LEE RODGERSSUCKERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ...
FOOLISHNESS AT THE FED ...
N.Y. TIMES AND ITS MOMENTS IN HISTORY
N.Y. TIMES AND ITS MOMENTS IN HISTORY
Taken in -- again. Again we're sending food to North Korea. Again they're promising to behave like a civilized nation. They won't. How many times and how many U.S. presidents have to be suckered in this game before they figure it out? Is a defective North Korea gene a pre-condition for getting elected president of the Unites States?
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From the "What a Crock!" department ...
Yesterday on Fox News a diplomat and a high-ranking military officer were being interviewed. They were in Afghanistan and sounded like Jay Carney parrots reciting, telling us everything was fine there and we were winning and all was well between us and the Afghans. They dispensed enough fertilizer in three minuets to to assure a bumper corn crop in the entire Midwest.
Lying, of course, is the official policy of the Obama administration, and woe betide anyone on the government payroll who doesn't toe the party line. How embarrassing for these two willful dupes.
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Another slimy Democrat congressman, Moran of Virginia, complains about people "disrespecting" the president. Too damned bad about the First Amendment thing, isn't it, creep? Of course, give the tyrannically-inclined Chicago pol enough time and he'll abolish it.
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John Podhoretz, NY Post, summarizes Romney's position, post-Michigan ...
"Romney did worse than he should, and that happened not because Santorum is such a contender, but because Romney keeps shooting himself in the foot he has put in his own mouth.
"After his stunning victory in Florida, he said he 'didn’t care about the poor.' After his commanding victory in last week’s debate, he spoke about his wife’s 'couple of Cadillacs' and his friends 'who own NASCAR teams.' These are mistakes he can’t afford, especially now that it appears he is gaining momentum among Republican voters.
"Don’t improvise, Mitt. Don’t relax. Don’t go off the cuff. Focus. Focus. Focus."
And somebody needs to tell him: If you're going for the NASCAR vote -- the FANS vote -- their admiration is for the drivers, not for the rich guys who own the teams. That stupid remark makes you sound like a country-club snob. And the "two Cadillac" revelation should have been limited to, "We have GM cars."
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Ben Bernanke is a fool (cont.) ...
The idiot-in-charge at the Federal Reserve says he plans to hold interest rates at record-low levels at least until 2014, even though there's little indication that those levels have done anything significant to improve the economy.
One major aspect of such low rates that is always overlooked by the media goo-goos. They always focus on the purported benefits, while ignoring the painful reality for many retirees; the reality that many of those folk depend on interest from CDs to improve their standard of living. Under the puerile policy perpetrated by Bernanke, they are suffering.
Near the top of the "to-do" list for the next president should be, "Find a way to get rid of Bernanke." His appointment stands as one of George W. Bush's worst mistakes. Having such a fool in charge of the Fed buttresses the argument of those who think the entire institution should be consigned to the trash heap.
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More bungling bureaucrats in action ...
Fannie Mae will request another $4.6 billion in US government aid after posting a $2.41 billion loss in the fourth quarter.
And the Obama administration has been giving bonuses to the cretins who run this gigantic fraud!
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Jay Leno --
"Due to the rising price of oil and gas, the Obama administration announced that they're considering dipping into our national strategic re-election reserves. I mean, I'm sorry — strategic OIL reserves."
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And the current leading contenders for the title, "Biggest Idiot / Liar in Washington" --
Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, who continues to lie and obfuscate about Obamacare and Obama's mandatory "free" birth control ...
...and...
Steven Chu, Obama's Secretary of Energy, who at least told the truth when he said his goal was NOT to reduce gasoline prices. He'd prefer them to be around $8 a gallon, as in much of Europe.
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David Harsanyi of the Washington Examiner unloads on Obama's "load of you-know-what" ...
"Speaking before the United Auto Workers union in Washington, Obama, champion of the working man: 'They're out there talking about you like you're some special interest that needs to be beaten down,' Obama told cheering union members. And those who claim that bailouts were just a labor payback are simply peddling a 'load of you-know-what.'
"I do know what, Mr. President.
"Because actually, the United Auto Workers union IS a special interest. Like other unions, the UWA regularly lobbies Congress, funds Democratic candidates across the country with millions, and advocates public policy that undercuts competition and free trade. And, as The New York Times recently reported, the UAW and other unions will 'put their vast political organizations into motion behind Mr. Obama.' (Nothing like a few strategic taxpayer 'investments' to get labor inspired.)"
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Another illiterate who doesn't know the difference between "criterion" (singular) and "criteria" (plural) mouths off again ...
"My CRITERIA in any decision I make ... is what is going to best protect our folks and make sure that they can accomplish their mission."
-- Harvard graduate Barack Obama, yesterday --
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Where's the 400 grand, Barack?
The Chicago Observer breaks the story: Daniel T. Frawley, a former business partner of Antoin “Tony” Rezko, claims he gave Rezko $400,000 that Rezko gave to then U.S. Senator Barack Obama. This claim comes through Frawley’s emails to, and conversations with, Robert “Bob” Cooley, former Chicago mob lawyer turned government informer and author of the book on Chicago corruption entitled “When Corruption Was King”. Cooley was the star witness in a series of trials in the early 1990’s as part of an F.B.I. investigation named Operation Gambat.
I know; corruption in Chicago politics. Hard to believe ...
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"This must be the most blame-deflecting White House in our nation’s history. This is truly the Eddie Haskell presidency, so named after the bratty 'Leave It to Beaver' character who always made a mess when adults’ backs were turned and then blamed Wally and the Beav.
"For a while, President Blameless could shirk responsibility by pointing fingers at his predecessor. That got old, though I can’t say in a hurry. As late as last July, the White House sought to prove that Dallas resident George W. Bush was still responsible for all the nation’s budget troubles." -- Charlotte Hays, Washington Times --
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Why only fools take the New York Times seriously ...
The leftist rag established its institutionalized deception in 1919 when one of their "star" reporters, Lincoln Steffens, wrote while reporting from Russia in 1919, "“I have seen the future and it works.” He was writing about communism, after viewing the slaughter of millions by adherents of that insane ideology.
The Times further compounded its commitment to leftism by assuring its gullible readers repeatedly that Fidel Castro's 1950's lie that he was "not a communist" was to be believed.
Very recently the ex-executive editor and now columnist Bill Keller admitted that the Times doesn't even pretend to be an unbiased news source. Gee, Bill, who'd' a'thunk it?
And ... who's dumb enough to believe that David Brooks, the Times' in-house alleged "conservative" columnist is, by any definition, conservative?
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Advice for the age of Obama ...
THE SUREST WAY TO LOSE YOUR LIBERTIES IS TO ASSUME YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE THEM.
-- Thanks, Arthur --
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Mr. Eason is steamed ...
"I just saw a clip on TV that woke me up...
Miz Pelosi was hearing testimony from a Georgetown LAW student. She can't afford to pay for her own 'women's health' insurance...birth control, etc. Pelosi was properly sympathetic.
"Question: Why is this young law student asking US to pay for it? (She can afford law school, and if she gets a loan, and becomes a GEORGETOWN-TRAINED lawyer, can't she pay it back on her income?
"Question: Hasn't anyone ever considered ABSTINENCE? I would think a law student wouldn't have a lot of time to ..... you know ..."
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Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of the recurring American fantasy ...
"We repeatedly seek to remake the world in our image, become frustrated that we cannot, then start to disengage and disarm, retreat home and promise to stay there -- before starting the cycle over.
"After World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and, more recently, our wars in the Middle East, we said 'never again' -- only to lecture others and, in schizophrenic fashion, intervene once more. At times, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush all thought they could make the world safe for democracy. Calvin Coolidge, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama assumed we had neither the money nor the virtue to try." -- Townhall.com --
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More language-mangling ...
I often hear or read something along the lines of, "What he says today doesn't JIVE with what he said last week," meaning it's at odds with the previous statement; doesn't conform.
The correct word is JIBE. JIVE is, in street vernacular, to talk bullfeathers, as in, "You talkin' jive, dude!"
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Message from a retiree ...
"These days about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, 'For fast relief.'"
... also ...
THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
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Conan O'Brien --
"Rick Santorum will be assigned Secret Service agents. This is the first time Santorum has agreed to use any kind of protection."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."