Global Warming Satellite Crashes in Antartic

Can't say I'm sorry except for the waste of taxpayer's money both for the satellite's existance and its failure.

Personally, it's probably a sign that we didn't need it in the first place.

Pelosi's Media Arm

It's nice that Nancy Pelosi has her own personal media arm in the form of her daughter creating and producing sabotaging "documentaries".

Abolish The 17th Amendment

I never, ever, thought I would think that a return to the process of state senates electing federal senators (the way our Founding Father's set up the government) was a good idea, but George Will's article here changed my mind!

European Carbon Market Collapses

What a wonderful day!

The bad idea called a carbon market collapses in Europe and Guardian writer Julian Glover is clearly peeved about it!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

UPDATED 6 Down, 44 To Go

UPDATED - The Governor of Tennessee has announced that he too might reject the so-called stimulus act money if as a result, Tennessee will face higher spending requirements in the future. Thank you Tennessee!

Five governors have announced that they will refuse stimulus money if it is headed towards entitlement programs stating "this is how addicts get hooked on drugs."

Now we just need the other 45 governors to do what's right and the taxpayers (aka voters) will be protected.

The Forgotten Man, Again

This post is by my husband and was originally published on The Corner at NRO.

The post facto debate over the President's Mortgage Bailout is the clearest example of Forgotten Man syndrome I've yet seen. It is always talked about as if there are only two parties to the loan: the borrower and the bank. The borrower is portrayed either as victimized (Michelle Malkin has a great example here of a bus driver who is underwater on a home she paid $800,000 for) or foolish (the same clip can be viewed through a different lens), while the bank is portrayed either as predatory (the bus driver complains that the bank made it "too easy" for her to borrow money) or foolish (again, the clip can be viewed through a different lens). What's missing in all the talk is the forgotten man — the actual current holder of the loan.

As we all know, the banks didn't keep the loans after they originated them. They packaged them up and sold them on; they now merely service them. So, when Obama wants banks to renegotiate terms with the borrower, he is saying that the banks have to break their duty to the current investor, whose contract will be renegotiated without their having a say in the matter. As my colleague John Berlau says,

The Obama plan and Hope for Homeowners are subsidizing the banks that service the loans for losses that they often won't even take. The parties that are actually doing the loan forgiveness and should be paid, if anyone should be paid (and I don't think anyone should, because the government shouldn't be interfere at all) are the investors holding the mortgage-backed securities.

The contracts between banks and investors are usually pretty clear that it's either the original terms of the loan or foreclosure. They state that loans can only be modified for the best interest of the investor, if they even allow modification (which in the case of the Frey lawsuit vs. Countrywide, they apparently don't). The government is paying and pressuring banks to ignore their fiduciary duties and rip off investors, including pension and mutual funds with mortgage-backed securities that serve middle-class savers

Consider that investors aren't generally plutocrats, but you and me, via our pension funds, 401Ks and mutual funds, and the need for a Tea Party for the forgotten men seems even clearer.

William Ayers and Ward Churchill

Putting those two together to speak to our children is yet another example of why so many Universities and Academics simply can not be trusted to intelligently educate our kids.

Seriously, both these men espouse radical and ugly ideas. Why on earth would any parent allow their child to be in hearing-distance (let alone presence) of these two men is beyond me.

I'm not denying their right to free speech. I'm just suggesting we have the right not to listen to them. Parents of Millersville University students, perhaps you should make your voices heard before your kids hear these two jokers.

Speaking of Chronically Corrupt Cronies

ACORN is in trouble for attempting "civil disobedience" by breaking and entering into foreclosed homes.

You can toss them all in jail for all I care.

Stimulating Big Labor

Card Check or what Ted Kennedy lyingly calls the "Employee Free Choice Act" is just one of several sops being tossed out to the big labor unions in thanks for their support of Obama.

Isn't it nice to see the economy tanking and liberal politicians helping it circle the drain even faster by giving economy damaging graft to their chronically-corrupt cronies?

Help Is on the Way

This is my husband's post on The Corner over at NRO

Good news! According to the LA Times, all it takes for alternative energy to solve our problems is a bunch of technological breakthroughs. Why we didn't limit the stimulus package to the $400 million for "breakthrough research," I just don't know . . .

Stopping Child Prostitution

Fighting child prostitution using Federal-grade racketeering charges is a government example I can support.

Apparently since 2003 the FBI and local police have been working to bring down child prostitition rings. May God bless the men and women doing this work and give them faith and strength to stop this heinous crime

The Never Ending Campaign

It looks like Obama is going to try and fight back at the tax revolt and fight for his socialist/progressive agenda by continuing his campaign "grassroots" tricks and utilizing all those "savory" folks who've helped him in the past.

I know I feel just great knowing that these rogues are invited to the White House and given instructions in how to forward Obama's objectives...

Included on the guest list were: Labor leaders Jimmy Hoffa and Andy Stern, MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser, Sierra Club’s Carl Pope, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richardson, and Joe Solomonese of the Human Rights Campaign.

I wouldn't let any of these people on my property, let alone in my house and Obama is using them as tools.

Obama has never run anything except for campaigns. So now we are getting an administration that doesn't know how to do anything productive, only to campaign for really rather stupid government policies. I was sick of the 2008 campaign season in 2007. Now I am sick of the 2012 campaign and it's only 2009. UGH!

Listen to Treacher

Jim Treacher weighs in on the stimulus bill that will definately make you smile.

Plus, bonus 70s "I'm just a bill on Capital hil" clip.

Stealing from Girl Scouts

These people are lower than worm poop. Imagine stealing from Girl Scouts.

I mean, it's not truly evil like say eating a Girl Scout but stealing from little girls is just low.

Worse and worsening

Last month was the worst in stock market history since 1896 (the year my great-grandmother was born). That's 113 years. Thanks a lot Obama.

Reading it Right

The New Pamphleteer's posting on the tax protests can come across as not approving.

I think that if you read it right, they are actually suggesting that we keep up the good work and "act worthy" of our forefathers by not simply protesting but taking real actions.

If I am correct in this interpretation, then I must agree with this post.

Yes, we should protest in rallies but we should also start demanding that our local politicians, our state senators and representatives, our mayors and governors, should follow Gov. Jindal's lead and refuse the stimulus money.

More Dodd Corruption

Here's an example of a one-newspaper-town finding corruption quite nicely.

The Hartford-Courant has published an article alleging even more corrupt business dealings between Christopher Dodd and a crony named Downe.

What a class act.

Ambassodorship to Britain Given to Sycophant

Another great post over at Legal Insurrection points out that Obama has trashed our special relationship with Britian by appointing a crony rather than a skilled diplomat as America's ambassodor to Great Britian.

Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London.

The selection of Mr Susman, a lawyer and banker from the president's hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat, raises new questions about Mr Obama's commitment to the special relationship with Britain.

American commentators denounced the selection of a rich friend to the plumb post, regarded as one of the most prestigious in the president's gift, as worthy of a "banana republic".

Personally at this point, I would be completely understand if Britain decides to have nothing more to do with Obama's administration.

Obama's actions toward the UK have been insulting and incredibly stupid.

Tax Revolt Advice

Legal Insurrection is offering up some good tax revolt advice to those who wish to fight the good fight.

Sad Self-Promotion

The Chicago Sun-Times is running a self-congratulatory "article" about how great they are at sniffing out Chicago's corruption. They posit that all cities have corruption but that as they are "so good" at it, it means that newspapers still matter.

Really?

Because New York City has a whole bunch of newspapers, Washington DC too, and yet, yet, they don't seem to find nearly as much corruption as Chicago papers do.

Is the Chicago Sun-Times calling all other journalists lazy? Quite possibly and quite possibly they'd be right. I am much more inclined to believe that newspapers have gotten incredibly lazy and cheap with investigative journalism and only because there is so much low-hanging corruption fruit in Chicago has the Sun-Times been able to make their claims.

Is Rahm Badly Connected?

Moe Lane sees some disturbing connections between Rahm Emanuel and disgraced Tim Mahoney.

Raising taxes to stimulate...

After his radio address, an official made a "leaked" announcement that Obama plans to half the deficit by the end of his "first" term.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the president has not yet released his budget for the fiscal year 2010, which begins Oct. 1, said the deficit will be shrunk by scaling back Iraq war spending, ending the temporary tax breaks enacted by the Bush administration for those making $250,000 or more a year, and streamlining government.

So in the middle of a recession and after cramming one of the largest spending bills in American history down taxpayer's throats, Mr. Genius is going to raise taxes on the individual who already pay the most in taxes.

Historically this has always and consistently been a VERY BAD idea but Obama believes his hype and this time it'll be different. Hope and Change, you know.

What was that classic definition of madness? Make the same mistakes over and over again but always expecting a different result? Seems to apply to every democrat and liberal idea ever. At least, conservatives learn from history, rather than repeat it.

I mean this is rich, count Obama's lies in the quote below (and by lies I mean promises he makes that he will not and can not keep).

"We can't generate sustained growth without getting our deficits under control," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address that seemed to preview his intentions. He said his budget will be "sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting, and lays out in detail my strategy for investing in what we need, cutting what we don't, and restoring fiscal discipline."

Honestly, this is clearly an attempt to nip the nascent tax revolt going on in the bud.

After all the promises Obama has broken and after forcing the so-called stimulus bill with all its ghastliness upon us, he actually expects us to believe him that he will have a "sober" and "honest accounting".

After that zombie circus of a stimulus bill stuffed with useless pork that Obama allowed Reid and Pelosi to create and that only democrats and three assholes voted for, that after all that, he expects us to believe that he can restore "fiscal discipline"?

Yeah right.

I believe that Obama has drunk his own kool-aid. In fact, I believe Obama has installed an Obama-Kool-Aid fountain in the Oval Office if he thinks we can now believe a single word he says.

To the Tea Party my friends. To the barricades. Unless you like being taxed into oblivion by a two-faced fool. Fight. Fight. Fight.

A Better Stimulus

Hat Tip to Instapundit.

Michelle Muccio has a better idea for stimulating the economy than Congress.

Watch and I'll bet you'll agree too.

Map of US Bank Failures and Foreclosures

As Glenn points out over at Instapundit, this map of bank failures and home foreclosures looks an awful lot like the states that carried Obama into office.

Name and Shame Bill Moyers as a Hypocrit

Another Name and Shame via GayPatriot in his post on Bill Moyers titled "Bill Moyers: The Power of Outing".

Apparently, Mr. Liberal TV Guy used to work as an aide to LBJ (democrat) and was tasked with using the FBI to see if any of Goldwater's (republican) staff were gay.

Wow! Another example of how being a liberal is all about kindness and inclusiveness.

I particularly like GayPatriot's comparison to Nixon and how he got in trouble for using the FBI to dig up dirt on people.

How does it feel Moyers (and Democrat LBJ) to be just as "good" as Nixon.

Moyers is an ass and should be ashamed of himself.

GayPatriot ends with this observation:

Interesting how a story about a liberal pundit’s investigations into the sexuality of coworkers and political rivals primarily draws the attention of conservative bloggers. And gay bloggers seem more interested in the story than do the organizations ostensibly representing our peers.

The more we learn about Bill Moyers, the more we see how much his political affiliation defined his life. He would do anything to destroy a rival politician, even root around to see if that man had gay staffers, seeking to use those staffers’ sexuality against their Republican employer.