Would you buy a car from....Timmay!!!

Geithner: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse? by Larry Kudlow

What is going on in this country? The government is about to take over GM in a plan that completely screws private bondholders and favors the unions. Get this: The GM bondholders own $27 billion and they’re getting 10 percent of the common stock in an expected exchange. And the UAW owns $10 billion of the bonds and they’re getting 40 percent of the stock. Huh? Did I miss something here? And Uncle Sam will have a controlling share of the stock with something close to 50 percent ownership. And no bankruptcy judge. So this is a political restructuring run by the White House, not a rule-of-law bankruptcy-court reorganization.

OK, maybe not Timmay!!! But Uncle Sam,BO, and the bosses of UAW. Unlike Timmay!!!, the car czar is not a known tax-cheat, just a suspected bribery participant in misuse of State of New York pension funds.

Now hat the Gummint and the UAW are going to control GM and Chrysler, how long will it be before the Gummint uses it's power of the pen to severely hamper any competition? How long until Gummint accounting practices replace GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)? How long until the only car you can get will be used Gummint vehicles, or maybe the 21st century Trabant?

If they do this quickly enough, with their typical vampire enthusiasm, perhaps some people may take a second look their lust for the cash flowing through the healthcare system. HINT: They aren't really concerned about delivery of healthcare, it's about delivery of their cut (or taste as Tony Soprano would call it).

Pretty much says it all

I had wondered...

why Miss California was asked the homosexual marriage question by that flaming queen (BTW why is an male homosexual judging feminine beauty?) Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. (aka Perez Hilton). Now I know, her bio set her up as a target.

Miss Prejean is a student at San Diego Christian College - the kind of place activist gay leftists are at war with, where Christians preach what they practice.

Since judges have background sheets on the contestants before them, I'm sure a massive case of gender envy by Mario forced him to out Miss California as a Christian. Probably with the indignation that she probably voted for Proposition 8 with the majority of Californians and the thought of, "How dare SHE be Miss California!!"

Finally An Admission Cap & Trade is a TAX!!!,

And when he says it's a large one he means it. $3128 for an average household. That $400 Obama doled out off of payroll taxes doesn't seem like a deal now, does it? At least they are finally calling payroll taxes what they are, a tax instead of "contributions". But of course since business has to collect the energy tax they are confident they can blame business not the Demothuglicans in DC.

And despite all the idiot advertisements on the Boob Tube, that tax is going into the general fund, just like Social Insecurity has since 1964.

Earth Day Giggles and Grins

Update: That Big Yellow Thing in the sky confounds the know-it-alls.

A present for you. The download link is to a pdf of page 64 of Newsweek magazine of April 28th 1975. The first Earth Day Issue. Its title? Why, "The Cooling World" of course. Enjoy!!

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A Shirt I'm ordering

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We need it 18,500 more times

The Obammessiah is getting press for directing his cabinet to cut costs by doing such things as bulk ordering office supplies. He had directed them to save $100 million dollars. Well it is a start I guess but with the Congressional Budget office saying that the deficit for FY 2009 is $1.85 trillion that would mean we would need to save that $100 million 18,500 times to balance the budget. And what is he talking about going line-by-line over the budget? Did we pass the line item veto while I wasn't looking? (I checked, we didn't) So he can go over it, but he only has two options sign it or not, and he damn well knows it and the media knows it, but thinks that the rubes (that's you and me) don't.

Why Homeland Security is scared of Veterans

I think this concept scares the hell out of those people who intend to shred the Constitution as written and substitute "wiser, saner, more Democratic and cosmopolitan rules for the future."

WDSU ex-reporterette "Nips"

CNN’s Susan Roesgen, who was known as "Nips" to the radio personalities in New Orleans due to a "wardrobe malfunction" while covering Mardi Gras parades in a Belly Dancer/Harem Girl costume for WDSU-TV, is now becoming known for beclowning herself at the Chicago Tea Party by trying to shout Obamessiah talking points over the person she was supposed to be trying to interview. In the first video below you will see a little more of that scene with additional video when a crowd member lays into her for her obvious bias in trying to slant the report:



Now look at her report on a much smaller, obviously more to her liking, gathering:



And if you need a further example, from when she was still in New Orleans:




Michael Graham of the Boston Herald had this to say about "Nips".

The people that have relied on Rent-a-Mobs from ACORN, ANSWER, MORON (MoveOn), and other bought and paid for subsidiaries of the Democrat Party and George Sor@ss can not believe that real unpaid citizens might actually have been lulled from their stupor to express their thoughts about what is happening.

Jimmy Carter's four years of budgets caused what was named Stagflation. In four years a $100 price increased to $149 by inflation alone and wages did not keep up. And his budgets did not represent anything near the percent of the money supply that the Obammessiah's do. It's time to start studying the Weimar Republic or perhaps the history of Zimbabwe economics is more parallel.



In other news we find that the new "Auto Czar" is being investigated by the SEC for arranging illegal kickbacks to the brother of New York state's pension fund manager while he was working as a senior executive at an investment firm.

Tea Party Day!!!!

While the media does its best to ignore and chant, "move along, there's nothing to see here."



And to summarize the state of the Lame Stream Media, exclusive from the Onion News Network,

Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide

Tramp Stamp Barbie?

Is there really a market for this?

It appears so.

But some of us are going to have a lot of fun with it.

The Reason it's called the Lame Stream Media

They photoshop or stage photos from combat zones, they steal copyrighted content from independents like Michael Yon, and now they prove that they don't understand the terms of use for their own YouTube channel.



They will not accept that their mask on impartiality slipped off in the last election cycle and that they will probably (hopefully) never regain their previous stature.

Their failure is richly deserved.

Did he change his mind?

Obama twice approved force to rescue hostage.
Ok, good, but why twice? Did he rescind the first one, or not authorize the necessary level of force? I'm really curious about why he needed to do it twice.

I thought that meeting with the troops looked phony, and I was right.

Update!!!!

I notice "The Paper of Record" (/sarc) had this slightly different account:

The Defense Department twice sought Mr. Obama's permission to use force to rescue Captain Phillips, most recently on Friday night, senior defense officials said. On Saturday morning, the president agreed, they said, if it appeared that the captain's life was in imminent danger.

I hate to say it, but for once the old gray trollop sounds more believable than the other account. OMG who'd have thunk it!!

Of course I would have preferred, "Try hard, very hard to prevent the Captain from being hurt but teach them a lesson that will give pause to any other idiots."

Alan Keyes nails it!!!

Send this video to everyone you know

Even if the MSM is now part off the Government

The title includes "President Pantywaist" and the first paragraph starts,

President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it.

That sums it up, but read the whole thing.

And now for something completely different.



Prosecutorial misconduct over and over?

So, it was with great interest that I read that the Department of Justice attorney, Brenda Morris, already held in contempt by Judge Sullivan in the matter involving the wrongful prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens, and now under investigation by both the Department of Justice and the special prosecutor chosen by the Judge, was also a supervisor in the Libby case.

Another Brenda Morris case led to a $1.3 million dollar settlement to the defendant. The judge in that:

"This is a prosecutor who needs to be removed, and I would hope the attorney general utilizes the same test of integrity as he did in the Stevens case," said U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia, who ruled against Morris in Brown's case. "Though (the Brown case) is several years old, there is no statute of limitations on integrity."

Finally, if the Obammessiah will let it be built, it will probably sell quite well.

As you sow, ...

Does U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd rue the day a decade ago when he brokered the deal to repeal the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which some analysts have called the most important financial legislation to come out of the Great Depression?

In a Dodd profile published two weeks ago, a Fortune magazine editor quoted the head of the American Bankers Association lauding the senator as the “unsung hero” in the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, which actually dismantled the key Glass-Steagall provisions intended to protect bank depositors from risky and speculative investments.

No Disclosure allowed!!!! (Until insider trading of politically connected is finished.)

A massive underestimation.

Probably as good a way to vote as any Crypto-Marxist could come up with.

A law blog a lot different than "The Volokh Conspiracy."

Print, cut and send to the Treasury:



A video found at Cop the Truth

How stupid do have to be to shoot this guy's dog?

Obamatrons on the march!

The Curious Case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines.

Now that teleprompters can't be passed off as bullet shields anymore, how do you spoon feed a politician what to say if you are a union working against the public interest? Cue cards!

Leap first, look on the way down, part, 8,956,413.

Two points to remember.

GM to compete with The Scooter Store.

Proof that The Politico no longer has merit.

Suggested addition to your reading list.

Spinning like a Tornado

Janet Napolitano announced that the US no longer would use “war on terror” to describe the fight against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other affiliated terrorist groups and said we should call terrorism “man-caused disasters”. CNN tried getting VP Biden to explain this, and while not accusing CNN of making it up, clearly he couldn’t believe anyone would be this stupid:



Tables Turned on Prosecution in Stevens Case

Now the Obammessiah Praises the Effort in Iraq -- Isn't That Special?

Reasons to pay your taxes



There are a few Democrats (as opposed to democretins) that actually put their country ahead of marxism. Zell Miller, Ron Silver, Toby Keith and Dennis Miller come immediately to mind. It looks as though I may have to add Senator Blanche Lincoln to the list. Thank you Senator for standing up for secret ballots instead of Union Thuggery, I think. She wasn't clear as to why she is on the just side of the issue.

Quote from a "Human Rights Commissioner." "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.” Now I don't care for the UN (useless nitwits) but generally people like the idiot quoted are all gooey about them and want to impose UN policies worldwide. So Mr. Commissoner what about Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Will the usual suspects rant and howl about this with Obamessiah being the responsible person instead of W?

The seizing of the economy. A trillion is one million millions.

Non-Trivial Pursuit Anyone?

Back when Katie and Charley were trying to stump Sarah with Trivial Pursuit questions, someone should have asked the Obamessiah how smart his briefers were and if he was going to deign to listen to them. Either he's not listening or they are the result of teachers' union education. An example from "The Gaffobamatron" referenced here:

At a news conference afterward, Obama said his debut on the international stage had convinced him that “political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate,” where he served before entering the White House.

“There’s a lot of -- I don’t know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics,” he said in response to an Austrian reporter’s question.

Since there is no language "Austrian", the reporter probably asked the question in American.

"And now, for something completely different..."

When will enough be enough?

Obamessiah doesn't allow TARP money to be paid back to the taxpayers.

Obamessiah's Trust don't Verify Foreign policy.

RINO wants Obamessiah to be able to shut down the internet.

The charade is unraveling

Even the most left-wing rag since Pravda is calling "bluff" on the oratory skills the teleprompter reader.

The First Lady of France gives him a cool reaction.

Geithner was hailed before the credit derivative melt down for "making derivatives trade more efficiently". Now he blames a "lack of supervision" for the problem. He was the one suposed to be supervising. Another left-wing rag has noticed.

NATO says no to the Obammessiah. Wasn't his election supposed to enthrall our European "allies"?

This story tells of the ham-fisted kleptocrat warning bankers that he is their protection from the mob with the pitchforks. But then this story and this story may indicate that the kleptocrat is misreading at whom those pitchforks are aimed.

Has buyer's remorse set in yet? Or at least the feeling in the "hype and chains" folks that they have been had?

And finally, the real tragedy at Binghamton.

The Chains the Democretins are forging

Hope for heros

It just keeps growing

The Obamessiah puts the plans to rig the census into effect.

"Nice bank ya got dere. Be a shame should sometin' happen to it."



If this happened during W's tenure, how many front pages would it be on?

Fox News stamps "Lie" to ridiculous democretin claim.

Palin calls for election do-over in Alaska due to democrat federal prosecutor sucessfully rigging the election!

Did the Obamessiah do to the Protocol Office what Shrillary did to the Travel Office?

Pass it around

Why General Motors and Chrysler Need to Declare Bankruptcy Immediately

Why some companies are "too big to fail"

One of these is not like the others

If you have a liberal "friend" send them this link. Be prepared for apoplexy.

Key lawmakers are pushing to dramatically escalate U.S. defenses against cyberattacks, crafting proposals that would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time. Is anyone out there familiar with the term "nose of the camel?"

With advisors like this in the State Department, is it any wonder the shape we're in? I do agree about the GM foodstuffs. Even a blind hog finds the occasional acorn. If she would mention irradiation for food preservation, I might even give her a pass as only eccentric, however I think I'd rather ask her to be part of the solution.

Now bearing in mind that Twain said, "There is no native criminal class except Congress", can you spot the "money phrases in the following from NPR?

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked a federal judge to drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.

A jury convicted Stevens last fall of seven counts of lying on his Senate disclosure form in order to conceal $250,000 in gifts from an oil industry executive and other friends. Stevens was the longest-serving Republican in the Senate. However, he lost his bid for an eighth full term in office just days after he was convicted. Since then, charges of prosecutorial misconduct have delayed his sentencing and prompted defense motions for a new trial.

Holder's decision is said to be based on Stevens' age — he's 85 — and the fact that Stevens is no longer in the Senate. Perhaps most importantly, Justice Department officials say Holder wants to send a message to prosecutors throughout the department that actions he regards as misconduct will not be tolerated.

Anyone want to give odds on the prosecutors being held to account? Thought not.

Daniel Hannan explains it all

OMG he's a possum!

John Woods, grad student at UT Austin is a possum!

As a sheepdog I have always been a firm believer in the sheep/wolf/sheepdog analogy and remember reading a study on chimpanzees that stated the varying flight/fight responses in a group helps ensure the group's survival because one of the responses would likely work even if the fighters just bought time for the fleeing to escape.

There were times when Woods thought that maybe he should get a gun."Then I learned pretty fast that wouldn't solve anything," said Woods, who is now a graduate student at UT. "The idea that somebody could stop a school shooting with a gun is impossible. It's reactive, not preventative."

I have a question. What school shootings were stopped without guns or the threat of guns? Either police or armed students, or armed school personnel, seem to be involved. Woods' inanity continues:

He figures a classroom shooting would be too sudden to stop, even if a student or teacher had a gun."Everything happens too quickly," Woods said. "You either play dead or you are dead."

Now I've been timed at less than a second from hands above my head to the first round of a double-tap hitting a pop-up target. Can he faint that quickly? Would it save him?

Either way a possum is just road kill.

Confederate Yankee sums it up nicely.

Atlas asked to leave

Even the Looters in Atlas Shrugged weren't dumb enough to do this. So in order to contend with this teensy problem, as well as these Gaia Worshipers, who is Hussein going to appoint to run GM? We have to keep in mind he appointed a tax cheat to run Treasury and give away a few trillion, and his superlative staff can't even organize an Easter egg hunt. I'm sure GM will get some washed up political hack with a law degree that can't count to 21 without taking off his pants. Wait! There is someone who knows all about the auto industry (/sarc) and will march to the beat of UAW's drums. I'm not sure about counting to 21 however.

Sunday's Thoughts

Now that we have the media's candidate safely elected, Time Ragazine can now publish this little piece.

And didn't the media sycophants tell us how much "world opinion" of us would be improved by putting their candidate in the White House? Who forgot to inform these people?

I thought the science was settled. These gadgets were going to help save the world and money too! That is why congress outlawed the alternative starting in 2012, right?

I used to complain about the "Lace Panties Brigade" at Foggy Bottom. But this lack of preparation by a Secretary of State can only be topped by this lack of historical knowledge, or maybe this lack of linguistic talent at State. Now this was not a mistake, but rather the nature of the left. The State Department has always thought that talking was the answer, while our opponents have always thought talking was to buy time to rest, recuperate, and rearm.

The Difference

An exercise for the reader. What is the difference between a "hard" scientist and a "social science" practitioner?

Drew Carey's Bar Fight

Veteran's Day

Truth is seldom "Politically Correct"

NYT Reporter Corrects Russert on Iraq

Public School House Rock

Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell

Rules of Engagement are killing our guys while dhimmicretins like Murtha-ucker and Durbin-turban try to compare them to Nazis and call them murderers. We have to fight as though we have fielded soldiers not cops. It is a quite different mission.

If you're not old enough to drink....

Mary Katherine Ham & a Target-Rich Environment

Why some republicans may vote democrat

When you have republicans like Chambliss and Isakson, on the wrong side (they did vote against cloture last night however), a democrat like this one could easily take Chambliss' seat in '08. Especially if you could find a Zell or someone like this guy in Georgia.

Because of Chamliss' sell-out to the carpet manufacturers and onion growers I have promised to work against him in the primary and if he is the republican candidate for his seat to hold my nose and vote for another candidate no matter what.

Clara Peller would be so proud!

Mutha-ucker - Even CNN finally gets it!

Who dropped the ball in Virginia???

In 27 CFR Part 178, Definitions for the Categories of Persons Prohibited From
Receiving Firearms (95R-051P), it states:

These prohibitions apply to any person who--
...4) Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a
mental institution;

From CNN:

CNN also learned Wednesday that in 2005 Cho was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice, who declared he was "an imminent danger" to himself, a court document states.

A temporary detention order from General District Court in the commonwealth of Virginia said Cho "presents an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness."

In another part of the form, Cho was described as "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment."

Doesn't "detention order" equal committed?

How in hell did the NICS Instant Background Check give this nut a pass? Did some bleeding heart in Virginia not put this tidbit in the database????

A Veteran addresses the troops

I don't believe it could be said any better.

UN (useless nitwits) Commission on Human Rights

Whose rights? Why should you be surprised? Read Article 29(3) of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Hillary says she "learned a lot."

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Monday to create a universal health care system if elected, saying she "learned a lot" during the failed health care effort of her husband's presidency.

"We're going to have universal health care when I'm president _ there's no doubt about that. We're going to get it done," the New York senator and front-runner for the 2008 nomination said.

Is this what you're looking forward to?

Down envy, down, down!!!

It's a long, long way from my two M21 rifles. (one had a Starlight instead of the ART)

Tennessee, the home of SGTs York and Roark, and Ronny Barrett.

Of course I am, and you?

Notice to all small employers in Georgia:

Are you ready for Georgia State Senate Bill 150?

You have to read past the innocuous start that says "To amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to require pharmacies to submit certain performance and cost data to the Department of Community Health" to find out that...

A pair of “Republican” state senators have decided that if you wish to offer medical insurance benefits, that you should have it administered by the state government and pay the government additional fees over your taxes and insurance premiums for the privilege.

In order to do this the state government will set up the “Georgia Health Insurance Exchange”as follows (check out 3 & 4 below):

33-62-5.
The exchange shall have the power to:
(1) Contract with vendors to perform one or more of the functions specified in Code Section 33-62-4;
(2) Contract with private or public social service agencies to administer application, eligibility verification, enrollment, and premium payments for specified groups or populations of eligible individuals or participating individuals;
(3) Contract with employers to act as the plan administrator for participating employer plans, subject to the provisions of Code Section 33-62-11, and to undertake the obligations required by federal law of a plan administrator;
(4) Set and collect fees from participating individuals, participating employer plans, and participating insurance plans sufficient to fund the cost of administering the exchange;
(5) Seek and directly receive grant funding from the United States government, departments or agencies of this state, county or municipal governments, or private philanthropic organizations to defray the costs of operating the exchange;
(6) Establish and administer rules and procedures governing the operations of the exchange;
(7) Establish one or more service centers within this state to facilitate enrollment;
(8) Sue and be sued or otherwise take any necessary or proper legal action; and
(9) Establish bank accounts and borrow money.

So you say “I don’t need the government to administer my health plan.” They have an answer for that:

33-62-14.
(a) A carrier shall not issue or renew an individual health benefit plan, other than through the exchange established under Code Section 33-62-2, after the first day of the plan year following the first regular open season conducted by the exchange in accordance with Code Section 33-62-6.
(b) A carrier shall not issue or renew a group health benefit plan to a small employer with 50 or fewer employees, other than through the exchange established under Code Section 33-62-2, after the first day of the plan year following the first regular open season conducted by the exchange in accordance with Code Section 33-62-6.

“Okay. Fine.” You say,”It’s too much trouble. I’ll just not offer medical insurance” They still have requirements (pay particular attention to (a)1):

33-62-13.
(a) Each employer in the State of Georgia shall annually file with the Commissioner a form for each employee employed within this state indicating the health insurance coverage status of the employee and the employee´s dependents, including the source of coverage and the name of the insurer or plan sponsor, and, if no coverage is indicated:
(1) The employee´s election, in lieu of insurance coverage, to post a bond or establish an account in accordance with Code Section 33-66-15;
(2) The employee´s election to apply or not apply for coverage through the exchange; and
(3) The employee´s election to be considered or not to be considered for any publicly financed health insurance program or premium subsidy program administered by this state.
(b) Each form shall be signed by the individual to whom it pertains.
(c) Each self-employed individual in this state shall annually file the same form with the Commissioner.

So everyone will need a bond or an account or insurance. I wonder if this applies to illegal immigrants?

Meanwhile for the big boys, something that would lower everyone’s costs will be available:

33-63-1.
The General Assembly recognizes the need for individuals, employers, and other purchasers of health insurance coverage in this state to have the opportunity to choose health insurance plans that are more affordable and flexible than existing market policies offering accident and sickness insurance coverage. Therefore, the General Assembly seeks to increase the availability of health insurance coverage by allowing insurers authorized to engage in the business of insurance in selected states to issue accident and sickness policies in Georgia.

33-63-2.
The selected out-of-state insurers shall not be required to offer or provide state mandated health benefits required by Georgia law or regulations in health insurance policies sold to Georgia residents.

So the relief of the mandates is only allowed if the government takes over. When the government was busily installing those mandates, they were necessary, why aren’t they now?

And not only are unlicensed companies invited to the government’s all-you-can-stand porkfest but they are carving out other exceptions to the insurance law on the books:

33-62-12.
(a) In cases when a producer licensed in this state enrolls an eligible individual or group in the exchange, the plan chosen by each individual shall pay the producer a commission on premium either in an amount determined by the board of directors of the exchange or in the amount or amounts voluntarily agreed to by the various carriers and producers.
(b) In cases when a membership organization enrolls its eligible members, or the eligible members of its member entities, in the exchange, the plan chosen by each individual shall pay the organization a fee equal to the commission specified in subsection (a) of this Code section. Nothing in this Code section shall be deemed either to require a membership organization that enrolls persons in the exchange to be licensed by this state as an insurance producer.

It seems that the next great business opportunity in the state is to set up a Small Business Insurance Membership Organization and offer to refund 50% of commissions fees because commissions can not, by law be “rebated” even to the extent of buying a customer lunch.

I have to wonder if the "mergers and acquisitions" lawyer that sponsored this bill was involved in the Wellpoint buyout of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia (this really sounds as though it was designed with considerable input from them)or if some insurance agent p*ssed in his Wheaties.

Update:
Senator Hill's Campaign Finance Data
Wellpoint's Plan Similarities

A message to CAIR and "The Religion of Peace"

The band's website is here.