the things you believe you're seeing...

Why bother with Congressional approval, lets just agree to whatever the hell Bambi wants; With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty. “The most ideal situation would be to finish it in time that it could be submitted to the Senate so that it can be ratified,” said White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore. “If we’re not able to do that, we’ll have to look at arrangements to continue some of the inspection provisions, keep them enforced in a provisional basis, while the Senate considers the treaty.” Samore said administration lawyers are expl...

Contained in the last paragraph of a press release issued by Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein; To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=1. These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal acti...

At least Sarah Palin got Michael Jackson off the news...

From WizBangBlog; At one point, Obama just happened to pick a woman, named Debbie Smith, who, by pure coincidence, is a volunteer for Obama's "Organizing For America" group. She received tickets through the White House staff. Debbie proceeded to give a tear-jerker of a speech concerning her kidney cancer and how she cannot get health insurance, nor a job. Her story is and tragic and true, however the fact that she is a volunteer for Obama's group and got her tickets through the White House and that this info was not revealed to anyone is very troubling. And of course everyone on the left and in the media is perfectly fine with this, or are they. Should be an interesting day for Gibbs after what happened yesterday.

And I actually agree with her ; "What the hell do they think we are, puppets? Theyre supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.... When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you. Im not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well  for the town halls, for the press conferences. Its blatant. They dont give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame."

From the WaPo ; The president called randomly on three audience members. Each turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the SEIU union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.

Long but worth every delicious minute to see the Family Guy squirm and a special bonus, Gibbs giggles a lot;   Gibbs is such a arrogant ass...

Something living in the Raleigh NC sewer system...

Remember when President George W. Bush's economy was in the middle of its 53 months in a row of job creation which, by the way, was initiated by the Bush tax cuts, and all the media reports were of gloom and doom....well this is the CNN piece on today's report of 473,000 jobs lost in June;     Job market shows some improvement     Automatic Data Processing, a payroll-processing firm, said private-sector employers cut 473,000 jobs in June, a 2.5% improvement from the revised 485,000 drop in May.     The June job cut total was more than expected. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had forecast a loss of 394,000 jobs last month.     However, the May tally was revised lower. ADP originally reported a loss of 532,000 private-sector jobs in May...

Funny how the article leaves out party identification ; After Call From Senator's Office, Small Hawaii Bank Got U.S. Aid By Paul Kiel and Binyamin Appelbaum ProPublica and Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth. The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate for a program designed by the Treasury Department to bolster healthy banks. The firm's losses were depleting its capital reserves. Its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., already had decided that it didn't meet the criteria for receiving a favorable recommendation and had forwarded the application to a council that reviewed marginal cases, according to agency documents. Two weeks after the inquiry from Inouye's office, Central Pacific announced t...

An absolutely pathetic display by NY Democrats upset that they have lost their majority in the NY State Senate.  They can only be described as a bunch of whiny cry babies who can't get their way;

How do you beat a guy who throws righty and lefty? You don't. by Rick Reilly Mic Smith You'll probably never witness an unassisted triple play in your lifetime, right? (There have been only 14.) Or see an intentional walk with the bases loaded. (Six.) Or watch one player hit two grand slams in an inning. (Once.) But you can see something right now that hasn't been around in baseball since the late 1800s: a switch-pitcher. His name is Pat Venditte, he's 23, and he's pro baseball's only ambidextrous pitcher. This living piece of history is more than a YouTube star; he's throwing almost daily for the Charleston RiverDogs, the Yankees' Single-A club. And he's not just throwing: He's blowing through hitters like a Cub Scout through Skittles. At one point in April, the closer's ERA was 0.00 in 6 1/3 innings, and he hadn't blown a save in five games. Last season, he had 23 saves for the Staten Island Yankees, with a 0.83 ERA. An...

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?