Denny's Changes Obama

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's
Again thanks to the good folks at The Onion

Cash4Gold

US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com
Another Onion Shout Out

Obama Job Review

Obama To Hold Job Performance Review With Every American Worker
Thank You Onion

Redistributing The Wealth

From The Tax Foundation and TaxProf comes this explanation of Obama's wealth redistribution.

New analysis of President Obama's Budget finds that he is targeting the nation's highest earners for greater income redistributions. By 2012, the federal government is scheduled to be redistributing an extra $79 billion from the top-earning 5% of American families, and $71 billion of that will be paid by the top-earning 1% of families.

Good Sick Fun

Your Childhood Toys Like You've Never Remembered.

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Hat Tip: Glenn Reynolds

Campaign Pledge #477 Broken

The "Sunlight Before Signing" pledge Obama made to his gullible followers has been broken as The Volokh Conspiracy make clear in this post here.

I never believed anything that came out of Obama's mouth but this was something I almost felt hopeful for. Silly me. Socialists can't be trusted.

Obama's Defense

Obama's taking this country back in time.

Back to the Great Depression.

Back to FDR's socialism experiements.

And back to September 10, 2001.

He is cutting our defense spending just as our enemies (emboldened by Obama's weak rhetoric and even weaker foreign policy) are gearing up for who knows what mischief.



Does anyone think that Iran, Russia, and North Korea would be this bellecose during Bush's administration?

And just so we all remember - It's Obama's deficits that are killing the US economy, not Bush's.



Finally, it is Obama's Congress that is causing our energy bills and unemployment to increase by raising taxes during a recession.

Pelosi's Energy Tax Passes 219 - 212

(Originally posted on NRO by my husband)

The House came very close last night to delivering an historic defeat to the Pelosi-Obama agenda for bringing every activity under their control. After Minority Leader John Boehner displayed impressive leadership by taking over an hour to read out egregious examples of overreach from the 300 page amendment that no-one had had a chance to read (and I'll have more to say about that outrage later), 44 Democrats voted against passage of the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill. Ordinarily, this would have been enough to defeat the bill, but 8 Republicans voted for the bill. They were:

Bono Mack (CA)
Castle (DE)
Kirk (IL)
Lance (NJ)
LoBiondo (NJ)
McHugh (NY)
Reichert (WA)
Smith (NJ)

Without just 4 of these votes, the energy tax would have gone down and months of scheming by Henry Waxman and Speaker Pelosi would have been for naught. Two of them have hopes of a Senate run, I note. Twitter users are already calling them the #capntr8tors...

Introducing Pelosi Car

Thank You Iowahawk

The Yes Votes on Waxman-Markey

When you've lost your job.

When you can't pay your energy bill.

When you've lost your job and you can't pay your energy bills.

When that happens, here is the link listing the US Representatives who voted yes on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill.

Won't be seeing these folks in 2010.
Abercrombie (D, HI)
Ackerman (D, NY)
Adler (D, NJ)
Andrews (D, NJ)
Baca (D, CA)
Baird (D, WA)
Baldwin (D, WI)
Bean (D, IL)
Becerra (D, CA)
Berkley (D, NV)
Berman (D, CA)
Bishop (D, GA)
Bishop (D, NY)
Blumenauer (D, OR)
Boccieri (D, OH)
Bono Mack (R, CA-45)
Boswell (D, IA)
Boucher (D, VA)
Boyd (D, FL)
Brady (D, PA)
Braley (D, IA)
Brown (D, FL)
Butterfield (D, NC)
Capps (D, CA)
Capuano (D, MA)
Cardoza (D, CA)
Carnahan (D, MO)
Carson (D, IN)
Castle (R, DE-00)
Castor (D, FL)
Chandler (D, KY)
Clarke (D, NY)
Clay (D, MO)
Cleaver (D, MO)
Clyburn (D, SC)
Cohen (D, TN)
Connolly (D, VA)
Conyers (D, MI)
Cooper (D, TN)
Courtney (D, CT)
Crowley (D, NY)
Cuellar (D, TX)
Cummings (D, MD)
Davis (D, CA)
Davis (D, IL)
DeGette (D, CO)
Delahunt (D, MA)
DeLauro (D, CT)
Dicks (D, WA)
Dingell (D, MI)
Doggett (D, TX)
Doyle (D, PA)
Driehaus (D, OH)
Edwards (D, MD)
Ellison (D, MN)
Engel (D, NY)
Eshoo (D, CA)
Etheridge (D, NC)
Farr (D, CA)
Fattah (D, PA)
Filner (D, CA)
Frank (D, MA)
Fudge (D, OH)
Giffords (D, AZ)
Gonzalez (D, TX)
Gordon (D, TN)
Grayson (D, FL)
Green (D, TX)
Green (D, TX)
Grijalva (D, AZ)
Gutierrez (D, IL)
Hall (D, NY)
Halvorson (D, IL)
Hare (D, IL)
Harman (D, CA)
Heinrich (D, NM)
Higgins (D, NY)
Hill (D, IN)
Himes (D, CT)
Hinchey (D, NY)
Hinojosa (D, TX)
Hirono (D, HI)
Hodes (D, NH)
Holt (D, NJ)
Honda (D, CA)
Hoyer (D, MD)
Inslee (D, WA)
Israel (D, NY)
Jackson (D, IL)
Jackson-Lee (D, TX)
Johnson (D, GA)
Johnson (D, TX)
Kagen (D, WI)
Kanjorski (D, PA)
Kaptur (D, OH)
Kennedy (D, RI)
Kildee (D, MI)
Kilpatrick (D, MI)
Kilroy (D, OH)
Kind (D, WI)
Kirk (R, IL-10)
Klein (D, FL)
Kosmas (D, FL)
Kratovil (D, MD)
Lance (R, NJ-07)
Langevin (D, RI)
Larsen (D, WA)
Larson (D, CT)
Lee (D, CA)
Levin (D, MI)
Lewis (D, GA)
Lipinski (D, IL)
LoBiondo (R, NJ-02)
Loebsack (D, IA)
Lofgren (D, CA)
Lowey (D, NY)
Luján (D, NM)
Lynch (D, MA)
Maffei (D, NY)
Maloney (D, NY)
Markey (D, CO)
Markey (D, MA)
Matsui (D, CA)
McCarthy (D, NY)
McCollum (D, MN)
McDermott (D, WA)
McGovern (D, MA)
McHugh (R, NY-23)
McMahon (D, NY)
McNerney (D, CA)
Meek (D, FL)
Meeks (D, NY)
Michaud (D, ME)
Miller (D, NC)
Miller (D, CA)
Moore (D, KS)
Moore (D, WI)
Moran (D, VA)
Murphy (D, CT)
Murphy (D, NY)
Murphy (D, PA)
Murtha (D, PA)
Nadler (D, NY)
Napolitano (D, CA)
Neal (D, MA)
Oberstar (D, MN)
Obey (D, WI)
Olver (D, MA)
Pallone (D, NJ)
Pascrell (D, NJ)
Pastor (D, AZ)
Payne (D, NJ)
Pelosi (D, CA)
Perlmutter (D, CO)
Perriello (D, VA)
Peters (D, MI)
Peterson (D, MN)
Pingree (D, ME)
Polis (D, CO)
Price (D, NC)
Quigley (D, IL)
Rangel (D, NY)
Reichert (R, WA-08)
Reyes (D, TX)
Richardson (D, CA)
Rothman (D, NJ)
Roybal-Allard (D, CA)
Ruppersberger (D, MD)
Rush (D, IL)
Ryan (D, OH)
Sanchez (D, CA)
Sánchez (D, CA)
Sarbanes (D, MD)
Schakowsky (D, IL)
Schauer (D, MI)
Schiff (D, CA)
Schrader (D, OR)
Schwartz (D, PA)
Scott (D, GA)
Scott (D, VA)
Serrano (D, NY)
Sestak (D, PA)
Shea-Porter (D, NH)
Sherman (D, CA)
Shuler (D, NC)
Sires (D, NJ)
Skelton (D, MO)
Slaughter (D, NY)
Smith (R, NJ-04)
Smith (D, WA)
Snyder (D, AR)
Space (D, OH)
Speier (D, CA)
Spratt (D, SC)
Stupak (D, MI)
Sutton (D, OH)
Tauscher (D, CA)
Teague (D, NM)
Thompson (D, CA)
Thompson (D, MS)
Tierney (D, MA)
Titus (D, NV)
Tonko (D, NY)
Towns (D, NY)
Tsongas (D, MA)
Van (D, MD)
Velázquez (D, NY)
Walz (D, MN)
Wasserman (D, FL)
Waters (D, CA)
Watson (D, CA)
Watt (D, NC)
Waxman (D, CA)
Weiner (D, NY)
Welch (D, VT)
Wexler (D, FL)
Woolsey (D, CA)
Wu (D, OR)
Yarmuth (D, KY)

Kill That BILL

Some more reasons why the Waxman-Markey bill is a steaming pile of crap.

It could lead to energy rationing.

Here are 15 reasons to kill this bill from The Club For Growth.

Even GREENPEACE hates this thing.

And the democrat jackasses haven't even read the damn thing. No one has. Go here to Readthebill.org to learn about how good people are fighting to get our lawmakers to ACTUALLY READ the laws they are voting for.

Gov. Healthcare - Death and Taxes

Link here with more information.

Jonah Takes The Press To Task

I love Jonah. This posting here is hilarious. It's funny because its true.

Little sample below.

As Kool Aid–allergic columnist Robert Samuelson has noted, such sycophancy is a serious public-policy problem because the president is proposing a radical overhaul of pretty much everything, and for the most part the press hasn’t cared that his explanations are iffier than gas-station sushi and his assurances are more dubious than a North Korean press release. Obama’s ongoing promise that he’s “creating or saving” jobs is as plausible as the chess-team captain’s claim that his supermodel girlfriend can’t fly down from Canada for the prom.

The Stoning of Soraya M

I want to see this movie (although I am scared of it too). Here is a moving webpost about it.

I saw the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., at a private showing in Washington, D.C. and, although I have seen many pictures of the stoning of the women and young girls by the Iranian Islamic regime, I could not believed that the human race is capable of such cruelty. Apparently our words and cries are not strong enough to raise human-rights awareness, but this movie can help our cause. After all, one picture is worth a thousand words.

SNIP

It is a fact that the feminist American culture, the culture of Hollywood, is one of the major issues that Islamists like Khomeini, Bin Laden, Hezbollah, the Muslim brotherhood, and the Taliban have against America and the West. But this culture supports the Islamists by its silence and indifference to the issue of human rights. The Stoning of Soraya M. should have received many academy awards, many Cannes awards, and many movie reviews. It is the least this culture can do for the Iranian women suffering to gain the same human rights that American feminists exploit.

The Sentence

Go here and read an excellent op-ed from The Wall Street Journal.

Just go. I'll wait here while you read.

Obama Stifled Science

The free market-based Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington has obtained a set of internal e-mails exposing Team Obama's willful and reckless disregard for data that undermine the illusion of "consensus."

In March, Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, asked agency officials to distribute his analysis on the health effects of greenhouse gases. EPA has proposed a public health "endangerment finding" covering CO2 and five other gases that would trigger costly, extensive new regulations of motor vehicles. The open comment period on the ruling ended this week. But Carlin's study didn't fit the blame-human-activity narrative, so it didn't make the cut.

The above was in this article in The New York Post about how Obama promised in his election campaign to make environmental decisions "based on the science."

He lied. And he will continue to lie because no one calls him out on these things. Thank you New York Post for having the journalistic spine to run that op-ed.

Another Reason to Kill that Bill

From The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed explains how global warming/climate change is probably NOT man-made.

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Open Government

(Originally posted by my husband on NRO-The Corner)

The stink surrounding the Pelosi-Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill has become vomit-inducing overnight. Representative Waxman has decided to replace the 1091-page bill with a 300-page bill that will be debated for no longer than three hours today. So your elected representatives will have virtually no time to debate the merits of an economy-spanning bill they will not have had time to read. Speaker Pelosi and her sidekick Waxman are displaying nothing more than complete contempt for the democratic process.

If you're as utterly disgusted by this as I am, you can send a message to Pelosi and her cronies by telling your Congressmen to vote against this bill. You can e-mail them, call them (202-225-3121), or text the National Taxpayers Union on 54608 and they will help.

And would anyone like to help push the Constitutional Amendment I suggested around the time of the stimulus?

UPDATE: The e-mail link is now correct.

Open Government, Part II

(Originially posted on NRO-The Corner by my husband)

This week, CEI released evidence to the public, by means of a filing of comments with the Environmental Protection Agency, that the EPA was suppressing science skeptical of the harmful effects of global warming. By taking this action, Obama's EPA demonstrated its hypocrisy when it comes to the role of science in its decision-making. Shortly before assuming office, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson declared: “As Administrator, I will ensure EPA’s efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency.” Jan. 23, 2009. This followed the president’s own January 21 memo to agency heads on “Transparency and Open Government.” And in an April 27 speech to the National Academy of Sciences, the president declared that, “under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.”

What is particularly interesting is the way the EPA has tried to brush this under the carpet. Rather than take my word for it, as an interested party, best to follow the work of the San Francisco Examiner's Thomas Fuller. He reported the story, then, faced with a dismissive response from EPA, decided that there was no story there. However, as you'll see from the link, further investigation proved that there was indeed a real story, and two further updates confirm this. Despite the administrator's and president's declarations, political considerations are clearly dominating scientific discussion at EPA. Now, this is in many ways to be expected as part of the political process, but not when the EPA head and her boss have told the public otherwise.

What is also interesting is that so far, it seems that the traditional media read our evidence and the EPA's denial and stopped there, without further digging. Thomas Fuller, however, did go further, turned over the stone, and found the worms wriggling there.

CEI released the actual suppressed study last night, which it did not obtain from the scientist concerned. You can read more at Watts Up With That.

So add this to the attempted railroading through of the cap-and-tax bill and you can be left with only one conclusion. Democrats currently in government aren't just incompetent, they are contemptuous of the American people.

Open Government III

(Originally posted by my husband on NRO-Corner)

Well, I suppose this form of vote buying on the House floor is at least transparent:

Kill This Bill

The Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill is another bums rush job by the democrats.

The democrats must push this bill through so fast that no one can read all 1600 pages because it is a BAD DEAL.

They must horse-trade favors on the floor of the House of Representatives because it is a BAD DEAL.

They have to "embroider" the truth because it is a BAD DEAL.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American people.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American economy.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American industry.

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to look at the history of cap and trade in Europe (utter failure).

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to think about how VOTERS will react when their energy bills sky rocket.

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to think about how VOTERS could freeze to death if they can't afford to pay their energy bills because their industry collapsed thanks to cap and trade legislation like Waxman-Markey

I could go on like this forever. I'm a stay-at-home mom with time, internet access, and a grudge.

Congress - Kill this bill or you will kill Americans or even more likely, you will kill your career as a US politician.

Look Over There!

(Orginally posted at NRO-The Corner by my husband)

As a great man just noted to me, now the president has thrown immigration reform into the media mix, along with Sanford, Farrah, health care and, ahem, D.C. church rebuilding . . . Anything to distract people from the biggest tax rise in U.S. history that is going to be voted on tomorrow or Saturday. Several House waverers have now said they'll vote no. If we can keep the pressure up, we can beat this thing. But that takes focus!

Aid to Africa Kills Part 4 of 5`

Here is the link to the five part series about Africa with Dambisa Moyo from Uncommon Knowledge.

Thinking about this guy

I've been thinking about this essay since I first read it in 2006. Now the author has written a book "Shop Class as Soulcraft" on the subject.

The essay has stuck with me for years, I'm looking forward to reading the book. Below is his "interview" with Colbert. But its weird I'd been thinking about that essay and suddenly...

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Scary Toys

Cracked.com had me laughing so hard my eyes watered will reading this post about "The 13 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Children's Toys".

The Six Finger Gun advert is astonishing with its obvious pride in the weapon aspect of this toy but I think my favorite is Big Loo - if only it would scare my five-year-old into obeidance.