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Category: Liberals suck

  • The stupid season

    There’s just too much stupid stuff going on out there. You haven’t noticed?

    Arlen Specter left the Republican Party yesterday – well, actually, he left the party long ago. But now, Joe Biden, that softspoken, humble guy (who is also our Vice President in case you forgot) claims he’s the reason Specter switched parties;

    “I have been working on [Specter’s party switch] in earnest for the past four years and double time for the past 100 days [as vice president],” Biden told a Democratic fundraiser in Houston on Tuesday.

    Ya know, that just reinforces this good feeling I have about Specter leaving. I certainly don’t want anyone in my party that takes advice from the plagiarizer, braggart buffoon that is Joe Biden. This revelation from Biden just highlights Specter’s poor judgment.

    Drudge has been running a headline all night that the FAA knew they’d cause a panic in New York City with their photo-op overflight (which cost us nearly $400k, by the way), but went ahead without notifying the public.

    Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public.

    So, we should be asking who was on board that flight that would have caused all of that secrecy at the expense of the public’s sense of well-being? How many people will die in the next REAL terrorist attack because of this false alarm?

    Here’s another bit of buffoonery from the administration – apparently calling it “swine flu” is unfair to pigs and pork producers.

    At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”
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    The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human components and no pig so far has been found ill with the disease.

    A flu by any other name will make you just as sick. This flu comes from pigs, just like bird flu comes from birds…see how that works. Maybe if people think they can get the flu from eating pork, it’s because the administration isn’t doing a good job of getting the word out. They can get the word out about all of their political aspirations – why can’t they use their poltical machine to benefit the public?

    Maybe it’s because they WANT a panic – like the one in New York City.

    Finally, the media has found a single death in the US from swine flu (I’m still sayin’ it) in Texas. The number of confirmed cases has now “rocketed” (using language I learned from Fox News yesterday) from 64 to 65.

    I’m hiding in my basement until this stupid season blows over.

    Added: Wesley Pruden asks “Are We Dead Yet?”

    The medical researchers say it might mutate. Or it might not. If it does, it might, possibly, maybe, potentially be the worst killer since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Or it might not. Researchers are working on the vaccine, and the media is working on the panic. We may not get a vaccine, but soon there won’t be a dry pair of pants on six continents.

  • Air Force The One’s tour of New York City

    Yeah, if you think that fly-over that Air Force One did over New York City yesterday was no big deal, you probably need to watch this video that I found at Hot Air (see how I linked, Hot Air Guys ?), thanks to a Facebook link from our buddy, Renwaa.

    Can you imagine the paranoia and conspiracy theories if President Bush’s administration would have done that?

  • Feel like you’re being watched?

    2 Border Guards

    Olga sent me this article from the Marine Corps Times (written by our old buddy Rick Maze) about the bill before Congress to protect Veterans’ gun rights;

    The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, pending before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, would limit the circumstances in which a veteran’s name could be added to a federal database used to do instant background checks for gun purchases.

    By law, anyone “adjudicated as a mental defective,” such as people found to be a danger to themselves or others or who lack the mental capacity to manage their affairs, must be registered in the database.

    The bill, S 669, which has 15 co-sponsors, would prohibit VA from submitting names to the National Instant Criminal Background Check database unless a judicial authority finds the individuals to be a danger to themselves or others.

    VA has been turning over the names of veterans who have had someone else appointed to handle their financial affairs. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., ranking Republican on the veterans committee and sponsor of the bill, said VA has sent names of more than 117,000 veterans to the Justice Department since 1998 under the policy.

    The article goes on to mention that the Bush Administration was just as guilty as the Obama Administration of not changing this terrible policy. That doesn’t make it right – there are things lots of us didn’t like about the Bush Administration. Using unrelated data bases to interfere with veterans’ rights is one of them.

    I could almost understand it if each case was reviewed by a doctor to determine whether the veteran was a danger before his/her name was submitted to the DOJ, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

    (Editor’s Note: I took the above photo of East German border guards. The Bavarian Police who were with us said that it was a border leader training course out for a day of practical exercise.)

  • Democrat Senators continue partisan probe

    COB6 wrote yesterday that there won’t be any “truth commission” investigations because of a piece Porter Goss wrote in the Washington Post about the complicity of the Congressional Democrats in the decision to approve what we’re calling torture these days. Well, Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein are renewing their calls for a Senate investigation according to Fox News;

    The California Democrat said her committee already was investigating the methods detailed, but Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he wants independent investigators to determine whether any Bush administration officials should be prosecuted.

    “I have recommended that the Department of Justice select one or two or three people outside of the department who will have credibility, perhaps retired federal judges, who will make a recommendation to the Department of Justice as to whether or not anybody ought to be prosecuted on this matter or any other action ought to be taken against lawyers, for instance,” Levin said on “FOX News Sunday.”

    He added that he objects to the idea that the interrogators who carried out the tactics should be the only ones prosecuted.

    “For the president of the United States to say that a few American troops dishonored us at Abu Ghraib — no. What dishonored us were the policies and practices that were authorized that went to Abu Ghraib, and there ought to be accountability. But how that is done should be done by an independent person, not by elected politicians,” he said.

    I’m waiting for the Bush Administration’s memo approving naked pyramids and genital pointing. Jay Rockefeller, one of the Senators who was supposedly briefed by the Bush Administration and gave at least his tacit approval was clear that he only wants this to be a purely partisan investigation according to The Hill last week;

    “I do not believe that front-line counter-terror professionals who relied in good faith on Department of Justice legal opinions should face prosecution,” Rockefeller said. “But I am not prepared to say the same for the senior Bush administration officials who authorized or directed these policies in the first place. The focus for right now should be on finding the facts.”

    So what’s driving this partisan fishing expedition? Here’s a hint;
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  • Legion “forgives” Napolitano

    According to Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times, David Rehbein National Commander of the American Legion accepted an apology from Janet Napolitano in a private meeting yesterday;

    “We connected meaningfully about the important issues that have emerged over recent days, and I offered him my sincere apologies for any offense to our veterans caused by this report,” Ms. Napolitano said. “I pledge that the department has fixed the internal process that allowed this document to be released before it was ready.”

    David K. Rehbein, commander of the veterans group, told Fox News he has forgiven the department for the report, but he will not forget it happened.

    “[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country,” Mr. Rehbein said. “She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department.

    The key is: Napolitano needs to know that we veterans won’t forget what that report said. We also won’t forget that the Administration thought of making troops with service connected disabilities pay for their own treatment and that the Presidentblew off the Medal of Honor recipients.

    Fox News quoted Mr. Rehbein;

    “She was very sincere,” he said. “She distinctly used the words ‘I’m sorry.’ And to me, that says that’s sincere apology. Her body language, everything about those first few minutes of the meeting told me this was a real apology coming from her heart.”

    Not enough apologies in the world for having thoughts like her office expressed, but we’re all watching.

  • The airport to No Where

    1stCavRVN11b sends us this article about the John Murtha-Johnstown-Cambria County Airport from the Washington Post;

    Inside the terminal on a recent weekday, four passengers lined up to board a flight, outnumbered by seven security staff members and supervisors, all suited up in gloves and uniforms to screen six pieces of luggage. For three hours that day, no commercial or private planes took off or landed. Three commercial flights leave the airport on weekdays, all bound for Dulles International Airport.

    The key to the airport’s gleaming facilities — and, indeed, its continued existence — is $200 million in federal funds in the past decade and the powerful patron who steered most of that money here. Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) is credited with securing at least $150 million for the airport. It was among the first in the country to win funding from this year’s stimulus package: $800,000 to repave a backup runway.

    Sweet work if you can get it, I suppose.

    Murtha spokesman Matt Mazonkey defended the public spending and said it is unfair to weigh the airport’s low volume of passengers against the federal dollars invested in the facility. He noted that several regional airports are confronting the same problem.

    “Would we like to have additional commercial flights and business? Absolutely. But you don’t attract additional business without having the infrastructure in place to do so,” Mazonkey said.

    Yeah, well, US taxpayers have been paying for the airport to no where for ten years. When can we expect to start seeing more passengers than employees? Well according to the WaPo article, not any time soon. In fact, Murtha just scored 800 grand to repave a back runway at the airport. I’m sure it needs a repaving with the voluminous traffic that uses it.

    Murtha wants to cut bonuses to the troops and cut defense spending, but these boondoggles of his don’t get any where near the budget axe.

  • Yeah? So teach already.

    In this morning’s Washington Post is an opinion piece by Ting-Yi Oei, the assistant principal of “Freedom School” in Loudon County, Virginia entitled My Students. My Cellphone. My Ordeal. about his “ordeal” of being busted for child pornography.

    A summary of his story goes like this; He decided to investigate the “sexting” phenomenon in his school, found a student with a picture on his phone, had the student forward the picture to the assistant principal’s phone. A few days later, the student was suspended for an unrelated offense, the student told his parents about the picture, the assistant principal was arrested and later cleared of charges for having child pornography on his phone.

    The lesson the assistant principal would like us to take away from his story; teachers have a hard job and they get punished for things they didn’t do – and, oh, Fox News is evil.

    The lesson I’d like teachers to take away from the story; Stop being social engineers and teach. If the assistant principal had just handed the student and his phone over to the police (who I’ve heard are very good at conducting criminal investigations) instead of trying to act like Columbo, he’d still be ensconced in his plush office wondering what the lunchroom is serving today and planning his paid three month vacation this summer.

    Our children are idiots and it’s because teachers have it in their pointy heads that somehow it’s not their fault. In fact it’s everyone’s fault EXCEPT teachers. But teachers and schools are more worried about social fads and creating a “conducive environment for social interaction” instead of teaching skills students need to be productive members of the community.

    Teachers aren’t the police, they aren’t social workers, they aren’t substitute parents – they’re teachers, so they should try their hand at teaching and leave the rest of their imagined job descriptors to the experts.

  • Secret torture memos not juicy enough for Left

    Since the torture stories contained in those secret Bush memos never materialized, the Left is twisting itself into knots to just make stuff up now. Like this “article” from Raw Story;

    Allow me to summarize;

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