supreme Court and the law reporter Linda Greenhouse's  au contraire explanation last week.  Some quotage: “ This time, Justice Alito shook his head as if to rebut the president’s characterization of the Citizens United decision, and seemed to mouth the words “not true.” Indeed, Mr. Obama’s description of the holding of the case was imprecise. He said the court had “reversed a century of law.” The law that Congress enacted in the populist days of the early 20th century prohibited direct corporate contributions to political campaigns. That law was not at issue in the Citizens United case, and is still on the books. Rather, the court struck down a more complicated statute that barred corporations and unions from spending money directly from their treasuries — as opposed to their political action committees — on television advertising to urge a vote for or against a federal candidate in the period immediately before the election. ” A  bit more hubris from Rich was him saying  "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition."  Tsk-tsk.  There is no shortage of unpatriotic peeps in this nation, but I don't think refusing to roll over for Obama's legislative initiatives qualifies.  When well known Americans travel overseas, and call our President guilty of war crimes, that's unpatriotic.  When a newspaper discloses" the existence of a program to discover planned Al Qaeda terrorist operations on U.S. soil," thats unpatriotic treasonous.  Frank Rich is guilty of being Olbermann-istic, a capital crime in the journalism bidness.

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In Passing Upon These Rocks We Staked America's Sovereignty? and other bullets we must keep dodging

“ IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel Just when you think things can’t get any more bizarre with the IPCC, having just learned that the IPPC 2007 report used magazine articles for references, head of the IPCC, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, provides comedy gold. According to the UK Telegraph, he’s just released what they describe as a “smutty” romance novel, Return to Almora laced with steamy sex, lots of sex. Oh, and Shirley MacLaine. And The Him waggled his executive staff member and spake, "Look around. Is there anyone here we missed?" The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of college football's  Bowl Championship Series Lord Obama accuses Republicans of portraying health care overhaul legislation as a "Bolshevik plot." Oh and one last thing, did he give them the finger? Decoding Biden His op-ed is something more.  It addresses, head-on, a touchy topic that the administration prefers either to avoid or to speak about in platitudes: The maintenance of America’s nuclear forces in the face of the president’s nuclear free world agenda. #HealthCare FAIL: How The Dems Botched Their Signature Legislation You know how the saying goes: Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan. And you can be sure that if health care reform fails, the people below will make like John Edwards--quick-like. With enemies like these ... . LOL. Pelosi Lied About Waterboarding During an interview for my book, a former top intelligence official told me he was shocked when Pelosi made this claim, because, he said, in the same time frame that she admits she was briefed on waterboarding, she stopped a different covert operation by going to the White House to complain. The White House actually pulled back the top-secret document authorizing the action that had already been signed by President Bush, and revised it to meet Pelosi’s demands. Health Care Reform Expected -- In Some Form Bloggers Discuss Fate Of Legislation This Year. Plus: Who Benefits Most From The Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling? Is Spending Money on Air Superiority Really a Waste, Mr. President? It was called “the most outstanding fighter plane ever built.” No other country had anything like it. It did, however, have two enemies that it was powerless against: Barack Hussein Obama and the United States Senate. ”

Caption Obama Injecting

Caption Obama

A message from President Obama. - "If you've had anal sex, or used intravenous drugs, make sure you get tested regularly for H.I.V.  You owe it to your partners, and the community"

Predicting weather 8 hours ahead

From the brainiacs who brought you AGW

Merged Brides

Two pictures that demanded a merger

How was your bottle of 1928 Krug, Madame Speaker?

Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze' Speaker's trips 'are more about partying than anything else'

Leftard Whines

today’s stamp of disapproval

SondraK has been saying her rosary, and it's already made her saintly. Sigh.

#8

2010 Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings

Mighty Clemson If the Terps can somehow pull out a win against Clemson at *shudder* Littlejohn tomorrow night, there may be something to Pomeroy.   Hey ... the Terps are much better now than they were in December.   This is what my guy says.

Obama Girl

'Obama Girl' kicks Obama to the curb

Mr. Obama's chutzpah is startling even by Washington standards. He must have forgotten about his deal with pharmaceutical companies that broke his promise to allow drug reimportation from Canada. The same goes for a recent deal to save unions $60 billion in taxes that other Americans with the same insurance plans would have to pay. The White House dispatched two aides - Jim Messina and Peter Rouse - to negotiate the notorious Cornhusker kickback deal with Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, to get him to break his promise not to support any health care legislation that funded abortions. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was directly involved in those negotiations too. Amber Lee Ettinger, whose racy YouTube video boosted Mr. Obama's campaign popularity, says she's disappointed with his broken promises. Comparing the president to a lying lover, the famous "Obama Girl" warns that when a boyfriend lies, "You kick him to the curb." Losing Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat didn't wake up Democrats to public outrage over their policies. Maybe losing "Obama Girl" will get their attention.[Full] ”

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Rid yourself of the jerks NOW!

Some of you can, anyway

I've used the Smooth Wheel add-on for some time, and you should too ( if you use Firefox or Mozilla).  It enables a smooth screen roll when using your mouse scroll wheel.  Lately however, I noticed some rather severe hang time, as have you prolly, if you think about it..  You can stop that jerkiness by keeping this open in one of your tabs.  If this sounds like voodoo to you, you're not completely wrong.  In fact, you prolly don't even need Smooth Wheel to see improvement. Give it a try. You're welcome.

Once a commie ...

Where was Putin on  9-18?

“ Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Russia urged China to dump its Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds in 2008 in a bid to force a bailout of the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said. Paulson learned of the “disruptive scheme” while attending the Beijing Summer Olympics, according to his memoir, “On The Brink.” The Russians made a “top-level approach” to the Chinese “that together they might sell big chunks of their GSE holdings to force the U.S. to use its emergency authorities to prop up these companies,” Paulson said, referring to the acronym for government sponsored entities. The Chinese declined, he said. Russia’s five-day war with U.S. ally Georgia started on Aug. 8, the same day as the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told U.S. President George W. Bush during those ceremonies that “war has started,” according to Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman.[Full story] ” No one person could have engineered the run on our cash reserves, but nations acting in concert?  Ratcommie nations?  Hmmmm.

Super Heroes

Superman Can't Lie

Sweet Revenge

Deér Monsieur Dickweed

David Shuster's mouthpiece writes to Vanity Fair

There are no allegations of any wiretap plot in the FBI affidavit, and a law enforcement official has conceded that the four men were not attempting to wiretap or intercept calls.  Furthermore, legal representation for the accused has gone on record stating there were no intentions to bug phones in the Senator’s office.  The Atlantic’s own Politics blog recently published a post acknowledging there was no attempt to wiretap. We kindly ask you to issue a correction/retraction to the story. We have been/will be making similar requests of other news sources to correct similar errors.  Some, such as the Washington Post, MSNBC’s David Shuster, and Talking Points Memo already have posted corrections or retractions. In addition, Mr. O’Keefe is 25-years old. ”

Home Alone After 20

Ford - Obama Motors

Nothing's just Black & White but we can make out the shape of things

“ Consumer Reports, the bible of the car-buying public, now rates Ford's quality higher than Toyota's.    Ford posts $2.7 billion annual profit GM lost $1.2 billio in third quarter  General Motors' will pay Toyota vehicle owners a cash allowance of up to $1,000, or offer free financing if they switch to a GM car or truck. The promotion will run through February. ”

Faces of Good and Evil

Can You Tell?

A Scientific Study

Democrats and Republicans Can Be Differentiated from Their Faces That's what these guys claim.  “ Background Individuals' faces communicate a great deal of information about them. Although some of this information tends to be perceptually obvious (such as race and sex), much of it is perceptually ambiguous, without clear or obvious visual cues. Methodology/Principal Findings ” After Climategate, I no longer accept the methodology of other so called scientists. I'm doing my own double-blind test right here, in public.  Can you tell, just by looking at their faces, whom is what?  Findings will be published.

Abortion=Gay Dating

CBS's Moral Equivalency

“  .... two men excitedly watching the game, before their hands brush as they both reach into a bowl of chips. Suddenly, the two begin making out, much to the shock of a guy sitting close by.   - Man Crunch Commercial ”

Hi-Ho As a sop to the leftards currently going bonkers over Heisman Trophy quarterback Tim Tebow's "my mom was advised to have an abortion, but she said no; so here I am" Super Bowl commercial, CBS is considering the "Man Crunch" gay dating service commercial as an offset. If I was a gay dater, frankly, I'd be a little pissed. The counter message to Tebow would be "avoid those stretch marks ladies; abort the little bastard."  Instead, CBS seemingly sees gay dating as  morally equivalent to infanticide.  What a country. And FWIW, and don't ask me why this is, but the people who watch football would gag, even vomit, at the sight of men swapping spit.  Two nice looking women, on the other lip ... .

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In passing ...

Democrat Party 'Til U Puke

SOTU “  4 from rejuoy a whittle long, but very awesome/ Hat tip to Michael Moore for reminding me about President Eisenhower’s famous “Beware the Military-Industrial Complex” speech, in which the Liberal Icon and Pacifist Saint Dwight David Eisenhower had this to say: ... uppercut from the right Judd Gregg to MSNBC: 'You've got to have some integrity on your side of this camera, too." haymaker from the left Stewart: Matthews Is 'One Scotch Away From Being Ron Burgundy' Steele told he must win tea partiers' trust Mr. Steele, regarded with suspicion by some RNC members, including some (some?) conservatives, has sought to address tea-party events and has called himself a "tea partier." I Bet Bill Murray Won’t Be in the Sequel if the Groundhog is all CGI America’s cutest, fuzziest group of terrorist sympathizers, PETA, is demanding that the most adorable weather forecaster in history be replaced with a robot. (Cheryl Jones) 'Not true' sums it up Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito let a pained expression cross his face and muttered, "Not true." He was reacting to President Obama's description of the high court's ruling in the Citizens United case, and he was entirely right. But the words aptly sum up the entire State of the Union Address. UAW Boss to Members: ‘Shut the F*%k Up, You Motherf*%kers…’ The unions are starting to feel the pinch, as companies are now indicating that they can no longer make concessions. This means that either union membership has to give up some of their benefits and pay, or everyone gets canned. ”

Emperor

Aw, what the Hell

Chris -NC

Dear Me

Italian Deer

Computer Guts

Cables

This tells you what I've been doing since 12:01.  Been putting it off, but I got cables to stream NetFlix to the TV, and a new tuner card that, hopefully, will allow me to once again record TV directly. Stuff's been staring at me, making me feel lazy. I've been using my little Canon A560 to shoot the Tivo'd video off the television screen.  As you can see from the Glock 18 video, the quality is good, but the audio has that "tinny" sound, and it adds additional steps to produce.   My old TV tuner won't capture the HD signal, so this new card ought to put me back in business.  It's been about two years since I opened the box to fiddle with stuff, and horry clap, talk about dust buildup.  Nice feeling of satisfaction to wipe the innards clean.  Then my wireless keyboard wouldn't work.  Tried every damn thing for most of 2 hours.    Before trucking off to Office Depot.,  I just now pounded all the keys, and threw it onto my Lazy-Boy.  Sumbitch works now.  So, what'd I miss?

A certain cowboy movie ..

Looking for a name here, Boss.

Circa 1985,  I caught the tail end an old West morality film - on a Christian family entertainment cable channel, of all places.  The plot was that a townsman got drunk, drove his wagon recklessly through town, and wound up killing a child.  This wasn't a Gunsmoke episode, but had that flavor.  When I tuned in, the drunk was about to be  hanged, having been found guilty of murder.  Everyone in the town was sorry, his wife was on hand, but it was justice. The consequence of indulging in reckless behavior that harmed others. I was waiting for the sheriff to stop it, or something, but damned if he didn't get hanged! This was before Lonesome Dove's famous "Jake's Fate" hanging, but  I found myself unsettled by it in the same manner.  Not that I disagreed; I had just become used to modern molly-coddling sensibilities. Does anyone know the name of this episode?  I am forever wanting to use it in discussions with hard core Libertarians, as an example of changes that are necessary before society makes everything legal, more or less (which in theory, I too advocate). Gracia.

pensions

Today's supposition

Heard in the O Club.   Bear in mind, I was on my 7th Manhattan, and transfixed by the bartender. “ 3dc  Pappy .. I give up... I speak a different language.... A friend was a United Pilot. He retired a United Pilot on a United Pension... United went bankrupt... The bankruptcy judge assigned all the money in his and other retired workers and pilots to the creditors of United. The workers and pilots were left with NO pension. Just Social Security... I am say... the same could happen to government pensions.. they don't have to be covered... I am not saying should. I am saying there is precedence. My argument is: "are government workers protected more by the government then any private workers?" If that is the case (and it seems to be) then it's not a government Of,By and For the People rather more something like the Pak. ISI. ”

Nutshell

Thug Nation

Unveiled Threats

Obama's Thug Pours Out

Obama's in-your-face attack on the SCOTUS, as the justices sat scant yards away, was scary The man has absolutely no sense of irony        - "I don't think the nation's elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful [ahem] interests"        -  "or worse, by foreign enemies."

Expectations

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“ ‘The most bizarre State of the Union address’ “The best line of the night? “I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” Priceless. Misconduct Found on   Health Plan Meetings Opps ... sorry.  That was from the last one. Records sought on White House health care talks Act II Heckler At Obama Speech to Congress: 'You Lie!' Opps ... sorry.  That was from the last one. Heckler At Obama Speech to Congress: 'You Lie!' Chief Justice Alito calls Obama a liar ... Well, what would you call it? Matthews On Obama: 'I Forgot He Was Black Tonight' But the thrill up your leg Chris?  What about the thrill? Fineman: Obama Should Be On Mt. Rushmore For That Speech Newsweek's Howard Fineman feels the thrill Couric on Obama: 'Better at Making Us Smarter than Making Us Angry,' 83% Back Obama It's a Leftist Media Bonerama! WingNerds Exonerated? In all the rush of the State of the Union craziness tonight, I wanted to make sure you saw this latest turn in the Landrieu/WingNerd story down in New Orleans. It's still not clear what the Fearsome Four were trying to do. But it's no longer clear that they were attempting to bug Landrieu's phone. Some sort of tampering. But not clear it was bugging. ”

Where's Your Messiah Now?

Keep my friend's mugs filled barkeep

Sweet

“ I have not seen a party's fortunes collapse so suddenly since Richard Nixon got caught up in the Watergate scandal and a president who carried 49 states was threatened with impeachment and removal from office. ”

“ Michael Barone is a very savvy guy on matters like this.  Kegger at the Barn. Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble, at least at this moment. Back in 1994 I wrote the first article in a nonpartisan publication suggesting that the Republicans had a serious chance to win the 40 seats necessary for a majority in the House. That article appeared in U.S. News & World Report in July 1994. This year political handicapper Charlie Cook is writing in January, six months earlier in the cycle, that Republicans once again would capture the 40 seats they need for a majority if the House elections were held today. I concur. The generic vote question -- which party's candidates would you vote for in House elections -- is at least as favorable to Republicans as it was in the last month before the election in 1994. Read more at the Washington Examiner: ”

Ben Nelson Pants on Fire

Number of words: 1034...

to say "Ben Nelson's a liar"

-and not a mention of that cheesy rug.

Hey, that's profiling!

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things:     * Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?     * Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?     * Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?

“ This finding led us to investigate a controversial women-only subset of the self-shot picture: the universally maligned “MySpace Shot,” taken by holding your camera above your head and being just so darn coy. We were sure that everyone thought these pictures were kinda lame. In fact, the prospect of producing hard data on just how lame got us all excited. But we were so wrong. ”

Remember - they have the FBI

Got Ideas About a Climate Bill? Kerry, Graham and Lieberman Want to Hear From You

J.D. Hayworth lights a fart

Senator McCain’s GOP Challenger Calls For Obama’s Birth Certificate

I'm way interested in hearing this debated with McCain.  Extrapolate.

Yemen Tourism

Peyton Manning- Now that you've won the Super Bowl, where will you be going? That would be Yemen, Bob!

I think most civilized people dream about nuking Yemen off the map.  This is what it looks like, just in case.

Korean Tinder

Koreas Exchange Fire Near Disputed Sea Border

“ ...  the North's artillery fire landed in its own waters while the South fired into the air. ”

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As a matter of curiosity

In Passing

In Passing -

I found some very haute girls

Haute Haute Haute-Chi-Minh “ Behar Panel Blames Gender for Air America Failure; Says Liberals Too Sophisticated for Format with 'People Screaming at Them' Will join DeGeneres and O'Donnel at halftime show.  What Lesson Did Brown Teach Obama/Democrats? Looks like the lesson they’ve learned is that they have to pass their bad policies faster before they really lose power in the November midterm elections. It seems that a certain self-righteous arrogance is what we are seeing from Democrats ... Scarborough radio-show listeners apparently don’t turn up at protests because they’re so confused by Joe’s constantly shifting attempts to please media liberals that they end up dizzy. What Was He Looking For? O’Keefe must have some information that made him think bugging Landrieu’s phones would reveal information damning enough of Landrieu that people would overlook the wiretapping when he made it public. What does O’Keefe suspect about Landrieu and is he right about it? UK Science Advisor: Hey, Maybe We Should Listen to Those Deniers Today's news is sure to send the warmers into a state of panic, as the UK's chief scientific advisor admits the time has come to listen to the skeptics of the junk science. 231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest But then, that's according to the $80 million U.N. front-line agency in the climate change struggle USA UAS USA! CBS plans to ease restrictions on ads In the wake of liberal anger over CBS' decision to air the Tim Tebow Focus on the Family piece during the Super Bowl,  Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell will discover their G-Spots at halftime.  Or, something like that. Albert Einstein - Does Evil Exist? I found this thought provoking, but I don't want to open this forum up to long "discussions" on religion.  I put it on Boned Jello.  Thank you Tommy Mann. PPP poll: Fox really is the most trusted name in TV news MSNBC cries foul - Conservatives were part of the polling pool. I made that up, but IMO  this pails in importance to FNC being found most fair in the last 10,000 independednt such analysises Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light' My post  post last week on an obscure Plain Dealer story has made me a contender for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize! ”