Life in "Progress" City

I've been doing this blog four over four years now. To date, not one liberal has ever commented on just how it is that everything run by democrats is an absolute travesty.

Take Detroit Public Schools. There hasn't been a republican in their city since the invent of the wheel and yet we get this........

Detroit Public Schools students posted the worst math results ever recorded in the 40-year history of a prestigious nationwide test, according to scores released today.

Sixty-nine percent of fourth graders and 77 percent of eighth graders scored below basic skill levels in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test that serves as a nationwide yardstick in measuring student learning.

"These numbers are only slightly better than what one would expect by chance as if the kids had never gone to school and simply guessed at the answers," said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Washington-based Council of the Great City Schools ...

Unless the community takes action to fix these urgent academic problems, "this city has no future," he said...

So Mr./Ms. Progressive, how about having the stones to step up to the plate and explain how republicans are to blame for a city school system that amounts to a cesspool.

What's so "progressive" about illiteracy?

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Brought to you by the people who preach tolerance

A pack of leftists has put a $200,000 price on the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue. Oh, it's not a plot to kill him, they claim, only a bounty to get him arrested. It's one heck of a coarsening of U.S. politics.

Is it just us, or is this the most despicable act the hipster left has come up with since MoveOn.org tried to smear General David Petraeus as General Betray-Us in a New York Times ad last year?

Monday, Fox News reported that a coalition of 120 left-wing groups called "Velvet Revolution" issued an Old West-style "wanted" poster, complete with a tip hotline urging anyone connected with the Chamber president to come forward with information that will get him arrested. It offers guaranteed anonymity for tipsters.

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Porkulus II

Yeah, Let's do another porkulus plan so we can line the pockets of these guys......

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008. Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

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Life in "Progress" City

From the motor city of Detroit, who hasn't had a conservative in city government since the American revolution.......

The city's finances are so shaky that officials repeatedly borrow money to cover day-to-day bills, rarely go after deadbeats and have sat on millions of dollars in property tax overpayments for years, according to two recent audits.

Mayor Dave Bing has warned the city is courting receivership unless he makes drastic changes, but two little-noticed audits offer startling glimpses of how quickly the city is burning through cash, losing revenue and failing to implement seemingly routine controls of spending.

Detroit, which faces a $300 million deficit, remains "one of the weakest (financially) in the nation" and "significant economic conditions continue to cast doubt on the city's future operation," outside auditors wrote last month in a 227-page audit of the 2007-08 finances.

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Until recently, workers in the city's Treasury Division weren't even sure how many bank accounts the city had and sat on at least $3.2 million in property tax overpayments, according to a November report by the city's auditor general, Loren Monroe.

Treasury workers only told taxpayers they had overpaid if they asked, a practice Monroe slammed as bad government.

"It's blatantly unfair. Even if you overpay on a credit card, the credit card company credits your account," said Ted Phillips, executive director of the United Community Housing Coalition, an advocacy group. "Even the worst of the worst give you a credit for your future bill. It's crazy."

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Drive My Car - Limos at the COP15 Copenhagen

Gold

$1,159 an ounce

Your stimulus dollars at work

Columbus City Schools have more than 120 buildings designed for teaching.

But in a three-day effort to teach its teachers, the district is renting banquet halls, high-end hotels and conference centers -- using almost $145,000 in federal grant dollars.

Many schools also will be used as sites for workshops, but the external locations were needed because sessions will go on all day and cafeteria benches would have been uncomfortable, spokeswoman Kim Norris said. Also, classroom desks might have been too small for adults, she said.

Puhhllleeeaaassse!

Are you kidding me?

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Another edict from the ministry of truth

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.

Because we all know that NPR is "fair and balanced".

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Change we can believe in?

Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign ads have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the state yanking the supplies out of machines.

“Don’t be mad at us,” said Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil Wholesale. “It was a total accident.”

Pencil Wholesale distributes supplies to six Columbia schools: Parkade Elementary, Cedar Ridge Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, Smithton Middle School and Hickman High School, said Linda Quinley, the district’s chief financial officer.

At Mill Creek, at least one pencil and a notebook with designs similar to Obama campaign advertisements have been sold out of a supply machine. Two families have complained about the politically tinged materials.

Three Missouri schools have contacted Jones since the beginning of the school year asking that the materials be removed, and Mill Creek Principal Mary Sue Gibson this week said she also planned to call Pencil Wholesale.

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Harry Reid: Lots Of Jobs Lost--"We've Made Great Progress."

What a moron

The Unemployment Game Show: Are You *Really* Unemployed? - From Mint.com

Life in "Progress" State

They called it paradise,
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea

From the Golden State of California who hasn't had a conservative in state government since the Hell's Angels doubled as security guards.....

Once the envy of the other 49 states, California has become the measure of failure. Historically a trend-setter, once again, as California goes, so may go the nation.

The Pew Center on the States recently completed an extensive study of the 50 state governments and found California in the worst straits, but also discovered nine other states have joined us in a condition of "fiscal peril."

"The same pressures that drove the Golden State toward fiscal disaster are wreaking havoc in a number of states, with potentially damaging consequences for the entire country," concluded the study, "Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril."

Those states – Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin – share many of California's maladies. Some, the study found, suffer from economies that disproportionately rely on particular industries, such as housing in Florida or auto manufacturing in Michigan. California, Illinois and New Jersey repeatedly have used borrowing or accounting schemes to put off tough budget decisions. Like California, Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Oregon are restricted in raising taxes or cutting spending because of voter initiatives and constitutional restraints, Pew noted.

"The recession put almost all states in a bind," the study observed, "but California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin have a history of persistent shortfalls."

The Pew study was based on data up to July 31 of this year and bluntly forecasted "states' fiscal conditions are widely expected to worsen even when the national economy starts to recover." Indeed, that seems to be the case. Unemployment in California was 11.7 percent and nationally 9.2 percent as of the study's completion, the study reported. In the scant months since, California's jobless rate has risen to 12.5 percent in November, and the national rate has hit 10.2 percent.

What's so "progressive" about being a third world country?

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And we want these guys to run health care

From the government big enough to give you everything and big enough to take it all.......

Rachel Porcaro knows she's hardly rich. When you're a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don't need government experts to tell you how broke you are.

But that's what happened. The government not only told Porcaro she was poor. They said she was too poor to make it in Seattle.

It all started a year ago, when Porcaro, a 32-year-old mom with two boys, was summoned to the Seattle office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She had been flagged for an audit.

She couldn't believe it. She made $18,992 the previous year cutting hair at Supercuts. A few hundred of that she spent to have her taxes prepared by H&R Block.

"I asked the IRS lady straight upfront — 'I don't have anything, why are you auditing me?' " Porcaro recalled. "I said, 'Why me, when I don't own a home, a business, a car?' "

The answer stunned both Porcaro and the private tax specialist her dad had gotten to help her.

"They showed us a spreadsheet of incomes in the Seattle area," says Dante Driver, an accountant at Seattle's G.A. Michael and Co. "The auditor said, 'You made eighteen thousand, and our data show a family of three needs at least thirty-six thousand to get by in Seattle."

Wait until you need a kidney transplant and some bureaucrat tell you that you have already have two kidneys.

Thanks reader Jeremy on this tip...

Copenhagen - Fail

So our world's climate czars are meeting to reduce the amount of pollution we kick out from our evening wood fires out of our fireplaces.......

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

"We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says. "But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report."

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

You'd think that these people would be sensitive to the amount of pollution they're spewing.

If you were a skeptic, you might think they really don't believe in this stuff.

Just call them Snowball and Napolean

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BCS - Fail

I have no particular beef with the title game selection of Alabama v Texas. But I have a real issue with the conventional wisdom that says that Texas plays from a "real conference" and therefore, plays a tougher schedule.

See the attached breakdown of each of the five undefeated teams resumes with their ratings (courtesy of the Sagarin ratings). The reason I used the Saraging ratings for this is 1) all D1- and D1AA teams are included and 2) Each teams is evaluated on the exact same standard and not some arbitrary rating by a sports writer who's seen all of 20 games this year.

You'll see on this schedule the tremendous non conference schedule Texas put together (UTEP, La.- Monroe, Wyoming, Central Florida).

But Gordon, they play in a tough conference.

Really? Who's the big name dropper Texas put a beating on this year? Oklahoma at 23? Texas Tech at 31? They wouldn't have even played Nebraska had it not been for the extra playoff game. If you take that game out, their schedule is just as comparable as TCU's or UC's.

I know it sounds like sour grapes for a guy who's team that didn't get in but it really isn't. I'm fully aware that there were 5 undefeated teams this year; three had to sit out. I probably would have picked Texas as well.

This is an indictment of the entire BCS system. Do you think that a team like Alabama, who scheduled North Texas State, Florida International or Tn.- Chattanooga is going to make room for a Boise State or TCU so they can beef up their resume?

These schools raid all the cupcakes on the hostess truck so they can pad their schedule with wins. Then they roll the dice in conference play.

That's why it needs to be settled on the field not in the board room of a cartel known as the BCS schools. Instead , we don't get Boise or TCU against the traditional powers, they get to play themselves just to make sure they don't upset the cartel. You'd think this caball of academics would be appalled at the whole "rich get richer" quality of college football. But it's one thing when it's a Wall Street bank, they have no skin in that game.

At least the Bearcats get to play against one of those powers even though they are technically one of the BCS schools.

This week, I'll lay out my 16 team playoff format which actually incorporates the current bowl system.

But this system is a total scam. And just like Bartman says, it's akin to figure skating where reputation trumps actual performance.

Mardy Gilyard 99 yard touchdown vs Pitt

Obama's Safe Schools Czar Org's Question to 14 Year Olds: "Spit vs. Swallow?... Is it Rude?"

Congratulations

Yesterday was a long day for the Gekko's as we made the trek to Pittsburgh for the Bearcat's game.

It made for along day but the results were awesome as the Bearcats won on a squeaker 45-44; finishing a perfect 12-0 record. Now we're on for a BCS bid with the potential to finish 13-0.

Congrats to BK and the crew for a great game and a equally great season.

By the way, it helped yesterday that Kelly was matched up against the worst coach in Bear's history, Dave Wannstache.

Back to bed for me.

Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam Remix

Can you out drive Tiger?

See if you can out run a scorned woman with a golf club here......

Where is Olivia Alair?

A great piece about a woman who cast a fraudulent Ohio vote in last year's presidential election......

That is the staffer I want to focus on. That staffer was the Ohio spokesperson for the Obama/Biden campaign in 2008, Olivia Alair. According to congressional pay records, Olivia had worked as a staffer for then Senator Biden for a few years as an Assistant and Deputy Press Secretary. It was only fitting that she work for the presidential campaign as a spokesperson. After the swing state of Ohio was won as well as the over all election by the Obama/Biden campaign, Olivia stayed on as part of the transition team and political arm for the new administration as the Ohio Regional Communications Director for Obama for America, this is confirmed by her linkedin.com profile.

You will also see in her linkedin.com profile that she no longer has that position. In April of 2009 she became a Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Transportation, a politically appointed position. And in just the last couple of weeks the Press Secretary of the DOT, Sasha Johnson, was appointed by the Obama administration to be the FAA head of communications and spokesperson thus leaving the Press Secretary job at the DOT open for Olivia to slide into. You can see that her linkedin.com profile has already been updated.

Keep in mind that Olivia worked directly for White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during the presidential campaign since Gibbs was the national spokesperson for the campaign.

So to answer the question: "Where is Olivia Alair, the 2008 Ohio spokesperson for the Obama/Biden campaign who had to pull her illegal vote in a deal with a county prosecutor to avoid felony voter fraud charges, today?"

She just got promoted by people who know she is a vote fraudster and will be making six figures working "for you" in DC at the DOT. Another question that needs answering is: "Where will she be a year from now?"

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The Gekko jobs summit

Last spring, I noted that I don't believe that anything ever got accomplished by having a meeting.

I take that back. The only thing to ever be accomplished in a meeting is the scheduling of the next meeting. If you can think of something else that was ever achieved from holding a meeting, please let me know, I'd like to have it recognized.

Meetings are the reason I got out of corporate America.

But of course, now we're in the midst of a calamity known as the Obama presidency and what does The One want to do?

Have a meeting.

Hey Big "O". If you are serious about creating jobs, don't have a meeting; just implement to these thoughts.

1) KILL nationalized medicine. Right now, employers are shaking in their boots waiting to see what your health care increases are going to mean to their costs of labor. They're not comfortable hiring new people if it results in mandatory COBRA coverage or the likes. GET RID OF THE UNCERTAINTY!!!!!!!

2) KILL the automatic minimum wage hikes. There's a reason unions pursue minimum wage hikes. Many union contracts have wage rate pegs to the minimum wage. When it goes up so do the wages of lot's of other employees. That just makes it more expensive for American companies to use American workers.

Why have a manufacturing base here when it can be done overseas for a lot less?

I've detailed the story of a clothing wholesaler/manufacturer who used to run multiple plants across this country. He still has his job. The workers at the plants no longer have their jobs. Allow companies to hire lesser skilled workers at competitive world wages and bureaucracy.

3) KILL card check and all the other liberal canards out to "help the workers". See the uncertainty issue above.

4) KILL the corporate income tax. Once again, companies are actually penalized by having operations here in this country. STOP IT! Create an environment where companies want to locate here and not Ireland.

See..... now that's not so hard you don't need to have a ridiculous meeting to cure what ails our job problem today. Unless you're not serious, then go ahead and order the donuts.

Gold

Now at $1207

You may be wondering, "why the hell does he keep posting gold prices"?

Because currently, gold prices are a reflection of confidence in the strength of the US dollar. Why is that important?

Because unlike idiots like Paul Krugman, sane investors understand that there's a point in which the US cannot conceivably pay down it's debt without doing one of the following a) default and not pay or b) just print more money which will create hyper inflation throughout our economy. Before the Obamunists took over, we were already heading to that spot. These morons slammed their foot on the accelerator.

So when investors see annual US budget deficits measured in TRILLIONS as opposed to BILLIONS it doesn't give them a lot of hope that our government is serious about responsible spending. When you add the TRILLION dollars of debt needed to fund a healthcare system that will do nothing more than hurt American businesses and consumers, you start to catch on that investments in dollars is not an attractive investment alternative.

So, in my opinion, gold is perfect barometer of The Messiah's approval rating. Polls don't mean nearly as much as what people are willing to invest in. Right now that doesn't appear to be the US.

If you want a non partisan piece on gold inflation, go here.....

Go Bearcats

The Gekko's will be making a trek to Heinz Field, Pittsburgh tomorrow for, what hope's to be the conclusion of a perfect regular season for the Bearcats.

Personally, I'm not looking forward to this game.

The Bearcats defense continues to give up huge chunks of real estate to running backs and Pitt has a good one.

None the less, if you know a sherpa, come up to our section and say hi!

Bill Ayers Breaks With Obama, a lovers' quarell

Four more years of Bush

Hillary Clinton Gets A$$ Handed to Her By Lindsey Graham

How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate

If you are a regular reader of this blog you would have read this here about 2 years ago.

30th Anniversary

Today marks the 30th anniversary of The Who concert tragedy, where 11 people were trampled to death getting into a festival seating show.

I was in high school at the time and had friends who drove down from Lancaster to attend the show.

These friends showed up to school the next morning totally unaware of what happened the night before; a testament to the 24/7 news cycles of today.

I will never forget the photographs of piles of clothing and shoes collected from people trampled but still managing to get into the show.

I'll also never forget that I had tickets to an Aerosmtih show at Fairgrounds Coliseum in Columbus (is that place still open) that was subsequently canceled due to concerns about festival seating.

Another interesting note is that I've subsequently met people who were at a Led Zeppelin show earlier that year who basically said the same thing happened to them.

WVXU has detail of the victims and the tragedy here.

The sad thing is that after 30 years, the dump, I referred to as the Cincinnati Mausoleum, still stands.

Obama's speech - The Cliff notes

It's nothing personal against Obama, but I don't watch political speeches.

In my mind, if I want a bunch of smoke blown up my butt by a politician, Ill buy a box of Montecristos and call Tiger's girlfriends.

But from the reports of the speech from liberal and conservative commentators here's all you need to know.

1) Obama wasn't too fired up to deliver a speech on a decision that didn't include the option "present".

2) He just wanted to be left alone so he could finish his waffle.

3) He just couldn't stomach offering the word "victory" to the people risking their lives for an exit strategy.

You can now go back to your 24/7 Tiger Woods coverage.

Jon Stewart on Climategate

Gold

Closed today at $1215

Tiger's Christmas Card

It didn't take long.......

thanks reader Doug

Why I'm no longer a conservative

In an attempt to be recognized by MSNBC as a conservative fed up with the conservative movement. I've decided that I'm no longer a "conservative" but a "not a conservative".

In Charles Johnson/Andrew Sullivan fashion, below are my ten points as to why I've changed from being a "conservative" to being a "not a conservative".


Because......

1) I resent the lunatics on right wing radio and TV. Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz are quite the poster children of sane, intellectual discourse.

2) It's clear that any critic of the Obama administration is a racist lunatic even though many of these same people have voted for and been supportive of black politicians in the past.

3) It's clear that tea baggers have to meet in large parks for a rally because they don't have the persuasive capabilities to riot in the streets like these committed democrats.

4) Making sure that abortion is part of every bill sent to congress is a core American value. Even when congress votes to celebrate National Foot Massage Day

5) Being around man made global warming theists is much more tolerable than those yokels who believe in a garden variety vanilla type, omnipotent, god. Even if you have to make stuff up to prove it exists.

6) Surely Tiger would choose Susan over Ann. Right?











7) I can't be around a bunch of morons who believe that a government who can't run a "Cash for Clunkers" program can't run a trillion dollar health care system. I mean c'mon...... Medicare's the model for all successful government run health care systems. Can't you see that?

8) I can't stand being around these goofball birthers. Or was that truthers? Or was that the Dan Rather fake/but true stories? OK, Never mind.

9) A right-wing blogosphere that is dominated by raging hate speech (Powerline, NRO, Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.). Once again, if you want sane conversation about government see the Daily Kos or The Democratic Underground.

10) What type of special dumb ass do you have to be to support the only democratic country in the Middle East and our only friend? Everyone knows that the only way appreciate an ally is to persecute every move they make.

So there you go.

Now, if you are a producer from MSNBC, contact my agent, he'll inform you that my integrity can't be purchased but it can be leased at a reasonable price.

It's my hope that I can make the "not a conservative" "conservative" talk circuit and rub elbows with the likes of David Frum, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, Andy and Charlie, et al.

It's a much more effective way to get on mainstream mediums than being a plain, ordinary conservative.

Memo

To All Jihadists

From O. bin Laden

RE Vacation plans



Last night, me and my goats watched with glee as President Obama introduced a withdrawal plan by Summer of 2011. We look forward to the day we can all roam freely about Pakistan and Afghanistan without persecution by an American president.

On an unrelated note. Obviously, as you have all learned from watching CNN international, the current economy is a difficult one and we jihadists are not immune to poor investment performance. It is, after all, the money we use to fund our commitment to Allah.

As a result of our poor cash flow, I've decided to give you all an unpaid leave until September, 2011. By then, I'm convinced that the stock market will rebound and I will be more than able to fully fund our endeavors.

You all have worked very hard to kill infidels, so please look at this as vacation time to reconvene with your families in Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, etc. before hooking up with scores of virgins in the afterlife.

Please enjoy yourself during your time off. Also note that you are expected to reconvene in Kabul on September 11, 2011. Be back, refreshed and ready to kill satin when you return.

Don't be late!

OBL

Smokefree Ohio Voter Fraud

Where's Jennifer Brunner?

Chris Matthews calls West Point "Enemy Camp"

Gold

Now at $1200.

Is this bad news?

According to the AP........

MOST of the world’s population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK’s most senior climate scientists has warned.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.

Anderson’s warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.

Anderson, who advises the government on climate change, said the consequences were "terrifying".

Exactly how is terrifying?

Think about this from a "progressive" point of view. As "progressives" we all know human beings are the scourge of the earth. If humans end up dying as a result of global warming that would be a good thing, right?

Of course the fewer people on earth means there are fewer corn growers, meat eaters, house builders, incandescent loght bulb users and SUV drivers which should mean the climate should get better because all of the heinous polluters are now dead, right?


Thanks to Jeremy for the heads up.

Read the rest......

Williams nails it!

If you ever wanted a lesson in conservatism 101, Walter Williams delivers it here.......

The ultimate constraint that we all face is knowledge -- what we know and don't know. The knowledge problem is pervasive and by no means trivial as hinted at by just a few examples. You've purchased a house. Was it the best deal you could have gotten? Was there some other house you could have purchased that 10 years later would not have needed extensive repairs or was in a community with more likeable neighbors and a better environment for your children? What about the person you married? Was there another person who would have made for a more pleasing spouse? Though these are important questions, the most intelligent answer you can give to all of them is: "I don't know."

Since you don't know the answers, who do you think, here on Earth, is likely to know and whom would you like to make these decisions for you -- Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, George Bush, a czar appointed by Obama or a committee of Washington bureaucrats? I bet that if these people were to forcibly make housing or marital decisions for us, most would deem it tyranny.

You say, "Williams, Congress is not making such monumental decisions that affect my life." Try this. You are a 22-year-old healthy person. Instead of spending $3,000 or $4,000 a year for health insurance, you'd prefer investing that money in equipment to start a landscaping business. Which is the best use of that $3,000 or $4,000 a year -- purchasing health insurance or starting up a landscaping business -- and who should decide that question: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, George Bush, aczar appointed by Obama or a committee of Washington bureaucrats? How can they possibly know what's the best use of your earnings, particularly in light of the fact that they have no idea of who you are?

Read the rest and tell me where he's wrong.

Don't show Elin this

Tiger better sleep with one eye open.

This summer, police found 37-year-old Donessa Davis in a motel room. He had been allegedly assaulted, and his penis was glued to his body.

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Tiger Woods, a Chinese reenactment

This is hilarious

And we want these guys to run health care?

The first and, maybe, sole role of government is to protect it citizenry of threats within and outside it's borders.

So when Mike Huckabee decides that it's good for him to forgive and forget atrocities committed by criminals he seemed to forget that his number 1 job as a governor is to protect his citizens. His negligence resulted in the death of four cops among others victims from his clemency chubby.

When government cannot even take care of it basic role, how in the world can we expect it to satisfy our demand for health care?

Here's a great piece by a former Huckabee aide and his analysis of Huckabee's clemency decisions.

Nanny of The Month - November 2009

A few polar bears is worth a good cricket match

Hilarity from Mark Steyn.....

In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual "carbon allowance" preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating the environment. As Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explains:

Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world’s leading climate scientist has told the Observer.

Rajendra Pachauri? Hey, if you're manning the VIP lounge at Heathrow, that name may ring a bell:

Dr Rajendra Pachauri flew at least 443,243 miles on IPCC business in this 19 month period. This business included honorary degree ceremonies, a book launch and a Brookings Institute dinner, the latter involving a flight of 3500 miles.

Wow. 443,243 miles. How many flying polar bears does Dr. Pachauri kill in an average quarter? Well, not to worry, he probably offsets his record-breaking ursocide with carbon credits from carbon billionaire Al Gore.

And in any case it's okay to devastate the planet on IPCC business — plus the occasional cricket match:

So strong is his love for cricket that his colleagues recall the time the Nobel winner took a break during a seminar in New York and flew in to Delhi over the weekend to attend a practice session for a match before flying back. Again, he flew in for a day, just to play that match.

And why not? Aside from a slight increase in the risk of polar bears dropping from the skies onto stray Indian bowlers and wicket-keepers, where's the harm?

P.S. I like the headline on Dr. Pachauri's climate'n'cricket story: "Heat On Cricket Pitch Warms This Climate Change Laureate." If you're waiting for some journalist to ask him about the contradictions between his lifestyle and the one he wants the rest of us to submit to, that sound you hear is cricketers chirping.

We Are Change Chicago/Ohio Confronts Al Gore on Climategate at Borders - Global Warming Hoax

It pays to hire professionals

Isn't it sad how all of Tiger's ho's are now coming out. Each one obviously feeling violated..... each believing they were his only true skank on the side. Oh, the humiliation of it all.

Of course, it's not so humiliating as to go public with the "I am a slut" moniker.

Hey Tiger, take a hint from Charlie Sheen "I don't paid prostitutes for sex, I pay them to go home after wards".

How the crashers got through

CNN Politics reports that the Salahis are in debt to everyone from the Montgomery County, Md., traffic court (a $65 parking ticket) to a gasoline giant ($3,000 due Exxon-Mobil) to other credit card companies ($60,000 in unpaid billings), not to mention almost $100,000 allegedly owed attorneys who got involved in various Salahi dealings.

And amidst all those IOUs is an "unknown" amount due the IRS.

The Salahis' alleged financial troubles are detailed, says CNN, in at least 16 different civil suits.

I can see how The Secret Service let them through, they probably thought they were cabinet officials.

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Charles leaves the ranch he was never on

I used to be a regular reader of Little Green Footballs. But about the last 18 months, he just started getting weird; like Andrew Sullivan. I just found that if he wasn't talking about atheism, a fight with another blogger or Sarah Palin, he didn't have a subject to talk about.

Eventually, I took him off my links because I never read anything thought provoking.

Well lo and behold, Charles has posted as to why he parted with the right.

1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)

2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)

3. Support for throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)

4. Support for anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.)

5. Support for homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.)

6. Support for anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.)

7. Support for conspiracy theories and hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.)

8. A right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.)

9. Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.)

10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)

And much, much more. The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.

I won’t be going over the cliff with them.

Here's a news flash for Charles. If you believe all the things noted above are true (which I don't) they were just as true 10-20 years ago. The anti-abortion movement has always aligned with conservatives.

Just because Pat Buchanan calls himself a conservative doesn't make it so. I don't believe I've read one post on a conservative blog who's linked to Pat Buchanan or noted anything he's ever said. He's the token conservative on MSNBC who they like because he rips republicans more than democrats. He's the Pat Caddell of MSNBC.

In fact, unlike Michael Moore (who gets a front row seat at democratic conventions), the only way Buchanan gets into the GOP convention anymore is with a press pass.

While it's true that most republicans don't support gay marriage, it's the exact position of our current socialist president.... and California. Yet, somehow, conservatives are homophobes.

Charles names Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as hate peddlers. Hello! have you ever watched Ed Schultz and Keith Olberdouche. If it wasn't for hate, there'd be no emotion at all.

Anti-Islamic bigotry? That was the hallmark of his blog for years. Me thinks Charles is suffering from a fatal bout of psychological projection

Life in "Progress" City

From the windy city of Chicago, who hasn't had a conservative in city government since Mrs. O'Leary's cow went vandalizing.

I know life is different in "Redville". For instance, my family had dinner and told stories and enjoyed each others company.

Of course we're apparently just a bunch of hayseeds. Because how "progressives" celebrate the holidays is to go on a shooting rampage..........

It was a violent and deadly holiday weekend in the Chicago area, with nine people reported slain between Wednesday and Sunday nights.

The violence began around 5 p.m. Thanksgiving eve, when Shannon Moore, 18, was found lying on the ground with gunshot wounds in the hallway of a building at 537 E. 44th St.

A witness who saw Moore involved in an argument went to call police, and as he was going to make the call he heard multiple gunshots, Perez said.

Moore was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

In the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day, a shooting at an Englewood gas station left one man dead.

Ricky Coleman, 21, was shot at the gas station at 810 W. 59th St., and was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. at Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. The man was in the street when an unidentified gunman approached on foot and fired several shots at him about 12:30 a.m., police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.

Read the rest of the coroner's scroll here.

What's so "progressive" about a full morgue?

OOPS!

A big snafu on a news billboard.....

WPMI-TV insiders have confirmed what has been a swirling rumor for the past day — that the station’s general manager and news director were suspended for a week because of an embarrassing billboard.

General Manager Shea Grandquest and News Director Wes Finley have been suspended, allegedly because of a “snafu” with one of the electronic billboards in town that showed a picture of anchors Greg Peterson and Kym Thurman and Chief Meteorologist Derek Beasley alongside the headline “3 Accused of Gang Rape in Monroeville.” The headline was under the header “Right Now on Twitter,” and clearly was aimed at promoting the station’s breaking news, but a photo of it has made its way to e-mails all over town and brought plenty of laughs.

But c'mon, these guys have fact checkers and all.

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Global Warming Challenge Update

The month of November was a big comeback for the Branch Gorevidian warming alarmists in my Global Warming Challenge.

The average high temperature for the month of November was 56.7 degrees versus an historical high of 53.6 degrees.

The average low temperature was 38.3 degrees versus an historical low of 35.7 degrees.

That brings the score to a tie of

Warm 11
Cool 11

Now I could be like your average climate "scientist" and not share my data with you or communicate how I computed my figures and just tell you to trust me. But I'm a lowly novice who doesn't know anything but the common sense my parents instilled in me. Therefore, if you want to check my work click here.

Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to delete large quantities of data off of my computer which probably disqualifies me as a serious scientist.

By the way, that p&%^y Eric from Plunderbong has refused to show up and take me up on my challenge and "put his money where his mouth is". I guess he doesn't really believe or he be more than willing to take some money from the great Gordon Gekko. I mean c'mon, unlike a climate scientist, he can at least get the benefit of checking my work.

Where's that international community?

Remember the good old days when beer was served in those thick returnable bottles and the world hated us because George Bush was president?

Remember how a President Obama would salve all wounds and have the world join us in our crusade to wipe out terrorism?

Someone needs to get the memo to Kevin Rudd.........

Kevin Rudd has thrown his support behind US President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy but the prime minister reaffirmed his position that Australia would not boost troop numbers in the war-torn country.

The two leaders met in the White House Oval Office on Monday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss a "wide range of issues" from Afghanistan to the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mr Rudd was briefed on Obama's new blueprint for Afghanistan, which is expected to include an injection of 30,000 more US troops and strategies to fast-track the training of Afghan military and police so the responsibility of security can be handed back to the Afghans.

Obama will reveal the details of the plan in a televised address in the US on Tuesday.

"This approach outlined by President Obama is one which Australia fully, I repeat, fully supports in the future," Mr Rudd said, speaking at a press conference in Washington DC after his day of high-powered meetings, told reporters.

I always like that phrase "fully support" when the person "fully supporting" you doesn't do a damn thing.

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