LEE RODGERSOBAMA'S MIDNIGHT RUN TO KABUL ...
PELOSI'S PALS IN "OCCUPY" TRASH S.F. ...
NO REPAYMENT FROM GOVERNMENT MOTORS
PELOSI'S PALS IN "OCCUPY" TRASH S.F. ...
NO REPAYMENT FROM GOVERNMENT MOTORS
So now our "trainers" and Special Forces are committed until 2024 to stay in Afghanistan and prop up Karzai's corrup government and serve as target-practice for the Taliban. Just ... brilliant.
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Obama's victory dance over the killing of Osama bin Laden is phony -- and transparent to those who bother to look, as James Robbins explains in a Washington Times editorial ...
"According to a memo from then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta, obtained by Time magazine, the most critical decisions were delegated to Adm. William McRaven as the head of Joint Special Operations Command. 'The timing, operational decision-making and control are in Adm. McRaven’s hands,' Mr. Panetta wrote.
"All Mr. Obama did was approve the 'risk profile,' the broad framework of the operation. Had things gone wrong, the buck would have landed on Adm. McRaven’s head. In any case, it is unseemly to talk about the president’s 'courage' when the real courage was demonstrated by the special operations forces who actually undertook the mission. They are the men with the claim to bravery, not anyone sitting safely in Washington, D.C."
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Rasmussen Poll headline: "56% of Women See Presidential Candidates’ Wives As Important to Their Vote." Anyone think that might've been a factor in the Gingrich flame-out? I'm hardly a representative poll, but I've yet to hear or read an admiring word about Callista.
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Jay Leno --
"The Secret Service has withdrawn its protection of Newt Gingrich in advance of him formally announcing the suspension of his campaign. His Secret Service protection was costing us $44,000 a day. I guess they figured it wasn't worth it anymore to protect Newt from all the people trying to ignore him."
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Speaking of Newt ... do the people who are owed money by his campaign -- the people who've provided services like printing, signs, buttons, etc. -- really expect they'll ever be paid?
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I've learned that one way to probe the malfunctioning minds of activist-minded liberal sheeple is to simply read their responses to news and commentary in the publications that should -- and largely do -- attract their attention.
Having pursued this course of research over a long, long time, the conclusion is inescapable. The liberal herd is primarily made up of pseudo-intellectual sheeple, losers for the most part, who are susceptible to the manipulative blandishments of their "leaders" who march them in lock-step to the polls in order to continue their grasp on the levers of power over the public purse.
One might ask, for example, how many of these sophomoric dunces have noticed that, over this prolonged period of Obama decline, the legally-mandated reporting (for now) of net worth of elected politicians shows that Nancy Pelosi, one of the larger feeders at the public trough, has seen her own net worth increase by millions of dollars?
Go ahead, gullible little libbies; check for yourselves!
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After the riots in San Francisco's Mission District, we can presumably expect another statement of support and affection for the "Occupy" mob from Nancy Pelosi, the Congresswoman from the world's largest outdoor lunatic asylum, S.F.
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In an Obama campaign ad, leftist shill actor Tom Hanks says GM has repaid the money it got from taxpayers.
That is a lie.
It hasn't. Not even close. In fact, of all the government-favored companies that got government bailouts, GM is still the biggest debtor and is still on the dole as Obama continues to buy votes from the Autoworkers Union, the main beneficiary of his largess with taxpayer money.
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Reader Bill reminds us of a timeless quote from Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels ...
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
More Goebbels gems that are applicable today ...
“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. ”
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
“The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”
Were his tactics successful? Consider it: Germany at the time was the best-educated and one of the most "civilized" countries in the world. And yet its populace succumbed to the Nazi madness.
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"Unemployment may remain a problem to many Americans, but that only provides another occasion for the Obama administration to show its "compassion" with extended unemployment benefits, more food stamps and various interventions to save home buyers from mortgage foreclosure. This can easily be a winning political strategy.
"The Obama administration has turned this into a handout state that breaks all previous records. Lofty rhetoric about 'stimulus,' shovel-ready projects,' 'green jobs' or investment' in 'the industries of the future' all give political cover to what is plain old handouts to people who are likely to vote to re-elect Obama." -- Thomas Sowell, Investors Business Daily
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Those who need it most won't heed Roger L. Simon's words from PJ Media; others should ...
"Socialism is a rich man’s game. And I’m not just talking about Hollywood, where George Clooney is full steam ahead on a putative record-breaking ten million dollar fundraiser for Barack Obama, or the laughably meretricious theatrics of the “Buffett Tax” that no one would pay anyway, but across the nation.
"What Obama promises – especially in his second term — is a socialism of permanent elites, a kind of new, very American, version of the old Soviet-style nomenklatura. And those who are in it will get to stay in it (via government support) as social mobility, aka the American Dream, diminishes or disappears.
"This was what socialism ultimately was all about, indeed is all about, the preservation of nomenklaturas, whether of Hollywood, the media, union, and bureaucratic leadership or what remains of selected industry. Keep hoi polloi out.
"Liberals and progressives, who so often congratulate themselves on their generosity and social consciences (while consistently giving less to charity than conservatives), need to wake up. As the Soviet Union demonstrated – nomenklaturas only have so much room. Ultimately, they implode."
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Reader Wes has it right ...
"You have to look on the bright side of the announcement of the end of the war on terror. If it's true, the TSA should all be fired."
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The Sky-Guy submits Murphy's Car Laws ...
If you are stuck in a traffic jam, you move to the fast lane it will become the slowest lane.
The car keys are always in the pocket of the hand that is the fullest.
When you waive the extra car insurance, your rental car will be vandalized.
If there is no traffic there will be roadwork.
No matter the length of your cars warranty coverage, on that day the warranty expires your car will break down.
When your car breaks down and is a small repair, the mechanic has to remove the engine to get to that part.
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Tragic news from Poland, where Marek (the lout) broke up with girlfriend Anna. Anna happens to be a dentist, and Marek had been a regular client. So, seeing no reason to sever their professional relationship, Marek returned after the breakup for a routine dental procedure.
Mistake.
Anna numbed his mouth ... and proceeded to pull ALL his teeth.
Anna said, "I tried to be professional, but when I saw him lying there I just thought, "What a bastard!"
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Jimmy Kimmel --
"I hosted the White House Correspondents' Association Dinnert. The entertainment was me and President Obama. He was very funny, and made jokes about the fact that he ate a dog. Some people thought it was undignified for the president to joke about that. Personally, I feel like once you eat a dog, dignity is pretty much out the window. Get what you can out of it."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."