Chicago Panorama

Find Obama's Missing Records John Hancock Center in Chicago

I'm a lasagna, hang a salami.

Say Rodge ..

Some dude just bet me $500 that there are only 885 Palindromes possible in the English language.  Should I take that bet? He did, eh?

Going backdoor

Gun Control By Way Of Health Reform

“    Correction: November 8, 1993, Monday An article on Thursday about a proposal to tax handgun ammunition misstated the cost of some particularly destructive bullets under the plan. A 10,000 percent tax (calculated on the wholesale cost) would push the price of a $24 box of 20 Black Talon cartridges to $1,500, not to $150,000. ”

American Traditions  I've said that my biggest concern about Obamacare isn't the cost, since our money will be essentially worthless in a few months anyway. No, it's because gummint controlled health care affords them an opportunity to control every aspect of our lives under its umbrella.  I remember being stunned when, during a congressional hearing on her health grab attempt, some Donk asked Hillary whether a tax on bullets was being considered?    "No," she replied, "but that might be a good idea."   Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan jumped all over the idea. Today's IBD editorial addresses that concern with this new bunch. “ Gun Rights: A decade after Congress forbade the CDC from studying the health consequences of gun ownership, the National Institutes of Health has started funding such research. Will reform pry the guns from our cold, sick hands? More than a decade ago Congress, seeing it as a backdoor assault on the 2nd Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms, voted to cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control. Such research was viewed as one-sided and based on flawed assumptions that all gun use was bad, even that which saved lives and deterred crime. The National Institutes of Health seemed to have picked up the baton by funding similar studies of gun violence as a public health issue. "It's almost as if someone's been looking for a way to get this study done ever since the Centers for Disease Control was banned from doing it 10 years ago," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of one of the NIH studies. "But it doesn't make any more sense now than it did then." In response to inquiries about the studies, NIH spokesman Don Ralbovsky said: "Gun-related violence is a public health problem — it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH." Considering the drive for health care reform and the views on private gun ownership held by this administration and appointees such as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, [continued] ”  Today's special quote: "... the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by some convoluted Manchurian takeover, the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your hunting rifles stop them?" Cynthia Tucker

What's in a cup of coffee

Bonus: Cockroach alarm pheromones

African Lion, Lyin' African

Sign of the Times

Hucker

Murtha, Pelosi, Hating Whitey

In passing

I discover that we're trapped  in a cartoon.  Only Explanation for all this.

Mmmmm ..cheesecake “ Serial crook Murtha, Moran steer millions to defense firm Quid Pro Quo - "Soon, money flowed the other way" Obama. tells Congress that policy 'Czars' won't testify What's next?  "Judicial czars" who trump the SCOTUS? Afghan success depends on understanding the enemy USA Today with a  cogent Afghanistan analysis?  Whoa, go figure. — Trying to treat al-Qaeda and the Taliban as separate threats is unrealistic and unworkable. — Any mission will fail unless the United States and its allies can demonstrate staying power. — Go all out to provide better lives and education to ordinary people — and minimize civilian casualties. Pelosi Blasts Cheney As “Not Dignified” For Hitting Obama On Afghanistan *shakes head* Hating Whitey Makes Unexpected Comeback All it took for addled minds to conjure shadows of racism behind every whitey tree in the whole American forest were voices raised in dissent over the President's far-left policies.     Plus: Today's Special Bonus Barf Bag “  In the Simpson's episode "Bart to the Future," Lisa Simpson becomes the nations "first straight woman president."  She finds the country in a financial mess, and has this exchange with her adviser, Milhouse. Lisa: If I'm going to bail the country out, I'll have to raise taxes, but in my speech I'd like to avoid calling it a, "painful emergency tax." Milhouse: What about, "colossal salary grab." Lisa: See, that has the same problem. We need to soften the blow. Milhouse: Well, if you just want to out-and-out lie ... [Lisa doesn't object] Okay, we could call it a, "temporary refund adjustment." Lisa: I love it.  Now. listen to this exchange between Nancy Pelosi and CNBC's  "Money Honey,"  Maria Bartiromo The Money Honey (via Rush Limbaugh). "It's not a tax increase; it's eliminating a tax decrease that was already there." ” ”

Journo 101

Spell C-A-T Lebron

''Evidently pick any entertainment schmuck believes alienating half of the country is good for a career.''

Obamacare test vote

TESTING 2.. 3 ...

“ THE FIRST HEALTH CARE VOTE: The 47-to-53 defeat of the $247 billion doc fix was a bigger loss than supporters expected. The defeat came at the hands of Senate Democratic moderates, jittery about adding to the national debt by passing legislation that wasn’t paid for. The fact that Democrats, who hold a 60-vote majority, could not muster even 51 votes for the bill is a sign of rocky sledding ahead for health care reform. Roll Call’s Steven Dennis: “House Democratic leaders sounded bullish Wednesday after launching an all-hands-on-deck effort to win support for a ‘robust’ public insurance option in their health care bill. ‘We think we have the votes now,”’ Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (Conn.) told reporters. ‘We have the votes to pass a robust public option.’ Larson cautioned that the details were still being worked out, and Democratic aides said Members were still being whipped at press time and did not release a tally.  {politico] ”  If Pelosi can get 218 people to publicly declare for this monstrosity, I'll kiss her arse in Macy's window.

Rev Al Jackson

He said sneeringly ...

This clip of MSNBC's Contessa Brewer calling Jesse Jackson "Al Sharpton," is precious, if only for the stop-action sneer.

MuShu Chance

ALERT!

Only two days left for MuShu to pick up the estimated 5000 additional votes necessary to make the final round.  YES WE bullshit CAN!

Duct Taped Airplane

WHY WE WIN!

Why We Win! “ Bear attack 2009 Apparently a bear attacked his plane while parked in a remote field up in AK. He had not cleaned out the inside after a long fishing trip and the bear smelled it. He had 2 new tires, 3 cases of Duct Tape and several rolls of cellophane delivered. Then went about repairing the plane so he could fly it home. Gutsy, to say the least. Or stupid. ( Neither! just common up north sense! What other option did he have? That's why we call it "100 mile an hour tape". Have tested it myself and found that at a little over 100 mph it begins to fray a tad...especially on the top of the aircraft. ”   Commander Lieutenant Forsythe sent me several pictures and a story .. this story.  I was able to find it, and all the pictures, on the web.  While there are dozens of sites carrying the story, all are the same, and  none identify the pilot.  There be no question though about duct tape being used to repair a ripped apart airplane.  BTW, Wasilla, home to RAK the Holster Boy, and Sarah the Palin, boasts of being the  "Duck Tape Capital of the WORLD!,"   Is there anything it can't do Damned hard to unsnap that thing if you're her prom date?

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

“ You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed. ” What the Limbaugh Quote Hoax Really Tells Us

In his examination of today's schizo left, Chicago Boy Shannon Love basically validates my own theory.  That they are rabid dogs to be very much feared. Here's a cut  from What the Limbaugh Quote Hoax Really Tells Us - “ Watching so many serious journalists and leftist political figures fall for the fake Rush Limbaugh quotes tells us something very frightening about what leftists believe true about non-leftist America. I say, “frightening,” because we evaluate the level of threat that others pose based on our understanding of the amorality of their beliefs. Then we rationalize the harshness of the methods we are willing to employ against them based on our threat assessment. We are much more willing to use draconian methods against people we view as extremely evil than we are against people we judge less evil. As a nation, we were willing to employ much more draconian methods to defeat fascism than we employed to fight anyone else. The same basic principle applies to our internal conflicts as well. The more extreme and dangerous we view our political and social opponents as being, the more tolerant we become of extreme measures to oppose them. Given this, what does it portend for American non-leftists that a wide and powerful swath of the American left apparently believes it quite credible that a major media figure with an audience in the tens of millions looks back fondly on slavery and approves of political assassination? What draconian methods could those leftists rationalize using if they really believe they are fighting people with such values? As I have written before, immersion in fantasy is a defining aspect of leftism. As they move progressively towards the left pole of the political spectrum, the realities become more and more immersive while becoming more and more detached from reality. At the far end of the spectrum, the leftists become delusional to the point they believe they are trapped in a gotterdammerung struggle of good versus evil that justifies any action they might take in fighting that struggle. When dangerous fantasies, once the providence of the 5% most radical left, become accepted as true in the 40% just to the left of center, the rest of us are in great danger. ” He concludes that Limbaugh is only the "visible  manifestation"of  a fearsome mid-wing America that we know as you and me." His judgment that "They are targeting the rest of us as well"  begs for a possible course of action.   Does he believe in any realistic, nonviolent, way of regaining control of our government?  How?  He stops short, I guess,  because people who do venture into that arena enter into a very black place indeed.  And get their names put on a list.  Ahem. BTW, I do realize that calling the left out this way will validate their own twisted misapprehensions.  So, there you have it.  One faction can no longer live with the other.  Divorce, a very nasty divorce,  is probably in order.

In Passing

Look what we stepped in

“ Another former Gitmo detainee killed in a shootout Worse than detention, and it goes on his permanent record Fake Chamber of Commerce Press Conference - VIDEO The clown media (we're now told) that's so important that it needs to be financed by the public, is fooled by a transvestite with a beard. Desperate Virginia Democrats find Bob McDonnell's "Macaca." "Pander Bob"  is for for "the sanctity of marriage and the protection of innocent life:"  Whoa! (Weekly Standard) About that phony-baloney ABC-WaPost Poll  touting phony-baloney Obama love - (via Rush Limbaugh show) "The sampling of this poll compromises 33% Democrats and 20% Republicans.  That's a 13-point spread.  It is two points larger than their September polling at 32 to 21% -- and more tellingly, it's significantly larger than their Election Day sample, which included 35% Democrats and 26% Republicans for a gap of nine points."  So if you're going to do a poll and you're gonna sample 33% Democrats versus 20% Republicans, 13% more Democrats, you can get the result you want.  Then if you get into racial weighting of the polling sample, then you can get even more results that you want.  And then you can say to President Obama, "See? See? We're on your side! See? Don't Fox us! We're helping you, Mr. President. We're on your side."  It's a totally fraudulent poll. [This one is not] And Number Five on The List (with a bullet) ...   Bill Maher Stirs Crowd With Plea for Obama to Make Limbaugh 'Explode Like a Bag of Meat' Who's tired of this war of words? ”

Mrs. Hughes, New To Me

Mrs. Hughes

Cuzzin' Ricky  (C/R) sent me the raw video of this "Mrs. Hughes Live at the Ice House." video.  Never even heard of her, have you?  I watched it and thought before I submit it to YouTube I'll check, because she's too good not to have been discovered.  Yup.  Whole bunches of her videos out there.  Because I'm not around a water cooler every day, I don't know squat.  Anyway, and I don't say this pejoratively, but her comedy reminds me of the early.Roseanne Barr, only not quite as cynical.  Made me laugh out loud more than once. I need laughs.

A Geezer. A Girl.

Casting Call?

I think I may have posted Ray Romano's The Shower once before, but it's what this picture made me think of.

The former live longer

There are hunter-killers, and there are pigeons

Unhinged, Indeed

A rose for Cynthia

Earlier in the week we linked to this Las Vegas Review story about Oath keepers [Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.]  Sigh.  Every member publication of the Democrat Media Complex has at least one staffer whose job it is to look at everything through the racial prism.  That this makes them a racist by definition is an irony that escapes them.  The Atlanta Constitution fills their ("left-wing" would be a redundancy) race-baiter slot with Cynthia Tucker.  Here she is today. They’ve been watching Red Dawn again “ The paranoia and racism of the unhinged fringe ought to be taken seriously, and it seems the Secret Service is doing exactly that. According to a report in the Boston Globe, President Obama has drawn an unprecedented number of threats against his life, overwhelming the ability of the Secret Service to check out all the lunatics to see how serious they are.  <snip> ... there are moments when the paranoia of the wingnuts is almost comical. A new group called Oath Keepers has pledged to keep the feds from violating the Second Amendment by confiscating weapons. Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. “The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here,” says founding father Stewart Rhodes, an ex-Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer. “My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can’t do it without them. ” And then Cynthia slips on the slope “ Hey, people believe what they want. That’s what makes this a great country. But, really, folk, the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by some convoluted Manchurian takeover [say, by a Marxist Zero with no experience and no history?], the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your hunting rifles stop them? ” I have watched Red Dawn recently. Powers Booth Fighter pilot, and Wolverine Colonel Andy Tanner  played the role of fighter pilot, and Wolverine, Col. Andy Taylor.  Pilots swear an oath to protect the constitution too, Cynthia.

Bird in a bun

Safe haven and then you can eat it

Micket RATTT

Bet on it: ACORN will be back - and other stops on the road to perdition

ACORN is too important to Democrats and Obama in particular to allow it to wither away.

Who's the leader of the club That's after you and me M-I-C-K-E-Y R-A-T-T-T Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there We're as screwed as we can be M-I-C-K-E-Y R-A-T-T-T  We need to as a nation begin thinking of the Democrat Party as sort of a Mickey Mouse Club for rabid rats. The Mickey Rat club. That way it'll be easier to kill them,  figuratively, and as an institution of course. Here's two more reasons added to an already too-long list of crime and corruption. First, from the Detroit News: “ Bet on it: ACORN will be back ACORN may be down, but don't count it out. The elaborate propaganda apparatus erected to support the Obama agenda is already at work spinning the downfall of the community organization into a vicious right-wing plot to destroy the presidency of Barack Obama, who sprouted from ACORN. The group was cut off from some of its taxpayer dollars after conservative bloggers duped ACORN staffers into offering advice on setting up a child prostitution ring. ACORN had no defense -- it was caught on tape and posted on the Web. But ACORN is too important to Democrats and Obama in particular to allow it to wither away. Much of the taxpayer money that funds ACORN's activism ends up benefiting Democratic interests. (continued) ”  But wait, there's more ... The Vote Democrats Don't Want Whatever you do, don't mention Countrywide. clippage ... “ If you think moderate Democrats are afraid of voting for ObamaCare, you should see how they react to a potential vote on the Countrywide Financial loan scandal. The House oversight committee was scheduled to meet on Thursday afternoon to mark up several minor pieces of legislation. Days before the meeting, California Republican Darrell Issa notified committee Chairman Edolphus Towns that Mr. Issa would call for a vote to subpoena Countrywide documents from Bank of America, which bought the failed subprime lender last year. Recall that, under the "Friends of Angelo" program, named for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, Democratic Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad received sweetheart deals on home mortgages. Mr. Issa wants to uncover the full story on Countrywide's effort to influence Washington policy makers. Mr. Towns, a New York Democrat who also received mortgages from the unit that processed the VIP loans but claims he received no favors, has opposed such a subpoena. But can he count on his Democratic colleagues to vote it down? ... [Next reel] Wall Street Journal ” R-A-T-T-T-S