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Category: Liberals suck

  • The unprotected class (Updated)

    When TSO wrote that post the other day about the Department of Homeland Security’s report on “right-wing extremists” I was so pissed I couldn’t see straight. And before TSO identified the “prominent civil rights organization“, I knew which it’d be. But, even the public outcry from veteran groups can’t end this despicable smear. One prominent blogger from the Right whom I respect deeply, and won’t name, whisked the report away under his electronic rug and advised us to ignore it because it didn’t say what we thought it said.

    I started to pen a note to him to explain that he was wrong this time, but I didn’t want to see what that note would have turned into if I’d hit the “send” button. So I’ll just do it here where I have control of the context.
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  • Consistency

    Some of you probably remember when I wrote about the first DC tea party and had a video of Joe the Plumber speaking to the crowd. Well, one of the comments on YouTube was;

    The implication, of course, was that the crowd was all white people listening to Joe (well, I saw at least one Asian woman there in the video).

    So yesterday, I found a black man (certainly not the only one there, but the only one with a megaphone) and put that video on YouTube. One of the two comments;

    Yeah, so I wonder why more blacks don’t cross over to a conservative movement? I have no doubt that it wasn’t a conservative who wrote that – I’m pretty sure it was a leftist trying to coax the gentleman in the video back onto the Democrat plantation. But that pretty much sums up the whole Leftist strategy in regards to minorities and Republicans. They scream that the Republicans are all rich white people, and then criticize minorities who stray to the party with childish, dated and racist name-calling.

  • Biden; serial liar

    Apparently, Biden has been caught in another lie about his derring-do in facing down the evil emporer, George W. Bush according to Fox News;

    “I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden told CNN, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.’”

    But according to Bush aides, the scene never happened;

    “I never recall Biden saying any of that,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said after reviewing detailed notes of Bush’s White House meetings with Biden, which include numerous direct quotes from Biden. “I find it odd that he said he met with him alone all the time. I don’t think that’s true.”
    […]
    “I remember checking on such a Biden exaggeration while at the White House and no one witnessed the meeting and his comments in remotely the same way,” [Karl] Rove said.
    […]
    “The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden,” [Candida P. Wolff, Bush’s White House liaison to Capitol Hill] said. “I don’t ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff – there wasn’t a reason to bring him in.”

    Yeah, when you put like Ms. Wolff did, I guess it’s easier to believe that no one could stand two hours of Joe Biden’s braggadocio. But that doesn’t stop the Biden team from popping smoke;

    Biden spokesman Jay Carney declined to specify the dates of his boss’s purported Oval Office scoldings of Bush. Nor would he provide witnesses or notes to corroborate the episodes.

    “The vice president stands by his remarks,” Carney told FOX News without elaboration.

    Cuz I said so.

  • Obama the apologizer

    French Prime Minister Sarkozy is tripping over his skirt trying to get close to Obama – and it’s generally the same with most of the leaders of Old Europe. They smell money. Old Europe remembers how Bill Clinton came crawling on his knees with bags of money in each hand, begging forgiveness for being a responsible nation and bailing Old Europe out of every jam they created for themselves. Jon Ward at The Washington Times notices that Obama tries out role as apologizer-in-chief.

    Mr. Obama’s just-concluded eight-day trip abroad, his first major international foray, also marked the debut of a more humble foreign-policy style, one that sought to use cultural concessions and admissions of past mistakes to disarm other countries before challenging their own policies and attitudes toward America.

    Repeatedly on a trip that included stops across Europe and in Iraq, Mr. Obama tried to pre-empt criticism of the United States by expressing it first himself – a sharp break from the practice of President George W. Bush.

    Mr. Obama told Europeans that “America has shown arrogance” toward their continent, conceded that the United States bears much of the blame for the world’s economic plight, and said in a speech broadcast throughout the Middle East that America is still dealing with its “darker” legacies of discrimination and mistreatment of minorities.

    More of the strategy that Obama intends to follow – that strategy is just doing the opposite of George Bush no matter how ridiculous and childish it seems. Why else would pirates wait to seize and American-flagged vessel and crew until we had a president that would apologize to them for interrupting their nefarious plans? Why else would North Korea fire a missile over Japan just now (and threaten Japan for the Japanese search for the Nork rocket’s booster stage)? Because Obama will let them get away with whatever they want to do and then he’ll apologize for things we haven’t done.

    I expected while visiting Germany, he’d apologize for World War II.

  • Bush credited with saving 1.1 million lives

    Yeah, you probably won’t read this anywhere else, but two Stanford researchers have credited the former president’s programs to fight AIDS in Africa with reducing by 10% the mortality rate, according to Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times;

    The study by two Stanford University doctors showed the treatment part of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which involves making drug treatment available to about 2 million people, has shown solid success while the prevention efforts under the program have not yet produced the same concrete results.

    “It has averted deaths – a lot of deaths – with about a 10 percent reduction compared with neighboring African countries,” said Dr. Eran Bendavid, a fellow in infectious disease and in health policy and research at Stanford who led the study. “However, we could not see a change in prevalence rates that was associated with PEPFAR.”

    For each life saved, $2,700 was spent on treatment, according to the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

    You’d think a successful government program would make the news since a successful government program is fairly rare. But, nuthin’, no where except in the WashTimes.

    Ace of Spades‘ DrewM reports that Bush was cheered yesterday in Texas for unrelated activities.

  • The chill wind blows over Billie Ayers

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    According to unrepentant domestic terrorist Billie Ayers, McCarthyism lives. That must be the reason that Americans are expressing their opinions in public that they don’t want the terrorist turned teacher to become an icon. According to Matthew Rothchild of The Progressive, life has been tough for Little Billie the last few months;

    You’ll recall that his name surfaced during the Obama campaign as Palin and McCain tried to smear Obama with the old guilt-by-association brush.

    When that failed, I thought Ayers could go back to his life, and we could all grow up.

    So did he. But no such luck.

    “I thought it would end,” he tells me, “but it’s escalated in a very weird way. I was canceled at a University last December, and then at the College of DuPage.”

    Earlier this week, Boston College yanked Ayers.
    […]
    Also this week, Naperville High School, near where Ayers grew up, changed its mind and said no to Ayers.
    […]
    To cap off the week of suppression, Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville cancelled a book signing by Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

    Yeah, let’s put aside that Sarah Palin was “smeared with the old guilt-by-association brush” too. But Obama launched his political career in the living room of poor little Billie, the guy who gloated as he left the court room where he was found not guilty “Guilty as hell, free as a bird — America is a great country.” Would you even enter the house of someone like that?

    The bookstore cancellation “never happened to me before. They were literally in tears when they called,” [Ayers] says. “I always feel bad for people who do the wrong thing.”
    […]
    “I don’t feel like I’m the aggrieved party,” he says. “I’ve got a day job and book deadlines I’ve got to work on. But it’s an attempt to shut down conversation and dialogue, which is the lifeblood of democracy. The real danger isn’t to me. But there’s a sense that if the mob gathers outside the gate with torches and pitchforks, people collapse.”

    Yeah, it always torches and pitchforks when it’s the Right who protests a speaker they don’t like. It’s “free speech” when the Left gets a speaker canceled. What’s Ayers’ excuse for Canada keeping him out? Apparently Americans aren’t the only ones with a McCarthy complex.

    In this case, I’m guess I’m proud I was on hand for the first anti-Ayers protest.

    Normally, I could give a rat’s furry ass about Bill Ayers, but I hate whiners.

    Hat tip to that network of emailers Bev Perlson has formed.

  • North Korea and the community of nations

    Of course, everyone knows that North Korea launched their missile over Japan this morning which has prompted a series of angry remarks (Washington Times);

    North Korea carried out its threatened launch of a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, defying international warnings and sparking an angry response from its Asian neighbors and the United States.

    Japan immediately called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, which said it would hold that meeting Sunday afternoon. South Korea decried the launch as a “reckless act.”

    Yeah, so what will the Security Council do? Probably something along the lines of President Obama’s response (Washington Post);

    In a speech grimly punctuated by current events, President Obama Sunday called for a world without nuclear weapons shortly after North Korea defied global warnings to fire a long-range rocket.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket – we’ll all disarm. That’ll embarrass the North Koreans into abandoning their nuclear objectives. Well, the UN has approved the emergency meeting (Fox News);

    Mexico’s mission to the United Nations set the meeting for 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT), spokesman Marco Morales said. Mexico holds the 15-nation council’s presidency this month.

    That approval came after Japan submitted a formal letter requesting an emergency session of the United Nations council that handles threats to international peace and security. “We received a letter and there will be a meeting,” Morales said.

    So what can they do? Sanctions? What’s left to sanction? The wind? Dust? That’s all they’ve got left. The North Koreans did it because they know how weak and ineffectual the world is with Obama at the helm of this country – like we were a paper tiger when Carter was president. Is this the test Biden warned us about? Well, it looks like there’s going to be a failing grade.

    Any want-wit knows that if someone on our side had shot the missile down as soon as it left Nork airspace, that would have been the strongest message we could send. Obama missed his opportunity, Japan missed their opportunity. Anything they do now is just farting in a hurricane.

  • Defending bonuses at lending institution

    TSO and I were just talking last night about the world having gone mad. This morning I find more evidence of it. It seems that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae want to pay bonuses to the people who facilitated the biggest fraud on the American taxpayers since, well, the last time (Washington Times link);

    The federal regulator of bailed-out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac defended plans Friday to give $210 million in retention bonuses to employees he said had lost years of savings when the companies’ stock collapsed in 2008.

    Bonuses, some as high as $1.5 million, will go to 7,600 employees at the two federally established home mortgage companies that lost more than $100 billion last year. They are needed to restrain the best talent from leaving in the midst of the economic crisis spawned when the housing bubble burst, said James B. Lockhart III of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in a letter to Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Senate Finance Committee’s ranking Republican.

    Mr. Lockhart argued that the companies’ previously strong stock prices, now worth less than a $1, were used to woo and pay talent that is now needed more than ever.

    Um, that’s a little like paying a bonus to the plumber who flooded your house fixing a leak so he won’t leave. If these goofballs are so damned talented, why are we in this mess? Why was it so wrong for AIG to pay their people bonuses, but not the Mae and Mac?

    But wait until you read how many of the crooks and liars will get bonuses from the Washington Post;

    The maximum bonus for any employee will be $1.5 million, the regulator said. Freddie’s bonuses are going to 80 percent of its employees, while Fannie’s are going to 61 percent of its employees.

    Ninety-two Freddie employees will receive $100,000 or more in 2009 and 121 Fannie employees will get bonuses of $100,000 or more. The FHFA declined to name the recipients, citing privacy concerns.

    How jacked up do you have to be to miss getting a bonus? But Senator Grassley is on the job;

    Grassley criticized the bonuses yesterday.

    “It’s hard to see any common sense in management decisions that award hundreds of millions in bonuses when their organizations lost more than $100 billion in a year. And, it’s an insult that the bonuses were made with an infusion of cash from taxpayers,” he said in a statement.

    And, oh, yeah, I lost a lot of money in the stock market, too. A. Lot. Of. Money. In fact, I lost so much, that I didn’t even both to check out how much until the other day. Instead of me getting a bonus to make up for my losses, I’m asked to pay for bonuses at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Apparently, by a retarded imbecile.

    But how much of a retarded imbecile does that make me if those bonuses are paid?