the things you believe you're seeing...

And apparently he and many of his colleagues headed for the exits...

How comforting to know that the energy czar has read "vast portions" of the worst energy bill in the history of the nation , a bill that breaks Obama's promise not to raise taxes on people making under $200k by taxing every American family about $2000 a year extra, aims to regulate everything including your showers;

PORTLAND, Maine – Sen. Olympia Snowe , a key figure in shaping federal health care legislation, said Monday that a government-run plan that would take effect if the private insurance market fails to deliver affordable coverage could bridge the partisan divide that threatens to derail President Barack Obama 's efforts to reform the system. Snowe, R-Maine, said she's working with Sen. Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., to establish that kind of a framework in the bill expected to emerge next month from the Senate Finance Committee .

Cato Institute does what ABC and Obama would not allow during the broadcast...the only tough question came from a doctor and Obama kinda blew it, meaning he answered it honestly.

Then they turn on you....

Wow...didn't see that coming! Belgian Kimberley Vlaminck said last week she woke up in horror to find her face covered in the stars of various sizes which spread out over the left-hand side of her head. She went on to blame the Flemish-speaking tattooist for not being able to understand her French and English instructions. …But the 18-year-old has finally confessed she did not fall asleep, that she wanted all the stars and was ‘fully aware’ of what Toumaniantz was doing. Miss Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew: ‘I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. ‘But when my father saw them, he was furious. ‘So I said I fell asleep and that the tattoist had made a mistake.’

In the NY Times (an AP article) ; Fifty six firefighters passed the exams, including 41 whites, 22 blacks and 18 Hispanics. But of those, only 17 whites and two Hispanics could expect promotion. Doesn't that total 81 firefighters?

Supreme court rules 5-4 in favor of New Haven firefighters and against Sotomayor... Reversal of Fortune? URGENT: Supreme Court rules white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions, reversing Sonia Sotomayor's ruling as an appeals court judge

What about all the recent evidence against the great hoax known as global warming or climate change or whatever the hell they are calling it now?  Ignore that when it challenges your agenda... So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases. And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.

Aide's tale of John Edwards sex tape Sunday, June 28th 2009, 4:00 AM McNamee/Getty, Olsen/AP Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people’s minds off his own cheating scandal. Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal. St. Martin’s Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.

Nice job...this  extended hand thing is working well; In televised remarks to judiciary officials Saturday, Ahmadinejad struck back at Obama a day after the U.S. president praised protesters for showing "bravery in the face of brutality," described violence against them as "outrageous" and said opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has "captured the imagination" of Iranians who want a more open society. Obama also dismissed Ahmadinejad's demand for an apology for previous criticism and suggested that the Iranian leader apologize to the families of those who have been arrested, beaten or killed in the crackdown.

Barack Obama Is a Big Fat Liar by Jim Geraghty Obama spent $44 million attacking McCain for an idea that Obama no longer opposes. By Jim Geraghty Ever since Barack Obama declared his candidacy for president, it’s been easy — and great fun — to spotlight when his promises and statements come with “expiration dates.” The list is long: Public financing. Renegotiating NAFTA. His promise to support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies. His inability to disown Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The release of detainee photos. Denouncing Turkey for genocide. Flip-flops are nothing new in politics, but every once in a while, a president breaks a promise or an important pledge on such an epic level that it defines him, at least in part: “Read my lips: No new taxes.” “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” “We did not — repeat — did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages — nor will we.” Even “I will never lie to you.” Barack Obama’s ...

Only in the US House of Representatives led by Nancy Pelosi can this happen; Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill. "If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass this body," Barton asked, "could the bill without a copy be sent to the Senate for its consideration?" Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers' amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, has not even been been integrated with the official copy of the 1,090-page bill at the House Clerk's desk, let alone in any other location. The two documents are side-by-side at the desk as the clerk reads through the instructions in the 300 page document for altering the 1,090 page document. But they cannot be simply combined, because the amendment contains 300 pages of items like this: "...

Back to the future ; In yet another sign of political perfidy, the White House of President George W. Bush has drafted a presidential executive order that would allow that double-dealing Republican chief executive to hold suspected terrorist detainees indefinitely. According to the president’s intentions, such suspects could be detained for long periods of time, virtually indefinitely. Is this really what the nation voted for last November? Oh, wait. No. According to an exclusive Washington Post/Pro Publica report this afternoon, it’s the refreshing new Democratic administration of Barack Obama that’s now preparing this new executive order to hold certain terrorist suspects indefinitely. This is an obviously inspiring sign of the new style of leadership the Democrat promised and is finally bringing to the White House. As one blogger put it, George W. Obama. And it shows the kind of powerful political pragmatism with which the ex-senator from Illinois approaches this job...

Well you know its only right that a disgraced Republican official needs to resign because, you know, thats what they do...so the media is doing their usual gleeful reporting. Sorta like they did when JOhn Edwards affair was revealed, or not. COLUMBIA, S.C. – A top South Carolina Republican leader says philandering Gov. Mark Sanford should resign and practice the philosophy he's preached of holding GOP leaders accountable. Glenn McCall is one of the state's two national representatives to the Republican National Committee. He's also a county party chairman and said Thursday that party members want Sanford out.

Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship For previous generations, the question:  “Where were you when Kennedy was shot” has served as a conversation starter as well as a catalyst for exploration of a shared history.  It would seem that the quintessential question will soon be:  “where were you when you found out Michael Jackson was dead?”? For the record , I was at the gym.  Credulous, I trusted that the Jackson story would get a few minutes of coverage before Bret Baier returned.  My jejune confidence that Charles Krauthammer would momentarily be providing commentary about actual news was hastily crushed.  Abstrusely, Fox News brought Shepard Smith in to cover this astounding turn of events. You know what would be really shocking?  Michael Jackson dying at the age of 87.  That would have been a real stunner, well deserving of the nauseating nonstop narration that should be reserved for heads of state.

Where is that teleprompter when you need it ; President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face. The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson. Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance. Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if th...

Even Dana Milbank was appalled , remember the grief Bush took for favoring reporters, well this is even worse; After the obligatory first question from the Associated Press, Obama treated the overflowing White House briefing room to a surprise. “I know Nico Pitney is here from the Huffington Post,” he announced. Obama knew this because White House aides had called Pitney the day before to invite him, and they had escorted him into the room. They told him the president was likely to call on him, with the understanding that he would ask a question about Iran that had been submitted online by an Iranian. “I know that there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet,” Obama went on. “Do you have a question?” Pitney recognized his prompt. “That’s right,” he said, standing in the aisle and wearing a temporary White House press pass. “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.” Pitney asked his arranged que...

No words are needed... WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters. President Barack Obama's administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution. "There's no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters. "We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran," Kelly said. "We tried many years of isolation, and we're pursuing a different path now."

Do any of these people ever pay their taxes ? EVER? President Obama's choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. The nominee, Capricia Penavic Marshall, has placed blame for the problem on the Postal Service and on miscommunication between her husband and their accountant. Ms. Marshall, who was the social secretary in the Clinton White House, notified the Obama administration about the late filings before she was nominated on May 14. She has since provided written answers to questions about the matter from Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, which will hold a hearing on the appointment next Wednesday. The post requires Senate confirmation. Tax issues have bedeviled several high-level Obama appointees and cost the administration at least two of its picks. Ms. Ma...

From Riehl World View: ABC's Troubling Political Donations The notion that any journalist can remove completely their own ideas and preferences from their work is a myth that only the very best of journalists pursue, let alone always achieve. In the face of ABC's pending Obamanation on health care reform, that's especially troubling given the tremendous imbalance in ABC's record of recent political contributions. None of the four McCain contributors, which includes Elizabeth Hasselbeck, are from journalists at ABC. Meanwhile, approximately 130 ABC employees gave money to Obama. That's close to a 33 - 1 ratio. Yet, ABC officially announced that they and they alone would manage what questions were asked of Obama about his program, including from the audience. It strikes me as simply unwise to entrust such a significant portion of the debate around a policy that will impact American lives, potentially forever, to just one organization with such an imbalance in their p...

This is the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll; Nearly seven in 10 survey respondents said they had concerns about federal interventions into the economy, including Mr. Obama's decision to take an ownership stake in General Motors Corp., limits on executive compensation and the prospect of more government involvement in health care. The negative feeling toward the GM rescue was reflected elsewhere in the survey as well. A solid majority — 58% — said that the president and Congress should focus on keeping the budget deficit down, even if takes longer for the economy to recover... Mr. Obama's overall job approval and personal ratings have slipped, particularly among independent voters. His job approval rating now stands at 56%, down from 61% in April . Among independents, it dropped from nearly two-to-one approval to closely divided. When asked what the most important economic issue facing the country is, 24% cited the deficit, vs. just 11% who named health care. This one shows a ...

It's as if his approval rating is just a judgment on if he's a nice guy, on the issues he is doing badly and its getting worse... A substantial majority of Americans say President Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, which also found that support for his plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, falls well below his job approval ratings. The poll found a distinct gulf between Mr. Obama’s overall standing and how some of his key initiatives are viewed, with fewer than half of Americans saying they approve of how he has handled health care and the effort to save General Motors and Chrysler. A majority of people said his policies have had either no effect yet on improving the economy or had made it worse, underscoring how his political strength still rests on faith in his leadership rather than concrete results. As Mr. Obama finishes his ...

Even Canada has more stones than our Dear Leader.... The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the situation in Iran following the presidential election: Canada is deeply troubled by the current situation in Iran. The allegations of fraud in last weeks presidential election are serious and need to be answered. The Iranian people deserves to have its voice heard, and we call for a fully transparent investigation into electoral discrepancies. The banning of opposition protests and security forces heavy-handed treatment of demonstrators throughout the country are also matters of grave concern. We are further disturbed by reports of the unacceptable treatment of George McLeod, a Canadian journalist who was allegedly detained and beaten by Iranian authorities. We have called in Irans Charg dAffaires in Ottawa to answer questions about the mistreatment of Mr. McLeod and to raise our concerns about the situation in Iran. The Gov...

Stunning ... Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on U.S. companies' foreign operations, saying it would amount to double taxation that will hurt the global economy. "This is a serious decision for the world economy," Putin said at a meeting of the Presidium, the government said on its web site. "If taxes are imposed on all companies working abroad, then it will mean the total destruction of the system for avoiding double taxation." Putin instructed Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin to hold discussions on the plan with Obama's administration. Kudrin met with finance ministers from the Group of Eight over the weekend and signed an agreement with Italy outlining a system for avoiding double taxation. Obama has proposed canceling a provision of the tax code that allows foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations to defer tax payments on money that is reinvested in local operations.

Al Gore says the science is settled. Now lets see if the lawsuit is settled. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has put together a coalition of more than 30,000 scientists who dont buying Gores global warming baloney. Gore wont debate the issue because he says the science is settled. So Coleman thinks his courtroom ploy may give him a chance to expose Gores folly. "We have tried and tried and tried to get a debate on global warming withAl Gore and any of the scientists behind him over at the UN IPCC," Coleman said. "We'd love to have a debate with them, but they go 'Oh, no, the debate is over.' Well, now there are 30,000 of us. We have 30,000 scientists - 9000 Phds - who have signed up to debunk global warming. And they still wont listen to usSo we figure maybe a court of law." We say bring on the law suit and let Al Gore be judged by a jury of his peers. The only problem will be finding 12 other pompous, bloated rip-off artists willing to ser...

But yet they wanted his endorsement of Sotomayor for the Supreme Court; White House Plays Hardball; Says Fired IG Walpin Was "Confused, Disoriented" Engaged in "Inappropriate Conduct" - Political Punch June 16, 2009 10:58 PM In a letter to Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, the Chairman and Ranking Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Norm Eisen, the Special Counsel to the President, outlined a number of reasons why President Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin. "Mr. Walpin was removed after a review was unanimously requested by the bi-partisan Board of the Corporation," Eisen writes in the letter, a copy of which was sent to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., a key Obama ally who today expressed concern that President Obama did not abide by a law she wrote -- and he supported as a senator -- requiring 30 day notice to Congress before an Inspector General could be terminated. In the lette...

I guess they meant sweeping everything under the rug ; Dems table Pelosi-CIA inquiry Republicans aren't letting go of the Nancy Pelosi-CIA flap. This afternoon, the House GOP drafted a privileged resolution that would establish a select subcommittee under the Intelligence Committee to "review and verify the accuracy of the speaker's aforementioned public statements." Democrats quickly tabled the resolution on a 247-171 party line vote. No Democrats crossed party lines to vote with Republicans on this resolution. Republicans wanted to create a special committee that would be comprised of four members of the Intelligence Committee   two appointed by the chairman and two appointed by the ranking Republican on the panel. The subcommittee would have subpoena power for documents and testimony and be forced to report its findings in 60 calendar days. Because Republicans packaged this legislation as a privileged resolution, the House was forced to vote on it, but Democrats de...

Wonder why ABC got the exclusive on the health care town hall? Ya don't think this had anything to do with it do ya? From TV Newser ; White House Health Reform Communications Director is Former ABC News Correspondent A couple follow ups on ABC's health care reform special at the White House next week. • It turns out the Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform, since last month, is former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass, who left journalism last year to join the Obama campaign. This is leading some to wonder whether ABC News had the upper hand in landing the president for the primetime special as well as an interview on GMA and allowing two ABC News broadcasts to originate from the White House next week. An ABC News spokesperson, however, says there's no connection between Douglass and ABC's access. The network approached the administration days after the inauguration and pitched the idea of a White House town hall meeting, says the ...

Which is exactly what he has been on Iran , silent. Seven people have now died in the protests.  How's that Cairo speech looking now? On the elections our leader says; “I have always felt that, as odious as I feel some of President Ahmadinejad ‘s statements (are), as deep as the differences that exist between the United States and Iran on core issues, the use of tough hard headed diplomacy , diplomacy without illusions , is critical when it comes to pursuing a core set of national security interests," the president said. “We will continue to pursue a tough direct dialogue between our two countries.” Isn't the Iran election an illusion? Why would Obama feel that he can negotiate openly, honestly and trust the agreements made with a regime that has rigged the election, tried to ban protests of the election and where seven people have died during those protests. This statement by Obama speaks volumes; That's leadership!

From The Hill ; With the media fawning over President Obama and failing to appropriately cover several key Democrat problems, scandals and missteps, a false sense of security for the Democrats is growing. The media, snugly tucked into the Democrats’ back pocket, paint a deceivingly rosy picture of the job Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are doing. The shopworn "conventional wisdom" that the GOP has marginalized itself into near-oblivion is being pedaled daily by cocksure reporters and (other) Democratic operatives. But the emerging true storyline is increasingly becoming diametrically opposed to this myopic view. Last rites for the GOP may be premature. A recent Gallup poll shows Americans overwhelmingly disagree with Obama on closing Guantanamo. Rasmussen reports Republicans and Democrats tied on the generic congressional ballot. Americans have a more favorable opinion of former Vice President Cheney than Pelosi...

Most Americans -- including majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents -- say President Obama has not been tough enough on North Korea and Iran. A FOX News poll released Monday finds more than two-thirds of Americans say Obama has not been tough enough on North Korea (69 percent), while some 15 percent think his actions have been "about right" and 3 percent think he has been too tough. Sizable majorities of Democrats (65 percent), Republicans (78 percent) and independents (61 percent) agree Obama should be tougher on North Korea. Among those voters who backed Obama in the 2008 presidential election, 59 percent say he has not been tough enough. North Korea test-fired short-range missiles on two separate occasions in May. President Obama denounced the tests as a "grave threat to the peace and security of the world." And last week, in response to the tests, the United Nations Security Council expanded international sanctions against North Korea. On Iran...

From Andrew Brietbart ; While Mr. von Brunn is currently being made out to be the poster child of the Republican Party, even a cursory look at his professed views shows he is the avowed enemy of the GOP in its current incarnation. Among many others, Mr. von Brunn hates Rupert Murdoch, Fox News (that means you, too, Shep!), George W. Bush and John McCain. And according to the FBI, Mr. von Brunn even had in his vehicle the address of the Weekly Standard, home base of the dreaded "neo-cons." Seems Mr. von Brunn wasn't a big fan of the Iraq War and also believed that 9/11 was an "inside job." Given this political sketch, Mr. von Brunn would feel at home at Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan's antiwar outpost in Crawford, Texas, and at the Daily Kos convention, rather than partaking in a National Review cruise with pro-Israeli war hawks Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson. It's not Charles Lindbergh's Republican Party any more. And it hasn't been f...

Joe "Gaffe-tastic" Biden is at it again...didn't you know that they were just guessing when they said the stimulus would create jobs? Biden says ‘everyone guessed wrong’ on jobs number WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden says "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the economic stimulus. Biden says the economy was worse off than anyone thought when officials estimated the number of jobs that could be saved or created under the administration’s $787 billion stimulus spending. Biden says White House economists used standard formulas to estimate that 3.5 million jobs would be saved or created under the plan Congress passed earlier this year. Biden says money is flowing out of Washington to help states and cities build roads, hire teachers and update infrastructure. He promised 600,000 new jobs in the coming months. Hopefully they make a good guess when it comes to North Korea and Iran...

The Associated Press: Judge rules terrorist can sue over torture memos By DON THOMPSON – 1 day ago SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge has ruled who said he was trying to balance a clash between war and the defense of personal freedoms.

...or at least he knew exactly what the question would be from a former Democratic candidate for Wisconsin's 1st Congressional district, Paulette Garin who on her website is a proponent of the single payer system .... Oh yes...change we can believe in.  More here at Redstate .

Obama is making friends everywhere he goes ... The decision by Johnson Toribiong, president of the obscure Pacific nation of Palau, to take in up to 13 Uighurs — Muslim Chinese — currently being held at Guantanamo is meeting some resistance from the general population. As ABC News’ polling director Gary Langer points out, proportional to population, sending 13 Uighurs to Palau is like sending 188,993 Uighurs to the United States. The Associated Press reports that Fermin Nariang, editor of the Palau newspaper Island Times, has “been stopped in the streets of the capital Koror by locals venting their anger. ‘This is a very small country … and some are saying if the whole world doesn’t want these folks, why are we taking them?’ Nariang said. The government has ‘fumbled the ball on this one.’”

The government is not too happy about the 4 Uighurs being shipped to their tropical paradise island where they will be roaming free... The United Bermuda Party today moved for a motion of no confidence against the Government led by Premier Ewart Brown. Opposition leader Kim Swan proposed the motion in the House of Assembly this morning. He said it was necessary as the Island is “increasingly subject to the politics of one man rule”. Said Mr. Swan: “Why have we moved a motion of no confidence? The public affairs of Bermuda are increasingly subject to the politics of one man rule under the Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown. We consider this unhealthy and not in Bermuda’s best interest. More at Hot Air...

Funny but I didn't recall the national media mentioning that ... Organizers said about 1,000 people lined the east side of Packerland Drive Thursday morning to protest President Obama's stop in Green Bay. Stretching four blocks long, the protest parked itself along the motorcade route between Austin Straubel Airport and Green Bay Southwest High School. The sign says "The Party of Know", more at Gateway Pundit ;

So Miss Californi a Carrie Prejean was removed due to "breach of contract" and And Tami Farrell has been named to take her place. Oh, Tami believes that marriage is between a man and a woman . Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today: "[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?" Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, "Uh huh." "You do, OK," said Cavuto. Farrell quickly added: "I don't think that I have the right or anybody has a right to tell somebody who they can or can't love. And I think that this is a civil rights issue. And I think that the right thing to do is let the voters decide." Californians voted in favor of marriage being between a man and a woman in the most recent election on the issue in the Proposition 8 measure. Sweet!

Crash tests on mini-cars like the Toyota Yaris or a Honda Fit or those golf carts that masquerade as cars known as the Smart show that they aren't all that great in low speed crashes...low speed like 3-6 miles per hour.  From USA Today; Of seven minis and micros tested in crashes into barriers at 6 miles per hour or less by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,  none earned the top rating of "good." Curiously, the only one to rate acceptable was the teeny-tiny Smart ForTwo with a total of $3,281 in damage after the four crash tests. Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent, Mini Cooper and Kia Rio all earned poor ratings. The Rio fared the worst and racked up $9,380 in total damage after the four tests -- less than $3,000 below its sticker price of $12,145. The front-end crash alone did an estimated $3,700 in damage. Chevrolet Aveo did a little better than the others, receiving a "marginal" rating. The bigger question is will you even survive the crash. ...

Four of the Uighars are being shipped to Bermuda where they will be locked behind bars for the rest of their lives free to roam the country with no restrictions and even enter the United States easily since there are no travel papers required from Bermuda.  That's just lovely.... From the British Foreign Office ; The British Government responded with ill-disguised fury tonight to the news that four Chinese Uighurs freed from Guantanamo Bay had been flown for resettlement on the Atlantic tourist paradise of Bermuda. The four arrived on Bermuda in the early hours, celebrating the end of seven years of detention after learning that they were to be accepted as guest workers. But it appears that the Government of Bermuda failed to consult with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the decision to take in the Uighurs – whose return is demanded by Beijing – and it could now be forced to send them back to Cuba or risk a grave diplomatic crisis. Bermuda, Britain's oldest remainin...

From Reason magazine ... “The American people are now worth about what they were worth in 2004, but the value keeps dropping. And there are reasons to think the value can go a lot lower.”

Remember how outraged the Dems were when Bush fired all the US attorneys?  We needed hearings to get to the bottom of how Bush could fire all those attorneys that he hired and serve at the pleasure of the President... Well look at this... From Byron York : I’ve been trying to discover the real reason for Obama’s move, and it’s still not clear. I’m told that it could be a combination of the normal tensions that surround any inspector general’s office, or the president’s desire to get his own people in IG positions, or a dispute over a particular investigation. “Bottom line,” one source wrote, “getting rid of a tough, Republican-appointed IG who has been aggressively going after waste and fraud gives Obama a chance to replace that IG with a more compliant team player.” I’m also told that a number of inspectors general around the government have been expressing concerns to Congress recently about threats to their independence. . . . Bottom line: The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama...

Don't worry, I am sure The Politico will find a way around that obstacle post-haste; “The suggestion that the [Weekly] Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms.”

Oh, he wasn't calling a 14-year old a whore, no, he was calling an 18-year old a whore...I feel better. “We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight’s show. “These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.” Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Contessa Brewer could not understand why anyone would be upset by what David Letterman said about Sarah Palin and her 14 year old daughter. "The hardest part of her visit [to New York] was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter Very classy....not to mention calling Palin "slutty", hey it's just comedy. I'm sure she thinks this is pretty damn funny too, from 2005; DON Imus didn’t like being called “a cantankerous old fool” by MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer on PAGE SIX. Brewer, a former news reader on Imus’ show, also said the I-man doesn’t know how to relate to “beautiful women.” “With that fat ass she’s got, she wouldn’t be one of ‘em,” Imus said on the air Friday. “That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning … Who’s she kidding? . . . Plus, she’s dumber than dirt … Oh, my God, what a pig. But I was willing to cut her some slack and not say anything, you know, until - in fact, I didn’t say anything . . . That’s why they have those big double-doo...

I challenge you not to laugh at this extremely creepy statue of the Dear Leader...

...and they were right!

I had an eye rolling moment when Obama said this during his Cairo speech; "I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." Well it seems so did a lot of other Americans ; Fewer than one-third of U.S. voters (32%) believe most Islamic nations want to have a positive and peaceful relationship with the United States. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% disagree and 24% are not sure. In a speech last Thursday in Cairo, Egypt, intended to reach out to Muslims worldwide, President Obama declared, “America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

After claiming to have saved 150,000 mysterious jobs the White House now says that they will "save or create" another 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days...from the only reporter doing any reporting , Jake Tapper; Amidst Questions About Their Numbers, White House Says Stimulus Will Save or Create 600,000 Jobs in the Next 100 Days June 08, 2009 2:27 PM ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: After much criticism that the $787 stimulus bill hasn’t created enough jobs and isn’t being distributed quickly enough with more than $700 billion of it unspent, President Obama and Vice President Biden debuted their new summer mantra: they will, they said, create or save 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days. Since this bogus saved jobs can't possibly be quantified why stop at 600,000 jobs? Why don't they just take credit for every working American, seems logical right?

Interesting since the criticism is conservatives are inflexible and unwilling to listen to varying opinions... People with stronger party affiliation, conservative political views, and greater interest in politics proved more likely to click on articles with opposing views, according to the Ohio State study. “It appears that people with these characteristics are more confident in their views and so they’re more inclined to at least take a quick look at the counterarguments,” Knobloch-Westerwick noted… The Brigham Young University survey found that journalists also tended to read liberal blogs - perhaps a reflection of journalists’ political beliefs, although even conservatives said liberal blogs were often better-written , Davis pointed out. Among the political blog readers, a similar trend emerged in which “liberals read almost exclusively liberal blogs, but conservatives tend to read both,” Davis said. Davis offered another possible explanation for this trend among blog readers...

Interesting... Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months. A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displace Democrats as the party in control. Dean G. SkelosGiovanni Rufino for The New York Times Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican, would likely be the new majority leader if his party takes control. It was a noisy and acrimonious scene on the floor of the Senate as Senator Thomas W. Libous, a Republican from Binghamton and the party’s deputy leader, shouted for a roll-call vote, while Democrats attempted to stall the vote by asking to adjourn the session. All 30 Republicans stood with their hands raised, signaling a vote for a change in leadership. Mr. Es...

Simply stunning....credit to Obama for smacking him down on this; BROKAW: What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchenwald? And what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians? OBAMA: Well, look, there's no equivalency here.

Cheney more popular than Pelosi? Yep...

Number of hits on Google for "Obama historic speech" = 5,890,000 Number of hits on Google for "Bush historic speech" = 1,010,000 Number of hits on Google for "Bush historic speech -Obama" = 644,000

All right, I know that MSNBC is the left's answer to Fox News but why is she and everyone else on the poor excuse for a cable news channel allowed to get away with crap like this. This quote she claims Rush Limbaugh said has no sourcing whatsoever in fact the only place it has appeared was on Wikipedia and we all know how reliable that is; MADDOW: When you get called racist by the guy who says the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. should get the Medal of Honor, consider yourself honored. Also, nauseated. I am nauseated, by you Rachel... Smash Mouth Politics has the scoop on this phony quote from Rush. And for more see the great Newsbusters .

From Bloomberg News ... Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits. “It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

You don't say? Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world...."

Remember all of Obama's statements have an expiration date. Gitmo closing may be approaching its time ; Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldnt be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.

Sweet ... I think that freedom means freedom for everyone, replied the former V.P. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I dont support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. But I dont have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that.

From the mouth of Brian Williams ... To be in the hallway when the president walks by with a handful of M&Ms, popping them in his mouth as he goes to visit his chief of staff -- it was unbelievable.