For the left it's the end that counts and if you can get away with lies just as well. Lying to Congress ought to be enough to disqualify this man.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Are you tired of being lied to yet?
http://biggovernment.com/dloos/2010/02/09/obama-nlrb-nominee-craig-beckers-smoking-gun/
Misogyny on the left
Sarah Palin’s Breasts and Andrew SullivanJennifer Rubin -
Matthew Continetti, among others, aptly detailed in his book The Persection of Sarah Palin the media’s Sarah Palin hate-fest, which raged throughout the campaign. That campaign — the media’s, not Palin’s — included not a small amount of hyper-sexualized language and imagery. Her reappearance at the Tea Party Convention has set off a new round of such slobbery commentary. Andrew Sullivan, for one — who gained much notoriety for his his gynecological scavenger hunt during the campaign — has left off where he began with what should be, but no longer is, shockingly offensive droolery about the former governor and Republican vice presidential nominee. He bellows:
It was the most electrifying speech I have heard from a leader of the GOP since Reagan.
She can electrify a crowd. She has the kind of charisma that appeals to the sub-rational. and she has crafted a Peronist identity – utterly fraudulent, of course – that is political dynamite in a recession with populism roiling everyone and everything. She is Coughlin with boobs – except with a foreign policy agenda to expand Israel and unite with it in a war against Islam.
Do not under-estimate the appeal of a beautiful, big breasted, divinely chosen warrior-mother as a military leader in a global religious war.
Clearly he is a man obsessed with Palin and her physique and who cannot resist the urge to degrade and reduce her to a sexual object. For those who portend to offer serious criticism of Palin, and there is legitimate criticism to be had, this should serve as a blinking red light: Go Back! Don’t do it! Don’t humilate yourself in the process, nor reveal yourself to be in the grip of some misogynistic thrall. Stick to what she says and how she says it, not the size of her breasts. For the sane and serious commentator, that should be easy enough advice to follow. But then not all bloggers fit that description.
Matthew Continetti, among others, aptly detailed in his book The Persection of Sarah Palin the media’s Sarah Palin hate-fest, which raged throughout the campaign. That campaign — the media’s, not Palin’s — included not a small amount of hyper-sexualized language and imagery. Her reappearance at the Tea Party Convention has set off a new round of such slobbery commentary. Andrew Sullivan, for one — who gained much notoriety for his his gynecological scavenger hunt during the campaign — has left off where he began with what should be, but no longer is, shockingly offensive droolery about the former governor and Republican vice presidential nominee. He bellows:
It was the most electrifying speech I have heard from a leader of the GOP since Reagan.
She can electrify a crowd. She has the kind of charisma that appeals to the sub-rational. and she has crafted a Peronist identity – utterly fraudulent, of course – that is political dynamite in a recession with populism roiling everyone and everything. She is Coughlin with boobs – except with a foreign policy agenda to expand Israel and unite with it in a war against Islam.
Do not under-estimate the appeal of a beautiful, big breasted, divinely chosen warrior-mother as a military leader in a global religious war.
Clearly he is a man obsessed with Palin and her physique and who cannot resist the urge to degrade and reduce her to a sexual object. For those who portend to offer serious criticism of Palin, and there is legitimate criticism to be had, this should serve as a blinking red light: Go Back! Don’t do it! Don’t humilate yourself in the process, nor reveal yourself to be in the grip of some misogynistic thrall. Stick to what she says and how she says it, not the size of her breasts. For the sane and serious commentator, that should be easy enough advice to follow. But then not all bloggers fit that description.
Venezuelan imperialism
Bolivarian militias presumably have links with FARC
Western Hemisphere According to a report from Colombian intelligence services, published by the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, at least four Venezuelan Bolivarian militias have links with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).The investigations are based on a videotaped statement and on several interviews according to which the FARC have sought to influence for eight years "these militias." Intelligence sources said that there are several messages in the computers seized from the guerrilla deceased leader Raúl Reyes which "show how this relationship has evolved."According to the report, the Bolivarian groups Carapaica, the Tupamaro Popular Resistance Group, the April 28th Movement, the Bolivarian Liberation Forces and the Cuban-Venezuelan Revolutionary Troop are mentioned in the alleged files.There are messages which report on the establishment of "Popular Defense Groups" in Venezuela and their training plans, said the Colombian report.
Western Hemisphere According to a report from Colombian intelligence services, published by the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, at least four Venezuelan Bolivarian militias have links with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).The investigations are based on a videotaped statement and on several interviews according to which the FARC have sought to influence for eight years "these militias." Intelligence sources said that there are several messages in the computers seized from the guerrilla deceased leader Raúl Reyes which "show how this relationship has evolved."According to the report, the Bolivarian groups Carapaica, the Tupamaro Popular Resistance Group, the April 28th Movement, the Bolivarian Liberation Forces and the Cuban-Venezuelan Revolutionary Troop are mentioned in the alleged files.There are messages which report on the establishment of "Popular Defense Groups" in Venezuela and their training plans, said the Colombian report.
Parroting the left...
So, if we take his logic one step up the chain, terrorism doesn't really exist, it's just the easy availability of suicide vests and IED's. Got it.
http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2010/02/08/access-to-guns-not-jihad-to-blame-for-ft-hood-says-noted-islamic-scholar/#more-70726
Humor
Milton Berle was at a party in D.C. once and, making conversation over cocktails, he asked a fellow: "Have you heard the latest gag about the White House?"
"I beg your pardon," the man sniffed. "I happen to work at the White House."
"That's all right," Milty reassured him. "I'll tell it slow."
"I beg your pardon," the man sniffed. "I happen to work at the White House."
"That's all right," Milty reassured him. "I'll tell it slow."
The above is from an article in the American Spectator
The compassionate, non judgemental left
Stephen Colbert Says 'Sarah Palin Is A F**king Retard'Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/09/stephen-colbert-says-sarah-palin-f-king-retard#ixzz0f48UcuFw
Is this not a perfect example of the condescending left?
Mr. Colbert would be a perfect head of a leftist re-education camp.
Here's a Communist knee-slapper
Hugo's Socket Logic
Socialism: The lights are flickering in oil-rich Venezuela, a victim of the same shortages that appear wherever socialism is tried. With the grid verging on collapse, the final irony is to see Hugo Chavez calling Cuba to fix it.
Most leaders serious about fixing a collapsing power grid call up companies like Bechtel or APR Energy because they're capable of swiftly setting up small power plants in emergencies, even in infrastructure wastelands such as Haiti.
But that's not whom President Hugo Chavez called when he got word that Venezuela's electricity is in a state of collapse and may go black in as little as four months.
Instead, he opted for Ramiro Valdes, a septuagenarian Cuban guerrilla who once fought with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Inside the decrepit Castro regime, Valdes is a high-ranking survivor comparable to functionaries such as Vyacheslav Molotov in Stalin's Russia. Henchman, lackey and torturer, he didn't make it to Cuba's vice presidency by thinking for himself.
In fact, Valdes knows nothing about electricity, other than how to make it as "efficient" as Cuba's. The latter communist island is subject to the same rolling blackouts that now affect Venezuela. The only reason Cuba hasn't gone completely black is the aid it gets from Caracas. Now with Valdes set to do for Venezuela what was done in Cuba, no sugar daddy will be there to bail the country out.
Already Valdes' Cuban technicians are making a hash of things. Last week, El Universal columnist Nelson Bocaranda reported that Cubans damaged six Venezuelan energy-generating engines at four hydroelectric plants by forgetting to put oil in before firing them up.
Whatever happens with Valdes, it's certain that the actual electrical grid problem isn't the problem Chavez really wants to fix. What worries Venezuelans is the other side of Valdes' background. His nicknames in Cuba are "Bloodthirsty" and "Ramiro the Terrible," and his familiarity with electricity is in administering electrical shocks to dissidents.
His new speciality is "Information Technology and Communications" — which is to say cracking down on the Internet. With Chavez screaming that Twitterers are terrorists, it's starting to look as though his real aim is not to fix Venezuela's electrical grid problem but to silence complaints about its failures.
It doesn't bode well for what's likely to be seen ahead in Venezuela as Chavez's internal disasters mount.
Socialism: The lights are flickering in oil-rich Venezuela, a victim of the same shortages that appear wherever socialism is tried. With the grid verging on collapse, the final irony is to see Hugo Chavez calling Cuba to fix it.
Most leaders serious about fixing a collapsing power grid call up companies like Bechtel or APR Energy because they're capable of swiftly setting up small power plants in emergencies, even in infrastructure wastelands such as Haiti.
But that's not whom President Hugo Chavez called when he got word that Venezuela's electricity is in a state of collapse and may go black in as little as four months.
Instead, he opted for Ramiro Valdes, a septuagenarian Cuban guerrilla who once fought with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Inside the decrepit Castro regime, Valdes is a high-ranking survivor comparable to functionaries such as Vyacheslav Molotov in Stalin's Russia. Henchman, lackey and torturer, he didn't make it to Cuba's vice presidency by thinking for himself.
In fact, Valdes knows nothing about electricity, other than how to make it as "efficient" as Cuba's. The latter communist island is subject to the same rolling blackouts that now affect Venezuela. The only reason Cuba hasn't gone completely black is the aid it gets from Caracas. Now with Valdes set to do for Venezuela what was done in Cuba, no sugar daddy will be there to bail the country out.
Already Valdes' Cuban technicians are making a hash of things. Last week, El Universal columnist Nelson Bocaranda reported that Cubans damaged six Venezuelan energy-generating engines at four hydroelectric plants by forgetting to put oil in before firing them up.
Whatever happens with Valdes, it's certain that the actual electrical grid problem isn't the problem Chavez really wants to fix. What worries Venezuelans is the other side of Valdes' background. His nicknames in Cuba are "Bloodthirsty" and "Ramiro the Terrible," and his familiarity with electricity is in administering electrical shocks to dissidents.
His new speciality is "Information Technology and Communications" — which is to say cracking down on the Internet. With Chavez screaming that Twitterers are terrorists, it's starting to look as though his real aim is not to fix Venezuela's electrical grid problem but to silence complaints about its failures.
It doesn't bode well for what's likely to be seen ahead in Venezuela as Chavez's internal disasters mount.
Governing against the will of the people
Drillgate: Secretary Salazar's Cover-Up
Energy: The administration asked for public comments on a plan to expand offshore drilling. When they came in 2-to-1 in favor, the Interior Department sat on the news. Time for a "Texas tea" party?
When you ask for public comment on a major policy issue, at some point you should make the results public, not hide them until you can figure out a way to spin the public reaction to support a conclusion you've already drawn.
On its last business day in office, the Bush administration published a proposed draft of a five-year plan to lease areas in the Atlantic and Pacific waters for oil and natural gas drilling. The plan authorized 31 energy exploration lease sales between 2010 and 2015 for tracts along the East Coast and off the coasts of Alaska and California.
Hopes that America would soon develop vast untapped energy reserves were dashed when the incoming Obama administration ordered all federal agencies and departments to halt all such pending regulations until they could be reviewed by incoming staff. Incoming Interior Secretary Ken Salazar extended the public comment period by 180 days.
Last April, Salazar said President Obama told him regarding the comment period "to make sure that we have an open and transparent government" and to make sure that DOI was "maximizing the opportunity for the public to give us guidance on what it is they want us to do" about expanding domestic energy exploration and development.
Well, the public provided no small amount of guidance. The Interior Department announced in September it had received more than 530,000 comments. It did not say, however, how many supported or opposed expanded drilling. It's now four months after the close of this extended comment period, so where are the results? What happened to the open and transparent process?
Instead, on Jan. 6 Salazar announced plans, as the energy news service Greenwire put it, that "will require more detailed environmental reviews, more public input and less use of a provision to streamline leasing." In other words, we were being promised more stalling, not more drilling.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's group, American Solutions, wanted to know and filed a Freedom of Information Act request on the comment period tabulation on Oct. 26, 2009. After weeks of delay and a second FOIA request, some 500 pages of e-mails were received from the DOI's Minerals Management Service (MMS).
Gingrich's group had heard from sources that the result of the tabulation was a 2-to-1 lopsided victory for expanded drilling. An e-mail dated Oct. 27, 2009 from MMS Director Liz Birnbaum to other senior MMS and DOI officials, including Salazar's chief of staff, confirmed the result and discussed ways of hiding it from the American people.
The e-mail reads, in part: "We do have a preliminary tabulation of the comments, (but) it has not yet gone to the Secretary. So the Secretary can honestly say in response to any questions that he's (sic) has not yet seen any analysis of the comments — staff is still working on it. I did, however, confirm to him the 2-1 split these guys (American Solutions) are emphasizing."
A recent Congressional Research Service Report says that if all our energy resources are added up and converted to a barrels-of-oil equivalent, the U.S. has the largest energy reserves in the world. "Our overwhelming coal, natural gas and oil resources represent tens of trillions of dollars in wealth and millions of American jobs," said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who, along with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the report last fall.
The American people support increased domestic energy development by the same numbers and with the same fervor as they opposed the nationalization of health care. Certainly we need the domestic energy. Yet in both cases the administration dismisses the will of the people.
In this case, it's sitting not only on vast stores of energy, but on the truth about what the people want.
Energy: The administration asked for public comments on a plan to expand offshore drilling. When they came in 2-to-1 in favor, the Interior Department sat on the news. Time for a "Texas tea" party?
When you ask for public comment on a major policy issue, at some point you should make the results public, not hide them until you can figure out a way to spin the public reaction to support a conclusion you've already drawn.
On its last business day in office, the Bush administration published a proposed draft of a five-year plan to lease areas in the Atlantic and Pacific waters for oil and natural gas drilling. The plan authorized 31 energy exploration lease sales between 2010 and 2015 for tracts along the East Coast and off the coasts of Alaska and California.
Hopes that America would soon develop vast untapped energy reserves were dashed when the incoming Obama administration ordered all federal agencies and departments to halt all such pending regulations until they could be reviewed by incoming staff. Incoming Interior Secretary Ken Salazar extended the public comment period by 180 days.
Last April, Salazar said President Obama told him regarding the comment period "to make sure that we have an open and transparent government" and to make sure that DOI was "maximizing the opportunity for the public to give us guidance on what it is they want us to do" about expanding domestic energy exploration and development.
Well, the public provided no small amount of guidance. The Interior Department announced in September it had received more than 530,000 comments. It did not say, however, how many supported or opposed expanded drilling. It's now four months after the close of this extended comment period, so where are the results? What happened to the open and transparent process?
Instead, on Jan. 6 Salazar announced plans, as the energy news service Greenwire put it, that "will require more detailed environmental reviews, more public input and less use of a provision to streamline leasing." In other words, we were being promised more stalling, not more drilling.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's group, American Solutions, wanted to know and filed a Freedom of Information Act request on the comment period tabulation on Oct. 26, 2009. After weeks of delay and a second FOIA request, some 500 pages of e-mails were received from the DOI's Minerals Management Service (MMS).
Gingrich's group had heard from sources that the result of the tabulation was a 2-to-1 lopsided victory for expanded drilling. An e-mail dated Oct. 27, 2009 from MMS Director Liz Birnbaum to other senior MMS and DOI officials, including Salazar's chief of staff, confirmed the result and discussed ways of hiding it from the American people.
The e-mail reads, in part: "We do have a preliminary tabulation of the comments, (but) it has not yet gone to the Secretary. So the Secretary can honestly say in response to any questions that he's (sic) has not yet seen any analysis of the comments — staff is still working on it. I did, however, confirm to him the 2-1 split these guys (American Solutions) are emphasizing."
A recent Congressional Research Service Report says that if all our energy resources are added up and converted to a barrels-of-oil equivalent, the U.S. has the largest energy reserves in the world. "Our overwhelming coal, natural gas and oil resources represent tens of trillions of dollars in wealth and millions of American jobs," said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who, along with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the report last fall.
The American people support increased domestic energy development by the same numbers and with the same fervor as they opposed the nationalization of health care. Certainly we need the domestic energy. Yet in both cases the administration dismisses the will of the people.
In this case, it's sitting not only on vast stores of energy, but on the truth about what the people want.
We are being held hostage by the environmental, economically ignorant nutters.
Do you remember?
Media Liberals Paint Conservatives as 'Birthers', But First Birthers Were DemsRead more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/02/09/media-liberals-paint-conservatives-birthers-first-birthers-were-dems#ixzz0f3sSUpUQ
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