LEE RODGERSODD SOURCES OF OBAMA CAMPAIGN MONEY ...
BUREAUCRATS BURN BUX TO SAVE BUDGET ...
PIPELINE PROCRASTINATION SCARES DEMOCRATS
BUREAUCRATS BURN BUX TO SAVE BUDGET ...
PIPELINE PROCRASTINATION SCARES DEMOCRATS
Bedfellows ...
Obama campaign reports, required under law, show that Jon Corzine is still giving financial support to the embattled president. Lest it be forgotten, Corzine was head of the bankrupt MF Global outfit that somehow "lost" billions of investor dollars.
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Wait for it. Reports that money from China and Russia has found its way into Obama's campaign coffers. Even if substantiated, it won't hurt him with core Democrat voters. After all, it was an open secret that Clinton was getting money from China and was re-elected, anyway.
Remember that Chinese restaurant owner in Little Rock who was believed to be the conduit? He later moved to China, then returned to the U.S. in a few years and got a minor wrist-slap -- while Clinton was still in office.
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Parteee!!! ...
It appears that a secondary reason for the $823,000 party thrown in Las Vegas by the government leeches at the GSA (Government Services Agency) was that old bureaucrats' standby, burning up the budget.
It's a creed among these parasites that you must never have any budget money left over at the end of the year, lest some odd and unusual member of Congress propose that the budget for the succeeding year be cut by that amount -- so you blow it, as insurance against such a dread eventuality.
Of course, we all learned long ago that the use of the term "Service" as part of the title of any government agency (start with the Internal Revenue "Service") redefines the meaning of the word to "What a bull does to a cow."
The next question is, how many of the sleazy Obama appointees who planned this shindig will wind up in prison? Don't hold your breath ...
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Some Congressional Democrats, significantly including members of the Democrat-controlled Senate, are bailing out on support of Obama's ban of the pipeline project to bring oil from Canada. Amazing how awareness of a threat to his/her own political survival will clarify a politician's thinking.
Whatever Obama promised the Chinese -- like letting them have Canadian oil -- in exchange for their not yanking the chain on our huge debt to them that his administration largely accumulated -- the pipeline will be built. It will either be begun during the Obama administration as he is steam-rollered by veto-proof congressional action, or by his successor. Our Marxist-in-charge bit off more than he can chew by blocking this vital project.
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Even the New York Times smells trouble in Obamaland ...
"President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge sums it is counting on to run against Mitt Romney, with sharp dropoffs in donations from nearly every major industry forcing it to rely more than ever on small contributions and a relative handful of major donors. From Wall Street to Hollywood, from doctors and lawyers, the traditional big sources of campaign cash are not delivering for the Obama campaign as they did four years ago."
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"Watching President Obama stumble through his energy crisis, it seems only a question of whether he will end up channeling Jimmy Carter or President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina.
"The latter, in case you missed it, just announced that her government will be seizing a 51 percent interest in YPF, the Argentine subsidiary of Repsol, the Spanish conglomerate that is the 15th largest refiner in the world. In most places, that would be called theft, but in the banana republic of Argentina it's just business as usual. In making her announcement, Fernandez de Kirchner stood directly beneath a wall-length portrait of Eva Peron haranguing the masses sometime back in the 1940s.
"So that brings us back to our own Man of the People, President Obama, who is really only in the kindergarten of such retrograde policies but giving it a try. On Tuesday he stood in the Rose Garden flanked by his two apostles of freedom and justice, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder, and announced the solution to our energy problems will be hunting down and prosecuting evil 'oil speculators' who are responsible for driving up the price of gas in the U.S.
"Unfortunately, his own anti-energy policies and past quotes about raising gasoline prices have overshadowed all ... (his errors). So instead, he has to make a big show of tracking down'speculators'"
(Entire article by William Tucker at The American Spectator website)
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So a once-great, now-bad airline (American) may be taken over by a worse airline (US Airways). Hang in there, Greyhound! You may yet be the wave of the future in transportation!
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From Infowars.com ...
"Writing for Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife within the environmentalist lobby."
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Rush to judgment ...
Inside Radio has checked out the latest Rush Limbaugh ratings. The result -- as any broadcasting pro could (and did) predict -- a big increase in the number of listeners.
The attacks on Limbaugh backfired, bigtime. They usually do. History is replete with examples. When "The Simpsons" debuted on TV, people who just didn't "get it" were outraged and protests were organized. Result: The Simpsons became the longest-running sitcom -- live, taped, filmed or animated -- in the history of the medium.
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The murder charge against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case and the subsequent release of photos showing Zimmerman DID have injuries on the back of his head, substantiating his self-defense claim, brings this response from a famous -- and liberal -- attorney:
"Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School stated upon release of the arrest affidavit that it was “so thin that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge … everything in the affidavit is completely consistent with a defense of self-defense.”
After the release of the photo, however, Dershowitz went much further, telling Breitbart News that if the prosecutors did have the photo and didn’t mention it in the affidavit, that would constitute a “grave ethical violation,” since affidavits are supposed to contain “all relevant information.”
Dershowitz continued, “An affidavit that willfully misstates undisputed evidence known to the prosecution is not only unethical but borders on perjury because an affiant swears to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, and suppressing an important part of the whole truth is a lie." -- (Source: Big Hollywood, founded by Andrew Breitbart)
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The lies from the White House continue, and the Big Media collaborate.
Again ... Barack Obama was NEVER a law professor. He gave lectures, but was never, ever named a professor by any educational institution.
The reputation of the University of Chicago Law School is forever blemished by the fact that he had even such a limited role as a lecturer. A man who thinks it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to overturn unconstitutional laws passed by Congress and signed by the president is obviously unfit to feed such nonsense into young minds.
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The Wall Street Journal takes note of the slow-motion collapse of California under the burden of political craziness ...
"Nearly four million more people have left the Golden State in the last two decades than have come from other states."
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Correction: The first Senator Al Gore was from Tennessee, not Oklahoma. He did retain strong ties to the oil industry of Oklahoma, served on the board of directors of oil and coal companies and was deeply involved in business ties with Armand Hammer, a tycoon later documented as a Soviet agent. Gore Sr. was VP and on the board of Occidental Petroleum, the keystone of Hammer's empire.
An earlier Senator Gore was elected in Oklahoma. He was the grandfather of author Gore Vidal and related to the Tennessee Gores.
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Arizona wildlife report: My office overlooks a courtyard where a Mexican iguana suns himself on a large boulder.
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Crime does not pay! (But the hours are good ... )
From Florida, police report that the 29-year-old man wanted on felony charges including cocaine dealing was caught while trying to flee police because he wore those teenager baggy pants down around his butt. As he was running, his trousers fell around his ankles and tripped him.
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The irrepressible Maxine has some health tips that counter conventional
wisdom ...
1. If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.
2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, only drinks water, and is fat.
3. A rabbit only eats vegetables, runs and hops all day long, and only lives 5 years.
4. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing energetic, yet it lives for 450 years
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The Sky Guy contributes this one ...
A little old man shuffled into a ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly and painfully up onto the wooden stool...
After he caught his breath, the young lady waitress came over. He looked over the menu and ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, "Crushed nuts?"
"No," he replied, "Arthritis."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."