Saturday, December 12, 2009

Some Christmas Tree Cutting Pictures

We cut our own Christmas tree and make a day of it.

Below are a few pictures I thought were fun. I especially like the hawk as Christmas Tree Topper.







In Economic Woes 12-12



US House passes financial reform bill

Death, Taxes ... and More Taxes

The “using TARP funds for stimulus” gimmick



The New Breed of Deadbeats

Did the Stimulus Create Jobs? The government's own job creation data reveal the dangers of a second stimulus

OMB’s Orzag Was Against Deficits Before He Was For Them



Audiocast - Opposing Government Mandated Multilingualism on Private Business

Obama's Big Sellout. The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

More, More, More. Watch what they spend, not what they say.

Study - Despite Rhetoric, Lawmakers Backing Higher “Death Tax” also Backed Bigger Deficits



New York's job-killing climate

Senate Health Care Reform Spells Trouble for Nebraska

Deglobalization. The surprisingly steep decline in world trade.

Obama blasts banks for opposing financial overhaul



Do The Exec Comp Restrictions in the TARP Prove That Exec Comp Matters?

First, the Good News...

Pork Report, December 10, 2009: Muskrat Love Edition

Pork Report, December 11, 2009: Puppet Show Edition

Junk Science/Environmentalism Corruption 12-12



Two by my husband - Disdain for the Scientific Method AND Al Gore’s Political Tin Ear

Steve McIntyre - IPCC and the “Trick”

What climategate really tells us

One Must Ignore 200 Years of Observations to Believe in AGW



Climategate’s Harry_Read_Me.txt: We All Really Should

Al Gore and the Wizards of Climategate

PJTV Video - Science & Climategate: Copenhagen's Shadow Conference

UN Security Stops Journalist’s Questions About ClimateGate


GOP: US should reject climate pact



Fables of the Reconstruction. (Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)

Art Horn - Climategate in the Classroom

A Warning on Warming

Dennis Miller: Swingin' Copenhagen

Watch out, Al Gore – I’m going to Copenhagen!

Media Blows Climate Change Story

Cap-n-Trade: Now 10% Fraud-Free!

The Politicization of the EPA — an Administration’s Radical Gamble

Global Warming as a Political Tool

Hiding The Decline At Google?

Earth's Atmosphere May Have An Alien Origin.

PJTV Video - Sen. James Inhofe: President Obama, Climate Scientists & the U.N. Are Attacking Our Sovereignty

When scientists lie

Rocket man

Let’s have an inquisition



Physics Group Splinters Over Global Warming Review

ClimateGate: Don’t Know Much About History. Or Climate.

Real Scientists Are Climate Skeptics

Buy Local, Act Evil. Can organic produce and natural shampoo turn you into a heartless jerk?

Fistgate Round-Up

Seriously, I couldn't care less what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms but teaching teenages "fisting" is vile and sub-human

If this is Obama's pick for "Safe School Czar", if Obama thinks this is a reasonable person to be associated with young boys and girls then Obama should prove it by letting Jennings and his ilk babysit his daughters. If he doesn't, then he should ask for Jennings' resignation.

Fistgate: Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s 2000 Conference Promoted ‘Fisting’ to 14 Year-Olds

Fistgate II: High School Students Given ‘Fisting Kits’ At Kevin Jennings’ 2001 GLSEN Conference

Fistgate III: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s ‘Black Book’ For Kids Included Tips on Fisting and Pi$$ing on Your Partner

Fistgate IV: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens at GLSEN Events

Fistgate V: Youth Fisting Instructor Claims Kevin Jennings Knew About Class Content in Advance

Fistgate VI: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s Teen Conference Literature Pushed Anal S*x in Parks With Strangers

And these liberal jokers are trying to defend him! Media Matters Defends Kid Fisting Lectures and Children Sex Books as Non-Scandal It's like a race to see who could be the bigger scumbags.

Here's a great overview with video clips and lots of links - Do safe schools require an iron fisting?

Teaching Your Kids to Live the Porn Life. There are some lines that should not be crossed. Obama's "safe schools" czar needs to be fired.

Random Round-Up 12-12



DISGUSTING - A mark to make us ashamed: Britain wants to brand Jewish goods
...sometimes a story emerges that requires outright condemnation. On this occasion, the condemnation goes to the British Government. The government - our government, supposedly representing you and me in its interaction with people abroad - wants to label goods as coming from the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, so as to help consumers boycott them.


POLITICAL CORRUPTION

‘Welcome to Obamaville’ Sign Marks Colorado Homeless Tent City



False Populism, Real Profits for Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)


Only a Special Prosecutor is Going to Bring Justice to the Justice Department

Baucus Needs to Go

Order Drafted by White House Could Be Used to Send Gitmo Detainees to Illinois



Democrats Whistling Past Graveyard

**Exclusive** Leaked Justice Department Memo: Terrorists To Be Moved to Camp Gitmo Illinois

The Class War: Public Employees vs. the Rest of Us



Those Pesky Economists

Obama Appointee Sobers Up, Finally Shows For Work

Max Baucus’s Friends, Family, and F*!k Buddy Plan

Connecticut Senator Fights 'Dump Dodd' Sentiment

Can DHS Protect Itself Against Criminal Employees?

Obama's Weekly Friday Night Bad News Dump: Transfer Gitmo Detainees to Illinois


ACORN/BIG UNION CORRUPTION

With documents - Delaware Official: ACORN Illegally Lobbying in State

‘Independent’ ACORN Apologist Applauds ‘Independent’ Investigation Conclusion

ACORN Document Dump: Citibank Jeopardizes Customers for ACORN

Activist Brooklyn Judge Delivers for ACORN, Re-funds Group

Leaked SEIU Card Check Cheat Sheet


OBAMACARE

CNN: 61% Oppose Senate Health Care Plan

Do Nothing, Majority Says. ObamaCare is now almost as unpopular as it is monstrous.



US health care tab to keep growing under overhaul

Abortion=Viagra?

Humpty Dumpty Harry Reid

Tea Party Activists Not Thankful For Centrist Dems' Health Vote



Obama’s Individual Health Care Mandate is Unconstitutional

The $100,000 Obamacare Policy

For the Annals of Good Government

Harry Reid's main focus: Harry Reid

Sticker Shock for Dem 'Deal'

Crunching the Numbers...of Lives Saved


A COUPLE OF MEDIA STORIES
Media Blows Climate Change Story

Editor & Publisher’s Final Years A Cautionary Tale



The Conservative Answer to MoveOn.org

GO SARAH GO!

Christmas Tree Cutting

Well, it's been a family-centric week. My in-laws safely arrived, albeit six hours before their luggage arrived but not suitcases and grandparents are happily reunited.

I have completed 99.9% of my Christmas Gift Shopping and only have wrapping, cookie baking, grocery shopping, and cooking to accomplish.

And today, we are going to our favorite tree farm to cut down our Christmas Tree with decorating happening tomorrow (along with some preliminary gift wrapping - teacher's gifts, etc.).

So, this is my cheerful way of explaining the lack of daily round-ups (I've been running around like a mad woman) and promising that I will have some round-ups collected and posted very soon.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Political Corruption 12-09



DISGUSTING! This man has got to GO! - Fistgate III: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s ‘Black Book’ For Kids Included Tips on Fisting and Pi$$ing on Your Partner

A White House Power Grab that Congress and America Doesn’t See

Justice Depart. subpoenaed in New Black Panthers case. Holder's DoJ is rapidly developing the reputation of cesspit. Hopefully, this supoena will expose the inner workings of Holder's DoJ and justice will be served.

I (heart) Stephen Green - The Political Landscape: The Slobs Versus the Snobs

Voter Fraud? What Voter Fraud?

Obama's Whoppers

Obama to GOP: 'Stop trying to frighten the American people' Actually I think it's Obama and the "liberals" the American people are more afraid of these days.

This would make Miranda even stupider - Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite

The Real History of Civil Rights

Misusing knowledge to expand government power

Bob Creamer, Architect of ObamaCare, and His Pattern of Corruption

Obama Seeks to Evade Accountability in Supreme Court

Frankly, this smacks of an unattractive combination of laziness and arrogance - White House Nixes Receiving Lines. AND White House CoS Rahm Emanuel [expletive deleted] up again.

All his polls seem to be plummetting - Obama at new low in Quinnipiac survey AND Obama: Waah, Gallup is picking on meeeeeeee AND Obama's 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point AND this too - The Public-Opinion Option

Congress readies huge year-end spending bill

We certainly believe he does in our household - Does Obama have it in for Britain?

Harry Reid's Armenian Nightmare

Follow the Money

Democratic Pollsters Get $6 Million From Stimulus

Firm Run by Clinton Pollster Disputes Report It Received $5.97M in Stimulus Money

Junk Science/Environmentalism Corruption 12-09



The Truth Shall Set You Free - Copenhagen climate summit: global warming 'caused by sun's radiation'. Global warming is caused by radiation from the sun, according to a leading scientist speaking out at an alternative "sceptics' conference" in Copenhagen.

But there are always some who just can't handle the truth - Human role in climate change not in doubt-UN's Ban

From My Husband - Wigley Wriggles. Andrew Bolt has the story of how one climate scientist closed ranks.

Also from my husband - Holdren Cornered

Even though he once dropped food on my carpets, I like Rep. Sensenbrenner, especially for this - Sensenbrenner to Tell Copenhagen: No Climate Laws Until 'Scientific Fascism' Ends

The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg. The global-warming scandal is bigger than one email leak.

ClimateGate Denial

For example - Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False

Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions

I'm so shocked - Europol Reports Massive Fraud in the Carbon Credits Market

http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/09/climategate-denial/



The Politicization of the EPA — an Administration’s Radical Gamble

An Inconvenient Democracy. The EPA aims to bully Congress and business with its carbon ruling.

Our Way or ... Well, Our Way

Goracle Calls Climategate "Out of Context" & Says Deniers Are Not Living In "Reality"

EPA's Greenhouse Gases Declaration -- Putting America On the Road to Ruin

Climategate and the Hamster Effect. Like rodents trapped in a cage with a snake, climate scientists and journalists scurry and dig, hoping to avoid the inevitable

From Angus McColloch


Sarah Palin's Take - Copenhagen's political science

Looks like Mr. Culberson found a theme - Hold Your Breath AND Hold Your Breath Texas

On Data Samples AND On Data Samples, Con'td AND Precaution

U.S. Halfway to Kyoto Goals... With No Government Regulation

Most. Pathetic. Rationalization. Ever. Going Cheney on Climate

Republicans Plan to Form Counter-Delegation at Climate Conference



Redistributing America's Wealth at Copenhagen

EPA Carbon Dioxide Decision Threatens Liberty and the Economy

EPA chief: Hey, timing of new CO2 regulations just a coincidence! My big fat ass it was a coincidence.

Gore, in Bunker Mode

VIDEO - THE CLIMATE CULT: Bruce Bawer's Exclusive Report from "Hopenhagen"

Climate Skeptics Need Mental Help?

Follow the Money

The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis. Still works better than solar.

We've Been Had



From Forbes - Capping Emissions, Trading On The Future. The West's goals in Copenhagen are tantamount to suicide

Language dears.

Friedman Tackles Climategate

Surprise, Surprise, Many Scientists Disagree On Global Warming

Waiting To Exhale: Carbon Command and Control Will Leave You Breathless

Climategate: Gore falsifies the record

And now for a giggle - Defused Lethal Al Gore Poem Released by Government

In Economic Woes 12-09


The Real Fat Cat Party (Guess what, it is the democrats.)

Who didn't see this coming? Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending

Obamanomics: Decreased Productivity = More Jobs

Stimulus III Democrats want TARP to become a revolving line of political credit.



More Politics as Usual?

McCain, Coburn Target 100 Stimulus Projects

Most Americans Oppose Second Stimulus and Using Bailout Funds for States

A Transaction Tax Would Hurt All Investors. The unintended consequences of the 'Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act.'

Congress readies huge year-end spending bill

Greece Threatens Bankruptcy, And the Eurozone



The continuing war on business

Geithner: bailout program extended to October

Follow the Money

Obama’s TARP Solution: See, All Fixed!

Obama’s Four Flimsy Budget Cutting Ideas

Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: New Coburn and McCain Report

U.S. already $292 bln in the red this year - CBO

A sliver of hope - Senate Democrats threaten to clip Obama’s credit card

Small Business vs. the Great Ozbama

Obamacare Daily Round-Up 12-09



Sen. Boxer Compares Viagra to Abortion During Health Care Debate. I do not care for her as she was rude to my husband during a Senate hearing. Therefore, I believe Boxer is a political whore whose outstanding hackery is only outshined by her deep, broad, and dense idiocy. A complete waste of skin, Boxer needs to be removed from office by her constituents because she is a danger to the country and anyone standing near her suffers brain damage from the stupidity emanating from her person.

I didn't think it was possible but here is another politician who is almost as worthless as Boxer. Sen. Feinstein Says It’s ‘Morally Correct’ to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion (VIDEO) Talk about a douchbag.

The Public-Opinion Option

Senate blocks tough abortion limits in health bill



Health care issues: Keeping what you have

Watered-down 'public plan' emerges in Senate

From Michelle Malken - The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery

How Much Will You Pay for Health Care? You'll Pay Plenty

The Real Cost of a 'Botax,' by Plastic Surgeon Dr. Haideh Hirmand. A noted physician exposes the hidden toxicity of the Senate’s proposed 5% federal tax on cosmetic procedures

A Bad Year for the Experts

Reason.tv: A True Tale of Canadian Health Care


The GOP Health Plan

Obama to Spend $600M on Community Health

Senate may drop public option Do you believe that? I don't believe that.

Bob Creamer, Architect of ObamaCare, and His Pattern of Corruption

Women Will Not Fare Well Under ObamaCare

Go Joe Go! The Water Is Cold in Connecticut

Government-run health care by stealth

From Rep. Bart Stupak - What My Amendment Won’t Do

The Mystery of Harry Reid. How could such a thoroughly unappealing man have gotten so far in politics? AND Reid doubles down on slavery analogy AND he has useful idiots - Dems defend Reid's slavery remarks

Watch Senator Hatch speak on the topic, "Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconsitutional?"

Is Health Insurance Mandate Constitutional?

Don't trust 'em, it'll be back - Dems Agree to Drop Gov't Insurance Option

Corruption Daily Round-Up 12-09


DISGUSTING! This man has got to GO! - Fistgate III: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s ‘Black Book’ For Kids Included Tips on Fisting and Pi$$ing on Your Partner

GENERAL CORRUPTION


The man was a fascist dirtball, this comes as no surprise to me. New Evidence of Saddam-Terrorism Links. Yes, Saddam Hussein’s regime was a supporter and active participant in radical Islamic terrorism.

AND - Restating the Obvious About Dictatorships

Ben Shapiro lobs a handgrenade - The Racism of the Black Community And when I think of Rev. Wright, I think Ben might have a point.

Astonishing! 101st Airborne Officer Serving 20-Year Sentence After Testimony of Expert Witness Ignored Help Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna defend his innocence here.

Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches
And the limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school beef.


Who Wins Today's Godwin Award?

Evidence of Counseling Abuse at Planned Parenthood Continues To Surface in Undercover Student Video


Krauthammer's Take

Our Friends, the Pakistanis If this Investor's Business Daily editorial is the slightest bit right, then we are being played.

Eminent Domain Sucks - Big Blighters

Cooling Hugo Chavez

Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel



ACORN/BIG UNION CORRUPTION


Bachmann: ACORN could regulate the financial sector

‘Independent’ Report Reveals: ACORN’s Problems Are Sooo 2008

DOJ Defends ACORN Funding Ban While Gutting It Holder's Department of Justice is a source of shame for America.
To reinforce the point that the defunding is only temporary attorney Peter Leary states that “[t]ellingly, three of the four full-year Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations Acts that have been enacted since the CR went into effect contain no provisions foreclosing plaintiffs from applying for or receiving federal grants.” The message is clear, Obama’s Justice Department will defend the actions of Congress to defund ACORN so long as they are only temporary and the free-flowing access to federal funds is restored soon.

This brief may be music to the ears of Representative Jerrold Nadler. If you recall he’s been fighting the ban and advising ACORN’s attorney on the issue. While DOJ has not gone so far as to agree with ACORN, it has eviscerated the intent and substance of the ban on funding.

It’s time for Congress to permanently defund this corrupt organization. Congress must protect the taxpayers and ensure that no more federal funds are not subject to waste, fraud or abuse by ACORN.


Justice Depart. subpoenaed in New Black Panthers case. Holder's DoJ is rapidly developing the reputation of cesspit. Hopefully, this supoena will expose the inner workings of Holder's DoJ and justice will be served.

Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN

Obama's Tin Ear is showing - White House Serves Acorn Cookies at Holiday Party




MEDIA CORRUPTION


It is pathetic that this - TIME's Top 10 Scandals of 2009 - puts ACORN at #9. What's horrifying is that Time decided that the other "top scandals" were all sad little infidelities and foreign politician's payscales. No wonder print media and network news are dying. ACORN and the CRU hack should have been one and two. Van Jones and the Gladney beating are far more scandalous than Octomom and Balloon Boy. I'm embarrassed for Time Magazine. Embarrassed.

Newsweek is tanking as well. Good Riddance. Is Newsweek A Brand “That Will Disappear In 2010″?

Go Andrew Go! Andrew Breitbart Strong Arms Media Matters Over Fistgate Scandal

How a New York Times Columnist Hurts Fellow Blacks

Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times

ABC Fired Stossel?

Shameless Leftist Piggybacking on Palin’s Bestseller. Interesting bits in the comments section as well.

AP Global Warming Fauxtography?


FIGHTING CORRUPTION


Justice Depart. subpoenaed in New Black Panthers case. Holder's DoJ is rapidly developing the reputation of cesspit. Hopefully, this supoena will expose the inner workings of Holder's DoJ and justice will be served.

Missing Christ in Christmas. We actively celebrate Advent AND the 12 Days of Christmas so the holiday isn't just about one day of getting presents but of celebrating Christ's arrival into this world and what that means for us today.

Video: Jon Stewart joins the Tea Party I agree, it is a step in the right direction.

90-Year-Old Medal of Honor Winner Allowed To Raise Flag

Recount to start in tight Atlanta runoff for mayor

Americans Show Conservative Instincts, Not Ideology

A Tale of Two Forensic Scandals: Ontario vs. Mississippi

Joy on Four Wheels - The Christmas Truck: One Dream, 3,000 lights

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Junk Science/Environmentalism Corruption 12-08


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From My Husband - An EPA power grab

Soon you'll have to pay to exhale. Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans

Reckless 'endangerment' for breathing

Krauthammer: EPA Move May Bring a ‘Revolution on the Administration’s Hands’



EPA's carbon dioxide emissions ruling could raise energy costs

The EPA and Obama’s Uncertainty Tax

An Inconvenient Democracy. The EPA aims to bully Congress and business with its carbon ruling.

Four Colossal Holes in the Theory of Man-Made Global Warming



Climategate: Obama’s Science Adviser Confirms the Scandal — Unintentionally

EPA declares air a danger to human health

EPA: CO2 Threatens the ‘Public Health and Welfare of the American People’

A Bad Year for the Experts

Go AlfonZo Go! Milli Vanilli, Blame It On The Pagans: The New Green Religion

Capping Emissions, Trading On The Future

The Warming Faithful Gather in Copenhagen

Torquemada in East Anglia



What Are Global Warming Supporters Trying to Hide?

Must... Stop... Reading... Blogs... on... ClimateGate

ClimateGate and the UN: New Red Scare over Green Lies

I (heart) Klaus!


Beyond the Sleazy Science, Rotten Economics
The Flathead Society

Copenhagen climate summit: UN optimistic about climate change deal

St. Obama Heads for Copenhagen Bearing Gifts



The Totalities of Copenhagen. Global warming and the psychology of true belief.

Hey Punks! Listen Up. Chuck Norris is speaking - Chestnuts Roasting on a Copenhagen Fire

Climategate and the First Rule of Holes

Copenhagen Climate Scam Conference

Some Historical Perspective

Defenseless Enviro-Thugs Go on Offense



Climategate: ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’ Fails Logic 101

There's Gas In Them There Hills - Re: Bismarck

China's not-so-ambitious 'carbon intensity' goal

NYT's Friedman on Climategate: Global Warming Action Necessary, No Matter Risk or Cost