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John McCain Insults our Intelligence Again
Yeah, this is rich, via HotAirPundit.
McCain: If Obama doesn’t like AZ. law, he can put troops on border
Sen. John McCain on Friday responded to President Barack Obama‘s criticism of Arizona’s new immigration -enforcement law as “misguided.”
“If the president doesn’t like what the Arizona Legislature and governor may be doing, then I call on the president to immediately call for the dispatch of 3,000 National Guard troops to our border and mandate that 3,000 additional Border Patrol (officers) be sent to our border as well,” McCain, R-Ariz., said at a news conference in downtown Phoenix. “And that way, then the state of Arizona will not have to enact legislation which they have to do because of the federal government’s failure to carry out its responsibilities, which is to secure the borders.”
Mr. Amnesty himself talking tough about border enforcement. I can’t believe this guy has such little respect for the people of Arizona, the state did what it had to do because open border RINO’s like him wouldn’t.
And speaking of open borders, it seems that some groups have a problem with Arizona’s new law.
Tags: douche-bags, Mcain, McCain Insulting, Mexico, Mexico's Senate, protests, RINO
Tiger Woods, not the only Dumbass
Well it seems Tiger Woods has admitted to “letting his family down” by having affairs and a lot of folks seem to be appalled and whatnot for his behaviour.
First off I got to say that any married person who carries on with someone not their spouse is only asking for trouble for everyone involved. But there is one thing I’d like to point out, Tiger Woods isn’t the only bad guy (person) here.
There seems to be this perception out there that men basically are some kind of total predator species, constantly on the hunt for niave innocent women to beguile with some kind of brutish charm…and women are completely unable to reject them.
While everyone’s busy vilifying Woods it might do us all some good to reflect on the fact that there was another adult involved, one who also had the ability to determine right from wrong and made a decision to be involved with a man who is married and had children with his wife.
While Tiger Woods should be held responsible for his actions the person he had the affair with shouldn’t get away with it scot free or suddenly find themselves in the middle of the spotlight gaining notoriety for engaging in the same behaviour that gets boos and jeers for the other party.
So while everyone is out there tsk,tsking the behaviour of Woods just remember that there is another dumbass out there and their “innocence” wasn’t stolen….they gave it away.
Tags: affair, dumbass, innocence, Tiger Woods
The U.N., a Collection of Boobs
And not the fun kind either.
KFC ‘colonel’ dupes UN security
UNITED NATIONS — Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken’s “Colonel Sanders” gain access to restricted areas.
The guard escorted the white-suited intruder past security barriers, where he got a handshake from the UN General Assembly president, Dr. Ali A. Treki of Libya.
The faux fast food chain founder also posed for a picture beneath the assembly’s giant UN logo, which overlooks the spot where world leaders address their international counterparts.
“It should not have happened — that I will stress, and very strongly,” said Michele Montas, spokeswoman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“There was some lapse in security and the individual in question . . . was, on the initiative of one security guard, taken . . . into the UN.”
The real Harland “Colonel” Sanders typically wore a white suit and string bow tie, but he has been dead since 1980.
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Remember that these are the same clueless dipshits that want the world to turn over control of our industries, infrastructure and lives to the IPCC.
They can’t even detect Col. Sanders let alone determine what is in any nations best interests, time to move the U.N. somewhere where it can be useful.
I’d pay for them to go here.
Tags: Antarctica, clueless boobs, Col. Sanders, dipshits, U.N.
Earth Speaks:Maybe We Should Keep it to Ourselves?
I ran across this website recently that is a project by the S.E.T.I. institute.
Welcome to Earth Speaks, a research project that explores a critical question in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI):
“If we discover intelligent life beyond Earth, should we reply, and if so, what should we say?”
People from around the world are invited to submit pictures, sounds, and text messages that they would want to send to other worlds. The project aims to foster a dialogue about what we should say to extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as whether or not we should be sending intentional messages.
You know maybe 30 or 40 years ago the general public may have been able to formulate thoughtful and intelligent statements to share with extraterrestrials.
Nowadays I’m not so sure, considering the fact that just about every other issue in the world was placed on the back burner after the demise of Michael Jackson.
Instead of being able to compose a compendium of wisdom for the ages we might find ourselves sending out messages of anguish and woe over the depredations and personal lives of various pop icons and celebrities.
Or how about the unhinged hysteria over “Global Warming”?
Personally I’d be embarrassed to let extraterrestrials know that our best scientific consensus comes from a professional politician who uses a fawning media and environmental sycophants to spread the gospel of imminent doom instead of sound, peer reviewed scientific proof.
There is the potential to communicate some very embarrassing information about ourselves to ET, like the voyeuristic shallowness of our society as a whole.
I’m of the opinion that we should keep it all to ourselves, although upon further reflection maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea. What incentive would they have to answer back?
I would hope that if we do answer the guy composing the message would have enough sense to pad our resume’, it would be a drag to be an intergalactic laughing stock.
Tags: Al Gore, earth speaks, ET, extraterrestrials, global warming, Michael Jackson, SETI
Tea Party Protest Eve
Tomorrow is the big day, if you’re not sure if there is a protest in your area go here and search for one near you.
Here in Arkansas there are several in cities throughout the state, I live near Fort Smith, Arkansas and plan to attend the one at Ross Pendergraft Park from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Michelle Malkin is compiling a list of Tea Party crashers looking to disrupt activities or interview people with “gotcha” questions that they can spin to make light of the movement.
The leftwing smear machine on the web has been busy this week trying to trivialize or demonize Tea Party protesters at the same time.
Lots of noise has been made out of the DHS report warning of the rise of “Right-Wing Extremism” , insinuating that veterans, people who believe in the second amendment right to own firearms and those who simply want government to stay out of our business are a danger to the country.
Others have tagged the movement with a less than flattering name in order to ridicule and demean those who believe that governments first responsibility should be first to do no harm. To allow for equal opportunity without a guarantee of equal results.
I’ll be there in support of the Tea Party protest tomorrow out of self interest….I want to be able to have a job, and I want my children to be able to have jobs. The truth is I nor anyone else has ever gotten a job from a poor person. The only real way to redistribute wealth is through gainful employment, where a person is compensated for his contributions from profits gained by someone who owns a product or service that others voluntarily purchase and use.
The more profit, the more compensation and jobs are generated. Taking from some and giving to others does none of these things.
Since those on the left don’t understand this then we need to take to the streets to make our elected officals understand it.
I hope to see many out there tomorrow, because if we’re not there then we will surely meet in an unemployment line.
Tags: Arkansas, DHS report, government, protest, Ross pendergraft park, Tea Party
Popping a Brew for Obama
I decided before listening to Obama’s speech this evening that I would pop a beer, kick back and enjoy the show.
Four beers later all I came away with is everyone before was doing it wrong and now we’ll get it right. We can go over again all the reasons we are in the current economic mess we’re in due to decades of progressive meddling in the free market but I don’t see the point. Those who are progressives deny it and I’m singing to the choir to the rest so there’s no reason to go over it again.
But I have noticed one thing.
I don’t believe in government conspiracies much, mostly because I haven’t seen any politicians smart enough yet to work together for a common goal, they’re usually to self centered and greedy to work well with others.
But they are great opportunists and spinmeisters, able to deflect the unintended bad consequences of their actions onto someone else for their political gain.
What better way to increase dependence on government than to inject themselves into every nook and cranny of the economy and then offer “solutions” when it goes wrong?
There’s no doubt that we find ourselves in an economic downturn but does it require the government to delve into every aspect of our health care, credit, educational choices, privacy, employment, beliefs and morals?
The progressives didn’t conspie to create the current situation but the Obama administration is using this economic crisis solely to invade more of our lives.
The question is will we tolerate it or not?
Tags: beer, conspiracy, free market, Obama
Our National Malaise
Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort: President John Kennedy
12 September 1962
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon… (interrupted by applause) we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
With these words, and others, the space race began. With effort and sacrifice we sent men to the moon and returned them safely. The people of the United States, stirred to action by inspiring words set a goal for themselves and achieved it. Despite assassination and the escalation of the war in Vietnam we committed resources and money to an objective and met those goals simply because we had a leader who could inspire us to achieve more than just entitlements.
It was a grand idea and one that resonated with a large segment of society, it provided jobs and stimulated the private sector, inspired a whole generation to learn math and science allowing many Americans the opportunity to be proud of themselves and this achievement.
Now we have the makings of a stimulus that does none of these things, no great oratory or grand ideas, just the continuation of the status quo. A never ending cycle of entitlement and liberal pet projects that shift money from one pocket into the other.
What has changed since the 60′s that has allowed us to put our trust in mediocre leaders and men without vision or the ability to inspire?
If we’re going to go down this path of stimulus then why not “do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard ” instead of ethereal promises of basically nothing but the same thing over and over again?
What would be wrong with setting a national goal, pay the private sector to assemble and achieve it creating jobs along the way and getting back to being proud of who we are again?
The measure of leadership should be what they inspire us to do and how we can reach that goal, not what they can give us.
Tags: acheivement, Kennedy, space, stimulus
The Audacity of Entitlement
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
Big Three auto CEOs flew private jets to ask for taxpayer money
(CNN) — Some lawmakers lashed out at the CEOs of the Big Three auto companies Wednesday for flying private jets to Washington to request taxpayer bailout money.
“There is a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hand, saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses,” Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York, told the chief executive officers of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
Delicious indeed, These CEO’s have been listing the doom and gloom to befall us if these companies are forced into bankruptcy.
Like maybe the tragedy of them being forced to travel like the rest of us, no wonder the UAW has balked about agreeing to anymore concessions.
I abhor class warfare, anyone who has made a success of themselves either through rising to a top executive position, or succeeding in their own business, are entitled to enjoy the perks and rewards that the position in that company is willing to pay for.
But that is not the case here, there are no incentives in any part of the bailout plan to force these executives to change business as usual. The only perception that the public sees, and rightly so, is a subsidy for executive privilege.
If they want a hand out they need to change their boardroom first.
Tags: arrogance, audacity, Big Three, CEO's, perks
Obama can blow it out his ears
Seems the Obamaessiah had himself a little hissy fit on the bailout failure.
Obama blasts Congress for failing to pass bailout bill
“I laid out principles” including “responsible oversight,” transparency and a cap on so-called golden parachutes –the big bonuses Wall Street CEOs would receive despite their involvement in the economic crisis, he said from Des Moines, Iowa. “I worked hard to play a constructive role.”
He said he was satisfied with the way the bill was written, though “it wasn’t perfect.”
One of the things that really jumps out is his use of “I did this” and “I did that”, I thought that this was supposed to transcend politics and the election?
I mean isn’t that what the Obama camp critisized McCain for?
“From the minute John McCain suspended his campaign and arrived in Washington to address this crisis, he was attacked by the Democratic leadership: Sens. Obama and [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid, Speaker Pelosi and others.
“Their partisan attacks were an effort to gain political advantage during a national economic crisis. By doing so, they put at risk the homes, livelihoods and savings of millions of American families,” Doug Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser for McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said in a statement.
“Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the final bill. … This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country,” Holtz-Eakin said.
The sad truth of all of this is that it wouldn’t have even been necessary if democratic politicians hadn’t put politics, popularity and power above the country.
Liberal democrats need to be held accountable for their PC policies, socialist engineering and thuggish intimidation tactics used to strong arm banks and mortgage companies into this mess.
We should all be screaming “Not one dime until congress repeals liberal lending mandates“.
Until then big ears can blow it out his ass.
Tags: mandates, Obama, PC policies, socialist
Who killed the American dream?
If you really look around on the web you can find a plethora of videos and articles pointing to the real cause of the wall street mortgage meltdown. A really great video is posted on YouTube that goes through the timeline perfectly.
Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?
Anne Coulter posts one of her “no punches pulled” articles that gets right down to the truth of who and why we are where we’re at today.
THEY GAVE YOUR MORTGAGE TO A LESS QUALIFIED MINORITY
Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001.
Instead of looking at “outdated criteria,” such as the mortgage applicant’s credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named “Caylee.”
Threatening lawsuits, Clinton’s Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn’t a joke — it’s a fact.
When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches, political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices.In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration’s affirmative action lending policies as one of the “hidden success stories” of the Clinton administration, saying that “black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded.”
Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn’t get out of their loans by selling their houses.
There’s scads of links out there that I can refer to to show the malfeasance and total disregard of entrenched democratic congress critters, along with the full support of Bill Clinton, to undermine the “due diligence” of financial institutions to protect the deposits, investments and assets of working Americans.
Tags: bailout, democrats, due diligence, litigation, political correctness
